Do Go On - 350 - Arctic Badass Peter Freuchen

Episode Date: July 6, 2022

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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 Serenji 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. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello, Dave, hello, Jess, hello Dave. Hello.

Started too low. 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? That's some. that's a little bit wild actually. I think it's stuck up on us. I don't know if you feel that. It was stuck up of me anyway. Yeah, big time.

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. Belize it.

That's right. And then after that, who knows? Then after that, the second funniest number, 69. Well, 2469. So we're at 2.4.69? Yeah, and then you say, oh, yes, please. So we have to do 2,469 episodes. Noingly, the numbers get bigger and bigger.

And then the next funny number after that is 6969. Does feel like the 24 is superfluous as well, doesn't it? How many can get involved in a 69? Use your imagination. Trying. That's limited. All I can picture is missionary. Anyway, yeah, so 350 episodes of this bullshit.

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 the 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 to get 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. 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. 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. Really? That's Chris Hemsworth. I haven't seen any of them. That's his dad is Anthony Hopkins. Spoilers.

Oh, is that a spoiler? I don't think so. Spoilers? No. 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 like his first name if you want to just go for like. Philip.

Pretty basic. Bill. Stan. 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 this down? Peter, the rock.

I think maybe if I put this down on the ground, that would be a better. a foundation for the church. No, Peter. Hold it. This is a test. This is the story of Peter Freakin. What'd you call me? Freiken.

Well, I've also seen it pronounced a few different ways. I'm going to say Freaken or Froycian. I like Froyken. Froyken. It's been suggested by a bunch of people, including Brandy-Broyhill. Incredible name. No, don't comment on all of them, Jess. There's so many.

Okay, Brandy Roy Hill, Jake Bellick, Jeff Wise, Andrew Mallard, Eli Schopp, Dieter, Bureka, Bacera, sorry, 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 quite clearly stated in there. Someone's going to shit themselves. Absolutely. It's happening.

About three quarters the way through, just will give the signal, and that is when the main character. Boys, 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 Froggen, 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. Then has a prune. Yeah.

Prune fondue. And then metamusal. Get a bit of fibre in there. The 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. Well, give you two 50 chewys at one. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, no.

But my breath is so gone. No. So Lorenz Peter Alfred Freud. Incredible name. It was born in Denmark in February 1886 to parents Anne and Lorentz. Now, his father is Lorenz, L-O-R-E-N-T-Z. And he is L-O-R-E-N-Z. Drop the T.

Oh, and is his son Loren? But he goes down the line. Until eventually their child is just L. Well, 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 Boppa, I would have thought.

That's right. I love when it happens to me. I love it every time. I go, ooh, an honour. And he, 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 there a little bit.

There was never food on the table. Oh, jeez, I could spin a yarn. They filled me up with a story rather than bread. Um, num, num, num, num, num, num, num. 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, 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.

It was never at home. What an inspiration. Always down the pub. Frogan, 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. Okay. 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 it 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 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, so I don't... 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. Yeah. He's very funny.

Yeah. 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 ugly. Yeah. Hmm. 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.

Yeah. 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 ugly, than you. That's true. She's done her research. And she's travelled, so she would know.

Yeah. I was an ugly baby. Were you? I don't believe that. But yeah, I'll chat to mum 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, Has she ever said the opposite? Like, you were a beautiful baby. I don't think of clear.

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. Dad is bad with names. He calls me Squire. Yeah, he calls everyone's squire or gorgeous?

Oh. Yeah. Find out what camp on me. Yeah. I think he's a bit confused by you Dave. Yeah. Gorgeous, squire. Goyday 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's 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. Froiken burst out laughing and says, is that it? That's his surname.

