This special AWP 2024 episode stars John Reed (The Never End, Snowball's Chance, Tales of Woe, and many more). It was recorded in-person at AWP 2024 in Kansas City, MO in February, wait for it...2024.

In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d discuss:
  • the Massachusetts gun control bill is on hold... but it'll be back.
  • an ATTEMPTED school shooting in Memphis, and why the shooter didn't succeed.
• Xander gives us his Independent Thoughts on gun control in the Old West;
• Oddball talks about the latest court case against Hawaii's knife ban;
• David talks about what direct impingement is, and what it isn't;
• Myles talks shotguns, and which ones are great for South Paws.

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Show Notes

Main Topic:

• Massachusetts’ Draconian Gun Bill — HD 4420 — On Hold Till Fall
• Police Charge Suspect, Praise School Security Plan Over Thwarted Attack on Hebrew Academy in Memphis
• Man accused of firing a gun outside a Jewish school in Memphis faces multiple charges

Independent Thoughts:

• Tombstone's Ordinance No.9 Was Neither Fair Nor Equally Enforced
• Legends of the Old West
• Gunfight at the OK Corral 

Oddball’s Corner Pocket:

• Kniferights.org
• Teter vs Lopez decision
• 4 boxes diner on the decision
• Charles Leonard Plastic Surgeon
• An 8 Bit Reenactment of Dungeons and Dragons

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• Eugene Stoner
• Patent 2,951,424
• AR 15 Bolt Diagram
• Gewehr 43
• M1 Carbine
• AK-47
• M1 Garand
• MAS-49
• Ljungman 42
• Gas Operation
• Military Arms Channel - The AR is not Direct Gas Impingement
• Brena Bock Author Page
• David Bock Author Page
• Team And More

Southpaw Corner

• Southpaw Shotguns
• Mossberg 500 Super Bantam Combo
• Mossberg Semi-Autos
• Browning BPS Pump Action
• Armscore VR-80 Shotgun
• New Haven 600

This episode explores what characteristics are paramount in a versatile self-defense firearm for survival situations. Based on a worst-case, apocalyptic scenario, it discusses rifles, shotguns, handguns, cartridges, and appropriate ammunition. 

SHOW NOTES: 

Characteristics of a great survival gun

• Reliability
• Portable and handy
• Firepower
• Accuracy
• Long-range capability
• Cartridge authority
• Appropriate bullets
• Specific recommended cartridges
• Crossover hunting tools
• Recommended firearm types and models
• Optimism... "Let not your heart be troubled"
• Preparedness is peace of mind

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Music by John Johnston 

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Did the M 16 lose the Vietnam War for the United States? That's a bold claim and obviously an inaccurate one. BUT, there is an interesting story about the M 16 as it pertains to its reliability (or notorious lack thereof) that we dive into. A little war history, a little product design, a lot of non-expert discussion of a topic brought to mind on the heels of our withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Maker Minute: Mikhail Kalashnikov

Honorable Mention: Kenmore Progressive Vacuum Cleaner

• Eugene Stoner: The Forgotten History of the Man Who Created "America's Rifle" – the AR-15
• History of 223 Ammo
• Resistance Library 
• Sam Jacobs

Doug Fussell entered the Navy right out of High School, this is the same time most young men and woman are headed to college.  He was looking for the discipline, team work and fortitude the Navy would teach him.  His goals were to attend college but he knew a stint in the Navy would be the best choice for his career and development. He served in the Navy from 1990 - 1994 

Doug was a Cryptologist if you look it up at Navy careers Cryptologic-technician

You will find the below description: 

Enlisted Sailors in the Navy Cryptology community analyze encrypted electronic communications, jam enemy radar signals, decipher information in foreign languages and maintain state-of-the-art equipment and networks used to generate top secret intel.

After Cryptology School Doug served on DD964 a Spruance-class destroyer. The USS Paul F. Foster named for Vice Admiral Paul F. Foster USN.  

There are several facebook associations that support the service men and woman that served on the destroyer to include this link.

USS Paul F. Foster Association DD-964

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Mike, filled out some questions I send out as (homework, ha ha).  I asked the questions to get the ideas and thoughts flowing. Below are the answers to his questions which I thought were very good and funny. 

• Mike's funny story - My most vivid memory of family was at Christmas before I left for the Army my grandpa was ticked I joined. His view was from the 60's 70's kids going off to die in Vietnam, and didn't like that I was handing over control of my life to the government.  I thought it was quite funny and it never bothered me, but man my dad was ticked :)

Questions: 

What got you interested in joining the service or why did you join the service?  

- Backstory - I went to college to be a teacher. I was undisciplined, immature and felt entitled. I was on the 7 years to get a bachelors degree plan ( more focused on the social aspects of college than getting a degree ). I was self aware enough to know to needed help growing up, and with the finances of college.

