Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 06 Nov 2024
Date: Nov 5, 2024
Special event alert. I stopped off the boat on my way in the ship, which is use number one every four years for being late for changeovers, your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host, Marty Smith, and I’m joined by Eric Peron.
Yay, my retirement plan’s in the hest area, you know it, babe. And our man in the closet, Pat, is back, Jake Wall. It’s good to be back, guys.
Good to see you. We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates, pertinent to all guardians and to the other lower branches as well. So take your seats, get them forward, and have a laugh as we present Light for Changeover.
You got nothing on Joe Rogan, baby. I know. You know, I want to get a sign behind, at least.
Yeah. Fucking signs are expensive as shit. I was like, damn it.
Well, maybe I can make one. Okay, it’s good. Well, I haven’t… My other pictures are over on the other side of the room, but my stepdaughter’s kind of moved into my basement for temporary, temporary, right? So I had to move back over to my original position.
But no, I was watching Rogan, especially all the interviews he’s had lately. I’m like, God, there’s a neon sign he’s got behind. That’s a fucking choice.
However… I watched her, like all of them. I even watched the one on Shayshay. I watched hers.
I was doing my research. I’m like… Right. Well, we shall see.
We are doing this Monday night, where we usually record Tuesday night. I’ll still put it out on Wednesday, because I don’t want to compete with all the election coverage. So when we still don’t have a winner on Wednesday, come and watch Late for Changeovers.
They’ll entertain you until they decide, you know… I was trying to remember, how long did it go with Bush and Gore? Remember that? Didn’t it seem like it went for like a month? It seemed like it was a long time. Yeah, that’s what I thought. I wonder how long it actually was.
I don’t know. I don’t know if we had any kind of research staff that could look that up for you. It seems like a lot of work.
Research staff is my effing dog running around. So we either get Armageddon tomorrow, or we get no answer. National election month.
They might as well make it a month for everything, man. Might as well make it national election month. Whatever happened to that movement where they were trying to get election day as a national day off.
Remember they were talking about doing that? I was like, yeah, sure. They should. They’re just like, nah.
We had no energy for that. They’re giving it another day. We got to send more shit to Ukraine.
That’s what we got to do. Dude, how’s the new hip? You got a new ball and socket? Your binoculars and shit? Yeah, it’s getting there. It’s getting better.
I’m still it still hurts at night, but the weirdest thing is it’s it’s still numb in parts. My thigh. It’s almost two weeks and it’s gradually coming back, but I had no adductor.
So if you lay on your back and your your knees 90 and it goes out, I couldn’t pull it back. And so I would go, oh, and it would just snap out and I was like, ah, that hurts. But I would have to take my my my hand and push it and push it back up.
So that’s coming back slowly. Good year, man. Not a lot of pain, though, not a lot of pain.
Not there. But I think now that I know this makes no logical sense. I know this makes logical sense.
Yes. But I think I gained some hype from it. And the only reason I say that is because hold on, hold on now to hear me out.
There’s a logical there’s a logical thing because I was almost bone on bone. Right. So what they do, they put like a sleeve in there.
They saw off the end of your femur. They put that thing down in there and then they shove it up in there. So all of a sudden I got more, more space.
Now, the reason I know that is because my prosthetic didn’t change. Is your prosthetic now like this? Yeah, I’m stepping in a hole. I’m like, holy shit, it’s too short.
So I had to get prosthetic extended. I had to get spacers and put it in there to raise it up. And I’m like, oh, I think I gained a half an inch at least.
Look at you. And I’m like, oh, we’re going to have to get those shoes that have bigger heels. Don’t let it go to your head.
So the block shop clomp around bodies all over here playing. I know I might be able to look at pushing villagers away. Get away from me.
Get out of here. Short stuff. I might be able to look you guys right in the chin here pretty soon.
I’ll destroy you. I’m looking forward to that. OK, let’s get to the news.
No significant space news to report this week. The one they had there, like, hey, the Dragon crew moved their spaceship to another docking port. So those resupply guys could come up.
And I was like, that’s all you got? Is the threat of the ISS still, oh, my god, it’s going to blow. Yeah, no updates on it. It’s still losing three pounds of air.
A day or whatever it is. You just Jake doesn’t go watch that article. We did 50 errors on the ISS that are causing it to lose air because all these parts are past their prime.
They’re all nervous. It’s going to freakin blow up and shit anyway. We already reported that Elon has the has the bid for pushing it back in.
Right. Right. So he’s already ready.
It’s already on the chopping block. They think that it’s so degraded, it may not be able to do that now because there’s so many pushes down and just go, fans. Yeah, like a pinata in space.
I think it’s my my theory last week was it’s butch and sunny. They’re bad luck. They’re just they’re bowing employees, man.
That extra weight is really dragging that place down. It employs a crazy, crazy hair, striving them nuts. Last goes wearing out left to right.
Last week, we did a mishap story, right? These guys, loaders, bomb loaders were on the carts. I can’t remember the name of the cart, but did you ever use the carts? Yeah, jammer, jammer. And I guess they have two different types, one that has the pedals 18 inches apart and one that has the pedals right, right next to it.
