1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Hey there, signature Diana saying song welcome to 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: the show. I did used to have a little tune 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: that I would do for everyone I worked with at 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: the Highland Bakery. It was a short lived thing because 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 1: I think that musical. But it's like your version of 6 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: giving someone a nickname is yeah. I'd be like Maggy, 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: yeah you know, or something sweet? What what what was yours 8 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: for me? Oh? You never had one? Sorry, babe? Should 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: I make up one for you? Now? Would that make 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: you feel better? I mean it doesn't feel as genuine. 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: I'll go no. I feel like I feel like I 12 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: could come up with one really fast. Let's hear it. Eli, Okay, 13 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: how's that all right? You lucked out? Because that was 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: very good. It kind of sounds like a gum commercial, 15 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: which is all I ever really wanted for myself. Car 16 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: something jingle anyway, go what a week? We got to 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: go see some friends again. Last night we Scream five 18 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: for five cream as the local says, that's great. I 19 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: love the Scream movies. We're not big horror people, no, 20 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: especially me. I'm I'm a bit of a woosh. I 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: don't like to stress myself out with my entertainment. You're 22 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: stressed out enough with my life, you know, getting carved 23 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: up and running for their lives. Well, I'm glad we're 24 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: talking about movies, because that's kind of what we're talking 25 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: about today, is somebody who made a lot of silent films. 26 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: I'm travel documentaries specifically, which we also have a lot 27 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: of interest in doing one day in our lives, because 28 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: today we are talking about a Loha wander Well. She 29 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: was yearning to travel when she answered an ad looking 30 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: for a lady with brains, beauty and breaches to rush 31 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: it through unexplored terrain all over the world and make 32 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: silent film travelogs of their adventures. Now, this trip would 33 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: change her life forever. She would become in nationally famous 34 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: as the first woman to drive across the world, and 35 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: she would meet her husband, the leader of the expedition, 36 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 1: Walter wander Well, listen to all. This story has everything. 37 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: It's got a pants wearing adventurous a fake dad, a 38 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: plane crash in Brazil, Hollywood, hob Nobbin, j Edgar Hoover, 39 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: and even a murder mystery. Yes, let's go. Hey, their 40 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: French come listen Well, Elia and Diana got some stories 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: to tell. There's no matchmaking a romantic tips. It's just 42 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: about ridiculous relationshift. A lover might be any type of 43 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: person at all, and abstract cons at a concrete wall. 44 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: But if there's a story with the second plant, ridiculous 45 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: romance A production of iHeart Radio Aloha. Wander Well was 46 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: born in dressed Galcia Hall in nineteen o six in Winnipeg, Canada, 47 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: and her father, Herbert Hall, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force 48 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: at the start of the Great War in teen, and 49 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: then he was transferred to the British Army when he 50 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: was seriously injured in nineteen sixteen. It just his mother, Margaret, 51 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: put her in a boarding school and she took herself 52 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: and her youngest daughter to England like hang out with Herbert. 53 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: In seventeen, Herbert died in action in Apra, and even 54 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: though she was only twelve years old at the time, 55 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: it just traveled from her boarding school in Canada to 56 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: England by rail and steamship, all by herself, so that 57 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: she could be with her mother in this time of grief. Jeez, 58 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: when I was twelve, okay, you know, well, I rode 59 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: my bike around the neighborhood. But I feel like I 60 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: did very little on my own. I think a steamship 61 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: was out of the question. Can I ride my bike 62 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: down to Mike's house? Sure? Can I take a steamship 63 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: to Canada? Ask your father? Now? When she got to England, 64 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: it just made a shocking discovery. Herbert Hall failed to 65 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: mention it dress in his will, and her mother was 66 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: forced to admit that Herbert had been his stepfather all along. 67 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Her real father was a man named Robert Welch, and 68 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: according to The New York Times, he died when she 69 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: was only two years old. But I feel like it's 70 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: still shitty that he left her out of his will 71 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: because he was still her dad like most of her life. Yeah, yeah, 72 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: so weird choice on Herbert's part. And you know she 73 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: just have Did he just have this disdain for her 74 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: her whole life? I don't think so, because in her 75 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: autobiography she's like, oh, we had a love and laughter 76 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: filled childhood and everything was just great. All this time. 77 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: He's thinking, in the back of his mind, Okay, this 78 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: girl's great, but I ain't gonna leave her none of 79 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: my money. They're not a single Canadian dollar. That doesn't 80 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: seem very nice. I know, very young Canadian un Canadian, 81 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 1: of so that was a shocker, and uh, it just 82 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: definitely was like at that point, I kind of felt 83 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: like I didn't belong anywhere in the world. So she 84 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: was feeling a bit unmoored by this, of course, and 85 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,559 Speaker 1: like disconnected from her childhood and everything. But at that point, 86 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: Margaret it sent both of her daughters to like a 87 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: stuffy French convent in nice to be educated, and then 88 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: she went to the front where she was searching in 89 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: vain for Herbert's body. Just really sad. So in dress, 90 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: this girl is like nearly six feet tall, and she's gorgeous. 