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You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MainMilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need, all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at MainMilitary.com. That's Main, like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that Well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You vie permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit doctors. So their children can be your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God, keep the torture freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch and tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free? Evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report. I'm our kirky One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories East West Southeast and North Well, ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com. We're on AM&FM micro stations, CB base stations, and ultra-net technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're on the homework network on the eastern seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico. Headed Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas. A big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both Pithter the Fifth and our friends in the Seven Sisters Valley. Listening even as we speak on micro FM stations. We got one for each valley and they're the only radio in town. Pretty cool there. So as it stands, of course, Colorado, the recall state waving to the left coast. We turn back to the east, sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi. and land in the Smoky slash the Blue Ridge where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, okay teams, and the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the Golden Spike. Today's date? Well, duh duh duh, we got down with us here. Don, what's the date today, sir? Let's jump off to all this. Today's the 13th day. It's Wednesday the 13th. Yes, it's the 13th day of November year of our Lord 2013, so there's a double redundancy of 13s. If there was a 13th month, you could call it 131313, but It's 11. Yeah, November. It's 11-13, 2013. So with that in mind, hey you guys, I got the magazine in my hand. We're just going to do this a mean way. The magazine fills the magazine well. Hey, the one on top fills the chamber now. And as I touch that mag release and the mag jumps into my hand, that cartridge, you know, some call them bullets, goes down and back in a magazine is topped off again a magazine goes back in a magazine well the magazine well is now full and so is the chamber and I can tell you that it is weapons Wednesday the perimeter is secure and there's plenty more where that came from and that means we can offer equal opportunity coercive force when the time comes it is a beautiful cold clear evening I don't know what's like up your neck that was done but we have we have moonlight like sunlight right now it is bright For everybody out there, you don't need any kind of yard light to move around this evening, not in any way, shape or form. That means there will be frost on the pumpkin tomorrow morning too. Clear night, yep. The wolves, well actually we haven't had the coyotes making as much noise. That's because their back 40 has been kind of invaded because of the bridge on the river Kwai with the Disney Dexter nonsense going on. But it doesn't mean the coyotes aren't out there. They're getting moved around a little bit. We'll see how they work as the weather shifts here because we've had such good weather. Like all the other critters, we haven't had that much out by the roads. It hasn't been that much traveling because they didn't need to for food. I don't think that's true even with regard to the coyotes, with all the excess. proliferation of life this year. Anyway, it is Weapons Wednesday. And I will remind everybody, we were looking at the M77 rifles here. There are four different sources where they actually have a lump of them. The best price does not include a second or third mag. But the average best price, $600 for the rifle, is JGSales.com. They have the M77 with three magazines for $600 and a little less, but it comes down to $600. Let's just throw a few pennies in there and then maybe a dollar. But for the price you get the complete rifle and two additional magazines. So you get the mag that goes to the weapon up the well and two other mags. And any time you get more mags and it's a unique mag, that's a plus. So that makes this a viable rifle for utility work. Definitely it's in the MBR category, .308 7.62x51 NATO. This rifle has a 20 inch barrel. It has a gas control activator and it is of course carrying a thumb hole stock that is a plastic, a polymer stock that is unique and actually very well designed by what I can see. It looks to be very comfortable. It fills out the hand nicely where the pistol grip is. The crossover below doesn't interfere with operation. from the base of the pistol grip over to the stock and there is a Monte Carlo cheek weld elevation platform which makes for again additional comfort and stability so it's a pretty decent package in general. Standard chrome, or standard, forgive me, a standard carbon barrel, not a chrome bore. That's the only thing that is again an odd man out, but definitely a useful rifle. That's what oil is for. Yeah, exactly. You're going to do maintenance on your rifle, just like all the rest of your American weapons. Heaven forbid. No, heaven doesn't. Don't worry about that. Heaven is not forbidding anything. Well, it is, but those things we already know are on the list. Rule number one, no poof-tahs. That's what big piles of rocks are for. That's right. Save ammunition. Ah! Ah! Well, he's still going to move a little more. Ah! As a matter of fact, bludgeoning weapons, something we had talked about. You can improvise enough guys, lead pipe, you know as we've talked about, mallets worked quite nicely, ball peen hammer, a friend of mine