You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny, not to hunt, to protect yourself from the police. Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead. Anybody that wants to make me unarmed and helpless, people that want to literally create the proven places where more innocents are killed called gun-free zones, we're going to beat you. We're going to vote you out of office or suck on my machine gun. Dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in 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've 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 of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home 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've taken some numbers and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for what you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, 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 to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each god-given right, we only watch him 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, dill the land of the free? The home that you just heard was by Phalen Polk. a Vietnam veteran, wrote the poem at the end of his tour along with many, many other patriot works back in the 60s and brought it back with him over here to the US and the rest is history, so to speak. And a lot of people got copies of his works. And a 27-year-old Arizona highway patrolman spent his own money, and that's the voice you hear. And he went into his studio and he read the poem, sent it to us when we had our office in Pontiac, Michigan. And everybody in the building just went quiet listening to it. From that point forward we decided that that was going to be, and from this point, you know, from that point forward, the intro for every hour of the intelligence report. And so we want to say thank you to Thelin Paulk and thank you to our friend who, of course, long in service. sent us this copy specifically for our use and it's been the moniker, the benchmark for Liberty Tree Radio and for specifically the Intelligence Report for decades. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Kortke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, southwest, east, north, and south. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, Liberty Tree Radio on satellite, and we are on AM&FM microstations, AM&FM conventional stations, CB Bay stations, and UltraNet Hallmark, and Golden Spike Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good evening to all of our friends out there in lower 49 including the great state of Jefferson along with colonists the outline two states and territories and the clock. It is 709 p.m. over, give me, 809 p.m. Eastern Standard Time is the 13th year of open and in your face Fabian socialist and more importantly Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2021 old earth calendar 2021 battle for the Republic dance of swords want to follow up on something I Got a simplified sometimes one thing leads to another leads to another lease another one We're talking about things, but they're related and it gets you off into another track, but I Let's go back to a basic here. Weapons maintenance for the thinking man is going to be constant. Why? The machine that you're carrying, pistol, rifle, shotgun, is what's keeping you alive and is your reason for being on the battlefield. If you are a fighter, then it is the tool that must work. It doesn't mean it can't. It doesn't mean your weapon can't handle being dirty. but you don't press the envelope by making and believing that you should keep it dirty so that you're gonna find out at a critical point when it's going to malfunction. So the basic rule across the board is we still do PM, preventive maintenance. Why do all these other mechanical disasters and catastrophes take place with interactive parts all over the place? Planes crashing, cars failing, windmills not working right, okay, wind generators, take your pick, whatever it is. PM failure, preventive maintenance failure. One of the first things the bean counters do and lazy people is stop doing preventive maintenance. And it's so simple, it's ridiculous. Pistols are a very, very, or automatics are a very, very, rifles are a very, very, shotguns are a very, very simple mechanical system. However, they integrate mechanical and violent chemical reaction into a single system and because these are dissimilar environmental conditions we have third and fourth level effects that take place that we need to deal with to ensure that the first purpose of the weapon, in other words, spewing something downrange, impacting with organic material, taking big chunks and holes out of that, and hopefully putting it down. We want to keep doing that. We want to do it before the other side carrying the same kind of device does it to us. The first rule is preventing maintenance or ongoing maintenance of your weapon, no matter what it is. Now, to reinforce what I said there, think about it this way. You've got, when you jump off, don't you want to be the freshest, the brightest, the squared away, everything 100 percent? Well, why would you want to take a weapon that has been carboned up or dirtied up into battle when you've had sufficient time? I mean, what were you doing? Did you have a special appointment? Was there a restaurant? Did you have to go see the Secretary of State or something like that in the middle of a battlefield situation or for that matter peacetime where you didn't have time to embrace your firearm? Understand it's working components better and in the process do maintenance to your weapon? Was there something I missed? See, this is something that we need to understand is what is the purpose behind a firearm? It is to perforate things repeatedly. nauseous repetition, guaranteed that as long as you maintain it and do it right, it will continue to do so. It is something to be respected. Now that respect works both with, which is instilled by fear while looking at the end result with firearms too, but the other half is respected because it is a phenomenally engineered piece of equipment that was brought to such a level of perfection that it works every time the way it's supposed to. provided it's used within what should be its normal operating parameters. Now I said before some weapons are different mothers. The AK was meant for Hugo the Barbarian, the potato digger. Okay? And you give him a rifle and Hugo can pretty well make it run no matter what. It could be chao chiu bing, it could be alufa lhamad, it could be Abu of Maganga. It doesn't matter where you go, the AK, even it's with a patima of rust and worn parts, pretty well functions every time you pull the trigger, and for a lot of rounds, up to a million rounds to be quite honest. In fact, they were so embarrassed by how effectively they built the weapons there for a while because they could put so many rounds to the gun that they started changing out certain parts so that they wouldn't run so long. And by the way, that's not the only gun they did that with. The FN FAL had the same thing happen to it as a marketed gun. Originally, with the very, very high quality and specific built barrels for the F.N.F.A.L., 100,000 rounds was not unheard of with the original family of rifles that were made by Fabriac Nationale du Armisticeux. But you know what they realized, if they made the barrels last that long, it's kind of like making tires that could last forever. How long do your tire plants stay in business when you, you know, everybody's running the same pair of tires for 100,000 miles? Okay, well the same is true with your barrels and especially with the Runner Revolution industry. They want to sell more barrels, they want to sell more gun parts. Plus, if you look at it from the psycho-babble power freak thing, you don't want to give a weapon to somebody they can keep using against you if you're selling it to them for generations. Because in reality, nobody's probably going to shoot a million rounds through a rifle or a hundred thousand rounds through a rifle. But if it is, it's going to be because the gun is passed on from one operator to the next, to the next, to the next, to the next. So, part of the secret weapons for silent wars formula dictates that you make weapons wearable or they have parts that are very susceptible to wear. And this ensures that you keep a short leash on the supply chain. Now, you can eliminate part of that or at least extend it. And you got to remember that the enemy, first of all, expects you to be Hugo of Warsaw. You're gonna shoot the weapon until it doesn't work right, not ask why it doesn't work right, and then sell it cheap or get rid of it because we're put on the shelf. Because that darn fill-in-the-blank doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Well, did you know how to do maintenance on it? Do you know how many .22 caliber rimfire, some automatic rifles I got for free or almost free? Because somebody would shoot them to the point where they were just absolutely coated in carbon. You want to know why they didn't think there was anything wrong with the