December 1, 2016
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1h 3m
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Mark Koernke discussed preparedness measures including gas masks as protection against fires and potential chemical threats, citing recent wildfire incidents where drivers faced smoke and visibility issues. The show covered affordable gas mask options from robertrtg.com ($2.95-$3.00), proper wearing and sizing of masks, and AK platform rifle components and ammunition availability. Callers contributed perspectives on Levi's CEO anti-gun stance, alternative jean brands, and night vision technology for tactical readiness. The episode emphasized self-sufficiency, armed preparedness, and practical solutions for emergency scenarios.
- gas masks
- preparedness
- wildfire
- robertrtg.com
- ak-74
- ak-47
- ammunition
- night vision
- second amendment
- self-defense
- tactical gear
- levi's
- aleppo
- thermal imaging
- ar-15
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They want anybody to hear because we're talking we're speaking too much of the truth. No, it should be fixed dad. I'm sorry. I was away Mom called me got it and I thought everything was working good apparently it slipped at the beginning of the hour So I'm saying it had to happen just after visitor from the past everybody out there again. I'm our quirky but down still alive anyway Zana US you get coffee you get guns and you get great page and love music if you want guys. Even the package looks cool. Yeah, so for everybody out there smell, he's magnific. The palette is like a bouquet. I don't know what it is. Why is it that all the old singers don't go to Rome and disappear in the back streets? Everybody goes to Paris. Janice Joplin, all the doors just about. You got Johnny Cash over there. I mean, they live forever. Well, maybe that's it. There's some kind of special force field over there. They're all hiding on the back street. Tell the annual, again, wonderful fighter with James Dean in it. Yeah. Yeah, this is Mike in Arizona. I issue with the protect my mask and you guys are a bunch of idiots. Turn this into a part trying to bring your side and get them and then everything to be great and demean the other truckers as I have one and you don't. Thing is to where's why you need to have one. Well that's kind of what I said before about I would put my gas mask on especially in the areas there and I'd be wearing it on my hip. And when somebody, oh what's that? Or some people go, oh I don't know what that is. And then you turn around and you go, yeah, that's what saved me. I was able to drive and deliver and drive again. I'm keeping it right here with me because I don't know where the next terrorist fire is going to be. On schedule. Yeah. And then you can use that as a golden opportunity and say you can get one for about 12 bucks over at Maine Military. Exactly. Well, yeah. See, I don't care how they do it. As far as, you know, like we said, we can go to any source. Somebody might go, well, I know where there's another. Oh, you need to buy a dozen of them. Somebody says something like that, you know, again, pop that, oh, you better get one right now. Then did you get one before? Well, no. Oh, but you know what? I drove all the way through and drove all the way back and I didn't slow down at all. Unlike some of the people, like if you caught what we were talking about this morning, if you've gone from the trenches, there are some of the videos of people driving through the fire because they were kind of cut off and the cops didn't tell anybody how the fire was moving. So a whole community basically had an RCAO under fire, literally under the fire. A fellow on television said, It was by the grace of God I woke up, looked out the window and saw the fire coming. It's about a 10 minute video, definitely worth watching. Again guys, the driver went off the road, why? Because he couldn't see and he couldn't breathe. That's another example, like what Mike is talking about. Show people that and say hey, see what's going on there? Now, the thing is, even when they got out of the immediate fire threat area, when they got to the end of the video, if you pay attention, guys, the level of smoke and debris in the air beyond the cop perimeter was, and as we've said, all that load eventually cools and comes down, which is exactly what it was doing. So that's another example. These are good examples we can use. Go ahead, Ed. I was wondering if you guys had seen the letter from the CEO of Levi Jeans. Not yet. No, go ahead. Well Levi's CEO is requesting that customers not pack heat while shopping for jeans They had a customer accidentally Discharges firearm and injure himself while he was shopping in the store So the CEO is using it as an excuse to ask all people not to bring their firearms under that logic though And I haven't seen anybody post this argument then shouldn't they be? Refusing entry of anybody with zip-up jeans Yeah, how many areas have been caused by those? What's wrong? I think you caught something. Well the