Zero Blog Thirty

ROUND 1: A North Carolina woman passed away this week at the age of 90 thus ending a 155 year long pension from her father’s time in the Civil War… How is this possible? Well the ‘ol vet was 83 when she was born, go old man, go. ROUND 2: One of the most cringe worthy military love texts led us to ask you about the worst love stories you ever witnessed in uniform. From a motorcycle wedding to Jody drama the answers did not disappoint. ROUND 3: A Rifle-toting veteran was arrested this week after dressing up and blending in with a National Guard crowd control formation in Los Angeles. Stay tuned to hear what this has to do with Jurassic Park. Hold on to ya butts. ROUND 4: Martha McSally, who was not a Sad Sack Sally when we interviewed her, joined us to talk about her book, life as an A-10 fighter pilot, and how she sued the bejesus out of Secretary Rumsfeld while she was just a lowly field grade officer. ROUND 5: Call Sign Chaos caused a little chaos on social media. General Mattis blasted his former bos

Round 1: The nation is hurting. We’d be foolish to ignore it. Round 2: An Interview with World War 2 veteran, Marine, Medal of Honor recipient, and 96 year-old grandpa, Woody Williams!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

ROUND 1: A Fort Leavenworth soldier saved the day when they rammed their car into another on a bridge over the Missouri River this week. How’s that a good thing? You’ll just have to listen & find out. Wowzers, what a teaser by Kate there. Incredible. ROUND 2: 3, 2, 1 - NASA - WE HAVE LIFT-O...OOOHHH NO! Americans were about to launch into outer-space from American soil and on American equipment for the first time in nearly a decade when the launch got held off Wednesday afternoon. ROUND 3: If you’ve been struggling with junk food on quarantine this might motivate you a little bit - A kid who dreamed of joining the Marines but weighed 365 pounds went and lost 185 of those LBs & now he’s off getting screamed at by DIs as we speak. ROUND 4: You know how sometimes there’s a wack-a-doo in the news and you think to yourself “please don’t be a veteran, please don’t be a veteran’? Well there’s a gent in North Carolina gearing up to fight the “New World Order” and sorry but… he’s a veteran!You can find eve

Round 1: We’ll do a check-in about our weekends, I’m enforcing staff sergeant rules in my house but in kind of an air forcey way, and some thoughts about Memorial Day weekend in general. Round 2: This weekend I watched one of my favorite movies and came up with a realization…. Col Jessup is the World’s Biggest Truckrant Vet Bro. Round 3: We get to the bottom of a SALACIOUS rumor that is sullying the good name of a hospital in Trinidad and Tobago. Round 4: Spy Pigeons! Round 5: North Korea has issued a state-sponsored correction involving their founder Kim Il Sung. This one will blow your mind. Round 6: MORE CALL HER DADDY DRAMA! We issue some page 11’s, NJPs, and possibly even a court’s marshall for the Call Her Daddy Ladies!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

ROUND 1: President Teddy Roosevelt was a Rough Rider even inside the White House where apparently he enjoyed challenging the staff to ::checks notes:: punch him in the face. Would you punch your boss if they asked you??? ROUND 2: Sure, no one wants their spouse to deploy… but would you sabotage things behind the scenes & stop them from going if you could? One woman did just that and then asked, “Am I the asshole?” She might not love the answers. ROUND 3: A Green Beret & his son went all the way to Japan to get a Nissan… Car Company executive about to stand trial. They smuggled him out in a box & got him all the way to Lebanon. Gotta say… speaks volumes for Green Beret skills, right?? ROUND 4: National Guard cut off at 89 days… Just one day ahead of the minimum needed to qualify for a host of active-duty benefits including the GI Bill. In the words of Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom… "the uh.. The green weenie finds a way..." ROUND 5: Alright gang… 1 - 2 - 3… STOLEN VALOR! AHHHH That’s right -

