May 8, 2009
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Mark Koernke discussed alternative fuel vehicles and military surplus equipment, focusing on diesel engines that can run on vegetable oil and their applications in vehicles like the M715 and M880. He detailed the history and capabilities of military vehicles, including Humvees and Jeep Wagoneers, explaining how militia units acquired surplus military equipment at low cost in the 1980s and 1990s. The show covered engine swaps, vehicle durability, and preparedness strategies, while also promoting NBC defense training videos and soliciting donations to meet monthly operating goals.
- diesel engines
- vegetable oil fuel
- military surplus
- m715
- m880
- humvee
- jeep wagoneer
- militia units
- preparedness
- nbc defense
- vehicle maintenance
- survivability
- independence
- self-sufficiency
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For Quentin and Marissa, who listen on their daily jog. And for Theo, who listens while waiting in line at the post office. It's more value, more of the music you love, on the go. It's Live 365 on your Blackberry. Download your app today at live365.com slash Blackberry. Yeah, we've got to get down there. We're going to be sending emissaries down there too. So one way or another, someone's going to make it. But that's the mecca. But before we go any farther, what is the date today, Don? Well, by careful calculation, I have determined that it is the eighth day of popular hot rodding. Letters are, you guys, for 2,000 foot pounds. I wish I had a car that ran in the nines. That's like I go to sleep and dream of hot rodding days. A little bit of a boom. A car that runs in the nines, pound turbos on it. I heard again. to live in the hot rock world. a lot of weight. Well, it's a lot of weight that produces big. Actually, you can use any engine you want, provided you've got the prop. If you're going to have prop driven here, you might be going turbo, but either way, you can demand a matter of energy to apply to bring up the RPM. And with this engine, actually, I could see them starting to... Obviously, this is the direction that they might have actually gone. We've heard about that recently, where they were promoting the idea of diesel, you know, prop driven aircraft again. And in this case, I can see that being a reality real quick. I mean, purely it's a matter of starting to carve down. I mean, think about it. Whenever you want to make aircraft components, you always try to carve down as much weight while still leaving the strength. And I could see them very quickly, Don, peeling off a lot of the weight and still having the basic engine there on top of everything else. And not only that, but also keep in mind that you can shave off metal. What you do is you fail your, so to speak. You build an engine. or you take the engine, you actually shave down every component to a certain degree. Then you run the engine to see whether or not there are hot spots and significant casing failures. That's where I think you'd be going. That's where you'd be looking at aircraft. My biggest point with that though is when you're looking at the horsepower that's available with this engine, and the amount of torque available, it's like 55 pounds really isn't even noticed by something. You're right. What's your point? That's your nine year old. It's a fourty four hundred pound. People are going, why are you talking about dry gracing on the intel report? Well something else Dom brought up here, and this is critical because this is a power pack. It's working in an area where again, what type of fuel does it run off from? French fry oil. French fry oil, the owner's stuff, so if you have a way to preheat it you can. on your diesel on French oil. Think about this if you go out and it doesn't mean you can't do alcohol because we've got guys that are producing alcohol You can do it all day and you can you can run your vehicles on it But the bat faggots I mean what I can see them doing is eventually to attack the independence They're gonna start anybody who's independent. They're gonna start attacking anybody every way they can So the bat faggots are gonna come out with their you know better than their near near near near near, you know Oh, you know, look you got a stale However, here's the thing There isn't any law against producing corn oil. Yeah, basically what you're doing, the whole point is to have the system open and in place, the biggest issue has been do you have the motor that can perform or that is going to give you reasonable range? In other words, again, miles per gallon. Well, in this case you're looking at not only all the energy that you need to move anything you want. Now, if I can move a Chevelle, I can move a light armored vehicle, which of course is what they're kind of hinting they've already done. That's where we get into this whole thing with the Humvee, which of course everybody calls a Hummer. But it's originally, remember it's the Humvee. Years ago, Don, we had a chance. Now, of course, there are fewer and far between, although the ones that are being sold are piles of wreck anyway. I don't think they're selling them, but they're selling them overseas to the scrappers over there. We've been re-bought seven times. Oh, yeah. The thing is that we've covered this story over the years. Originally, the Humvee was a great idea, but the problem