WEBVTT - A Household Name: Candido and Company 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.760 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.320 Saren Yoh, Elizabeth Duddon, Hey, what's up? 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:07.720 Please keep it down? 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:08.440 Oh? Sorry? 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:09.600 Why are we whispering? 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:10.039 I don't know. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.200 Hold on, let me look. Okay, it's clear, let's go. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:13.160 We're good. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:14.280 Oh, thank god. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:14.400 I know. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.200 Okay, so listen. Yeah, do you know what's ridiculous? 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:17.479 Oh? 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.240 Yes, Oh, sit back down. Yes, yeah, you start whispering. Okay, listen, ready. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:22.960 Yeah, I'm ready. 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.920 Harlem Globetrotters. Okay, they're not ridiculous at all. Okay, yeah. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.400 Pope John Paul the Second No, also not ridiculous. But 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:33.879 do you know they were on the same team. No, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.080 and by that I mean literally, Pope John Paul the 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.320 Second was an honorary Harlem Globetrotter. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.160 Oh yes, And. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.000 He met them in Saint Peter's Square on October first, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.000 nineteen eighty six. The meeting went so well that fourteen 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.120 years later, the second time they met, they showed up 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.800 and they presented him with an autographed basketball and a 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.160 jersey of his own with his name on it, number 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:59.000 seventy five in honor of the Globetrotter's seventy fifth anniversary, 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.720 and they said the quote they were making him giving 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.800 him a new title, one befitting the man, and they said, quote, 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.959 this prestigious title recognizes an individual of extraordinary character and 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.120 achievement who's made an everlasting mark on the world. So yeah, 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.679 they said that similar to the Pope, the Globetrotters have 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.560 touched tens of millions of people around the world as 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.400 moral leaders and champions of human rights. I shouldn't have 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.039 paused so much pause kind of mass that up, but 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.120 you know what I'm saying. Anyway, John Paul too was 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.600 an honorary Globetrotter and also a saint. So the Harlem 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.240 Globetrotters have a saint on their team. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.800 That's amazing. Do you like do you think he ever 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:36.640 put the jersey on? 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:43.400 I think he played that night in it skills with exactly. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.480 Do you think it's like in a museum or is 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:47.800 it in a box somewhere? 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:48.400 Oh? 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.640 I bet Benedict had it burned. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.720 Pope Benedict, He's like burned this probably that's what the 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.840 smoke was when he got elected with he was the 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.320 seventh person to be an honorary Globe trot So there's 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.200 not a lot of them Oh yeah, he's like, they're 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:04.160 seventh man. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:05.720 Oh, I'm going to look up and see who the 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.919 others are. Okay, okay, so that is ridiculous. Do you 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:11.000 know what else is ridiculous? 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.120 No, that's right. I came here to ask you. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.440 Having your name become a word in the dictionary because 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:17.280 of something you did. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:38.320 Oh my dream. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.880 This is ridiculous. Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.200 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:51.359 one hundred percent ridiculous. Okay, I was waiting for that. Saren, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.120 you're a bath guy, right, yeah. I think we've talked. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.639 About bad bath and beyond. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.200 Baby, what is your ideal bath? 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:58.040 Like? 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:59.840 It's like, what do you mean, like the bathtub or 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.840 like the type of bath? Just walk me, walk you 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:04.960 through my favorite bath. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:06.839 Okay? So there? 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.640 Am I a bubbles or no bubbles person, Elizabeth, No surprise, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:10.520 I'm a bubbles person. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.160 Oh you are? 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.480 Yeah? Oh yeah, you gotta have some bubbles. Why not? 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:18.399 You're doing it, beat deck and enjoy it, luxuriate. So yes, bubbles, yes, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.160 bath bomb maybe if I'm in the mood, but probably not. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.359 Sometimes the salts. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.239 If my muscles are aching, but maybe I'm gonna baby 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.560 drop in a little Doctor Bronner's, you know, just get 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.240 a little that pepper mints feel. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.200 I like that one. That's always a nice one. And 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:33.480 then I want the temperature of. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.200 The water to be extremely hot, so hot that it's 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.200 like one of those Japanese baths. But they do it 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.720 with fire, so that's really nice because it doesn't then 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.360 tickle the skin. I've here, but my bass, they tickle 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:44.680 the skin like it makes the skin itch. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.040 It's like, oh my god, this is like it's like red. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:47.880 You're like red. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.760 Yes, I want to look like a like a silkwood shower. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.600 That's what I'm going for. So then I sit in 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.640 there for like thirty forty minutes, and I wear I 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.840 wear my reading glasses, and I bring a phone and 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.600 I read the day's news, the day's events, my email. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.320 I catch up with friends. It's awesome. Sometimes I bring 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.120 a slice of cake in there if I want I relax, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.240 like you want me to keep going on. I can 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.080 tell you about the drinks, like tell you, but the music. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.960 I like candles. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.440 Do you have like duckies? 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.440 No, no floaties, nothing that I'm breaking. I'm not bringing 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.000 anything anything into the water. But I have I have 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.120 I like I will admit when I was like a 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.599 very young bachelor and I was bathing, I would sometimes 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.480 bring a beer or two into the bathtub and then 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.560 I would float the empties in the water. So it 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.440 looks like I meant the beginning of like a movie, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.320 like like Smoking the Band at two, it's like a 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.760 really depressing part of the movie. Yes, exactly, it's like, Oh, 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.080 we're at the park before his life. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:38.800 It's better. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.200 For You're a bad guy. That's great, that's cool for you. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.839 Do you like bads? You also? Do you like Italian culture? Italy? Italians? 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:50.479 Never heard of it? 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.680 Okay, I like Italy and Italian culture and Italians. I 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.479 think we've talked about that before. You like planes, right, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.560 I love them. You said you've always. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.640 Wanted to learn to fl I always wanted to learn 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.599 to fly. I'm against helicopters, but I love. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.240 Planes, right, and so aviation it thrills you the most. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.159 And we've talked about that. Yes, I really love talking 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.479 about the San Francisco Bay Area. Yes you did, and 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:11.640 I've done that to death. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.560 Anders I don't care and. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.520 I won't stop. I love Bay Area history and culture. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.279 It's in Memmisota. No, And anytime I can tell a 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:20.000 Bay Area. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.039 Story, I will, Yes, you will. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.320 I am annoying that way, Dave, Dave, you love a 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.000 good immigrant story for sure? Yeah, Hell, who doesn't. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:28.640 Who doesn't. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.440 We need people coming to the US. And we've talked 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.280 about that before. So I have a good one for 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:33.720 us today. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:34.880 Sounds like that you're hitting all the bums. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.360 It's something for everyone. Come on, It's something we haven't 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.160 talked about yet. Though. Oh what if I just started 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.279 repeating all the old ones. I want to tell you 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.279 the story of a family. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.520 We could just tell each other's the ones that you've done. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:48.279 I'll tell you that. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.520 Time when you were talking about Yeah, I'm. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:51.480 Gonna tell the one you did, but I'm gonna do 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:52.400 it funnier, faster. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.600 So this is the story of a family. A family 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.800 that's scrappy and sharp, big dreams, bigger work at a 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.799 family that sticks together through thick and thin until they don't. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.680 I'm going to warn you that this story has more 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:08.640 history than crime. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.520 Okay, just coming in up top, Just indulge me. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.240 I was looking into this and I was so taken 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.000 with the story of this family that I figured, I 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:16.760 just make it work. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:18.320 I'm so curious. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.560 So this is the story of Giovanni and his wife Teresa. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.880 He was the patriarch of a large family in Casarsa 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:26.760 de la Delicia. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.840 Is this badonna's father, That's why they only have first name. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.680 Yes, everyone only has first names. So this Cassara de 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.840 la Delicia. It's a farming community in northern Italy, northeast 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.560 of Venice, northwest of Trieste. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:40.040 Yeah. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.240 So it's an idyllic setting, very nice, gently rolling hills, vineyards. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.760 There's a beautiful church in town. As you can probably guess, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.000 I went a Google street viewing and I want to 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:50.360 go there. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:51.119 How was your tour? 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.880 It was fantastic. So it's this lovely little Italian village. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.760 But it had some issues at the turn of the 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.719 twentieth century when Giovanni and his family lived there. Jack poverty. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:01.800 Oh that is an issue. