I Don't Know About That - Amelia Earhart (Live)

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

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Yeah, you should probably wear them. We had a murder mystery night the other night. I couldn't. I have script bits and I can't read it. I should be wearing glasses all the time. But you're so fucking handsome, man. Oh, we're doing the song. Carpet.

Chairs. Which holds which up? You might find out. I don't know about that with Jim Jefferies. We're live at Flappers, everyone. Give a rally on the drums. Yes. Hello.

Welcome to our second live podcast. I'm here with Forrest Shaw and Jack Hackett. We're at Flappers Comedy Club in in Burbank with first one did very well we did Titanic and that went down great I didn't prepare that I was just fucking I'm that good anything happened this week what happened this week I don't know I did the hemorrhoid happened but we we come to talk about it again we said you Anything happen this week? What happened this week? I don't know. The hemorrhoid happened, but we covered that. We can talk about it again.

You can't talk about it enough. Is that what you want to talk about? I wasn't referring to that. I was at my kid's baseball game this week. And I was at the practice and I was helping. Well, I'm not very good at sports, right? The other dads are all throwing the balls and going, Jody, stay in the box and all that.

And I'm like, I don't know. So what I do is I act like a ball boy. I just go around and gather all the misfit balls and put them back in the bucket so I'm useful. So I've been walking around a lot. Now, previously that day, I had had a hemorrhoid burst when I was having a shit. And it had ruined the bathroom, this thing.

And I went out of shower, I pushed back in what I thought I'd pushed back in. Then I went to... Now, when you shit yourself, which I didn't, when you shit yourself, you get a little alarm that something bad's happened. In the form of a smell, you go,

oh, oh, I'd better run to safety. But when a hemorrhoid pops and you lose about a quarter of a pint of blood, and your pants look like a Japanese flag, there's no... You don't want to show them, do you?

You can show the picture. Oh, really? You want to? Yeah, because I only... I don't show the general public, but show the people in the room so the listeners can go, oh, my God.

Just in this room? Yeah, just this room. I don't want the world to see. So, just my phone? Yeah, just your phone. That's... Those are the... Yeah.

So just my phone? Yeah, just your phone. Those are the... We apologize to everyone eating. I was at the Clippers-Lakers game, and I had a hemorrhoid pop and blood all over my pants at Hank's baseball practice. I go, was it showing? And then that picture just popped up.

It says, you tell me. I just wanted an honest opinion, because maybe no one noticed. That happened last week. I had to go to my son's baseball game this afternoon and just see all the dads like this. Hey. Because no one said anything,

so I can't be the one to bring it up. I can't walk up to one of the dads and go, the other day we were at practice, did you notice anything different about me? In the downstairs, they all know, I know, they know that I know, I know that they know, we all have to just stare at each other. I had a lot of blood pouring out of my anus one day

at practice you felt better you said you felt better oh man it was a relief if anyone's ever had a hemorrhoid that was really

fucking thing and then it pops woo that's like putting on tight shoes and taking them off again fantastic most people are getting

their food right now by the way too so that's a pretty good timing, I think. You guys enjoying that pizza? So we're ready to... Should we promote some gigs we're doing? Because people actually have to hear the gigs, do the gigs. Where are you going to be, Des Moines, Iowa?

I'm sure. This is my life. I look one week ahead of my life. I let everyone else do it, and then I look one week ahead and I go where am I going this week

oh yeah and we're not promoting it for you other people will be listening to this obviously Des Moines was a great crowd

but that theatre has a fucking bat in it and if they haven't caught that fucking bat tell the bat story oh the fucking

there's a bat I'm sure I've told this story before Caught that fucking bat. Tell the bat story. Ah, the fucking... There's a bat... I'm sure I've told this story before. In Des Moines, Iowa, same fucking theatre, there's your audience. I'm performing. Everything's going okay.

And then the audience goes... Like that. Because that's what everyone does when they see a bat come out of nowhere. So this bat came out and started flapping around. And I said this to the audience, just ignore it. And I'll keep telling jokes and we'll be fine. I did that for a while.

I did as much material as I could with the fucking bat. I tried doing it. The audience couldn't focus. with the fucking bat. I tried doing it. The audience couldn't focus. I went, we have to stop the show until the fucking bat goes away. I'm really sorry.

Now, then they put that, they closed the curtain. I said, I had to go up to them and say, come here, shut the curtain, right? I'll perform on the little bit in the front of the curtain. You can keep the bats contained. Right? little bit in the front of the curtain you can keep the bats contained right with with behind the fucking curtain right and they said good idea jim and then they shut the curtain i went back to doing the gig the gig was going fine but it sounded like the three stooges were doing a fucking a job behind me there was things smashing and cracking

and fucking people falling. I think I heard a knock, knock, knock. Right? So, so, so this guy comes in from the back of the room and he has one of those big fucking butterfly nets. You know, the ones with the big stick with the hoop on the end with the really long fucking net to catch butterflies but a bit bigger one that has obviously been custom made to catch bats

and this guy runs in he goes sorry jim this has never happened before so come out if you want to see the bats in Des Moines, Iowa March 22nd I told that story somewhere and someone wrote

from the theater and said there's still bats hell yeah that's an old building with chimneys yeah it's not going away March 23rd

Kansas City, Missouri then you're in South Africa Spokane, Washington Denver, Colorado and so on go to jimjeffries.com and come see me too. I'll be in Sydney, Australia on April

24th and 26th. Oh, if you're listening in Melbourne, Australia, there'll be some secret gigs coming up that me and Forrest are going to be performing on in April, so that's worth looking at. And if you're here at Flappers, you're probably not going to these gigs, but thanks for coming out. It's a long flight.

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Check out my band, The Doohickeys. Great promoter. Really not a noise you might put a Doohickeys. Just try and find them somewhere. Where do doohickeys where do they find you where do they find you instagram the.doohickeys or go to

the doohickeysband.com they're good they're good the doohickeys the doohickeys opened for me at the Ryman Theatre which is the

grand old opera damn right something to people in the south and they opened there fucking people in the South. And they open there. Fucking people love the doohickeys.

Yeah, we can start now. Oh, okay. You want to interest our guest? You can do it. It's your job. When do you want to do this? We don't normally read the ads here. Oh, do the ad at the end.

Yeah, we'll do the ad at the end. It's a funny one. All right. Our guest is, she's been on the show more than any other guest this will be her fourth time we love her

please welcome Dawn Brody come on give her a rally on the drums in comes Dawn oh

she's a likely lead here we go very excited to have you back on you did Dawn did our Titanic to have you back on. Dawn did our Titanic podcast.

Have you heard that one live? Also Frankenstein, which is one of my favourite podcasts we ever did. I still haven't read Frankenstein. You gave me the book and it was really nice. You gave it to me with the idea that I've read books before and i i couldn't let you down in person i was like i've read two books uh one of them was back to the future too the novelization of what i was because what happened was in australia used to take a very long time before we got movies americans would watch movies and then the canisters would sit

there and then eventually they would get down to Australia and there'd be always one cunt of a kid who had gone on holiday to fucking America and comes back like this and he's like, Luke Skywalker has a green lightsaber. And you're like, cunt. Right?

I'll find that out in four months. So I didn't want to wait four months to see Back to the Future 2, so they had a book of Back to the Future 2, and I read that. Also, about seven years ago, for whatever reason, I read Chevy Chase's biography. About that. It took two years but I got through

the fucking thing what was your big takeaway his mum and my mum were very similar people he seemed a bit grumpy thanks for being here Don anyway

what I'm saying is thank you for the gift of Frankenstein the book but it's on my list of things to read. It's in good company on your bookshelf, clearly. No, no, no. I have so many fucking.

