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The Box of Oddities

BOX290: A Wooden Ship Lady

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The stories of a pilot sucked out of an airplane and the steamboat discovery of a lifetime. An incredible passenger jet emergency landing and the unearthing of the steamboat Arabia in BOX290. Store upright for best results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What follows may not be suitable for all audiences, listen to discretion as advised, episode 290.

0:30.0

Oh my god, we made it through 2020.

0:38.0

Almost. Almost. Almost.

0:42.0

Yeah, as a recording of this is a couple of days before New Year's Eve, but I'm projecting

0:47.7

forward to 2021. It is going to be a great year.

0:51.8

I've seen a lot of posts about how uncomfortable people are with the idea that 2021 sounds like 2021.

1:01.8

Oh yeah. And it did. I think it hit a lot of us. It crushed us.

1:07.2

But I think that 2020 Uno is going to be much better, though I'm going to try not to be too

1:14.7

enthusiastic about it and test fate. Yeah, okay. I understood. It's going to be, it's going to go

1:20.0

great. Sounds fair to me. Just pretty good, I guess. Last week of the year we've been

1:23.8

inundated with a lot of emails and messages which we appreciate Justin wrote this. I'm a lifelong

1:29.8

Cleveland native. I was nine years old in 1986 and I sold a couple of sponsorships for that balloon

1:36.6

fest cat was talking about. Oh my goodness. I vaguely remember the excitement leading up to it.

1:42.4

And then I remember we just never spoke of it again. Now I also got a message on Twitter

1:49.0

from Bruce, I think. And they said that Guinness World Records, they saw something that said that

1:56.8

they didn't acknowledge that that was the largest balloon release ever. And from what I read,

2:02.3

it was only mentioned in one of the books from like 1998 or something. So hard to say unless we buy

2:08.4

them. And well, I probably we should. Yeah, but if we're going to do that, we need to do it before

2:14.8

midnight on Thursday so we can write it off. Oh, okay. Sometimes I feel like David on

2:23.0

Shit's Creek when I don't entirely understand like, can I can I write that off? Question mark.

2:28.4

Question mark. I mean, it's sort of it's for me the podcast. It's kind of kind of my mantra

2:34.9

this time of year. Can we write that off? You go first today. Oh, okay. Someone had posted, I

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