not counting nuclear war type situation. Alpha, long term, is more dangerous than beta and gamma. It's the gas you're breathing in and it's a small, slow, chronic thing. You're breathing more and more of it into you and that can do more damage than any other form of radiation. Yeah, naturally in the air. But if you want to run around wearing gas and I call it mass all the time, you can stop that. It helps with radiation. Yeah. Want to stop radiation? Walk around in a Tyvek suit for the rest of your life. Yeah, that'll do it. But cover all your skin too. So you need rubber gloves, you need booties, and you need a hood. You need a respirator, not just a respirator, but something for your eyes. So a gas mask or a respirator with eye protection, and cover all your skin with a hood. Yeah, that's what you need for data. But for gamma, all the way you have to walk around in a lead suit, you're going to have to be really thick. Walk out all the gamma. Good luck with that. I'm trying to prove a point here and my time is just about done. Go to forbidTV on YouTube to find these latest ones. If you want to argue with me as a troll, because you didn't call in, if you want to argue with me as a troll anonymously, then go do that. I'll wipe the floor with you too, just like I wipe the floor with all the trolls that come to my channel. I put them in their place with facts. So make sure you have some facts. You want to come and make some kind of stupid comment saying I'm working for TEPCO. They have some kind of shield. So for BID TV is the YouTube channel. ForBID and knowledge.info is the website this weekend. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Next week will be Grey's Lake, Illinois. No, I'm sorry. Next week is Jackson, Michigan. First show ever in Jackson, Michigan is a gun show. The following weekend will be Grays Lake, Illinois, a prepper show in Grays Lake, Oregon. That's just north of Chicago. Weekend up there is, I believe, Richmond, Virginia, all over the place here, folks. That's another prepper show. Again, go to forbiddenknowledge.info, the main page. You're going to see where I will be each weekend. But this weekend, if you're watching on the, I'm sorry if you're listening, on March the 1st, Then we're in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They happen to have a couple of so-called stars. I think it will come to my table. I had no idea who they were. I would have no idea. But there are, they do have some stars that are at this expo. I was hoping to click on... Uh oh. I got the marshal and I got noise in my ear, meaning I have to quit anyway. The stars are... Alana Barfield and Quint Gelvian from Discovery Channel naked and afraid. I've never heard of them, never seen them. I've probably seen them at the expos. But anyway, until next time, this is Craig from Forbidden Knowledge, that info. So long. A family owned business located in the heart of Ohio's hunting country. 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We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of three and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free, the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seasonally farm and keep our country. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear? Both sons of the Republic arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republican each God given right and pray to God to torture freedom bright as I awoke he'd vanished in the mist for once he came His words were true not free, but we have ourselves to blame For even now as tyrants trampled each God given right We only watch and tremble too afraid to stand and fight He stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep. What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Dil the plan to the free. This is the EAThe intelligence report. I'm Mark Kerkey. And I'm Don Betcher. On the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, north, and northeast. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, and we are on AM&FM microstations, CB base stations, and UltraNet hallmark in Golden Spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good afternoon to our friends. in the Aleutians, the Marry Straits, and other parts and pieces of the planet, two numerous to mention, both in the morning, the afternoon, and the evening. Shazam, Sergeant Carter. Shazam. Anyway, we are, well, it's gray, it's dark, it's windy outside, but not too bad. It's still windy though. We got some breeze out there. Don, what's it like in your neck of the woods? What's today today? And what's jumping off the wall, please. Well, it's dark and it's windy and it's chilly and there's hardly a star to be seen so that tells me that there's lots of clouds up there so it might not be real real cold tonight just gonna get cold tonight compared to above the last few nights the last few nights being into February today being the first day of March year of our Lord 2017 it wasn't you know, it was a great day can't complain. How does it go? You know not pushing up daisies and all but It is a particular day today, the first day of March. So without further waste of time, hey, 1911 in one hand, empty magazine, well full magazine in the other hand. just solve that problem and then, ooh, the problem of the empty chamber has been solved too. So we can tell you it is a weapons Wednesday, the perimeter needs some attention and, well, as I top off this magazine, we can tell you if you keep pulling the lever on your reloader, you can repeat after me as the magazine goes back into the magazine well, there's plenty more where that came from. And we can now offer equal opportunity, core, su force. And anything in particular done, jump off there, please. Well, you know, we talk about tactics. We can talk about, this is the cheapest gun. We can talk about what to do with it, when you got it. But you know, we're getting out of winter time here, and it's pretty easy to hide a gun, even a long gun this time of year. You know, like dusters and, and, oh, oh, yep. You collapse the stock on that short barreled, you know, they used to call them M16s. Now they're so short barreled and collapsible. That's an M4, that's not an M16. At any rate, you can hide that under what people used to call a car coat. You know what I mean? Now they call them like parkas and stuff. Funny how names change like, you know, M16, short barrel, collapsible. That is not what that is. Again, we're moving out of that season where things are easily concealable. And well, you have to, you know, even the kids that went into those big, big puppies that went into Columbine, that when did that happen? That didn't happen in the dead of winter, did it? They went in there with dusters on, didn't they? So