used to use it, World War II quite extensively. In fact, I preferred it for most jobs. And again, quiet, goes through metal if need be, and delivers blunt trauma force where it needs to be in a very focused area. The drywall hammer, of course, is another one of those. It has a mallet on one side, has a tomahawk blade on the other, good pitch to it, an angle to the blade to begin with. So it does a great job of cleaving in the natural thrust or attack when you use it. It actually, with the pitch of the blade is such that it's designed to enhance cleaving and separating of material, be that drywall or muscle tissue. Take your pick. In other areas, you know World War I, they used to make what was called a trench mace. And yeah, it got pretty medieval in the trenches. Trench maces typically could be oak handles, they could be pieces of iron. They affixed a heavier weight to the end and then they wrapped them in barbed wire. And that was a very common trench mace that was used through the war by both sides. very popular because of its again two-handed potential and the fact that one way or another it did hurt damage slash pain. He was put the bad guy down and keep him down so he didn't get up to do any more damage to you. So bludgeoning weapons come in many shapes and forms. Not very sophisticated and as old as bonk bonk bonk them with a rock you crazy grump. Bonk bonk. Ok, bonk bonk you nasty grump. Bonk bonk. So, one of the options we discussed, stone mallets are still quite useful and can be easily built. And another one of those close in mayhem weapons, the native population here, but also the native population in virtually every part of the planet, has used stone mallets at one time or another, guys. Readily available rock, sinew or vine for rope. and some form of extended stick of whatever preferably more resilient, harder wood so that one way or another it holds together and continues to repeat, repeat, repeat in its process. It's very reusable. It's kind of like a throwing rock with, you know, again, or the rock down you were talking about a minute ago, but with a little more leverage so it has more centrifugal force available to deliver the energy over a wider arc. And that of course creates for more damage and destruction. Now, another thing there with regard to blades, we talked about Bud-K. Not the only company out there. There's a couple of other companies that deal in knives, I would point out. But Bud-K's been around for a while, and they do have some pretty good sales on stuff. You want to go through and look to see if there's something that's useful. The one thing that I did notice, Dom, that seems to be missing is what used to be the classic. It's more. It's been more expensive more recently. But the standard from India broad-head Bowie blade. Always used to be used for years and years. They were five dollars apiece. They were crude and rude, but traditional Bowie. More in line with what actually the men of the era were carrying. They weren't for wittling, they were big fighting knives. Yeah, and now you can slap somebody sideways with a bowie. If you didn't want to kill somebody, you slap them. Just lay it upside their head. Yeah, it would take them down and it wouldn't kill them, but it would ring their gourd, as they say. The big thing is that these Blaze guys for years were $5. And a lot of people use them as kit knives. They would buy that blade down because of the thickness of the blade and because of the amount of material available. A lot of people made custom knives out of them. What I'm noticing is that this workhorse appears to have disappeared from the market, which I think is rather interesting. And it's a staple that everybody kind of figured just would always be there. Right next to it were the inexpensive Kukri knives. Once again, I've noticed that those have disappeared. The inexpensive ones, the ones made in India that are a copy. They were carbon steel. They just weren't a real fancy steel. But they would hold up. In fact, I have two of those. I've got one of the bowies and I've got two of the Kukris in storage. For the longest time, we carried them, used them, beat on them. They don't look pretty, but they didn't look pretty when I bought them. Let's qualify that, you guys, because a carbon steel basically what one might call a steel. Not to be redundant with the use of the word, but a plain steel blade is going to get an edge real fast when you put it on a stone. But it won't hold an edge a long time. You'll have to keep that edge down rather quickly. Whittling or chopping and hacking. A stainless steel blade, man, you're going to spend all day on the stone to put an edge on that. But once you get an edge on it, it's going to stay there. It's not going to shed molecules to dullness, literally, like a carbon blade does. Just a little bit of molecular knowledge there. Well, it's interesting that I've been looking for, let's see, let's see if we get a traditional Bowie here. And once again, all of the Bowie blades that I see, of course, are not cheap. There's a wide range, but that slab bowie just isn't there the way it's been. And it's crude. I mean, they were always crude. That's the one thing I'll say. They were a traditionally crude blade, but they were a rude, crude slash heavy combat blade. A lot of guys didn't even bother modifying them. They just left them the way they were. Now, it doesn't mean there aren't a whole bunch of bowie blades available. And in fact, the stainless you mentioned, a lot of different stainless blades. For $20, you can get a nice full stainless elongated bowie with a radical step rather than the traditional curved step to the top, the back strap of the blade. But none of them actually are the blade I'm looking for. I'm going to actually have to do... This has got my curiosity up only because, again guys, these are the basics where, as I've recommended, they aren't really fancy, they don't have any name typically attached to them. but they are more