Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 05 Mar 2025
Date: March 4, 2025
I was late because I was told to get doted for being late, which is excuse number 65 for being late for Jake over. Donut Boy. Thanks News and Variety Show.
I’m your host Marty Smith and I’m with our man in the closet Jake Wall. It’s good to be back and I’m sorry I didn’t bring donuts today with me. I’m a lookin’ donut man.
You have to. You have to. We’re dicing it.
Yep. And legendary Mr. History. Whoo! Yeah, man.
Good to see you guys. Yeah. We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all Guardians and to the other better dressed branches as well.
So take your seats, get informed, and have a laugh as we present Late for Changeover. Yeah, I like it. Whoo! Oh.
Shout out to Plus. Not recorded in front of a live studio audience. Yeah, hey.
A lot of people here tonight. A lot of people. Yeah, they got tickets.
A lot of people here. I do appreciate how the Marines are poured into that uniform. That is it.
Ooh. God, I work your ass out to get into that uniform. But even, even, you know, it must be the uniform because you know there’s a lot of fat asses in the Navy.
But they all look good in the whites. Right? I have a theory about that Navy thing. It’s called girdles.
Yeah, well, those are girdles for sure. But there’s a specific group like Navy either is fit like fit or big. Not big.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
And every ship that you’re on needs ballast. So stand over there. There’s some weight requirements for a well-run ship.
Necessary weight requirements. It’s like the offensive line for the Navy ship. Yeah, sure.
There’s not only a recruitment quota as in the number of people. There’s a recruitment quota as in mass. You couldn’t have a thousand hundred and sixty-five pound dudes on a ship.
You’d be tossed about on the ocean all over. And you’re flying above those layers. Right, right.
You need ballast. That’s a good point. Yeah, that’s a good point.
And even in the enlisted whites, if you got a belly, you look okay. The Cracker Jacks look good. Yeah, you look okay.
The Navy’s got some good stuff. I’m screwing. The Cracker Jacks, the Tans.
The 80 listeners we have will not be Navy. Well, the problem, if they are, you fucking heifers chime in in the damn comments. They’d be like, hey, shit, I agree with you.
It’s all about the ballast. All about the ballast. You could be the most in shape, hardcore Space Force guy.
And that uniform will make you look terrible. That Space Force uniform just is, it’s horrific. Not even a good cosplay, you know, it’s just, it’s not, it’s terrible.
I can’t believe they chose it. I blame Steve Carell. That’s it.
He probably copyright all the legit. I know, but they could have, they could have been truly innovative. Like I always say they could have chosen a better song.
They could, they could have done something progressive, you know, with the, with the beats or something like that. And they could have, they just could not, well, they could have done, they could have done, you know, some, some kind of DJ kind of song. Who would have faltered and they’re like, oh, it’s Space Force.
They do this like in progressive. There’s got to be a song that talks about the shaft instead of the tip of the spear. Well, the support shaft.
We’re the shaft, baby, the shaft. Yeah, you can’t, you can’t hold the tip up without the shaft. Can’t hold it.
The tip ain’t going as freaking, there’s no mission complete without the shaft pushing the tip. They just, they just couldn’t help themselves with the uniform. And I was like, you don’t have to go back to Star Trek.
Any sci-fi movie. Just think of something yourself, you know, just think of something. They couldn’t help it.
They couldn’t figure out. Terrible. So anyway, speaking of space, Jake, you turned me onto it and I went and listened to the whole thing.
Did you listen to Joe Rogan with Elon Musk on it, Eric? I did not. It was interesting. Fascinating.
But Jake turned me onto it. I saw clips of the interview though. They had them on TV and stuff.
It was three hours long. So there was a lot of conversation and he was all, they’re all over the map as always. That’s true.
It was interesting to hear his side and his perspective of things. I did like when Joe Rogan asked him about like UFOs. And he’s like, do you believe in UFOs? And Elon said a couple of good things.
He was like, it’s amazing how photography advancement has gone like this. But all the pictures of UFOs have kind of gone like this. Yeah, it’s worse.
It’s worse. And he did have that one statement where he said, look, you know, we’ve got the most cutting edge space technology going in the world. And I can tell you, we can’t do the stuff that they’re talking about.
There’s no way. So, but Jake turned me on. He did bring up a butch and Sonny.
I know. Yeah, they’re excited about coming home. Let’s go.
You want to see the part of it? Yeah. Hell yeah. All right.
Here we go. Are you still rescuing those people that are stuck in the space station? Yeah, it’s coming up in a couple of weeks. Whoa.
They’ve been up there for how long, Jamie? They were supposed to be there for a couple of days, right? Actually, it’s like four weeks. They’re supposed to be there. They were supposed to be up there for like eight days.
Yeah. And they’ve been up there for like eight months. I’m going to stop this.
So maybe 100 percent. But 100 percent Gilligan Island. Right.
Oh, yeah. Three hour tour. Yeah.
Three years or whatever it was. he’s a professor. But his well, yeah, he would be right.
You get who knows what he can make out of a set of coconuts. So a little longer than expected. Yeah, it’s definitely not the record.
They’re going to be a wreck for a long time, right? Yeah. If long you stay up there, you get, you know, sort of in zero G, you get increased bone loss. So it ended up being like this political football.
Now, remind you, this is, of course, this is Elon’s opinion. Yeah. However, it seems very founded in reality.
And sort of sort of hotly contested topic. And we offered to bring them back early. This offer was rejected by the Biden administration.
Why? For political reasons. That’s what that is. And that’s right.
That’s right. To be fair, I can understand where Biden’s coming with this. Sure.