is they took a vehicle that was originally designed to be a 3 quarter ton or 5 H ton weapons carrier. In other words, a soft skin pickup truck. With the gun platform. Now in the past it was an M37 or variation on that type of vehicle with a big pin-and-a-mount in the back and you could mount a 50 caliber or a 30 caliber or you could mount a 37 millimeter tank gun. That's what we did in World War II actually beginning in World War II. And it was right in the middle of the bed of the pickup truck. They actually even had 2 inch mortars that could be fired from the pedal mount. So they were the equivalent to the grenade launcher today. What happened is, it went from the 3 quarter ton weapons carrier to eventually the 5 8 ton utility truck and we still had the ability to put other weapons in the pedal mount and the bed of the truck. But that was a niche for combat infantry to give them, or white mechanized, to give them some fire power and mobility. Kind of like the rat patrol. And the jeeps did the same thing. Everybody always sees the jeeps. They always think those are cool, where you've got the quarter ton truck, which is what we call it, what a jeep is. And you put a pin on the middle of it, and you put a 50. or you put a 30, whatever. And an M60 is later in Vietnam. You guys know the Ford, the N1514. Well here's the thing, then they come out with a Humvee and they go, Don, we can replace the Jeep with this. And everybody kind of looks at them and goes, why? The Jeep's a nice small vehicle. We go all over the world. We go to places where there are alleys that that Jeep can get through that that Hummer never will. And that's what the, especially the MPs, they said, what do we want that thing for? It turned out that what they did is they shoved it down everybody's throat. So AM generals, the 1514 months, were phased and were completely destroyed and gotten rid of when they could have been around for another 20 years easily. They were very well built and a lot of guys are owning them right now. Anyway, or they could have continued with it. They really needed a vehicle in that size range. We ended up buying little pickup trucks, jet pickup trucks for a while to replace them. Everybody knows that's in the military. In fact, the Chevy Love was way before the day. Remember, there was a great scandal just as an example of them trying to slide this through. The US government back during the 70s bought the Chevy Love truck, which was not made in the US. Remember, it was made in Japan. Chevy Love, how many people remember that vehicle when it came out? Anyway, when the Humvee came into service, the biggest problem is that it had all kinds of toothing problems. The original idea had some things that were part of it. In fact, we still to this day wonder who the hell was the engineer that was allowed to do this. But from the outside, they looked really cool down. So all of a sudden during the 80s, there were a bunch of Humvees that came out into Surplus. It was like, oh wow, and one of our guys actually bought 10 Humvees. Now everybody goes ten Humvees. Oh, it must have been a hundred or two hundred thousand dollars. No, it wasn't it was $2,000 per vehicle and what he did is a sealed bid cost $20,000 and we all thought all right We're gonna have a whole column of Humvees to put in our unit you know, it's gonna be really neat and what he was gonna do is he was figured he'd sell to and Then he keep the difference right so he got the Humvees and we lifted the hoods and we found that we had six different Humvees every goes, huh? Well, they looked the same on the outside, but under the hood there have been a lot of changes and each one was to try and deal with a failing in the design. Now, because of this, at the same time later on, we reported this that in the early 90s, they were actually in the early 90s especially, the parts system was horrific and they were not replacing and buying new parts. They were taking worn parts off of vehicles. taking other parts off the shelf that were already taken off other vehicles earlier that were mostly worn out, and trading out the really worn out parts for the mostly worn out parts. So on top of everything else, about 50% of our Hummer fleet, I mean slash Humvee fleet, for instance in the 1989 to 1990 period, 50% of them were malfunctioning. One of the biggest problems that the Humvee had during Desert Dust 1 was electrical system failure. Oh my goodness, something in Chrysler. Oh, did I say that? Whoops! Well, Chrysler back in the day. But if you know how to fix Chrysler, you did just fine. And don't forget, you always had to have a couple of those little ceramic blocks laying around. I had two in the dash of every one of mine. Ballast Resistor? Yeah, you got to have two new ones in the box. Or go to the junkyard and strip them off a couple other dusters or whatever, or chargers, and hope they still work. And then just in case yours went out, well, it took you a minute with the wrench right there in the drawer, and you'd change that old ceramic ballast resistor out, put the other one in, and then you'd be on your way. And many a time we'd have that just going down the road, guys. Anyway, otherwise great cars. I had a great time with them. Well, don't worry, I should say this to qualify that for people who are going, oh, I love my Chrysler's. Don't worry, Ford had the same kind of problem, but in