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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | So you're ready for a weird one? This is a truly weird one and I did not come up with this. |
0:07.0 | This is not a Rachel Maddo special. |
0:10.0 | This is reported in black and white in full detail in the New York Times. |
0:13.5 | I am only the messenger. |
0:16.2 | All right. |
0:17.6 | 1937, Amelia Earhart, pilot, first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |
0:24.8 | She holds tons of record. |
0:26.1 | She's a national hero. |
0:27.3 | She's an inspirational figure. |
0:28.6 | Amelia Earhart. |
0:29.8 | She sets off in 1937 to become the first woman to fly all the way around the world. |
0:37.0 | And it does not work. |
0:38.7 | Her flight disappears over the South Pacific. |
0:42.2 | She's never found, 1937. |
0:45.0 | Fast forward 75 years. 2012. |
0:50.0 | So in 2012, there's going to be on the 75th anniversary of her effort to fly around the world |
0:57.4 | whereupon she disappeared. |
0:58.6 | 75th anniversary there's going to be a new excursion to try to find the wreckage of her plane, to try to figure out what happened to her. |
1:07.3 | And an eccentric gazillionaire writes to the expedition, |
1:12.5 | rights to the guy who is leading this expedition |
1:15.0 | to go look for Amelia Earhart. |
1:16.6 | And the gazillionaire guy says, effectively, |
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