The Late For Changeover Show 11 Dec 2024
Date: Dec 10, 2024
I like to shoot a fetch and had to see the flight shot this morning, which is old school excuse number three for being late for changeover in your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith and I’m joined by Mr. History Eric Perron. What’s going on guys? Our man in the closet Jake Wall.
Good to see you guys. We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all guardians and to the other lower branches as well. So take your seats get informed and have a laugh as we present late for changeover.
I should have went with puzzle princess. That would have been actually more appropriate. So puzzle princess both of us.
That’s what I’m going to put on. That’s what I’m going to put on your cup. So when I send you your mug, you’ll get puzzle princess.
You should go with Jake with plaid that kid owns so much plaid. I can see it in the back of his closet. But it’s the best sound broadcasting stuff you could ever put up.
Absolutely. So everyone have a good week except for Anna who worked. Why did you work so long today? Why did you have a 10 hour period? It was the end of a sprint.
I don’t know if you guys work in an agile all pray to the agile God. I want to become our entire schedule. One day do that.
I can’t believe they hire people just to do that. That’s insane. But just organize chaos.
Yeah. But if you’re going to be a scrum master, you got to get that whole, you know, false motivation thing like, come on, everybody. Let’s do an icebreaker.
Let’s yeah. If you were a cat, what would be your favorite food? Go Jake. You guys.
Oh my God. Did they do that? Most of the scrum masters I have are like, you know, high school motivational speakers. And they’re just like, yeah, come on, let’s do a cheer.
And they’re like, I’m out of here. I can’t I quit. I can’t handle this bull.
Do you have any big skills? Do you have any sensations? That’s Jake’s. Consider this two minute warning. Done.
Two minutes, two weeks, whatever. You are too happy. Get out of my face.
Oh, that agile stuff is crazy driver. It is a crazy driver. Especially at the end of the sprint because I mean, you have a majority of your work done except the hope you have to document all your work.
And you’re like, what did I do? I don’t over these last weeks. Eric, have you ever have you ever had to do that? You probably never had to, but don’t think that’s that’s all the rage now. You know, that’s that’s what every company signs on is for this agile process.
Yeah, it’s work in two week chunks. So it actually paces out the work nicely if you have a good scrum master, which I don’t know. As long as there’s not a security incident or you didn’t or you in process somebody.
Eric’s job is done. Yeah, there’s no agile anything. He just like he is a harm life man until nobody broke into the skiff this week.
Good life. Now we do have plenty of both alarms responding to skiff alarms. Come on, but yeah, it is a unholy driver of people sometimes.
So it’s just one guy who becomes the company cheerleader, huh? Well, yeah, if you’re doing it, yeah, he doesn’t actually do anything, but he coordinates all the teams to finish their planning, you know, and then puts things together. Then you got to vote and it’s wow. You didn’t work.
You like the voting. But you don’t get any work done. How’s this vote? Well, it’s I’ll give you a little hint into one of these processes this process and it’s it’s a sound process.
But sometimes it feels like it’s to me, it’s too much when you’ve got to take a couple days out of your work week to go plan. Yeah, that’s when you’re like, this is this is jump the shark. This is too much now.
You know, yeah, that’s in the spending more time planning to plan than actually doing what the plan is. So anyway, that’s what I did. Didn’t Mike Tyson say something like you have it? Is that my ass on TV? He has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Yeah, that’s that was his that was his thing. So boy, or a bit near or you you’re you drop the prowl and then nobody’s playing stays together. So Audrey and I were texting back and forth during that fight during that whole thing.
I was like, did you just see that? And she literally sent me a screenshot of it. She was doing it to harass me. She’s like, oh, dad, I love this.
Is it is it any surprise that your kids are exactly like you? No, man, it’s hilarious. They’re going to torment you when you get old old man. Love it.
You know, all right, let’s get to the news. Shall we before some of us can get back to our puzzles? You got a cat’s belly to complete tonight. You know, I was thinking that it’s almost 2025, right? You know when the Jetsons debuted the Jetsons cartoon debuted in 1962 with flying cars, right? Yeah, so it’s about time we had those damn things.
