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Speaker 1: just introduced who they are. We're starting with Travis or Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm Travis Pike, and I right for Arms Gut and

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Speaker 1: you should say here military back right. I'm a former

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Speaker 1: smarter and kidder. Hey, Kurt Trotter Um alright for soft Rep. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm a former United States Marine UH Embarkation Logistic specialist

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Speaker 1: just checking out these platforms. Oh well, I'm on the

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Speaker 1: hunt for Pat McNamara. He's he's bird watching on Pat

427
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Speaker 1: McNamara watching the ondcand does a very good impression he does. Um.

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Speaker 1: I just that guy's one of definitely one of my

429
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Speaker 1: I don't want to almost heroes or idols, but like

430
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Speaker 1: it's like that guy's very inspirational. I really would look

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Speaker 1: forward to meeting out. Um. And then I'm actually headed

432
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Speaker 1: to uh directed into the Spirited system Booth Systems Booth.

433
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Speaker 1: They make a chest rig I'm very interested in getting

434
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Speaker 1: the look at and uh also they have some pretty

435
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Speaker 1: sweet patches. I told my girlfriend i'd get her one. Um,

436
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Speaker 1: So you know it's cool. It's from the Adventure Time

437
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Speaker 1: TV show and it's like one of the characters and

438
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Speaker 1: it's the Spirited Systems. She's like, oh my god, you

439
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Speaker 1: gotta get this. So I'm like, all right, I'll go there.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's pretty much my plan than that. Like

441
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Speaker 1: you said, it's my first year, so I don't have

442
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Speaker 1: a fucking clue what I'm doing. So many floors of

443
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Speaker 1: you know, because it's shot, which the acronym, it's not

444
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Speaker 1: just shooting, it's shooting, hunting, outdoors and outdoor trade show. Yeah,

445
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Speaker 1: so there's a lot of the hunting and outdoors stuff too,

446
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Speaker 1: which is a lot of just like the Camo clothing,

447
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Speaker 1: a lot of the camping stuff, so it's not just

448
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Speaker 1: all firearms, um, anything else that you guys haven't mentioned

449
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Speaker 1: that you're looking forward to seeing tomorrow or Yeah, there's

450
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Speaker 1: uh compact pistol from six called the P three that

451
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Speaker 1: supposed to rival the same size as the Block forty three,

452
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Speaker 1: just holds ten rounds instead of six. So I just

453
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Speaker 1: wanted to get hands on that check it out. I'm

454
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Speaker 1: gonna be a meeting with Darren from Ranger Proof Arms um,

455
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: and he makes fantastic rifles and I'm really decided to

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Speaker 1: meet up with him and hopefully get something planned for

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Speaker 1: another abusive tests shot shows always cost me money. Yeah,

458
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Speaker 1: that's the bottom line. I come here and see more crap.

459
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Speaker 1: I gotta buy um. Yeah, anything else that that you

460
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Speaker 1: guys want to get into. Before we'll get I should

461
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Speaker 1: get to you Travis CZ's booth. They're gonna have two

462
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Speaker 1: new models of the Scorpion, and now they're releasing suppressors

463
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Speaker 1: and then additional models of the Shadow, additional models of

464
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Speaker 1: the p TIM. So I'm gonna be hitting up there

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Speaker 1: booth pretty early because they were so Yeah, Titanium and

466
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Speaker 1: Standard we both nine like some Titan and I integrally

467
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Speaker 1: suppressed barrel. I think for the Scorpion, liberals are going

468
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Speaker 1: to be so I want one of those that school.

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Speaker 1: Anything else that I'm that I'm missing guys that you

470
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Speaker 1: guys want to make you about this? Uh? I like

471
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Speaker 1: here and ship and because tonight we're heading off to

472
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Speaker 1: the team room party, which I always love. That's really

473
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Speaker 1: the reason I'm here. It's kind of the highlight of

474
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Speaker 1: going and meeting all these people who have read our

475
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Speaker 1: stuff and listen to the podcast. It's honestly overwhelming because, like,

476
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Speaker 1: at least for me, the minute I walk in there,

477
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking to somebody, They're like, that's you because

478
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Speaker 1: they know my voice, and uh yeah, I know. For you,

479
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Speaker 1: You're like you're saying, this is the first time you're readers,

480
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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be plenty of people have read your stuff.

