Our final Spring Break episode is on The Hindenburg! Ok, it must have been very nice to fly this Nazi air-bag across the Atlantic Ocean - but the ending was not so great. It was an awful few minutes that will be burned into our memories forever.
Our final Spring Break episode is on The Hindenburg! Ok, it must have been very nice to fly this Nazi air-bag across the Atlantic Ocean - but the ending was not so great. It was an awful few minutes that will be burned into our memories forever.
Hi Friends! Our transcripts aren't perfect, but I wanted to make sure you had something - if you'd like an edited transcript, I'd be happy to prioritize one for you - please email doomedtofailpod@gmail.com - Thanks! - Taylor
hi it's Taylor from dun to fail Welcome to our last spring break episode this one is on the Hindenburg this is a good
one to end with because it's not going to make you want to travel for a smidge not that you're going to ever travel on a zeppelin like I'm sorry you're not but
um let's learn about the Hindenburg so you probably know that it crashed and it
was a zeppelin which is like a blimp same thing they're a little bit different it was huge and the thing that
I didn't know until this episode I'm going to spoil this part for you is that it was obviously ly German Hindenburg
obviously but it had Nazi flags on it and it flew over New York city so the
Hindenberg before it crashed in New Jersey flew over New York City with swas stias on it I just think that's
absolutely wild I didn't know that until I did the research for this one so hope you had a great spring break hope you
enjoy this episode and we will be back next week with new content thanks in a matter of the people of State of
California versus orthal James Simpson case number ba09 and so my fellow
Americans ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your
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country I was thinking am I getting too close to history stuff it's fine okay
if I overstep you'll tell me right I'll let you know okay we have we have boundaries okay perfect cool perfect um
cool well thank you I'm gonna maybe watch some Keystone Cops later watch around it looked funny I Buster ke was
in it um yeah he's funny and then one of uh Fatty's uh nephews was in it too and
so it's just I don't know it's just like a cool little time capsule of like the 1920s yeah totally I love it actually
going further in the future than 1920 that today I know it's crazy okay
yeah so I was thinking about you being in Ireland and flying there and you had
mentioned that you wanted to go to Belfast to see the ti where the Titanic uh launched from and then I was thinking
like what else went from Europe to America and like we've been trying to really crack this code of of getting
across the pond for you for centuries so another famous um thing that went from
from Europe to the US was an Airship called the Hindenburg oh that's awesome
I'm G to tell you about the tragedy of of the Airship Hindenberg the Hindenburg
was made by the Zeppelin company also known as LOF shiff B Zeppelin it was founded in 1908 by count fer Ferdinand
Von Von Zeppelin so like the guy's name is zeppelin which is fun he was a German
inventor an aviation pioneer and he was born on July 8th 1838 in Constance
Germany so we like it starts off in like the early 1900s and then the Hindenberg
you you'll find out crashed in 1937 so that's kind of where the story ends um
count Von Zeppelin had a distinguished military career he was in the Prussian army during his military service he
gained experience in engineering and Aeronautics so this is like the very beginning of like maybe we can do stuff
in the sky he went to he came to the US to observe um during the American Civil
War because what happened here is that people Ed balloons like hot air balloons
for reconnaissance for like the first time so it like the first time that you could like of another Army's stuff that
was never never a thing in the history of the world and I definitely remember
being a kid and like reading book about women who would like take their hoop
skirts like their big dresses and make them into hot air balloons so that they could do that like reconnaissance I
don't know if that's true or not but I read it was like a book I read a little I think that's probably true because during war time you know you like get
rid of all your stuff to like help the the cause so um but we used H air balloons for that and and Zeppelin he he
came here and observed them he worked with the French and other countries to perfect his ideas and he uh eventually
invented the Airship so he so just for the record count fan Von Zeppelin passed
away in 1917 which is about like nine years after he started his company the
first successful flight of a zeppelin the lz1 took place on July 2nd 1900
eventually there were more flights Germany used Zeppelin as an aerial bomber during World War I they used it
to bomb France UK and Belgium it's a very very German invention
so did he invent the concept of an airship yes well that's pretty that's pretty
like revolutionary yeah absolutely it's definitely like there were like kind of
planes a little bit during this time that like that was starting but it was like how can we get in the air faster
you know and that's why he was thinking like a ship and the only really concept you had for like longdistance travel