91 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: She's got a total movie star face. She's got curly, 92 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: dark blonde hair, she's got big, wide doe eyes, very beautiful, 93 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: something of a tomboy. Though. She was really restless, and 94 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: she was very outspoken, so at the convent, you know, 95 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: didn't quite fit in. She was always kind of annoying 96 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: the nuns by demanding things like you need to give 97 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: me a room with a window that will open so 98 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: I can let the breeze in, which I mean reasonable demand, 99 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: I think, but the nuns obviously weren't used to hear 100 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: in that kind of talk. A breeze the Lord doesn't 101 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: send a breathe. The Lord wants you to suffer in 102 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: the She would also speak up on behalf of her 103 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: class mates, which obviously the nuns don't like either. Not 104 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: big on challenging authority, those nuns not so much. But 105 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: she was able to learn languages really easily. She was 106 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: comfortable with English and French and Spanish and Italian. She 107 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: also started to learn to drive, just very exciting because 108 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: the car would have been very new at this point. 109 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and most women didn't learn how to drive period. 110 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: In fact, Idris said that she even wished she'd been 111 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: born a boy so they could she could do things 112 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: like drive and join the navy and travel the world. 113 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: She was, also, incidentally, crossover alert here, a big fan 114 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: of Collette. She read her books well. She was in 115 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: France at the right time to be reading like Claudine 116 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: and stuff Collecte real Hot right now amongst the tomboys 117 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: and outspoken young women of the world, right all the 118 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: like liberated ladies of the twenties. Well. Finally, in her 119 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: chance to escape the confines of her life came in 120 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: the guise of an advertisement reading Brains, Beauty and Reaches 121 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: World tour of for a lucky young woman who is 122 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: as clever journalist as her appearances attractive. She must forcewear 123 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: skirts and incidentally marriage for at least two years and 124 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: be prepared to rub it in Asia and Africa. You 125 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: have to forcewear skirts and incidentally marriage, because if you 126 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: get rid of those skirts, you know you ain't getting 127 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: married anyway. No man marries a lady and pants. Yeah 128 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: right now. This ad was Austin. Sensibly they were looking 129 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: for a secretary, a driver, and a French translator, but 130 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: the ad also concluded she must learn to work before 131 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: and behind a movie camera camera camera brand new. We 132 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: haven't learned how to pronounce it yet. Now. It just 133 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: could not resist this ad. I mean it was basically 134 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: written for her. I can barely resist this ad. I'm 135 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: ready to bosom buddies this job. I want to show 136 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: up an address and be like, I'm going to give 137 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: up my skirts for this job and just put on 138 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: a wing. Oh wear pets for you, hi and me? 139 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: What a beautiful lady get in here. I do hate that. 140 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: It's like you gotta be cute, wink wink, Like what's 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: that got to do with anything? But whatever? She's like, 142 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: look I'm cute, I'm hot, I can speak French, I 143 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: know how to drive. Let me go for it. So, 144 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: even though she's only sixteen years old at this point, 145 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: she answered the ad and she met the expedition's leader 146 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: and organizer, Captain Walter wander Well, and he met her 147 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, maybe you're going to 148 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: be the one to save me. Oh no, I was 149 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: waiting for the oasis, because after all, I was over here, 150 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: like I came in, like, go wander Well, and I 151 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: don't know why. I wonder whall it makes more sense, 152 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: That's what I was doing. Walter wander Well was a 153 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: Polish national. His real name was Valerian Johann Paisynski, but 154 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: he changed it because no one in America could pronounce it, 155 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 1: and he threw in captain just for good measure. And 156 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: he went beyond just the title. He actually loved to 157 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: illegally wear a military uniform in public, and he got 158 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: quite a few petty criminal charges throughout his life because 159 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: of it, impersonating an officer and all that. He was 160 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: kind of a shady character in general. He'd spent a 161 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: brief time imprisoned in Atlanta during the War on suspicion 162 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: of being a German spy, and he also accounts suggest 163 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,559 Speaker 1: that he was probably a rum runner during the Prohibition 164 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: as well. So real slippery dude doing all kinds of 165 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 1: little petty crimes getting away with it. In nineteen eighteen, 166 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: he met a Broadway chorus girl named Nell, and he 167 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: married that woman, and together they started the work around 168 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: the World Education Club. According to an article on Morristown 169 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: Green dot com by Jeffrey V. Moy, they vote envisioned 170 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: it as a volunteer international police force that would monitor 171 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: countries for signs of military build up to prevent a 172 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: repeat of the atrocities and death of World War One. 173 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: Interesting idea, Yeah, an international police force, right started by 174 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: these two randos, like a fake captain and a Broadway 175 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: chorus girl. You're going to go out and stopped the 176 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: Nazis from rising, you know, they spoiler alert, They didn't 177 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: know well, and like I guess this is sort of 178 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: they were marching alongside like Woodrow Wilson's trying to start 179 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: League of Nations, which is supposed to be you know, 180 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: eventually becomes a U N And it's sort of supposed 181 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: to be that kind of world police thing. So he's like, 182 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: I'll help a little weird way by doing this. I 183 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: don't know right well, And some people say that Walter 184 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: and Nell and later Eddress who joined them were genuinely 185 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: working towards peace and justice, but others say that Walter 186 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: was just kind of a guy who was really good 187 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: at finding money to support himself without ever actually holding 188 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,719 Speaker 1: down a job. So this club was just a way 189 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 1: to get what they called volunteer cadets to fork over 190 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: expensive fees that he would just use to support himself. 