Why could the Navy tie a giant airship to a ship rolling on the open ocean, but not to the mooring mast on top of the Empire State Building? Jake sat in the guest chair with Flat Earth Dave for an hour of old-world questions.
The podcast covered star forts on nearly every continent (including the one under the Statue of Liberty), Turkmenistan’s empty white city, and the asylums and orphan trains of the 1800s. Then we opened the airship folder: the Empire State Building’s mooring mast, aircraft carriers in the sky, airships moored to ships at sea, a 95-hour nonstop flight in 1917, and how one fire seemed to end it all. Plus melted castles, and salt that looks a lot like petrified flesh.