Episode Title: The Late For Changeover Show 14 Feb 2024
Date: Feb 14, 2024
Special event alert. Get on your feet and run! This is the Late for Changeover Show, your weekly space news and variety show. Show show.
I’m your host Marty Smith, and I’m joined by Mr. History Eric Peratt. Fellas, it’s good to be back. Our man in the closet, Jake Wall.
What’s going on guys? And Big Ver, Mike Johns. Alright, alright, alright. We’re here to bring you the latest headlines and updates pertinent to all Guardians and to the other lesser branches as well.
So take your seats, get them forward, and have a laugh as we present Late for Changeover. Gentlemen, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl. Do you guys make any money off it? Oh, wait, wait.
Happy Fat Tuesday, first off, since we’re recording this. Yeah, Fatty Tuesday. Tuesday for tomorrow, so happy Fat Tuesday.
I lost a hundred and twenty bucks. Did you waste? Yep, that sucks. Did you take it straight up, or did you take points? I gave two points to my brother-in-law, lost a twenty there, and put a hundred dollars in squares and lost a little bit.
Ah, I’ve not seen that. What’d you get when you got your squares? You’re like, ah, fuck. Fives.
I didn’t even look at them and shit. Like, come on, man. It’s always the one who, it’s always like some wife who hates football or, you know, somebody like that who will win the big square.
Who will get a one or a seven or something like that. I went down to the VFW and we bet on random bullshit. Oh, yeah.
We’re like one dollar bets on bullshit. And somebody was like, Usher’s taking his shirt off. I was like, fuck, no, he’s not.
We had Coke or Pepsi. We had which branch was going to advertise first. We were, it was just all fun, just BS like that.
That’s pretty cool. We do the same thing with the Masters Tournament, man. Will we make this? Will someone say his wife show up? That kind of shit? Yeah.
Yeah. And then there was another bet where is there a T Swift showing before any other celebrity after the game started and and Kansas City was down. We’re like T Swift or another celebrity showing.
I don’t even remember seeing another celebrity. Oh, there was a bunch. Yeah, there was a bunch.
But Beyonce and Jay Z. I don’t remember seeing them. So but I wasn’t watching. They’re during the halftime show.
Most of them. All right. Speaking of golf, what was that Arizona tournament where they where the drunk ran out on the.
Did you watch that? Did you? One drunk. It was a bunch of drunks. Everyone.
Leasted. They don’t. They advertise that tournament as like the party tournament or some shit.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, this will be the last year.
Three arrests. This will be the last year. Fifty three.
Yeah. They kicked out like two hundred people and then a bunch of people. I’m a golf course.
Well, it wasn’t necessarily a bunch of people being assholes. They were talking shit. The golfers, a bunch of people are getting were taking off their shirts and sliding down hills because it rained a lot.
So the mud started kicking up and the mud meant that people couldn’t get in. So a lot of ticket holders that wanted to get in couldn’t get in because it was all fucked up. And so it turned out.
What was the Adam Sandler golf movie? So it turned into that. Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore with all his fans in the gallery.
Yeah. Yeah. Real life.
So they’re going to change the whole outcome of it for next year because the golfers were upset. Zach Johnson was fucking pissed. He’s like, this is bullshit.
Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. The golfers were.
Yeah. The golfers are not liking it. Damn.
Damn. They went overboard this year. They really did.
Yeah. Well, you piss off a bunch of millionaires. You know, of course they’re going to make the difference, right? Yeah.
Uh, commercials. What’d you think of the commercials? Gentlemen, I love the one where the Eagles, the Ravens and the fricking Seahawks were flying. Damn, Mike, you mentioned that one.
I didn’t mention that was a good one. I didn’t see the whole first quarter because my wife scheduled that time to fly in from Texas. So I had to go pick her up.
So I had to listen to it on the radio. So I didn’t see all the probably best ones. That was great.
I thought she was funny. I liked, uh, I did like the, the Uber eats one where you forget something. Oh, yeah.
That was pretty cool. Dunkings. Dunkings of course was great.
Yeah. The dunking is my favorite. I thought that one was the funniest.
And I liked the Michael Sarah one. That’s Sarah. Yeah.
That was you would. That is so out of the norm. And then Michael Sarah is so way far out.
Yeah. A guy. Yeah.
I don’t know. Do you guys see the T-Mobile with Jason Momo? Yeah. I, I, I don’t like those T-Mobile ones with those two guys anyway.
Cause I’m like, That shit was funny, man. I’m telling you. The way he was doing the flash dance kind of thing.
Or he did at the end. Anyway. So for worse, I’ve got Temu.
