Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 31 July 2024
Date: Jul 31, 2024
Get off your back and grab your cack, or else YOU will be late for changeover, your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith, and I’m joined by Mr. History Eric Peratt. Troop, what’s going on tonight? Our little mule Juanito Lopez.
Good evening, everyone. And you can bribe her with a donut, Ana Mondragon. Hi, y’all.
We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all guardians and to the other lower branches as well. So take your seats, get them formed, and have a laugh as we present late for changeover. My favorite Tuesday night activity.
All right, all right. I like that. So did you like the donut one, or I got to come up with something new for you? Because you don’t even eat donuts anymore, right? You make me sound bad.
Well, that’s not what’s tricky to get in. They bribed you with, was it they bribed you with a donut to retrain or to re-up? Was it to re-up? No, to enlist and re-up. And like, there’s always about snacks.
Not even the bonuses they’re offering today, right? Here’s some donuts. Oh, yeah, four more years. I did not get any bonus.
Well, they were like, hey, try the donuts first. If she doesn’t go for that, then offer the bonus. And it was like, oh, she went for it.
Hell, the donuts are worth more than $20 if it’s talking about that bonus. Not that bonus. That’s a benefit.
That’s different. All right, good to see y’all. Jake’s sick.
He’s, who knows what he’s got. He’s got the pod flu. He’s Dnip tonight.
He’s on duties, not including podcasting tonight. So we wish him well. Hopefully he’ll be back next week.
But did you know, Eric, you should know, you know what this Saturday, the 3rd of August is? You know what anniversary it is? It’s the two-year anniversary of this show. Oh, wow. Yeah, Eric and I started this two years ago.
Crazy. Unbelievable. Well, yeah.
I just asked that you listen. That’s my present. That’s what you can give us.
And if you go back and you listen to that first one, it was just Eric and I sitting at his bar. Okay, take it away, Eric. Well, so tame.
We have definitely come a long ways. But I got to give him credit because it was Eric’s idea. He was like, Hey, let’s do something else.
And so we came up with this and two years later, look what we’re doing. This is great. Amazing.
We haven’t had two comments in two years, but by God, no, not really. Well, we have a, we have a, okay. Every once in a while we have your son or something like that.
So, uh, okay. Before we get to the news, uh, and one of the things was we, we started off a service headline news. The show was called and then, uh, we got with Ken Ramos and the WTF army nation.
And he asked us to be on a space force page. So that’s why we changed it to late for changeover. And that’s coming up on a year and a couple, in a couple of months.
So because I’m on that, uh, I’m, I’m the, I don’t know what you call administrator or whatever. I can post and do things with that page. What’s that? Well, I’m the AC.
I’m the CEO of my basement podcasting studio. That’s, that’s true with a rogue workforce and the communications manager. Uh, you know, one more, one more word on last week when we were talking about how the military dresses, I work in a mostly software company and all those guys they hire cause they’re just coding geniuses, but they’re in shorts and flip flops and t-shirts and when I was working there more beads and buns and, and that’s just the guys.
When I was working there, um, before I left to the tap top, man. So now that I’m back in the tap, I have nice clothes again, but I mean, I went, I went into there dressing up and then I sold to start dressing down. Yes.
Now nobody was like, dude, you’re wearing hoodies to work. I’m like, why am I going to get dressed up? I mean, it’s kind of cool to work for a company that they just like, I just concerned about your output. You know, I don’t, you know, nobody will look you in the eye because they’re all like smart, uh, amazingly smart shut in kind of people, but, uh, but they do, they do some hell of work.
You know, there’s, it’s great. As long as they’re being held accountable. Uh, yeah.
Right. Right. Right.
I mean, there’s no, there’s no like messing around there. They, they know what they’re supposed to do. And who cares about if I’m wearing Sam, some of them, you know, there’s a lot of PhDs are too.
When you talk to them and you get their history, like Marty works and their young PhD. And then it’s like, yeah, I taught here at the university of Tennessee. I’m like, there, I went to Harvard a lot, a lot of them went to Cornell.
Like these are all like, Hey, you’re like in your early work to JPL. Like it’s impressive. The guys that you talked to, even the guys and the females, like you look at their at the resumes are like, how am I? I was like, when I was there working, I was like, how did I even come to this place? Like, yeah, how did they make this mistake on you or me? You know, they’re like, Oh, well, we look, we let one slip by every once in a while.
I don’t know. Maybe I was higher. They’re like, Oh, Juan Lopez.
Yep. Come on in. Oh, yeah.
A people person. Well, I wasn’t hired to program. I’m hired to bring that though, all the stuff they’re writing into ops.
So I’m down there as the liaison, but you go up with the majority of software programmers and you’re like, man, these guys, these are smart talk to normal people. Yeah, that’s why we do the podcast. That’s why we do the podcast.
Normal talk. I do. You know, and I’ve been accepting some of my, uh, my company’s invites on LinkedIn.
So I don’t know if they’ve heard it yet, but after the sperm suit comment last week, if I’m still employed, well, I guess we’re good to go. Don’t keep a thing. Do not expect you.
So anyway, back on the WTF space force moments page, there’s all, you know, it’s already got a lot of people subscribe. It has that one. I don’t know how much you guys are on Facebook, but there’s a very kind of big, uh, air force.
I think it’s airman, NCO, senior NCO. I think that’s the name of it. And they post a lot of stuff.
A lot of it’s kind of, a lot of it’s kind of yeah, whiny negative stuff, but every once in a while they post some good stuff. So I thought we’d go through some of those updates so you guys could see them. And I think I’d get a kick out of some of them.
So let’s see this first one. This first one, I don’t really understand this. And I asked some people, uh, what is this? And I’m not sure if she’s live streaming, but I know there’s a lot.
There’s a big trend for the army to have people like live streaming and doing TikToks in uniform. And all the old heads are like, what the fuck? And I was just thinking that. And I think they’re doing it in the workplace too.
