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[00:00:07] Speaker B: Welcome to Life, Liberty and Equipped Podcast. I'm Greg Davis, founder of NeoMag and a firm believer that life is worth living boldly. Liberty should be used for good, and we all have a calling to be equipped to pursue it. Every week we explore what it means to live with intention and carry the tools and mindset that prepares for whatever comes. We'll dive into topics around the freedoms we cherish, the gear we trust, and the skills that equip us. It's more than a podcast, it's a mission.
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[email protected] host with me today. First off, as a man with a beard so glorious it deserves its own zip code. That's right, the blue eyed guardian in the Neo Mag Kingdom. When he's not running the shop with precision of a Swiss watch, he's probably deep diving into cartoons like his full time job. He's a general manager, the red bearded wonder and the reason the Gears Keep turning, Mr. Nate Hills.
[00:01:21] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:01:22] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: To my right.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: All true.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: To my right.
Brace yourselves for the caffeinated content king himself.
Fueled by enough Red Bull to power a small city, this man turns ideas into viral, gold and steel into content magic. And don't even think about challenging him at the range with a handgun. He is a dead ringer every single time. It's a man behind the camera and the bullseye. Mr. Michael Billings.
[00:01:46] Speaker D: I like these.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: And I'm afraid, finally the elder statesman of the imag.
[00:01:53] Speaker C: Not just our oldest employee, but the.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Wise Yoda of a careful and a certified YouTube legend.
[00:02:00] Speaker C: He's been.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: He's been closing deals since before Wi Fi was cool and his online fame has only matched by his charm and wit. Bow before the sales samurai himself, Tiberious Giblin.
[00:02:13] Speaker C: Oh no.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: All right, I got to go guys. It was good.
[00:02:16] Speaker C: It was fun. Oh.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: See you later.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: How much time did you spend on chat?
[00:02:21] Speaker D: Gpc?
[00:02:23] Speaker B: Very little.
I just.
I thought that was fun though. Did you guys have fun with that?
[00:02:27] Speaker C: That was great.
[00:02:28] Speaker D: Yeah that's good.
Okay, old man over here.
[00:02:33] Speaker C: Well, ironically, you want your volume up. I just want my ears to stop ringing. I worked out too hard and now my ears are ringing. You just turned mine up.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: I'm not sure which is fine.
[00:02:42] Speaker D: The numbers are backwards. I think I'm one.
[00:02:45] Speaker C: Yeah, Mike's one.
[00:02:46] Speaker D: Yeah, that's. That's me.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Anyways, there we go.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: Hey, everybody.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: Oh, Hi.
[00:02:51] Speaker D: Hello.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: The YouTube legend, the Elder. What did you call it?
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Hold on. The.
The elder statesman of NeoMag.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: The elder statesman, the wise Yoda of.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Sales and a certified YouTube legend.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: I dislike all three.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: I didn't come up with it.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: Just.
[00:03:09] Speaker D: I didn't come up with it.
[00:03:10] Speaker A: Just for now.
[00:03:10] Speaker D: This was a surprise.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: I was. That's why I didn't put in the show notes. I wanted to be a surprise for you guys.
[00:03:16] Speaker C: The beard. What did. What is. My beard deserves its own zip code.
Wow.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: It does. For whatever reason.
Sure. Where that came from.
The blue eyed guardian of Kingdom.
[00:03:28] Speaker C: I like blue eyed guardian.
The red beard is correct.
Although it's almost more white at this point than is red.
But the. It's not that it's. It's been bigger.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: It's definitely been bigger.
[00:03:42] Speaker C: Is pretty tame.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: And I couldn't like measure it without things getting weird and weirdest thing that's happened. But I didn't also didn't have measurements of previous. So I didn't have a way to like, you know, quantify.
[00:03:56] Speaker C: Quantify beard size.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: The. The size.
[00:03:58] Speaker D: Combing through files, trying to look at your pictures of the beard line.
[00:04:01] Speaker C: I'm gonna say this is. This is tame.
Although we're growing it out.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: I think you need like a Neomag cape to go with that blue eye guardian title.
Maybe like a Thor's hammer.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: I don't think we have a cape or.
[00:04:16] Speaker C: And I do have a lab coat.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: So. We have a. Lab coats.
[00:04:18] Speaker D: Lab coats. Yeah. We have wigs.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: We have some costumes.
[00:04:21] Speaker C: I have the shopkeeper from Frozen.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:25] Speaker C: Costume at my house.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Have that Christmas. What's our Christmas?
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Well, we. We used to have elf. I assume he's still around here.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I'll still around. We have a Santa.
[00:04:36] Speaker C: We have Santa stuff.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: You've been Santa several times.
[00:04:41] Speaker D: Santa, Christmas. I don't know.
[00:04:42] Speaker C: Do we have anything else? We borrowed the bunny from Victor.
[00:04:49] Speaker D: Can we just get a blow up suit?
Just. It doesn't matter what. It's a dinosaur.
[00:04:54] Speaker C: Any of them.
[00:04:54] Speaker D: Just one of those that you walk around and it's just probably you wiggle and it wiggles. Yeah.
[00:04:58] Speaker C: I Think we could do that?
[00:04:59] Speaker A: I thought you would talk about something else.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: Mike, that's a doll. That's not a suit. No, not appropriate.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: And he doesn't need to get one of those. He already has one.
Speaking of, Michael, what's going on with you lately?
[00:05:13] Speaker D: Well, I'm the slow one moving around the shop right now. The other day I was on my knees packing boxes.
Very light boxes, mind you. Actually just let me subtract the plural part of that just for one box.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: Box.
[00:05:29] Speaker D: And I move my big toe. Like that's as much of an explanation that I can give. That just caused the pain.
So finding out I've got some underlying back issues and it is a pain in the back. Pun intended.
Other than that, I got sponsored by first form, so I'm like a first form athlete now, which is super. It's awesome to have.
[00:05:54] Speaker C: Also ironic because you can't move.
[00:05:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
In the call, I said, I was like, listen. I was like, I'll jump out of planes. I'll do things crazily. But, like, if you need me to just breathe.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: If you need me to move boxes, I can't walk.
[00:06:09] Speaker D: I'm injured. So that's the. The slow progress of healing is going to the chiropractor and getting that taken care of and getting adjusted. It is driving me nuts because I'm so active and I want to do things and I. It's not that I'm incapable, it's just I know if I do do it at the level that I want to, I'm going to probably further some injury. So trying to take it very easily this week. Just because monsoon range day is coming up this weekend. That's kind of my big, exciting kitten caboodle. I get to see the guys, I get to shoot a little bit this weekend, get to get some cool content.
So that's kind of what's going on with me at the moment. Being a. An old man.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: Aren't you the youngest one in the group, though?
[00:06:56] Speaker D: No, Nate, that would be me.
Hang on. Can I say pipe down, grandpa. Kids are talking, so get off my lawn. Get off my lawn.
Yeah, so just light stretches. I want to get back to where we can get some training in this fall before this Christmas and Potbelly comes on for Thanksgiving and the holidays. But yeah, that's kind of low down for the last.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: If you need help with.
With stretching, let me or Nate know.
[00:07:24] Speaker D: Yeah, I could. Absolutely.
If we, like, we might hear screaming, though. So just.
[00:07:29] Speaker C: I just get volunteered to stretch Mike out.
[00:07:31] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: Please, please record it I want it.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: All on video from our caffeinated content king as we'll make sure that we get content.
[00:07:38] Speaker D: Listen, I'm good to go. I drink water though. I just want you guys to know.
[00:07:42] Speaker C: I'm proud of you.
[00:07:44] Speaker D: I'm having at least one water bottle in between a Red Bull. If I have two in a day but I've.
[00:07:49] Speaker C: That's good.
[00:07:49] Speaker D: My limit is two. But I don't even do two a day now. And the monster wasn't mine, so I full record. Yeah, it wasn't mine but I put it in the fridge.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: So Ord was how many weeks ago. I've been wrestling daily to bring it in on if I should bring it to you.
[00:08:03] Speaker D: It wasn't. I don't even think it's mine.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: I think it's joke got back from RD and I was emptying the little cooler and there was a monster in there.
[00:08:07] Speaker C: Not mine. I wasn't there. Oh, it's tips.
[00:08:11] Speaker D: Oh, there it is.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Well, I, I, I kind of figured it probably was. What color is it? Because you're. It's orange. Because you're not really a monster guy. You're a Red Bull guy.
[00:08:18] Speaker D: They gave me kidney stones. I tried it again the other day and the taste. I know everybody loves and glorifies the white monster, but the white one is my jam. I just. Red Bull is. Is king.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Although I did, I did pick up yesterday. I never. I can't think of last time I drank a monster. But I stopped at the gas station yesterday. I'm on my way to get on my way to my tattoo appointment. I just want something to drink. I'm sitting there and the entire. I went to the to that big gas station truck stop in Ashland. It's huge, right? The all of the refrigerators. The whole thing wasn't working. Everything was like warmer then the room temperature. The only thing they had is like this little fridge with some monsters in it. So I did get. It was like a mango something. It was like some special edition one, but it was a mango and it was delicious.
