That's the brand I like, brand of bourbon. I forgot the new name, get added to it. It's cheap, but it tastes good. Say again? Wild turkey. Ancient age. Kentucky bourbon. Ancient age, yeah, I've heard of that. Alright guys, we are at the top. I'm sorry to cut you guys off, but we've got to go. I thank everybody for their participation. You guys make the program what it is, not us. This is our caller's program. We thank everybody for their participation. We've got to go. Say good evening everybody. Good evening everybody! Good evening everybody. Thank you. the only way to do it. Join Mark and Todd for Weapons Wednesday, where you'll learn how to use everything from your bare hands to your average AR-15. The 12th gauge autoloader? Sure. The 45th long slide? Yep. With laser sliding? You betcha. The Oozi 9mm? Yes, sir. Phase plasma life-routing at 40 watt range? Pretty crazy? Wrong. Okay, we'll talk about that too. So whatever question you have about whatever weapon you have... 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A figure walking through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land free 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. This is the land of the free, of 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 trade it in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and see and re-farm and keep our country deep. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children can be. 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, live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great republic and each god given right. And pray to god, 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. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep. What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Remember your training and you will come back. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report. Our kirky... And a butter knife. One day closer to victory for all our brothers and sisters, both on behind the lines in occupied territories west, southeast. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on... radio.4mg.com, indianafreedomtalkradio.com, and we're on AM&FM microstations, CB base stations, and Ultet Hallmark and Golden Spike Technologies, and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good afternoon to our friends. The Aleutian Islands, the Bering Straits, and way out there in Guam, they still got some sunlight left. But meanwhile, BK, what's life in your neck of the woods, what's the day today, what's jumping off the wall, please? It is 2017, March 17. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report. And that makes this Quartermaster's Corner. And like everybody else, we have been experiencing a cold snap. It's not super duper cold. Strangely, I've been looking at the web weather reports and so on. And it says that it's not all that chilly outside, but it sure does feel nippy. I don't know why it feels so nippy. So I have been engaged in a side project. I do not have a proper wood stove or anything like that here, but I have a conventional fireplace with a little bit of a liner for reflective purposes. Some firewood out on the deck that's not always been stored properly. Sometimes it's covered and sometimes the tarp blows off. So some of that wood is not in the best of condition. So I decided, okay, it's chilly. I'm cheap. I don't like running the furnace. There's all this makey marginal firewood. I'm going to burn this stuff off, clear some space, make room maybe when the weather gets warmer, I will restock that with something proper. and get it properly covered. So I've been having fun running in and out and bringing that stuff in and burning it up. It is amazing how fast it goes if it has been chewed on previously by microorganisms that have sucked some of the substance out. It does burn though. Once you get a good fire going, you can toss the lightweight porous stuff on there and it will burn. It's just that, boy, it goes fast. I have been largely occupied doing that and of course I don't trust it when I'm not there. So if I have the screen open I have to be in the room. So I've been modifying my daily routine recently. So that that has been a little project if you have manky stanky old nasty firewood around My advice is go ahead and burn it make some space It's not like it's doing you a whole lot of good sitting out there as a reserve because it is You know, maybe a third as many calories per cubic foot as the good stuff should be Just clear that out make space in your rack and you know, hopefully you can get something better in before you actually need it, even if you have marginal usage facilities like I do, a proper wood stove or something would be much more effective. But we have what we have and this is what was built into the house and so on and so forth. Meanwhile, I almost missed it tonight. I got all wrapped up in... Made a little funny there by accident. I was busy doing some wire wrap. And this is an interesting little prototyping method that has fallen out of favor. Basically involves wrapping wire around little pins rather than soldering things point to the part I was working on a circuit board. This is probably about the 47th version of this circuit board. Sooner or later I'm going to get it right. But it is amazing how they say time flies when you're having fun. It also flies when you're counting teensy little pins and trying to remember which one you connected something to and was that one right and oops I've got to undo that one and so on and so forth. Great way to burn up a whole day while accomplishing a little bit, but not a great deal. You're familiar with wire wrap Mark? Have you heard of that or seen it or oh, yeah. In fact, you know, deal extreme, you're putting out a board, right? You're mapping out a board. I am building a prototype board with wire wrap pins and the little rappy tools and the 30 gauge wire the whole bit, you know, very 1970s. Well, keep an eye on deal extreme because they've had a lot of that support, equipment for the projects like that for cheap right now. Seriously, in fact you brought it up, I just looked at some of their sales items and other stuff they've got. They have all of the technology to support doing prototyping like that. And it's cheap. It really is a good price. Yeah, I'm kind of amazed at the proliferation of wire-wrapped wire from the Chinese sources. The tools are insanely expensive here in the US. A simple little tool which is not much more complex than a screwdriver they want 90 bucks for. Basically, the way it goes in the US is that the hobbyists have all gotten to the point of just ordering circuit boards made for them in a board house, usually a Chinese board house. And it's so easy to do in the computers and get a custom made board. Of course, it costs you several dollars per square inch, but they seem to have no problem with that. that they just have boards made for themselves. They don't do very much prototyping