Fred's Fun Fact: Blimps!

Fred tells us a fun fact about blimps!

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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Show is on. Yeah, Fred's Fun Fact.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Fred Fun You can learned so much? Do you guys
remember in the history of the show, do you guys
remember when some of you leughed all over my dreams?
Do you remember you left all over my dreams of
becoming a hot air balloon pilot.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Do you remember this? You left all over my dreams.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Some of you didn't, but some of you clowned me
so hard because I wanted to become a hot air
balloon pilot.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
You weren't here, yeeking, No, I did not know I was.
I'm believe in you. Thank you air dream.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Thank you because it comes in so handy. You know,
a hot air balloon pilot There's just a lot that
you can do with that.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
There's always balloons are out right ehere if you want
to go somewhere in a hurry, you know, Like there's just.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
There's a Sandem comic that does that routine where he's like,
I don't know, let's we got to get there, take the.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Balloon, or like this is sorry that I have heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
No, well, I played the I know you didn't, but
I back in the day, I played the clip. But
what else is this part of this show? I can't
remember his name, but he was like, yes, of course,
let's get in a wicker basket with fire with fire
attached to it and float away. No, I, you guys know,
I'm a pilot, and there is There are all kinds
of different ratings you can get as a pilot. You know.

(01:43):
One is obviously airplane, helicopters, different kinds of airplanes, sailplanes
like the gliders that I learned how to fly. I
remember that they don't have an engine on them, right,
blimp of seaplanes. So this is where I'm going. I
have a seaplane rating. I can land the kind of
planes and have floats on them. You know, I can
do that. But I did want to become a hot
air balloon pilot, because if I'm going to get all

(02:03):
the ratings, then that's one of them. Lighter than air.
You got to do it. And then there's blimp. There's
a blim rating. However, did you know, you know the
blimp Goodyear blimps. They fly over like sporting events or whatever,
the blimps. There are only twenty five blimps left in
the whole world, with fewer than twenty of them still
active in service. These iconic airships are primarily used for

(02:24):
advertising in aerial photography, and their decline is attributed to
several factors, including the high cost of helium, limited pilot availability,
which I'm about to change that, and the need for
specialized training to operate them. Despite their rarity, blimps have
a rich history and could potentially experience a revival in
tourism and scenic travel in the future.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm in for this, and I think if you drop
that at a bar on a woman, I think that'll
get you laid. But I'm a blimp pilot, like you know,
I could drive a bus.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
The word blimp is sort of what's.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Compared to his hot air. I'd be like. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Honestly, I think there are people to think hot air
balloons are romantic, and I think they would think that
that was kind of hot. I told you I've already
I've only been in one hot air balloon, and I
was I had a parachute attached to me, and I
jumped out of it.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
That was the intention beesty to do that. The intention
was to jump out of it.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I'm a sky diver, and the point was to go
jump out of a hot air balloon. But I'm telling you,
thank god I had a parachute on because I didn't
like one second of that.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I did not like it.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I don't understand why people like that. You don't know
where you're going, but you can't stir it right, No,
you can only go up and down, and you go
the direction the wind goes. I'm oversimplifying it, but I don't.
I don't. I didn't love it. Now, if I want
to get all the ratings, I got to be a
hot air balloon pilot.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
That would you know me?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
You know me that when whenever my time comes, whether
it's at the end of the day because my back
hurts so badly, or if it's in thirty years. All
I want people to say is, you know, in lieu
of a great relationship and kids and all the rest
of it. No, I just want people to be like
that guy was interesting. He was interesting, He was different,
and he used his time to do you interesting things.

(04:01):
And you could say that about me if I were
a hot air balloon pilot or a blimp pilot. I
looked into it. There's just school where you can go
and learn how to fly a blimp. The problem is,
for as much as that costs, I don't know what
the hell you do with it. I mean I would
be more exactly, I'd be more likely to fly a
hot air balloon than I would drive a blimp. Because
there's only twenty of them left. Where are the blims,
That's what I'm saying. I think most of them in Florida.

(04:23):
What I think they live in Florida. The blim I
don't know they live in Florida. Anyway, If the blim
school wants to hook me up, I'll go. I'll go
to the blim school. I'll learn how to fly the
thing and then an endorsement, Yeah, for the blim school.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Why are you laughing at me?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Are you dry? Again. Yeah, but why I am dry,
very draft.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Let's land a plane. She's wrapping your fun facts. You
don't like my fun fact. It's a like happening here.
We're talking about blimps in Florida. Like what is going on?
This might be this might.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Be the most on topic we've been all morning, and
now you complain it about it, she said. Next, we
only talk about one thing. Kicky's about to push the
button on me. Man, that's my job. Get up, Why
are you stand up? Come over here, get on the
ship that side. Miss didn't do anything for you, Ticky,
because you know that's my litmus tests and tikies.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I entertainment. But more fresh show next