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Saving approximately five million lives. That's what I'm saying. I have it. I'm almost certain.
And polio could be next. I have polio. My left leg. It's sore.
It's over. I can't move it. Literally sore because it came from vacation. Over eight percent of the world's showing immunizing.
And the polio virus has been caught by 400,000. Niles, my little next. That's another thing that I have. You don't have measles, Ron.
The spots on my face. Those are sun spots, Ron. I can't say a major human disease is under control. Smallpox.
I have smallpox. I have smallpox. I have smallpox. I have smallpox.
I have smallpox. I have smallpox. I have smallpox. And the theory is one of those things.
You don't have to fear it. My stuff hurts. You can't tell it's your stomach. I can't believe it.
I have a fever. It's yellow. Whooping coles. What does that?
What does that? What does that? What does that? The CDC has just eliminated oily discharges from the vagina.
I have oily discharges from my vagina. Oh, Ron, you make me sick. Everything's going dim. So cold.
So cold. I have a fever. And the man who puts the bum in beach bum, he who is freshly vacated, the sanitiest guy I know, O'Krusty Bones himself, Ron Blair. You forgot to mention my fantastic tan that I can't have.
It's not as good as Ron. It's not as good as Ron. I wanted to look more like a pirate when I came back. But I am obviously darker right now.
You know, pirates only have one iPad. I don't know why you're wearing two iPad. Because I don't want to see one's head of me now. That's right.
Now the vacation is over. So now that you're back. Nothing to look forward to. Oh, man.
Tell the decades what this podcast is all about. This podcast is about doing it and doing it well. Doing it and doing it and doing it well. That's what it's about.
That's what they say. Alright. So let's not delay this any longer. We're at the favorites question.
And of course today's favorite question is what is your favorite vacation you've taken the last week? Oh my god. I took a vacation last week. It was the greatest week ever.
I'm just glad all our predictions came true. Yeah, absolutely. We made a head time so there's no way we would know. But all those things happen.
All that could have happened. We missed the California. Oh yeah. Sorry California.
We'll see you later. Alright, so let's start with Jeff. I thought you were a vacation you've taken a look. Yes.
Hi, who did not Prag and I'm going out and vacation from the last three podcasts. I had an education to the holiday world. It was the last minute thing. And I've never been to the holiday world and Madeline's friends have been bugging her for years about how she could not have been to the holiday world yet.
Right, so left the road. Just left the road about a two hour drive and so we went up there and spent two days. It's actually a really nice place. We had a really good time.
I've learned a number of things such as, I do not fit in roller coaster seats very well. Yeah, I am too big. We talked about the Kingsley and the Kingsley and the Kingsley and the Kingsley and the one roller coaster I was on may be never want to ride another roller coaster in my life. I'm too old and fat to ride roller coasters.
rollercoaster. It wasn't even it wasn't it wasn't it was legend legend. I like that one. And it's shaking my body and and I got off the feeling like I was lucky not to have a heart attack.
And so I'm done with rollercoaster. I did see Thunderbird where I used to love rollercoasters and that would be a fantastic trip. I'm not doing it. So most most a lot of our time was spent in the water park, it was a far east one.
And I really loved the mammoth water coaster. That was fantastic. Except when the water splashed me in the eye at the very beginning and watched my contact to the side. So I spent the entire ride with my eyes closed trying to be able to see again.
But I enjoyed the ride. It was fantastic. But I came back with blisters on both feet. And very hard to walk and it totally exhausted after only two days.
I love the fact that you can put money on these wristbands and not and rid a locker and put all yourself in and still be able to buy stuff with your wristbands. And so that you don't have to worry about where I'm going to keep my money where I'm going to call it. But we only took the three pictures I posted on Facebook because that was on our way out because we put our phones in the locker room too. And so I was like, oh, yes, I'm sorry.
We're going to do with it. I remember sitting at Lacey River forever. Yeah, that's all right. I did Lacey River and I'm too fat for their fucking interview.
