by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone. Your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. Invist the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught. according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and each God given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowoki vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch and tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms He fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? And good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Corneke. And I'm Donald Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. Live 365. Now, World War I? Yeah, back in World War I, back with the Japanese on. Oh, didn't they beat our allies? They were our allies in World War I. No way yes way and here's another one by the way list little sub note in there. What side were the Italians on in World War one? Oh No way yes Yeah, we got we have a caller we got Tom Yeah, you know broadcasting. I'm not you know. I know we're having a little glitch right now. It's taking care of it right now That's a pretty appreciate. I'm sorry. I just thought you know cuz you're not going now. We're going to continue and we should be up shortly here or we're up and on our way right now. But anyway, real quick here, and again this is Thursday, and Dom the date, today's date is? It's December 4th. Well again, remember, the Japanese, by the way, and again this is going to be rebroadcast with part of what you just missed because of little glitches we had in the system here a minute ago. But the Japanese from World War I, on, produced a whole family of battleships and other classes of ships, and by the way, they were experts with motor torpedo boats. They were expert with the use of and developed torpedoes both on their own and under contract from of all people. I say, what do you think you might be? They were bought in from the English! In fact, you'll notice the classes of ships, the types and variants, before World War I almost match, although they were quote-unquote export models, to what the British Navy was servicing. Why? Well, because the Brits were exporting to Japan, their counterpart in the Pacific, pretty much everything that they needed to build a high seas battle fleet. Ain't that special? Now, in World War I, they produced a battleship called the Fuso. Now the Fuso is very impressive because of course it does survive to World War II and in fact fights during war which uses a battle wagon training ship during the beginning of the war because it was already quite old obviously I mean it was as old as some of our old old battle wagons we put back in service after Pearl Harbor. But the Fuso was the biggest ship of its class with the largest guns with the greatest range of anything on the planet and held the record for almost 15 years. aboard that boat. Yeah, and then eventually other ships come into service. The Nagato, which is of course one of the first, most people think that the 18 inch guns of the Yamato and the Musashi were the biggest made. Well, they were as large as could possibly be made, but the Japanese put those guns on other ships first. And the Nagato, which at that time pre-World War II, outclassed, we didn't know this, supposedly, although I believe we didn't quietly, we just want to acknowledge it. It outclassed all of our battle wagons in fleet to include the Arizona which was considered the peach of the American, you know, Pacific Fleet and our American Navy. The Nagato never fired a shot in anger though against the US Navy. It was killed in truck lagoon by accident apparently with somebody having a little mistake, a cigarette break in the magazine. And went to the bottom and you know what's weird about you know because you know Don you're a driver, you're a diver right? Now you know if you ever look just again, I'm bounced around here, but there's little things always bother me They always talk about diving in truck lagoon because it's a guaranteed. They know exactly what ship went down where oh yes, right And they're mapped out and if you know if I wasn't a patriot involved in this by now in my life I probably would have been there would it because it's it's like one of those meccas for dive Oh, yeah going to truck lagoon But one of them that they never emphasize is the negato Because the negato was at anchorage in truck lagoon when she self-destructed And it was the biggest battle wagon of her day. She would be, I would think, even though she probably got ripped in two, who knows. I mean, I really never have seen a picture of the dive on her. But the Nagato was actually in a class all unto herself. And would have to be, I would assume, in a diveable position considering where she is. So if you ever get a chance take a look at a map for truck lagoon in the central Pacific Central South Pacific and Then take a look at some of the stuff done by National Geographic They map out like the Marus which are all merchant marine ships. Anyway, we're going through a little bit of history here So we move forward the Nagato of course is built out classes the Arizona We start building care craft carriers rather than focusing on battle wagons Japanese do too because a carrier even though they claim that nobody had any far sight in this Hey We had enough foresight to see that we needed aircraft carriers. We built them guys know the Japanese a little sidebar bar here stood and watched as who was it mark was it do little Who flew