Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 03 Jan 2024
Date: Jan 3, 2024
Special event alert. Lock your car and run! This is the Play for Changeover, your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith and I’m joined by Mr. History, Eric Peratt.
Good evening from the dog’s screen. And our own Big Bird, Mike Johns. How’s it going everybody? We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all Guardians and to the other lesser branches as well.
So take your seats, get informed and have a laugh as we present Play for Changeover. Gentlemen, I feel like we are in some kind of post nuclear environment. So we’ve lost our man in the closet because of a power cord.
We’ve got Eric Peratt broadcasting from the moon. The one who should have the worst internet connection, which is Big Vern is like rock steady. So Kevin Balcom is, for some reason, I don’t know if he’s down in Pueblo or if his wife is in Pueblo.
That was a very weird text that he gave. Yeah, he said it had something to do with his wife brought up some kind of requirement he had to do out of nowhere this afternoon. So he’s what we used to call household six.
So smart man, but an unreliable team member so far. Never really know if he’s injured or if he’s not injured. So he’s almost like an NBA star.
It’s like the maintenance they do or they’re like some games. I’m just not feeling it today. So maybe that’s what he’s doing.
Anyway, hopefully, we’ll be joined by Jake Wall later. But welcome back for a new year of late for changeover. Guys, you have a good vacation or not vacation, but you have good holidays, good Christmas, good New Year’s.
How the twins Mike today? Yes, sir. I mean, obviously, they’re not going to remember anything. They’re four, right? Six months old.
Yeah, six or Christmas as you’d expect, you know, grandma, grandpa, your friends, family, all that good stuff said more than enough toys and clothes that were already inundated with, you know, me and my wife, we did pretty good. My wife actually got me a pretty good Christmas present. There’s a book out there on the SR 71 called sled driver.
And it’s a very rare book to get. And the man who wrote it recently passed his name is Brian Schul. And he recently passed in May of this year.
And she managed to give me a sign to copy of this book. Wow. And yeah, it’s real cool.
It’s got great stories. You know, he was a SR 71 pilot. And it’s got great stories of him flying the Blackbird and you know, the various you have a how the whole system work.
It’s it’s it’s just a very cool, cool book. That’s one of those things you could put, you know, on your bookshelf and keep her years and years and years. And it’s just going to be it’s gonna be one of those things, you know, kids, 100 years from now, we’ll pick up and go, Whoa, this is cool.
You know what you could do? I mean, when you get through that whole thing, do a book review on it, man. I’d love to ask questions. That’d be very cool.
Do something like that. Like when the SR 71 go out of service? Is that neat? 91? Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know.
I was in the 90s. I thought 90s. And I’m wondering if that if that rumor about it, right, is that it had to get up to altitude.
Otherwise, it leaked. Wasn’t that the SR 71? Yeah, that’s a true statement. Is it? Yeah.
And that’s why that’s why they retired it because the maintenance costs were so or they they either retired it or they sold it to the X-Men. So I couldn’t quite remember because that the X-Men cartoon plane looks exactly like the SR 71. Well, they retired it really because of satellites.
You know, once you’re able to image the area you want to image, why send a human in a really expensive jet over it. But anyhow, save all these questions for the book review. Okay.
We’ll put it to you. Eric, how are you doing in the black hole? Yes, sir. Eric’s in a combat environment.
I never knew that power was such a huge requirement. He’s blacked out in Florida. Yeah.
Well, yeah, that’s if you’re blacked out in California, I’d understand it. But, you know, you’re in a red state. So I don’t understand it, fellas.
I don’t. And while you killed enough time. Look at that.
Now, Jake’s going to take 10 minutes to connect to his audio, but that’s okay. So anyway, I got a new mic right here. So we’re going to see how this works.
Sounds really good. Does it? Yeah. I don’t know.
You know, I never know until I, I listened to it afterwards. And I’m like, Oh shit, that was very, that was very quiet or there was very muffled or whatever. So, but we’ll see how it goes.
It’s the Australian road mic. So I don’t know. Let’s see.
Okay. First off, while Jake is connecting, uh, I thought being a space based news show, I thought we do a rundown of upcoming launches for the U S uh, for January of 2024. If you want to go see a more detailed list of this, go out to space flight now.com. Uh, first up, well yesterday, I actually, I should have checked.
Damn it. I wrote this yesterday. It was like, Oh, I got a check today.
Um, check. Oh, leave the glasses on, man. It looks great.
Well, it’s, it’s for distance. So I can’t read anything. I’ll be doing, I’ll do this.
You know, speaking of that, uh, remember back in like oh two or oh three or oh four, whenever it was when the, uh, air force academy was like, Hey, free PRK. Remember you could get PRK. I wouldn’t got PRK.
I did too at Travis. Oh, you did. Yeah.
I didn’t know that that shit was only good for about 10, 10, 10 years. Yep. It just started fading.