They don’t want his Trump’s team to have any win before elections. Right. They don’t want anything.
And there is no effing way. Trump would let it go. No.
Oh, yeah. He say it every day. He’s just grinding.
Yeah. How much is Sonny doing? They back up the way. Guess who brought it back? Me.
I brought it back. My guidance. It also makes me wonder how much Boeing was barking in the administration’s ear.
Like if you if you let him bring it back, we’re done. Right. It had to be a piece of that.
That’s exactly it, too. That’s the thing that’s disappointing. Yeah, it makes you wonder.
It does make you wonder. Oh, crazy. And there’s no way that they’re going to make anyone who’s supporting Trump look look good.
Yeah. Right. Wow.
Right on the nail. What do you think they would have done if they had won? Well, they get those people back. No, they can only get them back with a SpaceX spacecraft.
But they pushed the return date past the integration. Wow. And he’s right.
He’s right. Because that contract with SpaceX and Boeing and I think there was a third one was to do travel up and back. Right.
Right. They were competing. Actually, they weren’t competing.
They wanted variety of who to choose which carrier. You know, hey, you can do this one. You can do this one.
You can do this. So we’re not limited. But Boeing, you know, how they may get out of the space business after Starliner.
You know what? They’re lucky. Neither of them won die. I mean, those two.
Oh, you’re right. If someone had passed away. Oh, my God.
Yeah. Right. You’ve been crazy.
Right. Yeah. It’s only a little bit.
I would have let you do it. But after the. Wow.
Yeah. He’s right. And so other than them authorizing.
There isn’t anyone else to do it. Right. I can’t get them.
Yeah. Nobody could go up there and get them at that point. Only the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is the only one that is considered safe enough to bring them back.
So the NASA concluded that the spacecraft was not safe. So that’s why they’re stuck there. Holy shit.
Yeah. Yeah. And you can’t ask Russia to help.
That would be awkward. That’s the thing. Like we, they were, to be fair, Boeing was testing an experimental thing.
Right. They were trying to develop their own stuff. And for multiple sources of to get stuff up there.
So that’s cool. Yeah. That would be cool.
I mean, with their failure. And we covered this a while ago. Yes, we did.
Saying most basics offered to send up a shuttle or crew. Dragon crew. We had no explanation why they wouldn’t let them back.
Exactly. Because they were like, we’ll set it up with two empty seats. We that’s fine.
Yeah. Yeah. And then it was some bullshit.
Like their air suits aren’t compatible. Something like that. It throws the rotation off.
Yeah. We were like, okay, put two extra suits. You’ve got all their dimensions.
Yeah. It’s not like it’s a custom. Figure out the bag.
It’s on the weight. Right. Right.
They can play and get that out. But now maybe that’s a little bit more revealing as to why. So it makes sense.
And it makes sense. But he’s right. As cocky as that sounded.
There’s no other carrier right now. Who’s carrying people up to the ISS. There’s nothing.
Except for himself. Yeah. Thanks for turning me out of that.
That was a, that was a pretty fascinating interview. So I guarantee Butch is very healthy. He’s happy that they’re ready to come get him, man.
Yeah, man. Well, and Elon even cop to that. He said they won’t say they’ll be professional about it.
They’ll be, they’ll be told not to say anything in spelling. And even if they do, what are they going to, they’re going to hit the mute button. Yeah.
And they’re going to disown them. So yeah. But still eight days to eight months.
That’s crazy. I mean, how many interim travel vouchers have they had to file? That’s a lot. Right.
Are they requesting cash advance or like a gal? What are they using their money on? Spending it so fast up here. Tax free bitches. So yeah, if you get a chance, family set is racking it in.
It’s for those new Velcro love seats. They got to be a partner. But even after eight months, you got to be bored of that.
You got to be like, just let me get back to porn up. Sunny’s got a pile of Amazon pile of stuff. It’s like that hair was pretty cool at first.
But now it’s just annoying. She’s just like, all right. I want a full on shower at one point.
These baby wipes ain’t got me. Oh, right. Think about that.
You’re like eight days. That’s all I got to do. Fine.
Good. Eight days. All right.
Whose mic is clicking out? Somebody’s mic is making second. You hear that? Or is that just me? No. I can’t hear it.
I heard it. All right. So it’s got to be me again.
Yeah, it probably is. Do that in the basement. So yeah.
All right. Well, let’s get to the news. Let’s get to the news.
Oh, from space dot com. So I didn’t even know this was happening. This is why we provide a service.
This is what we’re doing. It is. I didn’t even know this happened.
But from space dot com, a private blue ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA. Did you know they sent up a lunar lander? They sent up to lunar lander. I can’t believe they didn’t notify us first.
So we had. Guess who sent them up? SpaceX. Of course.
Right. I think it was SpaceX. Maybe.
Maybe I screwed that up. Maybe it wasn’t. We’ll get to it.
Firefly aerospace’s blue ghost moon lander just etched its name into the history books here. As I talk about it, I’ll show it to you. There you go.
Hey, blue ghost aced his touchdown. Try earlier the morning of March 2nd, becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft land on the moon. The lander hold 10 science experiments to the lunar surface for NASA.
Nikki Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s science mission directorate, said during the landing webcast, we’re on the moon. I’m sorry. I’m just so excited right now.
And when I heard that, it reminded me of this. We’re going to the moon. No way.
We landed on the moon. I can get classic. That’s classic blue ghost, which is about six feet, six point six feet tall by 11.5 feet wide.