Is that it? Is that it? Okay. And stuff like this happens a few times. Some of the local kids are sort of told not to play it with the Froiken 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. Yeah. 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 land owner 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? Peter Froiken's very tall So maybe his uncle's just a very tall man And he owns a small plot of land Technically the tallest man in Denmark to own land Yeah That's pretty cool actually

Great So when you're saying prospecting maybe he's doing it Much more professionally I thought he was out there with like the gold The pan panny for gold Yeah who knows But he might be looking on quite a large scale Gold mining

Well He also could have just got lucky right Maybe he just got a big nugget Yeah it's always like I might have that the next sentence. Here's a 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, uh, one quarter. This guy shit's 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 that's clever to get out of it yeah yeah you'd feel you'd just be panicking the whole yeah wow yeah that's a big nugget i have heard of the welcome stranger yeah but you know the the famous ones all end up having pokey dens named after so you got the welcome stranger and there's an and the golden nugget are two pokey pokey bars in the Melbourne city golden nugget's not the best name for a nugget gold. You know what I think it's a bit obvious. Or is it the best name for a good girl. 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 all that's interesting.com, his father was a businessman and wanted nothing more than a stable life for his son. So at his father's behest, Frookin enrolled at the University of Copenhagen and began to study medicine. However, before long, Froekin realized that a life indoors was not for him, where his father craved orders.

instability, froiken craved exploration and danger. In his autobiography, he mentioned that the first victims of my hunter's instincts were my early instructors. A bit of fun. Has he killed someone? Maybe. That's a good point, actually. I thought he's just been a bit of a silly duffer, but I think he might have murdered someone.

It sounds like he's hunting his professors for sports. 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 hit start. Fucking Alpeter.

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 was 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, K-N-U-D, because it's like an Inuit name as well. So I'll call him N-N-U-D. K-N-U-D. K-N-U-D. Yeah, right. Nood Rasmussen.

They sailed from Denmark as far north as possible before leaving their ship and continuing by dog sled for over 600 miles, about 900Ks. Nood Rasmussen was a bit older than Froiken 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 Kallit, 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, it 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. If I, 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, canood. Well, I can make a bit tougher for you. Yeah.

Piggy back. Pick you back. My legs are tired. 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 warruses, whales, wolves, seals and polar bears. In fact, there's a wild photo of Frookin, 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 with us.

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 whittle ugly baby. What are you? Why are you interested? side of 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. Is it like, it looks like a jacket or is 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 wearing it going, whoop. A 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 picture of him.

He is 6 foot 7. 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 6 foot 7. I was worried about this guy a few minutes ago because he's going with these...

traveling with the Inuit people that know what they're doing and he's never done anything. He's got, let's go. But now I know he's 6 foot 7. He's going to be fine out there. You just think tall people are just fine at anything? That man is 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. Oh, 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, yeah, I'm just asking because you seem to be like,

oh, he's tall. He'll be fine in any situation. I've seen that photo he looks so cool and confident. I'm like, I'm not worried about this guy anymore. He looks like a good 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. Yeah. And he could punch through one. I don't know why I want to do that. For a window. Then, 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 a fat, 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 this secret serum from Captain America. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're 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, 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 favour. Get you a serum to make you, Subaru. 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 all looking at it. I've been negotiating. Oh, right, I see. 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. Who are you dealing with you? Well, I can't say, can I? Fucking out. 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 they won't make it weird. You can absolutely have some serum. See how hard that was? Thank you. You do look like the Captain America before guy. 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? Was there any left? No. 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 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 get a killer bear to be warm. Just to get a jacket.

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 Forrekin, 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 tidly little fucking tree. He's going for a big thousand-year-old tree. He just punched it. Yeah.

Wow. That feels wasteful. Yeah. 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.

Right. But you know what it is forever? The circus. Strong man. Yeah. That would have been prime. circus years. Oh,

early 1900s. Yeah. Yeah, they got the animals, the full lot. Yeah. They got the animals. They got the trapeze. They got the tall man.

He's just look at him and go, whoa, he's so tall. He'd just be able to lift stuff up. Yeah. He'd say, anyone want to be punched? Bring him up.

Bring him up. I'll punch him. Bring a, you know, bring whatever. Bring a, bring a cow. 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 bull elephant. Holy shit. Just like half bull. half elephant. Yeah, that's pretty big. And he goes, well, I'll knock it out. Boom.

Go 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 gross. Yeah. But pretty cool. 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 night.

