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Anyway. good afternoon to all our friends out there were in forty nine which includes a great state of jefferson kohne's the outline to state the territories and the clock it is it'll six p m eastern standard time it is one day it is the twenty fifth of january it is the thirteenth year of open maybe on the socialist and in your faith peon on everything Soviet socialism of America with a K 2021 old earth calendar 2021 battle for the republic dance of swords and I'm like grab that cup of coffee here and smell quality there taste back at all what's going on and like Think that just fascinating Wow what a surprise who would have thought can either wait a minute Oh, no would have thought that huh massive voter fraud Wow what a surprise communists being brought in to North America to wage war against Americans I would have thought that wait a minute wait a minute pull down here the militia and Patriot movement have been at 100% every of the way period so the Fiddle-Farton be a nonsense of course for spinning wheels but not accomplishing anything so uh... dot mean we are going to continue to help to agree to track their spittles will because we got to keep the bag as busy as many different venues as we can so again no who you have available and what resources they're willing to and or can spend so that each battle front is sculpted those people who are able and willing to do more Need to be diverted from the folder all of the paper pushing because that's just simply going to be spinning your little wheel You know rodent cage around around around around around around and getting nothing done meanwhile the enemy physically will come in and rape kill pillage and burn given the opportunity and Everybody will go. Well, it's okay. Well, those are killing those guys, which we can't let happen anymore. We're finished with all that so Prior proper planning prevents piss-poor performance. We need to get what it is that needs to be accomplished as quickly as possible from any of you at the personal level that's most important. Tactical redistribution of materials is pretty well taken place with ammunition. I don't know that there's any particular place you're going to go where you can go. Yeah, go here. You're going to find... No, you're not. Well, no, you can go over here at... No, you're not. but no you can go over here and no you're not uh... bottom line is that we've done exactly what we promised to do with the conditions and that is get it off the shelf and practically redistributed we don't have to wait to find ammunition out we own it uh... we're not gonna have to wait for government issue thought it doesn't work that way we have every had our fingertips it leaked to our fingers okay favor walker and we got a caller who we have I've got a quick question for me to ask you. What is your opinion on these big dangerous game rounds like the 375 Rooker or the 458 Lot, those type of things. I know everything with the primer, those projectile downrange is good, but do you think that is it useful to have those or are those going to be kind of a niche but not the but here well i have a problem we've got is the red this is something with most all the ammunition and what systems that we've been looking at here for the last couple of uh... years okay the like six point five creed war it that's not even a spring chicken six point five creed war but around more than a few years now but in the inventory it was very shallow and because of that whatever's out there pretty well but scarfed up and now everybody work and i find more and there's still work on being made but there's no there's no significant amount of ammunition to replace the inventory that was sold most of the caliber you just mentioned are actually spring chickens by comparison to others that have been around like uh... i mentioned four forty four marlin that's been around for sixty plus years uh... three hundred would make but are a long time several meter remington mag better a long time now there's eight millimeter remington mag any of these any of those are the earlier ones are a little better off because they have been around for decades the longer it was in service the more likely their stuff to be laying around and maybe even still on the shelf now you'll have to go retail store retail store total gun shop or ever to find it but it's kind of like what happened here the other day for the virus is looking for thirty caliber lugar i mentioned that member about what three months ago there was a flurry of it it was all over the place one of the reasons of the thirty lugar is actually still built quite readily in europe uh... but all the time it disappeared well people did buy it they took it out you know the job or stuck it you know off the shelf sent it to the people who retail and it's a little pocket here and there so you can find thirty lugar a little bit of it laying around with most of these calibers the big borers the four sixty what for instance like i've mentioned i sold a lot of four sixty weather breeze i used to be a weather be distributor and uh... i sold a lot of four sixties in the area here right where i live so back in the day those big bore rifles were just unique and popular to have simply because it was something cool you know we put the very least of it didn't you were much about a shorter buddy you'll see an elephant rifle uh... three thirty six lupu was bred by three thirty six winchester uh... what the other one the uh... four oh eight to the rick b cartridges are what bread all the four hundred that you see right now no matter which one it is and the reason is because all those bullets that were made before or that were patterned before are still kind of in production because there's always been a big bore market for it. The big thing is whatever you're going to get for it, you scarf up now and then you've got to get into reloading dies. It's not that they would be obsolete, it's just that what you've got is all you've got until you can get someone to crank out some more brass for you. and the this part of the uh... knocked out all these things reach now it depends on how big and heavy i mentioned some some here like four forty four marlin phenomenal energy right off the bat and it's like it hit with a freight train but remember because it because of the nature of the design of the case in this era of production when it first came out it's drop off it's pretty quick at the intermediate cold you know just in the edge of long range On the other hand, there's others like the ones you mentioned which have a good stable outbound trajectory all the way out into extreme long range if given the opportunity. You can figure out how they shoot. So they're valuable in that you'll be using them as support guns for your medium or your standard riflemen and say your light rifles. And yeah, there's definitely a place for not only having it but having an entire section or series of sections in every fighting unit that are ready to go over to say mostly what will be both that typically will have better the government you know on the other side will ever pay for their average troop i'd like to go to the united states we have more scope in general private property ownership then almost all of the top twenty five to thirty armies of the planet in terms of real week i mean think about the quality of some of the glass lying out there Now you put a better cartridge underneath that, you don't need to miss them 499 times if you splatter them all over creation with the first round. And that's where the advantage is, is first round hits and don't shoot again. And I think that can't be emphasized enough. That is one of the superiority factors that we have in our camp that everybody tries to downplay, especially the idiot sticks, they're pushing for the big semi-automatic volume guns. uh... if i hit you want to write you good i can go pick another target cuz i know you're dead you're not kind of dead i know i've shot alive autopsy what i shot and all that does it's like even uh... six-hot sixes are devastating enough of this now just compound that with some of these more sophisticated route i was just wondering if those bigger round like that might be uh... like uh... you know what uh... or man and found material pop uh... well Yeah, they would if they're if you stick with the for instance like the 460 most of those are actually jacketed rounds In fact look at what they produce or what you can buy like for a 460 whether the same is true of the others the big bore game gun Game getters are not hollow points their penetrators. They got to get through some thick piece of skull remember the logic was you were thinking about going after Cape you know Bulls or Going after elephant or you're going after something that's you know big and you know classes you would wait many dozens of times over the uh... but capable of for instance the uh... the cape uh... type of all hunting rifles all had to have a certain amount of penetration as they start to flatten out because they have to get