Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 13 Mar 2024
Date: March 13, 2024
Special event alert. Spin the turnstile and run! This is Late for Changeover, your weekly Space News and Variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith, and I’m joined by Mr. History, Eric Barat.
Yee-haw, guys, what’s going on? And our man in the closet, Jake Wall. Cheers, guys. Cheers.
We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all Guardians and to the Earth Base services as well. So take your seats, get informed, and have a laugh as we present Late for Changeover. I’ve almost got, you know, as many times as I said that.
I still look and I’m like, oh, fuck it, I screwed myself up. Right off the bat. Happy State Patrick’s Day, gentlemen, since we’ll be… Yeah, man.
So I wore my St. Patrick’s Day. It’s not like drinking green beer on the boat. Oh, yeah.
You’re going to be on the boat for St. Patrick’s Day? Yeah. Nice. Where’s the cruise leave out of? San Juan, Puerto Rico.
You got to go down to Puerto Rico? Leave it Saturday, we’ll fly to Orlando, Orlando to Puerto Rico. Holy shit. And then you’re doing the Caribbean from there? Yeah.
You don’t have a stop in Haiti by any chance, do you? Nope. The Marines might be able to escort you. To be fair, Marty, Haiti’s been stable for… They’re on their 10-year ebb and flow.
Yeah, that’s right. They’re good about… But you talk about whiplashing this time. You talk about whiplashing this time.
This time they put a cannibal gang leader in each other. No, it’s a bit much. Walks around with a bit of machete.
I mean, you talk about the pendulum swinging. That’s way too far, man. And yet they said no to Wycliffe.
I’m like, come on, man. At least I’d like to hear him on his speeches. I mean, yeah, look at it.
Could you ask for better entrance music for a world leader? Yeah, that would be amazing. God, every rally at the end would be just a festival concert. But he had lived out of the country for too long, I think.
That was the thing. Wycliffe Jean, good one. That’s a good poem.
Yeah, man. That’s good. Last week, I should have mentioned, but I’d like to welcome back Ice or Ken Ramos.
Remember we had him on the service headline news. So he came back to, he was off the air over at WTF Nation Radio for a couple of months. He had a death in the family, but he came back last Monday.
I should have mentioned that. But it might have been probably the week before. But welcome back, Ken.
I’m glad you were there. And he’s back hosting Monday edition, which is now, or maybe it has been. They’re out on YouTube, WTF Nation Radio.
But they’re also on Facebook. So he did Monday edition yesterday. And he had, as a guest, Ashley Eckert from Club 214.
Yeah, there you go. I saw that. Yeah, it was good.
That was very cool. Good to see her making rounds of the Colorado podcasters here. And good to see Ken back.
So Ken, Ken sponsors, puts up with us on Space Force WTF Moments. I wanted to say, hey, thanks, Ken. Good to see you back.
Right on. Let’s see. You know, I wanted to, I wanted to, every time I keep thinking of, we should keep a list of all this whatever happened to shit.
Right? Because remember when we talked about vehicle stickers? Remember that time we talked about 22, 20 or motorcycle stickers and how they ruined your forks. Hey, before we go any further, I need to point out Mr. Marty’s background to really show people that he is, in fact, it was a retired military member. I got all that stuff at auction.
I got it all at auction. That’s a badass background for you, man. You can’t see the name place, but they’re all different.
I’m pretty sure that one right there is me. That one’s mine. You know, we never did have that going away for you.
So I just, I was like, fuck, what am I going to do with it? It’s going up on my wall. Is that the eight Swiss? Yeah. The A Space Warning Squadron.
That’s right. Very nice. Anyway, I thought of, I thought of another one.
Right. So remember in the early days of getting the computers out to all the military and when we had to save things on those little three and a half discs and you only had so many characters for a name. And you had to choose wisely.
There was no dashes and no spaces. And what a, what a godsend Microsoft Windows was. And you’re like, oh, I can really name the shit out of this thing now.
Yeah, that’s the little things in life. I’ll tell you. Oh, you know what? You don’t see any more to Jake vis-a-vis.
Remember how valuable vis-a-vis work in the space community. So, so Eric, they had those right on glass pens. That’s okay.
It was the brand was vis-a-vis. And then on all the desks, they had either big, like big chunks of glass. Right.
Plexiglass or glass glass. And you would just scramble down. And it was really, it was really brilliant because that was your scratch pad.
So if they’re reading off, Hey, you got to do this command or, you know, we got an alert out of this country or something, you just write all your data there and you got it. And you can just look right down at it. You didn’t have to worry about it.
We sorta had a same thing. It was called a plotting board that every day. Yeah.
So if you had to plot it, a grid or a freaking call, I’m sure, I’m sure you had like, uh, your, your thigh book, uh, with all your checklist laminated. Right. Oh yeah.
They were, it’s a notebook. So I was like, get out of that car, police up condoms in the air raid shelter. Eric, replace that thigh board with the iron Eagle Walkman.
Yeah. You’d see that cop car go by at 105 miles an hour. They’re like, oh, Eric’s got it turned up high today.
I got, I got a new phone on these headphones. I’m going good. Nobody can catch that speeder.
Oh, here comes Eric. K car. Remember the K car.
That’s what I do. Is that what you guys had? No K cars. Yeah.
Oh, at Fort, at Fort Polk, the MPs had AMC Hornets. It’s the same piece of shit. Yeah.
Was it K car? Oh, right. Uh, anyway, uh, okay. So, uh, let’s get into the news.
This first story is an opinion piece and it was, it was, it’s interesting. I know. I know you hate space, Eric.
Uh, and I know you hate like makeup and hair and I look false eyelashes and you’re making that one. I’m willing. Well, anybody who saw last week and, uh, what would understand because you’re old school, right? You’re correct.
You’re old terrestrial bound. Yes. And I get how much shit you guys have put in orbit.
So, you know, just pure trash. All you space. I don’t need this anymore.
All right. This is an opinion piece from space news.com. And it deals with space junk. So the authors, there’s like three of them.
They say launch the orbits act. So orbits or BITS act. Um, all right.
Let me read you some of this gobbledygook here. The United States government appears to be finally taking on dangerous debris and earth orbit for seven decades. We have polluted earth orbits leaving thousands of useless space vehicles over our heads.
I would say the Soviets were much worse than we ever were because at least our stuff burned in. They were just like, right. Well, during the race, wasn’t it constant when we were racing to get up? Right.
But most of our stuff was like, yeah, we go up and then it burns up, but maybe not everything. Now that’s like stage two stage three still up there and the freaking orbit vehicles still up there. I think the oldest one still in a satellite catalog is a Vanguard rocket body.
