Ep. #242 - What If You Fell Out Of a Blimp?
The What If? Podcast
Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud
4.6 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On August 16, 1942 a U.S. Navy blimp took off from Treasure Island, just outside San Francisco. Five hours later it crashed 11 miles away in Daly City, CA with no one aboard. The two men aboard the blimp were never found.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello |
| 0:10.0 | I don't even fucking |
| 0:12.9 | I didn't say hi |
| 0:14.0 | The fuck hello |
| 0:15.2 | Hello |
| 0:19.0 | I sort of wish we could retroactively go back and put that hello clip into every episode we've ever done. |
| 0:27.6 | All 220 episodes or whatever it is. |
| 0:30.5 | It feels like a great, yeah, if you include the patrons. |
| 0:36.9 | 7,000 episodes that we've done |
| 0:38.7 | it's been 84 years |
| 0:42.6 | um |
| 0:44.4 | I'm releasing every six months |
| 0:47.9 | I was just thinking of the 84 years meme |
| 0:53.5 | the Titanic one oh I I know I just I was just thinking of the 84 years meme, the Titanic one. |
| 0:55.5 | Oh, I know. |
| 0:56.3 | I just, I was roasting our release schedule the last two years or so. |
| 1:00.8 | When we want from releasing when we feel like it. |
| 1:05.8 | No, I just feel like it's the best, it's the best opener we've got. |
| 1:09.6 | It's the most representative of, of us. |
| 1:12.4 | I have a soft spot for British lady, but this one is much more on brand in that we did |
| 1:18.1 | zero work to make it happen. Yeah. Yeah. And it acknowledges that we often forget to start the show. |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah. Or we just start the show like, you're here now. |
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