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290: Bad Hair and Bad Intelligence

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289: Fatalism and the Dark Future

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288: Complaining for Profit

4

287: Asymmetrical Warfare: A Thought Experiment

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286: You Are The Victim

6

285: Explaining Tactics, Operations, and Strategy

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284: Killing Charlie: Two Truths and a Lie

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283: Ghost Recon: Insurgency and Tragedy

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282: A Message to Church Security

10

281: We Are Not a Serious Peoples

11

280: How Tim Kennedy Got Away with Stolen Valor

12

279: A Brave Castle Chest Rig Goes to DARC

13

278: It Will Take Courage

14

277: Peacekeepers, Conscripts, and Incompetent Violence

15

276: Grasping Adventure with Ivan Loomis of Kit Badger

16

275: Dehumanization of Enemies, of Heroes with John Soden

17

274: Zach Masek on the Tragedy of Robert Rogers

18

273: The FLUX Raider, One Year Later: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of the Parts

19

272: What are TTPs?

20

271: Dead Warrior Society: Rangers, Green Berets: Correcting Special Operations History

21

270: Bible Salesmen

22

269: The Gluttony of Taste

23

268: The SIG Controversy and its Consequences

24

267: The 80/20 Rule for Training

25

266: If You're Going to Face the Darkness, You Better Carry the Light

26

265: SHOT SHOW 2025 Summary and Evaluation

27

264: No Third Option: Leadership or Abdication with Dr. Joe Rigney

28

263: Ranger Battalion, War Doctrine, and Process First with SFC Mike Meegan

29

262: How to Reduce Violence, Ethically

30

261: Tim Selbrede on Fighting Fire and Pyrrhic Political Victories

31

260: Defense Against Conspiracy Theories

32

259: Scaling EDC in 2025

33

258: Definitional Cowardice

34

257: A Message To Gun Culture

35

256: What is Missing from the CEO Assassination

36

255: Reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

37

254: Leadership in Decentralized Environments

38

253: Military, MilSim, and Filmmaking with Cory Haynes

39

252: Honor Culture and Dignity Society

40

251: Civilian vs Military Training

41

250: Putting Family First with Nathan Spearing

42

249: The World as Real

43

248: Gypsy Walters and The Gospel of St. Rattlecan

44

247: How [Not] to Train

45

246: Rites of Passage with Kohlton of Black Canyon Systems

46

245: Redefining Lethality with Chris Sizelove

47

244: JK Armament CCX Suppressor: The Concealed Carry Convertible

48

243: From the CIA to Appalachia

49

242: How "I Got Mine" Got Us Here

50

241: Something Worse than Gun Control

51

240: Law Tactical ARIC Review: Citizens and Soldiers

52

239: When the Community Falls Apart with Brent aka OneOneBravo

53

238: Arguing with Ghosts

54

237: Technology and Ontology

55

236: The Plate Carrier Fit, Function, and Setup over the last 15 Years

56

235: Guerrillas, Insurgents, and the American Fog of War with "Reaper" Consultations

57

234: The Next Holy War in the Corpse of the Secular

58

233: You Can't Do This Alone with Paigeosity

59

232: The Insurgent and the Sniper

60

231: Stolen Valor and its Complications

61

230: Violence, Threats, and Honor with Jack Donovan

62

229: The Theology of Non Compliance with Baret Fawbush

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

225: Gear vs Skill Issue

67

224: How Conspiracy Theories Harm You

68

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

69

222: Red Teaming and Gathering Threat Intel with Rob Rawson

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

216: Why Men Go Off To War

76

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

77

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

78

213: How to Start or ReStart training in Self Defense

79

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

80

211: Why We Train for Both Proportionality and Utility

81

210: Ruben Alverez of Paradox Training: ECQC vs Jiu Jitsu

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209: The Trouble with LARP

83

208: Composure: One Measure of a Man

84

207: Beyond the Gun: More than Marksmanship

85

206: Communication Lessons from the George Floyd Riots

86

205: Small Mindedness - The Mechanism of Control

87

204: Name Dropping and Clout Chasing

88

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

89

202: Bad Philosophy and the Problem of Evil

90

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

91

200: Marksmanship vs Fighting

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199: Civil War Review with Gypsy Walters

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198: Brett Kleypas of Huxwrx

