Speaker 1: Ah, beaut force. If it doesn't work, you're just not
Speaker 1: using enough. You're listening to Software Radio Special Operations, military
Speaker 1: news and straight talk with the guys and the community
Speaker 1: softwarep dot com on time on Target. I am Ian
Speaker 1: Scotto and yeah, I'm running on on a lot of
Speaker 1: Starbucks churis because this has been a long fucking day. Dude.
Speaker 1: Uh you know that, not that you know what. It's funny, man,
Speaker 1: I can't complain because this is not manual labor by
Speaker 1: any means. Um, but it was supposed to record Software
Speaker 1: Radio this morning. Um couldn't do stuff with our original guest. Uh,
Speaker 1: it might be personal, so I don't want to say
Speaker 1: the name, but basically his daughter is having some issues
Speaker 1: in the hospital. Um. So then did Power Thought with
Speaker 1: Brandon Webb. Jerick Robbins was in studio with us, who
Speaker 1: was an excellent guest and for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: Jarek is the son of the great Tony Robbins. And
Speaker 1: so we did a pretty we did actually our longest
Speaker 1: Power of Thought podcast with him, and then Jarek was like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you mind if I do my own podcast now
Speaker 1: with Brandon? So we probably went like a total of
Speaker 1: just about three hours with these guys and then yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, dude, I can't. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like, I can't record a podcast immediately after this,
Speaker 1: even though I don't have much to do in terms
Speaker 1: of hosting with that show. But it's just, dude, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of listening to people to talk. I get it, dude,
Speaker 1: because I mean, you know, writing is the same way,
Speaker 1: because people like, oh, it's nice to gonna work from home.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, man, but you're just your brain dumping
Speaker 1: every day, so it's it's mentally exhausting. Yeah. I'm in
Speaker 1: the same way with with editing audio because a lot
Speaker 1: of the time that I'm at home, I'm just editing
Speaker 1: a ton of audio. So that's just monotonous too. Monotonous.
Speaker 1: Work is difficult. Yeah, and and people, yes, both of
Speaker 1: us are a d d um. Yeah. People might even
Speaker 1: wonder because they listen to the show and I don't
Speaker 1: really edit much. They might be like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: how long could it possibly take edit? But I I
Speaker 1: listen to every single show in its entirety, both because
Speaker 1: I want to see what I didn't like about what
Speaker 1: I you know, when I recorded, and what I did
Speaker 1: like because I think that makes me better on air. Um.
Speaker 1: But also there's there's times where I don't catch something
Speaker 1: I said that I should probably addit out, or that
Speaker 1: Jack said that I should probably added out. I mean
Speaker 1: that rarely happens, um. But also just making it sound
Speaker 1: more smooth and in case there's dropouts in that type
Speaker 1: of it's just like editing one of our articles. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I also have to, you know what, I
Speaker 1: do the same thing because I have to write up
Speaker 1: the description for the episodes, and I try to go
Speaker 1: I try to do more of a description than just
Speaker 1: like hey, Kurt troders on with us. I try to
Speaker 1: write about like what you guys are up to, and
Speaker 1: making sure I get all the hyperlinks right, and I
Speaker 1: of course read that back to me like many times.
Speaker 1: So this is not as like I said, it's not
Speaker 1: a fucking hard, manual wayward job. But it's not as
Speaker 1: easy of a job as some might think because I
Speaker 1: think everybody's like, I'm interesting, I should have a podcast,
Speaker 1: and it's like the world that everybody's a podcast, like
Speaker 1: everybody you meet. I don't know, it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: gotten so big. But hopefully we get a good friend
Speaker 1: who has a podcast. Yeah, I mean hopefully we uh,
Speaker 1: I mean we definitely strive to be better than a
Speaker 1: lot of the other stuff. So yeah, basically, that episode
Speaker 1: with Jack Robbins will be up on Power Thought podcast.
Speaker 1: Depending on which episode I I choose to edit first,
Speaker 1: it'll be up now or up shortly. So when you're
Speaker 1: done with this, um, look up the Power of Thought
Speaker 1: because it was a really good one. Um. And he's
Speaker 1: he's a lot more than just being the son of
Speaker 1: Tony Robbins. I mean, he's very inspirational guy. And it's
Speaker 1: one of those things because you assume, like, oh, this
Speaker 1: guy grew up super privileged because of whose dad is,
Speaker 1: he probably hasn't seen any adversity, and like that's not
Speaker 1: the case at all. I learned a whole lot about him.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, man, so uh with that, what what have
Speaker 1: you been up to? I know you're hanging out with
Speaker 1: your army buddy who also was a Patch Margo volunteer,
Speaker 1: Irwin Strand, and he was on the show once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he moved over to my neck of the woods, getting
Speaker 1: a fresh start on life kind of deal, and so
Speaker 1: he's been around a lot more. Um, it's good see him.