Yeah. So I made it quite a bit longer, but I was like, Oh, can I fix this? And I’m like, no, you had PRK. The man in the closet.
Look at that. I love it. Uh, Eric is in Beirut currently and he’s having trouble with his internet connection.
So, uh, I don’t even know if he could hear us make fun of him. But he’s in Beirut, Florida. Yeah.
You ever hear those, uh, when the, uh, politicians are like, Hey, I deployed to CENTCOM. Yeah. CENTCOM is in Florida.
Like CENTCOM headquarters in fucking Tampa, my friend. Don’t even play it off. I remember hearing, uh, I can’t remember.
It was a female politician who said, Oh yeah, I spent six months at CENTCOM headquarters. I was like, really? Uh, so anyway, Eric, uh, Eric can’t speak, but he got comments in bite me, Jake. So Eric’s having internet connection problems.
He just chatted to us. Uh, guys, this terrible on my end. It’s going Jumo out.
Keep trying, Eric, keep trying. We need you. We need you here, man.
Um, okay. Back to a launch schedule on January 2nd today. Uh, I hope it launched a space.
Is that what it is? Really? Yeah. I got the live stream up right now. Okay.
Well, let’s live stream that live stream. Yeah, you could. Can you share? Eric’s not getting connected to that.
Give me a second. I’ll drop the link in the chat. So a space X Falcon nine rocket will launch with another batch of 21 star link internet satellites from space launch complex for East on Vandenberg space for space, California.
Are they still calm? They still call those slicks. Yeah. Okay.
As far as I know, I still call them slicks. Yeah. Yeah.
Slick for East. Can you hear us? Mr. History. That’s debatable.
That’s okay. Just stay on. Just, just stay on.
I don’t care if we could hear you or not. Just Marty gets paid by the screen. Even if you’re frozen up, making money.
Yep. Are these in the, uh, the, the swag link is in the, in the comments. Uh, merch.
Okay. Well, he said, okay. I like, I like you doing a left-handed there, Jake.
Uh, tomorrow on January 3rd, a Falcon nine will launch a much delayed all geo stationary satellite for the Swedish broadband internet provider off zone from slick 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Uh, this was funny cause they go no earlier than January 8th launching out of slick 41 at Cape Canaveral, a United launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its inaugural flight with the Para green commercial lunar lander for Astrobotic. I like how Vulcan and Centaur like either one was been, would have been a cool name.
But yeah, they put them together. Right. For the company Astrobotic.
I like that. That’s better than United launch Alliance. Eric is so delayed on his video.
I don’t know what he’s laughing at. Just keep it going. I’d rather see you than hear you.
That’s a dick move. I mean, the whole thing is audio. And you’re like, don’t comment.
Just make facial gestures. That’s all we need. Go change clothes and come back and do the whole to be very distracting the whole time.
We’ll try to do it and like pretend like he’s cooking. He’s just doing drive-bys. It’s all glitchy.
Why is he in a towel? Nice. Hasn’t lost a minute on that. Since the old speedo picks.
Oh, yeah, that’s good. That’s going on. On January 17th, launching out of slick 39 a Kennedy space center in Florida, a SpaceX Falcon nine rocket will launch a crew dragon spacecraft on the program’s 13th 13th flight with astronauts.
The commercial mission managed by axiom space is commanded by former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez Alegria, three passengers, Walter Villadai, Alper Gezorowski, and Marcus want will fly on this two week commercial mission to the ISS, the International Space Station. That doesn’t say none of those names were pronounced correctly. They were all pronounced correctly because I practiced them and that was the best I could Oh, okay.
As far as you know, they were right on. Oh, yeah, Gezorowski. Yeah, that’s to you.
He’s like, that’s not my name. That would be awesome if he listened. Yeah, I would love to have an angry comment to go like you, especially an angry Russian comment.
Oh, yeah. Two minus three. Oh, did you put the link in there? Yeah.
All right. Let’s switch him back and forth. You know, Eric probably can talk and now he’s not going to just out of spike, spike, spike silence.
You’ve had years of that, right, Marty? I mean, that was my whole career. Oh, your career. Oh, I went straight to your personal life.
I know. Well, there is that too, right? So this is live. Yep.
Let’s see if it comes up. There we go. Oh, man.
Oh, look at that. Now that lock load is complete on the first stage, we will start to see some of those white clouds form around the vehicle. We’ll see more of that occur after locks like delay over YouTube on the second stage.
Yeah, there are just liquid. I like it. Inventing from the lines.
Silent treatment. Don’t worry about that smoke. You know, one thing I got to give good color.
I don’t know if this is the same woman that did the when they had the explosion and she was like, that was a rapid deconstruction. Don’t worry. It’s totally normal.
Rapid unplanned. Wasn’t deconstruction. No, I know.
But I was something like that. Yeah. On the weather front, everything continues nominally with our.
