Oct. 25, 2025

Season Wrap: Plans, Guests, Next Steps

Send us a text Ready for a clear roadmap of where Armed Guardian is heading next? We close the season by sharing what we learned, what resonated, and how we’re leveling up the show with a tighter cadence, sharper topics, and guests who’ve lived the stakes. It’s a grounded plan for anyone serious about personal safety, smarter training, and responsible carry. We’re moving to a consistent release schedule—new episodes every other Monday morning—so you can build a routine around learning and pr...

Send us a text

Ready for a clear roadmap of where Armed Guardian is heading next? We close the season by sharing what we learned, what resonated, and how we’re leveling up the show with a tighter cadence, sharper topics, and guests who’ve lived the stakes. It’s a grounded plan for anyone serious about personal safety, smarter training, and responsible carry.

We’re moving to a consistent release schedule—new episodes every other Monday morning—so you can build a routine around learning and practice. Then we dive into what’s ahead: conversations with a domestic violence survivor and self-defense instructor on risk assessment and recovery, a women’s firearms instructor on building confident fundamentals and addressing human trafficking awareness, and competition shooters translating pressure-tested skills into practical drills. We’ll also bring on a magazine publisher to help you cut through the noise and focus on gear and methods that actually work.

Training sits at the center of our approach. We outline how to evaluate instructors, read safety culture, set measurable goals, and avoid classes that overpromise and underdeliver. Expect more EDC breakdowns with first aid integration, realistic preparedness for disasters, and less-lethal tools that fit the situations most people face. And because protection isn’t just hardware and reps, we unpack self-defense insurance: coverage differences, common exclusions, and special considerations for security professionals and first responders.

We’re grateful for the community that formed around the show, from early shares to thoughtful feedback that shaped our direction. Want to help steer what’s next? Email your questions, topics, or guest ideas to podcast@blueberrytactical.com. If this roadmap resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who trains, and leave a quick review so more people find practical, responsible guidance on their path to being prepared.

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To reach us on topics, suggestions or guest referrals email us at brian@thearmedguardianpodcast.com. This podcast is sponsored by Right To Bear Legal Protection and Blackout Coffee
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00:02 - Welcome And Season Recap

01:01 - Schedule Update And Release Cadence

01:31 - Guest Lineup And Focus Topics

03:14 - Training Plans And New Courses

05:44 - Sponsors, Insurance, And Coverage Gaps

07:35 - Community Feedback And How To Reach Us

09:03 - Growth Milestones And Mission

10:05 - Holiday Sign-Off And Thanks

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Hi, welcome to the Armed Guardian Podcast.

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Season 1, episode 10.

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Today, David and I will be giving an overview of the past season, what we've done, where we're at, and where we're going with the future podcast of the Armed Guardian Past Podcast.

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So sit back and listen, enjoy, and as we prepare to go into the holiday season.

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Today, uh David and I will be kind of giving a year-in review for our podcast.

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This will be the last episode for 2023.

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We like to thank everybody for helping out, participating, and listening to our podcast, and for those that have shared and encouraged others to listen.

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Thank you.

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But um we just want to jump on, wish everybody a Merry Christmas, uh, happy new year, and uh kind of give you an overview of what's uh going on.

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So uh just kind of give you a brief overview.

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We're gonna start dropping our podcast episodes.

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We're still gonna keep the current every other week uh putting one out and gonna release them on Mondays now, Monday mornings.

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So uh every other Monday morning, we should have a podcast drop unless uh there's a event that prevents us from doing so.

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But um just a small programming change for our podcast.

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Um got a few uh great uh people that are confirmed that are still gonna be participating.

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We've got um Cass McGuire.

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Some of you may know have seen heard from her on social media as Snoop Dog Um, Star Snoop Dogg, and uh she's a domestic violence survivor and self-defense firearms instructor.

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So uh we're gonna have her on.

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We've got uh Crispal Milan from South Florida, a USCCA women's uh firearms uh instructor and safety advocate.

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She'll be coming on talking about women's firearms and human trafficking.

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Uh she's an advocate for that as well.

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Uh prevention, that is.

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And uh we've got uh let's see, Trampus Swanson is gonna come in.

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Uh we'll have several different episodes with him, but uh he's got a magazine that he produces online that uh I really enjoy, a lot of good information on it.

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We'll have him on to discuss the magazine.

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Uh Amy Lucas, uh, who's a USCCA instructor in Michigan, she's gonna come in, talk about training, uh how to find a good instructor, how to bet out your instructors, and just kind of give a good overall um talk about the necess the necessity for training and uh furthering your your education and firearms.

