Oh, uh, the spider monkey. Okay, be calling for their mommy. That's right, that's how it should be. In fact, that's what they deserve. Well, we're at the top. Don, you know, for Night Vision, the web page and take us out for the moment, please. Hey, that number is 231-796-8458, the web page, Y-G-T-O-E dot U-S. Mark, hey, you guys, give us just a little while. We'll be right back. Need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit mainmilitary.com. Mainmilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items and much more. You own a firearm. Mainmilitary.com has a large selection of pistols and rifles suited for your needs. 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 mainmilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at mainmilitary.com. That's main, like the state, military.com. Liberty's Guardian Guns and ammunition A family owned business located in the heart of Ohio's hunting country Let us help you find the right shotgun or rifle for you Or if you're looking for a pistol or concealed carry We have a nice selection of compact and subcompact pistols for that too Check out our website at www.libertyscaridian.com That website again is www.libertyscaridian.com Go to the website and check out our selection today. If you're listening to the assembly support on LibertyTreeRadio.4MT.com Figure walked in through the mist with a flip lock in his... His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there, my bet. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me. He said, we've bought 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 is free. Freedoms we secured for you, we hope you'd always keep. A tyrant slavored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land is a free. I permits to travel and permits to own a gun. If you permits to start a business or to build a place for one, on land that you believe you own and 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. 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 gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've given government control. Those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and season the farm and keep our country Put men of God in jail harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail Your public servants don't uphold the solemn old slave sworn and your daughters visit to their children Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to the slaughter fighting other people's wars You regain the freedoms for which you 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 will fight to save? Or do you wish to kill both sons of the Republic? Arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Man, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right. I won't keep vanished in this for once again. His words were true, but we have ourselves to blame. Or even now as tyrants trample each God-given right. He trembled to a fae to stand and fight. He stood by your bedside and dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep. What would be your answer? He called out from the grave. Dill the Lander. I tried some of these trumps. The drum. You're the drum. When was the last time you shared Visitor from the past, guys? Time every day, send it somewhere. Whatever you can. The Thaland, Paul, you're from the past. Send it somewhere. Please. Do it as an audio. Do it as a printout. Whatever you're gonna do. But every day send it to somebody and force people to think it's something that they hate when it happens. And it's a poem that, well, says it all. Good afternoon, I'm Mark Horkey. And I'm Don Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, southeast, and northeast. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com and we're on A-M-N-F-M-I-C-R-O station, C-B-B-A-State, and Ultra N-O-G-E-S-E West of the Mississippi along with Alaska. And I tell you, Don, it has been a ridiculously busy day. It got a lot done. In fact, I don't know how I did it because it went perfectly. Well, I shouldn't say word. Actually, that's not true. I got two dribblets of paint somewhere. I didn't want it, but beyond that, who cares? Otherwise, fit, finish, everything. I used two different techniques for certain construction and both of them look good, which is kind of funny because they went from one end to the other and said, what do I do it this way instead? I've done it both ways. Ah, they both look great. There we go. So again, a lot accomplished. You've still got a lot to do. And the one hour between the programs, the two hour and the one, I've got to get more paint and some more rock up here real quick. But looking good. And also got a bunch of the tactical radios, everything we're talking about, Communications Tuesday. Got a bunch of the tactical radios squared away. More on that in a minute. But Don, what's the day today? What's jumping off the wall? What's it look like up in your neck of the woods, please? It is the 20th day of September 16th, great day, just tremendous day. You couldn't ask for a day like this in the end of, I think we're just in the area, cloud in the sky. It's Tuesday, we're in it out. That basic part of communication. We brought this to the hour before, that sentry, that man at the pole, the last thing you do, squeeze that trigger. the last thing you do, yell and scream. If it's the last thing you do, turn out a light or turn on a