Landfall!

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Weerd Beard

All checked in to my hotel in Louisville for the NRAAM.

You can see some of the hijinks Ryan posted from the road here

Time for a shower and a nap!

Hope to see all of you who are here!

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Gunblog Variety Cast Ep 90: Erin’s sick, Sean’s angry, and Adam’s Jeep is in pieces

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Weerd Beard

Episode 90 is up!

Erin Palette is still sick from her trip out to Tennessee, but she dragged herself to her microphone and points us to a really fantastic series of articles she wrote about ionizing radiation.

Nicki Kenyon answers my question, Trump or Hillary, who would Russia prefer?

Beth Alcazar, fresh off the Concealed Carry Expo talks with Kelly Welke about the new USCCA initiative, Women’s Community

Silicon Graybeard wraps up the questions about LED shop lights. Don’t miss this one.

And Weer’d finds us a very interesting Australian TV show about gun politics in Australia 20 years after the Port Arthur Massacre.

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September 10 – Alabama specific – Talladega, AL
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October 15 – Arizona specific – Glendale, AZ
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Gunblog Variety Cast Ep 89: Obama’s Purple Disaster Conversation

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Weerd Beard

So this week’s Gunblog Variety Cast is up.

Adam and Sean bring you Episode 89 of The GunBlog VarietyCast – Obama’s Purple Disaster Conversation

Erin Palette asks, “What’s your disaster personality?”

President Obama goes to Britain and tells them how to run their country. Nicki Kenyon tells us how that works out for him.

In the Pacifiers & Peacemakers segment, Beth Alcazar gives us a report on the Well Armed Woman Mid-South Purple Pow Wow

The same way he showed us that a battery wasn’t just a battery, Silicon Graybeard shows us that a shop light isn’t just a shop light.

And proving the principle that it takes an order of magnitude more effort to debunk BS than it does to generate it, Weer’d finally finishes with Loaded Conversations Episode 1.

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Upcoming Law of Self Defense seminars
August 7 – North Carolina specific – Raleigh, NC
August 13 – Oregon and Washington specific – Sherwood, OR
August 20 – Tenessee and Kentucky specific – Nashville, TN
October 1 – Pennsylvania and New Jersey specific – Bensalem, PA
October 15 – Arizona specific – Glendale, AZ
October 16 – New Mexico and Texas specific – Las Cruces, NM

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Interesting Bartending Videos

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Weerd Beard

So I subscribe to this Japanese Cocktail channel. It’s 100% Japanese with no English subtitles or even instructions. In stead you get to watch the TECHNIQUE of these bartenders in the Japanese style. They are VERY methodical, which gives it the feel of Flare Bartending, but vastly more practical. Also I’m fairly entrenched in the Cobbler Shaker (the 3-peice shaker with the integrated strainer) while most of the Western bars use a Boston Shaker (the two cups that are press fit together).

Have a look:

AMAZING technique! Not sure if his jiggers are graduated with half-marks or if he’s free-pouring the partial measures. I just prefer to use my graduated jigger, or break out the whole set of double jiggers.

Also he’s granulated sugar, not syrup, so he first dry stirs the cocktail THEN adds the ice and shakes.

Also I REALLY like that technique of dabbing the bar spoon on the back of the hand to sample the drink. Really brilliant, and it looks WAYYY classier than the western technique of dropping sip stick into the drink and capping it with a finger.

Look at that shake, that’s the Japanese hard shake which supposedly chills the drink as well as a Boston Shaker. I personally use a bigger shaker than this to allow for more travel of the cocktail with the shake.

But I have my complaints with this drink. WAYYYY too much sugar for my tastes. Also totally wrong glass for this drink. A cocktail coupe is OK for a classic cocktail (I personally am partial to the classic Cocktail/ Martini glass) but he’s only filling that little coupe half way. He needs to scale up the drink or get smaller glasses. You don’t need to pour to the rim, but in a cocktail glass it shouldn’t be only half full.

Now just one smacked out of the park!

GORGEOUS clear ice!

Good ingredients, and great technique that shows he knows EXACTLY what he’s doing.

Good stir then he fills that rocks glass right up, and notice how that clear mega-cube just vanishes in the glass!

And the twist just shows he’s not playing around.

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Gunblog Variety Cast Episode 88: Group Show!

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Weerd Beard

So Sean was moving to his new house this week, so instead of a regular show, We bring you a special group show!
Sean tells you about another Sean Sorrentino. One who is a very naughty Sean Sorrentino. This Sean Sorrentino will not be podcasting where he is going.

Adam relates the horrifying story of the legal system run amok. Or is it? A teen is arrested on Felony Robbery charges for stealing a cup of soda from McDonalds!

Erin Palette holds an Ask Me Anything. About preps, you dirty minded people.

In our main topic, we endure the nails-on-a-chalkboard sound of Hillary and her daughter Chelsea confirming that a President Hillary Clinton will, in fact, be coming for your guns.

