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Well I'll tell you what it has been a very busy week here it is Tuesday, it's Communications Tuesday by the way it is as we know the 10th of September, it is the fifth year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K-2013 Old Earth calendar or Mayan Crazy Town, Crazy Town calendar where the nutcase in the outhouse on Pennsylvania Avenue wants to drag everybody into a war that that little punk will never go to. Yeah, where was good old Barry Satoro back in the day? Well, he all know where he was. He was busy. Doing the lines wearing the cabana hat back there in the stacks. Y'all homie, what it be? Saw the pictures. You can imagine what he was trying to impress everybody with. Big nose, yeah, lots of coke. Whoa! Like Bill Clinton, whose brother said he had a nose like a vacuum cleaner. Yeah, what does that tell you? Well, no difference. It seems to be what the Democrat and Republican rats are both good for pushing up there, the cokeheads. So, not a surprise, shouldn't he be? You know, again, yawn, I guess. But as it is, for everybody else out there, we all know what's going on. How do you spell government employee nowadays? L-I-A-R. Yeah, that's that simple. So, communications Tuesday, couple things here. No matter what it is, and I'm serious, no matter what it is that you're going to be doing in the Patriot effort or in a particular area of interest, knowing where you are is typically going to be very critical. And especially figuring out where your friends and foes are is the other half of the battle. Now even if you don't necessarily have a map A compass can at least point you in the right direction or continue to give you consistent readings and information on what is at all points of the compass. What direction you're moving in can be consistent because the compass can at least help you to set a bearing to decide on a particular path that makes common sense based upon putting you away, as we've said, many times away from the epicenter of an event, if nothing else. In other words, running around in a circle and coming right back to almost where you began and being back in the fallout ring of a nuclear device the Israelis set off in the United States. When the Israelis set off a nuclear device, certainly, I mean, if you have good, good weather, you are going to be able to see the plume and the thermal rise for quite some time. That's not talked about a whole lot, but the thermal rise off of the core of the event actually keeps pulling debris up for quite some time guys. So if you are trying to get away from, the idea is if you keep seeing that chimney in the distance, it would look in a way kind of like if you have a power plant near you, like down south there are a lot of these coal plants that are in place. And you can see the coal plant for miles in all directions. Well it's become a man-made topographic feature guys. In fact with those smoke signals, over there, the coal tribe is over there, the Unka-Wunka coal tribe burners are over there. Well, you know that if you're east, west, north, or south of that, you can orient yourself based upon where that object is by comparison to the sun, or using that man-made object along with others, you can shoot an azimuth and stay pretty accurate based upon again your foundational premise that that's the direction you want to go in. Let's say that you have the, well for instance like the Sun, you may want to keep that coal plant to the left. You want to keep it to your, you know, to the west. You want to keep it to the east. You are still on another azimuth separate from, you're not shooting an azimuth to the coal plant, or to the radio tower, or to the mountain, or to the whatever it is that you've decided to fix your compass setting on. But the other man-made or physical objects allow you to navigate and to maintain that course with reasonable confidence based upon kind of like stellar navigation with star systems using SARS, you're going to fix on a look on a direction and reconfirm that based upon looking at the objective and then confirming the orientation of the other man-made objects to the objective. In other words, staying in the slot. five by five now mmm forgive me there uh... one of the other things that is an Issue with regard to compasses is cost as I mentioned at the close of the last hour. Well, that's not necessarily true anymore And I would point out that guys if you go to www.dealextreme, you know communist China direct Let's go to communist China direct now. There's a whole bunch other communist China directs out there But deal extreme. Let's go to deal extreme calm Then let's go down to Sports and Outdoor Equipment. Now look at all the categories that show up. Camping and Hiking. Now as a subcategory of sports and outdoors, camping and hiking, scroll down to, why look at that right there it says, compasses. No way! Yeah, tap compasses. Now the reason I bring this up is for is is multi-fold number one every one of you should have some form of compass in your kit if all you could do is scavenge something locally out