light. Anything that you can do to draw attention to the immediate problem. On that note, a little interesting bit from a movie that I mentioned that's on, it's apparently produced by Netflix. It's 1961, the Belgian Congo, and oh my goodness, the Irish are sent as UN troops to the Congo in 1961. This is not 66, 67. But it wasn't any better in 1961. They had no business being there in the first place. It was all part of the oil and mineral grab that was going on. It would take about, oh, another four or five years worth of changing hands before it would really get messy. OK? But everybody is in church. The sentry can see movement way across the savannah into what few woods there are. Obviously it's the only approach that anybody can make any sneak up, so to speak, easily on the objective, which is an outpost. Lo and behold, it's like everybody's singing and he even calls out and everybody's ignoring him. So he turns his rifle and shoots the mission bell over top of them, over the church. which kind of motivates everybody to go, oh, wait a minute, something's going on. So again, guys, all you have to do is get something going. All your buddies that are as well armed or at least armed or can be armed quickly will probably be a lot more friendly than the people who are coming over the wall or trying to infiltrate through the fence line or trying to come through the back 40. They probably have ill intent. And as we get more and more into any number of different scenarios, let's not forget there are three teams. There's you, there's the opposition, the bad guys you're fighting, and there's the scallywags and brigands, and they ain't no different from the other category I mentioned. So both are going to have to be dealt with. And the scallywags and the brigands will all feel that whatever is yours should be theirs. Oh, wait a minute. That's just like the government forces. So there really isn't any difference in how you're going to treat either group. But in both cases if they come out, well especially with the scallywags and brigands, need to be simply done away with because they will be a long-term problem. Best to make sure they aren't. Okay, but when it comes to defense, get something in place. And this is why a number of different multiple signaling systems need to be actually at hand. You know, and that's true of something we've described. You know, the traditional picket or the watchman on the wall, Guys, you know, a lot of times I notice they've shown the watchman on the wall and they have this very simplified version of the watchman where he's got the sword and he might have a shield and he's standing there and he's looking, it's like he's looking across a battlefield. The image was chosen for whatever reason. But that's typically not the picket on the wall. The picket on the wall would have a halberd, he could have a personal battle axe, he might have multiple knives, in many cases, embraces. He would be carrying a bow. He would be carrying a short sword and might still be carrying a long sword. And this is all part of his kit that would go to his station with him. And hi Fred, how you doing? Hi Bob, how you doing? Anything out there? Oh, I have to make a noise out there. You might want to pay attention to that one tree line in that house over there. But otherwise, just stay alert. Okay, well ground up your stuff. Oh, oh, there's a marrow over there. Oh, yeah, yeah, I kind of laid a few things out just in case I had to turn over that way. And he rounds up all of his kit, and then you lay out all of your kit. And then there would be, well, let's see, fire arrows, axons, clackers. One technique is simply take your sword and have, they would have like a rod or a pipe, like an angle iron, like a triangle, like you see in the old ranches. Any way that you could make noise that was unique to the environment so that it was like, hey, I don't hear that every day. But any other technology was available, and usually at the fingertips of those people who were the farthest point out. Or up. You know, four or five stories looking down on the battlefield. They'd also have piles of darts, more arrows and buckets, you name it. But the idea is that they went well girded going into the field. Oh yeah, and body armor by the way, don't forget. And fully helmed and fully shielded and all of the protection possible. Well, the idea was you were supposed to use it too. Don't forget that. But once the time was necessary, once the contact was made, first and most important is sound the alarm. Yep. Today we have so much technology at our disposal, like I said. Guys in your combat kit, there's a number of different pouches that you can buy. In fact, right now, I'll repeat again, colmans.com. Colmans.com. Colmans, C-O-L-E-M-A-N-S. Colmans, C-O-L-E-M-A-N-S. Colmans.com. Punch in Molly. pouches and they have a whole bunch of unique pouches. There are some odd sized stuff that are for very specific tools. They even have flare pouches. Now at least one parachute flare should be on standby and ready to roll or illumination flare right where you can put your hand on it and pull it. Even if all you can do is pull it and throw it where it's just, you know, your arm just drops away from your body. anything where something is burning. Interestingly enough, the nose does sense a lot of things, you know? And somebody smelling something just