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Um, I had, I was talking about the tragedy, I don't know why I'm bringing, I
had a...
Yeah, no, you said that something that had occurred.
I, well, I, my nephew died in a helicopter accident.
Oh.
Yeah, and we made the news in Australia, and I want to sort of talk about it a
little bit,
because there's been a cover-up by what I believe the Australian government,
so I'm getting into conspiracy theory shit now.
Welcome.
But, okay, so, you can check this online.
My nephew, Lieutenant Max Nugent, was in a helicopter.
Now, how Australian a death is this?
He crashed a helicopter up near the, a bit above the Great Barrier Reef, um,
for the military,
and was eaten by sharks, like his remains, there was no remains left, so that's
pretty Australian,
you know, that's pretty...
I mean, it's a high velocity, it almost sounds like something that would be
sponsored by Red Bull,
to be honest, you know?
So, he was, he was on, uh...
It's pretty high velocity.
He was on military war games, flying a Taipan helicopter, and they were in a
group of four,
um, flying along, um, America was there as well.
There was 30,000 soldiers from all of our allies around the world, and, uh, the
helicopter crashes.
So, it's a game, it's a competition?
They play basic war games, so they're in formation for, uh, Taipan helicopters.
The helicopter crashes, they wear these helmets that, uh, were completely, it's
just like,
all the readings are in there, you know?
I don't know why they can't just do it in an office, like a drone, you know
what I mean?
But, but, but they're in the helicopter, and they're looking at all their
things.
Uh, the helicopter hits the water, the four men on the helicopter die instantly.
Um, and the, within a matter of a couple of weeks, Australia had decommissioned
the helicopters,
taken them apart, and buried them in the desert.
Uh, the Ukraine said, we'll take the helicopters, and the Australians went, no,
no, no, no, no,
don't you worry about that.
Then my brother and my niece and my sister-in-law had to sit through an inquiry
that went on,
uh, for almost two years, um, whether the government was responsible or not,
where the test pilot stood up and said that those helmets were defective and
would end in
industrial manslaughter, right?
So this was documented that they said this?
This was documented in the inquiry, right?
It was like watching a few good men, like, talking about the military and the
government
trying to cover its ass, and so on, said that it would, they also, the weather
environment,
it was raining, uh, really badly.
Other countries didn't go out on patrol that day.
They said the weather was too bad.
Uh, the soldiers were too tired.
One of the soldiers, um, said that they were so tired, they couldn't fly the
aircraft,
and then my nephew stepped in to actually do it.
Um, there's just so, and it was just so much bullshit, and then they made it
until, uh,
they had, I believe, five days to actually put in a civil suit to sue the
government,
or the statute of limitations ran out, and the inquiry ended with five days.
Who has five fucking days to get a law?
They dragged it out.
Yeah, on purpose.
On purpose, so that we're, now I get that the world's going to war, well, the
world's,
it, it's, we're in a war.
Everyone, it, it, whether it kicks off more, who knows, right?
But the Australian military might be going into a war scene pretty soon, right?
Any, anything you guys do, we'll do as well, right?
Um, so they can't be paying out every soldier who dies, or whatever like that.
But this was not, this was, uh, uh, war games.
There was, there was things that weren't followed.
There was things that have been, there's literally helicopters that have been
buried.
If you want to find an Australian Taipan fucking helicopter, you need a
treasure map, mate.
Wow.
So I, I just, the only reason I'm bringing it up here on the show is, is, is
you've got
such a, a big platform, mate.
And I just wanted to sort of get that bit of information out.
You can go onto my Instagram.
I've put up all the clips there, or just, just Google the, the accident.
Uh, I'm not a big conspiracy theory guy, but, uh, it seems pretty shady to me.
And were you able to, um, were you able to, like, how do you even go about combating
that
or like getting in investigations into this?
Uh, yeah, um, I don't know.
I think, I think I'm doing it right now.
Yeah.
I think this is all I can physically do at the very least I'd like my nephew's
death,
not to be forgotten.
Um, I'd like him to be remembered.
And, uh, what I've seen my brother go through, you wouldn't put onto any parent
losing their
child, right?
You wouldn't put it onto anybody.
Let's bring him a picture of a Mr.
Nugent, uh, Max Nugent, Max Nugent, Lieutenant Max.
The thing is he grew a stache just before he, because he, yeah, because he,
there, there he
is.
He looked like he was, he looked like he was from the 19th.
He looked like he'd just come back from beating some Germans, didn't he?
He definitely looks like a time traveler.
He was ready to go, old Max.
Hello, Max.