It's in the trunk of his car. I have so many. That's how he's going to read it, yeah. That's good. So when the earthquake, you're trapped under rubble. It was such a sweet gift, and I look at it every day, and I think to myself, I'm going to read that. He gave me a ride home from the podcast the other day,

and I knew you were going to be on this podcast and I put my stuff in the trunk. I'm like, oh, there's the book. I'm going to read that someday. But yeah, you see it in the trunk. Yeah, I don't read. It's nothing against you personally. All right, well, we're not doing Frankenstein today.

I don't like people who do read. I find them to be pretentious. Sorry, Dom. We're not doing... Don't you, when you find some cunt and you're like, you watch a movie

and you go, you like the movie, the book was way better. Fuck off. What are you, what are you talking about? You, you read the word dragon.

I saw a fucking dragon. There's no way. There's no way that what you read was better. No fucking way! How did Back to the Future 2 stand up when you finally saw it? Well, you read it in the book and you picture a flying car. You picture it, but you don't see the... You didn't see a car going up like this.

You don't see the fucking wheels doing that. Yeah, it blew my fucking mind when I saw it also I'm very dyslexic so every character in a book that I read is a simpleton every character is walking around like this hey doc where's the DeLorean

DeLorean it's just not enjoyable for me Look, where's the DeLorean? This is not enjoyable for me. Movies, am I right? All right, so what's Don here to talk about today? Okay, Don, so Don knows... No, we have a little song. I don't know if you want to do this podcast. Yes, no.

Yes, no. Yes, no. Yes, no. Judging no. Yes, no. Yes, no. Judging a book by its cover. We didn't spare on the font. Glad we trademarked that. Trademarks should trademark that font because it's the same font.

Fuck it, Eljack. you've had all day. I gave you one job. All right. Is it cave paintings? All right, so you like books. You're a person of... Very pretentious. You're a person of... Very pretentious. You're a person of literature and history.

You have told us about Frankenstein. We've learned about the fun Dracula. I remember Dracula was written on the same day as Frankenstein. It's one of my favourite things in the world. He tells it to a lot of people. I tell it to everyone. It makes me seem interesting. No, it does. Yeah makes me seem interesting it's good

it gives you a little bit autistic it's good to have things like that to just follow people Jack has a hint oh okay paper aeroplane

or maybe that's what Jack thought was an actual fucking plane that you built. Because the font and that was both shaken. Yeah, you were supposed to fly it around for a while. Oh, and then it hits in the water? Yeah, and then it went low.

He was too busy making fun of me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Amelia Earhart. That's it. You got it. That's fucking easy. Well, how many more clues did you have? You were supposed to fly it around

and then you were supposed to say some bullshit about airplanes and then crash it but he just panicked I'm not going to know a lot about this because this isn't one of the books I've read I haven't even watched the documentary and I don't know a lot about Amelia Earhart. Well, we're going to learn.

I'm kind of fucked. I'm going to assume... She had a great sense of direction. She had a pronoun or two. I don't know. All right. Let's start that. Dom Brody has a degree in history.

Is that bad? I don't know. I'm just judging a haircut what's going on just keep throwing gas on it do it yeah a lot of people a lot of people

have been writing the podcast was better when Kelly was here because she kept me in check and now I've been let loose into the wild say hi Kelly Kelly's over there

Kelly's over there she came to work she's here yeah yeah Don Brody has a degree in history and theatre from the University of Minnesota and is a researcher Kelly's over there. She's got to look. She's here. Yeah, yeah. Dawn Brody has a degree in history and theater from the University of Minnesota and is a researcher for several museums. She has appeared on the History Channel series Crazy Rich Ancients

and History's Greatest Mysteries. Come on. That's not. Okay. History's Greatest Mysteries. See her on this current season. New episodes every Monday. And she also has a great podcast called Hilf

History. I'd like to fuck. Check that out. It's a really fun podcast. And on Instagram, find her at Don underscore Brody and at Hilf Podcast. Thanks for being here again. Thank you. Really listen to that podcast. If you like history and

learning about all sorts of cool things, it's a great podcast. I'm on an episode. It's true. You're the next new episode, of course. I feel like our podcast is like the boy band of podcasts. You just said, if you're interested in history, listen to that. Our podcast is like

shit. You learn. If you want to learn this much, come to our show. And maybe that'll get you into learning. It's like boy bands. It'll get you into music, then you'll buy some good albums eventually.

Right? Come to us to learn one thing. It's a gateway podcast. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're a joint being handed around a party. You're a crack den. Love it. The crack of Don.

I'm going to ask Jim a series of questions about Amelia Earhart, and at the end of him answering those questions, Don, you're going to grade him on his accuracy, 0 through 10. Jack is going to grade him on confidence. I'm going to grade him on how hungry I am, and then we're going to add all those scores together. And if you score 21 through 30, you're a mouth kidney. A mouth kidney?

This is another puzzle. Do you get it? No. Ear, heart. Oh, okay. You had it all right as well. Fuck it up. 11 through 20, eye spleen.

0 through 10, nose colon. I think that's what you want to get. Now it's funny fuck you guys it's just you were ahead of your time man as a beginning

they thought it was shit and their history has proven different they love that joke this is the worst part of the podcast for me

is making these categories I hate it we're not having a picnic over here hearing them hey nose colon these categories. I hate it. We're not having a picnic over here hearing them. No scoring was pretty good.

That's why I saved it for last. Alright, first question. The Wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903. How old was Amelia Earhart at the time? You can see it up there. Yeah, I'm reading it. It's up here. I'm a fucking game show host.

I know how to do this. The Wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903. How old was Amelia Earhart at the time? And your clock starts now. How old was she

in that picture? And then I'll tell you. It'll work backwards. I don't know. I have no clue, yeah. Yeah, because she could have been anything from 90 to 70. They looked old back then. No one knew what anyone's

age was. So in 1903, how old was she? Ah, she would have been eight years old, I reckon. Okay. When and why did Amelia Earhart first get into a plane? Well, to get over there. Wherever over there may be, but there was a reason for it.

We have to get there quicker than walking. Come with me, Amelia. It's imperative. That's your answer? Yeah. She had to get a distance in a short amount of time. Who was Amelia Earhart's first flight instructor? One of the Wright brothers.

I'll say Orville. Orville? Okay. Orville? Okay. Orville at that stage would have been about 60-something years old. He used to show up, he used to look at Amelia and go, I'm getting too old for this shit. Back in my day, women wouldn't be flying. Who was the other Wright brother?

And we're like, fuck it, Orville, calm the fuck down. And some people are like, he's of that age, they have opinions. They're like, fucking hell, Orville, calm the fuck down. And some people are like, he's of that age. They have opinions. All right, Amelia worked several odd jobs to save up for her first plane. What was one of her jobs? Odd jobs?

Yeah. Oh, so it had to be something odd. She used to walk around with a camel head on and take photos with people. That was one odd job. One of them. No odd job. What did she do as an odd job? I'll say she was a waitress and I'll say she also worked in a chocolate factory like Jeffrey Dahmer. He worked as a waiter. I don't even want to ask this question I went two steps forward in the joke

I was we'll ask it I already know what you're going to say Amelia buys her first plane in 1921 describe it 1921 she was young she was 8 years old in 1908

fuck I think I nailed that buys buys her first plane in 1921 Fuck, I think I nailed that. Buys her first plane in 1921. Describe it. Hey there, mister. Describe the scene. What? I've been working a lot as a waitress and doing work with camel heads

and taking photos with cunts and I can say cunts because I'm advanced for my time. He's describing her buying it on the plane. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can I buy that plane? And then he would've gone, well, little filly, shouldn't your husband mean helping you do this? And she's like, fuck you. I'm Amelia Earhart. And then he's like, I don't give a fuck. Just give me the money.

