Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 30 Oct 2024
Date: Oct 29, 2024
I Uh, I was playing volleyball and I need to take a shower. With this top gun, excuse number one for being late for J. Jover. I’m your host Marty Smith and I’m joined by the hand eater, Derek Pratt.
And our very own Snap the Clown, Audemond Dragon. That’s scary. Oh, we’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all the guardians and to the other low branches as well.
So take your seats, get them formed and have a laugh as we present late for J. Jover. Super mode. I try to get through that as fast as I can so we can pick that up.
Well, I can leave mine. I know I’ve had this for like three years. I never even, now I had a reason to put it up.
I wanted to wear the polo shirt, but Mav didn’t wear a polo shirt. That was Goose and Iceman. Where are your dog tags? Well, Goose hasn’t died yet.
So this is the beginning part. Well, no Goose had died because he would have had to die if Maverick was the instructor. But if you’ll remember, I threw them off the fantails.
So they’re gone. They’re gone. They’re gone.
Yeah, they’re gone. So no more Goose. Are you going to sing that? Yeah, that’s easy.
No, that time is past two. You lost your, but it’s like riding a bike. It’s like.
Man, oh man, crazy. I haven’t worn a full up latex mask like that in a long time. How long can you wear it before? It’s just like dripping in your face, man.
It starts right away. It starts right away. I tell you, if you’ve never heard the Jerry Seinfeld bit about him wearing like the Superman mask when he was a kid, you know, the half face mask with the little elastic that tied her up, it’s worth your time to go back.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, with that little staple on the side and it’s digging in your eyes and you’re sweating and you can’t see anything. That’s the coolest thing about Halloween, Michael Myers, is that they actually laid in like the feeling of wearing the mask.
Cause you can hear him breathing. Yeah, yeah, that’s true. Yeah, that’s true.
So cool. The whole show. Yeah, he’s breathing.
So, good to see you. Thanks for taking your time. I appreciate that.
As I texted you, I am a Tricare advocate now. I wasn’t against Tricare. I wasn’t against Tricare, I was against the VA, which the VA tried to make this whole process really bad.
So I got my hip replaced, partially because of my prosthetics. So I think I wore this hip out and that’s why they’re like, you gotta get this thing replaced. So Tricare had already approved it, but they never sent me an approval.
They sent it to the doc. So I thought, oh, well, I didn’t get anything. Try to get somebody on the phone at Tricare.
That’s still a thing. Impossible, yeah. And if you can pick from the 15 different Tricare sites that you can be available to, right? Tricare West.
Tricare Prime, Tricare for life, Tricare West Prime for life. V&S is like, what in the fuck, man? Yeah. So I tried to go to the VA, VA tried to subvert the whole process and they’re like, well, send us x-rays.
Well, these x-rays are too old. You need to make an MRI appointment. I was like, when can I get in? And they’re like, February.
And I’m like, well, my surgery’s in October. They’re like, well, you’re gonna have to reschedule that. So once I got the Tricare approval, I went to the VA ortho and he’s like, oh, okay, you’re doing it through Tricare? And I was like, yeah.
And he goes, okay, just let us know how it goes then. I was like, that’s it? You guys are just washed? Nice. They’re like, yeah, pretty much, so.
You should have told us that in the first place, Marty. Yeah, no kidding, no kidding, man. So, oh, man.
I am now the proud owner of an artificial rate kit for only $75. That’s nice. Out of $58,000.
I was about to say, I saw that deal. Ooh, that’s a huge deal. And it’s got stuff in there.
It’s like, oh, we gave this, you know, this is for 10 minutes and then every other minute it’s like 1,500 bucks after that. And I was like, I don’t even know what that is, but they rang it up. They give you a warranty on that, bad boy? You had like 10 years or? No, but they did give me a warning.
It was like, well, you know, this doesn’t last forever. I was like, oh, great. It’s a good thing you don’t have forever.
I don’t have forever. So what is it made out of? I don’t know. I had more documentation on my total knee replacement than I did on this little thing.
But they did, I didn’t go all, I mean, they didn’t put the breathing tube. They saddle block me. And then they dripped some propofol or something like that in an IV.
And next thing I know I’m waking up. I’m like, wow. That was it? And I mean, the doc is so fast.
It’s the same orthopedist who did my knee. He did like eight knees that same day. So when he came in, he says, hey, how you doing? How you feeling? He didn’t talk me through nothing.
He’s a very, you know, he’s a no business dude, man. Hold on to your house, man. Yeah.
Yeah. I was first up. So I don’t know how many he had to do that day.
You haven’t, you haven’t me. Yeah. I think this guy doesn’t even step away from the table.
I think he just has his guys are like, next, get them out of here. Wheel the next one right in. Someone give me a coffee.
We got to keep this moving. But, you know, it’s, it’s almost laparoscopic, which is blows me away. So they open it up.
They separate the muscles. They slap the head. They shoved that thing down the femur.
They stick it back in and they’re like, okay. Let’s get the next one in here, I guess. How long did it take? I don’t know.
I mean, they put me out about eight. I woke up at 11. Oh, wow.
So, you know, whatever that’s it. Couldn’t have taken that long. That’s like Jimmy John service.
Kind of. Yeah. You want to hip drive on by? We’ll help you up.
So, so anyway, you know, good job. Trek, I guess that retirement paid off. Yes.
Very much for something. I’ll take that. Right.
Okay. Uh, you guys, okay. Family’s all right.
Everything good. Oh, it’s good. It’s good, man.
What you guys got planned for Halloween? Anything Halloween-ish? Oh, the grandson’s coming over. So they’re going to give out candy over here instead of over at their apartments. So they’re just, they’re just glomming off of us buying candy.
I know my mom. No, cool though. And dinner.
She’s like, hey, do you want to see the, you want to see Junior? I was like, yeah, I’d love to. And they’re like, great. We don’t have to buy candy.
We don’t have to buy dinner. We don’t even have to give it out. Dad, could you make sure you have an extra bowl of candy? Yeah, right.
They’re not going to like that kind. Can you buy something different? You’re not going to bag them? Marty out there doing bagging them. Have you ever done anything besides candy? Have you ever done like cookies, giveaway, or anything like that? Back in the day, I used to do popcorn bowls.
It’s a lot of work. Rice chips. What are those? Yeah.
Oh, okay. Well, but, you know, back in the day, you used to put the… Razor blades in it. Yep, there it is.
The clown is in session. I don’t think popcorn bowls were frowned upon too much. So I think my parents would let me eat popcorn bowls before they’d let me eat like fruit.