[00:09:05] Speaker D: Was it like a colorful bluish orange color can maybe. Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. I, I like those.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: It was so good.
[00:09:14] Speaker D: Monsters were great. They gave me kidney stones. And then I was like okay, we can't do this anymore. Switched to Red Bull and sweet tea.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Well, it was probably also gave me kidneys. I don't think it was just the monster. It was the lack of any water and it was the gallons of cheap sweet tea.
[00:09:31] Speaker D: Okay. Just for full Transparency. For those of you all that don't know, we were in Texas. It was the dead of the heat. Summer.
I loved it. I've been living in Florida, so the guys laugh at me because it's freezing all the time here, and when it's freezing, when it's hot, they. They don't like the heat. I can tolerate the heat. But that entire weekend was praise Jesus, by God. That was the best sweet tea from the South. You do not have it in Ohio. You have. We have sugar water or unsweet tea. You can put packets in. It's just not the same. That was such good sweet tea. You could not turn it down, so I did.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: You did? Yep, I did. Tim, did you.
[00:10:10] Speaker D: The kidney stone.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Tim, turn it down.
[00:10:12] Speaker D: None of y' all drank it.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: But I don't think my opinion matters with sweet tea being I'm from the North.
[00:10:17] Speaker D: You guys are born.
It's. It. It's a never. I'm never going to win the sweet tea battle with you guys.
It's like your love for liquid death is sweet tea.
I got muted, but it did kick me for a second.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Cut his mic off.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: He's muting himself, not you.
[00:10:39] Speaker D: But anyways, just drink water.
Drink water now.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Immediately.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: Well, Patrick, Patriotic pangolin says you need an ibuprofen sponsorship or maybe Excedrin because it has caffeine.
[00:10:52] Speaker D: There you go.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: Which I think is fair.
[00:10:54] Speaker D: I would eat those. Like candy. Like sweet.
[00:10:56] Speaker C: That's a problem. And then we have another. We have another comment from Facebook. It's Facebook. This is awesome. Miguel. I'm not gonna say your last name. Miguel. I'm sorry. Says, count to 10. More aqua.
[00:11:09] Speaker D: Hey, fair enough. I know. Drink more water one day.
[00:11:13] Speaker C: For you.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: Nate was doing posts about hydration.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: I did. Yesterday. Yesterday.
[00:11:17] Speaker D: There's a lot of stickers on that bottle.
You guys have so many stickers on your bottles.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: Except for you don't have a tiberius sticker.
[00:11:24] Speaker C: Who has not given me a Tiberia sticker.
[00:11:26] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: Where?
[00:11:30] Speaker A: They're not for sale.
[00:11:31] Speaker C: Okay, I go back to who hasn't given me a Tiberia sticker.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: I will. I will bring you some with some.
[00:11:36] Speaker D: Candy corn and raisin bread.
[00:11:40] Speaker C: And there still won't be a Tiberia sticker on my water bottle.
[00:11:43] Speaker D: What's going on with you guys? What's. What's new with you guys?
[00:11:46] Speaker B: Yeah, what's going on, Nate?
[00:11:47] Speaker C: My ears are ringing.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: I don't think that's.
[00:11:50] Speaker D: That's probably not normal.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: No, I worked out too hard, and now my ears are Ringing I have Man Camp this weekend.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: That's gonna explain what that is to our listeners.
[00:12:01] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:12:03] Speaker C: No.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: What's going on?
[00:12:05] Speaker C: Man Camp is a men's retreat down in a down near Cincinnati, Ohio. It's outside of a non existent town called Felicity.
But it's an event. There's a. Last time I heard there was close to 3,000 men signed up.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:12:22] Speaker C: It is now from. They said there's representatives from every state in the US and multiple countries now that come out for this event. It's pretty cool.
So it's a put on by Crossroads Church down in Cincinnati. And you go down, they have a very, very large piece of property that everyone comes and kind of backpacks in. You know, it's not, it's not serious backpacking. You know, it's not mountains, stuff like that. You just walk in from your parking area and then you go and find a spot with the guys that you come in with.
You set up camp Friday. So we'll get down there midday Friday, set up our camping spot.
We'll have worship Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday night and Sunday morning with some interspersed activities throughout that. But a lot of time just spent with the guys you go down with and then just a lot of time out in nature. You know, there's no. I'll put my phone down when I leave the truck. Friday after we start hiking in, I'll take my watch off, take my phone. Those all leaving the truck. I won't touch any of that until I get back to the truck on Sunday.
We'll just hang out, do stuff. They have some fun. So they, you go down what they call as a unit. So your group of guys you go with is a unit and they'll do some unit activities.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: Like what's your unit name again?
[00:13:44] Speaker C: We are the Mountain House Mafia. So if you are familiar with backpacking, there's the Mountain House meals, the freeze dried food.
In the first year that we all went down together, most of us brought Mountain House because they provide one meal at lunchtime on Saturday which is they break out these massive charcoal grills from that they literally have to pull as a trailer behind trucks. They break out these massive charcoal grills and they cook.
I mean I think last year was like 10,000 brats or something like that. And they all get eaten, they all disappear. But some ungodly number of brats and they have chips and you know, all of the, the stuff you need on the side. So they provide that meal. But every other meal you have to provide for yourself. So we all Brought Mountain House meals because that's the easiest thing to pack in. It's easier than trying to drag coolers and all of that other stuff. We. The one thing we do as a tradition is we bring steaks that are frozen the first night, so they thaw out as you drive down, thaw out as you hike in, and then we cook them over the fire the first night. But after that, we just do Mountain House. So we named ourselves to the Mountain House Mafia. I made T shirts for it and everything.
It's kind of fun. But so our unit, the Mountain House Mafia, we'll do on Saturday. They always do, like, an obstacle course, which is really just a goofy run through the woods where they give you some kind of obstacles. And I don't mean like climbing over ropes and stuff, but they give your. Your team objectives. So the first year, somebody had to carry a live cricket the whole time and not kill it. One of your team members was blindfolded the whole time.
[00:15:19] Speaker D: Oh, wow.
[00:15:20] Speaker C: And you had to. I mean, you didn't have to run, but you want to run. You want to go as fast as you can, right? So one of your team members is blindfolded, and you have to launch a potato at a target. And in the midst of that, there's guys actually running a part of the course underneath you, launching potatoes. So as you're running that portion, you're dodging potatoes because no one's launching them. Well, so it's. Things like that. It's a. It's quite a lot of fun. And you. The worship is amazing. I mean, there's literally 3,000 guys under a giant. Basically, it's a circus tent. It's not a circus tent, but that's the best way I can describe it. It's the best thing you can get for 3,000 guys to all pack underneath. They put on amazing worship this year.
I think they've secured him. Bear Grylls is going to come speak. I didn't know he's a believer, but he actually just wrote a book all about theology. It was really interesting. But they're gonna have Bear Grylls come speak. Tib, you're laughing.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: I'm laughing at dm. Sorry. Not. Not at you.
[00:16:22] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
Sorry, Dan, you can come down anytime and eat wieners on the mountain. It's gonna be great.
But Bear Grylls is going to come speak this year, which is really cool. They've got a singer from. I'm not going to remember what. What group he's from.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: Creed.
[00:16:39] Speaker C: Nope. That would be awesome.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Scott's dead.
[00:16:42] Speaker C: I'm not gonna remember his name. It doesn't matter. They've got some really cool guys coming out to watch this or to come be a part of it this year. That's gonna be really, really neat, that.
It's just a neat event.
It's focused on men. They talk about man stuff. And beforehand, if you are following the pastor that helps put on this event, what you'll see is he goes out to that property, prays over that property. The staff goes and prays over that property.
The church that puts it on owns it. It's a lot of acreage. They actually just bought more to facilitate more of this kind of thing because they were running out of space for 3,000 guys. They don't just use it for only this event. They use it for other ones. But this one in particular is their biggest camp that they put on. So they bought more property. But leading up to the event, they're praying over it and prepping the ground. They have a tent that literally is just there for prayer. Guys go in, they can get prayed for and there's. They call it the MASH tent. Like mash from the old TV show.
And they have guys that all. Their whole sole purpose the entire weekend is to sit in that tent and pray for people. That's it. It is really, really a neat event. So. Oh, Dante Bow or Bowie. Thank you. That's that. He's coming to sing, so it's going to be really, really cool.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: He's great.
