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So this is what everybody really looks like when they take their mask off after Guns, Beer, and Therapy. Oh my goodness. Try to take a shower here, Gus. Come on, get out of here. Close your eyes. Howdy, Hillbilly Nation! This is American Hillbilly. Oh man, hope you all are having a wonderful, wonderful day. Hope you're having a wonderful weekend and celebrating their Independence Day. My goodness, oh man, I love this holiday. Oh, looky there, G-Webs just gifted 5 memberships, and I need to take a screenshot of this so I don't forget who all it is. So give me one second here. I took a selfie instead. Oh, there, I got it. So who got the memberships is Country Room Fire Plus, uh, Woods, Dwayne's 7834, Dale Pogue, and TJ's Fishing. Well, thank you very much for that, G-Webs, and, uh, welcome, welcome everybody. My goodness, what a great group of people we have out there, not only tonight but each and every Saturday night. My goodness. Well, we have a, a boatload of people back here in the green room, and, um, you know, we got like red, white, and blue cupcakes, you know, just all kinds of stuff, you know, uh, everything, all the food back there is red, white, and blue. So, you know, um, so we're gonna bring them out. I think everybody's full, probably. And so let's bring them out and everybody can say howdy. Uh, first up we have, uh, Kentucky Rimfire and Hobbies.

They get it off. Those cupcakes are awesome, man.

Yeah, blueberry, uh, strawberry, and I don't know what the white was, but I'm jealous because Hasbro really is on a boat.

You said a boatload of people.

He's exactly—

but, uh, glad to be here tonight. Looking forward to it. I got my coffee here because I'm running on fumes, and I'm gonna try to stay awake for this one. I'll tell the story a little later.

Okay, well, you get old up there and, uh, you can tell your story. Kind of an inside joke there. Hopefully Dad will share with us.

It's a well-oiled machine.

Yeah. And before we get the next person, I want to shout out JDelta22NC. He did a super, super sticker for $9.99. Oh my goodness, buddy, thank you very much. Sure appreciate that. My goodness, my— and I love the little emoji over there he's got going on. It's like an office chair with a— is that a dog? That's hilarious. Oh my goodness. Oh man. So let's get the rest of these fine folks out here. And, uh, we have somebody that most usually just jumps in the green room but has to scatter before we start. But this time we locked the back door, so she's stuck with us. Brooke, hey, Great Start Shooting School. How you doing, Brooke?

I'm good. Yes. So in 11 years of owning a Great Start Shooting School, this is the first weekend for the Fourth of July I've actually taken off because in my heart I'm like, oh no, I've done it.

She hit the wrong button or what? Oh man. Well, hopefully Brooke will be right back with us.

The back door good enough?

Yeah, she opened the back door, she got out. Goodbye, Brooke. So until— as soon as Brooke gets back on here, uh, we'll get back to her, um Up next we got JH586. Did you kick Brooke out?

I don't have that power on this platform, brother. Thanks for having me, but like Brooke says, I mean, it was like, because in my heart, deep in my heart, and she's out of here.

I'm like, maybe her heart was telling her she needs to get bail.

Hey, good to see you, brother. No, it's been a great week. I've been off since— all right, I worked last— not this week, I've been off all this week. And last week I only worked a whole day Monday, and then I was off at lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday. I got to go back to work on Monday, and I'm gonna be so sorry, they're gonna have to retrain me, y'all. But let me tell you Them red, white, and blue cupcakes is the stuff. Thanks, man.

You betcha. And I'm gonna text Brooke here and we lost you. What happened?

She was airing it on her channel too, so yeah.

Well, I don't think we've done anything to get kicked off there. We still got comments coming in, so, uh, still showing viewers. Cole said when Brooke says she's off, she meant she's off. Oh my goodness, look at all these fine folks over there. Appreciate you being on here, James.

She's back, she's back, she's back.

Oh, okay.

I'm trying.

What in the world? Wide sports happened there.

So it in your heart— what?

Yeah, I'm like, you know, and then boom, gone. And I'm like, I must have reached in from behind the back door, opened it, threw me out, threw me some cupcakes, and then threw me back.

Oh no, we lost her again.

Technical difficulties.

Oh man, hopefully she can get that figured out and get back on here. Well, while we're waiting on, uh, her, uh, let's bring on, um, let's say we had a boatload. Right here is a boatload. We got Hasbro out there pirating the ship. Watching the fireworks. Look at all that beauty. America, baby. Hey everybody, live from the lake for just a few more minutes. I'm gonna get real busy because I gotta drive this boat back, but hope you all have a good show. I'll hang on as long as I can. All right, buddy. Well, thank you for the show. This is awesome. You should tell your town Been going on about half an hour, so you should tell your town they're a day late, bro. Yeah, hope they do. Me and a thousand other boats out here, it's going to get crazy. Oh, I, I, I imagine. Show you, I don't know if you can see all the boats, but pretty dark, but there's a lot of them out here. Oh my goodness. Well, thanks for being here, buddy, and giving us a— you guys have a good day. So we got Brooke back. Let's try her again.

Third time's a charm, maybe. I don't know.

I hope so.

We'll see what happens. Not for lack of trying, I swear. Um, so yeah, so first weekend in my 11 years in business because Second Amendment, Independence Day all go together. So I normally teach on this weekend. So I'm sitting in the backyard with my husband today. I'm like, what am I doing tomorrow? And I'm like, I don't have classes tomorrow. I told him, I'm like, well, I'll hang out with Hillbilly and the rest of y'all for one more night. So yeah, so there you go. That only took 10 minutes to get me to the end of that like 30-second thing I meant to say.

Well, so glad to have you for sure. My goodness. Um, I hope your connection stays good.

Yeah, so it's a StreamYard issue with Safari, and I had to change some camera settings because I read about it. I didn't have a problem before, so I don't think there was going to be a problem, but I was wrong. So now I know better.

I thought maybe you got icing on your fingers from the cupcakes.

And no, no, since Bubba's not here, I'm gonna blame it on Bubba and Possum's do that. That's the plan. The StreamYard's having some issues on Safari and a couple different other ones, and it has to do with camera settings. And so my stream that I did before this for mental health awareness, um, Mental Health Matters, it's like I had all the settings and it wasn't a problem. But apparently if I'm on somebody else's channel, then that is not the same because I'm also streaming this out to mine. So I don't know if it's the combo of all of that.

Yeah, yeah. Mark Thomas's Hasbro channel's blowing up.

Yeah, for real.

Well, we still got some more fine folks back here. Let's get them out on stage. We got Moondog. How you doing, buddy?

Very good. I love the Sound of Freedom.

Oh man, ain't that awesome?

I just wish we could see a little bit more of what's going on.

Yeah. Oh man, I love it, I love it.

Take the boat closer, Hasbro.

Yeah, can you move us closer so we can see a little better? All right, you guys have a great show.

I'm heading out, so we'll see.

All right, all right, buddy.

Be careful out there.

Be careful on that water out there.

I'll do it.

That sounds like a lot of fun right there.

How do you steer a boat, uh, in, uh, at night with, you know, a lake with like that many other boats?

I don't know.

Yeah, slowly. That's why there's a no-wake rule in the evening once the sun is down.

Oh, well, that's what—

what really sucks is if a thaw grows in.

Oh yeah, yeah, our lake gets crazy since fireworks are over. Uh, man, everybody's wide open trying to hurry up and get back to their boat dock. Well, good to have you here, Moon, or, uh, Moondog. Booming and fireworks. And so anyway, up next we got My favorite gizzard and yours, Mr. Gizzard Gary. How you doing, buddy? Doing well, doing well. Thanks for having me. Oh my goodness.

So back in the green room, you were talking about long hair. You're gonna have to pull that picture out one of these days, for real.

All right, D-Web says, uh, get a submarine. That way you can go down. Yeah, yeah, underneath all the boats there. That'll work. Oh man, well, good to have you here, Gary. And we have one more person back here, one of my most favorite leather makers, Mr. Mark Thomas. How you doing, buddy?

Doing great, thanks for having me. Glad to be here. Sorry I couldn't join you last weekend, but, uh, this guy had me running.

Holy mackerel.

I, I had good intentions of at least checking in, saying hi, but 9:45 I was in my bunk and it was it. I was out.

You're done.

I was done.

Plus, it was, uh, it was taken hostage too.

Yeah, we had a great event. We had a good day, beautiful weather, uh, just fantastic time. So, uh, you know, I was glad I could be a part of that, and sorry I couldn't make it to this one, but I sure decided I was going to be here tonight, at least for a little bit. So thanks for having me. Happy, uh, Independence Day weekend to everybody. Let's have some fun.

You betcha. And, uh, of course we got a few topics and stuff, but, uh, anyway, um, figured we'd start out letting, uh, Moondog and, uh, Mark kind of fill us in on what all, uh they were doing and everything like that. And Moondog shared a bunch of pictures with us. And, um, see, we have a video uploaded here.

Um, I said two, and one of them is, uh, for, for those of you who didn't catch the one from, from, uh, from last week, I was able to upload a little bit of video with Mark and I from the morning from my hotel room with a slow hotel Wi-Fi.

Ah man, see, where is it?