as they hear something different, smelling something that is not characteristic, is as quick to bring attention. Oral factory response, guys. How do you sense smoke on the wind? This has happened several times today. Somebody's been doing some other burning here. And it's not real close, but every once in a while, the wind changes. And I'm smelling something that's smoked, smelling something that's burned. And somebody has been burning. Not too far away, but far enough away that it's not right in the general area. And I can tell the general direction now. I got a good idea. So it's just, well, what are they doing? I don't know. But I've taken note of it. Well, in a sentry situation, that flare or that launched flare or whatever you can do, anything and everything is going to make a difference. Of course, you can also throw it towards the enemy. And as we've said, throw everything you got. Throw your smoke, throw your flares, pop your flares. Guys, if you're especially on your own and you might be in the middle of what literally is mayhem and madness, well, everything you got. Throw it all down range, put it all to use. There's no sense in bringing it if you can't use it. Pop it all, push it all, make noise. That should be your first rule. And kill as many of them as you can, and keep killing. In fact, the first rule I have is, wow, it's not that, oh my god, look at all of them. It's like, wow, look at all of them I'm going to have to get rid of. How am I going to get rid of this bunch? That purely is how you should be looking at every time you see a movie or a video or stuff where they share, look at those, oh, look at all these cops that are out here. These characters out here are hunting for this guy. And it's like, wow, what a cluster screw. They're lucky that when first they're not going to notice it because they're all shooting at that guy. Then I can shoot that guy because they're still looking there. He's the one, we did this already today didn't we? Remember that one sitting in the door of that APC? It's like I said, who would you shoot first? Because there's a picture I've actually posted. And I asked, how would you engage these characters? It was the Boston searching, you know, the gun search thing. Remember after the Boston Marathon. And it's like, how would you engage as much as slobs like this if they came in? Oh, it would be good. No, it wouldn't. The idea is, how many do you damage and how many do you take out before they realize that there's damage taking place? Remember, they feel comfortable if they don't see necessarily anybody dropping dead. And everybody always does that. They always show that shot where the guy's way out in the open and he gets shot and everybody looks and goes, oh, shit. We're being shot at. Yeah, I'm sorry. Oh, darn. But you know, the thing is that everybody, guys, they do that movies to condition you. And I would ask you, it's like when you pull a trigger and you pick a target, especially if it's a priority target, let me ask you, who would you shoot first? Well, a guy with a belt-fed gun seems to be pretty high priority to me. And if I can get a freebie shot on him first time around, I just took a big chunk of fire power away from them for a few moments. Now, this assistant gunner's gonna get on, or somebody's gonna get on as quick as they can. Grenadier is the same way. What if that guy with the 203 or that guy with the Russian launcher under the AK, he's dead. The guy with the scope rifle, because he has the same ambitions I have. So I might decide that, yeah, it's a toss-up. Belt-fed, Grenadier, or which one looks like he'd be the first threat that could swing that gun around in my direction. I think you better get rid of that marksman. Get rid of the sniper. Hey guys? Yeah, go ahead, caller. Yeah, it's BC. Yeah, you're exactly right. Just like riding a motorcycle, you've got to be eyeing all the what-ifs as you're going down the lane, what's going to run out from behind that car, or see me, or whatever the case may be. And you know, it's like playing baseball. If the ball, I throw it first. So when we're looking at these pictures of our enemy troops, or they ought to be thinking in a conscious train of thought for training. Oh yes, as a matter of fact. We didn't really mention that. There are different models too, depending on what era for the Mali. You've got different sizes. The Sierra, on that note, that is something. The Sierra Speedboarders, I don't know which ones you're using, but the real, they've got the longer body for the push type release. Yeah, the grenade 40mm grenade launcher, especially for like an M frame or a model 27 or a model 29. This is a MAL2 hand grenade pouch by Special and it's authentic in all questions. Again, sometimes those have DRMO stamped on them in purple. Did they have that? Oh, good. To me it doesn't make any difference. I've gotten stuff like that. I'm just curious because it's going to be a mix. And so far all of them we've gotten have been but I just watch it for that because it depends on the facility where they came from and when they came in. What does that mean? They've been decommissioned? Yeah, it's a decommissioned stamp. It's like a purple dye thing every once in a while. We show up on it usually if they're polite they stamp it on the inside of the elbow pad. Okay, well I didn't notice on the one that I