Thanks for listening to Live 365. Our valued supporters know us well for our large selection of musical genres at the click of a mouse. But did you know you can now take the music with you on your smartphone? Learn more at Live365.com slash smartphone. Live 365. Sound of a revolution. Thank you for listening to LibertyTruRadio.4MG.com. Are your local stores sold out of ammunition? Call or visit them today for prices on hard to find ammo and bulk ammo orders. You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MaineMilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need, all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at MaineMilitary.com. That's Maine like the state, Military.com. The other night that 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, 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's 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 and 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 murdered. 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 to get 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 in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms He fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free I'm sorry. I didn't hear anything you you guys we talked about the radio and the phones and whatnot, but you know we're gonna just you know run through the emergency procedure drill and now we've got another one in the chamber and how does that go now? Let me see. It is afternoon. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. You're tuned to Liberty Tree Radio, broadcasting to all points of the compass and to each and every one of our brothers and sisters on and behind the lines in occupied territories the intelligence report. Now, that's our primary. You can be listening on, oh how about that, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio. Again, how about that? How about that Indiana Freedom Talk Radio? Yee-haw! Or the numerous and many other broadcasters that you might be listening to varying from Citizens Band Radio to AM or FM. All of you guys, we can lump the Citizens Band people in there with the short-range broadcasters. Some of them reach out farther than some of the Short Rangers, notice I didn't call you that other thing, it starts with an M and it kind of just sounds like la-di-da. Again, the Short Rangers gives you some teeth. You're doing something because you guys are at the front. That's right down in the trenches. That's another way to look at that. But we could put a benchmark on this. Today is the fifth day of August, 2014. It is a particular day, maybe a little more on that in a while. I'm going to run out on a twig here and say I'm Don Betcher. I'm guessing we still don't have Mark with us. So I heard a ding or two there and I've got to run back to a thicker limb so you can hang around for a while. At any rate you guys, it is again beautiful day. It rained, it rained, it brought in the things. I've got some of the things done I wanted to do outside and one major thing before the rain came so far. It was in that sense. It was a great wonderful day. Now it might rain a little more. It stopped again in the 5th of 2014. So now we're pretty much past Kaching, you know the benchmark, you know stamp an ID into it hit it with a hammer again because well Sometimes the numbers don't take the first time. So, you know, just make sure you don't move that tool that aligns all the way dies and holds those dies in the right place. Hit it with a big hammer again and when you lift it up you've got all the proper numbers all across the top of that cylinder case. I call them blocks. If you've worked hand worked, porting and both intake and exhaust of a particular cylinder head and you want to put your name on it, you put a number on that job, don't you? kind of claim that as yours. You'll send guns some places and they'll put finishes on them and I'm not going to mention any place in particular. But some gunsmiths, you guys, I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but some gunsmiths, you give them your gun, he works on it, be it a revolver he might the timing or he might not work. Some revolvers you guys to change the cylinder isn't as easy as or some other things that people just aren't able to do for themselves. We've talked about the more you can do for yourself. A whole other we could talk about for an hour or three. Let's go back to this and we could talk about something that's even more common. You might have your grandfather's golden watch when he worked for the railroad or when he retired from here or there and they gave him a gold pocket watch. It might have had to have gone into service, but look for this in your guns if you had to send your gun out to a gunsmith. It comes back and right there you might own a slide gun and never take the grips off. That's true. There are people who look at that magazine well. I know it's not a Weapons Wednesday, but we can use this as an example. They look at that magazine well as It has a hole at the bottom and if I rinse everything out, everything is fine. You can literally take two walls out of that well. Most people don't never do that. But when you take off one of those covers on your 1911 or your Glock or something, you might see something that wasn't there before. back down and it might be ever so fine that you have to get out a little magnifying glass, a little ten power to read your gunsmith's initials and the date that he... The same thing goes over to again, you know, hot rodder as you take your car to a hot rod place and they take the motor out and they put the motor back together and they put their numbers on it too. They're proud of what they do. There are certain big names in the Corvette world, certain big names in the Mustang world. You take your Mustang to them and you let them work on it. You pay them the big bucks and when it rolls out it looks like a whole lot of other Mustangs. When you pop the hood it has some pretty neat parts. Did you get them from the hot rod store down the street? No, they were installed by the manufacturer. They were installed with the guy whose name is cast into it right there. The guy who wins every fifth or seventh our race. There are the numbers that verify it. So again, you put numbers on