How Does A Quadruple Amputee Commit Murder?

Summary

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The Colion Noir Podcast

Episode Title: How Does A Quadruple Amputee Commit Murder?
Host: Colion Noir (Cole)
Guest: Christie Crispy
Date: March 25, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode delves into a recent shocking news story: a quadruple amputee—despite having no arms or legs—was alleged to have committed murder by shooting someone while driving a car. Host Colion Noir and his guest, veteran and fellow firearms enthusiast Christie Crispy, unpack how this could physically and logistically happen, the implications for Second Amendment debates, and broader topics including adaptations by disabled shooters, the role of firearm access in self-defense, and the cultural battles surrounding gun rights.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. How Did a Quadruple Amputee Commit a Shooting?

• Setting the Scene: Cole highlights the bizarreness of the alleged murder: a quadruple amputee not just driving a car, but allegedly shooting someone while driving.
  • “I don't really know how that works. And then on top of that, like, it would be hard enough for me to drive and shoot someone. He was driving, which was a feat for within itself. And then on top of that, was able to shoot someone.” (Cole, 04:18)
• Adaptive Abilities: Both agree on the incredible adaptive skills disabled shooters possess, referencing public videos of the accused's range abilities.
• Comedic Relief, Then Sober Reflection:
  • “How do you let somebody with no limbs shoot you? I would have been like, stop it. Stop it.” (Christie Crispy, 00:00 & 04:43)
• Unanswered Questions:
  • Was the car a self-driving Tesla? Did the victim discount the threat because of the shooter's disability?
  • “Was he in a Tesla?” (Christie Crispy, 04:38)
  • “Unless it was kind of maybe a situation where it was like you're not gonna do it, you know, like, or…” (Cole, 08:03)

2. Disability, Firearms, and Adaptation

• First-Person Perspectives: Christie, an amputee, shares insights into customized driving and shooting adaptations, and notes how people routinely underestimate disabled persons’ capabilities.
• Examples of Disabled Marksmanship:
  • Stories of other high-performing disabled shooters, such as “Nub Gunner” and high-profile athletes, underscore “where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
  • “There's a wheel, there's a way. You know what I mean?” (Christie Crispy, 16:05)
• Discussion of public perception and surprise at disabled people’s abilities.

3. The Gun Debate: Great Equalizer or Greater Danger?

• The “Great Equalizer” Argument:
  • Cole frames the story as an (extreme) demonstration of how firearms can equalize power, especially for the otherwise physically disadvantaged—even if, in this case, it's not self-defense.
    • “It kind of demonstrates how a firearm does serve as kind of like a great equalizer in a lot of ways.” (Cole, 09:27)
• Gun Control Talking Points:
  • The hosts anticipate anti-gun activists using the story to push for greater restrictions:
    • “The anti gunners will say, see, it just makes people more dangerous even when they don't have appendages. It's like, shut up." (Cole, 09:27)
• Personal Responsibility vs. Tool Blaming:
  • Both argue that the tool (the gun) isn’t the issue; it’s the person:
    • “It has nothing to do with the weapon itself. It's just the person behind it.” (Christie Crispy, 10:20)

4. Gun Laws, the Second Amendment, and Political Landscape

• Origin of Arm Braces:
  • The brace was created to help wounded veterans shoot. Christie shares a story about meeting the founder of SB Tactical, and the debates surrounding arm braces.
    • “The brace was designed to help amputees.” (Cole, 19:21)
• Gun Culture and Policy Shifts:
  • Discussion on recent administrative changes regarding NFA items (e.g., suppressors, short-barreled rifles), the impact of politics on gun rights, and the looming midterm elections.
  • “If we have a House run by the Democrats … they would definitely try to ram things through.” (Cole, 22:30)
• Role of Trump Jr. and Eric Trump:
  • Both praise the Trump sons as genuine gun people who influence their father’s administration, while noting Donald Sr. isn’t a “gun guy.”
    • “I think it's his sons that are actually holding the line as far as some of the two way stuff...” (Cole, 27:52)

5. Culture War: Outreach and Education

• Spreading Gun Literacy in Minority Communities:
  • Christie details his efforts to break down barriers for Hispanic and Mexican immigrants in South Texas—guiding first-time legal gun buyers, dispelling myths, and promoting Second Amendment rights as a civil right.
    • “Every time that I go down there and I get to meet with people who are first time gun buyers and I get to walk in … it makes my day because now I'm like, we have one more...” (Christie Crispy, 46:24)
• Immigrants and Second Amendment Rights:
  • Many immigrants come from countries with strict restrictions and don’t realize what’s allowed: “A lot of people don't realize … it's indoctrinated in a mentality where … they treat the government just like, kind of like a dictator, regardless whether or not it is a dictatorship ...” (Cole, 49:02)
• Call to Action:
  • Encourages listeners to educate and empower their communities, especially those underrepresented in gun culture.

6. Broader Themes: Community, Responsibility, and Vigilance

• Personal Responsibility: Both guests emphasize protecting themselves and loved ones as a right and a duty, irrespective of political winds or restrictive signage.
  • “If something happens, I'm gonna defend my wife and my kids… if you wanted to take me to jail for having a weapon somewhere... take me. But at least my people are home safe.” (Christie Crispy, 13:33)
• Warning for Complacency:
  • A strong message not to ignore rights erosion in “other states” because it can quickly spread:
    • “You can't think that way, because if it happens there, it's gonna come here…” (Christie Crispy, 41:44)
• The Culture War as the Real Battleground:
  • Winning on a federal level is hard—but shifting the cultural conversation is the best way to safeguard rights over the long term. “We have to win the culture war side of it…” (Cole, 44:18)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Christie Crispy’s Opening Jab:
  “I'm not gonna… I'm trying to make fun of the person who got shot, but, like, how do you let somebody with no limbs shoot you?” (00:00)
• On Range and Disability:
  “I saw that quad dude shooting a rifle, too, and he was like, 12, ringing, like, dead on. And I was like, damn.” (Christie, 17:42)
• On Culture and Rights:
  “If you don't do it now, your kids' kids are gonna lose it.” (Christie, 50:58)
• On Community Education: “I want to teach the Hispanic community … what their gun rights are.” (Christie, 46:24)
• On Complacency: “If it happens there, it's gonna come here. For me, throughout the rest of the country…” (Christie, 41:44)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Quadruple Amputee Shooting Allegation: 01:30–09:30
• Physical Adaptation & Disability in Shooting Sports: 11:51–18:00
• Gun Debate and “Great Equalizer”: 09:27–11:51; revisit at 41:44+
• Brace Regulation Origins & Legal Context: 19:13–21:45
• Politics, the Trump Family, and Gun Rights: 21:43–29:48
• Culture War, Minority Outreach, and Second Amendment Education: 44:18–51:05
• Personal Stories and Closing Reflections: 37:36–51:14
• Invite for Future Hunts and Friendly Banter: 51:41–end

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Tone & Style

The conversation is frank, at times irreverent and humorous, mixing technical insight and hard-won experience with genuine concern for community education and the defense of civil rights. The hosts approach serious topics with the camaraderie and candor of longtime friends, peppered with personal stories and occasional inside jokes, but always returning to the central theme: the meaning, challenge, and necessity of defending the Second Amendment—for everyone.