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? Rolled a Munsoon. Correct.

No. That's the undisputed. This is Santa Claus Eurasia. Aracia! Yeah, that's the first. I didn't say who he became. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

Every hero's got us. Roald is the undisputed, yeah, the first story, it's the North Pole. The World Heavy Eighth Champion of the North Pole. That was in 1926, so that's, you know. That's eight is 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. Well, yeah, that's right. And look, I mean, I don't know. But Robert Peary comes up again later. And it seems like maybe he was, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, okay. I don't think they made it.

Yeah, I think you've photoshopped it. Anyway, so at that time, word was that Frederick Cook had done it. And Peter Froiken was contacted by the editor of Denmark's largest news. newspaper, Politican, who wanted to cover the story but didn't have anyone on staff who knew anything about the North Pole. So he asked Froeken to write an article about Cook's accomplishments and Frookin 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. It's kind of cool. Fantastic. I feel sorry for the typewriter though. Well he had to make a custom one by punching a tree.

He's crushing it. He punched the size of a fist. bang bang but what the what it produces is beautiful yeah yeah yeah they're very gentle lovely pros lovely pros but a very aggressive way to create said pros in 1910 Frookin and Rasmussen established a trading post in Cape York in Greenland naming it Thuley 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 you talking like second-hand motor miles and stuff yeah um tools no time wasters yeah or

nearer stopper that sort of stuff oh no the more time froiken spent in greenland the less he wanted to return uh to denmark in 1911 he married an inuit woman uh an inuit woman now and the newit woman now named Navarana and the couple had two children born in 1916 and 1918. Sadly, Navarana died in the Spanish flu endemic in 1921. And when she died, he wanted her buried in the old church graveyard. And the church refused to perform the burial because Navarana was not baptized. So Frookin buried her himself. Of course he did.

Punched all in the ground. And he said, any questions? Yeah. And they said, no. Okay. Okay. I love how inclusive religions are. So good.

You didn't have the special ceremony done. 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.

Straight out of Greenland. So Thuley Trading Station became the home base for a series of seven expeditions, known as the Thulie Expeditions, between 1912 and 1933. The first Thulie 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 Peerland. 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 there's like the Peary channel. So there's like a little peninsula, and the channel separates the peninsula from Greenland, the like mainland of it. So if Walt came along and told you that there's a new canal in Disneyland, you're not going to question that. Is that right?

I wouldn't. Yeah, Walt would be another good Arctic explorer, you'd think. Do you reckon? Yeah, just because of his... current state. Flooding along. I'd be used to the temperature at least. He doesn't need a polar bit of a 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 Froiken 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 guys 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 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 they look the look of terror in their eyes look at them go hey look at you like help me what's happening and you go oh this is good entertainment

it gives me laugh 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. Because it is. What is this? Yeah. Especially if you get the little corner bit in the wrong spot and it feels funny. Oh, and a sock.

Yeah. Yeah. Why do they have, just have them without corner bits. Yeah. Surely we've got the technology for 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 dictophone. You carry everywhere. Yeah. It's odd. One of the most wild stories about Frookin,

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 Froiken like sums this up in a sentence. And I was like, no, no, no, no.

I'm going to need you to elaborate some more. So I've gone directly to his book. I've got a few passages from his book here that I'll read to you to sort of paint the picture of this story. So they're out on an expedition, and 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 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 igloo, but for the first time in my life I found it impossible to, to cut through the snow. It had been packed solid by successive storms, and I gave it up as a hopeless task. So 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 it 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.

Not sure of I'm even wearing these right. I think I got the left 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 just a bit of fabric or a jacket or something that he'd 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 wall. 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. 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 way 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, use your power. Oh, my 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. Thor it before it. Thor it before it. Dry king the Viking.

Love this guy. Beautiful pros. Dry king the viking. Yeah, okay. He said it was a dry king before, didn't it? A dry king. Didn't you? 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.

I'm pretty sure at the start you said he was, you really enjoyed how dry. Oh, he's no, dry sense of humour. Yeah, okay. And you didn't say he's a, he's dry king, the Viking? No. Huh. It's a conversation I have with myself. You're recording your own podcast in your head.

