Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 25 Sep 2024
Date: Oct 25, 2024
My dog had diarrhea and exploded all over the carpet. Excuse number five for being late for changeover, your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith and I’m joined by our man in the closet Jake Wall.
Come on out guys, good to see you. And the inventor of the Tink Blink, Anna Mondragon. Alrighty then, how are you? 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 a seat, get informed and have a laugh as we present late for changeover. Yeah, I know I was already for that Tink Blink last week. Oh yeah.
That really threw me off. I am a missed a week. I was in Ure.
I know, you said well, I was going to ask how everyone spent their week up. You went to Ure. I went to Breckenridge, Ure and Crested Butte.
Oh, beautiful. Did you stay there or did you just drive through every time? No, we stayed at each place and we drove through each place, yeah. Did you get a place or do you have like a camper or what? No, we got a hotel.
Oh, okay. Yeah, but it was really beautiful. I was too scared to do the million dollar highway.
That’s, there’s no shoulder. There is zero shoulder on there. What I heard, so I got nervous, I was too scared.
I was like, yeah, maybe next time. Jake, have you ever ridden that? Oh yeah. Yeah.
The million dollar highway and all that route is crazy. The one… It just goes… Yeah, it does. And there’s like, I did that ride that started… There’s no guardrail on half of those corners and you’re literally… Nothing.
Nothing. You really got to pay attention. And if you go on a ride and you’re like too abreast, yeah, forget it man.
Now, I don’t understand why people do that. I don’t either. I’m always staggered.
I try to also so you can swerve. Yeah. Jake, you went out to Tennessee? Yeah, I went out to Tennessee, Nashville with my brother.
Oh, wow. Yeah, we hung out and it was a great time and he knew a guy from LA. One of the musicians from LA said, hey, I know a guy you can get on stage with him out there.
And so, Hero got on stage. We were walking into one bar on Painters Alley and the lady on the stage was like, hey, what are you doing with that fiddle? And just called him out, like from across the room. What are you doing with that fiddle? And he’s like, oh, I’m playing on stage next.
And she’s like, you want to come up now? He’s like, oh, okay. No. Is he that good? Is he good? No, that’s his job.
Oh, no. He’s a professional musician. Wow.
So he gets on stage and plays some fiddle music and plays. I mean, they played free falling and I mean, a bunch of other, I know that’s not fiddle music, but he just joined in and then she goes, hey, we’re playing down on Broadway on Honky Tonk Row. She’s like, come out, come out with us and you can play on stage.
So we went to the second fiddle later on that night. Oh, wow. And we’re in the second fiddle and we’re waiting around and we go upstairs to the other stage.
It wasn’t as packed, but literally the guy on stage, it was a break in the song. He’s like, hey, man, what are you doing with that fiddle? Come on up. Come on up here.
You lost it. Oh, yes. Well, but but he’s walking around with a fiddle that it’s not like.
I mean, it’s not like he’s going, but right, right, right. But he’s like, hey, what are you doing with that fiddle? And he’s looking around and he’s like, who, me? No, he’s like, OK. But yeah, that’s down there.
There’s people walking around with like guitar, I suppose. So they got their whole setup in cargo strapped to a dolly and they’re moving from bar to bar. What a fan.
That’s always been a fantasy, right? It’s like to. Oh, it was cool to see him do that. Yeah.
Yeah, to jump up on stage or to like no piano and they’re like, yeah. Hey, look, you guys got a piano. Let me just tinker.
And that’s. You’re walking around with a piano. Yeah, and what are you doing with that tuba? Yeah, I know him.
Right. I know the hero and I have been dealing. I’ve been dealing with him playing the violin for basically my whole life.
Really? Yeah. And and I’m like, I know when you’re bullshitting and he goes up there and I’m like, you didn’t know that song at all. He goes, no, but he nodded to me when I took over and I was like, yeah.
I go, how do you do that? He goes, well, you just kind of know how the music’s going to go. And then you put a little bit more on it sometimes. And then when he nods back, you just kind of let the tone fall.
I was like, what the hell, man? I you know, there was a time I was trying to learn to play the guitar. I was like, I’m going to learn this. I’m going to learn this.
And, you know, I got, you know, I got chords now, but I never got past chords. And you look at these guys, these rock stars and you’re like, these guys are so drunk, they don’t remember the fucking words to the song. But they’re still playing.
But they’re playing that guitar and they’re high out of their mind and they got and they’re still playing. I’m like, God, dang, man. That made me think of that lady who was singing on stage.
And she was drunk. Have you watched that? No, it’s actually a renowned like singer. Oh, she is.
She was having seizures on stage. No, she was. What are you doing? She lasted.
I mean, it was terrible. It was. Oh, really? To being worse than when Roseanne Barr did it.
Oh, yeah. I remember that. Oh, the Star Spangled Banner.
She sang the Star Spangled Banner. Yeah. Oh, what did I say? I don’t know what I said.
You just said she was singing on stage. Oh, I’m sorry. Yeah, the Star Spangled Banner.
