Imagine Live 365 with unlimited access to every genre. Exclusive content, higher quality sound, instant access on your desktop. Plus listen on the go with your mobile phone. All possible with a VIP membership. Give it a try for free at live365.com slash VIP. Live 365. work that goes into a garden. In tonight's show, Mark mentioned about all kinds of ideas that he's heard about regarding bees and also the transplanting thing that sort of added on to some of my thoughts. I wouldn't have thought about burlap, but burlap is a commonly available product. You can use it to store potatoes. You can use it for harvest. Heck, you can also use burlap to inoculate mushrooms and have your own inside mushroom growing area for oyster mushrooms or something like that in a dark climate. Anyhow, I'm looking at the time and we are at the top and I'll just keep on going then. One thing I want to say before we go folks is that we're in mid-July and believe it or not like mid to late summer is a really good time to start planning for your fall victory garden. So start thinking about your fall crops now. The cool weather fall will improve the flavor of a lot of vegetables. And a bunch of flower and herb varieties can also thrive as our temperatures are gonna cool down and daylight hours diminish. Now this is crazy talking about fall when we're in the heat of the summer. But you gotta understand that a lot of these variety of plants out there, right? They take 60 to 90 days, maybe even longer, to come to maturity. So even if you're still trying to figure out what to do with the pests and the weeds out in your summer garden, start looking at your crops that are out there, your space that's out there, and start thinking about, okay, how do I want to, what do I want to grow here and what do I want to have growing here in October, for example, or November, or December? So down here in the Carolinas, we're already sort of thinking about that sort of thing. We're already getting ready to plan that kind of thing. So we want to plan and plant our varieties for the fall in mid to late summer. And what that's going to do is that's going to extend your fall victory garden season well beyond your last frost date. So all you victory buds and buddettes out there, do a little search on the internet on your favorite search engine and Check out your your first frost date the keyword so type in your city type in your state then type in the word gardening and the word average first frost date and Do that in your favorite search engine? You'll you'll probably come up with a few hits with a whole bunch of tables of numbers and dates Ideally, these numbers and dates, these tables of first frost dates will actually be on your own state, county, or province's university agricultural website. For the best frost numbers, you want to find a website with a .edu in the web address because you know there's local research, there's local weather data on your first frost date for the fall, for your fall garden. Now once you find that page, there's going to be a set of numbers and dates that are going to give you a 50% prediction. This means there's a 50-50 chance that there's going to be a frost either on or before this date in the fall. Now personally, I don't like those kinds of odds. 50-50 is like flipping a coin. I mean you might as well take a guess. So what you want to look for in your first fall frost tables online, you want to look for the 10% prediction. In our fall victory gardens, we want to maximize our chances of production, so we're going to be pretty conservative. We're going to go with our 10% prediction tables. At 10% end of the revolution. Thank you for listening to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. We all need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit mainmilitary.com. Mainmilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items, and much more. Do you own a firearm? 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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 buy 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 will be born. 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, get the torch of freedom bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from 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 in 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 to still the land of the free? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report. I'm our kronky. I'm Larry Lawson one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines of occupied territories Central West South and Southwest. Ladies and gentlemen you are listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com India and Freedom Talk Radio dot com we're on AM and FM micro stations CB base stations and We have a Well, this is the 15th of July 2014 AD jumping off the wall. We know it's jumping off of buses and planes and that's the illegal immigrants that the Feds are dragging in by the thousands. Many of them sick and diseased with God knows what, deliberately shoving them in places where they're not wanted trying to trigger civil rioting and disobedience here in this country. So, not looking good there. Some people in the area of California and others are doing what they can to try and drive them back. But, you know, they'll stick them in this neighborhood, stick them in that neighborhood, putting them on planes without giving them the bend over butt checks that Americans have to have. Absolutely infuriating what's being done to this country. And they even have the blue rubber gloves at TSA and they don't want to touch them. They just give them a sheet of paper that anybody could have produced. And well, it's an example of just how asinine and how wasteful... And unnecessary the TSA and the home wing Gestapo really is. Yes, exactly. So for everybody out there, we all know it needs to be done away with. Hey, you don't need it to do it to think about touching me. See how that works? By the way, I got a piece of paper. I wrote it in Crayola. I get on the plane, right? Yeah, see how that works and in other words, this is totally dual in terms of function and purpose and it has nothing to do with security and everything to do with manipulating and attacking the American people. So that's the real agenda across the board. Real quick before we go any farther, it is Communications Tuesday. Fairradio.com, fairradio.com, fairradio.com, I had a request Where was that switchboard for the field phones? Guys, that was at fairradio.com. They have a ten-line switcher station. It's a little Petticoat