Two In The Think Tank - 428 - Antarctica's First Murder?

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

Our first episode of a new year we do a deep dive into what life is like for people who live year round in Antarctica, touching on a darker side when talking about the case of Australian Rodney Marks... possibly the continent's first murder victim. This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:29 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSupport the show on Apple podcasts and get bonus episodes in the app: http://apple.co/dogoon Live show tickets: https://dogoonpod.com/live-shows/ Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/  Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasDo Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.  REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442 https://allthatsinteresting.com/rodney-marks https://www.antarctica.gov.au/antarctic-operations/stations/mawson/ https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/a-mysterious-death-at-the-south-pole-20131125https://www.coolantarctica.comhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180810-villas-las-estrellas-antarctica-base-residents-surgery Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Join us at yorku.ca slash right the future. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnke and there's always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello, it's me! Hello? Hi Jess. I just heard a new listener turn off. What? They're like, no, bit much. And you know what, if that's the case, if they heard that went, oh, bit much, they're a such. They're a such. It's because I'm a woman. Okay. Yeah, a woman just existing in the world.

When I scream, hello, it's me. We just gained a list of them. Yeah, they're like, bravo, so bravo. Another brave man. I'm gonna join up to the highest tier of Patreon for that wonderful man. I'm gonna join to the highest tier of Patreon for that wonderful man. I'm going to join to the highest tier of Patreon, and then I did open my disgusting little mouth.

It went, look, whether a woman or not, that was a bit much. That's all I'm saying. And you are a woman. Let's get that on the record. Yes. And I'm going to tone it down. Thank you. Can I get either to tone it down. Thank you. Can I get either of your sandwich or these? Look, Jess, these aren't our rules, they're society.

Okay. We got me a prisoner of that society. And with that in mind, how good is it to be alive? And more and more than ever, I'm wishing I was never born. Is this our ninth year? We're into the ninth, the happy new year everyone has. Happy new year! Hopefully you still feel and pretty dusty from a big celebration. If you count the fact that we did like a month of episodes in 2015, I think this is our tenth calendar year, if you know what I mean.

Oh, am I, is that true? 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, amazing fingers, 21, 22, 23, 24. The 10th figure has gone up and this has been some sort of rounding error. This is where it always confuses me. So this is our 10th calendar year. Only because we did like a month and a half in 2015.

Yeah, it sounded like a member. And now we've done half a week in 2024. Why? So I'm counting those as two years. I count it. Happy New Year, everyone. Happy New Year in 2024. Happy decade to us.

Yes. We did it. Fuck it. Let's round it up. It's a century. It's our 10th birthday today. 110th birthday. We're going to have to sit together.

Now Matt, if people have somehow skipped the last century of this podcast, how would you describe what we talk about you? So what happens is we take a topic of interest from history. It could be a person, a place, a thing, a vibe. A vibe. We have it on a vibe. A feeling. A feeling, yeah, can I? I want to do a report on sadness? Okay, I have much to say

And then we go away the one of us who's Researching that topic yes the other two don't know we're doing it. It's not we've been suggested way listener Then we bring back that knowledge in the form of a report We write up, you know usually some way between three and 23,000 words. In the case of the St. Cuddle Football Club episode and then we tell the other two, the story. And we always get on the topic with a question. I think Dave, you're doing the report this week. You're absolutely right. Kicking off another year with another question. And that question is,

what is the least populated continent on earth? Your mum's butt. Oh, it's got to be Antarctica. That narrowly beats my mum's butt. Oh, I wouldn't have told you mum that. That was a bit of a misogynistic comment there. How so? How so?

Talking about this, I don't know. I don't understand it, really. That's right. You're such a famous, you don't even understand the misogynistic animal. What? He doesn't even say such thing. Why, is that what it is?

Are you commenting on the size of his mum's butt just feels... When did I say anything about size? The size of a continent? I think in fact you are the one bringing up size. When you said it was big enough to be a continent, Jess, so I think that maybe means that you brought up the size. But the lowest population, which were in flights, are rather small continent. What no?

Well, now you've gone offensive in the other way. Too small. What a beautiful way to start a new year. The answer is Antarctica. Congratulations. Well done, Matt. First point of the year. And you might think.

Which is also what your dad calls your mums, but. Because it's cold. And I'm populated. I don't know, but felt like a pretty good singer for me to have. Cop that dead. And you might think that. No, not to your dad from you dad. How am I only quoting what he said?

Yeah. Okay, well, cop that mum, whatever. Let me just say this next sentence. You might think less people, less crime, which is true, but it doesn't mean no crime. Ooh. That is today's topic. the life and crimes of Antarctica. Ooh!

Ending on a particular story that was suggested by, and thank you to Drew Piesner from Los Angeles. Thank you, Drew. Well, I land itself. That's Hollywood, that's where the big shots are from. Drinking pauses, I could be a big shot. I only assume, yeah. Oh, I see, that's a great, great shot.

Drew Piesner now put it there. I'll let him exactly produce my movie. Thank you so much, true Pies, now from LA. Now, anyone, you don't have to be a big LA Hollywood big shot to suggest a topic. Anyone can do that at any time. But viral website dogoonpod.com. Let's talk about Antarctica.

Not many, but some people do live year round in Antarctica. The only settlements, so to speak, with long-term residents who stay for months or a year, maybe two, are scientific research bases. Now, every couple of years, the project, the TV show that I worked on, would do a story on Australian Antarctic bases, needing more people to move down there. And then people for all sorts of jobs, like engineers, electricians, doctors. So, do they need comedians or podcasters? Yes, they need podcasters.

Is there an Antarctica radio? Because I can do that. Wow, and you get like a 50% share of Antarctica. You've got like 48 people listening to you. That's not bad. You're on 102.5. The ice. Yeah.

Let me just check you out there. Yeah, it's fucked again. Alright, don't go out there. Beautiful day to head outside. No, it's not. Oh my god. Why are we here? Shut up, too.

My listeners are penguins. Yeah. They're quite quick to you. Play a lot of Arctic monkeys. What's good stuff? Is it? Well, Antarctic monkeys would be better. I know, but I couldn't think of anything.

So anyway, they do these stories. They do these stories about needing people and I'd get fascinated about what it's like living down there and every now and then I'd get, you know, I'd look into it a bit. And now I properly did that because according to my new favourite website Oh my god.

Coolantarktica.com Okay! It's probably in every meaning of the word. And is that the kind of website that only cool people can access? Absolutely. So I was straight in. Some listeners don't know this, but Dave is very cool. Last year, towards the end of the year, we started putting out some videos on our Instagram

and TikTok little clips. So the show you want to follow us and see what our faces look like. One of the comments on the video that has come out at the time of recording the comment was, what is it? I can't believe how cool Dave Warnke is. Or something like that. And then tag to friend. So far, I'm low to this.

Can you believe that? Check out how cool he is. So yes. Fact check it. Am I cool? Look us up. God, don't invite that Dave. Don't say am I cool? Please get our Instagram and look at it and then and then you judge don't welcome that behavior

It's basically our Facebook started isn't it? Oh, yeah, I guess you're hot or not. Yeah, hold on not cool or not and I don't think you'll like the answer if you if you open up that question because you get a big head Bigger than it already is. Some of the comments are already pointed out. Your para-sildens baby. I thought baby, I know. There are around 66 scientific bases in Antarctica, of which about 37 are occupied year-round. The remainder are open during the summer and closed down for winter.

So there are about 4,000 people living there through summer months and about 1,000 over winter. Which is probably more than I would have expected. Yeah. I don't know if they would have thought it was like 50 people, but quite a few days. So that's not bad if I can get 50% share of the radio market. That's huge.

But then what the fuck are the other 50% listening to? Is it gonna fire? Your rival station. God damn it! It's just some penguins. I don't know what I'm all over. I don't know the press of our buns But it's the banter is fun and they've got a great energy and you can hear them smiling

Through the speakers. Yeah, that's right. You get you get too political on there. Yeah, but the penguins they keep it light Yeah, I I decided to sail my lefty bullshit come on to sail my lefty bullshit. Yeah, come on. Some will ask from October on November to March, April. The rest of the years considered to be winter. Sometimes winter is so harsh they can't go outside for weeks at a time. It's brutal. The closest thing to towns are the Esperanza base, the all-round Argentine research station,

the Chilean villa, Los Australia, on King George Island and McMurdo Station, which sounds ominous. A US-run research station on the south tip of Ross Island. And they certainly don't do anything with looking out there. Yeah, so I wouldn't worry about it. Yeah, it wouldn't even come by. It's not even a nice part, so don't visit. Go elsewhere, I reckon.

Definitely not a, some sort of a killy glue. I don't think, go elsewhere I reckon. Definitely not some sort of a kill igloo. I'm like I want to convert it. What a funny, what a funny subject I think to have just thought of other time of your head is a joke just there. I don't even, igloo is uneven from here. So why would we build an igloo to kill people? What a terrible to kill people in.

They'd be blood everywhere. And the white walls come on. Yeah. Why would we do that? I mean, so realistically it looked pretty cool, but that's not what we're into. No, no, no, that's not what it is. So it's just, ah, ah, I just ask a Jess while you're being in America. That was a great accident you're doing there What is all right? What is asked before it becomes us?

Water. Thank you So there's a lot of frozen water It's a fun years have been doing this. The funniest thing we have has been doing a bad American accent. Yeah, we've peaked. So the Esperanza base has 43 buildings, 56 inhabitants in winter, including 10 families and two school teachers. Oh wow.

And no radio presenters. Seriously. Yeah. What are the kids listening to on the walk home from school? Oh, oh. On their nine mile trek across the ice. She's have been out stuck with their own thoughts. Yeah, it could be stuck with my thoughts.

Yeah, very political thoughts. Their own thoughts are, fuck this sucks. God. Yeah, this is still so awful. Yeah, I also didn't realize that there are eight churches on Antarctica proper, not including the islands, which I now know about for my third favorite Wikipedia page, which is a website that catalogs my favorite pages. My third favorite is List of Antarctic churches, which is a page. Third to List of In inventors killed by their own inventions. And of course list of sexually active popes.

Of course my holy Trinity. And list of Antarctic churches writes, while there are currently only a few free standing structures dedicated solely to Christian religions, most research stations have small meeting rooms that are dual purpose partially for religious services. These rooms are also commonly used by adherents of other world religions, the chapel of the snows, which is a great name, also host services for other faith groups such as Latter-day Saints and Buddhism.

As far as I could work out, I don't think a pope has ever visited Antarctica. Cowards. That's weird. Surely one of the popes would of want to tick them all off. But it's also like the past. Australia, America, North and South, Dave, most but. All the continents.

But also the pubes are usually really old. It's like do you want to put a really old person somewhere that cold? Yeah. Well, maybe you want to keep prolong the loves, you know. Yeah. Also they wear white so they probably get lost. Yeah. Where'd we put the Pope? Oh God Anyone could ask

They're sold you just pop them somewhere and very great version of where's Wally where's poppy? West poppy Where where where where's poppy or where's poppy? And the other final page is the Pope in Antarctica where is Pope? And the other final page is the Pope in Antarctica. Like the yellow version of West Wally where it was it was a whole land of Wally's and it was lost there almost impossible. Pope in Antarctica is the equivalent of that or the Pope in a haunted house full of ghosts with sheets on. That would also be pretty fun. Maybe every page is hard. Should we?

Really hard. Pope level. Should we cover this right now? Yeah, where's Pope E? Where's Pope E? I think we should. And for Americans we can call it where's Pope Doe. Where's Pope Doe?

Yeah. Because otherwise I wouldn't get it. I think we should get a crowd fun going to get the Pope to our doctor. And then one is there, encourage him to invent something and have sex and then I'll have the Holy Trinity. That's your Holy Trinity. This is my Holy Trinity year on it. Which is what you call the post. I know yours means a lot to you and mine means a lot to me, so you can help me out here. Let's respect each other's opinions and faiths. Now, the claims over Antarctica

and who it belongs to are a real mess. Oh. Seven sovereign states that are Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom have made territorial claims in Antarctica. Then you've got China, India, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine and the United States who have constructed research facilities within the areas claimed by those

other countries. There is a treaty as of 2023, 56 parties have signed it and it treats the continent as a laboratory open to all and provides that no acts or activities shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty. They've got something written down, but there are different claims and they compete with each other and despite the treaty countries have gone to great lengths to improve their stake. In late 1977, Argentinian woman Sylvia Maria Depama, who was then seven months pregnant, was airlifted to the aforementioned

Esperanza base, specifically so she could give birth on the base and in the Argentine territory so the country could further claim the territory. We're like, we've got sovereign born citizens. We got people born in. Yeah. Yeah. Her son Emilio Marcos Palmer was the first documented person born on the continent and featured in the Guinness Book of Records. He was given Argentinian citizenship though.

He wasn't a citizen, but a doctor. They're like, sorry, you cannot bring that baby back. Sorry. Sorry. He lives in there. I was doing you a favor. Sorry. I'm seeing you a favor. Sorry. If you're seeing on a passport, then I don't know what you want me to do. You have to

take it up with the Entirety Passport office. Sorry. Sorry. That penguin down the road. The rope in two days a year. And it was yesterday. So you're going to have to wait eight months. So that was 1977. That penguin also has 19 other jobs. So he's got his bread and that. He's got a swappie's hat. And he's bad at all of them. He's incompetent. He's very inefficient at all of them. But he's got a great work ethic. Yeah, he's great for culture. And he just applies for jobs. Yeah. He's a personality higher and he really adds to the to the culture of the place, but fuck he is useless. Pinky, that's a great idea. That's actually an offensive nickname. Yeah, human shouldn't call

penguins, pingu. No, I think they don't like that. But we like it. What? This person's banished, I would have called him LPinguino. That's what I call that shit fucking rules. Can that be my new name in the group chat? LPinguino. It's currently Francois Paine. Francois Pinguino. That's the building. It's just a toilet lady.

Jess is still dead. Daddy, daddy, sorry. I'm daddy. I'm never done, pop some. So funny. So that was in 1977 that they airlifted someone, just so she could give birth. Chilly went even further. In 1984, twins.

They fucked on the earth. Yeah, they could. Well, you say. They can see. They fucked on the earth. Yeah, they... Well, you say. They can see. In 1984, Juan Pablo Camacho was the first Chilean born in Antarctica. His parents were sent there to specifically conceive and give birth to a child in order to strengthen Chile's claim on Antarctica.

So, it's one thing that, yeah, they've got a kid who was born here, whatever. We're going to conceive and give birth to a kid here. This baby's lived their entire life here, even before they just... Wow. They wouldn't let that baby leave off. Okay. Yeah, but how on do... How does Seaman go in the... in the ice?

To the loss for the poaps? Hmm. Where are they? Where they go? Oh, this is a nightmare. I don't know how you're getting it to the egg day, but I don't think it should be getting lost in the snow on the journey. Lost with the boat.

Oh no, my seaman is lost with the boat. I trusted him with it, okay? If you can't trust the boat, who can do this? Yeah, this is where you stay. This feels like you've ticked off one of your three. That's right. No, I'm just going to get into invent something, some sort of incubation. Then we've got it.

I actually be a bit scared to be honest to have a child there, because the nearest major hospital is more than 1,000 kilometers or 625 miles away. But there is healthcare available. The Chilean Air Force Hospital is start with one doctor, one nurse, and is equipped with an X-ray, laboratory, surgery, anesthesia machine, sterilizer, and pharmacy services in addition to limited emergency and surgery capabilities. Two hospital beds are also available in a dental clinic. But is the doctor doing all of that? Yeah.