[00:18:06] Speaker C: But yeah, so it's going to be a really, really neat event. This is my third or fourth year. I can't remember going down. So we leave Friday morning. We'll drive down as a convoy. There's three or four vehicles that'll go down. I think my unit's grown to 12 guys from six. We were six when we started.
Six or seven, and we were now up to 12.
So we've got two new guys coming this year. We had two or three new guys last year, whatever that math ends up being. So, yeah, it's going to be neat. It'll be a fun event. It's really, really neat.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: I was just checking on the weather for you.
[00:18:47] Speaker C: Friday, at least last time I checked, Friday and Saturday looks nice. It'll rain into Sunday.
Listen, last year it was literally a hurricane. Like we walked in last year here. Story time, fun time. So we were driving down. So my best friend Eli, last year was his first year, and we were watching. I don't remember which hurricane was coming in, but there Was a hurricane literally hitting the coast. So everything was rainy and windy and. And he texted me like Thursday before the event. He goes, at what point do they cancel this? Because you know, we're sleeping in tents. We're not, you know, sleeping in campers or in a hotel. It's like, when do they cancel this event? I said, I don't think they do.
This isn't a canceling thing. He goes, so when do we cancel? I said, you can not go. I said, I'm going.
There's not a. I'm not going. We're going to go.
And he's like, okay.
And we got down there and the whole drive down it was literally the. My truck was being like blown on the road. Not like dangerous, but you know, you could feel the truck moving by, the wind blowing. It was raining the whole time we park and as we walked up to the, you know, check in tent, I watched because they do put Porta Johns on the property. So you don't have to poop in the woods. We all poop in the woods. You don't have to poop in the woods. I watched a row of Porta John's get blown over by the wind. The wind was blowing so much.
And it continued like that. I mean there was breaks. It wasn't like that the whole time. But you watch tents getting ripped out of the ground a little bit and everything. So the joke was it wasn't man camp, it was her a camp last year.
By, by Sunday it had calmed down. It really was by Saturday mid morning it was fine. It wasn't a big deal. But it was wet and muddy. There was guys that fully accepted the circumstances and basically just were in shorts running around in mud the whole time, which was funny to watch. Most of them were younger. The older guys were a little more grumpy about it. But it was a great time regardless. This year should be much, much more reasonable than that.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:45] Speaker C: But overall it's a great event. If you have an opportunity to go. I would say 100% go.
I would say try and find us, but there's 3,000 guys. Good luck. Really. I mean it's not.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: I would actually. Yeah. Every, every year you come back for me, come back from it and, and share stories about it. It does sound like something I would love to.
[00:21:05] Speaker C: It's really fun.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Anyways, very good.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: That's what I'm doing.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: Tip.
[00:21:12] Speaker A: So something I haven't told any of you guys is I joined the Knights of Columbus this week.
For those who don't know, Knights Of Columbus is a group of men's Christian group that supports the local community, supports our local church.
For the past couple years, I wanted to do more as far as, you know, volunteering and helping and serving more.
And it's very easy just to get caught up in the hecticness of one's life like I have. So I made a. I wanted to make a point of joining one. We have quite a few local groups and we have the Lions and Knights of Columbus and there's two others. So I looked into all of them and one, I didn't want a group that was overly political and the Knights are not. And I wanted to make sure the group had a lot of opportunities and a diverse set of opportunities to volunteer and give back and help people. And I was blown away by these, these gentlemen, the local group of Knights. Like, I could sit here for 20 minutes and tell you all the stuff they do. I won't, obviously, but like four times a year they do things with local people from a, like mental, mentally handicapped local folks. They go to Jamaica once a year and they do.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: That's why you signed up.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: That didn't hurt. No. They go to Jamaica and they build houses for like a. Trying to be nice abandoned, abandoned kids that are all a handicap in one way or another. They have mum sales and the blood drives and breakfast and they do things for Habitat with Humanity.
They have an acre garden here locally, and this year they pulled 9,000 pounds of vegetables out of their garden and donated all of it to local food pantries and whatnot.
So you get the idea. But there's so many opportunities to give back, and October 25th is my first thing they're doing. They're building a house for Habitat for Humanity. And I'll show up that morning and help where I can. I'm not a very good builder, but I can pick things up, so I'll do what I can.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:23:20] Speaker C: Now, keep.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: Keep the nail out of my hand.
[00:23:23] Speaker C: I suspect I'm going to be very disappointed in this answer.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: You're going to ask what? I was going to ask a bit.
[00:23:27] Speaker C: But when you join, do you have to wear armor? And do they knight you with a.
[00:23:31] Speaker B: Sword or do you get to carry.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: A sword even a step further than that? Since COVID they started doing it online.
They don't even do it in person.
[00:23:42] Speaker C: Lame.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: And I, I nicely said to him, like, the online ceremony looked really nice. Have you guys ever thought about bringing this back in person? And they're all like, no, no.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: Lame.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it was Lame. But it's gonna.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: If you came in armor and with a sword, would they.
[00:24:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Would they be disappointed?
[00:24:02] Speaker B: Would they have a problem with that?
[00:24:03] Speaker A: There's only one way to find out.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:07] Speaker C: I just go to the Habitat for Humanity event in a Knights of Columbus.
[00:24:12] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:24:13] Speaker C: Full suit of armor and just stand there, sword in air.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:19] Speaker C: Build. That's what you have to do the whole time.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: Yes. And you have to have your son, like, follow you around with coconuts.
[00:24:26] Speaker C: Oh, that's true.
It's true. He could be your faithful squire.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: Patsy.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: That's exactly what we'll do.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: Perfect.
[00:24:34] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: But I'm excited for.
I don't know the word I want to use, but I'm going to say the opportunity.
[00:24:40] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:24:41] Speaker A: Of the, of the opportunity to give back more. Because that's something I wanted to do and I, I don't think I've done enough.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: That's cool. Yeah, that's very cool.
[00:24:50] Speaker C: I like that.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:24:52] Speaker D: What about you? What did you do yesterday?
[00:24:55] Speaker B: So I went, I had a tattoo appointment yesterday. It's been, honestly, it's probably been a couple years.
I was trying to do the math.
[00:25:03] Speaker C: What did you say about it? It hurts.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Oh, I do not remember hurting this bad. No, I, I, I basically had the top half of my arm kind of redone. Some of the tattoos were almost 15 years old. If not, actually there's a couple were older than that. And at the time, like, each one just kind of got pieced. The top half of my arm just kind of just got pieced together and kind of just fit together.
And then the bottom half, my arm was all one cohesive thing. And so it just didn't, didn't go together well. So I wanted him to kind of fix that and he did. His name's Dan O Main Street.
Main street tattoo down in Ashland. Highly, highly recommend, Dano. All the artists there are just top notch people.
Top notch artists. And so it's always, honestly, I sat in the chair for three hours, but I would say at least half that time is us just chatting, you know, the whole, the whole time he's not, he's not digging in, so it's fun just to hang out. That's honestly part of the reason why I keep going back. I just enjoyed kind of the conversation hanging out. And he's almost 60 years old. He's a, he's a veteran. He's got stories. He's been tattooing professionally for like 40 years or something like that. And so he's, the stories he has of people that Come in and their stories and just all kinds of things is really cool.
[00:26:30] Speaker D: So speaking of tattoos, what are we doing?
[00:26:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. So while I was there, I booked the four of us a tattoo appointment together. We're all going to go get matching tattoos together.
Tip's very excited.
So we had a.
Now I call him a.
A friend. Do. Do some. Do some designs for us. Actually, the neomeg logo you see behind us is. Is from him.
The logo for our podcast comes from. I got it from him.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: I don't know if you can see it.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: Well, we call it the lightning logo, and we have it on tips pulling up on his phone. For those of you that are there online, you can kind of see it. Shout out.
[00:27:13] Speaker C: Roberto.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: Yeah, Roberto. So we're. We're gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna get that. We've. As soon as we saw the art for that from Roberto, all four of us are like, well, that's going to be a tattoo that we just kind of immediately said, yeah, that needs to be a tattoo.
[00:27:26] Speaker D: So have you guys decided where you're putting it?
[00:27:28] Speaker C: Negative.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: I think maybe on my right side. Side of my right calf.
[00:27:34] Speaker D: Maybe I'm gonna do it on my leg, too.
[00:27:36] Speaker C: I'm saying it can't be my right leg.
[00:27:38] Speaker D: We should do it on.
[00:27:38] Speaker C: The right leg is reserved.
[00:27:40] Speaker D: Yeah, the left leg's reserved.
[00:27:42] Speaker C: I can't do my right leg. I don't know if I want to do it on my arm or not. I feel like my arm is reserved for other things. I'm not sure.
So I think it might just have to be my left leg. Like, that's kind of where it's at. I think that's just kind of. I don't want to say, like, that's all it's got, but I think that's kind of where it's going.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:58] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:27:58] Speaker B: How about you, T?