a different area. It's still electrical. So anyway, the Humvees eventually kind of stabilized out. Looking at them from outside, you couldn't tell the difference. But looking under the hood, oh my goodness. Now it got to the point, Don. And you know, we don't mind retching on things. But after looking at how they had bollixed up this design, it was like, You know what, I think we're just going to sell all of them. There's 10 poor souls that are trying to figure out. And then you get to work out of your own Hummer and then you go, oh my God, where are they thinking about here? And everything is integrated and attached. Well, what's interesting though is he really didn't do badly. And yes, he did sell them for a pretty penny because there were no Humvees out there. I mean, there were some. We were buying them at the auctions. People were going, buy them at the auctions. You can't do that. Oh, tell me what we can't do. I was laughing when people tell you what they can't do now and assumed that you couldn't do it earlier. It's like, oh, the moment. At this moment, we live in this moment, and it's always been like this. No, it hasn't. But what happened is, and again, they were selling. This is what we couldn't figure out. They were selling these things. They were leaking through the supply system, through the DOD auctions, and some got to the GSA auctions. And we were buying them, and it was like, wow, there's whole units that don't have Humvees yet. And yet they're selling what we consider to be A-Class Humvees with pretty much 98% of everything on them. And in some cases, 100% intact. In other words, they hadn't even cannibalized. Normally when a vehicle goes to auction, and I'll explain this to you too because a lot of you guys are thinking about buying auctioned vehicles. Well, if it's a military vehicle, you've got to be ready to inspect it before you pull it off the lot and don't think to drive it away or you might- Sure, that's a trick phrase. We're going to give you the skinny on it. Yeah, and they don't. What they do is when they, we're going to tell you when a vehicle goes in in phase one of the screening process before sales, there's a 90 day window. And all through this 90 day window before they're sold to the public, you bid on them eventually, what happens is if there's a part that is critical that isn't in the supply system anymore, they can come out and wrench that part off and put it back in on one of our military vehicles to keep them running. Now, in most cases, they don't even bother to take the old warm part off the other vehicle and put it on yours. They just take. For that reason, in the first 30 days, they have the option to take it for any federal agency. In the second local and public screening at the state level or the county level or whatever, and last, it's up for grabs with everybody. Of course, in the last 30 days, it's getting sold at an option. So, it's not that they're bad vehicles, but what it means is that when you go in to look at a military like a 5 quarter ton Dodge M880 or a M715 or if you're looking at a Kukvi. Now remember we had the Humvee. See, everybody got to remember that the V was at the end of all these. The Kukvi is nothing more than the 70's series Chevy Square Truck, everybody's so familiar with. with a diesel in it, Dom, everything we're talking about here. The GM and a couple other companies made the diesels for the cuckpeas. And the cuckpeas were made up at the Flint truck plant right there off 75. You drive right by it, look right behind the plant, and there would be rows and rows and rows of woody green or eventually woodland camouflage cuckpeas leaving the plant, some of them desert tan, from way back before we knew we were in the desert when we were in the Sinai. We were sending some of those vehicles over there for the United Nations American Peacekeeping Force that was the 82nd and 101st Airborne. These vehicles were out there and they've been out there for sale and a lot of guys have this collectors items now. But an example is money. The Humvees were going for $2,000 apiece. I'm telling you. Everybody goes, no way! They're like $50,000 apiece. 70,000 or 100,000 or 100,000. Yeah, I know. We know what people are charging for. I'm telling you what they went for off the lot. Another example, M715s. I've got a whole unit here in Michigan that's completely outfitted with M715s. Now, Don, this is what would really be cool. The M715 is a Jeep Wagoneer on steroids from the 70s. Actually, from the 60s to the 70s. It's a really heavy body, very simple design. You lift the hood and it's like, what the hell, where's the engine? Because all there is is the engine and a minimal number of parts. It's like the world used to be. But one thing about the M715, it was not designed to be a high speed, you know, stand it on its rear end and do a wheelie and take off out of the chocks. It was one of those things where you put it in gear and you could tow mountains. Now the M715, which is a militarized Jeep Wagoneer from the 60's and built into the 70's, early 70's, is the basis for all of those cool bogging trucks you see today like Big Foot. Yeah, the original Big Foot guys was built on a set of M715 axles because these things were built like the proverbial brick doghouse. They could handle any torque. The M17 was so impressive. I had not seen one. When they first came out, I did not