the mist with a flintlock. 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 said we fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land 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, of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught. According to the state you read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax You do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame You've taken Satan's number you 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 harass 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 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? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each god-given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? Their job and the dumbasses aren't even there. for what they're supposed to be doing. No, no, just arrogant swine. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report time, our kirky. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, Southwest, East, northeast, and central. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org. And we are on satellite. Once again, hi to all of our merchant marine friends, the Arctic, the Antarctic, That's top to bottom and everything in between and it's really kind of cool because you guys are doing this all on your own I appreciate the feedback we're getting to We're not forgetting you. We appreciate the work you guys are doing by rebroadcasting us with it. You are We're also in a myriad of other communications technologies both inside and outside these United States and it is a Beautiful. Well, it was sunny, but it's getting kind of gray. However, it's also headed towards the end of the day here in the sunset. You know, that's coming around the corner here, not far away. It is the 4th of January. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 15th year of open, obvious and pissing in your face and on your back. Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Ring Knocker Operations in America with a K. 2023, Old Earth Calendar. I think they're all crazy. 2023, Battle for the Republic, The Dance of Swords. I hope your blades are sharp. I'm working on one just before we started the program. Just for a moment, it's a neat little stabby blade just designed to. the out of the way. Blades are a wonderful thing. How many weapons should you have? All you can own, all you can find. Everything can be a weapon too, don't forget that. But it's nice to have sharp, punny objects. Some of the guys I served with had sharp, punny objects everywhere, all over their person. My favorite one was one of the guys made basically a Spanish steel spring. dark that would roll roll around the inside of his patrol cap just like you would if he was wearing a civilian hat, but it was designed to slide right up into the Lining and what you could do is take the hat off and with the other hand grab it You pull it out because of the way he laid the sheath in it It would wrap around the crown of the hat. It's really cool. I actually run on this wet band but when you pulled it out, it was a stabbing blade, although it did have a chisel cut on one side, a back strap of about maybe a half inch and on the front blade it was about four to six. And it was a paper cut, not a pyramid, but rather a single stroke cut because it's, again, this is spring steel. It's designed so it'll wrap around and hold in place and basically with holding most of the shaft, there's about, oh, I would say five, five and a half inches of steel to stab you with. And that was the smallest of the blades that he carried. He did carry a small blade around his neck with his dog tags always. That was guaranteed. Plus a push dagger hanger half the time, etc, etc, etc. Blades everywhere. He just was a firm believer in having seen enough people sliced, diced and gutted that he was going to make sure if they pulled out there somewhere, he was going to pull out his and then we'll see what but equal opportunity cut in time. You need to be thinking the same way. Your enemy is in motion. First of all, so much so that let me ask everybody, you can give me some input here. Is the buffoonery slash the stagecraft of the district of criminals still carrying on? Have there been any, I mean, it'd be kind of, I'm hoping, you know, they keep promising. They keep promising something and it may already be passed. I just don't know because I've been on the road for a little bit here today. But midday, they were going for another vote for the crack your whip ring knocking the spit swapping, whatever, Peddo is gonna be given the job to fake the Republic rats out, that the country. But what's fascinating about this is they kept promises telling you like, you know, way back 100 years ago, 100 years ago, actually more than that. They like in 1856, it took them six months or something like that. Government couldn't do anything. Thank God, wouldn't that be wonderful? Promises, promises, promises, I would only hope. You mean it just froze right up, they couldn't spend anything, they couldn't steal anymore, they couldn't get any approval to do anymore? All the rats in the bureaucracy and the turds keep in motion, but everybody's planning on shooting them anyway, so who cares? They're just on the list of things to be done now. That's not an if, that's just a win for most of America. Everybody understands the writing on the wall with the pedo queers that are in Washington to begin with. But to be able to promise that all the government would be shut down, if you've been into my social media posts, I cyclically run, ban the bureaucracy slash, I strongly believe in government shutdown, do it now. My God, they could shut the government down, good, do it yesterday. They might not come back, he might have been able to start things up for weeks or months, good, sooner is better. Can you promise me that by tomorrow say 8 o'clock business time for the prostitutes in DC? The doors will be shut, the windows will be locked, lights will be off. You can promise me this, I would hope. What would we do without the overburdening bureaucracy on our shoulders? What would we do? Breathe free. See how that works. So let me ask everybody, did we find, did they finally shovel the Pekka wood, make California in? Did make California get in there yet or not? I'm just curious. Anybody chime in, I just love to hear. And I'm not gonna search it. I mean, you guys are probably listening to more than I am. And that's not an accident, by the way, either. First of all, where's Palazzi from? Cala, Fagornia. Where's this other pecker would make California from big yet, California. So what do you think you're gonna get in the way of difference? The rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. They're absolutely trying to make sure that a California cater is in power to probably tow the line for all of the Jewish mob and all of the sycophants and Silicon Valley and all the Chinese that they're licking the bung hole of. to make sure that another one of these sickle fans is in place if they can make it happen. And of course, they threaten you with everything and anything so that you have to accept the devil. Because later on when you accept the devil and you have accepted the devil, well then it's your fault, not the kosher mafia's fault. Because remember when the gallium do it for themselves, the hands are clean. think about this. Why did you mean to say there's there's 49 other states you mean to say the only jackass you could find to be the jackass the majority whip by the way the minority doesn't get to pick the majority whip there is a minority whip and there is a majority whip period and even as we speak on this this should tell you something about just how flummoxed the parasitic toilet, the swamp, the cesspool, the piled upon piled excrement of an unelected bureaucracy that, gee, you have to take a California caterer or nothing else. There's 49 other states in this nation. But it just happens that after we have this criminal combine of Paul Lao-Z bought and paid for horror from the Chinese for a Silicon Queers, a $3 bill, Peto Valley. Who wants to kill a bunch of you? They think it's great going into a World War III scenario, limited nuclear exchange. And of course their heads are mutually, there's like a butt donut going on here. The feds have got their head up, Silicon Valley's ours and Silicon Valley's had their ours and they're giving each other basically hemorrhoid lickings, okay? That's what they're doing. So, gee, California again. Why did it, what does this jackass have to do anything that would be of interest to the rest of us? You know what, there's no doubt that this is part of the, well, we already made the arrangement so that way we have continuity in police state operations with one California caterer passing the baton off to the other California caterer. You guys can't do that. What did they just say at the beginning of the year? Have they already done this? I mean, well, you know, the Democrats could elect the majority whip. They could have their own person. That's their threat that you either have to take the neo con turd that'll look anybody's hind end that shows up as long as they got a yama kala or a ring knocker or they're the communist Chinese run by by the first the out by the kosher mafia and telling them what to do. That's what that church for. Mark. Do we owe that they only need to get six of those rhinos? to switch over votes to the Democrats and they can put Pelosi back in. And again, but here's the problem with that is they're doing this in a such a way that again, they're trying to corral everybody into going with the other bootlicker. That's already got, you know, yeah, so we can't believe we already know he's a dirtbag. He's already been there. Well, here's one, okay, this is one I pointed out a couple times today and let me ask everybody. Remember this fiasco that just happened a few days ago, maybe what, a week and a half ago, two weeks? Where, I mean, it says 12 working days, whatever. Remember when they passed this $1.7 trillion screw America bill, right? Dar, you remember that? Okay, there were 18 Republicans. In these vote processes are the 18 rat bastards voting for as told to do so. The 18 rat bastards we know are rhinos, these are fake Republicans, but well, they're just prostitutes, okay, let's just cover it properly, they're prostitutes. So we know that those 18 beyond the shadow of a doubt are treasonous bastards. Well, I would ask, If you go through all these votes, who were the 18 traitors slash treasonous bastards told to vote for? You wanna bet dollars to donuts that all 18 of them are voting for me California? You wanna bet? Look, cuz none of them, look at it this way. The opposition to MEC California, are all people who are basically, as they've said, finished with the swamp, tired of the swamp. They're talking about the swamp. You're not supposed to talk about the swamp. You can spin your wheels and get blustery all you want and then do nothing or absolutely betray and lie to all of everybody out here and flip on all of us in a heartbeat or allow. Here's the thing, either allow for information to be blocked. arbitrarily by the demicons, especially the leftists who are being caught up with in theory, if a real person were actually stepping up to the plate. But the purpose behind this, their logic is to feed you enough bullshit so that they can placate the limp-risted ones who won't do anything, no matter what anyway. Kind of like the percentage of the people that you have that are the coronavirus murder death kill shot takers. You have a percentage that they're trying to placate so they can get me to go brain dead because then go, look, well, they're doing something. You just don't know what you're talking about. Meanwhile, the same old business of hiding the stuff under the rug, sliding it sideways and not following through on anything by procrastination would continue perfectly under this person. But to be quite honest, I mean, really, what does it really make any difference? the one person that I could not see and if he and since he did it's like granted they've tried to draft him. That's what it's called guys. When an individual steps up and is part of a larger group like this and any of the old political party activities or let's say that they claim that they're neutral. I don't really want to be Caesar. Remember? Friends, Romans, countrymen, I come not to praise Caesar, but to bury him. Okay, friend, Romans, countrymen, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come not to praise Caesar, but to bury him. That was the Mark Anthony who was planning on re-kin replacing Caesar. Caesar, of course, claimed he didn't want power either. Now, and in the process with that soliloquy by Mark Anthony, he basically turns the crowd completely on its head. against you know, it to brute you know, you to Brutus. Yeah, you and those other guys. So consider that Jordan of course was stood right up there and if he's serious and other people are hopefully serious in another way. Jordan would have made sense except that he did step up and he flat out said, we just got a back mec California mec California has to be in there. Well, that just that for me that just sort out the window all of it's gonna all it's gonna do is be baffling you with bullshit spit around in circles Meanwhile, all the rest of these asshats are gonna be able to run for cover move all their stuff under under the table They'll demand closed hearings You're never gonna see anything printed because the control media and the control social media Element will make sure that nothing is said and therefore nothing you always know most people go nothing's being done even if something is to a degree being done. But the only thing that will be covered is the minimal fiction. So again, here's the thing. It's a tempest in a teapot. It would be great if it took them three to six months. But they're not letting that happen. This is another thing that should tell you something. The ring knockers slash the spit swappers behind the curtain, the Wizard of Oz types, okay? Ignore the man behind the curtain. The tentacle of the Jewish mob coming out says, listen, we gotta get this stuff done fast. We got 24 months before we'd really have to play fake election again. They wanna get the communist stuff going. They gotta get it going fast. So everybody shut up and get in line. And that's the reason for throwing out there the card that, well, you know, the Democrats could elect the majority whip. Really? So what business do they have under any rule with in the process? Which by the way, remember, hold on one more thing here. They keep constantly changing the rules demonstrating as we've said time and again, there are no rules. That's the first thing everybody better remember. They're lying sacks of BS and there are no rules. Well, it's more smoke and mirrors, dad. It's more smoke and mirrors. It's more distracting. They're doing this because of what the Minority Republican Report on January 6 is out. It's not like it's kind of been, it's not like, oh, it's kind of there, but they're still investigating. No, the group that was given hard launch to investigate while the Democrats were. Now the Republicans are quote unquote in power in theory. They've been putting out their findings and including text messages between Pelosi at the state Capitol security, the security there. The plans, remember when all this happened, I said, how do you have a cop standing alone? And they say he's alone by himself, but he magically has a third person camera behind him. the arrangements for that camera crews to be there. To be where they need to be. Yes, to be where they needed to be for the January 6th fiasco. The supposed documentary crew that was following Pelosi around for the day and then the others that were in position, all everything and it literally all ties back to Pelosi. The opening, they even have the text and the peep, I can't remember the guy's name, but they have who opened the magnetic locks on the doors in this report, Dad. It's a complete inside job. I believe it. Well, again, this is where the purpose behind putting mec California in there is that worthless turd is going to be making sure that for the fellow travelers, everything is couched accordingly. Now as it is, here's the problem with this. People are going, well, nothing can be done, but they're already bragging how they're gonna completely change the rules or they would alter the battlefield at their discretion so that they can get what they want in terms of the protection so that nothing is really done about the criminal activity that surrounds January 6th. My argument with the whole thing, it wasn't a stinking riot to begin with that. There was no rioting going on, period. I don't care what they try to pull out of their arse. There was no rioting going on. Government may have stirred the pot. And government employees are the ones who, like I said, if I could beam back to certain places, you know, there's a fee. Give me the opportunity to take 20 men fully armed or depending on the need with truncheons. And something to beat the living snot out of somebody with and put them down. One of the places to go would be the January 6th thing and surgically once you have the whole battlefield mapped out, give me 20 people. I want you to drop here, here and here. You drop that person, that punk, that punk and that other punk over there and everything gets real calm. It's like, give me 10 or 20 people and drop into the first day at Waco when the feds attacked, out of scissored that both of those cattle cars to death. They'd have never gotten out of the vehicle. If you could drop into a place that wouldn't hesitate, wouldn't think twice, we see it nowadays, we know exactly what to do. You see a column, you cut them up before they get a chance to dismount, you wipe their ass out. You see something in motion, fire it up, lace it up, and don't stop. This is what you bought all that ammo for. But in situations like that, it'd be like if you do time travel, there are certain tools you need for certain tasks. But this whole thing, come on. Here's the thing, let me put it this way. Within the 10 square miles of the district, well, 10 by 10, 100 square miles, of the district of criminals. Within that square mile block that's there around the Capitol building, let's say two square miles, how many places were burned, closed up, still hadn't been fixed from the two years of the communist B-witches going around and burning stuff just in DC while Trump was in office? Those were mostly peaceful riots, Mark. Yeah, well, you know what? There's buildings right on the White House proper that because old brainless, of course, they will heat it. He's not in charge. Obama doesn't care about our country anyway. Now he wants the he wants the prestige, but he could care less about the country. And of course, the brag, as I've said for decades, is whoever gets to drag down or screw America like this. That's who gets the brownie points. And the idea that in reality what Trump should have done is just nail drafts. I mean, to be quite honest, of course, how many of them would have followed orders? We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Washington DC police is being run by BLM types. It's the Gulag, it's now La Bianca Prison entrance point for the communists operating in Washington DC proper with Washington DC's government. Which is under federal control, by the way, remember, it's the district of criminals. It is not a state, it is not a territory. It is a separate entity unto itself, and it never was to be nor should it be a state. Anytime they bring it up, that's pickle, smoke, and mirrors. But the fact is that all elements lead to the corruption there. And over and over again, you can demonstrate if you were to take a nonstop series of not older images, if I did older images, it would be hours of leftists burning, taking hostages, bombing by the queer, pedo leftists for decades. Here's the thing, how many times has the Capitol building been bombed by the leftist? Guys, it's dozens of times. How many times did the leftist take whole buildings and even take all kinds of government, quote unquote, government employees hostage? Dozens and dozens and dozens of times, sometimes two, three and four buildings at a time. I'm gonna jog your memory on this. And when you watch what happened on the 6th in Washington, why you lying sacks of excrement. the people who pay for everything don't bust everything up. That's the pigs on the other side and it's the same mouthy ass communist pigs doing this crap over and over and over again. And you know what, we're fed up with it. I'm not going after it. You know the idea is make sure you got a list and make sure you know who it is gonna be dealt with cuz when this kicks off. It has to be done and over with. It's not gonna be right away. It's gonna be a long haul. It's gonna be a long fight. Our enemy is gonna be brought in from outside. More turds out of hyphen, Tel Aviv will be brought in as political officers beyond what we already have here to try and screw the country even more. other foreign national forces, etc. will be introduced in as quickly as possible. While the Canadians are having the problem they're having, don't forget the Canadian military is in a cooperative agreement to be brought into the United States against the American people under special dispensation. Remember, we've covered that step by step, including where to go to find the pictures of the Michigan, for instance, Michigan National Guard, as general. with a Canadian representative signing a contract. Who the hell is he to sign a treaty that Jack has? Signing a treaty allowing for special transfer of military forces under Canadian forces into Michigan. He did the same thing with New York, with Pennsylvania, all the border states and beyond, but that's how you get them into the country. So that's already in place right there. So, the treason is in motion right now. It's like we said, there was riot. I'd love to show up for any kind of quote unquote riot like you saw in the six. The people who pay for everything aren't gonna bust anything up. Now, the peckerwood piece of trash government agents, they don't pay for squat. Those pieces of filth will try to instigate and rabble rouse in vicious wicked ways Because they don't pay for anything just another one of the stinking communists You got somebody to know best to emergency rule number one their leftist You got these little pigs and rats you got nowadays shall they have no sweat? They have even fewer moral scruples in what few the feds had 30 years ago and it was they were already wicked So the turds you got now, Johnny Jack out there like the traders that they had busting stuff up on January 6th, those weren't our people. Those were government employees. And of course, that is what they're