Junction operators station for routing field telephones. It's a switch operator box. They are used and in good condition to fair condition, I should say fair to good, good to, I guess, almost new. But they have original issue, unissued replacement main boards, which I would buy one of right away with the unit no matter what. Go to fairradio.com, fairradio.com, fairradio.com. Field phone wire, I don't know what they have on stock. Whatever they catch and find laying around in steel or copper they grab. But they do have the switching stations. And they do have a number of hand mics and other fixtures, you know, components for the fixtures you have in your radios that might be missing. I've heard I had many requests. Well, your first choice is fair radio. I'm trying to get all of our friends in Wisconsin to see if they're still selling equipment. They've got three warehouses full. Actually, they're pole barns full of military radio equipment, but I don't know if they're selling to the public anymore. I have a few notifications and I've got to get back with it to find out if the grandson is still in business. Dad took over from grandpa and now son took over from dad. So, it's third generation and that will be another source but Fair Radio for sure has some pretty good buys. The equipment is reasonably priced. Also, if you have a piece of equipment you need, guys, none of these companies have time to put this stuff on their internet station, on their internet webpage. They put a lot of it but not all of it. So, with Fair Radio, you tell them what you're looking for, give them the model number for the equipment as far as the radio maybe, whatever you do have in the way of data, maybe even have the actual number for the handset or the antenna base, whatever it is you need, they'll look to see if they have it. Now, if they don't have the American counterpart equivalent, you know, forgive me, the American counterpart, they may have the equivalent in European or Canadian because there's a lot of stuff coming in right now that is just now showing up on the rent revolution market, that is Vietnam and even pre-Vietnam era, copies of the American equipment that was being used in our army at the time. The Canadians did this, the Australians, NATO did this. There are a lot of NATO parts that are virtually identical. There isn't any difference. In many cases, Motorola, GE and other companies, Raytheon all made the parts. They were already built. United Technologies, which is old Bendix, those guys did a lot of stuff during Vietnam. It's out there. It's out there being thrown into the supply system. in a roundabout way for whatever reason so there's a solution fair radio dot com fair radio dot com take the time check them out also all that radio is talking about uh... thanks guys for posting it in the uh... chatroom also all the you calm now this is a fairly cheap little handheld unit very lightweight very small uh... easily carried by pretty much anybody without adding a whole lot of extra weight It's the UCOMM, U-C-O-M, 8-kilometer-to-5-mile, slash 5-mile walkie-talkie. They've got two packs of these. Not two packs, you're cooler. A pack of two radios. $23.85 if you buy just one set. And they've got them apparently, I think, 17% off on sale right now. These units weigh in at 5.68 ounces. And if you buy three of the double packs, that's six radios, it's $22.15 per pack if you buy two at a time that way. So you save a dollar and some odd cents, which, hey, a dollar's a dollar. If you're going to be buying a bunch anyway, buy a pod of three packs of two. Down below, if you scroll down, shipping is paid for, shipping's free. And these little handhelds, they're not designed to talk across the country. We're not talking about planetary radios. These are supposed to be tactical signal communications. That means local-local. Although many of these little handhelds do have a potential for going much farther, so don't be surprised there. Batteries for these are double As. 3 AA's as a matter of fact, so I would go rechargeables, but if you can't right away, dollar store packs of batteries, 8 of the AA's for a dollar at Dollar Tree right now. And just as a reminder, Dollar Tree also has the table lamps. They're little table lamps. They got 3 little LEDs. They got a little shade. They'll sit on a table. They're standard solar yard lights, otherwise the way that they're, you know, as far as the innards go. but for a dollar a piece, everything in Dollar Tree is a dollar. So you can stop by and get some batteries. You might want to check out those little solar lights out there right now. They may or may not be in stock because they were going pretty fast, but the Dollar Tree stores all over the country, they're all consistent for the stock and they have them right now in stock. What is this market? An LED light? LED light, already self-contained with a rechargeable battery on board. So think about it, you get for a dollar, you at least get a rechargeable battery. It's at Dollar Tree. They have a little desk type base that's about the size of a beer can. They're actually in a wine glass configuration. The base comes into a stem, goes up to the light fixture. I've got five of them here and that's what we're using for interior night lights. Just kind of experimenting until they work and they work beautifully. Leave them out during the day or leave them in a window area during the day and at night just rearrange, put them where you want them. And you've got yourself some more interior lighting also obviously for external table or picnic table lighting, whatever you're doing. I've been using some lights from China Mart. It's a little more expensive. They've been selling a string, looks like Christmas lights, but they're all white. They've got two colors. They've got the kind of bluish white and then they've got one they call warm white. They are about $15 but it is a string of 60 lights that has a solar panel on it and a AA battery. If you get good sun, that thing will run all night long. They are really cool. Exactly. In fact, they are selling them as summer yard lights now so before you would only find them around Christmas. Now you can actually find them in big lots and places like that. Unfortunately, I think people have figured this out, Larry, because before There will at least be a few left in the after Christmas sales, but the first thing that goes now are all the solar lights. When they go out of Halloween, all the solar lights are gone first. When they get through Thanksgiving stuff and Christmas, all the solar