191 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: So basically he's a con artist. Yeah, I think you're right. Well, whatever, 192 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: it was, their main activity and promoting peace around the 193 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: world was just going on a bunch of trips and 194 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: sharing their footage with paying customers. Wait a second, we've 195 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: been trying to get a travel podcast this whole time. Well, 196 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: maybe we should just approach some world governments and say, hey, 197 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: well we'll promote peace around the world. Yeah, prevent the 198 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: atrocities of World War ones, World's War, World Wars one, 199 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: then two. Yeah, what will you do? Well, we'll go 200 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: places and we'll film what's happening there, and then people 201 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: can buy that footage from us. It'll be great. They'll 202 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: be like Instagram already exists, thank you all right now. 203 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: But of course, at this point, you know, travel was 204 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: something I was pretty out of reach for the average person. 205 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: So going and the cameras knew, the cars knew, there's 206 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: a lot of new things going on, so um, it 207 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: was pretty special to see someone's travel foota looking at 208 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: their vacation photos was like the real a real get 209 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 1: I actually wanted to see that. And this is not 210 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: long after everyone was freaking out reading books about Amelia 211 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: Earhart's put them and all of them, you know, going 212 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: on these global treks and explorations, and they're reading about them. 213 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 1: But imagine if you could see it exactly. So by 214 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen, Walter and Nell decided to do a Forge 215 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: sponsored million dollar wager race around the world. Each of 216 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: them would lead competing teams and see who could travel 217 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: the most miles and visit the most countries, and they 218 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: would film their travels. They would do screenings and lectures 219 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: to pay for their time on the road, and Nell 220 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: always wore pants, which she found to be quote more 221 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: practical and comfortable, but it had the added bonus of 222 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 1: always grabbing a headline was very good for headlines, because 223 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: at the time, a woman wearing pants was about as 224 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: weird as someone wearing a duck for a hat or 225 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: something like just like, what are I seeing? Well, now 226 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: I've seen everything, a woman in pants, what's next? Horses 227 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:18,239 Speaker 1: with glasses? But by two Nell and Walter were separated. 228 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: Nell once said that walter quote couldn't be true to 229 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: any one woman. He was the eternal mother, Oh, the 230 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: looking nothing, an actress from here, a stenographer, a shop girl, 231 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: Geisha's quiet Girls, dowagers from sue As to the Straits, 232 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: Sebilance and back against everything in skirts had a fascination 233 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: for their romantic gaptain. Oh I want you to play 234 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: a scorned wife. Yeah, she's not having it. I could 235 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: just see you with a little cigarette, like, get out 236 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: of here. I've said it all. This is the last 237 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: time you'll be cheating on Nay saying see yeah, I 238 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: don't know why she suddenly I gang from Hey, she 239 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: went through a lot. It hurts you, hardens you. So 240 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: Nell and Walter on the outs. And this is around 241 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: the time that Idris saw this ad and applied got 242 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: the gig. She joined the team, and Walter and Idris, 243 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 1: we're going to be the new partnership. Their main competition 244 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: was Walter's estranged wife Nell. As they traveled around the world. 245 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: They have modified a nineteen seventeen Ford Model Team to 246 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: have a bigger gas tank, oil tank, and even wheel 247 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: modifications so the car could also travel on railways and 248 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: then at the back of the car it could fold 249 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: out accordion style into a traveling dark rooms. They could 250 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: develop film and photographs right there in the car. Incredible. 251 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: I want this car. Diana put it on the old 252 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: Christmas list. I love it, and she did. They did eventually, 253 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: um donate it to the Ford Museum. I don't know 254 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: if they still have it, but you you probably, I'm 255 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: sure what they do which to me, you know what, 256 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: it sounds like We've got a heist coming on you 257 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: and I steal that. Yeah, ridiculous crime is going to 258 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: be covering us next year. Yes, amazing copy trying to 259 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: steal uh in dressed Wanderwell's car wonder Well Model t 260 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: It probably goes like driving out of the museum. Slow, 261 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: let's get out of here, let's burn rubber lot. The 262 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: security guards were like, we'll walk, We'll wait. It was 263 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: no gas. That's a half mile per ten gallons. You're 264 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: not going anywhere. Let meet you at the door, all right. Well, 265 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: before they left on this race around the world, Interest 266 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: changed her name to Aloha wander Well. Now, Aloha was 267 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: apparently a family nickname. I think it's kind of cute. 268 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: If she's like, I want to travel and I want 269 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: to run around with the navy. They were like call 270 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: her hello, goodbye. But as far as taking Walter's last name, 271 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: sources kind of very on why. Some say her mom 272 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: had Aloha declared as Walter's ward so that she would 273 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: not like, she wouldn't ruin her reputation by traveling with 274 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: a man alone, and she she actually may have gone 275 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: as far as adopting Walter herself so that they would 276 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: legally be brother and sister. Unclear, Mom, will you adopt 277 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: this old man who wants to take me around the world? Okay, Henney, 278 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: so we could be brother and sister and it won't 279 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: be weird. Some say that Walter gave her the name 280 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: himself for like ease of travel and branding and all 281 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: kinds of little reasons like that. Uh, speculation station. I 282 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: think Aloha was just like wander Well, what a great name. 283 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great name. Yeah, if you're a traveler. 