some almost well they were some mono plane Oh Billy Mitchell Billy Mitchell Billy Mitchell, that's right. Thank you And he destroyed portions of the German surrendered fleet and the Japanese stood and watched with great interest high ranking Japanese officials. At that time in history it was believed that no capital ship could be fathered by aircraft. They would swat them out of the sky. That was the admiral's line. We have to continue to build battleships. In fact, many admirals stood against aircraft carriers. It's an unproven technology in all types of different reasons. It's only usable in particular weather. In my battleship, I can sail right up there in the worst of days. Which is true. There are holes in their hull. The arguments against building carriers were just tremendous, but the people who were, again, as you mentioned, Mark, foresighted enough, look at what happened. Let's talk about Shangri-La for a moment after we stopped talking about Pearl Harbor. Well, you know an interesting thing about this is we talk when we look at what happened leading up to Pearl Harbor and I know we there are recent events, but it's the same kind of politics today arguments before and against technology and or the idea that you know, I mean this this goes all the way back to even for the supercarriers that were built and For the battle wagons at both sides constructed and for their naval fleets it came down to having to go to a landmass and fight And for all that projection, the guns could only reach so far inland and the planes off an aircraft carrier could only go so far and it takes boots on the ground to take a nation. And do you know that for all this technology we're talking about, there was one fighting man on the North American continent that the Japanese held greater respect for than the regular army. And who would that be? Why, that was the Minuteman, the militia man, the regular citizen with a rifle. Think about that. In fact, all of the general staff that were sent here Were actually allowed to bebop around the whole of the country and as political liaisons before World War two they were collecting intelligence Okay, the man who formatted who planned out who actually mapped out how Pearl Harbor would have to you know be engaged? Spent his spent the 30s wandering around the United States as a as a liaison as a government liaison officer and and military attaché, but still he was a liaison officer from the consulate. And looking at the industrial strength of the United States, he tried to explain to people the vastness of the country, and it was difficult to communicate that back to his counterparts when he returned home. But the one thing that has been proven, this can actually be found in all of the captured Japanese intelligence documents, that they did not, in 1940 and 1941, fear the U.S. military. What they had to calculate, though, as was acknowledged by the admiral, is that their greatest fear was that every American owned firearms. Oh yes, you know, you've heard the quote from Yamamoto, I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant, but we've brought you the other one. In the weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese hierarchy, you know, Pajo and all his buddies were still trying to plan the invasion of the West Coast. He watched this for weeks and only said a few words and it completely shut it down. He said, almost exactly, he said, I fear that would be an impossible task for there is a rifle behind every blade of grass. Think about that. Yamamoto. could pretty well deal with whatever hit the beach because it would be a non-stop, highly aggressive, guerrilla operation and nobody would have to wait to be armed. That's the difference between surrender and victory when it comes to national defense. If you have to wait for some some hierarch, some mucky muck to pass out the weapons, like with the British. See, let's do a contrast now. You know that they really didn't fear going after the Australians? You know they really were not, the Australian people were not in the formula with regard to national defense. Why? Well because the commonwealths of England, listen everybody I'm going to ask you to do some homework here. Go back to 1927. Why? That is a black year for all of the British commonwealth. Why? Why? Because they disarmed themselves. Yes they did. Oh these special little puppies. Oh yes they are. What is it? A bulldog. Good idea. Look at that little blimey bulldog with no teeth. Oh ain't that cute. No teeth at all. Kick him. That's okay. He's got spikes on his collar. Yeah, well kick him in the head. He ain't got no teeth. Kick him in the head. And that's exactly what happened, people. Okay, let's look at the... Here's the thing. When Australia was threatened, because by the way, Australia was threatened with Japanese invasion after Pearl Harbor, just like England was threatened with invasion from, you know, Germany. They were thinking that they were maybe going to go over and, you know, Operation Seelow, they were going to go in and land in, you know, England and walk right over it. And in reality, they could have. Were it not for purely propaganda or gentlemanly kindness, I think on the part of all people at O'Fibler, example, why let the British Expeditionary Force leave France? Right. Okay, there's a whole bunch of things no matter how you come up with it. It's like they can throw all the propaganda they want, but letting the British Expeditionary Force leave the mainland means that