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Chelsea Handler

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SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

I have to.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

I have plantar fasciitis.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

Yeah, exactly.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

That's awesome.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

I'm so glad to hear that.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

And it's like Mick Jagger, right?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

The guy can just still move and groove.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

And he's like 900 at this point.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

All right, well, let's get a little more specific about what a zeppelin is.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

It's basically a fabric-covered metal framework of transverse rings and longitudinal girders, kind of like a big metal rib cage.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

And inside are a number of bladders filled with either hydrogen or helium gas because those are both significantly lighter than air.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

However, only one of those gases is also highly flammable.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

And which one is that?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

Well, let's just say there's a reason we don't give kids hydrogen balloons at parties.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

So at first, Germany used Zeppelins as bombers and scouting craft during World War I, as I mentioned before, and they were surprisingly effective, but not everyone was buying the Zeppelin hype.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

One very early hater was Orville Wright.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

In 1909, the New York Times ran an article titled, Wright Sees No Hope in Zeppelin Airship.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

And I mean, come on, he's the inventor of the airplane.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

Of course, he's going to shit on arrival.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg

Air travel, right?