I kept tipping over or when I tried to just have it on my upper body and my feet were dragging on the bottom. Then I was sitting on it. So I was sitting on it and Joe's in hers and holding onto my and I was having to hold my head and shoulders up so that because if I relax my head was dragging in the water and it's like this uncomfortable thing. So it wasn't relaxing at all.
I went around twice and I never got relaxed. I went around more stressed out. No, that's awful. That was my experience.
Put it on your run. Holy shit. Have you done vacation? Yeah, I did a little last week.
So I went to work and then that's all I got to do. Well, good. It's my fucking turn. No, it was ridiculous.
It was the greatest week ever. Ever ever. Oh, okay. I know.
Not just your granny. I've been home for like 14 hours. I give you a break. I'm not going to do that.
I know and you shouldn't. It was fantastic. We took Emily and Jake, the deckheads with us and they had never been on an adult vacation, you know, on their own with our Parental supervision. I like to consider us training wheels.
They have to go into adult life. I think they've both don't need training wheels. I don't know. Vacation stuff.
It's tough between them. If you've never really been on vacation though, it's tough. I don't really done road trips when I was right out of high school. Yeah, on your own.
Well, with some friends. I'll be granted 2005 in May. In the beginning of June, we were there's somebody who wrote about Colorado for two weeks. And they've never done that.
This was their first time. So they had a really good time. They say to the lovely condo in Cocoa Beach, which is really nice. The water's a little murky.
It's a little spooky, but I got in like my chest. I got in much deeper than I should have been. Yeah, yeah. I managed to not get eaten by sharks.
I managed to not even get bitten as far as I know. As far as I know. I think you'd know. However, the first night we were there, just exhausted, I'd had two hours of sleep within a 36 hour period.
Yeah. And we drove straight down there, which was a ludicrous thing to do. And we got there and we went to the, oh, I can't remember the name of it. It was a shark pit.
It was the shark pit restaurant in a Sheridan hotel. And they sent us in front of an aquarium. They had like a shark, a black tip, reef shark, and eels in it and lovely fish. And we just ate my fish and chips in front of...
Mocking rice! So much fish and chips. Scaring them down. What are you going to do, eel?
I'm right here. And that was night one. And then we went to the universal and I could write a book on universal, absolutely. It really is.
It's a fantastic place. I haven't gone in over a decade, but I still have fond memories. I'm sure the change is made. The rides I've ever done existing.
Well, I mean, Jaws is not there. The old King Kong is not there. The old King Kong is not there. The old King Kong is not there.
The old King Kong is not there. The old King Kong is not there. I think ETS. I think ETS is gone.
The future is gone. The future is gone. Everything I've ever gone. The ETS still remains.
And it's still just a magical journey. Oh, it's so good. It's so fun. The Shrek 4D ride.
It's horrible. It's freaking horrible. You ride the Spider-Man one? Fuck yeah.
I remember that twice. Holy God. I remember there was a Men in Black, a little shooter ride. That was...
Men in Black was okay. I could have just... Well, sure. I'm not good at him.
If you put the gun down, it's just a fun ride to take anyway. Was Jerry Tysker still there? Yeah, it was not a leaderboard. It was like suck it bro.
Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. How do you know that?
I saw it. It was right there. But I feel like they allocated the Warner Brothers for Harry Potter rights. Why can they not allocate other films that they want to?
And I thought Ghostbusters would have made a much better shooter ride than Mad Black. The car was there when I went. Was it? It was like a parade in it.
I did not see that. I saw the Blues one. It was like a decade over and a decade ago. Right, right.
But I thought that would have been better. Harry Potter Land is completely immersive and fantastic. And the food at Universal, Good God Almighty. Like if you eat a burger, you're eating a burger from a guy flipping a burger.
But if you go to some of these restaurants, you're going to get a chef-created meal. Really? There's an M-O-S. M-O-S.
