Two In The Think Tank - 203 - The Halifax Explosion

Episode Date: September 11, 2019

Surpassed only by the atomic bomb, The Halifax Explosion was the largest man made explosion in history... and it was an accident. On December 6, 1917 two boats collided in Halifax Harbour, resulting in nearly 2,000 deaths and an unbelievable amount of destruction. But what chain of events was needed for everything to go this wrong?Buy tickets to our live shows here: https://dogoonpod.com/events/Buy tickets to 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/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @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:https://nsc.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/system-failure-case-studies/sfcs-2013-01-07-halifax.pdf?sfvrsn=7d45ecf8_2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcXSCzcSZ4https://www.britannica.com/event/Halifax-explosionhttp://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/halifax/collision/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/06/two-ships-collided-in-halifax-harbor-one-of-them-was-a-3000-ton-floating-bomb/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#Investigationhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-halifax-explosionhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/halifax-explosionhttps://novascotia.ca/archives/explosion/narratives.asp?ID=10 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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here with Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins, and myself. Oh, you're sitting here with yourself. I started a list and I stopped. I should have stopped after two years. And you know the comedy rule of three. That's right. And it was hilarious. I followed rules. I followed every rule except that things should be funny. Can I quickly just say something from the heart? No. Okay. Leave'll be... Leave being vulnerable and authentic to me. I'm thinking of that as your thing, but this is about you. I wanted to welcome you into the 200 Club. Thank you so much.

Yes, thank you. 200 great episodes. That's from my heart to you. Thank you. To my heart as well. Yeah, hard to heart. Ah. Two strong hearts.

Leads together. Like honey in the bee. You and me. Now, I don't want to interrupt this beautiful, what was going on there? Whatever that was. John Farnham, that was John Farnham. How do you? Whatever that was. The Zoned Out for a second.

Of course I do. But I'm zoning back in to bring some good news to the podcast. Yes, I love good news. I don't know if you're aware of this, but I'm not sitting here with just Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins anymore. I'm now sitting here with Baron Von Matt Stewart and Count Jess Perkins of Sea Land. Yes! I am here to tell you and the good people that listen to this show. That last month I entered a competition called the Search for Australia's Gorma Pie Guy.

Run by a bakery chain here called Brumbies and basically you have to tell them why you should be voted the Gormais Pi Guy, put a photo up and then people vote for you. And this whole month, I've been doing quite well. A lot of people voted for me, I appreciate that so much. But I was always third. Yes. Could never really in two other gentlemen that had thousands and thousands of more votes than I did. Which is crazy. They didn't even have podcasts.

No, they... Literally, I get any sense. Like, how do you... You don't know that many people? Yeah, the person who had the most votes was 16,000. You don't know that many people. If you had that many face, you could have been... You ran a good campaign. Yes. Well, did is on the hustings.

Because I got a call on Friday from Brombee You saw themselves telling me that I have one the competition Thank you so much You're the pie guy. Thank you. They spent a week with their IT department taking away any what they classified as fraudulent votes They didn't say what that meant right but they said after the fraudulent votes were taken away I had the most votes a lot of those were cast in Florida Is that a US politics joke that you don't quite get? Well, I got it. Did you?

Can you explain it then? Because I did it. When Bush won the second election, there were anomalies in Florida. And people wanted there to be like a... A recount. A recount, they wanted them to go through those loads, but there was a bit of political, sort of like courtroom,

mumbo jumbo. Right. Malaki. Which I am assuming will happen to me. This all happened a while ago. I'm going off pretty vague memories. Oh, bullsh. Was that a while ago? Was it? Yeah, senior. Remember you. Everyone remembers their kindergarten president. But Davey won won it was honestly the most surprising phone call of my entire life So what about the time you won that uh taco bell? Taco Bell that when I truck won the trip to Mexico. Yeah, that was also He's lived a blessed life. No, he just enters the competition. He's got to be in him to win him

Thank you. Yeah, thank you. You got it You got to enter your silver spoon into your mouth to win it. Yeah. One of my friends like that too, she wins so much stuff because she enters like every competition. Is she one of those friends where you wouldn't swap life with them? I mean, she's my friend sister to say. She's sitting there cutting out coupons all day. Yeah. Get a friend. Get a life. Look at your sister, she's got friends. Me. Yeah. I'm cool. Yeah. Think about it. Get some friends. I'd rather have the prizes.

The sweet, sweet prizes. The prizes will be my friends. Thanks everyone for being genuinely. I am surprised, but thank you so much. Appreciate your support, Jess and Matt. I will be getting you those titles from Sea Land. If you have no idea when we're talking about, listen to the Sea Land episode. One of my favorite episodes we've had for a long time. I love that episode. Also, I feel a bit surprised by winning, so I've won $10,000. I will be donating some money to charity. Feel a bit guilty. I've decided to donate some money to the Fred Hollows Foundation.

Oh, the eye charity. That's's right, restoring eyesight around the world. And also medicine, sans, frontier, MSF, doctors without borders, is the same for that one. Yes. And would you be donating to your friends and colleagues? Yes, I'll be donating two titles and two pies. Great. I can't wait.

I think I'm going to go on Apple Pie in Gary Indiana. Can you send me there? I want flights and pies. And I'm going to do it. Yeah, absolutely. And unlimited pies. Is it just a cash prize? Or do you get pies for a year?

I think it is. No, it's how the audience just gets the pies. So what did I do with pies? Well, I assume they think I'll spend the cash on pies. Which, honestly, a lot of it will be spent on pies. No, my pledge was that I would fly to Africa to eat a pie there, because it's my dream. What are you gonna find a pie?

Well, it's my dream to be a pie on every continent. I grew it Africa. So we were like that. I'm gonna start, you know how you guys get a Simpson's reference in every episode. I'm gonna start getting Monty Python references. No, there's not coming while I do. Oh, that's pretty good.

Well, that was my first one. And a pretty good source, because they have so many situations. So you can, like that. Oh, that's pretty good. Well, that was my first one. And a pretty good source because they have so many situations so you can like the Simpsons have covered so much ground. I can do it. All right. All right, well, that's my pie related news. Anyone else own you pie related news?

No. No, no, no pie related news. Oh, I just made a ship, it's pie. Just before this. That's what? Yeah. And pie and the sky reruns are happening on UK TV. So there you go, we did have pie news.

I'm assuming UK TV is a real channel and those reruns will be happening. Yes. All righty then, Dave. Let's start the bloody show. Let's start the part. Now, Jess, if people haven't heard the show before, what are we about

to do? What we're about to do is what we do every week and have done for four issues. And that is, we take turns reporting on a topic usually suggested by a listener and we present it to you and to the other two who are in this case, Matt and Jess, and Dave is going to do a report and he's going to get us under the topic with a question. All right, guys. Question. That was no to the first to think.

Could we just chop that out and put it in a lot of... Yeah, copy and paste. Fantastic. All right. Question for you. Clap, clap. Oh, it's not a clap, but anyway. I thought it was a delight.

Why'd you want to turn off? Well, because it's a spooky. That's not a spooky topic, but it's a... I don't know after that. Before the atomic bombs were dropped in World War II, what was the largest man-made explosion in history? Have you seen this one pop up in the hat at all? No, so... Well, I don't know what it is yet, so I don't know how to answer that.

It's hard for me to know. It's the something explosion. Okay. The... Uh... Pants explosion. Mm-hmm. Was it pants explosion?

Yeah. Euphoria in my pants explosion. Catch you. Uh... No, I... There's something explosion. Yeah, John Blue, John Spencer Blues explosion. Can you start to say it slowly and I'll figure it out?

Yeah, here we go. Okay. The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I got it. I'm afraid the first person to say it in its entirety was Matt. He was a hell of a car. You know why I said that because I knew if I'd gone with you Matt couldn't give a shit But I went with that because I'll get a reaction out Well played today. I'm gonna tell you about the Halifax explosion. Now I've said it Have you heard of that or seen it in the hat at all? No. Spine suggested by a few people. Oh, I know it is. Yeah, we got it. So irrelevant. One time when we were out on road show driving incredibly long distances in Western Australia, we were playing a game where I had to try and guess everyone's middle name.

There's four people in the car, myself included, already knew that one, sorry to brag. And so I had to guess everyone else's middle names. And I eventually, after a very long time, found out that Guy Montgomery's middle names, he's Guy, Alexander Halifax Montgomery. Really, did you get Halifax, or did he have to meet you? No, I got Alexander, but then he- Fancy man. He's a fancy man. The fancy Halifax. did he have to? No, no, I got Alexander, but then he... Fancy man.

He's a fancy man. The fancy Malifax. Yeah, then he gave me a few clues and we got to Halifax. There was a crime show in Australia called Halifax PI or Halifax something with the mum from Pax of the Rafters. Maybe in the night. Yeah. I can't quite think of what it was, but it was Halifax something.

What does Halifax mean? It's just a name. As far as I'm aware, I can't quite think of what it was, but it was Halifax something. What does Halifax mean? It's just a name. As far as I'm aware, I didn't look into the animal. I think it's also a place. Yeah, it was a... Oh, sorry. Halifax is the place where this happened. And that is in Canada.

This is a Canadian topic. Oh, Canada. Which we will get to in a second, but first of all, I'll share that to the people that suggested this, including Kayla M. Hodgkowitz from Tom's River, New Jersey. New Jersey. Eric Wyer from Ontario, Canada. Bryson Sullivan from Urbana, Illinois, USA. Nate Price also from Illinois, this time, St. Joseph.

