Do Go On - 199 - Alfred Nobel and The Nobel Prize

Episode Date: August 14, 2019

And the Nobel Prize for best podcast about The Nobel Prize and its founder Alfred Nobel goes... to this episode. Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel's most famous creation was dynamite. It made him incredibly rich, but also controversial due to the people that dynamite and his weapons factories killed. When considering his post death legacy, he decided to pull off the greatest rebrand in history and donate his enormous fortune to found a set of prizes in his honour. This is the history of the Nobel Prizes.Buy tickets to our upcoming live shows here: https://dogoonpod.com/events/Vote for Dave to be Australia's Pie Guy, (you do have to be in Australia or use a VPN)https://gourmetpieguy.brumbys.com.au/profile/dave-warneke/See Matt and Jess live:https://mattstewartcomedy.com/gigshttps://www.jessperkins.com.au/showsOur website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicNEW MERCH SHOP: https://dogoon.bigcartel.com/Matt's Merch: https://mattstewartcomedy.com/shopTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:http://theconversation.com/the-curious-history-of-the-nobel-peace-prize-66609https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nobel-Prizehttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/12-surprising-facts-about-nobel-prizes/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-peace-prize/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Nobelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prizehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nobel_alfred.shtml

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And welcome to another episode of Dugo One. My name is Dave Warnock and I'm sitting here waving at a camera in a Brisbane hotel room with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Yay. Hello, David. Hang on, you went Jess first again. Oh, hang on. The Tides of Turb. Is that a phrase?

Yeah, I was like, Do I say changed, turned? Is it turned? Can tides turn? Surely. Oh, we'll still get back out there. Tides. Tides have turned. It's my turn again.

Well, it's great to be here with you too. So good to be here. We are on the road. We are about to record tomorrow afternoon when we're recording our 200th episode, live in Brisbane. Yeah, that'll be a lot of fun. So that makes this episode 199. 199. 199.

Do you think when we started this, did you have any idea of how long it would go for? No, I didn't. I didn't think about it. No, me either. The podcast I started before that went for 10 episodes, and I thought that was pretty good. Far out, that is good. Pretty good.

Apparently a lot of pods struggle to make it that far. I did two podcasts before this one, and they both never got released, and I think they both recorded three or four episodes each. This is my first podcast. Wow. You're the secret of the success. You're the secret source.

And it's funny to be like, did you ever think we'd make it to 200? Because what if we make it to 400, and then people will listen to this one and be like, idiots, you've done double that. You know? But that's another four years away. Good God.

Who knows? I could be dead. Well, we all could be. I'll be more likely. Yeah, definitely. Got a bit of head start on you. Yeah, big time. About a thousand years head start, mate.

Any day now? A lady doesn't tell. Anyway, so yes, here we are. We're in our hotel room and we're recording tomorrow, like Dave just said. But in fact, we're recording right now. We are recording one. You think about it. You think about it.

Like, technically, we are. Okay. And before we jump into this week's episode, we have to tell you that Brisbane, you've missed out on that gig. That was the 200th episode, but we've got two more Aussie ones coming up at the moment. In Sydney,

we're up there Saturday, September the 21st at Giant Dwarf. And then we're coming to Perth for the first ever time at the Comedy Lounge, Sunday, November 3rd. Yeah, that's going to be a lot of fun. We haven't been to Perth, so that'll be cool. And tickets are available to those shows at dogoonpod.com. That's right. Do you know that?

I do now. I'd love to see those people there. And quickly, guys, if you may indulge me again. I hate indulge you. We have an update on, I'm going to call it Piegate, my campaign to be crowned Australia's gourmet pie guy. Pie Guy makes it sound like it's controversial. Well, I mean, the controversy was two weeks ago I said I'd entered this competition

to be voted as Australia's gourmet pie guy. The person who gets the most votes, it's all it is, it's vested on that. and some people may know me that I love pies and I have an Instagram account just about eating meat pies here in Australia and I entered people wondering hey where's the entry, where's the entry? And for some reason the first entry didn't work out

and I had to email them a few times back and forth so I entered again and I'm finally on the website I've been on there for 24 hours at the time of recording 1200 votes in the first 24 hours thank you so much to everyone that's voted and into fourth place

Yeah that's huge My eyes is on the prize My eyes is on the prize Just one eye But I'm still 5,000 votes behind the leader who is a man carrying a baby. I just don't think he's ready for the responsibility of fatherhood and pie-guying. Yeah, that's what? I mean, I'll move.

What's going to spend that 10 grand on? I was supporting his child. Dave. No, thank you. Sorry to steal the limelight here, but I'm going to steal the limelight here. I'm going to enter the race. Absolutely not. I'm entering.

I'm going to go. You will not be entering. So my room over there, as soon as we're done. done here and I'm going to enter I'm going to enter as a sort of a kind of like the third party ticket you know like Kang versus your Kang or Conan or sure sure I'm going to be um pasty man in the pie competition because you prefer a pasty to a part I love a pasty and I and I people I think you can vote you can't vote twice but I'm asking people to not vote for you that means I will not win no do not do that do not do that do not vote

for this man here because if you do, that's a vote taken away from me. And you won't be the winner there. The winner will be baby man. Yeah, baby man. That's the worst thing. We should combine our votes here to take down baby man. But the top 10, also, there's a runner-up prize for the top 10,

so I'm happy to do that. I don't need to be the pie guy. I just want to be pasty boy. But you are taking pie guy away from me. Vote for Dave. Thank you. And then if you have another computer or get your girlfriend or dog or boyfriend or cat Or husband or wife.

All of them to vote for me as pasty boy. Okay, I can support that, pasty boy. Trans, family. I'm going for Nick Mason's title of number one, pasty boy. Now, some people have said you can only vote in Australia, which is technically true, but overseas people have also told me they've been using a VPN. Should you be putting this on the record if Brumbies is listening? I doubt they're really doing that much research into their entrance.

Dave is not encouraging anyone to do it, if someone accidentally stumbles on a paper yet. I've just said some people can do that. But if you are in Australia, which is the most important people, you can vote once per device if you have a computer, a tablet, a phone on Wi-Fi, phone off Wi-Fi, your mum's phone, your work computer, I don't know what your dog's got, anything like that. You can also vote.

Not long to live. Thanks for bringing it up, Dave. You're the dog here now. Hack the dog before it dies. Vote for me and then let it go. My dog's got worms. It's not going to die. It just has worms.

Yeah, but those worms have rabies. It's not itchy bum. And they're eating its ass out. My dog's got itchy bum, Dave. Well, as pie guy, I'll help him out. That's one of my many promises, my campaign. Will you use your winnings to buy worm medication for my dog? Yes, I will worm your dog.

Dave, will you also buy me a dog? One with worms. No, well, thank God. That'll be a cheap dog, I imagine. Because you're already buying us baronessdoms. I want to be a lady. I'm going to buy you guys, and also a official certificate from

Sealand that recognizes you as the Baron and Dame that you deserve. Thank you very much. And a dog with worms. While we're plugging one last quick plug before we get into the episode. Oh, there's a link to that voting in the description of this episode. No time. So, Jess and I are doing our show Razzle-Dazzle. We've got one more show in Brisbane.

That's right. When this comes out. Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night. But then... That's the Thursday. Tickets for Melbourne Fringe. We haven't announced it yet, I don't think.

We're doing Melbourne Fringe as well. and the dates are September and you can get tickets also via either of our website Matt Stewartcomcomcom slash gigs or Jess Perkins.com.com slash shows. We should have really coordinated there. You're more of a show. I don't want my website.

You're more of a showman. I'm more of a gig. My website's about me. Pig. Okay? Right. So why does it have to coordinate with your website? We already share enough, Matt.

Let me have something that's mine. Thank you. And he's trying to take it. My pie child. You can't let us have our own things. Yeah, why do you have to be involved in everything? Where are you looking? You're looking at that painting of a beach with one tree on it?

I wish I was there right now. What a sad tree. That's a lot of shit decor in this hotel. I'd hang a hammock from that tree. To what? Yeah, you'd be a sad hammock. It'd be a noose, basically. You'd hang something from that tree, yeah.

What do I go? What of you? What of you? What of you? All right, let's fucking pod, hey? All right, team. check out all those links in the description here. Now, we always start the show with a question,

and the question gets us onto a topic that's usually suggested by a listener. One of us is going to report on that. It is my turn. You two don't know what the topic is, so let's do it. All right. My question is, let's do it. The question is, what is... When we do it together,

doing it makes love, doing it takes love. I love it when we're doing it. it together. Thank you. And if you haven't heard the show before, we do that every single week. 199 times, who would have thought?

Who would have thought we'd make it this far? All right, my question is, what is arguably the world's most prestigious collection of awards? Logies. Correct. I will give you a point for that. Whoever's keeping track of the score, give just the point.

Pull it, sir. Oh, pretty good. But are you saying someone's won a collection of awards? No, so these five awards are up for grabs? perhaps nearly every single year. Oh, it's not the E-Gat Plus. Oh, Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes.

Wow. Wow. Actually, I didn't even know that there was only five, but I was like, well, it can't be an award ceremony. Let me list them for you. Hottest bod. Inside. Hotest dad bod.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a controversial one. What else is there, Matt? You got three more to go. There's the penis price. Uh-huh. Is that for the best or worst? Wow.

It depends on the judges Worst dress penis Yeah Two more Um Then you've got obviously Best book Um

Favorite Hat That's it That's the five Favorite hat of the year Yeah Oh that's good stuff Yeah

Na na Who's it gonna be Duna And the winner Again is Bowler hat This is This is a stage

with five hat stands. Da-na-na-na-na-w which is it going to be. Is this like a Miss Universe? Yeah. Yeah, right. The Boat hat has been shortlisted 15 years in a row. Is it finally its time? The Boater hat?

You definitely said bona hat. Oh, the bono hat's actually won 15 years in a row. Yeah, it has. Go bono hat. Peace prize. Bang. Chemistry? There's multiple science ones, right?

Chemistry. Physics? Yeah. Um, then there's... Is there literature? No. Yeah, literature. Literature and most popular on-screen performer.

Also known as the gold Nobel. That is correct. The other one is medicine or physiology. And then later on, which we will discover, they added in economics. Oh, you can get a Nobel Prize for Economics. That sounds like. I'm very good at spreadsheets.

Have a big prize. Okay. Well, I did Year 11 economics, so I'm probably up for that. Have I won one? I haven't checked. You're the only one to ever complete You've left an economic. Honestly.

I completed it, yeah. I'm not entirely sure what economics is. Switched into politics next year, so I might have won both. Is there a politics one? Yeah. Peace. Yeah, that's... Politicians often win the peace one.

That's correct. Often people who have killed a lot of people that year. But how do you get peace without killing lots of people that year? Well, let me quote Mr. Michael Franty, when he famously sang, you can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb the world to peace. and I lived by that.

Wow. And he was, of course, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1979. Yeah. Yeah, about the year he was born, probably. Could you get on with this? I don't get that reference. Okay.

I'm much too young. The, this topic was suggested by probably our most prolific topic suggestor, which is me, aka Yusuf. He's suggested last week's topic. You're on a roll, my friend. Well, bloody, don't we? There's many many we've done. He's the one where I picked Iron Brew,

and he was in the room in the front row. So he's... And he gave us iron bruise. He's the only one, I think we've ever said. Every live show was like, are you in tonight? The only one who actually said yes. Yeah, that was sick.