So he's the pharmacist. And it's a penguin. It's the penguin. That's one of the? Yeah. So he's the pharmacist. And it's a penguin. It's the penguin. That's one of the 19 jobs. Dr. I'm just like, yeah, you really hope you don't get her there. The nurse is a person and she's great. Yeah. But she does a lot of, oh, sorry, the penguin wants to know what seems to be the issue. She's a very bad young woman. If you need stitches or something, she's great. But yeah, if you don't need medicine prescribed,

it's gonna be a long way. My mum. Can I translate? Was that, can I stop you right there? Yeah. My mum. My mum. My mum.

My mum. My mum. The baby is a male penguin and he's being a bit of a soldier. Just letting you know he's the doctor. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's the doctor here? I'm wearing the doctor hat. Doctor penguin.

Good, good, not only Doctor penguin. Oh, I'm sorry. That's good. I love that so much. Doctor penguin. Oh, it's very good. That's very good. But deep Pinguino. Yeah, it's very good. That changed by D-Pull. That is a big upgrade.

For Matt Stewart, Yuck. So that's the Chilean base. They've got those facilities, like I said, but this is so wild to me. I didn't know this. According to this other Antarctic website, called Wikipedia, that was as my top three-week event, just whatever.

As of 2018, all residents of the Chilean base, including children, are required to have their appendixes removed before arriving as a safety precaution, as health care services are limited, and the doctors aren't trained specialist surgeons. Oh wow. I think that's great. I'd also show as they're committed. Yeah.

Take out a piece of your, how much you want to come here, kid? You want to... I'm really at all. I was making me. Yeah, prove it. Prove it. Prove it, gives you a panic. You're not listening.

I don't want to go. Come on. Well, that baby that was born. We're like, all right. We've got to take it. Yeah, cuff it up. That's out works. Yeah.

Keep coughing. Take a kidney as well. We're in. That's pretty full on. So, sorry, the nearest hospital is a thousand ks away. Yes. Surely there's parts of Western Australia where that's the case, you know? Yeah, that's true.

Yes, though, in the winter, you were off-line doctor service, it finds a difficult to come down trying to get out to go and land. That's fair. No, I'm just thinking, you know, that's absolutely. Yeah, it'd be more for some people. Yeah, you think? Isn't that crazy? Well, did you know this? And it's actually much like most of Western Shots

at the desert. Because you know, I'm like, it does it's being sandy, but. No, kick it. I'd love to learn from it. That's what you would think of a desert. But you would be wrong. I'm just recounting what someone was saying to me recently.

Is that person Bill Brosson? And Serim, was it Bill Brerson? And, and, and, and, was it Bill Brerson? Probably. The Australian government has an official website for the Australian Antarctic program that lists one of the most common questions people ask. FAQ, one of them is, do expeditioners need to have their appendix removed before going south? And the Australian website says the answer is no, but doctors who are wintering at Australian Antarctic stations do have to have their appendix removed. This is because there is usually only one doctor

on station during winter and evacuation back to medical care in Australia is impossible for at least part of the year. Wow. They can't do themselves. Yeah. If you want doctor there by yourself. And you go, you go, oh shit. Yeah. And that actually has been history because the requirement dates from the 1950s when an Australian Antarctic doctor got a Pender Citus on herd Island. This meant a very challenging evacuation back to Australia. But probably the most famous appendix on a Tartic story comes from Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov. In 1961, he became seriously ill with appendicitis and he knew that he would need an immediate operation. It quickly realized he was in trouble because out of the 12 people on the mission, he was the only doctor. The journey from Russia to the Antarctic

had taken 36 days by sea and the ship wouldn't be back for another year. Flying was impossible because of the snow and blizzards, so he was all in his own. His life was seriously in danger. He knew of his appendix burst, he would probably die. And he was in serious pain as this condition worsened, writing in his diary, I did not sleep at all last night. It hurts like the devil. A snowstorm whipping through my soul, wailing like 100 jackals. Oh my goodness. Beautiful. Some poets write better when they're in pain. Yeah. Not only emotional pain, but sometimes I guess physical pain.

Physical pain works too. This has brought something out in him. Yeah. I'm actually not sleeping all night and still coming out with that. Yeah. God is good. Residue just be writing like, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, fuck, ow, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm,

Yeah. Yeah. You're talking the penguins like rich. So this guy, and is that translated from Russian or is he, is he bilingual? That is, that would be translated from Russian. Because I was about to be even more impressed. He's riding two versions of it. With a left-end right-hand. He also added, still know obvious symptoms that perforation is imminent,

but an oppressive feeling of foreboding hangs over me. This is it. I have to think through the impossible way out to operate on myself. It's almost impossible, but I can't just fold my arms and give up. I'd be folding my arms and giving up. I would be in the fatal position, absolutely. Exactly. Ow, ow, ow, fuck, ow, ow.

What a badass. So yeah, he decided to operate on himself. Oh my god. He had to get a official permission from the Soviet government as this was the height of the Cold War. And if he died during his operation, it would look bad for the Soviet Antarctic program. And then what this is the time when they're trying to outdo the USA in every way. Yeah, we'd look a little bit sort of a sort of a

Maybe say it in penguin Thank you doctor penguin doctor peg we though Yeah, just would look it wouldn't look good. It's not a good look Just look so yeah, it's like where no where technologically as advanced as you. Sometimes our doctors do die operating on yourselves. That happens. That happens within any advanced nation. Yeah. More advanced, you are the more doctors die operating on themselves.

What? Do your doctors need other doctors operate on them? That feels like a while century. That's embarrassing. Yeah. According to the BBC, Roggers have worked out a detailed plan for how the appendectomy operation would unfold and assigned his colleagues specific roles and tasks.

He nominated two main assistants to hand him instruments, position the lamp and hold a mirror. He planned to use the reflection to see what he was doing. Not just look at himself. God, I look good. For a bit of confidence. I'll always have the money maker. Even when I'm screaming at agony, God, I look good. For a bit of confidence. I'll always have the moneymaker. Even when I'm screaming at agony, my cheekbones. Oh my God.

The station director was also in the room in case one of the others became faint. Jesus. I hope he also had someone there taking down poetry notes from him. Yeah, he'd become all these best stuff. He's got ideas. He's dictated. This next bit is pretty fucked up. So skip ahead if you'd like. Well, man, Jess can't. We don't have that option. You can't up. But again, from the BBC, a general anaesthetic was obviously out of the question. You can't put yourself to sleep.

I wish he did. I didn't get a counting down from 10. Oh, I think I was thinking whatever I feel great. He was able to administer a local anaesthetic to his abdominal wall, but once he had cut through that, removing the appendix would have to be done without further pain relief in order to keep his head as clear as possible.

So he felt it. No, just a straight up no. That's a no for me. Yeah. Hey, I just jumped into the water. Yeah, that's the same. Bye. I'm like, is anybody got a gun? Yeah, no, they'd be not.

Wait, aren't the Nazis don't have a secret base underneath and talk to go? Yeah, just go and get one of their guns. Yeah. Easy. Get a Nazi gun. That makes sense. I'm just going out. I might be some time. I've got to go visit the base. I'm just going out, I might be some time, I've got to go. This is the best. I'm Rogas I've later wrote, my poor assistants, at the last minute I looked over at them. They stood there in their surgical whites, whiter than white themselves. I was scared too, but when I picked up the needle with the novocaine and gave myself

the first injection, I automatically switched into operating mode. And from that point on, I didn't notice anything else. Rogas I've, like I said, had intended to use a mirror to help him operate, but he found it. It's inverted view too much of a hindrance, so he ended up just working by touch. Get absolutely fucked. With that gloves on, just going, no. Oh, I have a little bit around in here. And he found it. Right, because I'm on that mission, because I'm a

communications expert or something, right? And they're like, actually, Jess, we need you to help with this surgery. I'd be like, bye-bye. I'm gonna communications expert or something, right? And they're like, actually, Jess, we need you to help with this surgery. I'd be like, bye-bye. I'm gonna let you die. You know this, I'm so sorry, but I'm here as the radio shock shock. Yeah. I'll report on this tomorrow, but I can't be here.

I cannot be here. I'm not going to report with journalistic integrity. I feel you at the job of the mirror, because he's dropped that. Yeah. The mirror, the mirror person. Oh, it's pop out. Good luck with it all, then. Yeah, if you need the mirror again,'s dropped that. Yeah. The mirror, I get the mirror buzzing. Oh, it's pop out.

Good luck with it all then. Yeah, if you need the mirror again, but I'll be outside. I'll be out in the snow because it's better than being in here. So all that, they're all wearing white scrubs. There's another scene for the, for the where's Popeye. Where's Popeye on the hospital? This is riding itself.

Yeah. Wow. Right, this is good stuff. Where's Popeye? I think this could be big. Yeah. It could be huge. Right, forget the good stuff. Where's Popi? I think this could be big. This could be huge. Right, forget the crowd funding to get the pro-training doctor. We need to get where's Popi off the ground?

I think that might be more realistic than getting the pope to have sex in Antarctica. Are you listening to the things you're saying? Look, now I've heard it out loud. I'm back on board. Let's try and get him to have sex in Antarctica. When you hear a good idea said back to you, you've got to acknowledge it. Yeah. It's like, I'm holding up a mirror. Yeah, exactly. The mirror is required. Yeah. Bring it back. So it didn't quite go to plan. He cut himself in the wrong place and had to

sew it back up because he was bleeding profusely. He soon started to feel like he was going to lose consciousness as the bleeding was quite heavy. He wrote, I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. So he's still riding. I like to think that he's riding his life. Come on, bring him in.

Every four to five minutes, I rest for 20 to 25 seconds. Finally, here it is. The curse to Pendage. With horror, I noticed the dark stain at its base. That meant just a day longer and it would have burst. My heart seized up and noticeably slowed. My hands felt like rubber. Well, I thought it's going to end badly and all that was left was removing the appendix. So he's worrying like, oh, I'm bleeding a bit too much. I'm not feeling good. This is not going well. That's what a part of the benefit of being put under

a general anesthetic. You're an anithetist who then manages your blood flow and you're breathing. That's right, and if you never wake up, you just quietly drift off. Yeah. You don't have the thought of, oh my God, I'm bleeding out. Oh no.

God, being put under general anesthetic is so nice. It does feel so good. It's so lovely. Coming out of it's not that good. No, but going into it, that's nice. But then some eyes I give you are cheese and bicky. Yeah, that's nice. I had pasta.

Ooh. What are you at? Stolly Parton. How did you, oh they would have done that for you. I did, yeah. The Anatcious man, they're really great. They really, they manage everything. They do everything for you, it's amazing.

They approach you, all your meals. Pr really great. They manage everything. They do everything for you. It's amazing. They approach you all your meals. They approach you. Is that pretty true? They feed you like a little mama bird. It's beautiful. Wow. Eight up. That's you.

Why do you think I drive a mesoradi? Wow. But I've got some good news. He didn't die. It took two full hours, which according to my research, is about twice as long as it usually takes. In a normal hospital setting these days, when you're not your own. And you haven't cut in the wrong spot and had to. That's actually incredibly fast.

It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Finally from the BBC, then before allowing himself to rest, he instructed his assistance how to wash the surgical instruments and only when the room was clean and tidy Did Rogozov take some antibiotics and sleeping tablets? So the nap. You wrapped it up, yelled at him and said no, that's not how you clean that. Then, alright, now I've gone a bit. Remarkably Rogozov was back at work just two weeks later. But the nightmare wasn't over because there was even worse weather than usual that year,

and the ship that was meant to pick them up couldn't get to them, so they were told they would have to spend an extra year at the base. 12 months. And so, he is my first thought. He is my first thought. Was like, what if you didn't bring enough clothes?

So, I sort of forgot for a second you could wash clothes. Then you're imagining somebody's bought a year's worth of undies. I only brought 365 pairs. What do I do now? What was your answer out? How is your big worry that they're looking at you here and going? This is from last season. Yeah.

I shouldn't be wearing this. I look like an idiot. This is so embarrassing. Oh my god, the penguins are going to judge me. They look at every year. Very well dressed. They're better than your taxi driver. It judge me. They look in every year, very well dressed. They're better than your tuxedo. It's timeless.

That is a classic look. Black and white, always in. Yeah, always. Can't go wrong. Thankfully, they were soon able to be airlifted out. So they were told, because mentally you have to accept it, you'd be told, sorry, it's another year

and you'd be there going to go on. A year is such a long time. But then they were able to be airlifted out. I'd rather them know it's a year, but just say, like, it might be a month or two, and I'd be like, all right, I can get through a month or two. Even if they know it's probably a year. But after a month or two.

Yeah, then they just go, it's another month. I think I'd prefer little bursts. Eventually, I'd be like, it's gonna be another thing. I think when you get told that news. But don't tell me a year, show it up. As we'll hear about with someone else later on, when you get that bad news, you do lose your mind. Okay. But in this instance, Rogozov returned home and national hero.

It was big news because they were like, he survived. So then they were happy to publicize. Yeah. His incredible survival story was a powerful tool for the Soviet propaganda machine, the opposite of their initial worry. Amazingly, he's not the only doctor to operate on themselves in Antarctica. This episode is weird. What is it? He's sizzling at the start by saying there are crimes there, though.

And then we're hearing about multiple people operating on themselves. Yeah, I just kind of, I went into a deep dive about what life is like down there. But about 50% of the report is like crime down there. But before I couldn't not talk about it. That's bizarre. In 1999, American physician Jerry Lynn Nielsen self-diagnosed and self-traded breast cancer using equipment and medication dropped in by a military plane and she was able to self-administer chemotherapy. What? I don't understand. Is that harder than the appendix? I think it's more prolonged, it's ongoing rather than get it, get in, cut it out, and then instantly start recovery. So she did the chemotherapy. I think she noticed a lump and then did a bit of a,

did a biopsy, which she then was able to be instructed by a cancer specialist what to look for to see if it was bad news. Sadly, it was very bad news. And it was too cold to get her out immediately. So they said, you've got to start chemo right away. Well, air drop it to you. So they parachute it it in. That is.

And she started to treat herself. So she wasn't an expert in, in a cancer. No, it's more of a GP. Yeah. So, but just noticed when, oh, if this had been one of my patients, I'd tell them to go see a specialist. Yeah. I don't know how to specialise.

So, I got on a satellite phone and radio through. Holy shit. And it gets so cold there that planes can't land because they risk fuel and hydraulic lines rapidly freezing. I don't know if it's so cold that fuel tank freezes as soon as they land. Despite this risk, an LC-130 Hercules plane was sent several weeks ahead of schedule to pick her up and rush to her home for further treatment. Wow. How'd she go? She lived for about a decade longer, which is obviously a great extension

of life. Sadly, she did succumb to her breast cancer at the end. Wow. But 10, I mean a decade. Yeah. And is the thought that if she didn't do that initial chemo herself, that it wouldn't have been that long? I think it was looking pretty bad. Yeah. That's why they were very worried. They're like, we've got to get you out. Yeah.

That's incredible. And so scary to not have the support of doctors going through something so difficult. But it's just like there's a certain kind of person just clicks in a gear like she obviously did. Yeah. Just like cool in a crisis. I person who just clicks in a gear like she obviously did. Yeah. Yeah.