This fireflies first ever moon lander. Firefly also leverage a blend of youthful exuberance and long term space flight know how to develop blue ghost. Ray Allensworth Firefly spacecraft program director said young adults right out of college or in the first five years of their career really partnered up with people who have closer to 30 years experience in the industry.
So they brought the young guys on paid them bupkis. Go get me a cup of coffee and come back. Yeah, they’re mildly paid interest.
But I mean, that’s what you need. Like those guys, the other guys are so stagnant that some new kid is like, what if we do this? You’re like, you know what? That works. It could be.
It could be that back and forth does actually generate a lot of stuff. Yeah, yeah. In February 2021, Firefly scored a ninety three million dollar contract with NASA’s commercial lunar payload services program, which books rides for agency science gear on private moon landings.
Blue Ghost is carrying ten NASA payloads on its current mission. These instruments are designed to be to do a variety of work from studying radiation levels at the landing site to testing out new and better ways to collect and store samples of moon dirt and rock. Remember we used to we used to joke about the experiments they were sending grab some rock, get some dirt, get some rock and dirt.
How much moon rock and dirt did they need? They’ve got to figure it out. Blue Ghost launched a top A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 15 along with another private lunar lander, Resilience, which is built and operated by Tokyo based company Icebase. So it carried two landings.
I was trying to find out about the Tokyo one. I think it tried to land, but it couldn’t. It just orbited.
So I’m not really sure. The solar power Blue Ghost will now operate for about 14 Earth days on the lunar surface. So more earth, more rocks.
Yeah, we got to stay in there. Is it coming back? Do we know? I think it’s staying there. I think it’s just more space junk on the moon.
Yeah, we did it. But it didn’t. I mean, they’re doing experiments.
So that’s a good point because they didn’t talk about. I don’t know if it’s got thrusters. It’s not very big.
You know, you know, if you have motors or if you have engines to get back up in the lunar orbit, hell, that’s like most of that spacecraft, right? So I don’t know. Maybe I should research that. I’m sorry.
I’m sorry to scratch. I know. I’m sorry to scratch.
Yeah, way to go, Jake. Broke your own rule. So that’s.
I’m out of practice. That’s one of our space stories. We got a couple of them today.
Okay. All right. But first, you know how the military academies compete with each other all the time.
Football, baseball, basketball, academics, you know, that kind of thing. Well, we inadvertently have two competing military academies against each other. Nice.
For bad stories. Oh, even better. Yeah.
Yeah. There we go. Oh, the first one from stripes dot com.
All right. No Air Force Academy discovers widespread cheating. Not just a little bit, but widespread.
And it sometimes it strikes me as like we know there’s cheating. We just actually caught these guys. Yeah.
So anyway. And this one’s kind of weak. It almost sounds like a survey kind of thing.
And that would suck. It’s like, hey, do you want to fill this survey out about cheating? It’s like, sure. It’s like, have you got them? Yes.
You’re like, got it. Well, that was easy. Almost 100 Air Force Academy cadets have admitted to cheating or tolerating it during a weekly knowledge test.
Typically typically required for freshmen. That tolerating one, that’s a tough one. Right.
You knew that guy was cheating, didn’t you? And I was like, I guess. And they’re like, well, you let it happen. It’s like, well, I well, I didn’t mean to.
Yeah. Yeah. I’m not a rat.
I’m not a rat, but you’re kicked out for letting you should be. There’s no integrity in the Air Force Academy anymore. Well, not for these hundred.
Now, don’t be so much the rest of the nine hundred cadets in that group and I’m all into one group all of them are cheating bastards. It is every what? Six, seven years. It was something like a cheating incident.
Some kind of scandal. I mean, and then you’re right, Marty, that frickin that. Did you know about it? Did you do anything about it? I know.
That’s that’s what I always say is like, if you’re going to do something, don’t tell me about it. Don’t let me witness it. I don’t want to see it.
I’m going to get sucked into your shit. Yeah. You know, cheating is specifically prohibited by the Academy’s honor code, which states, quote, we will not lie, steal or cheat nor tolerate among us.
Anyone who does so right there on the gates. Now, were you aware of the cheating? Now that I said that we order the cheating. No, I wouldn’t tolerate that anyway.
Can I go? The cadets who admitted the cheating ever see punitive sanctions and rehabilitation actions. According to a Thursday news release, punitive sanctions can include restriction of base removal from sports teams and loss of leadership roles among other punishments. According to the honor code and book in an email, Superintendent Tony.
Bound front bound fiend. I always get the names that I don’t like. I love it.
Said he appreciated the leadership of cadet honor officers to address the violations, but the behavior was concerning. The Academy is continuing to investigate and will hold any other cadets involved accountable. The release said during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Academy suspected about 250 cadets had cheated when they were sent home to study remotely.
There you go. Was that 2020? 21. I was off by a year.
So say four years. Four or five years. Yeah.
Four or five years. Get a bad batch, man. All right.
So Air Force Academy is throwing down the gun. But can West Point match him? And I say yes, they can. We throw it down with a hundred cheaters.
Oh, we’ve got one guy. What do you got? Give them a run for their money from military dot com or military times dot com. West Point Colonel faces misconduct charges for the third time.
And he’s still a colonel. Are you kidding me? Yes. Come on.
A West Point Colonel will be arraigned again for misconduct charges similar to ones that were dropped twice before. All right. Sexual assault on a young female cadet.
Not yet. Not yet. Didn’t get to that point.
Colonel William Wright previously faced charges in the 2024 over allegations that he drank with the cadet, tampered with witnesses and false fight information according to court documents. Now Wright is charged with violating the Army’s trainer trainee policy, interfering with an adverse administrative proceeding and making a false official statement. Wright, who served as director of the Academy’s geospatial information science program, was arraigned previously on December 2, 2024 for three counts of failure to obey an order or regulation, two counts of making false official statements and three counts of wrongful interference with an adverse administrative proceeding.
