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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to another episode of Prepper Talk Radio Radio for
the Ready Minded, the podcast for the Prepared. We're super
excited to be with you today, today, this evening, this morning,
whenever you're watching, listening, or whatever. And we have a
special guest for you today. If those of you watching
on YouTube will see that Scott is not with us,
Shane and I are here and we have a guest
(00:27):
who's actually a repeat offender on our show. We have
Todd Nielsen from Nielsen Training and Consulting on We're going
to talk today a little bit about home and self
defense and ways to keep ourselves situationally awares we're out
and about in the world, and especially especially in today's world,
because we need to be going aware of what's going on.
(00:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:22):
Let us know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
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on your checkout. Todd, welcome to the show. Thanks so much,
An and Shane. Recently you either you I don't know
(01:47):
what you did to Shane, but you've got him over there.
Either he came to you or you came to him.
Somebody got somebody going, so bit of both.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I guess you could say, I've been training with Todd
for a while. Uh, some one on one. We need
to do some more, brother, because that's always a very
valuable time to me. That's that's a good time.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I feel I was a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was a little bit like you know what, I
introduced Todd to you, and now you're.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He's my friend. He's my friend. You can't take his time.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
He's my friend.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I've been there, no I've I'm just working on, you know,
be becoming a handgun instructure for Todd uh in my
future retirement phase whenever that may be. So just we're
just working up to that and and taking this well,
taking as fast or as slow as I can. I
guess I don't know where I'm at right now, but
(02:41):
but yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. You know,
I love this world, and and Todd is my mentor.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, yeah, it's only it's only a ford maybe sometimes
a six inch fire hosey you're trying to drink from.
So no big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, no big deal. I've gotten used to it so far.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah. Yeah, it's been a good gig. It's it's and
trust me, being retired myself and this is my so
called retirement job, it's it's a lot of fun. And
the amount of cool things that I've been able to
do with this part of my profession has been absolutely amazing.
(03:19):
So much.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You're busier with this in your retirement than you probably
were when you were full blown working, are you.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's funny because my wife, even my
wife even says, even when I was operating teaching courses
and traveling all over the country. I'm busier now than
I was back then. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Also about your goings on and your classes and and such.
I know you're mainly local here to our neck of
the woods, but you know, I've been a part of
quite a few of these classes and and tell you
they are a lot of fun. Oh yeah, great environment.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, so we kind of COVID kind of put the
goball on a lot of the traveling stuff, but I
still do it. If there's an organization or group of
people that want me to come out and do training
and stuff like that, that's not a problem. You can just
hit me up at todd A Nielsen Training dot Com
and we can set something up for you and figure
(04:16):
out what your needs are and what our capabilities are
to you come out and give you guys a hand
with all that stuff. That stuff is still super easy.
But we've been really fortunate in the last couple of
months to have a lot of expansion coming to us
with the number of locations that we're going to be
training at and the group of people that we're going
(04:38):
to be utilizing as instructors. And one of the big
things is we just got signed as a instructor Cadre
for a virtual simulator that actually uses live fire, which
is absolutely amazing. When I first saw it, I'm like, dude,
this is definitely the way of the future because I
(05:03):
own a laser simulator and all that stuff. But the
problem with the laser simulators is they're lasers and they
are simulated guns and everything else, so they don't the
malfunctions don't clear the same. You get crazy jams and
you know, on the gas blowback stuff, I'm on my
trigger finger, I'm out running the gun and all that stuff.
(05:24):
But with this stuff, you're running your gun, your ammunition,
your magazines and everything else. So it is like so
realistic that it's just crazy. So if you start thinking
just as the entry piece to this, think duck hunter
with your gun. That's really cool. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You can head to head or in scenarios or.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yep, yep. So we can run up to nine people
on three separate screens at a time.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So it's screen's actually are they bulletproof or what's the there.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's set off of a infrared camera that senses heat
and based on the placement of the heat and the
computer algorithm and all that kind of fun stuff. It'll
tell you exactly, it'll tell you within a quarter inch
where the impact was.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So it basically projects the screen onto the back of
the gun range yep if you will, yep, So it
looks like you're looking at a screen, but you're really not.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yep. And the cool thing is like, literally, we can
take bodycam footage from an officer's bodycam, we can upload
it into the system and we can specifically target specific
areas like the ocular granial vault, or the thracic cavity
or the pelvic girdle or anything like that, and we
can say two hits to this location ends the scenario,
(06:54):
or three hits to this location and one hit to
another location ends the scenario. So it is stuff that literally,
well it's been about a month and a half now,
but two weeks into into us being affiliated with with
this company it, we had a body cam footage of
(07:17):
the stuff down in Arizona where the gal was in
the shopping center with a knife. Dude with a knife,
and next thing you know, she's like backing up trying
to get away from him and everything else. And I'm
sitting there looking at and watching the footage going shoot, shoot, shoot, Shoot, Shoot, shoot,
and you know, two minutes later she ultimately shoots. You know,
(07:40):
having been in those types of situations and everything else
and understanding the whole dynamic, it's like, wow, Okay, this
this is something that anybody can understand, because if somebody
whips out a knife on you, what are you going
to do? You know, if they're less than five feet away,
you better be able to move because you're not going
(08:00):
to be able to draw before that knife gets buried
into your body, especially if they're good at it. You know,
if you're going up against somebody like Patrick Godle, that's
a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I could have a gun in every hand and two
on my feet and Patrick Odle still disarm me and
kill me before I even know he came, Like and
that's and then I'll realize I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Dead, Like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So, speaking of knives, we just had a couple of
scenarios in real life where there was a knife attack
in a school and not at school. It was a
wal Mart.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Was it wal Mart or Yeah? I think it was
either a wal Mart or some type of shopping center
up up North Michigan.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
There was a retired marine that took care of that
did you follow that at all?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Oh? Yeah, the the keyboard commandos were killing me. Well,
look at the way he's holding that gun and everything else.
I'm like, you know what, here's the here's the bottom line.
