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Gina's Festus Grad Trip From September 2nd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So I was gone, you were Yeah, you didn't notice.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't really.
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  Speaker 3: Went down to San Diego for FESTUS. My sailor son.
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  Speaker 1: Will give you a London in one of our units
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  Speaker 1: at s is.
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  Speaker 3: It hello, sailor boy? It is?
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  Speaker 2: When does he ship out?
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  Speaker 1: The twenty fifth of September. Of September, sorry, so went
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  Speaker 1: down for his graduation for independent duty corman. Now he's
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: been a corman, which is a medic.
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  Speaker 2: Do they have a ceremony?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Independent duty corman is a corman who has extra training.
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  Speaker 1: It's equivalent to a PA, a physician's assistant. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: he were to get out of the Navy, you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a physician's assistant, there's some extra stuff he'd
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  Speaker 1: have to do because your independent duty corman is specifically
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  Speaker 1: trained for like Navy stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you can only figure out how to treat people
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  Speaker 4: if they're wearing a uniform.
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  Speaker 1: And he's going to an island in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the Indian Ocean called Diego Garcia, And I said, so,
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  Speaker 1: what are you mainly going to be doing there?
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  Speaker 3: And he said, well, it's coconuts.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of like stingray bites and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's an island.
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  Speaker 1: And while while we were down there, we spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time at the beach in Coronado and there
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  Speaker 1: are stingrays at the beach there and there were people
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  Speaker 1: being stung by stingrays and were like, Festus, are you
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  Speaker 1: going to go help these people?
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  Speaker 3: And he's like, there's nothing you can do for nothing
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  Speaker 3: you can do for sting?
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  Speaker 2: Are you supposed to it?
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  Speaker 3: And that is what he's that.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody said, aren't you supposed to pee on? He's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a thing.
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  Speaker 5: No, you just walk it off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's he's like, it's there. Really isn't anything he said.
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  Speaker 1: He said, maybe like if you step on it, you
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  Speaker 1: can maybe put put your foot in some hot water,
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  Speaker 1: might feel a little better.
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  Speaker 3: But there's not a lot.
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  Speaker 4: But it's besides, it would just look terrible. Does have
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  Speaker 4: a navy guy go pee on somebody?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't know.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, that doesn't work. Don't don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: If you go to x ninety six dot com slash live,
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  Speaker 1: you can see a picture of me in Festus at
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  Speaker 1: the graduation in his in his whites.
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  Speaker 2: I guess he has to wear his hair that way. Huh.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he does.
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  Speaker 1: It's the military, but he did. I was so happy,
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  Speaker 1: and Carrie, you will also be happy. He shaved his mustache. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it makes me happy to because they took an official
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  Speaker 1: picture of him and he said, well, I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: the mustache for the official picture, but yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was an actual graduation ceremony.
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  Speaker 4: Does he get a grog? Share a lot rum? Does
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  Speaker 4: he get a share of rum? They used to give
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  Speaker 4: everybody in the Navy a share of room.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he'll be here for a couple of weeks, So
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  Speaker 1: I suspect he'll come in to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe, well he's.
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  Speaker 5: Oh so he doesn't ship out for a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so funny twenty fifth so he so he he's
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  Speaker 1: he's done right now with with this duty. He's just
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  Speaker 1: packing up and he has three up piles in his apartment.
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  Speaker 1: And the Navy moves you, which is nice. They have piles, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He has. They box everything up and as they should.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And so he's got a pile that goes to storage.
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  Speaker 4: Now we're just keep looking at this picture of you
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  Speaker 4: and him. Why aren't Why aren't were you seeing pictures
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  Speaker 4: of the piles. I want to pile pictures.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a pile that goes to storage, which is
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  Speaker 1: like furniture because where he's going, maybe he doesn't need furniture. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that and then there's a pile that they will
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  Speaker 1: ship to the island.
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  Speaker 3: Where he's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I told him to pack a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: sunscreen and stuff like that. This is the island the
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  Speaker 1: island pile, And they said, whatever you put in the
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  Speaker 1: island pile, you might not get it for two months. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: so don't put anything in there that you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Diego Garcia used to be a leper colony,
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  Speaker 4: says here probably and it was. It was a leper colony,
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  Speaker 4: and it was also coconut plantations.
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  Speaker 3: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the the only thing on the island now
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  Speaker 1: is the naval base.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only thing there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's probably a leper or two, and maybe a coconut.
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  Speaker 5: I'm surprised there's not a pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Hut no there, So I guess there's like there's a restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: there's an officers club, and then everybody else restaurant.
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  Speaker 3: And he's in the everybody else Yes, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been like eating a bunch of fast food
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  Speaker 1: because he's not going to be able to get stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Like that while he's there. But so and then he
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  Speaker 3: has a pot.
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  Speaker 5: Even Guano has a McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's tiny. So there are there are
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  Speaker 1: four medical personnel on the whole island. So there's four
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  Speaker 1: thousand sailors there and there's four so there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: two of them on duty at any time.
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  Speaker 3: And they do everything. They drive the ambulance.
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  Speaker 1: They so if somebody's the other side of the island, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but they pick them up.
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  Speaker 4: On the other side of the Island's four miles corman
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  Speaker 4: to drive the ambulance.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's they they are, They're it.
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  Speaker 5: It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: They do it all.
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  Speaker 1: But he'll he'll he'll be here for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna fill him full of beef because.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't they don't have cows there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they have cows there.
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  Speaker 1: No, uh, fish Yeah, And he said like he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of fishing himself.
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  Speaker 3: And if you catch fish and you take it to
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  Speaker 3: the mess hall, they'll cook it for you.
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  Speaker 6: So there's but they can't find somebody to drive the ambulance.