also was a ship ship yeah you know because it takes like 10 days to cross
the Atlantic on a ship like a steamer you know so you have that idea that it's going to take a long time time it has to be huge right did you ever watch Fringe
that show uh if I did I don't remember it well two things what do you oh my God
this is like this is a a thing in a thing did you ever watch Hot Tub Time Machine oh yeah did you see Hot Tub Time
Machine to no okay it's better than the first one it's so good but one of the
the the sun will will go this is just like Fringe and then everybody else will go you're a [ __ ] nerd and nobody
likes you and nobody likes you it's so funny um so whenever I think of Fringe I think of that and then also so Fringe is
very complicated but there's like an alternate universe and the only difference is that 911 didn't happen and
there are Zeppelins it's hilarious cuz you know you're in that Universe because you see the see the twin towers and also
there are Zeppelins do you remember do you remember in hot tuub time machine when that guy went back and he created
Lugal yes so good I literally was listening to a mly crew song in the car
and I only know it I know it best from being a mly Lou song from P of Time
Machine oh man I need to rewatch that no watch the second one's so good you have to watch it you've also probably heard
that the Empire State Building was planned to be like a place where you could drop people off in Zeppelins but it ended up being too windy up there
makes sense yeah so the basic framework of a zeppelin is an oblong shape you
know what it looks like it has an aluminum frame cuz aluminum is a very light it's covered in fabric the fabric
is painted over with a few layers of like special paint and chemicals to make it sturdy the Zeppelin itself is full of
hydrogen hydrogen is lighter than air so it floats but it's obviously very
flammable like yeah thing when a better gas to use than hydrogen would be helium
but helium is a naturally occurring gas and we're currently in a helium shortage
during the early 1900s when the Germans were like oh we should try helium the only people that really had an abundance
of helium was the United States and we would not give it to them okay so they had no choice but use hydrogen yeah
right now scientists estimate that at the current rate of global consumtion we have enough helium for like another 100
to 200 years and then it'll be over no more balloons so in 300 years yeah no balloons a birthday parties Future Kids
yeah that's to be you oh my God and and that along with how we feel about clowns
is going to completely destroy the clown Community it's be over absolutely there's no helium uh we wouldn't give it
to them because it's the early 1900s and we don't trust them and so it's filled
with hydrogen there's essentially like 16 giant balloons in the middle of the Zeppelin filled with hydrogen there's
fins that do the direction so on like the sides and the back to help it go up and down there's like an engine and some
like propellers there's a control room um it has wheels like a um like a ship
wheel to keep it steady and to keep it going up and down so the captain kind of works in there in some cases like in the
Hindenburg there's Passenger cars there's a restaurant like also in Indiana Jones do you remember that part
of Indiana Jones when they're getting on the Airship and then he's like no ticket because he punches that guy and goes out
the window I believe watch every time I leave this podcast I'm like man that's like seven more hours of media
consumption for me so you know whatever it's pre plane
travel but planes are are close um the problem right now is they don't know how to PR pressurize an airplane so it has
to fly low and then it takes a long time to to go and it's very dependent on the weather CU now you know you fly above
the weather but you couldn't do that then the Zeppelin also was not pressurized so it was also pretty
dependent on the on the weather um and then there was also some water like a whole bunch many tanks of water in it
that they could like that they could ballast out so like dump out the water so that it would go up and down so ways
to make it move there's Nazi flags on the side of this thing I'm going to get to that no that's the craziest part I
think story sorry okay so it sounds scary and kind of fun the current
Zeppelin that you might think of would be the good the Goodyear blimp and Goodyear blimps were actually just balloons like a big hot air balloon
until 2014 um when they started getting remade as helium Zeppelins Goodyear
actually works with Germany's zlt Zeppelin LOF shink which is the same company that Zeppelin started so it the
company is like back and Zeppelins and that's what goodye worked with to make these new um Goodyear like blimp
Zeppelins after World War I the Treaty of Versailles told Germany they couldn't make any more Zeppelins for their
military and they made them destroy all of them so the company continued and did
passenger Zeppelins and then after in World War II they built the V2 rocket for the Nazis and the company dissolved
right before World War II ended but they had some money kind of set aside and it was re re like created in the 1990s so
yeah it's a very Nazi thing like you were saying which is not what I remembered are you going to go into more
