Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 20 Mar 2024
Date: March 20, 2024
Special event alert. Grab your badge and run! This is Late for Changeover, your weekly space news and variety show. I’m your host Marty Smith and with me tonight is our little teapot, Kevin Balco.
Cold blue. And our man in the closet as always, Jake Wall. What’s going on guys? Good to see you.
We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all Guardians and to the other lesser services as well. So take your seats. Get informed and have a laugh as we present Late for Changeover.
Now, Mr. History is sailing the seven seas. I asked him for an update and his satellite connection was down. Is he a thong guy, you think? Oh, he was a bodybuilder.
He was a bodybuilder. He was a body painter. Of course, he’s no stranger.
He’s no stranger to thongs. Let me tell you that. He has lacquered those pores like nobody’s business.
In fact, that was a post about six months ago. If you want to join Mr. History Only fans, you can see all of that. I think he’s running an Irish special.
I wish I didn’t know he wore thongs. Thongs and four leaf clover pasties. A part of me is like I want to support him, right? But then I’m like, you do want to support things I can’t unsee.
But, you know, you don’t want anything to come out like an Epstein report. And they’re like, oh, Kevin Balcom was a subscriber. Let’s go talk to him.
My bad for your birthday. Bring it on. Nice.
He is on cameo. So for your birthday, Mr. History will do a little Irish or whatever your preferred ethnicity jig. That’s true.
But that’s by the minute. You got to pay by the minute. It’s not going to lock arena, man.
Well worth it. Well worth it. Wait till May.
You know, surprisingly, that guy has no joint pain or problems or anything like that. Oh, yeah. Whatever supplements are.
How are you guys doing? You guys doing well? It’s good to see you again, Teapot. Thanks for coming. Yeah, it’s been a while.
Sorry, man. I feel like after the Disney trip, it’s been like a rollercoaster of illness and. Yeah, that’s right.
Yeah, you had some shit roll through the household, which sucks. My son was sick for like three straight weeks. Oh, man.
Hey, stay at home. How old is he? Oh, okay. So, yeah.
And start a school yet. He’s in preschool twice a week. And then we take him to daycare once a week, just because he’s like he needs like hanging out boys and because he’s out with my daughters.
I’m like, I need some some dude in his life too. Like, so, yeah, he goes there for a day. It’s nice, man.
It’s really nice. That’s good. Expensive? No.
Well, I want you to keep that cost in mind when we talk to some of these. That is a solid segue, Marty. 10 out of 10.
I like your segue. Gosh dang it. Well, but I but I segue in the future because I wanted to talk.
I didn’t. I just came up with it. But it would have been great if we had rolled right into that story.
But that’s not. That’s not three stories away. No, because I didn’t write it that way.
And I can’t. What do you got in your hand? What is that? This is my water, but it is in a recycled glass, like all my glasses or most of my glasses are, you know, spaghetti jars or peach jars or whatever. Man of the people right there.
Well, early on, I adopted that mindset of way back in the day when the kids are younger, they’re going to break all kinds of crap. That’s true. Yeah.
And so I went out and bought a case of Mason jars and then a bunch of peaches. I’ve lost like two glasses since then. Those things.
Those things will break a toe before they break them. There is something truly durable about those fucking things. That’s true.
And if they do get destroyed, who cares? It’s not 10 cents. You know, and you kind of look throwback when you do that. Yeah.
I mean, this one, this one might that’s Cecily made, man. She’s handmade all these ones. Yeah.
That’s a whistle to booze. All right. So last week we talked about visa visa.
I thought we’d talk about something that came up just because I heard it the other day and it was a song that reminded me of coming in to jump school. Right. So when I went to jump school in 87, we were part of Delta Company and Delta’s nickname was The Rock.
Right. And the Whispers was big at that time. I don’t remember when that song came out.
I should have looked that up. We begin to rock Rock Steady by the Whispers. Remember? Yeah.
And if I had really prepared to show, I would have played a little bit of that, but I could sing it for you if you’d like. But anyway, we don’t want to get demonetized. That’s true.
So whenever that song comes on, I’m like, that was our song because there was three of us that went through jump school. We’re like, yes, we’re solid as a rock because we are Delta Rock and is the dumbest song to like celebrate to. But when it came out, we had just graduated.
So forevermore, the Whispers, we began or Rock Steady was our was my song going through jump school. Eighty seven, Marty. Eighty seven.
See, that’s when we graduated jump school. Perfect. Well, they pay the big bucks, Jake.
Thank you. Thank you. I can’t check.
You got it got to number one on the hot R&B slash hip hop song. Well, I tell you, it was number one in our hearts. Yeah.
And Fort Benning, Georgia. Why we’re at the strip bar after we just graduated at three o’clock on the billboard 100 that same year. We’re the we’re the friendly ladies dancing to that song.
Yes, I will say for the show. I don’t quite remember. But it was probably yes.
It was three o’clock in the afternoon strippers. So it wasn’t I remember we were we were sitting up front and we were all dumb and we were drunk because it was the last day. We had nothing to do.
We were flying the next day and we were sitting next to the stage. And there are stupid little black hats that we bought at Ranger Joe’s right next to it. That’s a long victory drive, which they nicknamed VD drive because they had four strip bars and everything else on it.
And we were sitting there, you know, pushing each other, acting stupid. And a girl was dancing up there on the stage. And she’s like, hey, can I come down on you? They’re like, yeah, come on.
And she stepped on the little round table that we were sitting around. Oh, and one of its legs was off. You know, it’s unbalanced.
And she’s like, whoa. And we’re like, fuck, whoa. And so the whole song, we were trying to help her back up on the stage.
And like I said, it was a three in the afternoon stripper. So it wasn’t, you know, was it kind of the crap. But that was to rock steady.
What was it? Do you, do you have a three in the afternoon or something’s like gentlemen’s club story there, teapot? I’m not a big one. I have some, I’m not putting them on record like at all. Yeah.
Yeah. We, we went to somebody’s going away at DOV and it was at that. It was at that barbecue place that in, in Denver.
There was a barbecue place that, um, oh, Troy Sargent. Uh, I remember who it was, but we all, all of the DOV and there is a smattering of civilians smattering a flight suit. Go to that barbecue place.
Literally right over there. Like there’s a block next to it is like. Diamond, not diamond cabaret, but there’s that strip club strip up in Denver.
