Through the mist with a flintlock in it His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed He took off his three cornered hat And speaking low to me he said We fought a revolution to secure our liberty We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny For future generations this legacy we gave In this the land of the free and home of the brave The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On 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've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm And keep our country deep in debt put men of God in jail harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevailed Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths. They've sworn And your daughters visit doctors So their children won't be born Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch and tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Dill the land of the free ladies and gentlemen this is the the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Kornke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines, in occupied territories, west, south, north, and central. Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on. www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org, and we're on satellite. We'll say hi to all our merchant marine out there on every ocean of the planet. You guys are making that happen. We have nothing to do with it. You're just wanting to listen. We're also in a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. And again, it is... Weapons Wednesday. It is the 11th of January. It is the 15th year of open obvious and pissing in your face Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2023 old earth calendar fire fire one fire two and throw in some photon torpedoes and 2023 Battle for the Republic, the dance of swords, let the dance continue. And it has been a busy week. Also, a warm day today, again, what Larry mentioned last night, 50 degree weather in the middle of Indiana. Kind of, we got the upper end of that bubble. Now, it doesn't mean it'll last. This is Michigan and This is a good thing, although it went from blue sky to gray in a few minutes, so needless to say it's the tempest of winter that we're now facing. Just as quickly, we could have three inches to three feet of snow tomorrow. So be ready for it. Get as much done as you can. As soon as I'm done and I have that hour break, I'm going right outside and getting as much done as I can with the dot-ry across the T things that need to be accomplished. I'll come back in, do the eight hour, the eight o'clock hour, and then right back out after nine o'clock because there's just too much that can be done with this perfect weather that we have. I was tempted to paint one of the vehicles today. I almost did it the other day was slightly warmer and it was just warm enough. It reached just under 47, 48 here. I would have put another coat of paint on something I figured I wasn't going to touch until spring, but especially the tactical vehicles because they can sit right there. They got, I got knows how many coats of lead paint already on top before I should say underneath before we start putting other colors on top. So anyway, on tactical vehicles real quick. I highly recommend because a lot of people ask, well, what should I pick up? It's sky just to throw the dice on that where you first of all, there's a couple things taken into consideration with support vehicles is cost. I'm not telling you and I wouldn't tell anybody go out buy a brand new $50,000 $60,000 pickup truck right now. Number one, they're not really suitable for what we're doing. But for $60,000, I can buy a whole stinking fleet of older pickup trucks and if you know, it's a rat pack. Now what's good about a rat pack? If one rat dies, the rest of the pack really doesn't care, keeps rolling on going. So if you had $20,000 to spend, I would take $10,000 if you were a group, and I would buy a specific pattern and pickup truck. Now, I like Chevy's. I also like Chrysler's also like Ford's. Well, that didn't help any Mark. No, it was a pecking order. I like Chevy's and I'm committed to Chevy's in the past. As you guys know, if you've known me for any length of time, I used to run a fleet of Ford's a big fleet of Ford's and at the same time I had a whole big fleet of Dodge Interceptor diplomat police cars still do got a bunch of tucked away across the northern part of the state. They're running just fine. The only thing I didn't have in any of them was a 440, but these were all police custom ordered cars with the old fleet programs. 383s with four barrels, 360s modified, 318s all medium or in some cases one or two big blocks. Actually, again, the only one I don't have is under the hood of 440. But everything I do have a 440 engine now, but I didn't have anything for those but what did I use them for? Those are our courier cars. That's the vehicle that you if you guys know me speaking around the country anywhere from one to four of those three or four of those to be driving together and security and all the operations were consistent. These were everything from old county cars, municipal interceptors or even one or two state police cars. And got him for nothing bought him during that window and there were all kinds of them laying around after that everybody realized Oh my god, all these cop cars have big performance engines in them. Oh Especially if you had a cuda or you know any of the Chrysler classic Chrysler's from just a little before that era the diplomat All the engines that went into the diplomats the police cars were all mopar performance Unless you order just a straight package, but you still got a beefed up suspension Now this is something about vehicles when you're looking at your equipment. Top cars typically, there used to be, there were three grades. I don't know what they're doing right now. That's why I wouldn't buy new. You've got utility slash standard customer grade. You've got industrial and then you have police slash high performance suspension on the front, for instance. And literally all the knuckles, everything, the rods themselves are beefier and heavier with each tier. The nice thing about running diplomat cop cars, the whole front suspension could take a lot more beating if it had to get off the road a little bit. However, in this day and age, we're looking at tactical combat vehicles to get you guys where you need to be, and you don't want to cry about losing one. If something happens to it, you dismount, take everything with you that's not nailed down, grab the spare tire if it still doesn't have holes in it. even pull the battery, throw it in the back of the other one's running, keep right on going. In fact, only one vehicle needs to pull the spares, pull the extras, and you distribute your personnel amongst the other vehicles as you keep moving, keep moving, keep moving. Remember, offensive driving, you're a shark. However, again, the big thing here is pick a vehicle that makes sense for your area. Now, if you're down south, I've told you this a million times, you guys are blessed. I've watched some years, you're not seeing it so much now. Economy got a little tighter. But when you had a bunch of guys doing videos on YouTube and they were showing how cool their guns were, they'd roll, they'd drive out like a little Subaru brat or a Ranger pickup truck or whatever, or even a full-size pickup truck and then shoot the snot out of it. Well, the thing was rustless. It wasn't pretty, but it was rustless. Half the battle is finding something where the undercarriage and everything and body is in decent shape. Those vehicles should have been hit with a coat of house paint in whatever tactical colors you want to use hardened up where they needed to be armored up where you can and there's a bunch of tricks we've talked about on the air and those should be in the standby fleet because they're expendable. If you're willing to drive that out in the range and shoot the hell out of it, well obviously you don't care about it. So it's a perfect tactical vehicle. See, remember, things get folded, spindled, and mutilated, including people. But more importantly, as equipment gets damaged and maybe you don't. So we need more and this is where if you're going to build up a for instance a tactical truck unit Half-ton three-quarter ton that's your personal choice. Let me give an example if I were doing Chevy's right now I try to get 2500 HD's Preferably eight-foot bed crew cab are really great. Yes, they're big. They're like driving a hearse. I know I have them. Okay But the neat thing about it is commonality of parts because I also have 1500s and I have others, you know mixed models that these are bought here in Michigan or other locations. And the advantage here is again, when one has died, which one did here not too long ago in a horrible accident, the good thing is all the parts can go right on. Everything else we got, Suburbans, Tahoes, and Chevy pickup trucks. Now, again with the trucks, I'd recommend also acquiring a trailer for each truck. Why? It gives you increased lift capacity and you don't have to have a towing package or a trailer package to get the job done. Doesn't have to be a special unit. The idea is to be able to hook a line of trailers up, tow them out to where you're resupplying a unit, for instance, and drop the trailer and keep running going. If you come back on the way through and it's reloaded with junk and more casualties, Guess what, you hook right back up on the way on the return trip and out you go. But otherwise, again, Chevy's, Ford's, Dodge, Ram trucks, you can find some really nice 80s and 90s or odd trucks for nothing. And I mean nothing in down south, especially you guys are blessed. Like I said, all you gotta worry about are the mechanicals. And the less complicated, the better off you'll be. So the earlier the truck, the better off you'll be provided it overlaps with other vehicles still out there on the road. And that's the thing that's the consideration for parts. Or at the very least, you keep accumulating parts. Now you notice I mentioned something about tactifying your vehicles, house paint. House paint is where latex house paint came from for all practical purposes with the German military in World War II. Most people don't understand it was supposed to be a washable disposable paint. The first time that that particular formula was experienced was when the German Army needed snow camouflage white on their vehicles. Well, they came up with this new really cool paint. It was durable. It wouldn't just roll off the vehicles. Lo and behold, when they used it, it stuck when they were done at the end of the season, a lot better than they expected. Turns out they built a better product than they anticipated and it cured once it cured and it was on the vehicle Took a lot of work to get it off now I want you to think about something with ultra flat house paints ultra flat or flat house paints and you could have more flattener put in a flat paint you May want to check your the different paint companies to see who will provide that because some do some don't. Sherwin-Williams, I think they still do. But other companies don't necessarily provide it because they don't consider it critical. They're not a paint company. They just may be a contractor working for Lowe's or whatever home despot or whatever company got out there. It's a big box store. They still mix though. They still do obviously colors for you. So here's the Hold on so you're putting industry in the printing industry. It's called gloss kill. Yes, that's the exact product. And it's to soften, it's designed to soften or to again take that sheen off of the product so you can see the product. In printing, you want to be able to observe the image. And shine does help if you're trying to create a luster effect, but it may also hinder your ability to observe something that maybe they're promoting as a product. So that's a good point. Well, you're doing the same thing with flattening. What you want to do is make it as neutral as possible out in the environment. So house paint is a solution. And here's the thing, I want you to read your labels. This house paint is guaranteed for 30 years. You buy a really good one, it's 30, 35, even 40. Although, who will remember after 30 years that they bought the paint somewhere? You think? Probably not. But it's a good brag or boast that, oh, hell yeah, this paint's good for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. Okay, that's cool. Number one. It's also, if you read the label, it says it's good for wood. Wait a minute, it says brick, it says aluminum siding, it says stone, cement block, cement surface. Well, hell, this is good for everything. The important thing is if it'll work on aluminum, it will easily work on your sheet metal vehicles. But here's something to take into consideration. This is the 21st century. A lot of your vehicles have three of what I just listed there. Don't forget vinyl siding. You can paint vinyl siding, a lot of you have probably at one time or another. The paints have to do something that in the past was kind of tough when the paint was lead based. It has to expand and contract with the materials. Aluminum stresses and expands and contracts a lot more than most of the other metals. This is a big problem with military aircraft. That's why you see paint jobs in the Pacific. Like with the Japanese, if you'll notice when they show you images and guys are doing modeling, they've got to try and get that stress crack along these seam lines to look right because the paint chips. Remember, the plane's doing a couple hundred, three, 400 miles an hour in some cases. The paint expands and contracts in the extreme heat. But remember, when you get to altitude, it gets colder. So what happens is along those seam lines, that's where the fractures take place and the paint chips off. And that's why you see like a lot of those Japanese Kates and zeros and whatever they have with the paint job looks like really crappy. Nope, the paint job was really good when it was done the last time and every once in a while they upgrade. But towards the end of the war, they didn't have the money to paint things. They didn't have the paint to paint things. So the basic house paints that we have now are perfect for your tactical combat solutions. Now the other cool thing about that is with a with a palette that you have on the shelf, you can take a an image of an area. Let's say you got your average tree line or fence line or whatever you're going to be using for your base colors. You can take a big snapshot of that, print it out, maybe it'll be accurate, maybe it won't with your palette with the printer. Let me close enough. And you take that image in and you walk through the pallet ships that are on the wall there and you pick out each of the colors you want for your three or four baseline camel colors. It doesn't have to be military specific, it has to be area of operations specific. And by the way, there was no single camouflage pattern for woodland. I think the coolest thing I ever saw because it's just they were really good paint jobs. When I was down at U6, US Army Intelligence Center in schools at Fort Ochuca. We had a unit that had just come back from the Pacific. It was in what basically would be like the Air Force tropical Woodland pattern from Vietnam. Right? If it was springtime in Arizona, it would have blended in a little bit. But it was so green, green, that in reality it was almost a shoot me target because if it went out in the desert half the time, most of the time, it really, really, really wasn't going to blend in. Then you had the standard woodland green, which is the loam, the green, the black and the brown, and a little bit of tan in there, or sometimes white, depending on kind of like the color variant with that little white streak is like what you see with multicam. And then there was the medium brown woodland. And in one motor pool, and I got a picture of this by the way, although I wasn't really taking pictures, but I have a picture of the four fleet colors. Well, he ain't four, he didn't mention another one. There was still standard. Now the coolest one was this, somebody got smart. They looked at the desert. What did they do? They said, hey, what do we got the paint on the shelf that you can find that matches the ground consistency, which is ground pebbly dirt. It's not sand, guys. It's pebbly dirt. And it's pebbly sand. But we're talking not just little sand modules, but pebbly material. Well, you know what? The guys searched around and they found, I don't know if you guys remember this, but you used to have a dapple Trunk paint if you had a Ford a Chrysler or GM and they started doing this on Chrysler's I think first But it's way back when I was young Okay, you open up the trunk and it wasn't the color of the rest of the vehicle It was a base flat color with a whole bunch of little paint flecks that randomly would skew and either create little paint lines only an eighth of an inch long, but the whole thing was dappled and they had it in gray. You found it in brown. There was kind of a long grain. Well, what they did with one fleet is they went out and they painted the whole thing in the, in the coyote brown range, the base color. And by God that pattern, which was just a simple, real detailed pattern. gave the proper shading and color variance depending on where it was and, you know, sitting in the desert that it actually worked better than all the rest of the paint schemes they had. So much so, where they got the idea for this, by the way, was from the Border Patrol because the Border Patrol at that time used to operate off of the military bases, wherever a base was nearby. But as the communist government got more and more into letting the drug dealers and everybody through, the Border Patrol was being harassed as much by the military as it was by the coyotes and the drug dealers. I had an interesting conversation with a lot of the border guard operators back then. They told me some fascinating things that I always remembered. And you know what, proved out. And right now you can see exactly what kind of treason. They saw the first of it way back when. That's back in the late 70s, guys. So anyway, again, there's other paints out there, but you do want to break it up. The other thing is, while woodland does work to a degree, the woodland type scheme, no matter what color shade it is, consider that most of the time you're going to be in a tree line environment if you can. So you want more like what you see with a DPM. Go look at the British or better still. I'll tell you probably the best example. Dutch DPM camouflage. The Dutch version of the DPM pattern, which in reality, the camouflage uniform. Look at the coloration, but here's what's more important. Look at the way that the pattern was printed out. Now, most important here is that there are wave kind of semi-straight lines that are worked in a paintbrush. It's more of a paintbrush pattern. It's the best way to describe it is what we traditionally call it. Why? Well, because if you're looking crosswise, and that's really what you're more worried about, if they're looking at you from above, you're going to have to do camo netting. Your camouflage helps, but only very, very, very little by comparison to disruption of the lines of the vehicle. Okay? The camouflage from the side though is especially critical because you want to be able to drive on the edge. You don't want to be out in the middle of the stinking field. You want to be on the edges of any kind of concealment you can find. Now because of this, I want you to look across at a tree liner, look at across at a fence line and notice you have, especially in Michigan, because we have the ash borer, you have a lot of askew tree lines. You have angles 45, 50 degrees, some trees are leaning sideways because of the wind, but a lot of them are because they're dying. And it's not because of climate change, it's because the idiot sticks didn't deal with the ash borer the way we had in the past because of the nincompoops and idiot sticks we do have in Lansing now and the ash borer went crazy to kill off a lot of the arbors here, okay? So anyway, no matter where you are, there's still that askew line. Well, that's what you want to blend in with. Now, the bubble or the cloud pattern of the woodland is obviously supposed to be more nebulous. But if you look at the difference between the woodland ball pattern, the cloud pattern, versus the DPM. and experiment, you'll see what I'm talking about. It does a little better job and it's quite a significant percentage of allowing the vehicle to blend in so that casual observation without intense scrutiny right off the bat, it offers better disruption, which creates a lack of interest and attention. which is what you're looking for. Now, you do a little more work covering the windshields, making sure there's no, obviously you don't want any chrome showing, there shouldn't be any chrome. And so that gets painted too. But the fact of the matter is that certain patterns work better in different areas. Now the woodwind works in some places better than the other pattern I'm just describing. So here's the thing, we're not the regular army. We are the militia and our militias are fighting locally first. So what you need to do is figure out what works in your AO, your area of operation. And that's what you need to be focusing on. That's how you need to think and your whole operation should be centered around that. What works in your area? But do you have a whole lot of cover? One of the biggest problems is the flatter the terrain, the more you have to count on concealment based upon organics because there isn't a role in the terrain or a depression or enough of them to give you proper cover all the time. So what you have to do is take advantage of tree lines, forested areas, overgrown areas. And whenever possible, you need to remember this is what your team leaders and your scout forward elements are supposed to be looking for is best avenue of approach and regress, okay, from an area. Or, you know, when you're passing through, again, you're looking for areas where you know what the volume of personnel, this is what your scout reconnaissance people are supposed to be doing. Yes, they're looking for the enemy, but they're also observing to sculpt the travel way for the unit behind them. What is the next best area to stop and break out or disperse the unit? Well, we've got about two miles ahead. We've got rolling terrain, mixed low cover wood with overgrowth or brush areas that were fallow fields. That would be your next break point. And again, remember when you stop, you disperse. That's another thing to always remember. It's just like if you're infantry and you stop. You look for the closest piece of anything that will offer you to blend in or to conceal your silhouette. Any tree, a piece of brush, whatever it is, because you may not have a tree within close distance, but if the whole formation is stopped, you're supposed to have the wherewithal to figure out for yourself. We went in two or three steps. Where can I go where I can put myself out of the line of fire or observation? See how that works? That's how your vehicle operators, your drivers, are always to be taught to think. In fact, the driver is truly a completely independent brain. In armor, the driver, his job is to figure out how to use the terrain. He's still taking orders from the vehicle commander, whoever the other guy is that's in the tank commander's seat. He's still giving everybody orders, but typically the drivers, once