So I saved this picture from last week. Right. So the guy got in now, he was qualified on it, but he hadn’t he hadn’t driven one in months like the NCO.
So he drove it, jammed it in reverse, was trying to stop. It ran into an F-15, knocked him off the cart. And then the jammer kept going and ran into the F-16 spark to fire 30 million dollars of damage.
Oh, and so part of the report was they were showing these two different jammers, that one on the left with the pedals far apart. And then the one on the right, which he was used to, but he was driving the one on the left. Yeah, he forgot that he didn’t have the brake over here.
There’s a whole different foot, right? Yeah, one footing it or or two feet. Some some drivers will do the two feet over here. But then you have to two feet over here.
Well, it sounds like to me like he was trying to jam on the on the brake that was way over there to the left of him and he couldn’t stop it. So I thought I wish you were off of that story. As I knew your head was a perspective.
Those things are super heavy because you think about it. They have to have the counterweight hold a five hundred pound. Sure.
Thousand pound bomb. Yeah, sure. Right.
That’s the smaller one. But so they’re happy. And so once they get momentum, they’re moving and you’re driving backwards, which is common.
Hey, is it really OK? Yeah. What’s the shape between the gas and the brake? That thing in the middle there. It’s a part of the drive shaft.
It’s part of the cover it up, I guess. Yeah, because the seat is behind that, right? It’s back. Yeah.
You’re that that gray thing right there is the actual seat. OK. So, yeah, that’s a good part in there between the gas tank and the engine.
On both of them with a munition on the back. Yeah, I mean, look at that one side where you can see where you get onto the thing. Yeah, that’s the gas tank you’re sitting right next to you.
Oh, man. And then. Well, hell, he’s lucky that didn’t blow up when he hit the plane.
Well, right. Right. Well, he hit the F-15 and knocked him forward and off of it.
And then the that thing just kept going and then careened into an F-16. So, oh, shit. I can understand how it’d be easy to get bucked off one of those.
I mean, you know. Yeah. What do you what? There’s no there’s no safety.
That’s it. There’s no. No, it’s not in your momentum is pushing you forward.
Right. Because you’re going backwards. Oh, yeah.
Right. Right. So you would if anything, you’d go over the steering wheel.
Yeah, which isn’t it’s not like there’s a big dashboard. No. To keep the end.
Surprised it doesn’t happen more, to be honest with you now that you’re talking. Right. If you look at it.
Not the safest particular piece of equipment. I wonder if the one man, because he was the right. The one man is the boss.
And that’s the three man normally drives this. So the three man will be the loader like. Oh, I got you.
I got you. Yeah. Picking up the the position on the crew.
Right. You’re picking up the bombs, you’re doing that. The two man’s looking at the airplane, making sure everything’s loaded.
So the one man never drives this normally. But like this, he was terrified on it, but he hadn’t driven one in months. So I bet he was out there and he’s like, you know, I haven’t done it in a while.
Let me drive. Let me drive. And they’re like, oh, he was like, oh, I got to run back and use the restroom.
I don’t want to actually run. Let me borrow the jammer quick. Oh, that could happen out there, could it? Oh, yeah, I would.
Instead of putting up these dropping the load. Yeah, or you forgot something like you forget something back in the office. Yeah, the shop.
And you don’t want to run back there. Like, oh, right, right, right. Do those things drive like on a forklift? Just a real tight turning radius.
Oh, they’re tight. Yeah. And you’re just like, oh, and the back wheels are the only ones that are turning.
Oh, OK. Wheels, the front wheels don’t turn. Yeah, yeah.
Like steer the back wheels steer. That’s almost like a golf cart, a push golf cart. Yeah, only steering from the rear wheels.
Yeah. Well, man, that’s crazy. Well, anyway, I thought that bring back some memories.
Yeah, that’s fun. Oh, also to top off that mishap, they were like, yeah, that happened. OK, maybe that could be forgivable.
But the hydraulic fluid was the blackest we’ve ever seen. Yeah, which it jammed the hydraulic was so bad, it jammed the throttle. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. And so it wouldn’t let up. So that’s why I get so preventative maintenance is not easy.
But that’s the thing age has. That’s a whole career. Yeah, that we’ve literally dropped those off every couple of months.
Right. And get them. And that’s what they do.
That’s their PMTS or maintenance checks. Yeah, that’s all they do. All right.
OK, no space news. Thanks for filling us in on that. Jake, so let’s go to our old favorite.
Right. I like old favorites. The V.A. And and actually this time, all right.
There’s good news for the V.A. Legit good news. I’m not tricking you for good. This is actually like, but the way we only lost one point eight billion.
That’s it. It’s only money they got there is just through sheer incompetence. So this is essentially them falling down the stairs and going, hey, look at that.
We looked OK. I hate when I do this. Sorry about that.
All right. So for stripes dot com, the V.A., we did this story a couple of months ago or yeah, a couple of months ago. The V.A.’s projected 15 billion dollar budget shortfall doesn’t exist.
And the agency actually has a five billion dollar surplus. They found it in a drawer in the guy’s office down the hallway. Remember, we did that story.