Speaker 1: You know it's actually nice because we talked about it
Speaker 1: last time. I'm getting ready to start my my book
Speaker 1: here and for those of the listeners that don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to write a memoir. And uh no,
Speaker 1: it's nice because I've spent so much time with Irwin
Speaker 1: and Kurdistan. I mean literally, you know, I'd say six
Speaker 1: months of the whole journey. Uh we were side by
Speaker 1: side so and and he has his own book, so
Speaker 1: I could go back and like kind of like ah
Speaker 1: yeah and remember things that maybe I don't come to
Speaker 1: mind immediately, or I can bounce things off of him.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of nice. It's it's cool getting, you know,
Speaker 1: reminisce with him. Yeah. I was going to throw that
Speaker 1: out there. Irwin's book for those who don't know, Cab
Speaker 1: Hunter is available now and people seem to really dig it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's pretty rad. I I got mine and
Speaker 1: made sure he signed it before I forgot the funny
Speaker 1: and sick. I really like that cover. Yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 1: you know it's funny. I see, I made a point.
Speaker 1: I was like, he was like sitting sign the book. Now,
Speaker 1: just do it now, because every time I go to
Speaker 1: see Jack, he gives me, uh he is. He has
Speaker 1: given me Um, one of the deckerd novels, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you signed it before I go, and then I
Speaker 1: leave New York and I never get it fucking signed
Speaker 1: because we both forget um and anyway, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I know how that is. I mean, we just had
Speaker 1: Brent Gleason in studio, and I, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I have three copies of his book here because they
Speaker 1: sent us an advanced copy. He brought in, the cop
Speaker 1: he brought in the hard cover when he came to
Speaker 1: do the interview. Then after he left, I got another
Speaker 1: hard copy from the publisher, and yet none of them
Speaker 1: are signed, you know. But it's it's one of those
Speaker 1: things too, because when he's in here or I wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure I got pictures for our Instagram, you know,
Speaker 1: I work to interview with him, and uh, you feel
Speaker 1: you feel like a pain in the ash being like
Speaker 1: take this picture with us, sign your book, take this
Speaker 1: video for Instagram, you know, and then he's gotta run
Speaker 1: over to like do Fox business. It's like it's a
Speaker 1: lot to ask. I don't ever like to come off
Speaker 1: as fanboy or pain in the ass. Or anything. No,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely with you there. I had that, Uh. I
Speaker 1: had that problem at a shot show this year because
Speaker 1: it's my first year and there are a few people
Speaker 1: are like saw and I wanted to like go over
Speaker 1: and you know, try and strike up a conversation, you know,
Speaker 1: like I read it. I read walked past like Travis
Speaker 1: Haley when he was doing he wasn't doing anything like
Speaker 1: walk past him two times. He's a big firearms instructure,
Speaker 1: and I kind of wanted to say hi. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I didn't want to be that weird
Speaker 1: fan boy at shot show, so I was like, guy,
Speaker 1: he's probably busy. I'll just mind my own fucking business.
Speaker 1: But I feel like you have you have a really
Speaker 1: awesome story that they probably want to talk to. I
Speaker 1: mean if I think if you said what's up, and
Speaker 1: then you would be surprised. Actually, most people do not
Speaker 1: want to do bad. I think what you do is
Speaker 1: pretty awesome, just because I've said it on a previous episode,
Speaker 1: but it really is true. Like you look on the
Speaker 1: comments of stuff going on in the Middle East right now,
Speaker 1: and there's all these people, whether they're civilians or former military,
Speaker 1: They're like, I'll go over there and kill isis. But
Speaker 1: very few people would actually make the trip over and
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna volunteer with the patri You're definitely one
Speaker 1: of the few. Yeah, I mean, I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: particularly unique. I'm just think it was something that I
Speaker 1: wanted bad enough to you know, put forth the effort.
