Chuck Bryant

But that doesn't mean we're not going to show them that we could do that if we wanted to.

And what they came up with was known as Operation Paul Bunyan, which is one of the better names of any operation I've ever heard.

Yeah, totally.

It was under command of General Richard Stilwell.

He was the commander-in-chief of the UN command there.

And the message, like you said, was to sort of intimidate, show that we could do something if we wanted to.

They had 40,000 troops over there that were, I mean, Dave says here it was raised to DEFCON 3, which is somewhat counterintuitive because it's raising a number even though it's being lowered, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right in the middle between one and five and one's the highest.

It is very confusing.

Yeah, so you're raising DEFCON, but the number goes lower.

It took me a second to figure that out, but I have seen War Games, so I know how it works.

And I did just see the House of Dynamite.

Have you seen that yet?

The new Catherine Bigelow movie?

No.

I think it's a Netflix movie about sort of a modern, you know, what would happen if nuclear arms were launched?

Like, what would we do?