Which makes no sense, because fruit’s much easier to see if it’s tampered with. Right? Than a popcorn bowl. You should have a popcorn bowl fight.
Could you imagine getting pelted in the head with a popcorn bowl? That would hurt. No, it hurts so bad. Yeah, yeah.
It’s like… It’s a good idea though. What if you took a popcorn bowl and you were wrapped in snow? Oh, that’d be way too good. See, I don’t like popcorn.
I’m good. I’ll just put my helmet on and sit back. You just kill the whole conversation.
I like popcorn. Yeah. I love popcorn.
I’d eat the fruit, see? But it depends what you bind the popcorn bowl with, right? Harrow. What’s that? Harrow. What is it called? K-A-R-O.
A carrow? Yeah, I think it’s a first order. Oh, is it? Oh, okay. I thought maybe you put caramel on it or something.
I’m sure all our 23 listeners are loving talking about popcorn bowls. Okay, any who. All right, let’s get to the news.
So we hear about… I found this first story. It’s from thedailymail.com. So that’s British, I think, right? Which is interesting. I couldn’t find anything on the American press on this.
So I’m wondering now if Butch and Sonny are two beloved Boeing astronauts that are still up there. I wonder if maybe they have a little bit of a curse, you know, because Starliner didn’t do well with them up there. They left them up there.
Now we got issues with the ISS, so. It’s appropriate for Halloween as well. But, yes, scary.
Yeah, it’s scary. Maybe you got an engineer, a chief engineer, upset. Yeah, right.
I’m good to you. They’re like, hey, you guys want a popcorn bowl? I just made them. Well, this is from the Daily Mail, all right? God, that thing is way too big.
Sorry. Let me change. Let me change the brand.
I know. Yeah, but it’s too big. It’s too dominating.
So let me see. Let me do that. There we go.
Astronauts on the ISS are braced for an urgent evacuation. All right, NASA’s astronauts aboard the International Space Station but told to prepare for an urgent evacuation amid growing safety concerns. The U.S. Space Agency and its Russian counterpart, Roscomos, it seems like it should be Roscosmos, but it’s spelled Roscomos, are tracking, they’re tracking 50 areas of concern related to a growing leak aboard the station.
Whoa, NASA is now calling the cracks in a Russian service module, a top safety risk, quote unquote, escalating the threat rating to five out of five. Astronauts have been warned to stay in the American section when the module is open so they could be close to their spacecraft in case of an emergency evacuation. Unbelievable.
That’s crazy. Could you imagine how much paranoia they’ll live? All you got to do is hear like, like, wait, wait, wait, wait. I tell you right now, there ain’t no Velcro sex going on.
We’re listening to what’s going on. We’re listening for leaks. Although officials have been aware of the issue since 2019, the exact source of the leak is still unknown.
All potential cracks have been covered. This is funny. This sounds like a military operation.
All potential cracks have been covered with a quote combination of sealant and patches over the years. But NASA warned that the leak reached its fastest rate yet in April of this year. Concerns over the station’s safety are now so high that NASA has negotiated with the Ross Comos to only open the hatch when absolutely necessary and to keep it sealed in the evenings.
And that’s, yes. So the leak is part of the, it goes out to the Russian connection where they keep supplies and stuff like that. So they keep the door closed, they keep the freshness in, and then when they have to go out there, everybody’s ready to dive into their vehicles if they have to.
How many ships are tethered to the ISS right now? I think it’s three. Well, it might be two because they have the one dragging up there and they have the, I think it’s a Soyuz, I’m not sure. I don’t know.
I don’t know. But I think the third one is going up or the third one’s up there. So there might be three.
The air leak is located in the Russia’s VEDSA service module transfer tunnel, which was installed in 2000, 2000. It’s a little old. And is used to house- What kind of maintenance? Well, we’re 24 years.
And is used to house life support equipment and to access a Russian cargo dock in 2019. Oh, so it was good for 19 years. In 2019, it was noted that the module had begun to leak a small amount of air to an unidentified crack.
However, despite efforts to seal the module, the amount of air escaping the station has only increased over the last five years. So let me show you. And some flex seal and duct tape up there.
They may have done that. It sounds like they’ve tried. I mean, but you got a bunch of engineers.
They don’t know how to seal a pipe. They can draw plans, but they’re like, how do you actually use this stuff? And it’s sticking to their hands and their hair. And they’re like, ah, we could get this shit.
Who’s got some epoxy? And everybody’s like, what’s epoxy? Call Boeing, send up Boeing’s engineer. So this may be a little difficult to see, but basically the red is pointing down to the service tunnel that’s connected here. So the Russian piece here, there’s some leak rate fluctuations, which I’ll get to in a second.
We don’t need to read that. But the second picture is where they think the leak is coming from. It’s like, we don’t know where the leak is coming from.
Who drew those hole right here? It looks like someone took something drill ball. Really good. Like it was talking on the phone just idly like, oh, I’m sorry.
In February this year, NASA was forced to hold a press conference on the issue February this year. A press conference on the issue as the amount of air escaping temporarily increased from 0.2 pounds per day. I have no relativism on that.
I don’t know how much that is. But it went from 0.2 pounds per day to 2.4 pounds per day. Wow.
A report published in September by NASA’s Office of the Inspector General confirmed that the leak then hit record rates in April, losing 3.7 pounds of air every day. And does that mean it’s losing air even though they had the thing shut and it’s still losing air? That might be. Probably put a nut in there or like a. Yeah, gum.
I was thinking that silly putty gum something. Yeah, silly putty, that’s good too. This has prompted the space agents to escalate the threat warning to the highest level of considered plans for evacuation.
In May and June, NASA officials traveled to Russia to discuss heightened concerns over the seemingly growing leak. Speaking of the Washington Post, NASA Associate Administrator Jim Freese says, we have conveyed the seriousness of the leaks multiple times, including when I was in Russia earlier this year. We’ve come to a compromise that they close it in the evening, that’s the compromise.
Hey, can you do something? A little scary. We close in the evening. Okay, thanks, thanks.
Glad you did something. Get out of my office. That’s my Russian accent.
We close at night. Whenever the hatch is open for essential use, NASA astronauts have instructed to wait in other escape vehicles. In the same OIG report, NASA also raised the concern that the space station could be seriously damaged, not only by the loss of air, but by tiny pieces of material in orbit, escalating the risk rating to the highest level.
