a teacher that I had. I went through the seventh grade. I went to the seventh grade. I left home when I was 10 years old because I was hungry. I used to do some things too. I work on the summer and I go to school in the winter. But I had this one teacher, he was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincent, Indiana. To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real sage of my time, anyhow. He had such wisdom. And we were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance one day. And he walked over, this little old teacher, Mr. Laswell was his name. Mr. Laswell, this is, um... He says, I've been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester. And it seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word. I, me, an individual, a committee of one, pledge. dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity, allegiance, my love and my devotion to the flag, our standard, oh glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job. United. That means that we have all come together States individual communities that have united into 48 great states 48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose all divided with imaginary boundaries yet united to a common purpose and That's love for country and to the Republic Republic A state in which sovereign power is invested in representative chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people. And it's from the people to the leaders. Not from the leaders to the people. For which it stands. One nation, one nation. Meaning, so blessed by God. Indivisible. Incapable of being divided. With liberty. Which is freedom. the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation and justice. The principle or qualities of dealing fairly with others for all, which means boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine. And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of allegiance under God. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer? And that would be eliminated from schools too. I had a dream the other night that, well I didn't understand. 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 cure 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. You've taken Satan's number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn holds they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors, so their children will be there. 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'll 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 eat God's given right, and pray to God to keep the torture freedom burning bright. As Iowoki 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 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, dill the land of the free? Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is the... first hour of the afternoon intelligence report a two-hour block Ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on Liberty Tree radio dot 4 mg dot com Liberty Tree radio on satellite and many other technologies both inside and outside the United States I'm Mark Carkey One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters on and behind the lines in occupied territories. Southwest, Northeast, West, and South. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, but we're also on a new series of micro-FM's. I want to say hi to the 89.5, 89.7 and 89.9 FM sister stations running in consortium, but slightly off different frequencies. They're experimenting right now. Remember, they can dial up to whatever they want. I think the original idea is to piggyback, but they still had to find out what their overlap points are so that you're controlling a road. You drive down a road for 100 miles. You'll hear 100 miles worth of the same programming. And first, they just figured they'd get everything set up. They're not fighting with each other. They don't know what they're... No point is for knocking out their alternate or friendly frequencies. So as far as the broadcast goes, there's a point where the two FM's fuzz when they come together. So that's something you're trying to tweak out. But in the meantime, three different frequencies. So congratulations, three different opportunities to listen to Liberty 3 Radio and a lot of other broadcasting, but I understand. Anyway, it is Weapons Wednesday. It is... Well, we got a caller who do we have respond? Yes, sir before we get on a topic. I know it's weapons Wednesday, but I want to pick your brain In the 40s they had newsreels That would play in the theaters or across the country Were them destroyed or were they locked up to where no one can find them or see them to your knowledge? Oh, as far as the, I don't know, they're really kind of funny about that. A lot of them were not considered critical after the war, and most of them ended up in private producers' collections. And where a lot of them come from, where they were best preserved, they should be in the National Archives too, by the way. There is a film section for the National Archives. But in addition to that, a lot of the copies of these, because it was done by one production company or another, the producers or the general owners of, say, a film group would keep the stuff in their own private libraries. That's where a lot of the stuff has come back out over the years, like America with a K. America with a K, the only reason you can see it, is because while it was never shown in rerun, it was never produced in any way, shape or form, visually observed by anybody on any network, no satellite, no foreign broadcasting, nothing. The reason it survived is because the production was bought up by the master copies were bought up by a producer and the producer had it in his own private collection along with many many many many other movies and that's also how a lot of stuff has been saved but otherwise just would have been destroyed because of neglect because everybody assumes somebody else is going to save it so there are probably other collections out there that have it is there particular one you're looking for or something you're interested in? We were talking and my parents told me my dad and uncles weren't in here and then in the States. But I was told that in the newsreels, the Japanese were taking babies and throwing them in the air and catching them with bayonets. And the people we was talking to said I was crazy and I was nothing that... Oh, the Japanese filmed that. No, you're talking about the... The raping of... I was thinking the raping of Nanking... And the sacking of Shanghai, that's an FNF. But Nanking, and I think also Shanghai, oh they did far worse and the Japanese are very good about filming it. They died when they were the rape of Nanking. Great, thank you, I'm pretty sure, I figured okay. Anyway, you know what I mean. The idea was horrible death and destruction and slaughter in mayhem. And the Japanese were winning, so they did a lot of filming of, for instance, the executions and other things that they were doing to the population simply because it's like, well, they didn't like the Chinese. They wanted, they thought it would crush their spirit. And it was a pump up for the troops. So, go ahead. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to drown you out. I heard it was in the Philippines too, but anyway, I was wondering, I was telling these people, and they acted like I slapped them in the head with a two by four. But anyway, I was just seeing if I could ever get something like that and show them, I was right, and I was then, you're about the one I know to ask. Well, the thing is, you're on the right track, because this is all stuff that we grew up with. Actually, up until I would say the 60s even, some of the like it was war effect, you know what you might check, if you can find a VHS copy, not a DVD because they've edited everything, it's just like you know move any other movies. If you can find or watch for an old VHS copy of World at War, which is I think seven or nine tapes, Right. That particular, when it was put on VHS, which is in the earliest days of VHS, they were trying to find anything that was reasonably priced and historical. That was the big thing rather than so much the glamour stuff. I mean, certainly they were trying to put movies on, but they only had so much stuff available initially. The VHS market wanted to expand. And the World War series on VHS, if you can find the first cuts, I think I have at least one, I at least maybe two sets of those. There's a bunch of stuff in there that has been either edited out or made to disappear if you see the updated series, you know, version. And part of that covers the Chinese theater. Japanese-Chinese pre-American-American War. Because again, the argument is that the war really started in 1933 with China and Japan. Not with us over in Europe or Europe in 1940. It was hell. Everybody was already shooting at each other and collectively doing a good job of it and a whole lot of other points of the compass. And China was one of them. And China's one of those interests... Go ahead. Well, China was one of those things that was better documented than you might think, but it got here to the United States to a degree, but it's interesting. They produced a lot of footage and a lot of combat documentaries that didn't really hit the American market, but were out there for the Empire's consumption, like England. The war was vast. The Chinese campaign in and of itself involved massive armies. All kinds of horrific things happened in the process of what really was more than a decade's worth of war for China. By the time they got around to when you see them taking the coastal cities the way that they did, That's during the great expansion and would really be like the third offensive of the Japanese military. Because they'd already been, they were already fighting with China when World War II broke out with Pearl Harbor for us. It's just that that was their big push. And so all the atrocities and stuff are part of the you know, promoting speed, you know, trying to terrorize the population, promoting speed across the land as quickly as they could because they wanted the oil in Southeast Asia, they wanted the Dutch oil, etc. So there was a whole mission involved there, but they also wanted to try and roll things up with China, which they still didn't do, but they, you know, they hurt each other bad enough. The Philippines were just as bad, by the way. The Philippines, you know, you're on the right track there too. The Philippines... That's why the Filipinos don't have any extreme huggy love-ness for Japan. There's a lot of long, deep pain there that goes back way before even World War II. Japan at one time, back in the first waves of European contact, Japan already controlled parts of the Philippines. And when they were in there before, they weren't any different because it was back during the Shogunate era, you know, the Warlord era, and they were ruthless with the population. And the population was pretty aggressive right back at them. So the Koreans and the Filipinos all have hard blood against Japan. That's what makes it tough to get them to try and fight the Chinese, if you know what I mean. Go ahead, I'm sorry. No, sir. I appreciate it. I know it's weapons Wednesday, and I didn't want to interrupt you But I you're the only one I know what would know something about it. We could help me out find it out So I appreciate it so much and you take care and God bless you and thank you for being on the air and on the show Well, you're not crazy. Okay for anybody says that tell me call me I'm like But I grew up with this stuff too. Just like you probably did you can recall but my parents, you know My grandparents used to talk about it Willard Colter, I've mentioned him many times, he's long gone. He was there when all that stuff happened. And he said, oh, you think that was bad? Oh, we saw far worse. The Japanese, you know, there was... The only thing worse than watching the Japanese and the Chinese go at each other was watching the Koreans go with the Koreans. Because Asians are, you know, show no kindness in a blood feud. And once it becomes a blood feud, Yeah, all bets are off and all the stops are pulled. Everything goes to the extreme. So Japan and China were like that. Korea with North and South Korea, guys, when the South Koreans catch the North Korean infiltrators, one of our friends was there when they came across the one, well, one suicide group did, and they didn't all commit suicide. Well, what the South Koreans did is skin the guys alive. and threw them back into the reservoir on the western side of the DMZ, threw them back in the reservoir and said, swim home or it'll take you four days to die here. So they sent them back, skinned alive, and just keep swimming, because if you stay here, it's going to take you a long time to die. We ain't going to kill you right away. And that's our allies. That's the South Koreans. Okay, so you figure out what kind of fun you get it you know these people have you know what kind of what the mindset is Creative long-term depth you know bamboo saw is another one they really love I don't know what it is about you know bamboo is really harsh, but it's the Not a bamboo saw for cutting bamboo We're talking about making a saw out of bamboo and using it to cut body parts, and you know what it takes a long time What happened, but it also yeah, you know it's easy Yeah, the number of Mr. Parks trees. So what happens if you cut down on one of Mr. Parks trees? Yeah. Well, thank you very much, Mark, for your time and everything, and I appreciate it. Very good. We'll touch a little bit more on that in a few minutes here because it's kind of in line with something else that we have been talking about locally here. Real quick, it is by 24 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, and it is Weapons Wednesday. It is Also, well let's see, it's the 20th of October, we're full moon tonight, but you may not be able to see it here because we've had blue sky all day, we've got cloud cover, we've had a solid wind out of the south and we've got some medium to high cloud cover that's rolled in a little bit, still broken up, you'll still be able to see the moon, but and you will even if it, even if we had cloud cover, it's going to be awfully stinking bright tonight, just be ready for that. Also, again, that is the 13th year of open Fabian, socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2021 old earth calendar, 2021 battle for the Republic, dance of swords. And again, with the news reels, the best thing you can do, it's kind of like what they're talking about. Nobody's got original copy of Star Wars. Well, only if you were stupid enough to throw all of your stuff away that you had when you originally paid god-awful amounts of money for it. And when VHS tapes first came out, what's interesting is like with Star Wars, is yeah, you can get it. You may have it. Ed knows I have a few. But I also have a lot of other copies of early run productions, and the way to tell, I'll tell you how you can tell if you've got an original right away, is the weight of the tape. And everybody goes, what? Guys, when VHS first came out, it was made to American commercial grade for theater production. In other words, for instance, cassette type module and tape modules that would be used for television production or for computer transmissions, computer recording tape. VHS tape, in reality, VHS, has a better audio quality track than most digital. And in fact, it is the zenith for audio tracking. Realtor Realtor is great and still is phenomenal. Don't make any mistake about that. Realtor Realtape is one of the best ways to get the highest quality of audio recording capability you could find. But VHS has the same potential. You want to know why? This is what I just mentioned earlier. What was its original purpose? Well, guys, originally it was for data streaming, not for imaging, although imaging was with the government first before you peasants got it. And it was done with, oh, that's right, magnetic tape. Oh, well, the audio track needed to be really clean because, remember, what are you doing? You're doing... signal transmission and data streaming with tape and also for you know auto use record replay. So back to the matter is that there's you know there's some really good technology out there that's still on the shelf if you look around at the grammar collections that for instance estate sales. But with the old VHS much denser heavier better quality cassettes You'll notice that everything in many cases, all the little spindles have inserted micro bearings, have micro races with micro bearings in them. When you spin them, they spin like a fidget wheel, you know, these fidget toys that just spin forever. In addition to that, the density of the tape and the quality of the tape was of commercial standard. So it was in fact a very very high grade. Now later on when they rated tapes, that would be considered a red grade tape. And what we mean by that is it's upper end reusable but ideal for long-term storage. And the commercial or VHS cassette types that were used in the industry actually had a red flap. You know I have the flap in the front of the VHS tape. You see it with a red flap. You'll also notice the quality of the plastic again is very much higher than the later stuff that was put on the average production VHS bulk tape that was out there. Because progressively they got cheaper and cheaper and thinner and cheaper and cheaper, etc. Cut corner, pinch penny, cut corner, pinch penny, cut corner, pinch penny, okay? Interesting thing about Star Wars. I'll never forget this. I always mention it for a reason because here's something that was edited out that was kind of grim when it was done in the original movie and how many of you remember this? I remember it because I was sitting right in the middle of the theater and it was during the day so it was a matinee and there weren't many people in the theater. I'd say maybe a hundred, 125. And when they do that scene where, you know, they bust into the rebel, the rebel frigate, And there's the little gun battle scene. Remember the guy with the gray hair that crouched down? Looks like he's probably in his 50s or so and he's got all white hair and he's wearing a standard rebel uniform. When he's crouched down there and the first bullets are exchanged, the blasters are exchanged, let me point something out. In the original, on the big screen, When the shot turns as if it's from the stormtrooper direction, they do a quick, blur close-up of that guy and the blaster goes right through his eye and you can see what's behind him. I remember that like it was yesterday. That's not a guess, that kind of a sort of. Now, guess what? For the most part, it looks like that's been edited out of every other episode. I should say remake, but what's fascinating about it is I remember it like it was yesterday and I still, well I would have to check, but on the first generation tapes I believe it's intact. After that, oh god we can't have the kids seeing that. There's a guy who gets his hole put right through his head and you can see daylight and what's beyond him on the other side. Oh my god. And it's because the guy kind of like, pfft, and as soon as it hits him in the head and puts the hole straight through his head, they flash obviously, you know, they switch back and forth from one shoot to the other shoot, you know, etc. And, you know, the battle continues. The little internal battle continues. Come along R2. Anyway, just an example of things being edited. So when we're talking about, you know, all they were throwing babies up on man, that's the stuff. It's like, yeah, yeah, they were. They were doing far worse. And yes, they did a good job of documenting it. Let's point something out. Where you could also go for that. At the end of the war, we had the Nuremberg trials, mostly illegitimate, by the way. And then we have the Japanese trials. A lot of those are illegitimate too, but the Japanese, like you said, they documented a lot of their more, let's just say, aggressive tendencies and sadistic tendencies. And those are available for everybody to see and to bring into the court and to use on the responsible officers. Which is why a lot of field officers unlike really what you saw in Europe you didn't see it as much the political attacks and political executions to get rid of the witnesses about how many Americans and English were involved in the behind-the-scenes trade with Germany during the war which they never want you to find out about well they had to kill those guys off but in Japan, a lot of the field commanders, especially in the Chinese theater, ended up, if they didn't commit ritual seppuku, they ended up being hung. Typically, I don't know that they were given the soldier's execution, slash firing squad, although I do believe there were some cases that it was a matter of who was managing British, as opposed to American, etc. Yeah, a bunch of people were strung up because of the very actions and the kinds of actions are worse even that we're talking about there was a Grim environment by the time they were done What is it? The Empire of the Sun is doesn't even come close, but it does give you a flavor for the environment We're talking about Remember? Remember, P-51 going by and the kid jumping up and down waving for the fifth floor? Yay! And the pilot waves as he goes by in slow motion. P-51 Cadillac of the sky! Anyway, Empire of the Sun. Go check that one out. Remedial of Jocky memory and a couple of things. Some of the things they did to the civilians, but even there, nothing as bad as... You know the other stuff we're talking about and that's that's just one of the many where it's been the it's the softened version so to speak So anyway, uh, okay on to other things now number one aim surplus calm They got a few more boxes of ammunition in And again, I don't know what they got in PPU and it will not last but I had a bunch of people asking about 303 British again and Aimed Surplus is the one that gets PPU and