than serviceable enough. In fact, they're pretty utility. One of the one captain who was with SF for Special Forces, he explained that during their deployment in Vietnam, everybody, every man, carried a kukri. And a combination of things. The Vietnamese were scared to death of the kukri. You know, they're very superstitious, or that's superstitious. Take your pick. Interestingly enough, they would steer clear of a kukri knife or anybody wielding it. So we can only assume that they may have had some experience with the gherkis, some time or another in the past, and had some understanding of the mysticism of the blade. Another one that they also held respect for was the bowie knife, much in the same way. Okay, do we have a power to have? Yeah, that's where I was going to go. We might have a caller, we might have someone with an open mind. If we have a caller, hey, come on board. Go ahead caller, jump in there. Okay, we don't have a caller. We probably hit the wrong button, not a problem. Anyway, I promise I'm going to do a little research on this to find out what's going on because I am just kind of fascinated. The Kukris usually had their own category in blades too, and I'm not seeing that either. So I would recommend that if you get a chance guys, let's kind of shop around a little bit on this one's gonna make that's that's We used to see a lot of blade, you know cut the tree so to speak coming out of India the subcontinent as example, you might see replicas of the The Confederate officers sword. I had at one time three of them. I I only have two left now You'll see those you might find them still at the gun shows You might find them as cheap as like $35, maybe $40. Don't pay any more than $40 for one. I kind of know that as of late, if you pay $40 for one, the guy who, unless he's buying them third or fourth time here on the continent, the guy who imported them, if he's selling them at $40 while he's making a fortune, you can get a lot of things done pretty cheaply in India. India, that's right. In India and the outer regions of India. Again, that's why I'm fascinated by this because it's kind of like Pier 1 imports. The Indian stuff back in the 60s and 70s, real brass, even with silver plate, usually coarse silver plating, a very coarse slash, however they did the electroplating, it was Hugo of Warsaw, or in this case Abuja of India. But at least it was there. I mean, actually it was girthy. It was pretty resilient. This has got my curiosity up about it where I may have to go to another source and Bud K's been one of those that traditionally used to carry it. It was one of the standards. I know that other companies, Atlanta cutlery does have the Kukris available and they're actually not outrageously priced for the models that they carry. They carry both the actual issue, old issue and present issue, kukris that are made by the companies that make them for the gherkas. But they do carry reproductions that are very good quality. They are working blades. They are not show blades. They are working blades. They are designed for constant use. The sheaves have always been traditionally very, very well made. I'll bet again they are a coarse hide, but they are a durable sheave. I've never had to replace a sheath on a kookery and I've carried some of them for many, many, many, many miles and through all kinds of horrid weather. They don't smell pretty I think in the long run but that's just the nature of cowhide or whatever kind of hide they use. God only knows what it really is or who it is. But again, just something we're going to watch for. Now another thing on blades, doesn't mean you can't build your own. I mentioned this earlier today and I'll bring this up again. If you've got steel stock laying around and you've got somebody that can do a little heat treating, do it yourself. You don't have to have somebody else do this. And you don't even need to heat treat it. But to build cutting blades or short swords or slash machetes, it's not difficult to build yourself. And with a grinding wheel, you'll do all the coarse cutting and then do the fine filing and then finally do your trim edging all yourself. To make it look pretty, you're going to spend more time polishing than any other operation. Literally, you guys. To gain stock, how about leaf springs from cars? The flat portion of leaf springs is great for short knives and even what one would call short. In fact, that's very high steel by any standard. You would be using a steel if you use any of the spring steel like that. The metal that you're using is about 40 grades above anything that was available a couple of centuries ago. When you look at the hacking and chopping rules, and I said let me bring this up, it was pointed out that the Gladius, of course, which is everybody, that's kind of cool since the gladiator came out, the Roman Gladius, there's been a whole bunch of other series. You've got Sparta-ass, I mean Sparta-cuss. Whatever it is. And of course everybody does the double leaps and the super hacking and shopping ninja slash super kosher shyster. A lot of dancing and super somersaults. But the interesting thing is that the gladius is shown there and in actual accounts the quality of the steel, because remember these were blades in many cases that were issued out by the Empire through contractors. There were field complaints, just like, if you think the M16 was the first real problem child for a military in terms of arms. Well, it's described that the quality of steel varied so greatly that in many cases Roman centurions, Roman legionaries would be taking their swords and laying them against rocks and having to use their feet to bend them straight. You know stepping on them, stomping on them, trying to readjust them. And it's not that the blade normally wouldn't necessarily do that, but there were several actions during the G.A.L.L. campaign, the campaigns against G.A.L.L. in the earlier years, where apparently the weapons that were issued out, somebody