terrified of. That everybody's gonna find, what do you mean? What about this guy? He was under the pay of the fed. In fact, he is a fed. What about this guy? He's a fed too. All the other people weren't busting stuff up. That's because they're not fed. And walking into the building and what gets me is again, When the rioters and interlopers have come into the Capitol building in the past, they throw paint on stuff, they burn hangings, they damage everything. If it can be pushed over, it gets pushed over. Americans that pay for everything go in there on January 6th and walk between the guide posts for the rotund. You walk in and are, this is different. Oh, I've never been here before. This is cool. Well, we're in the car. We're in the Capitol building. Oh my god. They're trespassing. What a crock. Hey Mark. Hey, speaking of agents. How about Ray? How about Ray? Oh my goodness. They got him texting thing to his son. Yeah, I was right at the front and I was the person who said we needed to get into the Capitol. The people in Washington when it came up at the January 6th committee or wherever the heck it came up and you know what don't pay any attention to those weevil critters anyway, but When it came up the issue was the one of the one of the January 6th guys who were the Tommy this is all leave that poor man alone Well, I all the people that have been put in jail None of them have done anything Like coming out and saying I organized it and I was the one who urged people to go into the Capitol and we've got him on tape saying We need to go into the capital. We need to go into the capital. We need to go into the building. He's done that Pricketts and he didn't spend that he is an agent and he didn't spend a minute in La Bienca prison in Washington DC He's not even on their list of notables anymore. He was removed And again, so that's well, here's the thing is, know who's who in the zoo. And one of the other things about this is, again, well, yeah, the problem we have here is plastic versus real, the shallow hell types versus real. The other problem is when the people went there and I cannot emphasize this enough, if you do not go, I don't take you seriously. If you don't take the task seriously. Okay, like I said, I kind of registered. So, well, what do we need to do that for? Why would we need to do that? How about because your enemy is running a massive police state through the Patriot Act that all the Patriots told you and all the people that were the Patriot militia movement told you and we stopped twice. We stopped that garbage and even the Republicans actually dug their heels in. The Republicans of the 90s. Now, part of that was because it was becoming very apparent that the NAFTA and GATT thing was a betrayal. There were still 30 years ago and 25 years ago, there were still a number of people who were actually American centric. Don't worry, they got pushed out. And now you got the trash like you're seeing right now in the Congress and they're just fighting over rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and how to help cover up whatever it is that's happened. I just wonder if the 90s were less of a time where there was less pictures with the underage boys and stuff going on that they didn't have quite all of them wrapped up. Remember the 900 FBI files that were discovered in the White House? Where did they come from? Nobody knows. They just appeared on a table in the residence. Nothing to do with Hillary. Nothing to do with Bill. Nothing at all. Nothing to see here. Keep walking. Make sure they can keep purging because again remember Epstein well again, like I said the power pyramid how things work at that point Epstein was at his his peak in terms of everything tweaked everything tuned in and Other mechanisms beyond Epstein Epstein Island is using guys Epstein Island just notorious because that was probably the center of hell for a lot of people who ended their lives there whose lives were ended there by all these rats you see in these suits. And they were innocents, that's the thing, children. That's why in a heartbeat you give me a gym in front of me? No, not a good choice to be right now. But again, even then, I've argued this for as long as I've been on the air. The only thing that the only thing that's protecting you right now is the ability to put a bullet in anybody's ass you need to and we are restrained for the moment. That's the only thing they know beyond a shadow of a doubt. They've used it on everybody else. You know guys One of the things when you you talk to anybody is supposedly they all know They know everything of course they don't what it is that they keep going to the cell phone and punching stuff in well What do you mean by that? I mean got it got a look at their cell phone Gotta go qualify it with somebody who as you now know has either blocked or diverted or deleted Whatever it is, it's contrary to the quote unquote Soviet agenda slash the Jewish agenda. So how many presidents were actually have actually been assassinated in the United States? Truly assassinated, I mean dead, dead, dead. You get this rehash with John F Kennedy. This is like nothing else we've ever seen wrong. The presidents who were assassinated before the turn of the century, 1900, before 1900. And around 1900, they were all blocking one thing, the Jewish controlled idea of the Federal Reserve. Every one of them, in fact, I've told you many times, there were three waves where the Scheister bankers tried desperately because they thought they had everything in the right place at the right time, and they could betray America the rest of the way. Just like you see what they're doing right now with this country, right now at this moment. It took them until 1913. And when they did that, remember, it was so critical. You know who stopped them? That's back when we had senators who were actually state senators. And so they protected the country and they dug in their heels. And they changed how senators were put into office. The Congress was to be elected by The people that's why it's the house of the people you keep hearing these characters reference this Well, I don't know what people they're supposed to be backing up because they just sent 40 billion dollars to a bunch of rat bastards over in the Middle East which mean oh, I'm sorry Ukraine Yeah, did I say that Middle East? Yeah, cuz the money goes to Ukraine They filter it straight out. It's in banks and hyphen tell of even Brussels right now. That's what's happening So they for the people 18 those jackasses of the fake Republic rats who turned right around and betrayed everybody and voted on something they've not done for more than 100 years. They've never done anything like that in more than 100 years. But it just happened that in this window of time, while the whole of the country is being betrayed, but it's totally disassociated. You're supposed to somehow have your head so far up your arse that you can't figure out that all these things are interconnected. Let's see the southern border and the sovereignty of the nation is violated. Right at this moment, something never done by the house shuffles another $1.7 trillion out of America's hands and gives it to all these little beat these peckerwood pieces of trash small hat wearing turds that are that are stealing the country blind. But you're not supposed to put all these pieces because it's all part of a campaign to destroy your freedom, your liberty, your sovereignty. And that's what we are. And they're looting the treasury and all the wealth of the government before they turn us over to the globalists. Yep, again, they're sliding it sideways. That's where the weapons are going. Right now, how the Ukrainians can't run it. Don't worry, the Ukrainians will never see them. Why do you think they keep stretching the rubber band on this war? happened when the Russians roll through and give an accounting of Ukraine and most all the equipment that was claimed to have been sent there can't be found. Oh, but these are all high end weapon systems that the Israelis demanded for the Ukraine. We moved them to Israel for safekeeping. Right, you know, a quarter of the way down the planet and more because you know from north to south because well it just was it would that way they'd be available when the Ukrainian military needed them by Stealing them sideways and the Jewish mob, you know tucking them away for their purposes You all see how that one week, right? And we made them give us a deposit equal to the cost of the items so that they could hang on to them for a while Yeah, we had to give him cash. Yeah, okay. Well, current- Make sure that we get it back one day. Yeah, that- We'll keep the cash. The Russians, if this kicks off, and again, this is where you're gonna see whether this is real or fake. Because everybody's moving and moving and moving. And really, the center of it is not just America, but a big part of this is focusing literally on you people who are listening. To try and convince you it's you will resist you will be absorbed stay confused or nothing you can do. Just lay down and enjoy the fact you'll have nothing and you'll be happy because your slave taskmasters will tell you to be happy or they will kill you. Well, how about we just kill and make them and be done with it? Let's just get rid of them. And that's the problem they got is again, here's the other thing. Now, one thing I would remind you, I just heard that interesting piece the other day that's kind of funny. A bunch of people that are in all the special work for units are just leaving because of course they are there and have been for a while because they've been doing the mandatory murder death kill shot, okay? But where are they going? Well, they're not leaving leaving. They've got buddies who are in one mercenary operation or one corporate or another. And they're sliding sideways into these jobs. Well, who will they be working for in the future? Of course, they didn't have any problem if they were told to kill Americans. Would they have any problem with it or would they turn and bite the hand that gave the order? So now, because of course, they all got pissed on. They were told they were special. They were told that they were the pet puppies. Follow any order the regime gives and you'll be the elite of the elite and the special is special. All of a sudden, they wanted to get that shredded or done away with. Now, the interesting thing is, is all that expertise has gone somewhere. Now, I know we're part of it's gone, cuz these people are not slowing down once they've gotten out of uniform. There's a mix, but a percentage are going right into the ranks of groups that, well, if they can't follow orders from the government to kill whoever they're told to kill, which could even be you and me in America. Well, private corporation or business contractors, what were the contractors famous for in Vietnam? What were the mercenaries and contractors famous for the last 20, almost 30 total years in Iraq? And if- Yeah, see, this is why again, don't breathe a sigh of relief because again, ask yourself, what are the moral scruples of these people that are doing what they're doing? That's where you got to pay attention. Just cuz they walked away intelligently about see here's something else. Okay guys You also what happened with this football player just flopped down the field, right? Now, I'm sorry. They said well, he took a hit to the chest with a you know, that's what it not bold BS Number one. Have you looked at the present state of football armor? I mean actually since the 60s at least Body armor for football players has become a major money making science. There are two things that they did with body armor. Number one, you probably don't know this, but a big chunk of what you see that those guys are wearing, those are professionals. I want you to go ask the company what Kevlar body armor do they buy for their team? You didn't know that they're using Kevlar, right? And guys, when you are an armored helmet, I know a lot of guys do this. They pick up stuff at sales and they see someone like the Romanesque or medieval armor and or for that matter, of course, I'm just going to jog you here. Do you just wear the steel and put it on your head? They didn't back then. They had cushioning systems and you know suspension straps and everything inside those helmets Just like you would see with a modern football helmet and a modern or a modern motorcycle helmet Well body armor for a player hockey or or any of the other sports that require armor You don't just put a plate of something in front of your chest and wear it. You know raw You have impact cushioning armor underneath now. Here's the thing between material changes and design structural modifications to create points of reinforcing strength and strengthening the geodesic design of the armor. On top of the improvement of impact armor, the impact slash cushioning armor, that's why these guys can get hit. Yeah, he got hit with a helmet. But guys, it's not like a focus punch where I'm doing the karate kid, two finger wonder thing. And it's a death punch with my two fingers focused energy. It's nothing like that unless you get- Mark, I played football in high school and the armor, the gear that they wear now is six levels above what we had. We had little pads underneath, we had a hard shell on top. They've got pads, then a hard shell, and then they've got these other layered pads on top of that. And there is one that comes right down the center and covers that area of the heart. And the other pads on either side go down below the ribs and cover the ribs, which are also a threat to the heart if, should you get whacked too hard in that area. a death punch exactly what it's talking about. Remember sternum strike is something everybody's known about with firearms armor and that technology is rolled over into by the nature of the sport. All of the rest of these sports where there's close quarter contact like that football, hockey, and even some of the field hockey, you know, armor as well. They don't have the body or chest armor per se, but it depends. Some do. Guns of how young they are. But again, the idea here is we know why he fell. I know everybody goes, oh, no, you couldn't know why. Oh, they're telling you to wait. No, my ass. Number one, we had one of the football players here at the University of Michigan. They're all ready for the big, you know, the big end of the year game. Whatever bowl they're going to, I don't care. But anyway, it turns out that guess what? One of their star athletes, the center of their universe, keeled over with what? And they're not even talking about him. He just happened right behind this guy. What are they all good for? Lots and lots of shots. And by the way, here's another thing they were lying about. That football player that fell over that was a professional. Well, they've been bragging, go to their webpage that they're 100% vaccine team. 100%, they said that, not us. Now we don't have to guess it was a week can't be sure. What do you mean you can't be sure? They flat out said that you don't get the murder death tail shot, you don't play. And if you don't get it when they tell you to get the backup, you don't play. So guess what? He was a pin cushion. He just got a shot only a short time ago, one of the other quote unquote boosters. And then he flops over. Wow, what a surprise. But here's the thing about this. And granted, I'm noticing people disappearing from the community. I've talked to other people. I said, have you seen? For instance, Charles, and this is one place I go. And the guy, first he was like listening, we were talking about, cuz everybody was discussing not getting the shot. He got pressured by someone, I don't know, could have been his wife watching too many videos on YouTube with, pick a little talk, a little click, who knows. But he all of a sudden took the shot, and he got another shot. But between the first and the second, he wasn't feeling very good. Now he's a bigger man than I am as far as height. I'd say he's 6'4". I would say he's in medium health. He's about the same age I am, maybe a hair younger, maybe 62, okay? He just disappeared. He took more than two shots. He actually probably got whatever a number of other murder death kill shots they demanded of him. Now, he was hesitant after the first because he started, he realized he wasn't feeling good, okay? Now, this guy was not grossly overweight. He was, I would say, like I said, medium build, you know, average American for being healthy, relatively healthy American. I think it rather peculiar that if you think about this from the enemy perspective that nobody wants to think about, this thing seems to really be attacking very, very healthy people. People that typically you would find in a military setting. People that would be physical leaders of your society or your military cast if you have to fight. I do not believe that it is accidental that we are seeing such a prominent number of very healthy, in fact, perfectly healthy people. Not just medium health, but in order to do what they do, they're jocks. That's the term we've always used. So I think it rather strange that this murder death kill shot seems to be targeting the very healthiest. and most robust of our population. That sounds like a targeted weapon system. And everybody's noticing this, but nobody's asking the right question. If you were trying to kill off the healthiest of a population because you got a big plan in store, then you target those who are literally the Romanesque in nature in terms of being well rounded, relatively intelligent. physically, high prowess, high level of performance, and you drop them like flies. It's like somebody walked up and put a gun to their head. Here's the problem. Even if they get past this, you notice I didn't use the word recover. You have a person who is a 20-year-old, an 18-year-old, a 25-year-old, a 32-year-old in their physical prime. And because of a government injection, this cream of the crop or this higher end is either a dropped right away or has progressive debilitating effects that destroy their potential. See, we're talking about the ones we see in front of us that go, boom. and drop down. But how many of the other ones standing there have other physiological conditions that are already developing and manifesting progressively? And especially with sports players, you don't want to tell people about some of that because you want to keep making that milk money. So and for that matter, let's put it this way. There's a tit for tat problem here, cuz all the jackasses and all the traders remember, let's not forget who told all these players they gotta get the shots. The pigs that own the football teams are the ones who said that they hate you. And they wanted you to put your knee, get down on a knee or get down on your belly and beg America. Well, yeah, but there's only a handful of these Jewish mobsters running all of these slave trade, you know, gladiatorial operations. And isn't that exactly what they are? They trade players. They could still laugh that they got very well played slaves, but let's not forget, gladiators were very well paid. You had a pecking order for gladiators and they got paid and they got women and they got food and they got whatever and we're not talking low end we're talking even though they were property of the herd handler the Jewish monster running the big side show Guess what? Oh, they got goodies. They got doggy treats and everything But that click that use the sports people, all these different men and women in the last two years, just like the murder death kill, the murder death kill shot comes up. And you know what? They're all totally expendable. Because you know what? They can use the same enticements and get some other corpse to come forward and get into the jersey or whatever they propose. And the other characters, they'll be forgotten. In fact, especially if they drop like dead. They're not gonna make an effort to keep reminding everybody of that cuz they need more suckers to do the same thing again. They need more cattle, slash just a pack of whatever they bought to play gladiator. They use them for whatever political instrument or whatever political need of the moment is chosen by the spit swappers and ring knockers behind the scenes. Remember, 20 years ago, 9-11, all the football fields you had to have military people out there jumping through flaming hoops or smoke as they come from off the field. And everybody's, rah, rah, rah, the football teams are jumping up and down and all pumped up. And the fields are coming in with parachutes from above. And in how many years they went from that to telling you that they hate you? that you need to get on your belly. You need to apologize for existing. This is all this kosher mafia roller coaster crap. And they played all the sports people like a like a cheap, cheap, deep violin. A really cheap one, a totally throwaway one. So think about that one. And while it's affecting the healthiest amongst us, literally the dynamically healthy amongst us. more energetic than the average bear and plop. And like I said, those are the ones you see immediately. Guess what? See all the other ones that they told you get a shot or you don't get your doggy treats? Well, they're all on the list too right now. And God knows how many of them are actually having problems that they're gonna make sure you don't hear about. Just a heads up on that. We're at the top. We're gonna take a break here for everybody out there, guys. It is. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, we fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. 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We are also at a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. And it is the 4th of January, this weapons Wednesday. It is the 15th year of open obvious and pissing in your face and on your back. Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist read that monarchical attacks against America by occupying us as America with a K. Take the C out, put the K in, it's a communist thing. 