Speaker 1: Because maybe maybe those people have other things that they're
Speaker 1: uh have that level of inclination to uh strive for,
Speaker 1: you know, if that makes sense, you know, or I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone the extra mille in areas that they
Speaker 1: have gone the extra mill. So I just try to
Speaker 1: look at it from a you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all different. Oh yeah, but if you're somebody who
Speaker 1: really says like I would go over there, then put
Speaker 1: your money or Matthews Man, I've met so many people
Speaker 1: from doing the show. Um like a theme room party
Speaker 1: is not this year, but they're like, oh, my biggest
Speaker 1: regret and wife is not joining the military. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't necessarily really share that. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for the military, but like everything
Speaker 1: in your life happens for a reason, and you've got
Speaker 1: to just keep going on and hold your life and
Speaker 1: regret like that. No, I'm definitely agrance there too. And
Speaker 1: I think, to be honest, and I'm sure I'll talk
Speaker 1: about this in the book, but you know, to be honest,
Speaker 1: a lot of had a lot of factors and pushing
Speaker 1: me to go over you know, personal ones, moral ones, um,
Speaker 1: regrets from my time in the service. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just a lot of different things that you know, made
Speaker 1: this perfect storm of like fuck it, I'm buying a
Speaker 1: plane ticket. You know. The joke was we woke up
Speaker 1: sober and Kurtistan. Yeah. I mean, it takes a lot
Speaker 1: of guts, guts to uh to just go over there
Speaker 1: and actually do it. Yeah, and I think a ton
Speaker 1: of people are gonna want to read your story. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I actually excited. I was talking Sorry I'm
Speaker 1: interrupt you there. Uh No, I was talking to Jack
Speaker 1: in the last podcast do you have me on? And uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny because we both kind of he
Speaker 1: had said, yeah, I got you there because I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if I was going to write a book,
Speaker 1: and I didn't really want to. And then now that
Speaker 1: it's it's just kind of in the fledgling process, I'm
Speaker 1: actually kind of excited to revisit these memories are times
Speaker 1: in my life in detail and be able to really
Speaker 1: break it down and look at them because you can
Speaker 1: learn a lot. You learn a lot from that sort
Speaker 1: of self reflection and just meditation of sorts on on moments,
Speaker 1: you know, significant moments in your life. So I'm actually
Speaker 1: pretty very excited to actually do the book now and
Speaker 1: like get it out there. And it should be it
Speaker 1: should be interesting, that's for sure. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if Jack was interested in necessarily writing a book either
Speaker 1: until now, right, right, right, that's what yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he had said that. Yeah, And when I when I
Speaker 1: say book, I should say a memoir, because he's written
Speaker 1: plenty of books books, none of them have to do
Speaker 1: with his life, right, And that's what I mean as well,
Speaker 1: a memoir. I My latest book I pitched to um
Speaker 1: our editor or our managing editor, was the The Mercenary
Speaker 1: Cookbook and it's it was, it was gonna be. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a collection, like I don't know if it
Speaker 1: will pass, but I'd read it. I I'd like it.
Speaker 1: I can totally do it. Um. It would be a
Speaker 1: collection of recipes that you could expediently prepare in like
Speaker 1: austere environments or the field or third world countries, and
Speaker 1: uh so you could because I always I wrote one
Speaker 1: of my first articles was like, uh, you know, five
Speaker 1: things whatever that every good mark should have, and it
Speaker 1: was one of them was learning how some basics of cooking,
Speaker 1: because you know, being able to make a nice meal
Speaker 1: and um, a shitty situation can really boost the morale
Speaker 1: or at least, you know, just having some decent food. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just a huge it's a it's a big thing,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the little things, dude. People would dig
Speaker 1: that because there's so many survivalists out there, you know,
Speaker 1: who are storing m r s and it's total sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that. I'm definitely. I don't know. I I
Speaker 1: just think and even the you know, people who are
Speaker 1: not into that. I just feel like people would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: these are quick recipes and you know it could be
Speaker 1: interesting and yeah, anyway, I'm with you there. Um So, anyway,
Speaker 1: getting into this episode itself, I was checking our emails
Speaker 1: sent to soft Rep dot Radio at soft rep dot
Speaker 1: com and this kind of transitions right into what you
Speaker 1: wanted to get into. Um. This is from Caitlin topic
Speaker 1: is Florida school shooting. Uh And, and like I said,
Speaker 1: send any of your emails to soft Rep dot Radio
Speaker 1: at soft rerep dot com. I don't get to everything,
Speaker 1: but I try to read what I can. I read
Speaker 1: all of them, I should say, but what we get
Speaker 1: to what we can on the show if it's a
Speaker 1: good question and it's concise. So I listened to the
Speaker 1: latest podcast in which the recent Florida school shooting was discussed.
Speaker 1: Could you touch on the reports saying that the shooter
Speaker 1: had been flagged as a potential threat before the incident.
Speaker 1: Reports suggests the particular individual had posted threats and shooting
Speaker 1: up the school in the past and nothing was done.
Speaker 1: Is that realistic to preemptively intervene? Thank you for your time, Caitlin.
Speaker 1: And I think that's perfect because you wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about that for sure. Yeah, well on on that direct
Speaker 1: side of things. So no, I know that we we
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about the shooting itself and the gun
Speaker 1: right or the situation and things like that. But but
Speaker 1: it's a good this is a good leading so uh
Speaker 1: And what I would say to that, to be honest,
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, there were a lot of red flags.
Speaker 1: As I understand it and things that could have prevented
Speaker 1: the But here's the thing. Are are we getting into
Speaker 1: minority report here? Because I mean he technically never did
Speaker 1: anything wrong up at that point. Yes, threats, but and
Speaker 1: that's probably what led to the situation. What are the
Speaker 1: negligence on the authorities part? What I think may have
Speaker 1: been a smarter option there would have be at the
Speaker 1: very least, you know, up security measures, but maybe they
Speaker 1: didn't think there were viable threats. Um. People say asinine
Speaker 1: things on the Internet all the time, um, which I
Speaker 1: believe is where the comments were made correct on social
Speaker 1: media of some sort. So I mean, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if you go go through the YouTube comments probably even
Speaker 1: you know, or even the comments section on Facebook of
Speaker 1: our software, I've read holy yeah, holy ship man, Like
Speaker 1: could you imagine if you know, we called the FBI
Speaker 1: for every one of those like yeah, or just you know,
Speaker 1: I I can't believe some of the ship that people post,
Speaker 1: you know, not anonymously when you can see pictures them
Speaker 1: with their family, you know. And by the way, this
Speaker 1: is not the terrible yeah, this is not the majority
Speaker 1: of Soft Rep readers or listeners. But like one thing
Speaker 1: that stands out in mind to me was when like
Speaker 1: Nick Irving was promoting his book The Reaper, his first book,
Speaker 1: there was some guy that was like his comment was
Speaker 1: something to the effect of, like just some n word
Speaker 1: um trying to like steal the shine of Chris Kyle,
Speaker 1: like who you know, what the funk you're talking about? Man?