That boy, mate, I was, I remember, I remember when he was born and he was one
of those guys,
he just never disappointed every step along the way.
He, he, he wanted to be a fighter pilot, but he was six foot six.
Oh, um, so I had to go in the helicopters.
Oh, cause there's more room in there.
Yeah, a bit more leg space.
Yeah, I could see that.
Well, leg space, you don't want to be in a fighter jet and be a real tall guy.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, with your legs or something like that.
Sitting there like that.
Oy, maverick.
He's moving the throttle with his foot.
Did, um, was he your first nephew?
He was my first nephew.
Oh, man.
He's, uh, I keep on getting his age wrong in every interview.
I believe he was 23.
I believe he was 23.
He was very young.
And was he married or no?
He had a girlfriend.
Oh, wow.
Um, but that he'd been living with for a very short amount of time.
Hell yeah, put the bills on her.
But, uh, uh, he, uh, he was just starting out in life.
He'd just gone through all the training and stuff and graduated to be actually
become the
helicopter pilot and actually be a real, you know, you know, for every,
everybody in the
military that sees battle, I think there's 12 people behind them who are catering
and
supplies and this, that, and the other for soldiers, you know, they're the rock
stars, man.
The, the fighter pilots and the helicopter pilots and stuff.
We were proud of him.
Oh, they're the heroes.
I'm sure you were.
He looks like somebody very much to be proud of.
That's why I wanted to get a good look at him so we can honor him today.
So they said that his plane went down and then they don't really know what
happened.
Uh, they said it was pilot error in the end, but they didn't know because the,
the masks
invert, but at the end of the day, the weather wasn't right.
And they shouldn't have been flying with, with, with that, that like other
countries didn't
go out and there's meant to be a certain amount of sleep that the soldiers are
meant to have
before.
I would look, it was actually turned out to be that my nephew, there was two blokes
in
the back of the helicopter and the two parts of the front.
And you know, the first fear you have is, was he experienced enough?
Was he the one holding the controls?
Um, and he wasn't, it was the more senior pilot that was holding it.
My nephew wasn't holding at the time, but I have no ill will.
To him, of course, you know, like it's, it's a, it's an accident, but you know,
my family
had to listen to the black box and that took a year before they played that of
going in
and listening to legal fucking shit going over and over again.
And I will adjourn in a month and we'll do some more and we'll adjourn a week.
And they, they spent all their holiday pay and all their days off having to
watch, try
to get justice for their son.
And then at the end they went, uh, pilot error.
Uh, you can't sue or anything like that.
There'll be no money paid out.
And if you want to sue, you've got five days to get it done.
Right.
Um, that, what was your question again?
Sorry.
It was, okay.
So yeah, so there was another bloke, another bloke actually, uh, driving it,
but the, you
know, the, the, the, um, black box is just really my nephew going, well, it's
looking a
bit dodgy.
Pull up, pull up, pull up.
That's all you really get.
You know, you get his final words and that's pretty harrowing to have to listen
to the final
words of someone, you know, it's not like they're words of wisdom.
They're, they're words of fear right at the end there.
Has it, has it been, um, man, God, it's a, it's so heartbreaking.
Has it been hard to like be a supportive brother after that?
Like, was that, has that been like a challenge or interesting or what does that
kind of turn
into?
It's, it's been.
Not hard, but what is that like?
Cause I, I, I look, I, there's a, there's a field piece I once did on the Jim
Jeffries show
that, that, that shows me and my brother's relationship because he was a police
officer
and I did a ride along in his car and it was just a lot of me taking the piss
out of my
brother and he took it in pretty good jest.
Um, uh, it, there's nothing to say when someone's child dies, you can just be
there and you can
just hug them and stuff.
The only thing I could do was get on a plane right away as soon as, as soon as
I knew,
you know what I mean?
But in some strange ways, so I've got two brothers and that, those two haven't
always
gotten along.
They, they don't dislike, they don't dislike each other.
They're just very different blokes.
Yeah, they're different for sure.
Just different dudes, man.
And, uh, it's sort of, it's brought them closer together because when the shit
hit the fan,
the whole family was there right away.
Everyone was there right away.
You know, uh, I remember going, I, I got there, I got on the first plane, I got
there
and then my brother was waiting out the front.
My other brother was waiting on the front.
He goes, I don't want to go in, uh, before you go in.
I want to go in with you.
I just don't, I don't, he didn't know what to do, you know?
So I was terrible and watching my granddad, you know, you know, I'm, I'm glad
my mother's
dead for it, to be honest, that she didn't have to be around for it.
You know, what's the matter of living a few more years to see your grandchild
die?