see them. A lot of them were in Vietnam. The majority of the fleet was here in the United States and there were some in Europe. What is interesting is they are out on the range. We have an ammo truck. That is a two and a half with a whole lot of brass and lead in it. It was rainy. It is kind of like when you are over there in Iraq right now. The ground down looks really perfectly flat. And it looks kind of dry on the top and you've driven your vehicle through there a hundred times. In fact, right there in the parking lot, okay, the motor pool. And it's been raining though. They get their little moms soon rain and you know, it's been, everything got moist. And you go tooling out and through that same area, you've driven through a hundred times and all of a sudden you notice that the terrain seems to be rising above you. Well, in this case the deuce and a half out on the range did the same thing. The ground was moist and it was enough to handle light vehicles. You could drive your 151 out there, you could run around with the ambulance and they did. But they took the ammo truck out there and sank her up to the axles. So they went and grabbed another deuce and a half. And they figured, hey, a deuce and a half should be able to tow a deuce and a half out and it wasn't loaded. Well, guess what happens next. Help him. We're off to touch down. Oh yeah, you bugger. So, they winched them up and sank right down with the axles of the second truck. So then one of the guys goes and gets one of these M715s. Slowly drives it over in front of the first two and a half, runs the cable out from the recovery cable, hooks it up to the back end of the panel on that M715, actually to the recovery hooks. Depending on the model, you have their variations. Anyway, he puts it in low gear, which basically everything on the M17 was low gear, guys, I'm telling you. The maximum speed it could do was 45 miles per hour. About that, 45.50. And that was pressing it. The truck was built for operating on the dark side of the moon. And so anyway, the first truck, the first two snaf, they hook up the M715, puts it in low gear, tells him to get ready. He knocks, they start up, and he walks right off the range area. Then he pulls up again, hooks up to the loaded deuce and a half, which I don't know how many, it's got to have at least a couple tons of brass, 50 caliber, it's got 308, we've got M14s on the range, and he has some 223 I'm sure. He hooks up to that deuce and a half that's sunk up to its axles and bellied out, and he walks it right out again. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't believe it. I mean granted the truck obviously he's not just going to be an idle, he's helping along, but you're talking it's like mighty might. And it was like man, from that point forward I was impressed. We used M7-15's without four, we bought a bunch. And the reason I bring this up is guys, that M7-15, everybody was so impressed with his big foot, the reason they did it, there's another reason, is Don, you could buy those on an average in surplus when they were coming out for between $85 and $165 in the 80's and early 90's. and we bought, I bid on whole fleets of them, whole lumps of them, and then we turned around and we issued, you know, what we did is we collected them and then sent them to certain units, and we have whole units outfitted with M7-15s. The other thing with the M880s, the average price of an M880 at the auction that I paid was as low as $65, and that's a Dodge Ram pickup truck, four-wheel drive, and $65 to a maximum of $185 to $200. No, exactly. We grabbed all of them we could. Some of them the bodies were iffy because that's a later model and it's in that dodge, you know, in the dodge, well, you know, metal of the 70s, so we know what happened there. But the average is made around 75-76 in the 77. and uh... they were in the m eight eighties and there were some m eight nineties which are two-wheel drive now these are all military conversions of civilian vehicles and the dodge truck all the parts of the dodge integrate with that vehicle any dodge out here on the road that dodge ram truck You could trade body parts at work, internal parts at work, all the engine parts. Here's the thing, guys. This is why, for example, we've been running off this stuff for years. You would buy pallets of all of the repair parts for the M880s for about $40 to $100. That would be everything from, and I'm not exaggerating, garbage bags full of distributor caps, brand new. In fact, I've still got 100 of them sitting here, but we've got them spread out with the different motor pools. M-880s, trailers to go along with them, etc. So when people go, you can have that, they're this price. Well, that's what they are now. But I hate to tell you guys back, and it's not that long ago, but in the period of time when this stuff was coming out, the militia outfitted and armed up massive quantities of units with minimal cost, which means we could spend money somewhere else. How about like the weapons that go on them? Now just imagine that M715, we are going full circle here, this is why I bring up this motor pack. Don, if that thing had fit in a Chevelle, that engine will fit under the hood with that M715. And guys, remember that is a Jeep package. What was the one cool thing about a CJ5 or a Jeep wagon here back in the 60s and 70s? That's right, you had more ground clearance