Do Go On - 341 - The Unkillable Solider, Adrian Carton de Wiart

Episode Date: May 4, 2022

Adrian Carton Di Wiart fought in multiple wars, was shot several times, had a hand and an eye amputated and he still fought on! Is this our most badass war badass ever?Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: dogoonpod.com or patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/Check out our new merch store:https://do-go-on-podcast.creator-spring.com/ See Matt do stand up in Sydney (May 12) and Brisbane (May 19)https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/  Stream our 300th episode with extra quiz (and 16 other episodes with bonus content): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoonTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30685433 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiarthttps://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-irishman-who-led-one-of-wwii-s-greatest-escapes-1.3046235 https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/extraordinary-story-of-the-one-eyed-one-handed-war-hero-who-fell-in-love-with-poland-and-didnt-leave-for-twenty-years-9694https://allthatsinteresting.com/adrian-carton-de-wiart Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serengy Amarna 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Hey mates, before we start the show, I just want to quickly let you know that I, Matt Stewart, from the show, do go on. I'm coming to Sydney and Brisbane to do some stand-up comedy. Sydney on May the 12th and Brisbane on May the 19th, please come along. It'd be so nice to see you.

Use the discount code. Do go on. And yeah, the details will be in the show notes. Anyway, enough of that sweet plugging. I know that's what you came for in a lot of ways, but, you know, we've got a show. show to do and we better get on with it now. So I'm going to throw to Dave, who is live from the European Beer Cafe. Hey, thank you so much for coming out. On your Easter Sunday for a bit of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocki. Thank you so much for coming out.

Matt's just throwing his jacket on the stage there. Pretending never saw that. Are you having a good Sunday? Hey, thank you so much for coming out. My name is Dave Warnock, as I said, this is Doe Go On, but it's not about me. It's about three of us. So could you please put your hands together? Welcome to the stage. Jess Perkins. and Matt Sands jacket. Yeah. Oh! I'm sure no one noticed that day, but I don't know why you...

Okay, but I had to point it out because otherwise it looks like... I went like this. Oh! Anyway, like I had to say something. You are easily spooked. I've got spooked. Like a horse.

Otherwise, everyone would be like, oh, Dave just moved his head. Why? We're so confused. You've probably heard about the European Beer Cafe Ghost. No, very excited to be here. Thank you for coming out again. Who left a family function to come here?

Like three of you. What the fuck of the rest are you doing? Who has a family? Is that a thing people who have an Easter family day? Yeah, big time. I've dodged it the last seven years because of a comedy festival. Even when we've done shows on a Saturday. I'm like, oh, I can't go show.

And they go, okay. You fucking idiots. Yeah, they could just check their God. No, they don't, though. Your family are stupid They're so stupid And unsupportive And they're not supportive

Or they know I've got a shot on a satellite And they're like oh good She's not coming anyway Yeah They are relieved Anyway all right Budge of heathens in Good to hear

Explain how the show works Well what we do here Is taken in terms of a report On a topic Often suggested to us by one of the listeners Go away, do a little bit of research Bring it back for the group And it is my return to do a report this week

you said my return see that's the kind of thing you have to point out not when you turn your head a little bit I reckon we could have got away with that one you didn't hear the sound the crowd they saw the fucking ghost how did I say my return that makes no sense

it's Jesus' return so I said it is my return and guess what the topic is we always go oh oh And I'm too far, I can't get out. Fuck. Too soon, too soon.

It's been 2,000 years. Hey, Dave, you usually ask a question of the audience before you even ask that question. And our question is, have you heard the good word? Who he has heard the good book? Do you go on? Who's heard the show before? Fantastic.

Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Always a relief. Who hasn't heard? That's okay, that's right, yeah, good, yeah. Hey, welcome, welcome in. We are very welcoming. Yeah. Great, and we will convert you.

Or like a megachurch will us will us into a side room and force you to donate to us. So, great to have you in, great to have you in. Someone read that as like an innuendo. Inuendo? Inuendo. Inuendo.

Inuendo. No. That's one of the few things that. You know, do go on. Donate what? I think come, yeah. There was someone who would... There was someone...

Oh, they saw the ghosts again, but I... They were either thinking they meant come, or it was the ghost. Or they were going, oh, I don't have my checkbook. Because it's not 1994. We accept an American Express. All right. My question, we will start with a question to get us on the topic. And the question for Jess and Matt is,

what is the only thing more badass than a World War badass? Ooh. Fucking hell. That is a vague question. What's more badass than a World War II badass? Well, just generally a World War I or World War II bad ass. There's only one thing more badass. Oh, it's not about Barry Breen, the guy kicked that wobbly punt

to get the Saints' one and only premiership in 1966, is it? Is it about Barry Breen? It actually is. It is. It is not. Sorry everyone. You're all thinking, please let it be. Kahn.

How about a multi-war badass? A World War I and World War II plus more wars bad ass. Ball Wars. You misspoke. Including the Ball War. Holy shit. Today's subject is nicknamed the Unkillable Soldier. Ooh.

But he was around in World War I, so I reckon he might be dead. Jess, he is the unkillable soldier. Okay, well, we'll find out. Not the undiable soldier. Okay, how else do you die? He meant to have tripped down the stairs or something. And so the stairs killed you. Honestly, hold that thought for later.

I'm serious. We'll talk about that in about 45 minutes. All right, today's soldier, today's soldier. It's a World War History podcast. Adrian Carton de Villa is the subject of this report. Suggested by multiple people, thank you to John from Toowoomba, previously from Brisbane. Love how specific that is.

Great. Thank you, John. Everyone else has just say your name, so thanks to Jack Ingold, Michael, Simon O'Rince, Mike Weaver, Sharnie Lee Fulton, James Neill, Kalina, Kelly, Trey, David Kapler, David Glu, And Jack Taylor. It's one of those David glue. That's great.

G-L-E-W. Ah. He's actually from Endeavour Hills in Victoria. You hear, David? He wouldn't put his hand up now, would he? Just mocked his name. So, thanks to those people. Here we go.

Adrian Coton de Villa. Look at that name, Jess. Beautiful. What a great name. I was born into an aristocratic family in Brussels on the 5th of May 1818. So born in 1880 in Brussels, his father, Leon Constant Gislane Carton DeVier. Has Jizz in his name.