Well, anyway, well, while, uh, while Hillbilly is, uh, trying to, um, finagle those files, uh, I'll explain what it was. It was, it's an annual charity airsoft game that I've been putting on for over 15 years now. Uh, we raise money for the, uh, used to be called the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, and now they changed their name last year to Breakthrough T1D because the research that they're funding is to find a cure for diabetes, and it's not just restricted to juvenile diabetes, it's all kinds of diabetes. But every year, we donate half of the proceeds from the event to the charity, and we've had as many as 1,000 players pre-COVID, and it's been far less since then, but we had about 450-ish players this weekend, and Mark was commanding one of the three armies in the game, three factions as we call them. So everybody who signs up for the game signs up for— actually, there are four different groups that you could sign up for, but one of them is restricted to veterans of the— or of the game who played the game previously. The other 3 factions represent 3 different factions in a fictional civil war in the Congo in Africa that's— and it was set off by Ebola. And the— you can join one team that Mark commanded, which is called the Black and Tans, and you have to wear a uniform that is either mostly tan or black. So if you like to wear like a SWAT outfit, that would fit, or any, basically any desert camo. The other team wears multicam, which is now the de facto camo pattern for the US military forces, but it actually existed before that. And then there's the third team, which is basically any green camo. So your hunting woodland camo, that would fit into, into that third team. The fourth team is the what we call the Tribals, and they represent all of the native militias. As you're traveling, as you're fighting through the field, which represents a part of the mountains of Congo, you're going through very— you're fighting through various villages, and those villages don't like to have don't like to have a war on their doorstep, so they're fighting back. So the uniform for that faction is basically civilian, but mostly the folks have opted to wear a lot of very brightly colored Hawaiian shirts oftentimes. So you've got those 4 factions you can join, and the objective of the game is to find hidden in the field 4 rubber stamps, and each of the team is assigned 5 to 10 sample collectors, and you're supposed to get them to the rubber stamp, and they're supposed to stamp their cards with, with all 4 of those stamps. And there's 4 bonus stamps that are on the bodies of the faction commanders, including Mark here. So if you happen to, to, to— in playing airsoft, it's kind of like paintball. You're shooting plastic BBs at each other. So if you kill the commander and get to him within 5 minutes, um, he— with a, with a sample card, he will take out his rubber stamp and stamp your card. So the team that, uh, the army that collects the most samples wins the game at the very end.

Oh wow.

Yeah, it's a— it was— we— it started from about, uh, Mark, was it— did, uh, did the kickoff time was about 10 10 o'clock or was it about 11 o'clock? Do you remember?

10 o'clock.

Yeah, so runs from 10 o'clock and we— and you, you play nonstop till about 4 o'clock.

Yeah.

Oh wow.

Yeah, it's a whole day of—

my goodness.

Um, and the field is about 180 acres.

Oh my God, my goodness, a blast.

It's a melee all day. You can get hit from anywhere.

It's just, it's, it's awesome.

We had a great time. We had great weather this year, and even on Sunday we did the zombie games and just had a good time.

Yeah, so after the Saturday games, everybody is invited to— if they're— especially if they're staying over, there's campsites at the field. Um, the next day we run a bunch of different scenario games, but we always start the morning off with a zombie Zombie Game, and that's a game where you're fighting against everybody, but if you get killed, you turn into a zombie and you're trying to tag live players, and if you touch them, they turn into zombies.

Oh man.

Yeah.

Home crew was the last man standing.

Yeah.

Michael.

Yeah, he, he took it. He was pretty, pretty proud of that.

A lot of fun. I bet so. Well, so any luck? Yeah, I did find the one video. Um, I, I just had a different file. Um, so, uh, hopefully— let me know if you guys can hear this and everything. Okay.

Hey, Hillbilly, how are you? Hey, we thought we'd give you a little recording here in case we We were able to log in tonight to join your live stream, but, uh, we're just a little bit busy today with, uh, this charity airsoft event. So, but we're there in spirit, and hopefully, uh, we can answer some of the topic questions tonight, uh, remotely. But, uh, um, if we don't hear from you, or if you don't hear from us, oh yeah, you know why. Anyway, good to see everybody.

Make somebody's day better.

So I, I don't know if you were able to download— there were— we had a professional photographer out there who took some really amazing photos.

Yeah, I got a bunch of pictures here. It's the other video, uh, that I was having trouble finding, so let me share these. And there's, there's quite a few of them. But yeah, the other video sent, like, there was a lot more people there.

Oh yeah, that was the, the, uh, that's the Chrono Station where everybody's, uh, uh, checking out, uh, we're making sure that, uh, the, the airsoft guns don't fire too hot. That means that they're too, too too fast, which can, you know, even though they're plastic BBs, um, you know, they can cause some damage if they're shoot especially high velocity.

Yeah, we had the same chrono type deal that went over the end of the barrel for our paintball guns.

Yeah, in that case, uh, he was, uh, that's a, that's a barrel condom or like the, the barrel blockers they put on there. So he's taking that, either putting it on or taking it off after chrono.

It's got some pictures here, some great pictures.

Yeah, that's the, uh, um, those are the, the airsoft vendors who came out to sell extra gear at the, at the store, at the paintball field store outside.

Nice.

And you can see all the gear. Everybody wears stuff that pretty much is equivalent. In some cases, there actually is sort of military plate carriers or replicas, you know, Chinese knockoffs of, of said plate carriers. And you can see of the variety of the different teams that are out there playing. The Hawaiian shirt guy is one of the Tribals, and that's the multicam team. Their name is Deus Ex.

There's a ghillie suit.

Some guys did wear ghillie suits though. I don't recommend it because it does, um, normally, typically it gets rather hot.

Oh, I bet.

Yeah, like a summer. This in Pennsylvania, we were— we lucked out, as Mark said, in the morning it was rather unusually cool and foggy. Okay, how do you compare the March scope to the Discovery optics? Uh, well, the— there's, there's no comparison in terms of the top end because if that's a— the, uh, the March scope is like— it goes up to, uh, their top end scope is like 60 and 80 power. The Discovery scope, uh, while they get near that, they're not quite as— there's no— they're not as clear. And sharp as when they get up to that high magnification. There you go. There's some more of a sense of the morning. That was the safety briefing where we talked about the game and the rules. So that's about 400 and 400 plus players and change out there. Wow. And some of the folks came out in some unusual gear. You can see a sort of a Jerry helmet there, a World War I helmet. It's allowed if you want to. Some guy came as sort of a— oh, there we go— as a Knights Templar, because that's the emblem of Deus Ex. They're a— in the storyline, they're a Catholic militia because Congo is actually the majority Catholic country in Africa because of, um, uh, the Belgian, um, being a Belgian colony at one point. And there I am.

Oh, you're there, man. It looks like a lot of fun.

Yeah, I was hoping we'd get a photo of Mark in there and then maybe somewhere. I don't know where— if we'll, uh, manage to capture him in one of the shots. And that's the field owner there who's, uh, talking, was addressing everybody.

Yeah, Mark's hard to spot with that beard.

Trying to see if I can spot him. Oh, and the morning we do, uh, we have a Um, the national anthem.

That's awesome. Yeah, that is great.

I always start the game with the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem. And some folks came out in Soviet gear.

I've seen that.

So you got a wide range of folks. They tend to be a little bit older because the gear— you can't— almost all airsoft games, you can't show up and, you know, like rent gear. You have to buy, buy the stuff. So there's our, there's our Brit Mandalorian. Don't know who that is actually, but I thought that was an interesting, uh, setup that he put together there.

Yeah.

Oh, so, so Rustic Rimfire, um It was quiet when I shot it over at the range. I can't really say that I have much experience with it because, you know, I didn't have to sit there all day and, you know, see how hot it got or to clean the thing out. So it functioned quite well. And there's some more Tribals. This team likes to wear their purple camo.

Yeah.

So they're allowed. So they're sort of the non-standard camo team. And you can see some of the bunkhouses on this field at the very back there. That's where players can rent out those to stay overnight. For, for big events like this one. Uh, it's on top of a mountain in, um, northeast— eastern Pennsylvania, uh, north of Scranton is where this field is located. About, uh, 45 minutes north of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and about 2-3 hours from New York City. So I'm still looking for Mark. Did I miss him?

There weren't many pictures of me.

A lot of patches.

Yeah, there's a big patch exchange, I believe, on, uh, on Saturday night or Sunday. And the event was sponsored by evic.com, which is like the biggest airsoft and tactical gear online retailer.

Nice.

And that's my buddy in the red shirt there. That was, uh, that's, um, Ian. He's, uh, yeah, yeah, he managed the game this year. Usually he's my co-producer. Well, I promoted him to producer of this game because I handed off the game, uh, the event to him to, to run, uh, moving forward. So I'm kind of now, after this, I'm going to be retired from airsoft. Hopefully Mark will still, will still, uh, be playing next year.

Yeah, I'm still going to stay involved. It was sad to hear that, uh, Moondog decided to, uh, hand it off, but We're, uh, understanding. I mean, family takes priority. So, uh, yeah, I mean, so, Ian, that, uh, since we're closer, we're only like 3 hours away, anything he needs, we'll, we'll be there for him.

How many years you've been doing this, uh, man?

Doug, I, I've been doing airsoft, uh, events for almost 20 years, but the Bad Blood, uh, is over 15 years. It's, uh, since I started the game.

Wow.

Yeah, and it really needs to have somebody there local who can, you know, see the condition of the field and make, make some, some decisions and changes to the, to the gameplay. And since I'm on the other side of the country, I usually, when I was living in New York, would, would go up to the field at least once or twice before, a few months before the event, so I can make some modifications. But I'm, you know, I really felt like it needed the— to do it, the game justice, it needed somebody who's there, boots on the ground. That's why— that's really one of the big reasons why I decided to step back and let somebody else run the event. So this is gonna take a bit of time because you're— yeah, I think we sent you the entire 350 photo gallery that Ted Koldrov took of them.

And the more I see, there's a lot more air rifles in hands, so we probably ought to go ahead and, uh, stop that for a minute, um, because I don't know if the AI might think it's— you know how that goes.

