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We're on the Hallmark Network, eastern seaboard, top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming, two include both the pit and the third. And then working our way across the plains at a great sprint, we leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and the Chinese attack snapping, biting, butting carp, you know how they are. and landing in the old west east of the Mississippi that's right in the Smoky slash the Blue Ridge where the restaurant crews, Cramitines, Hokieteams, and the Maville Grammar Consortium are doing their part to get the job done to ensure that we have a replacement for the internet. There is a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday, a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday, a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. Don, it's turned out to be a beautiful day. I've been working my hind end off. As a matter of fact, I just found out that the walnuts have been doing a fantastic job this year, so we're going to do two things with those. Number one, I'm going to shell them and I'm going to be doing some camouflage with them this year. So we're going to do experiments, something I haven't done in a long time, and show everybody on tape how to make your own camo and what it is that works in your area. Anyway, what is the day to day, sir, and what's it like up in your neck of the woods? Well, Mark, on this fourth day of October, year of our Lord 2000 to Andy 11 it's a beautiful day to get out and get the light you need the warm weather to do in the you know and this isn't just Michigan you guys this goes from minutes this goes from Washington you know way over there the upper left-hand state all the way over to Maine and most of the way down past the Mason Dixon line you need to be getting ready for winter time you know that but again we got a little more time because it's only the four I'm starting to see some of the maple turn around here, Mark. And they just one day they're green and then they kind of look a little bad. You wake up the next day and they just look like they're on fire, flaming red in the bright. And yellows. It looks like a fire. It does look like a fire, doesn't it? Oh yeah. And of course they shimmer too with the sunlight. I just had to take some pictures. We have a little park bench out front. You know, we have our pastel of cats. If you hit the ground and you're the enemy, all I have to do is just leave you staked out there. And the next day, if I come back, you'll be picked to the bone and the bones will probably be gone. I just had to take a picture because we got the color change coming right now. We had a lot of stuff, leaves are falling. But there's this little park bench. It's kitty sized. It's like a tiny park bench for doing plants and stuff. Well, it's not got any plants on it. But the cast decided because of where the sun was at this moment, the sunlight was perfect, then leaves are coming down, that they had to sit and watch the world go by. So I've got some really cute little pictures here with the You know the passel of black and white Holstein sitting on the bench watching everything and of course really pretty much you know you know ignoring me which was cool that's the best part about taking pictures like that. So you know the background the colors guys this is the time to take advantage of it nature produces all kinds of fun stuff that you can enjoy without spending a penny. Just slow down take the time and enjoy it. That's all you gotta do. Oh, and then rake it up later. Yeah, this is true. Now, we don't waste that also. I'm gonna point something out today, as communications Tuesday. We don't waste any of that either, though. All the leaves that we rake up, for instance, this year, Nancy's been doing the lasagna, what's called a lasagna gardening down. And this is where you take layers of material. You take plastic, you can lay grass clippings, and you can lay, for instance, leaves. Put a layer of cardboard down, throw more leaves down, throw more leaves down, and then we'll cover that with cardboard for the season. When the snow hits, it packs everything down. And it's really interesting. We did potatoes this year, and it was without mounting them, it was very simple to recover them because of the layering system. You'll see this happen when you lay plastic down and you get like raspberry bushes that come into an area that are very invasive, you know, invasive, they come in on their own and they'll migrate. And what's interesting is they'll actually lay their network on top of the plastic, you know, underneath the soil and dirt and leaves that have built up. And basically, they're easy to pick up though when the time comes. You know, move the stuff that's on top of the plastic. Well, that's how it is with this lasagna gardening. So when all the leaves come down, not a leaf that's in the yard is gonna be burned. It's going out to the garden and it's gonna lay on the garden for the winter along with the goat manure and the llama manure from down the road. We got a llama friend that has had llamas for years. A little trick there, you know, goat manure, other manure, you gotta let it cure. Which is not a problem because we have a couple of grazers and their job is to keep part of the acreage clear. That's all they're here for. They're going to die of old age and they're pygmy goats. So you could grab one with each arm and run like hell if you want to rust them. They have short legs and little fatty lumpkins. With this you know the system set up the way it is easily the grazers you know can do their part and You then I go down the road and with the you know I can let this that stuff cure But the llama manure and for anybody's got llamas nearby Llamas are housekeepers if they have a field if they go into you put them out of two acre field They don't just defecate anywhere they pick an area and that's where they go And what's interesting is they'll only go there so long until it piles up so deep and then they pick another spot next to it. So what's neat guys is you don't have to go find the, you know, the llama manure around the field or anything. You just go to one spot, bring up the truck, fill up the five gallon pails or the fill up the dump truck, take it over. And the thing about llama manure is it can be used immediately even on an existing garden. It will not burn the garden. Cool. Now that's really critical because a lot of you guys Anybody who's a llama keeper usually has more llama waste than he wants around so almost always you can go in and get it for free. If not, maybe he'll charge you a bit big deal. You're talking stuff is ultra processed, it breaks right down into the soil, and for gardening it creates monster vegetables. It's the only way to describe it. Okay, so just something to think about there. The