Oh my God. That’s the oldest. Yeah.
That’s the oldest rocket body still in the satellite catalog. Well, uh, what was the, what was the website that you used to be able to go to? It was on class website. You can access it.
You can go to Celeste track or Celeste tracks a good one. And they have all the bright lights and you click on one. It was like, this is a rocket body from 1972.
That’s cool though. No, I think space junk. If you, if you just googled space junk, it’d bring up that map.
Yeah, it might be. It might be. That’s pretty cool.
I tried one in our like for 1999. I was like, nope, forget it. I’m not that worried about it.
Uh, now here’s kind of, kind of alarming, right? The Biden administration has now begun to draw lines. Last October 2nd, the FCC issued the first line ever for space debris, ordering the US TV provider dish to pay $150,000 for failure to move one of its satellites into a safe orbit. Oh, holy cow.
How do they have the, what is the basis for them fighting them? I mean, wow. I had 150,000. Hey, so like, if you think about those, those dish network ones, they’re kind of a geostationary or geosynchronous, right? So those spots are coveted.
That’s true. And so if they’re just not moving into their assigned location and that’s an international sign. But I would, but like anything below.
Yeah. I mean, are you guys for that? Uh, there’s 150,000 that much. According to this network.
Uh, well, I don’t know, but it is, it is, I think it’s kind of like, I mean, after. Yeah. Uh, then on November 1st, the US Senate passed the orbital sustainability or orbits act in a unanimous vote for the second time.
The first time they pass it, the house wouldn’t take it up. So now they pass it again in November and they’re waiting for the house to take it up. The legislation was put forward by Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat out of Washington and Senator John Hickenlooper, a Democrat out of Colorado, and was sponsored by the Senate committee on commerce science and transportation and is meant to support technologies to deal with the future of space.
And that is roughly 900,000 pieces of dangerous orbital debris. According to the committee’s press release, approximately 8,000 metric tons of space junk is now. Uh, that are potentially lethal to satellite space missions, commercial space services, and human lives.
We should start mining that actually. I mean, it’s all minerals. Right.
It’s gotta be recoverable. Right. Yeah.
I mean, in the, in the, uh, chat, I know you don’t look at that Marty, but Eric, if you click on that, that’s the actual satellite catalog and that’s everything that’s up there right now. So who is in charge of doing that? Is it just based on when it launched? Well, there used to be, uh, an air force squadron that was updating that on a daily, but nothing but track it up. It was space.
It was SDS, right? It was space. I’m keeping that. Cool.
That’s cool. I mean, and then if you look at it, there’s a decoder ring, but if you just look at that top one, and I think it’s line five, that’s the Vanguard one and it was launched. Oh, yeah.
1958 March seven, March 17th. So it’s coming up on its anniversary. It’s still up there because that gap, that next line, that next column, that should be a date.
Yeah. That means if that means in there, it means it’s still there. Is that date a deorbit date? That’s the deorbit date.
Okay. Well, you can literally see Sputnik one, like three spots up on number two. Yeah.
Number two. Right. Digit.
And that deorbited in 58 January 3rd, 1958. God, we should, we should have some kind of for the show. We should have like some kind of running display as like, all right, who’s top three, right? Oh, Vanguard burned in.
Sort of. It’s pretty cool. That was way sequential by the year.
That’s pretty cool. Well, it’s been there for that long, you know? All right. So this was out of the article.
Look at all the debris. And the chart, I know it’s a little tiny. It’s kind of hard to read, but it starts over here in 1958.
Right. Yeah. And the red is all debris.
So you got payloads and rocket bodies, which is essentially all debris as well. Right. But yeah, look at that.
Look at that up to. So what is the axis on the left? So, so that mark that demarcation line in the blue. Where it just goes steady climb to.
Yeah. That’s space X. Oh yeah. It’s got to be.
Space X and starling starling. Sure. I have a question.
Is all that debris. It’s got to be. Causing like any decay in our.
Atmosphere anything up there. That you guys know. Well, I don’t know.
I mean, you think about it. It’s got to be reflecting. I mean, probably not.
Anything significant. I mean, it’s got to be reflecting some sort of. Yeah.
It may, it may affect from what I understand it may affect. It may affect. Vectors.
All right. So you’re like, Hey, this is the, this is kind of the parabola. I need to get to my orbit.
But there’s a whole bunch of, there’s nothing where I’m parking the vehicle. But there’s crap in the way. There’s potentially stuff I’ve got to fly through.
Like getting out through all that red. To get to your spot. And so that’s one of the things when the Chinese blew up one of their own satellites years ago.
And created this massive debris field. That’s moving at 18,000 miles a second. Yeah.
So. That’s the problem too. Because it’s just, it’s falling around the earth at such an alarming rate.
That is not just anything. It’s done. So you don’t really need a bunch of counter weapons up there.
He’s like, Hey, what’s this blow up one of our own. And then you just created an unusable space. Or unusual spot in space.
So trap, no debris flying. Right. Right.
Constantly moving. So the bill, this is what I thought was interesting. The bill would charge the department of commerce office of space commerce.
Is that the dumbest name? The department of commerce office of space commerce, the OSC to publish a list of debris that poses the greatest risk to spacecraft demonstrating room. And it also requires them to demonstrate removal of debris to incentivize removal technologies, commence a multi-agency update to existing debris standards, and would encourage the development of practices for coordinating space traffic to avoid collisions. All that’s all that sounds pretty good.
Right. I mean, that’s all seems to be like, we all have the same interest in all of those things. But, you know, if they’re going to, if they’re like, Oh, you didn’t demonstrate this.
We’re going to sign you. I’d be like. It would also encourage consistent orbital debris regulations by initiating a multi-agency update and require OSC with the national space council and federal communications commission to encourage space traffic management practices.
Which means like, you know, pack your trash, you know, if you take it up there, bring it back. Yeah. Well, I’m reading this thing and it says 130 million space debris objects larger than one millimeter.
That’s great. They have to track that size. They’re tracking them all.
Right. But because something that small traveling that fast can just do some intense damage, right? It says in particular, the clutter in low earth orbit is becoming a concern due to the proliferation of affordable private satellite launches into Leo. This growing minefield not only increases the collision risk in Leo, but hinders the safe deployment of communication satellites into higher orbits.
So the path through Leo. Astonishingly, SpaceX satellites have been forced to move 50,000 times to prevent collisions since the launch of the first star link in 2019. Wow.
So they’re dodging all that. Can you imagine that control room? Oh my God. As many as starlings as they have.