lights go first, the Christmas strings and everything else. But those are available through DealXtreme also, and they do have the solar panel modules, the whole nine yards. You may have got them for better price, so again, shop around, look to see if it's worthwhile. Remember though that with DealXtreme, typically everything is free shipping. So, if it's going to be China Sport anyway, if it's one of these items, you can buy direct from one of these sources and save yourself some change. And if you're going to buy more than one, remember in increments of three, starting with three and then five and then ten, your best savings is with three at a time. After that, it's a few pennies. But the first drop is usually a couple of dollars or so per item, which is where your big savings are. Every penny counts, but in this case the couple of dollars or a dollar and sixty cents is worthwhile So that is a solution and again the first place we're talking about is Dollar Tree And of course Larry's talking about the string lighting. There's a number of different models in fact It's not solar, but they had a little string at the front doors of Dollar Tree They've got some little strings of LED lighting that run off a couple of AA batteries and if you're just willing to hit a switch There's some backup lighting when you need it that's going to run for a long time. Most all of those like you said, even with a pair of Sylvania cheapie dollar store batteries and double A's, they'll run all night and you shut them off, they'll run for days on end without having to change out the batteries. They're very efficient for that purpose and again, great for at least giving enough light to move around. or for creating perimeter lighting for that night vision device you have so you can brighten things up like daylight out there with just a minimal amount of energy spent. And you don't even have to hit the switch if they're solar, do you Larry? No, they're real handy. I remember when the solar lights first came out, they were large in size. They'd take like a sub-C size battery and they used incandescent lamps and they've come a long way since then. There's a lot of very bright solar lights out there. There are a lot of them that are solar like flood lights. Even at China March you can get some halfway decent solar flood lights for $10 or more. There are some nice stuff out there that will run all night long if you get a good charge in them. So check the stuff out. It's worth having. And the price is right too, guys. Remember again, you can afford to have multiples or have a standby ready to replace in multiples as needed so you don't even have any downtime. The lighting, one of the things that we've done, Larry, most recently here, my youngest son put a unit together. There are these LED running lights that they've got for cars. Right. 12 volt. They're incumbent sets. They're stupid cheap, by the way. Guys, we used a small lawnmower. Actually, it's a tiny lawnmower battery, more like what you'd use for some of those small appliances, about the size of a card file box. And with a couple of the $15, well, $14.23 Harbor Freight, prepackaged, ready to roll, plug into the ashtray lighter solar panels. We've set up a yard light slash a perimeter light that will blind you. And the interesting thing is, with those solar panels arrayed in just a very simple design, it will run all night. Like you said, start from dusk, it will run until dawn easily. And again, very efficient. Once it's up, guys, you don't have to have one of those sodium vapor lights out there. To be quite honest, this thing lights up the road across the street. It literally turned towards the front of the property. Everything is illuminated in stark white. So put into a number of different key locations, there isn't anything that's going to move without being seen. That simple and again could be used for perimeter lighting entranceway lighting access areas Areas that are in question where you just don't want to be dark But you didn't want to you know pay the electrical company once these are up these are up And there's a number of ways to weatherize them. We just actually just build a quick two by four frame That's self-supporting and using PVC pipe to hold and create a a weather shield cut a PVC pipe in half four inch and made two rain shields immediately, instantly, and put the fixtures up inside that just facing on about a 75 degree angle so that the water runs off the back. Everything else is pretty well weatherized as far as the solar panels, the battery, and everything else. And it's just a matter of plug and play, kids. So it's a simple, really bright light. Now, here's the thing Larry, I also have car batteries laying around. To be quite honest, a 12 volt car battery, it simply wouldn't run down. I not only could probably run one of these, but with those battery chargers, with the 12 volt chargers and more than two of those lights, probably about three light fixtures, I figure a standard automotive battery, that's a hand-me-down by the way, I get them for free because they're trade-ins where people get their new batteries and they give them the old one. If the battery has any juice left in it, I get it. Take one of those, hook it up to the same system, and you've got an entire frontal area illuminated like daylight. So just something to think about. In fact, we're going to post this. Everybody can see what we've done. It's a very simple design. Actually, I've got some street lights, traditional street light fixtures. And I'm going to install one of these sets inside and self-contain it so it literally does cover the road. And it's far superior to anything else that's out there. Most important is it can't be shut off unless you shoot it out. Because there's no switch to hit, there's no power to cut off, the whole thing is self-contained as a solar cell with a battery pack on board. You're going to have to do direct damage to the light and draw attention to doing it. So again, just something to think about there. Well, they cut the power, but everything's still running. Yes, that's because everything's separate and independently run. Very straightforward, very simple designs. One of the things I like to use is, and again I tend to get a lot of my stuff at the China Mart, but that's just kind of the way it is these days. There's a DC power supply that runs off of 12 volts. You plug in this cigarette lighter thing and it has this multiple switch on it where you can select various power outputs. you know, like 3 volt, 5 volt, 6 volt, 9 volt, 12 volt, all