Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 28 Aug 2024
DATE: Aug 27, 2024
My kid turned off the alarm on my clock! Which is excuse number three for being late for changeover, your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith and I’m joined by Eric Peratt, Mr. History. I got a good one tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
Our man in the closet, Jake Wall! Good to see you guys, as always. And the inventor of the breakdance armadillo, Adam Mondragon! Hey, that could win me points in the Olympics, just saying. You would have to wear hair that comes out of your sleeve because armadillos have hairy hands.
But they got long fingers, I think. And then I can lay on my back and just… Have somebody else spin you. Run by with a cardboard dump truck.
So take a seat, get a phone, and have a laugh as we present Late for Changeover. Good to see you all again for another Happy Tuesday night. I like it.
Happy Tuesday, Tucker. It is a happy Tuesday. How’s the week go? I was experimenting with SpaceX and it didn’t work very good on the ground either, so… You know, for the first time, I’ve seen an ad for Starlink.
It’s $2.99. Really? I don’t know if they have a monthly fee on top of that, but to get the receiver, it’s $2.99. I have no idea how that works. I have Starlink. Did the Velcro stick to Starlink? It just didn’t work.
I didn’t have any details for you. Because I think Marty thought you said SpaceX or something. I think he did too.
Or you didn’t say SpaceX. Did you say SpaceX? Yeah, and it didn’t work out down here. I thought you were trying to flank.
Oh, yeah. I wasn’t going to let him flake away from this. Our conversation will flank.
Yeah, good. Thanks for calling me up. I had a little feedback there, so I thought you said SpaceX.
No, it was trying to be funny with a little SpaceX. Intercourse. With a little space? Intercourse.
Little space? Intercourse. It’s like interstellar spacecraft. Intercourse.
Ah, see? Could be both, interstellar, intercourse. Interstellar. He went to iSpy with his wife.
You have interstellar, intercourse. You get younger, I think. Yeah, depending on how long you do it.
That’s problematic depending on how long you do it. Jake, I truly didn’t have enough Velcro. That’ll happen.
That’ll happen. Apparently, I weigh too much. You got to get a third person.
That was the best solved last week. Her arm sleeve is stuck in his beard. I wasn’t weightless.
You got to be weightless to be on the Velcro. It did work. What’s that show where they throw you up against the dartboard? Oh, that was probably MXC.
What’s the extreme elimination challenge? There we go. Eric Safeword is creatine smoothie and he’s got a leg up here. Creatine smoothie, please.
He’s a whole new vibe to SNL. SNM? SNM is great. Both.
Both. It’s got to be a safe word in space. That’s for sure.
Hydrazine. Hydrazine. That’s when everybody comes rushing in.
We heard hydrazine leak. Oh, come on. I told you to change your safe word.
There was a guy stuck on the wall with Velcro. I don’t know what the hell he was doing. You guys are up here till February.
Well, we got a lot of space news for you. All right. Now, before I hit this first one, I’d like to play you a clip from a show back in July.
So pay attention. This past July? So that’s, you know, that’s what’s going on with the ISS. I thought it was interesting that we had more, I mean, everybody was like, oh, these guys on the Boeing capsule, they’re stranded up there.
And they’re like, there’s, there’s fucking nine other people. They got buddies. Yeah, but their pods work.
That’s the problem. The Boeing capsule is like, eh, we’ll run some tests. We’ll get back to you in a week.
Hang out with the… Have a popsicle. The guys with SpaceX on their crew drag, and they’re like, hey, just take ours back. Elon will launch another one up here next week.
Just take ours, man. They’re like, it’s okay. Our suits, they don’t work with the touch screen.
You can’t do it. You gotta watch two days still. Where’s my joystick? Look at that.
That was back in July, right? Did we call that or what, man? No kidding. And then this story comes out just this week. Oh.
So from foxnews.com, spacesuits of Boeing launch astronauts are incompatible with the SpaceX craft. NASA told Fox News Digital their Boeing spacesuits are made to work with the company spacecraft, while SpaceX’s spacesuits are made to work with its own Dragon vessel, which NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams may ride in on their descent back to Earth. With the commercialization of space, NASA is not as deeply involved as it once was with every aspect of mission and spacecraft design, namely standardization.
