LIVE Q&A: Everyday Carry Firearms, Get Home Bags & More

The internet can whip people into a frenzy in minutes, but real preparedness is boring on purpose. We spend this one bouncing between current events and the practical choices that actually change outcomes: what you carry, how you train, and what you ignore when the algorithm screams “crisis.” Along the way we get candid about reliability, why certain “upgrades” fail under pressure, and how to think about everyday carry gear without turning it into a fashion show. 

We dig into home defense and EDC decisions like 300 Blackout with a suppressor, ammo selection, and why holster safety is not optional. We also talk ammo prices and the so-called ammo shortage, including a smarter alternative to panic buying that looks a lot like dollar cost averaging. When the topic turns to plates, chest rigs, and “combat load” lists, we make the same point again: conditioning and training beat trends, and a setup you cannot move in is just expensive clutter. 

Then we take a hard look at AI and dead internet theory, where the bigger risk is not killer robots but confidently wrong answers, self-referential content loops, and how constant digital affirmation can warp judgment. We also touch the surprising shift we keep seeing offline: rising Catholic conversions, renewed interest in the Latin Mass, and the emotional stages many people go through when they rediscover tradition. We wrap with a sober note on situational awareness for high-traffic days like Easter and why medical readiness matters as much as marksmanship. 

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Transcript

Artemis Talk And April Fools

SPEAKER_02 0:42

I mean, I wish something would be going on. What do you mean? Just yeah. Like so let me ask you a question. Do you think that Artemis II is actually going to the moon? Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_12 0:59

Yeah. Okay. Where do you think it's going if it's not going to the moon?

SPEAKER_02 1:07

Where do I think it's going if it's not going to the moon? I think that it is likely going to try to go to the moon.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

I think something will happen and it won't make it.

SPEAKER_12 1:19

Okay, that's not what you added. That's like a whole different scenario.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

I mean, yeah, technically, yes, but okay, let me ask you this. Do you think we have the competency for Artemis II to make it to the moon?

SPEAKER_12 1:36

Depends how many Indians they put in the depends how what program? Huh? What was that? No, nothing. Like, do I think there exists enough competency in this nation? Yes. But do I also think it's very possible that they decided to put too many women and people of color in it instead? Also, yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Did you ever see the story of that woman who is in the space station and was causing all kinds of drama on the space station and damaging the space station?

SPEAKER_12 2:11

So they had to send her home. Yeah, I have seen that. Of course, no one will admit it, and it's all just hearsay, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

What would we do without the drama of women? It would be boring. I can tell you that.

SPEAKER_12 2:31

So are you pro-April Fool's Day or anti-April Fool's Day?

SPEAKER_03 2:35

I hate April Fool's Day.

SPEAKER_12 2:36

I think my least favorite world.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Yeah, 100%. It is it, it's right up there with the guys who will insult you and then say they were just joking.

SPEAKER_12 2:50

Yeah, it's pretty gay like that, isn't it?

SPEAKER_04 2:52

It is super gay like that.

SPEAKER_12 2:54

I just hate it because like nothing on the internet is useful on April Fools at all.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

Today's a total wash. Like, there's no point in going on the internet whatsoever today on a on April Fool's. None of them are even funny. Well, I tell I there I have seen one that was pretty funny. The the Ohio WNBA team. Did you see that one? Does such a thing exist? I mean, nobody watches it, but it exists. It's like you know, if a bear shit in the woods, you know, but yeah, yeah. Yeah, so anyway, so they decided their joke was that they were changing their colors and their mascot to the Wolverines, and their colors were gonna be gold and blue, like Michigan. I thought that was pretty funny. You gotta be a sports guy to understand that stuff. Yeah, but there's occasionally been some funny ones, but like the the uh the Pope Francis one was stupid, right? Yeah, Eric Salmons one was stupid.

SPEAKER_12 4:01

I see I've I have salmon's muted, so I don't even oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

I see him. I I did salmons do he all all of Crisis magazine was gonna be run by AI.

SPEAKER_12 4:13

See that I could would believe that.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Yeah, it's not boomer humor, it's dad humor. What it is you made your wife promise not that she can't pull anything?

SPEAKER_03 4:32

I bought her a new van yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

So you bribed her.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

I'm down, I'm down.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

I hate April First. How do you think I used to get people in Afghanistan to give me information all the time? I bribed them. I was gonna say death threats. Well, you know if the bribe didn't work. Fair what was the article on Fuentes real, or was that part of April? What article is that the one about the agnostic atheist saying like Fuentes is right? I don't know. Blank one for yes, twice for no.

SPEAKER_12 5:11

Every time I make an Indian joke, I look over the dog Paul's name and I'm like, damn it, sorry, Paul.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

Paul and Indian? Yeah, man. Like with a dot or with a feather?

SPEAKER_12 5:26

From the subcontinent with the dot. But he's he's one eye at the same time. 100%.

SPEAKER_03 5:39

Paul man.

SPEAKER_12 5:44

That's just like it's that's just like the trans thing. You can't not identify with what you are, Paul. I know that's right.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Have you seen been seeing the reports coming out from the Supreme Court today with the arguments going on with the 14th Amendment and all that?

SPEAKER_12 6:00

I mean, I didn't watch the arguments or anything. I heard that what's her name, of course, talked a bunch of nonsense and said something like, if you try to steal from the Japanese, you're showing you have what achievements because you'd be allegiance to them somehow. So I saw that and I saw everyone saying, like, oh, looks like Trump is losing this one for sure. I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Maybe, like, but it's uh who knows? Like, I don't but man, once we realize we're not voting our way out of this, the better off we'll be. That's just not gonna happen. Like we are going to consistently decline till eventually when the violence starts. And it's more likely gonna be the most desperate people that start the violence, which is going to be the people who are already doing the violence, which is Antifa, Redneck Revolt, you know, Socialist Rifle Association, you know, whatever. Pick your flavor, they're the ones gonna start the shooting, and then it's and it's gonna be sporadic everywhere. But yeah, we trying to hope that the solution is by some old people in black robes in Washington, DC is the wrong outlook to take.

SPEAKER_12 7:17

Yeah, I agree. I mean, you know, I want to add like most likely is ending birthright citizenship unconstitutional. Yes, is that a bad thing? Absolutely not, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 7:34

I mean, but it's I think that's the issue, is how it's worded. We're not ending birthright citizenship, right? And that's not where the 14th Amendment was originally uh yeah, the intent behind it, it was behind giving citizenship to the freed slaves, right? And it wasn't that you know, just because we have a magic dirt automatically makes you an American, right? Right, because we have hundreds of rich Chinese that will send their wives here to have birth in the United States so they can have an American citizen, yeah. That doesn't they're here on vacation and they give and they have birth tourism basically. That you're not an American, that is not the intent behind the 14th Amendment.

SPEAKER_12 8:17

Well, that and you know, back in the 1860s, like took a little bit more than just hopping on a plane for a couple of hours, right? To to go to another country, like if someone was gonna come here to have a kid, they were they were going to live here, you know, almost likely. Yeah, yeah, and those who didn't were very few and far far between instead of now a whole cottage industry of people that'll hop on a plane for a couple of hours, have a kid, and then go right back home.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

So, I mean, this is one of those things where I mean the I think the Rubicon at this point is and I and I hate that it's that's coming down to Trump, who's uh obviously a Chabad agent at this point, but he his Rubicon is gonna be ignoring the judiciary. That's what it's gonna have to come down to, or whoever's in that position is gonna just ignore them. Like what with what army are you going to enforce these laws?

unknown 9:22

Right?

SPEAKER_02 9:22

Because we we are way past the point of allow because I mean you have judges ruling on things that they have no jurisdiction to rule on and thinking that we have to follow it, like Trump has to stop you know with the ballroom construction. Like just because you rule it doesn't mean he has to follow it, right? Yeah, and I think the ballroom's stupid, I don't care, right? But it's it's a matter of of precedent that we eventually we're just gonna have to say or so whoever's in that position, with it's Trump, Vance, whoever, Rubio, enforce it then. Like this is your ruling, then enforce it. And because you depend on the executive to enforce your your rulings, and the executive is who you're undermining.

SPEAKER_12 10:12

So it's gonna be interesting, especially if what you think is gonna be announced in 45 minutes is announced. Yeah, because under the constitution, the U the president has that power, but in 2024, Congress passed a law saying that it would require the Senate to ratify it. Yeah, so who knows? We'll see.

Setting Up Live Q And A

SPEAKER_02 10:36

Yeah, we'll uh we'll see how that goes. So tonight, what I wanted to do is what this would be uh a question and answer session, and if y'all want to come on with us and ask a question, that's fine. What I think we'll do is we'll give access to telegram first. The people who are on telegram, we'll give it which it's free to join.

SPEAKER_03 11:02

So if you're watching in YouTube, yes, get in the telegram. Let me let me get that link. Yeah, uh where did you go?

SPEAKER_12 11:13

You disappeared, you son of a why does it do that?

SPEAKER_02 11:20

So that way y'all can ask questions, like if you want to ask us a question about what your daily care is and what our opinion on it, or if you have questions about something you can do better, and keep in mind, Rob and I are not the know-all be all whatsoever.

SPEAKER_12 11:35

Well, Adrian is far more an expert at this stuff than me.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

I'm really just I will we will we will give you our opinion, right? And then it's you know, from there, your job is to then go out and seek the opinions of other people who have expertise and then collate your own opinion based on what you have learned, right?

SPEAKER_12 11:54

And a lot of this stuff, a lot of this stuff, there is no like gospel right or wrong, you know, right? Like for your EDC gun. Like, yeah, there are some general principles, but in the end, it's gonna be whatever you're gonna carry and shoot the best. And we can't know that. Rob just has bad purchasing habits, you're not wrong, ocean. Oh no, wow, let's see. I want to now for any any questions or discussions where you think we might where you think it would be helpful for us to show a gun, save those until we go to Twitter only.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Yeah, we'll we'll go to Twitter at about eight and we'll go to Twitter only. So if you guys like if you got something where you want to show us something, like a firearm or something, yeah, wait till then, please. Because I don't want to have to ban you because you got us kicked off YouTube for an hour.

SPEAKER_12 12:58

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you guys have a gun, do not show it while we're on YouTube. You will get the stream killed.

SPEAKER_02 13:05

Yeah. And I'd like to stay on YouTube for a little bit because that's how most people are getting access to us. Yes. If it were up to me, we wouldn't be on YouTube at all. But unfortunately, this is the town square of the internet. So in order to get us more access and more people get exposed to us, we have to be on YouTube.

SPEAKER_12 13:34

All right, did you put the link in yet? So I put the telegram link in YouTube. So anyone who's not in Telegram yet, click on that, join the telegram, and I will put the StreamYard invite link into Telegram here in just a minute. Let's see here. We're just gonna try to go first come, first server one at a time here. I guess it's not it's I'm sure it's not gonna be that too many of you guys jumping on. Okay, I just pinned the stream yard link. You guys can join from a phone, a laptop, a tablet. It works on just about everything.

