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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, dill the land of the free? home. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com, we are on AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and ultra net technologies. east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the third, the fifth, the pit and our friends in the recall state of Colorado. 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And so they're not hard to find and oh there's one and there's one and there's a million more and so we have grapevine tunnels right now and the production continues. Looks like it's going to be great. Also again pay attention to your fall harvest fruits to see where they are. I would warn everybody it looks like everything is running early. It's more on that in a minute, early, which means that, well, you know what, hard weather is around the corner, not too far away. Today's date, by the way, is, well, it's the 28th of August. It is the sixth year of open Fabian, the socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K2000 and... 14, old earth calendar, and of course also Nostradamus Doom calendar. It can be any day for that matter. Nostradamus is like, oh, just spit at the window, it's close enough. There you go. Yeah, yeah, that day, that was it. Go throw a dart at the calendar. Yeah, yeah, whatever he said, it applies to that day. That's good. So anyway, other than Nostradamus Doom, using that as a cop-out to do nothing. Interestingly enough, we have all of our purple fruits that we usually work with during the year. Mulberries, phenomenal production guys, monster production. Probably some of the best, we had great production last year, the trees pressed themselves this year. What I noticed is after we had the production with the trees now the bushes they look normal they actually stayed green They haven't in fact they also have done a sprouting growing right now. I'm gonna go trim those out So they don't become they don't become trees. I'm trying to keep the mulberry bushes as bushes, okay But the trees pressed did massive Never been seen before seen production and you know the last 20 years or so and it's losing their leaves. They're actually gone into fall mode almost. Now they're not completely bare, but they're headed that way. The chokecherry trees have done the same thing and the chokecherries right now are at record production. They are just coming off the trees en masse. Again, size your little finger, usually about the size of just your fingernail. They're about the size of a big around as your little finger from the... bottom of the fingernail but all the way around about as big I mean just large okay plump I've got about a half gallon of my picked in a few minutes just to do a quick survey and all of them rich not only that usually chokecherries are called chokecherries because they're a little bitter but they make great jelly. Oh somebody with the chokecherries I just picked. But again, the leaves are coming off the trees. This doesn't normally happen. They have run the sugar and they've run into producing fruit. But usually the leaves stay on the trees until everything else falls, but they're tired. They're not dying from heat. We've had great moisture. That's been perfect. That's why the trees have done so well and the bushes. Now, grapes. Guys, this time of year I should go out there and I would find that the wild grapes, which are again about the size of your little fingernail if they're average, which right now they're bigger than average. Two things. Number one, they should be green headed towards, you know, getting purplish in spots, starting to, you know, get those striations where the color change takes place. Guys, I can go out right now and pick bushel baskets of ripe wild grapes. Now granted, we're almost into September, but this isn't the season normally be about two or three weeks out. Now what's really interesting is I've been going through a lot of the areas where we have fence line grapes. We got the fence line wild grapes. On the west side fences, they're raisins. Now, they haven't, not all, but they're actually gone ripe and they're actually sweet, or they're not rolled up because of blight or something. They've gone full cycle and it's the end of August. And that's another thing that's a heads up. The plants and the critters pay attention and know the environment. We are going to get stomped with a winner this year. Be prepared for it. I'm already looking at actually doing something that we talked about before. I'm going to be tunneling or actually setting up the walls and tunneling the entrances. So I've got even more protection, say, going out to the garage or going, you know, toward the cars will be. I've got all the building material for it and I've got the wood walls already built for other projects. I'm going to re-engineer them and target them towards a particular mission. But I'm going to tell you right now that we had a great winter last year. We're going to have a real Michigan winter this year coming up. At the very least, maybe just cold, cold, who knows. But we've had lots of moisture in this part of the planet. They've had a drought out west. We got the water. Now we're the Great Lakes. You'll notice there's no discussion about, oh, the Great Lakes are so low and it's so far gone. You haven't heard anything about that this year, have you? Like we talked about this morning, it's not what they tell you, it's what they don't talk about. That can be that, oh, it's so bad, we aren't going to tell you. That's not the case here in the Great Lakes. Guys, the lakes are full. They're at level. They're where they're supposed to be. Now, remember, they're going downhill constantly and they're getting replenished. So there's lots more