Do Go On - 350 - Arctic Badass Peter Freuchen

Episode Date: July 6, 2022

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My name is Dave Warnke and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello Dave. Hello Matt. Hello Jess. Hello Dave. Hello. Started too low. But this is How Low Can You Go?

Oh, that's clever. Hello, how low? That's pretty good. Boom. And hello for the 350th time. Whoa. Can you believe that? Can you believe that?

This is episode 350. That's a little bit wild, actually. I think it's stuck up on us. I don't know if you feel that. It's stuck up on me anyway. Yeah, big time. So that completes our fifth block of 70 episodes. Yeah.

Which is how we count. Yeah. And that was always sort of the stretch goal, wasn't it? So I guess really we need to sit down and set some new goals. Well, the next goal is obviously 420. Blaze it. That's right. And then after that, who knows? Then after that, the second funniest number.

69. Well, 2469. 2469? Yeah, and then you say, oh-4-69. 2-4-69? Yeah, and then you say, yes, please. So we have to do 2,469 episodes. Annoyingly, the numbers get bigger and bigger. And then the next funny number after that is 6969. It does feel like the 2-4 is superfluous as well, doesn't it? How many can get involved in a 69?

Use your imagination. Trying trying that's limited all i can picture is missionary anyway yeah so 350 episodes of this bullshit um absolutely well we've done it a few times but matt how does the show work well i'd love to welcome all new listeners, and I imagine not many of them have sat through that. But if you have, this is how the show works. One of the three of us selects a topic, often voted on by our Patreon supporters. Then we go away, research the topic, write a little report, like an old school report, and then we bring it back to the class and share it with the other two. This week, Jess has gone away, researched the topic.

Dave and I do not know what that topic is, and we always ask a question here on the topic. Jess, what is the question this week? Who is the author of the 1953 memoir, Vagrant Viking? Oh, Johnny Vagrant. Oh, no. Close, though. Johnny Viking. Correct.

No. Imagine that. Vagrant Viking. Are we likely to get this? No, absolutely Vagrant. Oh, no. Close, though. Johnny Viking. Correct. No. Imagine that. Vagrant Viking. Are we likely to get this? No, absolutely not. Okay. But I reckon... Can you think of any Vikings that were still kicking around in the 50s?

No, most of them had died out several centuries before that. But... What about Thor? Maybe Chris Hemsworth's dad? It's not Chris Hemsworth. What's his dad in those movies? Johnny Hemsworth. Johnny Hemsworth.

Anthony Hopkins. Is there Anthony Hopkins? Really? That's Chris Hemsworth. I haven't seen any of them. Dad is Anthony Hopkins. Spoilers. Oh, is that a spoiler?

Okay. I don't think so. All right. So we wouldn't guess it? No, I don't think you get to guess it. But you can try and have a guess at his first name if you want to just go for like... Philip. Pretty basic.

Bill. Maybe biblical kind of... David. Joseph. John. Peter. Well done. The rock on which God built his church.

Peter. I think. Is that right? I don't know. Was Peter just standing there holding a rock? Yeah. Going, could I put't know Was Peter just standing there Holding a rock? Yeah Going Could I put this down?

Peter the rock Apostle I think maybe if I put this down On the ground That would be a better foundation For the church No Peter Hold it

This is a test This is the story Of Peter Freuchen What did you call me? Freuchen Well I've seen it I've also seen it Pronounced a few different ways

I'm going to say Froiken or Froishen I like Froiken Froiken's funnier It's been suggested by a bunch of people Including Brandy Broyhill Incredible name Don't comment on all of them Jess

There's so many Brandy Broyhill, Jake Bellick, Jeff Wise Andrew Mallard, Eli Schopp Dita Bckerer, Joshua Adams, Justin Nichols, Dominic Williams and Declan Greville have all suggested this topic. I've never heard of it. I love when this happens when it's a topic I've never heard of, but it's obviously a good one because why else would so many people suggest it?

Yes. There's a particular anecdote that a lot of them have uh have quite clearly stated in there someone's gonna shit themselves absolutely it's happening about three quarters of the way through just we'll give the signal and that is when the main character it is poop time he shits himself until his dick falls off somehow it's pretty crazy it's pretty crazy that's why we saved it for $3.50, baby. No, so yeah, Peter Fricken, he's lived quite a fascinating life. So, let me

tell you a little bit about it. I'm not going to give anything away up the top, but you'll get it fairly quickly. So, his name... He drinks that coffee. It's crazy. Then has a prune. Prune. Yeah.

Prune fondue. And then Metamucil. Get a bit of fibre in there. An entire bag of apples. A whole pack of chewing gum. Yeah, too much chewy. Is that true? Too much chewy?

Yeah, there's a warning in the fine print. It says too many will have a laxative effect. Like all at once? I guess so. Like if you chew 50 chewies at once. Yeah. Oh, no. But my breath is so gone.

No. So Lorenz Peter Alfred Freuchen, incredible name, was born in Denmark in February 1886 to parents Anne and Lorenz. So his father is Lorenz, L-O-R-E-N-T-U-Z, and he is L-O-R-E-N-Z. Drop the T. Oh, and is his son Loren? It just goes down the line.

It keeps going. Until eventually their child is just L. L, very cool. No, he goes by Peter. From a young age, he loved exploring, inspired by history books about explorers like Marco Polo He was one of seven children Any questions?

Yeah, do they know what's causing it? And people aren't sick of that joke People aren't sick of that joke But they're sick of the Wikipedia joke No, we've had a lot of love for the Wikipedia joke After we had one complaint Even the complainer has come around to it Really?

They replied to the tweet saying, you're right. They're very gracious, I must say, so I appreciate that. Okay, well, then I'm sorry for the things I said. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no, it's an honour to have your shreds torn off you by a bopper, I would have thought. That's right. I love when it happens to me.

I love it. Every time I go, ooh, an honour. So, yeah, he's one of seven kids and he adored both of his parents very much, said of his parents that they were both excellent storytellers. Okay, but what were they like as parents? I'll talk about that a little bit. There was never food on the table, but, jeez, they could spin a yarn. They filled me up with a story rather than bread.

Om nom nom nom nom. In fact, it was through his mother that he got his first taste of adventure as she often told peter and his siblings tales of her own father who had been a sailor and who had taken part in revolutions in south america cool in his book of the vagrant viking published in 1953 the dedication reads to the memory of my mother one of a long line of seafarers who taught me at an early age that staying at home is no way to get on in the world.

So he's an adventurer. Sounds like mum left. Did put food on the table, didn't hang around. Was never at home. But what an inspiration. Always down the pub. He's quite funny. He's very dry and he's a very interesting character.

I read parts of his book for this report and this is how he talks about himself as a baby. I was no immediate success at that early age. I was actually so ugly that my mother was quite ashamed of me and that is where the yellow dog comes in. When she took me for a stroll in the carriage, the large dog always walked next to her, and nobody dared come close enough to inspect

me, as was the custom. The highest degree of praise my mother ever received on my behalf during the early years of my life was an amused, what a funny little thing. She took comfort in the fact that a number of human beings have managed to live through their allotted span of years

without good looks. The fact is, however, that I have improved considerably in looks as the years have gone by. I love that. Didn't peak as a baby. Yeah. Ugly baby. Do you think that it's possible that he looked like a Viking as a baby, but grew into his

beard and features? Yeah, maybe. Hard to say. Aren't all babies pretty ugly? Yeah, they're pretty squished. Yeah. When they first come out, and they're Yeah, maybe. Hard to say. Aren't all babies pretty ugly? Yeah, they're pretty squished. Yeah. When they first come out, and they're all slimy.

I do love the idea of buying an attack dog to keep people away from looking and commenting on your baby. Yeah. And you also have to assume if he's ugly for a baby,

then that is pretty fucking ugly. Yeah. Actually, you're right. Like on the scale, if you're saying all babies are a bit funny looking, he's very funny. Yeah. Yeah, right. Avert your gaze, if you're saying all babies are a bit funny looking, he's very funny looking.

Yeah, right. Avert your gaze. Look at that dog. It's yellow. And he's one of seven kids. And I don't know exactly where he is in the family, but it means they've had other kids to sort of compare to. And they're like, yeah, no, he's definitely an uggo. Yeah.

Do you think if you have an – well, I was going to say if you have an ugly kid, do you know? This woman did. Yeah, she knew. She took measures. It sounds like she told him as well. Don't worry. God, you're ugly.

There's other people that have been as ugly, if not uglier than you. She's done her research and she's traveled, so she would know. Yeah. I was an ugly baby. Were you? I don't believe that. But yeah, I'll chat to mom next time I see her and find out if she knew. Well, then how do you know?

Photos. Okay, that makes sense. But she's never said you were ugly. No, she's never said that. But do you think she's thought it? I mean, if you see the photos, then she had to. Has she ever said the opposite? Like, you were a beautiful baby.

I don't think so. Okay, does she say you're beautiful now? No. Hmm. Is that something parents normally say to you? Yes. Hello, beautiful. How are you?

My dad literally calls me gorgeous. Huh. Ironically? Well, your dad also calls me gorgeous, so there's a scale here. Dad is bad with names. He calls me Squire. Yeah, he calls everyone Squire or gorgeous. Oh.