M-O-S. M-O-S. M-O-O-S. That is gone out.
But that same kind of thing. Sure. Sure. Yeah, we went the first day we ate at the, I think it was the Three Broom 6 in Dagon Alley.
Yeah. And they feed you until you die. Again, I had the fish and chips there. Because if you're in Florida, you want at least something closer to fresh than what you're used to.
And this seemed very, very fresh, what they were serving. And the last thing we went to a place called Mepo's Diner, which was phenomenal. That was, that's like one of the two nicer restaurants there with table side service. They bring bread and there's a waitress and all that.
And I had the flounder with, it had like a- You're like, I'm like, oh, yeah. I was thinking about it the whole time that I was eating her. But it was lovely. It had mashed potatoes on top of it with a nice white line cream sauce and asparagus over it.
Oh, it was lovely. It was lovely. It was lovely. It was like a pinky down side.
I felt so classy. But the highlight of the entire time at Universal Studios, I could go on about the rides. The rides are fantastic. That would be your ride.
It's my favorite. I could, I could, my fat ass can't even fit in the seat to try the thing. It was so tight. And I wanted to, I was looking at it going, oh, god damn it.
There were four rides I didn't get to ride. And I went in knowing that I probably wouldn't get to ride some of these. The two roller coasters for Harry Potter and Big Roller Coasters could ride those. Well, that's gone.
Okay. But there's a skate from Green Duts. Oh, yeah, that's my part thing. Yes.
And the, oh, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. I can fit on that one. And then the Rip Ride Rocket, which is the scariest looking roller coaster I've ever seen in my life. You rode the Deladuelet Long Flume.
Twice, yes. It's like a million miles tall. It's the best. It's the best.
It's so high. Except the second time we rode, it was at night. I'm all about riding rides at night. They do ride, right, right, right.
Cool. And that one, it's such a good ride. But we got on there and there's a point where one of the logs had stopped. And we bumped into them in the middle of the ride.
And then the people bumped in behind us and they're like really jarred my back. I went, oh, god, that's horrible. And then we're getting on top of the hill and we see them just going down it. And I said, OK, we have to stop.
I'm freaking out for half the ride going. We have to stop right now because we're going to smash into them and we're both going to explode. It's like a 75 foot drop. And you're going this ridiculous speed down this hill.
And I thought it's going to smash us all into tiny pieces if we hit. I was like, you must stop this ride. But anyway, I'm not sure either. Oh, and the Transformers ride.
Not a fan. What? No, Jurassic Park was everything you wanted me. It's so simple.
It's so simple. It's just a dinosaur. And the Mummy returns ride. The Mummy gets a roller coaster indoors and there's Mummy's popping out at you.
And of course, they do holograms so much down there. And that was just amazing, this roller coaster. But the highlight was around 5, 30, 6, 30. The last night we were there.
We were in line for the Popeye Raph Ride. This has been our second time riding it. It's a best Raph Ride. Yeah, best Raph Ride ever ridden it.
The one hobble is actually not that. Yeah, that one's fun. They say it's the longest in the world. I don't think that's true.
I don't know that that's true. I've ridden longer. I'm looking at the puzzle as well. I've heard that's true.
The Popeye one is phenomenal. But we were in line and we thought this might happen. We were in line and it starts storming its ass off outside. So they closed it while we're in line.
And we're indoors, but we're getting wind and rain blown in us from the... It's covered, but you're not surrounded. Right, exactly. And so people start leaving the line.
And there becomes a small group of us. It's like, we're by hell. We're going to do this ride again before we leave. And so the whole ordeal, the whole ordeal, I said two and a half hours almost from the time, because the storm lasted an hour.
And it was lightning and when it's lightning, you can't do it. And they had to drain the whole thing and refill it. Really? Yeah.
So by that time... Damn, he's clean water mix. And this is the beautiful thing. At this point, we were all survivors in a line after everybody else had bailed.