Well space.com has an article that shows that we may be getting closer to that very thing. So yeah, meet Blackbird a flying. I don’t know why they call it a taxi, but it’s going to be a car that you can change and change into anything that spins and moves in any direction with this new propulsion system.
So a new type of flying car could soon be ferrying passengers through the skies using a novel propulsion technology on November 5th. Cyclotec an Austrian company that builds flying car components unveiled blueprints for its new Blackbird demonstrator aircraft, the flying car that uses a custom-made alternative to propellers. So I’ll try to describe this, but then I have a video to show you.
This is dubbed the cyclo rotor. This all-electric propulsion system is based on the principle of the Voith Schneider propeller or VSP, which is frequently used on tugboats and ferries. So essentially they have propulsion coming from this motor and then it has fins on the outside that can direct the propulsion wherever they want it to.
That’s essentially what it is. So they move it around. It’s all electric, right? Right, so they can they can direct it up down, you know, they got ones that go left and right.
So that’s what this whole VSP propeller is by moving the center around which propeller blades spin. The aircraft can change its airspeed direction. Cyclotec representative said in a statement, each propeller blade can also be able to produce directional thrust like the wing of an aircraft.
It can be precisely aligned to send the aircraft in specific directions or rotate midair. This technology sets Blackbird apart from electric vertical takeoff and landing or VTOL aircraft, such as those being tested by DARPA. And it’s funny because Elon Musk was like, I don’t see a future for VTOL.
They’re loud. They’re, you know, imagine you had all these things would be so loud. And so Elon’s not a proponent of VTOL aircraft.
And then we’d have like air charging stations, you know, on platforms. Yeah. Yeah, well, maybe.
Yeah, maybe. At present, the model can support a maximum of 750 pounds and can fly at around 73 miles per hour. So it’s not very fast.
The team behind the Blackbird demonstrator aims to fly a full-size version of the aircraft in early 2025. All right, enough preamble. Let’s show you what this thing is all about.
I don’t even know how I feel about flying cars. Well, check this out. This might change your mind.
How about we solve mass transit first? I like that it’s flying first. I know they put this little thing together. Oops.
Sorry about that. Check that thing out. It’s a cycle of tech right there.
Look at that. I’ll be damn. I already don’t trust it.
It’s a flying Tesla. I trust that. I don’t trust the person flying.
I mean, I can’t trust a person driving on, you know, snowy streets. So that definitely can’t be odd in Uber XL. You don’t get one person in there.
Yeah, and they’ve already test drove one of these things and it went airborne. They’ve they’ve hovered a model of it. Okay.
Oh, a half-sized model of it. But see, that’s how it’s demonstrating the blade. It’s pretty cool.
Yeah. It gets even better. How about with work? What kind of rotation would it need to do that? Well, you got the basically the tail rotor in there too.
So the four on two on each side of the engines and then the tail rotors, their directions. They got two more to go left and right. Or spin around in a circle.
Look at that. It was cool. How they do this.
Just driving up the driveway. That would be cool to go straight light distance. But what if it malfunctions and you just have this tracks and jet flies on your house? Yeah, that’s a good point.
And I thought this part was a little funny because you’re landing in rocks. Isn’t that blowing air like at a crazy rate with those rocks? Those have to be, right? Those sand blasts everybody. Herbines? Yeah.
All the houses. Windows. And you all are knocked up.
And you guys know they have to establish like air lanes. The first thing you got to make you got to make an air cop. Right? Because we just had these guys unlicensed is flying around who’s going to catch them.
Yeah, doesn’t the local local air traffic control have control of like I can’t even fly drones close to my house because that’s close to the airport at times. Right, that’s good. So you have a you have a ceiling for drone even small drones at my house because of that.
Yeah, so that I mean they’d have to regulate it before they allowed anything to go to the common man. Unless you want to be like one of those douchebag hot air guys that are just like we’re going to go that way. But I like the guys who like build their own like the seat with the big swamp boat fan.
Oh, yeah, those guys are cool. And they and what they have like, it’s like a what are those called parachutes or something like that. Paragliding almost like paragliding.