gun? Well, .22s are a good example of where they use the cheapest powder, cheapest bullet, simple brass for the case, rim fire, so it's the cheapest possible system for activation. And when you fire a lot of them, that carbon I told you about, the tour block, that builds up on the gun so uniformly it looks like it's a natural finish on the inside. Seriously, I've bought Ruger 1022s. I've even asked a person. I used to do that a lot. I don't really say so much anymore. You know, I just want to get rid of it. Well, how much you want for it? Give me $15. Are you sure? You sure it's $15? Yeah, I'm tired of it. It doesn't work right. Okay, so you give them the $15. You go home. You break out the WD-40 or you break out whatever solvent you got. And after you take the weapon out of the stock and you take and break down all the parts and you find that your hands are black and your fingertips are dirty and lo and behold when you touch that, yeah those parts are all carbonized. And as soon as you scrub them off of that plastic toothbrush and you clean everything the way it's supposed to and you clean out the, you know, for instance the extractor groove. You clean out the especially most important is the firing pin channel. I've told you about this before. And you put it all back together and it goes, wow, 10 rounds just that fast. Why? Oh, because somebody finally treated the gun the way it's supposed to be treated. Now, carbine's in the same way and a lot of other weapons we have the same problem with. People know if I wipe the gun down and I clean the bore out, that should be it. Many car beans I picked up for $65, $75, whatever, because somebody said it just didn't work and it's like, well, did you clean it? And they get insulted. I gotta clean my gun. Blah, blah, blah. Oh, well, my problem. I'll tell you what, here's your $65. Go home, take the weapon out of the stocks, look at the little cap at piston and it's gray. Black and gray. And it doesn't slide generously back and forth with ease through that little channel. Instead, it's just locked in there like it was almost soldered into place. What is it? Carbon buildup, especially with the M1 carbine. The M16 had the same problem with the gasket area, and especially with the earlier ammo, which is why a lot of men got killed holding the M16 E1s in their hands to their dying breath. While it was malfunctioning, it was malfunctioning and they were trying to clear the malfunction. Okay, but once you know what's wrong, what can happen, and what can go wrong, you focus and maintain the weapon to prevent that from happening. Once you understand a problem. Now, when people grew up with the M1 carbine, got to remember, it started out World War II, everybody that operated the weapon in the field knew what to look for and was trained how to actually use the weapon. But the civilian population, many of whom did not use the carbine but got it because it was a cheap weapon, didn't know the first about both most basic maintenance procedures. Now if they were smart, they'd go to the manual. But why do that? Or for that matter, why not check out some of the old VHS or, hell, even had reel-to-reel tapes, you know, videos on movies on how to do maintenance on weapons like that, including the M1 carbine, M1 grand, whatever. Well, why bother with that, right? So here's the thing. You're looking at this weapon providing you with safety. It is a fine machine, as I've said several times this evening. Every weapon you've got, it took a certain amount of, obviously, expertise from the part of the brain that thawed it up, the engineers that executed the process, the R&D people that tweaked the system so that when you pull the trigger, it does the same thing over and over again every time. Why do you want to abuse that? There's no reason to. Okay, now my weapon will take a lot of abuse. I cannot emphasize that enough. The more martial the arm, the more likely it is going to take abuse. The, you know, military rifles were designed to be taken into very bad environments and were tested based upon that idea. Doesn't mean the other guns don't work, but in each case, remember, you have to know to a degree what the limits of each of these weapon systems are, obviously. and also the maintenance requirements to maintain the serviceability of the firearm to its greatest potential. When I was talking about clock during the two-hour block here, I was talking about the idea that if you keep the weapon cleaned or properly maintained, you're at the zero point when you start using it. Whereas if you let, you know, I've shot AKs for failure purposes. We want to see how long would it take to really get it to stop. You know what's funny? We couldn't get an AK to do that. That's a fact. Okay, I've run thousands and thousands of rounds through certain AKs that we just want to seek and we abuse this beast. Hell, those little cheapie Chinese AKs that were coming through, they weren't the most sophisticated AKs built. But because ammunition was three and four cents a round, you could afford to take two or three tens and just race it like a singer sewing machine. And you know, you might get the thing catch on fire, but you wouldn't necessarily get it to stop, which is a testimony to the many intricate working parts of that particular weapon system. Okay? But I wouldn't do that if I could avoid it. Now, this comes down to, again, keeping your weapon at its best possible condition, because you don't know when you're going to go to war. And you don't want to be on the high end of a maintenance problem when something kicks in. And I would say this is true of almost everything that we're dealing with, vehicles, aircraft, any weapons systems, mechanical systems of any kind. I know that it requires more effort, but it is something that needs to be done because what you got is all you've got when this kicks in. And again, if you're looking at, let's say, you're not going into, I'm just going to use this as a random number. Let's say I have a Schmidlap rifle. The Schmidlott rifle, I know after about 2,000 rounds the carbon builds up in the gas cap or the gas system or the gas bleed off to the point where it starts to create adhesion. Now I don't want to wait, I don't want to go to the range, shoot 600, 700 rounds and bring my tickle meter down to 1,200 rounds of potential before I start to see problems. Now I bring this up for a reason because I mentioned the carbine earlier and everybody knew that no matter what, if you got into any kind of action with a carbine, policy was to whenever you got the opportunity to do a basic cleanup of the gun, including if you could, very quickly pulling the action from the stock, and cleaning up that tap it system whenever possible even if it was just to put a passing oil cloth over the whole thing and just wipe it down, finger wipe it down as quick as you could. Now we're not talking oil dripping, we're talking like having an oil cloth is. Just enough lubricant that it's locked into the cloth so you can quick wipe everything down, put it back into the system and back into the stock and get it back in service. If you had any time to break down, you know, to stop, you have time to break down the weapon perhaps, and you do that. At the very least, something I mentioned about the movie, The Big Red One. Big Red One was commented on by veterans because they actually asked veterans to, you know, be the coaches for operations. Not only that, but a lot of the people who were in Hollywood back in the day when the Big Red One was done were World War II and Korean War vets. So they actually knew what to do, how to do it, because they'd done it. And you'll notice that you see the guys when they stop. They're not just standing around there with their thumb up their ass having dialogue. Instead, they're standing there and while they're looking around and paying attention to their environment, one guy reaching in his pocket pulls out a shaving brush and he's dusting off the top of the action of the rifle. He's dusting off the bolt area. He's doing a quick wipe down on the gun. And when he's done, he's putting it right back in his pocket, checking the weapon real quick, and he's paying attention to his environment. He looks down at the weapon as needed to observe it, but he's paying attention to what's going on. Why? He's in a lethal battlefield condition. He didn't have any special distraction. In other words, as part of the life process to stay alive on the battlefield, the thing that you count on has to work first time every time and preferably better than the guy who's trying to shoot you with his thing that's supposed to do the same job your thing does. So we need to be on top of this curve. In fact, we got the thinkers, they got the stinkers. Another thing, and I pointed this out, it didn't catch on because a lot of people started laughing about it right away. I hope they did. I did. Is, you know, I'm going to drop my gun. And it was much younger kids, probably desert dust too, you know, adventurers, in which everybody's got their war. But you don't go out of your way to drop