detail about what the passenger experience was on the H Hindenburg yeah okay then I will suspend questions going
back to the beginning even though it sounds scary in like because you're like in this big huge huge thing Zeppelins
are actually pretty safe way to travel for the first 30 years or so there are a few accidents but Germans are very
confident that this is like this is it this is the way to travel one notable Zeppelin was the graph Zeppelin in 1929
it flew around the world on August 7th 1920 29 it left from friedr schaen
Germany and it took 21 days to travel all the way around the world it stopped in the Soviet Union Japan United States
people were super excited because they had done this traveling fast as anybody had ever traveled around the world there were a couple accidents some in the
1900s where people crashed and nobody died there was one in 1910 lz7 known as
the deuts land caught fire and crashed during a test flight two people died in 1913 the lz20 known as Zeppelin L2
crashed and all 28 crew members on board died um and then in 1933 the USS Acron
which was not a zeppelin but an Airship because it was from the United States um encountered severe weather and they
crashed in 73 people died in in that one so there are accidents but also like
what Transportation isn't perfect you know there's like one story where a zeppelin disappears over the ocean like
I never made it but like that happened the other day with that Malaya Airline flight so yeah I was gonna say also like
I mean by compar I mean planes couldn't have been super reliable right yeah yeah yeah yeah totally so I don't yeah I
don't think it's like crazy it's not crazy dangerous so let's I'll talk about the Hindenberg itself and what was
happening inside of it it was named after the German president Paul Von Hindenberg Berg is the guy who appointed Hitler as
Chancellor bad move bad move bad move it is one of the largest air ships ever
constructed it was completed in 1936 it was 803 feet in length so like
five passenger planes like really big the inside the ship itself there was
like the gondola which is the part that like you see that hangs off the bottom that's where like the captain was and
and um the crew where they could like guide the ship the passenger recorders were kind of inside the balloon part on
the bottom like layered on the bottom and they had windows that were like curved going out so if you were like in
an egg sitting on the bottom of the egg you know what I mean okay flat there were two decks a deck and B deck the
decks had uh sleeping quarters that were really small like a small little room with bunk beds and then it had like
there's a bathroom there was and then there were like some lounges places where you could you know hang out so
also so for the rest of the ship cuz that's only a tiny part of it where the passeng were for the rest of it you know
like it's it's this big space with this these big balloons of gas and there was a corridor that went through the
balloons and in the middle of that there were some rooms for storage and for the
crew so it must have been like really dark and loud and scary inside of to say that sounds scary as [ __ ] yeah thing is
huge it's only windows on the side yeah so you could like walk walk like you
know 800 feet and it's like dark tunnel surrounded by flammable gas yeah above
the ocean yeah there's also a a reading and writing room to send telegraphs so
you could like read and send messages to people um in that room and there was also a smoking room which people think
is funny and like it's definitely funny but people couldn't handle being on a three-day trip and not smoking like yeah
that was the problem with the graph Zeppelin like it was like people were like I can't I'm not going to go on this trip for a week and not smoke a cigarette so they made a room that was
pressurized and you had to go in and would smok in there there was one electric lighter allowed on the entire
thing you weren't allowed to bring in matches or lighters or anything like you were like searched before you got on you could smoke in that room the smoking
room is not the problem it's not the thing that exploded it just like happened to be a room where you could smoke on this like bomb essentially yeah
I like how you phrase that smoke inside this bomb that's great yeah yeah a safe way to smoke inide a bomb there was a
bar that had paintings of flamco dancers on the side there was was a lounge with a piano the piano was specially made out
of aluminum to be lighter than a regular grand piano cuz otherwise it would be too heavy to be on the ship there is a
website that I'll share called on airship. net there's a lot of pictures of the inside of it so it's like a nice
like luxurious way to travel so it's a really nice Lounge you the the windows are kind of on kind of on the side
looking down so you can look down the rooms are small but it's a short trip it's like 2 and a half days so people
would you know be able to go on it and then just like hang out and then be across the pond um it feel it seems like
most of anything pasture related would have to be inside of the actual balloon
yes so tiny yeah it's inside the balloon um if you look at the picture of the Hindenberg you see little tiny windows
at the bottom of the balloon those are the windows from the passengers the passenger decks yeah so they were like