through that you know what you're going to go ahead on shop because that's how they attack and everything's kind of based around that idea that you're looking at a ball horned predator or not a predator necessarily but a horned uh... pray the ability to effectively defend itself against it, could stomp the guts out of them without having to hit them with a horn. The idea behind it is more weight, bigger bore, greater penetration. So against like the front end of any standard soft skin or even some of the medium white vehicles that are out there that are reconnaissance or if they're standard transports, yeah, you could do some major damage with them because in many cases they actually have a penetrator. The 460 upper end bullets, which were about $9 apiece, were designed for big game getting and they actually had armor penetration. So that, and I would prioritize, I'll tell you the big advantage of it, if I put it on a biped and I put it on a person and I am, like I said, aimed for the groin, at short to intermediate ranges, there would be no doubt about what the end result would be with that hit. at long-range is you're still superior to pretty much everything and anything that's out there so against that team leader that uh... you know guy operating a special piece of equipment the one holding the coffee cup with body was going to stand way back there at a thousand yards and laugh while you know he has his minions murder you in your home well if the first one to get shot at that piece pecker would trash back there with a little small hat on that's a good thing and it's one of those things where you get to have the message of the so many different ways against vehicles you'd be have to be collected but remember it's amazing how resilient even a vehicle that is hit how much how long it might run before it actually gets knocked out but that type of weapon would be more likely to do the job so good choice go ahead anything else okay very good i think that uh... no you get brought up a good point there are a lot of those heavy rifles the biggest thing is the newer the government the harder we are or you know the more pressed we are for ammunition for the weapon and only i can say it starts going to go to shop on foot and you know if you don't you think is do the walking with the internet pages but that's what we go so far you have to make calls and then you go in if they have it, I would go in and clean the shelf off. If I had a certain caliber, like right now, if I had a 300 wind and I wasn't reloading, I would call around and find out where the load that I most commonly am familiar with and matches closest to what I'm using ballistically, and I would go out and buy out every last round. I'd go to whatever they got on the shelf, I'll take it all. And that's how everybody should be scouring and vacuum sweeping the places out there now for the stuff that you need. uh... if you've got uh... mentioned three thirty eight will pull up beautiful round but phenomenal been performing for you know more than a decade actually longer than that now this year twenty twenty one so for what a couple decades the three thirty eight what appeared first what ninety i will be ninety six ninety seven but i'll bet you i'm i'm even late on that i think earlier but in ninety six is where we got to know and uh... it really start to go from military circles well now it's one of the social norms in the heavy heavy calibers and because of that if you've got a 338 lapool like I said the advantage we've got lots of old bullets laying around from the earlier days of the 60s and 70s and the bullets really don't go you won't find anything that's typically cast it's all going to be jacketed then if it's 338 it'll fit in whichever little 338 you do have uh... the big one on the scale yeah they were yeah they outdated the bullet man I tell you they're just like they're going rancid on ya That's one of the things about copper and lead bullets is they just sit there and look at you on the shelf. They really don't go, which is nice. But the big thing is, again, dyes and again, dyes and even if you have to, you know, maybe travel, but find them. If you've got any unique caliber that you plan on continuing to use, maybe you've already got a good bullet supply, but you just didn't get around to those dyes, find them. i did one one thing that bothers me about all this guy that i think the fed has already been putting pressure on all these people uh... way before you heard anything about it as far as the big plan remember the objective was to try to catch you all flat-footed and if there was nothing else some areas to a degree people were because they simply assume well things just got a plot along the way they have uh... i think most significant replacement in uh... any of the reloading categories and i would point out that dot o'carroll go paul meadow state armory uh... wherever you do in fact uh... matches shooting supply anybody really significant resupply and uh... what are considered not explosive categories i mean you think that uh... r c b s to be cranking out the dies like there's no about other don't go crazy and and loser tolerance you know if you don't create create go on recall turning like that uh... did r c b s got a business or something that this something because otherwise uh... they should be uh... i mean they should be putting something back where you could find it on the shelf and i don't see that that's my problem with this i don't see it happening the way it should for all of you out there again example of a poem that all the supercom find real quick and it's not just uh... all it's not just our cbs forgive me uh... if you go anywhere i don't care what it is nobody is re-inventoring the way that they should or that we've even seen in the past uh... with regard to uh... reloading tech and i'm not not talking paris balls talking durable see if you're cranking out bullets at a company you're not that's me you're not going to interfere with the machine shops the pn3 machinery or the tech that's making for instance rifle dies or pistol dies or whatever now one of the other considerations here that also have mentioned which is why you guys need to figure this into the map remember that you know they're being conservative because they've been told they're going to ban everything anyway so people don't want to be caught flat-footed all with uh... the situation not go on the way everybody was hoping that takes place remember they're just going to slow down to you know that the petro sonic in other words doing nothing uh... in terms of production to get things where they need to be they're not your part replacing inventory just just won't happen this is something we have seen uh... it met the companies up i mean everybody has taken a lost opportunity but they're balancing this out with the writing down the wall the ring knocker buddies are telling them that uh... the only boys jewish everybody and you know what the gun owners and the manufacturers are going to get you know uh... basically bush eyed again because remember bush was notorious after both the manufacturers and for the f going after the ffl yeah i'm sure he's thinking about the impact there the characters in there now although with the real problems behind him are planning on doing that if they haven't already and and basically since we know that they're trumped they all packing and going after the manufacturers why would they not have gone around and threatened everybody to break down production and why about it the light a lot there there are there are a narrow industry they count out they have licenses ergo government can you know bought them around her pet in their face and tell them what to do anytime they want and they're supposed to ask for another dose of kool-aid nice tasty salty kool-aid here a bit of a more there you go that is exactly what you can expect so what we need to do is scour the country get everything off of the retail shelves uh... right to the last part of this corner of the earth here now and there should be nothing but dust bunnies when the thing kicks off as far as uh... basic like i told somebody other day it's like somebody that's me oh you know there will be actually this happened twice today and i would point out that uh... you know all your character talk me to buy an air-fed test at all if you're limited and to begin with what do you already have now if you were to get those a choice between the if you're limited money And it's a choice for you to $700 or $800 AR-15 and a bolt-action rifle for a couple hundred dollars, because you can look around and find something out there right now just still locally. Do the $200 bolt-30-06 or .308 because you're one way or another will have ammunition for both of those. And again, there's plenty of that 7.62x51 NATO laying out a lot of vehicles that you're going to be overrunning or capturing or however, you know, 10 to 20,000 rounds, depending on which vehicle it is, of 7.62. to NATO. Now granted, you want to keep the belt fed stuff with fed weapons, but a percentage