481
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Speaker 1: I'm literally gonna be like nobody knows why. I'm like, hey,

482
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Speaker 1: I'm Curt, Like who, Like, Where's Where's Jack, Where's Brandon,

483
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Speaker 1: Where's you know? Whoever? The real person everybody's gonna be

484
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Speaker 1: asking for this is the audition because no one knows. Look,

485
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Speaker 1: we're gonna like make up a name for him or

486
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Speaker 1: something like it'll be like bub or something. I had

487
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Speaker 1: the shirt on last year at shot shown. Someone stopped

488
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Speaker 1: me like, oh my god, you work for staff for UP,

489
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Speaker 1: Like wow, that really I kind of Do you know

490
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Speaker 1: Jack Murphy? It's like I've never heard yes, So we're

491
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Speaker 1: we're looking very forward to that. So I guess if

492
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Speaker 1: you want to see any of the videos, any of

493
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Speaker 1: the reviews that you guys are currently working on as

494
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Speaker 1: we're sitting at this table, it's load out room dot com.

495
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Speaker 1: Uh and the arms guide is on the load out

496
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Speaker 1: room as well, so you'll be able to check out

497
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Kurt is writing some articles I guess

498
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Speaker 1: for the Arms Guide, right no, no, no, no, you're

499
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Speaker 1: you're pointing yourself. I don't know you're right for SOFTWAP

500
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Speaker 1: and you're you're right for various stuff, right no, no,

501
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Speaker 1: sometimes they curate mind, but dot Okay. I can't keep

502
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Speaker 1: up with everybody here. It's a it's a large company

503
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: at this point. Really, I often do get accused of,

504
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: like forgetting about the load out room and the arms guy.

505
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: But it's just because all all the guys in New York,

506
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Speaker 1: it's me Jack Brandon. Uh, we're you know, we're the

507
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Speaker 1: SOFTWAREP guys. So and that's what I'm saying. Yeah, you

508
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: can check all my stuff on SOFTWAREP, all the geopolitical

509
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Speaker 1: stuff and uh things happening in Syria and Kurdistan. And

510
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: occasionally talked about some of my stories from whenever I

511
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: was doing whatever something stupid, I'm sure. And you listen

512
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Speaker 1: back to the current episode, which I I don't remember

513
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Speaker 1: the exact number of, but I'll look back to it. Um,

514
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, talking about them. Cool, Well, stop forgetting about

515
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Speaker 1: us to load out room, because I'll literally do like

516
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Speaker 1: in my garage listening to the podcast screaming at you room,

517
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Speaker 1: come on the load. I think we mentioned it on

518
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Speaker 1: the last episode. Yeah, because Danielle was talking about writing

519
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Speaker 1: some reviews which someone apparently didn't want her posting a

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Speaker 1: picture in a sports graw with with some knife. I

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Speaker 1: guess that we com you can't put them between the girls,

522
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Speaker 1: That's what she said. So yeah, cool. Yeah, So I'll

523
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Speaker 1: probably get some more audio that you'll hear right after

524
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Speaker 1: this at the team Room event. We're looking forward to it,

525
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: and it's been awesome hanging with these guys the past,

526
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: like twenty four hours. I ate in an out Berger

527
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Speaker 1: twice in one day. That's a highlight for me. It

528
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Speaker 1: wasn't even like one day, it was like within the

529
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Speaker 1: same three hours. Yeah. And I did Kiss Mini Golf

530
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Speaker 1: with the Odissean today. That was a highlight for me.

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Speaker 1: It was fucking awesome. It was so cool. There's a

532
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Speaker 1: guy who's like a DJ at the Kiss Minigolf thing

533
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: and he takes requests and he announces the songs, so

534
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: he's saying, you know, this is from I wanted to

535
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: hear Love Gun and I was like, this guy. People

536
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: have said I have a really cool job. I think

537
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: that's a pretty cool job and announcing kiss songs that

538
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: kiss minigolf. Yeah, I would do that anyway. I don't

539
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Speaker 1: know if any operational security stuff is involved here, But

540
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Speaker 1: are you able to confirm or deny that the Odissean

541
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Speaker 1: shot the two shots underpar minigolf today? He did well?