[00:28:00] Speaker A: I don't know either. My left arm, maybe my leg.
[00:28:04] Speaker D: We should all do it on the same spot on the leg, too.
[00:28:07] Speaker C: Well, you said your left leg is reserved, though.
[00:28:10] Speaker D: I'm doing it on the right leg.
[00:28:11] Speaker C: Oh, well, I guess we could all just do it on the same throat tattoo.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Dan.
[00:28:14] Speaker C: You're right.
[00:28:15] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:28:15] Speaker C: Throat.
[00:28:16] Speaker D: I said the back of the back of the ear like that. That's the one for all of us.
[00:28:20] Speaker C: It's gonna have to be too big for it. Like, you couldn't fit it.
[00:28:23] Speaker D: Oh, no. I just think it's hilarious to see.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: Yeah. So that'll be fun, though, when. When tape comes into town. For our Christmas company Christmas party.
[00:28:33] Speaker D: So we're all gonna be hobbling.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Yeah. We're gonna get tattoos, and then we're gonna go drive. Go karts for an hour. So just think about where the tattoo's going and then having to.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: For left leg. I don't have to use that foot.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: That's what I was thinking.
[00:28:46] Speaker C: Top of your foot. No, absolutely not, Dan. No.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: That sounds painful.
[00:28:51] Speaker D: If you did it on the palm.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:28:54] Speaker A: Oh, that'd be awful, too.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Nope.
[00:28:56] Speaker C: So just.
[00:28:56] Speaker A: It would probably. It probably wear away.
[00:28:57] Speaker D: It wear away so fast.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: Yeah. But at one point of just kind of.
So if you've never got a tattoo, it's very important to stay relaxed. If you tense up, it's going to make it worse. If you hold your breath, you're going to pass out. So you have to stay relaxed and just keep. Make sure you keep breathing. And there were several points where, like, we're. We're just kind of mid. Mid conversation. I'm just talking to him, and he hits a spot, and I just go.
And he was like, I'm gonna have to get you a pampering.
I asked him, like, does this hurt worse as you get older? He says, absolutely.
[00:29:32] Speaker C: Eat something.
[00:29:33] Speaker D: There's.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:34] Speaker D: Two occasions now. I have. I have 14. I've seen people pass out that I was like, I need to stop. And I had to pop a Jolly Rancher in my mouth just because I didn't eat. I was drinking Red Bull caffeine. Right. And that was it. So eat something.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And then outside of that, just. My kids are busy, which means I'm busy taking them to their kid things. My daughter had homecoming last weekend.
[00:29:55] Speaker D: How was that?
[00:29:57] Speaker B: She said it was great. It was a good time. She had, like, four of her girlfriends over at noon. They started getting ready at noon.
Pictures were at five.
Yeah. So. But girls in the house. But it was. But it was fun to watch.
[00:30:11] Speaker D: Did they play the game, the football game, too, on Friday?
[00:30:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:15] Speaker D: Did they win?
[00:30:15] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that. We. We went to the game, and they were up like, 48. Nothing and a half. Oh, so we left.
[00:30:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
Sounds good.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: It's not. It's good homecoming, so. All right, well, kind of wraps up our last segment. Head into Liberty.
[00:30:34] Speaker C: Liberty isn't about what we can get away with. It's about how we use our freedom to serve.
[00:30:39] Speaker B: Let's explore what that looks like today.
So Tib had the idea for today's.
Today's topic.
If you guys haven't seen there's a new law in California raising big questions.
Well it's not really big questions.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: Big anger.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: Big anger. Big, big mad. So California recently passed Assembly Bill 1127 set to take effect at July 1st of 2026.
It bans licensed dealers from selling many semi automatic pistols that feature a cruciform trigger bar. I never heard called that before. It's kind of cool.
A design characteristic of most Glock pistols and similar models.
The state argues this aims to prevent guns from being easily converted into fully automatic weapons using Illegal. Illegal. It's already illegal devices known as Glock switches.
[00:31:33] Speaker C: Oh no.
[00:31:34] Speaker B: Well the law does not confiscate existing firearms. It restricts future sales of many Glock style pistols and could set a precedent for design based bans. Gun rights advocates are preparing constitutional challenges of course arguing the law punishes legal firearm legal firearms and owners instead of targeting illegal modifications.
So what's your guys thoughts on this?
[00:31:58] Speaker C: Well I was trying to look for it not because I for sure know this is a thing but I believe either someone in the comments can correct me or we can find out at some point and. But I think there's actually already been precedent set that you can't just ban something completely based on its ability to be turned into something fully automatic. Right.
Because arguably you can say that about AR lowers. All you have to do is some simple drilling and some extra little bits and that could be turned into a fully automatic firearm.
[00:32:39] Speaker D: Right.
[00:32:39] Speaker C: So I don't know that for sure. I was trying to look forward actually based on this conversation. I didn't have a whole lot of time to actually sit down and research it. But I believe there's already been court cases that have gone through saying you cannot make it like make a law banning a gun based on its ability to be converted into a fully automatic firearm because its design wasn't. Wasn't designed to do that or that's.
[00:33:08] Speaker D: Not the right word.
[00:33:09] Speaker B: It's not currently made to.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: Correct. Yeah, correct. Just because it can be converted into doesn't mean it in its current form is or was intended to.
So again I don't know that for sure. I was trying to look for it. If that precedent is there, there's a good chance that that makes it easier for this to get shot down.
It's California, they're going to continue.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So they're probably going to do what they want anyway.
[00:33:34] Speaker C: But I did as I was looking for the case to say that California is not the first one to do this though.
New York was trying to do this. I don't know if it went through specifically around Glock.
Maryland was trying to do something about this. It's all to do with the.
What are we calling them?
[00:33:52] Speaker D: Glock switches.
[00:33:53] Speaker C: The Glock switches because Illinois is angry about them. Because the Chicago, they're all getting bent out of shape because it's, you know, you can 3D print this and stick it in there and you know, boom, it's fully automatic.
So there's multiple states that are attempting to make this a thing.
The argument of course being, well, if we make that illegal, then you can't get it. How is that different than you've already made the switch itself illegal Owning that it's more illegal right now.
[00:34:22] Speaker B: There's already a multiple.
[00:34:23] Speaker C: Yeah. So anyways, there is potentially. Again, I can't say that I found it. I was looking for it with limited time that there is precedent set that could make this a easier time to get through or get shot down in court. So we'll see.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it will.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: It will get reversed. To piggyback that the.
The Supreme Court said when things are common use. I forgot if it was the Bruin case or a different one, but they said if something is common use like a Glock, you can't. You can't ban it. And they've talked about that before. I think more than anything else, Gavin Newsom would like to be president. And he's trying to do things to bolster his appearance to the Democratic Party. And this is one of the many things he's trying to do to get that Democratic nomination.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that makes sense. It's a.
I hope you guys are right, because does set a very dangerous precedent to ban things based on capabilities of what it could do.
[00:35:32] Speaker D: Right.
[00:35:34] Speaker B: I'd actually done. I did a little bit of searching because I was like, you know, I wonder if this came up because of something like, has there been a rash of crime of full auto Glocks being used on things? And I actually couldn't find any news source reporting any crimes that have happened with.
With full auto converted things. I found. I did find some with people found with weapons that. That had been converted or the head clock switches and stuff like that, but there really wasn't any.
Any news stories of shootings.
Chicago that is done with. I'm sure there is, but just. I was just looking at California like.
[00:36:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm not saying California. I'm simply saying in my brief search, I found some in Chicago, not California. There's not necessarily a precedent in California for this thing.
But it's Gavin Newsome, he's gonna be like, Well, I see something that we don't like, so let's make it a thing here.
Historically, they don't like guns in California. I don't know if you knew that.
[00:36:34] Speaker B: Yeah, well, they don't like freedom and guns for sure. I think they. I was gonna say the.
I was gonna say something. You're gonna say something?
[00:36:46] Speaker D: Yeah. No, Kind of too. It's kind of funny to piggyback. Piggyback. I'm jumping on both of your guys or all of your backs to piggyback off of you for this one.
I do think Gavin Newsom is definitely trying to entice the political candidacy for president. I think that's kind of the narrative that it looks like that's the route he's trying to push for.
So you're in, you're inciting that. What you do look at in the past is you can look at California band, the magazine capacity. Right. So there was already a restricting and limitations on, on guns and then type of guns where you had to have specific modifications to a gun in California to be California compliant. So.
Yes. Does this potentially pose risk to the gun community and the respect of firearms and them just finding another alleyway to try to backdoor ban something?
Yeah, for sure. But like you guys have also said too, these things have been illegal. And if you're going to take something away from the law abiding citizen, it doesn't mean that I'm still. I'm incapable of getting it. It just means I have a moral compass that says I'm not going to do it because it is now illegal. Right. And that's the same thing that you could apply across the board. But people with ill intent or evil acts are going to do exactly what they want to. They have no regard for somebody else. So evil is going to act upon itself. Itself.