from a selector switch. And then these things come with, you know, plugs that will fit different items. That's a good way to run LED lights as well. On the inside here I've actually got a string of LED lights that run off of 3 volts. from 12 volt power supply. And I've got a series of three 12 volt marine batteries hooked together that I use for 12 volts internally and I charge that up maybe once a week. That's used to charge a cell phone. Got a 12 volt fan inside that is used for cooling during the summer. You can run DVD players and that type of thing, but LED lighting, it really does not take that much juice at all. So, I'm really impressed with the way the LEDs have come along in the past few years. And the big advantage is, again, once it's off the grid, it can't really be shut down unless somebody physically goes out there and does it, or you decide to hit the switch. So the neat thing is, you don't lose your security perimeter if something happens to the grid, which is kind of nice. Certainly, you can choose to either leave it on and use it accordingly, or Shut her down. I always thought it was rather funny. Just with a couple of these LEDs, when we had the power outage, the big, big power outage, everybody goes, well, your power never went off where you are. Guys, you know what we actually had? Now, this is what you have to remember about how people get snoopy or noticed. I had two hurricane candle lamps hanging at either side of the door, Larry. And people noticed that driving by from the road. Now mind you, I shut everything else off even though I had other LED lighting and power lighting and we had the generators to pull from if we wanted to, but we saved everything and didn't turn anything on that we didn't have to, which we can get away with pretty much everything being shut off. But I figured, oh, what the hell, we got these hurricane lamps, they've got the fixtures and hangers there. We'll light the candles and just leave them going, and somebody shows up, they aren't going to stumble around the front porch. And what's fascinating is how many people made a comment about how we couldn't have lost power because they saw lights out in our house. Yeah, I mean, I've been running independent power here since 1995. have an inverter and batteries. Actually, I've got two or three different systems here. It's interesting because when storms and things go through or freezing weather, we don't realize when the power is cut to the rest of the town because ours is never interrupted. It's very handy. The only other thing that I'm looking at right now, and this is something to take into consideration, is if we want to upgrade for long term, Guys, wherever we can go to copper, I mean, lead's good, but copper and silver are better for a lot of the fixtures and such. If we watch, you'll find that a lot of the 12-volt fixture items that you want that are in special finishes and perhaps solid higher metals. In the China Sport, knockoff copy of the higher end display or image automotive where you got stuff that's designed to upgrade. If you look through all of these different China Sport locations, you'll find the LED lighting we're talking about. You'll also find solid copper fixtures, gold-plated fixtures, and a lot of other items that are just good to have because they lower maintenance considerations. Any time we can do that, reducing oxidation issues and wear issues, because remember if we do have everything go offline, how long are we going to be able to maintain what we have? Well, progressively and systematically we can upgrade. Let me give you an example of even how we do this at the radio station. Uh oh, do we have a caller? We got some interference. Guys, the Golden Age of Radio is where radio was such a central part of our society that it had a lot of money dumped into it, literally. And most all of the older radio stations were gold fixture systems. for the best quality in radio you could possibly have, least interference, unlikely to have any malfunctions, etc. etc. And in fact, many of the old cowboy stations done by like Roy Rogers were golden radio stations. We almost bought one out in Tucson back in the 90s. It was sitting there, the basic fixtures as far as the big equipment was gone, but the entire It was a wired up system for all of the station, the antenna. Everything was still there original and looked virtually like it had just been built. All of this stuff had been built back in 1952, 1953. Looked just like it came out of the box. Now that's a testimony to the idea that well how long can we survive off the grid if everything went to hell in a hand cart? Well it's purely a matter of how well you are protecting what you've got. Bottom line, but if you start systematically thinking through and upgrading as you go, you can change things out. Now I do that with the station here because guys, a lot of people for their stereo systems they bought back in the 70s and 80s and even into the 90s, They bought gold cable connector lines and I've been running into them here the last couple of months especially where people, apparently what would be people my age or a little older are grandpa and grandma to some of these young kids. They're just literally taking dad's sensui stereo system that was worth about $7,000-$8,000 and walking it over to the recycle bin. And all those connectors, all those cables, I've been grabbing every one. Now the nice thing is they're all rolled up in their bags so you don't even have to fight them. But then what I'm doing is changing out and upgrading whatever I can to those higher end connectors. Progressively building up a better signal, cleaning up the system, and also reducing long term maintenance issues. So that's another thing to think about when we look at these copper fixtures. There's solid copper clamps, solid copper connectors. Whenever you can upgrade to that, do it. And if you can get gold and silver, do it. Watch and systematically change it out. We've got to call her. Who do we have? Yeah, Georgetown, Texas. Does that mean the old console I got from my parents? The TV don't work, but it has a turntable AM, FM, and shortwave. It's two. Well, there's probably not that much wrong even with the television. It's a console type, it's multi-stereo. I looked at a picture, somebody posted on Facebook, and I thought, you know, blast it, I had one of those, and I should never have gotten rid of it, because I had one exactly like it was a Zenith. Parts are available for the television, number one. Number two is, yeah, that stereo system was at