Monday, December 2, 2024

Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 323: People Behaving Badly

  

In This Episode
  • Erin and Weer’d discuss:
    • a stabbing spree in New York City;
    • $4,000 worth of custom guns that were stolen from a locked box on a flight from Charlotte, NC  to Boston, MA;
    • an ATF Agent's award of $1.6 million from a lawsuit against the Columbus, OH police officers who arrested and tased him in 2020;
  • David gives us his tips for traveling with firearms;
  • Xander is out in the field, voluntarily eating MREs;
  • and Weer'd fisks the one year anniversary of Canada's Handgun Ban.


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Show Notes 

Main Topic

    Gun Lovers and Other Strangers
    Independent Thoughts with Xander

                Monday, November 25, 2024

                Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 322: A Right Delayed is a Right Denied

                  

                In This Episode
                • Erin and Weer’d discuss:
                  • the National Shooting Sports Foundation's request to dismantle the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention;
                  • and the cyberattack on SAFE, Washington state's background check system, that prevented over 10,000 people from being able to lawfully purchase firearms for two weeks;
                • Connie Elliot joins us to discuss the meaning and history of the term "Neocon";
                • and Weer'd discusses the drinks of James Bond with Caleb Daniels.


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                Show Notes 

                Wednesday, November 20, 2024

                Traveller Actual Play: R.A.V.E.N. ep 5, "Veterans Without Borders"

                 

                This session is basically just tying up the first act of the adventure and then beginning the second act. There's no action (wait until next episode for that!) but there's a lot of good character development, including what I think are many fun Chrome-isms. 

                 


                One of these days, the other players are going to think to ask Chrome why his sense of aesthetics is... whatever it is... but so far it hasn't happened yet. 

                Also, here's the stand-alone "KOYNZ" commercial that originally aired at the end of Episode 3. Those of you who are familiar with my work may have noticed the script is from this blog post



                KOYNNNNNZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!

                Monday, November 18, 2024

                Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 321: Politics Are Partisan, But the Second Amendment Isn't

                  

                In This Episode
                • Erin and Weer’d discuss:
                  • the raid that ended the lives of Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon, and how it ties to the Second Amendment;
                  • the Federal court ruling  that Illinois' "assault weapon" ban and  "high capacity magazine" ban is unconstitutional;
                • Weer'd sits down with Lara Smith of the Liberal Gun Club to learn how to be an ally to people who want to learn about guns but don't agree with you politically;
                • and Weer'd talks with Connie Elliot about how World War III might be a war fought with minds instead of guns.


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                Show Notes 

                Monday, November 11, 2024

                Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 320: It's a Bold Strategy, Cotton

                  

                In This Episode
                • Erin and Weer’d discuss Kamala Harris' custom map for the popular "battle royale" game Fortnite... which not only bans guns, but also all forms of combat;
                • Myles gets his ammo from Ammo Squared, and maybe you should, too;
                • David reviews the PB-3 Pandora optic;
                • and Weer'd and Caleb Daniels discuss the James Bond movies.


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                Show Notes 

                Friday, November 8, 2024

                Traveller Actual Play: R.A.V.E.N. ep 4, "Prometheus"


                This week kind of disappeared as interest in Operation Blazing Sword and the Pink Pistols exploded due to the election.

                Anyway, episode 4 of our Actual Play series is out. Don't worry if you're behind, because we missed playing last week and will miss this week, so you have time to catch up. 

                 

                As Chrome's player, I want to make it clear that it was never my intent to blackmail the rest of the party and I hope it wasn't taken as such. Alice said I was basically threatening them with mission failure, and I can honestly say that was never on my mind. Instead, Chrome's feelings were like this:
                1. The Leader and the other Warriors of his kroyloss (fraternity) seemed set on killing all the droyne on the planet. As the only droyne in the PC party, Chrome took that personally, and he also thinks that Denton-Warrior-Friend is more than a little deranged when it comes to orbital bombardment. 
                2. Within droyne culture, droyne who cannot contribute are encouraged to engage in a painless suicide ritual known as krinaytsyu. A sport that is ignored isn't contributing much. 
                3. Therefore, Chrome's last-ditch action was more along the lines of a samurai performing kanshi to protest the decision of Roberd-Leader-friend the best way he knew how: "Well, if I'm so worthless that you won't listen to me, just leave me there to die with the other droyne you consider worthless."
                Dramatic and passive-aggressive? Yes. That's how a lot of things are in caste systems. But I, the player, wouldn't throw the rest of the players under the bus of "Do it my way or fail the mission," and I really hate that it came out that way. I made sure the rest of the players knew that. 

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