will have to be slid sideways to help man out the rest of the, and fill out, and flesh out the rest of the rifle units. Well, that's good. You know, we can accept that. Don't even wait. Don't waste the length, just because it comes in length doesn't mean you can't send the links back to the troops that, you know, need them, because we are going to be routing everything that we recover. right now a bolt action thirty-odd six with a nice piece of glass on the roof of it say a nine power scope is more than enough would still put you ahead above your enemy on the other side with his government-maintained firearm bottom line again if you pull the trigger you're on the target pull trigger hit him once you don't have to miss him four hundred ninety-nine other times while you spray and pray and the other consideration here too is how much time do you have and how much money do you have to get onto the battlefield here printed where you know how we know where your weapons hitting We got a call, I heard a voice. Who do we have? Kelly from O.K.C. Just a quick, I was on my Facebook, I saw that old grouch surplus posted earlier today. They got a big shipment of Hungarian military body armor. That's with just soft armor, Kevlar inserts rated at level 3A and sets with A inserts and level ceramic plates and sizes of armor. Is this old grouch dot com? They changed their website, Mark. It's ogsurplus-com.3d.com. O-G-Surplus-C-O-M.3-D-C-A-R-T.com. Uh oh. Well, do it one more time for me. I got O-G-Surplus-Is-It-Dash. Dash, yes sir. And then dot three is in dog. S P R E S dot com Well talk about making it like grossly over complicated It's not on their website mark. It was on their Facebook page They can't they're not gonna I'll just go and finish what they posted on here and it says the vest with 3a inserts small hundred dollars extra large and 2x large 140 best with 3a inserts with ceramic plates small 280 large, extra large, and 2XL320. And those were with the ceramic plates. Because we do not have any plates alone without the best at this time limited quantities, not on our website come by the shop or email. I posted this in the Discord under equipment in here. It's timpimatoldgrouch.com. That's... Tim, the IM, at oldgrouch.com for the email to make arrangements to have some shipped. Your surplus. Yes. Okay, and now here's the question. Is it the OD green? They show a picture, they have OD green, and then they have the camouflage ones. What is the Hungarian wooden camel? Yeah, correct. Okay, I'm there. It looks like both of us are the same type of vest, just one is green and one is the Hungarian Woodland camera. The same ones that's okay. Now that tells me that one of the suppliers got them back in and I know who it is. But still, they actually have it. The problem is it can already be sold out. Whatever's left is whatever old Grouch has to keep that in mind, people. The wholesalers, I do know who the wholesalers are that we're bringing these in. Is it under modern surplus? Where do they have it posted? they've got modern surplus they had posted this on their Facebook page mark oh ok well it should be on their main page so this is more it's not on their actual website because it says limited quantities not on our website come by the shop or email ok so whatever is left is what yeah ok well there's probably not that much then but it is that is the rifle grade everybody was wondering the plate slash the sizes are true and large so with whatever the size is is they're not undersized. So for anybody who's listening when you hear the when you're wondering because you know sometimes there's a sliding scale with European surplus nowadays well it says extra large but it's like these are all true sizes everybody the bottom says correct size so whatever you see there that will just tell ask them or you know get hold of them like it says in the ad. I think the the the camo pattern is good really bad pattern is not critical but what they're charging more for camo as opposed to OD green. No flavor choice there. If you want to have more breakup, go to camo. If you're already standardized on OD green, which a lot of units are, go the OD green. Either one works. They're both good. It is good equipment. It's nothing wrong with it. It's just somebody else paid for it and somebody else is taxed. Hell, who knows? Since that was done around the time of the fall, we probably paid. I shouldn't say that, well, we don't know who paid for it. No, we don't. We probably paid for it. the said part but usually true anything else go ahead show me no no no it marked it just like i said it's on there the face book page uh... old grouch uh... so all sales do a quick search old grouch surplus old grouch surplus that'll get you to the web address and a link real quick so go that way but it's like that it's not posted on the website so you'll have to email if you want to purchase some uh... online who yeah what's matter fact or why somebody tried to strike me there uh... ok very good and again uh... they do have small all the way up to looks like extra large or extra extra large they have this small large extra large and to x they do have to accept is good because you may be able to stuff you want to put on a remember your best and everything should go over all the rest of your clothing but i don't know if you'll check it was built out uh... being like six by about a hundred two hundred sixty pounds and they recommended the two x because you can always reduce the uh... straps to make it smaller right it's just about a couple of a another level number of the armor you'll copy but well you know what they get through the better to eat but right that but the big thing it's good equipment that that's one thing uh... nobody is nobody is uh... been complaining about the border here are in that that that has that the biggest problems that everybody ran out and in fact the only two companies that have this one of them want to play as much for the main best the companies that do have a left are charging uh... what which is quoted here's that's not a bad price even for what it is and a lot of you guys are you know if you're already willing to carry steel plates ceramic plates are anywhere you know plus or minus or basically again different idea for the same purpose though the same job effect one here's here's an idea like i've said many times taken grab another piece of steel but you know you all kinds of all uh... all sizes of plates out there right now both tax just selling them you can go to uh... the uh... jg sales even i know that they've added a few pieces of armor better in addition to the best priority uh... he may or may or may not be out but however you look at it you can find if you have other pockets on a best like that or if you have a pocket with some room you can always find another piece of kevlar steel in their guides and proper especially back armor well hopefully you're chucking jive and running and not really in the line of fire if you've been doing your job you'll be called your way out of something but If you're going forward, you're exposed. And that's why armor is good in that respect. And that's why originally when they made rifle armor, they only made rifle armor with the front plate. They didn't make them with the back plate. Too expensive. Now, not as expensive. And so everybody kind of does the full protection front rear. So take advantage of that while you can. Let's see, long-round tactical for the moment here. Also, I had a couple questions yesterday, no not yesterday, it was Saturday, about Sportsman's Guide has a number of different ballistic helmets available. The two that they do have are serviceable enough to pretty much everything being worn today. The Mark VI British, real quick, to go along with that vest that we were just talking about, the Mark VI is a good helmet. Nothing fancy, nothing to write home about, they're all going to be used typically. uh... but they are about ten dollars more than the italian pep two helmets that are available so if you go to sportsman's guide just put in the surplus helmets that'll get you a listing of what might be available right now and when you get there to be a quote here i think one eighty dollars one seventy dollars one eighty dollars public one up again for a buy a dollar italian military surplus pep to helmet with kevlar or of course used basically it's the Fritz US Fritz helmet uh... seventy two dollars okay the mark sixes on the other hand are now ninety dollars they just want by a little bit that's the buyers club price now both of them are just side by side mostly pop up on the top of the listing here they're about equal to each other where the same era their performance level of defense is about the same and they have to be which one would i choose i'd probably go well i go the cheaper choice anyway i'd go with the italian uh... stuff because i like you know the your protection but the uh... british surplus mark sixes pretty much the way their coverage works are almost comparable now what they think about both of them that they are both