The crowd loved. They just loved that syllable of his name. There is some really good names in this. Sorry, I swear. He was a lawyer and magistrate and the young DeVia's mother, Ernestine Venzig. Oh, that's great. That's good. Sadly, she died when the boy was six, so probably shouldn't know. to pause there. The family

moved to Cairo in order for his father to become a director of a large property development company. During this time, Adrian learned to speak Arabic. He's already a man of the world, or a boy of the world, which will continue. His father remarried to an English woman. He was then sent to a boarding school in England at the age of 11.

After school... The other speaker came on. I thought my ears popped. I was like, don't address it, Jess. Just be a professional. I noticed zero difference. Should I get my ears to say?

Yes. Yeah. Did you all notice that? Yeah. Man, I sounded great before and I sound great now. That's all. Could you hear anything before? Do I have to recap?

Could you honestly not hear much? He's from Bustles, 1880. Okay, great. Wow. Thank God it was early in the show, you know? He dropped out of Oxford. He went to Oxford, but he dropped out to join the British Army. Remember, he is not British.

But he joined the British Army. The second Boer War broke out, as you were saying, Matt, in South Africa in 1899. Obviously, you know a lot about the Boer War, you know. Yeah. Yeah. The politics of the situation. Yeah, there was, I do.

I don't know if we have time for me to go into it. There's simply no time. There's no time. The Boers were involved, though. I know that. Know that for sure. It was in South Africa. and the boars were maybe like the,

were they like the white Dutch South Africans or something? No, whatever. I was on a, I reckon I had two out of three there, but you'll edit most of that out. Let's start again. The speaker wasn't working. Don't worry, no one heard any of them. With Great Britain fighting against the two local ball republics,

DeVier recalled in his book later on he recalled, At that moment, I knew once and for all that war was in my blood. If the British didn't fancy me, I would offer myself to the balls. He just wanted to shoot someone. You didn't care who it was for. War was in my blood. Yeah. Okay.

Okay, your dad's like a real estate mogul. Yeah. And I, dad's into houses, I'm into killing. Yeah. That makes sense. At the time he was under military age, wasn't a British subject and didn't have his father. consent to join the military.

Three strikes that would stop most people, but not our man who pretended to be 25 and signed up under a pseudonym and called himself Trooper Carton. Which, if you're going to fake a name, keep it simple. They must have been going like, that is

nomative determinants off the charts. Yeah, Trooper Gunn. Or whatever that word is. Trooper Carton. Hmm. That sucks. You never know which way you go on. I know. I'm exciting.

But if a fight is what he wanted, a fight he got. Carton de Villa got shot in both the stomach and the groin. Oh. And was sent back to England to recover. Which would you prefer? Gut or groin. Yeah. Oh.

Come on. I mean, I do have abs of steel, so probably I could take it. He doesn't have a dick. of steel, I guess. Never been tested, anyway. No one knows. I know, and it's not steel. Your answer, Jess?

Groin. Who's the serial groaner? I love it. I think it was an agreeance. It was, yeah. He was. You said he... Now, why now? Why would you take a sip now? You are on a roll.

For the people at home, I was drinking my drink at a bad time. But he said... he wanted, if he wanted a fight, he got one. He was shot twice. Is that what you think of as a fight? Yeah. Well, I didn't tell you the people that he shot. Which is probably a lot.

So he sent back to England, quite injured. He was only then that his father discovered that his son had abandoned his studies and his dad was furious. But his son was keen to get back out and fight. So he was back at Oxford for a time to satisfy Daddy. And, uh... That was the worst thing I've ever heard in my life. Dave saying daddy.

If I showed you a picture of this guy, if he heard me call him say that he said daddy, he would destroy me. But he went back to Oxford for a bit, waited a couple of years before he saw military action again. This time he was given a commission in the Second Imperial Light Horse and was back fighting in South Africa in 1901.

This time he was old enough to fight under his real identity and served as a commissioned officer until the war ended the following year. He stayed in the military, he kept fit between wars by running and playing sports, most notably polo, which he loved. It's so weird, like, you know, in the off season. Yeah, he was straining.

Just shooting horses. He loved polo. That's not how polo's played. He does not love polo. playing by the rules. Unsurprisingly, he also loves shooting and was invited to shoot in country estates across Europe.

His other hobby was swearing. One of his friends remarked that, quote, he must hold the world record for bad language. Love this guy. His friend sounds like a nerd. I say. Fuck off. Tone it down.

In 1908, he married a countess with one of, what is the longest names I've ever seen. Yes, lay it on us. Countess. Oh my God, it goes for like two full sentences. Frederica, Maria, Caroline, Henrietta, Rosa, Sabina, Francisco Fugger von Babenhausen.

Yes. Brought it home. Strong. Really brought her. Babenhausen. Incredible. Holy shit. She was the daughter. Can I take your name? I bet he said.

I want to take it. I want to get rid of Bob. Just be Babenhausen. She was the daughter of an Austrian prince and princess so pretty cool stuff. Babe, I've forgotten every other name in there. Babenhaus. Because one of them was Fugger.

It's Fugger von Babenhausen. Incredible. That's so good. Together they had two daughters. Because he was well connected through his family, his cousin Henry or Henri, which probably would be, Carton de Villa, was Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 21. And Adrian remained a Belgian citizen

serving the British army until 1907 when he became a naturalised citizen. When the First World War broke out in 1914, he was already serving with the Somaliland Camel Corps. I'll listen to a few Camel Corps bands. They're great. I love it when you hate yourself. It's my favourite. Look at it. thinking about all these life choices.

Remember Babenhausen? God, that was good. So he was fighting the forces of the dervish state in the Horn of Africa. But being in the Camel Corps, that means he's riding into battle on a freaking camel. God, that's bad.

He was there to quell a rebellion of the dervish state who were fighting for independence from the British and Italian colony, so not as bad, I'll say that that bit. But during an attack on an enemy stronghold, he was shot in the arm and then in the face. Which would you prefer, Dave?

I've got a face of steel. If I had the choice, I'd shoot you at the face. Easy, no question. Honestly, I would pick arm just because they're small enough they'd probably miss. Bullet would just go, dink. And I'd say, well, you know the rules you missed, I can go now. And I go, fuck.

Oh, we've got to change that rule. Where would you shoot, Dave? Let's go round the room. If I, I mean, just to help you out, I'd try and get you right in the gullet or whatever that thing is. Oh, yeah. Open it up. So for people who don't know, I have a very small esophagus. Yeah.

It's not a gullet, is it? I don't know what a gullet is. Osofugus. Thank you. What's it? Do you know what a gullet is? Isn't it not like birds have a gullet? Some people are nodding.