reason I also bring in a lot of guys who have llamas, they sell the wool. They're that's really all they're interested in they don't do you know other farming they're not really usually into a lot of other stuff many cases are like into nubo wool and stuff like that llama wool and You can usually get the manure and they're very happy to see you haul it away so just remember guys now that may change as the economy changes, but Used to be llamas were cheap down. They were as cheap cheaper than goats you can buy llamas of same prices goats all across country then what they did is a blocked importation Overnight, a breeding female went up to $20,000 in animal and $60,000 in animal. And it was like, whoa! So everybody who had large herds was in pretty good shape. And our friend was breeding them for 4-H. And what he would do is they had an entire program where they would bring 4-H kids in. And through the year, they would teach them to actually work with the llamas as if they were pack animals, which is what they're intended for. and they're a superior pack animal to the horse. They will leap obstacles that a horse can't go over. They will carry more weight than a horse will. Another thing most people don't realize, and they're a grazer, plus they're kind of like a cross-tune, a camel and a giraffe when it comes to their neck. They can get the stuff that the horses usually can't graze on. So it's kind of a neat thing and they'll eat a lot of stuff, but they do spit like a camel. So if you really get a PO, I guess they can return the favor, you know? Just something to think about. Again, solutions, because llamas have come down a little in price. They're not as extravagant as they were, but they're still, they never could come down to where they were in the past. Consider this, that llamas, goats, whatever, what they could be used for since they are a scavenger grazer, they will go through everything. They will clean out a fence row rather than you taking a weed whacker and wah and beating your brains out and having to thrash stuff. Oh no, no, no, no, no. Just take a tether of the goats next to the fence and walk away. Just make sure they got lots of water. Come back in a day or two and move them. Why? Because wherever they've been and as far as they can reach there won't be anything green left. Okay, so that's a hell of a lot better than you going out there and topping your way with a machete and beating yourself to death with a hatchet and let the goats do the chewing for you. Whatever's left can be snipped off or done with a saw. And they nibble to the smaller branches. So the neat thing about that is you'll have a nice clean runway, you'll have an access way to go to see things. If you've got a fence row especially, this is always a problem because the fence is where usually the water drips down to a certain spot, promotes certain growth, and then you end up with little branches, little trees, big trees, and the rest is history. So this prevents that from happening, and the goats are again, typically this time of year, especially when you get goats for free just about. The biggest problems, you got more of the Muslim slash the Arab population, and they've been grabbing them up to butcher them, more so than anything, even though many of them are show goats. So that's something to think about. You got to beat the Arabs there as much as anything. And we got a bigger Arab population down, as you know, in the Dearborn, it's the biggest in the United States. So just something to think about. Another thing real quick is, with the weather change the way it is, I'm going to remind everybody again, well, two things really are critical. Number one, I've got a radio unit right here. Click, click. I don't think I can hear it. Hear that? Okay. Now it doesn't make any noise because it's got the audio off. But this is a multi-channel FM and I've got another that's a multi-channel VHF that's always running. As weather gets colder, the batteries, they go faster. So if you're going to be thinking about operating constantly like we do with our radios and our equipment, really suggest that you get more rechargeables and I've mentioned this many times but it's an ultimately critical issue right now especially for flashlights too. If you've had stuff that's been sitting in your emergency kits for the last six months to a year, you should take it all out, you should test it and change it out. Come up with a schedule. You don't have to throw those batteries away. I'd go to the dollar store and get myself some more of those dollar yard lights, solar lights. What I do, Don, is I take the used batteries and I've got a couple of units that I just take that almost dead battery, stuff it in that LED solar unit. and it's good for one, three, sometimes four months. Wow because and this is something people realize everybody wears well, it's a regular alkali battery That's true, but the solar battery chargers are not a high-speed charger. They're a trickle charge Yeah, and so they don't burn they don't fry or boil the battery the way that a regular battery charger would in that respect It's purely a matter of sometimes you get a good battery and it's only gonna last a few days But it was already on its last legs in other cases like I've got two units here right now I always keep track of them because it's like I wonder how long these at last One of them in a good light position has run for three months. Now, I already used that battery for my little LED flashlight in the one and I used the other batteries for my mag light, my mini mag. When they get tired, tired, they come out and they go into these lights or they're on standby to go into these lights. One goes out, I just chuck that one in the scrap metal, put the other one in, the batteries eventually go to the scrap metal yard and everybody's happy. I get money for the dead batteries, the scrap yard does what they do with them. See how that works? Along with the steel and everything else, guys. So the battery's one thing and the other thing is cold weather gear. You know, we've had a couple of days that look like we were gonna go down and enjoy some regular winter weather for a day or two. And then it went... They were talking about snow in the Upper Peninsula, yep. Yeah, and then all of a sudden we got this beautiful weather we've got to take. So this is the deceptive, what I've always said, this is the deceptive time. This is the dangerous time. If we got into a war right now, Are you kidded out to fight into the winter? Are you squared away? You see, because I've run into this all the time. I have to carry, and when I was a trainer, I used all my popcorn pockets, even though the military said, well you're not supposed to have anything in those popcorn pockets. It's like, well then why did you, I always had the same question. What did you put them there for? You