A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his. 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've 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'd hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free, of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and his number. You trade it in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be 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, keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watching tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Dill the land of the free first of all let me grab that cup of coffee and smell oh Yes, yes I'm not lying. Tanzanary, Anthony and P. Berry like in Piana Bush. Okay, wait a minute. Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the 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. North, southeast, Southwest and the gentlemen you are listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4md.com and we are on satellite, we will hide all our merchant marine operators out there, digital and or analog. However you are rebroadcasting or sharing, we don't care, we appreciate the fact that you are doing your part. And we didn't ask you to, so thank you. God bless you all. We're a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. And it is a beautiful, beautiful, we have had two of the most perfect fall days in Michigan. You could conceivably ask for. That means at some point we're going to hit the wall, it'll be up to our arse and snow, four feet or so. Any minute now. Not enough, just a when. Of course, maybe it won't happen, but I lived in Michigan way too long. It lulls you into this sense of warm, fuzzy, takes you into the toilet. That's just how it works. It's the Great Lakes. So anyway, it is a beautiful communications Tuesday. It is the 14th of November. It is the 15th year of open, obvious, and absolutely peeing 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 we shall wage war. For everybody out there, you gotta do your part, you gotta be prepared. It is Communications Tuesday. How many of you have checked the batteries on your equipment? Now, for me, it's more of a problem because I have a lot of different pieces, every piece of equipment I have. I don't care if I'm flying a truck for the moment, I've got a starter, I've got to put in one. That'll only take a few hours, not even that, but Let's assume the worst, we won't be disappointed. Really nice Silverado truck, it's a rust bucket from Michigan. And it's still something will go wrong. It's just how it works, let's assume that with old trucks. But if I'm lucky, hey, maybe only half an hour. Okay, that's cool. However, even that vehicle right now is completely kitted out, combat ready to go, top to bottom. The starter, if I can't get to it tonight, it will be done sometime this week. But it is not a primary vehicle, it is auxiliary. I got it for a really great price. I needed it because we were putting another vehicle, the big truck, in the shop. And in the process, I couldn't pass it up for what it is. I'm the second owner. It was a really nice vehicle for Michigan, but it is a rust bucket. It got hit with the acid for blood alien water we have on the road during the winter. And it just happens. Some people are amazed from Texas because we have vehicles. We have bought many from Texas because they are so beautiful. And the only sad part about it is when I bring them up here, it's like I'm bringing them to their death. Because down there, they'd probably be around. Others may be wrecked and crushed and in the wrecking yard for parts. They'd be around for another 20 years down there, or they go over the border of Mexico and be down there for another 30 or 40 years, God knows how long. Juan would keep them going. But up here, the metal lofts. So anyway, all these vehicles, every one of them, doesn't mean everybody's if it's a secondary wood carrier. We got a bunch of little Dakotas and Rangers we use for wood trucks. They're still completely tactified out so that in the event we go to conflict, any of these vehicles will do the basics. And you need to be thinking the same way. Get the radios in your vehicles, make sure that they work, test them. Then also, square the rest of your equipment away. Make sure you've got an engineer's kit in there, like I told you about yesterday. A pioneer kit. What does that mean? Well, you need a small hammer, a sledgehammer, a crowbar, a spade, conventional shovel, and whatever other tools. I like the mauls, the maul hatchets. I try to find them. Right now, they're just not available. Kind of a combination hatchet on one side actually axe light axe and on the other side. It's a basically a wide blade pick and it's perfect for Mud chopping when the time comes in ice chopping in the winter if you're here in Michigan you sync up to the axles you got to fight your way in and That's where this tool comes in really handy. You don't see them around like you used to the last couple I found it found it yards or the resale store, a state sale store. And I picked up one also at an auction here in the middle of summer. They're a very high priority tool that I want. They are very useful. If I could find a box of them or a bucket of them, a barrel of them, I'd buy them. They'd be mine. They'd all be mine. So you just need the basics. You don't have to do exactly what Uncle Mark's doing. Somebody's sitting next to you going, oh, he's crazy. You don't need to do that. You do need the basic pioneer tools. period. It's one of those things where don't listen to stupid sitting next to you. Okay? Instead, follow through, pick up what you need, have it on the channel, have it in the vehicle ready to go. We're heading to winter anyway. Too many situations where either you're going to get in trouble or somebody else is going to get in trouble. Maybe you have to help them unless you're just going to drive by and laugh as they're stuck with the rear end of the vehicle poking up out of the ditch and Yeah, they got enough power to get out, maybe just had a toe strap, and maybe dig some of the snow away, chip a chunk of that frozen mud away, might be able to help them get out. But, if you're not ready, yeah, you just tried by. Now, this is a different story from what I said yesterday about Captain Sabahoe. Don't forget, you got a gun? I haven't seen anybody put in jail yet. I mean, granted, there's a bunch of prick communists out there in uniform, cops. There are P-Brains, U-Size IQ, roided up, no neck-bold, headed idiot sticks, and yeah, they'll probably tell us. You know, it's illegal for you to help a person. I'm waiting for that. It's coming. It's not an if. It probably has already been done, and if I were to dig through YouTube, I'd find it. You know, you can't help somebody if they're stuck on the ditch. Really? Wow. I didn't know that. Well, I guess I'll keep it up since I'm ignorant of law. No, I'm gonna write you a ticket. For what? For what? For Frumba Frumba. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought. Stuff it. So anyway, in addition to the Pioneer tools and the radios, let's not forget a little bit of food also. Now here's the only thing I would recommend if you're going to leave food and vehicles. I do this with the stuff that's remote parked because it's going to be sitting out in the middle of nowhere, okay? Right now is a great time. Watch the resale shops, watch the pantries, restore. There's another good one. Go to restore and look to see if they get any of those Christmas tins that aren't pretty. In fact, always check out back because if they're not pretty, oh, they'll take them because they don't want to upset the customer that donated. And then they'll walk them right out back and throw them away. You want those you don't want them because they're cookie tins you want them because they're cookie tins for Storing food and in places where there are mice What do you do with a cookie? Can well? It's really easy you take some tactical spray paint of your choice of color or just flat black or just brown or just gray Whatever you got Whatever is already cheap off the shelf and you went to that resale store look see what they got over in the paint section the way of used cans check to make sure they work and I mean, be careful there if you want, but also you're donating to Keepman business and you can come back and get more stuff from them. And spray paint the outside. See, it looks like there's a little oxidation on the inside. Spray paint the inside. We're not looking for, you know, open it up and go, oh, look, Christmas cookies. No, we're trying to keep the Rodentia out of and other insects out of foodstuffs. So it doesn't mean it was round, square, rectangular, who cares? What you're gonna do is put those nibblies in there and when you leave them behind, first of all, put them in Ziploc bags, everything, no matter what it is, the miracle tool of this last hundred years, the Ziploc bag. It would have won wars years ago, a century ago, two centuries ago, it would have helped to win wars, the Ziploc bag. So everything goes in a Ziploc bag, then it goes in the metal tin that you've painted. You can mark it on the outside so that everybody knows what it is and they aren't just, you know, like sitting there. Just people are stupid. They'll look at something and they won't be curious. They're in, you know, a crisis situation and later they die of starvation or whatever and then somebody opens that tin and goes, what? There was food right here. I didn't know. Okay, well just to be safe market for what it is, you know like emergency stock or emergency whatever come up with a title for it And make sure everybody that's friendly knows of course, you know, I've tell people who are unfriendly Of course, would you really anyway? But the fact is that it's the best way to store in the vehicles use the cookie tins the cake tins the You know difference there's all kinds of different breeds of this stuff. I've got a whole bunch that I just finished painting that I got from one of the church sales. At the end of the church sale, nobody wanted any of the cookie tins. Now they do, because of course now we're into the holiday season. Now everybody's looking for them. But in the middle of summer, oh, I want that for. And then they're out buying them and paying top dollar, which is good, because we'll get the ones they get rid of the next time too. And if things hold together, if they don't hold together, oh well. Did what we could, got what we could, and we're happy. Now, you can also use those same tins for a lot of other items. For instance, if you're going to be putting stuff in a retreat or a cabin, we've talked about cashing. This is why those tins are very handy for keeping socks, underclothes, anything that nibblies that the Rodentia