His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat, speaking low to me. He said, we fought a revolution. Wrote the Constitution from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the life and home. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you would. 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 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 buried. 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'll 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'd 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 Tyrant trampled each god-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to 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? Is this still the land of the land? for all our brothers anders on and behind the lines in occupied territories northwest northeast south at re-radio dot 4mg dot com or on amnfm microstations amnfm conventional stations cb bay stations and alt hallmark and golden spike technologies east and west of the mississippi along with alaska it's 8 11 p.m eastern standard time it is monday it is the twenty second of march the days just keep clipping off here and a good day today going well well for the most part uh... it is the thirteenth europe open an obvious baby on and soviet socialist occupation of america with the k two thousand and twenty one battle for the republic and it is well it's pretty outside right now although we were theory we might get some moisture but tomorrow or the next day we'll see what happens hopefully it'll hold off for another few hours maybe a day or two will see mister corporate and we got a caller who do we have uh... this uh... mark that uh... have you heard anything that uh... about the chinese uh... invading india uh... they are in lupin the paul and two other uh... cities uh... all you have a little bit easier but it was the first but not going to be a little actions in the mountains which were kind of bizarre because uh... if you recall last year india and the china the indian troops of the chinese troops one at each other bare handed and with no clubs and in fact it was quite a pro fascinating mod drama is why i should epic event in that Apparently some lieutenant was in charge of one Indian detachment, or I think actually started with a sergeant, and then they started beating on each other. The Chinese came in through some of the Indian troops off into a ravine, into a river below, far below, kind of like out of Indiana Jones. And the Chinese troops escalated, the Indian troops escalated it. Eventually some Indian commander, I rattled his name off when I read the one article, stood across and cheered his men onward in the this apparently a higher ranking officer and they went to town and just beat the living snarl of each other now it's up in the northeastern provinces where this has been going on the events of other conflicts of another thing that it's always fascinating that they've tried and india but a war for a very long time it's just nobody does anything they've never really ended hostilities and they used to have artillery duals artillery battles every once in a while along the border So if it's escalated most recently right now, it's possible. I mean, I haven't seen anything on it yet, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. Mostly it's been battle axes, broadswords, clubs, and fifths. And I'm not, we're talking large units, like whole hundreds of people going at each other like this. Without, what gets me is without guns. And it's well documented. The Chinese reported it, the Indians reported it, the Chinese bragged up that they beat the shit out of the, you know, Indians. the indians bragged up and even had a blow by blow about how they beat the start out of the chinese soul there's probably something going on or maybe have escalated uh... i haven't seen anything tonight so far that's jumped off all that it doesn't mean that something isn't happening i don't know everything about the occupation of villages or towns in the military dot on the map on the very very edge of the border because of the couple places that are contested by both sides of their kind of like cypress uh... and uh... turkey okay with diapers with the old uh... turkey in greece where the places just abandoned you know they're like ghost possible one one-size-brag that they've taken something that really nobody's you know controlling that would be typical for propaganda to correct or retired general on tv last night and he was talking about they came in and took over the ball of all and uh... indian uh... government was hoping for help from pakistan all you will not working that poll is a different story the poll is a separate nation state into itself that's that's like the only a china has gone in there intervened and and pissed on them many times that's been ongoing though for years decades okay that's where all the vote all what what the hell was the most recent thing there was actually was about the same time of the foot fifty cubs fight but and i don't know that india's gonna go out of its way to really join up with pakistan ok there those two don't really like each other uh... i don't know where that came from not pakistan's nuclear capable in india is nuclear capable and those nuclear basically although india's got an extensive and much more sophisticated nuclear arsenal mostly pakistan's pointed at india and india's pointed at pakistan and pakistan is used as a weapon of last resort other words they're they've been losing real estate for decades the moslem you know pakistan uh... covered this for years they started out you know much much larger and they're down to one third eyes that they were half a century ago after decade you'll see what i'm talking about and so uh... the reason i think that they finally just kind of slowed down on the advance not that they're they're still fighting i think in the cashmere that's where indian pakistan are fighting is cashmere go look that up but on the uh... on the eastern front it's been like an ongoing thing but napalm is is not part of india that's like another country it's in the hit in the Himalayas okay the that that that's where they've been fighting up in the Himalayas up in the rock on the mountain for great mountains so i've been in the war that jumping off the wall but that would surprise me the nape police situation is very very different and in fact that's where i remember i mentioned this the that's where the that's why the uh... chinese army has their equivalent uh... what basically called to bet and park okay uh... the tibetan card camel was made for that i like the pattern which got the other that because problem interview got it okay but it's basically like a bubble pattern uh... like the german off-work darn but it's done in the browns and uh... pans and russets uh... if you look at you know purple up chinese forces you'll see a lot of information on that people up pull up chinese forces and uh... merriam oleus or chinese forces may paul chinese forces uh... to baton well that'll give you a you know you'll get an end switch to images you like to do google it's worthless but they like you know certain things they really feel kind of a lot i guess so if you you know the searches are was horrible now by comparison they're really getting crappy but uh... no they really are they've been obvious their top and everything they can i mean their pair it will but we're we're getting closer and closer back to the sixties is what we are we were i'd we