Speaker 1: And and and to have the balls to post that
Speaker 1: not anonymously, like don't you realize that when you publicly
Speaker 1: post something like that, you're you're you're fucking yourself over
Speaker 1: and you're all I have a rule. I have a rule,
Speaker 1: by the way, and anybody who read, if anybody's listening,
Speaker 1: he reads my articles, you may catch this. I don't,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm like post something public, like all actually
Speaker 1: post a comment on something like once a month, like
Speaker 1: I do not. I do not comment on social media
Speaker 1: because one, I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: sit there and argue with idiots all day. Like the
Speaker 1: only place I will comment is in the software page,
Speaker 1: where you have to team access to get into the comments.
Speaker 1: But at least then I feel like you're you're definitely
Speaker 1: worth the effort. And to be honest, most of the
Speaker 1: people in there are having a constructive conversation. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: just but the social media section, uh where any any
Speaker 1: uh you know, anybody can just jump in and say whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, it just gets assinine. I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: there and make myself into an asset by arguing with
Speaker 1: someone over social media. It's ridiculous. So I just I've
Speaker 1: heard Brandon say the same thing before. How you know
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to involve himself in that negativity. I
Speaker 1: try to do the same. I mean, people who follow
Speaker 1: me Twitter, what's the point you're literally just bringing negative?
Speaker 1: That's wold put your bringing negativity in your life when
Speaker 1: you could just leave it, do not engage it. What's
Speaker 1: the bad thing that's going to happen? I would have
Speaker 1: to say. People want your life like my Twitter, my
Speaker 1: public Facebook page might be surprised that I really rarely
Speaker 1: post about politics, and I used to, but it's just
Speaker 1: it becomes extremely time consuming and people want to argue,
Speaker 1: like counterpoint every point that you make, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't have time for this. Man, I got things
Speaker 1: I wanted to accomplish well, not to get two side direcked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just realized we're weird, dude, we both have massive
Speaker 1: a d D. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's that's why we
Speaker 1: needed Danielle in here. Uh, she gotta mitigate the two
Speaker 1: of us. Um. But yeah, no, I I think they're
Speaker 1: you know, that's a it's a there's a my my
Speaker 1: thing I always say. And actually the people who read
Speaker 1: me my stuff or teamly know I say this is
Speaker 1: there's a million what ifs out there on the situation.
Speaker 1: We know what did happen, and that's all we have.
Speaker 1: You could go back and be like, what if, what if?
Speaker 1: What if? You all day? Uh, And there's a time
Speaker 1: and a place for that. But I mean too, to
Speaker 1: sit here and play the blame game when we could
Speaker 1: be doing something constructive is uh. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think we should do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got I got you, Which transitions into the topic
Speaker 1: that you wanted to get into. Um from there, related
Speaker 1: to the shooting is the gun control debate. Now, you've
Speaker 1: been in countries that have, you know, needless to say,
Speaker 1: entirely different gun laws than the US. And sure there's
Speaker 1: I've been. Well, it's a funny thing about the Middle East.
Speaker 1: There are actually countries that have extremely They're particular ones
Speaker 1: that have extremely strict gun control and then ones that
Speaker 1: are very laxa daisical. So I mean it actually does
Speaker 1: vary surprisingly yes, So I'm I'm wondering, of course, your
Speaker 1: take as a former marine, as a volunteer with the past,
Speaker 1: Murga who has been all over the Middle East. Um,
Speaker 1: the people that are saying that we need to make
Speaker 1: some major changes to gun laws, well I'm not opposed
Speaker 1: to change. But here's my thing with the crowd that
Speaker 1: says we need to ban assault rifles, we need to
Speaker 1: ban fire People don't need this, people don't need that,
Speaker 1: and the the even the bump fire stock thing that's
Speaker 1: happening right now. I mean, it's a slippery slope and
Speaker 1: that's what we need to remember. No matter what you ban.
Speaker 1: And I know this is such a overly used argument,
Speaker 1: but um, you can take you can ban whatever, but
Speaker 1: evil people will find a way. I mean what I
Speaker 1: what I like to say is that if you take it, okay,
Speaker 1: So so maybe you take away an assault rifle or god,
Speaker 1: and people can't have access to that, you know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. Then you know what the next bad
Speaker 1: guys gonna do. He's gonna walk down to Ace hardware,
Speaker 1: spend about sixty dollars not even have to show his
Speaker 1: I D and build a bomb in his fucking garage
Speaker 1: and then he's just gonna walk it in somewhere, or
Speaker 1: say we even get tighter security, then he's gonna drive
Speaker 1: a truck full of the stuff into a building. It
Speaker 1: just gets worse. And this is the stuff we see
Speaker 1: in the Middle East where they don't where they like.