of a car dash or a boat that may be a wreck you know in an emergency you'd have something and there's some really nice ones which are represented in like the marine plastic compasses they have here that's not what I'm talking about you're looking at a lin-satic compass or at least some form of conventional traditional design of compass that you have in your pocket on your person But here's an idea, if you buy a bunch of these little pocket cheapies, well you know what, they're literally a throwaway price, so for what they cost, you can afford to have a whole lot of them. Now why would I do this? Well there's two reasons, again there's subcategories, branches, number one personal use, number two, maybe I have a 5-10 program, or maybe I'm planning on having a whole lot of people that I'll be working with, I'm part of logistics, you know, command of some kind. To ensure that all of my exfiltration personnel have something I can pick up. Let's see What do they have here a 10 pack of mini compasses that are about half an inch in width? For a dollar 60 and by the way the more you buy the cheaper they get I can buy Five or I can buy ten of the cube compasses now I'm going to point out a couple different ones here, but here's another example military style Brunton classic when static compass is this real fancy well for $4.80 I'll guarantee it isn't do they work yes Do they have all the basic features on them? Yes? Is this better than a sharp stick or as Don said the other hour, if you had to you could make a compass with a cork and a needle or a piece of stick and a needle or whatever else you got, something that floats in a needle and a little bit of water. But you don't have to do that for four, three, or five, or seven, or ten, or fifteen dollars and you can spend whatever money you desire. you can find a compass solution that's going to fit your wallet. However, I highly recommend these multi-packs of little micro compasses or tiny compasses. Why? You can store a whole bunch of them in one place and have them on standby. And that is especially critical when we're looking at a 5-10 program. No, you can't afford to spend $5 or $10 or $20 on each man. But $0.30, $0.12, $0.15, $1.50, that you can afford. And in fact, you won't even be spending that much. I will point out and I will remind you, when you buy from DealXtreme, the price that you see is what it costs. So for instance, and I'll give you the best example of one that I would recommend because it's a multi multi-purpose tool all-weather Safety whistle now. What does this do? Well, it's real simple. It's a whistle. It's got a cheapy compass on one side It's got a thermometer on the other so D green comes with a lanyard. Oh not a fancy one, but it comes with a lanyard This gives you a noisemaker This gives you a compass. Oh, and by the way, it would be kind of a good idea to keep track of the temperature just in case you're not paying attention. For whatever reason, it's just an added feature. Take advantage of it. Now, they're $1.50 a piece if you buy one, but if you buy ten at a time, if you buy five at a time, they're $1.15. If you buy five at a time, they're $1.04 a piece. You see how that works? The more you buy, the cheaper they get. So, This wouldn't be a bad item to put in the 5-10 program or to put in your emergency issue kits. It would be a good thing to have on everybody's combat kit because whistles can be used especially in a battlefield situation. Rather than shouting, you can use whistles. You can use something that will pierce the background. Plus, it's a unique sound. Not many people are thinking about that. No, I don't want to give my position away. I don't want to be blowing your tweeting on a whistle at night when I'm trying to be stealthy. But if I want to create noise, for instance, evacuation, medical support, all kinds of other things, signaling where you're already under fire but you're in motion to change or to switch to a second step. the use of the whistle to actually create benchmarks in the timeline of activity when you switch out to the next step. Wait for my signal. Well that can be flares, that can be tracers, or that can be whistles and it can be a combination. paying attention to the environment and being multi-dimensional in terms of how you use your brain, it wouldn't be difficult at all for this to be a useful tool. Now the SKU on these, their OD Green Whistle, they're listed as the all-weather safety whistle. They are SKU 2857, SKU 2857. $1.50 apiece, but if you buy five plus, they're $1.15. If you buy 10 plus, they're $1.04. That's SKU 2857. It's an idea. The guys are just several pages of compasses. Take your pick as far as the lens addicts go. Any of them will do. Some of them are actually copies of what we call artillery and gun layers compasses. More on that in a minute. Mini compasses times 8 SKU 208049. That's SKU 208049. It's a $1.40 for 8 of them, but if you buy, or forgive me, $1.90, if you buy 5, it's $1.32. If you buy 10, it's $1.22 for 8. So you do the math. You're buying eight of them for a little more than ten cents a piece, about fifteen