they've gained experience, are really good about picking and choosing and finding a place where they can get the best defense and still cover a fire for their vehicle. And that's something that develops, okay? But your drivers with your soft skin and your attack vehicles or transports need to be thinking the same way. And this is where prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. You need to practice what we're gonna be doing. So it's not just, again, infantry operations are one part of it, but transport and being able to effectively get from point A to point B and survive to get from point A to point B is especially critical. Now, some people say, well, we're going to use vehicles for anything, the enemy is going to have control, blah, blah. Well, that'll vary depending on whether it's unconventional, paraconventional or conventional. And in the initiation of hostilities on the ground here in the United States, In the earliest phase, the other side isn't gonna be ambitious about trying to frag the roads, okay? If there's a gun grab or a face off or a standoff again, and it's coming, it's not if, it's just when. Then expediting your forces means being able to expedite them with effective operational security, the ability to physically defend yourself en route, and knowing that you probably will have to defend yourself en route. It has to be in your mind right from the get-go. You're not going to a football game. This ain't no tailgate party environment. Okay, we are in a combat situation. Most groups, if they really are paying attention, should be tactical from the moment they've all gotten to wherever they are going to kick off from. Everybody's together? Yep. Everybody's car sparked? Yep. Taking the vehicles? Yep. You're tactical. And everything you do should be reflected by that from that point forward and take it seriously. Children don't know how to do that. Adults are what the enemy is afraid of. Adults, dull tasks that are followed through on to complete an overall mission. They're not exciting. It's not anything you write necessarily would write home about but it is important to getting home getting back to home when you're done with what you got to do pulling the trigger and getting rid of the you know, black uniform knuckle dragging shoe sides IQ Bald-headed righted up punks when the time comes which is what you'll be doing Now another thing smaller tactical vehicles. I mentioned a few things I love the little brat. In fact, if you watched any of our earliest videos, we have a number of them but Now the brat is a little brat two-seater with a little pickup truck back end is a great little pocket tactical vehicle. It's only a couple steps above all these four-wheelers that everybody's buying now for utility work or just for playing around on the road and everybody's letting the states, letting everybody play on the road with them nowadays. But they are a little tougher and they are a little heavier and they will drag a little bit more because they got a little more horsepower under the hood, which makes them very convenient. You may recall in one of the videos, you see those more a few that we've done years ago. You'll see an M151 trailer, a Jeep trailer attached to the rear end, one of those Subaru's. Now there's a number of different companies made or contracted the same frame, same vehicle, just put their name on it, their moniker and whatever paint job they chose for that decade. They all work the same and they are very, very useful as light scout fast vehicles. Now here's the only thing that we need to change. Everybody in four wheel mud bogging wants to make noise. You guys all need to be thinking the reverse direction. We need to snorkel the exhaust system. That's one thing. And number two with all of our vehicles, you need to be looking at quieting the piece of equipment to whatever degree you can. We want them highly automotive, but we want them to be quiet. I don't want anybody to know I was there. I don't anybody know if I passed through last night. Granted a whole bunch of vehicles moving through an area is still gonna draw subconsciously somebody's attention. Usually it's a here one, here another, might hear another pass or another pass. Wait, we got a whole bunch of stuff moving out there. That might attract people's attention. Some if they're not prozac out right now. But for the most part, again, remember quiet and automotive. That's especially true with those little reconnaissance units you're talking about putting together. That's why the ferret, the Saracen, the Saladin, that whole family of vehicles were something that was totally new for the British military. What's the most common brag by anybody who experienced using them? They went from the leftovers from World War II and some of the other ideas they had in the early 50s. to an entire fleet of well thought out vehicles using Rolls Royce engines and with an exhaust system that made them automotive and quiet. When we say automotive, we mean highly mobile. Let me give an example, the M113 Gavin APC, and there's a bunch of ass hats opening their face. I hate dumb people that are yapping about what's in the military. They've been in the military too. 113 was one of the most successful and highly automotive APC's ever built. with no significant mechanical changes needing to be made through most of the history of the vehicle. The only reason there's like an A1, A2, A3 were modifications or improvements based upon different theories and ideas having nothing to do with the reliability of the motor frame. Now this is another consideration which is why I don't do fords right now. I know if you're a Ford guy, I just, oh my God, Mark hates fords. No, I don't hate fords. But knowing what we know about certain vehicles, Ford for the first time ever, and you guys all know it, well the problem is with Ford spark plugs with a particular window of time with forts. This is why the what are now becoming older forts aren't necessarily going to be an advantage. When you have to build a special tool to fork out part of the spark plug because it breaks off in the non-paper channel for the spark plug. Then you've got an engineer who should have been taken out back behind the factory, you know, the engineering and prototyping area and executed. Whoever the idiot stick that came up with that after 100 years of Ford design and this fool made that mistake. Those fools made that mistake. That's it insane. One of the simplest issues with something that is a highly replaced item, even though granted they've got better lifespan they've ever had before for spark plugs and all the other perishables. But it still comes down to, you know, they're going to get changed out. So that's the things you need to know. The little nuances about the different fleet vehicles, and especially if you pick a certain window for what you want to do. However, I noticed I said a window. We want to also pick your vehicles based upon the widest window. of repetitive production you can. Example, Chevy's from 2000 to 2005 and upwards with most parts to 2006 are pretty much interchangeable across the board. The 2000 to 2005s are a good block. What is it? I think it's the 93, 94. to 99 Chevy's would be another block. There's a ton of those. And if you're south, those aren't rusted out up here. Most of that era of vehicle and before have pretty bad metal mods. I've got a Ford beautiful looking truck, except when you get closer to the ground and it's the metal mods up here because of the salt on the road. Just eat the snipe. That's not out of it, but it's still usable. I'm not getting rid of it. Gimme truck. The others another Chevy truck part of the fleet. Again, it's from up here in Michigan. Got it for a good price. Needed it because I was working on one of the other trucks. And what's interesting is the same thing. It's got a beautiful drivetrain like all the rest. But the poor thing is just falling apart because of Michigan salt. It was on the road. The guy who owned it took really great care of it. I know who the guy was. Grew up with him, knew him all my life. He lived nearby in Dexter. But that vehicle has got a very limited lifespan. because again Michigan Salt did its job. So you guys down South have a significant advantage. Now why am I bringing this up with, you know, your personal needs are first of all, most important. So you guys have to figure out what's going to work best. But I recommend, like I've said many times, each one of you listening, if you have a 10 man team, you guys should try to acquire each one of you acquire a pickup truck. Even if it's under $1,000, it's so pretty and the interior is all messed up. Who gives a squat about the interior? It's going to be a tactical vehicle. In fact, ideally, you're going to start taking stuff off it and replace it with, if some cases, stuff that's simpler as far as, for instance, I'm going to take a whole interior as far as over the head out. Mike, put the header back in because there's usually a fiberglass or fiber dine material, depending on what year you have that's used. Hell, go back farther is actually like a beaver board. Like he used for pegboards. Seriously guys, you don't remember that? I do. We've got a whole bunch of them. But the fact of the matter is that I want to simplify, minimize, get anything I can hang up on, anything I can hook on needs to be gone. Then I need to add what I need to hang the equipment, to rack the equipment, and to armor the vehicle to the best of my ability without it being too obvious. Because I want to be casual. I don't want my enemy to change their tactics about how they shoot at you. So you don't want it to be out there where everybody can see it. You want it to look like it's just part of the truck. See the other thing, taking into consideration. Now, here's the thing. I have a five vehicle column of Fords you're rallying, okay? And you have a logistics officer and you have a tactical coordinating officer as you're facing off against an aggressor. I'm gonna try it even as you come in. We're the Ford units. The Ford units are down that way for about 10 miles. Well, just by policy, you got Fords. The only other question would be what weapon is your standard? Are you an AK unit? Are you an MB on MBR unit? Are you an AR unit? Are you a mixture combined arms team? That determines how I would I would ask that you deploy in support of or to be mutually able to support each other with your logistics example. You know, they all here in Michigan. That's all these are a case. Now they have 556 AKs in addition to 762 by 39. But they got a lot of AKs. Why? Well, they got warehouses of ammunition. They've got many, many warehouses of ammunition. So we don't have a problem supporting the AK family in it. And again, local, tactical operations and dispersion of the material is effective. So resupplies with a reasonable distance within their area of activity, their area of defense. If they're the target, that's what they would fight off from. Any other units coming in, what would determine how I would employ as a straw boss, because remember we've talked about this before. For the time being, you're the straw boss until other solutions come about. So as the individual units arrive or a team's arrive, could be just a 10-man unit. Well, guess what? That group over there is using what you're using. That's where you'll go. When you get there, talk to the straw boss at that end. Use whatever titles you want. I just say straw boss is easy to understand. Whoever the person who has been gifted with the ability to use the magic pointing finger for the moment, that's good. In doing this, we also can very quickly trim and simplify cooperative logistics mechanisms. See, wherever you go, we have AK ammunition, 7.62 by 39 in mass quantities all over the country. But in the Midwest here, for instance, this is one of the places where one of the importers dropped a just massive amount of 7.62 by 39. Most of it quietly went into the underground. Okay, it's sitting waiting waiting to be used in the tam tins ready to roll. So again, if you show up me being able to identify as logistic officer attached to the tactic coordinating officer, the logistics officer can now pretty well gauge where he's going to be sending or what when somebody requests resupply or resupport. We have the ability to eat more easily guesstimate if nothing else. Okay, well, who is it? It's Thompson's sixth RCT. And it looks like we got two independents over there. They're all 760 by 39. Okay, we'll deal with it. We're talking about how many personnel, approximately 430 standard battle load and the logistics officer is going to determine how much he can commit to that environment, to that situation. 556 operators, some 62 by 51 operators, etc. All that's part of the consideration. Kiss, keep it simple, stupid. But on your fleet fleet, ability to mold the unit in motion is especially critical. And this is where you all need to be thinking in advance. And tactical transport is critical. By the way, yeah, you're going to need more fuel. And I would also have, again, an engineer kit with every vehicle. Make sure that you have toolkits with every vehicle. Doesn't have to be brand new. I go to different resale points, guys, and I buy redundant combinations of everything every time I visit. Sockets, extensions, wire cutters. I just got a bunch of bolt cutters for a dollar a piece. Now where are they going? Each one's going into a truck kit or a tactical kit or going into an engineer's kit. Well, I don't need more than one. No, yeah, you do. I don't think I don't like is I have different places where I work. I don't want to go across the yard to find another tool. I like the idea I can walk right over to toolbox C and toolbox C has with B and A have in them and I have big toolboxes and it's all used tools. But you know what? It's amazing. They all fit the nuts, bolts. They all fit all of the other tools I have and didn't have to be brand new. Here's the other thing though. The tools that I bought were SK or all these name brands and I got them for pennies. So that used toolbox I got is worth more than the one China Sport. I will pass up the China Sport toolbox. Trust me, I got hundreds of those. And again, why? Because I got them for free or I got them for a little and nothing. And those in turn are again what allow you to many hands make for like work deploy when the time comes. This is mechanical support operations. This has no this but it's critical and this is part of the logistics mechanism logistics understand logistics you will win the war. But you have to be thinking ahead prior proper planning prevents this poor performance. Remember I play that one piece usually we play I want to be in the cavalry there's the other one I want to be in the cavalry reprise. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the So find what you can, watch those estate sales, watch the yard sales and rummage sales. Remember always to check the freebie and the goody grab boxes where they didn't like that or they don't think anybody will. It does not have to be a pretty tool. As long as it's functional, it can be cleaned up, you make sure everything gets lubricated. Guess what? Goes in the box, now you got one where you might not have had one before. I have tools that I buy specifically that are for even rebuilding engines. I've not done. I've never used in my life yet. I got another valve grinder the other day. Got it for $5. It is a really, really, it's worth a hell lot more than $5. Let's put it that way first of all, but it's my age. It's as old as I am. It's got some wheel turning on it, okay? But looking at it mechanically, it's sound. It definitely is worth picking up. I've got other tools that are like that, but if I have to use them only once, and I can go right over to that, to one of those tool racks and go, yep, there it is right there. It just paid for itself. Remember guys, you may not know even how to use certain tools, but if you are working on things, you have allies, there's Bob and Bob knows how to use that tool. And Bob, now that he knows you've got it, it means that he can save lives because he can fix something. It'll keep it in the fight. just think about that one too. So anyway, got a prior prepper planning. So anyway, we're 10 minutes to the top vehicles. The other thing again, like I said, paint job, spare parts, tires and batteries are another thing. And batteries are gonna be, I think, the worst problem we're gonna have. I think in discussion and I'm planting the seed, we gotta plant this anywhere. Anybody who wants to get into building batteries, in fact, I would recommend Building a modular Edison battery pack that would be 12 volt that will fit into the average space under the hood for a vehicle is a very future marketable item. The battery industry is so heavily manipulated and monopolized right now. that in a moment they would torque it out. They would shut it down. That's why they want everybody to go to electric. First of all, they've manipulated through the eco freak bullshit for the last 40 years to the point where they've destroyed American competitive industry. It's done, it's finished, it's dead. The only way we're gonna fix it, we have to come up with it. An Edison design battery. that can be rebuilt to an unlimited degree, re-offloaded and reloaded to an unlimited degree because really the limit is just whether or not the casing is fractured. So the consideration here, if you know anything about original Edison batteries, if you don't, do a little research. But as far as building an Edison type battery, strangely enough, it can be done out of more than just the original materials. There's all kinds of cheap tricks that could get the job done to bridge better manufacturing capabilities. So we've got to be ahead of the curve on that. Batteries have always been a critical, difficult logistics issue for the military, just with six volt or 12 volt, doesn't make any difference. Ain't talking matter and modern ion and the super batteries were running electric crap, that's even worse. We're talking about just conventional under the hood batteries. Now, tires are another thing. Don't get rid of any tires. You pull off your vehicles right now. If you were at the tire store and you got to change out tires, I know they take up space. Figure out how to be able to get them inside. An old trick is to wrap them with newspaper. The biggest problem is that it's going to be a bigger trick and a harder trick to find newspapers. You're probably gonna have to go to recycling bins and where somebody might be dumping off bundles of advertising flyers or whatever. Or maybe check your grocery store where they do the flyers. So we got a couple mere local. They always toss out stacks. I've got cases of boxes of I keep them for you two things wrapping or fire starter. But they also if I were going to be more efficient at storing tires, you newspaper wrapped them. You wrap them like you would the old Christmas present trick. And what this does is helps to protect them from, again, IR, which is the biggest problem. And there's a, you know, go ahead, Kauler, jump in there. I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I don't know how much longer I can be on. But I don't know if anybody mentioned this. Brent B. out there on the west coast there, he's just turned 65 a couple of days ago. So I just wanted to wish little Brent a happy birthday. He's a good friend of the show. I know you know who he is. He's been in your home and He's a big booming voice out there for your movement. So 65 he's catching up. Well, he just did he caught up with me. Yeah Well, happy birthday that Brent happy birthday Brent B. Happy birthday. Thank you for bringing it up. Okay. Thank you And again, remember guys, live as long as you can just to spite your spite your enemies in the government and there's really no difference between the two. They're pretty much one of the same your enemies and in government and outside government. There we go. Works best. So Brent B. Happy birthday. We'll make sure we do that more than once tonight just in case. Anyway, Most important here guys is we've talked about this. It's obvious that the bad guys are not liking what's going on. Washington DC, you've heard what's happened the last two days, the last 24 hours really with the committees. Now, why did that happen? The only reason that happened is because of the people that everybody hates that pinned down the lackluster milk toast skunks so that they had to do something. Now, of course, all of the rest of the rats out there in the control media, etc., are flapping their yap about how horrible this is and how terrible. And they're calling what are basically just regular old conservative values for what was supposed to be the Republican Party, that all their extreme right wing, right? Because the Republicans rats are mostly milk toast commies, as opposed to the demicons who are the hardcore commies. And well, I should say the hardcore, the hardcore commies are open. The fake rhinos are what you see that typically where the little opposition click that we have the wallpaper hangers behind them. I should say the wallpaper, not wallpaper hangers, wallpaper. They're just there behind them. And then the 20 that made all the noise are the ones that actually got something done, which gives you an idea again, the squeaky wheel in this case. So because of that, look, they're keeping their, they're really here. I'm gonna tell you something. When you hear a whole bunch of other semi fake characters telling you, look, see, look, look, or you know, mixed California is keeping his promise. The only reason that promise even exists or that action is taking place the way it is, is because of the other 20 people that they were bad mouthing. including Mick, Mick, California and the rest of the turds. We don't need to do that. Let's just do that. Just let me slide in and that way I can screw you all. So what they know and what they've heard and I'm gonna tell you still, I have no confidence in these characters whatsoever. What they're doing right now is trying to get everybody to go brain dead. That's what they're trying to do. And if realistically understand the only solution is going to come from the people's end right now with everybody, you know, basically shoving their head into the grinding wheel and keeping their nose to the grinder and not their hands. That's the only thing that's gonna make this happen. And even then, they're gonna try everything they can to get out of whatever they've done. And what they've done initially is they're making all this flapping noise. Look what we've done, look what we've done. You haven't done, excuse me, you haven't done feces. There's nothing that's been done that we haven't seen before. And even there, guys, there's no way anything can get properly passed. It can be proposed. But the magic pen is under the control of, oh, that's right, the pedo sniffer meat pump in the outhouse. So we got 24 months of them spinning our wheels and blowing smoke up everybody signed in. So we'll see what happens and it'll be fun to watch. And meanwhile, again, that's why I spent most of this hour talking about what tactical preparedness and vehicle preparedness is a critical component of being more efficient. We are always infantry and infantry is a given. Anything else that we can do past being leg infantry is icing on the cake. It's a benefit we'll take advantage of, but it isn't the center of our universe. It's a benefit we can live without, which is how you have to train. your leg, your leg infantry always, unless they blow your legs off and then