Just like cool in a crisis. I mean, doctors are already like that. I think somebody who's taking this kind of position, he's already, you know, like switched on pretty. Pretty got bad ass, Dan. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Good in the crisis.

I'm probably looking at a couple other people I would put in that category. You know, I'd, and I'm, you know, if there was a mirror, three people. Absolutely. Cool. Okay, no, I, me, I understand. Yeah. Hinn?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm the coolest one here. I don't know, you, maybe you weren't here, but when I knocked my water all over my computer, I'd never seen someone move so fast. Yeah, that's true. It was live on pod. Yep.

A few months back. Yep. And Dave saved, as it turned out, my computer cornered everyone was Smith who knows computers would have been fine. But Dave didn't know that. And he snapped into it. Absolutely, we're not have been fine.

No, it was like a leader of war. You can tip a leader. And you still haven't learned your drink bottle is fully open next to it. When it has the ability to be closed and just have a little lid No, but yeah No, but yeah Anyway, that's that's that's my evidence of David and what and so the it let me guess cold As I said that you see in me is that I parked a car one time God that was so bad

I was so bad. Oh my God. If someone had to park the snowmobile in Antarctica, I'd be calling you to support. I think you want the sub-life phone. And I'd be like, look, it doesn't look good, but we can do this. I would also say someone who has chronic migraines.

Yes. And who just lives a life. Yeah, we're in an incredibly bright room right now. And I've had six days of migraines. It's insane that you're good. Yeah, we're in an incredibly bright room right now and I've had six days of migrates. It's insane that you're good to do. Yeah, great to do. It just feels like you can soldier on. Solder on and put compartmentalized on.

I feel like I'm the three of us to deal with pain. I think that I'll put you first as the one who could cut their own appendix. I'll be there going, no, no, no. No, I don't want to do that. I honestly just feel like just kill me. I've had wanna do that. I honestly just, just killed me. I've had a good run. I think we all have a panasatus in Antarctica.

It's, we make a pact. Yeah. Nauti guns work. We don't do that stuff, we do each other. It's like, can I do Dave? Yeah. What? What?

What? What? I've always wanted to kill Dave. It would be such an honor to shoot Dave in the face. Oh, we just wanted to kill Dave. It would be such an honor to shoot Dave at the first. Oh, wow. But the honor that Dave gets to shoot me, that would be beautiful. So you go first. No, we do it at the same time, because I don't think we, I think one of us would be left

standing at once. We have to do some real practice. Yeah, yeah. Three, two, one. Well, and luckily we had all those years recording in Zoom. That's right We're actually very synced up. Yeah, we're very good at that. We can clap at the same time. Three, two, one, bang We get the penguin involved His job is also one day executioner

Actually, that's the only job he is good at. Yeah I like food. I can't, so yeah, eat that. Actually, that's the only job he is good at. Yeah, it all lives for a favorite day of the year. He's also screaming, can I, can I shoot Dave? Can I shoot Dave, please? Get a little flip of the blind there, trigger. Sorry Dave.

That's okay. And you put him out of my misery. You do me a favor, I'm going to append a side of this. It's because I love you so much that I want you to be out of pain. Could I cut into you and cut in half? I can. We could try, but I'll rather shoot. I feel I've got such hyper-conjury that every stomach pain

I've ever felt in my life, my first lot is always, is that a pain in the side of us? Yeah. So I'd be down there every day going, I've got it. I've got it. And then be there, Dave, the only reason you're here is because we've already removed your pain. Yes.

Well, it's going back. You've just infected. Dave, you've just eaten a lot of cheese today It's a bit of science I can tell I'm looking and now you've learned that the if the the end is black That's bad news you block I can feel it the end is black It's going back a one day. I got one day best best case God you're not, man. I can feel it. I can feel the black nib.

The black nib. Oh, the nib. It's darkening. It's darkening both of you. I can feel it. Right, but a big part of going down to Antarctica, you think about, would you be bored? Yes. Yes.

Like on Netflix? they do have internet. OK, then yeah, I'll be right. I don't know how good it is though. Could I play my Nintendo Switch? You could bring your Switch for sure. Yeah, I'll be right. The Australian government website lists things to do an Antarctica when it gets too cold to go outside.

They're right. You can play volleyball or basketball. OK. Work up a sweat in the gym. OK. Place Nukarodarts, watch movies or TV. Listen to music. Have a drink in the gym. Okay. Place nook or darts, watch movies or TV. Listen to music, have a drink at the bar, surf the internet, send emails to friends, or read a book.

Okay, it actually sounds like that was fine. It does sound pretty fun, isn't it? I could play basketball. Yeah. That's my number one spot. Really ball? That would be up there, that's a bit of fun. Yeah, all right, let's go.

Let's do it. Let's do it. There's a bar, you love that. You can get really good at dots. You can get greater dots. I love it, like all of these things, that things you just assume you could have, apart from basketball and volleyball.

Yeah, I didn't know about that. But everything, a book. Well, you can write a book and I'll talk to you. I'm like, you could have a nap and you're like, oh, I could nap. When did I get that from? Do they have hammocks? No, I'm talking about that. You can have a nap and you're like, oh, I could nap. When did they get that from? Do they have hammocks? No, tactic hammock? Wow.

Oh my god. Australian. So I really wanted to look into what it's like there and there, because I used to get this obsession when it would come from the show on the project. Australia has four permanent stations. They've got Morrison, Davis and Casey, which are on the continent and Macquarie Island situation, which is in the sub Antarctic.

And this is what living at Morrison is like, according to the website. It says, living at Morrison is very comfortable. Everyone lives in the main accommodation building known as the red shed. In modern air conditioned single dongers, which is conditioned. No, five thanks. In fact, in English, single Dongers. Which is in condition? In condition, actually means heating and cooling. We're just normally in Australia. In Australia, we use it for cooling. But in Tasmania, for instance, they're more likely to use their air conditioning on

heating mode. You never, once you learn to sell an air conditioning, you never forget that. I know. It's beautiful to watch it more. Eating mode. Oh god. You never, once you learn to sell an egg in this night, you never forget that. I know, I know. It's beautiful to watch it. Did you also notice that I said that they live in single room dongers? Yep.

Which is, they write, is Antarctic slang for bedrooms? Ah, donger. It's gonna go hit the donger. Donger. Ah, I left something in my donger. Left my dinger in the donger. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're bonking in your donger. I'll go get my dinger from my donger or we're gonna bonking in your Dunga. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna bump in in your Dunga. Okay, I got my Dinger from my Dunga, I'm gonna bump in your

bump, no, okay. Oh my God. So like said, bump in your Nonna at the end. Brody and Slut. She has a really hot Nonna. Okay, every stachys around. Every stachys around. And, you know, we could out of the real Nonna.

Oh, how do we think it's doing the cooking? Every antioxidation has a Nonna. Because Nonna. Well, who do we think is doing the cooking? Every anti-acoustation has a non-a, a non-a. God, you'd be welfare. And non-a's have needs. And I just think we should ask the question. Non-a needs. The red shed also houses the surgery, lounge, kitchen,

and dining room. Where's the basketball court? I think the lounge doubles as everything. It's a basketball court, so that's reading zone. It's just one of those little like, tiny little hoops with a soft basketball. You can play basketball. Yeah, it's like above the bin. We have fun there. Can you stop throwing rubbish? I'm trying to perfect my two pointers, my free throws. The Abolutions facilities in the red shed consist of two communal bathrooms and a number of smaller bathrooms.

That sounds nice. What's Abolutions? Shitter. I'm in the office. What is that? Is that also an Antarctic slang term? Or is that that's more of a fancy term? More of a fancy.

I just don't want to say toilet. You don't want to say toilet and bathroom. But do you not want to say toilet? Why didn't you say toilet? I'm reading from their website. Okay. That is a class, oh it's classy. It's a classy website.

That's like a four-star hotel. I don't want to say, you can shit in Antarctica if you want to. And you should if it's there for a while. Hopefully you shit at some point. Abolutions, man. A gentleman never ablutions. So I don't even know the terms. I just, it's not part of my culture.

Yes, that's right. Gentlemen never shits. The local supermarket is a walk-in cupboard that they call Woolies. Where all expeditioners can browse the shelves for soap, linen and other household requirements. So it sounds like it's just open all the time. But do they have natural confectionery snakes? Yeah. Oh, okay.

That sounds pretty good. Probably. Woolies would be happy with that, wouldn't they? Yeah, Coles are like, what do we ever do? Yeah. What do we do, day? Yeah, calls are like what do we ever do? What do we do Antarctica? Yeah, geez I GAs like oh, we're not even I'm not even bothering yeah, come on You could call we could have fun where there could be

I see a come on I mean I should send for Antarctica Grocery I sent groceries groceries and Antarctica. Come on. What does I do, Stanford? Independent groceries. I just throw it. I just throw it. When Blizzard's inhibit field work, the Red Shed has an indoor climbing wall. Oh.

Pretty cool. A home theater, a library, and several communal seating areas for expeditions to pass the time. You can sit quietly. There is a small gym in the green store as well as sports equipment for volleyball and badminton and a range of cross-country ski equipment, a spa and sauna are all so valuable. Okay. That's good.

This is good. I'll be in the spa or the home theater all the time. The only thing I'm worried about is the people there. Who are the kind of people who were attracted to these jobs? No, it's, well actually, I would be my dream if anyone listening to this episode is on Antarctica, please write in, email us,

get in contact with through social media. I'd love to hear from you. That would be so awesome. That would be your dream to hear from someone. Well, it's my second dream after making the Pope have sex and then invent something on Antarctica. But you know, I'm being realistic, I'm building out to my dream. Yeah. Well, it was my second dream after making the Pope have sex and then an event something on Antarctica. But you know, I'm being realistic.

I'm building out to my dream. Yeah. You can have all the one dream. Second biggest dream is for someone to email for you from Antarctica. What if someone down there was named Pope, you know, like a TV warm up guy, Michael Pope. So he was doing a warm up gig in Antarctica. Would that be enough?

If Michael Pope TV warm up man and host of children's quiz show a bot busters in the 90s if he had sex in Antarctica. Would that be an invented something? Yeah, an invented a sex move. That's great. The Pope. Though to be honest it's surely is what I already called the Pope. But the problem is it has to be it's a list of inventors killed by their own inventions. So the sex move will have to kill you. Yeah. Which is what a way to go. If you get that climbing wall involved. Yeah. And you have an appendicitis, then you don't want to operate. Oh, I've got the nib. Also, my appendicitis saw. I did it on the implying that my nib is another term for it anyway. And what why is it going blank?

You haven't put an elastic band around with something of it. Drop it off like an old like a like a landscape And they put them off so they drop go black and drop off because Dave Don't do that. Don't do that. Take it off. We're all learning you today I know it's not good for aerodynamics when you run but Don't do that, mate. Don't do that. Take it off. We're all in a year today. I know it's not good for aerodynamics when you run, but... I know you want to be the best runner in the world at any cost. At any cost. I know you're producing a lot of drag in the pool. And you want to do the triathlon.

Well, are they coming up in big... We all know that Matt Sherving didn't want to be the fastest man alive if you're the one to run. That anchor holding him down. Anyway, finally about what life is like there. All expeditioners contribute to the day-to-day running of the station. Rostres are set up for duties like vacuuming,

the living area, shoveling snow, cleaning the cold porches. Expedition is arrested on slushy duty to help the chef feed the station. So they've got these fun little terms for a less slushy and that's food. Because a slushy would normally be a drink. Yeah, what I thought slushy would be like if you're cleaning the porch or something. Hmm, but no. Another base, Davis has a limited water supply. And in summer showers are restricted often to one every three days for a maximum of three minutes.

So you don't get to wash too much. Yeah, you don't really get in a good shampoo and condition in, you know. But yeah, maybe because it's so cold you're not sweating as much, but the temperature indoors would probably be pretty standard. Yeah, as you would know. The air conditioning, the air-spin conditions. They probably get it to about room temperature. Alcohol is available. The third base case, he says on the website, every Saturday night, expeditioners dress up for dinner and occasionally a theme night will be organized

with very adventurous costume. How? What are you packing? Well, they've got 365 outfits to check out. A couple of those are pretty wacky outfits. The KC bar called Splinters is often occupied after work and on weekends with Expeditioners playing pool and darts and catching up socially. Okay. How many people per base did you say? I'm not sure about the Australian one.

At least a few dozen I would say. Right, so there could be, yeah, it's not like the same people you're working with all day and then you're socializing with it night and then you're sleeping next door to them. How's your day? How was work? You were there, Terry? You were there, mate. You were fucking there. You were there and you, honestly, made my day to them. How's your day? How was work? You were there. You were there, mate. You were fucking there. You were there and you honestly made my day awful. Terry, what of a sit and talk to you? You were not married work, you're not married at the pub, you're

not married. I hate you Terry. I live equal as Terry. Right now I prefer to talk to bloody pingy, okay? Okay, and he's a racist. He's a racist and talks nonsense. I don't care what the others say. You can't translate it. You can't. It's just little beep sounds. It's beep and bloops. I think that I know.

I think I've got a man. If you're sitting there thinking you can also say that, fucking penguin. I'm so sorry, Pinky. He just walked in. That's awkward. You didn't need some so sorry you heard all that. What an outburst. What does Pingy say? Well here, big a man that I am. To be able to forgive like that. So after hearing that, do you think you could live down there?

No. Do the 12 months stint? Probably. I mean, it feels like the kind of thing would be a great experience. I just would have to, obviously, you're pausing your normal life for a year. Yeah. I don't think I have a wood, but I could, if in the right circumstances, so I wanted to leave Australia suddenly

for some reason, maybe something at it occurred and it would be good to get away for a bit, maybe the lay low. Yes. Then maybe, yeah, great. Can wait, where could we go? Can we, I'm ready to go, I don't know. Somewhere it would be logistically difficult

for them to get me. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I don't, I mean, it does sound, it sounds better than I had expected. Basketball court. Hello. Home theater. Okay. Hello. Hello. But also, um, anything that is even vaguely challenging, I'm out. And as we were talking about before, I do have chronic health issues.

Um, so not having access to, I don't know if I could ask my pharmacist for a year's worth of drugs. There's a penguin doctor. Some of my drugs have to be kept cold, so that would actually be all right. I have to keep him in the fridge, but I just leave him outside. I keep him on the list. We can wait for clean water solutions. I just leave a better tomorrow. Join us at YorkU.ca slash right the future.

But it's not always smooth sailing. You're hanging out at the bar, you're having a good time, you're on the rock wall, you're shooting some hoops. But as you can imagine with all these bases and stations occupied by these small groups living in Close proximity for months if not a year to use at a time Tensions can build and although rare crimes have been committed. Wow. I mean, yeah If you're stuck in such close proximity with anybody for any I think if you were there with your wife you guys would not would fight or like it would be really challenging You know, not you and I obviously we're best friends with your wife you guys would would fight or like it would be really challenging you know.

Not you and I obviously we're best friends but nothing would come between us. Nothing could. Nothing could be like to see anything try. Nothing would be twigst us. We should one and the three of us go down. We just do we just live there for a year. Jess is going to do the radio station. Hang on.

Jess does drive. Dave does breakfast, I do overnight. Great, and we play like obviously there's a few gaps, we just played tubular bells by Michael Fird in between. Yeah, about 40 minutes. Perfect. You need to go to the toilet, you chucked on tubular bells. Sorry.