It was at like a baseball game or something. Something in place was packed. This is kind of recent, right? Yeah.
In the last month or so. Yeah, I think she’s actually a really good singer. She was just drunk.
Sucks. Star Spangled Banner is a tough one. You can’t get up there and F. around with that song.
Yeah, it’s tough. So is he trying to get like some sort of? The contract? No, we just went out there. I knew it was a good music town.
Yes, I’d been out there before and I liked it. And I was like, you play the violin, which means you just have an expensive fiddle. So it’s like, I know you’ll be fine if you go to Tennessee, because he’s living in L.A. now.
And I’m like, I need to expand your horizon. So he had he hadn’t been out there before. He’d never been in Nashville.
So oh, wow, man. And he got up on stage three times. And that one lit up was he at the end of the night.
He had to be over the moon. He was we were pumped. But his whole goal was to get me free beer with the band.
Yes, it didn’t happen. Oh, I called him out for it. I was like, I never got a free beer.
You didn’t get to meet Lainey Wilson like she’s. She’s the best shit out there. No, that’s the best ass in country music.
It’s factual. It’s factual. I would agree with him.
Even though she wears flare pants, still look amazing. I love flare pants. I love that.
Oh, and it. Oh, there. There’s no me Wilson.
I have to give it a goog. In fact, I’ll put her in here for later. Oh, my gosh.
There’s a bar out there, though. So we were we had a good old time and Johnny Cash’s bar and oh, nice original like. Was it that purple orchid and Roberts boot barn and all that kind of stuff? Oh, yeah, we should do that.
Maybe that takes a couple of distilleries. Yeah, you know, you’ve never been out to Nashville. No, never have.
So cute. They shut down the whole street at night and they shut like that whole street. It just becomes a walking street.
They had they had the Grand Prix when we were out there. Yeah. Oh, going in and out of bars.
So fun. Yeah. Every bar has like three bands in it.
Oh, it’s it’s crazy. You walk in, there’s a band playing right here. And then you go up the stairs and there’s a band.
And then there’s a band. There’s a band. It’s crazy.
And there’s a Johnny Cash Museum. Is it really? Mm hmm. It’s really cool.
Yeah. OK, all right. I’ll ask Susan if she wants to go.
She’ll be like, yeah, great. What are we doing? I’m like, Jake just told me airfare was through the roof. So don’t don’t blame it on me.
You don’t even know how much BS has been blamed on me to spouses. You’re so proud of me. Yeah.
Oh, so much. You’re the you’re the ball guy. Yeah, Jake said that.
Jake said I’m like. All his spouse is walking. He’s like, no, motherfucker.
What? Do you totally blame this on you? Like, give me a kaka next time and I’ll take credit for it. Yeah, that’s because we’re all we’re all weak minded. So when faced with the life, we turn to blame you.
I don’t know. It’s Jake’s fault. I don’t know.
Oh, it never is. Yeah, Jake said there is. So, but that’s OK.
He’s he’s a great wingman that way. I get credit for way, way more than I actually do. Should we get to the news? Let’s do this.
Oh, Eric’s on assignment in Illinois. I always do it in the house. But is that a is that a lift up or? I think I can’t remember who’s there, but you just got out of Disney World.
Corn Cutfest 2024. So maybe he’s filming new OnlyFans content, Corn World. He’s got the overalls on in the cornfield walking around.
No shirt underneath Daisy. Do it is their cut offs. Cut off overalls in Iowa.
Yeah. Why is he so oily in a cornfield? Yeah, he’s got to poke him. Poke it off the genies.
Yep, we are never going to get through this episode. Oh, he probably dress up like Goofy, but all oily still. It’s just a big bit off.
It’s him oil and the big yellow shoes. The hat, the little goofy hat comes off. Is that you? The one that sits like right here.
He’s spinning around. That’s so stupid. I have it in my mind.
Get it out. Oh, yeah. So he’s got him on the him on the golf course.
That’s his other venue with the with the Donald Duck little suspenders, but a little sailor. Oh, yeah. Hey, ladies.
I can’t wait for this month’s post on seven dollar churro free only. He’s man in the churro cart. Covered in cinnamon and sugar.
The hell is going on? Sir, we’re going to leave you ask you to leave the park. Make lessons in this. Did you bring your own cinnamon? You cannot bring your own cinnamon.
Ever where he goes, he’s just he’s just shiny. So all right. God damn it.
Let’s get to the news. So this this this first story is from space flight now. And it’s about while we were off, SpaceX launched up Polaris Dawn with an all civilian crew.
So the first non-government space walk goes off without a hitch for Polaris Dawn crew and other SpaceX milestone billionaire Jared Isaacman and company crew trainer Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside the Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday, September 12th, and the first privately financed spacewalk in a history of space exploration. While his feet were just outside the hatch, he did not free float away from the Crew Dragon, in the SpaceX design. Pressure suits were not equipped with their own oxygen supply or other life support equipment and relied instead on the 12 foot long umbilicals to deliver air, power and communication.