But this one, I’m not really sure because she’s the host. And I don’t know. I don’t know exactly what’s going on, but they’re there, but they track it and they throw it up there.
So so what’s the TikTok stuff? I’m curious. You probably the sector was going on based on the comments. I tried.
I couldn’t figure it out because like half of the people were like, what is going on with this? And I was like, I don’t know either. But there’s a lot of live streaming in uniform in the workplace nowadays. So, so nobody’s doing the job.
What in the hell? They’re at lunch. Days where? Yeah. And I don’t know.
It’s interesting. It’s like Eric, we’ve said before, couldn’t be in today’s modern military. I don’t think I’d have been a failure.
Well, you’d have been run out. You’d have been you’d have been chewed out for you trying to chew them out. All right.
Here’s a Walmart one at Whiteman. Nice. Right.
And I zoomed in. I zoomed in on her back tattoo. She is.
That is. That’s dedication. I love it.
That’s for that’s for like. And it took me a little bit because it’s not intuitive. It’s like love.
Well, the heart and then love, I guess. So what do you think she was in the military or she’s a dependent? Like it was like this is looking at that. I think she’s a dependent.
Absolutely. Yeah. But I was thinking we should get a whoa tattoo as a back.
Whoa, that shows either. I am amazed that the Air Force hasn’t found this chicken like suitor. What are you doing? For what copyright? That’s great advertising.
First went out in her pajama bottoms. It’s a Walmart. I think she has boots on, right? It’s it.
It’s it. It’s it. Whiteman.
Right. Oh, is that the commissary? Probably. Look at the old people there.
Probably. No, it’s a Walmart. You see the Walmart? Oh yeah, it’s not a commissary.
But yeah, it’s a Walmart. But it’s a while. Yeah, she’s got she’s got pajamas and the boots on.
Oh, Sedalia, Montana. I’ll say stole my shirt. I worked out in that shirt.
Her name is Sedalia Montana. No, no, that’s not like a stripper name. No, that’s where it’s at.
Next up on stage three, Sedalia, Sedalia, Montana. Who is the stepsister of Hannah Montana? But she just changes her color out when she dances. So nobody can tell.
No, thank God. She’s probably 85. And you didn’t show us the face.
Oh, come on, Eric. Look at the flexibility of that tattoo. And she’s still she’s proud of that.
I mean, so you wore a crop top. It’s not like she lifted that shirt up. It’s straight up like, nope.
She’s proud of that. Are you are you going to get that stamp on your back, too? You know, anyone who would do that for me, I’d be like, oh, I appreciate that. Now, do you want the Air Force one or the Army one? You serve both branches.
And she did. Well, that’s a good one. You can put an A where the heart is and then love and then a love or maybe, you know, a brand, a branch of cheek.
Oh, my goodness. Here’s a good meme I like. We should do that.
Get pictures of all military tattoos and see rank, which was the best one. Oh, God, there’s a yeah, I think they already do that. But I felt like that before.
Anybody felt like that? Oh, yeah, for sure. You’re going home and you’re like, huh? That’s the only good thing about a midship. There’s no traffic going on.
The only person up and out. I thought this one was good. I’ll let you read that.
That’s pretty ballsy. And for those of you on Podbean or Apple or Spotify says, when I was the second lieutenant, I would tell the first sergeant that the commander was having a formation in 10 minutes to release everyone for the day. And then I would go and tell the commander the first sergeant was having a formation to do the same thing said he did this about 20 times and never got caught.
Good job. Until today, baby, a true American hero. I love it.
All right. Now, Anna, here’s here’s what I was telling you about. All right.
And then when I first saw this, I said, what now? And I had to go look it up. So I’ll tell you what I looked up after this. What are we looking at? That’s what I thought.
I was like, what is that? So it is. It’s it’s this. She got out the person who created this got out of the military and went to shark tank with these kind of leotards.
And they invested in her. And now she runs torch warrior wear and she sells these things. Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
So there’s these leotards here. Yeah. Yeah.
And they and they stay tucked and everything else. And I was like, it’s actually pretty good. Are you going to buy one for you? Have a snap underneath your crotch.
They’re $60 apiece. They’re not cheap. Oh, my God.
What a crazy commercial. That’s what I was saying. I know you could you could take that shirt off.
Look, you fit right in with the modern military nowadays. I don’t know if I can wear a shirt like that. I don’t like the snaps underneath.
But if you go to a torch torch warrior wear, she sells all of them. She sells them for all the services. So I was like, that’s a good idea.
It’s a great idea. Now, here’s the next one. And I think it was posted by a recruiter.
All right. I better turn this down because this guy is funny. So check this one out.
I told me to join the Marine, join the army. You’re going to be a soldier. I joined the Air Force.
And they say that was Rockledge Air Force recruiter. I mean, what a smart idea. You know, I mean, embrace it.
That’s what we’ve been talking about all the time. Embrace it, right? What a deployment. I was like, yeah, I mean, that’s what we’ve been talking about that all the time is like, just stop calling it a weapon system.
Stop saying sorties. Stop saying all those pilot stuff and just embrace what we did. I think that’s a brilliant recruiter.
And it’s actually really good. Okay, Ana, this is for you. And I don’t know who this guy is, but he’s funny.
And it’s a couple of minutes. So it’s a little bit long for me. You’ll see.
I’m just checking. It’s a girl. This is a new series I’m doing called people I’d fight in a Denny’s parking lot.
And this is Mr. Kent Cressa, who was the CEO of Northrop Grumman in 1998. Now, at this point in the video, you should be asking yourself, why would Mandatory Funday want to fight Kent Cressa in a Denny’s parking lot? In 1998, the Department of Defense came to Northrop Grumman and they needed a new system. They needed something that would do some good stuff for the troops.
It was an online system. System that Northrop Grumman created in 1998 was the Defense Travel System or DTS. DTS is the system that service members use to schedule their travel.