test fitted and everything. I'll look at them again. But I'm kind of like you brother. I'm running out of place to walk in my house. Actually, I'm barreling stuff up because of these hundred count things. I just dropped off a couple of the coats for testing for one of the units and it will get clear real quick here. I'm going to have to make a card catalog system so I know what's what and where. You know what I watch for? What I use is I watch when people throw away carry on luggage. Well, what I'm saying is I've got all this stuff in there. Yeah, right on the box is what it is, but I've got to start remembering what's in what room. Yeah, where is this? Well, that's where again, they start separating by pod. So it's like, well, I know that if I go over here, there's 10 of whatever, either way. 10 of this, 10 of that, and 10 more of the other. Amen. Okay, well, I'll get out of y'alls. Well, I just wanted to give you an update on those materials that you mentioned. Yeah, I highly encourage all the other listeners to do the same while they can and get it at those prices. That's phenomenal. Excellent. And again, that's all at copesdistributing.com, guys. They've got a bunch of in the surplus section. There's a bunch of really great buys. And they've got another section that's the Gun Show Special. And it's $10 flat rate. So whatever, however many pounds you order, it's still only $10. That's why I try to do the biggie items when I order from them. Because, you know, you know, 30 pistol belts, you know how much that weighs? You know how much that normally would cost you to ship? And not only that, I don't know, they'd probably get frustrated with that, but I don't think so. They want to sell stuff, so they know what they're, they get a deal with UPS. They get a deal with FedEx, depending on where they're shipping it. Real quick, before we go any farther here, guys, grab your pen and paper. Another thing I want to touch on because our caller earlier, we were closing the hour, she was asking about antennas. Now there's an excellent little video. I knew there'd be a dozen of them. There's probably a couple hundred. But My Long Wire Antenna Setup. That's the name of the video. My Space. Long Wire, all one word, L-O-N-G-W-I-R-E, space, antenna, space, setup. That's my long wire antenna setup. Because I can tell you until I'm blue in the face on the radio here, and we can explain. But what's really good is when you have imagery. And what I was talking about where you can use either a parachute cord or bungee cord, there's a number of tricks, depending on how quick or how permanent you want your setup to be. In fact, most of the stuff you can do this temporary is pretty darn residual. I mean, it's resilient because of the material it's made out of. Paracord's pretty durable. A real paracord. Bungie cords. You get a nice set of Bungie cords and amazing ones. You secure those in place, they're locked in. You don't have anything to worry about. Anyway, it's my long wire antenna setup. It's only a minute and seven seconds long. I'll get it out. And it's M-O-V-S-T-M-AMETURE-RADIO-BITS-AND-BOBBS. And that is the channel on YouTube. Boy, that's a mouthful. M-O-V-S-T dash amateur radio bits and bobs. That's the channel on YouTube. And the name of the video is My Long Wire Antenna Setup. And there's a lot of other good stuff connected to that where you've got links. So when you get a chance, you can see or visualize where we're talking about doing a simple V-line. In this case, in a backyard, right off of a house. Guy's got his little radio shack set up. He's listening in using the equipment he's got. It's all simple, straightforward, and very user friendly. So that's my long wire antenna set up. and that is on YouTube by the way. Go to YouTube, punch in the search, My Long Wire Antenna Setup. It's a minute and seven seconds long. There are others, improvised long wire antenna positioning, all kinds of stuff. Tune in to mention and have some fun and check them all out anyway because remember it's antenna theory. Now that antenna law, it's antenna theory and it's purely a matter of what you have to be creative with and work with and how can you make it work for you. Now on that note working for me, I'm looking outside and it's getting darker sooner Don. What in the hell happened? What happened? I'm quoting Steve McQueen from Sam Pebbles guys. What happened? What the hell happened? Of course you've got a hole in his chest. Don't run out in the middle of a Chinese courtyard with a BAR in a white uniform and expect not to be shot. Just how it works. Oh, that was the officer in charge. Remember? We're in the dress whites. He's got red, too, now. Anyway, we want to be able to see at night. We also want to use that thermal technology to have. So, Tom, what do we have available? Tell us about the web page and then bring us up to speed on everything, please. Well, if you go over to the webpage, that's ydtoe.us, you know, yankee delta tango oscar echo dot us, you'll see green screen and the thermal mark mentions and digital. We've talked about that digital, you know, that's entry level. That's not exactly what first generation used to be, but it's the replacement for it. It's entry level and we've got to address it that way. Good for training. You can use it in the daytime into the dark, something you can't do with the green