tom gresham, host the gun, talk radio show every weekend on stations across the u. s. a. you can get the podcast and he's a gun talk dot com. and tom has some, perhaps surprising advice for 1st time gun buyers. frankly, buying a firearm for self protection is not for everyone. if you're not going to make a commitment to safety and ongoing training, i would encourage you to perhaps reconsider. but for those who want to get a guide, my suggestion is to go get a class 1st and last training. because you don't really know what you need and you don't know what you're going to like until you've had chance to shoot. a lot of ranges will allow you to rip the guns and try them. what i suggest is that you call arrange, arranged for an instructor, get some one on one time when instructor and say, look, could you bring 3 or 4 guns, or can i rent some guns from you? and then figure out what works for you. unfortunately, typically a lot of women want to get a small gun, something feels good in their hands. but the physics at a dictate that small guns recoil more, they kick a lot, and th

seemed to the americans and the rest of the world even when nasa was elevating others, sheppard and gresham putting them ahead they put him forward to speak for the program which was the bitter irony so the international appeal but it was also it had to do with the contrast between the program and the u.s. program. the soviets managed but no one's all the spacecraft. the soviets didn't announce and they also didn't let anybody see the launch. they didn't even reveal where the launchpad was. but all of this was surrounded in sort of typical where they would do this in the plain light of day so when american rockets were exploding on the launchpad and going awry in the sea instead of in space, it was there for all the world to see. the flipside of that is when the americans triumphed and sent him around the world three times. the rest of the world came along for that ride as well and got to launch the watch -- watch the launch and they got to see the splashdown and participate in the celebration. a lot of the international commentary focused on this contrast between the two systems. >> is it

into a book and you never know, or i feel like a lot of the thriller writers were lawyers like john gresham research. research for law. that wasn't lost time. >> and the patience for boring research. >> i think everything helps in a way. you never know what you pull into books, like the strange facts that you have in the recesses of your mind. >> that's good. i'm glad none of us picked a. specially during a pandemic. stephanie, don't lie. you wrote about eliza hamilton. how many times have you seen hamilton. >> i would never lie about hamilton. i have seen the musical twice. i have never been to the musical more times than i can count. i do know that the musical's lange allows me to drive to annapolis from my house and back again and everything but the last song. so measure my travel distances in terms of hamiltons. i'm a gigantic fan of the musical and if it -- was that your question, how much of a fan am i? huge. >> sort of like are you just sick of it? >> never. never get sick of hamilton. never. >> okay. okay. i love that. i love it. erika, you have written but hemingway and fitzgerald

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