Yeah, it’s like those guys are all through legs. Yeah, but those guys are also, you know, killing every fifth one. So, you know, maybe it takes care of itself.
I guess running into a wall. But it would be kind of cool kind of need to think about it. I mean, I suppose our kids will be will be doing it.
So maybe I mean, it’s been a while, but if government regulation gets in it, it’s going to be forever. Yeah, basically the next eight years Trump’s for and the following for not to be a president, but his policies will stay. And that’s right.
So that that was pretty cool, especially Space.com carried it. So right. Let’s say it’s pretty messy.
I think the future rotation blows me away though. It’s got to rotate it some astronomical speed to push enough. Yeah, thrust, you know, even from four little things to push it up.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool. You’d rather be what? Beamed to like be me up. Oh, yeah.
Like the fly just make sure nothing’s in there. Just like Jeff Goldblum didn’t make sure and look what happened in October. I didn’t realize I forgot how disgusting it was.
It’s disgusting. Yeah, especially when he’s finally just like, you know, slobbering like a fly face and Gina Davis is in there with him. Yeah, that was bad.
Well, last couple episodes, we’ve had some kind of bad stories, right? We’ve had theft, fraud, people going to jail, maintainer mishaps, right? Well, not this episode. This positive episode, right? So we have some good news for a change like this one. This story, we’ll see how this works.
So this from from task and purpose junior enlisted troops are set to receive major pay increase in 2025. Now I read this like it was a done deal. It’s not a done deal.
Still got to get loaded on, right? What’s major? Is it like 2.5% or something? I will tell you. Well, that’s what we were used to getting. Not even cost.
Yeah, exactly. The highest one we got was like a 3.2 or something. It’s like, look at this.
Yeah, but the retention and recruitment is the big deal here. I’m telling you. Yeah, right.
Gonna pay you more to come in. Junior enlisted service members will see a 14.5% pay increase in the next year in the latest effort to address cost of living concerns and boost enlistment and retention inside the ranks. The pay boost comes as part of a deal by the Senate House Armed Services Committee’s the finalized policies in the National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal year 2025.
The negotiated deal announced on Saturday December 7 reconciles differing policy points in the $883.7 billion Defense Act, including topics pertaining to pay and housing. According to the new language. All troops are set for a pay increase with base pay going up by 4.5%. So everybody’s getting that.
Additionally, Junior enlisted troops E1 to E4 will see an additional 10% increase to their base pay effective April 1st, 2025. But this deal still has to be approved by Congress. So but if it is approved by Congress, a lower enlisted with pocket is substantially larger income for Junior enlisted troops.
It could see them earn several thousands more per year depending on service and their time in the ranks. Many lower ranking enlisted troops earn less than $30,000 in base pay currently. Get them off.
Well, yeah, we’ve done all those stories, right? Yeah, but I don’t know how they do that. Remember when we talked about if you raise them up, what’s a Staff Sergeant pay? Aren’t they like right there, you know, and what’s considered Junior enlisted these days? E1 to E4, right? Now, at least according to this article, they’re saying E1 to E4. So if you bump an E4 pay up to close to an E5, that throws a whole scale off, right? I would say yeah, I think you what you’d end up doing is probably getting them that 2.5 and everybody else gets the 14 below.
So they still get a slight raise, right? Just to keep them in a competitive margin. Well, sure. I mean, they get the raise, then they get the wife and then they get the kid and then they get out of housing and then like, oh shit.
This is a lot more expensive to live off base and you’re like, yeah, you dummy. Why do they put it in the news? Like, stop putting it in the news. Yeah, recruitment, you know, just put it in in the actual like NDA.
Don’t talk about it and let it pass. Oh, they got to talk about it. They got to get what they got to look what I did.
I got 10% more for these guys. This is all part of the service member quality of life improvement and national defense authorization at the fiscal year 2025. Overall base pay increase not as high as the previous year’s 5.2% bump.
But the additional height for the lower ranks is significant. The combined rates will bring in between three to $6,000 depending on certain factors and good could give some E4s more than $40,000 in base pay. Good.
They need it. They do. They don’t have enough to live on right now.
