Nancy Cornke and Donald Butcher hosted the show in Mark Koernke's absence, discussing a fatal accident at a desert race in Mojave where spectators stood dangerously close to high-speed vehicles, using it as a teaching moment about learning from others' mistakes and the importance of common sense and situational awareness. The hosts explored themes of free speech and manufacturing decline in America, tracing historical roots to William Penn and the founding fathers' fight against oppression, while connecting current economic struggles to loss of domestic production and tariffs. The episode emphasized preparedness skills including ammunition conservation, basic repair tools like awls and grommets for tent maintenance, waterproofing techniques using wax and canvas, and the practical knowledge that sustained earlier generations with only sixth-grade educations.
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For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in 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? Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the intelligence report. I'm Nancy Cornke and I'm Donald butcher. Hey, then I know there's a price I'm here. Yeah, Mark was feeling rather under the weather. So, I'm, you know, that last minute, so. We're quite the team. At any rate, it is Monday. Yeah, the 16th day of August. Right. August 16th, 2010. Second year of occupation, of course. I call it Ahtin. Yeah. Ahtin. Yeah, there isn't there. The hot den still works. Oh my goodness. Yeah. It's been a beautiful day. Oh my goodness. Oh it was a great day. The humidity just rolled past late. So it was even good sleeping weather. Oh yeah. And the windows opened and it was great. Hey, you know, if it's raining, if you've got a poncho and then you're just standing under a ledge, elaborate on that because you know, even if it's raining and you're marching, every march is a parade isn't it? That's it. And even if it's raining and you're marching and you're hungry when you get there if all you got is a ball of rice and beans every meal is a feast. That's it. I mean when push comes to shove and you know it's that beans and rice or put your tank up over that cup of rain it said beans and rice looks awfully good. Yep. Stated earlier it Oh yeah, beautiful day. And you know, that was a great and gross parabola on an old, uh, at the Marine or Army or whatnot, but it's an old military, uh, lineup. Oh yeah. Yep. Every day, for me, every meal, oh yeah. Yep. Mind, you know, we can run in a number of different directions, but one thing that's been on my mind, and I, I, if you guys watch the television and you might not watch, you know, the evening, well, you might just watch for the evening. or whatnot. Or maybe you don't watch that at all. Maybe you watch the spoiler. Maybe you got that pirated cable or that other satellite thing. And you can tune in and nobody, well, maybe not. I don't want to go there. But perhaps you saw the, you probably even heard about the race truck in Mojave Desert on Richmond land, a big 200 mile race. It's going down in the desert and leaves the rough flies upside down into the crowd. outstanding along side. I mean like I heard this evening Nancy that one of the hot rod magazine or some of the magazine people that were there to observe and report on the race go by they try to. I get one word. Yes we can reflect on this more because you know that it's it's some I you could say it's a sanctioned race and I know that everybody that's big wire there when they go to a NASCAR race there have been people injured. stands even behind the heavy car stopping wire over the years. Oh yeah. But you guys, the number of rules were broken to be 50 feet away if any cars go 15, one, five, and 100 feet away if any cars go 100 miles. Right. None of the, you know, the arm guard you see, the steel that you see around bridges or anything that is standard racetracks. But I'm not going to elaborate on all of the safety things. I'm just going to say that standing in the crowd trying to touch the race cars as they went by. This is how close it was along the road for you guys that did not see this. I don't have to see it. Oh, you know, I don't have to see it. I helped one of our friends years ago was driving down the road and a barrier wasn't sparking a spot in the road very well and was driving with his arm out the window. And the barrier wasn't marked very well. He hit the hole in the road and his hand hit that barrier at about five miles an hour. And it ripped his thumb, I mean, right there at the joint where that, yeah, between the thumb and the middle finger, ripped that right open. And he didn't go to the hospital. He came to me. All things. So that's at 5 miles an hour. So at 15, or you know, it's been up, but just think of it at that speed. And he wound up with like three surgeries on the hand at 5 miles an hour. So yeah, oh my goodness. Ouch. Well, again, you guys, when you go to a Disneyland or someplace, there's a reason why the operator, when he straps you in, the bar down in front of you says, please keep your arms and legs and hands inside the vehicle while it is in motion. Yep. And that works the same way. I had to touch on this you guys because you know it's there's this thing about vicarious and you know it's through someone else. And it's the right I want to be the right I want to be so close I want to feel the wind off the truck when he goes by. You know it wasn't real. for eight people there and I don't know how many others were injured Nancy but again stupid. This is one of the things that I have to point you guys we've said this many many times you've heard this on the hour we can't live long enough to make all the mistakes and some of this mistakes will kill you the first time you experience them oh yeah as example here oh my and you