things so that one of the ways is like it's King Kong at the top of the Empire State Building and he's holding on to the Empire State Building and he's beating on his chest with his other gorilla hand. But he's kind of trying to brag, he's kind of trying to warn you. A lot of it's bragging, but when we do a job, you guys, when we look at something and pick it up from the front. Whether it's restore this car or restore this house, restore the Constitution. Sometimes we ask you to compare an inch to a mile and I know that there's a big difference and I know that that was a great leap. We talked earlier in the day about not living this life trying to pick some other place to live. That involved a leap of faith. But we go back to this, restoring the car or a house. Some people would buy an old, old house and literally gut it and put it in, if it had a master lath wall, they'd put in two by fours and square it out with strings and levels and all kinds of things. They'd just put up the drywall, the sheetrock from China. You make that effort from beginning to end, you're going to live in that house. You want to make that house as best as you can. You might even run up something when you're done. This house was first built in 1903 and restored in 2014. The restoration finished in 2014. Guitar makers and other instrument makers, you look into that little hole inside through the sound box of the guitar and if it's of any kind of name, anything that deserves a name, violins are the same way. You look through that little sound, the hole in the sound box there and you flash a light in there and you see the maker's name on a piece of paper that was glued to that wood. One of the last things before that was that shell was enclosed. They put their name on their work. They'd need more of that. People call into the hour and they're happy to say, this is Frank from Texas, this is Harold from wherever. This is good that we need more of that. We need that. I'm putting my name on my action and I'm claiming it. This is what I did. Think about that. That goes over to another portion of what was mentioned and what we talk about every now and then. There are some great conclusions that you can come to after you've been around for a while. It's not a down original to put it in this way, but you're born, you live, and you die. Those are a couple of great events in your life but it's what you do in between that counts. I've stole that from somebody else and it goes back almost into antiquity. Somebody figured that out a long time ago. Most people never do. We're good. Also, I have an assistant. Okay. But again, you guys, this goes back over to some things we'll touch on. a week ago for four or six minutes. Another little portion of it fits in. We tried to example this over time a number of different ways. Even this morning, talking about Mr. Otto working on me trying to open my eyes, across a number of years. Literally, I don't say that as encouragement to you. I say that in a way to beat myself up because he was working as hard as he could. Almost exactly every time you saw me, hey look at this, take this home and read it. Watch this video. We are going back to the times when videos were in black boxes and the tape went from real to real. What do they call those VCRs? But again, you guys, there are so many different things to put the puzzle together and to recognize it for yourself. That is political enlightenment, militia enlightenment, whatever you want to say. But we can talk about Starting a job, doing the best you can and seeing that through, be it restoring a car, restoring the house, or restoring the Constitution. That's the way we have to look at this. This is work. This is something if you pick up the handle you don't want to walk away from. If you pick up the handle of this, you know, Marcus said this, I do that figuratively. I say, Marcus said many times, many hands make for light work. If you reach in, if you help to turn the crank or push the button or grab onto the handle, whatever way you want to see it, it's kind of something you should stay committed to. It's kind of something, you know, there are people who have come and gone. We've seen that in the radio world. We've seen that in the gun shows. We've seen that all different kinds of life. People step into a venue and they have an interest in it. They'll look around and stumble around until they satisfy that initial interest. Many times that's what they find out initially. Their fingernail scratches of the surface. It calms that initial interest and then they walk on to something else. What is it this year or this spring or right now? When you pick up that political action to restore the Constitution, it's one of those things you don't want to let go of the handle. You don't want to, if you figure you're the one carrying the banner, you do not want to put it down. This is a job we wish to see through to the end. Now we've offered up different examples. There are a number of people, more than ten years Bill Cooper has gone, there are a number of people, big, big names who have risen and told you the truth and aren't even here anymore. They have spent their life doing it. It's up, you know, I would say. I sat here over the weekend talking about life insurance. That's kind of rude and crude and it's no fun to talk about well what if and if I, here, this is what you'll have if I coke tomorrow. That word what I'm referring to, if I coke tomorrow, I'm not a frog. You know what I'm talking about. But again, you guys, it's an ongoing thing. We can look at it like even if the other side just laid down its arms and surrendered everything and just gave us all of their bullets and told the soldiers that you're going to defend the American people and that's your job and you took an oil for the Constitution and that's all you've got to do. We're going to let you take your guns home now and build that militia into America. All kinds of things it would be really good for. If that soldier is committed and he's got that oath, why bother about, well, he's got a couple of RPGs in his basement, or he has hidden them somewhere, much like the Swiss do. But he knows where they are when needed. But if they were to do that, and all of it, that grander restored to America, and