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For listeners who missed the episode:
Expect an energetic mix of true crime curiosity, firearms mechanics, policy deep-dives, and cultural commentary—essential listening for anyone interested in how real-world oddities challenge policy debates, and how gun culture sees itself and its future in America.

Transcript

[Christie Crispy]

Like, I'm not gonna. I'm trying to make fun of the person who got shot, but, like, how do you let somebody with no limbs shoot you? I would have been like, stop it. Stop it.

[Cole]

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[Christie Crispy]

Listen, I was just gonna pre. Warn you before you. Yeah, I want the cuff, baby.

[Cole]

All right, man. So I got my. Got my boy, Christy Crispy.

[Christie Crispy]

Christy. Damn. I'm transgender now and disabled. I'm about to lose. All right.

[Cole]

Oh, man. All right, so welcome to another episode of the Cole All Noir podcast. Joining me today is. Well, a minute ago, he was Christy. Now I'm gonna give him his gender back. His name is Christie. Crispy. Crispy. Crispy. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Peter would do his little doohickey thing on the bottom here.

[Christie Crispy]

Oh, he's going to.

[Cole]

I don't know, because you and Peter fall in and out of. In and out of love. You're like a. Like a dysfunctional married couple.

[Christie Crispy]

It's because I don't see him often. That's why I'm always mad at him. That's literally. I haven't seen him in a while, so I'm like, you. And then I'm like, I love you.

[Cole]

Yeah. Yeah, he told me. He was like, yeah, tell the him.

[Christie Crispy]

He would say some.

[Cole]

Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. Oh, man. So I figured, you know, some. Some weird. In the news today, and I figured. And it's about a guy who is a. A quadrup. Quadru. Quadruple amputee. Is that quadriplegic?

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, quadruple. What do you call. Yeah, whatever.

[Cole]

Let me see.

[Christie Crispy]

He's missing all. He's missing all aims. He's a quadruple.

[Cole]

Yeah, yeah, he is. He is nothing. I mean.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah.

[Cole]

Is that all right? Yeah, shut up, Crispy.

[Christie Crispy]

He's got something because he did something.

[Cole]

There's that. There is that. I think so. I'm looking at this article here. It says it calls it a quadruple amputee. Yeah. Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

Quadriplegic is when they're. They're full. Yeah, yeah. They're all like. Yeah, never mind. Yeah.

[Cole]

So it's not a quadriplegic.

[Christie Crispy]

No, no, quadriplegic is this one. They have no. Like, they can't use none of their arms or legs. They just.

[Cole]

Oh, gotcha. Okay, gotcha.

[Christie Crispy]

So paralyzed, I guess.

[Cole]

Yeah, completely. Okay.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah. But he's a quadru amputee, I guess.

[Cole]

Yeah. And apparently He's a phenomenal cornhole player.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, dude, I. I literally, this morning I woke up, I was running some errands because my wife's pregnant. She's expecting triplets. I don't know if you knew that.

[Cole]

No, I did not.

[Christie Crispy]

Congrats. Yeah, thanks.

[Cole]

Wait, I'm sorry, did you. Did you say triplets?

[Christie Crispy]

Triplets.

[Cole]

Holy.

[Christie Crispy]

Two girls, one boy. Yeah. Yeah. And I was running some errands, and, you know, she's here at the house or whatever, and she sends me this video, and I'm like, what is this? You know, So I look it up and it's. It said cornhole champion or something. I was like, oh, cool. You know, Seems like a nice dude. Like, oh, that's cool. Like, don't let your disability stop you. And then I keep watching the video, and it's like, he murdered somebody. I was like, damn it. I'm like, now I can just see all the gun activist people coming after which to take all guns from the same old people. I'm like, no, wait. Like. And then I started watching his videos and what he was doing it and how he was racking and what. I was like, holy crap, dude.

[Cole]

Like, that was.

[Christie Crispy]

I guess his. His right arm, he had, like, a little stub or something that he was able to pull. I don't really.

[Cole]

I don't really know because, like, so I did a video on it, and so I see it looks like something like that. Like, he can kind of manipulate, like a nub or something like that, but. But it still doesn't answer the question because, yeah, sure, he might be able to do it on range, but they're saying he shot this guy. And this is all alleged, right? This is all alleged. He hasn't been convicted yet, but they're saying he shot this guy while he was driving.

[Christie Crispy]

Driving.

[Cole]

So that brings up another question. I don't really know how that works. And then on top of that, like, it would be hard enough for me to drive and shoot someone. He was driving, which was a feat for within itself. And then on top of that, was able to shoot someone.

[Christie Crispy]

I don't.

[Cole]

My brain is completely all over the place. That's why I had.

[Christie Crispy]

Was he in a Tesla?

[Cole]

I didn't think about that.

[Christie Crispy]

That actually might be true. But even. But even at that, like, I'm not gonna. I don't. I'm trying to make not fun of the person who got shot. But, like, how do you let somebody with no limbs shoot you? I would have been like, stop it. Stop it.

[Cole]

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[Christie Crispy]

how would you.

[Cole]

How would you do it?

[Christie Crispy]

So, so it's different for me, right? I can drive with my prosthetic. So if he had. Because I think I saw a video of him walking around on prosthetics.

[Cole]

Respect. Yeah, I did. Yeah. There's.

[Christie Crispy]

You can, or there's actual. Well, this is another thing, right. I have buddies who are paralyzed from the waist down and they can actually drive. Like the gas and the break with a, of a handle here and then they steer with the other one. But he has nothing. So was there? Yeah, so yeah, there isn't sort of. You know what I mean? Like, was there something that manipulated arms where he was able to drive? I don't know.

[Cole]

No, I don't know either. I probably should research this because I'm, I'm completely. I'm. I'm. I'm confused. I'm just confused.

[Christie Crispy]

I looked it up and there's. They haven't put anything out of how he was driving. Did he have like, special adaptations? Drive? I mean, there is such a thing, right? Like, yeah, I drive with my prosthetic, but that's just me. I've gotten used to it. Like I, that's literally how I drive. It's with my right leg, with my right aesthetic. And it's weird because I can feel the gas pedal as I'm stepping on it or on the brake. It's just that, that phantom pain, you can feel it. And I guess he was born that way. Is that what happened?

[Cole]

Yeah, he was born that way. Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, I'm sure he's. His, his senses are in tune or whatever with prosthetics and everything, but there's nothing out there. I.

[Cole]

Look, I don't. I don't know if he was born that way. I think he was when he was born. He had to get amputated. He got amputated when? At a really young age, I think.

[Christie Crispy]

Oh, okay.

[Cole]

Because I don't know. I don't think he would be considered an amputee if he was born that way. You know what I mean?