you're out of the business anyway. Then you'll have to sit in a chair and push buttons and help with the fight that way if you want. And you can. I wouldn't deny anybody, even if they lost both legs. You want to stay in the fight? Yes, sir, I do. Well, congratulations. I'll figure out a way to make it happen. Won't hesitate. There's a lot of people, myself included, losing body parts I can live with. Of course, maybe the if it's above the neck and it's all gone down, that's a different story. And you're finished. Oh, well, get over that. Next thing you know, you'd be beating your creator. So anyway, a couple of things here. Classic firearms does have some other stuff. Classic firearms.com does have some other stuff you want to look at. We mentioned them yesterday. I want to say thank you guys for keeping up on things. They do have a couple other items, including some bulk on some 762 by 39. You want to check that out? But Centerfiresystems.com, www.centerfiresystems.com, has got the 8mm Mauser, if it's still in stock. They can rent out, but I think it's just down the road. It's one of those items they get from one of their closer sources. But they have 8mm Mauser, probably Turkish. It's the... 30s to the 60s for head stamps. So it's a mix depending on what box they opened up or what crate crate they turned over It comes in a plastic Ammo can 150 rounds and it's very very reasonably priced So most important about that is again Let me double check. What was the cost in that? Between $33, $33, did we correct that? I think we did. Fish Hall Clockwood, no, that was the Fish Hall Clockwood, forgive me. But we'll say $30 plus or minus. How do you like that? Because I have double check and I don't know for sure if the prices change. I had that happen with something else last night. A certain group wanted some backpacks that I got hold of. Well, wait a few days, and it went up by $5, which is still a good price for what they are because they're a clearancing amount. They're a tactical backpack with the built-in rifle case. And unfortunately, only a few days, everybody confirmed they wanted more, and price went up by $5. It's still reasonable, but it's $5 we could use for something else. It happens. But anyway, CenterFireSystems.com, CenterFireSystems.com, and it's 150 rounds of 8 millimeter Mauser ball ammunition, about $30 plus or minus you'll find the ad you'll find out for sure with the actual prices. Good way to put more ammo on the shelf for your Mausers and at the very least use it for familiarization and training ammo. This is a reversal thing here. You know, I've talked about that. If you're reloading, I would fire the preview partisan and reload it because I need to train and practice reloading. But in this case, if you're going to be familiarizing people, break some of those older K98s out that are field grade, use them for go through your airsoft and BB gun basic training for familiarization and handling of a firearm. For live fire for this price, especially since your unit might be standardized on MBR's main battle rifles, then these eight millimeter Mauser rifles are a good choice for live fire experience. You're going to be cycling a lot of people through who may never in fact you may be doing it right now I've had a lot of complaining only in that everybody is grossly overwhelmed with the number of people coming into the militia units I've had to remind everybody about some of our BCT cyclic ideas then that have worked and to reinstitute them because they've had a certain number of people that they've been introducing, but they've been relatively comfortable for a bit. Now, we're back to cadre formations again where you have new units being set up. You got more people you got to train. It is going to have to be compressed. You got to get it done. Okay. So again, also affordable because the money is an issue. I know that don't have to tell me. So when you see at least at least less expensive solution, we use that to supplement where we need to be with certain elements of our training cycle. Always remember that guys and reloading is still the best solution. In fact, you shoot it, you reload it. But yeah, when we're done here on the range, don't worry, we still got three or four hours of training time. Everybody police your brass, keep it with that rifle, grab those boxes, the ammo came out of the cardboard boxes, because we're going to take that back to the shop. Now we're going to teach you about reloading. 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I also want to say thank you to our friends in England for the donations to the network and other nations out of both Europe and, well, one from the Pacific Rim, so we appreciate that. It is. Well, it's the 11th of January. No big deal, but we're still alive and Michigan is up and down roller coaster wise with temperatures and humidity. It is weapons Wednesday. It is the 15th year of open obvious and pissing in your face. Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2023. Old Earth calendar fire fire one fire for effect and throw in the photon torpedoes and 2023 battle for the Republic. The dance of sorts. So congratulations. We are here and still alive. And into the year of fire, that's what this will be. There's no doubt the bad guys are going to have to commit to this usual sociopathy that they're so famous for. So this time around, ain't nobody gonna get caught flat footed. Ain't nobody surrendering anything or relinquishing any freedom. We're not selling out our liberty, so guess we're going to war. We'll see how this works. But in the meantime, you need to be prepared to deal with the problem at the state level. Some of your states are well kind of copacetic, but still too busy spit swapping with the ring knockers and Yamical wares. No matter what state it is, they're all playing the same scam. They're trying to try to give you the lip service, but none of the none of the the tangible. That you'll be able to tell as we proceed and one by one, certain characters cave. They will defecate their spine out their bunghole like a meat xylophone and it will not be a surprise. You'll notice we're not panicking by that. But take what you can that'll keep the bad guys busy or spinning their wheels while we're getting other things accomplished. Okay, so it is weapons Wednesday. Real quick in the last hour talking about vehicles. I'm going to emphasize again. I don't care what you commit to, but try to commit and create a standardization system. The big thing here is parts integration and parts interchangeability in a battlefield casualty environment. Okay, so if you use Fords, try to keep pushing Fords. Now if you get a cheap Chevy or something or Dodge, the hell with it or Toyota. I didn't even mention of the Toyotas, but some of you, you know, I do like, I gotta say, I think that the present Toyota bodies. They didn't go with the big nose front end, which tries to make your pickup truck look like a semi truck, which we don't need. I need a smaller silhouette, not a bigger silhouette. Okay. Also, it's higher and harder to work on. I didn't mind that 2500 HD is still a taller vehicle. Do you know you can't just step in everywhere and work on it, but you can do most. But the Toyota trucks look cool. And if you'll notice the Toyota line right now, the big thing are tactical. It's funny because what it is is they have, they do not have a reflective under layer for their paint job. So they have the effect of being a mute color. You'll see them in those earth cans or earth coyote brown. There's a olive, but it's not US olive. It looks more like the Italian olive green. And they're good tactical colors. In fact, the vehicles themselves, we know the Toyota's hold up well. It ate the razor, it's the blades. When the Toyota's run, they run like forever. But when they break down is when you find out what part of the Treasury you have to spend to fix it. They always notoriously with their four wheel drive vehicles have been a lot more expensive to maintain. But you have to admit when you do get them fixed and back online, they keep going just like they did before. So, Toyotas are pretty well proven out. There's a bunch of other smaller vehicles. You know, as I mentioned, the Bratz, those aren't American. But there's any number of different options you have. Even smaller TAC vehicles like Rangers, S-10s. What's the other one? The Colorado is out there. That's now not that new. There's earlier Colorado model pickup trucks. And all of those would work for tactical use, but try to, you know, again, try to get a standard fleet going because one breaks down or if something happens, the spare parts that maybe your recovery vehicle carries would work on pretty much everything you got there. Now, if you have something that's an odd man out, and I would point this out too, because parts availability is going to be an issue. All of your basic spare parts you need to acquire, especially your perishables, plugs, minor electronics, all your filters, and again, filters are critical because breathing is life and vehicles are no different from anything else on the planet. If you want to make that, if those pistons are going to go pop, pop, boom, boom, we got to have air. So already be thinking ahead and thinking in advance. I've got certain vehicles I'm buying the electronics for that are older simply because I know right now they're reasonably priced. Hell, I really haven't changed much in price from 40 years ago, which I think is rather fascinating. But obviously not American made, they're either Mexican slave or Chinese slave made, but they'll work. It gives me a backup so that if something happens, that vehicle can continue to function. And again, even a few years down the road with these peckerwood pieces of trash and the excrement and filth of the great reset, they're gonna do everything in their power to deny you everything. And especially spare parts inventories, they're gonna be, they're already being hit. A lot of stuff isn't at your fingertips like it was before. So be ahead of the curve. Already have that in your inventories and everybody needs to come up with a standard. Sit down at the kitchen table. Everybody talk about what you want to do, figure out what you already got in the fleet, see what you can add. And then go for, you know, in other words, maybe you guys already have a mixed bag of stuff. Well, stick with it. Add to it. You know, kind of like guns are for buying, not for selling. Look at your vehicle fleet the same way right now. But try to, especially if it's like, well, Mark's got an idea. We haven't done that yet. Well, if you're going to do that, now plan ahead. Now go out and start scavenging Craig's list, go through farce book, Facebook marketplace, check your used car listings, go around the community, especially. I mean, I find enough stuff. I have found just as much that way as any other. But there are a lot of places you can go and if you peruse them all you can start thinning out the herd and figure out what makes more sense. So again older because it'll be cheaper. But if you're going to go older, like I said, pick a block and go that way. Ford, Chrysler, GM or whatever. And like I said, and there's other stuff out there too, by the way. And where you are, like if you're up more towards the left coast, there's a lot more of the JAP or import stuff, you know, at your fingertips. And if you find something that's not in vogue, because it's not the latest and greatest, and everybody's wanting to, you know, you can get it for a good price. Well, there you go. There's your solution. The biggest thing is you might be spending more on your trailers than you did on the vehicles. You can run into vehicles for $4, $6, $700. Guess what? You know, you may or may not be able to find as many used trailers laying around, but they're out there. You want to try and make sure though that every vehicle has one, everybody understands how everything works, everybody understands where everything plugs in and go from there. Enough on that one now. So whatever your forte, whatever your niche, whatever your guru tells you to buy, and you guys all think Mark's crazy, he mentioned Chevy. I hate Chevy's. Well good, then go buy whatever you think you need to buy. But don't sit on your ass or your hands and tell me you didn't. I didn't feel we needed to do it. Can we have yours? You're going to haul us, right? Yeah, right. Okay, whatever. You all could have done this at the same time while it was easy. So again, we don't wait till the last minute. We just are, you know, we are kind of late in the game now. But again, let's see if we can get done. Now, another thing here real quick. I mentioned AKs. There are places for all of these little guns. Okay. This is something I know because some people are like, well, Mark, I like a little, you know, everybody likes to play with all the guns they've got. But right now, as has always been the case, they let everybody string out, they let the line out, they let the slack go on the fishing line. And you've got all these variations and, you know, braces for ARs, etc. We knew this was coming. I've told you this before a dozen times on the air that yeah, okay, then they were attacking it. So now they're countering and there's lawsuits and there's all this folder all remember that the bat faggots and all the rest of the turds that are in uniform out there. Well, they've been coached how to lie. So anytime they see anything like that, they're going to try to put you on the defensive about what you own. So it's best not to let anybody see that. As it is, even just having a regular AR-15 is enough for the dingbats, idiots, and incompetence in uniform who think they're going to take your gun home to try and talk you into the idea that your gun's illegal, no matter what. We know that, Dribble. I've seen it for so long over the last 50 years. It's sickening. And more, because, you know, when I was young, I still watched this stuff go on. So as it is, again, while I do like, I think they look cool, little Krinkoffs and all the little pistol like the different AK pistols. And if you got them, you got them. I'm not telling you, get rid of them. But you should maybe slide them sideways out of sight, out of mind. The big thing is that if you're a new shooter coming up, that's not the weapon for you. You need a standard mid grade weapon. Ideally an MBR would be nice, but that isn't the world right now, okay? So I'm gonna say the same thing that I said last week and a week before about the AR-10. If you're coming in right now, and you can still buy an AR-15 for a reasonable price. But if you're serious about that, you buy the hell out of every magazine and get your hands on. You buy all the ammo you can, and you make sure you have the spare parts. Because my God, the AR-15 is so cheap that it's insane not to have spare parts, a complete spare bulk carrier, be your best choice, ready to go. With the AR-15 kits that I've put together over the years, one of the things I was taking was the British parachute flare pouch. They're actually a, well, like a baton carrier, okay? And what I did is I made a little canister up that was big enough to fit a complete AR-15 bolt carrier. And it's airtight, you even oil the thing up, so inside, also what's in there, it's got a little lubricant. And that will fit perfectly into a standard pop flare pouch, a regular illumination flare pouch that the Brits, the Dutch made them. It's hard to find the American ones. It's been a while. But the foreign ones will fit right on the standard TA-56, TA-90 gear. And I've got a complete bulk carrier on my combat rig ready to go for the ones that are AR-15 oriented. Why? Because if something malfunctions on that gun, I am not going to fiddle very much with it at all. If I start to have a significant problem or I've got an extractor breakage for whatever stupid reason, you pop the back pin, you open up, pull out that whole bolt carrier grip. If need be, just drop it to the ground, reach in, flex that. Remember, you got to open that bolt, make sure that bolt's slid all the way forward. So whip it. Line it up, shove it in, make sure that dust cover is out of the way though. You may be in a hurry, it'll probably break it on the way down, depending on how panic you are. But you can get the thing back online pretty stinking quick and back into operation with a complete bolt carrier. You don't have to worry about figuring out what's wrong. Here's having an excessive number of malfunctions for some reason, or you've had a significant malfunction. And it's obvious that the weapon is not extracting. Not extracting properly. Okay, and you look at it. Oh extractor's broken. Well, I'm not gonna break down that bolt carrier you get that weapon functioning But what I can do is step out of the battery step out of line while somebody takes my place or I inform my team teammate that hey I'm down and Very quickly as an immediate action drill you like just do exactly what I just described Drop the bolt carrier pop the new one in get her back online find out if she's working if you still have some kind of malfunction I'll tell you what most likely is the next issue and it's probably the primary issue anyway is carbon buildup is crud You've been firing a lot of junk. You might be in a bad environment You got all kinds of you know garbage showing up in the invite in the in the weapon and you've got crud where it Shouldn't be By the way, it's an old problem with the air 15 for as long as it's live. We can live with that. Okay, but first of all, again, clean your weapon and be religious about cleaning your weapon. That is part of the religiosity of the of the of the combat infantryman. Okay, Mark. So at this time, the air would probably still be your best bet for simplification. And if you're going to get an MBR, go AR 10 for simplification. Go ahead, call her jump in there, please. Shelby from Oklahoma. How's it gonna bring to everybody's attention PSA Palmetto State Armory. That's PSA Palmetto State Armory.com. Right now they've got a deal on their PSA dagger compact 9mm pistol. They have it in green like OD green and Tannen. It's a 379.99 so 380. and it comes with 10 magazines and a carrying case. Yeah, you can't as a matter of fact, looking at that, that is probably the single best pistol deal. One stop shopping out there right now. And if you look at it, it's a Glock. Okay, it's a Glock line weapon. It's just not a Glock, but it, but what you've got is everything you need other than ammo and you do get to pick your color. You're absolutely right about that Shelby. Again, it's either in the OD green body, or in tan. And if you go over to Palmetto State Armory, it is a perfect, especially again, if you're listening to me and you're a new shooter, somebody said, well, what would you go with? Well, myself, for a 379, it's less than a Glock by itself, for a new Glock especially. So I can get a complete pistol with 10 mags, I got a carrying case, I'm gonna still pick up ammunition. I'd also go right back to PSA and the next thing I'd buy would be one of their rebuild or spare parts kits. Because they build the gun that's their pistol So the advantage is that all the little nuk-nuk-nuk and crinket parts and everything I think I'm pretty sure I saw it on the second page they have the Well, it's inside the body of the Palmetto State armory.com Page when you go there you look up the dagger pistol kit and it's I think it pops up right in the front of the page right now I haven't been there in the last you know last couple days But for $379.99, $380, it is a single deal better than anything else out there because you don't have to guess. Those mags go with that weapon. You got to carry pouch for the mags for the moment for containment. Needless to say, you want to buy mag pouches. There's no different places you can go for multi-stage pistol mag pouches. In fact, major surplus, I think still has the best buys on those for six mag, three mag, four mag and six mag pockets. Badly or type one is a six. It's just like basically an add on. You can hook up somewhere. She have a thing with place to carry the mags. But if you're, but if you're committed to that pistol, it's cool. Go ahead. Jump in there. Also, I just noticed that when you click on the pistol deal, if you scroll down, they still have it till January 31st. limited time on by any 9 millimeter firearm received two free boxes of your choosing of Sierra outdoor 9 millimeter. And I think there are 25 rounds or 50 rounds for free. It says Sierra rebate ballot through. So I think you have to pay for it, but there is a rebate in there so you can basically get it for free if you sent mail it back in. There we go. Also, to conclude what you were saying about the pistol, I've brought it up many times. It is compatible with, I believe it's a Glock 21. I think the newer Glock 9 millimeters of 23, the G23, but it is compatible if you just do some research. There's a lot of the firing pin extractors and stuff like that. Even the Glock magazines will fit this pistol, so they're interchangeables. Basically, American made a copycat of the clock. And again, that's a perfect solution. So for everybody out there again, dagger pistol, complete kit, buy the, well, of course, don't forget that ammo because that is a deal. You're going to get whatever they're going to send back in the way of a voucher or payment. That's fine. An AR-15, and by the way, Palmetto State Armory may have a better deal on a particular 16 inch AR-15. right now. So it's your choice PSA, you can do a one stop shop. You get the pistol there, pick up parts between upper and lower your combination best price. And remember, sometimes you can buy an upper and lower for a better price than a complete rifle. If you just shop around, you might find that Palmetto has a good price on a particular upper that's on sale. You go over to Bear Creek Arsenal, they may have the lower for the better price right now. Now they're not the only ones that have lowers and uppers, but again, being able to go in and pick up what you need, boom, right there, and it's all the better price or best price based upon your interest. Notice I said 16 inch. I'd prefer a 20 inch AR-15 for a new shooter. But the gladius of this day is the 16 inch AR-15. The Gladius of this day for the average person who's been pumped up, propagandized, and has at least even just some familiarization. And I know this is not the best first direction, but a lot of people have played with video games and the AR-15 is reinforced and reinforced and they've seen it, the image is there. Hell, even the video game character that you're playing actually pulls back the charging handle and operates the equipment operates the weapon. You know, they have the little functions as if they're actually like insert a mag and slap the side for the for the the boat release and boom it's loaded. So there's a lot of subconscious or semi subliminal reinforcing that's already in place. We're building up the the biggest army we possibly can on the planet. We're already bigger than most armies over the top 10 armies on the planet. Our goal is to bring everybody up to a performance level equal to and then superior to those militaries which we can do. So right now it's speed in performance to get to it. We'll get everybody as I've said many times on the table. It's like you're at cards. Well, this is what you ante up to get on the table. Here's what you need. And again, it's a good choice. If you've got any other firearm already, I'm not telling you Mark said, go get rid of this and get a diet. No, if you've already got your kit set up, you're done. Unless