your freedom right there put in front of you when you recognize it and know it and say, I am finally free, don't you think that tomorrow or next week or the month after that you're going to have to work something. You're going to have to pick up a hammer and a chisel and work something away from the great formation, freedom, that is trying to destroy it. It's an ongoing thing. But again, the root of this item, Mark, was you start a job, you commit to it, you see it through to the end, and then you might even put numbers on it or your name on it. There's this one guy who painted a whole bunch of pictures, some of them, he put his name on it. I don't even have to mention names. There's another guy who built a company. He put his name on it. See where we're going with that? When you say that this is mine, I put my mark on this, you tend to work harder at the job and you tend to see it through to the end. I'm going to do this. He's Mark Cornke. And that's Don Betcher. We are one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, east, and south. Don, today's date is? It's the fifth day of August, team. I don't think you've mentioned anything yet, but before we go any farther, we're almost to the bottom of the hour as it is. Night vision technology, you have it. Guys, we're... looking at the bad guys doing everything they can to try and even even commenting now on the illegal aliens the illegal aliens you know the illegal aliens uh... guess what As far as I'm concerned, boot to the butt and back over the fence ASAP. It's interesting that with all the confrontations that are going on, where they're using the same tricks they always have, the best thing to do is hold the border. We can make all the other noise. Anybody else can protest? Go ahead and protest. The big thing is get our people on the border. We're going to be there 24-7. We can lock down the border quite easily between Chupacabra, Obama masks for all of our troops. and a whole bunch of other fun stuff that can be done while it's not really funny, it's just the idea. What will they say? What will they say? The cult of Obama will show up on the border, but at night, the chupacabra will rain. And, well, we want to see what's going on with the other side. It would be kind of cool to get some of their faces on film when the time comes. So, Don's Night Vision technology is a solution. Don, how can we get ahold of you? What do you have and what are the changes coming up, please? Well, we've sold out the two power, so there's an example of the change. We won't see that two power in green screen if the company takes hold of some suggestions. It's a matter of different color LEDs, you guys. Let's see what ... This has been run up their flagpole. Let's see who salutes it over there. Right now we're looking at in that same body that you guys bought the two power green screen in, a white screen. The guts, the internals, that's a highly technical term. The innards. from a DVD, a digital video camera or recorder, put into a piece of night vision and they're calling that first generation. Now that's all well and good. You get a better picture, they say, but you know, you get white light coming out of the device. This is one of the reasons why you get a better picture because now you're looking at a dinky little black and white television screen, something your eye is more familiar with and even historically you might even find a black and white television screen in your grandparents. and it's still burning. You turn it on and with the little converter box man you see all kinds of things in black and white. High definition, converted to black and white. My. At any rate, that's gone. The 2 power, we've got the 4 power and the 6 power left in the same body with respectively a bigger lens moving up. Or rather the 4 power and the 5 power. Now, that 4 power you guys, the manufacturer gets $449 for it. Doesn't it get delivery? I'll put it right in your mailbox. Total and including the two year warranty on the device, total and all of that right down the complete bottom line, $390. And that, did I mention that includes delivery, $390. Now, we can go up to the 5 power. I'm not certain what that would cost me for the increase in magnification. If you want to go up with it, it narrows your field of view. It does have a bigger lens, which is all well and good. We've addressed that over the years. The more magnification, the bigger the lens. We don't have to add a whole bunch of elements behind it to interfere with the amount of light that gets to the night vision tube. We won't dwell on this a whole lot. First generation gun sight for power right in your mailbox $390. I can do a second generation gun sight at 2 power. Both of these are 308 capable. They'll live on your main battle rifle on your FN FAL, on your M1 or your AR-10. Yee-haw! Purpose built and they will come screw down to a Picatiniora Weaver rail. So we're getting really close to putting one on your gun. You've got a Weaver rail there. There's a Weaver rail there in reverse and you match it up and put the cross where you want it, you know, the keeper and tighten things down and now you're going to be looking for a zero. But my number, you've talked to me about that device or a second generation device, I can give you a price on that, that second generation device at 2 power right in your mailbox delivery included two year warranty, again right in your mailbox, $248. I think that's the cheapest I've ever been able to offer. It's only by a few bucks, but the cheapest I've ever been able to offer second generation gun sight you guys are rifle scope night vision my numbers two three one seven nine six eight four five eight again two three one seven nine six eight four goggles or gun sight screens screens or thermal oh let's do this I per couple of dings but we might have a caller we have any dollars R6 unmute yourself again if you have any questions especially about the night vision issues because Don is here Guys, we are looking at deploying a lot of different equipment. I understand we are going to have a bunch of Vietnam stuff that is being pulled out. Again, we service test it every so often. Some of the equipment is a little heavier than you might expect as far as some of the bigger artillery