by the time we're done, a little more, a little less. And you're looking at that being the flat rate price. In other words, it's free shipping to wherever it's going, which is typically the case with all of these deal extreme items. What you pay is what you pay. It's kind of like AmmoMan.com. So, other options, there's micro compasses that are in packs of 10, packs of 8, packs of 20. The more you buy, you know, times volume, the cheaper they are, which is a good idea in and of itself. Just something to think about there. In fact, if you go to that first page for the compasses, they have super mini compass 20 pack for $2.60. you buy more bundles of those, they're cheaper still. Now the Lens Addicts you can pay 3, 4, 10, 16, 20 dollars your choice. But one of them they do have here is a professional pocket geology compass. This type of compass is also typically the one that was issued to mortar crew commanders and gun layers or artillery gun layers. It is a much heavier, more robust design and it has a particular mission it's incorporated into again orienting your guns so that when a fire mission is called you've got a pretty good idea of where you're pointing that big bore piece of equipment so you can put the rounds on target or at least close enough to them that somebody can walk them in the rest of the way. So if you're thinking about mortars, if you're thinking about being a gun crewman of any kind or a gun operator of any kind, compasses are priceless. Let me give you a little point. Take a look at the island hopping of World War II. You might notice that because of the gun layers and of course preparation, a lot of the Japanese positions when you see that they're occupying the bottom like Peleliu and Okinawa, etc. If you're in one of the gun pits, you'll notice that the full points of the compass were actually marked inside the gun pit for the revolving gun. Oh, yeah, see. Now, how would I be able to tell you what to do? Well, guess what? I'd be shooting an azimuth with another compass and using a rangefinder in many cases, which was very popular, and I would be setting and sending the instruction for direction of fire, etc. giving them a grid coordinate. They would estimate the grid coordinate based upon their fixed position, looking at the compass setting. They would have an azimuth to shoot with all of their guns and boom, boom, boom. They fire a one round or a practice volley. The rounds impact, the individual who is calling in the strike adjusts by however many yards. And then it's fire for effect, fire mission one, fire for effect. And a round of five rounds, six rounds, or eight rounds as designated by the artillery battalion officer and his SOP, you will get a broadside or a volley of rounds that will impact into the target area. Now, if you do not, after observing the hits, if you don't believe those rounds satisfied the mission, you will call again. And another relay will be fired, another broadside, another circuit of rounds will be fired. You will then look and observe, and if they still need to be saturated more effectively with however many mortar rounds, however many artillery rounds, again, repeat, again. and that means that they'll fire again. Okay, order complete target destroyed. Target destroyed. Fire mission over. So there's a number of different ways and techniques that are used depending upon the SOP. You still need the tools in the toolbox and remember you're going to come across mortars. You're going to be using artillery. You're going to be using mobile artillery. A lot of it's counting on GPS. GPS after mushrooms and marsh gas are being grown, GPS isn't going to be around to be used, guys. That's one of those things that's going to go offline real quick. Use it if you can. Remember also shunting and misdirecting GPS is something you need to be prepared for. So if you don't know how to do it mechanically and manually first, you're already defunct. You're already crippled. What we need is to see people come up from the other direction. Daytime or nighttime patrolling, daytime or nighttime exfiltration. Remember a compass is priceless but every person in the team should have a compass. And with these little cheapies, there's lens attics, there's orienteering compasses that are all in plastic, any number of options. I don't care which one you pick but I gave you a solution so you can find one that will fit your budget. and be able to get one to everybody else and to be able to set up a 510 program and put compasses in your 510 program. I'm going to buy a clutch of these little mini compasses, a whole bunch of them. Why? Because I want to put them into my reserves. People are going to show up and not have them. Some people are going to show up and want to trade for them. And all of a sudden, a 10 cent item becomes a much more valuable tool when most people didn't think about the idea of putting those on the shelf. So, just an idea there again and for orienteering. Orienteering by the way is a competition sport. It started out where it was a competition sport in Europe and it bled over through US military application