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Uh several others that we've got coming on, some legal people, uh we've got uh some competition shooters that we're gonna be having come on, as well as David and our topics with uh different things that uh we'll be doing.

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We'll be getting back into our uh everyday day carry or EDC low out loadout um things where we'll talk about um first aid uh survival preparedness, uh which we do have someone that's gonna be coming coming in talking to us about uh prepping, uh just general prepping, you know, for natural disasters and everything, and uh also for less lethal self-defense uh options.

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Uh Mr.

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Matt Mallory uh out of New York.

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Uh he's a great guy, so he'll be coming in.

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So those are just some of the episodes that we'll be uh putting out here soon this coming year in 2024.

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Uh we encourage you to share with us uh our uh growth and everything.

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I thank everybody in the four months that we've had the podcast going.

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It's uh it's actually gone larger than what I expected.

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So uh I appreciate everybody that's been doing that.

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Um I'll let you speak on anything that you want, David.

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You got something that uh you want to talk on or no upcoming training or classes that you're looking to kind of put together and and everything?

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Yeah, to uh piggyback off what you said, thank you everybody for listening and us over the last several months.

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Um Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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Hope everything's going well with everybody.

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Um, we've got some great training coming up.

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Um working on some new courses.

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We'll bring we'll kind of fill everybody in on that as as we move forward over the next several months.

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Um I'm just enjoying it, having a good time podcasting and training and learning and looking forward to the new year.

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Yeah, I'm I'm glad that you you came on board with me, David, with uh wanting to do this.

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Uh I I could have done it solo, but uh it help helps out, especially when we do our our episodes ourselves talking about our topics or things that we want to do.

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And I appreciate you for jumping on board and the support of um your family and and friends that uh have kind of helped out with uh promoting.

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Um see there was something else I was gonna say.

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Oh, uh we still have Blackout Coffee as uh one of our show provider sponsors uh that we'll be promoting this year, uh continuing this year.

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We've uh got a new sponsor that we're gonna be bringing on board for self-defense insurance um that will be helping to sponsor our podcast, uh Right to Bear.

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It's uh great self-defense protection, inexpensive, a lot of good coverage.

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Um if you uh have some want some information on it, you can get in touch with us.

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It's a great uh check your policies.

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That's if you have a self-defense insurance with or protection with somebody else, uh check those policies and restrictions because uh you may not be as covered as you think.

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Especially if you're into security, first responder, law enforcement.

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Uh they've got a um they cover uh cover those people in those both in their uh on duty capacity or their potential to be called on duty.

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Um where other companies may not cover first responders, security guard, military, and stuff like that.

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But um yeah, just uh listen to us.

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We'll be popping out the sh in the uh first episode of 2024 the information on right to bear.

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Uh we'll have them on our website as well, both uh the podcast website and the business website.

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So um we will definitely like to have some information and some uh people participate with with that.

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Uh do you guys have any information that you want us to cover?

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Uh we kind of have our plan, but we are also open to both um training on our business side for the Blueberry Tactical as well as uh podcast topics and any guests.

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So if you have any guests, you can reach out to us.

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Um we've got an email directly that comes to us that's uh podcast at blueberry tactical.com.

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Uh that comes to our general uh email and just leave your comments, uh suggestions, um likes, dislikes.

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If there's something that you would like to see us change, hey, we're we're open to change.

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We're not we're not set in our ways, not yet.

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But uh we uh we would like to ask you for you know any topics or you know any training that you would like to see in the future.

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Um we still are growing, uh still providing training in through our three locations.

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Um our uh our podcast is actually I would say that it's international because we've got I think five people that are outside the North America continent that have listened and listen not every episode but most episodes.

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So hey, we're I guess we can say we're international now.

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But uh that that's pretty cool.

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That is.

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Uh I think the last I saw we were at 150 downloads, which um is is awesome.

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I appreciate each and every one of them.

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But uh as long as somebody gets some training or some information from our our topics and guests that we have, that is that that's the goal of what the podcast was designed set up to be.

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It wanted to be some major numbers.

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I want we've I wanted us to be able to go out and to give people information to let them think uh about their safety and their family's safety and how they can grow as a concealed carrier and home defender.

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So uh with that being said, uh you have anything else, David, that you want to mention or cover?

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I think we've covered a pretty good bit.

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Once again, I'd like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas, happy new year, and thank you.

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Thank you everybody for listening in and just making it a good several months of podcasting.

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All right.

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Well, on that note, we will close this podcast.

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And uh again, thank you everybody for listening and participating and uh sharing.

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And again, from the Arm Guardian podcast and Blueberry Tactical, we would like to thank and wish every one of you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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Thank you, everybody.

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