You guys don’t know your Temu. They freaking threw out what four or five different or four or five standard ads. They play on regular TV now.
You know, they attack on my YouTube feed and shit, but, uh, yeah, they were, they were standard commercials and they played them four times. People on Twitter were blowing up on that shit. What is it? It’s like a, it’s supposed to, it’s a new like Amazon type service.
And they’re going to try to compete with Amazon, which good luck. Keep Amazon or like a wish type type website. Well, it’s a bullshit.
I’m not going to lie. Cause I don’t know. I didn’t know which ones you guys like.
So I only got a couple. Deadpool. You could get all this stuff.
I remember that. Well, you know what they say in order to remember something, you’ve got to forget something else. Make a little room.
And that’s how I remember Uber Eats has coffee. That guy is so funny. Remember when you used to be a pepper lady? Wasn’t it? They’re cinnamon sisters? Basil babes? Paprika guys? No, that’s absurd.
Jim. Hi. Oh, um, okay.
Have we met? Is someone doodle on my face? I’m so glad I remembered Uber Eats has office supplies. But I think I forgot something. Oh my God.
That guy. It’s not coming off! Worked together for 10 years. 10 years? Yeah.
You were great. You still don’t know, do you? I don’t. Like I forget 10 years of my life.
I hate this town. I don’t like to play a halftime show some day, man. That jelly roll was funny.
What do you think of the halftime show? I liked it. I did too. I thought the dancing was cool.
I thought they came out on effing roller skates. I was like, whoa. That was pretty cool.
That was impressive. I’ll tell you, do you see all the controversy between the two national anthems, the black national anthem and the other one? No. That’s still a battle.
Was there controversy? No. They just booed her clap for Reba because it was the national. So it was just fun.
I’ll tell you what. I was not impressed with Reba. Reba has done it better lots of times and I was not impressed with hers last night.
I think her the sound was off. What was the best national anthem you’ve ever heard somebody say? Oh, Whitney Houston. Yeah.
Come on. Yeah, for me too. Yeah.
That lady Gaga was pretty close. But the way Whitney did it and just effortlessly effortlessly. Yeah.
She’s a one of a kind. We won’t see another person like her for a thousand years. Yeah.
So let’s let’s watch this one too. Let me turn this down so it’s nice. Thousand years.
Thousand years mark my words. Old state mark my words. I don’t think you should do this.
She came to my work. Now I got to show her what I can do. He’s here.
Flack on the track. Got it. It was so much when I first saw it.
Sometimes it’s really hard to do. How do you like them donuts? I’m so sorry. I had to see it but I forgive you.
Lay us on the track. Are we going to be on the album? We talked about this. Let’s go.
You’re blinded by them pinstripes. Wrap it up. Take those baby bros.
Tom, you can stay. Remember when I told you I’d do anything for you? This is anything. They’re naming a drink after us.
I had pinstripes. I had heard. They actually sold a whole shitload of those tracksticks.
They were like sold out. There’s one coming to your house right now. Send one to me.
I’ll be in Don King. That shit was hilarious. It’s a it’s a wish version.
So it’s three X. It fits like a small. Now that should have been your only fans comment. You know there was there was a period of time when.
For all your tight tracksuit needs. Oh, we could have a tracksuit special. Eastern European Mafia.
Only Greer. Triple X large. But you know in the middle of Brady winning six Super Bowls with the Patriots.
Really. I couldn’t stand Boston and it seemed like all that shit swelled up. Everything was Boston.
Boston bus movies of Boston. Those two guys about Boston. Everything was Boston.
Now that. The Patriots have sunk and Brady’s out. Well I kind of like Brady now.
He’s already. I hope Brady does nothing but make funny commercials from here on out. He’s fantastic at it.
I don’t know. He signed up to be an analyst. I don’t know why.
That’s what he needs to. I mean he should go kind of Peyton drought. Yeah.
Peyton. They wanted him to be an analyst too. And he’s like nah I’m going to do my own thing.
So. You know I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s got his own thing like Peyton and Eli have. Sure.
On Monday night. Hell of something like that. Maybe not Monday night but don’t have something specific for him.
I don’t I don’t I don’t want to see him do that. Yeah. I’d rather see him just be kind of floating around getting paid millions to do this kind of stuff.
You know. Did you see it. Did you see the.
The Twitter response or whatever when they were calling my homes the goat. Did you see that little clip that they had with Brady walking with a bunch of his friends. And they were out like the zoo.
Or something like that. Like hey let’s go over to this pen. I guess they got a bunch of goats over there.
And Brady just kind of chuckled. And it was in response to everybody calling my homes the goat now. He’s like.