Fraser Green from New Glasgow in Canada. And finally, Kelly Murray, who is from Halifax itself. Illinois this time, St. Joseph. Fraser Green from New Glasgow in Canada, and finally, Kelly Murray, who is from Halifax itself. There you go. Suggested by a local. There's a few suggestions. Yeah, thanks for all those people. Appreciate that.

And if you want to suggest a topic, you can do that at any time. I know website, dogoonpod.com, and you click suggest a topic. This is that interesting point of the episode where we don't know if this is a horrific tragedy or not. Yeah, is it? Let's all guess. I'm gonna say no, just based on Dave's temperament, don't I?

I'm gonna say yes, just for a point of difference. Well, your point of difference gets you the point. Yeah! It's awful! I said, ah-ah, is that, you would you say an horrific? I think it is. But I would say a hotel, not an hotel. Mm, interesting. Yeah, it's tough.

I think H.O. Feels like one of those ones where either should be fine. Yeah. Stop jumping down. An horrific sounds a bit weird. Sorry about that, man. Sorry. I hate to get pedantic.

All right, so the Halifax explosion, yes, it is the largest man-made explosion until the atomic bombs were dropped in the World War II. And it's a big one. Yeah, well, they were big. They were very, very big. So let's do this Halifax for those that don't know, it was located on the very far east of Canada,

and is the provincial capital of Nova Scotia. And east is right. If you're looking at a map. Nova Scotia, of course, meaning new Scotia. Yes. I didn't realize we had a linguistics professor here. And a geography professor. Thank you.

Baroness. Baroness. Von linguistonstein is my new name. Middle name and hotel. It's a port city based around one of the deepest harbors in the world and it has a strong maritime history. In the 18th century Nova Scotia was one of the British Empire's most important and powerful naval bases in all of North America. But then in the late 18th century the city took a real economic hit when its factories were

superseded by those in central Canada. The British Navy left in 1905 and the population dwindled for a time. But Halifax was put back on the map after World War I broke out. Yay! Finally, a reason for us to exist again. Woah! Canada quickly invested in Halifax, developing its harbour and waterfront and built a new military hospital.

It became quite strategic for the Allies, being the closest major port to Europe, and many ships stopped there or dropped wounded soldiers off to recover before getting supplies and heading back to the European theatres of war. Because of this, the economy and the population of Halifax greatly increased, as it became one of the busiest ports in all of North America during this time. I had no idea about any of this. Probably couldn't have pointed Halifax on a map, but now I can. Yeah, it's East.

Just to the right. Yeah, just to the right. If you look at Canada, you look to the right of the middle, and it'll be around there, I reckon. Yeah, that is spot on. Yep. Couldn't have said about myself. Thank you.

I've got here written. So Nova Scotia Juts out east into the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah. East being right, if you're looking. Yeah, but if you're facing. If you're looking like smack bang in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, then you actually need to go left. Yeah, you've missed it Yeah, if you're wet, you're gone too far

Yeah, how are you turn? If you're wet, you've gone too far That's beautiful. I mean that I've been out of use that phrase and you know many different scenarios Well, they'll mainly you know voting voting boating, boating and a war thing, which is when you walk on warfs. Yes. You can walk on warfs. Can't walk on water. Puppy always told her that to me.

Puppy? Yeah. Do you ever talking dog? I'm talking dog. I got a talking dog. I should have brought that up before now. I felt like it was big news at the time and it slipped me mind. No, it's because Dave stole the lime light with one all this money. Oh yeah, Pie Boy.

Yeah. Piepy over there. Piepy over here. Piepy over here. Piepy over here. Yeah, I've got diarrhea. Yeah. Piepy on the sheets.

Piepy on the sheets. I'm going to say, well, using the toilet, if you wet, you've gone too far. Yeah, that's true. Into the bowl. Falling in, bro. Yeah. Corp help. So, that doesn't have any little Dave. Ohing in, bro. Yeah. Corp help. Does that have to happen to you, little Dave? Oh, yeah.

Feet touching your chin. Oh, no, it's happened again. This is going to get worse before it gets any better. Puppy, come and talk me out of this. I know you don't have any opposable thumbs, but could you maybe make a call? So we're looking at the map. It's on the right.

It's just as the Helifax Harbor is built around a little Bay called the Bedford Basin, which is connected to the open ocean by a thin passage called the Narrows, which generally is very narrow. It's only about 500 meters or 1,500 feet across. Ooh. So to get into the harbor, you have to travel along this thin passage

before it opens up at the end. Imagine like a lollipop, if you will. Got it. You drive along the stick and then you get to the big lollipop sugary bit at the end. What flavor? Strawberry. Yeah, good choice. Thank you.

Like the strawberries and cre- which are going to have to tell us how we- Yeah, but not strawberries and creme hate that one. Do you? I hate it. I'm fruit over cremes any day. Yeah, I like the ones that lollipops that are like glossy, that makes sense. I don't like the glossy ones.

But I like the see-through-y ones. Yeah, sorry, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, okay, yeah. Not the opaque ones. Yeah, and I hate the one that always used to come up as a kid, they'd be like, everyone, if you've got a lollipop or whatever, they somehow would always get ch banana No, the dud the was

Flap and I like real ice cream I'd be happy with chocolate banana. Yeah, but in a lollipop. No Number one lemon number two strawberry for me I've flipped those but they're still great. Keep it fruity Keep it fruity Keep it fruity. Keep it fruity. That's right. So we're in a ship traveling along the lollipop because of the tight passage and the many, many ships that needed to travel through it.

Some rules were set up and ships had to stay in their lane. Heading into the harbour, they stayed on the eastern side of that starboard side of the channel. Right hand side. Right hand side. And on the way back out they stuck of the channel. Right hand side. Right hand side. And on the way back out, they stuck to the west. Basically, keeping the right lane, pretty simple stuff.

But ships didn't always do this. Oh, no. And that brings us to today's story. We got a cab boys on the sea. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We got a real event. Yeah.

It's buddy Wild West out here in the east. Yeah. Stick East. And on the walled with, that here in the east. Stick east. On the way back out, you can go west. It's the wild east out here. Not the same ring. No. It's the eliteration that's good.

Yeah. It's the evil east. That's great. Evil east. Yeah. The evil witch. No, wicked witch. That's better.

Better. Now we're getting it. Thank you. The SS emo. Ah! Sorry, emo. Spelled IMO, but I have heard it pronounced emo. Emo. Emo.

Hmm. You got bangs. Chop, mom. Got a booty hull. Yeah. I want to swap that poop deck. Sharp mom got a booty hull We swapping poop decks this era Swobbin I mean every ship has a poop deck. Yeah, you want to clean that thing? I still don't remember what a poop deck is come on or what it purposes. Yes, no dumb questions

Jack is. Come on. Or what it purposes. Yes, no dumb questions, please. That's literally my purpose here. His dumb question. You're the every man. Yeah. I thought off with the every man.

Ah, never mind. I've got two every man. I'm asking dumb questions. Just let me get the facts out, all right? Pope, yes. In summary, I don't know. The SS, the SS emo. Three every man.

We need to get an expert in. Yeah, I'd love that. The SS emo was a Norwegian ship that had sailed from the Netherlands and it stopped on, stopped at Halifax on its way to New York where it would pick up war supplies to be taken to Belgium. It was a long and narrow ship. Imagine a lollipop if you up war supplies to be taken to Belgium. It was a long and narrow ship. Imagine a lollipop if you're not.

430 feet long, 45 feet wide. It's not very wide. She had a crew of 39 on board and was captained by Hacken from Hacken. Fantastic now. H- AA- K- O- N. Hacken maybe from. Hacken. H, double eight. K, O, N. Haken, maybe? Haken. Haken. Haken from. Which I like. 45 feet wide.

And 430 feet long. That's 45 foot long subs. Oh, why? By four. Roughly 500 foot long subs. Rounding up? Yeah. Yeah.

I forgot the number. Just to give that. Yeah, I think it helps people visualize. Especially in Australia when we don't use feet for anything except for the longsubs. Yeah. It's like, what? How big is it? I still don't know.

Are there anything else we do? High and basketball rings. I know that's 10 foot. Is that cool? 10 foot longsubs. The email arrived in Halifax Harbor on December the 3rd, 1917. A good year. And stayed two days for inspections

and also pick up some supplies. She was delayed in leaving because the coal used to power her arrived late. I like that chips of ladies. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, why is that? I don't know, but it's nice for us to finally have something. You get to think. Back there, now we have everything. Yeah, why is that? I don't know, but it's nice for us to finally have something.

You get to see it. Yeah. Back there. Now we have everything. Yeah. Now if anything we have too much pay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But back then. Staying a year in for the patriarchy. Oh, miss it. I should have been able to stay inside. Yeah. I need to go outside. I'm going to go earn money and how I'm pretty happy. I'm I love being a statement. Say it home Man It's good to say it home. It's weird that we get paid for that now Now you're right. I was like I'll pop out for a walk. Well, we're docker now Yeah, what's who love that you pause? I was too embarrassed to call yourself a man I'm like that say no feel right man. I guess that's what I am.

Yeah, I don't I still don't like being called a woman. Like you what you were just singing you were. Oh, I didn't ride that song. Okay. I did. And Dave feels comfortable calling me a woman. Anyway, sorry. The ship was delayed. It arrived on December the third, but it was ready for departure on December the fifth. Meanwhile, pause I thought there's a long thin ship ready to go. Meanwhile, coming into. Long thin ship.

Ready to go down that Romaro lollipop. But remember, if you're wet, you've gone too far. Meanwhile coming into the bay on that very same day was a French cargo ship. Coming into the bay on the very same day. A French cargo ship named the Mont Blanc. Oh, we, we, we, we. Oh, wait, wait. The ship captain.