He pleaded not guilty and requested a jury trial that was set to begin on January 6 of this year, but the charges were dropped on January 2. So he skated by that one. But Wright was first arraigned in just June of 2024 on charges that included nine allegations of making inappropriate sexual remarks. Fair enough.
We would have been arraigned on that too. Providing and drinking alcohol with a cadet, endeavoring to influence testimonies and wrongfully contacting a cadet on the Academy’s women’s tennis team. Tennis babes.
Those charges were dropped in October. Tennis babes. Good one, Harry.
Now, Wright allegedly communicated with a cadet. He was specifically told not to. And as a result of his alleged disobedience, he was reassigned to a role in the Academy where his contact with cadets was cut off.
No more cadets for you, for you, Colonel. So scary. Court documents also show that a year before that in 2023, Wright allegedly provided alcohol to a cadet and drank with them in Hawaii, then allegedly did it again several days later in Alaska.
A serial cadet party. Those cadets, if he’s providing alcohol, then are those cadets under age? I don’t know. That’s a good point.
Or is he just bringing the alcohol to the party? I don’t think they were under age. Otherwise, it seems like what is the charge? Under age is in under 21. Yeah, but I don’t think so.
I think it would have been over 21, like Marty said. That would have been an additional charge. I think it was providing alcohol.
They were cadets and he was not. Yeah. And it seems like there could be worse things to be charged with.
Like, oh, he drug this girl or he drug this cadet. He’s like, he’s just given the cadets a good time in Alaska and West Point. That’s why they keep getting, he keeps getting off.
We’re going to reprimand you and then you get to play some more. So that’s what I’m saying. I don’t know what the winner is.
Air Force Academy or one point, but they’re going to keep battling. They’re going to keep throwing stories at each other. So we’ll wait six months and then we’ll get a whole new batch.
So does a full bird colonel equate to a hundred cadets at the Air Force Academy? I mean, that’s a good point. But get that full bird colonel at West Point with the cadets at the Air Force Academy and they’d be drunk cheaters all over the place. We wouldn’t have an Academy graduate in class that year.
That’d be all done. You would think after the first time of providing alcohol to the cadets, you’d be like, and you get spanked for it. Hey, Colonel.
Oh, come on, man. You’re like, you know what? Pishaw, it’s just a couple of drinks. You guys are such prudes.
Round two, boys and girls. Come on in. Let’s get this party started.
Get the tennis team down here. You guys Academy, Air Force Academy? Come on over. Come on.
Let me party with us. I’m not buying you around, you pussies. Get out of here.
Don’t worry about that final in the morning. I got the cheating answers right here. No worries.
You guys have already passed. I got you. Come out and drink with me.
I would be hard-pressed to turn that down. I’d be like, oh, great. Okay, let’s go.
He’s here. Hey, he’s a colonel. He knows.
Then you’d have to turn it. He ordered me to come. He ordered me to come.
Highly suggested. You never know who’s going to be pissed off at the end of that night, right? You never know who’s going to be pissed off. Or if you’re R. Kelly pissed off.
Well, with the good move we have, I almost feel like we should cancel this, but it seems important. Oh, let’s cancel it. Okay.
No, I’m just kidding. Let’s bring it down. Let’s bring it down.
All right. Let’s bring it down a notch. All right.
This next story is frustrating, but it’s interesting to examine it. What is that for, like, don’t civilian cops have something that they can’t be sued? What was that? That made the news a couple of years ago, right? Can’t be sued. What was it? What? Got him.
That was it. That was it. Thin blue line, you pussies.
White privilege, baby. Face them again, boys. I don’t think there was anything ever… There’s something that, like, cops can’t be sued for injuries or something like that that happens to victims.
There’s some protection. I can’t remember what it is. But this sounds very similar, right? Well, there’s always going to be an investigation if there’s a shooting.
Right, right, right. You know, those kinds of things. But they can’t get, like, personally sued by a plaintiff or a victim or something like that.
For a mild bludgeoning. I think the department takes care of you, supposedly, right? Yes, there’s something to… Anyway, we’re off. This one is from… This story is from Task and Purpose.
And the Supreme Court refuses, again, to review whether military members can sue for malpractice. All right. So the Supreme Court, once again, refused to hear a case challenging the 75-year-old rule that service members may not sue the government for service-related harm, including when military doctors commit malpractice.
Yeah. The court rejected the case brought by a Maryland Air National Guardsman who was paralyzed in April 2018 by a botched back surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Staff Sergeant Ryan G. Carter, a dual-status Guardsman, who was an inactive status.
Now, I kind of wish Ana was here for that thing, because inactive status is way gray to me. That’s really weird about trying to get stuff done, right? But he was an inactive status when he was operated on, sought to get the court to reconsider to the so-called Ferris Doctrine, a court ruling on the Federal Tort Claims Act, which governs how U.S. citizens can sue the government for negligence or wrongdoing. The Ferris Doctrine basically is a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prevents active military members from suing the federal government for injuries sustained while on duty.
The Doctrine was established in the 1950 case Ferris versus the United States. Furthermore, the Ferris Doctrine effectively barred service members from collecting damages from the U.S. government for personal injuries, experiencing the performance of their duties that also bars families of service members from filing wrongful death or loss of consortium actions when a service member is killed or injured. So this falls under that last case that we talked about with the guy that was prescribed seven different drugs.
Remember the last case? Basically, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he came to you in his stomach.