know how stupid that is? Well, they don't look good when you have stuff, and they say, what in the hell does that have to do with a fatigued pair of pants that are combat pants? We have popcorn pockets that are expandable, so we can put stuff in them and they expand. We didn't make them as dress slacks. And I seriously, look at these people, it's like, where in the hell did you come up with this idea? Well, it goes back to the old Green Weenie Army, Don, when, you know, we... Well, let me give you an example here. Well, I know I'm off on another tangent. Does anybody know why you have black combat boots? Anybody? Don, do you know why we have black combat boots? I think so. Because they're pretty! Yup. Not because they're- They shine up real nice. Do you know that years ago guys, we had suede combat boots, or brown boots. It was called the Brown Boot Army. Now why is that? Because brown blends in. What have I told you before over and over again? Black is not a really good tactical color. Brown, on the other hand, is a naturally occurring shade and once you do have light reflection and shading off it and if you have suede combat boots, guess what? They don't reflect light and yes, they do look like they were polished with a Hershey bar. Okay? Now, here's the thing. Back in the 50s, some elite units down Decided and that includes the Air Force by the way to they got this bright idea I'm gonna be elite now. We're gonna be special and so what they did is they shaved their boots Yes, they did they shaved them. That's what you do when you want to clean up your your raw hide leather What's white is it's split skin? Yeah, so what you do is you shave it and then you really start loading up the polish You got to start with a rough coat then you do a finish coat, okay? Now the thing about this is by the time you're done you end up with well of course you pick whatever color now some units polished course or forgive me polished finish brown But then somebody thought, nah, black looks really cool and I'll get a red ass cot and I'll have black boots and we'll have a really shiny brass, you know, clothes-based buckle and I'll even get myself some special headgear. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da And the point guys is that special units and the air, for instance, the air police did the same thing. They all started scraping the boots and they all then started polishing them black. Well, the Army and the Navy and the Air Force and the Marines hate people that are special. They really do. If you've become a special unit, special unit jealousy becomes the norm. And so what happened is, is like if you can't beat them, everybody's gonna be special. So all of a sudden they started issuing everybody black, black boots. Not because they were better, but purely because they didn't want anyone to be special. Mark, you know it and I know it too. Even in the black boots you guys, you know if you polish the toe of the boot and you polish the heel of the boot and you run the brush across that till it shines, And then you walk around and you sit in a group of men. One of them will look at you and say, were you a policeman? Army police? Because they'd polish their boots like that. To distinguish themselves in the black boot category. Yeah, exactly. Cap and toe. And what gets me about this is that everybody goes, well it's black because it has to be black. In fact, let me point something out, and this is really neat because I have a couple pairs. When the Paz got armor, I'm going to give you... I always throw up history here, guys, because there's stuff that we... We started getting common sense again in the army for a little bit, and then it got killed. Just quickly. It's kind of like that song that's in here we got in our... I've saved in our favorites on our YouTube page. It's called The Pentagon, only it's like the song to the tune of The Candyman. The candy man, you know the Pentagon maybe I get ed to play this for us at the bottom of the hour We'll see or at least sometime during the hour here the reason I bring that up is because Back in the 70s when the past get equipment and the TA 90 gear the new brand new Alice gear All came out. We also were changing out the uniform to a degree. We got the brand new five color, you know woodland and We started to get new boots and we went from the standard type 70 boot which I actually didn't mind those. The biggest thing is you had to watch it because the way they were the sole was cast. It was not a constructed sole. It was a neoprene vibrant sole, but it was all one piece. Well, they went to a new boot which actually had a softer leather side to it. and this was supposed to allow for flexibility but they also double walled it so it gave still some armor protection because you know your mother wears combat boots was supposed to be a joke because combat boots were tough as nails guys they were heavy and tough as nails for a reason if you're in a battlefield situation last thing you need is a chunk of steel going through the sidewall your boots and into your ankle okay So they were built intentionally with uppers that were horse hide and lowers that were cow hide and the sole was cow hide heavy coarse cow hide grade 3 and Horse hide horse hide soles horse hide was the key because it's much tougher than cow Well back in the 70s they finally came up with this new boot. Guess what color it was? They went to Brown Don They were going to go back to brown on everything because it made sense. In other words, if I'm going to put a guy in a camouflage uniform, why am I then going to turn around and put colors on him that don't blend in with the environment? Spiffy boots, man. In fact, they were also, here's a little note that never got to the troops, Don, they were going to do like they did with the original AR-7s. Remember the original AR-7s? They had a camouflage plastic. Remember they had like just a mixed chip. And it turned out... Snap off. Yeah, it looked like a green, like a, like a, like it was milky green, brown and yellow. It had like, you know, camouflage pattern to it. Then they decided, oh, that's too expensive, we just gotta go to black. Well, at the end of Vietnam, the T-890 gear, the Alice gear, the Brown Boot Army was coming back in, and they were going to camouflage the AR-15 by going to colored, theater-colored stocks. and they would have been striated, they would not have been solid color. Now the program was pushed, it was actually subcontracted, but it never got to the troops that we know of. Maybe over in the Pacific, but it never got to the troops, maybe the Marines got some hand-me-downs. A lot of times this stuff shows up overseas, but doesn't get to the troops on the continent in Konis. Anyway, um... The whole system was changing. I have a pair of those brown boots. I have a pair stuck away because I know they're collector's items. They