Gone too far. Oh, the ship was captained by Amy Le Médic. Oh, which is for? Oh, I'm. For? I'm the medic. Oh. Oh my god, that's true. I'm just putting together trans life here god, that's true. Yeah, I'm just putting together trans life here. That's true. Yeah, thank you so much big multi languages

Multi languages on front say The SS Mont Blanc as I will here by refer to it as I had come from Brooklyn. I was going to join a convoy to you But what mountain it's actually true of that one. That feels right. Right. There I go. What? Mont Blanc. Oh my god. I thought he meant Brooklyn.

I had no fucking idea what he was talking about. I thought he meant Brooklyn. I was like, you must know that. Yeah. Brooklyn means a small brook. But Mont Blanc, white mountain. Sure. It was a theme park in France in the 16-hundreds.

A theme park in the 60-hundreds? Yeah. Woo! We got him up low! Woo! Woo! Guilatain Simulator! Woo!

Chubby! Chubby it off! Let it roll down the floor! Woo! And somebody else has to catch it. Alright guys, that was the next century. Alright, let's just factor it. Anyway, just come from Brooklyn was going to join a convoy to Europe.

She's been described as a slow moving quote, common tramp steamer. It's me. Slow moving. Slow moving and a common tramp. I'm a tramp. And a steamer. It's another word for a hot shit.

Let's have a good, Jesse. I'm a slow moving hot shit. If your weather's gone too far. What? Don't shame me. I know who I am. And I am a slow moving hot shit. Cut down, right? This ship was carrying a different kind of cargo.

Oh, can we guess? What are you reckon? Oh, cows. Oh yeah. No, people, prisoners. So this is the French one? Yep. On the way in this one.

Prisoners. Oh, so what do they need? Potatoes. Take to Canada. Oh, what does Canada need? What do they need? Guns. And where do we want them? Yeah. So the guns are going back to Canada. Ah, what does Canada need? What do they need? Guns! And where do we want them?

Yeah! So the guns are going back to Europe. So what are they bringing back? Empty guns? Empty guns for real gunning. Full of shells. In a ship. Well, in its hold, rather, the ship carried 2,925 metric tons of explosives.

Explosives. Explosives I'm guessing. and 25 metric tons of explosives. Exposives I'm guessing. 2925, which is equal, exactly equal to one shit ton. Oh, metric shit ton, yes. The explosives included 62 metric tons of gun cotton, 250 tons of TNT, 2367 tons of the Harley farmable, the NT, 2367 tons of the Harley Farmable, Harley Poisonous Pickrick acid, and 246 tons of high octane benzol, which were stored in 2000 barrels, crammed on the deck of the ship.

I'm a deck. I now remember this an explosive episode. Oh yeah, I didn't think of that. You were like, I don't know. I don't know. I think I've now remembered this an explosive episode. And um... Oh yeah, I didn't think of that. You were like, I don't know. The cows weren't gonna know what were they. Maybe. Oh they are very flammable guesses.

What was my guess? Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum.

Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. Empty gum. I said prisoners. Oh yeah. So I fucked it up. Also on board was 300 rounds of ammunition for the vessel's defensive guns. All this stuff was very explosive and destined for the French war effort. Basically, it was a giant floating bomb. I wouldn't feel comfortable on that boat. I'd say refund on my ticket please.

This is not the cruise I signed up for. Where's the pool? All I see is a lot of acid. Where's the pool? You're see is a lot of acid. Where's the pool? And then you flick your cigarette butt behind it. I'm gonna take a different boat. Good day. Good day.

Oh, is that an explosion? Yeah. That's a good sound. That was the beginning of it. You're dead. You don't hear the big part. Oh, if a boat explodes, but you're already dead, does it bang? Oh, you must bang.

But, almost, you say that people, you wouldn't want to be on the ship, but almost no one knew of the deadly contents of the ship was carrying only a couple of local officers and the crew, but apart from that, no one else knew what the ship had on board. Before the war, they would have flown a red flag that let people know that they had explosives on board and that people should stay clear or act cautiously around it.

But during wartime, this made them a target for submarine attacks, so ships started to try and go under the radar. But why are they okay? So submarine can see them, can see the flag. So why are you flying a flag underneath your boat? Yeah, think about it. If you said some pretty stupid thing, thanks for calling him out of that, Jess. Thank you so much. I like that they're undercover. I would like to think that they're undercover thing

is just a big ice cream cone paint on the side and the misty would be sound. We all just big on our screen. That's it. Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Like side to side eye movements on the gavvant, down, down. down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, boats that the Mont Blanc wasn't able to make it into the harbor as planned. They arrived late on December 5th and the port was closed for the night as an anti-submarine net placed at the entrance of the bay was up. There's literally held like, it was a chain net to stop the submarines

going in at night. It was such a deep, you were saying it was a deep, super, super deep. It's like you're sneaking under nightfall. So they had to wait until the next day on board the ship. So we have the SS emo inside the bay preparing to leave and the SS Mont Blanc, laden with the explosives preparing to enter the bay. Both of them have been delayed, so both want to get in or out as soon as they can. Oh dear. They're in a rush.

Never rush. Oh dear. They're in a rush. Never rush. Oh dear. Never rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush.

There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush.

There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a rush. There's a knight. Grabbing and a rush. Yeah. No one's in your mess. Come on, like think through your grabbing. Yeah.

It's not a race, mate. Come on. Come on. Come on. The next morning, December the 6th, 1917, both ships resumed their journeys, each had a local experienced pilot on board. I don't know if you know about this.

Pilots, local experts, who take control of the ships to guide them through treacherous waters. Oh, yeah, they we know. Man, I didn't know. Oh, shh. Okay, yeah, Dave. So in Melbourne, because Port Phillip Bay is actually quite treacherous, especially the opening, the rip, they have the pilot boat comes out and the way we do it is a little boat will come out, drive alongside a big boat and then they'll go up the cargo ship and for that just that

little bit because the pilot is an expert on the area, they'll steer the ship for a bit. Just because they know every little channel they're an expert on the areas. That's what these guys do. Who are these? Me or the pilots? Yeah, they're real nerds. Let me show you how to steer your boat. You'd be like, I built this boat with my bare head. They built there, I'm not sure. You got a bit of trouble. Yeah, the pilot boat of course helps Noah from Noah's Ark

steering ship to safety. I built this boat. I captured all these ebbers, two of them to be specific. All of them. all two of them Grammian Nazi technically you should have said both not all right Looking at you Matt come on No, you're right. I just feel like these pilots have got a real um actually tone about them But they're still wear aviator glasses. Yeah all the time. I'm gonna call each other ace and Mongoose

Because I get a little bit wrong Yeah, Dave and Mongoose I hope Mongoose pilots my boat Instead of a Mongoose Wow, I guess the email was piloted by William Hayes, aka ace Will Hayes was the Mon Blanc had Francis Mackey at the helm, aka Mungus. Frankie Mack. Couple great names. A couple of big nerds. Frankie Mack on the Montblanc, an experienced pilot who at that point had had a 24 year accident

free record. Oh, it feels weird that you note that. At that point. I mean, at that point, I mean, it's still... That's a great record. To this day could be could be still could be yeah, unbeaten. Does it hope it was the up that morning changing the sign over 24 years. 24 years with that. That's as long as I've been alive. I'm going to pass 24.

Oh, that's nice one. Do you reckon I can? Yeah. He just puts up a sign that says 24 years without causing the largest explosion ever. Ha ha ha. Oh, today's my lucky day. See you, Marianne. I'm off to work. Arrogant, I've gone, I've gone 29 years. Was that causing the largest man-made explosion history?

Yeah. Well, you've beaten this record. And I've had some diarrhea. Well, the largest woman made exploits. Ah, okay. Hey, you want to give up your 24 year age, pretty quickly as well. Give it.

Yeah, name of a record. Yeah, never the truth. Okay. Journalist after all by trade. Hmm. Mackey, our 24 year veteran, had reportedly been cautious about the explosive cargo on board when he found out what was on you know what he was piloting and He even inquired about getting a special escort to guide the boat. This guy sounds like he switched on. He was ignored.

Oops, oops, oops. The emo, which is the one leaving, took off at a speed above the heart. I'm leaving. What's the emo? Yeah. That's funny. Thank you. Well, it took off at a speed above the harbor limit to try and make up for lost time.

So they're speeding. I mean, you're already two days behind. You think speeding out of the harbor is gonna save you? You know? Yeah. Wait till you're out on the open stage going to save you? You know? Wait till you're out in the open and see. Save you a couple of minutes. On this way out of the bay, the emo first met the SS Clara,

an American steamer that was on the wrong side of the bay. Classic Clara. So the two captains agreed to both stay left and pass each other the wrong way. The worst thing you want to see when you're trying to leave the Halifax Bay is a big old steamer. Float and air, bobbin in the ocean. In your lane. Yeah. It's not nice. It's gone for a swim. So they've gone round each other in the wrong

wrong lane. But before the emurker get back into its proper lane, it's crew spotted a tugboat up ahead called the Stella Maris that was pulling along two ships. Tugboat's where you masterboat. Ha! How? You're the pooptack in the tugboat. Now I don't want to ask this question.

Daemon's everything in this is. Poop related. It's not. It's not your least favorite. I know, it just feels like the naval world was semen everything about the ocean, the dunny dungeon. You've got to be more mature for this stuff than we are. Yeah, that's not our plan.