gets the 303 in on a regular basis. So I would keep an eye out there and I would recommend, as I've said a million times, it doesn't make any difference which you buy ball or soft point with the 303. It's not going into a semi-automatic gun. Again, they've got some really phenomenal projectiles in their soft point that they've come up with for PPU. everything parallel or comparable to Remington or Winchester or any of the others out there. And again, when you're done, you've got reloadable ammunition. So the 303, either Softpoint or, well, Hollow Point, whatever it is they've got, whatever they'll list it, JHP or whatever. I recommend either one, they should be under $20 a box. In fact, the last time they were $17.95 and they only lasted half a day. But if you're listening right now and you sent me an email about 303 or a spike about 303 ammo, then go to aimsurplus.com. Aimsurplus.com. Now, the only ones that have it, but they have the best price around the country. I've looked at everybody else and what they want for PPU, and AIM has consistently stayed lower than everybody else out there for the whole time that all of this ammo grab has been taking place. So that's why I keep talking about them. And you got to catch them when they're there, when they're gone. Don't cry. Just, you know, be hawk. Hawk that thing, man. You know, we sit there on the post and stare every once in a while, get back over there while you're on the computer. Go back again. Spot check. Know to do it in the afternoon and also, you know, later at night. And of course, first thing in the morning, I guess. But mostly they do their entries in the afternoon. So if you catch it in the afternoon or evening, you're probably, you are going to get the product, probably. And the good thing is that if you see it, it's there. That simple. If it's faded out or knocked out of the lineup, it's not there. That's a good thing about Ames inventory. Now, another thing, for whatever reason, I don't know why except that it may be that Anderson and, oh, what's the other one? Delton have cranked out a bunch of bolt carriers. And right now, check Center Fire System out. Centerfiresystems.com, Centerfiresystems.com, Centerfiresystems.com, and CDNNsport.com, CDNNsport.com, and also the rest of the places out there, because who knows who else might have bought them. But there have been a bunch of low-end, but still very serviceable, bolt carriers complete. That's everything on board, a complete bolt carrier. for about $52 to $59 apiece. Now, I don't know whether Delton and Anderson are really done in two different locations or just the same plant. I think it's rather interesting that a flood of the two have come out at the same time. Either way, for $59 to get a complete bolt carrier to have a spare, Now, that is the one to get. This is the time to take the money and put it off to the side this way as something very useful. You got a pile of AR-15s. This gives you a complete spare bolt carrier group so that you can just pop one out if you've got any maintenance. Throw the other one in, at least to keep shooting. But it doesn't have the dura-chiobiobirabirabidiocein, you know, coating on it or whatever, you know, carbon tetrachloride, you know, or tetra-cell, you know, tetra-cell white. I can't remember, you know, from the start track. Anyway, it doesn't have tetra-cell white coating. Well, that's okay, sir. It still works. And again, these are a standard finish, but there are about, I've seen five, six companies, all of them listing them for about the same price. So, it's again a matter of catching who's got an inventory. A couple of them put them down at about 53. One of the companies I do know sold out, that's why I didn't even mention them. Of course, they could be picking them up just as quick as they sell out. So, spot check all of the normal watering holes and see if they have these in stock. Centerfire had them as a feature on the scroll for at least a day. I don't know what it is. In fact, they sent them an email on these too. So, center fire and possibly, oh I will mention them too, KeepShooting.com. They may have them also. KeepShooting.com. KeepShooting.com. KeepShooting.com. And again, this is the lower end price wise Anderson or Delton complete bolt carrier groups for the AR-15. Now, another thing, if you are going to be building an AR-10, this is a conversation that everybody should have more often, understand that you need to pick a direction with regard to your AR-10 rifle because there are variations out there in the system and you better commit, you got to make sure you know what you're looking at, when you commit to a particular line. I would recommend you do a survey to see if you're going to do it from parts and pieces here and there, who's got the better bolt carrier price or who's got the better barrels tube price out there. Buy model because there are three different variants in terms of the AR10. I would say this, shame on them for doing that. We don't have this problem with the AR15 with all of the basic components. The good thing is you can pretty well interchange from one AR to the other. The only difference is the gas, if it's the rod gas system or whatever somebody has come up with, and that is very apparent. The TAPIT system versus the impingement system. So with that being the case, one of the things to remember about this is that if you are going to go after an AR-10, you want to be careful, pay attention to what you're doing, and confirm that the parts are integratable. because, well, some of them aren't. A percentage are not on the AR-10 from one manufacturer to the next. So you're going to have to watch that. And there are a bunch of odd man out groups, little companies that have done AR-10 parts, and you have to find out, well, which system did they commit to? Because they may not necessarily, they're going to assume, well, if you're buying these parts, you've got an idea what you're looking at. You want to make sure that you know who's who in the zoo and what they do. Okay, it's just that simple. Another thing, and again remember we're looking into the wet weather here, is bagging and tagging a lot of stuff with regard to your ammunition, magazines, etc. Now if you're going to put ammo in an ammo can and you're going to do like the loose chicklet type, don't do it that way. Grab yourself, go over to Dollar Tree, grab yourself a whole bunch of boxes of dollar a box, Ziploc bags. and come up with an increment. Take your pick. I just like the idea of 50 rounds. Everybody can relate to that. But take your sandwich bags. Don't load them until they bulge in or they're almost ready to break. They will down the road. Instead, come up with a standard amount per bag, load them up. In fact, wash your hands off, clean everything up since you may have bought the can, you know, 500 rounds with an ammo can for whatever amount. Loose. Well, what you want to do is pour that out or if you want to leave it in one can, get the other can ready, make sure it's cleaned out, make sure everything's squared away, get your bags, and wash your hands, clean yourself up so you don't leave a whole bunch of sticky, oily, salty stuff and fingerprints all over your ammunition that might cause oxidation later. You want to even put a pair of inspection gloves or a pair of, you know, the latex rubber gloves on or whatever you want. But you know the kind that would save you from the coronavir virus. Yeah right. Anyway, when you got everything set to go, come up with an increment, load per bag and then set them so that again don't just toss them in. Make sure that the zip side is up, lay them and nest them and try to get as many in there as you can. Make a note on the outside of how many rounds you have in that can. Come up with a standard. You don't have to load it to capacity, but again, by Ziploc bagging the ammo, it's an additional weatherization layer. We're going to get rain. We're going to get snow. You ever open up an ammo can that was opened up during a rain or something and then they shut it back up and threw it back in the stack? And on the outside, that can looks like it's the can you want. But then when you open up that can, it looks like the bottom end of a 1973 Pinto that has been in about 25 Michigan winters with salt on the road. Yeah, why? Because, well, the moisture got in the can, the can got shut, and it's a little, you know, warm, cold, warm, cold tropical rainforest in there. And on the outside, I got a chance to sloth off and dry. On the inside, the water got kept right where it went and it didn't go anyplace. Oxidation. Yeah, oxidation took place. So the same is true with the concern for your ammo. So let's again remember, you may be out in the field, if you're under fire, you opened up ammunition cans, at least if you close it, the ammo is still in its own environmental package. separate from whatever the can may have been exposed to on the inside. We have a caller. Who do we have? Hi, it's Claudia, Mark. I just wanted to bring to attention classicfirearms.com classicfirearms.com classicfirearms.com has hex mag. AR-15 556-223 caliber 30 round mags. in a 10 round pack, 10 magazine pack for $89.99. That's 10 mags for $89.99 at classicfirearms.com. A 10 mag pack of hex mags for $89.99 and it's in stock. I just checked. And the 40 rounders? 30 round. 30 round. Okay, very good. 30 round standard mags. So $8 a piece. $9 almost $9, but still a good price. Yeah. Yep. I'd let everybody know. Very good. Thank you, sir. And again, that's over at classicfirearms.com. If it's not on the open scroll, remember just search AR-15 mags. It's going to pop up in the display after that. Either way, that's not a bad price. Hex mags are pretty decent. Everybody's been using them for quite some time now. I remember when they first came out, the first thing everybody thought about was board games. You have the old Hex board gaming board configuration, and that's where they probably got the idea too. But again, they're also done in colors. I don't know if they're in black or whatever. It doesn't make any difference. Black, brown, green, do a mix. If you can. Your magazines, there's no regulation that says your magazines have to be anodized in a particular shade or colored in a particular plastic chip. And in fact, breaking up the color is a good thing because it changes up the silhouette of the gun. Something I've pointed out for a very long time, it's kind of cool, they came out with all these colors because if you get different stock sets, combined with different magazine colors, combined with a different color of the receiver group, then the weapon is actually broken up a little bit. Now, if you're willing to take a little Krylon paint or whatever you got in the way of a roofing flat paint, which is really cool, the stuff you use for metal fixtures on roofs, that stuff will last forever, by the way. And it coats really well. What's neat about that is you can splotch and change and put an angle in a color where the different components come together and break up the silhouette of the rifle that much more. Now again, I would point out before I forget, you've got the magazines and they're the polymer and they're colored from one direction. If you go over to, let's see, gunpartscorp.com, gunpartscorp.com, gunpartscorp.com and go to their clearance, slash sales section, their special deal section. They have Magpul furniture for about one-third the regular price. Now, you've got to watch it because they repost things. It's goofy with that webpage. They repost things and they'll have the same item with a different price on it. You go to the first one and it's more expensive. You go to the other one. Well, this one's cheaper. Well, smart things go to the cheaper posting. You get the same product. Usually it's that somebody has not adjusted the page. I've seen this many times on that site. But they do have the 20 inch standard gas system, rifle gas system, mid length and short forward furniture by Magpul. They have the pistol grips, different colors and they have the butt stocks in a handful of different colors, including camel patterns for the fore grips. So, you can have three different colorations to add to the rifle right there, plus of course your receivers themselves are another color, and your magazines are yet another color. Now, where all of these come together, this is where you disrupt the lines and angle them so that it actually changes the perception of how you and what you see when you look in an area. You don't have a defined flat line and a line that subconsciously somebody will immediately identify. It's not necessarily a conscious response that takes place, but remember your subconscious is working a lot faster than your, usually your awake brain. And it registers things that you typically kind of shut off. In fact, you talk yourself out of paying attention. Well, it's interesting that if you break up, you know, the silhouette that much more, then the other part of your brain is probably not going to have as much of a picnic time identifying something. It's not going to be as easy. So just a heads up. Remember, it's not you that have to worry about it. It's the other side, the other guy trying to shoot you. Okay. trying to find you so they can shoot you now. And again, the magazines are at classicfirearms.com. Don't forget to check your ammunition by the way too. I know there's some stuff there. Seems like everybody has become turkey sport. Okay, there are so many Turkish shotguns and pistols right now on the market. I haven't noticed a whole lot of rifles, but there is at least one bolt gun coming in now that apparently is a Mauser knockoff, not a K-98 type, but a Mauser commercial. Probably representative of the Model 70 more than anything. Anyway, these weapons are the dominant allowable import, I guess, only because Turkey is stealing oil from Syria. And you know, they're so far up Israel's ass that they couldn't pull their head out with a crowbar if their life depended on it. If they had a sphincter moment, Turkey's head would pop up into the bowels of the Israelis. But as it is, that's why Turkey has been given special dispensation. They can import anything into the United States. At a time when all the leftists are telling you, well, it's 951. We're OK. Anyway, black guns are evil, they're terrible. Remember black guns? Well, they're bringing in everything and anything in the way of bullpup and assault type looking 12 gauge shotguns. The kind that were evil and horrible and terrible if they came from Europe or Korea. Right? And the same is true with large capacity handguns. Another thing that the Turks are now bringing in is a wide family of 45 pistols. However, however, A lot of these I've noticed are the 8-shot magazine systems, and while they do look like a 1911, and they are, and again I still haven't checked to see what interchangeability I'm parked in, it might be like a llama, you don't know. We have to confirm that. But the biggest problem is that they went with a goofy 8-round magazine capacity, and unfortunately what that means is the 7-rounders typically don't fit in the ones that we've seen so far. The problem there is, yeah, the 1911 is a great idea, but if you can't use the last hundred years worth of magazines, it's not really a good thing. There are a lot of other guns that will take the standard seven, and guess what? If you want to throw an eight-round mag in, typically they should lock in if they were the same magazine system. And so therefore you get the benefit of the eight rounds, but you still have the ability to use anybody else's mag that's out there. So, leave it to the Turks. Also, the Turkish guns in the 1911 frames coming in are in 9mm too, they're available. So, there is an option there to go 9. I have not seen what was dominant here about, you know, for the last, what, 10-12 years. If it wasn't in 45 ACP, another one they were bringing in was 38 Super. But 38 Super seems to have set off to the side again for a bit. Arms Corp and a lot of the other companies are bringing in 45s. did them in the standard 1911-45 ACP package, but then they also did it in 38 Super and kind of resuscitated that route. Yeah, Atlantic Firearms had several of those. There are more of those. Production, we haven't seen that. Go ahead, call or jump in there. Yes, Dorzak. Atlantic Firearms had several of those Turkish 1911 variants over there, I noticed them the other day. Yeah, they're all over there. They're everywhere right now. And again, they're a good gun. I mean, the biggest thing, if you're going to go the eight round, and I know a few people have bought them, then you've got to remember that, well, there is something you can do. If you're willing to be a machinist, if you have a machinist or a guy who's a gunsmith, you can actually work out the front of the grip, you know, of the frame and actually knock it down enough that a seven rounder will actually fit Now, this is provided that the magazine catch has been uniformly installed in the same place. Most of these 1911s are 100% standard. This particular idea with the magazine, I don't think is an accident. It's part of that, like I said, it's a way to, you know, supposedly force you to buy their mags. Because it ain't the razor, it's the blades. Okay? And magazines for the 1911 The fact that there is a hundred years worth of the inventory, 110 now, 110 years worth of stuff out there means that there's a whole lot of mags laying around for the standard 1911 with a seven shot mag. If you want an extended mag, plenty of them out there to buy. You can buy an 11 rounder all day for them as a matter of fact. But otherwise, I've seen nothing bad about these guns. They are simply a 1911 in the latest clone version by the oil thieves, you know, the betrayers of Syria, because after all they're turkeys back to them. Anyway, I'm sorry, there we go. As it is, we'll see how long this lasts, because anybody else tries to bring the same guns in? Oh, you evil bastards, oh, you're horrible, you're terrible, how dare you, how dare you? Except for Turkey. Hill not even most of European countries can bring guns into the US right now, but Turkey can What you tell us something anyway next No, we're almost to the top. Yeah, we're a few minutes away one of the things very quickly about Again getting the 40 round mags. Don't forget a lot of your mag pouches will not expand doesn't mean that they're all like this Many of your mag pouches are set up to typically service a 30 round magazine. But there are a good percentage of the systems, not all, but a percentage that actually have, if you pay attention, look at your gear, they actually have a second tier Velcro flap that allows you to expand the standard flap on your pouch. A lot of people ignore it because they think it's just like an over stitch in armor. Pay attention and take a close look at your gear because many of your mag pouches, especially if they're aftermarket Molly by the way, have the expansion flap. And so if you do buy any of these 40 round AR-15 mags, you may not need to buy another carrying system, another magazine system, magazine pouch system, forgive me. So, check your equipment out. Some people kind of get something and they really don't pay attention. You'll notice it looks like there's an extra fold on your magazine flap. If you'll notice, you kind of look closely, well that's Velcro. That comes apart. Lo and behold, all of a sudden your flap's longer. Standard 40-rounder will fit right in there in place with standard 30-router. So, not a bad deal. Anyway, that's an easy solution as opposed to having to try to hunt down more gear. And again, not that it's hard because as I said, there are a bunch of systems that are Omni magazine, you know, they're multi-mag option. Another thing with regard to drum magazine pouches, right now a flurry of the Eastern European 75 round drum mag pouches have come out. Don't know why. I mean, it's kind of like there's a bunch of East German stuff too. And the East German is Passé. So I would say that the Germans have released a bunch of stuff again that they had in reserve that they were keeping around just in case they had a little war or something. And the wave of the stuff that's coming in is virtually new. So if you're looking for that 75 round drum mag pouch that they used to import back around 20 years ago, scan the different suppliers. I think even the center fire might have one right now. Major surplus is another one. And they're coming from Sturm. Sturm has them in stock. And that means they obviously came from Germany. But there there is a wave of that equipment that just started to show up now. It's not not as cheap as it was but still Relatively cheap. In other words the 75 round drum pouches have been going for about ten dollars and the other specialized mag pouches for some of that are some of the more unique stuff like the All what was the other than scorpion pistol 32 ACP the scorpion submachine gun? There are a bunch of leather mag pouches out there right now that just came in a little bit of a flurry and it's like I think two for a few pouches for $8 or whatever. It's not a bad price. If you have the gun, you have one of those that came in in the very early stages. Remember there were a handful of those scorpions and 32 ACP semi-automatic. These are the pouches that are correct for those guns. And especially if you have the different magazine sizes because there were there were three different mags that were available The guns came with anything purely was just a matter of throw the dart There was no guarantee you were gonna get the same You know, it could be a 10 could be a 20 could be a 30 and the 30s are the rarest But what I understand right now the harder to get and get the smaller ones on a prom and they were normal Those are the standard but if you have the 30s Right now they have the correct mag pouches out there in Virgin and bring our old new old inventory leather is what you're looking at all the guns like that that we had I matched out with the mag pouch you know while back but they are a cool little weapon and originally they weren't just a a Assassin's gun that's always try to push them out No guys they were actually an armored crewman's personal defense weapon And that's why there were so many of those Scorpions hanging around because they were used in a number of different missions. And yes, they were handed out like cordwood to third parties, very popular as a concealment, you know, volume fire weapon. But in fact, you see them in every image for anything that happened in the 70. But the Scorpion, 32 ACP SMG, mag pouches, shoulder holsters. Vehicle belt, you know operate crewman's belt holsters. They're big by the way. This is not a small holster And their leather are in excellent condition. I've got examples of each one of them that just came in anyway We're at the top We're gonna hear the music now because it is break time and for everybody out there again And today we had clear blue sky and it's amazing the jets that went by had no chemtrails whatsoever. Yesterday, all dudes say just anyway. We're going to take off for a minute here. God bless our republic. That's for the New World Order. Shall prevail ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. And we are on the march both day and night. We will be back, we just did one up here. Second Army intel report, it is. Weapons leadership for flying in for her. I dream the other night that, while 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 save the world. to cure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press. and you pay attacks you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken six numbers and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be 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 eat 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 rite, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this... Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is the second hour of the afternoon Intelligence report, I'm R. Krunke, one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories south, northeast, west, and southwest. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com Liberty Tree Radio on satellite. We're also on a myriad of other technologies both inside and outside the United States. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is 608 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It is the 20th of October. Dun-dun-dun. Full moon night! Oh no, not full moon night! Yes it is. It's full moon night. It means absolutely. Nothing. Well, except for maybe the crazy people out on the road you got to avoid in, especially if they have cell phones in their hands. But that doesn't make any difference if it's full moon or not. If they got a cell phone and they're driving, they're pretty much worthless tools. Lord help y'all. Anyway, I mean, unless you're just listening, but then you don't need it in your hand. Right? Anyway, for everybody out there, again, it is the 13th year of open Fabian socialist Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with the K 2021 old earth calendar 2021 battle for the Republic the dense of swords and it is weapons Wednesday a couple of things here real quick you know there isn't any exciting thing on the horizon surplus wise it's going to be cropping up except for kids and kids have been around for a while but You know, think about this, we're hitting a wall with part kits you can own because, well, they've got automatic parts in them. And of course, the bat faggots, you know, the feds, first of all, yeah, cut the receiver, obviously. That's the control device. But then they realized, oh, if we cut the barrels or make it so that we exclude the barrels, oh, yeah, there we go. Which is what they've done. Basically you have what about 50% of the gun left I mean certainly the critical parts that you know still take a lot more machining barrels are actually a lot simpler than you might think they can be done but It's interesting that That's with metal guns. I'm gonna point something out. We're headed towards the plastic world now This is where we're going to hit a wall, I mean, with regard to quote-unquote surplus and that there really won't be anything, guys. As long as the polymer, I mean, think about this, if the scar became the dominant gun, and the enemy knows this, by the way, too, I mean, if somebody cuts up a scar receiver, there really isn't anything you could do with it, right? But on top of that, there's, I mean, you're going to have to actually build, as typically as the case you do build in a receiver, but is someone going to build an infusion mold or a special process mold for making a receiver for a scar? Probably not. Okay, we'll see what happens, but it's very unlikely. The amount of trouble that will be created in order for anyone to do that, by the way, would be phenomenal. Because again, a lot more technology tied in. Not really hard once you really get knowing what you're doing, but it's the capital to get set up to do it. And again, unique polymers for a unique problem, or again, in this case, a unique machine. There we go. Think about it that way. So we're already seeing this wall hit with surplus rifles, the Carcano, which when I was, you know, much, much, much younger, the Carcano is their evil, their wicked, their bad. Oh, it's horrible. Everybody had the bad mouth and parrot bad mouthing their Carcano. But since the Carcano is now pretty much all that's left that's coming in that's really even close to being a reasonable price, well, they're not such bad guns after all. I think this is rather fascinating how I have watched this over the years. But this is the most drastic turn of all because the Carcano, especially after World War II, was bad-mouthed in the same way the high-point carbine or the high-point pistol has been. in more recent years with gun snobbery in the US. Okay? But now there's all kinds of these, all the car car is really kind of cool. Well, I argued that years ago. It's a very simple firearm. If you're going to have a weapon to hand out, it is actually a pretty straightforward firearm to build. And in fact, I'll tell you one of the most interesting videos to watch only because For a change somebody who wasn't cross contaminated with the propaganda of the last 50 years, 60 years, 70 years, go to Forgotten Weapons and find the video on the M1938 Carcano rifle, standard rifle. What's interesting is he brings forward all the points and his argument, which I think you would never have heard and never I never expected anybody to say Well, you know the Kirk Connor was actually one of the best designed weapons of World War two for an infantry rifle And it's like oh wow, we've gone full circle from it's garbage Now, as many people who were veterans that point out, you know, World War II vets who were actually in the field and fought in the European theater, he goes, well, if you think it's garbage, understand a whole lot of guys died in Italy at the hands of the 6.5 Carcano, despite the jokes about the Italians surrendering. A lot of Italians didn't surrender. And a lot of people are in their grave with the 6.5 bullets stuck in them somewhere, or maybe passed right through them. The 6.5 Carcano been around for a very long time. It goes back into the 1800s It was a very successful and like as I pointed out yesterday, you know, everybody, you know They poo-poo whatever country for propaganda purposes But at the time the 6.5 Carcano was a sophisticated and very modern cutting-edge round in the same light as the 6.5 Swede and a lot of other right rounds are out there and Understand something At the time, they kept dropping the diameter of the combat calibers, and the 6.5 was at kind of the lead of that. They went from 11 millimeter down to 10 and 8 millimeter, then down to 7.65 and 7 millimeter almost simultaneously, but they kept dropping down to the point where hyper-long pencil bullets were becoming the norm. And the epitome of that which went to the extreme is the precursor to the M16 round and that's the 6mm Lee Navy. Go look at the specs for a 6mm Lee Navy route. Nobody thinks about it but we had the 3040 Craig, the 4570 in service at the same time also. And all of a sudden going into China for the Boxer Rebellion and also being used in the Philippines with the Philippine insurrection was a combination of the 3040 Craig and the 6mm Lee cartridge. Now they ended up pretty much in the Pacific theater with the Navy. And at least two of the most dominant combat veterans of the Boxer Rebellion campaign from the American side, one of them a gentleman who would win the Medal of Honor twice. First was in China, second time I believe was in Central America and I want to say Nicaragua. But while he was his first Medal of Honor he won fighting on the walls of Peking, you know now called Beijing, but it was Peking back in the day. Peking, man. Anyway, He pointed out that with a 30 caliber cray ground, you could hit them pretty much anywhere and the energy was delivered. The problem with the 6mm Lee, kind of like what people are talking about with the M16 even though it's supposed to tumble. It was supposed to tumble years ago which is why they went with the spitzer round by the way. The 6mm Lee was like stabbing somebody with a ray gun, you know, with like a steel rod. If you didn't hit them in a critical spot where you could snap their spine, you know, blow out their heart or whatever, and it wore a headshot, then chances are they'd keep coming and it took three rounds to put a person down as opposed to one round with a 30-40 Craig. Now, understand something. The 30-40 Craig was not considered a super dynamic round, but it was a 30 caliber projectile, and it was in the typical battle weight for a 30 caliber For US standard, which really from the Craig through the 30-06 through to the 7.62x51 NATO, pretty much was the same. Now, ballistics rose up with the 30-06, but what happened is they kept thinking they were going to go smaller and faster, and that smaller and faster was going to be equal to heavier and slower. And it turns out that, well, there is a limit. There's a point where the value ceased to exist. Don't forget also that in both the Japanese theater, or forgive me, the Chinese theater and in the Filipino theater, the population had access to opium. And once you got somebody doped up with opium, you could put bullets in them left and right that would have hurt anybody a whole lot. They weren't feeling it. They were also on the last bonsai charge anyway. The Moros used this with the machete. The Chinese used this with any number of weapons at their disposal and took advantage of mass. And again, just sheer weight of numbers, body mass and weight of numbers. So it's interesting that the 6mm Li is the low water in terms of caliber. In other words, what I mean by low is small water line. for ammunition period and then we go right back up 30 caliber. We dropped the whole idea of going down farther and farther. Everybody kind of freezes. If they had the 6.5, they stay with it. If they had any larger caliber, they realized that going into World War I, not only would they need that, but they might need bigger. Let me give you an example of that. The 8mm Gewehr 88 rifle, 792, and it is technically a 5.7 round, but it is the S model. And I would point out that because of this, sadly enough for the Germans, but not a bad thing if you're fighting them, is the Gewehr 88, which has the wind shroud. the air jacket, right? It's really kind of a cool looking rifle, real smooth action. But the 88s had a lighter powder charge and a slightly different bullet diameter. And when they switched out to the new 792x57, Unfortunately, what that meant is that you have two calibers out there, two chamberings out there that can interwork, but one is very unhealthy for the earlier rifle, the regular A-model Gewehr 88. Now, understand something. The Germans, like any country, could not get rid of those guns. So you then had an issue with a, you know, you have a different cartridge floating around in your inventory with an army that is fairly large. and you have two different versions. And you have to make sure that those two different versions stay separate because one's not healthier for the other gun, not healthy for the other gun at all or the shooter. So what's interesting is they actually bored out the 88s in desperation, I guess, maybe that's the best way to describe it. During the beginning of World War I, the 80s were still very much in service. They were with particular units, but as you put big armies in the field, these units are standing side by side. So they had to start straightening out caliber issues. Now if it was rear area operations, that wouldn't have been a problem. But the front was massive. And so there's an example where they went up in pressure, in power, but still with the same basic cartridge. The bullet was heavier. They went with a heavier bullet, a 200 grain for the standard 792. And they stuck with that pretty much until they get past World War II. Now, the US did the same thing. We had 30-40 Craig. We went to, we were experimenting with smaller calibers. We had, by the way, this didn't just happen in a rifle at the time when the league came in. Remember, we also have the 38 Army or 38 Auto, which is basically a 9mm route. And while that particular round and its revolver counterpart had about the same velocity, by the way, the 38th Auto, or 38 Army, was progressively and very quickly dropped. It was used as long as the guns were in service in odd niches around the Pacific. But immediately because of what happened with the again China and with the Philippines we dropped all of the smaller caliber ideas with the exception of the pilot and air guns which would come later and 1911s or 19 M 1917 revolvers would become the norm for a very long time in 45 ACP or 45 ACP rim Yeah, they actually made that 45 rim And it's the 45 ACP case with a rim. Why? Well, because they made the model 1917 Smith and Colt and those are a revolver. And they take the standard 45 ACP with AF-Moon or Full Moon clips. But since they were making it as a revolver, why not make another cartridge to create more confusion? And they did. However, they still stuck with a bigger bore. Why? More freight train going downrange when it hits something. And again, these changes, which is interesting because, you know, again, what they're kind of acknowledging right now with the shift up to a bigger caliber is the fact that everybody's got body armor, everybody's mechanized. You're not shooting the five-year-old blind kid with a cane across the street like we've been doing. We went to Vietnam, the M16 round especially was nice because the average shooter person being shot was about 90 pounds soaking wet. And didn't have body armor. So it was fine for that particular environment. And of course we could continue using it, which we have. And we'll continue using it because we must, because so many have been made, and so many more have been made by us and made by the government by the way. But the caliber are going, sliding up in caliber is an acknowledgement quietly of the fact that all the big gun caliber shooters and arguments that were made for decades. have been and are absolutely right. And the only thing that they couldn't do is just say, well, man, we should just make it in 76 Q by 51 NATO because we got billions of dollars in ammo and that, and we wouldn't have to change anything. Oh, no, we got to come up with a new bastard round, and that way they can play colonial because that's what the Imperials always do when they want to keep the ammunition and guns out of the hands of the peasants. Which the argument is years ago why they did the 5.56 in the first place. That was its real reason for keeping changing to a caliber where the population at a time when they might actually have a revolt against the regime Well population would have a tough time if they acquired the weapons of the of the Imperium and There was no ammunition available See otherwise tons of 30-06 hell even 762 by 51 NATO or 308 win was out there in force So maintaining an m14 wouldn't be a problem especially by the time you get to the 60s and 70s mass production ammo was pretty good. So just take that into consideration with the idea that they're gonna dump you know they're gonna buy this brand new rifle well squad gun first it's gonna be in this new bastard caliber and there won't be any deep inventories right away unless they've already been building it and I haven't heard about that. I would assume that the ammo companies would be building it now if the proposal is what, by next year they're going to actually have these guns in service, if not at the end of this year. So anyway, we've gone smaller and then they've gone right back up to big guys. And this has happened cyclically. We're going to, I don't think we'll ever not see this roller coaster as long as governments and bureaucrats and paper pushers and people who profit from war, you know, wars. need to change things up so they can sell a whole bunch of some other goofy item that isn't necessarily needed to the next batch of people they want to get out there and get dead. And since they got a whole bunch of people they want to kill right now, you've got to figure there's going to be some significant changes to profiteer off that situation. Pretty well guaranteed, okay? Anyway, we're almost to the bottom of the hour and at least once for Weapons Wednesday, Edward, if we could, We need our traditional weapons Wednesday bottom of the hour break. So again, this is my rifle. Anyway, here we go. This is my rifle and it's mine. My rifle before God. All the rifles in our hands will prove no dry bone. You may ride a good lead speed, you may know it's a turn of master. Your forward march will speed, but you'll learn the back-switch faster when you meet our mountain boys. And your leader, John, is dark. Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark. All the rifles, all the rifles in our hands will prove no dry bone. Alright, thank you Edward. And again, I appreciate that. For everybody out there, again, remember this is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Remember, you know, without your rifle, you are useless. And without you, your rifle is useless. So the two of you are really an extension one of the other. Always remember that if you get a chance, train, train, and train by living with the weapons that you plan on carrying into combat. Get used to moving around with them. One of the things I will point out again is that in an actual combat environment, one of the things we were taught is the weapon never leaves your side. Never, it's an extension of you. It's always touching your body. If you are resting, the weapon doesn't sit in a rack somewhere else. It should be on your person. Oh, you're sleeping with your rifle. Yeah, really, yes. And for that reason, again, that's one of the many reasons that you need to understand how best to secure the weapon in such a way that it can literally is either in your hand or leaps to your hand when the time comes as needed. When resting, the weapon still has all the considerations of keeping the weapon secure and clean are critical. And in fact, the weapon is protected just as much as you should be protecting your body. Whether, you know, in climate weather, we're in, especially in an environment where we're up north here. Where we get snow we get sleep we get rain and then we get more sleep then we get more snow And then we get snow up to our butts That environment means that moisture Randomly gets into where you really don't want it and then it freezes So for that reason protecting your operating actions from moisture from direct moisture, especially, you know rain sleep, whatever Even snow drops Hold on repeat color go ahead. I said the weather even gets worse up this way Yeah, all across the whole of the state of Michigan and Tom's up in the way up north and still not the farthest north because we got the UP also and again The big thing is to have snow covers Built in advance or leather or you know some people like leather It's not your first choice, but a lot of people do like to make leather receiver covers or canvas or again you can make it have any number of materials but the idea behind it is that it creates a solid pelted cover over locations where there's probably an access point like an ejection port or the point or the area where the two receivers come together you want to kind of cover or screed that. This goes back to as far back as you know black powder or the very you know thing we're talking about here you owe the rifle pop pop. The first pop is the pan or the cap going off, and the second pop is the actual boom with the gun. Well, to make sure that happens, I used to have, again, action or like lock covers to protect the environment there from any kind of moisture directly, you know, dropping onto the powder. If it was a flintlock, black powder pan, guys, a little bit of snowflake could go a long way to messing up your day. And just think about that. Moisture, you'll make these contact melts and it commutes. Go ahead, call, repeat. They used an oil cloth for that, did they not? Yes, exactly. Sail cloth. Typically, sail cloth and then you make it into an oil skin. What you do is permeate it with a number of different either greases, which could be natural animal fats, kind of reverse of what you did when you tanned the hide. But oil skin is in with any number of different either petroleum or natural oils like whale oil and the idea behind it is that once you rubbed it in and you know saturated it you also squeezed it so that it wasn't dripping. The idea was just like with your slickers, the slickers were made the same way. Guys people don't realize that old slickers slash rain gear was heavier to hell. And it was made durable, made last, but it also stunk like there was no tomorrow, because a lot of different materials were used to be waterproof and windless, as