tech, which is kind of cool. In addition to that, laser rangefinders, something else that was picked up. There was a short window years ago in the post Vietnam era when a lot of the mid generation laser rangefinders and night vision optics were sold into the market. Mostly a surplus coming back in where we gave them to one of our allies who then sold them on the rental. We gave them to them and they sold them on the rental revolution market for top dollar back in the day. So there is a lot of overlapping equipment, infrared technologies out there. The starlight that we're looking at right now that Don has is smaller, lighter, and very efficient. Most everybody's going, wow, this works a lot better than I expected. And that's just first generation. Think about it. Second and third is out there. There's even used second generation out there now how it was abused and who used it. Well, we don't know. That's the problem with some of the stuff. It's obvious, Don, right now, some one of the rental revolution companies has either changed out or has gone out of business because Body Armor, some night vision, and of course the AR-15 slash M4 knockoffs Some I don't have been offered in guys they they're worse than anything I've actually ever seen in surplus in terms of Normally they go, you know down the stuff goes at least back through an armory and gets cleaned up You know what I mean? And it gets dusted it gets you know air-blown it gets maybe repainted Nothing like that. I'll tell you what take a look. Let me give an example of this for all of our listeners go take a look at CenterfireSystems.com and go look at the $450 AR15A3 Shorty, it's an M4 knockoff semi-auto, but look at the picture. Zoom it in and notice there are ten dust lines in all the crevasses in any place where stuff can collect. Now we've talked about this before. When you get to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Dust of Ages is what I've called it for years. It's reality what it used to be. It used to be talking about gets into everything. Everybody knows it. It's the silt of ages, of ages and ages of civilization and the desert. God knows what Babylonian, you're probably sucked in today. If you're over there right now, three or four Babylonians, a handful of Sumerians. Some of that used to be a sandal. Yeah, exactly. And all kinds of stuff. Just the dust of ages. Well, there's some night vision that came in. It's not cheap, and it is second gen. I was looking at it and I zoomed in the images and it's the same thing. I'm telling you, there's a little bit of body armor that came in for another company and they want top dollars, level four. It's the same thing. There wasn't even an effort to turn this stuff around in any kind of armory or whatever. Normally it is because they want to push it into the market. This came in from an odd angle. And it all has that really, really heavy Star Wars lived in effect. I mean, I've had K-98s in every condition you can imagine, guys. And unless it was a battlefield pickup that somebody stuffed in a closet, like in a basement, in a barn, I've never seen equipment that's looked this grungy. And it's out on the regular market. Even when it gets to the regular market, it used to be, at least when it got to the dealer, they'd do something about it. and they're not. It's like, eh, eh, eh, don't do that anymore. What do you want out of this guy? If you want out of this guy, boy, I'm not. I got a lot of things to do. I'm watching a video game. That's really the attitude, because you'd have somebody, you hire a couple of well-held, and I'll be Mexican, coolies, you know what I mean? And all they do is detail work. One thing is you put them on a job, and just stay focused. But it's not even happening there. So just case in point, I'm seeing things that kind of express what we've talked about with regard to the white care or the lackadaisical attitude that is part of what is the underpinnings of third world countries or communist occupied states. Seriously, the lack of detail, even with freebies and all kinds of other stuff, it's like when you're a wealthy country you can give things away so you can get people motivated hopefully to buy more of what you got. You mean if there's a long scratch in the stock of that SK or that AK? You take the brown crayon and you run it down the scratch and then you take a rag and you just buff that crayon into the scratch for a while. After a while it just looks like a long piece of grain in the wood. It looks just like the rest of everything there. Exactly. But even there, there's tired SKS. Think about this, how many of you have bought those tired SKS's? Not the ones that were brand new from China, and not the brand new ones from even Yugoslavia, the Model 66 that came in there. I'm talking about the stuff that was service used. The finish is shiny, where there's bluing or there was bluing, there's rough edges that are just cleaned off to metal. But you didn't see dirt caked into them. You know what I mean? You didn't see dirt caked into the stock. I mean, there are some crude ones. I've seen Battlefield pickups that look like, you know, look like Asdfer Blood, Aliens gotcha. You know what I mean? Because that's what was on them. And it just kept eating away at things, because somebody didn't clean it up the way they were supposed to originally. But other than that, I mean, The worst I've seen are tired, but they're just used tired finish slash cleaned a lot, cleaned a lot, put in the rack, cleaned a lot, shot, cleaned a lot, and it wears. I mean, that's just natural wear. These things coming in now, if you wanted to get that prop effect for Desert Dust Part 4, The Adventure Continues, you could prop a person out and you don't have to worry about air dusting them or trying to simulate. It looks crusty, dusty, and rusty. Right from the get go, right out of the box. But that also means that there's going to be other, you know, see my issue on this, this is why I haven't had a chance to see any of these ARs that were FAR 450 but also the other equipment. If they look like that on the outside guys and there's enough garbage that's built up on them like that, I kind of doubt anybody did any internal maintenance. You know what I mean? So just something to