thing about that is again the anti-gun clique doing their flapping their yap, especially since they're probably sale cowboy jeans. With cowboy jeans you're supposed to have a gun except for in the new west where you're supposed to wear a rainbow t-shirt and you actually have a flap to the rear. Most of the posts that are up on the news article right now are pretty much saying that like, hey Levi's I'm not bringing my wallet either, is the last one that I see that was posted. and there are some that were further down that were like support but you can tell they're advertisements because they've got literally an ad in the post and it's the same ad on all the posts yeah wow that's a show posting to try and do damage control exactly well appreciate that again I'll check it out again Levi's well you know I used to get Wranglers and Levis, Nancy from the wholesale end, they used to be as little as $4 to $6 a pair. Then the average has been about $8. They weren't any better, I mean as far as in general, the jeans were picking up. If they weren't China Sport, they might as well have been. Levi's not been on the high list for a long time, but again, they keep nonsense like that up when it's like, oh okay, well we don't need you either, goodbye. See you. Goodbye. The economy that strong? Go right ahead. Well, you know, yeah, exactly. One of the other cool things, remember, is so you can always just cut patches off all the old blue jeans everybody's throwing away and sew it on yours. Whoa. Yep. Go ahead, call or jump in there. Yeah. Chance, since you're looking for other brands, tractor supply. They have a low-end price brand about, what, anywhere from $11 to $12, $13 a pair, depending on when you hit them. They're pretty well. Just regular straight cut jean, ain't nothing to write home about. Typical what you'd find with the miners out west or the, you know, the workers out west back in the day wearing. They don't quite stand up by themselves, but they are serviceable enough. And they have green jeans, by the way, too. This is true, but I gotta say, that's Mr. Green Jeans to me. That's me, because Indigo Dye doesn't do well with me. That's the problem with the blue. See, that's why you won't see me in very many blue jeans, guys. Red Jeans? Everybody remember red jeans? Oh, the Lord, my God. The jeans stores, when they first came out, they go. We went to Taylor, I think it was, years ago, was when I was in school. The fire sale was so bad that they couldn't have anything in the building. They had to take it out and put it on the lawn out front. The blue jeans didn't fare very well apparently. Maybe that's where the Hebrew lightning hit. But the red jeans and the pink jeans and the green jeans and other colored jeans, they fared pretty well. So I ended up, that's what I ended up walking away with, was an elephant bell red jeans that kind of turned faded very light red. and then repair red jeans. I don't know what happened to those. I think my sister stole those. Somebody stole them and my sister stole them for them is what happened. Because those are a come and go fad thing. And of course everything was bell-bottom, don't forget. Saved every one of them guys. I don't care if there were holes in them the size of your fist. In fact, they do that now, remember. They do that. They are worn. Those are called stone. Somebody was stoned when they bought a man. Distressed. Yeah. Distressed. Go ahead, color. people are going to look at it and say, yeah, I should get mine, right? You know, I mean, that way to, uh, if you keep going in that direction, in that line of thought, you'll eventually end up with your own. Again, the idea is that, uh, the big thing like Mike was saying, and we, like we were, what we were talking about in general yesterday, the idea is promoted that, Hey, now I went through that, got through it without any problem, out the other side, back to what I needed to do. And, uh, I dropped that first load and I was on outbound with the other. A lot of other people got stopped dead in their tracks. That's the whole point. Again, the idea is to let people wear it the same way. Use your gas mask bag. Like I said, wear it around the waist. It hangs to the left side. And you can adjust it. That's what that one strap's for. The other shorter strap is for securing it to your legs so it doesn't just flop around. It depends on how you want to wear it. If you wear it under your armpit, if you wear it at beltline level, or if you wear it in low carry, on the leg because they'd like I said the new uh... these new hanger adapters the way they're set up is you can hook up the gas mask to that and I've seen them carried by units even that low now the reason you carry it that low is if you think about it when you sit down the gas mask is facing up to the ceiling because it's apparent so that's not a bad location for a driver and you know what I did her adventure and I can link up with one of the other pages uh... just a quickie I'll tell you what before I forget uh... to write this one down. I mentioned it before, we