the Brits used to, that's where the term, the windless came from. But the same idea, you take a piece of material, and the idea is that you cut it custom. In many cases, you have either tie-downs or lock-downs for it. That way at least one shot is going to be dry the rest of your powder might be saturated from the weather anyway Whole battles of the American war for independence and the Civil War All it took was a couple of rainy days and The whole battlefield slowed down. Why did it slow down guys? powder got wet Think about that so and again much better to shoot shoot somebody than have to close to close to close quarter combat and have to use the bayonet or have to use the gun for a club or Have to use your tomahawk. I mean doesn't mean you weren't willing to do it, but you bought the rifle for a reason, right? Take the time to keep your powder dry Yeah, exactly. Remember that was a that was a common common greeting. Hey, or I should say a common party Hey, see you in a bit. Keep your powder dry. I hear that exactly Well, it's still true today, but it's because again oxidation still does damage to your equipment and we ain't exactly made out of money. So whatever we do have we need to take care of and we do maintenance on the weapons and in addition to that we maintain and control the environment to the best of our ability and whenever we are stopped if we've if the weapon has gotten wet guess what you're going over it. I there's I don't know what this is I Is it people are just stinking lazy or what? I mean granted they are most people are But it's fascinating. I don't guys if I don't if you saw this, but I think it was even in ammo land There was some article about well how long do you have can you fire your gun before you really have to clean it? Well, that's a nice question But let's just put it this way only as long as you have to until you can get your sorry ass fat down and clean it How's that sound? In other words, if I have a boom toy and I go into the field, when I leave the FIBA, the forward edge of the battle area, and I'm going out into combat, my weapon should be at zero point. What do I mean by that? Well, I should have done everything I could to put it at its premium point of operation, shouldn't I? Or did I say, oh, fuck that garbage. Everybody's an idiot. I don't clean my gun ever. I want to see how long it takes for my weapon to actually malfunction and maybe get killed. Because I'm badass. Don't you know I'm bad at there's something weird about that crap It's actually an extension of this whole do you actually even have an idea how to build anything or? Or you know do you do you have any mechanical skills? Because there's something stupid about the idea. Well. I'm really proud. I don't clean my gun Really it's a precision instrument It's gonna keep you alive, okay, it's supposed to, but no matter how hard it tries, if you're making an effort for it to puke, chances are it will puke for you at the worst possible time. It will not work. It won't malfunction. You always know the Murphy's Rule, right? That weapon that's guaranteed to always function will malfunction at the most critical moment of your life. It's that... And I've had that dream many times. Yeah! I don't care what the trigger is. So here's the thing, let me give you an example of how confident I am of my weapons. I carry a handgun. You know, do you know that you know what kind of goofy arguments I heard about that for years? And it was all part of the, the, you know, in the gun circles, you have anti-gun people. You got to understand that. And especially with the Regimas and the Ringknockers, Oh, you don't need to carry a handgun. You could carry two more 20 round mags for your FAL or your M14 if you didn't carry that handgun. And I'm thinking, am I so wussy whip that I can't carry two more magazines and carry the handgun? Seriously. But these are all things I've grown up with and I'm 64 years old. Okay. And I'm, I'm thinking back to some of this goofy garbage, but I've never seen it where I have a really precision instrument. It's designed to keep me alive, but I'm gonna show you that I can really screw it up, man. I'm gonna get, I'm not gonna clean it. I'm not gonna fix it. I'm just, cause it's so tough and I'm so macho, but I'm just not gonna clean it cause I'm a lazy bastard. I'd rather pick my nose or sit there and look at porn movies on my cell phone than clean my weapon. I got the cells that porn sort of put my cell phone for when I'm in the field, you know? Seriously, what would you what are you doing? Otherwise it comes from the whole combat environment What are you doing for 24 hours a day guys? You're fighting a war. Okay, so part of that is I'm in the field Picking my nose I'm dug in or maybe I'm in the back of a vehicle or I've got some downtime Well, if I got some downtime, my priorities are things that keep me alive. Let's see weapons keep me alive, personal equipment properly maintained keeps me alive, it's kind of stupid to brag that I'm not going to clean my weapon when I get a chance to do so. It doesn't mean I almost see how many times I don't have to clean my weapon before it malfunctions. It's just stupid. But the subject is coming up again right now. And I've noticed this in two or three writings and it's like, okay, first rule, when you stop, you can do a little maintenance on your weapon. If you're pressed and you're ready to go into contact or you know that you may have contact, well, hell no, you're not going to break the weapon down. But, you know, assume the worst and you won't be disappointed, guys. It's just that simple. Anyway, I heard a voice call and jump in. Hello? We got you. Go ahead. Hey, Mark, this is John. Kentucky. I wanted to mention something about a minute and a half, two minutes ago, when you were talking about that click click on the muzzleloader. Actually, I shoot flint and there's three sounds. It's a kaput pow. You have your flint striking, then you have your noise made from the flash of the pan and then the detonation of the round going out. So it's three noises. A tafoon pow. Right, but they couldn't do that with a snare drum. I know, I know. Sorry, I'm always speaking about some things, okay? That's the drummer! Don't don't. Remember, oh, the rifle. Don't don't. You see? And actually, that's a rim shot. You know what that is. You know, at the sight, that's a, if you, depending on what drum you've got, you know, you're doing a side tap, is what you're doing. Yeah. So it gets, it gives it that slight metallic clack. That's what it's supposed to be. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, otherwise, you know, I know what you're talking about. I've got, you know, in fact, oh. Now I should you know I'll tell you what just a little flintlock story here I have a flintlock double barrel that I just got I just got the ass end for I got a receiver with most everything there and Sadly enough over at gun parts I've been looking at this pile of parts and I put off on buying them They had they may still have it listed for it's for a hammered double barrel side by side, right? I just needed the parts. I wouldn't care what they look like because it's going to be a wall hanger. But it's funny because needless to say, they've been there forever. They had them. I put them in the cart a couple times and thought, oh man, I can't spend the money on that because there's other things I need to do. Lo and behold, I finally figured, oh, look at what I found at a yard sale. So I went over there because I got a barrel. There's a nice little side by side barrel that actually slides on the receiver. And it's got a foregrip. I can make that out of some black ash I've got here right now. But all the metal parts were there and lo and behold I go back, okay, I'm gonna go spend some. They're sold out. You know, I shouldn't have waited because it was a big pile of parts. You know, it's one of those things, you know, bag of parts for. And you could always find some to put them on. You know what I mean? Cleaning your rattle. If you shoot muzzle loaders, you know how much you have to clean it up. I'll pour boiling water down the barrel, let it set, and then scrub it until it's clean. I'll be really clean. You know, when you shake through four times... You're just paranoid. Why would you bother cleaning that black powder rifle? I mean, I wait 20, 30, 40 times after I've gone to the range to even think about cleaning my black powder gun, because I'm a Billy Badass, don't you know? You'll never get a patch of ball back down the barrel. You mean it changed you mean it got to be a smaller bore is that what you're telling me is it a smaller bore? Well you do away with the patch and just use the ball, but oh that's not you know that Well the rust bloom on the inside will probably knock her down by three calibers right that's net in order and if it's a smooth bore God help you Yeah, yeah All right. Well, you know Over you know that's another thing real quick. You know it's weapons Wednesday guys. We're gonna talk about anything in guts we want You know, there was a florious stainless there, remember, about 10, 20 years ago. And it just seems to have disappeared off the market again. Doesn't mean you can't find them. But, you know, you had a whole bunch of different stainless steel Hawkins, Kentucky guns, or at least a knockoff mountain man rifle that was a utility gun. They seem to have disappeared. You've not seen them like we did before. I haven't been staying up with it. Oh, you haven't seen any? No, I haven't been watching. I've been worried about other things. Right. I know. Same thing. Well, the reason I bring it up is because years ago, my oldest brother, of course, has done black powder forever. And he's had artillery the whole nine yards and built museum pieces. One of his carriages is in the Smithsonian. But what's interesting is that for a little while there, I mean you could get for about a hundred hundred and twenty-five dollars a stainless mountain rifle. Excellent. I mean just all the way around was a great was a great package and they just seem to have disappeared into the woodwork kind of like the less expensive cap and ball guns and the revolvers. Now everything's two, three, four hundred dollars a unit. You're right. I'll back out and let somebody else irritate you. Well appreciate it. No, no, I understand what you were saying. You're trying to qualify there and it's correct, but the drummer has a hard time. He has to, you know, kind of come up with a standard. I forgive him. It overlaps. But you know, again, I will remind everybody, Oh, the Rifle actually was used as a fighting song for the military. It goes all the way back to the American War for Independence. But it was used all the way up to World War One. It was modified, any other different verses that were written, you know, used for propaganda or propping up the troops. But American War for Independence, War of 1812, Mexican-American War that they want you all to forget, the Civil War, needless to say, or the Northern War of Aggression, and of course, both the Indian War, there was a mix there, but the Spannam and World War I. And the last rewrite was World War I and you can find it. I actually have a grammaphonic record. I've got a copy of that with a bunch of the other Marshall songs that were part of the Over There group. So it's been around a long, long time. Traveling music. Oh yeah, hell yes. Marching traveling music. And again, it was designed so, I mean, all these songs were, we sang them, if you didn't have a band and somebody else didn't have a recording, guess what? You just pitch right in and use your voice. And that really is something, that's another thing guys, we're gonna have to relearn. Because it seems to me that everybody's gotten afraid to sing. And that is a big mistake, but that's part of this whole police state crap and, you know, comic crap that we've got going on. And it's part of the, you know, the, you'll be careful that somebody is going to ridicule you for the quality of your performance, you know, piss on that. You know, when you watch your Ford movies with John Wayne or any of the old movies of that type from the, uh, done by the same producer director, you'll notice that several times you got the one character and he was always in a lot of the John Wayne movies as either the Sergeant Major or later on as, you know, a senior officer. But in as a as a scout or just a farmer or whatever he'd be singing and he was always not a key And you know what he didn't care and neither did the people around him The idea was he may not be singing great But he bought God he had a set of lungs and he was motivated and part of the group And that's the attitude everybody needs to have. He's with us. I mean, I'll tell you what, I hate you. But I like him. He's got a terrible singing voice. Yeah, piss on you. I don't care. I like him. That's the attitude everybody should have. Loud. Do it loud. Yeah, do it loud. Make sure everybody knows who you are. By the way, you don't know my name. I'll spell it for you. Yeah. That's my... Across the board guys, you want to win. This is a weapon. This is one of the many weapons and they know it's a weapon which is why they try to take it from you. You know, you think about that. Probably the best example, and it's funny because the song was really popular at the time all over the place partially because it was pushed by the masons, they do know that. But Men of Harlick. Right? You see it in the movie... Zulu? Remember Zulu? When they were at the Rorke's Drift? Remember behind the wall? The Cotton Bail Wall? And, you know, the ones, they start talking about the chorus, you know, the group they've got, you know, in the beginning there's dialogue back and forth. And right in the middle, of course, the Zulus are, right? And one of the younger soldiers, you know, sets out with his voice, you know, a ringing tenor, and all of a sudden everybody joins in. and they start piss on you back. Now, this is something that most people are, again, you're not going to be taught this anymore because they're trying to destroy this type of, this part of this breed of cork. Units used to have a unit song. Okay? The unit song wasn't something you heard somebody else play. It's something you all knew. And it was part of the camaraderie and again, part of the kinsmanship that made you part of the unit and made the unit what it was. And y'all need to be thinking about these things and start to work at it again. In fact, even when you get together, you know, this is one thing I've been trying to do recently, is when I grew up, every family member could play an instrument. Some could play a lot of instruments. My dad was incredibly musical competent, but my middle brother Was a master is a master musician he can play anything anything Okay, I'll do it now if his play the bagpipes lot, but by God he's played every other instrument So much so that he was commercially competent and this played with you know any name you could imagine out there that was originally with rock bands back in that you know in the in the late 50s 70s and 80s, but all of us When we were a lot smaller Every once in a while, about once a month, the whole blasted family get together, in-laws, outlaws, cousins, brothers, daughters, grandmas, and everybody bring an instrument, or more than one. And everybody would play together and sing. And it's something that I grew up with and you can't find now. Why don't you all think about what your enemy has taken from you. And they did it in so many different insidious ways with the public fool system. That's something we need to change. So again, for all of you out there, an example, I'll tell you what, for those who are looking for video examples of what I'm talking about, go watch The Rough Riders. It was the last movie I think that was done actually pretty accurate. It was one of those Historically correct movies popular to be made in the 70s when they were historically correct but trying to do the leftist political event on a lot of stuff or you know the cryptic anxing about being America because oh my god look what we did. Yeah well now we're here congratulations. Anyway If you go watch that particular movie with Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Riders, you'll see that they had a unit song. Guess what? It was the same one, Men of Harlan. Oh, wow. They seem to be pretty popular in that era. Yes, I say. But again, part of that is kind of a lodge thing, just to let you know. It's part of the order for the brothers to let them know, hey, we're not the way to have power. Another way to show that we got connection. Anyway. We're almost to the top now. I got one more thing for how many of you out there watch the movie Sicario? That's a shoot him up movie man pretty wicked by the way How many of you watch the movie Sicario is Darr there Darr have you watched the movie Sicario? I'm sure you have Tecnax have you watched the ghost? I want you to do something tonight We're almost to the top guys I want you to go watch the beginning of Sicario when we're done with this program. Just the very beginning. When they have the credits, or not the credits, when they have the opening, there's a couple of lines there. I want you to read them. And I want you to read them and pay attention. Okay? I want you to read them and then stop it and go back and read them again. This is a short-term one-hour homework assignment. You're going to have to find it over to YouTube. And I want you to read... SICARIO. S-I-C-A-R-I-O. S-I-C-A-R-I-O. Oh. SICARIO. Okay. Now, remember, the whole thing is about the cartels in Mexico, right? Mexico, what's the national language for Mexico? What's their standard? I mean it's Mexican, but it's Spanish, right? Yeah, right, Spanish? So their vocabulary should be Mexican slash Spanish oriented, right? Would everybody think? Well, I'm giving you a big hint about what to pay attention to here. But if you go watch Sicario, and this probably went past every last one of you about the significance of when your enemy unzips their pants, pulls out their wiener, and rubs it in your face, and you don't even have a clue what you're looking at. The vocabulary, the national language, is Mexican slash a Spanish-based language. That would mean that pretty much everything, or if it were, especially, let's say, mexocentric, then it would be mexocentric in terms of definition, reference, and construction. I want you to watch the very, very, very, very beginning of Sicario and pay attention to what they put right in your face and most everybody missed. And then, when you watch it, then it kind of changes the perspective on what they were trying to do with the movie. as far as how they're trying to, well, they're trying to terrorize you, but they don't want you to get too serious. Okay, because this is just over the border. Yeah, it's what the Patriot Movement's been telling you about the whole time, but now all of a sudden it's, you know, evil, a deadly evil Mexico, and you know, you're gonna die if you go over there, and maybe we should do something over here. Well, really, they aren't. Border's wide open right now, isn't it, guys? You know, you watch something like that. Go watch Sicario and it's the second movie is Sicario Day of the Sordato. Action, go, hokoyo, bien do. Yeah. But when you pay attention, consider the very first comment right from the get-go off the chocks right there in the first movie. Oy, gebo. I'm giving you a big hint there. But anyway, we'll talk about this though because we're almost to the top when we get back. Meanwhile, remember this is Liberty Tree Radio, something you can go and tell me you've got LibertyTreeRadio.com, coming up on a price for bid and all these. With the bid and all these coming up next, guys, get over Craig, buy a 20 pound round of copper one ounce coins. If he has the militia coins, get him. If he has the two trillion dollar coin, you should get him. But whatever you do, you're helping to invest and create the foundation for the future of the Patriot Movement in this public-coming American war for independence. Anyway, we're going to get out of here for now. We will be back in a little bit. God bless our Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the line. We'll be here on the march about day and night. Another dangerous episode of the vid knowledge bear with me folks. This is gonna be a tough one here I'm trying to park in my engine racing. It's going to be a rather personal type of episode. So unfortunately, we've got a lot going on. Okay, shut this thing off. This van, I just shut off the engine. I had it in. This is the second time I had it in for the same problem. Today they pulled the intake manifold and I'm also trying to eat my dinner. They pulled the intake manifold off and The place to intake my old gaskets, the engine races at times. And whenever it decides to do it, the engine just races like redlining, just wide open almost. And really is going to wear out my transmission and my brakes. I don't get to fix them. That's what the mechanic thinks. Vacuum. And that's why he went for it. He checked some other things first, the hose hoses and so on. But they think the place of intake manifold because they say that it could be sucking in air. That the intake manifold, the gas is bad, it was leaking. Well, he just did that today and it didn't fix the problem. So they got it. Now they said they got to look at the exhaust manifold itself and see if it's warped because I never heard of this, but I guess it's maybe common in cars these days. The intake manifold is actually plastic. Couldn't believe it when he told me that. So they've been making them out of plastic for a number of years and warping is not uncommon especially if the engine tends to get hot This is an old five I found out and it's got a six liter engine. I guess he told me I didn't know any of this stuff. It's a it's a Chevy van It's the eight thirty five hundred I guess series. I got it like a step in a small step man here So, as I say, I'm trying to eat too. I'm sorry folks. I probably should not even do a show. I'll be honest with you. Because all the things that happened to me here the last week. My voice, there it goes. Getting better. All right, well anyway, if you want to stick with it, my regular viewers might be interested in new viewers, no, I'm regularly listeners. New listeners might not care. I'm not a volunteer on our channel. That's up to you. Anyway, in a summary, I'm moving my mom. who broke her head, was there any of them? Walker, no bathroom on the ground floor, an 1888 house, 1866 house, I'm sorry. No bathroom, they didn't have bathrooms when they built these houses. And they put one on the second floor, and there's no one on the ground floor, she can't handle stairs. So anyway, moving her, got her done by October 1st. Then Friday, my brother died, and so now I got a whole nother issue there, and I guess I probably should even do it at this show right now. I did, I did go on Mark's show about a week ago, maybe it was early, no it was last week, right after Knob Creek. Since I did Knob Creek, I also did a show in Indianapolis and it was not good. But anyway, maybe talk about that stuff and all the things that is going on. And we talked about diabetes too because that's what my brother died of, at least that's what we think. Anyway, so anyway, as you can hear, I got a lot going on. So if I'm not in the air for the next several weeks or something, I just got a lot of things going. It's all there is to it. But I also wanted to give a recap of Knott Creek. I did so on Mark's show. I was a guest on Mark's show, Mark Cornke, of course, his show, I think a week and a half ago. Well, I think it was last Monday. The day after the Knott Creek. Well, not the day after the Knott Creek, because Knott Creek wasn't Sunday. But I did his show on Monday, I believe, a week ago, about eight, nine days ago. Knob Creek was phenomenal for a summary of Knob Creek. Oh, and I have some more information about Knob Creek, but it's hearsay. So I got to tell you right off the front, this is hearsay, but it makes some sense. I'll go to the hearsay first as a potential reason the show was canceled. Now, my estimation was it was due to insurance and it made me mostly do the insurance. I don't know. All country promoters around the country have been experiencing skyrocketing insurance rates. For their gun shows and if you think about it, Knob Creek being not only a gun show but also a machine gun shoot I'm sure the liability insurance is just crazy and That's the way they can shut down gun shows if the liberal-minded people Governments haven't been able to do it. So just jack up the insurance rates so nobody can afford it. I guess So anyway, that's what I believe but here's something else I heard in the meantime last week to somebody that somebody that should know I Do believe him, but it's hearsay. Okay But it makes some sense. Apparently Kenny and family, people who run the Knob Creek Gun Range, they had an offer to buy it. Because if anybody else has said last week, two weeks ago, that I would be surprised if somebody buys the show. Well, apparently there was an offer of $33 million for the show. Again, this is hearsay. I don't have this direct information from Kenny or anybody else. This is just hearsay. 