at all hand soldering, wire wrapping, anything of that sort. It's fallen out of favor in the U.S. basically used at this point only for aerospace and military. The thing that's driving me nutty is that the sockets that we used to buy for 10, 12 cents a piece, now all the distributors here in the US want about a buck and a half a pop for the sockets, which is absolutely insane. It's just like any other socket except that it's got, you know, with machined pins, except that the machine pins are square instead of round. But, you know, it's sort of the, well, only the military and aerospace guys are using it, and if you're paying some technician 30 bucks an hour anyway, who cares if a socket costs a buck and a half? Right. That's the economics. Well, the answer is that old BK cares if the socket costs a buck and a half, it ought to cost a dime. But you know what costs have died now at all Fortunately, I do have a couple of nut jars full of the things laid in when they were cheaper But I don't know about going forward after Should I actually manage to use them all up? Fortunately, there's enough there that for many many projects the neat thing about wire wrap is that believe it or not is actually NASA qualified technique is in the field has been found to be more reliable than solder point and has the benefit that you can cross wires this way and that way and the other way and they don't get in each other's way so you know you don't have to worry too much about routing and you make a booboo you can just sort of undo it and do it again. So, it's got a lot of virtues even though it is falling out of favor. It's an example of one of those technologies that people have turned their back on prematurely, I think. You know, it's like they think, oh, it is unfashionable to use a flat belt, now we want to use a V-belt. Well, there's a reason for V-belts and there's a reason for flat belts, and one is not better than the other, you foolish, yuppie, twits. Same thing, I think, with wire wrap and various other things. I'll have to take a look on the Chinese site to see whether the sockets are any better. Then, not only that, remember Surplus Shed has had a couple of, what is it, 48% off sales again? This last couple of weeks, I don't know if it was going on still, but might want to check them out too. You never know what they've got sitting on the shelf there. Yeah, I'm kind of noticed that yesterday I get an email, but it's an old email so yeah I'm kind of mad at them. They didn't fill a lot of what I ordered during their their big panic clearance sale and They were kind of unpleasant to me too, and I inquired I said you know come on guys It's been five weeks, and you at least give me an idea where you are in the stack And they said well we're not going to tell you that you're near the end to be mean you need you need you know so I don't like them very much anymore But I will. We all roll at the end. Yeah. Everybody at the end of the line. Well, as I do with it, I pulled the trigger right near the end of that time window. I should have said, oh, I want these items put in an order, and then I'll look further, and I want these orders put in another order. I would have gotten some of the things that I did not get. So, fair is fair. But I thought it was rather unpleasant. I mean, if they've got a stack of orders and they're working through, they could tell me, oh, it looks like we're about halfway through or something. You know, they don't have to be snippy about it. But I'll use them if they come up with something that I really want, but their regular pricing is so, shall we say, optimistic on a lot of the electrical stuff, that even at 48% I am not tempted by a lot of those things. I am, of course, an inveterate cheapskate, so it's hard to tempt me. At any rate, I will take a look at the Chinese, see if they've got the wire wrap sockets. I expect them to have the tools and the wire. I'm not so sure about the sockets. I don't recall seeing those, but could be. So at any rate anybody that is really interested in doing this sort of stuff with the warning that the sockets are insanely expensive wire rep is not a technology to overlook it is actually one of the better things ever invented and The ability to just run wires here there and everywhere not worried about the routing is a big big plus plus And do not think it's it's low reliability just because it looks kind of funny It is in fact, if it's done properly and passes inspection and all that, it is actually NASA qualified for space flight, believe it or not. It is. You'd be surprised how many things I worked on in the 80s especially that were flight equipment. They were only producing four of them or something along those lines and sure enough they wire wrapped the whole thing and they're going in aircraft. It does resist vibration and corrosion and all kinds of stuff. Alright, so let's see, last week we mentioned there was a certain amount of excitement about March 15 and the coming crisis on March 15 and how long is that out now? Oh, wait a minute, that was two days ago. To the best of my knowledge, the world did not end two days ago. The crisis that they were predicting, I think, was the debt ceiling when the US hit the $20 trillion. debt ceiling. Oh, Bobo set things up so that his temporary extension would run out a couple of months into the next administration. Gee, thank you very much. Of course, Bobo has set all kinds of traps and mines and so on. As I said, we are finding these sabotage devices too easily. Well, they're finding lots of them, but there are an awful lot of them to be found. You haven't heard anything at all in the corporate press have you about that? No, I haven't at any rate to have you No, nothing that nothing has jumped off on the conventional press go ahead Well, of course they have to extend it. They have very little option but to do so. Not only would any noises about we're not going to extend it would cause a crisis and would be obviously blamed on the Congress for doing that. But the other thing to be aware of is that the stock market must keep rising. because most of the bribes, I mean campaign contributions to members of Congress are done in the form of capital gains now where they are given a stock tip and told, you know, buy XYZ stock and it then rises or buy an option on XYZ stock and then it rises and the option becomes a highly valuable. It would not do them a lot of good if the stock market were to explode into a million little bits of confetti and come raining down like snow. They would cease to collect their campaign contributions. And of course, every congressman and senator must retire a multi-millionaire after a few years of service at a hundred grand a year salary. Do not expect them to blow up the gravy train any time soon. The economy, the dollar and so on may actually shatter at some point and if and when it does it will probably be a lot more sudden than anybody expects. These things tend to be a