made them and then they had the troops turn them back in and of course, well why? Well, because we just want to turn them back in. Turns out they were a better quality boot than the one that they bought to replace it that was black. So I paid for these I'm keeping them. You're darn right that's what most of them did too. They said yeah, I saw that memo. Uh-huh. Now there's a reason for that. Back in the day when all this was going on and there's another little here again I'm gonna shift a little category. While all that was going on they said give your boots back. It's like and where are my new boots? Well just don't worry about that. Bring your boots down to Quartermaster and turn them in. And where are my boots that I'm going to wear while those boots are gone? Because they said bring them all down. And the thinking human would go, hey Fred! Barefoot army! You gotta bring all of them down if you're gonna get new ones. Well my boots are all new, you just gave them to me last month. I actually had this happen. I mean seriously, it was like, you're gonna give us all your boots. I said, no not. First of all, my boots aren't here with me and the pair I'm wearing is the only pair of shoes I've got. I'm not giving these to you. You think I'm an idiot? Do you have a pair of boots to replace what you want me to give you? Because everybody was lined up down there at the Quartermaster. I said, what are you doing down here? Everybody's like, what? They want your boots. And it's like, what? They want your boots. So everybody disappeared. And they're all pissed. Oh, they were peeling at me then. Well, then the next order came in from, and this is at the end of the Carter administration, these groups were a bunch of dweebs from the word go. They wanted us to all turn our field jackets in. Now back in the post Vietnam period our field jackets and all of our regular clothing items guys were direct issue Disposable in other words you didn't give back you just you know even trade them back in if you didn't want to What they did is they just automatically considered him a perishable item Well all of a sudden they want to put them on the books so they could take them away from us So they told everybody on January like 20th That they wanted everybody to come down to quartermaster and hand their coats in Now everybody is this is some zero weather Okay, and the first thing everybody did down as they said I asked him I said did you bring another coat and they're like what? Did you hear what they just said over the PA? Everybody's got to come down here right now. It's like I'm not going down there. You know what I didn't hear anything What about you? I said, well, but they said we gotta... Are you going to walk home today or drive home today? Are you going to be out of the vehicle at all? Look at the weather out there. And it was 20 inches of snow and the sleet sideways and the whole nine yards. I said, who in their right mind was stupid enough to issue this order? Who is the P-brain that started out when you... Oh, but it came down as a directive from, you know, the Pentagon. It's like, yeah, okay, so we ignore it. And everybody stopped presenting, I said, well can we do that? I said, I can. I think everybody else better too if you don't want to freeze to death today. And by the way, where's the field jacket to replace what I'm giving them? What are they going to give me to replace this? And oh, they didn't. They weren't. So it was like, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Yeah, legs in the snow bank, frozen to death. Well, one year later they got coats. Those of us who didn't go down, they didn't come and look for us. They didn't bother us. The rest of the headquarters company, we didn't have any problem at all. My G2 shop, everybody had a coat. In fact, one of the only other persons in the impact, well actually, the one person, he was Sergeant Major Benson was his name. And he looked at me and he goes, you know, I didn't think about that. And I said, what do you mean you didn't think about that? I said, you're absolutely right. And in a white hell, I'm going to have my men go down there and turn their coats in. Are these people crazy? I said, well, wait a minute, sir. Think about it. I said, Sergeant, you and I both know that there ain't nobody thinking down there. They're following instructions, you know. It's just this is the stuff where this is why in the militia, this is what when you get away from all that, it's like, wow, we can have anything we want. You want to carry a howitzer? You can carry a howitzer. You want to, you know, if you want the best Arctic gear that the government spent money on and then got rid of, you can do that. And you know what? We never got it. That's what really sickens me about this whole thing. I'm buying surplus that went back in the day, oh we can't give that to you because we don't have it. And then I'm looking at all this stuff, there's billions of these things coming out of the woodwork that they had in warehouses, but if they gave them to you, they'd wear out. And then they'd have to give you another one. So instead they didn't give them to anybody, they never got to the troops, and now there's something with surplus for pennies. pennies on the cover. Had we gotten it, we would have been with the troops, could find out how it works, make it work best for them, give it a rating, and then we would of course we would have bought more, but we just cycled it through and the American manufacturers would have been in business, everybody would have been happy, and as it is, this stuff either is going to foreign troops who want to kill us, or it's going overseas to companies that turn around and sell it back to us. Yet, but it doesn't come to us not directly except for a few cases like the the the CJL enterprise comm that's got the Alice packs down two for $50 postage paid with frames There's an example right there. It can't beat that Anyway, I'll mention it again a minute But the big thing here is just you know We don't have to wait for that the same is true with our supply and our operational systems guys your minute men Because of that cyclically go through your gear. I've got to go through. I just disassembled my large combat pack. And I already went through it only three months ago, but you know what I thought about it when I mentioned it on the air, it's like, did I change out the batteries on stuff? Because I have batteries stuck in cell points where they're designed because I know what my usage is. And as I go down through equipment, I layer it so that the batteries are where they should be between meal packs and other gear and equipment that's going to be worn and used and then go into the smelly pile while I'm in the field. And going to get washed, hopefully, if I'm in the field, because I also make sure we do that if I can. If you've got a