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Are you prepared to defend the family? - FF S2 E15
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This week on Fatherhood Friday, we tackle one of the most important responsibilities a father can have: protecting his family.
Join us as we sit down with defense expert David Lashley to discuss practical strategies, real-world tactics, and the mindset every dad needs to effectively safeguard the people he loves. From everyday situational awareness to preparing for unexpected challenges, this conversation offers both hands-on guidance and a bigger-picture perspective on what it means to be a protector.
Whether you're looking to strengthen your family's preparedness, sharpen your decision-making, or simply become a more confident leader in your home, this episode is packed with valuable insights you can put into practice right away.
The best defense begins long before a crisis arrives. Tune in, learn from an expert, and get prepared.
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Introduction to Fatherhood Friday and Personal Defense
00:00:11
Speaker
Hello everybody, welcome to the Preacher Dad Podcast. My name is Jared and I am the Preacher Dad and you have found Fatherhood Friday.
Situational Awareness and Church Security Expert Guest Intro
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That's right folks, this is our Fatherhood Friday episode and today we're gonna talk about personal defense. Not just personal defense, but family defense. how to be situationally aware, how to be ah paying attention to the the things around you and to be on your guard. We talk about church security and we have an expert on the show and we are looking forward to sharing that with you. The the first though,
00:00:46
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I want to remind you that this podcast is brought to you by Cornerstone Fellowship. Cornerstone Fellowship is that small little country church in the middle of nowhere, Georgia, where we just love Jesus.
00:00:57
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We love one another and we want to love you too. So why don't you come and join us just a little north of Tombsboro, Georgia. You can find Cornerstone Fellowship where we will be happy to just point you to the to the word.
00:01:11
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The word is the way of life and we want to point you to him. So come on down and join us. You can find us on the web at cornerstonefellowship-ga.org.
David Lashley's Background in Security and Instruction
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That's cornerstonefellowship-ga.org. And you can come and check us out there.
00:01:28
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All right, well, let's start Fatherhood Friday. hello, everybody. Welcome to Fatherhood Friday brought to you by the Preacher Dad Podcast.
00:01:41
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I'm very glad to be with you tonight. Of course, I'm Jared, the preacher dad, but I have with me our fatherhood panel. Mr. Matt, the amazing man. Stuart himself is here with us tonight. And also Nathan. I love star Wars Eisner. Uh, me and Nathan are star Wars buddies. We like to annoy Matt, uh, with our star Wars conversations sometimes.
00:02:03
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Do a good job. if But we have a special guest with us tonight. And I really would like to introduce to you our audience, all, all six or seven of you that are out there. Oh, we don't do six and seven. We do, uh, 12 or 13. We're up to 12 now.
00:02:20
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Uh, but we would like to introduce to you, David Lashley. Uh, David is a court security professional, uh, defensive tactics instructor at Lashley Training Center, Ohio.
Insights into Courtroom Security and Self-Defense Training
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And with nearly 25 years of experience working in the judicial system, David has spent his career focused on courtroom security, judicial protection, situational awareness, and helping others stay prepared in high pressure environments.
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Over the years, he has trained civilians, court personnel, security professionals, healthcare care workers, and church safety teams in practical self-defense, de-escalation, and personal protection strategies.
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His approach combines real-world experience with a straightforward teaching style, and emphasizes awareness, confidence, and staying calm under pressure. That's what I need.
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David is also a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and has studied multiple martial arts and defensive systems throughout his career. He is the author of Eyes Wide Open, Courtroom to Street, and regularly speaks on topics related to safety, mindset, leadership, and personal responsibility.
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Above all, David is a husband, Father, grandfather, and someone passionate about helping everyday people become harder targets and better able to protect the people around them. David, thank you so much for being here tonight. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
00:03:47
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Absolutely. Well, I'm, I'm just dying to ask you some, some questions about your job. I'm sure that you've probably seen some crazy things. I mean, the three of us got to know each other through working together at Chick-fil-A.
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Um, but, uh, so we, we have some stories, but I imagine yours are probably a little more, exciting, uh, working in the courts. I, yeah, i mean, it's the best part about it, I guess, is it is different every day. Um, there's never two days the same.