Oh, right. So what’s the answer? How do we remove this shit? They don’t know. They don’t know.
I mean, we don’t have space junk men yet. You can’t just force it into a, you know, an orbit where it burns out like the rest of that shit that falls. Could you force it that way? Well, I don’t know.
I can see them. I can. I can one concept of mine where it’s just, okay, launch a spaceship up there and we just kind of kick it down towards earth and it’ll burn it.
That’s all they do. They just fly around and like, and snuck it out of its own orbit. But it’s not that easy, of course, but, uh, um, yeah, I don’t know.
Nobody, nobody really has a plan for it. Not an answer yet. Okay.
So, but they’re going to find the shit out of you until they figure out a point. God, that really pisses me up. Just a way of making the cash, baby.
Uh, yeah, kind of, um, so there is a global push to deal with problems. Other countries are doing some stuff. Japan is taking on the challenge with the space debris removal program that builds on the work of the UN committee on the peaceful uses of outer space.
The European space agency is also actively engaged in assessing re-entry options for satellites through its zero debris approach and is working on a multi-purpose satellite to handle refueling, servicing, maneuvering, and de-orbiting missions to extend the useful life of satellites to remove them if needed. Canada also is working on systems to better locate orbital debris and device systems to begin to remove dangerous junk. I don’t know.
It seems, it seems unlikely that they’re going to spend a hundred million dollars for a space, uh, garbage truck. I think that’s awesome though. He had a space, space, garbage truck, cruising around, picking up debris, mouth, big crane, but that Pac-Man and every Pac-Man, but, but the company that comes up with that, the worldwide contract.
No. Right. The Australians requested or started doing it years ago, but there was so much pushback from the superpowers.
Oh yeah. That they were like, okay, fine. I don’t know.
I mean, uh, Elon is making launches look rude and boring, which is where you want to get to. Right. So if he can make that such an everyday occurrence, maybe there’s more of a possibility and it’s going to be a necessity.
Eventually. It’s going to be a necessity. You’re not going to be able to go up there anymore.
You can’t get through this shit. Now the GAO, uh, in September, 2022 said that there could be up to 58,000 new satellites launched into orbit by 2030. Wow.
There is a, uh, another organization called cruelty space, which is a research and consulting firm in Florida. They say that there’ll probably be about 20,000 satellites likely to make it to orbit before 2030. Hmm.
Either way. At the rate they’re going. Yeah.
It’s not a surprise. Yeah. We could always do like a little starfish prime thing where we blow up another nuke in space and clean it all out.
It, it swells the atmosphere with all the electrons. It burns all that causes so much drag. It pulls everything in.
Ooh. So that’s a good boy. And I liked it.
We, yeah, we tried that with the UK and we were like, Ooh, let’s not do this again. That was during the cold war. We, it was such a shitty effect that we were, we literally handed all the documents over to the Russia.
And we were like, Hey, this is not good at all. Please don’t experiment with it. Oh, really? Here’s why.
I didn’t know that. I never knew that. Here’s why.
Please, please don’t do this. Ooh. When we’re giving them the know-how.
We’re like. You know it’s. Let’s don’t do that.
We both want to beat the shit out of each other, but please, this will really. We acknowledge we’re not saying we fucked up, but we’re saying the outcome was not favorable. It doesn’t work that well.
Yeah. Um, even with exponential growth of satellite launches this decade, however, there was still no agreed global process for creating and managing safe, sustainable, resilient earth orbits for the moment. The fully voluntary international guidelines for orbital debris mitigation developed by the inter-agency debris coordination committee are the best we have.
So I, I, I look at it this way in a similar way. Um, we’re all about trying to clean up our coal power plants, our factories, all this stuff. They’re like, Hey, we got to do this, you know, to make it better.
And you know, India’s like, yeah, whatever guys. We’re not listening. We’re doing it our way.
That’s how space is going to be. I mean, I, I’m going to get pissed at somebody. It’s like, Hey, you left three rocket bodies up there last month.
They’re like, Hey, it says you. What are you going to do about it? You know, so, uh, I just see, I don’t know how, how this gets regulated. I don’t know how violations get, you know, prevented.
It’s got to be a worldwide thing or it’s not going to work with the shit. Yeah. It’s going to be a mess.
Yeah. Yeah. An absolute mess.
So, all right, let’s get to, uh, fun stuff here. This innovation news again from space news.com. So straddle launch. I’ve never heard of straddle launch, but when I give you some of the history, maybe you’ll, you’ll remember it.
Shadow launch performs its first powered Talon flight. So Talon is a vehicle that they plan to go hypersonic. I think hypersonic or supersonic times a bunch.
So I read it. I read it earlier. And now I’m a couple of beers in.
I’m like, yeah. Yeah. They wanted to go.
I think five, six, seven times the speed of sound or something like that. So, uh, so that’s straddle launch. There’s a little wildest looking plane ever.
You’re just straddle launch conducted the first powered flight of its Talon vehicle on March 9th, reaching high supersonic speeds in the uncrewed test. The Talon a vehicle designated TA one took off attached to the companies ROC or rock aircraft. So that aircraft is the rock in the middle is the little Talon vehicle, right? Yeah, I like it.
Uh, it took off out of Mojave air and space port in California. The plane flew west to a location in the Pacific of the central California coast where it released TA one at an unspecified time. Rock returned to Mojave more than four hours after takeoff.
Uh, Aaron should, I should have just say maverick maverick. Aaron Casa beer, senior vice president of engineering and operations said the TA one achieved this major test objectives, including release from rock at ignition of its engine, sustained acceleration and climb through high supersonic speeds while maintaining control, then decelerating and gliding to an open splashdown TA one, an expandable vehicle was not recovered. I thought that was interesting.
The company’s next vehicle TA two is the first reusable hypersonic vehicle. It is scheduled to begin flight tests in the second half of the year with another reusable vehicle TA three under construction. Straddle launch was founded more than a decade ago by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen with the initial goal of providing air launch services using a giant twin fuselage six engine aircraft.
Um, so, uh, you want to know about this aircraft, the rock. I’m glad you did. It looks cool as shit.
Uh, it is bizarro, right? So let me give you some, let me give you some stats on the straddle launch rock. So straddle launch the company, this aircraft, they’ve called the rock RLC. I don’t know what it stands for.
Uh, invented by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is designed to launch rockets into space. It is the largest plane ever built. It’s wings measure 385 feet across longer than a football field.
It’s twin fuselages are 238 feet long while its tail height is 50 feet. It’s huge, man. It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? Uh, the straddle launch really is a two headed airplane, but only the cockpit on the starboard fuselage is man.