water out there. Trust me on that one. However, if this were snow, We would be buried up to our eyeballs with what we have had in the way of rain in a normal cycle this year. Because otherwise the cycle, the activity of the rain has been perfect for the growing season. It has been phenomenal. Now for some crops, no. Some crops usually are used to a little drier environment and people have been planting, you know, kind of without looking ahead to the farmer's almanac and not, you know, not thinking because they plant the same thing every year. Zucchini, oh, zucchini is just in its own. Pumpkins, pumpkins are monsters already and we aren't even close to picking pumpkins, guys. We're still looking at a month and a half, two months out before pumpkins are going to be on somebody's front porch. and most of the pumpkin crop is already where, size-wise, we're gonna see some monster, regular production pumpkins. Hell, I got a pumpkin plant here that's a total volunteer, and I've got jack-o'-lantern-sized pumpkins that are green on the plants right now, and they're not anywhere near going to ripe yet. So just a heads up, certain plants, certain crops are telling us what's going on. Others are pushing themselves in other ways, that tell us they're trying to produce more. Now one thing about pumpkin. Pumpkin is a fantastic storage food. If you have not put a larder or slash a root cellar together, I highly recommend it. Remember, pumpkin can go in the root cellar just like squash. And if you do, the only thing you remember that it's down there and don't waste it. But as an insurance food, consider this. This is something I've always talked about. So I don't use the pumpkin this year, but I put it in storage. What's the worst that I've got? I got a whole pile of pumpkin seeds. So I got something to plant next year, because it'll dry out and they'll eventually fade. But if we get into a bad situation where we need food, guys, pumpkins, especially at the end of the season, are a drug on the market. They're so cheap, it's ridiculous. We produce, obviously, just, I would say just one part of the country, we produce more pumpkin than all of the native population, the Indians, in a year. across the whole of the Midwest and the eastern states back in the day. But squash and pumpkin were a staple of the native population, of the Indian population, okay? It is a forced food. It's vitamins, minerals, got everything you need. You get two meals out of it. You got the pumpkin meat itself and the seeds, which are not going to go to waste. But also if you need to produce more, well, how many seeds are in a pumpkin? How many pumpkin plants can you make from just one pumpkin? Yeah, kind of nice. And like I said, we've got two or three plants here that are volunteer. They take up an area the size of the kitchen as far as how big and the spread has been because of the fantastic moisture. And you know how we got them? I fed pumpkins to the goats last year. They ate the pumpkins because these were, you know, stuff that was soft from the farmer's fields. And they pooped about the other end and we have pumpkin poop, pumpkin plants. How do you like that? Isn't that cool? Yeah, it is. Because they're a volunteer, they dropped into the area where the other goat manure was, because that's where they were. And they're kickin'. I mean kickin'. So they got all the minerals they need. Another interesting thing is the goats don't mess with them. That's what I think is really fascinating. The goats don't eat or nibble on pumpkin plants. Which means they're kind of a healthy thing to have out there, as far as the eating the plants when they're ripe. Oh, they love pumpkin when it's ripe. Trust me on that one. If you want a cheap food for your livestock, if somebody was smart, rather than leaving those pumpkins out there in the fields, they'd be grabbing all those pumpkins and dragging them over to other spots and using them that way. But most of this area, the pumpkins go to waste, and I still don't understand why. The nutritional value of those pumpkins is through the roof. So just a heads up guys, we need to be thinking ahead. Also if we do go into a crisis mode with conditions, don't forget that a block of money and going over and buying several hundred pounds of rolled oats from the feed mill would be a good idea. Dry storage, quick and easy to put on the shelf. By the way, there'll be plenty of water to make stuff with. Hint, hint, hint. If you're buried up to your eyeballs in snow, Don't worry. There'll be plenty of moisture to rehydrate things with. Yeah, especially if it gets remote and cold, remote and bitter. No, don't worry. Well, it could be radioactive. No, don't worry. If it's that bad, everything's radioactive anyway. Yeah, you're, that's one thing to take into consideration. So break out your radiac meter and clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, go to town to check your water. Why not? What's the hard thing about that? You don't have to guess. See how that works Wow you mean you have the technology on the shelf. Yep. You already bought dos meters Yep, you've got a radiac slash a Geiger counter. Yep So why do you have to guess about whether or not your waters got radiation in it? Might have deer pee which is not likely because did the deer run up by your house and pee in your snowdrift? No, I don't think so You need to purify it. Well, if you're gonna do snow one of the things to do is a volcano chimney stove you're gonna boil the water anyway, right? Oh, oh that's right. Yeah, if you use those volcano stoves, you know, make up a volcano stove for melting, you know, ice and water during the winter. Make it as efficient as you can so that virtually all the calories are targeted towards the vat. Now you can make the vats for, you know, again, you can use a stock