And for those of you that don’t know, Satan could have come up with a better system. This one, Mr. Kent Cressa, being the CEO of Northrop Grumman in 1998, is at least indirectly responsible for the creation of DTS because Northrop Grumman is the one that got that contract. And because of that, I would fight him in a Denny’s parking lot.
Not now, because he’s 86. If you want to send me someone in your stead, send me your champion. And tell me what Denny’s to go to.
Waffle House will also do. I’ll do this. I’ll do this for service members everywhere.
DTS is an abomination and a front to God and directly contradictory to all of the Army values. And for those of you that are inevitably going to comment, if you just learn the system, it’s not that hard. Can you just shut the fuck up? Yes, yes, yes.
If we could get our people paid for getting deployed. I’m going to see what I was talking about. I thought I thought you would appreciate that.
Oh, I hate DTS. I do not miss DTS whatsoever. It’s like going back and forth, back and forth.
No, no, no, no. Yes, no. But then sometimes it’s the auditors that it’s not even the system.
Like you do everything that the system tells you to do because the system told you to do it. Is that what the major disconnect is with DTS? I never really used it. I think I was out.
I never really traveled that much. I didn’t use it either. Pretty terrible.
Actually, it’s wicked terrible. He is right. It is an abomination.
Good. So I thought you’d appreciate that. If you guys run across any posts like that, save them, send them to me, and we’ll review them every episode.
So I thought that was kind of fun. All right. Before we get to the news, we’ve got a couple quick updates.
SpaceX Falcon 9 passed all their testing, and they launched this last weekend. They put some more Starlink sets up. So Falcon 9 is now back on for shooting up to the ISS.
So that boys are still there. Boeing finished all their thruster tests, but they still haven’t decided when they’re going to bring them home. Those guys are going to like come off there with like beards done.
Which, I mean, really, if you think about it, they’ve done all their testing. They said, okay, we know what it is. We know how to counter it, but we’re still not bringing them home.
I mean, they’ve got to be like, there’s got to be something else. There’s something that they’re not telling us. Why are they scared to bring those guys home? I hope nothing bad happens with it.
I really do. So at least Elon can go up there and get them now. That’s who should go get them.
Well, it might be. I mean, there’s supposed to be another Boeing launch to launch the next manned crew launch up to the ISS. But right now, would you volunteer to get on that after the first one? It’s not like they’re going to pay you like extra.
You know, people, you know, when I explain to people like homes like, yeah, I’m retired Air Force and they, what’d you do? I was a space operator. This job’s now in the space was like, did you go to space? I was like, no, it’s like, it’s like anybody in your space and they pass out the test. But would I go to space? No, I know.
Like, why? And then it’s like, would you live in Mars? Why the fuck would I live in Mars? That’s like the hardest environment that is out there, man. Well, I was going to do that story a couple of weeks ago. They had those that crew that was in a bio lab for a year, simulating as if they were on Mars for a year.
So and they lived in this contained environment for one year. And they let them out. I don’t know where.
Yeah, I don’t know. But I think it has to be. The mental part has got to be the hardest thing, right? To be on there for a year.
I mean, how many rock tests can you do to fill up your time? I’ll plant potatoes with your poop. I guess. Yeah.
Watch the Martian for the 900th time. Our biodome with. I don’t know.
Probably sure there’s a there’s a there’s a. Yeah, that was the dumbest movie. Well, you probably sure didn’t make a good movie. But now you can look back and go.
Look how dumb this movie was. But it’s funny because it was so dumb. OK, let’s get to the news here.
So our first story from air force times dot com. Now I am conflicted by the headline for this because. It sounds a lot better to me than it is.
The headline is Space Force ups reenlistment bonus for select gardenings up to one hundred and eighty thousand. So I missed leaving. Well, it isn’t.
It isn’t for those FSCs. We’ll get to it. But it makes it sound like, whoa, you know, Space Force is looking good.
Right. And I’ve even seen some headlines that are like Space Force bonuses are up to three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. And you’re like, wow, all I got to do is join and I get three hundred and sixty.
No, that’s no. That’s why I mean misleading. I said the headline to my husband.
He was like, Ria, Ria, I did it for us. The Space Force is offering a hefty financial incentive for select guardians to reenlist the service recently released his fiscal twenty twenty four selective retention bonus list, which which specifies which types of guardians qualify for a bonus that maxes out one hundred and eighty thousand. The hundred and eighty thousand bonus is an increase of eighty thousand over previous years and the career cap is at three hundred and sixty thousand.
So you can only get it twice. Career fields eligible for the bonus include cyber operations. I don’t know why they put cyber operations in front of all this, but basically it’s defensive cyber operations, cyber cyber network operations, cyber RF operations, cyber system operations, an all source analyst, cryptologic analyst and space systems operations.
Now that’s misleading because I was like, like one Charlie sixes are getting. No, it’s not one choice. Well, if those guys are that train, they’ve got to offer them that kind of money or they’re going to jump ship and go to any of the civilian.
Yes, because civilians paying them big money. Oh, yeah. Well, they better because the Air Force or the Guardian Space Force is going to pay them.
So, yeah, because you know, the five S is the one twenty six space system operations. Oh, it is. Oh, OK.
That’s an air force specific for the reserves. The five Sierra is your one Charlie six. Oh, interesting.
So are the other branches hanging up? Are they sticking with this paralleling, paralleling space force? I think Navy does. I think Navy does something similar with the money. I haven’t heard anything for the Army.
Yeah, I mean, the other services got to be going. They’re they’re they’re cyber guys get equipment. I think that I think the Navy has a lot of money.
I think the pilots can get a lot of money. I think they realize that the importance of cyber is incredibly important because I just repeated myself. But the infrastructure needs to be protected itself.
So it’s important. But the civilian world cyber is paying through the nose. Yeah, yeah.
That’s why they’re upping their bonuses for them to join the space force. That way they’re attached to a space force unit. And then they then defend, say, GPS ground system.