To the point where I thought, this guy's shittness. Yeah. And he was actually telling us. His shittness. Does that translate? He's shittness. Yeah.

He's taking a shit on us. Yeah, and I enjoyed it. For comedic effect, he's shitting. We appreciate your shit, Yusuf. Do you guys know much about the Nobel Prizes apart from the fact that you could list some of them. I know Sheldon Cooper wins one. Yeah, Saddam Hussein won one.

He did not. He did not. No. The Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan won one, I think. There are some controversial winners which we will get to. Amazing. And nominees. I think, yeah, I think Satan won a Peace Prize on you?

And economics in the same year. He is a master. Notariously, God always robbed for the last minute. He's a real Meryl Streep is. He's got, yeah, Merrill Strip, famously robbed. famously robbed, apart from the three Academy Awards that she's won. Yeah, robbed.

Though, actually, fair enough, she's won, she's been nominated about 20 times. So, hit rate. Not that great. Merrill, your hit rate is not that great. Yeah. She's doing a lot better than you, Dave.

Well, I've never lost. I've never been nominated and lost an Oscar. Well, that'd be said. I will let that be said, but I won't agree with it. Well, it is time to kick on with the report. Now, do you know who the Nobel Prizes were founded by a named after? Alfred Noble.

Yes. Swedish man. he was also a bad person and he's born in Stockholm actually in 1833 would you believe we're sitting a lot closer together than usual and Jess is definitely do you want to just read this report did you read that did you know it was Alfred or not

no I'm fucking reading his computer I'm sitting right in front of it I don't think you dogged us like that I mean I'm sitting in a position that you made me sit in because it's right for the camera so I can't move and Dave's laptop is pushed so far forward I can't help but stare at it we're now sitting around a table like people do on sitcoms It's like, no one sits like this.

Right, where they leave a whole gap, yeah. Go on, show the people at home the back of your head, if you like. I don't want to. I'm very self-conscious about it. People don't know that it's bald at the back. I've got a beautiful profile. I like people knowing that I can smell things from a meter away. That's really normal, actually.

I was trying to say I've got a meter long nose, but... I did not get that at all. I'm in the room. You said that after moving away from me, and I was like, are you trying to put down that you think? I can smell from up to a meter. Yeah, pretty highly tuned. Sometimes I could sense that there's a lavender bush nearby.

If I'm standing, a lot of a lavender. Within one meter. All right, let's do this. Alfred Nobel, would you believe was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1833? How'd you know that? Called it. I really did think you knew that. That makes me a fool.

You thought I knew the name or you thought I knew all of that. Thank you. It wasn't until you started giggling at yourself. I realized. Oh yeah, it'll always be a giveaway. Jess, did you know that he was the fourth son of inventor and engineer? Emmanuel, was it? Yes.

And his wife? Oh, sweet. I called it. Caroline. Caroline. Thank you, Matt. Well done. I called her cats.

Sweet Caroline, actually. Oh, that is so good. The pun king has struck in Brisbane. That's a pun? Of course it is. You replaced the word sweet with swede and she's Swedish. Maybe I am good at puns. You are good.

I don't like that about me. I don't like that about me. I know. Unless you're from Britain. They love it over there. They don't know that it's embarrassing. They love puns. Yeah, they're big punheads.

Those poor people. A lot of our listeners. Yuck. I love their punny ways. Yeah. Dave, come on. Okay. The family had a pretty rough time being impoverished, and only four of their eventual

eight children even made it into adulthood. Oh, my God. So. What happened to the others? Sorry. They didn't make it, Matt. Sorry. I just realized.

Yeah. They got held back at school. They're still in grade three now. Very immature. And all good things must come to a name. Oh my God. As a child, Alfred was naturally curious about science, being especially interested in explosives.

Yeah. Which is a strange thing to be interested in as a kid, but I love it. It's not. It makes perfect sense. It's supposed to cool. And it makes way more sense why they give peace prizes to people who blow stuff up. Am I remembering this right? Well, I'll find out later, I guess.

Yes. His father also taught him the fundamentals of engineering. His dad being an engineer. Then in 1842, Nobel's family when he was nine, moved to Russia where his father had opened an engineering firm providing equipment for the Tsar's armies. It's here that the family's fortunes changed figuratively and literally as they became quite wealthy. Do we always call the Tsar's armies the Zamis? Is that a pun?

I don't know. I think it's portmanteau. Punmento, thank you. I was also during this time that Alfred went to school for their only time in his childhood, only going for 18 months. But once they did get money, he did have private tutors.

By the age of 16, he was an accomplished chemist and was fluent in English, French, German, Russian and Swedish. That's so many languages. But... I haven't quite nailed English. I do good, though. Yeah, you do good. I do good, but.

But he's a smart man. That's what I'm trying to put out there. He's very smart man. He studied chemistry. in Paris and then worked in the USA for four years, working under Josh Erickson, who created the first armored warship. And he did that, what, in the shop above?

Oh, working under, working under. I mean, sorry, my brain just can't keep up sometimes, because that is... If you're going to regret face, do not turn your face away from the camera. People need to see it. Can you edit that out, please? Well, I can't edit it out because we are filming the whole thing. You can edit that out of the film if you want.

not going to edit anything out. I'll take that on board, though, and not talk anymore. Okay. In his mid-20s, Alfred filed his first patent for a type of gas meter, and this would be the first of many inventions that he would patent. He then returned home to work in the family factory in Russia, making military equipment used in the Crimean War. Things were going really well for the family, but then the war stopped, and suddenly

there had nothing left to do, so the family went bankrupt. Ah, and I'm getting it. He loves war. Yeah. A lot of people get really rich off war. Yeah. And very poor off peace, which is what happened to their family. So he had to move back to Sweden.

And this is when he began in his 20s to devote himself to the study of explosives. Right. Things that go bang, you could say. He loved to bang. Love to bang. At the time, the only dependable explosive for use in mines was black powder, which was basically just gunpowder. This was originally used by the Chinese around the 9th century,

and no one had come up with a better alternative for 900 years. Would you say that he gets more bucks for his bang? Look at a camera. The camera. Stand by. So the technology has kind of stalled for nine centuries and Alfred hoped that he could create a better and more reliable explosive by using the recently discovered but highly volatile

and very dangerous liquid compound known as nitroglycerin, which had been synthesized a few years earlier by a single. Italian chemist, Acacarnio Sobrero. Nailed that? Sure. Good name, though. You're asking someone who just said they can hardly speak their own language.

I do good, but. Yeah, she does do good. She does better in Italian. That's true. It's all about confidence. Fabern, Fabern, Fabern. Fabern, see. Alona.

Yes, Ticosy. Nitro glycerin is a colourless, oily liquid, and it was much more powerful explosive than black powder, but it was very unpredictable and most people wrote it off as too dangerous to actually use practically. The liquid is shock sensitive meaning that a physical shock can actually cause it to explode. So it was nearly impossible to transport safely. Right. You couldn't put it in the old horse and cart because it would just explode the horse and cart.

Oh no, you don't want an exploded horse. You do not want that. It's just messy. And yet, Alfred Nobel experimented with it in his own shed. Good. Quite dangerous. But it went quite well at first. In 1863 he invented a type of detonator used with nitro-glissorin,

and the world began to take notice of this relatively young man. But he hadn't ironed out all of the safety kinks. The next year in 1864, Alfred Nobel's nitroglycerin factory slash shed exploded killing several people, including his brother Emil. Oh my God. Is that one of the kids who didn't make it to adulthood? Sadly, he was one day shy of his 18th birthday. Far out.

Poor Emil. He exploded his brother. He exploded his brother. But Alfred was unfazed by this and continued on his pursuit of creating a safe product, which basically actually meant more experimenting with a very unsafe product. So he doubled down and built several more factories. I reckon just have a nice respectful break for a bit, you know? Yeah.

But no, straight back to it. That's what Amil would have wanted. Yeah. A respectful break. Yeah. If I die, Podkin can. continue, but a respectful break. What's respectful?

Six days. I can continue the following Wednesday. Right. Basically. But we won't like, we won't tweet for six days or something. Yeah, thank you. But we'll definitely get someone else in and we'll record a pod. Oh, that's fine.

Okay. Yeah, all right. You know it's not the same for me. Oh, three days. No. Six to eight months. Of no tweeting. Years.

The pod has to end for six to eight years. Let's say seven. And then we get the band back together and do a reunion tour. Yeah. Like the original podcast, which was without Jess anyway. Yeah. That's right. Technically, we would be doing our original show, so it's not as disrespectful.

Yeah. This is brutal to find out. Sorry. We'll stop doing our show, the one with the three of us. And we'll go back to our old show, which was the two of us, immediately. Yeah. Do go on. I think it was called.

Is that what we call me? Yeah, I think that's, yeah. Yeah, we should go back to the old name. It's a good title. Yeah. Catchy. Remember that I came up with it. Now you kind of talking about it.

That is untrue. That I remember it. No, I do not remember it. But we debate about who came up with a title. Oh, do we? Yeah, we do. I'm confident it was me. Incorrect. You loved it, but I suggested it.

I wrote down six potential titles. One of them was, it starts with a question, and I'm so glad we didn't go with that. That sucks. That's really bad, isn't it? I'm 100% sure it was me. How can we put it starts with a question on a t-shirt? How could you call anything that starts with a question?

Obviously, there were no bad ideas that day. It'd have to be, it starts with a question. You know? Uh-oh. Dave, do go on. Okay, do you go on. Thank you. Oh, the phrase I came up with it.

Do you really believe you came up with it? In my memory, yeah. That is embarrassing. What proof do you have that you came up with it? Knowledge, facts. Knowledge, power. Law. Where did you, where did the inspiration come to you?

God. God. Yeah. I just thought, ugh. To go on, you know? And then, you know, the rest is history. God's full. famous catchphrase.

While he's exploded his brother and he's built a new factory, everything is on track. Continuing to invent other stuff whilst experimenting with nitroglycerin in 1865, Elford created the first invention that would actually put him on the map. It was a blasting cap. This is where the hat category came in. Nobel Prize for the best hat that year. It was an improvised, sorry, improved. detonator made up of a small metal cap

containing a mercury filament. Filament? It's fulminate. Oh, wow, that's a cool new word. Yeah, it could be exploded by either shock or moderate heat. It was a real leap forward in explosive technology and the world took a step closer itself to using

large but reliable explosive, which is his mission in life is to create big explosives. Big bombs, big bangs. Yeah, big bombs, but they were reliable and in a way safe. Yeah, yeah. I love the idea of... Safe course. I want to explode stuff.

Safely. How many brothers have you got? Well, one less than last year. What happened? I don't want to talk about it. Love safety, though. Remember that. Love safety.

It's my number one thing. So he's invented the cap, the blasting cap. But he still couldn't use the cap reliably and safely with nitro glycerin, which is his big dream. Oh, it's good to have a dream, isn't it? Yeah. I imagine. I'd love to have one. One day, maybe, I'll think of a dream.

He tried a bunch of different stuff. He tried a bunch of different stuff. Trying to combine the oil with different substances like cement, coal and sawdust to try and make it safer, but these didn't work. But then in 1867, he really put himself on the world map and etched himself into history

when he combined it with diatomaceous earth. Oh, yeah. I would have suggested that first. I know. It's embarrassing. It took him three years to discover this. It's always the last place you look. And the last place you look is always diatomaceous earth.

that's me. Can you spell diatomaceous? Yeah. Yeah, great. Just checking. Otherwise, I'll let you know how to do it. By chance he discovered that the diatomaceous Earth soaked up the glycerin and made it safe to handle, but it could still be explosive when needed.

