036: Lucas Botkin - The CEO of TREX Arms

This episode, the lads finally satiate perhaps our most popular listener request and sit down with T.REX Arms CEO, Lucas Botkin! The conversation gets into ‘bro vet’ and gun industry exclusionary practices, Lucas’ time as a volunteer firefighter, Lucas recounts overcoming being an, ‘exceptionally lazy’ kid and making up for lost time, we get the EXCLUSIVE on where Lucas gets his jeans from, Mitch gets into how he heard of TREX Arms, Lucas goes into separating the wheat from the chaff on Instagram in terms of people and pages who are doing what they do for the right reasons or not, Lucas gets into the controversy surrounding his religious beliefs on the LGBT community and he makes some clarifications on people’s assumptions about him, the dangers of the thought process behind denying your ideological opponents the same rights as you, Turning Point USA and their following of the ‘Reagan principle’ of never criticizing another Conservative and why Lucas takes issue with not holding your peers accountable, how TREX Arms handles controversy explained from by the CEO, Nathan gets into Canada’s ’State of Emergency’ and how Ottawa protestors were painted with one broad stroke that convinced the masses state violence against them was okay and the gang reflects on how quickly media and societal influence can have on a populace being willing to turn on their neighbors. The lads also get into Lucas’ marriage and how he met his wife, the 'R rated' version of the TREX Arms motto and much more!

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