The port side cockpit. Meanwhile, it’s designed to stay empty and unpressurized with a max takeoff weight of 1.3 million pounds or 650 tons. The straddle launch needs a lot of support from its 28 wheels.
There are 12 main landing gear wheels and two nose gear wheels on each side. Oh my God. The straddle launch is powered by six.
I don’t know what this, I don’t know what this measurement is. 250 K and Pratt and Whitney PW four of five, six engines harvested from the Boeing 747 four hundreds because of its immense size and weight to straddle launch needs 12,000 feet of runway or nearly two miles worth to take just to take off. Wow.
Um, it’s being tested at the Mojave air space port located in California’s Mojave desert. It’s the first facility to be licensed by the federal aviation administration as a space port to support reusable spacecraft fallen under the death of founder Powell Allen straddle launch was sold to Sarabas, uh, Sarabras capital management, a private equity firm in 2019. So let’s look, let’s watch the, uh, I went to straddle launches site.
Guys, did you see the tire fall off of the Boeing jet in the news just the other day? And I’m, I’m relaying it back to this thing. Can you imagine if one of those 28 tires fell off? I don’t know. I think it’s just one lot in crash, two cars tore up a thing.
But that thing takes off and goes south and over Mexico border and then out to the Pacific. Right. It’s just going to fall on the thousands at the border.
That’s all it’s going to be. Yeah, it’s fine. Because that, that, that launch port and Edwards air force base are right next to each other.
Right, right, right. Yeah. Uh, okay.
So this is, this is just the rock. Well, no, it drops. I think they said they carried it.
It can carry up to 39,000 feet and then release thin nose. I mean, they look thin, but the airframe body. I’m on into arming ready now.
I’m going to get hired. I’ll just make videos. That billionaire space companies.
So this wasn’t the test. This was just designed to show you how it works. Right.
That was the first talent. They never. I don’t know if it just crashed or if it just.
Just a bomb. It’s a, here’s the actual, the actual test. It’s short.
There’s no, there’s no video on it. So this is the one that actually launched the talent and it ignited its engines. Cooking.
And that was unmanned. It was unmanned. That one was unmanned.
Look at that. Whoa. So what, what I think straddle launch was, was hoping to do.
Um, was to carry, you know, just be a carrier of payloads to space or, or have missiles, you know, whatever, whatever, whatever you wanted, wanted it to do. So, so no more static launches from the ground. We’re going to now have air mobile launches.
Right. And that, uh, they’ve, uh, it’s, it’s been a concept they’ve been, they’ve been playing around with for a long time because it’s cheaper. You know, you don’t have to do the big boosters and all that.
That’s stage one of any rocket body right there. You just get to the atmosphere. And then if you could take that plane back and land it, you’re like, refuel it.
So that’s going to carry. What is it? And it can go down to the equator, you know? Yeah. You get the boost from the, um, Well, it was the, well, the max takeoff weight is 650 tons.
It doesn’t say how much it can carry. So that must be proprietary, but you know what that, you know what that reminded me of? This is why I started. This is a bomber.
My bomber. No, has done more effective things than your B. See that’s straight a launch. We physically saw it launch something.
Yeah, that’s right. That’s right. It did.
It did. Could not be said for whatever your bombers name. My bomber didn’t.
It looked like the same kind of air. What was the name of it? Oh, this is a B 26. You don’t even know.
It was a B 49. Well, not the B 40. You know, that’s.
You’re looking up. Jake got you. I said B 26, which was way off.
But this, this is why I started going down the internet. So this is what it reminded me. 4.5 feet for me 1 minute Someone’s key, they’re working for you V-52 Okay, stand by for systems OK Steve Okay, you’ve got an out someone is key This is the job plan on it Let’s put an out 30 seconds later Roger, that’s 0-0-8, hold the city Looks like the million dollar man 22 cameras are on 1-3 OK Steve, 1-3 and 1-2 Is that what that is? The million dollar man This is the extended opening sequence.
This is where it crashes. It’s a comfortable event. That still is one of the all-time best events.
Now, the actual show was corny as shit, but the opening was always great. I’m going to pull out the pay for three. Oh, it’s my bad.
Waking up. Waking up. All right.
So that was the opening sequence to the $6 million map. And they said they adjusted for inflation, he’d be over $37 million. If he would have just ejected, then he would have saved the taxpayers a lot.
He was trying to hold it together now. So here’s where I went down my internet rabbit hole. I was like, what is that based on? Right? What is that a real thing or what is that based on? So the $6 million man opening, it was based on a real test pilot, Bruce Peterson, and the Northrop M2F2 lifting body aircraft and its crash on May 10th, 1967.
Wow. So that is the real point. It was, they said the, that design was like a precursor to the, uh, the shuttle.
So that was cool. The two pictures of that. He became a pirate after that crash.
Well, I’ll read, I’ll read you that. I’ll read you that. So that’s Bruce, Bruce Peterson on the right.
And that’s lead majors on the left, right? Um, but that’s Bruce Peterson, the test pilot. Very cool. So on his 16th test flight on May 10th, 1967 in the Northrop M2F2, Peterson was attempting a landing in the M2F2 when the aircraft entered a series of side to side oscillations seen in the famous film of his crash.
After impact, the M2F2 rolled violently six times, the dramatic visuals seen in the video. So, uh, yeah, it was a real thing. And continuing myself down the rabbit hole here.
Here was the real video. Oh, yeah, he’s rocking back and forth. That’s actually his voice.
That was actually his voice. Cause he thought he was going to, he was trying to land it. Oh, did you see how close he did? He came close.
You see that Chinook right there? And you’re like, geez, man. Wow. That was crazy.
Yeah. He rolled six times. And I’m assuming he did survive.
He survived. Yeah. I love the guy in the tower that can’t see what he’s seeing going.
Yeah. The chopper’s fine. Don’t worry about it.
Right. That’s very close. It’s worth seeing again.
So I saw it for the first time the other night. Wow. Yeah.
Yeah, he was. He was right. I think he knew he was going to crash that pilot.
I, you know, that’s, that’s always the thing, right? These pilots, those tears pilots are always just like the calmest, you know, in the face of, oh, you know, this is probably your death. And they’re like, that’s okay. I got it.
I got it. Hey, get that chopper out of the way. It’s going to get me.
I’m afraid. I don’t want to hit him. Don’t you.
Get out of the way. Marty can’t keep from cussing in the first four minutes of this podcast. And that guy’s not cussing.
He’s physically crashing. You’re not at all. Move the chopper guys.
Come on. It might be good. Peterson sustained serious injuries from the crash, including the eventual loss of vision in his right eye from a staff infection.