The agency wrote, quote, NASA considers the threat of micrometeoroids and orbital debris a top risk to say crew safety, the ISS structure, visiting vehicles and sustained ISS ox. NASA has added, NASA has added, now this is kind of shitty, right? NASA has added shields to the American sections, which can protect against. Let me run you into something.
Well, hey, we brought these up here. He said, you take that door shut, we’ll block our shit. And you got the guys like, what are they doing? What are you guys doing over there? Protecting our shit, sorry guys.
NASA has added shields to the American sections, which can protect against pieces of debris up to three centimeters, but warns it does not have plans to add protection from larger pieces. However, there are now an estimated 100 million pieces of small debris, which are not being tracked, that can still damage or destroy spacecraft. In the report, NASA knows that the growing risk posed by orbital debris also poses a serious issue for any plans to safely evacuate the ISS in an emergency.
So. Why wouldn’t you evacuate it now or repair it now? They’re like, hey, it’s leaking, get in your vehicles and get out of here. Ah, we got hit by a swarm of micrometeorites.
Because then it’s gonna be too late. It’ll look like Armageddon. Right.
Then trying to run with the ships blowing up around them. And oh, by the way, I’m sure it’s sitting on President Putin’s desk as his top priority as well. He’s like, yeah, it’s all under the Ukraine stuff.
It’s way down deep in the inbox. I’m sure it’s on the top of this. No money.
No money. Oh my goodness. Pass, pass.
Did you hear the recent articles of how Russia’s economy is growing despite being at war with Ukraine? How? What are they doing? What are they exporting? So they are exporting crude oil. Oh yeah. But they’re doing it on the sneaks.
They make transfers like in different. Oh, well, yeah, we can, because somebody blew up their gas line. So, right? They don’t know who.
They, NASA writes, quote, due to high costs and limited budget, the lack of ready to launch vehicles, prevent the agency from having an immediate response capability of crew vehicles encounter significant damage and no longer safe for crew evacuation. The issue is that the ISS is already a decade older than its planned operational lifespan and is beginning to seriously show its age. In September, NASA estimated that there were 588 replacement parts aboard the station that were operating far beyond their intended lifetime.
We can’t get more time. I’m telling you, this sounds just like a military operation that has gone bad and we’re gonna go, oh, we’re sorry. We knew that the space station was very, very old.
And we knew we were hoping for two more days. We apologize for the deaths of our astronauts. Well, we were gonna use that to use or lose funds.
Yeah. But we didn’t buy enough stuff to get it up. This truly sounds like a tragedy in the making.
Could be. A preventable tragedy. A preventable tragedy.
NASA has planned to use the station up until 2030, at which time it will be burned up in a controlled deorbit. However, as Russia refuses to commit to extending the station’s lifespan until 2030, NASA has admitted that the ability to perform a controlled deorbit is now, quote, unquote, unclear. So Russia’s like, we’re out, man.
We’re not paying for this old piece of junk out. You got shields over there. You didn’t give us nothing, you know? And they’re like, well, you got the leak over there.
Like a restorative crew or something. Yeah, something. I mean, 588 replacement parts beyond their intended lifetime.
I get it. But is it just because we don’t have any kind of consistent shuttle to go up there and resupply constantly? I would think that’s the case. I mean, once the STS was turned off and they’ve gone to this open competition between SpaceX and Boeing to try to get constant shuttle stuff up there, that’s just coming online now.
Yeah. And I also believe very good. Yeah.
Who’s the guy that’s taking inventory of the 588 parts? Somebody knows. Somebody knows. With all the years of when it was installed, like, ugh.
Yeah, where’s those maintenance records? I mean, because they’re not getting replaced all that often. So he’s got to have them, right? Guy’s got a magnifying glass and he’s looking at all these holes. Oh, there’s another one.
There’s another one. Oh, my goodness. I keep messing with the picture.
That’s a possibility. Yeah, that could be. I’m telling you, this is a tragedy in the making.
And in the meantime, you know, China’s got their space station, which they’re not opening up to anybody. So this is our spy station. That’s the, yeah.
This is our new COVID breeding ground up here. You never blame us on the wet market now. We’re doing it up here, baby.
And then we’re going to lob it down onto your, onto your continent. And our garbage balloons along with North Korea’s. The garbage balloons! That’s right.
The garbage balloons. I forgot. Okay, well, hopefully they get that situation fixed, but Bush and Sonny, this has got to be a nightmare trip.
It’s going to be, it’s going to be tragic. Five days turns into nine months, turns into a potential evacuation, turns into- Emergency evacuation. Yeah, right, right.
That’s bad. Yeah. It’s going to hell out of you.
Okay, Eric. This next story is right up your alley. I love it.
I know. I knew he was going to give us the double buy. It’s a good one, man.
This is, oh shit. Sorry about that. This is from stripes.com. So recently Marines were out in the Philippines on a maneuver, right? And during this maneuver, a Marine sank a boat with a stinger while they were out in the Philippines.
I didn’t know you could, you could do that. So you’re going to have to explain that, right? What’s a stinger? It’s an anti-air, the anti-aircraft, right? Yeah. Throw it away after one shot.
So I’ll show you a picture. I’ll show you a picture here. A Stinger ground air missile destroyed a target boat off the Philippines, western most major island during a US Philippine counter landing drill last week, Tuesday.
Marine Corporal Celestino Ariano of Austin, Texas took aim with the shoulder amount of weapon from the sand at the red canoe length boat. This drill would simulate a defense against an attempted amphibious landing. So this isn’t necessarily the corporal, but it is somebody firing from the beach.
Oh, wow. So that’s a stinger. Is Man Pad the same nickname for that? Yes, man portable.
So that would be so cool to fire. It would land me on my bum though. You know what? There’s no recoil on that, is there? No.
The only thing you have to do is it puts off a toxic gas when it launches. So you got to get it. You got to get it.
Where those other guys are standing. You got to hold your breath. These guys down here.
You got to hold your breath. That’s a good point. Hold your breath.
So it’s funny because 1987 is when I was a stinger guy. So I’m sure the advances in that particular, you know, piece of weaponry has greatly improved. But at the time, you activated a battery control that sits at the bottom.
You activate it. There’s a little switch you push down, which opens up the seeker, because the seeker is like this. When you hit the cage bar up at the front of the apparatus, it opens up the window of the cage.
So the seeker head can now look around and see everything. Oh, okay. So it opens up.
Once it detects that heat source, it locks on. And you’ll hear a steady tone and an earpiece on the scene. Once you get that steady tone, you pull the trigger, hold your breath for three seconds.