to try and promote map reading in the United States. And again, a combination of distance, again, actual cross-country mapping to a target, and time. shortest possible time. Like any other competition, there are competitions to the formula. The important thing is that you have to tag punch all of your target sites that have been set out on the map as part of the competition. The big thing there is again, as we've pointed out, we actually have two courses that are set up here locally. Now you know what's funny? I put those flags up back in the late 80s and the next patch I put up in the early 90s and they're still hanging right where I put them. All bet very faded for the red and white banners that make up the triangle. You'll use a couple of use a couple of coat hangers. Make two triangles. Nancy sewed up the nylon, high nylon cloth, very thick actually was cheap, cheap back. in the day still is the Chinese nylon stuff is all over the place that's the ultimate scrap plastic cloth by the way Then hang it by nylon cord or by a coat hanger so that it's hanging from a fixture off a tree or off a pole or a framework that's built in location that's put up on location and you go from point to point to point from a saddle. The idea is also to mix the terrain. You have to be able to read your topographic map to get to your objectives. It's a test. And it's a great way to compete, actually have some fun. We also use those orientation targets for escape and evasion projects where we take whole families out, 80 to 100 and some people at a time, and practice as a unit moving women, children, old ladies, old men, and everybody in between, from the very youngest to the very oldest. And the idea is to move as you all argue you're going to, but typically have never practiced. We've actually done it. And again, the idea is we already know what our we know or at least as the instructor, we know the orientation points. The idea is to give somebody else the map, young or old, and give them the responsibility to actually path-find a group cross-country to that objective. The satisfaction is when they can actually move cross country as point, as the pathfinder, as the compass setter, and see that marker and know that they successfully performed the task, creating high confidence and demonstrating that the abilities are within their access, within their realm. They can do it. That's one of the other reasons for getting out there and training guys to actually set a reasonable goal and to build up and develop skills and confidence in oneself. Okay? And of course to demonstrate to the other team members, everybody gets a chance to benefit from this and everybody takes a turn. So, orienteering compasses, again that's www.dealextreme.com, then go to the camping and hiking and in that category as a subcategory there are compasses. Lots and lots and lots and lots, too numerous to mention and you pick and choose whichever one you think can be the coolest for the mission. To be quite honest, either the copy of the American camper model, it's only about like $4.30, Right at the top there, there's also another one for $3.80 that has all the other orienteering and topographic map functions that are necessary for any type of orienteering work you're going to do, or spending a little more money but not too much more. There are a couple of the military style Bruntin classic lenseitic compasses available. There's several of the solid body, there's several of the stamped bodies. take your pick I personally prefer the cast ones, they are a little denser, thicker, they're not very heavy metal but they work and they've been serviceable enough and especially if you need classroom tutorial compasses this is a way to have a whole bunch of compasses that you can put into a classroom kit so that you can sit everybody down and you have a compass to work with for each person remember they don't have to be perfect, they're training aids and while everybody that's in the classroom should know how to use a compass, maybe not all of them have one yet. One of the other advantages of having a bunch of these on hand is when the students leave, if all else fails, offer to sell them the compass that you have. That way you know they've got one in their combat kit. It goes with them. What they were taught to use, they take with them to an issue. So just a solution. We got the bottom of the hour break. little past not by much but for everybody out there little ear candy for our friends here it is the second hour the Intel report its communications Tuesday compasses you need to make sure that you cover this there are all kinds of other sources there are American companies you pick and choose back this is the Intel report live it is weapons Wednesday no it's communications Tuesday weapons Wednesday's tomorrow but Every day we are handling arms and again supporting our force of arms when the time comes by being well rounded. Well Mark the guns! Yes we know the guns are important. Firearms of course like chemical defense technology and signal communications are specialized niches that require a lot