Feel like a cam girl shouting out Eric. Thanks, Eric. Love your comment.
Oh, silent treatment for you, big boy. Rapid unscheduled disassembly. Yeah, there it is.
All of its propellants. But she just came up with that on her own. She just fantastically call me.
I could listen to her all day. Oh, yeah. Is that the blonde girl, Ellie in space? I don’t know.
It’s I don’t know what she looks like. But her voice is pleasing. One of the got one girl is one of their, you know, she’s an engineer of some sort, but she does there a lot of their social media video stuff or she goes her handle or whatever you want to call it.
It’s Ellie in space. And she’ll do a lot of live streaming and stuff like that. Well, it’s kind of like the military.
You know, every public affairs officer in the Army or the Air Force, I ever saw was attractive, but it was always female. Now you’re Elon Musk in Europe. Billionaires.
You don’t think he’s maybe coming through resumes and like, is there a picture with this resume? Oh, that’s a given, right? Yeah, you got to, right? If you’re distracted, you’re not going to be asking ridiculous, in-depth questions or calling them on their bullshit. They’re like, wow, look how good look is it? What was that explosion? Makes a good point. Come back to me.
All right, here we go. How many rocket launches have you guys seen in person? Five, four, three, two, one. Yeah, I think I’ve got three when you’re out of data.
Oh, there we go. Falcon X, SpaceX Falcon 9. Damn. This is that audio.
That’s badass. Oh, my. Wow.
Man, the shit these cameras do these days, I know. Exactly. They got a camera on the outside of the of the rocket.
I mean, they got them every. They got they had that camera there because to that I saw at Vanneberg were about five seconds. Broke the clock.
That was fun. Glad I got out here an hour early. This is the largest amount of stresses that people seize on a so we do slow the vehicle down just a little bit in preparation for passing.
This isn’t their test bed. Is this their test bed one? No, this is our normal one. Isn’t it amazing how many they’re launching at a time now? Like before you’d have like three satellites on a launch and with the size of the Starlink.
I know the size of the Starlink and the efficiency and fuel and all that stuff. Man. Well, the fact they can do multiple week is just phenomenal.
Oh, it’s insane. And look at that. Look at that at the bottom of the display, right? They’re just not as risk averse.
Because NASA was constantly. We have to perform or else we’re going to get fired or else. Whatever the next two years is going to be.
The funding is going to be cut or whatever. Elon’s like blow it up, dude. I got another 70 over here.
I can put them up tomorrow. After that, we will jettison the fairings. At this point in time, the first stage is experiencing about 3.3 G’s.
That’s pretty impressive. That is so smart because if you look at the bottom of the screen where it shows the phases that it’s going through. Yeah, you can see the countdown and yeah, it moved to the separation of stage one and preparing for the fairing and all that.
It’s pretty neat and pretty impressive. You got the altitude and the speed. Oh, that’s in kilometers.
Yeah, it’s much cooler than running through the checklist. You know, and I’m sure someone with no video. Yeah, and back ignition there on your right hand side.
Well, I mean, look at that. They’re fully willing. First engine man.
That’s cool and engines. Excuse me, stage separation. We can see here on the left hand.
The glow on this on the first engine is ridiculous. Starting to deploy. Yeah, those help steer the booster.
Have you seen that picture of the guy in the cone? Like the fairing of one of those engines. Oh, yeah. And they’re like, oh, there’s five of them on this or there’s four of them on this.
You’re like, holy crap. That guy is just this big compared to that flight for the other. We, of course, you know, attempt to recover those fairing house again.
That’s a badass video, man. Oh, he saved up all his bandwidth for that comment. Eric, we should have got you like a pen and paper.
So you get a right message and hold them up. Yeah, just hold them up. Well, right now, right now you guys can hear me.
I can see. I mean, it’s pretty good. I’m not, uh, buffering.
Yeah. From the second stage vehicle, looking at our. Yeah.
Like when my daughter had her tonsils out, I got her a little dry erase board so she could just write the notes. There you go, Eric. I’ll use it.
I like it. Should have made her do the dictionary and made a really good ice cream. No.
Well, and then just intentionally bring her the wrong thing. You know, she drives a drop, draws a bowl of ice cream, and you bring her a bowl of soup or something. It was a ramen uncooked.
Watch her write mad. Angry. Hey, dad.
The dry erase pens are like braided. The conversation monkey gripping up. Hey, man.
I have a question. When you guys are monitoring a scope and seeing this things, what’s it come up? Is it a number that you see on a scope? Is it a, a target? Is it a little over a minute from now when you guys are tracking something? What’s it? What is it? Can you say that the system provides you a thing called a track and the track has various data in it and all that kind of stuff. And then, yeah, you see a trajectory line on the screen, showing you the ballistic trajectory of whatever the target is.