33 million, however, when the bank was going to front this 33 million, or help front the 33 million, investigated the records of the concrete gun range, the tax statements, and basically the business model, found out the show wasn't really making any money. Now, this person speculated that probably the reason they weren't making any money is because probably they purposely tried to show it not making any money. to save on taxes. And that's kind of a business model that some businesses do. Whether or not they're making money, I don't know, but apparently their records, again, this is all here to save folks. So you can take it all with a grain of salt maybe, but you can file the way in your brain and think about it and maybe you'll hear it again somewhere else. I don't know. The $33 million was a too high of a price for a business that doesn't make any money, essentially, or makes little money. So the bank went in front of the money. That's the story. Again, hearsay, don't know if it's true. It makes some sense because there are a lot of businesses and I'm sure just about anybody would like to see their taxes reduced as well as they can. So if you can show legally somehow your income, your earnings to be near zero or very low taxes, then that's probably a wise business model to do. Of course, it's a wise business model to make money as well. And maybe it were. I don't know. But that's the story behind that part of it. Not prequels phenomenal, as I take another bite. Not prequels phenomenal. About twice the number of people were there. This is my guess. That's what I saw. The vendors, all the vendors I talked to, including myself, said it was a record record. We all polled. Our best show ever basically most everybody's up for it. It's told me the same thing. It's a show of it Not just not Creek, but their best show ever there were long lines going into the facility and my long lines I mean some people actually literally waved on the road for like two hours to just till they finally got in So it's crazy Now what I had done and I mentioned this right before I went to buy these the day I bought the MREs in fact I purchased 66 cases of MREs. And these were newer ones with the pizza. They were the 2022 inspection dates, which is about as new as you ever see on the market right now. I was a little worried because at Knopf Creek, there's always great competition for things like that. Anything military related, generally there'll be other people that you're competing with in the prices. And sure enough, I got there, one guy had a pallet of MREs. He was selling for $40 a case. Now his were older, his had an inspection date of 2018 year. So they were, mine were four years newer than those. So anyway, he had older ones for 40 bucks. There's another guy that had newer ones for 55 bucks. I think he had about a pallet. I had about a pallet and a half. I'm not sure, I don't remember how many cases are in a pallet, but it looked to be a pallet and a half to two pallets. 66 cases, but I was getting $70 for them. And so I was at a huge disadvantage at first because I'm thinking, okay, well, I've been under priced. My sources, I don't have sources directly into the bases. I can't go on a base. Without a driver's license, I'm not getting into a military base. So I have to get them second hand from somebody else, so to speak. Somebody who can go in and so that's my great disadvantage and I normally sell them for about $70 and frankly for the for the new ones you can go online and well, unfortunately You can't find MREs online for the most part not the military versions You'll find the apex and the the so Paco the civilian ones you'll find those and you sometimes you'll find them as low as like 40 bucks a case from their one so they're at the same they really aren't and people at the shows don't like them so I avoid those at all cost because it took me a long time get rid of those but anyway because of the huge attendance and the cafeteria apparently not anticipating that they would have more people for some reason. They didn't have any extra food so the first day they went through two days for the food in one day. The second day they were scrambling to get from the Sam's Club and whatever to buy the supplies they needed. But they ran, they started running out of food and the lines were so long, about an hour long to get a sandwich, an hour long line. So people are coming to me to buy MREs. Now, when the other guys sold out, because they probably, I was selling individual as well as whole cases, individual meals. And anyway, once everybody else sold out, I was selling them at a $70 case. And I was selling individual ones for $7 each. So I was, I made a little more than $70 a case really. I probably sold about 20 cases opening them up and selling them individually. Because people wanted to eat and they didn't want to stay. You wait in my table for a minute or you wait in for an hour at the cafeteria line. And people were choosing to wait in my line, it was only a minute. So I sold every single 66 cases of something like 700 MREs or something. And I sold every single MRE. I saved two for myself, dinner two nights, actually. Because of the long lines, we couldn't, well anyway, I sold every single MRE I had, and I could have probably sold another 10 cases by hand. The lines were so long to get out of there, that we all the vendors had to sit around for an hour pulling car moved and That would have been 10 o'clock at night So even started moving So I pulled a fast one. I've never done this before in our creek But I knew I'd be waiting in line for an hour to get back in to it 7 a.m. Just to start to sit at the gate not getting very early to boot I would have been along at 6 the first night at first morning. I went there the setup day I was there at 6 30 Wait, it still had to wait in line a half an hour. So I got into the gate I wasn't all the way on the road. I was still in the driveway going to the place if you didn't even know the place I'm talking about anyway There is I actually spent the night in my van Quietly because we're not supposed to do that. I can reveal this I guess if I should be else but I stayed and I slept in my van So there are all kinds of scary guards there at night, but they didn't have any dogs So I wasn't found out. I spent two nights there I'd lived on the property for three days, even though you're not supposed to you supposed to leave property But there were a lot of other vans and trailers around. I just parked among them and just kept real quiet and didn't leave the van. But it saved me probably about two hours on the road. And it's basically 10 o'clock at night. You wouldn't get to where you're going until almost 11. And then everything's closed as far as food goes. And I had MREs. And then they go to bed at midnight. And you've got to get up at 5 in the morning. And it just doesn't make sense. It didn't make sense to leave property. So I stayed, even though we're not supposed to. Yeah, but everything went fine. I just never was discovered. I probably shouldn't even tell my audience that because maybe now they'll look out. Look out for me if I do that again, if there is a show again. But anyway, there may not be a show. Again, there may have been one offer of 33 million. We don't know for sure. Okay, so they had three tanks there. They weren't Sherman's. They look similar to Sherman's. They're a little bit smaller. I can't remember. Somebody, Mark had the name of them. a common name for him. If somebody's listening and know the name of the American tank, World War II, smaller than Sherman, start with an L. Kind of a common name. Might have been a Sheraton. No, it wasn't a Sherman, no. It was another name. I think it starts with an L, but anyway, maybe somebody who called and knows. Anyway, they did some demonstrations. I've never seen the demonstrations. Frankly, I'm at my table. I'm just too busy to do anything. I never saw it in the shooting. You could hear it, you could see some explosions when it was night, you could see the glow of the explosions. It was posed to me by Mark, and I don't believe that I heard any greater fanfare of the night shoots, because night shoots are the ones everybody wants to see. They're using cracer rounds and the pyrotechnics, they're shooting at propane tanks, and they're blowing up with a big fireball. But I don't think, from what I heard, and I've done the show for almost 10 years, I don't think I heard any additional length of time or hoopla over the shootings this time, the range firing every time they opened up. One of the things I think I did notice, and this is just my observation that may be faulty, I think I heard less 50-CAL, the 50-BMG fire. There was certainly some, but I think there was less of it. From what I was hearing from other vendors of spelling ammunition, there wasn't really a shortage of the 50 BMG, but it seemed to me there was less of it. I didn't see, I know Ed and I had this discussion before the show about maybe possibility of shortages of ammo for the South Creek Show, and maybe it wouldn't be much. see any less shooting. You still heard the minigun go off. Several thousand rounds each time they pulled that trigger or whatever. So I didn't hear any difference from my standpoint, from my possibly faulty thinking of not standing on the range and just hearing what I hear. I could easily hear all the gunfire from wherever my table is. For those of you who don't know, if you've been there, I'm about halfway into the building, into the big lead to, or the pole barn. Well another thing Craig you gotta keep in mind it was they they did advertise it as the last show ever I'm sure the people that showed up wanted to go out with a bang So if there was a shortage they might have saved their ammo for that is just for that event You know it's such a big event and they literally like you said just pulling the trigger on the minigun That's a thousand rounds every every pull of the trigger So think about that guys, you know how much ammo goes for You know a thousand rounds adds up pretty quick, you know, I can't you said the That they might have showed that they weren't making a profit When you think about the amount of ammo that goes down range if they were providing a majority of that ammo and it gets burned up like that They probably weren't making as much money as people think they were I don't know. I don't know their business model. I can only tell you what I heard and that what I heard might be wrong But it does make some sense, but it might not be true. I'm still eating pork. Sorry. I'm trying to eat more when Ned's talking. So there was a, yeah, going out with a bang. Yeah, people wanted to be there. People were complaining about how long they had to wait on the rows, but they endured it. I don't know if people turned around or if they just kept waiting. Probably didn't turn around. I thought they waited in line. And I sold, I had the biggest show I've ever had. Not just at the Arctic, but any show I've ever had. So, I'm very grateful. I wish the show would continue. Anybody who purchased from me or should attend the show, I thank you for making it such a wonderful show for us vendors. This is why I do shows. I wouldn't go to Knab Creek on my own if I wasn't a vendor. I mean, I'll also be honest with you. I know a lot of people, a lot of people, Craig are concerned that, you know, there's no, there's not a big machine gun shoot anymore. Mob Creek was unique. They had the machine gun shoot and a gun show. I know of three other machine gun shoots, two of them are in Arizona, but they're not associated with any gun show. They don't have a military, I'm not aware of any military contracts. that come in to show off stuff. And that was one thing that Knob Creek did have. They actually had military personnel show up to show off some of the stuff that they were using each year. So who knows what's going to happen with that. Yeah, well, I hope somebody buys it out. But it's so happy somebody has some big bucks cash upfront. If the story is true, I'll have to bet some big bucks cash upfront where they don't have to take out a loan. Because apparently based on what I heard the banking model just doesn't work banks aren't gonna loan you 33 million for a business that doesn't work as a profit Business so if that's the case again that may not be true folks I'm very happy to admit that I very could go out to get me wrong But this is what I heard from a pretty reliable source. I think it's a reliable source, okay Let me also talk about let me see how much time I have here Unless you want to call in. I'm done talking about not freak I guess Sorry folks. What we know is hot sauce I'm sorry This was just literally on the road and I shouldn't even bother doing a show tonight. I asked you I asked you short before the program if you need a night off, you know, we have Archives and stuff that we can play in the time slot. I know that And I know you're busy with the stuff that's going on with your mom and you're still working on the underground structure aren't you? Well, that's not really. Okay. The update on that is I still hadn't had the machine fixed so I was holding up everything. I did a lot of work there but I got this crawler loader still with a dead engine. It's got a brand new engine and now a rebuilt engine in it. I've been having a really hard time getting mechanics out there. Know what they're doing the engines is reinstalled. This needs to be hooked up the rest of the way. It's probably probably 80% hooked up, but I need a real in a real engine diesel account that knows these engines these machines And I just haven't been able find one. But anyway with my mother breaking her hip that put a stop to everything too. I had to go and Help her and move her and we're in the final stages that we will be done at October 31st is the day we have to have her out of her home and into the new home. So we've already had several big trucks we've loaded and my mother was a hoarder so it's been hard on her try to get rid of stuff. We got a 20 yard dumpster here that's not only three-quarters full I was hoping to fill it up a couple times but so we're moving a lot of stuff. She just can't seem part with some things. A lot of the part with things after she dies but so I'm in this with stages that and then Friday here's what happened. My brother my brother passed away. My brother's four years younger than me. I turned 60 last week, for those of you who are wondering or don't know. My brother was 56. He was a very high ranking. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in Civil Air Patrol. Now, I don't, he, my brother kind of left us family members pretty much completely out of the loop as far as what he did with his Civil Air Patrol. We knew he did it. We've been doing it since he was a teenager. But he, It was very high ranking. He even started a chapter in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It didn't exist anymore. I don't know if chapters are a word, folks. I don't know. I don't know a whole lot about Civil Air Patrol. But anyway, he was very well known among everybody in a, I think, about a five or six state region. From what I remember him telling me, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, if I recall. He was like the commander for those states. But he told us very little, he had a whole family away from the family. He sort of shut out his real family and had his own little family with Civil Air Patrol as a Lieutenant Colonel. Anyway. And I don't know that I've ever talked about this on the air. This is rather personal stuff. I don't mind people knowing about it. It's just the, and maybe people out here can learn a lesson from it. That's one of the reasons I bring it up. Last year, my brother lost his leg due to, basically my brother had diabetes. Okay? I'm going to talk about diabetes a little bit because anybody that has diabetes or haven't been checked or your borderline, there's things you can do. You don't have to die early, as early as my brother did. My brother ignored it and he still kept drinking soda pops and everything. Type 2 diabetes. My brother hasn't been able to feel his legs for like a decade or something. And this happens, this is one of the first things that happens to people with diabetes, type 2 biodegradable diabetes. Neuropathy. It's a circulation problem, Craig. Yeah. Well, so a form of neuropathy in this case too because he couldn't feel them. It wasn't just circulation. But anyway, he couldn't feel his legs and he was working in maintenance. He lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan. All the students that come here, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is like most of the town. It's like the biggest thing in town. And he at one time managed 66 units. where students would come in and they'd stay one semester or two semesters and move on and so he constant turn on constant turn on he worked in maintenance and management in in rentals and mostly student rentals so that's a very demanding job anyway He was replacing some glass block And I went to this fraternity house too that he was he was managing when he was an hospital I actually continued working on the glass block They play golf inside the dam building and they break out. I go there one day and replace some class box and we go back to the next day and there's some more broken again. These kids today, I'm telling them kids, we're talking 19, 20 year olds, whatever, seem like they have no respect. I guess their parents pay the bill and whatever, but passively fixing things they screw up. You install some bathroom install doors, go back next week and they're tore off the hinges again. They just destroy things. They get, they're playing their beer pond and they get all drunk and I don't know. I don't get it. I was never in college and I never drank anyway. I never even tasted beer or wine. So I was never into that party scene, whatever they do. Playing a lot of music, playing their beer pong in the front yard and just causing all kinds of havoc. Tearing things up in the fraternity house. Well anyway, because I worked in several fraternity houses and I've seen this before. And the generations seem to be getting worse. I'm sorry, just... Maybe at me being an old fogey now, I'm looking at the younger generation and wondering what's happening to them, but whatever. That's just my personal view of what I've seen. So he was replacing some glass block and what he thinks happened, he went home that day and would take off his shoes and he's blood in his foot and in his shoe. And he removed a big piece of glass, which was probably, if you don't glass block, it's really, it's not window glass, it's really heavy glass. And it went direct to issue with