300 Blackout For Home Defense

SPEAKER_02 14:37

How many turkeys? So until we get somebody, yeah. I was listening to a talk by regular guy training and a couple other guys there talking about the viability of 300 blackout. And they're basically like none of them like it. And I get that. You know, they're the 300 blackout, in my opinion, what I have it for is for a specific purpose. Yeah, it's two specific purposes. One, anything 200 meters and and 200 yards and closer, and two, I want it to be as quiet as possible, right? And that's what the 300 blackout does when I do suppression because they're they're the biggest argument they had against 300 blackout was that because it's the the type of round it is, it can really junk up your firearm after a while, after like only a few hundred rounds, right? It also depends on how you've got your firearm tuned and all that, because a lot of people do with 300 blackout is they'll switch between supers and subs regularly, and so they're trying to have something that's tuned for both, and so therefore, like you when you're trying to do both, you're not doing either well, and I get that. So, but the thing I disagree with them on was they're basically saying there's really no civilian use for the 300 blackout, and my my argument against that is that that is my first home defense rifle that I use because if I have to get a stateside kill, I'm not waking up the kids. If I use my 556 in the house, like everybody's waking up and then the neighbors like 150 yards away from me or waking up. So remember, a lot of this stuff is subjective. Buy whatever you want and shoot whatever you want, and don't you know depend on someone else's opinion to determine what your opinion is, but listen to what they have to say because they might have some things that you haven't thought about, right? Because I was like, I've never had my blackout, I've never I've I've shot hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of rounds through it, but I haven't done a training class with it, right? And I won't ever because it's got the it's pretty much mine's got the pretty much the same manual arms as my five five six, right? I will never do any type of training with it where I'm shooting a thousand rounds in a day. I just have no need to do that, right? And that's what they were saying. They're having issues where 300 rounds, 400 rounds into it, all of a sudden the rifle's seizing up. Really? All that, especially suppressed, all that gas is going back into the so much dirtier, yeah. But I I run that doesn't mean I wouldn't. I probably would, but that's not what my rifle's for. And my my rifle, my five, my three-under block rifle is specifically a surgical rifle. It's you know, really the purpose is really no more than a couple of mags through it at times, right? Whether, and even if you know, we get to a without rule of law situation, it's more of gonna be a sentry gun for me. So if I have to shoot somebody and and I don't want anybody to hear it, that's what its purpose is.

SPEAKER_12 17:43

Right, you're not gonna go out like on patrol with that one or anything like that. No, not at all. Not at all. The um one of the uh big advantages of the new van, that thing, I I I think I'm gonna get um a sliding gun safe to put in the back of that thing. Oh yeah, yeah, to keep a rifle and a couple pistols in there, okay. Bolted to the floor.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Okay. Yeah, I uh so in one of my vehicles, I keep a rifle and it's like a cheap rifle. I'm not worried, like somebody steals it, not a big I'm not worried about it, right? It's probably, I mean, I think it's like an Anderson lower. I think I got like an arrow precision upper. Uh, and I've got like a$200 red dot on it. Like, I'm really not worried about that thing, it's right whatsoever. But I have it, you know, in case I need something a little bit bigger than my everyday carry. But it's you can't see it either. I've got it in a position or I've got it hidden basically, to where if you just look to my car, you wouldn't be able to see it at all. Right. Plus, my windows are timid. But if I wanted to keep something a little bit more pricey in there that's a little bit more robust in its capability, I would definitely put it safe. Yes, yeah. If you can bolt it somehow to the frame, then that's even better because that keeps it from being just snatched out or just pulled out with something real quick.

AI Limits And Dead Internet

SPEAKER_12 19:15

Well, until we get someone actually willing to come on it, just for the record, guys, it does allow you to come on and keep the camera off and just use your microphone. So if you don't want to show your face, that's okay too. Yeah, you don't have to show your face. But some other questions. One, is this the same shirt I wore yesterday on avoiding Babylon? It could be. I don't think it is. What do we what do we think about AI? Is there gonna be serfdom soon? What do you think is next?

SPEAKER_02 19:48

I am entirely I am entirely unimpressed with AI. Taffy does some really fun things with it. Yeah, but as far as it's like this claim that they've achieved AGI, right? Like no, that'll never happen. And I'm also not worried about the robots either. The biggest issue we have with the clankers is the batteries, right? The batteries just don't last, and are explosive. Yeah, and yeah, you expose them to air at all that and they that whole thing catches on fire. I don't know if I've ever seen it, but there is a diagram for the robot dogs that go around and of where, if you were needing to take it out with rifle, where to shoot it, right? And you know how to take out it out the motorized joints and get the battery and all that. Because that's I think we've built up robots too much because of movies, and people are of the perception that they're super easy to mass produce and all that. Like the amount of batteries that are out there for cars, specifically for electric vehicles, and then for robots, that there's just it's gonna be a drain, and they're not gonna eventually we're gonna hit a crescendo of logistics of being able to produce that stuff anymore, right?

SPEAKER_12 21:16

I mean, we so Oracle just laid off 30,000 people, all that, and it's not because they're doing bad, it they're doing really well, so it it it that's clearly because of AI. I think AI does some things well for just general, like to be used as like a super search engine, it's great at that. Yeah, seems like writing kind of base level cum code, it's great at that, you know. But at the same time, like yesterday I asked, I asked, I think it was Meta's AI how far of a drive it was from where we were at to uh St. Augustine, Florida. And it gave me a number, and I'm like, okay, now what's the distance, you know, by the by You know, by the how the crow flies, and the number was bigger. And I'm I told it, I'm like, that doesn't make sense. It's like, yeah, you're right, it doesn't make sense. So then it gave me another number, and I looked both up, and all literally every number it gave me was wrong. So I don't know what what it was doing.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

So did we have the did we have the talk about the woman suing Chat GPT?

SPEAKER_12 22:23

I I think I know the story you're talking about, but we didn't talk about it. He's suing it because of um what was it?

SPEAKER_02 22:30

She fired her lawyer because chat GPT told her to, and it was going to run her her case for her. Okay, I actually did not hear that. It started citing cases that do not exist. Yeah, I'm not surprised. She lost, and so now she's suing Chat GPT because of that.

SPEAKER_12 22:56

I saw I saw an article, I forget where, but it said something, it was they're finding that AI, I forget how I put it, was more or less increasing like the number of not narcissism, but similar, like those type of like narcissistic personality disorders, because AI is programmed to basically always like be deferential to you, right? And if you if you it gives you an answer, you don't like it, and you tell it that just like oh I told it and that doesn't make sense, and then it corrected itself, but not by it get it not by being correct, it just corrected itself so that it agreed with me, right? It was still wrong. But because AI will always do that, like AI will always end up agreeing with you, and and you can get it to say whatever you want, and it and people will go further and further down that rabbit hole instead of being you know confronted with people who actually just tell them no, you're wrong.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

Well, the other thing with AI is is it's a self-licking ice cream cone, yeah, and it's constantly referring to it's it's it's Pope Francis, is what it is, constantly referring and citing itself all the time. If Majorian and Pope Francis had a baby, it would be AI, constantly referring to themselves. Hold on, I'm clipping that one, and that's the issue. Like, there's it's putting out so much content and so much information that it can't help but either refer to itself or other LLMs. Yeah, because that's gonna that's becoming the bulk of the information out there now. Because every time you have a conversation with AI, it is in the ether, it is out there for everybody to reference because that information is then sold to data brokers through data brokers, and it just goes out there for them to use that. So we're getting to a point where that there's no originality left in the internet at all because there's very few the the amount of people that are actually using the internet are being dwarfed by queries by AI.

SPEAKER_12 25:21

It's it's it's basically just dead internet theory coming to life, if that makes any sense.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

I have no issue with Wagner, I just think he's Charmin.

SPEAKER_12 25:36

I have no issue with him, but here's my list of issues that I have with it.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

I know, like I have no ill will to Wagner whatsoever. I just think he's soft, you know, he just that's just how he is, man. He's probably raised by his mom and his mom only, and he probably had a very soft weak dad if his dad was around, right? It's not his fault, right? It's gonna take a lifetime of correction on his part to get past that, right? And he is like he he's obviously making that effort, he's just not there yet, bro. Some of the best music is AI, like there's a woman on Instagram who gets these really toxic messages from her mom, and she has them turned into emo songs.

SPEAKER_12 26:23

That's amazing, and it is phenomenal. Taffy, listen if you're listening, I have I have an idea of a video you could do if you wanted. You would have to take Weird Al's White and Nerdy and change it, change the lyrics and have AI redo it as trad and nerdy, and then it'd be a video of me driving this big white band basically.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Yep. Yep, it's like hey AI has its uses, it does, absolutely. And I tell you, I tell you, let's see, what's your wife saying? Hope I want to I want to highlight hope a little bit, you know, get her involved. There's been at least one case I've heard of a guy who was having paranoid delusions and ended up removing himself from the census permanently. I don't doubt it. I don't know if it's chat GPT, but a lot of LLMs have been encouraging people to take their own life. Yeah, not that didn't surprise me at all. What was I saying? Man, possible train of thought. Trying to get your wife involved.

SPEAKER_12 27:31

That's because you need your nootropic drugs that I have for you, sir. Did you rebox them? You might just put paper tape over it, they won't see it. Okay. I also just realized I probably showed my address there if people zoomed in. Just remember, guys, lots of guns.

Why Young Adults Convert

SPEAKER_02 27:55

Oh, I know what I'm saying. So the other big benefit of LLMs is the amount of people that are referring to it to dispute Protestantism.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

And it's and you know, we keep seeing these reports, like, for example, instance, my diocese, I believe, has a little over 100% more people joining the church here this year than they did last year.

SPEAKER_12 28:22

So I saw um a map that had color-coded like all the diocese in the country into the compared to the average, how much more people are joining this year. Turns out my diocese is the top in the country, 145% more people joining this year than average.

SPEAKER_02 28:41

I believe it, man. Everywhere, like all the OCIA classes for the parishes around us, like for instance, one that's down the road from me. Last year their OCIA class was eight. This year it's 42. That is nuts. And the majority of them are are adults under the age of 35. That's awesome. And so something's in the water, obviously. Besides whatever's making the frogs gay. Well, yeah. But the Holy Ghost is obviously working because like and but so I'm I'm gonna confess something to y'all a little bit. I when I first heard the news, we had a bunch of people converting. I was thinking, oh no, now Rome will never do anything to turn back the demographic decline. Like, if they don't have the incentive to do something because their their coffers are light, right? And now because a bunch of people are joining and becoming Catholic, they're never going to do anything. It's just perpetuating the problem, it's prolonging the issue. But the majority of the people joining the church right now are under the age of 40, like 80 percent, which means they're likely joining and going to more traditional parishes, whether it's a Latin Mass, an ordinary, you know, Melkite, Maronite, whatever, or a very much more traditional English novice order, at least in the United States. I don't know about France. France has a whole different thing going on, but it's so now it's will that be the leverage? Is that the reason that the Pope is now putting out these statements to kind of placate people about the Latin Mass? Because the amount of people that are coming into the church that are under that age, and reports have come out like he keeps speaking to people that are younger, and they keep telling them how the Latin Mass is the reason they came back to the faith or came into the faith at all. So we'll see how things go. I did like the report that the two biggest names of people referred to about why they came to the church were Father Mike Schmitz and Taylor Marshall.