reached our high point i think for the internet internet dot fifteen years ago and we've been it's been downhill ever since and more i'm looking at some of the government both the way they're altering it he really want to burn books it because when you can alter stuff in the internet you can wire up top about anything but the books are pretty have to go find everyone on the field to burn it if you're going to change what you're going to say so the problem they've got is that you still have enough people with libraries that you can actually you know what we've been okay they're saying this but we have a closer to the period but or else is by another author and here's what with this person says and by the way this is all pretty well backed up with day by day facts where the other trouble is usually drama queen you know puffed up bs with very little away of you know, foundational information, so. Hey Mark. Yeah, go ahead, Carl. Thank you, Mark. No, thank you. Appreciate that. Go ahead. This is Todd down in Orlando. I had a question for you about night vision scopes. A lot of times these people will sell the night vision scope and the intensifier tube has gone out. Is there a way, does everything else work on the scope to where you can just change out the intensifier tube to a new one? Well, you know, we've never really, we've any time it's coming night vision we've kind of let it park or we've had it back uh... you know to the companies because usually they're there at least they have aware with all the change everything out without us compromising other components now the only thing about that again well you could i mean everything successful the whole thing could be disassembled but the problem is that some of the more sophisticated uh... polymer or actually Sealants, they're not really, they are polymers, they are petroleum oil lubricant products, but many of the sealing components, the sealing materials are unique to the technology because they have to deal with both heat, moisture, they can't crack or compromise, and there's, it's Space Age technology, it's all there is to it, so to buy a small amount of the stuff, it's an ungodly price. It depends on who made it, how they built it, some of them just use, again, compression seals. uh... the the first year even even what we're talking about using the polymer uh... which start out as a liquid turns to a solid eventually become simply a solid gasket anyway much like uh... gasket material you have for pumps or things of that nature however it is a little more particular in a higher up the petroleum oil lubricant product scale in that the stuff is designed to handle more heat uh... and his consistent with the way that it lays and maintains the seal the richer we typically won't be weak point it'll settle but it won't pool it won't separate wallets while it's drying and that has been a great with everything you're using so if you take it apart the problem is when you put it back together is going to be right that's the thing go ahead once i saw a guy on youtube you have like an hour long video where he took a minute on the not going And he just wanted to change out the intensifier tube and he, you know, started taking it apart and saw that just like you said, the steels had hardened. So he chipped them out and he was able to get the component parts out and get the intensifier, put a new one in, made sure the wires were all connected together and had continuity. And then he was using Gorilla Glue in place of the seals because he knew it was going to harden and he put it all back together. Now this was just a Gen 1. My question was, I just bought a... a while ago... Hold on. Sorry about that. I bought a firefield like two, two, three years ago and it was just a Gen 1 but it works very well in like, you know, partial moonlight and this guy had on eBay another Gen 1 just like and I'm like, well, I only paid like... 40 bucks for it, and I figured if I broke a lens on the one that I have I could change everything out rather easily Which is possible you drop stuff all the time well what I was wondering was is? Is there a way you see on these 18 in scopes where it's like they've got one chaffy and? You know you buy a gen 1 for like 600 bucks, and then we have like a gen 3 or a thermal in the same chassis which is like almost $5000. My question is, is it possible that you buy the component parts like C is it possible that I could buy a gen 2 and a Censifier and put it into a gen 1 scope? Well you could, but you're going to remember that the internal engineering, everything is compressed because of modernization. Usually there are two things that have happened. Remember how they discovered night vision rods in the first place was an accidental cooking of conventional IR rods. And they realized it was actually was rather interesting. The guy may have been method to the madness, they may be lying, the guy actually did it intentionally. But they found out that they could see without an infrared source efficiently by upping the temperatures, cooking the rods longer, et cetera, and then finishing the product. When they did that, they also found they could shorten or compress the rods. They didn't need as much material. Ergo, they also were using less material to make the next generation of night vision technology. Typically, we find that in order for them to fit everything into the same chassis, there are a number of different ways you can use a prismatic system. There's like two or three different steps to that internally, so it basically compresses your length. but if they went with the same chassis but they're using what they're upgrading to the next series of of uh... we'll say Gen 3, you're in Gen 1 and they go to Gen 1, oh, Gen 3 but they use the same chassis with each step you're probably going to find component reduction by up to a third that's basically the rule and one of the reasons is that remember you're stacking the technology and your every tube every ever give me every night vision device all of them have jet one robs on board ever down brought this up year after year the basic components don't change this is why it was funny that they're stopping you from getting jet one but you know in the arguables material wasn't available which is nonsense because gentle and gentle three both require first that jet one system in one form or another to be in place kind of like what we talked about with the radios when you're doing linear linear linear amplifiers you know using a little bigger up with radio to get more you know bish a larger amp basically with wait with lightweight like spec of say infrared uh... sensitivity you're doing the same thing abut what you're also able to do because of this is they've changed i don't know what they've done to change the formulas i have to do the specs on it but they've been able to change the dimension the length and dimension of the primary rods so they could fit everything else into the same under the hood Okay, same chassis. So there's where your problem is when you start going from one to the next. First, what you'd want to do before you even attempt it is to try and get schematics or breakdowns of the internal for all three or four of the mimics, you know, the first-generation model and then the mimics afterwards, and look to see what they did differently to see whether or not it's really viable to upgrade. You might be able to go, say, from Gen 1 to Gen 2, but you can't jump from, say, Gen 1 to Gen 3, because, again, the