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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

411: Tim Pearce—Accuracy Under Fire

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

LAPD and CRASH Unit veteran Tim Pearce shares stories of fighting gangs in South Central in a post-Rodney King world, including the tragic tale of his police officer wife being shot in the line of duty, which led him to invent an amazing life-saving device that simulates a gunshot wound, which he demonstrates on Chuck.

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0:00.0

Well, hello friends, it's us again, micro and Chuck Klaus Meyer. And this is the way I heard it.

0:10.0

Specifically, this one is the way Tim Pierce.

0:13.2

Heard it? He's our guest, a former cop who, I mean of all the beats in all the world,

0:21.2

wow, South Central, right after Rodney King, he hopped to his neck with the blood

0:27.6

and the crips, and man does he have some stories to tell?

0:31.0

He does and he spills a lot of them and one that's just

0:34.3

incredibly tragic. Yeah full disclosure I didn't invite him on to hear many of the

0:42.0

stories that we heard but I was so grateful to hear them.

0:46.7

I invited him on because I think Tim has invented, well I know he's invented a product

0:52.2

that's going to save a lot of lives.

0:54.0

Yeah, I don't know how many, but maybe an awful lot.

0:57.5

Our friend Gavin De Becker is very bullish on this invention, which you were kind enough to field test here on the

1:03.9

podcast. I got the feeling that you were really delighted by that as you got to

1:08.4

control the buttons on it and do you want to tell people what this device is?

1:12.3

It's a device that you can operate remotely.

1:15.0

It is essentially, think of it like a garment of sorts. It's a sleeve that you can put on either arm and the sleeve has electrodes, think of them as

1:27.2

electrodes in there. When you hit the right button and turn the right dial it

1:31.3

sends an electrical jolt about 66 volts into the

1:36.1

musculature of the person wearing said device this will cause things like

1:41.6

your bicep and your forearm to contract uncontrollably.

1:47.0

Thereby immobilizing your arm.

1:50.0

Yes.

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