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Chelsea Handler

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SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

And it was really incredible.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

It had private cabins, a dining room with fine crockery, two promenades with large observation windows, a bar and a lounge that featured a custom-built Bloutner building.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

baby grand piano that was made from aluminum so that it would be a lot lighter.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

It was only 350 pounds.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

I love this question and I wish I could pull it up.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

A Boeing 747 is 231 feet long.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

This is four times longer.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

It was so expensive to operate, they wanted to attract high-paying customers.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

The Orient Express?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

Yeah, or the Titanic, which had crazy first-class accommodations.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

For the wealthy passengers, the Hindenburg was essentially an airborne luxury hotel.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

Graceful, glamorous, and effortlessly refined.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

One of my favorite details is that they had a smoking room.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

on the Hindenburg, which seems insane because it was filled with hydrogen gas, which is highly explosive.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

But the smoking room was like this pressurized room.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

The room itself was pressurized so that nothing could leak into it.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

And the theory was if there's a hydrogen leak, it'll keep it from entering the smoking room and we'll be fine.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

1912.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

1912.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

Yeah.