You know what I mean?
So I, I mean, I know this is meant to be a fun podcast, but I was just, let's
talk,
let's talk about Chris Lilley, man.
Let's talk about fucking Chris Lilley or my comedy special, Two Lens special
coming out.
Yeah, we'll get right into it.
But Max, uh, Max Nugent, thank you so much for your service, sir.
Yeah.
And, uh, happy to be thinking of you today.
We'll get, you know what, we'll get a nice photo of him.
If it's okay with you and your brother, maybe we can put it in here on the desk
or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Would that be okay?
No, that would be wonderful.
Thank you.
That would mean a lot to me.
That'd be cool.
It'd be nice to have him in here with that stash too, dude, you know?
He was, uh, yeah, he was great.
He was, he was, strangely, I remember thinking when he became, when he went to
Duntroon, uh,
which is like Sandhurst or I don't know what you call it in, what's the big
military academy
in America?
West Point.
West Point.
West Point.
So Duntroon is the equivalent of West Point.
And he didn't get in the first time and he studied and he worked as a bartender
or whatever.
And then he got in the next time.
And I remember thinking like, he was just such a committed lad.
And then he finished really high, top of his grade.
And even though he was my nephew, even though I am over, you know, 20, I was 25
years older
than the bloke.
Yeah.
I looked up to him.
Oh.
You know what I mean?
I looked up to him.
I thought he was kind of like a cool guy in the same way.
Like I went and did a gig the other day with the Dodgers and I'm like, why am I
gushing
over some 25 year old lads?
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
But a fighter pilot who was my nephew, my blood was fucking doing that.
Yeah.
And I looked up to him.
That's cool.
Sorry.
No, it's admirable.
Well, I'll look up to him too.
Thank you.
You know?
Thank you.
No, I like getting to think it's important.
Yeah.
Thank you.
It's important to think about people that mean something to you.
And I believe that people can feel you thinking about them in the, in the, like,
I think that
it's a real thing.
Like, you know, I think it's important that we think about people like that,
man.
He fucking was a, he was a fucking boss.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you know what?
I take some solace in that he was doing the job that he always wanted to do
since he
was a little kid.
Yeah.
He lived his dream.
They reckon the last time they saw him, he put his machine gun over his
shoulder.
His automatic shoulder, he jumped in the helicopter and he gave a thumbs up and
a smile.
Yeah.
And he was over the moon because the other person dropped out and Max was first
person
with his hand up.
Yeah.
And so, you know, it, it, it, it, it wasn't a senseless death.
It wasn't a, you know, like a car accident, which I'm not going, you know,
people have
tragedies all their life.
At least there was, you know, it wasn't fentanyl.
Yeah.
At least it was something, you know, off being a fucking hero, bro.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, dude.
It is cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, that is exciting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shout out Max, dude.
Fucking, he's still out there in the air.
Probably fucking, dude.
Well, look, that's another reason we shouldn't be tariffing these people.
These guys are fricking putting their lives on the line.
They've done that for America before.
Yeah.
Thank you.

Jim Jefferies Thinks The Government is Covering Up His Nephew’s Death

Um, I had, I was talking about the tragedy, I don't know why I'm bringing, I
had a...
Yeah, no, you said that something that had occurred.
I, well, I, my nephew died in a helicopter accident.
Oh.
Yeah, and we made the news in Australia, and I want to sort of talk about it a
little bit,
because there's been a cover-up by what I believe the Australian government,
so I'm getting into conspiracy theory shit now.
Welcome.
But, okay, so, you can check this online.
My nephew, Lieutenant Max Nugent, was in a helicopter.
Now, how Australian a death is this?
He crashed a helicopter up near the, a bit above the Great Barrier Reef, um,
for the military,
and was eaten by sharks, like his remains, there was no remains left, so that's
pretty Australian,
you know, that's pretty...
I mean, it's a high velocity, it almost sounds like something that would be
sponsored by Red Bull,
to be honest, you know?
So, he was, he was on, uh...
It's pretty high velocity.
He was on military war games, flying a Taipan helicopter, and they were in a
group of four,
um, flying along, um, America was there as well.
There was 30,000 soldiers from all of our allies around the world, and, uh, the
helicopter crashes.
So, it's a game, it's a competition?
They play basic war games, so they're in formation for, uh, Taipan helicopters.
The helicopter crashes, they wear these helmets that, uh, were completely, it's
just like,
all the readings are in there, you know?
I don't know why they can't just do it in an office, like a drone, you know
what I mean?
But, but, but they're in the helicopter, and they're looking at all their
things.
