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Chuck Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
14092 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Not like our voyage in October, which is round-trip.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

They're just going to leave us stranded in Bermuda.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Oh, that's a great idea.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

That's a wonderful idea.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

So, yeah, I mean, it was expensive, but it was also very new, right?

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

So you can imagine, I mean, luxury ocean liners have been doing this for a very long time.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

By the time they reached that cost of about $5,000 for a luxury liner.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

So you can imagine that, like, the Zeppelin company had their eye on bringing costs down eventually so that more people could afford it.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

But in the meantime, to start, I mean, that's kind of what you do.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

You attract everyone's attention by...

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Getting the richest, most famous, most powerful people to come fly on your friendly skies and then newspapers write about it like, oh, my gosh, did you see Mrs. Astor 800 feet up hanging from the outside of the Hindenburg?

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

You could see right up her dress.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

That's what newspapers want to write about, you know, and so that's what they were doing.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

That was amazing.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, there was a helium act of 1925 that I never heard of that the U.S.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

is like, this is a natural resource that we really need.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

So we're just going to keep it all to ourselves.