Now they throw that out in $40,000 in base pay, but then there’s COLA and there’s you know, all the other benefits they got. Taxes is a big one, right? Oh, yeah, that might raise them a tax bracket. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. So you might get what a 10% raise in base pay, but you’ll go from the 12% tax bracket to the 19% to 20% tax bracket. Snatch that right.
We’ll give you a pay increase, but we’ll get returns on that. Oh, we’ll take it right back. Yeah, absolutely.
Thank you. Alongside base pay increases other measures on the massive Defense Act cover matters type the cost of living the deal calls for the construction of new family housing across the military branches as well as for improvements to existing units. Approximately 1.8 billion will be directed towards construction and maintenance.
The final NDAA is still is pending full congressional approval and Congress is expected to vote on the NDAA before the end of the year. So what was it? Well, we do the story where they were living in the trailer. Was that at Edwards? Was that California? Yeah, they were living in not necessarily fam camp, but they were in the fifth wheel.
They have cam tracer parks, double wide. They get rid of military house. Nobody wants to live on military houses.
Save that money and give it back to the troops. Well, they were they were living out there in trash because there was no military. Yeah, there’s no military housing in least the amount of local economy.
Yeah, so too far off the installation. Yeah, people just started living in the trailers. So maybe they’ll build some stuff in time for them to PCS to someplace else, right? Who was it saying that they were renting their trailer once they got? Yeah, they were.
Yeah, they got that and they were renting it because I think that was all it. I think the story centered around Edwards in that scene, but you’re right. There was other places that were low too because they haven’t they haven’t accommodated the increase in troops or mission when they put one out there at a base and then all of a sudden you got people and they’re like, oh shit, sorry about that.
We didn’t think about that one. Well, the bottom line here is good news. They need the money and I think that will help definitely with retention a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, who wants to make more than the worker at Robin Hood at the BX, right? They’re like, I don’t fucking work in a Robin Hood. So good news for the Navy in this next story. This from stripes.com. Good news tonight.
So from stripes.com physically fits. So sailors may be exempt from body standards next year. Now Jake, you probably never had a problem and I know Eric, you probably never had a problem because you guys were tall enough.
I was never tall enough, but I had to be measured but I wasn’t my way because the height weight standards that they pulled from the 50s or whatever. Yeah, BMI. I mean, I was supposed to be being 5’8″.
I think I was supposed to be like 165 or something like that and I was like, I wasn’t 165. That was what I was in high school. You know, so I was supposed to be 190.
Yeah, I was supposed to have a 32-inch waist to max out my waist measurement at 62, 32-inch. I was like, man, I haven’t been a 32-inch waist since freaking high school. Well, the Navy’s trying this out.
So the Navy in 2025 aims to cut some sailors a break if they cannot meet body assessment standards but can score high enough and the service’s official physical exam. The Navy announced updates to its fitness enhancement program in a November 24th message giving sailors who come up short on the service’s body composition assessment standards an incentive for passing the fitness phase with a score of excellent low or higher. So I’m not sure how they grade it, but excellent low.
What’s that? 290 probably and then you go up. Sailors will be passed if they attain an excellent low or higher and will not be required to do the body composition assessment phase, the age-adjusted standards or complete the fitness enhancement program according to the policy, which is great because that’s so logical. It’s like you’re passing your ace in your fit test.
Let’s see what your neck and waist are. Oh, you got to go to fat boy program now. It’s like, hey, I passed it.
Does the same standard apply across the board? Young guys to older guys, you know, your senior NCOs. I think if you score that excellent low or higher, you know, if you get up in that upper estimate. I was just wondering if it was the same standard for them.
Oh, I’m sure. I’m sure it’s a positive. Yeah, I’m sure.
Yeah, just like just like ours was just like every services. Okay, so you have to pass the fit test first or you just do a body comp first. I think they got fit test.
No, if you do it, if you pass the fit test, you don’t have to do the body composition. Oh, gotcha. Okay, so so it’s an incentive.
It’s like, hey, because I do some fat guys. You could run like the wind. I don’t know how they did it, but they have that little pot belly and they could just motor and I was like, but they but they dreaded the waist and neck mesh.