That's the first test if you're ready for the open ocean. How on earth did tugboats work? They're so little. It's like when you see a man pulling a train. Yeah, it is like that, which is how train starts. And you think he's so liberal. Yeah. How do they work? How do they work? They just have a sweet engine. How are they so strong? Sweet engine, you already answered the question. Kind of wanted it to remain a mystery forever.

Yeah. I mean, I'm guessing here. I'm not an expert. I don't know what a poop deck is. But they're just like they're comparatively so little and they're like, don't worry, I'll get you out here. I'm a little talk about tongue-tongue. Your picture in a cartoon, aren't you? Yeah. Does your talk about have a face? Obviously. They all do. Do they have little faces?

Because I'm asking you because I am. I'm imagining that little boat that I used to play within the bath as a child. Is that not what they look like? I'm imagining that only it's animated and it's smaller. And his name's Tuggo. Oh, come on. And he's like super happy and then they're like, all right, Tuggo, you gotta go get a boat

and he's like, all right, I'm gonna go and clean. Hee hee. I think my Tuggoat's smoking in pipe. Okay. Is that okay? Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. It's not okay. Not good for it. No. yeah, it's a loud. It's not okay.

Not good for it. No. Anyway, it's imagining little tugboats. Well, so what's happened here is the emo is gone around. The SS Clara is trying to get back into the right hand lane, but then the tugboats in the right hand lane, even further across. To avoid hitting it into the narrow section of the channel,

the emo had to veer even further to its left and even further into what is supposed to be the oncoming lane. So if you imagine, if this was a car, they're now fully on the wrong side. Wait, so the tugboat was also on the wrong side? Yeah. Right, okay.

Meaning the email had to be like, all right. I gotta go for it. Yeah, okay. It feels like they're being set up, right? It feels like they're trying to line up an explosion here. Well, here come the explosives. Meanwhile, the Montblanc, the ship with all the explosives, had just entered the harbor at this point. It was in the correct lane, staying right, but

was now directly in the path of the oncoming emo. The two ships spotted each other when they were three quarters of a mile or about 1.2 kilometers apart. Mackey, 24-year veteran. You feel like so much space to avoid each other. Mackey, who was piloting the incoming Montblanc that was in the correct lane, blasted on his ship's horn, signaled to the emo that it should get back in its lane. But the emo fired back with two blasts, a two-toot, indicating

that they had no intention of moving. Oh my god, you dumb shit! Why? So the mon-blanc slowed down along the edge of the thin channel and again blasted its horn, asking the emo to yield and to move. Oh my god. The emo again responded with a double-toot-toot, saying, I will not move. You've got no reason not to.

The emo saying, go around, go around. But it's like driving on the wrong side of the road and being like, that's like you. And that's like you. A tutu, is it a no tutu? It wasn't like, there wasn't any confusion, like a, they were from a different place where they'd be on the other side or something.

But they both being piloted. No, they both being piloted by experts in this area. Yeah, so the pilot? It's a job. The pilot's been like, well, I had to go into the wrong lane because of these other two ships. Now, you just go around. What's that? No, just get back in the right fucking lane.

I'm guessing he still can't because the tugboat's still there or something. No, they just got closer and closer and as it became apparent that they were going to collide at one of the last possible moments, the Mont Blanc attempted to steer around the emo. That's the one that knows it's explosive. Yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, the emo also tried to avoid collision by attempting to blast its engines into reverse.

So the last possible second, they both went, oh, shit, I've got to do something. So stubborn. So I played chicken with each other. They played chicken other and both lost and they're about to both lose because This just meant by putting into reverse They just meant that it swung around in front of the Mont Blanc that was trying to go around it So it basically pushed itself in the path of it the two-ship collided and ran along each other doing that that classic awkward thing in the street Both moved right they both moved right

that classic awkward thing in the street. Yeah, they both moved right. They both moved right. They collided and ran along each other at 8.45 AM. They didn't hit hard, but they more, they just scraped alongside each other. Excuse all right. Which if you remember, it's basically what happened with the iceberg

and the Titanic. True, and that wasn't good if I remember correctly. I did not go well. That was one of my first reports. That was a slow leak. Surely a slow leak doesn't lead to an ignition of ammunition. Well, historian Roger Masters told the Washington Post in an article that I'll link to quote,

in maritime terms, what happened was a fender bender. It was only the character of the cargo that made it what it was. So if they'd been two normal ships, they both would have swapped details, probably sworn at each other and everything would have been fine. So dumb. But the force of even a minor collision made the Benzole in the barrels on the top deck

of the Montblanc topple over, pouring flammable liquid all over the deck. Then the grinding metal hulls showered the Benzole with sparks, igniting the Montblancs forward deck. And then everything else possible on that ship is explosive. Yeah, so they're just, yeah, they've just lit a fuse basically. They were also transporting fireworks. Get out of my head. That's true, I'm sorry. And what's that?

I'm also going to say farewell. Let us to Santa. Oh no. So exciting. Why? There'll be no little truck this year. Oh, so unnecessarily bleak, though. Of course, I said Santa. The letters weren't flammable, were they?

Yes, and Santa was on board. Why? Yeah, what is he doing? He's being very flammable. Kids always write your letters to Santa on non flammable. Just text him. Yeah. Email if you want to go old school.

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Mycomputercareer.edu. So flames and smoke started to billow on the deck, and many spectators gathered on the shore to watch the ship burn. Remember that only the crew knew what the cargo was. The people on the shore had no idea that they were watching what is metaphorically the world's largest stick of dynamite.

They're all going, oh, ships on fire, this is interesting. What's happening here? I think crew jumping overboard. Well, the crew on board, because they know it is, immediately recognize how dangerous it was, and everyone around them is in such danger. So the captain ordered them to abandon ship, they jumped into lifeboats and rode like crazy to shore.

Probably set a world record. And they made it. They made it. Oh, that's so good. Once ashore, they tried to shout warnings to locals, but the crew only spoke French. According to the Washington Post, very few people in Halifax spoke French at this time,

so their warnings essentially fell on deaf people. Listen to the tone. Yeah, I reckon you can tell from gestures and their panicked looks. They follow them if they're running. What about the other ship? Have they also abandoned ship? Or are they like, ah, go round. No. So they've, they, the e-mails attempted to move forward towards the ocean because it can't move backwards into port at this point. So it started to float away, floating away,

also not knowing that the other ship that they've run into is full of explosives. The mod block itself continued to burn and float it along now, abandoned, and eventually it crashed into a pier and breached itself, so it was stuck on a pier. And then everyone's watching, oh, look, the pier's on fire as well.

It's pretty crazy. Lots of spectators gathering on the shore to watch the fire ravage ship. I mean, you forget this is pre TV. Yeah. Let's go watch a fire. Let's watch what's up here on fire. It's like in Chernobyl.

Did you see the mini- the series at all? There's it when the fire first starts, people just sort of gather on a nearby bridge to watch it, because it lights up the sky. How can I- I would watch it because it lights up the sky. I reckon I'm interested. I would watch it. Oh, at work. Hey, wind blew a flag on top of a French restaurant

off the top of the second story and it landed on the car in front of it. Oh, we watched for about 20 minutes waiting for the person to come back. It was just, it was just, you know, and then police arrived, no one was injured, but then, you know, five, five arrived. No one was injured, but then, you know, a firefight came. I might have thought that Carl was getting a French state funeral.

Yeah, it could be a flag, it was just, it was, yeah. A lot of damage. Oh, yeah, that was the most interesting part. This windscreen was smashed in. Oh, fire flag. Fire flag, yeah. Well, I mean, the full pole. Okay.

Yeah, it's not the, I I mean you do not mess with the French they do not look around wow but back to the fire the fire went for just under 20 minutes and then 904 and 35 seconds the inevitable happened the ship exploded whoa but again no fireworks right no fireworks no pretty Wow, it was a big explosion. Yeah, but it doesn't make a pretty. To be honest, the force of the explosion is hard to imagine and just as hard for me to describe, but I'm gonna try.

The ship immediately, completely disintegrated. And a blast wave radiated away from the explosion at more than 1,500 meters on nearly 5,000 feet per second, pushed by a shock wave that is the equivalent of nearly 3,000 tons of TNT expanding. It smashed through the earth at 23 times the speed of sound. Whatever was close by it just went, Wait, does that include people? I'm afraid so. They just fell over, right?

Yeah. Yeah. The heat of the explosion was more than 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit of 5,000 degrees Celsius. What? It was at that... Ow! As I said at the top of the episode,

it was at that time the largest man went explosion for all time, but only a bit bit and by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whoa! The pressure was immense and the explosion pushed a fireball of hot gas and debris into the sky, sucking up shrapnel and debris that then rained down across the city. This is how this blew my mind. A half tonne part of the Mont Blancs anchor landed 3.2 kilometers away.

Holy shit! A ton of metal was blasted through the tank. And stuff like that, some of that debris is like flaming, isn't it? So is that starting fires elsewhere? Oh yes, there was a lot of fires after this. Windows were reportedly shattered over 50 miles away. What? It is unbelievable.

And area... How many kilometers is that? It is unbelievable, an area. How many kilometers is that? Oh, let me answer that. I know pretty far. Almost. Dave, do you know the answer? Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, look, look, 80.

Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, how many was 50 kilometers? 50 miles. 50 miles, okay, yes, okay, so that's... My guess is 85. Damn it. It was his guess. Well, I'm wrong, it's 80.5.

So you are closer than I am. Yes. Well done. I was thinking, because at 1.6 ish, kilometers is a mile. Right. So 50, anyway, whatever. 80 kilometers away, windows broke. And an area of, oh, you sure.

