The must of disarmy can drop dead. Anybody that wants to make meat unarmed and helpless. People that want to literally create the proven places where more innocents are killed called gun-free zones. We're gonna beat you. We're gonna vote you out of office or suck on my machine. What do we do? Politicians. No, okay. Just get any blunt objects together, alright? If you get cornered, put the fashion in the head. That seems to work out. Keep together, stay sharp, and follow me. I had a 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 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 the 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 to its number and you trade it 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 won't be married. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic. Arise take a stand defend the Constitution the supreme law of the land Preserve our great Republic and each God-given right Pray to God Keep the torch of freedom 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 tyrants trample each God-given, right? We only watch and 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 fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? And good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening Intelligence Report. I'm Art Kornke, one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories southwest, east, northeast, and central. 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It is now six months past Trumpet running for the door and waving from the plane and going to golf his hind it off down there in Florida. Yeah. Anyway, pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, pick, pick, pick, talk a little now, pick a little, pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, pick, pick, pick, talk a little. Yeah, Music Man, you don't remember that? Anyway, Weapons Wednesday, couple things I do want to touch on tonight still. And, you know, there's a couple interesting weapons out there. Somebody asked me about the 9mm M1 carbine. How many of you saw this when it came out several years ago? Eh, it doesn't seem like several years ago, but it's at least six. I don't know if it's still being made. Chiapa, the same company I mentioned the other day that's now doing the 9mm AK, and they already have experience with, you know, pretty good experience with the 9mm semis. The carbine idea, the biggest thing is it was a very different action that was used to make the M1 carbine silhouette wise. A lot of integrated parts pretty much work back and forth, but it was a very unique weapon unto itself. The interesting thing about this 30 caliber M1 carbine, not conversion, but built in 9 millimeter parabellum instead, If you're familiar with one rifle, stepping over to the other from one carbine to the next would be nothing. It's that simple. The Chiapas 9mm AKs, same thing. Problem. In both cases, the 9mm is as expensive as rifle rounds. You might as well, if you can, find a 7.62x39 AK or an SKS and ride with that beast. For the time being. But it doesn't mean the other weapons are bad in an only shaped performance. If you were sitting on a warehouse full of 9mm and you're really happy with reloading and reloading and reloading whatever you got, one of the good things about 9mm and .40 caliber and .45 ACP and .38 special and .357 is that you can cast a number of metals and end up with projectiles without any problem. The big thing then is propellant and primer. And if you do have a certain number of primers, or you can continue to access the ELPET, even though they might not be all consistently the same pattern of primer, you could run with it to make the gun work. One of the other things to remember is copper wash slash copper plating projectiles, especially if you produce lead. But here's the thing. It doesn't have to be lead. Any of the malleable or compressible metals would work, zinc being one of them. The only reason people complain about zinc is its frangibility. First of all, it is a little tougher, but no worse going down the tube than its counterpart, copper. You ever think about that one? It would be probably cheaper to cast a conventional zinc bullet solid than it is to make a jacketed lead bullet. The problem when you get down to the other end is when I say frangible, The zinc, when it's made into 357 diameter or 356, 358 diameter projectiles are bigger. It doesn't make any difference really with size. But whatever direction you go, it actually fractures and breaks down, if you've ever seen how these projectiles work, kind of like safety glass. Small, wicked square or different geometric shape. Chunks of metal once they make contact. It's just a matter of when you cast the stuff how the different cooling fracture lines develop Now that sounds like oh, I don't like that. It's just not what I want for cutting paper No, maybe not but it's really great for cutting people and so zinc and so will the other pot metals can be used quite effectively and Not put any more wear and tear on the barrel itself than a copper jacket lead projectile. Just think about that. Now, you go one step farther and you copper plate it and you've ensured that you have the same dissimilar metals, not that zinc is or zinc alloy. Now the reason I bring it up is because you can actually do a zinc-kin antimony combination much like you do a lead-kin antimony combination. Now, remember, your weights are going to be different. You're not going to get the same mass, the density you do with a lead core. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. If you experiment when you're loading any of these more unique projectiles up, you can slide up or down the loading scale to get the basic velocities and point of impact with the fighting system that's on the weapon. Mostly, you're worried about your iron sights lining up. optics, you know, you'll figure it out. Whatever you do with the optics, that's a matter of tuning it to, you know, point of impact for the bullet, right? That's the job. Anyway, there are other metals that can be used. Powders and primer, obviously, the real major consumables. Once you've got the brass, remember it is good for an extensive amount of reloading. Don't go hot, go a little low or light of middle of center with regard to the loading chart. That way, brass doesn't stretch as much. You got more lifespan. You'll probably get three, four, sometimes even five additional reloads beyond what you would normally do with the same piece of brass by simply backing off on the powder charge. And if you're using it for range training, that's all that you need. I'm not trying to go, well, I'm going to go in a combat mode. Well, it doesn't sound like it. You need more ammunition to shoot for training purposes, right? Now mark it for training purposes, but remember that any ammo will put a bullet hole in somebody so when the time comes all of us useful It's just a matter of you deciding, you know prioritizing what you're going to put in the weapon at the time or well We're out of all the regular 9 millimeter ball time to go to the frangible. Mm-mang. Mm-mang. Mm-mang. Oh that I guess it was maybe would have been a good choice from the beginning. I Really tore those suckers up. Oh, wow. That's really mean. Oh, that's actually what I wanted. Hmm So anyway, the issue with regard to these nine rifles and nine pistols is still like all of the weapons that are out there as ammunition availability, so we have to suffer past that. Now, somebody was asking me about the 9mm carbines. The interesting thing that I found out is the JAPA 9mm M1 carbine uses Beretta Model 92 magazines. Now, what that tells me, and to be quite honest, if I was looking for commonality and components, if I'm looking for a saddle carbine to go along with my hip pistol, then going with a Beretta 92 would not be a bad idea. Right? Now, it needs to be an American standard with the, because remember you have the different points of control for the magazine release, the Euro versus the American. Now the Chiapa is again, it'll take any standard Beretta 92 mag that's available, which makes it a double plus good thing, and one magazine on your weapons system for everything that you're doing. If you're using it as a light utility carbine. Now the Chiapa in AK, well the dominant mag now is the Glock, and so the adapter units that they're using are for the Glocks. Which means again, it's kind of cool. If you have that particular little carbine, I would obviously buy a Glock. I am, you know, to complement each other. It would just make sense. You're carrying a Glock on your hip. You got a Glock magazine 9mm saddle carbine. And it does everything that it's supposed to do. Plus it's a very comfortable weapon to shoot. It's interesting, I was watching some of the evaluations of the, because several people asked about it and was like, no, I've not really seen one personally. But I was kind of giggling when they were talking about all the recoil like it really like the fight The felt recoil is greater than with you know other guns, and I'm thinking like other guns like what I mean first of all it's a 90 millimeter round It really isn't exactly gonna push your shoulder, okay, so the guy was being a little poofy on that one It's like well, so recall was higher was it higher in proportion to what okay? Well, so they feel like an odd six they feel like you were firing a 10 gauge well, no So again, the other neat thing is remember the carbine typically because you don't have the buffer system. Yes, you do feel a certain amount of the recoil. Not an extreme short stroke weapon. In reality with the system that the Chiapas uses, you actually get a little more of a protracted thrust with regard to felt recoil. It's stretched out over a little longer period of time. But it's the nature of the action if you take a look at it. The interesting thing about these weapons is that they did do something very smart. They do have a proprietary magazine for most of their guns. But in the same breath, they also have the standard converter ready to go. The carbine comes with the kit, by what I understand. It looks to me like, I don't know, the AK version from Chiapas. I don't know if that is, never really did get clarity on that, or if you came with it or if you have to buy it. Personally, no matter what, I'd get it. And I understand, you know, it's the old story. Remember, eighth eraser is the blades, how they get you. So they're making a little more money off you having to buy a fixture that really should have been offered with the package since they already knew that it would be preferred. The advantage, real quick, of the original 9mm Type magazine for the AK model is familiarity and body muscle memory. The regular magazine for the Chappa Nines is the same as the standard AK-47 except scaled down. It's just a smaller, straight stack magazine. I would point out that this is quite similar to a bunch of the AKs that came out about seven years ago. They were straight stacked. They were trying to appease us. Yeah, seven could be during Obama. They were trying to appease the restricted areas, so what they had was basically it's a standard AK mag in terms of front to rear, but width wise, it's one half the width because it's a straight inline magazine. Also, they were only 10 round mags. The guns did not kick off well, if you recall, and I mentioned them on the air, and a lot of you are smiling because you bought them. And there's two things you could do with them. A, treat them like a superior magazine, a Bill Abel SKS Kirby, because they were 10 round mags. The cool thing is that because they weren't selling for a little while there, they were offering to try and just move the guns. They were giving you 20 magazines. I'm not exaggerating. It's in the program archives. 