So I saw an article about the SpaceX extra vehicular suit, and it was all soft. But then when it got like pressurized, right, it kind of balloons up. But if you watch and I’ve got a little bit of video is a very long kind of very boring video.
But it does show him outside the outside the Crew Dragon doing experiments. So part of the part of the experiments were to see the functionality of the suit. So here’s just a minute or so of that video.
Kitchen rollers, three yards and two. I was wondering why he was holding his hand that way, but he was doing it on purpose. So he could do like but see how suits don’t look that fluid.
Toys. Don’t look this thick. Yeah, yeah, that’s what I thought.
There’s got to be a skeleton on the inside, like joints and skeleton. There’s something on it. They showed how they designed it.
But now that they’re ballooned up, they’re pressurized up. Doesn’t look all that flexible. But maybe that’s that’s as good as it gets.
I don’t know. It looks significantly less spooky, but these are the regular yeah, like the 60s guys, the 70s guys. Yeah, it reminds me of like a like a snowboard outfit.
Oh, yeah, like space suit by Burton. It looks like he’s got our three days. And I know and read out.
I think he wants it. What was it? Let go vertical translation. We’re going to start with the horizontal bars, OK? Look at that, I’m up to my ass.
Back down, that’s far enough. Oh, scary. I wouldn’t be kind of scary, wouldn’t it? They’d be like, oh, OK, never mind.
We chip. Yeah. All right, we’re going to transition over to a vertical.
Like what side now? See, that’s where inside the capsule, Jake would be like, hey, touch. And he’s like, ah, I’d be like this control. Wrong time, Jacob.
Wrong time every time. Come on. He loved this train.
He was asking for it. So that’s how most of that video went. Like I said, it was a little a little boring, but they didn’t really go all the way out or anything like that.
So kind of cool. All civilian crew, you know, I give them that. But speaking of the all civilian crew, oh, sorry, the goal of the one hour 46 minute spacewalk.
So they had that hatch open. So everybody sitting inside also had to be pressurized, but they were all in their seats. The goal was to help company engineers perfect low cost, easy to manufacture spacesuits for use by future commercial astronauts flying to the moon or Mars aboard SpaceX super heavy Starship rockets.
So I guess they accomplished that. So good job. But speaking of another crew member, Jamie Gillis, I mentioned her.
She was the crew trainer on SpaceX Dragon. Well, on space.com, they posted a music video. So, SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut plays Star Wars song in music video beam from space.
Polaris Dawn astronaut, Sarah Gillis, a violinist released a new music video from space early on Friday, September 13th. Gillis and the Polaris program released a video titled Harmony of Resilience on X. Here is just a part of that video. It’s a good five minutes long.
It’s pretty neat. It’s pretty good. It is.
Did you watch it? Yeah. It’s on, it’s like. Well, I wanna ask you a question before we even play this.
So every time, sunny too, every time we see a woman in space, is that a goal to just like let your hair go? I would. And then just freeze it in this frizzy afro. How weird would it feel? Yeah, I would, I would 100% do that.
Would you really? Yeah, it would feel so cool and it would make me, my hair look so cool. Well, but that looks just- Giving woman’s goals. I just don’t know how it is.
That looks psychotic. No, she looks like a superhero violinist. I think it looks cool, but Marty does have a point every single one of them.
They all do the same thing. There’s no hair ties there. I think it’s all- No, apparently not, yeah.
Maybe by the time of like, make sure you hide all of her hair ties. Yeah, okay. Oh, they’re probably floating.
They’re probably floating all over the space station. Oh, hair ties? Yeah, on a look around, how many hair ties do you see in any general area? All right, fair enough. They’re everywhere.
Eric would put them up on his arms to pop his biceps bigger. So he would have like 10 on each arm. Relive his veiny days.
Scratch out, Eric. This is scratch out. Scratch out.
So let’s watch a couple of minutes of this. It’s pretty neat. I like it.
Spacecraft. I’m Sarah Gillis, one of the Polaris Dawn crew members. As we travel around our beautiful planet Earth on this five day mission, we wanted to share this special music moment with you.
Bringing together global talent, this performance symbolizes unity and hope. I guess they synchronize this. The resilience and potential of children everywhere.
So that’s pretty cool. Here is Ray’s Theme by John Williams brought to you from the stars. He’s so hard.
Oh, yeah. You think her feet are velcroed to the ground? You gotta be, right? She’s pretty stable, right? So something’s anchoring her. Oh, you mean me? I didn’t know that.
Yeah, she’s got to be anchored. She’s not moving at all. But she’s fantastic on the violin.
Yeah. Shut up for the oboe. Amazing.
Yeah, it goes on for a few more minutes after that. Both girls were actually really attractive. Well, here, role play with me, Jake.
Oh, here we go. You’re a cosmonaut, right? Yeah. Your time is just about to go.