compression of the components necessary to fit it into the same space and still allow for, for instance, something we've always talked about, heat build-up. Heat build-up is a big problem, as you know, with any of our electronic components. And one of the things that it happens with lasers and with infrared rods is that they warp. If they build up too much heat, they have a tendency at the center point or whatever the longest point between connector A and connector B that are the bracket or control points. The whole rod heats up. Well, obviously the base points where it's connected, either in a fixture or where it's held in with a connector, are stable. But the farther you get from that, which is almost always the equidistant point in between, you will start to get a distortion during heating. and it will try to move. Why? Well, because it can't go... Here's why it warps. It can't stretch. Okay, so what does it do? It's got to go somewhere. Remember, when you heat things up, they do what? They swell. Well, when they swell, they've got to go somewhere. And since the base fixture on either end is rigid and fixed, then the rod has a tendency to distort. and flex out of out of alignment and then what happened is it cools it'll roll it would come back into alignment but it can only do that so many times the nature of the materials is that they would can only flex you know we can talk about this with everything i don't know what it is uh... the flex or uh... rating on all of these materials is different and at a certain point what happens with lasers is uh... and by the way that even happens with cheap cheap lasers uh... ask anybody who does maintenance on scanner lasers added at a grocery store what do you change it goes out for and you'll tell you whether to be a little later so what happens is you keep using them use them use them eventually heat up when they do heat up that eventually what they do they take a step in other words they don't always return to center and they take an off-set and they become dysfunctional the same thing is true but it's more important with optical rod so the lasers really are just as important you want to hit the target so you want to make sure it's lined up and point of impact is consistent but the famous true with the rods in that if you have a nice compact package and you have no circulation and then you have you know additional components working in close proximity to each other if you don't engineer that part into the design then you're going to start having the problems that we're talking about and typically again one rod or another will distort and that eventually it may snap and that's where you get those little dark dots you know you see if you want to know why you have a lifespan of a gentleman to bow like say fifteen hundred hours basically because what happened is you're always going to keep the system off and one of the problems you've got is the nature of the of the all polymers and glass that are used because it is it's a poly it's actually what is that a poly glass polymegle something or other anyway uh... of a rally rattled off but anyway what happens to your actually right what happens is at some point down the dollar rod you're either gonna have what is a lateral distortion break which is where you get those little black dots you know if you notice when you look at it you have a little bit when the russian stuffers came out the russians were very forgiving and weren't as uh... sensitive to flaws as we were so what a lot of the first generation russian stuff came in you have peppering little granulation here and there or part of that is is actual final product failure were a little part of one of the robs has either a a fracture in it or as a distortion in it from that from uh... heating and cooling heating and cooling even when it first cooked this can happen Now, the trick is, when you do a quality control survey on rods, what you do is you actually send a signal down through the rods, and what they do is they watch for the most common conflagration of failures in that cluster of rods. Think about it, it's like, you know, where you have a bunch of little distortions, you cut it starting from there and then cut to spec on that piece of stock, whatever it is, the length of the rod that you normally would use for the fixture. and you do this constantly it's a problem going quality control well russians had a lower spec rate for standard that we did so when a lot of people got the first generation russian stuff and we're looking through it they're like what we've got a spot to like floating in my eyes it's like no those are distortions of the rod and they're just your american american counterpart was superior but the russians want to get more people all the equipment they could so they will be dropped the spec a little bit and got more night vision into more troops hands sooner see that's like their gas masks and everything else the russians did on our side the biggest thing is that we of course had higher standard across board with everything i don't care what it was if it was american made back in the space page we were the place to go we were the standard for the war that's all gone now or the toilet by comparison but when it comes to you know again understanding uh... for instance trying to do modifications or more maintenance there's nothing you could really do to fix the fix the tube the make primary all the exciters can be changes a few things you can do kinda like points and plug tune-up but again it's only going to be good for so long because as you pointed out remember you have a life span for the primary rod primary the primary first generation robs And in fact, that's also true of each stack. When you go to second or third generations, and fourth, now we're in the fourth, and hell, we're even the fifth, theoretically. We've had an argument about how much more, how much, how supposedly much better, most people have argued there's really not any significant jump off there, it's just, yeah, there's a little finer detail, which would be good, because hey, maybe you can idea rank, or maybe the guys, you know, a pimple on the guy's nose to confirm that Bob, and maybe we shouldn't shoot him. But, generally we would figure out bob long before we saw that temple on his nose okay so here again uh... it's it's well you know i i mean i think a lot of us are probably going to run into problems with my vision you know uh... when this thing kicks off because people have my vision they leave it in the uh... wherever they have it and they're not putting the hours on their scope as soon as they start using it every night for patrols and observations of where they're at. You're going to have hours and hours of wear on the intensifier tube. And I think they said a Gen 1 is good for 1,500. A Gen 2 is good for like 3,000. And a Gen 3 is good for over 10,000 hours. But I go out with my, I look through my Gen 1. And the only thing bad about it is that if it's like completely pitch dark outside and you have no starlight or no moonlight, if you turn on the higher illuminator, things are much easier to see. But the problem is you're advertising where you're at. Right. So things first to remember before we're going to farther, remember this. Discipline. Night vision equipment discipline should be the same as light and sound discipline. First of all, most of your travel, you don't need the night vision. Always remember that. Develop the organic night vision first and