than anybody else out there in the industry at the time. And here's the other cool thing, more adapter packs were made. More adapter spacers were made. Oh you're right. Yeah. You put a small block Chevy in it, a full cracker in it. Cranker, anything you wanted. So think about it, if you could do that with that Jeep wagon here, I hope I'm giving some people some ideas here. Hint, hint, wink, nod, nod. Some of you might have one of those M715s sitting in the back and you already blew the engine, but the vehicle itself is in pretty good shape. A lot of guys bought them with the original engine, which was a six cylinder inline made specifically for the military. It wasn't a bad engine, but again, eventually all things die. So most people are thinking, man, I can't replace that engine. Guys, the Jeeps, you could go in there and engine out. want to put an Emmy in this one? Yeah, I will say this. I helped one of my friends when we were in college. We were both in the military together. We changed out at least, what, six going on seven times, different times. We changed the engine in that CJ and he never paid more than probably, what, $50 to $70 for the engine. All he did was he bought the cheapest engine he could get for the price. We went from a slant six to a Ford 351 back down to a Ford 6 cylinder inline. Then we went from that back over to a Chrysler and put a 318 in it and then we put a 360 in it because he already had that squared away. Then he jumped over it. Now mind you this Jeep didn't cost him anything. By the time he was done he wasn't putting a whole lot of money into it either. That jeep had many hundreds of thousands of miles on it before it finally gave up the ghost. It was basically the tub is what died and all things come to an end. I know that he changed out at least 14 engines over a period of years just because he didn't care. It blew out. Why rebuild the engine? Go buy another engine and it will adapt to the vehicle and everything works. So, in this case, for instance, I don't know if I put this thing in a CJ-5. Wow, that would be kind of scary. Woo-hoo! But, you know, a Jeep Wagoneer, excuse me, one of these M7-15s, actually a Jeep Wagoneer from the 60s or 70s worked the same way. You've got the axles, you've got a drivetrain that can handle the torque down, and you've got all the energy you could possibly ever ask for. Again, the whole idea here is that coming up with new ideas or solutions to problems that we're going to have to face, and this has to do with both the strategic overview and supply and support operations, guys. The key issue here is fuel. It's smoking oil diesel, as it would say. This engine has the potential for continuing to run while a lot of other stuff is offline. Now, some people say, well, what about maintenance on it? What about this and that as far as, well, eventually you're going to have to have parts, and parts are going to be a problem. Parts are going to be a problem, and everything as we know. That's one of the first things we acknowledge. I don't care what it is, gas driven or whatever. But consider this, that the diesels of this design are designed to go, typically diesels go, three and 400,000 miles before you're going to see any significant maintenance issues, especially what is considered to be a local retail vehicle. industrial semi-truck that's running on the highway non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 165 Bs a year in many cases. So the interesting thing is, as a survivability vehicle, in other words for duration, unless it gets a hole stuck through something, and well, I don't care what it is, gas, diesel, or one any farther anyway, we know that. It would still be a great solution to one of the many issues we've always had, which is survivability and durability. I think that's one of the answers right now or at least a direction to go in. We've got to keep an eye on this. Diesel's already been pretty handy. Obviously, most everything we run is used. Guys, you don't have to tell us that. The most expensive car I have out there in the yard is $150. I want to say thank you because I've got friends that, of course, find something that somebody's getting rid of and it looks like it's useful, we've picked it up. And that's it. I have never owned a new car in my life. I know Don, you've got to realize we make things work. run for a long, long time. Well, I'll tell you what, something like this, you can make run for a long, long, long, long time. And that means that you're focusing your time, which is resource, on other things, especially in the future in a combat situation or in a survival situation where eventually a lot of the technology is cut off, which is going to happen. of the bad guys have their way they're already telling you we're going to make do it last make them inside the land of the you know the land of the free and home of the brave is going to come along to the even more so there is and the home of the slate or everybody about before under undercut everything has to do with what's made this country strong and then tell you all about how wonderful it what they've done to you is a wonderful thing to have done to you that's that's what's really sad about it but it's given his comical because they've been bought every little bought into this bs Oh, this is really great. Okay, well stupid. I'll tell you what, you'll figure out. Eventually