[Christie Crispy]

That's. That's true. Yeah, I guess that's right. Yeah. I don't know. So I was looking, you know, because like I told you earlier, I was like doing some research. I was like, I really want to know what, how had it all happened? Yeah. But there's. There's nothing out there. And I tried looking through his social medias and I didn't. Couldn't find a video of him driving or any of that. So I don't know. I mean, there's. Is. Was that a Tesla? Was a self driving Tesla.

[Cole]

And the testing thing will make a lot more sense.

[Christie Crispy]

Right? That's kind of what I was thinking.

[Cole]

Yeah. But I mean even, but even still, like, I don't think he. He still needed. From the video that I saw, he still needed both. Both appendages. He needed both appendages to actually shoot the gun. So it's like kind of like in the car. Unless it was kind of maybe a situation where it was like you're not gonna do it, you know, like, or,

[Christie Crispy]

you know, you know, I don.

[Cole]

Like it's.

[Christie Crispy]

Or maybe it was parked. You know what I mean? He could have like turned around and literally pointed at the guy and shot him.

[Cole]

That's true. Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

Because I mean, I'm sure he had one in the chamber. Right? You're gonna run around with a gun with none in the chamber. That's kind of dumb.

[Cole]

I mean, I mean there's a lot of people that do.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, yeah, that is true.

[Cole]

I mean, I didn't for a while. Well, actually, I don't. I think. I think I did it for a few months.

[Christie Crispy]

Until you got comfortable enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean that makes sense. But you can clearly see this guy spends a lot of time at the range and shoot.

[Cole]

Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

And does all that. So I don't see why he wouldn't had one. And then what was he carrying? Was he appendix carrying? There's so many unanswered questions.

[Cole]

I'm like, I'm trying to figure it out myself, but how do you let

[Christie Crispy]

somebody like that shoot you? It's just that I don't understand, like I, I want to see the whole scenario.

[Cole]

The only thing I can think of is as if the person didn't take him seriously. It's kind of one of those things where it's like, it's like, come on, stop. I mean, it happens. I think it happens more than people realize.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah.

[Cole]

Where you're like, you're not. Because you want to think about it like taking someone's life is a big deal. Like, that's a big feat, right? Well, to most, most people. And sometimes I think there's a kind of disbelief or shocker. It's like, you're not really gonna do that. Like, you're like, you're really gonna take my life over this. You get what I'm saying? So I'm wondering, especially a friend, because

[Christie Crispy]

I guess he was with a friend, right?

[Cole]

Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the only thing that I could possibly think of. But nonetheless, this is. Well, the thing is, okay, so I have a video. So this is gonna. When this comes out, I would have already done a video on it on like, on this particular topic. And yeah, in the video I kind of go into like, even though it's probably not the best case to use as an example of this, but it kind of demonstrates how a firearm does serve as kind of like a great equalizer in a lot of ways. Right. Like, of course this would be much better if this was like a self defense shooting situation. Right. But I mean, it demonstrates and you know, the anti gunners will say, see, it just makes people more dangerous even when they don't have appendages. It's like, shut up.

[Christie Crispy]

But yeah, we go down that rabbit hole all day every day of just. It has nothing to do with the weapon itself. It's just the person behind it. Right. It's just, it's just, it's so hard to drive that into people where it's like we give so many scenarios, so many different ways to explain it to people. It's like, well, if that's the case, then we should stop driving because there's so many drunk drivers out there. Right. You know, but the interesting thing, make people fat. Like, can we stop? Take. We should take spoons away. You know what I mean? Like, it's just, yeah, there's so many different things you can relate it to. But people, for whatever reason, they hold on to the gun being the problem. It's not. It's the individual behind the actual weapon or car or spoon or fork, whatever, you know.

[Cole]

Well, I think for a lot of people, they Don't. Since they don't see the benefit of the firearm and they only see it as a net negative, they end up, like, when you bring up, I've been in situations where I've talked to people who are kind of anti gun, and then I bring up the car comparison and they're like, it's not the same. And like, you know, technically you're right, it's not the same. You know, having a guard's privilege, like, like that's a privilege. It's not a, it's not a constitutional right. And so, but they don't see the benefit of it. They see the benefit of a car, they see the benefit of a spoon because you get to eat stuff that makes you feel good, that tastes good and all, stuff like that. And they're inherently scared of the firearm as is anyway, and they don't see use for it. So then they look at it as something disposable, when in reality it's probably one of the most protected. It's way more protected than any of the other things that we're comparing it to. Yeah, but, yeah, I mean, that's especially

[Christie Crispy]

in his scenario, right? He's a, he's a quad amputee. And I think he, he's pretty famous guy, right? He was like a cornhole champion or something like that.

[Cole]

He was on ESPN and like all over the place.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, I saw that. I was like, damn. So the guy can aim. We'll give him that. Yeah, and, and so I'm pretty good, but are you?

[Cole]

Yeah, yeah, I think, I think I'm pretty good. Every time I play, I win, but every time I played, I've played with the, you know. That sounds sexist.

[Christie Crispy]

I'm not that good.

[Cole]

Yeah, I'm pretty good, but I treat it like basketball.

[Christie Crispy]

Oh, so you suck.

[Cole]

Okay, all right, we're doing that, huh?

[Christie Crispy]

No, but you know what I mean. Like, it's just like I, I, I, I saw his social media. You can tell the guy, like, obviously has a profile. And I was like, well, it makes sense for him to carry, right, if there's people out there that might want to steal from him. Because the CM was easy, you know, easy target, I guess. And I'm the same way. Like, obviously, you know, if they're being wounded and being hurt, like, I, I constantly carry. And now especially expecting kids and my wife being pregnant, like, I, like between here and everybody listening, like, when we go to the doctor, there's signs where it says, no, you, I'm caring, like I'm a Respons person. If something happens, I'm gonna defend my wife and my kids. And then you wanted to take me to jail for having a weapon somewhere where I'm not supposed to and taking care of a threat. It take me. But at least my people are home safe, you know, and so, yeah, I can see that. Like, I can see him caring because of that. But why would you turn that gun against somebody? You know what happened? You know, I mean, we're only getting one. One side of the story is just he killed somebody, a quad amputee kill somebody. And whatever the case is, we haven't heard the rest of the story. So I'm not saying he's guilty. I'm not saying he's not. I. I just. I want to listen. I want to. I want to. You know, I hope they investigate a little more and let us know because it's. It's going to be very interesting. One of those.

[Cole]

Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?

[Christie Crispy]

Because if he was defending himself, that's holy. That's.

[Cole]

There's. You know, it's funny that they're that very. Now they did say that there were other people in the car and that.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah.

[Cole]

After. From what a report that I heard was a. There were other people in the car after he shot him. Allegedly. That's it.

[Christie Crispy]

For help, right?

[Cole]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's actually asking him to like, I guess cover it up or some. And they were like, no. And then like he left and then they went to the police. Some weird. There's a lot of like answer questions about this that are just kind of completely off. But the fact that. That we're even having a conversation about somebody who is a quadruple amputee murdering someone is kind of strange. What was that? There was that one guy.

[Christie Crispy]

I was going to say the nubs or whatever. Right.

[Cole]

I think he was. And I think he shot his girlfriend or something.