Are they birds? Okay, so I just saw it up to the bit where he got shot in the arm and then in the face. And because of the shot to the face, he lost his left eye and part of his ear. Which ear? I think it's his left ear. Imagining photos of this guy. Speaking in 1964, Lord Ismay, who served alongside Carton in Somaliland, described the incident.

He said, quote, he didn't check his stride, but I think the bullet stung him up as his language was awful. He's lost an eye. He's stung up. So unbecoming of a gentleman, isn't it? He's been shot in the eye, he's cursing. The doctor could do nothing for his eye, but we had to keep him with us. He must have been in agony. Oh, my God.

recuperating from these injuries, Carton DeVia received a glass eye. It caused him such discomfort that he allegedly threw it from a taxi just threw it out of the window and instead acquired a black eye patch which he would wear for the rest of his life. Hell yeah, badass.

And it sort of becomes his trademark. Everyone knows him from the eyepatch. And a few other things that I'll mention. He received the Distinguished Services Order, the DSO for these exploits, but did the injuries slow him down? No fucking way.

Language, Dave. Sorry. I've been stung up for beauty. According to the BBC, fellow soldier, Lord Ismay that I talked about, also gave an insight into Carton DeVier's innate love of fighting. He said, quote, I honestly believe that he regarded the loss of an eye as a blessing, as it allowed him to get out of Somaliland to Europe

where he thought the real action was. He's a psycho. It's well worth losing an eye if you get to go fight the proper thing. Oh, good. And he saw a lot more action during World War I, shipping out to the trenches of the notoriously awful conditions of the Western Front, serving in the notoriously bloody Epirah in 1915. During the second battle of Epirah,

the Germans launched an artillery barrage in which Carton DeVille's left hand was shattered. According to his autobiography, which he titled, Happy Odyssey, he tore off two of his own fingers when the doctor refused to amputate them. Could have done with a little bit of a warning on that one, I reckon. That might have been worse than when you said Daddy. Nah, no. His whole hand was removed by a surgeon later that year.

So now... Were you into that? He's losing everything on his left. Yeah. Bit of his ear. I. Get out. Nah, it's very good.

He returned. to England to recover in a nursing home in Park Lane, the same place he went every time he got injured. And they're like, oh, you're back. The usual room? This became such a regular occurrence that they kept his own pyjamas ready for his next visit. He literally said, the usual.

Oh, my God. Before the end of the First World War, he was also shot through the ankle. Which one? Yeah. Wish I could tell you. Let's say left. Let's say left.

It's becoming a bit lopsided. there at this point. No left hand. So that's shot through the left ankle. Also, the back of the skull. That feels important, that one.

That's during the Battle of the Som was ever notorious. Ankle or back of the head? Well, the back of the head one matters if it's where the bullet comes, if it came from the front and got him in the back of the skull, then I'd say that's no good.

But if it's just sort of skimming past the back, maybe that's fine. Yeah, okay. And you can just grow hair over it. Yeah. I got a big hair. I can shave off a little bit of skull, I reckon, and be okay. Yeah.

Yeah, I've got to go with that as well. I'll be out of fit in a more hats. I got a huge head. Yes. I can't find hats. I got a big old head. Do you laugh at me? I'm not done with the injury list.

So we've got the ankle, the back of the skull. Yep. Then through the hip. Yep. Great. left hip. If he goes swimming, he will go in circles. Well, later in this story, he's going swimming.

Then he was shot through the leg at Canberry and then through the other ear. Finally. The right hand side's like, thank God. The right side was getting a bit of foamow. So just to recap, he has already been shot in this story in the groin, the stomach, the arm, the face, the back of the skull, the ankle, the hip, one ear,

and then the other ear. Cool. That is eight separate places and he's lost a hand and an eye. Perfect. Great. After a period of recovery, Carton DeVier once more managed to convince a medical board he was fit for battle. And then in 1916, so he's like,

He doesn't know this, but they're only half way through the wall. He took command of the 8th Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, after three unit commanders were all killed. With the commanders all dead, Carton DeVia took charge of all three units, and together they managed to hold the advancing enemy back. For this unflinching bravery, he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in combat then can be awarded to British Empire Forces. And his citation reads,

for most conspicuous bravery, coolness and determination during... Coolness. That's fun. Yeah, it's cool, isn't it? Yeah. They pinned it home and just went,

fuck yeah, brother. He's got sunnies on. Sonny's on an eye patch. That's so cool. That's so cool. This guy... Got to look after that other eye. So, coolness and determination

during severe operations of a prolonged nature. It was owing in a great measure to his daughter. dauntless courage and inspiring example that a serious reverse was averted. He displayed the utmost energy and courage in forcing our attack home.

After three other battalion commanders had become casualties, he controlled their commands and ensured that the ground won was maintained at all costs. He frequently exposed himself. Come and get it! In the organisation of positions

and of supplies, and of supplies, passing unflinchingly through fire barrage of the most intense nature, his gallantry was inspiring to all. I mean, it's an amazing story, but I reckon he'd be insufferable. Just a conversation with him, you'd be like, oh God, you'd scull your drink and be like, I said, sorry, I got to, I got a top up. I got a top up and just go stand in a corner.

Too much. In what way? What kind of things would he be? Just seems like a little bit of a psycho. Okay. Yeah. That's a vibe I'm getting. Right.

I like how the worst thing you think about a psycho is having to have a conversation with him. True. He's very keen to kill. My biggest worry about meeting him would be just like you can't complain about anything. Like if you've got like a sore throat, he's like, who gives a fuck? Yeah. I've been shot in the throat. Yeah.

You couldn't complain about anything. Yeah. Which you love doing, so. Yeah, it's true, honestly. Love to complain. I've told you about my throat. And also my loss of smell and taste. Anyway.

So he's one of the Victoria Cross. It's the most prestigious award that you can be awarded. Humble about his bravery, he didn't even mention the Victoria Cross in his autobiography. Later, he telling a friend, it had been won by the 8th Gloucesters, every man has done as much as I have. So, I'm very, very, quite humble about that.

But by this time, the man had become a full-blown legend in the military. To quote from the BBC, he electrified his men. The eye patch. He didn't electrocute them. Though he might have. The quote says, the eye patch, empty sleeve and striking mustache. I forgot to mention he's got a very, very striking mustache. I love this guy.

Yeah. He's a very distinct looking man, very tall. all as well. Like a twirley mustache or Merv Hughes? What are we talking? Just quite strong from... From side to side. Really painting a picture for the listeners there?