you want another pistol, then maybe the dagger would be a good choice. If you in fact, maybe you don't have a nine millimeter pistol, maybe you got a 40 or 45. Maybe you want to play with another gun. Well, this is a nice package for the price. See, there's always all kinds of great uses to get another gun. Which is fun because the more weapons you have, more experience you gain. And you do have to then, if you do have different weapons, you have to think. See, this is the other reason I said compatibility in arms of the AR-15 and the AR-10 is again, downtime from one process to the next. There's no relearning or something I have to remember and do differently. The neat thing about going in this package, you really only have two guns to work with. They have to develop skills with. One, the PSA dagger itself, which is a Glock knockoff, so you're gaining an experience with basically the Glock family of weapons or the basic bedrock design. The second weapon would be the AR-15. Do I like the AK? Love the AK. Do I like the M14? Love the M14. You'll probably see me with any one of these weapons depending upon the environment and what I dig up depending on where I am. But the every eye fact I've there's no firearm I'll give a bad that rap to. I mean seriously I've heard stories about certain firearms and I laugh because really I've carried that weapon almost all my life. One time or another I've shot at one time or another over over over again. For the longest time when the surplus industry had lots more to choose from, the Carcano rifle was ridiculed and horrible and terrible. And anybody of you know out there, I've had hundreds of them. I used to buy them in clutches of 16 and 20 of mixed weapons and more than half would typically be Carcano's. What'd you buy those for? Well, cuz they're cheap. Especially when you get them for $8, $9 a piece or $10 a piece when you buy a big clutch of stuff. But you know what, you can try and find a $10 a carcano right now. And by the way, everybody has now rethought the propagandaization that they were conditioned to. And all the carcanos actually are pretty decent firearm. Well, the most important thing about the carcano was simple. Kiss, keep it simple, stupid. How much you need to know about it? Well, it's real easy. You open the bolt, you take the stripper clip, insert it in the top, shove it down to your click, close the bolt, aim fire. You don't even have to try to figure out how to make the magazine work because it was six round stripper clips, Carcano, man-lincher clips. And all you have, everything's contained. You have six rounds, you just put it in the top. You open the bolt, pull it all the way back till it stops. Line that that stripper clip up clock there She goes inside the strip the the man with your retainer stays right in there when you shoot it. They're all empty and gone Sometimes that stripper clip drops out the bottom of the gun other times. It doesn't leave until you take your next stripper Push it in and it pushes out the empty and away you go Now, you know what now in fact even in forgotten weapons that he had did a whole piece on just how you know phenomenal the M39 Carcano rifle was Now it's not my first choice for being the smoothest action until it's worn in a lot because I've had brand-new unissued old inventory carcanos that I've bought by the case and They are stiff as a board and they are a labor to operate because they're brand new and they haven't been worn in Once they're worn in, they're comparable to the Mauser action to operate the regular K98 or any of the other Mausers. They're not a Mauser, but they again, they've had that feel. There are other weapons that I've mentioned before that are butter operations. What I mean by that is so stink and smooth, you wonder if there's something wrong. One of the weapons that's in that category is the 3040 Craig Jorgensen rifle, the Craig. The Craig is the most sweet operating firearm with regard to its manual operation that you actually have no, there's no restriction to the operation of the firearm. There's nothing that it just so incredibly smooth and it's worked. And in fact, right out of the box when they were virgin, basically everybody agreed, man, this is the smoothest operating action I've ever handled. for people who originally used the firearm, they stated that. Now, the cartridge itself was comparable to anything else during the day. The only thing that the Jorgensen didn't have going for it, didn't have any way to speed load it. It had a side box gate magazine, and all you do is just dump loose rounds in, okay? But it worked. It just, you know, the Mauser was faster to reload, which means you could put greater volume fire. It might not hit every time, but you put more volume fire down range. But with mouse, she's still probably working to hit someone. Okay. Each gun will still perform as well as it did when it was intended to be used. There is no weapon that I do not have respect for. Somebody told me all they got is fill in the blank down there. I said, good. We're still going to obviously understand that we are not going to make ourselves targets of opportunity, right? We're still going to follow through on standard policy for fire maneuver. We're going to respect the weapon down there because somebody puts one up your eyeball guarantee your debt is a doornail right here standing in front of me. That's one thing you remember. It's the shooter, not the weapon. A determined operator, a determined individual, a determined person with a cause. can do incredible damage with whatever weapon is at their disposal provided they think the process through as an adult. Whenever you give me to use, I'm going to employ it to the best of my ability, but I'm also going to make sure that I employ it based upon my need to protect myself while in the process, making the weapon perform to the best of its ability. You mean if they gave you a muzzle-loading fill-in-the-blank? Hell yes, I'd be Mr. Dolby. You'd only get one shot out of me in an action maybe sometimes, but I'd make sure before I pulled the trigger when I did whatever I aimed at was gonna die, or at the very least be horribly, horribly maimed. And you know what? If every person, if the first 10 shots fired by the first 10 people and everybody with that fixated policy The opposition loses 10 individual targets wounded or killed right off the bat. That is devastating and in action and psychologically initiates what you want. It's an egg gives you an edge. It initiates a wave of well, I guess I'm not invulnerable after all. And so it doesn't mean it is what the weapon is. Well, I got a Dutch carbine for you. I've got a whole got 40 rounds, but I don't have any of the Mad Lynch or stripper clips that go in the Dutch carbine. Okay. 6.5 Dutch flat shooter. Guess what? It's a Mr. Dolby gun. I'm not going to be upfront because I can't load fast, but you put me back where I can settle in. I'm going to fire, hit the target, break, knock down, get down out of sight. Change location when while I'm doing that I'm reloading my single shoot my single shot and I'm gonna change locations come back up first identify by activity the small arms fire of the enemy and ally and Then I'm going to pick a target. I'm gonna put a bullet on it that I'm gonna break back down again Change locations again when I come back up my mission is to one thing put that one bullet Where it's gonna do the most damage and benefit us in some way That's the problem with everybody watches movies a spraying parade. No, that's not how it works. In fact, it's far scarier when you have an entire formation that isn't just burning ammunition, but rather everybody that's pulling a trigger is pulling a trigger purposely with a specific task, a mission hit someone. With that kind of policy and especially with that kind of discipline, the aggressor simply can't survive. And in fact, I can, well, again, the argument will be put, it'll be played out one way or another and what's coming. Number one, we only have so much in the way of initial logistics support and our logistic train, of course, is limited because of our defensive nature. We're not going to project ourselves overseas. We're fighting on American soil. Begin, we're fighting within our own backyards. So guess what? You better write from the get go. Act intelligently. Prior proper planning again. So anyway, we're at the bottom. We're past the bottom It is weapons Wednesday and forgive me. We have not done this in the tour block Edward It's the bottom of the hour break a little late, but we all know what we do on Wednesday here guys Because this is Liberty tree radio And this is my rifle useless. You may ride a good lead speed, you may not stern a master You forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back much faster When you meet our mountain boys and their leader John the Star Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no frightful Add you no graves at home, back across the brine of water And here thee must come, like bullets to the slaughter But if we the charge must do, then the sooner it is begun If Clinton's figure hold the but through, the quicker it will be done Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, no proof, no true rifle Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, no proof, no true rifle you, Edward. Forgive me, I didn't do that the last hour. I got into another subject. And everybody out there, that's our traditional weapons Wednesday, bottom of the hour break. And again, as a rifleman, my rifle is my best friend. As naked or standing out there with your, you know, vincous in hand, no matter what you're doing, the rifle never leaves your side and should always be in contact with your body, always in contact with your person. This was one of the reasons that guys learned this lesson during the, not just Vietnam, but I know guys who were Korean War vets, the same thing. There were two schools of thought with regard to your personal arm, and one of them was no rifle sling versus rifle sling. Rifle sling? Well, you need a rifle sling. No, no, the argument was that the sling gets in the way, it makes noise. The idea also that you get lazy because the weapon isn't where you need it to be. And basically the idea is that, and I know guys immediately people go, well, we got three point slings and all this other stuff. Yeah, I know all of that. But I'm just explaining the point in history, historically different philosophies and training and deployment, operational deployment. The argument behind no sling is it eliminated with the snags and hang ups that especially remember the time when this last was adopted was during Vietnam. In Vietnam, just the idea of the open flash hider caused a great deal of anxiety and piss off in this because just that open little face on that flash hider hooked on everything. Anything in the woods, hanging vines, clingers, little branches, twigs, all got caught up in that. Now, really that's what it was supposed to do because originally the pickle fork Flash Hider was supposed to work as a wire cutter. That was one of its many purposes. Okay. What? Yeah, it was a wire cutter. Use a bullet. Just like the Germans planned the same way. And that's why the PTR, well, the G3 and the HK91 rifles, if you look on the end of the flash hider, you'll see a couple of divots at the 6 o'clock and 12 o'clock station, one across from the other. What were they for? So you could hook the wire if you wanted to. If you had a wire as an obstacle or, you know, part of a fence, what you did literally is you used the bullet to cut the wire. but you lined it up by using those little divots in the flash hiker and the face of the flash hiker to line up the wire and pull the trigger. Now with the Pickle Fork Bannette fixture, or give me Pickle Fork flash hiker, all you did was just hook it in that space, pull the trigger, wire broke. Didn't need a special tool in theory, but you are barking and making noise So this was typically in a field type situation where maybe you're pinned down you try to move forward What you do is you take the muzzle of the gun hook it up to the wire without you exposing yourself and bang Well, there's one gone bang. There's the other one gone bang. There's the other one more to go bang Congratulations, you got a hole in the wire now However, it also hooked up to everything else the slings would do the same thing So many units had a training policy and a field policy of no sling and tape up the sling of the sling rings themselves. Why? Because they hooked on things too. Just that little circular oval area that the sling goes through, you take electrical tape and or friction tape, but they recommended not using friction tape. Electrical tape was a little easier to get off later on, but you tape it up and it also would silence both of the sling rings. It would make them less clacky. The one down below is rigid. The one at the end of the muzzle or towards the end of the muzzle underneath the gas system, that one would flap around when it got tired. So by taping it, you eradicated all that noise. And if anything, make contact with it. You have the dampening material of the electrical tape to prevent it from clacking or tinking, making a metal noise that's not natural in the field. Things that tap each other in the woods are kind of dull and thudish. Something to think about there. Again, that was because of night noise discipline, especially where you can't see, I can't see you, but I might hear you. Okay. And the idea then was that from that point forward, you were being taught that your weapon never leaves your side. You're going to squat and take a dump. Your rifle is right there in your hand. You can take a P, your rifle is still under your control right there where you can use it. You may have maybe hanging on to a very important tool while you're peeing, but guess what? As needed, you'd immediately switch to the rifle. And the other part will take care of itself, okay? So attached hopefully to your body. If you were sleeping or laying down, the weapon lays with you. It is not separate in someplace else. It's not leaning up against something. You are literally holding slash embracing the weapon. And again, this was part of a discipline that is developed. And again, it is something that required instruction and redisciplined to make it a religiosity issue, make it something that you would stick to. So your team leaders, your NCOs, your junior officers were constantly watching for malfeasance. Even when you have a sling on the gun, how many people were doofuses and leave a rifle laying somewhere and then completely forget about it, but it's your reason for being there. Usually when you're in BCT or advanced infantry, it still happened on occasion. Somebody would leave a rifle laying around and Sarge would be the one to find it and he wouldn't say a word. Then he'd call a formation. He's got a rifle. It's not his rifle. He'd wait to see you until everybody's in formation. And there's that one person kind of fumbling around, still looking around here and looking around there. Yeah, you know how it is. But that person does what? Without my rifle, I am useless. Now granted, you might still be carrying a handgun. And the reason you might might've lost a weapon is because you got flooded, you got stunned, you were in a wrong place at the right time. That can happen. But malfeasance simply because of incompetence is terminal very quickly if you're not careful. So again, the risk why you will notice and I want I've just told you if you pay attention to images from the Vietnam War, if you pay attention, you'll see what I'm talking about. And you can tell the discipline of the unit and it's philosophy based because I just gave you a big hint. And the idea was you were constantly in a combat environment. There is no rear area and there is no, you know, letting up. So heads up on that one again. Also real quick on the air 15. Another thing I would remind everybody, two things. Number one, if you're outfitting younger people, I know there's some really cool air 15 uppers and lowers out there. You can go to Palmetto and go to Bear Creek and a bunch of others and you can see every kind of upper you can imagine. But if you've got a very, very young shooter or a very, or you're an older person, you're starting to develop, again, you're changing physically, you're developing issues. The stripped standard M4 type, but with the lightest barrel you can get, AR-15 upper is your best choice. the standard or traditional short stroke, short gas system, carbine gas system as they call it, with a lighter duty barrel, you can look through Bear Creek if you have to call them, see what they have, and find what is the lightest upper that you could possibly put together. Now you still gotta put some sights on the thing or a scope, whatever type of reflex system you're gonna use, whatever your choice is for sighting. Congratulations, if you're with a unit, or if you're building a unit, lightening that upper to its simplest design is going to take a pound or two off the weapon in many cases. I have a metal guard with all the keyhole systems, 12 points of the compass, key lockdown of Picatinny rail systems, add weight. We want to shave the weight off. The lowers, you can even go a polymer lower, as I've said many times, plumb crazy. Lowers are running about $100 plus or minus. I've seen a few that have been down on sale as little as once again, about $95, but they're few and far between. Let's say the average would be about 120. And for $120, you had a complete lower as light as it could possibly be made. You join that with a standard earlier pattern, simple upper, and you're looking at about a five and a half, six pound rifle, which is perfect. Okay, again, I'm not going to tell you to buy a polymer upper, but if you did, the weapon would be even lighter. For young people, especially since it has a fully adjustable buttstock. So if it's a smaller person, you can adjust the buttstock to the need of the operator, the person that you're training or the person is carrying the weapon. And here's what's really cool. They can grow into that rifle. That rifle will fully adjust to the needs of the operator. And that is one of the other really cool things about the AR-15. Is it my first choice and do I have a great love for the air 15? It's what we got. We have a lot of it. We better get ready. You know, use it effectively. We're going to war. The enemy is not going to like what's happening right now, even with the minimal take gas concessions that they're they're being forced to make while we go through the dog and pony show of the burning of the country over the next 24 months by the communists. The communists have a plan. They're sticking to their plan. One of the things to remember, the speaker that they just brought in, he was rubbing elbows with all the heads of the great reset over there in Europe when nobody else was there. So that turd that's in there right now, they're trying to fake your ass out with a dog and pony show this BS. You understand that you'd be doing just fine, but understand that great reset garbage that turd that just went in his speaker of the house He's right in the middle of that he says into that all the way up to his eyeballs all the way up to his neck He's not your friend. He is a fake. He is designed to try to placate you and get you to lay back and relax. Well, in that way you'll get caught. What have I told you for months here? They're trying to get you to get caught flat-footed. Oh, I never expected this. Well, somebody's telling us the only thing you say is you just decide to plug your ears. If that's the case, then it's your own damn fault when you get caught flat-footed. Okay, so again, we have to be prepared for what is obviously going to be the next betrayal and we will be. The other thing here again, Sportsman's Guide has got a bunch of deals on surplus items. One of them, which until I find all the rest of the parts we need, they have the Italians set, I think, set to helmet shells. They don't have the basket suspension system in them. They don't have a sweat band, which you're going to need. But if we look around, I know what I'm going to, I was doing it yesterday, but didn't get it. Didn't have enough time to get everything done. I wanted. I was looking for the sites and or surplus companies that have the. The Basket the suspension systems in stock. They're cheap. I brought them myself I got a whole pile of them picked up for anywhere from 95 cents to a dollar 25 apiece Average about a dollar obviously So we can get all the internals for those helmet shells. They are a Kevlar helmet, basically looks like the PazGAT. Most all of the helmet covers that are cheap out there, they're for the Kevlar type or for even the Mish helmets will fit those helmets because of the way they were cut. I've already experimented and tried and they work. So it is another solution to get you some bump and ballistic helmets out there. We're going to see what we can do to find out more about that. Just a heads up, if you go to Sportsman's Guide, I think it's $17 a unit for the shells. They're used, conditioned, good to very good, OD-green, blah, blah, blah. So you can go check the pictures out. Now, real quick, I got a whole ton of hot sauce for free the other day. And it's in the little classics, three ounce type Tabasco containers. Needless to say, this is the American made of all things. Actually, USA made. But guys hot sauce is one of those condiments that you won't go bad if it's open Neither will catch up neither will mustard but hot sauce is one of those items that you need to put on the shelf and Don't know bigger than a three ounce if you have bigger containers, it's fine. But what I like about this is I could issue out one of these to a person. This is that yours make it last And the neat thing is everybody that's been in the military is familiar with it. Hell, if you get, depending on what era of MREs you got, they had little Tabasco sauce bottles in the MREs. Remember, they're actually collector's items right now. Because there were little glass containers and they had a little plastic cap, it will last forever. But you could reload them. But the neat thing is, it was enough to add some spice. and change up the flavor of one MRE or another, depending on what you had, not just for the Mexican menu. So hot sauce is one of those things is a really good idea. You don't have the cheapie bottles out there at the Big Lot or the Dollar or Ollie's like we used to. When the Big Lot first came out, it used to be a bulk store. There were pallets of hot sauce. Pallets at any given day, every week, 52 weeks out of the year. That's all dead and gone. They're now pretty much a bubble box store where the stuff is all pre-packed from China. And you have to find another place or source. Well, in this case, also you'll find the stuff at the Dollar Tree. their glass. I will say that though they can get plastic. I like the glass containers because when I empty it out, I'm going to reuse it again and it can be cleaned really well. And those hard, heavier plastic caps are going to last for a very long time. Also important, hot sauce is acid. Well, think about that. So again, while plastic, you can use plastic and I have containers of plastic. You'll get one or the other. The neat thing about these is I got enough to do a couple companies in cost us a penny. And by the way, this one is Kai is Kai and Mon with a little moniker Montezuma's vengeance not revenge vengeance and Mexican style hot sauce as text revenge. So pretty cool. Again, a useful item and some of you when the tag