wound spring and at some point the glass shatters under stress and it doesn't give a lot of warning. But it will not be done deliberately by the Congress unless they think they can make their way to their redoubts in New Zealand and blame the fallout on the Donald because they are all on the take in the form of this sort of stock appreciation. So that is the game and do not expect a great deal of disruption in that direction. I fully expect them to raise the debt ceiling another trillion or more. The fans of the Donald are going to say we need operating room to turn this thing around. And the unfans of the Donald are going to want to maintain the status quo. Between the both of them, they are going to, for the first time in all of recorded history, agree on something, and that is to raise the debt ceiling. So that's the way that'll work. Well, again, part of it is the only thing that they've done so far that it really has been even discussed is the idea that they To appease us from wanting to barbecue or pitchfork them anymore is to destroy the fees and fines component, but the rest of the drivel is still in motion. That's why they're calling it Ryan Care and Civil Bummer Care. It's just the rehash of the same. Instead of ratcheting it back in any way, shape, or form, they're just rolling along with it. There's no significant change. Again, the reason Rand Paul did what he did walking up to wanting to see the legislation is to duplicate what happened years ago when they passed this garbage in the first place. You don't need to see it. Yeah, he's calling attention to that. It was grandstanding, but he was doing us a service by doing it. Now you can see that they're doing the same thing. So understand when you get into this mess why this mess is the way it is. So the interesting thing about this too is that again, they could ratchet it back in several significant ways. But I think part of it, number one, like you said, there's a whole bunch of people who are going to milk every last dollar out of this before it ever gets to a customer. It's happening already. It's like I've said, well, they lost a million dollars in the stock market. OK, somebody put a million dollars in the stock market. And then supposedly the stock market, it just vaporized. Well, where did those digits go? I've been in bookkeeping. It doesn't work that way, okay? It just mysteriously disappeared. The digits rolled into somebody's hands. They did not, they didn't atomize. It doesn't work that way. It's kind of like the thing about energy and physics. Energy is always there. It's just in this case, they've got a better series of curtain screens and deception, pickle smoke and mirror technology to make you think, you know, and go somewhere else. Well, the economists do talk about different... The economists do talk about different aspects of the money supply, M1, M2, M3 and so on. And one of them is sort of phantom money that exists if... Digits, right. Yeah, if you and I are each sitting on a sack of coal, you know, 50 pounds, and the price of coal is a buck a pound, we say, oh, okay, well, we've got 50 bucks worth of assets. If suddenly the price of coal is announced to be $10 a pound, Suddenly we have 500 of assets. There's suddenly $450 each. It just appeared out of nowhere of theoretical money. In theory, we could sell the coal and pocket the FRNs and run around and buy expensive Italian shoes or whatever the case may be. If the price of coal goes back down again, then that theoretical money kind of evaporated and nobody profited from that. However, in the current world with derivatives on everything, you can be absolutely certain that there's some bugger off in New York City and Manhattan someplace that's got a derivative based on the value of mysacacole. And if the official price goes to 10, he's going to issue options based on that or options on options or some obscure, bizarre, esoteric derivative based on that. So every time he goes up or goes down or whatnot, he quote makes money and quote. He's not actually making a dang thing. He's draining the system. But he's allocating FRNs to himself and getting the system to credit his account. So, yes indeed, every time there's a move like that, some people are making money but only because of all of these derivatives and all of this funny business that's going on behind the scenes. In the real world, where we're sitting on these axicles and stuff, that's all very imaginary money that appeared and then disappeared again. Somebody wanted to speak? Yeah, butternight, if you want to know what the newest scam is, I see a commercial. And it's more like an out of the frying pan in a fire. They're advertising pleas in the past in municipal bonds. And a couple of commercial segments later, they have municipal bond insurance. by the new insurance company, the insurance policy from the power company because the meteor you just bought is going to burn your house down. So you really do want the insurance. Now maybe it will burn you out or maybe not. It depends on whether you do or don't have the insurance. If you have the insurance they don't want to pay off. If you don't have the insurance, the idea is to burn you out, to threaten everybody else, so they'll want to buy the insurance, which then technically they don't need. Oh yeah Mark, I did send a picture of that deuce and a half this morning between 8 and 8.30, check your mailbox. I'll tell you what, I also want to bring something else up before we go any farther guys because this is time sensitive and I don't know, I believe it is still going on right now. I mentioned the 80% Glock Polymer receivers which by the way that's what Glocks are made out of so these are the 80% receiver systems. It comes with the jig, comes with the frame. The insert, everything for the frame to be completed including the tooling. Now the average price on this has been $129. This is a flash sale going on. It is at Blitzkrieg Tactical. $69.99. So $70 a piece for the 80% frame, the jig, the steel insert that needs to be there. You'll understand when you see it. and the tooling for $70. Now everywhere else it's $120 minimum. This is almost half price. And for anybody out there who's wanting to very patiently put a pistol together that is a freedom pistol, this is a solution. And again, that is at Blitzkrieg Tactical. That's B-L-I-T-Z-K-R-I-E-G. TAC T-I-C-A-L tactical dot com blitzkrieg tactical dot com. They have a number of different options but that's the best price. For you to get into this and to get something on the shelf, now remember they built the frame, it takes all Glock parts, feels a little more like a 1911. That was one of the discussions that they had, everybody was kind of joking. Yeah, they built a Glock but they made it feel like a 1911, okay. But all the parts go on board, there's no adjustment, there's no tuning you need to do. All the standard Glock used parts. or new parts that are out there will fit this frame and it's $69.99 and