Yeah. Found out what camp I'm in. Yeah. Sorry, mate. I think he's a bit confused by you, yeah. Found out what camp I'm in. Sorry, mate. I think he's a bit confused by you, Dave. Gorgeous squire. G'day, gorgeous. He writes of a childhood filled with adventure,

exploring his surroundings, making scientific experiments to better understand how things work, and hearing about other people's travels to places outside of Denmark, something he so deeply envied. He writes quite fondly about his childhood and the loyalty to each other that his parents fostered in him and his siblings. They also seem like a pretty funny family and one that would have really perplexed other people in the town. So he writes about a time his brother swore in front of a friend's mum

and that mother came to speak to their mum. And their mum's like, what did he say? And the other mother's like, I can't repeat it. And their mum's like, then what can I do if I don't know what he said? And this goes back and forth for a while until the woman finally repeats the unrepeatable word. And Mrs. Froken bursts out laughing and says, is that it? That's his surname. Is that it?

She's like, is that it? Okay Stuff like this happens a few times Some of the local kids are sort of told not to play with the freaking kids Because they're sort of, yeah They're really unattractive Yeah, they're very ugly children I don't want you getting ideas about ugly people

I can say that I know heaps of ugly people. Some of your best friends. Some of my best friends. Some of my closest family are ugly people. And you know I love A Link to Australia. And he writes very fondly about his uncle, Kristen. The most fascinating thing about him was his past.

He had spent years prospecting for gold in Australia. This strange experience and the fact that he was the largest landowner in the country made him a man of importance i'm sorry he's the largest landowner in denmark and he's bothering to come to australia to look for gold he's the largest landowner in denmark because of... It's also not clear if he owns a large amount of land or he owns some land and he is large. Do you know which one it is? Well, Peter Freuchen's very tall, so maybe his uncle's just a very tall man.

And he owns a small plot of land. So technically the tallest man in Denmark to own land. Yeah. That's pretty cool, actually. That is great. So when you're saying prospecting, maybe he's doing it much more professionally. I thought he was out there with the pan, panning for gold.

Yeah, who knows? But he might be looking on quite a large scale, gold mining. He also could have just got lucky, right? Maybe he just got a big nugget. Yeah, it's always like I might have that in the next sentence. Here's the bit we've been waiting for. He's about to do a big nugget. Yeah, nugget confirmed.

You said three quarters of the way through. Uh-uh, one quarter One quarter This guy shits early He keeps going He says We never tired of listening to his stories of Australia With his two partners

Uncle Kristen once found the largest gold nugget ever seen in Australia No The Welcome Stranger? Who knows It was the size of a grapefruit And as he did not dare to travel with it, he and one of his partners sold their share to the third cheaply. But the fellow was shot and killed when he tried to take the nugget down to Melbourne.

Oh, so they were clever to get out of it. Yeah. Yeah, you'd feel, you'd just be panicking the whole time. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's a big nugget. I have heard of the Welcome Stranger. Yeah.

You know, the famous ones all end up having pokey dens named after them. So you've got the Welcome Stranger and the Golden Nugget, two pokey bars in Melbourne City. Golden Nugget's not the best name for a nugget of gold. You know what I mean? Or is it the best name for a nugget of gold? Well, I think Welcome Stranger's more beautiful, more poetic. Welcome Stranger.

That's something your dad also says to me. Welcome Stranger. According to allthatsinteresting.com, his father was a businessman and wanted nothing more than a stable life for his son. So at his father's behest, Freuchen enrolled at the University of Copenhagen and began to study medicine. However, before long, Freuchen realised that a life indoors was not for him. Where his father craved order and stability,

Freuchen craved exploration and danger. In his autobiography, he mentioned that the first victims of my hunter's instincts were my early instructors. Bit of fun. Has he killed someone? Maybe. That's a good point, actually.

I thought he was just being a bit of a silly duffer, but I think he might have murdered someone. It's like he's hunting his professors for sport. Yeah, that's odd, isn't it? Just following them around campus. Just go to class. What are you doing? Just yelling, run.

I'm going to give you a five-second head start. Fucking hell, Peter. That's actually quite spooky. He writes, in Copenhagen, hardly a day went by that I did not feel inferior to my fellow students. They knew more, their interests went further, they were better dressed, and their manners and speech were elegant compared to my provincial dialect and appearance. So he decided to follow his childhood dream of exploring, and exploring the parts of the world

that were still relatively unknown at the time. In the beginning, he signed up to every polar expedition out there in the hopes to get his name out. He was completely obsessed with exploring the uncharted wilderness of the North Pole and Greenland. At the age of 20, he went on his first expedition in 1906. He and his friend, okay, this is a guy who's going to come up a fair bit. His name is K-N-U-D, and I've heard people say like Nud, Kanad, because it's like an Inuit name as well.

So I'll call him Nud. KNUD? KNUD. Yeah, right. Nud Rasmussen. They sailed from Denmark as far north as possible before leaving their ship and continuing by dog sled for over 600 miles, about 900 k's. Noord Rasmussen was a bit older than Freuchen and was already a bit of a veteran explorer.

Not only had he already completed expeditions, but he'd spent his early years in Greenland among the Kalalit, which is a group of Inuit people, where he had learnt to hunt, drive dog sleds and live in the harsh Arctic conditions. He said, my playmates were native Greenlanders. From the earliest boyhood, I played and worked with the hunters. So even the hardships of the most strenuous sledge trips became pleasant routine for me.

Sort of grown up doing it, which is amazing. Great. Sounds like the kind of guy you want to go with. Yeah, he sounds like a good person to go on your first expedition with and learn from and just be around in some pretty full-on conditions. Yeah, just getting piggybacks off him and stuff. That's what I'd do if I was going away with him. I know, that's what you do every time we're on tour. You're finding this really boring, Knud?

Well, I can make it a bit tougher for you. Yeah. Piggyback. Piggyback. My legs are tired. Let me get me a piggyback. That's me at the airport. I'm a big, ugly baby.

He's 20 years old. I'm an ugly little baby. On their travels, they met and traded with the Inuit people while learning the language and accompanying them on hunting expeditions, hunting walruses, whales, wolves, seals and polar bears. In fact, there's a wild photo of Freuchen wearing a coat he made for himself out of a polar bear that he killed. I told you this guy's a psycho.

It's a very bold look. Speaking of his look as well. The guts are still all in it. Yeah, it's not good. He just cut it open and got in. I'm a little baby inside a polar bear. I'm just a little ugly baby. Why are you inside a bear?

That's gross. I mean, obviously I don't love that he's used a polar bear for a coat, but it is a pretty cool photo. I love that he's used a polar bear for a coat, but it is a pretty cool photo. Is it like it looks like a jacket or has it still got the head sort of? No, no, no. It just looks like a big sort of fur coat. Oh, right.

Yeah, I was picturing the head as a hood. Yeah, on his head. Bit of head on head action. I'll find it for you and I'll show you because it's pretty fucking cool. Look at that. Oh, wow. Holy shit.

We've got to post this photo. Yeah. So I'm showing Matt and David a picture of him. He is six foot seven. Oh, my God. He's a big... Is that a woman with him for scale? That is a woman there just for scale

to show how big he is. He's very broad. Yeah, he's six foot seven. I was worried about this guy a few minutes ago because he's traveling with the Inuit people that know what they're doing and he's never done anything. He's like, let's go. But now I know he's six foot seven.

He's going to be fine out there. You just think tall people are just fine at anything? That man, he's a polar bear. Okay. Yeah, he didn't hunt it with a gun. He went toe to toe. What if he was... They punched on and he won.

What if he was in a desert? You think he'd be fine there? Absolutely. A little. I feel like he's... You still think he's got a strong advantage? Yeah. I reckon you'd want to be more nimble.

Yeah, further away from the sun. He's too close. Yeah. Exactly. Because I'm just asking because you seem to be like, oh, he's tall. He'll be fine in any situation. Just seeing that photo, he looks so cool and confident.

I'm like, I'm not worried about this guy anymore. He looks like he could punch through a brick wall. Yeah. I don't know if there's many of those in the Arctic Circle, but I guess like igloos are made of sort of ice bricks. Yeah. And he could punch through one. I don't know why he'd want to do that.

For a window. Oh, for a window. You built it and you go, fuck, I didn't build a window. This could just punch through one. I don't know why I want to do that. For a window. Oh, for a window. You built it and you go, fuck, I didn't build a window. This place needs a skylight. He'll sort you out. Straight up. He can do that. Punch.

Skylight. Yeah, and I'm feeling much better about it. Yeah, he's got like that thick wiry beard. Yeah, he feels like a man who's going to be okay. Yeah, but I must say, if a baby looked like that, that would be very ugly for a baby. Yeah, I'm not sure he had the beard, but I think he was at least six foot tall as an infant.

He looks a bit like me if I'd had the secret serum from Captain America. Yes. Yeah. I'm the dweeb version of him. Yeah. Yeah, you are. No, you're just the before. There's an after still to come.

Yeah. You know? We'll get you that serum. Give me some serum. I'm so close. Yeah? Yeah yeah yeah i've nearly got it you're edging towards serum i'm so close is that weird yeah i'm trying to do you a favor get you a serum to make you super how are you creating the serum i didn't say i was creating it i'm getting it oh you're close to it you're looking at it negotiating right i see you're nearly you've nearly made a deal you know i might just i might cancel the whole thing i might say don't

worry about it well i can't say can i fucking hell i'm just your attitude when i'm trying to be nice to you we're looking a gift horse in the mouth here i'll take some serum okay dave and i won't make it weird you You can absolutely have some serum. See how hard that was? Thank you. You do look like the Captain America before. Yeah. Right.

So we could be a couple of big guys. Yeah. Do you want to be a couple of big guys together? We could be a couple of big guys. Yeah. If Jess comes through. Yeah, I'd love to be a big guy. Could I be a big girl?

