
Episode 197: Kiddo
the memory palace
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The Cat Was Feeling That in a Ba G, in the Dark
Sailors are trying to catch the cat and calm him down, but he is scratching and clawing. The men try to knock it out of the boat and tumble into the atlantic or on to a ship that's trailing below them. They tie the bag to the end of a rope, they lower it over the side, and it swings back and forth as the cat tries to fight its way out. A thousand miles in a zeppelin was furthest anyone had ever flown over the water. Technically didn't matter if those thousand miles were traveled going wildly off course. Their journey did generate one enduring historical achievement, world's first heir to ground radio transmission recorded for posterity
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