Chelsea Handler

Would you ride in like a blimp?

Is that something that would be cool?

I was researching this story and I got so into the idea of riding in a blimp that I looked how you get tickets to ride on the Goodyear blimp.

No, they're not.

They're only like occasional sort of like buzz, you know, like the charity buzz auctions or whatever.

Oh, no.

They have little...

They have men.

They have little men.

Little men.

Okay, so Count von Zeppelin died before World War I ended in 1917.

The whole operation passed over to Hugo Eckner.

Eckner was not into war blimps.

He believed Zeppelins had enormous potential just in long-distance travel.

So he thought he was like, these can become the slow, elegant, floating luxury cruisers of the sky.

They could get up to like 80 or 90 miles an hour.

But a lot faster than a ship.

So when you're talking like transatlantic travel, the Hindenburg could cross the Atlantic in a couple of days as opposed to five or 10 days on a cruise ship.

Yeah, they're pretty cool, I have to say.

So this guy who's taken over the company, he's like, I think we can do luxury air travel on these things.