Speaker 1: They have figured out like if I can't smuggle a
Speaker 1: weapon into here, and then I'll just build a bomb
Speaker 1: and look literally, this is like what happens in Kurdistan. Right.
Speaker 1: They can't smuggle weapons and stuff through checkpoints because we've
Speaker 1: set them up. So what they do is they make
Speaker 1: their way into the city or wherever they want to
Speaker 1: do this, and then they build the bomb on site
Speaker 1: from inside of their apartment or whatever, and then they
Speaker 1: drive it into their destined target. Um, vice versa. Weapons.
Speaker 1: Illegal weapons trade is still gonna happen. Um people can
Speaker 1: build guns at home. It's I mean, with you know,
Speaker 1: parts line on the house, not nearly as effective. But
Speaker 1: when three D printers, when three D printers are available,
Speaker 1: that's going to change the game. Yes, and technology is
Speaker 1: moving fast that's the other thing we can't We can't
Speaker 1: account that unknown variable there. I mean, three D printers
Speaker 1: is kind of known, but who's to say how much
Speaker 1: better it gets, you know. Um, it's just I don't
Speaker 1: think restricting anything is the right move. It's one My
Speaker 1: other big argument is that, like, okay, so we institute
Speaker 1: a ban on assault rifles, just assault rifles, right, or
Speaker 1: what people would call assault rifles. I know there's some
Speaker 1: super right wing dude screaming at the podcast right now.
Speaker 1: He's like, I saw rifles put it's an ARE fifteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever it with. That term changed during the abomb administration.
Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, everybody knows him as that now,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't even matter anymore. That's what we identify
Speaker 1: them as. Um, it was just sad. I don't agree
Speaker 1: with it, but the way it is, yeah, exactly. I
Speaker 1: know what you mean. I know the point that you're making.
Speaker 1: I am a no bigger fan than proper nomenclature for
Speaker 1: items like Yeah, I know you you're as big of
Speaker 1: a shooting enthusiasts as there could be, But I get
Speaker 1: what you mean to assault rifles on the clature of
Speaker 1: like I mean, my my my fiance will tell you, like,
Speaker 1: that's not what that's called. Yeah, no, I get what
Speaker 1: you mean, but I'm just I think your point is
Speaker 1: when you use the term assault rifles, Unfortunately, for better
Speaker 1: or for worse, people know what you're talking about exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: So let's say, let's say we do it institutional band.
Speaker 1: Who the funk is going to go collect them? All?
Speaker 1: The one the millions in circulation, the police. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you right now, most of them don't want to do
Speaker 1: it to begin with, because they don't agree with the band,
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna go risk their lives and no
Speaker 1: knock raids for millions and millions. We don't have enough
Speaker 1: to do it. We're not the manpower, okay, the National Guard.
Speaker 1: Now you've brought in martial law and at the best
Speaker 1: case scenario, you're gonna get a few uh gunfights here
Speaker 1: and there and you know, a bit of clashing. At
Speaker 1: the most likely, worst case scenario're gonna get this civil war. Dude, Like, who,
Speaker 1: I don't I just don't think people realize the ramifications
Speaker 1: of what they're saying. You you cannot we're past the
Speaker 1: point of no return, you know, it's it's not like,
Speaker 1: let's just turn everything in Like, no, we are a
Speaker 1: culture of guns and that's just the way we are,
Speaker 1: So stop trying to go backwards and take things away
Speaker 1: and look at it from a moving forward perspective um,
Speaker 1: which transitions into my the one and only solution I've
Speaker 1: really been able to come up with since oh geez,
Speaker 1: since uh you know, for the last four years that
Speaker 1: we've been having this debate um as a country, and
Speaker 1: that's I'm like, why are we not putting armed security
Speaker 1: of some form in our schools? I mean it's a
Speaker 1: most majority of them are government run institutions. Why how
Speaker 1: how hard would it be to restructure a little bit
Speaker 1: of a state run or federal government to one set
Speaker 1: up a new department maybe uh school police force, or
Speaker 1: even allocate a couple of officers from each for for
Speaker 1: each school district from the local police depart um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the worst case, this is going to cost a
Speaker 1: little bit more in taxes. But if people actually care
Speaker 1: as much as they do about children and safety and
Speaker 1: all that ra rah rab that I hear ranted on
Speaker 1: social media all day, they won't care about, you know,
Speaker 1: paying a little more each year if it means the
Speaker 1: safety of people's lives. But I, um, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you want to get something in there, I have
Speaker 1: somewhere I'm willing with this. Well, I was actually gonna
Speaker 1: ask what's your take on on this? Mike Ritland posted
Speaker 1: up actually an older article he did, because this school
Speaker 1: shooting issue is, you know, not new, it's an ongoing issue.