your very sophisticated piece of equipment on the ground, period. Doesn't mean it doesn't have the abuse capability. I told you before, military arms, better ones anyway. Actually, they are beefed up and are designed to be put into an environment where they are going to get beat on. They do get dropped. They do get stepped on. They get dropped from the acid of a truck. They get thrown in the back seat and get dropped on them. They shouldn't be on them. The idea behind this is that they are girthed up a bit to make sure that that can happen and that the weapon continues to operate. But we do not go out of our way to take our very precise, our precision piece of equipment and see if we can bugger it up. Now, there are other reasons, needless to say, we may have to go with a lesser solution, and this is especially true with all of you right now, because a year ago, two years ago, five years ago, even with all the pluses and minuses and availability, we could pretty well cherry-pick what you wanted and get the, you know, the premium of whatever on a weapon system in a pretty short period of time. Well, not everything from ammunition to optics to barrels to upper receivers, lower receivers, you name it, everything is in a very different supply status because of interest. So yes, you are going to have to make do with that less sophisticated piece of equipment. It basically does the same thing. Well, this is why in general you have a policy of proper control and maintenance of the weapon. the military when I was sent as I pointed out if you dropped a firearm you wouldn't just have one NCO or officer on your ass you would have a whole bunch of people on your ass. The idea was that you were thinking human being. You are a war machine. You are supposed to be competent. You're not supposed to be cluster screwing around. And we're not going to be poking people in the butt with a loaded weapon. We're not going to fiddle fart around with or play with the arms. We are very serious about the control of our weapon. We do not let that weapon leave our person. How many of you had that happen? You probably don't want to admit it. But remember, if you left a rifle laying next to a tree and you stepped 6 feet or 10 feet away, somebody probably would snag it. And it was either going to be one of the officers or NCOs or whatever that were going to snag it and wait to see how long you'd asked where it was. Now, this gets down to something else we've talked about many times. It has to do with philosophy with regard to sling, no sling. I know the big thing are multi-point slings. We don't need to get into that. Don't even debate it. If it works for you, it works for you. But cyclically, and depending upon the unit that you're with, the idea of even having a sling was considered to be a non-issue. You weren't going to have one. You're not going to carry, you're not going to, in fact, even tape up the sling rings so that there's no way you could introduce one. Your weapon should constantly be in your hand or be under your control and in your person. And there's no reason for it to be away from your person. In fact, by setting this system up, the idea behind it was that it was always touching your body. It was always literally within, like Don used to say, Don Betcher used to say, as if it sprung to your hand, as if it would spring to your hand. That's how it should be. I was taught, in fact, if you go to sleep, even if you're just in the rest, the weapon is under your control and touching another part of your body so that somebody has to physically move you to move it. That's a way of even in sleep having control of your weapon. I was pointing out, what, about four months ago now, it's not seen that long, but it has been, four or five months ago, some picture from Afghanistan. And here's this command post. And they've got a rifle rack outside to the side of the sandbags, which are the outer perimeter bags for the base of the observation post, CP, whatever it is. What the hell are those rifles doing 10, 15, 20 feet away from the operator? Who the hell got that stupid idea? Now if it were extra weapons in Iraq or something, I still wouldn't mount them like that. But it's obvious that, oh, we're going to keep the weapons away from this area, even though it has a fighting bridge, it has a fighting ledge all the way around the outside, overhead cover against mortar and light artillery, etc., etc., etc. But you may run across this picture again. I was also watching another video a couple days ago, the same image, it was in the same location. 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And I know a lot of you are listening on other methods and technologies, two numerous to mention, because we don't really have control over that. Some of the ways you're listening, that's purely a gift from somebody in the industry, and we appreciate that. So I want to say thank you again to those unsung heroes. That's all we need to say. Last but not least here real quick on maintenance is another thing that was brought up is choice of materials. There's a wide range of technology out there, wet loops, dry loops, POL types, synthetics, you name it, graphite. All of them work, but the most important thing is more is not necessarily better. Let's remember this. When it says, you know, a light coat or a very light coat, we'll do a little research if you're not sure what that means. But understand that we don't want to saturate the weapon. There are a couple of different reasons. Now, for storage, we might. You can actually go a heavier coat of, you know, lubrication over the whole weapon. If you're not going to be using it, it's going to be sitting on the rack for a period of time. That is something that's acceptable, but also means that you have to do a quick overview. You have to do an over fix to clean everything off. Make sure that it's not excessive. All you use is typically a dry cotton rag, and the excess is going to come off with that. That's enough to also work it inside a little bit. The big thing is make magazines. Now, many of your magazines are polymer, so you don't worry about it much. But I would point this out, that spring is made out of steel. And while you may have stainless steel, and again that varies as far as what kind of stainless, the big thing here is also doing maintenance on the magazines. But again, because as we spoke about before, the proximity to your ammunition, very light coat if anything. We're talking just literally enough to put some material on the spring so that it's not oxidizing. You're creating what is basically a moisture barrier. You're letting enough of the lubricant, whatever it is, and in this case you don't want a really fine high lube. You can use a conventional weapons oil at a very, very, very, very tiny amount and put it on a Q-tip and paint it, so to speak, very, very lightly across the spring, one bar at a time all the way down to the bottom. You can also use a rag, do the same thing. Most important is also to clean out the inside of those magazines even if you don't lubricate or do anything because it's a gravity sucks issue. Let me point something out. The F and F AL, a lot of people like that gun. Well the magazine well is considered part of the evacuation channel for dirt and debris which means what's usually in the magazine well? Oh, that's right, the magazine. So, whatever sand, dirt, and debris should be dropping down around the sides of or working down through the trigger slot, etc. But remember, the magazine is there too. And while most of the stuff hopefully is going to gravity sucks work to the bottom of the magazine, this is not always the case. And remember that this can cause other issues with the magazine in the long run. So like everything else, once you got a little bit of time, before you go play, before you go to rest, before you relax, first of all, if you're in a fighting situation, you top off your mags and you load up your combat gear with pyrotechnics, replacement smoke, whatever it is you need. You do that before you even eat. Okay, I haven't really mentioned that enough, but if you are in a situation where you're at rest in any way, before you load those mags up and before you, you know, again, put that weapon back into the ready station, if you can do any maintenance at all, you do the maintenance. And that way, that weapon is as close to 100% as possible. Maybe it's just a percentage of what needs to be done, but anything that you do is beneficial to the operation of the weapon. cleaning out and dusting out that magazine well. You've got a lot of junk that's come and gone and you've got a lot of junk that's dropped from above and you've got carbon that came in. That magazine well needs to be dusted off. Not a big deal, but it only takes a second. It only takes a few seconds and this is all something where if you're really serious, the idea is that you don't want that weapon to malfunction when you least expect it or in other words when it would be worst possible scenario. Ideally, you don't want to malfunction at all, do you? Well, preventing maintenance is