no foot. He didn't know it. He was working a part of the day or the whole day with this glass in his foot. And he didn't know it. He went home. But anyway, to make a long story short, the foot got infected. He went to the emergency room. It was turning black. He told me to amputate his foot and another doctor said, well first of all the doctor said half his foot, the other doctor said no his full foot. And then they said they had to go off his leg because in his ankle he had metal from a previous accident that his foot basically twisted around backwards or whatever. Anyway, he was kind of a, my brother was a little bit of a risk taker. You know, the kid does the jumps on the bikes a little more than you should, that kind of thing. But anyway, my brother was a little bit of a risk-taker and he jumped over some bushes or something and landed weird and his foot twisted around backwards. Anyway, they put a bunch of pins in there. So when they saw the pins in his ankle in his lower leg, they had to amputate his leg about halfway up. What's that bone? Is that called the femur? No, that's not the femur. The first, I'm sorry, I don't know if my bone is well enough, the first part of the leg. So he had a knee and then something about eight, 10 inches long. By the time they got done with him. And I didn't even know about it until they already emptied his leg. He was not one to talk to anybody. I was the only one to do where he lived, and I was the only one to do his phone number in my family. He would rather be left alone from his family. But while he was in the hospital to try to save his job, I continued his maintenance work for him, including replacing those last block, to try to keep so that when he comes out and he gets a prosthetic, he can continue his job if he wants to. Well, he never recovered from it, really. He come out of the hospital. started getting fitting for a prosthetic leg. He didn't like it at all and he ended up getting rid of it. And he preferred something called, he found online called iWalk. It's something you can just order on eBay or whatever, Amazon. And it's like a crutch for somebody that has missing a lower part of their leg. And he used that for a while, getting around a little bit, but he went on disability. He didn't want to continue doing the job anymore. He can't do ladders, which he needs to do. There's certain things he wouldn't be able to do in the condition he was. So he went on disability and I think I don't even know if you guys first disability check the ass of me I don't really know we finally found some bank records Come in the mail and we're gonna start investigating but anyway The part of the story that I want to continue on when I want to make sure people listen to this because probably everybody listening to me right now knows somebody with diabetes or maybe you have diabetes type 2 diabetes and Some things you should be aware of and think possibly do so you don't have to die so early like my brother did He lost his leg, essentially because he couldn't feel his foot, because of the diabetes, he lost his leg. In conversation, when he was in the hospital, I had a little spot on my toe that was like split open, big toe, on one of my feet. I don't have diabetes. But my toe was split open. It wasn't bleeding. It didn't hurt. It wasn't infected. But it was like getting bigger. And I think, huh. My brother just lost his leg for an infection. But I'm going to get this looked at. I went to a doctor who gave me a, well, he also did a diabetic test. I can't remember what they call it. Somebody out there might know. There's a test you can take with your doctor, a blood test, that they can tell over the last three months, NC5 or something. I can't remember what it's called. It will tell you your basic blood sugar levels for the last three months. And it gives an indication whether you're diabetic or not. It's the first NC something. I'm sorry folks, I don't. But it's a simple test, just a blood test, and you get results in a few days and they tell you whether or not you. And I happen to be borderline. I was like right on the cusp of it. And he said, well, that toll is kind of an indication of potentially you becoming diabetic as well. But with a doctor, by the way, this doctor, he'd go into his office, and it was during the pandemic, and go into the office, and I'm the only one wearing a mask. I'm thinking, okay, one in the line. And then I get up to the doctor, he asks me, why are you wearing that mask? Well, because the law says I'm supposed to, but I go into public places. Anyway, I took it off. I don't need to wear a mask. But he, and in his office, to give you an idea, this doctor, okay, we're talking a real medical doctor here. He's not just some naturopath, he is a medical doctor. And on his wall I see a picture that shows the caption says, first step in fighting coronavirus. And you can find this online because I found out where you got it from. You can find it online if you want to look for it. First step in finding coronavirus. And it shows somebody throwing a TV out the window. Again, this is a doctor's office. This is a medical doctor's office. This is not just some wahoo pretending to be a doctor. This is a real doctor. Anyway. What he prescribed and prescribed isn't the right word because he didn't prescribe anything. He doesn't even take insurance. This is taking a doctor and he prescribed air quotes burdock root alpha-lupaic acid and What's the name of that stuff? It's green. It's just final plan. It's just a post of this Green stuff in a pill soft gel. I can't remember what it's called. It's just plants stuff. It's just very green and And it's just based on plants And then a little cream I put on it, he put a bandage on it. But he put some cream on it, put a bandage on it, and keep changing that regularly. That's what I did. The wound went away completely. Within, it was starting to get better pretty easily, pretty quickly. And it's gone completely where I look at my both toes and I can't tell which toe it was. So anyway, it healed completely. And he says it's criminal what they're doing to diabetics in this country. And the key to it is, well, of course, You want to change your diet. If you have type 2 diabetes or your borderline, number one is you need to cut out most of the sugars. At least start with the refined sugars. Get rid of the soda pops. Go to diet pop if you still have to drink pops. Up north here we call them POPS. I know down south in Texas they call them COKS, whatever. You need to get rid of these if you're a diabetic or at least wish that even the diets aren't good for you, but it's going to be a lot better than the sugared variety. But my brother refused to do that. He ignored his diabetes. He knew he had diabetes. He already lost a leg and he was still ordering. I went to his apartment today and I found about And I'm not exaggerating here, Paul. If you're going to think I'm exaggerating. There was about 10 cases of soda pops he had ordered on Amazon. And most of them were from Mexico because they use a different sugar. Some people say the Mexican variety tastes better. They were definitely Mexican, and they had a label slapped on there for the American market. And they have a different sugar. They had cane sugar. Most of them had cane sugar instead of high-food, co-scorrent syrup. Okay, granted that's better sugar than high-fruity-close corn syrup, but it's still sugar and with your diabetic you don't want that stuff I mean you may want it because we're addicted to sugar most of us But you you need to cut it back. You'll get plenty of other sugars by eating breads and there's other things you'll get plenty of sugars in and still too much. Diabetics may have to do more than just eliminating things like candy bars, cakes, cooking cookies and so on. You can have some of that in moderation, but you need to really cut your diet back. My brother didn't. He knew, he said diabetes was a death sentence and he left it at that. He didn't want to change his diet. He died early because of it. And I'm trying to get a lesson across anybody listening who has family members. Probably everybody listening to me has a family member that either had it and died from it or has it and is dying or maybe you have it because it's a very common disease in this country. Our diets suck. And the key to this, you've been listening closely here for anybody who has diabetics, or anywhere diabetics, I had that wound but he said the key to this is alpha-lupaic acid. This was what My doctor said I hadn't seen a doctor in 20 years But since my brother just lost a leg and I got this little wound on my toe I think I'm gonna actually go see a doctor and I knew this guy from some of the health meetings from the last couple decades So I went to him he remembered me in fact. He has my digital pulse wave analyzer I used to do cardiovascular screenings in his office as well, but anyway he Says alpha lupanic acid and there's different types You want to get the stabilized kind and you want the one with L in front, L dash alpha-lupaic acid. This is the type I'm telling you that if you want to try this, you get this. Anytime you do have something with sugar, and by sugar I don't mean pops. I mean, you can do that if you want, but you really should get rid of that stuff, the soda pops. You really, but anytime you have a sandwich with bread, take some L alpha-lupaic acid, write this down, L dash alpha-lupaic acid. This is what my doctor told me who repaired my toe without any prescription. There was no meds and he picks my toe by alpha-lupac acid burdock root and This green stuff which I don't like if I went in the back of van I could get the actual labels and tell you exactly what it's called It's just a green stuff I'd like my green drink and he said eat more vegetables and cut out the sugars and take alpha-lupac acid You'll be fine come back to me later and we'll do a three month a survey by taking another one of these tests from the blood and see how you're doing because they can tell if it gets better. I might not be borderline anymore because I have been to making some of those changes. Isolate sugar too folks. I mean, I admit almost all of us are addicted to sugar. You look at that piece of pie or cheesecake and oh boy, it's unresistible, right? I get it and I still cheat but I do have the alpha lipic acid. I'm taking my advice with the doctor, the advice of my doctor. So if you have diabetes look into that alpha-lupaic L- alpha-lupaic acid That's what you need to look into. That's the main thing you need to look into it But you also need to change your diet. My brother, I showed my brother a picture of my toe and Then I took when it was in its height when it was worse And he says that's nothing. I got a hole in my other foot that I put my finger in So right there that told me and I didn't see that wound But that tells me he's about ready to lose his other foot too So now he's not going to be missing two feet or two legs as well. His life is not going to be fun. And on top of that, I went to his house one day in his apartment and he was using a magnifying glass for his computer and he couldn't see the print on it. And I said, well, you could change the settings and magnify the print. And I showed him how. Well, you're a life saver. I've been struggling with it so long that you should be a computer technician or whatever. I said, no, it's just a thing that Windows has. It's easy to expand the fonts. So he's starting to go blind. And that's another thing that happens to diabetics. He'll start going blind. Do you want to go blind? Get some L-alpha-lutetic acid. Change your diet. And there's a whole lot of other health problems that will come along with it. If you make it that far, diabetic comas, all sorts of things that you don't want to be involved with. And according to my doctor, this is easily preventable. Eat more vegetables, L-Atholupaic acid, and... Some greens vegetables my green drink. I said well, I got this green drink I got a lot of I'm gonna just start drinking my own green drink every day and I haven't been doing every day recently during this move I'm just been so busy so diabetics beware my brother died Because of it he didn't have to at least not so early my sister and I When we learned some of the things that I learned about him his lifestyle They said well, he's not gonna survive my mother and he didn't my mother now has A dead son. Because he refused to acknowledge. He knew he had it. And he knew what to do. He's very good at research. But he refused to do it. So it's like putting a gun to your head that doesn't fire really quickly. It fires very, very slowly. Now, I don't think he killed himself. It doesn't appear that way. Here's what happened on the discovery of it. And again, folks, this is a personal thing. I'm just filling up the hour. And I don't need to talk about it anymore after this week, this episode. But because of my brother's state and knew that he could potentially be losing another foot soon, one of the Civil Air Patrol cadets or somebody contacted me and said, hey, we haven't seen him on Facebook or some of the other ones. He's usually there almost every day. We haven't seen him in a few, four, five days, whatever. Oh, okay, let me check. I had texted him on Tuesday and on Thursday. He did not get a response, but It's not unusual because the text I sent didn't require a response. I didn't suspect anything up until I got that call. The text in the game called his number or nothing. So, okay, well, my sister lives in that town. And I was in Indianapolis. I was doing the show in Indianapolis. This is Friday. I was setting up. No, the first day of the show, actually. So, I called my sister and said, you may want to go check on him. Here's the address. Now, my sister did not know his address. And my brother did not want her knowing his address, believe it or not. This is his own sister. But under the circumstances, I gave her the address. And both her and I knew without saying it that you might find something bad there when you got there. I told her where it was, how to get in, where to park, all this stuff, how to worry. And the door was unlocked and she went in and he was laying on the floor. And the conversation between us is, I mean, it's traumatic for her. I'm sure I would have done it if I was there, if I was in town, would have done it myself, but I wasn't in town. But he was laying on the floor face first. He was not in his wheelchair, because he'd been getting around in his wheelchair when he was in his apartment. He, the wheelchair, he may have been trying to get into it, I don't know. We don't really know. Just came up with today the medical examiner or whatever the death certificate says type 2 diabetes And there was another word attached to that that I don't know as a cause of death So they're just making assumptions because I don't think they did an autopsy is just based on what we told the police when my sister told the police When they come to take us and then they came to take his body this is the conversation and I that I had with my sister at the time because she Called me and He yelled his name and the cat, he has a cat, it survived, the cat is fine, the cat is with my sister. Really old cat, 17 years old I think, that he's had since he was a kitten. The cat was rubbing against the body and trying to comfort him or whatever, I don't know what the cat's thinking. And she's trying to comfort the cat and she's of course crying and I said, is he cold? Do we need to call an ambulance or do we need to call a coroner? I'm not touching him. I can't touch him. Well, she finally did. I know he's cold and we both knew in a sense that yeah, he's dead. So, again, he slowly killed himself with it not working looking after his diabetes. If you're diabetic and you want to kill yourself, okay, do like my brother did and drink a lot of soda pops and... You eat candy and eat whatever you want and you eat more. You also need to avoid carbohydrates as much as possible. I found that out myself, Greg. Yeah, that's, yeah, I said breads. Yeah, even if you cut out all the soda pops and all the sugar, you can see directly where it says on the label sugar. Even if you cut all that out, you're still eating a lot of sugars, carbohydrates. You eat rice or noodles or breads, that all turns to sugar in your body. We also need to reduce those greatly too, but alpha-lupac acid, L alpha-lupac acid is something you could start looking into and start doing. Listen, you can buy this from a, but you might not be able to buy it from a Walgreens, but you can go online and buy it. It's not, you don't need a prescription for it. This doctor that I went to, he just read on a piece of paper what I should get. He didn't write a prescription to the, so I go to a, whatever, a Walgreens or whatever. There was no medical prescription. It was all over the counter stuff. So I'm urging people, if you have diabetes, you need to look into that. Because it might save your life or extend your life. Yes, diabetes gives you a lot of complications, but if you let it advance and are still alive, when you lose your legs, when you use your eyesight, when you go into diabetic comas and other things that can happen, kidney failure, you don't really want to go there. You're putting a burden on your family when you do that. And this is, and I think after what I've told you tonight about the situation here, the new house that I had bought for my mother, I was thinking in terms of my brother making a small apartment in a back building for him because he didn't want to live with my mother. None of us do actually. But at some point we were going to have to care for him because on top of all this, I didn't mention this, did I? No, I didn't. On top of this is developing dementia. So badly that I learned about some of this after he'd already passed away people talking to me He texted me one day said my trucks missing. It's just missing. It's lost. I don't know where my truck is Well, what did you do? Did you take it in the shop? Did you did they tow it? What happened? I don't know my trucks missing but what he did was He took into a shop Needed new clutch or by the way That truck and my brother in the truck I think it's the last video I posted on the channel, if you want to go look at it, forbidTV, forbid spelled with two D's, no space. You can't really see my brother's face very well. It's very fuzzy. You won't be able to see him very well. But you can see the truck. And the truck had a broken back. The truck, when he accelerated, the truck basically folded up in half and then back down again when he popped the clutch. So it's bizarre. But anyway, that video's up on YouTube. I think it's the last video I posted. About three or four months ago before he lost his truck. So the truck was the frame was was rotted All right, and but and now needed new clutch He somehow knew it needed new clutch, but he didn't know where his truck was or how they how he knew that he knew it needed a clutch Okay, that's gonna be about $1,000 for that truck. You sure you want to do that? The back is broken. You need a new clutch that truck isn't worth that's already rust buck But he didn't know where his truck was and we finally found out We got a letter in my brother's place from the state saying, well, we've got this vehicle. You're going to lose it in 21 days unless you come to claim it. It was abandoned property. He had taken it to a shop where they looked at it, found it needed a new clutch, and apparently told him that because he knew it needed a new clutch. He didn't know where I was. Apparently they called over and over again and come get your truck, come get your truck, and they weren't getting through or the phone was, whatever, I don't know. And so finally, after three months there, they said, they turned it over to the state as a Bambin property. So now we have a $500 get on a GL card for the truck and needs a new clutch at $1,000. We'd have to tow it, probably, to get it out of there. And it's a rust bucket. So we're going to just abandon it, let the state handle it basically, is probably what's going to happen there. My sister wants to go there of course to see if there's anything we can find that's left in the truck that might be of something we need. Because they will allow us to do that. They'll allow us to go and get the personal items out of the truck. So anyway, three months, he had missing his truck. And he was still driving it. With that video you see, This is a manual transmission. The clutch, we're talking manual transmission. He was still driving a manual transmission vehicle, a truck. With a crutch, I'm not an accelerator pedal. He wasn't supposed to be driving. We told him that. He knew that, but he was still driving it. And he was going to continue driving as long as he thinks that he could get away with it. And I said, well, at least get an automatic something. You don't need a truck anymore since you're not doing maintenance. Just get something. With an automatic transmission. They're not hard to find compared to the stick shifts are hard to find But anyway, they're not hardly available in this country more of course the used car market is hard to find things anyway at this moment in time but He still was driving with one leg. He was driving a manual transmission truck again You can see the truck in that YouTube video if you want to go look at it. I See where my time is here Okay, I got about eight minutes or seven or eight minutes We don't know yet, I think we're going cremation. We don't know about the showing. According to the CAPO, here's something else that happened. He had a warehouse full of it, mostly tools for his work, tools in building materials and things, you know, pipes and fittings and life switches and so on. When he was sharing this warehouse with somebody else, he was subletting it from somebody. The guy was basically going, he was stealing stuff out of his warehouse. He was a grave robber, scum of the earth, this guy. So we hustled together. Remember he died on Friday. And by Saturday, if people are hearing about, he was already loading up his car with stuff. So we immediately, we ran into the truck. We completely removed all his tools and everything from that warehouse. 