Yeah, no, duh. That's what diatomaceous earth does. Correct, correct. God. I guess you find out these things for the first time. Sometime. I did it when I was a baby. Oh, I feel like I've always known it.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's just innate for me. Right. You just had a certain... How do I say? How do you say? Can you help me out of you?

Feeling. Feeling. That's it. Thank you. I never... I'm always lost for words. So he just invented dynamite. Dynamite.

Dynamite. Naming it after the Greek word for power, dynamis. Oh. Dianus. It's probably dynamist, to be honest. A lot of these words. as I have nuts out loud before. There's a lot of European names in here.

I'm also going to quote from Wikipedia now. European names. I'm coming up to many of them. Many Swedish and Norwegian names. I'm going to quote from Wikipedia, something I rarely do is this. This had no other sources, but it really made me love. Let's not mock about. You're basically always just reading Wikipedia.

That is incorrect. You know that first he tries to claim the title. Now he's trying to claim it's all about Wikipedia. Are you trying to create a rift? It's all about that. I know that that rolls you up. There are a couple of listeners who call this a Wikipedia show. And you, it really grinds your gears.

It certainly does. Wikipedia is a great source. A great starting point. A great starting point. Fantastic. I just loved this quote. And I actually couldn't find any evidence for it anywhere else, but I still enjoyed it. Talking about how he named it.

Quote, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance, Nobel's safety powder. That's good. I love that. An old, like, old-timey hustler. Come on, get some Nobel's, no danger explosive. I love any time somebody just wants to put their name in their product. Oh, that's so good. Well, he was big on that later, obviously, when it came to awards.

So he's going with dynamite, something that we still, over 100 years later, no dynamite's a very famous thing. But I wonder, if he had named it something as dumb as Nobel safety powder, would it have taken off? Oh, it would probably be NSP. Yeah. Or TNT. What does TNT mean?

Dino-Mite. Oh, Akadaka was there for us all along. All along. They're all about education. How would you do dirty deeds? I'd do them dirt cheap. Okay.

That makes sense to me. Thunder? Question mark. Struck. Exclamation mark. Ah. TNT, I've looked it up here. And speaking of words,

can't pronounce. It's an abbreviation for the explosive Trinitrotooline. Silly name. TNT's way better. TNT, catchy. Also, Nobel safety powder, NSP. NSP. But he went with dynamite and he was granted patents for the invention of dynamite in the USA and the UK

and it was quickly adopted by companies around the world to blast tunnels, create canals and build railways. It made Nobel very famous and very, very rich because everyone needed his invention. Oh, cool. And he had all the rights to it. People, but even like, not even just like governments needing to blow up tunnels. Even people just like, oh, my drains are clogged. Yeah, I mean, it was...

Chuck some dynamite in there. Chuck some safety powder in there. Before Drano was invented, people used to blow up their pipes. And God, it was smooth after that. Before plungers were invented, you just chuck a stick of dynamite down there. Check a stick of dynamite. Clean it up. Then obviously build a new sewage system.

Yeah. Same with, like, cleaner. up crime scenes or destroying evidence. Yeah. At a crime scene. Oh no. We blew up the police station. Let's get rid of the evidence by blowing it up.

Perfect. Yeah, perfect. Oh, did I leave? You know, when you leave a house and you think, oh, did I unplug my straightener? These criminals were like, did I leave fingerprints? Oh, that's right. I blew it up.

So I need not worry. Thank you so much for that straightener analogy, you because that really put me in the place. I know. I know. Oh yeah. Yes, it's right to relate to that. Happens all the time.

And if you did leave your fingerprints and something, relax. Just blow up your fingers. Yeah. Blot up your fingers. People are like, did you do this and you're like, no. How could I? I got no fingers. Me, stub hands.

No. Stubsy. You left your straightener on? No worries. Blow it up. I mean, you're just there. Just unplug it. I've blown it up.

It's too late. I've blown it up. Also, while you're at the shops, can you buy me and you straighten? I blew mine up again. Sorry, blew up the shop. No worries. What would an old-timey ad that I was trying to spook this wonder product? I mean, we've just done it.

What would it sound like from the... Need some bloater? Well, no worries. We've got down all right. Sorry to the upstairs neighbours. I'm glad I asked. Is anyone working above us? Are we working under anyone?

Working on a battleship up there. That's the thing I was trying to say. So everyone needs this brands making new invention dynamite And he capitalised on this By building factories all over Europe to make his dynamite And set up a massive corporation that dominated the market He also continued to experiment to improve his product And you made it stronger and more reliable over the next few years

He also created and painted other explosives Including gelignite And basaltite Ah, I've heard of gelignite I've heard of basaltite Natalie Basiltheltite The singer of rogue traders. An actor in neighbours.

He was also in constant legal battles with people who tried to create similar products. Come on. No, go on then. Oh, you wanted me to laugh at much. I just wanted you to give me a little, because that was quite funny. Was it? No, I'm kidding. No, fuck you.

No, fuck you. I'm giving you nothing now. Fine with me. I'll just carry over the report. Give it nothing after all this great interesting information he's giving us? No, you're doing a great job. No, no, good on you. Great, Dave, you're the best.

Thank you. Thank you. Best report giver two years in a row. Thank you. Self-appointed? It was not self-appointed. It was voted for. By the Patrions, people with love and respect.

The year before, it was self-appointed. That was unofficial. All right, off you go. So people were trying to sue him. So, no, trying to get around paying him by inventing their own dynamite. He was sewing the pants off of them. Nice. Getting even richer.

And then he's getting more pants. Yeah. He was also blowing the pants off them. This time with another invention, the pants blower. Much like a leaf blower now. The pants blower would just blow someone's pants off. It also included Donovan. He's one of those people that gets...

More technically, it should have been called the leg blower. Because they were blown off. Their legs were blown off. Probably more accurately called a killing machine. Yeah, there's a gun. He also marketed his T&T powder to dentists. Getting rid of that unwanted plaque and ta-tah and heads. You got an overbought there.

You want to get me to fix that up for you? That's how they used to deal with teeth problems. We'll pull them out. Here's some wooden ones. Apparently, like even my grandparents' generation would get new teeth for like their 21st birthday. That would be seen as, oh, you're an adult. adult now, will yank your teeth out and give you a nice pair of false teeth. Apparently that was like... Yeah, or my grandmother. In the 40s or... Her first paycheck, apparently, from when she was a

teacher, she spent, she had horrible, horrible teeth from growing up in the country on a farm where they didn't look after them and spent the first paycheck getting a whole new set. Amazing. Wow. Because growing up, I would have thought older people often have false teeth. That's sort of a cliche and that was because over time they wore away. But it was like a decision people often made young. Yeah, she would have been in the 20th and just take them out. Oh.

And like going, oh, so good, I can't wait to get this new set of teeth. Wild idea. Crazy. Since then, they've come up with this idea of brushing teeth. Yeah,

keeping them for a bit. But you have to brush every day. You only have to replace your teeth on one day. Yeah. But you do have to put them in a glass with that sort of fizzy water. And then go to bed. like this.

I was always desperate to see my grandma without them in and she'd never let me. She would never let me. I'd be like, show, I want to see him. Never let me. Show us your gums, Nana. Good night, darling. That's what I wanted. Give us a kiss, would you?

Go on, give us a kiss. No, thank you. I wonder if you give me a kiss. Okay. No, please, thank you. No, please. Yuck, yuck, no. Sorry, I'm just kissing you in the microphone.

Theatre of the mind. It's the ASMR section of the show. We always have that. So he's still in the pants off people now. Oh, so yes, and that makes him, he's already rich. Now it's Crazy Rich. Inventing like crazy in 1983, he decided to expand his empire from dynamite

into the arms industry in Sweden, founding what was referred to in a couple of articles as the famous Beaufort's Arms factory. I hadn't heard of it. Makes sense. He's blowing people's limbs off. Yeah, he may as well. You have to start making false arms.

Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. So he started manufacturing weapons. You're going to timeout? Matt's going to jump off the balcony, I believe. No, he's just sitting on the couch. You got on a time out now? Okay, a little bit quiet time. So he's manufacturing weapons,

which makes him even wealthier. Is that how you do it? Yeah. Oh, you're an arm's deal. Have you heard about this? Have you heard about this? Yes. You can get a lot of money.

Cool. You do have to make a few sacrifices. Ethically. are other people's lives. Right. Right. Right. Right.

But apart from that, I mean, that's probably the only drawback. But I'm not shooting them. No, you're just giving weapons to other people. They can do whatever they want with them. Yeah,

I'm not making it of a shoot. They can just put them in a cupboard and leave it. Who knows? Might just put it on the wall for decoration. Yes, exactly. Yes, yes. Thank you. He was a big inventor though.

All up, he patented over 350 inventions, meaning that if he compared himself to Thomas Edison like Homer Simpson did on the Simpsons, he would still be about 2,000 inventions behind. Whoa. But still pretty good.

Thomas Edison did that many. Yeah. God damn, like, get a life. Are you out of books or chicks? You know? The two coolest thing. Books and chicks? Get a chick, read her a book.

Chicks dig that. I love a man that reads to me. Really? Yeah. Really? See, spot, run. Run, spot. Run.

you can lift the little flaps. Where's spot? There he is. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. So he invented a lot of stuff. It wasn't all just explosive in weapons. He also patented other stuff like...

Dildos. Yes. No. Artificial silk and types of leather. Yeah. For Dildos. For Dildoes. For Dilldo.

Leather dildos. Well, I mean, easy to keep clean. Is it right? Leather? No. Is leather hard to clean? What? I don't...

Once it's been in the... there, maybe? In where? Where did Dildos go? I've never known. Where do they live? What do you do with them? They look fun.

So he invented a lot of stuff. He's also a bit of a strange personality. This is taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica article on him. Nobel's complex personality puzzled his contemporaries. Although his business interests required him to travel almost constantly, he remained a lonely recluse who was prone to fits of depression. He led a retired and simple life, yet he could be a courteous dinner host, a good listener, and a man of incisive wit. He never married and apparently preferred the joys inventing to those of romantic attachment.

Though Nobel was essentially a pacifist in hopes that the destructive powers of his inventions would help bring an end to war, his view of mankind and nations was quite pessimistic. Michael Frandy sang that song about him. You can't run the world to peace. I only sang the second after quite this thing. Yeah, that was a bit confused. I was waiting for more, but then I realized what you've done. Yeah.

No, I appreciate that efficiency. Right. So he's quite contradictory in the woods-of-ways. A complicated individual. Do you know what, though? Here's a bit of a hot take from me. I love it. And we know my strength is emotional intelligence.

I would have thought your strength was your legs. Oh, it's 100%. Physically, yes. Physically. Mentally, my strength, emotional intelligence. Okay. I get people. A lot of your emotion is in your legs, though, isn't it?

Yeah, absolutely. When you're trying to get into, if you get into a sort of an emotional argument with someone, it's only a leg lock that brings back about a resolution. And when I'm upset about something, I stomp, like a toddler. But what I'm trying to get to, Matt, is that people are complicated. Oh, I thought you were going to say you can't stomp a toddler to peace or something like that. Oh, you can definitely do that. Oh, okay.