And then she bought the plane. That was very confident. I described it perfectly. And the plane, if you want me to describe the plane. Sure. Two wings. Not one of those old planes that they try it out. You know those planes where they put fucking 20 wings on top of each other?

And they push it down the runway, the one with the 20 wings? And even like you see it as a child, I'm showing it to my two-year-old and he's like, no. No. But some fucking prick back then went, well, if two wings is good, imagine 20. Anyway, so it wasn't one of those.

It would have been split wing, so that was four wings, Red Baron style. She probably painted AE on the wing or something. What for? To get laid. Because there's no point in being famous

if people don't fucking know. Where did Amelia fly her first plane? What did she use it for? Get over there. No, no, don't answer that. Where did she fly her first plane? What did she use it for? I don't answer that that's where did she fly her first plane where did she sit for

I don't even know where she was fucking from mate I don't know if she was British American or fucking Colombian

don't tell me don't tell me I've got to figure this out I'm going suspect that Amelia yep is an American. Yes.

Do you want to know why? Because her name's a bit dumb. If she was British, she'd be fucking Hermit. Amy Mill... That's all she'd be. Not Amelia. So she's American.

American. Kansas. Hey, you shouldn't have told me. Now I know too much. I could pass a whole fucking exam with this much knowledge. She had to learn to fly because of the constant twisters and the weather patterns that only exist. In motherfucking Kansas.

So she had to fly because of those things, right? So the first time she used it was to get away from the twister down to Daytona Beach, Florida. Spring break, baby! Where Amelia Hart was just fucking topless and getting beats.

I don't even know what happens down there. He's going to have a really good score. Crazy. I should have gotten a bigger pencil. There's so many questions left. Keep going. We keep going. Feel paid to be here.

My answers come to life in front of a crowd. It turns out that you people aren't, you two aren't receptive enough. Chances come to life in front of a crowd. It turns out that you people aren't... You two aren't receptive enough. I'd put more effort into the normal one if I knew I'd get laughs. Amelia breaks her first flying record in October of 1922.

What was it? It was probably a speed record as she smashed into the water. record as she smashed into the water. So I'm gonna guess the speed record. As she fucking smashed into the water. And then why did she become internationally famous? What was the incident or the... Yeah, similar thing to the first answer.

But she was the first woman to fly, I'm going to say the Atlantic. Across the Atlantic? Across the Atlantic. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. She was going to land there in England, probably London. She wouldn't have gone into the north that would have scared them back then the northern Englanders would have

thought that was a fucking UFO like oh why I man this fucking thing with a lady's head sticking out the top of it was fucking coming at me like I saw it in a puddle it was underground as well

okay so one of the things don't fast forward jack don't let him bully your air no i answer all the questions picture one of the things the newspapers um always mentioned was emily erhart's uncanny resemblance to whom and here's a picture again if you had a picture. One of the things the newspapers always mentioned was Amelia Earhart's uncanny resemblance to whom? And here's a picture again, if you need to look at it. Yeah. What did she look like? Yeah. I was going to say her sister.

I was going to say her sister, Tammy Earhart. One of the greatest bridge players of all time. But overshadowed by her sister. What's her name? Fucking bridge? Back then, there was no fucking telly, man. To be a good bridge player was fucking a thing. It was like being the best at pod.

I know. I thought it was a good pool. I thought it was a good answer. She's also good at that game with the ball on the wooden... I've got one of these. It's got a scoop on the end and a ball, a wooden ball and a stick. And I stand in front of my two-year-old like I'm from the 1920s. I'm the best in the house at it

at the wooden scoop I also have a stick that I roll down the hill when I play Catch the Can I'm very old This top of this ad read

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What was the product? I'm not saying this to be funny, but sanitary pad ads probably didn't exist at all. We probably just ignored that as a thing. We probably sold them in some room up the back. But I'm going to say sanitary pads, man. Okay. When Amelia,

now an international celebrity, first flew across the US, she discovered a new hazard on America's runways. What was it? Now that answer will get me in trouble. No, no, no, no, no. Everything will get cancelled. You, the podcaster?

I like the audience to see it. It was on the runway. It doesn't matter for us what I was going to say. It doesn't matter. My mind's blank. She's covered a new hazard on America's runways. What was it? I'm going to say birds.

Birds. Birds. Was? Pigeons. Was she ever married? I don't know if it was legal back then. Oh, my. I voted for it. I voted for it I voted for it

don't get into me I campaigned for it big fan everyone should be miserable all of us but I'll say yes yes okay

where did Amelia Earhart land at the end of her transatlantic solo flight? Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. She landed in London. In the water. And then... Yeah, it's always raining there, am I right? Okay, and then the second part of the question,

who were the first people to see her? Diving crew? I feel like she had a couple of successful flights. Oh, she had the successful ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is her first one, then. Yeah, yeah. Who were the first people to see her

I'll say it was the king and back then it would have been the king the king and queen the king and queen were there that would have been fucking Birdie that would have been

Birdie would have still been alive the stuttering, the King's Speech cunt. That cunt was there. Fucking Australian bloke came in and went, I'll teach you how to talk, cunt. And then he was like, I gotta do good, you fucking... It was a brilliant movie.

The transatlantic solo flight was not easy and she almost didn't make it what were some of her challenges during the crossing that first bit sounds like a lyric from journey I can't do the voice make it transatlantic solo flight was easy what were some of her challenges during crossing? I'm going to say she was mildly dyslexic. And at times the gauges switched back. Also, she had a spot of attention deficit disorder, which was very obvious at the end of her life.

All right. Amelia Earhart made a little money flying and a lot of money endorsing products, but she made most of her money how? Don't know. Um... Um... how? Don't know. We all do it.

In some way or another. What money how? Endorsing product. Did she endorse products in commercials? No, no, no. She made a little bit flying, some endorsing products, but she made most of her money this other way. Oh, gardening.

Gardening. What else did people have back then? That's your only possession, is your fucking garden. Everything else is just a room. Unless she was in construction. She was in fucking gardening, man. That's what everyone was in. Or tailoring.

How do you make money gardening? People need a gardener. Oh, doing that. I thought you meant in her. I have them. I have a gardener. Maybe. I don't want to seem out of out of touch maybe she was a pool guy

that'd be cool yeah all right what was it millie erhardt attempting to do when she was lost now this is the question what was she attempting to do when she was lost yeah this is yeah when she actually uh texting her husband that he'd done something wrong how far into her journey was she when she was lost I am joking I know there were no mobile phones back then so I know that didn't happen but the feeling remains how far into her journey was she when she was lost That didn't happen. But the feeling remains.

How far into her journey was she when she was lost? Oh, only about... Oh, she was about... a three-hour tour. She would have been... The weather started getting rough. You know, it would have been the weather started getting rough three hours times by aeroplane to slow 70 miles an hour

she was fucking at 2100 miles out fucking from her journey wait you think 70 times 3 is 2,100 7 70 times 3 210 is that your answer all right i don't give a fuck you're like oh give a fuck i don't't give a fuck. You fucking proved me wrong. A couple more questions. All right, what was unusual or difficult about where she was attempting to land?

Probably understanding the thick accent. Because people didn't travel much back then. So when she lands there and the king comes up and she's like she's like was that a word it was very challenging for her all right when her plane vanished Amelia Earhart was not alone who was with her the hearts and minds any child who'd ever dreamt to dream to dream the hearts and minds of children everywhere sure yeah and rock hudson wow it's true we don't know where he went yeah we we know where rock hudson went

his death was quite famous Jack don't worry you're fine alright last question a popular conspiracy theory a popular conspiracy theory suggested that Amelia Earhart didn't die but was captured by the Japanese

who was the first to suggest this theory the Chinese probably the Japanese, who was the first to suggest this theory? The Chinese, probably. Those two have never gotten along historically, so I reckon they probably put the rumour out there. It's where we get the term Chinese whispers.