284 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: So whatever the case, she had her nom de root 285 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: and the dash around the world began and we will 286 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: hear more about it right after this Welcome back to 287 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: the show, everybody. So during Aloha and Walter's first trip 288 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: from Aloha didn't just translate French and drive the car. 289 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: She also became like the face of the expedition basically, 290 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 1: and its main camera operator and narrator. She was their seamstress, 291 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: their lawn dress, their editor. She was a salesperson and 292 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: a negotiator, a mechanic, and a photographer. She did vaudeville 293 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: performances where they would sell photo pamphlets. They would screen 294 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: their silent films, and she would give lectures about what 295 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 1: was happening on screen during their films. Obviously silent films 296 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: you need someone to do that. These events not only 297 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: turned her into a star, they helped fund the trip, 298 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: so Walter was pretty happy. I mean he's say, you 299 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: have to admit savvy fundraiser. Yeah, and this trip was amazing. 300 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,479 Speaker 1: I mean it was grueling, but it was incredible. Aloha 301 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: was often low on supplies, so she had to get 302 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: clever with it. She would use kerosene in place of gasoline. 303 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: She would crush bananas for Greece, and she used water 304 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,360 Speaker 1: and elephant fat for oil in the car. So it's 305 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: like the original biodiesel basically, right, this is pretty cool. 306 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: And the fact that the car would run on any 307 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: of those things, right, pour anything in there. It might explode, 308 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: but it'll move. It's like doc and back to the future, 309 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: like corn beer into the Florian mr fusion And yeah, 310 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: I mean they went through it, Okay. So in India, 311 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: Oxen had to tow the ford through impassable mud flats 312 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: and rivers because of course a lot of places don't 313 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: have roads yet. In China, it was laborers who were 314 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: paid to drag the car eighty miles after it broke down, 315 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 1: and I hope they're paid well. Okay. They also went 316 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: through war torn France. They saw Italy right before Mussolini 317 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: took control. They went through food riots and hostile mobs 318 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: in Germany, which was, you know, suffering a deep depression 319 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,160 Speaker 1: at this point after the harsh reparations that world governments 320 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: demanded after World War One. In Saudi Arabia, she disguised 321 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: herself as a man in Mecca so that she could 322 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: enter and pray. Another time she did the same to 323 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 1: fight with the French Foreign Legion. She made friends with 324 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 1: Chinese bandits, and the Red Army in Siberia made her 325 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: an honorary colonel for being the first woman to drive 326 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: into Siberia. They camped at the feet of the Sphinx 327 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: in Egypt. They drove into Palestine to watch the beginnings 328 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: of a new nation being built for Jewish people. They 329 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: wandered the highlands of Portuguese East Africa. They nearly died 330 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: of thirst in the Student Desert. I mean, this trip 331 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: was christ insane, way harder than our drive out to Utah. 332 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: I know, the worst thing that happened to since we 333 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: stayed at Ojo, right, we didn't have to disguise ourselves 334 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: as men at any point on that trip, not even 335 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: on The trip ended in New York in nine and 336 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: by this point Aloha was famous as the first woman 337 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 1: to drive around the world, and she mingled with stars 338 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: like Douglas Fairbanks and her childhood idol Mary Pickford. Newspapers 339 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: started calling her the Amelia Earhart of the Open Road. Yeah, 340 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: and then she cut together their most famous film with 341 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: car and camera around the world for which they had 342 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: shot forty thousand feet of film, which is in Calcutta. 343 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: They'd even crossed paths with the aviators who were trying 344 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: to fly across the world in eighty days, and Aloha 345 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: filmed their encounter In all. Aloha went through forty three 346 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: countries across four continents, and even though Walter was kind 347 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 1: of a demanding and tyrannical boss, throughout their years together, 348 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: they forged a real connection and eventually they fell in love. 349 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: But when they landed, Walter was arrested on charges of 350 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: white slavery under the Man Act, which prohibited the transportation 351 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: of any woman or girl across state lines for quote 352 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: unquote immoral purposes. Um, because Aloha was still a miner, 353 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: so they were like, you're taking this girl all over 354 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: the place. Now. The sources vary on the exact reason 355 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: for this as well. Some say the FBI was still 356 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: suspicious of Walter because of his wartime activities the German 357 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: Sky thing. UM and j. Edgar Hoover thought that his 358 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 1: whole work around the World Education Club that he had 359 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: started with Nell I'm still doing with Aloha was actually 360 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: his attempt at putting together his own private army that 361 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,360 Speaker 1: could be hired by any country at any time, which 362 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: just sounds like some crazy ship Jed or Hoover would 363 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: come up with, because Walter is really just trying to 364 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: scamp people out of two hundred bucks. He could he 365 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: could be lazy and not work and go travel everywhere, 366 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: And I was like, Hooever never liked a regular explanation. 367 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: He's like, it was some weird ship going on on 368 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: top of this, So the Man Act was just kind 369 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: of a convenient excuse to get him arrested. But other 370 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: sources say that Nell Underwell, who was still technically married 371 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 1: to Walter at this point, accused him under the Man 372 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: Act so that she could force a better divorce settlement 373 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: and get some more money out of him. Either way, 374 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: the most expedient solution was to marry Aloha, of course, 375 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: so Walter got his divorce and they tied the knot, 376 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: and they would go on to have two children together, 377 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: Nile and Valerie. I know, there's not a lot of 378 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: details about it, but speculation station Nell got a really 379 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 1: good deal in that divorce. She's like, oh, you want 380 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: to marry Aloha to keep yourself out of jail, do 381 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: you well? Let me bust out the list here for 382 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,919 Speaker 1: that divorce. Yeah, I'll give it to you, no problem. 