part of that. So I cannot emphasize enough no matter what weapon you have. I mentioned about stainless. I love stainless steel farms. I've already mentioned that. AMT, especially the hardballers, long slide. Yes, just like I'll use, but you know, without the big laser sight. In fact, I don't typically use a laser sight for anything. There are a few rifles I have and pistols that I would say yes, the lasers are there, but it's because they were there when, you know, the weapon was acquired. Beyond that, your first process should be to develop your personal iron sight skills with every weapon you have. Because they don't require batteries and that is the baseline for all of your operations. Once you've perfected that or at least brought yourself up to a base standard, then add the other doodads. add the other technology because at a certain point the batteries are not going to be there. The laser is going to take a thud when you drop the gun or it hits a wall like you see I'm dropping my gun. Well you may not do that by intent but you can certainly do that by horrific accident. If you're lucky it doesn't damage anything. If you're really second lucky would be well it only damaged the laser but the operation of the gun is not affected or whatever it might be even optics. Remember everything should be baseline to the iron sights and the primary weapon itself only without any attachments. Then we move on to the other toys. Another thing with regard to those lubricants, as I mentioned in the 2R block, some lubricants are not equal to others, some are quite efficient. And it doesn't take much to actually get through to everything that's onboarding, including that ammunition you were trying not to cross contaminate. So this is again where you have to pay attention. Some of the lubricants you're using are very efficient, which is why you use them sparingly. Now I will point out again, firing pin, firing pin channel, extractor groove. What's the most common first failure, the extractor? Why? The extractor is made out of carbon steel. It's working on either a spring principle itself with one rebound spring, and it's pivoting on one point, kind of like a seesaw. Teeter-totter, forgive me, yes, seesaw teeter-totter. Anyway, what happens is every time that claw wraps around that extractor groove on the base of that cartridge on the back lip, what's happening is that spring is flexing. Now, if there's no oxidation in that little channel where your little extractor is, then the hole of that extractor pivots and flexes appropriately. If there's oxidation that progressively builds up, and this is true especially with bolt-action rifles, where the extractor may be partially pinned at the base, have a pivot point about one-third of the way from the back of the extractor headed towards the front, what happens is the base locks into place with dirt, gunk, buildup, and oxidation, rust. What then happens is only the front of the extractor, which is the longer two-thirds of the component, if you look on most of the designs, now is only flexing from just past the pivot point, and that is putting excessive stress on the extractor. What will happen? Well, it will break where the excessive stress and repeated flexing that was not part of the original intent of the rifle's design takes place. I've seen it a million times. I've seen it in every kind of firearm you can imagine, including the AR-15. Because of what we were talking about earlier, all I don't need to do any maintenance. Now, fortunately, it probably won't snap. What happens with the AR-15 is, depending on what year your extractor was made, if it's got the rubber BB buggy bumper, that little tiny thing the size of a pencil lead, only about what, a sixteenth of an inch. that has another little spring, another piss-willy spring there. The back of it starts to oxidize because the person never bothered to take it out, plus it was a parkerized part. if it's the original. And what happens is it's abrasive to begin with, so you have a little bit of it. If it hasn't broken in, that's going to wear a little bit. Then you're going to get some moisture on it. Then you didn't do any maintenance and break down your bolt. Because you didn't break down your bolt, the rust starts there. On top of that, what happens is it starts to hammer that poor little piston in there, that little rubber baby buggy bumper. It's not a piston, it's just a little bumper. And in fact, they had such a problem with that particular part, for those of you who already know about the AR-15, what was their solution? They completely eradicated that little rubber baby buggy bumper, and the spring now has rests with a pit that is actually forged, slash, when the part is struck. there's a little kit that the little spring goes on now because that little kit is least likely to compress or distort when excessive pressures are brought forward. So guess what? The original idea, by the way, that was something that Stoner looked at back in 1958 with the AR-10 and had a discussion about is one of the many little tiddly parts that they never really got around to changing but left the way it was because the AR-10 kind of went off over to Holland. and kind of went off into the other world and the M16 family rifle wasn't really being glimmering or looked at right away in favor of other ideas that Stoner had. Then when he did come around with the M16 while they had disgust changing it, that little part I just mentioned, they didn't get around to doing it until what, 30 years later? Now the reason is, here's what's interesting, and there's an example of maintenance problems. You know, if you were in the military and you had the M16A1 or A2, you were told the only part, they were told what part you're going to break down and what parts you don't touch. What parts were you not supposed to touch? Don't take the buttstock off the rifle. Don't take the pistol grip off the rifle. Do not mess with the trigger assembly. Those are all armorer things. Everybody goes, why the hell is the pistol gripping armor thing? Here's why, because they figured not everybody's going to pay attention 99% of the time, and they are right. And every one of those parts I just mentioned have tiny little integrated parts, don't they? A little pin and a little plunger and a spring. Guess what? Each one of them does something. So, their logic was don't let the soldier do any of that maintenance. Don't even think about taking that gun apart. Yes, I know that only takes a screwdriver, but you don't need to run that screwdriver. However, because of that, guess what did happen? Same thing that happened with those other parts like that extractor, those little pins inside an aluminum channel. Now, they don't do that much, but in the extreme moisture, guess what was most likely to oxidize? Now, if any of you have them, you might have, I've got the whole series they were done during the Vietnam War, it's preventive maintenance but also typical malfunctions or major failures of the M16E1, M16A1 rifle. There's also a series on the M60, what to look for, it's troubleshooting. And all of these issues came up with these weapons because of these micro parts. Okay, now provided that somebody does take the you know your Chevy truck in for maintenance You know with the at the garage and it's the GM garage. That's fine But if nobody was doing any maintenance or everybody decided he got paid the same if they did or didn't do maintenance Or my guns made by the army. I don't need to do maintenance on it Kind of like we were just sharing. I don't need to do maintenance of my gun Well, because of that lack of doing what they just were supposed to follow through on as part of a regular maintenance schedule, these little malfunctions built up to significant ones. What's one of the other things that happened with these small tiny channels? They became oxidation blooms. What do I mean by that? Well, first of all, is steel a dissimilar metal to aluminum? Oh, that's right. It is, isn't it? What happens when steel and aluminum if they interact long enough. Do you remember electrolysis? Now what's interesting is they also had this problem with something else that created electrolysis, human flesh. Some of you guys out there, your little oily skin and the amount of battery pack power you have on board is quite toxic to the M16. Sounds weird but it's a fact. In fact, I couldn't believe some of the stuff that came out of the Aberdeen research papers on what humans did just by making contact repeatedly with the M16. Magazine wells, the front, how many of you guys, I used to do it all the time too, holding the M16 rifle, you put the buttstock to the belt of your body, down to your web gear, and you're holding the magazine well. Well, the average person isn't sweating in an 110 degree weather all the time, but in Vietnam they were. And because of the different physiologies, and this has to do with genetic makeup, amazingly enough, some of you guys work like one hell of a battery, oily battery pack. You literally, once he started this, it would literally eat through the aluminum all the way to the inner magazine well. There are many examples, not just one or two. There are many examples of this. Well, unfortunately, the other problem is that your steel parts on that fine aluminum rifle, if they all wore down and they wore enough from use and use and use and use and use, in this case, for instance, the small pinpoints, a combination of lack of maintenance, slight wear and tear, even though it was, it's so minuscule, you would think, well, what difference would it make? Well, when the aluminum and the steel in a high moisture environment with some acid, rice patty juice is probably the best example, which remember is feces. Uh, would that mean that, yeah, if you don't know rice patties, that's why they don't give you smell-o-vision. Rice patties are fertilized. How are they fertilized? Go ask some people about that. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Is it that extreme where we are? Well, we're pretty much temperate for the most part, but we do have in the long term, long run, an obligation to all the proper maintenance so that we don't have this happen to any of the weapons down the line and into the future because we plan on fighting this war for quite some time and keeping the weapons around that we either use ourselves or acquire from our enemy resupply pod. You know, the individual soldier we're going to put a bullet in and drop dead on a doornail. We're then going to strip him bare ass naked. Not only do we need to know how to maintain our weapons, but this is why this is a great opportunity during peacetime here. Get over there to YouTube, watch every stinking video you can on military arms and equipment, especially on maintenance, but anything that has to do with use. Right now there's hundreds of videos on how to operate the Abrams. I suggest you go watch them. You never know when you might find a new weapon system available It'd probably be a real good idea to be familiar with where everything is on the inside of the piece of equipment, right? You can, maybe you're gonna pick up a MAG-58, or its equivalent US Military Marine Corps Army. If you do, do you know how to operate it? Well, guess what? There's plenty of videos out there on how to do that properly. Advantage of them. But by the way, duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh, whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, malfunction! charging handle charging handle charging handle oh come on and mm-hmm oh jam not not do with a D with a J jam malfunction guess what you said you've reached carbon limit now there's a couple of things I would point out that I haven't even mentioned let's not forget you all want to be Johnny jet jock with a trigger with a heavy trigger Well, there's a thing I keep telling you about which is calorie buildup in metal, okay? What can that do for your weapon? Oh, nothing good if you keep working at it. You can wear out barrel bores, you can destroy gas systems. If you're using an open-bolt weapon system, any of your belt-fed machine guns, guess what? This is why you have to have a light trigger finger. You know, I need to know how to fire three to five round bursts, maybe a long burst of 15 to 20 rounds, but no more. And if you do, you have to immediately go back to short bursts or hold that hold on fire for a minute. Why? Well, if you really hose down that target, you do that Rambo with that hundred round belt or that 250 round can before you get to the end, she'll be cooking on her own. You can let the trigger go. Why? What's going to happen is you're going to get supercharging on the receiver group. When this happens, then you have what's called cooking off. That's where the round actually detonates from the heat. You don't even have to slap it with the firing pin. Okay? Problem. What it's also doing is changing the temperature of the metal working parts, including the bolt face. On the M60 and on the MAG-58 along with the saw, if you really just keep hosing rounds down, one belt or just had one big long belt just held the trigger, the weapon will function for a period of time. Quality materials vary. But at some point you're going to supercharge the frontal half bolt face and she is going to start peening on you. You can do this with an M16, but it takes a whole hell of a lot of rounds to do it, but you can do the same thing with the M16. The M16A2 is, of course, select 3-fire round only, so it takes you a lot of trigger pulls to do that. You don't get full auto option. You get 3-round burst. But with the M16A1, in theory, you're going to kneel the gas tube if you fire so many thousand rounds. I mean rapid fire. We're talking full-auto, non-stop, 30-round, 20-round mags, whatever you got. Just keep dumping them in. At some point, you're going to supercharge in front of the bolt. She's going to become malleable. And it will peen and peg right into the chamber face. How do I know that? Because I have seen enough of them. especially on the M60 but also on the MAG-58. Young kids, usually, saw too many movies, just burning the hell out of that belt. They'd be, of course, without a lack of discipline but also lack of an NCO taking charge of that individual to make sure they don't take a primary weapon offline. Well, guess what they did? And the problem is that you may also transfer enough heat that you may destroy other parts of the forward area of the receiver, not just the bolt face and the bolt. In fact, typically what will happen is... The bolt will continue on a runaway to hammer on the working surfaces around the trunnion, around the side rails. It'll actually begin to warp. And in addition to that, at one point, finally, that bolt's going to jam forward, fire the round. The spent round will be locked in the chamber. And that liquid bolt base will literally match the surface area of what's left of the back of the barrel towards the chamber. and they're kind of fused there. They're locked in there. Now, when you work it enough, you'll get that bolt come back and you're going to find out that you've got nothing but a malfunction. You have a malfunctioning weapon that will probably be de-exed. You have to go back to the arsenal. It'll be going back to the arsenal, going back to the higher core for whatever maintenance can be done and they'll probably de-exit and scavenge the parts. Now, that's a fact. So again, this is where you have a working knowledge of the weapon systems you acquire. Ignore most of what you see in the movies. It is designed for failure. Just watch another BS movie clip where lo and behold the guy fires the pistol while that classic like James Bond firing the pistol until he runs out of ammo looking disgustingly at his pistol and throwing it away. Did the enemy know that he was out of ammo? No. So why were they doing that and who was that for? Oh that's conditioning you because you're supposed to... your enemy is a mind reader. How does your enemy know that you're on your last round? If you step out, you aim something at somebody, I guarantee if they're in motion, they are going to try to get the hell out of the line of fire under the assumption that after you've pointed it, they're probably going to hear a pew pew. Okay, so remember, this is what Hollywood does. It's designed to instill failure until, from one side, or logic is your side, as opposed to the real world from the other direction with proper training. problem. They have to overcome what Hollywood has conditioned when they receive all of these individuals into the training circle and try to make a disciplined fighting force out of them. Fear is a big problem with regard to the panty waste fear that's in the population right now about firearms because of the public fool system. I mean, my God, let me give you an example. How many of you watch Sci-Fi? I do. There's a series called 100, anybody watch it? Remember we talked about this in laughter ass off while we were watching all the BS they were generating for these teenagers. Okay, they find, you know, I'm gonna compress it real quick, we only got a minute. World War III took place, all the space stations came together from all the different orbits, created a big space station. It's a colony in space, they've been looking down at Earth, the war has been over for 100 years. So they decided to send 100 kids that are from their little jail system because they're unruly. They sent them down on a landing pod, kind of like lab rats, to see whether or not anybody could survive. Well, when they do get down there, there's a whole plot complication, this and misinterpretation that. And they go and find a civil defense site and they find weapons in barrels of oil, air 15s, of course. And they find cases of ammunition, which are boxes and boxes of ammo, crates of ammo that they didn't know what they were. But now they do. And then there's this one kid that's supposedly this expert and they have these rounds and the rounds are malfunctioning. And how do we know they're malfunctioning? Because they open up an ammo can and they're at this workbench and one of the kids picks one of the rounds up and bumps it, it falls