Apr 21, 2026 · 43 min · 20 segments
Michael Aston loved being a cop, or more specifically, a road policing officer. He said it was the best job in the world, until it wasn't. Aston is no longer a cop, with his career and mental health…
No entities detected.
John SilvesterHostDeanna AstonGuestspeaker_5Guestspeaker_4Host
It was August 4, 2020, two days after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a state of disaster, five-kilometer restrictions, and the COVID 8:00 PM to 5:00 AM curfew.
Sergeant Aston left his office to check on his team operating a checkpoint at Coldstream.
The roads were nearly deserted, but he still managed to check about six cars without incident.
That is, until 9:45 PM, when he stopped at the lights at the Dorset Road Mountain Highway intersection with a black Renault hatch.
The driver was revving the motor, and so Aston produced his firearm and told him to get out of the car.
The driver, a sovereign citizen, we'll call him Sam, refused, repeatedly saying, "You have no authority." Most of us think of sovereign citizens as harmless, deluded idiots.
It was August 4, 2020, two days after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a state of disaster, five-kilometer restrictions, and the COVID 8:00 PM to 5:00 AM curfew.
Sergeant Aston left his office to check on his team operating a checkpoint at Coldstream.
The roads were nearly deserted, but he still managed to check about six cars without incident.
That is, until 9:45 PM, when he stopped at the lights at the Dorset Road Mountain Highway intersection with a black Renault hatch.
The driver was revving the motor, and so Aston produced his firearm and told him to get out of the car.
The driver, a sovereign citizen, we'll call him Sam, refused, repeatedly saying, "You have no authority." Most of us think of sovereign citizens as harmless, deluded idiots.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.