Yeah, yeah, that's a, that's a very smart move.

And while you guys are talking, I almost go through here so I can find a picture of Mark. Well, you guys are finishing up this.

There aren't too many. I stayed hidden well.

Well, that's— yeah, that's part of it. It's part of the strategy, right? Because you don't— you don't want them to capture you and get your stamp. So how was the event for you from your point of view, Mark?

It was good.

We were, uh, you know, a little disappointed to hear that you're stepping aside, but ready to step up and help you in any way we can.

Thank you.

Uh, the group that I brought up, the, uh, the couple of guys and my son, they're a little bit more, uh, accustomed to the milsim sort of things, and they did kind of go off on them on their own for a couple hours and do their own thing, which was, you know, fine. So It all played in well. We had a great time. The weather was great. Say it was just another good, good event. 3 years now in a row, and can't wait for next year already.

Wow. My goodness.

Yeah, there's a— there was a bit of a discussion after— well, this and every other event, you know, because there's, there's two different groups of folks. There's always the, the, um, the term milsim is the guys who really want to to have a sim, an experience, very much a simulation of being in the military or in a military unit. And, uh, but the vast majority of the players who come to the event are new players, young, younger players, or first time playing airsoft. And, uh, Evic especially wanted to sponsor the game to try to attract more new players to the sport, which makes perfect sense, especially from a a retailer standpoint and from a strategic standpoint, if you don't keep growing your sport, it's eventually going to just sort of wither and evaporate out. Yeah, but the newbies always get on the nerves of the hardcore MilSim guys. And, you know, just trying to balance those two different goals is a bit of a challenge.

I bet.

So for, for your son and his group, Mark, would you think that they might be more interested in if they were actually given specific kind of missions to accomplish within by, by the team leadership? Like, um, go to this, this grid coordinate, and we do have maps with grid coordinates, so hopefully they, you know, they'd appreciate, you know, go to E5 and get there by certain so-and-so time and stay there and report on who, who comes into your zone. Um, more of kind of recon kind of missions.

Yeah, they'd love that. They were kind of doing that as it was. They, they were sneaking up there in the castle and irritating the crap out of the people that were in there.

Yeah, I don't know if you— if any of you guys have played in big airsoft fields. They're literally— they built a two-story castle out of wood, a fort that you can, you can fight in if you want. So yeah, that's that kind of field.

Wow, that's some really cool stuff.

Well, thank you.

And, um, I mean, I know like when we used to play paintball, uh, it, it's exciting. I mean, I've never played airsoft, but with our paintball guns and where, when, where we had them turned up to, you did not want to get hit by— yeah, I mean, it hurt and leave bruises on you. And so yeah, it was a lot of fun.

Now, airsoft will leave bruises on you too, but it's the difference between getting a paintball raspberry, and with airsoft, it's, it's like mosquito bites. You got little red welts. Oh yeah, if you get hit by them. And I, I— it, it hurts enough that you don't want to get hit, or, you know, when you get, when you get hit, you usually know. If you can imagine, it's about the same as getting hit with a paper clip, you know, in, in grade school with a, with a rubber band.

No.

And so yeah, imagine getting hit by 30 of those. You don't want to get hit.

Yeah, D-Webs has got a question out there. Uh, do they use radios?

Uh, yeah, monitor the comms.

Yeah, yeah, for this event we especially, we made it a rule that we wanted everybody to bring radios because it's such a large field and it's a very terrain— there's even a very steep, um, canyon gully area, and a lot of people over the years have taken a tumble there and gotten, you know, twisted ankles and whatever, gotten injured. So we actually mandated that everybody bring an FRS/GMRS radio, but most— but specifically for emergency use, so that if they get injured or see somebody that's injured or a fire or whatever on the field, that they can radio in that information. Do we— and if you can imagine, if there are 400+ players, or when we had 1,000 players, when we didn't enforce very strict comms protocols, it just got— it can get just crazy with, you know, people just talking whatever. So we restrict each of the factions to only 2 channels, and on the Spectrum. And we, you know, which we— it's a game of honor. So you tell everybody, don't, don't jam other, other factions' channels. And, you know, don't, uh, keep the, keep, um, the chatter to a minimum and not use the radios for that.

Yeah. So do you have to— said the, uh, is the Battle in Congo each year, or does that change?

Yes, yes. And this is one of the few airsoft games where we basically replay the game every, every year, this with the same sort of like a reset. But part of that is because it's a very fluid game where you, you start in different locations every year and there's no, there's no territory to defend. You're just basically wandering through the field trying to get your objectives, kind of like a scavenger hunt. So the experience is very different every year, um, for, um, from year to year.

That's cool. Yeah, that is neat. So, um, man, thanks for sharing all that with us, guys. I mean, that's— I would— I— if there was something like that in this area, you know, or even just a field, you know, I would probably go, go do it because it looks like a lot of fun and I know we used to have a great time doing the paintball. So, um, but anyway, let's, uh, let's shout out all these fine folks over here on the side chat. Um, Jamie, would you like to shout everybody out on the YouTubes here? Uh, what should we have them type in, guys?

You could type in Airsoft or Bad Blood.

There you go.

Well, pick one.

Okay, Bad Blood. Yeah, any of them.

Yeah, all right, Bad Blood is— I think that'd be easier to type.

They going with Airsoft.

Okay.

All right, Kentucky Rimfire and Hobbies was in first, and he's on the panel right there, right there. Yeah, Abigail, Abigail Finnegan's out there too. Good evening. Uh, Bama Dad's out there. Good to see you, brother. Helping Man is out there. J Delta 22 NC. Uh, Dwayne 7834, Alaska One Handy. Mark Thomas. We got him all confused. Poor, poor Mark. Fluffy 10mm, Jeep Guy, Bama Dad, Jacob S, Garage Guy 879, Living in Southwest Virginia, Rustic Rimfire, Smokin' Joe, Dwayne 7834, Mark Thomas again, Info Bros. Buku YT, Ozzy Orsborne, Chris Lang, Jacob S, Gizzard Gary is on the panel and in the side chat. Pat in the Bunker, what's going on, buddy? Uh, Mr. Bob's out there. Ron 2A Matters, uh, Southern Rifle, A Great Start Shooting School. She's still on the panel as well. Yes, she is. Dale Pogue, Justin Grimm, good to see you, brother. And I think, uh, Chris Lang, what's happening, brother? And I think, uh, we're up to date for the moment. Did I— hope I didn't miss anybody.

See, you get that, Sam Folks? I see— oh no, that's a hashtag. Yeah, never mind. Yeah, don't, don't forget to put your hashtag in too. Along the bottom of the banner, you'll see scrolling the hashtag #HBN137, and that'll get you entered in tonight's giveaway. And not only are we doing a Skinny Knife giveaway, but Brooke has generously offered to give something away tonight too. So yeah, when it's time for that, you want to show them real quick, or you want to wait?

Oh well, I can— we can show them, you know. All right, not everybody wants a pink hat, but if you want a pink hat all the way from Connecticut, I will give you a pink hat. However, it's not your color, then of course I have a black hat. And you know, because you know, you got to have options in life because that's how things should go. And then let's say some of y'all actually like shooting and maybe you'd like to get a little better at shooting. Well, there's this guy who's like a really good instructor. His name is Ben Steger. And well, he's got this book, Dry Fire Reloaded, and he gave it to me so that I could give it to my students. So if you'd like to learn about getting a little better with a hand pistol, I got that for you as well. But wait, there's more. It's like a ShamWow commercial.

Awesome.

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Well, thank you so much. This is awesome stuff. And yo, uh, that pink hat and, uh, book for the girls, you know, if they're single guys out there, you might be able to pick up your girlfriend. You know, you got that to hand out.

You never know, it's never too early or too late to start shooting.

So, you know, and having fun, just gifted 5 memberships. Thank you so much, buddy. And see, we'll see who YouTube chose to give those memberships to. We— I, I can't have nothing to do with that. It won't— like, it just randomly picks people on YouTube there, uh, so, uh Anyway, the people that got that is Rich B, Gord, Tommy Boy, Tim S, and Missy Campbell. Awesome, congratulations for getting those free memberships. And if you're new to this channel, um, what that means is like you are a VIP member now, and we do a live VIP chat on Tuesday nights at 8:30 Central., and my wife Ames is on here with me for that, and we just have a good time there. And, uh, anyway, and then I put out a video once a week, um, just for our VIPs. Uh, you know, it's just, it's just a video, you know, a lot of times it's just a vlog type deal, you know, share a lot more about personal stuff in our life and what's going on on those videos. So anyway, make sure you check those out if you're a new member. Thank you so much.

And, uh, so yeah, so Tim's asking here, um, so yeah, so I've done a bunch of classes with Deb here in New England because they would come here. Unfortunately, Babes with Bullets is no longer a girls camp because Deb, uh, closed it down. But we've done them here in Harvard, Massachusetts. We've done— been Pioneer Sportsman up in New Hampshire, um, But yeah, Kaye McClure was one of my favorites. I've trained with Kaye, I've trained with her daughter Lena, hung out with Jerry because my husband's a big revolver shooter. So that is just some of the amazing shooters that are in here. Julie Golub as well from Smith Wesson. But yeah, it's fun. Girls with guns are fun. So that is another reason why you want to learn more about them.

So yeah, uh, your husband's a big revolver shooter. You hear that, Jamie?