That's quite impressive. Yeah, that's, uh, freaking me out. We can call him Dryking 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?

Driking the bike. 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 one. 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 going to make a shit shovel? Please, Matt.

It's a shit chisel. I moved my bowels and from the excrement... Shut up, but let me read it. I moved my boughs 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.

And according to Froiken, 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... I can't believe it. Ages. Like it took him another sort of day and night.

Did he have to like blind bake it and stuff like that? How involved was the process to get the chisel just right? Just leave it in the snow and the ice and be patient this time. Okay. You know? Be patient. Let it fully freeze. You got to keep checking on it.

Not yet. Still a bit too malleable. I'd love to see it 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? You never pee. And he certainly never shit as a man. A gentleman. 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. Oh, imagine if it wasn't, you're like, oh. Wouldn't it if it's 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 unsoliced, 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 mold in the snow and then you just sort of fill the mold and then it but then what do you chisel it out of the mold with you 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 similar to the white wine red one and carpet thing

yeah i can so this is the the one thing that people point out out of 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. Not even halfway through the tools he's made out of shit. But, yeah, so they're always like, you got it.

You've got to mention this story. But yeah, everyone breezes over it and 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. 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, I reckon 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 running 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. 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. 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 plan to hold on to the rains 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 rains. 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 about.

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. But he doesn't explain how he gets back to his fellow travellers, but he tells you in great detail about the smell. I 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 heart. 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 anethitise 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 anathitise 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. I 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 it, mate. But if that's what you want to do, you go for it. So yeah, this amputation performed by a medical student is why our six foot seven bearded man now also has a peg leg. So when Froggen returned to Denmark 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, Magdalene Vang Loredson.

Whoa, that's a beauty. She was the daughter of Johannes Peter Lauridson, who was a Danish businessman and director of Denny's. Mark'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 you on 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, in fact. both novels and memoirs, and his next career move was into the movie biz. Oh, 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 technically, advisor and scriptwriter specialising in Arctic related scripts. This is for years.

He worked with MGM 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 Warriors adventure in the Arctic. The film's dialogue was entirely an issue. Inuit with English subtitles.

Froykin 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 Badass of the Week.com That's a great website now. Either way, an awesome side note is that during the premiere of Eskimo, Froyken apparently picked up Nazi director Lenny Riefenstahl, 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 Frocken never drank. That's from badass of the week. Wow. Speaking of Hitler, during World War II, Frookin 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 baddest of the week.com. Yeah. He was arrested twice by the Gestapo, beaten and tortured, and after the second arrest, Frookin 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. Yeah. 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 have helped him escape. Yeah, that feels like that could be a whole episode in itself. Yeah. A war, a prison war escape.

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

His nickname, shit fist. It's pretty crazy. So yeah, he's escaped the Nazis and fled to Sweden. After the war, he moved to the US, divorcing his second wife, though they had separated for years, they'd been separated for years during his time with the Danish resistance anyway. And the same year, in 1945, he married his third wife, Dagmar Froekin-Gale. Love the name, Dagmar. Dagmar's good.

She was a fashion illustrator, a writer, an editor. And they lived in New York City and maintained a second home in Connecticut as well. So they're just living 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 do you 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 is very. I'll send one to the National Library as well. Yeah, I said that to the Little 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 are 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 traveling. 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. Wow. Which we, 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. and contestants choose, is this a right about, they choose like a subject category from like a category board? Do you remember? I believe they had a specialist category.

Yeah. 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 Seas. Ah. Cunt.

Yeah, what are the other six? The big C. See, I would have done very poorly on that. Yeah, you've only got one. Yeah. Carrot clarity. Oh, carrot clarity. That's a hyphenated one.

Yeah, it's out on the countess 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 is Chris.

Love you, Chris. 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. Wow. So this guy is an Arctic explorer, a journalist, a novelist, a movie star, and won 64. $4,000 question. Yeah. And he's obviously he's a tool maker. Tool maker.