They could never pass. It was a controlled fall, Marty. You just get the center gravity slightly over two and a half miles.
He actually increases speed. Try not to fall that way forward. That’s awesome.
Momentum’s got me. Guys, the fastest in the company. The exemption recognizes that some sailors who do not meet the body composition standard are still able to maintain operational readiness.
The exemption also aligns with Department of Defense policy. I’m not sure what that means, but to be eligible for the exemption, the sailor must perform the maximum number of push-ups, a timed forearm plank and a timed run or alternate cardio. That’s the time plank.
I know and you have to plank it out for three minutes. I think it is. Is it really three minutes? That’s a long time.
Yeah, I try. I think I got like two something. Can you say or you can’t say you got to keep like a straight? For whatever reason, believe it or not, when you’re planking, if you put your arms like that for you’re stronger, you can hold it longer.
But if you really do this, that it’s tougher. I don’t know if it has something to do with the shoulders. I don’t know.
Can I rest my moves on my elbows? Straight back. I could do this all day. But if that’s why is the Air Force get so much shit for their fit test? And I was like, that’s what they do.
You push-ups and a plank and then I wonder what the push-ups are. Why are we unfairly getting shit? I don’t understand. So we’re all guilty of it.
We’ve seen Navy that were clearly Navy personnel that were clearly hired just for ballast purposes. You’re like, oh, yeah. You’re definitely below decks.
Sailor wall. Are you starboard right now? Please report to the Starboard. Please report center.
Weight distribution, please. Weight distribution. Clear the way.
Ballast coming through. Okay, now we’re good. The policy update is part of the Navy’s Culture of Excellence 2.0 initiative.
So I’m not sure what all the rest is part of that, but I wonder if they do this and they’re good at it. Why wouldn’t the other services do this too? You know, especially Army. I mean, if the Army can pass that crazy 15 event PT test they got now.
It’s like, yeah, great. Good. You know, good.
And I don’t care if you get a belly on you or not. That’s great. You know, go for it.
If you’re physically able to perform, what the hell? Yeah, I mean question. Can I ask a really dumb question that none of your questions are dumb. They’re always excited for it.
This is dumb, but you can do a summary. Does it? No, no, no, no, no, I’ve been doing my research. I’m ready for this.
Yes, it’s still out there. I looked at Walmart. I was like, it is still there.
Smackers infection, like way to go. Eric. Now you just derailed, but what’s this question? Each type of boat platform require a different weight, like a weight standard.
So like on a submarine, you have to weigh a certain amount of weight. I don’t know where I die. I’m just thinking of an aircraft and you can only have so many poundages on the aircraft.
I’m sure pilots short actually. Are they really? I didn’t know that. I don’t know.
I think it’s probably based on the number of personnel on the boat. You know, I mean not weight wise. Sure.
I think it would be able to. I’m sure I’m sure it can accommodate enough. As long as you move instant ballast to the middle.
Those might be the best bunks. You might be in the catbird seat there right now. Ensign smudge cannot be on our boat because he wears 250.
Yeah, exactly. You know, you know, you know what weapon system doesn’t have a weight class satellites. Satellites will take any shape or size.
And they’ll accustom the chair for you. Well, the chairs do have a weight limit. That’s true.
I mean, you should see the MCS the land of broken chairs grows daily and nobody to they just push it down to the end of the hall and nobody takes it to like DRMO or nothing. Yeah, just sipping the ball. Yeah, just sits.
I know it’s driving me. Do not do not use. I don’t know.
They’re going to apply for a whole contract just to remove that shit. Yeah. Yeah, it’s ridiculous.
It’s ridiculous. So all right. Are you guys thinking about what to get your loved one for Christmas? Which I still have to come up with an answer to that.
Well, military.com may answer for you Eric. Because they are reporting on a new special edition Jeep Wrangler which pays tribute to the classic 1941 Willys MB. What is that? So it’s the old Willys Jeep.
I don’t know what the MB is exactly but in November Jeep announced a special edition 2025 Wrangler to commemorate the original Jeep the 1941 Willys MB the new Willys 41 package features a hybrid 4XE drivetrain all drab paint tan cloth seats 33 inch tires locking rear differential. Is that is that does anybody want a locking rear? Well, you got to get out. Is that what I’m thinking of? Well, you have to actually get out and do it at the We used to have a scout that you had to do that.