screen. You can use the green screen for real short periods in the daylight through the pinhole. But you can use the digital all day long. It's not going to shut itself off from high light. If you run up to second generation you're looking at gun sites and binoculars and binoculars but there's a gun site there for like $13.99 that's a factory list price. We can do better than that if you give me a call. I can give you a code that will reduce the price enough to... Well, you could probably go out and buy one of those SKS's someplace compared to that $13.99. You could buy the gun site and still have enough left over to buy a gun if you look hard enough. If you want that phone number it's 231796. Again, 23179658, the website ydtoe.us. Again, ydus. For night vision, go over to the website ydtoe.us and look at this and that and the other thing and the goggles and the gun sights and the digital and the thermal and the green screen. If you want to know what the real price is, give me a call. I'll give you a code and we'll talk about it. about that real price and you enter that code and you'll get it for that real price. And the phone number is 231-796-58. The website is ydtoe.us and I'll do that standard. Yeah, I'm the guy with the night vision goggles and we got gun sights too. So with that in mind, hey y'all, you're turn to Liberty Tree Radio. You might be listening to Auk Radio right now, but Game Talk Radio and they broadcast us during this hour. If need be, they'll be the only one carrying us during this hour, so that might be what you're experiencing today. At any rate, you know, it would be good to support either of them, Liberty Tree Radio or Indiana Freedom Talk Radio. Bring that subject up. It's always as many hands makes for light work. Tree Radio and support Indiana Freedom Talk Radio, it wouldn't hurt. It's only a good thing. And again, I don't know if I'm... Mark's been disconnected or what's going on. Hey Don, would you like to run some music for a break? Yeah, would you? Because I do have to leave. Alrighty, no problem. That would be good. Thank you very much. And hey, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio, yeah. And we'll spend some time here in just a moment. Here we go. Mark Intel Report, it is Communications 2. I want to say thank you again for our Indiana Freedom Talk radio every once in a while we've got to cooperate. Well, we actually do all the time. So while somebody else has to pick up the bat, very fine job of us. I want to say thank you for the assist there. One of the other things that we can't emphasize enough here with regard to signal communication, I mentioned this this morning too, is batteries. You know I harp on this. A little trick, I want to repeat it here now. I talked about it, I want to repeat it again at 8 o'clock too. If you're a minute man, and of course I know the religious argument, it should just all be loaded up and ready to roll. But if you're letting any equipment sit for a period of time, let's say that you have two, three, or four, or five rigs set up. Maybe you've got a bunch of different pieces of equipment on standby. You need to take the radio, the laser, and the flashlight batteries out if you're just going to let the equipment sit. as a precaution, especially if you're using conventional alkali batteries. Now rechargeables, not so much a problem, but eventually they'll tire and discharge. It depends. There's a certain amount of bleed as they sit. The big issue is that we don't know the quality of the batteries that are being produced now. Yeah, they've still got the name copper top on them or whatever, but every one out of so many batteries have a tendency to pop on you and bleed. Now, if you spent thousands of dollars or hundreds of dollars on a piece of equipment, losing it to a $0.90 or $1.10 item is not really a happy camper situation. So as a precaution, set up either a canister or a container that can either be rubber band or it can be you can tape. I mean, some guys just can use construction. They're not construction, but paper tape. and what you do is you just have the batteries attached right there ready to be put in. One of the procedures you're going to go through is reintroducing the batteries to your equipment, checking your equipment one last time, grabbing it and throwing it in the vehicle or putting it on because you're deploying as a fighting unit and from the moment you're called, once you've done your final check, you're now in combat mode, which you should be anyway if we have a mobilization order. This is a precaution because that way the lasers, the flashlights, the GPS, if you've chosen to use it, or the night vision or the thermal isn't going to be an issue where you open up that battery box and go, oh look, it's soft and chewy, and there's gooey there too. And gravity sucks, but fluids follow the path of least resistance. And the problem you've got is everything is microcircuitry. At the very least, it's flush space. And otherwise, it's micro, micro solid state. And it doesn't take much to toast it. So it's important that we take control of the situation and pay attention to our support technology. And those are what are called in military circles the perishables. In this case, batteries. Now the alkali batteries, you can trickle charge on the old style or some of the home built solar panels. You can recharge