Okay. So it’s, it reflects as a number, a dot, or what? Here, we’ll do the very basic. What they had was for early missile warning, they had what’s called the defense satellite program.
DSP. So DSP was a big satellite that rotated once every 10 seconds. And when it rotated, it would pick up an infrared signature every 10 seconds.
So that every 10 seconds you’d have a dot, a dot, a dot, a dot, a dot. And they would be, they would stay on the screen once it picked them up. And the computer would go, oh, this is in such a line and such acceleration and all that stuff.
So this must be a track. And it would, it would develop a track out of all these dots it produces. I just wondered what that track looked like.
But it’s dots. It’s dots. And the raw data is dots and then the computer will do a projected line.
Okay. And then that’s projected over a three-dimensional earth that you can spin around. Right, right.
Those engines have relived from the first stage vehicle. And that’s the basic stuff. Much more advanced stuff now, but that’s the basic understanding of it.
So all you see is dots. Not you. It’s a good pick, Mike.
Yeah, it’s a good chance to livestream. The fact that the fact that all, all scientists for a long time were like, we’re just going to throw stuff up there. It’ll eventually burn and we don’t need to worry about trash.
You can’t land these again. And then he’s like, hold on, I got it. Oh yeah, we can.
In a matter of years. I mean, that’s exactly it. It wasn’t a significant amount of time.
I mean, he accepted blowing up a couple of random things and then all of a sudden it was working and it was working consistently. But if you think about it, and we’ve all been on like an error board, right? So something went wrong and it immediately goes into this huge board of people trying to, you know, what went wrong for me? What went wrong for you? And it’s just this massive coalition of all the little errors before they make a decision and go forward. That’s way down the line.
The civilian companies are like, what happened? And like, oh, this blew up because of this. They’re like, fix that. And then let’s move on.
So it ditches all that bureaucracy because the military has to present that report to hire. The civilian companies. The basics is like, okay, we got it.
I know what went wrong. Let’s fix that. Let’s go.
So it’s a much quicker response, which leads to much more development. And I think the Air Force could do that. They have the smart minds to do that, but they are restrained by bureaucracy.
So stage one is landing. Landing on our drone ship, which you see the ocean there now. It’s down to 200, 100, 100 kilometers.
Coming down onto the ship. That’s frickin crazy. That’s crazy, man.
God, that is awesome to be reused again. Just go dust it off and throw some work. You want it.
Let’s get two hundred and sixty six. Wow. How long does it take that barge to get back to? And it’s a it’s a robotic barge.
Oh, is it? I think it’s pilotless. Yeah, that’s pretty cool. The fact that he did that too was super smart.
Right. He’s like, I’ll just take an old oil rig and launch from that. Fine.
Is that what he’s using? That’s what the original one was. It was that launch platform. That was an old oil rig, like an old drilling rig.
And it is mobile, right? That’s sea launch platform. Starlink. Wow.
That is so cool. Isn’t that cool? You know, it’s always the small things like who would ever thought, hey, let’s do it off a frickin oil rig barge of there. And then I don’t think I don’t think these follow on ones are oil rigs, but but that was where the idea came from.
Well, and you’re you’re confusing the launch with the landing. The landing was on a barge. The launch was done for whatever slick was out in California.
Oh, yeah, yeah. But then doesn’t have a launch facility that was. Yeah, there’s there’s one out off the coast of South America on the west coast of South America called sea launch.
And oh, yeah, you’re right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. United Launch Alliance used to launch to geo from sea launch quite often.
I don’t know when the last sea launch launch actually happened. But yeah, it at least was a thing. I don’t know if they’ve switched out French Guiana.
And, you know, where they’re launching the Arians and whatnot from. I don’t they swap that out for sea launch altogether. But there was one there was one of these launches that they had switched.
They were planning on launching out of French Guiana, but there was some issue out there. So they’re like, OK, we’re going to launch out of the gate. And I can’t remember which one it was because I threw away the rest of the article.
But that was one of them. So, yeah, it’s weird that it’s weird that French Guiana is down there and as big as it is for space launches. Well, it was a mistake.
And I said United Space or United Launch Alliance was really the European Space Agency that owned sea launch. But yeah, how perfect was that, man? Thanks for looking that up, Mike. That was awesome.
That was cool. Yeah, we were just talking about livestream. We just did it.
I’m so proud of it. Next next up is a police chase. Is Erica’s sleep or is this video frozen? You guess looks like it’s frozen, but I need to know because he’s in Florida and it’s like 10 o’clock there.
So he’s any probably just locked up like that. And he’ll just be sleeping the whole time. That will be the gym.
Eric, get back. Come on and get back. No way.
Stay there. That’s awesome. No, we need him.
Well, yeah, I do appreciate that. But he’s out there tearing it up. Having a good old time.
Frozen. And it’s 11 butt crack. He’s that way.
