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Big Fit. That's now our name. The Big Fit.
Show's still the same. The Big Fit. Let's play the game.
The Big Fit. We're still on fire, busting wires.
From Plano, Texas, this is the Big Fit. And now, here's your host, Deborah Goldstein.
Welcome to the big fib the game show where kids choose between the supercharged fuel efficiency of truth and the turbulent air sickness of lies.
I'm your host, Deborah Goldstein, and in the studio today is our sound effects robot Lisa, whose name stands for Live in Studio Audience.
Hello, Deborah! Would you care for one lump or two?
Pardon me? How many sugars love? It's tea time here and I fix you a spot of tea.
Well, that's very kind of you. I'll take one sugar please.
Oh, so I love, we're out of sugar. Fancy some ketchup with your tea?
Uh, definitely not, but thanks anyway. Right, yo, more for me.
Yes. Well, while you're having your tea, can you please tell us how our game works?
Indeed, I will. Every week we bring on two grown-ups.
One of the grown-ups that I just mentioned is an expert.
A different one of the grownups that I previously mentioned a few sentences ago.
Well that expert, that expert's a liar. And it is the job of a human child who I haven't mentioned here to four.
Help us figure out who is who because no one can spot a liar better than a kid.
We hope. What are we lying about today, Deborah?
We are lying about airplanes. Aircraft with wings driven by a propeller or jet engine.
Lisa, do you know much about airplanes or are you going to tell me you have a relative who is an airplane?
No airplane relatives. But my second cousin twice removed is an airport self-service check-in kiosk.
Ooh, that's cool. Those kiosks definitely make checking in less stressful and...
More efficient at the airport. You must be very proud.
Uh, yeah, sure. Proud. I mean, he's no sound effects robot, but he serves a purpose in his own.
Small, but who cares way? Yes, and you serve many valuable purposes like telling us about our contestant.
Yeah, I'm pretty valued and instrumental in this podcast.
Thank you. Yeah, definitely. Okay, my cousin could never do this.
Our human child contestant is an 11 year old who loves playing basketball.
Gabe Boyarski! Hi Gabe. Hi. How are you?
I'm good. I'm glad to hear it. Well, welcome to the Big Food Web and you're here.
Thank you. Tell us about basketball. You love basketball.
Do you have a favorite team? Yeah, I like the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Is there our favorite player in that team?
Well, my favorite player was Russell Westbrook, but then he traded to the Rockets.
Yeah, now he's dead to you. No, I still like him actually.
So fickle. And I understand your favorite subject in school is How does that subject work?
Do you show up and then wait to be dismissed?
Or do you have to practice being dismissed?
Are there dismissal tests? Well, this was not really a subject, but my favorite subject would probably be P.E., because I think it's the most fun.
Oh, peanut butter eating. I love it. No, I think it has to, it's actually, it stands for physical education.
So sport and calisthenics, right? Health, that kind of stuff, right Gabe?
Yeah, I like peanut butter. I don't think that.
He doesn't need peanut butter eating during PE.
Is that correct Gabe? Yeah, I don't. Okay, well we do want to learn some more fun facts about you Gabe, but we're going to do it the big fib style by playing two truths and a lie.
So you, Sergei, you're going to tell us three facts about yourself.
Two of those facts will be true. One of those facts will be a lie and we We'll try to figure out which one is the lie.
Gabe, tell us what your three facts are.
I went on a ride at Six Flags that went backwards while doing flips in the air over 50 times.
Another one is I am vice principal. I'm vice president at my school and My third fact is that I like cats.
Oh my goodness, very different. Okay, well, what do you think Lisa?
Oh, I don't. I don't think anyone likes cats.
Pretty dubious of that. He says he's vice principal.
Vice president. Vice president. No, I know who the vice president is and it's not you.
You know who the Vice President of his school is?
Oh, of his school? No. No idea. No idea.
I don't know. Probably gay. I think the one that is a lie is the first one about the roller coaster because it sounds dangerous and I don't see him flipping right now.
Okay, fair point. All right, Gabe, which one of those facts is actually a lie?
I don't really like cats that much. That's not true, but that means that you are vice president of your school.
Yes, that's amazing and then Can you, as Vice President, make dismissal a subject?