Like where shotguns is. That’s yeah. And then, but there’s like three other strippers.
Like PTs or I can’t remember. But you’re right. And so the man of the hour was like, I’m going over here.
Let’s go. Nice. And it was just going away, right? Yeah.
It was immediately following his going away. You were a uniform. Bad ass.
I wasn’t there then. Yeah. I don’t know.
Right before your time. What? Um, who was NCLAC? The short. Swick.
He shorter than no. It was the cop. Um, no, short black guy.
He used to be a cop. Yes. I know.
Jesse. I know. I know.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. He did the walk.
So have you ever heard? And his plate was all the way back here. Yeah. Yeah.
But he, he ended up having like some muscular, like nervous system issues. That’s why he was like that. What? Really? Yeah.
Really? I have no idea. Last time I saw him, he was yoked. He was a chief of the reserves in Key West or some shit.
Of course. Yeah. Terry Whitmer.
Um, all those guys, all those guys here. Mayo. Let’s get the male review.
Let’s get Plata Whitmer and we’ll get the, who is the Australian dude? Corey Hume. Corey Hume. Let’s get those three and we’ll just, it just be the beefcake episode.
You know? Oh my God. Hume got discharged after that. And he still was successful.
Look at him, Marty. Look at, I talked about that in the Sybers podcast, did I not? But he said, yeah, you want to go. I’m like, fuck no.
I don’t want to go out. Look at you, dude. Going out with Hume and then Joe more dues.
We went to the church after a party at Joe more dues house. Really? Yeah. And going out with Corey and Joe more dues husband, who is a large man and Australian special forces.
And the 180 of Joe. And thick Australian accent. Complete opposite of Joe.
Poon was just flying like, oh my gosh, dude. And I, I went to the church with them and I was like, just amazed at what was going on. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, I, I admire them and I’m shamed by them at the same time.
It’s crazy. Terry still looks really good. Does FYI, he looks amazing.
Of course. He was so cool. They were all cool, man.
Damn it. I would go home and say, God, I hate those guys. I’m so jealous of them.
And you walk into the next day and they’re the nicest guys too. And they’re like, Hey, can I get you some comment? I’ve got such a good Terry Wimmer story. If you ever want to hear it.
Oh, hold it. Give me your, uh, what, uh, you said you had a song and a commercial. Yeah.
Commercial. All right. So what is it? So the song, I remember I got to alert.
And Eminem was about to release. That’s his original. Like my name is.
And everyone was hyped because he was working with Dre. And I remember sitting on crew and I’m like, listen, like I’ve heard of this guy like six months to a year ago. Cause he’s from Detroit, right? Like you’re not from Detroit.
Like I’m from Michigan and I like like rap music. So I’ve heard of this dude. Like he’s really freaking good.
I remember he dropped high. My name is. And then like, like a couple months later, everyone’s like, Oh, do you remember when like, yeah, I told you guys.
And he got, you know, whatever five stars on the source, which is like a big deal back in the day for that album. Um, a commercial was the same unit. You remember? I love bug wise.
The commercials were like, was that, Oh yeah. Right. Every cruise to come in on days, we’re on mids and tire and they just start busing that out.
I just remember it being so like hyped and funny. Just like, ah, right. Yeah.
I can drive home now and not worry about the F now. It was, uh, even when it was overplayed, when you heard somebody do it, it was still kind of funny. Yeah.
That’s brilliant marketing. That’s brilliant. What year are you, what year are you talking about it? When you were at alert? 98 to 02.
God damn. Yeah. That’ll do it.
All right. Okay. So at the schoolhouse, so like third assignment, right? Fandy.
I’m there with my, one of my favorite majors of all time, Nate white. Oh yeah. We used to, we used to play music during student evaluations, right? All right.
Or student exercises because they would get nervous that there was no noise. Oh, you play music in the background. When they, when any of this, and it was inevitable.
When any of the students started just a spiral, Nate white used to find it absolutely hilarious to play. Another one bites the dust on repeat. And I’m like, I’m like, sir, you can’t do it.
And he’s like, you know what time it is? Click. What did they do? What they heard? There’s spiral even. Now.
Well, they’re so concentrated on. Yeah. They’re still fixated on the missile warning.
And then they’re, they know they’re not doing good and they’re messing up and there’s always time criteria. And there’s two guys standing basically right behind them. Right.
And then we knew they were messing up and we were just dead pan. And then I hated that part because your, your internal clock is, is fucking in haywire mode. Especially with you guys.
Four hours or two seconds. Yeah. So he, he would be like seedy.
And that’s so good. That’s so good. Every time.
That’s pretty good. That’s a good, that’s a good come up. Here’s my last one.
I went to Buckley last week. And like I said, we were at the CRE doing a secret brief and I walk into the bathroom and go up to the urinals that the bathroom that we all know. What do I see above the urinal? Now, this should be nostalgic because I see the memo with the order from the commander about not putting chew coffee grounds, anything else at this urinal.
Otherwise you’ll be reporting to me. And I’m like, this is 2024. I saw this same thing in 2001.
It never changed. Post it over every urinal and every toilet stall. I was like, my God, it’s the same thing.
What is wrong with crew people? Just be like that. Have you ever dumped anything down the urinal? You dumped chew back then. Well chew you’re spitting.
Like you’re right. Right. And, and I honestly don’t think chew is going to clog.
I, the person who does it and thinks nothing of it is, you know, I don’t know. You’re either kind of a sociopath when you do that or you’re really, really dumb. I just don’t understand.
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a situation where I’m like, I need to dump this up. I’ve got a whole thing of coffee grounds. I’m going right into the urinal.
Yeah, exactly. Hey, what am I going to do with these ramen noodles? Urinal. dude, every ramen noodles.
I’m pretty sure I’ve taken a leak on ramen noodles. Just, just stuck in the freaking on the pink mint. Or if it’s really fancy, it’s that pissed diffuser.
Oh, the great. Yeah, the great. Yeah.
That’s nice. I haven’t been to the MCS in like over a year. Like when I went last time, do them bathrooms are brutal.
Yeah. It is. The bathrooms were rough when it was brand new.
Right, right, right, right. And I, you know, I think they’ve gone through various cleaning contracts and plumbing problems and all that other shit. And then once tours dropped off, you know, it was like, ah, well, we’re not going to upkeep this thing like we used to.
