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Andy Stumpf (0:30)
We are back. Today is Memorial Day. I hope that you are living your fullest life. So many times people have asked me what is the best way to say thank you not only for people's service who are still alive, but for those who paid the ultimate price giving their life in service of this country. I can give an answer that only counts for me. And that answer is live the fullest life humanly possible. Live a life that would be befitting the sacrifice that other people have made. Do the best that you can. I think that's the best way you can honor them. Now let's talk about today's guest. Today's guest is Mr. Richard Ryan. He is, I was going to say a behind the scenes kind of guy, but not always. I say that because he's got a couple bullet points here. He is of the four, the core four founders of Black Rifle Coffee, he is probably the most unknown involved. From very early on helped grow at its peak Black Rifle Coffee to a $1.7 billion evaluation with 396 million in revenue in 2023. A tech pioneer as well. This is what's cool about Ryan and we talked a lot about this today. He knows his way around the Internet. He knows his way around AI. We didn't really get into the blockchain stuff. He's a blockchain psychopath as well. My words. Not necessarily how he would describe himself, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that. And also a huge content creator. Several channels. One of them called full mag. 2.7 million subscribers across his content channels. 20 billion views. What an asshole. That's right. That's what 20 billion views means. I think we had a really interesting conversation. We covered a lot about the Internet and AI. He has a new book coming out called the Warrior's Garden which is specifically about the Internet, AI, social media, and how it is completely and utterly destroying us as a species. Again, my words not necessarily his fascinating conversation. We were a little bit limited on time because right after this episode that we recorded, not the ad read I'm doing right now or the intro, we flew down and did the backseat rides in the Jets. So I think we talked for about 90 minutes. I'm going to get him back out here. I feel like we could have talked for multiple hours and we're going to do so. But that's today's episode and that's today's guest, Mr. Richard Ryan. Before we get into it, let me do a quick ad. Ready? Today's episode is brought to you by Montana Knife Company. Instead of me talking about or in addition to me talking about how awesome these blades are, let's head over to their website and I can just show you. They have this rotating banner of course, like many sites do. That's their Blackfoot 2.0, the Traditions knife. This is a new one. This is the wooden handle. Man, that is a sexy looking knife. They have obviously apparel. I'm going to call this a staged photo. That's probably a hollow Styrofoam log would be my guess. The Super Cub. I actually have that knife. That thing is a slice and dicer. And let's give it time to get to the last knife. Oh, the boning and breaking butcher knives, I don't have either of those, but I also do a lot of that in stock knives and gear. Well, with this brand, here's the deal, it's really hard to find a lot of their stuff in stock. Tuesdays and Saturdays they launch blades. Sometimes they will do a surprise launch and they have an opportunity on their website to sign up for a text or an email notification when those drops come out. You should do so. Really hard to get if you don't. And this might sound ridiculous, but if you don't practice purchasing something on their website and have your information saved, you will have an experience similar to what I've had multiple times, which is where you try to buy a knife and it comes out of your cart because you're looking at the back of your card manually entering the numbers and somebody else snaps that thing up. Now they are on a quest to get everything in stock or as many knives as possible. And on their website these are the things that they do have in stock. These Speedgoat 2.0s are mostly my absolute go to for sure and tells you right here when the next blade drop is going to be again, this traditions knife with the wooden handle. God, those are sexy. Super cool brand founded by Josh Smith. He's been on the podcast many times. The youngest bladesmith in the United States, Montana Bread. Founded and growing. Even though it's a global brand. The coolest knives out there. Montanaknifecompany.com if you want to pick one up for yourself, they'll ask you at some point in the checkout portal. Where'd you hear about them? Do me a favor. Just click cleared hot or Andy Stump or both or neither of up to you. Back to the show. Okay, I got the red smoke. Sun run north and south.