---
id: VIDEO_thank-you-jack-wendell
title: "Thank You Jack Wendell"
content_kind: video
category: Videos
corpus_topic: asxer-owners
source_kind: youtube
youtube_id: "gUxnvChhTKU"
youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUxnvChhTKU
youtube_channel: https://www.youtube.com/@scotomaville
youtube_description: "Daniel Comp and Jack Wendell chat about military service and the ironic use of resources they shared. Daniel notes that he slept well as a child because of Jack's military service. And thank you for that service Jack!"
watch_stem: thank-you-jack-wendell
watch_path: /v/thank-you-jack-wendell.html
related_article: Video/GARWIS_thank-you-jack-wendell.md
summary: "A brief on-camera thank-you to Jack Wendell for his military service and the security it gave Daniel as a child. The transcript is short and partly hard to make out. It marks the start of the veterans thread that runs from the road years to The Dalles and Hood River in 2023. The asxer keeps the same thread for owners in 2026."
keypoints:
  - "In Daniel's words, \"Thank you, Jack Wendell.\""
  - "[Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_thank-you-jack-wendell.html)"
  - "[Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/thank-you-jack-wendell.html)"
  - "[Mission: Staying the Course](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-1-the-long-witness.html)"
tags: [asxer, video, m1]
consent: owner
agent: Asxer Gärwis
created: 2026-10-23
updated: 2026-10-23
date: 2018-04-16
vault_stage: 07_CODEX
enrich_status: ok
enrich_method: bot
pipeline_filename: VIDEO_thank-you-jack-wendell.md
content_status: approved
approved_by_daniel: 'APPROVED 2026-10-23 (Daniel, in Asxer''s chat, 4:15 PM PT)'
routing_source: carbon
prefix: VIDEO
headwaters: asxer.com
asker_site: asxer.com
mission: "M1 Staying the Course"
transcript_kind: vault
---

# Thank You Jack Wendell

## Key lessons

- In Daniel's words, "Thank you, Jack Wendell."
- [Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_thank-you-jack-wendell.html)
- [Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/thank-you-jack-wendell.html)
- [Mission: Staying the Course](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-1-the-long-witness.html)

## Transcript

**Daniel:**  
Thank you, Jack Wendell.

**Jack Wendell (speaking in German to Angelina):**  
[German conversation — partially audible but largely unintelligible in raw audio; warm tone, appears friendly and personal.]

**Daniel:**  
Jack speaks in German to Angelina…  
*The raw audio in the 2018 video is extremely poor quality — heavy background wind noise from the lakeside/campsite setting, distant speaking, low volume, and likely an older phone microphone with distortion. The provided transcript appears to be a **machine-generated attempt** (probably YouTube auto-captions or early speech-to-text) that has mangled the German into phonetic English-like gibberish mixed with random English fragments. Grok ran the full string through translation tools and cross-checked against known German phrases, veteran contexts, and common conversational topics (military service, travel, family, etc.). No coherent German sentences emerge. It reads as typical auto-caption errors: words like “kerk want op marian”, “verkooijen”, “ramadan”, “bingo”, “macroniveau”, “barbecue”, “kikkers” (frogs), and “cosy winter” are almost certainly mis-hearings of actual German sounds.*

(brief exchange continues)

**Daniel:**  
Thank you for that service, Jack.

*(Video is very short; the core message is Daniel’s direct expression of gratitude for Jack’s military service and the security it provided him as a child.)*