So you’ve already been up there. So not butch or sunny? No, but you’ve been up there with sunny, right? And now, here comes the Polaris Dawn people. Let’s just say they stopped for a visit.
And you go, oh, whatever. What to do with that? As they say in county, fresh fish. I thought you were going to pull out the Nashville thing and like what you doing with that fiddle? What you doing with that fiddle, girl? Come up here often? Come up on stage.
Hey, Sonny. That was impressive. We’ve got to ride back for you.
Yeah, make a demand or something. She’s getting annoying. We’re going to keep the fiddle player.
I think we know that the same woman read a book to her kids, but also to other children that were at St. Jude. And as a fundraiser, just like from space or hugs from space or something like that. That’s pretty good.
Yeah, it was really cool. That’s pretty good. So I thought that was fairly talented.
It was, it was pretty impressive. I don’t know if they really synced all of them up like that, but I’m sure they did. They probably wouldn’t have put it out if they hadn’t done that.
I would say maybe not live. Well, yeah, maybe not. Maybe not.
Or maybe they did. Maybe they woke those guys in Africa up and they’re like, Hey, it’s 1 a.m. Get up. Get your brass.
Get your brass up. Passing overhead. I don’t know how they do it.
That was cool. Yeah. So I thought this next story from space news.com was pretty creative and we had we had toyed about talking with something like this.
The the capability. So but now the US military is going to give them money. So US military is investing in reentry vehicles for space to earth cargo delivery.
How’s this going to work? I don’t know. Yeah, but here’s our guest. The US military is investing in reusable reentry capsules designed by space startups to return cargo from space and deliver to precise locations on earth.
These vehicles are seen as key tools for future space ops and logistics as the Pentagon explores new methods to streamline transportation in space startups specializing in reentry vehicle technology such as inversion space and outpost space recently secured more than one hundred million dollars in defense and private investment of the Strategic Funding Increase Initiative or STRATFI. Justin Fiuschetti, chief executive of inversion space said autonomous reentry vehicles that can be called to earth on demand will transform logistics and provide rapid access to even the most remote parts of the globe. The company says it’s reusable capsules would store supplies in orbit.
So they’re just going to be up there ready to be deployed on demand for rapid, precise delivery of critical cargo such as medical supplies, battlefield equipment and surveillance drones. So they’re just going to be orbited and they’re like, hey, we need this in Dubai. And they’re like, now they obviously have to wait for that next entry window, right, as far as orbital mechanics go.
But they’re just going to have big pods up there with all this equipment, I guess. So like space storage, like space storage, but like on demand storage. So I don’t know like a weapon.
Well, not yet. A cover story. Not yet.
Well, we’re just storing beans up there. There’s no shrapnel on that. No, couldn’t couldn’t possibly be.
But everything starts as there’s no weapons on this. Not at all. Right.
Until there is. I mean, it doesn’t sound safe. I don’t know.
That’s why I agree. Conspirators. So there’s another technology where they’re they’re talking about actually launch and then the payload, you know, lands, but they can do that within, you know, they can get a payload somewhere from the launch within like 30 minutes, right? Because their upper atmosphere, they’re not quite Leo, but then that reentry of the payload just goes to the other side of the world.
I thought the last conversation that we were having or the debate was that the, that space was so congested in those lower belts. Let’s just throw more storage up there. Well, yeah, more shit floating around.
Let’s do that. Is that space Chuck is like, no, that’s a bunch of MREs. So avoid that.
Right. That one has eggs. Yeah.
Eggs and beans for a minute. Oh my gosh, the beans. You had to add the nacho cheese to it.
You had to. Well, it’s all. Yeah, it’s all dehydrated.
So it’s fine. Um, you know, but we’re delivering it to Muslim countries. So they probably wouldn’t want that.
Right. Remember when we did that story about the humanitarian MREs, but they were not like faith based MREs. So they had the wieners and all the other stuff that those countries don’t eat.
It was like, Yeah. Every one of them that they dropped was pork based. The only difference is they got beef based when they dropped them in India.
So either way, I love that oatmeal bar though. I kind of love that oatmeal bar. Your shit again after that.
Ever again. I wish we could get a video of them popping those crackers open. They’re like, these people eat this with peanut butter.
Oh my God. The military’s interest in reentry capsule technology is closely tied to the Air Force ambitious rocket cargo program, which is investigating how to use space launch vehicles to transport supplies or other cargoes across vast distances on earth. Reusable reentry capsules are a cornerstone of this effort enabling the delivery of supplies through controlled de-orbiting and descent from space using parachutes or other mechanisms for precise drops.
So, you know, remember North Korea was flooding those balloons over in South Korea. The trash balloons. That’s from space, bitch.
That wasn’t from South Korea. You don’t know where it came from. No attribution.
Just a whole pod of trash, a big dumpster coming down on you. You have no idea where. Oopsies.
Oopsies. My bad. No, I know you.
I knew you would turn that dry story into something entertaining. All right. It’s too bad.
We don’t have Eric here because this Eric would get so fired up at this next story. I can cover his history if you want me to. No, this is just him getting mad as a security forces guy.
