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John "Shrek" McPhee (aka The Sheriff of Baghdad) and guests talk guns, tactics (both in the field and in life), as well as recent books, movies and television shows on related topics.

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.

John "Shrek" McPhee (aka The Sheriff of Baghdad) and his guests talk war stories, mindset, guns, tactics (both in the field and in life), as well as recent books, movies and television shows on related topics and current events.

Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities."