1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 1: from House top works dot com? Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles W. 5 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, Colonel Chuck Admiral Flight Coordinator. I'm a potato 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: peeler camp counselor camp counselor. Charles W. Chuck Bryant with 7 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: me as always. How you doing, Chuck? Hey, it's November. 8 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: I know, happy November. November one? Right, yeah, yeah, which 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: is the first day in November. Just get any trick 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: or treaders? No? Nothing. I have two sets of steps 11 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: that lead up to my front door. And apparently kids 12 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: are fat and lazy these days in diabetic Did they 13 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: like y'all throw something down here to the street? Now? Now? Um, 14 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: we we left after a while. We just don't get 15 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: anybody who comes to our house. Did you get candy? No? 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: Not this year? We well we had before and we 17 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: just we sat there and ended up eating all of it. 18 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: And no one comes to our house either, So that's 19 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: good at all? Why oh, like our neighbors don't It's 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: sort of like as you come around the bend coming 21 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: from the other way, from the Decatur side, that's sort 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: of where it ends the trick or treating, Like the 23 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 1: bend in the road just it like approaches Memorial Drive 24 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: and people it just gets scary and there's a bus 25 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: stop and people turn their lights off. My neighbors are old, 26 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: they don't get into it. So I think that's just 27 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: sort of the Demarcasian Did you guys get candy? No, 28 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: we never, I mean we never do because so basically 29 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: it stinks. Man, I'm ready for Like, did you dress 30 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: up at all well for that stupid show? I did? Oh, yeah, 31 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: that's right. You dressed up as Paul Stanley in a 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: three piece suit. Yeah. Looking good. I think if you 33 00:01:54,760 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: asked me, we should post that picture. Yeah, my post one. Okay, Chuck, Yes, 34 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: you know Jay Carney is a family friend of my family's. 35 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: I did not know that. Well, he's not. I actually 36 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: got what I'm about to read off of the White 37 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: House website. Okay. I couldn't mislead you. I started to, 38 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: and I just stopped. Um, it's so far. It's been 39 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: a typically busy week for President Barack Obama. Monday, he 40 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: went to Las Vegas, delivered some remarks, went to l A. 41 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: Probably pulled a slaughter too, Probably you have to if 42 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: you go to Vegas, everybody's like get out of here. Um. 43 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: And then he went to l A, stay in l 44 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: A overnight. Right about now he is doing the tonight 45 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: show with Jay Leno. Should be on tonight, UM. And 46 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: then he goes to San Francisco, Denver, and then he 47 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: heads back to um d C Wednesday so that he 48 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: can meet with the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 49 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: Petter Neckas. There is a lot of Flyn more Porton 50 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: than Jay Lenno. Yeah, oh yeah, you're a Cocoa fan, 51 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: aren't you? Te Coco? Yeah. I mean even if Conan 52 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: Membrian didn't exist, I would still think JNS bad. Did 53 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: you ever see uh night Shift, I think is what 54 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: it was called about, the late night the first late 55 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: night work between and UM and they've let him. Yeah, 56 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: that was good, It was real good. Okay, Well, aside 57 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: from that part, yes, you're absolutely right. That's a lot 58 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: of flying and every step of the way. Mr President 59 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: Barack Obama is going to be a board a luxury 60 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: decked out seven seven with a tail number of either 61 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand or twenty nine thousand. You know how 62 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: I know that because it's written right here in this 63 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: wonderful article. Yes, this article called how air Force one 64 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: Works on how stuff works dot com. Uh, if you're 65 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: not familiar, you know a lot of people think like 66 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: we just this is our job podcasting. They don't, but 67 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: they don't put that together with the site. You should 68 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: visit the site. And we work for a website called 69 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. If you don't, now the 70 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: mystery is solved and air how air Force one works 71 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: is on fad site and we say that three that 72 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: said that three hundred and seventy five times, but people 73 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: still don't get it. It's true, Like what's your email address? So, Chuckers, 74 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: you want to do some history first? Oh? Why not? 75 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: You have you? Before you um read this article? Had 76 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: you heard of Air Force one? I had heard of 77 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: air Force Line. I had not heard of the guests 78 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: where to No, let's let's start it out, because the 79 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: presidential air travel is fairly new, right. Yeah, Up until 80 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 1: World War Two, it wasn't very practical to fly around 81 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: and one might even say dangerous, and you were cut 82 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: off because mainly because you were cut off from communications 83 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: actually telegraph like, no, I want that bill push through exactly. 