a whole army group was able to reorganize in the British Isles. Imagine if Germany had just swept in and decided, you know, stomp guts and, you know, just kick butt, take names. It would have been done. Now, it did happen to a degree with every step of what was going on with the Australians, because remember, the Australians were a Commonwealth force. They were stretched all through Southeast Asia. They were in North Africa. and committed heavily by the way most of what they had in the way of conventional forces. Now they eventually would be fighting in New Guinea and other places too as we know. But in the very early stages of World War II, the Australians had been pulled out of their homeland by the British government and were stretched all over creation. There were prisoners that were in POW camps for the whole war guys. know another sidebar here you know when you read the accounts as again from Sabru Sakai a samurai the book samurai along with Martin Caden when they flew into Port Moresby and other you know attacks against the island chain and into actually northern Western Australia they were fighting Bruce and they were fighting arrow who built those mark all made by us yes and we were arming Australia's air force before we had a lot of lend-lease going into Britain securing the sea lanes. The Southwestern Pacific had most of our other last generation of aircraft virtually flooded into the area. Yes, they recognized the threat of Japan was recognized, only it wasn't brought up to the American people, in particular as we're trying to pound home here. It wasn't brought up to the generals and the admirals that occupied that little island chain known as the Hawaiian wasn't pointed out to them. Well, the interesting thing is that because Australia was so stripped their home guard like England's home guard two problems took place the only firearms they had left or what few were authorized for pest control slash garment control remember the Australian name is for... I'm not trying to counter you Mark I was just talking about the tactical or... Oh yes no no I agree no no I'm just saying that you know from the no I'm fully agreement with what you're saying I'm just saying from the from the the military perspective, we gave the military whatever it is we could, but the problem is that was never enough. What's fascinating is that we dumped all these resources in. In many cases it's acknowledged like the Philippine air fleet. Half of it was hangar queens for lack of spare parts. The buffaloes, we had B-10 bombers still in service down there, etc. It was a whole large air fleet. They could crank most of them up and put most of them in the air, which they did. When they did, Zeros made quick work of the antiques. That's one of the problems. And the thing is that what they had left to defend with was the Home Guard. The Australian Army was in North Africa. The Australian Army was extended out into Southeast Asia. They were defending some of the other island complexes. They would be involved in actions that would be very gruesome because they were grossly outnumbered and overrun. both in the air and on the ground. Well, now here's Australia. They went along with all the goofiness and they did the gun ban in 1927. England did that, remember, in the Commonwealth nations. All most of the Commonwealth areas had to conform. Now some people didn't listen and hid their weapons because things were a lot more remote back then. Plus people were still shooting, you know, varmints to keep them away from what was Australia's number one production crop. Cheap. and things like to eat sheep. So you got to have something to shoot, but things like to eat sheep keep away from the sheep. Okay? Dingle got your sheep. But beyond that, the only thing they had in the way of armaments guys passed what few weapons were left that were in the home guard arsenals which were minimal because they kept having to rearm regular troops was what they could find in the museums. Now, on the one hand, on the Pacific side of the United States, the biggest concern the Japanese had was how to get past the people. In Australia, it was just a reverse. Their logic was that the Australians were pretty well toothless, and if they decided to land, purely it was a matter of how motivated they could get, depending on how busy they were in other parts of the South Pacific. Now a friend of ours and he's still alive today. He's way way up north in the Upper Peninsula He's the man I was talking about who was a medic in World War two he was shipped there with some of the first troops down that went to Australia and They immediately went to Brisbane and in Brisbane guys. Oh, we have a lot of noise in the background there I hear we have a caller I think but hold on caller for just a second the Brisbane line Was established with a whole three pieces of barbed wire guys Nothing but trench works, three pieces of barbed wire, and the American troops, the American troops that were sent had no weapons. So do you know what they, in other words, they were just scraping guys together and throwing them wherever they could and the logic was, hey don't worry, Don, they'll be rifles when you get to the other end. Yeah, uh-huh. You want to know what happened? There was nothing. In fact, what happened on the Brisbane line is whatever they hadn't issued out to the, and the Australians gave their home guard whatever weapons they had first, and the absolute last of the last of the hand-me-downs went to the