chance, you do. If not, guess what? Stink. So it's gonna work, but pay attention to what's downwind. That's right. You better get clean for a reason because people are well They're the word polecat comes to mind and when you got 120 polecats in one place and ain't hard to figure it out Smellovision will get you there Okay, yeah So again, what's most important is I've broken everything down, I've got everything re-inventoried, I'm adding some of the stuff that we just finished drying and vacuum packing here into blister packs, some of the new mushrooms and stuff like that, and that's going into my kit. Because I'm cycling some of the stuff in and I'm going to do some field experiments, I'll be performing some experimentation this year when the time comes, later on through the winter, because we're going to be out in training exercises and things of that nature. So cycle the stuff through. Another thing is your meal rations. Now unless you... Oh go ahead Don, I'm sorry. One thing about this is guys with regard to the field rations is it'd be a good idea to use them. You know, you've had them for two, three, five years in the kit. I know they're good for 20 to 30 at least. I don't have a problem with that. But if you've been moving with them and flexing with them it wouldn't hurt to cycle others out of your inventory into your pack. Use up the other ones progressively when you go out on a training operation or if you guys go out for the weekend Use up the gear, you know get used to using it see how things work and how your system works. That's really critical Also, this gives you a chance test your communications equipment. This is communications Tuesday and again, that's where batteries spare parts kits Micro microphones earbuds I'm gonna point something out that is really gonna be a problem and before it happens I don't want anybody to say it somebody didn't tell you Ultra light usually means ultra flimsy. Now it's not always the case, but I would point out it's kind of like, you know, have you ever watched any of Battlestar Galactica? the new series. It's a fighting ship and one of the things you know we all think we want this ultra light ultra thin But you know what I'll give an example Don how many headsets have you gone through while doing this program over the years? Oh? Just since you've been out mark for at least and that's just I'm leaning on the phone right now because well the cat chewed the wires Yeah, I know that happens cuz I don't like the shark got over oh, so And the point is that it's not that, you know, again, there's a reason for stuff being beefed up. We talk about it being ruggedized. That's a term that is a real term, by the way, in the military. You know, we ruggedize it. We make it so that we armor it. We make it so that it actually lasts longer. and you know it did it smaller is not always better if you do go smaller what have i said before it's like when i talk about going to the dollar store picking up a bunch of these little fm micro fm receivers you know about trouble yeah you buy ten or twenty of them why because you can hand out ten of them and you better have ten more backup but somebody's gonna step on one someone's gonna pull on the ear bud too hard you're gonna be fixing up to i mean you will fix him for a bit until you can't fix many more But the point is that you're gonna break them. We know that they're only dollar store Chinese items. I understand what they are. That's why I'm saying get extras and just remember you're gonna have to replace them. Same with the earbuds, same with cheap mics. But have backups all the time. When there are a dollar apiece you can afford to carry three. You can afford to have one in use and two more on the backpack. Armor it up, you know, armor it so they don't get crushed or beat on or whatever. You can put them in a simple tin can and just put a cap on them or something or, you know, wax paper and a rubber band. Whatever you got to do if you're poor you figure out watch these containers that are at these recycled recycled bins man There's all kinds of neat stuff the Chinese pack stuff in and people throw it away all the time Well for your backpack a lot of this stuff. It's intentionally already rounded doesn't have square sides It's watertight because it's got to come across the ocean and they don't know how long it's going to be in storage So there's a lot of neat containers out there that you can use for that Alice pack or backpack that are lightweight, because remember they want to save weight in shipping, guys. So you've got lightweight, it's rounded, it's armored, takes up minimal space, and it stacks well amongst itself. In other words, more of the same kind, they don't breed, they just fit well in the same box. You don't get more little ones when you open the box. You just got a bunch of the same size and they all, they don't slop around. Well, that's nice when you're putting them in those Alice pack pockets and you don't have to worry about them poking through the nylon or busting something up, but they offer enough protection so your equipment isn't destroyed. And that's something to think about too. So just, you know, things to consider here. Batteries, again, cold weather gear. And I'm going to harp on it because Maine military mainmilitary.com mainmilitary.com mainmilitary.com they have our LDR special section and I didn't look today forgive me you can slap me in the head I might find something new when I go there Don and I wouldn't even know about it yet. Wow okay well we do have five pack of the Otis Coyote Sniper cleaning kits. $149 for five of those. So that's $30 a kit. I don't know, those things go for a lot more than that. You might want to check that out. It's something new that's on our page. Is that Otis kit? That's like a plating, reverse plating. It's an electric kit, isn't it? I think if that one isn't, Otis does build a reverse electrolysis kit. Well this one looks like a very extensive cleaning kit. I've never seen this one before but I've heard of it but I haven't seen it disassembled like this. So I'm going to have to talk to the guys about this tomorrow but if you look on our page it's a five pack set. Otis Coyote Sniper Cleaning Kit. Looks like it's in Coyote Brown. but for everybody out there, there's a cleaning kit that is a top-of-the-line unit and $30 apiece if you buy it off the LTR section. It's more expensive in other places. I know that. I'm going to have to do a check with them to see what model that is. Otherwise, the usual items are there, guys, but if you go to, and this is the big thing, go to clearance and closeouts. When you get to clearance and closeouts, they have cheap mittens. and it is $300 for a hundred pair. Well you don't need a hundred pair, maybe there's a hundred of you out there. A hundred pair will only go one pair per person. But the same is true, the same price