The other thing, Marty, so I’m not sure if you ever re-enlisted. So they have the zone A, B, C and E. So yeah, so it’s only that five Charlie that’s at a seven, which is your max. And your five Sierra is your space system operators are at three and three point five.
So though it’s like pretty much half of what they’re getting. But still, if I was in, they’re going to give me 80 grand to be a one five five S. That’s because that’s exactly what you’re talking about. And that’s that’s the chart from the article.
Yeah, yeah. So quick question. Is this is the bonus taxable? Yes.
And that’s all taxable. And that’s so a lot of people when they try to re-enlist, they always try from Naglo deployment. So like, you know, so let’s say you’re in J tags and you’re saying, Oh, so you can get a tax.
That’s where you’re going to want to re-enlist because if you re-enlist there, it’s a tax free zone up to so much money. So that money is going to be tax free. And when you are, so you get half of it upfront and then every year you get installment.
Well, this says this bonus, you can either receive it in installments or lump sum. I’m going to get the lump sum. Me too.
I’m going to cutter. Camp cupcake. The bonus amount is calculated by taking one month of a guardian space pay, multiplying it by the years the guardian is re-enlisting for, and then multiplying it by his own multiplier.
That’s based on the number of years the guardian has served. Is that clear? Eric clear. That is all right.
Sign here. Get out of my office. Marty.
Uh, zone. Zone A is for guardians who have served between 17 months and six years. Zone B six and 10 years.
Zone C is 10 to 14 and zone E is 18 to 20. Interesting that there’s nothing between 15 and 16 and 17 years. Interesting.
Well, they figured they figured by those years, 16, 17, you’re going to head towards retirement. So why are they even going to bother? Well, they have zone E for 18 to 20. Just for that one career field.
I mean, well, you’re going to retire anyway, right? So anyway, um, Ana can explain that to all the people who are coming in. I was like, Hey, I don’t understand this. What skill level do I need to be? And I’ll be like, Oh my God.
Three, five, and seven. I have to talk to one more of these guys. I’m going to throw up.
I didn’t talk bonus. So I remember. You know, you know, when the, um, 91 GI Bill, when you could do the transfer for your family.
So, um, yeah, the crystal clear rollout they did for everybody. So it’s a, it was a retention tool. But while a lot of people, um, like when we will hear, Oh, they’re going to take away bonuses next year for one Charlie sixes, because you’ll find out people will go and they’ll use the 911 GI Bill to extend their contract.
Another four years. And then they’ll get the bastards before they take it away. That’s clever.
That’s smart though. Because it’s out there. If you take advantage of it, right.
I totally messed up with my 911 GI Bill. Oh, sorry. Put a month on everybody.
I had no idea that I had chapter. Chapter 20 left. So I don’t let me bet said that I had exhausted all of my initial Montgomery GI Bill from 1995.
And so I thought it was done, but I had one month, one month of entitlement. And when I transferred everything to the kids, they got. Oh, you’re kidding.
One month and it’s irreversible. It’s in the law. I got, I was in the little bucket where I didn’t get it.
I couldn’t transfer it because I was too close to retirement and I didn’t have long enough for retention. And you were going to reinvest here. Well, but it was, I don’t know, it was just like, oh, it’s impossible for me to get it.
And it was so, the explanation was so bad, even though they sent teams out, it was like, what? Because I don’t think they fully understood it either. Yeah, sure. As far as this bonus goes, let’s say you love that job.
Let’s say you love that 5S job. And you’re like, this is what I want to do. I’m re-up and you re-up early.
And then they come down and they’re like, hey, we’re going to offer a bonus. And they’re like, oh, hey, I re-up early. Guardians that re-enlisted prior to the announcement of the bonus, do not qualify.
Of course not. Oh, son of a bitch. Hey, we should have one guy come on the show that’s received $180,000 bonus.
You think he’s out there? I don’t know. Hey, are you out there? Yeah. Are you out there? Do you have $180,000 bonus? Come talk to us.
Come and flaunt it. Come and tell us how dumb we are for not doing it. It’s not really that, but I’m willing to bet, depending on the rank of the age, he probably wouldn’t have bought an expensive-ass Corvette.
I hope that you’ve invested it and Mike has two rentals or something going on. Well, let’s see. You can qualify for it as early as 17 months in.
Now, I don’t know if that’s a full $180,000, but 17 months in. Well, you have to qualify for that bonus. Oh, they also extend it.
They give you 12 months to decide to re-up now. So you can think about it for a whole year before you can re-up. Now, I don’t know if you can re-up a year early to take advantage of this.
But then they got you. Then they got you for 72 months or whatever it is. Either that or you got to repay the bonus.
The only bonus when I signed up as a TR and then I lost it when I went to AGR. So there’s the BRS. So the new retirement system, so I’m curious to do bonuses.
If you max contribute and you put part of your bonus into that 401k, I’m not sure if you could do this. That’s why I’m asking. Maybe you guys know.
Will they match the 5% there or is that all separate? I think it’s all separate. Are you talking like TSP? Yeah. Well, for the new retirement system, because the new retirement system is TSP.
And it’s 40% by the time you hit 20% and 2% for every year that you hit. That’s probably why they have more money for bonuses. I mean, they guys retain people anyways.
Well, they got more money for bonuses because they’re not hitting recruiting. That’s true too. Hey, we got 10,000 people didn’t sign up.
We can give bonuses now. The blended retirement system. No, thank God.
I have no idea. I have no idea. It was nothing to do with it.
Alright, let’s come on. Let’s go to the next story that as my dad used to say, that tickles me, actually. Makes me giggle a little bit.
So this is from stripes.com. And you know what? It’s it’s good to know that balloon technology in the world today is making a bit of a comeback. Yeah, how do you think about it this year? 2020 40 year of the balloon. Hi.
US and South Korean defense chiefs strongly urge North the cease trash balloon flights. I strenuously object. Oh my God, it’s scary.