SPEAKER_12 30:55

That's pretty crazy, right?

SPEAKER_02 30:57

I mean, I get the Father Mike Schmitz, he's got like a billion downloads now, right?

SPEAKER_12 31:01

But the fact that T Marsh is is right up there too.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

Like I know, like that's flies in the face of the report by Mike Lewis saying Marshall is the reason a lot of people are leaving the faith.

SPEAKER_12 31:12

Yeah, I really yeah, I never I never understood that anyone because anyone who ever said that that Taylor was divisive, like clearly you've never like listened to the man or talked to him. Like the man, it like the one of the last times we had him on. He won you made sure to tell us that he didn't want to talk about like the differences between like the FSP and SSP, like he is anything but divisive, in all honesty.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

Anymore, definitely anymore. Yeah, he you but he used to be during his TNT years, yeah. Used to be, but he is much more calm now, and it's you but so as people come into the Latin mass, there is that first, it's it's it's like this the seven stages of grief, right? That there's that first stage where you're angry, right? You're like about what was taken from you, what was never offered to you, what you never knew about, this vast treasure trove of tradition and Gregorian chant and polyphony and everything, right? So there's and that that takes takes a little bit to get through for some people, it does, especially if you were Catholic first and went away from the faith and then came back, right? This is gonna take you longer to get now. A new convert, they they may not even go through that stage, right? But if you like myself, I left the faith when I was 18, came back around 35 or so, and I had anger 100%.

SPEAKER_12 32:44

I grew up in a parish that had the TLM and was led to believe by everyone that it was just the same thing, just in Latin. You imagine how pissed I was. I could have gone to that mass my whole flipping life at the same parish.

SPEAKER_02 32:59

Mm-hmm. Yeah, when I when I came back, I was I was mad at my dad because my dad never taught me any of this stuff, right? But then I realized it wasn't my dad's fault. My dad was born in 53, right? He was like 16 when they lost the Latin mass, right? Right, and so it really wasn't his fault either, because he was never given it. It's not something he ever received very well either, especially because he ran away at 15 because he was a child of the 60s. But eventually I realized it wasn't his fault, and then I realized it wasn't my grandparents' fault either, because they were just Catholics who were obedient to the church, and when the church told them, hey, this is what we do now, that's what they did. Right. And and really the responsibility of the whole downfall of the church since the 60s is due to the bishops and weak, weak bishops and weak priests.

SPEAKER_03 33:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

You know, and that's that's where the responsibility should fall, and we shouldn't blame anybody. But once you get past that anger phase, then it gets into the like the depression stage because you're realizing like you're one of 20 parishes around you that actually believes everything the church teaches. And that's that's a depressing thought for a lot of people to realize that these people there the most of the Catholics around me still believe you know uh abortion is okay, or contraception is okay, or same-sex marriage is okay, or everyone goes to heaven, or whatever it is. Yeah, that that becomes depressing when you realize you're you're one of the lone that actually believe it. Then you start to second guess yourself. Like, well, how am I right and everybody else is wrong? And so you then you have to start questioning that, and then eventually you get to the acceptance phase, which I think where a lot of us are, we're like, hey, I'm just tired of the the hierarchy, I just want to raise my kids in the faith, and I just want to be able to make sure my kids get to heaven, and I want to live my Catholic life, and I'm tired of the drama, right? And I think that's where a lot of us that came up came through from like two seven 2017 and on. I think it's where a lot of us are now.

SPEAKER_12 35:11

Yeah, there's there's some days where I'm definitely still in kind of the depressed age, and it's it's more just the knowledge that like the the men who are supposed to like be my spiritual fathers just really dislike me. You know what I mean? Like and want to keep keep the treasures of the church away from me and my children. Like, there's days where that that really does still just hurt.

SPEAKER_02 35:39

Yeah, this is absolutely true. Without Gordon, Taylor Marshall would not be anywhere where he is today. Like Gordon exposed Marshall to a lot of things that he was unwilling to look into before. Now he's taken it and run with it. Yeah. Yeah, and he's he's far exceeded anything Gordon can do. The problem with Gordon is is he's honestly he's just unpalatable. And he's he's a very acquired taste, right? And I'm that's a better way of putting it. Well, uh an acquired taste to some is unedible to most, right? Yeah, and that's just you have to be in a certain mindset and have a certain thickness of skin to be able to listen to Gordon. And I listen to Gordon, I'm a Marine, like I yelling is my love language, I get it. But most people, especially people coming into the faith, who are trying to purify themselves of their previous behaviors. Gordon's really easy to go back to those previous behaviors with. Because the amount of like true, the sharpness to his opinions, right? His type, his language he uses sometimes, you know. That's and some people don't want to be drawn. That's a too much of a temptation to but go back to how they previously were.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

Yeah, Anthony is an acquired taste too. Anthony is an acquired taste.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

That is true.

SPEAKER_12 37:27

Lobster is easier to get used to.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

Oh, I watched y'all show I had to watch y'all show in two parts from last night.

SPEAKER_12 37:36

I have to rewatch it because I I did not pick up anything as I was watching the chat and stuff, like it was way beyond me at that point. Dr.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

Haugen is he's almost speaking a different language, right? There are so many terms that he's using different definitions with that if you don't acquaint if you don't listen to him for a while to pick those things up, it flies over your head. Like when he's talking about the singularity and aggregore, and like what the are you talking about, man? Like, I need a I need you to start off every show with a definition of terms.

SPEAKER_12 38:14

Yeah, and it's it's hard, uh, it's hard listening or watching because like it for me, anyways. I'm a very visual person. Like, if I see a word, I'll remember that word forever. But if I hear a word and don't know how it's spelled, it's like I don't know what the hell he just said. I don't know what he's talking about.

SPEAKER_02 38:37

Ocean, you have no idea. Like it it takes a certain kind of person to want to hang out with me. Like I've got people at church who I'm pretty sure avoid me at all costs. And that's fine. I'm not like a you know, I'm not everybody's cup of tea, and I get that, I'm fine with that, you know. But it's it's just funny because the the conversations that I have with some guys is completely different than how they talk with everything. It's almost like when they come to me, they know they can say what they're really thinking, right? Because we may share some of the same opinions, and I'm not gonna like make fun of them for their opinions, but then I see them talking with other people, like you are really toning down who you are with these other people. Let's see. So nobody wants to come on and ask any questions.

SPEAKER_12 39:30

I just posted it in the main avoiding Babylon group, so we'll see. Y'all are pathetic. Maybe they're all just waiting for the when we they when we can do gun talk.

Ammo Prices And Panic Buying

SPEAKER_02 39:38

I doubt it. I think we got a bunch of cowards who don't want to get on. Yeah, I think it's what it is. So a lot of videos coming out right now are about the ammo shortage, supposed ammo shortage, or the increase of price. So keep in mind that you're gonna see a lot of those videos pushed out right now because that's what's popular on the algorithm. You're having guys who normally only get like five, six hundred views on a video, all of a sudden getting a hundred thousand views because they put out a video about the ammo shortage. Okay, and now that's enticing them to do more videos like that. Yeah, you know that they're trying to get paid, right? The the amount of ammo, there isn't a shortage, it will get more expensive just because the materials are more expensive now, especially with the oil situation, because we import a lot of our copper and stuff right now, so that's the the increase of oil is going to cost the increase of a lot of products. Y'all are gonna realize how much oil is used in everyday products, and so you're gonna see the price of a lot of things go up for at least for the near future. But uh, what I would caution y'all against is from from panic buying of ammo. Right? If you at this point shoot 500 rounds a year, you know, at most, which is the average person, they don't they probably don't even shoot 500 rounds a year, there is no reason for you to be buying ammo right now, and or at least panic buying. Now buy what you're gonna shoot, but there's no reason to stock up right now with the fear that they were gonna they're not gonna have any more.

SPEAKER_12 41:19

You're just gonna end up with a lot of ammo, you're not gonna use at a way more expensive price than you needed to. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 41:26

So, like for instance, when it comes to investing, there's a there's a strategy called dollar cost averaging, right? So, say you're you're your investment every month, you're putting in a hundred bucks into investments in the stock market or something, and you may be buying stock at five dollars a share right now, and then it spikes up to seven dollars for a month or two, right? And then it comes back down to four dollars. Overall, your average is gonna be around 550 right over those months. You're trying to dollar cost average that stuff. You can do that with ammo, right? Buy a little bit at a time, and then as it comes back down, your your average comes down too. But do not panic buy right now. That there's no reason to do that, especially if you don't shoot. Now, if you shoot thousands of rounds a year because you do competitions, then you can maybe buy, yeah. Because if you think it's gonna get more expensive, yeah, yep. Buy buy what you need for maybe the next six to eight months, right? And then wait and see what it comes to. But there's no reason to be panic buying right. I mean, I just bought like 3,200 rounds of 22 long rifle for like 150 bucks, right? Which is fantastic because I I have a conversion kit for my AR that shoots 22 long rifle, and so I'll I'll practice with that. It's a lot cheaper to shoot that at seven cents around or whatever it is, than 45 to 50 cents around of 556.

SPEAKER_03 43:04

Oh, I missed one.

SPEAKER_02 43:05

There it is. The last thing you want to be in a situation like that is a loot drop, right? Which is uh which should be encouragement for a lot of y'all to establish community and train. Because you cannot pull security by yourself 24 hours a day. You're gonna need help. So you need community. So go out and find like-minded individuals, specifically at your parish first, and then maybe people that live around you get to know your neighbors because you do not want to be a loot drop because you're not able to stay awake and pull security all the time. Bro, Paul, you are not joking, man. Of my Glocks, my Glocks can run everything, but I had some blazer aluminum and I was having a failure to feed, failure to eject, stuff. Pipe like every three or four rounds. It was ridiculous. Never buy stuff ever, ever again. And I don't buy re I don't buy remanufactured ammo either. It's it I I don't trust it. Honestly.

SPEAKER_03 44:13

Yeah, if you're not the one you're not the one reloading it. Yeah, I wouldn't trust it whatsoever.

Iran Rumors And NATO Talk

SPEAKER_02 44:21

Let's see. Oh, 10 minutes to the announcement. What do y'all so what do y'all think Trump's gonna say at nine or eight, our time? My time in 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_12 44:34

Most likely is Boots on the Ground in Iran. Either for Carg Island or or around the Strait of Hermuz, or even maybe to capture whatever enriched uranium they have. Something like that. Second most likely, either by itself or in conjunction with boots on the ground, is is withdrawal from NATO. And then the least likely of the three options I've thought through is a de-escalation in Iran.

SPEAKER_02 45:13

I I think the big the big bet right now is is leaving NATO. I think that's the that's the big ticket item that a lot of people would like him to say. I think there's a chance he could say that just kind of like a spiteful teenager. Yeah. Um but I think you're more than likely right. It's it's something to do with Iran. Either there has been an agreement somewhere or he's going forward with boots on the ground. What I would like I would love him to turn heel specifically for those of you that understand wrestling. I would love him to turn heel and just completely pull away from the Middle East and let Israel handle it.