Like, if you if Congress doesn’t give us any money, there’s seven million vets who’s not going to get paid, right? So they actually did cut a check and you’ll see that in a second. Fifteen billion dollars shortfall that the V.A. has closed the lawmakers and an urgent request for emergency funding to cover veterans benefits and close a projected budget gap does not exist. V.A. leaders told Congress in September that they need a three billion immediately to close the budget gap or veterans would lose their benefits.
Instead, the V.A. has a surplus of five point one billion from fiscal twenty twenty four, according to Representative Mike Bost, Republican from Illinois and Representative John Carter, Republican from Texas. The V.A. also no longer projects a twelve billion dollar shortfall for fiscal twenty twenty five, higher costs for an increase in health care enrollments, payroll and equipment purchases all fell within original budget estimates. Hmm.
So, yeah, sorry. We know now see what happened. The government said you better find some money or someone’s going to be fired.
And all of a sudden and they found the money and then they’re like, oh, we did. We actually didn’t have the money. Sorry about that.
So it’s three billion. They wanted to lose these two representatives, Bost and Carter. They wrote a sharply worded letter to the V.A. Secretary Dennis McDonough saying, quote, no benefit shortfall ever existed.
And much of the information your leadership team has provided about a purported health care shortfall is erroneous. They also accused V.A. leaders of, quote, an utter inability to forecast and determine costs accurately. Yeah, close.
Yeah. So someone needs to be fired. So there’s no exactly that that should.
There should be no worded email. There should be nothing. No, no, whoever it is in charge of the V.A., the top one is fired.
You should be should be there. Nobody ever gets fired. Nobody ever gets fired.
That’s what’s funny. Like someone is in the middle there in company. And in fact, in fact, no apologies, no regrets.
Just kind of one big shoulder shrug in front of the V.A. And I’ll say sorry about that. We’ll do better next time. But here’s the idea.
Hey, what are you going to do? Here’s the icing on the cake. The V.A. caution lawmakers that V.A. spending in 2025 could still exceed original estimates. Oh, my God.
The agency stated it expects to hire 5000 additional staff and is projecting a funding anomaly by the end of the calendar year. So they’re already set in a stage for next September. Is it a joke? Like they wrote it and they said it like we made a mistake this year, but next year we’re probably going to be short.
So right there, that first guy gets fired and then they get full audited. That’s it. By every outside agency, yes.
It’s quarterly audits at least. Yeah, clearly. You have it.
Rocking clue what you’re doing. It’s crazy. And, you know, the slap of the hand stuff.
I don’t know. That’s got to go. Right.
I mean, I don’t know. Maybe a change of administration. How much money are we paying? How much money is the government paying that guy? And you’re right.
Yeah. Yeah, too much. Or are they didn’t we have a story earlier where these guys were writing themselves bonuses and are like, oh, well, yeah.
We can’t do that. Sorry about that. Well, we’ll stop.
We’ll stop doing it. So some good news. Nobody was shorted.
But bad news, these knuckleheads like fell down the stairs and like landed on their feet like, oh, well, at least it was no sense of alarm. Spence at the expense of veterans. Yeah, nobody’s up until 2025.
I would just say, hey, that three billion, we got it. Just put it in the fund. Don’t touch it until September when you come walking back in here because you guys don’t use QuickBooks.
They’re like, you want me to hold on to this for you? Because I know you’re going to need it. It’s it’s the kid that comes back and he’s like, no, I got it. Yeah, it’s like, well, why just hold on? Do you? You’re still back here.
Do you get it? You are in my office, for Christ sakes. All right. So good on the VA on this one.
Bad on the VA on this one. This one is going to piss you off. All right.
So this is from task and purpose. All right. The VA, a VA employee’s accidental voice.
You still have the jammer up. Why? Do you see it? Yeah, can you still see it? Yep. You can still see it.
I don’t. Oh, you don’t? No. Oh, OK.
So you you still show it up. I see it up. Eric doesn’t see it.
No, I don’t have it up. There you go. Can you see? What can you see now? Just the jammer? Yeah, that’s all I see.
That’s OK. It’s just mine. Oh, well, let’s hold on.
Let’s see. Don’t worry about it. We’re good.
Can you see me change? Can you change anything? No. Well, take a second. Take a second and refresh it or something.
Because oh, there we go. Maybe it ought to work. You just dropped off.
Bloop. Goodbye, Jake. So there it is.
OK, now what do you see? There you go. You clear? Yeah. All right.
So this one, this story is from task and purpose. A VA employees accidental voicemail to a veteran prompts investigation. All right.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is apologizing to a veteran who received voicemail from a facility in El Paso, Texas, in which VA employees can be heard speculating that the veteran was seeking to retain his 100% disability rate when one of them says, it’s all about the money. All right. So the VA deeply apologizes to this veteran, and we are reaching out to him immediately.
VA Press Secretary Terrence A. said, the lack of care and compassion demonstrated by these employees is unacceptable, and we are urgently, urgently investigating this incident. And we’ll take swift and appropriate action. Veterans deserve respect and the very best care our nation has to offer, and we at VA will never accept anything less from our employees, as long as they know about it.