didn't quite meet the spec and that was why there were many complaints. Now I don't know if there was the old off with your head policy back then, typically there was. Or you could fall on one of your own swords. You know, the inferior quality one you need. You might get the wiggly way to the ground. On the other hand, you might be really unfortunate and the men who had to use your weapon and had it fail might show up and maybe have 20 of them pull a blade off of the inventory and maybe just help you along to the next world. Very slowly, but lots of hacking and jobbing. So there are several accounts of this. And again, when you consider the quality of the steel that we throw away, this is what is the greatest sin of a lot of what I see, the American grades of steel that people foolishly are tossing away or are allowing to go into the scrap yard, not even thinking twice about what its uses might be. And for all of us, one of our custom knife makers that's listening, guys, they use railroad spikes. Oh, that's a pretty thought. You can imagine some things that come out of that. And if you're going to forge, you guys, if you're going to heat metal, coil springs too. Yeah. If you're going to heat it, you can bring that out to a flat, at least the flat equivalent to like a K-bar. Yep. There are many, many different, there's a lot of good steel out there and a lot of it's virgin, like American iron, first grade American iron. If that's the case, then it's the best deal you could run into on the planet right now with very few impurities or very few other, shall we say, recasts over and over again for the stock. That's one of the things that helps to determine the quality of the metal guys. The neat thing about the railroad spikes, like you said, Don, by the time you're done beating them out, that's a hell of a piece of metal that you can work, and especially where these guys are doing Again, expanding the metal, folding the metal, expanding the metal, folding the metal. They do many different uses. If one was clever, he would leave the top of that as what do they call that on the top of a knife, much like at the base of old pistol? The barrel? Yes! For skull crushing. Yes. That's typically, again, the reason for that little step that's on your fighting knives, guys, although in many cases they actually install studs. Those studs aren't there for the fun of it. Oh no. That's for that you stick forward, you strike backward. That's right. If you have to come down and you can't get the blade around, use the base of the knife. Yup. And that of course does just as much. Again, that gets back to blood force trauma damage that we're talking about. So there are a lot of different techniques and a lot of different tools that are awfully handy to have in the system. Just make sure that again if you're going to do that, understand how your weapon works and how to make it work for you, most important. Another thing, and again we talked about, actually we've been touching on in our own circles here, just had the discussion here in between the program guys, about procurement of raw materials in terms of what you need to continue to function if the power does go off. And one of the things that we're looking at is everybody needs to take a trip to Florida. In fact, here's a recommendation. You are going to be very satisfied because this is information that you need. So grab your pen. Take an envelope. Write PBN PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130. That's PBN PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130. That's where you're going to send this envelope. Now take $5, put it in the envelope. Take a piece of paper, write Florida on the paper, put that in the envelope with the mailing address that you want, whatever it is Florida means, sent to. Put $5 in the envelope and the word Florida. And again, wait, be patient, and something will show up at the door. So again, PBN, PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130, PBN, PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130. Write Florida on the call. piece of paper, take $5, put it in the envelope with Florida. Also make sure that you put a mailing address in there and print the mailing address. Print the mailing address. OK. Again, then send that off to pbnpobox194, Dexter, Michigan 48130. Put $5 in or if you want to do a check or money order make it out to Nancy, last name, K-O-E-R-N-K-E. Nancy, K-O-E-R-N-K-E. But make sure that you write Florida on the paper. Put $5 in the envelope, however you want to do that, and make sure we have a return mailing address so we know where to send what needs to go to you. This will help to deal with future issues regarding subjects of resource and resource development. Have you been to Florida? You'll find out soon enough. Anyway, for many of you listening, you've already been to Florida. You got a bang out of it, didn't you? That's right. Exactly. So for everybody out there, a lot of work to do and, by the way, I will, you know what? Now before we go any farther because we are at the bottom of the air, Moit does not take the time that's been going fast. Don, you have night vision technology available. How can we get hold of you and what do you have, sir? Hey, chronologically to answer that question, the multiples thereof, the first portion of the question was how do we get a hold of you? So the phone number is 231-796-848. Again, 231-96. We can talk about gun sites or goggles or green screens or thermal. We can talk about that first generation gun site, you guys. $429 right in your mailbox. We can talk about a second generation gun site. Both of these devices are 308 capable. They will hold up to the recoil of your M1, your AR-10, or your FN FAL, the manufacturer will warranty it for two years against failure from recoil. If you want to talk to me about either one of those devices, first or second generation gun sites, you can reach me at 231-796-8458. Again, 231-796-8458. Again, goggles or gun