Quite, yeah, quite bushy. Right. If you were. Just think of a cool mustache, that's it. So a Hitler mustache. Hang on. You said it. I mean, great.

Great. You think the Hitler mustache is cool? It's bold, isn't it? Okay. No one's doing it anymore. Yeah, Charlie Chaplin really ruined that. Michael Jordan had it for a little bit. No.

Which was a strong choice. Yeah, bold choice, yeah. All right, from the quote, he electrified his men. The eye patch, empty sleeve, and striking mustache, combined with his bravery, made him famous, with men under his command describing his presence as helping to alleviate their fear

before going over the top. During the trenches. But he also terrified men. because they knew that he was willing to do fucking anything, and he expected them to do the same. I found this war website, possibly German, I think. It's pronounced wikipedia.org. It's a war website.

Yeah, a lot of war on there. So the W would be for war? Yeah. What's the icky? What's the I? I don't know, is that German for war? Yeah, maybe. Warwapedia.

Dot org. That makes sense. Yeah. So it's just, it's got everything you want about war. Yeah. That's handy. Why do they have the English letter, W for war,

and then the German word for war? I don't know. I guess it's marketing. That makes sense. That does make sense. Ikepedia was already taken. Oh, okay. And you don't want to go on that website.

See some weird shit on there. What's Matt's homepage? So I found this website And it quotes from a soldier A.S. Bullock About the first time the new leader Carton DeVier appeared. Is it Sandra Bullock?

Yeah. It's A.S. Bullock. Yeah, A. Sandra Bullock. But which one? Sadly, not the Academy Award winning. Are you Sandra Bullock? I'm A. That's how she gets out of giving signatures. I'm having a lot of fun.

So this is the quote from A. Sandra Bullock. First time, and their new leader, Carton, has appeared on the scene. Cold shivers. Cold shivers. I'm A. Sandra Bullock. Okay. Cold shivers went down the back of everyone in the brigade, for he had an unsurpassed record as a fire eater.

Missing... What? Missing no chance of throwing the men under his command into whatever fighting happened to be going. Bullock also noted that Carton DeVier, quote, despite having only one eye, ordered him to get his bootlace changed. So they're all lined up and he went,

you, change the bootlace. And he probably started crying. Somehow he got to the end of World War I. I don't understand the point of that. Even though he only had one eye, he was still able to tell a guy to change. Yeah, from a distance. Oh, I see.

Right. Well, he must have the one that does depth perception now. Which is classically the right one. Yeah, I think you might be right. Somehow we got to the end of World War I, and despite having lost his eye, his hand had been shot eight times. He said, frankly, I enjoyed the war. After World War I, he was sent to Poland as second in command of the British Poland military mission.

The Brits were there to aid Poland, which was fighting against the Soviet Bolsheviks, the Ukrainians, the Lithuanians and the Czechs all at the same time. He lived a quieter life for a time after this, by which I mean he survived two plane crashes in one year, one of which resulted in a brief period of Lithuanian captivity. Are you just skipping over a plane crash? Two. No, two.

Okay. Don't worry, there's another one coming up. I simply didn't have time to go through all these plane crashes. When the polls won their battle and the mission was over, DeVia retired with the honorary rank of Major General and stuck around and lived in Poland and the largest state of a friend. He did actually live a comparatively quiet life

for a time later writing. In my 15 years in the marshes I did not waste one day without hunting. I lived healthy and comfortably. Close to nature and away from the troubles plaguing the interwar period. I had no contact with world affairs and I must admit had no interest in them.

Then World War II broke out. And you better believe DeVia was lining up to get a piece of that act. How old was he at this point? He's nearly 60 years old. And he had to escape Poland. He headed back to England where he re-enlisted in the British Army. So he's 60.

Despite pushing 60, he was granted the rank of acting major general. That was stoked to have him back. He's a legend. Yeah, that's fair. And Carton DeVia was summoned in April 1940s to take charge of a hastily drawn together Anglo-French force to occupy Namsos, a small town in the middle of Norway. Sadly, his men were outgunned and out-supplied by the Jews.

Germans and had to hold on tight until they could be rescued and they had to leave. But then in April 1941, DeVille was appointed by Winston Churchill himself to lead a British mission to help Yugoslavia. Sadly, he never made it there as the plane he was flying on had both engines fail and they crashed into the sea of the Italian-controlled Libya. A third plane crash now. DeVia was knocked unconscious in the crash but came to in the cold, cold water. Martin DeVier and his comrades stayed on the plane's wreck as long as they could,

but then it started to sink and they had to swim for it. He had to help one of his crewmates to shore, allegedly slinging him onto his back. Remember, this man has one arm, one hand, and then he swam both him and the guy to shore. Of course he did. What a guy. When they made it, they were immediately captured by the Italians,

and Carton DeVier was sent to a castle called Vincigliata outside of Florence. He was held there as one of 13 of Britain's highest ranking captives. So he's a bit of a wild card, a draw card for them. And ace up the sleeve. Also in tow were fellow badasses, double World War veteran general Sir Richard O'Connor and Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neem who was the only person ever to be awarded a Victoria Cross

and win an Olympic gold medal. Some people are just overachievers. And what was the medal for? Shooting. That makes sense. It makes sense? Yeah. It makes sense.

If it was like, I don't know, a decathlon, be a bit disappointing, wouldn't it? Well, like rhythmic gymnastics. Yeah. That would actually be more impressive. That would be really interesting. I mean, like the ribbon? Beautiful, beautiful sport.

So DeVille, with these fellow high-profile badasses, and despite being in his 60s now, he led at least five attempts to escape the POW camp. Fucking hell. I can't handle this guy. He'd be a lot to be married to, wouldn't he? Oh, yeah. It'd be a lot.

Switzerland was only 200 miles away, and the prisoners all had their eyes well and truly set on the target. Only 200 miles. Yeah. Easy. What's that in K's? 320?

That was very quick. That's very good math. Much better than the man I shared a lift with earlier, who, when I got in the car park... It was at you. They were dressed in formal clothes, a couple. Man and woman got in.

and he was adjusting his shoes, had a bit of a Cuban heel, and his partner said, how tall is the heel? And he said, about one inch. And she said, oh, what's that in millimeters? And he goes, uh-uh. She goes, go on, have a go, and he goes, 15. What vehicle are you in here? What's going on?

An elevator. Oh, okay. Yeah, that makes... Oh, yeah, sorry. Because the whole time I was like, why is you in the car? Yeah, yeah. He drove you. They got into my Uber.