20 magazines with one gun. Well, for that reason, I wouldn't change the mags out. I just use it like a carbine or like, again, the way you think about an SKS. For instance, it does have a detachable mag. The neat thing is that you could also open them up, and that's why a lot of those disappeared from the market. Because if you had a confident gunsmith or a guy that went to a machine shop, all you had to do was open up the magazine well, and it would take standard AK magazines, which is where a lot of those guns went. And it's another reason you don't see any of those out circulating. If you do run into them, I'd recommend buying with there a reasonable price. In fact, right now somebody said, well, I got one of these AKs, but it's a goofy one, a 10 round magazine. Well, how much do you want for it? Well, I'll take 300 or 350. It's a bastard mag. I got a bunch of them mags, but it's kind of goofy. Grab it. If you're gonna wear a gun out, think about this. Let's say you've got a whole bunch of AKs. This is like all the other things that we talk about. Why am I shooting the $1,000 AK when I could be shooting the $300 or $400 AK? In fact, when they were selling them, they dropped below $200, if you remember that. But in fact, $184 was the low point. But anyway, the idea is that you could pick this weapon up for less and you could burn it out if you're going to be training. And then whenever you want to, switch over to your regular gun just for a real quick memory on the weight of the magazine. For training people who are new AK shooters, it would be perfect Because again, restricting the magazine is a good idea But for all that they need to know you've graduated them to a centerfire rifle. It's an AK Once they learn on that it's not a big deal to handle them a bigger hand them another AK off the rack that has a larger magazine capacity. Go ahead caller. What do we have? Yeah, it's text mics. Yeah, I was just gonna say that that's the way the The Romanian waser came in, the WAR. It was actually a single stack, but when Century gets them, they go ahead and open them up and weld two little plates on each side to keep the mag from wiggling around too much. I have a question real quick. I've been going to... You know, a couple years going to IDPA matches here locally and there's an old boy there. He's got some, it's all reloads. So he's got some .308 and he's got some of the .556 and he's an older feller and it's all his old reloads. and he's trying to sell them and he's getting 50 cents around. I mean, how safe do you think it would be to buy those or should I buy those or maybe not? Well, it depends. I mean, 50 cents around, he's getting what the market is bearing right now, but traditionally the reason he went with relos, because it was supposed to be cheaper. Now it is still cheaper than 80 cents or a dollar around, and along the seas seems to have an idea of what he's doing, there's not a whole lot you can really have go wrong unless there's no powder. You know, here's the thing you got to pay attention to is if you're going to be, you know, relay firing of any end, you know, for training is when you're shooting, make sure you're cutting paper. But if you fire and you're in especially intermediate or short range and you don't cut paper and you were using training rounds, which is something we've talked about, you might want to drop the mag and do a quick check on the board just to make sure that maybe you had no charge and just a primer. If that happens, it may not work the action, but what it will do is pop the bullet into the tube. And I'm not saying it's going to happen with a guy reloading. It's just going to happen with factory ammo. I had one rifle years ago, one of our guys was shooting on the range and he kept firing and it started tugging on him. And in fact, it was an M1A. And all of a sudden I said, whoa, freeze right there because I watched his recoil was actually about 50% greater, right? I could see it. They physically see that the axial rifle was starting to really hammer. Well, guess what? One bullet, say, early on in the magazine, it was obviously there was no charge or maybe some dust in there, but the primer was enough to pop the bullet a little ways down the barrel. And what happened is with every round he was stacking another bullet behind the other one. Now to the testimony of the rifle, it operated. Okay, think about this. And you know, of course, first thing you're thinking is, man, you're stretching body parts on that one. But amazingly enough, we went and got a brass dowel and, well, we got an auger from the one end, actually, a guy had a Civil War, a couple of black powder pieces, they were Civil War shooters, and they had a ball puller. And from the chamber end, right where the last bullet, when I stopped him, he had like one more bullet to go, but he would have been done. But, you know, he stopped it right there. We were able to get that auger in there and hook the base of the projectile. We pulled the first one out from the chamber and, you know, tugging on it like a wine, like you're opening a wine bottle. And then the rest, we took a brass tappet, a rod, and we always carried rods in the truck, you know, a little bit of everything. We had armor kit with us. And we took a 30 caliber brass solid rod and we just started tapping from the other end with a plastic mallet very, very slowly. And we got first, we got the first bullet out with a wine cork and a wine puller. And then we had well then two, then three, then four, then five. And six, it's like, oh, we got seven bullets. That was like Civil War experience. You know, the guys who fired thought they fired and loaded and pulled the trigger each time and they never fired around because they had like six, seven, eight balls in the tube. And this, here's what's amazing. It was a Fed-Ord receiver. It didn't stretch the side. Didn't, nothing blew up. I didn't even see a, I saw when he fired the last time, I think I saw some gas porting, you know, or a bull back. And it was just the way he was handling the weapon and he was so focused on shooting and trying to stay on target that he wasn't paying attention to what was physically happening to his body, which can happen when you get tunnel vision when you're shooting. And so just a warning that it can happen to anybody, and it was factory ammunition, it was Winchester ammo. So I'm not so much worried about the reloaders because they're going to, basically you want to ask them, Tex-Mex, You know, hey, are you you're what it where are you going with it with the load on this? You know middle of the road? What do you like to do? Because that's you want to feel for what you what the guys what the guy's doing with his ammunition. That's all hey mark well He did say that You know the he would the the reloads he was reloading. They were all hollow point. They're all matched bullets because