Uh, the helicopter hits the water, the four men on the helicopter die instantly.
Um, and the, within a matter of a couple of weeks, Australia had decommissioned
the helicopters,
taken them apart, and buried them in the desert.
Uh, the Ukraine said, we'll take the helicopters, and the Australians went, no,
no, no, no, no,
don't you worry about that.
Then my brother and my niece and my sister-in-law had to sit through an inquiry
that went on,
uh, for almost two years, um, whether the government was responsible or not,
where the test pilot stood up and said that those helmets were defective and
would end in
industrial manslaughter, right?
So this was documented that they said this?
This was documented in the inquiry, right?
It was like watching a few good men, like, talking about the military and the
government
trying to cover its ass, and so on, said that it would, they also, the weather
environment,
it was raining, uh, really badly.
Other countries didn't go out on patrol that day.
They said the weather was too bad.
Uh, the soldiers were too tired.
One of the soldiers, um, said that they were so tired, they couldn't fly the
aircraft,
and then my nephew stepped in to actually do it.
Um, there's just so, and it was just so much bullshit, and then they made it
until, uh,
they had, I believe, five days to actually put in a civil suit to sue the
government,
or the statute of limitations ran out, and the inquiry ended with five days.
Who has five fucking days to get a law?
They dragged it out.
Yeah, on purpose.
On purpose, so that we're, now I get that the world's going to war, well, the
world's,
it, it's, we're in a war.
Everyone, it, it, whether it kicks off more, who knows, right?
But the Australian military might be going into a war scene pretty soon, right?
Any, anything you guys do, we'll do as well, right?
Um, so they can't be paying out every soldier who dies, or whatever like that.
But this was not, this was, uh, uh, war games.
There was, there was things that weren't followed.
There was things that have been, there's literally helicopters that have been
buried.
If you want to find an Australian Taipan fucking helicopter, you need a
treasure map, mate.
Wow.
So I, I just, the only reason I'm bringing it up here on the show is, is, is
you've got
such a, a big platform, mate.
And I just wanted to sort of get that bit of information out.
You can go onto my Instagram.
I've put up all the clips there, or just, just Google the, the accident.
Uh, I'm not a big conspiracy theory guy, but, uh, it seems pretty shady to me.
And were you able to, um, were you able to, like, how do you even go about combating
that
or like getting in investigations into this?
Uh, yeah, um, I don't know.
I think, I think I'm doing it right now.
Yeah.
I think this is all I can physically do at the very least I'd like my nephew's
death,
not to be forgotten.
Um, I'd like him to be remembered.
And, uh, what I've seen my brother go through, you wouldn't put onto any parent
losing their
child, right?
You wouldn't put it onto anybody.
Let's bring him a picture of a Mr.
Nugent, uh, Max Nugent, Max Nugent, Lieutenant Max.
The thing is he grew a stache just before he, because he, yeah, because he,
there, there he
is.
He looked like he was, he looked like he was from the 19th.
He looked like he'd just come back from beating some Germans, didn't he?
He definitely looks like a time traveler.
He was ready to go, old Max.
Hello, Max.
That boy, mate, I was, I remember, I remember when he was born and he was one
of those guys,
he just never disappointed every step along the way.
He, he, he wanted to be a fighter pilot, but he was six foot six.
Oh, um, so I had to go in the helicopters.
Oh, cause there's more room in there.
Yeah, a bit more leg space.
Yeah, I could see that.
Well, leg space, you don't want to be in a fighter jet and be a real tall guy.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, with your legs or something like that.
Sitting there like that.
Oy, maverick.
He's moving the throttle with his foot.
Did, um, was he your first nephew?
He was my first nephew.
Oh, man.
He's, uh, I keep on getting his age wrong in every interview.
I believe he was 23.
I believe he was 23.
He was very young.
And was he married or no?
He had a girlfriend.
Oh, wow.
Um, but that he'd been living with for a very short amount of time.
Hell yeah, put the bills on her.
But, uh, uh, he, uh, he was just starting out in life.
He'd just gone through all the training and stuff and graduated to be actually
become the
helicopter pilot and actually be a real, you know, you know, for every,
everybody in the
military that sees battle, I think there's 12 people behind them who are catering
and
supplies and this, that, and the other for soldiers, you know, they're the rock
stars, man.
The, the fighter pilots and the helicopter pilots and stuff.
We were proud of him.
Oh, they're the heroes.
I'm sure you were.
He looks like somebody very much to be proud of.
That's why I wanted to get a good look at him so we can honor him today.
So they said that his plane went down and then they don't really know what
happened.