383 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: You just give me the following one helicopter smokerenades. Who 384 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: knows what she was looking for? How many membership fees 385 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: did it take in this year? But neither of the 386 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: wander wells, Aloha or Walter. We're looking for a quiet 387 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: life on the home front. It wasn't time to settle 388 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: down with a picket fence and a dog and TV dinners. 389 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: So those two children they had ended up staying with 390 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: family members or in foster homes as the couple took 391 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: to the road again, which they did famously in nineteen 392 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: thirty when Aloha learned how to pilot a plane and 393 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: they decided to fly to South America to search for 394 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: the explorer Percy Fawcett, who had vanished while trying to 395 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: find the mythical lost city of z in Brazil. But 396 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: they found something very different. According to Mysterious Universe dot Com, 397 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: their little German seaplane ran out of fuel and came 398 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: down somewhere along the Paraguay River. This area was remote, 399 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: it was unexplored and uncharted, and the couple probably would 400 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: have died there if they hadn't met the boro Ro tribe. Now, 401 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: this is an indigenous tribe. It was from the most part, 402 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: completely unknown to the outside world, and they provided a 403 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: safe place for Alohattes stay while Walter hiked through the 404 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: jungle back to civilization to get few and replacement parts 405 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: to you know, get the plane flying again, which was 406 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: supposed to just take a couple of days, but Aloha 407 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: ended up being alone with this tribe for months. However, 408 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: we know our girl, she did not waste her time. 409 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: She learned their ways. She became the first to film 410 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: the tribe's daily routines and rituals, including ceremonial dances, a 411 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: first contact meeting between the tribe and Aloha, and the 412 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: men of the tribe experiencing sympathy labor pains while a 413 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: woman gave birth, which I think is just really interesting. 414 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: Had like they were like trying to be a part 415 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: of it. And Aloha edited this into a thirty two 416 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: minutes silent documentary called Flight to the Stone Age Bororos, which, 417 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: as Mysterious Universe rites quote is still considered by the 418 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: Smithsonian Institute's Human Studies Archive to be a very important 419 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: anthropological study and resource. Now finally, Walter made it back 420 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: and they flew home in one and no trace of 421 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: Percy Fawcett was ever found. Wo uh, I got to imagine. 422 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: I mean, this is super cool, you know, But a 423 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: couple of things. One, it's impressive to see these sympathy 424 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: labor pains, yes, coming out of this tribe, and and 425 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: and realizing that, you know, technologically advanced. Though some civilizations 426 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: became others were still far more advanced. Other ways, Yeah, like, oh, 427 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 1: you guys have empathy for your women. Although I did 428 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: learn that they had like an odor thing where they 429 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: thought your body odor corresponded with like your your moral 430 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: goodness or something, and your your breath corresponded with your soul. 431 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: So like when I wake up, when I woke up 432 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: this morning, I was like, the barobros would be like, 433 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: she needs to go. Yes, that's something. Um. Also, I 434 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: can't imagine, like it's still nineteen twenties white people going 435 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: out in South America. I can't imagine she was, you know, 436 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: the picture of of empathy and understanding. Yeah. No, I 437 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: mean she was definitely ahead of her time in a 438 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: lot of ways as we're learning, but in this way, 439 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: you're right, she was very much of her time. She 440 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: wrote a nine autobiography um called Call to Adventure and 441 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: This Lady. Tracy Landecker on Aloha wanderweld dot Com wrote 442 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: that it's not always pleasant to read quote. While the 443 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties was an era of ideological and technological growth, 444 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: American exceptionalism and racism were still the order of the 445 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: day for the majority of white people. In most of 446 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: her accounts, Aloha retains the haughty distance of a missionary 447 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: and an imperialist. Never, at any time is that wall penetrated, 448 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: no matter the beauty or the courageous character of the 449 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: cultures that either welcome her or look on her with 450 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: perplexity and sometimes derision. So which is interesting too, because 451 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: it's clearly like other cultures would see her and be like, 452 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: who's this tall white lady? Like right, Yeah, it was 453 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: just culture clash stuff. But yeah, she definitely felt superior 454 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: to the people she was talking to. I think she 455 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: wasn't so shitty that she couldn't charm them and live 456 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: with them and feel a kinship with them and stuff 457 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, she held herself apart in a 458 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: lot of ways as well. So a good point. I mean, 459 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: you know, It's always the challenge with dealing with these 460 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: early twentieth century explorers because their lives are so cool, 461 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: and also like, I don't know if you should be 462 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: doing that right. In fact, that might be why Percy 463 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 1: was never found. Some people say that he got real 464 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: uppity with some locals in South America and like slapped 465 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: him around and they were like, and then he disappeared. 466 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 1: So he's probably got killed because he was being an asshole. 467 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: He's like, it's called a smoking jacket, and we all 468 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: wear them where I come from, and you should too. 469 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: It's uncivilized. And they were like, to kill man. Done 470 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: with this? Oh my god. Well, Walter and Aloha we're 471 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: back in Los Angeles in ninety two after this adventure, 472 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: and they planned to do more trips and more films together. 