he he was he was a high power and Was that CMP shooter? Okay. Oh, yeah You know what? Okay, I don't have another caller, but let me remind you of something. If somebody kind of mentions that they were a competition shooter, if they are and they were a belly gunner, you do know they're logged in. Just like when you're in competition, they're logged in the National Match Program. You know, for the National Match Program, if he's a belly gunner in .308, you'd be able to find out if he's been shooting. If he has been, you know real quick. I never made a top 500, that's because I never shot that much belly gun. I was pistol shooter back in the day. I mean, I filled in with a rifle team, only a handful at times, but I was a competition pistol shooter. The belly gunner, let's sort of tell you, when you start to get sloppy as a pistol shooter, they tell you to slide over to the rifles where you can relax a little, lay down. But again, unless he's done something really weird and I doubt it, if he's marketing the stuff, I have confidence. It's a matter of what you want to do with it. If you're thinking about taking it into competition, if you feel comfortable with that, if it's something where you're looking to tighten up your... First of all, find out what he was shooting it in next, if you're actually going to deal with it. Okay, if he's a match shooter, he's either doing a bolt barrel bolt gun, or he's running an M1A or something like that because most of the match shoots require it. It's got to be a military arm. And so he might be shooting a built, basically mimicking an M21. Well, which is very common, especially depending on if he's my age, that was the go gun back in the day was to try to emulate the, you know, the M21 or at least a built up match for a M1A. Find out what he was shooting it in and find out what his optimal print was with the round. What was he, what was he working at? Was he working at, you know, the 500 to 750 with those? What was his mission? Was he doing those, was that his thousand yard set? Because a lot of guys build bullets. Go ahead. Yeah, one of the things he was saying was that he's a like I said, he's a Vietnam vet You know, he's got he's got all the Marines has all the you know The stuff on that they usually have on and you know, like he was telling me, you know, he's just getting so old, you know There's no way he can shoot them all and shoot all the bullets that he's got already loaded Well, that's kind of like this gentleman that got me into high power. He was 70 years old back in the 70s And that's, he was, you know, he, I was gifted a treasure years ago. I still have a limited amount of the ammunition left and canned up. But everything that he, that I purchased from him was 100% his hand loaded ammunition. And he could tell you the date, you know, date, time, place. He did have a complete record system so I could, you know, have an idea what it was. Back in the day, rather than those national match hollow point or whatever, you know, take your pick, whatever it is they're using. Sierra, you know, match games, blah, blah, blah. It was, the big deal was using M2AP. I've mentioned this many times. That was the go-to round for tightening up your groups at long range. Most of the guys would load up an M2AP, pull an M2AP off an O2 6 and reload it into a 308 or they would reconfigure, change out the powder, go with a match or with a Magnum primer, depending upon what era it was, because they didn't always have Magnum primers. And again, the powder change out was to flatten it out for a long, long range, looking at the 1,000 yard mark. There's all kinds of ways you can tune it up and he can figure if you know if you're gonna use it in M1A and that's what he's been doing here. He'll be happy I think if he and maybe he'll make a deal if you tell him hey you're doing competition and It's what you want to do with it, too How much for a lot more you know what I mean? I'll tell you what I heard another voice there call or jump in there, please Hey Mark, Will from Florida here. So I ordered one of those typewriters when they were on sale and my question is, well technically two, first of all did you order one and second of all is there anything that I need to stock up a little bit to make that thing function? Like I was doing a little bit of research on really just typewriters in general, not that one. And it said most manual typewriters take half-inch typewriter tape, I think is what they called it. I mean, that's a Swedish military one. Is that going to take similar tape or am I going to have to get something special for Specializer? It should be the same. The only thing is it's going to be, it's a Scandinavian typewriter, so at the end of every sentence, no matter how hard you try, it's going to say A. A? Yeah. It's like you're typing and all of a sudden it's just it's like a ghostwriter. It's just eh. What the hell is that? Eh? Eh? Otherwise, well the big thing is okay, if you're gonna do the typewriter thing, well no you are. You're doing it. Number one, you can get re-inking, you can get re-inking ink. If you want it out there, it's a really neat, cheap way to make a real-to-real re-inking tool. Re-inking like your own re-inker. In fact, I'll guarantee if you go to YouTube, somebody's probably got a video on it. It's easier to watch the video than it is to listen to me on the radio. But you can buy additional ribbons and you should. In fact, oh, I'm trying to think who else. There's a couple of new companies out there who still have on-stock. Is there anything else other than just ribbons I need to stock up on for those? Well, first of all, you want to do a dust-up kit so that the operator would have in the field. Usually on the military one, if you have a hard case, it might even have it. When you open up the climeshell, there will be a little sleeve in the climeshell that has a duster sometimes even a little poofoo blower to get the garbage out, you know, to clean up the controls, the pivots. And then whether it uses graphite or whether they use a number 10 oil, actually they even had I think, not I think number 10, I think it's basically the same as sewing machine oil. But anyway, they sometimes have a little oiler. I