We don't know that in this country. People in Australia are laughing their ass off in the rest of the world you know the game telephone everywhere else in the world calls that Chinese whispers I I understand that it has to be racist. I'm just not sure how. I don't know how either. But every time I say it in front of Americans, I get real bad looks. And then they try to repeat it to their friend

and they say it wrong and then they try to repeat it to someone and they say it wrong and then they try to repeat it to someone and then it comes back to me and they're like, it's a fucking telephone. All right.

Dawn, how did Jim do on his knowledge of Amelia Earhart zero through ten? Ten's the best. I know I'm not the one who judges on confidence, but he was very confident.

Thank you. I'm a little high. Which is good because it was factually pretty terrible it was historically I mean I never know exactly what number to give

I know I should be more prepared I knew lady dead Atlantic yeah I nailed that there's some you did can I tell you one you did the first one the first question how old was she yeah you were really really close you were really close the rest of them were what was what was the

first one was the first answer are we gonna get the score first but i am i'm also a teacher who slugs whiskey throughout the exam so i can be generous i i'm this is a solid d and d's get degrees uh that's the that that's better than anything i got in fucking high school man yeah that's it i'm happy with that we need a number all right let's go zero through ten um uh uh three and a half three and a half how confident was he jack he lost me at one point because one question goes I don't know but then when you were challenged on your math you said I don't give a fuck so ten good that's that's going out to all the kids out there who feel stupid in school right i'm there with you all the way the other kids will turn to you and say that's wildly wrong and you know what you look them in the eye and you say i don't give a

fuck that'll get you through so many awkward situations in your life people get so fucking startled when you just look them in the eye and go i don't give a fuck we were startled i've noticed that this is something okay for all the british and aust and Australian people who are listening and our South African friends. For all of you, right now we're in a comedy club and only in America, in a comedy club, people buy cookies and milk. The rest of the world is getting fucking hammered drunk. Hammered drunk. And you've got these tables that say,

two drink minimum. But no one has a two cookie minimum. They know you'll fucking buy them. They're fresh baked. Yeah. I'm looking at it like it's fucking good. But you know why you have the problem you have, America. Don't fucking go, we can't figure it out.

It's cookies at comedy. That's what it is, people. I want one really bad, but can I have it afterwards? People hate hearing me eat during the podcast. I've done it before. It's very upsetting to people. So that's 13 and a half points. I'm not that hungry, so like minus four.

So you're a nose colon. There you go. Nose colon. Very good. Congratulations. Nose colon. So how old was she when the Wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903? Jim said eight.

She was six. Yeah, but life was harder back then. Yeah, that's right she would have looked like an eight she looked like a tail ring with her rickets

and yeah what are rickets I don't know back in the day Amelia had polio and rickets

and shit yeah I have no clue what rickets are that's the thing nothing makes me sound older in this world, right, than this sentence. My mother had polio.

As soon as I say that, younger women look at me like I'm in black and white and all fuzzy. My wife can't get over it. She tells her friends. She's like, your mum had polio. Like, how old is this cut you live with anyway

the warning signs of rickets do you know what that is is it arthritis it's bad bone fractures stunted growth

pain or tenderness that's why she had to get in the plane teeth deformities don't get rickets yikes alright everyone

moving forward in your life don't get rickets everyone moving forward in your life don't get rickets of course I'm only speaking to the unvaccinated people in this room political am I? how do you get rickets? how do you think you get rickets?

oh um leaving things meat in your backyard. Lack of nutrition. Lack of vitamin D or calcium is the most common cause of rickets. It's related to scurvy. Oh, I eat lots of cheese. I shouldn't.

I've shit myself every time, but I do. No rickets. When and why did Amelia Earhart first get into a plane? You said it was quicker than walking. That didn't give me a fucking point. It did not. Like I give a fuck. Well, planes were new.

The 1903 Wright Brothers flight was the first flight. But then World War I, of course, people got real accustomed to planes awfully fast. And then when the war was over, we didn't think we'd need planes again, and so they were just sort of... When you say we, who is we? We is, generally speaking, the lowercase italics American public. The government wasn't stashing them. What did the Australians think?

I'll get back to you. We would have been well into planes. Very excited. We didn't have fucking roads. Right. Well, that was exactly it. We would have been over the moon. Very excited. But people weren't We didn't have fucking roads. Right. Well, that was exactly it. We would have been over the moon.

Very excited. They miscalculated. I went to Brisbane. It was so different. You wouldn't believe it. The temperature changed alone. People were doing air shows. They were trying to show off

what these planes could do to the general public so her first she saw a plane for the first time in long beach when her dad took her to an air show and it was nuts like people walking on the wings and stuff like that to like get people excited about airplanes so that we can do something with all these fucking things and she apparently a plane dive bombed her to scare her and then, like, pulled away last minute, and she just sort of stood there mesmerized and was like, these are fucking great. And her dad got her a flight lesson the next day off of Wilshire.

How old was she then? How old was she at this event? She was 19. 19. Right here, you're saying? Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of local. Oh, she's from L.A.

She had a house in Toluca Lake. Yeah. All right. Yeah, she had a house less than five minutes from us. Oh, she's from L.A. She had a house in Toluca Lake. All right. Yeah, she had a house in five minutes. Toluca Lake representing. I thought you were from Kansas. She was born and raised in Kansas. Her family moved all over the place. But planes and Hollywood, man, hit in the 20s in L.A. at the same time.

So, you want to buy a plane? Dang. That's the voice I should have used. When did people speak like this? And then they stopped. The first sound in film was in 1927 and that was the same year that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic.

Linny. Who was he again? Charles Lindbergh. You think I fucking know who he was? Charles Lindbergh was the first man, person to fly across the Atlantic. At least my lack of knowledge isn't sexist. It's not.

That's right. I forget everyone equally. All right, so who was Amelia Earhart's first flight instructor? He said Orville of the Wright Brothers. Yeah, that was a point. No. No. What's cool is that her first flight instructor

was also a woman named Netta Snook. And she was this badass... Snooki! Her dad took her to this place and he introduced her to a male pilot, but she saw a woman and said, if I could, I'd rather learn from a woman. And this

woman had had it, and she thought she was just this kind of elegant tourist and said I will teach you for a dollar a minute which is still really expensive but at the time was astronomical and she went up and and they became friends? No, it was math. It's a hard thing. She flew and did math at the same time. Amelia works several odd jobs to save up for her first plane. What was one of her jobs? She said waitress and chocolate factory.

I want to hear more about the woman. Netta Snook. You know what's a bummer about Netta Snook? They were buddies and they flew together. Netta stopped charging her because Amelia was so good they weren't fucking. Nobody says they were fucking. That's why I went back to it. In fact.

I went back to it. Tell it slowly like a penthouse forum magazine from the 90s. But I will say that it was a bummer because... Well, I never took a flight lesson before. But I'd never done a lot of things. Yeah, and then it quit because she got married and had babies and that was one of many women that Amelia saw, man. Once you start having babies, man, they don't let you fly anymore.

So Netta was like her first warning. Where was Netta from? I don't know, originally. I don't let you fly anymore so netta was like her first warning where was netta from uh i don't know originally i don't know did she is she from money or is she they all sound like they're from no i don't think she was for money because she was flying sightseeing tours around the bay and that was her money because anyone uh men some of the men who had pilot's license almost all of them were from the the war they were veterans. So women who wanted to fly had like four years to learn and they had to learn

from these often damaged drunk vets. Yeah, but I'm saying that's quite an expensive hobby, isn't it? They'd all come from wealth. There's no one coming from like the real lower class and it's like, oh, we can't afford soup today, Timmy. Can I have some flying lessons?