Oh, yeah. 11 p.m. That’s some kind of old timey insult. All right.
Well, let’s let’s since we have the crack of my behind. Since we have Eric. All right.
Or do we have Eric? Eric, are you back? Crack. All right. Well, that was a three minute delay.
That would be awesome. Damn that guy. Well, this one might be a this one might be short.
So how dare he have fun? Okay, that was cool. That was that was much better than the stories that I had planned. So let’s go.
If we get Eric back. Let’s let’s go into the military action game because I want to do that with you guys. So that was one of the funnest times.
And this time I’ve altered it a little bit. Yes, we know it. The struggle is real.
The struggle to tolerate your internet connection is very low here. Okay. One of the things one of the funnest things we did last year was the military action game.
So why we have Eric for five minutes. Let’s let’s do our new revamped military action game. Eric and yours.
I can. All right. You ready? Look, I even made a I even made a little.
Oh, look at this. Probably don’t. So that’s awesome.
Beautiful. All right. First lot.
Now you got to tell me which item sold for the most. All right. All right.
So so the first. Are you going to go through the items? I am. So the first one is either 100 sleeping mats.
All right. 36 large field packs or 52 wet weather poncho liners. So you got to tell me which do you think sold for the most? Who’s going first? On my screen, I show Mike on top.
So Mike goes first. I’m going to the poncho liners. People actually want those things.
Mike’s with the poncho liners. Jake. And that’s a good good call.
Those Snuggies are are good. Poncho liners is one of the better things that the military ever invented. Yeah.
You know, I do give them that. Well, I’ll go with the backpacks then. You can take this to make it.
There’s no reason. But that’s not fun. Oh, it’s not fun for me.
Well, I would say the worst thing they ever made was sleeping mats. That’s I’m looking at that. And it looks like a. Yeah.
But if you have if you have cold hard ground versus a half inch, I get it. Ollie styrene. I’ve slept on that shit and it still sucked.
The poncho liner was the best thing around. But you know what? For 100 sleeping mats, I’m going to take the 100 sleeping mats. We’ll go.
All right. Oh, see. All right.
So I’ve done this a little bit different. So but but we’re all in agreement. The poncho liners are by far the best thing that.
Oh, I agree. Three things. If we had to buy any of these, regardless of price, I’d go punch.
Oh, poncho liners, the warmest. Oh, yeah. Agreed.
Absolutely. So the 36 large field pack sold for three hundred and five dollars. The poncho liners sold for three hundred and twenty dollars.
Are the sleeping mats more or less? That’s going to be more. Yeah, less. Two fifteen.
Two fifteen. Three hundred and fifty dollars for the sleeping mats. And Eric.
No, by default, though, none of us. One of those. Every day.
Ridiculous. Oh, the squirrel found another. All right.
Next line. And Eric just froze up. Come on back, Eric.
Oh, OK. Good. I’m good.
Twenty one fart sacks are sleeping bags, right? Oh, sixty two plastic water cans. Or one medium tent. All right, Jake, you’re up first.
But I’m going with the sleeping bags. Sleeping bags for Jake. Eric.
I’m going with the tent. Yeah, see, that wouldn’t be smart. Maybe.
All right, Mike basically just went wrong. Don’t choose the tent. Well, the the the water cans are something that’s actually kind of hard to get ahold of.
And if you can get ahold of a lot of sixty two and it’s going in an auction, you know, guys that like run Jeeps out in the desert and stuff like that are probably going to want those. They can read some on eBay and whatnot. That’s because there’s a whole four by four community.
But but then they’ve gone to all those slim fuel cans and water cans. But you’re right. Yeah, there’s there’s other options.
But I mean, these things are, you know, if you’re if you’re building an old school jeep or if you’re just an old school dude, you’re probably going to want those water cans. So since it’s an auction, I’m going with the water cans. All right.
Here’s the here’s the price is sold. Seven hundred and ten dollars for twenty one twenty one. I know.
Seven hundred and fifty five for the water cans. Is the tent more four hundred fifty five for seven hundred and five dollars for the water cans wins. No way.
Seven fifty five. Seven fifty five for sixty two water cans. I can’t believe I would you want them.
You know, I guess it’s all I have a feeling it’s all pawn shop guys or, you know, military surplus guys. But there could be some freemen up in North Dakota who are just like perfect. That’s perfect.
Think about it. You can buy oil, California bags and a hundred sleeping mats with twenty five ponchos and be golden. Come on, man.
Yeah, but you got no water. You know, you live off the land. You go find your water.
All right, you know what it was. Also, never mind. I’m not revealing my secret.
So, OK, all that stuff that Jesus said. But now they need something to fight with. Now this is all Pennsylvania, too.
So forty six swords and scabbards. Or thirty one combat knives like a Rambo knife with sheets. Those look like the old K bars.
Or one bayonet knives, bayonets. They even have the ring on there where they go for over the rifle. All right.
