529 - Operation Flagship

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

In December 1985, around 160 people won tickets to a Washington Commanders game, including a free pre-game brunch and a bunch of extra prizes! The catch? None of those "winners" made it to the football game that day ...

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:39 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/fugitive-investigative-strike-teams-no-such-thing-free-lunch

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/12/18/how-u-s-marshals-used-redskins-tickets-to-bust-fugitives-in-1985-sting/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flagship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LsNBA2XwXU

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/12/17/hook-line-38/60d7fcbb-ec63-465f-89a9-34d6d12bc66f/?nonce=32ea02fdb73b44d5ada0b7db2260bf82&utm_source=email&utm_medium=ret-transactional-email&utm_campaign=magic-link-failed-login&utm_email=

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0:00.0	Happy Block. Happy Block. And what better way to celebrate Block? And 10 years of do go on than hitting the road. We are doing some shows around Australia and New Zealand. All the shows have sold out. So we've added extra shows in Perth, Brisbane, Auckland and Wellington. Yeah. So exciting. So exciting. You know, you never know. You never know people are going to want to come and people are coming
0:21.4	all over Australia and New Zealand
0:23.6	for us.
0:25.6	That's right.
0:26.2	And if you want to come to
0:27.3	go to dogoonpod.com.
0:30.0	We'll see you there.
0:30.8	Yeah. name is Dev Wonachie and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Whoa! Hey, Dave, hey, Jess. A dynamic duo are in the house. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Who are the dynamic duo? Well, if you have to ask, you're probably not in the dynamic duo. Damn it! Look to your left, look to your right. I've got no one on my left or right.
1:15.2	Well, that one, that doesn't really work in that instance, I guess.
1:18.0	I'm slightly to your right.
1:18.9	Yeah, you are.
1:20.3	I'm dead ahead.
1:21.6	You are.
1:22.6	Well, going Mano and Mano. We could do an arm wrestle over this big table if we had longer arms.
1:25.4	Yeah.
1:25.9	It feels like we should be debating right now. Yeah. We already have the vibe of we've been working all day and this is the last thing we have to record and we've got the sillies. But this is the first thing we're recording today. No, but we've been called in for an extra day. We don't actually do Fridays. Is this normally what you're just like on Friday? No Fridays, I'm insane.
1:59.7	I shouldn't be trusted. You get it all out on one day. That's actually smart. And then the weekend, you know, spend it with a family and I'm normal. Uh-huh. What's normal for you? Less this. Okay. Yeah. You've never seen me normal. More what? You've never seen me normal. Uh-huh.
2:02.8	More visits to the zoo.
2:03.7	Sure.
2:04.1	Yeah.
2:01.7	That's normal. More what? You've never seen me normal. Uh-huh. More visits to the zoo.
2:17.7	Sure. Yeah. That's normal. Which one? Do you have a three-park super bus? I do have the three-park super bus. Bloody hell. Yeah. So you can go to the zoo at any point. At any point. And you've got three to choose from. Yeah. And plus, I think you can maybe go to some interstate ones.
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