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Here’s the thing. He was on inactive status. Right.
So he had the surgery. So he wasn’t on orders and he wasn’t on active status. So it makes you a civility.
So the Ferris Doctrine doesn’t fucking apply. No, it doesn’t. And he said it.
But they were saying his injuries were the result of his service. So that’s how they’re… It’s very complicated, but I just wanted to… That’s such a double standard. Like, here’s the thing.
Right. Marty, like, if you got in that same motorcycle accident and you weren’t on TR or EGR orders… Let’s say I was off orders, yeah. The military wouldn’t have done anything for you.
Nothing. Yeah. Like, you would have got no VA disability eventually.
You would have even gotten no medical assistance from the active duty side. You would have had to file everything through trike. It would have been all on mine.
Yeah. All on yours, right? And that’s because you were on inactive status. You weren’t active.
And that’s why they’re always careful. So this is a bullshit double standard. Double standard.
Yeah. If you get injured and you’re not on active status, they’re not touching you at all. However, if you’re not on active status… And we jack you up.
…by a military member, you still can’t come at us. Well, let’s say you’re pulling guard mount as a reservist or you’re doing maintenance as a reservist. You jack your back up on the time that you’re in status, right? You go off and then you get assessed and you’re like, hey, you need to have surgery on this.
I don’t know how you got a military doctor to be service on him when he was not satisfied. That’s curious, too. As a reservist, we had to put people on order sometimes.
Just to go to the doctor. Just to go to the doctor. Right, right.
I agree. And so that was always a weird one. But it was more about how the Ferris doctorate and the Supreme Court won’t really hear arguments against it, right? So the Supreme Court rejected Carter’s case without an opinion.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissent of the decision by the court to not consider Carter’s case. Thomas is a longtime critic of the Ferris doctorate, which he said he considers to be a mistake by the court. Justice Thomas says courts arbitrarily deprive injured service members and their families of a remedy that Congress provided them.
As I have said before, we should fix a mess that we have made, is what Justice Thomas said. Does the Ferris doctrine apply to all them guys in Congress? Oh, no, it doesn’t, does it? Right, right. Thomas said in his opinion that the Supreme Court had never articulated a coherent justification and as a result, the lower courts have inconsistently applied the Ferris doctrine.
Justice Thomas noted cases that sought to sue the government over a wide range of topics, including sexual assault by another soldier, injuries from recreational activities with military-owned equipment, or exposure to toxic chemicals on a military base were considered part of military service. Others tried to assess whether service member children can sue for injuries sustained in utero from negligent prenatal care, or if the doctrine extends to dual-status technicians like Sergeant Carter, who are both civilian employees and in the military reserves. So there’s a lot of problems with this thing.
Well, especially if you’re impacting the civilian job, right, where this guy can’t go back to work. He got injured militarily. Yeah, right.
You can’t claim workers count. Can you imagine that? So he might be an art as a civilian guy, right? Oh, God, yeah, right. He could be an art technician.
I didn’t even think about that. As a military status, he’s not acting military, but he’s working for the military. And now he’s not employable by them anymore.
It almost seems that the military’s answer to issues like this is to go, oh, we’ll just give you 100% disabled, and we’ll buy you off. We’re going to look at it. Yeah.
Yeah, we’ll see it. This last one is Lauren Paladini. Here’s the crazy thing is that dude is paralyzed.
Essentially, yeah. Like, he’s not like… Right, yeah. And that doctrine prevents him from any kind of recoupment, right? And he’s paralyzed because of what the military docs did.
Okay. Cut off the wrong leg. It’s like, ah, shit.
Can’t sue over that. That’s crazy, but we’ll make it 100% disabled? That’s a big block. You’re fucking… Lauren Paladini, whose case was also added to Sergeant Carter’s when it went up to the Supreme Court, she was an 82nd Airborne Division soldier who survived a botched cesarean section at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 2019.
Her case was included in the petition. Paladini told Task and Purpose that pursuing malpractice claims through the administrative process has cost her tens of thousands of dollars in legal and expert fees. Crazy.
She said, it’s not working. It’s not going to work. The same institution that has committed the malpractice is the same institution who gets to be the judge and the jury over that malpractice.
Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, you’re stuck. They got it.
And because the court won’t hear it, they won’t even hear arguments on it. That’s what’s crap, is the court just was like, yeah, we’re not getting it. Yeah.
We’re getting it out of our purview. But it’s not. It shouldn’t be.
They just hand waved that whole thing over. I don’t know. Well, and again, this goes back to what we talked about on a number of cases back where we said, okay, look, you guys get to go play in that fucking fire foam.
Have fun. Yeah. Yeah.
Forgot about that one. Yeah. You got water at fucking Marine Corps Station, whatever, that’s killing people.
I mean, causing cancer. I mean, it’s crazy how many times a military have hurt people. Yeah.
And aren’t held accountable. And that’s it. And that’s that whole, especially years later thing.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, the cops at the nuclear sites who weren’t even in the nuclear stuff.
Yeah. But are now getting cancer. Yeah.
But they can’t claim it. It’s just, ah, you’re right. You’re right.
Any wonder why we can’t sign these guys? Well, and then you look at us three and you go, wow, I wonder how us three came out unscathed. Relatively. Or did we? We’re waiting for something.
We’re waiting. Yeah. My left nipples falling off.
It’s hanging on my thread right now. Gotcha. So that thing on, man.
Yeah. That’s that’s probably 10% reserve. You might, you might.
Yeah. We’ll note it. But we’re not going to pay you for it.
That’s not service connected. Yeah. We don’t cut off nipples all that often.