Like I said earlier, I think it’s super scary. North Korea sending over random balloons 500 in one day. Well, true.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, what do you get? What do you got security for stinger troops taking pot shots of these bags of trash coming over the board? I hope not. Probably like something’s floating over the DMZ.
You’re probably thinking what? What? What the poopy pants? That’s basically what it is. Fucking dirty diapers coming over the balloon. Piss me off.
Send me trash. Piss me off. Hey, Piss me off.
Hey, hey, at least it’s not a bag of dicks, right? Some people a bag of dicks. It could be bad. Imagine they’re sending balloons full of dicks.
I mean, all they gotta do is that all that stuff’s made in China anyway. All they gotta do is like, hey, give us all your discards and we’ll just bomb South Korea with a bag of dildos every other day. What? I don’t understand the purpose.
Up and everywhere. Well, let’s read and find out, Eric. Oh, that’s gross.
Please do. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean defense minister Shin Wok-Sik on Sunday urged North Korea to immediately stop sending balloons carrying trash across its southern border. Stop it! During a meeting with Austin in Tokyo on Sunday, Shin called North Korea’s practice of sending balloons to the South a clear violation of the Korean armistice agreement.
Oh my God. The two leaders strongly urged North Korea to immediately cease these provocative acts. The 1953 armistice between the UN Command North Korea and China established air and maritime borders and was meant to cease hostilities from the three-year Korean War.
How does trash constitute a threat? North Korea has floated thousands of balloons carrying household trash across its border since May. And most recently, like Anna said, sent roughly 500 balloons last Wednesday. At least two landed on the South Korean presidential compound and on the U.S. Army’s Yongsan garrison in Seoul.
Pyongyang claims its balloons are being sent in retaliation against South Korean activists. Who send balloons carrying humanitarian aid and pro-South Korean propaganda across the northern border. Oh, I see.
You see the dust? We’re sippin’ the shit by the sea. You’re sippin’ those pamphlets? I’m giving you a shitty kimchi. Here you go.
I’m surprised that North Korea has trash. Have you had a big… It’s easy. Have you been to the DMZ? I have, yeah.
Like, the DMZ is extremely, like, serious as it should be. But when you look at what they say is a city, most say that it’s a fake city. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely, it is, right? And you look at the images of, like, the electricity in North Korea. Like, I don’t know. Yeah, it’s dark.
If you look at the… Yeah, if you look at the satellite images, it’s like, hmm, that’s not really a big city. Big period. But they only get so much power.
And actually… Yeah, probably. Because government controlled. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
Well, we could ask that army soldier that we did that story on who just ran across. Come back and tell us what to find out, man. Yeah, he’s like, F you! I think anything getting sent over from North Korea is, like, a threat.
Like, what is going on? It is. 500 balloons. That’s true.
But then again, you go, well, you know, North Korea bills itself as this technical wonder. Not so much. I’ve seen a lot of their launches not be successful, so… This isn’t a lantern party.
They probably have a ceremony that way. They just release the balloons and everybody claps. Hey, it’s North Korea New Year again.
Trash. That’s a tradition now. None of the trash at the presidential compound contain hazardous waste or contaminants according to a news release from the security service.
And the waste was collected by 9 a.m. and everyone went about their business. So, the balloons discovered Wednesday arrived days after South Korea announced it will expand loudspeaker broadcasts at the border with North Korea. This is what makes me laugh.
The loudspeakers blare propaganda, world news, and K-pop. It’s K-pop. It’s K-pop.
The Korean pop music, you know, with all the guys. And they’re blaring that out, right? You got all kinds of boy bands. North Korea has not officially responded to the broadcast, but Kim Yeo-jung, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, warned that South Korean scum must be ready to pay, quote, a gruesome and dear price for their actions.
She’s the freaking nutso. She is nuts. Yeah, she’s crazy.
North Korea has taken advantage of the wind direction to fly the balloons to South Korea. And some balloons in past launches had timers that may be used to pop the bags of trash in mid-air. The balloons have caused no major damage, but they have raised concerns that North Korea could use them to drop chemical or biological agents.
That’s what I was thinking. What if they drop COVID in the area? Oh, China already did that. Where’s Lou? Imagine them, like, their strategy, Like, all their genres are meeting.
Imagine what that conference room looks like. You know what’s a good idea? Fuck them. Let’s just go.
All these balloons with trash. That’ll show them. Like, it’s just, I don’t know.
It’s just, I think it’s a couple. It’s like a couple low-level staffers are like, hey, I’m going to float my trash balloon idea. They’re like, don’t.
You’ll be laughed out of the room. He’s like, I’m doing it. I’m doing it.
And they come out and they’re back slapping them. They’re like, that’s brilliant. We’re going with it.
And he’s like, fuck it. Hey, I didn’t think I would do it. See, what happened was the government went out to all the people because the people live in the streets with trash and said, you got any ideas to piss off South Korea? Well, yeah, send them our trash.
Yeah, scoop up our trash because we’re just dumping it out the window. That’s all good. We don’t have a bird pit or something.
Well, and I don’t think North Korea is capable of it, but it’s, you know, if this story, imagine if this story, take North Korea and South Korea out of it. Imagine if you heard this story like in a trailer park in Florida and are like two neighbors who hated each other. They’re like playing K-pop.
I’m going to float my trash over to his yard. You’d be laughing your ass off. That’s just probably already happened.
Are you kidding me? But this scary thing is the new way of drowning. Well, yeah, that could be that, right? Well, I had a drone and that fucker shot it. So I’m floating trash over at his house now.
Oh, my God. But to imagine that this could escalate into, like, the event that gets us into World War III. That would be, imagine the history books.
They were floating trash. So they launched a nuclear weapon at them. Oh, my God.
Imagine the question, what started World War III back in 2024? North Korea dirty diapers. And this one is the bag of dicks. Dirty condoms.