473 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: Aloha stayed with her sister in Los Angeles cutting together 474 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: a film of their latest adventure, while Walter was working 475 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: on fixing up their hundred and ten foot yacht called 476 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: the Karma. The plan was that they would sail to 477 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: Tahiti and film a voyage around the South Seas. It 478 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 1: was stocked in Long Beach, and he and his two 479 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: wanderwell children lived on the ship. As usual, he put 480 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: out advertisements for young attractive adventurers to join our crew 481 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: at two hundred dollars ahead, and of course there were 482 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: several people either on board the yacht or just ashore 483 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,959 Speaker 1: doing various tasks to prepare for the trips. They show up, 484 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: they pay him the two hundred dollar dues, and then 485 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: they are permitted to do all the work for him. Yes, 486 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: I'll also say a yacht sounds really fancy, but apparently 487 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: authorities at the time said it was about as seaworthy 488 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: as a cardboard box, so they were kind of like, 489 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: you shouldn't go on this trip, but they couldn't really 490 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: do anything about it, And like, I hope he's fixed 491 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 1: the note it seems like a guy who would cut costs. 492 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: He does definitely now. On December five, some of these 493 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: crew members were playing cards on the yacht when a 494 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: man in a light gray trench coat and hat pulled 495 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: down partially to obscure his face, appeared at a porthole 496 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: and asked, Hey, there, can I see Walter Wanda Well please, Well, 497 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: they figured he was just another potential crew member or 498 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: maybe a worker who was called to fix something, so 499 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: they said, yeah, he's back there in his cabin. The 500 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: man walked away, and moments later they heard a gunshot 501 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: and they went running to Walter, only to find him 502 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: dead with a bullet in his back from a thirty 503 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: eight revolver. What there was no trace of the man 504 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: in the great coat. Who done it? We'll find out 505 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: more right after this. Welcome back to the show. Everyone. 506 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: There's a murder afoot there, sure is. Walter was shot 507 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: in the back and the police were a little stumped 508 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: because thanks to Walter's shady dealings. As Mysterious Universe says quote, 509 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: the list of possible killers with a motive would have 510 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: made Agatha Christie's head spin. It could have included husband's boyfriends, 511 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: jilted women, jilted business partners and agents of a foreign power, 512 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: rogue police, and Aloha herself. Check check check check. They're like, motive, motive, motive, motive, motive. 513 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: Oh the poor Long Beach p D. You're like, we 514 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: do not have the manpower to go down this list 515 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: of aspects, like there are a hundred and twenty local 516 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: sess specs and over fourteen thousand across the world. Now 517 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: Aloha is a suspect because even though they had definitely 518 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: planned to take another trip together. Their marriage was on 519 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: the rocks by this time, mostly due to Walter's philandering, 520 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: because he was always getting it wherever he went, wherever 521 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,479 Speaker 1: he went, and a few days before the murder, Walter 522 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: had the crew searching for his thirty eight Revolver, which 523 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: he said had disappeared from his supply supplies Aloha had 524 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: access to. Aloha also did not react to his death 525 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: the way that people expected. She's a little detached kind 526 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 1: of no, you know, she didn't like start screaming and 527 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: crying and grief for anything. Instead, she just immediately asked 528 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: about her kids, and they were not only just buying, 529 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: they had slept through the whole thing. And after that 530 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,479 Speaker 1: she just kind of withdrew into herself. Aloha wanderwell dot 531 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: Com writes that she quote lapsed into a state of 532 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: glittery immobility, which was to earned her the name of 533 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: the Rhinestone Widow. I mean, she didn't react to his 534 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: death the way people expected. I'm not really expecting much 535 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: of a reaction at all. I'm like, well, first of all, 536 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: he sucks what he She's like, ah ha, sure somebody 537 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: killed him and took him took him so long. Not 538 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: very surprising, No, not at all. You know, she's like, 539 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: okay whatever. Or also if she's like lapsing into a 540 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: state of glittery immobility, I think that's also a sign 541 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: of grief for shock, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, and its 542 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: own way. I mean, but I'm always lapsing into glittery immobility. 543 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: It is what people say about you, the most glittery 544 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: and immobile. But the police really felt that they had 545 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: found their Well Guy when they heard about William James Guy. 546 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: Crew members who had spoken to the mysterious man in 547 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: the porthole said he had a slight act scent and 548 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: William Guy was either Welsh or Australian. He also owned 549 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: a light great trench coat and a hat. But the 550 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: most damning evidence against him was motive because a year 551 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: or so before the murder, William Guy and his wife Vera, 552 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: along with another woman, had been in Buenos Aires and 553 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: saw an advertisement for English and Spanish speakers to join 554 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: the wander Wells Latest Expedition. So they answered it. They said, 555 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: sounds great, that's us, let's do it. And William had 556 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: to pay the two d dollar feet to get the 557 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: three of them on board, and he told the police quote, 558 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: I didn't like wander Well from the beginning, or no, 559 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: he's Welsh or Australian. He told the police quote, I 560 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: didn't like Wanda Well from the beginning. He was a 561 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: disagreeable and pettyman, a regular dictator, likes to be called 562 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: the little admiral, all that sort of thing. He worked 563 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: us like dogs. We were principally fed on beans. That's 564 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: enough for anyone to it, not two Viking cruise beans here, 565 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: you know. Well, totally fed up, William Guy had gone 566 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: to Walter and demanded better conditions, but Walter called this 567 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 1: an attempted mutiny, and he docked the ship and left 568 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: William Guy, his wife, and their friend on the beach. Dang. 569 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 1: William Guy told the police quote, where you were absolutely stranded, 570 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: now money to get anywhere. Finally I arranged for a 571 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,320 Speaker 1: steamship company to take the new girls back to England, 572 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: which was the address on their passports, and I set 573 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: out on foot to Nicaragua. I haven't seen my wife since, 574 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: and I haven't seen the money I gave wander Well. 575 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:48,399 Speaker 1: Just sometimes I'm a little more Cockney than Australia. Well, 576 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: it's a mysterious accent. William Guy. No one was quite 577 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: sure where he's from. So yeah, this William Guy guy 578 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: had plenty of reasons to kill Walter, so he was 579 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,879 Speaker 1: formally charged for the murder and he was put on trial. 