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Doug, great to meet you, man.

You were talking about this trench knife. I love this name because it's a conversation starter. Oh, man. Nice to meet you. You were talking about this trench knife.

I love this thing because it's a conversation starter.

Oh, yeah.

So what were you saying?

I was saying that some of the guys that carried this in World War II would machine down or grind down one side of the guard here so that they could carry it flatter against their body.

So it wouldn't stick out in the sheath when they were doing things like jumping and stuff. So when you find those with it ground down, it's pretty awesome. That's super cool. They're hard to find though. See, they are really hard to find. They are. And they're pricey. They're pricey. Yeah. I love this and the 1917 version, which has got a triangular shape blade.

I haven't seen that.

Oh, yeah.

So the blade itself isn't a flat blade like this.

It's triangular.

And it doesn't have individual whole slots for your fingers.

It's got a single guard with knuckles built on in the outside of it.

Huh.

Look at that.

So you got to bring a CIA guy in to tell you the history of trench knives because that's, because that's what we do here. You're going to bring smart guys in to tell us how to do shit. You know what I'm just a geek. There you know. You know what? And I notice you're wearing an Aries watch. Do you know Matt?

Well, so I know Matt via social media, but we've not met face to face.

Okay.

But I got this watch from him about two years ago.

When he first fired that thing up.

Yeah.

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