84 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 1: But in n f DR said, you know what, I 85 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: want to take my wheelchair up on this bowing three 86 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: fourteen and uh, I want to take a little trip 87 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: to Casablanca. And that was the first presidential flight. Yeah, 88 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: and he he actually took that flight for practical reasons. 89 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: It was because the Germans. The Germans had the Atlantic 90 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: completely under lockdown base and want to take a boat 91 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: in those days. He was like, no, I'm not going, 92 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: so I'll just fly and it went smashingly and from 93 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: that point on everybody said maybe the president should fly. 94 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: They said, this boating thing snakes, we should fly places. 95 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 1: It's much more efficient. Even a flying boat wouldn't do. 96 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: We just want to flying planes, right. Um, So coming 97 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: up next, there were I've got six planes before the 98 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: new set. That was number one. Number two was a 99 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: C eight seven, a Liberator Express and it was pretty 100 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: much a BET twenty four bomber that was you know, 101 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: tricked out civilian style. There were there was padding on 102 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: the armrest exactly, and that was called the Guests Where too. 103 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: Just the worst plane name ever. Yeah, Well it's a 104 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: pretty like typical forties, like engineer. It's like a Colonel 105 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: John Paul's staff name the guess where too? It's pretty bad. 106 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: The third plane, well, another C eight seven crashed and 107 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: they said, you know what, this might not be the 108 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: best plane because we don't know exactly why it crashed. 109 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: We don't want to put the president in there. So 110 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: then they configure to see fifty four Skymaster for that 111 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: same president because he was president for like sixty years. 112 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: And Um it had sleeping quarters, a radio, telephone, retractable 113 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: elevator for his wheelchair, and it was named the Sacred Cow. 114 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: Better name, better than the guests where too? It's up there? Okay, 115 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: I mean it's okay. It definitely reminds me of our 116 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: grarian past. Yeah, all right, am I covering history here? 117 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: You got the Truman Show. Next, Um took over the 118 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: Sacred Cow, replaced it the d C six called the Independence. Now, 119 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: he was from Missouri, so that makes sense that he 120 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: would call it the Independence Independence Missouri and its United States. 121 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: But I also got the impression that he um basically 122 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: it was a Garish plane. They had like an eagle 123 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: on the front, all sorts of patriotic decorations and nothing 124 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: else that had had been decorated up to that point. 125 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: It's like the statue of Liberty threw up on this plane. 126 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: I haven't seen a picture of it, actually, no, but 127 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: I could see Truman being like real enthusiastically. Yeah, that 128 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,239 Speaker 1: there and that there, you know, go shoot a commy 129 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: over there. How about Betty Boop up front? So our boys, no, no, something. 130 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: Eisenhower introduced to propeller planes, upgraded the equipment, including for 131 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: the first time, air to ground telephone and air to 132 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: ground teletype, which is the first computer. That's not true, No, 133 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: Teletype was like facts. It was like the bouncing ball. Yeah, yeah, 134 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: I think so. That was the fourth and fifth sets 135 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: of planes. Right, well, hold on, so so far a 136 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: couple of landmarks have happened, right. Um, they decked it 137 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: out for Roosevelt. It wasn't just a civilian craft any longer. 138 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: There was like some fly stuff going on. Truman added 139 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: a couple of other backup planes that were twin planes. Yeah, 140 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: which is big. Okay. And then now now we're we 141 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: on too. Now we're undo Kennedy who in nineteen they 142 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: finally got with the plan and they got seven oh 143 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 1: seven Boeing seven oh seven jumbo jets, and they officially 144 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: called them Air Force one with their radio called designation. Right, 145 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: that was Eisenhower. That was Eisenhower. Yeah. During Eisenhower's administration, 146 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: the Air Force adopted the seven seven and started calling 147 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: him Air Force one. And then when Kennedy took over 148 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 1: and everybody was crazy for all things presidential, Air Force 149 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: one caught on. It's for the public because he probably 150 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: went on and said air Force one at some point. 151 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: But he also redecorated it tastefully in the same way 152 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 1: that it's decorated today, which is nice. Yeah, it's I mean, 153 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: it's timeless because you don't look at it and be like, yeah, 154 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:17,199 Speaker 1: it's not it's not the vessel sink of airplanes. Home 155 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: wonders know what I'm talking about. Um. So Kennedy uh 156 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: added a more advanced seven oh seven that could fly 157 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: a little longer, but it was still a seven h seven, 158 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: like you said, redesigned it to his probably Jackie's taste. 