Dude stood up and took care of business and stopped
this dude from stabbing other people. And I think, what
was it. I think he stabbed like six people inside
the store. So I mean number one to have the
(09:14):
stones to confront the guy, and number two just sit
there and hold him at bay until the police arrived
and everything else. And then that one cat that was
standing off to the right of him, he's on armed
and he's sitting there tauting the dude. I'm like, all right,
those boys are definitely in the arena. Good for them. Yeah,
(09:34):
if someone's going to sit there and chastise them because
they're holding a gun at the gangster style or whatever,
you know whatever. So we had the gun sideways, so
what he still was taking care of the problem. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, And who knows how long he was in the
Marines or how long you've been retired. But sometimes if
you're if you're not training all the time every day,
you're you know, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, that's great though. Wow. Yeah, that of stuff happens
all the time in the United States, it's just we
never hear about it. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You were telling us before the show a little bit
about something that happened at a military base today or recently.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, there was an active shooter incident on some base
that that happened today. It sounds like four people. I
didn't get hardly any details. It was very, very brief
that I was watching literally about fifteen minutes prior to
us getting on the show together.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And Fort Stewart five soldiers shut five shoulders.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, Yeah, that sounds right. And the sad part is
it's an actual military personnel, so it's like, yeah, that's crazy,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We do talk about this. Stuff happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I've never been a part, thank goodness, right, But that's
what I'm preparing for, and that's why we wanted to
have you on as well, because you've been doing this
for thirty one plus years, right, Yeah, nineteen ninety okay,
nineteen ninety just when I was still young and still
a teenager in nineteen ninety yeah, and you know, I
(11:14):
got my canciled carry ninety four and it's been an
it's been a process for me. I mean, it's it's
been an evolution really, you could say for me. So
one thing I always hesitated doing is just paying money
for training. I don't know why, because I figure I
could learn it myself because I've learned everything myself. That's
(11:34):
kind of the way. You know, the Internet wasn't really
around back back then and YouTube or anything like that.
So now we have the matrix, we can download things.
But I've really gotten to the point where, man, I
want class after class. Going to the range doesn't do
much for me anymore, except for maybe if I have
some skills that I've learned online, all, hey, I'm going
(11:55):
to go try that. I'm gonna go shoot this driller
or something. But it's really in person. Shooting with a
group is where an instructor is so much more helpful
and really accelerates my learning rather than just going to
the range. You know, before I go once a month
if that, And now I'm shooting almost weekly now, so
(12:18):
well that's good.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's good. That's how you keep your skills up, because
if you're not shooting at least once a week, you're
probably diminishing your skills, or at least dry fire exercises
or something to that nature, or doing ready ups or
something like that. Just just doing something, even if you're
just doing it as a mental thing. It's amazing how
much of a difference that'll actually make for you.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I'd like to have an act in my home.
That would be defuitly nice.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, yeah, trust me, I want like four of them
at my house and different locations so I can move
from one location to another containing that bullet and noise
would be rather disturbing to my neighbors.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, see, that's that's what we want to talk about.
Is you know, is CQBU. That's kind of the you know,
we see the move in the movies, right the close
quarters battle whatever you want to you know, ever you
want to refer to it. Uh, that's kind of the
sexy part where the gun guys get into it and say, hey,
I want to learn this, I want to learn that.
But that's actually like the most dangerous thing you can do.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, about over three thousand live entries under my belt.
But the realities are I do not recommend anybody doing
it without at least three or four other guys. However,
the realities are. That's probably not going to happen. Somebody
breaks into your house, it's you and your spouse if
you're lucky. Otherwise it's just you. Yeah, you know, so
(13:46):
you gotta you gotta at least have some understanding. And
that's that's a whole lot of the basis of the
courses that we teach within the cub world or the
home defense world as we call it, just because you've
got to know and understand angles and how to protect
yourself and what's ballistic what's not ballistic, because for handguns,
there's a lot of stuff inside a home that's ballistic
(14:10):
if you have the right angle. But if you don't
have the right angles, yeah, we're gonna have problems.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Unless you're in your basement, right But I mean yeah,
and it's one hundred percent concrete, exact stick and all
that good stuff. So I guess the question is, you know,
unless you're trained, what is what's the procedure? I mean,
obviously the first thing should be to you know, call
nine one one, right, yeah, get the emergency services on
(14:36):
their way. What should if I suspect someone's in the house,
what should I do next?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
First thing? Pick up my phone I'm don nine to
one one. Where do I go from there?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, in all honesty, I tell people this all starts
before this event even happens, you know. And it's funny
because we're on prepper Talk radio and we're talking about preparations.
Here we go, everybody, get your pens out, because this
is the important piece. You set up your You set
up your home so that you have kind of your
alamo or the location that you're going to use as
(15:11):
your hardened spot, or the location where you can gather
up all the family members or all the persons living
inside your home so that they're all secured, or have
some type of action plan or communication plan that you
can communicate with everybody within that house to get the
house locked down. You've got to set that piece up
(15:32):
right from the get go, because otherwise this really doesn't
do you any good to know and understand all this stuff,
because now you're just putting yourself at more of a
risk and more exposure to danger and everything else. So
setting that piece up, obviously, having some firearm skills and
stuff that helps.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Todd, I was going to ask, you know, I think
it's a good's This is more of a comment slash.
Give me your feedback, But I think it's important to
go through your house and just look at different entry
points or possible entry points that somebody could come into
and then have a plan if they come in through
the front door, if they come in through the back door,
if they come in through the basement, if they come
(16:13):
in through the side window, Like, is that a good?
That's part of that planning you're talking about right now,
is just also looking at different entry points where people
could come in, and I make you might you might
say I'm gonna I'm gonna put myself in this room
and that's the very room they broke into.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well that's where, like you say, you you harden your
home so that they only have minimal options right of
coming in, and then you know, and then your plan
can be a lot easier to put together.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
When like for my for example, my basement, I've got uh,
I've got window wall covers. They're locking covers, so the
only access to the basement is down the stairs, right,
that's my uh right exactly little funnel. So so uh,
my plan could be Okay, we all rush down stairs
where the kids are yep, So that at the moment
(17:03):
the kids are downstairs or we're upstairs, and that could
be a primary an initial.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Plan, yeah, you know. And you could even have a
tertiary plan where you're cutting through the floor. Okay, you know,
do you know where the duck worked is? Do you
know where the plumbing is and all that stuff? You know,
it's just a tertiary plan, but still having that knowing
that you can do that to get to your children
or get to your loved ones. That's that's an option,
(17:31):
you know. And the other piece of that is it
may not be used for just somebody breaking into your home.
It could be used for a fire, could be used
for half the house got carved in. How are you
going to get how are you going to get to
your children's rooms? If half your your staircases fallen? One?
