EARLY EPISODE: The USS Thresher

Hi Joe, did you come across this video during your research? https://youtu.be/HV5FGTxIU4Q

vaultbreaker

Joe's Man-Horse idea is true nightmare fuel. Giant snails would be cool as an alternative to horses.

Gabriel Laycock

I’m a submariner, almost 20 years in the navy, and I can verify that the Ohio-Class subs have Smith machines, not hack-squat machines.

The more I hear about submarines the more I think I'm the sort of weird person who would fit in on one

Rosemary S Callahan Gray

Fun fact, In the Bay area, or version of whipping shitties is "flip a bitch"

ASL

We unironically say whipping shities in Minnesota and Tom's accent is not that far off

LD-50 Seattle

"Whip a shitty" is what you say when telling someone to do a U-turn in Minnesota

Mike H

While this is a fairly good episode, I want to point something out - you're talking about the 60s, Joe. There was no such thing as "safety programs" or "quality assurance". If you said those words in a shipyard you would automatically get shoved into a torpedo tube. If you said that at a medical factory the nerds there would give you a wedgie and call you a pussy. So SUBSAFE was an achievement, especially before the era of computer tracking of logistics. They made sure they knew exactly where each nut, bolt and piece of asbestos came from on these submarines. I absolutely hate the US military, but more safety is always good.

Akshay Anand

hell yeah

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

lol, I guarantee the guy who asked the question about riding animals scaled up to horse size has read "The General" by S.M. Stirling. Basically Napeolonic era tactics, but riding giant dogs instead of horses.

Snooder87

Love how this qualifies as a lighthearted episode of this podcast.

Sean Holland

Not a submariner, so first i've heard of Sunsafe and it seems like a no-brainer, so naturally it took this long. Also, for the next sumbmarine episode time, the british K-class and the "battle" of may island. It'll be great!

Flantastic02