WEBVTT - How Body Armor Works: A Special Request

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<v Speaker 1>Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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<v Speaker 1>It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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<v Speaker 1>from House Stuff Works dot com? Even welcome to the podcast, Chuck.

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<v Speaker 1>I was just caught by surprise too. I was called

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<v Speaker 1>by surprise as well. I mean the push of a

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<v Speaker 1>button and here we are. Yeah, stuff you should know

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<v Speaker 1>is what you're listening to. Um, and uh, what we

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<v Speaker 1>have we have. We're actually doing a special request. Our

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<v Speaker 1>first one. Fairly rare for us. UM. Okay, well yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>if it's our first one, then it's exceedingly rare. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>We got a letter from a soldier in Iraq, right

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<v Speaker 1>and he says, he says, hey, guys, I'm deployed to

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<v Speaker 1>a rock right now and just recently subscribe subscribe, excuse

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<v Speaker 1>me to your podcast. They're great to listen to my downtime.

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<v Speaker 1>I just listened to the newest one about where it's

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<v Speaker 1>best to get shot, one of my favorites. Uh, I

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<v Speaker 1>think the hands and feet are the best also. So

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<v Speaker 1>he agrees with us, and he wants to request to

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<v Speaker 1>do one about body armor. We wear this stuff out

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<v Speaker 1>here in a rock and some of the guys would

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like to know how what we wear works.

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Anderson and Baghdad. Thank you, Mr Anderson. We don't

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<v Speaker 1>have it, didn't say like Corporal Anderson of whatever battalion.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's all we have to Should we go so

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<v Speaker 1>far as to call him Donald? Sure? It seemed like

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<v Speaker 1>a fairly casual email, civil and uh, well, we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>We're doing this for two reasons. Number One, he legitimized

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<v Speaker 1>our theory that the hands and feet are the best

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<v Speaker 1>place to get shot. Sure, what with him being a

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<v Speaker 1>soldier in Iraq. If he agrees, then yeah, we're legitimate. Secondly, um,

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<v Speaker 1>Chuck really wanted to do this because he's trying to

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<v Speaker 1>make up for the fact that his father was a

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<v Speaker 1>draft dodger. Um. But other than that, that's you know,

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<v Speaker 1>that's that's pretty much the criteria for us to do

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<v Speaker 1>a special request, right. My father doesn't listen to me,

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<v Speaker 1>so I have no chance of being called out on that,

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<v Speaker 1>and neither do the Quakers. This is actually a thank

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<v Speaker 1>you to the soldiers of it there. Yeah, that's much

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<v Speaker 1>more succinct. Let's get into it, all right. So we

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<v Speaker 1>started researching a couple of articles on body arm around

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<v Speaker 1>the site and this is what we came up with. Chuck,

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<v Speaker 1>you wanna you want to lead off here? Uh? Sure? Um,

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<v Speaker 1>little history of body armor. I guess it's been around

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<v Speaker 1>for a long long time. We're talking thousands of years.

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<v Speaker 1>It's nothing like the body armor today. No, it was

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<v Speaker 1>like animal hides or tree bark or something, right. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>early on, I think man figured out that hurled objects

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<v Speaker 1>hurt when they hit your body, and it might be

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<v Speaker 1>a smart thing to put tree bark or just whatever

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<v Speaker 1>I can get my hands on. And that evolved eventually

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<v Speaker 1>into metal of course, which that works for a really

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<v Speaker 1>long time. Yeah, it worked really well because you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, all you're defending yourself against if you have

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<v Speaker 1>like chain mail. I don't know how many of you

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<v Speaker 1>are or if you Chuck ever played Dungeons and Dragons,

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<v Speaker 1>but there's all sorts of different you know, kind of

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<v Speaker 1>males armor, um, and you know, you you get more

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<v Speaker 1>hit points. I believe I haven't played since I was

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<v Speaker 1>it's been it's been a couple of weeks. Um. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>it works because all you're doing is defending yourself against

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<v Speaker 1>the sword. You know, sword loses to chain mail every time, right,

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<v Speaker 1>But we came up with something. We invented something, and

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<v Speaker 1>it kind of made armor obsolete, right because armor clearly

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<v Speaker 1>is bulky heavy, hard to maneuver it is. And also,

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<v Speaker 1>if you get shot with a bullet, it's probably going

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<v Speaker 1>to go through a metal plate. And so once we

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<v Speaker 1>really got gunpowder under control, armored, isn't anybody wearing armor

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<v Speaker 1>like that's in trouble. But people were running around getting

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<v Speaker 1>shot and not necessarily just in the hands or feet.