See now it’s starting to understand why they took $175 back. Here’s the thing though. Like we we’ve been saying stuff like this left and right.
And yet they, or people call up the, the guy scamming like he doesn’t deserve a hundred percent. I’m of the mindset. Fucking get whatever you can, because they’re going to fuck you out of it some way.
Some way. Yeah. I’m not saying that fake shit.
I’m not saying that. No, we have talked about that too. We’ve talked to guys.
You can. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, if you got, if you twisted your ankle, I mean, of course they’re doing your duties. Yeah. It seems, it seems counterintuitive, but at the same time when that ankle gets arthritic, you know, or gets on the sole purpose of hard to walk on.
Yeah. And you signed up and took the chance. Now you may not have been called to combat, but you know, you, you were, you were going to go if they call it ready to go.
Yeah. You were ready to sacrifice all that. That’s right.
Those who did that, you know, they deserve more than a hundred percent disabled, but even if you were preparing to go and you never went, you were still giving up your body to the government. Yeah. I bet you these guys, they’re actually just going to probably pawn him off on the civilian sector and be like, Hey, he gets, he gets civilian disability.
They, they are insurance adjusters, right? And they will deny if they can deny. So, yeah. And now they got, you know, because the Supreme court won’t hear anything about the Ferris doctrine.
That’s a big backer. Yeah. Can’t sue us.
Sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah.
Nice. Well, let’s, let’s, let’s turn those frowns upside down. Shall we? Let’s.
Uh, let’s go on a, go out on a space. Good note. Oh.
Such a thing. This one is from msn.com. The next blue origin flight will be a historic all woman space flight to include Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez, right? You might not know who Lauren Sanchez is by name, but you will definitely know her when you see her picture. So, uh, blue origin, right? You familiar, Eric, are you familiar with blue origin? I am familiar.
They’re doing suborbital flights, right? They’re the ones who flew, uh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. The blue origin says it’s next space flight is set to make history with celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gail King on board. The all woman crew will fly into space with when the new shepherd spacecraft launches for the West Texas desert this spring.
The company says it’s the first all woman flight since the Soviet union, Valentina Teresh, Teresh Kova space, uh, Valentina Teresh Kova solo space flight in 1963. Now, I think that’s quite a reach and shame on them for trying to compare a crew with Katy Perry on it, who has no knowledge a Soviet solo where she actually piloted the craft as the first woman in space. There’s a difference there.
Yeah, there’s a big difference, right? But, okay, Katy Perry’s got a photo op written all over her head for this. yeah, yeah, I don’t think Valentina Cosmonaut was worried about some of these up there. uh, the flight comes as Jeff Bezos blue origin continues to become a major player in the commercial space industry.
Debatable competing with the likes of Elon Musk space X for NASA’s business as well as the business of other private companies. So what is the New Shepard spacecraft? The New Shepard spacecraft was named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Uh, New Shepard is blue origins fully reusable suborbital rocket system.
Now it hasn’t been anywhere past suborbital. I don’t think not even for very long. So, but, this mission will be the 11th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.
To date, the program has flown 52 people above the Carmen line. What’s the Carmen line? I know you’re asking Eric, please tell me what the Carmen line is. The Carmen line is the international recognized boundary of space experience, experiencing several minutes of weightlessness and witnessing views of earth through windows that take up more than one third of this capsule surface area.
I can’t remember the altitude Jake. Do you remember the altitude of the Carmen line? It’s like 10 miles or something like that. Yeah.
Anyway, it’s 11 minutes that they’ll be on this, this journey. Take my sex toy with me. Well, I’m about to show you something.
But who’s going to be on this flight? Uh, Aisha bow bow is a former NASA rocket scientist entrepreneur and global STEM advocate. Keep in mind. These women aren’t chosen for merit.
They’re chosen on how much they paid for this flight. All right. Nice.
this Aisha bow is CEO of STEM bound and founder of lingo. All right. Amanda Nguyen.
Nguyen is a bio astronautics research scientist. Uh, and she said that as the first Vietnamese woman to go to space, I’m flying for Vietnamese girls to see themselves in space. Nice.
Okay. Smart lady sounds smart. when is also MIT graduate and then Harvard aerophysics got the lady.
Very cool. So she’s not playing around like she’s, she’s a brainiac. Yeah.
these three Flynn bow and when are pretty like extra. Yeah. We’ll jump down.
Carrie and Flynn Flynn has spent the past decade focused on nonprofit work and film production in 2024. She produced the film lily, which portrays the journal journey of lily led better. The American activists whose Supreme court case led the passing of lily led better fair play act in 2009.
So she’s okay. All right. She’s not a brainiac, but uh, um, Beau and the winner.
Definitely. Next is Gail King. He is a journalist co-host of CBS morning’s editor at large of Oprah daily and the host of Gail King in the house on Sirius XM radio.
Good point. Next is Katy Perry. And sing you a song.
I’m not even going to read her bio. You know who Katy Perry is. Oh, we know who Katy Perry is.
And then finally is Lauren Sanchez, who is a fiance of. Oh, Bezos’s girlfriend. So here is the video of them, uh, going on the, uh, hold all comments to the end.
Look like she was wearing her spacesuit. Yeah. For you sly Foxy.
It’s been a lot of time on Lauren Sanchez, but, uh, yeah, space flight’s 11 minutes, 11 minutes. And there’s Valentina, a trash terrace Colva. I’m not sure you wish you could pair.
Yeah, that was kind of definite. Right. I mean, I know we’re all thinking it that Lauren’s just getting a ride because she’s dating the boy dating the guy.