I'll be back up these bells. Gotta go a bluish. So there have been some crime, sorry. I got distracted because I was like, well, of course nobody can get along. It's such a weird set of circumstances to put yourself in that, yeah, everything's heightened. You can't get along with anybody the whole time. You gotta assume that a few of them at least on the run from crimes.

Sure. You got to assume that a few of them at least on the run from crimes. Surely. Yeah, I say that people go to Darwin and Australia to get away from their life. This is even further away. Yeah. Well, under the aforementioned 1959 Antarctic Treaty, ratified by the 53 nations, persons accused of a crime in Antarctica are subject to punishment by their own country. Right. So whether you're a citizen. In 1959, that same year,

the Vostok station, then a Soviet research station in Princess Elizabeth's land, it's amazing, was the scene of a fight between two scientists over a game of chess. When one of them lost the game, he became so enraged that he attacked the other with an ice axe. Oh, Jesus Christ.

So sure you're gonna say a pawn. Yeah, he pawned him. A bishop. I'm like, whoa! Not a rook. Oh my God, please. Okay, I picture this. Where's Popeye?

But he's amongst massive white chess pieces. Yes. That is so good. It's so good. That is so good. It's so, Matt. That is so good. You're just smashing it out today. If we could get like, do go on listening. We have a lot of artists that listen.

Yeah. We could give them one scene each. Yeah. And then we could somehow make a book of it. Make a book out of it. That would be so funny. Where's Popeye? Yeah, where's Popeye?

Where, where, where. And like all proceeds. Do go on publishing. Yeah. And all proceeds go to us. Yeah So that'd be good one percent goes to the Pope No, no, I think I feel like the artist would probably make the money out of it. Oh No, is our idea though. Yeah, that's true. That is true

Yeah, and I think they want to contribute. Oh, we could pay them with You know, what do they say to us when they like exposure exposure exposure what are they say to us exposure you can get nice great exposure. Thank you. Pay is not very good. In fact, there is no pay but Jesus exposure. Right. When you MC this gig in front of 400 real estate agents. That's great exposure. It's gonna be really good for your career. What do they say to us? Dave knew.

I know what you meant. So an ISAC's got involved. There was mixed reports of what happened and how about the injuries were. But after this, chess games were banned at the Soviet Russian Antarctic stage. You can't play chess there. Too heated. Too heated. Because you can't ban ISACs as I. Too heated. Because you can't ban ice axes, I guess they needed.

It's still important. Yeah. Why, it's a chess. Isn't that funny? I'm not just banning psychos. They're blaming chess. Chess doesn't kill people. The people kill people.

Chess, it's the problem. Yeah. They've looked at it and gone. Okay. You would take chess out of the equation. These people are pretty nice. Nothing would have happened. Nothing would have happened. I'm sure this guy, if he was playing a more civilized

game. Yes, nice and loud as fine. Connect for checkers, then fine, but yeah, chess. Yes. That really gets the blood boiling. Game of killers. Now remember I mentioned before, how some people can take the news badly that they have to stay another year. Yes. Well, in 1984, the Brown station. Oh, no. Abolution station. Formerly the White station, but good change.

Operated by Argentina was burned to the ground by the leader and doctor of the station after being told he had to stay another year. Oh, so he's like, how can I stay? Yeah. Or how can any of us stay? Yeah, wow. Wow. The station personnel were rescued by a ship because they had nowhere to go.

There's no word on what happened to the doctor. I don't know if he was arrested or something like that, but it was like, no, I'm going home. We have nowhere to sleep. That's the gasoline. I mean, it's not bad. It's pretty clever. He gets results.

If you're one of the others, you're like, no, no, we shouldn't do that. But I think there is a can of gasoline. Well, they can't go. We can't go ship to you. You burnt it down. Oh, I'll go ship to you. Yeah.

Because there were maybe cold your bluff. Actually, he's a ship I prepared earlier. Yeah. It's actually one around the corner. We'll be there. You'd want it to be there pretty quick, because where has a sheep upper pit. Yeah. It's actually one around the corner. We'll be there. You'd want it to be there pretty quick, because where are they saving that? Yeah. You can't bend out.

Get a speedboat out there. Oh, the sudden... You picked that plane speedboat. Woo! Just dive it half way off the air. It's so... He's like, I'll be there in eight minutes. Your whole face is frozen. It's still working. It's so funny. He's like, I'll be there in eight minutes. He all faces for all of a sudden.

He's still working some glasses. He's doing a great eight minutes. So people never don't. Imagine a nipples. Yeah, he's doing his red shorts. And that weird red plastic thing that they rescue him from. He's nipples. We got frostbite big ones.

It looks like a kid. Oh, he's there. He's never so got frostbite in his car. He looks like a kid. He looks like a kid. Oh, he's there. He will in eight minutes. Then we jump to 9th of October 1996. The terrifyingly named US McMurdo station. McMurdo. McMurdo.

Just imagine if like the guy burns it down, they're like, we need a place to stay, and they're trekking through the night, and they see a little light, and they go, oh great, sanctuary. We're safe. We're safe. Knock on the front door.

Hey, oh, welcome to McMurder Mansion. Oh! Okay, I guess we got no other options, probably just an unlucky name. And the guy's like, we're like wearing like a hood and he's holding a flaming torch. Yeah come with me. Sorry I've been in American. Oh water come give me another phrase they more than water. Come with me. Come with me. Hey come with me. me. Hey, come with me. Gotta be my. Gotta be my. Hey, come with my.

Beautiful. Yeah. Hey, we got plenty of room and the dungeon. Turns out they actually just have a really sick set up of the dungeon. It's the basement. They call it the dungeon. Yeah. They play a lot of day and day in there. But they won't push it if you don't want to play. They're actually very chill. They love let them in. They're not at a station. Anyway, what happened? Except, I'm going to the October 1996, a fight occurred between two workers in the

kitchen. One worker attacked the other with a hammer. Why that? A hammer in the kitchen? Maybe they were tenderizing something. Another cook tried to break up the fight and was also injured. Both victims required stitches, but were able to fully recover.

But FBI agents from the United States were sent to McMurdo station to investigate. Oh my God, imagine being in the FBI and you're getting sent to Antarctica. I'll be there in eight minutes. Sounds like, I'm pretty sure Mulder and Scully went down there a few times on X-Files. Really?

Yeah. Oh, there's a really good one. They went down there a few times on X-Files. Really? Yeah. Oh, there's a really good one. They go down there because what they've done, they've been drilling in the ice with they've accidentally unearthed like an ancient pathogen that makes people lose their minds. Yeah, that's a good one. That was Antarctica, you know, it was in a frosty place. Oh, there's also, they go down to Antarctica, I think there's maybe an alien ship under the ice. Hmm, in one of the, I think the first movie maybe?

Yeah, that's right. There's a few. Jesus, I love it. I mean, it's like Star Wars. There's, how many scapes can you get? We got forest, the forest planet, ice planet, sand planet. Oh, anything about the ex-philes? There's three of them that are almost exactly the same. There's one where they go to, there's a volcano that's erupted, and that's brought up some sort of pathogen and people who almost exactly the same. There's one where they go to, there's a volcano that's erupted and that's brought up some sort of pathogen and people who's in their minds. There's one where they go into the forest and there's some sort of buggy toughness, darkness falls, that one's cool and they also have to go and investigate and then they

also go to the ice. So like you're saying, they just go through these different, and they also one where they go on a battleship and then the water makes people go old. Oh yeah. It makes people go old. Yeah, that's right. And was there one where it's like a time? Was that the time traveling one? Was that a different one? Because there was one where they like the ship just like passed like three times.

Oh yeah, it's another one. Yeah, time traveling one. Is that the black one? Yeah, it makes them go old in a different way. Yeah. What a show. What a show. Love it.

I love all three kinds of episodes they do. Yeah. Yeah. What a show. What a show. Love it. I love all three kinds of episodes they do. Yeah, the alien one, the buggy one. Oh, we shouldn't forget the horrible inbreeding one as well. Oh, that's scary. That one. Yeah, that's a great one. I've only watched that once. Yeah, that's, you don't go back to that as a comfort view. But the mom in that went on to portray Morace in the new plan of the Ops films. There you go! And I think through a connection in America, listen to the show, I paid Tron, I named Jess. She reckons that I might be able to interview her on primates. Ooh!

I love the A1 Dave's, she's been on, she played three different, or multiple different characters on three episodes of X-Files as well. Oh, that's so awesome. That's cool. So hopefully that, yeah, hopefully we can make that happen. Imagine. Imagine.

Imagine. Morris. Maurice. That's cool. He's the coolest character. He's the teaching orangutango. Pretty sick. I saw the orangutans, it was based on no big deal. What are we talking about?

Dave, please, they're going. Perhaps the most intriguing case, and to be honest, main part of today's report involves Australian Rodney Marx. Oh, I thought you were going to say Rodney Marx. Rod Marx. One of the're gonna say Rodney Marsh. Rodbosch. One of the great Australian wiki capers. Fried nut. Matching things involves Imagine Rodney what are you doing?

You can't play cricket in my life. Let's do it. Go. We got a boss who will call the name of cricket pitch. He's gross. Nothing grumpy. He's silly bug for a Rodney. I reckon I could pass for a Rodney. Yeah, yeah, especially when you're older, older than the wind. I think the Gary's obviously up the top. Then you got Bruce, Rodney, Greg. Yep. Sush Greg, Greg, Sush. Greg and Greg. Greg and Greg. Greg and Greg.

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See the one is nicknamed was back. Yes. Oh Very good. That's just much good stuff. That is good stuff. Jesus. Ozy cricket is a witty. Yes Famously and wickety, but this gosh, that's good. And you're a cricket That was a strong cricket level win Who never played but I reckon I'd be really good at it really good based on that it's like how um I don't remember his real name, Lion. The spinner.

Nathan Lion. Nathan Lion. Nicknamed Gary because there was an old football I called Gary Lion. That's clever. That's clever. That's clever. And funny because he's like,

he's internationally much more famous than Gary Lion. But he's unique. That's so good. Right, but we're talking about not Rodney Marx. Rodney Marx. That's right. Marx was born and but we're talking about not Rodney Marsh. Rodney Marsh. That's right. Marx was born and studied in Jolong here in Victoria. He was an astrophysicist.

He'd previously went it over at the South Pole Station in 1997 to 1998. And having first visited the continent in 1993, he obviously loved Antarctica. He spent a lot of his time down there. According to Men's Journal, which has a great long form article on Rodney Marks that I'll link to in the show notes, Mark's specialty was radio astronomy, a highly accurate method of viewing the cosmos that relies on capturing the radio waves that objects in space transmit. And it's obviously, Antarctic is a great place to do that. Is it?

Yeah, because you know when you got to a country town or just out in the bush, how great the stars are. Is it another level in Antarctica? I don't know. If it's because you can see the stars or this less radio transmissions that get in the way, I don't know, but apparently down there is beautiful. They do have lovely telescopes where they can see clearly. That probably helps as well. Which also country towns have. That's one to so well out there They're just every one in the country has a beautiful telescope But and is it true there's like a you know the northern lights is there an equivalent in Antarctica? Yeah the Aurora Astralis yeah, I don't think I only heard of that race. That's awesome

Yeah, that's another thing we could go and see when we do a year of Put it out there. Yes, you can also you can sometimes see it in Tazzy and sometimes even W. Very hilly. South WA. Oh, that's awesome. I'd love to see that. Oh, yeah, that's cool. Yeah.

That's something that when they email you from Antarctica, if someone does, can you let us know if I'm saying Aurora Austral. That is no. Please. Please. Unless you've already sent, it's in on the email. They're replied to that email, so I have seen. Yeah. So far. I've been listening to send on the email, then reply to that email. So, PS, I have seen some of them.

I've been listening to the whole episode first, okay? Okay? We're gonna have some more questions. We're gonna have some more questions. Yeah. Third question, who are you and what do you do? Yeah, we should name them just for ease for later on. Okay?

Yeah. Okay, is that you? Come on, Keith. You better than that, Keith. Come on, Keith. In the year 2000, then age 32, Marx was stationed at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station. He was working on the Antarctic sub-millimeter telescope and remote observatory, a research project for the University of Chicago. So it's right at the South Pole. In the southernmost point under the jurisdiction, in brackets, not sovereignty of the United States.

And until 2010, the base housed a giant glass dome that truly looks like a James Bond villain's lair. It solves, and I'm pretty sure that they've used outside shots of it in episodes of the X-Files. Because it is like in the middle of the snow, this giant glass thing. It looks... Oh, I see. ...while. It's no longer used. They've got a new base. But extremely remote, even more remote than the other bases I spoke about. The South Pole has 24 hours of light over many months in summer.

And conversely, one day, the sun sets in winter. And then there is complete darkness for several months, which I think I would lose my mind. Yeah. I wouldn't cope with that. I think either of those is not, at the peak of either of those is not when you want to get the news you're there for another year. I imagine that you're in the middle of darkness non-stop

and then you hear that, you're like, I'm already feeling a bit weird. Do not challenge me to again, I'm a chastron. I'm gonna set fire at this stage. There was a real culture of drinking under the dome, especially during the long winter months. Staff got together at the bar, 90 South. Pretty cool. You do know what's cool though.

A men's journal again writes, in 1996, a worker was thrown into detox three times before he was finally forced to live in the medical facility isolated from the rest of the population because he was just drinking so much. In 2001 staff was rumored to have racked up a $10,000 bar tab. Oh! So you're going to pay for drinks. Yeah, okay. Well, I just assumed open bar. I assumed everything was free.

Yeah, but 10,000. But like, you know, how like when you go to places that are pretty remote, the bar process, like I went to the Bahamas during the year, very expensive to buy beer there. And talked to you, South Pole, what does that 10 beers? Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, no, that is interesting. Who's, so there are, there's someone down there just running a business? Like I think someone would be employed to be in charge of the bar, that would be part Who's, so is there a, there's someone down there just running a business? Like, I think someone would be employed to be in charge of the bar. That would be part of their job. I don't know if they're like the recreation supervisor or something like that.

10 grand. And maybe it all goes back into the research. I don't think they're turning a profit from the bar. It cost millions of dollars to set up. Because that, yeah, that definitely feels dangerous. Yeah. You know, people isolated the place where people's mental health is fragile, and then there's not a lot of,

there's not good medical set up there. So a bit of self-medication. Yeah. Man, I just, I don't know how alcoholics do it, like the hangovers. I guess that's how they do it. They just never have one. Never have a hangover.

Just keep drinking, keep the pus going. The crew that's how they do it. They just never have one. Never have a hangover. Just keep drinking. Keep the puskele. The crew apparently also made their own noon shine on the bass. Wow. That's how you do it. Yeah. Rodney Marx, our guy liked to drink and played guitar in the South Pole band. And their name was Fanny Pack and the big Nancy Paul.

That's fantastic. You could leave a good two-year. I was like, took a little breath. Yeah, I got a say this. Here I go. He's there. Danny Pack and the Big Nets. Are you sure that it's not Rodney Marsh?

Because this does feel, that feels like it could be a cricket ulcer team. Six-an-out style. Yeah, that's right. Brett Legend. You know about that, Ben. Jess, there was a team made up of a showing cricket that's called Six-an-out. Brett Leaghan is brother Shane. And, yeah, a couple that bad Jess. There was a team made up of a showing quicker. It's called six and out.