As a result, an incompatibility between the spacesuits designed by SpaceX and Boeing has reportedly created an issue returning Wilmore and Williams to Earth. The Boeing spacesuit is made to work with the Starliner spacecraft and the SpaceX is made to work with the Dragon spacecraft. Both were designed to fit each unique spacecraft.
NASA didn’t confirm whether the issue is detrimental to the astronauts’ return. Ship me up an extra large, will ya? Kinda, right? That’s what they’re going to have to do, is strap it to the spare seats. Yeah, I mean, I don’t, other than like the crew dragon SpaceX’s craft, which we know is all touchscreen, right? Which is funny, that we said that two months ago.
Right here, right? But, I mean, what else would it not be compatible with? The connections. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The harnesses, like the shoulders, might be too big.
I didn’t think about that. I didn’t think about safety. I was thinking of oxygen inserts and stuff.
Yeah, exactly, yeah. Like the pea suit? The pea suit. Can’t connect to the port of body inside.
Yeah, yeah, that would suck. That’s a problem, man. And, interestingly enough, that leads to our next story from Space.com. Hold on, is Boeing going to get fired yet? Because Boeing will be fired.
Not until they get them all back. They’re fired. Look, we were joking around about Australia and the breakdancer.
Everybody was, right? Yeah. But how much of us, like we, as America, have to look like asshats to other countries right now. And what way? Oh, then we got those guys stranded.
American election. Yeah. The guys are stranded.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Forget about that.
They’re like, dude, America’s going crazy. Get it together, America. Yeah, come on, guys.
Oh, right. My thought process is why don’t they just launch another SpaceX dragon, whatever, with extra spacesuits? Well, that’s what they were going to have. That’s what this article covers on it.
Very good thinking. So, from Space.com, Boeing, Starliner, astronauts will return home on a SpaceX dragon in 2025, and NASA confirms it. Right? Okay.
We called that, too. We did. We called that because Elon doesn’t give a fuck.
He’s going to come down, or sorry. He doesn’t care. He’s going to be like, I’ll bring you back.
But you’re not coming back early. My boys are still going to be up there. And Boeing, you’re going to pay me.
Boeing, you’re going to pay me. Trouble. I already see it.
That’s why you came up with Space Uber. Yeah. Yeah, Space Uber.
Yeah, Space Uber. But this is different. This is different.
So, on Saturday, NASA announced its, or last Saturday, NASA announced its final decision regarding the fate of two astronauts aboard the ISS, whose original eight-day space junk had turned into a nebulous, there were nebulous, multi-month excursion. Sonny Williams, Butch Wilmore, who launched the ISS on June 5th, will now return home no earlier than February of 2025. Unbelievable, man.
So, how much do we, how much does an astronaut make in space? It’s got to be tax-free. Oh, you mean like TDY? Do they get TDY? Is there space TDY pay? Partship pay, probably. Family separation.
Well, they definitely got the tax-free part, right? What is it, 60 days, I think, or whatever? So, what they’re going to do is, instead of just SpaceX launching it up there and bringing them back, SpaceX had a planned mission that was already supposed to go, I think it’s already been delayed, but they were going to send four astronauts up. Now, SpaceX is only going to send two astronauts up and bring Butch and Sonny back with them, but they’re going to finish out their mission and come back in February. On their schedule, correct? And they’re like, hey, hey, hey, can you, thanks for the seats, but can you also send up two spacesuits, too? Yeah, exactly.
Extra-large, make sure it works. Come on. What else do you want? Where are the Gilligan Island Boeing star ISS memes? Oh, they should make a movie about… A three-hour tour? It was a five-day tour, yeah.
That would be awesome. That would be so fun. Where are those memes? That would be an excellent series.
And they’re going to bring Starliner back, obviously, remotely, but they just don’t have confidence that they can guarantee safety all the way back through re-orbit, or de-orbit. But this is funny. Because of all the uncertainty, NASA emphasizes that it’s too risky to attempt bringing Wilmore and Williams back to the planet.
Within the Starliner capsule, the choice to keep them up there until February means they’ll have to remain on the Earth orbiting station for an unanticipated total of about eight months. Wow. Can you imagine what their families are thinking? They’re retirees.
Both of their spouses are like, thank goodness. They were spending way too much time at home. I needed a little bit more of it.