the end of the middle space age when that technology was cutting edge. While we're talking the next step up, the stuff that's showing up right now, guys, and I'm serious, I just told somebody today, I'm expecting to see night vision because I've run into everything else. I just got a camera I couldn't touch. I wouldn't even think about going to buy it, but I just got it for $1.50 for weight, by weight. I wouldn't have gone on to buy it, but everybody's been convinced that this China Sport garbage that's being generated is so much better than all that old stuff. Well, equipment that is one of the reasons I grabbed some of the stuff isn't because it's even cutting edge, but it's because when I was growing up, I always wanted one of those buggers, but they were $300 back when $300 meant something. It still does now. Again, we've gone full circle, but back in the day, I just couldn't afford it. And it's a nice unit, a beautiful sound. Most all of the old equipment you're going to run into is tube. That means that your processor, your amplifiers, your amps, and your onboard circuitry about 50% at least will probably be tube if it's got the television probably from the same era while it might have some transistors they'll probably be the larger format transistors they're usually pricey to replace on their stereo systems but they're about the size of a quarter by the way but about the thickness of five quarters stacked those transistors are anywhere from 75 to 150 to 300 dollars apiece Everybody wants them in the industry because they've got heavy pieces of equipment that use the exact same transistors you have in many of these things that people are throwing out. Duh! They have no clue what they're throwing out anymore. And that's good for us, bad for them, but it's also bad because a lot of stuff is going into the trash heap that shouldn't be destroyed or that they could make big, big money on and don't have a clue. The type of stereo systems I'm talking about are component stereo systems where you would think somebody would take that home because it's recognized names. It's not like we're talking, you know, Pan-Tui, Chow Chung Bong Bong, although, again, if it's fee of a senseui or whatever, it's Asian. And the thing is that this stuff is in excellent condition. I got a complete stereo system. I just shifted sideways to one of our people at one of our micro stations. I wouldn't have bought it, it would cost probably $5,000, $4,000, $5,000, $5,000. I gave them the whole system. I got it for a whopping, they gave it to me. You know what I mean? I got it for, they gave it to me. You know? You know Mark, on the auxiliary connection in the back of this console, it sounds better than surround sound. I'll tell you that right now. Hooking my DVD player into it, it sounds better than surround. Well, and the reason for that, if you have the ability to put the outlying field speakers, is that, remember that, audio amplifier is probably grossly overpowered for that reason, to give it theater sound. Even though it's older, it could be from the 60s, doesn't make any difference. That onboard amplifier, probably again, an eight tube unit, is about as good as you could ask for. The big thing is people think, you tube! People don't know that right now in sound they're going back to tube. Now they're not going to the original tube format with everything. They've got new fixture bases and in some cases the tubes are now square, but only because it's just an engineering vogue issue. Seriously, the old tube patterns would work just fine. Somebody just decided, well, if we're going to build a new tube, how can we make it? Can we make it different? Can we make it look neat? The big thing, remember, back in the early 90s was to start going to expose tube technology. There were a bunch of big companies selling amplifiers where they stacked the tubes right out in the open. And since everything was chromed and everything was polished glass, they did look impressive. It looked like it was right out of a 1920-09 or 1931 Frankenstein movie. Actually, it looked better. Because you enamel the bases and you have all these stack frames where there's three or four 2x6 type platforms and they put all the electrical fixtures right out in the open and it does look neat as hell. In fact, if you keep the lights off, you've got all those glowing tubes, it creates an ambiance all its own, which is really neat. Well, they throw in a few of those, again, Jacob's Ladder arc makers, and it really does do the Frankenstein thing for you. Go ahead. Well, not only the console, but everybody makes fun of my retro kitchen, because I got a 1960s toaster. I told you it's a percolator. Well, I'm searching for all those items because in the long run, number one, parts, everybody's looking for parts. If you keep grabbing these, right now the beautiful thing is you've got eBay and all these other systems. Guys, you can sell parts out as quick as you've got them. People are hunting for this stuff, so the smart person would be simply make up a space and box by category and then start marketing the stuff out, searching for IWANTS. Like Craigslist has got lots of IWANTS. Well, you look for the stuff that's close to you, minimize your distance and time, and you can buy a lot of Army gear and a lot of survival gear for what you're selling that percolator cap. Let me give you an example. We just had one of these veg-all blenders. I got it for free. The cap was missing. Now it's bizarre as we went to check on the caps. The originals are going like for $29. By chance I went over to the restore and got one there. She gave it to me. They didn't have the unit, but they had the lid. Now in the meantime we ordered a copy for like $8. And so we spent the $8, but then now we got two lids. Well, I'm not going to throw the other one away because I know what they're worth. $29 apiece. But $29 for not a copy, but one of the originals. Now that's more than the machine went for back in the day when they were sold. Now these are industrial, you know, chop your finger off type blenders. I mean, you stick your hand in there, it's not coming back. You know what I mean? Grossly overpowered motors, guys. Oh, God. Well, you know, Mark, I even hooked up the retro toaster because Dollar General and only one side worked, if you ever heard of that. If it doesn't burn the house down. And that's the other thing I got into a conversation. When was the last time? How much stuff out there has United Laboratories on it anymore, Larry? I mean, under-underwater, but- Not a clue. I