Brett Lagan is brother Shane and Yeah, couple I think it was all new civil rules. Oh, no, I don't know it. Big in India. Yes, you can't even out of head over there. It's so big. He's huge So Rodney marks Fanny pack and his call back boys So backish so backish So John Connor is saying back as much. Backish, marks. Bashish, marks.

Mark, do you say backish marks? Bashish marks. Carmux, probably. Bashish. Here's girlfriend, Sonja, played bass in the band. Wow. The two fell in love during the summer winter transition, just as she was about to be shipped out

at the end of her contract, they wanted to stay together so badly that she quickly applied for a winter position and was accepted just a week before the plane out. Winter position, that's actually the one that Michael Pope came up with. They killed him. They killed him. Assume the winter position. Snaped himself in a hole. Still cold down there

what the what did he go so she stayed for love so for love and he had purple hair she had green can I make it any more obvious bit of a who was like that there was almost every little bit but not quite the couple soon got engaged. Beautiful. So how they just met before she was meant to leave. That's unlucky.

A few months before she's in to leave. Right. Yeah, but then it got quite serious. And she's like, I don't want to leave. Was able to apply to stay. So now they're bunking together. On the 11th of May 2000, Rodney Marx became unwell while swarking between the remote observatory and the base He was feverish complaining of stomach pains and nausea turns out he hadn't died his hair. That was just a symptom Sounds like Dave after too much cheese should have probably no my stomach Yeah My stomach. Yeah, oh, it's, it's the name. It's the name. It's the name. I have the black name.

No, man, I'm a mystery. I got the black name. All right, Doc, I'll shoot you. You shoot me. Doc, it's like, I'm fine. And I'm not gonna shoot you. I think you just might be lactose intolerant. I don't wanna live in a world without cheese.

You could take something for it. Jesus, David. How did you pass the cyclist? I didn't tell him about cheese. They didn't ask what I didn't tell him. Cheese didn't come up. I could have turned up to tell a policy about cheese. I'm happening.

I'm gonna tell you there's a dollar cheese tab. This has been a weird episode. It's an hour. It feels like, it has been a weird episode. That's an hour. It feels like, and it has been a weird episode, normal? I only invite. Yeah, it's okay. I'm enjoying it. I'm gonna join myself, but things are taking a dark turn,

you can I say? Okay. Because he's sick so much. No, but they've just fallen in love. They've got their engaged. I'm afraid. I don't know. I think they're not going up,

because he starts vomiting blood. That's not good. Clearly, it's not right. It's not good. Clearly, it's not right. It's not just the cheese. Something's going wrong. Over 36 hours, Rodney Marks conditioned progressively worsened and he sought help from the bassist's doctor, Dr. Robert Thompson, three times. Marks was so sensitive to light that he wore sunglasses around the bass, which made him

look really cool, but he was quite sick. People wear sunglasses. I could not get any cooler. He sounds like he could have been in a member of a weed hornet. Oh, he wishes. Actually no, this is the guy who was a member of that other band, right? Yeah, okay. Probably kind of being the good of support of weed hornet.

Funny packing the big dance floor. This is the U2000, a couple years before we don't, they're all a big influence. Okay, yeah. So medical advice was sought by satellite, because you kept going to the doctor saying, I'm getting worse, I'm feeling terrible, I'm vomiting blood, clearly something's going wrong.

So they'd radioed out for satellite support, but Marx died the next day on the 12th of May, 2000. age 32 with his condition undiagnosed. Wow. Which shit. It was shocking, fully unexpected, but no one suspected foul play that I saw. I don't know. It's just something happened.

He just got sick. I didn't suspect foul play either until you said that. Yeah. And now put it in your head. At the start of the episode, he said crime. And I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I just noted it out about Antarctica. I loved it. I loved watching you note out. Yeah. So I'm still not going to Antarctica. That was going to be my

pitch at the end. When are we going? According to one of our favorite websites, all that's interesting, the National Science Foundation, which governs all US base research at the station, issued a statement announcing that marks had died of natural causes. It doesn't seem very natural. But they were like, I mean, what has happened to you? So it's got some sort of, like, illness quickly died. But because of the remote location of the South Pole base and the harsh winter weather, his body wasn't able to be immediately repatriated. Instead, his body was kept in a freezer at the observatory for six months until it could be fought.

Was that necessary? Keeping it inside? Put it on the porch. How much power they wasting having a freezer? Treat him as a roundabout. If you feel like an ice cream, just go outside. Grab one. Grab one. It's got an ask you out there. Yeah. A cholly bun.

Thank you. Well, thank you for the mentioning the cholly bun, because after six months his body was flown to Christchurch in New Zealand for an autopsy. Home of the cholly bun. Home of the cholly bun. The chollyest of bonds. Both the US and Australian governments agreed to the post-mortem being conducted in New Zealand.

Because remember, it's very complicated about the jurisdiction, because he was working on an American base, but he's an Australian citizen. So technically it comes under the Australian stuff. But then the New Zealand base is the closest to get him back for the autopsy and everyone agreed, fine. We think you died of natural causes anyway.

Yeah. Yeah. But you got to investigate. You take care of it. And also it's like, is Australia being like, what if New Zealand messes with this? Why would they? Why would you be? Yeah. Why would we love New Zealand?

And they, uh, they, they're not in my desk. They acknowledge weeks as sometimes. Yeah. I think of Australia as being New Zealand's western state. Yeah, I agree Yeah, we could be so lucky I absolutely agree, but there was real shock when the autopsy established that Rodney marks had died from methanol poisoning Oh Highly toxic wood alcohol-based chemical that marks may have used to clean the high-tech

telescopes. But it was found in amounts far beyond what would be expected with normal contact about a small wine glass's worth of being consumed. Oh, shit! You accidentally licked your fingers or something after cleaning it. Another curious thing was noticed. Marks had needle marks on his arms, but no illegal drugs in his body. Something was off, and it needed investigating.

But this is where the complicated territorial claims in Antarctica come into play. The territory on which the Amunstand Scott Station is built, as long since been a source of controversy between the US and New Zealand. a source of controversy between the US and New Zealand. Though it is a US base, and most of the people who work there are Americans, the land on which it sits is claimed by New Zealand, and Rodney Marx was an Australian citizen, so there's three separate governments talking about this. Instinctively, I'm sorry when New Zealand here. Yeah. I don't need any more info.

My rulings with New Zealand. More than K-Way. For sure. Well, let's find out. For years, the New Zealand police attempted to find the truth. If he was murdered, only 49 other people lived on the base. So the suspect pool is pretty limited. But the New Zealand investigation was hit by a series of walls from the US government. Can I just check, is that a literal suspect pool at the base? Is that what they make them all?

Yeah, there's a sauna. A basketball pool. A basketball pool. The suspect pool. Olympic size pool. It's been sitting there dormant since we built it. Finally, we get to everyone in. All 49 in the suspect pool place.

So different. What's up? No. And you wonder why we've been here for nearly an hour and a half. Yeah, we haven't fun though. We're having fun. I think AJ is going to have fun editing out. Oh, the word nonsense. Is that way you've been instinctively started in New Zealand? Yes.

You want him to be kind to you? No, I mean, I do that anyway, but yeah. He does personify New Zealand to me. Yes. One of the nicest guys. Yes. An angel. True of heart.

Yes. And very smart. True of heart and very smart. Someone get me a pen. I'm in pain. I'm operating on myself here. But no, anything that's been left in, I think the list of them should know that AJ is approved of that.

Yeah. We agree that it was tedious nonsense. Agreed. But if AJ left it in, AJ's been left in, I think the list of them should know that AJ is approved of that. We agree that it was tedious nonsense. A grade. But if AJ is left in it, and we trust AJ's instincts. That's right. Who are you to question AJ? How fucking dare you question AJ? But if you do want to get onto him, AJ and HD also should move you. Follow him on TikTok and elsewhere and just let them know your thoughts positively.

Yes. Yeah, positive thoughts only, please. So they wanted to contact 49 of these people, the New Zealand police. Yeah. So they have, if there's, has been a murder, one of these 49 people did it, so let's talk to them. But all efforts to find a list of staff at the base were ignored by the US authorities. Eventually, they were given email contacts for Marx colleagues.

Police then sent questionnaires to all 49 of Rodney Marx co-workers, but they received only 13 replies. Oh, that's amazing. 36 people just ignored them. I'm not ignoring the police. No. But what if we're going to spend more time on something, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. That can happen. I could be ignoring the police right now. Yeah, they might be like going Jess hello as per our last email come on come on and I'm just not seeing it. Yeah, yeah as per our last email You owe us a hundred dollars and fines please play in an iTunes gifts voucher. Yeah, can I have a quick? Guess what's happened here 36 of the 49 couldn't swim and they were trading water for a little while. Eventually their body's just floating in the suspect pool, leaving only 39. The strongest swimmer's left. How many do you think there are? 36 have perished.

But there's 13 left. 13 left. Oh, my nickname for 13 is 13 left. Right, right, right. It's a couple of get assistive. But it works for me. And one of those 13 survivors killed him? We don't know.

Well, maybe the murder was a bad swimmer. Wow. We don't know. We don't know, Dave. Do we know? What nationality was his fiance? Good question. Not sure. I'm not sure. They always go to the part. No, that's always one of the big suspects

Yeah, yeah, right and there's national does you trust more than others? No, can we get a quick list Most trust whether they do like trust whether No, I meant more that like she was also Australian, guilty, guilty. Oh, okay. Can't trust his choice. Well, as long as you're, yeah, I think that's okay too. I can say that. I think you can say that.

Now we're getting into D No, I'm not. You never believed at least trustworthy country. My thinking was that the Americans were being a little, they were being very helpful, they were being very responsive. They absolutely have not been. So I was like, maybe she's American, they're just protecting their own. Protecting her. Or one of the other, nearly everyone else is American, so I presume she is, but I don't

know. New Zealand detective Grant Warmold suggested that some of the people they tried to contact may have quote, thought twice about making contact on the basis of their future employment situation. Ah. Like because the base is like, oh, hey, maybe don't talk to them. Yeah. It looks bad for the base. And if you want to keep getting a job from us, just sort of blank them.

Yeah. Detective Warmold requested the results of lab tests done on what little evidence was collected in Rodney Marx's room and work area. He got no response. The New Zealand police say that a full investigation into Mark's death had been carried out by US organizations, but they have refused to release their findings. Oh, that's weird. Yeah, it's a bit suspicious, isn't it?

Theories have been put forward. One is that he drank the methanol on purpose. The Guardian writes, he was also known to be a Ben Strenker. Perhaps he had distilled his own booze and then accidentally poisoned himself, it was suggested. Yet alcohol was readily available on the base, and yet Marx was an experienced drinker who would have known the dangers of homemade spirits. As one colleague described him, Marx was a brilliant witty and steady sort of bloke who drank to excess on occasion. So the Australian, that sounds like an ass. It's such an Australian. It's like if I ever get poisoned with alcohol, people will be like,

yeah, well, we know he likes drinking. So he did it himself. That's like a wild that that, I hope, yeah, I hope you know that I won't do that. I don't care what they say. Okay. The Guardian or whoever else. But the Guardian is basically saying that's in done like a. The guard okay. No good on the go. It was a better call. What do you call it? Old man call it. That's body. fission chip wrapping. Yeah. Got him. Got him. I don't know how you do that with an online newspaper. Got him. Another theory is it was an accident.

But this was ruled out because the only presence of methanol at the camp was a diluted form in cleaning supplies for the telescopes. Pretty hard to accidentally drink it, you think. Yeah, and a lot of it. Yeah. Yeah. Man's journal writes, Detective Warmold would eventually learn that Marx's workspace was notoriously messy.

Bottles of lab agents like methanol and ethanol were often thrown about alongside a dozen also empty bottles of alcohol. The methanol used at this south pole is similar to a car's wind shield wiper fluid. While the less toxic ethanol, a common ingredient in the base's homemade moonshine, is more like rubbing alcohol.

Both are colorless and nearly as odorless as vodka, and almost indistinguishable from what another entaste. Mistaking the two was certainly a possibility, especially by someone under the influence of alcohol. But other people again have said, that seems unlikely. And the inject and needle marks. Yeah, that seems unlikely. And the inject and needle marks. Yeah, that seems a bit...

Yeah, the needle marks. Well, suspicious. An inquest was finally held in 2007 where grant or mold revealed it was most unlikely, in his words, that the scientists had knowingly ingested the methanol that had killed him. Which the guardian suggests means that marks had been deliberately poisoned or was the victim of a prank or an act of criminal negligence. Pretty good prank. It's a good prank.

Got him. Jean Davidson, who was a colleague of Marx, said, he was too smart to drink it knowingly. If anything, maybe someone else didn't know the difference between methanol and ethanol and put the wrong thing in his drink, saying, here, drink this, it'll give you a good buzz. I always come back to the idea he was slipped it and maybe the person didn't even know it. So someone had accidentally poisoned it. Right.

It was their theory. If Rodney Marx had known, he'd accidentally consume the methanol, he would have likely said something in the 36 hours when he was sick because he kept going to the doctor saying, I'm sick. I don't know why I'm sick. And if he'd done it himself,

he would be going to the doctor and be like, I drank this. I drank this, maybe it wasn't there. Maybe it wasn't good. I've had this to drink, I've had this to eat, but didn't say anything like that. He just said, I'm feeling terrible, I feel like I'm dying, I don't know what's going on.

Tragically, a machine that could have saved his life sat in the corner of the medical room where he died. What? It's called, and I'm gonna have attempted this, an Echt-Cham blood analyzer, which would have recognized in a normal, anion gap in Marx's blood, the cause for which makes up a fairly short list, including methanol poisoning. Oh wow. Had his condition been caught in time,

reversing the effects could have been a simple matter of running a mixture of ethanol and saline through his blood. Oh jeez. So drip through his body, sorry, didn't mean blood through his body, yeah. He's hooked him up to a drip. A drip, yeah. A drip, yeah. Is it the kind of thing that like the the doctor on the base would be going I should have done that or is it like? Yes, so man's journal notes, the machines single tiny lithium ion battery had died and therefore the machine lost its calibration every time it was turned on.

Once turned back on it took up to nine hours to recalibrate, because usually the battery just keeps the data going. But it was dead. Base, physician, Robert Thompson had known about the malfunction and even reported it to the company, Raytheon, but for some reason never attempted to fix it and decided against simply leaving it on all the time, just plugged into the wall. It was by no means a necessary piece of equipment in the physician's day to day duties, but it was there for a reason they write emergencies just like this one.

Yeah, it's sort of like, I have limited power points. I'm not kind of waste. I mean, I'll keep my phone charged. But it's, he survived for more than nine hours anyway. Exactly, yeah. So, first time he comes in, could flick it on. If you'd fired it on in the first nine hours. Surely you're like, you're vomiting blood.

There's something in your system that's not good. Let's check it out. I mean, I'm not a doctor, I should say. I am a doctor. I would have straight away. I'm sorry, I'll defer to you then. I would have straight away been testing the blood. Yeah, okay.

And then run in a mix of saline and... Oh yeah. Oh, you would have chosen to save his life well that's not a bad option because you took the Hippocratic oath of course and not all doctors stand by that not all take it

it's optional oh is it that's what people don't realize that's one it's optional yeah yeah and you decided to take it

I was like no you know what I'll do it that is I think that's great yeah thanks I think that's great I think you're. I think that's great, I think you're great. Stop flirting with me. I'm a doctor. Okay, well, you can't flirt with doctors. I love a woman in uniform.