Do it like by the way, if I buy that from my wife, I’m divorced the next day. Well, just an idea. It’s just an idea.
There’s a Willys Jeep. Yeah, there’s a Willys Jeep. Right.
It’s like mash as long as it’s out in the back. That’d be cool. Looks cool.
The origin story behind the Jeep is a company named Willys back way back when was writing depression era economics down a long road to bankruptcy when all of a sudden a government contract appeared ahead in July 1940 the US military challenge 135 manufacturers you think they had that many it seems odd that they had to build the best lightweight off-road recon vehicle in the world Willys Ford and Bantam answered with vehicle prototypes that measured less than 75 inches long and 36 inches high weighed less than 1300 pounds and can tackle any terrain on the path with four wheel drive at the end of testing Willys reign supreme with the MBG the previous struggling company turned out more than 360,000 of them from 1941 to 1945 the 2.2 liter Go Devil engine could travel at 65 miles per hour covered 200 covered 185 miles on a single 15 gallon tank of gas power reached all four wheels and their six-inch white tires via a three speed three speed transmission a two-speed transfer case and Dana Differentials at each end the Wrangler for XE Willys 41 special edition. It isn’t as simple as the Willys Jeep. It weighs more than 5,000 pounds.
There are LED lights in the cup holders. You can listen to satellite radio through nine speakers and a sub web woofer and the computer hosts a sweet electronic safety features. So I tried to find that thing.
Yeah, yeah. I tried to find a better video than this but this is the best one I could find that short. So don’t LED lights like blind your eyes.
I don’t want those. It’s a LED lights around everything. Eric, this is way better than the gunpowder send a candle.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that’s right. It was jet fuel set to candle. I made so much say they you know, they’ve done all the paint.
You know, it’s electric. Yeah, it’s electric. They’re trying to suck people in to buy an electric Jeep.
I never liked the Jeep flat dashboard. There’s never a fan. Doesn’t only come in electric.
It’s pretty nice. Marty, is it only electric? I think so. I didn’t do a lot of research on it.
Oh, yeah. Sorry. I didn’t mean to scratch the service.
So what is it like 200,000? Something stupid. No, it’s I read some reviews on it and a lot of people weren’t all that happy about it. It looks great.
But the power is not what you would think you would have an electric vehicle, especially for a four-wheel drive. So a lot of reviewers were a little bit disappointed in the performance. So the 2025 Jeep Wrangler 4XE Willys 41 special edition.
I did got to give it. It’s got the longest effing name of a car. Suggested retail price of fifty nine thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.
That’s not so yeah. I mean, Rubicon’s going for more than 60K. But you know, you’ll go get that loaded Rubicon and that’s what 80, 85 or something like that.
Oh, for sure. You’re not finding how much and the one you’re buying for 50 right there is like two seats in a steering wheel. Jeep’s the equivalent of Harley.
You got to spend at least 20 to 30 K extra to make it acceptable. Yep, right. You buy the initial Jeep or the initial Harley.
You got to put all kinds of 20, 30 K worth of access. Well, and and the price break at least for Harley is whatever, you know, it’s sportster and then you know, the next 20 grand you jump up to the bigger bike. So yeah, but you know, this is a Wrangler.
So that’s kind of the lower model. Anyway, I mean, it’s if you’re going to buy one, that’s kind of cool throwback paint and stuff like that. Yeah, I wonder what it would be interesting to see what the performance is for a four-wheel drive electric.
I guess it would be the same, right? It would still have more torque. Just like electric vehicle. I don’t know.
So there’s your idea for Christmas from Jeep. I want to love my life. I get a new Jeep.
It’s to say Jeep, Jeep, beep, beep. That’s the only reason. And for the waves.
Jeep, Jeep, beep, beep. The Jeep waves. I would say, you know, I mean getting a Jeep in Colorado would be great for what, like four months, you know, and you got to have a top.
But you know, a beach jeep, there ain’t nothing. You never have to put a door on. You never have to put a top on.