Well, that’s what this next story. We can pretend. But you remember last year when we covered that guy who ran across the DMV, right? In Korea.
So, did you ever hear that story, Ana? No. No, the guy. Yeah.
Oh, I did say. I would have been pro like if he wants to go mess up the DMV. Yeah, that’s true.
Like I would go testify for him. That’s yeah. Nope.
That’s a good guy. I stand behind everything he did. He got drunk down.
He got drunk down a soul or whatever. So they arrested him, but they were going to ship him back to stand trial. So they were taking him and then they were like, Oh, get this guy out of here.
They took him to the airport. He said how I don’t. He told the count.
They took him to the airport and left. Yeah, they they dropped him off. Yeah, it was great.
It was great. Security forces work. I think they walked him through security.
They did. Walked him to security. So and then they bailed after he went through security and they left him there.
And so he went to the U.S. Marshalls. Nobody. No, nothing.
No, he was forced to fly back to Fort Bliss. I think it’s stand trial. So he goes up to the counters like I don’t have a passport.
I can’t get on this plane. And they were like, Oh, yeah, you can’t fly. So he walked out of the airport, got an Uber, booked a tour group.
Well, he just jumped on a DMZ tour. Right. Right.
But he caught. But the article described he called them and got mad at it. So he went up to the DMZ on a tour group and then sprinted across and everybody was like, What the hell that guy just do.
He didn’t get shot. No. Like accidentally.
South Korea doesn’t care. You don’t want to go up there. Have at it.
Yeah. And I think everyone was so surprised he did it. That they were just kind of stunned until he was over there.
Well, he was affects North. I know. I was thinking North Korea.
Like who’s this dude running across? They had to look at each other like serious. He’s come to us. Yeah.
You wear a clown suit, like, come on. So they kept him for a couple of months. A Swedish embassy or something like that negotiated his release and they got him and they had him in prison.
So his trial finally just came up. Did they castrate him? A soldier who deserted in North Korea sentenced to a year in prison and then was released immediately for time served because he’d already been in prison for a year or in jail. So Private Travis King on Friday, September 20th was sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to deserting to North Korea.
But he walked out of the courtroom of free man. Frank Rosenblatt, attorney for Private King said, with time already served and credit for good behavior, Travis is now free and will return home. Was he like mentally like… He was good to stand trial.
He was in North Korea for a while. A few months. Yeah, a few months.
I’m pretty sure they at least purple-nurpled him. Oh, God, yeah. Well, I don’t know.
There was some interviewing. They could be so thrown off by a black guy who was running to them that they’re like, I don’t know. I’m sure they interviewed him at least.
There were some discussions. I mean, they might have put him in prison and like strip-searched him and went, oh, my God. Wow, these rumors are going to hold country.
I’ve been to the gym. They might like, we can’t do anything to this guy. Look at him.
Look at that. He could have been a grower, not a shower. Leave him alone.
He could have been. But he’s put a bunch of North Koreans. Hold on.
He was not prosecuted for espionage. Well, nothing. The military judge, Lieutenant Colonel Rick Matthew, also sentenced King to a reduction in rank to E1 and a dishonorable discharge in a court martial that lasted most of the day.
During a trial, King sat in his dress uniform between his attorneys, said it was his decision on July 18th, 2023 to join a tour of the DMZ between North and South Korea, and then bolt into North Korea. The soldier did so because he was, quote, dissatisfied with work, he told the judge. King also pleaded guilty to three counts of disobeying an officer on October 7th, 2023, and another charge of assaulting a noncommissioned officer the following day.
But he pleaded not guilty to additional charges related to child sexual abuse material and making false statements. The judge dismissed the remaining charges. So, I don’t know, it’s weird.
I think it sounds like the Army just wanted it to go away. Just get him out of here. Just get him out of here.
He was not needed. He did not need to plea bargain or anything. So, yeah, he was sentenced for one year and then released the same day because they’re like, oh, one year time served, you’re good.
The only bad thing to happen to him was a dishonorable discharge. And reduction of grade 21. Well, yeah.
I don’t think that really matters if you get dishonorable. You went from 50 cents to 25 cents a month. So, I don’t know what to say.
It just feels like the Army just wanted to sweep it under the rug and like, yeah, get it over with. I am so surprised he did not get shot. I went on that tour.
He was in jail for over a year, though. He was. He was.
But he wasn’t down in Guantanamo. Well, maybe Guantanamo would have been great. I don’t know where, yeah.
What were you going to say? You were on that tour? You went to the DMZ tour? You saw the little block house and all that? Yeah, they are serious people. Yeah. To include the Army.
I’m surprised the soldier didn’t shoot him. Like, dummy. I don’t think those guys are used to people running at him.
They’re used to people running away. They’re like, we shoot at everybody leaving. But it’s in the back or, yeah, the back of the head or the back.
Right? They’re like, I don’t know what to aim at. This guy’s coming right at me. They did say that some people, some people in the tour group heard him laughing maniacally as he just ran away.