94

197: Open Carry vs Concealed Carry, A False Dichotomy

95

196: Stolen Valor, School Shootings, and Inverse Proportionality

96

195: Colonize, Contradict, Condemn / Non-Citizens with Guns

97

194: Marcus Singletary on Launching Community Days

98

193: Reviewing The Warrior Poet Way

99

192: PSA SABRE-10 Commentary

100

191: Tim Selbrede on the Evolution of Training Night Vision

101

190: The Weaponization of Tragedy

102

189: Guns and/or P*rn

103

187: Four Genomes of Gun Control Arguments

104

188: James Lindsay on Woke Warfare

105

186: No, There Isn't a War on Masculinity

106

185: C.B. Robertson on New Academia, Moral Philosophy, and the Counter Enlightenment

107

184: I Hope this Ages Poorly

108

183: The Horns of the Dilemma with Christian Nationalism

109

182: J Drago on the Trivial and the Significant, AI, and Transhumanism

110

181: Preemtive Self Defense

111

179: The Anatomy of a Dictator

112

180: Nic Magjack3r on Training Before and After a Gunfight

113

178: Intellectual Casualties

114

177: SHOT SHOW 2024 Full Panel with Gridbase, Collin Underdahl, Luke Brown, and More

115

176: Two Examples of Culture as Attack Vector

116

175: The Putin Interview

117

174: Moral Injury

118

173: Christianity in Gun Culture

119

172: A Bar Fight and Mob Mentality

120

171: SHOT SHOW 2024 Culture Report

121

170: The End of a Secular Age

122

169: Kenneth W. Royce on Manhood and the Duty to Protect

123

168: The Ends Never Justify The Means

124

167: What Makes Civil War so Dangerous

125

166: Why Men Go Off to War

126

165: Fifteen Years in Gun Culture

127

164: Bargain Bin Tactician on Music to Gun Culture's Gear Orthodoxy

128

163: Broad vs Narrow Culture War

129

162: Brent aka One One Bravo on Volunteering Time, Community in Demonstration

130

161: Politics, Economics, and Culture

131

160: Early Thanksgiving with Paigeosity - Cultural Momentum

132

159: The False Idol of Dichotomy

133

158: War Takes Place in the Fringes

134

157: Regular Israel vs Irregular Palestine

135

156: The Myth of the Free Thinker

136

155: Marcus Singletary and Luke Brown

137

154: All War is Holy War, All War is Religious

138

153: Gun Culture Deserves to Disappear

139

152: Hyper-Awareness will Get You Killed

140

151: A Returning Medieval Ethic of War

141

150: Tim Selbrede on Defining and Discerning Terrorism and Propaganda

142

149: Gun Culture Doesn't Just Eat Its Own, We Actively Refuse to Support One Another

143

148: RUIN, Decay, and Permanence

144

147: Peter Ildefonsa on Responsibility Precedes Right

145

146: Sleeper Cells, Insurgents, Guerrilla, and Getting Recce Wrong

146

145: The OPSEC Leviathan

147

144: How the News becomes Religion

148

143: War Unlimited

149

142: A Higher War

150

141: Irregular vs Regular Fighters

151

140: How Moral Philosophy Clears the Fog of War

152

139: Resentment in Gun Culture

153

138: Tyler of Longhouse Preparedness on Moral Foundations

154

137: Biden to Announce new Gun Violence Office

155

136: Killing vs Shooting

156

135: Summoning Demons for MultiCulturalism

157

134: Vengeance, the Corruption of Justice

158

133: The Overton Window and Its Consequences

159

132: Choice and The Law of Excluded Middle

160

131: Exhortation: The Government Betrayed You, So What?

161

130: Angel Cortes // Gang Violence vs Ranger Battalion, and Community Building

162

129: The View From Above Fallacy

163

128: How We Think About Faith

164

127: TELOS

165

126: Sovereignty

166

125: How to be a Christian in the Military

167

124: Is Gun Culture Materialistic?