20 Civil Air Patrol cadets. Came to help load and unload that truck. This is how well my brother was well He was known and how people would do it any for him. It was very well respected a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol But we didn't know this Until this saw this stuff sort of happened because he had this other family that he didn't really tell us about he I think he considered this his service in the Civil Air Patrol to be more family than his own true Yeah, because of that, that's something to look into because he was with Civil Air Patrol. There may be help with funeral costs and whatnot through the Civil Air Patrol. I think that might even fall something under the VA. Unfortunately, Randy's not around to ask because Randy's passed away. It might be something I'll look into. Maybe ask the guys who showed up to volunteer, ask them where you would go to find out information about that. Because I'm sure a tombstone or some may be provided. Although I'll tell you, if it is waiting for the state to get it to you, it's like we've got somebody we've buried down here and we're still waiting. We chipped in and got a tombstone for him, but we're still waiting for the one from the GOV that they were supposed to provide because he was a veteran. We looked into all that. We haven't official channels yet, but everybody we've talked to seems to think that, no, there's not really anything. I know my father was a Marine, and when he died, I applied for and eventually got... a grave marker. It was a brass plaque. I'd say it was maybe 14 inches by 24 inches, something like that. It sits on a concrete pad on the ground. And they provided that at no charge as a United States Marine Corps veteran. And I don't think there was anything else really. I think we also, well we actually had to hire the honor guard, the 21 gun salute. And although we didn't do the salute, we actually just Somebody from the Marine Corps League that come and bless him at his funeral basically kind of thing. I don't think the military provided anything for my father who was a U.S. Marine. Now Civil Air Patrol isn't even as prominent as Marines or Army or Navy, Air Force, whatever. What we understand, there's really nothing. One of the cadets I wanted to have him in toured his body, or his ashes in this case. In toured at a, in Livonia, Michigan, apparently there's another very high ranking Civil Air Patrol. I don't know if he's a Colonel or what he is. And then they, I think it would be good to have the three graves there, whoever these other people are. We're open to that idea. We don't know yet where he's going to be. His ashes will be laid to rest, so to speak. or if we're even going to do anything that we don't know yet. But anyway, there's been some talk and some of them have suggested, if you say the word and we'll collect enough money to pay for everything and we don't know. But we found the outpouring according to the people we were talking to, I had 19 of them there standing in front of me when we got done unloading. I'm thanking him and talking about. I was really surprised he had not mentioned my grandmother because my grandmother might have been the reason not only he got into Civil Air Patrol, but also because she was, well, she wasn't actually a whack. She never actually was part of the US Army Air Force at the time. She was a pilot back in the 30s. She was like a, Miele Earhart was like her idol, right? Miele Earhart opened up the aviation for women and she got into aviation and She flew and she held glider endurance records, women's glider endurance records. She liked gliders especially. And because of that, she actually fought pilots during World War II. The glider pilots in World War II. Yes, the gliders in World War II are known to be another invasion. Well, my time is up. But anyways, I thank everybody for bearing with me for all this personal stuff. We try to get back to something else. I might miss some more shows, but we try to get back to something fairly normal someday here soon. I got several more weeks of a lot of work to do, but I have to leave my gallery some more. So thanks everybody for listening, so long. Have a good day. Good. cure 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. 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And good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report of our country one day closer victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories Southwest Southeast East and North Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com along with satellite and we're on a myriad of technologies inside and outside the United States. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 20th of October. Full moon. Kinda just barely saw it. We had some clouds roll in. We have big bare spots up above and we got some pittery rain coming down. Just real light dot stuff. But it's kind of funny because you can see the moon and you can even see the sunset still. It's kind of cute. Anyway, it is Wednesday and it is the 13th year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with the K 2021 old earth calendar, 2021 battle for the Republic, the dance of sorts. And again, On themes, Edward, if you have, and I think you do in the lineup, Gary Owen, the version that we put into the Music Mix disc, you may have that in your memory, Gary Owen. This is a really good version that's more in line with what you would find the troops actually doing, or that would be the norm. Really well done and again if you're not familiar Gary Owen as a unit motto, unit theme, unit you know crest ID. Obviously if him been in the army maybe you don't know. But Gary Owen you've heard the song before it's the theme of the seventh cavalry but it wasn't just the theme of the seventh cavalry a lot of the Irish drinking songs. Let's read that fight song because it's At the time the Irish had done, after the third round, everyone in the room looked like they had a bullseye in their nose. You know what I mean? It looks like I need to play with my cousin. And that's a girl. What the hell? Hitter. Anyway, the Irish songs of the day, in many cases, became the standards for these units. Obviously because also a lot of Irish came into the formations, especially after the Civil War. Gary Owen. Edward, if you can find that, it's in the CD track that we did. And in the lineup, you still have the lineup, it would be the very last song. The days of Souda fun will make the marriage heiress run We are the boys, no mentors, not materialos Instead, a spot will drink, but it will pay the rent We can't deny about it, no man should do it, it's a period when we're in glory All right, thank you very much and again Gary Owen and for all of you out there we were talking about Unit motto unit logos and of course part of the esprit de corps process is unit song. Everybody knows it. Remember the Irish drinking songs? The idea was that you throw everybody in, everybody has to be able to point at somebody, they've got to be able to recite a chorus, you know, be able to do, you know, the song maybe completely and if they fumble because they've had a few too many, they pay the next round. There's all kinds of neat drinking games that were designed to make somebody else pay for your booze. Just heads up and remember that. It's like pass coins, okay? Everybody remember? We have a throwdown. Everybody's carrying your unit pass coin. You're supposed to have it in your pocket all the time. That way, just in case, you know, you run to the right person at the wrong time, yeah, you throw the coin out there and it's like, oh, okay, we're friends after all. But again, in a bar, the throwdown is to see who didn't bring the pass coin or can't toss it on the, you know, toss it on the table of the counter. That's the person paying for the next round. Or maybe the first one, just to get everything started, of course. So a lot of little tricks, and of course also the past coins are really handy. Shake hands and oh, by the way, just to let you know we're one of the brothers. One of your fellow men in uniform, okay? People that you should know, even if you don't. Anyway. That can be a device, it can be any number of different things. Coins of course became very popular, easy to carry, easy to conceal because it could look like any other coins in a pocket. Most people wouldn't think about them but they would be special. Now of course the most common past coins are almost the size of a silver dollar and everybody goes, well those are kind of obvious. Now it's like yeah, back in the day when that originally was the standard, Having two or three silver dollars or maybe a silver dollar made you a wealthy man, but also with all the pocket change you'd have since coin was the norm, pretty much it'd blend in. Wouldn't jump out sitting in somebody's pocket. Somebody might think about stealing it from you if they had you at knife or gunpoint or club you over the head and decide they're going to rifle your pockets, but for the most part you were stealing. And it was kind of camouflaged. Anyway, it is Weapons Wednesday. A couple of other things that I wanted to tuck on. I know a lot of people have not had experience with RPG7s, RPG2s, laws rockets, Vipers, all the other fun stuff that's out there now. And or has been there for quite some time even. I mean, never put any of those weapons to your shoulder, but there's no reason for you not to be familiar with them. There's a whole ton. really good videos on the subject. In fact, on the RPG-7, just a little heads up, there is an American-made version. It's being made as a contract export weapon. Another way for, you know, somebody who's a little in the circle ring knocker to get some gold out of the taxpayers for the RPGs that they buy here rather than the Renner Revolution models that are out there on the market, which by the way would be a lot cheaper. Anyway, there are a myriad of videos showing you how weapon systems work. I can't emphasize enough that before you pick a weapon up, go out and watch a bunch of the videos on the subject. Everybody, usually the videographer, is really good about focusing on the weapon to the point where sometimes you even lose the dialogue or lose the focus of the person who's doing the shooting who wanted the video. That's okay. Gives you the chance to see I think we temporarily lost Mark, guys, so I'm gonna put up some other music and we'll see if we can get him back up here shortly. In fact, I'm pretty sure that was not the version of the 7th Calvary song Dad wanted me to play, so we'll go see if we can find another one. But we just gotta wait for these stupid ad blocks to go by and then we will be right back. If the hearing goes up the road. Oh, I could do that. Anyway, we're back. Sorry about that, guys. I don't know what happened. Technology in the 21st century is crappy. That's just all there is to it. It's not Ed's fault, not my fault. It's the crappy third-rate public pool system woke-type asshats that make up the turds that are now running the infrastructure that are total failures to America. And it's only going to get worse. It's not. We'll get a laugh out of this. You know how they've got the chip shortage in the US, right? Because our microchips are being made overseas and they're waiting for those tankers off to be assured to be unmolded because of course it's going to happen any day because Biden said, you know, they're going to work 24-7 and it doesn't matter that there's a worker shortage, you know. Yeah. So it's open 24-7. They're trying to get the stuff in. But I don't know if you guys are hearing about this up in Michigan, but down here. Ford Automotive has called a recall call on some of the new pickup trucks. So they were bringing them in for the recall and they were caught doing it. Well, I think it was one of the dealerships that caught them. What they were doing with the recall was removing the redundancy chip so they could take the microchip out and put it in the new line trucks. Robbing from Peter to pay Paul because after all everything's fine. We're all fine here. Everything's great NAFTA and GATT is a wonderful thing but What basically is a panty and penny ante item has become a Critical I got to steal it from the customer item Think about that. That's what it comes down to is everything that we told everybody about NAFTA and GATT And we got ridiculed and cacked left and right for this, guys. I could do radio in 1993, 92. And I could do radio talk about anything and it all was wonderful, you know, about the Demacons and, you know, about what was going on with the globalists. But the moment you talk about NAFTA and GATT and said it was nothing but socialist crap, socialist BS. All of these fake-ass conservative hosts, no matter where they were, my favorite was in Indianapolis where they had the one turd who eventually, of course, was part of the Bush regime. What's fascinating is, again, I was talking, and that is going to be nothing but a failure and due damage to America. Here's why. Oh, let's not go all radical on that. Now mind you before, a moment earlier I was talking about how we need to, you know, again, we're going to end up fighting a war for independence to, you know, fight the leftists that are out there. Oh, that was wonderful. Wunderbar, thumbs up. You could say that on a regular network at the time, on a regular network, okay? Because this was an affiliate type of Fox, and I think they also had an ABC connection of some kind. But the moment you cross the George Herbert Walker Bush, NAFTA and GATT, you know, BS agenda, oh no, no, no, no, you're crazy. Oh, that's just Patriot mythology, blah, blah, blah. You know, that's conspiracy theory. Well, here we are. And again, you create these on top of everything, but they intentionally help them to fabricate monopolies. And where are we now because of that? So what did the globalist agenda do? Well, when you become so hyper insect specialized, what happens, and it's really interesting, is this is man-made, right? What do you do if there's a natural disaster? Boom, bop, boom, crunch, crunch, meteor, volcano, tidal wave, whatever. And it wipes out the one place that you decided was where they needed to make the Ultra X widget. But the Ultra X widget is tied in unnecessarily, unnecessarily, to a whole bunch of other crap. Here's another reason those microprocessors are in trouble. How many stoves do you have with too much BS under the hood right now? How many refrigerators do you have with too much BS under the hood right now? They don't go on and off. You don't regulate it because you've got a brain and you do it yourself. Oh, no, we ought to have a little computer on board. It's just like the washers. They are the most asinine thing. Grossly over-engineered, intentionally for failure. The new washers are a piece of just debris. And you know what's going to happen because it's just like I said, it's like copy machines. Ask a copy repairman. They know when they sell you a, oh, this machine will do two million copies, three million. A regular industrial machine should do that, by the way. However, here's the thing. If you hang on to it and then a part breaks, well, I think it's six, it was seven, I think they're at six or five years. They don't have to make parts for that. In fact, they intentionally don't make parts and they destroy their parts inventory. They don't want you to keep using that machine. They want you to throw that multi tens of thousands of dollars worth of machine away and spend the same amount again and typically never achieve that 3 million copy mark that the machine was claimed to be capable of. Now, it would be if parts were made available for regular wear and tear. Well, you're seeing the same BS. Oh, this is worse. If you're stealing off an existing system, what you're telling me is we're what? Rolling around? Oh, wait a minute. That's in line with what Uncle Mark said. Remember, all of your cars are like rolling spare parts inventories for a whole lot of other projects. Wait a minute. Including the auto industry cannibalizing products they already sold. Because that's what that is. That's cannibalizing a product you already sold to a customer, stealing from them, so that you can continue to produce something because you didn't have the forethought and you didn't have the brains God gave geese to make sure that you had control of and a backlog in production, so you could maintain whatever intricate production you're involved in. Stupid! Incredibly stupid. But then again, Ringknocker globalist type. Don't worry Lodge, buddy. The optical hat wearers, oi oi oi, say they promise they're gonna make sure that our Chinese friends are taken care of you. Yeah, well, they'll take care of you. Don't worry, son. They'll take care of you. Well, that's what you hear. But in reality, the little monster with the claws and the beady eyes and the fangs said, don't worry. We'll take care of you. Did you hear it guys? You said you'll take care of us. All right, I feel better already. Yeah. So anyway, a couple of things here real quick. Again, I was talking about videos. I don't know if I got cut off, but where I got cut off, don't worry about it. Fact is, go to YouTube while it's still there, copy whatever you can, especially in training videos. If you're interested in mortars, Start with the basic videos that are done World War two because they were primer videos They start out with even a bit of a history on mortars themselves a couple of them I think almost always cover the stokes mortars and stokes mortars could be made off the shelf yesterday Understand that most everything that you're talking about predates all electronics or most electronics and Was made with common sense engineering in mind You want to get more sophisticated? Look at the more sophisticated systems and see what can be duplicated. See how that works? Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Another thing, operation of belt fed weapons. I've had several people ask me about this. Do you know how to bring into service an M250 caliber? Well let me give you a little hint. Most of the time in the movies, they don't show you what you really have to do to charge the gun to get it going. go watch any of the videos and I'll tell you a great place to go for a lot of the gun videos is Forgotten weapons Forgotten weapons the author is great at being very meticulous you get you get a phenomenal course on the arm in the process and you'll usually have some kind of referencing material so you can go on to other subject areas and Find more on the weapon, but once again like the m250 caliber go to the World War II reposted videos. In fact, there's a couple companies out there that sell all of those. They sell a bundle of about like, I think it's 58 or 80 videos to a lump and there's a couple different lumps. And they cover flamethrowers, they cover mortars, they cover radio technology, land navigation, etc., etc. The basics have not changed. And as far as understanding the basics, it gives you the ability to wrap your brain around what you're seeing when you watch a lot of these other videos. So the training and base training videos like that are priceless. They will help to orient your brain to the problem. And I recommend that you, if you're going to watch, for instance, check out mortars. Stick to just doing mortars at this time. Go, you know, look at the mortar videos from World War II. Once you're done with those, they're actually remember they originally were real Real to real type, but they've been switched over to video when you do sit down watch them and After you've gone through all of that Then switch over to belt bed guns and then after that well There are a lot of decent videos on many of the more sophisticated guns that are still in service to this day example The m60 may have may have three other well five other configurations, but they're all the basic gun is not changed at all. And so if you watch again the training videos for the Vietnam War on the M60, it's a priceless series. Again, it demonstrates all the components of the weapon, helps you understand how it works, what it does, and shows you the weapon in demonstrated fire in all different variants. How can you use the weapon? The laws rocket, which, yo, remember we were all told that was obsolete. Now the US government's building it overseas, of course, not in America, building in America. If we build in America, Americans would have jobs. So instead, American tax dollars are paying for the Northern Europeans to build it. So that that way, when the UN and NATO are used on America, the weapons are not here in the United States, where they would be handy for the American people. We understand what the colonials are doing, what the colonial slash imperial powers are doing. We've seen it before, okay? So the laws rocket is not, is not, is not obsolete. It's being built right now. In addition to that, mines. And mines are another thing that in fact, they're even covering the most sophisticated and the latest right now as part of the sales packages. I mean, you're not a third party country, but guess what? It's nice to know about, you know, who's who in the zoo, what's out there and what to look for. Also, once you see how they're built, you got an idea of what you'll be building down the road, what you can manufacture and be even more sophisticated with this. In fact, mines are one of the easiest to kick into production as soon as we go to war. I'll tell you what, PVC, the miracle plastic, has provided us with a building material. All I have to do is have cut off saws and basically even just battery powered drills and you can put a number of different projects into play with a very short period of time and pop, pop, boom, boom. Okay, well it's more like click and boom. and preferably down range in