take a part of our slash uh... they they're striated their comparable under high pressure and uh... they're not that heavy weight for what they are what they do have some girl they are they're waiting ready for that uh... you everybody's they will look good what good as a steel helmet to do well if you go kevlar then guess what you're gonna find out there some weight now one of the thing i'd add to that you can buy steel helmets right now that are rifle grade helmets if you have a freedom of fact the one companies making what they call the uh... bolisha steel helmet and it will stop pistol rifle rounds dead on there's been several videos out there posted where they're doing live fire hey how does this work and they're showing you how does this work now when you get here with a cat when you're wearing a kevlar helmet to point out if it does stop the bullet it is going to be definitely distorted in fact remember the kevlar if it's doing its job can't miss it uh... special with rifle rounds and you know greater shots of the worst it's gonna basically turn part of your helmet, it looks like a dead possum on the highway, that Kevlar will just expand and burst out in all directions. It looks like a poofy ostrich helmet, ostrich feller on the side of the helmet if it's a creaser in that direction. The big thing about this, remember yes, that is compromised at that point forward. One of the things I will say about the steel, the real heavy, heavy steel militia slash also tack helmets they're building, if you look at the videos, It takes a lot of whatever multiple hits to actually get through to the steel, you know, through the steel, if it does at all, and most everything that they've shown, it doesn't. Remember, there are two things. The Kevlar is designed to dissipate the energy and typically it absorbs it accordingly, but when it hits, it's compromised. That area is compromised. With the steel helmets, the latest ones, which are really going full circle back to stuff they were doing 100 years ago, of the better quality, multi-tempered, they know what they're doing, they've come up with a good product. The only consideration with all of these, and I'm going to remind you of something, your head is pivoting on your neck, okay? A strike to a helmet means you're like getting slapped with a ball-peen hammer at high velocity or a sledgehammer at lower velocity. While you may not pop your beater open, it can still be enough to maybe shut your lights down anyway. the kind of hit because that energy's gotta go somewhere and your neck will probably stay static in your head may move a lot more just to know you know there's nothing you can do to prevent everything from happening but it is nicer to not have your head turning into what they think of stoneman canoe okay so these all these things will help even the older steel helmets will help for something they will protect from fragmentation and shrapnel to a degree some of them are designed to be projectile resistant. I think it's bulletproof. You'll notice I never use that term with anything because there is no such thing. Given the opportunity and the fickle finger of fate, you just don't know. So let's assume the worst and we won't be disappointed. Let's make sure that we shuck, jive, and move to get out of the line of fire. But if we are in the line of fire, or even if we're partially exposed, the armor that we carry gets the rest of the job done. Or it gives us a chance to rethink our philosophy of how well covered we are. Maybe we should take our covers along for us to get here or maybe it's nothing to take cover behind when it's like to have a number okay nuff said next of okay one more time it was going where those helmets who sportsman's guide dot com sportsman's guide dot com sportsman's guide dot com when you get there were a punch in surplus top of the page the first uh... the well actually polish military WZ67 steel helmet shows up on the left and then it's the Mark VI and then there's the SEP-SEPT SEP-2 helmet with Kevlar used. Those are the two best options, the ballistic. I think the American ones are all sold out because I don't see them showing up on the scroll. If you can get a US Kevlar helmet, that's fine. If you can get something else that's a ballistic helmet, a personal choice because you think it's better, typically not as cheap as you're seeing for these two. and these were cheaper months ago. I will rub that in. When I told everybody to buy these, they were half this price. They were down to the point where they were like $41, $42 for just a little bit for the Mark 6s and the American and the other Kevlar helmets that were out there comparable to the Sept. 2 were as low as $444 apiece, remember? Well, again, the world has changed. Everybody's taken an interest accordingly and the system has also not given up any more than they can help. everybody feels they need to stop to don't think don't forget all the other thing you're real quick is yes there is a bunch of other stuff in the deals to go over to sportsman's guide over the deals and drop to the bottom work says clearance always go through that every week for ideally twice a week just to be safe scroll through real quick see what they have if there's anything looks like it's reasonably priced and again shop around don't just assume i've got one more day before i do that i gotta make sure i get mine and then you can get yours or something up a little mentioned but i don't want to do it yet do we have a caller eight very good that won't talk over anybody next up a list of things to do what we were talking about houses no in the tour block all the back that real quick to that to two questions number one Each state has variances in how long before they kick you out of the house you're in. Rental is a different story. I'm not talking about rentals. If you're renting, yeah, you should try to get out of a, you know, do something else. But if you're stuck with a rental, the first thing I would do is try to find an ally where you can go down to zero rental costs. But one way or another, yes, they will evict you from a rental, and they can be pretty nasty about that one. More so than they will be about you owning a house and them trying to get you out of it, okay? something to take into consideration but what i'm talking about getting off or underneath the uh... house property issue that is going to beat up you know because you're desperately truck trying to be beat you're going to be nice then in the process the bank eating up every digit that could be used to save you from you know being completely dragged down by the under under told a repossession which means you have no place to go on your scrambling around to do whatever okay let's rethink that before before it gets that bad okay and that's not hard to do which is you got to get motivated right now anyway uh... with regard to the banks not somebody that you want about credit units everybody's the same boat now many people have credit union mortgages per se they have different names for the instruments with the credit unions but the credit unions were pretty pretty well compromised back in the cold late eighties and early nineties but time that they're trying to go to war with it they were destroyed all of the independent banking system and credit unions used to be independent of the banks they made a good job of uh... trying to absorb the credit unions industry independent thought processes with regard to the money scam but they could and they did there better or they've been relaxed a little or they backed off a little only to turn right around and bite everybody of the bought just was quick as they can all change things up so i'm not hold my breath about any of those Otherwise, the policy is the same. If you're spending $700, $800, $1,000, I mean, there's people out there on these McMansions that have a $1,200 to $1,500 mortgage payment a month. And that came out of the 2008, 2009 disaster because the banks turned around and said, well, we're going to jack up the interest rates even though everything else interest rate-wise was going down. And they figured they had you under the buzz. Well, after all, where are you going to go? You're going to have to... get in shock you know slash disorders slash hock uh... without the gabble we could do it again the other coming of this being a cyclic routine that's a regular thing and it has been or so uh... worse and more so a more recent years so again work on we'll look what i think break the cycle man break the alcoholism break the cycle over trouble break the cycle with the bank but on a positive note from europe though another thing that was like what will occur at school at like what credit score what difference of like a make it up to get back into that the idea is not to get back into that because that latches what they're using to get back on your property and to create confusion with you having to change locations and get off your property and go somewhere off i'm going to go somewhere me because we're yeah i know we understand that so we're going to make