[Christie Crispy]

Or like, oh, no, he was amputee.

[Cole]

He wasn't, but he had. He.

[Christie Crispy]

I think he was a South African guy, right?

[Cole]

I think so.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah. That's the guy that Cat Williams was making fun of. Remember that poor little Tink.

[Cole]

Tink guy.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, that's him. That's him. He was. He was a double amputee and he picked up his shotgun, shot his girlfriend through the wall in the bathroom because he thought it was an intruder and killed her. But yeah, yeah, yeah, that. The South African dude. White dude, by the way.

[Cole]

Gotcha. That's okay. Yeah, I remember that now. Yep, yep, yep, yep. That. Yeah, that Was even crazy. I mean, granted. I mean, it's like he. Like, he only lost use of his legs. I mean, he saw. You know, he had these.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, he had his appendix. Yeah.

[Cole]

Yeah. Is he still in jail? I mean, I don't think I got convicted.

[Christie Crispy]

Right. He got convicted. Yeah. Because they said that he. They were having issues already, they were gonna break up or something, or they were at the end of the relationship, and he just said killed her and claimed that it was. He thought it was an intruder or something along those lines. It just shot through the wall.

[Cole]

Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

Shot through the wall of the bathroom and killed her. But, yeah, I think he did go to jail.

[Cole]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[Christie Crispy]

But I was gonna say there's another guy that I. That I seen on the Internet, and he doesn't have his hands. He's got, like, little. It looks like little. Like, little sticks. I kind of guess, like, he only has, like, one finger kind. And he. He puts his gun.

[Cole]

Yeah, I can't remember that guy's name either.

[Christie Crispy]

But he's good, dude. He's really good. Like, really freaking good. And I have another buddy of mine, too. Nub Gunner. I don't know if you know Nub Gunner. He's. He's another vet who got severely wounded. He got pretty badly burned, and he doesn't have. You know, he's got, like, half of his fingers and on both hands. And that dude can shoot. Like, I've gone to the range with him, and, like, we. You know, we've gone out shooting. I still kick his ass, but, I mean, he was. He was damn good. Like, he. That can shoot so well. There's a wheel. There's a way. You know what I mean? Like, it's just. It's just one of those, like, don't put it past someone like that. When I saw the article or the video, I was like, that makes sense. Like, yeah, it's just like anything, man. There's a lot of guys out there that could do a lot of different sports, A lot of. Without any limbs and you know, and still do stuff. Isn't there, like, another guy, too, in the Internet who has, like, little nubs and wears, like, a super expensive watch all the time? It looks ridiculous. He's got, like, one nail. Like, he's like a millionaire motivational speaker or something like that.

[Cole]

I don't think so.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, I've seen him online, and he does some sort of sports. I think he's a skateboarder or something. I don't really know. But, I mean, I. I Wouldn't put it past him. Like I said, I saw that. That quad dude shooting a rifle, too, and he was like, 12, ringing, like, dead on. And I was like, damn. Like, so when they said he shot somebody, I'm like, yeah. I mean, he looks like.

[Cole]

I mean, it's amazing to see. Yeah. I mean, it's. What the crazy thing is, it's amazing to see how people can adapt to, to changes and they're. You know, you have circumstances that cause your body to be reparably changed forever, and you can still adapt to do things that people would otherwise not expect you to be able to do, you know, because even I think about stuff like that, too. Like, I used, like, I stopped doing certain things. I was like, I can't afford to get hurt because I still always got. I got to be able to shoot. And I've even thought about. It's like, damn. It's like if I hurt my hand or hurt my arm and, you know, things like that.

[Christie Crispy]

But then, because last time we talked, your knees were pretty messed up, right? You're working on your knees or something.

[Cole]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they're, they're back on. I mean, they're pretty good now. I don't have any issues with them for the most part, but, like, but it's also a constant effort to keep working on them. Like, it's not like, I think if I just went dormant for, like, three, four, five months, the pain probably start popping back up. So I guess I'm basically. I've kind of built up the muscle around it to compensate for whatever it is that I heard, essentially is all I think is going on.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah. And I think that's everybody. Right. There's a lot of people out there that every day are dealing with all kinds of stuff, and, and they ultimately do what they got to do to survive and keep going. So. Yeah, it's just. It doesn't shock me nowadays, man. When I saw the article and I saw the video, I was like, I mean, I just thought about my community. I'm like, damn it. Like, no, I was like, this disabled out here. Like, damn it.

[Cole]

You know what's crazy? You know what I thought about recently? So I just did a video about the whole brace things. The whole brace situation.

[Christie Crispy]

Oh, yeah, I saw it.

[Cole]

Yeah. And I, I realized something. There are a lot of people who don't realize that the brace was, was, was designed to help amputees. Yeah. And, yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

So I, I, I actually met the owner of SB Tactical after. I think I'm gonna say like three or four years after they started. His name was Alessandro. His name is Alessandro. Yeah. And he was. He was a captain in the army, if I'm not mistaken. And one of his buddies got hurt, and his. One of his arms was pretty jacked up, and his buddy was like, I wanted to learn how to shoot again. And that's kind of how they developed the brace. It was for him to help his buddy out, and his buddy started using it, and it was like, holy crap, this works. So he was like, how many more people can use this type of stuff? And then that's kind of how the company started. And then I got involved because, you know, it went through the atf. They met all the requirements, all the compliance. It got. Bless you. It got accepted. And then all of a sudden, they're like, nope, nope. No, no, no, no, no. Hold on. You sold how many? A million. No, hold on. Like, we're. You know what I mean? So I was. And it's been like that for years. Is it legal? Is it not legal? Can you shoulder it? What says you can. You can shoulder every other time, but how do. How do you prove that's every other time? Like, he count. You know what I mean? Like, it's just. Yeah, it's so dope.

[Cole]

I think the current administration, they. At the time, they hated the fact that so many people who weren't. Who are disabled in any way, were using it as basically kind of a replacement for a stock. Because the brace was so good that it had the added benefit of being able to be used as a stock. Right? It's not as good as a stock, but it's kind of like. It's either that or pay $200 and then wait. Whoever knows how long it was during back in those days, you know, you remember, it was take. It would take a while. See, people. All the new people who are into the space now, they're. They're kind of spoiled, right? It's like, oh, you get it back in a couple. Several. Before it was like, it could take months. And so it's like I gotta wait months just so I can put a stock on my gun. And then on top of that, then I gotta register it. And then if I want to cross state lines or do anything with that, I gotta let them know. I'm just like, I'm not gonna put a brace on this thing. It's not as good as a stock, but it's good enough to get to do what I needed to do and call it a day. And I think.

[Christie Crispy]

And I'll be good at almost every state. Yeah, yeah.

[Cole]

And then the ATF is like. I think they were like, damn, got us.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah.

[Cole]

It's just.