Well, according course, I always encourage your endeavours. Sorry about the rickets. According to Nettis... According to Nettis Nook's Wikipedia page, she is from Illinois, Mount Carroll, Illinois, and she was born February 14th, 1896. Boom. So she did her birthday.

You know who else's birthday it is? Robbie Williams. He's born on Valentine's Day? Ah, he's born on the 13th. I'm born on Valentine's Day. So you know when you look up the different people's birthdays, you go, oh, fuck it. I've got no one.

I've got no one in my list of famous birthdays I go you're the person yeah but Robbie Williams was born on the 13th and he was born in Britain I was born in Australia so it's the same day I can't hear me is the same one if you listen to Rob hello all right so the job she had several odd jobs to save up for our first And him is the same one. And that is nothing now. If you're listening, Rob, hello. And that is nothing now. All right, so the jobs. She had several odd jobs to save up for her first plane. What was one of her jobs? Well, three primary ones.

None of them were waitressing. Ah, I see she's above it, old Richie Rich. The one that was her favorite is she actually bought a gravel truck. Where did she get the money to buy a gravel truck from? First she went to work for the cunt who has the truck. Where did she get the money to buy a gravel truck from? First she went to work for the cunt who has the truck. Until you save up a bit of money, I'll buy my own fucking truck. Stick your job up your fucking ass.

I'll be hauling more gravel than you've ever fucking hauled. These blisters on my fingers were it for nothing. She's fucking rich, Amelia. She's a rich cunt. She comes from a rich... No, I won't hear it, no. No. No, no. No fucking 20-year-old despises himself a fucking gravel truck

because they think, hey, I'm going to get to it. No! Fucking, Daddy, can I have a gravel truck? Well, I've already paid for 77 six hours of flight lessons. Why the fuck not? Anything else, Amelia? I'm glad she's dead.

Oh. Wow. Oh, God, I'm not having it. That's fair. I will tell you this. You're half right. I'd give you a C on that answer, actually. Her grandfather was a rich and connected judge,

but he cut her mother off when she married her dad. And even after they died, they refused to leave the money to Amelia's family until her father died. Why didn't they let the dad? What was wrong with the dad? I know we don't have time. Can you guess? No, we have time.

Why don't you think they'd like her dad? What are reasons you don't like the dad? So he was a race or a religion or a nationality? He was poor, so yeah. Oh, the worst of all of them. The worst of all. The worst of all. He was a white poor, which was the worst of all the worst of all the worst of all

he was a white poor which was the worst and he the grandfather such a flip flopper dude you're just yelling about Amelia being rich no I was impersonating

Amelia being upset so she had and her poor and he was handsome and he was gritty and when he did have a little money he'd take her to shit

like air shows. And that made her grandfather mad. So they'd cut him off again. So she could suck up to grandpa and get something. But he didn't buy anything for her. And she really had to save all of her own money for all of this. He bought her a gravel truck. No.

No, no, no. No. That was the grandfather. No, she invested some money from doing very dangerous air shows. Where did That was the grandfather. No, she invested some money from doing very dangerous things. Where did she get

the initial money? No, no, I'll give you that. You have to do a physical activity first to get the first little bit. That's true.

She did. She invested in stocks. With what? But she drove the truck and she delivered the gravel herself.

Yeah, but she owned... We're going around in circles. What came first, Amelia or that other bird who tore down the floor? Are you going to be okay? You want to move on? I'm having the best time ever. I could do this all... This is like more fun than stand-up, really,

because every joke's brand new. I'm flying by the skin of me pants. I can say something horrible at any stage. I'm getting huge amounts of trouble. So she had a dump truck. Any other jobs? She was a commercial photographer, and she was a telephone clerk.

She was always on the gram like this, like, I like your photos. She was a telephone clerk. But most of her money she got from the gravel truck. Telephone clerks, they were the people that just got the bit of wire and went like this, right? I've seen movies. They go like this, where do you want to go?

There you are, connecting. That's her. Like that. Was there only like 50 people with phones? A handful. There's just that many holes. You go connecting, boom, and then you're connected to...

But a lot of them needed gravel. Why? You can't even heat gravel up. Alright, moving on. Amelia buys her first plane in 1921. Describe it. We know what you did.

You described the whole scene. I remember that. Say it, Forrest. Repeat what I said. You got a little point from me here because you said she painted it. Yeah. And she did paint it.

Swastikas, basically. It was a different time back then. People had different opinions. History has judged her badly. She painted it yellow and called it the canary. Which is a crime against humanity in its own way, isn't it? Terrible colour. It had a 17-foot wingspan and 60 horsepower.

And then in her first plane, what did she use it for? Jim said twisters to get away from twisters. To get away from fucking twisters down at Toluca Lake. So you said Daytona for some reason. I don't know why Daytona was...

She flew to Daytona. To go crazy. Wow, spring break, spring break. Shut her tits, yeah. I'm them, hey Forrest, come on now. I'm sorry.

We're all in for fun, we're trying to keep it decent though, mate. Sorry everybody. So what, it wasn't Twisters, right?

It wasn't, no, she took it to school. She used it as her transportation. Which is why you got a little bit of points today. Because she was poor, everyone. I have so with you now, Dan. Because she was poor.

Whilst at school, after saving up to buy the gravel truck, driving the gravel truck, buying an aeroplane, painting it yellow, then what did she do? Oh, would she cross the Atlantic? Oh, no, no, no. Did she use it to bring medicine to people in remote areas? Oh, you'd be wrong again.

She flew it to school. Because she was poor. flew it to school because she was poor. The student newspaper described her as the student aviatrix. Bloody, they wrote a fucking hit piece on me. Amelia breaks her first

flying record in October of 1922. What was it? She would have said crashed into the water. It was altitude. Altitude. She was the first woman to fly to 14,000 feet. Wow. I haven't got a member of my family who can

spell altitudes. I got to give credit where credit's due. She almost crashed that time, though, I'll give you that. She hit fog and had to deliberately put her plane into a tailspin so that she could pull out of it and avoid crashing. Very, very good pilot. Very good.

Right till the end. Well, no. Why did Amelia Earhart first become internationally famous? You said because she crossed the Atlantic? Yeah. That's a good guess. Yeah. It was a good guess, but I want to qualify it.

Because she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic, but she wasn't flying the plane. The first time that she crossed the Atlantic, she was a passenger. And she was the first woman to ride a plane. So did she give the other passengers drinks? No. If they wanted a blanket

or something? No, no, no. They're there for safety, Jack. So it was 1928. It was one year after Charles Lindbergh had done it. That was back when the stewardesses were hot. Have you seen him? Have you seen him these days? Back in the day.

With the pillbox hat in the 60s. Bloody,box hat in the 60s. You know, bloody. In the 60s. None of those women have retired, have they? No, not yet. No, not yet. If you go on a plane, the original ones, still there.