alkali. Otherwise, don't try it. It is simply it is not worth the cost. Of course, not again. There are different techniques that are used. I am not going to get off on that. But because of the fact that 1 out of 10, 1 out of 20, 1 out of 50 might again fail, typically they won't fail fortunately in your piece of equipment because you are charging them in the battery charger. So that is where they are going to ooze and bleed and make a mess. Some people have built chargers that allow for that to happen and immediately you punch through, you push right through the unit, they're like a suspension system and they go right in the trash. Those that continue to be usable are usable. But again, you can't use a high output charger with many of the batteries anyways, you have to be cautious there. You have to make sure you know what you're using and how it should be used or how it should be applied, what type of charger, etc. But it's critical that you guys know your equipment and that we protect the equipment from possible damage. It's just another step. Of course, a lot of you guys, if you're jumping into your gear, jumping your uniform, jumping your field jacket, grab your gear and away you go. You've already got a schedule set up for rotating the batteries or checking the equipment every week or every so many days. Personal preference there, the schedule is your SOP. The important thing is do stay religious on the subject because we do need every piece of night vision. We do need every piece of thermal. We need all those lasers, the flashlights, and all the other technology to work. We need it. Go ahead, caller, jump in there. Yeah, one more brief interruption if you don't mind. What is your experience with those little optics that use those? Well, same thing. You can get China Sport quality or you can spend more money on better tech. A big chunk of it is still mostly China Sport made now. But the better the battery, obviously, the greater the reliability. Supposedly they just spent more money on the casing. Everything is folded. It's soldered properly. Everything's going to hold together. As far as the watch, stackable watch or the large disc batteries, I've taken deals. actually do when they're in storage. I mean you can, you know, so that the connector post has something in the way of a physical block, you know, a piece of plastic, a piece of flat, you know, sandwich plastic, whatever you got. Otherwise, it has cylindrical touch, like double AAA. A little more expensive to begin with, but you see the thing is the Chinese have been flipping stuff in. And that's where you've got to watch it because you can get a card or battery still at the dollar store for $1 or $1.25 or $1.50 and that. Like I've got one sitting next to me. It's a black and white card. It has what? It's got 38 batteries for $1. And they're mixed types. Now they're all different outputs. Well, there's eight of this, six of that. You know how it is. It's a mix. But my question was basically, I guess, I didn't ask it correctly. What is your experience on them failing as far as leaking? Same thing, we still have a percentage of the cheaper ones that will leak. I'm cautious with those. The watch batteries were designed again, the key word, watch batteries, are designed to take a lot of abuse to begin with. Of course they're armored. Typically they're in a double hull, clamshell, and are very well protected. But you've got to remember, they're on somebody's wrist. So they actually designed to take a lot of flex, a lot of bounce. That's why some of the companies went to those instead of the smaller AAA batteries or any of the other kinds of cylinder batteries or even the square batteries that are out there. There are a number of other batteries that we were seeing them phased out, but it seems about the time they phased one new old design in that's really unique, they come up with another one. Oh hey look, while we're on batteries I noticed I got an email, I'm sure it's over now again. In fact, we need to monitor BG Micro even in between the opportunities which BK reminds us to do so because you never know when they're going to slip those little more desired certain items that we very good. Appreciate that. I didn't know for sure if he left rated when he expected or if he was holding out. Thank you. I have some input on the battery situation there. What these people do, we went through this with the e-cigarette batteries and what they do is they go in the factory and they make a whole shit load of batteries all at once and then they test them. They've got bin A, bin C, and bin A, B, C. D and the D are those really cheap crappy batteries that you don't really want to buy and then all the way up to the A which should be your should be your Duracells and if you've got some that are popping what has probably happened is somebody went oops and threw a bin D battery into bin A or bin C battery into bin A and you paid all that money for it. So that's that's usually what's going on with those. Right. And again, there's another industry where you have battery use and I guarantee you that there was some experimentation or there were different ideas, I mean that may or may not even have gotten inside the US. Overseas a lot, or any company that's doing R&D, research and development, may have had some really interesting ideas but decided that, well, they couldn't