for a 10 pack, 10 for $30. So that's $3 a pair for Swedish combat mittens. That's with the liners, these are brand new, they're virgin. They're beautiful. The leather is so high quality, some people are going, isn't that plastic? That's a problem with grade A leather. That's the only reason I've done a lot of leather work. I like grade 2 leather because it looks like it's got to be animal hide and it's worn in. You know, it's got scars. If it's virgin leather, it's really nice leather, grade A. It almost looks like it's not leather. It doesn't look like it's real to me. It's like, man... Very uniform, yeah. You don't get any belly in it. Yeah, it just doesn't have any... well, it doesn't have the same character. I guess that's what we describe. It still is beautiful leather. They've got grade A leather on these. and main is very good about making sure you get what you want so you just gotta give them a call and find out what they got in the clearance section they do have the cleaning kits there the German one still and a quantity price the more you buy the cheaper they get They also have the foil emergency blankets, survival blankets. If you buy a dozen, it's $25. So a little over, about $2 a piece. And those, I stuff into everything. I put two of those in every medical kit, no matter what. In every kit. That way, when you open it up, you'll have more than you need. But, if you've got to wrap a casualty up, remember, they're not sticking around, they're gone. That's why you need more because I'm not going to take some of my wool blanket with the casualty I'm going to wrap him up in the turkey baster you know foil the mylar and send him down the road that way and That they're lightweight They're easy to use and I can use his equipment with that gear to get him You know keep the heat end to keep him from going into hypothermia or going into shock So there's a lot of good stuff there anyway, too We're at the bottom of the hour a little past nine You have other cool stuff also. Maine military is 877-608-0179. That's 877-608-0179. But you have night vision and there even has some cool cases you can put the night vision in through Maine military, but first you need the night vision device. So how can they get hold of you down? Well, you can reach me at 231796. Again, 231796-8458. Or we can talk about green screen. We can talk about thermos. We could talk about goggles or gun sights, you guys. We could jump all across the alphabet there and say that, oh, first, second, or third generation, even fourth generation, or multiple layers, or you guys, if you want to talk to me about late vision, you can reach me at 231-796-8458. And the answer system is a little goofy right now, but if you were to call right now, you'd go into the secondary system. And if you call later, and I'm not here to answer, it'll probably go into that too. try to return every message you guys. You can reach me at 231-796-58. I would say that for a second generation gun sight that will hold up to your 308 recoil in 2 power. Now 2 power is pretty good at night. You're not going to be shooting a mile away generally. But you could still recognize a vehicle at a mile away with 2 power depending on the background. A lot of that is exhibited in the night vision video. If you're looking for a gun sight that will hold up to your FN, your AR-10, your M1, you can offer that. The manufacturer says $15.95, might as well call it $1600. And if you do the math, I'll offer that for $13 and probably maybe $15 or $20 delivery. The manufacturer is going to get $15 or $20 delivery also, so you know, I got to get it to you. But do the math on that, and that's a chunk of change you guys. And again, they won't sell it for that. price and don't call them up and ask you because you might get me in trouble. But you can reach me at 231-796. The reason I say that is I'm not supposed to advertise me a call but that keeps you calling me just to find out a price. Okay and that's a general courtesy I can do for you but I'm really not supposed to. 8% off the manufacturers that's you guys for that. For this in second generation now and I like to really believe that it was because it was down twisting their arm If you're looking for a gun site that will hold up on top of your barre, you'll price on that. But if you look around you guys, there's a lot of people selling night vision that will warrant you for a year. An example of the confidence in the, you know, when they say it will hold up on your 308, on your 50. For mentioned devices, you can reach me at 231. I want one of them, you guys, $30. And in tinfoil, in Dexter. That is correct. 48130. And you know, you can see a lot of things about night vision in Hollywood movies and on your evening news sometimes and sometimes that's a little closer but you guys, the night vision video will give you over four hours of information on night vision. Sitting there talking, telling you about this and that and the other thing and pay attention to this and don't overlook on and on. Roughly is in the field with second and third generation. Oh again, if you're great great examples of the capabilities of night vision in multiple light levels and in many examples over the same terrain. So you get the idea, well this is a full moon, this is no moon, this is a full moon on the horizon, it's a full moon straight up and almost everything in between. Better than half of a even in the summertime and then you'll see them in the depth. Give you an example of what night vision will and will not do. For the night vision video if you don't have a piece of If you're curious if you've got a first generation and want to know what second and third will do because you want to know what you're up against, well there's a good example tonight, Vision Video. Again, $30 in tin foil or a money order or silver or maybe a small. To Nancy Cornke, K-O-D. Do we have a caller waiting? I wouldn't want to keep a caller. I would just run into another subject without saying, hi, hello, how are you? Now that we've kind of established that we don't... You know Mark, I don't want to make a joke out of it and I don't want to rehash guys. as a gun congregation just by doing this one in the chamber the slide the battery magazine is in the well and it's a community you know mark on the on the news the they're saying uh... number of congressmen or senators or some of the state police from michigan we don't know who this originally came from but we'd like to that well if you've been again i i'm like i don't want to rehash this there's a different attack on guns you guys if you've if you've got a medical marijuana card in Michigan now, Mark? It's been suggested that how did this come about you might wonder? Well, some dummy went into, I'm told, some dummy went into a sort of by a gun, Mark, and he got out his Michigan marijuana card and medical marijuana card and