I was too polite to tell him it was occupied. I said, where do you want to go? What's up? 15 mill. Yeah. Okay. He was very far off. So Switzerland's only 320 days away.

What is it? It's 25 mil, right? That's not that. I mean, it's not that far off. I don't think that's a noteworthy story. You know, it's not like there was context. I didn't bring it up out of fucking nowhere. It felt like you'd been burning a hole in your pocket.

How do I weave this one in? I've got quite the tail to tell. About an idiot. So they tried to escape the castle. According to the Irish times, they employed homemade ropes. They attempted to pierce the Great Walls with carefully concealed holes and even climbed down a medieval well before settling upon the hardest task of all,

digging a 60-foot tunnel through solid bedrock. That's about 15 meals. This later attempts took the general's seven months of excruciatingly backbreaking labour, with DeVille organising an elaborate system of watches and warnings as the teams burrow deeper. Simultaneously, the prisoners managed to contact London via secret letters smuggled out for them

at enormous personal risk by the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican. The amount of legends you're just dropping and skimming over. It's amazing. Well, I didn't know that was a real thing. I thought that was a book or something. Scarlet Pimpernel. Well, the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican is a nickname given to Irish Catholic priest

named Q.O. Flaherty, who, in defiance of the Pope, did everything he could to aid prisoners of war and a lot of Jews under the noses of the enemy. He was a real hero, save thousands of people. So he smuggled their letters for them. They enlisted Major General Michael Gambier-Parry, who was rather artistic

and was able to come up with forged documents and escape maps. It took months of secret digging but the generals completed their massive tunnel excavation in March, 1943. What's going on? I don't know, just people making a lot of exclamations out there. It's a crazy story.

It's just a few like, they're doing it out loud, so they're loving it, you know? Otherwise, you keep that in. Yeah. Fah! But on the inside. Yeah. Never hold enough.

Fah! It's dangerous. They split. into three teams of two. Four risks the Italian railways while DeVia and O'Connor, who was one of the other generals, chose to walk. Why?

So far. And they're sleeping rough each night and relying on the kindness of strangers in a beard for Switzerland. And you have to imagine these guys are not the most inconspicuous looking dudes. And they do not speak any Italian. O'Connor was a silver fox with a

big white mustache. Hello. And Carton... I'm speaking your language? And Carton DeVille was a six foot two man with an eye patch and only one hand. Hello. They stood out. Makes hitchhiking a lot harder.

It wasn't your worst. Yet somehow they were able to elude recapture for eight days before finally being recaptured. Oh. And they didn't make it the 320Ks in eight days? No. No. Week?

That took me a year. Just had a laziness, to be honest. I'm big on rest days. Thankfully, half her through the war, the Italians decided to switch sides, and Captain DeVia was taken to Rome to help negotiate with the Allies, so let him go.

And he finally made it back to England in 1943. Upon his return to England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was a big fan of his, summoned him where he informed DeVia that he was to be sent to China as his personal representative. The Prime Minister felt

a soldier with experience of diplomacy, such as Carton de Villa, would be the best man to be his personal representative between he and the leader of the Republic of China, Jiang Kai Sheck. Churchill was a firm admirer of Carton DeVia, describing him as a model of chivalry and honour, and wrote the forward to his autobiography. There you go.

For the next three years, he was to be involved in a host of reporting, diplomatic, and administrative duties in the remote wartime capital and he was very impressed by the Chinese people. He had a great time over there. He met Mao Ziedong at a... Maozi Dong. Thank you, thank you.

This is the time before he became our chairman of China, but he was clearly on the rise. DeVia interrupted his propaganda speech to criticize him for holding back from fighting the Japanese for domestic political reasons. Mao was briefly very stunned. Looked up, saw who was heckling him and then laughed. All right.

I'll take it. After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Carton de Villa flew to Singapore to participate in the formal surrender. Our man finally retired in October 1947 with the honorary rank of Lieutenant General. Pretty good. Is that better than the one he had before? Because it's like Major General or something Imagine if he was demoted

Yeah Major feels better than Lieutenant But Feels better to say Yeah It's more fun You don't know You don't know do you

I don't know I know I don't I can tell you He'd also been appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Meaning he was also Sir Adrian Cartong

His list of medals And I'll share a photo of them In our social media this week But honestly If you wore them all It would weigh him down I don't think it would because he swam with a man on his back.

Yeah, that's true. I think he's a fucking tank. Yeah. I think he's the only person who could wear all those medals. It would take me five minutes just to read them all out. But I counted 25 medals. Okay, no, that's too many. That's a pretty slow reading, really?

25 medals. Five minutes. Yeah, five per minute, 12 seconds of metal. I give East Medal the respect it deserves. I give them all a salute. We get the trumpet player involved. trumpet by a bit of jazz. I never perform without a soundtrack.

Hit it. Imagine. Okay, he suffered another injury, even away from the battlefield. On route home via French Indochina, Kharton de Via stopped in Rangoon, which is now Yangon in Myanmar, where he, as a guest, was a guest of the army commander. Walking down stairs,

he slipped on coconut matting fell down, broke several vertebrae and knocked himself unconscious. So he badly broke his back. Shit, he had a fall. He had a fall. He didn't seem like the kind of guy would have a fall. But of course, he recovered.

What a god. I said that his wife died in 1949. Have you mentioned her yet? Yeah, she's the one with the incredible name. Babenhausen. Oh, my God. Why didn't you say his wife? Yeah, it's all she is.

Surely you're giving her the full... Read the full name. Fucking hell, all right. Let's find this name. My God, this was a while ago, wasn't it? My favourite bit's Fugger. Yeah. South of his wife.

Countess, Frederica, Maria, Caroline, Henrietta, Rosa, Sabina, Francisco Fugger von Babenhausen. Past in 1949. You monsters. Have some respect. Come on. What is wrong with you? You people are sick.

You can't even say you didn't know that was coming. We didn't even trick you. You disgust me. Every last one of you. He'd find love again though. He remarried in 1951. What? At the age of 71 to Joan Sutherland,

a very boring name. He was 23 years he's junior, and together they retired to Cork in Ireland. Okay. Well, that's nice, I guess. Some people are disappointed by that. But he didn't fully slow down in retirement. He was an avid salmon fisherman

where he could be seen by the river sporting a special harness for one-arm fishing. It's quite good. In 1950 he published that memoir, Happy Odyssey. Sir Adrian did not regard his reputation for having had an adventurous life as correct. As he wrote in his memoir, I think it has been made up of misadventures.