542
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Speaker 1: He did better than me for sure. Well, now you've

543
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: revealed his tactical operations. Yeah, people were. People were very

544
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: upset at me saying that I was going to do

545
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: mini golf with the odisse and they were like, want

546
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Speaker 1: make stages camping out mini golf in Vegas, Like if

547
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be here any mid they're coming and we're

548
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: gonna take them out. This legendary edscian and the damn

549
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: radio hosted. Yeah, I don't know what I you know,

550
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: any value of me, but alright, cool, it's been great

551
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: hanging with you guys, and we are off to the

552
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Speaker 1: team room party. Thanks for having us. We aren't eating.

553
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: It's so you're now at the team room event. Two

554
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: different guys here, you know, among many guys from the site,

555
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: we have Crewmanentarius, former Navy seal Christian Prosser Uh, former

556
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: marine copy editor for the site, threw I have never

557
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Speaker 1: met in person, and it's a pleasure to meet you. Man.

558
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Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to meet you. Man. I'm as handsome

559
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Speaker 1: as you imagined I would be. Yes, But so this

560
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: is this is the first team room event you've actually done. Like,

561
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Speaker 1: what's your whole reaction meeting the readers of the site. Man,

562
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Speaker 1: it's a good time. I met a bunch of long

563
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Speaker 1: time readers and I like, I haven't even met all

564
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Speaker 1: the authors yet, so meeting them person has been awesome. Right,

565
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Speaker 1: It's cool because you you're one of the guys who

566
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: really does not we have a round everybody, so you're

567
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: meeting most of these people. Him in the Arks in

568
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Speaker 1: the Midwest, and Christian was at last year's party, which

569
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Speaker 1: was different because we were at the house of this

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Speaker 1: foundation room, which is definitely a core view than this.

571
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: Not gonna lie, but this is a pretty cool atmosphere. Like,

572
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: who have you talked to that? Uh, it's been interesting

573
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: of just readers from socite and uh yeah, fruit and Lions.

574
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Speaker 1: I made my way and uh, Scott Whitner and I

575
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: are were getting along him from the load out room.

576
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Speaker 1: He's pretty great. Uh, I'm I'm waiting to you know,

577
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Speaker 1: the infamous b K is behind you, and he looked

578
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: uses to come on. He lives fifty miles away from

579
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Speaker 1: me and I have not seen him in his face

580
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: and make him speak. Yeah, he was like, I've drank

581
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: too much. I'm not gonna come on right now. But

582
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Speaker 1: Christian is actually the first time I've had on the podcast, Like,

583
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: I have to set up a forrmal regular interview with you.

584
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: I've been that sexy. It's gonna be a lot of

585
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: stories about like and then we were pretty sure it

586
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Speaker 1: was a dude. But anyway, I just felt like I

587
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: need to get some audio here. Everybody's having a great time.

588
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: James Powell is right in front of me speaking with

589
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Speaker 1: some readers of the site, speaking with your wife, Christian Um.

590
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Speaker 1: Jack Burph is here rad It was just did the

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Speaker 1: raffle some really great great quab items. Alex Hollings. Alex

592
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Speaker 1: Holland is talking about listeners. Alex, I should actually I

593
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Speaker 1: could actually say to Alex the first team room event

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Speaker 1: you're didn't. I'm on this. This is the first team

595
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Speaker 1: room event that I have ever attended. So what's what's

596
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: your reactional? Honestly, what's incredible is meeting people like this.

597
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Speaker 1: The people that whose names I see in the comments

598
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Speaker 1: section every day in my articles, and I actually get

599
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Speaker 1: to meet Michelle By, I get to meet Journey, I

600
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Speaker 1: get to see a face and associated with the people

601
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Speaker 1: who are reading my work. It's huge. But see them

602
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: because I say, I see their comments. But yeah, I've

603
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: met so many great listeners of the of the show,

604
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: readers of the site. I just told some people over

605
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: there my entire life story. I'm shocked that people give

606
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Speaker 1: a funk, but like it's fun, man, great time. I

607
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: walked in today and someone was like, hey, you're Alex Hellings, right.

608
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: I read your ronical about you know, the about these flights.

