Greg Anderson
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522 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Mar
Greg Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Dude, I love that's been like from day one. Cause I remember I was on my boat. Literally like a week after we did our first episode together. Yeah. And I remember, I don't know if you remember this, I was texting you about what equipment to get to start a podcast. Yeah, I do remember. And you're like, you're out on your fucking boat. I hope that thing sinks. So you've been very consistent there.
I hate the fucking ocean. I don't hate the ocean.
Yeah, it was crazy. Started thinking for yourself. Well, dude, that was shit. And you were one of the first people that reached out to me and you're like, cause I mean, obviously you did some investigating cause my number is public cause I own a jujitsu academy. No, I hit you up through Instagram. No, no, no. You text me. Did I? Yeah. You text me.
And I was like, well, you probably Googled me. I'm assuming. I don't know.
Well, whatever you did, you texted me. You said, Hey, this is who I am. I run a podcast. You want to come out? I'm like, I know who you are. Of course I'll come out.
And, uh, it's crazy how a seven minute video can change the trajectory of the rest of your life, dude.
Bro, I'm not exaggerating when I say this. I wouldn't go back to patrol officer for $2 million a year salary. I wouldn't. Because here's the thing, man. Now that I have 265 students at my jiu-jitsu academy, so am I getting rich? No, but I also don't want for anything. We're very comfortable. Which I actually think is a better definition of rich. That's right.
I think rich is the ability to do with your time what you want to. And now that me and my family get to experience that, we're making enough to where like... My daughter turned 16 this weekend and we can go get her a new car, not a new car, but a car without being stressed about it. Right. And we can afford just being comfortable traveling when we want to travel.
But more importantly than that, not having the stress of a boss, not having the stress of being told what to do. Like, dude, I think back on it now because I was 40 years old when I left the professional law enforcement. In that car, you were 40? Yeah, dude. 39 or 40. With your hat on backwards, you savage. Oh, I was hiding. I was hiding my department.
How'd that work out for you? Yeah, it didn't. It didn't at all. But to think back, like literally four years ago, if I didn't shave my face that morning. Is that all it was, was four years ago? Yeah. Well, it's five now. Yeah, it's 2020. Oh, how...
I know, dude. Or to hang out with your friends and do anything. Well, and that's why that story went so viral because everybody was feeling it at home and to see somebody in uniform say what everybody's thinking, that's why it fucking blew up the way that it did. How quickly from you hitting upload to your first call from the boss... Was it pretty quick? Yeah. Oh no. It was the next morning. Yeah.
I uploaded it because here's the deal. We worked, it was the last day of my work week, which was, I worked Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. So it was Tuesday and then I recorded it and put it out there like within the last couple hours of my shift and then Wednesday morning. Hey, I think I told you this the first time.
Yes, for sure. They were still looking at it. Yeah, it happened immediately. Yeah. And so they say, hey, you got to take that down. And it was funny, too, because they're like, hey, we agree with your message. Everything you said is we think on principle is good, but we can't say that in uniform. And I was like, I don't really understand that.
Like cops can't say things that are good for the community to hear because we're in uniform. And they just landed on the social media policy. You can't be on any social media platform in a police uniform. I'm like, well, everyone's fucking playing with their dogs and doing all their shit in uniform. No one cares. But as soon as it's a political message, that's what they fell back on, you know?
I'll tell you, bro. I knew that I probably had a five-year window as a police officer before it was time to move on. And I'd already been in the profession because I was a deputy down in Los Angeles for a while, too. And I'll tell you, the Port of Seattle was a good department to work for. Like, the people were cool. My chain of command was made up of pretty good people. I didn't mind...
who I worked for, but the profession in itself was starting to eat at me. And it's like, dude, you wake up every day and you go to work and you drive around and you just, you deal with stuff that you don't feel like is even really making a difference, especially in Seattle. It's always like petty thefts, car prowls, a lot of drug stuff, a lot of trespass, like every once in a
I revived a guy that had a heart attack that day. You go home proud of yourself, things like that. Right. Or you catch a dude taking pictures, a little boys taking a piss. And it's like, Oh, I got a good one today. Right. But I would say 95% of the time, um, It's just low vibration activity that you just start to carry and it feels heavy.
And I didn't know how heavy the profession was until I walked away from it. I had a lot of people telling me the next, I would say within six months of leaving law enforcement, they're like, dude, you're starting to age backwards. Like, yeah, good. Because I'm not carrying on.
Well, that was one thing I liked about my department is we would bid a position once a year and then you'd work that for 12 months.
It's so fucking nuts.
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