off the table and it explodes! Now we've just been talking about the biggest problem with ammunition. What is it? It's not, it doesn't get... So sensitive it blows up, it becomes so desensitized it won't function. But remember, the idea was to instill fear in the unclean, the unwashed, the ignorant. Through the public fool system and movies like that, that's exactly what you get. Stupidity. Oh my god, if I even drop a cartridge, it'll blow up! Seriously. What do you think they're conditioned? That's what they're doing. So you have all these Nimrods that have misconceptions about virtually every aspect of firearms. Weapons operation is no different, which is something that we need to remind everybody, discipline. Because again, again, cleaning is part of discipline. I always love it when I'm a pro-professional. Well, if you're a pro-professional, then you obviously are a highly motivated and intelligent professional and actually do your job. If you know your job, then maintenance on the weapon is nothing to be disrespectful of. In fact, it should be part of your religion. Care if it's a personal handgun, an artillery piece, or a tank. One way or another, you want to stay alive, your weapon needs to work better than the one the other side's got. The way to do that is to virtually understand it's working inside and out, and to respect it and maintain it so that it will perform for you when the time comes. This is especially critical right now because many of you who are going to be team leaders who are eventually going to be platoon leaders, company commanders, whatever, and you need to make sure that you instill and motivate in your people a true level of intelligent discipline. And that is especially true with regard to respecting and maintaining your arms. You spent money on them. In fact, now you spend three times as much money on them as you would a year ago, right? So, prior, proper planning, prevents, piss, poor performance. Let's get it done and get it done right. And again, ignore the buffoonery that you see in a lot of the movies. And no, we don't throw our guns down when they're empty. Duh. Oh, look, I threw my gun down. I walked 10 more feet. There's two corpses. All the magazines I need, right? Oh, where's my gun? Oh, I threw it down because I saw that a real cool guy throws their empty weapon down when it's empty because you'll just never find anything for... Oh, wait a minute, there's more. Oh, god, there's 20 more. There's a whole truckload of ammo and magazines. Wait a minute. Yeah, see? So just a heads up on that one. We're at the top. We're almost there. For everybody out there, guys, again, support Liberty Tree Radio, WWW.LibertyTreeRadio. dot4mg.com, go to the donate key. You can see your heart to that, we appreciate it. Also, try to find a copy of Smith's Small Arms of the World. Again, there are different issues. All are worthwhile. All are useful. In fact, priceless, covering a lot of the subjects we're talking about right now. Smith's Small Arms of the World. If you find an old ready copy, that's good enough. Cheaper means you can have more books. The important thing is to have more books that don't require batteries. or electricity in any way, shape, or form. Just your ocular collectors. God bless, all of you. Remember, ladies and gentlemen, the Emperor's on the run. We're in a march. We're bringing you out of the way. And we're taking you right out of the way. Could not believe his eyes Understand why people had to die But he did his thing for Nixon Still blood upon the lasers He just can't defend these days to get the nation under God King on Randy the veteran manuals tonight And I come to you through liberty3radio.4mg.com, IndianaFreedomPopRadio.com. And if you'd like to join the conversation tonight, you can do that at 712-4320-900. Activation code is 957-464-POUND-D. A star six will demute you. Again, those numbers are 712-432-0900. The activation code is 957-464-POUND. A star six will activate you. So again, if you want to call in tonight and... During the conversation, you can do that at 712-4320-900. The activation code a must is 957-464-pound. A star 6 will be mute you. Well, hey, I'm coming in on a... a day of running all over the place, getting ready for appointments. Tomorrow I have to go see at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And my daughter Stacy and I are going to be talking to some doctors that are going to let us know what's wrong, what can be done. and how it's going to be done and when it's going to start. I imagine it would be starting probably pretty quick. They're wanting to give me chemotherapy to shrink some tumors in my liver. And I talked to a few people that have had the same problem and they said they hit them with both chemo and radiation, or chemo and got raised. chemotherapy and the other one. Anyways, it'll come to my mind again, you know, that goes with old age, forgetting things. Anyways, yeah, that's going to be an interesting thing there, you know, they're going to sit with doctors before with my wife like that and it's kind of hard to talk to people that are about a thousand times smarter than you are. I mean, you know, they'll rip it up to you about what's going on in that. And then their fabric glasses, when you, like, two doctors walked up to us. Me and my wife was outside waiting for them to bring our car to us in Grand Rapids. And these two doctors come walking up. I could tell they were doctors. And I asked them if they had my car coming. And this one doctor was, and he says, well, I don't have nobody looking for your car, but if you'll wait right here, I'll go get assistance for you. And I'm thinking, man, this guy has got to get out of the surgery room for a minute for him to tell me that he's going to take time out of his $50 million life and run down a parking attendant for me. And I told him, you know, that's okay. I was just doing a prank there, you know, a joke. And he says, oh, well, we don't joke too much in our business. I says, I've noticed, sorry, well, you know more. But that's who we're going to see tomorrow. I'm lucky that Stacy's going with me because She knows the stuff. She works for a chiropractor. She works for a chiropractor and I'm sharing a house with an acupuncturer. How does that come to happen? You know, same thing that... We never even dreamt that we would be around people like this, you know, me staying with an acupunctur. Of course, we got two separate rooms. We're not staying together or nothing. But Stacy, she's working for a guy who has a, he's a chiropractor and his business is on the property that I almost slipped out to my desk when I was 16. working a job that I was supposed to be an 18. And that was strange too, going by there and seeing that and knowing the holes back in there. I don't know if it's still bringing slate out of it or not. Stacy, do you know? If what? Are they still bringing slate out of the quarry there or is it closed down? I think they still have one over there. Well, there's still operation and I was working there in 64 and that's when I slip going down the it's like a ninety degree dip going down about 40 feet and then it goes straight down about 280 feet and I trying to stop. My poles are in the ground, my arms are slate, my knees were in, my elbows, my fingers, and I'm not stopping. All of a sudden, I come to an instant slow, not violent, stop. And I look around to see what did it, and I'm probably 30... to 33 feet away from any vegetation at all. And out of the crack of this wall was a rut smaller than a pencil. And it somehow, Lord knows how, I know how, God pulled that branch over and he put it inside it and it made... a safety D ring. And when I went by it, my pinky and ring finger of my right hand hit him and I stopped right now. My foreman was looking at me, Clifford Street, and had had saucer eyes. He knew I was gone. And I had the yell tool and Cliff throw me down the line. and he threw it down to me and hey, I made it up out of there. And it took a while, many years. I was so excited and scared when it came down to it. I didn't thank the board for what he had just done for me, putting them ripped out there. They didn't just appear. They hadn't been growing all of a sudden. I went by that same area and my hands were right there and all of a sudden I didn't see the roots, all of a sudden I just stopped. And I didn't think to thank the Lord until a few years ago. No, I thank Him every night for that Savior. It's kind of neat to move back home here. It's kind of strange the way I'm living at has happened. declared war on the tobacco companies back when Pam passed away. I ended up moving around thanks-easter, no thanksgiving. I ended up moving down with Holly and her slums and it's a good situation but the tobacco road I'm at war with the tobacco company and now I live probably 70 feet from Newport and Warroad. I find that kind of interesting. But we are going to be at the VA in the morning at 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock to meet with these people. We'll get there about 8.30. We did this trip last week, so now we