Uh, and you get stained carpet and all that is like, wow, this is, this shit’s looking like Aurora now. Let’s look at that. Dude, remember that really tall.
He was, he was a cleaner for a while. It was just, he was a white guy tall didn’t fit the bill of any government contract, cleaning service of any of them. And we had him there for a while and he didn’t have to be escorted.
And then one time, I don’t remember them really tall again. no. One time I went into the bathroom and there was like a Navy chief uniform hanging up in the back stall.
He, he before the freedom fence went out for the friendship fence went out. He was literally a Navy chief that has his own cleaning company. And worked over it on the other side.
Yeah. Same thing. Smartest man ever.
He goes, I take my hour lunch. I come over here. I clean this stuff.
I don’t know. Well, especially if they’re having escort. Yeah.
If their government contract into him, they’re paying him a lot. Oh, that’s so smart. And he was over there three times a week because he was already working shift over next door.
I was like, it’s a brilliant move, man. It’s a brilliant move. It seems like a blow to the ego, but then you go, Oh, look, check my wallet and you go, fuck.
Yeah. Smart, smart. Yeah.
You’re getting double paycheck basically. Yeah. But you’re a Navy chief pushing a mop.
You know, it’s like, he did not care. It was 45 minutes at most. He said, wow.
I was like, all right. Wow. All right.
So that was a nostalgia nut for this week. Let’s get to the news. Real quick.
St. Patrick’s day was last Sunday, but a lot of parades occurred on Saturday. In fact, a New York one was on Saturday. So I thought this was an interesting story from stripes.com. The fighting 69th leads New York City, St. Patrick’s day parade for a hundred and 73rd year in a row.
Amazing. A New York army national guard regime of a deep ties to Irish American history. Once again, took the lead in New York city, St. Patrick’s day parade for the one 73rd year in a row.
Soldiers with the first battalion 69th infantry regiment of fighting 69th marched at the head of Saturday’s parade. One of the world’s largest Irish heritage parades. Okay.
So let me show you. There’s the fighting 69th. All right.
Which is funny, which is funny because when I first read it, I was like a long ties to Irish heritage. And I’m like, I was just shit, man. You can’t see that.
Anyway, so you picked up on that too. This year marks the return of the 800th soldier battalion to the front lines of the parade following their deployment to the horn of Africa last year. It’s easy to get activated and go to the horn of Africa.
It’s in the booty Djibouti Djibouti. That’s the horn of Africa is a little bit south and Djibouti. Djibouti.
Right. It’s a what a, what a love to know what that mission was. The regiment formed in 1849 as a New York state militia made up of Irish immigrants.
Two years later amidst anti Irish Catholic sentiment. They were asked to lead the parade and fend off any attackers. So you guys get up there and fender and keep the parade route clear.
See, I tell you, look, there’s that other National Guard guys that have been activated to patrol the subway. Now, they’re getting off people at the parade. Well, that was, let’s see, that was in 1849.
Yeah. That’s how they start. Right.
New York set the precedent. The day began with an Irish whiskey toast at 6 a.m. at the historic Lexington Avenue Armory soldiers adorned the uniforms with sprigs of boxwood to emulate their Irish American predecessors who fought at the battle of Fredericksburg during a civil war. While officers of the unit received black thorn fighting sticks.
Considered the mark of an Irish leader and gentlemen. According to a New York National Guard news release. Before dawn, they marched in formation of St. Patrick’s Cathedral where they attended a mass to remember the regiment’s fallen and to honor its heritage.
Then the parade began in earnest. So look, that’s kind of scary that they put those guys out in front. Hey, you guys have bolts on those weapons.
I hope not because maybe they’re going. From the parade right down to the subway. That’s pretty good.
Damn it. I don’t know. That’s valid.
So there’s a little eyes, right? Okay, now this next one, I don’t want to be nitpicky, but I’m going to do it. So that’s part of the brigade marching. And what I notice of that is that you have mixed uniforms.
Yeah. Now, the only thing I can think of is the guys with that new kind of pink and green uniform, that old World War II uniform. They’re probably the ones that came off of active duty.
I would imagine. Right? Right. The National Guard guys have the old uniform, which used to be the dress blues, but now it’s just, it was the old army class A service.
And then you, but you got them mixed up. Now, I would have thought to be like, okay, all you guys with a brown, a tan, you guys be together. I don’t care for your squad or not, but you know, it’ll look better.
It won’t look so mishmash. All right. Anyway, that was my time.
My, my take. My, my only issue is they’re not. Like, I want them to be shortest to tallest.
That’s my, whatever my ick is. Like, I don’t care about anything else. That’s an Air Force thing.
That is definitely an Air Force thing. Cause the army never did. Shortest to tallest.
I don’t even, like I’m not a big, like pop and circumstance guy, but like, and y’all couldn’t, couldn’t go like shortest, tallest, like give her one of you, you know? Do you, I, I agree with that one. it is an Air Force thing, but it is. I can line it up, man.
it looks good. It’s like a perfect slope. But this one has no shortest to tallest.
It has. Yeah. You got that one guy up there, like eight foot tall, and everybody else is high five.
You can see his whole face above everybody else. Maybe everybody except that guy, two thirds of the way down, who’s also six five. Maybe everybody else is five seven, that fucking thing in there.
Oh shit. The drill instructor is like, damn it. Spazz every time.
Every time. Just keep tapping. I don’t know if I’m taller than him.
You’re taller than him. You’re not. Can you see over his hat? I know you guys are wondering what is a sprig of boxwood, you ask, right? I was very curious.
Well, I found this on backstoryradio.org. I thought it was interesting. So in December, backstoryradio.org. In December 1862, Union Confederate troops met at Vicks, or Fredericksburg, Virginia. At the end of four days of fighting, there was no ambiguity about which side had won.
Fredericksburg is remembered as one of the most lopsided Confederate victories of the entire conflict. One Union charge in particular, the assault on a Confederate protected hill behind a stone wall, would amount to more or less a suicide mission for the unit selected to lead it. A unit made up largely of Irish immigrants called the Irish Brigade, known by the appropriately emerald green flag its soldiers carried into battle.