perfect that for most of your work so that what you do is, as you suspect an objective, then you switch over to using the night vision. Once you adapt conventional organic night vision and all the techniques that surround it that have been developed for, you know, well, more just decades, it's been centuries. then if you embrace that first and you don't get caught up in the electronics, the electronics are enhancement. That's like icing on the cake. When you need it, let's say you know you're going to be in contact, then you turn everything on and get everything to run. But otherwise, one of the things to remember is if you have a team, you tag team. Only one person is usually using the equipment. and just to save like you said are running hours on the technology because what we start the one what's the war kicked off and we start fighting then all these people meters are running just like you said you think about it batteries are are dying even as we turn them on right uh... we've got a life span for night vision we have a life span for optics even because they can only take so much of a beating eventually they all you bang them ding them back on the not virtually picker goes with the old she's finished The reason snipers use expensive scopes isn't because of the quality of the glass, it's because of the quality of the turrets. It's only got so many clicks, and if you have a cheap turret, it's going to go out of... It's going to affect your zero. And even everything that we're using, we have a... there's a lifespan on. Okay, everything that's a working part, remember, call it a perishable. That's what the military does. It's called a perishable in supply. and everything that you're using that moves terms that it's widgets or goes bang is a perishable even and again food is already already can relate to that with food consumable perishable it has a will china finite shelf life what we have to do is try to what we can't stop kinda like death in a world where i'm gonna keep myself from getting old well that i could happen but what you can do is you can stretch out the timeline And so what we have to do is think about how many different ways we can stretch out the timeline to make the technology that we know is useful useful for us for obviously a longer period of time. This is why organic natural night vision techniques need to be perfected first as the foundation. And then we only turn on or we use only a limited number. Now if we all of a sudden realize we have a point of contact, then we light everything up. And in doing so, we prioritize usefulness. Now, if you're a government and you've got troops that are trained the way our troops are trained now, they're totally wasteful anyway. After all, government's just gonna send more. Government's just gonna send more. Government's just gonna, oh my god, they didn't send anymore. Now what do we do? Well, because they don't change policy. And then they start talking about, like I've said many times here on the air, man, one bullet, one enemy, because we're short. How about one bullet, one enemy, and let's hit them the first time, and then they'll be short troops. How's that sound? rather than spray, pray, and miss. And the same is true with every other aspect of all of the integrated components that are tied into it. We have the precision technology and we have the math, which is the big thing. Now if we take and develop the expertise to go along with it, nobody on this planet can do it. They'll hurt us, but they can't beat us. Well, just so you know, I was looking around my buddy, buddy, uh... One of these ATN, it was an X-Fight II at the gun show this week and he paid $275, which was a good price. But we were looking at it at night and he was comparing his to my Gen 1 and he was honest with me, he was like, I like your Gen 1 better because of just the way the analog lights up the area and intensifies it as opposed to the digital. I'm not saying that some digital aren't good, but he just wasn't wild about it. Well, if you can, I'm sorry, go ahead. I was going to say I did find if someone is interested right now in getting night vision, and I think it's probably the most important thing that anybody could buy right now. If you're interested in night vision and you don't have a lot of money, I did find some Gen 1s on Amazon. And if you go to Amazon and you type in night star, N-I-G-H-T-S-T-A-R, it's all one word. It's 2, and then the X. 50, so 2 by 50 mm. That'll come up and it says they've got four in stock. It's Gen 1. It looks like it's Russian and they want 454 and that's not a bad price right now. No, in fact, what do we got? There's gold look over at, then that's not a bad price. That's the average, an ambient price. Well, the thing is, there's not a lot of Gen 1s that are out there anymore. Those fire fields are gone. Right. I was going to say over at OpticsPlanet, but again, call them because they have a vector Optics 2.5 by 50 and that's running about 389. But whether or not they have any quantity, and again, I've not tested that unit out, you'd have to find out what it does first. However, it has very much, the internals line up with the Nightstar. uh... that also first-generation it's more expensive by almost a little under hundred dollars so it's like you said that before hundred four fifty right there and of course it depends what bells and whistles are on it uh... is where the first ten is right now now there are some individual spotting scopes or amara monoculars which are basically ninety percent of the monoculars out there are just binoculars cut into or just not put together okay which is not a problem because the binocular night vision is two different night vision devices side by side so we are breaking them up and making binoculars. If I could buy the binocular for only two thirds of cost, I'd buy it and disassemble it myself. What did you say the brand was on that one adopted planet? Hold on here, I'll pull it up for you again. Let's see, if you go to OpticsPlanet, we'll walk everybody through this, go to OpticsPlanet, go to SportOptics, When you touch that image, which is a parabenoculars far left, right next to deals, go down to where it says night vision rifle scopes, bottom of the left column that pops up. It says popular categories. When you touch that, it's going to take you over to the rifle scopes. And one, two, three, four down. It is the Vektor, V-E-C-T-O-R, optics, 2.5 by 50 mm. Gen 1 night vision rifle scope it is not supposed to be digital supposed to be conventional traditional, okay, and that's 389 In look the basic mount and in fact everything very much is like the I think the night stars right next to it if a matter of fact One of the night stars is but that's not the one I'm looking for Yeah, the one next to it that says 459, that's one I found on Amazon for 450. That one is definitely green phosphorus. This one that you're talking about, the vector optics, is not the same chassis as the night star. It's different. And I don't know if this is... Well, there's another one I'm looking for that I had here earlier before we were, when we were on break I actually pulled it up and now I can't find it, I don't know why. It says illumination color green, so it's probably analog. That's a good price, 388. Well, the, okay, the other thing, let me hold down here, illuminated green, red, night vision, generation one, diaphragm adjustment, five to five, so this IR laser sight, how much is it, IR laser sight. uh... if you look at the