I hope so, because it’s ridiculous. Or Butch’s wife is like, I fucking told you. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, right. You had to have one last hurrah. Bowie was a piece of shit.
One last hurrah. That’s right. He’s been up a lot.
You know, it’s not his first time up there. It’s not his first time up there, I think. But now he’s.
Now, if he’d have been like me with my fence, I’d have been like, I’ll fix it when I get back. I’m only up there for five years. Don’t worry.
You know, there’s some chores that I like that is like, oh, yeah. You know damn well, there’s some honeydew chores like that. That list is getting bigger every day.
Every day. Sonny’s like, hey, can somebody call my mortgage company? There’s nothing good. I don’t know.
I didn’t set up. I’m still writing. Can you imagine all that little? Stuff? If they don’t have a spouse, they’re like, yeah, I mean, you can’t call them.
He’s like, Hey. Can you turn my sprinklers off? Yeah. Can you face time from space? I bet you could.
Oh, I don’t know. I guess I mean I suppose they have some way They connect and have video conference all the time Is the professor sticking out the window of the capsule Trying to put tape around the window. That’s what I’m seeing Wow, but he’d be doing it with like coconuts Well, maybe we’re doing it with knee packs, yeah And Velcro, yeah, lots of Velcro up here boys and girls like you thought well, maybe I mean maybe they’ve been out there so long They’re growing potatoes The higher in their dirty jonie, that’s what they’re growing potatoes They went up there with the one sweatsuit.
Well now they got friggin nothing man They’re sprouted they’re sprouted in here and I’ve told you We don’t have any kimchi in the food pack, so I know it’s not that come on, man Program manager I assess program manager Dana Weigel Said in terms of supply allocation all astronauts currently aboard the station have been fine And there hasn’t been a need to ration Why would you bring that up? We’re definitely not rationing up there If anything we’ve got too much pee We’re throwing it at the Russians every morning he wakes up Frankly great All right, so here’s the capper in 2014 NASA awarded Boeing a four point two billion dollar contract to build a capsule that sees six crewed flights to the ISS SpaceX received a similar Two point six billion dollar contract that year and has since completed nine flights in its Dragon capsule Crew 9 would mark the 10th flight time to redistribute some funds Yeah, that’s quite a bit that’s quite a lot of money No show He’s got good lobbyists though, huh Apparently, yeah SpaceX is screwing up clearly. They don’t even need to perform They just need a better lobbyists when this whole thing started if we were comedy writers We could have filmed a bit was like hey, let’s check in with butch and Sonny, right? Who knew it was gonna that could have been a whole year’s weekly Weekly fun, right? I’m thinking we may have to hire us some writers because we come up with the shit too late You know what I mean? I never like hey, did you listen to swear or that late to change over podcast? But they’re talking about having sex in space. Did you listen to that part? I Think we got an attachment that’ll work.
Oh Hey now Every week but you come out. I was like, what about this one? He’s yelling that in the other room Sunny big robotic arm By the time we get Amazon up here, it’s not gonna be relevant. I Just tested it.
It seemed to work order the helmet first butch, please I’m not gonna deal with the I have a headache again. Oh If we had any creativity we could have ran there for almost a year You know the absolutely horrible is if they heard this because they are Yeah, that’s true. Who knows they may love it.
They were like Thanks guys, thanks Formal complaint from NASA. Okay It really be worse if we got some message from a Boeing lawyer We’d like to talk to you guys Marty runs the whole thing Okay, you want to come on the podcast we’d love to have you Marty gives me the lines We’re doing us. We’re doing a auction.
We’re doing space auction. I heard Starlighters up for auction next week They’re selling it This is a random rant. I just found the US Marshalls auction site and US Treasury has an auction site also US Marshalls Confiscate so many aircraft that they have their own link for it Really? Yes They send me those links we’ll play that game next week US Marshall auction Looking at real estate.