So you take it away and they're still going to find it. If you take something from me, if I work hard enough or look long enough or have the right connections, I can get a hold of something. So I don't think you're ever going to obsolete or ban or get rid of anything in that relation. Now to your point and, and full auto Glocks and everything else. Yeah. You see a lot of guns being taken off the street that have them. But can you find like the crime crimes that are consistent with that? Probably not. There's probably not a lot of data out there for it.
But again, back to the President that it's already illegal to begin with.
[00:38:47] Speaker B: So there's a lot of illegal Things happening before that.
[00:38:51] Speaker D: Right. So, you know, I don't want to go into the political side, but I will mention this just to kind of be a caveat to that. And the FRT trigger is true. We're in the industry also creating our own loop or a gray area that's kind of. You want to push back on us. Well, we'll find our way to circumnavigate the grammatical pretext in the law. Right. So because that's always. You find the wording and you, you adjust and adjust the gray area. And the FRT trigger is not making a gun a full auto, but you pull the trigger and every time you let up that gun cycles, you can't tell the difference. Right. I couldn't tell the cyclic rate between that and just pulling a full auto trigger.
But the, the last point that I have to. This is again, not to be political was if you look at Memphis, they brought in the military police and they brought in the National Guard to help with the crime.
And this is the huge benefit to this is they found 49 missing children within a week. Right. So that's amazing. They got drugs off the street, they got kids recovered, they got criminals put in jail, they got warrants served and issued. Now, I'm not an advocate for putting military in the streets, but sometimes when you need to clean it up and clean up the streets and the crime that's out there and you're already limited with blue line and with officers or with the budget from what the states and local departments have, I think that's a good sign that we can start cleaning up some of the crimes from those bad doers or wrongdoers that have the intent of using, you know, these switches or anything of that regard. Yeah. But I really do believe strongly that our, our 2A advocates in those like the Gun Owners of America and everything, are going to continue to push for all of our states and all of our rights across the board.
Like Tip said it, at this point, California is going to do what California wants to until the Californians get fed up and tired of it and tell us, tell them that you're making laws that aren't changing. Changing anything, aren't directly impacting us in any positive way at all. You're actually just restricting the people.
So that's kind of my.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: I just wonder when that.
What is that line? Because I've already done so much.
[00:41:03] Speaker D: I feel like when they, when they.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: Start knocking on people's doors.
[00:41:08] Speaker D: Yeah. With the military.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: Going door to door, people will, will pacify. Pacify the people until then, or like they've been trying to do for years. They've been trying to make a north and south California because Northern California, there's a lot of good gun owners.
[00:41:25] Speaker B: You know, really.
[00:41:26] Speaker C: Even. Even Eastern California. Yeah, it's actually just. It's really just southern coastline.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:33] Speaker D: Outside of the political aspect and even the gun side, I think people across the board in all of their respected states and the United States are kind of coming to this general consensus that enough is enough with some of these bipartisan bills, laws, and things that are put into place that are doing us no good. They're just restricting the people. And I think even Californians like you guys are saying it's a kind of a divide because people are saying, no, this is our state too, and these are our freedoms and our liberties that were given to us.
So I do hope we have a stand against it. But I mean, I think you've got the knowledge too. For 10 years in business, you've probably faced restrictions and countless irritable moments where, you know, the ATF and being audited and coming through and checking everything. It's like, at what point do we get a trust as a company, as a business or anything unlike Glock? Like, Glock's been around serving the government, serving military contracts and LEOs forever. And now you're going to try to ban the number one probably seller for all of police departments across the board, even in California.
[00:42:40] Speaker C: Right.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: So, I mean, do you think if Glock could. I'm not even sure if it's possible. Like if they could manufacture the gun so that you could not put a full auto switch in it. Like, what do you think? Do you think they should do that? If they, if they could. To try to reduce on that happening or. Dude. Or not. What do you guys think?
[00:43:01] Speaker C: Well, there's. I don't. Go ahead, Tip, you go first.
[00:43:05] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: I don't think they should have to. No, absolutely not.
[00:43:08] Speaker C: There's.
[00:43:08] Speaker A: There's no need for it.
[00:43:09] Speaker C: I was gonna say. I would say, no, I don't think they should, but I was actually gonna go further and I said. I was gonna say, I don't think they will either.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: No, I don't think they will.
[00:43:17] Speaker C: There's.
[00:43:17] Speaker D: It's perfection.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: They haven't changed anything.
[00:43:21] Speaker C: And. Well, there's that decades. But truly, I.
I don't think they should, but I don't think they will.
Outside of the perfection thing. I actually.
They have. They don't. How do I say it? They don't care. About the civilian sales, that's not where Glock is getting their money. It's from governments and militaries and those kind of things. And this particular thing is not going to affect any of that.
So they're not going to go through any effort to change that based on one states or a couple blue states changing some legislation that's going to change their, their slight thing. The only thing they had to change for most of these states, like, oh, we had to make a mag that's shorter or a mag that takes less rounds, which just means I put a plastic filler in it. That's, that's an easy thing. That wasn't a big deal. But to fully change a design simply to allow them to still get a couple thousand sales in the grand scheme of, of money, they're not going to change that. They don't care.
And nor should they have to. It doesn't make any sense. Absolutely not.
[00:44:31] Speaker D: But you have to ask yourself, like the Glock switches, they're primarily made for government contracts, right? So somewhere along the line, there's got to be some good person that's also kind of like, here, buddy, I got.
[00:44:43] Speaker C: Is it.
[00:44:43] Speaker B: Does any. The government people trying to shoot full auto? I mean, I think all of us here have shot a full auto Glock before. It is the most ridiculous thing ever.
You couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from the inside of a barn.
It just, it's, it's ridiculous. I don't know if there's actually any practicality. Yeah, like real practical use for it. I don't think it's. That's military use.
[00:45:08] Speaker C: There's some argument that could be made that in this would be a very small subset of scenarios that it could be used for suppression.
And I don't mean this is in like sound suppression, but fire superiority in a close protection scenario. I'm trying to move somebody and I'm trying to get people to move and get. And it gives you down.
[00:45:33] Speaker B: Gives you a whole two seconds of suppression.
[00:45:36] Speaker D: It's a lot of rounds down, but.
[00:45:37] Speaker C: It'S a lot of.
[00:45:38] Speaker D: It's a man that's fast.
[00:45:39] Speaker C: Yeah, but it's a lot of down.
[00:45:41] Speaker A: Drum mag.
[00:45:41] Speaker C: Well, I was gonna say there's. There's scenarios again, but it's a very specific subset. And they're not using a Glock switch.
They're using a Glock 18, which is designed for that. They're not using a Glock switch, which is a 3D printed thing you put into the thing.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: But I gotta think most of anybody in that scenario probably already has a third switch on the rifle.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: Well, but this is. Again, you want to have something you can throw under a coat, you have to. You have to put it through all the scenarios. This is a specific subset of people. This is not.
[00:46:15] Speaker D: It's like an MP5, but smaller.
[00:46:17] Speaker C: Correct.
[00:46:18] Speaker D: Full auto.
[00:46:19] Speaker C: This is a very. Again, a very small subset of people.
[00:46:22] Speaker D: Not.
[00:46:23] Speaker C: Not a large subset. That's why Glock designed the Glock 18 to begin with at all.
[00:46:29] Speaker D: Which is an awesome.
[00:46:30] Speaker C: Oh, it's fantastic. So much fun.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: It's fun.
[00:46:32] Speaker D: Fun to shoot. Slow mo looks great.
[00:46:34] Speaker C: Somebody asked for it. They didn't just design it just to design it. Somebody asked for it for a specific scenario.
Was it designed for anybody?
Was a design for everybody? Absolutely not. Was it designed for a specific mission set? 100 it was.
And there are people that will use it for it. I've seen guys in specific units that were given it for specific things.
Is it going to be used as a regular. No, absolutely not. No. But there are scenarios that it's useful.
Very narrow. Extremely narrow.
[00:47:11] Speaker A: I know how to fix. I know how to fix the issue.
Just let us all. Let us all have full auto guns again.
[00:47:17] Speaker D: If we all have them, that won't be a problem. Yeah, there's that funny video of the guy. He's got all. You know, they're all in multicam, so I'm streaming soldiers, right? They're all online. And he walks up, brings the gun up sideways, It's a full auto, and they just all light it up. So that's a.
[00:47:33] Speaker C: A Green Beret and he's training host forces. Yeah, that's what he's doing.
I don't know why he did that, but that's what he's doing. He's doing something. I don't know if he was trying to acclimate them to shooting, if he was making a point of shoot that direction, right? Like this is, you know, your direction of fire. We're going for what? I don't know what he was doing, but that's what he. That's who. Who he was. And what he was doing was training host forces that.