Is there any left? No. How much do you need? Oh. Well, maybe we just split it three No. How much do you need? Oh. Well, maybe we just split it three ways and we all become mid-size. Yeah. Pretty big. Pretty big.

Yeah. I don't want to be that big anyway. Yeah. I want to be pretty big. Yeah, pretty big's good. You know, still fit in. Yeah. Under doorways and stuff.

Don't have to get clothes tailor-made. Yeah. You know, just be able to shop. Yeah. Don't have to go kill a polar bear to be. You know, just be able to shop. Yeah. Don't have to go kill a polar bear to be warm. Just to get a jacket. Yeah. Melbourne winters are brutal.

Oh, brutal. He's like, sorry, this is the only way as he beats a polar bear to death. So Peter Forican, he attempted a couple of times to sort of go back and complete his studies. He was very restless and he found classes to be an ill fit for him. So over the next few years, he's kind of like he's at university for a little bit. That man's not sitting behind a desk. He can't fit.

It's weird, right? Or he's out like, you know, out exploring and off on expeditions. To get a desk, he had to punch down a tree to have one big enough. Old gross tree I'm talking about as well. Oh, yeah. No tiddly little fucking tree. He's going for a big thousand-year-old tree. He's punched it.

Yeah. Wow. That feels wasteful. Yeah. Okay. That's how he lives. So he needed a way to make a living between expeditions. He needed some cash, which, funnily enough,

expeditions aren't exactly departing every day. You know? There's some gaps in time between that. But you know what it is forever? The circus. Strongman. Yeah. That would have been prime circus years ago.

Oh, absolutely. Early 1900s. Yeah, they got the animals the full lot. They got the animals, they got the trapeze, they got the tall man. You just look at him and go, whoa, he's so tall. Look at the size of him. He'd just be able to lift stuff up. Yeah.

He'd say, anyone want to be able to lift stuff up yeah he'd say anyone want to be punched bring him up bring him up or punch him bring a you know bring whatever bring a cow bring an ugly baby

bring your biggest living thing and I'll punch it out and each town goes oh we've got a buddy we've got a a bull elephant

holy shit just like half bull half elephant oh my god yeah that's pretty big. And he goes, all right, I'll knock it out. Boom.

Goes to the next sound. They're like, we've got a blue whale. Whoa. He's like, I haven't done one of these before. Let's have a go. He has to get into the ocean. He explodes it. It's crazy.

Whale explosion. It's actually, it's gross. Yeah. Yeah. But pretty cool as well. Again, some spoilers on the end of the report. Well, you just don't have to go through those bits now. Yeah, there's got to be a lot of jobs for a huge man.

Well, he had a bit of a lucky break in 1909. He's not all about his size like you guys seem to be. He's about his brain. Which is also probably huge. Huge. Just for scale. So, word started spreading that American explorer Frederick Cook had become the first person to reach the North Pole.

Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole in April of 1908, which is nearly a year before Robert Peary also claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909. Both men's accounts have been disputed ever since. Do you remember who was the first? Roald Amundsen. Correct. No.

That's the undisputed. This is Santa Claus erasure. Erasure. Yeah, that's the first. I didn't say who he became. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Every hero's got a story.

Roald is the undisputed, yeah, the first to reach the North Pole. The world heavyweight champion of the North Pole. That was in 1926, so that's, you know. That's ages later than these people are claiming. These people are saying they got there way sooner. Do we think they're lying or they're confused and they're like, I think I'm here because it's not like there's a massive marker on the ground saying you've made it.

Yeah, that's right. And look, I mean, I don't know but um robert peary comes up again later um and it seems like maybe he was yeah i don't know yeah okay i don't think they made it yeah i think he photoshopped it anyway so at that time word was that frederick cook had done it and peter freuchen was contacted by the editor of denmark's largest newspaper, Politiken, who wanted to cover the story but didn't have anyone on staff who knew anything about the North Pole. So he asked Freuchen to write an article about Cook's accomplishments, and Freuchen did a good job, and he was put on the payroll as a journalist.

So he's just able to make a little bit of cash between trips, which is kind of cool. Fantastic. I feel sorry for the typewriter, though. It's kind of cool Fantastic Feel sorry for the typewriter though Well he had to make a custom one By punching a tree Just crushing it

He punched it He clenched the size of a fist Bang Bang But what it produces is beautiful Yeah Yeah A very gentle tone

Lovely prose Lovely prose But in a very aggressive way to create said prose. Yeah. In 1910, Froeken and Rasmussen established a trading post in Cape York in Greenland, naming it Thule. The name came from the term Ultima Thule, which to a medieval cartographer meant a place beyond the borders of the known world.

And Thule was the most northerly trading post in the world. So it became a really popular trading post as the Inuit people didn't previously have many options to trade. Right. What are we talking like secondhand motor miles and stuff? Yeah. Tools. No time wasters.

Yeah. Or near a suffer. That sort of stuff. Oh, no. The more time Freuchen spent in Greenland, the less he wanted to return to Denmark. In 1911, he married an Inuit woman named Navarana and the couple had two children, born in 1916 and 1918.

Sadly, Navarana died in theanish flu endemic in 1921 and when she died he wanted her buried in the old church graveyard um and the church refused to perform the burial because navarana was not baptized so froken buried her himself of course he did punched Punched a hole in the ground. Punched a hole in the ground. And he said, any questions? Yeah. And I said, no. Okay. Okay. I love how inclusive religions are. So good. You didn't have the special ceremony done.

So no, can't bury her. Well, in the subsequent years, he became an outspoken critic of the Christian church's attempt to convert the Inuit people without comprehending their culture. There's all these Christian missions coming to the Inuit people to try and convert them. And he was like, fuck off. He punched him. He punched him straight out of Greenland.

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Join us at yorku.ca slash write the future. So Thule Trading Station became the home base for a series of seven expeditions known as the Thule Expeditions between 1912 and 1933. The first Thule Expedition in 1912 aimed to test Robert Peary's claim that a channel divided Pearyland, which was a peninsula in northern Greenland. So it's called? Pearyland. He named it after himself. I think that he's probably the expert on this. I'd trust him.

Do you think so? Yeah. A channel divides this thing that I've named after me. Yeah. So it's like the Peary Channel. So there's like a little peninsula and the channel separates the peninsula from Greenland they're like mainland of it like it so if Walt came along and told you that there's a new canal in Disneyland you're not gonna question that is that right I wouldn't yeah Walt would be another good Arctic

Explorer you think yeah just because of his current state. Floating along. I'd be used to the temperature at least. He doesn't need a polar bear jacket. We know he can handle it. So, yeah, this had first been proposed by the titular Robert Peary in 1892, but there were doubts about these observations and there weren't very accurate maps of the area still. In fact, other previous expeditions had ended in tragedy

as they searched for the Peary Channel. So Rasmussen and Freuchen proved that this was not the case. In a 1,000 kilometre or 620 mile journey on dog sleds across the inland ice, which took them about five months to complete and almost killed them. Oh my God. But they were able to show conclusively that Peary Channel did not exist and the voyage overall was viewed as a massive triumph.

Clements Markham, who was the president of the Royal Geographical Society, called the journey the finest ever performed by dogs. There are brackets around by dogs? No, that's all he wanted to talk about. So Dave, you were straight away like, well, the guy's named it after himself. It must bloody be there. No one's ever lied about what they've

done in the Arctic, have they? All these people are telling the truth. So they proved it's not there. This is the best Disney on ice I've ever seen with dogs. It's not there. This is the best Disney on ice I've ever seen with dogs. It's Disney dogs on ice. I didn't know you could put roller skates on a dog. And it's so cute.

They're flipping and flopping around. The look of terror in their eyes. Look at them go. They look at you like, help me, what's happening? And you go, oh, this is good entertainment. It gives me life, that look of terror. You ever seen videos of when they put like little shoes or socks on dogs and they just walk really weird for a bit because they're like,

what the fuck is on my feet? And humans laugh. It is pretty funny. I imagine that's probably what we all did the first time we put shoes and socks on, right? Yeah. What is this? Especially if you get the little corner bit in the wrong spot and it feels funny.

Oh, in a sock? Yeah. Yeah. Why do they have... Just have them without corner bits. Yeah. Surely we've got the technology by now. Seamless socks.

Seamless socks. Note to self. Business idea. Seamless socks. Sorry, go on. He's just making a little note on his little dictaphone. You carry everywhere. Yeah, it's odd.

One of the most wild stories about Freuchen, and this is the one that a lot of people who suggested the topic made sure to mention. Here we go. The shit is coming. It's about a time in 1926 when he was caught in a blizzard. So every resource I found about Peter Freuchen, like he was caught in a blizzard so every resource i found about peter froekin like sums this up in a sentence and i was like no no no no i'm gonna need you to elaborate some

more so i've gone directly to his book i've got a few passages from his book here um that i'll read to you to sort of paint the picture of this story so they're out on an expedition and he sort of uh he got separated in a blizzard from the rest of the party that were out so he's by himself with his dogs suddenly we came to an enormous boulder where there was a deep depression in the snow on the one on the wind side it was like a small cave giving shelter against the howling wind the dogs dived into the hole and i decided to spend the rest of the night there i set about building an ig little shelter for the night. And he says, Oh, cool change. He makes himself a little shelter for the night. And he says, when I finally woke up, it was very cold.

Oh, cool change. I knew I had to get out and move about at once. What worried me most was the fact that my feet did not hurt anymore, a sure sign of danger. Like they've gone too cold. Can't even feel the corner bit of the sock. Yeah. When you can't feel it, you're like, oh, boy.