159 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: Let's get real, and um added a twin plane to 160 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: that fleet in ninety two, and that was a very 161 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: famous plane because that flew him to Dallas and then 162 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: flew his body back from Dallas. I know, the way 163 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: that it's put in this article is so grim but 164 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: just dead on. It says that it on November nine, 165 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: It flew him to Dallas and then brought his body 166 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: back later that day, which is crazy. You know, you 167 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: think about him on that flight on the way out there, 168 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: and then exactly and then on the way back, UM 169 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: John's and was sworn in very famously aboard air air 170 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: Force one. That photos very famous. And then the twin 171 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: seven oh seven flew Nixon to uh, I guess your Belinda, 172 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: California the day he resigned. Well, that's where his library is. 173 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: I believe it's your Belinda. Um, but Chuck, something else 174 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: kind of big happened. That leads us to a very 175 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: important fact about Air Force one. Midflight, the the flight 176 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: crew got word that Ford had been sworn in as president, 177 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: and they changed the call sign for the flight from 178 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: Air Force one to um SMS a Special Air Mission SAM. 179 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: And the reason they did that is because the only 180 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: only the plane that the President of the United States 181 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: is currently aboard can be called air Force one's. Nixon 182 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: was no longer president, so it was no longer air 183 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: Force one. So technically the big plane that we all 184 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: think of as air Force one isn't even air Force 185 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: one unless the president is riding in it. But we're 186 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: going to call an air Force one because that's what 187 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: people do. Yeah, we're not jerks, you know, but it's 188 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: it's the call sign for a plane, not specifically a 189 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: plan that was depressing. I wonder if they announced it 190 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: to Nixon, like and by the way, uh, this is 191 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: no longer air Force one, this is sam and twenty 192 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: seven thousand and Nixon just put his head in his hands. Yeah, 193 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: that was it. I could see that. At least I 194 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: didn't just crash it. They just jump out there like 195 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: a long sucker. Good luck. Um. So those are the 196 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: seven h sevens. They they kept flying all through Reagan, Yeah, 197 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: first half of the Bush Seniors term, and then they 198 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: were replaced by seven seven that are around today. That's right. 199 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: And the article says that could replace him as earlyist 200 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: two thousand ten, which is the twenty year mark. Not 201 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,719 Speaker 1: so is when they're looking to replace these now, it's 202 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: like a delta flight or something. Yeah, so it's either 203 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: gonna to be another seven four seven eight or a 204 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: seven eight seven Dreamliner. Dude, that is any plane. I 205 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: checked it out. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, those are nice. 206 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: They have a really big bar in it. Yeah. I 207 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: think that's no, it's the air bus that that Emirates fly. 208 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: The airbus. Well, there's different configurations, but if you click 209 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: Dreamliner Bowing seven eight seven Dreamliner interior and look at 210 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: the Google images, it's, uh, it's pretty mixing. And that's 211 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: just the standard one. I mean, planes typically are outfitted 212 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 1: and appointed very nicely. Well, and let's we're there, so 213 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: let's go. It is appointed nicely well. Yeah. Tom Harris, 214 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: who wrote this article, compares it generally to like a 215 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: really nice hotel, very nice office building. Yeah, but it's 216 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: a plane instead. Yeah. And there's also Marine one. We 217 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: don't want to short change the helicopter cousin of Air 218 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 1: Force one, which is a Chinook, which is my favorite helicopter, 219 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: and it's pretty sweet too on the inside. I mean 220 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: it's like a a smaller nice apartment pretty much. And 221 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: that is obviously the you know, that's the helicopter that 222 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: it's the same designation when the when the presidents on 223 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: army plane, that's Army one. The Marines fly the helicopter, 224 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: so it's a Marine one. And um, the right now 225 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: we've got those identical bowing seven if you want to 226 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: get specific, Um, they have a lot Like we said, 227 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: they're they're they're decked out differently. We'll get to that 228 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: in a second, but just being seven forty sevens they 229 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: have some specs. They are pretty impressive. Well, they're big. 230 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: They're three stories like all seven forty sevens. Uh. They 231 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: are as tall as a six story building and as 232 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: long as a city block guests. Depends on what city 233 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: you're in, I think it does. You're on, Yeah, exactly 234 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: in the village. Are you uptown? Um? They each have 235 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: four general electric jet engines. Uh. Do you want to 236 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: read the jet engine number? Doesn't even out there? Know this? 237 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: They are ge uh engines CF six DASH eight zero 238 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: C two B one jet engines, which are money engines. 