And so there was an African-American couple. They bailed later on, but we bonded with them. We bonded with a lovely Middle Eastern woman who was by herself in a little hijab. And she was very young.
We bonded with her and then a British family from near the border of Scotland. And then at the long part, it was global. I know. I had not social for the most part, but I was in line for a flight of the Hippogriff.
And there was another British couple in front of us. They were from Leastor. And then I met this other couple that was from near the border of Scotland. And when I told them I had met another couple from Leastor, they go, oh, I met someone from Arkansas, isn't it?
Well, they had that reference. Yes, absolutely. So we had cracked me up. So we spent two hours with these people.
We became like this group of people. Talk about what you did in the alphabet. Absolutely. Absolutely.
I had to show one. I had to show one. I had to show one where I used an accent. Would you like to hear it?
Actual British people? No, I never did that. No, I was in front of Melia from somewhere. Right, right.
But there was a point when the line finally started moving after two hours. My family, who had been playing hacky sack and slapping the shit out of each other. We roast each other on vacation some horribly. And we're just kind of rowdy and entertaining, I'd like to think.
And actually, that's the entire reason everyone else left the line. Absolutely. They were like, I don't care if it's stormy. We're going to get away from these people.
Right. So we're cracking people up. And then when the line starts moving, I say, come on, everyone, follow me. My family is like, oh, yeah, we're going to ride.
And this lovely Japanese woman in front of us turns to me and she goes, your family has a lot of energy. That's not wrong. She's not wrong. We're energetic people.
So we finally rode the ride adding the young Middle Eastern woman to our group. And the family had the British family for to our group. So it made 11. They seek 12.
Wow. But when we were in there, we were like, these are our people. We survived this together. And now we're riding together.
And so there was this lovely intercontinental bond that we formed with these people in the survival group at Popeyes. And it was really, it was one of those moments. No, it's these and chicken. It was one of those moments where you went, this is what it's all about.
We're all these nationalities get along together and bonding together over these shared experiences. That was the best thing. So glad you guys have experience. I'm glad you came back.
I'm so happy. Ready to go work. I'm not scared of it. I'm OK.
I'm going to be there for you today. So we're starting up. Get to come back and I'm like, let's do this. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm OK with it. I'm OK going into tomorrow. Speaking of things, we're OK with Jefficence. Let's do it.
Everyone is always OK with Jefficence. They're always OK with Jefficence. OK. All right.
So today, my friends, I've got a lot of paper. I intend to talk. I intend to talk. Jared was bragging about his 22 pages last week.
And then he talked to me about that. He talked to me about that. I have eventually let you have your say. How much?
I think you had a dinging over all this time. I actually have a few pages. Three pages. I know they're most of what I want to get there.
All right. OK. We are going to be talking about a disappearance that happened 81 years ago. OK.
New my mouth. What year is it out? Oh. All right.
20s. 30s, I guess. I mean, 1937. 1937.
Fatty Arbuckle was the king of Hollywood. OK. What was the other Pacific Northwest? No.
So I'm going to read you a poem. Oh, a million-year-old. OK. I'm going to read you a poem.
And then you're going to tell me from this poem, if you can, who we're talking about. OK. A million-year-old was way before what I was just talking about. OK.
Emptyed his old Lorenzo's royal crypt. Breathless now stands the startled Taj Mahal. Amelia lies in the blue manuscript. The sea, true heroine's memorial.
So she achieves, what if the fatal prize be misty tune with Harry Marbles set? Who knows where Desdemona's Kirchif lies? Or where the last word of dark Juliet? A sudden courage plucks us from ourselves.
Bids us to be heroine, though death the price. Wherefore we bed are of many lily shells, the straight defenders of the sacrifice. Count her among the beautiful and brave, her turquoise mausoleum in each wave. That's nice.