think about there. That's why I was going to talk to one of the other companies about the, again, where did you guys get these? Was this somebody in country where they just dumped a bunch of stuff and everybody gave them a wink and a nod and just let them do it? See, that's the other thing. Normally, it wouldn't fly. So there's some interesting stuff happening even in the rental revolution market with regard to available resources and it's something you all need to pay attention to. I'm not telling you to expect less, but I'm telling you what you should see probably on the horizon is going to be less. Here's the other thing to consider. They never thought we'd run out of folding shovels. Remember we've talked about this for years? How much are they now? Oh hell, the repros, the reproductions from Communist China, which by the way, when the folding shovels were coming from Communist China, you know what we were paying for them? $1.97 a unit. wholesale. I mean that was brand new with grease on them and with a plastic wrapper the whole nine yards. Presently the least expensive model from communist China that's a copy of a Swiss or a German folding shovel depending which model you want. And remind you there are copies of the surplus to look like surplus. This is so you'll feel that you might be getting a Swiss shovel when you're not, or a German shovel when you're not. Kind of like when they were making all those copies of the American surplus, which they're not mostly anymore. So the stuff that you're so used to that works so well, I've told you this before. If you see it and it's cheap, grab it. Now pay attention, because you'll notice they're kind of acknowledging that they're repros, but you've got to pay attention. The steel is going to be different, the finish is going to be different, the thicknesses are going to be different, and then they're still charging whatever price they possibly can because in general the exchange and the cost of doing business and everything else has changed too. Or it's made in Yusa. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah. So, again, that's one of the other things to keep in mind when you're looking at all of the technology that's out there. in terms of surplus. Take advantage of the stuff we're talking about, the Swiss and the Swedish, because it's not going to be around much longer. The China Wall, consider this. Go look at videos of the Ukraine. Go look at videos of Syria. In fact, look at the Syrian troops. Don't look at the rebel troops. They always look kind of hodgepodge. But look at the Syrian troops. Understand that we're going to be to the point here pretty soon when we're going to hit the China wall. Now the China stuff wasn't really great coming out of the box from the beginning, guys. If it's field used, what do you think it's going to look like coming back, if it comes back at all? Oh, yeah. See, that's the change. Surplus, as you've known it and probably grown up with it because we have all of our lives, we're World War II and post-World War II people. Well, since World War II, there's been this massive wave. We lived off World War II for 30 years. Seriously, in the surplus industry, it got sold and resold and sold and bought back and sold and we shot everybody and killed everybody we sold it to and we took it back again. At the end of World War II you could buy a brand new Lightning F, a bad, bad propeller driven airplane for I think 11 or $1,238 or $48. Right off the line. Yeah, brand new. Less than $1,250 for certain. And battle tanks for $500 and $600 apiece. And everybody goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa And I pointed out there are well over, and this is a decade ago, we know that there are 27,000 plus privately owned armored vehicles that are acknowledged. And the argument is that there's actually four times that out in the population. Now we're talking everything from a Bren gun carrier to a ferret armored car to a Stewart tank, Sherman tanks, M48s. White half tracks, APCs of every type, including stuff like the Gavin, the M113 Gavin out there guys. Well, we should get them to register all of those. Yes, but here's the interesting thing on that. In most places and states, you didn't have to. See, that's what it's like here in Michigan. There's a law, technically, Like I pointed out, let me explain to everybody, this is long gone so I can talk about it now. Toronto, Canada. We can take a flatbed across the bridge, go to Toronto, Canada, right down on the waterfront is where all the old Runner Revolution companies that dealt with getting people killed all over the world were. You could buy a Grade B. Now, a Grade B means it's assembled and it's driven driven. I'll grade B running, step into it, sit down, a Bren gun carrier, virtually low mileage, almost brand new, 60 miles on the one that I helped pick up. $475, cash American. You know what it cost to come across the border with it? Nothing. There was no customs fee at all. Why? Because there was nothing competing against it in the United States. It was a forward Bren gun carrier, but when you brought it over the bridge to right through Detroit, I think we got BK there too. Guys, it would be on the flatbed right out in the open, chained down, four chains, one to each contact point. They'd say, where are you going with it? This is a true story. This is what happened. Where are you going with that? We're going to Belleville. He goes, no you're not. And we stopped and were looking at him and he goes, no you're not. You're going to Battle Creek, Michigan aren't you? And he goes, and the reason you're going to do that is because if you just went as far as like the other side of Detroit, I'd have to charge you $35. But if you go to Battle Creek today with that, I can't charge you anything. And so immediately he goes, yeah, we're going to Battle Creek. We have an appointment. It's like, okay. So now you can buy Monument Grade for it. Now Monument Grade weren't really Monument Grade. Monument Grade were things that like you were saying, Don, you buy one that it's not as pretty. It drives around, but it's got some mileage on it. And those would go for $135 to $175 a piece. Fully functional, everything was on them. All the covers for the motors, all the