I was like That’s better than bidding on like, you know duffel bags and sleep. Oh, yes Yes, Marshall’s are like, how do you feel about this Cessna or a Boeing? 737 you’re like It’s on a 737 this is insane. Well another drug dealer They Got a better front So good news coming down to Pike for the National Guard potentially well, yeah So Stripes.com Trump pledges to create a space National Guard if reelected That could be 700 extra Right Speaking at the annual meeting of the National Guard associated the Association of the United States former president Donald Trump said Monday that if he is so recent elected Jesus If he is reelected to the White House He will create a space National Guard to support the newest military branch that he established under his previous term in office or Just keep the guard that does space right? You don’t really have to create anything This is like give new uniforms uniforms During Trump’s first presidential term He announced the creation of the Space Force as a service branch It was established under the Department of the Air Force on December 20th 2019 or if you’re Scarlett Johansson in July of 2019, I do recall that Since then there has been debate about how creating a part-time reserve option for the Space Force could help bring talented people into the military who might otherwise seek higher paying civilian jobs a Group of bipartisan senators has filed legislation to create a space National Guard that has failed to gain traction and congressional resistance and opposition from the White House a Report released in April that reviewed the option of creating a space National Guard raised concerns That recruiting and retaining members for a space guard will be challenging because it would only have about 700 personnel at most The report also described it could be an expensive option though relatively easy to implement quickly I thought we already had guard doing space We do we don’t have to create air force anything.
We have an air force. We don’t have to recruit It’s already there well about the uniform it too. Yeah, it’s just the patch Would it so just hypothetical would it be a big deal if they didn’t move them over to space and just say this portion of the Air Force Guard Supports Space Force.
Well, that’s a good point I Just don’t know like the funding There is no viable plan of how to do Active duty part-time and full-time. What orders are you gonna be on? Here’s the thing though, right? Yeah Are you gonna stand up all your own admins? Cuz right now not all that it’s all all the CS it so would the Air Force Guard support the space guard in that aspect That’s good right now, I’m sure until so now yeah They’ve sat on it because they have a bunch of people. Yes, I think things are upset I think it has something to do with the state Is associated with the state and I know there’s a bunch of governors that got together and said hey You can’t mess with our militia or our National Guard.
I don’t think Constitutionally they can do it. So that’s probably why it’s not moving forward Maybe not constitutionally, but there’s some regulate or there’s something in there that says the state’s military is State-controlled the government and take that away What in the world would the state do with a space National Guard? What role would they play? They wouldn’t do anything for the state, of course, you’re right, you’re right It’s technically it’s National Guard. So it belongs to the state and they can’t take it no matter what they’re doing Of course, they just need them for to go help put out fires and crowd control Strike any you guys.
I mean we’ve all been around National Guard guys, right? I mean when they’re like hey call out the National Guard for this riot I’ve seen most National Guard guys and they’re like they’re like Anna in Germany. They’re like I Feel bad for when those National Guard guys get called out I do too And they’re like, oh they’re helping with flooding and you just see those sorry sons of bitches filling sandbags Good stuff that’s good Some of the rescue guys are living for that though, you know, but then other groups like You know There’s a certain percentage. They’re like, oh you want me to go down the border.
I’m I’m there How many how many of my guns can I bring right? Yeah, but then there’s a bunch that are like I’ll go down for the weekend But I gotta be back in the store on Monday, so Yeah, I’m not sure Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out because I don’t yeah it is. Yeah Well, it says the Department of the Air Force is moving forward with plans to allow for Part-time service in the regular Space Force which makes no sense Yes It’s I Wish they were giving us reasons. Yeah.
Yeah, give us reasons. I don’t think hey This is problematic because one your force is too small to they’re too specialized or whatever However, however it pans out, but there’s nothing they’re like we’re having difficulty doing this. Yeah, but no We’ll just we’ll just treat them with silence.
Yeah The ladies and gentlemen straight from barber school we have What’d you get out of school early tonight or what? Yeah, so Yeah, so because you were you were at the manscaping area and you’re like Homework right here That’ll be next week’s I Was manscaping which is excuse number 16 for being then boys and nice and smooth Are you straight razor? You know, I’m more of the natural Oh Yeah That’s what We created the National Guard or whatever there’s nothing being gained out of it And so what you’re saying is the states won’t lose those bills. They’ll They may not be labeled Exactly. So so people people need to know what’s on the NDA before they make an assumption that those jobs are lost to title 10 They’re not they’re staying with the state.