mean, underwriters. UL, underwriters. But yeah, you also had, yeah, exactly. You had UL. Underwriters, I'm sorry. Did I say underwriters? Okay, yes. Okay, go ahead. Well, I mean, I can say my kitchen all has UL and they all got the old power cord. Right. Well, the reason I brought that up is because we were disassembling stuff. I have a pile of stuff I disassemble and every day I try to take 15 minutes and disassemble stuff. And the reason I do that is because I'm cannibalizing screws, nuts, bolts. Nothing in threaded stock ever gets thrown away unless it's rusted. If it's rusted, it goes in the fragmentation for anti-personnel devices. So rusted metal stuff that's small and tiny goes over into the shred your arse. Anything that's serviceable gets saved. Heads for cassette players get saved. Heating elements for electronic devices get saved. For the same reason I mentioned those lids on the blenders. But I'm talking again older stuff. It's got to be crushed or broken badly. And if anything left is functional on it, I take it off. That's how I've been maintaining our GE coffee pots for the last, what, 10 years. Somebody usually damages something on theirs, although 90% of what I've got, two more in spares that are brand new never issued. And again, they're all stainless steel. They've got a glass drip unit on the roof, stainless steel cap. and the internals are either stainless if they're older or plastic if they're you know post 77, 78 I think. Actually I think it was back 74 with some of them. But that's the way to do things right now guys. Start watching for these people getting rid of grandpa stuff because it's old. They've got something made in China that looks like it but for some strange reason it weighs one quarter as much and just doesn't seem to do what it's supposed to do. You know like the can opener that can open cans. or the toaster that half of it doesn't work right out of the box. If you're looking for really good stereo equipment, Mark, the older stereo stuff, the tubes, the Marantz is one of those names that... Oh, I've always watched Marantz. I've got a Marantz system in the other room here, part of it. Not complete, but I've got a turntable. Yes, that's my point. There's all these brands. Everybody would recognize the brand names if you're our age. And what's amazing to me is even if you're younger, you should know better. Let me give you a little hint about something, guys. Remember all these dinosaur keyboards that are made by IBM and made by Zenith that were heavy as a brick doghouse? And everybody wanted to get rid of them because they wanted those new ultra-light keyboards? Do you know what one of those old dinosaur clacky clacky keyboards can go for right now? Let me see if somebody's in the chat room there. They can quote in the chat room for me too. No, he's not there. He'll probably hear the program tomorrow. Guys, I have boxes of those and I got them for either like free or for a dollar a piece at the U of M when we were buying all those gateway computers. And I like the older, heavier keyboard, but I'm using a new Compaqs that's probably about 10, 15 years old, but it's new out of the box and it's nice because it's got a good stiff key to it, right? I just had to change it out because the other one got messed up. Well, right now, $65 base price for one of those keyboards. Why? Because the gamers want them. Why? Because all the new keyboards don't hold up to all the pounding, but the old keyboards, $65 to a couple hundred dollars a keyboard. Did you save your old ones and just put them on the shelf? I still have mine. Yeah, well, I'm not going to have some of mine pretty soon. You know, you get my drift. It's like wine, it's like I've told everybody. There's a point where things get so cheap, they get cheap because people think they're common. And then there's that given drop off point, and I've seen this with surplus for years. And you all have too if you were buying all this china junk back in the 90s. Remember when a Makarov pistol was $65 a piece? Brand new in the box? Remember when you were buying all of that macro of ammunition for 3 cents a round? And you could buy Tokarev pistols for $69.95, brand new in the box? Now your dollar was pretty worth quite a bit. And if you think about it, that was a hell of a buy. Well, again, what happened? They stayed at about $69 for a long time. SKS is $59.95. And they stayed there at $59 for about 6, 7, 10 years. Actually, 10 years, about 6-7 years, and then they started to creep up and went to 89. Then they went to 100, 110, 125, 150, 200. Same is true with all this other stuff. There's a point at which it goes from, oh, there's a lot of that around to, oh, boy, I really miss that fill-in-the-blank that I had before. Then, at a given point, because the industry goes far enough around the corner with lack of quality, that all those things that everybody used to use for years on end, they find out they're only good for weeks or months on end, then they start looking for the old stuff. Which, by the way, most people, strangely enough, did get rid of rather than just putting off on the shelf. I know it takes up space, but the same is true for a lot of other things that we've been talking about for years, guys. I don't care what it is. Why? Well, one more thing here before we get to farther Georgia. 1903 Springfields. Guys, you know I got Springfield stocks all day for a dollar apiece. I used to be known as the guy to go for for Springfield stocks because I literally had them stacked like cordwood. drill team stocks that I personally used when I was in the military because we would change out stocks constantly because when you're doing like a waterfall and you make a mistake that rifle doesn't bounce too well. It will bounce and it bounces for a while but at some point you finally hit it wrong and you drop it while you're doing any number of different things. Anybody and everybody can have it happen and do it in training. Well when the stock gets messed up it gets taken off and thrown away because it's got a crack. We can't have you shishkababbing yourself with your own rifle stock, right? Well, I had piles of those. Do you know what the price, I got to remember a dollar a piece, $4 a piece would get you a pristine brand new never issued Rock Island Armory, Remington Armory, Flinchchester, whoever built it, right? Go price the 1903 Springfield stock right now. And here's the kicker, you know I have people that have been calling me Heemar. Have you still got any of those broken Springfield, those cracked Springfield stocks? You