I'm not sure if I'm even wearing these right. I think I've got one on the right foot did i put on my wife's socks so he'd used the sled i think sort of positioned on its side as a shelter and he'd used other materials to form outer walls that would easily open i think one of them was like like a just a bit of fabric or a jacket or something that he used just to block off the wind but it had all frozen over he says I used all my strength but it was obvious that I could not get out of the way I used all my strength but it was obvious that I could not get out the way I'd come in I was not worried because I expected to turn over the sled which covered me and get up that way as I managed and I managed to turn over and lie on my stomach so that i could push up the sled with my back there was not room enough to get up on my knees but i pushed with my back the best i could the sled would not budge at last i was really

worried my friends would soon begin to search for me of course but the question was whether i would survive until they found me perhaps i could dig my out. But the snow surrounding me was now ice and it was impossible to make the smallest dent in the surface with my gloved hands. I'd left my snow knife outside on the sled with all my other tools. I decided to try digging with my bare hands. Yeah, punch. Yeah, punch. Use your power.

Oh my God, Kill Bill style. The one inch punch. My hand would freeze but it would be better to lose one hand than to lose my life. I pulled off my right glove and began scratching with my nails. I got off some tiny pieces of ice, but after a few minutes, my fingers lost all feeling and it was impossible to keep them straight. My hand simply could not be used for digging, so I decided to thaw it before it was too late.

Thaw it before it. Thaw it before it. Dry King the Viking. Love this guy. Beautiful prose. Dry King the Viking. Love this guy. Beautiful prose. Dry King the Viking. Yeah, okay.

He said he was a dry king before, didn't he? A dry king. Didn't he? No, you said he was... Oh, something like that. No. I don't know where dry king came from. You said he was a dry... I thought you said he was very dry.

In my head, I've been calling him Dry King the Viking the whole time. Okay. Is that not something that we said out loud? No, I don't think so, no. I'm pretty sure at the start you said you really enjoyed how dry he was. Oh, he's got a dry sense of humour. Yeah, okay. And you didn't say he's Dry King the Viking?

No. Oh. That's a conversation I have with myself. You're recording your own podcast in your head? That's quite impressive. Yeah, that's freaking me out. We can call him Draking the Viking. Is this the shortest turnaround for Mandela effect that's ever happened?

Yeah, I think so. So he's trying a few different things. He's trying to... Who's trying? Draking the Viking. He's trying to get himself out of this perilous situation. Before he has a pretty genius idea, I'd often seen dogs dung in the sled tracks

And had noticed that it would freeze as solid as a rock No fucking way It was shit related No way Would not the cold have the same effect on human discharge? That is incredible that Dave called this I had no idea That is incredible

You knew we were building up to this moment surely Repulsive as the thought was i decided to try the experiment he's gonna make a shit shovel please matt it's a shit chisel i moved my bowels and from the excrement shut up and let me read it. I moved my bowels and from the excrement I managed to fashion a chisel-like instrument which I left to freeze. It was a whole new meaning to cold chisel. That would be my cold chisel cover band name. Shit chisel.

Shit chisel. And according to Freuchen, it worked. He was able to use the shit chisel to cut a hole wide enough for him to slowly squeeze out it took him like it took him ages like it took him another sort of day and night he could sort of did he have to like uh blind bake it and stuff like that how involved was the process to get the chisel just right just leave it in the the snow and the ice and be patient this time. Okay. You know, be patient.

Let it fully freeze. You've got to keep checking on it. Not yet. It's a little bit too malleable. I'd love to see like a web series cooking show version of it. How to make your own shit chisel. And what if you don't need to go? Yeah, that's right.

How can you force that? And also like do you ever have to like if you're peeing in the ocean, you have to really think about it because you're so conditioned to being on or near a toilet? I've never broken a seal. You never pee. And you certainly never shit as a man. A gentleman never shits.

Okay, so Dave, can you answer my question? Yeah, I think it would be. Also, it sounds like he was lying on his stomach. Yeah. So he's got to go fight gravity as well. You just have to hope it's a solid one. Imagine if it wasn't. You're like, oh.

Wouldn't it be more malleable if it's not? This is awful. I'm so sorry. I knew you wouldn't enjoy it. But if it was completely unsolid, your friends are just going to find you in the snow covered in your own shit. Well, I guess he died doing what he loved.

Shitting. Maybe it would be better if it was liquid because then you can sort of, you create like a mould in the snow and then you just sort of fill the mould and then it... But then what do you chisel it out of the mould with? You've got to make a piss chisel. Yeah, then you piss on it

and that melts a bit of the ice around just so you can get the chisel out. It's similar to the Yeah white wine red wine And carpet thing Yeah I can So this is the

The one thing that people point out When they were pitching the story No he's just like He's somebody who's done A lot of different things Like this Yeah we're He's made other tools out of shit

We're not even halfway through his life We're not even halfway through the tools He's made out of shit But yeah So they're always like You gotta You gotta mention this story. But, yeah, everyone breezes over it in their biographies of him. Yeah.

Yeah, it's literally like, it's a sentence on Wikipedia.org, which is this great website I found about Arctic exploration. Oh, great. Oh, that sounds handy. Pretty cool. I wonder if, yeah, maybe they're too cowardly to bring it up like you have here. Well, that's why, yeah, I had to go straight to the horse's ass. He's obviously not ashamed of it.

How long before checking in with his mates, checking he brought it up? Where have you been? You're never going to believe it. Yeah, I don't know. And he just throws down that shit chisel. Yeah, I don't know. And I mean, he's obviously not ashamed of it because he's writing about it in his book. Did he keep it forever? Yeah, he put it back in its sheath, which was his ass. And I mean, he's obviously not ashamed of it because he's writing about it in his book. Did he keep it forever?

Yeah, he put it back in its sheath, which was his ass. I'll see you later. Oh, a little cold. So, yeah, it was quite a long process of him sort of getting out of this little cave. Quite a long process. You had to eat, wait, eat a bit more, wait. Getting out, Dave. The chisel has worked.

Yeah, getting the chisel out took a long time. Getting the chisel out. And so he finally gets free. He said, I could only crawl, but I got my knife from the sled, pulled the dogs out of their cave and cut them loose from the harness. I planned to hold on to the reins and let the dogs pull me on the snow, but they did not understand. I used the whip with what little strength I had left,

and suddenly they set off so fast my weak hands could not hold the reins. Oh, no. The dogs did not go far, but they managed to keep out of my reach as I crawled after them. I crawled for three hours before I reached the camp. So he's just crawling. And the dogs are just taunting him. The dogs are like pissing on him

licking his face oh nearly got me fortunately i then did not know the ordeal was to cost me my foot so he doesn't really explain how he eventually got back to his fellow explorers but he does spend about three to four pages of his book going into graphic detail about frostbite and gangrene, the pain, the smell, how he removed his own toes. And I'm not sure I want to go into all of that detail. Okay. He doesn't explain how he gets back to his fellow travellers, but he tells you in great detail about the smell.

I've got one question. Yes. Does it smell because he used the shit chisel to remove his toes? No. Okay. That was my... Disappointingly, yeah. He made a shit scalpel.

Very sharp. But once back with people again, he writes, I went to see the doctor and asked him to look at my foot. His name was Hart. He told me afterwards... Look at it. Look at my foot. Look at my foot.

He told me afterwards that he was only a medical student at the time, but I had complete faith in him as a doctor and a surgeon. He told me he would begin operating at noon, and as he had to anaesthetise me, he asked me not to eat anything during the morning, but I had seen potatoes on board, a delicacy I had not tasted for years, and he reluctantly agreed to let me have some.

And that I can get around and i understand you yeah you want to anesthetize me can't have anything in the stomach got it roger that can i have potatoes can i have a really heavy starchy food can i be okay the student's like i don't know i'm not a doctor i'm not a doctor but i've tried telling you but i have agreed to do the surgery at noon. You're asking me and you're literally eating a potato as you ask. So I can't say no. I don't think that's how you eat them, mate.

But if that's what you want to do, you go for it. So yeah, he's at this amputation performed by a medical student is why our six foot seven bearded man now also has a peg leg. So when Freuchen returned tomark in the late 1920s he joined the social democrats and contributed with articles in the newspaper politican from 1926 to 1932 he served as the editor-in-chief of a magazine owned by the family of his second wife uh magdalene Vang-Loretsen. Whoa. That's a beauty. She was the daughter of Johannes Peter Loretsen, who was a Danish businessman and director of Denmark's National Bank.

So it was a very wealthy family. And essentially, I did read a couple of places, like they created that magazine for him to run. So, like, welcome to the family. Here's a magazine. Zoe, you want that? You can be editor-in-chief. Love you.

Oh, okay. I'd quite like to go to that. And he's still, like, he's still off doing expeditions and stuff like that. You don't have to do that anymore. We've created a magazine for you. He wrote numerous books as well, over 30 30 in fact, both novels and memoirs. And his next career move was into the movie biz. Ooh, love it.

He writes, my books had such good sales in Germany and on the basis of this literary success, my translator was able to sell the film rights to my novel, The Great Hunter. He sent me a telegram one day transmitting an offer of 735 marks for the book i had no experience with the movies i was in need of money and i quickly accepted the offer he's like okay so he worked as a consultant and technical advisor and script writer specializing in arctic related scripts this is for years um he worked with mgGM as a technical advisor on their Arctic movies

and script supervisor. Right. So they just have experts in different fields. Yeah. Most notably, two of his books formed the basis for MGM's Oscar-winning movie called Eskimo, telling the tale of a fictional Inuit warrior's adventure in the Arctic. The film's dialogue was entirely in Inuit with English subtitles.

