Speaker 1: I feel like I should know a little bit more
Speaker 1: history on the Queen Mary, but I saw it was
Speaker 1: on the top ten list of like the most haunted places.
Speaker 2: It is correct, and it is true. I began to
Speaker 2: hear breathing, very faint. At first, I really thought I
Speaker 2: was hearing things, but it became louder and louder, and
Speaker 2: I could finally feel the breath going down the back
Speaker 2: of my neck.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen anything?
Speaker 2: I've seen glimpses of the corner of my eye. I
Speaker 2: look down the alleyway that I've just been walking down,
Speaker 2: and there's nobody there. You know, there's no place for
Speaker 2: them to go.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, I hope everyone is getting ready for Halloween tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I definitely am. I can't wait for you guys to
Speaker 1: see my costume. I'm not going to tell you what
Speaker 1: it is, so check it out tomorrow. Okay, Halloween is
Speaker 1: definitely one of the spookiest times of the year, and
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. As some of you may know,
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in ghosts, spirits, and the paranormal, so
Speaker 1: I thought it could be very interesting to explore some
Speaker 1: of that. On today's episode, We're going to be speaking
Speaker 1: with someone from the Queen Mary in Long Beach, where
Speaker 1: I'm from. He's going to fill us in on the
Speaker 1: ship's haunted history. So, without further ado, this is Cheekys
Speaker 1: and Jill. Here with me today is Commodore Everett Hort.
Speaker 1: He's also a historian who has been with the Queen
Speaker 1: Mary for more than forty years, which means he's probably
Speaker 1: seen and heard a lot of strange things.
Speaker 3: On the ship, which I'm excited to hear about. Welcome, Commodore.
Speaker 3: How are you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm doing very well today. How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 1: You look amazing. I wish people could see what you
Speaker 1: know your your uniform.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: That was great. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to have you because I was born in
Speaker 1: Long Beach and I feel like I should know a
Speaker 1: little bit more history on the Queen Mary.
Speaker 3: But that's what we have you for.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to learn along with my listeners. I've
Speaker 1: been there before. I just don't know all of the
Speaker 1: hardcore history. So before we get into the haunted stuff,
Speaker 1: I would like you to just give us like an
Speaker 1: overview on the Queen Mary, Like how did it end?
Speaker 1: Up in Long Beach. All that good stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, the Queen Mary was designed all the way back
Speaker 2: in the late twenties to operate along with a sister
Speaker 2: ship across the North Atlantic route. It would be the
Speaker 2: first and only two ship express service ever and the
Speaker 2: ship would serve for thirty one years and warn peace. It,
Speaker 2: along with its sister, the Queen Elizabeth, helped shorten World
Speaker 2: War Two by up to a year by its ability
Speaker 2: to safely carry troops across the North Atlantic for the
Speaker 2: build up of Normandy. Oh and of course, by the
Speaker 2: sixties but jet aircraft taking over the skies and a
Speaker 2: more efficient way to travel. The Queen Mary used a
Speaker 2: thousand tons of oil every twenty four hours. That's about
Speaker 2: thirteen feet to the gallon if you wanted to pay
Speaker 2: the fuel bial And so the que Nard Lione optingly
Speaker 2: ship off because of her magnificent reputation and war and peace,
Speaker 2: they decided that it would go to the highest bidder,
Speaker 2: and the highest bidder was Long Beach, who was looking
Speaker 2: for an attraction in a maritime museum. And so that's
Speaker 2: how the Queen Mary came to Long Beach and moreover
Speaker 2: became the face of Long Beach.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, shout out to Long Beach, all right. I
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the main reason that Long Beach wanted
Speaker 1: the ship was because they wanted a basically a landmark
Speaker 1: for Long Beach.
Speaker 2: Exactly, an icon And there's never been a ship that's
Speaker 2: fit as iconic as the Queen Mary, unless perhaps it's
Speaker 2: the Titanic for a completely different reason. But the Queen
Speaker 2: Mary was one of the greatest success stories of any
Speaker 2: ship in living memory. I mean, if you think about
Speaker 2: how many people the Queen Mary has actually touched, some
Speaker 2: two point two million peaceful passengers, eight hundred and ten thousand,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and thirty military personnel in the war here
Speaker 2: in Long Beach since opening in nineteen seventy one, we've
Speaker 2: seen in excess of fifty six million guests to come
Speaker 2: through the ship.