2023, old earth calendar, 2023, battle for the Republic, the dance of swords, let the dance continue. Couple interesting sidebar things, has nothing to do with anything other than being interesting and- part of the history that we, you know, some of you may have grown up with. Over at the post office, they got a new sheet, not as many stamps as you used to get on a sheet of stamps, by the way. Pony cars, if you haven't seen this, it's pretty cool. Interestingly enough, let's see, of the eight images, I think, is it eight or six? Two of them are with the ass end of the car. And strangely enough, the two that, well, I guess, Well, it's kind of interesting because really that's how they perform. They usually got ahead of everybody else. But one is a Mustang. The other is a Camaro. Then there's my favorite, the AMC Javelin, but it's the SST. That has the spoiler nobody could afford the SST. They were out there, but you can see for many of them. I had an AMX. In fact, the same burnt orange that's in the stamp, by the way. And then of course a Dodge Challenger. And I guess that's really it because it's repeat repeat. Oh, Cougar. Oh, don't forget the Cougar. I hope I mentioned that. And let's not forget that basically the Mercury Cougar was the Ford Mustang with a, you know, a facelift basically. In fact, you could make a a coug tang in about 15 minutes. Well, take on that because we didn't use as many as well. We had air pneumatic, but we didn't have pneumatic. I'd have to use a wrench, but give me a few minutes. I could change out the rear end, change out the front grill, take the hood with it, and I could take any Mustang frame and switch it over to basic body and come up with a really unique looking. Wow. What the hell is that? But everybody liked Mustang more than the cougar anyway, but it's fascinating that the cougar is in here, which I think, you know, the Mercury cougar, it's a pony car because it's pony cars. So it's, you know, those that class, the AMX javelin originally was its own freestanding body style. And then of course, the last models you might recall, they went to the, they used basically the Hornet scaling everything down because everybody needed a smaller car. However, they still stuck the same engine inside the engine compartment, which I thought was kind of cute because in the javelin, you had room everywhere. But even with the Hornet, with a medium block engine, still had a lot of room to work on the engine. You got to get your hands around thing, guys. And back then, we did. We worked on them ourselves. could afford to have some. We had no sensors here, there and everywhere. We had an oil pressure and sender. You had a temperature sensor and that's pretty much it. Yeah. And of course, depending on what year, the first of the electronic ignitions, which by the way was the size of a book. In fact, not even a book, half a book. So it's kind of cool though. Anyway, Mustang. Yeah. Okay. Camaro. Never. Didn't have a Camaro. I didn't have a Challenger, but I had half satellite. Had an AMX. I've owned one Cougar, but that's about it. In fact, you know what's funny? Of course, well, the GTO is the next step up. But the GTO kind of fit into that net, even though it was a full muscle car. It was obviously heavier frame. And remember, that's a Pontiac. I talked to everything else. Remember how we always talk about, and I've always mentioned, Pontiac was low end. But what's the... During that period of time, what was one of the most famous muscle cars that you could see rolling down the road? Somebody had a goat. Okay, Malibu's or goats and goats outdid Malibu's 99 even a Malibu even a SS Super Sport didn't make any difference because most of those GTOs they got built to creation. They could find big enough, but they could find bigger to put under the hood, blow it, do everything else to it. They did. It's just everybody just like the combination. And of course, they were all Lincoln Log cars anyway or the Lego block, because if you had a Ford, you could integrate anything from one Ford or even Mercury to the next. And with Dodge Chrysler, etc. Same thing. And then of course with GM, well, if you couldn't afford a top-end GM, you just bought the decals. changed the hood like I was talking about and even if you didn't put a rumble underneath the hood, still made it look pretty cool. Not that you had to because the GT was a Pontiac and Pontiac was not the most expensive vehicle at that time. I mean, even today. And that list, I've had a Mustang and a Cougar. The Mustang had a 302. I think the guy had built the engines considerably because there's a 10-quart oil pan underneath the thing. When I first got that car before I abused it, like I do everything. When I first got that car, I could get rubber in all four years with a 302. It was amazing. The 351 Windsor and the Cougar convertible, I didn't think that one was just fired up. Now it just was a stock 351 Windsor. But there wasn't a whole lot of weight to that car. I mean, it was a convertible, so you didn't have the weight of the roof. And it was a lot more squirrely in the snow than the Mustang, even though the Mustang had the big creger rims with the big tires on the back that the cops kept telling me they were going to give me tickets because they were sticking out past the wheel well. He didn't like that. I would have loved to have had a Camaro. would have loved to have a Camaro. 69, 68 rally sport, I would have been happy camper. What's funny about that too, guys were talking about old cars, but that was always like the girls car though. I mean, not always, but it just, you know, it became like the girls loved driving Camaros. I mean, if we had, when we were going to school, not ever because of a brand new car, but there were people that didn't, it's like the girls got the firebirds. the Camaros and I mean if they were lucky and it's usually it's cuz dad promised to get him that you know their first car was gonna be Something new cuz that was dead, you know, daddy's little girl that kind of thing and it may be the only new car they ever owned in their life Okay after that, but they got one brand new one and fire birds and Camaros You remember the gold the firebird with the gold metal fleck with the black firebird, you know long nose hood, you know configuration The fastback models, needless to say, 90% of those had the racing stripe regalia, which was typical for the time too. And don't forget all the moniker decals, which you don't see anywhere anymore, where they were built by the factory. They're actually made and invented by the company, and they became part of the motif for the car. That was another thing. Yeah, my mom had one of those firebirds with the Transam conversions on it, you know, the Transam nose and the details and everything. Robin's egg blue. Drove that thing forever. She gave it to my sister. I drove it up to Cleveland. My sister was up at Kent State. I drove it up there. Don't remember much of that weekend. Had to take a bus home. My sister didn't even remember me driving that car up there and giving it to her. I'm like, how do you forget a car like that? I mean, yeah, it was a six cylinder, but it still, it was a nice looking car. Well, you know, that's one of the things about this, you know, the period, the different vehicles obviously had different, you know, distinct features that played on the population psyche. That's the only way to describe it. You know, to me, one of the things, again, the Camaro was a low rider. The AMC was a mid stock car, was middle formation. The Mustangs, again, well balanced, but everything to the rear, center rear. The dodges to me always impressed me because number one, they remind me, I've been to this many times, they're like a carp mouth fish, but more like literally if you say muscle car. I still think that the road runner the challenger is classic, but any of them in that window of time for the middle years, they look just as cool coming at you or going away. That's why what's kind of funny with the Chrysler's is if you'll notice when they do these stamps, if you go check it out, they're not showing the front end of the challenger, they're showing you the ass end. But it still was so distinct. You know what it costs to put light bulbs in the rear end of those cars? I'm talking about the Dodges, guys. Remember the Dodges, the Mustang had a unique light package too you could buy. Remember with the directional, where it ting, ting, ting. Okay, you could get the sequencer, then it would go ting, ting, ting, left or ting, ting, ting, right. One bar after another, and it looked like it was moving. The challengers, the rear end, it's just like the front end, only in this case it's with the plastic. It stretches across the whole rear end of the vehicle, making it a very distinct car. And my problem with that, I always thought was, and it's even true today, the cops like to be able to know who they've been chasing. If you're trying to be nondescript, you want to pick a vehicle where if they look at it and you do get four miles down the road, they're not going to be able to look with squinty eyes and go, yep, there's that damn challenger right there. Instead, you want something that's going to be like, I don't know, what is it? You think that could be a Ford? Could be it. I don't know. Well, okay, which way do we turn? See, that's still one of the things to remember that people do. Of course, I wasn't planning on crime, but it's the idea that if you wanted to keep most of your money in your wallet, you were to have a lead foot, it'd be a good idea to have a left to script car. Just for a reason. In fact, the AMC javelin that's in the stamp is the car I had. Like I said, same car, same color. Which that burnt orange wasn't real broad real real outrageous quite called ship in there. Hey, well, how about those? 67 68 cougars with the the turn blinkers. I don't know if you ever had one I had two of them and they've just they blinked One two three one two. Yeah, exactly Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. You know what? Yeah, good. You know what? I love that card. Both those cars so much I got drunk and wrecked them. I'm right getting accidents all the time. Hit trees. But that was back in the day and that was me. Well, you know, the attrition rate in high school where I was, like I said, Malibu's Malibu's were like, you know, well, A lot of guys bought them brand new and SS Chevelle's and Malibu's and Grand Prix's. Remember that was a big one Grand Prix's. But now you're talking bigger bodies. Pony cars were supposed to be lighter. But you know a whole bunch of people that I know didn't graduate high school because they were dead. And the thing is, well you know we think about it. Not much experience and lots of car to work with as far as lots of horsepower. And the SS Chevelle, that's why when you see one, see we were leery for years after that period because any, like I said earlier, you know, at that time you could go to the auto shop, guys. Go to the parts store, River Parts Store, you had good parts stores. And you had a whole book with every decal and every logo and all the metal logos you could buy over the counter. So I'm not joking when I said like, you know what, I got a regular old Malibu, but I'll tell you what, give me a few dollars and a little bit of time with a paint gun and you'll think it's something else. And that's why when you see something that says SS, just because it's got the grill or the metal work on it doesn't mean it was a built SS, you know, super sport model. That was what everybody wanted. And so every, you know, a lot of people just made their own, not from the factory. And that's what a lot of the barn finds are. I don't have a problem with that because to me it's like, hey, first of all, try and find something decent shaped like that nowadays. You got to go out of state from Michigan. Well, you know, we had them all the new freeways here in Detroit area, you know 696 I keep 96 maybe I don't know but we have these and it was 75 miles an hour with the speed limit. Oh, man, I'd be there. No man. I'd there was so many times we're at a you know, 120 20 well, that's that's what the gauges went up to 120 It is. Right. Isn't that so we could see if we could get there? Right. Yeah. But they put the numbers on the speedometer. You know, real quick on that note, you're talking about Southeastern Michigan M14 from Ann Arbor to 275 was shut off for decades. And there were places where you had dirt tracks, we could hop that and you could be that was brand new pavement, not a mark on the road. Look like it was laid yesterday. And from Ann Arbor, Michigan, all look on the maps guys to 275. There was one of the reasons that was cut off is because at that end towards 275. There was a. There's a jog on the road there now, but what happened is they actually blocked the expressway from going through where they wanted, and they ended up having to get into a court fight, which they thought they were going to win and they lost. So it ended up first they shut that down. They had berms right on the road and they had impact signs and everything else, and you had to get off and you had to bypass to go back out of the state highway, a state road instead of the expressway. Well, two things. If you know how to get on that road, there wasn't any speed you couldn't go. And, you know, at 12 o'clock at night, you hear, all of a sudden you hear pow! And that was that piston. That was that guy's piston going through the hood of that car. You know what I mean? Going right through the top of the head. And then you have to get towed out of there. But yeah, somebody come out and help you. But you know what's funny about that? That's where they filmed part of Smokey and the Bandit. No, I didn't know that. Was on M14 because they had a whole stretch of expressway. They could do anything they want, drive as fast as they want. They put trucks on there, made it look like there was traffic for the movie. And when they did it, they had everybody queued. And that's why that road, if you pay attention, go back and watch Smokey and the Bandit. A lot of that road looks like it's brand new. Not only does the road look brand new, but look at the sides of the road where they're doing all the stunts. And if you pay attention, you can actually, now if you're from Michigan, you can actually, now that I said this, you can pick out on 14 where that was. especially the long shots where he kicks in with the Camaro. Well, it was a black firebird. And some of those scenes you see him peeling out doing some of the stuff they're doing and some of the stunts. There was totally safe cuz no one could possibly access the road on top of everything else. Anyway, this got us into a side subject. But it's fun. Guys, we've been around a while. I would love to find a javelin. I probably won't, but even if I did, I got a little Mustang sitting around the corner here. I got for nothing that still needs some tender living here. And I got a Charger also. And I'd love to have had, you know, and by the way, the Challenger and the stamp is in Plum Crazy and the purple, which of course was the to-do color back in the day. And it's interesting artwork. It's really well done. So it's definitely something if you guys are a car aficionado, I grabbed one of these plates because they're definitely at the post office right now. Just as a heads up guys. So take the time and go through and put it on the way, put it hanging on the wall. By the way, it's money because remember, these are stamps. This is not just artwork. This is stamps. Go ahead, caller. Jump in there. That's John Kentucky. What you're your Mustang? Oh, it's a pentang. It's a 75. Oh, okay. I've got a 92. I have a 92 box body coupe and it's got a big motor in it. It goes. Well, you know, the Mustang I've got, we've actually bought two other Mustangs. I'll, I'll relate this. I bought two other Mustangs in the last couple of years, three, four years. And I got him what it is, went down to Texas. But the kid that I'm dealing with, it's like I told him, I said, well, I'll tell you what, if somebody else wants this car for more and it's on the lot, and you can sell it for more, just roll the money back to us and we'll buy something later. And we didn't even get out of the state and he goes, say, somebody here really wants the car for a lot more than you paid for it. I said, yeah, go ahead. And it was the one was not a bad package, but it need to be you know I look for fixer fixers on that I'm not gonna spend $40,000 or $20,000 on a car This is what you can find The work in a car I Used to fire it up and let Don listen to it Don B. He's up there. Oh, yeah And you know what's funny is Chrysler's always sounded like they're ready to die on you. You know the big, like the 440 or the, you know, everybody goes, I want to have it. Well, guys, what was bad is when you were sitting at a park, and of course everybody knew better, but you're sitting there at an intersection and the car's trying to stall out on you. That's what it sounds like. Don't worry, it won't, but it sounds like it. But it would have been a bit of a bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, You could build now for less. Think about it. With all the things we know and the research that's been done with materials, there's no reason you couldn't build full-size body cars. You just don't want those peasants to have them and keep the weight down. Keep the weight down. You drop the weight, still have the structural integrity. Crush factor was higher. Let me point something out for everybody who talks about when they yap about safety. that the charger we have is actually Ed's. Because I had it first, I got it for $275 guys over on North Campus, the U of M years ago. But the crush factor on that, you have to crush a foot and a quarter, maybe a foot and a half worth of car just to get to the frame for the radiator. And remember on all these Plymouth's and all the all the Dodge Chrysler Plymouth packages, you have this big but full wraparound cart mouth bumper that's made out of real steel back in the late 60s and 70s. So right off the bat, you had a monster vehicle with a lot of space available if you got it. Let's just say overly aggressive. Whereas, again, you take a look at the vehicles today and needles of safe, you can still have the crush factor because that's what's supposed to be part of the safety margin. You take the same design, apply modern metallurgy model, well, modern materials because it wouldn't just be metal. And you can build any of these cars for a very reasonable price. But you'd also have America with big cars and they don't want that. I mentioned the the grand prix. Guys, if you were in service, that period of cars, if you were going over to Europe, what did you do? You went and bought a used grand prix. That was first choice. But if you couldn't get a Malibu, When the military would ship one vehicle over for if you want to take a second one cost you $600 which ain't bad for shipping it halfway around the world. You take it to Germany and you sell it right away. What do you make? Three times to five times what you paid for it in the US. Why? Because over in Europe anybody could get a car, but you couldn't get a car as big as somebody's living room. And American cars were American cars. Now, you all look the same. All the same size, all made by the same people in Europe, now here in the United States. Chrysler's Fiat. Well, what does that tell you? So, you know, the big, the thing is we can feel it today the same. Go ahead. He's still laying on the phone. I hate this. When we have a conversation in the same room, we don't do this for each other, do we? I had a 74 Cadillac, sedan, Deville. I'll tell you what, man. 472 engine and nothing it would shift out of second gear at 90 miles an hour People say I didn't have that car very long. I know what's funny about that real quick is a friend of ours got into building trans and I found out a lot more about Transmissions and that is the difference basically the Cadillac goals man and Oldsmobile and Buick Depending on the model Actually have performance transmissions in them They're built to that's what really makes them a higher higher inventory Transmission when the hydravanic plant was in operation And Chrysler was the same way by the way Chrysler's upper end transmission upper end cars Especially their fleet cars all had literally a racing transmission Now we didn't know this until our friend got into rebuilding transmissions, but you know what the test for real when you do a built trans By the way, you're supposed to register to confirm that it's been doctored with. You take it out, you drive, you run the car up to about, and this is non-exaggeration, 90 miles an hour and drop it in first. And the transmission will not be affected. That sounds weird, but we did it with a Chrysler Cordoba. The first one he built was a Chrysler Cordoba. The next transmission he built was a Malibu, exactly what I was just talking about here a minute ago. In both cases, I'm reading his manual, the instruction manual, he's doing a bench rebuild factory. He took the low park courses and everything out of Detroit here. And then he took the GM courses. And in both cases, it's, yep, get her to 90 miles an hour. You got that new transmission in? Yes, you do. get her to 90, drop it in first, shouldn't have any problem whatsoever. It's going to sound terrible, but it's not going to do anything other than stare at you. And that's- I never would have even dreamed of doing something like that. I read that twice and I said, do we want to keep this car? But you know what? Adobo ran like a rape date. Again. Little things you learn and it's like I would never have expected that I mean seriously, it'd be like no, this is what they taught us at Millpower. This is what will happen when you build this to racing spec if it's built to regular, whatever it is standard for competition. That's what they have to have. So I thought that was rather fascinating. Anyway, the other thing here real quick is, you know what? I know this can really mess with everybody because look what we're talking about. The Pacer, the Pacer would be a limousine right now. And I know it's always been a joke, but you know, if you guys, if you step back and look, the Pacer right now could be built. And if you told somebody it was a totally new design and most kids have never seen a real Pacer, if they haven't been in a movie that's already outdated by 20, 30 years, okay? So the cool thing is, is that you bring it out, it's got all the room of a luxury car on the inside, but it was a small car on the outside by comparison to all of the other vehicles of the day. And that's something that was also true of AMC with regard to their general design. Their interior space, square feet, square inches, was superior to most everybody else in the industry. American Motors Corporation and the Pacer was a really good idea. It's interesting the way it was ridiculed considering it wasn't. And again, if you were to take the Pacer and you and here's the other thing, take it, make it to modern material designs. Take with all the ideas that we now have with football plastic and all the stuff that's been perfected that you see on automobiles You can take the pacer and build it at probably half of its original weight because it was still a heavy car. Pinto's were a heavy car You know if you compare that compact to the compact of mid now would be considered a mid-sized car today The Pinto is well classes it by twice the weight Now the good thing, that's a lot of throw weight if I gotta ram somebody or if I gotta compete with somebody