An area of 160 hectares was completely destroyed by the explosion. Whoa! Then, they came a tsunami. Oh. Of course. The powerful shockwave forced the water to surge. Actually, the water around it was actually vaporized because it was so hot. Of course, because it was like 5,000.

Yeah. It's crazy to see water just, pfft, gone, because it's so hot. But then, the powerful shockwave forced the water to surge approximately 18 meters or 60 feet above the usual high water mark. So as high as it ever gets, it was 18 meters on top of that. And the wave smashed three blocks into the city. More than 1600 buildings were destroyed by the wave alone, and this further scattered debris. And this is because the emo wanted moove back to where it was supposed to be. Just one guy.

One guy whose whole job was to get those ships in and out safely. Who went, no, you go around me. No, you go around me. No, toot toot toot to you. And then this happened. The damage was frankly unbelievable. Every building within a 2.6 kilometer or 1.6 mile radius, which is over 12,000 in total, would destroy it all badly damaged by either the blast itself, the tsunami, or the fires that started and quickly spread across the city.

And you'd have no idea what was happening out there, just all of a sudden gone. Bang! And the casualties I'm afraid to say were immense, possibly the most we've ever had on this show. Approximately 1,600 people died instantly in the explosion, and a further 9,000 were wounded, 300 of those would later die. So nearly 2,000 people lost their lives because of this explosion, which is equivalent to 20% of the entire city being injured or killed at that time.

Shit. So one in five people, it's incredible. It's like just unbelievable. But it was so avoidable. It's so frustrating. Do you know what I mean? Like you went into the details, not to compare to Chernobyl again, but like that was probably avoidable and there was right there was a very avoidable.

Very avoidable, but there's. It took out the safety rods. Ah, yeah. Okay, never mind. But I think nearly always these accidents are very avoidable. Let's all learn a little bit. Yeah, so it's like a bunch of things. It's a chain going this happen.

Then this, like, both of them, just one of these things, like, it's just one of those two had to yield. Or even as simple as if one had, the Mont Blanc had arrived earlier in the day, it wouldn't have been looked out of the harbor, so it would have, so it would have, never been that position.

Or if the barrels with the liquid explosives were better faster than that a bump wouldn't knock them over and spill them. Yeah. Or maybe they weren't on the top, maybe there would be a smarter way of stacking it so that they're at the bottom. Or if they had that flag that said, I've got explosives, the email might have gone.

All right, there's explosives, I'm not gonna... Yeah, especially when they arrive at the neutral. Yeah. So when you're in the harbor. So I imagine that captain of that's gone, oh, this is just some annoying steamer. I'm not getting out of the way of a steamer go around. Yeah.

And then, you know, it had a bomb on board basically. Unbelievably, the casualties could have been even worse if it wasn't for a quick thinking and extremely brave railway dispatcher named Vince Coleman. Coleman was stationed just 230 metres from the pier where the burning Montblanc came to rest. A sailor believed to have been sent ashore by a naval officer warned Coleman and a colleague of the Montblanc's cargo of high explosives. So he knew about it. At first, Coleman and his colleague fled because they're like, oh, shit, we've got to get

out of here. But then he remembered that a train full of passengers was due to arrive any minute. So he ran back to his post all alone and began sending out stress messages telling drivers to avoid the area. The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic reports his last message as being, quote, hold up the train. Ammunition ship a fire in Harbour making for pier six and we'll explode. Guess this will be my last message.

Goodbye, boys. Oh my God. Yeah. Crazy last word. Oh my God. He's also doing that through Morse code, by the way. Goodbye, boys. Because that was a long message.

Because that's the thing. If you had radios and the ships could talk to each other. Sorry, yes. I know, but it's just like, it's crazy. Tututut! Fuck you! That's all the... Vince Coleman was sadly killed in the blast. But his bravery and quick thinking is credited with saving over 300 lives.

Wow. His heroism is still remembered today by Hello, Jonians or Hello, Jonians. That's what people from Halifax call it. Cool word, right? Yeah. Hello, Jonian. That is such a bad-ass thing.

So many people, I imagine, you'd be like, oh, I'm about to die. I can't think of anything else. He goes, I can save these people lives. And then he says, cheerio at the end. Yeah, cheerio. Goodbye, boys. Good bye, boys.

What a mad dog. That's amazing. He was inducted into the Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2004. He also released a single. So that was the... And a Halifax fairy was named after him in 2018. So he's still a local hero.

Oh, that's very nice. That's cool. So that was some, you know, tragic, but also heroic news. Yeah. A good, good, quick thinking. The cleanup for this city was long and hard, with over 6,000 people being left homeless by the blast, long and hard. I don't think it's written long here, but I added it in hard.

Sorry. Just imagine it's like a lollipop. The cities, hospitals and morgues were overrun. Many bodies being quite difficult to identify. I did read some articles, describes some pretty gruesome stuff, which you can probably I'll leave to your imagination. I won't include in here, but yeah. People were very badly injured, bodies were very badly just figured. Wow. News of the explosion quickly spread and doctors and nurses came from across Canada and the United States to help. One of the most common injuries was to the eyes, which were affected by the blast and also the flying glass, because 50 miles of glass going everywhere. Most

people were just sitting about doing their own day. If you're anywhere near a window, you've got glass everywhere. Thousands reported these injuries and I read that 39 people never regain their sight, which is... Four. Only one more head. You hear an explosion from outside your house as well, you look to it. You go what? I know you don't come to your face. But to be fair, I think it was moving faster than the speed of sound. So you wouldn't even hear it first. If that makes you feel any better. A thousand. Yeah.

I don't know how to police you. Well, one mind-apositive was advancements were made in many types of emergency medicines, but the medical facilities forced to adapt to care for thousands of the wounded at once. So I had to improvise a bit in actually medical science. They came up with Penicillin? Yes, Marie Curie was there. Marie Curie was there. Adventurer palette.

I still don't know what she did. She invented Penicillin. Yeah. I was then to go on cannon. That's right. K-Fabe. Yeah. In the Tugelon K-Fabe. Yeah. In the Tugelon K-Fabe.

Governments from around the world sent in aid with Britain, China and New Zealand all chipping in. Australia, notably, didn't help out. It wasn't mentioned on the... That's from all of us. Yeah, New Zealand, it's well, that's us too. Yeah, we're basically the same. We're also like Britain.

In today's money, the damage bill came to about half a billion US dollars, the cleaner. Because half the city's wiped out. Yeah, of course. So what happened to each of the ships involved in the sequence of events? The emo, the one that you guys are saying, you should have yielded.

Yeah, we'll definitely talk about who's to blame in a second. It was carried by the tsunami and smashed into the shore. All but one on that ship died. So someone survived it. Yeah, only one person survived the ship Rick and that blast. Yeah. Wow. The, yeah, I'm not, it's tricky to talk about who's to blame, who, you know, who knows.

But you, on the one hand, the guy going, two, two, get out of my way, but on the other hand, the other ship newer was a floating powder keg. Yeah, could they have put up their little red flag just to be like, no, two, two, two. That's interesting, you say that, we'll talk about that in just a second,

but first of all, the tugboat, the stellar Maris. Oh, no, the little tugger. Well, it came back, so it was, it actually part of the train of events because it was in the wrong Side and made the It came back to help fight the fire Because it saw the Mont Blanc on fire and it came back to try and put it out and It was badly damaged when the ship did explode not surprisingly

19 if the crew were killed including Captain Brennan But five managed to survive. Even though it was really quite close to it. Right, next to it. Yeah. That threw an anchor, five K's, or something. Yeah. Oh my God.

And of course, the Mont Blanc itself, well, despite being the ship that exploded, all but one of the crews survived, because they were the one they abandoned ship and then they ran. So they survived from, so hundreds of people died in the area and Some people just on shore or do they keep running? They're like it's about to explode get out of here Well a part of it was I think that the ship was on fire in one spot They jumped off and then rode to the other side of the bay and then it kept floating down and it landed on a pier And the people that were closest by were definitely yeah, the survive that never like how do you you know how do you move on

from that well I think like you oh yeah no absolutely not I'm sorry I was thinking like it has to depend on what's around you to also explode like glass or buildings are damaged and something falls on you, but yeah, it's amazing that some of the crew lived. That's wild. Yeah, amazing, isn't it? After the explosion and cleanup, there was of course an investigation to find out what the hell happened.

At first, there were heavy rumors of the enemy Germany's involvement with Whisp rings of sabotage written about in the media. But that was never... How you write in a whisper. Just a really small writing. A italic small. Read this in an alleyway. I put a little star in front of that. All it says is you didn't hear from me, but...

Signed journalists, they want to hear. Oh, that was proven, that was never proven in any way to be true. It was just an accident. But the hell was one of the emo. Norwegian John Johansson was arrested for behaving suspiciously and this suspicion intensified when he was found to be carrying a suspicious letter written in the suspicious language of German. Oh, yeah, it turned out carrying a suspicious letter written in the suspicious language of German.

Yeah, it turned out that the letter was written in Norwegian and he was Norwegian, so there was nothing so sub-added. Right! I just got through this traumatic thing and then he's been accused of being an Nazi on top of that cool... ...fun day for Johnson. True. I mean, well not correct to you that there were no Nazis in the first world war. Oh, first world war. Yeah, of course. But that's how I don't know anything about Nazi. So I could be wrong. I could be wrong. Yeah, right. Yeah, forget that. Nazis aren't forever. There was an official investigation. Diamonds are forever. Ali forever or a girl's best friend. Pick a tag line and stick with it, please.