A doctor uniform you wear. Scrubs? A woman in scrubs. Oh my God. Ugh. I should say suicide was also investigated and ruled out by by grant war mold as the least likely explanation. Again, because you've gone in there being like,

I don't know what's happening to me. Please help me. I feel terrible. I don't know what it is. Yeah. Again, even if you decided, I know this is awful. I'd love to live. You'd say, I've drunk this. Yeah. Can you fix this? Exactly. He was just in complete confusion. Men's journal that has a long form article on this, like I said, seemed to think that the reason the US and the base didn't want to cooperate with any of the investigations was to avoid the PR nightmare of having one of their workers murdered or dying accidentally in just in poison and not having the medical equipment in working order to save them. I think that's, I think they've got the priorities in the right order there.

Well, that's just a theory from Man's Journal. It is a bit sus of they have not played along, apparently done their own investigation, never released the results. And just to me, that feels wild. Did it's not like you figure it out, and then you fix your system. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what I do, but I'm not an American administrator you figure it out and then you fix your system. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I do, but I'm not an American and an administrator in whatever department that would be. Oh, okay. Well, that's the difference. Yeah. The Department of Coverups.

The Department of Coverups, yeah. I don't work in that. Actually, I wouldn't even if they wanted me to because I don't like coverups. No, you like the truth. I like getting it all out there. Ha ha ha ha. Like getting the truth and I like getting it all out. Like getting the truth. And I like getting it all out there. Cause I believe the truth is

out there, but I want to get it right out there. So yeah, men's journal positive that they already knew that alcohol had a problem at the base. And this would not have been a good look at all. That's what I think. Men's journal also put forward a new theory in 2017. Harry Marha, South Pole Health and Safety Officer at the time mentioned to investigators that he saw an unusual shaped bottle of liquor. He'd heard that Marx had brought back to the base from an R&R trip to New Zealand just before the start of winter.

Collegan friend Darren Schneider remembers the bottle too and says it was among several empty ones found behind Marx's computer after he died. He recalls that had an exotic looking black and white label, with writing in Portuguese or a similar language and a picture of a shrimp. He believes that it was thrown away with all the other bottles when they cleared out the room. But one colleague who remembers the bottle, but wishes to remain anonymous told men's journal in 2017, that as soon as he learned Marx had been poisoned, it hit him that this bottle could have played a role. He had a theory, and he shared it at the time with a fellow crew member and investigators, but it was roundly dismissed as wild speculation I was never investigated. His theory is that

there have been many reports on Likur and South East Asia being souped up with methanol, and that sometimes people die after unknowingly ingesting the poison. And in fact the World Health Organization reports as many as 300 deaths per year relating to lack of quality controls, especially in the preparation of illicit liquor, and they happen all over the world, and all these deaths are the result of acute methanol poisoning. But it is just a theory. But his theory is that he brought back this alcohol from a trip. But it was from New Zealand, which I imagine has pretty strong

regulation. Maybe it's some sort of homemade thing. He's had it, had it to drink, hasn't realized, oh my god, this is actually poisonous. Diathritis is how it's later. I would say that does sound like wild speculation. Yeah, it is. Because he's like, oh, I haven't seen that bottle before, probably poison. Yeah. Yeah. But it's quite a specific description as well, though. You can't be able to find a...

Find the shrimp bottle. Yeah. I should also note that you might be the moonshine, they drank tested negative for methanol. So it definitely wasn't the moonshine. But we're left with many questions. Why are the stonewalling from the US? Are they covering up something? Sadly, we don't know what happened to Rodney Marx and it's

likely we never will. We don't know because that's right. It's a mystery episode. Oh my god. I really think we should get Mulder and Scully under this. Yeah. They love Antarctica. Get them down there. Get them back down there. And Mulder will go in and they'll say, he'll have a look around and say, you know what, there is a chance that this is an alien dust that came down from a planet in another solar system. Oh my gosh. And it drifted down and it landed in this shrimp bottle. Yes. And I think aliens got inside the bottle. Yes.

In turn, into the body. Yes. And they started a colony in his body. And in their renovations, they had to dig up a lot of stuff. His organs. And that resulted in bleeding, which was a sort of like mouth ablutioned. And now he's probably an alien colony. And what would Scully say to that? I don't know, molder. And then it would turn out that he's a hundred percent wrong.

Every time she'll never learn. And then her medical background, the fact that she's a trained doctor, means nothing. The fact that she does all the topsy signs, she's still not, somehow misses it. She misses the aliens. They were waving at it. Come on. Oh, hello, welcome. Welcome to our new colony. They're very nice.

It was just a whoopsie. They didn't realize they were creating their colonies. They were mortified. Oh my god. I'm so embarrassed. I didn't know that someone already lived here. That's so embarrassing. I have repainted. I painted his liver.

Oh, it's so embarrassing. Does he need that? He's dead. Oh, no. Can we stay here? Can we stay here? Yeah. We painted the nib of his appendix black.

Is that an issue? Everyone paid. Cam, we started. Yeah. We painted the nib of his appendix plaque. Is that an issue? Everyone's back. Rodney Marks Legacy and Memorial does live on the continent. Mount Marks, a mountain in the Warchester range of Antarctica, with a height of 2600 meters or 8 1,500 feet is named after him. A plaque was erected at the base at the site of the South Pole in January 2001, and it is marked by a memorial to him.

That's nice. It's such a sad story. It is really sad. No closure for friends and family. Yeah, I read an interview with his dad who said, I've given up on finding out the truth. So sad. That's sad. Just, yeah.

And, um, what about his girlfriend? Yes, and she had to stay on the base. And what about his girlfriend? Yes, and she had to stay on the base. After, you know, because it was in winter, no one was going home. So you're there with, and your colleagues have to keep working. Everyone has such a small thing. Everyone knows each other.

Fanny Pack have to keep playing without him. Yeah. What was his role in the band? From him. He played guitar. He played bass. He played bass. He played bass. Yeah, it's a pretty important role. She played bass.

Yeah. Oh man. But I didn't want to end on that down note because it's certainly not the most recent crime to occur in Antarctica. Oh, yeah. Are you going to leave on an uplifting Antarctic crime? Well, in comparison, on the 9th of October, October, it's the wild time of year. 2018, a stabbing occurred at a Russian research station. Dave, Dave not. Let me finish. I can win this one. The victim was an RC. So a guess of it's key, a 54 year old electrical engineer stabbed Oleg Balogazov, a 52 year

old welder in the chest multiple times. But the reason for the stabbing was reported as being because Belugasov was giving away the endings of books, which is it's he was checking out of the stations library. This recently got posted in the Patreon group. Yeah, that's right. I'd already reset so funny. That's amazing. He was arrested but was remorseful. And his victim forgiving him meant that he's from the great beyond or... No, he lived. He lived.

Stab multiple times, but he forgave the stabber. So when it went before a judge, the case was dropped. Wow. So it really was a victimless crime. And the victim stopped spoiling any... What a weird thing to do. So weird and so funny. That was uplifting. I feel uplifting. It's just one of the things.

Spending months, if not years, if you're left down there and close proximity. Weird things are going to happen. You just go a bit nuts. Yeah, and he would think it's pretty funny just warning him up a bit. It's honestly placed up doing that. Maybe it's pretty funny just whining him up a bit. Yeah, yeah, it's like it's honestly Play is stop doing like once Even then it's a bit of a dog act but um to keep doing it and he's like I just want to read a fucking book Please it's our only joy He'd be clever to start

Reading books inside book. Yeah, he's spoiling the wrong book. Yeah, he's spoiling little women, but doesn't matter I'm reading something else. Little women too. I couldn't think of an own single other book, a horrible hunger games. Great. I saw a little bit of an episode of Friends recently and some ones for little women for Joey.

Yeah. Is that wasn't it, Chris? It's possibly why I thought of it. I'm like that is wild. Yeah. Because I was about to call Mulder and Scully and say, how is this possible? How, how did this happen?

I think aliens. But that is it. That's my report. My deep dive into Antarctica. After all that, I've decided I'm probably not going to die. Don't want to get started. So now I'm going by myself. Sorry.

I'm out. At least I'll have two empty seats next to me on the plane. You can stretch out. Please. How do you get there? You either take a boat or they fly you in like on a military plane. Oh, wow. And you have to wear like, you know, full on stuff that's been.

It protects you from the boat. Oh, there you go. My dream is to do one of those cruises down there. Yeah, wow. Love it, but they cost literally tens of thousands of dollars. Yeah. So I don't think I'll ever get... I get seasick.

And again, chronic illness. It's just simply not worth it. Okay. You can do flyovers. My parents during COVID when you couldn't fly anywhere went to the Melbourne Airport, and they do like a 12 hour flyover. Really? And they make sure that everyone has the window hit for a bit and then you swap.

Have you ever looked? Parents tens of thousands, eh? Well, no, the least flights didn't cost that. Pantes were like, we're making no money. Oh, right. The only flights we can do right now. So they took off, flew over it for 12 hours, you get a meal or whatever, and then they fly you back and you land back where you were.

And technically you haven't traveled anywhere. So it was a loud dream. Dream COVID, yeah. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool. They said it was pretty cool. Yeah.

It wasn't the same thing as traveling. Yeah, looking at those tiny, you have to go. So do you have a house in total? Oh, maybe even a little bit longer. Wow. I mean, yeah, it takes longer to get to LA. Yeah. You might as well go check out Antarctica. It'll fly over. That's pretty cool. You get to see some cool stuff. Like the scenery is pretty amazing. I'd be like, go lower. Lower. Land it. Land it.

I want to see a penguin. Dan Andrews can't get us from here. Let's not hold you laughter on you. Does that's how the ring is still? Some very, very brave. Original references there. Killing in the regents. Great report Dave. Well done. Bit of fun new year, new me.

Jesus was you. Are you gonna be fun now? Yeah. Okay. I was cool the last nine years. Yeah. Let's be fun. No, no, no fun. Yeah, what's cool? No fun? Yes Thank God, you've been a real stiff shirt stuff shirt

Charlie bun You've been a real Charlie bun this whole time. What's a stop shirt? It's not like a someone being like a someone's a real stick in the mud. They're real stuff shirt Just say stick in the mud then right. That's what you mean deep down. There's all you can stiff to stuff. Oh, I don't know. Well, you know what? That actually brings us to everyone's favorite section of the show. Which is where we thank some of our great Patreon supporters. If you want to be one of these, go to patreon.com slash do go on pod and

I'll do you. Why double day. Oh wow. Dave do you want to explain to people what goes on there? Oh patreon this is the way that we support, you know we keep the show going, the way that you can support the show whilst also getting a bunch of bonus rewards including access to live shows before other people discount codes. We've got a lovely Facebook group that is honestly such a nice part of the internet.

You can get bonus episodes. We put out three a month and you get access to the back catalog, which is about 200 bonus episodes. So a lot of stuff you to discover there. We've seen that Christmas cards once a year. And yeah, I guess you also get the satisfaction of knowing that we can keep doing this show week after week. Yeah.

Have a satisfying that, that must be pretty satisfying. And it was as you're right the here we do shout out to you on the show. We thank you. And we also have a section called the Fact Quote or Question. That's right. And I think we're we're even getting quite close to doing maybe a fourth bonus episode a month. That's right. We are going to do a Dungeons and Dragons campaign that will be monthly ongoing series, which to me, and maybe it's just to me, very exciting. Yeah, because we've done one before with Adam Conovale.

It was very fun. From SensePense Radio, and we had a great time with him, and we're gonna get together again and become wizards and orcs and... I'm a bad. Yeah, I'm a casino muskraves. Because we have done a previous campaign before, which is a lot of fun.

But you didn't also listen to one Patreon. Yeah, do you think, and we think we're gonna stick with those names? Because I was Gary Gregson, I think But maybe now I could be um Greg Garyson. Yeah Rodney middle name Rodney middle name It's very creative in Scott God, he's good. I can't, it's, yep. Rodney Middle name is very funny.

Can I have that? That's literally what you said. I know, but I was saying adding Rodney as the middle name to what you said. But I didn't make that clear enough and that's on me. Rodney Middle name it is. Sorry, I've already locked it in. So the first thing we like to do as we think some of our great it is, sorry I've already locked it in. So the first thing we like to do, as we think, some of our great supporters, is go through a section we call the fact quote a question section, which I think has a little jingle

guess I'm gonna like this. Fact quote a question. D. Hmm, it always remembers the jingle. She always remembers the thing. That's the jingle. And in this section, people on the Sydney Shondurg level or above get to write in, give us a fact, a quote,

or a question, they also get to give themselves a title, and then I'll read them out for the first time on the show. That's really just me, excusing any fumbles or stumbles along the way, or if they say anything awful. Then it's not, it's not us saying it. Or untrue or whatever, I haven't. Exactly, that's right. There was, we're really at or whatever I haven't exactly that's right there was I'm just we're really at quotes I haven't I haven't vetoed any of this if it makes it through and if it's awful

That's on both the person who's written it and AJ who hasn't edited it So everyone is legally responsible except except when this correct. Yes, we have nothing to do with it We are butter vessel. Dave, am I right in saying this is episode 428? This is episode 428. How good, man. Can you believe it? I barely can. So first up this week, we've got one from Patrick J. Ealy, who we heard from back in November with that great jingle. Oh, yeah, Sc you're calling it. Oh yes, great musician. Oh yeah, of course. And Patrick has given himself the title of a vice chairperson of Dugo on related laughter

induced asthma attacks. Wow. Okay. Finally, that role has been filled. And Patrick has a question writing, hey mates, what item that you have with you regularly, would you use for self-defense? Oh, we're joined by a special guest at Broden Kelly. We are recording, absolutely. Johnny.

Yeah, a fresh cut there, Bro, and you're looking very sharp. Turn on that mic, Dave. Hi guys, thanks for having me. Last time you came on, uh, someone commented that it was obnoxious. Yeah. Someone didn't like it. Well, if they thought that was obnoxious. Yeah. Someone didn't like it. Well, if they thought that was obnoxious, get ready for this. Oh, what do you got?

Nothing. No coffee. I was walking down the hallway and I heard Jess on the phone. Yep. And I went, Jess is here. And then I got closer and closer and I realized I got to that door and I realized that you were mid-record. Mid-record?

Mid-record. Yeah, mid-record. And I walked out of the aisle of Mr. and then I thought something to me just went go in there. Yeah. You were that desperate to see me. Well, you're at the perfect time because we got a question from Patreon. We're like an hour and 40. Yeah, well, I feel less obnoxious.

No, it's a Patreon section. they call that the chill the diehards No one the drop off you seen the stats here on like the average podcast the people who stick around here are About 1% yeah, yeah, yeah, they are the 1% and we do it for them Yeah, they are only the richest people in the world listen to this guy gone So Patrick's question, bro. It is what item that you have with your regularly would you use for self-defense? Yeah, and that's for you guys. That's not for me. I for all of us. I've had that good hard money to hear what you three would. I reganced for you. It's just your fists.

Yeah, I'm not you my brawn. Yeah. My answer is drink bottle 100%. Mine's even bigger. Frank, right? You're gonna need we would have fucked up for that. You killed me with that thing? Well, firstly, I think Mine's even bigger. Okay, you're gonna be able to fuck you up for that. You'd kill me with that thing. Well, firstly, I think this is a leader. Okay. So it's gonna be heavier. I think I'm in the 700 mil, too.

