Best Cameron Robertson Podcasts (2024)

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229: The Theology of Non Compliance with Baret Fawbush 1:54:41

33m ago1:54:41

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When is one morally obligated to resist one's government? With all the talk of tyranny and noncompliance, we sit down with Baret Fawbush to discuss about some of the theological considerations about resisting evil when it comes from positions of political power. Bump Stocks and Brace Rulings Find out the difference between a criminal and an outlaw.…

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228: When is Enough, Enough? The Malaise of Urgency 29:59

27m ago29:59

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All that we know is that we can't keep going on like this. What we don't know is when to make a change, or how. In his work the Secular Age, Charles Taylor talks about the cross pressures of the era. James K. A. Smith distills this large and technical book into a short, relevant page turner titled "The Secular Age." While the term secular has meant…

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227: American Pistons: The PSA JAKL vs Brownells BRN-180 25:51

20m ago25:51

25:51

What do we have here. Two American-made, gas-piston driven firearms, each with a different take. The Brownells BRN-180 may not come in a complete package, but it does offer a light weight option when it comes to piston carbines. At the same time the PSA JAKL arrives complete with an intelligent design beyond that of its operating system. Both have …

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226: Alex Aubrey of Flux Defense on Enjoying Other's Success 1:07:05

1h ago1:07:05

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With the release of their latest P-365 Raider, Flux Defense teamed up with REDACTED to put on our first public land clean up in Utah. Before we departed for the range, however, we took time to sit down and have a conversation on the nuances of bringing product to market in the firearms industry and gun culture. Alex Aubrey retells some of the histo…

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Credible Accounts with Stephane Gosselin, Co-Founder of OneBalance and Flashbots 1:12:58

31m ago1:12:58

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My guest today is Stephane Gosselin. Stephane co-founded the MEV pirate dev collective Flashbots, which he left in late 2022. His new project, OneBalance, is a framework that substantially reimagines how blockchain accounts are created and managed. In this episode, Stephane and I dive into the lifecycle of an Ethereum transaction today, and the gro…

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Can’t Resist a Good Blood Sport 46:01

2h ago46:01

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As the ball continues, everything is totally fine and there is nothing to stress about. Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be found on Twitter at @acquiredchaste and in drag as horror king JOHN on Instagram at pennharper.itch.io. - Cassidy Shard is played by Sydney Whittington. She is our wonderful editor. She’s also …

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225: Gear vs Skill Issue 29:42

18m ago29:42

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Can one solve a skill issue with better gear? A Stepping stone to maturity in Gun Culture, this topic may come across as both eye rolling and attention gathering. On the one hand, a better ruck sack will not get you up the mountain. On the other hand, it sure helps. Parachutes, plates, and powder all come into play as we consider how and when we lo…

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224: How Conspiracy Theories Harm You 28:26

29m ago28:26

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People don't believe in conspiracy theories because they find them rationally compelling. Rather, these ideas hijack an individual's need for a sense of purpose and belonging. They prey on our desire for the world to be thus regular and make sense. However, the consequences of a conspiracy theory tend to be more personal than what the media would l…

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223: Women In Combat // Quotas Hurt The Whole Team 26:37

37m ago26:37

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Should Women serve in combat roles in the military? The recent attempt on President Trump's life brings up the old debate about women in the military and women in combat roles. Framing tends to drive this conversation, and we continually get bogged down in redundant questions. Can women do the job? Are women capable of the achieving the standards? …

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One More Dance 54:24

12d ago54:24

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As the ball continues, things are getting infinitely more exciting. Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be found on Twitter at @acquiredchaste and in drag as horror king JOHN on Instagram at @john.is.risen. Penn is an indie TTRPG designer whose most recent work includes SLICE *IT* OUT, a grisly carving RPG about cuttin…

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222: Red Teaming and Gathering Threat Intel with Rob Rawson 2:11:07

7d ago2:11:07

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From Private Military Contractors to Mall Cops, the field of security is full of misconceptions, egos, and opportunities to find yourself hung out to dry for other's safety. But when we look behind the curtain into what goes in to threat prevention, we see a much deeper picture. Rob Rawson of Rozin Security joins the show to teach us about the idea…

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Decentralized Robotics with Kosuke July Hata, Founder of Faust 1:41:09

18d ago1:41:09

1:41:09

My guest today is Kosuke Hata aka July, founder of Faust. Faust is a nascent hardware startup working at the intersection of distributed sensing, blockchains, and self driving. The team is composed of engineers from automotive and machine learning engineering projects at Google, Apple, and Tesla. On this episode, July shares background about the se…

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221: Why Didn't Guns Come Up in the Debate? 24:30

