To kick off the new year, Michael and Brent welcome the captain of the Virtual Academy AR team competing in the Sea to Sea Expedition Race next month in Florida.

Jeff Welch, a 21-year law enforcement veteran and current training coordinator for the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office in Madisonville, Kentucky, joins the podcast as 2024's inaugural guest in Episode 86.

Welch reveals his motivation for taking part in the 72 hour adventure race from the Gulf of Mexico on the west coast of Florida to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast.

Plus, Jeff also talks about his college basketball career at Central Arkansas University, where he had the opportunity to interact with former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen.

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Host Michael Warren, along with co-host Brent Hinson, and executive producer Aaron Bevill, reflect on the episodes that encompassed 2023 in their year-end review.

Plus, the guys give listeners a look into the inner workings of the show and talk about some of the aspects of putting out a weekly podcast.

They bookend things by highlighting some of their favorite episodes of the year and look ahead to what is in store in 2024.

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This week, co-host, Brent Hinson, and executive producer, Aaron Bevill, put host Michael Warren in the hot-seat to examine his experience working security for the inaugural Gathering of the Juggalos festival, the annual music event put on by the rap group, Insane Clown Posse.

Held at the Novi, Michigan Expo Center in the summer of 2000, at a time when Warren served as a member of the Novi PD, Michael gives a first hand account of what he encountered while keeping concert-goers safe during the very first Juggalos festival on July 21 and 22, 2000.

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Shot six times while serving an arrest warrant with the Marshals Task Force, guest TJ Webb recounts his inspirational story to Michael and Brent in Episode 83.

Webb details the events surrounding the encounter, his recovery, and the remarkable journey that eventually led to starting the nonprofit, Fit 4 Duty Foundation, an organization that addresses the importance of physical and mental health within law enforcement.

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Recently recognized as one of the 40 Under 40 recipients by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for 2023, Myles Cook joins the podcast as in Episode 82 to talk about that honor and how his work as a training coordinator at Walters State is leading to measurable improved outcomes for graduating cadets.

With a law enforcement background that includes work in corrections, as a patrol lieutenant and narcotics investigator, Cook shares how he was able to utilize his experience to develop and teach a training program that has been recognized for its effective merits at multiple Tennessee technical and community colleges.

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Spawned from a conversation with TBI Director David Rausch on how drones are now being utilized as tools for first response, Michael and Brent welcome back previous guest Michael Rogers for a discussion on how some law enforcement agencies are now implementing the use of drone technology into their departments.

Rogers, a retired FBI Special Agent who managed the Bureau's Unmanned Aircraft Systems program, gives insight into how drones have the ability to gather and relay information about a scene in order to, not only protect the people responding but also give department leaders better data to make sensible decisions on how to proceed.

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As we prepare for Thanksgiving travel, family get-togethers, and lavish turkey dinners this week, one Arkansas police officer shares her story of adversity, resiliency, courage, and thankfulness during this holiday week.

Officer Samantha Hodgson, currently an SRO in Bryant, Arkansas, recounts how a "routine" welfare check in 2019 changed the trajectory of her life.

After being shot in the head, face and shoulder outside the home of a man, thought to be suicidal, on December 23rd, 2019, Hodgson details her recovery process, struggles, and determination as she continues to live out her dream of being a member of law enforcement.

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Outwardly, the Runic alphabet, like any other writing system, was developed as a method of communication.

However, this week's guest, Dave Schilling, details how some white-power prison gangs, Neo-Nazis, and racial extremists are using these ancient symbols to promote their beliefs.

Spawning from his career in corrections, Schilling's book, Norse/Germanic Runes & Symbols: Field Reference Guide for Law Enforcement & Corrections, illustrates how some white supremacist groups have adopted rune characters as coded messages that foster their ideology in plain sight.

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