Yeah, so you're fucked, mate. Do people at home know that you have two friend green water bottles? I've got two water bottles. Well, this one had electrolytes in it. Oh, no. Because I actually deficient in amino acids. Isn't that fun? Yeah, electrolytes in it. Oh, no. Because I actually deficient in amino acids. Isn't that fun?

Yeah, and electrolytes have amino acids. Some do, this one does. Wow. But for self-defense, you could go to your, like, one in each hand, which would be pretty, like you got two swords. Yeah, yeah. You should get a connecting chain between them

and have them as like a non-chuck. Fuck yeah, that would be very cool. That would be very cool. The hydration, non-chuck. Yeah, you've been hydrated. I'm the hydrater. Yeah, you're the hydrater. Oh, that's cool.

If I was, I'm a listener to do go on and I think the listeners at home would be interested to hear how much detail goes into the questions you've put, you like they are, you've got a really comprehensive beautiful Google sheets. Yeah. Like where the breakdown of everyone's question is there, you've got the question up the top, there's, you're on column 836 with questions here.

And you've highlighted the blue, it's really thoughtfully done. You've got a separate sheet up. Yeah, so I'm ready for the next step, which is the shout out. So that's on row 1061. Fucking hell. And that's the second we had it that that's an updated spreadsheet. There was another one.

We clocked Google spreadsheets. We filled it. Can I ask a Patreon question? Sure. How is your audience feeling about since you've gone to using these Canon 4K cameras and you've been out putting more regular socials content out. How have they responded to that?

They're loving it. They're loving it sick. A few months ago, someone commented on one of these videos that they couldn't believe how cool Dave is. Yeah. Genuinely? Genuinely. So you couldn't believe it.

Couldn't believe how cool Dave is. And we know that your audience are very like they're on the button as far as that. They know I'm obnoxious and they know that you're cool I should say I should say a lot of people came to your defense. No, no, that's fine under that comment I think it is I was what what kind of fucking self-centered asshole walks up to a closed door that says recording and walks in yeah Yeah, that's a fucking asshole. No, No, I think they had your number. Yeah. I'm not just, I think it was about time. Do you remember that time you wanted to come to our LA shows

and you showed up a day early and then left and never came to the show? Yeah, remember that? I flew in, I bought my tickets for that day because I'm like, I've got to leave at some point. I got to get there by early November. And you were doing a show on the 23rd of October, I'll just go then. But yeah, I he messaged me a day earlier. I was in I think somewhere like

Seattle or Vancouver or something and he said, Hey man, you're ready to do it. And I was like, I hope you mean ready to do it as in tomorrow. You're ready to do it. You're ready for 24 hours from now. Stop warming up. And I said, oh no. I've made it mistake. Low voiced men going, oh, I'm being a little bit... What if we die anyway? I was like, it was the first thing I booked in. After that, I figured out the time difference,

and I never went back and figured out to check the first thing that I booked it. Like four months earlier, whatever it was. What was the blessing in disguise? You didn't have to watch our bullshit, you got, and you got on the right schedule. Sorry to that fan for being obnoxious. Love to you at the rest of you.

Jack the Hat McViddy, eh? Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. He was a low level criminal in the olden days. You could do an episode about Google sheets. I would like a journey from spreadsheets that the Microsoft word, I guess. Yeah. Are you ever gonna come back and do another report?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, if I back and do another report? Yeah, yeah. Well, if I'm wanted. I think there's some, we've done since then, we've done a lot of plain, accident-related episodes. But you're the expert in that. Not anymore. Do you know apparently, though, they're creating a new triple-decker...

Triple-ing. That's the talk. A380 is the double-decker buses. Yeah. And they were designed, and's the talk is A380, is the double deck of buses, and they were designed, and we can do an episode about it, but they were designed to large hall people to major, like to hubs, so to like, you know, Abu Dhabi, and then Sydney kind of one. Anyway, and then the vibe was they were financially

unviable, and then they've doubled down and gone triple decker, so more people on the fucking floor. Yeah. Get more and more in there. Bye. If they're double deckers. No he's gone. He's gone. He's gone. That's I've got a question for when he comes back and doesn't episode about it. Great. I'm so sorry. Thanks so much for the burden. Thanks so much for the burden. Patrick answers the question like we always say so you're both going to the bottles. I think so Maybe I think it's something else because Dave had bottle even though I would fuck him I don't really think about how I could because I've got a good little a lid Yeah, it's attached to the bottle by this little rubber thing and I feel I could really swing. Yeah

It depends on where I yeah where I would normally think keys. Keys, yeah. That's the one that I would, you know, if I'm in an environment that's feeling unsafe, keys in the pocket. Keys in the, in between your fingers. I'm unlikely to have the water, I don't, depends on where I am. I have the water bottle when I've got my backpack. Yeah.

If I'm working. Could he use your backpack? Backpack, yeah. Backpack, backpack. Maybe my dog. He's not always with me, but he's my hearty. See, it's swinging on a chain. I could swing him.

He's about 15 kilos. Is it going to be even heavier than the drink? You could connect your two dogs with a chain and make some sort of dog-nunchucks. Dog-nunchucks. It's quite a difference in size. You'd probably hold, you'd want a hold Humphrey. Yes, and swing goose. In swing goose. Yeah. But there's only about three kilos.

There's more Humphrey. Yeah, right, yeah. But I think you did two, two cumbersome to swing it around. Yeah, yeah, he's got long legs. He's gangly. But you could like, I don't know, slap them across the face. Now, this is the kind of talks that dog lovers are okay with, because it's a joke, right? Or are their dog lovers out there going how dare they I think they're farmer that I speak for them Yeah, just think of friends who post about Comedian friends are post about their pets sometimes and I matter the post. I don't know if you guys get this I'm out of the post there will be

Feedback based on well they're probably behaving that way because they're not stimulated enough. Yes, 100%. Emotionally. Yep. You're a bad pet owner. Yes. It's oh my god, that woulda nightmare. The post was just a fun thing. Taking a dog out for a walk, look how happy he is. Imagine if you were a parent. Yeah. Oh, I'm taking the kid out for a walk. Look how happy he is. Imagine if you were a parent. Yeah. Oh, I'm taking the kid out for a walk, look how happy he is. Well, actually, he looks, his eyes look malnourished. And that hat is not wide-brinned enough.

Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. Good point. Do you reckon parents are worse than pet parents? Yeah. Okay. In every way. In every way that it was. In every way that it was.

In every way way it was. Ah, so we go on, keys, water bottle, what are you going with? Or do you want to hear his, first? Oh yeah, yeah. So it might inspire you. Let's see, no, it looks pretty specific. All right, this is what Patrick writes. I work as a smoke alarm technician, so I'm often within arm's reach of dozens of non-volved batteries.

Oh, yeah. I reckon they do some real damage if you copped one to the head. Plus, they can heat up and become explosive if you connect the terminals of two batteries together. Whoa. Love yours and stay safe for the holiday season. I mean, there's your next song, Patrick. I don't think you just like tell the story.

If you're taking down some sort of a, I'm making a pretty bad person because it feels like that can't be someone who's like brush past you at the pub. Yeah, that's true for a long time. They've got to be the aggressor. Yeah. It's got to be self-defense. It's got to be self-defense.

I'm just looking, I was just thinking like what else is in my bag and all that, the other thing I have is like an ID on a lanyard so I could strangle someone with that. Good one. That's good. So that's good. You should change over the chain that you used to be like piano wire. Yes. Or just like chain.

Yeah, all right. Yeah, razor blades. Rater blades. The most Aussie blades. Yeah, pit's real. Plyceria razor blades. What is razor blades meant to be on our rise up lights? Rise up lights. Rise up lights. Poets are rare. Poets are rare.

Thank you so much for that question Patrick. So we got the Lanyard, we got the keys, we got the bottle. I don't think anyone's taken us. All the gangs. Our next one comes from Mr. Justin MacKane. Polays the silly game. All the kids in the street.. Police. See the game. Oh, look, he did not straight. I like to do the same.

And Justin McCain is just a regular old male man and he's offering us a break. And I'm pretty sure Justin McCain is one of our earliest patrons. Am I right in thinking that? I feel like Justin McCain's been around. Yeah, absolutely right. I think they even checked recently about who the,

he might be the oldest. He's 150 years old. Um, so he's offering us a break. Justin McCain writing one time at about 14. I won a wrestling match by tackling the kid and pinning him in under five seconds. Whoa. I was so stunned and proud of myself

that I forgot all my training properly and lost my very next match. I want to trophy for the fastest pin of the promptly and lost my very next match. I want a trophy for the fastest pin of the tournament and never won another match again. Still have the trophy to this day. That is a good break. That's pretty cool. I like it because it just in my game I feel like an Australian kind of break because you can't just end with, yeah, it was the fastest ever. That's pretty cool. It has to end with, I lost the next match, never won again. Yeah.

I saw. Certainly not the top-uping myself. That's just hindsight, too, you know? That's just like, that's an nostalgia brag, you know? Like I was year seven, high jump champion against all the tall girls. Were you? Yeah. Were you flopping?

Yeah. Oh, Cizakickan. Nath, I was a flop. Yeah, great. I think I think all the best too. All right. Justin McCann's from Pittsburgh. Okay, wow, we'll eat fit in here. Fit right in.

Maybe that's just another one of those all people things. No, it wouldn't be. We couldn't have things in common. Oh yeah, talking about the Fuzzbury flop, apparently on one episode I said he was an Australian, which he's not. He's American. So I apologize for that. But I was flopping.

And you know I like to claim. Maybe he visited here once. That's enough for me. That's enough. Thank you so much, Justin McCain. Next one comes from Alec Ruiz Guerrero. Alec Ruiz Guerrero. Alec Ruiz Guerrero. And Alex title is Fry Cook

at the do-go on Diner. P.S. can I have Fry Day morning off? I have a doctor appointment. Oh my God. Well, it's Thursday afternoon now. Yeah. So. Very late notice. Yeah.

I would have liked a little more note. You can, and you're lucky But you're lucky that Jess is a good boss, and I'm a great fry cook. I'll do it. Yes, but honestly I would just appreciate a little bit more of a heads up, and I'm sorry I spoke to you in an angry tone just then just a lot of my plate the pingu of the do go on Okay, okay, it's so funny. You say that because you know how Pingu like he his lips go out fully. They're almost like trumpet lips. Yeah, I have said very recently, wondering in my house that I wish I could do that. Like fully like. Yeah, yeah, plus thing lips

would be great. It'd be so good. Well, you know bit of Botox or a lot of Botox a lot of filler I think a lot of yeah, you take that to the plastic surgeon. I'd like to look like Pingu, please So I get picked a pingu said this I bet there there's got to be someone out there anyway. I'm not I'm gonna go to Pingu lips. I think it'll be fine So who's was this Alec has a question writing, hi y'all, if there was a do-go-on restaurant, what would your signature dishes be? Oh my god, look at those lips.

Oh, look at that. Oh wow. Did I say Ping-Go, I meant Ping-Gee, who was our very non-copy-rotted, new character of the Every Man of Antarctica. That's right. Alex question. If there was a dude going restaurant, what would your signature dishes be?

As tradition, mine would be a turkey club. I don't think this is not all once in it. Mine would be a turkey club much as grushy. Okay. I think that's the sign off. Yes. answer for Dave let's answer for each other okay great what's the one in the order that you said you killed Dave okay you do Dave does me I do you perfect I think Dave's would be a shepherd's pie and the garlic bread I don't mind if I do I think maths would be mushy peas with gravy and

Jessus would be soup that is You cannot eat it. I'm so sorry. It's too hot Yeah, there you go. Yeah, we did it Actually David we get out and mush my peas though if it's not too late. You don't want to mush them? I don't want to mush them. I'm so sorry. I want to eat the peas as God made I'm gonna say that this means incredible meal you start with a soup sure It's a lot too hot though, so you've burnt your mouth immediately. It's a dessert soup You have to wait for it to cool down I don't know it soup then you have some garlic bread. It's melted ice cream mate They have garlic bread. Yes, then you have chepa's pie with garlic and peas on the side. I'm so holy moly

Yeah, it's not a bad meal. We call that the signature do-go-on dish. Yeah. I just get a do-go-on for the table, please. Yeah, like a digger station. It's like a do-go-on station. Yeah. Which for a long time, I thought was digger station.

A digger station. Because I had never seen a written down. Digger station. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Digger station down Digestation. Yeah Yeah Digestation. Digestation. We're all the old army vets get off the train Thank you so much. I like to find one this week comes from Colin right. Okay. Former silly child Not anymore not anymore that said

And this one it's Only about a month late, but I did ask for Christmas related ones a while ago. It's okay, we're still in this sort of Christmas New Year season. Yes. And it is a silly Christmas fact. Right, and can I decide if it's a silly fact or will the do-go-on fact designation union give me a beat down?

No, I think you can do that. I'll beat you down. Yeah. Absolutely not, how fucking dare you. I think man, Dave don't really, you can call anything fun or whatever, but just might have a problem. Are you guys calling us a fun behind my back? Yeah. If you're not in the room, I think I, yeah, I think I can do that. Matt stepped up. I'm sorry, if I'm not here, you think you're second in charge for fun? No, no, I just like, I just, I'm not afraid of you when you're not right in front of me.

Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Uh, goes on to say, when I was a silly church going little kid, my friends told me that Santa wasn't real. I told them they were wrong because Santa was in the Bible.

Putting aside that something being in the Bible is actually not exceptionally strong evidence for its real and literal existence, I was devastated to learn that Santa was not in the Bible. Putting aside that something being in the Bible is actually not exceptionally strong evidence for its real and literal existence. I was devastated to learn that Santa was not in the Bible. Oh my God. Good news for all the kids listening. Santa is in fact real, even though he is not the king in the King James version of the Bible.

Merry Christmas. I love that Santa's real. I love Santa. Love Santa. I love Santa. I love Christmas love Santa. We'll put him in the Bible. I will say we're recording this before Christmas. I haven Santa. I love Christmas. I love Santa. We'll put him in the Bible. I will say we're recording this before Christmas.

I haven't thrown my Christmas tree into the bin yet. Thank you so much to Colin, Alex, Justin and Patrick. Couple of years ago we took our dog to get a picture with Santa. And he, who loves everybody, goes, hey, did Santa. No. Yeah, he was too confused. He doesn't like when people were in gloves and he got really weirder there.

I think what happened was he doesn't like fakes. That's right. Well, that was when a Santa's help is a shopping center. Yeah. Shopping center. Shopping center. You can't really reason with a three-year-old. He's a dog.

So what is he, 21? 21, yeah, I know. He's growing up. He's growing up so fast. No, no. The next thing we like to do is thank a few of our great supporters who are on the shout out level or above. Yeah.

And Jesse, you're not becoming with a bit of a game based on the topic at hand. Or if we give them a job in Antarctica. OK. Lighten the load on Pingi. That's right. Pingi's doing too many jobs. Yeah. Pingy. But don't you dare take executioner off him. No, executioner we leave. He lives to kill.

We leave executioner for Pingy, but there are a few other jobs that maybe we could like doctor. We could take off his hands. You know, we could take off some of the roles that he's not qualified. Yeah, yeah. He is absolutely qualified to execute. Any jobs that require hands. That's right. We'll take him off his thumbs. Yeah, thumbs, anything with thumbs. Yeah, anything with far but. I'm not taking over any of the roles if they involve electrocution.

