stealth part 2 audio
definitely can't see this one
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Correction/clarification: there are actually SEVEN marsupials found in North American! Of those, four (grayish mouse opossum, Mexican mouse opossum, northern four-eyed opossum, and of course the Virginia opossum) are endemic, with Derby’s woolly opossum, common and water opossums having a large South American range. The misconception probably arises from the Virginia opossum (what most USians think of as a “possum”) is the only species in THE UNITED STATES. It’s not even endemic! My beautiful lads have populations all the way to Costa Rica. A distinction between North and Central America is a political construction and isn’t useful to evolutionary biology. Challenging these frameworks is a big issue in conservation right now. It’s a very common misconception and while that does reflect on how the US views the rest of the world, it’s also on opportunity to look at pictures of the Mexican mouse opossum omg look at its widdle eyes 🥺
The Intercept covered Operation Neptune Spear under The Crimes of Seal Team 6. In short, Osama was unarmed when they shot him, and the order was specifically kill only. Any talk about possible live capture was probably a deliberate lie
My personal speculation is that there was no grand conspiracy about it, no one wanted the possibility of having Osama grandstand in court or through lawyers at Gitmo, or some bad knockoff of Independence Day that hurts the administration politically
What is this about???
want to submit an episode idea, the Gavle goat in Sweden is a a giant wooden goat constructed in Gavle Sweden every Christmas since 1966 and has been destroyed pretty much every year by the locals. methods of vandalism and fuckery have included destruction by fireworks, attempted theft by helicopter, burned to death during a blizzard, and ignition by a man from Ohio who thought he was taking part in a local Christmas tradition
begging on hands and knees for November's new podcast to do an episode on latoya cantrell, current mayor of new orleans and first class flight enthusiast
A follow-up on one of the cave disaster stories for November: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2024/11/23/nutty-putty-cave-accident-john/
what is the name of the nonprofit supporting trans people leaving dangerous places ?
Just bought 2 tickets for 30 April 2025 show in Somerville, venue site took me to Ticketmaster, tickets $35 each with $19 in service fees. Wish it had been Eventbrite instead, hope I didn't just get scammed.
The Somerville show tickets are now on a variety of scalping sites for $67 each minimum of 2 tickets plus fees for a total >$180.
I appreciate the team not getting sidetracked with jokes about the throat of the hot thrust gutters.
May Day show in Somerville is already sold out! Bummer. I guess waiting a 2 days to listen to the announcement was a mistake. Or is it possible that Arts at the Armory web site is wrong?
Either there are an enormous number of WTYP fans here in the Boston area or they booked a space the size of my living room. Hope they do a second date.
Is there anywhere where we can suggest episodes? I would love to hear Roz' take on the 1970 West Gate Bridge collapse in Melbourne Australia. I've just been reading about it and my personal WTF?! meter has blown.
Australia's worst industrial accident, with the bridge's later popularity as a -redacted- spot adding a bleak addendum to the tale. It'd be a good episode. I'd also recommend the Manongah Mine disaster. The US's worst mining disaster. Largely forgotten today, I only know about it from - of all things - Fallout 76 devoting a surprising amount of attention to the tragedy.
Side note, to whoever is monitoring the Patreon comments: want to see if a movie is on Nova’s radar for KJB, a wonderful spy movie called “Norwegian Ninja” something like if Wes Anderson directed an 80’s Chuck Norris flick, but with much better politics. Here’s the trailer it I think would be KJB gold: https://youtu.be/4wNVjI9bJIk?si=jGvGzIqqOTO_8IAQ
KJB has its own Patreon where they very occasionally take suggestions, but generally they already have a theme ready. Norwegian Ninja would be a funny pick, though, even if it is a little hard to sell the Arne Treholt joke outside Norway, the best analogy I have is it's like putting Guy Burgess in a buddy cop movie (However, if we *are* suggesting movies, Sound of Noise would also be a funny off-the-wall pick for a robbery/heist movie)
Subscribed to comment that this is a good show except for November's radlib imperialist political analysis. What a tool. The main guy's (Roz?) analysis is superior in every way. She was soft on Israel's pager attack, claiming (without evidence) that it only affected Hezbollah members. Truly despicable to carry water for Israel in this way. Wanted to say something because her analysis is consistently bad.
Have you ever even listened to this podcast? Calling November a radlib is the dumbest thing I think I've seen in a comment section in years.
omfg Nova's reaction to "very pretty little drone" caught me SO off guard, nearly choked on my water at work
It would be "almost" unfair to nuke DPRK? Lol. Just a hair
As someone who grew up in dc, always here for the pro Marion Barry content: https://www.vice.com/en/article/marion-barry-108-guide-dc-richmond/
Cannot wait to hear the NASA episode
The Intercept story "The Crimes of Seal Team 6" really covers how badly the Bin Laden raid actually went down. Half the team had to be medically discharged from that crash, and Obama lied to the whole country about the whole "capturing alive to stand trial bit." His gun was unloaded and under the bed I think
Actually the guy who nominally killed bin Laden is doing a bit of stolen valor. He came in after someone else shot him to land a headshot just to say he did. That's why they couldn't take any photos
"That's not smoke, that's steam." Thanks Nova, I appreciate you immensely.
playing the forever winter as i listen to this and feeling very normal about it
The Spirit of Pennsylvania is "like Ontario but more so"
Right when I was starting a long drive. Cheers!
28:11 "thrust gutters" was my nickname in college
Observe how the Anglo leftist redirects their criticism toward AES states when they feel that their own comfort in the imperial metropole is being threatened.
Towards AES states like Israel and the Russian Federation?
Imagining the slides that way I take down the stealth aspect to the video
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You can't, maybe!
This show has to be the best thing I listen to, it always cheers me up when I'm down and makes me smile when I don't want to.