00:04:21
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I'll actually tomorrow we have a jury trial that's set for a couple days and then on Thursday I think we have 24, 25 felony criminal cases and Fridays are most generally the day that set aside for non payment child support.
00:04:45
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So that gives you the variety I'll have the rest of the week with that so. Cool.
Enhancing Situational Awareness in Daily Life
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Well, I think my my first question, and we'll give everybody a chance to ask a question here, but I think my first question is what is probably the most important key when it comes to situational awareness? That's something that's important to me as a dad. I want to be able to be you know aware of the dangers in a particular situation. And so what would you say is one of the major keys? Maybe there's two or three, I don't know.
00:05:16
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What are the major keys for being aware of danger in situations? There's like a combination of things really. um Awareness is, it covers like so much. And I like to think about awareness as like driving a car.
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We first started driving a car. Remember how nervous you were. you're you i mean it's a big responsibility. All these traffic laws, you're responsible not just for you yourself, passengers.
00:05:51
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people passing you, but over time, the more you do it, you get more and more comfortable. And think about now when you drive, you go to any major city, not that it can't be a little nerving, but you get through it with pretty much ease and look how many traffic laws that you apply and you do when you come just so to a simple four-way stop.
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And that's what awareness is that I believe it should be like It's taking a lot of different ah skills to mindsets and doing them over and over till you become little bit more comfortable, but more second nature that you're not even thinking about it.
00:06:34
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And when I think about like things, not just like the obvious paying attention to your surroundings, um being confident, head up that you're that helps you see the things around you.
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And there's also like a part we will talk about like intuition. You God give us a built in alarm system. So mean our intuition so so when you start. Putting all those together, that's what I believe is starts to become a good thing for like awareness that you become better at it and.
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Like things like intuition and different things are experiences make them greater. you no different like driving a car. It should be, the longer we try, the better we get at it.
00:07:20
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you know And most generally, that's how it works. And that's how it should be with awareness. It's just things become more second nature to you. instead of like just trying to pick out always one thing you'll you'll you'll get good at something over time and then you'll pick another area you just kind of keep building on it and it's going to change because you know we have families and maybe when you start you you you start paying attention things you didn't have a family so there's several things like that awesome so like somebody like somebody like me that's kind of you know
00:07:55
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Pretty, I feel pretty brand new and maybe there's some brand new people that are out there that are listening to this. What's the way that you can get started to begin to improve your ability to be aware of your surroundings? What's, what's a couple steps you could, you could give us.
Minimizing Distractions for Better Awareness
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The, the main thing I, I mean, one of the big things I think about is it's the obvious thing is paying attention more. be less distracted and the obvious things of distraction and that we have a lot of control over.
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And the number one item I think is the cell phone. There's there's times to look and there's times not to. So before I go to enter a building, I check my messages before I leave my car.
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Then put that thing away and then start paying attention to what's happening as you enter. no different when you leave so and probably even more during certain times of year when you do leave, when you're carrying packages or valuables out, you just purchased or, you know, stuff like that, that you put that phone away, just take away some of the distractions of that. That's that we can easily put in front of us. And they said the cell phones, the, the, the biggie it's. And what I,
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When I say that, my dad always said when I'm pointing at people, I got three fingers coming back at me. So I'm not just pointing the finger that I do it to. let it slip to me. It's easy to get caught into that rut.
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So I think just like, you know, just literally watching what's around. And if something it doesn't look right, pay attention to it. I mean,
00:09:36
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The obvious stuff will go to the extreme. It's July, 110 degrees out. and Someone's got a long winter coat on. getting ready to enter into a building that you're at.
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That's, yes, that's a red flag. And you should, you know, react to that, you know, as in paying attention to stuff. Just don't go, because I think it's really hard for people because we've been raised with manners.
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We've been raised to be polite, kind. Try not to judge people, you know, all these things. And we're not judging anybody. It's just ah it's a way that you you still have to look at things like you're profiling, but in a positive profile.
00:10:22
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that's That's not a bad thing that I see someone in the middle of July, 110 degrees, wearing a black trench coat, coming into a building with a lot of people in it.