pot, a big one, you know, or off the shelf, or try to find yourself an iron cauldron. Again, big iron pots. Why? They'll take the heat, guys. If you create a volcano stove, they'll retain heat really well too. Iron is fantastic for that type of volume processing. So stainless steel. You can make yourself a water reservoir like they used to have attached to the wood burning fireplaces. You can put yourself a tap in there the whole nine yards made out of brass and or copper and You've got the volcano stove underneath you load up the snow inside. It's constantly heating Whatever calories are there go straight up and into the reservoir the reservoir of course melts the snow because it's metal, too So it transmits the calories well, and then you can hit the tap and you have all the water you need Hey, that's too simple that works really really really too well. Here's nothing about the idea using the volcano stoves or the volcano stove design basically just a chimney stove is what it is guys straight straight shot chimney, but Basically if you do that you're making what is called a Mexican water heater South of the border they actually have wood burning water heaters That are part of the pressure water system. Did you know that? They basically are nothing but a firehopper underneath a iron or stainless steel tubular stock water reservoir They're plumbed and when you want hot water you get down there you start the little kindling stove fire going up underneath Add some bigger pieces of you know, short oak or whatever you got or coal Heat up the water and then you hit the tap and it's in the system and comes out of the hip, you know you hit the the controls And lo and behold, when you open up the tap on the shower or in the bathtub, the hot water is right there. Hey, wait a minute. Yeah, you don't have hot water forever. I mean, it's even with your regular hot water heater, you can run down your large hot water heater, but you can also make your hot water reservoir as big as you want. And building something like this right now would be a really, really, really slash, really, really, really slash, really, really, really good idea, considering what's going on. Just something to think about there. Anyway, while we do have a lot of work to do, it is Thursday here at Liberty Tree Radio. We're almost to the bottom of the R2. We'll do a music break at the bottom here. I'm sure Ed's got sponsors. And of course we have some ear candy. We have unique ear candy from patriots all over the country, guys. I would remind you that... Oh, I believe it. That makes sense. Well, of course, it's the mountain states, too. I mean, they get, they randomly get snow, but I'm, you know, I would not be surprised if we were to look at the Farmer's Almanac that, number one, they've talked about it. Number two, it's, you know, it may be out of cycle. So if it is, then, like I said, I'm getting the feeling, we have caterpillars. We have little orange and black caterpillars. And depending on how big the lines are, it tells you how long the winter's going to be. Well, here's the thing. Most of those caterpillars are a solid single color with only little fleck of the other color on them right now. Now, it's not a wife's tale. It's pretty consistent. I've lived outside, worked outside, and those little buggers, they don't bother anything. They don't hurt anybody. But they're little fuzzy wuzzy caterpillars. You run into them all over the place. They're black and orange. And lo and behold, pretty much it's like last year, the ribbon was really wide. Their band of color was really wide last year. And we got a real deep snow. And it was different from the year before and the year before. This year, they're almost a solid single color. If it weren't for the fact, you got to pay attention to see the other shade on them. So just a heads up, everything that we see in nature's, they got an idea that something's coming up. So it sounds like this is going to be the real 77-78 storm. Woo-hoo! Which, by the way, like I said, buried people on I-94, the truck drivers and people who were in cars thought they could make that last a few miles. Everybody had to go. Go ahead. You had to bring that up. You had to bring that up didn't ya? Oh I know. Hey you gotta park the snowshoes in the car right in the truck? Uh yeah, I got shade, I mean you know I go up with a pee in the ass. Well I'll tell you what if you don't have any snowshoes go stop at one of the sports retail sports resale shops. Oh I got them. Give yourself some tennis racquets. Tennis racquets yeah right. Oh god. Tennis rackets are cheaper, although I'll tell you what, handball rackets work better. Handball rackets. I can't believe I'm even going to admit that I do this. I just pull over and I have some punk kids put my chains on for 25 bucks. Well yeah, but that only gets you so far when the snow's up to your hood. See that's what happened on 94 here. I'm telling you, the stretch from Detroit to Jackson, Michigan. 