Maybe falling off the sky. Somebody needs to write a movie about this that stars Will Ferrell. That’s right.
He’s a soldier on the DMZ. Well, what’s the one with Seth Rogen and when they go to Korea, they go to interview Kim Jong Un. Oh, it’s the interview.
It’s called the interview. Well, there’s also a team America. Yeah, that’s a little.
Yeah, that’s true. Korea right there. North Korea too.
Okay, believable. I’m glad we did that because that story corrects me up. All right.
So now it’s time for the first time we’ve ever done this. We’re going to play a World War II slang game. All right.
Now, you’re not going to compete against each other. You’re going to see how well you can do as a team. If I don’t win this shit, then I’m.
No, you’re not competing, Eric. You’re competing as a team. You always win these competitions.
Oh, I said. One with me. One with me.
No, you’re all together. I don’t know if you want to ESL people to get so. Eric just speaks gibberish.
That doesn’t count as ESL. I understand it. So I’m going to give you a World War II slang and you guys got to figure out what it’s talking about.
All right. Because I want you to. I want you to work together.
Do we just shout it out or we go like one by one? Well go when you guys decide when you think you’ve decided and then we’ll go from there. All right. The art of manliness.
Yeah, I took all this from a website called the art of manliness. It’s it’s pretty manly website. Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
OK, so your first word is or your first term is armored cow. Now remember, this is greatest generation. Greatest generation.
I want you to keep thinking that right. So they called something an armored cow. What do you think an armored cow is? Tank.
That’s the first thing that’s good. Maybe a tank that had the hedgerow frickin front. Not bad.
You guys aren’t quite being creative enough because an armored cow was. Can milk. That’s what they call can milk.
I see where we’re going with. Yeah, this is their slang. This is World War II slang, right? A fart sack.
You probably heard this one. That’s probably heard this one, right? That’s your frickin rock. The sleeping bag.
Sleeping bag, right? You guys good with sleeping bag beans. At your sleeping bag. And Eric is right.
It’s your sleeping bag. Well, that makes sense, right? Yeah. Fart sack.
Yeah. They’re just going to concentrate right there. My second guess is you’re an old man with big balls that sang.
I don’t know how you get there, but now okay. She likes balls. All right.
Remember greatest generation. Bayonet course. Do you have any idea what a bayonet course is? I do.
I know what a real bayonet course. That’s where I’m going. But what they call the bayonet course.
Now, a course. Here’s a hint. A course is not necessarily like something you go through like an obstacle course.
Think course like a course of treatment. So, uh. Bandages.
How about a meal that you open with a bayonet? You have to open the can. Not bad yet. Three course meal.
Okay. Not bad. I think it’s something that you insert.
Ooh. Yeah, one might be the closest because a bayonet course is. A hospital treatment for venereal disease.
Oh my goodness. All right. Oh my goodness.
Greatest generation remember. Belly cousin. Someone I spoon with.
Close. That’s that’s that’s all I’m thinking. That’s your foxhole mate.
Your foxhole mate. Not bad. Do you ever hear of an Eskimo brother? Oh yes.
That’s what they called a belly cousin. A man who has slept with a woman you have slept with. I’m bringing that back bro.
I’m bringing that back. I love that. Belly cousin.
You guys are belly cousins. Like seriously. That’s good.
I know but what are you talking about? It’s hip. You’re not hip enough. It’s my belly cousin.
What’s up bro? A broad with canned goods. What’s a broad with canned goods? So it’s like a one of the red cross women. And when they say broad they do mean woman.
So I get it. A girl with big. Yeah.
Honkers. Well with cans right. I was thinking of booty with a big booty.
Oh no. Not bad. Okay.
She has some junk in her trunk. I was thinking it was like one of those red cross women. You know that provided uso stuff.
Oh okay. Not bad but a broad with canned goods is a virgin. That is actually really good too.
It’s canned up. He’s a broad with canned goods. I would have been open up.
Remember greatest generation right. A broad with a heat wave. Oh horny.
That’s yeah that’s that’s probably good. Damn good guys actually. She’s on her period.
Oh I didn’t think of that one. That’s pretty good too. Actually a prostitute maybe.
No not bad. But a broad with a heat wave is a woman with a venereal disease. Imagine these things like nah bro hey she has a heat wave so you want to stay away.
There’s a lot of venereal disease nickname stuff. That’s some crazy shit back then. Greatest generation.
So but I guess huh. Yeah it’s like but I could see using this. I actually bring the heat wave.
Yeah that’s a broad with a heat wave boy. Stay away from that. Yeah bug juice.
We still use that today. Yeah that’s mosquito repellent. Insect repellent right.
Insect repellent. Yeah we still we called it bug juice. We did too.
We did too okay. Not not these two because they’re indoors. I chose air conditioning when I joined.
Yeah I was at the pool. Not the toucan sand. Digging a hole in the desert for Christ sakes.
But that fly gets on the inside. Drives you crazy. Drives you crazy.
I lose my focus. Collision mats. Now this one you’ll never get because I never got it too.
Um I don’t know. I thought it was kind of creative but. It’s like a collision map so it’s like I’m thinking of a better where you do your business with someone else.
Too dirty. Too dirty. Rastling.
Think food. No wrestling. Oh think okay.
Think what? Food. Collision mats. Yeah I know I don’t know where they came up with it.
Collision mats is. What? Where Juan was going with. Collision mats is pancakes.
You see pancakes. Collision mats pancakes you see where I’m going with this? I don’t get that at all. If I expand out yes I got you actually very good one.
Point for Juanito. Cupid’s itch. A man with venereal disease.
Any venereal disease. I do I love that. A lot of nicknames for venereal disease.
It’s the lust that created that itch. Oh my god. I’ve never heard that.
That’s awesome. You know venereal disease is not fatal so you know fun kind of fun for these guys. I don’t know any fun.
Dog show. Standing at the position of attention parade rest for all the fucking commanders or some stupid shit like that. No not bad not bad.