this goes over to, you know, pay attention to your surroundings. And the farther we get into away from winter and the more winter things are there, appearing like that long coat. You wonder what's under it. Now that doesn't necessarily have to be the big big threat these days because as we see, how does that go? the tip of your index finger to the tip of your nose and elevate the tip of your nose about three quarters of an inch. Some of us have to really go pretty far to get up to where those that elevate their noses regularly get to all of the time. You know, like, well it's happening on the continent so it will be happening here soon. Or it's the style, don't you? And it will be here soon. Well, what's happening on the continent? We've talked about this, you know, machine gunning nightclubs. Oh, that's here now. trucks driving into crowds and then another truck driving into a crowd. Oh, you know, we've had the occasional drunk or whatnot. I'm mad at the whole world driving 86 Chevrolet Impala into the crowd. Nothing, not that I have anything against the Chevrolet's or Impala's or even anything built in 1986, but someone drove into the back of a Mardi Gras parade the other day. I still don't have a whole lot of information on that. I don't know if they brought a whole lot more information out on this, whether this was an accident or some drunken other high school rivalry or something, because it was into the end of a Mardi Gras parade. The very end of that parade was a high school band. I don't know if there's a whole lot more information out there, but we've talked about even, well, If their pack is so tight, the car is just moving through. Eventually the car is not going to be moving because there will be so much slippery stuff under it. It really does work like in the zombie movies, but it takes a little longer. in the interim. You know, there's a thing called side draft. You know about that in NASCAR and when you're going really, really fast and one car eases up along another car, he takes some of that lift off the side of that car and he gets less traction and he can just go over there. But there's a thing called the wake. You could kind of compare it to side draft with a car, but think about that boat moving through a crowd. or that plow blade or that cow catcher on the front of the train. Have you ever seen trains that clear films of trains that have the big plow on the front and they clear the snow off the tracks and through the mountains and out west and such? Boy, there's some horsepower going on there and there's some wake being left on each side. So even not being, if you're in a bad enough place, even not being in the front of that and thinking I'm out of the way, I've got my family out of the way, even being along the sides of that moving vehicle, people are going to be crushed up onto people. And if, well, there's no place to go like a wall, well, the people that are being crushed onto people eventually are being crushed onto the wall. You don't have to be the car Or the person, the wall, to be injured by the car and the people and the wall. And I don't mean to be pretty graphic about this, but what we're doing is trying to tell you that it's good to avoid bad ways and situations that can only get worse if pressed. Because when people are that close together, it's really hard to move in a different direction than everyone else, isn't it? That goes over to the landing thing. Oh my gosh, there's the threat. We all need to go this way. And many times that is not the way to run. Directly down the hall, running directly down the hall under the barrel of the machine gun is not straight down the hall as fast as I can. It's not an escape, is it? Okay, I couldn't help it. It will probably be a very short run. Let's put it that way. The bullets are usually faster in that marathon. Yup. Or even the sprint. Okay, now this is where right angles are taking into consideration there. Real quick, on the problem with a car attack, it's kind of like a ram attack with a plane. It's going to be random. Most important is paying attention to your surroundings and always know what you're standing near. Basic rule, large heavy objects are kind of nice to have next to you. Just think that way. Rather than being on, you know, the problem is you have to move, you have to walk, you can't constantly be carrying a concrete cylinder with you. But pillars, columns, planters, all the stuff that they were yapping about back when after 9-11, you know, we've got to put more barriers in because somebody's going to ride up on the... Well, nobody did. But, you know, it gave somebody who was pushing cement, which is typically the mafia, some great opportunity to sell a lot of very expensive cement. It went from being a conventional planter to getting a new security rating. It's a Mark IV anti-personnel vehicle stopping device. Well, that has to cost 10 times as much as when we called it a platter, right? And it did. Oh, God, the money sucking off of that scam was horrific. But because of that, just always think about finding barriers. Remember, cement stops bullets. Most bullets as a matter of fact and also usually larger objects or at least slows them down enough that it's more likely that that object will retard their motion rather than you being the next thing greasing the wheels or being stuck between the catalytic converter and the ground until you're flattened and cooked far enough that maybe it's light down the back. Yeah, you finally slide out the back of the vehicle, cooked on one side and raw ash on the other. Yeah. You're medium rare. Yeah, it's happened and it's going to happen again. So the most important thing here is the key to this thing is to pay attention to your environment, constantly think security. I don't care if anybody else doesn't. Well, no way. Good, wonderful idea. I don't think you should. That's the one thing I don't get into a debate with anybody about anymore. For the first time somebody starts flapping their app, I just... Well, that's a very lopsal. Oh, you're absolutely right. I'm just, uh, yeah. You know, what I do, I'll explain how I do it. Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah. Oh, well. The other thing about moving with crowds, even in semi-times of threat, if the crowd is close enough together, there's what's called like a rubber band effect. If, as example, you're driving down one of those concrete canyons like Detroit or that which circles Indianapolis or whatnot. And somebody hits the brakes, everybody's going 70 and the guy, well, the car and a half in front of you hits the brakes for about three quarters of a second, shows you the tail lights. There's gonna be a series, it's gonna be about seven or 14 minutes, and that number sounds familiar from other things, but that's a rubber band effect. People are gonna be hitting the brakes as they approach that area because that driver hit the brakes a good long time after that rubber band effect. But running along with that rubber band effect with how crowds move, you might be moving and think you have enough space between you and the people around you and the person behind you or at your quarter behind you, you know, 90, 45 degrees left or right behind you, speeds up or or the person in front of or ever so slight slows down and you bump or someone bumps you and because of that you bump someone else. Now I speak of this one from personal experience. This has happened more than once and when you bump someone or I step on someone's heel once just as he was starting to leave his foot was starting to leave because his whole body was moving. His foot was just starting to leave the ground when I was forced to put my foot there and the tips of my toes curled onto the back of his shoe. Now that could seem rather aggressive. We've talked about boxers doing that and fighters doing that when someone is leaving Just as the heel is starting to come up, if they're committed to that motion and you nail that foot to the floor, so to speak, for instance, they're going to have a potato on their ankle, on the front of their foot, on the front of their ankle, in about 30, maybe 60 seconds, they'll have a swelling about the size of a small potato. So this young man, well into, you know, he's, I'm, you know how young men are. I'm the baddest in the world and I'm the best fighter and I don't care and I don't, even if you're trying to help me, I'm going to beat you up right now. the back of his foot and he started to stumble and I reached forward to catch him at the shoulder and I stopped his fall. At the same time he realized there was a hand on his shoulder and went to push the hand off his shoulder thinking it was a threat, not realizing that it had stopped him from falling. In the same instant thinking it was a threat he turns to address me like he's going to hit me. Now my hand was already in a good place to turn his shoulder back and keep him moving along in the crowd. And because that was done so deftly, because I saw what was happening in his eyes in an instant, and I knew that if I let him turn, he's going to turn and hit me. But he knew that by my turn, and I just moved him right back into the crowd, I denied him that instantly. And he sensed, this all played out in three quarters of a second. But he turned to me like he was going to hit me and I turned him back like you best move along and he felt that in such a way that it moved him to think I best move along. Now that happened and I bring that to you from personal experience but moving through crowds sometimes you'll find that you'll have to influence people even to the extent that well, I don't care if you're moving this fast, I am moving faster. Turning shoulders and turning hips can make room in a crowd. Simply yelling make a hole does not work. But turning shoulders and turning hips can make people, can create that room for you to move between different people and continue to move through a crowd. These are basics you guys. Thank you Mark. And again with regard to force and motion, This is true also in the situation where you're in a group where there is a random attack taking place. The idea is to deflect energy. First of all, get out of the line of fire or get out of the line of the vehicle. That should be the rule. Block, step one, identify and block. Step two, move out of the line of fire or line of activity. And this is where people are really confused about sometimes, we're not telling you to jump in or to save the rest of the world. And in fact, in many cases, you can't save the rest of the world. Everybody enjoys being there in sheep mindset, but if there is a threat, we nullify it if it proceeds or continues to be a threat to us. Neutralizing it means deflecting it or if need be destroying it. And remember that if the situation is overwhelming, you're moving, as we've said before, it's like offensive driving. The objective is to move like a shark and break contact and get away from the incident and the area of activity. That should be your first rule, especially if you have dependence with you. Again, we don't turn back to the aggressor. Instead, we fall back, keeping an eye on and neutralizing the aggressor if any energy turns to you. This is the most common mistake made. We're going to just flee with the rest of the sheeple! Well, again, if you do have arms, the problem with using weapons in the communist state is in the short term, you will save yourself. But in the long term, the state will turn against you always, not sometimes always, because there are just as many of the fruit loop nutcase leftists that are in government as there are the ones around the street probably trying to attack you or the sociopath. His fellow traveler sociopath is in government in a position of authority or somebody who doesn't like the idea that your competition for the enforcement arm, if you are able to take care of yourself. Everything that has to do with school, has to do with you being subservient to the system and being a victim of the system. Any variation on that is not allowed. It's conditioned through radio, it's conditioned through television, it's conditioned through movies. You know that there's these specialists over there and under no circumstances are you to believe in any way, shape or form that you can take care of yourself, organize against the regime or anything like that. Or deal with whatever life's problems are without the regime, okay? And so in this case you have to balance it out. It's like I said when you go before a gun carry board. When they keep asking you questions, you need to just flat. Don't be dramatic about it. The only reason I'm getting this weapon is the only reason I want to carry this weapon is to protect myself. And then, well there's this situation and blah blah blah blah blah blah. The only reason I am acquiring this weapon and carrying it is for personal defense, nothing else. They get really frustrated when you just keep repeating that, by the way. No, no drama. I don't want to be involved with you. I didn't come to this review board. And you don't even have to say it, but it's going to be pretty obvious. I didn't come to this review board to dance around so you could entertain yourself. Here's how it works. I don't care if somebody's beating you to death, raping you through every orifice you've got, and I'm standing here with a gun. It is not my intention to intervene. Didn't you have the same opportunity I had to acquire a permit to carry a