can nibble on, we want to protect because we plan on wearing it later. So, what's really cool is, no matter how you look at it, this is a very useful solution. Now, here's another thing. You also might run into the old metal bread boxes. They were, of course, popular way before the 70s, but there was a big pulse of those clamshell type out there that came out the bicentennial era. Again, if they're kind of oxidized, who cares? What you're going to do is paint them up. And there are great ways to store stuff on the shelf even in your house. But also, let me point out, how about if you have an outhouse, everybody's talking about building an outhouse. Well, time comes for refuse, build an outhouse because the plumbing won't work this and that. What are you going to put your Sears Robux catalog in if you have one? Or what are you going to put your toilet paper in? If you leave it out there, the little creatures will go, oh comfy stuffing for the center of my home. Oh, thank you, human. Thank you. We greatly appreciate the contribution. God bless you, one and all. And then, of course, your toilet paper will look kind of strange with nibbling holes, you know, a quarter inch into the toilet paper roll or the nibbled outsides of your Sears Robux catalog. This is why I mentioned also the bread boxes. And if you think I'm joking about Sears Robux catalog, okay, let me put it this way. Go to your local grocery store, Texas. They still have them like they used to appear. But you go by the front door and the new phone books are in. The new phone books are in. The new phone books are in and they're free. Am I getting a couple of phone books every time I leave because I'm worried about calling my neighbors or somebody across town? No. I'm collecting toilet paper for the outhouse for the future. That square or any kind of square metal sealable container. Not with a plastic lid. I know most people say, well, it's stupid. I'm just going to get myself a coffee can. You mean with a plastic lid? And can you guess where the hole is going to be drilled that the mouse got in? Where do you think the mouse got in? Well, that's right. Went right to the roof of that thing and there's a nice hole, actually bigger than the mouse and usually they don't need that big, but you're not out there in the outhouse or you're not out there in the garage or you're not over there at the retreat. So while I do use many, number 10, what we all call gallon cans, mostly what I do with those is just utility storage for stuff that isn't too exciting and I want to keep together. Otherwise, I gotta come up with a way. Maybe you've got some metal lids that would work for that. But remember critters, especially larger Rodentia. Or Mr. Raccoon or Possum, who always seem to figure out how to get to the bottom of the outhouse. They will dig. Now, it's effervescent in there on the impact end of the outhouse. They don't care because it's warm actually. It's warm down here. Why is it warm? Well, there's a constant contribution of 98.6 fecal matter. And it kind of works to do exactly what it's supposed to do is compost and it generates heat. And if you're a raccoon or a possum in the middle of winter in upper Michigan, believe me, they're aiming for the warm spot in the facility and you made it, okay? Tin is the solution. You can also tin in an area too, by the way. You can make a, like we used to do in all of the old hip-proof barns, you'd have a grain area. Now, when you hear about a grain area, it's tinned or coppered. Most people don't realize because they don't think about it. In many cases, they have a small fortune on the wall because, yeah, it's kind of dusty, it's oxidized a little bit. Not green, though, because it's inside. It doesn't get wet all the time. And so because it's so dusty and usually it's the second, third, fourth, fifth generation that's owned the farm, they all forgot that the grain elevator area, the grain room, was copper knocked. It was copper sheeted, which is really good because it actually keeps down a lot of the bugs and other types of bacteria, you know, bacteria and viruses, that's what I mean by bugs. But again, you can pin in an area exactly the way they do it. They used to do it. And make up an area, tint it on the inside, and make sure it is seamless, overlap. Don't just lay a sheet in there. Critters are pretty strong when they're motivated by the scent of something that smells like it could be eaten. Okay? Survival is a fascinating motivator. So just a heads up on that one. But again, you take those phone books and they go in that tin shed area, tin tin area or you stack them up inside that bread box you're going to put out there in the outhouse. Or you're also going to use it for, if nothing else, although I'm going to tell you, save it, don't use it for fire starter because you're going to need toilet paper. Well, you don't have to use toilet paper. You can use your bare hands. If you want, I mean, I'm not going to stop you. Well, I won't want to shake hands with you probably and you're not gonna be too copacetic with regard to your Epervescence when you come back in where everybody else is Because we probably don't have running water out there in the outhouse either. Just a heads up. So again, Prior Proper Planning prevents piss poor performance, take advantage of the stocks and materials. You got freebie toilet paper from One Direction and you watch