This is by Nithalia Crane is the author of this poem. That's a lily-chowling. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. It's a lily-chowling. It's a lily-chowling. Amelia Horst.
I'm sorry. I didn't she disappear on July 24th. No. There's a July 24th somewhere in the Amelia Horst.
There is. Yeah, I was thinking that. She was born on July 24th. She and I shared.
She had either death or birth, and since we don't know that she really died, disappeared. July 24th was the 100 and would have been her 121st birthday. A happy birthday, Amelia. She was very brave.
She was very brave. Okay, she doesn't care. She was very brave lady for doing what she did. All right.
So she was born on Ron's birthday in 1897. Before Ron's birthday when it was still her birthday. Right. In Atcheson, Kansas.
And she disappeared on July 2nd, 1937. 22 days shy of her 40th birthday. 40th birthday. Wow.
She was still a young laugh. Just all July. It's good. It's good for tragedy.
Yeah. Vacation. So Amelia was the first woman to be acknowledged as a pilot first and a woman second. She recognized as a pilot.
And atcheson. She was well respected. One of my favorite musicals we're talking about four is Comfortable Way. Yeah.
And there's an entire song about a female pilot. Yeah, I love that song. Me and the sky. So you were talking about Lindbergh.
Well, much was made at the time about how Amelia and Carl Lindbergh resembled each other. Huh. They look very much alike. And neither of them.
I'm sure. I'm sure of them. I appreciate it. The comparison.
I'm sure they did not. She started a number of organizations, one of them being the International 99s, which was an international organization for female pilots. It still exists. Wow.
All right. Some say, this is a quote from Amelia. I've got a lot of Amelia quotes in here. Okay.
And we're going to be talking mostly about her last flight, but we're going to talk about a little bit of who she is before we get to the last flight. So I have to be a humanizer. Well, it's a very human story. Yeah.
Someday she would say, I'll get bumped off. There's so much to do, so much fun here. I don't want to go. Wow.
That was a quote. Whatever. Whatever it's all right. And so circumnavigating the globe was the last trip that she had was going to be her last trip to set records and stuff like that.
You want to give up, right? But she's going to stop supplying. She wasn't going to be trying to set anymore records. That's supposed to be her last.
At least one would do that. I would call. He could hear that. I think, yeah.
I think he had 40 days. I think there was a loophole in that where Amelia kind of beat him. Oh, it's like a poop hole. He could send us a poop hole loophole.
I don't know what that means. The word about it. All right. Several more quotes.
The first one being, it's a very big ocean. You'll know what I'm done with you. It's a very big ocean. So much water.
That is accurate. That is true. It's a 78% off-flight. And here's another quote.
Please don't be concerned. It just seems that I must try this flight. I've waited all carefully. With it behind me, life will be fuller and richer.
I can be content. Afterward, it will be fun to grow old. She would have been right. Maybe she was right.
And then when I go, she often said, I'd like best to go in my plane quickly. Oh, now. All right. In 1935, she was flying on a trip, first of its kind, over the Gulf of Mexico from Mexico to New York City without stopping.
No one had done that yet. And so while she was flying over the Gulf of Mexico, which is a huge body of water, she started looking down below her plane. And she started thinking, well, this plane that I'm flying only has one engine. If that engine gave out, I would have no backup.
I would have a lot of water down there. And she vowed at that point to get a plane with two engines. Double engine. Before she flew in over any more water, she was going to get a twin engine plane.
So that was in 1935. Me and the Sea Millivan were a big fan of jumpers. So just the extra engines. OK, do you like an eagle?
It's into the future. So let's see. Let me repair a man. So her first experience with flying was as a child, she and her sister built a homemade roller coaster going off the roof of their garage.
Wow. And they made this kind of go-kart to go down it, and she ended up flying off of this thing and not killing herself. That's good. And she said it was like flying.
I don't know if she got hurt, but it's in 1907. In 1907, she was at Iowa State Fair to Moyen. She's 10 years old now. And an adult pointed out a biplane that was there at this State Fair, and she looked over at it and looked like old wood and rusted metal.