in an aggressive way as an offensive driver. Now that little pin tang I have, the must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, must, So that tells you that if you made it out of original material, if you made it with newer materials and you took all of the advantage of all the other engineering developments that they've now perfected, then you could produce a bigger, more comfortable car. America's not getting smaller. Americans typically have been getting taller, sometimes more big around too, as we all get older. But the big thing is that it would be a comfortable and leisurely car to be able to drive. And today, I'm not impressed, in fact, I'm getting less and less impressed than where the vehicles are right now, to the point where it's like, God, what am I gonna do when I wanna buy used if I live long enough? I won't want this generation right now that would be coming out used probably won't even be functional. And looking at the lack of quality of components, materials, and how they're punking out everything that they're doing, which tells me that, yes, they're on the edge of, this is also one of the other indicators that I would use for talking about them collapsing the tent on America. because they don't want any durable material rolling over into the crisis wave that they're gonna create. Remember the last time I saw the road warrior? Well, what would you be making road warrior vehicles out of if all of its punk junk or electric cars? There's something they didn't show. Well, like wow, well, what about electric cars in the road warrior? Well, they're all dead burning back there over the way over the horizon. See those little piles of smoke together. They're locked on. Don't worry about it. People sell the batteries out of them that eat their house in the winter. Yeah. So anyway, again, ideas. One of the things that bring this up where it's because you know what fun. Here's something they hate. We have fun. I'm ready to wage war against the bastards on the other side of the heartbeat, but I also have a lot of fun doing other things because it's going to be integrated into what I do when I'm done fighting. Today, oh, I didn't even share that. Today, today, class, we're going to learn about constructive fraud. Actually, today, I picked up a book, a box of books that is worth a fortune. But one of the most fascinating ones, and this is going to be fun to go through, This is the title of it. This is from, hold on, before I go any farther, this book is from 1907 and it's The Workshop Companion, a book of useful recipes for mechanics and engineers. And it is, oh, the original copyright, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me, hold on here for a second. The original copyright is 1890. However, this printing, the Industrial Publications Company of 1907, useful, reliable recipes, processes, methods, wrinkles, and practical hints. Practical hints. I'm not telling you exactly how to do it, but let me give you a hint. They could not print this book today. I am telling you, there are things where you find them and I'm reading some of, I already went through a couple of pages just real quick before the program here. And I'm reading this and this is like, yeah, oh, how do we make that? Oh, wow, it's right here. Creative alternate solutions for things that go boom in the night or during the day. But other things that are interesting is, for instance, there's a whole section here on making the raw materials for building tool and die machinery or building machinery of any kind like say a lathe. For instance, the different ideas for building the journals. And one of them I thought was really interesting and of course how popular it was, was a bonded bi metal that you actually, it doesn't really roll, it just wears. And it's actually braved, it gives you the formula for casting the raw material. It gives you the proportions, it gives you the cooking process. In other words, you got to back off the heat to prevent oxidation, which of course will create chipping or foaming, which basically is the way to describe it for people who haven't seen that before with casting. And what's fascinating is when you're done, then you still have to, of course, affix it. So you actually, after you've cast the component, whatever it is you're going to build in the way of what looks like a roller, but it isn't. It's actually flat on one side. You then braze that into the iron. In fact, even gives the formula for making the fixture out of iron. Actually malleable, it's no, forgive me, it's pig iron, cast iron and tin. And it's amazing how many times I looking at these quick formulas here, tin is involved. It's not the only thing, but it was fascinating. I just roll the page and it specifically was on. building the components that create uniformity and wear with regard to the working components of the lathe and building the whole lathe from scratch. This is common work. This is these are books we just have off the shelf. Nowadays you can't find this if your life depended on it. I mean, you can, you know, it's the old story of the alchemist, the witch doctor, whatever. In fact, during this period, it was the age of steel, the age of chemistry, Americans were taught, Americans actually, you know, were able to read. These poor fools coming out of the public fool system now can't read, can't write, can't do math because they were taught common horror math. And it's two totally different worlds. But if you needed to teach someone, the little library that I got today is literally priceless. I don't have them in front of me. I'd read off my beta clock. But this is what you need in preparation for what we have to do. You're gonna build a society back up. You're not gonna do it electronically because it'll be fried. What we need is many different elements of our industrial processes preserved in a physical mechanical form so that we will have it at our fingertips because that will determine how far back we have to go. But we aren't gonna go back to sticks and clubs. There's no reason to. You know, sticks and stones and you know, sharp pointy flint. Why? Only an idiot and a competent or a fool will let that happen. So again, prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. We need to again, guys, we need to be the librarians. The librarians aren't anymore. They burn books. It's like Fahrenheit 451. That's what this country is like right now. The worthless turds in the public fool system and the worthless turds that are in the libraries, they have one mission, fry and burn, shred and tear. And they're worthless. They are the most worthless cretins we could possibly have in the job. And that's why they were hired. So now, go ahead, call our chip in there. I heard a proverb. I forget what country it's from. I think it would have been somewhere in Africa. It goes like this. When an old man dies, it's like a library burned down. Exactly. And there's guys don't say you can't learn. There's always something more to learn. Like I said, I was looking at some of this today. And what's interesting is there's an again, my favorite are the pocket mechanics books and the pocket tolerance books. And I just got four or five more totally alien to anything else that I've had. An interesting thing is as I pointed out ours are zenith for Education because of necessity is World War two. That's mostly what you're going to run into an example is mechanics best pocket reference book. This is by compiled by John H wolf Supervisor apprentice school Ford Motor Company Dearborn, Michigan. This is another Ford product and these things are so thought out and they're obviously numbers ad nauseam. And of course, many people go cross-eyed and even myself, I'm like, first I'd have to study the subject matter to appreciate every aspect of what's in this book. And I can fully appreciate it as it is, but we're talking about doing mechanical gears. We're talking about, for instance, doing that, you know, require, you know, a number of different oblique machining processes to accomplish the overall machine, et cetera. But it's all here in a handbook. Wait, let me get my pocket, let me get my pocket computer out my phone and let somebody else answer for me. No, we used to be able to, again, work at developing everybody's minds. So that we didn't require batteries or again, we know it was kind of a self-help thing through the process of education. We took care of ourselves, take care of yourself and in the process everybody benefits. So anyway, my favorite is tapered cups. Yes, there we go. So anyway, just again, the library, I haven't gone through it all. I got another one that is another classic too. And actually, it's why it's right in front of me because I grabbed it right away. It is number 10 paper. You know how hard that is to print on number 10 weight paper. But it's I'm sure it's hemp. And paper. I'm sure the government tried to kill me for having paper. But anyway, 1945 and World War II, it's a slide rule. The slide is British printed English print, which is why the quality of the paper is what it is. But by Charles Pickworth, the slide rule, a practical manual by Charles and Pickworth. With these things, I don't need a computer to make weapons. Go ahead, color, jump in there. Hey, Mark, this is Irish whiskey. I just wanted to mention along the lines of a library, several years ago, well, actually, well, shoot, now it's been a number of years ago, I was able to purchase basically all of the Nikola Tesla books that were being published, including Colorado Springs Notes, all of the Tesla books. We're talking, you know, at the time it was a few thousand dollars by literally everything. However, the way that I look at it with me having a technical background is that this information, like you're saying, is priceless. I mean, where are you going to find the lab results of everything that all these things that Nikola Tesla did back in the day. If we lose everything, I mean, you can't even find this information just now. You can't even find it just very many places on the Internet. I mean, much less if we have collapsed and it would be sad to lose all this. So in addition to the Tesla library, like my wife and I mean, we collect just like you're saying. I mean, anytime we see ancient books of any kind. thrift stores, whatever. I mean, we buy every single old book we can find, no matter the subject, over. Well, here's the thing, okay, now let's just take something and put it in perspective. We know that the feds are totally manipulating the Internet. We just saw, like Solzhenitsyn said, a keyhole view of just how corrupt the wretched globalist filth and turds are that make up the regime and the police state, okay? So guys, when you think about the Internet, if they're excluding data and information that is in a timely fashion produced, don't you think that they're doing everything they can to prevent any of what we're talking about from in general being accessible to the population? Unless, there's frivolous actions and activities that they don't care about. But imagine, that with what you've already heard about what they've tried to exclude or they just tell the providers make it disappear. They're no different from any other book burner from any other era. And I think that again, when we're on the edge, we can save this. This is the fourth collection this year that I've saved where I caught it. It's just the right time that I got all of the books. And with it now the guy was into automotive he was in fact, you know, it's typical around here with this Michigan Detroit, you know the automotive world But you know the other half of what this guy was into was aviation mechanics and aviation construction private slash early era When it used to be if you had a bicycle company you could make a plane Everybody seems to forget that. No, it's so complicated. It's so it's so mystery of science guys. It used to be that you well, okay. Iver Johnson bicycle works. What was Iver Johnson famous for if you were to mention that in the average crowd? What would everybody remember? Johnson? Yeah, boom. Yeah, boom. But they started out as Iver Johnson bicycle works. Right. And since they were working with steel, especially tubular steel, it's not hard to figure out that they developed enough skill that, hey, by the way, we've got another branch. We don't just do bicycles or the argument is they did guns first. But bicycles go back far than most people realize. Of course, bikes go back to being wooden, not tubular metal. But it's the idea that that is how the aircraft industry was. There wasn't really an aircraft industry. There was, well, I built bikes and the guy said they used tubular framing and sheet material. Hey, we can do that. Let's make one. That's how America used to be. And that's how it should be again. We have to make that again so that if you want to do something, if a lawyer walks up and tries to cause problems over it, kill him. You know what our problem is? That's half our problem right there. Well, I got this thing, it's dangerous for you to boom. You know what? Life is risky. I'm going to take, I'll take my chances. I got a good idea. I know what I'm doing and I got some friends that know even more than I do. I think we can take care of ourselves. That's what has to happen. And again, you know what? Oh, by the way, before we go any farther, everybody just an update. Nancy told me off the side during the break. real quick. They've had another three votes, so they've had six total. They're coming back at eight o'clock and they're gonna try to shove, you know, mek California, mek California down our throats. So that way Pelosi still has power anyway. Although they're talking they could reinstate Pelosi, they don't need it, they got this guy. That's why they want this guy in there, just being extension of the California caters screwing America, the Silicon Valley and everybody else. who have been screwing us, obviously quite proficiently with the FBI, ATF, and Homeland Security, everybody else working to get it done. The other thing here, I want to get too far from the books, guys, as is pointed out, doesn't make any difference what it is. Most of their texts should be saved because in America they haven't been. When you look at European libraries, and I don't care what you go to, science, fiction, drama. Take your pick. The libraries are stacked. You know, the books are stacked as far as it can be on the shelf to the ceiling and then they're stacked on the floor. You go to an American library, take a tape measure with you and start measuring how many dead feet of open shelf there is. Then consider how many books do you think America produced in one year of printing? And when I say number of books, I mean number of individual books done by authors. Yeah, some of them are probably crap. In fact, a lot of them are. But how much in the way of technical manuals and everything else that any other good library would have aren't going to be found anywhere because they don't want you thinking and they don't want you to have that working knowledge. And so it's all shallow hell crap. That's the problem. It's all been deemed obsolete. It's all been deemed obsolete. Oh, it's obsolete. Yeah. Oh, no, we don't. Who decided that? I'd ask them that. We made deemed obsolete. I knew you were having a book sale. I would have came down and bought the damn thing. Even there, as we pointed out, and again, we've got people who are librarian. Well, my point is that if they've been told to flat out pull them and burn them. Yeah. I mean, and here's the only thing. Guys, you know, and I know some of our friends that are listening are in the legal trade. Let me point out that, you know, that law books are to be shredded and burned. They're not supposed to be sold to the public. There is a company in Ann Arbor, Michigan on the south side of Ann Arbor that does one thing, bonded destruction of administrative paperwork. But one of the other things that they are, they're a book shredder. And they're not the only one in the country. This is just one that I know I can take you right to it. And I stopped over there one day because somebody said, hey, you might want to check out what we got over here. So I went over and the guys, you know, said, now don't look too obvious here, but look at this pile of books. It was all the black and tan standard law books from the trade. And what's interesting is we could probably cherry pick two or three, which we did. We got everything we could out of it. But these were all being by law, by their rules. They have to, if it's not going to be going back to the trade, who's somebody else in the trade? than it has to be demonstrated that the texts are destroyed. This is true of a lot of the other levels of law books I've told you about, like the green books. There is a collection on higher banking and also higher economic administrative control. They're called the green books. I've seen one set. And by accident, here's how they exist. They were slipped sideways in a donation to another institution. And all of the guy's legal library was shifted sideways. Now those books don't exist to the average P brain out there, no matter who we are, none of us. None of you have probably heard about them. I would never have known had I not been able to actually access them. And in fact, what it did was completely reinforce the straw man argument, top to bottom, all because it's all quote unquote, higher banking interest. And the metalegal activities that are tied into it to create the fiction which in reality is the bondsman mechanism that is waging war against you and me as Americans. To try and bring us back into the monarchical slash the globalist fold by surrendering, convincing us to surrender our sovereignty. Which is why we're openly at war and have been at war for a very long time. Books. Just don't assume that everybody else got it just because you see it sitting in a yard sale somewhere Estate sales are priceless for this. We've gotten a lot of Illuminati text from in my area like where I am Some of it in German some of it in Italian but all of it from an individual's collection where he was up in his 90s and his children passed away before he did There were no other family members, so the in the, I should say no close family members. So on outside the close family circle, family member took over the estate and sold everything. Well, went to that library people, it was the dusty, musty, you know, you know, den of darkness. And a lot of the texts that came out of that are eerie, just first of all, they're supposed to die before they let these things out. So just a heads up, you don't know, especially the more remote location. If you can go to an estate sale and wander through, we found a place. I ran into a place like this, but it was a person that actually reproduces books in another location and the whole house was deceptive. From the road, the play had no clue how big the house actually was. And from one end of that house to the other, it was nothing but walls and walls and stacks. and walls of books in a true library format. And there's stuff that's one of a kind in there. The HG Wells series I told you about, I got most every, I think I got whatever somebody else didn't get. I got everything that HG Wells had done, not all of it first printings, but I got most of what HG Wells did in his social engineering series, not the time machine and all that. We talked about the stuff he was especially notorious for as a ring knocker. Remember, H.G. Wells was the social science engineer of his day for the globalists, the same way that you would say Gates and these others are screwing with you now. Only they didn't have computers, they used books. And they used, of course, the impetus of being able to occupy the educational system to start screwing with people's heads and starting to twist things upside down. And H.G. Wells was right in the middle of all that. He was considered the Joker. And by the way, he was the car. He was the he was the Joker of the deck of the wise men of the day. That's how they perceived him. And of course he was designed to play on you and me. Anyway, we're at the top of a plane. The bad guys are Craig's coming up next. Welcome to the mid knowledge. We will show live if you're on the. of January of the new year. That'd be what, what are we, the fourth now? Let's see. We are in the fourth, yep. January 4th of 2023. If you want to hold in, participate, welcome to it. I don't really have a pick to talk about today, so I really would like to have a discussion, open discussion with some people if you want to call in. I do, I am doing a show this weekend. I don't do very many shows. In fact, I only have about four shows a year now. And three of them happen to be Indianapolis. So basically two shows because the other one is DragonCon in Atlanta. So the Indy 1500 gun show this weekend in Indianapolis, if you're anywhere near Indianapolis, I want to check that out. That's a three day show Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on the first weekend of the new year. So let's see, I've got some things going on in my personal life. I've been missing some shows because I'm frankly very, very busy. Even though I'm not busy with the on the project that I'm my property and building the underground house that I'm trying to get get together Still having problems with getting mechanics out there Been working on my army truck on my own. I'm mostly done with it. I'm not in any big hurry now at this point, but Let me buy various fittings and a lot of running to the hardware store for this and that it just seems like it The minor details take forever I'm going to have to do some sandblasting on some parts and painting. And I actually won't be doing much painting. I'll be doing a powder coating. I actually have a, I'm going to try my first powder coatings shot on various parts that I've been taking off of this truck. Getting the OD green shade correct is kind of hard with the powder coating. There's lots of colors, but just trying to figure out which ones to use. I'm probably going to pick out a couple of them and and kind of two-tone thing where the color fades from one color to the other, one OD green to another OD green, because there's actually literally hundreds of OD greens in powder too. They have like a million different colors you can get with powder coating, so it's not limited. Although it is limited with the flats because most powder coating is usually considered to be showpiece stuff, stuff that's usually very gloss, heavy on the gloss. in clear coat. These are usually what people want when they have power coating. Power coating is just a more durable finish and they do have flat colors, but not very much. They don't have a lot of them. But in the OD Green, there's probably, I'd say I have about 10 shades to choose from in the OD Green flat. And they're especially