He’s got. However the announcers did like show. They showed Brady and the Super Bowl rings.
And then my whole. Right. Like it was a freaking handoff.
I was like yeah I saw that. That was I was like the second coming on this. I mean he’s not even halfway.
I mean Montana has four. You know. Yeah there’s some quarterbacks that have made a mark.
Bigger than him right now. Now he’s got the he’s got the possibility of going crazy. Granted three and five years.
But still you’ve got to have the team. And that’s assuming Andy Reid keeps coaching. And everything else is like.
And I and I. Those last couple of drives. Yes. But most of the game was like.
Average quarterback. Yeah. Great.
What’s their land didn’t score in overtime though. And they just hit the field goal. You knew my home’s just going to come down and win the fucking field.
Because he knew what he had to do. I need a touchdown. I got to get a touchdown.
I thought it was going to be my home’s to Kelsey in the end zone. With Taylor Swift standing right there. And him running right into Taylor Swift’s sweet embrace.
And the fireworks go off. And then Joe Biden comes out and says. Vote for Joe Biden.
That’s what I was. Well Kelsey did you run into a sweet embrace. Oh yeah.
His coach was not so sweet on that. Kelsey man. I think he’s losing his mind.
They both played that off. Taylor’s going to make him lose his mind. That’s a given.
Wait. The only presidential one or the only political one. That was.
Dude. I was like they did that kind of retro commercial for him. And I was like.
Yeah. It was kind of interesting. Yeah.
It was interesting. He superimposed his face on the old. Yeah.
Commercial right. Apparently his family’s bitching about it right now. He came out and gave us.
Sorry not sorry. Half his family hates him anyway or something. I don’t know what it is.
It’s really odd. So. He’s going to have a hard time even getting on the ballot.
So unfortunately because the fucking system is rigged against it. Oh yeah. Absolutely.
And he’s running. He’s trying to do it as an independent. Yeah.
In California alone you have to have like a hundred K signatures. Like valid signatures. And there’s only a certain amount of time that you can get them.
Florida is a very similar thing too. Just to put a third party on the fucking ballot. Like really fucked up.
Yeah. But I mean hey. Democratic Party asked Bernie if he’s in favor of that shit.
But I thought Bernie was independent anyway. Democratic Party just is suing RFK. Right now.
For over that commercial. Over that commercial. And because.
The super PAC that did that commercial. Had to have too much coordination with him. Oh my.
Of any. Like neither of the main parties can have. They have no leg to stand on on that.
No. As far as coordinating with super PACs. Give me a break.
I know. They’re all crooks. They’re all crooks.
They’re all the unit party. Well speaking of the Super Bowl military dot com ran a story about what each of the services did during the Super Bowl. So I thought it’d be interesting to go over.
So the army. The largest service and most impacted by the recruiting shortfalls zeroed in on Spanish advertising by buying ad space for a dozen 30 second ads across Univision V I X and Paramount Plus. Which will be broadcasting or streaming the game in Spanish.
That is so interesting that they go to that. That audience man. That’s.
Eric you have your statements about the Navy. The army has its statements too. They have their go to demographic.
So. I don’t know man if you speak Spanish and the army comes out and goes hey serve a term in the army and you can get citizenship. Oh no that’s a that’s something I wonder what the requirements are.
Do you have to have your green card first or what is that like? I don’t know. I don’t know. I tried to look up articles on that.
And there was no. You have to have a green card first before you can enlist. At least that’s the way you had to do it like several weeks ago.
So I looked up a couple weeks ago. But I mean who knows what they’ve changed. You never know.
Well you’ve got a potential you’ve got a potential recruitment for us walking through the Texas border daily. How will those four nations ever infiltrate our bases. Oh we’ll just invite them right on.
Yeah they’re already infiltrated. What are you talking about. The Air Force’s Thunderbirds did the flyover.
Isn’t the allegiance their stadium enclosed. Yeah. So.
And it looks like AI when they flew over. Really did you see it. I didn’t.
Like it looked like it looked like fucking artificial intelligence. I said solely for television audience because nobody inside. Yeah.
In addition to the physical flyover the service is also used now. This is cool. I’ve never heard of this.
They did a poor job of advertising it. But the Air Force is all also use Snapchat to create a filter that will immerse fans in the stadium as well as those at home in the experience. A QR code to use the lens on smartphones will be displayed in programs as well as on the Jumbletron at the stadium.
Anybody hear about that. Anybody here that you could go do that. Who’s this guy.
Barry Dickey the Air Force recruiting services chief of strategic marketing said. The front camera places a user in the pilot’s seat in Thunderbirds uniform flying over an aerial view of Las Vegas. Well the back camera will activate the six F-16s in formation depending on where you are in the stadium.