that is at bulletskriegtactical.com. It's right in the middle of the page. When you go to the page, I'm right there, I just went there. If you go to the page, second row down, right in the middle, $69.99. This was a special flash sale they got going on. It's not going to last. Look at the price of the other ones. In fact, well, they got Polymer Spectre frames just the frames without the note actually. I'll correct myself. They have them in the other colors too. In fact, it looks like they have them in several colors. Would you like one in blue? Would you like it in, oh, it's Robin's Egg Blue. Apparently in burgundy or purple. And they have several colors to choose from. How do you like that? You can make it 80% that has several color options and it's still $69.99 and that's all the parts, pieces and assemblies to get started as far as what you need for the frame. Still need all the other parts but if you like the Glocks or if you want to build again a Freedom Pistol to tactical.com and look to see what they got. If they have anything unique or interesting else that might make you excitable, they do have aluminum 80% receivers. They've got AR-10 aluminum 80% receivers. They've got kits. They've got parts and pieces, assemblies of all kinds, pages, too numerous to mention here on the air right now. But that is at blitzkriegtactical.com. They also have a bunch of the metal jigs. There are different packages. If you are going to be doing anything for any period of time, I would recommend accumulating the jigs and keeping them on the shelf. Remember, next time you want to do one, you might find just the raw one laying around. And those come up on sale every once in a while. If you already got the metal jigs, those are good for a long, long time. They're not just a couple pieces of sheet metal. These are industrial grade jigs with guides the whole nine yards. You really can't beat that. Anyway, DK, I want to bring it up. That's Blitzkrieg Tactical, $69.99. That's $70. But good price. Half price of what we're seeing everywhere else for these things. Yeah, you could accuse me of being a snob. But basically, if a Glock is what I can lay my hands on, I'll use it. But forgive me for considering it a very sophisticated and pleasant upgrade from the Liberator pistol. And if you get any hot ammo it's going to blow up in your hand. So, you know, oops. Again, this is one of those things where there's some people that want the Glocks. They're already committed to them. I will point out now, the other thing I've been, I might as well do this where we're right here. best price I've seen for a nice American tactical pistol right now, go to JGSales.com and on the front page they have Ruger P89s for $199.95 apiece, $200. They are police trade-ins, finishes fair, mechanically sound. In many cases, as I've shown in the pictures, the Israelis carry these things like this. That's why I'm thinking this is an Israeli surplus. Ruger sold a lot of stuff to the Israelis. He would not sell it to you, but he'd sell it to the Israelis. This is one of those things where they're good pistols for $200 a piece. You go and get the gun there. You go to copesdistributing.com. They have mags for $20 a piece in a couple of different configurations, plus or minus a dollar. And it's 9 millimeter standard, so you go out and buy more ammo right away. But I'd buy nothing but ball. If you're a new shooter, nothing but ball. pick up the mags from Cope's or whatever the source shop around and find the best price you can if you get some for a few dollars less. What I like about Cope's is you can also grab a bunch of their other surplus items, the mags and it's flat rate $10 shipping period no matter how much you pile up. So you grab a bunch of the mags, you grab the pistol over at JGSales.com and start going to town but there is a good solution. I like the Rugers But price again has usually been up there around the level of the low end Steyr's for a lot of stuff. This is a used gun, but it's a serviceable gun. J&G sales have been around for a long time. They know their weapons. I'm not fearful of picking up anything from them at all. They've been very good. The gentleman who runs the company is a Christian. Unfortunately, his wife, remember, passed away last year. She was part of the company. She was the other half of the business, and he's carried on with it. I think he's actually looking for somebody to buy the company eventually. If you have a new somebody working in to taking over. Yeah, that's the life cycle of these things. Yeah, and it's a good day, but they're good for finding police trade-ins. Remember they got those bread of 92's for 270 apiece. Well, hell, this is $70 less. It's a Ruger manufactured pistol, all factory Ruger, and you've got a good gun, lots of leather, lots of Bianchi holsters, or in fact, I've got a pile of them outside right now for the Ruger P89. Standard leather, low carry, they were cheap, they're out there, they're all over the place. That gun's been around for a while. So it's a good choice for anybody if you're looking for a way to get into an American firearm for less money. You're going to want to refinish it, but what I do is spray paint it. I just break out the Krylon. Krylon gets a little thin, put some more on it, do what the British used to do. Now just don't goopy up all the critical small parts. You've got to turn. Remember, we've got to mask off a few things. When I say paint it, I don't want to see like the Detroit Urban Renewal Paint Project where they painted the light switches, the windows, Well the light covers, everything was glued to the walls. You could barely open the doors. Well the same is true when you spray paint a gun. You gotta pay attention. There are quite a few instructional videos out there on YouTube. Go watch them. Anyway, solutions. Not just complain about the problems guys because there are other firearms out there. Both of these situations, they're great prices right now. And if you're trying to get on the table and get something of everything so you're able to get into action with 100% of what you need in basic form, this is a good solution. Anyway, BK, go ahead, jump in there, please. Okay. Okay, we gotta call, well, hold on, we gotta call, or what do we have? Yeah, go ahead. George, it's George from Texas again. When I took you this picture, I thought it was a deuce and a half, but actually it's a deuce and a half. That's a, looks like a Command Expando van, if you have any use for those. Yeah, it's a... okay, hold on here. I went back to the... I just didn't get back to the email shit and I can because it's right there. Hold on just a second. And you shipped that email at what time? Between 8 and 9 this morning. You sent it to liberty at provide.net? Yes. George is in Texas. He'll be in Central Time Zone. Right, our difference. Well, I'll tell you what. I'm going to look why we're talking here but... It isn't jumping off the wall at me right away George, so we