know what we're doing. Somehow last week I forgot to remember that thing was on the second, and it was a surprise to me. I don't usually make them mistakes, but last week I made that mistake. I went and I wasn't ready to go yet. I had another week to wait. Yeah, we had a good breakfast. We did. Now... The VA is paying all of this bill. Pam, they took care of everything that she had, including a broken leg, a pregnancy, and then three rounds of cancer. And there was never any bill that came to us from anything. That's what happens when you're 100%. disabled veteran, all your medical bills are paid. And it helps when you finally come up to where you're getting 30 and $40,000 treatments of chemotherapy runs and stuff. And that's what I got coming up, I guess. They're going to tell me tomorrow when and how. So if you're out there traveling, and you're at an airport or bus station, train station, and you see a soldier nod your head at him, you know. If you don't have anything good to say, don't say it at all. And if you don't need to say anything other than thank you for your service. That's all they need to hear. They don't need questions. They're coming in from the battlefield. And people should respect that, but there's idiots out there that don't respect this. And by the way, this program is not intended for children. If there's any children in the area, you should usher them out to do something other than listen to me because I am prime time. They school night. They should be nighty night. Yeah, this is not intended for the ears of the children so I forgot what I was talking about right in the middle of the sentence. I thought I had to tell them About children dad about children about about children Oh, yeah, I know that yeah to children not to listen to the show and where I was at Before that, I cannot remember. Oh yeah, when talking about people keeping creeps away from our soldiers that are coming home for leave or just out of the field altogether because they're home from a battle and they don't need the question. I know this from experience. The only question they need is a cab driver wanting to take them home if they're not being picked up. And thank goodness we got the welcome home buddies that meet veterans that are not veterans but soldiers that are coming home for more. And they're a welcome sight because they keep people away from them like that. And you know all you got to do is thank them for their service and let them get home to their loved ones without being harassed. by some idiots and they are out there. You would be surprised at what they would do to a soldier. Excuse me. A soldier coming home from fighting battles that they probably really didn't even want to fight, you know. But it's different nowadays. These guys, they volunteer. They're not drafted. When I was in Vietnam, We had the draft going and a person 18 years old gets out of high school. If he don't hurry up and sign up for college, they'll get drafted. I mean, you know, we was at war with a little country, Vietnam. And we learned a lesson that no matter how powerful you are as long as they have the heart and desire to keep you away from their country. They can overwhelm you, beat you down. It don't matter how much napalm, how much air support, artillery shells, how many pump the mags the dragons come through. It didn't bother them. They had the desire of freedom. Not our kind of freedom, but the freedom that they fought and won. And now, we are over there. We are over there doing the same type of business that we could have been doing over there without losing 57,000 young men. Wow. Where went from that I have no idea but I do know that I do know that We lost a lot of good people Over that and now we got our things going on in Afghanistan we got the Colvin thing going on and Add another war which is ending out to be larger than what the Vietnam War was. That was, what, 25 years? And they're reaching that here with Afghanistan. And don't forget Desert Storms and them other ones that we had there. But them, uh, battles and stuff that they fight are real. And when they're home to get away from it, there's no reason they choose that they should explain to you what they did, why they did it, what happened. Because one, it goes with the old Army, Marine Navy and stuff. You don't have the need to know. You don't need to know. And that's where a returning soldier should have to explain anything because you don't have the need to know. You're not a reporter. And if you're a sympathizer, let them be. You know, if you want to buy them a beer and they have time, I'm sure they would appreciate it. And if you want, throw a steak in there with it. Because when I came home, they had the steakhouse. by General Wes Moreland. It was Wes Moreland's steakhouse. And they lined us all up, asked us if we had any drugs or weapons or anything to put them in a pile over here and nobody will say anything. And if you don't and we checked your bags later, you'll be prosecuted for the fullest. And everybody stood there. He says, okay, pick up your duffel bags. Put them over here by the buses and step over here and form a line and they opened up Westmoreland Steakhouse and I told this sergeant. I don't need that steak. I need someplace to lay down. I am tired He says everybody goes through Westmoreland Steakhouse You'd gotta get one if you don't want to eat it throw it away. It don't matter but you're gonna get one And he caught me going back up for my third steak. And he said, you're not hungry, huh? I wasn't hungry until I ate it. Then I found out how much I'd been missing. Those were good quality steaks. They weren't the regular steaks that you got in the mess hall. These were prime cuts and they were good. But after that experience, it all went downhill. And once they found out after you got out of the Army base and they found out you was, well they knew you wasn't because you was in uniform to travel for a military standby which is about a 70% discount of a regular seat. And I was going to Detroit and I was three buddies and I was in Vietnam when we all got there together. and I bought the King Cade and I decided to be in the cab, we would get up, go have a drink, and head for home. As soon as we get in, I hear Detroit, I gave them the money and I went home. I'll finish this store later, right now it is time for You Got It. Rock and chair money. This is why people learn to appreciate. Rock and chair money. Thank you, Hank. Thank you. This is giving the rock and chair money. Thank you for your time and service. Right now it's time for me to let you know that cigarette smoking causes cancer if you know it or not. If you know it and you're smoking, why? You know, I know that it's hard to get off of because me and my father, we quit at the same time. We didn't have patches. There was no... Pills no bother, you know, the only thing that you did you quit smoking or you smoked and smoked and smoked we quit at the same time both of us and He didn't smoke anymore till his death and I haven't smoked any and I'm still cruising This liver thing here. I'm not too worried about it, but it came from secondhand smoke because you know they didn't say anything about secondhand smoke and then one day about 84 you know around that time they came in on the news and said that hey there's secondhand smoke you can get cancer from and now that the cats out of the bag I'm some 40 years later and I haven't smoked, I haven't drank, I've smoked pot, but you know there's a difference between marijuana and pot and it don't take much to understand. They're two different plants. One plant was made by God and that's the plant that we are passing around today because, hey, we're in Michigan, we can smoke because we voted it in. So it's up to you and your own states to vote it in. And if things work right, Biden might save us the problem, because all we got to do is sign it in law and nobody will contest it. I think the whole world is waiting for it. But the tobacco companies aren't waiting for it. But they don't want us to quit smoking cigarettes and start smoking pot. My goodness, like Willie said, the whole world's going to pot. And getting off cigarettes is my goal for anybody. If you're smoking and you can afford it, go see an acupuncture. I just had my ears punctured earlier today and... I'm starting to feel how it works. You know, I've been staying with her since Thanksgiving and she's been giving me treatments and treatments and now she's got me to where my pains aren't there. My neck pains after she puts the needles in and takes them out, they're gone. And when they start coming back, I'll tell her and she'll put them in again and takes them away. Now I guess the way it's supposed to work that it keeps working until it works and you don't have to go back no more. And that's the way it is for those that are trying to quit cigarettes and can afford to go to an acupuncturist. They will keep you from smoking cigarettes and you won't miss them. My primary care doctor in Grand Rapids, Dr. Jocelyn, took his brother-in-law in. His brother-in-law took one treatment, never