Welcome to The Cop & The Con Podcast! 🎙️🚨

Get ready for raw, honest, and unforgettable conversations from two completely different worlds! 🌍 One of us spent a career enforcing the law 👮‍♂️, and the other spent time breaking it ⛓️. Today, we’re sitting on the same side of the mic to bring you unique perspectives on life, growth, and everything in between. 🎧✨

Here is a sneak peek of what we dive into:

• Accountability: Taking ownership of your actions and turning your life around. 🎯✍️
• Raising Children: Navigating parenthood and teaching the next generation through our lived experiences. 👨‍👦‍👧❤️
• Our Musical Roots: How we both fell in love with music and got our start in the industry. 🎸🥁
• The Origin Story: The inside scoop on how our paths crossed to form our band, Borrowed Time. 🎼🤘

Hit that subscribe button and join us on this wild journey of redemption, rhythm, and reality! 📻💥

🚨 THE COP AND THE CON — EPISODE 13 🚨

🥊 Special Guest: Tony Blauer — Blauer Tactical Systems

This week, we’re joined by legendary self-defense and combatives coach Tony Blauer, founder of Blauer Tactical Systems and creator of the SPEAR System.

This episode is a little more personal for me because Tony wasn’t just someone I trained with — I had the opportunity to work for him as part of his mobile training team, traveling and helping teach his system. 👊

We get into the early days of Blauer Tactical Systems, how Tony’s approach to fear, violence, and human performance evolved, and the origins of the system that would go on to influence law enforcement, military, martial artists, and self-defense instructors around the world.

🔥 Episode Highlights:

🥋 The origin and evolution of Blauer Tactical Systems

⚡ How the SPEAR System was developed

🧠 Why understanding fear is such a critical part of surviving violence

👮 My experience working with Tony on his mobile training team

🥊 The difference between sport fighting, traditional martial arts, and real-world violence

🎯 How Tony’s training philosophy changed the way people think about personal defense

😂 Stories and memories from training and working together

💪 Lessons that carry over from fighting and self-defense into everyday life

Whether you’re into law enforcement, MMA, martial arts, self-defense, military training, or just want to understand how the human body and mind react when things get real, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.

🎙️ The Cop and the Con — Episode 13 featuring Tony Blauer

👮‍♂️ One became a cop.

⛓️ One became a con.

🤝 Somehow, they stayed best friends.

Two completely different paths. One hell of a friendship.

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