No, I don't have that much power, but... That's your dad.
Our first expert is Corey Pitcairn. Corey, please introduce yourself to Gabe.
Hi Gabe, my name is Corey Pitcairn and I'm an aviation journalist.
Thank you, Corey. Let's meet our second expert, Deb Heneberry.
Deb, please introduce yourself to Gabe. Hi, Gabe.
I'm Deb Heneberry, and I'm a commercial pilot and flight instructor. these I like those walking sounds my check-in kiosk cousin could never tell you that It's hot to time.
True, certainly not. And that's when we put our experts on the hot seat while they answer Gabe's questions.
Lisa, whom should we put on the hot seat first?
Cory hit Karen because there's a type of dog called a Karen Terrier and they're very cute and one of them was in the Wizard of Oz and he gets to go first.
So what's your first question for Corey Gabe?
Okay, my first question for Corey is what powers airplanes?
Yeah. What powers an airplane is the airplane's engine.
What's interesting though is that it's the engine. that gives the plane the ability to move forward at high speeds, but it's actually the air moving over the wings of the airplane and that air then pushing downward. generating lift that lifts the plane into the air.
That sounds, I mean I don't know anything, but that sounds good.
I was just fact-checking for you, Gabe. That sounds good.
What makes airplanes a safe way to travel?
And I'll ask Deb that one. Okay. So a few things.
Number one, we have a lot of rules and regulations that have been put in place.
So the pilots have to follow those rules and regulations, the mechanics, the air traffic controllers, and then we've gotten better over time because in the last 30 years we've learned a lot about how to make our training a lot better.
And when something goes wrong, we actually look back on it, we examine it very deeply and we learn from those lessons.
So hopefully as pilots or controllers or mechanics, we don't make the same mistake twice.
What is a typical day for your job? And I'll ask Corey that one.
Sure. You know, I'm usually working the phones and the emails reaching out to representatives from various airlines.
I kind of discuss the new features and technology they're implementing because I'm a journalist and I'm looking for stories that'll be of interest to the people buying and operating planes.
If I'm really lucky, I get to be the first person on a new plane, like when it's, you know, still got that new plane smell.
And I'm sometimes really lucky to get to fly it myself and see the technology in action.
So another one, have they invented a new thing in airplanes like a new thing that could like make a big change in the typical airplane in seat popcorn machine.
Yeah, the New York funds are going to have in seat popcorn machine.
So each person can make their own popcorn right in their seats, but their own seasonings that they want.
That's a great idea. Corey, write it up right now.
That's a big scoop. I'd like to ask both of them that one.
Oh, OK. Well, sure. I mean, one that I've been following that I think is super great is the use of virtual reality headsets that exist that it's kind of like a an instrument display that you would get in a car, sometimes they have heads-up displays that are projected on the windshield, and these are ways in which pilots can monitor the information of their flight.
It's a projected system of information that's really fascinating and exciting.
That's something I'm watching. Two things that come to mind.
One actually isn't that new. It's called ADSB and it's a very precise way for airplanes to see each other. and for the controllers to see the airplanes.
And while that's old, it only became mandated as of January 1st this year.
So all airplanes have to have that based on where they're flying.
And a brand new development that just coming out is what we call an auto land system.
They're not on the airliners yet, but only a couple airplanes have these right now.
But if the pilot became incapacitated or felt like they were going to to pass out or something really bad was going to happen.
You can hit a button and the airplane can land itself.
That's really cool. Okay. What is the favorite part about flying on airplanes?
My favorite part of flying is the perspective that it gives me of the world because things look very different from up there. and we seem much more united when we're looking from 30,000 feet and we're looking at everything going on down below us.
It seems much simpler from up in the air.
My favorite flights that I did, I used to fly a seaplane up in Alaska.
And if you've ever been to Alaska or seen pictures of Alaska, the mountains and the lake, all the terrain there is so beautiful.
So that's one of my favorite flights and then my other favorite flight since Gabe I know you're from New Jersey So I used to take people for sightseeing flights Along the Hudson River and I showed them the Statue of Liberty and all kinds of good stuff and that was just a lot of fun for everybody I love, obviously I sort of love that also getting up above the world and looking down and realizing that we're all. just one big community on one planet trying to get along.