They're both. Obviously. Oh, they're a girl's best friend forever. Oh, yeah. Men come and go. Diamonds are forever. God, that's good. Great marketing.

So good. There was an official investigation with the inquiry very much blaming the crew of the Mont Blanc for what happened. Why? It argued a little bit what Matt said as these candidate offense before, that the, because the crew of the Mont Blanc for what happened. Why? It argued a little bit what Matt said as his counter defense before, that because the crew knew how flammable and explosive

the contents was, they should have done whatever was necessary to stop colliding with anything, rather than giving a toot and just plain chicken, should have just cut the engine and been like, okay, let's just let this ship go around. They were charged with manslaughter, but these charges were all later dropped The main argument against them was why the hell was the other ship in the wrong lane? Yeah, yeah

Why didn't they move? Yeah, and that kind of worked The two ships companies sued each other The first trial again found that the Mont Blanc was a 100% in the wrong But on a appeal it was found that both ships were equally to blame, and therefore, and that was at a higher court, I think was the top court. Therefore, no one was ever convicted or held accountable for the fateful day. Wow. Far out. Crazy.

For decades afterwards, the Halifax explosion became the standard by which all large blasts were measured and compared. Whoa! Even... Sorry Dave, the two pilots did they survive? Because it feels like they're the two, like, to have... Ask then. Yeah. But if they didn't survive, like who, you're fighting over who's fault it was, I think

that people whose fault it was probably died in the... Yeah, well because they only had one survivor. So I don't think it was, it would have been the pilot. And then the other ship, most of them survived. So, but I don't 100% know who. Most of the month, Blanc did, didn't they? Because they knew to abandon her. Yeah, they got away.

Right. Only five of them died. Oh, that's right. And all but one on the emo, yeah. Yeah, so for decades afterwards, people were like, oh, how big is it compared to the Halifax explosion? That was two, it was half a Halifax explosion. Everyone describing the first explosion larger than it, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Time Magazine wrote that the explosive power of the little boy bomb

was seven times that of the Halifax explosion. So that, that's crazy. Yeah. That's insane. That was the, and that also broke the record for the largest casualties of a city I think was 60% of the city were Inhabitants were either injured or killed by that bomb. 60% yeah, absolutely crazy Lessons were learned from the Halifax disaster internationally the incident influenced the adoption of Strictor maritime laws regarding cargo identification and also harbour traffic control. Because it sounds like that bloody cowboys need to obey the rules.

Uh, a two twos. A two twos, a two twos. A two twos. There were also some minor positives to come out of the disaster in the long run. NASA actually has a great article on disaster response and recovery that I'll link to on the show notes if you're interested. And as well as the medical advancements I mentioned, they write about how one of the few positives that came out of the explosion was quote, the influx of skilled laborers, money and attention promoted new developments in Halifax,

a city widely regarded as steadfastly conservative before this. So brought in a lot of new new life. No doubt it put Halifax on the map. Well, people... It blew up the map, but... People were talking. The Halifax community, what did I call it? The Helogenans. Have not forgotten the disaster.

That's a light bulb. Oh, yeah, I can't remember the word. Oh, yeah, that. They've not forgotten the disaster, and I'd be interested to hear if we have any listeners in that area of the world. Well, one of them would suggested it. Yeah, it was because I imagine if you or any of you family have ever lived there, with one in five people,

surely your grandparents, your great-grandparents, or whatever, would at least know of someone. Yeah, true. It's a reason enough that there'd still be connections. I mean, there always will be. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, but yeah, so totally I'm sure there'd be people who'd be like, oh yeah my great grandmother was You know alive at the time. These days the city remembers the disaster every December the 6th with a service at the memorial bell tower located in Fort Needham Park They're on Halifax, but that is the story, one of the largest explosions

in history. That is. That's an amazing and awful story. And so I think this is probably the record for the most death, do you think? What about, what about, there wasn't there a... I suppose Chernobyl, that was ongoing. No, I'm thinking of, in Paila. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, how many...

yeah, did a lot, didn't he? Yeah, fuck you love to Impaler. Lots of rumors about you doing whole towns and things, so yeah. Yeah, but still, that's crazy. But yeah, it just feels so silly hearing about these things after the fact when you're like, that was so easy to avoid. And not even just like, oh, if a few things had gone differently, it's like, no, if you just moved, if one thing had gone, no, just one big thing had gone differently. Yeah. Just even if it was just scratching a boat real bad, yeah, even that feels like that should

be enough of a reason to not want to smash into another boat. Your job is to get them around safe. Yeah. But good point that like you know you're carrying a lot of explosives, so get out of the way. You would be precious about it, wouldn't you? Yeah, never played chicken. No. When you're on a bomb. They're going thinking, They're going thinking, painting with us, we're explosive. Yeah, you're an idiot. We're explosive. That's too late.

And they didn't know, so. Hmm. Wow. Crazy, crazy times, and thanks to everyone that suggested that. Well done, Dave. Well, sorry, thank you. You're welcome. Well done, everyone.

Hey, Dave, do you want to mention briefly where we've got some live shows coming up in Sydney and Perth? That is absolutely right. We have a, we're going to add some new shows very soon, possibly even announced next week. So stay tuned for that if you're not in Sydney or Perth, but Sydney, not this Saturday, the Saturday after September the 21st. It's a big Saturday night show at Giant Wharf. We'd love to see you there. We had the best time last year, so we'll be there. First up, it's a show in two halves. You can come to both halves or just the first or just the second of you like. There's a podcast first of all, then we'll have a little break, hang around. If you

want to come say, hey, that'd be really nice. And then afterwards we've got a little quiz or some late night shenanigans going on. You know, Saturday night, be about what night then, you about that time. I'm all about shenanigans. Had a couple of beers as time for shenanigans. Woo! That's gonna be me. Shenanigans. And if you like comedy and you like Perth

and you like lounging, how about you come to the comedy lounge on November the 3rd, Sunday afternoon? I like all of those things. Really? Well, you'll be there because we're doing our show, our double show combo there and tickets are available to both of these shows.

I do go on pod dot com. Can't wait, so pumped. Gonna be fun. Yeah, we love. You sound pumped. I am pumped. Can't wait, so pumped. We didn't only do love coming to these places and doing these shows, so it's, and it's

always a lot nicer when there are people in the audience. I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you. But we do it to no one. I mean, you know why we're doing that now. Yeah. Is that what you were going to say? I'm so sorry. Just a lot more expensive for us because... Get out of my head. ...you don't have to pay for flights and accommodations, you have to record here.

Yeah, but I go pay for petrol. That's true. ...drive my little colon here and he's full of explosives. It's why I parked so carefully next to your car. Oh no. You scraped along the side. My Benzol can't spell over in the back. Oh dear. This studio is gone now. My boot is full of cigarette butts slowly burning down.

Oh no. I didn't think it would be an issue. I stopped smoking in the boot. Just in the boot. It's my secret spot. You know, it's a nanny steak. I can't put it in the boot. Just in the boot. It's my secret spot. You know, it's a nanny steak out of the body smoke anywhere anymore. It's got a smoke in the boot. Smoking my boot. My trunk for Americans.

Yeah. We're talking about your trunk. This brings us to everyone's favourite segment of the show. It's the Fact Quotal Quests Show. Fact Quotal Quests Show. And to offer a Fact Quotal question, you can become a Patreon supporter of the show at patreon.com slash do go on pod. And there's a lot of different rewards. You can get there like bonus episodes or about to record one of those, which is a bit of fun and also things like voting on topics. And you can also give us or you also get to into the Facebook group, exclusive Patreon

first group. And you can also offer a factor quarter of a question if you're on the Sydney Sharnberg Rest in Peace Memorial Deluxe Package level of Patreon. And someone who has done that is Zach Dobran. Hi Zach. And one thing you get to do as well as offer a fact-acquired or a question is give yourself a title. He, Zach, was formally the boss president of procrastination, which is a club that we're all members of here,

or at least me and Jess I think, and Dave, what about you, you were pro-crestinating? Oh, I'm very pro-crestinating. Yeah. And he's given away the title of our president of pro-crastination. Oh, really? Because I thought that if you're doing that job right, you should never get a promotion. Yeah. Now he is called himself the official day one

Matt quote specialist. Day one. Day one day one. I'm so happy that you said that and that we ignored it and he just brought us into it later on. You may have heard me say day one earlier. I don't know what that was. Please don't bring it up again. Oh man, I genuinely thought that that was a reference to something that I should get

and that I didn't want to feel guilty. So we just moved on. We just moved on. I was like, I was like, God, you're clever. Whatever, that was the episode about race around the world. I'm pretty sure. Nelly Bligh, was he? Nelly Bligh, yeah.

Yeah, day one. But yeah, people did tweet in and stuff after saying, now that made sense, I'm like, okay, well whatever it seemed to make sense, that's what I meant. Yeah, it's open to interpretation. Yeah, and like a van go painting. Is he one of those ones you interpret?

Yep. Really? Oh, you look at it self-portrait, you interpret. Dave, art is subjective. Yeah, although it's squiggly lines, he does, and the night sky. I see that as a night sky. Actually, there's words.

Really? Because I see the title starry night, and I've got no idea what it is. Yeah, well, that's where the fun begins. So anyway, Zach, okay, the official day one, Matt Quote Specialist, asks us a question. I never read these out until we're on here. Oh, this is dangerous, which I love. And his question is, what would happen if people put things like headbands and necklaces feet first instead of

over the head, kind of putting them on like pants feet first but just taking a scenic route to get to the head or neck? The worst part about this strange question, I'm completely sober, just very tired. What would happen? Well, hey, Tony, he kind of goes on a answer it. Well, no, because what you're going to need is a material that's very flexible, but also holds its shape well. Right. Otherwise, you're stretching your headband out over your hips.