(17:51):
What are you going to do then? M Yeah, you know.
So these are just a number of things to start
thinking about. How how does all this work if you
don't have access to your staircase or you don't have
access to a hallway, you know, can you go out
one window and in another window? That's a good point. Yeah,
(18:12):
it's it's just little tiny things like that. Dude, the screws,
the type of screws. Do you keeping your door? Yep?
It is so simple and literally it costs you less
than ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And give you time when somebody's trying to keep that
door down. Gets you time to me to put my
glasses on my pistol, get my light and then say wife,
call nine one one and then then then start taking action. Yeah,
and I guess it would also deter the lazy criminals,
which are most of them, right, Oh yeah, can't bust
(18:44):
that door down.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They take off, Yeah, three to five clicks and are kicks,
and they're tired and they're like, oh, forget it, let's
just go someplace else.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, too, heart of a target.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Not six months ago, wasn't there a story that was
in the news about some teenagers that were trying to
bust them but he's door down and he just starts
shooting them through the door. And the families were like,
we're we're suing the guy for killing our kids. But what.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So that's why you know, hey, that's why you should
join us c C A right for those legal battles.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Just it's something that's gonna protect you well. And it's
funny because like, right now, there's a trend with the
teeny boppers to go kick a door three or four
times without trying to actually break in, but they just
kick it and then they fire off a bunch of
airsoft rounds. I'm like, that's a good way to wind
(19:40):
up dead if it's the wrong house. Yeah, you know,
And it's just come on, guys, think this through. There's there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
There was a funny Speaking of funny little memes that
kids do it, there was a kid I got sent
a video of a kid who's trying to do a
ding dung door ditch. You know, back in the day
we did ding dong that was harmless, right, but he
ding dong ditch? Is this lady and she catches him
and he's like, I'm so sorry, and and she's like,
I'm going to call your father right now.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Does your father know what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
He's He's like, he's right there, My dad knows what
I'm doing. He's he's actually right over there. He says
it was a core memory as a kid, and he
wants to be a part of it for me. And
then you hear the dad in the background.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What's going on? Why are you still there.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
He's like, I got caught. Then run kid.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'm like, yes, that's.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
A good father, you know, good core memory for a kid.
But doing damage to someone's house potentially and being shooting
off guns like that's ding dong. Ditching is one thing,
but like kicking doors and shooting off air fire, even
if it's an air rifle, that's playing with fire at
that level.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, well he definitely created a core memory right there.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I tell you, Oh, guaranteed, guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, So so back on that, I guess the the
home defense is the c QB. Wife's calling nine one one.
I'm posting up. Someone's trying to kick in the door.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Where do you go from there? What's your plan?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
In all? Honestly, if you're in your your alamo, per se,
sit there and just hold on the door. And here's
here's a little five dollars tip, real simple. Go to
your local hardware stoor. Get a key made for your
front door. Okay, real cheap. Get a little ring, it
doesn't even have to be anything expensive. Get a glow stick.
(21:29):
Put those things together. There's a little hole at the
end of the glow stick. Feed the key ring through
that with the key on it. Once you hear the
police outside, tell the dispatcher, Hey, there's a glow stick,
whatever color it is, that I'm throwing out onto the
front yard or the backyard or whatever. That way, they
(21:50):
don't have to kick in your door and cause damage
to your door. Oh interesting, the police themselves right now.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Somebody, Tom, tell me, tell us the true if someone's
If I'm posted and I'm watching my door and someone's kicking,
should I be yelling at him, Hey, I've got a
gun and I'm gonna shoot it as soon as this
door opens? Should we be warning them? Should we just
shoot and blow the door up and get the guy
out of our front porch? What is our what do
we what are what are the things we can do?
(22:19):
What are our options?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Here's the legal ramification. Can you legally articulate that there
is a great a threat of immediate immediate is a
key piece great bodily injury or death? Can you articulate that?
If you can articulate that, then you gotta do what
(22:40):
you gotta do. I personally, I'm not gonna let anybody
know where I'm at until such time that it's time
to let them know where I'm at right.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So once that would you take care of business before
the door's open, or.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
If at such time that I could easily articulate that
there was going to be a threat to me or
my family members or someone else in my home. Absolutely nice, Okay,
but I have there all.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's got to make sense to the police too. The
person you're articulating it to that needs to be able
to say, okay, I can see that that's a situation
where you could have you could take it, take that action.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah. Like I had a client a couple of weeks
back that she has a restraining order against a guy
who's kicked in her door six times. Why he's not
in prison, I have no idea. That's that's a question
that I have for the district attorney's office. But she's
had this restraining order against him for three years and
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he came in, kicked the door in the last time,
beat her up a little bit, center to the hospital,
and they filed another restraining order. And here's the thing.
If the dude shows up and he's pounding on her
door at that moment in time, based on past experience,
she understands that there's a threat of great bodily injury.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, I mean the dude's center to the hospital at
least once.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, it's spend multiple times unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, he's going to do it again then, you know. Yeah,
time to take care of business.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, you know. And so you know, and on my
at my house, dude, I'm covered three hundred and sixty
degrees by video, So yeah, have fun. I know you're
coming before you even know that. I'm know that I'm there.
So it's just it's just sad because you know, some
people don't have the financial means to do that, nor
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do they have the financial means to get training.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
So yeah, So, so say someone did make it in
the house and you have kids, how would one go
about clearing their home or rescuing their child if knowing
someone else is in the house, not being willing to
wait for the police to come and do that. You know,
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this is like worst case scenario. I mean, yeah, does
that make sense?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah. So, so essentially you're saying that somebody broke into
the house and the between you and your child, what
are you going to do? Yeah, at that point in time,
I hope you got some training or some baseline understanding
of angles and some baseline understanding of construction so that
you can utilize bits and pieces of your building or
your house to uh use it for apps, for legit
(25:23):
cover you know, that's that's just a simple piece. But
in general, corners are good for handgun stuff. But you know,
as we've seen in a number of YouTube videos now,
the the criminal element has figured out that if I'm
going to go kick in a door, bringing a pistol
is probably not a good idea. I should probably being
(25:44):
a rifle, you know, and that that just changes that
dynamic altogether. If somebody, somebody shows up at my house
with a rifle and they're kicking trying to kick in
my door, well then I've got some decisions to make
they get inside my house, I definitely have some decisions
to make, because why is somebody bringing a rifle into
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my home that they just kicked the door in, you know,
or they forced entries somehow, like breaking breaking glass or
something of that nature.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean, that seems like a pretty you still have
to articulated, but it seems like you've got a pretty
good case. Oh yeah, they're bringing a rifle, even even
a handgun, and shoot if they if they kick the
door in and it doesn't go and they start shooting
the handle to get in. I mean they've already discharged
their weapon. Yeah, that's to me, that's like, Okay, they
(26:37):
dude just shot through my door. He doesn't know who's
standing right behind it. That's bodily harmed to me and
potentially my dog or any my property.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean, I guarantee you he's going to hit my
dog because my dog's going to be running and barking
at that door.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So right, right, So that's something to that's definitely something
to articulate.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And so you're going you mentioned rifle, what about shotgun?