know why? Because even the cracked ones are going for $140, $150 a piece, guys. People were throwing out, and I said, don't throw those out because an armor we repair with the US military is a brass screw through the crack area. It's glued, brass screwed. You cut the brass off on the outer surface. You finish accordingly and then relinseed oil, and that's military standard. And lo and behold, guess what they're all doing out there? Oh, they're going one step farther. They're trying to make it look like it was never cracked or broken at all because they've got all these new adhesives. So again, don't even throw the broken military parts away. Make up a junk barrel or a box where you put a lid on, put them in the box, and forget about them. It's like wine. All they're going to do is appreciate. They're not going anywhere, and they're not going to cost anything. You already paid for them. OK, just a basic rule there. Go ahead. What else, you guys? I have a Marshall guitar amp head that was made back in the 1970s and people were wanting to buy it from me. Well, if they are for the right price, that's more ammunition. The way I translate everything now is how much ammo. I'm serious. Here's the balance for this. Did your dad own it? No, I bought it. No, I'm just saying. Let's get down the shopping list. The reason I wouldn't get rid of something is it has family value. The next is friends value. In other words, a friend gifted to me because all of his life he used this. I've got musicians or friends that are in the Patriot Movement that have given me things I will never give away and I will never sell. Okay, that I understand. But if like where you just bought it, are you playing on breaking out on the stage? Well, I'm going to be getting it up. It's sort of sentimental because I cut many lawns to get that marshal head. Well that's nice but it's what's it worth now? I don't know. Well a lot. A lot? Okay well how many AKs is it worth? You know you could even do that with people nowadays. You know what you want this? I can tell you where to go. Go grab me a couple AKs, get me so many cases of ammo and you can have this. How's that sound? Oh by the way I need 20 mags for the rifles. and I'll throw in a speaker with it. electronics, it's up and down. Hang on to that, George. Don't sell it. Hang on to it in five or ten years. It's not going to go down. Everything that we've had that's been music technology, the basic rule, I haven't talked about this, another investment thing with electronics. Guys, if anything you run into, if you're already yard sailing, you don't know what it is, and it has slab wood sides and a metallic structured body. Usually it will be stressed aluminum, it will have some kind of light chrome, it will be brushed and it's a solid finish, it's not plastique or matted or anything like with an applique, although there might be applique decals. If it's solid wood sides left and right and that's the legs for the thing, typically, I mean real wood, it will be like maple, it will be oak, those were typically custom built for the industry. They're usually big names in the electronic You know like Moog was never known until the Moog synthesizer came all the Moog actually did a lot of other stuff to the Moog You know name was known But when Moog synthesizer from that point forward if you were around back in the late late 60s and 70s Well everybody knew it Moog we had to have if you were a big bad yet about Moog synthesizer You didn't know what the hell it did and you had to figure out how to make noise out of it and and they became the pioneers for synthesizer technology you ever had on whatever band it was. Well the same is true with all the other sound equipment that got that sound from the synthesizer to the recording studio, you know into the recording system. And even for mobile use, if you see any of this stuff you're trying to look at it and figure out what it is, it's like, well man, what does it do? And then you realize, oh I recognize that. And the reason I'm being nebulous is because guys, there's a whole lot of equipment out there like this. It's already valuable but you've got to figure out where it's niche. With every passing month it's going to appreciate in price. A couple of years ago I had a cassette player. It was back when cassette came in first on with a little leer. I had a single unit guys that took one cassette and the unit was as big as a computer monitor. It was typical for back of the day because it went from reel to reel to cassette. So you had these massive sound systems but with only a cassette system for pushing the sound, for getting the noise to the amplifiers into the system. The guy just wanted that with his teeth ached so badly and so we made a happy deal and his teeth ached less. I was happy because, like I said before, if it's something that's not sentimental to me, If that personally that amp is yours and it's going to keep it because it's yours, you're going to pass on to your kids, fine. Anybody out there listening with rifles, I look at it the same way. If it's not something where dad had it, grandpa had it, Uncle Fred gave it to me, my best friend or one of my old friends gave it to me and it's a cherished heirloom, that stays in the heirloom category. But if I come across a Cap'n Ball original 1856 Harper's Ferry and it's in decent shape and that could buy me a whole lot of stuff and it would. It really, really would. Then it's going down the road because, and I'll make sure, because I know it's going to a collector who first of all is going to have great, you know, he's going to appreciate what he's getting, number one. So I don't have to worry about it being chopped up for firewood or, you know, hacked down to a sporter. It's not going to happen. That's the other half of this. Am I routing it to where I know it's more likely to be preserved? I'll never give it to a government museum. I'll never give it to a private museum. But I would sell it to a private collector because they will appreciate it and they know its value. And the same is true with other people in the industry. You get a chance to talk to them. You make a decision. You don't have to sell anything. But I would, especially since I'm always eyeballing for stuff that where can I at least get something out of this and it doesn't go to the landfill. Because that's the most common thing happening with better tech. It's going to the landfill or it's going to the stinking Chinese so they can make weapons to kill us with. Or the Israelis, so they can make weapons to kill us