gun? Why aren't you carrying one and why aren't you using it? Well, wait a minute, and you know the cart-mouthed leftist who like I said, I mentioned this, and this is the truest statement right now on the planet, anti-gun people aren't anti-gun. They're pro-gun but only in the hands of government and in a chosen few who will then be their enforcers. And for some reason, their logic is that unlike you and I who know better, you can't carry a cop. Number one, you can't afford the donuts and because of the donuts, he's too damn heavy to carry. So he's not going to be in a backpack readily available at any given moment. But all these sociopaths believe that that's basically how it works. Why? I've seen movies. Whoever the cops come to help you, it only takes a matter of seconds. Why? Because they saw it during the half hour episode of whatever. Well, of course it only took a few seconds. They don't want to show you the real time it would take for them to respond because they'd eat up too much movie time. And they've got more political statements to make. It'd be a good victim conditioning to incorporate into the programming. But it only takes moments. It's like, yeah, well, you'll find out the reality of that real quick. But again, do I care? Think about it. See, that's the one thing. I don't want my enemy to change their mindset or attitude at all. However, in a situation like this, most important, again, pay attention to your surrounding. Always try to look for avenues of escape, avenues of evacuation, or avenues of, again, egress, or whatever way. And don't forget, again, obstacles. Obstacles are nice. Remember, shut doors behind you. I always loved this. We had to comment. There's all these movies that's always the same way. Any other time somebody remembers to shut a door, except when you're being chased and some bad guys after you and you don't know which way you went, and then you never seem to be able to apply the energy to shut that door, which totally befuddles anybody to confirm exactly what direction anybody went because all the doors are closed. Have you ever noticed that? Watch all these BS movies. It's always the same thing. Wouldn't shutting the door probably make for at least a few more moments of, you know, confusion time? And every moment of confusion gives you that many more feats you can put between you and the enemy. Especially if you're being pursued. So, just a little heads up. This is psychological conditioning. And don't forget, while you're being chased, if your gun's empty, throw it down. Throw it away. Remember, that's basic gun conditioning 101. You're throwing a stumble in front of them, hoping they'll trip on it. Yeah, yeah, but I threw up 35 feet to my right while I was running down the, you know, down the street, you know. Oh, this is no good. I need to throw this away. Well, speaking of movies, I just saw John Wick 2 the other day, while in a shocking thing was in the movie. He picked up guns and ammo from fallen opponents. He picked up weapons from an enemy. That was the only questionable thing about his going into the... For anybody who didn't watch the first movie, he went into the circle club. And he's of course, if we look at the scenario, it's not a matter of reality, it's the reality of the movie. He killed three people there and then runs out of ammo. Well, what would the first thought of In Your Mind Be? Whoever you just killed that's right there within arm's reach or two steps reach was carrying something he was going to use to shoot you. Right? Yeah. In fact, this is something we have discussed constantly. If you're in a close quarter combat situation, and you have any time to draw any kind of moment where you can organize, you're immediately grab the enemy's weapon and use it first. In fact, use it even if it's just until it's empty and then switch back to your primary arm. Most everybody's carrying a sling system of some kind. The weapon's attached to them. But the idea is that you take the biggest, the first rule is anytime you can overrun a position and you have a bigger or better weapon, you man it. You turn it around and you put that ammunition down range until it's out and if you don't feel that you need to, you can reload or again, it's for the spur of the moment and to keep the initiative going. Keep the momentum in play, you know, the energy in play. You only have so much ammunition you're personally carrying. Always remember that there's only so many rounds you have on your even if you were overstocked there's only so many rounds and It doesn't reset by turning your wrist sideways and all of a sudden your your mental eyeball counter goes five We're sure that's our in the sky. Yeah 500 rounds in backpack gold star gives you another life There we go, I feel better already man, I almost didn't make that gold star yeah, so yeah I want that gold star, don't I? Yeah, it's like gravity switches. We haven't found them yet. We've been keeping an eye out because you never know. The world might change, dude. The world might change. But not too likely. Now, another thing about this, the issue of talking about being in a public area, we've already seen examples of especially Snipers or small arms fire especially in open areas. Guys, we don't go out into any public area. Retreat into buildings. If that's the kind of fire or situation, remember there's always a back door, there's always a back access. If you're in malls or complexes that are like office buildings, service corridors, etc. are available, you know, and typically inaccessible, quite accessible. Don't forget there's also fire alarms. Fire alarm and mandatory alarm doors. They typically will take you out of the building. Do you care whether or not the alarm's going off? No, as a matter of fact, you set off as many of those as you can, just to create more confusion. And again, irritating, and they can't be shut off. They typically cannot be shut off without a key. So they're going to continue to make noise and mask activity. Keep that in mind, too. Remember, that's irritating to the eardrum, and it's there for a reason. It was done intentionally. Nice thing about that, kind of interrupts all the other receptor processes of the ears that are nearby. Might not be a bad thing. Any time we had an incident when I had stores that I'd take care of, I always told the people who were typically also leftist, by the way, okay, I don't expect you to do anything except this. If we run into a problem, you go to the fire door nearest you and you go through it and hit it. That's going to bring the fire department and the police come with them. So you don't have to jump on the phone and call the police. We just want as many people here as possible. So in the event something