might have to resend it. That's liberty at provide.net. Again, just put truck in capital letters. I don't see it jumping off in front of me and I've got everything right here. It just says deuce and a half George from Texas. I didn't get it. I'm looking right now and it's not anywhere near that block. I'm looking at the whole page right now. I have hundreds over there, but I can pick it out real quick because I've got the time window. If you have a search function, I would say search on DUSEN title. On that note, again, this is an expando, it's a military DUSPAN, right? Yeah. Oh yeah, we will use those. Okay, no matter what. I bought the last batch of those I got, I bought three of them for $65 from one of the targeting units here in Michigan that was doing scientific research years ago. and they used to have lots of military equipment. We got all of it. I got all their jeeps, I got all their trucks, I got all their five quarter tons, I got all the three quarter tons too. How do you get them home? Did you have to tow the things? One ran, the other one, in this case what we do is I slave them. I used to slave them all the time. What I would do is I made up and I still have them, I have kits where if it's like an M880, I've got two kits. Each one is a toolkit too. So all the basic tools that work on that truck are in the toolkit. And then I've got fusible links, distributor caps, electrical replacement components, because remember these are very simple under the hood. These are not pollution friendly, like the anti-pollution gear civilian models. These are the militarized versions. So when you lift the hood, they're like opening up a truck from 1968. And basically you go through all the most common things on the dodges. The fusible inks are taken. They stole them because they stopped having them in the supply system, but they kept running the trucks. With the deuce and a haves, the two most common things that are taken are A, caps, like for instance, and or seal covers for the transmission, depending on the year and what it is, or again, some of the electrical components. The cool thing about deuce and a haves, if you know the model, and the most common, well, the GMCs are the two-speed automatic, that's the most common fleet vehicle. that you would find before Vietnam, the ones that were being sold by the government. And then after Vietnam, the M35s, which are the ones we were talking about last night, those, all of them have a numbered wire harness. There's only three pieces. There are only three wire harness components. There's the front section, mid section, back section. They're all zero numbered and numbered. In fact, all they have are little flags on them. You can read numbers. All you do is plug and play. Little critical components obviously are to check braking systems. We usually never had a problem with that, but any other small parts that they can scavenge, usually it's dash items and things that are trinket items. Because the trucks were on the way out or way down in the inventory, guys would rather go to the down yard that were being sold rather than go to the supply system and order a part that might take six, eight weeks to get there. Once we do that, one vehicle running, the other one, since I can't waste time on the site, you take, we can buy standard military tow bars like for the Doosnap, used to be only $28 a piece. They usually do that. If you watch on the highways, you'll see guys where they slave them like that because that way one driver can move two trucks. So we do the same thing with the deuces and the 5 tons which includes the, if I had a wrecker, very seldom but I got a few of them, the wreckers I would mobilize first because you can use the wrecker to move one of the trucks. The one that might be in the worst shape but anything that we could see that was immediately powered up, those would be driven off-site. And they would slave out and carry or pull one of the others out. In some cases, for instance, in one auction I got six flatbed trailers. Each one was three axle. Half of them were dragon wagon height. The other half were platform height, the same height as the back of the deuce and a half. So the three that were the flatbacks, that were the highbacks, I put all the transport cans with all the uniforms and spare parts and anything else like that on the highbacks because the high-lows could load those up. Then I used the short trailers to move the wheeled vehicles we didn't want to work on on site. Plus, you can only spend so much time there. So you have to prioritize it. But the lion's share of the vehicles, I could drive off. Typically, they were driven in. I mean, they were just pulled in, parked. Any time while they're there though, the government can come in right up until the day of the auction and take parts off the vehicles. That's the only thing you need to remember. If it's a very unique vehicle, example, there's a bunch of these mowag universal trucks that have all kinds of other widgets and goodies on them. They can have compressors and backhoes and shovels and some have everything, all the above. Because those were a unique vehicle and there weren't as many in the inventory left, they were pilfering off the downline vehicles. In other words, if you have three left but you're selling three, because there's usually three in a cluster, they'll scavenge all the parts they can because they know they won't get any through the system. It'll take a year to get parts. So they'll scavenge tiny stuff off your other vehicle. Good thing is though that they are standard industrial truck parts, so easy to put back online. The biggest problem is moving like the motors. If the motors are loose, they come both ways. They come either in the transport cans or they come loose. If they come in the transport cans, they're actually on two I-beam skids. They have the ability to lift them with a winch. They have winch stations for chain. And they have pallet skid points for running with a high-low. So you can move them either way. And those are quick and easy. So, it's just something we learned over the years. It's like, well, I didn't know we could do that. And it's like then you realize, wow, look at those. Hmm, I think we should do that ourselves more often. Today, the big thing like we were talking about, you know, for instance, the military fans like George is talking about, What we're talking about, guys, for those who don't understand, an expandable military van. There's three versions that are out there. The first one isn't really expandable. It's the traditional big box on the back of a deuce and a half. It's like a rectangle. It has three windows on each side. They lift up. They're blackout windows. They are designed to offer air and light. But you typically have an AC unit over top of the cab, although it can also be just mounted up. The rear end, the same way, it's crude and rude. It has a drop down gate in the rear with a set of steps and you can walk