Yeah, God, he'd 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 Foriken 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 was gathered on the famous table-shaped Mount Dundas outside of Thuley in Greenland.

And something we haven't done for a little while, but I do have some fun facts. I thought we've already had some so far. I know. Yeah. Well, I've got a few, just a few little bits and pieces. So there's an area in Greenland called Freakinland, 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. That's a nice fact. Froiken's grandson, Peter, was the first Inuk in Canada to be elected as an MP and represented the electoral district of Nanasek in the House of Commons in Canada from 1979 to 1984. That's nice. Nice. Another nice fact. Another nice fact. Froekin was a member of the Royal Danish Geographical Society who awarded him the Hans Egdi. medal, I butchered that and I apologize.

The medal in 1921, it's awarded for outstanding services to geography, principally for geographical studies and research in the polar lands. 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-chizzle 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 feces to butcher his prey. They sort of think that's possibly where Froykin might have thought of it as well. 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 used a mould 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 Froiken's story, and people argue that he was the only one there, so he could say whatever he wanted and no one would be able to prove it. How would he want to say that? Exactly. But I choose to believe in the shit chisel. I want to believe.

I think he just probably was a better craftsman, that's all. Yeah. This scientist, this nerd, this pencil pusher. Who thinks he can go out there? Do what Freud did? And change your diet in eight days? Come on, mate. I thought you're going to say you went out for eight months.

Nah, eight days. Perfected the poo. No. 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. It was what I'd say as we're trapped under us. Oh, Dave, I'm so sorry.

Don't apologize. I'm excited. I simply cannot shit. I mean, I won't be molding. 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. Oh yeah, 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 that situation. Seconds in. I'm so pathetic.

I would just like, I would just curl up in a ball and wait for death. Me too. Oh, God. Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry up, death. We've taken my clothes off to get colder. I've had enough.

Yeah, not for me, thanks. But yeah, that is the fairly wild life and story of Peter Froiken. Peter Frocken, absolutely worth being told on our 350th episode, am I 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. Do you get the feeling that they... You get the feeling that they just bended them?

Oh, yeah, I don't know. Because you'd have to consider it, right? Yeah, at some point. Like, 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 writes. Yeah, a lot of letters. Yeah. Yeah, nah. You could have just kept him in a separate file. Yeah, like, if she's not keeping him, 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?

I think so. To who? Yeah, that's true. If I had a loved one. If anybody cares. 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. Oh, what a story. Great story. Thanks so much for telling it, Bob.

I've never heard of him. The Dry King. I cannot believe that there 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 he didn't give anything away. That's good.

Yeah, a wild story. Lots of people 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 a shit chisel? Probably, yeah.

That might be what got to everybody over the line. Can I 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 favorite 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, can go to patreon.com slash dugongpod or doagompod.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 catalogue. There's over 150 now that you can get instant access to as soon as you support the show on that level. So you 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... Oh, yeah. The Iceman. Iceman? Was it Utsi?

Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. Yes, but the first thing we like to do is our fact quote of question section, which has a little jingle, I think you go to something like this. Fact quote or question. D. You always remembers the ding.

And the way to get involved in this is to sign up at the Sydney-Sholmberg level or above. And you get to give us a fact or 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 read them out for the first time. I'm reading them out. First one comes from Thomas Doppel writer, whose title is Retired Quizmaster of the Dogo Patrions.

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, do a, 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. This was nine questions, and then the 10th 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. They're great. Thomas, you're a great trivia writer. But understandably, you know, all good things must come to the 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 podcast. 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? Well, 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 going to remember that forever.

Whenever someone asks a question in the fact quote of question section, we always 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 Kesheye 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.

Ah, cool. Between 86 and 90. There were, yeah. There were more people on the moon. 12, so 12 people made of the moon only eight times as Takeshi been beaten. Wow. 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.

You've been a while since I worked in trivia, Dave. I guess it is for you too a little bit. Yeah. So I guess with, you know, 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 to see if I'm 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 know. Pretty cool. What about this one? High-fiving. That has only been around apparently since 1977.