comes, you're going to be seeing it once again. So I'm warning you in advance. No, you're not going to get any name brand, anything. Why? If I can get a thousand of the no name brand for free, then that means I got so many units I can hand out and I'll spend the money on the other stuff. So you get maybe fish steaks instead of, well, instead of sardines and mustard. But one way or another, I'll be able to feed you and help out, pitch in wherever I can. Or I'll be feeding myself. Oh, well, I can do that. I take care of myself obviously first. Got to make sure I'm still standing or get everybody else, keep everybody else going. So anyway, other ideas here real quick. Also. in bolt guns. We haven't talked too much about that. In Canada, they're banning everything. They're trying to. Hopefully, they'll start a shooting war up in Canada. Trudeau needs to be gone. The Jewish communist regime needs to be gone, and they need to fight. That's all there is to it. In America, we need to fight. Right now, we're basically, now they're doing the revenge tit for tat thing. I would point out people are like, the kosher mafia that always does this, you're doing the tit for tat thing, that's so terrible. If it was tit, like it was where they were pushing people off committees or denying them on committees, then when they're doing the tat thing and it's their side doing it to you, that's okay. But when it's like, well, now it's our turn, you shouldn't be doing that, this will be a terrible cycle. No, it's not, it's like any other situation where you're on the cusp of going into open conflict. And both sides are so diametrically opposed one to the other that all you're gonna do is keep beating and hitting each other until finally someone pulls out a knife or a gun and goes the rest of the way, which is what's gonna happen. So it just teaches you or should teach all of you that we are on the edge of whatever fires, you know, feces storms slash fires is gonna happen. Now be ready for it. Don't be surprised. I hope that they hurt a whole bunch more of the other side. They need to be very vindictive. They need to be pushing out of committee and firing and going after people and all the other. They should be doing exactly what the witch hunting pieces of the trash were doing for the last several years, not just two. And it needs to be with, oh, what's that word out there? Oh yeah, it says monosome was vengeance. They need to do it with a vengeance. See, there's another word you can apply again, vengeance. Well, we gotta be nice. No, we don't. This is nice as we need to be. Kick them in the head, kick them in the teeth, beat them down. While they're on the ground, beat them some more. That's what we need to be doing. And we've been, again, part of this they're doing because everybody thinks something's being accomplished. Nothing is gonna be accomplished. It's designed to try and placate you. But I'm entertained by it. I think it's wonderful. Keep it up. Keep doing more. Do more all you can. Go ahead. But I'm not falling asleep. By God, none of you listening better either. Because it got far, far, far worse planned and already in motion. All these bewitch traders that are in the Pentagon. Remember that one is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and how he still has his job tells you that the whole stinking mob are traders. He said he'd tell the Chinese we were coming. and set it publicly and openly. Well, that piece of trash is a traitor. There's nothing that person's gonna say to fix anything or try to convince me to go to sleep or to believe anything that they're saying because obviously they're part of a foreign agenda. We are coming at you pre-recorded this evening. Right now I'm in the forest and I just wanted to let you know I've got chaos that I'm causing elsewhere so I can't be live with you tonight. But enjoy the show nonetheless. Our setting this evening in the forest right now when I'm recording this, it's in the daytime. Our setting is near a stream. And it's a mixed hardwood softwood forest in southeastern United States. It's pretty cold. The blanket of frost, I'm sure if you're listening now, has descended upon many of your areas. Make sure you're keeping warm. And if you're listening to this in the future, we've got some folks training, so you may hear some gunshots. In the future, you may be listening to this at a warm time of year. I don't know how these Archives will get distributed, but you guys can feel free to use them for whatever you want. Okay, free of charge. Grow Your Own is being broadcast and archived by LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, AM and FM stations, base stations, as well as the fungal network of the soil itself across this great land. Our transmission begins this evening as we sweep across the coastal plains, vault over the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Rockies, finally landing on the high cascades as we salute our friends in the state of Jefferson all the way out there, waving to our friends in southern and central Alaska, as well as the Aleutians and all the folks up there experiencing 24 hours of sunlight above the Arctic Circle. Hello? We then bundle up and streak across the frozen tundra, hand off our winter gear as we sweat through the dry lands, the tropics and the subtropics, envious of their warmth right now or cold, whatever the case may be, where our permaculture design teams, earthworks equipment operators, and Native Peoples Consortium are working daily to reverse the spread of the deserts. increase beyond organic food production and drought-proof landscapes all around the world. Like I said, we are pre-recorded this evening, folks, so you won't be able to call in. I don't know if you call in. Maybe you can still listen to this program. That would be 712-4320-900. The room number is 957-464 and then the pound sign. That's 957-464 in a pound sign. So here we are in the woods. And like I was telling you before, my name's Joe. I practice a certain philosophy of growing food. And we really kind of live in life. And it's called permaculture. And permaculture stands for permanent agriculture. So the goal there is really to just design food production, human support systems. animal support systems and interaction among all those just so that way it requires little to no maintenance. So, you know, we also have, you know, what they call nowadays eco building, which is really just building with whatever supplies you got on hand with, you know, not a whole lot of, you know, expense that's done in using materials that they're going to last a long time. That won't have as harmful effect on the environment, like with chemicals and different sort of coatings and whatnot. So, you know, we were talking about rocket mass heaters. We've also... One of our other broadcasters mentioned wood burning stoves and corn burners. And those are all great technologies. I think they're wonderful. And if you have access to one down the street, get one and start using it and figure out how to hook it up. Permaculture is really trying to go beyond even that. What if those things aren't available? What can we do to heat our homes? What might we be able to get now? Commonly available supplies, it's going to do a really good job heating our houses. Or there's also technologies called air wells that are natural sort of big piles of rocks. And those can be used to cool particular areas, you know, using underground tunnels and things like that in the desert that they've successfully made air conditioning systems just out of natural components. So, you know, permaculture is not just about growing food. Permaculture is about, like I said, living life in a way that's truly sustainable for us. You know, in the militia, we might only have what we have on hand. So we've got to use that to our benefit. So, the other thing is we know about these things through history and we appreciate history, all of us do. You may have heard me speaking on earlier programs about Thomas Jefferson. I'm reading his Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book and that's got a lot of really cool information. He was a patriot through and through. So we looked to our history. I mean, this guy was really trying to supply the nation's food in a sustainable way in the technology that he had available then. So we stack functions in permaculture. In this approach, the militia approach to survivalism or prepping or whatever you want to say, we have other approaches. And we're going to try to squeeze as much production out of one area. or one patch of ground as we possibly can. We have a canine or a lot going on. Allow me to pause to investigate. Be right back. Good boy. Okay, we are back. Once again, welcome back to Grow Your Own, the budding revolution. We were talking about permaculture and stacking functions and trying to squeeze as much. production out of one area. And when we do that, for various means, we want to make sure that we don't poison or pollute the area that we're in. You know, there's that old phrase, you know, you don't sh where you eat. Okay, so. We apply that principle. That's just common sense. It's just reason, logic, and common sense being applied in a way that benefits everybody. Promo culture is kind of like giving a gift to your future self or future people in your company or unit or squad or even your family. It really, truly is the art of sculpting and building up a piece of land to provide an abundance. So that's really what permaculture is. I don't particularly like the cult part of permaculture. I mean, there's certain folks that are so die hard that they get aggressive about it in a cult-y kind of way. And that might be because of... I don't know, whatever issues that they've got going on. And I'm not talking about anybody in particular there. I'm just saying, in any movement that's counterculture, you're going to have folks that are counter even to any culture. And it's going to be counter-culty. So we do have to be aware of that. Because that's one thing that our enemy tries to take advantage of. So I think that makes a lot of sense. Since we are in the woods here this evening, I want to maybe focus on that. I want to focus on you as the listener experiencing the woods with me this evening. And we're going to do this because there's a lesson to be learned. There's a lesson to be learned in observation and from a sustainable permaculture approach. The third wave of food production, the third wave of sustaining yourself. Observation is a very important principle, observation of natural patterns. So there's patterns in the woods that if we just stop and maybe we're on watch, maybe we're at our LPOP, you know, let's look at our environment. Observe the AO, the area of operation. observe the AO, area of operation. Look at the contours of the land. Look at the trees and how they're growing in relation to the sun or where the moon is. What do shadows look like through that canopy when the sun and moon is, you know, kind of being filtered by the trees? What sort of light patterns or shadow patterns does that make on the ground? How would... How would the way the trees are growing, like in their location, relative to each other, how would that cause game to wander through that area? Black uniform moves. How would it hinder you from moving through that area? It's the quickest way for you to get out of this particular area. What's the longest way for you to get out? And also for game. We want to ask those same questions for game. Are there any signs of game having been there? So again, we're anywhere in the United States or around the world for that matter, we're in the forest. And we have to look at what's in front of us first. We're going to learn by observation. Other things in the forest that sometimes it's right in front of our face so we don't pay attention to it. It's almost like because it's there we ignore it because we're so used to it. Did you know? that there's at least seven layers for forest. This is sort of advanced stuff, guys. So it's basic, but it's advanced because what I'm doing is I'm saying there's a forest, but I'm saying there's layers to that forest. That's the more advanced stuff. So we're observing our surroundings, but now we're going to go through the layers. Okay. And the first layer of the canopy, now I'm going to apply these forest layers to food production because that is the emphasis of Grow Your Own, The Butting Revolution here on Liberty Tree Radio. So I'm going to use the forest setup to set up our own forest that produces lots of food. We're going to call that a food forest. You guys can pull up all kinds of videos on YouTube, youtube.com if it's still around while you're listening to this, and pull some food forest videos up. We're going to make our own forest using full benefit of those. So the first layer is the canopy, plus layer in the forest. Those big trees. And those are large fruit and nut trees in our food forest. They could be apple trees, or pear trees, or peach trees, pecans, or pecans, whatever your persuasion. The almonds. Okay, so these are your large trees. They filter, they need a lot of sun, so they go up really, really high above everything else, and they're just greedy for that sun. So the canopy layer. The second layer, as I observe right now, well, the canopy layer here is oak, the oak and maple. The low tree layer, okay, so that low, the lower tree layer, second layer, the understory. We call that the understory. And in a food forest, the understory would be like your dwarf fruit trees. So on your dwarf rootstock, the first layer, the canopy, those would all be on standard rootstock or just grown from seed, ideally, in the long term. So we have the canopy, and then we have the low tree layer or the understory. When we put dwarf fruit trees there, we could also put trees that fix nitrogen, mainly in the understory layer, or trees that we can use to fix nitrogen, also providing a really good chunk of mulch for that particular area. So we don't need to weed out that particular forest garden, OK, or food forest. And one of those trees would be the mimosa, the Chinese silk tree. It's very common. Albezia julem breccins, I believe. So the Chinese silk tree or the mimosa, that can be used to chop in the fall, you know, in your dry season. You could chop all of the ends of the branches off and let them fall down on the ground. And that will help fertilize the area organically. for the next year. You just let those things just called chop and drop. You just chop all those ends off or chop all those leaves off and just let them drop where they are. And the tree keeps growing. So that's one of those trees you could do that with, the mimosa tree. And that, again, that's going to be our understory layer. So it's not just dwarf fruit trees that we want to put there. We can also put chop and drop trees. And then you have the third layer of the forest. And as I'm looking around right now, I would think, you know, rhododendrons and there's some rivercane and mostly rhododendrons, rivercane, and some, looks to be some type of fern there. So that's the shrub layer of the forest. Mind you, I'm recording this in winter. So there's not many shrubs right now in this particular area. But nonetheless, the shrub layer of the forest, well, if we apply that to food production, we can actually put in the curds. There's all kinds of red curds, black curds. Any other shrub that we'd like, we could put chowsta berries, of course raspberries and blackberries. You know, all those kinds of things. So you could just go crazy. Blueberries would work really well in your shrub layer, underneath your canopy and your understory layers. They work great. Okay. After that, you know, I'm looking around for the fourth layer. So we've got the canopy layer. We've got the low tree or understory layer. We have the shrub layer. And then we have the herbaceous layer. The herbaceous layer is really just the code for this is like where all your sort of waist-high plants are going to be growing. So all the stuff that you got to walk on and then you end up pulling ticks off you, the ticks came off of that layer. Okay? You know, doing your training missions always check for ticks. They tend to be quite, they're deaf and dumb and blind, but they're really sensitive to heat. So anyway, that herbaceous layer, we can grow all kinds of things we want in the herbaceous layer. We can use like standard crops. For example, I mean, a better crop would be like tomatoes. You could technically grow that, or peppers, or eggplant, any of those sorts of things. You could also grow in that herbaceous layer like squash. and things like that. So the shrub layer, third layer to the shrub layer, we can also mix that with the herbaceous layer. And your herbaceous layer can also include things like stinging metals, right? It could include lettuce or miner's lettuce, which you get M-I-N-E-R, apostrophe S, miner's lettuce. This is where you're going to find many of your edible plants in this herbaceous layer as well. So you can use natural edible plants that you've taken somewhere from the forest and kind of use your e-tool to cut out around the base of that plant. You're actually going to take the whole plant with you. You're going to transplant that particular thing and you're going to put that in a similar situation on your land where you want to put your own forest garden or even if you just want to put that plant in your regular garden or on the edge of your property. So you take your e-tool, you take out basically a pot-sized chunk of soil all around that plant, just make it look like as big as your standard little pot that you might see in a garden supply store. And then take that whole thing with you, put it in a plastic bag, and then put it somewhere in some sort of similar conditions. when you get home or you get up to wherever you are in terms of planting that and wherever you'd like to do that. So, you know, you can transplant a lot of things out of the fourth layer of the forest, the herbaceous layer, to benefit yourself too. You can also in the herbaceous layer slash the understory layer find a lot of bamboo. So that's a good thing. We could use that to build things. We can use that for everything. And we can plant it. Just be careful. Bamboo tends to run. And what that means is there's these little underground root systems. And that's how bamboo spreads. And they just spread all over the place. They run like underground. So you don't see how far the plant has progressed until the next season. It's time for it to grow. And then all of a sudden you see these little guys coming up out of the ground bamboo shoots, which by the way, for most varieties of bamboo, you can eat bamboo shoots. Nonetheless, that would be sort of a combo between understory and herbaceous layer. But again, herbaceous layer, put anything you want in your herbaceous layer. We want to make sure that we understand that the canopy layer is going to produce a lot of shade, but it's also going to open up access for sun. And I'm okay with cutting down a number of the canopy layer to make room for stuff that you're going to put there where it's going to be more productive in terms of using that sun. And if you take a tree down, you might as well make good use of it inoculated with the Shrimp Plug Spawn. Put it in like a you or you could you know certainly use that for timber for any kind of building projects if you have a You know any kind of a wood processing tools such as a sawmill or you know even back to rudimentary, you know Standards saws for wood cutting and access and whatnot that they use cross cut saws are excellent You know especially to get one of those two-man cross cut saws, you know the our country and many countries in the world, they literally were built and saw. So, you know, enjoy that kind of technology if you have it rather than seeing it as something that just means work. I mean, we need to, in order to produce anything, we need to work and we need to sweat and that's okay. We're not afraid of work. So we've gone over the layers of the forest while I'm going on various subramps. But hopefully, you all are enjoying the show. We've done canopy layer, understory layer, shrub layer, herbaceous layer. Now we're going to go into layer five, root crops. Root crops. That's the fifth layer of the forest or of the forest garden. And the kind of forest that I'm standing in right now, this layer wouldn't be called root crops. particular area would actually be called the rhizosphere. And that's root crops. So that's what we're going to call it. So again, root crops, I mean, we just talked about bamboo, you know, edible bamboo shoots. Well, technically that is a root crop, but it blends through your other layers. Other root crops that you can plant in your own forest garden, you know, you could plant a hog peanut, for example, or a ground nut. These are things that are edible tubers. You could plant sunshokes. Or, you know, they call them Jerusalem artichokes, even though they're not from Jerusalem and they're not artichokes. They're actually members of the sunflower family. So, but they call them sunshokes. And those are great. And they just keep coming back every year. All these things I mentioned are called peanut and groundnut. and sunshoots, they come back every year with minimal to no maintenance at all. You just have to harvest them. And, you know, we can put that sort of around these other layers that we're building in our system, in our forest garden system that's modeled from nature. Make sure you check your partial, make sure you check the sun requirements of each of the crops that you're planting and spacing. We want to make sure, if you notice in the forest, if you look around at how trees are spaced, if you're in a natural regrowth forest, not one that's been planted where all the pine trees are lined up for miles, but a natural regrowth forest. You notice that there's a pretty good chunk of space between certain trees. And the ones where they have a lot of space between them, those trees tend to be really big. And where there's a lot of little understory trees, there tend to be a lot of them closer together, and those trees tend to be rather small in diameter. So we want to replicate that. in our own forest garden. So, you know, the space in between those big trees, maybe we'll use like those large fruit and nut trees, the space in between, we want to fill up with all kinds of stuff, right? It's good to have that space. We want to take advantage of that space. We're packing as much in as we can. So, you know, your root crops can certainly be included in that. Now, don't be afraid to get a little unconventional. I mean, I'm talking about some obscure perennial stuff. There's a really good edible, herbaceous layer plant that's been used for hundreds of years called Good King Henry. And you can get that this season. I don't keep coming back every year, Good King Henry. And they're delicious. They're packed with vitamins. But back to this root layer, I mean, your root crops could even be like parsnips and radishes and carrots and rutabagas, potatoes, like I said, sun chokes. I mean, you can throw annuals into this system and it will work. It's just because you have to take care of those things every year, you know, it's going to require that additional work. That's why a lot of people in permaculture, and what I would I recommend is you know Perennials are great if you can get them still I know one source of perennials. Hopefully you guys can still access this website. It's www.oi KOS Oikos tree crops. Oh I K o s t r e e CR o ps.com Oikos tree crops.com And you