I gave up my seat for one of them. I said, I'll stand. I'm a terrible person. Supporter of women. One of the things the newspapers all... Oh, you don't want that answer? Yeah. One of the things the newspapers all mentioned

was Amelia Earhart's uncanny resemblance to whom? You said Tammy Earhart her sister who was a bridge champion Did she have a sister? She had a sister Are these different people? Those are all the same It's all her but I kept finding photos that she looked kind of different

so I gave you three options So I have to pick who she looked like This is her This is three different photos of her You have to pick who she looked like No, this is her This is three different photos of her You have to pick who that looks like Yeah, who do you think She obviously would be the most famous one that looks like this So if I didn't

If I don't know much about her How will I know anything about the person she looks like I don't know It's not like I'm going to go Emma Stone, final answer It has to be someone way back in the fucking 1920s yeah yeah so how many women

do I know from the 1920s who was the other one I don't know the other one what the other woman in the 1920s I don't fucking know

you want to tell them the answer John it was Charles Lindbergh oh I knew there wasn't another one she was she was

nicknamed Lady Lindy because she looks a lot like Charles Lindbergh and what did he look like pull him up

let's see what Charles Lindbergh looks like what did Lindy look like did Lindy was Lindy married Charles Lindbergh was married

his baby was famously kidnapped Lindbergh baby the Lindbergh baby kidnapping kidnapped 1932 I remember that because pilots became huge celebrities

they were the astronauts of the 20s there he is see what I mean and that was the thing I read about it and it was part of the reason why she was selected

if I mean maybe there was an old bloke they're both their grandfather back in the day who had highly flying sperm maybe maybe just spreading it around America willy-nilly like a farmer in a field and then a couple of Lindbergh babies came out. Oh. My sperm's good for deep diving if anyone's interested. Amelia Earhart endorses and appears in ads for a number of products. One gets her in trouble and stirred controversy.

What was it? And you very seriously said sanitary pads. You were very serious about this one. People fucking needed them. I know. People needed them. You need to know where to buy them. There's probably different brands.

You want to have the best one. It was a good answer. It's why your feminist teacher gave you minor points for it, just like how terribly wrong it was. She, it was cigarettes. Why did she get in trouble? Because there was nothing wrong with cigarettes back then. See, this is the thing.

So I told you this first transatlantic flight She's a passenger And that's because there was a competition Who would be the first woman to ride one of these planes Across the ocean And there were a lot of people who were trying to be the first one And she was sort of selected In part because she was

What they considered the right kind of woman Which during the early 1920s meant she didn't drink And she didn't smoke And she was elegant and she was what they considered the right kind of woman, which during the early 1920s meant she didn't drink and she didn't smoke, and she was elegant and she was feminine and she wasn't fucking lesbian and she didn't look like a fucking lesbian, even though it was a little bit like lesbian. Oh! And they... I'm sorry, I'm sorry to all the lesbians.

And so they... And to people who like lesbians, I'm sorry to them as well. I have a lot of lesbians in my life that I'm very fond of, so I'd like to them as well. I have a lot of lesbians in my life that I'm very fond of, so I'd like to make an apology. And they're going to love Amelia Earhart because she was crafted like the Hunger Games. They wanted her to look a certain way and her resemblance to

Charles Lindbergh was a huge pro. He looked like a lesbian though, you've got to admit that. You have to like, when the rubber hits the road, that cat looked like a fucking lesbian. But when their girl appeared in a

cigarette ad everyone lost their fucking minds I thought cigarettes were good this is the one your doctor says to smoke I thought it was

all that type of stuff only if you're a certain you have a sore throat have I got the cure yes I have like that only for I mean naughty

it was still always naughty girls smoke always they're the ones you want to meet right Only for me I mean naughty It was still always Naughty girls smoked Always They're the ones You want to meet Right They're the only reason I ever smoked

Me too Girls who smoked Were the best Okay When Amelia Now an international celebrity First flew across the US She discovered a new hazard

On America's runways What was it? You said birds You were going to say something that would get you canceled. I was joking. I just couldn't count with an N. Nah, it's something. It was the general public. They were so

entranced. They would run towards the propellers. They'd get in the way. They didn't know how long it took for a plane to stop. And then once the plane did stop, they would try to take souvenirs they'd put holes in the wings and they'd try to take parts of the wheel

and it was like cannibals running out to the airways it was scary it's because you Americans need more social services if you had more fucking housing and you know like medicine for all, you know, you wouldn't be tearing wings off like fucking savages.

Was she ever married? Yes, she married her publisher. Because she wasn't a lesbian, everyone. She got married. She married a guy named George P. Putnam, who is one of the biggest publishers in the United States. Give us a picture of Putnam. Give us a picture of Putnam. And George P. Putnam was the manager and publisher

for Charles Lindbergh. He was the manager and publisher for Richard Byrd, who was the North Pole explorer. And he knew that the first woman to travel the Atlantic to fly planes would sell a lot of books. Is that Amelia there? No, that's his first wife.

Nothing wrong with her nothing wrong with her I was about to go Amelia looks good in that one I was about to give her a big compliment and redeem myself so George P. Putnam

his first wife and him are married for 15 years they have two kids they get divorced. She gets married to another guy like two weeks later. Of course. She's a hot commodity. He proposes to Amelia Earhart six times

in two years and she says no five times. So no five times. So she was very up and down. Which was her biography. Wow. Where did Amelia Earhart land at the end of her transatlantic solo flight? You said London

and the first people to see her were the king and the queen, the king that stutters? No. So she, after being a passenger... Agree to disagree in 19 1928 she was the first woman to fly across the atlantic as a passenger and you and she agreed that doesn't count and she didn't she got a ticker tape parade and she was a huge celebrity but she wanted to fly it and she wanted to fly it alone so she flies the atlantic solo in 1932 she's the second human to have done it outside of Charles...

Charles Lindbergh did it. Why did she want to do it alone? Well, at the moment, no one had been able to do it with two people because it was too heavy. So if you're doing the math on the kinds of planes that are available in fuel, you can only really afford to take the weight of it.

How was she a passenger then? That was a different kind of plane. Could she not fly that one? That needed more crew. So if she wanted to fly solo, which is what Lindbergh did, she had to take a Vega, which is a plane that she takes. Painted it yellow. That was a different one.

That was the Canary. But she does get lost, and she wanted to land in London. So you did get a point there. But she lands in Londonderry, which is in Northern Ireland, which they reacted exactly the way you described it. No, I was doing Newcastle, England, but I'll take Northern Ireland. Yeah, they were, it was the gallery. Oh my God, there's a plane.

Yeah. Big fucking plane. It was May and they were farmers and they sat there they heard it they saw it and then it landed and the farm hands

ran out and then a woman got out and they panicked fucking can't believe this happened on Sunday bloody Sunday

no I'm sorry that was a terrible thing we can't I'm sorry, everyone. That was a terrible thing. I'm sorry. I thought that was good. Yeah, it's an atrocity. I'll blame it on you two. Kelly, where were you?

The transatlantic solo flight was not easy, and she almost didn't make it. What were some of her challenges during the crossing? Jim said she's dyslexic. Who's she ever? Who's she ever? Her real name is Malia. Yeah, it was really

sketchy. So ten people had died trying this between Charles Lindbergh and her. And nobody had successfully done it solo. They knew some of the challenges and it was weather right away. It took about 20 hours and she would

fly high enough then all of her gauges broke so she didn't know her altitude then her gas gauges broke she didn't know how much fuel she had so she would just fly up to avoid weather until her instrument started to freeze over and then she'd get low enough until she saw the waves of the weather and then she'd go high

enough until her gauges started freezing and then a manifold broke, and hot fire fumes started shooting out from the back, and she got really lost. I mean, it was harrowing. Yeah, you can think of planes now, autopilot, all the technology in the world. And she had no radio contact with anybody,

so she just had to kind of eyeball it. And that was why she ended up in a farmer's field. So no music to listen to, nothing? No podcasts, no. Audio no audio book no not one how did she make most of her money was it gardening no it was lectures oh yes and how to be rich lectures buy a gravel truck for a second yeah she's brutal but her tour homework for last week have you all bought your gravel trucks

she did a lot I mean it was her touring schedule was brutal what was she attempting to do when she was lost

Jim said she was texting her husband nah that was mean spir to do when she was lost? Jim said she was texting her husband. No, that was mean-spirited of me. She was attempting to be the first person, male or female, to fly around the world at the equator. Not non-stop, of course. It's bloody hot, that.