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.960 Yea, not so great. So Giovanni he was a carpenter. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.159 He was a very hard worker who came from a 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.880 long line of farmers and dog workers. Teresa kept a 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:15.880 tidy and efficient home. Giovanni and Teresa had thirteen children. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.960 Oh yeah, she was blown out, so they kept that 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:19.520 bed warm. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:26.840 Yeah, yeah, Rakaylee was one Valeriano Francesco. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.840 What do people do before there was radio and TV? 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:38.480 Well, we know now, thirteen kids Giuseppe, Gillian though, Jacondo, Felicita, Angelina, Anquila, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:45.200 Candie though, Chilila, any cosmos stella nice, Jilia nice. Yeah, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.760 those are thirteen kids. So money was obviously tight. I 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.360 mean you have to feed fifteen people. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:51.880 Yeah, they're feeding two basketball teams. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.320 Basically, Giovanni and Teresa they wanted their children to succeed, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.640 to have all the things that the world had to offer. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.120 So the boys they studied to become engineers, the girls 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.400 trained to be seamstresses. Yeah, all right, it's nineteen oh seven. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:07.360 Yeah, it makes perfect sense. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.000 Europe is changing, the whole modernizing. Yeah, the whole world's changing. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.640 Giovanni he felt war coming. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:14.640 Yea, the Empires are about to follow. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.600 Well oh yeah, and he didn't want to lose his 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.680 sons in battle, so he came up with a plan. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.560 He decided to take his sons and move to the 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:22.320 United States. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:24.000 Good plan, imagine. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.400 Common plan at that time. It's in small group after 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.520 small group, they scattered out in the American West. They 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.000 spoke only a little bit of English, and some went 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.480 to Idaho, others went to my home state, California, La 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.360 San Francisco. They worked any job that they could. Paolo 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.439 whose great grandson of Giovanni, He said, quote, they dug ditches, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.320 built railroads, did everything they could to make a buck 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.160 and send it back to Italy and try to get 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.040 the rest of the family over. So these are just hard, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.760 hard workers. Slowly but surely that's what they did. They 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.600 got everyone over. The first wave of the family came 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.880 in nineteen oh seven, nineteen twenty. The whole family was here, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.520 dribs and drabs. Don't forget the brothers had all studied 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.120 mechanical engineering. So while they may have been picking oranges 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.640 or stocking warehouses to get by, they were saving the 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.160 money that they made to start a business. In nineteen fifteen, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.920 they opened a machine shop in Berkeley, California. Oh wow, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.720 right on San Pablo Avenue, the wide boulevard that cuts 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.079 its way across the East Bay. You know, the building 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.719 is still there, It still stands. It's currently a kind 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.319 of posh furniture store called Fenton McLaren one. Yeah. Anyway, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.520 back in the day they made airplane propellers there. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:35.199 Oh cool. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.720 Yeah, one of the sends Rik Kaylee. He was super 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:39.800 geeked on flying in. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.400 Those big wooden airplane Okay, yeah, these. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.960 Were like nineteen fifteen, so Rik Kayley Aviation super into it. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.800 He'd worked as a mechanic for James McDonald of McDonald Douglass, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.679 so he was working for him checking out planes at 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.559 the nineteen fifteen Panama Pacific World's Fair in San Francisco. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.719 So he studied planes. He was constant looking for a 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.680 way to improve upon this new technology. He invented a 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.880 lightweight propeller with a windward pitch that was called a 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.400 toothpick propeller, and it was new, no one was doing it. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.200 It was super efficient. It caught the eye of the government, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.760 and the US Army Air Corps made it their standard equipment. Right. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:22.440 Charles Lindberg used it good on this feature instrumental in 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.160 the US air presence in World War One. If you 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.400 want to go look at it, it's on permanent display 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.040 in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.280 So basically he's the one who took the propeller and candidate. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.280 Yeah. So with that cool invention getting them attention, the brothers, 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.960 they worked together to come up with something else, another improvement. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:44.160 They designed the first fully enclosed high wing monoplane built 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.960 and flown in the United States, the J seven. So 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.240 before this, pilots are just out there whipping around in 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:53.160 the wind, ye scarf sedance, and now they're inside a 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:58.679 cabin fully enclosed. So the plane exactly. The plane weighed 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.320 eighteen hundred pounds, was a bigin It cost a fortune 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.079 to build. The whole family worked on it, all seven 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.880 brothers plus the wives and the sisters. They stitched together 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.520 the canvas to cover the wing frames, so it was 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.640 a huge family effort. The plane also had a ton 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.880 of successful flights, which was a serious accomplishment in the 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.240 early days of eighties. Yeah, they flew it in and 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.120 out of the Bay Area. And then they had an 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.760 idea a way to recoup the money that they'd poured 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.640 into this thing. So passenger service was their idea. Plus 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.480 maybe work as a mail plane. So they angled to 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.640 get a contract with the US Postal Service and they 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.280 started going on runs. They did a test flight from 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.680 San Francisco to Reno, Nevada for the Post Office and 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.080 it went well. Around the time that they're getting ready 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.000 to sign this contract with the Postal Service. They decided 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.280 to do another trial run. This time they were going 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.800 to take passengers out to Yosemite because they felt like 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.679 this is that, you know, people are getting more into 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.920 a tourist run exactly, and more and more people from 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:56.960 the Bay Area wanted to. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.800 Rich want to go, and they can afford the tickets right. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.240 So for this daring mission, they got a twenty three 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.120 year old hot shot named Harold Bud Coffee to fly 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:05.640 the plane. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.160 Bud Coffee, Bud Coffee. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.240 He was from Modesto, California, lovely town in the Central Valley. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.000 He was seasoned and confident, twenty three years old. He 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.360 was Bud Coffee Man. This isn't the greatest. So he 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.240 was a second lieutenant or lieutenant as they say across 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.560 I love thinking in the Army Air Service and he'd 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.520 been an aviation instructor in San Diego and then he 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:31.760 got into commercial aviation. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.400 He's twenty three years old. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.040 He made the first ever passenger flight into Stockton, California. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.160 Oh that's right there, first one to fly to that city. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.960 He was the first to land at the Feather River 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.120 Inn in Lake Tahoe. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.320 He was it was Bud coffee. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.199 He flew in a record time of over twelve hours 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.960 from Laramie, Wyoming, to San Francisco to relay photos of 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.440 the celebrated Jack Dempsey George Carpentier boxing match. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.320 It was that bud coffee that but okay. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.440 Legends three years old. So on this inaugural flight to 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:12.800 Yosemite was aviation writer John Kakke, machine shop plant technician 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.120 Archibald Duncan. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.240 McLeish Archie, McLeish. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.760 Archie, McLeish. Jacondo, whose brother Raka was the one who 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.000 designed the plan. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.080 The second oldest, I think so, yeah, one of the oldest. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.920 Yeah, so Riquella he's the oldest, and then Jacondo's like 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.480 third maybe anyway, So those are the other people and 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.079 four on the on the plane up up. They flew 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.920 over the California Central Valley on their way to beautiful 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.199 Yosemite Wild one of my favorite places, by the way, Yes, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:41.839 it's been a while since I've been there because it's 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:42.679 two blasted crowded. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.800 You know. One of my favorite places is the sky right, 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:46.640 not the. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.640 Same for me. You could not go in a small 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:53.320 plane anyway. I miss you with yes smite uh So 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:59.520 July twelfth, the plane, piloted by Bud Coffee, landed in 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.719 a meadow in front of El Capitan, incredible mountain in 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:07.480 the pasta you're talking about, Yeah, exactly. Park officials and visitors, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.440 they all came out to marvel at the machine. Coffee 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.679 and a bunch of the mechanics did a comprehensive one 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.080 over on the plane to make sure it was in 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.280 good shape to fly back. Two days later, dudes get 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.480 back on the plane. They cruised back to the Bay Area. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.240 They're going to make a pit stop in Coffee's hometown 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.600 of Modesto. He actually just wanted to see his girlfriend. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.480 He totally so, Like, he swoops down the roar the 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.880 engine over the town brings this people all outside to 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.600 see this amazing plane because it's a big deal. He's 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.200 waves and then tragedy struck. Oh no, yeah, stop laughing. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.040 The left wing came off and the fuselage fell to 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:41.400 the ground. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:41.840 Oh god. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.760 Oh yeah. So some thought that Coffee tried an acrobatic 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.400 maneuver that went wrong, like maybe he hit an air 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.960 pocket or something. Investigators blamed a flaw in the design 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.680 of the plane. It was too heavy and imbalanced, like 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.160 apparently the radiator was all big out in the front 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.280 like who knows there were no survivors. News of the 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.040 crash took up the entire front page of the Modesto 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.440 b newspaper and including like gruesome photos, it's horrible at 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.440 different times. I suppose no discretion. So anyway, despite the 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.400 family living in Berkeley, Jacondo was buried in Modesto. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.360 Also, I think back then just about the newspapers, they 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.760 generally knew and experienced more horrors. Oh so what was 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.120 what a horror was was very different for them, totally. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.120 Yeah, people were not sheltered from things. So Jacondo, he's 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.400 buried in Modesto. His grave marker said he was quote 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.920 a martyr of the aviation, loved science, music, and pictorial art. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:40.480 His motto was Koele navigari necessit est and in flying 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.440 high over the mountains and valleys, he constantly demonstrated how 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.000 man is able to conquer the air. His name and 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.600 work shall remain forever. So the Latin phrase translates to 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.480 we have to sail, we do not have to live. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.000 Hey. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:16:00.320 Anyway, obviously the families devastated. Teresa, the matriarch of the family, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.320 she put her foot down no more planes. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:02.960 Oh that's it. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:04.120 That's it. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:05.920 That was the last one of us going up in 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:06.200 the sky. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.480 Costa no more. So it wasn't too bad of an idea. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:15.480 I mean, she'd lost her son, that's enough reason not 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.560 But they were also you know, they're swimming in debt 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.520 with this. Ava got the trauma of oh yeah. But 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.280 then and they had the heat on them that there's 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.480 thinking that like, this wasn't designed very well. So they 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.760 had all this attention, but they didn't have money from it, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.480 and they obviously didn't get that USPS contract. So the 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.200 family ended their aviation company and moved on. What they 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.920 did next would change everything. It would change the career 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.320 and life trajectory of every single family member. It would 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:49.120 revolutionize homes and healthcare. It would create something iconic. It 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.160 would make their surname a household name, something known in 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.600 the world over. Let's take a break, so curious. When 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.720 we come back, I'll tell you that last name, and 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:22.000 I'll start getting to an actual crime. Zaren Elizabeth, let 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:26.280 me continue telling you this tale. I'm sure, okay, So 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.760 I'm telling you the story of Giovanni and Teresa and 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.840 their thirteen kids. They moved from Italy to the US, 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:37.520 specifically California, extra specifically to Berkeley. I love Berkeley. So 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.040 this family started an aviation business in which every single 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.399 member of the family had a job, but the wild 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.840 Blue Yonder claimed one of the boys, so the family 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.240 shut down operations. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:49.720 More family business. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.639 There's no way they could go on. They had to 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.199 come up with a new business and that was It 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.000 wasn't really a problem since the entire family was super 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.480 clever and inventive. I mean, they came up with a 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.760 new plane, they came up with a new propeller. Sure, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:06.480 their minds just automatically assessed mechanical situations, broke them down, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.560 figured out how to build them back better, and innovators 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:10.120 the whole bunch. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:11.520 Then they invented the monorail. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.920 It was so amazing. So no, they there were stumbles. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.280 And more track guessing who they are going. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.000 So Rickela in nineteen thirty seven, he was only fifty 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.000 years old, he died of a massive heart attack. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:23.480 Wow. 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.560 So Giuseppe took over the family business for a little while, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.480 and then finally Candido, the youngest son, he took over 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.560 and that was a new era. So this time they 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.240 stayed on the ground, and they innovated the water pump 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.440 game water pump. So just as their aviation timing was 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.280 pretty good, their move into water pumps was equally fortuitous. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.080 They invented the dental pick. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:51.840 Yes, so agriculture in California booming at all ways. More 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.520 people meant more food was needed, more land had to 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.879 be put to absolute optimum use. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.919 Before Ellen's Valley, So it's like a different water system. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.600 So they came up with irrigation systems for orchards, and 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.800 then they also developed a line of deep well injector pumps, 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.560