Papi joins us today to talk about snakes and snake bites. Skip past the first 30 minutes unless you want to hear some Florida man stories and listen to Jared & Jason catch up.

You can find Jason teaching everything EMS at therescuecompany1.com

Best selling author Marc Cameron joins us this week to talk about how he went from being a small town cop to a Chief Deputy US Marshal in Alaska, and then on to writing Jack Ryan books for the Tom Clancy Estate. This is our favorite episode yet.

Marc has several of his own best selling series including the Jericho Quinn and Arliss Cutter novels. You can find them at https://marccameronbooks.com or anywhere books are sold.

Rumor has it Marc will be joining us in Coeur d'Alene at the end of April for the launch of his newest Arliss Cutter book "Breakneck". You can buy tickets at https://cdalibrary.org/library-events/crime/

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel." - Earnest Hemingway

Finally! The answer to that nagging question... Does Jared hate cops?

We also discuss how both of us became good at building relationships outside of the first responder world. Oh and we name the best power tools even though Sam would disagree with us.

The tough guy stigma of the fire service is often held up by booze and pain killers. Firefighter Gary Roberts lost both his daughter and his dad to opioid addiction. So he decided to do something about it. He shares his story and his fight for CBD therapy with us.

It's funny how you can have a prescription for pain killers or amphetamines, or go home and get hammered every night and nobody cares. But if you want to try a non psychoactive CBD product alarms go off.

You can find Gary on IG @gary_roberts_podcaster, on the good dudes grow podcast, Pure Body Zen CBD https://pbzcbd.com, and his latest project in Costa Rica at https://www.promisesinnovativerecovery.com 

Dirty cops and "nacho average pregnancy" -Seth Horst 

Sarah sits down with us to share some wild stories from the jailhouse. People probably won't believe most of this craziness.

Booby traps, OIS, SWAT life.

Our friend mike joins us today to tell stories about his career in law enforcement where he worked most of it on a full time SWAT team.

"Do the work, win the prize." Jonathan Montgomery joins us today to talk about the health of first responders. Jonathan and his wife Anne founded and own First In Nutrition, where they provide personalized nutrition coaching for first responders in a family environment. 

In addition to being a firefighter, Jonathan has also traveled the world as the lead singer of a punk rock band and is a 4 stripe brown belt in BJJ.

You can find them on social media or at their website: https://firstinnutrition.com

The good, the bad, & the ugly parts of fire life. Our friend Chris joins us today to discuss life as a firefighter. We talk about everything from cat rescues to having to work on dead kids while you have little ones at home.

This one's a doozy. We discuss recent American police dramas, police culture, lax standards in public safety jobs, and Seth decided to stop swearing so much.

"This will be your worst episode ever" -Sam. 

He came over to correct our many mistakes and we ended up arguing about whether or not cops escalate too quickly and a few other things. 

PS. Unions are a scam...