silhouette side by the only differences remember that the instead of what they do we actually talked to the guys about this they'll pick uh... up and or based on what the uh... modeler wants to come up with for the external just make a look different but in you basically all the components line up you know the the body bunch of robs and then they build everything around that dead down to talk about this many many times that the different companies are all basically buying the name internals if any of these smaller companies uh... but the night stars okay hold on here that's not the one i don't know why it fell off the map here seriously i had it lined up for the program i at least i did the last hour i didn't really get to it that heavy ought to get up again uh... the one that we are going to a great price for harm for my vision right now well the other thing to is if all else fails if you're really going on mark a calendar for that you can find monoculars and we did this year's ago we took a monocular uh... and use it just as a general fighting system on the roof of an s k s which is one of your which is part of what we did with the original are would would almost getting into my vision And it was pretty successful. Of course, it was just a 10-round mag. We didn't put anything else on board, but we basically sight-aligned, spit-aligned it, basically looking down and a cake-guessing, and we bench-bagged it, and then we fired it. And at intermediate to short range, all we needed to do was get it within the center of the scope and pull the trigger three times, the classic blunderbuss system. You know, traditional three pellets, which is why you had tri-burst. Why tri-burst became popular. uh... one of the three rounds gonna hit somebody like that and i've heard what that originally was for because before we had before we had night vision the basic rule like i said with organic night vision is that you observe the target you've aimed base low and then you fire a three-round burst now remember you spend them six t one there was no select fire other than four or semi there was no three-round burst. Well, they want the other stupid direction with the A2 where they gave it only semi or three-round burst full auto, but still only three rounds. But their logic, which nobody ever really talks about anymore, is that for most of what you wanted to do if you wanted to pattern fire at night, and that's what they were looking at, otherwise you were supposed to aim, the idea was to restrict the consumption of ammo and utilize the three-round burst for night fire operations with organic vision. The only thing is by the time they came up with that idea, night vision was becoming affordable in first generation like we see now was actually in the system quite heavily. It's just that now pretty much everybody going into Iraq or Afghanistan, everybody's got some form of night vision device technology that's been given to them by the unit. The whole idea of restricting the fire, that was reducing ammunition consumption, that was a good idea. The purpose of solely supporting night vision fire, not necessarily needed anymore simply because hopefully the guy was going to use the night vision device and maybe aim has a crosshair why spray when you could actually you know aim and hit uh... that still doesn't work out if you've seen any of the night exchanges it's just like you know what you put a thirty round magazine and belief is believe all be burned at once like with the human you've got this one we need to develop against that go ahead i'm sorry you've seen the difference between like there's a lot of jen two plus go try now that are available for about sixteen seventeen hundred dollars And you've seen the difference. You've looked through a Gen 1 and you've looked through a Gen 2 Plus. Oh yeah, right here. Would you say it's worth paying the $1,500, $1,600 for a Gen 2 Plus? Yeah, it is. But here again, it's the old story. The problem has always been, does somebody have the spendable income? Okay, because also, another thing you pointed out earlier, remember, and Don repeated this, if you spend more, you do get a longer operational life. Right. So basically, what you're paying for is equivalent to having to buy three sites. If you were looking at the price of a Gen 1, and what it's normal operating ranges, and you look at what the normal operating range of most gentoos are it's equivalent to having bought to of the conventional jet one's maybe one and a half or forget i want to have to have okay so if you're if you all a little bit more you've got more time on time in operation with the same site one of the advantages there is that you're not going to be changing out to another system down the road in the middle of something uh... if you spend more money on agenda to plus origin to you're going to get more operational time which means you're gonna have consistency in use which means you put develop proficiency remember that if this happens where you will use the other people of a quiver which we consider acceptable we're going to try to stretch out its lifespan anyway but in the middle of a conflict what's going to happen is i'm used to one system because i've perfected it and i got a good understanding of point of impact i know what the problems are the nuances are of my system but in the middle of something all the sudden she finally dies i have to change out to another system now and i have to melt muscle memory brain memory rerun or you know rework everything in the middle of a process not to live with that but if i can minimize that that means my my proficiency and consistency are sustained for a longer period of time which is what is a as a unit commander or if you're a husband in troops this improves overall performance brings up survivability reduces time and turnaround and so would be a good spending more if you have the money you know i've said this may come to their hey if you look at some other guns that i'm not mentioning but you don't need to worry about me tell you about me for a while figure out a way you got three thousand dollars to spend here to defend it You notice I don't talk much about you need the Schmidlab 402. It's only $2,800. I don't need to tell you about that. We're trying to find something that's less expensive because I can't afford the $2,800 rifle and still be able to get everything else I need like this night vision device you're talking about. So what we're balancing out is a reasonable performance in terms of a weapon in conjunction with a night division device with magazines with ammunition. You know, go right down the shopping list. for what if you had an unlimited reserve or if you were single and you didn't have to worry about feeding the family feeding the kids then the average single guy can say I can start for a while I'm gonna buy top of the line but the average person out there that's listening is probably got a wife one two three four kids who knows maybe taking care of grandma too they still want to participate and that's why we try to tailor this towards of what we have in this lower range are option how many people are how many more people could we get outfitted with a decent piece of equipment now if you could afford to starve a little bit or if you have the resources maybe you know you got an error from she won the lottery whatever then going up a step because you still don't want to you know you only have so much away digits then going up to that next step would be reasonable