What? No. This is according to best laughonline.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. 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 that. them, but only when that vague topic comes up. Do you 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 know nothing. I've never even spoken words before. Oh, there's a great website called Wikipedia.org, which I think is about hand gestures. It's like an online impendium, compendium. 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 Willie Brown and Derek Smith of the Louisville Cardinals Men's College Basketball Team during the 78-79 season. So either way, very recent. Interesting. That is a surprise. Thank you very much for that brag question, suggestion, etc. Thomas.

The next one comes from James. Edwards, who's got the title of Matt's biggest fan. Oh, wow. Stop. Hell yeah. Good for you. Holy. Maddie, you deserve this.

I am blushing. I'm going to say to them, form a cue 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 Grand Canaria. Oops, sorry, random brag to start. Ooh. Love it. I don't know if I know Grand 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?

They're only four. Hazardous. Arduous? Oh no. That's O-I-D-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.

I got that one. Marvelous? No, dis. Diss. Yeah. He's got the answer here. I'll have a look and see if I can. Oh, yeah.

heard of all of these. Okay. That's something. There's another H. D-O-U. There's an S and there's a T. T-D-S. Horrendous.

No, that's not right. No, that's not tedious. So this could get tedious if we don't. Yeah. Wait, D-O-U-S? Yeah, horrendous, that's right. Horrendous is one. Well done.

So there's an S and a T left. Yeah, old, so. And how many words did he say there was? Force, there's only two more. S, T, you. Stendous. Yes, and the T1T. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. T.

Yes. You fucking legend. This feels like we're playing a party game. There's also one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Fourteen 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 day. Dave Grohl from when he played with Supergroup, them Crooked Vultures. I saw that to a great show. That also comprised of Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Agent 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 true, 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 Atray U, the Emo hardcore band. Many years ago, 15 years ago or something. I think the first on the camera mine 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 don'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, should have been left on the wall. I definitely should not have done that. Oh, my God. And he's like, oh, I love this. And he took a time and he drew, and he like 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 so 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 you can you ask at your work because I can't it's burnt down it's crazy no one knew how to use it yeah we don't have uh no we've got fire sprinklers it's okay we're all right um 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 Matafeo's comedy festival show a few years ago. It was called The Horn 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. I say, thank you, Rose Madafay. She had your number. Thank you, Rose Matafeo. The last fact quote of question this week comes from Claire Norris, A.K. Monarch of the Monarch Butterflies. Oh.

Does I say butterfly? Butterflies. Butterflies. And Claire is offering 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 their disease change its name. The product changed their name in 19, 189 though to diet AIDS. The product was discontinued in the 90s. Let me a disease. Fuck you, disease. We were here first.

That's, that is that a fun fact? That is a really funny fact. That is a funny fact. And also that 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 like, well. Yeah, we'll be right. Yeah. That's pretty funny.

Let them change. You remember when there were, I remember angry parents 10 years back whenever it was when ISIS was coming 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 Isol. Let's call them Isle. Leave Isis for the girls.

Yeah, but then the kids, the parents of Isol are like, no. Leave Isis for the girls. And then there's another, but my son's name's D. DASH. We can't use that either. Dach. Yeah. Isn't that a word I coined?

Yeah, but that's, in Europe, like, that's another name for her. Oh. I had forgotten about Dase. What was Dase 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.

Dase. Anyway, maybe we'll get another Dase moment here when we thank a few of our other great supporters. Jesse, you know what I come up with a little game based on their, on the, topic we just went through? Well, I don't want it to be what they moulds their poo into. Thank you. I appreciate it. 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, yeah. Or a.

An igloo into a window. Yeah. 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 punch? The triptych? Yes, sorry. At first I thought, she's in both at once. This is amazing. I know.

No, sorry. Sorry, future Jess. I've had so many edits. If I may go first. Yes. I would love to thank from Arnold in M.O. What's that? 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's a citywide blackout.