for these tins. Like I said, I got a whole pile of them. I think I got about 20 from the last batch that I got where I cleared out the yard sale, the church sale. I just said, oh, I'll take them. Whatever's left, I'll take them. And I did and I made a lot of noise ping ping ping cuz they're kitty now another thing here real quick Yes, those also make good starter kits for doing fair day cage boxes for Radio equipment or auxiliary equipment if you want layer upon layer remember you can layer your defenses One can inside another can inside another can oh you could do that couldn't you why yes you could? So it again. There's an idea Also, I will remind you again that with the holiday season, remember the Christmas stuff is now being put up. The Thanksgiving stuff isn't gone yet, but it's just around the corner and if there's anything with the turkey on it, they're going to consider it ejectable inventory. You can get some really good food and or seasonal food seasonal Toiletries slash also Kitchen items like napkins and things of that nature. So keep think ahead Now remember that the stuff was made for the season so it's actually fresher than the stuff that's over in the main aisle on the shelf And water that reason it's quite valuable Okay, we got a caller. Who do we have? Well, you know a lot of things like Walmart and the dollar store they have them tens of popcorn, buy some popcorn, the one you don't get to ten. Right, nibble at it, now it's not real heavy, but it doesn't need to be. You guys think somebody's going, well it's probably not that heavy. Well, yeah, that's okay. The sheet metal is less likely to be eaten through, although I don't know, I've seen some pretty motivated critters up in the back woods of Lewis, you know, up around Lewis in Mount Merrinsay County. Because when you're freezing and starving, little creatures get highly motivated. So this is a useful solution. And good point, Tom. Again, watch the Dollar Tree for stuff like that. Another thing to remember is that they also have promotional items that they chuck after every holiday. First, they preferably mark them down a little bit so you can get them for a good price. But in the same breath, they also, when they're done at a certain point, they're told to walk them out back and throw them away. You can end up with truckloads of stuff like that. Shelves and shelves and shelves of much newer material, remember the foods or items made for the holidays, they're dated way past the holiday. Go take a look at them. That's what's fascinating to me is people don't think that way So whatever you get this, you know holiday fair even candy like Halloween candy Go look at the date for the candy the exact same candy on the shelf in the store that they kept But the stuff that's got the Halloween markers on it. Oh, we're gonna get rid of that right away But wait a minute the Halloween marker candies though. Yeah, you know the stupid stuff on the bag Guess what that stuff is dated for two three four years out still before it's gonna come anywhere near date So that's something everybody needs to remember Shop intelligently another thing too is there's gonna be seasonal stuff We get into past Christmas if we do if we get there. I mean it's hey guys They're trying everything they can to get everybody killed ain't no guarantee of anything right now, but if we make it to Christmas congratulations Then remember just after Christmas same situation all of that stuff and by the way I can eat stuffing all year long I can handle cranberry sauce any time of the month and or year you know and or week you know what? You're not starving. Now that it's good for it. It's got vitamin C in it, etcetera Going I'll go through the shopping list of reasons. It's good for it There's reasons people would also argue. It's bad for you though cranberry sauce. But let's just go with the positive here, food, F-O-O-D, in a time when many people won't have F-O-O-D, or F-U-D, FUD. Okay, there we go. How's that sound? FUD. Now, another thing, before we go any farther, on food, grab your pen and paper, attention to attention. If you're down in Indiana, if you're here in Michigan, if you're even down in Texas, Kessway, there are always Yes, there are but they're also Menards. Yes, there are well at both we have herford herford Retort pouch. These are regular MRE pouches It is these are 10 ounce pockets. That's 283 grams Roast beef with gravy just add one before we start to do the program fact ahead to rush So it was really good because we wanted to test these This is these are by the front door Marked their markdown. Okay, they so they're they're markdown. I'm just looking at well the expiration date is 06 of 2024 this is an MRE there is no such thing, but there's another date right next to it, which is 2206 28 Which is probably a state mil spec. Yeah. Yeah, yeah 2206 28 This is herford Rip and ready. It's a standard MRE pouch. They're blue based color. It has a half plate on the front with the beef and gravy on one side. Looks like some instant mashed potatoes on the other with some nice little chives on them. Now to be quite honest, I was actually going to say that before Nancy cooked it, but she just went with bread. But yeah, we have retort rice, for instance, and you could go retort rice pouch and a pouch of the beef. Guys, you're eating like a king. Now this is 10 ounces, roast beef and gravy. It's