that happen before becomes the choice of the bank and you would not that's how we want to set this up okay uh... another thing to as i mentioned is you know how do you put buildings down fast was over different options on that number one is if you look around to be amazed which you can find for free i would recommend that if you actually had a piece of property almost as quickly as did that uh... if you're still on first book which by the way i'm not okay that that was inevitable we do know what's going to happen i don't care all user for a long as we can now wild you go on to do a couple of things we got enough to put the video but if you still want to be a book we have a friend on facebook keeps going free book marketplace for free stuff the same with quick with craigslist craigslist has tons of things building materials bricks block of the matter of would lumber you know for a little fill in the blank they could pick whatever the hell it is uh... if it's for you that you've got what your your second priority if you don't have one of the work truck a pickup truck preferably a crew cab or jump cab preferably an eight-foot bed mar and a trailer with it to why because when you get all this free stuff you gotta have a way to move it but when you do you jump on it because an example hold on to her second caller You might recall right here on Facebook, oh it's been about what, three months ago going on four, what is it, no actually it's four months ago now. There was a pop-up and Facebook free bricks. Was it four or five bricks? New. Was it a handful of bricks, maybe a whole bushel bet? New. You know what it was? If you had a place like a piece of property like that, they had 22 pallets of brick for free. obviously somebody was going to build a house they were going to build a business i mean there was so much there i'd look at the picture of playing okay they had to be good building a monster mcmanchin or it was going to be something like a little bank or something like that or office building but because they were repurposing the property but with all the economic problems of the corona beer virus they needed the bricks out of there because where they'd laid the bricks down and by the pallets was on what was going to be the new right away for the repurposing of the property. So here's all this free brick. That's fortifications. That's a brick line trench work. That's fascia for a building. You know what it was intended for. Guys, it's purely a matter of getting your butt over there picking it up. So Mark, go ahead, caller. Jump in there. Yeah, I know something about brick Those pallets of brick usually come in four or five bands and each band has at least 110 to 112 brick in each band Plus so then you can multiply that by four or five. I mean you got 22 so that's a lot of brick Yeah, all I know and my point is somebody did run over there I mean I couldn't I just couldn't get there. I were doing a bunch of other machine shops, but the thing is that you know again it was if you got a piece of property you got some place to put it and if you're if you're going to let it lay it down i've got so far as well until i actually use it i'd lay it out so it actually would be like by the pallet would be a a fortification wall just being stacked there just laying there but we're going to drop it on the property think ahead if you want if you had got you know twenty some pallets of brick and you laid them out, how would you lay them out so that you actually get some use out of them until you re-brick whatever you're going to brick, do whatever you're going to do. I do that with paving stone, paving brick that I have here. I have walls set up right now that are basically three brick thick and they're interwoven. but they're not they're not cemented they're just interwoven and they're not to stop you know some small arms fire or whatever but they're also it was it's designed as a way to store them and then when the top comes either i'd use them for what they were intended or i might repurpose them for something else but as it is not i've been getting massive amounts of that stuff for free recently called a court of the day you know mark this is probably uh... i just wanted to mention another source people should be checking frequently whatever they want Free cycle. I have seen filling material listed there for free. And of course other stuff, including more than one vehicle that was listed as needs work. Freecycle.com is definitely worth checking. It's Freecycle.com. Free cycle. I'm surprised I've never heard you mention it, but it should be easy to find by going direct or do a search. recycle r e or re what negative f robert edward edward free cycle dot com alton interesting okay we didn't come up here i just tried to second i got it right well again for where you are if it's relevant your area then take the time plug in and check it out because yes i don't care where you get it be it's like wood uh... i don't build anything that is that is a clapboard or plywood or you know first of all word though walls anymore one of the things i've been doing is pulling massive amounts of construction often every wall that i build inside note is to buy construction for the wall and just act one top of the other words to buy tens to buy twelve to buy a two by six is and i usually have to cut anything because depending on the height of the wall to my fourth it's an error to buy two-thirds in there but the nice thing about it is for instance with all the ball of the brickwork that i did is i can wear a screw anywhere in that wall and it's all come so you do a standard to buy or or to put two by four two by six dot grid you know for your wall but your outside wall is you wait to buy fours flat surface to buy a ten flat surface and what i've been doing is you know what construction sites deconstruction sites are just lumber points are some of the overall free would like we're talking about and uh... for instance on the one job i'm you know what you do is womanized down below for the first two feet and then conventional pine up from there now to buy we're talking to buy for two by six and you know joey's things of that nature anything you anything to buy fixes uh... rafters but the what the next thing that i would do what i've decided i would probably do next and will do from now on if i will do all horizontal for the first way and i'll put yet another wall on the outside that will be perpendicular to the way of the of the under base creating a more of a laminating effect but also integrated latest work all yeah it's going to be a bit because brave basically a brick tinwood but it cost anything other time take to pick it up and so you get pieces especially when you get to the bimza stuff for their big getting rid of stuff with that uh... construction sites all the odd cut everything out well especially off rafters and or joys and or four boards or whatever guess what you put that sideways come out to work with the study for the short piece in fact you want to break away anyway you want to stagger your joint made depending how long the wall is but uh... the advantage of doing this is like i said anything you want to secure that wall not going to be a problem coming through that wall isn't going to happen now on top of that there's brickwork on the outside and by the way on the inside i do the same thing to buy for the inner wall kind of like a log cabin but between the same is true with anything else you want to build like that why not i mean guys think you know grossly over-engineered yep it is And yes, all of that will help to slow down or stop bullets depending on what you have in between the walls too. Guess what? So there's all kinds of other stuff that you can do, but between the brick outer layer or stone and then the two by and then a stud and then of course your inner panel. Guess what? You got a lot of junk there that somebody's got to go through and if you go a little farther with a steel panel like a quarter panel on the like a wainscoting, a little taller actually, five foot would be best. When the time comes, you can reinforce a sandbag or whatever, and most anything that would have been a threat coming through is not going to get through. So there's all kinds of tricks of the trade here, stuff we can do to make it. But the big thing is cost. Minimize the cost. That way you can afford it to do it. And when it's all free, yes, you can afford to take some time, and you can afford to actually accomplish the task, which is the big thing. If you're looking at property, especially with the solution we're talking about, this is the kind of stuff you need to be constantly hawking and looking for. That should be your priority. A very high priority because you need to swoop in there, get what you need, and get on down the road. Oh, yeah, as a matter of fact, I mentioned bricks. Anything rocks, stone, brick, I don't care what it is. We have a source for lentils that are the size of railroad ties. You know, you're going to be doing brickwork. Explain to somebody there what a lentil is. What's cool