94, okay. Imagine that 6 and 7 and 8 foot deep all every foot. I'm in the truck stop having blueberry pancakes and coffee. I won't even get out in that kind of weather. Well exactly, that's what I'm saying. That's what we need to be prepared for because what happened is there were virtually hundreds of vehicles on 94 both east and westbound in that stretch. And it was back when more people had snowmobiles too and what everybody did is they went out with their snowmobiles and their snowmobiles trailers. You know, for the hauling people. They went out and picked up the families out of the cars. The guard couldn't even move. The national guard couldn't get to them. Nobody could. It was the local population went out and at that time where the Baker Road and I-94 truck stops are. You know, there's three of them. There's two pilots and there's the, there was, it was Wolverine, now it's TNA. At that time the Wolverine was a brand new truck stop and of course it was an island of, you know, everybody was parked there that could get there and they were all snowed in. They went through all the food that they had on site. Because nothing could get to anybody. Of course the trucks out in the lot probably had something in them, right? Yeah, oh, did you count all the trucks that were sitting upside down with their wheels going toward the sky? I mean they were resting. Those trucks that were resting out along the road, is that the one you're talking about? Yep. Like a dog or like a possum roadkill? Yeah, I know. Well, see, that's the other thing about it. You know, like if you are a driver, if you guys are traveling around, there's nothing they can say about you having an emergency pack, you know, backpack, but I would have a backpack. I'll tell you something else you could do. Get a set of cross-country skis and strap them to the back of the cab. Make a rack for them. Why not? Back by strap them on the outside of the cab, on the back wall by the, by, you know, between the stacks. Number one, it's not that I'm going to use the cross-country skis for cross-country skis per se, but if you want to drill a few holes and make a frame, it makes an awful cheap sled to drag things along. If you take a couple pieces, here's what I do. I've got piles of skis actually in one of the... I make up little sheds using four by four walls that I build, okay? One of them is full of burlap that I'm using for making ghillie suits and all kinds of other components including netting and all kinds of fun stuff. Canvas, because you need canvas for your drag points on your arms and everything. So I just keep stuffing them in the one. But the other one is sports gear. And right now I probably have 70 pairs of skis in there. A lot of them are like new, excellent. But the big thing are the cross country skis. Now, everybody's asking me, why do you want the regular downhill skis? What are you gonna do with those? Well, the new downhill skis have a big dollop in the front and they're wider than they've been in the past. They're actually heading towards, they're not snowboard size, but they're wide. Well, what you do is you get two of those hanger type fixtures. You can go PVC pipe or you can go iron pipe. You say iron pipe is going to be heavier, but you're going to use conduit hangers also. You put four of those in place and you actually bend your, if you do conduit, do your, take your bender and make a cross pipe. Take a couple of other joiners and you can make a rack frame that can go across over from one ski to the next. You drill holes for them and you can disassemble it, but when you want to put it together, you screw it back together, bolt it or screw it back together. You can put together with thumb screws for that matter. And now you've got a cargo sled. Put a rope on the front end of that on both of the little ski points and or on the body and you can drag that along with whatever gear like your backpack or whatever and there's a reason for that. See, that doesn't mean I'm not going to carry the backpack when I can, but here's a rule about snow marching is that if you don't have or even if you do have snowshoes, snowshoes are hard work. Plow them through three foot snow and four foot snow is too. But if you are going to use the snowshoes to put less energy on the snowshoes as far as, you know, a pounds per square inch, you use a drag sled. And the drag sled, of course, coasts over the snow. And because you're not carrying that 40 pound or 60 pound backpack and your rifle and everything else, the rifle you'll carry because you want to, if you're in a fighting situation, you want to keep yourself alive. but your gear goes on the sled and that alleviates a good portion of the weight which pushes you into the snow which forces you to work harder. See how that works? So the sled is kind of handy. Plus if you build it right it can be used as a casualty sled. Most of the skis that I'm getting are adult skis. They're about 6-7 feet long. Depending on what they are, cross-country ski is not quite 7 but they're pretty close. In fact I got some left angled sideways because they're made for big boys. But the cross-country skis I'll try not to do that to. However, what's cool about cross-country skis, we're making them into sled skis, is that they do have the cleats so they won't slide back on you. They're designed, remember, cross-country skis are designed to give when you push them up and forward and grab when you apply energy. So that you can actually, it's kind of like skating on snow is what it's like. So, you know, not quite the same thing, unless you're doing competition, cross-country, you know, ski, cross-country skiing. But the thing is, skis are a drug on the market right now. Although I haven't had any tossed out recently the latest sets that I got, all the fittings were taken off them. And they're all steel reinforced, fiberglass, this, blah blah blah, that, all brand name. In fact, the only thing is some are kind of bright. I'd have to hit them with some white snow paint and a little bit of gray. I wouldn't do them all white. I'd do them white and gray. But it's something you can put on the truck. A set of cross-country skis wouldn't hurt. Either that or a toboggan. Everybody kind of wonder about that one. You say, hey, dude, I'm in the tobogganing, man. Whoa, it's fun. But a toboggan would work really well, too, because again, it floats over the snow. So for pulling stuff along or for even maybe maybe you get to a point when you're out there in some of those places and there's a long downhill slope Now provided you're not along the side of a mountain and can't control your sled and end up doing that last toboggan ride