That's right. Is that the wrong one? Electrocution. Electrocution. That's one of his roles as an executioner. If I can kick us off, I'd love to thank from Bournemouth in Great Britain, Joe Plant. Great name.

Beautiful name. The obvious, of course, would be. Nursery attendant. I was thinking comedians in the audience. Oh, I'm not in the audience. In the audience. Yeah, I couldn't think of a way of saying without using the word plant.

Yeah, yeah, it's, yeah. I think with nursery attendant. Yeah, selling couldn't think of a way of saying it without using the word plant. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah. I think the nursery attendant. Yeah, selling little pots of, you go get yourself a little cactus. Because there's not that many comedy shows in Antarctica, I think. I don't think so. Not since we've now rolled out the day and I aren't going, but you could try. But there is a lot of plants, so. Yeah, that's right.

It's a lot of growth. He's got a little greenhouse and Joe just actually do have a greenhouse. And I know what kind of plants Joe's growing. Like under like lights. Yeah, hydroponic setup then they grow their own plants. Like fresh. Hydroponic, yeah. Winky, winky.

Ah, ah, ah, the good stuff. Yeah. Uh, thanks so much, Joe. I'd also love to thank from Ventura in California, yeah. In the United States. He's a lot of nailed that more. California, California. Yeah United States. It's a listen now that more for a year For no Alyssa, what's Alyssa up to guitar technician? Yeah

Somebody's gonna do it Fanny pack. They've got guitars. Yeah, who's gonna keep them in tune? Yeah, we're gonna tune their own guitars No, thanks Alyssa's here. Yeah, Fanny Pack and the big mama's boys. The big Nancy boys. Big Nancy boys. That is Alyssa's jock. Alyssa's gonna set up the Marshall stacks. Yeah, look at a full stadium set up. And actually the sound improves instantly.

Pingi. No, no, what he was doing. And finally from me, from the windy city itself, Chicago in Illinois, it's Frank Ackelaub. Ackelaub. I can love. Frank Ackelaub. What an incredible name.

Frankie A. Frank Ackelaub. Frank Ackelaub. Is, well, sort of an introductory role in the bar. He's sort of, he's the, uh, is the, the, the, glassy. Oh, right. Yes. For now, he's going to learn how to make cocktails soon, but you start by just you go around collecting all the glasses, watching them.

And a lot of them at 92. That's right. So, but hopefully in time, Frank will, you know, learn to make some of the, the cocktails and, uh, and, the cocktails and be a full bar. And I've got to say, the glass wastage has just dropped. Big time. Who was one and done? Yeah. I mean, Pingi, the way he got about the bar, He was like basically using him as one-use glasses. He was just flipping him straight off one of the floor. And now he didn't work as the the broomman until the following week, so people getting to cut their feet up.

It's a real mess. Now Frank's involved. He's just picking him up with his opposable thumbs and the other fingers. Robert, I'm in. Bob, I'd like to thank you. I would simply adore to thank you for you. I would love to thank from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I would love to thank Sarah White. Penguin Country, of course, Pittsburgh.

And Sarah White. Sarah White is snow. Yeah, gonna be a real Pope situation. Oh, yeah. Just disappearing. Yeah. Sarah be a real Pope situation. Oh, yeah, just disappearing. Yeah Sarah's role is what, man. Sarah White's role is She's the one who make sure The women go to finishing school. She's the one that makes them put books on the top of their head. Right. All right

Because then I talk to you that they think sure you can you can come here as young girls, but you will leave as ladies. Yes. She's like the matron of the finishing school. Yeah. Yeah. She's just teaching electrocution, table manners. You know, don't worry anything that exposes your ankles.

That's right. Especially in Antarctica, it's that will impact me. Cover up for your safety, not for a shame perspective. No, it's just basic sort of survival techniques. Which is lovely. And we thank you, Sarah Watt. And they've got this library and they're like, what do we do with all these books?

We know that when people read them, stavings occur. Let's forget radium. Let's start doing that thing where they put them on their heads. It's a bit of a more reading. We ban it. It's unlady luck. Yeah, put them on the heads. Bit of a more rating. We ban it. It's unlady-like. Chess and rating has banned. Very embarrassing.

Books being ladies. I thought I was wrong with that. That seems great. So thank you, Sarah. I'd also love to thank from, oh, location unknown. We could only assume, do you put in the fortress of the mall? So we keep digging you get to Antarctica. I'd love to thank.

Catherine. Catherine. Catherine. It seems to thank. Catherine. Catherine. Catherine seems to be with a surname H. Yes. And it's Catherine on the C, absolutely. Right. Catherine is in charge of official merchandise. Whoa, Antarctic merchandise.

Yeah, people are talking. People are writing in, they want hoodies. Snow globes. Snow globes, absolutely. Yes. South Pole magnets. Plush toys. The magnet.

The magnets do play havoc with certain things down there, but. That's because I keep seeking for all the equipment. But I've run out of space on my fridge. Yeah, that's true. So yeah, people will write, obviously, how are you going to keep... Take shots. He had to get that research going. Catherine makes merch.

Yeah. And sends it anywhere in the world. And you're in the world. And she does that great. That pun slogan slogan Dave is the The pun gun yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't remember what do I call you? Panking the punk King. Yeah After the punking what is it? What is it?

Wow The federal pun marks are of course I think it's the other way around. I think you call me fun king. Yeah, you're the pun master But anyway, I don't know what a pun is, so I'm gonna have to throw it over you. Any South Pole's a goal. Okay, that's the pun. Jesus. I'm really, you know what I'm saying?

I guess it is something, but I don't like it. And that is a pun? Because that one to me, I'm more confused than ever, but what a pun is. Well, you're a pun master, sir. Yeah, you don't get it. No, that's what I'm trying to tell you. Thanks. Thank you. Yes. Catherine. Oh, Catherine. Do we give a Catherine a merch? Yes. And finally, South Pole's a golfer, God's sake.

Finally for me. I would love to thank from Torranger in New Zealand. Wait, can you just say the state's abbreviation? Bop! From Bop. Oh my gosh, Bop in From Bob. Oh my gosh, Bob and New Zealand. That was from Bob and New Zealand. Yes, I would love to thank Kate. Kate. Kate.

Kate. Kate, what do we have left? Oh, president. President of Antarctica. President of Antarctica. Oh my gosh. You can't believe we, yeah, easy. Because Pingue was hopeless at that.

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Geez, I just riled up some Nebraska's there. Sorry everybody. I got really mad at you for it and you deserved it. Who you thinking? Ellen. Ellen. Ellen. Ellen. Oh my god. I think I think we're hungry. We're losing our minds a little bit. Ellen. But Ellen deserves our full attention. Yes. Okay. Alan is in charge of pyrotechnics and fireworks all the big occasions all the big events There were fireworks going off in my place last night last night at the time of the court east which was nowhere near New years Well, I Misses this was at least on New Year's day and you're like I couldn't believe it would not figure it out

He went for ages and my my neighbors wouldn't just go to bed. 9pm and then approximately midnight. I was like, what the bloody hell's going on here? Shut up, everyone's got work in the morning. I'm a heart, Mavericks. I'm a heart Mavericks. I was also a conorobist and brought us from. There you go.

Ellen, what a tan. And a great job, I love fireworks, so thank you Ellen. That is a big one. And it will help people find you when you've bent and you've accommodation. That's right. And just good. I'm just a firewood as well.

Good for morale. Firewood. Is that a pundit? I don't know. I don't know. I was like a thing from Harrisonburg in Virginia. Emily Pace. Emily Pace is of course in charge of Emily's bakery.

Oh yeah. One of the most popular hot spots in Antarctica. Everybody's lining up out the door. She's might scroll. She's might scrolls. Some's got the best donuts in town. Oh my jelly. Jelly donuts in town, jelly slice. And it's not just that it's like...

Fruit Flan. Fruit Flan. It also like custom cakes. Oh. For events and stuff. And yeah, everybody loves Emily's stuff. Any pies? Yep.

Aww, yeah. My foot. And a bit of a rotating roster. Like, you know, it's always got the basics the classics I should say yep, but always emily's always coming up with something kind of fun and a bit different her Veggie call McCurry. Yeah pie. Yeah, really good. I'm currently on five continents for pies Wow South America and Antarctica to go thing is gonna be hard to do Antarctica But if I can that is my third biggest dream.

Well, sorry Keith, if you're also listening in Antarctica, can you let Dave know the power situation as well? Yeah. What's the, why? If you have a power? He's 0711, could he at least get like a... I'm not fussy, any sort of power. Any power will do.

Even a sweet power. Sweet power, we'll do it. Apple power, come on. Okay, come on Keith. Any South power Keith any South Pore any South Pole pie is all right by my Make it my life is my yeah, she's you are the pun must know I do not put me on to the I don't want to be part of this pun bullshit. Why don't I want to be part of it either

Well, you started it because you're so good at What they mean don't shun your gift. Yes. Don't shun the pan. Oh my god. You are good. I'm rhyming. That's not a pan. I'm rhyming. Well that's what he did before. I said that was a pan. Why else did I? No. Any polls ago. I look forward to many explanations on social media this week. Yeah. Also look we should make merch that says any polls ago. I don't think we should. I'd be confusing for converts to Australian rules football. I'd be like, wait, you hit the poll? You have to go. Any of them?

I still think that the Ways Pope is a good idea. Ways Pope is a fantastic idea. That's what we have to do. It's so funny. Any artist can get in touch. Finally, I would like to thank from Dundee in what I believe is Scotland. Yeah. Correct. Big shout out to Martha of Sea Land Royalty.

Oh, my leash. My leash, my leash. Well, I would say that, but you obviously recognize fella Royalty. Oh, yeah, that's true. Are we Royalty, though? Yeah. Well, I'm a Lord and Lady. I don't know if we're Royalty.

I think you could. We're nobility. We're nobility, yes. Oh, OK, right. But I'm butter peasants. You're a peasant. I'm a piece of shit. You could have bought yourself one I see land speck of shit. That's right. Done.

Be in Scotland. That's where a Stuart's Scotch comes from Stuart's Dundee De Canter really in spelt the correct way spelt the correct way fantastic Yeah, let's go to show another French way and I don't care any of you stewards with a you out there listening Who think that it's the other way around it's not. You were second and you remain second best. Yeah.

Okay. Except the second. Except take the owl. Take it. And by the way, so much better than Perkins and Warnicky still, second best is great. Warnicky is like 10 million's good bit best. Top 10 million. 10 million's good get best top 10 million 10 million good get best

Brits the net a speak to this so good. So what's Martha in charge of what's Martha's role? The not oh, so this royalty that she's in charge of finding the Nazi base Destroy it all yes, okay good. Oh my god. Dave. What it all. Yes. Okay, good. Oh my god. Dave, what do you think Martha's gonna do? She's there to take down Nazis. Martha, C-land royalty slash Nazi hunter. Wow, it's badass. Yeah, real badass.

Oh my god. You'd think she can get any cooler and then I made up a thing that made her cooler. Alright, thank you so much to Martha, Emily, Ellen, Kate, Catherine, Sarah, Frank, Alyssa, and Joe. And the last thing we like to do is welcome a few people into the tripditch club. And I've heard no one explain this better than Dave Warnocky himself. Wow. This is kind of like the Antarctic base slash clubhouse of the show. Once you come in, you can't leave, there's nowhere to go. But why would you want to? Basically, this is our... There's no flight coming for you.

No, no one's coming. Another 12 months, at least. Yeah, and I'm the doctor. And I am squamous. Basically, this is our Hall of Fame where we induct people that have been supporting the show on the shoutout level or above for three consecutive years We've already shadowed them out previously, but now we induct them into the whole of fame

The name goes up on the wall. We welcome them in with a big welcoming ceremony, which is weekly But it doesn't get old. It gets fun. It's more fun every week and we have a live band Jess organized a snack drinks cocktails and inside those activities There's a you know like they had a rock climbing wall, a basketball ring, both full size and mini over the bin, we're fun. We're fun. We're so much fun. Yeah. And there's anything you can imagine. We can, we'll get it together if you want it to, because we are also people pleases and we are very anxious to make sure we have a place that seems cool. Exactly.

We don't like confrontation, so we will back down. That's right. There's four people coming in this week, and I'm going to read out their names. I've got them on a door list, clipboard, I'll read them out, lift development rope. If you hear your name, run on in. They'll be on stage, hyping you up with some pretty works, weeks sort of word playing puns, I think. We don't really know.

Possibly rhymes, we don't know. Just by the bar, she's only got a cocktail going. Yeah, it's called the penguin. Oh, cool. And it's black sand booker and milk. Hell yeah. Mix it together, what do you got? You got a penguin.

You got a five penguin. It's very bad. Enjoy. I love to. Dave, you've normally booked a Enjoy. I love to. They've even only booked the band. I love both those things individually. I've been trying to book this band for over two decades. Very influential on me growing up in Wheat Hornet.

I can't believe that we've been able to book none other than Fanny Pack and the big Nancy Boyz. Wow. They hear a live. Are you serious? That's a big gap. That's huge. It's huge. So they're obviously can

do they fill in the spot of the league deterre store? Yes, in each night there's a song dedicated to Rodney's last class. That's awesome. Yeah, last class. So nice. He's got a mountain and a song each night. So from Fanny Backland, Big Nancy Boyd. That did soften, it did, it was such a sad story. But for some reason the fact that he's gonna mountain-named after him I'm like that's pretty nice yeah I hope you like that I hope his folks are like that's you know that's kind of nice a nice thing yeah because the rest of it is not good all right so four names you're ready to go Dave days up on stage he stage. Here we go. He's gonna really hop you up. He's gonna get the audience in a lather.

Here we go. In the palm of my hand that will be. First up from Cardiff South in New South Wales Australia. It's Ryan Davies. I'll be crying without a rhyme. Yes. Thank you. To be a second. I'm sorry. Yes. Oh yes, Jess also. Woo! I'm off to Dave.

From Peoria in Illinois in the United States. I'm more specifically not saying Peoria, right? It's Chris Smith The night would be a mess with that Chris Chris any idea how Peoria would be never Peoria Okay, I've seen it before from London in Great Britain. It's Chris Heather. I'd be pissed with that in Great Britain, it's Chris Heather. Now to be pissed with that, Chris. Hahaha. And finally from Anchorage, in Alaska, in the United States, it's Margaret Crop.

We'd be fucked up with that, Chris. Yes. Can I have a go at one of them? Yeah. Okay, what about stifers aboard? Light is a Chris Heather. Hahaha. That's actually really good.

Okay. That's really good. Just never miss it with this. We sure we shouldn't be spotted. No, I don't want to do it. I did. I just had to go on in a theme of whatever they're first to say that.

I loved it. I loved it. That is very life as a lot of the fellow stiff as a Margaret Crop. Doesn't work for all of them, but no. Doesn't always work, but it is fun. Welcome in the club. Please make yourselves at home.

Margaret Chris, Chris and Ryan. Grab yourself a penguin. Grab yourself a penguin, enjoy. Enjoy your, if any, back in the big nose, it was. Kettle's in the cup, not in this cup. That's the slogan of the penguin. Wow. And yeah, really, pretty much that's all we got.

Need to, got, that's all we need to do. That's all we need to adjust. Anything we need to tell people before we go. A reminder that you can suggest a topic anybody can. There's a link in the show notes also on our website, dogoonpod.com. You can find us at DoGoOnPod across all social media. And remember to wash your butt. Hey, we'll be back with another episode in this new fantastic year of 2024.

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