Speaker 3: You really know your stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, I've been hanging around a long time. So why
Speaker 2: my hairs great?
Speaker 1: How long have you been there at the Queen Mary?
Speaker 1: How long have you been working there?
Speaker 2: I've started the Queen Mary on Valentine's Day in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one, and the Queen Mary is a lifelong dream
Speaker 2: of mine since I was a little boy.
Speaker 3: You are so awesome. Oh, gonna want to hug you
Speaker 3: right now. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love to hear when people are so passionate, like
Speaker 1: you probably go to work just happy and so excited
Speaker 1: every single day.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you, I never I never cease to
Speaker 2: get a thrill when I drive up and there she
Speaker 2: is floating so majestically and her custom made birth, and
Speaker 2: she's just the proudest ship I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 3: Oh, that is so beautiful. That is so beautiful. I
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 1: And now, I mean, since we're talking about it, since
Speaker 1: you know so much about the Queen Mary, I've heard
Speaker 1: so many things. I believe I went years ago. It
Speaker 1: was like a it's like a haunted dinner. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It was years ago. So I mean I saw that
Speaker 1: on Time magazine. It was on the top ten list
Speaker 1: of like the most haunted places. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: It is correct? And it is true?
Speaker 1: Oh, it is true, okay, because I didn't know if
Speaker 1: it was like real.
Speaker 2: They raised in the South where I was raised, if
Speaker 2: you mentioned paranormal or supernatural or ghost or anything like that,
Speaker 2: they'd break out the rock, salt and holy water and
Speaker 2: fix you about it. So I say that because I
Speaker 2: came to California not believing in any sort of ghost
Speaker 2: or anything like that. And for the first four or
Speaker 2: five years working here, I crawled in every nook and
Speaker 2: cranny of this ship, and to no avail, nothing happened.
Speaker 2: A security guard told me a couple of months after
Speaker 2: I started. He says, you know, the shit was haunted.
Speaker 2: While I took it as an insult that something I
Speaker 2: had loved my entire life, you know, was different, but
Speaker 2: I didn't understand. I didn't understand what different was. And
Speaker 2: I can tell you though, that after about I think
Speaker 2: about four and a half years, it was I was
Speaker 2: giving some VIPs a tour of the boiler rooms and
Speaker 2: we were walking along the tank tops and the boilers
Speaker 2: and engines except for one engine room have been removed.
Speaker 2: So when you get all the way forward where the
Speaker 2: valley is, there's one watertight bulkhead that goes from keel
Speaker 2: to the main deck, and that's called the collision bulkhead.
Speaker 2: And I was just explaining to my guest how the
Speaker 2: Queen Mary had accidentally rammed a British cruiser in World
Speaker 2: War two and split it in Hanat and killed three
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty eight of the cruiser's crew, and I
Speaker 2: began to hear breathing on the opposite side of this
Speaker 2: steel bulkhead, and it was very fainted, for I really
Speaker 2: thought I was hearing things. We had just enjoyed the
Speaker 2: Sunday brunch in the Queen Mary, and so I'd had
Speaker 2: a few emosas, and I thought I might be feeling
Speaker 2: the effects, but became louder and louder, and I could
Speaker 2: finally feel the breath going down the back of my neck.
