All right, welcome to another T-Rex live T-Rex talk. Now, this one is weird because it's just me.

It's going to be odd doing a T-R-X talk with just me sitting by myself talking to myself.

I know Lucas has done some by himself, and so this is my first try inside this beautiful set

that the video guys have made. We were actually hoping to do

an interview, which I think we're still going to be able to do, and I'm looking forward to that

one. I think that you're going to like that one. But for today, we're going to be talking about

weapons technology in light of some stuff that people are saying about gun confiscations and future gun laws

in the way that gun control groups and and pro-gun groups generally talk about firearms in general,

I think it is worth going back and talking about a little bit of weapons technology and how weapons

technology affects culture, but also how different cultures adopt different types of technology.

So that is how this stream is going to go.

One of the things that is really fascinating to me is the way that technology is really affected by culture.

Speaking of technology, let us stand by camera two, take camera two.

Beautiful, excellent switching.

I feel bad that the video guys set up this awesome set, and we're not even doing any cool gun stuff in it.

But part of that is because, if you recall a couple weeks ago, Lucas was holding guns on screen, which is verboten inside of the YouTube live streaming rules.

Handling weapons is verboten. So we're not even going to hold any weapons. We're having to

show any weapons. We're just going to talk about firearms. Firearms are one of the most important

pieces of technological development, whether you're looking at the way that manufacturing was

developed. Firearms are key to that. If you're looking at the way that

certain ideological regimes were put into effect, firearms instrumental in that. If you're looking

at the way that certain cultures responded to new ideas and new technologies coming onto the scene,

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