in and out. Those are used for arsenal and armorers trucks. They were used for medical support, for repair of medical equipment. They were also used for radio trucks. It was a military radio van, the larger command van. Then they came up with the expandables where you have a deck that actually pushes out to the side. Kind of like, you know, have you seen the big buses going down the road everybody's buying if they got a lot of money? And they've got those expandable chambers that come out the side, guys? Oh, yeah. Where that came from was from the military van like George was talking about. Basically, you can double the size. You drop a platform or the platform depending on the year. The XMs have a drop platform later. They went with a slide out system, and I know they've used both for years, but it's a slide out tray platform that has a couple of legs. Those legs are very well generously reinforced, and then the wall panels come out and you double the size of your command van. where this was an advantage for mobile, what we call BICS and TOX, these are command and control centers. The two elements would be tactical command operations for the unit, the other is supporting tactical operations. And for instance, the Air Force weather guy is in one group along with mapping, signal communications, etc. And then command coordination is in the other group. And these vehicles, that's what they were built for. But they make great hospital rigs because unlike, say, if you put a mash tent down, you've got to fold it back up and roll it back up. If you want to put together a really nice mobile surgery, The command vans on the deuce and a halfs and the five tons, especially the expandables, give you all the room you need to roll out all your compressed packages with your operating table, your tools and components tables, and your lighting and everything else. And it gives you plenty of room for the theater for the doctor to work. Yeah, it gives you a temporary room. You have to be able to stuff all the junk there back into the center station, of course. In fact, here's the thing, if you go over to, if I'm giving people ideas, go over to Colmans.com and if you look there, they have all of the furniture that would go in that. They have the compressible operating tables that fold up to like lawn chair size, they've got the operating surgical benches where you have all your stowage bins. Now the way those are set up, and remember I did this, this happened after, this has been years ago, now it doesn't, it's time flies. Back when Desert Dust won, when it ended, everybody was ready for that war to be a lot worse and bloodier. And they sold 32 city block size piles of medical supplies and combat equipment at Fort Bragg. One of the guys that we know bought one of those and got it for $10,000. Guys, there were millions and millions of dollars in equipment. But one of the things that they got, those operating benches, the way you see them, where you see all those shelves, the military pre-packs the surgical trays, they're everything sterilized, everything is pre-sanitized, pre-packed, triple packed. and you just slide them into those shelves. And when you need them, the nurse will pull them out. The count nurse does the pull, checks for all the surgical tools, make sure that everything's there and sets the surgery up for the doctor. And we got those trays, we had cardio trays that have like 200 plus stamps, and scalpel, and diggers, and cutting tools, and everything you can imagine. German precision tool, all gold plated, highest end, $25 and $27 apiece. Each one of those had to be thousands of dollars. I think the price we saw on it was like, the government specs around it, I think it's like $4,800 worth of tools. That's the kind of stuff that happened with Desert Dust 1. A massive, massive amount. We got gas masks, brand new in the package, M17 gas masks, never issued in the bowling ball case. Most of you have never seen these. In the bowling ball case, $4 apiece. Brand new, nitrogen packed, you know, vacuum sealed, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. All the inventory listing is there. Each part is separate. You have to assemble the mask. And just pennies. And this guy, I was happy to let the guy, the guy made a profit. I know he made a profit. He paid $10,000 for a block of material the size of a Detroit city block. And some of those guys paid less, some paid more. And he really couldn't tell what was in there. There was just so much stuff. But he was more than happy to sell the stuff to us because he knew where it was going. Plus he knew our people, knew how to use it. oxygen systems, surgical, complete surgeries, all kinds of stuff. That's what the Pennsylvania militia benefited from that particular operation extensively. I've said this for years. Several of the Eastern Pennsylvania militia units are better armed than most National Guard medical mass units. Your tax dollars paid for it, and they shoveled this stuff out the back door. We'll never see it. In fact, some of the stuff that should have gone to the troops, we'll never see it. Then it goes out the back and they sell it for pennies. out the back door. We should have had it rather than freezing our fingers and our toes getting cold for lack of the proper footwear and our ears getting wet and frozen and breaking off on your fingers. We're joking. But all pretty close because none of the gear ever got what we're supposed to so they could pile it up and sell it out the back door for nothing. Anyway, there's cool stuff out there still. There's lots of stuff out there still. I'm going to tell you what, I kicked myself in the rumpus. Guys, remember we talked about buying all those jets last year? We had the ability to do it. Okay? We could have had an entire the equivalent to a small wing of fighter trainers for about $127,000 total. That would have been... Well, you know, well we had the resource. Here's the thing, any one of those planes last year, this is like I was talking about cars are the same way. Year and a half ago, remember, it's been almost a year and a half, two years. I priced them all, spotted them all, we found them in Illinois, Indiana. Now some of them went to allies, but the thing is, an example, the total cost for close to 20-some aircraft, including maintenance tools, all of the information on how to do it, how to fix it, even a couple of Romanian slave maintenance mechanics, all you do is give a place to live. For about $125,000 to $127,000, one of those planes is now going for half of that. There's that window when the things were so cheap for a bit. Now that's gone. That particular aircraft is now blossomed into an aircraft of interest. Go ahead. I'm sending the email right now. It's just over my phone. So it's all like a little slow getting there uploading. Dinosaur speed. Hey, some dinosaurs are fast. I don't want to get caught by a raptor. Yeah, I'm using my Wi-Fi on my phone. It's just a dose. Well, I