flat flat like you might expect with some flat back black paint that you might have used before. But they they're more like eggshell they have a little bit of a sheen to them But not a lot that's all part of the process of what makes them so durable as a finish if you don't know powder coating is basically a You have to clean the parts real good usually usually either sandblasting or chemical cleaning where there's no oils on it whatsoever Then you put on an electrode The gun that shoots the powder onto the piece has an electrode that creates a charge, I believe it's a negative charge to the piece, a little clamp, a little alligator clamp. And so the static, basically like static, draws the power to the powder kind of fluffs out of this gun. It doesn't spray so much, very low pressure. I mean, you're talking like four pounds of pressure, three or four pounds of pressure coming out of the gun, of air pressure that shoots to this powder. Shoot is a relative term because it kind of just flows out slightly, just like puffs of smoke almost. It doesn't really spray very actively. But anyway, it's supposed to attract to the piece and cling to the piece. And from there, when you get it completely covered, And sometimes getting into corners is a difficult task with these things. Getting into small crevices and corners because of the way the static works on the piece sometimes it can exclude some areas. So you got to be really careful how you coat it. Then you put it in the oven and depending on the size of your piece it might be an oven big enough to walk in. Typically when people think powder coating they think wheels. That's usually the number one thing people think of wheels. And wheels are a little bit too big to be putting in your home oven. You don't want to do this in your home oven anyway. You can really kind of destroy the oven. You should need to get an old oven that is not going to be used for food. But a standard oven for a fairly small wheel, it can work, but it's not ideal. Plus you have to be able to lift up the wheel, especially without touching it, because the powder on there is dry. So really what people, what most places do is they have them hanging from hooks, wheels or whatever part, hanging from hooks and they have these rolling racks that they roll into the ovens and then they put the oven on. And you're talking 350 to 400 degrees roughly, depending on the application. And the powder basically melts in place. And it makes a very durable finish like your refrigerator in your oven and so your appliances That's a form of powder coating and it picks a very durable finish It keeps coming gloss they come in all the way from gloss to flat and lots of colors So anyway, and you bake it and then if you want to put on a clear coat You actually stop the process it stays in the oven for about It depends. You have to melt the paint. I guess the paint is the right word. But you have to melt the powder. It becomes kind of shiny. You can see it's melting on it. It goes in very dull, but then it starts becoming shiny. And that's the time when you either stop to put another coat on, like a clear coat. And then you put it back in. After you put a clear coat on, you continue to bake it. And the idea is to keep that part at about 400 degrees for about half an hour to an hour. It really depends. And so it's cured completely. So it's kind of an involved process. You're not going to paint your car unless you have the fenders off your car. You're not going to paint your car using powder coating. Because really, you have to take everything out. You can't have a part that has any bit of rubber or anything else on it because it'll destroy it. If you have any wiring or any rubber, it'll melt. at the high temperatures. So you really have to have a plain metal part with no other. You can do aluminum, you can do steel, you can even do glass. Anything that you can heat up to about 400 degrees without breaking it or melting it, then you can do it. And so glass is kind of strange when it comes out. You can take a bottle and actually powder coat it and make it into a blue glass or something that you can't necessarily see through, depending on how thick you put it on. And you can do different tones. The camo is possible, making a camel finish with powder coating. Although it looks like it's going to be a little more difficult than a spray can. They also have, in fact, one of my first projects for the truck, you have the six wheels. I'm going to be powder coating the wheels. I've already got them sandblasted. This is something I can do when the weather is ratty outside. I'm not worried about doing it anytime soon here. because I have other things I'm doing right now. But when I perform it for more of a weather and Yeah, I already say I'm blasted the wheels and I devised a system because my oven isn't big enough to roll in a thing So I have to actually have a special rig that I set up to work because these wheels I weigh, you know with both parts together They weigh more than a hundred pounds. I'm not gonna be able to lift those up You using my Hanging from a hook I'm just not going to be able to do it. It's just too heavy. I might be able to do that with a car wheel, but not these truck wheels. And they get hung up in there and then use a gun, a laser pointer gun for temperature to see what your temperature is because the entire part has to come up to that 350 to 400 degrees. And not just all the way through and through. So the heavier the steel, the longer it takes to heat that part up to where you can coat it properly. get the finish finished correctly. So anybody want to call in? I've got other things I can talk about too, but nothing really forbidden. I'm going to tell you some of the things that I've been involved with while I've been missing some shows, some radio shows here. I just haven't been real busy. I'm embarking on a project for the winter. I hope to get done by the end of March, the first of April is about the time when I can start doing things outside the property for my underground house. In part, part of what I did today, I spent all day moving insulation. The underground house, the underground warehouse has, to insulate underground, you need a particular type of foam generally called extruded polystyrene. Now this is usually a usually it comes in blue colors made by Dow as it's called step Dow star foam. That's their trade name blue colored It comes in four by sheets. The pink stuff is usually is a company called owners Corning and that's a Fomular is their trade name and that's a pink. It's the same stuff just different color and there's company that makes a green one. There's a lot of companies make these For by cheese generally. Well, these were two by eight sheets. They're four inches thick of extruded polystyrene. Now these are generally, I think these generally go for about 25 bucks a piece for the four inch by two foot by eight foot. And I got them at an auction and basically we got 10 pieces for $40. So $4 a piece instead of like $20 to $25 a piece. And I got 100 pieces. fills up a car hauler pretty much pretty high. It's stacking them up on a car hauler to saw them. And so I've been spending all day cleaning those off and bringing them there. These were essentially used in a way. They were put underground for a time. A lot of times when you have a construction project, and it's probably some big commercial construction project these were used on, when you pour a slab floor, for instance, a slab on grade, Usually put down gravel before, maybe for drainage. You may have to put down this queen. And then in your concrete, you might even have radiant heat tubes. There's other things you might have to do. Rebar, reinforcing rod in the slab. But a slab on grade, if you leave it, if you pour it, let's say, in the fall, and then it's open all year to the elements and freezes. That's a big problem because it can heat. It depends on what's happening underneath. If you've got a really good gravel base, you don't have to worry. But if it's just on dirt or if there's very little gravel, you can get freezing underneath the slab and it can start cracking the slab in weird ways. Concrete will always crack anyway, no matter what you do. It's just a matter of controlling the cracks or making them small enough to where they don't cause any problems. Because concrete does shrink when it cures. And concrete, by the way, cures for... more than 100 years. Literally concrete, it gives a high early strength after about 30 days, 90 days, but then it literally slowly cures for more than 100 years. It gets stronger and stronger as time goes by, if it's not exposed to the elements that destroy it some. And that's underground, that's what will happen. But anyway, a slab on grade, you need to put insulation over it. And these foam boards are perfect for that to lay directly on. Now, because of the slight imprints I saw on them, it was laid on gravel. So I'm not sure what they were protecting. Gravel, and then they put a little sand over the top of them, probably. Then I got 100 sheets. I wasn't able to cure all of them. The prices kind of went up. But this auction house had all kinds of, they had polyisocyanate. They had... Expanded polystyrene. Here's a little education for you. I'm into construction, so pardon the terms, but all of you have probably seen these types of foam. These are solid, they're called generally referred to as rigid foam board, and usually comes in four by eight sheets. The stuff you, the cheap stuff is the white, sometimes referred to as bead board. You know, the stuff you take in your hands and you can crumble it and it turns into these light little white styrofoam things that stick on you and get everywhere and make a mess. That's the low grade stuff and you might get shipping in your packages and stuff in pieces just for padding. That's generally the cheapest stuff. You can get those at Menards and Home Depot and all those places, the big box stores. And that's the cheapest stuff. That's not suitable for underground though. That stuff gets waterlogged and it won't have a good R value. And a lot of times they don't have the compressor strength, although you can get different grades of it. Expanded polystyrene, it comes in different grades, and you can get the stuff that's, but it costs a lot more. They can withstand being walked on and even driven a vehicle on it. Because you've seen, you can push your thumb into it and it leaves a little indentation in the stuff that you're probably familiar with, the white beadboard. But they do make the higher grade stuff, but it costs more. Then the other stuff you can get at the Home Depot is in places is something called the extruded polystyrene, which is a different process. When you look at that closely, it doesn't have the beads. It's like more monolithic, although it is permeable. And that stuff is what I'm having to use underground. Usually they have a much higher compressive strength, meaning they can be put under a slab where vehicles are going to be and take the pressure. And that type of foam is suitable for direct burial, whereas the white stuff isn't the white beadboard or a polyososine right is also not recommended for below grade use for being buried. You really have to use either the pink stuff or the blue stuff or the green stuff, the foam board. So that's what I've been having to buy. And even though I got 100 sheets of this stuff, I'm still going to need about four times as much to do the house. There's four inches of insulation under the floor. in four inches of insulation all the way around the arch of these these quonset hut arches concrete quonset huts that are underground and the insulation goes on the outside meaning facing the earth instead of facing inside any of these homes by code generally have to be covered with some sort of fireproof or fire retardant I should say Such a drywall drywall is considered a fiery target because you can take a torch torch to it and you can burn the paper But it's not gonna do anything past paper being burned Same with fiberglass insulation fiberglass if it's paper face. Yeah, the paper will burn but then the fiberglass it just won't burn Same with rockwool. There's another type of insulation that won't burn Blown in fiberglass, blown in cellulose, those won't burn. Cellulose, even though it's a lot of times made up of basically recycled newspapers, it doesn't burn because they put a fire retardant in it. Recycled newspapers, speaking of which. Recycled newspapers. How anybody gets newspapers anymore, I bet. I wonder if cellulose probably is going to be coming out of favor because you're saying getting the raw material, recycled newspapers. because that's usually what cellulose is. And I'm sticking a cardboard in cellulose. I found it this interesting. I'm going to make a video of some of the stuff I'm about ready to talk about unless people want to call in and talk about something else. I found in this house that I'm renovating, I'll tell you a little more about it. I want to get to this before I forget the... There was a newspaper I found from 1944. And there was an advertisement in the bottom of the paper among all the other advertisements, you know, celery for $0.08. And things were, all those food prices were in pennies and not dollars. So that was amazing. But during the war, too, you would think the prices would probably be a little higher for the day just because of shortages as well during World War II. This is 1944 of World War II. But one ad, one advertisement stuck out. It was about recycling paper and cardboard. 1944. At the very top, I wish I could get the exact word in here because I don't have it in front of me. It was an advertisement to try to get people to recycle their paper products because the picture showed a box of grenades and the ad says grenade boxes are made of cardboard. And so they're trying to get, as part of the war effort, trying to get you to recycle your paper products. With the sales pitch of making boxes for grenades for the boys overseas, don't you know? That just seemed kind of strange to see. I've never seen anything like that today. But the recycling thing surprised me to begin with because I didn't think recycling was really a thing until about the 70s and 80s. But no, during the war, rubber, there's other products were very high in demand metals and everything during the war. That stuff's all needed. and cardboard to make grenade boxes. That was funny. But yeah, this house that I'm working on, I don't know the year the house was built yet. I'm trying to get clues. It's certainly over 100 years old. I'm thinking somewhere between the 1860s and 1880s that I'm renovating. The upstairs is what I'm doing. It's an old farmhouse, wood frame. The upstairs is what I'm renovating. The upstairs has not been occupied. The best I can tell, it has not been used since the 1950s. So more than 60 years it looks like this was not used upstairs. Over the decades, over the century, various leaks in the roof. damage some of the ceiling, you know, we're talking about plaster and lap here. And so that tends to flake off in chunks and then you see bare lap and it becomes a problem. Anyway, the owner decided to completely gut the entire upstairs. And we're talking upstairs is about 750 square feet roughly square with eight windows. Wood frame, the It's interesting some of the things I found too. Even though I didn't find any gold coins or a silver certificate or anything like that, some of the things I did find. The clues that got me to understand that probably hasn't been occupied since the 50s because the newest thing I found up there had a date on it. It was moth cake. It had the date on the box of 1950. And so I'm speaking with sometime in the 50s. It might have been up there in the 60s. I don't know, but it's been a long time. That was the newest thing I found up there. Found a magazine from 1927. Newspapers underneath the linoleum. Apparently they decide to put a lot of newspaper underneath the linoleum from 1944. And I found some other things too that were very old. But anyway. These old houses, you got to understand, I mean, we live in a time today where construction is a whole lot different and our expectations of what we get out of a house is a whole lot different. This house was built before electricity. It was built before basically indoor plumbing. That wasn't a thing until, unless you were rich. And people who later, basically they built these farmhouses and later they would build onto the back. We've all seen these types of houses. We're an old farmhouse and then they add onto the back and that's where you put in the bathroom and the kitchen. Because they had outhouses. You might have a sink in the back of the house connected to a, what do you call it, a pit, oh, I forget the name of it. Now, where it collects water from the gutters, fresh water, and you might have a pitcher pump inside the house. It's like a subject tank except it's for clean water. I forget what the name of it is now. But anyway, there is one of those there. Also underground, although I have not opened it up to see if it was, a lot of times they would fill those in. The insurance companies get all excited about it and they want them to be filled in with sand at some point. A lot of times that's what happened to those fresh water tanks underground, concrete fresh water tanks. And so these houses were built and this house has no heat upstairs. It has no electric upstairs. It has no closets. The house was built by closets then. Yes. Yeah. The word you're looking for is sister. That's right. Thank you. Yes, sister and I'll have them. I'm sure your house had I know I know your house that you lived in as a youngster and I'm sure you had a sister and probably your house has one and and it was filled in to it was filled in with sand and corn cob and sand and what Corn cob they filled in it with sand and cook up. Don't ask me why they did that but Okay, well, and your house would have been built without electricity when it was originally built and probably only had a wood stove in it or an old coal furnace down in the basement. I don't know, I haven't been through your whole house. The house connector? Yeah. That dates back to before, it was the original post office for the Dexter area, for the territories. Was that before the Civil War? way before the Civil War back when it was back when that was considered Indian North territorial was considered Indian territory beyond that point You know back in the back in the day was the last we did a genealogy on the house and it was like back in the It was the stagecoach post office. It was one of the it was an apothecary at one point That house that my parents have in Dexter, it has a long history. Mom has tried to get the Historical Society interested in it for years, but because, you know, Metro Parks wants it for, uh, keeps trying to get it for, uh, their golf course. It's never gonna happen. Yeah, there's a lot of open land around there. At least last time I was there, I would think that there's still room for a golf course around it, but I don't know. Oh, there is. Well, there already is. If you go down the road, there's a golf course there, but they want to do a bigger golf course so they can have like, I can't remember what tour it is, like one of the PGA's or something games. So as a comparison, the house that you lived in is older than this one, but do you recall? your house. And you got to consider, I don't know how many times it was remodeled or whatever. And, but generally, did you have any closets in the house? They have several closets in the house. There were, there were. Okay. Cause this house has no closets in it at all upstairs. It's just four rooms. In fact, one of the rooms is a nursery. You walk through one bedroom to get to another bedroom. So again, they would generally prefer that to us as the nursery and the houses were kind of built that way. And they had parlors instead of that they have a separate room where they call the parlor, which was essentially, back in the day, it was a place where you put dead people on. to make a short of it. Basically, when somebody died in the family, they set them up in there in a more fancy room, a formal room of the house, and they called the parlor. And usually the parlor wasn't used for anything else except for something like that or get togethers of special occasions. That parlor was essentially... Parlor was a game room too. If you had a deck of cards or something you had a table in there to play cards with. You shoot 22s into catch buckets. Indoor shooting is the thing we used to do in this country. We don't do nearly as much anymore. But yeah, little derringer pistols and whatnot, you shoot them to a pointing bucket that would stop the bullet. Inside the house? Yeah, inside the house, not parlor. That's one of the things you use a parlor for. It was a game room and indoor shooting was one of the games you would do in the parlor. Ok, that's a new one on me. I did not know that. Probably 22 shorts. Something not very powerful. 