239 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: Each one produces fifty six thousand, seven hundred pounds of thrust, which, 240 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: as we know from the Anti Matter spacecraft episode, produces 241 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: five million gs, which a human can sustain indefinitely. Yeah, 242 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: we should point that out real quick. In in show correction, 243 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: gees measure acceleration, so in theory, you would speed up 244 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: really fast and then level out, so you wouldn't be 245 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: experiencing geese the whole time, like we thought, Yeah, erroneously, 246 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: and thank you physics people for correcting us. UM. The 247 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: seven sevens fly up to seven hundred miles per hour. 248 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: They go as high as forty five FET that's the 249 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: ceiling maximum. What happens after that they just break apart, disintegrate. 250 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: I don't think they disintegrate. I just think that's how 251 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: high they can fly safely. May do something to your body, 252 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. UM. And then they hold fifty three thousand, 253 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: six hundred and eleven gallons of fuel and a fully 254 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: loaded UM, fully fueled seven forty seven at least the 255 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: Air Force one seven forty seven's UM can fly halfway 256 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: around the world before refueling. We should go ahead and 257 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: let the cat out of the bag. Then Air Force one, however, 258 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: can fly forever. Yeah, because you can refuel in flight, 259 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: just like the big bomber planes. And they thought that 260 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: would be a pretty swell idea in case the S 261 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: was hitting the fan on the ground, which it did 262 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: on September eleven two, one just keep them up there. Yeah, 263 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: there wasn't that one. The one of the planes United 264 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: ninety three that went down in Pennsylvania. Wasn't that destined 265 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: for the White House? I think so? And it was 266 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: pretty hairy even if it wasn't. They had no idea 267 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: who was doing water when it was gonna get hit, 268 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: So they said, just keep bushing the air, and they did, 269 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: and they could have for a very long time, not 270 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: just with fuel but with food as well. Yeah, they 271 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: have the ability to feed one hundred people, and I 272 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: think they have freezers down below that holds as as 273 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: much as two thousand meals, So they could have stayed 274 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: up here for quite a long time two thousand meals, 275 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: especially if they started throwing reporters out the out of 276 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: the you know door first ago. That's that's a bunch 277 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: of meals right there. That's true. Um so, chuck uh. 278 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: The does not have an escape pod though, well, we 279 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: don't know that it does or not. The awesome movie 280 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: Airforce One with Harry Ford, Uh, I have not seen 281 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: it as it good? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, do you 282 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: want to see your president kicking terrorists but with his hands? Yeah, 283 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: like he he fights. Of course, he's like a former 284 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: like Army ranger or something in the movie. We never 285 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: get presents like that anymore. You know. Uh, so, yeah, 286 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: it was. I enjoyed it. Um. So, yeah, apparently an 287 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: escape pod factors in. Yeah, we don't know if there's 288 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: one on Air Force one, but there could be. They're 289 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: supposedly not, but if they're not, gonna tell you that. 290 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: So I heard that Tom Clancy received a visit from 291 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: I don't know who it was, maybe the n s A, 292 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: the c I A, somebody, maybe the FBI came to 293 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: his house and uh interviewed him because he had hit 294 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: the nail on the head so closely when he described 295 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: some classified nuclear sub in the Hunt for Red October. 296 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: They wanted to know how he knew that, what the 297 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: interior was like interesting, So it makes you wonder, you 298 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 1: know what he came up with for Air Force one. Well, 299 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: and that's one of the points of Air Force one 300 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: is there's a lot of classified stuff. So while we 301 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: know a lot of the parts, um, no one really 302 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: knows the exact layout in configuration and then people know, 303 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: but there's sworn to secrecy or have signed on to 304 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 1: secrecy exactly. But so let's talk about what we do know. 305 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: There's four thousand square feet of interior space. That's substantial. 306 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: That's twice the side in my house. Um, and uh, 307 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 1: there's three levels, just like on any but the top 308 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: level is for communications generally, the mid level is like 309 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,199 Speaker 1: the living quarters, and most of the bottom level is 310 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: cargo space and apparently freezers for food. Yeah, although I 311 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: did see that the president's living quarters, bedroom, bathroom, workout 312 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: room in office. I heard they were under the cockpit, 313 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: so maybe the cockpits. I think the cockpits on the 314 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: third that makes sense. Um, and conference room. The conference 315 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: room is I mean, they don't have unlimited space, so 316 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 1: the conference room is also the president's dining room. And 317 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: depending on the time of day, you know, some people 318 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: may be in there, other people might not be there. 