That's awesome. Yeah, no, he goes to the IRC every year, uh, usually shoots somewhere around, uh, not with Jerry often, but sometimes on the super squads with those types of folks. Um, just like me going to Arizona with Deb was the first time I left my kids, I'm pretty sure Sean going to California for the IRC back in 2011, maybe. And yeah, so, and my son actually, uh, been to the IRC. He was this close to being the junior champion, uh, but he got defeated in the last stage. So, and then he turned 18, so that was the end of his junior career. But yeah, we've got some really nice revolvers here in the house. Nice.

Well, yeah, I like to hear that.

Very cool. Yep. So yeah, the Mickalik family is very fun to hang out with and shoot with. And oh my gosh, hanging out with Deb Ferns and Lena and Kay and— oh, there's just so many of them. There's a picture of, for those of you who know Susan Munson, um, it's like, uh, I'm carrying an umbrella and shooting one-handed and she's the one who's running the timer on me. So they're pretty amazing ladies, and it is tons of fun to hang out with the world champions of the girls.

Nice.

All righty. Oh, and again, folks, make sure you get your hashtag in tonight because we got some nice giveaways, no doubt. Um, See, let's bring up here— I had some, uh, some topics, and we'll do that, uh, giveaway around the bottom of the hour here.

So anyway, yeah, you're saying 11:30, 10:30 your time?

Yeah, yeah.

And, um, so the first topic I thought would be fun, you know, we— you know, Independence Day was yesterday. You know, celebrate America's birthday. And, um, as you can see, many people still celebrating, letting off fireworks and all that stuff. Like, while you guys were talking a while ago, somebody in our neighborhood had some fireworks going, and I mean, they were like 10 minutes, you know, just like, man, I'd like to go outside and watch that. But anyway, um, I figured, you know, we talk about, you know, Independence Day and we get the Revolutionary War. Revolutionary War marks our history, you know, buff here. Uh, don't fall asleep yet. And I'm kind of interested in Mark's answer to this, and we'll let him go first. So If you could take but one firearm with unlimited ammo— now we're not counting like the fully automatic, you know, the, you know, the belt feed, you know, stuff, um, back and in history to fight for, you know, our country in the Revolutionary War— what one firearm and, you know, caliber you know, what, what would it be?

Well, I'm gonna make Jamie smile with this one because the one firearm in my collection that would be, uh, a repeater— no, not a fully automatic— I'd take that Marlin 336 in, uh,.35 Rem and a whole box full of ammo, just keep feeding them in. That thing would do everything I wanted it to.

Based on that environment, right? So does this have to be, uh, a firearm that we own?

No, no, but I want to say hi to MCK out there real quick. Hey buddy, good to see you. No, like, just like you get to choose a firearm and you got unlimited ammo to go with it, you know, and you're fighting for your country.

Thanks for the clarification. You won't change your answer now, Mark?

Not at all.

All right, I'm gonna go ahead and check out Gary.

And, uh, that's it, you're gone. One answer, you're toast.

Yep, one answer, it's after 11 o'clock, I'm gone.

I'm going to bed. It's been fun. Well, it's good to see you again, Mark. Can't believe it's been a week.

Good to see you, buddy. Good, definitely. And I think he froze up, or he's just really— yeah, everybody go over and check out Mark Thomas. Great channel, great person. Oh, there you are! You're back again.

You froze for a minute.

Yep.

Yep, I'm out.

Good night all, have a great weekend. Have a great weekend.

You too, bro.

Good to see you. All right, buddy, we'll see you. So, so far out in the side chat, I've seen an M1 Grand out there, so, uh, I want another one. Uh, so Gary, how about you, buddy?

Okay, yes.

What's the question again?

I heard part of it, but yeah, so If you could take but one firearm and, you know, of your choice with unlimited ammo, but like not a belt-feed fully automatic, you know. Oh man, to go back— well, because I figured everybody would be like, you know, I'll take, you know, I mean, uh, but you know, certain, you know, certain rifles that would just like mow down stuff, but, uh Anyway, uh, go back and fight for your country for the Revolutionary War. What firearm would that be? And it could be of your choice, you know.

Oh gosh, if I gotta fight with it, it's probably gonna have to be my AR.

Good one, an AR. Definitely a great choice. You got, you know, unlimited mags and ammo.

Yeah, as long as they're paying for the ammo.

Yeah.

And also, how did Tennessee Goddess out there— hey girl, how you doing this evening? So how about you, Moondog? That's good stuff. Uh, yeah, I, I— that's a good choice there, Gizzard, no doubt. I mean, way faster than the, you know, muzzleloaders and stuff.

Now, uh, for this would be, uh, going back in time and fighting, uh, fighting the Redcoats, or— yeah, okay. Um, let's see, I wish I had Mark Thomas over here, at least anybody who's, uh, into, uh, doing the, the reenactments. I, I think they were wearing wool.

Yeah, don't tell me you're gonna take an airsoft.

No, no, I was thinking, you know, I, I was thinking the AR is along with, with Gary, but then I'm thinking, you know, that wool might actually stop, uh, a 5.56 depending on, you know, how many layers. So I'd probably go with a little something a little heavier, uh, caliber. So I'm gonna go with a— with an AK because if it's unlimited ammo, I want something that, uh, uh, that has a piston and, uh— oh yeah, yeah. And, um, and, uh, something that I probably— since I'm going back in time, I won't probably have a, a, a gunsmith, so I'm going to be— need to be able to bend and, and, uh, hammer anything that breaks. So I think that the legendary reliability of, uh, of an AK might come in handy.

Yeah, so that would be my call, no doubt. But don't forget, you don't get the fun switch on it.

But yeah, that's fine, I can pull that trigger pretty fast.

Oh yeah. Alrighty, so Brooke, how about you, girl?

What would you be taking with you? Well, you know, I'm looking at my Appleseed because that's where I learned everything about, uh, the actual, you know, days leading up to the beginning of the shot that rang around the world. And here's the thing, I'm too much of a sci-fi girl. I'm not bringing anything back with me because I still want to have the same parents I have now. But. Yeah, no, for real, I'm like.

When you said sci fi, I thought you meant like maybe a laser gun or something.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It's the chaos theory and the butterfly effect. I'm like, no, no, no. There's too many, too much time travel that has gone terribly Wrong. And so I'm like, I'm not bringing anything. I'm gonna go hide. So. But if I really had to go do something like that, I really would do something ridiculously simple, um, like a breakdown.22 that you can put in your backpack, simply for the fact that I would just mostly be hiding, not knowing what the hell I was supposed to be doing. So there is that. But yeah, no, I just— I don't know what I would do. It would be kind of crazy. It's like It would be so cool to actually be able to travel back and see all of that, but at the same time, it'd probably be pretty horrific all at the same time because I'm like, no, no, no, no. But yeah, so yeah, I have no idea is the real answer to your question. That is the honest-to-God answer.

I'm like, nope, got nothing. Well, I want to say here, uh, Tennessee Goddess says, uh, fractured foot. Oh man, I hope you get feeling better. Goddammit, that is painful. No doubt about that. You can't get no butt-kicking contest when you got fractured foot either.

Wait a second, I don't know anything about guns, but does High Point really have an AR?

They're coming out with one. Yeah, we're good. Yep. Yeah, Garage Guy's like, he— yeah, he knows my heart. All right, Jamie, how about you?

Well, since I got my answer ripped out from under me, I was going to take, uh, M60, but, uh, yeah, uh, I shot for the first time this past week a, uh M1 Grand, and, uh, that ain't something I want to take and carry and shoot all day. It is— I know it's loaded down light because of the upright and all that, but I'm telling you guys, uh, M1 Grands are still every bit of a.30-06. Oh yeah, they, uh, and they weigh about 11 to 12 pounds. And, uh, yeah, Mark's answer is, is looking better and better, but, uh, I think given that time and place, a bolt action with the biggest capacity that you could hit would be a great gun to take. And how, uh, how— what's the word anyway— think about using a Lee-Enfield in.303 British against the British. Love the irony. Irony, that's the word I was trying. That would be ironic as crap. But yeah, I think, uh, If I could get my hands on one of those since I can't take my M60, uh, yeah, I wouldn't want the— I wouldn't want the M1 Garand. They're heavy, they kick like a mule, and these are 18, 19-year-old guys dragging these things through everywhere. That's why in the movies you see a lot of guys carrying M1 carbines because the M1 Garands will make a man out of you in a hurry. Hollywood actors ain't, ain't that. So that's my, that's my choice.

I would take a Lee-Enfield. Yeah, Ozzy out there, there's a lot of great one out in the side field or on the side chat too, and Ozzy says, uh, Henry lever action 44.

Yeah, lever action would be sweet. See, that's going to cut down your range.

I want to be able to shoot them at about 400 yards, 300, 400, way further than what a musket could reach, huh? Oh my goodness. So Chad, how about you? You taking a bench rest.22 long rifle and just picking them out way out there?

No, as much as y'all probably thought I would take a rimfire, I— so I don't want heavy, so it's not going to be an AR-10, but I would take an AR-15, but not in.223 or 5.56. Since you're offering unlimited ammo, I'm going with a.300 Blackout.

Oh, sweet. Oh, Justin Grimm actually has my gun. I do have the Barrett, so there's that. We're gonna go with stuff that we actually own.

So yeah, yeah, I dang sure want to be dragging around a Barrett.50 cal BMG out there.

Oh man, my dad told me that was really just for cutting the trees down so that the trees would fall on people.

Oh yeah, no doubt about that. Um, yeah, we got some 6.5 Grandel out there, or 6.5 Creedmoor.

Steve at 6.5 Creedmoor was—

it's good enough. Yeah, you can shoot them at 1,000 yards with a 6.5 Creedmoor.

I know that for a fact. He's poking fun at me because Hasbro beat me with my 6.5 Creedmoor.