Eric, you’re first on this one. I am going to sixty one bayonets because they’re the most useful out of all that shit. That’s what I said.
How is a bayonet more useful than a knife or a sword? It’s a K bar. It’s a piece of garbage. Those things broke.
The blades were the bayonets. Everybody on the street knows K bars are trash. They’re trash.
Everybody on the block. You got a cavalry sword over there. I’m not even look at that.
Those are those are frickin. All right. Eric’s committed to the bayonets.
I’m committed to bayonets. Mike, I’m going with the swords. Those are those are very useful in like recreation.
Exactly. People pay out. You can get the K bars and the shitty combat knives and bayonets at any Tom, Dick, or Harry surplus store for five bucks.
Those swords would be hard to come by. And you can’t especially in the air condition. Yeah, it’s Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
A lot of Civil War. I got a sword hanging on my wall for crazy. A lot of sword fighting in that area.
retirement gift. You’re going to get them at Walmart for guy six. Bikes go with the sword.
What do you got, Jake? I got the combat knives with 30. Yeah, that’s low, though. I mean, that’s not a good quantity.
Yeah, it’s not. But still scabbards sold for 1515. So 1515 for the swords and scabbards.
Wow. Combat knives. 1560.
And the bayonets sold for 16. Holy shit. That’s right.
Go recreate with that sword. Put it on a fucking crayon. I would have bayonets.
You got to have a rifle for a band. But yeah, it’s too. That’s what they sold for.
All right. We’re heading into the funner. Are we getting bonus points for second? Because I’ve been second every time.
Yeah, I haven’t even been tallying second. I should have. Too bad.
Oh, you’re good. All right. A 1989 bass boat.
A Sea Ark bass boat. Or a 2017 travel trailer. With one slide, sleeps three people.
Once a single slide out. Got the slide out and everything, huh? That’ll make a difference. Eric, based on your region, you think that would be a hot commodity down there? Oh, I’m thinking it would.
Oh, that’s true. Yeah, that’s true. Or the only thing sliding out in this area is my trailer.
Well, you got three people to slide out in that. Or one talent for tactical robot. Now, this is a remote operator controlled unit.
100 pound payload capacity. 200 pound drag capacity. Robotic arm.
52 inch horizontal reach. All right. It’s got a gripper.
40 pound gripper capacity. So you got a bass boat. An 89.
That’s an old bass boat. But an 89 bass boat. A 2017 travel trailer.
Or a talent for tactical robot. That bass boat is a sea ark, though. The sea ark.
It’s more useful, man. The boat can still do a lot of shit. Am I going first, Marty? One, two, three.
One, two, three. No, Mike goes first. Oh, nice.
I’m going with a robot. Damn it, man. A robot.
You can choose the same thing. No, we can’t. Yeah, that robot’s got to be like 20 grand.
And well, I mean, I guess brand new, but you got to think that stupid travel trailer was probably used by, uh, by the, uh, a bunch of record department. Yeah. You know, it was, it was set there and, you know, hundreds of families have slept in that damn things.
There’s probably buds and all sorts of shit. You know, you’re going to get in there and get syphilis. And then that boat is probably got a big hole in the bottom.
Look at the rust on it. Yeah, that’s true. It’s nice, but it has a with trailer, man, from Indiana, coming to Florida to hang out.
All right, Jake, what do you got? I’m going with the rusty boat. I’m going with the old sea yard. You know, that boat served you well last time, actually.
Eric, what do you got? I was going to go boat since we can’t do that. I guess I am going with the, how do we know, baby? I’m going in the trailer just to spite you. All right.
That sounds like our podcast. All right. All right, here we go.
You might win just based on that, too. The robot was $6,200. Who has $6,200 to spend? They needed a 40 pound gripper capacity on that robot.
$200 on drag capacity. I’ve got $6,200 on the bass boat. Oh, $6,202.
Bullshit. You know, that’s the exact response from the guy that bid $6,200. The other guy’s like, $6,200.
Oh, son of a bitch. I’m tapped at $6,200. Mother.
The travel trailer went for $6,200. The kid. Eric won by default because of Jake’s rules.
That’s perfect. Oh, man. That is you got.
Oh, my God. You lucked into that one. People.
I just can’t believe the robot was so inexpensive. I know. They auctioned a lot of robots.
And it’s like where they get. Why are they putting all these robots up for auction? Well, they probably get sold to a local government. So they’ll go like that.
So they’re selling them in, you know. So they’re making a shitload of them. They’re like, oh, Ukraine, you didn’t want a thousand of these.
You only wanted like five hundred. All right. Well, auction the rest.
Maybe that’s what it is. Maybe you make the maintenance on that freaking thing. It goes dead.
It’s like, we’re never going to get running again. Oh, did you know what battery? Damn it. I told you not to overcharge.