Right. But there is some positive effects that scientifically that will come out of Lauren. Yeah, it encourages men to watch.
Well, there is an encouragement, but there’s also the ability to measure the scientific effects of anti-gravity on a shit ton of a plastic product in somebody like half the crew when they go into weightlessness, their faces are going to dissolve 1099 for that video. Just to see that, just to see that weightlessness on Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Lauren Sanchez. If it’s not her face, that’s half plastic.
It’s definitely other things that are so. Okay. Let’s role play real quick.
here we go. Jake, you are a blue origin spacesuit designer. All right.
uh, you know, I’m coming here like, Hey Jake, I know, you know, a couple of flights ago we had you design a spacesuit for William Shatter. I know that wasn’t exciting for you, but wait till you see who we have coming in. Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez.
All right. So I’ll give you creative license on what you want to do with those spacesuits there. So yeah, with Lauren, we’re going to design something special.
All right. We’re going to have cut outs, maybe cut outs. There’s going to be, it’s going to have full coverage just like every other space.
However, there is a mesh aspect to this. creativity. We’re going to, we’re going to, we’re going to test the tinsel strength of some of our new mesh fabrics and the internal and external forces in a zero G gravity environment.
there’s also another consideration. I think the time of day, they’re going to be right into the sun. So it’s probably going to get hot.
Well, they have a way to, uh, to regulate their internal body temperature with these suits. Mostly just zipping. The zipper, the zipper will be the one.
That’s a good idea. That’s a good idea. and then I think honestly, we’ll have a window with some out gassing.
Oh yeah. Of course, of course. And, and some, some glint.
A single vertical zipper, a single vertical zipper might not be enough. Is there any way that you can get kind of a pocket like extra vent zipper on the, uh, the chest area or something like that? Yeah. Just consider.
Just consider. We’ll think about that. We’ll have to do some research.
Jake, I also have to ask, are we talking about pastel colors? Are we going to have one solid color? It doesn’t have to be silver. I think, I think we’re going to take inspiration from what Katie was wearing. Oh, very nice.
And go with that reflective fish scales. Um, now, now there is going to be some reflective issues and some sun coming through the open hatches, reflecting on heat and radiating in the sun glasses, the little visor thing going on. I think as part of the ground crew, there will be a random amount of zooming in just to make sure.
Health and welfare. Just to verify. Dude.
Oh my God. There’s, there’s a lot of breasts going up on the blue origin. Yeah.
That’s a lot of breasts. Yeah. Lauren.
Like half her face looks Botox. They’re plasticky. I’m wondering about the effects of zero G on that.
Oh yeah. That’s good. You know, when they have a, when the models do like the videos and they’re, they’re parachuting like in tandem or something like that.
And you all think, oh, they’re doing it naked. And you’re like, that never comes out. Well, that never looks.
That are the inversion piece. And you’re like, Oh, I say that’s not good. I’m honestly curious about what effects like zero G has on the human body and that kind of situation on plastic surgery.
That’s a good point. Yeah. Yeah.
That’s right. I wonder if any astronauts have had any like prosthetic. There’s, there’s got anything like that study that was done for sure.
Even though they’re going suborbital, they’re still pulling a certain amount of G’s, right? Oh yeah. They got to, right? Yeah. They got to go to that.
Oh yeah. Just to get up there. Oh man.
That could be tragically terrible. What’s what kind of speed do you think they’ll reach? It’s going to be fricking pretty fast. How they got a break.
First grab at least to go up and up and back. So they’re definitely pulling G’s man. Yeah.
Oh God. Maybe I don’t want to watch it. Maybe I’ll stick to Barbarella.
Yeah. Nice. Okay.
Eric, what do you get for history for today? So this is cool. The other day I was watching this World War II documentary. It’s on Netflix.
And they were talking about the Far East and how the Japan was spreading in to Borneo and Indonesia. And they were in control. So the next island was Australia.
And Australia was responsible for a lot of supplies for troops. So they were trying to keep Japan off of mainland Australia. So the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
Whoa. March 2nd through the 4th. Huh.
It was a huge turnaround battle. Pivotal. We’re keeping the Japanese Army out of Australia.
Bismarck Sea. Yeah. See, I’d never heard of it.
So the Battle of the Bismarck Sea was a pivotal battle. It fought between March 2nd and March 4th, 1943, in the southwest Pacific area. Allied aircraft from the U.S. 5th Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force attacked the convoy of Japanese ships transporting troop reinforcements to lay New Guinea.
New Guinea was the island right outside of Australia. Australia was next. The Allies destroyed most of the convoy and Japan suffered heavy losses abandoning their plan to land more troops at lay.
That was it? That’s all it took them? And they were like, ugh. Four days. Well, I think we brought on the force that just said, you know.
Whoa. Really? We’re freaking hammering him. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the battle, I mean, it’s really big. But the gist is they occupied lay New Guinea.
They were moving through there. The Australians, they were infiltrating down there. They were losing the foothold through that wooded area, right? Even remember Baba Blacksheep, the battle? Always heard about New Guinea, yeah.
Yeah, and Rabaul. So that’s where the Japanese were at. So Australia said, we got to do something.
We got to stop them from hitting the mainland, or they’re going to interrupt our supply chain going. This thing was a huge pivotal battle. So if you get a chance to look at the details, take a look at that thing, man.
First time I’d ever heard of it, but I was watching the documentary. I said, I’ve never even heard of any of the battles that occurred. So I started looking and this one popped up.
I was like, wow, that’s perfect. What year was that? 1943. Oh, man.
Second through the 4th of March. Pretty cool, man. Ah, you are getting really good at this.