is when they build these, a lot of these cement companies, they make water rejects. Something happened, something wasn't right. They didn't like the mix. For doing cross beams or for doing forward revetted defense networks, there's all kinds of cool stuff that you can do with these things. One of our neighbors actually used it to be the foundation, like a mobile foundation for his chicken coops. Him and his brother moved these things, they're beasts, Beastie Boys are not light. But they came in, set their foundation up that way, actually buried down on the ground, took the last row, made sure it was above ground. by the way that they laid it out level everything and uh... when they were done that they put the frame on that okay what those for a pretty stable it but milk supposedly temporary buildings with his impact in michigan the same way all kinds of neat things you can do everything like i do it i don't have money guys purely about you being creative you got to get motivated and again uh... excuse me uh... one of the other things here too is uh... but mentioned the face book craigslist you got uh... uh... other sites and sources forget that tools and equipment because there's the next thing every social i don't have the tools or let's do again get motivated and start scouring i'd i pick up free tools every weekend i pick up free lighting every week i just got was this weekend i just picked up three hundred dollars worth of uh... uh... basically type of lighting talk mostly over engineered i would bought it didn't know even thought apart what about but turns out about three hundred dollars worth of lighting the gaffer free their chucking up brand new as matter of fact somebody decided they wanted a an iguana and then they decided it won't be a guano but it came along with it all the stuff to maintain it guess what just in a quick on the price but before we're doing the program was like oh no i would have paid that But double armored double insulated fixtures everything you know well waterproofed you know blah blah blah blah blah well that's great for all the other kind of work we're doing if you just pay attention pretty much everything you need is out there for the moment not gonna be like this forever This is coming to an end. It's gonna cut when it comes to an end all of a sudden everybody to be thinking away I'm trying to teach you to think but by the time they do that that we will actually put a knife in your future are still to deal with you got because you know they're important or not this is something we've discussed for a very long time on this program but the way people are so i go to your stupid that's crazy i needed before we hear stupid you're crazy but all the sudden what you know what you're watching mind is mine and what you are should be mine that'll be the way that they're going about it so we need to be but head of the curve on that one too so you don't get caught flat-footed i want to about casualties now or thank you uh... something else i want to mention here real quick you know the door of sportsman's guide thank you uh... thank you to andrew i think paying attention once a type of park passes the public doesn't pass things on all they have over at sportsman's guide check military surplus rain camel and sixty jackets to pack used eighteen dollars okay that's nine dollars a coat these are actually parka length okay they're in the box car or what's called the rain camo we call the box car the germans did to police used to but it's the m sixty jackets again here break this down and go take a look at it there's sportsman's guide they have opted for check surplus rain camo m zero that m sixty jackets comma two-pack used but they're used in excellent condition i have had a bunch of these this is just a little better not a bad camel pattern of real fancy about it when it says box car you'll see if you look at the picture it looked like michael's creations of wood like it's got wood grain uh... nothing fancy but it's a good coat they're very well made the check did not make never made junk evil when they were under communist control our check military surplus rain camels that rain gear that was a a parka rain camo m60 jacket two-pack used and they have a little medium large extra-large and 2x and even as I speak to you I am posting to buy those even as we speak yep they're now in my their The Russian is dying tense of the law. A friend of the could stay in that house, maybe invite, you know, you know, beat your head against the wall. But instead, you can walk away from it and be free and clear, wash your hands, goodbye. That's what we need to be looking at with the system in general. It is not our system. We are enemies in their eyes in every category, so it's not perfect around the line. And separate. Now, they're gonna come down the road after you, which gives people a chance to get rid of them. That's the plan. That's what we're looking at right now. God bless our public death to the new world order. When the Empire is on the run, we are on the march on those days. The hour don't want to get back up on when they try, but that's not a good plan. And take it over more LPR, and I will get out of the way, and we'll be back tomorrow for communication on Tuesday. God bless everybody. Could not believe the designs, couldn't understand why people... had to die. But he did his thing for Nixon. Still blood for a host of reasons. He just came to fame to get by Saturday. The day that I keep my country. The regents to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I'm Machine Gun Randy and it is 907 and it's time to open the Veterans Manual. I'm your host, Machine Gun Randy, of course. If you'd like to call the show tonight and talk with us, the number is 712-4320-900, activation code. 957-464-pound, a star 6 will be muted. Again, those numbers are 712-4320-900. Activation code 957-464-pound, a star 6 will be muted. Again, if you'd like to call in tonight, that number is 712-4320-900. Activation code is a must. 957-464-POUND. A star six will demute you. Well, we're coming in to the end of January coming up here. We've got a new president. And so far, I've found nothing out about him any more than anybody else. But what I've known from him in the past is, I believe, he's very conservative maybe, and set in his ways. And his ways for veterans have been 80% maybe. But, um, uh, wait, are you talking about Joe Biden? Yeah. Uh, I wouldn't say 80% in favor of the veterans more like 80% in favor of cutting your benefits. Uh, that's been a recent change around since the end of the Obama administration. And he is as a point for going for office. But if you take a look at his record for veterans, it has not been good. Yeah. He's not a veteran himself. I don't believe but He's looking to change because he's got another four years coming up. He's got to look at and He knows Veterans are a good way to get up there as Most presidents have found out they are presidents that have been very un-veteran kind and Joe Biden voted in with them. So I'm not looking much from Biden on much of anything because one thing for sure, he's going to have a mixed party to work with. And right now to get the impeachment out there, they need to get 17 Republican votes and they just might do that. But why waste? time and energy on something that was yesterday. You know, Trump impeach him. Is that going to jam him? He might have to pay some fines, but he's used to that. You know, he's paid a lot of fines in his time and he's got a lot of money to pay fines. So I don't think he has much to worry about that. I don't see him. Putting him in jail, you know, and after all He could have put Hillary in jail, but he didn't perceive it. So we'll we'll see what goes on from here I haven't heard much of any big battles going on over in Afghanistan a lot of Small squabbles here and there but for a lot of our focus has been on what's been going on in the US, you know And as far as Joe Biden, you know, how he treats the veterans, look at how he's treated the National Guard troops there in Washington, D.C. Yes, they put them in a garage. That was uncalled for. There's plenty of places they could have put them. They took their magazines away too because they didn't trust them. vetting the troops on top of... Do you think the military vets people? You know, I mean, do you hold a position of authority if you can't be trusted? No, you shouldn't be. On top of that, they vetted the National Guard troops that were there as well. And he's talking about extending The Iraq deployment even though he ran on you know ending forever wars, but the landscape Iraq and looking at getting us into Syria and Iran woohoo So more of the same it seems Oh man, they're Always changing their minds once they get in office Mm-hmm and Now they can they can blame it on the other people the Democrats Well, remember he was in favor of that word to begin with Mm-hmm. You know, he can claim he claims that he Didn't didn't vote about it, but his record speaks differently, you know, so joy Well, they voted for him so I was thinking about