319 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: Maybe a meal, there may be some pretzels on the table, 320 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: it depends. That's right, up to seventy passengers and twenty 321 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 1: six crew in total. Comfortably. I'm sure they could pack 322 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: more people in there, which means they have four leftover 323 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: meals at every meal. Yeah, you're right, Well does that 324 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: add up? Yeah they do. I'm saying you throw a 325 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 1: porter out bam, that's three meals a day. Well what 326 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: if he's reported that eats heavy, Well, yeah, what if 327 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: he's eating those other four meals. You know, Hunter Thompson 328 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 1: flew on Air Force one the next seven or seven 329 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: yea for Fear and Loathing on a campaign trails because 330 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: he was a legit journalist, so he was well for 331 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. Yeah, but he got to interview Nixon one 332 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: on one, but they told him all he could ask 333 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: him about his football. Did he ask him about football? 334 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: I'm sure he's probably that's fine with me. Rum diaries out. Yeah, 335 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm gonna 336 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: go see it. I've heard it's an enjoyable mess, but 337 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: so is Hunter Thompson. Yeah. Um, getting back to Air 338 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: Force one, the decks you can access up and down 339 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: with these retractable stairs, and the impression I got is 340 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: that they're retractable, probably so they can seal off the levels, right. 341 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: I mean they don't say that in the article, but 342 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't that be the reason out. I don't know why 343 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: he didn't just come out and say it, but it's 344 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: their interior stairs. So yeah, if the president needed to 345 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: just go hang out in the cockpit and get away 346 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: from terrorists, he was losing the fist fight. I'm sure 347 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: he could press a button in the stairs just go 348 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: up and you're stuck on the second level. And there 349 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: are three exterior entrances as well, but the one we 350 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: usually see is the photo op obviously when they wheel 351 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,719 Speaker 1: out the the rolling staircase to the tarmac and uh, 352 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: I think that's the front of the plane, the front, 353 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: middle in the middle, you know. Obama apparently like in 354 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Uh, there's a child crying on the tarmac 355 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: and he went right over to it and grabbed it 356 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: and like calmed it down. I think that was today, 357 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: and the mother like came up and starts slapping it's 358 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: my child. I'm a tea party here. Uh. There's a 359 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: staff area, Josh. There were two galleys, which in this 360 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: case are like seriously fully functioning kitchens, not the coffee 361 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: pot and the little rolling thing of frozen meals. Uh, 362 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: like we said, conference and dining room. And the crew 363 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: can actually ride and sleep there as well. Yeah, and 364 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: it's you know, most of the general space for like 365 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: the reporters and staff. It's like a really really like 366 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 1: the nicest first class plane you've ever been on, I know. 367 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: And that's just where they keep the reporters exactly. So 368 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: I mean you imagine that the President's sweet is pretty nice. 369 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 1: You've been on Elvis's at Graceland, Yeah, that's pretty sweet. 370 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: You may set off the alarm. She sat down on 371 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 1: the bed. Oh really yeah, interesting, the alarms just went. 372 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: She like rolling around like, oh, this is so lovely. 373 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: You know, she was pretending like she's gonna sit down 374 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: and then past like her her center balance and went 375 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: oh god, and like actually sat down on the bed. 376 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: That puts her in rare company. Yeah, and which she 377 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: got kicked off, and they came and she was already 378 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,479 Speaker 1: standing up by the time they came where like, we 379 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: don't know what happened. They started going off by itself. 380 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. What else, Josh Extensive Electronics, Big Time 381 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: eighty five telephones, on board two way radio's facts computer 382 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: WiFi nineteen TVs phone system is just like secure as 383 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,679 Speaker 1: it is in the White House apparently, which you know 384 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: it has to be um I like the medical facility, 385 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: which is scary, creepy, weird, you know, let's hear it. 386 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: So there's an onboard medical facility and has a fold 387 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: down operating table in case of emergency, has um e 388 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: er equipment fully stocked pharmacy for you know long flights 389 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,959 Speaker 1: and Um, there's a staff doctor that travels everywhere logically 390 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: with the president. I imagine he's a surgeon. Like he's 391 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: probably or she is probably well versed in all fields. 