- My original plan - Join the Air National Guard. My thought ( knowing not much about the military ) was I could join the national guard ( go to basic, get some discipline, and get some extra money to help with school )

- What actually happened - Air Force recruiters wanted nothing to do with a college drop out ( thought I was a dummy ), the Army recruiters were more than willing. As good recruiters do, he convinced me that the only way to get a decent amount of money for school was to go full time for 4 years to get the full college fund.

- Army prep - I remember being worried about being able to handle the mental grind of basic training. I signed up in Oct ( ish ) but didn't leave for basic until January. So everyday I watched the first part of Full Metal Jacket. I figured if I could get used to that level of yelling, nothing the modern Army could do would affect me. It actually worked too well. The Drill Sgts yelling at me never bothered me, in fact I used to get in trouble for grinning while they yelled, as I thought it was pretty funny. 

WHAT ARE YOU SMILING AT HAMMAN, DO YOU LIKE ME? ,etc, etc. etc...

What is the best and worst things you like about the military?

• Best -  Friendships / comradery ( This has helped me understand the importance in my career to build a strong bond with my team )
• meeting different people ( race, culture, different places ). Kelley Jenning story. Met people with so many different viewpoints ( City, Country, Texas, Cali, New Yorkers, Southern, etc)
• Discipline, sacrifice, responsibility 
• Worst 
• I like doing things "smarter not harder" and I hate doing things "because that's how we've always done things". This never sat well with my NCO's. I learned to listen to orders and accept them. This trait has helped me tremendously in my civilian life, but was not a great fit for the military. Don has called me the devil's advocate for a reason 

Did you deploy anywhere and how did it go on the deployment?

• Overall best experience of my time in the Army
• I deployed to Haiti / Operation Uphold Democracy
• We had ad long weekend so the most of the company was out of town. I happened to be in the barracks so I was pulled to deploy ( only 6-8 of our company was part of this deployment )
• Originally we were supposed to go to the Keys, setup communications link ( packed lots of civilian clothes ), last min change, going in country ( un-band my wall locker and repack FAST )
• Sit and Wait, Ready to go right away. Felt like days sleeping in our HUMVEE's waiting to go
• Gotta watch 82 go, come back and land, Field Promotions for 82 for flying 1/2 way. Then they got to go home and we took off
• Hit in the head on the when the plane landed
• slept on the ground the 1st night, no mosquito net
• Every night it would rain about 5-6 pm, so we'd wait in our PT's. Then run under gutters and "shower"
• caravan trips out on the town
• Swimming at Aristide's beach house
• What do you remember about basic & advance training that you would like to share? 
• - Hard work, Long Days, if Haiti was the best experience. Basic and AIT would be my favorite time in the Army.

Basic Training

• PT - scored well on my first PT test. ( Decent athlete in HS, but never a great runner, always more of a sprinter, never a Long Distance guy. Our lead DS was PT nut so he must have had a bet that his company would win High PT in the battalion. He made me run each morning with the "A" group even though my time was a "B" group. At night when everyone else got to shower and write letters, he would bring me to the front of the barracks and smoke me, trying out new techniques he recently learned.  He caught me eating donuts one morning at breakfast, so he grabbed a bunch more and made me eat all of them. Then killed me on the run the next morning as he ran me until i threw up. 

AIT

• After basic, I remember how great it felt to have just a touch of freedom. Being able to walk over to the PX and grab a soda, candybar, etc.. Go watch a movie, etc.. That little bit of freedom felt so good !!!  Started learning our job. I don't remember many ( any ) specifics about that job anymore. But I remember how high the bar was for passing. In school ( HS, College ) passing was a C. I remember we had to get like 95% right to pass a test... I've used this method with my kids as I have become a parent. I set the bar high so they learn to stretch themselves and have to really work at it. 
• Whisky Workout - I was only 19 in AIT but most of my friends were older.. We bought a bottle of whisky ( not allowed ) and were sitting in the barracks passing it around. One of our roommates went to DS and told him, He found us, called us down to the front of the barracks and started smoking us. But he would one at a time call us up and make us drink Whiskey and Sprite mixed while getting smoked. Working out and drinking are not a great mix and I had to be carried up to bed... Never had a taste for E&J and Sprite since... 

What is a memory that still sticks with you? 

• One of my favorite memories was playing video games with the guys in the barracks. I could never beat Vinny Clark at NBA Live, but I paid him back on the college football game. Aaron Anderson and I used to have some serious battles with Bill Walsh College football, we'd spend hours and hours on rematches. We had generators to run our comms vans in the field so we would bring a small tv and gaming system and play even in the field. ( Rough life i know )
• Monday Morning Madness... 1st Sgt Dickens instead of long company runs, he would smoke us every Monday morning. It's funny because if he recorded those workouts he would have been a millionaire selling them to Beach Body. 

What is the funniest moment you remember? 

• My buddy from HS was at Bragg the same time I was. His barracks were right across from our motor pool. So many days I'd go over there at lunch or break rather than all the way back to my room. His 1st Sgt walked in his room one day when I was there and told me If I like spending so much time in his company he was going to get me transferred to his unit

What is the most serious moment you remember?