I saw the headlines. I need to watch that video. That's a game I'd like to get involved in right there.

Hasbro says back safe at the boathouse. And people are nuts. I agree, buddy. Glad you made it back there safely. Oh man. Uh, yeah, um, I'm kind of with Chad. That's, uh, that's one of the deals I was thinking, the.300 Blackout. And, um, fairly light, very fairly accurate, you know, for quite a distance. Um, You know, uh, not, you know, tremendous recoil, so you can stay with— stay at it for a little while. Uh, but, and, but then I also— I love the.300 Blackout too. So, um, but my other one would have been, you know, an 8.6, because I think 8.6, if you found like 20 people lined up, you know, that thing just likes to keep going. And so, um, which I've never shot one, but seen a lot of videos and heard a lot about it.

So, um, so what's the range? What do you think the effective range is for a.300 Blackout?

I, I mean, 300, 400 yards, pretty easy, I think.

The farthest I've ever shot mine's 100 yards, but I can shoot one-hole groups at 100 yards with mine.

Yeah, yeah, that would be my concern with.300 Blackout. They're inherently accurate. I've played with them enough to know that. I don't own one, not shot one a whole lot, but like y'all say, one-hole groups, that's hard to beat. But I don't know what the—

I don't know, it's about the same as a 7.62x39, he says, out there. Um, um, yeah, I haven't had a chance to shoot mine a real long distance, so, but I just kind of watching other people's videos and stuff like that.

So, which I've shot a— I've shot an AR-15 in.223 up to 530.

So, oh yeah, see, that to me would be a better choice than.300 Blackout. It'd have to be super mock. Yeah, I'm gonna look up that book though. Thank you, Living in Southwest Virginia.

All righty, so, um, we do have the giveaway coming up here in a little bit, so make sure you get those hashtags in and we'll go on to the next topic for tonight. Um, I think this will be a real quick one because I got one more after that if we had time to get to it. That's just because, you know, being Fourth of July or Independence Day. Um, this one right here is, uh, favorite firework.

As long as we don't talk about motor oil.

Oh yeah. Chad, you want to share your dilemma?

So I had my live stream last night, and when the live went down at about almost 12, I was really tired, and, uh, I told him I was gonna get off, go to bed. I got to looking for my dogs, and my boxer was here, but my cocker spaniel was MIA. So before the live, I came home with some dinner after I got done shooting guns. I carried my dinner in the house, then I went back out to get my shotgun in the garage out of the truck. Cocker Spaniel followed me to the garage and I didn't know it, so I shut her up in the garage, came in and ate my dinner, went and got on the live stream. Then I realized 2 hours later that I was missing a dog. Oh, um, I had a pan of used motor oil in the garage that she turned over And I was, I was up till 4 o'clock this morning, bath on a dog multiple times in Dawn dishwashing liquid.

Oh no, I wonder how many times she slipped and fell and, uh, well, and rolled around in that oil.

I told Hillbilly she, she paced the garage 2-car garage, so she paced around both vehicles. I just washed and detailed both of those vehicles this weekend. She put her paws on the vehicles trying to get in them. She put her paws on the door to the house trying to get in the house. So I got back up at 7 o'clock this morning and spent the entire day scrubbing my garage floor and the walls and the vehicles. And so I'm running on no sleep, and I'm tired. And she's laying right here right now.

Make sure you know where she's at tonight. Yeah, still slippery, I bet. Bama Dad said got rid of all the fleas.

Yeah, she ain't gonna have the mange either. I always remember when I was a kid, if a dog had a mange, you'd rub it down and use motor oil. But me too, so I had a pan out there that had 2 oil changes worth of oil in it, and she spilled the entire thing in my garage floor.

Say hi to Ron Wayne out there. Hey, buddy. Oh man, that, that is so— I can't even imagine.

Did you take any pictures of the puppy paws everywhere? That's what I want to know.

Yeah, no, I wish you had a security camera out there.

I, I had to figure out how to get her from the garage to the bathtub without getting oil all the house. Drop her in a towel. She's— that's, that's what I did. But like, the garage lights was off, so when I went to look out in the garage and I flipped the light on, first thing I seen was these paw prints all over the place. But I thought it was blood. I was like, oh my God, what has she done? And then I looked and it was all— and There, there wasn't a dry spot on her. I— she must have got down and rolled in it or something. I don't know.

It's awful.

We're talking about a— we're talking about a cocker spaniel with long hair.

Yeah, I, I used to have one. It was black. Too bad you didn't have the black one, then you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Yeah.

Um, somebody out here in the side chat Uh, rest in peace Joe Rogan.

Something happened to him, or trolling, you never know.

Yeah, I know, that's why I was wondering. I was like, I didn't see anything, but the puppy story is way better. Yeah, Bama Dad says you should have rubbed her down with Old Dry. Oh man, all right. But yeah, Chad told me that story. I was like, dude, man, I feel for you. That, that's just— that's wild. Um, so, uh, there's some people already answered out in the in the side chat. Uh, favorite firework? Uh, how about you, Gary? What's your—

what was your favorite growing up, boys?

Or, well, bottle rockets.

Yeah, growing up, or still today? Yeah, well, can't buy bottle rockets here anymore.

You gotta go to Missouri.

I haven't bought fireworks in so many years. You know, I don't have kids around anymore. Anymore, stuff like that. And, uh, you know, live alone and stuff like that, old man. I just don't go to firework stands anymore, so I don't even know what they have, be honest with you. And if my granddaughter was around, was a little older, yeah, then maybe we'd buy her some fireworks, but she's out of state. And, uh, so yeah, I just have to go back to my youth, uh, bottle rockets And then I don't remember what the things were called. They were like firecrackers, but you'd light them and they'd spin around real fast and bounce. They were really cool, kind of made a weird noise.

I like those. All right, yeah, good stuff. Um, And, uh, Fluffy says all of them that Joe Dirt said. He talked about fireworks there for a while. Um, okay, Moondog, how about you, buddy? You guys get to set some off there, or—

well, yeah, everybody in the neighborhoods, uh, or at least in the neighboring neighborhood to where I live, uh, we're a little bit on the slope, uh, of a hill. And, um, especially since, since COVID um, they, they've— everybody has gotten a hold of, you know, fireworks. Firework, you know, air, air burst fireworks have been illegal in California for decades, but everybody did a, you know, big F you to all the laws here. So yeah, on 4th of July, there's tons of illegal fireworks going off all over the place, and I, so I enjoy watching them. But as a kid, I especially liked, um, uh, the, uh, the sort of string, those string of, of, of, uh, firecrackers, you know, like the, the Chinese string of— because I would, I would undo each of the, uh, each of them from the long string, and so that I could have individual firecrackers to just economize.

Oh yeah. Yeah, good stuff. And we got siding out there.

Oh yeah, everybody like to count us down.

All right, 3, 2, 1, let's go, sweeto!

Yeah, we got a lot of good ones out there on the side chat.

Um, so about you, Brooke? Well, I, I'm on the fireworks display thing because I wanted to know. So the things Gary was talking about are the aerial spinners, the ones that take off and bounce around. Uh, my dad actually used to work for Atlas Fireworks, so, um, all of them, but probably my favorite was definitely when my friends and I would play Dungeons and Dragons And we take, um, Roman candles and basically play tag with Roman candles. So, um, that had been one of my fun things. But then when they came out with the cakes where it's like a whole display in a box— oh yeah, my favorite thing, because you could light one and you got like 30 of them. So for handheld, which you're never supposed to hold handheld any fireworks, Roman says True Fingered Freddy. Yeah, I shouldn't— doesn't mean I didn't. Um, so yeah, so bottle rockets also were up there. But, um, yeah, I like running around chasing people with, uh, Roman candles.

Oh yeah, yeah, the Saturn missiles there, the Helpman's talking about, those are like a square box, and, and they go on for a while.

It's like, yeah.

Um, so about you, Jamie?

M-80s.

M-80s.

There you go. Simplicity of blowing up toilets.

Yes. Yeah, you could take a mailbox, plumb off the post. Not that I'd do anything like that because that's a federal offense.

Yeah, of course not. Well, you throw an M80 out in the grass in the yard, after it went off there's just a bare spot with no grass.

I mean, they were fun to throw in the creek too, man. Oh yeah, waterproof fuses. Yeah, those were fun. But, uh, after I got later up into my teens, they, uh, they kind of watered them down.

They were like—

oh yeah, they weren't as strong. Somebody told me one time they're like a quarter stick of dynamite.

I'm like, back in the day they were.

Yeah, yeah, it was my dad's belief that the M80 outside the bedroom window was the appropriate alarm clock for us children.

So how about you, Chad? Man, every time I'm around fireworks, I think about my grandpa. He didn't care what they looked like, just as long as they was loud. Yeah, he got, he got so tickled at the boom. He didn't care what they look like. My favorite would be the mortars though, that once they go off they look like they're raining down on you.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, those are nice. Yeah, I guess there's several states that they gotta drive to the neighboring state to get fireworks and stuff.

So, um, yeah, I went on vacation one year and I bought about $1,500 worth of fireworks, put them in the back seat of a car, and throw the blanket over them. And would you know, I got pulled over in Virginia. I was, I was a little scared, but He didn't ask what was under the blanket.

Oh no, it's a dead body.

Well, as long as it's not fireworks.

Yeah, it better not be fireworks, son. Oh my goodness.

Uh, yeah, um, yeah, Virginia is where I got pulled over, Garage Guy. Matter of fact, it was in Abingdon.