But people. are complicated. That's what I want to say. Oh, people are complicated. So, you know, I'm reading this about him like, oh, a couple of his behaviours contradict one another. Yeah, he's a person. You know, some days I want to go to a party chat to so many people. Other days, oh, yucky. I'm staying at home my pyjamas, thanks. Fortunately, you are rarely invited to parties. Yeah, it's quite infrequent now. So when they do come up, I'm usually too nervous to go. I don't, I don't even, what do you do? I don't remember. But what I do with my hands?

Where do I look? The floor. Always look at the floor. Stand in a corner, look at the floor. Don't touch any food. Yeah. Or, if you touch one bit of food, touch it all. Yeah, that is real.

One in all in. Yeah, I'm in all or nothing kind of gale. If you turn the lights on, turn them off and on and off and on again. Party rules. Until you ask to leave. Yeah. When in doubt, just run the kitchen tap for an hour, staring into the stream. muttering under your breath.

What are you mutter? Some kind of hex. Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah. That's how you get invited back. This is how you hex. You stare into the water. You go, fuck these guys.

Fucking jerks. Hope they all die. That's how you do it. See you next month. What, at a party? I'm going to monthly parties. No, a book club party or something. Oh my God, it's exhausting.

I've got to get new outfits. I can't want to say my outfit to the party. I'll say it. They'll say, does she only have one outfit? They'll say, that's what they'll say. Yeah, they'll say that. I've said it, I've said it. Dave, please to go on.

The phrase that I met him. I mean, the audacity of that. It'll be in a chat or an email or somewhere. If you can track it down. I've got the original note where I wrote down the potential names for the pod. And you've got one added in with brackets. Matt offered this one. Don't know how I feel about it.

I'd prefer it all starts with a question, but I'm being diplomatic and letting Matt make suggestions too before I steamroll. Do you go on. Yeah, good one. People accidentally say do goon all the time. I reckon I would have talked about this before and I would have mentioned this before as well. But initially stupid old studios came from stupid old man, the sketch group we're in. And one of the suggestions on that, maybe even the second most popular option was,

this is a door. That's good stuff. Your production company would be called This is Ador. I think that was an option. Wow. Who suggested that? Andy, I think, suggested all of Mandy from doing the think tank. How we normally work as a group is.

Al and Andy have great ideas. Evan figures out how to do them. Beck makes them better. And I sit there nodding along. Yeah. Going, yeah, I agree. And this is the man that thought of the title do go on. Yeah.

That's kind of how. I'll save my best stuff for us. Yeah. Thank you. That's kind of how this podcast works, except I'm the mat. You know? I'm the mat of the pod. I did not see you going self-deprecating there. Really?

What a twist. Yeah. I try to keep that off pod. On pod, arrogant asshole. Off pod. So sad. Oh. Can't go to parties.

Can I have more be at least? Just give me a little bit. Dave, do go on. I'll quietly do this and listen to home I know. Okay. Because this is an important part of the story. We get to the Nobel Prize now. An often told story that is debated,

but could be a reason that he established the Nobel Prize, goes a little something. I like this. Okay. Crack that mother effin beer. This is the story. In 1888, Alfred's brother Ludwig. Oh, yes.

Wow, his brother got the better names, Amiel and Ludwig. Yeah, they're good stuff, isn't it? He died while staying in Cannes in France. French newspapers reported Ludwig's death. but confused him with Alfred. And one paper sported the headline, Le Mons de la Mort es Mort, mord, aka the merchant of death is dead,

referring to the fact that Alfred had invented so many explosive and weapons of death throughout his life. This was apparently relayed to Alfred who started to consider his legacy. So he decided to make some changes to his will. I'm going to make a change for once in my... Is that what Michael Jackson was written about? Are you quoting?

Michael Jackson. Yeah. It's a bit off colour. No, I'm just saying that Michael Jackson wrote that song about Alfred Nobel. Yeah, maybe also. Looking at the man in the mirror. I'm looking at a man exploding things. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, it does make sense out. Oh, my God. Yeah. something, and this is something that surprised his family, friends and also the general public. Alfred died in 1896 at a villa in Italy at the age of 63. At the time of his death, his personal fortune was estimated in today's dollars at nearly 300 million US dollar dues. Whoa. That is so much money.

And his will stated that he wanted to leave the majority upwards of 95% of the fortune to establish awards that would be known as the Nobel Prizes. I would take 1% of that. happily. I'd take any percentage of it if someone was offering me free money. You take $3 million. Yeah, I would. Honestly, no, no shit. No shit.

That is big of you. I would do it. I can't believe it. I would take it. I'm looking at you like a different person right now. If someone was like, hey, I have $300 million. I'd be like, that's so wonderful, good for you. I hope you use that well.

And then they went, do you want 1% of it? I'd be like, I couldn't. If I have to. I couldn't have another bit. No, I could. 1.1, I shan't. 1% okay. I'll take it off your hands for a bit.

That's what I'd say. If it helps. If you want me to. If it would make you happy. It can't be that bad. If you, I mean, if it would help, you'll plight. Yeah, you'll plight. If it's a running hole in your pocket.

Honestly, if you're just paying that in tax anyway. Oh my gosh. Let me take that off your hands. I'm so sorry. I'm a relive you of this burden. You're a big man. I'm a big man. Probably the biggest.

Thank you. By taking the smallest chunk. Well, he wanted the prizes to reward those who served humanity and also become his real legacy. And I've got to tell you, what an incredible PR move. Yeah, huge. 125 years later, here we are. When someone says Nobel, you think of the Nobel Prize. You don't think of all the people his inventions killed at all.

No one talks about that anymore. Also, why do you give a shit about your legacy after you're dead? Yeah, that is interesting. I guess it's back in the day. Well, I mean, that's the people who strive for big stuff are always obsessed with legacy. They're always people who are a bit off, right? Yeah.

People who end up being prime ministers or premiers or presidents, they're always about, they want a bridge named after them or something. Every, every... The ultimate recognition. Well, honestly, they'll do anything. Like in Melbourne, premieres will always have some big project. Jeff Kenned had the... Exhibition Center.

You had, Brax had, I think he was one who changed it to Southern Cross Station. It didn't need a name change. But people want, they go, I did that. It was called the Spencer Street Station because it was on Spencer Street. But I thought, you know what? For some reason, I'm going to change that name. Yep. Yeah.

I mean, this show was called, it starts with a question until Matt came along. Yeah. That's my legacy. That's my legacy. It's your legacy. The premiere of the pod. But it isn't an interesting thing, but people want to have things. Yeah, but obviously it worked for him a lot.

Because, yeah, the Nobel Prizes, that's what people think about. And if I think Nobel Prize, the first one I think of his Peace Prize. And it was only relatively recently that I heard that he wasn't the most peaceful guy. I mean, I was so, I think it was two, three minutes ago that I learned that it was actually a war monger, basically. Yeah, made a lot of money off war. The executives of his will formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of his. Nobel's fortune and organised the award of prizes. Again, quoting from Britannica,

in his will, he stipulated that four different institutions, three Swedish and one Norwegian, should award the prize. From Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences confers the prize for physics, chemistry and economics, and the Karolinska Institute confers the prize for physiology or medicine. Cool. And the Swedish Academy confers the prize for literature. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo,

confirms the price for peace. Oh, nice. So that's the one rewarded in Norway. Norway known for peace, too. What do they like? Norway. What else? Yeah, when you think Norway, what do you think?

Norwegian Wood. Oh, yeah. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. I like that one. I like to harmonise to it in the car. I think of what I think of. I think of Henry Gibson?

Heavy metal. Oh, okay. Similar. Yeah. Yeah, but I know very little about Norway, I'm realizing. Is Norway? No, Finland. What's the fjord?

The big fjord plays. Is that Finland? No, it's always got the fjords. All across that region. I think of, yeah, Henrik Ibson, the playwright. Oslo is the capital, is it? Yeah. Oslo, what do you think when you think of Oslo?

Great name for a city. It's one of my favourite city names, I reckon, Oslo. Yeah, it's pretty good. Do we have any Norwegian listeners, do you? Yeah. Yeah, we met some in London. Yeah, and made an indelible mark on me. Yeah, fantastic.

I think about them all the time. Great people. Shout out to those great people. I love them We met We have no wage And listeners Yeah they came to our show on London

Do you remember meeting them Yeah Oh yes I do remember They gave us chocolates Yeah Oh yes They were the best

That was so nice What a piece of shit I am Yeah But we've always said that And they know that too Yeah that's fine They're lucky for it Listening they're laughing

They're laughing And going classic Matt But you know They're used to it It's okay Yeah Everyone knows So anyway

That's pretty cool I didn't know that Yeah So they're all presented in Sweden except for the Peace Prize, which is awarded in Norway. So they're not even done in one big ceremony. They're done separately. Yeah, well, I think they're all awarded on the same day.

What if you're up for both? What if you've written a really good book and cured cancer? Okay, yes, I'm listening. My ears are burning. My ears are exploding. That's one of his as well. Yeah, exploding ears. This is one of my notes where I put a note in for that for people who want to do pub trivia and do well.

That is often asked in what country is the Nobel Peace Prize Award and everyone always writes down Sweden because they're like, oh, all of them are. That's the odd one out. So remember that. Peace Prize. Peace Norway. Oh, so you can, is the question where each of them awarded? Well, sometimes people just ask, where is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded and everyone just writes, well, they're all awarded in Sweden. Right.

But they're not. That's an asshole question. Yeah, it is. That's a point of trivia. It's frequent, isn't it? To be an asshole. Yeah, the point of trivia is for the trivia host to go. Yeah, that's an asshole

That's a bad trivia night Yeah, I hate those ones You like him to be really easy questions No, just like you know it or you don't Not sucked in, fuck-head Yeah, I do hate that actually Because it's like, you know what, we all have gaps in our knowledge

But now I'm telling people so they do know it And they don't not know So Dave's not doing that Any of those come to mind? Any other ones? Oh, I mentioned that. Davis, you must be one of the trivierist buffs Maybe we've got one listener

who's maybe even more superior than you I did more was not required there even is more is superior to you from the chase oh fantastic of course yes brighton coverdale what a guy and he's also a really great cricket tweeter funny insightful great facts great to have you listening to the show and he's the on the Australian version of the chase the fantastic game show which Dave and I used to work for plays the shark He has to keep moving or he dies.

Can I go backwards? I don't think they can. Or am I thinking of emus? Brighton is turning in his grave right now. Because that is not true. Isn't it? What? About sharks?

No, Briden's not dead. All right, well, I guess back to the Nobel Prize. It took a few years to get organised, partly because the Nobels, the family of Nobel's, were taken by surprise when his will dedicated most of his money to the prize. They all thought they were going to get lots and lots of money from uncle. Some relatives even contested the will.

I hate people. So it took years because it's $300 million. People do not let that go easily. Yeah, that is a lot of money. But at the same time, it's like, stop fighting a will. You know, that feels fucked. Yeah. That's so gross.

That's really fucked up. Again, my parents are pretty poor. Your parents aren't worth $300 million? No. First I've heard of it. So when they go. Wait, but I make fun of you all the time for being from rich family. I go along with it.

but they're not poor. They listen. They're not poor. You guys are doing great and I love you. But we're not getting much, you know? I'm so sorry to shout out. I really hope that they are spending your inheritance and that's all it is. I hope so.

They're secretly got $330 million. And they're at home going, yeah, okay, Jess, we can give you 1% of that's all you need. Yeah, no problem. You get 1% of your inheritance. No worries. So it took ages to get it happening. They had to form a committee, all this stuff. contested the will, lots of court stuff.