Very warm. Very hot, that. Muggy. At times, yeah. You don't even know what season it is i can save all the time i've been on the equator no good no it doesn't matter how high you you don't you don't want to go too far away from it you want to stay close to it lovely temperature close to it don't go too far away from it. You want to stay close to it. Lovely temperature. Close to it. Don't go too far away.

It gets too cold. Okay. I'm going to write this down. Fuck in the middle. She would have been warm the whole trip. Excellent. All right. How far in her journey was she when she was lost?

It says 2,100 miles according to this calculation. No. Well, she started. The original intention was to go west to east from California to Hawaii, that way around the world. And she crashed taking off from Hawaii. So she got from California to Hawaii, crashed bad. The plane had to be repaired. A bunch of things changed.

And they had to lay low for a couple months. And by the time they got ready to do it again they went from west to east so they went from florida that way around the world wait wait so she went to hawaii what happened in hawaii i missed that she crashed at so she landed safely in hawaii and then waited for the hawaiians to fix it no it was just how long you know you like that could have been one of the trouble i reckon hawaii they didn't have a lot of plane technology at that stage. Well, they took it to Pearl Harbor. Yeah, but this is before the Second World War. But it's between the World Wars.

No, no, yeah. This is 1937. So we already, when Amelia Earhart was rocking, we already had Pearl Harbor with battleships, with fucking planes taking off battleships. No, they had not yet been bombed, but there was a station there. Yeah, with fucking planes taking off battleships. No, they had not yet been bombed, but there was a station there. Yeah, but with planes?

Yes, because it was between World Wars. So World War I introduced planes into warfare, and this is in 1937, which is two years before Germany invades Poland. Before that catapult, wasn't it? Right. Right. And so she leaves Burbank, California hey

that's us she lands in Hawaii the plan is we're going to leave now because that's a long ways to go and she has to leave from Hawaii the plan is to go to this tiny little island called the Howland Island which is basically a glorified sandbar in the Pacific

and they had built a runway is that gone yet? no it's still there then the water level's not rising is it? which is basically a glorified sandbar in the Pacific. And they had built a runway just for her. Is that gone yet? No, it's still there. Ah, then the water level's not rising, is it? Like, if that thing existed then and it isn't fucking gone, I'm fucking... I don't care anymore. I'm going to... I'm stopping putting effort into anything.

I used to be right into the environment. Now you tell me that thing's not fucking gone it's slightly more so you sold me a trash can that you loved

yeah that's really good you gotta check this thing out right there's these fucking trash cans that the guy

in Australia invented that's cleaned up Sydney Harbour they put the trash cans this is the invention one millimetre below the water so the trash all just sco the invention, one millimetre below the water. So

the trash all just scoops in there and then it rises up the bucket through the way and all the water sifts out and then it collects all the stuff. It cleaned up the whole harbour. They've just cleaned Marina del Rey with these trash cans underneath the water. The water's never been so

fucking clean of junk and fucking mess. About 200 years ago or 150 years ago, before the invention of the car or whatever, there was a man at the patent office, wanted to shut the patent office down right, because and I quote, he said everything that's ever been

invented has already been invented there's nothing more we can invent, it's all fucking here right, and I was starting to think that way about the world we've got ai technology we've got all this fucking shit everything's been fucking invented and we missed out on bins slightly below the water we invented that in 2020 oh and it was a couple of strange things. Put a bin there. Well, that won't catch it.

Put it one millimetre below the water. Put holes in it so it all strains out. The stuff gets caught. Great. Fix the fucking harbour. It's better if you see it, I think. Show the fucking bin majority of my childhood

was always within the water I just saw a thing on Instagram show me the Instagram thing just show me Instagram posts bins under water it's a controlled environment Show me the Instagram thing. Just show me Instagram posts. Fins underwater. It's a controlled environment. It catches everything floating in the water. Plastic bottles, paper, oil, fuel.

Cleans the whole surface. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Another good thing with the location of this... It cleans every bottle, every bit of shit. You put these bins in, it all just fucking goes away. How the fuck did we miss this? What's that? How come you didn't do ads like this when I was on the phone?

No, this is the first thing I've been passionate about in decades. This is an unpaid ad. I have gun control and bins under the water. Fuck, I love bins under the water. I mean, I've only found out today I've been telling everyone. We'll try to get them as a sponsor. They sell themselves they don't need to do any fucking advertising

their bin's under fucking water man fucking that's the invention do you know how like they have best inventions right in Australia one time Australian invention of the year is you know how we have holes in cans that are this size? But in larger cans and beer cans now, we have the holes bigger, like that.

In the 80s, we never had that. 90s, we never had that. Early 2000s, we made the hole bigger. And that was an Australian invention of the year. LAUGHTER No bullshit. Invention of the year. No bullshit. Guy goes into his boss' beer factory.

I want to talk to you. I'm a busy man. You can't just barge in here, but I have something you need to hear. What are you going to tell me? You know the holes in the cans? There are no holes in the cans. The liquid just fall out. We You know the holes in the cans? There are no holes in the cans. The liquid just falls out.

We don't put holes in the cans. You know how we make the hole? Oh, the drinky hole. Yes, I am following. What about the drinky hole? Make it a little bit bigger. Drinky hole. People would drink more.

We'd sell more. We'll give it a go. We've got to get back to Amelia. Oh, is that still going? There's four questions left. We're almost there. So she was lost. Where did you say?

She was lost on her way to this Howland Island. This tiny little sandbar. On her way there. What if the bins find her body what if that's what solves this fucking mystery what if those fucking bins just just fucking

have her hand with her fucking wedding ring on it there's no fucking debate that hand with her fucking wedding ring on it. There's no fucking debate. That's Amelia all fucking day. Yeah. That'd be great. She was, to be fair, more than three quarters of the way around the world because after she crashed the whole thing,

she had to change her plans. She went the other way and she got all the way back from Florida to Papua New Guinea. And she was supposed to land... Where all the best airplane engineers were living at the time. Yes. If you break down in Papua New Guinea,

there was a bloke there to fix it, I'll tell you. And it was the same place she was heading to this Howland Island, the same place she was heading the first time she tried. So she was very nearly done with her circumnavigation. Is that the answer to the next question? What was unusual and difficult about it? Oh unusual the Howland Island that she was trying to land on this tiny it was it was basically a mile and a half wide it was

so small that even on a clear day it could look like the shadow of a cloud that's where we were talking about why is that not underwater and you were like fuck it and then you were back in with the bits how did I go there that should be underwater.

So Amelia Earhart was not alone in her playing when it vanished. She was with her. Jim said, hearts and minds. There's children everywhere. And Rock Hudson. No. She was not going alone. Baby Rock Hudson, though.

Right now. He was just a baby. Baby Rock Hudson. And he was, I don't know who he was. Still very handsome. She had a navigator named Fred Noonan. And he was with her. And he was a drunk.

He was a dangerous, scary drunk. Where was he getting his alcohol from? Wherever they landed. They should have cut him off. The first time they crashed, they had like three months before they got the band back together to try again.

And he had gotten married and divorced in the meantime and was just a wreck. Of course he is. He's a flying drunk. He was a mess. Yeah. So she had a guy named Fred Noonan. He was just sitting up in front with Amelia Earhart with those little tiny vodka bottles. Alright, last question.