That’s the 69th. That winter’s day in Fredericksburg, the brigade’s battle-worn flag was making its way back to New York for so much need of repair, so the troops instead put sprigs of green boxwood in their caps to identify their Irish heritage. Nearly half the brigade were casualties at Vicksburg.
545 of 1,200 men were killed, wounded, or missing. But in the years after the war, it was commonly said that no one showed more bravery in the face of certain death than the troops who had marched on the hill with the greenery in their hats. So that’s where that comes from.
Nice. I thought that was pretty interesting. That’s 173 years.
That’s awesome. Yeah. Now, I know you’re also asking, hey Marty, what are black-thorn fighting sticks? Right? I imagine those, like, tongs from the, yeah.
It’s a chilele. It’s a chilele. Okay.
The black-thorn is found throughout Ireland and the British Isles and has been prized for centuries as a material for premium walking sticks. The most well-known incarnation of the classic black-thorn stick was the Irish chilele, a tool that was so fearsome in trained hands that the English outlawed it. To circumvent the law, the Irish modified the chilele into the classic walking stick that we are familiar with today.
So they were beating English ass with that thing. That’s nice. That looks like the Native American weapons too, right? Where they had a big ball in the end.
Yeah. That looks very similar. Now, I saw, I was going to do a video by some of these armor manufacturers that made chileles, but they were just outlandish.
This guy’s just whacking shit and beating the shit out of stuff with that thing. And it just had this hardcore music, and I was like, eh, that’s too much. That’s too much.
Okay. So the 69th, it’s interesting because that 69th Regiment has a long history to it, and it went up through all the World Wars. I found this.
That was a recruitment, a World War I recruitment flyer for the 69th Infantry. It was pretty interesting. They’re like, hey, don’t be drafted into some regiment where you don’t know anyone.
Come and join us. Go die for your country. Go to the front with your friends.
I thought that was pretty neat. I thought that was pretty interesting. This is pretty much.
This is the current Army’s enlistment strategy right here. Yeah, it kind of is. Go to the Army with your friends.
Line. Like, bring them in. We’ll figure it out.
Someone’s like, we’ll give you a car. Come on in. You know, I ran across a story about how they’re trying to figure out how to pay the lower ranking of the military.
And they can’t quite figure it out without screwing that whole scale up. So they’re talking about incentives. They’re talking about up in BAH.
And it’s just like, oh my God, man. It’s going to be. How long do you have us? It’s going to be a good shit on base.
That’s all. That’s what they’re all hoping for, right? That’s what they’re all asking for. And I don’t necessarily.
But like how many Army forces are just in the middle of nowhere, man? Like what? True. True. So like, give them some good shit on base.
Well, be good. There was a time where you could go to the commissary and significantly save over Safeway, King Supers, anything you wanted. You’re like, I am saving 50, 60 bucks by shopping here.
And then AP’s is up and up and up. And they’re like, oh, I’m just saving tax. I’m still paying the same.
It’s a little cheap. I think it’s still cheaper. I just the Costco and the Safeways of the world, man, like their supply chain is too good.
Yeah, you can’t get Costco, especially, man. Like I won’t buy. I’ll buy me at Sam’s Club.
But it’s almost always Costco. Whatever they got going on, man, is like… Yeah, that’s true. That’s true.
You know I’m a Kirkland Signature man through and through. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
And we don’t have a huge family. It’s like four of us, but we’re still like fucking Costco. Is Kirkland Sam’s or Costco? Costco.
That’s Costco. What’s Sam’s? Oh, that’s Walton’s brand, right? I just bought… They don’t sell at Costco anymore. There’s a Kirkland Signature single barrel that Barton came out with, and it’s… Really? It’s a liter for $37.
You go to a liquor store here for $37. It drinks like a $90 bottle. That’s the kind of stuff… If you go to the northern Costco that sells liquor inside it, right? Yeah.
They have a $55 bottle of larceny barrel proof. Before Costco had it, you were paying $70, $80, and it was worth it. They have it there for $55.
It is exceptional. That’s the kind of stuff that Costco does, man. Do you get… Is it cheaper if you buy more? No, there’s no bulk discount, but there’s guys that do whiskey reviews, and they’re always squishy-facing and suspect of the Kirkland Signature, and then every time they’re like, fuck, you can’t go wrong with this.
Really? How much is this? This is that much for a freaking… That can’t be true. No way. Really? Their vodka, their tequila? Like, it’s all like, whoo! Yeah.
The vodka, for example, is… And it’s all… Well, vodka’s hard to… It’s hard to taste difference, right? There’s a vodka that’s a tall one for like $14, and it’s a product of France, and it’s literally right next to the Grey Goose Distillery. 20 bucks for a handle. Oh, no shit.
And it’s… I mean, how many French vodka’s do you know? None. And it’s literally right next to the Grey Goose Distillery, and you’re like, okay, Grey Goose, or this handle of $20 Costco brand? Yeah. After three, it’s all the same.
Three? It’s like, huh, which one? Which one? I don’t care. I thought you meant… I remember I was TDY with a couple of lieutenants I was with, and they were Omega Sci-Fi guys, right? They were that frat. They were Omega dogs.
Oh, yeah. And we were about to go out, and we had no radio because we were TDY. We just had rooms.
And I remember sitting in their room, and they passed a handle from one person to another in this circle for a half… And I was like, Jesus Christ, are you kidding me? Go! Go! I was like, fuck, man. And then you go out. And you just stared at each other.
It was the dumbest thing we’ve ever done. They’re like, you ready to go? Please, please, let’s go. Pre-game, Marty, come on.
Yeah, but it was like a gulag pre-game. They were forced. We’ve got to get this handled down before we go.
And it was like, fuck. It’s so funny you say that. Going to Italy from Germany, Ryanair, there was a group of Russians in front of us.
They had a 22-ounce bottle of Coke and a handle of Jack. And I’ll be damned that those three dudes didn’t finish the handle of Jack, sipping the 20-ounce of Coke. I was like… I saw the Coke was just a chaser.
It was just a little chaser, right? Yeah. It’s just going to be a little flavor. It was my ex-wife at the time.
I was like, are you seeing this? You’re seeing what? I’m like, these motherfuckers are going to handle this handle before we get on the plane. They saw me looking. I’m just like… I remember one was like… I acknowledge it.
What were you going to do? Nod your head out? I was like, oh, fuck. No. That tipped the cap.