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<v Speaker 1>So we needed to come up with something, and finally

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<v Speaker 1>we come up with modern body armor the kind you

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<v Speaker 1>see you know, um, Jamie Fox running around a bagdad

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<v Speaker 1>In in that one movie that I never saw that one. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, like a kevlar vest n bulletproof. No,

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<v Speaker 1>people call these bulletproof Fastin's incorrect. Actually a bullet resistant, right,

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<v Speaker 1>bullet resistant is preferred. Um, there's no proof to Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not all the time. They do their best, but

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<v Speaker 1>they can't claim to be bulletproof. I think, um, Donald's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna find this kind of discomforting, right, I think I

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<v Speaker 1>think they know. Okay, Well, we also probably shouldn't use

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<v Speaker 1>the word Kevlar is a catch ball because that's actually

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<v Speaker 1>a specific brand name made by du pont. Right, So

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<v Speaker 1>that's like calling you know, any copy or xerox or

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<v Speaker 1>or any kind of pain reliever tile. In all, kevlar

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<v Speaker 1>is a specific type of thread, right. It's a fiber.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a fiber and a pound for pound or ounce

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<v Speaker 1>perounce or graham for graham, however you'd weigh it. It's

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<v Speaker 1>what five times stronger than a similar steel strand of

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<v Speaker 1>fiber same weight. So basically what this is all woven together? Right.

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<v Speaker 1>I think in the article it uses a good uh

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<v Speaker 1>frame of reference to help understand it. If you think

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<v Speaker 1>of a soccer goal with the net in the back,

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<v Speaker 1>when when you kick the ball into the net, every

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<v Speaker 1>piece of the net reacts to it. So even though

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<v Speaker 1>it hits a very small part, uh, because it's woven

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<v Speaker 1>together vertically and horizontally, it all absorbs the impact. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's kind of a similar concept. It's like a big,

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<v Speaker 1>very very tightly woven net wearing And I guess kind

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<v Speaker 1>of like if you've ever played tennis, when you hit

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<v Speaker 1>a ball into the net, it's a loose net. It's

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<v Speaker 1>going to go onto the other side into the net further.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you keep that net really tight, it's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>bounce off with with barely any movement whatsoever. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>so good anymore. Yeah, I haven't played in a while. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but um, okay, so there's the both a tennis and

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<v Speaker 1>a soccer analogy, which I think is more than enough.

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<v Speaker 1>But but with with kevlar and other kinds of um

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<v Speaker 1>soft bulletproof vest, we'll get into hard bulletproof vests momentarily.

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<v Speaker 1>Um these things, these weaves are so tight that, um,

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<v Speaker 1>the impact of a bullet is distributed across them exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's layered. There's different layers. I think they're covered

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<v Speaker 1>in plastic film. Uh yeah. Sometimes there's a resin, and

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<v Speaker 1>then there's there's sandwich like each each layers made more

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<v Speaker 1>rigid with like a plastic a plastic layer on either

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<v Speaker 1>side of the kemblar weave, and then that's a layer,

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<v Speaker 1>and then there's layer upon layers, so you know, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen or fifteen layers, depending on how how thick it is,

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<v Speaker 1>the problem is it's like a piece of paper. If

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<v Speaker 1>you take a piece of paper, you can easily fold it.

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<v Speaker 1>If you take a ream of paper, it makes it

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<v Speaker 1>much more difficult to fold. So, such as the case

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<v Speaker 1>with layer upon layer of bullet resistant material. But obviously

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<v Speaker 1>the more you have, the better off you're gonna be.