happens, go to the nearest fire door, evacuate the building as quick as you can. There's a robbery or something in the process, get to the rear and immediately leave the building. And don't worry about being too stealthy about it. We're not worried about waiting for the cops to show up. There was noise starts being made, buzzers start going off, people start leaving. As long as they leave without anything other than just a bag of whatever, cashola or whatever they think they're going to steal. And even then they'll probably even fumble on that once the noise starts being made. The idea is that it creates more confusion, it forces the issue for retreat on their part, but it also brings to the attention of the people who, well, they've got more force of arms and they're the politically correct element. You're expected to respond, you know, to interact with them. This is the best way to do it in the quickest format. And yeah, we still have people who would use their cell phones or call in from the hidden office and their job is to let, you know, the enforcement arm know, hey, there's a robbery in progress or whatever. But you need to have an SOP set up in advance and you need to also be thinking this way when you're in the field. It's sad but nearly not so much. I mean don't you think that the thinking people who survived the ages, don't you think they had conversations and already had made decisions like this? They're the ones who survived through incidents or crises when others did not. Remember the ancient bolt hole that Indiana Jones knew about that was virtually built right into the structure and goes for 500 yards and then turns to the left and goes over this chasm and on the other side there's another 500 yards of tunnel. Who built those? And why did they build them? Oh, were those the thinking people of their day? who were like, you know, not exactly the norm with everybody else, copacetic with the rest of the tribe, and kind of looked ahead down the road, spent some really goofy money. Well, if nothing else, Indiana Jones had a great time with it, didn't he? On the other hand, chances are it was useful in more than a hundred ways at many different times down the ages by those who knew where those very quiet ways to get out of sight in secret passages were. Right? especially for people who knew how to keep their mouth shut and maintain family secrets, which if you were coached properly from youth, you understood the value of that. Think about it. Actually, it's kind of funny because you see that's one of the things that everybody loves these little historical programs, but do you think that those people were considered the norm during their day or were they considered perfectly normal while quietly behind the scenes? They were normal in that they were intelligent thinking to the future people and they actually had a bug out system in play. In fact, quite extensive would in many cases. Whole army is included in some cases depending upon what they had in the way of resources. But even the average peasant was like that. The average person, I mean, come on, you didn't have full confidence in the guy who might be the drunkard that was in charge. Might be a good idea since you knew what your royalty's component was made up of. You know, hey, he may be a prince and he's probably the third cousin to the king, but dudes, if anything happens here, we're screwed. And people did respond, not react, respond accordingly. There are whole sub-elements of societies that dealt with the problems at hand of the type that we're talking about. Don't forget that rape-kill, pillage, and burn was a standard motto of most standing armies throughout history, not that it really has changed much at all in modern times. Given the opportunity to shovel the country around the corner a little farther, it won't be any different for this place after a while. They're trying to twist us all right back to the same old turds that we were dealing with throughout the ages. That's what the whole idea behind converting America is, so that it really, again, doesn't stand out on the hill. It's just like all the other Italian towers that were built to buy on each other. Each royal family had towers. That was what the whole leading tower of pizza was, guys. You know, pizza for whatever you're afraid of, but it doesn't know that. All those towers were built so that one family could spy on the other and spy on the other and spy on the other. Because each had a vendetta on the other and was trying to kill each other. Well, Giovanni's, I tell you, they're sneaking up the road there. Yep. The lookout says it's safe to go to the market for a few minutes. Yeah. But only now. Only take two wheels of cheese. Yeah. Might not be able to carry the rest back. Right. the Giovanni's don't get you. Yeah. See, so things have not changed a whole lot. It's just right now we're addressing issues where people are seeing things that are happening. And being armed is half of the process. You know, being able to know how to use them. Like I've said, you need to master your arms. Have you practiced actually extracting that personal firearm, unload it, unload it, unload it, and practice and re-practice and re-practice extracting that firearm from what air carry system you're going to use. And I'm serious about this. No, it's not ego. It's muscle memory. This is something that we've talked with a lot of people about over the years. Even military personnel who have a handgun. You know, there are people that will tell you they completely forgot they had the handgun on their hip. And that, oh, yeah, by the way, my primary weapon's failed. They're fighting with a weapon, watching the aggressor advance, knowing that that person has got an intent upon them, taking cover, and then only finally realizing the weapon can't be brought back into service that he's got in his hands, and that all the time there's been a weapon virtually within arms reach, and individuals, it completely leaves their memory because it's not part of their training, wasn't part of their training process, even though it was incorporated into their combat kit. Now, this is one of the reasons you'll see a lot of these training cycles done with these commercial shooters, where they go from the rifle to the handgun. Now, that's not because we need some flavor of the day BS like you see with a lot of the movies where, well, he's got the rifle, he's just going to change the handgun because, well, it's going to be fun to use the handgun for a moment. No, wrong. You use your most powerful weapon first and foremost, the handgun is a backup. The purpose behind the training is so that you automatically, when you realize that you have a malfunction, if the malfunction