Yeah. Impressive. That’s what your story reminds me of.
That’s good. That’s good. Let’s get into space from space.com. SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket into space on epic third test flight.
Sorry, the way I read that sounded really dumb, but SpaceX, for all their credit, their names are dumb. Starship, you couldn’t call it something besides Starship? That’s dumb, right? Anyway, SpaceX’s Starship mega rocket, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, reached orbital speed for the first time last Thursday in a historic third test flight from SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. Do you guys know where Boca Chica is? Near Brownsville.
Look where Boca Chica is. It is. Right outside of fucking South Padre.
Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. That makes sense.
Wow, that is north of… That’s north of Brownsville, like it’s Brownsville. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow.
I know. Nice. Hey, you guys done for the day? All right, I’m going to go to the Bikini Count test that’s later this afternoon.
Yeah, there’s a bunch of spring breakers. Carlos O’Brien’s. Don’t worry, I’ll be here first.
Yeah, we’re good. There’s no one downrange. You’re launching over the Gulf.
Yeah, that’s right. That’s right. Oops, sorry, Jacob.
It’s hiding your face there. I’ll leave that up because I’m going back to it. Hundreds of spring break spectators, rocket launch chasers and SpaceX fans gathered along the southern shores of South Padre Island and surrounding areas to witness the third test flight of the biggest rocket ever built.
About five miles south of the crowd, SpaceX’s massive Starship vehicle lifted off on March 14th at 9.25 Eastern Daylight Time. Starship reached orbital velocity. Actually, this is all kind of boring.
Let’s see. Elon Musk said congratulations, SpaceX team. Cheers erupted from the south project crew as the dim morning sky was illuminated by the ignition of Starship’s 33 first stage Raptor engines.
While in space on its suborbital trajectory, SpaceX opened a payload bay door that will be used on later Starship vehicles for deploying Starlink satellites. It also performed an in-space propellant transfer demonstration as part of a NASA contract where it would move propellant from one tank within the vehicle to another. Several minutes later, the vehicle started reentry.
A camera mounted on a Starship, a mount on a flap on Starship provided dramatic images of the reentry. Telemetry was lost about 49 and a half minutes after liftoff on the vehicle was descending through an altitude of 65 kilometers. SpaceX later said on the webcast that it lost contact and they speculated the vehicle probably broke up.
While the mission did not achieve all its test objectives, the company considered the launch a success. So, it’s a few minutes, but let me show you the launch because it’s pretty cool. We talked about this before.
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Go, Jake. He sets those milestones and then if it blows up after that, he’s like, cool.
We already made our goal. Yeah, he sets only baby steps. You’re right.
And we gathered data and we know what to do on the next one. So, this is the third attempt, I believe, of this Starship and this one actually got into orbit. So, but it’s pretty cool.
Remember watching launch videos whenever they’d be like Dean Z’s would love to put launch videos on. And NASA’s videos were the most boring videos ever. There was no enthusiasm.
It was like, man, lift off out of Vandenberg and now you can’t see it. But SpaceX is like a rock concert, man. They’re like a rock concert.
Watch, check this out. Damage. Kill it, Marty.
Marty lost his mouse. Listen to that. I don’t know where the microphones are.
That’s pretty bad. That looks like CGI. That looks like CGI, right? I think it is.
No way. Kind of, it looks like. Pretty sure that’s CGI.
But even their display, down at the bottom, the left is all the rocket engines. 30 seconds into flight. We are feeling the rumble.
We are seeing 33 out of 33 raptor engines ignited on the super heavy booster. Booster and ship. Avionics power and telemetry nominal.
Back position is single. Corpus Christi. Continuing to get good call-outs.
Trajectory, looking nominal. System looking nominal. Just a phasing to see all 33 lit up once again.
I don’t know who they’re recording. Is that the South Podrick corral? No. I want to say it’s the South Podrick corral doing like a wet T-shirt contest.
At the same time, they’re doing the same thing. The speed of sound. Getting those onboard views from the ship cameras.
They got brackets betting on it. Yeah. The next major milestone.
All right, first stage comes up, panties come off. We’re doing that in just about 90 seconds. It’s not me, it’s the rules.
That’s what Elon said. All but the three center raptor engines on super heavy. That’ll be our MECO, our most engines cut off.
MECO. Clamps holding the two stages together are going to release. Starship second stage will ignite its engines.
The RVAX first. But just as you can see, it follows like the attitude of the rocket body. Or just kind of pointed out about a 15 degree angle.
Yeah. Because if you look close and we get good tracking, you might be able to see those center right after. And so those six engines will push Starship off of the booster.
That’s pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, they were talking about this hot booster thing.
We’re running around the three minutes. The main engines are still excited, but the booster engine will see the ignition start to shut down. You’ll see all but three lights go out in the middle.
And then we’ll see the engines ignite on ship, pushing it away. And that will start carrying the ship into space. Booster will start to do its flip and then move into the boost backburn setting it up.
That’s going to splash down. Even the display is pass. Listen to that crowd.
Hot staging confirms. Hot staging. That’s it.
Hot staging. Booster is now making its way back, seeing six engines ignited on ship. Kate, we got a Starship on its way to space and a booster on the way back to the Gulf.
Oh, man. I need a moment to pick my jaw up from the floor because these views are just stunning. These are live views from Starship.
First stage is currently performing. Good. There are news informing us at the second stage or the ship.
Everything looking good. Nominal there. As you see on that display where they get the body on the left.
And the actual Starship on the right. And the booster back towards the coast, taking it to a landing in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. So, I mean, it goes on and on, but I thought that was that initial stuff is pretty cool to watch.
You can watch. I like when the rockets are individually like the engines are turned. Yeah, they lit up.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Didn’t none of our previous missiles, it would always break apart and then it would ignite. Right. Yeah, that’s what I think so.
And that’s what they were talking about. That hot staging is that they’re firing while the other engines are still hiring, I guess. So, you know, the advances that they’re able to make because they’re willing that if it doesn’t go right, they’ll just do it right down the next one.
I mean, that’s why SpaceX is just, you know, when you got a civilian company in charge and you don’t have a whole bunch of government red tape. That’s what I mean. That’s there’s got it.
That’s got to be the pressure, right? That’s got to be the overall. Yeah. Anyway, I thought you guys would enjoy that.