I mean, what's your prefer home defense weapon, the one
you're the best at. Okay, me, personally, I like the shotgun,
but I have done extensive amounts of training with a
shotgun and the shotgun the reason being all the different
(27:17):
loads that I can that I can run in it.
I can run slugs, I can run buck shot, I
can run bird shot, I can run Magnum buck shot.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I can run Magnum bird shot, I can run steel,
I can run lead, you know, And it's there's so
many different variables in there. You can run if you
if you want to shoot them and trust me, it's
not comfortable. The three in a quarter or three and
a half ounce in a quarter of slug lead slug.
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That'll wake you up in the morning, especially if if
it hits somebody in a chest, even if if they're
if they're wearing a ballistic mast. The bliss the best
will catch the round, I will tell you that. But
the back faced defamation is going to kill them. Mhmm, wow,
that's I know. There's you mentioned YouTube earlier.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
There's a lot of videos out there of these tactical
ex military guys training people and.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Teaching people's stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
How practical is that compared to what the real life
for a for a civilian just with some training. I mean,
what's the can you speak to that for a few minutes.
I mean, we've only got a few minutes left.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But oh yeah, well, and there's there's more than one
way to skin a cat. Let's just leave it that way.
There's people will sit there and say, the SEV technique
is the is the prem the premium way to do it.
This Seal way is to do this is how the
Seals do it. This is how Team seven do is,
This is how Team nine does it. This is how
Alpha team, this is how Bravo team, this is how
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X team whatever. Dude, I don't care learn the angles.
That's that's the bottom line. All the stuff that I
teach within CQB stuff is all based off of principles
rather than techniques. If you're if you're trying to set
up your your CQUV stuff or your home defense stuff
under a specific technique, I guarantee you what's going to
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happen is you're going to run into something that doesn't
fit that technique and now you're going to have a problem.
Why Why do I know that ye have three thousand entries.
That's why. That's why we didn't have an adopted this
is the way you do it every single time.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, that's good news because I know there's a lot
of people out there looking at different you know, X training,
military training people who are doing it the way they
did it on the teams and teaching the way the teams,
the techniques that the teams used, whatever they did when
they were in the in the service. And I was
talking to another guy's like, sometimes some of that stuff
isn't practical sometimes, like you have to really you have
(29:50):
to kind of know a different way. As a civilian, Yeah,
we're not You're not trained the same way, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
And as a home owner, you're going to have one, two,
maybe three if you've got a child that has the
ability to do that. If your spouse and you are
all on the two of you or the three of
you are all on the same page, great, But I'll
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tell you right now, from just raw experience, I want
at least four dudes or four people that I know
how they're moving, just based off of the way they're breathing,
the way that I see their shoulders moving. It's just
something that I don't recommend trying to clear your home
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unless you've got at least at least sixty to seventy
hours of training or experience behind it. Otherwise, just do
your best to keep, yeah, harden your home manyah.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Nice, Yeah, prevent it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, Well, only the last minute thoughts, Todd, we should
have started a little laryers do we didn't have to
end up at the time. But what last minute thoughts
do you have or ideas or thoughts or even you Shane,
what do you think?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Well, personally, I tell people right from the get go,
those little three quarter in screws that are in your
striker plate of your door and in your hinges. Pull
those suckers out and put three inch or if you
can get longer ones in there, put the longest ones
you possibly can in there. It's just gonna make it
that much harder for people to break in your front door. Okay. However,
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sliding glass doors, you got to figure out the way
that's going to lock your sliding glass door because they're
all just a little bit different. Those little locks at
the bottom, they don't work French doors in both the
top and the bottom. Okay. And if you've got glass,
get a Mylark coating on it so that they can't
break it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Did that for my sliding glass door.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
So yeah, it's it's incredible how much of a difference
that makes. I mean literally, there's mile our codin is
that you can put on a glass right now that
are nine millimeters ballistic. What yeah, check it out.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
We definitely need to continue this another time.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, the detail, Yeah, there's I mean literally we could
sit here and talk for about this for hours and
hours and hours upon end. So if anybody has any questions,
they can just reach out to me at Nielsen Training
dot com. I'm more than happy to answer any questions
or jump in a class. We have several different classes.
(32:37):
Our entry level course is only one hundred bucks and
it's only a couple hours, so it makes it super
simple to at least get started in this so that
you understand how to get into a room at least absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And most of these, just to everybody knows, most of
these trainings are in central Utah, kind of northern central Utah,
but ID is willing to travel if there's a big
enough group and you can get get it going for
you where you are. We got a lot of viewers
all over the country and even out of the country,
so I'm sure you're more focused on in the country
than out because there's different laws and.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Rules, way different laws in other countries.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, I definitely got to be careful. But thank you
so much for being on the show with us today, Todd.
We really appreciate your expertise and your willingness to share
it with others. Stay tuned, Todd. I know at some
point in the past you shared with us that you
were looking for some ways to be able to deliver
some online training so the people in remote areas could
get access to some of that stuff, and that's I know,
(33:34):
you're super just swamped with all the great stuff you're
doing and expanding. And I'm sure that's still on the
table somewhere. Oh yes it is if you want to know.
We'll have all the links in the show notes for
any of the for Todd's website, and then also that
website where he was talking about earlier with that live
shooting that's called Yak You Shoot, and we'll have a
(33:55):
link for that as well. Thank you again for listening
to Prepper Talk Radio radio for the ready minded. We
will see you guys on the next one.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Take care, see you guys. Thanks M h M.