of initial thought process to plug in what you need depending upon your environment and where you are. What is your purpose in the big scheme of things? What are you trying to accomplish? Now I bring this up for a reason because again with communications Tuesday mentioned compasses. Compasses if you're going to for instance lay a laser to use a laser for optical transmission, collection by line of sight a signal. We've talked about, for instance, here's another one, YAGI Antennas. How do you line up a YAGI antenna, guys? There's two things that really come in handy. A topographic map is priceless, and I'm not talking about on the computer. A compass so that you can lay the line, slash, shoot the azimuth. Needless to say, knowing where you are first is the most important. Number two, where is the receiver antenna located? What? Well, the other guy's going to use a Yagi if at all possible too for best operational security. Yagi antennas at both ends mean that you have only anywhere from a 2 to a 7 percent variant in the energy signal of your antenna. You're going to shoot most of the energy of that transmission down that Yagi. Now what happens, it works kind of like a recoilless rifle. or it kind of works like a bazooka, although a little more consistent energy-wise. When you shoot an azimuth and you fire on, say, a particular point on the compass, the opposite direction is also going to have part of that Yagi signal, of comparable energy. So remember that you have two points on the compass where there's possibility of contact. Along that line, is where the majority of the energy of your signal is going to go. Well, in phase 1, using your compass and, you know, again, laying your antenna, You're able to identify the azimuth, you know, 117 degrees, 220 degrees, 340 degrees. Okay, wherever it is on the compass, you need to lay that antenna when you bring it around. Remember, in reverse order, the guy at the other end needs to know where you are and needs both a compass and a map too. Rather than fiddle farting around and guessing about say 20% to 80% of your signal setup, how about we already know what direction, you know, almost specifically to the foot where you're setting up from both ends. Now you see the reason I say that is because I can set up a YAGI at my end and I can target a set of beams and that signal will be picked up. Now if he knows generally where to aim it, in other words, well, kind of to the west. What's going to happen is using his meter on the radio and paying attention to what he can audibly hear through his headset, an operator can swing the beams around and progressively lock them on a target. However, if you're properly organized, remember prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance, by having the lay compass and the map available, you can negate about 80 to 90 percent of that initial exposure where you are not properly aligned for signal targeting. Now there's a reason for that. Remember somebody is hunting you. And if you have to do this during a battlefield situation or during a high time of conflict, any and all transmissions are possibly going to be intercepted. For that reason, minimize the amount of time to target the particular alternate antenna slash transceiver that's coming up and online. Once it's fixed, they can be left in place because we're not going to constantly be broadcasting. This again is where throwaway Yagi, homemade Yagi antennas are very valuable. That's why you don't throw out those old television antennas because those tines, those horizontal tines and those angled tines that come off the main body of that old TV antenna. Break out the jigsaw, cut the tines to their proper length, screw them to a main bar, main bridge, and you can build a Yagi antenna in about 40 minutes to an hour. It takes longer to cut the pieces up than it does to put them together. It takes more time to measure everything out to make sure your lengths are approximately where they need to be. It does not have to be hyper precise, but the closer you are to inconsistency, the better, the more efficient the Yagi is going to be. Anybody who's used a set of beams knows what a YAGI antenna is. You've just been calling them a beam. You know, a set of beams. Well, it's because they're like a ray gun. It beams the signal towards a target. Yes, that's a really big but YAGI antenna because of the nature of AM broadcasting. You might also know that you have what are called quarter wave, half wave, and full wave antennas. Do a little research on that. That'll help you to understand how you can build smaller, yaggy antennas, provided you know what your specifications and dimensions are going to be for the signal. What are you working in? VHF, UHF, FM? Are you working in AM? Where up and down the scale? The spectrum of the radio broadcasting potential? Where are you? There are whole math formulas and again go to antenna theory for the database. It's not that hard, not that complicated at all, but it does require focusing for a little bit. So we want to make sure we point you in that direction. We got a caller. Who do we