found it by accident. Now, you still need a 40mm filter for them, but robertrtg.com, for everybody listening, robertrtg.com. They had those masks for $2.98. I'm going to double check to make sure they have them. I always do that to you. I tell everybody where to go and then they go and then they tell Mark where to go because they're not there. now i can't help that because everybody listens and more people listen to you guys all share and somebody else was in shares of the big long for us to buy all the goodies comes a lot okay looking over specials you go to our let's see it's uh... w w w dot robert r t g dot com yep they still have a mission with me in inventory they have them in stock and their three dollars apiece if you need a spare mask there the possible there the polish version of the uh... Russian standard skull mask or possum mask as we call it $2.95 a piece. I don't know if you get a price of a better price if you buy a whole bunch Now the one thing I will say it says here one size fits all commies Guys, you know better than that, right? Now, let's understand how that works Yes, the skull mask do fit a lot of other people because it's kind of like you can stretch that right that that rubber bag over a lot of things Okay, particular if there's someone's yelling gas. Yeah, you'll get it on and probably pull them a half of it right off your head I've watched that personally and I've seen every form of panic in a gas attack you can imagine I have seen every expression of fear. I have seen people Before they even get hit start throwing up before it even happens, they're just already puking and it's psychosomatic. It's amazing. And what is most most amazing are those who follow the rule and have been, you know, shall we say, you know, utterly, utterly conditioned. But unfortunately, the adrenaline rush means that there's a lot more energy applied. And I've seen people literally put the mask on so forcibly that they have separated the front of the mask from the back of the mask. And only by suction for a moment does the mask in front of the mask sit there and then it just goes right to the top. On the other end of the scale you guys that big five, number five mask, you could make that fit in infant with enough duct tape. Oh yes, yeah, in an emergency you could do it. And again, guys, bigger masks are hard to find and extra small masks become hard to find. Again, a lot of people, if you're smart, this mask here for instance, is great for children. Because there's no training downtime. It's pulled over the head and it kind of is on Adjusting it a little bit. You know the person you know is trying to figure it out. It's pretty simple That is the big plus side of these masks and for two dollars and ninety-five cents Now they don't have a filter with them, but for two dollars and ninety-five cents. That's as good of prices You're gonna get anywhere. You can't beat this So just a heads up, that is a solution. Not just complaining about the problems. Anyone can complain about the problems, Eusberg, but it's having a solution. Another point could be made. We're seeing a lot of films out of Aleppo now, Mark. The Crying Shame, it really is. You know, the death, the destruction, the dust. God knows what some of that dust is. The gas would work real well in an area like that. Now that's Aleppo you guys, that's Syria. But that's over there. But if something like that comes to a city, a gas mask could be a blessing. Oh okay, York and 9-11. Now I want to hang on this for a moment. Hold on a second. Let me hear you guys. I noticed this yesterday and the day before and I noticed today that all of these signs that I'm about to tell you are gone. You know, if I am driving that Red Cross truck somewhere in the Middle East and I drive into a place where I'm not like, I might lose my head because that's a cross and not a Red Crescent. You understand that, right? Have you seen the pictures of the refugees in Aleppo? Until today, almost every one of them had a Red Cross in the area. But now they don't. They're not showing that. I have a problem with people who won't. If somebody is destroying your people and you're going to sit in your hands, I'd be putting a boot up your arse and kicking you to the front. That's me. On the other hand, it's like if somebody screams like, you need to go help them. Well, if they say they hate me or if they won't stand up for themselves, and it's not because they aren't young males or adult age. In fact, for that matter, everybody's fighting age when your life's at risk and they're talking about extermination. So every swing and hind end better be out there with something. And that was one of the other issues. Again, they waited and that's what the Israelis counted on. That's why they targeted the Christian population because traditionally they have, through negotiation, been neutral. This time around they targeted and of course intentionally targeted everybody. And they've been targeting the Christians more so than the Muslims. Most of them get every shot. Just point gun in another