22 and like the little Derringers, you've probably seen them at the show. It's not even a full 22. They're small. They were parlor guns. In fact, if you go to any of the shows and you ask somebody about a parlor gun, if they know the history of parlor guns, that's why they're called parlor guns. They were for indoor shooting range practice, showmanship shooting. There were a lot of interesting things that were done in parlors. There are many games that we don't do anymore. The TV room for most people is what the parlor used to be, where the family would gather and entertain each other, whether it be reading books or whatever. All the ones that I'd seen, they were much more formal than the rest of the house, decorated and furnished. And they were more like the only place in the house that was luxury. In fact, your floor is all throughout the house. And with her family, it was a music room. That's what the parlor was. And a lot of these old houses, I think your house is the same way. I'm sure it must have been. The floors were just... you know, one by on the joists and they weren't generally covered except sometimes runners or carpet runners or sometimes linoleum put over them but there would be essentially and you got the little gaps between the boards. I mean tiny little gaps. They weren't and this was sometimes the finished floor of many people's houses just plain wood. Never been in the basement of my parents house obviously. I mean some people have because we when we had the meetings I At one point I had the basement cleared out for a little spot for the kids to go down and you know be entertained We had our games and everything down there, but yeah My parents house had a log floor and the log floor is still there and the other floors are built on top of it Yeah, so the joys sir and the beams are probably logs instead of yes, you every being right down there. Yeah. Yeah This house does have some beams and they do seem to be hand-hewn. And the studs of the one. This is something that by today's lumber is it doesn't stand a chance to this stuff. The house back then you had what they call balloon framing. Not trying to get very technical for a lot of people who don't know today We do something all platform framing where basically you build one story at a time You build one story and then put a floor on and then put another story on top of that and then put a roof on But these houses were what they call balloon framing meaning the Joyce I'm sorry the studs the wall studs were continuous from basement to attic So we had two-story house these these studs on this house are 20 feet long And they're the full two inch, two inch by five inches of the studs. So two inches by five inches, and I mean full two inches, not one and a half, and full five inches. So they're 20 feet long, and they're 12 inches on center, roughly. One thing I notice about this house is they didn't have tape measures. They had these folding rules, and they didn't. follow the dimensions too carefully. Because putting up drywall is going to be a real problem. I'm going to have to do some really tricks to put up drywall. You didn't have drywall to put up back then. It was all horse hair and plaster. Right. This didn't have the horse hair variety, but that's the older ones. Yeah, the older ones did. And the, yeah, the last, Woodlaff is generally about four feet long and then they stagger them and they plaster them. But yeah, the drywall, our dimensions today need to have either 24 inch on centers or 16 inch on centers to work for a standard four by eight sheets of whatever drywall plywood anyway. My brother Ethan or the guy who used to work for Jim, but I think Jim's retired But Jim Todd Ethan pretty much everything that he just he's done well, so I Talked about that. I would talk to my brother Ethan seriously I'm ahead of you there because About a week ago. I saw somebody named Nancy Kornke in post often And she recognized me right away. I didn't recognize her right away. Then she went, Craig. Well, anyway, he got talking and one of the first things I asked was about Ethan because I knew he did plaster at one time. And I asked if he still does plaster, if he has tools. I mean, there's not a lot of tools you need for plastering, but there's still, I mean, apparently he still has stilts too. That's like one of the most expensive parts of plastering because everything else with plastering, it's just a skill of a trade. It's not so much. where you need all these fancy tools with batteries and power tools and everything. It's mostly just other than a drill to mix posture. It's a skilled training. What Jim and Ethan were doing before Jim retired? They were getting government contracts and stuff to redo the plaster molding and courthouses and whatnot. Really intricate stuff that you can't do with modern tooling. You can try to mimic it, but it doesn't end up the same. You have to know the old techniques in order to reproduce some of that, like rose print. in plaster that's like, it looked like little roses, but it's all done with plaster work. He knows how to do all that, Craig. So if you had something you were trying to historically, uh, redo, yeah, I would, it sounds like you're just redoing it so the person can use it. So you don't, won't have to get that, that, uh, extensive with that type of work. Well, plus this particular house is what you would call a budget house in the day. It doesn't have anything really fancy on the porch or anything. There is some details that are nice, but it's not fancy. So it doesn't have all that fancy work inside. No cornices inside or anything. They just had wallpaper on the plaster. And wallpaper was definitely a thing too back 100 years ago. That was a common thing. Then linoleum, which didn't stretch. There's no such thing as floor to wall to wall anything. I mean, essentially you bought a piece of linoleum and you put it in. Unless you've got a lot of money, you weren't going to be putting wall to wall carpeting or wall to wall linoleum or anything. A lot of times you just left the forest bare, the bare wood. But the plaster work, I mean you're talking to somebody here that has a hard enough time making good drywall seams, you know, so yeah I'm definitely not as skilled as those people are amazing. Some of those plaster is what they can do to make something really smooth. Part of the problem I'm having with this particular house is the, if you think about it, a piece of two by four, well actually two by five, full two inches by full five inches, 20 feet long, which doesn't exist today. I imagine how much that stud or joist is going to be going left to right and up to down and twisting sideways. So the studs, even though, I mean, you're talking about old growth stuff, they aren't straight. And because they're 12 inches on center, which was amazing to me, 12 inches on, roughly 12 inches on center, somewhere like 11, somewhere like 13, but basically 12 inches on center, They don't, the cutting drywall loss then becomes a problem. Well, I didn't hear you. They're five inches by two inches, right? The thickness? Yes. Yes. And it's the five inch that the center is in, right? The center of the five, not the two, right? Or is it the other way around? I mean, I would think it would be though. I would think it would be, but it depends on how they did the insulation. Like if it was If it was baled insulation in an older house, it could be the other way, but which way is the face? Is the face the five inch or the two inch? The face is the flat part of the wall. When you're standing looking at the wall, you're looking at two inches. Oh, so it's like the five inch is a thick part for the insulation. Okay, yeah, that makes it a little harder to hit center if they're not straight. Yeah, and then the, not only are they not straight, but then they go left and right and in and out. And so a drywall, whereas laf might bend a little more, a drywall doesn't bend as much, so I'm going to have to do some planing or some shimming to get the, on the ceiling I'm going to have to do strapping, because I already put a laser up there and started checking and the ceiling joints go up and down like an inch and a half. And so with drywall, you got to have it a little more flat than that, because you go from one joist to the other, and then they're trying to bend and then bend the other way, and it's become the problem. Not so much maybe plaster, I don't know, but I don't think the owner wants to go with the expensive plaster yet. We haven't decided yet. Right now, all I've done is I've tore out everything, tore out all the plaster and all the lath of the entire upstairs. Funny thing about it, funny to me anyway, because I've been involved in construction for a good 40 years. The baseboards were put on the baseboard and the trim for the doors were put on before even any laughs was put up. The laugh and the plaster butted up to the baseboards. These aren't fancy baseboards. They're basically like one and a half inches by about eight inches and with a particular crown trim on the top. And they put the plaster up to that. Same with the windows. I tore all the plaster and laughs and put all the baseboards and the Door trim and the doors are all still there original So that's kind of weird because it's back with what we do today today We put drywall up and then we put the trim and baseboard over the drywall. That's what we do today But these these were put on before in fact, what was really strange to me is I found that some of the Laughs was put up even before all the studs were put up. In other words The north and south walls of the house seem to have been laughs before The east and west walls were put up because they were nailed behind studs that I can't get to them I had to break off the lap to get them on there's no way I could get in there no but the way anybody can nail in there and that's weird to me too because they would also had to have scaffolding of some kind because remember you're talking about a 20-foot piece of lumber that you're erecting and Then you got to put the and being this balloon frame see balloon frame. I kind of miss my training thought for those people who don't know I can go on the second floor. I can look down. In fact, I have a 10 foot screen aluminum screen for concrete, but I can put that street down into the and it disappears into the end of the law goes down to the basement almost. So it completely hides that 10 foot screen. I got to reach down and grab it back out of there. In other words, there's free flow of air there, which was also a fire hazard. Frankly, balloon frame housing is really not practiced today unless you do significant blocking, fire blocking, just to be able to stop the drafts of houses. Because the floor joists and the wall studs, basically if a squirrel got in your house, you'd have full run of every single joist and stud of the house, up and down the whole house. Unlike today, where you have a top plate and a bottom plate and then you have platform framing. But if a squirrel got into your attic and got down into your walls, it could go all the way down to the basement and all the way in between floors and just have a whole round of the house. In fact, I did find three carcasses of chipmunks. I found three chipmunk carcasses. So there's a house at one time. Don't know if they're... If they were up there for 50 years or 100 years or 150 years, I don't know, but they were definitely carcasses. And lots of walnuts up in the eaves. And I cleaned out a lot. There was a mess cleaning up. And then birds did get up in the eaves. You can imagine 150 years of various critters getting into your, getting behind your siding or a little gap in the, and they actually chew holes in the siding and stuff too. You can see holes where they try to chew through and they did get through. During the making the written your house to be a living space for squirrels and who knows what all else So that was a big mess of cleanup up in the eaves Now all the problems you have with let me see my time here. Okay? One of the problems with these newer that old houses have the newer houses don't Now this house is built without insulation. That was probably pretty cool. And also by the way, the chimney was built after the last was put up The chimney is inside in this particular case. There's actually two chimneys and one of them was already tore down and I'm going to be tearing down the other one because we're going to put a... It leaks and it doesn't have the chimney. The inside of the chimney is only four inches by 16 inches with no liner, just brick. And so, and I did notice I could smell upstairs, I could smell a little flue gases. So we're going to be, the owner is going to be replacing the furnace with a modern... efficient one that goes with the exhaust that goes outside of the house. If you don't know, we'll allow these new furnaces more efficient, get natural gas and propane furnaces. They don't need a chimney anymore. They have a little pipe, literally plastic PVC pipe that goes out the side of your, generally your basement, that's out of the basement wall and exhausts with a fan right outside the side of the house. You don't need chimneys anymore for the modern natural gas and propane f that are efficient anyway. old style, they need like a going all the way out the house presently has, but the brick chimney and there's absolutely brick out to see what wa there's no liner because if you have a chimney, th a clay liner and there's in there either. Of cour But anyway, the chimney was put up after. This house did not have any fireplaces either. Again, budget, budget, budget, budget. No fireplaces, but it had two chimneys. It appeared to have a wood stove on the ground floor and a wood stove on the second floor. One for each chimney and the part of the heating for the upstairs and a lot of these old houses too, this is to kind of surprise a lot of people, was just a hole in the floor, a register. You can look down into the next floor. No ductwork, just a hole in the floor. Generally above the hot air furnace, or I'm sorry, the wood stove. Just a hole in the floor. So you had a hole in the floor and that's what heated your upstairs. And of course, the stairway, if you had a door over it now, a lot of these old houses have a door so he closes off the upstairs. That's unheard of today too, having a door at the bottom of the stairs. But anyway, if you wanted to heat the upstairs, you opened up the door and then you opened up that vent above the wood stove and the ground floor to get to the second floor. And if you really wanted to heat it up there, you'd haul firewood up to the second floor or a coal up to the little wood stove you had at the top there. So it's interesting to see, and I have done old houses before, but it's always interesting to see what you find in there. And part of the budget of this house is, again, the farmers. I found a lot of, let's see, one that was called Union Leader, which is probably going to be something that's considered racist today. There was a tobacco company called Union Leader, and there's also a company, a tobacco company called Velvet. And I found these tins in there where they smashed the tins and used the metal to block various cracks in the, not only in the plaster, but also in the floor where apparently mice would probably get up through and chew their way in. So I found these old metal tins smashed and I looked them up to find the era and they were from the 30s and 40s, these particular tins that I found. A little bit of piece of metal. the barn where I was loading the insulation into. They'd use metal to block places where animals were getting in, license plates and so on. Common thing back then. So it's interesting to see the way things were done before the day. So upstairs, no heat, no electric, no closet, no bathroom, no closets. The windows were very low to the floor. The owner was worried about liability and wanting to replace the windows because essentially they're an ankle height. The stills are an ankle height of these windows. So, a kid running around upstairs could trip and fall through a window was the idea. But I don't know if he's going to spend the money for that. Doesn't look like he is. He was worried about though. All the old woodwork. This is not a fancy house, so it's very basic. But it's still interesting to see how things were built way back way back when she had a couple of trains of thought as I was going through that There's a possibility he may be thinking about framing in for a bathroom, but the part of the problem with balloon framing is the studs When they build a house when they build a house, they it's a stone rubble foundation and then they put beams on the stone, and these appear to be about 8x8 rough-hewn beams, then they put the studs on top of that. So now what that does is, that makes it virtually impossible for you to run ducts up through that clear case all the way up to the second floor for furnace, because you've got a beam at the bottom of the wall, this 8x8 timber. So you can't really run, even electrical is hard. I can run a wire through if I drill through the beam at an angle. And that's not, the wiring isn't a problem anyway because when we remove the chimney, the wiring will go up where the chimney was. And that's the only place we can run any ducts without really doing a lot of tearing down stairs, tearing up walls, or adding bump outs for ducts. And you need a cold air return. And we're thinking about having a radiant floor heating system with water or radiators or something else that wouldn't take the huge ducts. But we don't really know what we're going to do. But for right now, The contractor that came out to talk about the HVAC, he recommended a high efficient forced air gas furnace for the rest of the house. It already has. It already has forced air. They're replacing it with an efficient one and then do away with the chimney. And then apparently the more beneficial thing to have for a place that doesn't have any heating or is very difficult to get heating up there is these split AC heat pumps. I don't have enough experience with these. I know what a heat pump is. In fact, one of the houses that I worked on had a geothermal heat pump, which is about the most efficient way you can electrically heat a house, heat work and cool. Heat pumps work for both cooling and heating. They can be worked with either radiators or forest air, either way, or in floor heating, such as radiant floor heating. And then they're actually more efficient than electric baseboard heat, much more efficient. They're actually better than if you have a 1500 watt electric heater, resistance heater, you plug into the wall and puts out, you know, the wires glow. You can do the same thing with a heat pump from probably in the neighborhood of 300 to 400 watts. And a heat pump, window air conditioners that you buy, you go to Menards or whatever, you buy a window air conditioner for like 150 bucks and you put in your window, that's a heat pump, but it's only set up to be an air conditioner. But if you were to reverse that, flow it the other way. In fact, I watched some videos on YouTube last night where somebody experimented with taking a window air conditioner and turning it backwards in the window. to use it as a heat pump because all a heat pump is is a central air conditioner that can run backwards. There's a reversing valve. That's all it really does. It reverses the freon like all freon is something else today, but the general term, the coolant or whatever that runs through there that the compressor runs. And you can actually do that. You can actually take a window air conditioner and turn it backwards and get heat from that. Unfortunately, they weren't designed for that and they do freeze up. the way the windowner conditioners do, they're not meant for that. And I got looking and there's hardly anybody that makes anything similar. Another problem with doing that too, Craig. The AC unit, it works like a kind of like a dehumidifier or when you're sucking the cold air in from the outside, you get the condensation on the other thing. And I just had this problem with one of the window units down here. The water is supposed to leak out the back of it and go out and away from everything. If you have that flipped around and inside, that water is going to come into your house. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a bucket underneath it. You've got to put a Yeah, the video I saw the guy drill little holes in the bottom of it on the outside part and then he put a garbage can under to catch all the water that comes out. And then of course your controls are outside too, so that's not very convenient. Gotta go outside to adjust the thing. and doing it that way as a heat source, apparently the coils freeze over on the outside part. The part that's now on the outside, it was on the inside, they tend to freeze over and then you've got to defrost it and start again. And so they're not meant for that. But if some manufacturer, and I asked the guy, the AC guy, HPAC guy and he said no nobody makes one. I said damn that's that's like an obvious thing because the split system He's talking about putting he's talking about putting a compressor down on the ground somewhere outside compressor evaporated Not evaporator, but compressor and condenser down on the ground somewhere and then pipes going up to up to each room generally above the windows For what that's what they call split. So you have a little fan unit up upstairs above each window. So in this case, it'd be four. Since there's four rooms, there'd have to be one in four units. Kind of like an air conditioner, except it doesn't go outside up there. And it goes by pipe out to the back of the house on the ground. So that's what he recommended. That was about a $10,000 system that was installed. So we don't know if the owner's going to do yet on that. He's still weighing his options. But getting fourth air up there. If it was me, and I lived in Michigan, I would keep the fireplace and the chimney just because it gets cold. It freezes. You might lose power. I mean, if you're relying on power or even like a gas powered furnace, most of them still have electric ignitions now a day. If you're in a winter condition, that's not going to get you any heat, you know? I would hope if it was my property, I would seriously be keeping that chimney and the fireplace. There is no fireplace in this house. Again, this was possible. Two chimneys with no fireplace. One chimney was already disassembled. The other one isn't safe. The other one is literally not safe. The way it is. It does leak. If there was no fireplace did it at one point did it have a coal burner in the basement because that's the way my parents house was set up. It doesn't appear to be. It looked like there was a wood stove on the ground floor or wood stove on the second floor. That's what it looks like to me. If you haven't been to the basement you might have to check the basement on the one that seems to go down to the first floor. That might go all the way down and there may be cool chute for coal furnace down there? Well, it does go all the way to, the chimney does go all the way down. But it's, whatever was down there originally is long gone and there's no evidence of any coal chutes outside of the basement like a lot of people used to do. There's no evidence of any coal chutes, and so I don't think it ever had one. So it's just this house, again, this house was a budget house when it was built. No insulation, no bathroom, no kitchen. So, I see, by my time, I'm almost out of time here. So, it's not my house, so I don't have the option to do what I want to do. Frankly, what I might want to do is I might put a wood gasification boiler outside and plumbing inside, but then that's a whole lot of trouble for hot water pipes and everything, having a wood gas stove outside removed. I can't imagine people bringing wood or coal upstairs to a wood burner all the time to keep feeding something all night upstairs. I can't imagine the way they lived like that. Bringing firewood up inside, then upstairs, and then having to do the ash pits and everything, take them back outside as well. Yeah, but it was me. I would put a wood gasification boiler outside. and have hot water pipes coming in. Then you have to have radiers. There's a big installation problem there. It can be done with forest air, but generally those are boilers outside. Those wood burners, you see people loading outside, people in the country that have them, they're generally boilers. They heat water. Anyway, that's what I've been up to and I've got to finish this project by... By the end of March is my goal. I need to get this thing, I'm about ready to start doing the electrical rough-in. Gonna have a 20 amp circuit, 120 amp circuit plugged by each window in case somebody doesn't want to put a window air conditioner in, and then even though they don't really need a 20 amp. And then the rest will be 10 amp plugs, then a light switch, because there's not even a light switch or a light in the pool, the way it was. Literally, there's not a single electrical up there. So a light switch in each room and a light on the ceiling. One above the stairs will be a three-way, so they never had any electricity up there at all anyway. So I make a three-way switch to the stairs. And that's just the way the house is built. Very low amenities. Might have been an Amish house. Who knows? There's some Amish in that area. So... This is the end of my show. I'm going to sign out here. You've been listening to Forbid Knowledge. Sorry for the just the rambling show that I didn't really have any time to get set up to do what I would, you know, to do something else more interesting. But I figure I need to come on the air every once in a while because I've missed a lot of shows. I need to keep the show going somehow, some way. And it's just going to be a little difficult for me because I'm going to be really busy this winter. Ed could play some music now, if he's there. 