Leave it overnight. $6,250 is a small price to pay for a full size house. And Laplace, Louisiana.
And that’s only six years old size house. That’s only place, Louisiana. Yeah, that’s right.
And I’m going to. I’m going to go. So I’m going to pull my trailer in that piece of shit moat.
And we’re going to go to Louisiana to buy you. You can fill it up with your goddamn bayonets. That’s going to be all right.
The next lot. 1999 60 K generator set. All right.
These in the same. They’re not. I found the prices that I put them together.
I know. But that’s what’s crazy is like they’re close to the same price. Yeah, they’re all close to same price.
A twenty seventeen club car carry all seven hundred golf cart. Oh, important. In Orlando, Florida.
That’s a hot commodity. A life. Good life fitness.
Ninety five. P power mill climber. Oh, my goodness.
All right. One, two, three, four. Jake, you’re up first.
Tough call here, Jake. Generator golf cart or a stair stepper. I want that golf cart in Florida.
That’s a hot commodity, man. And look at that sweet bumper on there. Yeah, you could tear up that retirement village and that puppy.
You can walk on trash cans over. Welcome to the villages, baby. It looks like it’s got an extended bed.
You can have like all kinds of stuff back there. Margaritaville has nothing on that. That would be you’d be envious if you thought that around.
Yeah, you’d be envied. Eric, what do you got? Dude, I am going with the altitude stepper. No doubt about it.
Piece of equipment’s amazing. Let’s get there. I want that generator to win.
Mike, you don’t have to play Jake Frulls. He will shame you into playing. No, my thinking was I’ve been I’ve been very pragmatic with the rest of my choices.
I try to think of which one I wanted the least. And it’s the golf cart. So that’s what you’re choosing.
Oh, you’re going golf cart golf. Because it’s simply Steve wants the one he doesn’t want. That generator is going to win.
That generator is nice. That generator has less hours on it than the golf cart. Look at that.
596 hours on the golf cart. That’s probably 176 on that generator. That’s crazy.
That is mint. Well, that’s miles on the golf cart. Generator set sold for 3000.
The golf carts. There’s no way that treadmill is going for three grand. For the stairs.
How are you so good at this? This is the old power mill. 95. Not I’m only in my triple towing.
I’m taking my own exercise equipment to Louisiana. How much does a brand new one of those cost? I don’t know. I didn’t think they were that expensive.
Like, I mean, these isn’t I said stair simmer, but it’s not. It’s the rotating steps. Oh, yeah, the bigger thing.
But and that’s in that’s in Nevada. Who’s getting in shape in Nevada? Oh, all the dirty girls paying for college. Hey, now they dance to stay in shape.
Right. Oh, the dirty girls. I got a clamp on to that pull.
I’ve contributed to many college funds in my life. So I hope I hope they’ve all got a degree by now. All right.
Last line. I’ll send you guys some stair climbers for Christmas next. Okay, here we go.
Oh, 2017 Polaris D4 side by side. That would that is awesome. I don’t know if it’s tactical, but it looks tactical.
The dune buggy. Right. The padding in that looks like instant Hemi’s though.
Absolutely. Funny. All these are instant.
Well, yeah, exactly. Or a 2008 Humvee. Four-door hardtop with truck body.
Yeah, that’s a piece of garbage. All right. Or a 2005 Peterbilt six by four cab and chassis.
That Peterbilt has a whole lot of miles on it. A hundred and eighty two. That’s not a lot.
That’s that’s right. That’s not a Peterbilt, man. Humvee has 4900 miles for being.
What, 15, 16 years old, man. That’s probably the one that got stolen from the California guard. Could have been funny.
It’s been out of service for a while. Yeah, exactly. Yep.
And the Polaris has 139 hours, which is nothing. It’s nothing on it. Yeah.
Why don’t you sell it? We put some more comfortable seats in it. Let’s go. How do they get 139 hours? But it’s a diesel engine.
That’s what threw me. So I guess that’s a diesel, I suppose. Yeah.
Diesel engine. Oh, nice. So the Humvee has 6.5 liter diesel.
And the Peterbilt has a 13.6 cylinder, 12.5 liter diesel. All diesel, 525 horsepower. That’s side-by-side in Georgia.
You know, there’s some country boys that want to jack around in that thing. All right. Last lot, Eric.
All the shit we can winch with that, Glenn. I don’t even know what a Georgia exit is. We can shoot.
There’s no doors on it. We can just shoot right up. Right from there.
Right out the front. Right from our lap. You can tell you’re from Oregon, son.
All right, Eric. What do you got? My head tells me it’s the Peterbilt. But because it’s been so generic, I’m going to go with the Polaris.
Eric chooses the side-by-side. Yeah. Is there a rear view of the Peterbilt? Does it have like the chrome fat chick mudflaps on it? That’s an instant winner of mine.