Speaker 1: Um for those who I'm pretty sure most of this
Speaker 1: audience knows. But not only does Mike Ritland to former
Speaker 1: Navy seal, but he's also a canine instructor, and he's saying,
Speaker 1: look is a happy medium if you don't want guns
Speaker 1: in schools, and and he's he's another firearms guy, but
Speaker 1: he's saying, at the very least, why not have a
Speaker 1: dog in school? Guard dog? And actually, as I was
Speaker 1: recording ran today, Brandon said the same thing. Brandon actually
Speaker 1: he was pretty vocal that he's opposed to the idea
Speaker 1: of teachers being armed. Um, now that's that's ridiculous. By
Speaker 1: the way, he does like the idea of having a
Speaker 1: guard dog in school because I see, I'm saying, I
Speaker 1: think that would get actually trained, trained and job specific
Speaker 1: security force of some form, whether it be a school
Speaker 1: police officer, uh private security whatever I'm saying, like that
Speaker 1: is their designated job. Army teachers as students is just assinine.
Speaker 1: Why are we trying to turn I'm sorry for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, why are you trying to turn
Speaker 1: sheep into sheep dogs? That's not what they're there, That's
Speaker 1: not what you do. It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: And I hate that terminology. But Dave Grossman said it
Speaker 1: best a long time ago, before I got really popularized. Um,
Speaker 1: a guard dog would be anything is better than that.
Speaker 1: Brandon's opinion was that like a guard dog would be
Speaker 1: able to be aware of the situation, probably before anyone
Speaker 1: else were to be sure. Yeah, I would, I would definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean I I don't think it's the end all
Speaker 1: be all, but I think it's a step in the
Speaker 1: right direction. It would definitely be for better, not for worse.
Speaker 1: Um Yeah, it's it's a really tough problem. It's hard
Speaker 1: to find a solution. And the thing is the thing
Speaker 1: with why P is why people now Here's why it
Speaker 1: doesn't work with putting armed things in schools. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it destroys the image of innocence that we associate with
Speaker 1: our children and schools. People do not like to confront
Speaker 1: the fact that there are real there's real evil out there,
Speaker 1: are really bad people or just messed up people who
Speaker 1: want to do harm to others. So they want to
Speaker 1: keep them in that shell, that bubble, and they end
Speaker 1: by putting armed security or armed anything or anything to
Speaker 1: mitigate that threat. They have to acknowledge the existence of
Speaker 1: the danger, and one removed that bubble of innocence. So
Speaker 1: it's it's like, you know, that's that's the whole reason.
Speaker 1: It's it's it just sums itself up, you know, at
Speaker 1: least in my mind. Yeah, but you know, this is
Speaker 1: a relatively new phenomenon in terms of like these mass
Speaker 1: shootings post Columbine and the fact that people would bring
Speaker 1: up I'm not making any argument here because I'm staying
Speaker 1: at least relatively objective, even though I'm in agreement with
Speaker 1: everything you're saying. To be honest, Um, you know, there
Speaker 1: was a time where I could tell you my high school,
Speaker 1: for example, where there is now a weight room where
Speaker 1: I went to high school that used to be a
Speaker 1: shooting range, and there used to be a shooting in school.
Speaker 1: There was a time that people brought firearms to school,
Speaker 1: and and this ship did not happen. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's a very big argument to make that
Speaker 1: this is a this is a cultural problem, and and
Speaker 1: I think a prescription medication problem and a mental health problem.
Speaker 1: I would definitely agreed. I do believe. I believe more
Speaker 1: than anything, it is a cultural thing. Um, Because yes,
Speaker 1: there there's the mental health portion is only relative to
Speaker 1: the individual because we're all don't need mental health. That's insane. However,
Speaker 1: as a culture, that's what affects all of us, and
Speaker 1: is setting that baseline, at least in my mind, um,
Speaker 1: because you know, when I went to high school, I
Speaker 1: was on the uh I was in our OTC Marine
Speaker 1: Corps Junior ROTC in high school, and uh we drilled
Speaker 1: with M fourteens. They were deactivated, but they were you
Speaker 1: know M fourteens, you know there they weren't like a
Speaker 1: hunting rifle, and we did drill with them. So we
Speaker 1: carried marks around with those. And then I was actually
Speaker 1: I was actually on the the shooting team for the school,
Speaker 1: which we used uh, you know, air rifles, but you know,
Speaker 1: we we used to shoot inside little box trap boxes
Speaker 1: in the gym at paper targets and it was you know,
Speaker 1: it was no big deal because we were learning marksmanship
Speaker 1: and being responsible. You know, it wasn't this uh taboo
Speaker 1: thing that's like big and scary you're gonna jump out
Speaker 1: of you. You You normalized it. But as long as you
Speaker 1: treat the tool with a responsible attitude. And uh, I
Speaker 1: think that is actually where it's coming in that our
Speaker 1: culture is getting screwed up because you know, we do
Speaker 1: have a culture that glorifies violence and guns. And you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, don't be wrong. I played Call of Duty
Speaker 1: and Battlefield and you know, all sorts of violent video games.