So as the way the NDA reads for for for Taking those title 32 mission specs through all title 10 Well, it is interesting because we just read through the article He’s like I’m gonna create it and I was like, you don’t have to create it at all Just change the title just change the name tapes. That’s all you gotta do, right? Cuz all right there So yeah, but I mean as even like I’m now with a part-time so I did get a little bit smarter on the part-time stuff this weekend so the way the part-time thing is That the the reason they’re oh wait, are you talking about part-time for the space force and it’s baseball regular space Yeah, regular space force cuz they don’t even want to have a reserve component. So they’re not even gonna entertain a Space National Guard from them at all.
Yeah, so why but they haven’t explained why yeah, so the the whole thing with the part-time the way they’re seen is one they don’t want to grab people into they don’t want reserve status of part-time or Coming straight from the streets. There are another time that gets invested to even get a well-conditioned operator to be out there The other thing is the part-time allows people this this that their thought process that not me I’m just so it’s actually asking around the part-time is more like so let’s say I did four years And then I really wanted to go to school, but I want to be part-time and I don’t want to be too 14 So it’s almost like reserving my spa for three years saying that I’m a take my break through this and then So so you actually don’t even separate when you’re part-time. You’re still under the same component You don’t get the D to 14 or nothing like an IRR status or something like I am a almost Huh? Yeah, no, that’s a You’re not separating.
You are not separate. Yeah, I guess just staying in so there’s no VD to 14 Yes, your status changes. Well, how do they how do they fill that bill it? That’s that’s it just goes unfilled so there’s sort of got to have a whole Some of the Chiefs like when like I bump into them then this gets products like look man I didn’t have an appreciation for the reserves and so I joined the reserve And I’ll tell you that there is value into having the reserve forces there one that reminds people that there’s another life out there But then also it brings some experience there So cuz you already know like this is just a program right now that we work on under OP IR and Sybers How much talent comes from the contractors are reservists and then because they’ve been there for years And then you feed the informations that subject matter experts, but to industry and back into the military Hold on the thing though.
They stopped. So the main thing was that you didn’t want people off the street Yeah, you don’t new people but half your really good young contractors That are coming in war directly from the reserve. They were freaking auto mechanics and I mean literally army did two years or four years got out and Had a civilian job doing propane or whatever, you know, and then they come back.
Shout out Marty and then they come back in and you’re like, oh No, this guy’s awesome and they see it contractors like half those kids In debt one were contractors. Yeah after their first tour. Yeah But they maintain they maintain our time in the reserves.
Yeah, so and they were doing the same job So not hiring I always disagreed with that not having people off the street in the desert Yeah, and then the other thing they’re saying and they’re transferring by part time is not career path Not gonna lead you to retirement and like it’s basically the same where he gets holding your spot So when you come back, go take your break go take your hiatus or whatever you got do and then come back to us That doesn’t sound like a very great incentive to keep no man. And that’s that’s that’s that’s why Or Marty if you are maybe you’re like Not yeah I already know you were a captain in the army and you were like fuck this. I’m done I am sick and tired of it and some of your leadership was like, okay.
Okay. Okay I know you want to get out. How about you just take a sabbatical for a year? Yeah, you go You you do you try whatever you want and then you can call back and be like, okay No, I’m out that would help or you can come back and you could be like, yeah, I was wrong Yeah, boom you would have propane jobs sucks.
Let me come back. Exactly You know, you would have had you would have had a totally different career path if you’ve got an option But take your first term er, right and he goes. Well, I want to go back to school I was like, don’t worry.
We got your $22,000 a year job waiting for you when you get back Maybe like, you know, anytime you’re in the service and it’s not working towards an end goal retirement Why am I why am I doing that’s a tough one? You’re absolutely right and make more money. I’m not playing that game Yeah And now with that the TSP the way like the The new system is even if you do four years, you’re certainly with some sort of 401k, right? So it’s not a total loss well But it’s definitely not good, I just don’t see I don’t know what the type of individual you’re gonna motivate with like Oh, don’t worry. You can take it for your break and come right back in.
Yeah, you’ll be like I’ll have my degree by that Yeah, but all the people in the reserve were like that like, yeah Literally Navy we had people Navy Marines everything took a four-year break and we’re like, yeah, I’m going back in active duty was like no Right. They’re like reserve Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So part-time is really Those guys that would have ended up in the reserve anyway.