00:10:33
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That should get your attention, and you should. speak up and say something, you know, or let people know about that that. Those are, those things like that. Don't, don't forget about the obvious things that we kind of, because of our our kind nature or manners you've been taught, makes you overlook those things.
00:10:54
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I was going to make a comment on that. i I agree, agree completely. My wife has experienced some, just weird situations, people she thought made it might have been following her like inside of a store or something, just kind of just some things that were just off.
00:11:12
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um It took several years, but finally she got to the point where she's like, it's okay if I say something to someone in the store or to the person and she's been at home and somebody's come to the door and and she would strike up a conversation a little bit, but then she started feeling uncomfortable. So she just shuts the door in his face.
00:11:31
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Like that's okay. Like you don't you don't have to be welcoming and and let somebody take advantage of you. If you if if if you feel bad, just stop it, say something, do something.
00:11:43
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And I think women might have a little bit harder time than that with men, but yeah. I agree. I think it's real hard for for ladies to do that. And the crime numbers show that, you know, women have a higher are more victimized than men are when it comes to a lot of the crimes committed. across the United States, not just like in Ohio where I see the numbers, it's across the United States.
00:12:13
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Nate Eisner, I see you being quiet over there, but I know that your your mind's churning. Why don't, do you have, are you good at protecting your family? Hey man, that's a terrible question.
00:12:28
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I mean, yeah, I try. i you have of let's not focus on me. No, I was just trying to throw it over to you. I was just yeah being funny.
00:12:42
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I care a lot about that. Yes. Um, yeah, I have a question. Um, I've got small kids. My, my daughter's about to turn five and I got a two year old. Um, and both are five year old is incredibly friendly.
00:12:57
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Doesn't know a stranger. My two year old little bit more bashful. Um, So I'm pretty hyper aware when we're out in public and I try to make a point to be behind my family when we're walking. um So I usually try to if if the five year old is not holding my wife's hand, I usually make sure she is between me and my wife so that I can always keep eyes on her.
00:13:20
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um But so I know that I'm aware of what's going on. My question is, how would you approach maybe having a conversation with her and begin to.
Teaching Children About Safety Effectively
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um kind of train her in, you know, the stranger danger aspect without terrifying a five-year-old, if that makes sense. Like, how would you go about having a conversation with a young girl?
00:13:43
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in that you know And, know, and every child's a little different, too. um Some five-year-olds are a lot more mature than, you know, than maybe some others. So and I don't think you can always treat them all the same, but I think it's important that ah you as parents, you identify to you like your your children, like right now who like grandma and grandpa, you're good to talk to grandma and go and give you see. but Like there's certain people I think you have to encourage them to let them know that it is good.
00:14:23
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ah that it's OK for them to talk to them. You know, maybe there is a certain teacher that you're very comfortable with or something like that with it.
00:14:34
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I think what's hard for children and i was just talking to someone about this is with. with With children, when they watch us as parents, we go to stores, restaurants, places and we see the same people over and over.
00:14:51
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They're with us. They're friendly. And they're just people that we're familiar with. We don't have really, but our children can't differentiate that like we can.
00:15:04
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So I think it's trying to get them to understand that who's mom and dad or grandma and grandpa's friends or people we trust. And these are just people that are,
00:15:17
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doing their job, being nice and friendly with it. So I think it's stuff like that that I think that you start with trying to give um some ideas like that way. And as they get a little older, mature,
00:15:32
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that yeah i I had an instant with my son when he was like seven or eight, we was at a Walmart and i one side was magazines, on the opposite side was video games.
00:15:47
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I could see it wasn't like there's a wall, you know, completely. I could see him and he could see me and a gentleman out of nowhere just came up and say, hey, buddy, do you like that game? And it could have been as innocent.
00:16:02
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I didn't treat it that way, though, because you don't know my son. You had no reason to talk to my son whatsoever. And. Ian, at the time, I remember him getting like real nervous, and we had like the conversation afterwards.
00:16:18
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He didn't know what to do he because you know we teach our kids to be nice, to be polite. And that's when we started like identifying of there are certain people, yes, you can – You can go up and hug if you want, but you know who they are we'll tell you who they are. and if we haven't but told you that, then...