You throw the tube down once the missile launches and you run like hell. Oh, really? Because if you miss the airplane, not a boat, but if you miss the airplane, he knows where you’re at now. So he’s coming for you.
Is it a one shot use? You can’t rearm the stinger tube? Nope. One shot. So it all comes encased? I’m basing that on 1987.
Yeah, maybe they got some different now. There may be some advancements. Well, I’m going to leave this picture up because there’s a funny, I thought there was a funny part to this story, but the Stinger is a portable short range air defense weapon.
They can be shoulder launched for fire from a helicopter or ground launcher according to its manufacturer, Raytheon. The missile is equipped with a proximity fuse to counter drone threats and has been in use with 19 countries in the US military since the 1980s. It’s proven itself a pivotal weapon in Afghanistan and Ukraine, among other conflicts.
The Stinger has a range of several miles. This was Corporal Arellano’s first time firing a Stinger, which, did you ever get to fire a live one? Nope. I went to a live beach firing, but what we did was Osan and Kuntz on Air Force bases.
Both had Stinger units. So we got to pick one guy and it was an Osan guy. Oh, really? You got to do the live fire.
You got to shoot one missile out of your fricking hole. They didn’t have any trainer. Oh yeah, we had.
Yeah, we had training apparatus. Oh, okay. When we went to the Philippines, we’d actually do live tracking of aircraft with a training tube.
Yeah. Well, you could do everything but launch a missile. Oh, okay.
So you track it. You also had an IFF interrogator. Interrogate for the phone.
Oh, friend or foe, yeah. Well, you’d send it a code. The aircraft would respond back to you.
So yeah, it was really cool. Would the missile do something automatically or did you just have to know, oh, this is not a threat aircraft? No, the missile, it was all manual from us. So there’s a black box that was hooked to your belt and a cable that came up to your head with a speaker.
And you push a button to interrogate the aircraft. So this isn’t like a bazooka. You just grab it up off the ground and fire the damn thing.
You’re really locked into this stuff, right? Yeah, it’s not no, yeah, RPG yell. Training though, you were able to shoot, fire, throw it on the ground and run like hell. Get in your truck and you’re out, man.
Okay, nothing you needed to, right? You practiced it routinely. Well, and this will tell you, this was Corporal Arellano’s first time firing a Stinger and something he trained three years for at Camp Hamilton. So three years he got to shoot one.
So that’s cool. Members of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit or MEW planted down a small target drone with the Stinger, right? That was the plans. So the boat was pulling the drone, but the target crashed on the beach.
Now, imagine you’re with a bunch of military guys out there and I’m like, ah, shit. Well, we don’t wanna leave without shooting at something. Let’s find the target.
Let’s shoot the boat. I wonder if that’s how I’m doing it. I’m pretty out of trouble, yeah.
Let’s just shoot the boat, right? Or maybe they’re trying to test the capabilities of this. Could, that may be, but I think the more likelihood is there’s a bunch of guys out there that have been out there all day. It’s like, we gotta shoot at something.
Potentially, yeah. Yeah, that’s a better idea. So I’m going with that story.
So they turned the sights of their air defense weapon instead on a vessel similar to the canoes used by local fishermen. Even that’s better. So it just had a little outboard motor on it.
How about that guy’s boat? Perfect target. It doesn’t look good. All right, all right.
And this is what cracked me up. So they shot somebody’s boat. I’m just gonna make that story up.
I know it’s not, but it’s better for fun. So we couldn’t shoot the drone, so we shot the boat and then we got the hell out of there. We ran.
Damn right, damn right. They’re so excited. They look like they’re a bunch of kids running off the football field.
They’re so excited. They’re like, yeah, bro. It says the shot hit home in a blast that sent the target vessel to the bottom and prompted cheers from a crowd of Marines and locals watching from nearby dunes.
Probably not one local, because he’s like, hey, wait, I think that’s my view, sons of bitches. Ariana told Stars and Stripes afterwards, it was very exciting. All you feel is the wind from the launch motor and a whole bunch of smoke, and then you hear everybody cheer, and you say, oh, I hit it.
So yeah, so it’s a good story. I didn’t know that it would, it’s got to track heat though, right? The launch time. So is there enough heat difference between a canoe boat and the ocean? Because the ocean’s cold, I guess.
So in 1987, I would have said no, because when we actually had the device that could track a heat source and you would go to a solid tone, it had to be a substantial amount of heat. So I think the upgrade has definitely allowed it to hook onto a smaller target, because I doubt we could have also locked onto a drone, because I’m not sure. How much of a heat source is in there? It had some kind of thing to mock up an engine or at least a heat source enough.
But yeah, even that’s small. That’s not a jet engine. That’s much smaller.
So maybe the sensors are a lot more. If anybody knows, let us know. Correct us, please.
So everything about the Stinger back in 87 was classified, because we had to give briefings to all the pilots that were stationed at Kunzan about the capabilities of Stinger. They knew we were on the beach. That’s their threat, right? Yeah, so they had to know, hey, we’re there.
And, you know, oh, well, we’ll outrun it. You’re never gonna hit us. Well, that’s not true.
We’ll get you. And we’d have classified briefings where we’d tell them the capabilities and they’d be in awe of what this thing could do. So I can imagine the upgrades.
Yeah, for sure. Is the speed of the Stinger classified? It was in 87. Okay, yeah, I wonder if it is now.
So probably still is, I guess. I wonder, I was looking, I Googled it for just a moment. And I wondered if you could get the speed, because it talked about- Like the unclass.
I’m sure there is a number unclass. Oh, there has to be. Which is below capability, but I’m sure it’s, you know.
Yeah, obviously fast enough to get a jet, because if it wasn’t fast enough to get afterburner, people would be like, I just got an afterburner. Yeah, and think about what the Afghans did to the Russians with them things too, back when they were being- Yeah, but that was, you know, I saw Rambo do that. But he did it with a law.
He didn’t do it with a Stinger, he did it with a law. Yeah, it was a slow helicopter, so. Yeah, well the Afghanis were taking down some of their fighters.
Yeah, yeah, that’s true. It was good. They were.
And they’re still pretty deadly out there. Yeah, yeah, man. But, you know, they’re not even getting the Stingers.
They’re just using regular law, or two-mount rockets now, and taking down Blackhawks and shit, so. Well, in Crow Valley in the Philippines, it was a range for aircraft bombing runs. Okay, all right.