580 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: That's literally what the headlines are. It's so funny, they're 581 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:13,239 Speaker 1: like guy indicted. But there were a few problems with 582 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: William Guy being the murderer. One was that Walter, after 583 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: he was shot, was found with six hundred dollars in 584 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: his pocket, so that kind of ruled out robbery or 585 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: money as the motive, although you know, he shot a 586 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: guy while there were definitely people nearby, so maybe just 587 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: didn't have time to like roll his the pot go 588 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,399 Speaker 1: through his truck before he had to run off. Who knows, 589 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 1: but they're kind of like clearly that wasn't the reason 590 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,280 Speaker 1: he was here. Um. The other problem was that William 591 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: Guy was able to produce six witnesses, putting him at 592 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: a friend's house thirty miles away when the shooting happens. 593 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 1: Pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty tough to get over, so 594 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 1: he was acquitted. Um. The only other suspect named by 595 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 1: police was Lord Edward Montague, who was the second son 596 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: of the ninth Duke of Manchest and his dad was 597 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: a spendthrift who exhausted the family fortune, so Edward became 598 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: a world traveler himself. He gravitated to America, where, according 599 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: to Michael Newton's Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes quote, he lived 600 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,360 Speaker 1: at various times as a taxi driver, hot dog vendor, 601 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,840 Speaker 1: private in the U. S. Army, a hobo drifter, and 602 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: a seagoing deckhand. What a life to go from being 603 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 1: a duke's son a hot dog vendor. Pretty interesting. That's 604 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: like Prince Harry to be a hot dog vendor. I heard, 605 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him hock and hot dogs. 606 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 1: Flenty of people would would want his sausage. I heard 607 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: it was all frost bitten. You're right, maybe they don't 608 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 1: want it anymore. The main evidence against Edward Montague was 609 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 1: that he owned a thirty eight revolver that he had 610 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,239 Speaker 1: lent to a friend, and then the friend had then 611 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: lent it to a third guy, so nobody was aware 612 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: of where it was anymore. And they were like, so, 613 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: you might have had some to it with that murder weapon, 614 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: but otherwise it really wasn't anything to pin on him, 615 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 1: so he was never even formally charged. So the murder 616 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: of Walter Wanderwell is still unsolved to this day, and 617 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: they never found his revolver either. What you hear that 618 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:22,240 Speaker 1: super sleuths get out there past? Yeah? Yes, Aloha. Meanwhile, 619 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 1: she was left with only fifteen hundred dollars to support 620 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:30,160 Speaker 1: herself and her two kids, so she memorialized Walter in 621 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: the most appropriate way she could think of for him. 622 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 1: She used the scandal around his death and murder trial 623 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 1: as publicity for their latest film, River of Death. Now 624 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: that didn't help with the folks who thought that she 625 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 1: was the murderer, but Aloha didn't care. She needed the money, 626 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,720 Speaker 1: so she got back on the road, touring America, screening 627 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: her movies, doing lectures, everything she used to do with 628 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,879 Speaker 1: her husband. And then in nineteen thirty three, she met 629 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,879 Speaker 1: another Walter, Walter Nicholas Baker. This guy was eighteen years 630 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,719 Speaker 1: old and he was working as a gas station attendant 631 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,360 Speaker 1: and Laramie, Wyoming when he met Aloha, and he joined 632 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,120 Speaker 1: her crew as a driver and a mechanic. He was 633 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,720 Speaker 1: eight years younger than her, but sparks were flying, spark 634 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: plugs were flying, and They married only two months later, 635 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 1: and they toured the world together. They made films from 636 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,759 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three until nineteen thirty nine, when, of course, 637 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,760 Speaker 1: World War Two started and kind of made international travel 638 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 1: pretty impossible. But in ninety they also documented a wild 639 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,959 Speaker 1: horse round up in the Red Desert of Wyoming called 640 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 1: Explorers of the Purple Stage, and ultimately, by the end 641 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 1: of her life, Aloha traveled over five hundred thousand miles 642 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: through six continents and eighty countries. A long way from 643 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,399 Speaker 1: that convent. She made over a dozen films, She wrote 644 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: two books, She worked as a journalist and radio operator. 