can get a lot of these perennials from that particular source. They're a great source, and I did ask for their permission, and they didn't tell me I couldn't. So anyways, I'm not getting a kickback though. Anyway, so you got like ground peanut and all that kind of stuff there. It's different types of sun chokes. So also in our layer, our root layer, you know, don't forget about bulbs. So for example, daffodil bulbs, other types of flower bulbs, there's, believe it or not, there's all kinds of effect that a bulb sitting in the same little patch of ground has. Every year it sits there. So over time it has an effect. And the daffodil secretes a chemical into the soil that prevents grass from growing. And daffodils are very not tasty to deer and other kinds of things and gophers. So they tend to repel above ground and below ground pests as well. So if you plant daffodils, for example, as part of your root layer, or you plant garlic, or both, you're actually having a beneficial effect. Even if you can't eat the daffodils, well, you can eat garlic. And that'll keep things away as well. And garlic is a natural antibiotic. So let's keep all this in mind when we're designing our particular our own forest, our own food forest or forest gardening system. And again, we're basing our discussion this evening, you know, Grow Your Own, The Budding Revolution. We are basing our discussion, this is a pre-recorded program, on the layers of the forest. So right now, in the layer of the forest I'm standing in, I've got about, I've got full sun. Okay, so this is, it's pretty warm right now, even though it's the winter time. which is nice. And that full sun would not have been available had I not dropped that particular tree last year. So that's a good thing. And I'm able to grow now, I'm growing mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris in that particular area and it's doing great. That's part of our root layer that we're talking about or like the rise of the sphere. So I've got some of that about five feet away from me at the moment. And that is a medicinal. No, it's not something you, you know, impair your consciousness or whatever. It's a medicinal for sort of medical, I guess you could say, problems, physiological problems. Okay, so that's my word. But anyways, now the sixth layer of the forest is called the soil surface. And so that's basically just the soil, the surface of the soil right there. And you're going to have a lot of ground cover crops there if you want to do a productive food oriented forest garden in your area. These might be things that are just peas, cucumbers, Sweet potato in many areas works great as a ground cover crop. You could also include some members of the herbaceous layer, you know, that just kind of covers the ground to shade the ground. Like, for example, comfrey, that's C-O-M-F-R-E-Y, C-O-M-F-R-E-Y. And comfrey... is a medicinal, it also really does a good job repairing bruises and sprains and all that kind of stuff. You're unable to get to a store to get any kind of emergency first aid supplies. Well, true to the name of the show, I'm encouraging you to grow your own first aid supplies. So we can include that as part of our forest garden system. comfrey. And there's other things that we could use. For example, we could grow St. John's Wort, which is a flower that will bring in beneficial insects. So, and that also has effects for folks who maybe they have some mood issues that could be something that they might enjoy as a tea if that's the case. Or it could just be a little pick-me-up every once in a while. You know, you've got the guys out there saying, hey, guys, let's have some tea here. You know, just sit around and paw the ground and bite the bushes and just, you know, kick back and relax a little bit. It's not going to impair your judgment and it doesn't produce any kind of euphoria. It's just a communal kind of thing like let's do something together, you know, drink cup of tea. And I say that because There's various cultures around the world outside of the United States that drinking tea is part of their social culture. That it's expected that you do that. Now I'm not saying that's right and I'm not saying that's wrong, but if you ever come across one of those cultures or if you're ever in one of those cultures, I think it would be important to blend in so that way you don't get outed as a particular interloper. Anyhow... Let's go on to the final layer of the food forest here, or the regular forest, and that's going to be the vertical layer. The 7th layer of the forest is the climbers. Those are your vines. So, poison ivy is part of that 7th layer. Poison oak is part of the shrub layer. of the forest, incidentally. So poison ivy goes right up those trees. There's also wild grapes in the natural environment here that I can see. There's also standard grapes that have been planted there to take advantage of that particular layer of the forest, the declining layer, the vining layer. So in other climates, you know, there's a lot of vines. And those can be used as, you know, transport systems. You know, in many cultures have used the vine layers transport systems. For example, during the Vietnam War, the VC elements of the VC or NVA, whatever, You know, they would actually tie treetops together with vines from the vine layer, which would conceal their bamboo platforms and roads. It would conceal roads. So they tie the treetops together to provide like a just a natural camouflage so aerial vehicles could not see the roads underneath that canopy layer. So, the vining layer of the forest is very important. It has a lot of uses. And we can think about, you know, in our own food forest, planting a vining layer to provide food, but maybe also to provide some security for cordage, you know, things like that. So, this broadcast is really just to get you kind of thinking. I'm not trying to push an agenda here. I just want you to survive what's coming or maybe what's already there. I don't know. If you're listening this year in the future, you're probably like, we've already been doing all that, but maybe that's a good idea, doing that thing or whatever. So take what you want, leave the rest. I'm totally fine with that. I just appreciate that you're willing to listen. And I hope that I'm able to learn from you as well. You know, my email address is joefromthecarolina.com. And I'd like to hear from you. Did you like this evening's show? Do you hate it? Did you find it informative? What kinds of things would you... like to hear about in the future. So things like that. I believe we're a little bit over the halfway point, so we're going to pause. I have to give you this little midway reminder. And that reminder is I've got to give you a mid-course comment here that you're listening to Grow Your Own, the budding revolution on the Liberty Tree Radio network. Grow Your Own is an educational program brought to you in the public interest. 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Anyhow, these opinions, beliefs, comments, views, and expressions that you hear on this program are mine and mine alone and do not necessarily represent the beliefs and opinions of the advertisers, the sponsors, the management, or the staff of this radio network or local radio station. Okay. So we are back. Welcome back. This is pre-recorded version of Grow Your Own, The Budding Revolution. My name is Joe. I'm here in the Carolinas at the moment, and I'm actually in the forest. I have a little recorder thingy here, and I've been talking about layers of the forest. I felt it would be nice to kind of take a little walk deep in the woods. And you may hear some gunfire. We have some folks training very nearby. But I wanted to take a little walk in the woods with you today and talk about the layers of the forest. And we've been talking about the food forests, how to grow your own forests that's going to produce food, as well as medicinal crops, as well as functional crops, functional crops that will allow us to, that will serve a purpose for us, whether it's using vines to tie things together or maybe using bamboo or even other large canopy type trees for wood so we can build structures. Even if it's an expedient structure, we can use branches from understory trees to build what they say nowadays on some of the TV shows. And they say, oh, it's a survival structure. survival structure. Well, okay. Yeah, you could call it a survival structure, but isn't your house a survival structure? You know, it's these more sort of expedient structures that we have learned about in the survival community are nothing more than taking care of our basic need. All human beings have three basic needs, food, clothing, and shelter. food, clothing, and shelter. You know, clothing is your portable shelter, right? So anyways, we can use elements and plant things that over the long term, like if we want to plant a particular type of tree that's going to be really good for building pole timber that won't break down really fast, you know, if we want to plant like a black locust tree. black locust tree. Those are great for pole timber. And we can plant those, and our grandkids or our kids can harvest those and build their own house. So we don't want to put that right next to our house today. We want to put that sort of configuration far out, because we're not going to visit it often. Once we plant those black locust trees, we're going to allow that to be part of our wildlife zone. right, where maybe we might plant those trees into configuration so we could easily pick off a deer or whatever is going through there. We space them far enough or we put them in a particular pattern so that no matter what happens, no bullets could possibly get through. So we use that as almost like a long-term wood defensive shield. And I know that this is out there, but we have to start thinking defensively as well. Okay, even a simpler example of structuring. Now we are talking about structuring our forest garden. We're structuring our zones, our design of our particular land. So if we have our own forests and we're building our own forests for years down the road, we want to think about these sorts of things. We don't want to just go out there and say, okay, well, this looks like a good place to plant a tree. Here we go. You've got a bunch of trees, you've got a bunch of tree seedlings or tree seeds, you've got the land to do it, so why not spend some time to think about how to do it so it's going to have multiple benefits. We're going to plant our forest so that it benefits us in many ways. Eventually we'll get timber out of it, our ancestors will get, our future ancestors will get timber out of it, I guess we call that our progeny. And really, I want to prohibit vehicle access. I'm sure the vehicles of the future are going to be just as well advertised as the ones of today, in terms of the enemy. Like, oh, they're going to have track vehicles and little probably stuff that you've seen on Star Wars and then Buck Rogers and everything. So it's like in Star Trek and whatnot. So maybe they might have those little land speeder thingies or whatever in the future. Who cares? If we plant trees that in 80 years, 100 years, or 200 years, they'll last that long like your big oak trees, your burroque, it's not going to matter what the hell technology just because there's going to be a physical barrier there. They're not going to be able to get their drones through if they have drones that can be, it's going to take them four hours to go less than one mile if we plant everything in our understory. It's just so confusing and all over the place. And we've done it in a grid, in a particular grid pattern, a circular pattern. It's going to have a hard time with all those branches. Your drones won't be able to fly through your forest. So think about these kinds of things. And when we're planting canopy trees, why don't we take advantage of it? And in the vining layer, we can use grapes. You know, any other kind of vining species. Do we want to use poison ivy? Well, there are some people that are immune to poison ivy, so they touch the vine and nothing happens. They don't get a ratchet or anything. But we can't guarantee, you know, that that trait, you know, is going to be there for everybody, so we have to be careful about poison ivy. But I don't know, I guess if your whole family is immune to poison ivy, you could plant as much poison ivy as you want, and nobody, even if the black uniformed moose come through, you know, they're gonna see all this poison ivy and say, all right, well, we gotta get rid of this before we can get through. And that gives you guys enough time to get out of there, or do whatever else you have to do, employ your secondary or whatever defensive. I'm talking about forest design now. We went over the basics of a forest garden, patterning after nature. And we're patterning after nature because, not because we worship, you know, the sun, we're patterning it after nature because we are observing that for thousands of years without any human interaction at all. There are some forests that are more productive now than any forest that, you know, we have in existence. But the sort of ancient forests, there's been areas, I believe, in the southern hemisphere of planet Earth that have, forests have basically been untouched. And they're still discovering new bug species there, different species of snakes and reptiles and whatnot. So somehow these things have been captured in just the natural formation of the earth and whatnot. But we're learning from forests. If a forest design works in nature in the natural world in this visually chaotic way, why can't that work for us too? And see, nature doesn't have guys around with chainsaws and combines and rototellers and all that kind of stuff. Nature has the process of mulch And this is like a year to year process. There's always mulch and shade in the forest. And mulch is the leaves dropping or the things dropping. And shade comes from the canopy layer. So when one of those big canopy trees falls down due to an act of nature, like, you know, or whatever. Those branches fall, the trees fall, the leaves fall, and all of that rots right where it lays. There's no human beings out there shredding that up and putting it into a composting shredder or something. Nobody's doing that, right? It just decomposes and rots by itself. Yet somehow, the species around it, all these different layers of the forest around it, is still productive. They're still growing, right? They actually see that tree falling or that branch falling and it's like, okay, that opens up some sun so now we can grow up. And our herbaceous layer or understory layer, so it's our low tree layer, that sun sends a signal. Like, okay, we've got energy now that we're going to grow towards. We could use the sun's heat to grow towards. So we want to use those principles for our own benefit, and that's why we're designing for nature. We're designing for nature because it naturally works out with very little to no attention at all. It allows us to be lazier in our own forest garden systems. Okay? That's why we pattern designing our own forests, we pattern that from nature. So in the forest, at least where I'm at right now, you know, there's a stream. And this stream, I'll walk down to it so maybe you can hear it. This stream here actually... is very toxified right now. In terms of the location it's at, there's a lot of pollutants. And you want to be careful in your area that if you're going to be harvesting and filtering water, you want to make sure you know it's upstream. Now, I know for a fact that what's upstream from here is a lot of runoff from roads and, most importantly, spraying operations from farms of runoff. that is toxified with Roundup and the different types of oils. So I can't drink from this stream. So you want to know that before you try and mess around with it because otherwise, you know, in the future, we might not have an ability to test water. We might not have the ability to filter water through means like your whatever kind of water filtering systems, you know, we might have access to now. So there is a stream layer in the forest and as long as you're sort of in, I guess, like a coastal area or near a lake or something like that, you're near a larger body of water river system. But when we're looking for a site, we also want to make sure we have water under control. Now, if you're going to design your own forest garden on your piece of land at your house, for example, you know, I would recommend water is something very important to, you know, nature you plan into your system. It's kind of like an unspoken layer. So, well, yes, plants need sunlight, but they also need water. You know, everything needs, even, hell, humans need water. So, I'm not talking about digging a well, although... If that's the best way to irrigate your forest garden, and that's what you want to do, then please go right ahead and do it. I mean, if that's the way that you need to get drinking water and you have the ability to drill a well, by all means, go for it. I think those are great ideas. But if we don't have access to those things, if we can't dig or drill a well, you know, we're going to have to figure out a way to irrigate our forest garden and our crops. through natural means. So what I want you to do, one day I want you to go out and observe the layers of the forest. And I want you to find a spot somewhere, wherever you are. And I'm saying I want you to, but obviously you do what you want. But I'm trying to teach you something. So if you observe where there's water, and you look at the contours of land around the water, Observe the vegetation around water, around that stream, or around that creek, or whatever it is. Notice that the contours the land, the water might be going up hill or downhill, but that water is level. The water isn't all diagonal. The water exists relative to the land underneath of that water, the bottom of that water body that we're looking at. So water always seeks its own level. That's a principle that we can use from nature, from this stream. And we can apply it our forest garden. Water seeks its own level. So when we're thinking about designing our tree system, our canopy tree layer, or our understory tree layer, you know, those standard sized fruit trees, door fruit trees, you know, we're going to do our herbaceous layer. and everything, all those other layers I mentioned earlier, we want to make sure we include water. And a natural way, I think the old English Alps may have originated, it's called a swale, S-W-A-L-E. And a swale is a ditch that's not compacted that's dug on contour with the land. And you can make that as wide as you like, you know, maybe three feet wide, okay? And that swale, what we're going to do with all the dirt that comes out of that swale, we're going to put it on the downhill side and we're not going to compact that downhill side. So we dig that swale near our trees, up slope of our trees, and... We're going to deposit all this stuff and we can use anything to do that digging guys. You can get an excavator or shovel or whatever you want. But we're going to do it on contour with the land. Dig that swell. And with all of our stuff, our soil and whatnot that comes out of that soil so that we're built going down deep into the ground, making that about three feet wide or more, whatever you want to get in there, we're going to take that dirt and we're going to put that on the downhill side. And we're going to plant trees in those piles of dirt. We're not going to compact those piles of dirt. And we're going to plant our cover crops and our shrub layer and our herbaceous layer and our understory tree layer. We're going to plant all that in the downhill, uncompacted little piles of earth that we create. And we're going to make sure that it gets off. So maybe we baby the cover crops and they were based there a little bit. You know, I have lots of mulch that first year, first couple of years. Plant your bulbs, plant your roots and all. You know, just in the ways, you know, with the layers that I've been telling you. But because you're using that swale uphill and that swale is perfectly level at the bottom of it, at the base of it, that's how you dig it. What that's going to do is every time it rains, it's going to harvest the rainwater upslope of the land. And it's going to, that swale, because we dug it on contour level, it's going to hold water evenly no matter how long that swale is. So while it's raining, it's going to look like a little bit of a pond, like a long pond. Over the course of just a very short period of time, the soil will naturally take that water and soak it downhill into the landscape where we've put all that uncompacted earth and soil and dirt and everything else, where we've planted our food forest. And we have just accomplished natural irrigation by doing that. So S-W-A-L-E, a swale is part of the water layer. I'm adding more layers now. But it's part of the water layer of the forest, at least in your temperate climates, like in the United States. OK? So you make your own temporary stream. Yeah, it's a stream bed that you can walk through, that you can take vehicles through, that you can take units through. That uncompacted earth where we're growing our forest system, that is also going to be a defensive position. We can use that and maybe we could set something up and use the swales as almost foot traffic if we needed to, just sort of highways for foot traffic. We could also use those swales to basically make vehicles impassable, like make an area impassable for vehicle purposes. That is something that we can do by planning ahead, like thinking, okay, well, if those vehicles are going to be six feet wide, then we want to make sure that our swales are not six feet wide. And, you know, those sorts of things. So swales, the water layer of the forest, you know, most forests, you don't see any water at all unless you're in sort of a low water table area. which is fine. Most forests, the water is literally under the ground. I have more trees. Trees will actually increase the rainfall in an area. So that's something to keep in mind. The more trees, the more rainfall, the more water. So that's why trees can keep growing and growing and growing just based off of rainfall alone. Because they're already growing sort of relative to the contours of the land that those little tree seeds are on. and the conditions are perfect for them. So we want to design water. Now there is another layer of the food forest and once again if you're tuning in, this is Grow Your Own, the budding revolution. My name is Joe. This is a pre-recorded show. We are not live this evening. or day, whatever the case may be. But, you know, we have about nine minutes left, or I think even less. Actually, I believe we have about five minutes left. So what I want to do now is I want to talk about another layer I'm going to put onto our forest. We've been talking about food forest systems, patterning our own food and other, you know, material. production systems, long-term production systems, off of natural principles existing in the forest. So the last component to the food forest, to any forest, is the mycelium layer, the mycelium component. This mycelium layer is another another way of saying that is what I say in our intro the fungal network of the soil itself the fungal network of the soil if you have healthy soil You can grow things because that beyond what you can grow when you have unhealthy soil because there's fungal There's a fungal network fungal hyphae in the soil if you go into the forest and Pull aside the leaves and the moss and you look into the dirt, right? We're looking in the dirt. You can see these little light, they almost look like little light hairy kind of things. And they go, it's like a little spider web of the soil almost. It's these little white hair things and that's the fungal mycelial network. Okay, and mushrooms grow from that in the more mature stages of the growth of that particular layer. So the fungal network of the soil is something that we can also use to... 