Mike McIntire
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322 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Mike McIntire’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You could pay to use a flamethrower.
You could pay to use a machine gun and shoot it at barrels of –
Gasoline that would explode into little mushroom clouds.
And, you know, a lot of people find this to be fun.
And I was surprised, though, how, you know, in the years since and up to the present, the demographics of who kind of goes to these places have somewhat changed.
And they require money to go.
I mean, you have to be – they're expensive, thousands of dollars, you know, often to –
to fully enjoy these things.
And it sort of underscores the point that gun ownership in general has changed a lot over the decades in the United States.
And you're far more likely now to have people, for instance, making over $100,000 a year having a gun than somebody making, let's say, less than $50,000 a year.
Education levels have risen too.
So gun culture is
has broadened in ways that were different from maybe a half century ago.
And they've really become embedded in sort of the notion of daily life and what it means to be an American.
So I did, when I was very young, live in a trailer park that was literally backed up against a junkyard.
It was near a Navy base.
My father was in the Coast Guard.
My mother was a bank teller.
Didn't have a lot of money.
It was a low-income, blue-collar community.
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