The prizes were first awarded in 1901 on December 10th, the fifth anniversary of Nobel's death, a date they continue to be awarded on. Right. It is the anniversary of his death. November 10th. Remember, December. The 10th of December. That is the worst rhyme.

It sucks. Because it works for everything. It works for them all. That is nearly always Meredith weekend, 10th of December. It's the same week. Remember, remember. That's why I always miss it. 26th of August.

It works for all of them. Remember, remember. 13th of March. Easy. Easy. Done. Next. Whatever.

Bored. The first prize for peace went to the Red Cross co-founder Henry Dunant. German Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize in physics for his work on X-rays. I believe Rontkin is a measure for radioactivity. Yeah, in fucking Chernobyl. Chinable, do they talk about that, do they? Yeah, Ronkin, I'm sure they do.

Yeah, yeah, I remember talking about that on now. Because it's a lot of Rodkin. There was a comment on our Shinobo episode on YouTube recently, like, why are you laughing about this? Like, oh, we're not laughing about that. No, we're laughing about Megatrot. A giant horse that wears a cape.

The laughs are adjacent to the fucked up story. We're never laughing at the fucked up stuff. Yeah. Unless it's funny fucked up, you know? It's different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, who else won awards? Emil, this is some of the European names.

Emil von Berring won the Prize in Medicine. Was Emil a meal a popular name at any point? Yeah. A meal. A meal. I quite like it. A meal. I'm into it too.

I've never heard a meal twice in a day before. Right. And you've kept a chart of that every day for your whole life. I have. Before you go to bed every night, how many meals did I meet today? A lot of people eat three round of meals a meal. day, but not me. Not me.

Look, honestly, these passion fruit gozes are making me say things that I don't want to say. Putting words in your mouth. Terrible, pun-based words. And finally, I just wanted to get to this guy, Dutchman. Jacobus, Henrikus, Henry Vant Hof Jr. Yeah, that's good. Is he a Patreon of us? He won the first prize in chemistry and also the award for best name ever.

Yeah, that is a sick name. That's great. Jacobus, Henricus, Henry. Van Thoff Jr. Russell Crowe played him. Yes. Yep. Or a little metal skirt.

Yep. That's good stuff. One of the reasons the award carries such prestige is that there is considerable process in selecting the winners. Again, reading for Britannica, it's got a fantastic article, which I will link to if you want to read more.

Although the winners are announced in October and November, the selection process begins in early autumn of the preceding year, when the prize awarding institutions invite more than 6,000 individuals to propose or nominate candidates for the prizes. Talking northern autumn, I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah.

So what's that? Our spring? Our spring. So almost as soon as the prize is awarded, they start on next years. Right. Some 1,000 people submit nominations for each prize. That's not as many as I would have expected. Really?

Okay. And the number of... Surely it's easier now with like online applications. Do you know what I mean? Oh yeah. Back in the day, I had to carry pitching the shit in. I'm going to put myself in for peace. And I've put myself in for pasty guy.

Link below. Do not vote using the link below. Vote, please. It'll be pretty funny. What would you do with the dead grant? I'd split it with you, Jeff. Fuck yeah. 50-50.

If I went up 50-50 with Jess. Well, none of us are going to win it. The baby man's going to win it now, thanks to you. I reckon we can get Matt to win. Jazz has been 50-50. I want five grand. Dave wants to use his money to take himself on a trip to two continents. Yeah, to eat fucking pies because I actually care.

None of the people in this competition care about pies. It's some dad. Dave, it's a dumb thing to care about. I've just realized that Jess doesn't actually come from millions of dollars, but you have not said anything of the sort. And you're begging for more? Please. A bigger piece of the already large pie?

You don't understand. Exactly. The more pie, the better. You get me now. Thank you. Jess and I are going to share our meagre pasty earnings of the $10,000. Yes.

No one's going to win it. You just cost me $10,000. Vote for Dave first. I don't want him to have a bloody blur. And then. Chuck one away. Chuck one air way. But one thing when definitely not doing is giving the baby man.

No. No, baby man sucks. But if you can find, if anyone from anonymous is, listening somehow take away votes from babyman I don't know how the internet We're inviting anonymous to take away votes from baby

I know they like to take on some pretty big projects So it is that video shows somebody to screen Hello baby man You know what you did Oh dear I just want I just want to win something Well you can have the Nobel Prize

Oh actually no sorry Don't you don't you How would you give that to me and then take it away? What I want to say is don't nominate yourself because self-nomination automatically disqualifies the nominee. I love that. You've got to be humble. Yeah, you can't.

But you can also just turn to your partner and be like, can you please nominate me? Please. You know, like it's so easy to just ask somebody that you trust who won't judge you. How do you win Peace Prize? Because it feels like I have not started a single war. And I've been around for a long time. I haven't done any. We will get to that in a second.

Well, the names of the nominees cannot be revealed until, 50 years later, but the Nobel Peace Prize Committee does reveal the number of nominees each year. The record was 376 candidates in 2016. And then it's voted for by people in their field. So it's expert. That's why it's so prestigious because it's people who should know about your field, picking who's the best in the field of peace. Other previous winners. John Lennon, Michael Franty. Hang on. So the name of the nominees aren't mentioned for 50 years. So does that mean you don't know if you're nominated? You know, because you've asked your partner to do it.

No, I've actually heard of some people being rung up in the middle of the night because they're not in Europe answering the phone and thinking it's a prank when they said, hi, you've just won the Nobel Prize because they didn't tell them in advance. And they're like, what? And, you know, a lot of these people... You could die not knowing you were nominated.

You probably will die because I'm assuming people aren't being nominated at 10 years old. So they're already fully grown adults. and then 50 years later, it's like, okay, so this is who was nominated 50 years ago, but those people are dead. It's a nice thing to learn for the grandchildren or something. Oh, grandma was nominated for the Peace Prize. That's cool.

Cool. 10 years. Keep the mystery. There's going to be some embarrassing ones down the line, I think. I reckon every Australian Prime Minister's got someone to nominate them for the Peace Prize. Oh, come on. Wow, that's fascinating. Yeah, and there are also many rules to follow.

Prices may only be. given to individuals except the peace prize which may also be conferred upon an institution. We're an institution. Oh, yes. And we have been sending peace abroad. Honestly, guys, guys, everyone listening, just like, just be good to each other. Yeah. Oh, good point.

Yeah, I agree with that as well. Do people realize that the subtext of this show is peace? Yeah. Do you go on peaceful. We don't want to say it. Yeah, obviously, that's what we're saying. Go with peace. Yeah, go with peace.

We're all about taking the peace. Thank you. We are always... You look at the camera when you regret taking the peace. It's been a real bad show for me. No, I think it's one of your best. You and I have different views, though. And we still get along peacefully.

Thank you. I'm sorry, everybody. I've got... Oh, sweaty mic. Is that sweat? Is that sweat? I don't... We very rarely have to hold mics for this show.

That is so... That's clammy as shit. You ruin peaceful. No, but I'm so sorry that I went to shake your hand. Show us your mic hand. Oh, am I a freak? Oh, you wearing a t-shirt. Yeah, I took my job off because I got too hot.

Yeah, look at Dave. Glimmering. Yours was dripping, mate. All right. Gross. Dave, do go on. I'm sorry. Gross, soggy boys.

An individual may not be nominated posthumously. So as soon as you die, that's it for you. You can never win. No matter what you did in life. But a winner who dies before receiving the prize may be rewarded it posthumously. This has happened so far three times. Once in 1961, 1931, and then Ralph M. Steinman for Physiology or Medicine in 2011. The committee weren't actually aware that Steinman had died when he was named the winner.

So when they inquired to give him the prize, they found out that he was dead. And because that's against the rules, they were like, oh, we stuffed up. So they gave him the prize anyway. Right. So his family got the prize. Did you notice the coincidence there? 31 61 2011 That's interesting

Numbers that end in one Well done What's the pattern there I got it Winners receive a gold medal A diploma Basically a certificate Which is the most prestigious part

And also sweet sweet cash There's a lot He did not die A rich man for nothing In 2017 The laureates were awarded a prize Of 9 million sweetest croner Which is just shy of 1 million

US dollars. Wow. So you get a lot of money. So there's six million giving away every year. So that's just earning interest? Or are they also getting donors? No. So there's a committee set up,

which is basically a business and they invest the money. And the money actually changes slightly every year depending on how much money is in the kid. What are they investing in? I'd love the piece prize to be funded by, I wouldn't love it, but the irony would be delicious. Wow. Are you going to talk at all?

Because I believe, like, some of the winners for the Peace Prize have been pretty... Yeah, I'm going to go through each prize and a few of the famous winners and stuff. That's so much money. So sometimes two winners are named and very rarely three for the same sort of invention or discovery. Right. And then you have to split it evenly. Right. Did you know one year the winner was you?

Are you talking about Time Magazine? Time Magazine. Time Magazine. Time magazine, Person of the Year. One year it was the personal computer. What a cop out. And it was like the covers like a mirror or something. You.

Yes, Jess, question. Question from the back. Question with that notice, please. Did I have to use that money for like to continue with their work or is it just like theirs? Much like the pie competition, you can spend the money whenever you want. You can spend it on something. No, you can spend it on something dumb. For example, a trip to Africa and South America to eat a pie on a mountain.

Yes. Yep. You can spend your half on anything you like. Thanks, Matt. But maybe we'll spend it on. the people who voted for us. I'm not saying we will, but maybe we will. Maybe we will. Vote for us.

A vote for Jess and Matt is a vote for peace. A vote for Jess and Matt is a vote for baby man. Let's be clear about that. Occasionally, this will not be happening any of us win. The prize has been refused by the winner. Oh, I love that. Adolf Hitler forbade three Germans. Richard Kuhn, or Kuhn, in chemistry in 1938.

Adolf Buten Dundt. in chemistry in 1939 and Gerhard Domakht, who won for Physiology and Medicine in 1930. That's good. Got him. All those, all three of these, he said, you can't accept these prizes. Why?

Because he was jealous. He wanted it. He went to Eva Broadly's like, why didn't you nominate me? That was my accent. So in this report, you've named two different Emiles and two different Adolfs.

But Adolves were in the same sentence. They were directly involved with one another. Can I just say that pre-World War II, I imagine was a much more popular name. Yeah, after that. It's kind of been tainted for a bit. For a bit. Like the first name, Michael Jackson.

You can't use that anymore. Can't have Michael Jackson. Isn't there, like, wasn't one of the actors in Black Panther named Michael Jackson? No, Michael B. Jordan. Michael B. Jordan. I knew it was one of the famous MJs. Me, Michael J. Fox, Michael Jordan, distant fourth now, Michael Jackson. Yeah.

So those three people were banned by Hitler from getting... My middle name's James. I don't. I know that. I call you MJ. MJ number three is what I call him. Obviously, Jordan number one. Yeah.

Michael J. Fox number two. And, oh, okay, yeah, you're number four. My brother's also MJ. And I call him MJ. You put your brother ahead of me. Yeah. Oh, because your parents are listening. You don't want them to know that you don't know who like him.

I don't want them to know I don't like him. I figured that was a secret. Yeah, it's a secret that I don't like him. Oh, this bit's getting edited out. It certainly isn't So those three people were banned from Hitler From receiving their awards Why?