front of you in a kill zone so that when you see that click boom, there we go, well they found that one. There's only another 25 on that trail, maybe they'll put, boom, wow they found another one. Cool, they were trying to run from the first one I think. That's really great. Anyway, with regard to mines, understand how they work, grenades are another one. Grenades are simple. In fact, originally if you take a look at the fusilier or grenadier symbols or the bombardier symbol that is for ordnance for the US military, what is it? It's a circular ball with a little pothole in it and flame coming out of the end. That's the traditional grenade and ordnance bomb. Grenades were made out of glass at one time. Oh, we can't do that. It's horrific. Now, there's a reason really that they went away from glass is it was really bad. If you could make a glass and temper the glass correctly and make a grenade, guys, it's true. When it'd blow up, it would be shards of flying Hades. It would be just a whole wall of scimitars coming out at you. However, most of the time, this is why glass became less popular as they realized that in actual production, getting the temper right for glass grenades, typically instead they were up or down the scale and the glass would pulverize into nothing but powder. Now this still meant that it was like a flash bang grenade, you don't want to be close to that, that's still lethal but you got to be really close. So again pottery grenades were common with chunks of metal or chunks of wreckage debris or even just pebbles. Can grenades, of course, were very common. World War I and even into World War II made at the front can grenades, you know, hand grenades, only this space, C-A-N, can. Grenades were actually a factory production standard. The French made what they called the tomato can grenade. If you're not familiar with that, I've mentioned it many times on the air. They sent canned tomatoes, stewed tomatoes forward to the front. Truth's got good food to eat. They didn't destroy the cans, they kept the cans. When they opened them up, what they did is they had another kit that came forward and there were like 24 cans to a case or 20 cans to a case. Well, there was an equal number of kits that came in another case and everything was set up so that once you ate the stewed tomatoes and you let the cans dry out, you turned around and loaded them up with fragmentation, which you could collect off of the area of debris and junk head laying around, or they came with a certain amount of debris, and then you had a high explosive charge and a fusing system, and you actually tack slash screwed the upper part in where you cut the can lid off, and you had yourself a throwable offensive grenade. And they sent God knows how many millions of those to the front. In fact, a World War I is a really interesting affair because you know what before I mentioned during the two hour block about high powered rifles. Guys, when high powered cartridges came into play, there was a whole school of argument that conventional infantry warfare would cease to exist, number one. And number two, because of long range machine gun and rifle fire, grenades and mortars would be obsolete. Yeah, I know that's not, there was a whole school, they were pushing this hard. We're talking just like people telling you there wouldn't be any more tanks built because of the SAGR launcher and shoulder fired weapons, or there would be no more aircraft because of the SAM, soon as the SAM-7 came out. then the red eye, all of a sudden there could be no more helicopters and no more planes etc because they'd all be shot down. There's always an element that's put out there to propagandize that. Well before World War One it was there weren't going to be no more mortars or grenades. Guys, by the time they were done at the end of World War One, more mortars and grenades were built and used than all of their existence prior to World War One. going as far back in time with grenades as possible. They don't even know for sure what the actual count in tens and tens of millions of grenades were. The Germans, the French, the Americans, everybody, the Russians, everybody made grenades in every form you can imagine them from every school. But what they don't want you to think about now is that grenades were actually home built in the trenches. Because if you can do them in the conditions of the battlefield and in the trenches, just imagine what you can do at home with just a very calm attitude, PVC pipe, glass wreckage, and chunks of steel and metal from your junk box, and a fusing system. Really embarrassing. In fact, it can be more effective than some of the average grenades off the shelf. And they don't have to be that big, by the way. Remember, we've talked about offensive and defensive grenades. If you don't know the difference, you need to look it up. Most of what you carry is an American grenade is a defensive grenade, the one you're familiar with. Either the, what they call the pineapple, the Mark II, the lemon, or the baseball. Those are all defensive grenades with a large lethal burst radius or damaging burst radius. The flashbang is a lie. It's not a flashbang. That's an offensive grenade. That's like a potato masher that the Germans had World War I on. The potato masher was an offensive storm grenade. The idea was you could throw it in front of you and the burst radius would stun or damage or kill. Whatever you threw it at but the burst radius was so small that as you threw it you could follow up and close the distance to your enemy and finish them off with pistol or club or bayonet or whatever But you're not supposed to think about that. See in the flashbang grenade. It's just a flashbang. No, it's an offensive grenade That is an offensive grenade. Everybody remember that anyway, um Hold on here. Yeah, we've got enough time. Excuse me. Do we have a caller? Make sure before any further. I don't leave anybody out. Okay, very good. Yeah, you do have one actually Go ahead call him. I missed it. I missed it Monday because my brain was malfunctioning I had the date reserved in my brain as the 20th Monday was the 18th, which was the third anniversary of the passing of our brother Donald betcher. Oh Thank you Well, you know, we were just talking about non last night that interesting or gravitate that way Of course, we talk about Don on a regular basis, but... Yeah, but for some reason, he had his own mind going as the 20th and he wasn't. Yeah, he's certainly missed. And again... Have a little tribute for Don. Oh, yes, go right ahead. It's Weapons Wednesday. The magazine is in the magazine, well. The round is in the chamber. The first ten are doomed. Thank you. Pop. and pop and hold my bullet pop and you hold my bullet do pop there we go. That was the only 45 I have so. And again you know it's interesting we got down into the new house at least but what pisses me off is unfortunately wasting time with inspectors it's like I have no respect for that situation at all it happened for a long time but especially the more that I see how much in the way of encumbrance all of these bureaucrats are and the medical people are no better as far as I'm concerned now. They're a total waste of time. And with the division that's taking place, remember when you go to a hospital you got the second rate ones that are left behind, the good people all left. You guys all understand that, right? The good people left. When you go to a hospital you got what's left. And the ones that are left order followers. Whatever they're told to save a penny or to maybe kill you off, they'll do it in a heartbeat. They're unthinking and they are ill-trained and again also just you know ill-prepared in general. So heads up on that. Otherwise again one of the other things I ask you to have some of the last video we did because we were working on another night vision video before Don passed away. And as a matter of fact, we did some thermal and I got him at some of the cue points where he was talking through the process while we were employing the equipment to kind of show the difference between the first generation thermal that we have had for quite some time. And at that time, the present thermal that the company would provide to Don for the videos that we were doing, which is pretty cool. And again, Don did a lot of work which everybody kind of caught up on but when we started doing the Night Vision videos when Don did the first but nobody had anything like that out there. In fact the company that he was working with and by the way actually that changed too but they were actually working with two different Night Vision companies at the time. But both of them said the same thing. Nobody had stepped up and done any kind of Night Vision work at all. Whether that's because they were kind of told back off with the government, because the government doesn't want you to know much of anything about anything other than whatever BS propaganda they generate. But Don's basic videos have helped a lot of people understand without burning a lot of time on your night vision device how things look and work. And that was especially critical to bringing people up to speed and giving them other ideas. which have developed some of our night vision infrared LED like landmines, things of that nature. Infrared projection systems to broadcast over an area away from the operating equipment which is something that we kind of talked about and had talked about used for years way before we actually even did it on the videos. But it's one of those things where The company was very happy with what was done simply because nobody else would step up and get the job done. Don actually had a pretty good idea of what, you know, because of questions that were asked and what you people were looking for, had a really, you know, good understanding of what needed to be put down to help people orient themselves to night vision. And one of the things I can't emphasize enough that he would always repeat is, guys, remember it has a limited lifespan. When you turn a night vision device on the tickle meter is running and that means that you're it's costing you money So the advantage of being able to have training videos that are you know going to be showing and answering all the basic questions Well, how many hours is that saving us? Also, if we have something that's a threat to your equipment, which is another thing that Dom constantly emphasized You know, don't take your night vision device and turn it on the fire. You're really burning the system down. Don't aim it at white light sources. You're burning the system down. You're running out the meter. And again, this can't be emphasized enough even now. It's one of the things that we repeat because it is especially critical that we conserve for the fight. And as it is, you know, I mentioned this yesterday. If you have the wherewithal, it's just like scopes. If I were putting a brand new rifle together right now, I would not spend hundreds of dollars on the optics. Not on one. I would get a reasonably decent optic, or even a cheap one, depending on what the rifle is supposed to do, and I would buy three of the same scope. If you're listening, the reason is, in wartime, I don't want to have to relearn an optic. So, having three of the same optics, if something happens to the first one, and eventually something will, when I throw the second one on, there's no downtime to relearn anything. Well, this is something we've also been discussing about night vision. While it's available, or if you get a deal on something, scrape, you know, if you have to not eat for a couple of days, get another one of the units. and have at least two on the shelf, if not three. Now there's a couple other reasons for this. It's a force multiplier. At a given point, all of you will probably be the sponsor of someone. In other words, as we, you know, you're gonna run into people who you're either gonna save or have saved themselves and finally are in the fight and you're going to be the evidentiary, you're gonna be the witness to it. And it's like, okay, well I'll tell you what, why don't you get your act together, come with me. Because you obviously are a fighter or you're motivated, come with me. And then what you do is you turn around and force multiply. You're able to actually outfit that person top to bottom. It may not be brand new, although I can. I can do brand new. You can too. If you cherry pick off all the junk that's out there, you can clearance and sail your way to doing a true 5.10 program for a very small amount of money. And I've walked you through it a hundred times, you know, dollar for this, pennies for that. It's very easy to put combat gear together for a very reasonable price. And it's purely a throw the dart. What era do you want to build? And of course we always combine things. The big thing is that with night vision, again, you don't have to re-memorize, re-orient your brain. Where's the power switch? Where's the dimming switch? Where is the... color change switch, you know, talking about especially the digital black and white to color or other color shades. Some of them do more than black and white. Kind of like a predator, remember the movie Predator the second one where he's actually showing the selection he had. Well, it was your night vision colors, you can kind of do the same thing. Where he was, you know, trying one system and it didn't work so he went to another spectrum and that didn't work and he went to a third spectrum and ah, there are the humans. Well, the same thing kind of that, you know, certain colors work better with some, you know, some people over others. It's how different brains work. So it is kind of handy to have these different ideas or resources out there, these changeups out there. Another thing, and again, Don did love the .45 and was actually, you know, he wasn't, he didn't brag much, but I'll tell you what, Don was actually a master shooter with the 1911. And that's something that not many people needed. He didn't brag about it, but I'll say it. He actually was a marksman with a 45. And with no commercial training. But it was one of those comes naturally to you, but he also knew how to screw that 45 into a target and put five rounds on a quarter without any problem. In other words, keep it where the bullet, where you want the bullet, he could put the bullet. It's that simple. And so again, a lot of other skills, a lot of other interests, and Don Betcher is missed by all of us. Again, God bless and arrest him, and protect him and keep him. I know he's watching over us right now, because remember he's part of the second line coming in when everything goes to Elton and Curt. And we are almost to the top. We're not quite there. A couple more things I got to remind everybody. I had a bunch of emails again on 303 British ammo. I don't know why we... It's interesting because a lot of people got grandma guns or grandma guns or inheritance or bought some of the stuff back when it was cheaper. Especially the Indian imports were there about 15 years ago. Creole 3 is still out there all over the country in forest. There's lots of them. Jungle car beans, number one mark threes, number four mark ones. Irish constabular. Oh, that's one of my favorites. Irish constabularly gun. When they came in, they were cheap and they're a little car beat. And they are fantastic. They'd be a great saddle gun. If they'd shown up during the Wild West, they'd have been a very popular rifle. They only made 20,000 of them, or I'm not even that proud now. I think it was about 20,000, and most of them ended up in Michigan because of one contract buyer. Anyway, they're all over the place, these Enfields are. AIMsurplus.com, AIMsurplus.com, AIMsurplus.com. They may have gotten the 303N, I don't know what they got, what they did get, it was Ballers or Softpoint. Whichever, it's good both ways because your bolt gun can handle it. It's not going to be a semi-auto weapon issue. The big thing here again is it's brass, boxer, prime, non-corrosive, heat annealed and brand new Virgin ammunition. So if you're going to take anything to range, shoot that. Save your military ammo for the field. You probably won't be able to collect it. You'll be too busy, you know, playing Scatterdodge with an enemy. But for training, you use the preview partisan ammo and you get a set of dies and you reload. And another thing to remember, you can cast bullets for the Enfield. The Enfield will handle lead projectiles just fine. So if you want to cast lead for that, you can do it. The big thing is a gas check and there's a couple of other tricks there. You're going to dial down the velocity a little bit. You go out too far and of course it gets a little soft, but you can use lead projectiles. You go a little higher in the tin and antimony. Or you can go with a zinc projectile, which is another thing that people have done for quite some time now because a lot of the wheel weights are not the traditional lead that everybody hoped they'd be, but another pot chip metal. and it sinks in there somewhere. So anyway, aimsurplus.com. Now, last but not least, and we're almost to the top, for everybody out there, if you can, boots right now, go to, again, militaryuniformsupply.com, militaryuniformsupply.com. and check their sales out. They have a couple of boots that are $15 a pair and a good spread of sizes. They may not be there for very long, but the thing about it is with the one is there are no, well there's three different colors of boot, but they do cover from six, I think all the way up to 16, not 17. But up to size 16. Now what's left? I don't know. You're going to have to go through the page. Stuff like that goes pretty quick, especially at that price. But they're not a consistent pattern of boots. Some are black, or I should say, they're the pattern similar, forgive me, but not all the same color. Some are tan, some are black, some are green, but they are all the same cut of boot. So you want to take a look at that? Go over to militaryuniformsupply.com. And when you get a chance, peruse their clearance and go through each page meticulously. Never know what you're going to run into there. Every once in a while they got some really cool deals. I am still buying more of those Bellville size 14 wides. Guys, those boots, I have been killing them and they're not dying. I really have been wearing the hell out of it, using them, working them hard. And they are comfortable, very comfortable. Very satisfied. One of the best boot I've bought for $10 in the last 20 years. I said 10 before, but now I'll say 20. So they're worthwhile anyway. And last but not least, if you're going to be carrying whatever weapons, guys, if you are looking at deploying with allies, one of the considerations is pre-deploying some ammunition with those allies. We've talked about cashing stuff before, also in your retreats. If you're going to put stuff in retreats, don't pile it up where it can be found. Cash some of it around the property. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Leave the lesser stuff where it can be, you know, if the place were to say ransacked, it could be found if they looked hard. Your better tech needs to be out of sight, out of mind, and only you and those that are critical to your needs. should have any knowledge of where everything is for obvious reasons. But again, remember diversify. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Don't leave all your technology in one place. Spread it out a little bit in a matter where you are. In fact, in a defensive position, you do the same thing even though, well, centralization, you know, arsenal control, yeah, well, that's the inner lieutenant control freak military. That's not us. Okay. We really do understand that we're going to be taking the veterinary job seriously and we're going to need it where it can literally leap to our hands, as Don Betcher would say. So for everybody out there, plan ahead. Prior proper planning prevents PIS 4 performance. The bad guys are busy in Kalamazoo. If you have not seen any of the write-ups on this, forgive me, I'm waiting until the very end, but go do a search on Kalamazoo, Michigan and the gun grabbers. There's a couple of things going on specifically in Kalamazoo, Michigan right now that are very unique. In fact, this includes they're bragging about using foreign troops on American soil. Not a surprise Kalamazoo is a spit-swapper ring-knocker, you know, haven. It's one of the waste, the wayline locations in the Midwest. Toledo's one, Kalamazoo's another. So if you're not familiar with that, that's why the law, well, let's just say the ring-knockers are there. Okay. So Kalamazoo, Michigan. You can do the search. You'll see what I'm talking about. We'll actually cover that more tomorrow. It just had a little blurb on it. It was sent to me. I've been trying to. do some additional follow-up. I already called a few people. We should have maybe, we might even have a guest tomorrow. We'll see what happens depending on the situation during the two-hour block. But right now they're doing a lot of follow-up research there too in the area. And of course if it's Kalamazoo, Battle Creek will be involved also. Just a heads up on that, because that's a Fed center. And it's also Ringknocker, Ringknocker Central. But Kalamazoo is more important to the team. than Battle Creek. Anyway, we are at the top. It has been a beautiful week so far. Here it is Wednesday. We got a little bit of pittering rain. Some clouds ever came in, but the moon is... God bless our Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire. We are on the march of today and today. God bless everybody. You all be careful, pay attention. You are the soul of God. You're going to be back tomorrow at the same time. And again, if you haven't watched the beginning of Sicario, anybody watch the beginning of Sicario. Let me ask you, what language do they speak in Mexico? When you look at that, this is a term from some faraway land to describe a sapson. Anyway, anyway for now