What a Hell of a Way to Dad

Fall is underway, the leaves are beginning to change color, and we're still in Afghanistan after 17 years. With a low unemployment rate (usual caveats apply), go figure that the Army is having a hard time meeting its recruiting and retention goals. However, with an enormous budget to spend on basically any and all dumb technology, there might be a solution around the corner: drones you can control with your brain. This week, Nate and Francis hash it out over the weird defense tech that emerged from the AUSA conference, recent news that military recruitment is suffering, and much more. Additionally, you get a preview of a Patreon bonus episode featuring leftist USMC / Army veteran Carlo Valle, in which he and Nate discuss Honduras, post-service politics, and why Facebook is the bane of all veterans. If you want this and other bonus episodes of extremely socialist veteran content, sign up to the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie If you want to declare your affiliation with lefty veteran merchandise, check out our Teespring storefront here: https://teespring.com/stores/what-a-hell-of-a-way-to-die You can follow the show on Twitter here: @HellOfAWay Follow Nate here: @inthesedeserts Follow Francis here: @ArmyStrang

Quick announcement before we get deep into the wood with Russian poisoning (both real and online) as well as the Department of Defense's attempt to find a Fiverr video editor and snaring a defunct Newgrounds animatior for a primer on blowing up indiscriminate bits of desert. Then Nate talks with Amber Mathwig, Navey veteran and veteran advocate about Defense contractors and their new brand of wokeness in putting women in charge of running the military industrial complex to blow up mud huts overseas. If you want more extremely online leftist veteran content, you can access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie Additionally, we have a lot of merchandise on sale on our Teespring storefront: https://teespring.com/stores/what-a-hell-of-a-way-to-die You can follow the show on Twitter here: @HellOfAWay Follow Nate here: @inthesedeserts Follow Francis here: @ArmyStrang

We've kept you waiting for this week's episode, but you get additional content: first, an interview between Francis and veteran organizer Alex McCoy on the topic of foreign policy and leftism (and how to reconcile the two). You also get a nearly episode-length argument between Nate and Adrian about Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, how systems protect abusers, and whether or not there's any point in trying to win over Republicans. If you want more extremely online leftist veteran content, you can access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie Additionally, we have a lot of merchandise on sale on our Teespring storefront: https://teespring.com/stores/what-a-hell-of-a-way-to-die You can follow the show on Twitter here: @HellOfAWay Follow Nate here: @inthesedeserts Follow Francis here: @ArmyStrang

For this week's episode, Nate, Francis, and Adrian discuss the enormous Vostok 2018 military exercises taking place between Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and others -- and the gang determines that there are very few tactical tasks that involve 300,000-person formations. Additionally, they discuss the news that Venezuelan military officers met in secret with the Trump Administration to discuss a coup against Nicolas Maduro -- a very normal thing for America to be doing given America's history in the Western Hemisphere. If you want any of the exceptional bonus content we have lined up in the coming weeks, you should subscribe to the Patreon and make your buddy smile. Also, we have a merchandise store on Teespring with a number of our dumb jokes rendered in physical form. Please spend your hard-earned capital on us.

WE GOT MERCH. Check out the store at Teespring This week, the team covers several news stories, from Bristol Palin diming out her ex to Jody to the secretary of the Army accidentally spotlighting a war criminal during Suicide Prevention Week Check out this week's bonus episode in which Adrian interviews Politico military reporter Wesley Morgan Check out this week's bonus episode as we break down the classic Red Dawn and telling just how amazingly fascist it is. $3 a month gets you access here Got a story to share? You can do on the Voicemail line (314) 722-6138. You can also feel free to just DM, email at sergeantjoker@hellofawaytodie.com or send us an anonymous question or comment to curiouscat.me/16666014 Facebook - www.facebook.com/Hellofawaytodie/ The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeserts

WE GOT MERCH. Check out the store at Teespring The team watches the original RoboCop directed by Paul Verhoven and between all the graphic violence and naked buts tried to determine if it's fascist or not. Check out this week's bonus episode in which Adrian interviews Politico military reporter Wesley Morgan Check out this week's bonus episode as we break down the classic Red Dawn and telling just how amazingly fascist it is. $3 a month gets you access here Got a story to share? You can do on the Voicemail line (314) 722-6138. You can also feel free to just DM, email at sergeantjoker@hellofawaytodie.com or send us an anonymous question or comment to curiouscat.me/16666014 Facebook - www.facebook.com/Hellofawaytodie/ The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeserts

WE GOT MERCH. Check out the store at Teespring Adrian, Francis, and Karl talk about the curious case of the vaping congressman Duncan Hunter. While he is a massive piece of crap, he is also the most troop congressman we've ever had Check out this week's bonus episode in which Adrian interviews Politico military reporter Wesley Morgan Check out this week's bonus episode as we break down the classic Red Dawn and telling just how amazingly fascist it is. $3 a month gets you access here Got a story to share? You can do on the Voicemail line (314) 722-6138. You can also feel free to just DM, email at sergeantjoker@hellofawaytodie.com or send us an anonymous question or comment to curiouscat.me/16666014 Facebook - www.facebook.com/Hellofawaytodie/ The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeserts

WE GOT MERCH. Check out the store at Teespring Francis sits down with Jason Kander, Afghanistan Veteran and Missouri politician who is currently running for Mayor of Kansas City, Mo. The two talk about the book, trade deployment stories, and talk about what it is to be politically left leaning in a state deep in the heartlands Then we dig our ever suffering producer Karl out of his soundproof bunker to talk about himself and let him wax poetic about the 82nd Airborne. Get Jason's book Outside the Wire Check out his Podcast And follow him on twitter Check out this week's bonus episode as we break down the classic Red Dawn and telling just how amazingly fascist it is. $3 a month gets you access here Got a story to share? You can do on the Voicemail line (314) 722-6138. You can also feel free to just DM, email at sergeantjoker@hellofawaytodie.com or send us an anonymous question or comment to curiouscat.me/16666014 Facebook - www.facebook.com/Hellofawaytodie/ The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeserts

GET YOUR SHIRTS- The Inagural Hell of a Way to Die shirt/Sticker/Tote is here! Adrian speaks with author Corey Pein (@coreypein)about the Unite the Right rally in Washington State and how these ideas flourish in America Check out this week's bonus episode. Cathrine Schmit is a currently serving soldier who transitioned from male to female in the Army. Hear her story - https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-in-army-20522835 Got a story to share? You can do on the Voicemail line (314) 722-6138. You can also feel free to just DM, email at sergeantjoker@hellofawaytodie.com or send us an anonymous question or comment to curiouscat.me/16666014 Facebook - www.facebook.com/Hellofawaytodie/ The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeserts

GET YOUR SHIRTS- The Inagural Hell of a Way to Die shirt/Sticker/Tote is here! The team discusses guns yet again, and then talk about how China's crackdown on officer side businesses are less of a threat to global security and more of the president rolling his eyes at some nonsense. Check out this week's bonus episode. Cathrine Schmit is a currently serving soldier who transitioned from male to female in the Army. Hear her story - https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-in-army-20522835 Got a story to share? You can do on the Voicemail line (314) 722-6138. You can also feel free to just DM, email at sergeantjoker@hellofawaytodie.com or send us an anonymous question or comment to curiouscat.me/16666014 Facebook - www.facebook.com/Hellofawaytodie/ The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeserts