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When I actually studied radio in college, when I changed over from physics and math to something that was more likely to be cute girls, they warned us to never say that word for obvious reasons. Anyway, still, I'm still Michael Bain, okay? This is MBTV on the radio. Of course, this is our 20th year of this podcast. We've won numerous awards for it. Phil and the Blank brought to you this week by our Palset Hunters HD Gold, who I will be visiting with, by the way, at the rimfire challenge, Shooting Association's World Championships in October, down in Alabama, where the barbecue grows, and I'm actually certainly looking forward to it. It'll be big fun. Absolutely big fun down there. But, you know, a couple of things to talk about today. I want to also talk about some hardware stuff with Stoker. You know, we'll talk about this in the later part of the show, but I got a gun I've been waiting to get from Stoker, which is their STR9 Combat X. And I'll go into what that X means a little bit later in the show. But what I want to talk about early on, because I think it's actually pretty important, is that I got an email from my friend, Greg Ellifreds, you know, certainly one of the finest trainers in the country. And one of the things Greg said in the email, he goes, "Hey, you know, one thing I'm seeing in my classes is because there's been a rise in, quote unquote, "mass shootings." And the students in my class don't necessarily understand the difference between a mass shooting and an active killer event, an active killer attack. And this is very dangerous because the two things are really different. So the first thing you're saying is, what are you talking about, Michael? Well, mass shootings have been on the rise for a while. And what we're typically seeing in a mass shooting is something that happens in an urban area late at night. And Jesus either spins off out of a club, a bar, an event that's being held. And it involves a lot of stupid young people whipping out guns and shooting other people, usually other young people who are whipping out guns to shoot them. In the old days, in the old days, in the dawn of time, where dinosaurs rule, we might have said it was a bunch of second-rate gangbangers doing stuff like that. And now it's first-rate gangbangers, actually, and that's what it is. What you're looking at, and the reason they call it mass shootings, is because it's illegal in the United States, I believe, to speak about the truth. You know, one thing I wanted to do this week that fits in with some of Greg's comments are that we have allowed the left to modify our language to such a point that it's doing us damage, which, of course, is the point. You've all read 1984. You all understand, like, the concept of gun violence. Saying gun violence prevents us from doing anything about the issue, which is not gun violence. There's no such thing as gun violence. Just like there's no such thing as knife violence. There's no such thing as overdose of acetaminophen violence, none of those things. But by saying gun violence, by lumping everything into this one amorphous category, which seems to be totally unable to deal with. I mean, oh, my God, what are you going to do? Much of gun violence is gang violence, and the proliferation and rise of urban gangs, and not just urban gangs everywhere. I mean, I live near Denver. Denver's a cartel gang town. I mean, they essentially they own Denver. Obviously, you've read that the idiots who run Denver and they are profound idiots. Take money away from the police and from other services to service the migrants, the illegal aliens who flooded into Denver. It's given the gangs a tremendous foothold. They were always solid in Denver, but it typically is the last stuff I read on gangs in Denver. It's a cartel town. And a lot of the quote unquote street gangs, the smaller gangs are allied now with the cartels, with one of the cartels. I understand there's also a huge rise in Asian gangs in the Denver area. Once again, illegal immigration certainly doesn't hurt that, does it? But we have a lot of gang violence. And that's what we see when we look at say, you read one of these events and you go like, well, the attack happened at 3 a.m. in the morning, you know, outside of a bar that was hosting a street party for young people, young people, got that young people. How young, three, four, five, six, now, they're bangers. They're bangers. That's who they are. And that's what we don't talk about. However, you see this rise in this mass shooting because, hey, you know, all these gangs at this point, I believe, are affiliated with someone big, the cartels, one of the cartels in Mexico, or have ties to the Asian gangs, or have ties to the big Hispanic gangs. Or, I mean, nobody is out there independent, I don't think, not anymore. Thanks to, you know, the ruling junta in this country. But what does that mean for you, right? Well, I mean, you were, I'm tempted and we're all tempted to do this. I'm tempted to say to you guys, did you not hear John Farnham? Stupid places, stupid types, stupid people, stupid things. You know, do you really want to be at a bar at 3 a.m. in the morning that's hosting a street party? Not if you're sane. Not if you're sane. I always had a really ugly argument with a Democratic representative at the Colorado house where she was explaining how her son just, you know, what, what are you going to say? He was killed. And he was killed by a warlord that came to one of his parties. See, this is how we, like, we, we, we do this around. We go like, well, this is kind of, this is a party. It's kind of a fun party. You know, maybe they're, they're flowers and a piñata and a little punch, you know, what do you just say? But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about gatherings of young people, young people, who are profoundly dangerous. Profoundly dangerous. So, you know, we talk about, you know, John Farnham and, you know, if you don't, don't, don't do dumb things and go dumb places with dumb people, that is the living definition of all those things. Do you want to be there? And the answer is no. You may be, I don't know, 19 years old and, and, and just out of, or just, you know, out of the military, going to the military and, you know, you like going out and you like being in the bars, you know, like being in the bars until the wee hours of the morning, you need to think about that now because key point that, let me give you the key points that, that Greg, yeah, he linked to an article he'd done about mass shootings versus active killers. And one of the things that, that Greg did was, was kind of codify what you might see. He said, because the attack characteristics are different, your response tactics should be different as well. Using your trained active killer response techniques in one of these mass shootings is likely to yield sub-optimal results and make it more likely that you are injured and killed. So what's a mass shooting? Shootings usually occur in urban areas where large groups of young people, and he notes often affiliated with street gangs are gathered outside. The gathering could be a formal event or something informal, a party, a cookout, a quote, unquote street takeover. Do you see that? LA? Now, let's, let's take over a street and, and burn some cars in the intersection. Damn, that's fun. Often happen late at night, usually more than one shooter, usually some type of disturbance, yelling, arguing before the shooting starts. Shooters are usually armed with handguns. The shooters will be identified with some people in the groups involved and likely communicating with some of the other people at the shooting scene. These are more events, like a gang fight with rounds flying everywhere. And let's contrast that to an active shooter. What's an active shooter do? Active shooter wants to kill as many people as they can. The active shooter sees you, wants to kill you personally, he, she, other, wants to kill you personally, your family, personally, right? All those things. Very, very different response, although I would argue, as Greg argues, is that response, hey, get the hell out of dodge, get your family out of the killing zone, get those in your responsibility outside the killing zone, period, period. But there is within our culture a tendency of saying, well, if I faced a mass, if I faced an active shooter, I would go for it because I don't have any family with me. You know, I have, I have an opportunity to save other people's lives. So I think I'm going to go for this. I'm going to fight it. If you do that in a mass shooting, you are in deep, doo-doo, right? For all those reasons that Greg listed, there is no win in something like a gang shooting. There is no win in a gang shooting. Whether they call them youths, whether they call them young people, or they call them our beloved, cutesy people, no, no, no, no. So if there's no win, how do you win? Greg notes that the only way to win is not play. Get out. Here's shots here late at night, here's shots in urban area. You go to ground, you go to cover, and then you get the heck out of there. There is nothing for you there. There is no way to help there because a lot of this links with what we've been talking about in the concept of social media-empowered gangs, social media-empowered crime. Remember these guys who are shooting at each other know why because you've got a funny color handkerchief that's not the same color as my funny color handkerchief, all right? You are allied with the Zetas and we are allied with whichever cartel, da-da-da-da, you know, we make a lot of money this, and you can't disrespect us, the worst possible iteration of and honor culture. You said something to disrespect us, bang, now, oh, you should beg, bang. Here's another thing to keep in mind. Every one of them has not only a handgun, but a phone. And a lot of them are punching in to their friends, to their other gang members, to their allies, hey, we're in a shootout here, help. So you got to know that it's very likely that more people are coming who will be armed and who already know what's going on. I said, shoot out, gee, okay, let's rock and roll. You cannot win here. You cannot win. So what you need to do is go. One of the things that Greg notes, very important, keep your weapon holstered. Don't draw. You can put your hand on the weapon. We've talked so much about the surreptitious draw here. This is a case where I want my hand, I'm like, good. But I also don't want everybody going, he's got a gun. Because then opportunity, remember, these are, these are mostly gang inspired event. This gang loyalty, so there's gang A, gang B, and then you pull out a gun who shoots you, gang A and gang B. Every move you make from the moment you first hear shots should be designed as part of a plan that you're getting out, you're getting away, you're getting clear of the scene. Like I said, you might have gone to ground because there wasn't any cover around you. What do you do when you're on the ground? You want to know where the shots are coming from? You also want to know where is cover. And if I got a move, I'm going to move to cover. Once I make cover, remember the clock is ticking. Cover is not