You know who’s definitely getting 100 right now, right? That guy. 105. Hey, listen to this.
It was fixed that number. What’s there to investigate? You listen to the recording? You hear the guy? You go, right, right. You’re done.
Well, I guess they were leaving a call, and you’ll hear it. They were leaving a message, and then they thought they hung up the phone, but it wasn’t hung up. And this guy recorded it all.
So here we go. Yikes. Maybe this guy was a scammer, too.
Hi. This message is for Mr. Oh, it’s definitely the VA. Calling you from the VA.
Definitely the VA. Try to call you back later, sir. Thank you.
I want to see the other day if he was already blessed him, actually. So do you want him to come in for a culinary? He kind of has to, right? Is he good? I don’t know why he is. Let’s burn this one.
What if he’s left fourth? Exactly, exactly. When he’s going, he’s going to say that he’s not good. He doesn’t think anything.
I promise. Yeah, it’s all about the money. Trust me.
Are you going to make a decision? Yeah. How are we trying to keep that order in this place? There’s so much stuff going on in the VA that you think you’re going to lose this visibility and the appointments and be seen. And again, I want to travel pay, too.
Oh, yeah. I’ve heard people get mad about that. The travel pay would be correct, because they don’t like it.
We kind of can do that, come down. Wow. Thank you.
Thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah, that’s great. So fired.
Oh, my God. So the guy is already 100 percent, but he’s hearing a lot of stuff in the in the government saying he’s afraid he’s going to lose his benefits. Yeah, it’s all about the money.
Yeah, yeah, fuckers, man. It’s like they should take all the VA employees and like put them through basic or something like that. So they actually got to work there, you know.
You sons of bitches, I swear. But at the same time, at the same time, I you know, when I was a guy could have been a full scammer. You never know.
They are. There are those out there are those out there. Trying to get five or 10 more percent.
You know, I got told like earlier this year from a guy and he’s like, hey, I got my 10 percent for my hearing loss. And I was like, oh, OK, good, man. Is it bothering you? He’s like, no, but they think it’s bothering me.
I was like, come on. Yeah, so I know there’s. If you got 10 percent for hearing loss.
OK, right. But then you’re like, is it bad or is it anything? You know, fuck, no, it’s not. Oh, it’s it’s the you’re not one, Eric.
But I know two who are CPAP and they’re getting the disability for that admit. I don’t I don’t use it. It’s in my corner.
I don’t use it. But they get the they get the percentage for it. So so there is that.
But to fight the VA employees to us, you know, I know most of them are good and I know most of them hate working for the VA because they’re so limited. I know that because they get frustrated. But then you get also people like this like that guy.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You’re not an insurance agency. Stop trying to be really curious. Yeah.
Yeah. How to that, that you actually have that to do that. I mean, you’re actually taking away money from guys who, I agree, you know, don’t have an M or have dramatic brain injury or whatever.
But clearly, you’re not taking any of that money away from the employee. Well, no, from neither from the agency. The VA doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing with the money.
You’re not taking any money from anyone. If you’re looking like that, you’re right. And if they freaking need more money, all they have to do is go and ask.
Yeah, they’re like billions right now. Yeah, we mismanaged his first bunch. Right.
Ah, freaking crazy. But that’s the thing, though, instead of going after the other losses of money, they would target the individuals first. Instead of going after.
Right. OK, I got a fat like a tumor thing cut out of my arm. Yeah.
And the doctor at the VA goes, so do you want these tools? Like, you know, the the metal forceps or whatever they were. And I’m like, what? No, no. Why would I want? He goes, oh, we don’t have the ability to sanitize them.
So we have to throw them away right now. Oh, that right there is they wouldn’t go after that. What a win.
Every fucking vet clinic has the ability to sanitize shit. Run it, boil some water. There you go.
Dude, they I went in for like they thought it was pre cancer stuff. It turned out not to be pre cancer. So they they gave me the the lightbox therapy.
So I was driving in for like two minutes, you know, as alpha rays or something like that, and I cleared it up and I was like, that’s pretty good. And I’m like, do you want one at home? And I was like, I don’t know. You can do that.
And they’re like, yeah, I can order one for you. I was like, can I try it? And if I don’t like it, I can bring it back. And they’re like, no, we have no we have no ability to take it back.
So if you want it, we just order it for you. And if you don’t use it, thousand freaking dollars. Yeah.
And they’re like, why can’t you take it back? And they’re like, it’s just their rules. We can’t just like this, the sterilized thing. So much fraud, waste and abuse.
It’s crazy. That’s nuts. Go.
Well, they won’t go after that. They’ll go after the individuals and make it harder to hammer the guy with a pulmonary condition. They’re like, oh, you just got to get more money.
Like, hey, I’ll take the forceps. Maybe that’ll help. Fucking amen.
Speaking of fraud, waste and abuse, I ran across this story from Reuters. So Boeing, our friends over Boeing overcharge the Air Force, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for soap to spend. I go, this goes back to like when you’re you’re buying toilet bowl seats for, you know, 100, that’s that’s the joke, right? That’s the running joke.