00:16:43
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you you don't, which he was older, you know, it wasn't a five year old or something like that. And like said, I don't know that guy from Adam. It could have been innocent, but he left pretty quick when I came across the other side. So I don't think it was so innocent in my mind because most people who are innocent like that will let it be known. I didn't mean to offend you.
00:17:05
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yeah he he literally just left. okay
00:17:12
Speaker
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00:17:23
Speaker
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00:17:40
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00:17:50
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Well, that's interesting. That makes me think of something else that I'm curious about. What did you say are kind of some red flags? Like, you know, if I'm walking through a a public space, maybe we're at the state fair or, um, or, you know, walking through a mall or something, what would you say is kind of a red flag? Like, Hey, this is something that you need to watch out for. i suppose that it probably ah ah a wide variety of things, but what are some of the more common things that sort of pop up a lot?
00:18:20
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I, I mean, it, what I don't like, especially if you have children is I'm not a fan of hearing people say oh, that's a beautiful dress you have on and, or, and they're, they're the conversations about you're with a family of four or five and why are you so focused on the six-year-old girl or the eight-year-old girl with a dress on, you know, stuff like that. So I don't like, though to me, that's a red flag with that.
00:18:50
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If I see you with no children and I'm with children and you keep continuing going to the places that we're taking children to, um To me, that becomes a red flag. So why why he was a single adult, especially male, oh following me to all these other places. Like, I don't, I'm not a fan of coincidences.
00:19:14
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So I don't think it's a coincidence. and Unless we're in a small supermarket or, or ah you know, fast food where you you could easily run into the same people, you know, and the in the aisles. I just don't believe in coincidence. So stuff like that.
00:19:31
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Um, if people really wanted to be friendly to my, your family, they should be talking to the parents. Why do you want to start with the child? Yeah. I, I, that, that gets my attention pretty quick.
00:19:46
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e Cool. Yeah. have another question about, um, awareness and we've been talking about public places, but, um,
00:20:00
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I want to kind of bring it closer to home and actually ask you a question. If it's if if it's in your area of expertise, great. If not, that's fine. But um all of our spouses um are at home a majority of the time with our kids.
00:20:15
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And I'm sure we all have some certain rules. Like I have my kids, you know, if they see anybody pull up in the driveway, they have to run in. They know that. they know They know not to go up to any car.
00:20:25
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um But What are some, ah what are some, what's some advice you could give um us that we could share with our spouses and our children to kind of be on the lookout for at home on a daily basis during the middle of the day, you know?
00:20:41
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Sure. And, and some of this, I think your ability to tell is like age appropriate that they'll understand the orders, you know, maybe a little bit better. And some of these things that I would do, even if I'm out in public to something Nathan said earlier,
00:20:58
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out with your your family. So when if I'm at home, if I would be out, yes if it's a stranger approach, I might be walking behind or I might be in the background, but I now become the front.
00:21:15
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I'm i'm ah i the head of everybody now. And especially if i I'll go use an example being out, I want my children, even my wife to be behind me.
00:21:27
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And when especially Ian was younger, we had code word. If I would say like milkshake, that meant to my wife, Rachel, it's time for you and Ian to leave. I feel uncomfortable what we're at. you know We had something that made her decide to go to a safer spot or something. That never happened, but we determined stuff like that. No difference like it's your house. like It's like you say, your kids come in,
00:21:58
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And it's getting the parent making sure some yeah adults answering the door at that point with that. And then i even like age appropriate.
00:22:10
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There is like, you know. Certain little words you could say that if you had to say a teenager, that means. maybe call the police, you know, to the teenage child, like, hey, this is something. yeah I mean, you don't want to be stuff like code red, code red, where it's giving it away. It's going to be something that's just, that it's you just no one would recognize, but, and be firm with it. Like, this is true. And when I say this, this is what it's time, you know, to do.
00:22:42
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And there's a lot of places, lot of times always, Like I said, age appropriate, the older they get is sharing if you want to like if you have a safe room or safe space.
00:22:55
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So if things do go wrong, they know where to go. And what's important about that more than anything, especially if it's younger kids, there's like access to a phone or something in there so they can communicate.