direction, you'll hit somebody. the Christian population and ISIS was run by the Israelis and the US government and they have been targeting and murdering Christians. So that's what your tax dollars were paying. That's why they don't want to show it on any of the news, they progressively edit it out like you said Don. Do this guys, you already know that they lie. But I've explained for 20 years about CNN on time editing. You might see it in a half hour, that's why I've always told you keep the video recorder system running whenever you turn it on. you may only see it that one time. you've got an agenda and you're there, as far as they're concerned, you're not supposed to figure it out but you're their enemy and they plan on murdering you. Everybody needs to, again, get a gas mask, buy ammunition, buy mags, arm yourself, become a master of all of the tools of the trade. Military science is a noble, noble profession but it's a profession that in reality is for all of us in this country with our philosophy for all of the amateurs to embrace. Because we don't plan, that's not our business, that's not what we do for a living. But any time we need to, by God, we can do to them what they're doing, trying to do to us. And we'll do it in spades. Because that is Trump. For anybody who doesn't understand why that term is used, in spades. No, a cards. And you're an idiot. A drift. Yeah, I'm gonna do it again, spades. Oh! Yeah, I remember. By spades. Knights of Neat. Oh, as it is, we're way past the bottom. And Ed has fixed the problem with the, uh, with, got everybody with thumbs up. system's been up and down guys as far as ability to link. Indiana Freedom is back up. I'm sorry. I should have let you know. That's very good. Thank you, sir. Also, before I forget, over there at that RTG site, guys they have, you know, because people are now thinking we're abusing the AK because we're not talking about it enough. Guys, we always abuse the AR when we talk about it. Isn't that enough? Right there. It's a given we're not going to abuse the AK. Well, we're not abusing it, but again, it's a price issue for some. But right now, they've got AK74 545 flats. This is with everything drilled. All you do is bend and properly insert the rails. 1895 for an AK74 545 flat receiver, McCagan-Nodak is the manufacturer. And AK47 762 receiver flat. Mckay Nodak, $18.99. Remember there's no paperwork on these. It's just the flat. The biggest thing there would be finding someone with a bender. That's what that is, a brake. And again, also there are, you know what I can check? This guy might have them. The one we're talking about here. Hold on here. There are bend kits, you know, just like there are for the HK. And I'm going to look, I didn't look here. You know, he has the flats, I just don't know if he has the, you know, the buttache parts. So I might not be able to do this during the program. He has a lot of AK stuff, so that's cool. Through and see if you find it, he might have them there. He may also have, ooh, he's got AK rubber butt pads, insert type. Price on those either, for you guys who want to add a little bounce to your AK, there's a solution. Had the idea either, I've used those before. Been a while since I've seen any, but they've got them in stock. If your cousin works heating air conditioning, if you know someone who works in sheet metal, radiators, some people who work radiators built their own cores, you need a break to do that. As you point out, Mark, there's a whole lot of machinery out there that's not doing anything that could be building guns. They also, this company has a wide selection. It looks like the Polish stuff has come in big time again. There has been a bunch of surplus, so I would assume in the magazines, to see more of the Polish by the way. See that in larger numbers as we go. On which fleet operation it is, you'll find machinery, sheet metal, everything from welders to anything you could use to put up a machine shop on the farm. Tractor supplies are another location. Won't be the fanciest. But it's more than enough to get the job done and let's not forget that the AK was done in a crude and rude, you know, you know, productivity from the get-go. Over to Harbor Freight. Yep, maybe there. Harbor Freight, typically will have the, they usually only have a couple of sizes, but they also have other tools that you don't have necessarily in shop, you know, in the store, but you can buy, you can order and they'll drop off at the store at no additional cost, comes from the warehouse. And then, uh, inventory that way, that's another solution. There is a bunch of, I'm trying to talk and double tap this at the same time. They have a wide range of parts too and this company, this is again the RTG company, they do have a lot of the American counter proponents in good numbers and a wide variety. A lot of the Magpul plastic for the AKs and every variation you can think of, every flavor. So they're a Magpul distributor I assume. Tapco, Tapco goodies. Tapco is not bad because one of the things we're about