armor. There were no guns, but all the fixtures and mounts and everything were intact. Now brand new. Now brand new, you'd have to spend some big bucks, guys. And that would a Bren gun carrier brand new circa World War II. We built 20,000 of these in the United States. The Canadians built 20,000 and the Brits built, I don't know how many. Anyway, a whopping $675 to get you a brand new in the crate never issued ready to transport for D-Day. Of course, that was $675 somewhat larger dollars. Yeah, exactly. Back in the, again, that was early 80s, I mean like 83, 84. In 8384 we bought 28 of those. We bought 28 of the mid grade bees. That's what part of one of our squadrons is built up with. They'll do 45 miles an hour. I had one in the yard here that was one of the monument grades. We went and recovered. Because somebody had not taken as good of a care of it because they used it for an all terrain vehicle which you can do. In Canada, the loggers were buying them for cross country for track vehicles down there. For $500 and you get yourself a Ford flathead V8. When you do maintenance, give me an idea, look up a Bren gun carrier where you see that rib in the middle. You lift the cowling and the whole engine is right there. You can go down the road and tune it while you're traveling. Kind of like the old Chevy vans. Remember the ones that had the cover on the inside because the cab went forward of the engine. That's how the Bren gun is, your Bren gun carrier. In fact, the driver is completely separate along with the gunner, so the guy in the back, the radio operator, could be tweaking the engine. If the driver says he's got a problem, you wouldn't even miss a beat. When you have to slow down, he's got the wrenches right there, or the screwdriver, you adjust the carburetor, and the roll and the sheet picks up again. The cool thing is, what we did is we took Detroit diesels, what were they, 360 something cubic inch engines of a standard V8 engine, but they drop right in there just because it's a rail mount system. All you do is make two brackets. They're a forward rear end. So all you do is unplug the forward engine that's in there, drop the other engine in with a spacing adapter. In fact, you could even do it with bolts and pipe if you had to, to make the spacers. And she would link right up, drop right in. All the parts you originally were available from Detroit Bulb Bearing and Detroit Industrial, I could buy any part and did. In fact, I bought complete replacement races and bearing races, fixtures for the front drive and replaced those. And I've done that in a couple of days. I mean, because you're talking industrial grade machinery, but you're talking was built around a pickup truck. All the parts that made the Bren gun carrier, originally the Cardin Lloyd carrier, were built from Ford pickup truck parts. That's how the Colonel was a major. Forgive me, it was a major that originally designed it and then the Colonel's and everybody else got involved as engineers. But it was designed to be minimal cost during the Depression. You know, back when everybody was poor and they had to improvise, adapt, and overcome. So it was a pretty cool solution. Anyway, we got BK there probably for a reason. BK, jump in there. What do you got? Yeah, I've got a coupon code for you. It's not going to last until Friday, so I figured I'd better get it on the air now. Okay, we have mentioned surplus shed before. This is that weird little outfit that specializes mostly in lenses and gears, but has all sorts of random stuff in it. You recall us discussing that recently? Did I lose the signal? Hello? I think I've lost the signal. I will call you now. I still got you here. Okay, there we are. Yeah. Okay, so at any rate, we have discussed this outfit recently. Here is a coupon code. Get your pencil ready. It is SS 81420. That is Sierra Sierra 1420. That's only a two day code. It's already active and it boops out Thursday night, midnight eastern zone. But it's good for 48% off anything on their site. So that is surplus shed. The code is SS1420. And it's good for 48% off anything in your order. Now you may recall, this is the outfit that I mentioned previously. They have the M17 gas mask out certs. Two of them at a buck and a half is already a good price. At 48% off of that you are looking at like 80 cents or so for a pair that is 40 cents a piece. Now the M17 is not my favorite mask but there are a lot of people out there that have them. If you've got them it's silly not to grab them up at 40 cents a piece. No, that's the best price in the country period. Anybody out there listening? Spare filters and the M17 is out there in force. So, again, for anybody out there, if you know somebody, do them a favor and pick up some more filters for them. These are inserts. Yeah, the shipping is probably going to be more than the actual cost of the item. Well, especially these are small light items. This is also the outfit that has that little $2 handset telephone. I got a few of those. They've got a really nice cord attached to them. The plastic shell is lightweight polystyrene, fairly brittle stuff, so you wouldn't want to take this out in the field. These are basically the guts from a telephone that was designed to go into all of a stuffed animal or some sort of silly thing like that. For $2 you get a brand new fully operational handset telephone. and 48% off, you're basically about a dollar a piece for those guys. So for indoor use or wrapping up in half an inch of duct tape to make them tougher, something along those lines you have a telephone handset. They also have a more traditional princess type telephone handset with no base, just the phone. So if you want to use it routinely and have some way of pushing the button, you'll have to make a little base fort of some sort with a little nubbin to push down the unhook switch. They've got those listed at $6, but knock off 48%. You're talking about $3 apiece for these things brand new. So they have a few interesting items. A 48% off sale sounds like they're trying to clear some space and pulse up their revenues. I would take them up on it if there's anything on their site that you find interesting. They do have a weird selection of stuff and some of the more interesting things are a little