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 left 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. home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent, although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. 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Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. libertytreeradio.org and we are on satellite once they had all of our friends in the merchant marine on every ocean on the planet. We're also a myriad of other communications technologies both inside and outside these United States. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 11th of January. It is the 15th year of open obvious and in your face Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K. 2023, old earth calendar 2023, battle for the Republic, the dance of swords. And it has been a very busy week and it's only Wednesday. And we're on the last hour of the day, Greg for forbid knowledge, of course up before us, from the seven to eight o'clock block, just as a reminder guys, we had other live broadcasting on Liberty Tree Radio. Real quick, Craig has probably mentioned that different types of number reinforces. If you're looking for radiological defense technology, he has it in hand. And if you have any questions when Craig is up on the air, remember you can call into the program. But specifically, if you are going to be looking for nuclear, biological and chemical full spectrum monitoring and defense, then you need to talk to Craig. He does have a lot of what you need sitting on the shelf. selective about who it goes to which is really good. So for it's not just for anybody if we're looking for people who are serious about the process. Other things real quick headgear. Somebody was asking me about what would be the preferred headgear for say units that are in the field. This will vary and actually a lot of our units love the booney hat. It's been around forever. We have several variations including one that we home built. We can sew them here in Michigan. Stitch them up and make them right. I'm holding one of my bush hats right here right now that I've had for, doesn't seem like it, but it's been 35 years actually been in service. And taking a beating, but you know what's funny? It's kind of like M65 field jackets. As long as you know where it is, it'll pretty well ride with you for an indefinite period of time. Doesn't mean you can't wear it out. I mean, I have a lot of equipment. I've told you that before. I field test a lot of the stuff when I mentioned things to you. I will get copies of things and I will run them into the ground. I'm wearing a pair of those flyweight combat boots that we picked up earlier this, well, no, actually last year, this time. They're not available right now except for the company brand new, but I bought them for $10 a pair. I try to get everybody to buy them and it could. If you did, you know what I'm talking about. They held up their Belleville flyweight garrison boots. They're not a Vietnam jungle boot, a little better quality material in general. Not that the jungle boots are bad, but these were actually a Belleville boot. They usually run about $180 to $200. I have the pair I'm wearing, I have utterly abused, not accidentally. I've had a little separation, one piece of the sole, but that's rain, shine, wet, dry. Lots of outdoor work. I've been kicking on things, beating on things. He's having just been behind a desk. And for $10 a pair when we got them as a surplus item, it was a steal and it still is. And I bought every last pair I could get my hands on. I think after everybody else did theirs, I actually bought out what was left. I know I did because I bought the, you know, I watched the Ticco counter. And if I want to, I could pull out another pair of these and a heartbeat I'd wear them. But I'm saving them now because down the road I'm going to need them. And so I've got other pairs of beater boots like this where I've told you, hey, go try this and or go buy it because I know it works. And these Belleville fly weights, they're in the sage green, which is actually a pretty good medium color. Not colors, not critical because you get black, you get brown, you got coyote, you got coyote brown, you get tan. There's a little bit of everything out there. More importantly, it's just costs so you can buy more. So I've got another six pairs of these seven pairs on the shelf for me. And it was absolutely once I got a chance to wear them, they're one of the few boots with them on. I don't have to break them in right away. They're already to the proper width. And of course, I had to kick two cows in the ass because these are size 14s. But they work just fine. So the same is true of the headgear. The patrol booty caps, especially if you've got original equipment are great. I know a lot of you choose the patrol cap standard. Originally started out that started out as the Ranger patrol cap. That's the design that they copied for the one that everybody else is using now. You'll see them in, I'm sure they're doing it in multi-scam, or whatever the latest is, cuz now multi-scam is not invoked. There's a new variant of multi-scam, that's, you know what I mean, multi-cam, that is invoked. So that's that flavor of the day camo I've laughed about for decades now. As it is, whatever you standardize on, with the headgear, spend a little more because remember it's got to keep the top of your head warm. It's going to keep part of that 90% of your body heat goes to the top of your head, keep some of that in. And of course, then there's breathing types. The tropical patrol or booney hats are lighter or they have more breathing space. They have air vents, whole nine yards. So whatever it is you're going to choose, do a little research. You'd be amazed if you still find out there in the way of older inventory. We've cleaned out a couple of the companies. One of the units here, I did a little R&D work for them. And there's a company that I thought we could go back and milk that cow one more time. But apparently we took out almost all that they had, both in patrol uniforms and patrol caps. They had a lot of old inventory, very unique, and we outfitted a whole battalion of troops here, Michigan, top to bottom, six times over. Everybody's got six issue, but what we got them, they're gone. So in the company, I don't know if they folded up or if they were absorbed by somebody or went to China or Mexico, but they were at American loom. So that happens, but the booty hat's a good choice. I know there's different brims. If you remember during Vietnam, it actually was almost like a golfers or basically a golfers sun cap. The wide, what's called the Cabana brim was out there a little bit. You didn't see it so much in Vietnam, but you do see it in Central America and Northern South America. Very wide brim, but it's kind of like I've said, if you're in the tropical environment, you make your own shade and that was the purpose behind the extra wide brims that were produced. You see these especially with the Peruvian troops years ago, Panamanian troops, Panama. It's a mix. So whatever you run into, if you do run into a surplus deal and you are got a lot of people, my attitude is if you can get everybody to scratch the money together right away, buy them out. If it's a certain surplus old inventory item and you're using it and it's your standard, I say buy them out because you've always got, like right now we got groups that have some cases they have dozens of new members this week, others have hundreds. And what your effect I'm scavenging woodland camouflage right now for one unit so that they can you know, they're gonna pay for whatever it is we pay it's gonna be It'll be chicken feed. It's gonna be cheap But all the woodland gear that I can put together is going to that one unit That includes patrol caps booty hats anything I can find do rags uniforms top and bottom Field jackets, M65s, they're everything we can. I'm just pouring it that way. I just pile it up in boxes. I'm not sorting it out. It's whatever I find. If it's Woodland, it goes in there. If when it gets done, it goes down the road. They've got a couple hundred people that are processing in. Those are people that need to be outfitted, so we're running the Woodland that way. For the time being, if I choose there's something I like there, it's going to go to Mark because I have my own needs also. And again, I wear through stuff just like anybody else. Also, I got a plan for the future. Assume the worst and we won't be disappointed. Anyway, so that answers the thing. And again, like I said, this particular patrol camp I've had for decades, or the booting hat sitting right here, actually, it's literally beyond arms reach at the workstation right now. In fact, that question came up in an email yesterday that I went through and was like, oh, okay, well, we can answer that. The other thing here too is, yeah, I mentioned a moment ago, learn to build your own, okay? You might wanna do a little research about home stitchery and this is why we need to make up our own little sweatshops, our own little sewing units. Sewing machines are out there in force, you need to be picking them up because you're gonna need to be able to replace down the road. But if you do your sewing machines, then you need all the accoutrements. You need more needles, you're gonna need threadstock. You're gonna start buying and building on that right now and you need to get onto it right now. This is all that infrastructure we're building that the other side is throwing out of the country. We got the thinkers, they got the stinkers. I want them to keep the stinkers. I wanna keep the face bro where is over there. They're on that side of the war. We got the group over on this side. We'll get it done. It is weapons Wednesday. Another thing, bunch of carbines are coming in, but my God, the price is on M1 carbines right now. In the past you've seen, I actually use the carbine as a premise, a good choice for outfitting militia personnel, especially support personnel. A lot of guys like them, a lot of girls like them as primary weapons. There's a lot of carbines out there if you're using it. I'm not telling you to drop it, but I still recommend you get an AR-15. You need an air, guns are for buying, not for selling. However, the problem with me telling you to get an air 15 if you already get a carbine right now is there's nothing as cheap as it used to be. It used to be pennies, like any surplus item moves, pennies for everything. Even the carbines were much, much, much, much, much cheaper years ago when you see equipping for the New World Order Part 1. In fact, if you'll notice, if you go watch equipping for the New World Order Part 1, There's a spot where I actually, you know, I'm holding an M1 carbine, but you can't see it. Why? I'm holding it at what used to be considered the post neutral carry. And it's a little trick that they taught the MPs used to know how to do this, but also security personnel who were assigned to particular watch posts. Great the illusion you're not carrying a long arm. And what it is is the carbine when you go to a parade rest or Stay in that. You take the weapon and you grip it by the magazine, typically with the M2 and M3, which were full auto. They used the 30 round mag. Any carbine will use the 30 round mag military. of course and what you do is you grip it. If you go watch the video, see what I'm talking about, you hold it with your right hand by the magazine with your index finger along the stock to secure the weapon and you put your arms in traditional parade rest behind your back and it looks like you're just standing there at parade rest with no firearm. Now you still have your web gear so you have your mag pouches and everything else there. And typically this was for what was considered a class C uniform configuration. So it would be in khakis or in fatigues, but everything bloused, everything squared away and, you know, strapped for garrison purposes for guard mount. The illusion is that the individual is standing there unarmed when in reality they're carrying a typically at that time would have been an M2 or M3 fully automatic carbine. And the idea is that you can bring it out of station. And I did that in the video intentionally. I was hoping somebody would notice. I don't think anybody ever has. But it was a little dirty trick of the trade that created the idea that maybe got somebody can ride up on. And in reality, it It sets them back for a moment in that you're bringing forward or bringing into service a weapon that has just as much lethal fire powers anything else out there and it was completely concealable which is one of the cool things about the M1 carbine. Girls like it because before the air 15 and even since the air 15 has been in because of all the wonky stuff we've been putting on the guns. The carbine is a much lighter leaner firearm. Now, if you take the air 15 and put it into its original configuration, like I said, the let's say go with the M4 type where you go with the short carving gas system. you can lean the gun down so it takes up a lot less space. But still it's the height of the gun and the general overall dimension that is a little bulkier. The carbine fits in a lot of the M1 carbine fits in a lot of really neat little places that other weapons don't. It's why it was so popular with a lot of the troops and it was originally intended as a support troop firearm or a team leader slash For instance, officers armed, and it was supposed to replace, remember, the 1911, which it never really did. It became a rifle slash carbine in its own right, in its own niche. And within the combined arms team was a very successful solution for volume fire. Okay? So again, in this day and age, is the carbine obsolete? Not at all. There's too many millions of them before the latest wave of carbines that are now about $1,000 apiece came in. Guys, there are millions of carvings. I don't know how many I've put together. I don't know how many I've taken from put together from parts. Just going to gun show walking through the show with a shoulder bag and over the period of the day picking up a receiver with a barrel receiver for, you know, 20, $30 back in the day. And then just cherry picking for all of the less expensive parts, but looking for serviceable, not for matching or pretty and building a parts gun that actually was very, very reliable. the carbenes were good for that. So again, because of its military surplus and many, many, many, many, many carbenes and plain field carbenes and then there's even the universals which originally the universal was a military parts carbean. But at a certain point down there in Halaia, they decided to come up with a totally new design using factory stamped parts that were not military. There were still some military parts that could be used, but for the most part, The universal carbine is a standalone weapon that was designed to be in competition because there were fewer and fewer over the counter rifles available, especially with the gun control active 1968 in place. Guns couldn't come back into the country or weren't coming back in any numbers other than under the table. So now even the universals are expensive, even though in the past it was universal, horrible. Now it's all God, it's all this carbine. Now they're all good. They all work. You've got to maintain them. Remember the gas system like any of these firearms. That gas tap it down below has to be maintained. You have to keep it clean. That's the most important issue with regard to the carbine where the gas diverter is, where it blows into the base of the stock there, inside the stock, builds up carbon pretty fast. Otherwise, is it a good choice? Yes, it's an excellent firearm. If you can throw me a carbine, I'll run her all day. And I'll keep it running because I know what it is that malfunctions on the weapon and I just gave you a big hint that tap it gas system will carbon up just like the air 15 with the with the issues it had years ago. Okay. Now the good thing, lots of ammunition is still being made. I don't know what PPU has been bringing in. PP preview partisan has been prioritizing other stuff, but they do produce a reasonably inexpensive carbine standard carbine round 110 grain. Fiocchi and Silly Bill, all of them produce a carbine round too, but the price has been creeping up. Meaning that typically the Serbs are still the cheapest solution for carbine ammunition right now. But because if you are definitely going to embrace the carbine, absolutely you should be into reloading. where you really save on the M1 carbine. It's a straight case, it's hard for you to get it wrong, okay? So it's a straight case, carbine even make a Hodgkin's H110. It's the Hodgkin's H110 powder. What's that built for? The M1 carbine, that's why it's the 110. Basically, the giveaway is 110 is the 110 grain carbine bullet, okay? So- Again, you can use the regular 110 or to save a little money on bullets, you can buy what's called a Plinkster, which is a semi-jacketed. Wow, they even make that? Yes, they do. It's a semi-jacketed but led forward projectile. You can cut the cost down almost by half for the cost of the bullets alone by using what's called the Plinkster projectile. And again, it does everything it's supposed to do. It has the proper jacket. It's a semi jacketed round. The lower part of the bullet is jacketed. So where it makes contact with the barrel and where it operates the gas system, it's copper. But the area that does not make contact forward of that jacket is lead, is exposed lead. It's a very comfortable round to fire, the 110 or any carbine round. None of them are gross, they were pressured. Banets, the cheapest way to go right now are the Italian, but they leave them in creeping back up into stupid range. If you can find a Chinese copy, that's good enough to get you a bayonet for sticking people, okay, to put on the weapon. Otherwise, again, we brought it up before, you know, the carbine utility magazines, Koreans are making them both in the 20 or forgive me, the 15 and the 30 rounders personally. I stick mostly with the 15s. If you want a couple of 30s, fine. But really the advantage of the carbine is that, again, that reduces the overall dimension of the weapon. It's a semi-automatic firearm, not fully automatic. So focus on hitting, not spraying and praying. But if you do have to suppress, just move that little trigger finger a little faster. And you carry lots and lots and lots and lots of magazines. Now on that note, we're then going to go over, for some reason, there has been a flurry. And I don't know what's going on here, other than just kind of like an echo chamber of interest. But in the last couple of weeks, there have been a massive flurry of high point carbine discussion videos and demonstration videos. Now, what's interesting about this is there were one or two where they were pissing on the high point. And then there are several that have been done that they're actually complimenting the high point. Now, most important is like the M1 carbine, although this is a modern firearm that's very recently been produced over the last 30 years. And by the way, 30 years successfully. The one thing that's different about the standard or the most common stock out there is they put a recoil spring recoil butt pad on the rifle. Does it work? Well, yeah, it does, but it's not needed. Again, between all the different things that are being done with it, you can buy a compensator, not a flash rider, but a compensator for the high point. Is it really needed? Well, no, but we did put one on all of the original ones that we got decades ago. The original rifle did not have a recoil spring operated butt pad. It just was a simple plastic cast stock, you know, made from, you know, it's a clamshell system. It works. It is a reliable gun. I wouldn't worry about getting the extended mags. Once again, the actual standard magazine for the weapon works. Stick with the standard magazine. If it's a 10 rounder, stick with a 10 rounder. The carbine today, because again, you know how good do people make things? The M1 carbine 15 round mags made by the Koreans, they work every time. And so it's reliability and more concerned with reliability, not having to think of other problems or trying to correct, you know, a failure. And so in doing so, stick with the basic and you'll do just fine. Is the high point your first, you know, main battle rifle, it's not a main battle rifle, it's a carbine. It's not in any unique carbine chambering, but rather a pistol caliber, which in this case can be nine millimeter. It can be 40 caliber, 45 ACP, 10 millimeter now. That's something they're going into and also 380 auto. They used to be $125 a piece rifle. They're not anymore. Okay, but originally guys were bringing them the gun shows 20 to a stack and they put them on the table and they go through them in a couple of hours or maybe an hour. Sometimes they sell 20 of those. They have more out list in storage or they have mountain the trucks. They have to go out and get more as they bring a pile of what they have left, maybe 10 and they last half an hour. That's how it used to be, $125 apiece. And yes, they had spare mags. They're made out of Ohio. They work. And so if you're looking for a light utility gun and in a weapon you'd be willing to bury, I've had a $900 9 millimeter Colt or HK pistol carbine, and it probably won't be that cheap. Everybody whines about, I can bury this very expensive gun. But if you get something for a couple hundred dollars, or met the most $300, hopefully it's not quite that much. But for a couple hundred dollars, you might not cry so much if you wanna grease it up, properly package everything and store it in a cache underground. It's one of the other advantages of that weapon. Now there's a few other new firearms out there. Most of them are what I would consider unobtainium cost when you're looking at a couple thousand dollars a weapon and now it's not really in our average price range. And again, if you have to outfit a family, spending $2,000 on one person for one gun and everybody else carrying a sharp stick doesn't do it, okay? But there are still a few interesting firearms out there. And needless to say, the five seven guns are something. I'm not gonna do all that. If you like the five seven round, you're already sold. But one of the neat things about these five seven guns is that most of them are using the PS 90 large capacity magazines. Now, to me, the weapon is more complicated than it needs to be. But well, they made it work or it in theory works most of the time if it's the rifle or the little sub guns that are made. But the PS 90, the round sits perpendicular to the length of the gun. And it actually has to index, it has to be turned and dropped into the chamber, okay? This is a lot more complication than the average weapon. But what it does do is reduce the size. So one of the nice things about a 5.7 gun, if you're listening and you were mechanized, or if you're a pilot and you're looking for a lot of firepower to suppress because you may be on the ground and you also want to try and hit, well, one nice