Uh, they said it was pilot error in the end, but they didn't know because the,
the masks
invert, but at the end of the day, the weather wasn't right.
And they shouldn't have been flying with, with, with that, that like other
countries didn't
go out and there's meant to be a certain amount of sleep that the soldiers are
meant to have
before.
I would look, it was actually turned out to be that my nephew, there was two blokes
in
the back of the helicopter and the two parts of the front.
And you know, the first fear you have is, was he experienced enough?
Was he the one holding the controls?
Um, and he wasn't, it was the more senior pilot that was holding it.
My nephew wasn't holding at the time, but I have no ill will.
To him, of course, you know, like it's, it's a, it's an accident, but you know,
my family
had to listen to the black box and that took a year before they played that of
going in
and listening to legal fucking shit going over and over again.
And I will adjourn in a month and we'll do some more and we'll adjourn a week.
And they, they spent all their holiday pay and all their days off having to
watch, try
to get justice for their son.
And then at the end they went, uh, pilot error.
Uh, you can't sue or anything like that.
There'll be no money paid out.
And if you want to sue, you've got five days to get it done.
Right.
Um, that, what was your question again?
Sorry.
It was, okay.
So yeah, so there was another bloke, another bloke actually, uh, driving it,
but the, you
know, the, the, the, um, black box is just really my nephew going, well, it's
looking a
bit dodgy.
Pull up, pull up, pull up.
That's all you really get.
You know, you get his final words and that's pretty harrowing to have to listen
to the final
words of someone, you know, it's not like they're words of wisdom.
They're, they're words of fear right at the end there.
Has it, has it been, um, man, God, it's a, it's so heartbreaking.
Has it been hard to like be a supportive brother after that?
Like, was that, has that been like a challenge or interesting or what does that
kind of turn
into?
It's, it's been.
Not hard, but what is that like?
Cause I, I, I look, I, there's a, there's a field piece I once did on the Jim
Jeffries show
that, that, that shows me and my brother's relationship because he was a police
officer
and I did a ride along in his car and it was just a lot of me taking the piss
out of my
brother and he took it in pretty good jest.
Um, uh, it, there's nothing to say when someone's child dies, you can just be
there and you can
just hug them and stuff.
The only thing I could do was get on a plane right away as soon as, as soon as
I knew,
you know what I mean?
But in some strange ways, so I've got two brothers and that, those two haven't
always
gotten along.
They, they don't dislike, they don't dislike each other.
They're just very different blokes.
Yeah, they're different for sure.
Just different dudes, man.
And, uh, it's sort of, it's brought them closer together because when the shit
hit the fan,
the whole family was there right away.
Everyone was there right away.
You know, uh, I remember going, I, I got there, I got on the first plane, I got
there
and then my brother was waiting out the front.
My other brother was waiting on the front.
He goes, I don't want to go in, uh, before you go in.
I want to go in with you.
I just don't, I don't, he didn't know what to do, you know?
So I was terrible and watching my granddad, you know, you know, I'm, I'm glad
my mother's
dead for it, to be honest, that she didn't have to be around for it.
You know, what's the matter of living a few more years to see your grandchild
die?
You know what I mean?
So I, I mean, I know this is meant to be a fun podcast, but I was just, let's
talk,
let's talk about Chris Lilley, man.
Let's talk about fucking Chris Lilley or my comedy special, Two Lens special
coming out.
Yeah, we'll get right into it.
But Max, uh, Max Nugent, thank you so much for your service, sir.
Yeah.
And, uh, happy to be thinking of you today.
We'll get, you know what, we'll get a nice photo of him.
If it's okay with you and your brother, maybe we can put it in here on the desk
or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Would that be okay?
No, that would be wonderful.
Thank you.
That would mean a lot to me.
That'd be cool.
It'd be nice to have him in here with that stash too, dude, you know?
He was, uh, yeah, he was great.
He was, he was, strangely, I remember thinking when he became, when he went to
Duntroon, uh,
which is like Sandhurst or I don't know what you call it in, what's the big
military academy
in America?
West Point.
West Point.
West Point.
So Duntroon is the equivalent of West Point.
And he didn't get in the first time and he studied and he worked as a bartender
or whatever.
And then he got in the next time.
And I remember thinking like, he was just such a committed lad.
And then he finished really high, top of his grade.
And even though he was my nephew, even though I am over, you know, 20, I was 25
years older
than the bloke.
Yeah.
I looked up to him.
Oh.
You know what I mean?
I looked up to him.
I thought he was kind of like a cool guy in the same way.
Like I went and did a gig the other day with the Dodgers and I'm like, why am I
gushing
o