Freuchen wrote the story, translated the dialogue, was an interpreter on the set, helped the film's crew survive on set, and played the movie's villain. Wow, he could do it all. Yeah, there's nothing he can't do. According to badassoftheweek.com. That's a great website name. Yeah, it's it's really fun either way an awesome side note is that during the premiere of eskimo freuchen apparently picked

up nazi director lenny reifenstahl hitler's favorite director held her over his head and spun around in a circle laughing his ass off she did not enjoy this he couldn't even use the excuse that he was wasted at the time because peter froken never drank that's from badass of the week wow speaking of hitler during world war ii froken was actively involved in the danish resistance movement against the occupation by nazi germany helping refugees who came to denmark escape the regime and taking part in sabotage missions despite being in his mid-50s at this point and having a peg leg. I can see why he's on baddisfoftheweek.com.

Yeah. He was arrested twice by the Gestapo, beaten and tortured, and after the second arrest, Freuchen was sent to a labour camp, sentenced to death, but he managed to escape and flee to Sweden.

And again, that, in most resources I've seen was a sentence. Like they don't explain some, the only other tiny detail that I saw on one resource was that like with the help of his friends, he escaped. I don't know. Some people might've helped him escape. Yeah, that feels like that could be a whole episode in itself. Yeah.

A prison war escape. But I don't know. There's not much about it. Do you reckon he punched his way out or chiseled his way out? Or both? Maybe he made a fist out of shit. Why use my own fist when I could use my own shit? My shit fist.

His nickname is shit fist fist it's pretty crazy so yeah he's he's escaped escaped the nazis and fled to sweden after the war he moved to the u.s divorcing his second wife though they had separated for years they'd been separated for years during his time with the danish resistance anyway um and the same year 1945 1945, he married his third wife, Dagmar Freukengael. I love the name Dagmar. Dagmar's good. She was a fashion illustrator, a writer and editor. And they lived in New York City and maintained a second home in Connecticut as well.

So they just live in their best lives. He often travelled for his work during their marriage, but is reported to have written home every day and sent a copy of each letter to the Danish Royal Library to be opened 50 years after his death. So did he type every letter out twice then? Yeah. Sending one to his wife and one to the library.

And I find that very funny. Like he had a sense that people would want to know every detail of his life. Like the library's like, we have so many letters. Yeah, but he's like, I'll just help. I'll archive as we go. But then it's pretty funny because I found most sources on him pretty light on details. So it's pretty funny that like he's like,

I've written all these letters and I'll write them to my wife. Imagine also being like sort of like, you know, text messages these days to your partner or something and be like oh i hope nobody else i'll send one to the national library saying hey can you get milk they need to know that at one point in our life we were a little low on milk it'll paint an interesting tapestry how many times do I have to fucking tell you to empty out all the toilet rolls? Don't just leave them in the toilet.

Anyway, so his exploration days... Anyway, so his exploration days are pretty much behind him, but he spends a lot of his time travelling. He would work with MGM Studios on movies. He would go on speaking tours, and he wrote many more books. He had yet another brush with fame in 1956 when at the age of 70, he appeared on the American quiz show The $64,000 Question.

Oh, wow. Which Matt has done a Patreon bonus episode about. Yeah, that's right. I made a note that we've obviously talked about it before, but as a refresher, it's a game show um and contestants choose is this a right but they choose like a subject category from like a category board uh i believe they had a specialist category yeah and but there was also a board involved as well well yeah it seems pretty like a good luck because his category was the seven Cs, something he had quite a bit of experience and knowledge in.

And one of his books was called Book of the Seven Cs. Cunt. Yeah, what are the other six? The big C. See, I would have done very poorly on that Yeah You only got one Yeah Carrot

Clarity Oh carrot clarity That's a hyphenated one Yeah That only counts as one Mate I've got absolute carrot clarity right now Capricorn Capricorn's one yep

My friend Chris Chris Chris yeah Chris is on the board Good on you Love you Chris Is Chris on the board Bing Show me Chris

And there he is Come on Chris You can see little clips of this actually on YouTube Awesome Which is really cool And he made it to the final question Winning $64,000 And I read somewhere that he was only the fifth person to win the jackpot.

So this guy is an Arctic explorer, a journalist, a novelist, a movie star, and won a $64,000 question. Yeah. And he's obviously a toolmaker. Toolmaker. Yeah. God, he'd be good at bunnings, wouldn't he? Yeah. What section would he be in? Toil be good at bunnings, wouldn't he? Yeah.

What section would he be in? Toilets or... Or chisels. Chisels, I'm hard to say. Tools or toilets. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. No, I can't believe it. Peter Forican died of a heart attack in 1957 at the age of 71,

just the year after he was on the $64,000 question. Wow. And as per his wishes, his ashes were scattered on the famous table-shaped Mount Dundas outside of Thule in Greenland. And something we haven't done for a little while, but I do have some

fun facts. I've already had some so far, so this is cool. I know. Well, I've got a few little bits and pieces. There's an area in Greenland called Freuchenland, which is very nice, named after him. And there's also Navarana Fjord, which is named after his first wife. That's just something quite nice.

That's a nice fact. Cute fact. That's a nice fact. Freuchen's grandson, Peter, was the first Inuk in Canada to be elected as an MP and represented the electoral district of Nanasiak in

the House of Commons in Canada from 1979 to 1984. That's nice. Nice. Another nice fact. Another nice fact. Froiken was a member of the Royal Danish Geographical Society who awarded him the Hans Egde Medal. I butchered that and I apologise.

The medal in 1921. It's awarded for outstanding services to geography, principally for geographical studies and research in the polar lands. So that's nice. Again, okay, I had some nice facts. But this one I suppose is a little bit fun. In relation to the shit chisel story, a scientific experiment carried out by the Department of Anthropology But this one I suppose is a little bit fun. In relation to the shit chisel story,

a scientific experiment carried out by the Department of Anthropology from Kent State University in 2019 tried to bust the legend of an Inuit man who manufactured knives using frozen faeces to butcher his prey. They sort of think that's possibly where Freudkin might have thought of it as well. It's like this, it's an inuit legend i'd love to see the proposal for this research paper well one of the scientists kept a diet similar to a native living in the arctic circle for eight days and after and used a mold to craft a knife

using his own feces and freeze it after the knife became solid ice the team tried to cut through the hide of a wolf, as the legend says, but with no luck. So to a lot of people, this also disproves Freuchen's story and people argue that he was the only one there so could say whatever he wanted and no one would be able to prove it. Why would he want to say that? Exactly. But I choose to believe in the shit chisel. I want to believe. I want to believe. I think he just probably is a better craftsman.

That's all. Yeah. This scientist, this nerd, this pencil pusher. Who thinks he can go out there and do what Freuchen did? And change your diet in eight days? Come on, mate. I thought you were going to say he went out for eight months. No, eight days.

Perfected the poo. Also, imagine, because obviously it's like a team of scientists, right? But imagine being the one. Like, how do you decide whose shit you're going to use? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to just say now, if this ever comes up for us, I don't really want to use my shit.

And I can't. So, I guess it's Dave. It's going to be your shit, Dave. I really wish I could shit. Yeah. Which is what I'd say as we're trapped under ice. Oh, Dave, I'm so sorry. Don't apologize. I'm excited. I simply cannot shit. I mean, I'd say as we're trapped under ice. Oh, Dave, I'm so sorry. Don't apologise.

I'm excited. I simply cannot shit. I mean, I won't be moulding, but sorry about that. Let's just avoid being in Blizzard. What do you think about that? Yeah, okay. I'm not built for it. No.

You know how he almost died a bunch of times? I would have died so many more times. Oh, my God. I just would never even be in of times? I would have died so many more times. Oh, my God. I just would never even be in that situation. Seconds in. I'm so pathetic. I would just curl up in a ball and wait for death. Me too.

Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry up, death. I'm taking my clothes off to get colder. I've had enough. Yeah. No, not for me. Thanks.

But, yeah, that is the fairly wild life and story of Peter Froiken. Peter Froiken, absolutely worth being told on our 350th episode, I must say. One of the greatest characters we've had for a while, I reckon. Yeah. And yeah, it's such an interesting kind of, it was in a way a bit of a tough one to research because yeah, some of the resources are just like, yeah, so he did this and he did this and, yeah.

And you're like, you're saying a bunch of amazing things and not elaborating on any of them. Very lucky that he was also a great writer. Otherwise, it feels like the story wouldn't have been captured at all. That's true. Yeah, quite a prolific writer. So if you want to know more, get a bit more detail. Go to the Danish library and look up his letters.

Yeah, look up his letters. They are saucy. You get the feeling that they just binned him? I don't know. Because you'd have to consider it, right? Yeah, at some point. Because how many other people are writing in and they're going, we've just got rooms full of letters.

And they're like, we never invited this. I don't know why people are doing this. And did you say every day? Every day he wrote to his wife. A lot of letters. And they're like, we never invited this. I don't know why people are doing this. And did you say every day? Every day he wrote to his wife. Yeah, a lot of letters. Yeah. Yeah, nah. He could have just kept them

in a separate file. Yeah, like if she's not keeping them, why would the library... I was about to say like, do you have to write every day? But if I'm away, I'd probably send a text

most days, you know? Would you? I think so. To who? Yeah, that's true. If I had a loved one. If anybody cared. Yeah, you're also going straight to the museum.

Yeah. Anyway, miss you. Anyway, I'll be home Wednesday. We've never met. I don't care. I don't care about you. But yeah. What a story.