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<v Speaker 1>Although you want to still be able to draw your gun.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't want to be like Randy and a Christmas story.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't put his arms down. You know exactly, you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna be in big trouble. So we've reached the point.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's the point in contention. You want protection that can

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<v Speaker 1>stop a bullet and or fragment or fragment shore in

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<v Speaker 1>the case of war um or. But at the same time,

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<v Speaker 1>you want flexibility, you want motion absolutely And when we're

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<v Speaker 1>talking about um hard body armor. These are actually like

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<v Speaker 1>ceramic plates. It's not like ceramic like a coffee mug

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<v Speaker 1>that would be almost useless. What what's it called, Chuck,

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<v Speaker 1>It's like alumina or something like that. There's a it's

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<v Speaker 1>a type of ceramic right. Let me check on that

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<v Speaker 1>as you continue. Anyway, it's a right solumina. Uh, it's

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<v Speaker 1>a type of ceramic plate. And it's exceedingly hard and

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<v Speaker 1>uh it doesn't shetter like you know, a ceramic coffee

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<v Speaker 1>mug would. Um and these things are they'll they will

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<v Speaker 1>stop a bullet. Yeah, that's pretty much guaranteed. The problem

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<v Speaker 1>is they're thick, um, and you only want to wear

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<v Speaker 1>them when you know somebody's going to be shooting at you. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the key here to the ceramic plates, as

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<v Speaker 1>they will stop a rifle bullet, whereas your average kevlar

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<v Speaker 1>vest soft fest will stop a nine millimeter pistol round.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you know, like you said, if you know

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna get shot, which is probably not a good feeling,

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<v Speaker 1>or if you have a hunch that you're gonna get shot. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>They make a lot of these soft vests now with

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<v Speaker 1>pockets that you can slip the ceramic plate into and

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<v Speaker 1>out of, which is good. So if you're walking around Detroit,

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<v Speaker 1>you can just wear the soft vest. If you're walking

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<v Speaker 1>around Bagdad, you should probably keep these ceramic plates in

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<v Speaker 1>it all times. I would say, okay, um, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>So that's the that's the soft body armor, the hard

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<v Speaker 1>body armor. Um and Chuck, I actually went a little off.

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<v Speaker 1>I found another article called liquid body armor. Yeah, that's

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<v Speaker 1>the problem. We were talking about flexibility but also strength. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>they may have it licked. How's that. There's a stuff

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<v Speaker 1>called sheer thickening fluid that's t F and basically what

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<v Speaker 1>it is is it's these tiny little particles of silica, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're suspended in uh some kind of oily, kind

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<v Speaker 1>of slick, oily substance. Uh, polyethylene glycol i believe is

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<v Speaker 1>what it's usually used. And so the particles are just

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<v Speaker 1>sitting there and they're actually repelled by one another. They

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to be around one another. There's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>taken up space, so they slide over one another very easily.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's kind of liquid e right, right, But an

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<v Speaker 1>impact actually it overwhelms the repulsive forces and all of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden, these silica particles formed the shield. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>it happens in a few milliseconds, so, I mean, the

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<v Speaker 1>moment the bullet starts to touch that vest, it turns

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<v Speaker 1>into the shield. But the but, but the beauty part

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<v Speaker 1>is is that after the bullets you know, been stopped

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<v Speaker 1>and bounced off for whatever, um, this liquid, these the

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<v Speaker 1>silica particles start to repel once once more and now

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<v Speaker 1>this average ordinary kevlar vests body armor. It goes back

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<v Speaker 1>to being you know, supple and easy to move in.

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<v Speaker 1>How cool is that? That sounds like some Batman stuff?

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<v Speaker 1>It totally does, and um, it does actually I love

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<v Speaker 1>it when you bring in the supplemental stuff that you

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<v Speaker 1>don't even tell me about. Josh, we'll get it. Like

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<v Speaker 1>I'm learning, I'd like to keep you on point the

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<v Speaker 1>the Apparently in tests of these this kind of this

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<v Speaker 1>what is it, sheer thickening fluid and actually our our

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<v Speaker 1>colleague Tracy Wilson used a great example. It's like corn

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<v Speaker 1>starch and water. If you put in equal parts, um,

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<v Speaker 1>they just kind of um. It's it's still liquid e.

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<v Speaker 1>But you can make it into a ball because you're

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<v Speaker 1>applying pressure. But when you put the ball back down,

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna go back into more of a liquidity state.