So all the Stinger units in the Pacific would come to the Philippines and track aircraft at Crow Valley and watch them drop fake bombs. Yeah, they were on, they were on Palawan for the annual common dog exercise that began October 15th and ended last week. Yeah, that’s good.
So, yeah, I don’t know what that is. Common dog. So, not common dog, common.
I was probably, it’s probably a. Is it common D-O-G? No, it’s K-A-M-A-N-D-A-G. Oh. So that’s probably, what’s the dialect over there? Tagali.
Tagali, yeah. So I’m not sure how to pronounce that. Even though my mom was Filipino, she never, she’s like, you’re American.
You speak English. Yeah, your mom’s Filipino. Really? Yeah, she was, yeah, yeah.
That’s cool. I knew that, and I forgot. Well, you need to tell her to send me some frickin’ lupia.
Some gooda, some good. She never made that. She made some good adobo chicken.
She could make some good adobo chicken. Oh, yeah. Now my aunt could make some lupia, like a mother, so.
I love that shit. Time to sit. Long time.
Can I say? Yeah, that’s, pants, that’s good, too. I could sit there and mindlessly eat that forever. Did she ever talk to you about Balut? No, she didn’t, they moved from Philippines when they were young, and then they grew up mostly in Hawaii.
So it was kind of washed, you know, off of that culture. Is that the blood gravy? No. Oh, it was the eggs.
Eggs, light and real eggs. Well, you crack it and you swallow the light and real. Yeah, forget that.
I don’t even like real eggs. That’s half a chicken, is what you’re doing. I ate it.
I was all drunk one night and frickin’ slammed it. But it’s pickled, isn’t it? Isn’t it pickle? Hell, I was too drunk to know. All I know is I cracked the frickin’ thing and swallowed it whole.
Yeah. If you Google it, you’ll see the pictures. It’s unbelievable nasty.
Yeah, it’s nasty. Yeah, forget it. That’s nasty.
Eric was sharding quail eggs the next day. Why did I do this? I became some kind of frickin’ bird there for a minute. Man.
Yeah. Never again. All right.
Okay, time for another mishap. Uh-oh. I’m always careful to approach these mishaps because I’m always curious on how they happen.
But I don’t get, like, schadenfreude and joy from talking about other people’s mistakes. But I do think it’s interesting how these reports come out and go, oh, this is what happened. And you can totally see how this chain of events happen.
So. Why don’t you mishap and not mishap? Okay, keep going. Because we don’t have a lisp.
That’s the way. Flip it going. So this just came out in October on Task and Purpose, how a parked F-16 suffered $30 million in damage.
Tell me it wasn’t a cop, please. No, actually it wasn’t a cop, not this time. And I wish Jake was here because it was a bunch of bomb technicians.
A bomb technician. Now this sounds insulting at first, but bear with it. A bomb technician confused the gas and brake pedals on an Air Force bomb loading tractor, causing the machine to ram into a parked F-16 jet, spark a fire that caused $30 million in damage last November.
It was an upgrade trainee. Well, no, you’ll see. He was a fighter.
The report released on October 17th by US Air Forces Europe slash Air Forces Africa, outlines many issues along the way that led to the mishap, essentially one air cascaded in the next, like they always do, creating a snowball effect that eventually heavily damaged an F-16 fighter. The accident occurred as a three-person team of weapons loaders worked on an F-15 on the same flight line, using, and I’ll make this distinction later, using an MJ-1 BC lift truck, and I’ll show you a picture of it, also known as a jammer or bomb lift. So that’s why I wish Jake was here, because he could talk us through all this stuff.
At approximately 10 p.m. local time, so it’s late, a junior member of the crew was driving the jammer in reverse and found that he couldn’t stop it. The jammer slammed into the F-15, pinning the driver to the dashboard of the weapons loader. The jammer then continued on, like dragging his head, and it hit a tire on the jet, followed by a fuel tank, and it threw the driver off the vehicle.
This sounds like a, what is it, Jim Carrey? Yeah, kind of. I mean, when you say it, it was like Brumpo, and he can’t do anything about it. Man.
So the guy fell off the truck, but the jammer kept going, this time towards the F-16, about 70 feet away, crashing into its right fuel tank. That fuel tank then leaked, sparked from the jammer, ignited a fire, that quickly engulfed the weapons loader and part of the F-16. It engulfed the cart, not the guy.
Because when I first tried, I was like, the guy’s on fire? I was like, no. Oh my gosh. So investigators found that the operator of the jammer lost situational awareness of what was around him.
When the jammer started to careen out of control, the report said he failed to carry out emergency shutdown procedures. The driver was a fully qualified technician. He was a five level, with about two years of experience in his job, but did not drive regularly.
And he had last driven one of those jammers like three months ago. The report cleared. So he must’ve been like an NCL.
So he was like promoted up and they’re like, hey, Sarge, can you drive these? Like, oh yeah, I used to drive these all the time. It’s gonna be a 65 year old staff sergeant still paying for the 30 million area, 30 million on the F-16. Could be.
The report cleared the entire crew of any suspicion of alcohol, drugs or other lifestyle factors in the mishap. I don’t know what that means. Is that a regular report now? Lifestyle factor? What does that mean? Maybe it shows like their loyalty or something.
Go deeper, go deeper. It’s lifestyle, lifestyle. What are they doing in uniform and lifestyle factors? What could that be? Are we talking about, you know, two men maybe having sex? And while they’re loading an F-15 or something.
I mean, that’s what it sounds like when you talk about life. Right, but the good news is they were clear to that. So good.
Like, are they a terrorist? Are they a terrorist that wants to? Well, maybe. Yeah, maybe. I don’t know.
To show inadvertent destruction. I don’t know. That would be interesting.
Let’s see if I can find some more definition of that. Wow. Okay, so here we go.
Investigators noted that one major issue was confusion over the model jammer being used. Two models used by the Air Force are similar and look nearly identical, but have key differences. Including the location of the brake pedal.
One model, the one that this guy was driving, the MJ-1BC has its pedals 11 inches apart. The gas and the brake pedal. And the other one has the pedals right next to each other like a car.
That’s the MJ-1C. So let me show you what they were talking about. C being the newer model? Is the C being the newer model? I assume so.
I assume so. Why would they make the pedals so… I don’t know. I mean, everybody’s in combat boots and then think of with, you have your… What is it called? Donning your mask? What is that called? Kimbir.
Oh, your mop boots on. Yeah, mop gear. You have your boots gonna touch both.
Maybe lifestyle factors was high heels. Maybe wearing high heels out there. Maybe that could be… Anyway, so the one on the left is the one that the loader was driving.