in the bottom of the balloon they weren't in the gondola which I thought but they weren't yeah a ticket on the
Hindenburg one way was approximately $450 which is
$9,400 today wow so it was like a luxury thing it can cross the ocean in two days
ships take like a week before 1937 the Hindenberg made 17 round trips two and
from Germany 10 to the US and seven to Brazil super successful no problems now
it is May 3rd 1937 and hindberg is about to come to the US again 1937 is a crazy
time to be in Germany Hitler was was appointed Chancellor in 1933 the Nazis are getting worse and worse and worse
it's very totalitarian it's a year before Crystal knocked when they started to be like very publicly violent towards
towards Jews but they've been you know doing terrible things for now for for years now there's propaganda there's the
gapo there's the SS it's a year before the official outbreak of World War II but Germany is starting to invade other
countries so it's like a it's starting gearing up for war someone actually
wanted to re name the Hindenburg the Hitler which is like unbelievable but also like Hindenburg isn't a good guy
but it just doesn't have the same like tone as name of the Hitler the visceral reaction isn't quite there yeah not the
same um so this is the thing that I think is is crazy there's like very
scary propaganda posters that show like the Hindenburg and Zeppelins with the swastika with like the eagle with like
the scary German things do you remember when we went to that German propaganda yeah exhibit at the library so it was at
the LA Public Library like several years ago but we went and it showed a bunch of the propaganda and then some of the
takeaways were like imagine what they could have done with the internet you know like it could be exponentially more scary now and then also like this
happened because good people were like it's no big deal and then it got out of control and then it was too late you
know yeah so it was like a thought that was a very good message like you have to
stand up right now before that things happen it there is something unusually
daunting and scary about this thing with Nazi symbology all over it because it's
just a giant I mean it looks like a missile like it looks like a giant bomb a big silver thing yeah totally like
spasticus are [ __ ] scary like yeah same like hearing the word Hitler like you're afraid like it's a scary symbol
to see so the hurg leav Germany on May 3rd 1937 97 people were on board they
approached the US on May 6th 3 Days Later they're heading for Lake Hurst New Jersey and that's where the landing
strip is and where where they can land there's also a lot of reporters there the Zeppelin company really wanted
reporters to be there whenever they landed this was the first flight of the season so they wanted everybody to you
know record it and be like Zeppelins they're awesome you know so the weather starts to get bad it starts to get rainy
it starts to get kind of windy and so to they need to delay their Landing so they
swing by New York City this is a part that's [ __ ] insane because they flew an Airship with SWAT stickles on it over
New York City like that blows my mind but video of it but at that time that
was just a country's flag right it didn't have mean yeah oh yeah but you like kind of knew like I feel like
people didn't not know it wasn't like zero you knew that like and also people were still probably mad at Germany since
we just did this right right you know the Empire State building was built in 1931 so people were could have been on
top of the Empire State Building 100 or so stories up like watching this and I have video of it that I'll I'll share
when I was living in New York City I worked at a hedge fund and I was on the 38th floor of a building overlooking um
Central Park it was beautiful and an awesome view I saw two crazy things from being up there I saw the space shuttle
being brought to to DC on top of an airplane I remember what that happened it was like hugging it it was super cute
I saw that too actually yeah so I watched that out the window and I also saw the um the miracle on the Hudson
plane in the in the Hudson you saw that Landing I didn't see it crash but I saw it floating and I knew it was happening
because my friend Juliana from work she had left work early to go home to New
Jersey and she was on the ferry that pulled people out of the water wow so
she was like literally like giving people her coat and pulling them out of the water but I saw it floating from the building that I was in so you see crazy
things one experience over New York City but I just I had never heard that it had SW on the Hindenberg hadasa so that kind
of blew my mind if you do Hindenberg New York City would you see it yeah there's a um a five minute newsreel um from
Britain I'll send you the link and you can see it and it shows it like a video wow yeah that is kind of crazy so
weather's getting B it looks it looks like an act of aggression it doesn't look like that's what I'm saying it's scary like yeah it's scary and and
they've they've used Zeppelins to bomb you know the UK during World War I like the they've used them for that thing
yeah so now it's heading back towards New Jersey it took was about a 12-h hour