Yeah, and then not only that but like reserve a GR right, so it’s like almost like That they won’t have that right that you can’t have that with this concept. You’ll just have active duty. You can’t be That’s gone.
That’s got it. Yeah, you’ll just have active. You just come back active duty And so and also will they honor if you come back is like hey, I want to stay in Colorado And they’re like, nope, you’re back.
We’re shipping you out. Yep There’s not so much to try to make that They’ve discussed about like trying to keep people Located for longer times You know, but that also depends on career paths So you want to impact on your career by not moving around that paying on what you want your vector to be So like you could have more control of it, but it might impact your promotion. I Just don’t get the reason why They want to change it all together Right.
It’s just like they want to change it for change sake. Well, but the thing is So I When I talk to them and I try to understand is that they’re willing to try something new and not be like well This is the way we’ve always done it And if it fails, I think they could revert back to it and say oh, well, that was a dumb idea So maybe we go back to the way it was and create a reserve component for the space force But there’s not going to be zero reserve component. Okay, I say it’s time to shoot this dog Yeah The great Eric has spoken so the great Eric just goes next Enough with the space Should have just done a freaking mister history’s only fan commercial in there.
Oh, yeah Put a card up If we were skit writers we could have done for all your non-reserve activities Go to mr. History only fans. You want to be There is no taking a break there nothing but a All right, let’s do a feel good right good here from stripes calm Gary sneeze Reflects on the legacy of lieutenant Dan and has worked for veterans on the 30th anniversary of Forrest Gump Wow, I think it was July is when Forrest Gump came out in 30 years already. Yeah It’s been 30 years since movie audiences met iconic disabled vet lieutenant Dan played by Gary sneeze The character said sneeze recently changed his life decades later when he would visit deployed forces Overseas troops would approach him but not know his real name instead.
They greet him warmly as lieutenant Dan For sneeze personally the role inspired a lifetime of activism and charity work for vets as a movie turned 30 this summer I think it was July Senees said he was grateful for the role that paved the way for him to serve America’s military servicemen and women and honor veterans That’s awesome. Yeah, he’s always been very active after that role. That’s really yeah It says after the attacks of September 11th sneeze decided that vets returning from the wars that were just beginning would not face the same Indifference and even hostility that Vietnam veterans had so He got involved he began visiting servicemen and women then formed a band to entertain them at bases overseas in a military Hospitals in the more than two decades since his band has played more than five hundred and seventy shows All over the world their five hundred seventy first performance came recently before a sold out crowd at the Grand Ole Opry 14 years ago Senees created the Gary Senees Foundation since then the foundation has spent millions building homes for the wounded Donating the families of military members or first responders killed in the line of duty each Christmas the foundation brings hundreds of families of fallen troops To Disney World for a five-day event known as the snowball Express And he said it all started with that movie.
So What is your most memorable either memory or quote tied to the movie Forrest Gump That’s all I got to say about that Do you still say that or not? So when I would instruct there were certain like points that I wanted to make Right because you memorize kind of what you’re your highlights. You don’t want to read the slide, right? Yeah Yeah, so My habit was I would look at the screen go through that list in my head and like yep That’s all I gotta say about that What was the last time you use it Mine is my wife still does When she’s in the bed, she’s in the bus in DC and she leaves out leaves him again She’s in the back of the bus and she knocks on the window and gives the peace sign. My wife still does it She’ll come back when she’s sick so the best for me was the discussion between him and Bubba about shrimp He says you can barbecue it boil it roll it bake it saute it There’s shrimp kabob shrimp Creole shrimp gumbo pan fried deep fried stir-fried.
There’s pineapple shrimp That’s true What about you Jake? Oh That movie does have so many one-liners like now right off the bat That’s still used and a lot of people use them and they don’t even know it. Yeah, that’s the funny thing I always make my kids watch the movie when they when they quote a movie. I’m like, what’s that from? Oh good I don’t know.
That’s good. You say bye Felicia to me. You’re watching Friday That’s a good one, yeah What’s your best memory of Forrest Gump little meal So, I mean that I’m like with Jake like every everything’s like awesome about that movie But I was like stupid is it was stupid does right like like it’s just like yeah You know when I came in the military like that seemed like all the That’s what they will always say to me And some are unintentional they just pop up we had a brief the other day and We were back in the old back the whole partners pack and I I saw somebody I was like you could sit here if you want Taken Like taken We got I got stung by or I got a Cactus bird the other day and I did say something bit me That’s pretty good, that’s pretty good We did take years ago We did take a picture at Santa Monica for that peer that he ran out to you know, so it’s crazy How much Americana that is? Yeah, yeah, that’s true.