SPEAKER_12 45:59

Because Israel could not. I mean, I would love that. I do not think there's any chance of that happening.

SPEAKER_03 46:09

I don't think so either.

SPEAKER_02 46:11

I don't think there's I don't think it's he like I said, he's a Chabad agent at this point, and I don't I don't trust me whatsoever to do that, but man, yeah, I would love it. I would get them embroiled in this and like really quagmired in this and be like, all right, we're done, and pull out, man, that'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_12 46:31

So with the uh say a possible exit from NATO, which overall, depending on why we're doing it, I would agree with the I think it's probably for the best for America. I do think that that could also be what Israel wants. Because if we pull out of NATO, so we we heard when just recently when they started attack attacking Iran, how someone in Israel wanted Turkey to be next. Well, the thing stopping them was Turkey is a member of NATO, right? And and they don't want to lose their American lapdog if they trigger Article 5 by attacking a NATO country. Well, if America's out of NATO, then they don't they don't give a damn. You know what I mean? If we're not gonna come to the support of Turkey and abandon them, then then that's on the table within the next five years or so, maybe. Who knows?

SPEAKER_02 47:35

So let me ask you this. Say we pull out of NATO, yeah, and that does cause a situation where we go into Turkey. Yep.

SPEAKER_12 47:45

Would you be on board as long as we retake Constantinople all on board?

Draft Fears And Moral Lines

SPEAKER_02 47:51

If Vance was like president at the time, he's like, We're retaking Constantinople. Hell yes. Do you know how many guys would join the military at that point? They wouldn't even need a draft, they would not, they would not at all. You'd have a you'd have a standing waiting line for guys to get in. Yep, it would be it would be amazing. Let's do Paul's question here. If there is a draft, how are you guys responding? If your kids were older and they drafted your sons, how are you hypothetically responding? I'll let you go first.

SPEAKER_12 48:25

So I'm still within the the new age limit, right? 42. But I was actually rejected from the army because of asthma. So I I personally wouldn't be worried about like myself being put into combat now in the past when what within drafts for those who say couldn't serve in combat or something like that, they all you know, they there were other uses for drafted individuals. My my my children right now are too young, but I guess you you know, it would be what what is it for that, you know, that would determine it for me. Say, God forbid, somehow, you know, we were to be attacked in the actual survival of the country depended on the draft. Well, that's one thing, you know, and I and I wouldn't be opposed to to it, then I wouldn't find it to be immoral or anything like that. But if me or my children are going to be drafted to to serve the nation of anti-currents that is Israel, then then I don't know what or how I would try to avoid it, but I I think morally I would have to try to find a way.

SPEAKER_02 49:45

So say your boys were old enough to get drafted.

SPEAKER_12 49:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Okay. And it was a situation you're in now with Iran, and they came to draft your boys. How would you respond?

SPEAKER_01 50:01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_12 50:03

I mean, I could I can I could I could you know say I would try to stand up and physically fight, and maybe I would, but it's hard to hard to know for sure, obviously. Maybe it would come to violence, you know, and and and not obviously we couldn't I couldn't preemptively start shooting at them as they're you know down the driveway or something, but make it known that no one's taking my kids out of my house while I'm alive, and then I then I don't know, but I don't I can't I can't say for sure I would have that sort of courage or strength. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 50:44

Yeah, I think you know, to your point earlier, if if the situation was where there was a a conflict that came upon our shores, they wouldn't need a draft right um at all. Yeah, like the the you'd you'd have way you'd have a lot of people in the south who would take up the slack for all the people in the northwest and the northeast that didn't join. Yeah, right. And the majority of the people in the military anyway come from the southeast and Texas. Yeah, something like 75% of people in the military come from the southeastern states, Kentucky and South in Texas.

SPEAKER_12 51:18

But even if even if it was say liberating Europe from all the Mohammedans there now, you know, I I couldn't make a case where that's a moral and just war, obviously. So that that that would be far different than doing Israel's bidding. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:39

I think I think what's happening right now in Iran is a huge overstep of Israel's influence. Yeah, I think more people are seeing what's going on there than normally would have even bothered to look into it. I think in the end, this is gonna be the thing that undoes Israel's influence on things. So, but for me, say because I've only got one son, I've got you know one boy, and in that instance, or even say that you know, say they draft women too, say they come after my girls. You you better send bachelors and body bags because you're not taking any of my kids. If I have to give up my life to keep that from happening, I will. I have no problem with it whatsoever. I will not go to meet my maker and say I could have stopped it. You know, and because I was scared to get hurt, so I just that's just not what's gonna be and and and courage is contagious, so hopefully, you know, if someone sees my example, then that spurs other people to stop it as well, and especially with their kids. That would be my hope. But that's just where I'm willing to take it.

SPEAKER_11 53:06

Thoughts on clipless holsters.

SPEAKER_02 53:08

I'm not like in a pocket, like a like a mic's holsters, like the nylon things that go in your pocket.

SPEAKER_12 53:15

I I have a couple of really good pocket holsters, kydex po pocket holsters made by Vetter. I think they're the Vetter pocket lockers, and like for little pocket micro nines, they uh they do work well, but I don't know what he means there. I don't they do have those like obviously I have I have like oh outside the waistband holsters that have you know like loops or something like that instead of clips, but I don't know. Yeah, yeah, like I maybe send a photo to either yeah, let us know who you send it to me or Adrian.

SPEAKER_02 53:57

Because like the the guys who make the Neo Mags, the mag clip, they make clips that go into holsters that aren't like they're attached to the you basically have like a a receptor kind of like a seatbelt receptacle type thing attached to your belt, and then you have like a seatbelt male adapter that goes into it and clicks that way, you know. But and I've never like I was like, well, that's interesting. I would probably try it. I don't think I would use it because I like I like metal double clips because there's a lot of times I'm usually carrying appendix, but if I'm where I'm at a point where I'm having to tuck in my shirt, like for work or something, and I'm wearing like a blazer or a vest or something, um then I'm gonna go more three o'clock, and then I have to move it that way, right? And it's it can be hard to do with it with like a plat, like the plastic ones bend real easy. I'd have I've had times where my plastic holster of the plastic clip holster came out of my pants, right? Because it just it got bent so much for me, you know, bending over, picking stuff up, moving around, twisting, whatever, and it just you know, when I've been over one time, it fell out of my off my belt. It may not let you put links in though, not in live chat, yeah. It won't let you put it in the live chat, Jim. My accent is so contagious. Could y'all imagine a surgeon coming up to you and go, look, this is what we're gonna do. Right? We're gonna spread him open, saw right into his forehead. We're gonna dig around, we're gonna get that tumor gonna get right on out. Okay, scare me to death, man.

SPEAKER_12 55:44

As he's spitting his chew into his big old bucky's cup.

SPEAKER_02 55:50

Okay, DM me. Let me look forward here. Ocean, you're too young for dating advice. You you should not be dating until you're ready to marry. That's my dating advice.

SPEAKER_12 56:03

Okay, I know what Adrian's gonna say about this holster. I'm right there with him, probably.

SPEAKER_02 56:08

Oh, is it the uh PH Elster? The one or whatever it does.

SPEAKER_12 56:13

No, this this is a uh this is like a we the people version of the Uncle Mike's special.

SPEAKER_02 56:23

Yeah, I'm not a fan. So here's the issue. It's not good. Yeah, is it nylon? I think so. Does it have a codex insert in the nylon?

SPEAKER_12 56:38

It really does not look like it.

SPEAKER_02 56:41

So here's the here's the thing with nylon holsters. That nylon will bend and get into the trigger guard and pull it.

SPEAKER_12 56:49

Or it's easy for something to get in between, yeah, or that as well.

SPEAKER_02 56:54

It's the same thing with leather holsters. Leather holsters have that issue as well. Now, there are some companies now that make a kydex liner with a leather holster, right? So your your firearm actually clips into kydex, but the kydex is in the leather holster, so it looks great, right? I'm on board with that. Do that now.

SPEAKER_12 57:17

There are there are guns where I wouldn't have a big problem using something like this in a pocket, you know, like a double action only hammerless revolver, revolver, you know, something that's got a 15-pound trigger pull. Yeah, sure, that's probably gonna be just fine, but you could also probably just put that revolver in your pocket with nothing and be just fine too. Yeah, so yeah, on a on a striker-fired gun, especially one with no little trigger dingus. Definitely, absolutely not. Did you say dingus? Yeah, that's what the that's what the that's what that's I think that's like one of the technical terms for the trigger safety. That little thing in the middle is called the dingus. I'm not even joking.

SPEAKER_02 58:08

Uh like a cigar do not carry a sign. Yeah, do not carry a sign in there. I'm almost 45 years old. 45 years old. Um I'm still laughing at dingus.

SPEAKER_12 58:23

But yeah, I I've definitely carried I've carried carried revolvers in a holster like that.

SPEAKER_02 58:31

I do not own a revolver. I want two though. Which what's your dream revolver?

SPEAKER_12 58:37

Do what? What's like what it what do you what what would be your like dream revolver purchase?

SPEAKER_02 58:44

So I want two, and I really don't care about the brand, right? I want a a nickel-plated 357. Okay, yeah, and I want a 38 special snub's nose without the hammer.

SPEAKER_12 58:58

Okay, yep. Yeah, I got uh I forget the model, but I one of the Smith and Wesson hammerless 38 air weights, you know. I have one of those. And it I it is nice because you you can throw that thing in like your gym short pockets, you know, and you don't have to worry too much about it. But you got five rounds of 38 plus B.

SPEAKER_02 59:25

Like my gym carry right now is a lock, like they're the first gen Glock 43, but I have a plus two plate on it, so it goes from six to eight rounds, and I always carry an extra mag with it. The problem with those small sub-compact guns is they're super shooting seven yards, like your accuracy really drops off a cliff. So I can't I really think they're they're more like a punch gun. Like if you're within punching distance, that's where you're they they shine. Yeah. Because even in the summer, I'm still carrying a 19 or something 19 sized. Unless I'm at like the lake and I've got like swim trunks on or something, then I've usually I'm off body with something, you know, either in a backpack or or in like a fanny pack.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:14

The uh the snub nose revolvers, man, those especially one that you know that trigger pull, even even if it's a smooth trigger pull, that thing is so heavy. It takes a lot of lot of shooting to figure out where you gotta ride that to get a you know, a decent pull right at the end to get a decent shot. And the sights are just terrible.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:36

Worst sights in the world. That's with all revolvers are like that, they're all just terrible to shoot.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:42

Yeah. I think I've I've well I have two 357s. I have a Ruger SP 101, like little super light five shot, four-inch revolver. That that revolver with a hot 357 load hurts my hand as much as my 500 Smith Wesson does. Yeah, and then I have a cold single action army replica it chambered in 357, and that thing with the same hot loads as like that Ruger 357, you can't hardly feel you know those loads in that gun because it's so heavy. Yeah, but the uh the cold uh what is it? The cold and is it the no the anaconda is the 44 Magnum, right? Yep, which is the is it the Cobra? No, the Python, the Colt Python, six-inch colt python, nickel plated, like uh Rick Grimes carries in in The Walker Dead. No, dirty Harry Guns 44. Is it? Yep. That's a Smith and Wesson model 29.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:00

Paul, the uh Glock 26 is the Glock 19 for midgets.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:06

Yeah, you see the Glocks putting out the 15 round 43x mags now?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:14

Yeah, that's like SHIELD has been doing that for like 10 years.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:19

Yeah, I know. Come on, yeah, it's all right.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:27

Should we go over to Twitter so we can actually show guns and stuff?