168

123: Dualism, Descartes, Plato, and The Mind

169

122: Euthyphro Dilemma and the Gods

170

121: The State of REDACTED, 2023

171

120: Ethan Walters on How to [Not] get Killed by the FBI

172

118 Pt 2: Literally Me Explained with Collin Underdahl

173

119: Clairvoyance and Achievement

174

118 Pt 1: Collin Underdahl on Dismantling Gossip

175

117: Godless Fools

176

116: Beau Doboszenski on The Casualty of Trust

177

115 Pt 2: Ian Strimbeck on Fitness and Death

178

115 Pt 1: Ian Strimbeck of RuneNation: Contentment as Antidote to the Rat Race

179

114: Ethan "Gypsy" Walters - One Lap in the Arena

180

113: In Defense of Gatekeeping

181

112: Tribe and Tribalism, Community and Cult

182

111: Principles in Tension

183

110: Conspiracy Theory as Gnostic Mysticism

184

109: Death to Pornography

185

108 Part 2: Will Spencer of the Renaissance of Men on Protecting in a Time of Fragility

186

108 Part 1: Will Spencer of Renaissance of Men - Reconciliation of the Sexes

187

107: An Old Evil and the Demoralization that Follows

188

106: Night Vision and Resentment

189

105: Some People Have It

190

104: Declaration or Manifesto?

191

103: Multiculturalism: Fruit Without a Vine

192

102: Generalizations and Semantics

193

101 Part 2: Marcus Singletary of Cloaked Entry Co. - Accepting Consequences with Conviction

194

101 Part 1: Marcus Singletary of Cloaked Entry Co. - Everyone's a Fed

195

100: Jack Donovan on Masculinity, Violence, and Myth

196

099: A Priori vs A Posteriori Justifications and Violence

197

098: Jake Kunsky of JK Armament on Suppressor History, Culture, and Dark Competition

198

097 Part 2: Jordan of Finance and Maneuver // Risk and Reward

199

097 Part 1: Jordan of Finance and Maneuver - Cliffside.

200

096: Need is Not Enough

201

095 Pt 2: Luke Brown aka Southpaw Luke, Duty Begets Joy

202

095 Pt 1: Luke Brown aka Southpaw Luke on Odysseus, Meaning, and Republic

203

094: Meditations on Evil

204

093 pt 2: Ahmad of Lead & Steel // Is Multiculturalism a Left-Right Any Issue?

205

093: Ahmad of Lead & Steel on Optics, Multiculturalism, and Better Lawyers

206

092: How Cynicism Kills

207

091: Why You Should Become Dangerous

208

090: Rhetoric and Reason

209

089: Fred Baker of Counting Coup Tactical on Vetting Your Instructor

210

088: Andrew on Discerning Intelligence from Information

211

087 Part 2: Militia Industrial Complex with Justin of Fenix Ammo

212

087 Part 1: Justin Nazaroff of Fenix Ammo on Trolling Tyrants

213

086 Part 2: Mark of the Appalachian Rangers Association

214

086 Part 1: Mark of the ARA on Post-Boy Scout America

215

085 Part 2: Chuck Robeson on Cultural Crossovers and Subsets

216

085 Part 1: Chuck Robeson of All Skill No Luck and Raid Skateboards

217

084: The Clear and Complicated Core of Self Defense

218

083: The Bible, Violence, and Heresy

219

082 Part 2: Chris Blau on Shooting Different Disciplines

220

082 Part 1: Chris Blau on ATF Shenanigans and Commendable Behavior

221

081: The Dunning-Kruger Model in CQB

222

080: Shame on You

223

079: Decentralization is Inevitable & Brave New War by Robb

224

078 Part 2: Vlad Saye of Terminal Armament on SDR Applications / Decentralization through Tech

225

078 Part 1: Vlad Saye of Terminal Armament on Tech, Surveillance, and Privacy

226

077: Gaslighting Gun Control

227

076: How To Build a Library

228

075: How & Why Insurgency Came to Be

229

074 Part 2: Paigeosity // Women in Gun Culture, Monopolies on Violence

230

074 Part 1: Paigeosity on Multiculturalism and Women in the Gun Community

231

073: Jake Knight of GRIDBASE on Decentralized Tech / Digital Multitools

232

072: C. B. Robertson on Stoicism, Aim as Foundation for Consciousness

233

071: The Paradigm Shift in Gun Culture

234

070: Alex from Mojave Repeater on Comm-Sec for the Citizen Concern

235

069: Administrative Results on Humor, Culture, and Community

236

068: Iain Harrison Returns: Ukraine, Global Strategy, and War

237

067: Ethan "Gypsy" Walters

238

066: What Constitutes a Man?

239

065: Iain Harrison of RECOIL

240

064: Marcus Singletary of Cloaked Entry Co.