thing about the 5.7 cartridge is it's doesn't have an extreme felt recoil issue. One of the things to remember about being a pilot is if you are on the ground, your aircraft probably was destroyed. If that happens, the lion's share of the time, the pilot, the co-pilot, the engineer, whoever else might be on board, has probably been hurt by the crash. What they learned long ago is better to have a less felt recoil weapon where the operator, if he's a downed crewman, can actually hit something as opposed to using harsh language and cracking bullets over somebody's head or just cutting brush around someone. Hits count misses don't. It's for this reason that in World War II, while the .45 was available to whoever wanted to use it, The other gun that was more commonly issued was a Smith and Wesson Model 10 slash a Victory Model 5 screw or whatever, depending on what year it was made. And it was in 38 Smith and Wesson. Why 38 Smith and Wesson? Less felt recoil. And in fact, it was proven that for pilots and air crewmen who hit the ground, typically they could have a torn up piece of flesh. They could have a broken arm, they could have a broken leg, they could have a stressed wrist, and any number of different things. And the 38 Smith and Wesson was more manageable for a game getting. In other words, you're on the ground, you're maybe in the Pacific, you made it to an island, but you still gotta eat, and you really aren't chasing anything around cuz you're kinda beat up cuz you didn't leave the plane until it was falling apart, which is almost always what happens. Crewmen did not wanna leave their aircraft. There's a possibility they can fly out of a situation. They'd prefer that to try to swim and or Beat feet through tropical jungle with Japanese with Bennett's attached come, you know chasing after you But the 38 was a successful solution with a five seven kind of works in the same category for emergency crew operations. And it's not bad because you can carry a lot of ammunition for a very minimal amount of weight cost. And remember, that's really good with your aircraft, but also if you're like a vehicle operator. Now, is this going to be a problem because it's a bastard round amongst your unit? Well, possibly, but if you believe, as I do, guns are for buying, not for selling, this is one of those things where if you're looking at a weapon of this type, it makes a great lap weapon for a person who really is supposed to be driving the vehicle, the vehicle operator. The driver should be focusing on, should be armored better, protected, and focusing on getting you out of trouble if he's operating the vehicle. However, If he ends up being stuck as the person on the vehicle and he has to take care of his own personal defense, he or she, one of these lap type guns with a large capacity magazine and a lot of bark bite is not a bad idea. And so the little five seven carbines, there's a couple that have just come out that are a really tight package. And they're not as bulky as some of the others are that are out there, okay? You might wanna take a look at what's been just presented into the industry. I believe that both the companies are independent. The weapon sits shorter than an AR-15, narrower by maybe another 3 eighths of an inch. And again, takes PS9 mags. There's several different ones that have come into tow, and they all would be a useful niche firearm. Would I carry it as a combat weapon? No, probably not. Maybe if I was an R or a medic, but here again, throw me another magazine. So where it really shines is in places where you're not probably going to be fighting all the time. And if you had to, it would be a purely defensive environmental situation. The five seven offers more firepower for the amount of weight carried. And also comparable energy when it does go down range to say a five five six. But for a lot less space and a lot less weight. So consider that as why you might be interested in those. And if you have an unlimited larder, if you got an unlimited bank account, then I don't need to worry about selling you on anything. You can go out and pick whatever you want. Now, the other thing here too is, again, ammunition. I will say this every time we have had a shortage, the newest unique rounds become orphan rounds real quick. The five seven is one of the first to dry up every time a big push on ammunition acquisition goes. And one thing that everybody is now starting to admit, is yeah, we got a broad, a broad horizon of ammunition types out there right now again, but there is no depth to the supply system. What I mean is you're in a kiddie pool, you're ankle deep in terms of how much do you have in any, any single caliber? We are low, but almost everybody's base is touched right now. So if you have a five seven, you should be able to go out and acquire the ammunition from it, if not one, several different sources. If you've got 300 blackout, you can be doing the same thing and I recommend you buy more. Okay. Well, before we go any farther, I did it again. I talked past the bottom of the hour and Edward, we are at the bottom of the hour plus a few minutes. The meteor that goes, what mind you man this fills In our valleys there's danger, and there's danger in our hills Oh here you're not the singing of the bugle while in trees Well soon you'll know the ringing's the rifle from the tree Oh the rifle, oh the rifle In our hands, the proof knows the rifle You may ride a good lady speed, you may know a stern, a master Your forward marks will speed, but you'll learn to back much faster When you meet our mouthing boys And their leader, John, is stuck Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove Noah's rifle I need no graves at home, back across the briny water And yet he must come, as well as to the slaughter But if we the job must do, then the sooner it is begun If Clinton's figure hold the butt through, the quicker it will be done Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, we'll prove no to rifle Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, we'll prove no to rifle Thank you, Edward. And again, traditional weapons Wednesday, bottom of the hour break. And for everybody out there, your weapon, your rifle is your first best friend. Whatever weapon you're carrying in the field, you have to maintain it so it can maintain you. It's a cooperative agreement. It'll do its job, but you have to make sure that all of the optimal procedures and all of the optimal conditions are met so that every time you pull the trigger, it's a barking dog that bites. Okay, just that simple. Anyway, a couple of things. I mentioned the high points. Yes, there's high point pistols. So that's always another solution out there. Again, just as a reinforcer, we were talking about during the two hour block. PSA has the dagger pistol package. It's the PSA dagger. It's a Glock knockoff. Basically, it is a complimentary to the Glock 21. in terms of spare parts and magazines. But in this case, it is a $380 kit that comes with either, you can get it in OD grain or tan, either one. It is with 10 magazines and a carrying case. So everything you need separate from the regular, whatever they normally, well actually PSA makes the gun. So it's what they normally are doing for this package. that has a carrying case, 10 magazines, and the pistol, which it solves your, what handgun should I be carrying issues? There's a good solution. We've picked out other ones, Walther, there were some Walther guns that hell were under $200 and then around $200 for the longest time. We also had other weapons, some of the Turkish pistols that came in, same scenario. The Model 55s that were coming in from Turkey there originally were very reasonably priced because it was the introductory gun when the first of any of the Turkish firearms came in, the Kanek. Well, the Kanek's just kind of disappeared. I mean, you don't really find, I haven't seen any Kanek's listed anywhere, but other variants on the idea are now out there in forest from Turkey. And again, when they first intro the Kanek, it was about $160. And then went up to about 180 and it kind of hovered there because it couldn't push past that for a while. Then it hit the $200 mark and then went up a little bit more and then disappeared. But it's a comparable gun in terms of the same basic idea as the Glock. It had a little unique styling to it. Look up the Canik. You'll see what I'm talking about. Right now the PSA, that's Palmetto State Armory, Dagger, which is a, again, conventional length, a standard length pistol, combat pistol, green or tan, you get 10 magazines and a carry pouch for $380. Okay, we threw the penny in there at 379.99. Oh, you mean $380. Okay. If you go to palmettostatearmory.com, palmettostatearmory.com, palmettostatearmory.com, you will find that the comes right up on the page. It's also in I think the deal of the day or the deals of the day because they always have more than one. They have quite a few actually. And of course you can do it one stop shopping where you could actually pick up an AR-15, look for their best buy a 16 inch gun that they have. And pick up an AR-15, pick up a dagger pistol kit with all the goodies and you're most of the way there. You got a personal handgun, got a personal light rifle. The next step is go an AR-10. Take your pick, although Palmetto does make an AR-10. Bear Creek Arsenal does also and there are other companies, there are several different companies making AR-10s. But if you do that, you've covered almost all of your basics. Now, we still have one other thing you need and that's a shotgun. Again, the Turks have been bringing cheap shotguns in, straightforward pump guns and or magazine. In fact, there's a ton of different magazine fed 12K shotguns that the Turks have brought in that are actually quite detailed. Pretty well built looks like but the straightforward pump guns are about 105 to $130 apiece and To just cover that niche to have a 12-gauge hanging around that is a good choice In fact, if you were looking for abrasive guns where you want to put a part of a 5-10 program into play I think even Palmetto has something right now. It's one of the Turk guns for about 120 right around there Many of the companies are carrying comparable product. Centerfiresystems.com, Classic Firearms, CDNN Sports, go right down the shopping list. And all of them have a less expensive, but very serviceable 12 gauge. Now, remember, firing pin extractor and ejector, if at all possible. because they are going to be outboard guns. They're not going to be obsolescent or obsolete or orphans right away. But if we get into a conflict, there's no spare parts inventory unless you create it. So we need to make sure that we have firing pin extractor and ejector where possible. and put those into a kit, put them right on the weapon because most of them have a polymer buttstock. The polymer buttstock with everything properly quiet, silenced and padded, they can go right in the buttstock of the weapon and always be with the firearm, which is kind of nice. If you know where it is, then it can be fixed. And again, on the weapon means it's not gonna be displaced and separated to the point where nobody has a clue what the parts go for. And if they have the gun, nobody has a clue where the parts are. So it's a good idea to help everybody understand whenever possible, stow the lesser parts in on the weapon. Don't forget that even if you have a regular like 12 gauge, you have a buttstock, right? You have a butt cap on the buttstock. Typically you have a single eyelet channel that's about the size of your thumb. or can be made bigger if it isn't very easily with a good, with somebody who knows how to operate a drill. And you can create a storage channel if the storage channel isn't already sufficient. For all these tiny parts, you put them in grease, put them in a little plastic file or in a baggie, tighten it, scroll, roll it up, put it in the buttstock, put the cap back on, guess what's there when you need it. But that's a way to make sure that the spare parts were when you need them are available So this is another consideration with any of the weapons I'm talking about that are the odd man out the PSA dagger is integrated with a lot of Glock parts And needless to say the magazines are the big plus so lots of magazines laying out there and apparently copacetic with the Glock 21 Just so your heads up on that one Next, 50 caliber rifles. Now I know we've been trying to get this project up and finished as quickly as we could. I do have the printer to talk to hopefully this week still, maybe by Friday. But the next thing that is on the big sweep is the Mottie Griffin design book. And we've already printed out a number. I shipped out quietly a whole bunch to different people so they could start reproducing them. The Motti 50 caliber kit is the solution for distributing a larger number of half inch guns everywhere across the country, all home built. Now, one of the things you can do is order custom barrels to be used with that kit. Douglas, there's a number of companies out there. One I was gonna even check with is Bear Creek. I don't know if Bear Creek is willing to do barrel blanks. Without they do I haven't really bothered to communicate with them Maybe Paul metal would be able to do it also but a half inch straight tube to be chambered Standard a standard barrel no chrome lining or anything one of the things about working with the 50 cal barrels is you have a stellite liner and you have to deal with eradicating, you're getting rid of the stellate liner in order for you to do whatever you want to do to work an M2 or an M3 aircraft, an M2 barrel or an M3 aircraft barrel. Take your pick. Because of this, again, there are other designs that actually are favorable to having the stellate liner in them. But the Mahdi is a very straightforward single shot. The buttstock is also the bolt control point. You turn the buttstock, extract the bolt completely from the gun, drop the round. insert the new round, reinsert the bolt, and of course twist the buttstock back into place and it's like turning a bolt on any bolt-action rifle. It's a very simple design. It could be cranked out in large numbers in a very short period of time without any problem whatsoever, especially with CNC. But even if you used garage, a stand-type production where every garage does a different part. or several garages do a multiple number of parts. It would take a very short period of time to build up a vast inventory of Mahdi rifles. So the numbers, there are quite a few that are already built. There are quite a few people that are already building quantities of them. We're going to expand that project here very, very quickly. And I will let you know on the air, be patient, but it's one of those things that I've always been distracted from, but it has to be done. And the sooner we get this wave of the Mahdi design information out, the sooner everybody will have a chance to understand what I've been talking about with regard to actually scaling up and down this design. To be quite honest, you can make a massive number of 223. They'd be single shot, but they'd be phenomenal sniper weapons. Free floating the barrel. You could use any number of different barrels that are out there on the market right now to build a 223 Mahdi. It would be scaled down all the way around. It'd be very easy to do. Another thing is doing a single shot placement 30-06 gun using the Mahdi design. For that matter though, if you're willing to do a little math, Any of the cartridges out there you could build a moddy design a moddy type rifle for So it's purely a matter. What do you have? What barrel do you have available to work with because that'll determine again? What you're gonna do with regard to chambering? What are you gonna set it up to do? It could be made in anything Ideally though against standard calibers, you know, check standard chamberings are your best bet. So two to three slash five five six 7.6 Q by 39 would be great. 308 slash 7.6 Q by 51 NATO, 30 out 6. If a 6.8 is a reality and becomes an established thing, it'd be an easy way to take advantage of the new hyper rounds that they've come up with, especially using those for placement shooting, you know, again, for a marksman rifle. The other thing about the Mahdi is it can be tuned up basically it's because it's a free floating barrel system to begin with. The weapon really could be brought up to par with anything else out there in the way of a placement slash sniping type rifle. Matter of what you want to spend on the ammunition and what do you want in the way of optics. Everything else is pretty well said and done. Again, the example here with the half-inch is there's plenty of 50 caliber out there and about. You're going to see plenty of it out there. On the battlefield, it's going to pop up. We're in many locations. Here's the neat thing. If they came up with another large pour caliber, the body could be scaled up or down depending on what you need to do. So scaling it up to say some other goofy caliber they came up with for to change out from the M2 would make any difference. It can be totally viable. One of the other things that we were we had already talked about was well, here's the other consideration. They might try to go to electronic ignition. We already figured out how to do a capper slash an electronic firing system for the body. But there was a reason for that because there are certain rounds that you could build a Motti type frame for and a scavenge barrel for and it would have to be electronically fired. Wouldn't be a problem. It's already this issue was so simple. It was ridiculous because you have very few of any working parts to work around to accomplish what needs to be done to set up your circuit and fire system. So it's really kind of cool. It's actually much more user friendly than any of the designs that these electronically fired rounds would come from. So we've already got that settled and that but that isn't in the manuals for this work, but it is already in our brain trust and it's something that we've already worked all the bugs out of. We could actually scale the muddy design up to a much larger caliber. So there's another a couple of interesting ideas there that were already discussed to settle arming certain pieces of equipment. So and also for fixed locations for defense. So anyway, that's another project that's in the wings that is got to be finished. And so hopefully again within this next week, the second week or third week of 2023, the button will be pushed on that. We're going to be cranking those out in every direction we possibly can as quickly as possible. We already have sent a number out. I just have not made the effort to go the next step on this and we have to. Only so many days in a week, so many hours in the day, and enough to eat me up as it is. So this is a priority. Anyway, other things, we're almost to the top here. I'm looking to see if there's anything else. Oh, by the way, Brent B, happy birthday. 65 years old today. Brent B. Happy birthday. Brent B. Happy birthday. 65 years old today and way out west. So again, just time comes. Remember, get out of, well, if you're anywhere near California, remember, you might want to get away from it. It's going to be pretty hot, pretty fast. Who knows what my, somebody might have, what idea might somebody have when things kick off. So. Pay attention and always be ready to ask to the blast and don't look back. Pillars salt syndrome and like lots wife don't look back. Let's see next. Looking to see if there's any other announcements that I missed. Go to guns and gadgets. We didn't play any of the guns and gadgets, but there are some interesting pieces up right now. Having to do with additional activity as we mentioned before about of things. Concealed carry, of course, is one reciprocity bill. Again, it's not a high priority or a concern, but it's again, it's something that's on the offensive, so it's good. Anything that anybody is willing to do to keep the bad guys busy and tie up their time keeps them pointed in another direction, or at least part of them. Remember, there's too many skullduggery types out there. Don't worry, they still got plenty of time to stir the pot in your backyard. But The good thing is, is that if certain percentage are going to be tied up because they have to, they have to respond or react, they don't respond, they react to what our side's doing and that's a good thing. Let's see. Yeah, go ahead, call your gym for there. Got a few minutes. Yeah, I got a kind of a, kind of a goofy question, but I have two G3 stocks or the HK91 stocks. And one of them, you know, there's two holes and they're gonna hold the pins, you know, to pull the stock off, you know, just assemble. Those two holes that hold those. Yeah. Well, I've got another stock and it has three holes. I mean, I know it's a dumb question, but why does that one have three holes? Well, the only consideration is if there's enough of a tang. It may be to accommodate the dimension for extending the stock from the pistol grip area. If there are three holes, they're forward to back, right from the buttstock towards the barrel. The three holes are lined up one after the other. Well, that's a good question. I'd have to see the stock. I've handled most of them. The retaining pin, can't be a takedown. It could be for another fixture, which is very likely. Well, it could be a retainer for a fixture or something. The Germans did a lot of secondary use applications with the G3. And because they never, they were still poor 20 years after World War II. They were getting up, but they were still poor. They weren't throwing anything away. At the same time that they had the G3 in the service, all the other weapons, including the Garand, were still in service with the inventory for the Bundeswehr. And don't forget the Air Force still had to have its weapons. But what you see, if you go back through the period when they were really pushing the HK in its early form, you'll notice that the, oh yeah, that might be. It may be an application stock that was also a crossover for the G21. The G21 is the belt fed version of the standard G3. And the G3 slash HK21 was the squad gun solution that they tried to really it was more heavily marketed for overseas use. But it was integrated into That's probably what that does. It was integrated into the, for instance, the quad pod and tripod systems that were standard military. And remember, you have an elevation and traverse mechanism. And part of the fixture is to the rear for elevation. And that would make sense. It's possible, especially since triangular. Well, the G21 and the G3 parts are pretty much all interchangeable. And remember, that's a common sense thing anyway. The buttstock should be consistent, but it may be that that's a fixed your buttstock for the elevation mechanism. You see what I mean? Go look up the G21. and take a look at how it was fixed. They actually used it as a, they actually set it up also as a loader's gun, loader's machine gun. It had the option to be used for that on a tank, for instance. It's been placed of say a Browning or a G3 or a MAG 58. At the time back in the 60s, they were trying to find general purpose utility. One thing does all guns that they could promote everybody did we did the same thing. And it's possible not being able to see it directly there. Whatever they put on the weapon, it's there for a reason. It ain't there for the fun of it. Remember, we're kind of losing you. You're kind of breaking up. Repeat, repeat. Yeah, especially Germany. So if you go look, you probably can answer and give us an idea if I'm right.