Whoa. Right? Yeah. And they're 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 heart started beating up. But she did even more than that. Yeah. Because, yeah, Michelle could have done that. sure but then there was sort of been somebody who like because it was so dark didn't see a bit of a crack in the footpath and rolled an ankle or something and they broke their mother's back exactly but by providing light and power to all saved everybody exactly all right thank you michel i'd also love to thank from newtown in victoria australia i'm not sure where that is sarah fuller you had a new town yeah it's um uh uh westish i think oh yeah over the bridge ah

Ah. Could be wrong. Sarah, sorry. You're in a new port? Maybe. Yeah, maybe I am. No. Dave, what would, uh, what would Sarah punch? Uh, Sarah has punched the Melbourne Aquarium.

Whoa. And, uh, brought the Yarra back to life by, uh, making the, the, the, all the, the, the, the, the fishes and sharks and stuff inside are now in the era. Oh, let them, let them be free. Let them be free. I think a quite different sort of like, ecosystem. And so, are they? I mean, the Yarrow 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. It's 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 Deney or John DeNaeus.

Oh, John DeNineas. John Donay punched a cow cow but turned it into what I get what no the cow was like choking oh it was like a hym link maneuver hym link yeah yeah well this is a hym link manoeuvre and I'm guessing the fact that you've repeated that a few times that is not the right word hym lick hym lick hank muleck manoeuvre okay save that cow's you're back save that cow's life 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. The cow Jesus. Yeah, it was cow mary. He said cow merished.

Punch cow mary. Yeah, it's pretty crazy, actually. I can't believe you guys haven't heard that story. What's this? I think I might be hungry. Was the baby also born in a barn? No. In a house.

There was room at the inn. There's 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 O.C. Dave, do you want to thank some people?

I'd love to thank from Texas we're going to you now. New Braunfels or New Brownfills. It's John. John. Solid name. Just a J-O-N this time. John. No surname, but from New Bronfels, Texas.

He's the share of New Bronfels. Absolutely. One name, all he needs. And John punched a... Sure. Punched a sure. Impersonator or the real share? Yeah, you are fake!

Yeah, I know the real share when I see her. And then what happened? What did that create? Turned... We're so... Justice. Fuck it up! Whoa, John.

All right. Dishing out justice with his fists. Well, this share impersonator's charging as if it's really share. Right. And he's like, that's, John's like, that's absolute fucking bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. I won't have that.

And John, and share, this fake share was also about to kill a kid. So it was justified. Yeah, exactly. It was justified. People going around, if they can't punch people for charging too much. Well, what if they're about to kill a kid? What are they about to charge into a child? Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. Something that, of course, the Jesus cow would never do. 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 share impersonator. And they got punched? Well, I assume so. That must have happened during the credits. Do you remember this?

No, I don't remember that episode. What else happened? Basically, like a guy who was a science experiment, Jay Peterman from Seinfeld to 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 share concert, because he loved Cher and he there was no cause it was so weird it makes no sense at all it was

kind of 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 i didn't bring that up all right i forgot where it was going that episode grim um so thanks john i would also like to thank from myrtleford in victoria of myrtleford beautiful part of victoria it's got a great big stump in the 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 root system. Oh, that's cool. It's been there since I was a kid. It's so cool. Love it. My favorite, 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 doesn't 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? Yeah, that's why the stump happened. Dylan old is responsible for the stump. He punched it out of the He's an artist. Oh shit. Great work. Dylan Old. That's beautiful.

That is beautiful. So thanks so much Dylan. And finally, I'd like to thank from Mitchum. Also in Victoria, it's John Burke. He punched Don Burke. Okay. So 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. Yep. And I, John Burke, host a...

show about gardening. 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 later that came out. So John actually, you know, 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. I would love to thank from New Brighton, MN, Minnesota. Oh, yeah, I reckon Minnesota. Is it Minnesota?

We have this conversation every time. I'm sure it's Minnesota. From New Brine, I would love to thank Nicole Wood. Maine, it could also be Maine. But I think Maine's their me. Nicole Wood. Nicole Wood. If she could, tell us that we're right.