forever, especially when you got a bunch of people shooting at a bunch of people and it's a fluid situation. So each case you're moving cover to cover to cover to cover farther away. You are getting away. That's the key thing for you there. Just like I said, there's no win here. There's no win. I think one thing that confuses us, and I really do believe this, is that we still in our head, we talk about gangs, gangs, and some of the stats I've seen says that it's much of 80% of those murders that the left is always going like gun violence, gun violence, are the result of gang shooting, or gang oriented shooting, or something that has spun out of a gang whose primary business is moving drugs, or primary business is running prostitutes, their primary business, stealing cars. Our problem is that we think gangs, when I say gangs, we sometimes go back, well it's West Side Story. Here come the jets like a bat out of hell. People get in their way, people don't feel so well, but they dance well, right? Or the Warriors. These are the armies of the night. Interesting, isn't it? We have the gangs that we have seen on screen are really different than the gangs as they are in the real world. There's of course the Benetio Del Toro series on serious cartel violence that you've seen, but name escapes me at the moment. But generally we think gangs, and we think, oh, you know, it's kids going through a phase. No, gangs are now multinational corporations who are involved in literally treaties with our foreign enemies, E.G. China, to smuggle into the United States, the most deadly street drug ever made, fentanyl, which kills tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Americans. This makes them rich beyond their wildest dreams of avarice, and that money trickles down. It's fair to say that the gang's primary work, you know, one of their primary jobs is murder, is killing people. They make a product that kills people, right? That's what it does. They're protected by really high speed attorneys. I've known some, and they're very good attorneys. They're also utterly, utterly, utterly, I mean, you can't say corrupt. All you can say is like, they're not like us. And they will fight. You know, they have, they have the resources. They have the infrastructure. They have the money. And out on the street somewhere, there's these various and sundry, what you might think of as street gangs, the 32nd street gangs to cribs is sort of the running joke. But in fact, they are all tied into an overall corporate structure. And here's the dealio, you don't want any part of that Greg Bates brings it up here. And Greg says it straight out, what about that part about being a good witness? When it is gang related violence, when it is a mass shooting taking place within the constraints of what we just defined here, you don't want to be a good witness. You want to be gone. Now, gee, why do you not want to be a good witness because in subsequent court proceedings, the state which has captured your name, it's got your name, your driver's license number, you said, I saw the whole thing there. That guy right there in that orange shirt, shot that guy in that blue shirt because they were arguing back and forth and through a bottle at each other and then they shot each other. Well, what's going to happen? Well, please got your name addressed. It's great. You're going to be a good citizen. You're going to testify. And then by the rules of evidence, they have to turn that over to the defense attorneys. The defense attorneys turn it over to who, not Mother Teresa. The defense attorneys understand that witness intimidation or witness disappearance means their clients win. And remember, a multinational corporation founded on the concept of death. We'll be right back. Ready to revolutionize the world of sports shooting, introducing the RIA 5.0 sporting pistol made right here on American soil at RIA USA. The 5.0 features a patented RVS recoil system that maximizes barrel mass and linear movement to give you a super soft recoil. 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I also question what an innocent bystander is doing at three o'clock in the morning outside some bar while a bunch of guys from two different gangs are standing around screaming at each other. How innocent does that actually make you and probably not very, but you don't want to get caught up in the justice system in dealing with gangs. You don't want to say, I just feel it's my civic responsibility to say that gangbanger A shot gangbanger B and then was shot by gangbanger C. You know what you want to do? You want to be home having an adult beverage in the safety of your own home, knowing your family are all tucked in bed safe because you didn't hang around and do stupid shit. Right? Right? And, you know, I've sort of seen that a little bit myself. I mean, a story I've told many times, you know, down in Miami back in the years, a friend of mine and I were given the wrong room hotel key at one of those deco hotels in Miami Beach. Those beautiful pastel colored hotels. And we go trotting up to our room and we open the door, we open the door and there's a nice man stacking banded hundred dollar bills into a zero Halliburton case, lying next to him as a Glock 17, I think a 17, might have been a 19. In slow motion, he picks up the Glock and points it at my head. And I can tell you that, you know, this whole exclusionary thing, your vision focuses really tightly. I swear I could see the hollow point sitting at the bottom of all those, you know, Glock type rifling. And my friend started to scream, I shut my friend up and I said to the guy, looked at the guy, I got the gun in my face and I said, we're cool here. I see nothing. He goes, say it again. What did you see? I see nothing. And there was a long moment that seemed to me to take maybe 40 or 50 years with the damn Glock in my face when he goes, get out of here. And my friend and I step out, my friend goes, we got a call of cops and I didn't see anything. You didn't see anything. Shut the hell up. Whoever's putting banded hundred dollar bills into zero Halliburton case is not going to the Dunkin Donuts. I lived in a gang bang neighborhood, I never bang your neighborhood in Tampa. None of this stuff is a joke. And like I said, there ain't no dancing. It ain't West Side Story. You know, it isn't Romeo and Juliet. It's guys selling deadly drugs. It's guys involved in killing and you don't want to be caught up in those gears. So I will paraphrase Greg here, not my circus, not my monkeys, right? Number one, don't be there. Think about it. You know, God, it's 1 a.m. in the morning, I'm really bored. Why don't we just go cruise the clubs and see if anything's happening? Yeah. Okay. And I, you know, we all did that when we were young and stupid. But what I'm trying to do is get your past young and stupid, trying to not be. You don't want this stuff in your life, right? Now that's different when we talk about an active shooter. Very different, right? An active shooter is, is think of it as kind of an aberration, a disturbance in the force. Somebody who wants to kill a lot of people and maybe may not want to get killed themselves, the transsexual killer in Tennessee. It's more fun to shoot little children cause I don't know, you know, they're unlikely to shoot back. Uvaldi, you know, why don't we shoot up a school? Because they're not likely to shoot a police are not likely to shoot back. But it's a different, different situation that you're in. Because it is more direct threat to you in, in a mass shooting that's involving two groups of people, bang, bang, and then you're not the target unless you pull out your gun. And then guess what? You're it. But, but with an active shooter, that person is coming for you and your family. Once again, the initial response is the same, you know, number one, you get down, get behind cover to you. No, where the hell are going? Where the boats are coming from? Where's the shooter? Number two, your responsibility to your family, to those under your, you know, your responsibility to people under your care, get them out of the killing fields. That's going to mean movement. That's going to mean movement. It's going to be movement from cover to cover to cover. And you need to think that through and you need to make sure that when you're talking to your family about like, you know, hey, we're out and suddenly there's bangs and I see like a lone guy and he's got a rifle, not a handgun, but a rifle. You need to do exactly as I say from that moment on period. There's no more discussion points here. Follow me exactly, you know, maybe, I know Jimmy Graham at his active shooter training set up down in Denver, you know, has people when they move because he's a CIA guy, diplomatic security. He has people move there. They're locking their hands into his belt line and to his belt. They're holding onto his belt and he's doing the moving. You know, you got kids, maybe, you know, what Jimmy instructs is number one, you know, you say kids, you grab onto my belt and the other kid grabs onto the belt. Mom or whoever is in the rear position. And then you're going to move from cover to cover to cover to get out. Now if you get your family clear and you say, I want to go back and engage and you know, I'm not sure what I would do. I'm not sure what I did, totally dependent on the situation. It's like, wait a minute, if I have a shot, huh, might I take it? Yeah. We've seen that happen as well. But it's something you got to think about yourself. You got to think about how you're going to strategize with an active shooter. I strongly suggest active shooter class. There's a number of Greg, I think teaches one. There are gun site teaches, active shooter program. This will help you think through that kind of situation. But you got to know the difference. You got to understand, well, it's a mass shooting, in which case it's not my circus and not my monkeys, or it's an active shooter. In which case, I got to get people out. I got to get my people out. How do I get people out? I get people out by moving from cover to cover, right? Anyway, I'll hook up some of those links for you here and you can run that down. But I wanted to get into that because the mass shooting phenomenon, if you will, is increasing. It's increasing because of all those reasons we have talked about previously. Nobody goes to jail for nothing. What the hell? We've got a series of prosecutors who are really only concerned with the criminal and not at all concerned with the victims. They let people go. There's states, cities, countries that have said, "We got to get rid of cash bail because it's just not fair." Because the consequences of their actions have been drastically reduced, you tend to see a lot more public activity of this kind, and you will see more of it. I will say this, I think, because of the lessening of consequences, it's a lot easier for a banger to go to a gun now and say, "We'll settle it right here. Shoot it out in the street," than it was, say, under the Trump administration. I'll leave it like that. What do you say? Now, you have to take a deep breath, give that some thought, but give it some thought. All this stuff takes thought, and it takes you working through your own