[00:48:02] Speaker D: I still remember that video.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: But anyways, I'm with Dan. I think we need a belt fed Glock.
[00:48:08] Speaker C: I just want a saw.
[00:48:10] Speaker D: Can I just have a saw?
[00:48:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I want a real saw. Not.
[00:48:14] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:48:15] Speaker C: Not the civilianized version. I want a real one. I want my saw, please.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: Well, I think just kind of wrap.
[00:48:22] Speaker C: This, which I don't think we hit any of the points you have on the list.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: I was just going to see where that. I was going to kind of see where the conversation went. So.
But as far as kind of how this applies to liberties is.
[00:48:37] Speaker C: What are.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: We doing when it comes to election time? Are we getting involved with who we're electing that are putting people in office that are doing crazy things like this?
So get involved, pay attention to who you're voting. Don't just go down the line and see who has an R who has a D next to it and just check those things off because that's not a great way to figure out who it is that they should be voting for.
That's the first thing I kind of take away from this is like the people that are putting these. These things in the process are being put there by, you know, by the voters. So.
And the other thing is if you live in California, don't, don't.
It's expensive or all like all the gun owners need to move to California and vote these people out.
I would like to live in California if it wasn't for the politics. So especially northern California. It's beautiful.
[00:49:36] Speaker C: San Diego is fantastic. I love San Diego.
[00:49:39] Speaker D: And if you're going to vote for anybody, make sure they know what they're talking about with firearms. I'm so ready for somebody in the government that actually can rebuttal back and be like, nope, you're absolutely incorrect.
[00:49:54] Speaker C: Dan said couldn't be Dan, you live in the middle of nowhere.
Literally the middle of nowhere.
[00:50:01] Speaker D: Dan, you could probably have a belt fed Glock out there and no one would even know it's true.
[00:50:06] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:50:08] Speaker D: Except the deer time.
[00:50:11] Speaker B: All right.
[00:50:16] Speaker C: The right tools, the right skills at the right time.
This is where we get equipped, live boldly and be ready for what comes next.
[00:50:26] Speaker B: All right, today for equipped, we actually have a new product dropping Friday that I'm pretty excited about. It's.
Nate's got a video for those of you watching live.
He can kind of put this video. I've not seen it.
[00:50:42] Speaker D: Surprise.
[00:50:42] Speaker B: But he's gonna put this. So what it is, it is a mag base. And a lot of. A lot of you guys are like, okay, we've seen mag bases but before.
There's a couple things unique about this magbase. So the. The idea for this came from. I bought a staccato C.
You aren't familiar with the lineup of. Of the staccatos. You have the newer gen. I forget which gen. They call it three or four, something like that.
[00:51:05] Speaker C: This is why you need to write.
[00:51:06] Speaker B: The description they the newer gen staccatos which use a smaller magazine. The CS is the first model that they come out with with this and it's their most compact version model. Then they came out with the C which is a slightly larger version still using the same magazines. You have two different grip length options on a C and CS. You have the 15 round compact grip and then the 17 round full size grip.
The when you buy the 15 round compact grip, it comes with a 15 round mag and a 17 round mag. The 17 round mag is quite a bit, it sticks out quite a bit from the bottom of the grip of the gun. The problem is with a 2011, 1911, 2011 if you over insert a magazine with a slide back you can bend, you can bend damage the function of the gun. So they usually just tell you just to reload with a, with a slide down. Well that's not always the case especially if you're going to shoot competitively. That's, that's, that should be what you always do. You strive for, it's what you strive for but it's not always going to happen. If you carry it defensively that's, that's likely not going to be the case. You're probably gonna, you're gonna keep pulling the trigger and nothing's going to come out. Oh no, I need to reload. So what I did is I designed a mag base for the 17 round C&Cs magazine that meets up flush with the magwell of the grip. So you don't have to worry about over inserting your magazine on your, on your staccato C&Cs. The other thing that I did on this is as you can see, I think, I think it showed in the video the I'll pull it up again. There's a cutout on the side of the magazine for the Neo mag to fit up in. And what this does, other than looking cool, it actually allows the magazine to sit lower in your pocket.
So what if you're carrying this concealed, it's going to sit, sit lower in your pocket and conceal better.
And then the other thing this does is I put like a stepped step design on it. So you know there are a lot of magazines have like a grip type of thing on it. So if it gets, if you get jam and you got to grip and rip them, the magazine out of the mag well gives you something to grip onto. When it's in the, it's in the mag well it gives you a nice area to grip on.
So this is, It's a mag base 4 specific staccato CNCs 17 round magazines going on the 15 round grip and there's a lot of chatting going on and giggling going over here. I'm not.
[00:53:58] Speaker D: Dan saw your, your double headed flashlight in your pocket.
[00:54:01] Speaker C: Dan is making me giggle and he's telling me to stop giggling.
[00:54:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that flashlight's awesome. Maybe next week we'll talk about the Stiletto. The Stiletto Pro Pro and Pro 2.
Excuse me. Yeah. So these are, these are launching Friday. For those of you who, who have the staccato CRCs with a 15 round grip and you want to carry a 17 round mag especially in your pocket. This is. It just helps really sit so nice and flush with the, with the flush or not with the flush. With the NeoMag short clip the magazine sits flush in your pocket. Whereas if it wasn't for the cutout it would actually stick up.
So with the extended clip this will sit down about a half. About a half inch in your, in your pocket. So yeah it's. It also adds a little weight to the bottom of the bottom of the magazine. Kind of helps it drop out of your gun. Yeah. Fall free a little quicker on that. On that. On the video that, that we were showing here really shows the mag dropping.
[00:55:01] Speaker D: Free really quickly and it holds up.
[00:55:03] Speaker B: Well.
[00:55:04] Speaker D: We dropped it.
[00:55:05] Speaker B: We dropped it. Yeah.
[00:55:06] Speaker D: A lot.
[00:55:07] Speaker B: Even before we did we went to production. I went to the range and just dropped them over and over and over and over. Like. Like full mags. I was just, I was chucking them at the ground and we, we did a lot of testing on it.
[00:55:17] Speaker D: I have a great sand that says one more time.
[00:55:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Over and over and over again.
They are type three hard code anodized on the bottom side. There are nine divots that we machined in the bottom. So if you want to mark them for, for which if you have multiple of these and you want to keep track of what's. What's what you can use those either make numbers or just but one.in for one magazine and two dots for two magazines.
[00:55:44] Speaker C: Draw little numbers on it.
[00:55:45] Speaker B: If you want three dots for three.
[00:55:46] Speaker D: Magazines you could do a smiley face.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: To smiley faces or Dan asked did.
[00:55:51] Speaker C: You see say a price yet? Nate was laughing so much distracted me.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: That's great question.
[00:55:56] Speaker C: No, he didn't say a price.
[00:55:57] Speaker B: I did not say a price. We need to finalize that actually.
[00:55:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Cuz it drops Friday.
[00:56:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:01] Speaker C: And I'm not gonna be here and I need to build the product for you to. So you need to tell me the price.
[00:56:07] Speaker D: And what's the ending?
[00:56:08] Speaker C: We're putting you under pending price. We'll let you know.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: Neomag Base.
[00:56:16] Speaker D: Under pressure.
[00:56:18] Speaker B: I thought of that yesterday.
[00:56:19] Speaker D: Did you?
[00:56:20] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:56:21] Speaker D: Good, because that's what I was calling the videos. NeoMag base plate.
[00:56:24] Speaker B: NeoMag base plate. Yep. That's basically it.
[00:56:26] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:56:27] Speaker B: I'm not going to come up with a.
Some kitschy.
[00:56:30] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I don't know, just.
[00:56:32] Speaker D: Put it in the chat.
[00:56:33] Speaker C: It's just a neomag base you got.
[00:56:35] Speaker B: Because I plan on coming out with more mag bases for more magazines. So Smith and Wesson, Glock, Glock, GLONK.
[00:56:45] Speaker C: Sell the most 100 it will.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: The idea based on sales, the idea.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: For these, I've never, I've never fully understood. If you want to do this, it's totally fine, it's free country. But I've never understood buying a standard capacity magazine and then putting like a plus 5 mag base on it.
Now it's just this big bulky thing in your pocket. Whereas the nice thing about these guns like this is you can buy the compact grip and then you can buy, you can buy the magazine which frankly these plus 5 extensions cost more than the magazine does.
Does itself most time anyway. So just, you know, if you carry a Glock, then they can carry Glock 17 mag in your pocket instead of buying like the. Yeah, you know, like a smaller mag.
So the idea for these is going to be, as we keep coming out with these is to, is to add a base plate to longer magazines for the shorter grips. So it gives your hand some, you know, something to get your hand on. I get a better grip and that sort of thing. So that's, that's kind of the idea with this product moving forward.