• On one of our caravans trips in Haiti we decided to go check out Cap-Haïtien  ( we were stationed in Port-au-Prince ). While driving around town, we pulled up alongside of someone in a military uniform with an AK47 ( assuming it was someone from the Military Regime ). I heard 6 M16's go locked and loaded and things got very tense and very quiet... But he turned left and we kept straight and just like that, it was over. I was very lucky to never deal with any real serious moments like our guys have had to deal with in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

What does your career look like today? 

• Currently working as a Test Manager for Honeywell. Smart Energy. We develop smart meters to be deployed in our network on as an OEM product on other companies networks. My team focuses on the automated testing of the FW on these devices.
• My time in the Army has been critical to any career success I've had
• I learn to Train, Train, Train
• I learned to build that team comradery
• From my faith I've learned to be a servant leader, Just as Jesus showed us, putting others needs ahead of our own. It's our job as leaders to put our employees needs ahead of our own. They should be able to feel you truly care for them ( and you have to truly care for them ) if you do this, there is nothing your team can't accomplish.

Closing question, what one thing did you learn from the military that you would like to pass along to your family?

• There are two decisions I have made that have shaped who I am today.
• Joining the military at 19. Helped me on the path to realize what it meant to be a man ( and to stop acting like a boy )
• In my 30's accepting Jesus Christ as my savior. The Army could only take me so far, it started me down a path but the only way to truly become a man was to become a Man of God ( a kingdom man )
• Growing up I head a hole in my heart, i tried to fill it with good and bad things ( fun, family, career, partying, etc ) but no matter what I tried it was always there. I accepted Jeus as my savior and that void was filled, and now the journey continues to to become a Man of God... Small steps each day..

In our sixteenth episode, we examine an internet scavenger hunt and the unknown organization that is recruiting codebreakers from the public. Tune in next time when we consider what truly happened to the Lost Colony.

Music: "Cosmic" by Pedro Santiago, used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 ES / Echo from original

78 Cirrus Owner Pilots Association (COPA) Aircraft Type Club Interview with Roger Whittier

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Roger Whittier Interview
Max interviews Cirrus Owner and Pilot Association President Roger Whittier about aircraft type clubs, the services supplied by COPA, and the upcoming M16 Cirrus Migration convention in Las Vegas. He also answers a listener question about converting a TKS Cirrus aircraft to FIKI, and converting a normally aspirated Cirrus engine to a turbo charged or normalized one.

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Cirrus Migration 16 Event - Las Vegas, October 11-14, 2018
COPA Membership Sign up Page
COPA University’s YouTube site

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The troupe is teleported to a lawless, dystopian nightmare where throngs of cursed beasts and soulless beings roam free. Has Angela forsaken Kaz, Fritz, and Mandaddy? Featuring stories on Petra, An Egyptian City in the Grand Canyon, Mt. Tsurugi

What if you created an Artificial Intelligence Superhuman by analyzing the DNA of Steve Jobs & John Wayne?  Josh & Jon both agree you’d create a man much like this week's guest Tyler Bye, the CEO of Militia, Inc and a career entrepreneur & Software Engineer.  Josh & Jon pick Tyler’s brain to help bridge the gap between them, and their goal of being invited on Joe's podcast by 7/31/2018.  Rated PG-13

Sven is one of the younger dudes we’ve chatted with on the podcast - he’s 22, from Sweden and he’s probably one more contests than the average 22 year old competitive snowboarder has even entered. We catch up with Sven over Skype during some down time while he was recovering from an injury which he explains in the episode. We also discuss his relationship with his sponsors, his aspirations to become a pilot, the olympics, dropping a never been done on dry slope and much more. 

From ratty Tacos to good food, this Garage Hour runs the gamut, with fine liquor tasting and aging techniques at Twisted Manzanita Distillery, commie capitalism, our collective disdain for littering, and we run over some hipsters on the way.  Then it's all about beer-delivery drones and Twisted Manzanita's beer turbine, with a big segue into Pacific Beach dining, AR rifles for ladies, ball versus IMR powder and the M-14 versus the M-16 in Somalia, why the pickleback is an insult to every stage of the brewing and distilling industry, computer-controlled cars, junkyard Toyota parts, and what kind of vehicles are driven by the hosts and cohosts of the Garage Hour.  That's just the beginning - tune in if you want to hear about hipster betting (it's like betting on horses, without the respect), drink recipies, Skynyrds Innyrds, National Ammo Week and Stare at a Hybrid Owner Like Something Is Wrong With Them Month.

This is the second of two broadcasts from the back room at Twisted Manzanita Brewing & Distillery.  The Garage Hour goons are surrounded by fine folks and Manz fans, including Jake Pitman (Head Distiller), Nina from the marketing department, and Ashleigh (Ashley? - Wearer of Many Hats) from the distillery.  .45 Phil and Chef Jeff join in for the ride, along with whomver else was brave enough to approach the mic.