Oh well, I love the mortars too, and, uh, you know, all that stuff. Um, but one of my favorite things to do, which this was a learning process, you have to remember, as an older teenager into my 20s, we'd take, uh, you know, cutting torch, you know, settling torch. And you have to go ahead and like get it going, mix your air and your gas so like you got the flame and everything, kink the line, and then fill up balloons with it and tie them off. And then he takes a tape and he tape a firecracker on the side of the balloon. But we learned after the first few You need to tie a rock on the balloon also, because you light it and take off running if the wind's blowing and it's coming towards you. But those make the loudest boom. You know, balloon this big full of sediment, when that firecracker goes off, it'll rattle windows. I mean, it's not gonna like— it's up off the ground, so I mean, it's not gonna like do anything or nothing, but my goodness, it makes a boom.

And here I thought you were gonna like float them and shoot them with flaming arrows or something.

Oh, well, you could do that too. I mean, we had thought about it, but you know, shooting flaming arrows, you know, around the neighborhood, and a lot of times it's dry around here on Fourth of July. You know, we ain't had rain for a month. And so there's always that type, you know, deal, grass fires and all that stuff, which never really stopped anybody. But the last few years, like, we've lucked out and got some rain right before the 4th, so that's been really nice. And all righty, um, but when you're talking about, uh, California and stuff, if I'm not mistaken, I believe it was COVID I remember seeing like helicopter videos of LA setting off, like in suburbs, or setting off mortars and everything. And they're like, you can't do this, it's against the law. And they're like, that one reporter's like, I don't see how you're gonna stop them. I mean, every neighborhood, everybody's shooting off fireworks, you know.

Yeah. It goes on till like 1 or 2 at night. Um, that's all— that's when I, um, would stop hearing.

But it's, it's, it's, it's impressive. Yeah. And we've had— we've, we've been fortunate to have like, I think, 7— I think 7 exchange students. So we talk about Fourth of July, they have no idea what that means unless they're from England, you know. But they're like, oh yeah, you guys celebrate when you kicked us out of our country, you know. Um, but, uh, they all know about fireworks, but it's always a New Year's Eve thing for most of the— oh yeah, yeah, it's a big deal on New Year's to set off a bunch of fireworks. And they think it's awesome. They're like, so you guys get to do fireworks twice a year? You know, it's like we do them after a football game or something. It don't matter, you know, I mean, around here. And, uh, but yeah, they really thought that was really cool that, you know, there was more than one time of year that, you know, fireworks were—

you can do them year round because we can't. Oh yeah, we can do it anytime. We've got like, I think it's It's 8 days around. Oh really?

Independence Day. That's it. You're worse than Connecticut. We can do fountains anytime we want, but that's it.

So I mean, we always try to be respectful, not, you know, I mean, other than like right around Fourth of July, uh, not set anything off after like 10 o'clock, you know, but You know, that's just according to city ordinances around here.

Today's the last day they can shoot them. They have to be done by 11 o'clock at night.

But really? Yep. So we went— I used to live in Lexington, Kentucky, and, uh, we lived in a neighborhood where the houses were really close together, and I had a Fourth of July party, and we dug a pit. We dug a pit in my backyard. I bought a whole hog. We built a fire underground. Yeah, wrapped a hog in banana leaves, banana tree leaves, covered it back up, let it smolder underground, and then we started shooting fireworks off. And in Lexington, you're not allowed to have any aerial fireworks. Oh really? Yeah, so the neighbor called and reported us because we were shooting off some bottle rockets in the sky, and, uh, the police showed up. And I just— we just got finished digging the hog out of the ground and laid it on the table, and they come around the back of the house, and I was like, y'all just in time, we just got the hog out of the pit, we fed them and everything. And that guy goes, oh, so, uh, what kind of fireworks y'all got? And I was like, oh, you want— you want to see them?

He said, see them?

I want to shoot them. Oh man, you talking about a pissed off neighbor.

Oh my God. Yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah, um, I mean, literally, when the Kansas City Chiefs won the first— or well, the first Super Bowl after 50 years, uh, there was more fireworks shot around here than I think there is on Fourth of July. I mean, it's like you hear fireworks going off everywhere. We went outside and set a bunch off. And so, yeah, it's— but I mean, all righty, well, it is time to do the giveaway. We still had one more deal. Uh, we kind of went through this, uh, unless somebody wants to throw something in here, just anybody. Uh, this is the last one. What traditions have you had to celebrate Independence Day? Have they changed? And like the most memorable ones, uh, memorable ones. And so, uh, we'll let the side chat and anybody on the panel like kind of real— we'll go real quickly through, uh, like some of the traditions, you know, like did you go out on the lake, you know, or family come over, you shoot off fireworks at your house, or, you know, um, kind of that type stuff.

So just anybody, uh, as a kid, keg parties. My mom would always have keg parties, or keg parties. Yes, that was pretty much That was the summertime thing. And there's a picture of me at like 14 tapping a keg for the party. I wasn't drinking, but I was a bartender. Yeah. And my dad, like I said, he worked for Atlas Fireworks, so we'd spend a week setting up fireworks and going to different towns and, uh, race cars as well because he was also a race car driver. So yeah. Stock car races, fireworks, keg parties.

I think we might be related, Brooke, somehow.

Yeah. Now the big thing when I was growing up at night is they always had the big city fireworks display down at the city park.

Oh yeah.

And at the end of it, I can remember because it was right next to the high school football field, and they would hang this American flag flag firework off of the, off of the scoreboard, and that was a signal that the show was over when this big American flag firework went off.

And that was— oh, that is cool.

Yeah, that is real cool. When I was a young boy, my great-grandparents were still living. My great-aunt would take us every year and we'd buy— I don't even know what she spent on fireworks. It was ridiculous. But both of my great-grandparents were up— they were up in age, and my great-grandfather had a prosthetic leg, so he didn't get around good. So we, we would always set them off in the field in front of their house, and they would just sit on the porch. Well, those box things you were talking about, Hillbilly, that— yeah, yeah, well, there was no directions on the box. And I may or may not have lit it with it upside down, and the, the box, the box was dancing around every time a shot went off. And my great— my different direction— my great-grandfather thought that was the best firework he'd ever seen in his life because that box chased me all over that field. Oh my goodness, he said, was it supposed to do that?

Well, I don't know if you guys ever seen the little short video, it's been out for years, where they're setting off fireworks and one of the kids took a Roman candle out there and stuck it in something set it— went to set it off, and their dog followed them, and it grabbed a Roman candle sideways in its mouth, and it starts shooting, and it's running back towards everybody like, oh heck! And so everybody's running from the dog. Dog's trying to, you know, catch everybody. It's just shooting Roman candle, you know, out the side of it. Oh my goodness. Y'all so wrong. I bet, man. Yeah, I'm going to call it a good Fourth of July till, you know, at least, you know, got a good burn or two on, you know, one or two people, you know. I mean, I literally went to— had to go to the emergency room one year to stitch up my hand from trying to throw a whole pack of Black Cat firecrackers that had a faster fuse than I could let them go. And one, one, uh, one Fourth of July I spent the— in my grandparents'— it was up at their house, laying on the floor with a cold wash rag over my face on the top of the air conditioner register vent, letting cool air blow on my face, because I'd burnt all my eyebrows, eyelashes, and everything off my face. Oh yeah, that's what I learned. You don't stand over the rockets when you light them because they can have a fast fuse every now and then. That's at a young age though, but I learned my lesson.

Well, you know, as long as at the end you can just say, and nobody died, we're doing all right.

And it's never on Fourth of July, but always, most usually, the day after, we go down to the creek, and pretty good-sized creek. And there's gravel bar on each side. So whoever showed up on one side and whoever showed up on the other side, it was just a rolling candle bottle rocket fight all evening. Yeah, so if you didn't want to get shot by something, you weren't, you know, you weren't supposed to be on the creek bank, you know.

No.

Anybody else got one they want to share?

Jamie, I think you're the only one. I used to like to go out in the woods and camp and be gone, and then come back to town for the local fireworks show and go back to the woods. I mean, that's, uh, camping at the lake was always fun, but yeah. See, if I was in town, I would— I knew I would wind up manning the grill, you know what I mean? For sure. Or even worse, uh, churn butter all morning and then make homemade ice cream all evening.

No, that's a lot of work.

That is a lot of work.

Yeah. Oh yeah. So anybody else before we get to the giveaway?

I'm with Mark Thomas, I'm ready to go to bed.

All right, well, let's give some stuff away.

Um, logs. Yes, he is. But I said I would stay because for one day I don't have to go to work tomorrow, so I can stay up with you guys.

So here I am. I was beginning to wonder in the beginning if you was gonna turn into a pumpkin once it got late enough.

Well, you know, I, I got sucked out 3 times trying to stay, so, you know, third time was a charm.

Got there. All right, so Brooke, this is totally up to you. We'll let you go first. And you can do one giveaway or two, whatever you would like to do.

All right, so here's the deal: whoever wins this one can choose pink or black. And then that— so when you, when you answer, just say pink or black, and then I will know which one you're gonna get because you get the choice of. Now actually, no, whoever wins first actually has their choice of everything. Let's do it that way. So you can get the Babe's book, the dry fire book, or the hats and the pens. Anyone— everyone who wins something will get a pen. So yeah, so there you go. That's how we'll do it. We'll just do order of elimination, whatever thing you actually want.

All right. And, uh, Brooke, when you get a minute, can you type your email?

Oh yeah.

Or wait, We— one of us can type it for you.

All right, well, no, what is it? Brooke@agss.com. So just like my name, but instead of a dash, put an @, and voilà, you've got it.

Okay, so there's that.

Easy.

So yeah, I was thinking ahead today, which I really wasn't, but it looks good.