know it's it's fun to take the beer even yeah he's been a racer since she was knee-high yep Oh, it's fun to, if your daughter's interested, it's fun to take them to places like this. But when you get there and you see that, well, there's a me or my family, and it might simply be a case scenario. You guys, we train for this all of the time, don't we? And granted, I'm not telling you, the people there, they were California militia or they were militia from Arizona. Don't get me wrong, don't add that into it because I don't know how trained they were or anything. Maybe they were just, you know, I was before, one day the country move to California. And that's not a Don original. I really wish it was, ma'am. There's a mark saying too. California has a land of fruits, nuts and flakes, but that's okay. We are so... You know, that's in Europe. They do that a lot. They stand... Oh my goodness. But granted, some of these people that do the Halo 1 champions and whatnot, you know, they're... Right. To them, it's like they're going along, you guys. Believe me. That is too bad. Oh yeah. I could not believe it when I saw it Nancy. Years ago you'd see films of Baja, the legendary thousand mile race. And there would be sections where people would be standing 15 feet away and a car would be going by 100 miles an hour, 100 foot. Then, well that's kind of, you know, they take their life in their hands. This you guys, you guys, you can't live to, it was such a stupid mistake that I have to bring people didn't live through this and there's probably more gonna It will expire from here. I don't have to be up close of first. from other people's mistakes you guys and this is one we can't afford to make because that could just as well have been your family. If you don't mind the segue, you know we have we've talked about errors that have been made by different groups and wound up you know having difficulties and we have to learn from those mistakes period you know you got to mind your P's and Q's and especially in this day and age Because what you say can and will be used against you later. When our government makes it, well, let's see, if we decide it's a take crime, we can go back 10 years, we can grandfather it 10 years. I mean, that's what they're looking at now, which is not lawful by our Constitution, obviously. But this is what these goofs are trying to get through. So, you know, you've got to be aware of what they're doing. You have to understand, you know, when others are stomped on, look at why. And though what they may be put away on is not necessarily what got them there, take a look. A hard, long look because you need to find out where these mistakes were so that you don't fall into that trap. And that really truly the way they set things up now it is a trap. And we don't need to go there. You know, if at all possible. We don't need to go there. We don't need to be there. We don't need to make the same mistakes over and over again. You're right. Yeah. And as pointed out some mistakes can be fatal. Yeah. You know both it's been said on this hour. Oh, maybe I'll get this kind of right. You know the difference between knowledge and wisdom. And the good example there is the street and he gets hit by the bus. And he gets himself off because he was around and he's learning from experience. But the guy standing on the corner who watched the whole thing happened and said, I'll never let that happen to that wisdom. So again, the difference between knowledge and wisdom is another example there, or a good example there. So you know, we could do that, Nancy. It just seemed almost something out of a comic. movie because it's almost surreal that people would just... The second you said that, it's just, oh my goodness. No. It's a matter of common sense. Yup, it seems to be a lack of that in a lot of areas. Would you do that on a freeway? Try to touch a car going on a freeway that is not going anywhere near as fast. But a car that is going three times as fast because it is in a race. You lose a hand as you point out or an hour. Perhaps your life. If your hand is torn off or you can die from shock even if there are people there that are doing everything they can to save your life. They stop the blood flow, this and that, and immediate medical help. So, again, we can go on and on about it. I'm not beating up the people that died there. All we can do is learn from it. You're right, Nancy. We take this into so many different places. We look at trying not to hit those people. You know, the other thing we do, the other thing we really harp, sometimes we close the hour, sometimes in the middle of the hour, you know, keep looking around. And Mark says, check your six, which is just exactly the same thing. It's a little more military, you know, the six or 12 o'clock thing. When you watch the, or something, when the Russian submarine is, well, behind them, a crazy Russian, because they'll just be one way or the other. What used to be behind them. Right. Because that's the one place they can't look. very, very, very close ties with Rahm Emanuel. to 115 years ago, something like that. The founding fathers thought about free speech. Speaking out against the Anglican Church, Pennsylvania is named after his father, who, the king of England, owed like $250,000 way back when. Oh yeah, yeah, you'd be like millions today. But, William Penn, being the outspoken Christian man that he was, and Quaker going down on Church Street and speaking outside the Anglican Church about the problems of the times and in fact that people were being imprisoned as he was a couple of times in England for speaking out against the Anglican Church and being forced to believe that way or be imprisoned. And that's One of those many reasons. My own heritage comes from the same thing. My great great great great great great