Are you thinking? Your shoulders, the widest parts of the human body. So, you're trying to wear a holo hoop for a necklace. But then you've got to put it on your head so that it secures your hair, out of your face. Some things they can stretch real big and then strength, strike back up like a, like some, like almost as tired as a sphincter. I don't think you have anything that has stretched.

Maybe manganese? Manganese. Let's make it out of manganese. Yeah, I think that's the only option. What about, okay, hear me out here. All right, well you haven't even started yet. Put it over your legs. Yeah, what's your sofa?

Both legs at a time. Yeah. Over the hips. It gets up to your head and then. A moment on the hips. Oh, this is gonna be a lifetime on your lips because they will get stuck on your lips. No, you get to the head and then you, because it's quite large, you wrap it around like

a rubber band, you know, how you can... Well, I mean, you can just talk about an infinity scarf at that point. What the hell is that? I like that. So they definitely exist and you could definitely put those on feet first. Oh my god, is that the answer? Is that the answer? Yeah, that's what would happen.

What happens is everything would become infinity scarves or infinity necklace. Infinity scarves. Oh, infinity scarves. Do I'm embarrassed for anyone that wears these? Also known as snuts. Why? They look awful.

Are they called infinity scarves? They just look like scarves. It's because they loop together like the infinity symbol. It keeps going. Yeah, that. Wow. It just looks like a scarf keeps going. Yeah, that. Wow. It just looks like a scarf, Dave.

Oh, I think I'm embarrassed for anyone who wears a scarf. Dave, what kind of Melbourne are you like? Do you even... Melbourne, are you like? Oh. Oh, do you like laneways? Do you like laneways at all? Do you like cultured?

I don't. Have you ever been to the Grand Final parade? Ha ha. Have you? I don't know. Do you even know who the king of member was in tune? I lived for mumber. Bain to the Grandman rally. Yeah. Yeah, the Birdman race. That is actually genuinely fun. It's very fun to watch the highlights off.

I'm afraid I do not, I don't think I like snuds. I'm saying that right. Yeah, that's fine. But for the premise of this experiment, absolutely right, that would work. But I mean, you're saying that, but you've seen me wear a scarf many times. Yeah, you're around the UK. Do you wear snouts? 100%. Not like that.

Most of mine are. No. I wear snouts in the nudes. Ha ha ha! And her, of course! Yours don't look like that. You're not much nicer. Are you now on my Facebook trying to look at pictures

of me wearing a scarf? I'm really Googling Infinity Scarf. I say you're never fully dressed without a snorred. On your horn. Oh, ho. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Anyway, let's move on. Oh, thank you so much to you. Dac, you bloody legend. And let me just say to you, day one. Day one to you, too, sir. Oh, that's how we can introduce each other. Say, we have a mate, just come to me, nod and say, a day one. And I'll say a day one to you.

And everyone else, don't do that because otherwise it'll ruin the food. Yeah, and then we'll be like, Zach, and it won't be Zach. And then one day someone will, Zach will be lining up ready to do it. Oh, yeah, and then we'll be like, Someone in front of him will say it

and we'll be like, yeah, this is Zach, come up, and then Zach will come up and try it. And we'll be like, security, get this impostor out is it! And then Zach will come up and try it, and we'll be like, security, get this imposter out of you. Yeah, so it's just not worth it, don't do that. Have you just found a photo of a Maxi snod? Oh, I've just... He's seen a snod with buttons, and it's no good. Tell me that that looks good.

No, it doesn't, but she's cosy as fuck, I'll tell you that. Yeah, that looks cosy, ah yeah. So maybe spit for some reason. Send us a photo of you and your cosier snout. But only if you're in the nought. No, no noes. No noes. Anyway, let's move on to the next part of...

Rappas snout round your put. What are you calling put? Yeah. What? Whatever I'm putting in. Whatever junk you got. Okay. Your junk is your put.

Yeah. I have an idea of what we'd like to do, because what the other thing that we do at the end of the show is that we like to thank some of our Patrons who support us on patreon.com forward slash do the one pod. And do not use the backslash, please. Oh my god, that's disgusting. This is a PG show. Well, you're going to be our MA. Yeah, do one pod.com. Probably. is a PG show. What do you think we are?

MA. Yeah, do one pod.com. Yeah, what I think we, yeah, maybe M, MA. No, what's MA? Violence. Fire impact violence. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. There are some, it can be violent. Probably depends on the episode. Depends on my mood. So what I would like to do is we usually like to have play a little game give people something related to today's show and I would like to name their boat Okay, can we do that? I think we've done that before but I mean who doesn't want to boat? Yes, can they all be tugboats? Oh? Yeah

Why that so we get to name them and we get to name what they tug. Okay. All right, well, I'd love to kick it off if that is okay with you. Please. From Toronto in Canada, Kaiser Grillheim. What a, is that your real name? That is so close to Kaiser Wilhelm. Yeah, it feels punny.

Is it a punny name? Real Helm. Kaiser Grillhelm. Is that a pun? Real Helm. I mean, it could beny. Is it a punny name? Real hell. Is that a pun? Is that a real hell? Real hell. I mean, it could be, I've cracked my heart. Is that the joke? Or is it King? King chiefs. King chiefs.

Kaisa probably knows it's probably yelling it at their device. Yes. It's the Emperor, so yeah. It's a image. It's like a King. So the King chief. So Jess. Yes.

What kind of boat and name and what's it tugging? What's it tugging today? Okay, so it's a tugboat. Yeah. I wanna keep going with the, with the regal theme. Okay. Perhaps it's called the regal eagle. Oh, the SS regal eagle?

No, because it's a tugboat, they're not SS, are they? Well, once you're there. So they're adding SS and Eagles together I'm starting to think Nancy's again. Oh please Kaiser grill. Yeah, not in playing anything So they got rid of the causes by the by the Nancy era right? Yeah, yeah, is regal eagle. Okay, I love it amazing. I love it. Thank you so much. The regalegal, what is it, Tug? It's Tug in a train.

Oh. Weirdly, a train. Is the train like alongside the canal? Aquatrain. Yeah. Oh. Yes, to both of you. Like it's badass.

The tracks are right next to the water and it's just moving along. Yeah. Yeah, the train broke down and the little Tug was like, I gotcha. I gotcha, buddy. Yeah, catch this rope. And then away they went. I see it was still a rope. That's cool.

Hey, thank you so much, Kaza Grill Helm. I bet you he has a burger chain over there. That'd be great. Kaza Grill Helm. And there's like, they're simple instead of Kentucky for a chicken man. Instead they've got like a small-handed Small-handed German man with a pointy hat

Okay Thank you, Kaiser. I'd also love to thank From Essinen not too far from here Claire, Eldridge Claire Oh, Claire Eldridge, hello. Hello, Claire. So, Essinan, famous for a few things,

a direct factory outlet shopping center, and airport, and the Essinan Bombers Football Club. Bombers, explosives. Yes. Whoa. They, the footy grounds is called Windy Hill hill. You know what that those kind of conditions. No We should call this ship mat. Ship mat. I like it This is yours Dave. Oh, okay. I think that we should call it the

I want to call this SS. Okay fine steam ship I want to call this SS. Okay. Fine. Steam, ship. I don't know what that's for. Santa Monica! Oh, that's the ship Santa Monica. That sounds nice and they are tugging discount jeans.

Oh, right. All the way to Essendon. SS J.J. Thank God, giving the people what they need in this time. Yeah, that was rich. Thanks so much, Claire Oldridge. Over in the... Deliver in the jeans, giving the people what they need in this time. Yeah, I'll dritch. Thanks so much, Claire, I'll dritch over in this. Deliver in the jeans, delivering the goods. Everyone needs dinner.

Movin' some units. Can I thank some people too? Yes, please. I would like to thank from, oh, where's this? Bermond'sy in London. Oh, David, Fisher. Oh, hello, David. Oh, Fisher, great ship name already. Yeah. Oh, David Fischer. Oh, hello, David. Oh, Fischer, great ship name already.

Yeah, true. But are you thinking tugboat still? Yeah. What are you naming, David's tugboat? I'm calling, where about Zizi from? London. London, okay. Bermansy.

Because, um, Tugger. OZ. Tugger was the nickname of Steve War. So I'm wondering,'m wondering who's a famous Aussie Cricketer? Yeah, so from London, he'll know this I think because actually, did I care about that? I don't really care about cricket in England today. Not this week after we beat their asses nearly half the time. Neil Lee, obviously, Thompson's very front-stair, but that's good stuff. That is good, good stuff. But we did just retain the ashes,

I do believe it, but they did just beat us in the World Cup. So it's, anyway, so maybe the, it's a tugboat called the SS Ice Man, because that was one of his other new, oh, that's good. Like that a lot. I know. And maybe it tugs.

Yep. Icebergs. Oh. Oh, that's good. Like that a lot. I know. And maybe it tugs. Yep. Icebergs. Oh. Out of harm's way. Oh, so no icebergs were harmed in the making of this ocean. Yes. They're not, that's not to protect the ships.

To protect the icebergs. Yeah. That's nice. Nobody ever thinks about the icebergs. And much like, what was our man's name? David Fisher. David Fisher. And much like an iceberg. our man's name David Fisher David Fisher and much like an iceberg David Fisher. There's a lot more to him than what's up?