Wow. But it did not stop him from continuing his successful flight test career. Peterson went on to fly nearly 6,000 total flight hours and 70 different aircraft.
Wow. That’s crazy. He was an early flight test in here on fly by wire advanced flight control systems and went on to work for Northrop on the B two spirit stealth bomber program.
Bruce Peterson died after Bruce Peterson died after long illness on May 1st, 2006 and 72. Was he military? Was he an air force? Yeah, I cut that whole part off, but there’s a whole big article on him. I can’t remember where he came out of.
Uh, I want to say Marines, but I’m not sure. So that’s cool. But yeah, he was a pilot with them volunteered to go through the test pilot school, uh, pass it and then, uh, got on there.
So that’s calm. Oh yeah. Could you build the helicopter? Let me drop it.
So many different airframes to 70. Right. 70 different airplanes with one eye.
So my, my uncle, uh, my uncle Ben, he was in the Marines in Vietnam, got out and flew with new tour. Yeah. No eyes.
No, no, did one tour and then got out and then life. He was like, I got, he got his degree, went back into the Marines commissioned and became a pilot. He became a pilot and everything.
Yes. Uh, helicopter pilot. And then early on, like F4 landing on Harrier on the aircraft carrier instructor, that kind of thing.
And then retired Marines was a test pilot for Boeing. Wow. And so he did a road trip when I was working on the flight line up in Alaska.
Yeah. And this is after he always did road trips with his buddy, but he had a stroke. So he was bad.
He was bad with numbers. You’d give him a, you’ve told us about him before. Yeah.
You, you, you’d give him a dinner bill and he’d be like, nah, he just handed over to his son or me or whoever. He’s like, just take care of it. Whatever.
I mean, he would pay for it, but he could not do the numbers on whatever, whatever the stroke was effectively. Whatever the stroke was. Right.
Yeah. I let him sit in the cockpit, which I got in trouble later on of, of the eight 10. I love this story.
Yeah. He knew exactly how to fire that thing up. Wow.
He had never flown or never sat in that eight 10. He’s like, oh, here we go. He’s just starts looking instantly in his element.
Wow. Just instantly. So that’s, that’s where you want to just capture.
Good God. You’re just like, what the heck? It was amazing. And he’s like, the avionics to a certain extent are all the same to a certain extent.
Yeah. I mean, you’re starting up engines. You’re pulling, you’re pushing infuses, that kind of thing.
But pretty amazing. But the ability to look at something and go, oh yeah, this is, this is what I need to do. Here’s how I turn the engines on.
Here’s how I, you know, everything. That’s, that’s pretty cool. Oh my goodness.
It was, it was super cool to see. Yeah. Yeah.
But then you, but you give him, yeah, I got you that I shouldn’t have let him sit in the active cockpit. I saved the seat first. Yeah.
But I shouldn’t have let a random old civilian. Yeah. That had to mean the world.
And to be able to sit, he loved it once again. Yeah. And it’s an eight 10.
And now he’s going to break it. Fine. I was like, you put them in a VW bug.
He was like, don’t go kill somebody. And it’s like, well, I’m going to get it up to 30. Yep.
Okay. I’m curious to this next story to see what you guys think about this. So this is from stripes.com. Here we go.
A thousand US troops deployed, I think Sunday for temporary port operations to move aid into Gaza. All right. This is the, that’s the ship they all got on.
Right. The general Frank Besson. Let’s see.
Army vessel. Remember we did that one time when we talked about that on the show that army has a vehicle. Yeah.
The LSV boats. Right. There’s a bunch of army boats.
So they all deployed on this about a thousand of them. The Pentagon deployed about a thousand American troops on Sunday to build a temporary seaport just off the coast of Gaza. Two million meals per day.
The American troops will deploy a floating pier and roughly 1800 foot causeway. When a Mediterranean sea off Gaza’s coast where commercial vehicles can dock an offload aid to be transported by smaller vessels and vehicles into Gaza. Said Air Force Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s top spokesman.
The operation will use a makeshift dock known as a joint logistics over the shore or J L O T S or J lots and include Navy and army personnel. I believe my president said there will be no boots on the ground. And, and general writer reinforced that by saying none of the American forces will enter Gaza at any time.
Oh, that means they’re going to take their boots off to do. They will not touch the beach. They will not touch the shore, including to deliver aid or build the temporary pier.
He said at the Pentagon, Ryder said the pier should be operational within about 60 days. Once operational, the actual amount of aid delivered will depend on many variables and will likely scale over time. However, we expect that deliveries via J lots could provide more than two million meals to the citizens of Gaza per day.
Two million. That seems, that seems like a big number a day. So close proximity to Gaza is okay.
Boots on Gaza are not. That’s verboten man. Can’t touch it.
Can’t touch the beach. Close proximity though. So you can reach the box out, but somebody has to be on the shore to pull it back in.
So they’re not targets or there is no threat to them whatsoever. We’re still working our way through the article because that’ll be emphasized two or three more times. So here it’s, it’s just, I’m not anti, I’m not anti aid to Gaza.
No, no. I’m happy they’re helping. Sure.
However, we are still and have been supplying arms to Israel. It’s it’s you can’t literally supply the bullets to shoot the people you’re trying to feed. And you’ve got to choose one side or the other.
And are they using that whole? Well, we have no troops in Gaza. Is that your justification? That’s what we had. We had no troops in Syria either.
Yeah. We had a lot of people on the border. We had no troops in Laos or Cambodia or anything.
That’s right. We had none there. Give me a break.
Like how many times are we going to fall for this bull? Why is that such an emphasis? It’s true. It is. It is.
It is. You can. You can almost guarantee that any time any politician says we have no troops in blank.
We sure as fuck do. Yeah. We usually.
Well, we don’t like that for 20 years. Right. We don’t.
So what stops Hamas. Or what? Or they do the. From driving up the dock to the pier and taking all of the food and supplies and not giving them to the need.
Yeah. That’s true. It’s all.
They’re like, hey, here’s my ID. You want to come ashore and check it? Oh, you can’t. Well, we’ll just take the food.
We’ll take the food. Remember that loophole that the government had? Like, we don’t count a deployment or troops on ground until they’re at 120. Yeah.
120 days on station. That’s right. That counts.
Yeah. So we would get people in and out within that 120 days. Yeah.
And that was it was like treaty stuff so we could see what we did. But it was also like, oh, we didn’t give you deployment pay because you went there long enough. That’s true.
Sorry. To me. And yet the US public’s like, we don’t have troops there.