mean, it depends on, you know, ours did, the ones we had and they were American made typewriters. We didn't have, we had nothing but manual, we didn't have any electric anything. And that's in the, you know, 70s and 80s. Everything was manually operated. In fact, they tried to take them from us, we had to hide them. Because they wanted them back to destroy them. And what we did is every time the inspector came around, we had to hide all the typewriters. Otherwise, we'd have no typewriters. But we were supposed to fill out forms. I always loved that one. So anyway, the other thing is try to find carbons. That's just handy. Okay, usually no more than you can you have five layer carbon. Well four layer carbon one master for four copies The only other thing would be maybe again a more aggressive little and usually it's in the kit But if you if nothing else get a really my you mean carbon fiber Yeah, carbon paper carbon copy paper. Oh You want carbon, carbon paper. It saves you a lot of trouble. It makes your typewriter a little baby mimeograph machine. You can do five copies or so. Oh, that's ingenious. Thank you. I'm sure that's going to save me hundreds of hours already. And as a matter of fact, if you look around in the industrial surplus category, there's a number of different, usually they're actually bonded forms. You know, bonded white sheets, but they'll be, they're actually ticker taped together so that they, you know, they're all in one, they won't have to reshuffle and reshuffle constantly, but they also feed efficiently into the machine. There's a number of different, there's legal length and there's conventionally ain't half by 11. I would get both. Depends on what you can find cheap because like I said, industrial surplus If you look in some of these warehouse operations out there, you'll find the stuff float laying around by the reams. And it's conventional copy machine paper, right? Oh yeah, you can use any, well yeah, any paper is typewriter paper. I joke, you know what, you take, you know, a single roll of toilet paper, you know, an industrial like you find at the schools. Yeah. The wrapper paper that that comes in, is basically air mail paper. If you're familiar with air mail paper, used to be when postage was outrageous and Americans were frugal. They used to have what is called air mail paper, which is basically 10 shear weight. and it's like rice paper. Well amazingly enough, the toilet paper refers, that's what I used to call it, Chinese typing paper. If you wanted to get more mail out for the weight, especially if you're behind the wire, you could get more sheets of more letters out. So many people listening know because you got letters from me like this. You could get more paper and more information written down, especially if you're doing legal work, by using the toilet paper wrapper rather than using a regular sheet of paper. You get three sheets of toilet glass of number 10 shear versus one conventional 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper in an envelope. Times how many you can to max out because you don't have somebody else's, you don't have like what is it, an ounce per stamp I think. You may recall I could be wrong. But anyway. The other thing you want to know, remember you're dealing with having to maintain the thing yourself. You want to find a micro maintenance brush, a small head about the size of say a children's toothbrush, not an adult. There's a couple of them that are made for doing precision cleaning on electronics, but they're aggressive, but very fine-tipped bristle, and you want that with a little container of alcohol, you know, alcohol, a small bottle. And the reason is because you want to, if you want to maintain the definition of your keys when they strike the carbons, because they're going to get cluttered up, they get cluttered up just with paper filament. What you do is you apply a little bit of the alcohol to the face of the key and then take that little aggressive brush and you clean up all of the fascia on all of your strikes. And what that does is, you know, redefines, it takes all the junk out of the P and out of the D and that way it doesn't look like another letter when you have that fourth copy down. So it makes a big difference with regard to definition and performance of the print when the time comes. So that's long haul though. It takes a while. If you do a lot of typing, it doesn't take long, but you know, still the average bear may not. You want, again, you want basically be able to, like, I'll tell you what, a brush that works really well for cleaning out in between all of the operating mechanisms. Just like on a Garand, is a regular shaving brush. Horsehair shaving brush. Those are perfect. Everybody, all of you listening, if you've got an M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, any of the open operation weapons where the bolt is exposed, or a typewriter, or any fine machinery like this where it's mechanical, you know, it's not electronic but mechanical, those of the old shaving cream brushes. You can buy them brand new right now. That's a big fad right now so you can get cheap ones. But you want real horse hair. When you want to get down in there and get the crud that might have fallen in by accident, remember it's a precision machine to begin with, but you want to do basic maintenance on that typewriter. That's one of the tools you really, really want to have. It'll help to evacuate the crap out of the machine, which is what you're looking to do Anything else go ahead. I'm sorry I'm not am I gonna have any problems with it being foreign pipeline or over an American one like the momentum or was that a joke? No, actually I'll be willing to bet it'll run as long as any of the better made American machines ever did This the Swedes build well They build well for their military and in fact, well, you probably I'd be willing to bet that when you get the machine, I'd be willing to bet that's dated back to maybe no later than 1973 or 1974. And it's probably been in service on and off for that whole time, for you know, since then. It could be even older, could be from the 60s, could be from the 50s. But amazingly enough, it's just like their phone equipment. You