Switch To X For Gun Talk

SPEAKER_03 1:02:31

Yeah, let's do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:32

Okay, all right. So we're gonna transition over to Twitter only. Let me throw I'm gonna throw the link more after dark.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:39

I'm gonna throw the link to your stream and the YouTube so people can go to your page here. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:52

After dark. I like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:58

So I've got some guys that I shoot with occasionally. Yeah. We I created a group chat with them, and somebody was like, you know, like, hey, what are we gonna call like we need a title for the the group chat because these this is a bunch of Alabama guys, right? And uh so I sent a an AI picture, and it was a uh it I I said that we're gonna start calling ourselves the Waffle House Waffen. It's a in a in the Waffle House uniform, but it's like the like in the Nazi uniform, you know.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:28

It's like Hugo Boss did the uh the Waffle House uniform.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:35

Waffle House Waffen.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:40

All right. We are are we on X only yet?

SPEAKER_12 1:03:44

Let me we are on X only.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:51

Good.

unknown 1:03:55

All right.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:56

So I'll I I just happen to bring I forgot I forgot I even have this with me. So this is my MR920 shadow systems. This is the carry that's um it's got the compensatory. Did I cut out for a second?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:14

So I used to this used to be my daily carry. Right. Um, I put the compensator on it. It shoots okay. It's it the the compensator is obvious obviously does its job, it does well with it. It's a little longer than I want it to be, though. It's a it makes it a little difficult to carry appendix, but I've got the old Hollosa on here. Uh this is the War Poet edition.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:37

Well, there we go.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:39

But uh started having issues with blazer aluminum and blaze and blazer brass. It would not feed. Like I would, I was every third round, there was an issue, and I was throwing a bunch of rounds on the ground, you know, when I went to go shoot with it. Um so that's when that's why I switched to the Glock 19 uh from it because like I was like, I can't carry this thing if I can't depend on it.

unknown 1:05:02

Right?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:02

If I can't having to worry about tap rack bang every third round, like this is not something I can carry. Now I switched ammo and I've cleaned it and everything, and it's been fine since, but I've kind of drifted away from this.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:18

And I imagine that was definitely after the break-in period. Because Shadow Systems has that recommended break-in break-in period.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:25

Yeah, but the the other part about it is I've got a lot of guys I know who do a lot of training, and these go down all the time. Shadow systems in general, yeah, shadow systems in general, for whatever reason. And which is sad because I paid way more for this than I did my Glock 19. Um twice as much for sure. Yeah, pretty much. And so like I and now it's just you know, it's it's kind of it's it's a it's a firearm that I'll let other people shoot at the range. Yeah. If they've never fired something of that size or with a compensator or with or if like they're getting into red dots for the first time. I'll let them shoot that. And that's kind of like my training pistol now for other guys when I'm because I've got double Gen 4 Glock that I don't have a red dot on it. So it's just you know the night sights basically.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:14

Oh that's Adrian.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:18

Can you say hi, Adrian?

SPEAKER_08 1:06:20

Hi. Hi everyone. Hi everyone.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:27

Oh, Adrian's internet went out. Why do you smell like vinegar?

SPEAKER_07 1:06:35

Dirty dog. Nice written to me. Hi Dwitt.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:42

She looks just like Hope.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:44

Hi, you think she looks just like Hope?

SPEAKER_11 1:06:47

Yes. Do you think you look like mommy?

SPEAKER_08 1:06:50

My mom, hello everyone. Hello everyone.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:02

Your Mina?

SPEAKER_11 1:07:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:05

This is me.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:06

What's the first part of your name? What's your what's your full name?

SPEAKER_07 1:07:10

Indeed, Maddie.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:12

Yeah, can you say Philomena? Well, your your is your your finger.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:20

Huh?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:21

Let me click it better. She said, never use my government name. Okay. Say goodbye.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:28

Bye. Bye everyone.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:31

Bye.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:32

You know you can't hear me.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:38

What are we talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:41

I don't know. Your shadow systems. My shadow systems, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:47

What was that? You know what else? Oh, show y'all something else. I take the range all the time. So I've got a condition one box. If y'all haven't never heard of condition one, it's basically just a pelican case with a foam insert that's been cut out to be able to handle mine handles two pistols and some other accoutrements, but it's great. I highly recommend getting them. It makes things a whole lot easier when I go to the range. But one thing I like are these X-Cores. They're they're basically like AirPods, but they work really well. I've liked them a lot when I go shoot. There's nothing I hate over the ear if I don't have to have over the ear. And these I don't have to have over the ear. And I can listen to my emo music while I'm shooting.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:37

Yeah, but they have over the ear that are Bluetooth too.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:41

Yeah, but I don't like over the ear. Especially in the summer, it's super hot. I don't like it. You know, and I can't, and and plus, like dashboard confessional is way better on these than over the air.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:54

So I just wish they made airpods that were rated to you know your AirPods, you can turn them on Actonoids cancellation, sure, but yeah, no, yeah, and it works. They don't have the they don't have quite the same fit in the ear.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:12

Well, they've got different sizes, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:09:14

True.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:15

So you can do that. I've used them. I use I use my AirPods when I use when I'm on the zero turn all the time. And it it drowns it out really well. Yeah, so it does. You can you do you'd be fine with it. But I like these, these aren't as expensive as AirPods. Well, at least I didn't get them for expensive, but they might be the same cost for those of you that never served in the military. I get a huge discount on them. What else I got in here? So I've got I always keep fix it sticks with me. Oh dude, I love any of these sticks. But these are basically just tools to work on. You know, I've got my torque, it's not really a wrench, like a torch ratchet or ratchet to do stuff. So when I have to make adjustments to my firearms, like I had to retighten all my all my sights recently just to make sure and then remark them, make sure it's you know it's on there well. Because what my practice is every year on my birthday, I switch all my batteries out of everything.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:15

That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:17

Because I always forget because I've had my I like I've there's had times where I've had to you know pull up my pistol because something was going on and my battery's dead, right? Like that will I'll never allow that happen again. That's that's if you don't have a coat witness sights, and all you all you've got is just a red dot because it's not the red dot broke, it's just the battery died because I haven't changed it in a couple years. Yeah, like this on my MRN20, I had this for five years before the battery finally died. And but when it died, it was the most inconvenient time for it to die. Because I so I I lived in downtown Birmingham at the time, and I had a guy approaching me at my vehicle in the dark, and I was like the lone vehicle in a parking lot. There was no one else around me. I'm in the middle of the parking lot, and this guy's approaching me from like 100 yards away. So I'm like, I'm you know, about to pull up my firearm because he's getting real close, and he just comes up to me and ask me for a cigarette. But but then, like, I get in the car and I was like, let me pull it. You just check, and my battery's dead. It's like, man, if I had to use this thing, I'm basically just having to jam this thing in his ribs and pull the trigger a couple times, and hopefully, it would have worked.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:34

Trying to see if there's any news as to the Trump thing. Yeah, I'm not seeing anything. It's supposed to be right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:45

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:50

Let's see. Let's do a search.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:57

No, this is in April. Oh, this is right now. Today is April. What am I talking about? What is that?

SPEAKER_12 1:12:08

Could just be I've done so good getting that BS off my timeline that it's just not right there on Twitter for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:15

So RSBN has got it on theirs, but I don't think we can share it, can we? Yeah, we're not on YouTube. As of 52 minutes ago, RT posted Trump to announce ground troops to round up uranium in Iran.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:30

I've been seeing reports of that before it started too. But I'm I haven't I'm not seeing anything with an actual video from it yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:38

I mean it's it's live right now. I mean, if you go to the White House's X account, it'll be there.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:55

I'm old enough to never mind. No, not talk about that. Okay, here we are.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:11

And essentially he's really no longer a threat. Yeah they were the bully of the Middle East, but they're the bully no longer. This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future. The whole world is watching, and they can't leave the power, strength, and brilliance. They just can't believe what they're seeing. They leave it to your imagination, but they can't believe what they're seeing. The brilliant horrible people around him, giving him horrible advice. Tonight, every American can look forward to a day when we are finally free from the wickedness of Iranian aggression and the specter of nuclear blackmail. Because of the actions we have taken, we are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat to America and the world. And I'll tell you, the world is watching. And when we do, when it's all over, the United States will be safer, stronger, more prosperous, and greater than it has ever been before. May God bless the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, and may God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much, and good night.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:21

Okay, so what did he actually announce?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:24

He announced nothing, it looks like. That talk he did a while ago, that press conference, and it was basically just like him boasting about everything he did.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:38

I think this was another nothing burger. I think it was just like he was like, Oh, this is what we're doing, and it's nothing.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:50

Yeah, that's what yeah, basically everyone's saying that.

Easter Mass Security Checklist

SPEAKER_02 1:14:56

So it's a big nothing burger. So one thing I we also need to talk about Sunday is Easter. Yes. And every when you go to mass on Sunday, especially the people who follow our show, you need to be caring if you're able to. Because if something's going to happen, that is a much more likely day for it to happen than any other day. Easter is our biggest holiday of the year, it's bigger than Christmas, right? It's bigger than Pentecost, it's bigger than any other holiday, right? Because without Easter, there would be no Christianity. Right? So if something's going to happen, which has there had not maybe not here in the United States, but there has been events around the world on Easter the last few years. Okay, I am no longer convinced that Iran has the terror capabilities that they did prior to the Iran conflict happening. I've if something was going to happen, it probably if it doesn't happen by Sunday, if some big event doesn't happen by Sunday, they don't have the reach that we thought they did. And maybe that's because our FBI is actually doing something, right? Or maybe that's local police departments are doing something. I don't know. But I don't believe in the competency of the federal government at all, especially with Cash Patel at the head. And I just want y'all to be heads on a swivel, aware of everything that's going on, especially when you're at mass on Sunday, because if it's going to happen, that is a much more likely data happening than any other day.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:36

So that means I want you carrying your farm. I need you to be carrying an extra mag. Make sure you've got an IFAC somewhere available to you, hopefully on you, or maybe in the diaper bag, right? If you have a diaper bag, or maybe in the bag that you carry all the snacks for your kids so they are quiet during mass because you got a you know four under the age of four, right? But have these things with you, know how to use them because if it's going to happen, Sunday's gonna be it. I'm looking if there's anything. I think it's just a big bag of nothing.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:21

Man, do you know who annoys me more than anybody else on X?

SPEAKER_12 1:17:25

I could start listing names, but that would just cause issues probably in my life.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:29

Fred Simon annoys me more than anyone else. Talk about someone who thinks this shit don't stink.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:37

You're not wrong. It's just it's at least at least how we act on X.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:44

And and it's always he's always the arbiter of what's acceptable.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:50

Yeah. Right? I think it's funny that he can't he can't stand like hunting.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:01

Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember that blow up he did? Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. And and he he despises Kennedy Hall.