609
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Speaker 1: Sorry if you want. It was like you read something

610
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Speaker 1: I wrote. You know, it's a it's a toll, it's all. Yeah,

611
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: it's a dream cone through for me to have people

612
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Speaker 1: read something that I work on. And it's easy to

613
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Speaker 1: forget when you're sitting at your desk all day just

614
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Speaker 1: you know, typing away that there's real people on the

615
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Speaker 1: other side of the screen and it is cool and

616
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Speaker 1: especially for you because it's a new experience. I feel

617
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Speaker 1: like I've experienced this, however, there's new people and yeah,

618
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Speaker 1: I'm having a great time. So if you're here, I

619
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: know you're having a great time. And for those who

620
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Speaker 1: who didn't make it, definitely if you can next year,

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Speaker 1: become a Free Love member, become a team. Remember, it's

622
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: definitely the reason why I get to write the Michael Jamas,

623
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Speaker 1: you know, the reason why you get to record your

624
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: show because because these people are interested, you know, and

625
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Speaker 1: it's awesome to get to meet him. You know, I'm

626
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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna make my rounds and meet some more people.

627
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Speaker 1: But I figured to get some audio of everybody. Well

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Speaker 1: it's to some everything up. I am actually back from

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Speaker 1: Shot Show now um at my apartment recording this on

630
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Speaker 1: my phone kind of to keep up with the audio

631
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Speaker 1: consistency here, which I'm a big fan of. Being able

632
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Speaker 1: to go out the Shot show for the weekend and

633
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Speaker 1: get all this great audio without bringing any equipment is

634
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. Uh. I'm a big advocate of just using

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Speaker 1: the iPhone to record audio um as opposed to bring

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. I was able to travel to Vegas

637
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Speaker 1: just to carry on and uh do my thing for

638
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Speaker 1: just a few days I was there, which might surprise

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Speaker 1: some of you that I'm back already, because I really

640
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Speaker 1: left as the actual shot show festivities were beginning. UM,

641
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Speaker 1: mainly to be completely honest, because if you guys the audience, um,

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00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's expected that we get two shows

643
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Speaker 1: up every week, that I get these up on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: and Friday on time, on target. I'm well aware that

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Speaker 1: sometimes I get them up later than other days, but

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Speaker 1: I think for the past four years I have been

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Speaker 1: pretty consistent with getting something up on a Wednesday or Friday.

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Speaker 1: That includes times where I've had surgery and stuff, and

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Speaker 1: I've always gotten to show up when it was supposed

650
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Speaker 1: to be up, whether it was when we were doing

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Speaker 1: one show a week or this. So you know, I

652
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Speaker 1: didn't want to do all this audio editing while I

653
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Speaker 1: was there and not get new stuff post shot shows.

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Speaker 1: So like, I'm looking forward to being back in the

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Speaker 1: studio tomorrow and doing what we usually do. But it

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Speaker 1: was great being there, um all the guys in the house,

657
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Speaker 1: which was a lot of us. I was actually like

658
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Speaker 1: racking my brain thinking of every single person that was

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Speaker 1: there besides myself, Jack Murphy, of course, Travis Pike, who

660
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Speaker 1: was in the room with me, who stored very loudly

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Speaker 1: at times. If you're listening at a good time. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I got to talk with Travis a lot, who's just

663
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Speaker 1: a really awesome guy, and I was saying, like, I

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Speaker 1: hope to visit Florida at some time and hang out

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Speaker 1: with him. UM, Scott Whittner, Eric Meisner, Mark Miller, Jen's

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Speaker 1: Hammer UM, which, by the way, or some names that

667
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: you guys listen to the podcast often might not be

668
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: that familiar with, because those are all the dudes who

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Speaker 1: are on the load out Room, which is our site

670
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: for guns and gear, as is the Arms Guide, which

671
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: is a part of the load out Room. So I

672
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: definitely don't plug it enough. I am guilty of that.

673
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Speaker 1: It's load out Room dot com. They're all part of

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Speaker 1: the Hurricane family. UM. And then also at the house

675
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Speaker 1: was the Odissean, the mysterious Odisseian Alex Hollings first time

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Speaker 1: meeting him, James Powell uh and Kurt Trotter. This was

677
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Speaker 1: actually my first time meeting Kurt. Kurt was on a

678
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Speaker 1: older episode and I'm looking forward to having him on

679
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: more often. Really interesting guy, great background as a marine

680
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Speaker 1: and also fighting as a volunteer with the Peesh Murga

681
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,760
Speaker 1: and he's now a full time writer at the site,

682
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Speaker 1: so as of very recently, so I hope to have

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Speaker 1: him have more of a presidence on the podcast now.

