212: Peter Ildefonsa on Gun Culture, Industry, and the Second Amendment

Talk Back to Me Just like a bad toupee, we can fool ourselves into thinking that we are good at detecting disinformation. But like propaganda, a good piece of fake hair is difficult to detect. If take...

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Talk Back to Me When was the last time you heard someone talk about a bright future? Not just for themselves, but for the United States, or the West? Chances are, if you are like me, you cannot rememb...

29 Jun 32min

Talk Back to Me Does what you watch inspire you to greatness, or only make you anxious about the world? There's a difference between podcasts that inform us when making decisions, and people who merel...

11 Mar 30min

Talk Back to Me We can become lost in tribal arguments or we can look at the Minnesota ICE shooting to better understand asymmetrical warfare. In this episode we introduce a thought experiment where t...

13 Jan 26min

Talk Back to Me Victim Narratives plague our generation. Yet history tells a longer story. Black Lives Matter, Antisemitism, and White Men now have their own victim narratives. We are aware of the pre...

8 Jan 44min

Talk Back to Me The words Tactics, Operations, and Strategy have meanings deeper than mere marketing. Rather, we use the metaphor of Gardening to decipher the differences between them and how they wor...

25 Sep 202527min

Talk Back to Me Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a manhunt continues in the minds and perhaps hearts of Americans. A great interest in identifying the killer illustrates the divide between...

16 Sep 202552min

Talk Back to Me At its core, Ghost Recon Wildlands is a game about Insurgency. You, the player, engage in various forms of Unconventional Warfare, on a mission to take down a Drug Cartel set in a Fict...

4 Sep 20251h 20min