US troops. What did they have? 22 caliber single-shot gallery guns, muzzle-loading falling pieces, museum pieces from all over the place. My friend had a .333 custom-built BSA elephant rifle. He had a whole 40 rounds. That was it. 40 rounds. And a 330. You shoot. That's right. One round and fire again. One round and fire. But the whole point is, like he said, they had two machine guns for the whole of the division. Both of them were Maxim machine guns that had been pulled out of one of the war museums from World War I. and they had scraped together belts for the machine gun from the displays. Nowadays, that wouldn't happen because A, the gun would be cut, the ammunition would be either solid cast pieces of junk or would have already been popped and pulled and powder destroyed. Oh, they probably even drill holes in the cases to make sure that they feel safe and they don't explode in the case when you stare at them. Kind of like a Hollywood movie with a gas tank and a car, you know. So anyway, that's where they went guys. And the only thing that saved them is the Brits were on the line, the Australians were there, the Americans were there. And the Japanese high seas fleet came in, made one circuit of the harbor, and left. Now the other half of this done is they had a total of nine guns to defend the harbor at that moment. The Japanese didn't know this. They figured, hey, they're fooling us or there's something going on here. Yeah, and if the Japanese had just pressed a little farther, Australia would be speaking Japanese probably today, or at least it would have been for a few years. Okay? So anyway, what happens when you have gun control? Y'all become green weenies begging for weapons from the government that doesn't have anything to hand out. That's what happens. We'll be back in about three minutes. And it's the Intel report not in markets. Thursday we got a caller waiting in the wings. We'll be back on LTR. The hour 6 a.m. Hawaiian time. The place. The heavy seas of the North Pacific. Aboard the decks of six Japanese aircraft carriers, fighter pilots climb into their planes and start up their engines. Days before they had received a radio message from Imperial Navy headquarters in Tokyo. It read, Climb Mount Nittaka, which meant, proceed with attack. Peace negotiations between the United States and Japan had collapsed, and America braced for imminent war. Just how imminent no one really knew. Across the Atlantic, Europe was being devastated by Adolf Hitler's powerful war machine. And yet to the majority of Americans enjoying an improving economy, the life and death struggles around the world seemed a million miles away. 615 a.m. Hawaiian time. Only 250 miles from the American Naval Air Base at Pearl Harbor, Japanese torpedo planes, dive bombers and high-level bombers take to the air. Pearl Harbor. Located on Hawaii's Oahu Island is less than 90 minutes away. At a radar station on a remote part of Oahu, a blip appears on the radar screen. It is assumed to be American planes or a malfunction, or as one officer remarks, a pigeon with a metal band around its leg. 7.45 a.m. Japanese flight leader Mitsuo Fushida fires his signal pistol. and the 183 planes with bright red suns painted on their wingtips move into attack position. Ten minutes later, at 7.55 a.m. Sunday, December 7, 1941, warplanes in the name of the Empire of Japan drop their bombs on Pearl Harbor. Ladies and gentlemen, we are back. And of course that's a little news blurb, a precursor for December 7th, 1941. Of course the anniversary coming up here. Just a reminder that we need to recall how things worked. Remember that each time they've tried to get us into a war they've made things bigger. Have you noticed these kinds? Pearl Harbor was bad enough but it was remote. Nowadays it would be hard because people are... I'm not too excited about things the way they used to be. And so... One example of that, Mark, is, you know, the casualty figures they first brought out from 9-11, remember how hard they pounded? These are more people that died than at Pearl Harbor. Remember that, you guys? And there's at least, well, remember, first it was 30,000 estimated, then it went to 20,000, then they realized a lot of people had said, oh, hell no, I ain't waiting for this thing to happen. A lot of people left the buildings that they didn't think left the buildings or the other part was is everybody assumed everybody went to work that day. And we all know what happened there, don't we? Hey, if they didn't go to work, why didn't they go to work? Maybe they got that phone call. It wasn't one of those, you know, Mondays and I know we've got a caller waiting. And it wasn't one of those I got them on a skip work Fridays. It was a very unique day and a very unique series of calls that were made to people who knew that it was going to happen. Anyway, we have a caller. Who do we have waiting in the wings? You told me to call back, Mark. This is Marcus from Georgia. Thank you, Marcus. I'll tell you what, go ahead and jump in there right now. Okay, guys. Today's part of the communication stuff. Remember, just a reminder, charge your batteries, check your batteries, push your radios, make sure they work. and uh... don't be bashful cycle if you got any of those battery packs, that's suppose you can jumpstart a car with them and recharge those outside vehicles cold weather kills batteries radios do no good if you can't you don't have batteries for backup check your batteries folks JTV's now