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October 2, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As you heard of our newscast, the Nebraska State Patrol
bomb Squad and members of the Nebraska Air National Guard
disposed safely some grenades that were found in a home
in Lincoln, Nebraska. This was yesterday morning. And I just
want us to think about this for a second. When
was the last time you were like, oh, yeah, here's

(00:23):
a grenade in my house. Probably not ever, it would
be my guess. Apparently a resident of Lincoln found four
old hand grenades among the belongings of an elderly family member.
Let's just talk about this for a second. What is
the play there, what's the reaction. It's like, these look

(00:47):
like hand gredades. First of all, I I don't know
how old these were. I would bet that they're decades
and decades would be my guess.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
I was.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I was thinking to myself, like, of a hand grenade, right,
and we see hand grenades all the time, Like, you know,
not to make light of weaponry, but you know, there
are a lot of jokes about hand grenades and horseshoes
and hand grenades. Was the only thing, like it only
counts when you're close and horseshoes and hand grenades stuff
like that, Right, But I think I could positively identify

(01:27):
a hand grenade pretty quickly if I saw one. Also,
if I see one, I have to like make the
determination because a family member would have kept this as
like an antique or maybe they served, or you know,
they were just like this is a good good thing to.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Keep, which it's not. It is not a good thing
to keep.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
This thing would have been gotten tipped over to the
wrong way or something like house goes boom. Right, Let's
just say you're like going through the attic of an
elderly family member and you're just like, you know, and
thankfully I've never had to do this where I have to,
like because my mom and dad, and my mom especially
like she puts a lot of stuff, Like in our garage.

(02:08):
We were one of those families that we never really
ever put a car in the garage. First of all,
our garage didn't have like an automatic opener. You had
to like unlock it from the inside. Like, so there
was a side door. You unlock the side door you
walk in. There's like a bolt that locks the outside door.
You have to pull that out and then you can

(02:28):
go from the outside and lift it up if you
wanted to get like the lawnmower out or whatever. Well,
we didn't ever have cars really in this old garage
that we had. We mostly just had our stuff, a
bunch of stuff that I never really saw after we

(02:49):
put it in there. You know, the only thing I
ever went in there was to get bikes or basketballs
or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
A huge fear of mine, like a phobia almost is
getting a phone call one day saying, Hey, we're deciding
to move, can you come help us go through.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
What's in this garage.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm gonna call it sick on that day, Like I,
if I haven't seen it in years, I don't need it,
and I you know, what you guys probably should do
in a situation like that is, you know, call somebody
who's got like a big dumpster and then just start
loading stuff. Come on, like like we have all these
earthly things on this planet, we just do not need

(03:31):
them all all right. Anyway, Let's say you're doing that.
Unfortunately you get the assignment of going up the attic
or you're in the garage and you're like, okay, let's
see what we have in here, and you come across
these things that look like hand grenades, and they do
not feel like toys. Picking it up was the first

(03:53):
wrong step hands, you know, I like, I don't know,
I you know, it feels pretty heavy. If I picked
this up, it's like, oh wait a second, this is
a real live hand grenade. This could explode if I
like handle this improperly, especially if they're old, right, Like,
how do they work? You know, pull the pin out?

(04:13):
Like we we like your common knowledge is like you
you can pull the pin out and then you just
have to you know, as soon as you.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Let go it.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, now time they're right, you got like five seconds
to like, yeat it somewhere else and hope that you
know you're on target at least kind of with what
you're attempting to do in a in a neighborhood of Lincoln, Nebraska.
I would imagine that that's probably not the best place
to be having a grenade. So I don't know, like

(04:44):
what would be the react, Like I don't know if
I would call the police, I.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Don't know what else would you do?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Then?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't know, you know what I mean, Like, what
are these? When I touch it?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
It's like, is this does this operate the same as
like a gun would? If I found like My grandpa
used to have like a four and this really small
gun and I use it for trap shooting. When I
was like, I don't know, thirteen or fourteen years old.
If I ran into that gun, like, that's not a
big deal. It's like, oh, here's Grandpa's gun. I didn't
know where this was. Here it is. I know how

(05:18):
to operate the gun, so I'm not like it doesn't
scare me. It's like, oh no, I can't touch the gun,
like I know how to you know, see if it's loaded.
I know how ammunition works. I know that it's not
going to fire if I handle it properly.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
A grenade, I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I really don't, and so like I don't know like
like a firearm in and of itself. I just I
wouldn't think to report it to law enforcement. But certainly
that's got to be the play, the only play for
a hand grenade. And obviously they appreciated it because they
say so in this release. But the bomb squad, the

(05:56):
fifty fifth EOD unit from the National Guard responded to
the residents, which I'm sure if you were in that neighborhood,
had no idea what was going on to be like,
what in the world is going on over there? Yeah,
a bomb squad in a neighbor's house, not just police
cars with lights on it. It's yeah, it's like, what's
the bomb squad do it here? When as a National
Guard going into their house, they responded to the residents,

(06:18):
determined that the grenades two of the four were live,
and that in its first place is like everybody, get
the heck out of here, right, and then they transport
it safely the grenades and destroyed them at another site,
so crisis averted, and then the bomb squad have Commander

(06:43):
Sergeant Clayton Dishong said, the family member did the exact
right thing in this case. If you ever find a
potential explosive device, leave it where it is called nine
one one immediately, do not attempt to move the item,
and let professional hazardous device technicians and safely remove it. Now,
the elderly family member is probably.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Like, no, I've been saving those for years.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Just in case I need it, or you know, it's
just like maybe it's one of those situations where you know,
you think that you know, it's a cool souvenir from
you know, maybe time that you served or you found
them for sale somewhere else and decided to try to
you know, get yourself, you know, hooked up with them,