645 00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 1: She just did a whole bunch of cool ship and 646 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,839 Speaker 1: she and Walter Baker settled in Newport Beach. She gave 647 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,880 Speaker 1: her last lecture in nineteen two. Apparently she asked the 648 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 1: crowd like, how did y'all get here? And they were 649 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 1: like car and plane, and She's like, let me show 650 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: you what that was like. Walter Baker died in They 651 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 1: had been together for over sixty years at that point, 652 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: and Aloha followed a year later in having more than 653 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: earned her nickname of the world's most traveled girl. Amazing, 654 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 1: I want to this is another person I would just 655 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,279 Speaker 1: love to be on the next go round. Yeah right, 656 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, not without her struggles, But jeez, 657 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: I think it balanced out. She got to do the 658 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: coolest stuff ever, um, you know, minus the racism. Yeah 659 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,000 Speaker 1: well yeah, imperialism and all that stuff. Not have that part. 660 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 1: But I do admire her for being willing to put 661 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 1: up with all this stuff. I mean, she was really 662 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 1: uncomfortable and cold and hot and starving and thirsty and 663 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,680 Speaker 1: covered in mud and who knows, you know, just immortal 664 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,440 Speaker 1: danger many times, and she's just like all of it 665 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: was a dream. I loved it. I loved every minute. Yeah, 666 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think that's go into those 667 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,960 Speaker 1: situations the you know, you hear about a lot of that, 668 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: the horror stories and the near death experiences and all that, 669 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: But what's the opposite of that that you're getting as well? Right, 670 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,400 Speaker 1: it must balance out because if you're in those extreme situations, 671 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,200 Speaker 1: the highs have got to be you know, as intense 672 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,880 Speaker 1: as the lows, if not more so. Well, and I 673 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 1: think it just says something about her, like the type 674 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,120 Speaker 1: of travel she wanted to do. She wasn't just a 675 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:44,759 Speaker 1: travel enthusiast, she was an explorer because there's people who 676 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,279 Speaker 1: like to travel at this time, but they wanted to 677 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,839 Speaker 1: take like the Titanic to England, you know what I mean. 678 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,040 Speaker 1: They wanted to be comfortable the whole time. She liked 679 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 1: the ads she read because it was like, you're going 680 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,480 Speaker 1: to rough it incasion, and you're going to be in 681 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 1: places that people don't go, and that's I think what 682 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,440 Speaker 1: was the real attraction. And I think that makes her 683 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,920 Speaker 1: really unique, especially in her time, especially as a sixteen 684 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,400 Speaker 1: year old, She's like, please make me uncomfortable for a 685 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 1: very long time, right, because there was even another woman, 686 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 1: right who also drove across the world. Yes, um, the 687 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,800 Speaker 1: first woman to circumnavigate the world in an automobile was 688 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 1: Harriet White Fisher in nineteen o nine. But she used 689 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,879 Speaker 1: a chauffeurs. She did not drive herself. She was sitting 690 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,360 Speaker 1: on a silk cushion the whole time. Probably, alright, Hattie, 691 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: you did something. Someone sitting right next to her with 692 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 1: a fan seeded her grapes the whole time. Speculation stage, speculation, stage, 693 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. She probably was also pretty tough, but right, 694 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure she wasn't fixing flat tires herself. No, that's 695 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,600 Speaker 1: again Yeah, just that's why they give a little how 696 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: this honorific because she drove the car. She wanted to 697 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,279 Speaker 1: get her hands. Yeah, she and she, I mean she's 698 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,360 Speaker 1: crushing bananas and stuff like she's doing all kinds of 699 00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,239 Speaker 1: crazy ship and yeah. Her films are still really important today. 700 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,040 Speaker 1: You can watch a lot of them online as well 701 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 1: as you're interested. But hark around the Greats dot Com 702 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 1: says that her footage of the taj Mahal and the 703 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:14,200 Speaker 1: Ganges River in six dazzles to this day. They say, 704 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,719 Speaker 1: quote she gives viewers a sense of the scope and 705 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:21,360 Speaker 1: scale of the taj Mahal, displaying the building from unfamiliar vantages. 706 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:26,799 Speaker 1: And she and Walter Baker also visited like New Zealand, Hawaii, Cambodia. 707 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,359 Speaker 1: I want to see that taj Mahal footage we've got. 708 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,000 Speaker 1: Don't worry. All the tash Mahal is on the list. 709 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,279 Speaker 1: It is so we are going to tell that story 710 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,840 Speaker 1: of Shah Jahan, But I want to do that episode 711 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,160 Speaker 1: at the taj Mahal. So let's start a little go 712 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,799 Speaker 1: fund me and see if we can't get out there 713 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:49,040 Speaker 1: and record that episode on site. Wouldn't that be never happened, Well, 714 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:53,360 Speaker 1: we'll record it before then. Oh and this guy Captain 715 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,160 Speaker 1: Wanderwell here, like, what a character, Yeah, what a wacko. 716 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,800 Speaker 1: He seems like the kind of guy that could only exist. 717 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 1: But if he was alive today, he would still be 718 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,440 Speaker 1: a grifter. It would just be different. It would be 719 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,920 Speaker 1: different and probably really annoying. You think he'd be like 720 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:16,200 Speaker 1: a scam artist on those dating apps or anything like 721 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,799 Speaker 1: that like that. Yeah, I was like, oh, he kind 722 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,120 Speaker 1: of it was like a cult of personality sort of 723 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,759 Speaker 1: person So maybe he'd just have a podcast. But now 724 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,680 Speaker 1: he'd be he'd have a pyramid scheme. Yeah, you're right. Maybe, 725 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,600 Speaker 1: like you buy into this and then you can do 726 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,719 Speaker 1: all the work for me. That's right, You're still right. 727 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,120 Speaker 1: He would have like leggings or vitamins or something. Captain 728 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:43,480 Speaker 1: wander wells leggings. You could wander Well in Wanda Well leggings. Hey, 729 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,040 Speaker 1: you already we should do this pyramid schemes all right, 730 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,200 Speaker 1: but it wants to buy into our pyramid scheme. Wink 731 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 1: wink wink. Then please send to Dick Romance at gmail 732 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,720 Speaker 1: dot com. Send us anything ever, Dick Romance at gmail 733 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,799 Speaker 1: dot com. We would love to hear your thoughts. Yeah, 734 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,840 Speaker 1: episode on any episode on suggestions for new episodes, just 735 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,360 Speaker 1: reach out. Yeah. You can also find us on social media. 736 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,759 Speaker 1: I'm at Dyanamite Boom on Twitter and Instagram, that's right, 737 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,200 Speaker 1: and I'm at Oh Great it's Eli there as well, 738 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,360 Speaker 1: and the show is at ridicul Romance. Don't forget to 739 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 1: follow us on TikTok as well, where you can find 740 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,239 Speaker 1: little video clips we're doing and summaries of episodes. That's 741 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,319 Speaker 1: at Ridiculous Romance on TikTok. So hopefully loved it as 742 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,520 Speaker 1: much as we did, and we will catch you next 743 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,879 Speaker 1: time with another amazing ridiculous romance. That's right. By bye, 744 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 1: so long friends, it's time to go. Thanks so listening 745 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,640 Speaker 1: to our show. 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