392 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: When you think, like I would want a field medic, 393 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: a field surgeon plane, I'm sure it's not just like 394 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: you know, a good time doctor or anything like that. 395 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure he's like probably has all sorts of like 396 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: rulish training, like you can pull a bullet out of 397 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 1: your chest right or do open heart surgery on the 398 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: fly if he needs to. Or if the baby you 399 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 1: pick up and trying to calm has some sort of 400 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: poison TOCs and on its skin, exactly knows how to 401 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: treat that that was an anthrax baby. Uh. Some pretty 402 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: cool things as far as defense goes, although we don't 403 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: know much about it because it's not you know, it's 404 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: classified stuff. We've reached the point where Tom Harris just 405 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: started making stuff up. He did, Uh it is a 406 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: defense Uh. It is a military aircraft and is capable 407 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: to withstand an attack. That's what they tell you. They 408 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: won't tell you how, No, but it has a thick shielding. 409 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: I wonder if it's lead but they have has shielding 410 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: to protect the wiring inside and the communications equipment from 411 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 1: an electromagnetic pulse that a nuclear bomb gives off. Alright, 412 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: UM can send out flares which are pretty cool. Well, 413 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: that throws off the heat seeking missile exactly. It sounds 414 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 1: silly until you start thinking about the heat seeker coming 415 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: at you. Uh. And it has definitely has an electronic 416 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: countermeasure which will jam the radar. My feeling is is 417 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 1: that this bad boy has a fifty cow and some 418 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: rockets that can pop out of different places. I'm just guessing. 419 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: I have no idea with anyone from Homeland Securities listening. 420 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: If I was a president, I would want some some 421 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 1: munitions aboard, and I bet there are, but that's just 422 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: a guess. And it can it can squirt like an 423 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: oil slick after it so that any planes on its 424 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: spin out. Uh. It is a military operation. Every time 425 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: this thing goes up in the air, UM by classification, 426 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: they send out a crew at Andrews in Maryland. They 427 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: check out the runway like every inch of that thing. 428 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: Before every flight. They send out a plane ahead of 429 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: time that carries all the cargo, plane that carries all 430 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: the the motorcade cars SUVs. Um, it's pretty cool. And 431 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 1: if you are a sane junkie, that is a C 432 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: one one Starlifter cargo plane that carries the motorcade. I 433 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: bet it carries a lot of cars. And if you 434 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: are trying to fly into Andrews Air Force Base at 435 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: the time when they're starting to prepare for Air Force 436 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: one to take off or for Marine one to even 437 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: show up, they're gonna shoot you down. They're authorized to 438 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: shoot on site. That's right, and they're not gonna mess 439 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: around with that. Uh what else, josh, Oh, the football 440 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: is always on board. That is the briefcase that famously 441 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: holds the UH nuclear codes and um air an Air 442 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: Force officer guards this football during the flight to the president. 443 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: You know, he can eat without it being handcuffed to 444 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,479 Speaker 1: his to his arm, and then passes it onto an 445 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: army officer once they reach the ground, passes off the football. 446 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: That's right. And then lastly that crew. So first of all, 447 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 1: the crew on board has two cruis as the flight 448 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: crew and the steward crew. And um, they quite an honor. 449 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: Well yeah, they also um screen these people. It's not 450 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 1: just like you've been really good. So here's your assignment. 451 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: Like they also have to go through your background and 452 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: your family's background, Like you undergo some pretty serious background 453 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 1: checks because you're on board this flight with the president 454 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 1: and he's pretty vulnerable, including by not just antrax baby, 455 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: but poison food attack. And where do they get this food? 456 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: They get it from a local market that's picked at random, 457 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: that has no idea that these people are are coming 458 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: or who they are, because they just wear like dockers 459 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: and maybe like a member's only jacket, right, that's what 460 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: they wear to go shopping for the food. And they 461 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: mix it up, like you said, so they never know 462 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: where the food is coming from. And uh, you know, 463 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: like I said, it's an honor, it's a rare privilege. 464 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: And that I love how it in the article it 465 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: says every president since Truman has formed close relationships and 466 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 1: connections with the flight crew. I wonder before that where 467 00:26:54,119 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 1: they just ignored, Hey, but apparently Harry Truman ushered in 468 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: uh chumming up with these people because because he's from Missoura. 