Hello and welcome to episode 266 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with...

Jason Urbanowitz, how are you, Ian?

I'm well, Jason, how are you, sir?

Good, I'm good.

It's been a quick week, not a ton of news, but we've got some, well, we've got a very interesting story to start off with, but first of all, how are you? What else is going on?

I'm well. We're getting into the,'s officially spring the windows are open in the house.

The backyard is ready to be used. It's no longer the barren wasteland of winter so I'm

excited about that. That's nice.

We're into May which is nice doing some traveling this month so we'll have more to say about that later.

And if you listen to last week's episode of the podcast, you know that we're giving away a few signed copies of Scott

Bateman's forthcoming book, Hercules, and you already know that you can enter to win a few of those copies just by emailing us at

podcast at fr-24.com and saying hey I want to win the book that's all you have to to do. Super simple. You don't have to do

anything more than that right now. So this may be the easiest contest you've ever

entered in your entire life and there's still plenty of time to enter to win a signed copy of Scott's book. If you haven't

listened to last week's episode, stop now. Go back, listen to our interview with Scott about his new book because it's fascinating both the book and the conversation with Scott and then come back and let's talk about some some information and news that has happened this week.

How's that sound, Jason?

I think that's a plan. So we go from the Royal Air Force in the UK way

way south to Brazil because this is some very interesting news.

First reported by Andrew Tengel and Benjamin Katz at the Wall Street Journal today.

Before we recorded, how about that?

Amazing. Amazing. How about that?

Amazing.

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