with. There's no difference between the two. So just something to think about there. And again, it's a way to translate right now especially. And I'm not going to try and fix anybody's brain on this anymore. I've done a waste of a lot of my time over the years. You know, you're sure you don't want to keep that and sell that? I've done that, guys. And they're like, whoa, you're trying to pull something over on me. It's like, well, you know, it is worth probably more if you go out and sell it. Oh, I'd have to waste my time. Oh, OK, well, it's worth $6,000, right? So you're wasting your time by spending a few minutes getting up on some machine and finding out what it's worth and maybe marketing it. In fact, here's the thing. How about market it for half the value and undercut everybody and get it moved fast? Oh, well, and you know, I don't even talk to people about that anymore. I don't. I'm not worried about it. You mentioned something to them. They're acting like you're trying to do something to them. The hell with them. Seriously. I'm finished with that. I've got too many other people to worry about that are friendly, they're intelligent, using their brains, and that I like. So, the hell with the goofs. Well, Mark, I did talk to a former Israeli defense here because he's tired and want to kill. You know what he said? Those rockets are firing him. are from Gaza, you get more powerful stand here. Oh, I know. The whole idea behind that is it's all BS if half of it is really generated to begin with. That's the whole point. And they're trying to push. Here's the thing. Nobody's wanted to buy their iron bucket. You know, the umbrella scam? The iron dome. Yeah, no, iron bucket. No. I said that for I know what its name is. If I'm being derogatory, you know, it's probably a reason. Well, here's how it works. It's like the Exocet missile. When the Exocet missile was used by the Argentines against the British and they sank a destroyer, remember, burned it to the hull, all of a sudden Exocet missiles had this. They just sold everywhere. Everybody had to have one. Well, the iron scam isn't selling because it's like seven times the price for one tenth the value. Remember what we said about Israeli weapons? They're all junk. You know, there's stupid pricing. We paid to make them happen. That's what's going on right now. Look at them! Now it's waking! I'm showing you! Look, you need about a hundred of them! You need a hundred of our iron buckets! Now, when you come up against real weapon systems and other stuff, it's not going to be so iron-buckety. Well, actually it'd be like Bucket of Bolts. But, too late. You know, they're like... You remember Star Trek and the Ferengi? Guys, they were showing you what they were... they were the space Jews! They really were! Instead of the noses of the ears, right? Everything was there and they intentionally did that, but remember originally they remember real rotten bat buggers. And then was Deep Space Out 9, you know, Deep Space 9. Oh, they made them out to be such loving, cuddly monster teddy bears with fangs, didn't they? Oh, the big lobes and the big schnozes. But they were really okay after all, weren't they? You're right. Well, remember what the Grand Nagas said? Gentlemen, the Gamma Quadrant is open. And since we can't sell garbage here, we need to go there where our background isn't known and our name is not tarnished. Because they tarnish their own name by doing what they do. Oi, but it's the same thing. It's like right now that what they're trying to do is they're trying to sell a weapon system in what is a heavy market. Now their logic is if they can kick up enough wars, then people would get stuck with it. But if they die, they can blame on a number of other things like you did not operate the equipment when you get rained down with sophisticated weapon systems that roll right through the iron bucket. See how that works? The whole idea here is that they are trying to market a product. Everything is product marketability. When I first handled the Galil rifle, I couldn't believe that it was the Israelis that made it because of all the propaganda about how wonder bar the Galil was. The receivers had pockmarks and holes in them from poor casting. I'd seen Chinese junk that had done better where they had, what they do is to hide the blem, you cover it with chrome. That way, the only one you have, like if you have a faucet when you put pressure on it, that's when you find out where all the holes are in the casting because the chrome doesn't hold up for very long. Well, the Israelis didn't even do that. And this hunk of junk was like three times the cost of a regular AK. And it's like, I wouldn't buy that. I can buy an AK, a real AK, sheet steel for You know, $125. The Goliels were $700. Wait a minute. Goliels $700, piece of Israeli junk. Chinese made Israeli junk, but not Israeli junk, and it works. And no pockmarks. And the slaves did a better job with the finish. So gee, which way would you go? I could get, oh, like four or five AKs with the price of one stinking Goliel. Oh, and wait. The Goliel takes special mags, which cost $25 to $40 a piece. I could buy the 8K mags for $1.25 a piece. Hey, which way would I go? Oh, that's right, Chinese 8K. And most everything they do is just grossly over-propagandized. Well, just like Mark when I heard about the airstrikes in Ukraine killing a thousand of the rebels. Well, that comes back to you. Both sides are puffing up that because they're again it's it's as much a propaganda wars anything and you've got you know liars in all directions with regard to the Shasters on the end from the west coming in there and stirring the pot And what we're at the top. There anything else before we go. Yeah, I got one story here I'm looking at it says Murietta mutiny border patrol will not obey unlawful orders from the homeland Gestapo and White House and So, resistance is not futile folks. The story is not confirmed, but the last thing we heard was they were going to send riot police out to boot the demonstrators. That has not happened, so they kind of lends credence to this. Supposedly, the Border Patrol, these people which live in Murietta, basically told home Obama and the home lane Gestapo to go to hell, and no more buses have been delivered out there. Assuming that story is accurate, that's good news. There's a tied-in story with that that's done by the gentleman who was told to shut up who is the Border Patrol union rep. Right. And he flat out said he brought up something, and it's very important in the middle of his dissertation.