Speaker 2: And it was at that point my guests looked at
Speaker 2: me and said, maybe we better go up topside. And
Speaker 2: you should have seen three adults clamber up ten decks
Speaker 2: and sit under a lifeboat and look at one another
Speaker 2: and wonder what just happened to them. But that was
Speaker 2: only the first and it became often after that. I
Speaker 2: heard the breathing several more times after that. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, I still here breathing. Sometimes it's a long, slow,
Speaker 2: sort of Darth vadery kind of you know, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I know. Sometimes they call your name, stop it right now,
Speaker 2: and sometimes they touch you. I mean, I've been different
Speaker 2: parts of the ship and just to tap. One time,
Speaker 2: I was in my office. In my office that was
Speaker 2: really my dressing room. I can put my feet up
Speaker 2: for you know, a few minutes after lunch and rest
Speaker 2: in which I had done, and I had a VIP
Speaker 2: coming at two o'clock and I was I've just fell
Speaker 2: into a deep sleep, what can I say? And something
Speaker 2: tapped me on the shoulder and I woke up, and
Speaker 2: I knew my office was locked and no one had
Speaker 2: keys to it but me, But so I was pretty
Speaker 2: well awake after that, and it tapped me again on
Speaker 2: the shoulder. Oh well, had that not happened, I would
Speaker 2: have missed my appointment, and that would have been a
Speaker 2: very bad show for myself and the ship. But this
Speaker 2: is not a malevolent place. It's very benevolent. When you
Speaker 2: come across the Gangway and the Queen Mary, you feel
Speaker 2: the strongest aura of the purest form of history, and
Speaker 2: I mean the people that shape the world that we
Speaker 2: live in today. On the lights of the world of Hollywood, royalty,
Speaker 2: heads of state, the royal families of Europe and Japan
Speaker 2: and other nations, the Shaw of Iran. They were all
Speaker 2: traveling in this ship in the sea, going days as
Speaker 2: well as the common folk. I mean, you know, the
Speaker 2: Queen Mary was a three class ship. You had first class,
Speaker 2: cabin class, and tourist class, so it was a real
Speaker 2: mixture of humanity. And a lot of people have asked
Speaker 2: me what do I think is the ghost and they say, well,
Speaker 2: did anyone die here? Well, of course people have died here.
Speaker 2: People have been dropping dead all over the world since
Speaker 2: time began. That means every freeway, every intersection, every hotel
Speaker 2: is probably full of them. But my explanation for the
Speaker 2: enchantment of the Queen Mary is a little bit unique,
Speaker 2: and I fashioned it toward my own feelings. But I'll
Speaker 2: share with you for what it's worth. If you think
Speaker 2: about the amount of labor and human spirit that it
Speaker 2: took to construct the ship. Four thousand Scottish shipwrights pounding
Speaker 2: rivets in ten million album one at a time, bathing
Speaker 2: the interiors with fifty six exotic wood veneers from all
Speaker 2: over the British Empire. Another thirty thousand vendors from around
Speaker 2: Great Britain, providing anything from textile, silverware crystal art. Thirty
Speaker 2: seven artists would contribute to the Queen Mary's interiors. So
Speaker 2: and then the spirit of the passenger. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you've ever been at sea in a ship, but
Speaker 2: when the ship leaves the pier, you become totally dependent
Speaker 2: on the ship. She is your mother, she is your
Speaker 2: sustainer of life. And so much life has been through
Speaker 2: this ship, you know, the fifty six million people here,
Speaker 2: the two point two million people in peacetime. The gis
Speaker 2: So I feel that as human beings, we go and
Speaker 2: we leave a little bit of ourselves as we go.
Speaker 2: And I think that the ship, being put together with
Speaker 2: so much human will and love and zeal and that
Speaker 2: really matches everything that we have inside us, and I
Speaker 2: think that it picks up a little bit of all
Speaker 2: of us. So really the ghosts are all of us
Speaker 2: and the ship herself.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love the way you just stated it. It just
Speaker 1: made me see it in a completely different light. Instead
Speaker 1: of saying it's haunted, it's enchanted. I'm like, oh my gosh, yes,
Speaker 1: it's They're probably people that love the ship just as
Speaker 1: much as we all do, and they never wanted to leave,
Speaker 1: so it's not necessarily they're trying to scare you. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, whoever woke you up was like, hey, you're
Speaker 1: going to miss your appointment. They're actually loving exactly.
Speaker 2: That was a friend indeed that day.
Speaker 3: I know you have felt things, you have heard things.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen anything like I've never seen a ghost,
Speaker 1: but I have had my share of moments where I've
Speaker 1: heard and felt that breathing that you're talking about before,
Speaker 1: But I've never seen anything.
Speaker 2: I've seen glimpses ei the corner of my eye, and
Speaker 2: usually it's a person that just goes by me quickly
Speaker 2: and I don't really focus on it, but it was
Speaker 2: in my peripheral vision. And then I'll look around and
Speaker 2: of course I look down the alleyway that I've just
Speaker 2: been walking down, and there's nobody there. You know, there's
Speaker 2: no place for them to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have seen them a few times, captured in videography.