Never heard of any. The Air Force also set up a booth at the NFL fan experience inside Mandalay Bay Convention Center where potential recruits could get information and also meet. Madison Marsh the 22 year old Air Force second lieutenant and master’s student at the Harvard Kennedy School’s public policy program.
It was just crowned 2024 Miss America. So that she was out there. She was out there pitching the Air Force right.
My thing is SpongeBob. That’s her full time job now. Sliming everybody.
That’s more my speed. Okay Nickelodeon. A Navy spokesman told Military.com that the thrust of the services physical presence will be the U.S. Navy band.
Which will provide two musicians for joint military color guard in support of the Super Bowl. The spokesman said that the Navy will air a 30 second in game Super Bowl commercial and 14 key recruiting markets throughout the country. What would those markets be Eric.
Only fans for all your additional sliming needs could you imagine history. According to the spokesperson the commercials will include a previously Air Navy recruiting ad as well as a new commercial developed to promote the Navy Reserve. The Navy also ran a commercial during the Paramount Plus broadcast of the game.
Did anybody know the Paramount Plus was also broadcasting the game. I love this one because the Marine Corps which has met its recruiting goals did not advertise during the Super Bowl. Instead it aired four pre and post game commercials on Paramount Plus.
Those must have been way cheaper. So what I’m saying it sounds like Paramount Plus is trying to undercut and get some coverage here. So that’s what the services did at the Super Bowl.
Needless to say I didn’t see any of it. So yeah I mean it wasn’t recognizable except the freaking airplanes over there. I saw a replay.
I saw a replay of that. It looked like practice. I was like are they just practicing or because there’s nobody cheering.
That was the weirdest thing man. Aren’t they based out of Vegas. Yeah they came out of Nellis.
Yeah they’re right there. I mean you hear him obviously fly over the stadium. Now that’s where they should have cracked that sonic boom.
That would have been cool. You know where that stadium is. That stadium is like right across the street from the from the strip.
I doubt they would have liked going super sonic. Is it off the strip or is it it’s it’s across the highway. It’s like what a half mile away from the strip something like that.
No it’s it’s it’s right there though. Like it’s it’s close. I haven’t been there since I since it’s been an operation so.
All right. Let’s let’s do a good story from the V.A. No more loss. No more.
Well they’re still losing money but this is the actual good thing. So this is kind of some out of the box thinking which is surprising for the V.A. From Fox News VR therapy takes veterans back to virtual Vietnam to heal decades old trauma. So it’s it’s interesting that a whole this whole thing set up around Vietnam.
There’s a there’s a guy who worked with him. He did some stuff for Afghanistan but basically they’re doing all this stuff through VR gear. So a landmark virtual reality app geared toward helping older veterans looking for closure and dealing with trauma is taking exposure therapy to new places to the markets of Hanoi or to the landscapes of Vietnam.
So this is a company called Mind M.Y. and D. Mind Immersive in partnership with V.A. Immersive who knew we had a V.A. Immersive right part of V.A.’s Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning focuses specifically on Vietnam War Veterans digitally transporting them back to places they may have visited during the war so they can work through trauma and discover a path to peace. Man my concern would be it would go the other direction. You’re reawakening these bad dreams and memories.
Everyone in the brain would think that like how could that how could this not go wrong. Wow. Right.
That’s that’s what I thought too. Chris Bricker Brickler who is the co-founder and CEO of Mind Immersive. He helped start the company about seven years ago intent on improving the lives of the the lives of the elderly.
A path to peace is one of the ways it achieves its purpose. So a path to peace this program specifically is for Vietnam. It’s targeted to those veterans ages 75 and older.
He says about 40 percent of our population of older men above 75 are veterans. Really. Let that rattle around for a second.
40 percent. 40 percent. I didn’t think it would be that big.
Men of 75 or older are veterans. Wow. It’s that shit on a shingle.
Put some life life expectancy on you. I guess so. But that Asian origin is working.
He said some veterans go actually go back to Vietnam or have over the years and that’s a very emotional trip. But a lot of people don’t have the ability to go back. So this project enables those who want to so they want to go back.
All right. To kind of see some of this stuff. That sort of makes sense.
Right. Yeah. When I read that because I had the same reaction.
Erica is like you just going to turn out like images like. Damn it. It’s like.
You want to go back. Shit. But maybe they go back and they see that it’s doing good.
It’s not they haven’t destroyed that. Sure. Yeah.
Yeah. That’s their overarching goal. However.