know, there's a bunch of their telephone equipment from the same early part of the Cold War coming out. All that stuff is built to old brick doghouse spec. And if you did get it, or if you do, you decide to pick up some of this stuff, remember guys, once you got it, if you take care of it, it's going to be around for as long as you live. So, same with these typewriters, a lot of the other administrative equipment, they built it because they planned on passing it down to the next generation. It's like the Swiss equipment. There's not one piece of Swiss equipment you buy as surplus that hasn't been used by two generations at least. And I don't care what it is. If you buy Swiss like that, Swiss Elphin Flage, they issue that and reissue it and reissue it again for as long as, you know, this is to be in service. The World War I Swiss helmets, combat helmets were from World War I to World War II. A bunch of those came out about 25, 30 years ago. Those had been issued over and over and over again. They didn't just issue the helmet out and then chuck it out the back door to surplus. They husband their resources. And the Swedes are the same way. They are exactly the same way. That's why, hardly, for the longest time, you'd never see any Swedish surplus anything. But once they, and I don't know if their policy is going to change and they're going to crap out the China Sport or not, I don't know if they have. But if you think about it, the surplus you're seeing, how many years old is it and why are you just now seeing it? You know what I mean? In other words, the stuff is really well built, it works really well, and even when they're done with it, it still works really well. Which I think is rather fascinating. Now some of it's brand new and issued like Civil Defense Military Reserve, which is the same thing that we do when we sell older stuff too. And there's nothing wrong with it. I'm gonna use it in a heartbeat. One of the advantages it is a mechanical system. There's no nothing can burn out EMP isn't going to affect it and When you're in the field no matter what wherever you are It's going to work as long as you got a digit to push the keys with and in one eyeball to see might be half blind I'd only have one finger left, but you can still type and expect to you know speak in Scandinavian a Remember that it's going to type that no matter how hard you try then ever since Well, what I was going to ask was mainly the thing I was asking about between Swedish and American was, is the keys in the American English alphabet? Oh, no, it should be the same. I mean, I don't know if there's anything like an oomph. I know that's the one thing it might be. There could be an oomph, though. You know, the OE connection, there could be an ish. You know, there might be a key for that, but I don't think so. As far as I know. And one of the reasons for that is because even though it's a NATO standard thing, pretty much everybody's on the same key, on the same page. As far as I know, I could be wrong on that because like I said, you're dealing with the Scandinavian, the Germanic and the Flemish, and there's a few combination letters that might be in there in the upper case, like you have to switch to the upper case. to get it. Well, no, you wouldn't have to have upper and lower case because it could be going your way. So, yeah, it might be there. I just have it looked. That's a good question. But if they do that, I do not believe, see, the basic keypad is the same worldwide. Even the Chinese have embraced that. Now, granted, they have their format for their, because they have Chinese keypads. In fact, they're much more elaborate than ours are. But their basic, you know, the international tongue is English now. It used to be French now. It's English for as long as, you know, we last. And for that reason, everybody has mimicked the same format accordingly. Part of it also has to do with UN and international code. Now that equipment is old enough. Like I said, I'd be curious. When you get it, I do want you to follow up and let me know. There should be a strike plate. with all the nomenclature, model number, manufacturing number, and it'll also have data production. And like I said, I'd be willing to bet that looks to be like early 70s, classic late 60s, early 70s. But I'd wind to it around 73, 74. And I just, it has that feel. And I've done enough with foreign equipment or equipment in general, not just surplus, but also in the field, because When you're at USECS, you have, and also at Fort Knox, you had with the General Staff War College instruction courses, you have an overview on all technologies, like at Fort Knox, it's all armor, but it also covers the command structure, command and tiers of control and administration. And so you see all the equipment, and they have examples of everything there. Now, you've got to remember, I did that back in the 70s and 80s. So that's been a few decades ago. And this has that look. It's just, you know, you can feel it. And even in tell you, it's Cold War era. So there's nothing otherwise I can think. The big thing is being prepared to maintain it. And again, if you just put a little kit together, I'll tell you what really works well is a little shaving bag. Watch for a throwaway shaving bag at a resale store. And then take and put that together with all the little items that you want, a few extra brushes, throw in some Q-tips, and get yourself also a dental pick, one of those, you know, like one little pick in either end. And that way, if there's a little something that you see in there, you might just want to kick out. You don't dig. Remember, guys, we flick. It's we lap, we tap, and we flick things. We don't grind, and we don't hammer on anything. And we don't saw it something with a sharp object. Basic rules. And otherwise, the machine, the only thing is I don't know about spare parts. I doubt that there would be, well, there are people that do maintain typewriters, so you probably could get it rebuilt if something happened. But for what you're paying for, would you really worry about that? And again, you'll know when you get it what it is about condition. I doubt that it's ramshackle and floppy and tired and gummed up. It'll probably be