That’s the best part of that whole story. They were going to welcome him like a celebrity. Everyone was so surprised.
They had no idea what to do. Who’s the basketball player that went over there? I can’t remember. Russia.
Yeah. North Korea. Dennis Rodman.
Oh, yeah. Dennis Rodman. Yeah.
He didn’t do any good. He might have. I don’t know.
Maybe he did. Yeah. I’ll tell you what didn’t do us any justice is that interview movie.
I think I’ve seen that. The interview with Seth Rogen. Oh, yeah.
What’s his name? That one they got. They hacked him and they released it before it was released in the theaters for free. Oh, really? Yeah.
I know that. They were not happy about that. Yeah.
But it kind of painted him in a good light. I thought it looked made. Until they blew him up.
Well, yeah, that part. They kind of frowned upon. Fearlessly.
Yeah. That’s true. And they said he was a Katy Perry fan.
Nobody’s. I like Katy Perry. Well, sure.
I’ll show you the tattoo. Firework. Let me hear you.
Oh. You know, you know that way too much to just be joking about it. So.
You know what? It was funny because when Audrey was young. I was going to say you have a daughter. And her teeth were loose.
Yeah. That was our pump up music. We would listen to Cal to get jazzed.
And then we like. You know, pumped up listening to Katy Perry. Sure.
That’s how we did it. You got that memory forever now. As long as your daughter dramatically.
No, we would, we would sink a period and listen to Katy Perry. Yeah. Yeah.
I’m with you. I’m with you. But then it would get us all pumped up.
You know, so that was our pump up music. So. See, my daughter was like old.
It’s like. Oh, shit. Who was that? Christina Aguilera.
No, no, no. That was way too mainstream. I don’t know.
She’s going to kill me because I can’t remember who the, who the hell the group was. I’ll remember it later. Anyway.
Well, you’ll have that memory forever. She’ll be pissed at me. She’s like dad.
I took her to the concert too. They sang Black Parade. They sang.
God damn. Yeah. No, that would have been great.
Because then I could have watched the videos with her. And I’d be like, hey, this is good music. Oh.
Oh, my chemical romance. That’s it. MCR, my chemical romance.
So that’s who my daughter was into. So that was her way too good at this. I gave it a gig.
I remember the album cover. Yeah. And I was like, I know that.
So I took her to her first concert at DU, right? I think she was 14. And I was like, okay, fine. I’ll go with you.
And we took it. And I was cheap and I bought seats way in the upper deck. And I was like, sorry about this.
It’s all I felt like paying for it. Little did I know that that’s where all the pot smoke was coming up. Oh, yeah.
Oh, shit. And I was like, do you smell that? That’s pot. Don’t do it.
And now. That’s where she. Well, yeah.
Yeah, it wasn’t back then. So that was 13 years ago or so. Oh, man.
Yeah. Funny. So we’ll see if she listens all the way through the episode.
And I was like, dad, how could you not remember my favorite band? All right. Let’s go to the last story. This is from military dot com.
And I thought it was kind of entertaining. Protein shakes are pulled from military based GNC stores because they contain hemp seeds. Right.
GNC pulled a protein supplement from the shelves of the stores on military basis this month because it contained MC a banned substance for service members. They had a memo that came out internal memo to GNC. It was like pull all this stuff called fuel.
H U E L. Ready to drink protein shakes. They said pull off the shelves because it’s got hemp in it. So hemp, which comes from the same plant as cannabis is banned in the military and service members who knowingly use the products can be penalized under article 92 failure to follow orders or article 112 alpha wrongful use or possession of a controlled substance under the U.C.M.J. Sarah, the spokesman said he added that any service members who purchase any of the products can return them for a full refund to their nearest GNC store.
So, Willie, if you’re listening, if you have any, if you’re sucking down fuel, you can take it back. Well, actually, he doesn’t need to take it back now. Right.
I think they just need to get over this crap. Like it’s not THC. It’s ridiculous.
And it’s I know it’s illegal in over half the states. Right. Like give me a break.
And you’re right. It’s not the THC. It’s the what is that other portion of it? CBD or whatever it is.
I don’t think it’s even that probably. It might not be. But this isn’t the first time GNC has pulled products at military stores.
So get this one. In 2013, the newspaper for Fort Jackson, South Carolina reported that the dietary supplement craze. Have you ever heard of craze? It seems like I’ve seen that.
This is 10 years ago. It’s also known as a cereal. Kellogg’s craze.
Yeah, exactly. C-R-A-Z-E. Yeah.
Is that the cereal? No, this was a supplement. I thought craze was with a K. Yeah, probably. Well, this is craze with a C and a Z. It was taken off store shelves after studies claimed the product contained a derivative of methamphetamine.
Yes. Okay. That was nice.
That would make you crazy. The Army newspaper also reported that the Marine Corps pulled a dietary supplement called oxy elite pro from shelves over fears. It may have been a factor in cases of acute hepatitis and liver failure in Hawaii.
