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#219 After Dark: How One Line-Level Officer Rewrote the Qualification and is Shifting His Whole Agency's Shooting Culture with The 9mm Musashi

2026-10-3002:01:43

You've heard the complaint a thousand times: law enforcement qualifications are a joke. A static firing line, a generous time window, a pass or fail check mark, and everyone goes home. Nothing changes. Nobody improves. Nobody cares. So what actually moves the needle? Joey, an ISP repeat offender guest and the host of the Sketchy Boyz Watch Club podcast, sits back down at the Iron Sights table to walk through exactly what he did at his agency to change that, and the answer is smaller and smart...

#218 After Dark: John Constantine: What 15 Years on the Secret Service Counter Assault Team Taught Him About Leadership, Identity, and Letting Go

2026-10-2302:35:59

John Constantine is retired US Secret Service and author of Hallways and Stairwells. This is a long-form conversation that moves from presidential protection to personal identity and back again. John spent roughly 23 years in the service, 15 of them on the Counter Assault Team, the guys in the black BDUs running motorcades and stacking up for the worst day that hopefully never comes. That particular mission, always training, always ready, almost never firing a round operationally, turns out t...

#217 After Dark: Guild Solutions Group Live: Breaching, Barricades, and the Brotherhood Behind the Work

2026-10-1601:57:25

This one's with the full Guild Solutions Group crew, including founder Shane Foster, Director of Training Jason "Jabo" Long, lead instructors Matt Petaki and Jeremy Nash, and Pryme Infil CEO Jarred Pereira. The conversation goes everywhere it should. You will hear how Jarred Pereira built Pryme Infil out of a 65-page PowerPoint written at 2 a.m. on FMLA leave after surviving a federal deposition he was never prepared for, and why documentation is now the front line of officer protection. You...

#216 After Dark: How Kim Pastore Built the Jorge Pastore Foundation From Grief Into a National Training Movement for Law Enforcement

2026-10-0901:57:58

You don't have to wear a badge to fight for the people who do. Kim Pastore, founder of the Jorge Pastore Foundation, lost her husband Jorge, an Austin PD SWAT officer, in the line of duty in 2023. What she built in the aftermath, in a remarkably short amount of time and entirely from the outside looking in, is one of the most honest, boots-on-the-ground efforts to close the training gap facing law enforcement in this country. This conversation is long overdue, and it goes deep. Kim and I tra...

#215 After Dark: Sean Bonilla on Building Predictability, Leading from the Front, and Cleaning Up Your House Before You Call in a Third Party

2026-10-0202:35:34

I sat down with Sean Bonilla, founder of Ready and Able Defense and a law enforcement officer who came up through the fight world, and we dig into a question that doesn't get asked enough: are you even cleaning up your house before you try to fix it? Sean lays out a framework that cuts through the noise, starting with the one thing competitive fighting taught him that most cops never get: frequency of consequence. When you fight, you feel the cost of skipping training. In law enforcement, yo...

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