[Christie Crispy]

It's so ridiculous, man. I just never understood it now and same thing, like the other day or not the other day, a couple months ago, I think I put in some forms or whatever and I got four suppressors back in 30 hours. I was like, get the out of here. I was just, are you kidding me? Like, I literally got the email saying, you know, yeah, confirm they're approved. I was like, what? Like, I was just blown away. And I just love the fact that I'd have to pay the 200 stamp, which was ridiculous. And I'm glad that that's gone. But my fear is, if for whatever weird reason we get a Democrat president that wins, are they going to reverse that? Is that going to be one of the first things?

[Cole]

I think, yeah. I think we end up finding ourselves in a situation where we have a House run by the Democrats and the Senate and a Democrat president, they would definitely try to ram things through. Now, the thing about it is, is the only protection we really have, the backstop is kind of the Supreme Court. The problem is, is that everything, that process takes forever. So in the meantime, you're kind of dealing with that and they. And the other side knows that. That's why they do what they do. They understand, yeah, I'm probably gonna get this knocked down, but in the meantime, I can run this and keep doing it. Exactly. So it's almost kind of like this, like perpetual state of gray zone. Right. If they can keep you in a perpetual state of gray zone, it keeps things from advancing. Now, the interesting thing about it is, and I don't think people talk about enough, are the advancements made in this administration currently. Right. As far as the gun side of things. Right. You know, like for instance, like now we. We don't have the tax on. On NFI items and suppressors and SBRs and things of that nature.

[Christie Crispy]

We.

[Cole]

That back years ago, that would have never even been a conversation, you know. Yeah. Like not a conversation at all. And the interesting thing is, is at the same time, you still have. Even though they don't have any. They don't have a. They don't have a chance in hell to really get a lot of through on a federal level, but they're still trying. So it goes to show you, if there is a shift, which I think will happen in, during the midterms, I think we are going to see A massive shift in the midterms. And as a result, like, we've been kind of coasting in the gun community, you know, because, you know, we know you could try to get some stuff passed in Congress, but good luck. But if there's that shift, things are going to change exponentially. And people.

[Christie Crispy]

You think that shift's gonna happen or, or are you.

[Cole]

They're gonna ramp up their attempts and, and, and it's not going to be a situation where it's like, yeah, you can try, but we know it's not getting through. Instead, it'll be a. They're going to try, and there's a possibility it could work. That's, that's the kind of situation I think we're going to see ourselves in. And I think a lot of people who are new to the gun space now are finally going to witness the fight front and center for the first time. So you and I have been around, so we've seen it, right? We've seen it. We've seen. We went through Biden, we dealt with Obama, so we know what that fight really looks like up close. There are a lot of people who are here who are kind of like, okay, I don't. Doesn't seem all that crazy and that bad. I'm like, oh, just wait. Just all it takes is a shift in administration. And God forbid, if there's another shooting,

[Christie Crispy]

which I'm gonna call it, there is going to be. I guarantee you that there's going to be, because every time. And like you said, remember when the suppressor thing was gonna happen, when we were supposed to lose the stamp and all that.

[Cole]

Yep.

[Christie Crispy]

The Vegas thing happened.

[Cole]

Happened. Yep.

[Christie Crispy]

And then it was shortly after that, it was something else where they magically had a suppressor. And that went on too.

[Cole]

I remember that.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah. And then I got nixed, you know, so. Yeah, but, but I think that this time, and regardless of how you feel about this administration, because I'm, I'm kind of up in the air. Like, I like some things that they do and right now I don't. And, you know, I mean, like, it's just. But the thing, when it comes to the Second Amendment, I think we are getting a lot of push because of Trump Jr. And, you know, we both know him and I talk to him regularly, and he's a hunter, he's a long distance shooter, he loves being at the range and so does Eric. And so I think that's where we have the benefit right now is because they both spend so much time at the range. They understand what the weapon system is and what they are. They know what it is. Right. Not. This is a semi auto Fuado with an extended clip and it shoots 100 rounds a second. You know, when you get these politicians that go up there and they have no clue what the they're talking about.

[Cole]

Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

We actually have, you know, some of the president's kids who actually understand fully what both of them. Right. And both of them, both of them. And you know, I really don't know Eric that well, but I know Junior. And every time that I see Junior will sit down and we talk ballistics, we talk about long distance shooting because that's his jam. Like, he loves shooting at really, really far distances. And so, like, that's kind of the conversations that we have and we've been able to like, talk about, you know, the upcoming laws and rules and stuff like that. And his hand is definitely in there. So I think that's the advantage that we have right now. But I'm concerned about the midterms a little bit because I don't know which way we're gonna go. There is a lot of people that are, that are against, you know, the Iran war and everything. And you know, the whole thing with as they're losing it, they're losing it.

[Cole]

Well, the Republican Party's fractured and that fracture in and of itself is going to give enough credence to having the Democrats come in and take over the House or Sen. Yeah, but you're right. I, I honestly think, I think Eric and Donald Trump Jr. Don't get enough credit. They get a lot of. For stuff that their father does on the gun side. But I think y' all need to realize Trump is not a gun guy. No, he's not a, he's not a gun guy.

[Christie Crispy]

And I think he grew up in New York.

[Cole]

Yeah. And if not for his sons, it'd be way worse. Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

100.

[Cole]

I think it's his sons that are actually holding the line as far as some of the, the, the two way stuff. Two a side of the decision making that's going on in this administration, if I'm just gonna be honest.

[Christie Crispy]

100.

[Cole]

Yeah, because they're, they, they're, they're, they are like you pointed out, they're true blue gun guys. Like, they're, it's not kind of like that fuddy. Oh, no, I just like to do though. Like, they're, they're gun guys, but their father is not. And I think, and I don't have any, I don't have any proof of this, but my gut truly, genuinely fails. Like, there's a kind of like, hey, let's dad, let's not do that. Or, you know, or putting things on his plate or, you know, to, to make them more important, to push them to the front. To push them to the front of the. Puts to the front of the line as far as, you know, policies are concerned. Because otherwise I think we would get absolute apathy or maybe even some things that he doesn't realize are anti. Just because he's not, he's not a gun guy. Like that.

[Christie Crispy]

100. 100, you know, and that's the thing. Like if you, if you go to like the, the, the sheep banquet or if you go to any of these banquets that go around the country, like sheep or deer, whatever the case is, the safari land or the safari international, all those. Trump Jr. Is there all the time and so is Eric. They go hunting quite a bit. Like, yeah, I think they auction off a hunt this year with Trump Jr. Up in Alaska. I think it was a, Was it a dog? Sheep. It was some sort of sheep hunt in Alaska. And it went for a couple million. And that money went back to conservation, you know, for, for the sheep conservation. And so he's involved. He's. He's out there. He does all that stuff. And he, he doesn't post as much gun content as he used to, I guess, or like he does, but he's out there. Dude, that guy loves shooting.

[Cole]

So, I mean, he hasn't, I hope. I mean, he has entire magazine dedicated to the shooting sports, essentially, and shooting lifestyle.

[Christie Crispy]

Yep.

[Cole]

All right.