the veterans today that are up there in age a bit. I was talking to one the other day and he had never been to the VA at all. And I asked him why. And he said when he came home from Vietnam and went and checked in at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, There in Detroit, he didn't like the way he was treated. He didn't like the way he was received when he came home. And he just went in and hid. He got him a job and he told none of his people that he was a Vietnam or a veteran at all. When it came to it on the application, he of course put down that he was a veteran and he was in the Army. But other than that, he said as little as possible, especially if you got to talk at all with him because he'd clear him right up. But I finally asked him what his problem was with everything. everything with what could help him. He was a kent, you know, he didn't want the VA. He wouldn't talk to people from the Amvets wanting him to come and join the Amvets. And while he was in for months, he just decided that he was going to shut out altogether. Well, I I talked him into smoking some marijuana and at first he thought everything was funny. You know, he said, just like it was in Vietnam, it was funny when you first smoked it. And he says, tomorrow it'll be different, it won't be the same. And he was right. But that little urge there got him now to where he is He's good with himself, you know, he's done some things that were terrible and they're gonna haunt him for the rest of his life and He can Get with that now it don't bother him as much as it did. It always will bother you you know, uh, bad things happening more and people get in the way and more as happened with me. I was shooting H&I rounds, or rats and intimidation rounds. And you shoot three rounds out on your watch, on radio watch. And while you're shooting them off, they go off in places that could be traveled that night by the North Vietnamese Army or the Viet Cong, but you know there's no ambushes out there. You've already checked that all out. Well, I got out that night and I punched out three rounds. Went back in and finished my job and went in and went to bed. Next morning we're sitting out around back of the sandbag huts we had. We were standing around and getting ready for the day, passing doobies around. Well, the first item called me over and asked me if I fired rounds at 3.45. Yeah, that was 15 minutes before I got off at 4 o'clock. And he said, well, you got a dozen K's and a minus sign. And I thought, well, okay, because with that comes a three-day pass. And I went and sat back and was talking to the other guys about it, told them, you know, what had happened. And they congratulated me and wondered who I would pick because you pick somebody to go with you and you don't go alone when you go on pass. And I picked McCullough and I always got him on. I did with everybody else. I could have put my names in the hat and all that, but I just picked McCullough right away. And first sergeant comes back, he let me know, but the code was my son, was baby son. He asked me if I had the numbers for the, um, for the, um, molars of that night. And, um, I said, well, I threw them in the trash. When I was done, he said, well, go get them. You're going to need them. And, uh, I ran and got them. And, um, my numbers were right. Everything was right from battalion. But battalion was wrong. They was, uh, And them three rounds, all of them went inside the same hooch. It wasn't nothing, nobody could live through all that, and they wasn't. So that's what I got to live with for the short time that I got left going on. But I've carried that with me from that night on, or that morning on. And I really didn't get any relief from it until I started. smoking that new medical marijuana. And that's what it is. It's medical. It wasn't the Mexican that we just used to smoking. But it opened my eyes and forgave myself for what I had done, which was nothing or I did a horrible thing. I didn't know that I was going by the numbers given to me and I've been shooting them now for nine months and all of a sudden I get one number wrong. A nine was supposed to be zero. Ten. But, put the nine out there. And that gave the mortar shell the extra poop it needed to get into the village. If it would have been zero, it wouldn't have been. It's fire. But that was it. I've got my deep ones, deeper than that, that I don't talk about. And I don't think I'm going to start talking about them tonight. But if you do have something like that and you can't, find relief with Thorazine and other medications if you've tried. You can try what thousands of veterans have tried since they got home from Vietnam, whether it be 66 or 73. If they continue to use marijuana, things don't seem to bother them as much as people that don't use it. If you're not using it because you're afraid that you won't get your medications from the VA. Well, what happened from this show is if you are in a state that sells marijuana illegally or medically, you show your card if it's medical and they'll put it on file and you will never be bothered with about marijuana. Same if it's recreational if it's recreational you don't even need it tired You just gotta tell them hey, I smoked marijuana. It's legal then the veterans hospitals They're ran by the state the hosting state laws and this marijuana is legal recreational And you're going to see a lot of that start to show up positive for cannabis because they will be. Because now the Department of Defense got a whole VA and told them if you have a patient in your facility, in your medical facility that has a doctor outside and that doctor has given him a prescription that the VA can't You cannot take their medications away no more. You've got to respect the other doctors' medications. And that's what happens. So now, if you live in Michigan or marijuana-friendly state like Washington, D.C., even though it's not a state, it's the District of Columbia, And hey, if they had Columbia out there, they would be selling it there because it's recreation legal. And they tell you that, well, you can't because, you know, it's on a list and that list, it's a list of drugs that have no, has no medical use. Well, marijuana does. and it's been blackness long enough, it's time to let it go and give it up because it's legal in a lot of places and it's medically legal in more places. So I know Trump said that if you have a condition that can't be treatable, then you have the right to other medications, alternative medications. Marijuana would be one. It has medical value, but they haven't taken it off of the schedule list at the time. It's number one with heroin and all the other illegal street drugs that we used to get in the 70s and probably still do today if they want to. But it's that time for rock and tear money. And then we'll get on with other things. marijuana do you wanna more than I'd like to smoke a cigarette I can tell you that because marijuana won't hurt you like cigarettes will cigarettes will kill you and they'll make life a living hell for you until you are gone and I don't know our government go right on selling them to you and You keep on buying them. Maybe you don't want it to come to an end. Well, it will come to an end. It keeps going the way you're going because it'll take you right to the end in one of the worst ways that you can imagine. You know, you don't get cancer. No, no, no. You get that cancer and in Sam's case, she carried it for five years. What takes me off about the whole thing, she could, and they had her cancer 3, cancer 3, 3 times, smoked and she was addicted to it. She told me that smoking cigarettes was harder than using heroin. She called them her cancer 6. Often they were. She knew it. She knew because, stop. She tried to have the seaside spray. Decetitize, but what it comes down to if you don't want the quid you're not going to. We think smoking, listening. We walk right in the store by him. He's telling to us no high fees is quieted. They weren't addicted. They were flavorful. They were standing and they were mild. But in the end... You start to where you taste the chemicals that were in them. You know, cigarettes have thousands of chemicals that they throw at them. Some people knows not what they're throwing in. They're just giving it to them. That's what they're paid to do. And in the long run, they kill. That's when I say that, you know, everybody knows that tobacco kills. So when you grow the devil's leaf, you're amongst the many serial killers that are out there. Excuse me. You're amongst all the serial killers that are out there in the tobacco company because everybody that works for them from the growers, factories, to the upper Eshuman, the big moes, and down to the people that sell them in the convenience stores, the gas stations, and supermarkets and drug stores. They're sold everywhere. It's money. And of course, they send in their lobbyists to keep cigarettes goin'. Once I got a going they don't want to stop there. It's a it's a multi-billion dollar a year Killing license they have a license to