Thank God they didn’t do like a part two or some shit like that ruined it. Yeah Good 30 years that’s that’s crazy. That is crazy All right, Eric Take us home with some Yeah, you built it up I believe I have history that none of you have heard of That’s really your whole job Wow Every week I’m surprised by this day in history because I have never heard of half of them Well see, but like I need to do percent So you’re you just saying that I make it pretty easy for you now some parties heard of a lot of history When you get the 1700s you got me, okay Okay, not that far along all right, I was intrigued You’re gonna be amazed.
I did not know was not aware that this occurred. So August 27th 1958 Over the course of two weeks the United States Navy fired three nuclear warheads into the atmosphere and Intentionally detonating them to test a Cold War military theory if it worked it would let the military harness the earth’s magnetic fields and Weaponized them to disable any Soviet communications and tracking of buildings If it went wrong, it could destroy an American carrier group. Tell me you were aware of that Yes, oh You’re a liar Eric I have heard of this So the name of this was Operation Argus it was a secretive ambitious Military project launched in 1958 following the Sputnik panic of 1957.
Oh That was so we were trying to wow. Yeah, we’re we were trying to counter the fact that Soviets could launch Satellites into orbit even more so, you know had the missile capability strike around the world So the United States military needed a way to counter the perceived threat. So they’ve got a guy named Nicholas Christophilus Whoa, if I said his name correctly, he was I don’t care.
That’s sexy the way you said that man nuclear physicist It was theorized that the radiation will have military implications Including the aggregation of radio and radar transmissions damage or destruction of the Army and fusing mechanisms of ICBM warheads and Endangering the crews of orbiting space vehicles that might enter the belt Guess what agency was supporting this at the time? CIA Ditra Yeah defense threat reduction agency That’s dangerous so now they’re threat reducing by chucking nukes in his So they launched the first one The first one didn’t go so taking his theory the Navy sent task force 88 out the South Atlantic Ocean nine ships roughly 4,500 sailors and three modified missiles made up the task force and aircraft carrier The USS, Tarawa was the lead ship backed by destroyers crews and support ships. It was a secret mission Under the guise of a testing a new missile to maintain cover. Most of the crew was not informed blah blah blah If the Navy allocated an impressive hold on skip the part here, there we go To maintain cover most of the crew was not informed the nuclear nature of the operation nor were they issued radiation detecting film badges Only yeah, you know, we’re gonna kill a few of us It’ll be good only the launch crews and the commanders plus some experts had any idea what they’d be firing into the sky And they had a deadline and the milk American Soviet nuclear test moratorium would go into effect in November They had to get the test done quickly So the first one didn’t go high enough the second one didn’t make it It was the third test on September 6th where the task force got the most results It took a second to go right through at first the rocket failed to take off must have been a Boeing rocket According to burning a cruise on the USS Norton Sound With the real risk that the nuclear warhead might go off But eventually it was safely launched detonating at the desired altitude and creating a massive display of lights and it worked Sort of the nuclear radiation from the Rockets did did have a noticeable spread via the magnetic fields But nowhere close to the expectation Operation Argus was technically a success.
It was not followed up Not followed up Christoph Phyllis went on to work on other projects and died in 72 for the heart attack Yeah, that guy United States pursued other nuclear weapons strategies neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were covered and they direct Disruptive nuclear cloud. Oh, wait a minute. Did they So these were three did the nukes go off in all three of these they did so like oh that first nuclear explosion Better but not all angle Has a little bit of plutonium in the in the system in the atmosphere.
Oh rain it’s okay Yeah, it’s kind of miss those late 50s early 60s. Well, we were just willy-nilly with nuclear testing By the way, I always wonder what the military is doing now that we’re not aware of or did Some poor schlub 40 years from now, he’s like, can you believe they worked on shifts that were These the war had a good point. Yeah, that’s a good 1.7 kiloton warheads Fuse was set with a simple time each rocket needed to fire straight up made harder by rough seas and heavy winds The first rocket veered sharply after lunch and detonated far too low The second launched on August 30 had better altitude but still didn’t reach the target and then of course September 6 That is it.