Speaker 2: A good friend of mine used to work for E
Speaker 2: Television and he had a variety of the finest cameras
Speaker 2: in the world. And in twenty eleven he came down
Speaker 2: and my wife and some friends we were going through
Speaker 2: the dressing rooms in the pool, which the paranormal researchers
Speaker 2: insist is a vortex into another universe. Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I can tell you this we were walking through
Speaker 2: and it's a very narrow alleyway and the little dressing
Speaker 2: cubicles are on each side of the alleyway. It was dark,
Speaker 2: but I could see the room from the pool room
Speaker 2: shining through at the end of the hall, and my
Speaker 2: friends in front of me with his camera, walking very slowly,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, he grunts, he goes oh.
Speaker 2: He said, I think I need to go check my
Speaker 2: blood sugar. I feel dizzy, and I said, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll catch up to you later. Well, he called me
Speaker 2: about twenty minutes later. He says, you got to come
Speaker 2: see what the camera's shot. And so my wife and
Speaker 2: I went to his cabin and he replayed it for us,
Speaker 2: and a very tall, dark figure walked out of a
Speaker 2: steel wall at the end of the alleyway, turned toward us,
Speaker 2: and as it comes closer, you can see the darkness
Speaker 2: getting bigger. Then the pyrus said, the camera goes black.
Speaker 2: You hear him grunt, and then it's light again. Oh wow,
Speaker 2: look right through us.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: There's a legend crazy. And I'm not able to prove
Speaker 2: this because I read it in a book and I've
Speaker 2: never found it in any of our records. But there's
Speaker 2: a legend that there was a night steward that liked
Speaker 2: to get off work and he usually got off his
Speaker 2: watch around two am, and he was friends with one
Speaker 2: of the pool attendants, and so the pool attendant would
Speaker 2: leave the key stashed in a special place where he
Speaker 2: could go in and take a steambath every night. Well,
Speaker 2: one night he went in and he turned the valve
Speaker 2: too many revolutions, and he got way too hot in there,
Speaker 2: and he had a stroke and died. And so when
Speaker 2: the morning watts came on, they found him in a
Speaker 2: very well done condition. And so, you know, goodness is
Speaker 2: to say, I mean, maybe that was that was this
Speaker 2: chap that allegedly passed away in there. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but oh my goodness, book commodore, you don't seem
Speaker 1: like scared at all. I mean, do you have you
Speaker 1: ever felt afraid? Do you walk around the ship all
Speaker 1: alone when it's dark or I don't know, I feel
Speaker 1: like you're just not scared.
Speaker 2: Well I'm really not. But if I do get creeped out,
Speaker 2: I'll go to another area. And I do get creeped
Speaker 2: out occasionally, it's possible to do that. I was during
Speaker 2: the pandemic, especially I was here a lot when you know,
Speaker 2: there was no one else in the ship. There's just
Speaker 2: the security staff outside. And in the afternoons, the you know,
Speaker 2: the managing director and his team would leave and go home. Well,
Speaker 2: I was. I was in the archive working and I
Speaker 2: was reorganizing and filing photographs, historic photographs. And at the
Speaker 2: top of the stairs, I've got the whole area wired
Speaker 2: down there where everything is. I can hear if somebody
Speaker 2: comes through a door, I know if I know how
Speaker 2: many steps there is between that doorway and down to
Speaker 2: where I am. Anyway, I heard the door open up
Speaker 2: there and it closed, and there's a landing halfway down,
Speaker 2: and I heard the footsteps go to the middle landing
Speaker 2: and they stopped. I'm expecting to see them walk past
Speaker 2: this room where I'm in, and fortunately there's a fence
Speaker 2: on it that I keep locked so people don't spook me.
Speaker 2: And the footsteps never continued. They didn't go back up,
Speaker 2: the door didn't open or close, they didn't come down
Speaker 2: and walk past me. So after about five minutes, I
Speaker 2: was really starting to get wigged out, and I opened
Speaker 2: the chain link gate and I walked to the stairway
Speaker 2: and I looked up and there's nobody on the landing.
Speaker 2: So I walked all the way up to the door
Speaker 2: that I heard them come through, and it was locked
Speaker 2: from the inside.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: But are there parts of the ship that you feel
Speaker 1: are more enchanted, let's say, than other parts that where
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, you think about it twice.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, naturally, it's harder to notice things like
Speaker 2: that when you're in a really populated area of the
Speaker 2: ship because the ship's you know, her daily organism of
Speaker 2: passengers and visitors. Everyone is enjoying themselves, so you don't
Speaker 2: notice it. But if you get down like into the
Speaker 2: boiler rooms, it's usually very quiet down there, or where
Speaker 2: the archive is, where my dressing room is. Down there,
Speaker 2: it's very very secluded, and you could die down there
Speaker 2: and then nobody find you for a month.