I’m like, yeah, we we definitely have people there. It’s like we’re not using any common sense. Like there’s an invisible barrier from the port and dock that we build to where bombs are being dropped in Gaza.
And there’s no threat to this ship at all. And that’s that’s horse crap. It is.
It’s it’s it’s typical like, you know, when you deal with an airman or something like that and they’re like, hey, the regs says this. It says black boots. And they’re like, I got black boots.
And they’re like, yeah, but they’re cowboy boots. They’re like, they’re black boots. I mean, it’s that’s the shit house lawyer of this whole thing.
We have no troops in Gaza. They’re one foot away from the shoreline, but we have no troops in Gaza. And there’s no threat to them.
There’s no threat. Right. Right.
You can’t give them the bullets to kill the people you’re feeding. Like, yeah, it’s math. We’re doing humanitarian stuff, but we’re really freaking fuel resupplying all their artillery, all their missiles, all everything.
Well, Jake, that’s my point to you. What stops the needy Palestinians who are not the enemy who shouldn’t be being shot to be in Hamas coming to get those supplies? Well, I think I think the reality is that the political nature of this this this country and this issue is that you may have a president cabinet who are like, yeah, we support Israel. Well, there’s a lot of talk on supporting Palestine.
OK, we’ll support Palestine, too. And this is how we’re going to do it. And they get credit for doing both.
Yeah. Yeah. Wouldn’t they’re really just getting credit for killing and feeding everybody.
And then we’re like, it’s all politics and not taking care of those people. So ridiculous. This is an example of that.
Jalots. Right. This was in Australia a couple of years ago.
So they build this floating pier, essentially. In this picture, army mariners work to construct a causeway off the coast of Bowen, Australia in twenty twenty three. The causeway forms a floating pier enabling the discharge of equipment to shore showing the capability of J lots.
Humanitarian aid has been slow getting into Gaza for reasons, including blockades at land crossings and tight controls of aid trucks by Israel, which has accused Hamas of stealing humanitarian goods. Probably. Hello.
I mean, they’re probably both true. The Navy will deploy the floating pier and causeway toward Gaza via ships and soldiers and sailors will prepare them for use. Commercial vessels will be able to dock the cargo offloaded onto smaller Navy logistics support vessels.
Those Navy ships will then deliver the aid onto the causeway where it will be loaded onto trucks that will drive it onto the beach in Gaza for delivery. General Ryder said this aid will be driven into Gaza by vetted U.S. partners and not American troops. Not American troops.
There are some there’s some contracting agency out there making millions. Yeah, there’s probably blackwater. Just being truck drivers.
Is it blackwater? Blackrock or what? Some CIA contracting. It keeps changing. Oh, yeah.
Rotate the names. Right. As soon as they’re accused of some war crime, they change their name.
They move on. These guys are giving them supplies. They’re like, hey, didn’t I see you over in Iraq? And I’m like, yeah, that was that was like 10 years ago.
We built a desert port there. We didn’t, you know, desert. I mean, this this is pretty cool.
Like, yeah, literally building a whole floating. The engineering is fantastic. City kind of thing.
Yeah. So you’re basically building like a floating platform, like an island out there. Unfortunately, the bottom line flexes is the political side.
That thing’s got to be like, oh, that mark. You draw. Yeah.
We’re going to scratch that back right there. Oh, you don’t. Oh, we got to help the Palestinians.
Oh, here’s the actual scratch. Here’s your port. All right.
So we hit. We hit two times in this article that we’re not sending American troops on. There comes a third one.
The U.S. was in talks with partner nations, non-government or non-governmental organizations and Israel about who would conduct those operations. Quote, the concept that is being planned involves the presence of U.S. military personnel on military vessels offshore, but does not require U.S. military personnel to go ashore. General Ryder said.
Third time in the same article. Right. He said the U.S. military would work to ensure proper security measures were in place on the ground.
It would take precautions to protect its troops offshore. What do you think, guys? Amazing. I mean, it’s I like like Jake said, I like the technology aspect of it, the technology, the innovation.
It’s it’s really, really creative. But what all the crap that’s behind that is just so lousy. What happens to the first American soldier who is killed because it was close proximity to Gaza? Yeah.
Yeah. I’d like that. Oh, but there was no boots on there.
We didn’t have soldiers on the ground. Oh, right. We still lost four.
Is that is that is that the guy who’s going to get back and he’s like, I’m getting out after this deployment. He goes up to V8. He’s like, hey, I was over there in Gaza for like six months.
Were you on the we on the thing? He’s like, yeah, we all were. And he’s like, you weren’t a guy. You weren’t in Gaza.
That’s your buddy. You don’t pay. It’s not tax free for you, Jack.
That’s not tax free, buddy. You’re on military military or US military property. Sorry, dude.
Anyway, I thought I thought I’d get you guys take on that. And it fired me up to us. This is so it’s just so duplicitous.
It’s so, you know, it’s just it’s like one hand. The other hand that if indeed the food and supplies get to the Palestinians who are suffering. I hope so.
Ultimately a good thing. Right. I just don’t see how that’s controlled.
I just. You know, it’s I don’t know. It’s not like we have a history of that going well.
Right. You know, so. All right.
Let’s share ourselves up and give us hope for the future. All right. From the Associated Press, of all people.
I love this article. Eighty years after D Day, a World War Two vet is going to get married near the beaches that we landed on for D Day. Let’s go.
Let’s show you the picture. All right. Eric.
Shout out to Boca Raton, Florida. Oh, really? The land of love. They are in Florida.
That’s true. Yeah. There you go.
Sustainable AIDS groups. So Harold. Harold Terrance on the right and his fiance.
I don’t know if it’s Gene or Jan Swerlin, kissed and held hands today as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War Two vet first visited as a 20 year old U.S. Army Air Forces corporal shortly after D Day. Here he is. Terrance, a gregarious and energetic.
Remember this Associated Press. So gregarious and energetic 100 year old will be honored in June by the French as part of the 80th anniversary celebration of their country’s liberation from the Nazis. Then he plans to marry the sprightly 96 year old Swerlin in the town of Carrington Les Marazniers.
I don’t know how to say that. Outstanding, man. Gene Swerlin.
That’s it. Same spelling as my mother. Is it Jeannie? So, okay.
I wasn’t served as okay, Jeannie. No, but it’s the same. It looks like Jan or whatever.
Jan, but we’ll go with Jeannie. That sounds more appropriate for somebody who’s 96 years old. Yeah.
I’m sure she didn’t have Jan back then. the couple who are each widow grew up in New York City, her in Brooklyn, him in the Bronx. They laugh at how differently they experienced World War Two.