Oh, we set off three nuclear design. I had no idea that ever occurred. That was Totally That was going what you so you’d heard about that Jake.
Yeah, there’s because that one was in it Just we discussed that because we were talking about nukes in space and how One time we’ve tested Wow nuclear but devices It’s all the whole like ionosphere and it was just like sucking down satellites level, right? And they took years for that thing to figure like to correct itself So I had nothing to do with trying to be sure P it was they were trying to spread radiation at a certain. Yeah Plus if Australia ever figures it out, we’re probably the ones that caused the hole over there All the nuclear tests in the Pacific and everything. Yeah, you know, sorry Sorry, they got us back with the breakdancers.
All right Cora. Well, yeah, oops. Yeah, that was us.
That was us You know, what’s funny is that? I think it was the 50s concept When we are afraid of the missiles coming over the polar. Yeah over north and I can’t there was a term for and I can’t Remember what it was, but it’s the Northern line, you know, we were going to send Jets with nuclear missiles and the missiles or to fire Explode and catch the incoming missiles in the plume That’s where that old game of missile defense Do you remember with the big roller ball and he had to put the points where the blooms would come out? That’s where they came from There’s a line and I can’t it’s like something line there. There’s something somebody don’t know it listening to us maybe But that that was the 50s Anti-soviet ICB That’s insane.
We want to just Irradiated All our contingencies like missile defense and all that are based on nukes or missiles falling harmlessly over Canada Nope Okay, so that’s what you heard that I got one and I who didn’t know about it. Yeah, that’s great One what are you typing? It wasn’t the 38 parallel cuz it’s bothering me it was like another The 38 parallel that’s North Korea, but still considered part of the Cold War But it’s um, no, it’s like it’s like a distant line or so. I can’t remember that I know what you’re talking about There was a line that had divided something and it was about the North Pole, but it’s like I forgot what it was Did it involve Canada? No, no, it’s like that’s about it.
I’m a little early. Yes. I remember Yeah, oh It’s a due line.
That’s it. The due line just an early warning. That’s what it was Look up the due line as I hear you’re louder than hell keyboard typing on this Yeah, the due line Marty I pulled that from somewhere Patients in the North Arctic region of Canada with addition stations along the north coast of the Aleutian I know Boom, that’s cool.
In addition. They had the furrow Islands Greenland in Iceland It’s just to protect us from so we so if you guys all our audience appreciates the Random bullshit Marty knows segment of this This podcast let us know in the comments. Hey, what did the what did the reporter say about Deont Sanders? He’s the BS That was some repressed memory from from a sober part of my brain I guess You’re welcome go ahead and use that tomorrow free of charge do you guys hear about the due line Well, I got to see one dupe line Barrel that’s actually had one of the old stations out there.
I was like, oh, yeah What’s the what’s the is it Air Force Base way on the end of Alaska? That’s close to Russia. What is that one? Are you talking about where silver things out? That’s a big shimmy. Yeah, shimmy See I could I can remember do line We have people there.
I know we do all the way over there There’s contractor jobs out there. Yeah, you could go part-time if you want in this Baby can’t do that That place has like an odd breed of like a wolverine or something Like I’ve never heard of this animal, I’m not joking I can go warm the years warm the years. We got all new dance, baby Oh Now when we go to the dance club next time they see us, I’m trying to I’m trying to bait on into doing it But she’s looking something up.
It’s What oh Well, you didn’t watch any of that we were just trying to give you your breakdance We were good hard for you your shimmy a wolverine Just shimmy a box. So it’s oh, it’s a shimmy a box I Think that’s I think that’s end up on the shimmy a fox. Of course If you are a woman assigned to shimmy, do you automatically become a shimmy a fox? Yes Yes, I Mean, I’m sure the security forces that are up there have already Tagged her as the shimmy a fox the one woman that’s there.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah Who’s more promiscuous and security forces of space guys floozy’s every last space has might be right harlots Those two guys space guys Trollops, but we don’t have a cool car to go troll around Oh No plug-in stations in the cold though, huh? All right, I got at least I got on as introduction next week.
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