Speaker 3: What the heck?
Speaker 2: Just kidding?
Speaker 1: Have people left to people that started working at the ship,
Speaker 1: but the Queen Mary and then just said, you know,
Speaker 1: this is too much, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2: We've had a couple of people that it was overwhelming
Speaker 2: for them. The story of Cabin B three forty I
Speaker 2: think in the forties, a fellow died of natural causes
Speaker 2: in that cabin. And then in the sixties there was
Speaker 2: a night steward that answered a call for a lady
Speaker 2: passenger that was awakened by a man who pulled the
Speaker 2: covers off of her bed and dropped him at the
Speaker 2: foot of the bed. And then you know, when she
Speaker 2: flicked the light on, he was gone, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And so the steward came in says, madam, no one's
Speaker 2: come or gone from your cabin all night. And so
Speaker 2: that particular cabin B three forty in the mid eighties,
Speaker 2: there was a housekeeper that went there and she cleaned
Speaker 2: the room, and she was finished except for putting the
Speaker 2: towels in the bathroom. And her maid cart was right
Speaker 2: outside the door, so no one could have gone in
Speaker 2: or out without her seeing them. And when she gets
Speaker 2: back in to put the towels up, all the covers
Speaker 2: are pulled off the two beds and wadded in the
Speaker 2: floor at the foot of the bed. And so she quit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry. I would have done the same thing.
Speaker 1: I would have been like, you know what, as much
Speaker 1: as I love you, Queen Mary and I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's what I commend you, and I admire
Speaker 1: you for the love and the passion that you have
Speaker 1: for this ship because I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know if I could do it.
Speaker 2: Well, you could, because all you have to remember is
Speaker 2: they can't hurt you unless you fall running.
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever come to the ship to try to
Speaker 1: get rid of, you know, the spirits in any way,
Speaker 1: because you know they have rituals and things like that.
Speaker 1: Has anyone tried.
Speaker 2: Not that I know of, but I'm sure they probably have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I feel like if they're not bothering,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're kind of scaring you. They could freak
Speaker 1: you out, keep you out a little bit. But that's
Speaker 1: what my mom would always say. She's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: you got to be afraid of living people because they
Speaker 1: can really hurt you, these ghosts or spirits or souls.
Speaker 1: Someone told me don't ever follow them if they tell
Speaker 1: you come and you start following, Like, don't do that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess if you see it that way,
Speaker 1: you're right.
Speaker 2: My mom, she's right, You're mama so wisely.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, yes, yes she is, yes she is well.
Speaker 2: But you know, I just don't let them unnerve me.
Speaker 2: I love the Queen Mary so much and her indigenous
Speaker 2: magic is so compelling to me that it's really a feature.
Speaker 2: And over the years, the paranormal activity has really become
Speaker 2: a golden rivet for the ship, if you will, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because it captures people's interest that would not normally visit
Speaker 2: the Queen Mary, and especially a lot of youngsters. You
Speaker 2: know that they're not as enthralled with history as somebody
Speaker 2: like myself might be. But maybe if they come here
Speaker 2: on a paranormal hunt or something like that, then they
Speaker 2: might hear some of the history of the ship, and
Speaker 2: they do quite often, and they come away with a
Speaker 2: different view of the Queen Mary and what it means.
Speaker 2: It is meant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in this short conversation, that's how I feel. I feel.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've always loved the Queen Mayor because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm from Long Beach, but now speaking
Speaker 1: to you, I see it in a different way.
Speaker 3: So I thank you for that.
Speaker 1: And now that we're talking about paranormal like tours, tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit more about some that you guys have, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, the Gray Ghost Project.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Great Ghost Project is going to be a
Speaker 2: new paranormal investigation. And when I say that, it means
Speaker 2: that our master investigator and illusionist, Aiden Sinclair will be
Speaker 2: leading these investigations. And Aiden is very gifted spiritually, and
Speaker 2: he also does a show on board with us as
Speaker 2: well in the Revenant Room. So and it's a seance,
Speaker 2: but he goes back and he contacts, you know, some
Speaker 2: of the some of the spirits in the ship. And
Speaker 2: he's a really fascinating and talented man.