If you had unlimited, unquestionable resources, then go top of the line. But most of us aren't in that boat. You know that as well as I do. I mean, you're talking about you where we've already had conversations here, which are the kind of conversations I have with everybody I talk to as far as every day. Well, he's like, well, I need this. Okay, well, here's where we can go. What I first look at is if you have example that happened yesterday, guys got three comps. through uh... wife uh... him and a brother they all want to spend on night vision well we kind of went through and i had really like konio recommended or optics plant to what they do have their but he also wanted to pick up another air and we kind of got a that conversation like the other day here while i got to five five six but you know what i don't have another gun which what should i get well we had the same discussion that well seven fifty by thirty nine because can you afford to buy more amo well i don't have that much money then how much more amo can i get the seven sixty by thirty nine rifle for the price so i can actually have magazines rifle and a weapon and still get that night vision device because i gotta be able to afford all four of them this is our but that balancing the map you know the map routine and doing it such a way that if I can upgrade later, I never get rid of anything. Okay, here's the other one. There's a reason I asked you about the level, the Gen 2 Plus, is because they've got a bunch of them for sale on eBay. but they haven't categorized as level one to or three yeah there is a slight price difference but i don't know what that categorization means well one thing to remember dot donnie's put this up beware especially like you know with ebay if it was new if it used you know what you're getting you know pay attention if you accept the idea that reasonably priced and you know there could be probably could spare parts and really that is something most of everybody doesn't think about is you know anything where i can make multiples of at least i have spare parts because you are going to be a little crap in the field uh... you know we've talked about this many times you may get big up a lamb where you could get the symbol of the replace if you have the exact things bare part you know system you may not in the have an internal failure we have a whole bunch of thermal that kinda works, I'm serious a lot, that we inherited from another direction. They're all the same model, they all stay together. We have 10 that are actually 100% that I would say beyond the shadow of a dollar almost like they came out of the box. But there's another 16 that are in iffy condition at one point or another. Now I could spread those out, but we're not going to, and in fact even though they don't need those other 16, they're better with that group and they're better with you know having them if they expand anyway cuz you'll have something but i know that the shelf life on the reoperate life on two of those is probably at the around their left leg there under the long of the truth but the optics the controls all even just a stupid little rubber boot okay goes on the same piece of equipment the other ten guys have that have a hundred percent so if they run into a tree at night made will do that piece of equipment for a few minutes worth of tinkering i can put that thing right back in line because the parts or where they need to be with the equipment that works and that's where you've got the right ideal actually pick it up for forty dollars yes that's worth it because what would it cost you for any of the book at your book at the equipment you have what would it cost to try and find any of the poor available anymore starting to get all the good news matter exactly and in fact that happens a lot down would be the first to tell you what you did many times on the air understand when they get a certain bunch of stuff they make a chamois that fit fit and then the one they're going to go on it's gone it just don't work that includes that includes the mount the mount on this thing is It's pretty funky to say the least. Once you get it tuned and tightened to work to your picatinny, it works very well. But the thing is, is that if it breaks, there's not another one like it on the planet you can just go and buy. So yeah, then you're either going to have to have somebody has a shop and they're going to take that with the pieces and tighten it back up in the process too. And they might make the replacement that would be better than what you originally had. that all box for the prize is going to come in handy and they have to do that with somebody's hopes he by the way be thank you for reminding me that uh... over at sportsman's guide they had a couple are they probably got pallets of the garbage or they got it from somebody who did there are a bunch of the mill grade zip ties over there cheap right now we're not talking to have a sport you know melt of the bond because they don't have any i r protection we're talking uh... industrial grade uh... three m type zip ties so you've got to see what's over what's left over there but there were some still today this morning i saw them and those are yes you're actually right are a significant investment i usually carry four zip ties of five different sizes in the backpack all the time little kit and i see what you do guys don't call them slide them in and the inside rate like on the alice pack and why demand lengthwise uh... so that they were on the whole length of the uh... packers a couple of split point you've got inside And that way they'll stay straight, they'll stay clean, they're easy to find, you grab the top, you pull them right out, they're there when you need them. But if you gotta strap somebody together, or if you have to strap something together, that's a repair kit in and of itself, you're absolutely right there. So obviously, when we're talking about thermal, like decent thermal, you know, you're paying north of $5,000 per scotch. It's way too, yeah, that's why I hardly mention it, Don and I would discuss that on the air. always is quite a bit cheaper and it's still the same chassis. That's another example where if you go from one to the next to the next, model-wise, they're basically, they put all of their different thermal variants, like for instance, ATN. All of theirs are in the same basic chassis. I watched a video, a 30-minute long video of this guy who bought an ATN, and it took him three weeks just to talk to a customer service representative, and then it took three months between sending the scope in and getting a new one back. So that would be great. When Don was alive, he could tell you, he had it in because he dealt with them back when nobody knew who A-10 was. But he would tell you the same thing. It's like they were two things they were looking for. They would even buy back holes because they were so far behind in getting the holes that they wanted that if you had a derelict, they'd pay you good money like a milk bottle. for just a whole okay but you have to say your guts are in it but if you fragged it or you ran it or whatever and it was something you had laying around they actually were refurbishing other fixtures now they tell somebody that if they were a customer but uh... that's because they're either constantly moving stuff out both military contract and there's no difference in what's going on with with uh... say the guns the same thing is going on with night vision and