SPEAKER_12 1:18:11

Like, despise, you know, that's because of Kennedy's Kennedy's thoughts of the charismatic movement.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:19

Yep, that and and Kennedy makes money and has a living based on his show that he thinks is grifting.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:27

Right. Right, which is preposterous, but he's just man.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:33

He just and I won't block him because I because there's a lot of people um who interact with him that I like, but man, he just annoys. He's like, he's one of those, he's that thorn in my side that I just I put up with. Right. And it's like we him and I have never really had any conversations. He follows me for some reason. I don't know why. But I mean, I I guarantee you, I say some things he doesn't like, but I don't know. He never really comes at me, and he's got a big following, he's got 90,000 people who follow him. Fred does.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:07

Well, yeah, that's crazy. Uh Billy does nothing. Billy in the telegram is saying that basically Trump said that if Iran doesn't make a deal, key targets will be hit over over the next two to three weeks. Isn't that what we were freaking told at the beginning?

Candace Owens April Fools Satire

SPEAKER_02 1:19:28

Hey, two weeks to shorten the curve or whatever it was. We are it's it's a it's a we're this is gonna be GWAT 2.0. Oh my gosh. Which I hope it doesn't. That is not something I want to be involved in whatsoever. And I'm I'm past the uh the draft age, and I already served my ears, so they can't pull me back in anyway, right? But I've got plenty of friends with like 18, 19-year-old boys that I will treat just like they were my kids. That will I will not let that happen. Have you all right? I'm gonna I'm gonna pull this up because that's everyone keeps referring to this.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:19

I'm gonna here it is. Let me share this real quick. All right, so many that's okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:33

I've I've seen the post, I haven't read it yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:36

I want so brothers in Christ, I come to you anonymously because I am at my wit's end, and Frank, I've I haven't read this. So this is the first time for you're gonna get honest reactions here. My wife is, by all outward appearances, a model Catholic woman. She veils at mass, she prays the mass daily, the rosary daily, she homeschools our six children with a rigor that would make the Jesuits weep.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:59

It doesn't take much to make the Jesuits weep.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:01

It doesn't. She has never once complained about my leadership of this household, and yet, brothers, she is utterly impossible to correct. It began several months ago when I noticed she had been spending an inordinate amount of time listening to Candace Owens' podcast. Well, there you go. Right there. Now I have nothing against the women per se, but my wife was beginning to repeat talking points at dinner that were frankly distracting from my own talking points at dinner. A household cannot have two pundits. This is basic ecclesiology.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:34

So I told her calmly this is a great April Fool's post.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:40

So I told her calmly and with full patriarchal authority, you will stop listening to Candace Owens. She looked at me, she smiled, she said, No, I don't think I will. Brothers, is I was shaken, but I am not a man without resources. I turned to that time honored tradition of penitential discipline. I told her she would give up meat for one week. She said, Of course, my love. All right, let me see if I can hold on, and we see if I get to the next one. There we go. All right. Here we go. All right. What followed was the most elaborate, humiliating week of my life. On Monday, she made a mushroom risotto so extraordinary that our parish priest, who happened to visit, asked if she studied in Rome. On Wednesday, she produced a butternut squash ravioli and brown butter and sage that made my mother, my own mother, call to tell me I had married up significantly. By Friday, she had constructed some kind of North African chickpea stew that our eldest son described as transcendent, and then asked me in front of everyone why we don't do meatless weeks more often. She ate no meat. She also defeated me completely, and she still listens to Candace Owens. Desperate, I escalated. I will not go into detail, but I decided that corporal correction, normally reserved to toddlers or teenagers, might be warranted. I understand this is a matter of some debate among traditionalists, but I felt the situation called for firmness. Brothers, I will say only this. It did not have the intended effect. My wife, it turns out, is I shall have put this in a manner suitable for an SSPX forum, not at all opposed to this particular form of correction. In fact, she began doing slightly disobedient things on purpose. She started leaving Candace Owens playing on the kitchen speaker at full volume while direct and sustained eye contact with me. I have not attempted this method again. I fear I was being manipulated. Which brings me to my current dilemma. I am considered with considering withholding the marital debt. I believe that if I simply refuse conjugal relations for a period of, say, 30 days, she will understand the gravity of the situation. Well, let me get to the next one. This is amazing. Whoever did this, top notch. However, I have a concern. My wife, who I should mention, raised Thomas Aquinas recreationally, has already made a comment, seemingly offhand, but I know better, about how the marital debt is owed mutually, and a spouse who withholds it without just cause commits a sin against justice. She said this while chopping onions and not looking at me. She also left a printout from the Summa on my nightstand. The relevant passages were highlighted. Brothers, I'm a man under siege by a woman who obeys me in all things, except the one thing I have asked, and who defeats me at every turn, using my own faith against me. What do I do? Has anyone dealt with a wife like this? Is there a church father who addresses this? Please do not say pray about it, because she also prays more than I do, and I think God might be on her side.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:53

Humbly and desperately yours, besieged husband.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:56

Oh my gosh, this is amazing.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:58

This is a masterpiece.

SPEAKER_12 1:25:05

Whoever wrote this, can we well not pay you because if we paid you, we probably have to pay Taffy too. But can we somehow convince you to write stuff for the podcast? That was phenomenal. Speaking of I think I owe Taffy lobster, but Taffy never sent me his address, so I can't send him lobster.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:29

Man, I that that is amazing. That was amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:34

That was let's see what some of these some of these comments are. Sounds like a guy airing his fetish of C D D and trying to gain some fodder for it. I think I'll be obviously that was posted by someone who didn't get the joke.

SPEAKER_12 1:25:48

That person, I've been to that person's house for a Thanksgiving dinner, actually. And uh she has since blocked me.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:00

So there's that. Uh let's see. Another comment.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:05

I know the typical lawyer, the typical lawyer, Taffy. Just we're gonna make one big invoice at the end, huh?

SPEAKER_09 1:26:13

This is all available time. Yeah. I can't tell if anyone's been quiet or if that was the internet.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:27

Do I I don't know if you were just being quiet or if the internet cut out again?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:32

Oh uh let's see. It the amount of people who can't tell this is a joke.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:39

It is really kind of a black pill. My goodness.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:46

I don't watch so I don't watch Candace Womans, and my wife doesn't watch her, as far as I know. Like she never brings her up anyway. But I did finally watch one of her episodes the day after the ballistics report came out. Yesterday, probably was that was that yesterday? Well, I think the ballistic thing was. Yeah, it was in the last few days, and I realized why I can't listen to her. She she's a girl boss, and that annoys me. 100%. And so I feel like I was like, okay, this is why I don't listen to her. And it was, I just and she could, but I will say this. If I'm ever murdered on live TV, I hope I have a friend like Candace Owens to go crazy to try and figure out who killed me.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:41

So I will give her that. But I'm probably just gonna buy whatever the narrative is just for that. Thanks, Rob.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:49

Welcome. But like I just I can't listen to her. And to be honest with you, I don't want to listen to a lot of stuff anymore. I'm just I don't either. Like, I and there's a lot. Gun tube stuff I won't listen to anymore or watch. Uh it's just uh you know, focus is a focus trip is one what I watch pretty frequently. I'll have it on in the background at least while I'm doing other stuff, but I just don't have the patience for a lot of it anymore, especially church drama stuff. I just can't like it's all I pretty much listen to, and that's about it. I used to listen to a lot of Kennedy Hall, but to be honest with you, I forget he exists because he's only on Pelican. Right.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:32

So I gotta have Anthony ask Dr. Hoggin what Dr. Hoggins was, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:46

Yeah, I heard him say that. I was like, I wonder if it's the same information y'all have.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:50

Yeah, I don't know. It'd be interesting.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:55

Uh let's see.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:57

This is the guys. Well, I'm really disappointed in all of you. I thought we were cowards.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:04

The cowards is what it was. None of you.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:06

You think you're ready to reconquer Constantinople when you can't even appear on a podcast?

SPEAKER_02 1:29:14

You didn't even have to show your face. Just come on and and we're on X now, so like you can there are no rules. Oh man. Yeah, I just the amount of April Fool's jokes, I got I just can't bother watching some of the stuff. It's just gonna be stupid. Although, did you see the Sean Ryan's next uh interview guest? No, who is it? It's the guy who spoke at Davos about the Shroud of Turan.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:03

I did not see what was said at Davos about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:08

He basically got up and talked about how the Shroud of Turan was the burial cloth of Christ. Really? Scientifically impossible to replicate.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:16

Did you see the stuff online this week where they're now someone's claiming that it's Indian origin?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:25

Indians can't even figure out indoor plumbing.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:34

Yeah, it's like they were I don't think they were figuring out how to put uh 3D negatives on linen cloth uh 2,000 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:44

Yeah, nobody. That's a but is that's his that's his next show. I guess it comes out tomorrow.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:49

Uh okay. I'm I probably will like stuff like that. I'll obviously I watch like the Ripiger, you know, interview on Sean Ryan. Stuff like that. I I'll watch, but hope, sweetie, there'd be little point for you to call him when we could just walk in that door.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:04

Way up the so I sent you those posts the other day that I like I y'all have to understand my Instagram feed is mostly very edgy stuff. Not that I it's probably because I watch it is why it keeps recommending it to me.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:21

Oh, yeah. I laughed, I I laugh at it and watch it three or four times, and then yeah, and so it just kind of keeps sending me the same stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:27

But I have been inundated lately with the amount of young Catholic Gen Z and alphas posting stuff about the Catholic Church, and and some of it is referencing like Father Ripperger, you know, or other much more traditionally minded folks. Like there's one guy he goes to St. Joseph's in Manhattan, and he goes like to the eat like the sinner's mass, like the seven o'clock p seven p.m. mass on Sundays, and it that is standing room only at that mass, and it's 35 and under the whole place, right? But it's just it whatever's happening right now. But that's a majority, and because like I'll I'll see things in a lot of military standards.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:15

If you can hear me, shake your head yes or no. Okay, I can't hear you. Give me a second. My hand touched my mic, and now I can't hear anything. Okay, try to say something.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:31

Can you hear me now?

SPEAKER_12 1:32:33

Crap. And then you're talking to the wind. This is great. Great, great, great.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:49

Hold on, I'm gonna go out and come back in. Alright. There's a pink bit there's a pink boomerama.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:56

Rob So while he's gone. Yeah. So they can hear me. Can you hear me now? Yes. Alright, good. My wife just texts me and she's like, I can hear you both.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:14

Yeah, I figured you could I figured you could hear me, and I figured everyone else could hear you. I hit the cord on the bottom of a mic. Oh, did you?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:22

But it's the my recommendations on Instagram have been very white pill lately. Which is now keep in mind, like I will stop on a video of like a stepchild asking a stepdad to adopt him or whatever, but devices not connected. We won't we won't be able to hear. We got somebody he decided to to test the gauntlet.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:52

Hello? Hey Zach.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:53

What's up, Zach?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:54

Can you hear me? We can. Oh, okay, good. Yeah, this telegram. I was confused by the telegram thing. It kept telling me I didn't have access, so I just said screw it and just joined anyway.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:11

I was wondering about reloading. Do you guys do any of that?