you'll find out, but for those of the goofs that are buying into this. Now, we have a lot of work to do. Again, the only reason we're bringing this up is always ideas. Send this out into the pool of people that we have. and bounce it off different minds. I don't know who we're talking to at this moment because there are so many, many, many of you. But the point is that some people are already going, hey man, let me check that out. Let's go spec out the engine. We've got a couple of fill in the blanks sitting in the backyard here, back in the shop here. And maybe we could do some wrenching here in the next couple months, or in the next month for that matter. So that's one of the reasons we do this, is present ideas. You guys are going to have to come up with a wherewithal to make it happen. It's not that hard guys. It's not that hard at all. But it does require application. You've got to apply yourself. Otherwise, by the way today is Friday again. It is the 8th. It is year zero. Don, I want you to do this again because again we had questions. With almost all our mail we get questions about night vision. So let everybody know how they can get hold of you. And in fact, once we, well actually they can give you a call still this evening, correct? Yes. Talk to me about night vision if you have a heavy canopy eventually. If you want to talk about night vision you guys, I'll put the number out one more time and then we'll change it. Do that one more time. Give out the number one more time now. True. And also real quick here, again the equipping video that we have, the most recent set that's complete. We have others that are in the can right now. In fact, one's in the computer sitting here off to my side, ready to go just about. But again, NBC equipment and training. This is a two disc series guys. If you don't have it, get it. If you have a militia formation, pick it up because this is how you're going to be able to bring people up to speed very quickly on virtually every aspect of the B.C. defense. Everything from gas masks to filters to decontamination to the, you know, suits, you name it, it's in here. It's a two disc, give you an idea how big it is, but it's a two disc set. it is about as comprehensive as you're going to get and it gives you very specific pointers. It's been a really big help, a great example of many hands make for light work, guys. I want to say thank you to William, Joe, Jay, Phillip, and STS for their donations. You guys are the last ones to donate today, and it's been a very big help. We have reached again. We've reached the goal for this month I've been talking with a couple of the sponsors And we're gonna see if we can fill that gap maybe with a new sponsor and replace the one that you know Kind of put us where we were so anyway So, we have reached the goal. Big thank you everybody that you proved many hands make for a light work and you kept us afloat for this month. Thank you. We greatly appreciate it. And again, there too a lot of people have been supporting us by doing what we asked. We've got a number of different videos that we produce specifically. We'll just flat out tell you again, it's for keeping the lights on. You get what you need and we deal with that problem so everybody's happy. It's a gift for a gift. Another thing real quick before I forget, good point there Ed, we have a new blog, Liberty Tree, minus sign or slash blog.com. That's LibertyTree minus sign. That's a dash, not slash. LibertyTree dash blog.com. I should say for the next hour, but one hour out we've got one more hour of the intel report. This 7 to 8 pm block on Friday we have the militia town hall meeting from 7 to 8. All you guys, our friends in the chat room, everybody else that's out there, you've got some input, you've got information you want to pass on, you want to give everybody a call. You will get into the town hall meeting and it's going to be out on the programming with LTR so everybody gets to hear what's going on. But if you want to participate, you want to get information out, want to let people know about what's happening in your area, this is the way to do it. So from 7 to 8 p.m. militia town hall meeting on Fridays, that's a regular. And one more time, libertytree-blog.com. I want to say thank you to Kurt for that, we appreciate that. We are bouncing all directions, but we have had a lot of assistance, especially today. Yesterday we had to meet this particular goal. Everybody helped to make that happen. I want to say thank you. All the guys in the chat room who I am talking to, but all the friends that are listening on the radio, same way. That is why I want to bring up this whole thing real quick again with the NBC Disc Set. Go to the PayPal page. You will find it listed there. and or you can order it from PBN PO Box 194 Dexter Michigan 48130 $20 for the set to include shipping as a gift and if you have make a check out if you are going to make checker money or make it out to Nancy, last name K-O-E-R-N-K-E. Anyway, send it to PBN PO Box 194 Dexter Michigan 48130 I hear the music Don. Yes. And as always God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march, both day and night. We're gonna kick him. Wait a minute, we can drive him in the chiffon over to the border and kick him out the door. You gotta just go stand in the door and don't stop. 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