You can see up top absolutely You're looking at 10% of the real man. Yeah, he's got depth. Yeah, that's why they call him the onion He's got layers. Oh God. He's got so many nicknames. Yes, man the onion Fisher the ogre Fisher monks man. men. You know, I remember a fisher amongst men. Really? Great hunt. Yeah, great hunt. Great hunt, the environment.

The ex- Ex- Oh, who are you? Rex hunting. Rex. Kissed him and I'll take that. Oh, dear. I imagine our health minister's also kissing him and putting him back. Oh. Good on you, Greg, can't. He was the one that liked a porn tweet accidentally in the middle of the night, then blamed

it on a bot. And it's valiant comedian Greg Larson has not let him forget it. I love tweets and regularly. Greg Larson. He's always asking you about it. Remember that time you. And then Greg is tweet, I don't know, there's a trip, there was apparently an investigation that found that there was no...

Yeah, wasted... Yeah, no shit! Allegedly. Anyway, I thank you very much for today, but Fisher, I would also like to thank from Cornwall. Oh, Cornwall, they do. Past his right and Skones roamed. I love to thank Mr. Josh Merch.

Josh Merch. Josh Merch. Merch. Oh Merch. M-U-R-C-H Merch. Oh Merch. Love that from... Oh, he's Cornish.

Doing them. Doing... Oh, oh he's corny. Doing them, doing, uh, scones your way. Right? No, I'm a devin. Oh, doing scones our way. Yeah, just, good on your Josh and you I could trust you. Someone asked a really good question about this recently when I saw, because it gets posed a lot

and I, my side's always on the losing end of these battles. I might have even been on the Patreon Facebook page, but then someone asked the question, what kind of cream? And this is key. When I say cream on first, I'm talking super thick cream. The only kind of cream I'd put on a scone.

Who's on first, cream? Clotted cream. Clotted cream. Not like a whipped cream in a cane. No, no, no, no, some of this sloppy shit you get in a down all number nine. No, you got to whip that shit yourself. I'm talking, yeah. Get out of whisk.

Yeah, put it in it. Earn that cream. Earn it, go to earn it. Naomi Higgins and I made scones together recently. We whipped some cream. How thick, was it? I was pretty darn thick. Nice one.

I whipped it like 95% of the way. You I might, you know how your arm goes really, really tired when you're whisking. Oh, you know that. Oh, I know that. Yep, know that feeling. How's that going to look? Everyone knows that feeling, yeah. You're like, I can't whisk no more.

Yeah, it's a name. It was like, well, I'll have a go because that's what you do. You share it. And then she does 5% of the work. Cream's done. I was like, you son of a go because that's what you do, you share it. And then she does five percent of the work. Cream's done. I was like, you son of a bitch. He's helping me out there at the age.

But then I got to eat scones. I was claiming all the credit. Anyway, Josh Mitch. We like you. Okay, well, I feel like he's gotta be on that beautiful little tugboat. The, what is it? SS the only one?

What are the HMS? Oh yeah. The HMS oh yeah the HMS cream Dream dream. Thank you cream Dream that sounds grunt. Oh, that makes me feel hungry. Oh If I could if I could put oh I'm sorry Matt, if you could... What do you want to do? I was just thinking if I had to pick one ingredient to put on a scone, jam can fuck off.

I'd be happy with just cream. Okay. Okay. Well, what's just... That's my cream dream. What's just towing in the cream dream? He's towing people's hopes. Wow, it's a metaphorical towing.

Don't know, literally, he's literally towing. So he's the dream bringer. So you order a hope, you go, you know what I'm home for today? A sheep with a hat. And it'll tow that tail, tow you a ship with a hat. It's gonna be a physical thing. Dave, can you just...

He sounds like Santa on the water. He's Santa of the Seas. Can you just take over? Thanks a lot. Thanks so much. I'd like to thank someone. He's so loopy they call him the Fruit of the Sea. I would like to... Fruit of the sea. I would like to see that. I would like to see that.

I don't know. I think any more so about that. My soy point levels kicked in there. That's not cool. Anyway. I gotta make a quick call. I would like to thank from Lang Warren here in Victoria. Alana Chitzio.

Oh, great. Now I'm so stoked we got a Langy listener. Iana Chitzio. Oh great name. I'm so stoked we got a Langy listener. Oh, I got a bunch of my old schoolmates living in Langy. Really? All right, we should name the ship. Beautiful neck of the woods. Tell me a bit more about Lang Warren. Well, Lang Warren, you sort of,

you're pushing, starting to push towards the rural regional edge of the city of Melbourne, the greatest city of Melbourne. And my, what they like to do is they, edge of the city of Melbourne, the greatest city of Melbourne. And my, what they like to do is they, they're the kind of guys that go out, go on out full driving. They'll go out full driving on a weekend.

What they love to do is go down, tracks get bogged, winch them each other out, drive another, yeah, basically drive another 20 meters, get bogged again, winched again. They're the top boats of the land. They are, I never thought about it. Yeah, basically, driving other 20 meters get bogged again. They're the top boats again. They're the top boats of the lane. They are. I never thought about that. They're the top boats of the way.

It sounds like such a horrible way to spend a week. They love it and then they end up, you know, they'll end the day with a campfire and a few beers and they can't wait to do it again. I watched the videos they post on Facebook and I'm like, I feel it. I love the nature around it. I like the end of the day. They watch what you do and go, really?

Yeah, no, they were, I guess so, yeah. You post if you're sitting indoors. Look at this roof. Well, they sealed roads. He seems to drive on. Look at it. It is a move. Froward. He's doing something called a Netflix binge or something. He's watching the Good Wife again. So maybe she's on the SS land cruiser. Oh, that's nice. And she's tugging her mates tugboat. Yeah. Getting around in trouble. That's right. Alana Chitsio. I hope that's how you do it out there in Langey. Good on you, Alana. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Beautiful. Beautiful part of. I love those areas of Melbourne where you just I hope that's how you do it out there in Langy. Good on you, Alana. Thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Beautiful. Beautiful part of, I love those areas of Melbourne where you just, there's a bit more space around and you can drive not very far and you're in the bush. So good. I'm kind of, yeah, I'm occasionally jealous of that but then it's also a long way into the city from there. Yeah.

Yeah. The wrong traffic it'll take you an hour. And there's no Uber Eats options. It's like, uh, fuck that. Oh, yeah, you tell an Uber Eats and it says, we are yet to be in the air. I don't know. I don't know. They're in Melbourne. They're just in there. I was always talking about Lang Lauren. Oh, you talking about the bush. Wow. Dave. Finally, I'd like to thank... I'm not sure if this is a bush here. Half the episode this week was the report. The other half's been the sealed section of the back here. Well, I'd like to thank from Overton, Overtown, they'd probably say, in North Atlantic Great Britain. Ross Gerrard. Ross Gerrard. Ross Gerrard. Ross Gerrard.

That's a great name. Hard G you reckon. It's not a Gerrard. Ross Gerrard. I'm not an American Gerrard. No Gerrard. No Gerrard. No Gerrard.

No Gerrard. Ross Gerrard. Who he's driving? Piloting. The HMAS. Seagull. Oh, that's nice. Piloting the HMAS. Seagull.

Oh, that's nice. Tugging a big load of potatoes. No, it's tugging seagulls. Oh, it's tugging the seagulls. There's a boat of seagulls in there here to take over. Oh my God. Wow, pilots at seagull as well. Yes.

Why is Ross helping? What's he mean? He's a seagull. He's a seagull. Our favorite seagull is in a? What's he been? He's a sea girl. He's a sea girl. Now, favorite sea girl is no Roscaras. You threw an A in there. What, explain to me what's going on there? HMAS, as opposed to the HMS, or is there no HMS?

Is that a CD? I think it's HMS. HMS is the Australian one. HSV. Right. Yeah, I think it's a... HMV, yes. HMV.

Fuck. I think it's a, it Jim V. Yes, hey, Jim V. Fuck. I think it's a it's sense for Australia, the eight, right? Oh, right. Hey, Jim AS. Yeah, because that's a nice. Hey, Jim Mayus. Who had these ship Australian ship. Right. Right. Right. Hey, Jim Mayus. Yeah. I got the value. Oh, thank you so much, Roscarard. And thank you to Kaiser, Claire, David, Josh, Helena, Ross, for supporting us.

And being the boss. I tell you what, I'm tugging all the way to you, six. Jesus Christ. Love from the bottom of my heart. Stop it. Oh, do not tug your love. No. Wait, what?

Matt. I'm tugging a boatload of love to him. Oh, I'm tugging a boatload of love to him. Oh my god. We were just talking about tugging by the fire. Oh, that's nuts. Put it away, ma'am. What is wrong with you?

My feelings. Oh, that's not really cool. I don't know, it's such a toxic environment in here. Kind of man. Stop. We're part of an enslaved. Oh, seal, the sealed section indeed. Oh, god.

But if you want to be one of these people that we we tug, go to do go on pod.com or patreon.com such do go on pod and we will greatly receive your support. Thank you so much. Everyone you keep us go and you bloody legends the patron. Oh my God that patrons are our tugboat. Yeah, they are tugging this pod along. Oh Oh yeah. That is so true. Wait, no Dave. In a wholesome way. Dave's in a really pervy mood.

Oh, that's not true Dave. It is true, you little perv. Yeah, it's no pervier than usual. Can we just say, I reckon that's the bid. Yeah, it's made you even pervier. The boom made me, boom. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah. I was wrapping up. The boom made me, boom. Oh my god. Oh my god.

Get out. Get out. Just wrap it up. Wrap it up. Let's go. It made me a sex person. I said the boom. Let's get out of here.

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