So if you win, that's how you can get a hold of Brooke.

So yeah, uh, Brooke, give us a countdown. All right.

3, 2, 1, chicken soup, go!

You do have to be present. Yeah, yeah, that's why, so you can tell me which thing you actually want. Hey, what do you want, kiddo? Kiddo, there we go. Yeah, I've been with my kids all day, kind of, sort of. All right, you got Blackpink, Babes, or Dry Fire? Your choice, so many options.

So he is here. Yeah, uh, while we're waiting on Justin, uh, Bama Dad to ask, uh, when is your live stream? And for all you guys and girls out there, uh, Brooke's live stream is one, exactly one hour before this show starts. So it'd be 8 o'clock Central, 9 o'clock Eastern. Yes.

Oh, there Justin comes back.

There we go. All right, dry fire goes to Justin. So yeah, so Uh, go ahead, email me your address, and I'm gonna warn you, it's probably not gonna go in the mail until Wednesday or so, but, um, it'll be there.

So right there is her name is Brooke, and instead of the dash, it'd be Brooke at AGSS.

Hold on, ready? We'll just— I'll just make it easier. Hold on, let me, let me adjust accordingly. Okay, hold on there. Yeah. Then it'll be there so everybody can see it.

Just like that. All right, there you go.

So that's Brooke's email.

Yes.

No, it's at AGSS. All righty. There. Yes.

Yeah, not to be confusing, but yeah. All right. And we said Denny jumping out there.

Hey buddy, good to see you.

And you guys, hashtag in.

We got More giveaways. So there you go. All right, so then one person gets to win a hat. You get the choice of pink or black. All right, that's what we got left. And I apologize to all of you have to wait for me to send stuff, but it's just once.

It's just—

yeah, somebody, everybody.

Congratulations!

Now I get to play out there with Blue Ranch. If you wouldn't mind posting, uh, a Great Start Shooting School link out there for everybody so they can go check out Brooke's channel.

All right, so now I get to, you know, I'll get to stalk Dale because now I know where he lives.

It'll be great. All right, Dale, you out there, buddy?

Say something. And they are very bright. They're probably just a slightly less than what I'm seeing on my monitor, but they are pretty bright. Oh, all right. Um, but yeah. Oh yes. Oh yeah, and just so we do the chamois thing, $30 value. That's how much these suckers cost me, or this is what I sell them for. So not that we're all right about how much things cost on YouTube because you can't talk about anything on YouTube.

Jamie put her link out there, so make sure you check that out.

I'm not here.

All right, fine, you get nothing. So, so, Dale, you serious?

You want to spin again, or— well, he's probably got 5 million hats.

That is sort of one of the— he doesn't want to give Brooke—

that's probably what it amounts to. Those of us who have them have 5 million of them. All right, all right. Well, I don't see the chat, so I don't know.

But anyway, look at this thing, another spin then.

Okay. All right, that will make it easy. Whoever wins this one, we're just gonna— they're gonna send me their stuff and I'll just send them all of it. They don't even get to choose. Let's give it all away all at once because you know everyone's really here for the skinny blue knife.

So, all right, well, this one is Smoking Joe. Sorry, I had Brooke still on there. I didn't realize it, but yeah, it was spinning. And, uh, anyway, uh, Smokin' Joe, you still out there, buddy? He was just out there just a minute.

He said congratulations. So there you go, he's there somewhere. He's like, no, no hats. Pink, red, pink, blue. All right, and then pens. Everyone loves pens. I will be all done.

I'm not even thinking that.

There he is, he says thanks.

All right, yes, feel free to email me at brooke@agss.com and I will send you stuff. Yep, there's the email address right there.

So all right, that's awesome. All right, well, thank you for letting me, you know, give stuff away.

Well, thank you for doing that. That is really nice of you.

Great stuff there too. Well, you know, you guys have the fancy software here to make it work for everybody.

So up next will be for the multicolored skinny knife. So confused with the multicolored 10. So anyway, uh, let's spin here and see who win the multicolored skinny, skinny knife. I didn't even hear that one get called before. Denny just jumped in not very long ago, so hopefully he's still out here. Minutes ago. Come on, Denny. He's probably still hot and worn out being down there. There he is.

All right, there he is. All right, thank goodness everyone got something. Well, not everyone, but you know, a little bit like over here, like, you get a pen and you get a pen.

Alrighty, well, that is awesome. Thank you so much for doing that, Brooke, and congratulations on the winners. And we want to thank each and every person that's here tonight. And, um, also, uh, we're gonna go through the room and let everybody plug your channel. If you're out there on the side chat and you got something coming up, uh, if you'd like to put your channel link out there or whatever you got coming up, we'll sure highlight it. And, uh, I want to thank the VIPs. They're scrolling down below, and there's, I think, some more to add to it, uh, just here recently. Uh, so, um The VIPs, what the money comes in from the VIPs, uh, they sponsor the giveaways. So I just really want to thank them very, very much for all that. Um, so Gary, what do you got coming up, buddy?

Well, let's see, it's Saturday, so I got my live stream on Monday night. That's Foul Territory, 9 PM Central. And, uh Let's see, for my channel members, Wednesday night at 8:30 PM is when we have our member stream and the knife giveaway. Speaking of knives, I've got 3 new knives from O'Knife that I need to do reviews on, right?

And, uh, I think that's about it. Thanks for having me. Oh man, so glad you're here. Uh, always appreciate you being here, always fun to have you, buddy. Uh, everybody make sure you go over and check out Gizzy Gary. Um, great time. And, uh, just real quick, uh, while I'm thinking about it, uh, so, uh, like on Monday nights you got Run 2A Matters, and then right after that's Gizzy Gary's. Um, Tuesday night's actually our VIP chat, then Wednesday night it's full night of fun because you got Moondog at 5— this is Central Time, it's 5 PM Central Time. Then you got Ron and Misty, their member chat at, uh, 7:30 that evening Central Time. And right after that, uh, you got Gizzy Gears. And then my goodness, we jump over here to Friday night, uh, we got Jamie and all the everybody over there at Georgia Shooting Connection. Um, uh, then after that, uh, Chad Kentucky Rimfires and Hobbies. And then, uh, Saturday we got Brooke's show, then our show. Um, and then right after this we got a commercial break here because— don't go anywhere, we're gonna be right back— because right after this show, uh, well, I say right after, it's, it's a few hours after, but Let's play this. Let's roll this commercial here. I am gravely disappointed. Once again, you have made me unleash my dogs of war. Howdy everybody, how y'all doing? There has been too much violence, too much pain, but I have an honorable compromise. Just come join us Saturday nights, 11 PM Pacific, 1 AM Sunday metric. Just join us and there will be an end to the horror. Just join us. Always fun on the Overnight Mouse Party with DM Foss and company. And then, my goodness, we jump on Sunday and there's lots of stuff going on Sundays. I know we got Scotsman, uh, what else we got? Rich White, uh, I know I'm missing people, man. I If I missed anybody, I really apologize. And so J Delta threw out a super sticker out there for $1.99. Thank you, buddy. I really appreciate that, brother. My goodness. And J Delta, he's got— that's another person out there that's got a great channel. There's so many people that just have wonderful, wonderful channels, um, You got him, and then of course Moon— I think Gary, he bailed, uh, I think he'd go, go take a nap before Fosta's show. And so anyway, uh, just like right here, we got, uh, Mr.

Moondog up next, and, uh, another great channel. Well, thanks. Yeah, just, uh, finished a review of the new Osight SE, which is a It's one of the smallest enclosed emitter red dots for, for CCW-sized pistols. It's got an RMSc footprint, and it supposedly has an up to 7-year battery life. And unlike the first iteration of the O-Sights, this doesn't have a rechargeable battery. It's for all the complaints people, you know, didn't trust having a rechargeable battery. So this one actually is has a side battery tray so you can replace it, uh, with just regular coin battery, uh, you know. And, um, so that pretty much answers that. And it has got to be one of the cheapest enclosed emitter red dots that I've come across that, that is pretty decently built. So I was very impressed with it.

So I just posted that video up.

Yeah, yeah, I'll definitely have to go check that out. It's a good piece. Yeah, I'm not going to tell you the price because, you know, YouTube, but yeah, I was surprised at how affordable this thing is. Oh, sweet. Yeah, so hopefully I'll see you guys, um, or some of you guys out there on Wednesdays. Uh, I will be— might be running late this Wednesday because I'm, I'm gonna be broadcasting from Southern California. If all things go well with the flight. And I will be spinning for the winner of the laser rangefinder that was from, from last month's contest. And this month's contest is for the, the CVLife 1-10 first focal plane LPVO. So if you want to enter that contest, just go to my website at moondogindustries.com/contest. You can see what the the current contest for the, for the month is.

Always some great giveaways over there, buddy. My goodness, good stuff. Thank you. So make sure you go check out Moondog 2A. Got Moondog Reviews and Moondog Go. All three of his channels are great stuff, so make sure you go check them out and subscribe. Do yourself a favor. Thank you. Good to have him here, brother. Uh, so, um, Brooke. Yes, sir.

What all you got coming up? All right, well, I'm in my email, so I know I've got Justin's address. Uh, and Smokin' Joe, not yet, but that's all right. I'm sure it's coming because he said he did. But anyway, what do I got? Every Saturday night since 2018, I hop on and I do my Mental Health Matters. Sometimes it's an awesome show and sometimes it's sort of boring, but it's always something. It's fun. So, um, mental health matters because 2 out of every 3 gun deaths that we get beaten over the head with are actual suicides. And if we actually, as gun owners, want to help people, we gotta talk about mental health because nobody wants to talk about it, but we all have our brains, so we all need our mental health. Um, so there is all of that. As far as mother— other stuff going on, I am actually working on programs so I can teach one-to-many. So I'm coming up with some videos for teaching people who are not able to come here directly to Connecticut with me. And I have knee surgery coming up in August, which in theory will give me some more downtime where I can do a little bit better for the videos that I don't have done yet because I'll be on the couch for a couple weeks.