delay that they had because of weather so kind of like floating around trying to figure out when they can land the
captain Max pruce is attempting to maneuver the Airship for landing it took about 3 hours to get from New York to to
New Jersey so technically they could have waited more but because they don't really like they kind of float up there
for indefinite amount of time but they wanted to to land and get going there passengers waiting to return to Germany
so they were going to flip it around and go right back to Germany so they started to as they start to kind of go into into
New Jersey the back of the Hindenburg is a little low like lower than you'd expect it to be so they start dropping
some of the water ballast to kind of get it to go up you don't know exactly what was happening because there isn't like a
black box of recording you know so you don't know exactly what they were thinking they could have potentially like have sent a guy back to like check
on it what was going on inside of it they dropped their anchor lines so they Dro their anchor lines and those hit the
ground and approximately four minutes later Flames erupted and that's what you see in the new in the news reals is the
is a is a burning so have you heard Herbert Morrison's Live account oh yeah of the humanity okay I'm gonna read it
in a second but also do you remember in like elementary school learning about War of the Worlds oh yeah the the Orson
walls yep yep and they like make it seem the did when I was like in third grade
like people were dumb for believing that War of the Worlds was was happening and that it was like their fault but if you
ever really listen to it it's [ __ ] scary it sounds like a newsreel you wouldn't know that it was someone acting
the only thing that really kind of weird is like the time doesn't make sense but I don't know how you would know it wasn't real like yeah I mean that form
of entertainment didn't exist so like why why would you yeah why would you ever assume it wasn't real yeah so okay
I'm going to do my best Herbert Morrison impression ready
okay so he's with Charlie his engineer Charlie is his like engineer and Herbert Morrison is a reporter from Chicago so
he says starting to rain again the rain sucked up a bit the back Motors of the ship are just holding it just enough to
keep it from it's burst into flames it's burst into flames and it's falling it's crashing watch it watch it folks get out
of the way get out of the way get this Charlie get this Charlie it's burning it's crashing it's crashing terrible oh my get out of the way please it's
burning bursting into flames and the it's falling and The Mooring mass and the folks between oh this is terrible
this is one of the worst catastrophes in the world oh it's Flames crashing oh four or 500 fet in the sky and it's it's
a terrific crash leadies and gentlemen it's smoke and it's Flames now and the frame is crashing to the ground not quite to the moing Mast oh the humanity
all the passengers screaming around here I told you I can't even talk to people their friends are on there I can't talk ladies and gentlemen honest it's just
laying there a mass of smoking wreckage and everyone can hardly breathe and talk and the screaming lady I am sorry honest
I can't hardly breathe I'm going to step inside where I cannot see it Charlie this is terrible I can't listen folks
I'm going to have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice this is the worst thing I've ever witnessed and that
W 30 seconds wow that feels um that really like puts you there in
the moment like I mean the way you read it really well because like I could feel the panic in the way you read it thank
you yeah I mean I didn't even think about like people are waiting for their friends with like the welcome home signs you know and they're watching it explode
like crazy the frame the flame started in the tail rapidly spread through the ship the hydrogen ignited Fireball 30
seconds and it's gone people were jumping out of the cabins people on the ground running and screaming 36 people
died 13 passengers and 22 crew members and one worker on the ground so a fair amount of people more than half people
did survive yeah because it was wasn't it like close to the ground already so it's s like it and I would imagine as
the Flames are running through the thing the gas is like gradually escaping not like it's just like
gone and then you're Dro to the ground like I imagine it hit the ground harder than you'd wanted to but not like
insanely hard like well it didn't didn't because it was it did it didn't like you're right it didn't like crash into
the ground like a plane crashed into the ground it kind of like spit to the ground but also like it's a fireball on
top of it you know it's like all fire and then like a little bit where passengers are and that fire is on top
of them so yeah they were pretty close to the ground they're about 200 feet above the ground people did start to jump out of it so some crew members even
like threw ropes out and like mattresses to help people get out um they there's an emergency hatch they slid down so
some people were like on their way running out of it and then it crashed on top of them and they were burned in the British path a news thing that I'll send
you and share they show that happening and it's awful like people are running out of it and then it just crashes on