have there? Yeah, George from Texas. I know the seasons are getting ready to change, Mark, and don't we have to do any improvising with certain communications to adapt to the weather because some communications don't do well in cold or humid or dry weather? Well that'll be up and down. For instance, one of the things we have just as with shortwave, shortwave broadcasting during the day diminishes dramatically because of the combination of the bounce of the atmosphere, different layers of the atmosphere that will create resistance or deflection. The same yes is true with regard to increased clearer weather. Remember our bounce may be reduced the potential to get the signal out farther or to, you know, again to shorten the signal is something that can happen. The other consideration here is that remember on top of everything else is exposing oneself to targeting. A lot of the work you want to do if you're going to establish your retreat areas you need to do now while you've got overhead cover and you've got more leaf and concealment. Later on you're going to lose a lot of that ground cover. because the leaves fall, things get brown, then they turn bare. Now, the other thing about this, it creates a lot of RF interference and fog that has been beneficial with regard to sensor activity from above. It, of course, in reverse order with all of that ground cover thinned out, RF distortion and background is going to diminish dramatically because and the leaves aren't there anymore. This is one of the reasons that some people have put their antennas, of course everybody talks about lightning strikes, we all know about that, but a lot of people have mounted their surreptitious micro FM stations in oak trees and maple trees that are really large. The trick is to try not to offer any more of a lightning rod than possible and PVC pipe is your friend. Something we've had to point out for years. A lot of guys have used camouflaged. In fact, the Schedule 80 PVC, though it costs a little more if you have a source for seconds, it's no more expensive than regular PVC pipe. But Schedule 80 is already gray. With a few more spritz of vertical coloring, it looks just like the tree trunks. In fact, you match up the colors accordingly with the shades that you can buy off the shelf out of the can right now. and plastic paints. Remember we've talked about those wonderful lawn ornament colors that are out there. Take a look at the shades of gray and feel green and even browns and russets that you can find out of the can. Camouflage can act accordingly. The biggest thing, George, with most of it is going to be weatherization because of dampness. The most common mistakes made are not looping your antenna line so that there's a drip loop. Moisture kills everything in electronics. And the other thing is doing more to weatherize your external equipment. If it's going to be staying outside, you need to look at weatherizing either yourself or if there are weatherization kits available for the piece of equipment, buy them. Now, I'll give you an example. Right now there's a big push for selling after they didn't make them this way. How many people have noticed that there are all these weatherization boots for all your flat screen cell phones now? I've noticed this going through the industry and electronics. Every brand that's just a standard flat screen like micro, computer, texture, etc., etc., they're now making boots to go over to weatherize and to keep your equipment from running into the moisture problem. It's a plus from One Direction if it seals up completely. It's a negative in that, remember, it works both ways. It might keep water out, but once water gets in it also keeps it there. So, that's where maintenance and also one thing that's especially critical with electronics, PM. preventive maintenance. All preventive maintenance is critical. On a PM schedule, if you're going to be an RO, you have to get used to the same discipline of maintenance that an operator does with an M60, a mortar crewman, an M16 rifleman. Every man has PM, preventive maintenance, that must be done to ensure that the weapon is maintained to a certain level. Signal communications, night vision technology, ground sensors, If you're going to be deploying them and then picking them up and deploying them and carrying them around if you don't properly situation or situate them or nestle them slash nest them in their carriers they're gonna get beat down they're gonna get busted up parts are gonna break off stuff's gonna loosen up and what happens It doesn't leak constantly, but it leaks certain times. A little more heat opens up and dries the seal. It's already distorted because something got bounced or busted. And then the moisture gets in and it starts working like the Chinese drip torture. We see this with fixed satellite dishes that are in northern environments. As soon as you get any moisture, it takes about anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half initially. The seals compromise, the water drips, it goes down another angle of something, finally hits part of a circuit board and