I think it had Yosemite Sams on it. Oh, yeah, that was Yosemite Sams. Back off.
It’d be great if it had like ask, ask, or grass. No one writes for free on there. No one writes for free, yeah.
But the silver stripper is always a classic. That’s true. Mike, what do you got? Well, for me, my instinct wants to go with the Peterbills as well, because you can make money with it.
But there’s a lot of morons that would really want that Polaris side-by-side. So I’m going with the side-by-side. Okay, man.
This is what I wanted. I wanted that Peterbilt. Peterbilt.
Peterbilt. You’re going with the Peterbilt? Oh, yeah, it’s got differential lock. Yeah, I forgot to mention that.
If you know anybody being on semi-trucks. You know, you want some differential lock. It’s probably an air horn too.
All right, here’s the price it’s sold for. Side-by-side, sold for $40,200. That thing’s good looking thing, but not for $40,000.
Golly, boy. $40,000. The Humvee sold for $40,100.
Oh, man. Peterbilt sold for $40,000. To make the winner the Polaris.
How are you so gifted at this game, Eric? I don’t understand it. Just flip a coin. Two years of experience.
That’s impressive. Jay, you had nothing right. None, yeah.
But I got sick every time except for that last time. So, you know, I’ll take silver, man. I’m good.
Well, you got not even silver because Mike got two, right? Fine, C’s for degrees. And Eric got five. Five of six.
And one of those you were forced into it. He was not forced into anything. I picked whatever he wanted.
You can tell it’s all the pressure. There was a lot of pressure, yeah. Yeah, I like the experience comment.
It’s just because I’ve been around. Oh, here we go. Well done.
Well done, Eric. I mean, seriously, that was good. I’ve been around.
I bought some bullshit in my day. I still can’t believe the bayonets won that shit. Dude, that was a lot of money for some bayonets.
The sleeping mats first, I was like, are you serious? Who’s paying? I mean, you could go buy a sheet of foam. For cheap, or you could buy those sleeping mats for, right? Yeah, but those could be rare. They’d probably get eaten up in storage.
And you’re like a true person who’s trying to collect shit and stuff like that. You probably want something in good repair. But it could be.
Makes no sense to me, but whatever. Because in the army, that’s part of what they call the TA-50, they used to call it TA-50, initial issue. So you go three or four years with that foam stuff, and you got to go turn it into, when you turn in all your equipment, and yours is like eaten by rats, or ripped in half, or elkabonged over some drunken guy’s head.
And you’re like, are you going to go buy it? So this surplus guy is like, hey, shit, I make money off of these things. Yeah, probably. They are garbage.
Give me a hundred of these things. I’ll make twice what I paid for. Oh, I didn’t even think of that angle, yeah.
But yeah, some of those prices, it’s just amazing going through some of that stuff. There were some powerboats, but I didn’t want to bring those up again because we did those. And pontoon boats, they did that.
Oh, those are fun, though. And it’s not like we remember what that price was. Don’t even play it.
Oh, no, no, no. I wanted it to be different than the last one. Pull out your notes, Jake.
Pull out your notes. Yeah, I recall that. Marty’s pissed because I don’t even pre-read the articles half the time.
That’s okay, but the effect is perfect because you have that ability. Now, if I’m a betting man, now you just go opposite of Jake. I mean, look, Eric, you are already a beneficiary of that.
Now you’ve got to take this. You’ve got to take the winner, Eric. You’ve got to take the winning one.
I’ll take the winning one. Now you just made him smug. Well done, Jake.
Oh, yeah, I’m right. Because I have one time. Yeah, let me cook my hair away for free.
One time he won after you assigned him that freakin’ boat. And he’s all like, I have one victory. You were given that.
Marty goes, this is going to win. Well, you know, on the scorecard, it just says W. There’s no asterisk. There’s no show of picture.
Oh, my God. But you can’t argue with it. That’s very good.
Yeah, I can’t. Yeah, Mike will do midnight conversations next time. The livestream, well done.
Midshift conversations, not midnight conversations. Oh, yeah, two totally different segments. Two different things.
Ooh, midnight conversations could be fun. So that’s why. What was that radio show, Coast to Coast? Coast to Coast, baby.
Yeah. Oh, man. That’s where it could turn into.
But, yeah. Eric, hit us with your boring day of history. I got to tell you, you’re probably right.
Sorry, man. Come on. But you admitted it was.
He glitched out. He glitched out. Oh, you did that on purpose.
Now I’ve put it up, right? I did do it on purpose, I swear. He’s faking it. He’s faking it because you’re calling shit boring.
Come on. He called it boring. He told me that beforehand.
I said I couldn’t find it. You can hear me now, can’t you? See? Yeah, you’re good. Yeah, you’re good.
All right. It’s going to break up in the middle of this thing. All right.
That’s probably okay at this point. To January 1977. I’m sorry.
1777. Not 1977. 1770.
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