After the war, they got their diplomas and medals But they did not receive the prize money Why did he say they couldn't have it? How pissed off would you be? Oh, they got the medals but not the cash Sorry, you weren't here to get the cash We've reinvested it I would take the money over a medal

Any day Really? You take a money dollars over a medal Hmm You think you know someone? I never wear my... I've got so many medals I just never wear them.

Do you know what I mean? Run Melbourne. It comes to every time I go to clear out my wardrobe, I hold them and I'm like, oh, do they spark joy? Yeah. Cash does. Cash does. Medals?

It wanes. Two Nobel laureates, John Paul Sartre in 1964, I won for literature and Liduc-Toe, who won for Peace in 1973. Duktoe. They declined their awards. so they weren't told that unlike the three German guys

who were told they couldn't accept but these people actually said no Sartre declined the award as he declined all official honours Oh he's a bit anti-establishment And Lee declined the war due to the situation in Vietnam that he was involved in at the time

Right So imagine that You've got a lot of money on the table In that situation You've got to stand up and say no thank you The Nobel Prize as I mentioned For Peace is the only prize awarded outside of Sweden

and that is because when Nobel was alive, Norway and Sweden were united under one monarch. So we split them between the two. The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the Nobel Prize three times, more than any other. But the Peace Prize has been the most controversial of all the prizes, as Matt was alluding to before. Some strange people have been nominated, Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union, who killed millions and millions of his own people, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1945. 48 for his efforts to end World War II. So, not a great guy.

Adolf Hitler was also nominated once in 1939. As a joke. Oh. Oh, that's fucked. Do you have to pay to enter, or do you just have to buy the TV week? Yeah, you get texted an SMS code. You put it in, your official. He was nominated by anti-fascist and Swedish parliamentarian,

a guy called EGC Brandt, who submitted Hitler's name as a satirical criticism. That is very satirical. I love satire myself. I love satire. I love satire. I love satire. Saterical criticism. Oh, yes.

Thank you. My favourite. The reason is in 1939 British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain was nominated to receive the Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Munich Agreement, which ceded part of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Brand put Hitler forward for the prize, claiming that if Chamberlain could be nominated for talking Hitler out of a war,

then Hitler should be nominated for not starting a war. He had to swiftly withdraw the nomination when it was actually taken seriously and people didn't get his joke. So Hitler was briefly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and then later that year started World War II. That is a good bit. Yeah, what a great bit. You'd be standing there going, guys? Guys? This is funny.

Mahatma Gandhi or Gandhi was never awarded the Peace Prize and this is viewed as probably the biggest oversight by the Nobel or people when talking about Nobel Prizes. Including some Peace Prize workers themselves, including the Secretary of, of the Norwegian Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006, you said, the greatest submission in our 106 year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace Prize. Where the Nobel Committee can do without Gandhi,

that's the question. That is a good question. That is a good question. And it does all start with the question. It does all start with a question. Fantastic title. Thank you. That was one of mine as well.

Jane Adams was nominated 91 times between 1916 and 1931 by different people and she was finally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after that but imagine that. 91 times. That's a Meryl Streep effort. People keep putting you forward. Next up we have the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, but just the Nobel Prize in Literature.

It probably has the most household names. These are people that have won it. Yeah, honestly, I'm going to start with one that probably not that many people know, but Marisa Maiterlingk, Eugene O'Neill, who we mentioned last week on the Unabomber episode. He won't. He wrote Where's Rolley? Yeah, yeah.

Uh, yeah. Uh, yeah. Uh, the ars man cometh and Longde's Journey tonight. Ernest Hemingway. Yeah, did, uh, the Spot series. Uh, George, George, George, uh, George, uh, Bernard Shaw. Uh, okay, yep, uh, Postman Pat. Thank you.

T.S. Eliot. Yeah, he wanker. That's a name of a Tism song. Uh, William Faulkner. Ah, fork in the road. Dog in the bone. All right, I will. I've got a few more to go.

Okay. Albert Camus. Oh, Camus. He comes up in a few Tism songs as well. The outsider. Z, Z, outsiders? Outsider. I think he's the outsider.

The outsider. Fun fact, I read that book to impress a boy. Come on, next. Was the boy impressed? Tell us about the book. Yeah, was it successful? I made out with him. Oh, hell yeah.

Then what happened? Camus. Then he immediately made up with my best friend. Hey, I just read Camus. Want to have a Camooch? Jess, I'm sorry, you just have revealed something that. What happened after you met out with him? He made out with my best friend.

Like immediately after, like turned around. Did you feel like a bit of an outsider? No, for some reason I was okay with it. What? I don't know why. Because it sounds like he was a bad guy. Oh, lovely guy. Really great guy.

Great guy. Anyway. Bob Dylan won a couple years ago and it was very controversial. Very controversial. People, they were like, yeah, he writes poetry, baby. And people were like, absolutely not. Yeah, it was kind of, it made the award a bit of a joke. And he also just didn't seem that keen eye.

Yeah. I had no idea. Well, you should read a book. I really should. So Bob Dylan won. Would it impress a boy? You should read a book, something that Bob Dylan doesn't really do. Yeah.

He doesn't read books? He doesn't write to me either. Famously doesn't read books. A bunch of famous people missed out. So Bob Dylan's one-one, but these people haven't. Leo Tolstoy, people are like, why they're holding in he went. Virginia Woolf. Wrote Lord of the Rings. Virginia Woolf wrote World War Wolf comes again.

James Joyce. James Joyce, obviously, wrote up there, Kazali, the song about footie. Marcel Proust. Proust. These are all, like, Tism have referenced all of these people. They're all very high-brow people. I went to a Tism concert, and they had a host. A guy hosting a Save Autism Telethon.

And for whatever reason, they made his character, they named him Marcel Proust. I didn't get it at the time. I still don't get it. But bloody hell, that's funny stuff. Yep. That is good stuff. What is Marcel Proust on? Famous for a very, very, very long book.

What is it called? And it has a thing that's frequently referenced Matterlines in it, which uses his memory. We love our children. We love our ghosts. We love our... children, let's have some toast. Is that Madeline? It's so close.

In search of lost time and it's like thousands, it's 4,000 pages long. Oh, that's too long. That's a lot of pages. That's a lot of words. If every page had one word, that's a long book. It's still too many. Let me just finish this list.

I'm trying to get through it. Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein and Henry Ibson, who I mentioned as the famous Norwegian, all overlooked. Winston Churchill was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but was actually awarded one for literature, something that people often get confused about with him. Because he wrote some very...

Fanficion. Yeah, fan fiction. He loves fan fiction. Yeah, famous diaries and biographies about his own life. Yeah, cool. We will fetch them on the beaches. Et cetera. Was that one of his?

Yeah, that's one of the John Lithgow. Physics is another prize. Einstein's probably the most famous winner of this, one in 1921. I've heard of him. A good year. But, and then there's... Physiology and medicine.

Now, this medical-based award is given physiology and medicine. It's often awarded years and years after this discovery because it takes such a long time to figure out how revolutionary or successful the medical discovery is. The inventor of penicillin a winner? Yes, Alexander Fleming. Maricuree. I'm just talking about Mari Curie.

Oh, sorry. I always confuse those two. What did she do? She won two. She won two. She won two. Three consecutive Melbourne Cups or something? Yeah.

She won two. Did she? Yeah, two different categories as well. What? Chemistry. Which I think is only two people. It was one of those ones. It's a weird range of topics.

Like some specific science ones that could easily have been the Science Nobel Prize. Sure. Like, there should be a Nobel Prize for science. And then one of those ones you've saved a Nobel Prize for car racing or something. Right? Or jumping. Really high. No, just standing.

Jumping. A standing leap. Standing jump. Standing jump. You should get a Nobel Prize for standing. Have you seen that video of Bill Gates jumping a chair from the 90s? Exactly. He would have won one. Fantastic video.

They said to him, oh, I hear you can jump an office chair from standing up and he goes, depends how tall the chair is. That's great point. That quote is why he's the richest man in the world. Yeah, no, you're absolutely. I wouldn't have answered that way. Do you remember when he came in and closed down Homer Simpson's business? Oh, yeah.

That was fun. I didn't get rich by buying people out. So physiology of medicine. it takes the longest time, you discover something, and then it comes back, you actually get the prize. The average time is 20 to 30 years between discovery and award. Whoa. But sometimes it's longer. Peyton Ruse had to wait 50 years to be awarded his prize on his work on viruses that caused tumours.

50 years. 50 years after discovery you are recognized. And sometimes, because it takes her long, people are awarded the prize and later we found out that their work was in fact bullshit. Oh. Egar Moniz received the prize in physiology and medicine in 1949 for developing the now extremely discredited frontal lobotomy. Oh, right, which is still a famous phrase. Yeah.

You need a frontal lobotomy. What a great put down. And there was a big period of time where people thought that that was the right thing. You do now. People were like, no, you are destroying someone's brain. Yeah, you're taking part of their brain now. Isn't that someone about, I'd rather put a bottle in front of me than have a frontal lobotomy?

Is that a thing? Sounds like a tism line, is it? No, I think it's... I think it's the Three Stooges or something. Wow, that's insane. Yes, sometimes they get it really wrong. Danish physician Johann Fibiger, again, sorry, sorry to the Europeans, won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Medicine for demonstrating that roundworm caused cancer in rats and mice.

People were like, that's a big discovery. Wow, okay. Only a problem was, it doesn't. Okay. This was shown a few years later, but by the time Fibiger was dead due to cancer himself. Oh. Oh, yeah. roundworm.

Well, most likely, Fiburgis specimens had died because they were fed a diet without any vitamin A. And that's why they developed this cancer. It had nothing to do with the species. The Nobel was never rescinded, but in 2010, an official with the Carolyn Institute, which is associated,

admitted it was one of our biggest blunders that the Institute had ever made. Whoa. And they accepted a nomination for Adolf Hitler. Yeah, I know. And that was our top. 10 biggest blunders. Counting them down.

Unlike the Oscar statues that I mentioned on the Academy Awards episode, winners can sell their medals. Although this is incredibly rare. Physics winner Leon Liederman, who won in 1988, sold his Nobel earlier this year to cover medical care expenses, and it sold for three quarters of a million dollars. You should be allowed to do that. Yeah.

I agree. But far out, that sucks. Well, is this more of a feel-good story? Russian billionaire Alicia Usmanov paid $4.7 million to buy the gold medal Nobel awarded to biologist James Watson for his work deciphering DNA's double helix. But then he gave the medal back to the laureate. He said that the medal should remain with the winner and that the money he paid for it should go towards research. Oh, that's great.

That's nice. Yeah. Wow. Finally, the final prize is the economics one, which was first reward in 1969. Nice. Nice. My, uh, the favorite thing I read about this is as an economist, I'm sure, Robert Lucas, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Economics would be very annoyed by what happened to his and his finances.

Oh, no. He had to split his $1 million prize money with his wife, who he divorced seven years earlier. Their divorce agreement stated, quote, wife shall receive 50% of any Nobel Prize. But the clause expired on October 31st, 1995. Had Lucas won any year after that, he would have kept the whole million dollars. What a specific clause. Imagine getting...