[Christie Crispy]

Ethos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're all hunting, shooting, everything. Yeah. So, yeah, we're very lucky, you know, that he's, he's not out there lying on an application and then dumping the gun in a trash can and, and then, you know, you know, and then he just gets a little slap on the, on the wrist type thing, you know. Yeah. Get out of here. But yeah, no, we're very, very lucky. I just, I do worry about midterms. I really do. Because, you know, right now I feel like we're kind of divided a little bit and I feel like we're gonna lose some seats, man. And no, and I ultimately, I think

[Cole]

I'm more pessimistic than you. I'm like, yeah, we are.

[Christie Crispy]

I.

[Cole]

Absolutely, yeah. We just don't. It's just not. The facts are just not on our side. Right. The party's already fractured, and then historically, anytime the incumbent president, that particular party always ends up losing the midterms.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah.

[Cole]

So, yeah, it'd be different if the party wasn't already fractured, but nonetheless, here we are. So I definitely think we are going to lose. We're going to lose some seats, that's for sure. And things are going to get real spicy.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, yeah, I know. And I mean, the biggest thing I'm hearing from everybody, and I think I'm one of them too, is the, the whole Tulsi Gabbard thing. Right. She was super anti gun. Super wanted to ban assault rifles, like, was just against it when she was in Hawaii. And then all of a sudden she did this whole campaign of shooting guns. And yeah, all of a sudden everybody forgot that she was super anti gun. And now I'm Republican, you know, and. Yeah, and I think a lot of people are bringing all that up, just like everything else. And. And I thought I was like, yeah, I do remember that. I do remember that because people were hitting me up like, how can somebody in the military be so anti gun? And I'm like, well, first of all, she's an officer, so there's that.

[Cole]

Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

And they're like, really? And I'm like, yeah, like, you guys think that everybody in the military is super. Right? And we're all like, you know, I say that's not the case. Like, maybe all of us that were in the front lines in combat, you know, we are. But in scenarios like her, you know, she was in the medical side, like, not necessarily out in the front and fighting, and none of that. And, you know, you, you're, you just don't have the same views that we do. And, you know, then the way that you're brought up and everything, like, especially in Hawaii, where the gun laws are so strict.

[Cole]

Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

And you grew up around that, then that's what, you know. Right. So, like, I, I think that that's what's coming to light. That's what I'm seeing a lot online right now. People are like, you know, she was on that. I was like, I've been saying this for years. Like, yeah, I don't, I don't have anything against her. I don't dislike her. I don't know her. I just know what's happened. Right. And, and I've seen it. Like, you know, we. We have a friend who went on a podcast and said, you know, we're gonna do this right? Then it should be everybody gets to own a gun at 18 or at 21. And that's all they said, and they still get ridiculed for that. Till today. Yeah, but it's just, it's just like, hey listen, once you say some dumb where infringes on your rights, people are going to remember. And, and I think that's where it comes. And people don't trust politicians nowadays because everybody's flip flopping all the damn time, dude.

[Cole]

Like, no, they've been flip flopping. We're just seeing it more. Yeah, yeah. And the thing is, is like I know I typically am reluctant to really kind of like endorse politicians, right? I'll tell you why. I'm probably going to vote this way or that way. It's not necessarily an endorsement. I'm just telling you why. And usually it's, you know, it's going to be, there's going to be a lot of two way basis behind that. There are some politicians who like would re. That have reached out to me and they asked me to like kind of endorse them. They're like, I'm in a gun, you know, I'm in the gun community and this and this and that. And then I was like, I don't really do that. You're more than, like, my platform is open to you. You're more than welcome to come on my podcast. We can have that conversation. And then like as soon as I was like, I got blocked or I got, they unfollowed me or some shit like that. I guess I'm not going to say who it was, but they're still in Congress now. But you know, and for me it's, it's. I, I want to have, I want to give people the benefit of the doubt because, you know, like, I didn't grow up with guns. So I made the switch, right? I wasn't anti, but I wasn't pro. And so I, I know what it's like to genuinely flip, so to speak. So when I do hear stories about other people doing the same thing, it, I'm, I'm quicker to sympathize with that, with that aspect of it and then want to believe them. Right. Unfortunately now you've got a lot of people who kind of grift on it, right? It's this idea like, well, yeah, you know, and there's some goofy. I see politicians do like, you know, they'll go out with guns and do some shooting stuff. This is the shift or take. Shit's fucking goofy.

[Christie Crispy]

And I'm like, they look like you don't know what they're doing.

[Cole]

And I'm like, come on. Like, I'm like, I'm glad I'm glad there's a visual of a politician supporting the Second Amendment, but you look fucking goofy. Like, you know, it's almost like, I want to start a side business, and my job is to make sure you don't look fucking goofy when you're doing these things with these firearms. Like, there was another politician I dealt with. I'm not going to say who it was. And, you know, they. They came to the range and they, they. They did some shooting, right? And some of it was filmed. And I'm like, you don't want to put that out. I was like, no, you don't put that out. And then it's like. And it wasn't that they were being unsafe. It's just visually, it didn't communicate what they thought it was communicating, right? Because a lot of people think that all the aura is in the gun itself, right? It's like, as long as I have a gun in my hand, I look cool. I look like I'm representing this. And I'm like, it's not doing what you think it's doing, right? So. So it's like you kind of have to be careful about, like, people like politicians have got to be careful about just utilizing the firearm as a prop. Now, some people may fall for that, but people in the gun community are kind of like, sometimes we just grit our teeth and deal with it because it's like, it's better than them being anti 100, but 80 times. Y' all look goofy. It just. It just looks. It looks goofy. It looks a little. Try hard. Like it's in. And really, you honestly just have to take, like, just take one introduction to, like, Handgun Fire Corps. Take us take a day and get comfortable with the gun and then do. Do the photo op and then do the shoot, because otherwise we can tell when you look not that comfortable with the gun. Yeah, it's pretty.

[Christie Crispy]

Take a. Take a class. The university, YouTube. It don't take much. You know what I mean? Like, when you're driving, when they're. When somebody's driving you from one spot or the other, get on YouTube. Alarm. You know the basics. There's a lot of great videos out there from a lot of great firearms trainers that you can learn in five minutes. But. Yeah, but I'm the same way with, like, you, man. I didn't really grow up with a lot of guns. You know, my dad is a veteran himself, but my dad was born in Mexico, you know, came coming to the US Very small and grew up in Chicago, so he really didn't yeah. You know, they really didn't have guns other. Other than when he joined the military, he started using guns. And then, you know, when he moved to Texas, when we came here. And I was born in Mexico as well, so, like, I didn't really grow up around that. My dad took us, you know, he was a security guard. I can't remember where for a while before I became a chef. And he used to take us to, like, the landfill or something. We go shoot over there because he knew a guy, and we can go shoot. But I shot like a. It was like a Colt.38 Special, like a revolver. And that was as much as I shot. So when I got into the military and I started shooting, I was like, oh, cool. I fell in love with it. And then as I got out of the military and I was a little older, I started to realize, like, how essential the.

[Cole]

The.