product. Just try it 10 ounces. That's a decent amount of food. Yeah, oh no, it is 10 ounces full. Yeah, you know, it's pretty good. And not only that, again, it's the standard. This is not a plastic pouch. This is a military type retort pouch, I guarantee. Again, it's from Brazil. Brazil and Argentina, we've talked about this before. You hardly ever hear about Brazilian beef, even though a big chunk of meat coming into this country that we're eating, if it's beef, is not from the United States. And Argentina is more notorious For its meat beef product from South America than say Brazil even though both are about the same size their their livestock production areas are comparable actually and again Brazil or Brazil's had all kinds of kosher mafia trouble the Jewish mob is trying to kill off the Free-thinking people there don't do everything it can sooner rather than later. So it'll be just like Venezuela soon enough but Again, no refrigeration required. 160 calories per serving, 0 grams of trans fat, and 26 grams of protein. What were these prices? Two dollars a pouch. Yes, not at all. Holy mackerel. And Menards has the 11% off thing going. It's almost been nonstop. So in reality, these cost, what, 22 cents less? $1.78. So, figure $1.78 a pouch with a discount, which is an excellent price. And this is great. Do I hold my nose? Do I hold my nose and go into the Menards? It's dead. I swear I would never go into it because of the COVID's mask incident. Now you know, the good thing is, it's right, okay, now here's the thing, the bad part is, it may not be at everyone for a while, for very long, because these were by the front door. So you could run in, hold your nose, grab the box if there's only a case left, run to the register, throw your money at them and say, I'm out of here. I mean, it's worth it. I will say this, now, Menards has been having, and if you guys have a Maynard's, you know, I jokingly say that, Maynard's. If you have a Menard's nearby, If you go by the front doors, they always have odd food stock. Some of it is clearance, some of it is just stuff they sell. However, in both cases, they usually have some pretty good period prices for like two weeks, whatever. I did not, Nancy picked these up, I didn't see them. So I don't know if these are a clearance item last of, but they had at least a case on the shelf by the front doors. Now, if they have more, we're probably gonna go in and buy them out. Actually, we just had a conversation before. What we're going to do is, if we can get back up there because to that store, then we'll go in and see what they have there and in the back and probably buy everything they got. Why? Because I really can't get a roast beef, you know, roast beast, MRE to retort pouch, 10 ounce regular meal ration for, you know, under $2. There's no place. I mean, we look, I mean, we make deals like we've done with the humanitarian rations. And I've already told you, apexgunparts.com, apexgunparts.com, apexgunparts.com. The cool thing is, is they have those humanitarian rations. Now, I paid twice the price, not even barely that, for the one full day meal pack. I paid a better price for the volume of food that we got. But I could take one of these in conjunction with the vegetarian slash humanitarian pouches, like I've been saying, either grab this, a can of spam, a can of Argentinian bully beef slash, you know, roasted or, uh, uh, corned beef. Okay. Which would be from Brazil or Argentina. Take your pick. It depends on what story you're at. and now you're happy. You wanted a little bit of meat to go with it, take your pick. Here's a can of sardines, here's a can of Spam, here's a can of treat, here's a can of, yeah, see how that works? But that'll give you something to chop up, mix in with everything else, and you can make some god-awful, fantastic meals. You're eating like a king. It's that simple. So, this is Hereford, gripping ready, roast beef with gravy, product of brazilia. and it is 10 ounces. It's a blue pack, yellow letters, red band at the top with a little bit of an arc where Hereford is posted. Nothing to write home about. Packed under Brazilian government inspection, gives you the codes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So you figure it out. And it's cooked beef with water, corn starch, onion, tomato, puree, salt, wheat flour, caramel, it's in gravy guys. And let's see, caramel color, black pepper, contains wheat, which of course it's got flour in it, so yeah, contains wheat. By the way, this pouch has been consumed. I brought it up with me to make sure I read correctly off it and it was tasty. Now, it's not really super spicy, it's not really heavily spiced. You might want to add flavoring, that's what your little spice kit is for. Be quite honest, like I said, in the field I pop this open, I take my mess kit, grab the rice or grab some noodles or grab a ramen noodle packet. Take the ramen noodle packet, put it on the bottom, sprinkle a little bit of water on it. Take the roast beef kit here, squeeze it completely out, add a little bit of water inside the pouch, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Open the pouch up, pour that on the ramen noodle or in around it. Put the upper lid of the mess kit. If you're using a U.S. mess kit, use the pan below, use the double chamber up above. Becomes a little Dutch oven. You put your heat to that from underneath. If you got your