Speaker 1: I know a lot of cops. I've heard a lot
Speaker 1: of their stories, and they get asked all the time,
Speaker 1: have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the
Speaker 1: answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a
Speaker 1: future where the answer will always be no. Get her
Speaker 1: a new space age weapon that stuns but does not kill.
Speaker 2: We have saved an estimated two hundred thousand or more lives.
Speaker 1: The initial response was that's not real.
Speaker 3: No, that's not real. And so the first thing they
Speaker 3: did we got there, no introductions, made, no nothing. Okay,
Speaker 3: everybody line up and they shocked us all and then
Speaker 3: at that point they had our attention.
Speaker 2: Oh down like a box of rocks, full neuro muscular incapacitation.
Speaker 3: If your local police officers are not get armed with tasers,
Speaker 3: chances are they will be soon.
Speaker 1: Across the country.
Speaker 3: Cops called this taser the revolution.
Speaker 1: Tasers saving lives.
Speaker 2: That's the business that we're in.
Speaker 1: We're protecting the truth and we're protecting lines.
Speaker 2: Every senior employee this company has been hit with a taser.
Speaker 2: Many of our wives, many of our children have been
Speaker 2: hit with tasers. So we believe this is the safest
Speaker 2: way to get a violent person under control. That's huge.
Speaker 2: We're very proud of what we do and it is
Speaker 2: like a religion to us.
Speaker 1: But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.
Speaker 2: Well, they talked out of both sides of their mouth,
Speaker 2: so it depended on which side of their mouth you
Speaker 2: were on.
Speaker 1: And for my friend, Officer Matt Masters and his wife Stacy,
Speaker 1: the consequences got personal. On the ground, Ah told you,
Speaker 1: hands on your back.
Speaker 2: There's a fire truck there and ambulance there, and of
Speaker 2: course we walk up to the scene.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, the cops are like.
Speaker 3: Get back, you know, and You're like, do not touch me,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's my kid.
Speaker 3: I get right back there.
Speaker 2: And it's bad.
Speaker 1: It's really, really really bad. From Lava for Good and
Speaker 1: the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story
Speaker 1: about what happened when a multi billion dollar company dedicated
Speaker 1: itself to one visionary mission making the bullet obsolete. This
Speaker 1: is absolute Season one Taser Incorporated.
Speaker 2: I want to start by addressing a couple of questions
Speaker 2: we've been receiving. The first one is our chest hits
Speaker 2: with the taser dangerous and the answer to that is definitively.
Speaker 1: No cops believed everything, everything that Taser told me.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about a bunch of electrical engineers here,
Speaker 3: We're talking about a bunch of cops. They said, We've
Speaker 3: now warned you, and if you do this, guess what
Speaker 3: it's on you.
Speaker 1: Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season one Taser Incorporated,
Speaker 1: starting May twenty first, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes one, two,
Speaker 1: and three on May twenty first, and episodes four, five,
Speaker 1: and six on June fourth, ad free at Lava for Good,
Speaker 1: plus on Apple Podcasts