What does the mean is they got Jedi mind trick by some fucking dipshits. And this is going to turn out. You never know because that phantom you ever see any of those phantom limb pain experiments.
Oh shit. I never even thought about this for you Marty. They do.
That. It’s a it’s a Mr. History only fans phantom limb. But.
Phantom. He basically just puts a phantom of the opera mask on the whole head of his you know. That’s the pain.
I need a whiteboard. I’ll show you properly. No it’s it involves the phantom limb thing is it just mirrors your other hand.
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
That’s pretty cool. They put a mirror so you can see the reflection of your actual hand. Somehow it it tricks your mind.
And your mind like locks in and so they’re like okay do you have like do you need to stretch your hand. He’s like yeah I constantly get pain in my hand I can’t stretch it. And they’ll actively massage the other side and it for some reason it tricks your mind into thinking oh there we go.
It’s relieved all that pain. It’s good to go. Fascinating.
Yeah it’s it’s really fascinating. With tinnitus they now have zero gates. Yeah.
That will have a chime that your brain starts to focus on the chime so you don’t hear the tinnitus the ringing. Really. Yeah.
Oh wow no kidding. Yeah. I use I use noise canceling headphones at night when I sleep.
I put in earbuds. Oh yeah. I just listen to a podcast or something like that and that helps a lot with my tinnitus for sleep.
Dude how do you get away with that with having two young kids there. How do you. Your wife is your wife elbowing you in the ribs like your turn.
No I what I generally do is I stay up late like I’ll stay up until like midnight and take care of the kids from you know basically when she goes to bed around 8 30 till midnight and then it becomes her shift afterwards. And they don’t really they sleep mostly through the night but sometimes they’ll get up at like 4 4 30 but generally speaking you walk in there and you give them their pass fire back and they’re back down asleep within moments. Yeah.
Well keep that habit when they start getting to be around teens so you can discourage them from sneaking out. Yeah. That’s what the goggles look like there.
So essentially a VR goggle. I think that tablet has the pictures on it. Here are some of the pictures that they run of Vietnam.
All right. Okay. I can see that one.
I don’t know if that one helps. Right. I’m not sure they you know.
Yeah. Pretty. That one either.
That’s colorful. Now this one. Whoo.
I could see the the North Vietnamese flag there is interesting. Right. And then this one too with that both in the flag.
That’s gorgeous though. It is. It’s beautiful.
It’s on my bucket list now fellas. Yep. Put it on there.
That one might be disconcerting. Yeah. That’s what I’m telling you.
It’s not. It’s help anxiety. Jesus Christ.
Right. That’s where COVID came from. Content being built in the app would enable veterans to meditate on a beach in Vietnam or witness other areas of the just saw.
Brickler said the goal isn’t to necessarily bring veterans back to the battlefield but instead show them that they contributed to something historical and the war was not all for not. So there you go. That’s I get that.
That’s what you just said. Yeah. Until you tell them the Charlie’s hiding behind those bananas over there.
Forget you, But it it it’s I don’t know. You know you think you know what you know what’s good Marty is is the actual focus on that particular conflict. Because if you’ll remember in the 60s how bad they were hated when they came home.
Yeah, right. So to see it turning around now and them trying to really assist that demographic that’s that’s big. I think that’s important.
I agree. Yeah. There’s got to be a sense of our government sent us over there.
We had 58,000 of us die for this thing. Yeah. And they’re doing fun.
You know, are there going to be Afghanistan bets ago? Okay. I want to go back to Afghanistan under new rule. And like we spent 20 years here.
They pulled us out and it went right back to Afghanistan again. You know. Yeah.
But I don’t know if there’s any beautiful colorful pictures of Afghanistan. I mean maybe give it 20 years and they’ll stop stoning women for having books. But either way.
You know, it’s it’s funny when you when you see Afghanistan Iraq all that Middle East stuff and you inevitably see buildings crumbled. Right. You’re like what were those buildings ever nice? I’m like oh that’s when the Brits were in there.
1940. Oh shit. I forgot about that.
And then they left it all with the pot. So. So anyway, I give the VA credit for reaching out and doing that kind of stuff because the VA is so checklist driven and so restricted that to do something that creative that’s you know that’s a great that’s a good step for them.
I agree. Especially for those guys. Right.