one other piece of advice an old bicycle my wife and I got here from Georgia State University three different bicycles exercise bikes One of them's got a alternator in it. Well, needless to say, we got $100 or $30 something dollars. But an alternator, or re- Now I've got an exercise equipment that I can charge batteries with. It's called human power, not gas, diesel, whatever. Guys, think about it. Buy an alternator shop, buy an alternator, a set of diodes, goes back on an alternator, is bearing down it, get a bracket off it, and make you a power generation station that in this cold weather, that you can still exercise batteries. You get to watch it as much as you want, but you got to create the power to do it, which motivates them to actually, you know, to get things done. By the way, on that note real quick, you know, there was a program and actually it works quite well. Of course, how many people stuck with it? You know, there's a gentleman, he said, yeah, you can watch all the TV you want. He goes, and get all the exercise you need. He goes, they have to have the discipline to do it this way. Every time that they go to a break, You exercise, you get to one of your work, you work on one of your stations, whatever it is, you want to do sit ups like one of the things you recommended, hey guys, do as many sit ups as you can in two minutes before the ad break is done. Or two or three minutes. And when the ad break comes on, you can sit down and rest and watch television and absorb. He goes, but as soon as the next break comes on, time to be doing those push-ups. Hey, look at that. With every step you're working your body, and you still get to watch the television you want. And trust me, you're going to want to relax during those long, long, shall we say, rest periods in between if you do it right. So that's the solution. Now as far as the Pedal units go there are some fantastic machines that people have been throwing away in fact there was one in town here the other day that we picked up that is you know they're counter weighted they've actually got a a complete static frame with enough steel on them that you can drill them put the alternator on board the little gen pack make up your little gen pack hook up whatever fixture system you want for you know running a power you know the power source to something else and you've got yourself either like you said a charging system or a system to flat out run whatever it is that you want to run and storage batteries that's not a big deal could even be on the same rack so that the fixture could actually be still mobile but motorcycle batteries there's probably the best example I've been getting motorcycle batteries for free here from one of our local stores they're giving them to us everyone that that comes in that's still serviceable we're getting those and we're using those for battery packs because the price is right. So you need to check them out. A lot of times people are changing out their batteries much for the same reason that you're mentioning Marcus that they've checked their equipment and I don't think that's given me enough spark. So they'll replace the battery, many cases because they still have the money to do it. And because of that, we've ended up probably with about six or seven free batteries in the last couple months. I just had one in the shop just ask me, you want any more batteries? I said, oh yeah. So I got to go pick up about two or three more. And what I do is I watch for all the junk ones, everybody else getting rid of them, we just trade them out. So everybody's happy but battery packs right now Another thing cold weather you want to look at ways to insulate to keep things warm the war You know to keep the batteries warm sounds weird, but it's called winterizing equipment in a combat situation Everything is winterized and while it takes longer to work on it and takes longer to deal with it The idea is that when you need it it will work And that's most important Well mark that goes apart about winter rising guys I brought this up a week or so ago with the first cold snap here here in the south and it got down to 25 degrees I know that's still a heat wave for y'all But anyway, if you have ammo stored a building of your home or it's not in your big days of a moderate tummy I heater like an oil-filled heater or something and get some 110 volts out there to that heater and Keep that ammo above about 40 degrees. Say you like the same what they use to help make gunpowder low-freezing. It can handle 130 degrees a whole lot longer than it can handle cold. And the reason I know this, my father and McArthur took the channel going into Inchon, they actually had ammo that the primer would go off and the bullet would get lodged down the barrel because the powder charge had degraded because the temperatures were at 20 below and it had some old ammo from old that degraded on them. around the world a couple times already. They can stay with though don't need to go do like this one for the practice weapon and then reload car while you're riding around think that a modern cartridge has been point simple vibrations a right variations it to the men particular into the cold gonna damage it Bill Hickok you guys remember him you know wild you know Oh, what's that but eight was an eight? Yes, he used to and made a point, but you know what he shot you guys was black powder guns What he did was he'd go to bed, he'd wake up in the morning, and he would discharge both of his sidearms, and