This week on Late For Changeover, it’s a full-blown orbital throwdown as three aerospace giants go head-to-head for the Pentagon’s space launch contracts. Think of it as The Bachelor, but with fewer roses and more classified payloads. Then DARPA shows up like the mad scientist it is, dropping six new VTOL drone designs that look like they were sketched during a fever dream in a Top Gun barfight.

But it’s not all rockets and rotorcraft—we also call out military transition programs for doing a C-minus job helping vets find civilian gigs (you can’t just slap “leadership skills” on a résumé and walk away, folks). Plus, we play the Space Movie Game—where the trivia is questionable and the arguments are personal—and take a stroll through the start of the War of 1812, because you can’t spell “freedom” without historical naval beef. If you like space podcasts with a side of chaos and News for Vets, you’re in the right AO.