You know, it would kind of save energy going downhill. Yeah Toboggan downhill trudge up the next one toboggan downhill trudge up the next one And plus there's, you know what, there's plastic ones now. Have you seen some of these plastic ones? I mean, boy, well the Chinese slaves can build anything for us. So you can get some cheap plastic that are really nice. I mean, they've got, they're almost bucketed, so they're more like a cargo casualty sled, which is kind of cool, but they've got the toboggan curve in the front, which is good, because that keeps, you know, allows the thing to plow through the snow a little bit. So that was something you could put on the vehicle. It's not going to be any weight. You know what I'd do is I'd roll up some extra canvas in that. You know if I was going to put it in the back of your cab, I'd throw in, I'd vacuum pack a couple of wool blankets. I'd have them in vacuum pack bags, have a dry cleaner, I'll do that for you. And you could have double pack them, say, oh that's nice, now do it again. And then you put those, wrap those up inside some additional snow camouflage canvas, and then lash that down to your plastic toboggan. and then lash the whole package down to the back of the truck. It's kind of like a snow life boat. Hey, that's kind of cool. Snow life boat. I can remember that. We could market this. It's better than ISIS crisis, you know. ISIS crisis! Snow life boat. Only we make it. So just something to consider there, especially if you're traveling during the winter. and snowshoes obviously are pretty handy. The chains are good, but like you said, the chains are only going to be good for so long as long as the plow trucks can get out. Ooh. Then you're going to have to have skis for your truck. Okay, appreciate it. Anyway, thanks for the input. As it is, again, we are looking at a probably another Michigan winner. As far as when it's going to hit, I think I'm going to go after Reed, the farmer's almanac, because pretty well they've been dead on the money. Last year they were completely accurate. Everybody said they got caught off guard. We didn't get caught off guard, guys. We saw exactly what happened. Anyway, we've got another caller there. Who do we have? Yeah, this is Henry. I was listening earlier and you were talking about the Red River in China, and we were kind of looking for that. Did you have an article or something? It was somewhere around Oklahoma City. Somebody sent it to me as a, in fact, what happened is I thought I saved it. I'm going to have to find it. I'm out in the studio at the other computer right now. I tried to link up to it and I don't see it. I think they might have pulled it already because they're sensitive on this. I want to see what it is. So do a search. What it does is it's one of the little papers around Oklahoma City. I think probably on the south side. Alrighty then. They were talking about the, again, they were talking about the Chinese connection and I think of course that person will probably be fired by this evening. You're not supposed to talk about this. I was telling you you're going to go over the spot section doing the softball for kitties. I'm telling you. Then you'll be gone. Then I tell Mark Schumacher we have a toboggan here if he wants to practice. There we go, exactly. Well, you know I want to watch this man. Well, you know I'm gonna back out here. Thank you Well, you know Well, no you lay flat that way when you impact only your ankles are broken It's like it's like it's like swooshing remember It's like it's like doing the slalom sledding thing you put your feet up front that way when you hit your legs Take all the impact. It's okay. Don't worry ankles get busted up. That's what's about it Well, you know, that's the other thing too, is again with these toboggans, we need to start looking at winter stuff right now because whoever does have an inventory, they're going to want to start getting rid of it if they aren't already. We're in the last gasp of summer where people are actually starting to think about the next season. Now they won't think about it until after the big holiday here this weekend. Excuse me, but it's coming so if there's anything you can run into and I highly recommend this for instance KeepShooting.com KeepShooting.com If I can get cheap cheap, I'll buy cheap cheap, but there's some things that I really like that are well made One of them that they got in at KeepShooting.com. They've got these Belgian Flecktarn combat coats. They're not cut like anything else in Flecktarn What's interesting is I believe that where the Belgians had the maid was in either Sweden or Norway They have the large external popcorn pockets It's in the fleck-tarned bubble camouflage pattern, which I really like but it's becoming harder to get real military if I mean in surplus It's out there, but it's it's it's running its later leg as far as surplus goes and eventually it'll be out However, this is a Belgian flight. It's a Belgian combat coat parka in length, large external popcorn pockets. I believe it has a roll in hood and it's in the Flecktarn camo pattern and it's about $29 but it's a good price for that coat. Now the reason that we've gotten other Flecktarn stuff that's Belgian, what happened is the Belgian military, the Air Force adopted Flecktarn. It's German camouflage. Well, the Jews that control Belgium were like, oh my god, you've got Nazi kre camouflage. It's join my boy Nazi camouflage. So after they spent all this money on this Flecktarn equipment, they had to get rid of it all because of political correctness. So now the cool thing is if you can find it, it's some unique equipment. It's different from the other German gear because it was made for the Belgian army. But it's very good quality because it was made years ago. It wasn't made last year or