That I should have survived them is to me by far the most interesting thing about it. And I agree. I agree. He once told his friend, journalist Dennis Rolliston Gwynne, great name, that he thought self-pity was the worst of sins, that he would far sooner forgive a man for burglary than for self-pity. Yeah, you really couldn't complain about your throat, could you?

No, you couldn't say shit to this guy, but you could tell him that you stole his watch. Yeah, and he'd be like, that's cool. That's cool. Whatever, man. Gwen, the journalist also recalled, one of the last times I met him was on the steps of the county club in Cork after he'd been reported to be quite incapacitated. Oh, and he's meeting him on the steps as well.

Playing with trouble. Is that a phrase? Yeah. Playing with fire. Whatever. Who cares? Like, everybody got it. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Why are they beating me up over it? These fucking guys. They are monsters. They hold me to a really high standard. Yeah. It's unfair. God.

So one of the last times the journalist, he'd heard he'd been quite incapacitated. He says, yet he was walking in from his car without even the aid of a stick. When I expressed surprise, he replied that once a man uses a stick, his confidence goes, and he would never face that. So he's kind of soldiers on no matter what.

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. Not so unkillable then. Adrian Carton de Villa died on the 5th of June, 1963, at the age of 83. Wow. It's a good innings. So Adrian was buried in the grounds of his house in County Cork. His wife joined him there 43 years later when she died in 2000.

She got there really late at the funeral. Oh my God. Quite rude. Yeah. Alarm didn't go off. She died in 2006 meaning she was 102. Whoa. Yes.

She started as his junior and ended as his senior. That's cool. Does that happen often? Probably does. probably happens all the time. Yeah. Men live a lot harder lives, they die younger. Yeah.

Much harder, isn't it? Yeah, as a feminist, I can say that, yeah, as a feminist. God, your life is hard, isn't it? It is a lot, it's a lot tougher. Oh, yeah. All that. So hard. Grindstones.

Yeah. Carrying things. Yeah, well, not really, but... But if, like, you could. Oh, yeah. You know? I'm hoping to say his legacy lives on. Carton de Villa is the subject of the 2022 song

The Unkillable Soldier by Swedish Power Metal Band Sabaton from their 10th album, The War to End All Wars. Most of their 10 albums are written about war. My favourite description of him though is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes him as, With his black eye patch and empty sleeve, Carton DeVia looked like an elegant pirate and became a figure of legend.

That is my report on The Unkillable Soldier. Good up for Dave Warnocky, everybody. Great stuff. What are you going to call this episode? The Elegant Pirate? I like that. It'll be confusing right till the end, but... But that keeps them listening. Because they're like, it's got to come in here somewhere.

He must be searching for treasure. And then they just get to the last bit and go, those fuckers. They tricked me. Yeah, they'll hate it. Well done, Dave. A great report. Well done. Thanks everybody.

Thank you so much. Can we have a big round of applause for Doody on Sam? Thank you to the Euro for having us. Yeah, the other legend behind the bar who've been serving everyone. So I mean, Josh on the door as well. Thank you so much. Thank you, Josh. We'll be back next week in the final live episode.

But until then, I'll say thank you so much. And goodbye. Later. Bye! Wow, we. That was a lot of fun. Great report, Dave. Oh, thank you so much.

With a click of our fingers, we are now back in the studio. We're back in the room. Wow. You're back in the room. And it's time for everyone's favorite section of the show. We made it! Where we thank a bunch of our great supporters who, without them, this show would cease to exist. That's right.

We'd all crumble into piles of dust. We'd go into administration, involuntary. Oh, yeah. And, yeah, the first thing we like to do is the fat quote or question section, which has a little jingle. I think you go something like this. Fat quote or question. Ding.

He always remembers the ding. Now, at the time of recording, the fact quote of question, sack, is nearly dry, not dry. I just put the call out, and luckily, a subscriber by the name of Eric E. Morales, or Morales, has come to our rescue with a question. What a hero. Who's the hero we needed? So this is the only fact quote question. And deserved.

Yeah, we're just got the one this week. So if you are on the Sydney-Shaunberg level, which is where the fact quotes and questions come from, get in there. You should have the link. Message me if you don't have it. And, yeah, chuck them in, especially if you haven't had one in for a while.

Get in there. So in this, you get to give us a fact, quote, a question. Bragg or suggestions, it's up to you. Yeah, recipe or compliment. Also, welcome. Please. Complements especially. You also get to give yourself a title.

I don't like the compliments. I find them awkward. but unless it's to someone else. I think that's part of the fun. Oh, okay. It's watching you cringe your way through it. Oh, I love Matt. He's so good at what he does.

Oh, I'm dying. I'm going to spew up. So Eric has got the title of Junior Vice President of Unproductive Procrastination. Procastination. Wow, very kishmish. And Eric is asking a question writing, Hi, do go on team. I have a question for y'all.

Do y'all have any? recurring dreams or nightmares? And of course Eric has answered this question. Oh, love that. Love. I would love to hear Eric's recurring dream, actually. Yeah. Let's go.

Eric's, okay. I've had a few that came up or that come up occasionally throughout my life. Since I was little, I've had a recurring dream of a mad scientist trying to fill a large container of liquid up to 100% but never succeeds. This dream only comes. I didn't take any of that in and then Dave did a little laugh and then it all hit me at once. Just filling it up to 100%. Okay. The dream only comes when I'm sick and has been happening as long as I can remember.

And I've also dreamt of a zombie Abraham Lincoln's face that stays motionless until it abruptly gets close to me. Anyway, cheers and thanks for the continued last. Terrifying dream. They're both scary. I have a couple of typical ones. The first one is my teeth are falling out. Oh, yeah. I hear a lot about apparently like in dream diaries and things.

What does it mean? I don't really know. I think it's, it's either like good luck or it's money or something. Wow. I think teeth falling out in dreams. I think it's good luck with money. Wow. Yeah, two fairies coming.

Yeah, it's horrible. And then I wake up and go, oh, thank goodness. It's not there. But when I was younger, I used to have a couple. One was that there was treasure at the end of my bed. Oh, yeah. And I'd, like, this is when I'm in primary school. And I'd excitedly wake up, check and then go.

Oh, it was just a pile of teeth that had fallen out. But it was like, oh, oh, no, that wasn't real. And the other one I had in my early years of uni after I'd finished year 12 was I'm about to go on for my year 12 play. But I know that months ago, we put the set in the skip. I can't remember any of my lines. We've got no costumes. The audience is waiting. I've got to go out there.

