Hindenburg disaster

Thank you so much.

But most people know that the Hindenburg from the extraordinary footage went up in flames.

There was obviously a movie.

I don't know if you remember George C. Scott in the movie.

He's like, wow, it's a Zeppelin.

After the movie, my brother Oliver, who's always loved aviation, just starts talking about how crazy it is that people used to fly on these and what would it be like to be in New York and look up and see one overhead.

And a beat later, he says, Catherine, you should write a book about the Hindenburg disaster.

And so I have to give full credit to my brother for inspiring this idea.

Also, the way that news reporting was filtered into this program to make it sound like it was a bulletin.

It had that feel of another famous broadcast from that era, the Hindenburg Disaster.

In fact, they were quite aware of that when they put this together from what you've written.

Absolutely.

The Hindenburg Disaster happened only one year before this broadcast.

And for those who may not remember, the Hindenburg was an airship made by the Germans.

And it was making headlines all over the world because it was flying from Germany, Frankfurt, to America, New Jersey.

However, I actually think that AI is currently so under-regulated that even if you just want it to go well to harness the benefits of the technology, rather than to result in more minor catastrophes that will inevitably prompt a knee-jerk reaction from society and from regulators... you actually need to have more guardrails on there.

Otherwise, there'll be a kind of industrial catastrophe like the Hindenburg, like thalidomide, like Three Mile Island, that will be enormously damaging to US prosperity and AI industry as a whole.

I hear you, but you know as well as I do that President Trump is in office for the next two years.

Alongside him, he has a Secretary of State for Defence, Pete Hegseth, who recently attacked effective altruism, posting Americanism, not effective altruism.

In other words, for at least two years, it seems that the attitude in the White House is to just let this happen.

And if you're right to say something as catastrophic as the Hindenburg could happen, it's almost as if they're waiting for that.

to be proven that they do need to take action.

They are prepared to take that risk.

Number one.

Which 1968 film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood follows a World War II British special operation rescuing an American general from a fortress known as Schlob Adler? Number one, which 1968 film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood follows a World War Two British operation rescuing an American general from a fortress known as Schlob Adler? Number two, which company designed and built the Hindenburg airship, which tragically burst into flames upon landing in New Jersey in 1937? 2.

Which company designed and built the Hindenburg airship that tragically burst into flames upon landing in New Jersey in 1937? 3.

What is the name of the state of enlightenment sought by Buddhists and Hindu? 3.

What is the name of the state of enlightenment sought by Buddhists and Hindus? Number four, how was Sega's 16-bit console, the Mega Drive, known in North America? Question number four, how was Sega's 16-bit video games console, the Mega Drive, known in North America? 5.

That is your answers for the entertainment round.

How did you do on Quizlinks? Number one, which 1968 film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood follows a World War II British operation rescuing an American general from a fortress known as Schlob Adler? That's where eagles dare.

Two, which company designed and built the Hindenburg airship that tragically burst into flames upon landing in New Jersey? in 1937, The Zeppelin Company.

To mention just one well-known practical use of helium, a noble gas that is not prone to reacting, I could point to the replacement of hydrogen by helium in zeppelins.

after the Hindenburg disaster.

The accidental destruction of the Hindenburg, a German zeppelin, failed with hydrogen, as it was landing in New Jersey after crossing the Atlantic in 1937.

Hydrogen was cheap and efficient as a lifting gas for balloons and zeppelins, but it is also highly flammable.

And it was only a matter of time before an accident occurred.

Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, her disappearance remains one of history's great unsolved mysteries.

And her story has a fascinating connection with another trailblazing woman, journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, who at 23 years old, raised two male reporters around the world in 1936, traveling aboard everything from the Hindenburg to early commercial aircraft.

That remarkable adventure and Kilgallen's connection to Earhart are the subjects of Girl Around the World, the new book by bestselling author and investigative reporter Mark Shaw.

Mark has written more than 25 books, including The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, and has spent years investigating Kilgallen's remarkable career and mysterious death.

And so they had two reporters, older men from two of the newspapers, including the New York Times.

And Dorothy became a last second competitor.

And she took off with them, took off with them in the Hindenburg.

And then they went all the way around the world and ended up in China, where we'll talk about she almost got killed.

But that would be cool to have gone.

He's going Hindenburg.

Yeah.

Cool.