make as much money off those. In other words, yeah, we'll offer them this or we'll point it in this direction instead. Because the people that are doing the research, the companies that are designing may be completely different from the company that's offering the product, even though it has its name on it. That happens quite a bit, especially in light manufacturing. So there can be several other sub-companies or a think tank group that actually is participating in the support. And then they're competing with another group, and they're competing with another group. There are independent guys out there who are doing it all on their own. They are high powered batteries, I mean the ones I use are 30 amp batteries and they will do some damage if you short them out. They are pretty powerful. One company got the contract and they never got re-contracted or anything like that but then all these 18650 green batteries are coming from China and nobody knows what the hell they are. and people are going, wait a minute, that damn thing about blew up when I use it, that's not a Sony battery. And then we find out, well, none of them are really Sony, they just contracted somebody to make this specific battery run and here's what we got. So underneath the green wrapper is the true tale of what the hell the battery actually is. And they'll just take a battery and put a wrapper on it and say, oh, it's 40 amps. Really, and then when they test it, it's only 20. You can't do that, especially with what we do when we build our own atomizers and we're building atomizers that come out to like 0.1 ohms. You're talking about almost directly shorting the battery and that's not good. Especially when it's 20 amp battery and you're trying to draw 30 amps off of it. That turns out real bad. So we learned real quick and regulated ourselves. We didn't really need the FDA to step in like they did. Isn't that so nice? Very good. And you know, another thing here too is like we said with Chinese production, Operator 14 or Operator 18 may or may not know their job that well. Of course, soon there will be kidney donors and organ donors behind the factory. But in the meantime, they can do a lot of harm if they're worked to death, injured, whatever. And that's one of the other problems is that the quality control issues are ignored. It doesn't mean they won't be punished. But as far as sending it out to the end user, it is acceptable to send out a larger failure rate than we considered an American standard for many, many, many, many years. Which of course, we actually set the standard for a lot of what was going on the planet. Well, at least we used to. So that's another issue that needs to be addressed. We're almost to the top. And again, Spike's here with us. Indiana Freedom Talk Radio, don't forget guys, you can tune in and go to the programming from that direction or you can go to libertygeroradio.4mg.com. But either way, we've got a link and we're working together. Ed had to take care of some other issues, as we know. Spike, will be with us. Spike, are you going to be doing this tomorrow again too? I'm not sure. Ed said he'd let me know. Okay, very good. I understand. Also, we mentioned a couple of movies. If you haven't watched, it's Hollywood. We know it's Hollywood. You don't have to tell me it's Hollywood. Interestingly enough, John Wick, it's a movie. It's an action movie, but watch the making of. I can't stress this enough because remember that for all of the choreograph work and all of the creation of the imagery that you see, Airsoft is becoming very dominant in all of the action activities of this type now. Also, even for filming, a lot of it is Airsoft because you're not going to pull the trigger. And if there's no pow pow bang bang shoot them up in that particular batch of shots that are being done with the camera, Airsoft is a lot safer to have when you're handing it out to the actors and actresses on the set. It's one of those advantages of again changing the environment. It doesn't mean they may not handle live functional firearms, but they don't need to all the time and the quality is high enough. Most important is that the training component, muscle memory, muscle activity, personal defense techniques, all of these can be incorporated with a reasonable safety factor. Now it's still like the old Red Ryder BB gun, you'll shoot your eye out! So you need to be paying attention there. But again, plastic BB as we know, and there are different grades of BBs. If you're not familiar with Airsoft, there are many different grades and different companies building BBs, in pillows of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, different weights and grain weights. And of course, there's modifications and upgrades that can take place with the firearms themselves, with the, oh, for giving me the airsoft. But watch the making of John Wick. And pay attention to what you're seeing in the imagery there. It'll help you to understand what Mark's been talking about. Again, I love it when I can find something where there's imagery that matches our discussion points. So we don't have to do something ourselves. Somebody's already generating it to reinforce what we're talking about here. Another thing about this kind of work. is eye protection, which is obvious. I don't know about shooting your ear out. Boy, that would be a hole in