I didn’t know. I wouldn’t have watched that if it hadn’t been for this podcast. Oh, I’m not that much.
But you remember there was commanders when we worked back then. They’re like, oh, we got to put the launch up. And I was like, what did they launch it? And they’re like, oh, well, I don’t care.
Yeah. And Nike. Yes.
It’s a recycled MX missile. So they’re going to put it up there. Serious XM satellite.
It’s true. It’s a Cambridge Community College online launching something. They got a science experiment.
Okay. Last story. We’ve talked on a show many times about, you know, would you recommend service to your kids or, you know, whatever that was.
Well, a recent survey of a group called Blue Star Family. So there’s a website blue star families dot org. They confirm a lot of what we said.
So this article is from stripes dot com. The Blue Star Family survey finds considerable reluctance for recommending military life. I know military families are growing increasingly unlikely to recommend an armed forces career to loved ones with fewer than one third of respondents than the largest annual survey of military life saying they would do so.
Blue Star Families this week released the 2023 military family lifestyle survey, which saw only 32% of participants answer likely to a question about how keen they are on recommending service in the armed forces to a family member. That compares with 55% in the 2016 survey. So seven years ago, they were much higher on it.
Yeah. A roughly equal number 31% responded that they are unlikely to recommend military service. And the report did not say how the remaining third answered the poll capture responses from more than 7,400 people worldwide, including active duty military personnel, National Guard and their families.
It was conducted from May to July 2023. So what do you think are some of the issues? Well, that that’s a lot like that. They interviewed at least a third.
So active duty, I can understand like they could have a bad day and they’re still in the reserve and then retirees retirees. It’s in. It’s getting to be nostalgic.
Oh, yeah. Maybe I’d let but only 30% and all fairness to it doesn’t break down by rank, right? I mean, that’s a small sample size too, man. Like I feel like sure.
Sure. But if there was 6,000 e fours and below, you know, they’re pissed. Yeah.
So I it makes sense to an extent. So like we moved here in 2018 and they had just they had just combined Army and Air Force Medical, I believe. And I had a good friend who’s now in the Space Force as an O1E.
He was biomedical equipment and he says it’s gonna be bad. It’s gonna be bad for everybody. Oh, he knew that back then.
He knew. And he knew. And I was taken back because I was Tricare Prime at the time.
And I’m retiring. They said you have to be seen at 4 Carson because of your job. Oh, I forgot about that down.
I’m an retiree. Yeah. Let’s fast forward.
And now I’m select. Like I don’t deal with it. And it’s not not against the providers, but like I got a friend who said 26 days to seize primary care.
And I’m like. Yeah. But they want me to be seen at the same place as a retiree like.
Yeah. But honestly, it’s kind of a microcosm of civilian life because it’s not it’s not providers are few and far between. They’re starting to become pretty bad.
It is. Right. For primary care.
So you know that it’s a microcosm of what we’re dealing with, you know, in civilian life as well. Yeah. It sucks.
I get it. I get it. Well, I mean, we already did the wick.
Sure. Military retirement changing to a 401k, you know. Yeah.
So you still get 40% retirement at 20 years. Just the 10% is is 401k because I had up. Yeah.
I’m only versed in this because I had a individual supervising who who had the choice. And he said he he opted into the the 40 10 because they match and he had a gang of money already. It’s okay.
Oh. So like it’s it’s not that one is not I don’t think it’s a big deal. It’s smart.
But but you got to think about the first ones. What you got to think you’re literally getting a 5% match on Airmen, you know, oh, oh, one through four. If you put in 5%, you’re getting maybe a thousand bucks a year.
Are you talking? Are you talking TSP? Yeah. It’s a cost saving measure. Like, but yeah, it’s still there.
It’s just not what it was. But I’ll go out the TSP. It’s the new retirement.
Oh, okay. It’s just me. All government stuff for TSP.
But I said, Congressman, you could just roll the dice. Roll this. Roll this thing back.
Roll this thing back 20 years ago. So now you’re on your first enlistment. Right.
Yeah. I remember that. That sucked.
It’s like, I am eating on base because it’s cheaper. You know, I mean, fuck, you know, that’s the issue is on base services have been deteriorating. They’ve cut them.
They’ve cut them too because of Brad. It’s like, right? You like army brethren, man. I am sorry.
I don’t know what the hell they’re doing to you. Like, well, the, you know, on WTF nation radio, they talk about the, they’re introducing these kiosks things. Now that’s a cost saving measure.
I don’t know how it works, but they, they, apparently nobody likes them. But all this cost saving stuff, remember, were you guys there when cost saving for Brack meant cutting the dining facility? Yeah. Remember when they cut that? That was ridiculous.
And that had no airmen on the forefront of what they were thinking of. They were just like, I got to get under this number. That’s a perfect cost cut.
So no more dining facility. We’ll give you vouchers. That’s army though.
Cause I don’t think the Air Force did that. No, the Air Force did that. They did it a Buckley.
Yeah, they did it. The dining, the dining hall used to be wherever that Buckley Panthers. Yeah, they cut that because they had to get under a Brack number.
And, and I know it sounds ridiculous to civilians, but I remember backing almost every single chow hall I’d ever been in is that there was always a random old couple or a random on our random. It was normally like old to me, old people. There was random military retirees at a booth that would literally, you’d go to the chow hall with your family and with your wife.
You’re like, oh, let’s, we’re on base. We can go to the chow hall and any chow hall. And now there’s very limited hours.
There’s very limited services. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
If it’s even open, right? Yeah. But it was a place to go back in the day. Sure.
Right. I agree. Bring that back.
Watch that survey change. Like face services have. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Bad. I mean, at the very least you’d go to bowling alley.
You’d get a burger and a couple of games and it’d be all under like 10, 15 bucks. Whoo. Yeah.
But they have none of that because they’ve shut it all down. They shut all that shit. Actually, Trudy and Yarbrough used to always walk over to the, on Peterson, walk over to the bowling alley and do like once a week, they would bowl a set if you got the special.
Yeah. You would get like a burger and fries and then you could bowl one game. We used to go all the time.
For what? For 20 bucks, man. Like 12 bucks, honestly. Yeah.