00:23:11
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And you don't have to get crazy about it like a bedroom. It could be like, to say, a closet or a bedroom. And maybe it's just a ah better reinforced door. you don't have to go you know get still door and all that. with your We don't need to have a bunker in the in the kitchen. Yeah, no. you know I don't want people to think stuff like that. But you know maybe just something that just has a little bit better lock on it, a little bit stronger door or something.
00:23:38
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And it could just be a place in the basement, you know, where knows how to, you know, get to it easy or something. But it's more about having communications and stuff like that so they have a plan be able to communicate if something does go wrong with it. I think that's that's kind of some of the things up front that I look at.
Home Safety Strategies and Emergency Preparedness
00:24:00
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And what you said earlier, matt was like, yeah, slam the door in their face.
00:24:07
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Don't answer the door. There's nothing that says you have to. And sticking to the guns, but making a decision call the right people right away.
00:24:18
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Not hoping. i think Once again, i I keep going back to the manners. Some of the hardest things from if it's a house to out and about or whatever, I think it is hard for women, especially men don't do it too. But but We've been taught if we just are nice, comply, and do what they say, this could go away.
00:24:41
Speaker
We just kind of hope it goes away. and And I wish it worked that way, but majority of the time, especially for women, minute it doesn't. And that's why it's important that they they react you know sooner than later, especially if they feel very uneasy about things, especially you know you're at home and I know they'll tell you stuff like put a pair of old work boots out the on the porch.
00:25:11
Speaker
So when people come up, the first thing they see is a men's pair work boots. You know, the deterrent less likely to see something like that. If you don't have a dog, put the sign that says beware of dog.
00:25:23
Speaker
You know, outside those those things like that, you can for deterrence that if anything, they might not even stop at your house. Those might be the little things like that, that they just go on to the next house or new another place because they see those things.
00:25:43
Speaker
But that, so. Yeah, yeah i David, that's interesting. I have a perception that, um you know, if you just do a little bit extra, you don't have to be a security expert. You don't have to, you know, steel reinforce your doors and bar your windows. If you just like get a slightly better lock or you, you know, leave your boots outside, you know, these little things that you're describing.
00:26:07
Speaker
My perception is that just those little things can really increase the, well, decrease your odds for for having ah an attack or a security problem um significantly. is Would you say, in your experience, would you say that that is an accurate perception or am I just kind of out in left field here?
00:26:28
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No, I think it is. Just got to be cautious that you don't, think it's, you know, the ultimate, you know, right.
00:26:39
Speaker
You don't want, you want, we don't want people to think that, you know, you're totally safe. I mean, there's no situation where that's going to happen, but I think that dads, sometimes we need a, we need a little bit of a win, you know, something that we can go, Hey, I'm i'm doing good. And so, Hey, you know, if you just, just take your, take your weapon to, to the store with you, when you take your family or, you know, lock the door when you go inside or, you know, Little things like that can can go a long way.
00:27:08
Speaker
Oh, for sure. And at least on the, I don't know how many times I've heard over the years, their car was broken into and, but there's no busted glass. Hey, I forgot to lock my car doors.
00:27:24
Speaker
And so you you you think of something so simple and it's just property being taken, but what happens If that is your teenage girl daughter that is not locking that car door and they go into a mall or a shopping center, you know, some play a movie, you know, will they take the time to look in the back just to be safe?
00:27:49
Speaker
ah know Just lock the door. So they're probably not going to take that time to look in the back. So just get them to lock the door first. know I think it's just those little things like that. they do The little things do add up to it.
00:28:07
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And then, it like you said, you're getting wins. And the more wins we get, the more we build upon it. It's like driving that car. you You're okay being on a regular highway to now I don't mind being on a four-lane highway.
00:28:22
Speaker
where When I first started driving, you couldn't get me nowhere near highway for quite some time you're just trying to build that confidence and just understanding things like that right i love that analogy that's really good really awesome
00:28:44
Speaker
so um what would you say is a uh a good ah way to think about we've been talking about ways to protect our families what would you say is some good tips or some good ideas for personal defense?
Exploring Personal Defense Tools and Training
00:29:03
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Is you know is pepper spray good idea? Is it effective? ah you know Are you better off spending the money on you know a something else? maybe Maybe black belt lessons or something. I don't know. But what's what's some good ideas for for personal self-defense?