cannot be cleared, the muscle memory is already there for recovery of that secondary arm. Now let me throw another part of the formula at you that most of you don't think about, even though you have it probably on your kit, your personal fighting knives. How many of you have practiced recovering and pulling or drawing or using and bringing into service a blade or a tomahawk? Now, this is one of the reasons I talked many times about a movie that I've... The reason I was impressed with it, right from the get-go, is because there's no doubt whoever did the movie counted on people who actually handled the weapons to teach the actors what to do with them the way they were supposed to. Watch the movie Last of the Mohicans. You know, a lot of people like to think about using a tomahawk, but let me ask you, how would you actually employ a tomahawk? a hatchet. Now it doesn't mean it's not hard to play berserker, trust me. As one person pointed out, if you go berserker on somebody with a battle axe or an axe or a hatchet or the tomahawk, there isn't really a very good defense at all. There's not a whole lot. If the person uses the classic figure eight berserker attack, now he's going to run out of energy eventually, but the nature of such a heavy ham-handed attack is such that anything that makes contact, in fact swords are bad enough, but the battle axe has weight combined, focused weight and centrifugal force to its advantage. No matter how you strike with it, something's going to hurt, but the idea is that you can then bring the blade to bear. Even if you hook somebody with the lower part of the blade, say the lower half, the forward edge of the blade, but not the sharpened end. That lower strike point on a conventional or traditional battle axe or a traditional woodsman's axe, more of the Scandinavian style, which are based on the old Viking axes, that sharp point does damage. Everything in a knife fight, cumulative, does damage and advances your cause. How you take advantage of wounding or damaging the individual is a matter of developing your technique and experience. But, have you practiced or tried to withdraw that primary weapon? I'll tell you what, for the longest time I thought of so many different ways that you see how people have carried, for instance, the machete. And still, one of the best places to carry the machete is over your left shoulder, where your left hand can reach back just like they had the USM1903 bayonet, where it was traditionally stationed on the M43 backpack. There was a lot of common sense to that. The long blade, typically like a short sword, was mounted on a hanger, and there was a 1910 hanger, on the left side of the pack. You reach over with your hand, you grab the blade, and when you bring it forward, you're already in a striking motion. You're cleaving. So that means right from the get-go, as you're recovering the blade, you're bringing the weapon into action, most probably for defense purposes. But what about that big buck combat knife you got? What kind of release does it have on it? Do you remember? Was it Velcro? You know, Velcro's not as easy or as useful in some cases if you're not careful. Snaps even, of course, are pretty unique and ties are real at fallboard if you're not careful. You better make sure you're already untied before you start going into combat. But have you ever thought about just trying to get something disconnected? Or this is why I'm... Okay, here's the best way to think about it. Take a look at a combat police rig. What's the most common way they retain the gun in the holster? A quick release thumb snap with a thumb buster tab, right? When you bring the hand up, the thumb interacts with that tab. When you want to withdraw the weapon, or as you're moving the hand to the weapon, your thumb pops that snap tab, and now the weapon is free and clear to draw with whatever energy you have and to bring it into combat. How is your combat knife set up? How is your tomahawk set up? Now when I say watch dances, you know, I forget any dances with the wolves, that's where you surrender all the time and it's a way to be shot when you ride down the back of a horse in front of the Confederate, the Confederate Army. If you again, with the last of the Mohicans, they did a really fine job of expressing the use of blade combinations and specifically the use of the tomahawk, which was the principal personal close-in defense and offense weapon of the day. Lots of people had swords, but the tomahawk was a useful utility tool for the amount of material you were carrying. You got a lot of work out of it, both as a utility tool and as a cleaving weapon of destruction. And of course, mostly it was a cleaving weapon of destruction. In fact, many people became a center ornament, much like any other handgun or fighting knife of the day. So, how will you employ it? How do you bring it to service? Where is it best suited for you? Because, see there's another problem, two things. You've got to carry it, but it's still got to be out of the way enough that all of your primary systems work best and first. Now, some people have long arms. Don has long arms. Mark has long arms. Maybe some of you do, but others have shorter arms. So, when I tell somebody, see that's why you'll notice I don't do this all the time. We have a basic configuration. But I can't tell somebody you will put this here if it makes no sense and that it can't be brought into service or brought to bear by the operator. Always remember that. Don't get into a dogma because you saw it in a movie or you saw it in a training film. The training film gives you a basic But most important is remember you have to adjust based upon the restrictions and they can be physical limitations based upon life cycle. In other words, how big is the person? How old are they? And because of age and or battle fatigue, body parts don't bend as well or don't move as they move the way they used to. You've also got to remember as you get older you have to start adjusting for that too. Because here's the thing, a quick grab and swift stab is better than having to reach and extend with slower reflexes. You know, have you ever paid attention to older knife fighters where they keep most of their weapons and how they keep them? You might notice that they go for what is called a short grab and thrust. In other words, typically their arms will be closer to their body The weapon will be within, it literally is 15 degrees where you normally would hold your arm or your hand in station. The idea is to be able to grab and then immediately turn and strike. And then you get into what we call the Singer sewing machine effect where either A, you staple them, okay, or you start to go through what you would