You can see. Can you see my mouse on the screen? No. Wow.
Well, this is a hard picture to look, but if you look at the one on the left, you can see we’re almost right in the middle of that bottom picture. That’s the gas and over to the left where that red square is, that’s the brake. So almost a foot apart.
Yeah. The newer one on the right has the gas with the white block on it and the brake right next to it. It’s like a car, right? Whoever made the MJ-1C is an idiot.
Yeah, because they’re really close. They’re too close. For big fat steel toe bomber boots that they gotta use to wear them.
More mop gear. Right, or mop gear, right. So let’s see if it explains it here.
The accident board concluded that the two different layouts of pedals at the Air Force troop might encounter likely caused a moment of confusion at the heart of the accident. So if he thought, and I’m assuming because it doesn’t talk about this, but if he thought he was driving this one on the right and was trying to tromp on the brake, that was way over here and that was way over to the left instead, he’s just hitting that gas over and over and over. Hitting it up, man.
Like going faster and slower, faster and slower. I just keep going faster, I don’t understand. Could you imagine what his face looks like when he got up and he’s gonna be like, what the? Right, right.
What is going on? I don’t know how much time it was. What was he in here like, what? What did I do? Wasn’t that the brake? And they’re like, no, the brake’s way over there. Ignition and throttle look a little different as well.
A little bit, yeah. But he obviously wasn’t thinking about killing the ignition at that point. Yeah.
He was stomping on that board. Oh my God, I’m gonna die in an airplane. We’re gonna go, bye.
I’m so sorry, I can’t help you because I don’t think you know like his troop and the other NCO or the CNCO off to the side, like who’s that fucking idiot? That’s the Sarge. He said he wanted to drive it. We hit the C-150 or the fricking F-16, it’s cooking.
Let’s have a bite of the roast. Once the driver fell off, the report found the tractor continued at up to 18 miles per hour toward the F-16 because it’s hydraulic throttle. No, this is totally their fault.
They should not be forgiven for this. Because it’s hydraulic throttle became stuck due to poor maintenance. Tests of the machine’s hydraulic fluid found it was quote, within the most contaminated or dirtiest measurement level represented in the Society of Automotive Engineers standard for classification of particle contamination in oils and fluids.
And this is a problem? So that thing hadn’t been changed in years, yeah. Someone’s been signing the 1,800 and not checking the oil. The hydraulic fluid was black probably.
That thing was black and grindy and just nasty. This has to be on, what is it called? Continuation training. Then they’re gonna get different training.
And somebody’s gonna have to go spray paint the side with what type of vehicle it is. This is your punishment. Every day you gotta tell me.
So they get by the first one, they’re like, oh, yeah, they’re not gonna find us guilty for the different pedal things. Yeah, that’s dumb. They’re like, oh, they are gonna find us guilty for bad hydraulic fluid.
And they’re also gonna find us guilty for this. The jammer was also the third tractor on the flight line that the crew tried to use at night. One jammer wouldn’t start while a second one was found not to be working properly.
So they found a third one that was just right for the accident. No maintenance upkeep at all on any of their vehicles. This one works, it’s 10 o’clock, it’s getting late.
I gotta get this stripped bar, let’s go. That’s one of those scenarios that you don’t even think of a scenario where you can hide this. No, that’s just like, fuck.
I don’t wonder if the guy got on there and he’s like, ooh, it’s been a while since I’ve driven this and they’re razzing them. Come on, slowpoke, give it some gas. I feel bad, I feel so bad.
I’m yelling at me. Does this talk about any punishment? No, they didn’t go on it. It’s just the straight accident report, yeah, so.
Is it not steerable? Like why didn’t you steerable? Oh, it’s steerable. Because he was panicked when he just started. He couldn’t stop it, bro.
Oh my God. I mean, if you hit that and nothing happens, all your focus goes right to there. It’s like, why is it not stopping? And he can’t be that far away.
Far enough away to get to 18 miles an hour and ram the hell out of two planes. Oh my God. Puncture a gas, a fuel tank.
Puncture a fuel tank, yeah, yeah. So anyway, take your time out there, crew, especially when it gets late. Try to imagine what that accident report’s gonna look like if you cause one.
It’s good that Ana doesn’t discuss lessons learned. It’s a good, good, good, straight. I know, I didn’t start this by going, I don’t wanna make fun of them, but now she can’t stop laughing and she’s making me laugh at it, so.
I would have to be like, I’ll be right back, I gotta. But I think it’s not, a laughing out of malice. It’s also laughing.
We’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of those things. And I’m imagining the poor guy’s face as he’s going towards the plane, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Someone call the fire department quick.
Oh my gosh. I mean, if those two guys weren’t paying attention, which I hope they were like ground guiding or something, you know, but if they weren’t and they just looked up and they’re like, what is this asshole doing? Yeah. Boom, boom.
Yeah, it could have been. So much worse. More worse.
Yeah, it could have been a lot worse. All right, this is not gonna have as big a bang for the buck and I hate to downsell a story whenever we’re trying to sell stories. Nevermind.
But they’re kind of entertaining. So this is from military.com and with it being Halloween coming up, nine spooky military ghost stories as told by service members and veterans. I didn’t choose nine.
I chose like three. Because I thought you guys would round them out with your own experiences. But I don’t have any spooky things, but I can’t remember.
Now I thought the interesting thing was I was trying to find something alternate right before the show came on. And there are podcasts about military ghost stories. There are books about military ghost stories.
You can find a ton of stuff on people telling military stories, especially like over in Afghanistan. There’s a bunch from being deployed about people talking about unexplained things and all that other stuff. I mean, so let me read you a couple of these.
This one was oddly a lot of Air Force ones. So I threw out like the 1700 ones or the West Point ones or the marching Civil War troops, anything like that. So these are all sent in.
They’re like by first name people and there’s not the last name. But he says, this guy said he was at Vandenberg. I was stationed in Vandenberg in 71.
Most barracks were relics of World War II, wooden structures from the Camp Cook era. There are a few rooms that no one dared to occupy. The security police barracks had one such room.
It was said that if a new recruit was assigned to that room, their belongings would mysteriously appear in the hallway after having been on a work shift. That almost sounds like just missing. That sounds like your buddies are doing that, right? Yeah.
Some of those who tried to move into this room claimed to hear strange noises. Even felt there were shadowy figures in the room when they stayed more than 10 minutes. Rumors were that someone had died by suicide from Vandenberg.