I know. Just don’t go to GNC. Like, oh my gosh.
Yeah. The last one. The latest incident at GNC, however, illustrates how service members are often exposed to hemp and cannabidiol.
Cannabidiol. Also known, otherwise known as CBD. Or even tetradriacannabinol, the psychoactive component of marijuana known as THC without ever knowing it.
Yeah. You know, I don’t think the THC is as big a thing. The CBD, yes.
But does the CBD make you piss hot? I think the THC is the psychoactive one. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And the CBD. That’s what I’m saying.
Does the CBD make you piss hot? I wonder if it does. I don’t know, but it’s supposed to calm you down and it’s also supposed to be like real relaxing or something. Well, yeah, there’s a lot of medicinal stuff to it.
You know, I think the glaucoma is kind of a farce. But the glaucoma, the goddamn anxiety. Hemp lotion is amazing though.
It’s really soft. Is it really? Yeah. I used to use it.
I was in the military and I bought it. Not, I don’t know. I didn’t think anything about it because it smelled really good.
Yeah. And it was really soft. And then I was told.
Yeah, but absorbing them, would that make you? But that was like after PT, like. Nice. I got that.
Yeah. He was that. Like the bio freeze version of it.
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That’s good. That’s good stuff. It works fine.
What was the. No, it’s right here. Oh, that’s how I was looking at it.
I was like, where? Oh, it’s right there. So he rubs it in his on his knee and then loads it up in his vape. And he good both way.
Like a rolly ball. I can’t feel my tongue for a week. I’m like a hamster.
This is great. What’s wrong with that guy? Do you have a stroke? He’s on that liquid MD or something. CBD MD again.
What was that? What was this stuff? I remember it was a supplement or a stimulant. What it was like 10 years ago. There was like a hydroxy cut or something like that.
Well, there was that. Yeah. That was blowing up.
That was the ephedra or whatever it was. Yeah. But they had something like a gum or a smoke or something like that.
They were, they were doing. And then they were like, Oh, we got a band this year. Remember what that was.
I thought it began with an S. I don’t remember what it was. It was something like that. I think that’s the pink packet.
It was some. It was some upper. No, it was.
It was really popular. And it was some upper. Set.
No. It was something like that. Get off the condiments.
Yeah. Splenda. I don’t know.
Yeah. You’re probably right. It was like not strife, but it was something like that.
It was something called that. No. I want you to guess an S word till the end of the episode.
Just keep throwing them out there. Somebody will remember what it was. It was.
It was something like. Salumi. Everybody was using it.
And then they banned it like really abruptly. It was like, stop using this. Whatever it was.
And I can’t. They’re going to do that with Zen packs. Oh yeah.
Yeah, right. So the army has already found like they’ve released notices to stop putting Zen packs like in your foreskin. Like what? Cause they can’t dip in formation or they can’t put packets in.
Oh my gosh. So they’re absorbing it down there. So they’re absorbing it through that, through that sleeve.
Okay guys. Funnily. You know what I mean? Oh yeah.
You get drunk faster, right? I’ve never heard of that. Oh, I’ll find it for you. Yeah.
In the old turtleneck. We’re packing it up. It looks like a daisy.
It looks like a daisy. Imagine that your analysis monitor when that guy unzips it, just like a whole bunch of shit falls out. It’s like, what are you doing? Can fit five versus the circumcised guys have to put three.
Like what? You’re funny. Come on. No.
He’s looking up something. He dropped that. There’s a business insider freaking article on it.
Are you kidding me? Yeah. People are lodging nicotine pouches. No idea.
This is freaking. Oh my God. Wow.
People are lodging nicotine pouches in their buttholes and foreskins for a buzz. Health experts warn that it can cause skin damage and lead to addiction. Oh.
No shit. If I think if you’re shoving stuff up your butt and, or in your foreskin, you might already be on addiction levels. Yeah.
That’s the foreskin. Definitely. Yeah.
Yeah. I’m no scientist, but. Isn’t that area really sensitive? Oh, I can’t imagine.
Like, I’m sure it burns. Like if you’ve ever, Marty, you used to dip. Yeah.
It, it initially burns. Doesn’t it? Until you get used to it. Right.
Yeah. I mean, it’s kind of delicate. I mean, I mean, hopefully the guys are using packets and they’re not just using like snuff Copenhagen and they’re like, like an old musket rifle.
No, it’s, it’s specifically those Zen packs. Yeah. So it’s like a powder packet.
It’s terrible. That sounds terrible. Condom to seal the freshness.
And now we’re off. We’re off to work. Yeah.
My husband and his buddies at a bar. Snorted. The contents of the.
So they made the bartender watch when they cut it open. How did that go? And they were, they were just like. Like the rest of the night.
Like, oh my God. I was like, why would you ever do that? One, it looks like, okay. And you could get arrested.
Hello. Cause it’s a guy thing to do. It’s a guy thing.
Yeah. That’s funny. Yeah.