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<v Speaker 1>It's very much the same except not quite. Okay. The

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<v Speaker 1>beauty thing about sheer thickening fluid is that in tests,

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<v Speaker 1>from what I understand, uh, they you need four layers

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<v Speaker 1>of kevlar um to get the same stopping power with

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<v Speaker 1>the STF on it to get the same stopping power

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<v Speaker 1>as fourteen layers of plain old also called neat kevlar.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's much more flexible, but it works. Now are

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<v Speaker 1>they is this in use right now or is it

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<v Speaker 1>still in development? I believe it has exited development and

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<v Speaker 1>started to go into production. Yeah. Yeah, So if you

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<v Speaker 1>can get your hands on a on a kevlar vest,

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<v Speaker 1>piece of body armor with stf right, that's the one

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<v Speaker 1>you want, you know, because you can draw a gun

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<v Speaker 1>faster than anybody. Sure, and that's important. I know they

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<v Speaker 1>say a lot of times that with the heavier vest,

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<v Speaker 1>police officers are less likely to use them. So what

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<v Speaker 1>good is a vest if it's in your police car. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>So they try to make them as comfortable as possible,

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<v Speaker 1>so the so the officers of the law and military

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<v Speaker 1>will be more likely to put them on. Yeah. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>there's one other aspect that you have to we have

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<v Speaker 1>to take any consideration that we don't necessarily, but you know,

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<v Speaker 1>manufactures of bullet resistant body armor should. Um, and that

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<v Speaker 1>is blunt force trauma. Okay, So that the both the

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<v Speaker 1>tennis and the soccer analogy had a commonality. Um, when

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<v Speaker 1>that ball hits that net, the net gives. Sure, you

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<v Speaker 1>don't want your kevlar I'm sorry, you don't want your

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<v Speaker 1>body armor to give, right, because it's still touching your

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<v Speaker 1>body and even if it's not piercing, it could do

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<v Speaker 1>some serious internal damage. I would imagine. Yeah, when we

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<v Speaker 1>were talking about best place to get shot. We talked

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<v Speaker 1>about cavitation, and I imagine this would be kind of similar,

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<v Speaker 1>would be like cavitation without a puncture wound. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it could probably do some serious damage the soft tissue,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe even create enough of a shock wave to break

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<v Speaker 1>a bone. They've got this problem, Lick though. Body armor

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<v Speaker 1>manufacturers have that this this exceedingly tight weave to take

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<v Speaker 1>advantage of, like you said, the horizontal in the vertical

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<v Speaker 1>we've and it so efficiently distributes the force of the

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<v Speaker 1>bullet that you'll feel it, but you actually won't feel

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<v Speaker 1>where the bullet hit. It'll just your your whole your

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<v Speaker 1>whole torso will will feel the impact. Right. Actually, twist

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<v Speaker 1>the wires too, fibers, I'm sorry as well. So they're

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<v Speaker 1>twisted and woven and twisted so which you get as

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<v Speaker 1>a really dense, dense weave. Yeah, they go to a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of trouble and for good reasons, exactly. All right.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's some other stuff that's on the horizon, and

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<v Speaker 1>I understand things like chicken feathers. Yeah, did you hear

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<v Speaker 1>about this? I did? Uh. Kevlar you know, works pretty well,

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<v Speaker 1>but they are there. People are always searching for better

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<v Speaker 1>and better ways to protect our soldiers and officers of

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<v Speaker 1>the law and citizens if you'd like one, Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to discount the citizen. Definitely walk around with

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<v Speaker 1>one if you like. Well, there's one called fiber called vetran,

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<v Speaker 1>and vetran is about twice as strong as kevlar, which

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<v Speaker 1>is five to ten times stronger than steel, which is good.

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<v Speaker 1>They're experimenting with spider silk, believe it or not. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they've actually genetically engineered goats to produce spider silk. And

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<v Speaker 1>I take it maybe their hair grows like that. I

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<v Speaker 1>have no idea, because I don't know where the silk

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<v Speaker 1>would come out of the poor goat. Yeah, well we'll

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<v Speaker 1>look into that, and uh, I think that's a question

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<v Speaker 1>of the day right there. Yeah, we'll touch on how

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<v Speaker 1>how do you produce biers still and chicken feathers, as

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<v Speaker 1>you said, is a possibility. Um. Researchers in Nebraska are

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<v Speaker 1>spinning these feathers into a cloth, and it's turns out

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<v Speaker 1>it's really sturdy because of the honeycomb texture of the feather.