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  Speaker 5: I guess our military.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm trying to.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to see what if there's anything to do there.
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  Speaker 3: No, I told you this before.
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  Speaker 1: I'll mention it again because I looked into it like
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to learn everything about where he was going,
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  Speaker 1: And they said, Uh, if you're stationed here, one of
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  Speaker 1: three things will happen. You're either going to become a
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  Speaker 1: hunk because you.
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  Speaker 2: Work out a lot, or a slub.
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  Speaker 1: No, it all rhymes A hunk, a monk because you
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of contemplation, you do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: soul surging, or a drunk because you can, so you
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  Speaker 1: can be a drunk, a honk, or a monk.
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  Speaker 2: I know where i'd go because there's not a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, the island is a haven for several species of
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  Speaker 4: warrior crabs.
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  Speaker 6: Warrior crabs, Yeah, well you don't want thase Do you
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  Speaker 6: eat those?
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  Speaker 2: And coconut crabs?
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  Speaker 3: Do you eat those?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know. No, it doesn't look like it.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 6: Texter says, I was stung by a sting ray twenty
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  Speaker 6: years ago and it's still hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's nothing they could do.
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  Speaker 6: Here's another text I found out peeing on jellyfish things
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  Speaker 6: doesn't work. By peeing on my friend and nothing happened. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm a girl, so it was extremely awkward.
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  Speaker 3: That's what Festus said. Don't pee on anybody. It's there.
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  Speaker 4: There are three lizards and one toad species known to
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  Speaker 4: an abbit. Diego Garcia.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, someone says my son just returned from Diego Garcia
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  Speaker 1: after being there three months?
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  Speaker 2: Was he a hunk, a drunk or a month?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I want to know.
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  Speaker 5: There's a ton of crabs. I can send video if
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  Speaker 5: you'd like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, why worth he only there for three months?
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  Speaker 6: I wonder I think it means he got back three
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  Speaker 6: months after being there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, after being there for three months?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so Festus will be there a year a year,
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  Speaker 1: which is nice because usually your duty of stations are
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  Speaker 1: longer than that.
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  Speaker 3: So that because it's kind of difficult to be there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. If you go to x n I six dot
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  Speaker 1: com slash live, you can see Festus and Daddy Gary
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  Speaker 1: in front of a helicopter. So we took a tour of.
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  Speaker 2: The what's it called the base?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, it's.
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  Speaker 1: An aircraft carrier that's in port there. It's the Midway,
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  Speaker 1: the Midway yeah, that's that's like a World War two
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  Speaker 1: aircraft carrier.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Battle of Midway, and.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how they do it.
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  Speaker 1: So they take you all through it and show you
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  Speaker 1: where they sleep and where are they.
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  Speaker 5: It's very cramp.
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  Speaker 3: It's very I mean, and it's it's a cramp. It's
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  Speaker 3: like it's like you're ducking everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 1: There's no windows, there's like I think you would go
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  Speaker 1: crazy in there.
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  Speaker 4: I knew a guy who was a pilot that landed,
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  Speaker 4: you know, jets on an air He flew and landed
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  Speaker 4: on aircraft carriers. I said, what what's it like to
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  Speaker 4: try and land on an aircraft carry and he said, well,
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  Speaker 4: when you're coming in, you look down at it and
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  Speaker 4: it looks like there's a it looks like a postage
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  Speaker 4: stamp and it's rocking back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: He said, So you have to really be careful and
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  Speaker 2: know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing that as many of them do it successfully,
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  Speaker 1: is they? But that so the helicopter were standing in
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  Speaker 1: front of there with Daddy Gary. Daddy Gary was in
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  Speaker 1: Vietnam War and he was stationed on an island called Kulabrita,
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  Speaker 1: which is somewhere near Guama.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds much nicer.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, this helicopter is the helicopter that would
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  Speaker 1: bring them their weekly supplies. And then if you had leave,
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  Speaker 1: it's the helicopter that would take you off the island.
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  Speaker 1: And he said every time the helicopter would come to
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  Speaker 1: take you off, as.
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  Speaker 3: It was flying, the engine would.
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  Speaker 1: Cut out multiple times, so you're and it would drop
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  Speaker 1: and then it would catch. Oh, and then we keep
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  Speaker 1: going for a little bit and no, then that goes
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  Speaker 1: out and it sinks a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit, then it catches again. Like why did you ever
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  Speaker 3: get on? He's like, there's the only way to get
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  Speaker 3: off the island.
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  Speaker 4: The island is designated as one of the emergency landing
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  Speaker 4: sites worldwide for the NASA Space Shuttle, but it was
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  Speaker 4: never used.
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  Speaker 2: It never had to be used.
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  Speaker 5: Coconut crabs are protected.
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  Speaker 3: You can't eat them.
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  Speaker 5: You can't eat them. Jimmy John says he's sure that
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  Speaker 5: the island is haunted.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So so Festus says, it's kind of like an
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  Speaker 1: Area fifty one.
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  Speaker 3: He kind of place, there's a.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Bunch and he's going to do some scooby doo slew
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  Speaker 1: thing while he's because there's a bunch of conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 1: about what they do there because it's kind of secretive.
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  Speaker 4: Hm, he's going to be He's going to be dissecting aliens,
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  Speaker 4: isn't he. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So there are people that join the Navy just to
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  Speaker 6: move people's stuff. No Ah, I want to meet someone
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: who joined the Navy and got that assignment.
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  Speaker 1: I asked Fastus this and he said no, they they
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  Speaker 1: pay for a regular.
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  Speaker 3: Moving company to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right, Well this has been Hello sailor boy.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: I've had one that said goodbye, say her boy,