appreciate it because did they have a price? No, but I took a picture of the number in the window. Good. Okay, that's fine. That's all I need. I'll get hold of them. One of the things about stuff like this, it's like we were talking about this years ago. For a window there, guys, the Rolls Royce, they had these Rolls Royces. They were the lowest end limo, long nose, traditional rear body limo $2,000 apiece. We're around Ann Arbor here, more money than brains. There were about 20 of them and they all came out at once. $2,000 for this one, $2,000 for that one. Guys, nobody parks a Rolls Royce out on the street. So number one, they weren't abused. And I kicked myself in the rump and said, you just scraped every penny I could together. The next year, just it took one year, 12 months, same car, $24,000 base price. For whatever reason, somebody wrote an article that probably got everybody into a tizzy, I've got one of those passé rolls. So they put them out there for $2,000 on the block. The next year, I'm sure somebody wrote another article that said, oh, the classic Schmidlap 416 rolls, it's a great introduction vehicle. All of a sudden, they were $24,000 or $28,000, $30,000 a piece. Now again, they keep hard to predict, but you know, there's basic rules, you know, it's like Rolls Royce. He always seemed to hold their value. In this case, he didn't. It was bizarre and I know what it was. It was somebody generated the propaganda to convince everybody to put them on the market. And then the same smart person played the market and probably wrote another article under some other BS name and everybody really go, oh, oh, I gotta have one of those. And so that is one of the things about quote unquote collectibles. The market is used- Or they praised this year's model and everybody dumped last year's model. Yeah, that one looks a whole hell of a lot more affordable than this one does. Exactly. Well, but still it's the idea that they were up there. You could have bought for what you paid for one, $24,000, you could have had 12 the year before. 12 of them. And I'm serious, they were all popped out at once. I kept watching. I was like, wow. Another roles. Two more roles. And they were in the newspaper in the classifieds. And also in the public venues where they were pushing stuff at the time. All used out of us for sale. Anyway, side march. Just the same thing with military stuff guys. Ferrets we were paying under $500 a piece for. And I marketed and brought in many Saracens. the same ones that everybody's now saying, they're classics, that they want 5, 8, 10, 12,000 for. Not one of them came in for any more than $560 to maybe $700. And people say, where could you get those? From the same place that there are still other things out there waiting, where are we able to get them into the country? Needless to say, the regime doesn't want you to do that. Because, well, it was fun and acceptable because the written revolution companies had some kind of pull for whatever reason. But for instance, there isn't going to be any push from the top at this point. No, no, they won't let that. Yeah. Yeah, because again, this is real armor. I mean, the armor does not outdate. Always remember that guys, armor doesn't go stale. Homogeneous armor plates, steel, does not go anywhere. It just sits there and stares at you. The rest of the tank or vehicle or whatever with the dust of ages might rot to the ground in some way. But go take a look at that monument tank that's been sitting in your backyard there over there in your city for the last 60 years on a big pedestal. You see any of it falling apart? Is it tripping like it's made out of wax or something? Metal masks don't affect it even. It also resists small arms the same way it did. Yeah, it will stop small arms exactly. Not only that, but consider this. It was designed probably to stop 306 and 308. Even the lightest armor today, everybody is running around with .223 rifles and .762 or .545. We got this conversation this morning, the idea, we've gone into a mechanized world and everything we put to our shoulder is all lighter with less penetration. But everybody is yapping about the robots and the ronatoids and the ronatoids and the dronatoids and you would think you'd want to go bigger and have more oomph in everything you do. But as far as the armor goes, again, all armor is at least as useful as it originally was, and it changes the dynamic on the battlefield to have mechanized, no matter what it is. Armored trucks, modified armored trucks made with sandbags and sheet metal, change the dynamic. It becomes a mobile weapons platform. No, you don't duke it out with an Abrams tank. You use it to put a hole in their arse and run like hell. You've got something on your shoulder that goes whoosh-boom and hopefully cuts a hole in something. It ruins the day of the guys that are hiding behind a corner someplace. You suddenly expose them, flush them out, and your infantry mops them up. It forces them to think, hmm, this is not a good thing. Maybe I shouldn't be here. That's the plan, guys. That's what you're trying to do, make them think, hmm, this is not probably the best day to be here. And maybe I should be doing something else, like leaving. Now, here again, one thing about these expandable trucks is this is an issue too. Remember it's working parts. And I've always pointed out, just keep it simple stupid. The more working parts you have, the more things you have to do PM, preventative maintenance on. Before you start rolling stuff out, you need to go through it, inspect it. Check to make sure nothing's been jammed in anything or something wasn't locked in place by the last operator. There's all kinds of things that can happen. So you want to do a physical observation of the vehicle. And this is where you have to use your eyes and your mind. And you have to, again, take your time and physically inspect the equipment. Then once you've got confirmation, you understand how it's supposed to operate, and then it appears it's supposed to operate properly, don't just wheel it out. Take your time, test it, work the equipment through its first cycle to confirm that everything works to its final point of control or final station, and then inspect to ensure that there isn't anything that needs to be repaired or that's damaged or shredded or shredded or Somebody might have borrowed another part, you didn't notice until you got everything wheeled out. But these are nice pieces of equipment to have because remember, a deuce to have is all wheel drive. If all else fails, you strip all the junk off you want and turn it into an armored truck. You see all those M-wraps and all the other garbage out there? All that is is just a big butt five ton truck or a 10 ton truck that they've strapped a bunch of metal on. Anybody can do that. In fact, many other governments do that. If you look at all the other pieces of armor out there, first thing I'm going to tell you to do, look at the axle