EARLY EPISODE: The Night Witches
Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men.
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I love the idea of invading Atlantis via paratrooper
joe future book idea
Fun fact if you want a dog to release its bite put a finger up it's ass. I've had a dog trainer and veterinarian tell me it works great
No way nate could have jumped out of a boxcar. They were withdrawn from service in the mid 1970s and also weren't made in Ireland. He could have been thinking of the Short Skyvan but the USAF has never operated them. They ARE popular in Alaska though.
“Boxcar” was the call sign the Alaska air national guard used but as someone further up thread commented, the aircraft was a C-23 Sherpa
When I heard about the night witches, I was expecting cream of the crop crews flying massive formations of pe-8s, moving as one gigantic fortress to raze the earth. I did not expect bottom of the barrel pilots flying crop dusters, throwing what are essentialy giant grenades off to the side. That makes it both hilarious and awesome.
You just put a finger in the dog's ass and it will let go, or so a coworker told me. I feel confident I could take a Labrador just by leaving the room its in and let the little spaz work itself up so bad that it would keel over.
Re: fighting raccoons. A buddy of mine heard screaming outside his apartment and found three raccoons attacking his neighbors little dog. He decided to wade in and ended up punting one like an American football. He got scratched up by claws but was otherwise unharmed.
It's weird hearing nitrous canisters not being referred to as Nangs
I usually depend on the phrase 'there's nothing that can't be fixed if you have enough chewing gum and tin foil' to get me out of fixing stuff for people. i could really walk into a chief engineer job at an airport with that attitude. fuck I've missed a vocation
Probably still end up more successful than the chief engineer of the newest Berlin Airport… How To Fuck-Up An Airport is a pretty good, short pod about just that
Nate you're thinking of the C-23 Sherpa the flying connex of death
As an Air Force aircraft mechanic saying “oh yeah I'm not qualified” or “oh my qual just lapsed” gets you out of some shitty jobs. Use those lines sparingly.
Gonna start a band called Communist Superhooker.
Feels like it should have been an Eagles side project in about 1977.
This was good, but it felt like you wanted to tell a specific story about them and the sources didn't entirely back up that story. There were times where the story told just felt like there was a little self contradiction.
Stoked. I named my youngest daughter after Natalya Meklin, one of the more famous Night Witches.
Midwest Ex-pats Configuration
Can't wait to listen to this on my run
yeah that’s when I listen too
Until you got to topic I was so sure this was about the Star Wars witches.
Star wars has witches?
You went from asking for a name for the group to then spending 5 min talking about time in the pit. You’ve already named yourselves: The Pit Crew, or something like that.
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