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<v Speaker 1>So very cool. Go figure one day your body armor

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<v Speaker 1>might be the same thing that's in your pillow. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>And to find out how bullet resistant chickens are. You

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<v Speaker 1>could shooting with a gun. You can conduct your own

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<v Speaker 1>field tests. I guess you could. All right, well, chuck,

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<v Speaker 1>that's body armor, and actually there's a lot more to it. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>I would strongly recommend Donald or anyone else who's very

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<v Speaker 1>interested in it to check it out on our handy

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<v Speaker 1>search bar. I think this body armor will do. We'll

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<v Speaker 1>probably bring up some stuff absolutely well. But before we

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<v Speaker 1>let you go, how was some listener mail? It sounds

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<v Speaker 1>good to me. So today, keeping with the bullet thing

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<v Speaker 1>that we've got going on the body armor, we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>read a couple of suggestions for where to get shot. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>which one of our recent podcasts we left one part

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<v Speaker 1>off we did, and both these are pretty good suggestions,

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<v Speaker 1>So I'll read him real quick. William Hartel, who was

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<v Speaker 1>a dentist in St. Louis rights and suggests the mouth

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<v Speaker 1>is a good place to get shot. He is a dentist,

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<v Speaker 1>like I said, and during his hospital training, he treated

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<v Speaker 1>a man who had been shot in the face. When

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<v Speaker 1>he examined him, it became clear that he had been

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<v Speaker 1>shot at close range in the cheek and it basically

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<v Speaker 1>went through one side went out the other never hit

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<v Speaker 1>any teeth and only did slight damage to the dorsum

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<v Speaker 1>of his tongue, he said, and obviously two holes in

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<v Speaker 1>his cheeks. Where's the dorsum? I don't know. I have

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<v Speaker 1>to look that out. Maybe William can write his back us.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh the exit side was badly bruised, he said, which

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<v Speaker 1>I would figure. But they basically uh stitched him up

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<v Speaker 1>a few stitches and that was that was all he needed.

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<v Speaker 1>So the mouth, if you can manage to get shot

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<v Speaker 1>through your cheeks without it touching anything else, I would

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<v Speaker 1>agree that your tongue. And then we have Lewis from

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<v Speaker 1>North Carolina parent parentheses born in Ethiopia says it's very interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>He said the hand or foot was the best place.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh even I'm sorry we said that. But he suggests

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<v Speaker 1>the buttocks. And he's not the only one. There was

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<v Speaker 1>another person who suggested the buttocks. Right and now in

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast we mentioned the bundle of nerves in the

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<v Speaker 1>pelvic region and he said, if you could manage to

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<v Speaker 1>get shot in the buttocks and avoid this region, presumably

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<v Speaker 1>again like the cheek, maybe from the side it would

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<v Speaker 1>go in this cheek and out the other. I would

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<v Speaker 1>say that's probably not a bad place to get shot either,

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<v Speaker 1>other than the fact that you wouldn't be able to

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<v Speaker 1>sit down and you'd have to land your stomach for

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<v Speaker 1>a while, the dorsum of your tongue would remain intact. True.

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<v Speaker 1>So those are both pretty good suggestions from our readers

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<v Speaker 1>for a good nice to get shot. And so if

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<v Speaker 1>you can manage, if you know if you're held at gunpoint,

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<v Speaker 1>to get the cheek in there, or whether it's on

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<v Speaker 1>your back side or your face, then you might be

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<v Speaker 1>doing well. I'd still take a foot any day of

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<v Speaker 1>the week. I'd like that not to be challenged. So

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<v Speaker 1>we want to thank them for writing in, and we

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<v Speaker 1>want to thank Donald especially a friend in the military

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<v Speaker 1>serving the United States and Iraq, and all of our

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<v Speaker 1>friends in the military thing exactly. Thank you very much.

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