Well, and for those who aren’t listening, an E4 right now, with six years experience, right, makes an annual salary of $38,000. So, you know, roll that around. With 2000, you know, they make about 32,000.
It’s six years in. With two years experience or something like that. Right.
That’s six years in. That’s six years in. And you make it 38.
What? A third of your freaking, that’s a third of your freaking, unless, like, full career if you go 20. Well, let’s see. How much is… It goes back to give them better options on base, man.
Like, let them go the defect. Jake, you’re absolutely right. Like, the defect at Vandenberg again was really good.
Yeah. Pasta bar, I remember. Like, all this stuff.
Like, open it up, expand it, open it up to public. Like, there’s a big issue with that. I think it’s also in the levels of bureaucracy.
Just somebody wants full control over something. Sure. Because you’re right.
Teapot, that Vandenberg defect was great. And we would always go in there, and we would always make sure to get salsa because it was like legit, fresh made salsa. Right.
On your own. Like, it was Pico de Gallo. Yeah.
And then one day we come in, and it’s like a tub of paste, you know, at the far end. Oh, because they just dumped it out. Oh, they didn’t make it fresh.
New York City, what the hell? No. Big, big mother Air Force said, you cannot make your own, you have to buy the approved ones. Yeah, exactly.
That’s your right to ape, what you were talking about. So, going back to an E4 with six years in makes 38 grand a year. You know how much $20 an hour is on an annual salary? $41,000.
So, that E4… After six years experience. That E4 with six years experience is making less than the guy working at Robin Hood on the base. But do they have medical benefits? There’s a lot to take in there.
So, that’s an asterisk. I hear you. It’s still not great.
You just got them putting a huge asterisk on all the medical benefits. But you’re an E4 who just got married, right? Yeah. Who bought a 19% interest car right off base.
Well, it’s charging, right? Yeah, come on out. That’s charging. And that’s what this… I think that’s what this survey is getting at, you know? Because I don’t think big military is doing any kind of surveys like this because they know what they’re going to get back.
Right. I think so. Yeah, I think so.
I don’t know, man. Is the grass greener? Well, no. But I think they’re trying to get a snapshot of the people in, right? Yeah, yeah.
So, they say factors driving the decline include quality of life issues and financial hardships according to respondents. For military spouses, employment was the biggest concern for the seventh consecutive year. Now, I must be honest, I don’t understand the issue with spouse employment.
I really don’t understand it. I don’t know. Are they talking about employment on the base or post? No, it must be career-oriented people who can’t get hired because they know they’re married to military.
Maybe. If they’re applying to Starbucks, or it’s like King Super, you’re going to get hired. It’s those career-oriented people, right? But they’re like, hey, if we bring you onto this software development team or something, and we’re working on this big project, but you’re married to an active duty guy, and you’re probably going to be gone in three years.
Right. Okay, I get that. I understand that.
I think that’s where that’s coming from. Okay, all right. And a lot of military spouses that I’ve ran into are nurses that are in the nursing career field.
And that’s… That one I don’t understand because nurses, nurses will always get hired. Nurses will always get hired. Yeah, but you’ve got seniority, right? You’re busy your way over the years.
You can choose now day shifts. You can choose whatever. I’m moving on to… Oh, yeah, we’ll hire you, but you’ll be working mids for a year until… Or as soon as you get there, we’re like, poof! And all your seniority’s gone.
You got to start over over there. Also, one of the primary worries for active duty service members, according to the survey, is the lack of affordable childcare. Difficulty accessing military healthcare and relocation challenges were cited by families as concerns.
Respondents were asked to select up to five military life issues that most concern them right now. The top concern of 53% of active duty spouses was employment, followed by military pay at 38%. For service members, 46% selected time away from family, with pay coming in next at 40%.
The survey found that only 20% of spouses who need someone to look after their kids during work hours use base childcare centers and only 5% use base certified family care providers. So they’re not using what the bases offer. Yeah, that’s interesting.
Well, or they have to wait or they’re on the wait list. Wait list! Gah, the wait list! That’s right. And here’s what’s bullshit is if they don’t do anything outside of normal ops hours.
Right. 90% of our guys work crew. Right? If you’re… Air force is… If you’re any of that or you’re flying, like you need outside of normal hours childcare and that doesn’t happen.
I remember the debates about what crew schedule we should do and what crew hours we should do. And the just… Some of the higher ups were so immune to go, well, let’s just have them start at 7. Let’s have them start at 8. Let’s have them start at 6. And it was like, there’s daycare, dudes! People got to coordinate their lives. You just can’t make a shift up because it suits you.
Oh, that was so frustrating. And you’re… They would put us coming into work right when rush hour was going on. Perfectly when rush hour was.
Just start an hour… Hey, how come you’re late for training? We’re already doing a 12. Just started at 4, started at 5, you know? Right, right. I mean, go 6 to 6 or go 8 to 8, you know? Either way, it’s better than trying to shove in 7 to 7. All right, let’s finish this up.
Almost three-quarters, 73% of active-duty family respondents who live in civilian housing, regardless of ownership status, pay well over $200 per month in housing costs out of pocket despite service housing allowances. So that’s by law, right? Like, they scaled that back. They did.
Right, you’re right. I think you’re right. Yeah.
Yeah, so that’s… It’s 90%, right? It wasn’t 100% that we’re used to. Right, right. It wasn’t like, oh, some breaks, you fix it.
It was like, God damn it. Well, I guess I ain’t fixing it until I move up, so… I’ll get this so fickle, man. It sucks.
It sucks. I’ve never been to… Depending on what part of the country you are. Army sports, yeah, like it… I can’t even imagine.
California? Like, oh, shit, good luck. All the Southern stuff, right? Yeah. It was all rotting and deteriorating.
Mm-hmm. All the Northern stuff was all cinder block. It’s like… I don’t know, how was Billets in Alaska when you were out there, Jake? I was in the dorms for the first two years, and they were great.
I mean, dorms were just fine, but they were all one… You had indoor hallways. We didn’t… The first time I ever saw outdoor hallways was… Oh, yeah, yeah. Was at Vandenberg.
Until you cross-trained. Yeah, until I cross-trained, and I was like, well, I didn’t even think about it. Nobody wants to walk around in the winter in Alaska or have that many exposed doors, so it was all… We had huge parties in those frickin’ hallways, man.