he tried to use it for ID. And well, state the things and well, this is how these two different arenas have crossed paths But we've talked about this because, you know, Bama Lamadingang said any state that voted this in, he would not interfere. Although there are federal laws against, you know, having guns and drugs, and he said he would not interfere. Now the states are saying that, well, or Michigan here is saying, Mark, if, I don't know if this came from a senator or a congressman or again, because I've got a number of calls on this. People saying you need to bring this to the front, not because it's pot, because it's the vote. If you look at this, and we've talked about this in a number of different angles, and you want to see how this is a slippery slope, if you've got a medical marijuana card issued by the state, I'm going to try to make it illegal for you. It's already been suggested that, well, we can't do it right now, but if you go in to buy a gun at a gun store, and the gun store operator thinks that you might be under the influence, or you might have a medical marijuana card because he can refuse selling you a gun mark, that goes over to lists and whatnot, and we've talked about that. But they haven't set this into law yet, but they're moving it as hard as they can. And this goes back over to the vote. This also goes back over, I'll approach that and look to the edge of that slippery slope again because, well, there are plenty of people who go to their pharmacy and bring home a narcotic, be it an S-3 narcotic or pain pills of whatever way, shape, or form, and consume them and drive their cars and whatnot and have guns. But if you look at this, you can't have medical marijuana, you can't have a gun, you can't either choose one or the other. Now, when you get to that brink mark, it's like, well, you can't have Ritalin. Because let's take this down the natural, you can't have Ritalin. You can't have any of the other psychotropic, mind-altering, or controlling drugs. Anything that they would give your child because, well, he has attention deficit. He's hyperactive or whatever he or even she know and then they're trying to do that to as many little girls as they can and let's go a little bit farther well how about all those people who just take regular pain pills and Let's go a litter and if you take an aspirin in Michigan Well, you shouldn't be able to be allowed to own a gun and that's how it was basically presented to me down This is you need to do this on the air and this is how you and you know I'm open to suggestion But you know what I did start this with a they didn't I because this goes over to the vote and this goes over to gun rights and you know how many people have been in Michigan arrested because there are a number of people and sometimes they use them as example mark why a guy was arrested in Traverse City or in Dexter Michigan and it's the 19th time he's been arrested for drunken driving. Do you ever question his gun ownership? You see where I'm going with that? Now that's kind of it goes back over to the vote doesn't it and I again I thought I'd bring that up because People have been kicking spurs in me on that one for a couple of days now, Mark. And I thought I'd save it to a Wednesday, but you know, it's a Communications Tuesday, and that's a mixed message there, isn't it? But you know what? It was voted in. And that's how it came to me. Don hammered this about the vote. Because this was voted in, and voted in, and well, once it was voted in, I mentioned it three times, didn't I? They're doing everything they can to change it. And we mentioned it the first time I brought this up on the air, and the bigger portion of that is Well, there's more than 100,000 people going potting in Michigan alone now. And that certainly has to take a chunk out of a working capital NSA, the FBI, the BATF. Well, they have guns to sell, don't they Mark? well the thing about this is one way or another remember the first rules to try and find every way that they can michigan state police number one their anti-gun and they're so far up the arse in the new world order you could be pulled out with a crowbar for life dependent upon it they couldn't save their life yeah that's right their agenda is anti-gun anyway that they can find to attack a person's firearms ownership they've been told to do because that's what little ring knocking knocking apron wearing suck-ups will do in the blue lodge that's what they're up to The other part about this is a political agenda with regard to sucking up to the regime in Washington. There are two faces a day as long. Number one, you're dealing with Soviet socialists. While they claim one thing, in reality, they're always doing another. They're not selling guns to Mexico. Oh no, they took 70,000 guns to Mexico. They're anti-gun, but you see, they're anti-you having a gun and they want all the weapons so they can play police state. The same is true with every other aspect of what's going on here. Now the people are pretty well decided. We know that this has been coming for a long time. The cigarette companies, remember we used to talk about this for years. The cigarette companies... They've got all the names patented. Panama, Red, Columbia, yeah. They've got all the names copyrighted, yeah. They already were ready for when it happened. The pharmaceutical companies are growing pot now, Mark. Getting ready to bring it to market. That's what I'm told. Oh no, I don't doubt it. In fact, the only thing that may happen here is they're going to say, well, you know, because all those people, only the big pharma corporation should be allowed to do it because they're the only one who would do it well. Everybody else is going to do it. But they're the ones that bemoaned it years and years ago. And plus, let's add something else, guys. Why do you think they call it weed? What are you doing? Oh, it'll grow in your backyard unattended. And many people have been taken to jail for that simple fact. It'll grow in your backyard unattended. And nobody has a clue that it's even, I mean, 99% of the people out there don't, well, we'll say 99, but a big chunk of the people out there don't even know what the hell they're looking at. No matter what the hell the plant is in the backyard. Seriously, come on. In your back 40, we got so many arborites and cityites out here in the country now, like I've said before, we got wild pigs because nobody walks past their back manicured lawn. Let alone goes in the back 40 to go, wow, what's that? Well, that's a berry. I wonder if that's edible or not. Oh my god, they're all poisonous. Remember what I've said? Every berry or plant I've ever picked, I've always had somebody who does, no clue, roll down their window and go, you know those are poisonous. And that's why I usually grab a handful and go, yup, that's why I'm eating them. I need a