Yeah, just let the seats get weathered on that. They hold on, you know, they hold us. That would be fun.
Yeah, I like it. So that’s why I’m looking forward to go to the retirement community just so I can get the golf cart to do that. Oh, yeah.
Just drive. Join me. The rain pelted me in my grizzled face.
Going Jeep, Jeep, beep, beep. Yeah, and then I pull up and I puzzle until the rain stops. You know, a better life could you have.
So it’s a good one. And then and then they’re like Jeep, Jeep, beep, beep. And he’s like, oh, he’s driving.
I would definitely have a custom horn on hers. Yes. I would record on his voice for my horn.
That was bad. Every time I hit it, it would be her saying Jeep, Jeep, beep, beep, beep. And that’s awesome.
A dark pink camo pink. Oh, you mean like the altered camera? It’s the same camouflage pattern, but it’s like pink and gray or something. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, that would be unique. Girls like it.
Yes. Eric, I didn’t even ask if you have a history, but I assume that you do. Why, yes, I do.
That’s a good one. So we’re going way back. Way back to 1898.
Oh, right. Spanish-American war. Big time, battle in Spain, right? The Treaty of Cuso between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898, was signed by Spain and the United States on December 10th, 1898.
Wow. That officially ended the Spanish-American war. A long time ago.
Treaty came into effect on April 11th, 1899, with the documents, ratifications were exchanged. So this is what it did, which is pretty interesting. The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the Spanish Empire.
Apart from some small holdings, it had a major cultural impact in Spain known as the Generation of 98. It marked the beginning of the United States as a world power. In the US, many supporters of the war opposed the treaty, which became one of the major issues in the election of 1900, when it was opposed by Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who opposed imperialism, and Republican President William McKinley, who supported the treaty.
So in it, Spain had to give up Puerto Rico. They gave up the Philippines. They gave us the crap out of them for them to give up territory.
Yeah. Wow. How did we work the Philippines into that whole thing? We all cared about them.
So here we go. I was like, okay, Puerto Rico’s right off our coast. And Spain relinquished all things of sovereignty over, and title two territories described there as the island of Puerto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies.
Wow. The island of Guam and the Marianas, the Philippine islands, and comprehending the islands lying within the following United States. The session of the Philippines involved the compensation of 20 million from the United States to Spain.
So we paid for the Philippines. Yeah. That’s a bargain.
20 million. I mean, we still have two out of three of those territories, so pretty good. Yeah.
In 1898, man, it’s been a while. We’re dumping trash in one of them, so, you know. We don’t let them.
Well, that too. Yeah, that too. I mean, better though, it ended the conflict, which was nice, right? That’s amazing.
That’s one of the wars I know very little about. Well, it was between us and the Spanish, so that’s all you need to know. I do have to give it to the Spanish.
I don’t know. Did they have an empire, I guess? I don’t know if they had an empire. Oh yeah, they did.
But what they did, they spread seed. Boy, more than any other empire, boy. Well, there was that agreement between the Spanish and the Portuguese early on that it was like anything below this meridian is yours, and anything above is ours.
Oh, really? Yeah, to be discovered. Go for it. Japan, that’s the Spanish.
Below that, Portuguese, or whatever it was. Well, the Spaniards were huge, you know, explorers. They were all over the place.
They were more than just explorers. They were like an explorer and spread boy. I mean, my mom is Filipino, and her maiden name is Ramos.
Wow, those guys really got around. It was the other way around because that’s why Spain got Mexico area and Portugal got Brazil. That’s why we are still speaking Spanish and Portuguese.
Yeah. Wow, that’s interesting. That’s really interesting.
Yeah. Consequences of actions, boys. Well, that’s a good one, man.
We said if we had curious minds, we’d find out more about that one. But on to the next one. We have plenty in the future to worry about.
We’re good. That’s cool. I didn’t know that.
Very good. God, have y’all ever met a Spanish military member? What do you mean? From Spain? Yeah. I don’t think so.
I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I’ve met a lot of Guamanians, and they are picking them up because they got that hyphen last name, that enormous last name.
They overcook for every outing. Have you got a Guamanian in your unit? They’ll be well fed. That’s for sure.