No, you can’t, you can’t, you can’t. I mean, we all have been on a shift sometimes. The mods are lonely.
Only a few get lonely. It’s a striver, right? And you’re snuggy. You can steer the hell out of you, period.
So this one was at Altus Air Base in Oklahoma. So when I worked on C-141s at Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma, we had a plane that was rumored to be haunted by an airman who was crushed to death in the tea tail. So he pulled, I pulled in front of that plane at 2 a.m. one morning and it was completely dark.
I wonder where the crew chief was because the flight was scheduled for the morning. I sat on the flight deck reviewing the aircraft forms when I heard the very distinctive sound of combat boots walking from the back of the cargo bay to the front. Thinking I had caught the crew chief sleeping, I switched off my flashlight and stood at the top of the flight deck stairs, listening to every step, waiting for him to get to the front of the plane.
When I thought it was a few feet away, I turned on my flashlight and jumped into the cargo bay ready to say, gotcha. And there was nobody there. That’s cool.
Yeah, I was like, oh, that’s, yeah, at 2 a.m. on the flight line? That’s everything. Yeah, that would suck, right? Okay, last good one here for you, Eric. And I wonder if you’ve ever heard of a cop doing something like this, right? So this is Ghost of Fort Devens.
During World War II, Fort Devens had German and Italian POWs. There was many rumors that an Italian POW jumped or fell from the top floor of a window, had hail hall and froze to death in the snow drift. The second version says the German POW hung himself in the upper part of the building.
By the 1960s, the building was in use as a training facility for the Army Security Agency as a house, top secret military intelligence materials. It had MPs inside on 24-7 duty. George, I guess this spirit was reportedly seen various times by MPs, mostly at night on the upper floor.
One night, a new MP was on duty and making his rounds on the upper floor, he spotted an individual in a secure area and ordered the intruder to halt. When the intruder continued walking, the MP fired his .45. Oh! Although the MP had a clear line of fire, the intruder continued to walk right through the wall. That’s creepy.
And he shot his weapon. And he shot his weapon. I mean, what would happen if somebody discharged his weapon? Obviously there would be an investigation.
Oh yeah, he’s gonna get hammered because you’re not, a ghost is going to be the reason. So I’ve told you this story before, I think when you interviewed me, I was in a non-nuclear storage area, just a common storage area. One fence, one light over the gate and all the igloos down this one road, they have a light in front of the igloo.
So the front of each igloo is lit up but everything else in the area is dark. So I’m at the gate, I’ve already walked the perimeter, I’ve stopped, I look down the road and about the third, maybe the fourth igloo on down, I see what I think is a person kneeling down. Oh.
So it’s in front of the igloo. So I start challenging this person. What were the igloos again? I’m sorry, I’m gonna separate.
Storage areas for me. Oh, storage, oh, okay, okay. Non-nuclear, there’s just a light in front.
But he shouldn’t be there, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I’m yelling. Especially kneeling down, like lighting a fuse or something, you don’t know what he’s doing, right? So I’m yelling at my ass, and now I’m taking cover behind a garbage can and nothing’s happening.
So I’m feeling kind of stupid. He’s hanging it up. An armored garbage can.
Yeah, so I have, I have tambered around, which is a no-no, because I’m scared, right? In my M16. And I’m walking towards this thing. Damn.
It’s another garbage can. That’s what you saw? I am challenging a garbage can that looked like a guy kneeling down. That’s so cool though.
So your mind can scare the shit out of me. I have been tired and out in the desert or something with nods on. Oh yeah.
And that shadowy stuff. And he’s just like, what am I seeing? I can’t figure that out, right? Yeah, couldn’t distinguish. Or you’re following another vehicle in the middle of the night and all of a sudden it’s just, it’s gone.
They’re like, whoa, where the fuck did that go? But better yet, how many times you’ve been on a patrol at night? Just a routine training patrol walking around with guys and the forest looks like shit’s moving around. Oh, it looks like people all the time. Oh, I saw something on the left.
I saw something on the right. Right, right. There’s nothing there.
Yeah, it’s crazy. Do you ever have to go like in after hours when nobody’s there and you got to like cut some orders on it or something like that? And then that building is just a mausoleum, right? There’s no sound in it. There’s nobody in there.
Yeah. You’re probably not afraid of ghosts. You’re probably more afraid of like somebody lurking here, somebody waiting on me.
Yeah, who cares? I have, you know, I have heard like, you know, something dropping when I was there for like, Oh, that’s gonna drive you nuts. In the three out second. I have heard that, but I mean, I just, I don’t know.
I didn’t get creepied out. Yeah, that’s probably good. That’s probably, I mean, that would be very easy too, because then you’re like somebody here.
Both of you have probably worked in a skiff, correct? Oh yeah, sure. Yeah, well, you know, security guys have to respond to an alarm. Alarm went off in the skiff.
A motion, right? And lo and behold, you go in, you turn the alarm off, you’re walking around, you don’t see anything. Turns out that the wind or the air conditioner blows a piece of paper off of you. Oh, I’ve heard that, yeah.
And it’ll trigger it. Or the curtain moves. Right.
And the motion sets. So. And God forbid you got a crack in there and then you got to go through closing procedures and lock up all over again.
All do that one thing. Yeah. All right, well, no creepy Halloween’s here.
Except her mask. Her mask creeped me out. I’m going to have bad dreams about Anna’s mask.
That is a really creepy mask. That is a creepy mask. It’s going to scare me.
My daughter’s mask. Is it really? Yeah, so she wanted to buy a little boy that lives down the road. We have five acres out here.
So her bus stop was a little farther down the road. Yeah. And so she hid in the trees.
With that mask on, she almost got punched. Terrifying. Now, I wonder what she got that behavior from.
Miss Anna. She’s trying to hide you. Hey, bring them in.
Say hi. Hey, cheers. All right, Eric.
Let’s close this pre-Halloween episode out with some U.S. military history. From history, possibly with the Halloween connection. Sort of maybe, probably not.
But you know, it’s called Black Week, which was the darkest days of the U.S. Army Air Forces. So this is concerning the B-17 fortresses, right? Okay. World War II, early on, with the new frame doctrine of daylight precision bombing.
No, right? No fighter’s report. Now, they did occasionally have a P-47, but it was very, very short on the frame. It looked like not even halfway, right? Right.
Yeah, yeah. So they started experiencing heavy losses, pretty heavy losses. Right.