it creates a fizz, creates a short, creates a distortion. Progressively as that plastic now is compromised, moisture, slash the oxidation process takes over. The plastic is eroded through, you know, gradually. It again takes time. But How long is it out there in the environment? Well, it's out there indefinitely. Now the companies typically know this and you know if they just went out with a caulk of a bathtub caulk, they knew they had a certain satellite dish doing this and I've seen this before. They got to be as lazy as the day is long because all you'd have to do is take a cheap $99 or $1.20 you know, a tube of bathtub caulk that you got on sale at Lowe's or Meyers or wherever you go that's a cheapie Chinese store. and you just caulk the seal over and that would eliminate that problem and it would not come back ever, you know, at least not for another year or two years or whatever. and that's with constant moisture exposure. It would just be on the upper leading edge more important than anything because usually it's the upper leading edge is an exposed surface, you know, seals and joints where the failure takes place. It's in the sun, it's getting hit by the wind, moisture is constant and or if the seal is old enough then it can be any number of compromise points but typically it starts up above not down below and fills up, doesn't work that way. It's usually a high point so if you just inspect Take a steel wool to the surface area, clean up that old aluminum that's there, look at it, yeah, it's got a cracked seal. If all you did was inject bathtub caulk along there and make a nice flat bead with your finger, add the seal up and eliminate 99% of the problem. But yeah, we do need to look at the season because there's a lot of things that antenna rays need to be inspected while you got good weather. You don't want to have to go up on that pole when it's 90, you know, when it's 90 mile an hour winds and the snow is, you know, up to your eyeballs. You want to avoid that. Of course, with the piled up snow, at least maybe you got a foot or two less to fall if you make a mistake. Oops. Go ahead. Mark, you know, the thing is, like you said, pay attention to your environment. I have a feeling even down south of Texas we're going to get a very harsh winter because I am noticing, Mark, in late July and all of August the animals were getting ready, were gathering up fruit, gathering up and storing up their food and they usually do it around this time but they were doing it back in late July and August. Go ahead. They know some we don't right well the thing about that is again remember. It's the environment the we're seeing bounty Animals aren't stupid. They're taking advantage of all the mass production that has taken place and This you know the more they can stow away even if something else steals it which is almost always the case It's the law of averages squirrels plant nuts all over the place do they remember every one of them are well in theory and Application is typically another and their little pea brain, their logic is this field is mine and if I keep putting stuff in the ground here, well the more I put in the ground, the sooner I dig it up in the winter, my little nose will get going. Eventually I'll find it. I've just got to keep running through the snow. That's how it works. So they are not stupid. They're taking advantage of bounty, but it's biblical too. We've told everybody when things are good, cram away as much as you can. Put more on the shelf. I'm trying to do that right now. I don't have the food dryer going to the state today. I didn't get a chance to plug the stuff in I wanted to, but I got a whole pile of apples that are going into the food dryer in the next, what, three, four hours. As soon as I get done with the next 8 to 9 o'clock, I'll be carving them up, putting them on the trays, and plugging it in right away. In fact, I'm a little behind on that, so I've got to catch up. Well, the other thing about this that we should remember is the caterpillars pay attention to the other environmental conditions. If we have any cold weather at all and we have the moisture level we've had this year, we are going to be buried up to our eyeballs. It does not have to be sub-zero weather. But we are going to get, if we get any cold and it's translated with the moisture, the humidity level we've had, we are going to get buried. I don't care where the hell you are. Now, the next thing we're going to hear pissing and moaning about is next spring. Where did all this water come from? Oh, the flooding! Oh, it's like shut up! There's nobody else stupid enough on this planet to complain about fresh water coming falling out of the sky. Every place else in the planet is begging for it. If you get it, don't complain. Live with it. Roll with the punch. Because it sure as hell is not as bad as, We're dying! The drought! It's dry! Because trust me, the rest of the world is experiencing that at different points. And there's places where they just always have for as long as you've ever been on this planet. It has nothing to do with global warming or