Right. There’s another guy who he started a program like this but he has come on to Mind the company we were just talking about as a as a director or something like that. He started one for Afghanistan and he was saying that they had some VR stuff for an example if a soldier got an IED while in a Humvee they have the ability to like okay let’s go back to the Humvee VR wise here’s the Humvee let’s just walk around it you know let’s get used to it again if they have that kind of trauma and then they they have another progression it’s like okay you want to sit in a Humvee you can virtually sit in a Humvee and work through some of that stuff without actually going down on a motor pool or getting blown up by an actual IED yeah right right that’s pretty cool it’s like kind of like easing back in it’s like okay I you know it’s not just in my mind I can kind of reach out and think that I’m touching it so I still think there’s got to be a percentage that think the way you and I get Marty that there’s oh shit it’s a weird reaction triggering some bad stuff you know and you know how bad that was it might be a desensitization desensitization thing that’s a good point the first two rounds might be fucking horrible and then after that you’re like oh okay how much of a movie trope that was in the 80s you know that guy’s got he’s a war vet yeah yeah I mean there was a little no movie I don’t know if you ever saw it with Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez called men at work did you ever see that movie yeah where they were trash men right yeah and the black supervisor the black I can’t remember that guy’s name but he had the trauma from Vietnam he was like he’s provoking me he’s provoking me it was actually hilarious but that was a trope that ran all the way through the 80s anyway go watch that Eric you’re like I’ll take a look I think a movie it’s funny all right last week we talked about the Navy waving the requirements to have a high school diploma or a GD right just another attempt to try to get people to join well the Air Force is now rolling out their own idea to boost its numbers so from DefenseOne.com which is new I never I never saw that site before but DefenseOne.com the US Air Force is opening a program on February 8th so last week to allow up to 1,000 retired officers and listed personnel to return to active duty amid manning shortages so if you didn’t have enough the first 20 years you can go back for another four right is there an H limit? that’s interesting because I don’t they didn’t go into any you guys did just see Putin agreed to allow his people in listing up to 70 yeah well sure sure because they’re so they’re so beat up yeah they’re so beat up they’re not beat up I’m telling you if you’re letting 70 year olds join your military what the hell Ukraine is chasing guys down to come back they’re using women in their military the US Air Force just said would let you back in the war that’s a good point active you know that’s good point so like they’re trying to bring pilots back for the most part because there’s a whole list yeah but that’s but now they’ve opened it up to enlisted it’s called the voluntary retired return to active duty or VR rad the program would allow retirees to serve for up to four years but VR rad has already drawn skepticism online because it offers few incentives Airmen who rejoined will be ineligible for the aviation bonus or promotion they will return to the retired grade and be required to meet physical fitness standards as well as be subject to PCS moves baby according it’s a it’s a four year tour right yeah it’s a four year tour but if they want to move yeah four year tour PCS no promotion no bonus no bonus yeah welcome back you get to come back in yeah we’ll feed you yeah it’s just are you guys familiar with skill bridge yeah have you heard of skill bridge it’s a pretty cool program yeah they said Airmen who come in under this VR rad they can’t use skill bridge which helps troops shift to civilian jobs it’s like geez can they can they eat food like are they allowed to drink water do they get to be aged well like honestly like what’s even the point of putting this shit out you know it’s like they all had a bunch of you know hand shaking like that’s a good idea good job guys good job guys and then the guy cause it’s like hey I can’t wait to go tell them they’re like wait before you tell them make sure they know no bonuses no promotions they might get moved no skill bridge and they gotta be fit now go go spread the word do you lose your retirement pay also and disability I was considering that for you oh that’s a good point that is a great point yeah cause you’re now on active duty you were getting it the VA I would imagine that somebody that’s gonna hit somebody in the VA and they’re gonna go hey wait a minute he’s back on active duty he doesn’t need 90% he doesn’t need 100% oh he’s back down oh I would do this woo hoo hoo if they brought in warrant officers and be like yeah you’re already automatic a warrant there is a story about the Air Force bringing back warrant officers yeah at the FAA the other night they talked about that it’s only gonna be for cyber and IT right right yeah so as soon as I got it back in immediately the first year every freaking week I’d be going a sick call oh yeah hey like something my instep something Andy this right here I can’t even touch this I had that before I came in it’s I played soccer for PT and now I got this burner down my day dude I go full out on on PT well just wait how many of these guys are disqualified by MHS Genesis oh yeah Genesis oh yeah good call on that wonderful database Yeah, Eric remember we talked to that recruiter who never got back to us again.
Yeah, Genesis Yeah, the Air Force Originally launched br rad in 2017 We was struggling to retain pilots now the service is reviving the program after missing its annual list of recruiting goal for the first time in nearly a quarter century and as officials protect us already project a shortage of 4,300 personnel under the current authorized end strength But retirees likely won’t jump to return rejoin a service through the program unless it ups the incentives to lead their civilian lives According to Ryan Haberman, who is an analyst with the Rand Corporation? quote asking retired officers and senior enlisted individuals to come back to active duty status and ability that is likely far away from their New home of record for a maximum of 48 months is tough. Yeah his words You know, you know who we’re looking at we’re looking at the guy that’s living on the side of the road in a tent Who’s a retiree with nothing? He might be the only guy that would say yeah sign me up. I got nothing, right? Pilots no incentive at all.