he would load them back up. Well, this is an example in how technology has come, but he knew that if you didn't have a fresh charge every day, that somebody taking a wild shot at you just might be a little more successful than you if when you pull that trigger, it doesn't go bang. It also means doing the maintenance on the weapon and knowing your ammunition, which is another thing with regard to shooting, one of the options as we've said before. You can use, you can actually use reloads for battle loads. Just remember you're going to be cycling them through exactly as Marcus was describing. When you expend the ammunition, recover the brass, cycle the brass back through, load up fresh, put her back into the first battery for first use, and if you use it, fine. If not, it's your training ammunition in future cycles when the time comes. So again, we're able to utilize what it is that we have on hand over and over and over again, prioritize our burden and our combat-packed ammunition for battlefield operations where recovery is least likely. which is one of the things we've been doing for a long time so there are formulas are just simply common sense think it through how it is that you want to prep all your equipment. Another thing a lot of people when we tell them this are thinking man that's a lot of work. Really? Every six months? That's your life work. I bought a gun for some life insurance. Every six months doing that guys is not a big deal as far as I'm concerned. What do you think, Marcus? Is your life worth doing maintenance every six months? Well, guys, in my bedroom behind the door I keep an SKSNR which uses an AK47 magazine. That's one of those modified AK magazine. Every month I got seven mags in rotation. Every month I take that ammo out, another mag, I take that mag apart. I let the magazine relax. The next month I keep rotating them one through seven. So I got six backups laying there. One of them has already opened up, just letting them, the spring because I keep towns and that magazine takes me to unload it and load up another because I'm not going to keep a, not have a rifle around this house or some kind of high capacity, you know, or an AK with, you know, I got to do is wind it up then, but it's good to just go ahead and pull the, the, the SKS out, sounds to, you know, the SKS and all. And then I got time to re to wind up that AK mag. Yep, that buys you the fit in the AK. So guys, I said, you know, if you got to get a schedule, 30 day calendar, whatever things, and write you a schedule in, spend a few minutes writing down on one summer, 12 months, what you need to check, what you need to do, write you a maintenance schedule. We called it PMS in the Navy. And it didn't mean pre-minstal cycle or whatever it is. It stood for plan PMS schedule, planning and schedule. And guys do it. If you need to check tonight, it's been cold. I don't get that cold, but on a cold night, I go to each of my vehicles and the guns I keep in those vehicles, I pull them out in the ammo. Because I'm like vehicles, I keep ammo with guns and ammo in them because if I'm out in the yard, something happens and I vehicle and grab. I ain't got to come in the house. Exactly. You know, and places I got guns around the property and buildings and you know, guns out and I sometimes, what are you going through all that for? Well, one, you lay your hands on it. You know, everything's going to work, right? It's out to be used. You know it because I grew up here in the... I grew up in Kenfolk's house as a kid, back in the 60s, behind every door. And most of them were rusted up in the wood and shooting. I kept asking uncles and stuff. The one who got robbed, oh my God, we need to start checking our stuff. That's why I learned to proper plan to prevent fist-bull performance. Let it go guys. Like I said, check your batteries, check your ammo. Think about it. Think about it. Think about it. God bless y'all. Thank you, Marcus. God bless America. We're on our next break right now. We'll be back in just a minute, Mark and Don, the intelligence reports. Hey, spread those how to find sh- You will have war bonds in your pockets instead of Axis bonds on your wrists. You can have vegetables, lots of them on your table next winter. You can have your own fresh vegetables on your table this summer if you have your own victory garden. Yes, there's no restriction on home canning and home processing of vegetables and garden fruits and berries. Plan your victory garden now. Get your garden plot lined up. Get the advice of a garden expert if you need it and be prepared to grow your own for victory. The shooting was far away, but Americans at home pitched in where and when they could. The slogan in 1942 was, give till it hurts. Give blood for soldiers overseas. Buy U.S. war bonds, carpool to work, turn in those stockings to make powder bags for naval guns, donate old pots and pans, tin cans, rubber tires, and anything else that could be turned into fighting arms. Remember the government ruling is you must register your tires or you cannot get any gas. So act tomorrow to register yours. Oh, what can I serve for a main dish tonight? You're short on time and ration points, right? Have macaroni and cheese made the craft dinner way cooks in seven minutes. What did you say? Just seven minutes for a dish that's a winner. Then I'll certainly try this craft dinner. There's a lady that's going to save time and ration points. She'll get two boxes of craft dinner for a single ration