Great story. Thanks so much for telling it, Bop. it bop i've never heard of him the dry king i cannot believe that you made that up it was shit in that story i know that was incredible as soon as you said it i was like motherfucker you have a great poker face because you didn't give anything away that's good um yeah a wild story lots of people uh suggested it and i think i'd put him up for a vote once before and he hadn't quite made the cut. So I'm glad that he got through this time

because that was a fun story. But this time did you put in brackets, shit chisel? Probably. That might be what got everybody over the line. I can only imagine. I think, yeah, a lot of people just get sleepy as soon as they hear it's a biography.

Yeah, and look, that's kind of understandable, but nearly every story we do is going to be, in some way, a bit of a biography, isn't it? It's true. It's almost impossible not to. And we choose people with interesting lives most of the time. Yeah, we try to, yeah. That's great.

Great story. That does bring us to everyone's favourite section of the show, where we get to thank a bunch of our supporters, our great Patreon supporters. If you want to get involved section of the show where we get to thank a bunch of our supporters, our great Patreon supporters. If you want to get involved in supporting the show, you can go to patreon.com slash digonpod or digonpod.com. And there's a bunch of different levels.

Dave, what are some of those? We are putting out three bonus episodes every single month, which adds up to a large back catalog. There's over 150 now that you can get instant access to as soon as you support the show on that level. So you'll hear lots of bonus episodes on many topics.

We even talked about the $64,000 question there. We do a few quizzes. We do Phrasing the Bar, our show on Brendan Fraser movies. I'm trying to think of other icy topics like Utsi the... Oh, the Iceman. Iceman? Was it Utsi? Yeah. Something likei? Yeah. Something like that.

Yeah. Yes, but the first thing we like to do is our fact, quote or question section, which has a little jingle. I think it goes something like this. Fact, quote or question. He always remembers the ding. And the way to get involved in this is to sign up at the Sydney Schoenberg level or above. And you get to give us a fact, a quote or a question or a brag or a suggestion

or really whatever you like. You also get to give yourself a title and I'll read out four each week. I'll read them out for the first time as I'm reading them out. First one comes from Thomas Doppelreiter whose title is Retired Quizmaster

of the Dugo Patreons. Oh, we loved your quizzes, Thomas. What a way to find out. Don't retire. What a way to find out. Bring it back. Thomas, he used to do, every week maybe, in the Facebook group, he'd do a connected quiz,

which everyone in there loved. But yeah, I imagine that would have been a lot of work. That's a lot of work. It was nine questions and then the tenth was, what connects all these questions? Often a DoGo On thing. And we've also done a lot of work. That's a lot of work. This was nine questions and then the tenth was what connects all these questions? Often a do-go-on thing. And we've also done a couple of bonus episodes

using his quizzes. Yeah, Thomas, you're a great trivia writer. But understandably, you know, all good things must come to an end. Hey, feel free to make a comeback whenever you like.

Anytime. Thomas has given us a brag and he writes, it's a brag connected with a fact and a question. Oh! Our team reached the local finals of this year's trivia season and that's a fact and a brag in parts because of some weird things i learned from the pod here's the question as two of you worked in the trivia

business and jess is smart without having to work in that field thank you thomas what is a fact that is so ridiculous that you thought this can't be true but in the end it was true oh you'll be better at this dave oh but it's so broad yeah it's really hard on the spot you always hear stuff like that and you're like that's incredible i'm gonna remember that forever whenever someone asks a question in the fact quota question section we always uh appreciate and suggest that they answer that question as well. And Thomas has done that writing. For me, it is that there were more people on the moon than there were episodes where Takeshi got beaten in Takeshi's castle.

12 to 8. You know of Takeshi's castle, right? I do not. If not, this fact is now a suggestion too. Oh, wow. Okay, I see how he's tied it all together. Their wiki is called Takeshi Heads. What's Takeshi's castle, Jess? I do not. If not, this fact is now a suggestion too. Oh, wow. Okay. I see how he's tied it all together. Their wiki is called Kashi Heads.

What's Takeshi's Castle, Jess? You seem to know what that meant. I don't know. I'm looking it up for you now. I didn't know this either. It's a Japanese game show. Cool. Between 86 and 90. Yeah.

There were more people on the moon 12 people made it to the moon only 8 times as Takeshi being beaten Right, it was a highly influential on global popular culture Inspiring a genre of game shows involving physical challenges and painful entertainment So there you go It's been a while since I worked in trivia Dave I guess it is for you too a little bit So there you go. It's been a while since I worked in trivia, Dave. I guess it is for you too a little bit.

Yeah. So I guess with questions you don't want it to be so unbelievable because you need people to be able to get the answer. I'm just looking up some fun facts just to give you something. And this is more for Jess. You know, the best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii. Is it? Cool. There you go.

Pretty cool. What about this one? High-fiving? That has only been around apparently since 1977. What? No. This is according to

bestlaughonline.com. At a pro baseball game in 1977, Dodger player Dusty Baker hit his 30th home run of the season. As he rounded home base past his teammate Glenn Burke in the on-deck circle, Burke raised his hand in excited greeting. On instinct, Baker reached up and slapped it

because he said, it seemed like the thing to do. Thus the high five was born. That can't be true. That can't possibly be true. That can't possibly be true. In all of humanity, people weren't doing that. There's no way that people haven't done that

in the previous thousands of years at some point. Surely. That's amazing. Dusty Baker. Here's the thing, right? So like a question like this is, it's such a good question. And I feel like I hear facts and I remember them,

but only when that vague topic comes up. Do you know what I mean? Like you might be like, oh, look, a camel. And I'd be like, well, did you know? And I'll tell you a thing about a camel. But just on the spot of like, what's a great fact? I'm like, I i know nothing i've never even spoken words before oh there's a oh that uh great website called wikipedia.org which i think is about um hand gestures it's like an online impendium compendium uh it says there's many

origin stories of the high five but the two most documented candidates are Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Wiley Brown and Derek Smith of the Louisville Cardinals men's college basketball team during the 78-79 season. All right. So either way, very recent. Okay. Interesting.

That is a surprise. Thank you very much for that uh brag question suggestion etc thomas the next one comes from james edwards who's got the title of matt's biggest fan oh wow hell yeah good for you maddie you deserve this i am blushing i'm gonna say to them form a queue behind me. Yeah. Stop it. You can be between Dave and I in the line. There's a big gap from you to Jess. James has a question writing, hey, guys, hope you're well.

I'm sitting by the pool typing this on my birthday, which I'm celebrating with a holiday in Gran Canaria. Oops, sorry. Random brag to start. Love it. I don't know if I know Gran Canaria and if I'm saying that right. James goes on. Kind of a nerd fact combined with a nerd question to follow. I hope that's okay.

It's in Spain. In Spain. Very nice. Is it one of the Canary Islands? There are only four words in the English language which end in D-O-U-S. Can you name them? What? There are only four?

Hazardous. Arduous? Oh, no. That's O-U-S. Oh, no. What's it going to end in? D-O-U-S. Yeah, hazardous.

That's one. Hazardous. Yep. One. How many words was it? Four. Hazardous. Yeah, hazardous. That's one. Hazardous. Yep. One. How many words was it? Four. Hazardous. I got that one.

Marvelous. No, dis. Dis. Yeah. He's got the answer. I'll have a look and see if I can. Oh, yeah. I've heard of all of these. Okay.

That's something. There's another H. There's an S and there's a T. Tedious. Horrendous. No, that's not right. No, that's not tedious. So this could get tedious if we don't do it.

Wait, D-O-U-S? Yeah, horrendous, that's right. Horrendous is one. Well done. So there's an S and a T left. And how many words did he say there was? Four, so there's only two more S

T U Stupendous Yes, and the T one T Tremendous Yes You fucking legends

This feels like we're playing a party game There's also 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 words James, your fact has been debunked. And just cheated. All right. Thank you, James. The next one comes from Logan Husky, aka King of the Mosh.

King of the Mosh. The Mosh King. And unsurprisingly, with a title like that, Logan's offered a brag. Writing, Hi guys. I've gone to many great live music gigs over the years, and being the short ass that I am,

I always get there super early to get a spot right up against the barrier of the mosh. As a result, I've scored some sweet keepsakes thrown into the crowd by the roadies at the end of the show. I've got guitar picks from the hives and moby a set list from crowded house just to name a few but the absolute jewel in the crown of my collection is a drumstick from none other than dave grohl from when he played with super group them crooked vultures i saw that tour great show uh that also comprised of Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.

Cool. When they played Festival Hall in Melbourne. I was there. I was at that show, Logan. Oh, but you didn't get the stick. I didn't get the stick. I love the fact that short of running a DNA test to anyone else, it's just a ratty beaten drumstick.

But because I'm the only one who knows that it's truly authentic, it's priceless to me. That's my brag. Thanks for indulging me. But for the sake of some sweet content, do you guys have any souvenirs from shows you've seen music or otherwise? I still have a guitar pick from Atreyu,

the emo hardcore band from many years ago, 15 years ago or something. I think the first one that came to mind is I saw Area 7, the ska punk band from Melbourne. I saw them when I was in high school. They played a Triple J live at the Wireless at the ABC studios. And the singer was signing autographs afterwards and i didn't have anything to sign so i pulled a sign off the wall which was like the instructions for a fire extinguisher and he that feels like that yeah it should have been left on the wall i

definitely should not have done that oh my god and he um he's like oh i love this and he took a time and he drew and he he drew on flames all across it. And then, yeah, and he said, you know, some sort of fire related thing, like you're on fire or whatever it was. I think I've got that somewhere at home probably. That's cool. Bit of fun. Bit of fun.

Hopefully no fires occur. Can you ask at your work? I can't. It's burnt down. It's crazy actually. No one knew how to use it. Yeah, we don't have, no, we've got fire sprinklers. It's burnt down. It's crazy, actually. No one knew how to use it. Yeah, we don't have... No, we've got fire sprinklers.

It's okay. We're all right. I don't have anything, I don't think, from music-related stuff. The first thing that I thought of was when I saw Rose Matafayo's comedy festival show a few years ago. It was called The Horned Dog. And she had a little label maker on stage with her and I was in the front row and she printed out a sticker

that says, Jess is a horn dog. That's great. And I stuck that in a notebook. That's lovely. That's great. First thing I thought of. You look at that every day? Every day I look at it,

and I say, thank you, Rose Manifeo. She had your number. Thank you, Rose Manifeo. The last fact-quoted question this week comes from Claire Norris, a.k.a. Monarch of the Monarch Butterflies. Oh. Did I say butterfly? Butterflies. Butterflies. Butterflies. And Claire is offering, a.k.a. Monarch of the Monarch Butterflies. Oh. Did I say butterfly?

Butterflies. Butterflies. And Claire is offering us a fact writing, in the 1960s and 70s, there was a popular appetite suppressant called AIDS, with a Y, A-Y-D-S. In the 80s, when the AIDS epidemic began to negatively impact sales, a sales representative said, the product has been around for 45 years.

Let the disease change its name. The product changed their name in 1989, though, to Diet AIDS. The product was discontinued in the 90s. Let the disease change. Fuck you, disease. How dare you. We were here first. Is that a fun fact?

That is a really funny fact. That is a funny fact. And also, it's good that it was like an appetite suppressant as well. Like, if it was something that was curing cancer or something, I'd be like, oh, no. But, oh, well. Yeah, we'll be right. Yeah.

That's pretty funny. Let them choose. You remember when there were, I remember angry parents 10 years back or whenever it was when ISIS was becoming a big thing. And there were these parents with kids named ISIS. And they're like, it was a beautiful name when we named them that. They're like, can't we call it, they're known as ISIL. Let's call them ISIL. Leave ISIS for the girls.

The kids, the parents of ISIL are like them ISIL. Leave ISIS for the girls. Yeah, but then the kids, the parents of ISIL are like, no. Leave ISIS for the girls. And then there's another, but my son's name's Daesh. We can't use that either. Daesh? Yeah. Isn't that a word I coined? Yeah, but in Europe, there's another name for it.

Oh, I had forgotten about Daesh. What was Daesh from? I think you were just having a bit of a moment. I think it's a name for her. Oh, I had forgotten about Daesh. What was Daesh from? I think you were just having a bit of a moment. I think it's a bit like day one. Oh, yeah. I feel like, yeah. Daesh. Anyway, maybe we'll get another Daesh moment here

when we thank a few of our other great supporters. Jess, you want to come up with a little game based on the topic we just went through? Well, I don't want it to be what they mould their poo into. Thank you. I appreciate that. I think we've had enough chat of feces.

Maybe something they punched to turn into something else. Yes. What they punched. So, you know, to make something beautiful. A tree into a desk. Yeah. Or an igloo into a desk. Yeah, yeah. Or a... An igloo into a window. Yeah, that's true.

Perfect. All right. Well, if I may go first. Yeah. I'd love to thank from Greenbelt in, I reckon, Maryland, MD, in the United States, Stephanie Calhoun. Oh, fuck, I love Calhoun as a surname. Big fan.

Jess, what does Stephanie Calhoun. Oh, fuck, I love Calhoun as a surname. Big fan. Jess, what does Stephanie Calhoun punch? Is that the triptych? Yes. Sorry. At first I thought she's in both at once. This is amazing. I know. Sorry.

Sorry, future Jess. That's all right. I have so many edits. If I may go first. Yes. I would love to thank From Arnold in MO. What's that? I will not recognize Missouri.

Missouri. That's probably wrong. I just love saying it. Missouri in the United States. I'd love to thank Michelle Huber. Oh, Michelle Huber. Michelle Huber. What did Huber punch?

Punched a light pole. Yeah. It was a citywide blackout. Whoa. Right? Yeah. And they were like, fuck, we can't see anything. Yeah.

Hospitals, like, generators aren't working. We're stuffed here. This is terrible. People are going to die. Oh, my God. Michelle's like, I got this. Punched one light pole. Power back on.

Oh, wow. Sort of like how you used to punch a TV to get the reception back. Exactly right. Holy shit. That's a powerful punch. Huge punch. She shocked the whole grid back into action. That's a life-saving punch.

Holy shit. Imagine, yeah, she could have gone around individually and punched all these people having cardiac arrest until their hearts started beating out. But she did even more than that. Yeah. Because, yeah, sure, Michelle could have done that. Sure.

But then there still would have been somebody who, because it was so dark, didn't see a bit of a crack in their footpath and rolled an ankle or something. And then broke their mother's back. Exactly. But by providing light and power to all, saved everybody.

Exactly. All right. Thank you, Michelle. I'd also love to thank from Newtown in Victoria, Australia. I'm not sure where that is. Sarah Fuller. Have you heard of Newtown? Yeah, it's west-ish, I think.

Oh, yeah. Over the bridge. Ah. Could be wrong. Sarah, sorry. Think in a new port? Maybe. Yeah, maybe I am.

No. Dave, what would Sarah punch? Sarah has punched the Melbourne Aquarium. Whoa. And brought the Yarra back to life by making all the fishes and sharks and stuff inside are now in the Yarra. Let them be free. Let them be free. I think they're quite different sort of like ecosystems and stuff,

aren't they? No, no. I mean, the Yarra heads out to the sea and then from the sea, from the bay to the sea and then from there they can get anywhere. Okay. Beautiful. Let them be free. You were right about Newtown being west,

but it was much further west as in Geelong. Geelong's west. That's what I said. Just over the bridge and keep going. Yeah. And finally for me, I'd love to thank from Walker in Louisiana in the United States, John Denae or John Denaeus.

Oh, John Denae. John Denae punched a... Cow. Cow. Turned it into... No, the cow was like choking Oh It was like a Heimlich maneuver

Heimlich yeah Yeah This was a Heimlich maneuver And I'm guessing the fact that you've repeated that a few times That is not the right word Heimlich Heimlich Cowlick maneuver

Cowlick maneuver Okay You're back Saved that cow's life Holy moly And it was good because the cow was actually pregnant Cowlick maneuver. Cowlick maneuver. Okay. You're back. Saved that cow's life. Holy moly. And it was good because the cow was actually pregnant. And the cow gave birth to the cow king. The cow king.

The second coming of the cow king. Oh, my God. So, we could have lost the cow king. Yeah, we could have lost like the cow equivalent of Jesus. Cow Jesus. Yeah, it was cow Mary. He's so cow Mary. Punch cow Mary. Yeah, it's Cow Mary Punch Cow Mary Yeah, it's pretty crazy actually

I can't believe you guys haven't heard that story I think I might be hungry Was the baby also born in a barn? No Or in a house There was room at the inn Plenty of room here Yeah, at a pool room.

Yeah. Out in someone's mansion in the Orange County. It's actually pretty... Yes, it was Ryan from the OC. Dave, do you want to thank some people? Hey, I'd love to thank from... From Texas we're going to now.

New Braunfels or New Brownfels. It's John. John. Solid name. john john solid name just a jon this time john no surname but from new braunfels texas he's uh the share of new braunfels absolutely one name all he needs and john punched a sure punched punched a sure impersonator or the real yeah you are fake yeah i know the real Cher when I see her And then what happened? What did that create? Turned

We're so Justice Fuck it all Whoa, John, alright Dishing out justice with his fists Well, this Cher impersonator's charging as if it's really Cher And he's like, that's John's like, that's absolute fucking bullshit out justice with his fists. Well, this Cher impersonator's charging as if it's really Cher. Right.

And he's like, that's, John's like, that's absolute fucking bullshit. Yeah. I won't have that. And John, and Cher, this fake Cher was also about to kill a kid. So it was justified. Yeah, exactly. It was justified. People going around saying, you can't punch people for charging too much. Well, what if they're about to kill a kid?

What if they're about to charge into a child? Wow. Yeah. Something that, of course, the Jesus cow would never do. Yeah. Even if you had a red rag, it would never run. It would not run. But, John, obviously, you've saved a kid, but stop punching people.

Good on you. Can I think from Myrtle? Speaking of Cher, I just saw the X-Files episode That was very strange Okay But I kind of liked it But it ended With a concert Where Cher was singing at

But it was like A Cher impersonator And they got punched? Well I assume so That must have happened During the credits Oh my goodness Do you remember this?

No I don't remember that episode What else happened? Basically Like a A guy who was a science experiment, Jay Peterman from Seinfeld did this science experiment, created this guy who was a recluse and he sort of drugged and raped women in the night and then at the end he got to enjoy a Cher concert

because he loved Cher and there was no... It makes no sense at all. It was kind of a good episode, but it was very strange how it ended like he was the good guy, as if none of the raping had happened. Anyway, please edit all that out. I didn't bring that up. All right.

I forgot where it was going, that episode. Grim. So thanks, John. I would also like to thank from Myrtleford in Victoria. I love Myrtleford. Beautiful part of Victoria. It's got a great big stump down the main drag in the middle of the road. I love driving past it.

Big stump and it lights up at night. You can see like the route systems. Oh, that's cool. It's been there since I was a kid. It's so cool. Love it. My favourite. I'd say my number one stump.

You reckon? Yeah. That's a hard call to make. I can't believe Dylan Old gets to see that stump every day. That's the bad news for you. Dylan Old punched the stump. Oh my God. What happened?

