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Talk Back to Me -Are you so uncompromising in your liberty to allow your enemy to be armed? A perpetual question when it comes to gun culture, where answers delivered too easy are suspect and the time spent considering this question is evidenced in the way it is delivered. Sometime simple, often not, it sets the tone for this conversation with Mike Majewski of Ferro Concepts and Open Source Defens...

Talk Back to Me The REDACTED Culture Cast is willing to state who we are Inspired by. And one of those influences is the Art and War Podcast. Nathan, from that development is some how willing to join in. But that is just how it is. We have the same values.  If you're this far, there's many distractions,  For indoc to Operations: redactedculture.locals.com The Art and War Podcast: https:/...

Talk Back to Me The Term "5th Generational Warfare" gets used more and more as our ability to evaluate information continues to degrade, institutionally and culturally. Often that intellectual degradation is seen as evidence of deliberate attempts to sabotage a society, but we ask the question, is that sufficient evidence?  What are the other generations of warfare? How did we get here?...

Talk Back to Me From training and traveling around the world, to working towards self-sufficiency, Jack Potter brings a conversation to the table which straddles adventure and homesteading. Indicative of the shift in culture, his approach to being self-reliant differs from the self-isolating zeitgeist of the past. As the founder of Guerrilla Tactical, Jack Potter talks about how he sees the cultur...

Talk Back to Me In this conversation with Fred of Counting Coup Tactical, we address how so much of Gun Culture has been using capability as a vector for evaluating the morality of the subject. This leads to a discussion on how the increased capabilities of both individuals and government has opened up new moral quandaries.   At what cost? At what cost do we maintain liberty or safety, and are the...

Talk Back to Me Buried in each explanation are a series of assumptions about the world we live in. For example, mystics of propaganda speak as if all of society's problems can be boiled down to someone with power, be it government or a microphone, manipulating an otherwise good-willed populous. The assumption buried within is the idea that there is a fundamental difference between the propaga...

Talk Back to Me Drawing a distinction between three terms often intermingled, we discuss what the difference between Education, Knowledge, and Wisdom looks like in Gun Culture with Collin Underdahl. Returning to the show for another conversation, the question also extends into how we think of the society we live in.  Where does achievement fit in the mix? Experience? How do we evaluate our own cho...

Talk Back to Me Not long ago, it was common for Instructors to look to lawyers to inform them of the ethical framework they were expected to teach. But today, Gun Culture is much more concerned with both the moral and legal question when it comes to the use of Force. As Instructors have changed the material and methods of teaching available to open enrollment courses, some of this can be attribute...

Talk Back to Me Privacy may just be more important than the Right to Bear Arms.  From brigands in the streets, to the halls of Congress, the term 'Rights' gets thrown around so flippantly that we should wonder if it retains any true value. In contrast, such unsanctimonious use can also be seen as tribute to the weight the concept of a right imposes on reality. As our world changes throug...

Talk Back to Me We often hear about the battlefield of ideas, and that the Academy is where people may contend with and present their beliefs, theories, and arguments without fear of censorship or retaliation. Whether or not that was ever a reality may never be known, but what is certain, is that the Ivory Tower has not been operating by this standard for some time.  One example of where this goes...

Talk Back to Me History has granted us more than the benefit of hindsight. Condition_set aka Daniel Robinson, approaches the academics of philosophy, to look at the way the long form was taught in the military. This is a hard conversation in that there is so much to say and just the right amount of time. Follow him at @condition_set on instagram Support the Show at www.redactedllc.com Follow us on...

Talk Back to Me While politicians and pundits make a scene calling this or that person violent, as a form of implying moral status, we take a look at various pieces of contemporary Left-Wing (American) literature to glean lessons on how we think about the subject. As difficult as it is to keep politics out of any conversation, this solo presentation addresses what we can learn about the ethical (n...

Talk Back to Me The news of the new ruling put forth by the ATF regarding braces has rippled through the culture, and while we have seen actions taken in the past that will effect a section of the population, for once we are looking at a change that will impact us all. The last 15+ years has seen a rise of the popularity of firearms like the AR-15, dominating Gun Culture in America. Today's g...