469 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: He's from Missouri. And when you get the president on 470 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: board Air Force one, that is when you're gonna find 471 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: a more relaxed, more human president, especially if you have 472 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: a good flight doctor. That's right, the end, the end, 473 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: you anymore, that's air Force one. Remember we work for 474 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: a website called how stuff Works dot com, and every 475 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: single article, with the exception of what maybe one or two, 476 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: every single episode that we record has been based on 477 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: an article on the site. And if you want to 478 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: read more about air Force one, especially if you like 479 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: your how stuff works articles to be filled with conjecture, 480 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna love this one. Just type in air Force 481 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: one in the handy search bar how stuff works dot 482 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: com and that's gonna bring up the article and it's 483 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: aid handy and search bar, which means it's going to 484 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: be a particularly good listener. Now that's right, Josh, this 485 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: is gonna be I'm gonna call this bear nice follow up. 486 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: We did um are now annual reading. You gotta do 487 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: it twice for it to be annual. Yeah, at first 488 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: it's just an augural. People say first annual though, this kid, 489 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: it's just not right. So are now second annual Halloween 490 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: reading where we read royalty free works of literature that 491 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,679 Speaker 1: are creepy and people like this one. Yeah, I think so, 492 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: I thought weld some like well, I didn't like that one. 493 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: Not one person has said it, not so far at least. 494 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: So this year we read Baronice by Edgar Allan Poe, 495 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: and we had a couple of follow ups. Um, you 496 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: remember at the end we sort of tried to figure 497 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: out what happened. Yeah, Sean writes in I'm sure you've 498 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: gotten a few of these as I read the story. 499 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: Baronice had a kind of epilepsy that left her comatose 500 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: and in a death like state. From this quote, trance 501 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: very nearly resembling positive dissolution makes sense. Of course, when 502 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: you're reading this sometimes it escapes you because you're trying 503 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: to read it well. So everyone did think she was dead, 504 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: and she was buried. He didn't hallucinate anything in his mania. 505 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: He dug her up, ripped out her teeth, and then 506 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: that act woke her from her trance. Hence the screaming 507 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: that wounded but alive Berenice and the blood all over 508 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: our narrator. Pro she didn't wake up buried alive to 509 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: die a slow, suffocating death. Cohn definitely no more Steak 510 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: Dinners in her future. That's from Sean. And then the 511 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: second one, I have to say, the protagonists loved her 512 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: enough as a friend he would have cut her steak 513 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: and or chewed it up and spit it in her mouth. 514 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: This is from Julie and Julie Remember, I didn't have 515 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: the French translation, and we we had quite a few 516 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: people send it in, but hers was the best version 517 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: I thought. Just finished listening to Berenice. Um, thanks for 518 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: keeping up the creepy short story tradition. I have to 519 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: admit I was more than a little excited to hear 520 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: that you didn't know the meaning of the French phrases, 521 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: because I can finally use my random French degree. Ah, 522 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: here's the translation of Mademoiselle Saul. It had been well 523 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: said that all her steps were feelings, and of Berenice, 524 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: I'm more seriously believe that all her teeth were ideas 525 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: the ideas. So here's what Julie thinks it means. Mademoiselle 526 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: Saul was a famous French ballet dancer in the seventeen thirties. Someone, 527 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,959 Speaker 1: perhaps her great admirer Voltaire you've heard him, probably described 528 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: her graceful ballet as creating feelings with every step. Ah. 529 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: I Gaius was so overwhelmed with all the imaginative thoughts, 530 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: that's the protagonist, which were provoked by her teeth, that 531 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: he felt like each tooth was a source of a 532 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,959 Speaker 1: new idea. I think she's right on the money personally. 533 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: I think all Eddie was showing off and probably pretty 534 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: tripped out, but that's part of his charm, and that 535 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: is from Julie. That's nice. Those are too like top 536 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: nozze seller fan mails. They weren't even fan mails. That's 537 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: a listener mails. That's right. Yeah, they're no fans. No, 538 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: they're just smart. Um. If you're a smart person who 539 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: wants to tell us something you think we'd like to know. 540 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: We like to know just about anything, so that's cool. 541 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: Send it in any thought you have any ramblings although 542 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: we did get one recently. Did you notice it? I 543 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: can't remember what it was about, but it was a rambling, 544 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: was it? Yeah? I don't remember what it was, but 545 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: it was probably from a smart person because it was 546 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: a stuff you should know a listener. 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