kill and they use it they buy it from our government Permits they call them but Don't let nobody fool you just because the government says that it's okay to sell them It don't mean that it's safe It don't mean And it will kill you in 40 years in one of the slowest and most painful deaths that you go through and it brings your family into it too. This ain't just you going to the hospital and dying. Cancer is not like that. In fact, it's less time in the hospital now. They have hospice that comes out and pay plus the first. the first arrivals. They come in. When I fought my war in Vietnam, I used the 50 caliber machine gun. When they came in to help Pam, they came in with their typewriter, their computer, their laptop. That's what they had to battle it with, and their mask and gloves. And they only came around a few times, and I could see that it was botherin' Pam more. So I had the nurse come in that would be there three times a week. And other than that, I took care of her because of the COVID. They ran her out of the hospital. And I took four nurses and a physical therapist 45 minutes to get her into the van. Every time she moved, she was hurting. He had a broken pelvis, took cancer throughout her body. And I told the nurse, I just wanted to take her back into the emergency room. And she says, they'll send her back up to her room. You don't want that. And I says, why not? She says, well, they got that new COVID thing that just came out today. And it's killing people by a thousand. We have to clean the hospital out because we get patients coming in with it. They don't want it spreading and you don't want her and I said, you know, the COVID or the cancer is going to kill her. And I think she should be in the hospital. She says, well, if she's in the hospital, she'll be there by herself. Nobody will be able to see her. So I went along with bringing her home. and she got to her hospital bed there by the window where we had her bird feeders and there she stayed until April 30th, 6.45 a.m. and it wasn't easy taking care of her. We had 50 years together, most of them 24 hours a day. We were fortunate and working with her. knowing it was all gonna come to an end, all because of the dam, the backhoe. She finally quit him, and she would still reach for the ashtray. Just like him then when he was trying to quit drinking, he'd be talking, and he'd reach down to where his court usually was. And it was too late. He didn't try anything. You search and you work and you try, but it all comes to an end. But when you gotta bring the family into it, it's not very pleasant. We had our 50th wedding anniversary, it wasn't 5048. And I called down, now we never celebrated our anniversary. other than between Pam and I. But I called Stacy and told her to get the family to come up Saturday. That was our anniversary, March 11th. And they had a banquet to go to. And I said, damn the banquet. You get everybody up here Saturday. It's our anniversary. And we're going to celebrate it. Don't bring no gifts or anything. Just get your mess and pretty cards. That's what she wants more than anything. Pam was a card baby. So I called friends of hers from the past and they all started coming in to see Pam. And at first she thought it was pretty cool and she never put it together until the family started showing up and they all came in. sang Happy Anniversary to her. Nobody should have came, it's only our anniversary. And everybody laughed and we had a good time than just before, maybe three days before her end. I went on the internet and I found a saxophone player that would come and play for Pam. Her father was a big band player. He played with the Goodman band and he played with the, what was it, the brothers. Their plane was bombed by the Brits coming across the English Channel. They had to get rid of bombs and they blew up their plane. Well, Bob couldn't go because he was a drinker and you had to sign a contract. You wouldn't drink while you was on this tour and you was in this Air Force. And Bob wouldn't sign the contract and they traded him to the Denny Goodman band for their saxophonist and they was all happy with the deal. And Bob came home and the rest is in the history books. But Bob had an addiction and they took his legs first below the knee and then above the knee because nicotine hardened his arteries and they couldn't connect them together. So he lost his legs three years before he died. His brother died the same year from cigarettes and alcohol. And Tim McKee died that year. My brother died that year. My brother's arteries were clogged up. He went to the hospital with pains in his chest. And he went to a reservation, a Chime at reservation, entries and shit, I think. And he passed out and hit the floor and bust his head, saturated his brain with blood, and died three days later. Cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes, and cigarettes. All in one year. And then another year came up. another ramen cigarette. Um, Pam, cigarettes and funny. They all quit smoking days before they died. But they drugged their family through all this. And it got to be numb to me after so many went down. I was devastated. And then I got mad. They killed my wife. They're serial killers. They sell cigarettes that are to a person that is addicted to them. Nobody buys cigarettes that isn't addicted to them, or they shouldn't. When I go to the store and somebody asks me to pick them up some cigarettes, I tell them you can come with me, but I ain't gonna pick them up. So I got unwanted company going to the store to pick up something that I don't like, I don't approve of. And I wish something would happen to the companies that sell all that poison. And it is poison. They take tobacco, which made me harmless, but they add so many chemicals into it. that it's a carrier of poisons from people who know it by impermanence from the government that allows them to do it. But they'll warn hell to keep you from having marijuana. Which, by the way, is a good healer that reduces pain and for a person who's coming to their end It gives him comfort. Robin used it and her doctor took her pain pills away from her. He knew she'd be dead in 30 days, but he took it upon himself to take her off of her pain pills because she tested positive for marijuana. That was before President Trump. That was before there was President Trump. I think, yeah. George W. was in charge at that time saying a doctor didn't have to treat people that used marijuana. So, um, for the last month and a half was with, um, hospice. Again, I have nothing good to say about them. I know when they come in, it's pretty much a death sentence because they're there to give comfort. They cut off food and water supply and just keep them comfortable. You can give them morphine until they die. At the end, Pam was getting morphine every hour on the hour and she let you know when time was and no way for a family member have to go through. I've been through a lot and I've seen a lot. Having to take care of Pam, the pandemic, it was extremely hard and I'll never get over it. I know she tried everything she could. She didn't want to end and they were taking her in by ambulance or chemotherapy. And they said that I had to bring her home. And I said, well, he can't ride in our van home. It's not equipped to take her home. She has to be laying down. And they said for me to have an ambulance bring her home, it would cost $1,500. I went to dessert. I called the White House. gave them my story. I called the governor, Whitmar, here in Michigan. I called her office and told them all about it. And when it came down to it, they said they could see what they could do. And you know, by me making them phone calls, the ambulance brought her home at no charge. But when things look rough, Don't, um, when things look rough, don't stop. Call your congressman. Call his upper echelon. I called the White House. I called the congressman. I called the senator. I called the governor's office. And it paid off. She made her initial visit to her doctor. And, um, They was gonna bring her back and start her chemotherapy, but she was too weak. She wasn't going to, wasn't gonna make it. She knew it. I knew it. And we went home. And two days later, the saxophone player came in and he was out on the deck. It was blowing snow. It was April 30th. It was cold, windy. He came from Lansing. and he started checking his saxophone out, pulling the keys to it. And Sam sat up and asked Samantha, is that my dad? Sam looked better and he told her that he was... not able to come in because of the virus, but he loved you and he's gonna play his sass and go and he did and Pam went down taking her dad came back from saying for her Your dad I say our father who I have a hollow be thy name my kingdom come by where we done on earth as it is in heaven Give us this a baby bread and forgiveness for our trespasses as we forgive those who cut facts against us deliver us from evil to die like the power to go and kill them forever and ever Amen I'm wishing them that. and a place in time you don't forget. So we even know it.