sites, green screens or thermal, you guys. We can put a piece of thermal in your pocket. This is just a viewer for under $2,000 or we can go up to a thermal piece that's a gun site that will allow you to spot a human a mile away. Wow. Yeah, this is true and the price on that is going to be about well roughly half of what it was a year and a half ago. In mind, you know, we've talked about that for a good long time. If you're looking, give me a call you guys. The number is 231-796-8458. Again, 2-3-1-7-9-6-8458. And again, goggles or gun sights, you guys. Green screens are thermal. Now, I want to turn this mark. I want to Are we going to go to break? We're going to go right on through so jump right in there please. Okay, cool. Let's cruise past the break and go right to the audience participation portion of this hour. Now, if you're listening on a telephone it's going to be a little bit harder to do. But if you're listening on a radio or if you're listening on anything that you don't have to hold onto, let's do this in a two-step thing. because we've done this before and I want to bring this one back to the hour. Put your hands straight out in front of you like a diver, like you're going to dive into the water. You don't have to stand up to do this one. Like you are going to enter the water, you know, the diver palms together. Now, you have your arms straight out in front of you. Let's do it like this. Take your left hand. and turn it 180 degrees so your little finger is straight up and down, but the top of your hand is now facing the palm of your right hand. All you have to do is turn your hand 180 degrees so your thumb is pointed down on your left hand. Your right hand, the thumb is still pointed up, correct? Wrap your fingers and thumb around your left hand without changing any other position. Now, your thumb should be around your little finger reaching onto your palm. The tips of your fingers should be around that carpal that is between your thumb and your index finger. And your arms are still fully extended, right? Now, slowly, I want you to bring your right hand, I want you to control your right hand back to bring your left hand back toward your face. Now see how your hands are naturally going to turn up. Your fingertips on your left hand are turning up, aren't they? Now as you bring that closer, see how uncomfortable that gets? Every cop in America has taught that. That's second control. You can do it to your other hand. Put your palms together, your hands straight out in front of you. Turn your right hand so your thumb is facing down and the back of your hand is facing the palm of your left hand. fingers and thumb to grab the hand as previously instructed and pull your right hand back toward your chin. It's going to bend your elbow and your fingers are going to point up in the air but every cop has been caught. That's called the second control in a keto and in heptketo, Japanese and Korean respectively. Now first control we all know is an arm bar. You see that on big time raslin and all kinds of new world order raslin, NWO, raslin and all kinds of big time raslin that's kind of out the window. That's from a Dick the Bruiser and the Sheik and stuff isn't it? call it, but you'll see an arm bar which is take a hold of someone's arm, stretch their arm straight, and then start to turn as perhaps you pull their forearm across your belly and start to turn. If you turn fast enough, you lift them off their feet and you can literally throw them out of the ring. But that is where I wanted to go. We did that second control and that's easy enough to describe on the air that I can get you to do that and experience that. Now the counter to that, well the counter to that is to push the hand off that's grabbing your hand. Push the hand off that's grabbing your hand or push the hand off that's grabbing your wrist because he's going to try to guide your wrist with his free hand while he's bending your other hand up 90 degrees to your wrist and then taking it back to push the hand off so he can't get that lock. Now this is going to become, it's almost like Larry Mow and Curly and sometimes it's almost like the Chop Socky movies, you guys that we laugh at, you know, on Saturday night. When they used to broadcast across the nation the Kung Fu movies. And you see the Chinaman going blah blah blah blah. And it's almost as if they're slapping shaking hands. But what they're trying to do is get a grab on a wrist or even just a finger. Because you know if I can get all four of my fingers around your little finger, I'm going to lead you around the room. Or tear your little finger off depending on how much you want to cooperate. Literally. Take it down to, you know, sinew. I might not tear it off but you'll almost wish I did. Now, let's go to another thing here real quick. This is an example if you can stand up. This is the stand up portion of the hour. If you can stand up and you have enough room around you that you can simply stand as if you are standing at ease. Your shoulders are above your feet. Your feet are about slightly wider apart than your shoulders. So your feet are under your hands as your hands are hanging at your sides. Now, if you have the room to the left or to the right, depending if you have enough room, let's be very specific here. If you have enough room, think about the line that runs across your shoulders. That same line, if you're facing directly forward, that same line runs through your feet, doesn't it? That plane that you are standing in, as if you would be laying on a bed only standing up. That plane I'm referring to. Now, if you've got enough room, take that left foot and put it on the other side of your right foot in that plane, in that line. Take that left foot and put it on the other side of that right foot and look what happens. You turn around. Either that or you're standing there with your legs crossed and you haven't used that natural motion of your body turning as your foot is moving. Now, we can