12d ago24:30

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The recent debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden covered a series of topics both relevant and otherwise to the American People. Among them included abortion, the economy, and illegal migration. What didn't come up, was Gun Control. And the silence spoke volumes as this divisive topic wouldn't have helped either candidate appear reasonable or kn…

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220: Reclaiming the First Amendment with Radios with Jake Knight of Gridbase 54:26

25d ago54:26

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If owning and becoming proficient with a firearm continues the Second Amendment, owning and becoming proficient with radios may just be securing the First. Jake Knight of Gridbase.net reports on his first off-grid radio course and presents an argument that radios and their extension: mesh networks, strengthen our independence through the ability to…

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Get to Her Before the Guillotine 54:44

16d ago54:44

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The Patina and the Foundlings encounter old friends and some other um, surprises. Announcement: Happy Pride from our queer cast & characters! All proceeds from the Pride Knight design in our Tee Public shop will be matched and donated to The Trevor Project. Find the Pride Knight shirt here! Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. …

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219: It May Not Be Your Fault, But It Will Be Your Responsibility 27:17

19d ago27:17

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You do not have control over the circumstances that surround you. However, you may have a moral obligation to how you live through them. Which are you? Born too late to explore the world, or born too early to explore the stars? Which are you? One who sees your generation as the one who squandered their potential, or the generation that has to pay f…

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Cassandra Heart, Founder of Quilibrium 1:57:13

24d ago1:57:13

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My guest today is Cassandra Heart, founder of Quilibrium and part-time contributor at Merkle Manufactory, creators of Farcaster. On today's episode, Cassie and I dive into Quilibrium, a decentralized platform as a service protocol that aims to enable developers to store data and run uncensorable apps. We discuss Cassie's extensive background buildi…

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218: The End of Celebrity and the Return of State Religions 24:00

1M ago24:00

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The Secular Age can be marked as one where mechanism of belief commonly assumed considers religion one option amongst many. We may find a sense of freedom in not being bound politically or nationally to a Religion, but the cost reduces the legitimacy of a belief to authenticity and thus, merely a fashion statement. What you believe about right and …

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217: Identity Before, During, and After Ranger Regiment with Cameron Fath 1:47:09

29d ago1:47:09

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Many of us grew up in a world where to join the military meant to serve our country. Baked into that ideological pie was a hierarchy where, the more special your operations, the more value you might have, at least on social media. Cameron Fath tells about how he joined the Ranger Regiment, what it was like to enter and then leave that arena, and wh…

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216: Why Men Go Off To War 29:26

1M ago29:26

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Why do men go off to war? Is it for Glory? Honor? The GI Bill? The war/violence/conflict in Ukraine illustrates how some men go to war, regardless of the big picture. While pundits and politicians opine about how America's influence, military support, and participation in Eastern Europe paints a picture of the next forever war, individuals travel t…

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Predator and Prey 50:02

1M ago50:02

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The Patina scatters and tries to network with the rich and powerful. Announcement: Happy Pride from our queer cast & characters! All proceeds from the Pride Knight design in our Tee Public shop will be matched and donated to The Trevor Project. Find the Pride Knight shirt here! Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be fo…

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215: The Fall of Minneapolis and its Consequences with Peter Johnson 1:56:35

1M ago1:56:35

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Even during the 2020 Black Lives Matter Summer of Love, news agencies hesitated to report on the destruction taking place in Minnesota. Few poeple outside of Minneapolis know that the rioting continued well into 2021, and few people who live there are willing to admit it. To this day, the city of Minneapolis suffers the consequences of what took pl…

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214: How Might Makes Right and When it Doesn't 29:48

1M ago29:48

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Might Makes Right. No Truth but Power. History is written by the Victor. These phrases often say one thing, but try to communicate another. When we casually say that might makes right, we aren't typically saying that morality comes from greater strength. When it comes to disputes, it often sounds like a shortcut to some form of solution, or a criti…

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213: How to Start or ReStart training in Self Defense 29:12

1M ago29:12

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When it comes to gear, play the long game. When it comes to training, get what you can, when you can get it. When it comes to practice, it's better to start with what you have, than wait for the perfect opportunity. Gear, Training, and Practice are three sore subjects when it comes to gun culture. How is this the case for a community that is center…

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Jong-Kai Yang, Co-Founder of HackMD 54:37

2M ago54:37

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My guests today is Jong-Kai Yang, founder of HackMD. HackMD is a multiplayer plain text editor on the web. People use HackMD to collaborate on text notes, share read-only documentation, and collect feedback from commenters. HackMD plays especially nicely with markdown and other common markup languages, making the documents one produces in HackMD hi…

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212: Peter Ildefonsa on Gun Culture, Industry, and the Second Amendment 1:38:39

