Why it sucks to report to the ‘Good Idea Fairy’

Air Force Capt. Mark Harper was probably worried about the lack of network connections and other technology in 2007 when he was sent to Djibouti, Africa, to take over a staff section there. Unfortunately, his colonel hadn't gotten the message about Djibouti's limited network access and ordered Harper and his crew to start making weather podcasts for Djibouti.

A podcast. In 2007. For a group of people with limited internet access. The "Good Idea Fairy" had struck again.

Shocker, it had a limited listenership and the crew wasn't happy while making it. But since the order came from a colonel, they would need at least a general to shoot it down.

Unfortunately for them, their attempts to sabotage the program in front of a visiting two-star didn't exactly go according to plan. Check out the whole story, complete with a colonel falling asleep on a grateful captain, in the video embedded above.

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