plans, your own ideas, your own creation. Maybe you need to talk to your kids. Maybe you need to talk to your spousal unit, but you've got to have a plan, and you've got to have a plan for mass shooting, you've got to have a plan for an active shooter, and in both cases, not being there is really excellent. Of course, with an active shooter, you don't know. You don't know. So let's talk about guns. At least that's reasonably fun to talk about, right? I wanted to talk a little bit about Stoker. Stoker has been a sponsor for a long time, and I have a very long relationship with Stoker, which is interesting. I was one of the test people on the first STR9 millimeters. I got a production prototype myself, I think Ryan Mueller got one, my pal Ryan Mueller, who was doing better and better, proving maybe you should stay off motorcycles, but I shot it in a very early stage, and it was no runs, no hits, no errors. There's a gun that shot well, there's a gun that handled well, there's a gun that had a striker-fired trigger pull, but striker-fired guns have trigger pulls. It's just a solid gun at really an amazing low price, and since then Stoker has really pushed hard to expand that line. Keep in mind that the base price for your most basic STR9 fixed-iron sights, not optics cut, but the basic black guns have an MSRP of 329. I think the highest MSRP out there is 629. Let me run you through the line. First, there's STR9, there's STR40s for those eight people out there who were still shooting 40 Smith & Wesson, and there's STR45s, and within the STR9 line, there's a full-size STR, there's the STR9S combat, which I think is a great gun. I've shot it a lot, and it's kind of the top end. I think 679 with optics cut, and it's got a threaded barrel, it's got adjustable sights, fiber optic sights, you've got a compact version, you've got a sub-compact version, you've got a micro-compact version, which is a gun I really like. Chris Sereno said something, we're out of gun sight shooting these guns, and Chris Sereno said this is a micro-compact 9mm that you can actually take a class with. It shoots so very well. Right now I've got it set up, and I'm doing a lot more with it. I've got it set up with the Burris compact sight, the Fastfire Compact, that so far I'm liking it pretty well, but you also have a sub-compact that we've talked about, basically pick a size, full size, sort of G19 size, compact size, sub-compact size, micro-compact size. I'd also like to mention available with either iron sights or cut for an optic, or with a adjustable sights, with fiber optics in them, some of the STR9s come in color everywhere, OD green, flat dark earth, cerakote, some with a distress finish, they look really, really cool. So you see Stoker has really advanced this line pretty far, and from my old standpoint, at this point over the years, and it's years, I've shot, I'm going to say thousands, certainly more than a thousand rounds, through these guns, I've had them out at gun sight, I've loaned them to friends, instructors, to be able to use an instruction. And I've never had any problem with any of them. Right now I have in-house several different varieties, and I have found them to be uniformly, really good, really accurate, insanely reliable, I mean, to me, that's a really important thing. If you recall, I sort of got my butt handed to me a couple of times on shooting gallery, because they're going like, "Michael, we know that you get the good stuff, right? We know that Michael gets a price out there, as do everybody else in the business." But not all of us get a price. So the key point for normal people is I need to get a gun to protect my family, and that gun needs to be 100% reliable, you know, that gun needs to be accurate, that gun needs to be easy to shoot, very straightforward in its manual of arms. And I need it to not cost as much as your average, I don't know, Tesla. Kroger has stepped into that niche and really grabbed that ball and run, run, run, really, really hard with it. Great guns and expensive guns. 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And you know, they've made really world-class shotguns, I think everybody's owned a Stoger double-rail shotgun at one time or another in their life, because they're great guns. You know, the great Stoger coach guns, gosh, I had one like, I don't know, decades ago, when I was an infant. I guess they give them to you in your crib in Tennessee. But it is a blue chip name. You know, it's a company that's been around for a long time and knows how to manufacture high quality guns at a reasonable price. And that was always the goal of the STR series, is we're going to step in and we're going to make a gun to Stoger quality to the quality we expect with our firearms. And we're going to keep it at a price that people can afford. And boy, have they ever done that? I mean, I love the way they filled out their, filled out their entire line of Stoger pistols. And I've shot them all, and the one thing I want to say about them is it's kind of like no runs, no hits, no errors, no quirks. They shoot good. They shoot very good. I got a Stoger last week, and it's one I've been waiting for. We talked about it at Shot Show, talked about it a little bit at the NRA. It's the Stoger STR9 Combat X. And essentially, it's a little bit of an enhanced version to meet NATO test requirements for handgun. And one of those tests is that it has to run 10,000 rounds without cleaning without anything. Just run 10,000 rounds. And these guns do that. And I really like that about it. I like it that this gun has been built to a mill spec to be used, to have the potential