handful. I'm looking for a handful of death. Yeah, oh boy, I'm dead 10 times over. I just stuffed my baseball hair. You know, that's how stupid that is. But you know, the thing is, is that what we're looking at, as much as anything, is politics of betrayal and deception. That's all this is. And also, pettiness. Let's be honest about this. You have some petty skunk minds out there and since they got law they lost in one direction They're trying to get even in another That's the kind of petty stinking Eastern European I mean Eastern Police State Eastern pre-European police state BS from the Cold War days when the Communists were there now we have the Communists over here It's the same petty BS all over again. Yep backstabbing sleazes. The thing is, it's like, well, didn't everybody decide on this? Yeah, but they're already sack hacking and slashing at things. So, what's the surprise? A politician, they'll tell you one thing and then two things and then three things and then do another. a politician. They're real good about putting BS in about you, but they don't do Jack squat about correcting anything they've made a mistake on and then that way like I've always said police states are not accurate they count on inaccuracy. Everybody goes, this is a mistake! I cleared this up! Yeah, you may have to go down to the office to determine whether or not this has been fixed. And we must incarcerate you, and people have to book you, and so they book you and fingerprint you, and all of a sudden they BS again. Oh, and then they all, well, it's compiled, because, you know, you were arrested six times? Yeah, every time I've been in a different location, you jackasses always have this stuff on the computer that's been corrected, what, five arrests ago, four arrests ago? In other words, every time you want to fix it. And I'm going to tell you something, because I had this for years, and I know from personal experience, and you know it wasn't an accident, guys. And I caught them at their own BS, and in fact, I played one side against the other. I had this ticket we got years ago on the edge of Washtenaw County when the seatbelt law was passed. And we took care of it, we paid it, we had to go to another county seat, blah blah blah, because we were on our way back from one of our friends, you know, it was a family get-together, and you know, etc., etc. It was the end of Sunday. Some little geek wanted to, you know, write it up, and by the way, everybody was cool on the safety belts, they just decided, well, my interpretation, so it's like, okay, fine. So we took care of it. Now, every so often, If anybody ran my name, lo and behold, there would be this flag for, well, you've got this outstanding warrant for this ticket you didn't pay. And the first time, and the first time was like, well, you see, Mark's not stupid though, you see, because I kind of screwed him. I said, really? And so I reached, I said, hold on, I'm going to reach right over here to this little portfolio. Mark's very bad about this because I actually carry all of these documents with me. I said Hold on a second. You got the number you got a number there. Don't you could this be for case number four five six four four nine three three nine alpha alpha echo Blah blah blah blah blah slash, you know up your arse and he looked down and second he goes, well what do you mean? I said, well I've got the ruling right here and this is like one of the three master copies, trust me I have other copies, so if this one disappears I have the others in a lot of the locations, the originals. Is this what you're talking about? Well, uh, yeah, I bet you it is, isn't it? So in other words, your system kind of screwed up. You know, you put them on the defensive, because they're like, well, well, very well, they can fall. That could be fine. Well, I'll tell you what, why don't you just take this one back with you, go talk on radio, and you don't bother me for a minute. You go figure out what the truth is. And they come back, well, uh, and they give the driver's license and the insurance says everything's okay there, and give that back. Well, it was over on the other side of the state, and this happened again. and more than once. So I finally went into the court and I said, no, let's go to court on this. What? Let's go to court. I'm going to go to the court. Well, you don't need to. I said, no, we're going to the court. I said, I want to talk to the prosecutor. I said, now, let me ask you something. Since we're in court now, you have to, you see, the reason I did it is for this reason, Don. Once they're in court, you have to be provided with evidence and information. Right. and he wouldn't answer. I said, oh, so in other words, there's an NCIC pop-up with a little blister here with that tick. And I told him, I said, bottom line, that tick was taken care of three, four years ago. It's been repeated over and over again, because you're even, he said, well, you've been arrested, you know, in other words, stopped. You've been ticketed arrested like five times for this because you're a scuffle. He never does it. Really, I'll tell you what, back when I originally was issued, about two days after it was issued, is when it was taken care of. Now you know what I'm really getting tired of and the words lawsuit comes to mind is where people are stupid enough and gullible enough to believe alive another part of another department that has intentionally fabricated this information, but I'll tell you what we're going to do. You give me all the case information on that and I'm going to go right back to the county and I did, went back to the county where this all came, where this all happened and been taken care of and I went in there and this is also the same place where we got them on the not signing their tickets by the way, Don, you know, the same year. And you know, if a police department doesn't sign the ticket, guys, it's not valid, you don't pay it. Everybody understand that? Every state law is the same way. There are variations in where it's written, but if the comp doesn't sign that and that affidavit, that he brought a charge against you that ticket is no one void and no you don't negotiate on it it's not the way the laws written here's what it says we've gone into court beat him on this over and over again now my myself I felt other people do it I didn't have to a bit but you know what the thing is I got there and she I said okay here's my driver's license here's all the information up punch this number up and they did and it's like she was there's nothing on your you don't have anything pending or anything like that so thank you now look for a bubble She goes, and she looks at me and then she looks down and she goes, oh, I'm sure there's nothing there. Supervisor comes over, punches it in, lo and behold, guess what? You hear both of them go like that and they're like.