pricey for my taste, but it's a big site and there's lots of stuff to rummage around through in there. The outserts however are an obvious no-brainer for us and telephone handsets are a good choice too. Excellent. And again, go ahead and give all the contact information for our people listening and holding a pen right to the paper. Okay, that is surplusshed.com. That is surplus, S-U-R-P-L-U-S, shed, S-H-E-D, dot com. And the coupon code you're looking for is SS, that is surplus shed, right? S-S-8-1-4-2-0. That is S-S-8-1-4-2-0. one for two and that runs until Thursday, August 7, midnight eastern. So rummage around and see if there's anything you like. 48% off everything in your order. very good and again guys take advantage of that if you got somebody who does have the M17 family of masks and everybody's got some if you've been doing this for a while because you always run into them now I try to route things so a lot of the M17s that we picked up and built years ago have gone to certain units because they've committed heavily to the M17 inventory we get a lot of people up north for instance there's a surplus dealer who has warehouses of M17 parts and so he's friendly to the militia and has been kind of, you know, again, moving the inventory. It makes no sense to leave it sit there. So guys, if you've got friends that are using the M17, same thing, take advantage of this stuff while it's there. You're to government tax dollars, well, your money paid for it. The tax dollars are something taken from us. So you get something back on all that money that they, you know, took from you at gunpoint, at least a little. Go ahead, BK. Anything else? No, that'll do it. That's the thing I wanted to call in because that won't keep until Friday. Very good. Appreciate it, sir. Okay, very good. Bye-bye. Thank you. We're close to the top there. Don, jump in there. Anything else, please? Well, we've got a few more minutes. We haven't mentioned the guy in the Afghani uniform that walked into a meeting, a general staff there north of, oh, in the northern portions of Iraq. Afghanistan rather, and sprayed the place down, wounding 15 now. They're backing up on the numbers. First it was almost 30 and a German general was dead and an American general was dead. Now we haven't heard anything more about the German general, but they backed up on that. He was wounded and the American general was wounded, but now the American general has died, Mark. Right, that's one of the things that the fact that he will be the highest ranking combat casualty of Afghanistan, Al-Americana by the time they're done because he was a major general. So, at least that's what I've seen so far. A couple of different emails somebody sends like, hey, check this out. The big thing is somebody was obviously sitting on their hands, number one. Number two is you're forced to sit on your hands. See, people are going, how could this happen? Well, it's real easy. Most of the guys I've talked to coming back, now the people who are private contractors, they'll try to, but they can't typically stop them from carrying their personal arms. So if you're a truck driver, you arm yourself to the teeth. with any of the support units there, you arm yourself to the teeth. But US military personnel, oh, they're just as anal retentive as you can imagine about ammunition, about controlling your weapons, locking your weapons up, keeping you unarmed. So they've created the condition for this. That's one of the things everybody needs to understand, especially since you see the R people don't trust R people. The officers don't trust R people around them with guns. Which of course means that then the people who would normally keep those people alive Well, they're kind of unarmed, you know talk like this. It seems strange to the uninformed Oh, yeah, we're just sitting around the evening news listening But what seems strange to me about this mark? We haven't heard anything about the shooter, right? Is he dead? Is he alive? Did he just? Well, the last time they did this, they used the uniform to get out on top of everything. They virtually escaped back through checkpoints in the confusion because everybody was like, all they had to do was say, we're after those guys. They got through three checkpoints before somebody, the radio finally caught up and said, hey, there's a column headed your way that those aren't ours. But remember for the first three checkpoints, they got right up close, nobody even lifted a weapon, and then they mowed down the checkpoints on the way out, on top of doing damage in. I can see the same thing happening. If this guy wasn't caught, which I haven't seen anything that indicates he was or killed, then it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Actually, if you're smart, you start looking around the farthest building out and you shout out, that he is right there! I guarantee 20 people will join in the gunfire. Oh yeah. Right there! War bullets are over there! He's right there! I just saw him! Then turn and walk away. Yeah. Or run towards... Come on, follow me! Or at least make some noise. Hell, you'll have people that are faster than you and just don't run. Just don't move quick. In fact, if you want to, flop over backwards like you got hit. Everybody is wearing body armor. And you've seen all these videos where they brag it up Don. So all you do is OOOH! Right there! In fact, can it valiantly lift your gun back up and keep firing in that direction? That bummer got me! And of course, so it will get him. Blah blah blah blah. I mean there are so many variations on the theme. But one way or another, obviously, hey, even if he KIA'd, You know the casualty exchange now what they're probably trying to do is minimize it Don You know that kind of got shot in the hand or the wrist or the chain or the meat of the arm He's not really hurt that bad We'll put him back in something tomorrow so we can you know lessen the numbers so the wounded which are probably like the critically wounded with bullet holes through organs and sides of their head Stuff like that. It's hard to hide those casualties But you've got to think about this. If you've got a pile of people, and I will point out, remind you guys, what have we said about these cluster screws where you