Welcome to this weekend’s Pod Ponder. I’m Ginni Saraswati, expanding your mind and exploring your brain.

Happy Saturday, dear listeners. It’s that time again for some mental calisthenics!  This week’s ponderous ponder begins on November 24, 1971. 

A well dressed man in a suit and tie boards Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 in Portland, Oregon enroute to Seattle. 

He takes his seat, orders a bourbon and soda and, shortly after takeoff, hands a flight attendant a note indicating that he has in his possession a bomb and intends to hijack the plane. He demands $200,000 in US currency and four parachutes.

Eventually, his demands are met, no passengers are harmed, and the man—soon to be infamous as D.B. Cooper—disappears from an airborne plane into the night, never to be seen again. 

A very strange story, indeed. And one that remains unsolved to this day!

So, dear listeners, I ask you: if you could solve any one unanswered question from all of history, which would you choose? Maybe the mystery of Jack the Ripper’s identity? The Bermuda Triangle? Perhaps even the death of Edgar Allen Poe?

Well, I don’t know about you, but I think it’s time to turn some lights on around here and focus on something a little less… creepy...

That does it for this week. Remember to tune in next Saturday and join me for another round!

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