Speaker 1: I watched the movies. I love John Wick. But you
Speaker 1: have to accept the rim you know that. You know
Speaker 1: that's great, you know, and you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: I enjoy those things, but we have to accept the
Speaker 1: reality and the consequences of what this kind of exposure
Speaker 1: and normalizing things, uh such as that does, and it
Speaker 1: it causes a shifting mentality towards you know, um, the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, and I think someone even argue not
Speaker 1: just glorifying violence, but there's also a glorification of this
Speaker 1: attitude of like fuck the police, funck authority, Oh for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny because I noticed it because if
Speaker 1: you go back and like play old video games from
Speaker 1: like the time frame, like I was playing uh um
Speaker 1: BioShock Infidite the other day because it just came on
Speaker 1: sale for PlayStation and have downtime, I play video games,
Speaker 1: so anyway, and it's it's this. It's funny because it
Speaker 1: came out in like two thousand thirteen or two thousand
Speaker 1: and twelves somewhere around there, and there's this massive vibe
Speaker 1: of revolution and uh kind of kind of black Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter esque attitude, fight the power, fight the police,
Speaker 1: you know, all the bad guys of God. And I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: it's very relative to the time or the time period
Speaker 1: that the game was released. Um, and it's interesting. So
Speaker 1: you can kind of look back at you know, just
Speaker 1: like movies. You know, if you look back in a
Speaker 1: movie that came out a certain time. Yeah, we we
Speaker 1: become desensitized to it, you know. I even just think
Speaker 1: of the videos that are posted on you know, World
Speaker 1: Star Hip Hop and all that ship, because especially when
Speaker 1: I worked at Serious, there are people who checked that
Speaker 1: stuff out every day. And it's like if every day
Speaker 1: you're pulling up these videos of like you have getting
Speaker 1: into playing something to your brain. Yeah, people getting into
Speaker 1: fights at of McDonald's and you know, just all different
Speaker 1: types of crazy ship that goes on in our society.
Speaker 1: I think at a certain point become completely desensitized to
Speaker 1: all of it. And uh yeah, I do see a
Speaker 1: huge culture. Okay, hang on, hang on, there's I got
Speaker 1: a really good one for you. So remember when the
Speaker 1: first like execution video came out. It was like extremist
Speaker 1: group executing a guy or whatever they cut his head off.
Speaker 1: It was Daniel Pearl, Yeah it was. It wasn't he
Speaker 1: a contractor or a journalist, and that it was journal
Speaker 1: It was in O F one though, I know that,
Speaker 1: and I was very young, Okay, I remember like these
Speaker 1: things were like the this massive shock to people, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's horrible. I'm like, and now it's
Speaker 1: like my friend said, I had a friend it was
Speaker 1: a you know murk and with the peesh murket and
Speaker 1: he's like we were having the same exact conversation. He
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, ship, now we watched isis be heading
Speaker 1: videos or execution videos over breakfast like they're nothing, you know,
Speaker 1: or how about I've said this the show before when
Speaker 1: Kadafi was killed, Like Gaddafi's splattered head was literally on
Speaker 1: the front page of every newspaper here. Yeah, like, holy
Speaker 1: sh it, we didn't you know that used to be
Speaker 1: something like they would have never flown in the past
Speaker 1: to show people that or at least that much exposure,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, Like you don't have
Speaker 1: to really dig to see it. Yeah, it is a
Speaker 1: weird thing, Like you have this whole free the nipple thing,
Speaker 1: and it's like, what what's worse for kids to see it?
Speaker 1: And it's just a question like some ship topless or
Speaker 1: a man's you know, that is literally there's a lot
Speaker 1: of uncensored stuff as far as the violence and gorgos.
Speaker 1: But you know, you see a breast and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, protect my child's you know, sensibility, Like
Speaker 1: you know, oh, but he's gonna go play by the way,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play Call of Duty later, shoot other other
Speaker 1: kids online and uh and you know, come up with
Speaker 1: all sorts of insults regarding their mother and sexual orientation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you, I know you've played it
Speaker 1: online game at some point. You should like did a
Speaker 1: little twelve year olds on there that just have the
Speaker 1: foulest language of like dude, you need to go into
Speaker 1: time out or something like it's terrible. Yeah, as you said,
Speaker 1: like stuff that's you know, anti yea or even like racist,
Speaker 1: and yeah, like that's what you're going home and playing.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think Brandon said that he pretend his
Speaker 1: fragile sensibility, like how we're gonna look back at this
Speaker 1: Sunday or not. But uh, I hope as a society
Speaker 1: we do that thing. We're like, wow, we were fucking dumb.
Speaker 1: I think Brandon said that he's played one of those
Speaker 1: games and people will be like, you fucking asshole, you
Speaker 1: don't know how to shoot, and like literally literally you know,
Speaker 1: little did they know that they're that they're playing a
Speaker 1: former Navy Seal sniper instructor. Yeah, I turned off the
Speaker 1: sound like the team the team speaker, the chatter or whatever,
Speaker 1: so you can't even hear my I can't even hear
Speaker 1: my teammates. I just play the game like I just
Speaker 1: don't want to hear the idiots like like you know,
Speaker 1: and you'll get messages coming across like what was the
Speaker 1: other one? Like it was like I'm just gonna quote
Speaker 1: it for the sake of quoity, but it was fagging
Speaker 1: assid bitch cunt boy that's always sent me in a message,
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, man, like you're really angry.