[00:57:51] Speaker C: NeoMag hat, I was gonna say, Shane, do you want us to make one or is that what you think we should name the magbase? That's the real question.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: It doesn't look as cool though, Greg. That's true.
[00:58:04] Speaker C: I actually. So I do believe we got kicked off Instagram Live. We haven't had a viewer since the very beginning and when I looked at Instagram, it doesn't look we're on there, even though technically it says we're still live. I don't really understand, but we ironically had a comment from someone that said they were a little disappointed that their Gen 2 deep carry mag holder didn't work with their TTI Plus 5 mag extension because it's still stuck up out of their pocket. And I tried to comment back and I think that's when Instagram kicked us kicked us off. Even though it was a nice response. I think that's when they kicked us off. But I was like sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
[00:58:36] Speaker B: There's only sorry.
[00:58:37] Speaker C: I mean it's a plus five. Like I don't know what you want me to do. It's probably like four inches long.
[00:58:42] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:58:43] Speaker C: But you know, so guys, if you're.
[00:58:45] Speaker D: Carrying +5 in your pocket on top of the other magazine, you're probably going to the wrong spot. Just saying it's a lot of rounds.
[00:58:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:53] Speaker B: I just don't see those.
[00:58:54] Speaker D: I don't see an extra magazine is good but plus five and like I, I, I've got base plates to add a couple extra rounds, right?
[00:59:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:02] Speaker D: And if I'm gonna carry that. Yeah maybe it'll go in my pocket because concealability for in the waistband is going to be minimal without printing.
[00:59:09] Speaker C: Well, Greg and I just got base plates for the to work with the Magwells we got for the Smith and.
[00:59:15] Speaker D: Wesson's and get a smaller one like those plus two.
[00:59:19] Speaker C: Well the ones that we got, they're plus twos and they're almost the same size as the standard mag base.
[00:59:26] Speaker D: And Let me ask 19 to 23 rounds. Is, is that going to be a big difference at that, at that point after you've already expended one full magazine, right?
[00:59:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't.
[00:59:36] Speaker C: So you don't, you don't need a.
[00:59:38] Speaker D: Sometimes we get caught up in the products and we forget that we don't necessarily need all of The Extra.
[00:59:42] Speaker C: The NeoMag boot.
Shane wants to call it the Neo Mag.
[00:59:46] Speaker D: Okay. I do like that.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: The mag hat.
[00:59:49] Speaker C: I don't know. I like both those.
Tell them to carry it in their prison wallet. Dan, you were just full of. He's a something today.
He's in a movie.
[00:59:58] Speaker B: The number one fan spicy mood today.
[01:00:00] Speaker D: Tiberius is no longer a number one fan.
[01:00:03] Speaker C: My goodness, he's one spicy meatball today.
[01:00:06] Speaker D: So you're coming out with more. We're super excited about that. Greg. Just wanted to let you know that.
[01:00:12] Speaker C: Michael's going to be your number one mag based customer.
[01:00:15] Speaker D: I am your number one fan.
[01:00:16] Speaker B: Wait, the guy that wants free product is going to be the biggest fan?
[01:00:19] Speaker D: 100%. The greatest thing is I get to R and D and test all of it so it's wonderful. I'm gonna need to borrow.
[01:00:25] Speaker C: I'm sending them all to tip. It's an imodib.
All right, we ready?
[01:00:30] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:00:30] Speaker A: I owe no staccatos but sure face.
[01:00:33] Speaker C: And fuel Ready and go.
[01:00:35] Speaker B: Faith anchors us, fuel drives us.
[01:00:38] Speaker C: Let's open God's word and find the.
[01:00:39] Speaker A: Wisdom we need to live it out every day.
[01:00:46] Speaker C: All right?
[01:00:46] Speaker B: Tip.
[01:00:47] Speaker A: So, yeah, Greg was silly enough to give me the faith and feel section, which I was very excited when he did.
And I really wanted to stick with the theme of giving back, helping the less fortunate, volunteering, you know, doing good in the community that you live in. So the verse I have is Matthew 25, verses 35 and 36.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to visit me. So obviously it's a very popular verse. I'm sure everyone I know, everyone here has heard it before.
And Jesus, they go on to ask Jesus, you know, when were you sick? When were you in prison? And he answers, it's not about that he was in prison. It's about what you do for your brothers and sisters, you do for me.
And verses like this, and there's a lot of other similar idea verses about helping the less fortunate and volunteering your time. These are the type of verses that made me say that, hey, I have a million blessings and I need to do more, I need to give back more, I need to help the less fortunate. So that's why I picked this verse and I would love to hear everyone's thought on it.
[01:02:14] Speaker C: So this is why you're Sir Tiberius now.
[01:02:17] Speaker D: Yes, that's why I be.
[01:02:19] Speaker A: That's why I got knighted.
[01:02:22] Speaker D: We still address him as Sir Tiberius from now on, my Lord.
[01:02:27] Speaker A: Lord Tiberius.
[01:02:28] Speaker C: Oh, Lord.
[01:02:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's, it's really easy to take care and be nice to people that we, that we care about.
You know, it's it or maybe people that we, that we see as being higher up than ourselves and whatever that that looks like, you know, serving them is, is easy.
But what he's calling us to here is to serve the least of these. Serve. Serve the people that, that we, even though we shouldn't, even though we maybe don't even want to, but that we look looked down upon the tired, the weary, the poor, the, the dirty, the less fortunate, the ones that are making poor decisions. It's it. I think it's easier for us to, to make excuses to not take care of certain people while they keep making, you know, you know, they put themselves in this position or whatever and so we so we just kind of dust our hands off and walk away.
And I'm not saying that there can't be situations where we don't need to, like, distance ourselves from, you know, from situations that can be.
What's the word?
[01:04:00] Speaker C: Discerning.
[01:04:02] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, for people, they're just taking advantage of you. Right. Like, you don't. Like.
I think there is some room there for discernment in situations like that. But what Jesus is really calling us to is to love the least of these, is to love the people that is hard to love and to feed the people that are hard to, I don't know, be around. Look at it just like, you know.
[01:04:32] Speaker D: Yeah, this is stepping out of your own comfort. It's really. That's kind of what I had in the notes, too, is stepping out of your comfort and seeing the humanity in others.
Perfect example. The other day, I was in town seeing family for a funeral, and there's, you know, I'm in my mid-30s, so this poor boy probably seem about my age in Memphis, and he's homeless. When I came outside and I was well dressed, going to, you know, the funeral, he asked me, he's like, do you have any cash? And I don't. Everything's digital.
[01:05:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:05:04] Speaker D: Nowadays, I just typically don't carry a wallet anymore. It's just my phone.
But when I got in the car, I realized I was like, I got some cash. And, you know, it was the moment that we all do, because there's times that we've given, and there's times that it's been used against us. And people do that. Right. But it was. You just keep walking. I don't have anything on me. And keep going. Right? And I got to the car and I found the cash, and I was. I was already late. Right. But it was one of those that is like, I don't need this. It. It was $7. It's all the cash I had in the. In the car. I was like, I don't need this. And I gave it to him and I said a prayer for him real quick.
And I can't tell you how much it paid back. Like, sure. Not even two weeks later. I have some sponsorship, some business and everything else. And it's not to boast my good deed or anything like that. It's just to say, just. What this verse talks about is getting outside of your comfort zone, understanding, humility, and then being there for others to serve. And it's not always easy, but sometimes those little things that. And maybe that $7 did nothing for him, right? Or maybe it gave him a nice cold beverage to hydrate or. Or a snack, you know, but it was something.
And I think that's what this verse talks about. It's just acting on your faith, acting on your compassion, allowing Jesus to speak on the tangibles that we need and showing that you can serve him directly and not indirectly. But the bipartisan of that or the byproduct of that is you're then serving that person. And this young man may never know Christ. He may never come to know Jesus. But I know that in that moment, I said a prayer and I was like, lord, just bless him. Right? Because in the moment of celebrating a life, I also realized that this is the only life we get. Whether you put yourself in that situation or by the circumstances that arise that you got in that situation, that's. For me, what this passage really speaks is just the importance of stepping out of your comfort and humanity and having compassion to others and serving God. At the end of the day, it's to serve the Lord upstairs, because this is what he tells us.
[01:07:16] Speaker C: We just lost Tib, just so you know. Not sure what happened.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: That's weird.
[01:07:20] Speaker C: We'll see if he jumps back in.
[01:07:21] Speaker D: Tib, you got kicked out on your Bible verse this week.