(07:30):
thought it was a good investment for a collection, and
you were going to try to maybe sell it to
somebody else.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't know, you.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Get in trouble for that.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I have no idea. I mean, I've not heard of that.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
I don't know what the situation is on the value
valuation of antique gredds. I can't say I've seen too
many of those on Antiques Road Show, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
A great show. By the way, that's a crazy pool.
I love Antiques Roadshow. That's a great show anyway.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Anyway, I just I'm saying it is crazy to think
and I would love to know the context of what
these particular with this family, like where they came from.
I don't think we'll ever know, because they probably don't know,
but where they came from, what they were from, and
like how long they were there.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, I'm curious at this point. I just want to and.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Why did nobody know, Like you could think that you know,
this would be something that you know, the elderly family
member would at least tell people that. Hey, by the way,
I holding on to some grenades, in which case, if
a family member says that, my first question is what
are you doing with grenades and what like what are
you hoping to use them for? If the answer is

(08:38):
anything other than I have no use for them, we
have to have a different conversation about what exactly is
going on here. Marcus sent me this email said, did
they get reimbursed for the grenades?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Like?

Speaker 1 (08:51):
What's the market rate on live grenades? My guess is
they probably didn't would get it reimbursed because like again,
I haven't seen a lot of live A line drive,
tough luck right at the first base and that's the
end for the game. Cleveland defeats Detroit six to one.
That means tomorrow winner take all Game three in Cleveland

(09:13):
between Tigers and the Guardians.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
That'll be good.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm into it. Sign me up Division rivals going after it. Anyway,
Like I mentioned, I haven't seen on Anti Growth Show
or Pond Stars or you know any of these you know,
valuation programs where people are offering dollars to people for their.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Antiques or anything. I don't see a lot of grenades.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
So as much as I'm like trying to think in
my head, what the the and we don't know how
old they are. What if these are grenades from like
World War One?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, that definitely makes a difference on the value.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And how would we like, I'm sure you would a
war historian would be able to figure out like about
the era these grenades would be. But it's certainly if
they're live, it's a bad idea to have them.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
No doubt, no question. I mean, it's a terrible idea.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
So it's like if we're gonna detonate them or destroy
them in a safe place, which they did, and this
is in Lincoln, Nebraska, Las and gentlemen, So these I
don't know where they came from. I doubt they were
made in Lincoln, so they had to be transported from
somewhere else to wherever this residence was in Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
But my opinion or my.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Thought on it, I guess, is like this doesn't seem
like the kind of thing that the government is gonna
buy off of you. It's not like you have a choice, right,
It's like I'm calling police because I'm not sure if
these things are gonna explode or not. But it's not
like I can get into a negotiation, which I also
get a quote it's like, okay, so if we don't
blow these up, how much do you think they're worth?

(10:52):
I don't think they're gonna answer that question for you,
would be my guess. But let me see, let me see,
let me ask my my my AI assistant, which I
love to talk to about stuff like this. I call
her Test by the way, just because I like the
name Tests. You know, it's easier to call it as she.

(11:15):
You know what platform is it?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Do you mind?

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I do mind? Actually no, it's JBT. What what would
a live grenade? Do you want to speculate as to
like the era from World War One?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Maybe just say, like, I don't know, Vietnam, that's the
all more timeline.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I mean in Vietnam, I'll do all three of those,
because there were grenades in World War One, right, Like
there were explosives, definitely, maybe not like as easy to
use as.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
An explosive as they became.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't think it'd be worth much in terms of
actual grenade value. It would be more of the the
technology is too new, but it would be like the
the age of it, the fact that's more of an
artifact now hypothetically.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, so, and and if they think they're live. Right
Like that certainly kind of makes it seem like a
completely different situation, doesn't it. Where it's like if it's
if they're not live, then are they worth anything? I mean,
it was like, hey, look this cool. It's like a

(12:23):
prop almost, it's like a paperweight. First off, Ugh, I
hate this. I can't help with valuing, buying, selling, transporting,
or handling live explosives. Okay, well, my would be dangerous
and could facilitate illegal or unsafe activity. If you have
a live grenade, stop handling it and contact local law

(12:45):
enforcement or your area's bomb squad or EOD immediately. They're
trained to make it safe. I'll be blunt because it matters.
Live ordinance is a public safety issue, not a collectibles question.
That said, if your items are inert or professionally deactivated,
I can help, including giving market value ranges.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
That's what I found some prices for inert grenades. But
that's not really what we're now. We're trying to find out.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Here we're not. We're not.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
But maybe we could use this valuation as like a
way to try to understand how much like a live
would be. World War One era, like the British Mills
nineteen fifteen pattern and other trench grenades. You can get
anywhere between two hundred and twelve hundred dollars for inert grenade,
depending on the rarity and the condition, and it basically

(13:35):
gets cheaper from there if you will.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
No illegal to buy er sell, and as such have
no legal market value. Maybe we're looking in the wrong marketplace.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
This is this is why we ask these questions before
we actually act upon them, right. It's just like, oh yeah,
it's like I'm going to have to explain to my
artificial intelligence bot here that I don't actually have these things.
It was literally a morbidly curiosity question. But there you go,
not even worth that much. It's not like, you know,
you have like a really solid gun from eras gone
by and it's taken very good care of.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
That thinks worth thousands of dollars.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh yeah, So grenades not the same as guns, So
don't be looking to collect them.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know, kids, you know, be careful out there.
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