[Christie Crispy]

The guns were. Because where I was born, it's primarily run by the cartel, right? There was a point in time where Mexicans had the right to carry guns and everybody was able to protect themselves. And then that got taken away. And then it was like, you got to be part of a club, but when you're part of that club, that gun's got to stay there. And then you have to be a multi. Multi, like, Mexican millionaire to be able to be part of these clubs. And then slowly, the cartel took over. And I still have family in Mexico, and they see this shit all the time. And so I, like, learned and grew to love the second amendment really hard because I came from a country who. They don't have that, and. And it's a country that could be. I think it'd be one of the greatest countries in the world when it comes to economics, because we have everything that you need in Mexico. Like, you can grow produce on one side. You got, you know, you got ports on the other there. There's. Mexico is rich in culture and the ground and oil and everything. It could be a great country, but because people can defend themselves, you have one where you have groups of people who get guns from here or the black market, wherever it is, and they oppress the people there, and they have the guns, and people can defend themselves. And so I was like, I'll be damned if I'm gonna, like, be in this country as an American citizen, fought for it, and let our gun rights be taken away from us, from people who don't really realize it and don't appreciate it and don't understand, you know? So, like, yeah, when I have people Just like you were saying earlier. And I talked to. They're like, why are you so pro gun? I'm like, well, here, let me tell you where I'm from. Like, where are you from? I was like, mexico. Have you been there? Like, no. Have you seen what's going on and how all the shootings and killings? And I was like, they're like, yeah, it's horrible. I was like, you know why it's horrible? Because they don't have the right to protect themselves. People can't own fire gardens over there. And so what happens when you can't own firearms and the. The bad people can.

[Cole]

Yeah, you just become a victim. Yeah, you're literally become oppressed.

[Christie Crispy]

Let's take a quick ride over to Chicago so you can see the killings and how it happens in one of the strict, most strict gun law places in this country. And there's more killings there. There has been more killings there in a day than there was the people dying in Iraq when I was deployed. And that blew my mind back in 2007. I said, what? Yeah, Chiraq. And I was just like, I just blown away. So, yeah, I'm the same way as you. Like, it wasn't I turned prairie, but I just didn't have that. And now that I have it, I value the shit out of it. Because, you know, we do have a lot of people out who are doing heinous acts with weapons because they're not in the capacity and they're in their mind to really understand what this is gonna do. They just see this tool and they use it for evil. And so people right away think that because of one person who's evil, that everybody's evil that has a gun. I can tell you this, man. I. I know I talk a lot of. I'm always, like making jokes on friends, but I. I feel like I'm one of the. The kindest person. I love everybody. I don't care what your sexual preference is. I don't care what your background is. I don't care what you do. Do you be happy we only get one shot at life. If you want to, you know, if this. That's your preference, that's your thing. Do your thing. But overall, I'm gonna protect myself and I'm gonna protect everybody around me, because that's just in me. I. I'm a protector. And if I have the tools necessary to stop evil from happening in front of me, I'm going to. You know what I mean? Like, and if it takes my life, then I hope I saved a lot more than, than that could have gone worse. And you know, it's, it's, I don't take that lightly. I tell people like I will lay down my line, my life for my friends and my family. Like I've done it once. I'm not afraid of dying. Like I, I fear no one but God. And, and, and yeah, it's gonna suck if I'm not here and you know, and everybody's gonna miss me and stuff. But I'm gonna do what I gotta do to protect those around me. And I'm blessed and we are blessed as Americans to have that right. And we just can't lose it. Like we have to fight for it every single time. Like it pisses me off like people from Virginia and how they're losing their gun rights. And then you see people reaching out and like hey, like we need your help. And you see some of these other people online on gun tubers or influencer. Like well I live in Texas. That doesn't, you know, that's, it's not me to worry. You guys voted that in. And it's like, bro, you can't think that way because if it happens there, it's gonna come here. For me, throughout the rest of the

[Cole]

country, it's just a matter of time. And then it's like, oh, now it's too late. Yeah, I tell people that all the time. And people don't understand. Like the anti gun groups, they are relentless. They're relentless. Like, and then, and then they're very tactful. They're not. Tactful is the wrong word. But they, they, they're very strategic in the sense of like they don't, like people don't understand. They're like, okay, they fight wars on like three different fronts. Like they'll attack if they'll try to get to the pass on the federal level and then on the state level, then culturally then, and, and, and, and then behind the scenes be. They'll try to get social media platforms to the kind of shadow ban these groups of people or make it hard for these people to do this and so forth and so on. And I mean and it's an organized, structured, full on attempt. It's not just hey, we're gonna try to do this. No, like they have courses on these things, they hold seminars on it. They like, they really, they aggregate all of our videos and say look, look at, here's what they're doing, here's what they're in the hisa. How we can try to get around and make them. Because if we can get them shut down and shut down their voices on this platform, like they really do this. And so they're. They're currently on a plan to systematically turn as many individual states blue, especially known red states like Texas. They're trying to turn them blue. And the reason they're trying to turn them blue is because the only people who push gun control are Democrats. It's the Democrat party. It's the only one that really pushes gun control like that. So they're trying to turn them blue so that inevitably they can end it. They can end up getting the goal of passing all of these anti gun legislations. And people don't realize that. They simply think because they're not standing up on a podium and saying it, shouting it at the top of their lungs, that it's not happening. And it absolutely is happening. And the only way, I'm gonna say the only way, but one of the best ways and the most efficient ways to fight that is we have to win the culture war side of it. Right. We have to win the cultural war. The cultural war side of it. And the culture war stems from what we do on these platforms is getting the information out there, helping change people's perspectives on the two A side of things and helping them understand that so that when they do go and there is, and they're in a state where they vote on certain policies, they can look at it and say, nah, that's, that's not right. Instead of having apathetic approach to it where they're like, I guess, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no more guns. Like. And then next thing you know, you're living in a state that you never thought would turn blue, and now it is blue. Or you're in a state that's hardcore red. Now all of a sudden your state's purple. Right. And I'm not saying everybody needs to be a fucking Republican. I'm not saying that everybody needs to be a hardcore conservative. But you do have to understand that the people who are pushing this is the Democrat party.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah. 100.

[Cole]

That's who's pushing it. So do with that information what you will. Right. But the people pushing it is the Democrat party. Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

And that's. That's awesome that you bring the whole closure thing, man. Because I, I'm from South Texas. I'm from a small town in Brownsville. Right. And that, that whole. I lost you, it's been. Dang.

[Cole]

It froze.

[Christie Crispy]

I. It froze. I think.

[Cole]

Yeah. All right. I think you're back. There you go.

[Christie Crispy]

There we go. I'm from, you know, from Brownsville, and. And down in Brownsville, it's always. The valley has always been blue. Like, if you look at the map from the 1800s, it's been blue the whole time.

[Cole]

Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

And then we had a switch this year. It's red. Oh, all the way up. Really? Like the whole valley. Yeah, it went red. Like, look it up. It switched from blue to red like that. And. And one of the. One of the cool things is when I. When I go back home, I do, like, little meet and greets, and I meet with a lot of people. I like, you know, bilingual, and so I get to speak to, you know, people down there who necessarily don't speak a lot of English and don't know the gun laws and whatnot. And I've helped numerous amount of people how to go to a gun store and buy a gun. Again, they've never been able to do it. And they're like, wait, what I got to do? I'm like, here, let's go in there. Here, this is. You got to fill this form out.