top of them and it's really awful so the mystery is why did this happen like no
one really knows 100% what happened and I'll show you I'll share that footage
with you but all the footage is from one spot because that's where the reporters were they were in like the reporter area
so they all have from like one angle but there are a lot of videos of it they show people you know jumping and running
and being smashed so there had to be a spark somewhere obviously to like Start the Fire some of the theories are like
maybe it was sabotaged because people don't like Nazis that could be a part of it maybe something exploded in the back
maybe there was a leak so the back of the ship was like getting lower so maybe the hydrogen was leaking that you can't
really you didn't really know and then I watched this documentary on PBS that's like relatively new about a new Theory a
man named Howard shank his uncle was there and had a video camera like it was like a wind up video camera but he was
in a different spot so we got a different angle from the Hindenburg that no one has seen before and from that
they did some they flew to Germany with like some like air some experts and they
did some experiments and what they discovered and I think this is pretty convincing is
because it was raining the ropes were wet and the top of the Zeppelin was wet as well and when they dropped the ropes
and the ropes hit the ground it like connected it and then the whole thing became electrical and then once that
happens the water creates a spark so it's like why you don't have like a toaster in the oven in the bath you know
what I mean and so when they did it when they did their experiment they electrified the rope and then the top of
the zeppin they got it wet and it took 4 minutes to catch on fire which is exactly what happened on the so I'm pretty convinced by that I
thought it was really interesting um so because they were like rushing to to go
down in the in the rain and just like the way it connected happened to like cause a spark so after but they don't
know and we'll never really know for sure because all the evidence is destroyed it's just like destroyed there's nothing there's just like
aluminum burned aluminum GS or whatever so after this there were no more
transatlantic Zeppelin flights it was over people still had you know like a
ticket to go back that day and they didn't obviously planes started to get more sophisticated and then also like
we're folding into World War II so there's other things to think about the last Zeppelin Airship constructed by the
company was the LZ 130 graph Zeppelin 2 it flew in 1938 but it didn't go across
the ocean again it was used for like sight seeing and Nazi propaganda during World War II right I kind of think that
I would go I would go on one because it seems like so weird like I feel like we
don't even talk about like the two days over the ocean on this that's crazy it sounds super scary but like
fun it definitely sounds scary yeah so I mean also at that hedge fund that I
worked at in New York they were like like companies who wanted you to like invest in them would like give you stuff
and two of the guys I worked with got to go on the Goodyear blimp and they said it was really really loud that was like
their biggest takeaway CU like you're below you're like low and the windows can be like opened you know so like yeah
it's like a loud thing so now you can kind of do that but and I think you can also do like sightseeing blimps like
around obviously but I also feel like I would not go on high air balloon so I don't know I I I read something that
when I'm looking this up there are only 25 blimps in the world right now huh
yeah they're super rare apparently only I guess they're different right
yeah like a blimp is like a balloon like a big balloon and a zeppelin has like the whatever the like metal inside there
were 119 Zeppelins built I mean there there wasn't a lot of either basically yeah and if any they're so big like
where do you put them yeah yeah the whole parking thing is really wild um
how you're supposed to just like tie it up to I don't know it's cool it's cool I I would definitely I would love to Rite
in the Good year blimp I don't think I do a zeppin I do the Good year blimp that's fair I'd like to do like a it' be
cool to like sleep in a z one do like one night in one I I don't know it's possible but it sounds pretty cool
there's something about like vast Open Spaces that just scares the hell out of me no KN that you're inside that giant
eight what is it 800 feet yeah so scary so scary so scary I don't know but I
feel like it's safe I feel like now it feels like it would be safer because they have like computers and also I would want a parachute
like I do that but wait so there's actually a page on the Goodyear website
on how to get on the blimp oh can you like sign up oh they're my invitation only all right let's get on that list
okay we're gonna have to call our agent and tell them to hook that's our that's what we want that's our next step don't
want to be blimp Nam doomed to fail want to be a blimp that's like very successful yeah we're doing great so
yeah that's it they don't really know what happened Zeppelins kind of went away they're kind of like a cool nostalgia thing to think about like that
we thought it was going to be the thing and and planes ended up being the thing I think a a red flag for this and for a