see all these characters piled up? If you're using ball ammunition, and they're not really all that well armored, and you decide where to put the bullets, and you really stay focused, every bullet you put down range is going to get more than one person. Not only that, but what's that old story, Don? The M16 round goes in your wrist, comes out your wrist. It's like, well, the hell that is. The problem is that bullet still has power and it's going somewhere. A lot of people get chewed or chopped up in secondary projectile effect. It's not life threatening, but it sure as hell looks nasty. Even if it is slower, it whacks you. Oh yeah, I choose the snot out of the outer surface area. A tumbling bullet would leave somebody's elbow. I mean it's distorted. Yeah, it goes, he went out, he went in his chest, went around the rib cage, smacked into the arm bone, goes out the elbow, down in a little more of a different direction with half the energy. It runs into the next target, he doesn't have any body armor, he's wearing a Class A or like a casual Class B uniform. Scuds into his chest rips across his chest goes over the shoulder smacks into his hand because he's you know turning around He's trying to you know grab something to get away and everywhere that bullet went it was like a singer sewing machine You see so that's something to think about because once that bullet yaw and tumble thing starts Kids you just new new new and you're the thing that slows down it takes off the energy Whoever happens to be in the way So that's the other reason the numbers as far as what they originally gave, I'll guarantee they were told to do damage control. The numbers were originally probably more realistic, a number of casualties. But he only got a buck wound that we can hide. That was some bad days. He's got this and so, oh well, half as many people as we originally thought. Everybody's fine. This was a second or third ranked German general also. This is a command management meeting of say how and again, everybody in the right place at the right time. What have we said before about this? If you're willing to hunt them as hard as they're hunting you and you're willing in accepting a fate, in other words, I'm not coming back, there's a whole lot of damage you can do if you go in with the attitude and stay focused. And that's one thing the bag is you want to think. Yeah, people don't want you to think about that. Whenever they do this, if it's a glorious good guy who never wears a helmet or hat and his hair is just like special so you notice him. That's what the reason for that is. So he's unique. He goes in and he can, hell, everybody's a pop-up target. Now if you do that and you're the other side, you're evil and bad and conniving and you weren't playing fair! You see and that's what you'll hear is like oh he was faking everybody out. Well sounds like he was a warrior to me You know what I mean? I mean consider I'm gonna play the other direction on this like as like with the cops She's like you're all told it's feudal resist. You can't do anything one guy just did a whole hell of less something If I'm going to go, what do I exchange? It's kind of like the Japanese pilot. Everybody goes, well that was stupid with a kamikaze. I'm going to point this out again. If the kamikazes had started in 1941, we wouldn't have this country. The American naval forces suffered more damage under the kamikazes than they did throughout or rather prior in the rest of the war. Yeah. If the Japanese had fought of that in an earlier stage, Number one, consider this, I want you in fact a way to do this, look at models. Take a look at the USS Arizona which was the flagship of the Pacific Fleet and it was the standard for air defense and for its weapon systems for that era, for that moment when the war began. Now you count the number of secondary guns on board that could aim up and deal with air defense. At that point in time, while they could return, they could put bullets down range, they could dump garbage into the air, guys. It's called shooting junk. A kamikaze, if every one of those pilots that in the early stage of the war had gone into Pearl Harbor and said, Banzai, how much would we have been able to recover from Pearl Harbor? Now, we've had every 500 pounder been flown into a magazine. You know, a battleship magazine, not the magazine in my 1911. You wouldn't have taken all of them, they would have run out of targets. Very quickly. If one man had been given the task and three men, in other words, you're a junior pilot, I understand you have cancer. Yes. Congratulations, we have a special mission for you. Would you like to be remembered forever? The Emperor's Sons and Sons will know your name. You'll be on the Emperor's Wall, he promises. If that had happened, guys, there is no way we could have stopped it. There is nothing you could do fast enough to deal with it, and your ships weren't fast enough to get out of the way. Now, what that means is a quantitative issue here with regard to, for instance, manpower loss. Remember that all the men that did survive and continued to fight had gained experience that progressively would slide over to the newer weapons systems. understanding that you only heard report of one ship's magazine being struck in the whole of the attack at Pearl Harbor allowing everything else to be salvaged. It was still a city. But if it were fractured from stem to stern, from Kio to Fauxall, then left on the bottom like the Arizona. So again, ask the basic question, for the price, if somebody had decided to do today what that attack, say that one attack, which by the way, there was no group arrangement, there may have been some support, but one person going in did how much damage for the price of one casualty? Psychologically, how much more energy now has to be consumed? How much more damage or damage control needs to be done? Psychologically, one attack like that is bad. But imagine if you would 100 individuals all with the same mission. And it's like I told you, the wretched machine for lack of operatives would grind to a... See, that's the problem. There's no discussion about that ever for the reason that I just pointed out because now I make brain juices move. And by the way, if you have the right attitude,