global cooling. It's just natural earth cycles. And people are unfortunately so detached from this that now everything is a crisis. They become totally kosher-fied. The angst. Oh my God, it's hot. Oh my God, it's cold. Oh my God, it's never good for anything. Oh, the disaster, the next disaster. Oi, oi. And that's really what it is, this neurotic angst. instead step back and take a look at it. We're getting some weather right now I haven't seen since the 70s. We've got muggy warm weather and we're heading toward the middle of September. You know when this happened the last time number one we got maximum moisture during the year and lots of heat and I jumped in the water and like every chance I could. But when we got to winter well Bear, make sure the shovels were right by the door because we were buried up to our eyeballs up here. I-94 was shut down completely and the National Guard couldn't even move. Everybody in the communities here in the area went out with their snowmobiles and picked the people off the highway and took them either back to the truck stops, there were only a few in this stretch of road here back in the day, or they took them into their own homes and they actually had to take care of them for two or three days because the Guard couldn't get the roads cleared. The counties and the state couldn't get the road cleared and the secondary roads were just as bad if not worse So I'd I can see that coming and everybody doing the oh We've never seen this since the 70s really if you've never seen this well since those 70s and they'll be real quiet about history because the everything is inks Instead how about just be ready for it with the tools you need go ahead color This is me dear playing here and down in South Florida I tell you, it's really unusual. It's raining every day. One of the things that I've been telling people about prepping, especially when it comes to calm, the guys are getting better. They're making sure it's waterproof and double-checking everything. You know, I tell all of them, and I think this is a little secret or not something secret, that even if you do have like a waterproofed cow bag or something that you're carrying, you can buy some of those, you know, fancy bags. It only costs a few pennies. So put, you know, I really recommend waterproofing two or three times, especially if you know you're going to be mentioned. If any kind of moisture gets into your, you're screwed. You know, just some trash bags, you use them in two or three different times over. You know, by the way, down where you are, Lake Okeechobee has had massive runoff. I didn't even mention this on the issue. Thank you for reminding me of this. They've had massive freshwater and it's getting brown into the rivers and lakes, the brown water like it was some kind of disease, you idiots. It's a normal process. It comes off Lake Okeechobee. The lake and the swamps were there long before the human beings were. But now you've got all these move-ins and they're all doing the, oh, the rain and the flood. Oh, why are they letting the water downrange? It's tining the water brown on my quad. And I was listening to this on the television while I was down. and it's like I remember when I was little and going to Florida and it was small. Lake Okeechobee, you get massive amounts of rain coming off the Atlantic. You got the storm fronts out there on the west side of Africa that pushes across the Atlantic and right now you're getting this over and over again, hits the east coast, drives across and then moves up towards the panhandle. And the natural wind patterns of the state, all the areas that traditionally haven't been hit aren't being hit dramatically. In fact, it's fascinating. I was down there in the Inglewood area, and the storm just went right around them over and over again. And historically, that's why people settled in Inglewood. But the storm fronts are the way they are, the way they work. But you have had massive rain to the point where, while they're complaining, they're not opening the water for this, the dikes and the dams and levees. And it's like, well, yeah, they're doing it, and they're doing it the way they're supposed to, and the water that's going downrange is a naturally occurring thing. But these eco-freaks are doing everything they can to distort the facts. Anyway, guys, I'll tell you what, we're at the top, we're going to close together, God bless the Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. Day and night. Thank you guys. We're going to go for now. Ed's taking over with ear candy here for the next hour. And Donald myself for 8 o'clock. Bye-bye. heavy metals and pesticides, carcinogens and chemical fibers all falling from the sky. You have a choice to keep your body clean. Detoxify with micro plant powder from hempusa.org or call 908-691-2608. It's odorless and tasteless and used in any liquid or food. Protect your family now with micro plant powder. cleaning out heavy metals, parasites and toxins. Water it now for daily intake and stock it now for long-term storage. 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