Now this one this one’s kind of existential so you know what do you call what’s it what what what are other things that you call your dogs? I was thinking the desert flower and he put on a show. I love her man on his podcast. She is so good because I would never have thought of that in a million years.
What did you do more? Well I can’t now. I give it away too much. What are other things that you call dogs? Now that’s that’s all that’s a horrible clue sorry about that.
But it’ll make sense when I give you the answer. It’s a foot inspection. Oh my dogs are tired.
Yeah my dogs are barking right. Yeah but the commander would actually go through and expect their expect their feet. Make sure they were changing their socks.
Yeah right right right. Uh a juice jerker and this is not dirty this is not dirty. It’s like somebody who relieves the itch.
That would be fair because I’m setting you up to think that that’s true. But this is actually not dirty and when you see the word you’d be like oh that’s actually pretty great. Come on Anna do it.
Juice jerker. Juice has nothing to do with food. So it’s not a ninja juicer? No.
So it’s like oil in not oil but like lubricant in a gun. That’s not bad that’s a pretty sound guess. That’s a pretty sound guess.
But a juice jerker is an electrician. Oh that makes oh that’s like that’s pretty good right. This juice yeah.
Juice yeah that’s pretty good. Uh I think we’re on our last one. A pecker checker.
The person that CGP. What has been the theme from the greatest generation of all this? So it’s a doctor that checks you for venereal disease. A medical person who checks for evidence of venereal disease.
Yeah. Imagine having a job though. I’m like oh dude it’s like yeah it’s bumpy yeah I don’t know like.
Is it it what’s the one where they have to do the catheter and like uh like pop it. Is that VD or is that something that works? Is it VD where they gotta go like actually like pop it inside? I thought it works. Venereal works.
No no. He’s talking about where they have to pop that that the pimple and side cuts. Because you piss hot right when you when you have VD your piss burns I think.
Yeah the clap right the clap yeah. So that’s uh your greatest generation who had no less than four terms for venereal disease. Nice thanks grandpa you guys thanks for winning the war.
And for fucking everything in sight. He’s like I was like I had to go see the pecker checker because I got over there with that um that heat wave so here I am. I got that I didn’t get the canned goods broad I got the heat wave broad.
And then I got cupid’s itch. For venereal disease it tells you what was common right it tells you what was coming so. That’s a hard day they believe in condoms.
That’s how I’m getting from that the greatest generation that’s why they call it the baby bear. They’re deployed man. There’s a shortage of stuff like that right.
The condoms they issued they put them on the rifle and some water wouldn’t get it. Yeah now you know that there’s a lot of sex going on and that’s how you were created. The floor recognizes Anna Mondragon.
That’s why North Korea is sending over their bag of dicks. On Wednesday 500 of them because they don’t want that situation to go. Oh I wonder if those bag of dicks are heat wave dicks.
That like if you grab them you’re like ah we got them. Call the pecker checker I’m done. Oh that would be terrible.
We went off the road tonight man we’re four wheeling. Good bring us back on the road Eric with some U.S. military history. That’s gonna be some BD shit for that.
We solved it is it not around anymore is it not an issue with the guys? Oh no they just don’t talk about it. Yeah I think it’s really readable but it’s still out there for sure. Hey it’s just a I mean it’s a shot it clears it up I know.
Yeah it’s very treatable depending on what you get too right. Maybe I never heard anybody over the last 20 years go hey I got VD. Yeah so I wonder if they have we fixed that.
People probably wear more protection. Maybe the women maybe the women are cleaner. That’s on VD in the military first.
In the military yeah that should be. All right assigned to Anna Mondragon report back next week. Why do I come up from the military that every time you come up with an idea it’s like oh yeah you.
Oh that’s a good idea why don’t you follow that up and let us know next week thank you. That’s a very senior NCO. Task assigned to Anna.
So on my epic on agile I assign this to Anna Mondragon. I wanted to be a scrum master when I was first like looking at retirement and now I’m like no. No I’m surprised at how much they pay for them but you got to be so falsely motivated like upbeat and like doing little jokes and little anecdotes and stuff and you’re like come on guys we’re in agile yeah yeah.
Here’s a quiz for you here’s a quiz for you like oh my god I hate this person so. Speaking of VD I just found an article from September 2023. STI is growing threat in US armed forces.
Oh coming back that’s from the US army we need more pecker checkers it’s getting hotter out there. It’s getting hot out there and everybody thought it was like you know what do they call it freaking Biden’s climate change they thought it was climate change it’s just heat. It’s just heat just we need more we need more women with canned goods that’s what we need.
Oh all right take us home Eric. All right fellas and gals tonight I have a sort of a somber history. Everyone is somber it’s always said well you know war was pretty somber.
Hello okay yeah so today today shut your mouth today USS Indianapolis. Oh no was it really the US Navy heavy was sunk by Japanese submarine on July 30th 1945 and shortly after delivering and this is the part of you know shortly after delivering the internal components of the atomic bombs that were later dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Crazy so this is the part I want to talk about.
So after the United States in World War II the ship was assigned to the aircraft carrier task force in the Pacific theater. In 43 it became the flagship of the US fifth fleet under Vice Admiral Raymond Spruitts. The Indianapolis participated in the bombardment of Japanese island of Iwo Jima in February of 45.
The following month the Indianapolis was damaged by Japanese kamikaze plane off of Okinawa island but it was soon repaired and returned to service so that’s just a little background for you. But in late July 30th 1945 the Indianapolis was sent on a high speed voyage to deliver cargo to the US air base on Tinian one of the cargo consisted of parts for the atomic bombs. The Indianapolis traveled from San Francisco to Tinian in only 10 days.
After completing the delivery on July 26th it proceeded to Guam and then was sent to Lady Golf in the Philippines. The ship had traveled about halfway to the Lady when it was hit on July 30th by two Japanese torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-58. The Indianapolis sank in about 12 minutes.