Like, no, they even use that. And then the tennis day, you said, come on. But this is real.
Unbelievable. Boeing overcharge the US Air Force for spare parts for C-17 transport planes, including marking up the price on soap dispensers by seven thousand nine hundred and forty three percent, according to her report by a Pentagon watchdog. Come on, the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General said on Tuesday, the Air Force overpaid nearly one million dollars for a dozen spare parts, including one hundred and about one hundred fifty thousand for an undisclosed number of lavatory soap dispensers from the plane maker and defense contractor.
The Air Force needs to establish and implement more effective internal controls to help prevent overpaying for spare parts for the remainder of this contract, which continues through twenty thirty one, said I.G. Robert Storch. That is a long time to when you go into procurement, all the controls, the contract types, the cars are like with his eyes closed. Yeah, that number looks great.
I guess it’s crazy. I mean, this is so so basic. And this is the I.G. The I.G. used to make heads roll.
I guess they don’t make heads roll anymore. Maybe they’re just like, oh, I.G.’s coming. Maybe we only have like 30 violations this year.
But no one’s getting fired. But no one’s getting fired. Going to have a hell of a Christmas party.
Significant overpayments for spare parts may reduce the number of spare parts of Boeing can purchase on the contract, potentially reducing C-17 readiness worldwide. Boeing said Tuesday it was reviewing the report, adding that it appears to be based on an inapt comparison of the prices paid for parts that meet military specs and designs versus basic commercial items that would not be qualified or approved. So they’re already dithering.
Right. So that’s a military grade. So that’s a military grade soap dispenser.
And it’s like, oh, I know you serious. Boeing said it plans to provide a detailed written response to the report in the coming days and said the spare parts were substantially modified to meet military specifications. One hundred and fifty thousand dollar modified.
The inspector general also noted it could not determine if the Air Force paid a fair price on twenty two million dollars worth of spare parts because the service did not keep a database of historical prices, obtained supplier quotes or identify commercially similar parts. Sounds like the same guys doing this worked on the inventory over Ukraine. Can you guys still hear me? Or are you just in shock? No, I’m struggling.
You’re breaking up really bad. And Jake, really in the chat. Somebody was clear for him.
But I think it’s my wonderful XFINITY fucking service here. So I’m going to have to change. Just it’s in and out real bad.
Jake, are you still hearing him clear? Now I can’t hear Jake. What the fuck is going on tonight? I show you licking chicken. Oh, that’s a little bit.
Sure. That’s a that’s a good old one. So.
Let’s see. Well, network problems. OK, well, that one didn’t have a that’s Boeing.
No, that Boeing shit is ridiculous, though. And we used to joke about the toilet seats because that was where they would hide the black ops money, you know, kind of thing. They would just skim off the top and do the black ops money.
Yeah. Yeah. But now it’s the corporations that are skimming the whole time.
Well, I wonder if it’s it’s you know, it’s like House of Cards stuff. And it’s like we can’t pay you directly, but I can pay you, you know, eight hundred dollars for that soap dispenser. Do we default to malicious or do we fall to incompetence? It’s got to be malicious at this point, right? Stupid or incompetent.
Yeah. I mean, what if somebody just did the shit wrong? They thought it was OK. And back in the day, somebody did it that way.
And they’re just copy and pasting from that on every month. We’re getting like an IG report or something or a whistleblower that comes out. Yeah.
But you know who you know what’s always in the headline? Is some commander got relief, some Navy boat captain got relief. We never hear anybody, you know, department head at the VA got fired. Oh, shit.
Let me read about that. Yeah. Yeah.
So. All right. Can you hear us now that they might be? Yeah.
But yeah, maybe they do it and they or maybe they just it’s got to be malicious. It’s not incompetent. I think I was saying, Eric, do you think it’s just pure incompetence or do you think it’s malicious? Like every time, man, because it feels malicious.
I agree. I agree. Yeah, it feels.
Yeah. If you had like 18, 19 year olds doing this. OK, incompetence.
Right. I get it. Yeah.
But to what end are they like is somebody at the corporate end going, hey, Pat, our scores this time? That’s their same way we could do this. But these are probably. G.S. 12s, G.S. 14s doing this contract.
But the thing is, like, you know, what if you’re over? You should have been over budget. Sure. Yeah.
Right. Right. At the end.
So at the I’m doing this contract, I handed in all our profits into Lockheed Martin Accounting or Boeing Accounting. Yeah. Boeing Accounting goes.
Why are we up one hundred and forty thousand dollars? Sure. And they’re like, don’t worry about that. That just goes to overhead.
Well, we all we all know it’s happened before. We know contractors that have have screwed the numbers. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. A number of times. Yeah.
So for Boeing to do something like this, it does. Well, they said Air Force overpaid nearly a million dollars for a dozen spare parts, a million bucks. That’s nothing to sneeze at.
Right. How big is that contract? Payola contract, right? Yeah, but how big is that contract? Is it it’s it’s got to be one billion for the C-17. It’s got to be.
Right. So to lose a million in there. That’s easy to hide.