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Speaker 1: As for the team Room party itself, as you just heard,

685
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Speaker 1: got some you know, quick but good audio with the

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Speaker 1: guys there. I I know every year I go, I

687
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Speaker 1: usually interview the attendees, and I got wrapped up in

688
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: just so many great conversations with people who I've met before,

689
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Speaker 1: who have been with the site for years, people who

690
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: have been with the site for years but never went

691
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Speaker 1: to a team room party, and then just new people

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Speaker 1: who I've never met. And I was honestly just having

693
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Speaker 1: fun getting to know these people and hearing what they

694
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Speaker 1: like about the podcast and their suggestions which I should

695
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: throw out there. I heard so many suggestions from both

696
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: staff members and listeners that I have to get Pat mcnamaraon.

697
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: So that is a huge order of business because everybody

698
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: is saying, get Pat mcnamaraon. So I will hopefully try

699
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Speaker 1: to do that. UM But I mean, I feel like

700
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: the word is overused sometimes, but really humbling just seeing

701
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Speaker 1: these people who listen on a regular basis. UM. One

702
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: of our listeners who was telling me that he's recently

703
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: UM became a part of the Marines and as he

704
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: was training for the Marine Corps, he was listening to

705
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: this podcast all the time. And that's amazing to me.

706
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: And I said to him, like, I'm an avid podcast listener.

707
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Speaker 1: I really am, But I can't relate to that simply

708
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Speaker 1: because well, for one, I've never um joined the militaries

709
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: most of you know. But even when I'm doing something physical,

710
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: it's always music for me. Podcasts are usually what I'm

711
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: driving around two or doing errands around the house. Um,

712
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: that's what I'll tune into. But that just means a

713
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Speaker 1: lot to think that I and the guys that they site,

714
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: the guys who have actually been there and done that,

715
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: inspire people like that to go out and and fight

716
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Speaker 1: for the country. And it's awesome. It's it's great. It's

717
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: just wonderful to hear that. And I know I'm using

718
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Speaker 1: a lot of synonyms there, but it's it's really beyond

719
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: words just to know that you have that influence and

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Speaker 1: that you're both entertaining and inspiring people to reach their goals,

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Speaker 1: whatever those goals maybe, and hearing their stories was awesome

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Speaker 1: And I didn't want to, Um, I don't know, I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to trivialize these great conversations by like throwing

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Speaker 1: phone in someone's face and uh getting some audio for

725
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: the show. To me, it was just more important getting

726
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: to know all of you guys who were there and

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00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: and I really uh it was an honor and a pleasure,

728
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: meaning every one of you was there and speaking with

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00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: all of you. Um, most people like who are who

730
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: are approaching me and saying hey, Ian recognize your voice

731
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 1: straight away, which is uh, you know I. I don't

732
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: get tired of that because it's it's old to hear. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And the other guys who were at the team room

734
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Speaker 1: party were Drew Wallace, Nick Bette's b K, frewman Terius Uh,

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Speaker 1: and of course our friends Read and ajax um Reads

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Speaker 1: one of our bread and Brand ambassadors. Um. You've probably

737
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: seen him during the remembrance rumble stuff and he's big

738
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Speaker 1: in the airsoft community and but but he's a big

739
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: dude that could kick your ass, so don't make fun

740
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: of him. He's he's a he's a big dude. I

741
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: and I love seeing red and I shoot throw out.

742
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Speaker 1: There are those names that I mentioned. That was my

743
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Speaker 1: first time getting to meet b K, first time getting

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00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: to meet frewman Terius, and I would say, like, of

745
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: all these guys that are that was my first time meeting,

746
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: it wasn't surprising who they were. You really do get

747
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: to know these guys hearing their stories on the podcast,

748
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 1: and there are no different in person, So it wasn't

749
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Speaker 1: like meeting a new person from me. When I meet

750
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: these guys who were right for this site, it was

751
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: like seeing an old friend. Um. Most of the guys

752
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: are still actually at shot Show. I I left earlier

753
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: than most to get all this done. But I'm wondering

754
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: if they're gonna hit up that cry Precision party because

755
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: that's always kick ass. I had a great time a

756
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: few years back when it was the Mario Kart theme. Like,

757
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: those guys go all out, so I'll have to hear

758
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,959
Speaker 1: all about it if you go to soft rep dot com.