It's Minnesota. Yes. And Nicole Wood would punch a limer bean. Oh, wow. Into a fine paste. Into a fine paste, creating a new delicacy beautiful on toast. That is such a precise punch too. That's what's so impressive.

Nicole's punch actually is the precision. And the only way you can make this paste, this delicacy, is one lime 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.

Straight away. Wow. Yeah, you can... 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, pat it out with cheese. Yeah. Who are they kidding? It's just green colored cheese. Yeah, that's gross. Disgusting. How dare you? It's awful.

Fuck you, I say. Fuck 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. I would also love to thank from Dresden in Tennessee. Whoa. We're going round America right now.

I would love to thank Stanton. Oh, 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. And 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. You turned Big Ben into a big bong.

That's right. Which is impressive. Well done, 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, O-R.

Oregon, I reckon? Oregon. Yeah. Mike Salt. Oh, Mike Salt of the earth. Mike Salt was a fantastic name. Salt's a good last name, I reckon. Yeah, totally.

A brewery in England, one of the brewers who came to our show in... Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds. Gave us some... Remember we enjoyed some salt beers, days? Yeah, it's the only time I've ever had a salt beer. Delicious beer. is. Mike Salt,

no relation, though, I assume. 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 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

the safety. Sacrifices must be made. Yeah, Mike Salt. He did it. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, he saved himself so that others could perish. Not near Mike's up, but they were bad people. I should have said that. That town was about to kill a kid.

A really nice kid. Yeah, 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 your 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 you people in our Triptage Club. Invite them in. The way this works is if you're on the, signed up on the shoutout level or above for three straight years, you get welcomed into the Tribidge 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 MC. Let's get ready to feel humble. Yes. So Dave, he'll hype you up, usually with a little bit of weak wordplay. No, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

Sorry? Weak wordplay. Oh, wait, let's say wordplay. Thank you. Various standards and qualities. Wicked wordplay. And then Jess boosts him up because Dave, 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. Nice Danish. In an ice cup. And I've got a bunch of Danish delicacies, including Danishes.

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, stegged flask, which is obviously pork in a parsley sauce. Parsley, like a parsley. And just how did you kill those pigs?

I punched All the food has been punched lovingly punched by me I'm going to be in Denmark Hand-pitched Hand-fed hand-punched So what's the delicacy 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've normally booked a band as well Yes I've got a 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. Yeah. And also, Dave, I mean, you did tell me about the rainbows in Hawaii before.

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. A holiday to Myrtleford. Go visit the stump. We did 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 who that's what I thought you're going to say the call from Bethlehem in Pennsylvania in the United States it's Shay Baum Oh Shay Baum is here BOMP

as in BOW Yeah. 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. Who rhymes? From Fromme or Frommels 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 Frommet or Frommet? Well, they used to say Frommel, I think. Fromel. That's really brumel. I broke my rhythm, to be honest. Yeah, you fucked it, Matt. That's on you, not on Dave.

Marissa, la dance. Oh, Marissa. An absolute pisser. Yeah, that's a compliment. That's a compliment. That means funny. That's a good thing. That's not a word in French.

Yeah, sorry, yeah, you're an absolute pisser. You're hilarious. From Sawyer's Valley in Western Australia. It's Nathan. Nathan. Yes. Yes. I'm pretty sure that's Nathan.

Oh, and Damon. Are you losing, oh, Nathan, are you losing Faithan in my ability to come up with these funds? Because he's just got your back. Damon, you're absolute legend. From Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada, it's David Chisholm. Thunder Bay and Lightning. Yes. Beo, boon, pew.

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 King. A basketball team that David 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 leash. Welcome into the club. Claire, Will, David, Nathan, Marissa, Jessica, Stephen, 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. Babigil remix. and that brings us the end of the episode. Jess, are 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 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 Do Go On Pod across all social media. And yeah, if you want to suggest a topic, anybody can do so. There's a link in the show notes or just straight onto our website.

And yeah, tell us a story that you think is interesting. And then we'll decide. Yeah. Buddhist home, Dave. Well, for the 350th time, I'll say thank you so much for listening. Until next week, goodbye. Later. Bye.

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