Welcome to another episode of Prepper Talk Radio Radio for
the Ready Minded, the podcast for the Prepared. We're super
excited to be with you today, today, this evening, this morning,
whenever you're watching, listening, or whatever. And we have a
special guest for you today. If those of you watching
on YouTube will see that Scott is not with us,
Shane and I are here and we have a guest
(00:27):
who's actually a repeat offender on our show. We have
Todd Nielsen from Nielsen Training and Consulting on We're going
to talk today a little bit about home and self
defense and ways to keep ourselves situationally awares we're out
and about in the world, and especially especially in today's world,
because we need to be going aware of what's going on.
(00:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:22):
Let us know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
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on your checkout. Todd, welcome to the show. Thanks so much,
An and Shane. Recently you either you I don't know
(01:47):
what you did to Shane, but you've got him over there.
Either he came to you or you came to him.
Somebody got somebody going, so bit of both.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I guess you could say, I've been training with Todd
for a while. Uh, some one on one. We need
to do some more, brother, because that's always a very
valuable time to me. That's that's a good time.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I feel I was a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was a little bit like you know what, I
introduced Todd to you, and now you're.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He's my friend. He's my friend. You can't take his time.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
He's my friend.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I've been there, no I've I'm just working on, you know,
be becoming a handgun instructure for Todd uh in my
future retirement phase whenever that may be. So just we're
just working up to that and and taking this well,
taking as fast or as slow as I can. I
guess I don't know where I'm at right now, but
(02:41):
but yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. You know,
I love this world, and and Todd is my mentor.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, yeah, it's only it's only a ford maybe sometimes
a six inch fire hosey you're trying to drink from.
So no big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, no big deal. I've gotten used to it so far.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah. Yeah, it's been a good gig. It's it's and
trust me, being retired myself and this is my so
called retirement job, it's it's a lot of fun. And
the amount of cool things that I've been able to
do with this part of my profession has been absolutely amazing.
(03:19):
So much.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You're busier with this in your retirement than you probably
were when you were full blown working, are you.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's funny because my wife, even my
wife even says, even when I was operating teaching courses
and traveling all over the country. I'm busier now than
I was back then. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Also about your goings on and your classes and and such.
I know you're mainly local here to our neck of
the woods, but you know, I've been a part of
quite a few of these classes and and tell you
they are a lot of fun. Oh yeah, great environment.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, so we kind of COVID kind of put the
goball on a lot of the traveling stuff, but I
still do it. If there's an organization or group of
people that want me to come out and do training
and stuff like that, that's not a problem. You can just
hit me up at todd A Nielsen Training dot Com
and we can set something up for you and figure
(04:16):
out what your needs are and what our capabilities are
to you come out and give you guys a hand
with all that stuff. That stuff is still super easy.
But we've been really fortunate in the last couple of
months to have a lot of expansion coming to us
with the number of locations that we're going to be
training at and the group of people that we're going
(04:38):
to be utilizing as instructors. And one of the big
things is we just got signed as a instructor Cadre
for a virtual simulator that actually uses live fire, which
is absolutely amazing. When I first saw it, I'm like, dude,
this is definitely the way of the future because I
(05:03):
own a laser simulator and all that stuff. But the
problem with the laser simulators is they're lasers and they
are simulated guns and everything else, so they don't the
malfunctions don't clear the same. You get crazy jams and
you know, on the gas blowback stuff, I'm on my
trigger finger, I'm out running the gun and all that stuff.
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But with this stuff, you're running your gun, your ammunition,
your magazines and everything else. So it is like so
realistic that it's just crazy. So if you start thinking
just as the entry piece to this, think duck hunter
with your gun. That's really cool. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You can head to head or in scenarios or.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yep, yep. So we can run up to nine people
on three separate screens at a time.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So it's screen's actually are they bulletproof or what's the there.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's set off of a infrared camera that senses heat
and based on the placement of the heat and the
computer algorithm and all that kind of fun stuff. It'll
tell you exactly, it'll tell you within a quarter inch
where the impact was.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So it basically projects the screen onto the back of
the gun range yep if you will, yep, So it
looks like you're looking at a screen, but you're really not.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yep. And the cool thing is like, literally, we can
take bodycam footage from an officer's bodycam, we can upload
it into the system and we can specifically target specific
areas like the ocular granial vault, or the thracic cavity
or the pelvic girdle or anything like that, and we
can say two hits to this location ends the scenario,
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or three hits to this location and one hit to
another location ends the scenario. So it is stuff that literally,
well it's been about a month and a half now,
but two weeks into into us being affiliated with with
this company it, we had a body cam footage of
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the stuff down in Arizona where the gal was in
the shopping center with a knife. Dude with a knife,
and next thing you know, she's like backing up trying
to get away from him and everything else. And I'm
sitting there looking at and watching the footage going shoot, shoot, shoot, Shoot, Shoot, shoot,
and you know, two minutes later she ultimately shoots. You know,
(07:40):
having been in those types of situations and everything else
and understanding the whole dynamic, it's like, wow, Okay, this
this is something that anybody can understand, because if somebody
whips out a knife on you, what are you going
to do? You know, if they're less than five feet away,
you better be able to move because you're not going
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to be able to draw before that knife gets buried
into your body, especially if they're good at it. You know,
if you're going up against somebody like Patrick Godle, that's
a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I could have a gun in every hand and two
on my feet and Patrick Odle still disarm me and
kill me before I even know he came, Like and
that's and then I'll realize I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Dead, Like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So, speaking of knives, we just had a couple of
scenarios in real life where there was a knife attack
in a school and not at school. It was a
wal Mart.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Was it wal Mart or Yeah? I think it was
either a wal Mart or some type of shopping center
up up North Michigan.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
There was a retired marine that took care of that
did you follow that at all?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Oh? Yeah, the the keyboard commandos were killing me. Well,
look at the way he's holding that gun and everything else.
I'm like, you know what, here's the here's the bottom line.
