Discussing Chuck Yeagar as the father of "pilot voice", Labrinths, and words from Lovecraftian horror stories from the 1930's.

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First thing I want to talk about today is that it's Chuck Yeager's birthday.
And their Chuck Yeager is one of the first experimental Pilots for the
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For the early basically for early versions of rockets that ended up
becoming the NASA program. So this is pre NASA.
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They would get
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Pilots who were willing to strap themselves into these insane. Aircrafts
of which many crashed like lots and lots and lots of them crashed and a
lot of people died
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And check a curve was one of the most beloved and most famous of
these ... sometimes working.
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Okay, can you hear me now?
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Okay
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Good.
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Okay good.
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So the great Tom Wolf.
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Writes about Chuck Yeager and writes about we opens talking about
him with one of the most interesting linguistic facts about the man that
almost anybody which is that the quote unquote
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Pilot voice the
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Folks and so it getting a little choppy out here, you know, all that is
based on Chuck Yeager.
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He was the original and apparently it comes from the originated in the
mountains of West, Virginia. In the coal country in Lincoln County so far
up in the hollows that as the saying went they had to pipe in daylight,
which my God, that's one of the most descriptive location things I've
ever heard. That's an amazing description of a place. They had to pipe
in the
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Daylight.
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So part of it is it just sounds really cool.
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You know, it's a little bit of a Cheesy dead voice, you know, a lot of dad
jokes coming through it as he describes it a particular draw a particular
folks Enos a particular down-home calmness. That is so exaggerated
begins to ... itself. Nevertheless. It's
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Reassuring
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And I think this last part is one of the most is probably one of the biggest
reasons why it became that because the examples that he's giving is
that essentially, you know to plane in the shit hits the fan like things ... to
go ... You want somebody in charge who is extremely calm.
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As he says well folks those folks down there in the ground might be too
early for a more something. I suspect. They still got the sleepers in their
eyes because they say they can't tell if those old landing gears are all
the way down or
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Not.
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And even though in your pounding heart in your sweaty palms or boiling
brain pain, you know, this is a critical moment in your life. You still can't
bring yourself to believe it because if it were how could the captain the
man who knows this actual situation most intimately. How could he keep
on drawing and chuckling and Driftin and lollygagging in that particular
voice of his
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So if you're an emergency, it's a great voice to have to keep people calm...