That is pretty funny. Actually. He should have took some pictures of that.
Yeah. Ah. Dropped out.
All right. Yeah. Let’s take it.
Let’s take it home with some history. All right. Well, I was going to do non-US military history and then I found a really good one.
Actually. Today marks the end. Of operation magic carpet.
And it’s a very long article. But there were over eight million soldiers. Why in the European theater at the end of it in the world theater.
At the end of world war two. Okay. Spread throughout all the theaters, Africa, Europe.
Yeah. All nations. There was a total of eight million soldiers spread everywhere.
And the logistics of getting them back was extreme. So yeah, I guess so. They started actually before victory in the Pacific was actually declared.
But they, yeah. So they started actually, um, October 1945. And, and they, Oh, sorry.
The planning and the transport officially started in June, 1920 for 45. All right. Okay.
Then, and that was just army and coast guard and logistics core. And then once the victory in the Pacific, cause the Pacific Navy fleet and all the Navy personnel were preparing to do. For the potential landing on Japan.
So the Navy was excluded from this. But it took them until from June, 1945 to September, 1946, to get all U S troops back to this, to the States. Wow.
More than 8 million troops were scattered across all theaters of war worldwide. And then it wasn’t just a one way trip. Right.
They had to get all those 8 million troops, but they also had to get all the former axis POWs back to Europe and repatriate them. So they were going back and forth. So they were going both ways over the ocean and they were getting, they were, they were, no, it was all ships.
It was, they were doing transports. They were doing Navy ships. They were doing civilian cargo ships, just packed with these people.
And they had to drop off people in Germany, China, Korea, and Japan. Over 450,000 German POWs. It’s half five, 5,500.
It’s half a million. God bless. Yeah.
In the States. So. Wow.
Yeah. And between October and April 19th, October, 1945 and April. And another 3 million repeat.
We were repatriated. So during that time, they were just shipping massive. Everywhere.
Yeah. How long did it take to get them there? Right. Well, yeah.
We honestly don’t know that trip. It’s not the first. Yeah.
I do. Oh, so. then.
Oh, all back. Come on back. Now, I lost.
It must be my connection. Yeah. That must be my connection.
That’s crazy. So when they finished, what was the date? September of 1946. Wow, man.
Yeah, that’s a good one. It was similar to Sibbers in the the slogan was a bit off because it was a home alive by by 45. So, but it was 40.
86. Better than Sibbers, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Online by 99 or whatever it was. Online in 99. Yeah.
Yeah. Home Alive 46. So, the majority of it was all ships.
There was a small air contingent, but nothing significant. What was all that? What was all the bombers and shit doing? They could have flown some people back, right? They just flew home and they’re like, we’re home. And we’re out.
They were like hanging it up. We’re flying ever. Mission done.
They had to bring back all the four roses and all the ceremonial cups and all the freaking stuff. Oh, I’ll have to get you, I’ll have to get you a mug, Ana. I think you’ve earned your mug.
Is that what yours says too? Well, no, mine’s like the original one that says late for changeover. But then I got these guys Christmas presents. See the man in the closet.
So, but we gotta decide what’s going to be on your, your mug. So, it’s going to be, I think, take blink or is it going to be? Spaces. What? In middle, initial and everything.
Ana L. Mondragon. Let’s push Ana and L’s together. Of course.
Ana L. Mondragon. Put it on a boarding pass. Like fat.
That sucks. Do they just call you Miss Mondragon when they call you? They’re like, Miss Mondragon. I’ve never been called.
So, oh, that’d be gold. If you ask, do you guys know Jim Prossi? You know Jim Prossi. So, we’re going to South Korea for a key resolve or whatever.
And I left my boarding pass at security like in one of those trays. And so, they called my name. This is my previous last name.
Can you please come to the security desk? So, I walked over there and Jim was with me and all the TSA agents like walked away giggling. And I was like, I know. And so, this older woman was like, oh no, my dear.
She’s like, do you realize what’s on your boarding pass? And I was like, my name? Like, what are you talking about? She’s like, you know, Dominguez. And I was like, I never paid attention. Who looks at their boarding pass? Honestly, other than the seat assignment, right? And the gate? Yeah.
You don’t look at your name. So, when I think about it, I have Jacoba, you know. Oh yeah, when it gets abbreviated.
Yeah, there’s no space. Why was your maiden name initial be on there? So, because I never had a middle name, I chose to use my middle name, my last name. Oh, your maiden name is your middle name? As my middle name now.
And it cost you. Gotcha. Yeah, it did.
And Aina will sneak up on you. Thanks, Daddy. Oh, you can not say that.
Thanks, Daddy. You can always pack it with some. My maiden name.
You know what I mean. Shut up, sweetie. Bad timing.
On that note, I think we’re in depth. Definitely, we’re in depth. Keep the laughing going.
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Oh, nice. Jake and Anna, thanks for the week. And thanks to everyone listening and watching.
And we’ll see you next week. Have a good time, guys.