everything else in the industry Well, the reason I bring it up is because I see these videos these guys are hunting hogs and they've got like like for example the perp pulsar thermium XP 50 it'll suck up the energy out of two CR 1 2 3s within about four hours, but during that four hours The resolution is amazing and there's no delay whatsoever and you're picking up stuff out past six seven hundred yards with this thermal scope. So, yeah, it's $5,000, but if a person had that $5,000, is there a shelf life also on the flier, the thermal, like there is night vision, or is it just lasts forever? It's a matter of components. It's again, some run longer. I don't know how many thousand hours the overall operational system can be relied upon, but... There it's a matter of individual subcomponents that where you have problems for instance for a short time They just simply had a problem with the of the power controls had nothing to do with the tubes had nothing to do with the optics per they had a power of one of the subcontractors that did the control of whatever components were but they bought them from because we're all the electrical components that night vision are Hand me down new old inventory compound. They it's like of in fact that's where okay that's work did you know i've got a night vision came from guys i've mentioned that many times other several videos you can watch kids where they take digital cameras and turn into night vision devices now they're going to have to do but what they're doing is peeling the filters off basically what they've done is they've taken some of the more sophisticated either last generation not eight millimeter uh... headsets or the uh... work for give me the h s and then going from their v h s beta they ran out of those eventually not completely yet because you're still finding them out there and they took the head and optics off of eight millimeter camera eight millimeter digital and these units are the foundation for that digital night vision technology there's nothing other than what kind of optics will cover magnification do you want to add And the problem is that where they got those from is literally, if you can imagine these styrofoam trays of equipment built back when the Chinese, not Chinese, forgive me, Indonesians, Malaysians, and the Filipinos were cranking these things out for the industry 30 years ago. And a lot of the digital equipment you're buying as far as these digital night vision devices, the core components were built probably before in many cases the operators were born. They are in the trade brand new unissued inventory and they are traded back and forth all over the place and they use them but sometimes that company goes out of business. Now they still got 48,000 of them sitting there. They sell them to another contractor. He uses a bunch of them up. They go out of business. They sell them to another contractor. And so they've had different applications and uses, some of it overlapping from one generation of digital camera to the next. but then when they found that they could work this as a digital night vision technology well that's eaten up a lot of what was the almost the archaic but almost uh... older digital electronic surplus that was new old inventory and even the component of the switches held their twenty thirty and forty years old the actual individual components. They aren't necessarily brand new builds. And the only good thing about that, if you buy older, even if it was cheap back then, it's higher quality than what's built. It's a sad thing to say, but it's true. Okay. Anyway, good point. Thank you for bringing this subject up. I wish you were here. God bless him. He did a lot of work in this area and taught all of us of the mind share of what we know to be quite honest because he did direct application. And again, I wish you were here now. He helped you out a lot. 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Well after this long trip I had down to Florida I went down there mainly to see Rick a friend of my sister-in-law who was going through his cancer too. And I'm still debating, do I want to go through chemotherapy? Well, I was talking to Rick. He wasn't there. He was cleaning up his mother's place 50 miles away. So we headed back north on Highway 1. and that's where the trouble started. What started was I bought a car before we went down and they put a paper plate on it and they put it on the inside. In Florida now, if you don't know that, in Florida it goes on the outside and that's where my trouble started. Well, actually it started the night before. My daughter, her friend, made me enough Rick Simpson oil to get me through my treatments, you know, a lot of it. And it was put in under my seat without my knowledge. I never touched it. And when they pulled us over, they found that and first they found 20 grams of marijuana that I use for my condition. I am a cancer patient that has a terminal effect of it. You know, I'm terminally ill and I have the right to use alternative medications. That right was given to us by President Donald Trump about two years ago. and they knew it. But because did not have a medical marijuana card, he said that I am illegal. So, you know, how did I say that again? Well, I guess I got the cancer and I got the PTSD and hey. I'm not using it for recreational. I'm using it for relaxation, feeling that you get from marijuana. In these times, it's soothing now. It helps you through the fear. When I was incarcerated as the dick that talked to my family that arrested me, He told them that your father's infected liver is incarcerated in a jail for having sintrin oil and marijuana. Now, if you know it or not, I know that it is medically legal in Florida if you are from Florida. non-ploridin is Doesn't matter if you got your card from your home state or not because it's not recognized in the state of Florida. So You know, I didn't take a quarter pound to smoke while I was down there no, I I put down half ounce and I smoke in the morning when I get up, smoke in the afternoon, and when I'm ready to go to bed. Well, they act like they had the case of the century there. I mean, they had three cop cars come in, even though that me and my daughter were handcuffed, and you know, we was treated like we were the thugs of the year. Now, I retract my statements earlier about Florida. It's Sunshine State, Sportsman's Paradise and all that. All said and done, yeah it is. But they're a 70s-tile police state and there's nothing, they don't deter to anything. And they did. Not give me my medications. They did not let me get medical attention You know like I said, you know when I was in Vietnam our enemy got as good as attention as we did and if they needed bed rest they were in with you, so Florida They're really out of their league I say in this because You remember a few years ago the girl on the beach raped repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly by whoever wanted and people watched I'm sure there's videos out there but I Jumped on them. What is going on in Florida? I said you're letting that happen. Well that calmed down and then the veterans and their wives attending a reunion with their units and they take a walk down the beach with their drinks and they're surrounded by thugs, took their drinks and they burnt the American flags and doused them in it. They assaulted the wives and again nobody did nothing and again I asked Florida what are they going to do? What's going on? And they went from letting