Tapco, Tapco is actually a conglomeration of about seven American companies that were actually down with those fires. Originally, half of them were down with the fires are right now. Tennessee and Kentucky. And they started buying up their competitors back in the late 80s, early 90s. So they didn't change much, most of the sites. If they had a special niche, something they did, they bought them up and then they just kept producing the same product. That's why you see Tapco with a lot of stuff that looks like, well I remember that back, you know, filling the bike whatever day, all the way up to new products that Tapco's come up with and most of those are of course to meet the, uh, the, uh, huh, I don't even like that, it looked long enough. To meet the needs of the American requirements in some areas, you know, I must have a percentage of American, blah blah blah. They've got the Polish AKML flash hiders. Oh god, no, they are great. You know I've talked about making an RPK turning it into what looks like a baby Dragunov, right? Flash hiders, the flash hider you want. Unfortunately, it's 94.95. It is the long extended flash hider much like you see on the Dragunov sniper rifle or the M14 rifle. Polish, and again it's your actual Polish surplus, but 94.95? I'm going to see what Tapco did. Maybe they made a copy. God, I hope they did, because that's a lot of money. That's a lot of chamoleons that can buy a lot of mags for $94. I think I'd stick with a regular whatever I got for a compensator and buy more mags from the prices like that. Quite a variety. And even that seems to be standard for the industry as far as the price on that particular item. So go through. They've got 12, 14 pages of goodies for the AK. A lot more. So there again. So I just want to bring something about that AK-74. newer model, so to speak. You got 8Ks, SKs by 39 and ammunition's interchangeable. 5 point, or what do you say, 7.62 by 45, whatever. It's pretty much can only be used for that model. And I don't think there's that many out there, even for a few years. And as far as screening ammunition, when the time comes, likely to find 7.62 by 39, then the latter. And that goes for the magazines as well. Because that's what I believe since they had that big dump 1994 and 95 in there. They just dumped the Chinese weapons on the market. I mean, you know, drum magazines, the whole nine yards. Everything. But all that was like 7.6x39. And so I think there's a lot more of that out there. It'd probably be better to stick with something of an AK platform than the... $80 for a case of ammunition. It was the cheapest anything out there of anything out there. Then it went to about $140, $120, $140 bringing the price per can up to about $60 and then $70. Then it stayed at $80 for the longest time and that's for 1,080 rounds of ammo per can, making it the cheapest to shoot, which is why we were promoting it back when it was available. It's still cheap, but it's not as cheap. And the other problem is that again, because of the Ukraine fighting and Syria, the Russians have thrown a lot of 545 by 39 into the field. It's out there in force and they're using it up. They're eating it. They don't need to ship it here. The company that was mostly doing the importing of the 53 grain round that we're talking about was out of Chicago. They're still there, but and they had found out eventually they had three massive warehouse full of the ammo. that one company. It was a city block per warehouse. So that should give you an idea how much ammunition. They really stacked to the gills. Well, they eventually wore down the inventory. The ammunition is still coming in, so it is available, but you're primarily going to see carrying it would be east, and that would be about it. The Mexicans have got some of them. There are R.E.K. 74s and R.P.K. 74s in Mexico. But, you know, Mexico takes everything or anything and gets its hands on, and especially if you gift it to them so that you try to make them feel good about you. And I think that's how they got the weapons they got because they have been dealing with the Russians. That's why they have the MI behind, you know, both the A and the D model. I believe they got the D's left. I think the A's they sold off to get another country. But they have a lot of Russian junk. So we might see them coming up from the south. Again, it's a good, the other consideration of this background super cheap is use the AK-74 for a trainer and still carry it as needed. But you can switch over to the 47 and there's total interchangeability with regard to muscle memory, so familiarization with it would not be a problem. There are also a pile of 223, but here's one thing I've noticed in the last year and a half, the 223 AKs that were coming in from Central Europe, guys, they've jacked up over a thousand apiece now. How many AR-15s can I buy for the price of 1.223 AK? I think we all know the answer there because you've been buying those kits, right? So again, you can buy a lot more AR for the price and lots of mags, lots of ammo. And the 5.45x39, the