Soap dispensers. Yeah. But on the Air Force underneath, they have so many contracts that they’d probably assign one one person to like.
Yeah, you’re right. Yeah. Contracting office probably has 20 in the contract of the numbers.
But still, that that that’s bullshit. Yeah, that should be so eye popping to anybody who just reviews. It was enough to write a story about it in, you know, national publication here.
But yeah, we’ll come of it. I don’t know. Probably nothing.
For sure. All right. Now, this story is very short, but I’m curious about which side you come down on it.
OK, so this is from military dot com. The CENTCOM commander allegedly shoved an airman on a military flight. All right.
The army is investigating allegations that the head of U.S. Central Command shoved an airman while on a military flight headed to Israel. The alleged incident first reported by military dot com on last Thursday indicates that Army General Michael Eric Carilla CENTCOM commander shoved an airman during a C-17 Globemaster three flight. The alleged physical altercation occurred after Carilla had a heated argument with the flight crew over problems assessing communications.
All right. Do you want to see General Carilla? Show me a picture of the gorilla. The gorilla, the gorilla.
So CENTCOM commanded. OK, the general got frustrated with communication problems and left his seat to address the problems after an airman asked Carilla to sit down and buckle up for safety reasons. The general allegedly pushed the airman aside and lashed out in front of multiple witnesses when reached for comment Friday.
A CENTCOM spokesperson told military times that they were not aware of the investigation nor the incident. So I’m curious where you come down on this. Now, I think my my real go ahead.
Go ahead. I think the general should stop being a dick and the airman should stop being a pussy and they should move on. OK, I’ll buy it.
It’s over. I’ll buy that. My suspicion is some airman or whatever.
And this this goes along with security force friend right there. We’re like, I’m going to tell this if this general gets up, I’m fucking telling them to sit down, right? Me, he’s over. What are they going to do? I mean, I’m going to tell him to sit the fuck down.
Right. We’re in charge of this aircraft. And he probably did that.
He’s like, get out of my way. Now, let me ask you this. Did it say if the aircraft was moving? Was it moving? Didn’t.
But I would assume it was because it said the the airman told him to sit down and buckle up for safety reasons. So I’m assumed the cruise may be. So I’m going to take a stance that that airplane is now a flight cruise.
It belongs to the flight crew, just like a flight attendant telling you to sit the hell down on a civilian charter that says, I have to it just because you’re a general doesn’t give you the fucking position to stand up and be a dickhead to an airman who’s trying to do a job. Oh, by the way, it’s your safety. You’re supposed to be sitting the fuck down.
Maybe it’s safety if you got turbulence or something like that. But if they took off and they’re moving and there’s that whole time where on a commercial flight, they won’t let you stand up. But you know damn well, it’s fine to stand up.
Oh, yeah. If it’s that time. He can airmen deserve to get pushed.
Right. You’re going to push it. But I wish we had more to the circumstance.
I know. I know. I wish you did, too.
Because I’m all for physical violence if it’s required. Well, sure. Right.
You know, it’s like if you pull over, if you pull over a four star, you’re in charge of that pull off no matter what. It’s my traffic stop. I get that.
I get that. But on a flight, those those crew chiefs jack around on those fucking flights all the time anyway. You tell them either safety first every time they fly.
Yeah, they’re trained professionals, Marty. But if I could if I could pull a little bigger dick than the four star and tell that story afterwards, you know. Sounds like of course, the airman goes, he shoved me.
This guy’s got his fucking ranger tab on. I know. And the airman’s like, he shoved me.
We’re not getting shot at. I can’t talk to people. The guy probably caved his chest in around his hand.
And he’s like, oh, yeah, I will tell you for me. This goes back to when us, well, not YouTube, but me, when they could still put their hands on it. Yeah.
And it was just, you know, hey, you’re a dumbass, get out of my way. Right, right. I’m all for that.
If that was the case. Yeah, I wish we knew. Yeah, but it’s more fun to speculate and make our own story.
Look at this general. He’s got multiple Purple Hearts. He’s got a ranger tab.
He’s got a combat infantry badge. This is not a guy that’s intimidated by friggin turbulence. No.
Or he’s like, I need to talk to people now. Right, right. And who knows? Maybe that crewman had like a full beer going and a ponytail.
So you need to sit down for safety. He’s like, what? Well, you know what’s going to happen though? In today’s military, he’s going to get disciplined. I guarantee it.
It’s going to be like he doesn’t slapping. And I guarantee I hope he does. You already wasted enough of his time.
Move on. Oh, it’s a four star. CENTCOM commander.
He’s not Colonel Nathan R. Jessup that you’re trying to bring down for a code red. He’s going to lose his position as CENTCOM commander, I bet. Yeah, probably it could be.
That’d be a disappointment. I bet. It would, but I bet.
Anyway, I thought that was it. Or maybe he’s totally always a dick to air crew and air crew finally got tired of it. That’s probably pretty likely too.
That’s right. You never know. Like this whole thing.
I love the speculation involved. I know, I know. Yeah.
Like, here comes a gorilla again. This guy pushes me again this time. I’m crying.