[Cole]

Yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

Where's your license? Where's your driver's license? Here. I was like, you know, have you ever convicted of a felo? You know, the whole thing. Nope, nope, nope. Okay, you got to do this. Turn it in. What gun? Are you interested? And then they're like, oh, this one. And then, you know, they buy it. And then they're like, wait, what? I'm like, yeah, this is the proper way of doing it. And then, you know, we take them to the range and teach them how to shoot and, you know, tell them like, hey, these. All these. There's all these companies here in the valley that will teach you how to shoot, how to become a better, you know, concealed handgun carrying license or everything, or how to do the paperwork for this or how to draw from the appendix. There's just so many people down there, and they're like, I had no idea. And so when it comes to that culture, that's literally what I love doing, is when I go down there, I want to teach the Hispanic community and let's just say the Mexican community, because it's mostly Mexicans down there, the Mexican community, on what their gun rights are and how they can protect themselves and, you know, and protect others around them, because it's very important to share that with them. Because again, our culture, for whatever reason, everybody thought that because all these Democrats came down here and said, we're going to do all these things, for you for so many years. And they never did anything for them. They just came around when they needed the vote. It switched from blue to red. And now people are like, wait a minute, I can own a gun that's legal. Yes you can. You know, so like it's things like that that I drive to them like, yes you can. If this, these, this is your God given right as an American and you need to exercise it. So every time that I go down there and I get to meet with people who are first time gun buyers and I get to walk in the, in the range or the gun stores with them and help them out, it makes my day because now I'm like, we have one more, you know what I mean? And this person is going to tell his group of, you know, his within a circle, he's going to teach them like, hey, you can. And this is how you protect yourself. You know, especially in a border town where sometimes some of that, that cartel spews over. We, we, you have people that can feel a little bit more confident, you know, that they're carrying. Yeah. And so yeah, you're 100. The culture needs to change. And, and if you're, you know, whether you're white, black, brown, whatever, if you're, whatever community you're from, if everybody's not well informed, you know, teacher communities. Right. Because even the same thing, like I have an Asian buddy who has been helping a lot of Asians in his community back, back at home on, on how to be in, you know, gun owners and they're just blown away, like, wait, like, yes, like we need to step this up.

[Cole]

The amount of people that don't realize that don't understand the second amendment from a standpoint of like what guns you can own, what you know, and things of that nature is, it's a lot of people who don't know and a lot of it is like it's indoctrinated in them, especially immigrants. It's indoctrinated in a mentality where it's like they, they kind of quasi just assume they, they treat the government just like, kind of like a dictator, regardless whether or not it is a dictatorship or not. And so it's kind of like, wait, we can do that? And I'm like, yes, you can do that.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, because a lot of them come from a dictatorship, which is true.

[Cole]

Yeah, yeah.

[Christie Crispy]

So they don't know. I mean, dude, even, even when I like my wife's Cuban and even when we go to like Florida to visit families, you know, like she's Got a couple. It is different.

[Cole]

They get over here and they're like, everything.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, 100. But a lot of them don't know that they can, you know, lawfully own guns now. And they're like, holy. But a lot of. A lot of her family does. Like, one of her. One of her aunt's cousin or something, he is. Every time I go down there, he's like, hey, man, she's. Anyone that came out, have you. Have you shot this one? Have you been with it? I'm like, yes. And then, you know, we'll sit there and talk about guns the whole time, and everybody's just like, we're just trying to catch up with you guys. But even, even that, you know, like the, The. The Cuban community down there, a lot of them do, and a lot of them don't know either. So like. And then they come from there, right? Because in Cuba, you beat. You can't even eat meat, bro. And you think you can own a gun. Like, come on. And so, yeah, it's just. And we need to teach more people. We need to get out there a lot more. And so if you're listening to this podcast and that's your community, whether it be, again, white, brown, yellow, purple, orange, I don't care. Go and help your community out and teach them. You know, if you're a bilingual person, it's your right. And it's. It's. It's your right. And you should do what you can to help out your community and, and help spread this out, because if you don't do it now, your kids. Kids are gonna lose it.

[Cole]

Yep. Nope. Absolutely. I think that's a great ending point if you ask me, because. Yeah, that's. Yeah, again, I couldn't put it better myself.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah. And not, not all amputees are. Are like that guy,

[Cole]

Right? But now, man, I really appreciate it, bro. I love it.

[Christie Crispy]

I love it.

[Cole]

I love speaking with you. I love having you on. So next time some. One of your. Your amputee fellow mates go out and do something crazy, I'll have you back on here again so you could defend them.

[Christie Crispy]

Is that all it takes to get a car from you nowadays?

[Cole]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Christie Crispy]

Damn it.

[Cole]

I do need to. I do need. I do need to make it out there to San Antonio, though. We gotta. We still. We got a hunting trip. We still gotta do.

[Christie Crispy]

Dude, say one, brother, say one. Whenever you're in,

[Cole]

let me tell you.

[Christie Crispy]

You want to be cold? Do you want to be cold? You want to be warm? What?

[Cole]

I'm busy. I'm Bougie. I want to be temperate.

[Christie Crispy]

We can do that. We can do that.

[Cole]

But if I. I got you. If I have to pick and really choose, as long as it's not my. My extremities are going numb. Cold.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah.

[Cole]

I'm good with that because then you. I can always just. I can always dress for the. For the cold.

[Christie Crispy]

Okay. Have you ever done any. Any bird hunting?

[Cole]

No. I've always wanted to.

[Christie Crispy]

How about we do a goose hunt in Colorado at a place that I have, and it's Bougie. I'm gonna send it to you on Instagram.

[Cole]

Oh, okay. All right.

[Christie Crispy]

It's a. It's a really nice spot, bro. I love that place. I've been going there for a couple years now.

[Cole]

And you have me. You. You had me in Bougie.

[Christie Crispy]

Oh, you'll like it. Dude. They're. They're the bottom. It's called Big Thompson Outfitters. If you want to check it out, the. They're. They have a lodge in. In the basement. They have a poker table, shuffleboard table. They have a simulator where you can shoot guns and play golf. You can stay down there. He's got a steam shower. Like, It's. It's Bougie say.

[Cole]

Less.

[Christie Crispy]

It's Bougie say. I'm just saying. Well, I'll get some dates. I'm going shoot them over to you, and we gotta go. But we can shoot. We can shoot geese. We can shoot ducks. There's all kinds of birds. So I. I think you'll like it.

[Cole]

We.

[Christie Crispy]

We'll definitely make it happen because I go out there every year. You can come.

[Cole]

I got. I got a couple shotguns I want to put to you, so.

[Christie Crispy]

Yeah, let's go. Let's go.

[Cole]

Appreciate it, brother.

[Christie Crispy]

All right, brother. Well, thanks for having me on, man.

[Cole]

Always, man.