just basically off the shelf standard utility grade but in nice condition. And it is a useful tool despite the fact we want Go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm planning on writing as much of the war as I survive. So I would like to have it last as long as possible. Right? Well, it'd be perfect for exactly that. Even though, again, the old story, the typewriter goes wherever the operator does. As long as the operator's still alive, the typewriter will keep typing. You know what I mean? In other words, it will work. Doesn't require batteries. That's the one thing I did like about it. That's why we didn't want to... Like I said, back when we had goofy crap going on with Carter, I just mentioned about the typewriters. Okay, we're a headquarters group. I'm in a G2 shop and we had seven manual typewriters. Now, we're going to get you new ones, supposedly, right? But there's no new material arriving in at Quartermaster. Well, if Quartermaster doesn't get it, You don't give away what you have and have nothing when the next day you still have to do the same work you've done for the last hundred days or two years or five years. It doesn't change. But this is the kind of idiot crap coming out of the Pentagon back in the day. We all need to turn in our typewriters. And I said, well, then what are we supposed to do in the meantime? What? Well, are we getting a new typewriter? Are we getting a new piece of equipment? Something as simple as a stupid typewriter. And it'd be like, well, you don't need to ask that question. I said, yeah, I do, because guess what's going to happen the moment something doesn't get processed. We're doing background checks. We're dealing with administration. We've got to generate this stuff. We have SIT reports. The rest of our operation needs to be maintained. And you guys love it in quadruplicate, right? Or sec-publicate copies. How do you like that one? Anyway, you just turn your type version. Bring it down here at 3 o'clock. Trust me, you couldn't find anybody at 3 o'clock. All the typewriters were hidden or pulled out of the building and run to the car, right? And for two weeks straight, they wanted you to bring your typewriter. I said, well, did they really show up? No. So about a month and a half later, a memo comes through, oh, we don't know what happened, but you don't need to turn your typewriters in now. Well, who gave the order to turn the typewriters in? Well, we don't know. Why did you want everybody to turn the typewriter? We don't know. Well, were you planning on replacing the typewriter? We don't know. And so you're asking these questions and you're listening and these are the people from Washington you're talking to and it's like, okay, Nimrod, okay, thank you very much. Goodbye. Same thing happened in the middle of winter with field jackets. Everybody goes to work. Everybody's got their field jacket on. All of a sudden somebody in the administration got a burp their ass and said, everybody needs to turn in your M65 field jacket. And it's like, what? And so we're in the middle of winter and they want everybody to come down to the mess hall and they want us all to turn in our field jackets in the middle of winter. They didn't tell anybody in advance. They just sprang this on everybody. And it's like, well, okay, well, are we getting new ones? Well, no. So you're taking our field jackets. Well, yeah. Why are you taking our field jackets? We got an order from, you know, what was it? Military support and logistics. And it's like, okay, what does it say? Well, we needed turning all of our M65 field jackets from command down through the whole of the division. And it's like, okay, so the new ones are here. They're a quartermaster. Well, no. So what are we supposed to leave the building in? It's like it's like 10 degrees outside and the wind's blowing and the snow's up to your knees. Well, that's not my problem. You need to turn these in. 12 people showed up down at the mess hall. And nobody would answer the phone and nobody came in and nobody surrendered their field jacket. You know what? Springtime got a memo that came through. Oh, you don't need to turn your field jackets in. three months later, guys. So eventually you understand what asinine is all about. That's why I use a term for Friday, it's called quarter bastard Friday. There's a reason that term came about. Quarter bastard. Yeah. Is there any common sense to this? No. Who thought this up? We don't know. What are you gonna do? Are we gonna get a replacement? If you don't hear him say yes, it's, in fact, let me see it. I'll tell you what. Guys, you take over the office for a minute here. I'll be right back. I'm gonna do down with the guy from Quartermaster here, and we're gonna go look at our new coats. We don't have any coats. Oh. Well, if we don't have any coats, then what are we supposed to do in the middle of winter around here? It's like, would you want me to show up with it? I mean, I do have a bunch of other stuff that's all military junk I picked up in my travels. But I think the officer in charge, the OIC, the general's going to wonder what's going on and some of the other people are going to wonder what's going on. Of course they do know. They know the stupid art. They wouldn't turn their coats in. It's called Dumas. That's why I said we can do better, people. We can do much better. In fact, we should have changed the government way back then. Now it's just gotten worse. I can't imagine what kind of Twilight Zone garbage they are doing now. You know, I would expect that to be the anthem coming in in the morning. Oh wow, we're at work. Hey Mark. And then don't forget political correctness. Go ahead, caller. Hey Mark, I'm wondering if Tex-Mex is still listening in at this point. Tex-Mex. Yeah, I just know one of the... Just give me your mind, Tex-Mex. Yep, I know that one of the I know that one of the shows that he frequents like in San Antonio It's a the biggest show there in San Antonio that land sold in that Marbach Marbach location is Excuse me. Yeah, if you're talking about the section show. Yeah this month. Yes, the this weekend is gonna be the last show there Yeah, Tex-Mex sounds very good brother. Well look here. I want you to come