lot of like transatlantic travel like the Titanic is like you know you want to
go to Europe and you want to come to the US and you want to connect it you want to be fast and luxurious and like super
fun so one more thing that I wanted to mention real quick is another thing that they tried to do that ended up failing
to go back and forth from Europe and the US was the Concord oh yeah remember the
Concord so yeah a couple bullets on the Concord it was a supersonic jet that
flew from the US to to mostly to NYC to London also flew to Paris and Singapore
the first fight was in 1976 the fastest flight was on February 7th 1996 the
Concord flew from New York to London in 2 hours and 52 minutes at the speed of
Mach 2 that's so crazy right now it takes seven hours to get to for that
fight yeah I I've read a lot about um the Concord about how like given how fast it flies and how super heated the
air outside gets the thing like is elastic like it expands and contracts
like dramatically boom yeah yeah yeah and
they don't do they don't go Sonic until they hit the Atlantic I don't think right because loud yeah we just Shad
everybody's Windows yeah yeah so they uh it's also very loud like I know someone
who took it and she said it was very loud because they going like supersonic through the air um it was also very
luxurious very expensive it could hold 100 people only like 100 people at a
time passengers and so because it's so fast very similar to the Hindenburg
disaster there was one big disaster um on July 25th 2000 a Concord crashed
shortly after taking off from charl gal airport what happened was the strip of metal on the runway caused a tire to
burst leading to to rupture the fuel tank the fuel ignited massive fire loss of control the aircraft crashed into a
hotel resulting in the deaths of all 109 people on board and four people on the ground remember this flights were halted
there was a test flight a few days later that had engine failure it returned safely but that was the end for the Concord as well in 2003 it was grounded
for good they were you know super expensive and hard to maintain they had more fuel than other planes and you know
not a lot of people could afford to even take it so they were like it's kind of out priced a lot of people so just like
just like the Hindenburg you know one big thing kind of turn the tide on on that form of travel I wanted to just say
that those are some ways that terrible things can happen when you're going across um across the ocean but I wanted
to tell you that on your way home to enjoy your slow your slow leisurely
flight but also considering how long Humanity has been around and that it took Columbus 10 weeks to get America in
the first place it's pretty good we're doing pretty good I I actually thought the fight here I mean it was about 8
hours and easy easy breezy like I hate I hate
flying but I thought it was surprisingly easy to just like zone out I mean they they take care of you right like you get
fed and constantly and watered and all that good stuff so yeah it's not no needed it's not too bad no Concord
needed exactly cool so that's it I'll share some videos it's crazy it's a crazy crash real scary yeah you can see
why it's so famous in like in history and also um a lot more Nazis than I
realized yeah yeah well I I didn't realize it R so that was a surprise
exactly yeah I knew there were Germans but like I forgot that the Germans were Nazis during 1937 there's four goodye
blimps yeah four goodye blimps yeah they even have one in Europe oh good for them
let people write on it um awesome School sorry I'm going to lean back up but I
have um I have some corrections from last week's episode if you have a second
so my father-in-law father-in-law is the doctor and he listens and he's the best so he texted me to tell me that I was
wrong about chemotherapy it's not radiation there's actually two different things there's radiation therapy that's
more General where they like put you in front of the machine and like radiation like goes into your body and
chemotherapy is more can be more like deliberate and more exact on exactly where it's going so it's it's like not
radiation it's like different kinds of drugs that are meant to stop the um the cancer from growing so they both have
the same goal which is to kill and change the cancer cells so that they don't grow anymore right now there's
actually some things that people are working on on biological agents which are called biologics and they're used
usually antibodies that treat autoimmune conditions in cancer so that's sort of like the next step in in cancer research
Cancer Care and so that is you know hopefully coming soon hopefully going to do something really great this is a
terrible I'm so sorry Victor and then um so yeah radiation might happen before chemo but chemo itself is not radiation
got it got it okay that was a good correction yeah I saw you posted that you post that on our Facebook page I
think yeah yeah yeah yeah thank you Victor thank you you're the best cool
sweet well thank you Taylor um I'll go ahead and kill the recording again like
subscribe all that all the good stuff um I'll keep recording and this travel will have no impact on our release
schedule thank you thank you [Music]
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