A popular conspiracy theory suggested that Amelia Earhart didn't die, but was captured by the Japanese. Who was the first to suggest this theory? Jim said the Chinese. Not just one Chinese. All Chinese. It was actually the U.S. government through a propaganda film in 1943

called Flight to Freedom. And it was a movie about a fictional female pilot who disappears in the Pacific attempting a circumnavigational tour of the world and that she had to come up with this cover story that she was trying to do this circumnavigation of the globe so that she could crash into Japanese territory and be this high covert

spy. And the reason people and the movie suggested this because she was really good friends with Eleanor Roosevelt and she had asked... Were we not getting along with Japanese people then? Was that a bad? No good? Was it just the Second World War?

What were we upset about then? We had a hunch where the lines were being drawn by then. This is 1937, so Germany invades Poland in 1939, Pearl Harbor is bombed in 1941, the US gets involved in 1942, and this is 1937, so...

Right, so we're already, there's already... Shit's cooking. Already people walk around this country going, I'm not trying to fucking raw fish and FDR right and one of the theories

that's what it would have been like that's what those fucking people do I tell ya what about ramen I like ramen ramen

nah we call that a noodle bowl alright this is a part of our show called dinner party facts we ask our expert to give us a wait a minute We call that a noodle bowl. All right. This is a part of our show called Dinner Party Facts. We ask our expert to give us a fact. Wait a minute. How did she die? What do you mean, how did she die?

Did anyone really figure it out? She crashed. She disappeared. So the folks are waiting for her on Howland Island. They're waiting. They know she's left New Guinea and they're waiting. How do you think she died? Was it her controls?

Was it the drunk guy going, whoa, whoa, on the stick like this? Fuck off, will ya? Whoa!

So she had a number of communication devices on board, one of which required a 250 foot antenna cable that you had to

manually unroll for it to work. She ran out of cable. And she likely 150-foot antenna cable that you had to manually unroll. She ran out of cable. And she likely maybe lost that when the first crash. There's some confusion about what kind of communication devices she actually had on board and what was working. But there were ships stationed outside of Howland Island, and their whole job was to ping Amelia and to try to help her because this was going to be a difficult deal. And they would pick her up and they'd hear her

occasionally, but she couldn't hear them. And they knew she couldn't hear them because they weren't responding. They didn't have her long enough to get a location. She would get fainter, meaning she was getting further away. And then she'd get clearer, meaning they were closer, but she would say, I can't see you. And they were like, we can't see you. And no one knew why. And one of the ideas is this island was so small it looked like a shadow and they Richard's band yeah that was

what they said and someone just said Epstein Island I think we've just solved that mystery yeah she was 39. She never would have been allowed. Yeah.

She might have been like that lady bringing them there, though. Maybe. She could have worked for Jeffrey. Let's start that rumor. Okay. But the theory, they don't know, and they did one of the largest searches in history looking for her, and they never found a trace. So technically, we still don't know where she went, which is where conspiracy theories have room.

Now, I don't know if some of you guys have known, recently, this year, there was a sonar company, brand new sonar, that has found a plane underwater that is the shape of the plane that was lost. It's about 100 miles off of Howlin' Island. So that would be the two wing in the middle bit? Yeah. Oh, well. That was one of a kind, wasn't it? Yeah.

But I do have a dinner party fact and then I have a little thing. Because I was here for Titanic last time, I wanted to highlight that Amelia Earhart's first transatlantic flight was only 16 years after Titanic sank. And the reason that's significant is because the Titanic was the fastest thing across the Atlantic.

It took six days. And this is 16 years later, and we got flights that can do it in 20 hours. Imagine if where she crashed was into the Titanic. What? That was the North Atlantic. But that's not my dinner party, Ben. You're not good at geography, are you?

No. Not even close. I've traveled the world most. North Atlantic, South Pacific. I mostly watch episodes of The Office. I'm really excited about the dinner party fact. We'll see. Okay, so when Amelia was planning her solo transatlantic flight,

similar to the first one, it was like competition, and everyone's trying to figure out who's going to do it first and what kind of plane and how they have to augment the plane to even make it possible and all this stuff. And one of the guys working in Burbank in top secret on Amelia Earhart's plane is a guy named Edwin

Aldrin, who is Buzz Aldrin's dad. Yeah. And what's nuts about that is that he was in charge of her fuel distribution. So Buzz Aldrin's dad took Amelia Earhart's plane up dozens of times with sandbags

to do the math on the fuel and then he'd throw the sandbags out to determine once fuel had burned how it would go. And this was in 1932 and his son walks on the moon in 1969

which means buzz off no one can really prove that theoretically right so let's not say anything that we're gonna regret

our moon landing experts our moon landing experts over there well why is this table not rolling off why is it just staying flat like this

why aren't we all fucking whoa because it's fucking flat you know it is that's true I stand corrected I'm so embarrassed but Buzz Aldrin's dad Edwin Aldrin was fucking alive

for 1966 he saw he worked on Amelia Earhart's plane right and in 1966 he saw his son spacewalk and in 1969 he saw his son

walk on the moon I think that's really fucking right saying that's to know Kubrick very well

I imagine what year did Buzz punch that guy that's one of my favorite videos let's finish let's finish up with a podcast

with Buzz Aldrin punching a guy yeah you know the video right yeah it's one of my favorite videos let's finish up with a podcast with buzz aldrin punching a guy yeah you know the video right yeah yeah it's one of my favorite things this will be the first time i've watched it without my dick out

prove it prove it prove it it's it's brilliant it's because he's fucking the toughest cunt in the fucking room and this guy comes up to him the guy who comes up to because he's fucking the toughest cunt in the fucking room. And this guy comes up to him. The guy who comes up to him, he's saying the moon landing didn't happen. The moon landing didn't happen. The moon landing didn't happen. He's just trying to get on with his fucking day.

And then Buzz just clocks the car. Why don't you swear in the Bible that you walked on the moon? Why don't you swear in the Bible that you walked on the moon? Why don't you swear on the Bible that you walked on the moon? I'm not trying to get into the middle of anything. This is a hotel. We'll call the police. Come on in here. We'll call the police. Why don't you swear on the Bible that you walked on the moon? It doesn't, sir, I have nothing to do with this.

But you cannot solicit on this property right now. We just paid to rent out the penthouse. Shoot up there. You can't solicit like this. Keep, keep, keep. We just paid to rent out the penthouse to shoot up there. Alright, well then I go through my measures. You gotta keep shooting man. Okay. Keep it on your shoulder, don't be shy.

You really like it there. I remember this beat. Is this the video? Call the kettle black if you ever thought of saying it. Never forget it. Away from me. You're a coward and a liar and a thief. Yeah! It was when he called the kettle black. When he said he was a coward.

You're a coward and a liar. And he's like, he fucking put up with that cunt the whole fucking time. And it doesn't matter that that guy was right. He still deserved to be punched. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening to the podcast. That's not the end of it. That's just the thing for next time. So sorry, that was just an ad.

What was that? I don't know what an ad started playing. It's just the ad after the punch. What were we advertising for free then? We should ring them up, get a few shekels. I think so. Just a few shekels. Are we doing the ad or no?

We should finish first and then we'll do the ad. Okay. Yeah, well, thank you for being here, Don Brody. Everybody give it up for Don Brody. Thank you. Thank you. Very funny. Thanks for having me.

You're always a joy to have on Don always a joy yeah Don is great please listen to our podcast subscribe to it health history

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Give Forrest, Dawn, and I want to say Jack a round of applause, everyone. Thank you for coming. I'm going to read an ad now. Let's do ads. No, no, no. That's not how you end the podcast. I want to do an ad. We've done like a-

Oh, this bit. Okay. If you're ever at a party and someone walks up to you and says, is that Amelia Earhart? Is she fucking... Poor. She didn't crash.

She was poor. And go, well, I don't know about that and walk away. Good night, Australia.