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BONUS EPISODE: The Christmas Bullet *LIVE IN LONDON*
🕑 Added 2025-07-02 12:03:15 +0000 UTCJoe, Tom, and Nate take the stage at the Big Fat Festival in London to talk about the time a man scammed the government, killed multiple peo
Joe, Tom, and Nate take the stage at the Big Fat Festival in London to talk about the time a man scammed the government, killed multiple people, and got away with it all while building quite possibly the worst plane that has ever attempted flight.
Sources:
Thomas Parramore. First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation.
https://www.wired.com/2014/12/well-didnt-work-plane-flapped-like-bird-fraud-built/
https://www.jalopnik.com/the-christmas-bullet-was-the-worst-plane-ever-made-1825187889/
Comments
Samuel Grand
In defense of the Wright brothers the crash that killed Lt. Selfridge broke Orville’s femur and several of his ribs, so he didn’t walk away from that crash, that MFer got carried away
Jonathan Grafton
Mohammed Atta Airlines, Thomas Selfridge Air Base, and Abdul Rashid Dostum Express. We need more "product that will kill you" names
Alive Or Trees
Switzerland not neutral in the Coke/Pepsi wars I see
Willow Brannon
Heard this described in the past as “like something out of a folk song”
Alex
GUERRILLA WARFARE!
drone lover
I’d just like to mention that Burnelli went on to have a reasonable career in aeronautical engineering, and his most successful design was called the Loadmaster.
Arueshalae Table Building Society
Naming it the "Christmas Bullet II" like my Kerbal Space Program project when I have added literally one strut
Eric Brennan
Yea "A Christmas to Remember" is a great piece of work.
Thomas Layton
Oooh a topic I know nothing about. What fresh horrors await?
3 Toed Jim
Side note, I hate Phil Collins. Please put him on one of these invisible planes and turn them loose on a transcontinental flight.
Noblesse Oblahaj
Re: using highly advanced tech to be petty. There is a Warhammer 40k book called The Infinite and the Divine where two near immortal robots with technology that is basically magic use it to fuck with each other for an entire book. One uses time travel to win a court case against the other. The other teleports into his rival's house and shoots him. When his rival, bleeding on the floor says, "I don't have the thing you want!" The shooter responds, "I don't care." and leaves.
Dylan Brown
You ever wanna hear some of the most insane circle talking find the speech Dr.Christmas gave to the congressional committee they had him stand in front of to try and explain this whole mess. It’s great.
Em Gravesong
The field of American Ornithoptrics needs a rennaisance.
Gil the Gilded Dragon
Dodo a'la Parthian stay my execution while people de-extinction the Dodo, try some silphium.
Brendan Bonner
Dude I’m dead lmao. instead of being too poor to afford the shoes, the little boy is also black in the Jim Crow south in a whites only shoe store.
VIKTOR VON FAYGO STEIN
An Oklahoma Christmas Bullet is what happens when dad gets fired during the holidays.
Jonathan Grafton
Fucking love the chaos in this.
Mel S
I admire your commitment to calling the Dr a flim flam man. One of my favorite terms
Colin Hurt
Thank you for an amazing show! I still can’t believe the plane even got off the ground.
Matt
This is not far off from what happened with the flying Ford Pinto.
Anarcho Slowpoke
When a guy no one in the present ever heard about turns out to be one of the greatest grifters of the last century.
Noblesse Oblahaj
Oh fuck, this guy. A guy called Tex from The Black Pants Legion did a great YouTube doc about him. Highly recommend
William Shackelford
Totally agree with Thom on the people needing to place thier weights back correctly after using them in the gym. Literally just witnessed it yesterday.
William Shackelford
Hate it when my wind turbines get turned off by Big Wind Lobby 😂
Austin Arminio
I’m guessing this is the more right wing version of Christmas Shoes