That is a classic. And you're nude. Yeah. I've googled that. But that bit I'm fine with. Teeth falling out are associated with loss and important life changes. This dream could indicate that you're dealing with some kind of loss, like an abrupt end to a relationship or a job change. Yes, very similar to cash.

Yeah, money. Yeah, that's why. I feel like I've been suffering loss for years because I've had that dream on and off forever. I think my most classic one that I've heard other people having is running but not being able to run fast. I hate that. Just hardly moving, but trying hard to run and finding it really frustrating.

Trying to scream but nothing comes out. That one's really frustrating too. My longest one that is recurring. I don't remember happening for a little while, But see, I remember, it was one of an early memories of a kid was this sort of, this sinister man. And I could never quite focus on him. But I remember the shirt he was wearing sort of like this stripy shirt, sort of gray and blue. And he was, I know he was bad.

But, and he just sort of was just sort of haunting my dreams, never really interacting necessary. Filling up a bottle to 100%. Yeah. Yeah, you just couldn't fill it. 98? Then it would stop. A few more drop stock. And then the other one that came to mind was when I used to drink a bit, alcohol,

I would have dreams where I'm just sculling orange juice, which I think if I checked a dream die, I would say I was dehydrated. Yeah, interesting, but it's funny that you go straight to orange juice. And I just couldn't quench my thirst, just sculling and sculling orange juice. I don't really have any recurring dreams. My boyfriend has an island he visits. That's sick. Oh, that's the best.

In a nice way? Yeah, yeah. He's flying there. And the last time he was there, it had changed quite a bit. Oh, wow. Yeah, sort of, you know, new infrastructure. That is, what a great dream. He's a big gamer though, right?

Like, he plays games. Like, last summer around, he was playing a game that was like on an island. Yeah, that's true. Is it sort of like that? Yeah, maybe. You're continuing the game in his dream? Shooting dogs? Yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of killing in that game.

I think this one's a bit more of a peaceful island. That is a great recovery. Yeah. I love that. It's a good name of it. I can't remember the name of it. It's a good name for an island. It's a peaceful island.

Peaceful island. Just popping away for the night. I'll see you later. Yeah. You're looking forward to sleeping. I'm heading to the beach tonight. Yeah, that'd be nice. Yeah, that's a good one.

It's a good question, though. Great question. Thank you very much. Eric. Eric E. And yeah, like I said, that's the only one that we've got at the moment. I'm sure it'll be back to, I normally stay ahead of schedule, but we've recorded a few episodes back to back,

and we're trying to turn them out. Burnt through them all. And they've all been fantastic. We appreciate all our Sydney Shine burgers. The other thing we like to do is shout out to a few of our other great supporters on the shout-out level or above. The ass prod or above. And Bob, you normally have some sort of a game to play. Yeah, where would they like to be shot?

Yeah, so we were talking about taking a bit of the back of our skull. Yeah, we don't have to do that as a game. That's a terrible idea, but I thought it was funny. I like it. I'd like to be shot in Hawaii. Yeah, I can't think of anything. This guy was such an interesting character. His book was called Happy Odyssey.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, we could give a positive spin title for their autobiography. Yeah, okay. Let's name their autobiography. Yeah. Great. I always call it a game. Is it a game?

It's a bit of a game, I guess. What else would you call it? Yeah. Just a thing to pass the time. Have I been mis-describing this? All right, so if I can kick us off, I'd love to start by thanking from Mongaulow in New South Wales, Australia. Owen Petit. Owen Petit.

Owen. Knock, knock, who's there, Owen, Owen, Owen, O'N, Petit.

That's the whole name of the book. Knock, Knock, Who's there, Owen, Owen, who. That's good. I like it.

I actually do like that. I think that's quite funny. I pick that up. It's much like one of my favorite comedy show titles, which is Joe Lysett. It was,

that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, Joe Lysit. That's very funny. That's, that's good stuff. Yeah,

what about Nazim Assain's one this year, which is, who's saying that? Like who's saying that? Which isn't really a phrase, but I think it's so funny. Who's saying that? Who's saying that? Yeah, that's great.

That's so funny. Yeah, they sort of, yeah, kind of stretch puns like that, if that is a pun. So knock knock. I think my all-time favorite show title was Alcette Trombly Birtials a few years ago. Fuck it up, here we go. Yeah, that's incredible. So, knock knock who's there, Owen, Owen, who, Owen Petit. I think that's fantastic.

Very good. Next, I would love to thank from, ooh, undress unknown. Undress unknown. Oh, undress unknown. Oh, no, it's a nightmare again. I'm undress and I'm unknown. My worst fears are coming real. From Address Unknown, can only assume deep within the fortress of the moles.

They do reside. It's cursed in E. Kirsten E. I wonder if they're related to Eric E. Keep on trucking. Oh, I like that. In brackets. In the free world.

Oh, I like that. Did you include my whole sound? Keep on trucking. Huh, huh, huh. In the free world. That's good. That's good. So it's sort of like a bit of a wordplay on the classic Neil Young song.

Yeah. Yeah. Keep on trucking. In the free world. That's really good. And finally, from me, I'd love to thank from Stafford Heights in Queensland, Australia. It's Ashley Bex. Ashley Bex.

Yeah. Put your Bex into it. Oh, that's good. That's good. Put your becks into it. So another stretchy ones I was talking about. It's not quite there, but that's part of the fun. I think there's something almost grosser about ones that work well somehow.

You know what I mean? Yeah. What about, what about, have a bexon lie down? I don't know what that means, but it's a saying that maybe English people say. Is it? Have a, have a, have a, oh. It's just in the back of my brain. Me too, but I don't know what it means.

I'm guessing a bex is a brand of sedative or something. Not the beer. Yeah. Or a nice cup of tea. Could be anything, really. What about bigger than bexas? That's so bad. That's good.

That's so bad. I love that. Some options there for you, Ashley. Would you like to thank a few Bopar? I'd love to. I would love to thank from Destination Unknown. Ooh. Where do you reckon they might be from?

Fortress of the Miles. Wow. I would love to thank John Wick. John Wick. I love this because I imagine that their whole life, it was just a normal name. And then Keanu came along and made three movies that changed at all. So the name of the book is, no, not that John Wick.

Yeah, yeah. In brackets, an even better one. Burning the John Wick at both ends. Oh, that's pretty good. No, that's not ever the saying, is it? It's burning the candle at both ends. But what are you burning if not a wick? That's true.