the year before that. It was its older equipment from about 20 years ago, 15 years ago, right around there. And they still had some of it in the inventory and it keeps popping up, but if they find it, they've got a standing order to sell it. So the stuff doesn't have any use. There's no miles on it, guys. And these coats are cut like the Swedish M90 Parka. which I really like but even in wholesale is kind of pricey. But for $29.95, whatever it is, $29.95 with tax license and dealer preparation at KeepShooting.com, that's a really nice coat. Now there's another one that they have there that is the same coat if you want to compare what I'm talking about. They've got an M90 copy, or not a copy, but forgive me, an M90 coat that's Swedish Civil Defense. It's in the powder blue, which by the way is a good coat also. I've recommended it before. Those are only $19. And it's a good winter coat. I've had a bunch of these years ago when they first came in and I got them as surplus cheap because there was only a small batch of them. They were an odd shipping. Nobody knew what to do with them. So they just set them sideways. But since then, they've been raved on in several publications and now the price has gone up from what it was. I am telling you. But these are a decent coat and they're in a good pattern. They're a good winter coat. The big thing is the outer, the big popcorn outer pockets for winter operations. Guys, if you're going to be out there and you have to go across country, you carry lots of spares. example, I'll harp on this now, it was warm outside, Mark, yes, but now winter gear is cheap for the moment, it won't be in another month. Okay, then the people people, you know, the price, the people people thing starts, oh now it's winter, I need to start thinking about winter gear, oh now I can charge you more money for it. It's hot outside. People aren't thinking coats when it's hot outside. This is when you buy hot stuff. During the winter is when you buy your shorts. During the winter is when you buy your, you know, Bermuda's and your tank tops and stuff that you thought you wanted because nobody's thinking about trying to get cool in the middle of winter. Okay? I've argued this for decades. It's like save money. Reverse your purchasing cycle. Anyway. They have these large pockets on the outside for all your spare liners. If you've got trigger finger mittens, which everybody should have by now, I don't think Frank with main military has any of the Swedish mittens. I think he finally sold out. He had tens of thousands of them, and he had them for a steel price. I mean, literally it was a steel. Hopefully you guys bought some when I told you to. They're not available anymore. What he had was the last gasp of those that came into the country and they haven't been around for years. It's just that he bought another company that went out of business. Now, when you have those, those have replaceable liners. Well, when you have liners, you're not going to throw out the old ones. So here's the trick. You put a plastic bag in on the left side, big popcorn pocket on that coat. And when you have a wet pair, you wring them out. You shake them. then you roll them up or you leave them flat if you want to and you put them in the plastic bag in the left pocket so you don't cross contaminate your clothing. You reach into your right pocket that's got another bag in it and out of it you pull the other dry pair and you put them on your hands and your hands go thank you oh thank you and you put your shells back on over that and you keep working. Now, if you're really made out and you bought those Swedish mittens, hell, you wouldn't even worry about keeping the, you know, like taking, other than to wring them out if they were really wet from snow and wet in your rain. You would wring them out, just put the whole assembly in the left pocket and then pull a whole brand new set of mittens with shells out of the other dry. Now your hands aren't freezing. Now your fingers can move. Now you can do things and because your extremities don't drop in temperature, your core body temperature doesn't drop. See how that works? So, again, that's why the trigger finger mittens, now some places have better prices, but I've also noticed even with Frank at Maine Military that the price on the trigger finger mittens have gone up by a little bit. They're still cheaper than anything else on the market. And I would point out that if you can't find D3A glove liners, which are becoming a problem, that's the old Wolf, Wolf, Wolf, regular five finger mitten, five finger gloves, guys. If you can't find those in German or Austrian, which even if you do, they're stupid priced now. They should not be as expensive as they are, but they're charging what the market will bear. Austrian will probably be the cheapest in the five fingered wool gloves if you can find them. But, remember, the reason you want the mitten shells that are so cheap is because those are wool, the glove, those are wool mitten liners. Those are wool. Even if you get wet and all you have are those and you've lost all your other pairs Remember that with body heat wool retains heat it retains temperature and and your body heat pushes the moisture away from you through the wool So again another thing. Well mark is warm out there. Yes Well mark thinks ahead so that you don't suffer as much but also so that your wallet doesn't suffer if we can save pennies in this area We can spend dollars in other areas Like for ammunition weapons that we need more of or medical supplies. I just finished canning the last of the latest batch of bandages. They're completely repackaged. They're triple packed. One of the things that I do guys with medical buckets when I do them, and I want to recommend this again, if you've got a whole box, go to the dollar