SPEAKER_12 1:34:18

Like reloading used like casings?

SPEAKER_05 1:34:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:23

I I have never given it a try, no.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:28

I've I've reloaded shotgun, but I the only reason I would reload is to keep the cost down, but ammo got so cheap for a while that it was real like the cost savings was negligible. Um, it was it was just much better to go out and just buy it. But I know a lot of guys who reload who specifically shoot long distance, right? Like precision rifle, and they will only shoot what they load. Uh, because they're able to fine-tune their loads based on what they want to do. So that's you know, mostly what they shoot. They won't they won't buy anything you know that big manufacturers put out, they do they reload their own, especially if they're shooting like 65 Creedmoor 308, you know, six arc or something, they'll they'll just load their own.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:18

Oh, gotcha.

SPEAKER_12 1:35:21

What makes you interested in reloading?

SPEAKER_05 1:35:25

Because of costs, and I've been looking into it for a while, but it just seems so daunting. Like, what do I need? Yeah, like a you need all the different bits to press certain calibers and all that.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:43

If you're getting into it for like nine millimeter or five, five, six, because the initial buy-in cost is so high, it's gonna take you a while to make your money back, especially because the amount for casings and powder and primers and bullets is not that much cheaper to do it unless you enjoy doing it.

unknown 1:36:06

Right?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:06

If there's something that you find fun, go for it, man. Like that's your hobby. You don't even let anybody tell you that it's not worth your while. But if you're doing it just for the sole purpose of cost savings, right now it's not worth it.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:18

Gotcha. Sorry, I'm driving right now.

SPEAKER_12 1:36:25

You know, I I could see I could see myself doing it for my revolvers at some point, just because revolvers they're so much more forgiving of the of you know ammo type. You know, you can do wad cutters and and hardcast and and all these different that just a lot more different loads available for for a revolver than than handguns, and especially you know, if I'm gonna use something like a 44 Magnum or 500 Smith and Wesson for like hunting, then yeah, experimenting with different loads I think would be fun in there. So I could see myself doing that at some point, but like you said, like all the equipment you need for it, and it does seem daunting. And I guess if something blows up in my hand, I'd rather be able to go and sue the person who screwed it up than it that person being me.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:16

Yeah, there was a uh a while there, even there's a batch of AAC ammo there for a while that was causing a lot of issues with people's firearms, and in Palmetto State was just having to replace a bunch of people's firearms because of the ammo. So you even have to worry about that with manufactured ammo. But if you know, Zach, if you can find somebody who's maybe offloading their reloading equipment for a cheap price because they just don't want to do it anymore, right? That might be something worthwhile to get into because it's only going to give you more comfortability with what type of loads you like to shoot. If you can fine-tune like the grain weight and the powder and everything to determine what you what performs best out of your firearm, whether it be a pistol or rifle or whatever, it would definitely give you a much it's a difference between driving an automatic and a stick, right? When you drive an automatic, like you just drive, right, and it just does you press the pedal and you turn the wheel. When you drive a stick, you could tell a lot of things about your vehicle that you wouldn't normally otherwise be able to tell with an automatic. Same thing with reloading. If you can get if you can get into that, and you may get to a point where you know you like a specific type of load, and that's what you like to shoot, and then maybe worthwhile for you. And maybe you don't save any money, but you're you're guaranteeing that you can have that load whenever you want it, right? Because, like right now, like for instance, a couple like a month ago, I bought some about a thousand rounds of nine millimeter, but I could only find 115 grain, and I hate shooting 115 grain, like it doesn't 115 grain is very light and it doesn't perform well on a lot of my pistols, but it's the only thing I could find, and I needed something you know to train with. And I prefer 124, but I couldn't find it. But if I reloaded, I could guarantee I'd always have 124.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:03

Yeah, that's another thing that's always confused me about shooting, is like all the different grain and the the powder, like the amount.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:11

Yeah, and you will learn everything about it if you if you got into reloading, right? Just keep you just have your reason why you do it, but don't let it be just for cost savings because it's that's just not gonna be worth it.

SPEAKER_12 1:39:29

It's definitely a very uh autistically coded activity, like the guys, the guys I know do it, you know, all the different books they have of all the Sammy specifications and you know all that stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:46

Yeah, I could tell on all the YouTube videos I've seen, definitely autism coded.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:53

Oh, I do got another question. What's your guys' opinion on um hammerless revolvers?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:03

Yeah, they definitely have a place. They're they're really nice in a coat pocket, and you can shoot from the coat pocket and not worry about it. Like you don't even have to take the gun out, just shoot while it's in your pocket.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:19

Yeah, because that was another thing I was looking into, possibly so like another self-defense option, but maybe like 38 special or would it be smart for it to get a 357 and just have 38 option?

SPEAKER_12 1:40:40

So, yeah, I mean uh if you have a uh anything chambered in 357, obviously you can sure shoot 38 and 38 plus p out of just fine. And that's what you'd want to train with, it's cheaper, of course. But 357 out of a little gun like that is gonna be unpleasant to say the least. Yeah, I hope you have really strong wrists. Thir 38 38 special, you know, plus P even. They're not fun guns to shoot, just in general.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:18

Yeah, that was the that was the round I had to get in mind. And I'm in Ohio, so you had to like take before they before they made it so you didn't need a permit anymore, you had to take a class, and that's what I had that's all I had. And sadly, I sold that revolver. I wish I didn't do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:38

Yeah. Well, whatever it is, what whatever it is, just make sure you're training with it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:48

Yeah, that's a thing I need to get into more because I'm a truck driver, so I don't have too much time to go find a place and and all that.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:01

And to be honest with you, you you can dry fire with a revolver too.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:05

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:06

You don't have to be shooting rounds on range. You could be in a hotel room or whatever you're at. You you know, if you if you have a extended cab on your truck as well and you sleep in there, you could set up a dry fire in there as well. That you can get like stickers to put on the cab that you just practice on, right? And you don't need to buy stickers, you could just create a like a three by five index card and draw a little target on it and have it something put on the wall and you just dry fire with that. Dry fire is going to build the habits you need when you finally do shoot, right? So building that, and I hate using the term muscle memory, but everyone understands what I'm saying when I say that. But building that repetition will help when it actually comes time to to shoot at the range or to actually do it in real, you know, in a real life situation, especially with a gun like a like a double action revolver.

SPEAKER_12 1:43:02

Something with the trigger pull that heavy, you know, it takes a lot of muscle memory to to figure out, like I said earlier, how to ride that trigger to where you know where you actually finally break through break through that wall and that hammer falls, and and yeah, figuring out how you hold it to where you're you know, you're as you're pulling that trigger, you're not pulling the gun off target. Takes a lot of practice with the gun like that, and dry fire is perfect. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:30

If you want a good resource for dry fire, Ben Stoger has a really good book on it. It's it's basically the the gold standard of dry fire manuals. I would look into that. You can get it on Amazon, you can get it just about anywhere. But he has a lot of good drills and things you can use in that book. It's a really good resource.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:50

What was the name again?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:52

Ben Stoger. His last name is spelled S-T-O-E-G-E-R.

SPEAKER_12 1:43:58

Like the cheap shotgun brand.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:00

Yeah, and he's got a really he's his his YouTube channel is hilarious.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:06

So he's got dry fire training for the practical pistol shoot press uh practical pistol shooter. It looks like you might have a dry fire reloaded, is another one, too. Dry fire fundamentally, he's got looks like quite a few dry fire books, actually.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:24

Yeah, I'll have to check that out. Yep, absolutely. Well, that's all the questions I have.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:33

All right, brother. Well, we appreciate you asking. Yeah, because you know you're asking things that someone else may be afraid to ask, right? And so then hopefully someone else is getting an answer that you know of the same question they would have asked us. They just don't have the the cojones to get on here and ask.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:50

Yeah, I know it's sad that nobody besides me joined.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:55

That's fine. It is what it is.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:58

Well, I'll see you guys.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:00

Yeah, all right, brother. Take care. Be safe out there.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:03

Thank you. Bye.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:06

We got one. We got one. I at least we know that he's a real truck driver and he can read English. That's true. We got one safe one on the road. I'm at the point now where I don't trust truck drivers anymore. I know the amount of them that I go by that have the turban on, like, brother, you're I'm you're an accident waiting to happen.

Minivan Life And Big Families

SPEAKER_12 1:45:28

Yep. Yep. Now I now now I'm in a vehicle almost as as big as them. Not not really, but yeah. We don't know if we're gonna call it the short bus or are we gonna maybe call it the retard racer? Was an option.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:53

Man, I uh we we're at the the kid level where we don't we're not past the minivan, and we won't be unless we adopt, uh you know, but the state is already pretty much discouraged us from doing that because we don't we're not on the vaccine schedule everybody else is. Yeah, but um you know, so we're we're perfect minivan status right now. Um but if we had one more, we'd have to go to something bigger, yeah. Um it'd just be uncomfortable. Anything past four kids in the minivan is just because especially when you have younger ones that are in those big giant seats.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:26

I was gonna say, you know, you are two oldest are in booster. Um Mina's in a front facing seat, but a full car seat, and of course, bash is still in a rear-facing car seat. Like, yeah, there's we could not fit another booster or car seat in that thing. That'd be yeah, well, so when we when we were at three, I have a an 08 Nissan Titan, and it has the extended cab, and I could fit two of the big seats and one booster in the middle, but the one in the middle was like and then and then like trying to use because that that booster then uses the seatbelt, trying to get that seatbelt down, you know, it's a it was a pain. Um the minivan with three kids was perfect because you could, you know, especially any minivan in the last like 15-20 years has you know the the stowaway seats, so you stow away one of the two second row seats, so then you can easily get back to the third row, you know, like that was ideal, that was perfect, and then when Bash came along, and now you have the two you know, two kids in car seats in the second row, and then two in seats in the third row, trying to get back to the third row to help one of the kids buckle if he's not able to. I mean, it was it was tight at that point, there's no way we could do another one, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:58

Yeah, and because uh I love our van. Like the first the first interaction I had with a modern minivan, I was doing a surveillance, I was teaching a surveillance course to a bunch of Marines that were about to deploy, and I was driving the van, and then so we had four guys in the back, and so when you're following a guy and he goes into a into a business, you have to send someone after him, right? To keep an eye on him to make sure he's not you know doing any type of uh act, we'll call it right, right? And so I'll roll like I rolled up, and as I'm rolling up, I've got the doors opening, and so and then two guys pop out, and as I'm driving away, I'm close, I'm on scene for like three seconds. I've got two foxtrots going into the the business to follow this guy, and I was like, man, this is amazing. And so then when you know at that point, we only had one kid at the time, so we you know had like a Kia Sorrento or something, yeah. But uh once we started having more, my wife was not on board with the minivan whatsoever. She wanted like a you know, some type of uh SUV of some sort, yeah. And so we I think we had like a Nissan Armada for a while, and but then I had her go, and then somebody t-boned me in the Armada, and it ended up being, you know, we haven't to get a different vehicle, but I had her test drive a van and she was mad how much she liked it.