call a knife cotta where you actually have a series of step cuts that are designed to bring the most damage to the target in the shortest period of time as possible. Cutting tendons, trying to cut veins, trying to hurt organs, or blind. Remember, blind is good. Go ahead. One of the basics, and you might remember it from childhood, and the Z across the Zorro, you remember Zorro when you were a kid, don't you? Channel 9, Channel 13, Saturday, reruns and all. Z-Strike. The bottom of the strike is the inner strike to the thigh, deep to the bone. The upward strike is opposite in the armpit. The other horizontal strike is across the throat. Zip, zip, zip, just like that. Zip, zip, zip, cut, cut, just like that. Like the Singer sewing machine that Mark is talking about. Only this is like the shredder. Because if you can apply this, zip, zip, zip, and you can be standing in the emergency room and go zip, zip, zip with those three cuts proper, and the best doctors in the world will not be able to save that victim. Standing in the emergency room, that's knife fighter technique to the nth degree. But how do you get there? First you might cut the tip of his little, right where the knuckle wraps around the little finger just as his knife is being brought back or as his knife moves arching across, the tip of yours might touch there. But you're trying to drag the tip of your knife across the hole of the top of the back of his hand. If you do that between the wrist and the knuckles, he's going to drop his knife. He can't hold his knife. And then when the knife drops, oh, there's to cut to the inner thigh, to cut to the underneath of the armpit, to cut to the throat, and it happens faster than I can describe it. And you walk away, or you step to the next soldier, you step to the next sentry, you step to the next aggressor, zip, zip, zip, just like that, faster than I can describe it. Service the next target. Yes. Or stay again, step into, because typically again, most people are not prepared for a nice engagement, it's not in their mind. And part of this is because of the conditioning of the gun too. Let's just be honest. People are expecting to hear a mark, noise, some other report. Whereas, again with a blade, depending upon the situation, and I'm not telling you to go up against a guy with a gun with a blade, if my enemy has a knife better, I have a knife. If my enemy has a gun better, I have a gun. Remember, from stick to gun, stick to knife to gun, etc. If he has a grenade, I want a grenade that will, and I'll throw it farther and I will make sure it has a larger blast radius there. I'm not even going to be equal on that one. But the bottom line is that again you have the opportunity probably to engage and destroy multiple targets in close quarters because of the improbability of being able to turn and act or react. That's one of the other problems. You've already made a decision. Half of the battle with most all of these, when we got into disarming courses back in the 70s and 80s, and I've mentioned this many times, I loaded up wax bullets for these guys that were developing disarming or surviving a gun attack, unarmed techniques. And one of the first things to remember is that it's not a single motion. Even as you are trying to block, if you already know that a weapon is coming up and the weapon is in motion, depending on how it is approaching, that determines how you try to counter thrust it. But even as you do that, you have to move with your body. Remember, you are trying just to avoid a... A projectile has a very fixed direction period. It can't make a corner, it can't turn. The gun can be turned. But the most important thing is to remember that once purpose has been set, the muscles are in motion in a particular way. The trigger is being pulled. The idea is to deflect the weapon and move away from the muzzle at the same time. Now even as you make this decision, remember the weapon is going to discharge. You always see all these things in the movies where, oh the guy is dazed and it takes moments for him to think, which of course is all BS to try and dramatize. Yeah, it is a very bad situation. Your right eardrum, if you were deflecting to the left, probably isn't making you feel too good right now. You better get over it instantaneously. In fact, you've already made the decision it's not going to affect you. This is another thing about gunfire and knife fights guys contrary to movies people do not drop instantly being upon being shot That's it's a Hollywood condition With knife fighting. It's the same way you got people who get cut still have plenty of energy to kill you If you're not getting that perfect cut in or if you think you're going to do the monkey poke thing back and forth for a while, I've pointed out that especially if you want to understand knife fighting in the traditional sense, there's a term people use to use which is not figurative, it's real. They cut each other to ribbons. That is not a joke. That is not tongue in cheek or some kind of expression that is figurative. It is real. There are accounts of even in open battle. Think about this. You always love all those cowboy movies where it's pretty lopsided because you've got that Lever Action Winchester, or that Lever Action Spencer, or that Lever Action Henry Rifle. What years did those come into service? Now let me ask you something. People started going out west before the Civil War. Right? Yup. What was the primary weapon in everybody's hands before the Civil War? It was a muzzle-loading single-shot rifle, or if you were lucky, maybe you had a couple of fowling pieces along. A couple of double barrels would really be nice. having that second wad, that second shot to go down range would be kind of handy wouldn't it guys? Yeah, kept the tag team on the brigands. But that means that after you fired that second round maybe before the savages were closing and then maybe you went to your pistol and you used both of those shots because maybe if you were lucky you had two but most didn't couldn't afford two guns but boy by God I would. Guess what? Then you're switching over to knife and tomahawk. And if you know anything about the Montana cavalry operations or the Montana infantry, here we show you cavalry because that's really dynamic cavalry, it's always cool. How about if you had to march into battle in the Indian wars? Well guys, you do understand that a whole lot of the fighting was done with infantry, not with cavalry. They don't show you that in any of the movies, do they? You ever notice that? So you can't ride away from your enemy and get away from them because you're faster. Once you wade in, it gets pretty medieval because they ain't nowhere to go and the bad guys are just as motivated