00:29:22
Speaker
I'm a fan of any type of and per se that you can The main thing is no matter what it is, just train it.
00:29:33
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If you're going to get pepper spray, buy an extra canister, go get some paper plates, take them outside, spray them, see how that sprays.
00:29:44
Speaker
so did You thought you bought a stream instead of a mist, and now all a sudden you're you don't want to find that out when the wind's blowing back in your face. you know so you see what you're what you bought and it's no different uh i'm a i'm a real big fan right now of a tactical flashlight if you get a good enough one i went to a training few years back and broad daylight had an officer put that in my face and i couldn't see nothing in front of me for a good 10 seconds and 10 seconds when you're trying to survive and get away
00:30:21
Speaker
is a, it's a, that's a lot of time. It makes some distance. And the thing that really got me about the flashlight was a tactical flashlight, you know, because you can use it to strike with at the same time besides flashing it.
00:30:34
Speaker
But when me, my wife went to a concert, uh, at a local nationwide was at, uh, at, um, I'm going through, you know, I, there's a sign, I can't take my firearm in.
00:30:46
Speaker
I can't take pepper spray. I can't take a knife. the two things they let people take in were a cane and a flashlight. And they never took those two things. So it really stuck with me.
00:30:58
Speaker
And I was literally just blinded by a tactical flashlight like like four or five weeks earlier. and And I think those are things like that that people don't think about because you think it during the daytime. But it's amazing what they can do for you. But the big thing more than anything is just keep familiar with it.
00:31:19
Speaker
you know it usually when people buy a firearm you don't have a problem going out and shooting the firearm but it's not as there there's not as much sizzle to what to go spray some pepper spray or something yeah question do you have any recommendations for brands or specific flashlight
00:31:43
Speaker
uh really i mean the The one that I have was through, it's ah we buy it through, it's Gauls. And I'm trying to think of the ones that work I carry.
00:31:54
Speaker
And Gauls is a law enforcement catalog. I mean, civilians can buy through it too. But Amazon, just I get a good rate. The one, this is just me,
00:32:07
Speaker
i but not buy a tactical flashlight or a flashlight in general unless it has a USB charge on it because I don't want to find out I didn't replace the batteries at the wrong time.
00:32:19
Speaker
So I think stuff like that in and I like that like the beveled ends where it's just a little bit if I had to hit with it I could maybe leave some damage if needed to be.
00:32:31
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Stuff like that but I don't i don't think one particular brand, there's some really good ones out there. don't even know where mine's at. has If I had one clover, the one I had, it it was was pretty st strong. My wife probably took it out to feed her cat and chickens or something.
00:32:53
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That's usually when I can't find it, she has it out taking care of the hair. Hey, if there's any ah if there's any flashlight companies out there that want to sponsor this podcast, I mean, you know, send us an email. Dads at preacherdad.com.
00:33:06
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we'll let's We'll talk. Let's talk. As long as your quality your product is quality. It's got to be quality. this isn't i I just think it's one people don't look at as much because it's a fashion. That's a good idea. you know I never thought about that either, but that makes a lot of sense.
00:33:24
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i've heard I've heard of it, but I didn't know that about the concerts. That's an interesting point. yeah and yeah I'd be curious how many other places... get away with that i'm wondering that too nate i'm like can you take a flashlight on an airplane uh you know where else will they let you put a flashlight yeah well and and if you're if you're an avid shooter i mean it probably wouldn't hurt to do a little you know shooting after hours a little bit you know with the flashlight and different things like that too so especially if you're talking about home security night time you hear something um
00:34:02
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know You that tactical flashlight with a firearm could be a game changer for you if you're going to clear your home or check things.
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00:34:10
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I have shot a number of possums around our farm at night.
00:34:15
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And, man, it would be so nice to have a flashlight up on that shotgun because trying to hold the shotgun and the flashlight at the same time is really tricky. Yeah. so
00:34:29
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Well, folks, I'm sorry that's all the time we have for this episode. And I hope that you'll stick around next time for part two as we continue to discuss ways to protect your family. This is a really important key for dads. And i hope that you'll come back for the the rest that David has to share with us about this very important subject.
00:34:49
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00:35:05
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00:35:18
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We'll see then. Bye-bye.