sternocan or if you got a fire or a campfire going, just slide it next to campfire. Keep an eye on it, make sure it's level. Don't put it in the fire, put it right near the fire. Walk away. Or somebody keep an eye on it or stare at it because somebody might steal your food. Go ahead, jump in there. I was just looking at that online and I got something similar to that at Ollie's before. It wasn't the same brand. It was a greenish package. That dog overwhelming me? Mommy just got home. No, no, no, you're fine. Don't worry about it. The dog won't own it. And they were, I think they were even less than two bucks apiece. And I saw what everything they had. They had beef and gravy and they had taco meat filling. You know, the seasoned tacos, ground beef, they had that. And it was, I looked at the ingredients and there wasn't a whole lot of anything other than meat and gravy or meat and water in it. So I was pretty impressed with it. Right. There's the same with this. And basically both plates, that's why I said, always has something similar. But the thing is that when Ollie's finally runs out, that's it. Because you know how it is, they have a main warehouse inventory and it's surplus, wherever they got it from. So if you do see it, just like you said, you go in, if you've got the resources and first of all, take it, grab it, go out to the parking lot, buy a pouch, go out. Maybe you didn't eat lunch yet. Go eat it out there, taste test it and see if you like it. Or if it suits your needs. Go back in and buy them out. If you can handle the taste and the flavor and it's acceptable, you can't beat that. For under $2 for these pouches, go take a look at Major Surplus. Go look at any of the surplus companies for the single retort pouch main course anything. What's bad is, by the time you're done, I mean, you can find it for hovering around the $2 for some of the pastas and whatever, like the Tetrazzini, Tetrazzini. And you know, tomato sauce or you might find it with, you know, the chicken a la king. There's the standard. Chicken a la king, but it's chicken. This is beef. So if you want to change up your menu, beef is good. Okay, most everybody can handle beef. They should be able to handle all the others. And trust me on something there. When your ass is starving, I don't care what you put in front of them. It'll be amazing how quickly it disappears. Hey, Mark, you know what they want for those at Walmart? 13.95 each per bag. What? For that pouch? For that one pouch. No way. Oh yeah, I'm not kidding you. I wouldn't lie. Not politically. Well guys, then if you got a Maynard's nearby, and I would check all these out because they have had, like Darsang, a couple of different breeds of the retort pouches. Now there's a difference in the, you know, the cheaper retort pouch is the semi-clear or printed plastic pouches. You'll notice that when you go to Dollar Tree, you don't see a whole lot of your higher-end food in that. You'll see base foods like rice or, for instance, right now they've got retort pouch, refried beans. Now, those are not a bad item. Neither one are bad items. But if I were looking at, say, carrying something in the field, the retort pouch is a lot easier to work and leave sealed because I'm not going to use it all up at once. I could use part of it and then seal it back up again. And that's a good thing. Now, the only thing you've got to do is think ahead. You don't carry them just in that pouch and stick them in your backpack or your pocket. No, you carry bigger Ziploc bags. that are virgin for one purpose. You take that open pouch or any open pouches you partially used, they go in the bigger Ziploc bag and they get sealed. Why? Because you don't want anything coming loose or popping loose. You had that Ziploc lighter. It should be good. No, it won't be. At some point you're going to have a boo-boo and you're going to have refried beans or tomato sauce or, you know, linguine or whatever stuck to something on the inside of your pouch and it never gets clean, right? Okay, never works right. So, again, prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Or the other consideration, eat it all, but you still need a bag, you're gonna carry your junk out, you're not gonna leave, well, now that varies, but most of the time you're not gonna leave anything behind. We don't want any information left behind for the enemy so we carry out what we can. The only consideration with that, with pouches, is that dogs. will smell you, animals that are tracking you, people that were tracking you, will be able to identify you by scent and that's part of what becomes the signature scent. So this is why overlapping or multiple packing. Now in the field, old trick, old SF trick, it was taught this years ago, we never throw away our foot powder containers. Why? Well, because Sarge, you go get a tin can of CS powder, which by the way guys, you can get CS powder in separate, you know, used to come in separate containers. And what you would do is fill up the foot powder container with CS-CM powder. What was that for? Well, when you're in the field and when you stop, if you did eat anything or if you defecated, if you did a cat hole or you take your e-tool, you pop a hole open, you bang for that, poop right in that spot right there, wipe your hind end, that goes into that hole. Before you drop it, you sprinkle on top, CSCN powder. Then you drop the clot of