to be used in various NATO countries. I like a lot about it. I like, it's basic STR9 Combat, which has been my favorite, which I shot extensively at gun sight, and which I shot relatively well at gun sight with it. But I wanted the X because it's a little bit beefed up. I think, here's what's bouncing around in my mind, is that over the years, I have these things about Michael's bedside gun. For years, it has been for years, a SIG226, a really boring SIG226. The difference is that my bedside gun has a laser. It has like bells, whistles, because it's my bedside gun. I don't care how much it weighs. But I tried changing, I went to an FNP, 45, and just didn't like it. There's issues with the magazine, there's always a cork when you deal with an FN. They had great guns, but they're not like us. FN will quickly orphan a gun, and there's nothing worse than an orphaned gun. You have a 45 that's not the striker fired one. And there's no magazines available for it, period. Great gun, but you have to live with that. So I don't know. I sort of look a little bit at this STR Combat 9X as maybe a high potential for a bedside gun. It would ride in a holster, or actually, lately, I've been using one of those streamlight boxes as a bedside gun. I kind of like that. It's in the box. Technically, it's locked, but the box is not electronic. It's simply a matter of putting your hands on the keys and pushing down the box opens up. I like that. Obviously, the stokers have rails, put a dot site on it. I have been running a Burris 4 on my other STR 9 Compact. That's what I used at gun sight. And as I mentioned, I have the Burris Compact on the Micro Compact. So I know how the guns run with those sights. That might be the path I go down. You've got a light. You put a light with a streamlight with a light that has a laser on it on the rail. You know, I want as many advantages as I can have for a bedside gun. I have 15 round magazines for it. You can get, I think there's 21 round magazines for it, which you should get, and probably at the way things are going with the Supreme Court. As soon as the lower court rules, and since the ninth rules on the magazine capacity issue, then we'll have 21 round magazines because Colorado's knit-wit law will be struck down. But anyway, I wanted to talk about Stoker there because I'm proud to have been involved with him for as long as I've been involved with him. I'm proud to have, it's really neat to handle a gun that you start out with like where you're talking about him, what's it going to be? And then you get a production prototype and you shoot it, you shoot the production prototype and then you move through the sequence of the different sizes and the different guns, the different calibers. It's really neat, you know, from my own standpoint, I'm elated at being doing stuff like that. That's cool. So anyway, yeah, Stoker, if you're looking for an inexpensive, high-quality gun from a blue chip manufacturer, there you go. Other stuff that's coming up, I realize we're getting down to the end of it, is I'm doing a test here that's going to be interesting. I have a Trichicon, RMR-CC, Compact Trichicon, RMR, mounted on a commander-length 10mm. And I'm wondering if it's going to stay on. So I thought that would be kind of an interesting test there. That's a gun I'll show you. It's Michael's ultimate bear gun, bear defense gun, because that's the thing that gun guys really like to do. So I'm working on that. I got a couple of other projects that, as you know, kind of in the works, and spending a little more time on the range, for me. That's kind of a critical thing. I need to spend more time on the range, I need to shoot everything. In any case, I'm Michael Baines, MBTV on the radio. You can find us at MichaelBain.tv. Of course, we'll have links for everything we've talked about here, and I'll link you up to Greg Ellifritz's article, so you can check that out and link you up to Stoker. And I thought we'd maybe go out with some other additional classical music. Maybe a little boc, air on a G-string. I was going to say air on a G-string, the first thing you say is like, "Are you blowing air in a bathing suit, dude?" No, it's boc. This is the Carmel Quartet, string quartet, doing it. And it's pretty. You'll like it. And until next week, once again, God knows what's going on. We might talk politics next week a little bit more, because obviously a lot of issues that affect all of us, especially that Chevron ruling. That's a big deal. If any of you out there don't understand why you have to vote for Donald Trump in November, you might not like him. You might not like him. You might think he's your kind of person, right? You might not like it when he gets weird, and since tweets in the middle of the night, you might not like some of the things he's done. You might carp endlessly about the damned bump stock ban, which is gone, baby gone. But look at the three Supreme Court justices, likely over the course of the next presidency. Two more Supreme Court justices will need to be chosen. Who do you want to choose them? You know, I was actually shooting a match with a guy who runs a Second Amendment advocacy firm. I talked to my sweetie, who's an attorney, was talking to him about the Supreme Court and just his eagles. Who cares about those guys? I do. You do. I'm Michael Bain. Until next week, guys, I'm going to, you know, say, as I always do, it's dangerous times to be safe out there, but at the same time, a quote from my dear friend, the late Dr. William April, "Be dangerous out there. We'll see you next week." [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]