Let’s pretend you’re a 20-year What lieutenant colonel may major? Yeah, you get out you’re pulling that You might be having some disability now, you got a civilian job as a pilot you have to work what three days a week sir Ford if that and You’re getting more Potentially more pay than what you’re doing in the Air Force. I held one with less Significantly less less life restrictions and there’s a civilian pilot shortage. Yeah.
Yeah, they’re gonna be happy about You know, we want you to come back in for no At a higher up a boat you’re flying every other day. Come on, man And you’re not getting flight pay nothing. Oh, and you have to come back in and take all the CVT’s for all the woke bullshit Hey before we got you anything we got two days of you go CUI training and Sexual harassment.
Yeah, you got hands-on sexual assault training You can imagine if you’re if your marriage survived the military and Then you’re like I’m thinking about going back to you, right? But maybe that’s the guy who just got divorced and he’s like F this I’m go back in baby I’m sure there’s onesies and twosies that it would seem like oh, it’s a good idea But Sam for the rest of us, but the Air Force and wide you’re looking at hundred Maybes, that’s what I’m doing. Thanks. Well, I I see chief magic master sergeant Williams working.
Oh He could go back for years and she’s for that retirement super chief master sergeant Okay Like you get if you get something special of it, but with no incentives who the fuck is gonna do that He put his blues on all all three of those people at that retirement. First of all awesome retirement never seen a retirement Officiated by a chief. Yeah, so by a chief with With there was an officer.
There was it was a problem, right? Oh, the full bird was the proper. That’s crazy And that but that full bird was like when you retire, I’ll be there Let me be your proper and then he came back and did it. He was good to his work Yeah, nice But the one thing that was I’m calling a little bit bullshit on all of them put their blues on again Full blues full shaved full everything No fucking retirement pin.
Oh That’s not right That’s not right, you know, isn’t isn’t isn’t being retired even though you’re going back to go do that, right? But isn’t being retired and then you put your uniform on and you go back being retired in uniform Isn’t that the guy who graduates high school but goes back to prom? Oh, that’s what I’m college guy and he’s wearing his varsity jacket still That is letterman jacket. Yeah Yeah, and everybody who’s there at the prom is like You know, I’m gonna get a rash of shit because of this whole conversation Anybody who’s like us who’s like, yeah, I hate it when they put their uniform on and they come back They got authorities Sorensen listens to this. He was like, oh the melodious tones of Marty Smith Every week I was like Keep on we don’t want to lose you It was fun to go back and see everybody though like it was like a family reunion that’s I’m surprised without the retirement window.
Yeah, I thought that was a requirement if you’re gonna wear the uniform I thought so too. I don’t know to be a fact, but I thought so. Yeah, you go through and you’re wearing full uniform Other people in uniform are doing nothing but seeing Chiefs.
Yep Wow, and it could be those guys stolen valor But it could be those kind of guys who need to go in under this program cuz they’re like I haven’t told somebody what to do in years. I need it. I need that authoritative Right.
I need to go back in And start pointing fingers and sending people running Chief Williams that he had stolen by your Elliott It’s close. It’s close Watch out Jake Impersonating He might strap you on with those chains around his waist I got him on the calves and thighs That boy skips leg day you got him on the hair oh I don’t know we both People still confuse us Really? Oh still man still He’s a bald white guy with a beard. So am I so I mean and we’re all the same I mean I get the benefit of not working out.
Yeah, that’s true But I mean he works out like crazy and still gets confused for fat meat. So I don’t know who’s getting the bad end of the stick on this one Well if you’re interested the air force said applications must be submitted by January 31st 2026 so we’re gonna let this fucking roll for two years, baby There’s no age limit on this I didn’t I didn’t run across it. So Dude, i’m telling you space force is next.
There’s a mass exodus of space force Right now really? Senior nco’s are just like fuck. What’s the point? Yeah, what’s like the freaking? I would only ever stay in for eight if I came back in now that freaking 401k is bull crap Sure, it’s five percent of your base pay. Right, right not your full entitlements of your base pay.
So at the very most you’re getting like Five grand a year. It’s not gonna be much That’s not I mean, that’s nothing those of us who have retired have have retired because We’re sick of 20 years or we push pushed it to 20 years Or you know, it’s like I don’t feel like running anymore or you know It’s just like I don’t feel like dealing with any more ancillary training, you know I don’t want to be undercut. Hey, it’s time to go, right? You know when it’s time to go.
