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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Isaac Botkin and Michael McMartin sit down to talk about The Pub Club, a T.Rex Arms book club that reads military field manuals, and why a return to basic combat skills is need. In addition to fleshing out the "Citizen's Defense Industry," The conversation includes infantry roles, innovation, the future of T.Rex nylon gear, and the Band of Brothers Cinematic Universe.
And as promised, here is a link to the first Marine Corp publication that we are reading:
https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-Library-Display/Article/2472229/mcrp-3-10a4/
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0:00.0 | If you're curious about what the citizens' defense industry is or how you can gain more basic knowledge and hard skills, this is the conversation for you. |
0:14.3 | Welcome to another T-R-X talk and another interview. Today I'm talking to my good friend Michael |
0:22.0 | McMartin, who's another internal T-Rex interview. So a bunch of people, Michael, have asked for |
0:28.9 | interviews for people in the industry, interviews for people outside of the industry. But a lot of |
0:34.3 | people want to meet more T-Rex folks. |
0:43.8 | And some people who listen to the podcast probably already sort of know you because you did a bunch of content already. |
0:48.8 | Some of our most specific technical email content that we've ever created is all yours. |
0:50.1 | Your MET TC program. |
0:51.1 | Yeah, good topic. |
0:54.0 | So you've had a bunch of different jobs inside of T-Rex. |
0:57.8 | Some of it has been content creation, some of it has been customer support, some of it has been inventing products, some of it has been testing products, and you have a new thing that you're |
1:01.4 | doing, which is not very outward facing, but it's called Pub Club. |
1:06.0 | Oh, Pub Club, yes. |
1:08.0 | Pub Club is one of my favorite things, and no one outside of T.R.X. can see it, so I figure we could talk about it on the podcast. |
1:15.1 | Sure, let's talk about it, yeah. Well, what do you want to know? What do you want to know about Pub Club? |
1:18.7 | Well, so unfortunately, it does not involve going to cool little establishments that have Guinness on tap. |
1:24.6 | Right, right. It's not that. We are reading military publications as a small group of people. |
1:32.3 | Half of the group, no, not half the group. |
1:35.3 | All of the group is random people with no experience, and then you. |
1:40.3 | You are the one with the experience, you're choosing the publications, |
1:43.3 | and you're walking us through the material. |
1:45.2 | Sure. |
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