I mean, what do you think the stump was before it was a stump? Oh. Yeah, that's why the stump happened. Dylan Old is responsible for the stump. He punched it out of the ground. He's an artist. Yes. Great work, Dylan Old.

That's beautiful. That is beautiful. So thanks so much, Dylan. And finally, I'd like to thank from Mitcham, also in Victoria, it's John Burke. He punched Don Burke. Okay. He said there can only be one.

And then Don said, my name's Don. He said, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I thought it was... It is a little too close though, don't you think? Because I mean, if I was so easily confused, I think everybody else is going to be confused. Yeah.

And I, John Burke, host a show about gardening. Yeah. And I'm just concerned that, you know, there's going to be competition here. That's right. So John Burke, I felt bad at the time. Yeah, the allegations have come out. The allegations have come out.

So John actually is on the right side of history. John did the right thing there. Well done, John. He had the right instinct. Great work, John Burke. May I thank some people? Please. That would be fantastic.

I would love to thank from New Brighton, MN, Minnesota. Oh, yeah, I reckon Minnesota. We have this conversation every time. I'm sure it's Minnesota. From New Brighton, I would, Minnesota? Oh, yeah, I reckon Minnesota. We have this conversation every time. I'm sure it's Minnesota. From New Brighton, I would love to thank Nicole Wood. Maine, it could also be Maine, but I think Maine's M-A, whatever. Nicole Wood. Nicole Wood.

Nicole Wood. If she could tell us that we're right, it's Minnesota. Yes. And Nicole Wood would punch a lima bean. Oh, wow. Into a fine paste. Into a fine paste, creating a new delicacy. Oh.

Beautiful on toast. That is such a precise punch too. It's a precise punch, yeah. That's what's so impressive with Nicole's punch actually is the precision. And the only way you can make this paste, this delicacy, is one lima bean punch at a time. Because people have tried in blenders or with just the back of a fork. They've tried scaling it up.

And it just... You can taste the difference. Absolutely, you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Straight away. Wow. So that's where that came from. Yeah, that's right.

You can buy it in cans at the supermarket, but it is not the same. Not the same. Absolutely not. It's like those avocado dips. Yeah, patted out with cheese. Yeah. Who are they kidding? It's just green-coloured cheese. Yeah, that's gross. Disgusting. How dare you? It's like those avocado dips. Yeah, patted out with cheese. Yeah. Who are they kidding? It's just green-coloured cheese.

Yeah, that's gross. Disgusting. How dare you? It's awful. Fuck you, I say. Fuck you. Fuck you. How dare you?

But not fuck you to Nicole Wood, who's doing God's work. Nicole, you're part of the solution. But these avocado dips can fuck off. Fuck off. I would also love to thank from Dresden in Tennessee. Whoa, we're going round America right now. I would love to thank Stanton. Another solo namer.

Stanton from Dresden. Stanton punched Big Ben. Punched Big Ben, that's how they fixed it. That's how they fixed it. It hadn't been working for a few days. They tried winding the thing and it just wasn't, you know. And yeah, he made that bell ring. Made a big bong.

Yeah, he made a big bong. Wow. He turned Big Ben into a big bong. That's right. Which is impressive. Well done, Stanton. Thank you so much. Great work.

I love that big clock. Great work, Stanton. Thank you so much. I love that big clock. Great work, Stanton. Finally, for me, I would love to thank from Klamath Falls in Oregon, I reckon. Oregon? Yeah.

Mike Salt. Mike Salt of the Earth. Mike Salt is a fantastic name. Salt's a good last name, I reckon. Yeah, totally. Good brewery in England. One of the brewers who came to our show in Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, gave us some, remember we enjoyed some salt beers, Dave? Yeah. It's the only time I've ever had a salt beer.

Delicious beers. Mike Salt, no relation though, actually. No. From Oregon. What did he punch? I reckon he punched his way out of another, similar to the Dry King Viking. Yeah.

He was trapped in a volcano. And people were like, he's gone. And he was standing on like the only bit of rock. He was in a literal, the floor is lava. Holy shit. And he jumped and he punched the inside wall of the volcano, sort of like the volcano urethra. He just smashed it and the whole thing exploded.

And unfortunately, the local town was swept away in the lava flow, but he made it to safety. Oh, my God. Sacrifices must be made. Mike Salt, he did it. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah. He did it. Wow. That's amazing. Yeah.

He saved himself so that others could perish. I knew Mike Salt. But they were bad people. I should have said that. That town was about to kill a kid. A really nice kid. A really nice kid. The kid got away and Mike Salt got away, but all the kid killers did not.

That's justice. So there is some justice in this world. Yeah, there is some justice. Yeah, thank God. Good on you, Mike Salt. You saved a kid. That's what I'm hearing. Me too. And the last thing we need to do this week

is thank a few people in our Triptych Club. Invite them in. The way this works is if you're signed up on the shout-out level or above for three straight years, you get welcomed into the Trinage Club and you get lifetime membership as well. The way it works is I'm standing on the door, a bit of theatre of the mind. I've got the clipboard out. I've got the guest list. This week, we've got a few inductees.

We've got eight. I'll read out your name. Then Dave's in the club. He's standing on the stage with the microphone. He's the emcee. Let's get ready to feel humble yes so dave uh he'll he'll hype you up usually with a little bit of weak wordplay and then uh what sorry weak wordplay oh well let's say wordplay thank you various uh standards and qualities wicked wordplay

and then jess uh boosts him up because d, I don't know why, but he loses confidence. Yes. As we go. Jess also normally has a cocktail made up based on the topic. What's the Dry King Viking cocktail? It is a Carlsberg. Oh, a delicious cold Carlsberg in an ice cup. And I've got a bunch of Danish delicacies, including Danish's.

But where are they from? Danish meatballs. Oh, wow. I bet those shortbread biscuit things. No, I don't have those. I have Denmark's national dish, stegdflask, which is obviously pork in a parsley sauce. Parsley? I like a parsley.

Open sandwiches. And Jess, how did you kill those pigs? I punched them. All the food has been punched to life. Lovingly punched by me. I'm going to be in Denmark. Hand punched. Hand punched.

Hand fed, hand punched. So what's the delicacy I've got? I'm going to be in Denmark later this month. Dave, it's almost like you could fucking Google it yourself. Tell me again. Maybe do a little bit of research before you go on a holiday. Fuck you. Fuck you.

And Dave, you have normally booked a band as well. Yes, I've got one of the all-time great Danish acts, Aqua. Are they Danish? Danish slash Norwegian, but formed in Copenhagen. Holy shit, Dr. Jones. Are they going to play that? Will they take requests? Absolutely, yeah.

And also, Dave, I mean, you did tell me about the rainbows in Hawaii before. That's right. That's a holiday. I'm going on later, so I will send you the link to this. Man, I'm so jealous of holidays. I might have to book a holiday to Myrtleford. Go visit the stump. We do not pay Matt as much.

But you understand why. We've got eight inductees this week. Dave, are you ready? Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Here we go. First up from Greenbelt in Maryland, it's Stephanie Calhoun. Well, Stephanie has answered the call. That's what I thought you were going to say.

The call. From Bethlehem in Pennsylvania in the United States, it's Shea Baum. Shea Baum is here. Baum. Pow. Explode. From Kent, Washington in the United States, it's Jessica and Stephen Gruber. I didn't think they were going to make it in tonight,

but then they call themselves a Gruber. Uber. It rhymes. From Fromey or Fromelles or Dave, you probably know how to say that better. In France, it's Marissa Le Dent. Can you have a look at that? Is that Fromey or Fromey?

They used to say Fr from el, I think. From el. That's really broken my rhythm, to be honest. Yeah, you fucked it, Matt. That's on you, not on Dave. Marissa LaDance. Oh, Marissa, an absolute pisser. Yeah, that's a compliment.

That's a compliment. That means funny. That's great. That's a good thing, yeah. That's not a word in French. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, pisser. You're an absolute pisser. You're hilarious. You That means funny. That's great. That's a good thing. That's not a word in French. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, pisser. You're an absolute pisser.

You're hilarious. You're very funny. From Sawyers Valley in Western Australia, it's Nathan. Nathan. Yes. I'm pretty sure that's Nathan Damon. Are you losing? Oh, Nathan.

Are you losing faith in my ability to come up with these? Because he's just got your back. Damon, you're an absolute legend. From Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada, it's David Chisholm. Thunder Bay and lightning with David Chisholm. Yes. From North Sydney, home of the Bears. In New South Wales, Australia, it's Will.

Where there's a way, there's a will. Yes. And finally, from West Sacramento, obviously home of the Kings, a basketball team that Dave and I know well. In the United States, it's Claire Norris. Well, it's home to the Kings, but also home to a queen, Claire Norris.

We bow down to you, my liege. Welcome into the club, Claire, Will, David, Nathan, Marissa, Jessica, Stephen, Shay, and Stephanie. Make yourselves right at home and enjoy Aqua. Oh, yeah. Dr. Jones. Barbie Girl. That slow one from probably a movie soundtrack.

Yep. Maybe Sliding Doors. Barbie Girl remix. And that brings us to the end of the episode. Jess, is there anything we need to tell people before we go? Just that we love them, that we have new merch available that you can find on our website, dogoonpod.com. That's where you can find all of our episodes,

a bit of information about us, look at some little pickies. There's some photos of us up there. There's photos of us up there. If you're like, what do they look like? You can find out. We also have social media, which you'll also be able to tell what we look like and where we live. No, you can find us at dogoonpod across all social media and uh yeah if you want to suggest

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