2M ago1:38:39

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The difference between what can be called the Gun Culture, the Industry, and those in support of the Second Amendment isn't a single overlapping circle of a Venn Diagram. Instead, we have disparate groups of Gun Culture, a market space of the Firearm Industry, and the broadest term of 2nd Amendment Supporters. Peter Ildefonsa brings all of this to …

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Social Battlefield 40:49

1M ago40:49

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The Patina finalizes the plan and makes a grand entrance. Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be found on Twitter at @acquiredchaste and in drag as horror king JOHN on Instagram at @john.is.risen. Penn is an indie TTRPG designer whose most recent work includes SLICE *IT* OUT, a grisly carving RPG about cutting pieces o…

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211: Why We Train for Both Proportionality and Utility 28:52

2M ago28:52

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In violence, as in war, two concept stand in tension with one another: proportionality and utility. McMahan identifies one understanding of proportionality as "a constraint on action that causes harm." (Killing in War Pg 19). Utility, on the other hand, often functions as the context for informing one part of strategy, tactics, and techniques. We p…

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210: Ruben Alverez of Paradox Training: ECQC vs Jiu Jitsu 2:02:41

2M ago2:02:41

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Self Defense isn't what it used to be. Jiu jitsu has become mainstream. But what if you were to discover that no-gi training wasn't as realistic as you wished? Ruben Alverez traces a tale of growing up in the world of Jiu Jitsu, only to discover it wasn't all that he needed. ECQC or Extreme Close Quarters Concepts takes the idea of a violent encoun…

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209: The Trouble with LARP 28:26

2M ago28:26

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What if the true LARP is the assumption that we can be credited as being part of the community without participation? When the term LARP (Live Action Role Playing) is used as an epitaph, it accuses the target of living in a fantasy. With analysis, we look at what it is that is considered dishonorable about so-called LARP-ing. What we find out is th…

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208: Composure: One Measure of a Man 29:30

2M ago29:30

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Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" often finds home on the wall and in the minds of great men. It leads the reader through a series of character traits that make a man, opening with the line "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their …

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Luke Miles, Co-founder of Rug.Fun and Mint.Fun 1:21:56

3M ago1:21:56

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My guest today is Luke Miles, creator of rug.fun, meme.market, mint.fun, and context.app. On this episode, Luke and I run through the history of applications he's created on Ethereum and the EVM. We discuss the recent sale of mint.fun to zora, and go in depth on his two latest memecoin related projects, meme.market and rug.fun. It was a pleasure ca…

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Emotionally Fulfilled 42:17

3M ago42:17

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A peaceful date, some errands, and finding the last Foundling. Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be found on Twitter at @acquiredchaste and in drag as horror king JOHN on Instagram at @john.is.risen. Penn is an indie TTRPG designer whose most recent work includes SLICE *IT* OUT, a grisly carving RPG about cutting pie…

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207: Beyond the Gun: More than Marksmanship 47:43

2M ago47:43

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There's more to being a warfighter than shooting. On the US Army webpage it is stated that the Ranger Battalions encompass the "Big 5 Philosophy" of Marksmanship, Physical Training, Medical Training, Small-Unit Tactics, and Mobility. Breaking down each of these, we look at what they might entail. In order to put to rest the cultural conversation in…

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206: Communication Lessons from the George Floyd Riots 27:59

2M ago27:59

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The George Floyd Riots were a strange time. On the ground, the narrative level politics fell to the wayside. Information Warfare was not about which political party was effectively harnessing the energy of the street, but about if their house was going to be looted or burned down in the next few hours. We live in the post information age, were it's…

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Spectacle, Carnage, Excitement 51:36

3M ago51:36

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The Patina splits up to accomplish some individual goals - level of emotion may vary. Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be found on Twitter at @acquiredchaste and in drag as horror king JOHN on Instagram at @john.is.risen. Penn is an indie TTRPG designer whose most recent work includes SLICE *IT* OUT, a grisly carvin…

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0xTranqui and Salief Lewis, Co-Founders of River 1:12:50

3M ago1:12:50

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My guests today are 0xTranqui aka Max and Salief Lewis, two of the four co-founders of Lifeworld, the startup that's creating River. River is a blockchain media protocol. In its launch configuration, users can sign in with Privy, register accounts on a smart contract on Optimism, and post references to IPFS-hosted media as calldata to a smart contr…

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205: Small Mindedness - The Mechanism of Control 28:55

2M ago28:55

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Which is better? To Bug Out or to Harden Your Position? Which is better? Train in Recce or CQB? Which is better? A DMR or a MK18? Which is better? 9mm or 45acp? These questions represent different decision that go awry when we attempt to answer them at the wrong level of analysis. There is a strange hope that, if it were to come to brass tacks, the…