Dude stood up and took care of business and stopped
this dude from stabbing other people. And I think, what
was it. I think he stabbed like six people inside
the store. So I mean number one to have the
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stones to confront the guy, and number two just sit
there and hold him at bay until the police arrived
and everything else. And then that one cat that was
standing off to the right of him, he's on armed
and he's sitting there tauting the dude. I'm like, all right,
those boys are definitely in the arena. Good for them. Yeah,
(09:34):
if someone's going to sit there and chastise them because
they're holding a gun at the gangster style or whatever,
you know whatever. So we had the gun sideways, so
what he still was taking care of the problem. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, And who knows how long he was in the
Marines or how long you've been retired. But sometimes if
you're if you're not training all the time every day,
you're you know, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, that's great though. Wow. Yeah, that of stuff happens
all the time in the United States, it's just we
never hear about it. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You were telling us before the show a little bit
about something that happened at a military base today or recently.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, there was an active shooter incident on some base
that that happened today. It sounds like four people. I
didn't get hardly any details. It was very, very brief
that I was watching literally about fifteen minutes prior to
us getting on the show together.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And Fort Stewart five soldiers shut five shoulders.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, Yeah, that sounds right. And the sad part is
it's an actual military personnel, so it's like, yeah, that's crazy,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We do talk about this. Stuff happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I've never been a part, thank goodness, right, But that's
what I'm preparing for, and that's why we wanted to
have you on as well, because you've been doing this
for thirty one plus years, right, Yeah, nineteen ninety okay,
nineteen ninety just when I was still young and still
a teenager in nineteen ninety yeah, and you know, I
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got my canciled carry ninety four and it's been an
it's been a process for me. I mean, it's it's
been an evolution really, you could say for me. So
one thing I always hesitated doing is just paying money
for training. I don't know why, because I figure I
could learn it myself because I've learned everything myself. That's
(11:34):
kind of the way. You know, the Internet wasn't really
around back back then and YouTube or anything like that.
So now we have the matrix, we can download things.
But I've really gotten to the point where, man, I
want class after class. Going to the range doesn't do
much for me anymore, except for maybe if I have
some skills that I've learned online, all, hey, I'm going
(11:55):
to go try that. I'm gonna go shoot this driller
or something. But it's really in person. Shooting with a
group is where an instructor is so much more helpful
and really accelerates my learning rather than just going to
the range. You know, before I go once a month
if that, And now I'm shooting almost weekly now, so
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well that's good.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's good. That's how you keep your skills up, because
if you're not shooting at least once a week, you're
probably diminishing your skills, or at least dry fire exercises
or something to that nature, or doing ready ups or
something like that. Just just doing something, even if you're
just doing it as a mental thing. It's amazing how
much of a difference that'll actually make for you.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I'd like to have an act in my home.
That would be defuitly nice.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, yeah, trust me, I want like four of them
at my house and different locations so I can move
from one location to another containing that bullet and noise
would be rather disturbing to my neighbors.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, see, that's that's what we want to talk about.
Is you know, is CQBU. That's kind of the you know,
we see the move in the movies, right the close
quarters battle whatever you want to you know, ever you
want to refer to it. Uh, that's kind of the
sexy part where the gun guys get into it and say, hey,
I want to learn this, I want to learn that.
But that's actually like the most dangerous thing you can do.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, about over three thousand live entries under my belt.
But the realities are I do not recommend anybody doing
it without at least three or four other guys. However,
the realities are. That's probably not going to happen. Somebody
breaks into your house, it's you and your spouse if
you're lucky. Otherwise it's just you. Yeah, you know, so
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you gotta you gotta at least have some understanding. And
that's that's a whole lot of the basis of the
courses that we teach within the cub world or the
home defense world as we call it, just because you've
got to know and understand angles and how to protect
yourself and what's ballistic what's not ballistic, because for handguns,
there's a lot of stuff inside a home that's ballistic
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if you have the right angle. But if you don't
have the right angles, yeah, we're gonna have problems.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Unless you're in your basement, right But I mean yeah,
and it's one hundred percent concrete, exact stick and all
that good stuff. So I guess the question is, you know,
unless you're trained, what is what's the procedure? I mean,
obviously the first thing should be to you know, call
nine one one, right, yeah, get the emergency services on
(14:36):
their way. What should if I suspect someone's in the house,
what should I do next?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
First thing? Pick up my phone I'm don nine to
one one. Where do I go from there?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, in all honesty, I tell people this all starts
before this event even happens, you know. And it's funny
because we're on prepper Talk radio and we're talking about preparations.
Here we go, everybody, get your pens out, because this
is the important piece. You set up your You set
up your home so that you have kind of your
alamo or the location that you're going to use as
(15:11):
your hardened spot, or the location where you can gather
up all the family members or all the persons living
inside your home so that they're all secured, or have
some type of action plan or communication plan that you
can communicate with everybody within that house to get the
house locked down. You've got to set that piece up
(15:32):
right from the get go, because otherwise this really doesn't
do you any good to know and understand all this stuff,
because now you're just putting yourself at more of a
risk and more exposure to danger and everything else. So
setting that piece up, obviously, having some firearm skills and
stuff that helps.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Todd, I was going to ask, you know, I think
it's a good's This is more of a comment slash.
Give me your feedback, But I think it's important to
go through your house and just look at different entry
points or possible entry points that somebody could come into
and then have a plan if they come in through
the front door, if they come in through the back door,
if they come in through the basement, if they come
(16:13):
in through the side window, Like, is that a good?
That's part of that planning you're talking about right now,
is just also looking at different entry points where people
could come in, and I make you might you might
say I'm gonna I'm gonna put myself in this room
and that's the very room they broke into.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well that's where, like you say, you you harden your
home so that they only have minimal options right of
coming in, and then you know, and then your plan
can be a lot easier to put together.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
When like for my for example, my basement, I've got uh,
I've got window wall covers. They're locking covers, so the
only access to the basement is down the stairs, right,
that's my uh right exactly little funnel. So so uh,
my plan could be Okay, we all rush down stairs
where the kids are yep, So that at the moment
(17:03):
the kids are downstairs or we're upstairs, and that could
be a primary an initial.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Plan, yeah, you know. And you could even have a
tertiary plan where you're cutting through the floor. Okay, you know,
do you know where the duck worked is? Do you
know where the plumbing is and all that stuff? You know,
it's just a tertiary plan, but still having that knowing
that you can do that to get to your children
or get to your loved ones. That's that's an option,
(17:31):
you know. And the other piece of that is it
may not be used for just somebody breaking into your home.
It could be used for a fire, could be used
for half the house got carved in. How are you
going to get how are you going to get to
your children's rooms? If half your your staircases fallen? One?
(17:51):
What are you going to do then? M Yeah, you know.