to New Braunvoltz Okay, come to New Braunvoltz. It's going to be a premiere show and that's going to be on July 10th and 11th if you're free on that weekend Saturday Sunday July 10th 11th New Braunvoltz I'll be there set up with surplus ask for a blue healer Blue-Hearer? Oh, okay. I gotcha. They'll point you my direction. A Blue-Hearer dog? A Blue-Hearer... A Blue-Hearer kick, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's about it, so TexMaxx, no more venue there, so you need to look in some other directions. I hope to see you on New Braunvald. Over. Yes, sir. I had already heard about that show and I had already had plans. I have a friend who goes to that show and he sells a lot of surplus ammo and stuff. He buys off other people and resales. He always gives me some good deals on mags and stuff. Yeah, I know you're talking about. Yeah. Very, very, very, very good, brother. All right. So next time you guys will be together. That'll be a good thing. We'll have to guess about, you know, now you're visualizing. If you haven't met before, you're thinking about what somebody looks like. Now you're going to validate your concept. We're almost to the top. It's 854. I want to say thank you again to all of our friends who donated. Actually, we had some other donations. You just came in yesterday. And I want to say thank you for all the support. Ed appreciates that. And again, we're upgrading. We're actually involved in a whole bunch of other things and changes or additions that are going on right now. Again, somebody asked me about satellite. I got to point out that's not us. I don't know who's rebroadcasting, but the reason I know is because in the western Pacific, somebody's picking us up and they're able to hear us on the shipping lanes west of, I think, actually the Philippines. So we're heard as far, we're heard, Liberty Tree Radio right now, live, probably a few moments delay. is being heard shipboard in the Western Philippines. I believe it's the North-South track. There's a couple of shippers there. Guys are contractors. And we've gotten feedback also from the Northern US to Korea. I guess there's another one. I know my uncles worked out of those. But they're listening to us on the shipboard and also some of the islands because they've let people know how to listen in. So we've got to say hi to all of our friends in the Pacific that are listening in other modes that we don't control, which is okay. In addition, a reminder to Wednesday before you close out. Oh, go right ahead. Jump in there, please. Thank you. Yeah. So, Dave and the thumb here, I heard it today. I don't know if you reported it yet or you heard it, but Michigan Consumer Energy reported that the Michigan Commission on Public Works or whatever you call that agency gave them permission to raise rates by 50% anytime they feel the need. So they don't have to build any more dirty power plants. because they don't have enough generating power to keep in our electricity in Michigan anymore. Well thank you for bringing that to my... Now I tell you what, for those of you who don't know guys, this should be the hydro state to end all hydro states. But there has been a planned program not to destroy necessarily the dams, although they want to do that too. But for a very long time they have systematically attacked the hydroelectric system in Michigan here. We have the ability not only to produce 100% of the power we need with hydro, with the dams that exist, but we also were marketing five times the production capacity that we needed out of the state as part of the National Power Grid. And that is not happening now, caller. That's one of the things. In fact, remember that dam, you're in the thumb. Remember we had that dam that went out earlier this year? That was one of the power dams that the governor the bitch now the bitch in Lansing the you know Greta Bruce Jenner There was a whole bunch of skullduggery going on with that that man tried Twice to have all the work done that need to be done on that dam and they did everything in their power to prevent the repairs from taking place and That's why they ended up with the problems that they had but what it also did is it took out a hydro hydro plant And that's what they really wanted. So what you're talking about right now, like I said, we need to, well, I know we need to do, this country needs to be cleaned out right now as it is with the foreigners that we've got that are causing our problems. And Michigan has the same foreigners causing the problems, they're out of Toronto, that we have giving us problems in New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio. How much of our resources is it going to take to run and protect those during the war, all the infrastructure points? Well, that's just it. Interestingly enough, I'm going to tell you this, are people run most of the power plants already? Seriously, when the feds were up there in the thumb where our callers are calling from, everybody in the power plant where our people, the FBI was on the roof and they didn't realize it was Custer's last stand. If everybody had known fully what was going on, they didn't know what was happening across the river. They just had the characters surrounded on the roof of the power plant. And the idiot sticks were oblivious to it. The idiot feds, along with the local township representatives that were there, with their little Bangladesh-made FBI hats, the feds gave them. Everybody else in the complex were our people, including the management. So that's going to be one of the advantages in the long run with regard to maintaining the infrastructure and having the manpower it needs to be. We're not going to destroy it. We're going to preserve it. But to do that, we have to have a working knowledge. Most of our people do. There's no. Anyway, we are the top guys for everybody out there. God bless our Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire. Just on the run. And we are on the march both day and night. Night. Everybody out there, guys, stay frosty, stay focused. Crane. Organize, arm, equip, as militia, and train. Take the time to do so intelligently. Come and get out of the way. Edward taking over. More LTR coming up. God bless. Bye-bye.