them do that. You get caught going down there with 20 grams of THC and a tube of scents and oil that they can't even find your fingerprints on. In a vehicle that you had just bought, they took it and it's a felon too. It's not a regular marijuana charge. It's a felon. And so the cop pulled my daughter's look here if you want your father out of jail you're gonna come up with bail money otherwise it's the 30th and they said well he's got all kinds of appointments up here. We're gonna talk into our general lock jaw stone face there because they don't care they don't care if you die in their jail. What they do care is that data Florida gets a check from the federal government every so often for every inmate that they incarcerate they get $250 a day to give them a spoon of oatmeal and cornbread because in a position that I put and it didn't bother them I told them I needed to get my medication for my stomach and they wouldn't take me into the hospital. So these people in Florida, they're really in, like I said, the 70s. You know, they think like they're in the Miami Vice period, you know, the police do. I was there for four days and when they released me. Hey Randy. Hey. It said I would say that's not just Florida. I've heard the same thing about people in Denver traveling from out of state going to Denver and thinking they could smoke pot there and getting busted because they're from out of state and the It's not granted. It's not all the cops, but it's like a majority of the cops they look for you if you're from out of state just because they they Don't have that revenue source that they used to have because they pull people over and arrest them in the state Yeah, I understand all that I'm sure Michigan if somebody from Florida went to Michigan and they had their medical marijuana card from Florida I I can almost bet you Michigan with Donner I'm going to check into that. I'm gonna check into that But what they did, you know, they did, you know, I was caught and I was in jail. But I was also a patient and they gave me no, no medical treatment. They gave me no ride to the hospital. You know, in Vietnam, we treated our, we treated the Vietnamese prisoners as well as we treated our own men. Randy, I heard you guys talking a little bit about this last week when I barely had a voice. The federal standards for prisons, even the state prisons have to meet those standards, they violated them with you. Yeah, Nancy, my mom, Nancy Kornke, when dad was in prison, they were pulling stuff like this with inmates all the time. She had a copy of it. You may want to talk to mom about that and see if there's Pass it on to your lawyer there in Florida or wherever you're dealing with this with right now because I know you're you've got to deal with your cancer treatment They don't care and the mistake a lot of people make is thinking oh, well, this is an isolated incident or oh, this is just Florida it's not it never is if they're doing it in one place it they've got some kind of policy going on where that's if it's legal in your state yes it's legal in your state but it's not there so we can use that to harass people from out of state make our money that way we've seen this before with other things so it's it's not a surprise yeah that violates our second amendment being able to use your medication in another space It's not just a second amendment. It's your right to the pursuit of life, liberty, happiness, health. It's your health. You're already They knew you were a cancer patient. They refused to give you your regular medication that you had prescriptions for while you were in their care. That is a violation of the federal standards for prisons. Right there, right off the bat. There's no excuse for them doing that. Uh oh. And I think we lost Randy. He was going a little wonky there with the signal and now I think we've completed the monster. Uh oh. See if we can't. Or we're having the same problem we did with Mark earlier today So Randy if you can hear us, I don't even see you on the conference line. So call back in see that Well this guy's gonna operate three things at one time Just always fun. All right. Let's see. I'm looking for his number here and fun Okay contacts try this see if we can get a hold of him and happen to go back in Okay, we have a number that I've got for him is saying that it is not available at this time That could be where he's located at or something else is Going on there. So guys I'm gonna play a little break here while I try to get a hold of Randy All right, we got you back Randy yeah I don't know what happened there. I was talking to you and then... My phone disconnected. I got low batteries and my phone disconnected and I had to circle around and I got it back. So, yeah. Alright, yeah, send me while it's all over about medical marijuana. And Michigan, it's Recreation Eagle. If you're a resident or not, you don't need a marijuana card. That's why I didn't have one. It's got to be something come together on this because it's sad that my health is now in danger still because I still got the same problems that I had when everything happened. So, we opened this. because I'm trying to figure out just a second. Glenn, I'm just trying to figure out, I'm just trying to ask him how to come back here. I'm just trying to figure out what's gonna happen. My attorney, great one, he's taken my case, $4,500 and he's carrying it all away. And he is not, he's not wanting to give anything drop down. He's wanting it thrown out of court. I've got all the records of my paranoia schizophrenic. I've got my PTSD records. I've got my stage four liver cancer and colon cancer. And I'm confident because I've got four days served and it's not that big of a deal that they're going to... want me to come in. A cop told me I should tell him that, yeah, now that I'm not down here, I'm going to be doing my chemotherapy here and I'm only 73 years old, nothing worked. I want to give a sex change to see if I can give a new way in life. And he said that when he heard that from a guy, the judge's eyes rolled back and threw it out. There was no way to say the Florida would go throughout their medical bills. But I didn't know that. But the cop was, he was chief of police up in Wayne County someplace and had a condominium down there. And he went into the courts and seemed to the Florida state was like compared to ours. And the thing should be working out pretty good. Pretty good, I'm thinking. He said he's going to carry it all the way as far as the Supreme Court if he has to. I heard they really don't want to go through the expense of taking care of me. When the VA up here is doing it at the price of the Florida couldn't handle I guess but Yeah, I just want it to come to an end and I just want people to know that Florida like anybody else Treating veterans like crap, you know here in Michigan. I've got no problems with them But I don't know down in Florida the way they treated me was an assault to a veteran who was really down on his lot, which, hey, I am. I'm coming to within on it. And with that information there to the police officers, they should have been online. I gave them permission to get my files from the VA and check all this out. And they just had me fill them out for nothing because they did not. take them anywhere and It's time for rock and tear money, and I'm going to rock on out of here because my bones getting dead and God bless this is machine gun Randy. I will talk to you Thursday night on the medical marijuana hour