That's a really good point. Maybe that's it. What are you burning if not a wick? What about John Wikipedia.org? Oh, that's good too. All right, John be nimble, John be wick. That's it. That's the one.

Matt, you cannot deny that's the one. Dave is really John tonight. wicks. Shut up. We didn't give a pun one to curse to me. Shut up. Do we need to give a pun? I just say keep on trucking.

They don't have to be puns. Oh, okay. It just feels like we've changed into that. All right, no worries. For me as well, I would like to take... There it is. Burst and we.

That's when you're really going to go. I would love to thank from Port Macquarie in New South Wales Lord James and Lady Paula Smith. I do say. My lords. And ladies. Yeah

Common people Something like that Yeah that's good You know Just playing it down Yeah That's right We're just like you

The common people Except we're a Lord and a lady Motherfuckers Love that Yeah Trying to be like You know like the people Yeah

And if books can have a theme song It's obviously common people By pulp Yeah In the technology By the time This book comes out Every books will have

Every book Is an audio book Yeah They've all got songs on them Easily. Thank you, Lord James and Lady Paula. I would love to thank as well from Chicago, Illinois. Spenjamin Montemma.

Spenjamin Montemma. Amazing. Something about Benjamin's money? Yeah. Spenjamin. There's already too much going on. What about? I don't know what to do with it.

we put a hyphen and we go, Spen jammin. Yeah. On Tema. Jeremy's. Yeah, I love that very much. Spend. Jammin. Spend.

Jammin. One Tama. Yeah, it's some good stuff. The name is already that amazing. Yeah, you can't. What are you supposed to do with that? Do you want to thank some people, Dave? Yes, please, from Perth W.A.

Right in Australia, it is Eliana and Josh. Eliana and Josh. Milky Manor and Tosh. It'll make sense by the end of the book. Okay, yeah. I feel like that you've given away a plot twist there? No. Just Josh and your brackets with Eliana, close brackets.

Okay, mine's still better. Okay. And mine was mostly honest. No better. They don't all have to be puns on their names, you know. I'm confused by the rules. Which is the name of their book. Which is Milkiana.

Not every book title is a pun on a name. I never said every book title was. I was confused by what Dave said before. Only the good ones. Only the good ones die young. That is their book, Eliata and Josh. Only the good ones die young. We're still living.

It's a long title, but again, it makes sense by the end. We'll never die. I'd also like to thank now from Uppsala in Sweden. Daniel Kellen. Really having a crack. It's Kj E, double L, E with an accent, N. Daniel Kielan. Kellen it.

Yeah, I mean, it is, yeah. He's, Daniel's Kialen. That's good. That's good. He's Kellen. I've never seen that before. Where state is select state. Yeah.

Drop down menu fail. Yeah, we've failed you there in upseller, Sweden. Daniel, thank you so much. And finally, I'd like to take from Chirmside in Queensland, Braden Douglas. Braden Douglas. Met Braden Douglas before. No, he's a Tiger supporter. Okay.

What about? Yeah. into the the bray Tiger's den Douglas Yes Into the Bray

Tiger's Den Douglas We're at the end of a long recording day We've recorded a long Comedy Festival At this point We're sorry

We're losing it We're losing it We're so tired Geez We started strong with Did we Knock knock who's there

Owen Owen Petit There's no coming back from that We peaks too early And the good news is We have another section of the show dedicated to pun titles on your name So stay tuned

Oh that's right So that brings us to The Triptitch Section What do I normally say now? And we have quite a few people to thank And we're running out of time

Quick All right So these people have been supporting the show on the shout-out level or above for three consecutive years, never dropping off. These are the die-hards, the absolute number one supporters in our lives.

Thank you so much. And to thank them again, we like to welcome them into a beautiful place, a fictional club that we've created. I like it when we have a longer list because you can really feel Dave getting into a rhythm. And you can really fuck that rhythm by criticising him immediately.

Not when he's in a rhythm. I haven't seen it often, but whenever he gets in one... What a fucking bastard. And just to get ahead of your question, yes, I have got some more hors d'oeuvres and cocktails except none of them are actually edible this time. This time, this time it's just grenades.

Oh. Because this guy loved war and I want to, um, I want to, honor that. Like, Jaeger bombs? No, grenades. Live grenades. Yeah. Do not order anything. And Dave, have you booked a band? Yes, that Swedish band that I just mentioned at the end of the episode that has the war theme songs.

Oh, that's right. I forget what they were called. But. Don't worry about it. Um, so the way this works is if you're on the shoutout level or above for three straight years. Sabaton. Sabaton.

Sabaton. You're welcomed into the Chiptitch Club. You're going to have a great party. I'm on the door. I'm going to read out your name. You're welcomed in. Grab yourself a grenade. Enjoy the fine musical stylings of Sabaton and listen to Dave. I hype you up. The whole crowd's going to go wild. I'll be chanting your name. Jess hypes Dave up because he needs a little bit of extra self-esteem. True. It's actually true. And here we go. We've got a few. What do we go?

Eight in today. So I'm on the door, I'm going to read it, you know. Dave's going to hop you up. Here we go. You're ready? Everyone, welcome in. It's bloody triptage club time. First off, from Graz or Graz or how do you say it?

Gratz. In Austria, it's Thomas. Doppler. This night suddenly got Doppler rider. Yes. Of feels Dopper rider. From Sydney in God's Country, the great state of Ohio. United States, it's Steve Kayser.

Kayser. The laser. Yeah. From Fort Collins in Colorado in the United States, it's Derry Clark. Providing that spark, it's Derry Clark. From Wellington in New Zealand, it's Tim Anderson. Well, well, Wellington. If it isn't my old mate, Tim.

From Portsmouth in England, it's Martin Cox. Farton Pox. Here we go. In a good way. But in a good, but in a positive sense. From address unknown, can only assume, from the fortress of the It's Brian Andrews. Tryan.

Can Drew. Have a can of this drink. Cheers to you, Brian. Ottawa in Ontario. Canada, it's Micah or Mika. Micah. Let's get the mic on. Micah.

And finally from Balmain in New South Wales, Australia. It's Steve Socky Soglu. Sockia soglu. This night was going to be pretty sucky soglu until Steve had arrived. dried up all the rain Stephen Sokiya Soglu Yeah

It's a great name Fantastic Welcome into the club Stephen Micah Brian Martin Tim Dirani Steve and Thomas Legends

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