Talk Back to Me Streamed out of order because as those who have been to SHOTSHOT know, by the end you're so tired, it's best to get some rest before seriously reconsidering what took place. SHOTSHOW has stood as somewhat of a Mecca to Gun Culture for a while, with the exception of it being more of an event then a location. Functioning primarily as an Industry Show, every year it draws at...

Talk Back to Me As the founder of Fieldcraft Survival, Mike Glover has taken part in shifting the colloquial concept of preparedness away from self-isolation in a bunker, instead replacing it with identifying the value in being an asset to your community. At the same time, the book The Fourth Turning has come back into vogue, spoken with the implication that we are approaching the Crisis.  First P...

Talk Back to Me While in the past, Gun Culture has looked at the partition between military and civilian gear as one of quality and capability, that wall has since collapsed under the weight of reality, be it the rise of insurgency, or the return to a more pure understanding of Human Rights. DISCO32 has made a place for themselves bridging the gap between military accessories and civilian availabl...

Talk Back to Me The story so many millennials were told: 'Go to College to Get a Job,' didn't quite play out as expected. For many of us, we found our place through the community aspect of Gun Culture. From USPSA, to Vortex Optics, Adam Maxwell has played a valuable roll in the development of Gun Culture as more than a collector's hobby.  In this conversation we cover the cultu...

Talk Back to Me On Friday the 13th, the Eve before Shot Show, the BATFE has released their Final Ruling on Stabilizing Braces. The ramifications of this decision and timing are yet to be determined, but we will see both some immediate effects, and a long term review of Culture played live before our eyes.  Sit Down, Grab a Beverage, and Let's Talk Philosophy, and why taking a back seat approa...

Talk Back to Me It's no secret that Special Operations and the surrounding mythos has dominated Gun Culture for the last two decades, but as one generation passes the torch to the next, we are starting to see a need for a different set of skills. At the same time, this new wave of Gun Culture has grown up with AR-15's in a way that no previous generation had. As Millennials begin to take...

Talk Back to Me The history of how cultures, philosophers, and governments have approached the idea of self defense spans much further than the Second Amendment. While in our day, most arguments of the subject center on contemporary events, agendas, and problems, by peeling back the layers of history, we can humble ourselves before the summation of human knowledge and argumentation to try to bette...

Talk Back to Me The desire for a rite of passage is contrasted by the desire for acceptance, but by whom? As the Millennial Generation rises to ascendancy in our timeline, so they are saddled with the responsibility to build traditions, and cast off cynicism.  Even though holidays remind us of Traditions, most of us have spent the majority of our lives in a culture which rejects the foundations th...

Talk Back to Me Just because conversations are difficult doesn't mean that they can be avoided. In one sense Gun Culture has benefitted from theological foundation in Christianity, and on the other, philosophy and theology are considered both separate and one-and-the-same depending on the foundation. Members in the military have viewed Christianity as a question of commitment and a grounding...

Talk Back to Me The overlap between Gun Culture and Overlanding once again come to the front with our conversation with Steve Winenger of Ripcord Industries and Rally Rats. Some start working on cars and end up building guns. Other grow up shooting and proceed to challenge their self-reliance on the road. Ripcord Industries offers a rail at the same time that Night Vision is becoming more availabl...

Talk Back to Me The 4th Turning, or Stauss-Howe Generational Theory continually rises to the forefront of conversations considering what's just over the Horizon.  Strong Men create Good Times Good Times create Weak Men Weak Men create Hard Times Hard Times create Strong Men Before we are carried away by the implications of this theory, we must consider what we ourselves are saying when we arg...

Talk Back to Me While we talk about things like a free speech, the free market, and the free exchange of ideas, such things often look quite different in the real world. As we struggle upwards towards the ideals set before us, we encounter events where what was muddy must become clear.  In this discussion with Adam from TacSwap we talk about how Tech platforms interact with Human Rights at the poi...