Taser
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Oct 31, 2026
Matt McClainGUEST
Um, just one interesting thing I found was, you know, the body cams that the deputies wear and the, and the taser, it's all one kind of one system owned by taser.
Andrea ProeberHOST
Oh, I did not know that.
Matt McClainGUEST
Now Taser kind of has a monopoly on this, uh, product.
Matt McClainGUEST
And, um, so you can't buy the actual equipment.
Andrea ProeberHOST
Oh no.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Obviously, that didn't work out.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Early use of an electronic control device like the Taser by law enforcement occurred in the 1960s when American police officers used electric cattle prods to disperse civil rights activists.
Simon WhistlerHOST
As for the earliest cattle prods, this came about when inventor John Burton of Wichita, Kansas received a patent in the late 1800s for such a device.
Simon WhistlerHOST
While a simplistic design two prongs attached to a long barrel, it served its purpose of delivering an electric shock to a cow's hide in order to motivate it through a shoot.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Unlike stun guns, cattle prods are not designed to incapacitate an individual or an animal, simply deliver a painful shock to a localized area.
Simon WhistlerHOST
On the other hand, stun guns are usually designed to deliver larger voltages in order to overwhelm the body's nervous system.
Simon WhistlerHOST
So who invented the Taser specifically? NASA researcher Jack Cover was among the numerous other inventors who developed forms of these types of usually non-lethal electric weapons.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Cover, determined to create a weapon that officers could use in situations such as plane hijackings, where firing a gun could potentially be a bad idea, took inspiration from a newspaper article about a man surviving a run-in with an electric fence.
KyleHOST
You could just be...
KyleHOST
What's her name? Felicity Tazer.
KyleHOST
You could be Tazer.
JuliaHOST
I don't know what that means, but okay.
KyleHOST
She tases people a lot.
BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
right.
BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let me have the Easter vehicle.
BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Where did you park?
Lisa DeanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You go out the building, like, park.
Jason KeblerHOST
I think that's what he's referring to is basically the perception of the company is very low right now.
Jason KeblerHOST
But then he said this in the context of there was this cover, I believe it was in Time magazine or Newsweek or something decades ago about the Taser, the brand Taser and the device Taser, and how it delivered more volts than the electric chair, which was on the cover of one of these magazines.
Jason KeblerHOST
And he basically said that there was a lot of scrutiny on Taser at that point.
Jason KeblerHOST
They got through it.
Jason KeblerHOST
And the way that they got through it was they ignored it, more or less, and then people stopped caring.
Duncan TrussellGUEST
It hurts.
Christina PazsitzkyHOST
Taser,
TannerPANELIST
taser,
Christina PazsitzkyHOST
taser.
Christina PazsitzkyHOST
Taser, taser, taser.
Christina PazsitzkyHOST
They're laughing, too.
Christina PazsitzkyHOST
See how much fun this is?
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Taser, taser,
Ralph ClarkGUEST
Yeah, there's a common theme.
Nadine SmithHOST
Yeah, Taser is moving into drones that can respond and follow individual cars home and take thermodynamic images of who's inside your house.
Nadine SmithHOST
There's a lot of technology that has people, their alert is heightened about how much we're in a surveillance state.
Nadine SmithHOST
Are you feeling the backlash around Flock technology when it comes to these sensors?
LouGUEST
I mean, she only got a little upset because he went all slimy.
AdamGUEST
Yeah, but she was Taser and our friend here.
AdamGUEST
Is the Taser still working, by the way? She had given you a quick buzz, and she had turned off your live stream.
AdamGUEST
I helped trust her to his feet, passing his phone back.
TomGUEST
Oh, thanks, Jerry.
DavidAUDIENCE
Pretty effective.
DavidAUDIENCE
Tasers in a glove.
DavidAUDIENCE
So a real conservative doesn't buy something knowing that it's going to cause more havoc and financial loss.
DavidAUDIENCE
So for $20 million, did we buy $20 billion worth of lawsuits?
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
broken.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You're hurting us! Taser's off.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Did he piss his pants?
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You're hurting us! There it goes,
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