Speaker 1: You gotta like I thought video games are supposed to
Speaker 1: release stress, Like I mean, maybe he is really eving
Speaker 1: stress saying that. Um So anyway, man, with with all
Speaker 1: of that on on the gun issue, um And it's
Speaker 1: it's funny man, because I mean, not that there's any
Speaker 1: disagreement between us, but like we can have just a
Speaker 1: rational discussion about the gun issue on here and not
Speaker 1: have two people screaming each other. I haven't even watched
Speaker 1: the news because, like I I get enough of the
Speaker 1: debate than have to turn on and see a split
Speaker 1: screen debate. And small percentages of Americans are on in
Speaker 1: those extreme positions of like America, Christianity, the n r
Speaker 1: A and that's all that matters. You know, speak our language,
Speaker 1: get off my lawn, build the wall. Yeah, Like I
Speaker 1: think that that's a small percentage of Americans, just like
Speaker 1: the you know, ban all weapons, you know, every town
Speaker 1: fucking moms against guns or whatever. The damn extreme extreme
Speaker 1: farror left group is for anti gun. Um. I believe
Speaker 1: the Rivers is a small percentage Americans, because the most
Speaker 1: of us are like, yeah, that's fucking stupid. Why would
Speaker 1: I give up the protection my protection, Like I'm not
Speaker 1: going to give that up. Like one I love. I
Speaker 1: think the best meme I've seen so far, it was like,
Speaker 1: so you're telling me you want to give the guy
Speaker 1: you've been calling Hitler like the last half year all
Speaker 1: of the guns, like like, I really like so, I
Speaker 1: think the majority of Americans are right in the middle here.
Speaker 1: We're just like rational, like, yeah, we need to do something,
Speaker 1: and we need to come up with a real solution,
Speaker 1: a real viable solution that we can implement efficiently and expediently. Expediently.
Speaker 1: I think that's a word, um, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: just we don't want to give away our rights and
Speaker 1: like our the ability to own things because one or
Speaker 1: two jackasses decided to be an evil cunt. Like you know,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't make sense. It's just irrational, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you want to put your you want to you want
Speaker 1: to charge yourself, sir for someone else's crime. It's so,
Speaker 1: I really do think the majority and I've actually spoken
Speaker 1: to people who would consider them very far left or
Speaker 1: like Yeah, that's that's absolutely ridiculous what some of these
Speaker 1: um super anti gun people are saying. It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: So what I was gonna ask you off of that is,
Speaker 1: you know, for those who don't know, Kurt is a
Speaker 1: full time writer at the site. UM, So I was
Speaker 1: wondering what else you're currently working on that we could
Speaker 1: check out in the near future. Uh So nothing to
Speaker 1: do with gun control or politics. I'm not. I never
Speaker 1: opened myself up to that sort of thing. I you know,
Speaker 1: I am kind of passionate about it, but really I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just very realistic about it. Um. But
Speaker 1: for the most part, as far as articles I have
Speaker 1: been writing, I've been writing a lot of existential pieces
Speaker 1: on like warrior philosophy, UM violence. Uh, some firearms training
Speaker 1: based stuff UM, because I've spent when I was with
Speaker 1: the pesh Marker, I spent an extensive amount of time
Speaker 1: in instructing small arms, so I do like to get
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Speaker 1: the latest developments as far as Curtistan, Iraq and Syria,
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Speaker 1: Very cool man, Well people wanted to hear a little
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Speaker 1: Us and Kurt, thank you so much for coming on. Man. Uh.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we had a previous guest who couldn't
Speaker 1: make it today, so luckily I was able to get
Speaker 1: Kurt to um fill in last minute, and I think
Speaker 1: we got some great content. Uh I'll be at a
Speaker 1: shorter episode. But I've also been here in studio for
Speaker 1: the past um nearly like eleven hours, so I'm I'm
Speaker 1: ready to snooze on the crane at this point. Everybody
Speaker 1: be sure to send your disgruntled emails to me personally,
Speaker 1: and I will not read them. No, man, I think
Speaker 1: I think this was a cool show, and I know
Speaker 1: it was. It was something that I've actually been looking
Speaker 1: forward to putting, not putting the paper, but just kind
Speaker 1: of putting out there, like, you know, what are we
Speaker 1: doing and what is our realistic solution and anyway? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's the great thing about being able to do
Speaker 1: a podcast is I don't have to you know, I
Speaker 1: feel I need to post every opinion of mine on
Speaker 1: Facebook because we have a show that we could do
Speaker 1: and if there's something I really want to say, I
Speaker 1: could say it right here on the podcast and reach
Speaker 1: a whole lot more people. Word cool man, Um, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: we're looking for to seeing more oracles from you, bro.
Speaker 1: I love all the stuff that you put out there,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure people are really looking forward to the book. Righteous. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to keep doing what I'm doing and yeah,
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