She was in high school and dated soldiers who gave her war souvenirs while Terence enlisted in 1942. AKA STDs. That’s awesome.
Jeannie, you jog war souvenirs. But that was that was back when all you needed was a shot. Oh, God damn it, Jake.
I’m talking about a 96 year old. Shit. Jeannie and Harold, we admire what you’re doing.
You got to laugh along with us. Absolutely. And follow and like our show, would you please? Love that story.
Love that story. Tell your great kids. Get your phone to your grandkids.
Don’t know how to do it. They’re probably making a same joke, so. I love that.
Terence enlisted in 1942 and shipped to Great Britain the following year attached to a four pilot P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron as their radio repair technician. Terence said his original pilots all eventually died in the war. On D-Day, Terence helped repair planes returning from France so they could rejoin the battle.
He said half his company’s pilots died that day. Terence went to France 12 days later, helping transport freshly captured Germans and just freed American POWs back to England. Now let’s do this one.
This was cool. He then went on a secret mission. He learned the details of his covert mission when he was deposited at a Soviet airfield in Ukraine.
As part of a new strategy, American bombers would fly from Britain to attack Axis targets in Eastern Europe. They didn’t have enough fuel to return so they would fly to Russia. Terence’s job was to get the crews fed and the injured treated before they flew the refueled planes back home.
He married his wife Thelma in 1948 and they had two daughters and a son. He became a U.S. Vice President for a British conglomerate. They moved from New York to Florida in 2006 after his wife Thelma retired as a French teacher.
She died in 2018 after 70 years of marriage. He has 8 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Jeannie Swirlin married at 21 and was a full-time mom to two girls and a boy before being widowed in her 40s.
Her second husband died after 18 years of marriage. She then lived with soul cats. They say it like we should know who that is.
I don’t know who that is. For 25 years before his death in 2019, she has 7 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. The couple and their families will head to Paris in late May where Terence and a handful of surviving World War II veterans will be honored.
Of the 16 million American World War II veterans, the government says only about 120,000 remain. It will be Terence’s fourth D-Day celebration in France. He received a medal from President Emmanuel Macron 5 years ago.
The families will then travel to the town of Carintan-Les-Marais. I can’t speak French. Where the couple plan to be married June 8th by Mayor Jean-Paul Léhonneur in a chapel built in the 1600s.
That’s awesome. Can you imagine how excited he was to see the little blue pill? The article goes that how they get along and how much in love they are and you know, it’s shit. Why not, right? That’s amazing.
I think it’s awesome. And shitty. He’s going to get married in France? Hell yes.
I got my first marriage in Fort Hood, Texas. And I should have known that wedding was doomed because I was part of the 2nd Armored Division and the 2nd Armored Division’s motto is Hell on Wheels and we went to the Hell on Wheels chapel to get married. Oh, man.
I should have known, right? Anyway, good on you, Harold and Jeannie, and good luck. Good job. Yeah, that’s awesome.
Yeah, that is awesome. All right, Eric. I’m looking forward to this history participation.
Oh, what do you got, Jake? That guy’s Saul Katz. That’s Solomon for a little long. He was a really cool software developer and he pioneered geospatial computer software, so mapping software.
Damn, I should have been with him for 20 years. That’s pretty amazing, too. And Annie settled down in Lakewood, Colorado.
I’ll be damned. Wow. We could have done a history on both those guys, man.
Jeez. I know. If I had just waited till May, if I had waited till May, we could have done his history and then we could have done $6 million man history because that crash happened on May 10th.
On my birthday, I made a lot of it now. We wasted it. We wasted a good history on this.
Come on, man. You never even knew what mine is yet. All right.
So tonight, it’s going to be… I’m waiting for you. All right. Tonight’s going to be an interactive history, right? So what I’m going to do is I’m going to give you information on one particular soldier and you’ve got to identify him.
His history will be prominent once you identify who he is. All right. I’m so sorry to whoever this historical figure is.
And by the way, I’m not going to give you any years. I’m going to butcher this. I’m not going to give us any years.
Nope. So we have all of 200 and some years of military history in the United States. I am defaulting to Paul Revere.
Stop being a Barbie pooper and enjoy the ride, Paul. So he was born… Notice it’s a he. He was born November 11th.
Birthday. Got it? 19… No, he’s not giving us a year. No, no.
That’s what I just said. Marty, come on, man. I was trying to get it out of him.
That ain’t going to work. Attended the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia as a cadet. That’s too many VMI.
Famous VMI guys. Was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in June… 11 June. Not the year.
You’re not narrowing it down. Had his first child, March 19th. That was the key fact that I was really relying on.
The child? Yeah, this is not narrowing anything down. Well, because I’m going… It will as I give you some more hints. Okay, okay, okay.
Play along. Led soldiers who engaged Pancho Villa’s bodyguard and others at Ruby Ranch. Rubio Ranch.
Ruby Ranch? Ruby Ranch? No, Rubio Ranch. Okay, Rubio Ranch. Again, Pancho Villa.
Pancho Villa. Early, early implementation. Alright, so now we got a century, at least.
So engaged Pancho Villa’s bodyguards and others at Rubio Ranch, okay? Alright, so here’s the one that’s probably going to help give you… You may even get who it is. Robert E. Lee? Did he go to VMI? No. Nope, that’s not the correct name.
November 10th, detailed to the tank service. Well, if… Good, good. It can’t be patent.
He’d be way too… Why can’t it be? Why can’t it be? Because I thought patent went to the West Point. He did. And Pancho Villa was 19, like, frickin’ old something.
It was early 1900s, right? Yeah. Correct. Alright, let me give you another one.
Like pre-World War I. Yeah, right, right, right. Was awarded the Purple Heart for a wound sustained… I’ll even give you the year. 1918.
Was it… It’s not your marine, Smedley Butler, is it? Oh, Smedley. Alright, so here comes your final hint. And by the way, March 12th, 1943, is promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant General.
Where was his wound at? Where was his wound? Come on, now. What was his favorite color? Because all these others are about them. He thought through the left titty.
April 11th, Pat… Pat. Pat. The second it was off patent.
It was Pat. How was it, Pat? Was he 12 when he beat Pancho Villa? You remember, he fought in World War I. Right. I mean, he was born in 1885.
He goes to the VMI in 1904. Clearly, I don’t remember that. In 1904, he goes into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Okay, so… June 5th in 1905, he becomes a repeat. He has to repeat his initial year because he wasn’t freaking doing very well. Okay? Promoted to the June… In 1909, he permuted the Second Lieutenant.