You'd have to be confident that your husband or wife is pretty likely to win something. But they also divorced seven years earlier. So if you're still bitter after seven years, like if I had put that in there as a little bit of a, like a fuck you. like right at the end of our marriage right if you won seven years later i'd be like oh that was a bit of a piss take you should probably keep that but again i'm a nice person yeah yeah i think divorces seem to be a thing that can go a little mouse too yeah interesting i've heard this but also like half a million dollars yeah true i'd be taking it like some of that stuff the point is that the partner was supporting them yeah and

giving him the possibility to do the work that earns them that stuff. The ones that I find annoying is when it's like Paul McCartney did all his work. Yeah. And then he had a divorce that cost him so much money when all that money and everything was made well before they even met. Yeah, yeah, that sucks. Sometimes before they were even born. Oh. With Paul McCartney.

No, just rock and roll stars marrying young. In that case, fuck them. Yeah. Finally, some possibly fun facts. Some of them aren't fun, but they are, just to sum it all up, among the 892 Nobel laureates, this is definitely not fun, but it sort of highlights something. Only 48 have been women.

Oh, of the how many? 892. Oh, those aren't good stats. That's so bad, isn't it? Which is what, about 5%. Yeah, women lift your game. The first woman... I say that as the feminist on this show, you know?

You say that a lot? Lean in. win some awards. Lean in and win. Lean in and win. That's what you say. It's the name of my book. Buy it now online.

The first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was of course Marikuri, who's the only woman to receive a prize twice. That's how good penicillin was. She invented penicillin so nice. She was awarded for it twice. Did she win them close to one another, the Nobel Prizes? I think they're a few years apart. Yeah, but not that long.

Same category? No, two different categories. She's one of the only people. History and physics. And her daughter also won one. Wow, that's got to be... Their family is extremely impressive. So of the 48.

And one of them was... The Curies have three. One of them was shared with her husband too, Pierre. Oh, that dog. Wild. You've got time, Jess, if you're wondering if you want to win this, because the average age of a Nobel laureate across all prize categories is 59 years old.

I got 30 years. Damn it. Yeah, sorry, Matt. Time's past. To date, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize, Laureate is Malala Yusuf Sy. Of course. Who was 17 years old when she won in 2014.

That's pretty young, I guess. The oldest Nobel Peace Prize laureate today is Joseph Rotblatt. Yep. It was 87 years old when he won in 1995. The devil's number. 87? 87? No cricket it is.

Is it? 13 away from a ton. Oh. Right. That one's for you, Brighton. This fact comes from Scientific American.com. This is when Joe Bardeen co-won the physics Nobel in 1956. Says John.

What did I say, Joe? Yeah. Stop reading over my phone. I can't help, but it's right in front of me. Are you reading along the whole time? I'm on a great angle. I can't say it at all. I'll look over here.

When John Bardeen co-won the Nobel Physics Prize in 1956, he left most of his family at home rather than bring them along for the award ceremony. Quote, his son told me that his father wanted them all to stay in school and study for whatever tests they had explained scientific American video editor Aline, Auger Brown, Organ Brown. He was loath to take off... Organ Brown. Shut up.

Yeah, we're so close to the end. He was loath to take time off work himself. The King of Sweden, who was at the ceremony, noted the absence of his family and actually scolded Bardeen. The Nobel laureate promised the king, I'll bring them next time. Then, in 1972, Bardeen indeed won a second Nobel, making him the third person in history to win the prize twice. Wow.

That time, he made sure to bring his entire family. That's sweet. Isn't that nice? I like that the king is so family-orientated. Yeah, tongue someone off for that. Orientated? That's why he's the king. You're the king.

You're the king, king, king, king. He's the king, king, king, king. You're the king-king-king. Three lorries were in prison when they received the award. Yeah, right. Bad boys. All of them winners of the Nobel Priests, the baddest of the bad. Yeah. Really?

But you can be in, you can be peaceful, but then be in prison for fraud. Yes. No, most of them are in prison by people who are trying to oppress them. They're actually getting the peace. Nelson Mandela? Opress them. Oh, definitely heard impress. You need to enunciate.

Yeah. I'm also being infected by these beers. You're doing well. And final fact, yeah, I'm sure Nobel, Alfred Nobel, that is, would be happy with his legacy. He went from murderer extraordinaire to Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah. Murderer or tunnel exploderer? Thank you.

Tunnel to hell. Drain clearer. Yeah. But I'm sure he'd also be stoked that the synthetic element, Nobelium, was also named after it. I had an element named after you? Yeah, so that's pretty... Mine'd be Bopium.

Oh, Bopium is fun. Yeah. It's the main chemical in Bucleum. Bubbles. Whoa. Bopium. Bopium. No one had ever named the Bubbles before.

We just call them bubbles. Bubbles. Yeah, but what's in them? Bopium. Oh. Dave, can I just say all of those facts are fun? Thank you. Wow.

Thank you so much. That does bring us to the end of the episode. That was great. The Nobel Prize. It's a fascinating thing really, isn't it? There are so many more things I could mention. There's a parody prize called the Ig Nobel, that I'm sure people will mention if I don't mention it,

just briefly. Did you mention who suggested this topic? Yeah. Yeah, me. Okay, Yusuf from Glasgow. That's right. How could I forget me? Hey, got to give him another shout out because you suggested so many of the topic.

So it was only ever suggested once. Yeah, and that's amazing. Here's a little glimpse behind the curtain. I remember starting to research this topic. Way back in the day, we'd probably be in single digits when I was considering topics. And then it sort of, I put it up for the Patreon vote a couple of times. And at the moment, I'm on a free choice where people aren't voting for it. And I went, you know what?

I'm going to do it. I reckon this could be a fun topic. Yeah. That's great. Because, yeah, because that story about his first half of his life and, yeah, how he rebranded and now people associate him with peace. And it's kind of crazy.

I'm amazed with how little I actually knew, but I just sort of knew of it and knew it was very prestigious. But I knew very little about how it actually works. I imagine that that's actually probably pretty true across the board. It's one of those things that's been around so long now. You accept the prestige, but never really think about why. Exactly. Well, that brings us to everyone's favourite.

section of the show. It is the fact quote or question. Desmer. Ferdor question. And this is the section of show where Patreon supporters, in particular on the Sydney Shineberg deluxe, rest in peace, memorial edition level. Rest in peace for sure. You get to give us a fact, a quote or a question. You also get to give yourself a title. And this week, it's one of our longest service. serving supporters. That's not the right way to say that.

Brian Colella. Brian! Who traveled out from America early in the year to see us live at a few shows. He also has been a guest on primates before. And he's given himself the title. He's also been a guest on two in the think tank. Very funny, clever man. Brian, shout out to you.

His title, self-chosen, is, and this, I'm guessing he got in, What was the episode where we had the chat about how to pronounce mayor or Maya or Maya? I don't know how that. It's pretty recent. The last two months. Yeah, it was an American, obviously. Maybe three months. Mayer.

It's related somehow to what I've said. Well, yeah, very related because the title is given himself is, depending on how you pronounce it, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, or Mayor, Maya, Maya, Maya, which I think is a bit of a play on Major, Major, Major, Major, Major, from, That famous book, Dave, what am I? The Lord of the Rings. No, the... What's...

Fellowship of the Ring? Major, Major... Return of the King? Return of the Jedi. Oh, what is it, bloody told? Star Trek. It's a war novel, satirical... Catch 22.

Catch 22, thank you. And sorry. There's a character in it called Major, Major, Major, Major. Maybe Major, Major, Major. And anyway, so that's funny already. It's good stuff. And his question is, how would you pronounce Merlty? Well, I guess that's how I would pronounce it.

Mayoralty. No, I'd say Merrillty. Merlety. Merle Street. Merrill Streep. I'd pronounce it Merrill Street. Do you need to, I should have, what I should have done was to show to it to. Made my decision.

Yeah, that's how you would say? Merrill Streep, yes. Merrill Streep. Merrill Streep. Well, there it is. I think you've got a pretty... So one vote for Merrill T and two votes for Meryl Streep. Yeah.

Thank you so much for that question. I hope that's all that you hope that would do there, Brian, your bloody legend. Thank you so much for your support. Amazing. He's been long-term, the only supporter on that level. What's that level called? It's even above the Sydney Chamborember. Yeah.

Anyway, very important and lonely level. And thank you so much for supporting us on it. Thank you, Brian. You're a great man. Maybe the greatest man. I'm going to nominate him for a noble prize. Let's do it. A noble one.

Okay. How do you pronounce that? Noble or Nobel? Yeah, that's right, isn't it? It's the Doctor of Podcasts that level. Doctor of Podcasts. Oh, we will. I mean, you really, then, you should be called Dr.

Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Brian Kellella. Dr. Mare, Maire, Maire, Maire. Yes. Thank you so much, Brian. You goddamn legend. from Seattle in Washington State. Now, the other section we like to do... The other favorite part of the show, let's be honest.

Have we set this up? No, you have not. Now, if people want to support the show, they want to support the show like Brian does at the absolute top level or even at a very entry level, you still get rewards for every single level of support. You go to our Patreon page, patreon.com slash do go on pod,

and you get little rewards like voting for the topics, sort of deciding what the show talks about every single week. You can be part of a Facebook group. She gets a lot of fun. I love getting in there. It's maybe the most wholesome corner of the internet, I reckon. Bloody sweet.

Can I believe how lovely people are? It is so nice. Two bonus episodes every single month that no one else hears. And a bunch of other stuff like you hear about the live shows first. And another part of the thing is we shout out to some people. Yes. And I'd love to kick it off if that's okay with you. Please.

Well, usually Jess comes up with a game there, man. Oh, yes. I want to give them a Nobel Prize. Okay. New category? Yes. Oh, fantastic. Okay.

Fantastic. I love it. All right, well, I'll kick it off from Cedar Rapids, which is one of my favorite place names. Yeah, big time. I've heard of it as well. I think there might even be a film called Cedar Rapids. Is that, Dave? Can you Google that quickly?

He's on it. From IA. What state, would that be in Canada or America? It's in America, sorry. IA. Cedar Rapids is a film? Is that Iowa? I think it's a comedy film by.

I've never seen it, but I want to. It's by maybe... It is Iowa, yes. It is in Iowa, and it's got Ed Helms in it? Ed Helms, but I think maybe it's by the Magruba guy. Maybe, I might be wrong there. But I think it might be Saturday Night Live alum. Miguel R. Tater?

I'm way off. Sorry about that. But anyway, apparently a very funny movie. Maybe. Anyway, Cedar Rapids in Iowa, I'd love to thank Devin Bruns or Bruns. Devin. Bruns. Evan Bruns.

Oh, wow. Okay, okay, okay. What's his Nobel Prize for Bob? He's won the Nobel Prize in 2006. Okay, a good year. For years back now. For inventing. Yes.

Oh, wow. He's an inventing. Oh, for inventing. What did he invent? He invented that the sponge stick. You know how you put the liquid. Oh, wow. Super worthy.

We didn't have that after, before 2006. That changed my life. So the stem of the scrubber doubles as a stem and a broom and a... And a handle. Handle. And also the vessel for the detergent. Yeah. My God, Devin Bruns.

And it has nothing to do with the fact that just over your shoulder is some washing detergent. Oh, that's amazing. What a weird coincidence. Can I just tip my hat to the, Devon? because that thing's changed my life. Big time. I don't have to touch dishes. Stupid Doll Studios has one of those.

And I feel like a bloody movie star every time I'm watching the dishes. Yeah, it's pretty glam. It's so glamorous. I love watching the soapy. Devon's well done. Thanks, Devon. Also, well done on the name Devon. Yeah, it's good.

You may be, you're in my top three Devons now. Devon Sawyer is obviously in there? Yes. Yep. And Devon Townsend. Of course. The heavy metal guy? The Canadian heavy metal maestro.