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204: Name Dropping and Clout Chasing 21:44

3M ago21:44

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Sure, we all hate name dropping and clout chasing, especially in Gun Culture, but why? what is it about this kind of activity that we find so distasteful, and should we? It's not good enough to complain about the subject, and although it takes a little time to get into it, in this episode we compare it to writing an academic paper. It's not good en…

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203: Jake Knight from GRIDBASE: Don't Quit, Decentralize 1:43:27

3M ago1:43:27

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Decentralization might sound good on paper, but how does it work in the real world? When we look around, from media to the news to politics to culture in general, it looks like things are falling apart. And the just might be. But what happens when you shift your mindset away from the doom and gloom of how corrupt our politicians really are, and sta…

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Pete Horne, Founder of 4th.Energy 1:41:06

3M ago1:41:06

1:41:06

My guest today is Pete Horne, founder of 4th Energy. Pete is a veteran programmer who thinks deeply about the EVM and computation. With 4th.energy, Pete is exploring how the EVM can be used to serve applications directly from the blockchain. In this vision, application data is verifiably stored on one or multiple of the EVMs connected to L1 Ethereu…

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202: Bad Philosophy and the Problem of Evil 34:30

3M ago34:30

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What makes someone a pseudo-intellectual? If we treat philosophy like a trade, what does it look like when done poorly? In this episode, we review two arguments by public intellectuals who present two different arguments regarding God. Žižek compares God to a video game developer, and Neil deGrasse Tyson brings up the Problem of Evil. Some argument…

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201: Kaleb Irving on Gun Culture on the Ground Level, Repenting America 1:43:03

3M ago1:43:03

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While it can be fun to try to analyze Gun Culture at the 20,000 league above view, Kaleb Irving brings the conversation down to earth. We look at what Gun Culture looks like on the ground level, and then rise higher into moral frameworks, and discuss what it might mean for the Church to repent. Gun Culture isn't so much politically aligned to moral…

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An Angel Who’s Never Done Anything Wrong 1:16:26

4M ago1:16:26

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The Patina goes to meet Janus and discovers even more Foundlings. Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be found on Twitter at @acquiredchaste and in drag as horror king JOHN on Instagram at @john.is.risen. Penn is an indie TTRPG designer whose most recent work includes SLICE *IT* OUT, a grisly carving RPG about cutting …

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200: Marksmanship vs Fighting 28:23

3M ago28:23

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Don't like a guy? Say he can't shoot. Although this will not put the argument to death, it will bring context to move past the ego game and into a professional approach. Shooting is a skill, and fighting requires a collection of skills. One of the most uncomfortable scenes in A24's Civil War is the firefight between men in Hawaiian shirts and unifo…

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199: Civil War Review with Gypsy Walters 50:03

4M ago50:03

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Gypsy Walters rejoins the show to talk about the movie "Civil War" by A24 Studios. The spoiler-free beginning covers tone and politics of the movie. After that, we dig into key scenes and take them apart both tactically and culturally. A surprisingly apolitical movie, with references to multiple sub-cultures present in America. Follow Ethan "Gypsy"…

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198: Brett Kleypas of Huxwrx 1:49:13

4M ago1:49:13

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With Suppressor Form 4 wait times measuring in mere days, we are witnessing the further normalization of owning a silencer. Huxwrx brought a fresh take by presenting suppressors as safety equipment. Beyond sound and flash reduction, flow through cans help reduce the amount of gasses in the shooter's face. Brett Kleypas joins the show to talk about …

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Alex Masmej, Founder of Drakula and Showtime 1:59:27

4M ago1:59:27

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My guest today is Alex Masmej, founder of Drakula, Showtime, and $ALEX token. Alex's new app, Drakula, is a so-called SocialFi mixture of TikTok, friend.tech, Farcaster, and $DEGEN. On this episode, Alex and I discuss consumer crypto product iteration methodology, team composition, how to sustain setbacks including departing co-founders, the bear m…

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197: Open Carry vs Concealed Carry, A False Dichotomy 29:25

3M ago29:25

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Few debates within gun culture draw more ire and passion than whether a person should or should not open carry in public. The arguments back and forth, tribal and otherwise, rarely produce the satisfaction of solid victory, but why? In this episode we look at the rhetoric and logic behind two of the loudest arguments, one for each side, and see whe…

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196: Stolen Valor, School Shootings, and Inverse Proportionality 25:21

3M ago25:21

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Although not a hard and fast rule, a heuristic can be applied to both stolen valor claims, and individual violence. Stolen Valor, when a person claims to have held a position in the military that they never achieved, comes in a few different forms. However, in Gun Culture large cases often explode into a witch hunt for similar offenders. The amount…

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