So you’ve got the atomic bomb part of it but then they dropped that they were they were returning home right? Correct they dropped it off. So of the nearly 1200 men on board as many as 900 survived the sinking. They were stranded in shark infested waters with no supplies aside from life jackets and a few life rafts.
However and it took four days for help to arrive because of communication errors and other problems the ship was not reported missing when it failed to arrive in Lady Golf is scheduled on July 31st. The survivors were discovered by accident on August 2nd. So what is that five days July 30th? Four days.
At sea. Yep at sea August 2nd when they were spotted by a passing US naval aircraft by that time only 316. 600 men.
316 men remained alive and were rescued. The US government delayed reporting the tragedy until August 15th 1945 the same day it announced that Japan had agreed to surrender. One more piece of this the commanding officer of the Indianapolis Captain Charles B. McVeigh was among the survivors.
He became the only ship’s captain in the US Navy to be court-martialed in connection with the loss of his ship in combat in World War II. They court-martialed? Yeah it doesn’t go into much. Somehow he was he was found negligent in the protection of the ship.
I don’t know how you you’re you know found negligent when two torpedoes hit you and split your ship but. Well I just did a real quick PI planning update and now you have a story that you have to answer for Eric. So now you’re gonna find out more.
You two young people did you ever see you’ve seen Jaws right? You’ve seen the movie Jaws? Yeah. Anna hasn’t seen the movie Jaws. Oh okay.
That’s the story he tells when they’re sitting around drinking. He was on the USS Indianapolis and went into the water and the sharks too. I never know.
600 people yeah. But now I’m curious about the court-martial like that sounds like they can make a movie out of that because I’m really curious about what happened. There are movies there’s two movies already out there.
Oh on the USS Indianapolis. Yeah I don’t know specifically on the court-marks but on the and by the way the sharks didn’t kill them all. No I know it was a great part for the movie.
I know they didn’t kill 600 men. Dehydration, drowning. Four days out there.
Yes drowning dehydration and the other one was salt sickness because they were drinking the water. Yeah they had no fresh water. It was a great it was a brilliant move by Stephen Spielberg to weave that end of the story.
So that’s the first time I ever heard of the USS Indianapolis was from watching Jaws. Jaws yeah. How do you pay attention so much? It was all dialogue.
They’re all sitting there and he’s yeah the conversation was awesome. I wasn’t just bopping around with my Walkman. Like today people watch movies but they’re on their phones and stuff so back then you didn’t have nothing distracting so you actually watched the movie.
You actually had imagine waiting for somebody to pick you up, seeing them coming but knowing that there’s still sharks in the water. I’m still tired. Well can you imagine the three four days of not knowing anybody’s going to pick you up? Man they made a huge story about that.
I get it Titanic was just as tragic but the USS Indianapolis they were mission successful thinking they’re coming home like yeah bro we did it. I think it sunk at the tail end out the war is basically over. But well Sajjan Sajjan did that too wasn’t Sajjan out no was it Sajjan or who was uh no not Sajjan the uh um the Angelina Jolie directed that movie.
I’m not sure I know it was not invincible but uh god what was that guy’s name he was a POW. Oh oh where he was an Olympic athlete yeah yeah yeah yeah he was called by Japanese and he survived being a but he was out in the ocean for several days I think too right with two other men that’s great yeah yeah when he’s picked up by the Japanese guy was the movie look it up one come on quick um is that invincible or yeah what was that spoon the spoon thingy the spoon buddy that they were come on Marty what the spoon the spoon but I’m broken I’m broken unbroken who was it about what was the guy’s welcome uh uh Louis Saperini yep Louis Saperini because you mean you mean the Sajjan thing is it Sajjan are you talking about huh no no it’s Louis Saperini was there okay you’re jargon the World War II jargon oh he thought it was spooning uh oh the belly cousin oh the belly cousins the Eskimo brother we’re talking about POWs and people floating in the ocean and you went to belly cousin I don’t know did you get that like from belly I love the way your mind works it works perfect for this I have no idea awesome I think on belly cousins that makes us end up what do you think are we yet end up I think we are at end up so on behalf of all of us here I’d like to thank you for listening today please like share and subscribe and let us know how we did in the comments and make sure next week that you are not late to change your life for change over that did you record that I did I was just messing with the mixer oh that’s awesome you said you said we start uh that you start getting comments about the the p-suits and everything else on instagram and facebook on linkedin oh what would people say it was more reactions this week than anything so okay you know that’s funny uh but yeah I think I think it’s great you guys should go watch it and go I’ll do you have all the links I do to your own it showed that that video to my son he was laughing the p-episode one or the that was funny yeah yeah he was and I know your comments Anna my son was laughing yes she was a star last week we have never said sperm on this show until Anna came on it so oh my goodness I never said dildo until Anna said oh yeah that’s bullshit I don’t believe I don’t buy that at all I never said dildo on the show she was the first well true probably not on the show but yeah your day-to-day security forces life that was probably a weekly thing I’m sure I called Jake a dildo or something hey I was in the Air Force shelter someone left their dildo out there again come on guys do better I don’t know is it Jake got in trouble no teapot told me I don’t know if there was I don’t know why I’m thinking of Jake but they were doing inspections on bags and the commander was going in the street and they found one of her boys I’m not sure if it was Jake or someone else that did the inspection but I don’t know we did that we did that in dorm welfare checks in the dorm first sergeant oh I’ve got those oh I’ve done that with the first sergeant amazing what you found in people’s stuff did we found a sex dungeon in the dorm like where sex dungeon yes where in the dorms that’s like they were like like we went in there they took up that standard they are like they had a big bag everything with it was like the red light it was like I was like and then you opened up the closet all kinds of stuff I’m talking about they were stepping those things on they look like tripods now I know I’m old oh wow all right your new epic is to tell us the rest of that friends thanks for thanks for the week and for all of you listening and watching thanks for watching and listening we’ll see you next week