Oh, because you didn’t have to go to the room. You could just be… And you were inside. Yeah, that’s all.
Yeah, it was great. I mean, where else was… I mean, the building up there was good. I think, though, that those… They treated it as an overseas kind of assignment.
And kind of… Right, right. Yeah. Because you are kind of geographically separated, but you’re… Yep, and they… I know.
They take those locations… They’re better, honestly. The camaraderie on base is better. The club on base is better.
Yeah. People are more likely to stay on base. Sure.
And there’s activities and there’s… I mean, just like Kevin was saying, that was my first assignment. People would go to the club on Friday. Right, right.
And then they would close the club down. It was a day to be over because you knew where you were going. Oh, yeah.
30 minutes later. I mean, they would literally close the club down. And they were like, what NCO’s house are we going to? Or are we going back to the dorms? That’s how poor Polk was.
Poor Polk was… Where I lived was in a dry parish or dry county. And that made for the best party because that’s where… Yeah, you’re saying you’re killing your base, yeah. Yeah, you just have to prep everything and make sure you buy at the bar on the parish line.
You know? Yeah. That bar made a mint. Oh, I’m sorry.
Okay. Well, you know, it’s tough. And I think joining up… I think joining up is fine.
But, you know, if you’re trying to have a family like most guys do when they’re early, goddamn, I don’t know how you can afford that shit nowadays, man, to be honest with you. Now, if you’re single and you want to just… And you’re kind of aimless, really, they will guarantee you have food and a job and a place to stay. Well, yeah, if you’re a dorm rat… And you can find your way for the first couple of years.
Right. I would fully encourage somebody that was… I agree. Was just aimless after high school, wandering around basically.
Hey, go do this. Fully encouraged. You’ll get a VA loan.
Yeah. You know, you’ll get health care for a little while and then they go off. Get your TA, you know? Yeah, that’s right.
That’s right. That’s a big thing. And who knows? You might be an Audie Murphy, baby.
Join us, 16. Look at you. Yeah.
Okay. Last story, last story. Now, this was a surprise, okay? But… And it’s short.
And we don’t… I don’t normally do these kind of stories. So it’s non-military. But it’ll come back.
Oh. All right. Eric is furious.
He’s got a rash right now. Oh, I know. I know he is.
I know he does. I hope he does. But he won’t hear it because he has no service.
He won’t hear it for several days. So… So this is from Fox News. We posted… We posted it in the NewYorkPost.com. Overnight camping at a California beach banned thanks to excess of human waste.
Overnight camping at a beach along California’s central coast is banned due to excess of human waste, officials said. The California Coastal Commission announced Thursday that overnight camping and campfires will be banned at San Carpoforo Beach for the next two years. San Carpoforo, or San Carpo, is located off Highway 1 in northern San Luis Obispo County, about a four-hour drive from San Francisco.
It is the only beach campsite in the Big Sur area, a fact not widely known… Oh, it’s the only free beach campsite in the Big Sur area, a fact not widely known until recently. The Commission detailed the deteriorating quality of the beach and a staff report recently made available. The report noted that more visitors frequented the campsite once word spread it was free.
A lack of resources for the U.S. Forest Service to monitor the site and a lack of trash cans restrooms and fire rings have led to higher levels of trash and debris, the report said. The beach has no restrooms, very limited parking, no potable water, and no trash containers or collection, the Commission wrote in the staff report. The area is home to a number of endangered animals such as the Western Snowy Plover.
That little motherfucker, I’ll tell you what, which happened harmed by the beach’s deteriorating conditions. What is so special about this fucking bird? Somebody give me a reason why. Why? What does it do for us? What is their importance? What does this do for us? Give me the 27 steps to Kevin Bacon.
I’ll fucking take it and give you something, man. I’ve got nothing. So for those listening, when I came into space in 2000, I think I went to EUST, and Vandenberg F.R.A. Space is Central Coast, and they’re like, hey, you can’t go on these beaches because there’s an endangered species of bird called the Snowy Plover, so those beaches are closed.
That was 2000, they said that. And now they’re sanding it in 2024. They’re not doing a really good job at restoration, are they? So I want to understand, don’t lay there handy.
And if they hear anything scared, like they’re gone, those eggs are abandoned. That’s the dumbest species in the world, man. Give me a reason.
It’s on the sand dune. Literally, that egg is on the sand dune. Is that where they nest? On the sand.
You can’t walk around on the beach. You can’t make all kinds of noise. Well, apparently, they’re shitting all over their nests and their beer bottles and whiskey bottles.
And the Snowy Plovers are like, hey! Stupid. Again, I’m going to research this. I’m going to start looking into it, why.
Maybe there’s some 27th order of facts we don’t know about, but dude, at some point, you just got to be like, look, pans are cute. They’re cute. They occupy a lot.
I get why you want to keep them alive. But Snowy Plovers? It’s denying all of California’s beaches. They’re saying no to the Plover, huh? Your way of the dodo.
The Snowy Nova. Meanwhile, I’m thinking, hey, California management, why the hell are all the other beaches costing money? And if you advertise that this one was free, why do you not have any facilities there? Like, it’s a state beach. You don’t have even a drop toilet there.
You don’t have something dug in the… Give me something, man. But even if it’s a day beach, you’ve got kids, you know? What are you going to do? You just tossing diapers or are you packing your trash? You know what I mean? Halama Beach is free. Halama.
Halama Beach, man. It’s Halama Beach. That’s a hell of a road to get back there.
Best burger I ever had, man. It was a good burger. It’s a memory, bro.
Tell you what. Yeah. Halama Beach is a burger.
I’m going to try to get a picture of Red Fox for my background next time. Yeah, do it. If there’s any that exists on the internet, so who knows? Isn’t it? It changed, though, didn’t it? Yeah, it sold many times, I think.
But when I was there, it was Red Fox, so… I’ve got a pee. I love you guys. Wait.
Wait, wait. Just hold on. Hold on.
We’ll call in depth. We’ll call in depth. Just for teapot.
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All right. I won’t see you next week, Jake. You won’t be here.
Yeah, we’re road tripping, man. So… I’ll be in line. Thanks for listening to everyone who is listening, and we’ll see you next week.
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All right? Love you all. I haven’t seen you so bad. Have a wonderful day.
Thanks, buddy. We’ll see you next week. Yeah, man.
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