Well, thank you. Yeah, I like it. But yeah, that’s the only reason I know about New Guinea.
What is the slot? You know, that was all from Baba Baba and the bridge over River Kwai. Remember that one? I was like, I don’t know what they’re talking about, but it sounds good. So awesome.
Hey, boy, I always liked the Japanese guy. Rice ball. Rice ball.
That was awesome. I see Jakey missed out on a little late 60s, early 70s. I know.
I’m sorry. Yeah, I missed it. Baba Black Sheep.
Have you ever seen Baba Black Sheep? No. Yeah, check that out. I’ve seen Bridge over River Kwai.
Yeah. Baba Black Sheep based on a true major, Pappy Boynton. Yeah.
He really made a bunch of freaking screw offs in the Marine Corps into a cohesive. He was a screw up. He was almost out because he was drunk too.
Isn’t it interesting how in wartime there was that one team, there was multiple teams in World War Two that were behind them and enemy lines and like written off as just total fuck ups. They’re like, yeah, whatever. The origins of the SAS.
Yeah. And they’re like, bro, you can go back. All those teams that were incredibly productive during the wartime were some of the best teams of very productive people were fucked up that didn’t fit in the military.
Like SEALs have those groups, especially forces groups. They’re notorious for not being good at customs and currencies, not being good at standard operations. They’re like equal on all levels of each team member kind of thing.
Those are all teams of very effective, but not military standard personnel. Sure. Yeah.
You know, that makes for that makes for a good research item. And maybe we can bring like the best, the best outcast military leader. Oh, look at Grant from the Civil War.
Yeah. He was written off as a drunk, right? Came back and won the war for the North. Yep.
Well, what Billy Mitchell is a good example, Billy Mitchell. Billy Mitchell is freaking actively court-martialed, kicked out. And then they’re like, Hey, we fucked up.
You mind coming back? Can you do this for us for just a little bit? We’re not going to keep you around afterwards. Just come on. Come on.
Yeah. Right. Like, that’s the thing.
That would be a good one. The military is always like, think outside the box. Do you act outside the box? But as soon as they do, they’re kicked out.
They slam. Yeah. Yeah.
But then when they need you in those times of war, in those times where inside the box thinking does not work. Dude. It’s French foreign Legion.
Perfect example. When it first came to that. we used to get sentenced to the French.
When the Marine Corps isn’t bad enough punishment. Right. Yeah.
Right. Right. Either go to war or go to jail.
It’s like the old, uh, Jody. Yeah. Yeah.
Some of those guys saved our ass. So that’d be good. That’d be a good, interesting.
We’d have to do that. Oh, for the record, blue origin only pulls. Oh, five and a half G’s.
Oh, which is a roller coaster. Like a good roller coaster. Is it really? Yeah.
I would have thought it had been more than that. Yeah. I wanted it to be more than that.
It’s, it’s good plastic surgery G rated. Oh man. Maybe it should be now.
Maybe it should be. Yeah. I was looking up before and after pictures of Lauren Sanchez because I was remembering like, Oh, Bezos’s girlfriend was quite an attractive lady.
And then you showed that picture. I was like, her face looks plastic. And then there’s quite a kerfuffle on the internet of before and after.
Oh, is it really? She was very, very attractive before. And now I’m sure she’s very attractive to some. I don’t know.
You know, if you, if you were, if you had, uh, some surgery that would make you better or that you think would make you better and money was no object. And you’d be like, yeah, sure. I could do it.
Yeah. Why not? Let’s go. And then you come out and you’re like, oh shit.
That didn’t go quite like I wanted to, but what is this? Who gives a shit? Is this welling or is this the new me? Unfortunately, that’s the new you look how useful you look. This is the best. This is ever going to look because it’s all downhill from here.
So this is what you have right here. Uh, oh, before we, before we end up, since we’re talking about a million different things, what do you think of the Gene Hackman death? It’s too bad. I agree.
But you’re talking about, was it suspicious? Was it around it? I’ve heard a lot of conspiracy theories. It’s crazy. Well, I know they all died at once.
Right. And like, but only like one of the three dogs, they say his wife was dead for a long time before that. Oh yeah.
There’s unheard that. Okay. We won’t go into it.
It’s crazy. It’s crazy. Wow.
That’s the stuff. Yeah. Okay.
Well, I’m not four years old. When you start going through his movies, you’re like, Oh fuck. Yeah.
He was in, he was in young Frankenstein. And he got for, of course, hunt for red October. Unforgiven.
Right. Of course. It was not the hunt for red October.
No, it was name and shit. Crimson type. You’re right.
Crimson tide. Yeah. Yeah.
Stripes. He was in stripes. Okay.
Okay. Arkansas burning. Arkansas burning.
The dude was 94 years old though. Have they determined what is, is a reason for that. All under controversy, man.
They haven’t said a thing. That’s the whole thing. It was weird that it was him and his wife and a dog.
I wonder if this was like a carbon monoxide. That’s what everybody thinks. And then there’s something about his wife being mummified.
You’re like, what is going on? Oh my God. So that’s crazy. I hope not.
I mean, I liked the dude. I mean, I liked his movies. Great.
Yeah. I really hope that’s not it. But he was great in green beret.
Awesome. He wasn’t the one that the guys crashed in suburbia or fricking Serbia. Behind enemy lines.
That’s right. He was the Admiral there. He was a good boy.
Let’s go get our boy. Flight of the intruder. Was he? He was not in flight.
God damn it. This is all. This is all misinformation.
That’s not bad. I think I thought of a new fit. So let’s close this out.
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