And she had very little interest in this plane because she had just spotted herself a hat that was made out of an inverted peach basket. And she was far more interested in this 15 cent hat than in this airplane. It's hard to imagine a time in which the skies were so unexplored. I know.
We had no idea what happened. Or like, you know, the idea of moving easily through it. So the next time she came across an airplane was in 1918 when she was 21. And she was, and it's around the time of the armorsets of World War I.
So she was in Toronto, Canada, at an exposition up there. And she went to this exposition with a friend. And so they had- They're from Kansas. By the time she was actually living in Canada, working in hospitals, she worked in hospitals during World War I.
Okay. So she was actually up there with this friend. That's where they were living and working and stuff. And so she and her friend went to this exposition.
And there was World War I flying aces flying airplanes exhibiting it. And every once in a while, you know, they get bored and they buzz the crowd. So she and her friend were- And if you've never been around airplanes, that's kind of a scary thing. Yeah, it's a throw.
Like being on a roller coaster. So she and her friend were actually standing in this open field with this pilot decided he was going to buzz him. So he swooped the plane down towards him and her friend scrambled ran away and they just stared at it. And she sat later on that she felt like that red plane was talking to her.
Oh, it was smoothie. It was smoothie before the red bear. Okay. So she, but after this event, because she had worked in the hospitals during World War once she felt like she had an affinity for medicine.
She went to general and Columbia University in New York to become a doctor. She was actually ahead of her time as far as women's suffrage and women rights. Her whole life and her mother had raised her that way. Her father was an alcoholic, but her mother came from actually kind of a well-to-do family.
Her grandfather had been a judge and things like that. They lived in a number of different places as her father got jobs with as a railroad attorney in different places. He couldn't hold on to the jobs because of his alcohol. So, but so she was, her mother never forced her to do like girl stuff.
She let her just do whatever she felt like. Where people are supposed to be? Right. Right.
So, so I never occurred to her that she shouldn't enroll to be a doctor, but she always went one year at the Columbia University because you couldn't stop thinking about airplanes. No. So she went to California on vacation and while she was there she started going to all of these air shows. And she, one of them, she finally met this, Ken Cross, this pilot who was like selling rides on his airplane.
You know, they get over there. Sure. And so I think it cost her 10 bucks to fly back. A lot of money back.
Which back then is like $100 or a couple hundred dollars. But it's also something that no one gets to do. Right. When there were no planes in the sky on a regular basis today, we'll look at three of them.
Right. If you're looking up. Right. So, there's pilot Frank Hawk who later on became famous, I don't know what for, but he became famous probably as a sub pilot or something like that.
He took her up in his plane. And she says in one of her books, because he wrote four books. Oh, well. Right.
So she said that at about 200 feet in the air, she knew she had to fly from this point on. It's like this is what she had to do. There was nothing else other than this. So her mother helped her buy her first plane.
Good on your mom. Thanks. Because you know, her mother, when her mother's, when her grandparents died, they left money to her mother, but it was in a trust because they didn't trust that her father wouldn't use that on. Okay.
So the first airplane, she, oh, her, the one that her mother helped her buy was a second hand, bright yellow airplane with one motor. And it was so rough when it was running that her feet would fall asleep on the pedal to the, to the, like we are on a lawn mower. It's called a parastasia. It's a parastasia.
Is that like an anesthesia, but parastasia is that? Yeah. What part of the battle of the vibration? I guess the vibration of the vibration of the weapon would just be, why would you be blood flow, like a blood flow of the nerves?
No. So, but it was the, it was the pedal to the rudder. So it's not like you could take her foot off it as long as you can. It's like a panda.
So, you know, that, that were short flights. She also, she took flying lessons from another female pilot. That's great. I don't have the pilot's name, but it was another people pilot.