to fight as you are. And when they get close, they use blades. Well if you read any of the accounts of the fighting that took place, some of them especially like Brown Bozeman Montana, go look these up. The commander, one of the chiefs and the commander of one of the militia, well, was an infantry unit, they went to town on each other and all during the battle they fought. They literally cut each other to ribbons, but they didn't stop. It is described that hundreds of slashes, hundreds of slashes, hundreds of slashes, Well, why didn't the one cut just stop him like you see in the movies and he'd fall over and go, ah, ah, and then you just stab him once and the movie's over and the music starts and you have the credits? That's not the reality of a motivated fighter, people. That's why when you see things like I've said with Braveheart, they were very polite with that movie, although they did show you some pretty horrific strikes and thrusts, understand that from one end to the other, that was a butcher shop. But it wasn't much different three, four, and five hundred years later on the American frontier. Real history. Most everybody that was standing there knew that, well, wherever you stood, you better ready to fight. So like I said, when he defended a home, the women started boiling water. No, it wasn't just to take care of the wounded. It's because everything was a weapon. When somebody tries to come through a window, the women grab the pail of scalding boiling water and pour it on their heads. Dump it on their heads and shoulders. blind them, boil them, hurt them, stab them with whatever they could, hit them with the pans, not because it was funny, but because that iron pan will bust your skull open real good. Because it's a b- And it still didn't necessarily kill that person right away, but well at least you're on the dying mode, so now you can focus on another target. Had to hit him with the pan four or five times. Yeah, b- Yeah, look he's got number eight Six one scene in a movie mark the guys Somebody's fighting a couple of people one guy's running through the door now the last guy in the room Swings a bat he brings up a knee and blocks the bat with his shin the best breaks on his shin. At the same time he grabs it, here comes his shoulder, grabs the guy by the shoulder, turns him, he has the knife in the forward like downwards and turns him back onto a counter and just sewing machine on his chest and saying, that really hurt my knee! Yeah, yeah, well that didn't hurt your knee. You probably, if the bat broke, I guarantee there were two cracks. The one from the bat and the other one where that leg's in two pieces right now or at the very least It's guaranteed to be broken. Let's go back over to Hollywood. I've talked with a number of people who, when we talk about how did your instructor teach you to fight a bat, or a stat even, or a club. A bat's a club. Well, I've seen the double forearm block right against the bat itself, blocking it with the area of your arm between your wrist and your elbow. two of those guaranteed one of those is going to be broken if you get hit with the meat of that bat. Not everybody out there is a horse Gracie who thinks that he can even if his arm is broken and the referee wants to stop the fight that he can still fight the Japanese guy who just broke his arm. And if you just got your arm broke with a bat, well even if you think you're still in the fight the other guy still probably got the bat. This goes back over to, Dick, I need a stick, a knife, I need a knife, or gun, I need a gun. And if he's got a stick, I'm best to stay out of range of it. And if he's, and I can't counter it, if he's got a knife, I'm best to stay away from his reach. And if he's got a gun, I'm best not to be in line with the barrel. On that note, just something you just brought to mind, and I can't do it on the air, but somebody sent me this little video of a young kid, two kids wrestling, not the one with the dyke that was allowed to play with steroids and just won the competition illegitimately. He-She-It didn't win anything. It's just the turd left us getting their way and pissing on all the other kids, where all the girls were playing. But there's this one video, the kid is probably a head shorter, he's probably in the same age class and they're close, he's probably one is just on the lower end of the weight, you know, limitation, the other one's on the upper end, so it's not proportional, it's really not fair, okay? It's fair in that it's within, I'm sure, the guidelines of the wrestling match. And the kids, the two of them start out, and the first thing the little guy does is start to run. He starts running around the mat, the last thing you're expecting, because after all, aren't you supposed to close? This is Greco wrestling, right? Well, he gets up, he wrestles with a guy, and he realizes he's starting to go down, so he rolls over him, and he starts running in circles. And then he comes back in and the other guy is chasing him a little bit. Then he gets frustrated and stops and he turns around and he goes after the guy. And he starts wrestling with some more. And then he realizes, whoa, whoa, he's going to get me down on the ground again. So he immediately breaks contact, rolls over him again, and starts running around in circles, like more of a boxing match. And the kid survives. He doesn't get pinned. Now that's not right. You're supposed to... Well, no, I don't think there's any rule about being able to run circles around as long as you stay on the mat, right? You get pushed out of the mat, you come back to your start station. And depending on the points, you're either on all fours or you're getting ready to be dragged. You're the person getting ready to drag the guy down on all fours, remember? So the demonstration here is, like you said, if the other guy has a weapon, there's no rule that says you have to stay in that fight at that moment. That's right. In other words, if you can back out, in fact, remember, the argument from the other end, and you hear this BS with guns, which I do not believe in, what was the distance? Get in there. No, you know what? I'm never going to let that happen. You know, they haven't run into anybody who actually is using their brains as far as I can see, and if they have, they don't survive to be explained that their tactic is wrong. I've got high-powered rifles. My objective is not to close the distance. That's stupid. I have superiority in performance and I have superiority in accuracy. I'm going to keep stepping back at my discretion and keep pulling you out into the open, and I'm going to put holes in you, leaky holes, left, right, up, and down. 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