talk about this. These are some things we're reaching into ethereal things here, trying to do visual things in a audio medium. But if you can learn to turn 180 degrees with that simple motion, your head and shoulders above all kinds of dummies out there that put their feet three times on the ground to turn around. Another point to be made here, look at from such a simple motion. big results that have resulted. Sometimes Donald will do that. Be redundant with the big results that have come from that simple change. Just by moving that foot across that line, across your other foot in the same line, the plane that your body is in, putting it on the ground and coming to a relaxing position, you've turned 180 degrees, haven't you? Wow! From such a simple motion. Now, we can elaborate, we can go in so many different directions with that basic motion. We could talk about the political arena in America today. From such a simple motion comes 180 degrees of change. From such a simple motion, people think all I've done is this, but they've been completely turned around unknowingly. Again, we could take this in a number of different ways, but I would like you to, literally, you guys, I would like you to practice that turn. The ability to look in the other direction really quick and to do it and be stable on your feet might save your life one day. Might save your life one day. To turn 180 degrees in an instant and have your feet solid under you is an ability that most of us do not have. That most of us need to polish if we want to live in a martial world. Be it, you know, I'm going to smack, I'm going to break this guy's nose, or I'm going to turn, and I'm going to eliminate that threat that's at 170 yards right now, but is running toward me. And those three are down, and now I can do that simple turn again and start to address the initial threat. See how that works? And I'm not trying to turn you round and round until you're dizzy. I'm trying to keep you alive. I'm trying to make you become master of simply standing and turning 180 degrees. Simply do this with your rifle. Empty the chamber, empty the magazine, and hold the rifle at like relaxed 45 degrees in front of you. Now do that same basic motion. Move your left foot or move your right foot in the plane that is your shoulders and move it about the width that they are apart across the other foot. And look how fast you turn. And look how solid, once you've practiced this a little bit, how solid your footing is when you get there. Then you are a stable gun platform. Oh my gosh, you didn't know we were going there, did you? You thought this was just audience participation and Don was gonna have you bend your wrist and stand up and dance a little. Well, this ain't no dance. It might go on for more than just Saturday night, baby. But if you can turn 180 degrees in one simple motion, these are so basic. This is such a basic skill that I condemn myself for never having brought this to the hour before. This is such a basic skill that if you cannot do this in an instant in one motion, The guy who's coming up behind you will probably have advantage on you even if somebody else says, to your rear! And you have to turn and bring the gun to bear to your rear even if someone else points this out to you. You need to have that ability to turn, to have that B, to B, that stable gun platform that is needed in that instant. Mark, I yield to you, sir. Most important is remember you may have to face a point where you are going to be disarmed or you may be caught unawares. We always joke about stepping out of the bathtub naked. Hopefully you have that like no one car being hanging nearby or that stainless steel Model 66 revolver or something that you know goes pop, pop, boom, boom. If you do step out of the bathtub naked, that's where the carbine or some of the other weapons are nice because they carry a couple of mags and say 15 round mags on the stock and a 15 rounder in the weapon. That's 45 rounds to get you bare butt naked out of something. But worst case is, the carbine is not hanging there. Now you're the first, you're the whole weapon system, that's it. Whatever you got on hand is what you're going to have to use to get yourself out of being approached, being attacked. And being accosted, maybe they are trying to drag you along to the little black bus and they caught you unawares. The idea is not to go to the little black bus. So step one is understanding the threat and knowing how to counter it and neutralize it. Step two, kill the bugger trying to do that and acquire his weapons. Step three, get rid of the other buggers that are with him who of course are probably trying to hurt people you like. and preferably allowing the step-by-step process for you to get to the weapons that you need that you've organized so that you can start to destroy the problem. Yeah, that works too. You step-by-step-by-step. Now in some cases we always joke about it this way. If you had to fight hand-to-hand, something went wrong. Exactly. But you better know what you're doing when you get there. Exactly. It's a brawl. Congratulations. And pain is the factor that will determine victory. You inflict pain upon your enemy. He's trying to inflict pain upon you. You need to know how to counter that. You need to know how to drive him down. And you need to know how to finish what you've started. Remember that. We've talked also about once you get in reverse the situation, if something at hand is a weapon, anything. An ashtray is really great. Glass ashtrays aren't around like they used to be. Oh man, they've got a nice cave point. You grab them by the side, your thumb controls the center, and you've got two, three, or four sharp spots that you can drive into flesh or you can drive it into their skull. Oh, they're wheel crushers or skull crushers, knockers. Yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah. And exactly what you're looking at here. I'm not going to be kind or nice to somebody who is set