Round 1: BUCKLE UP, SLUTS! WE GOT A NEW MISSILE ALERT and the Space Force has a new guidon (they don’t rate a flag yet)! Round 2: reddit had the most timeless military letter we've ever seen. We’ll break it down for you shotgun-style and give it a bolt bore check to see if it’s cleared hot. Yuck. That was too much. Round 3: A little Singapore social distancing goofin led to a former Air Force member’s arrest and spending 4 weeks in a Singapore jail. That sounds less than ideal. Round 4: Technology was all over the news today in very different ways. One way was in Dubai with the fanciest helmets you’ve ever seen and another was in Afghanistan with hellfire and brimstone..You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

ROUND 1: On the Gulf Coast near Fort Meyers there’s a little restaurant that shares the same name as ‘ol Capn Cons. We’ll read the Yelp reviews for both of them and boy we hope you like things roasted. ROUND 2: A former Afghan police chief has pulled a big time Benedict Arnold and switched sides to join the Taliban in what is thought to be one of the highest-level defections to those assholes yet. ROUND 3: A Chief Warrant Officer and spokesman for Parris Island Recruit Depot is knife-handing trolls all over Facebook. Comment at your own risk there, yoo-hoos. ROUND 4: Military flyovers - so hot right now. It seems like every major city is getting one, but did you know you can also request one anywhere in the country?? What sort of air support would you want at your next big bash??? Round 5: An attack that took place in the maternity ward of a Kabul hospital this week has shocked the world and devastated the people of Afghanistan.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube

Round 1: The Last Dance is the greatest 10 part docuseries of all time behind Band of Brothers so we put Michael Jordan in a foxhole and even slap a rank on him. Round 2: Long drag on a cigarette, back in my day, the recruits at Marine Corps boot camp weren't so pussy that they needed a falcon to protect them from seagulls. Shit’s changed. We’ll tell you about this new breed of mask-wearing soft corps softees. Round 3: Through our Career Day series, we’ve gone through several jobs that most people don't know about. Today, we are going to tell you about 10 jobs from the WW2 era and see if Kate would enlist again to do any of them. Round 4: Continuing the Career Day series, see how we did that, we have Patrick McKavitt who is a Naval academy grad and Marine Corps Operations Analyst. He’s gonna tell you what that means because I still can't Round 5: Jerry Stiller, who is best known as Frank Costanza, died this weekend of natural causes. He told a story in a New York Times article in 1997 that encapsulat

Round 1: The military might be rushing to judgement. I know that’s shocking but there was a memo released this week that says that people who have tested positive for coronavirus are PERMANENTLY disqualified ROUND 2: I’ve had it with these mothafuckin’ Devildogs on this mothafuckin’ plane! At least that’s how one man felt when 3 yoked infantry gents took him down for acting out in the plane’s bathroom... ROUND 3: Kate quiz alert! She’s informed us there’s a hilarious twist to this one and boy, I can’t wait to laugh and laugh. [deadpan ROUND 4: Wow.. he went from jumping on Oprah’s couch to hopping on a rocket to the international space station… NASA confirms -Tom Cruise will indeed be shooting a movie in outer space. ROUND 5: GoFundMes can be great and they can also be incredibly cringe-inducing. The Army would like to remind those in uniform that you can be shaking your internet cup at timeline passersby. ROUND 6: Every troop in the world hates CIF. We are gonna close out the show with some hate and

Round 1: There’s a situation that I need to get to the bottom of. I had a fear that ripped through me on Saturday morning, I want to discuss it in the trust tree. Round 2: A veteran, who was acting as a contractor, was captured by terrorists in Afghanistan. Navy SEALs and others tried to do a rescue mission. Why havent we heard shit about this until now? We’ll tell you what we know in round 2. Round 3: Artillery goofin with Connor and a Canadian who gets to cause avalanches… on purpose… for work. Round 4: Some Polish military members have deployed to Chicago. No word yet on if they brought delicious perogies with them or not. Round 5: Meanwhile in Russia…. That’s it. That’s the round teaser. Round 6: The scuttlebutt about scuttlebutts!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