point. Main dishes for two separate meals. And what's swell macaroni and cheese. Try it yourself. Ask for craft dinner. Products like meat and butter, sugar and coffee, cheese and gasoline were rationed. The manufacture of clothing was limited, which affected fashions more than anything else, and a speed limit of 35 miles per hour was clamped onto the nation's highways. The old family car would have to do as factories converted into manufacturing plants for planes, guns and tanks. I mean, that's been on. There we go. There, this thing. engineers. Oh, I'll tell you what a day. Anyway, uh... Interestingly enough, just think about what they're saying. They remember, register your tires or you don't get any gas. Hey guys, would it be a good idea to be producing your own alcohol for fuel or micro production of POL products in other ways? Maybe hemp oil would have been a good choice there. Hey, remember hemp oil for those little diesels so that you didn't have to worry about consuming POL, petroleum oil and lubricant products. Oh wait a minute, but that means that they wouldn't be able to manipulate or lord over you now would they? Eh, he wouldn't have the rat system to tell everybody, I think he's got another set of tires. Now that gets down to something that I've noticed here. And by the way, there are several things you can do with old tires. Number one, we were talking about creating thermal defense systems. Tires are free guys. You know, most places they're piling up because, you know, times are getting tighter. Most garages don't want to have to pay the $3 per tire to get them hauled away. They can't afford it. And on top of that, well maybe you don't want them until you check them. Example, there's a bunch of 16 inch tires I got to grab in town this weekend. Well actually, I'll get you grabbed tonight. that are being thrown away by the tire by the different you know places that change tires out Don and It's a set of three and one and there's a set of four or five and another and they're all 16 inch tires and they're all actually in pretty good shape They got good rubber on them. They're not pretty and they're not new they're worn But for spare tires for shot out spare tires on combat vehicles You're gonna lose the tire anyway. It's going at some point. So why not have extras now They can be stored in a number of different ways, but remember they can also be used for fortifications. Well, you know, most of your tires are poly glass. Did you ever think about what poly glass is? Isn't it felt like a ballistic nylon? No way you mean like Kevlar? Way. Yes, it's not much but the idea is that remember that material you might notice when you go to a lot of gun ranges you'll find that the you'll have little towers made up of tires bolted together and the little towers are filled with gravel which we call aggregate a combination of sand and little bits of rock and That's what stops the bullets the bullets go through the tire on one side get stopped by the soil and don't go out the other Well, let's see if I wanted to make some decent little fortifications and at least make some nice, revetted positions. I could build up the tires, at least on the ledge, my shooting ledge, cover them with sod to the front so they can't be seen, and I have myself a nice barrier that isn't going to collapse or fall, but it's also ballistic. Hey, wait a minute. That's a fortress down. Now the other option is of course I can do a number of other things with them but if all else fails combustibles you want to take the time to break them up. Here's an idea making a super smudge pot kind of like we were talking about the other day. Get yourself some 55 gallon drums that nobody wants knock out the top of them then take a beat with a pickaxe or take a drill and drill a whole bunch of holes some in the bottom so that it drains and a bunch of the sides so that it gets lots of air. Then you take your old shingles like we were talking about the other day stuff some of them in there but take the tires we're talking about and get yourself a general band saw or you can use a cut-off saw go ahead and chop those tires up into chunks. Take those tires and stuff them in there too and throw some of that tar paper in between and you know shuffle them in there stack up that 55 gallon drum so it's got lots of that stuff in it right to the roof. Now you can save the part that you had for the cap for the top and that's going to be your shield for the top for weatherization. Take another piece of plywood, cut a little bigger than the size of whatever the barrel is, and if you want to, to make this look nice, paint it in earth colors. Okay, paint it whatever matches your trim for your fences or whatever. And you can put these in your back fields, you know, behind the property or in places where you want to just store them. Actually, you can spread them out for deployment. And what you do is on top of everything else, you take two one-quart containers that are old oil one-quart containers from the gas station in town. You take your old crankcase oil, you fill up one quart with that. You take the other one and take gasoline, cheapest for the mostest, whatever you got, old junk gasoline in a can will be fine. Pour it into that other container, put the lid on it, take the two of them, put them inside your smudge pot that's ready to go. When the time comes, oh by the way, you can be a little fancier still Don, you can take yourself for instance a glass peanut butter jar with a nice