241

063: Intel as Entertainment, News as Information

242

062: Trung Nguyen of We Go Home

243

061: Justin aka Controlled Pairs Gaming

244

060: Civil War and Rumors of Wars

245

059: Ben Griffith of Flux Defense and Snake Staff Systems

246

058: Tim Marshall of Defense Mechanisms and Defensive Elements

247

057: Who is Allowed In Gun Culture

248

056: Zach Stone on Touching Grass, Cultural Influence, and Adding Value

249

055: Isaac Botkin of T.Rex Arms on Decentralization

250

054: Decentralization vs Specialization

251

053: Mike Majewski of Ferro Concepts, Open Source Defense

252

052: Nathan of Art and War Podcast aka CBRN Art

253

051: 5th Generational Warfare Myth and Reality

254

050: Jack Potter of Guerrilla Tactical on Homesteading, Self Sufficiency, and Who Gun Culture is For

255

049: Fred Baker of Counting Coup Tactical

256

048: What Propaganda Teaches Us About Virtue

257

047: Collin Underdahl on Education, Knowledge, and Wisdom

258

046: Jared of Orion Training Group on the New Ethic of Instructors

259

045: The Human Right to Privacy

260

044: Scott Chapman on Humanization Before, During, and After War

261

043: Condition_Set on The Book of Five Rings on Being vs Doing

262

042: What We Can Learn from Left Wing Violence

263

041: Josh Munger on Aesthetics, and how the Brace Ruling Affects the People

264

039: SHOTSHOW 2023 Culture Update, Intro to the Philosophy of the Outlaw

265

040: Mike Glover on the Fourth Turning, Focus on the Long Game

266

038: Josh Bronson, Founder of DISCO32

267

037: Adam Maxwell on the Future of USPSA, and the History of the LPVO

268

036: The ATF Brace Ruling and Why What We Think Matters

269

035: Tactical Maturity and the Citizen Skillset with Austin

270

034: Joshua Baker, Author of Deinfringe

271

033: Tribe and Tradition, the Millennial Burden

272

032: Baret Fawbush of TruExodus / TruBuilder on Christianity and Gun Culture

273

031: Steve Winenger of Ripcord Industries and Rally Rats Why Overlanding and How Gun Culture

274

030: Get Ready for Hard Times and Ethical Pitfalls with The Fourth Turning

275

029: Adam from TacSwap on where Tech, Culture, and the Market Meet

276

028: Chris Blau on on Time Investment and the Sense of Belonging

277

027: What is Motivating Gun Culture?

278

026: Josh Froelich on Competing at the World Level and Expanding into Culture

279

025: Chris Fettes on becoming a Navy SEAL, Ice Cream, and Saving Lives

280

024: Naïveté, Cynicism, and Wisdom in Gun Culture

281

023: Frank Bito of Bull Creek Strategic on the Duality of Contracting

282

022: Garett Schwindel of KÄGWERKS

283

021: 3 Things to be Thankful For

284

020: De-Mystifying Reconnaissance with Blake Flannery of Maneuver Training Solutions

285

019: Ian Strimbeck of RuneNation on Violence, Mindfulness, and Thought Crimes

286

018: Moral Men and Immoral War

287

017: Drew Wallace aka The Ranger Cowboy

288

016: Alex Aubrey of Flux Defense and Tumi Tactics

289

015: An Moral Argument for an Armed Society

290

014: Isaac Botkin of T.Rex Arms on Foundations of 2A and the Enlightenment

291

013: Alex Vallorosi aka Mojave Repeater on Modern Radios and How to Use Them

292

012: Philosophy of Violence Foundations

293

011: Dustin Sanchez from Action Gunner, REAL AVID, and more

294

010: Peter Johnson of Archway Defense on [CABIN IN THE WOODS] and Privacy.

295

009: Friday Solo // 3 Types of Training

296

008: Beau Doboszenski of Defensive Mindset Training on Surviving 9/11 and Training Better

297

007: Jon Dufresne of Kinetic Consulting on What Makes a Good Instructor

298

006: Brandon Olson aka Villain Weapon Systems on the Necessity and Improvement of Illuminators

299

005: Gill of Raidworx on Shifting the Overton Window in Gun Culture, the Optimism in the Face of Adversity, and Bringing a New Optics Riser

300

004: Finance And Maneuver on Community Building, Integrity in Media, and Self Determination

301

003: Nathan Spearing on Productive Property and Setting Priorities Right

302

002: Jared Arceneaux of Orion Training Group on the Human Right to Train Civilians CQB

303

001: Collin Underdahl on Gatekeeping, Resentment, and Community Building