even mentioned cigarettes again. That's how they affected him. Other people might take two, three, four visits. You scope out the area and the doctors and you can find that there is A few that offer a guarantee, you pay them $100. You go in. If you need to go in again, you don't pay them no more. Other doctors, you go in, you pay. You go in, you pay. You go again, you pay. But at any instance, if you are wanting to quit smoking, if you don't want to quit smoking, once you get away from them, you want the money. to buy cigarettes, you should have the money to get an acupuncture to try something. You know, cigarettes do kill you. Yes, folk them. And I've told them before. Randy, we're getting a lot of background noise and you're like going way off in the distance. Can't hear you very clearly. How's it now? Still sounds like you're like, like under, like you're in a room below us. I don't know what that could be. There we go. Now you're back. Now you sound good. Okay. All right. So you think about dying from cancer. It's not like you're a, like my father, he was riding a bicycle and he ran down a hill that he couldn't stop and he went into traffic at 65 miles an hour. He hit that fender. of a pickup truck, put him up in the air, oh 130 feet, and he landed 90 feet away. That was on my birthday, June 9th, 1991. Now he was dead before he hit, before he hit and did that. They're saying he had a heart attack. And the bike just carried him in. Now, I can't remember where this was going to. This is happening quite often. It's getting more and more. And I don't like this, but hey, it goes with getting old, I guess. And stress. Huh? And stress. Yeah, stress. Stress will kill you. Yeah. So anyways, tobacco will kill you. at anything that I was talking about or bringing any sense out of it. There's one thing you can be sure of. Backo will kill you. And I've got Stacey's boyfriend's brother Howard. He's going through cancer. And he can't quit smoking. He comes over, he's in pain, and he's smoking cigarettes. And they're not doing it because he wants to smoke. He's doing it because he's addicted to it. His sister's Holly. She'll give him acupuncture all he wants. He don't want to take them. The reason he's doing that is because he's addicted to the cigarettes. He's addicted to the cigarettes as much as my wife was. And I watched her go through all kinds of ways to quit smoking and she never could. She gave up trying. And then finally about a week before she passed, she didn't want them no more. And she sat there still looking for the ashtray for her cigarette. And then she would bite it and put it in the ashtray and it would go out. And then finally she was done with them for good. Well, that's great, right? She quit smoking. But from 16 on up to 65, she was addicted to them. And finally the addiction, I don't know, wore out. She was too sick for their tobacco anymore. but they don't have to worry too much because you know myself, Chris, and her husband Chris, how about that? Christie and Chris, they got married on 4-20 so they'd always remember the date. How you doing sweetie iron? So anyway, yeah, yeah good. I'm telling them how you and Chris don't smoke. But the rest of the family does. And they... When I was about 30 years old. Yeah. Cold turkey. Cold turkey. Just like me and your grandpa. You came up with the right genes. But now the rest are smoking. The grandkids I've seen and baked in. And you know, there's nothing I can do about it. You know, I got a shirt that's got a devil running across a tobacco leaf and it devils leaf. On the back, there's a big marijuana leaf and that's God's leaf. And I go out of my way to stop into these tobacco shops, walk in and I might buy a pack of papers or something most of the time, not just walk in. Show them what it is and walk out again. I get a lot of people coming up to me and telling me they wish that they could quit. But it's the hardest thing they've ever done was to quit. How long you been smoking? 45 years. Have you tried acupuncture? No, I haven't. Well, there you go. If the pills don't work and the patches don't work, Try acupunctureing. In fact, try acupunctureing first. It's painless and it works. So stop feeding them monsters your money that are giving you death sticks in return for your money. And our government, they should be charged as being accessory to these mass murderers. because they let them do it. They, no problem. It helps them reduce their population. Which New World Order calls for a two-thirds population, but cigarettes wouldn't be the way. That takes too long. They do more of a covert thing. But I just can't understand why The government thinks it's worth $1.45 a pack in taxes. That's why I gotta go with the, just keep the medical community busy. You know? I mean, for crying out loud, I didn't smoke my damn cigarettes and I got their disease. And I'll be going through that tomorrow and I'll let you know Thursday about what's going on. You know, by then I'll know what category I'm in, one, two, three, or four. And I already know that I'm in for the battle of my life. I'm going to fight real hard. They say I know I'm going to lose weight because during that treatment there comes a couple of weeks that you don't feel like eating. And I'm used to that. When Pam passed, I stopped eating and she went backstage. I felt guilty and I quit eating mostly. You know, sometimes when I went to town, I would grab something, but basically I quit when she quit. I could never fry one egg or one hamburger. And she couldn't eat it. When she was in the hospital, She would call me up and she said, hey, why don't you come here at 4 o'clock? And I went there and went in and took her whatever she wanted that she didn't need. She just wanted me there. And they served her her her dinner. She wouldn't eat it, told me to eat it. And I said, you called me here. to eat your food for you because you're not hungry, you can't eat it. And I says, I can't eat your food. And she says, what are you gonna do? Go home and cook one hamburger? I says, I can get by, you know. I was eating before I met you. But yeah, she was calling me in to feed me because she wasn't there to cook dinner for me no more. But it was, Hard to go through that. It wasn't long after that that the COVID hit a few days later and they kicked her out of the hospital and I took her home and cared for her. Then the family stepped in and I had to do nothing. They took care of her right down to the end. My granddaughter, Grey, Madison, 13 years old, went over and started putting makeup on her grandma. And she coughed around and pulled on the ring and she finally got her grandma's ring off her finger and I told her she could keep it. And yeah, she took it on good. She wears it every day. Yeah, my wife could have stopped smoking cigarettes because you know... They weren't addicted when she was 16 years old. It was an end thing to do. He was a cowgirl from the get-go, and she was the Marlboro woman, and she took it to the end. So I do blame the American Tobacco Company for her depth. They were like heroin pusher. Get them hooked and keep giving it to them. That's what they're doing And our government's letting them do it. So why don't they open up the heroin houses? You know They would have left death They did that to my wife and they've done it to your husband They've done it to your mother your father your kids and they're still doing it So the government can get, I don't know, $1.49 a pack for taxes. You know, I bet them CEOs, their kids don't smoke weed. Them CEOs of these American tobacco companies, I bet their kids, they're so rich from people like us that supported the habits for a lifetime. They're so rich, they can have their kids out, away from everybody. They can have the smartest teachers come in and teach them and they never be around cigarettes But they're going in every day by helicopter or by limo They're so rich. They don't drive But they go in and they find out what else they can do To kill us slowly so that we can keep on buying their product You know, they put thousands of chemicals in them and somewhere in one that goes all over the place Has an addiction to it. And if you get that addiction it'd be the hardest thing there is to quit smoking them cigarettes and My main goal is to let everybody know that the cigarettes are cancerous. They're addictive And the government has backed these companies up long enough. I mean, how much do we got to give to keep these people wealthy enough to stop putting that product out? Never. They got stockholders, and that'll come up next right now. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this our daily bread, forgive us for our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us. Leave us not in temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and glory forever and ever. Amen. Hey, I'm machine gun Randy. And I'll be back with you Thursday night with the fun show, the Medical Marijuana Hour. And I'll be back here next week telling you again about how bad the American tobacco company. God bless the ideals. I'm Randy, I'm out of here.