759
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: These guys even though look I'm not gonna pretend this

760
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: is all work and no play. These guys are definitely

761
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: hard at work as they were in the house. They're

762
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: there with their laptops writing out articles, writing out stories

763
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: about shot shows. So go to soft rep dot com,

764
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: and especially i should say, because there will be even

765
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: more of it, go to load out Room dot com

766
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: because that's where you'll hear all of the gear reviews

767
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: and all of the great stuff on the floor at

768
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: shot Show. UM with that, as you know, those guys

769
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: from Create Club we're there. Scott Whittner is not only

770
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: doing so much for the load out room but has

771
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: been a huge part of Create Club and making or

772
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: that we're picking gear that these guys would deploy with

773
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: that they're really sold on. So become a member. It's

774
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: Create Club dot us. From what I hear, there were

775
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: companies like Daniel Defense and um others just on the

776
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: floor of Shot Show and they had images from shot

777
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: from soft Rep TV. And you know, everybody is aware

778
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: of what Create Club is doing, but for Software TV,

779
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: I should throw out there that there while we were

780
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: at shot Show, I think immediately before that, pretty much

781
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: there was a new inside the team room being recorded

782
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: and it was a special Sniper series, So Jason Delgado

783
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: was there as well as Nick Irving, who's another favorite

784
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: of the show, Isaiah Burkhardt, Nick Betts, and I'm looking

785
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: forward to seeing that. So if you haven't become a

786
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: member of soft Rep TV, you guys hear me talk

787
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: about it every week. Well, not even do you hear

788
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: me talk about it twice a week. But if you're

789
00:40:58,280 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: not sold on it, I don't know what to tell you,

790
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: because it is a lot of great stuff coming and

791
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: now is really the time to join its soft rep

792
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: TV dot us. UH once again appreciate all of you

793
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: made it out and if you didn't make it out,

794
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: I hope to see you next year. I mean, this

795
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: was a different setting than what we usually do in

796
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: Vegas the past few years when we've had a Vegas

797
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: team room party, because we've done them in New York

798
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: as well. Um. We were at the top of the

799
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Speaker 1: Mandalaia Mandalid Bay at the House of Blues Foundation room

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00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: and it's an amazing view. But I would probably say

801
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,760
Speaker 1: this year was the best. And even though it wasn't

802
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: quite uh as extravagant in terms of the view or

803
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: any of that, it was just an awesome turnout of

804
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: fans of the show and it was nice and quiet,

805
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: so you got a chance to talk to everybody, and um,

806
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: the waitresses there, servers were awesome, UH and the bartenders

807
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: and it was just a great staff. So UM, we

808
00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: had had a great time UH meeting everybody, and we're

809
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: looking forward to doing it again next year. And before

810
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: next year, I'm sure there'll be other events for Create

811
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: Club members and UM team room members and possibly some

812
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: book club events. So if you haven't joined all that stuff,

813
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 1: we we really hope that you get on board because

814
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: this is a lot more than just a podcast or

815
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: a website. It truly is a community, UM, and I

816
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: love hearing from you guys. So if you want to

817
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: follow me on Twitter, it's at Ian Scotto, Facebook dot com,

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00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: slash ian Scotto Radio, and of course most importantly follow

819
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: the podcasts uh social media pages at soft Rep Radio,

820
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: and follow Brandon Webb at Brandon t Web because we've

821
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: been doing great stuff with his Power of Thought podcast

822
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: which comes out every Friday. UM, and that's really it. UH.

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Speaker 1: Thanks once again to everybody hung out with these past

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Speaker 1: few days. Love going to Vegas, and for all of

825
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: you at Shot Show as you're hearing this, because it's

826
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Speaker 1: wrapping up there, hope you're enjoying and a lot of

827
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: you probably on your way back. I hope you had

828
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Speaker 1: a great time, have a safe flight, and we'll see

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Speaker 1: you in just a couple of days with another kick

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Speaker 1: ass episode you've been listening to self Rep Radio. New

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Speaker 1: episodes up every Wednesday and Friday for all of the

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Speaker 1: great content from our veteran journalists. Join us and become

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Speaker 1: a Team Moon member today at solt rep dot com.

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Speaker 1: Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter at self rep Radio,

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Speaker 1: and be sure to also check out the Power of

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Speaker 1: Thought podcast hosted by Hurricane Group CEO and Navy Seal

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