He’ll be well fed. Filipinos, too. Filipinos, they overcook as well.
Ana, were you talking about people in the US military that were from Spain or an actual Spanish military member? Actually, Spanish military because I’ve had Japanese Chinese. Oh, you mean? Oh, no, from a foreign military. Yeah.
Yeah. No, I’ve never met Guamanian. Norway.
Yeah. I’ve never met a Spanish, nor have I seen. I don’t think I’ve seen a Spanish military member.
Oh, yeah. I’ve seen him. Really? Yeah.
He’s a man of the streets. Are they scary? I don’t know. It sounds like there’s a story behind that.
Eric’s like, oh, I’ve seen them. No. That’s about it.
They were in Panama. Don’t you dare scratch that service. Okay.
All right. They were in Panama. Yeah.
That was the only place I’ve seen them in Panama. Isn’t it weird? Hola. Hola.
I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.
I’m always fascinated between the language difference, like between Mexicans and they’re like, oh, they speak real Spanish. You know, the Spaniards are the traditional Spanish. What’s the difference? You know, what’s the, what’s the, is it pronunciation? Is it sentence structure? You know, what’s the difference from the formal Spanish? No rolling of the Rs.
Spanish. Spanish don’t roll their Rs. The South Americans do.
Yeah. Really? Is that true? Yeah. Yeah.
Huh. And they don’t say essay. Missile warning wise, did you know Valenzuela at all? No.
I didn’t. Okay. Okay.
See, one of our last assignments, we have space force reps and military representatives that go to DC and they’re assigned, they’re put in a pool and they’re assigned to any congressman or house member or whatever. If they want to be on there, their staff have a military representative. She got to be one of those people.
And then because she’s a fluent Spanish speaker, they’re like, oh, we need you to freshen up on your like scientific and mechanical space nerd style Spanish. And she got to go do a massive tour of South America. So one week she’s sending me pictures.
I was like, are you in Argentina? She’s like, yeah, here for the week. It’s awesome. Except for the fact that they eat dinner at nine o’clock and I’m freaking starving.
And she’s like, Chile’s next week. I’m like, what the hell? Wow. That’s crazy.
Yeah. It was a good deal for her. I was like, did you ever get the ESL bonus? No.
I’ll come Spanish. Oh, you and one talk. Maybe you’re just doing street stuff.
I don’t know what you’re doing. Not really. Spanish discussing at each other.
I went to order diarrhea and drive through Mexican restaurants. I meant to say to roll, you know, like the cinnamon. Yep.
And I ordered chorro. Chorro is a little sound. Wow.
Yeah. And so I get up to the line. I was like two totals and get up to the and the lady.
Normally only one you order one per person. See, that’s why English is a better language because we don’t have any foods that sound like diarrhea. Yeah.
Yeah. Some foods that taste like it, but wow. What should we call that? It ended up 48 minutes.
It’s a tight night and we can get back to the shots. So there we go. Uh, I’d be happy.
You would do a shot per five. For every old. That’d be good.
Yeah. Per five pieces. You get in.
You have to do one shot. Okay. I would be, I don’t know what the criteria is.
Or you just put pressure on yourself now. And that little shot sitting on the table would be like, sometimes an incentive. Sometimes it’s a curse.
Yeah. It’s like, just monopoly is bad too. Never played before you go into jail and you get a shot when you get out of jail.
Can you think of how many times and how long that game is? Yeah. Some people, man. I’ve rarely ever finished a monopoly game sober.
I can’t imagine. Just, yeah, I’m sure you get drunk. You’re just like, that’s enough of this.
So probably finish the bottle before you finish a monopoly game. Yeah. All right.
Wake up. You got a market garden imprint on your forehead. You Marvin gardens.
Baby blue socks. Welcome to the slums. So funny in that game.
So funny. You remember the colors with the freaking name of the property. Definitely.
So it’s a sucker’s bet to go for the railroads, but, you know, they never pay off. They never pay off. Utility says, no, it doesn’t feel both.
Well, 10 times waterworks in the electric company. Yeah. One has a light bulb and one has a faucet.
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