ROUND 1: A British Royal Navy captain was fired for a barbeque…! Did he overcook the steak? Not season the meats enough? Use propane instead of coal? We’ll find out. ROUND 2: BA-BA-BA-BIRD-BIRD-BIRD, Bird… internet’s the word when it comes to the Navy’s latest experiments. You heard that right, bird. Internet. Hopefully that really uh… takes flight for them. ROUND 3: Crippling depression is no joke, but… maybe it sort of is when it comes to one tank crew in the army. ROUND 4: INTERVIEW ROUND 5: It’s not a sky dick but it’s still pretty cool - A student from Towsen Universeity in Maryland took to the skies over Aberdeen to spell out FUCK COVID-19. We salute you, sir!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Round 1: Ding Dong, the bitch is dead….maybe. Rumors are flying around that Kim Jong Un has bit the proverbial rocket launched at you while tied to a pole. Is this good or bad? Well, there’s essentially two schools of thought about that. Round 2: In this round, we are going to play a game called, “How Long Can It Live?” Round 3: West Point is calling back all their seniors, or whatever the fuck they call them, so that they can hear President Trump give a speech at their graduation. Guess how we feel about that. Round 4: Is hacking a general’s email in order to send complimentary remarks about yourself a good idea? Secretary Mattis recently told the story of one brave yet remarkably stupid Private First Class Round 5: We are going to bring on congressman Max Rose to talk about his experiences working with the National Guard during the coronavirus pandemic. He had an up-close view of the devastation happening in his district. He’ll give us the skinny!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcast

ROUND 1: Maybe he’s born with, (me & Cons:) Maybe it’s MattisMarine. Many folks were a bit surprised this week to see General Mattis modeling a jacket in ads for a clothing company… Do you think they’ll ask us next? (weird silence) ROUND 2: Army base Ansbach has a colorful, winged fairy flitting around making sure soldiers are staying socially distant and we’re sure they are absolutely loving that and it doesn’t kill their souls a little bit in any way. ROUND 3: Career Day Interview - Supply Marine Reservist Ali Van Zant ROUND 4: Iran’s being a total dick on the high seas & Russia’s being an enormous asshole in the skies. Is the U.S. about to kick dick and blast ass? Or is this business as usual. (dare you to not smile saying blast ass) ROUND 5: You might feel a little pissed off after we tell you about a nightmarish piss test on Fort Rucker. Maybe even moreso once we share your own military drug test horror stories to close out the episode!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts

Round 1: Coronavirus is still the top news in the world. It’s affecting the military too but it just might allow some navy boot camp recruits to do a little water-park goofin before their knot-tying lessons at boot camp. Round 2: A luxury cruise ship is finally going to dock after 14 weeks at sea. The ship was going to go around the world but coronavirus made them shift plans. Would a 14 week cruise be good or bad? Round 3: Former Secret Service Agent Evy Poumpours joins us to talk protecting the President, traveling the ole globe, and whether or not The First Kid is the most accurate Secret Service movie. Round 4: A huge shoutout to our guy in Kenya. A governor there is facing backlash for including bottles of Hennessy in his food care packages. We salute him. Round 5: I’m thinking about getting a hot tub. Is that a classless move???You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

ZERO BLOG THIRTY Thursday, April 16th (Friday, April 17th) ROUND 1: Cons, Kate and I are throwing a Mess Night and we’ve each invited three well known guests… but only the strong survive this group elimination challenge. ROUND 2: Our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff beefed with The Secretary of Defense at a live, televised press conference over - you guessed it - haircuts! The saga continues. Can anyone shave us?! ROUND 3: An Airman is in deep trouble after flinging his propeller (PENIS) all over a Florida TJ Maxx. Buddy, flashing people is soooo out of style. ROUND 4: Interview with Captain Charlie Plumb ROUND 5: Military encounters of the animal kind. We asked for the weirdest wildlife you encountered and the answers were quite literally wild!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

