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Tom Downs

Tom Downs

Retired law-enforcement officer with 42 years of service (21 on a SWAT team) who later became a filmmaker and Everglades python hunter; appears on Nunn Better Podcast Ep 15.

Sep 7, 2026

Nunn Better Podcast

Nunn Better Podcast

NBP Ep 15 Survivalist Thomas Downs

Sep 7 · 1h 16m

Kelly Nunn
Kelly NunnHOST
23:36
I mean, because again, because of its work, what was the appeal to it that made you, hey, I want to go do this?
Tom Downs
Tom DownsGUEST
23:43
That was really not part of the beginning of the story.
Tom Downs
Tom DownsGUEST
23:47
All of my life, I have been involved in art.
Tom Downs
Tom DownsGUEST
23:50
I have always had a talent for drawing and painting, and I was encouraged to pursue that.
Tom Downs
Tom DownsGUEST
23:55
My parents recognized it.
Tom Downs
Tom DownsGUEST
23:57
I got in special classes.
Tom Downs
Tom DownsGUEST
23:58
My first year and a half in college was for being a commercial artist, and I was learning as fast as I could.

18 MINS LATER

Kelly Nunn
Kelly NunnHOST
41:54
You're going to break your hand quicker than you're going to

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