Oct 14, 2026 · 23 min · 10 segments
Hunter & Kaylan (with the help of Ron Funches), investigate the CIA's top-secret plan to locate Russia's missing submarine - a mission that would launch their grandfather's covert career. Along the…
Hunter HillHostKaylan HillHost
Ron FunchesGuest
I mean, of, of course the military would have a reason to spend the money to chart the ocean, but, but why would anyone spend that kind of money to maybe find an old ship?
I mean, those dots do kind of, like, perfectly align with that mission, and we know that he charted the Mariana Trench and that they did find the Titanic looking for the USS Thresher, but we also don't have, like, necessary proof that he was on there.
But there was also only, like, a handful of people probably that were capable of having that knowledge and information in order to do that.
So it's not completely implausible, but you know, I get, like, the recognition of being crazy, so I'm going to be skeptical on that.
How many other discoveries were made by the military and then passed on years later as scientific ones?
It's crazy to think about if, like, Grandpa actually worked on that boat, that there's even more things that he had to keep secret about.
I mean, of, of course the military would have a reason to spend the money to chart the ocean, but, but why would anyone spend that kind of money to maybe find an old ship?
I mean, those dots do kind of, like, perfectly align with that mission, and we know that he charted the Mariana Trench and that they did find the Titanic looking for the USS Thresher, but we also don't have, like, necessary proof that he was on there.
But there was also only, like, a handful of people probably that were capable of having that knowledge and information in order to do that.
So it's not completely implausible, but you know, I get, like, the recognition of being crazy, so I'm going to be skeptical on that.
How many other discoveries were made by the military and then passed on years later as scientific ones?
It's crazy to think about if, like, Grandpa actually worked on that boat, that there's even more things that he had to keep secret about.
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