Every time he’s pushing me. He pushes me every flight. Stand up for yourself.
We need to follow up with this. So am I. He pushed me. I want to hear what happens to him.
Bad week for Air Force Academy. Oh my goodness. Bad week for Air Force Academy.
Right? First they come up. Last week they had the eight men soccer players. They got, they’re being suspended for some kind of misconduct.
Then Air Force goes and gets smashed by Army in the Air Force Army game. What was it? 20 to three. But that score was not even close.
They were just killing them. Now the Air Force Academy was also subject to an Army prank that I didn’t even know about. Got you so good.
So the Air Force Academy gets pranked by West Point. And you know, Army, most of the pranks are between Army and Navy. But Air Force gets, gets caught up in.
Like you said, I can’t remember how many years ago that they took the Falcon. I didn’t know they killed it. I thought they heard it.
I didn’t know. They killed. It died.
The result was died. That one’s pretty screwed up. I mean, because Navy and Army, Navy’s got the goat and Army’s got, I don’t know.
They should have a mule. I guess. They’ve taken mules before.
That’s the reason why this is. Because the Army can’t have anything delicate. So they have to have the most robust of the animals possible.
They’re like, it’s a stubborn, hard to kill animal. Comes to steal our mule. We’ve been trying to get rid of it and we can’t get rid of it.
I could see that too. Other than the Texas Longhorns. They’ve got one of the most durable.
And yeah, exactly. All right. So West Point pulled off a magnificent joke for all of Colorado Springs to see.
A prank for the ages that knocks not only the Air Force Academy and its struggling football squad, but the entire Air Force as a whole. So the upper bleachers of Falcon Stadium and those in Colorado know you can drive down I-25 and you can see Falcon Stadium up on the up on the hill that says Air Force when it’s empty. But this week, Army or its fans, no one really knows for sure, found its way into the empty arena and painted it to read.
That’s awesome. Chair Force. So there’s a picture.
That’s awesome. The C and H. Oh man. And you can see that for my 25.
That was incredibly ballsy. What’d you think? You know, people are like, that’s really good. That is so good.
I don’t even know what they did that with. You know, I don’t even know what those letters are. Just cardboard or white paint.
Maybe they painted the seats. But yeah, bad week for Air Force. Man, that’s hilarious though.
That’s a tough one. And I tip of the cap to West Point. That’s pretty good.
All right. With the election coming up tomorrow, we’ll air this on Wednesday. Yes, I thought we’d do a little presidential quiz.
Now we’re not going to keep score because I couldn’t come up with enough of it. So I just see what you get now. This quiz is going to be presidents and military.
All right. So it’s all about presidents in the military. Okay.
I’m all over this. All right. First question.
Out of the 46 different men who have been president, how many of them have served in the U.S. Military? What do you think? So you got Washington, Jackson, Eisenhower. Jake says 18. I’m going to say seven.
Oh, wait. No, there’s probably more because the early guys were all military. That’s right.
No, not all of them. 26. 26, Jake says.
I’m going to say seven. I don’t think it was seven. Oh, it’s way more.
I think I’m low even. It is 31. Yeah.
That was a good guess, man. So these are the presidents who have not had military service. So John Adams, John Quincy Adams.
Yeah, there was only 15 who had not had served, who did not serve in the military. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Grover Cleveland. He was twice.
Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden. Franklin Roosevelt. Yeah.
Franklin Roosevelt. Oh, not Teddy. Yeah, no, Teddy was rough.
Right around the early ones, man. I know. I’m surprised there was a couple of them that were assassinated too.
Not that that has anything to do with their military service. I was trying to think about which ones were assassinated of those 31 who served. How many of the 31 were generals? Wow.
It almost makes you think, well, they all were. But it’s like, no, no, no, eight of them. Okay.
It’s not a bad guess, I think. I don’t think that’s a bad guess. I’m going five.
Oh, Jake. 12. So the generals were the top generals, I think, like four or five star were Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower, major generals were Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Hayes, and Garfield, which Garfield surprised me.
I don’t know why. The cartoon. Yeah, and Brigadier generals included Pierce, Johnson, Arthur, and Harrison.
All right. I wasn’t even what, what did, what service? Harris, Taylor, and Hayes. What were they in? Well, almost everybody was.
Go scratch the surface. Don’t scratch the surface. Well, I was going to try to go by conflict, but I got to, my last question is about the war.
Of those 31, how many were involved in direct contact? Now, that’s a smaller number, much smaller number, right? So, Washington was. Well, you know the original G-Dub. Grant was.
And you listed, and Ike. Yeah, some of those guys went. Multiple times.
Jackson was in 1812. Andrew Jackson. So, what do you think? How many? That’s four.
Who else? You’re going six. Because I don’t know those, the ones that I talk about, Hayes and. I know that we give a shit about Hayes or Garfield.
I’m with you, Jake. I’m saying about six, maybe. No, no.
I’m going to go back to eight. Sixteen. Holy crap.
That’s like almost all. That was only minus two. I know.
Washington Monroe. Jackson Harrison. Taylor Pierce.
Harrison McKinley. Roosevelt. Truman.
Kennedy. Ford. Old man.
