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WLS gun culture through Bang Rank: video games, gun shows and personal taste

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Gun culture includes the things people remember, the events they attend and the preferences they enjoy arguing about. WLS’s Bang Rank segments turn those subjects into a group conversation with visible differences of opinion. Episodes 683, 684 and 685 provide three examples: video games that shaped gun tastes, gun-show annoyances, and whether particular preferences deserve a “fudd” label. This guide helps you find the discussion that matches your interest.

Understand what the ranking question is asking

Bang Rank changes its subject from episode to episode. In episode 683, the stated question is which game most shaped each person’s taste in guns. In episode 684, the cast ranks gun-show cliches by how annoying they find them. The framing matters: one board measures remembered personal influence, while the other invites complaints and stories about an event setting.

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one i know we're gonna i know that there's a ton of games that i could have added that added to this but in this week's bang rank it's which gun which game most shaped your taste in guns so we're gonna rank each title overall by how much it shaped your personal tasting guns uh thinking about the guns that we remember for the games the design we like the games that made a memorable higher tier is going to be more influence lower tier is going to be didn't influence me at all and uh yeah

We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers — 00:53:11 · Cite this passage

just give you a preview of what tonight's is. Tonight's lineup for Bang Rank is the worst gun show cliches. We're going to rank each gun show cliche by how much it annoys us. S is absolutely unbearable

We Like Shooting 684 – Meat Swaps — 00:56:20 · Cite this passage

Start with that question before treating any tier as a recommendation. A high placement can mean influential, annoying, or something else specified by that week’s prompt. The show’s explanation supplies the meaning. That is also useful context for an agent summarizing a segment: keep the question attached to the rank so a joke about gun shows does not become a product-quality claim.

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one i know we're gonna i know that there's a ton of games that i could have added that added to this but in this week's bang rank it's which gun which game most shaped your taste in guns so we're gonna rank each title overall by how much it shaped your personal tasting guns uh thinking about the guns that we remember for the games the design we like the games that made a memorable higher tier is going to be more influence lower tier is going to be didn't influence me at all and uh yeah

We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers — 00:53:11 · Cite this passage

just give you a preview of what tonight's is. Tonight's lineup for Bang Rank is the worst gun show cliches. We're going to rank each gun show cliche by how much it annoys us. S is absolutely unbearable

We Like Shooting 684 – Meat Swaps — 00:56:20 · Cite this passage

Find the video-game conversation

Episode 683’s game discussion includes Counter-Strike and GoldenEye among its examples. The introductory passage connects game titles with remembered in-game guns; a later GoldenEye comment explains that repeated play was how the speaker came to recognize some of them. The appeal of this segment is that connection between entertainment, memory and personal taste.

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had stuff like the acr desert eagle just like everything that you can imagine counter-strike you know obviously ak's awp desert eagle as well golden eye these are some fun ones the pp7 the rcp90 the golden gun

We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers — 00:53:51 · Cite this passage

I played a fuck ton of it and it's the only reason I know what some of these guns are is because I played GoldenEye so much Jeremy I'll just give an F

We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers — 00:57:52 · Cite this passage

The results also preserve a difference between the hosts and the live audience. In the cited wrap-up, GoldenEye receives a B from the hosts and a C from the live viewers. Those are the reported results of that particular board. Listen to the surrounding discussion for the reasoning and disagreements that make the format interesting.

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Uh, man, I don't even know. All right. Well, let me start going through this fucking end the pain for everyone. Uh, end and open listener voting. Okay, here we go. So for which game most shaped your taste in guns, terrible, terrible game board. word from me i get i get it uh for the hosts goldeneye was the highest at a b live viewers rated goldeneye as a c

We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers — 01:10:14 · Cite this passage

Follow the gun-show and preference debates

Episode 684 shifts the format to “the worst gun show cliches.” The opening explains that the cast is ranking how much each item annoys them, with the top tier described as unbearable. This is a useful entry point for listeners interested in the experience and social side of gun shows: the board creates a shared prompt for opinions rather than a directory of vendors.

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just give you a preview of what tonight's is. Tonight's lineup for Bang Rank is the worst gun show cliches. We're going to rank each gun show cliche by how much it annoys us. S is absolutely unbearable

We Like Shooting 684 – Meat Swaps — 00:56:20 · Cite this passage

Episode 685 takes another route by asking whether preferences such as wood furniture are “fuddy.” The setup allows the cast to play the rankings differently, and the first wood-furniture prompt immediately becomes a question for the group. The segment is a conversation about taste and labels inside the show’s own format. The original passages make that tone easier to judge than a detached list of ranked items.

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right. Now Jeremy plays it like you can only give basically one rank per item and everyone else can just play however they want. You could give everything an S, everything an F, however you want to. So our choices tonight are preferring wood furniture,

We Like Shooting 685 – Chicken Rich — 01:03:57 · Cite this passage

All right. Let's go ahead and get started with preferring wood furniture. Does this make you a FUD? S for yes. Or I'm sorry,

We Like Shooting 685 – Chicken Rich — 01:04:52 · Cite this passage

Choose an episode by the conversation you want

Start with episode 683 if you want gaming memories and the influence of recognizable fictional loadouts on personal taste. Choose episode 684 for the gun-show prompt. Choose episode 685 for the wood-furniture and preference debate. All three use the Bang Rank format, but the question changes the kind of stories and disagreement you will hear.

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one i know we're gonna i know that there's a ton of games that i could have added that added to this but in this week's bang rank it's which gun which game most shaped your taste in guns so we're gonna rank each title overall by how much it shaped your personal tasting guns uh thinking about the guns that we remember for the games the design we like the games that made a memorable higher tier is going to be more influence lower tier is going to be didn't influence me at all and uh yeah

We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers — 00:53:11 · Cite this passage

just give you a preview of what tonight's is. Tonight's lineup for Bang Rank is the worst gun show cliches. We're going to rank each gun show cliche by how much it annoys us. S is absolutely unbearable

We Like Shooting 684 – Meat Swaps — 00:56:20 · Cite this passage

right. Now Jeremy plays it like you can only give basically one rank per item and everyone else can just play however they want. You could give everything an S, everything an F, however you want to. So our choices tonight are preferring wood furniture,

We Like Shooting 685 – Chicken Rich — 01:03:57 · Cite this passage

These examples offer a concrete way to describe this part of WLS: a firearms conversation where the cast can disagree about culture and personal preferences, and where a live audience can return a different result. If you share a clip, include the episode and timestamp so another listener can follow the full exchange. The rankings belong to their original discussion dates and prompts.

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Uh, man, I don't even know. All right. Well, let me start going through this fucking end the pain for everyone. Uh, end and open listener voting. Okay, here we go. So for which game most shaped your taste in guns, terrible, terrible game board. word from me i get i get it uh for the hosts goldeneye was the highest at a b live viewers rated goldeneye as a c

We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers — 01:10:14 · Cite this passage

right. Now Jeremy plays it like you can only give basically one rank per item and everyone else can just play however they want. You could give everything an S, everything an F, however you want to. So our choices tonight are preferring wood furniture,

We Like Shooting 685 – Chicken Rich — 01:03:57 · Cite this passage

Source episodes and scope

This guide synthesizes the linked conversations. Opinions and reported experiences remain attributed to those episodes; quoted transcript text may contain transcription errors. Dates below identify the original discussions.

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