The Devon Townsend. project? Yes, but his sole album this year is a must. A simple last. Obviously, Strapping O'Lag, one of the great metal bands, but he's done a lot of fantastic work. Oh, yeah, my friend Thomas, show me that work. Shout out to you, Tom.

I'm sure you're listening. Their last album, Aileen is so, I mean, I think all their albums are great, but. Man, there's a lot of, I'm on the Wikipedia name for Devon. There's a lot of them on here. Good on you, Devons. Go Devons. It's also a kind of meat slice. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Devin. Yes. Also, thank you so much, Devin Bruns. I'd also love to thank from Dublin in Ireland. My favourite place. We hope to make it there. There's a group one day.

Stop me if I'm saying the most Irish name of all time. Connor Johnston. That is good. Connor, of course. Connor is doing all the Irish work. Johnston. Johnston. It's still good.

Still pretty. It's great. Yeah. Dave. Do you remember what Connor won the piece, the Nobel Prize for? Canoe building. Oh, canoe building. He built the best canoe.

The world has ever known. Right. Canoes were already invented. He won the best canoe. The best one ever. It was a one-time only prize. People were like, we've got to... And this definitely has nothing to do with Cedar Rapids being in your mind.

This definitely has nothing to do with the fact that there is a canoe factory over your left shoulder. You looked. You dumb shit. You looked. That's a kettle, you moron. Oh, sorry. Sorry, in my language, it's called a canoe factory. Yeah.

Did you think canoes were hot water? Yeah. There's some, they can be in hot water. That is so, I did not even think of Cedar Rapids, but I'm sure that's what the canoe got in my mind. Connor Johnson, so good. And if you're looking for Irish music, Connor, and I'm sure you are, check out,

oh, I've blanked on their fucking name. River Dance is what you think, you'll. Yeah. Real Around the... I was just... Michael Sittling? I was what I was listening to on the plane day. If you're going to YouTube River Dance,

look up reel around the sun. Oh, that's good stuff, is it? One of my favorite albums from this year. They're just a fun rock band called Fontaines D.C. Okay. So good. Diet Coke. They're probably all over pop radio in Dublin Island already, Connor.

But if you don't know them, they're bloody good. They're making waves down here in my pants. May I also thank some people and shut you up? I would love to thank from Brighton in Great Britain, the greatest Britain. Oh, Nick Cave Town. A bit of coastal territory. Yeah. A couple of Poirot episodes set there.

Yeah, they've got the, it's sort of a bit of a, it's a big chee sort of getaway for Londoners. Well, it's not a getaway for this next person because that's their home. Whoa. I would love to thank William Hughes. Oh, Hughie. Willie Hughes, great name. Bill Hughes. Bill Hughes, an Australian Prime Minister's name, I think, was Bill Hughes.

That's true, Billy Hughes. Billy Hughes. I think, is this, I'd say, Bill Hughes won the Nobel Prize in 19. 1969, the summer of love, for best smooching. Oh, wow. And there was so much smooching in that summer. So much. It was a lot of competition.

I would describe it as wall to wall. Wall to wall. And he just smooched them on in there. And everyone's going like, oh, I've had so many good smooches this summer. And then they smooch. And Billy Hughes. So it's best smooge rather than most smoochers. Yeah, best smooch.

Right. So he could have technically only been one. Yeah. One and done. But he smooched the right, Judge. Yeah. And they were like, that was the best one. I don't need.

Thanks, William. And hey, congrats on the smooching. Yeah, wow. 50 years later, you're still smooching. Still smooching. Oh, that's what he, yeah, that's what he says every day, wakes up. New day, new smooch. That's what he says.

To his wife. Yeah. And she says, all right. And she says, all right, enjoy it. And he goes off and he smooch at someone. Yeah. And then he comes home and she says, how'd you get to go? Did you have a good smooch?

He said, yeah, dude. I had a good smooch. And she says, can I have a smooch? And he said, I do not bring my work home with me. It is not your birthday. Please. Sharon. Sharon, how dare you?

Do you want one for free? This is a Nobel Prize winning smooch right here. Oh, my God, imagine if you could say that. You'd get a tattoo. Could you? On your face. No, Nobel Prize winning smooch right here, arrow to your mouth. Yeah, and then you'd never smooch again.

Yeah, I'm never going to smooch again. Guilty smoochers got no rhythm. lips shouldn't have rid of them anyway. Yeah, they should. Well, check this out. My lips are kissing in three, four. Mine's a waltz. Dave, check this out.

Oh, he's showing us the lips. Do it to the camera and make people vomit at home. I never will. I hate your stupid lips. Can I take someone else? Can I take someone else, please? I want to get the image of Matt's lips out of my mind. Oh, stop doing it.

I'd love to thank. From Greenville. Oh, yes. SC. South Carolina. That reminds me of a fact. No. Greenville, South Carolina.

I would like to thank Ted Sanders. Oh, yeah. Teddy Sanders. I love Sanders as well. I've got a cousin called Ted. Ted's guy. I live here in Brisbane actually. I should probably message him.

Yeah. Well, let's have a quick break there. I don't know anyone called Ted and I'm feeling dumb. Ted Witten? Yes. Tism have a track called the Ted Commandment. And they go through 10 10s. That's very fun.

Well, this Ted won the Nobel Prize in shortest short shorts. Yeah. I mean, that's already a pretty competitive field. Yeah, but he was inspired by certain college basketballer, which we shall not mention, for time. They're simply no time. Ted Sanders, of course, are fantastically the shortest of the short shorts. 20 years later, they realized embarrassingly, he was actually nude. By that time, Ted was dead.

He was dead and he'd spent the cash. He just had a tiny dick that no one could see. We're not saying that about Ted. He had it wrapped up his butt crack. Yeah, that's better. Now, we've got to give a big... I'd love to shout out to Ted, but also I'd love to shout out to the good people of Brisbane.

Jess, we were walking back to the hotel about a couple of hours ago and what did you see a sign for what I believe was some sort of strip club a sign that said what was the dress requirement? Was it a strip club? I thought it was just like a pub. Just a club. Oh yeah, okay, maybe it was just a... Dave, not all clubs.

A strip clubs. You can strip in any club though. Not in this one apparently. No, you can't. Because it had a dress code like a lot of places do and it was t-shirts, shorts and closed shoes, minimum. Shorts on minimum clothes. What else are you wearing?

Brisbane, what are you like? Can I come into my spino? Mate, your dick's hair. If I can see your dick, you can't come in. The best part is that that had to happen so many times that they had to make a sign. Before that, they'd have to explain to people, but now they just tap a sign. And the guy in Speeders just walks to the next pub and says, there's no sign there, mate.

Yeah, sack out Saturday is obviously an exception. Of course. Yeah, but every other day. Which it is tonight, sack out Saturday. And we are holding true to this glass table. Dave, would you like to thank some people? Thanks to Ted Sanders. I would like to take us home by thanking from Rawlins, Wyoming.

Oh, yes. Oh, fantastic. We don't have that many. Wyomings. Wyomingans? It is a means. It is actually, Wyoming, I love it. It is a fully, the borders of it are fully straight.

Oh, yeah. Like a little box. It is a box. And it's actually the least popular state. It has even less people than, of course, Vermont. The least popular state has even less population than Vermont. I just want to shout out to Vermont, which is the second. Okay.

The home of the creamie. The cremiest creamies. Hey. But who are you saying? Thank you. Well, thank you first of all, Vermont for being the best. You're taking the long way around here. I would like to thank from Wyoming in Rawlands, Jacob Vello. Ooh, Jacob Vello.

Jacob Velo, who of course was awarded in 1972 of I believe. Really? That's true. The Nobel Prize for, what was it again? Oh, it was for longest hat. Wow. He got the Nobel Prize for Hat that year. No, no, no, no, not hat.

Longest hat. How long are we talking? Height or width? Long brim. So it was basically, it was like a trough turned the other way around. Can multiple people wear it at once? Yeah. In fact, it must.

On a rainy day, the thing about Jacob. Vallow. Vallow. He could have a small village under his hat. A generous fellow. He often did. And he often did. Because it was a pretty unpopular state.

Yeah. I phrase it that way. He had all of Wyoming under his. And everyone was really grateful for that. And that's obviously got a lot of nominations that day. Everyone in Wyoming nominated him. Well done, Jacob. Thanks, Jacob.

Shout out to Wyoming. Of course, the nickname there is the equality state. You are the hero. Oh, really? Whereabouts is Wyoming? Where does Wyoming fall? Is it in the Midwest? No, it is.

If I'm looking it on the map there. Oh, it's in the Midwest. No, what did I just say? Midwest. It's west of the Midwest. It is. is what should be the Midwest. Yeah, it's the genuine.

But the Midwest is really in the mid-east. Oh. Sort of. It's confusing. I don't get it. It's next to Idaho. Oh, does that help everyone? Yeah.

Spud country. You beat. Oh, thank you. You bloody Rewriff. I'd like to thank from Stevenage in Hertfordshire. Oh, cow country. In Great Britain, I would like to thank. She ain't no dummy.

Hertford. Is Hertford's the kind of cow? Harrahford. Sorry. Apologies. She ain't no dummy. She ain't no cow. She's Claire smart.

Claire smart. Well done. Well done. She won the Nobel Prize. Yes. This year, Bob. What was it for? Ceramics.

Wow. She did so well. Like best ceramics? No. Quantity over quality. Yeah. The most ceramics. She actually spent 18 hours a day at her potting wheel.

What did you do the other six? Hadn't that. Really? She slept for three. Yep. She'd take a dump. For three? No.

Okay. 30 minutes. Okay. So the other two and a half. She'd watch the news. Yep. Ceramics news? No.

Okay. You can't just live in the ceramics. Yeah. So she'd watch the news for an hour. Yep. Sandra Sully's her favorite. Really? Like not?

And then the final half hour? Hour? Hour. And a half. She would have a meal. Oh, a meal. She'd have him over. Yeah.

Great name. Wow. Every day. Wow. Every day. That's so cool. It's great that he's still alive. Yeah.

That is... Even though he was exploded in a factory. Why would you? Why would you? Why would you? All good things. So congratulations to Claire Smart. What's come to an end?

What's like this episode? Thank you, Claire Smart. Thanks to Devin, Connor, William, Ted, Jacob and Claire Smart. And congratulations on their awards. The sexy six, as they'll always be known. They always. To history. I guess that's it for episode 1.99.

So close. We're so close to that sweet 200. All we have to do is live less than 24 hours and we'll get it in the bag. Oh my gosh, can we do it? Yes. Yes, I reckon we can. I hope there's no guest looking in this hotel tonight. I really need a piss.

Oh, am I the only one? I'm not the only one dying here. If people are watching the video of this on YouTube, My legs are dancing, and they have been for 45 minutes. My legs are damp, and they have been for about 45 minutes. Well, that does bring us to the end of the episode. Thanks so much to everyone. It supports us on Patreon.

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Wrap it up, mate. Wrap it up. I want to take a piss first. Some people are probably already watching it. And if they're not, though, if you wanted to see what this look like, you can see it at YouTube.com slash do-go-on pod. If you've gotten this far, and now you're like, oh, I'm going to go listen to that all again, but also with a visual medium. Or just watch it with the sound down

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Here we go. Oh, my God. Let's cock off. Why can't we just finish? No, rock off. One, three. One, two, three, go. Oh, no, no, that was mine.

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