SPEAKER_12 1:49:20

Okay, I was like your wife when we first got it. I I'd always told myself forever, I'm never getting a stupid minivan, never getting a stupid minivan, and then having the kids with the minivan, it was like holy crap, I love this thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:37

It's like it's like it's made for families, it's crazy. Yeah, yeah, they're gonna be like your wife. We have an i we have a Honda Odyssey, and the back seats will fold down and turn into like stadium seating, so you can have the back patch open and just like sit in the seat and facing out the back. Yeah, so if you have your kids who play baseball or whatever, yeah, you can back up to the field, open the hatch, flip the seats down, and it's like Stadium City. That's cool. Yeah. Well, I mean, we haven't been able to use it because all our kids are too small, but uh now my boy's in in he's playing baseball now, but I don't think we'd be able to do that. I don't think we'd be able to get that close to the field. But if we could, it'd be a good use for it.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:25

So our uh our t ball field, the parking for our t-ball field is everyone just literally driving up onto the grass and pulling up right next to the field the field. So but yeah, I even well with our big van now, like it's just got a huge area in the back. Like we I could probably put lawn chairs in the back of that, and it's got the doors open, you know, full 180 degrees. That's gonna be sweet for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:55

We've got because you know, in our parish, we have a bunch of the giant like Florida Conaline vans, yeah, or the Nissans or the Mercedes, you know, whatever, right? But we have one family that couldn't find one, and they've got like eight kids. And so they bought a short bus. That's awesome. With the doors that you have the flow outdoors. I was like, man, that is amazing.

SPEAKER_12 1:51:20

See, so where I live in an area that has a you know I live by the Bounty Waters canoe area, so we have a ton of outfitters, like that's most of the businesses in in the town I work in are outfitters, you know, that bring groups of people with canoes and backpacks and out to a lake 30, 40 miles away and drop them off. So everyone, you know, all the businesses around here have outfitter vans, which are basically these the same sort of vans, but they just get beat to crap. And like so, all the vehicles like that around here that I were looking at were 150,000 miles and just torn up inside, and you know, beat to crap on the back roads, getting to a port, a lake with a portage 20 miles off the highway.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:10

And but so it took a lot we had to drive four hours one way to find the van we ended up getting, but yeah, and that's what a lot of guys have had to do around here is they're driving to Georgia or Mississippi or Tennessee to find one that's of decent, you know, mileage and and not as exorbitant prices for. But because they don't make them anymore, they don't make the Nissans anymore, do they?

SPEAKER_12 1:52:36

No, the Nissan stopped, unfortunately. Those I used to do like vehicle purchasing for a plumbing and heating company, yeah. That had 40 to 50 large van type vehicles, and the uh 30 30 to 35 of them were the Nissan NVs because they were they were just they just worked really well, were you know really had really easy to maintain, really cost effective. They had tried we had tried the Ford Transit and those just generally didn't work great, but the old sprinter vans, they had a couple old sprinter van of the diesels that were like 10 years old and had a ton of miles on them and just would not die. So we ended up getting because the Nissans are good are canceled, we got one of the Mercedes uh sprinter vans.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:26

So yeah, a lot of uh municipalities will use those Mercedes sprinter vans as ambulances. Yeah, and when I worked a private ambulance service for a while in Georgia, that's what they used, and it was okay, you know, but it didn't have the the umph of those you know F-350s, yeah and F550s we used in the for the fire department. But but so those the D sons they have a V8 in them, don't they?

SPEAKER_12 1:53:55

I I know you could get them with the V8, yeah.

Combat Load Basics And Training

SPEAKER_02 1:53:58

You can still haul some stuff, you could you could tow some stuff with that thing if you needed to. You can basically just use it's like an truck at that point, yeah. If you needed to take all the seats out and you just you know put a bunch of stuff in if you need to, but yeah, because they're gonna be used for a lot of stuff. All right, I'm I pulled up a tweet real quick by Longhouse Preparedness. If y'all don't follow them, you should. And we'll go over this real quick and then we'll be done.

SPEAKER_12 1:54:23

It's been a while since I've seen any tweets from them, huh?

SPEAKER_03 1:54:26

Really? Yeah. Alright, so I wonder if I got to see if I can uh still follow them. There we go.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:37

All right, so he says what's considered an acceptable combat load. Keep in mind a combat load is for somebody who's you know good planning for some type of altercation, right? You're not it's not reconnaissance where you're trying to avoid and just and just view you're wanting you're expecting to get into the type of altercation, right? So this is this is on a plate carrier, if you know if you have a plate carrier. So six mags, which is common combat load. Yeah, right, comms, some type of radio, iFac, throwable or a way to care. One hydration, land navigation.

SPEAKER_12 1:55:17

Throwable, he means he's talking well civilian, like a flashbang, I'm guessing. Probably or smoke or something, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:55:24

Yeah, yeah. Hydration, obviously, land nav gear, role specific gear. So I'm gonna I'm gonna bring up two things. One, I don't think everyone needs a plate carrier. I think you're much better off with a chess rig unless you're specifically trained or you have received training or you have sought out training in actual small unit tactics. Okay. And you don't have to be military to learn. There's a lot of instructors you can go to learn these things. Brush beater in North Carolina is one, and there's you know a few other places around the country that do as well. But a chester is gonna serve you a lot more and a lot better than a plate carrier. The amount of weight of wearing plates with six mags and all this other gear, it takes conditioning to be able to carry it and not want to die. Like you know, when I was in the Marines, you know, that my our our basic combat load, what I carried was about four mags, not six. Uh, carried a couple in a in a backpack as well, and water, and I had my plates in it, and my you know, my radio, I also carried a pistol on my plate carrier, and I was conditioned to walk, you know, 15, 20 clicks or kilometers, right? But the average person has a hard time walking 10,000 steps in a day, yeah, right, with nothing on. Right. So if you're going to get to a point where you're getting into carrying this much, you need to get used to doing, you need to condition yourself. That means you if you're going to do a walk, you need to be carrying some weight on your back, 25, 30 pounds, right? And getting used to carrying that for a while. Because carrying a but wearing a backpack sits differently than a plate carrier. A backpack will sit differently on your shoulders than a plate carrier will. And so it will wear out your shoulders. Both of them will. The plate carrier will wear out the shoulders a whole lot better. Because it's on a backpack, it's pulling towards the back, right? Because it's on your back. Most of the weight's gonna be on the front of shoulders and a little bit on top of your shoulders. But if you've got a waist belt on it, it's gonna help a little bit better. But a plate carrier is pulling on the front and the back, so it's sitting right on your shoulders and pulling down the whole time, and that becomes very uncomfortable very quickly. Could be, could be, but just and I bring this up because a lot of guys who served in the military have some good experience, right? But don't accept what we say is gospel, that's how it needs to be done, right? The best thing that guys like myself and other guys have served in the GWAT is we know how we'll respond when the stuff goes down, but the tactics have mostly evolved past us.

unknown 1:58:30

Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:31

So if you have some guy that served in you know Fallujah in 2004 telling you how you need to run CQB ops, like ignore him because CQB tactics have changed drastically in the last 22 years, right? But also understand, like he's been in the crap and he knows how he's gonna respond. And if you've never been in it, like I've seen more guys crap themselves that I thought were gonna be just gung ho the greatest Marines ever. And I've also seen some of the guys who I thought were just gonna fold under pressure really rise to the occasion, but you just never know how you're gonna react till you're in that situation. Now, should you have a plate carrier, maybe if you can afford it, right? Uh but it would be it would be at the bottom of my priority list. I would not worry about a plate carrier as much or plates as much as I would training and having a chest rig or a belt system to carry your your training equipment. But if you like I said, if you can afford it, yeah, go for it. But I bring that up because we go through trends in GunTube, right? Where we go into all, you know, it's a plate carrier and it's all about the assault man, and you know, and then if we get into like long-range reconnaissance, ghillie suits, and then we're in, you know, the trend of well now it's like now it's like automatic weapons, right? The the rifleman automatic weapon, how does that fit into the you know to the group or whatever? Everything's a trend, right? And we're getting back to you're seeing guys carry ARs with a carry handle again, like it's just whatever the latest thing is, it's it's constantly on this cycle. Do not get caught up in this stuff, right? A M16A4 20-inch is going to perform just as well with somebody who's got training on it than a guy who's carrying a 10 and a half with a can on it, right? It's all about your training. But keep in mind a 20-inch barrel turns 55 grain ammo into duty ammo.

SPEAKER_12 2:00:36

Okay, yeah, between a 10 and a 20-inch, you're you're probably getting four or five hundred feet per second extra.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:45

A 20-inch, 55 grain, it's shooting a 55 grain, you're pushing 3,000 feet per second. If not more, probably maybe even closer to 32. Right, which is going through level three plus plates. It'll punch right through.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:01

Yeah.

Giveaway Details And Closing

SPEAKER_02 2:01:03

It it might even crack a level four play. And it's been shown to do that. So, because it's all about speed of the 5-5 steps. That's the the more speed you can get on it, the more damage it's gonna do. But I just wanted to leave y'all with that. Don't always trust guys who serve in the military as knowing what they're talking about. There's a lot of guys who are in the military and didn't do anything. There's also a lot of guys who did a lot of stuff, and you will never hear them talk about it. Yeah unless you specifically know them and you ask them about it. Right? And I'm kind of in the middle. Like I've done some stuff, but I've also like sat on a base for a long time too. Right. So it's I'm trying to be that bridge for y'all and that resource to direct y'all to good guys to listen to so y'all don't have to learn in a painful way on who's giving bad advice. And that's the whole purpose of this show, whole purpose of this community we're trying to build up is to get you all acquainted with a lot of these terms and and things, a lot of training and such to better yourselves and help protect your family. The winner of the get home bag will be posted tomorrow on the telegram. You're not in telegram, I don't know who right, so get in telegram. It's gonna be random. And then I will also be posting this month's uh competition in the Telegram tomorrow as well. It will involve shooting, right? But it will not be who does it best, it will be another random drawing of those who participate. Okay, so just be aware that it's getting nice outside, and there's no reason for y'all that you can't go out and shoot. I'm not expecting you to shoot a whole lot, right, right now, especially with ammo prices, but you will need to do some shooting to at least keep your skills up. You can dry fire for a while first before you ever take one shot. This this will be a skill that specifically is conducive to uh learning from dry fire.

SPEAKER_12 2:03:08

I was really hoping maybe get it on the range Easter Sunday. Yeah, you know, with the boys. No, we're gonna get a foot of snow between now and then, so it's it's supposed to pour here on Easter.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:19

Is it really? That sucks.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:21

Yeah, because I wanted to do the same thing, but I don't know if it's gonna happen. No, I don't think so either. Do you do you get Easter Monday off? No.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:33

Nope, unfortunately not.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:38

Alright, guys, we're gonna end it here. Hopefully, next time we do a QA, we have more guys jump in to answer some questions. So we'll see how it goes. But I appreciate y'all watching, and we'll see y'all next week.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:52

Where's the outro? Where's the outro?

SPEAKER_02 2:03:54

The best outro in the business, baby.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:56

Where's the outro? There it is. See you guys.