David Rutherford Show: Everything You Own Exists Because of Explosives | Matt Barnett
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
David Rutherford sits down with Matt Barnett — "Matt Explodes Stuff" on Instagram, with over 250,000 followers — who's turned a lifelong love of blowing things up into a career, a media brand, and his own training ranch. Matt traces his path from an oilfield internship he hated, into unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and freelance demolitions work, becoming one of the most recognizable faces in explosives.
He and David compare notes from opposite corners of the industry and dig into how massive and overlooked it really is — mining, infrastructure, aerospace, entertainment, and the regulatory tangle of the ATF and DOT.
They also get into Matt's West Texas property, Porto Sol Ranch, built for small-group training and events for corporate teams, SWAT units, and veterans — complete with UXO capability, live ordnance, tanks, and a demolition range modeled after a military base — plus how Matt stumbled into being an "explosives influencer" almost by accident.
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🕘 Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Welcoming Mark Lamb
3:20 - Trump's Border Wins vs. Congress's Failures
9:38 - DC's Consultant Class & Lobbyist Control
13:16 - Divide and Conquer: How Politicians Keep Power
19:17 - Crushing the Cartels as Terrorist Organizations
26:48 - A Diplomatic Game Plan for Mexico
33:24 - Missed Shots: Maduro, Iran & Cuba
34:24 - Arizona's Economy, Data Centers & the Youth Vote
42:43 - Surveillance State: FISA 702 & License Plate Readers
49:22 - Real Accountability for DC Corruption
55:39 - How to Support Mark Lamb's Campaign
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Everything starts with explosives. |
| 0:07.1 | That's Austin Powder's motto. |
| 0:09.3 | People don't realize that warfare, explosives, those are overlords that are way back in the shadows. |
| 0:17.8 | So your everyday life of going to play pickleball and go to sports and go see Granny, |
| 0:23.9 | those highways were not made for that. |
| 0:26.1 | And those highways weren't made by Bob the Builder. |
| 0:28.9 | They were built to mobilize assets and people and have a defense system. |
| 0:35.1 | And it was all paved with explosives. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome back to the show, everybody. |
| 0:47.0 | Today's show is one that I have been looking forward to since I first reached out to |
| 0:52.1 | to Matt explode stuff on the gram because his as I'm scrolling |
| 0:57.8 | through and my from my background you know I love watching stuff blow up I love watching guns go |
| 1:03.3 | off and that's pretty much most of my feet and but when I found Matt Barnett it was just so |
| 1:10.1 | refreshing because as you're going to hear, this is a person that truly |
| 1:15.0 | loves what he does for a living. |
| 1:17.4 | And my favorite aspect is he looks like he's having fun every single day he goes to work. |
| 1:22.5 | So without further ado, Matt Barnett, welcome to the Dave Redford show. |
| 1:26.3 | Hey, Dave, thanks for having me. Glad to be here. |
| 1:29.1 | Looking forward to a good show. Yeah, awesome. All right. So I guess the question that everybody |
| 1:35.0 | usually starts with is like, how do I get a job and blowing stuff up for a living? |
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