Comet
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Sep 12, 2026
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
It won't be back again for thousands of years, but it will be around for a good while.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
We've just discovered it, and it is our privilege to call it Harvey's Comet.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
That's nice, said Harvey.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
The first of the two men went around pulling down blinds, and the other went to the bathroom and started filling the tub.
SamHOST
That sure is one big salt shaker.
Rob J. LillyHOST
So I'm going to talk about Bill Haley and the Comets.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Were the Comets from Michigan?
Rob J. LillyHOST
know i i didn't delve that i have a lot of notes but
SamHOST
okay please go ahead don't let me interrupt okay
7 MINS LATER
Rob J. LillyHOST
Ah, yes,
SamHOST
yes.
Rob J. LillyHOST
Then it was Bill Haley's Comets.
Nick BrittonHOST
Mate, you're not going to get 193 points across the season.
Nick BrittonHOST
Clarky's Comets.
Nick BrittonHOST
Fiona Wood is up to fifth with a very impressive 73.
Nick BrittonHOST
That is impressive.
ElianaHOST
Yes, yes.
ChloeHOST
So we've talked about this comet like a bajillion times.
ChloeHOST
And I don't think, did we ever bring up Caesar's Comet while talking about it?
ElianaHOST
Well, if we did, I don't remember it because we've been doing this for eight years.
ElianaHOST
And I am quite sure we did not during the Dany chapters, so.
Dan PowersHOST
Fair.
Evan WatkinsPANELIST
The Comet.
Chris PowersHOST
I'm just not counting any of those is what I'm saying.
Dan PowersHOST
Okay.
Chris PowersHOST
The, the Comet was the WNBA team.
Evan WatkinsPANELIST
But that's a, that's a former team.
Chris PowersHOST
Or no, sorry, Comet was the Hou- the old WHL hockey team or something.
Dan PowersHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Michael WyersHOST
He says the supply situation is deteriorating and he cannot reach the Ruhr unless every resource concentrates on one thrust, ideally aimed at Berlin.
Michael WyersHOST
Montgomery's first proposal is Operation Comet, a limited airborne operation to seize bridges on the road to the Rhine, but poor weather and stiffening German resistance force him to cancel Comet on September 10th, 1944.
Michael WyersHOST
Only days later, Allied reconnaissance patrols cross the Dutch frontier.
Michael WyersHOST
Maastricht falls on September 14th, 1944, the first major Dutch city to be freed.
Michael WyersHOST
Operation Comet is only the latest in a long line of airborne plans.
Michael WyersHOST
Between June 1944 and September 1944, Allied planners draw up at least 14 airborne operations, among them Comet Tuxedo Wastage, a reinforcement drop for the American 82nd Airborne Division between June 7th and June 10th, 1944, Wild Oats, Beneficiary, Sword Hilt, Hands Up, Transfigure, Boxer, Axe Head, Linnet, Linnet 2, and Infatuate, most never happen.
Michael WyersHOST
The Allied advance moves so fast that it overruns the target area before the airborne troops can be dropped.
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Mike AmatoNARRATOR
It won't be back again for thousands of years, but it will be around for a good while.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
We've just discovered it, and it is our privilege to call it Harvey's Comet.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
That's nice, said Harvey.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
The first of the two men went around pulling down blinds, and the other went into the bathroom and started filling the tub.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
It won't be back again for thousands of years, but it will be around for a good while.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
We've just discovered it, and it is our privilege to call it Harvey's Comet." "That's nice," said Harvey.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
The first of the two men went around pulling down blinds, and the other went into the bathroom and started filling the tub.
Mike AmatoNARRATOR
"Well," said the physicist, looking tired and old, "I guess there's nothing more I can say." "Oh, yes there is, Professor," said Harvey, with a sudden grin on his face.
MarkHOST
In this story.
MarkHOST
Now, the first one, Murder at World's End, takes place in 1910 when Haley's Comet is going to go past Earth again.
MarkHOST
And a whole bunch of people are seconded in a mansion off of this coast of Cornwall that is separated because of a flood.
MarkHOST
And you can't get to and from the island.
SarahHOST
that's Ross Montgomery's The Murder at World's End?
MarkHOST
Yes, and World's End is fantastic because it's one of those great British colonial things of, well, the world couldn't go further than
SarahHOST
Cornwall, right? But it's also Haley's Comet might be the end of the world.
SarahHOST
People were kind of freaked out by Haley's Comet.
BobHOST
To lure older kids and adults, he gradually expanded into zippier lands and attractions.
BobHOST
In 1989, Wood won the Comet Award, for $210,000 at an auction of assets from a shuttered Canadian park.
BobHOST
This 1948 coaster was built on the bones of a 1927 one, so jarring and intense that its original operator had stationed a nurse at the exit platform.
BobHOST
Wood dismantled, moved, stored, and later rebuilt the Comet, and eventually sold his park, renamed Great Escape, to a company that would become Six Flags Entertainment.
BobHOST
Six Flags, which merged with Cedar Fair two years ago, just unloaded some of its least growthy parks, including Great Escape, to EPR.
BobHOST
When you want to sell something like that, EPR is often the first call you make, and that status allows it to negotiate profitable terms.
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