It’s time to go Um, there’s nobody who’s like, oh, I I didn’t want to retire There is some though. My hair burning in my belly You know, there’s some right? There’s still There’s still there’s instead of getting people who retired they’ll be like, hey, I know we pushed you out of the air force Long time ago, but here’s your chance to come back Yeah, they already tried to do that with uh with the covet. It’s not our Well, yeah, but i’m talking about yeah, I wasn’t taking the medical I know we got you out on an article 15 But all things are forgiven.
Come on back in And you can continue to serve you might get more takers for that Did you work for my guy who retired those are the guys who extremely pissed off for getting kicked out by just start taking a vaccination Well that that’s a whole different that’s a whole different deal, right? Yeah Well, anyway, well it’d be interesting to see how that tracks so we can yeah, we’re gonna need to follow up with that I’m curious to see what those numbers look like All right being fat tuesday and being the well by the time this airs it’s going to be valentine’s day I know you all got uh special things planned for valentine’s day. But eric Lead us into valentine’s day with some military us military history Cool guys. I got a great one this time.
It’s uh with a lot of connections to colorado, which I thought was pretty cool Yes on this day in history february 13th, 1861 army surgeon jd erwin rescued 60 men And was awarded the first medal of honor. That was the first medal of honor to ever be awarded And i’ll get more into detail the first ever by the first. That was the first medal of honor action.
That’s correct U.S. Army assistant surgeon bernard john dowling also known as jd erwin rescued a kidnapped boy And 60 soldiers encircled by legendary apache warrior cochise On this day in february 13th, 1861 Erwin’s heroic volunteer effort under dire circumstances in the arizona territory has gone down in american military lore as the first congressional medal of honor action It took place before the award even existed the medal of honor the nation’s highest Highest recognition of valor was created the following year during the civil war Erwin received the medal of honor in 1894 The surgeon volunteered to lead 14 men and a mule train on a hundred mile trek through a blizzard during the rescue effort The dramatic encounter began days earlier when a band of apache’s kidnapped a young boy who had settled the arizona territory with his family The adept the abduction led to a frantic chase by american troops from fort brackenridge Here in colorado Who was in fort? I had no ideas. Yep Who were then surrounded by the apache’s? The assistant surgeon erwin voluntarily took command of troops and attacked and defeated hostile indians. He met on the way Uh, let’s see Just moving down.
I’m getting ready getting past the bullshit All right, so he was only uh, he was he was allowed only mules and a handful of men because of limited resources at fort brackenridge Faced with a trek of 100 miles in the midst of a winter blizzard the logistics of the mission were an improbable as the possibility of encountering The much larger enemy force defeating them and rescuing the captivities the captives What followed on february 13th in apache pass arizona was an act of tactical ingenuity In the face of overwhelming odds And this is just a quick paragraph for what it was with a carefully laid out plan. That’s erwin right there. Look at that picture With a carefully laid out plan and a maximum placement of his 14 men Erwitt succeeded in convincing the indian warriors that he had arrived with a much larger force causing them to withdraw Bascom’s 60 men were liberated and joined erwin and his 14 soldiers The unified force then pursued coach east into the mountains where they were able to engage him and rescue the captive boy urn was born And then it just so he gets award in 1894 the rest of the story just goes into his history But the first medal of honor action february 13th 1861 fellas pretty amazing That’s damn good That’s pretty cool.
Yeah, that was pretty good And like you I didn’t know fort breckenridge was even a fort located here. Well, that’s because it was in arizona Oh, I thought it was here No, it’s kind of northeast of tucson. It was it was also known as old camp grant Never heard of that.
Oh old camp grant. Okay. Yeah, it wasn’t the new one.
That’s where everyone gets the new one. Yeah Yeah fluff from around So now i’m curious if there is a tie to breckenridge here in colorado to the fort maybe not I don’t know what you have to look at. Yeah, we don’t go that deep.
Yeah, it seems like a lot of work. Yeah Well, uh, let’s uh, since we’re going into valentine’s day Let’s not talk about bombing 35,000 nazis or german’s sorry german’s In dresden. Let’s keep it on a good note.
So Thanks, eric. Thanks. That was a good day in history.
Uh, thanks gentlemen. And on that note, I think we’ll go end up Unless anybody has any final thoughts any final thoughts All right, so we’re going in depth On behalf of all of us here i’d like to thank you for listening today Please like share subscribe and let us know how we get in the comments and make sure next week that you are not late for changeover I watched the last one. Oh, man.
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