configuration. How many of those vehicles do you see out there? In reality, all they are is just an armored up do staff. They may have... Well, look at it this way. There's a basic rule of thumb. If it's got a carburetor, you might need a machine shop, but you can fix it. Okay? What's more, some idiot with a joystick is not going to take control of it, remote control, and drive you off a cliff. Yeah. You still be driving when everybody else is scratching your arse and wondering why they're spinning in circles or not moving at all. Exactly. Or wonder why the EMP knocked out their engine. Yeah, what's... I don't understand. Well, don't worry, son. You won't have to understand much longer anyway. Boom! See, this is one of the things about what's coming next around the corner here because obviously they're trying desperately to get us into a war. I mean, number one, Korea is not a threat. Syria is not a threat. But putting our people in the place where they could be threatened, you know, they can create a fiction. Remember those torpedoes that splashed into the water in the Gulf of Tonkin? Everybody saw it. No, not everybody saw it. In fact, here's the next part of the story. It never happened. But boy, they got us in a 10-year war. What's more, the general who had been a flyboy at the time was flying around looking for the bogeys, testified in front of Congress that there was no such thing. So right now, again, the other one I wanted to touch on here, we mentioned remember the tour block. They've got NATO and the Crimea. Now, we've got Lenin in America, that's old Bummer, they're trying to do the 100th anniversary of the Communist Revolt. Bummer's going to be their Lenin here in the US. Well, they're piddling in the Black Sea. So, for anybody who wants to understand and you can amaze your friends and relatives, Go read everything you can on that. And I don't mean don't do the, oh, Wikipedia. Go find some books. Go to a used bookstore. Find somebody who's got some decent histories on the planet that you can find that are older books. And look up the Crimean Wars. All of what you're seeing right now, this is the same scam that the British and the French played way back when, fiddle-farding with the Russians. Lo and behold, now we've got the Crimea in the news again. They're over in Odessa until the 20th of April. They plopped down four NATO ships in the Black Sea at Odessa in the Ukraine. So this is right out of the original story line for the battles for the Crimea that became the multiple Crimean Wars. They numbered them guys. One of the things that's really interesting is that that war stretched out to the edge of northern India. And most of the stands, which remember I told you here the last couple of months, it's like boy, the stands just don't exist. You don't see anything about them. You don't hear anything about them. Well, that's because they're ready to plug them in and make them new history old. It's interesting that if you look, there are some great stories on this. Those battles were more than a century ago, right? All of those battlefields, they were just left and nothing was done with them. The bunkers, the forts, the fortifications, everything was just abandoned in place and the local farmers are all poor peasants. They didn't do anything with anything. It's sitting there just like they left the battle 10 years ago. Well, you mean when the armies were maneuvering they didn't bump into the border and encounter an invisible wall and stop? No, they just kept right on going. But also when they ended they just walked away and again they weren't worried about it. It's kind of like World War I was the same way except the farmers went out and tilled the fields and found the bombs that were missed by everybody else. But in the stands and all these different countries, you'll hear more about them progressively here if they decide to kick this up. The Crimean campaigns, the Crimean Wars, were notorious for being unique population groups involved. This is where you have the Sikhs down south along with many other population groups in the Pachis drawn into this thing. Because they were surrogate armies that were employed as colonial forces by the powers that be. So heads up, because this gets, you know, it's not a surprise. They have to desperately throw some pickle smoke and mirror BS up because of the economy, because of where the world economy is and what a toilet situation they have. They're not going to, they would rather kill us or get us killed in a bunch of different BS operations, they've done it before, so that they can baffle us all with garbage, we can all do the violent and drama thing and we'll be bleeding and dying, and they'll be laughing their ass off while they shift the book sideways and everybody forgets about what's really going on. Well if you do say something you'll be wicked and evil for saying it. It's like Korea, come on. the big thing, Korea, they were in Japan, they had an evacuation drill and a whole over 100 people participated, including 44 school children. It's like, what? You mean some little dot town on the coast had a mobilization, you know, evacuation exercise with a total of maybe 102 people and almost half of the people that did were part of the exercise were children from a local school. Well, gee, of course. There's more action like I was joking earlier in a Godzilla movie. Of course, the problem is whenever you saw that, you always knew the military was going to get barbecued anyway. You know, cooked in their tanks or in their planes in the air. So, this is all beat the gong stuff in a situation where it's tempest in a teapot. It's serious because they always try to get us killed. Well, it's not making a mistake about it. We're not playing that down. It's the idea that it's completely avoidable, but everybody needs to be pointing at it for what it is. It's all a big game to divert everybody and divert more money into their pockets and all this kind of good stuff. Sadly, we have another hour worth of material to do, but we don't have another hour to do it. We'll have to postpone that for next week. JGSales.com, that's where they have those Ruger P89s. They're not pretty, but they are functional and they are an American firearm. There's lots of parts available. They do, of course, have Ruger to provide parts from until the things kick off. And magazines are available in many different locations for the P85, 89, what is it, I think the L is the 93 or whatever, the 90 and 93 or 92. And so there's an overlapping multiple series of platforms that use the same mag. Which means that's a good thing for you if you're buying the gun. Lots of other people are carrying the thing out there. I know a lot of people that do. So it is worthwhile. If you want mags, you can go to copesdistributing.com. Anyway, we should be hearing the music. We're past the top. We're biting into the next hour. I know there are some of them. We're because they're wandering in alien space.