Speaker 3: That sounds very intriguing.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know there's a difference between us giving
Speaker 2: you a tour and telling you ghost story or having
Speaker 2: someone that's really a psychic going on an investigation with you.
Speaker 1: Definitely that sounds very very interesting to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: is it's something that you guys just do around like
Speaker 1: Halloween or is it all year round?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be all year round, Friday through Sunday.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, Okay, So I really I need to go.
Speaker 1: I haven't been to the Queen Mary in so long.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Queen Mary, forgive me, but I love you.
Speaker 1: But now speaking to you, Commodore, I definitely I have
Speaker 1: to go visit it. And I think everyone that's listening
Speaker 1: as well. I just I see it in a different light.
Speaker 1: And I loved how you just changed the perception for me,
Speaker 1: which is it's enchanted. It's a beautiful piece of art,
Speaker 1: and there's so much history. So I just now I'm
Speaker 1: not necessarily afraid. Now I'm just going to be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, they can't hurt me anyways. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy myself.
Speaker 2: You should. The Queen Mary is meant to be enjoyed.
Speaker 2: And as I said, she was one of the most
Speaker 2: popular ships the world has ever known. And her last
Speaker 2: captain used to say, I knew him well. I used
Speaker 2: to visit his home in England. His name was John
Speaker 2: Treasure Jones, and he used to say that Queen Mary
Speaker 2: is the closest thing to a living being that I
Speaker 2: have ever commanded. She even breeds. And you know, in
Speaker 2: the day that the ship was launched, the hull the
Speaker 2: hall was finished and launched into the River Clyde in Scotland,
Speaker 2: King George the fifth made some very remarkable comments in
Speaker 2: his speech that day. He said, may she no longer
Speaker 2: be a number on the books, but a ship in
Speaker 2: the world, alive with beauty, energy and strength, and may
Speaker 2: she carry the peoples of the nations to come together
Speaker 2: as students and leave his friends. Today we have the
Speaker 2: happy task of sending forth on her way, this stagliest
Speaker 2: ship now in being. And he all but spoke the
Speaker 2: soul into the Queen Mary. And someone else spoke that day,
Speaker 2: and they weren't up in Scotland with the launching and
Speaker 2: the royal family and the two hundred fifty thousand guests.
Speaker 2: She was a very humble lady and lived in London,
Speaker 2: but she was a psychic. Her name was Lady Mabel
Speaker 2: Ford esque Harrison, and on that same day Lady Mabel
Speaker 2: said these words. Most of us will be gone when
Speaker 2: this takes place, but the ship called the Queen Mary
Speaker 2: will know her greatest fame and popularity when she never
Speaker 2: sells another mile or carries another fair paying passenger. Fifty
Speaker 2: six million people since the Queen Mary's propellers have turned
Speaker 2: a revolution. So I think that was that was quite
Speaker 2: on insight.
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely. I love that.
Speaker 1: I am so happy that I was able to speak
Speaker 1: to you, and I love listening to you because I
Speaker 1: feel can you transmit the love that you have for
Speaker 1: the ship, and it makes me want to love it
Speaker 1: even more. So I want to thank you, and before
Speaker 1: I let you go. I just want to know what
Speaker 1: are your plans for Halloween night?
Speaker 2: Oh? My plans for Halloween night? Well, I'll probably be
Speaker 2: on the sofa waiting for the little trigger treaters like
Speaker 2: everyone else.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yep, that's what I like to do, to be honest.
Speaker 1: When I was younger, I'm like, Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: go get candy. Now I'm like, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit down and enjoy some television and drink some cocoa
Speaker 1: or maybe I don't know, have some wine and give
Speaker 1: everyone some candy.
Speaker 2: Here you go. A great Halloween, Yes.
Speaker 1: A great Halloween exactly. Well, thank you so much, Commodore.
Speaker 1: It's been such a pleasure speaking to you. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your time and for your insight and all the
Speaker 1: history that you have given us. And I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed our conversation as well.
Speaker 2: Oh I certainly did you know? My wife will be
Speaker 2: glad that we had this conversation because she won't have
Speaker 2: to hear about the Queen Mary when I get home
Speaker 2: from work tonight because I got to talk it out.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's amazing. We'll tell her, I said, hello, sure will.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Commodore. I'm sending you a big hug and
Speaker 1: hopefully I see you there soon at the ship.
Speaker 2: I'll be looking for it.
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, So you guys, thank you for listening,
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