Bush. And Eisenhower. Balsall.
Islet. Yeah, he got shot down. Yeah, he got shot down.
Kennedy Ray. Yeah, he was. Okay, I thought we were.
More by the general. Oh, no. I thought this was just of the generals.
That’s why I put up those 30. Sorry. But Ford was in the Navy, right? Was Ford Navy.
Yeah, Ford was Navy. Carter was Navy. I think so.
Of those 16 in direct combat, how many were injured? We’ve been. That’s why we’re not keeping the score. I think.
Oh, hell yeah. G.W. G.W. got shot in the keister. Six.
Six got injured. So Monroe Jackson. Taylor Hayes.
Look at that. Hayes who fought in 50 engagements during the Civil War. Wow.
God. Kennedy got. It says his ship got ran over by.
It did. A destroyer. I thought he got torpedoed.
I didn’t realize he got ran over. Ran over. And Herbert Walker Bush who got shot down over by evil.
It wasn’t Evil Jim. It was one of those other islands. So all right.
Last question. Which war produced the most presidents? Civil World War Two. Well, it was a tie.
Both the Civil War and the World War Two both produce eight presidents of peace. That makes sense. Civil War produced Fillmore.
Johnson. Grant Hayes. Garfield Harrison and McKinley.
World War Two produced Eisenhower. Kennedy. Lyndon Baines.
Johnson. Nixon. Ford.
Reagan. And Herbert Walker Bush. Was Nelson.
Was he in the service? Yeah, I think he was a Navy guy. I think. All right.
Okay. You know, but yeah, he didn’t see the action. A lot of those guys.
So, you know, Reagan was in too. But he was like, he’s in the rear with the gear, baby. So I’ll be in the California Reserve.
Well, and then what Bush Junior was like Texas National Guard or something like that. So, so anyway, there’s some trivia to astound your friends. As your history.
Online to vote. And, and we joke about the reserve back then. But now you’re like, oh, those are reserve guys.
They fuck. They don’t play with. Well, yeah, we do.
We do joke about the reserves now. But I saw something about like the amount of reservists that were on Normandy beach. As it seemed like half the force were all reservists.
They activated everybody. So. Yep.
On this election, Eve, Eric, do you have history or do we just do history? Well, it’s good history, but I have some history. All right. So this is kind of cool.
You know, November, the biggest thing we always talk about is Veterans Day, right? We could have talked about Veterans Day when it was. So I’ve got a piece of history for you that does not. Talk about Black Friday.
Yeah, Black Friday. So I want to talk about between the 13 colonies running all the way to 1781. What document governed the U.S. population, the 13 companies up through 1781.
It actually went through 1789. So we’ll go 1789. Bill of Rights.
Constitution. No, this was prior to the Constitution. So that’s why I brought this in the plane.
That’s perfect. You would have thought that’s right. So the governing body was the Articles of Confederation.
It was adopted by the Continental Congress. On November 15th, 1777 every quiz. Sorry, Mr. Renner.
This is really cool, though, because I had no idea. I knew there had to be a body. I didn’t know it was Articles of Confederation.
Yeah, yeah. After the Lee resolution proposed independence of the American College, the second Continental Congress appointed three committees on June 11th. One of the committees was tasked with determining what form the Confederation of the colonies should take.
This committee was composed of one representative from each colony. John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware, was the principal writer. The Dickinson draft of the Articles of Confederation named the Confederation the United States of America.
After considerable debate and revision, the Second Continental Congress adopted all of the articles on November 15th, 1777. Oh, pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, good.
All right. Getting smart. I feel like I’m getting smarter.
Yeah. So it was interesting. I mean, you can go on and talk about it.
Governs a military. Give them a little leeway. Give them a little leeway.
So all right. So we want to talk about Veterans Day. Oh, yeah.
1918 November 11th. We’re not there yet. We got a couple of shows before Veterans Day.
Don’t jump ahead. Don’t jump ahead. Okay.
That was cool. Oh, yeah. We’ll take that.
Articles of Confederation. That’s a solid. Did you read them for you? It’s a solid six for you.
I did not read them. Too much detail, babe. Surface only, remember? Plus, they write in that old style, baby.
And it’s like, you know, it’s hard to read it. And I’ll post the article for you. I’m glad you went that deep.
So that was good. All right. All right, gentlemen.
We are in depth and preparing for the apocalypse. So just so you know, 2417, 229 left. Two stuff, 2417.
Oh, nice. All the Chiefs are up now. 2417 with two minutes to 24 seconds left.
We already called that, though, didn’t we? And the Chiefs got the ball. Yeah, that’s all right. Everybody lives with the Chiefs.
So I didn’t want to lose to the Chiefs. That’s what my partner is, man. I want to lose to the Chiefs.
Well, actually, a Bronco sent me. No, not yet. We’ll lose to the Chiefs next week because they’re undefeated when they beat the Bucks tonight.
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Push this button. Oh, I can see it. I just can’t get to it.
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We’ll see you next week. All right. Let’s see how many people commit suicide of the election.
It’s going to be higher than the middle of the hill. We have a weird race.