Theoretically.

So, um, that's sort of the excitement going on in my life. I got about a month and a half of live fire training again with folks and, uh, going from there. So yeah, that's my excitement for what's coming up. But pretty much every Saturday, 9 PM Eastern, on A Great Start Shooting Schools YouTube channel and usually on Facebook as well. Uh, if there's anybody out there that wants to talk about mental health stuff, I am always looking to interview folks and have a chat that will be half an hour or 45 minutes. So on those nights when I don't want to stay up past 9 o'clock, we can just like that. So, uh, any— and of course anybody who wants to have specific things to talk about also, because there's lots of things we can talk about when it comes to mental health.

Oh yeah. So yeah, Smoking Joe says it says address not found, uh, but Uh, Justin's went through, buddy.

So it's Brooke at AG— make sure you got 3 S's. I know some people leave one S off sometimes. The other thing you can do is you can just go to agsss.com and there's a contact form there, and so you can also try that as well. Um, but yeah, I find a lot of people leave the third S off, so Oh yeah, that's kind of what I got going on right now is getting ready for surgery and trying to do it so I can do more safety teaching and that sort of stuff. Oh, oh wait, no, wait, sorry, one more thing. I'm doing instructor class on August 19th and 20th. So anyone who wants to become a USCCA instructor, I've had people come as far as Maine, Pennsylvania and stuff for these classes. It's a full 2-day class. Um, so yeah, there's that. That's actually kind of a big deal because I only do like 1 or 2 of those a year. So, um, I'd have to drop a link for that.

So whenever—

whoever's talking next, I'll drop the link for the instructor class too.

There he says, I think it worked that time.

So I'll go back and look, but I'll go find the— yes, I, I have Joe.

Joe, I got you. It's good. Um, all righty, so much Brooke for being here, and thank you for the giveaways. That is awesome, really appreciate you. And, uh, go check out Brooke over Great Start Shooting School.

And Jamie, what do you got coming up, buddy? Um, we're shooting Connection Friday nights at 8 o'clock. I got a— I'm working on a scope review video, and I wish I'd talked to Moondog before I did this. Oh, why? The authority. Uh, yeah, it's the DNT The One.

Y'all probably seen a lot of those. You know, I've, I've, I've heard of it and I've been curious about it since, uh, you know, it looks very similar to, uh, the, the Arken. But you've got both, so you—

I'm curious to see your video. Well, I appreciate it. That'll hopefully be done by the end of the week, and, uh, maybe I can work on that tomorrow and get it finished up. But, uh, I've not even started editing, but I like that scope. Nice. Good deal. So, spoiler alert, plug up your ears, I like it better in Arkansas.

Oh man, don't be saying that down in Texas. Well, isn't D&T also a Texas, uh—

oh, is it? They are very similar. Very, very similar. All right, guys, I'm going bug out of here and go to bed.

I'm way past my bedtime. Good night, Jamie.

Enjoy church tomorrow. I'll try. I'm just playing in the orchestra tomorrow. Get back up to the hospital. Thank y'all for having me and putting up with me.

Well, you bet you, buddy.

And blood pressure comes down soon for your wife. Yes. Yeah, I'm sure she'll be coming home. I'm hoping she'll be coming home tomorrow.

So thank y'all. Good night. Thank you, buddy, for being here. Appreciate you. Go check out JH586, everybody, and Georgia Stream Connection. Uh, Chad, what do you got coming up, brother?

A nap.

You deserve it, buddy. Uh, man, I got videos posted all the way up to August scheduled. So there's some more Springfield 2020 videos coming out, some more hard seltzer videos coming out, um, got a couple videos coming up of me actually shooting a USBR match, um, yeah, and then I got new 455 CZ that I'm, uh, been shooting. And, uh, it's actually getting pillar blocks made for it right now. I'm going to pillar bed it and, and bed the action. So there'll be some updates on that. Um, guys, I am at 973 subs, so help me out.

I need to break 1,000.

So close. Oh yes, I told you I forgot. Yeah, I was like, remind me Saturday night and we'll try to get you over there.

So we're getting close.

Um, it—

I've been putting out a few more videos and it seems to be helping with the— I was just putting like 2 or 3 a week out, but The problem is, well, and now I'm putting like 4 or 5 out a week. Wow. Well, the problem is there's so many challenge targets getting made and put out that if I keep scheduling them out, then by the time you see my video, that target's already come and gone. So yeah, I just, I just have to do it now, you know. Yeah, plus we had our meet and greet this past weekend, so I had to get those videos out. And my— that was the best time ever, you know. I had Elijah from Day at the Range and Rimfire Dave and Hasbro, um, and we, we had a really, really good time. Oh yeah, I'm the Savage Champion. But that is now going to be an annual event, and it'll be by invite only. And we're going to have the range secured for private range day so that everybody can get their— we can have the range to ourselves and everybody have a chance to video and, and make videos. And, uh, we did it this year at Justin's range, and Justin's only got 2 benches, and it's Beautiful range, but a lot of people brought more guns than they got to shoot. So if, if we can have it at our range where we got more benches and we can get more people sitting down shooting at the same time, then, then I think it'll go a little better. So I've already talked— yeah, I've already talked to the club president and he said just make it happen. So We'll have a— we'll have this, uh, annually, and it's going to be a— there's always going to be a Savage Shoot-Off, and, uh, some of the guys requested that we do a CZ Shoot-Off, and then Rimfire Dave throwed in a Tikka Shoot-Off. So we will be inviting people that wants to come and, uh be a part of those, uh, challenges. So, and, uh, it may be different people each year. So, uh, anyways, we're, we're still planning for that. The first one's over and we got until spring to figure this out because I'm not going to do it in the summer this time. Rimfire Dave about fell out on me Friday, so We're gonna do it when it's a little, little cooler outside.

Them fellas from the north don't have—

don't know how to handle this heat. It was, it was upper 80s, low 90s, and we're shooting under a carport, or our gun shelter is a carport. Well, midday when the sun's baking down on that carport, it's like being inside of an oven. I mean Oh yeah. And, uh, so Dave called his wife to let her know he wouldn't feel well. It was like 80s, 90s in Kentucky, and she's like, well, honey, it's 68 here.

No wonder you can't take it. Uh, sometimes 10 degrees is a big difference, especially when you go about 20 degrees.

Listen, that man is, is 75 years old and he went wide open for 4 days straight. If I got his energy when I'm 75, I'll— it will be awesome because he, he, he ran around like a 35, 45-year-old man.

Uh, Brooke, I fixed it so where you can post out there too, by the way. All right, yeah, no, I think that I screwed that up, but Chad, I did go to at least 3 of my accounts and subscribe to the ones I haven't yet, so we're a little bit closer. Thank you. You're welcome.

I got more than one. Yeah. So Moondog, you take— okay, you got that? Denny's question there. Okay. Yeah, basically with Moondog's deal, you, you do like a screenshot, um, and then of where you subscribe to is Moondog Go or Zach's or whatever the contest says. And then you go on there, you fill up this little form, and there'll be a deal where it says upload, uh, picture or whatever. And so, but I did try it from my phone. I couldn't get the upload from my phone. I had to go use my computer. Oh, okay. When I hit upload on the phone, it kept saying error.

Hmm. On my computer and it works fine. Maybe that's why Denny's can't— I didn't realize that was the case.

That's a bug with, uh, Google, I suppose. Yeah, yeah, it said something like file error or something like that, and I can't— I wouldn't think the screenshot would be too big of a file, you know. Yeah, but yeah, especially from a phone. It kept kicking that error out. And so, but thanks for letting me know. Oh, you betcha, buddy. Um, so yeah, go over and check out Kentucky Rimfire and Hobbies. Uh, always great time over there. And let's, uh, if you're not subscribed, subscribe over there. Let's get him up above 1,000 subscribers. And yeah, 25 more now. Yeah, awesome.

Awesome.

Well, that's great. Um, for me, I got videos coming up. Uh, I got the Zulissy, uh, their new Oak in. And, uh, this thing has a— it seems like a massive glass on it, but it's not that big. They just really did a lot of cutting away, and, uh, the glass is like very visible. Um, so we got that coming up. We got some more suppressor videos coming up.

We got, uh, see, 979, 21. Um, not this late at night.

I'll be quiet now. Some more bolt-action AR stuff. And, uh, so yeah, we got plenty of stuff coming up. Plus it just gets really hot. I'm just going to sit in the air conditioner. You always plan to, like what Chad said, I got videos loaded up to the end of August. That's kind of my plan every year, but I just don't ever make it, seems like.

So what it does make it nice though, like if, if you have a weekend you want to go do something with the family or something, you ain't got to worry about having something for content.

It's already there, you know. So you betcha. Yep, no doubt. But we want to thank each and every one of you that's been here tonight. Uh, man, y'all are just wonderful, and, uh, I can't thank y'all enough. Um, we're at 137 shows. When I first started this, I was like, well, we'll try it out, and as long as people show up, we'll just keep doing it. And so here we are, 137 shows later, and we're still doing it. So anyway, appreciate y'all so, so much. Um, we're gonna leave you off this, uh, remember: God, family, country. Make somebody's day better, will ya? And if the good Lord's will, creeks don't rise, we'll be seeing y'all again.

Everybody say good night.