Special Guest Luke Apps, of The Triangle Tactical Podcast, thinks you should start a blog or a podcast. He’s a great person to tell you about it because he’s the person who encouraged me to start this podcast.

And finally, Weer’d plays a few clips from the latest episode of no one’s favorite anti-gun podcast, Loaded Conversations. To say that this woman has “issues” is to grossly understate it. You’ve got to hear it to believe it.

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Upcoming Law of Self Defense seminars
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August 13 – Oregon and Washington specific – Sherwood, OR
August 20 – Tenessee and Kentucky specific – Nashville, TN
October 1 – Pennsylvania and New Jersey specific – Bensalem, PA
October 15 – Arizona specific – Glendale, AZ
October 16 – New Mexico and Texas specific – Las Cruces, NM

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Handgun Radio: Tools For Tinkering

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Weerd Beard

So say you have a gun, but you want to change out a part or two, or just do a lot of shooting and need some tools to better maintain your guns.

Or maybe you think you need none of that crap….but maybe after this show you’ll be amazed how you lived so long without them!

So tune in for Ryan and I going through our tool boxes!

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Just Anti-Freedom

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Weerd Beard

Isn’t it funny how forces who might consider themselves polar opposites can behave so similarly.

Point one:

A coalition of 141 medical organizations sent a letter to four senior members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on Wednesday urging them to restore funding for gun violence research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Center for DISEASE CONTROL. See the anti-gunners can’t use public safety anymore, because the public is SAFER when they get the hell out of the way. They have been woefully unsuccessful at trying to destroy gun ownership socially, since anti-gunners are just miserable people who want to lecture you on death and destruction, and talk down to experienced gun owners about how they really are too stupid to safely use a gun, or defend their life. Meanwhile pro-gun people CAN supply you with facts and data if you want….but if you don’t we can just take you shooting and we can have a lot of fun in a safe environment.

And from the other side:

Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert signed two pieces of legislation on Tuesday that aim to combat what’s called “a sexually toxic environment” caused by porn.

“Pornography is a public health crisis. Today I signed two bills that will bring its dangers to light. S.C.R. 9 calls for additional research and education so that more individuals and families are aware of the harmful effects of pornography,” said Herbert on the governor’s Facebook page.
One is technically a resolution, and the other one is a bill:

This resolution declares that pornography is “a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms.”

So a non-binding resolution declaring pornography as a “public health crisis”.

BTW it’s such a “Crisis” that this happened:

A study into how porn affects men had to be scrapped and radically rethought after experts failed to find any young men who had not watched it.

Originally researchers at the University of Montreal wanted to compare the behavior of men who viewed sexually explicit material with those who had never looked at it all.

Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse says he had to drastically rethink his study after failing to find any male volunteers who had never viewed porn.

Porn is ubiquitous, even in Utah, and guess what, the sky isn’t falling! There are shitty people in shitty relationships, and good people in good relationships, and everything in between, and in the browser history is porn.

All I see is anti-freedom.

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My Thoughts on the Trans Bathroom Thing Exactly

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Weerd Beard

I don’t go to the can to hang out, or be social. I go there to wash my hands and rid myself of biological waste.

Honestly we could dump the whole gender thing entirely and have men and women all doing their thing in the same tiled room. Unless it’s an old sports stadium with the trough (BTW I do love these for their pure efficiency, but this IS the only restroom configuration where you will likely see anybody’s private parts) you aren’t seeing shit, so who fucking cares?

Period, end of transmission.

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Evening Music: Pentatonix

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Weerd Beard

So this song was a HUGE hit recently:

Decent, but this is the first you’ve seen it here, and it’s in a related post.

Meanwhile you’ve seen Pentatonix here before, and my daughter loves them from this home run performance.

Combine them together, you have this amazing cover!

Amazing!

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Gunblog Variety Cast: Episode 87: Special Stunt Co-Host ERIN!

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Weerd Beard

The 87th Episode it up here!

This week on The GunBlog VarietyCast, Adam is “On Assignment” in his bed, on post-surgery bed rest, so holding down the co-host chair is Erin Palette!

Just because Erin is co-host doesn’t mean she can’t do her final segment in her “Thinking about how we think” segment, “Why our brains reward failure.”

With all the other dangerous threats to US security, Nicki Kenyon decided today was the day to address that incredible threat posed by…. Panama?

In part 2 of his Batteries series, Silicon Graybeard explains the differences in charging the various rechargeable battery types.

And even though Adam and I talked about that anti-gun podcast two weeks ago, you just knew the Weer’d wanted to take a shot at it. Well here it is…

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Upcoming Law of Self Defense seminars
August 7 – North Carolina specific – Raleigh, NC
August 13 – Oregon and Washington specific – Sherwood, OR
August 20 – Tenessee and Kentucky specific – Nashville, TN
October 15 – Arizona specific – Glendale, AZ
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