266: If You're Going to Face the Darkness, You Better Carry the Light
Talk Back to Me Beneath the surface, there's a battle between light and dark. Those on the surface feel the consequences, without knowing what is going on beneath. But there comes a time when men must...
3 Feb 202529min
265: SHOT SHOW 2025 Summary and Evaluation
Talk Back to Me SHOT SHOW: Where those not at the show want to be, and those at the show want to go home. Not really, but it's funny. Laugh with me. This year at SHOT SHOW 2025, we noticed a differ...
28 Jan 202527min
264: No Third Option: Leadership or Abdication with Dr. Joe Rigney
Talk Back to Me In his book, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage, Dr. Joe Rigney states that one of the first responsibilities of a leader is to determine what is and what is not the mission. In this wo...
24 Jan 202555min
263: Ranger Battalion, War Doctrine, and Process First with SFC Mike Meegan
Talk Back to Me The U.S. Army Ranger Battalion demands a constant pursuit of excellence and it comes at a cost to the individual. Few will know the cross pressure of desiring to go back to the aggress...
17 Jan 20251h 10min
262: How to Reduce Violence, Ethically
Talk Back to Me The subject of Gun Control easily misses the mark on more than one occasion. Politically unpopular, economically damaging, and culturally disruptive, one should begin to wonder why it ...
14 Jan 202538min
261: Tim Selbrede on Fighting Fire and Pyrrhic Political Victories
Talk Back to Me It's not the elephant in the room, the Las Angeles fires dominates the news cycle. Time Selbrede joins the show to talk about the reality of wild land firefighting and debunk myths abo...
11 Jan 20252h 4min
260: Defense Against Conspiracy Theories
Talk Back to Me What makes something a conspiracy theory? We already know we cannot trust every power that be, every narrative, every explanation. The further down the rabbit hole you go, the worse it...
7 Jan 202528min
259: Scaling EDC in 2025
Talk Back to Me Too often, public conversations about EDC resort to shaming in order to produce a reaction. Instead, we are going to look at scaleability as a continuum that we can control. When it co...
3 Jan 202528min