So all the way down into a week in October, the last run, it was a raid on a place called Munster. On October 10th, the 8th Air Force targeted the town of Munster, which housed a rail line feeding into the industrial rural valley. Leading the raid was the 3rd Division’s 13th Bomber Wing with P-47 fighter escorts.
Now, this was way, not way, Munster before the P-51, between the escort. Sure, sure. What year did you say? 43? Yeah, okay.
So this raid goes on. Navigation error led to the fighter group’s late rendezvous. When the Thunderbolts finally did arrive, their stay was short, low on fuel.
They had to return to base. With no fighters to help them, the B-17s were quickly mauled by German fighters. And if you’ll recall, improvements in radar, improvements in aircraft armament weapons, you know, missiles as well as machine guns.
Yeah. They would take heavy tolls on the B-17s. Sure, yeah, sure.
So 200 Luftwaffe, single and twin-engine planes assaulted the lead bomber formation in what was described in the official reports, most violent and concentrated check yet made on the division by an enemy aircraft. Oh, man. All right.
At the time of the war, German defenders often paralleled to bomber formations, trek remaining just out of the machine gun range and traveling in packs of 20 to 40. So their techniques were all about taking care of business. So despite the carnage of the 10th, which was that raid on Munster, they lost like 29 B-17s.
Eighth Air Force decides to attack a German ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt. Target earlier in August with mixed results. The second raid was set for October 14th by 291 B-17s launched in two separate waves.
149 bombers came from the 1st Air Division with 142, more from the 3rd. The two units flew lined up rest approximately 30 miles apart into central Germany. With fighter escort up to the city of Aitchen, and then of course they left, the mission proceeded, unmolested until the P-47 spilled away from home.
German radar had picked up the formation as they formed over England and tracked them en route after the protective escort was gone. Yeah, the whole way. The Luftwaffe quickly pounced, using the same tactics as before, heavy cannons, machine guns, and rockets from pairs of German fighters assaulted the bombers.
Wave after wave of fighters targeted the lead bombers to disrupt the larger formation. As planes fell out formation, crewmen claimed they could mark their trek from the smoke of billowing down B-17s. So by the time that was done, I’m gonna give you some numbers here.
By the time the 40th Bomb Group reached a target, it had already lost seven of its 49 planes with others seriously damaged. The number lost climbed to 29 despite the beating they had taken. 228 B-17s made it the target and dropped their bombs accurately.
Now this I like. Of the 1,122 high explosive bombs dropped, 143 fell within the factory area, hitting 88 standing structures. Pretty cool.
That is amazing. Despite the mauling, the 40th placed 53% of their bombs within 1,000 feet of the angle. Wow.
While accurate, the price was steep. In all, the 8th Air Force lost 60 B-17s out of the force of 229. With five more crash landing in England, 12 more bombers sustained major damage and had to be written off and another 121 requiring further repair.
More than 600 men were missing or dead with another 43 wounded. While airplaneers expected a 10% loss rate for the mission, the actual figure was double. So given those losses, it was time to take, where did it go? There we go.
Given those losses, it was time to take stock. Desperate the act, despite the accurate drops, one thing had become abundantly clear. Deep penetrations in the Germany without fighter escort wasn’t feasible.
Given the steep losses over this period, it was quickly dubbed Black Week. The worst week of daylight and escort-free bombing. Oh, wow.
So they did a full stop for how long? I think it was like two weeks to figure out what they were gonna do and how they were gonna do it. And then a couple of months later, the solution was in December, the first P-51 Mustang arrived in England. Well, that helped follow.
So that cut their losses drastically. When it was LeMay already, was it LeMay who changed all those tactics? Was he there already? Yep, yep. This was his baby.
And in fact, it talked about the doctrine recognized that modern warfare increasingly leveraged the nation’s industrial capacities and its associated workforce. Air power advocates believed attacking enemy infrastructure and industrial capabilities precluded a repeat of World War I. So he said, we’re gonna get it done even though there wasn’t any doctrine for daylight bombing. So the losses kept climbing, climbing until they high pointed in the week of October.
Which became- Yep, it was terrible. Well, that was depressing. You know, but they succeeded, which was amazing.
Yeah, they took that. But that’s our history, right? We get our ass handed to us and then we figure it out and then we go back. Yeah, it’s like- Well, and even when you’re talking about, I was reading one of the stories about one of the B-17s, I forgot its name.
It dropped its bombs as a single ship. It got lost from its escorts and got lost from the other B-17s. Went dropped, his oxygen airlines were all jacked up.
So they weren’t, they were having problems breathing. Two of their gunners were shot. Their navigator was killed and they were still able to drop accurately bombs and fly back.
And then crash landed in England. So, amazing story. That’s some good training.
Woo, really lying. Did you guys see the series on Apple? I think it was only on Apple. I saw it.
What was it called? I can’t quite remember it now. Oh, Masters of the Air. Masters of the Air.
That was great. I thought it was great. They did a great job.
And it’s basically Band of Brothers about the airborne. Yeah, it was really well done. There’s a lot of like, some of the same stuff you saw on Memphis Bell only just like exponentially.
It was like crazy. How do you gear yourself up every day to go get in a B-17, which 55 to 60% of them didn’t come back today? And they even touched on that point. The morale of the squadron.
It’s like, man, we gotta keep going. What, they had to hit 25 missions or whatever it was? Something like that. Did the fly go back home? You know, it’s a good series.
If you ever get a chance to see it. I don’t know if it’ll ever come off of Apple. It’s worth watching.
That’s what it is. Okay, Masters of the Air. All right, my fellow Halloween giller.
Chick-a-cheep. That’s great. All right, no tricks.
Except for snap the clown, still trickin’. And the knuckle-to-er. A knuckle-to-er.
Suckin’ on a finger. But Mav won’t. You know what Mav’s gonna do, all right? Play ball and golf.
Yeah, well, I’m gonna go try to get laid. My best friend killed, and I’m gonna yell at admirals, and then I’m gonna realize. On behalf of all of us here, I’d like to thank you for listening today.
Please like, share, subscribe, and let us know how we get in the comments. Excuse me. Excuse me.
Allergies. Oh, if I could have had something come up out of it. So, that’s the end of the Halloween episode.
That would have been great. Catch ya, thank you. Make sure next week that you are done.
Good luck. Life for James Grover. Hi, I’m Eric, have a happy Halloween.
Everyone listening out there, and we’ll see you next week. You too, guys. Before we be like.
So. Monday? Monday. So, everyone watch the episode.
Have a great week, and we’ll see you then. All right, guys, bye-bye. Bye-bye.