grandfather and his parishioners were, go to the Carolinas, here's a tract of land, Chesterfield County as a matter of fact, was what they were given to clear that area of the natives and set up housekeeping there. But that's what it was over. Not refusing to join the Anglican Church and being vocal. Being that freedom of speech. That's why they were here. So when they had the chance and oppression was enough They refuse to allow manufacturing go on here. And what are we seeing right now? The manufacturing has been taken out of U.S., hasn't it? So that we again are back to that state. We're going through a depression. We have no manufacturing here really to speak of. No jobs. Nothing made. Yes, no jobs. And we're looking at the same exact things. There's no tariffs to secure the manufacturing here. We're having the Chinese that are bidding jobs to close out even the small businessmen as low as 200 pieces to undercut the small businesses here so that they run them out of business altogether. We know that's happening. I see new manufacturing bases trying to start up But when you have these big companies backed by big dollar money like Sony, Mr. Rockefeller, who invested everything he had, liquidated everything to pass on to his son back in the early 80s, we watched him when he did that. He even sold the Rockefeller Center to the Japanese and then foreclosed on it three years later, which is a good trick to get him done. Oh yeah, so it's right back in their own hands, but still, this is where the money has gone. The money has gone from here over there to set up the manufacturing there, free trade so that they can come back here and put us under their thumb. Get us back into basically the old tax system, if you will, the rich, the poor, and the poorer. that whole deal. And again, the freedom of speech being the key thing for making things happen. Being able to speak out. And how many people do you know of today that are frightened to say anything because they're afraid of what the government will do to them if they speak out? I work with so many people that are afraid to say anything. They're afraid to lose their job. They're afraid they're going to be harassed by the police. They believe the government is listening to them, watching them, and forever looking over their shoulder. People that would normally just speak their minds in an open forum, like a grocery store, now are looking over their shoulder to see who's around before they're speaking. I'm seeing this all the time. But you're right. I talked about this two months ago when during tax time when one of the morning shows got to do what I got to do in the morning here and uh... they were talking about worried even before she knew she didn't do anything wrong but she didn't want to go to jail and now this is again you know i'm being if she wasn't she was being a little facetious you know well who was it they just sent it one uh... guy uh... denzel wagens or something wesley snipes wesley snipes that's right for tax evasion so you know that there is there is foundation in this but when i'm afraid open uh... because I know I didn't do anything wrong, but I don't want to go to jail when she says it. She's saying it facetiously about herself, but she's trying to enforce that from the first time and then reinforce it in you. Right. That's what she's trying to do. They want them to still let fear. Yes. In still. In still. In still. That's the word I needed, Nancy. Thank you. Yeah. And it's, you know. That's what they're trying to do. And people in communications know full well what they're doing. They know full well what they're doing when they're doing it. But that is so subtle. You know, put your palm down and move your hand across behind your head. It's over their head, but it's still been in their mind. When you die, your whole life flashes. It's wise that you can remember things that you think you could, doesn't it? Yeah. If you don't really think you remember some of the things which become subtle, and Kathy Lee Grissom or Even in passing, if you don't keep looking around or if you don't keep paying attention. See, when you're looking around, you're kind of doing this other thing. You're looking around is a, you know, a... Right. Because it's kind of like, you know, if you're driving and you're not paying attention, eventually, you know, you make a mistake, right? Now we go back to mistake. You're looking around and you're paying, well, you don't fall. So again, keep looking around, you guys. Keep paying attention. And you know what? There's another thing. and you see something that well you think everybody ought to know about or is here we could give out the phone there Nancy. That would be a good thing wouldn't it? If you want to get into the hour here you guys you know you got you're gonna have to dial again put a one of that you know you're gonna have to pick up one eight eight and when you get there a pleasant mechanical lady will ask you for a reference room number and that would be for three seven nine six and then touch that pound so you know that dial you know that's old fill those numbers and then you touch and the numbers are again. Nope. I went someplace else. 4296. There you go you guys. That will be a good thing. Talking about this mess and you know talking about mistakes and avoiding them and the biggest thing is you know if it for some of the things you know if it seems too good to be true more than likely it is Always double check. Well, I ran into one of those things that were just too good to be true today. I needed to do some painting, so I was looking for some paint rollers. Oh, and behold, they got three rollers all by themselves, just the things you pop on your roller, the covers, for $3,049. And right next to it on the shelf, there's three of the covers plus the roller itself for $0.69. Oh, which one did you buy? He left the ask. I asked. Yeah, but I wanted to make sure, because this is in my store, if I do something that's not, that can come back to bite me. So I'm standing there, the manager is just, you know, 10 feet from me, saying, hey Mark, I think this is a mistake. And it's like, this is 349, this is 69 cents. What's going on here? Well, you went back and checked it and nope that came from corporate at the Clarence product This doesn't have a clearance tag if you really want to move those things you better get a tag on it. So yeah But that doesn't happen very often. Trust me Not that much and I think I still think it's an error from from somebody forgot to put a 2 in there $2.69. I can see clearance, but not $0.69. Somebody goofed. Well, again, somebody made a mistake, and some mistakes can be taken advantage of. Right. This one I did. I cleared it through the person in charge. There you go. Whatever. You know what you did there? Saw somebody else's by not making any mistakes. Think about it, you guys. See you again. I'm not going to double talk you. That's a perfect example of it Nancy. Well that is. I brought it to their attention which is what was necessary. There's nothing he could do about it. It just has to stay that way until someone at the corporate office actually changes it now because of the way they got things set up. But the discount was too great. So I knew it was a problem. And bringing that to his attention that he can contact them and they got all that fun stuff. So by tomorrow it'll probably be back to where it should be. So the store is not losing money. We're just going to eventually cut into my paycheck. But at the same time, it covers me because I know where they are in their ethics standards now. And it's like, no, that covers myself. It covers that manager. and the correction is made and actually I look better even though I still got the deal. Plus on top of that I got my 10% off that. So, you know, got to supply everything that I need. But this is again using common sense what's right. Do what's right and you're going to be, you know, you come out looking good no matter what. It's doing the right thing. That's all there is to it. Using common sense, going about things the right way. That's important. Generally, you don't see things that are too good to be true actually there. Scams on phones, things of that nature. Again, somebody offers you, hey, I've got this special deal on something. One of the toys that we talk about frequently, weapons, and it's such a deal and there's no papers. You have to wonder, do I know this person? What the hell are they talking about? And is this where I want to go? Well, when you start looking in directions like that, you might even want to take it out into the field and make certain one goes off instead of it. And I do several because as we know the gentleman from Wisconsin who lent his semi-auto to a friend and it misfired and instead of going boom, boom it went yeah. And that person was picked up and then because it was his gun. He was picked up and he's two in time. Yeah. You know who I'm talking about. I can figure that's going to have to come back to bite somebody. Yeah. You know, at least if the ATF, you know the ATF, you know, you guys to be a little bit frank here. They used to call those the BATF but then... Hey Don. Yeah, you remember that story that she's talking about that's the one where in the court case the ATF agent said if You can pull the trigger on it both barrels go off a two barrel shotgun is a fully automatic machine gun. Oh Yeah, that's the case. She's I had a gun like that for a while It was just it was just malfunctioning It was a beautiful looking gun sky and they do not fly in a straight You want to you know get him went to shoot the bird and the gun was introduced to my I like that. It was one of those to take even better aim, lead that bird even when it's running. Yeah. You guys have brought this as example. Game season comes to your neck of the woods. Every one of those shots, it's not going to be like going and coming where you do the same. Every shot, the presentation of target and now that builds. See the target shoot. Okay. It will, you know what I mean? Yeah. And it will build your, I'll be quiet down here. You don't have to be quiet. Not in my account. Oh my goodness. I don't know where they can go with that because that is so true and and that's you know to be familiar you've got it you have it's that thing if you're you know if you're gonna be out and about And you want to be for proficient You're right small game hunting is is it's not like shooting deer So deer can run very quickly. They're a much bigger target and you get something small that moves quickly and rabbits, oh my goodness. They generally like to go in a big wide circle to get back in the hole, but they want to take you on the roundabout route. But just think, as you said, there's a key phrase in there I want to work on for a moment, because we try to be most efficient. Did save it, rabbit will run fast. If you can gain that power just like anything else, only he wouldn't, but you know that. come and this is why he's running for cover. You can gain that target your reaction and for your again your shooting ability you guys. It is a basic and we could hammer on you. This is why sometimes we seem to well yeah we talked about this the other day and we didn't use all the same over rehashing thoughts about the basics and again you know you get the basics in you and then you can work with us you can work because why advanced techniques are the shooting. I pulled the trigger on and so I loaded it with one that ammunition prices where they have gone and the knowledge that there is not the ability in this country to make enough ammunition to replace what you have. You better