Round 1: Stuck inside for the past month has made me realize that I essentially have zero hobbies besides golf. The golf course is closed. Let talk about some things we should bring back from childhood. Round 2: A French VIP retiree did the one of the only things you cant do in a fighter jet; he pulled the ejection lever much to the chagrin of the pilot. Round 3: Career day goofin continues with an operations specalist from the US Navy. You dont know what an operations specalist is? I didnt either so dont feel bad. Round 4: throw on your decoder rings, boots. We are gonna do a little spy goofin and talk about the CIA’s Mid-Century Mind Control ProjectSayyid Qutb Round 5: Because of coronavirus, things will change for possibly ever. If Dr. Fuaci has his way, we wont be shaking hands anymore. We have some possible replacements!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30

ROUND 1: An Iraq war Veteran with Purple Heart tags had his truck stolen right outside his house yesterday and he’ll be joining us to talk about the ordeal because, ope, it was me. While we’re on the topic, ZBT listeners told us what they’ve had stolen from them and we’ll share the best ones with you! ROUND 2: Try as we might, we can’t escape Coronavirus scuttlebutt as it’s had a massive effect on all the branches. Earlier this week SecNav Modly resigned after major d-rama on the USS Roosevelt. ROUND 3: CAREER DAY - Marine welder turned law school student ROUND 4: Steve Carrell has a new show coming out about the Space Force. Will it actually be good or will we have to go into full-out The Code mode on their asses? ROUND 5: Dan Crenshaw ROUND 6: No more brass, trash, or saved rounds, ma’am… The Army & Marine Corps are finally on the verge of dumping brass cased ammo. What will this mean for our beloved police calls??.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime

BONUS - We open the show today with something a little different, providing a little mental refresher for everyone out there listening at home. A Zero Blog Thirty first. Then, we get into the rounds and we have a full show! Round 1: Andrew Yang talked to a friend who was a soldier and we all had to read the dumbest tweet as a result. Hey Andrew, you got firewatch, bitch Round 2: Huge shoutout to our friends down under. They might be providing an escape for the entire world right now by utilizing a private island for Sports. Our beloved, beloved sports. Round 3: Motivator, motivator come on out. We wanna hear Cpl Greg Fisher, who we post on social media every monday, scream and shout. Round 4: As many of you know, toilet paper can be hard to get your hands on. So can eggs, milk, and lysol. One industry is booming during quarantine season, you guessed it. It’s baby chick time. Round 5: The Career Fair continues and we talk to a Chaplain Round 6: The leader of ISIS in Afghanistan was arrested with 19 ot

ROUND 1: Allll aboard… We are goin’ off the rails to tell you the story of a man who tried to take out the USNS Comfort this week… with a train! ROUND 2: Social distancing is pretty much impossible on Navy ships and that’s become apparent as over 100 Sailors on an aircraft carrier have come down with Coronavirus. As the situation worsens one Captain on the ship has put their neck out to plead with officials to do the right thing and take steps to stop the spread. ROUND 3: Thousands of folks still stuck on cruise ships might get excited when they see the Coast Guard coming but they shouldn’t get their hopes up because they’re droppin’ a big ‘ol basket of bad news on ‘em. ROUND 4: Career day ROUND 5: Another game from Kate and she’s informed me that this time it’s a quiz of random military questions from WWII to veteran Porn that popped into her head with no rhyme or reason. Sounds awesome & you can play along, too..You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime M

a list of resources on our website: https://getheadstrong.org/covid19/ Additionally, Headstrong has gone to full tele-health with clinicians in Colorado, so cadets can reach out: https://getheadstrong.org/get-help/ Vets4Warriors, which 247 peer support that can link the cadets to other resources: https://www.vets4warriors.com/author/vets4warr/ ---- Career Day 1 ROUND 1: Over the weekend President Trump issued an order permitting the Pentagon to bring some veterans & reservists back to active duty to assist with the Coronavirus pandemic and we got the details for ya. ROUND 2: In the first of our career day interview series, we are gonna hear from a pilot who flies the refueling planes. ROUND 3: A Colonel had a meltdown over ice cream so you won’t be finding much of it around Afghanistan chow halls anymore. Looks like those troops are in for a rocky road regarding their dessert section. ROUND 4: Lt General Mark Hertling joins the show to talk about his career, shooting with a chicken wing in a vi