one. You get something like that. The worst part would probably be more like getting a bean stuck in your ear. It's like, oh, man. But eye protection certainly is a good idea across the board. There's no reason not to have it. There's so many goggles, protective glasses, and whatever style you want, that you should be able to take care of that. The other thing again, all of your other technology can be incorporated into that training and one of the things I have pointed out is combat weight. We've been mentioning flares and smoke and one of the things that I see happening is people will shave off equipment because we're not going to be serious. Well, if you're a minute man or if you're actually planning on deploying in a first-line scenario, then being totally prepared, being squared away completely, includes the idea of training. You know, training as you will fight, for you will fight as you have trained. In other words, actual combat weight, material and equipment needs to be where it is, rigid or otherwise. One of the reasons, for instance, if you put all your CS containers and smoke containers and flares and everything else, where they're supposed to be, in the carriers they're supposed to be, they create limited restrictions, but they do add up. When you carry, for instance, smoke or grenade on the M16 or the M14 mag pouches, you add weight and you change the center of gravity, plus you also have mass that you have to get used to moving around. in volume, just the amount of space that things take up. Now I've pointed out it won't take long before you wish it was bulky and heavy and in your way again, but it doesn't take very long for that to change. And you need to practice with the technology, something that one of our friends called it and said, an M14 mag weighs a pound. Loaded, well, you're right. So if I'm firing magazines and I just keep shucking mags from the left side because my left hand is free whenever I'm still holding the rifle, isn't that going to kind of create some center of mass issues? Now for this reason, we've talked about consuming mags based upon contact. Let me give you an example real quickly before we go. If they're farther away, apply or use mags from farther to the rear of your combat load. Preferably stuff that's difficult to reach. Why is that? Well, because if you're firing at maximum range, you've got more time to actually prepare. The more restrictive and difficult combat stations for your supply should be used first under those conditions. That way as the enemy gets closer and you are pressed more, the magazine pouches that are ready up, that are quick and easiest to use, are still active, they're still loaded, they're still ready to use. Anyway, I hear the music, oh my goodness, the second hour has gone fast. For everybody out there, guys, again, you're using your brain nonstop, your mind is your first best weapon. Constantly think through processes, try to come up with better solutions. Have you got a better idea? Run with that puppy, don't even hesitate. Don't slow down, don't wait, do it. Otherwise, God bless the Republic. Death to the new world order. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We're in a march. We'll be back in an hour. But meanwhile, Spike is taking over and I believe Joe from the Carolinas is up next. So guys, Nancy has been taking pictures and sending Joe the monkey that we have been jarring, that she has been working with this year. Oh my goodness. Some of this stuff we've tasted and sampled. I'm just not going to last long. Anyway, I'm going to let you guys go. You all be careful. God bless you all. Bye-bye. Well, good evening, Victory Buds and Budettes. This is Joe from the Carolinas. Welcome back to Grow Your Own, the budding revolution, a solution-focused interactive and educational live podcast for those of you out there interested in growing your own food. Food Production News, Self-Reliance as well as Yes. permaculture now permaculture or permanent agriculture is really putting together an ecosystem for yourself that will feed you it will warn you it will cool you it will allow you to be sustainable and self-sufficient if you do want to connect with me i'm on both youtube and twitter as joe from the carolina's on both sites i did get a little bit of a good interactions on twitter so i want to say thanks to the uh... the folks there so i want to say hi to awaken sovereign uh... and uh... uh... honest reviews four four seven six page wrote karen as growth hacking and why c and luke uh... excuse me luke uh... zekularek and i'd probably butcher that but uh... what i think you have to listen as well as uh... martin and just what's happening to twitter going crazy for the program this evening when the twentieth of september two thousand sixteen bring us in there was a bad man rising by our friends credence for water of bible Now, grow your own live calling program and listeners out there who can call in are encouraged to do so. If you'd like to change the topic, that's fine. Just jump right in. Just kind of keep it on the general topic of growing food, right? And I also want to say some other listeners that just wrote in. We've got Bob and Sue's listening down there in Singer Island, Florida. The balcony gardeners, the more you can do with a small space, the better. You don't need a field if you can do it all. on an 8x12 bounce.