But what I also love is the science and technology. and the creation of flight, the fact that we're able to use our man-made skills to put us into the air and give us that freedom I find constantly fascinating and delightful when you really think about the magic of it. have um this this question is again both for both of you guys um have you ever jumped out of an airplane parachuted off of it yeah and if not why I spent too much time and money learning how to fly them than to jump out of them.
I agree. When I was in college, I bungee jumped once, and that's about it.
Oh, yeah, bungee jumping short. Terrifying.
I would think so. It's time for the shorts on fire round when our experts have to answer as many questions as they can before time runs out.
Gabe, you can ask Corey for your short on fire questions now.
What is the central part of an airplane where you can find the passenger's crew in cargo? the cabin.
What causes your ears to pop during the flight?
There's air in your ear, it's trapped in there and as the atmospheric pressure changes the air expands and contracts and that gives you the popping.
Who was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart What is the oldest airline?
British Airways What do you call the paved area?
Add an airport where airplanes park, fuel, load, and unload.
What are the first and last names of the brothers who flew the first power-driven airplane in 1903?
That would be the Wright brothers Orson and Walter Wright.
Who was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921?
Pass. Are airplanes in jets the same thing?
All jets are airplanes, but all airplanes are not necessarily jets.
And that would be time. That's the time.
That's all the time we got, OK? Very good.
Lisa, please restart the timer for Deb. It's done.
Thank you so much. Gabe. You can ask Deb your shorts on fire questions now.
What do you call the building that is big enough to hold an airplane for storage and repairs?
Kanger, what is a quadriplein. A plane with four wings?
They tape four planes together. Why do pilots and co-pilots have to eat different meals on a plane?
In case the food is bad, both people won't get sick.
What was the name of the flying machine Leonardo da Vinci design?
What is the unit of measurement that pilots use to measure the speed of an aircraft?
What is the nickname given to the autopilot system?
Pass. What is the biggest aircraft? The A380.
Why does airplane food taste so bad? All because there's a lot of preservatives in it.
Okay, and that is time. That was a time, guys.
That was really good. It's decision time.
We can't drag it out any longer. Gabe, tell us who you think.
This is really hard because Corey in the beginning, the fact that he was giving me didn't seem really straight but then at the end when I questioned Deb, she kind of... passed on a lot and some of them seemed really right.
So I'm kind of confused about this one. Maybe they're both liars, is that possible?
No, it is not possible. One of them is an expert.
I'm gonna say, Deb? Is the... Is the liar?
Okay. Corey is the... I'm an expert. I'm an expert.
Okay. Well, we're gonna find out right now.
You ready? Yes. Will the actual airplane expert please tell us who you are?
It's Deb. That is correct, Deb. The Hennaberry is a commercial pilot and a flight instructor.
It's time for some back checking. Deb, how did Corey overshoot the truth?
I thought Corey did a great job and those initial questions, I thought he'd hit it out of the park.
There were just a few things that he missed in the rapid fire questions.
To my knowledge, the oldest airline is KLM.
The Wright brothers were Orville and Wilbur.
They got the last name, right? And the first African American lady to get her pilot's license was Bessie Coleman.
Very cool, yes. I was confused. He was so good at that.
He was gonna lie. That's not fair. We didn't know he was gonna be good.
That's true. Okay, Corey, what lies did you share that made pilots everywhere want to throttle you?
Well, Deb got most of them. The one that you asked about the central part of the airplane, where you can find the passengers, the crew in the cargo, I said, was the cabin.
I believe that's actually the fuselage. Right, correct. right that's right yeah she did pick up on most of your lies true and we should mention also just because they were random facts that maybe even an expert wouldn't know The name of the flying machine that Leonardo da Vinci designed was the Ornithopter.
And the nickname given to the autopilot system, George.
I know George. Do you? George, if you're listening, text me back.
I really would like to play foosball. Yeah, that would be fun.
I'm sure. OK. Wow. We have reached the final approach of our flight episode today.
Thanks to our pilot in control and contestant Gabe.
Thank you to our expert and liar Deb and Corey and to Lisa. who has a real flair for sound and of course many thanks to our listeners tuning into the big fib where we lose all the luggage of lies and always propel the truth.
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