plastic lid. and throw yourself some lighters or some dollar store matches in the jar and then put that in there with everything else. You now have a complete smudge pot kit ready to go, cost you nothing. You got the barrel for free down the road because they were going to trash them anyway. You can get them from construction sites, you can get them from industrial sites, I can get it olive oil, we can get canola oil barrels that are 55 gallon. We can get them from, in fact we just had a bunch offered to us the other day, but you can get them all over the place guys. They're not as common as they used to be, but they're still out there. And in many cases they don't want to reuse them eventually. They get tired and they don't get a core price for them. So you've got an option to create these smudge pots have them ready to go and Mr. Tire is the center of your burnable of what it is is going to actually create your smoke your thermal plume and once they get burning they don't stop. So you pour the oil in you pour the gasoline on top of that spread it around and spread both them around kind of like you're making a salad. Okay. Then toss the match in but make sure you're not standing next to the barrel because trust me the gasoline is going to light. Okay. Now your high-low burn, the diesel will burn and it's going to be activated by the gasoline. The diesel and the gasoline or your I should see your crankcase oil and the gasoline will activate the tar paper and the tires and the rest is history. You don't have to do any more to maintain it or control it. Okay, see how easy that is? That's a big one. We're talking large scale. Small scale, one gallon metal paint cans. Medium size, three gallon paint buckets that are made out of metal. and well medium super size would be the five gallon steel pails that we use for tar buckets for anybody who does roofing work. Any of those will do. All of them are metal, all of them will store for a long period of time. The ones that are the tar buckets have a convenient metal lid that you put it right back on the way it came and everything is self-contained, ready to use. If you're working permanent emplacements you could probably get away with plastic five gallon buckets if you dug the hole and it It's only clever you could probably light these off. Oh, this is might be another reason why they're making these little SDs Rocket motors, you don't hardly see those anymore or the systems the little burn thing, you know mark what I'm talking about. Electronic matches. Yeah Can you get those anywhere? You can still find them. Those would be great for lighting off a smudge pot, wouldn't they? Oh, they'd be pretty, yeah, exactly. You can have it set and ready to go, put the electronic match inside the fuel container with the gasoline. I would take and probably leave it a little airspace on the top. And when you use the electronic match, the fuel air mix would be more than enough to get her going. And after that, everything else follows. There you go. Whoosh. As you know that famous whoosh sound. Anyway. That's right. The idea is that with electronic matches are available in a number of different sources and actually could also be fabricated. One of the things to always remember is watch yard sales in places where they're throwing things away for flash cubes and flash bulbs. There's another solution guys, or if all else fails, Mr. Lightbulb will do the same thing. Take the fixture, very carefully break away the glass. and Mr. Filament, it's only gonna do it once, because you're not gonna recover it. But it'll work, actually. It'll work just as well, guys. And all you need to do is get that warm, fuzzy dayglobe. It's only gonna last for a second with that filament inside the light bulb. But the better choice is the Flash Cube, the old flash bulbs. They're around. You run into them constantly, yard sale still. Mostly the four-pack Flash Cubes. This means you get four separate flash bulbs on one cube. You separate those carefully, you compromise the hull and you use that as the filament for activating whatever it is you've got that's highly combustible. Now preferably fluids or for instance magnesium, that's another option there. So many different directions to go but the basic rule is look what I just did or how many different missions I gave a tire not the least which was using it as a spare for my tactical vehicles once it's fragged I'm going to turn around and sacrifice what's left of the components for other projects. Now a last little thought here and I have not made the trip although one of our friends came down the last party on the beach we have allies up in the Lansing area that were producing gasoline from used tires. The gentleman was in his 70s when last we met him and he has a site, his grandfather built it, passed it on to his father. The father of course passed it on to his son. And the site, literally the guy used to weigh, the grandfather used to do it is if you brought in a truckload of tires, he would fill your tank up with gas for free. Basically for the cost of you bringing the tires over. And a lot of the guys that I know back in the 70s when they had the big muscle cars, it was still expensive to fill up a tank because if you stomp on the pedal you watch the gas meter go down. As the speedometer goes up, the one needle goes one way, the gas gauge goes in the opposite direction almost as quick. Okay? So this is another consideration. 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