upon me in that way. This gets back to the whole thing about the sucker punching routine, like you're seeing with the street gangs and such. Well, first of all, if you know what's coming, the first one isn't going to connect. But after that, you better be ready with follow up. Yep. Again, gain distance. And remember, the hoplite infantry process I believe it was the Naked Ape. If you haven't seen that movie, the guy who was the star of that was in reality an Olympic runner. That's what made him famous. They kind of tailored a movie based on a book for him where he's a safari game master in Africa. He was a safari leader. This guy that hires him wants to go someplace and he kind of refuses but then a guy talks him into it. pressures him into it and he gets picked up by one of the local tribes. Well, the one guy who's the chief guide that's black, they put a... what do they do? They put him in a ball, a clay ball, and it looks like they're going to cook him. They put a clay head on the guy that was the one that was hiring the safari and they let the women go at him with a little short mini-pancas so he's dying a terrible death. But him they decide to let go and then they're going to have all of the great Huntsman of the tribe go after him and so the ideas start running and keep running and Extend them farther and farther out and then once they're all in a big long line far apart from each other first he kills one and then he kills the next and Then after that he's got weapons and he's got water which he didn't have before and And then he keeps running and he keeps stretching him out farther and he keeps killing him. See how that works? Just a little farther, chase me a little farther. Yeah, just, oh! There we go, now I've got a thank you. Another good thing to do is to practice your weak hand with firearms. You're right, thank you for bringing that up. We try to touch on every now and then and that's something that needs to be touched on every Wednesday. Thank you. practice wrecking the slide with your leg, your armpit, any way you can. If you have a Colt 911 or a pent on the model, you can do the practice though. You can re-soil. I've been doing that for years. I'm a lot more comfortable than I used to be, on my right. There you go. Where do you get that from practice? Well, in reality, the 1911, because it was a cavalry weapon, there are a dozen techniques that were taught to use the saddle or to use a physical object as a cocking process for the .45, for the 1911. That was because one hand is controlling the horse and or maybe controlling another weapon and the handgun was manipulated with one hand. So that is a good point. In many cases the weak hand because the saber was being handled with the strong arm. Most commonly you'll see that over and over again. The saber is in the right hand, the pistol is in the weak hand. Because it wouldn't be contributing, well it would contribute, but because we typically went with cutlass or with saber class weapons, we didn't have two-fisted arms, the pistol was the next logical thing for extending beyond the tip of the sword. Which leads me over to another thought that you you dragged out mark earlier in the hour you guys you can go into pawn shops and and you can go into places, you know, sometimes even gun shows and pick up the katana the short sword or the Longer sword the Hayabusa. I think that might be a diving lock but it might be a long sword also at any rate grab it by the hilt and look down at the length of it and if it's You know, Mark, you were talking about the Roman soldiers standing on their blades to straighten them. Odds are, you guys, most of the commercial samurai swords in America, they're just steel. They have no history to them. They're just built for ornamentation. If you try to whack a melon or even just a soft melon or a hard-shelled watermelon in two with one and you don't have the blade flat to its plane of travel? Well, when the center of the blade starts to slow down and everything else wants to go fast, that's how you get those big curves in those skinny blades. You can strike something with a samurai blade, even a very, very well-made samurai blade, like the $50,000, $100,000 blades. If the blade isn't passing through the air in the plane that it has built, the flat plane, edge forward, flat plane backward when it strikes something, try to think of punching somebody with your wrist half bent. Think of how your wrist is going to continue on and you're going to injure yourself. Think of striking with a sword and not driving the edge through, but more slapping with the side of the blade. This is what it comes to. I'm asking you to compare an inch to a mile. If you were to slap that watermelon with the side of the blade, you're going to get a great big bend because the blade will literally wrap around the watermelon. But if you're swinging that blade through the pineapple or the watermelon and it's not flat in the plane that it is traveling through, you can still bend that blade. And that comes from somebody not knowing what they're doing. Here's another little secret. You want to talk the difference between I'm going to go hacking and chopping, and I am a master at sword fighting. The masters who carried samurai blades into battle, you don't see hack marks on the front of their blade. You don't see blocking notches like you would see in the Russian cavalry mark. Cossacks or the German Ulan or the American cavalryman when he would block his blade, use his blade as a block to another blade, many times he would use the sharp edge. A master, a samurai master will in an instant turn the blade in his hand and use the flat back of his blade to block his opponent's sharp edge. And maybe, just sometimes maybe, with that technique he will break his opponent's sword. At the very least, chip. And if it chips, it may fracture. Yes. Yes. That's the key, because what you're doing is think about it just like anything else, cutting diamond. In this case, you're