March 19th, 1911, he has his first child. He receives an individual instruction in fencing. There’s a big one.
In summer France. Well, yeah, if you’d have thrown those out. We did.
Well, that’s what I wasn’t going to give you the easy ones. That would have… You know? A hand-milled, custom-made pearl handle. You kept emphasizing November and, like, March.
Well, I did March 12th because today is March 12th. I’m with you. I appreciate that.
So the history was he was promoted today, or Lieutenant General, today back in 1943. Oh, okay. And that’s when he took over the second… What did they call that? The second… Second Armored Division.
No. No, because he was Second Armored Division when they were doing maneuvers in Louisiana. That was April 11th.
Patton was made the commanding officer of the Second Armored Division. Patton was named in March as commanding officer of Second Corps. U.S. Second Corps.
Second Corps. Okay. Second Corps.
So that’s when he gets his temporary Lieutenant General. Three stars. So… All right.
So he was promoted on March 12th. Yep. Was it an Ike that it was his classmate? Who was his classmate at the BMO? He was classmates with another one of the generals that we talked about.
It might have been Eisenhower. And I don’t remember exactly, but there was a lot of those famous generals who were running around. A really cool book.
I read Michael Shara, I think is his last name. He’s the one who wrote Killer Angels. If you’ve ever read Killer Angels, it’s about the Civil War and leadership in particular.
It’s one of the best history books you’ll ever read. He also wrote about going down after Mexico with Jen Winfield Scott. And all those famous guys, right? I mean, before the Civil War, all those famous guys were like lieutenants and captains.
Stonewall Jackson, Grant. And they’re all kind of… They knew of each other. They didn’t know each other specifically, but like General Lee, when he was like a captain, he was like… He could draw, so they made him like a mapping guy.
And he was very good at drawing the maps and all that kind of stuff. Eisenhower is the one that punished Patton for smacking around the guy who was dealing with… Yeah, he did that because he had all the pressure that he had. So he gave him… It was just a reprimand.
He did it twice. It was the second time that they made him do the movie apology. You know what else I read about him though? He was a racist dude.
He thought that the black soldiers, even the black Panthers, the tank division that he had underneath him, were inferior to the white soldier. Even though they proved themselves amazing. But he was… That’s also… That was the time.
Sign of the time. And it was interesting because this next to last episode of Masters of the Air, I don’t know if you saw it, Jay. It was Tuskegee Airman.
It was Tuskegee Airman, right? And they… I thought the producers or the directors did a fantastic job of just how those guys interacted. Because it wasn’t like, Hey, Darky, get out of my face. It wasn’t anything like that.
It was just kind of indifference. Yeah. And they’re like, hey, we’re here.
And they’re like, okay, great. Yeah. Well, the other thing is he was a firm believer in… He was a warrior in past years, past centuries.
Reincarnation. Right. You know, the movie played that up more than I think it was.
Not in what I read. Let me ask you this. He was a firm believer.
So… He was a reincarnator. He was… Okay. Anti-conspiracy guy.
Was he taken out? Oh, with the vehicle accident? Yeah. There’s… I don’t know. I would like to think not.
If you read the details of that accident… Yeah. There’s no fucking way that would have happened on its own. Someone killed him, you think? I mean, like the driver like disappeared.
It was fine. And it was like, where the hell do you go? Yeah, I’ve never looked into it, but yeah. It’s all… He got thrown from the vehicle.
Seatbelts weren’t a thing back then. So, Jake doesn’t believe it was a conspiracy. Wake up and smell the conspiracy.
That’s because Jake likes to take the easy way out. That’s right. No, I like poking the bear.
That’s what I like doing. That’s right. When you go… When you read about… I don’t know if you like Bill O’Reilly’s books, if you’ve ever read them.
I thought they’re the greatest history books of all time, because it’s not just dry history. So, when he writes his killing series, the early ones… His later ones, not something. But his earlier ones, Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Patton, are really good.
Now, he doesn’t speculate. He just lays out kind of the facts. But in that book is where he talks about Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, and how they were thinking about dividing up Europe.
And if you’ve ever read or heard anything about that… Actually, I think it was… I think they were cutting Churchill out. I forget some of the facts about it. But… So, these three guys, before the war is even over, are already planning what Europe is going to look like after the war.
Now, here comes Patton going, we should fight these motherfuckers. It’s Stalin now. While we’re here.
These two guys are going like, well, we can’t have that talk. I can see where that goes. And this guy, who’s already been shot on the battlefield, right? I mean, he got shot way back in World War I. World War I. World War I. He’s been through all that on a lonely road, no traffic on it.
Bright day, gets in an accident that killed him. It wasn’t a drone attack, though. And even after they got notified, it took like an hour before any aid got to him.
No. Yeah. I know that he definitely made it vocalized that he said we should hit the Russians right now.
Because if you don’t do it now, you’re going to do it later. And they couldn’t have that. But you know what? They were in a ball.
The way you think Marty, there’s a conspiracy side to every one of these historic events. I know. I would like to glossed over the fact that he said, O’Reilly made Steven Ambrose look like a bitch in his World War history books.
That’s what he said. Compared to Steven Ambrose, O’Reilly. Compared to Steven, I compared him to Matt Lough.
You ever read Matt Lough? I haven’t read Matt Lough. Matt Lough sucks. If you ever read it, you’ll be like, oh, yeah.
He was so freaking detailed. His stuff was like this. He was telling troop movements.
He was telling people stories. But all I’m saying is O’Reilly wrote, but he put other factors around that thing. And that’s what I’m saying.
I could see that when you talk about how he vocalized his concern over Russia. Yeah. Right.
He talks about, I mean, his book about killing Kennedy. He talks about his brother going after the mob while Kennedy wanted to get out of Vietnam. And then all of a sudden, one guy pulls off three shots in less than a minute with a bolt-action rifle from behind him.
And the fatal shot came from in front of him. Not a conspiracy, I suppose. I don’t like the fact that they should have been declassified 25 years after the point.
Trump was supposed to release him. Like, we classified all kinds of stuff, right? And he pushed out on that too, right? And then they’re like, T.S. is 25, default, 25, right? Right, right, right. That’s what I was supposed to do.
Trump was supposed to release him. We could do a whole show on just about every historical event with a conspiracy piece around it. Yeah, I don’t know.
Well, I mean, the ones who are trying to hide the conspiracy often use the tactic by saying, you think everything’s a conspiracy. They’re the ones who are trying to cover up stuff. That’s a common tactic.
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Papa Bear. That’s right. A lot of our listeners don’t understand that every historical event that Mr. History brings up, he has a video dedicated to it all.
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