get there real quick because if it hits the fan or when it hits the fan you're going to see that dry up even more. If you can't make it you're not going to have it. If you don't have it and you don't know how to make it, you will not have it. Understand that. It's going to cost you dearly. So what you have has got to last and you have to make every shot count. And that goes not only for ammunition and your rifles, but everything you own. From clothing to the shoes on your feet. You better learn real quick how to take care of yourself. Make sure that you have the extra things necessary for clothing, shoe repair, clothing repair, and it's going to be down to the old depression days of, you know, use it till you wear it out. Patch it. Patch it again until it's falling apart and then, you know, as rags. Well, that leads me over to something else that we haven't talked about in a little, at least a month on the hour. And you guys, maybe even two or three months, we haven't talked about that. AWL. Yes. Anybody who works with that. Yeah? Tents, leather. Tents, care, you know, you're acting like that. And all would be just valuable to someone who wanted to do that as a Marlin Spike to a Sailor. I'm going to tell you about a Marlin. It would be nylon webbing. It could be adding leather to the clothes. to the nylon web and if you find a field like that, I don't know why the heck he would, don't leave it there. No, it's an invaluable tool. If you've got a seam that's going on a canvas tent, you are not going to sew through it any other way. It is necessary and that's another thing is getting good heavy thread. If you're using an awl you're going to need that. You're going to need a good heavy carpet thread. reinforced and waxed to do the job necessary. That's, you know, just simple. That's something you want to make sure you have in your pack, folks. You guys repair tools. Let's cut and dry on this. You know, a lot of grown men out there might be a time when you have to be the other side of that hill or the other side of the... Maggie, you're not there. Now you're lacking a skill that you could carry with you, but you don't want to learn sew. You guys, I don't sew stuff. On here, he ties with grommet maker. Oh my, yes. Very basic, simple grommet tool. The most basic one you can get. Now, the hand punch, I've got one for doing eyelets for shoes. And then I have a regular grommet tool that will do inch and a half, two inch grommets. You know what that allows you to do, guys, is your tent piece from years and years of years or three and put a new Nancy's tool that looks almost brand. Well that's what the all's for. Yep. Yep. And a little bit of you know waterproofing material done to go over the seam so you don't have when it rains you don't have that that water coming in right at the where you've sewn is patched because that will be another problem. Well that makes me think of another thing Nancy. Mr. Otto used to talk about a good way to store it's pretty really really safe you want to heat a can of beans you know you can do that with a candle. And there are a whole lot of things you can do with a candle. Like you can take that wax and mix it with a little... And then you spread it on your tent that used to have the sun shining through it. And now the water won't leak through. Keep the flies out and the mosquitoes away and keep yourself dry. So again, wax. The old military canvas tent, you can smell. It's been soaked thoroughly in one of the petroleum products. I couldn't tell you for sure which one. I almost swear, you know, diesel. Yeah, they'll never tell you it would cause cancer. They don't, too. Yeah, but it makes it where it penetrates the fabric. It makes it waterproof and helps the wind resistance wonderfully. You get one of the older, better US canvas tents and you can smell it. It's right there. But in the winter time, if you've got to heat that thing from the inside and it's trying to make it snug and warm, that's the kind of tent you want. You sure don't want a nylon tent. No. It doesn't hold the wind out very well at all. Might be lighter, easier to carry, but when push comes to shove, when it gets really, really cold, that's the kind of tent you want to be in. Well, you want to know a secret about tents. You guys just see the better one. You know, and I think they've been doing it for a while. In the heat of the day and then in the blowing at night. And they don't want to carry things in the camel quickly. Oh, what I mean. Right. But one of the things they... Yeah. And then they, when they wake up, they're... or even freezing from turning into ice on. It might sound, you know, well, if you think about it, you can do it. Well, think about it. That's what your dew cover does. It's creating another cover over top of your tent. If you make sure that that dew cover is not sitting on the tent. Yep. It gives another air gap. You're right. Yeah. So, you know, again, you know, it's easy to, it would be easier to learn. I know I've carried that through the whole of the hour, you guys. But again, we can learn. We learn from all kinds of things. That we do. And a lot of people scratch one, but you have to. And I'll even frame it up with that was most of America, a sixth grade education at the time of evolution and even up to the time of World War. Benjamin Franklin said, most men graduate about that sixth grade education because again, enough so you could deal fairly die when they're 18. That's a Benjamin Franklin quote, most men and we bury and they're 54. It's a great explanation of a lot of... Right. Well, and you've got to understand during that timeframe too, Ben Franklin started to work when he was eight years old. Eight folks. Yep. Okay. George Washington took over the care of his mother's household. 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