store, get a box of garbage bags. Little bags, medium sized bags, okay? When you're going to be loading up a 5 gallon pail, it can be the square ones or the round ones, if you're going to use medical supplies in them. I like the square ones for medical supplies. They take up less space so you get more on the trailer when you load up the cheap trailer. I like square ones, so when I grab them from the places where I get them for free, I do. And they're virgin. They've only been used for whatever was in them in the way of food. They typically run them through their washer. I've even asked them to and they've done it. where they run them through their food dishwasher which has got hypersculled and it's got sterilizing agents, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. When they come out the other end, they're pristine. Then I put a garbage bag, a full-size large garbage bag inside the bucket. Then I load up the medical supplies in there. Then I roll up, I seal up the bag and roll it up so that it's sealed in the top. Well, then what else do I do? I take five small garbage bags. I slide them into the side next to the packed can, and then I put the lid on, and then I mark the container for what's in the container. It is a laundry list. If it's one item in that container, a complete description is on the outside label, and it's in large black marker print on white. So it can be easily read, especially read at night when you are trying to find things because somebody is bleeding to death. and you need supplies and you need to be able to identify what you are going to grab and give to the medic in the other tent. See how that works? Now, the other garbage bags? Well, you're going to have medical waste. You don't want those bandages just flopping around. You're going to be changing out dressings. You're going to be changing out bandages. Plastic bags are priceless. in the field. They can also be used for a hundred other tools. You may want to allocate. Maybe you only need, you're going to open up a bucket, you're going to take out so many, put them into that garbage bag and give them to the medic to take to the aid station or whatever. It gives you a device or tools for so many different things it's ridiculous. Something as simple as garbage bags. They will protect the material from moisture, they'll protect it from the elements, from dust and dirt, which means the supplies will get to where they need to go and can sit there for a while if need be in that bag just to give them a little more protection before they're busted open and used. And all the nasty stuff coming off the casualty? Well now you got a garbage bag to put that all in so that it can be properly disposed of because you don't need to contaminate and cross contaminate your environment in that way. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Okay. Now another thing, oh heck we're almost to the top of the hour here. Centerfiresystems.com, Centerfiresystems.com for our friends in the chat room, Centerfiresystems.com. Take the time, check it out. And if you go to www.centerfiresystems.com, let me post that here for everybody, www.centerfiresystems.com, make sure you get that s at the end, dot com, let's see if I get it right here. Typing with one hand is not doing it. Here we go Center fire systems comm I had a question again It came in as an email because I was talking about this on the air yesterday and one of our friends in the chat room already posted it Excuse me. Oh, oh my goodness Oh, well see when then I go to go to a page and I find unique things that are available And I don't know how exciting you're excited. You're gonna be about this Bush master ar-15. Oh, come on. Give me a break. I'm not interested in 22s Bushmaster AR-15s and I've got them with 10 magazines. It looks like an M4 knockoff, guys. Hold on here. I'll get that up again. Bushmaster Airfie, 15 model 9289. $700. That's with 10 magazines. 10 free magazines. I don't know about free, but you get 10 magazines with a weapon. 30 round mags for $700. If you're excited about that, it's a Bushmaster. Looks like it's an M4 slash an A2 car 15 is what it is. It's got an A2 back. The military modified heavy barrel, if that's what you want to call it. Yuck, yuck, yuck. And it's got a collapsible folding stock. $700, it's on the front page. It's the first of the items in there, side scroll. Now that's not what I went there for. We only got so much time here. Tactical gear. When we get to tactical gear, military, okay, across the top you got firearms, ammunition, magazines, accessories, tactical gear, and military surplus. When you go to military surplus, come down to that other green line and it says accessories. In the accessories section, I am pretty sure that's where the gas masks are under other and let's double check that to be safe. I may be wrong. I am wrong. Oh well, actually gas masks. The M85 series, they've got a couple of different gas masks. Forgive me guys, I'm trying to jump to this quick. Let's do that. There we go. Okay, we'll find it this way. We'll go the slow route to China. As it is, they have the complete gas mask set. Now, this is more expensive than other stuff I've pointed at, but these are complete systems. This includes all the parts, pieces, and assemblies, all the goodies and wonderful stuff that you need to put a complete M85 system together to include a drinking canteen. Now, drinking canteen? Mark, I got canteen. Yes, I do. I understand that you have that. I know that. These are the correct canteen that goes with the drinking straw system. In fact, it's a completely self-contained mask. They've got them in medium and small. And a medium will cover a good portion of the beaners that are out there as far as the heads said size-wise. It's very seldom they have larges, but some people do need larges. I