So these are just a number of things to start
thinking about. How how does all this work if you
don't have access to your staircase or you don't have
access to a hallway, you know, can you go out
one window and in another window? That's a good point. Yeah,
(18:12):
it's it's just little tiny things like that. Dude, the screws,
the type of screws. Do you keeping your door? Yep?
It is so simple and literally it costs you less
than ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And give you time when somebody's trying to keep that
door down. Gets you time to me to put my
glasses on my pistol, get my light and then say wife,
call nine one one and then then then start taking action. Yeah,
and I guess it would also deter the lazy criminals,
which are most of them, right, Oh yeah, can't bust
(18:44):
that door down.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
They take off, Yeah, three to five clicks and are kicks,
and they're tired and they're like, oh, forget it, let's
just go someplace else.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, too, heart of a target.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Not six months ago, wasn't there a story that was
in the news about some teenagers that were trying to
bust them but he's door down and he just starts
shooting them through the door. And the families were like,
we're we're suing the guy for killing our kids. But what.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
So that's why you know, hey, that's why you should
join us c C A right for those legal battles.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Just it's something that's gonna protect you well. And it's
funny because like, right now, there's a trend with the
teeny boppers to go kick a door three or four
times without trying to actually break in, but they just
kick it and then they fire off a bunch of
airsoft rounds. I'm like, that's a good way to wind
(19:40):
up dead if it's the wrong house. Yeah, you know,
And it's just come on, guys, think this through. There's there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
There was a funny Speaking of funny little memes that
kids do it, there was a kid I got sent
a video of a kid who's trying to do a
ding dung door ditch. You know, back in the day
we did ding dong that was harmless, right, but he
ding dong ditch? Is this lady and she catches him
and he's like, I'm so sorry, and and she's like,
I'm going to call your father right now.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Does your father know what you're doing?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
He's He's like, he's right there, My dad knows what
I'm doing. He's he's actually right over there. He says
it was a core memory as a kid, and he
wants to be a part of it for me. And
then you hear the dad in the background.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What's going on? Why are you still there.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
He's like, I got caught. Then run kid.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'm like, yes, that's.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
A good father, you know, good core memory for a kid.
But doing damage to someone's house potentially and being shooting
off guns like that's ding dong. Ditching is one thing,
but like kicking doors and shooting off air fire, even
if it's an air rifle, that's playing with fire at
that level.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, well he definitely created a core memory right there.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I tell you, Oh, guaranteed, guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, So so back on that, I guess the the
home defense is the c QB. Wife's calling nine one one.
I'm posting up. Someone's trying to kick in the door.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Where do you go from there? What's your plan?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
In all? Honestly, if you're in your your alamo, per se,
sit there and just hold on the door. And here's
here's a little five dollars tip, real simple. Go to
your local hardware stoor. Get a key made for your
front door. Okay, real cheap. Get a little ring, it
doesn't even have to be anything expensive. Get a glow stick.
(21:29):
Put those things together. There's a little hole at the
end of the glow stick. Feed the key ring through
that with the key on it. Once you hear the
police outside, tell the dispatcher, Hey, there's a glow stick,
whatever color it is, that I'm throwing out onto the
front yard or the backyard or whatever. That way, they
(21:50):
don't have to kick in your door and cause damage
to your door. Oh interesting, the police themselves right now.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Somebody, Tom, tell me, tell us the true if someone's
If I'm posted and I'm watching my door and someone's kicking,
should I be yelling at him, Hey, I've got a
gun and I'm gonna shoot it as soon as this
door opens? Should we be warning them? Should we just
shoot and blow the door up and get the guy
out of our front porch? What is our what do
we what are what are the things we can do?
(22:19):
What are our options?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Here's the legal ramification. Can you legally articulate that there
is a great a threat of immediate immediate is a
key piece great bodily injury or death? Can you articulate that?
If you can articulate that, then you gotta do what
(22:40):
you gotta do. I personally, I'm not gonna let anybody
know where I'm at until such time that it's time
to let them know where I'm at right.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So once that would you take care of business before
the door's open, or.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
If at such time that I could easily articulate that
there was going to be a threat to me or
my family members or someone else in my home. Absolutely nice, Okay,
but I have there all.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's got to make sense to the police too. The
person you're articulating it to that needs to be able
to say, okay, I can see that that's a situation
where you could have you could take it, take that action.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah. Like I had a client a couple of weeks
back that she has a restraining order against a guy
who's kicked in her door six times. Why he's not
in prison, I have no idea. That's that's a question
that I have for the district attorney's office. But she's
had this restraining order against him for three years and
(23:40):
he came in, kicked the door in the last time,
beat her up a little bit, center to the hospital,
and they filed another restraining order. And here's the thing.
If the dude shows up and he's pounding on her
door at that moment in time, based on past experience,
she understands that there's a threat of great bodily injury.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, I mean the dude's center to the hospital at
least once.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, it's spend multiple times unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, he's going to do it again then, you know. Yeah,
time to take care of business.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, you know. And so you know, and on my
at my house, dude, I'm covered three hundred and sixty
degrees by video, So yeah, have fun. I know you're
coming before you even know that. I'm know that I'm there.
So it's just it's just sad because you know, some
people don't have the financial means to do that, nor
(24:31):
do they have the financial means to get training.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
So yeah, So, so say someone did make it in
the house and you have kids, how would one go
about clearing their home or rescuing their child if knowing
someone else is in the house, not being willing to
wait for the police to come and do that. You know,
(24:55):
this is like worst case scenario. I mean, yeah, does
that make sense?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah. So, so essentially you're saying that somebody broke into
the house and the between you and your child, what
are you going to do? Yeah, at that point in time,
I hope you got some training or some baseline understanding
of angles and some baseline understanding of construction so that
you can utilize bits and pieces of your building or
your house to uh use it for apps, for legit
(25:23):
cover you know, that's that's just a simple piece. But
in general, corners are good for handgun stuff. But you know,
as we've seen in a number of YouTube videos now,
the the criminal element has figured out that if I'm
going to go kick in a door, bringing a pistol
is probably not a good idea. I should probably being
(25:44):
a rifle, you know, and that that just changes that
dynamic altogether. If somebody, somebody shows up at my house
with a rifle and they're kicking trying to kick in
my door, well then I've got some decisions to make
they get inside my house, I definitely have some decisions
to make, because why is somebody bringing a rifle into
(26:06):
my home that they just kicked the door in, you know,
or they forced entries somehow, like breaking breaking glass or
something of that nature.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean, that seems like a pretty you still have
to articulated, but it seems like you've got a pretty
good case. Oh yeah, they're bringing a rifle, even even
a handgun, and shoot if they if they kick the
door in and it doesn't go and they start shooting
the handle to get in. I mean they've already discharged
their weapon. Yeah, that's to me, that's like, Okay, they
(26:37):
dude just shot through my door. He doesn't know who's
standing right behind it. That's bodily harmed to me and
potentially my dog or any my property.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean, I guarantee you he's going to hit my
dog because my dog's going to be running and barking
at that door.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So right, right, So that's something to that's definitely something
to articulate.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And so you're going you mentioned rifle, what about shotgun?