looking at crystalline steel, the crystal structure of steel, and you're applying energy to a very narrow surface. In fact, you're not the only one applying energy, are you? Right, because he's swinging that sword too, right? Oh. Kind of like a head-on car collision. Yeah, only you're hitting him with a bumper and he's hitting you with an antenna. Yeah. And so again, that's one of the reasons for taking into consideration technique. This is something also we talked about in that, guys, it's not just in Asia that the sword technique was perfected. The problem is, well it's not a problem, is in the West we developed a number of other martial arts to include firearms. We advanced in them sooner and so it was lost to a degree, not completely, but to a degree lost in the depths of time with regard to Western prowess, with regard to our martial arms in blade and in bludgeon. something we've been talking about here even in America we've all been wussified here I'm sorry go to the airport my god call call TSA heavy environment security she's got a nail clipper Don think about that that's the real clipper it's a it's even worse it's attack Yeah, exactly. It has become so wussified. You might be bet on the pilot's seat. Yeah, this is a country that used to carry a fighting knife, a tomahawk, and a personal sidearm. All in the same package, and every man, typically, and every young man, typically carry one. Openly, yeah. Yeah, openly. Oh, we still do. I mean, to a degree, but the point is, the average American out there, in fact right now, has been so conditioned, especially the Weenies going to the airports, they don't even have a penknife. And I will point out, guys, it is an amazing... When I flew all those millions of miles, I mean, we flew a couple million miles in one year, when you went to the airport, guys, they sold racks of Swiss Army knives right there at the hub before you got on the plane. They had remember when when the when the communist Chinese stuff was first starting to come in big They remember those evil box cutters. Oh my god The Arabs got box cutters. That's the supposed story they gave us right? Yeah, guys, you know those they had those 10 cent racks where they had the fluorescent green the fluorescent orange and the fluorescent blue plastic box cutters and extendable blade you know paper knives you know box cutting you know cardboard cutting knives in every stinking size you could imagine in the carousel hangers that were about like 12 inches wide and about three feet tall with dozens and dozens and in fact had to be hundreds hanging there and those were sold right there guys Now isn't it amazing how the world changed and by the way the Swiss Army they've had so many more blades to poke people with They may have had supposedly had the box cutters, but what happened to the people with the laptops? Yeah, exactly Well again that gives this comes down to the idea that you know as far as the martial arts the idea of martial arts in America or in Europe It's not that we didn't have them is that we changed in terms of technology. But Don, you mentioned several of the different, for instance, the German sword masters are still there. There are British sword masters. There are masters of even medieval blade work now. Oh yeah, people are rebuilding the Hubert plate. They are building replicas thereof, beautiful swords. Wow! Yeah, the quality in fact, progressively, the archaic warfare development. It went from trash can technology to people actually building whole body, whole armor, chain link. Oh yeah, not to mention more flexible. As a matter of fact, on that note, one of our friends of another, well actually a child of one of our families that's nearby here, he actually was one of the apprentices that built the blades for the three musketeers when it was done here a decade ago, a little more a decade ago now. All of those ornate swords, because they needed many of them for all of the musketeers and for all of the cardinals guard. Plus the individual custom blades for D'Artagnan and of course the other evil wicked bad guys. Even the swords that you see, that the musketeers carry that thin blade, there are different grades of that. There are rapiers, there are sabers in that. But did you know that they are not round like one would think by appearance? Like a car antenna? They are square and they aren't even truly square. The sides of that square are concave, giving the edges of that long drawn out square more sharpness. Right, exactly. And this is all technology that we had. Think about it guys and in fact too numerous to mention. We mentioned the Cossack blades. We've made all you go through even even Poland and Holland and even the Finns, you know, take a look at the bayonet of a Finnish rifle What does it look like? Looks like a Scandinavian fishing knife In fact, yeah, yeah, they can do a fine job of scaring you. Here's another thing philosophy ties into it also If you get a K98 Vanette from the German Army, the blade is down when it's affixed to the barrel. The sharp edge is down, the heavy coarse end is up. However, if you deal with the Czechs or the Polish blades, the blade is up because they believe in disemboweling you from below and splaying up into the vital organ. Different techniques, different philosophies. Anyway guys, ours, use whatever weapon you got, beat the living snot out of them. Don your number for night vision, please. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order any way possible. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. We're gonna stomp on them with our boots, finish the job when we're done, chase down the ones that gave the orders, and hang them all. You're not gonna die for just a stride across their throats. Yeah, hear that crunching sound, you know you've done it right. Yep. And your number for night vision, give it up a couple more times, you'll be available in just a minute. It's 2317-968-231-7968458 Thank you Mark, God bless you. God bless America.