8 o'clock. Thanks everybody for listening. For future generations this legacy we gave In this the land 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. 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And of course, this one original copyright is 1890, but the updated copyright, which by the way is on a separate page, kind of unusual, is 1907. So again, you never know what you're going to find at bookstores, munitions, technology, metallurgy, could be anything and whatever it is. Oh, I got some fantastic math books, by the way, too. One on algebra, the other one on analytic geometry. Which it's like yeah, I gotta make sure I put those over into the mat and a th mat writes not math man Over into that books. Yeah, we did that books. So anyway as it is so far, of course, it's just after 8 o'clock They're supposed to have another go at voting for whatever the principal Well, the the the dog and pony show is continuing in the house with much like the fake collection from the last couple months or the fake collection from two years ago. It's basically the same game. So I'm really excited. I'm really really not not not at all. But again, remember, I would really be excited if they said they're closing the government down. I would say that would really be great. It would really be cool, but unfortunately, no matter how hard you wish, you're not gonna get that. We're not gonna get that pleasure. We're not gonna be blessed by the regime shutting down and being locked up with the brakes on. That just ain't gonna happen. So it's a nice pipe dream, but it's just not there. Anyway, it is Weapons Wednesday. A couple of other things here real quick. I had a couple questions again about the VZ rifles that one of our friends over in West Virginia was asking about. And I would point out that the VZ weapons, all of the Czech weapons have both military surplus magazines and commercial counterpart magazines made. There were so many of the pistols. The 52 especially the CZ 52 being a very fine pistol wouldn't hesitate to carry it. Have many stands standby. They've been buried away for a long time, but they're properly stored. So I'm not worried about him. The cans of ammo that go with them are hamcans sealed for time and forever and they're inside another container. It's airtight inside another barrel. That's airtight yet again, so it can't protect him anymore. We have but The one neat thing about the Czech weapons, this is true across the board by the way, is that they are all grossly over engineered to handle any ammunition that exists made for them. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, when the Czechs made their submachine gun family, they immediately, as they seem to be a tendency with the Czech engineers or the Czech military doctrine, always went with a hot round for their submachine guns. Now, since some machine guns progressively become more and more dominant after World War I, they're pretty much all modern arms across the board and very modern designs with each step. During the Cold War, the Czech government was the only government actually was competing against its other Warsaw Pact buddies, most specifically Russia. in producing a whole family of guns, which you've seen in surplus. The rifles include a counterpart to the SKS, a counterpart to the AK, and the pistols. They have both the standard light pocket pistol or dispatch pistol as they use for executions. They had, of course, the medium frame or light medium frame equivalent to the macro, and they had then the full battle right or forgive me full pistol combat pistol configuration. The model 52 being the dominant, but there were a few others that they experimented with. What's the advantage of the check pistols? They can handle hot submachine gun loads. Their rifles also travel a tad hotter across the board with chamber pressure, muzzle velocity, etc. Now it's interesting as remember it's a 7.62x45, you can kick me in the microphone if I'm wrong. But the longer case was to create a proprietary round obviously, so that if you're going to buy check, you got to buy check ammo. Now, magazines, this is the big thing because there's been a little questions about this. Are there aftermarket mags for the Czech rifles? Yes, there is. There are. Now, for their counterpart to the SKS, while it was out there for a bid in surplus, it's crept up in price because while it was cheap, it's a classic $69 rifle when it first came in, just like the SKS. What happened is there were fewer of them. I think a lot of them still were being sold at the time when they started committing US on the runner revolution market. You had a couple wars in North Africa and in the Middle East and the guns were absorbed there. They were very popular and are still very popular amongst different elements in the Middle East. The checks during the Cold War period. donated a lot of these guns, gifted them as you would know, brand new to places like and including Vietnam. Now, it wasn't as common in Vietnam, it was a lot farther away and Chokoslaki wasn't that big. But in the Middle East, many more of these weapons showed up in two different waves. The first was the gifted wave during the trying to gain hearts and minds, so there were new weapons. The second wave is when the weapons were going out of vogue and you know in bringing their first part of the first wave of replacement with other firearms the Rifles were readily available with both the carbine and the full Assault rifle package reels all rifles like fire That the checks were prepared been producing but these were their service issue weapons So, a lot of these guns are in, for instance, Lebanon. Many of these weapons are in or were in Iraq and probably still are. Kurdistan, the Kurds had a lot of them. Syria has everything. The United Arab Republics, meaning all of the Arab states were conjoined together for mutual defense. Also ended up to a degree, all of them with a small percentage of the check guns as a gift. A little country with big industrial capability, the checks were more than happy to crank them out. These are the places where these rifles have been coming out of for the last several years. The big batch that we got the first time around were when Israel invaded Lebanon and they stole everything. And of course they wore booty. They turned around and they were allowed through their ring knocking buck buddies in the United States to dump the weapons on the market. Price was still quite reasonable. Most of the weapons coming in were virtually excellent. Although there were used and about good condition. I've never seen one that was beat. It doesn't mean they weren't used. They were used quite heavily. And in fact, the guns, as I said before, very popular in that respect. Magazines come from a couple of different sources. You'll find for aftermarket mags, both metal and you will find polymer. Now the polymer are a mix of bag of companies, but the sheet steel stuff was done by Two of our more traditional American magazine companies from during the 90s and the mags are actually pretty reliable. It's just they didn't take off at that time because there were surplus mags still out there and there are surplus mags today, but they're much more expensive. So the difference in cost between an aftermarket VZ rifle mag for the you know, the standard assault rifle is quite different from the factory mags which initially were kind of a dog because nobody knew where the weapons were. And progressively those have gone up price day after day, week after week, month after month. So in the aftermarket, all of them seem to work. There weren't that many made by different companies making them. But the ones that did make them actually made an effort to be a little more precise maybe than the average fling mag that they would do for like the P-38 or the Browning High Power or whatever. I don't know if that's because maybe they took advantage of Czech manufacturing. There's an argument that that was one of the things that happened with a couple of the companies as they subcontracted, and this has happened before, with an actual Czech manufacturing company that had experience with military Czech magazines. So the basic first rule should be this, any mags are better than no mags, obviously. Factory mag military would be your first best choice because you know that they were built to a particular spec and typically work even the slave labor days or the oppressive days of the Cold War. Now would I run with either of them as far as the polymer or the aftermarket sheet metal? Well, if I had the rifle, I would. I've only had a couple of the carbines and I've only had a few of the magazine fed full classic, well, they're light rifles because they're not full autos here. And both weapons are unique operating systems. Number one, spare parts, spare parts, spare parts. I don't think you're going to find much in the way of spare parts for the carbine, but you will find for the 58 a lot of other stuff laying around. So Again, magazines would be your, if you already have the gun, I've already got everything basically squared away. I would buy whatever mags I get my hands on. I would do government contract first if you can find them. And they are out there, but you'll compare the price, you'll see what I'm talking about. And then as far as sheet metal or the, it may not be Zytel nylon, but the plastic or nylon models are pretty resilient. And to at least of the companies that I know of built them. with sheet metal internal reinforcing plate. So this makes them actually pretty reliable. Now, another thing here is ammunition. And while they are an interesting rifle, and I do believe that guns are for buying not for selling, the biggest problem is that, again, the ammunition is almost one step away from unobtainium. It doesn't mean you can't find it, but when you do find it, nobody's reasonable with the price. Okay, and there hasn't been any surplus really coming in quite some time. There may be somebody if you go to any of the different brokers out there. They may be somebody listing personal vintage crates of ammo that they bought years ago and they're now marketing because they can make a healthy profit on it. The big thing here again is most of the original will probably be corrosive. Not all, but if it's pre-65 by head stamp, you can pretty well figure it's mercuric primer, which is not really a problem because if you know how to clean your weapon, that's going to be great. The big thing is, is again, the ammunition is very reliable. There are no failure to discharge primers. the checks were very production conscious and because of their high standards like Poland, they actually produce a really, really good product. Biggest problem with Czechoslovakia was pricing. See, this is the same thing that happened to the Czechs before World War II when they were competing against Germany, Poland, and those are the big three, Czech, Germany, Poland, and the market. Czechoslovakia probably built better than the other two on an average or at least comparable to German production and Polish production, depending on the weapon. But because of the nature of some of their designs and the fact that they did maintain old world standards for their quality and production, they were typically more expensive. This is why when you go to third world runner revolution companies, During the period you don't see the Czech weapons out there at the way you see the Polish or the German German being dominant being bigger Poland having a significant customer base in many parts of the world including The Mediterranean and even South America The Czechs got to South America, but didn't mark it as well. Although their machine guns did well. This is what's funny Their basic rifles, everybody cherry pick because they were all using eight millimeters, 792 by 57 Mauser. In the post war period, the checks maintained that independent mind, but they went with a totally different caliber, or not different caliber, forgive me, a different chambering, a different case. And they maintained that through the whole of the Cold War successfully. So just something to think about and their designs. did the same. Now, remember, they did bring us some interesting things like the in the submachine gun categories, the Scorpion is probably the most interesting and the Scorpion was the most dynamic of the bunch. To be quite honest, every one of the weapons they built, again, grossly overpowered. able to handle any ammunition that existed. And the 32 ACP that Scorpion came in was a hot round. And I have to warn you about this again. If you're used to using 32 ACP, automatic pistol, and you've got other guns, you have to be aware with some of the tiny tock guns. If you have any of the actual check ammunition, number one. I wouldn't waste it in another gun if I had a Czech pistol. Because the Czech pistols were designed, you know, that ammunition was purely designed for it. It is all armor piercing, AP. It's all AP. Every 32 ACP round that was built for the Czechs as far as their factory post World War II ammo was designed to go in a lily-puchen submachine gun at one time or another, but could also be used in any of their handguns. So if you have any of the check 32 or a 9mm macro of handguns, remember that if it's check ammo that you're able to acquire, maybe your grandpa or your dad bought a bunch of it back when it came in the country, don't squander that out of their guns. Number one, you're going to hammer them a little bit, and this is a problem. It's an example. I used to deal in Sterling, beautiful pistols, 32 ACP, 380 Auto, and they also made a little 25 automatic 22 that were actually very well made for the day. They weren't Saturn night specials or anything like that. I would not shoot the 32 Check Smith 32 ACP check load in that gun It would handle a load for a period of time, but I'm sure probably it would create start hammering the firearm What would happen is it wouldn't probably damage the frame what it would do is start to splay out the slide reels because that's typically the weak point with recoil. We have that impact point to the rear before the slide moves forward and back into station picking up the next round. It's when it stops at the other end there where it takes abuse. Also initially with the lock system or if it's a blowback system putting on the gun. What happens is also along the beginning of the trails to the rear have a tendency to start to open up and the bell, in other words, instead of being straight, they start to, the base of the rail starts to open up on you and it creates that rattling effect. Well, what that means is that at a given point, you'll end up with fractures and you might eat the slide at some time, because that's not the only part that's stressing. Anyway, if you have the original Check-32, another thing, if you run in one of these new Scorpions, not in nine, but the ones they brought in in 32 ACP, they run like a singer sewing machine. I mean, they run really well with that check ammunition. Also, remember, that Check-32 is AP. By nature, it's designed to be an AP round. So you don't just blaze on that at the range anyway. You wanna save that for particular mission activity down the road. And it offers that much more effectiveness as an ice pick, as an ice pick around when the time comes. 32 is not a real big bark. It's a barking dog, but it doesn't have a whole lot of energy to provide. So it's point target acquisition. Make sure you put the bullet where you need to put it to stop the target that's in front of you. And just in case there's something in the way, the AP round kind of helps. Anyway, the checks, just with regard to the rifles, they did not make that I know of. I don't think anybody made an extended magazine of any kind for the check carbine. Maybe the checks themselves. It's a 10 round detachable magazine. Other mags were available and the guns first came in, but those days are long gone, so catch this, catch Ken. Basically, just plan on loading the mag separately or loading with the stripper if you have the, depending on which guide system you have on the rifle. Other than that, the other thing that was asked, I got an answer is, were there speed loaders? Yeah, there actually were, but I don't know where the hell they are. The Chex made speed loaders for their magazines. just like the Warsaw Pact did, but if it's hard to find AK speed loaders and strippers, just imagine how it is to find check speed loaders and guides and strippers and all the other fun stuff. So every once in a while we've run into a cache of this, but in more recent years, we've seen none of that. Remember when the wall fell, I've mentioned this many times. Two importers brought in AK strippers with guides and everything for the AK 74 and they were pennies as everything from that period was pennies, not dollars, not tens of dollars, pennies. I tried to get everybody to buy them when they were cheap, 25 cents for a whole set of strippers and guides. They went to a whopping 35 cents a set. People didn't pick up much of any and they all thought, well, wait a minute, the AK 74s might come out. Guess what they did? And so a lot of you, in fact, somebody was just telling me and smiling because they bought a barrel of East German AK mags back when we were buying them by the pallet. I was buying many, many, many of them with the raindrop, airslash box car, East German mag pouches, etc. Well, the barrel that the guy bought, he can sell two mags and pay for, actually not only pay for everything in the barrel, but if he sold two of those mags today right now, He could also make a profit off of beyond what he originally paid and have all the rest of the mags that fill up a whole 50 gallon plastic barrel. Think about that. I've told you about many, many times, just like the Macaroupe magazines. You could sell, if you had a barrel full of mags, you have to sell 10 or 20 of them. But we're talking all original Macaroupe mags, East German or Russian or Hungarian or fill in the blank. Back when we bought them, they were 25 cents and 50 cents apiece. You bought a whole case of 500, they were 25 cents a piece. And it was 50 cents a piece for 500, which is still a ridiculous price. For the same one, yeah, I know what they're charging at the gun shows I've seen. So, and or if you go just to any of the companies that are selling those kind of things right now, what's the price for an original mag? So the Cold War is 30 years in the tail lights, guys, the end of it. You should keep remember all that stuff. If you got it, slide it sideways. You're going to use it, you use it, but if in the meantime you need to have some more money to buy another piece of night vision, you cherry pick the right items, market them, and then go get your night vision. Or go get whatever else it is you thought you need, maybe even a whole new rifle. So, other things, real quick. Oh, we're at the bottom of the hour, and it's Weapons Wednesday, and Edward has it ready to go because it's our bottom of the hour break. This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend without being useless. It's me before God, my right. You may ride a good lead speed, you may know a stern a master You forward march with speed, but you'll learn to back much faster When you meet our mountain boys And their leader George Starts Glad you make up little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no trifle You grab a bunch of you know, it's the old story, like I've told you before about noticing 80%. I grabbed a tool here, one is a really cool shark, a bottle opener with a, up together with a standard key keeper for one, you know, those spring hangers, you know, the coil types, you slide everything on and it can't come off. And it's hooked together by a clip. And I looked at it and I hadn't thought twice about this. While we were just sitting here and while Ed was playing the music, I thought, wait a minute, that is a wedding band. Okay. Not only is it a wedding band, but it is a 14 carat solid gold wedding band that I just got to do. And I'm just reading what it says inside the band. 14 carat solid gold. Hey, this is where the winner took a dinner. What the person who I just got this from said, yeah, he had three gold chains. that he turned in because he got a bunch of stuff from another location and he told the guy, hey, just give me some cash back. Well, the guy returned and he gave him $900. And yeah, and this is a, I know it's funny because I just have to be sitting at the right angle where I can actually read what it says right on the inner part of the band here. And you know what's funny? I didn't even notice this. That's 62%. So if you weigh that and you divide the grams there into 1850, you're going to find out how much it's worth a gram and then multiply that by .62 and you get the actual gold value. Well, what's fascinating about this again is, guys, you got to pay attention. I was. Again, I got a whole jingle of like it's hooked up to a couple of hanger rings. with other hanger rings sitting there. And it's in the middle. So this was put on this ring. The person's long gone. So this is stuff that was just gotten rid of. I mean, nobody looked closely because everybody like that. Don't pick up at United's GU auctions all the time. And we picked up somebody's old jewelry box from a farm. and did a cursory look through the thing. I didn't see pulled out a couple of things that look like they were silver, they were gold, pulled those out, and it looked like it was costume jewelry. Well, my wife used to sell stuff on eBay, and I got