She took flying lessons from. She used to, she would lend out her airplane to other pilots doing other shows or to, when she wasn't using it so that she wouldn't have to pay hanger fees. Smart. Because she couldn't afford the hanger fees.
Right. Right. But you can, this for that, quote or quote. So, after, after her first year of owning this plane and flying it, the further she had gone was 40 miles.
That was the longest trip she'd gone from 40 miles from Long Beach to Pasadena. I thought that was a pretty flight though. Yeah. You see a lot of pretty signs.
Right. I mean, she was holding down various kinds of jobs to pay for this hobby of flying. And she couldn't really afford gasoline without like her mother helping her about that. Well, I'm sure that's changing.
No, absolutely no. So, at some point she took a job in Boston. And so now she's living in Boston and she's working at this place called the Denison House. And it was, at that time it was one of America's oldest social settlements, whatever that means.
That's what she called it in this book. I do not know what to do. And so, she was doing games and doing classes with Chinese and Syrian neighborhood children. I think it was for like immigrant children to come to this place, learning English, play game and kind of assimilate.
This is a place in Louisville, where I was out of here in high school called Newcomer Academy. I was getting my teaching degree. We had to go there for a week or some work with the kids. It was crazy.
There was one classroom I was in that had people from Central Africa and Cuba and South Korea and all these kids who, from English in the first language, just to get a feel for what school I like. That's a lovely idea though. That's a beautiful idea. I think that's probably what this place was.
Anyway, while she's working at this place in Boston, she gets a call phone call at work from a guy asking her if she was interested in doing dangerous, something dangerous. For some reason, there was her name and her reputation out there as a pilot. Those are people who knew. And she had been given offers before by people saying they wanted her to run bootleg liquor and stuff.
And she turned those down because she didn't want anything to do with that. So she was intrigued by this guy, but she demanded references from him. That's a good call. So he gave her some references.
And so she met the man that... She was intrigued by it honestly. So she met the man and he asked her if she would be interested in flying the Atlantic, which had never been done yet. So she went to New York and met this guy.
She showed him her pilot's license, which was the first ever granted to an American woman by the FAI, I think, as the forerunner of the SOA. The woman who taught her how to have that? I don't know. Maybe it's not from that organization or something.
Or maybe she was an American woman. She says, American woman. And this is from Amelia's book. Kind of in a Canadian woman.
Or the Martian. Or the Martian. So we don't judge. But anyway, so the idea was this endeavor was being financed by a Mrs.
Frederick Guest who was financing these other guys who wanted to fly the Atlantic. And so she was financing it. She was insisting that they take a woman along with her with them. So that's why they were looking for a woman.
And because they knew that she had a, because they heard that she flew with airplanes, they thought that maybe she would be used or she would be able to go on the flight and not be freaked out I think. They didn't let her fly. She was just a passenger. But anyway, the name of the airplane was Friendship and it was a, and they called it the Friendship.
Whatever. So everybody who are. So the real power was Friendship. Well, anyway, it, they were centered in Boston and they're flying out of Boston Harbor.
There's no friendship in Boston. No. But anyway, they flew the plane up to Newfoundland because the Newfoundland is closer to, you know, the, to Europe. So it's a short trip.
Right. That's the point of come from away is all, when, when the lights began going across that ocean, everyone landed again. Yeah. So the pilot of the flight was Bill Stoltz and the mechanic was Lou Gordon.
And so they. Oh, Lou. Yep. And then she was the woman.
The passenger. The title. No, that's the woman. Sounds like Sherlock Holmes, the, uh, I read Adler.
I thought he always thought he was the woman. Well, they didn't call her the woman, but that's, you know, basically she was a bastard. That was that they didn't need her. Those two are going to flow without her, but she, they had the finance, the person giving the money said that they had to have a woman.
Right. So they have skills, Lou. I have a name. So they flew from Newfoundland to Barryport, Wales and the journey took 20 hours and 40 minutes.