Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you won't find this in any history book, but I'll put this to you.
So 1900 is the year that L. Frank Baum wrote his book, The Wizard of Oz.
So the titular character is, in the beginning of the book, he is this old man in white hair with insane mustaches, sort of half scientist, half crackpot con man.
And then in the dream world of that book, he becomes the showman who invents this whole world and then in the end jumps in this balloon and flies off.
And his last words are, I don't know how to steer this thing.
I can see it.
You know, because he's the grand old man of air flight, right?
And he had sort of institutionalized this longing to get out to the farthest, the longest, the fastest.
He is the Ben Franklin of the air.
And, you know, they want him to come and honor him.
And so he goes.
And he has a granddaughter named Florence Leontine Lowe.
She is eight years old.
And in one of the exhibits, there is this sort of cartoon-like display with like movable airplanes.
And, you know, they knew that Thaddeus Lowe was going to bring his granddaughter.
So they had a cartoon cutout of Florence in the airplane as the pilot.
Yeah.
Nice.
Nice.
She was called Poncho Barnes.
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