I mean, what's your prefer home defense weapon, the one
you're the best at. Okay, me, personally, I like the shotgun,
but I have done extensive amounts of training with a
shotgun and the shotgun the reason being all the different
(27:17):
loads that I can that I can run in it.
I can run slugs, I can run buck shot, I
can run bird shot, I can run Magnum buck shot.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I can run Magnum bird shot, I can run steel,
I can run lead, you know, And it's there's so
many different variables in there. You can run if you
if you want to shoot them and trust me, it's
not comfortable. The three in a quarter or three and
a half ounce in a quarter of slug lead slug.
(27:50):
That'll wake you up in the morning, especially if if
it hits somebody in a chest, even if if they're
if they're wearing a ballistic mast. The bliss the best
will catch the round, I will tell you that. But
the back faced defamation is going to kill them. Mhmm, wow,
that's I know. There's you mentioned YouTube earlier.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
There's a lot of videos out there of these tactical
ex military guys training people and.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Teaching people's stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
How practical is that compared to what the real life
for a for a civilian just with some training. I mean,
what's the can you speak to that for a few minutes.
I mean, we've only got a few minutes left.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But oh yeah, well, and there's there's more than one
way to skin a cat. Let's just leave it that way.
There's people will sit there and say, the SEV technique
is the is the prem the premium way to do it.
This Seal way is to do this is how the
Seals do it. This is how Team seven do is,
This is how Team nine does it. This is how
Alpha team, this is how Bravo team, this is how
(28:50):
X team whatever. Dude, I don't care learn the angles.
That's that's the bottom line. All the stuff that I
teach within CQB stuff is all based off of principles
rather than techniques. If you're if you're trying to set
up your your CQUV stuff or your home defense stuff
under a specific technique, I guarantee you what's going to
(29:12):
happen is you're going to run into something that doesn't
fit that technique and now you're going to have a problem.
Why Why do I know that ye have three thousand entries.
That's why. That's why we didn't have an adopted this
is the way you do it every single time.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, that's good news because I know there's a lot
of people out there looking at different you know, X training,
military training people who are doing it the way they
did it on the teams and teaching the way the teams,
the techniques that the teams used, whatever they did when
they were in the in the service. And I was
talking to another guy's like, sometimes some of that stuff
isn't practical sometimes, like you have to really you have
(29:50):
to kind of know a different way. As a civilian, Yeah,
we're not You're not trained the same way, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
And as a home owner, you're going to have one, two,
maybe three if you've got a child that has the
ability to do that. If your spouse and you are
all on the two of you or the three of
you are all on the same page, great, But I'll
(30:17):
tell you right now, from just raw experience, I want
at least four dudes or four people that I know
how they're moving, just based off of the way they're breathing,
the way that I see their shoulders moving. It's just
something that I don't recommend trying to clear your home
(30:39):
unless you've got at least at least sixty to seventy
hours of training or experience behind it. Otherwise, just do
your best to keep, yeah, harden your home manyah.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Nice, Yeah, prevent it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, Well, only the last minute thoughts, Todd, we should
have started a little laryers do we didn't have to
end up at the time. But what last minute thoughts
do you have or ideas or thoughts or even you Shane,
what do you think?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Well, personally, I tell people right from the get go,
those little three quarter in screws that are in your
striker plate of your door and in your hinges. Pull
those suckers out and put three inch or if you
can get longer ones in there, put the longest ones
you possibly can in there. It's just gonna make it
that much harder for people to break in your front door. Okay. However,
(31:31):
sliding glass doors, you got to figure out the way
that's going to lock your sliding glass door because they're
all just a little bit different. Those little locks at
the bottom, they don't work French doors in both the
top and the bottom. Okay. And if you've got glass,
get a Mylark coating on it so that they can't
break it.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Did that for my sliding glass door.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
So yeah, it's it's incredible how much of a difference
that makes. I mean literally, there's mile our codin is
that you can put on a glass right now that
are nine millimeters ballistic. What yeah, check it out.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
We definitely need to continue this another time.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, the detail, Yeah, there's I mean literally we could
sit here and talk for about this for hours and
hours and hours upon end. So if anybody has any questions,
they can just reach out to me at Nielsen Training
dot com. I'm more than happy to answer any questions
or jump in a class. We have several different classes.
(32:37):
Our entry level course is only one hundred bucks and
it's only a couple hours, so it makes it super
simple to at least get started in this so that
you understand how to get into a room at least absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And most of these, just to everybody knows, most of
these trainings are in central Utah, kind of northern central Utah,
but ID is willing to travel if there's a big
enough group and you can get get it going for
you where you are. We got a lot of viewers
all over the country and even out of the country,
so I'm sure you're more focused on in the country
than out because there's different laws and.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Rules, way different laws in other countries.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, I definitely got to be careful. But thank you
so much for being on the show with us today, Todd.
We really appreciate your expertise and your willingness to share
it with others. Stay tuned, Todd. I know at some
point in the past you shared with us that you
were looking for some ways to be able to deliver
some online training so the people in remote areas could
get access to some of that stuff, and that's I know,
(33:34):
you're super just swamped with all the great stuff you're
doing and expanding. And I'm sure that's still on the
table somewhere. Oh yes it is if you want to know.
We'll have all the links in the show notes for
any of the for Todd's website, and then also that
website where he was talking about earlier with that live
shooting that's called Yak You Shoot, and we'll have a
(33:55):
link for that as well. Thank you again for listening
to Prepper Talk Radio radio for the ready minded. We
will see you guys on the next one.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Take care, see you guys. Thanks M h M.
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