[01:07:25] Speaker C: I was going to say I was actually listening to a podcast yesterday this morning. I can't remember when I finished it, but there's a couple of pastors discussing things. But one of the things they were talking about, the one pastor was talking about, his son in particular, who, when he had graduated from high school, he went off to college and was not living a Christian life. And he's now come back, he quit college, he's going to move on and do some other neat stuff. But he's come back and he's living. He's living a good life again. But one of the things he was talking about is how people will look at other folks and they will see the fruitfulness.
[01:08:11] Speaker D: Of.
[01:08:13] Speaker C: Other people and be jealous. And what I mean by that is they'll see the fruit in their spiritual life and they will mistake the fruitfulness for times of watering. Right? And what he means by that is, if you think about as a farmer or a gardener, the time of growing, the time of taking, the time of making your garden grow, there's watering, you're putting water, putting effort into it.
There's going to be a lot of that before you see anything come from it, I think. A lot of what? Now, I understand there's a call in Matthew, which is we are called to serve the least of these. Why are we called to do that? Not just to take care of them? That is a huge part of it.
[01:08:54] Speaker B: Right?
[01:08:54] Speaker C: We need to take care of their worldly needs. Because there is a point like, you can't. You know, we see, I think, on social media all the time, like, oh, well, prayer isn't good enough. You know, that's true. We need to take care of worldly needs. Because a kid that's starving, if you walk up and say, I'm praying for you, tap them on the knee and walk away. That's not helpful for that poor kid that's starving. We do need to give them food, but let's give them food and pray for them in that moment, because there's an opportunity to water.
You may not see the fruit, but you have an opportunity for watering. And I think that's one of the things that. Why Matthew is so important, is that you have an opportunity to water for these people. You're spreading water on that garden.
And Tib is back. Welcome back, Tib. But that's what Matthew, I think is so important about this verse, is that this is your opportunity to water that garden.
You may not get the chance to see the fruit being reaped from that garden. You know, maybe you've moved on to another section of the garden or you've got another plant you're watering, whatever that is, and somebody else gets to reap that fruit.
But the importance of this is that it's watering. You are watering something regardless of whether you get to see the fruition of that effort. This is just watering.
So.
And it goes back to the great commission of we have to be out there and spreading that. And if we can't. If someone can't think about how to. If they're only thinking about survival, meaning they don't know where their next meal is coming from, or if they don't know how they're going to sleep tonight safely.
They're not thinking about salvation.
They're just thinking about survival.
So if we can help them survive, then we can help them think about salvation, too. We can help them with that. So again, it comes back to watering. Where can we water if that makes sense? I don't know.
[01:10:56] Speaker D: It's a good analogy.
[01:10:57] Speaker C: Analogy. That's what I'm looking for. Analogy makes sense.
Yeah.
[01:11:02] Speaker D: You never know, like, when you help people, help a stranger or anything like that. Like it says here. Like, you never know, like, you don't get to see what that watering does to that. That flower that Blossoming. But.
[01:11:12] Speaker B: And we're not called to.
We're not called to be the one that fixes. We're just called to serve, to invest and to serve. And a couple more verses that I. That I pulled up here that I thought of.
This is in John 13:34, 35 says, a new covenant I give to you, that you love one another, just as I have loved. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples if you have one love for one another. This is a verse I've been thinking about lately.
I think we've talked about on the podcast before, just the fruits of the Spirit. And when you are following Christ and you're trying to be more like him, and you experience the joy that comes from following Jesus, you just want to. That just comes out of you from.
From the heart, the mouth will speak. And so it's just you, you.
You want to serve and you want to love other people because you've. You are experiencing a love from Christ. And so just. We are called to love without exception, because this next verse, Luke 6:35, says, Love your enemies, do good and lend, expecting nothing in return.
Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High.
There's some extreme stuff here, and.
[01:12:36] Speaker C: I.
[01:12:36] Speaker B: Lead a small group in my church and we were just talking on Monday about how we're supposed to look different.
We should look different from the world. We should be acting different from the world. We should be loving people different than the world we should be loving.
It seems like if you look politically, one party says we should love these people, but not these people. And the other party says, but we should love these people and not the other people. We should be loving everybody, even our enemies. We should be doing good and lending, expecting nothing in return. We shouldn't be trying to figure out if we should help people out dependent and based on if we're gonna get anything back for that.
[01:13:14] Speaker D: Yes, it's not. Not everything's transactional.
[01:13:16] Speaker B: No, it shouldn't be.
[01:13:17] Speaker D: It shouldn't be.
[01:13:19] Speaker C: Dan actually has a scripture now you need to read all of Hebrews 13 because there's a lot to it. But Hebrews 13:2 says, do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. I was thinking about that goes right back to what you're saying. Now, obviously we can't simply just be talking about angels and that kind of thing, but the point is the same.
We can't pick and choose it's not a pick or picky, choosy type of situation. We need to be loving everybody. Now go read the rest of Hebrews 13.
It gives you a lot. It's not just that, but the point is really well done. Thanks, Dan.
[01:13:55] Speaker D: And another little side story, right? I met a wonderful gentleman many years ago at a class I had the honor of teaching, right? And it was with a great organization.
And I didn't see him for years past, and I saw him this year for. For the first time. And immediately as he saw me, he came up to me to address me, which I'm just, you know, just an average Joe. I'm just another guy that has a passion in this industry.
But he was so excited to see me. And we sat down, had a great conversation, and one thing like watering, right? And I got to see the blossom of it later on. Many years later, he's in the industry doing what he loves. He found God and he said, you treat him, treated me like you treated everyone else that day. And there were some quote unquote, you know, influencers and YouTube stars like Tib. He wasn't there, but other YouTube stars, and he. He felt that he just didn't stand amongst them. And I was like, I didn't know any of y'. All. Y' all were all the same to me, right? You're all the same. We're all men with the passion and here to train. So that's a perfect example. I just had to share that light is, you know, getting to water something and not even knowing it. And it was just being yourself and serving other people, but treating everyone the same kind of. To the equation of. Of Hebrews there.
[01:15:11] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[01:15:14] Speaker D: Yeah. I like these tips.
[01:15:15] Speaker B: Do you have anything where you want to.
We took over.
[01:15:19] Speaker A: No, no, it's fine. My. My computer freaked out and got me off my train of thought. And I'm good. Thank you.
[01:15:29] Speaker B: I was just gonna.
I just kind of.
Maybe last thing to. This is. So we see at the end of the. At the end of the chapter of Matthew 25 that brought up here, it says, starting in verse 45, then he will answer them, saying, truly, truly, I say to you, as he. As you did not do it to one of the least of these. You did not do it for me. And then it says, and these will go away. And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
And then in Luke, the one verse I read says, love your enemies, do good and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great. And you will be children of the most High like there.
While it should not be transactional, here, Jesus does promise a reward to looking different and to following him and to being like him and loving like him. Like, there is a greater purpose to all this. And again, it should not just be this transactional thing. I'm doing this so I can go to heaven.
That's not the heart of it either.
But I'm doing this because I was loved first. And so I want to love like Jesus. And then through that love and the faith that we have, there is a reward. And there is. There is another side to this. Like, if we don't do this, these. They will go away into eternal punishment.
Like, you know, there is.
There is an overflow. Again, it's not works. This is not a workspace thing I'm saying, but this is out of the overflow of our. Of our spirit.
There is.
There is another side to this. I guess what I'm saying there.
Yeah. Any other thoughts on. From people here?
[01:17:33] Speaker C: What?
[01:17:33] Speaker B: Stuff said. Hi, Stuff.
[01:17:37] Speaker D: I think there was one.
She equipped herself, said, God commission us to go and tell them go love them. But he didn't say, it's our job to save them.
And she actually just replied again.
[01:17:54] Speaker B: From Sav on YouTube says, what's interesting is that when the Holy Spirit regenerates you and makes you a new creature, the reward isn't even the motivation.
It's our love for God and the kingdom and our gratitude.
Well said.
[01:18:09] Speaker D: Well said.
[01:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. But she said it better.
And then Dan pulling out Revelation. Oh, no, hold on.
[01:18:20] Speaker A: Oh, it's gay.
[01:18:22] Speaker C: I got it.
Well, do I. Do I read it? Oh, no, here we go.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And the books were opened.
Then another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books according to what they had done.
Thanks, Dan.
[01:18:43] Speaker A: That might have been the most tame verse in Revelation.
[01:18:50] Speaker C: It is. It is a wild book. That's true.
[01:18:53] Speaker B: I love it.
[01:18:55] Speaker A: It's. Yeah, I need. I need it. Like, someone to explain it as I read it. Like, yeah, translator.
[01:19:01] Speaker B: A good commentary is a must.
All right. Good stuff, guys and gals.
[01:19:09] Speaker D: Are you guys ready to wrap it up?
[01:19:10] Speaker C: Let's do it.
[01:19:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It's me.
[01:19:15] Speaker C: It's you, buddy.
[01:19:16] Speaker D: It's like, it's me this week.
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