advantage was ammunition, magazines. Magazines have been staying stable price-wise, so they're not bad. The big thing was the change in the dynamic of the cost of the ammunition. And there have been a number of companies making higher grade AK-74s recently. A couple of Americans by the way. So it's a flavor preference choice. Whatever you like. If you do commit to it, I don't care what it is, buy lots of ammo for yourself. Just buy lots. Make all the difference in the world. Going any farther, you also need to buy night vision and or a thermal. Actually one of each for your unit would be a good idea just to start a fire team or a squad. And to do that, you need to get all the DOM. So DOM, we're not going to rush here. We got a minute. How do we get hold of you? The night vision technology available. Give us a quick overview and the web page. What do we need to do to get there, sir? If you write this number down, 3-1-9-6-5-8, you can use that when you go over to the website, y-d-t-o-e-dot. You'll see goggles and gun sights of the digital and green screen, traditional night vision, and the thermal. Sight in all categories, lower ones, all but the thermal. digital and green screen, they're 308 capable, they'll live on top of your 50. So if you have any questions about what you see over there at the website, ydtoe.us, give me a call and I'll help you reduce the price. Again, the phone number is 231-958. Again, 231-796. I'm still the guy with the night vision goggles. That's what you want. You know, I'll be happy to answer questions for you. tell you what this will do compared to that or you know the difference between first and second and third and generation in the green screen and the size of or rather the amount of pixels in the green screen in the screen on your thermal. The night vision won't record the green screen not right now. Digital will record your voice before and after the shot or if it's set on it'll catch the last 15 seconds and hold it before the first. Be in either the Thor DX site. It's just going to see in the dark for you. It will again live on top of your 308. Questions about what will this do or how does that compare to that? 9631798458. And why are you dealing with a stranger when Don Vetcher is available? It makes no sense. Take the time, plug in, talk to Don. got the page actually that's one place I could go today I think it depends where these sites are you know when they're serviced around the country because of what we are seeing with the you know government terrorism going on Israeli sponsored terrorism inside the US there's no doubt we're having fires here just like the having of an Israel oh you guys all need to jump on the bandwagon and bang the gongi actually I think they're trying to hold off on that for the moment because I'm offering a whole lot of information, but within the circles, that's a good suggestion by what I understand right now. Yeah, the Israelis, they desperately want us to join in on some of their play games and we're just not taking the bait. Of course you never know, Bummer might just snag on that because maybe he can create some more crisis out of whatever is going on. They certainly are trying to do that. So again, prior to proper planning prevents piss poor performance. thermal technology for transporting out of an area, seeing through the different instructions that might be there, guys, that might be just a little bit of fog, just a little bit of smoke. Straight through that and being able to continue to move at a good pace and avoid obstacles probably would be a good thing. Even with your gas mask on. Yeah. The best of everything that needs to be done in order to stay functional and continue on with the mission. That's really the objective here, that's what we're trying to do. One more time actually somebody just said what was that site again? www.allrobertrtg.com that's www.robertrtgromiotangogeorge.com Special section that's where you find that price on the gas mask for three dollars apiece They will be the skull mass. They are numbered you will find that on the cheek on each side There'll be a circle inside the circle. There will be anything from a zero to a five for everybody so it's easy to understand. Zero being really small and yes those will probably fit children all the way up to, well you're really a big guy and we need a big mask and number five will get the job done. If you're really, really big, don't worry. We have the Polish Cast Mask, mask only, no filter, mask only, no filter, mask only, no filter. Now don't say I didn't tell you. Dollars apiece. Then you go find the filter with another source, yourself a mask system for a pretty good price. There are some other masks and stuff on location. I just haven't gone through everything that they have available. Hell, they have a pair. Always look at the clothing. You never know what you're running into. It's just t-shirts. Oh darn. Also holsters, gear and tools in holsters. A lot of military surplus stuff has been popping up again. Never know what you're going to find there.