Happy Anniversary!

One year down!

"Introduction to That LEO Guy" came out one year ago today.  I was on a digital recorder, rambling on about who I am and why this podcast is great.

Since then I've conducted a multitude of interviews and covered dozens of important law enforcement and military topics.

Thank you for your continued listenership and support, and I'm looking forward to a razzle-dazzle FY27 of interviews and more!

-LEO

Transcript

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Good morning. Welcome to June. And it is the one-year anniversary of my first episode release. A lot of the stuff that I released for the first three or four months, you know, June to about September or October of last year, I had previously recorded because I'm such a technological dinosaur that I didn't know how to get it into the internet, the interwebs. Since then, I've tried to cover as many topics as I thought would help, including experts in a lot of fields, Dave Grossman, J Bo, Christy Barker. We're talking to prosecutors, we're talking to career law enforcement people, Rob and Alan. You know, I'm sure I'm missing a lot of people, but Scott Hoare, trying to cover health, wellness, personal life, which, you know, we can joke all we want that, you know, you're not a real cop till you're through your second divorce and all this crap. Make all the jokes you want, but if your personal life collapses, your career collapses, and there's no two ways around that. So I try to cover all that as best I can. Uh, you know, tell you about my failures, tell you about my successes, bring on people that will, you know, kick some knowledge to you that have done the job. They're not just academics, they haven't read a book on it. They may have read books, but they're not basing their knowledge on that. They're basing it off of years and decades of experience. Uh I mean, just through the interviews I've done, I mean, Christy has 30-something years. Kevin Rairdon has 40 years of experience both prosecuting and defending, you know, time as a lieutenant colonel in the army. I mean, these people have hundreds of years of combined experience that they're willing to talk about the subjects. And I've gotten turned down by quite a few people to talk about things. You know, I'm here in Memphis. We're all familiar with the incident on Shannon Street. I've tried to get people to, you know, that were there come on and talk about that. No takers, not surprisingly. It was tragic. People that were at Waco, I've tried to get them to come on and talk about what really went on at Waco and haven't had any luck. I'm still working on getting better guests that are willing to talk about subjects that, you know, both historical events like those and go into detail on nitty-gritty cop skills that we all need to succeed, that you, the listener, hopefully are wanting to develop through listening. Got the social media up and running, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, even TikTok, which I've spent years. You know, people send me TikToks, they text me a TikTok, and I'm like, I can't listen to this. I don't have TikTok. Well, now I have one for that Leo guy. So, you know, getting all this stuff up stuff up and running, it took me a lot of time. It took me a lot of errors trying to figure out, you know, how to link different accounts. I don't have to post the same crap twice. I just do it once and it shoots onto multiple. But it's been a year of trial and error. I've been pretty comfortable in law enforcement for a pretty long time, developing the skills that I need and being comfortable in that realm. Putting crap online, doing podcast stuff has not been my comfort zone. Hopefully, you've noticed a change in quality since I got this microphone, which is awesome. I think it's a much higher quality than what I'd been using in the past. That's not to say that some of my episodes won't still be on the little digital recorder because the microphone has failed a couple of times and I've had to just use that audio because I'm not redoing everything. So please, I encourage you to reach out on the social media or if you know me personally, shoot me a text and let me know a subject that needs to be covered. Several people, retired federal agents, career cops, have put me on to people and I've gotten a lot of texts that say, like, hey, I think this guy would be a great interview. You should talk to him. I was plugged into Drew Taylor, the director of forensic services up in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, uh, by an officer that I used to work with. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate you guys reaching out and giving me the feedback of, hey, this is helping me. This is helping people I know, you know, hearing your mistakes, hearing your lesson learned, lessons learned will keep us from making some of the same mistakes. And it's getting us thinking about what we're doing and if it's the best way to do things. So keep that feedback coming. Please keep reaching out if you want to come on or you have a friend that you know you've talked to on the side and been like, hey, listen to this clown on this show and see if this is something, you know, you were at Ruby Ridge, you know, you were you recruited Whitey Bulger to be a source. Uh and tell us about your mistakes, or you've been run over by a CI. Like you thought you were running an informant, but you weren't, they were running you. Those are the stories I want. That's that's brutal honesty. We're all humans, we might get worked sometimes. So I've covered a buttload of topics over the last year from informants, search warrants, undercover, plain clothes, close quarter battle, you know, building clearing, CQB, including lots of videos and crap on the social media to kind of demonstrate what I think is the best way. You know, these high-speed guys might disagree, or even low speed guys. I don't say that to say like, oh, they're all clowns. I'm just saying I might have it wrong. And I welcome the feedback and the tweaks and the goal for this year, one year down, I've got my basic footprint. I've got things a little bit established. I got a handful of followers and listeners, and you know, some people starting to say, like, oh, I've been in this job 10 years and I'm learning something, or I've got something I can pass on to a new guy. And over the next year, I want to grow that quite a bit, get more people on, talking about tough stuff, having tough conversations, not just me agreeing with everything they say, not them agreeing with everything I say and going way down the rabbit hole on some things. We've done a lot of mental health, a lot of personal life stuff, fitness and mental health management. And I've had some great guests that have talked about that stuff and been at rock bottom themselves and clawed their way out back to a life, back to personal and professional success. So I want to thank you all for listening and dealing with my high pitched voice over the last year and the next 365 days are going to be even better. I'm really looking forward to it. And thank you all. Have a great day. Bye.