will explain this. I understand that. You don't have to tell me that. However, they have these complete sets for $49.99. It's a brand new mask, brand new filter, obviously, brand new bag, brand new drinking straw, brand new canteen and a cover for it, and the total is $50 per unit. I do not know if you can get a quantity price. It is more expensive, but this is one of the newer masks. And it's basically the Draeger is all it is. But it's brand new out of the box and it's complete. They haven't pilfered anything. Years ago I pointed out when they offered the M15 Israeli masks, the first thing that they stole from all the masks was the canteen. Originally the gas mask came, the M15 has a drinking straw station the whole nine yards. Well the Israelis stole the canteen from every one of the surplus masks that they sold. or the wholesalers did. I don't think the wholesalers did it. It was done by the Israelis when they dropped them. So they didn't drop them. The M15's out there in force still. But the idea is that those were brand new masks. Well in this case, everything is in this kit. The advantage of this, it also allows you to see what you need if you want to buy more of the same canteens or a similar canteen. And the reason I bring this up is that a lot of the NATO canteen don't have the smaller arpature that we have on our US canteen. Although they did issue standard kidney canteen, so the type that we have. Typically, they have a larger standard spec wide mouth canteen. And that's what most of these are. They made them in metal and they made them in plastic. These should be plastic. By all indications they are. I haven't talked to the guys over there at Centerfire yet. But if you're looking for you know, some people are I gotta have it brand new I don't okay. Well, this is brand brand new now there are also and I believe they have these through oh What the heck if you keep shooting calm there is another they have a Swedish mask the prep of the present Swedish and Finnish issue masks Coming through but they're close to a hundred dollars apiece. Whoo So, for the price, the M85, in looking at a new package off the shelf, is a reasonable middle-range priced gas mask. For those people who are going to do all the wheezy-whiny thing, it's got to be new or else! Well, now anybody who wants to tell me that this is an obsolete mask, please, I'd laugh at them. For that matter, though, the M10s, all of the M9 copies we've talked about are perfectly serviceable. I have hundreds of them, okay? And I'm going to continue to maintain them. Why? I got them. Got them for good price. They're all squared away. I can throw a gas mask bag at you. And I know that everything is in it that you need to keep you alive. Okay? But if you're looking for something to be, you know, as a front line, you know, first, you know, a present generation mask, this is one of them. I would point out that if you want to compare notes, the $50 mask from Centerfire is on page five. of their camping section for military surplus, camping and then goes clothing I believe. Anyway, on page four of that section with all the surplus stuff in it, accessories, camping and clothing, the Draeger masks are listed at $19 apiece. Yep, $19.99. Now, if you want to understand what I'm talking about, take a look at the picture of the German Draeger gas mask with one filter and Then go take a look at the M85 mask and compare notes. Oh Now the Draeger does not have a drinking straw station But if you're looking for more masks for less or if you were looking for masks that would match up, say to the backups for that M85. Let's say you bought a quantity, the M85s, but you want more masks on standby. Well, that Draeger mask looks just like that M85 mask except for a few coloration points with the plastic. Other than that, one matches the other. Pretty well parts, pieces, and assemblies interchangeable. So it is a solution for those of you looking to try and stretch the dollars farther. We've always argued that is what we need to do. We can have to make that happen. So just ideas, not just complaining about the problems. Why? What do we do? What do we do? I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll mill do. Oops, did I say that? Anyway. A couple of other really cool things that they've got right now too that they just got in. I know they came from Sturm. Right below that dragger mast, they got German border guard summer jackets, a two pack for $12. That's $6 apiece for a utility jacket that actually is a nice little cover piece. I've gotten those before. For $6 apiece, that's a good price. By the way, Centrifier also has a special deal on shipping. So if you get to a certain dollar amount, congratulations. It's cheaper by the however many pounds. So you definitely are going to be able to save money on shipping. Don't forget, Centerfire is also at Knob Creek. They usually set up right across from where Poker Face plays just off the end of the range, around the range building, guys. So Centerfire is easy to find. What they're going to have there, I don't know, whatever they can drag along. They've got a lot of goodies. I'm hoping to get you guys to clear a bunch of this stuff out before it goes to Knob Creek and gets sold out and disappears. These group and bulk items that they have are a steal. You can't beat the price for what you're looking at there. So again, take a look at their group deals. Let's see, including, especially with package deals section. With regard to a K parts AR 15 parts. I would point out again for you FNF a lover By the way, we got DC coming up next We will be back at 8 o'clock down myself eating until report. God bless the Republic We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen the Empire's on the run. We're in a mark More live LTR broadcasting here in just a moment