home, she was like, oh, I listed all this stuff on eBay today, and we sold that ring. I said, what ring? She said that gold-colored ring. I said, show me the gold ring. It was already on eBay, and it had already sold. She pulled the picture up. It was a turn of the century rose gold ring with a cushion cut diamond in the middle of it Things probably worth about three thousand dollars and she sold it for five bucks. Oh Well, yeah, I said yeah, we've got to be honest about it go ahead and ship it out You know, let them know they just cut he's got a whole bunch of stuff for five bucks Obviously somebody with a small hat saw everything and knew what it was immediately Listen, they love this. I know it's just kind of jewelry. It's not worth that much. But you tell you what, I'll give you a $5 one. And maybe four. Would you take four? Yeah, exactly. No, I'll take whatever. I was horrible in negotiations like that was at the at the steel shop. Well, I'll tell you my will you how much you take, you know, like started at five. It's like he says, Well, how about we do seven? I said, how about we do four? Oh, that right. That's the reverse of what he was expecting. Oh, come halfway. No, I don't say what I'm not feeling real good today. And you're making me feel worse. I get you know, I'm going the other way on it. Yeah, we all do that stuff to me. I just say go away. We're not doing business with you. Yeah, the customer. I'm saying it's like, you know, remember it and you got to remember, I will remind you guys of this with the Jewish companies. You want to be the first customer of the day. If you don't know about this, I will remind you again, there is a rule. I don't know if it's with the tell mood. Maybe it's just tradition, you know, tradition like, you know, fit more on the roof. But the first customer of the day is to be given the best deal. Typically it's an old policy and it doesn't mean it was who it is. So if you get in there and you squeeze through the door, is there a turn the key when they open up and let you in? Guess what? You're the first person to get there and know what you want. You're supposed to be given the choice price. And then after that, well, the rest of the smut, the rest of your schmucks, you screwed. Then we stopped in the negotiation to see how much I can get from you. I am telling you. So it's not a problem. It's just no, understand business. Remember, they're not, I don't hate you. It's just business. Okay. Well, I'll wage war back and it's just business. You have nothing perfect 45-hour pill coming at your noggin is just business Business and business is going well remember this thing so again Just remember guys cuz I'm serious. I just looked at this and I thought wait a minute That is not around like circular tube piece of metal That's that's it's flat on the inside and then at a closer as I moved everything away here I was it was sitting away from its wife finally noticed it so now Although I should put it down back on the key ring because it wasn't lost there You know, it'll happen if I take it off and I'm gonna secure it make it separate It would get lost so it's gonna go right back on the evil cats would get it Yeah, that's right. What do you break that I did on you The cattle have a nose ring, you know, we'll find it right away where you'll have it stuck on a paw But just a heads up because how much ammunition will that buy? Or look at it this way, it is part of a physical treasure inventory. That's another thing to think about right now because we've talked about this before. It's like using the 24 karat gold link chains that were standard for SF. A lot of the SF units used to do this. They'd buy a gold, high gold, very high quality gold link chain that was about, what was it? I think it was a, I wanna say a quarter of an inch length. And the idea was that they were not fused so that what you could do is pull the link apart, pull the link apart, take one link off and trade it or offer it the same as cash. And these were a survival chain that you could wear, you could, was an easy to lose. Because you do where it was all the time wasn't gonna rot on your body That's another thing you got to think about when you're doing stuff in tropical rainforest And I've talked about this like you know the other day like in Guadalcanal in in tropical rainforest and operations where you're in remote and rustic conditions Everything is affected by the weather, but gold is not gold in harsh environments sits there and stares at you In fact, it's not unhealthy for you, not that silver is unhealthy, silver is healthy for you too. But gold is the premium and is recognized by everyone. Now after the pirates and the scallywags and the people who figure I'm gonna steal your stuff or wiped out or finally have to put a muzzle on theirselves if they expect to live another day. bartering, trading and exchanging will get back into vogue very, very quickly as a common practice. And that's where understanding weights and measures is especially critical. Just like you were saying, Darry, you know, only at the basic, what's the value of something? And then what is the express value of the object based upon its alloying, for instance? Because, see, that's what happens with gold. We're talking about like, And again, many different materials are used to create the different shades of gold that you see. And platinum is employed, silver is employed, copper is employed, iron is employed. And in fact, what's funny is this little book that I picked up here, just as a, again, guys, pay attention. This is probably was, I did about 10 more pages in during the one hour in between here. An original copy on this is 1890 and what it is, it's a general practitioner's book. It's almost more like an alchemy. I know I said chemistry earlier, but there is something interesting that's kind of a word that keeps popping up here is the alchemist solution. Now, the alchemist, remember, was more of a wizard. But in this case, the workshop companion. A collection of useful and reliable recipes, rules, processes, methods, wrinkles. Have you ever been at a chemistry shop and said, I'm going to wrinkle for you? What the hell did he say? I'm going to wrinkle. What's a wrinkle? Well, it's like a solution, but kind of sort of close. What do you mean? Well, if you make a mistake, you won't know it. What do you mean won't know it? Well, it's kind of dangerous. So if you do it, it's called a bit of a wrinkle to it a little too much of the wippy stuff here Not too much of the wippy stuff there. Boom. You're dead But otherwise it's a good wrinkle. So anyway wrinkles and practical hint hint That's another one that got me and I'm thinking it's like well then through the whole of this you keep seeing the term alchemist and it's not used unseriously it's more like in traditionally the alchemist attitude towards this was And I'm like, okay, this is really cool. This is like I said, this book or the series of books, by the way, this is part two and I don't have part one. This is part two and it was New York, the industrial publication company reprinted or I should say printed in 1907 in the United States, which means it might be, no, it probably still was American, but copyright secured in 1890. It's just they weren't doing the interface where they accumulate dates. Now policy progressively, in fact, even at this time, as far as I know, traditionally it would show you original copyright date and then supplemental copyright reinstitutions or dates. So this is a really fascinating book for being a, it's not a pocketbook and it's not very thick, but it's packed with nothing but nonstop data, including on how to make this ring, by the way, with regard to There's a bunch of gold alloying recipes in here, formulas, and it's for bulk, like doing so many pounds of. Now, the one thing I found to be kind of interesting is trying to find three ounces of mercury right now, okay? Not really available on the shelf all the time anymore, but back in this day, hell, people were drinking it. What can I say? Well, not so much by the 1890s. But again, it is things that you need to be remembering and again, mention weights and measures, but also working knowledge. And the other consideration here is if you want to reprocess materials, understanding impurities. And even though it may be, and well, here's one of the things about impurities. If I'm looking at gold or I mentioned platinum or we mentioned, for instance, actually rhodium, which is as valuable as we've noticed recently, more valuable than platinum. And actually is a higher value than gold right now, which is really rather, well, maybe not right now, maybe not at this moment. But rhodium is more durable. and has most of the visual elements of gold. However, if you've worked with metals enough, I don't know what it is, how this happens, consciously and subconsciously, you easily register the metal. And I know it's not weight, it's not just weight. I don't know if this is something with regard to optical density and how we perceive it with regard to the reflective qualities, but also there's something else going on. It's that matrix thing. Because again, I've noticed that I've been able to pick out, for instance, and it's for having worked with metals a lot. The fake silver bars or the fake silver this out there. Not part of that can be weight. But remember, the characters that are real counterfeiters, they know how to supplement the weight issue to balance it out to give it a more approximate. feel to or in proper scale for deceiving people. I will point this out. There's a lot of Chinese junk coming in. At the very least, it's plated. But still, the way the plating works is very different from a solid cast piece of the uniform material. Go ahead. One of the things that I use, only because I've had so much experience, and I've been doing this for 20 years, silver. the tink tink tink sound that it makes is silver or it's not. Yep. Even if it's sterling silver or if it's coin silver. I don't know about when you get down to, I mean, I've had some silver that's been down in like 33% realm, realm, just like weird Egyptian jewelry and stuff that you don't see very often. That doesn't quite tink the same, but anything that's up around 90%, 9,500%, you tink that sucker. And it does not sound like copper. It does not sound like gold. It makes a pink like silver. And then we went through, we're cleaning up the porch and some jewelry boxes came in and some other stuff, the end of a clarinet and just the end, not the business part, just the cones from the end of it. And it was, you know, I don't know, was probably sterling or was coin silver. I'm not sure, 90 or 92. They usually don't make anything out of 100% silver. But I took that thing, I took the end of my screwdriver and I went, Tink, Tink, those hole-in-the-wood pliers, I went, Tink, Tink, Tink. And my son looked at me and I said, yep, that's real silver. And we went through and this piece here, nope, it went tank, tank. The other one went, Tunk, Tunk. But when it goes, Tink, Tink. And you've got, you've had silver. Same thing with the coins, like a dollar, silver dollar. Don't necessarily want to hold over your fingers, but if you hold with a pair of tweezers or not good coins You don't do that, but a pair of needle nose or something you just tap it with the edge of your knife or your edge of your screwdriver And it makes that sound it's unmistakable over yep, and again, this is something where the elements of gauging that a human can do are far deeper than most people realize if you're paying attention And part of it is developing skill, I should say working knowledge through repetitive, progressive experience. And this is why, like I said, a lot of people are going to be slow on the uptake, but they're going to learn if they want to live, they're going to be learning very quickly about the being an aficionado of product and quality. This is one of the things that I've mentioned about a lot of things that people are foolishly allowing slip through their fingers. I see this in the state sales tools that are 10 times the quality of any of the stuff that's coming off the shelf. And most of it has to do with the quality of material. If you go to a yard sale, you see a shovel and it looks like, well, it's the one I used to have when I was a kid. My grandpa had me dig a whole ditch with that thing. Well, did that shovel handle, did that stand up? If you'll notice it was a shovel is actually of such import to its maker that it might even have a copyright on it. That the forged head, the stamp struck head is of such high quality with regards to steel, but also the design itself that they were able to put their name on it and also were interested in securing rights to it. Well, that usually means that they also spend a little money on materials. So it's not a $5.86 idiot stick. It's a $50 or $60 idiot stick, but it's still a much more valuable and useful tool. So we need to be preserving those. Most of this, just like quality of the precious metals with everything, it's a matter of purity based upon initial or virgin use. versus basic scrapping, which is where we're in a cycle right now of high scrapping, very little virgin metal is being brought into the system. And this is another reason that when you see, it engages too even with weapons, but part of that has to do with the processes used to build the weapon, make the material, put the material together that makes up the weapon itself. But most anything that we would see built within these last several years, 95% of it is multiply recycled material that has a high grade of impurities even with the effort through smelting, through the actual processes of the creation of that particular ingot block plug or whatever was used to make whatever you have. There's more impurities starting out with other things that if as I pointed out here when it describes, you know variations in heat and thermal ization This affects how much of the impurity in and of itself may affect The final product because it creates this disproportionate variance by the very nature of combustibles and other materials that are inside the the workings of a smelt when something happens. And while it's minute and it's acceptable for the business of the day, in the past it would not be. We're letting it slide because it's what we got, is what it comes down to. So just a heads up, again, this is true with tools, material and equipment that you might find. Example, let me point something out. If you're looking at grandpa's old garage and he's got a bunch of fasteners and grandpa's had this stuff since I was a kid, what's that worth? Well, it helped a lot more in the China sport crap coming out of the ground of the hardware right now. In fact, those old slot headed screws that have got a patina on rust on them. Oh, I paid big money for some of that right now. I've got some antique furniture I need to repair. And yeah, I don't want to put one of those stupid new fasteners on it because number one, it deletes the value of the piece. They're like, oh, this is a motor repair. So you got to go and find old semi rusty slotted head screwdrivers, you know, big fat slotted screwdrivers. They didn't use tiny ones back then. And, you know, people actually sell them. By the way, I got a lark. I went to look at the price of Mercury. Mercury is going for about 240 dollars a pound now. I remember back in grammar school, we played with mercury quite a bit because there was open containers, closed five pound container of mercury on the shelf in the classroom. And I tell you what, we were always over and that thing is like, what kind of fun could we have with that? We played with the mercury until it got so much dirt in it that you could see it floating on the surface. And today, oh, it would have been a biohazard. They would have bought the biohazard. As my team at the school. They'd have closed the school. They'd have taped up the room. They'd have scrubbed you for three hours and run you down to the shower and scrubbed you again. And then they'd have taken you outside and they'd have done a toxicity test on you, drawing quarts of blood. You mean pints? No, quarts. They'd have been dying because they tried to help you. But seriously, that's how goofy it is. Uh, we, we poured the stuff in our hands and we used to roll it back and forth as far as my lapses. Really cool. It's a metal, but it's a liquid. Oh, the teacher put it on the table for you to play with. And when we were in school, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Think about that guy. Oh my God, not Mercury. Yeah. We're all still alive too. That's amazing. I don't know how that could happen. Mostly. Mostly. Anyway, the point here is that, and on that note, if you need mercury, I want to remind you of this, get any quiet switches in your house. If your house is, say, the electrical is basically from the 80s, 70s, 60s, and those are quiet switches, they're mercury switches. Another thing is honey will... Yeah, they got a little and there's a little glass and tool in there and there's a water Yeah, there there's no there are some it leans up it fulfills the connection so the liquid at that property of it actually is the means by which it creates the connection when the little what do they call the? The coil they call it a thermal coil When it expands because of the heat it opens up one way and when it starts to get cold it shrinks. I forget the name of that kind of coil. I don't think it's called the thermal coil. But that can't work shrink and it would lean that ampule down and the merchant would go down to the bottom of it where the other wire was, complete the connection, you see a little spark go on. And that's a hazmat thing. When they demolish houses now they're going to go in and pull all those things out or they'll all otherwise we have trouble. Oh my God, we're all gonna die. Well, we didn't so far, sir. Well, the thing is that remember, they get thrown out all the time or like you said, somebody wants to change something out. I know guys that have collected many, many tens of pounds of mercury by just taking whatever glass jar they had on hand. All you do is take that little ampule because it's sealed, guys. All you have to do is just mount it from the switch or just mount it from a Honeywell. You don't break it open and pour it in there. You leave it in that little glass ampule. Remember we said before about everything, you know, more effectively you self, you know, you compartmentalize something. More likely it's going to be there when you need it. And the other neat thing is, think about this, as far as containment goes, it couldn't be any better containment in a vacuum tube. It's the best blasted place for it to be. And not only that, here's what's really cool. You know exactly how much material is in each ampule. So the neat thing is, is you can actually calculate you without even moving the container, put it in glass or plastic, take your pick. And you can calculate how many of some batch of something you can make based upon the individual weight. of each of the ampoules. You know, once you count the ampoule, first ampoule itself, then calculate and it's one approximate. It's going to be close enough here. I could be too far off. And by the way, if I look at this book here, remember I can do it by wrinkles and hints. It says so in the book. I don't want to do that. Oh, I guess you're right, sir. I didn't want to do that. Well, I guess the hit would have, the hit would have been better than the wrinkle, right? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. It would be better than a wrinkle. But again, just ideas, when you're dealing with ordinance, because again, we're heading to the next war. It's gonna be fun to see how we get betrayed. You notice how much confidence I have in what's going on? Let me put it this way. Gee, guys, now we can watch to see how they're gonna lie their ass off and betray us with all of the scams they're setting up next. Isn't that exciting? And the Republicans, 24 months from now, if they're not shooting the bastards and we don't have to worry about the conversation, are gonna go, wow, these 24 months went so fast, we would have gotten more done, but these 24 months went by so fast. You know what, if you rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic again, we swear that the next time we'll take it more seriously than we said when we were taking it seriously the last time, we promise. Yeah, and I'm a Chinese jet pilot named Lao Zee. So again, don't hold your breath. And for that reason, since we're heading into a conflict, those wrinkles and hints are awfully handy when it helps you to understand how to make things that go boom in the night or how to make things go down range. You know, it's argued and it's true if you've heard enough, depending on what rocket it is, it sounds like a cat screeching. Just to give you an idea. Just think about a little little it depends on what the philosophy of the of the projectile is but Typically with rockets shoulder fired and you know anything that's in that size range a little bigger a little smaller bore Then say the laws rocket sounds like a cat cat screeching Like it wound a cat up in Monty Python. Remember your circle. Amor instead of hitting up against the wall. Oh You don't have that It's just so you in order to make it do that You need the understanding of how to make the stuff that makes it do that Now it's not my first best choice because I like recoilless. I really love rifle. I'm really, really, really leaning towards the discussions more and more about spigot launchers with existing cases used as the containment vessel for the projecting charge. And there's a reason like a rifle grenade round, but it could be bigger. It doesn't have to be that small. During World War II, the spring-loaded spigot, the pia, look at the pia made by the British. When the British were in trouble in the early stages of the war, they made pia-type weapons with a 210 and I think even a 340 millimeter warhead. They were in fixed positions for beach defense. And these things, I don't know, they had to be like a big sheep's foot like you had for a crossbow, basically, because it's a big coil spring that launches everything. There's no explosive charge. But for beach defense, you're talking about lobbing around as big as any of the heavy mortars of the day. But with no explosive, no launching charge, it was all done with a spring spigot type system. the round which has no explosive charge first you cock the weapon or like with a pie you don't want you actually have to manhandle the spring back as you load the round in and then you lock it and then when you release it it's got some hellacious recoil but it works however if you mount it to something or the recoil means nothing so when the Brits made their defensive barrier weapons League forward versions.