Do Go On - 45 - The Bermuda Triangle

Episode Date: August 31, 2016

The mysterious Bermuda Triangle, you've heard of it but what is it's deal? Matt tries to explain but he'd been out drinking all day at a charity auction and quite frankly does a pretty shit house job...... Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: dogoonpod@gmail.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenjai Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.
Starting point is 00:00:17 Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Welcome to DoGo on. You are listening to My Voice and that is the voice of Dave Warnocky.
Starting point is 00:00:53 I'm going to welcome in another voice and that is Jess Perkins's voice. This is the voice of Jess Perkins. And we're going to be joined by, we're going to be a barbershop trio with Matt Stewart's voice over the top. This is the voice of Jess Perkins. One job. He's fucked already. Why? What do I do?
Starting point is 00:01:10 Nothing. It's fine, Matt. Good job. Oh, well, this is bullshit. You guys gang up on here all the time. Yes, we do. But in the first minute we're getting up on you. No.
Starting point is 00:01:18 It's your turn, too. You're going to be doing the talkie-talkie. I've been drinking alcohol before in my life, but never before doing a report. That's not true. Oh, that can't be me. Oh, you've definitely had beers when somebody else is doing like. Yeah, no, that's right. Never my own report.
Starting point is 00:01:38 It's every second week now that you tick off a new first for drinking. I've never drunk and skateboarded before. Well, Dave ticked off a new first tonight as well. And he had his first blood nose while on the podcast. The nose was bleeding. He entered the podcasting studio going, I've got a problem, guys. And we were like, finally he's going to talk to us about his gambling problem. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:03 No way. I'm going to win. Yeah. Blood red. I'm putting it all on red tomorrow. Chase your losses. All right. All right.
Starting point is 00:02:09 Those losses have got to pay for themselves. That doesn't mean anything. He's not a good gambler. That's the problem. Now I get it. Hit me. No, I'm dead. That's where the blood nose can.
Starting point is 00:02:21 No, I said that to the wrong person. I was bleeding all over the place. That sounds pretty good. I've learnt my lesson. I'm drinking a sugar-free energy drink and it's gross. It's so bad. Bring me the sugar bash. Sugar-free are terrible.
Starting point is 00:02:36 Why did you order the non-sugary version? Well, I thought I was going to be good about it because I've been drinking all the sugary beers. That said, I've been going through a real Diet Coke phase lately. I love it. Do you? Do you like soft drink? Yeah. Oh, I don't drink soft drink very much.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Really? No, I don't either. I normally don't drink energy drinks, but because I've been drinking for the last ten hours, I thought it was a good idea. Ten hours, man, you should not be doing it anymore. Wait, no, hang on, sorry, 11 and a half hours. All right.
Starting point is 00:03:03 My grandfather... It's 11.30 in the morning. You start at midnight. My grandfather didn't drink, didn't smoke, you know, would put a little bit of money on the horses every now and then, but I really had nothing. But he... Hit the heroin hard.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Imagine that. He loved soft drink. Did he? Loved it. And my dad is the same. Like, he really likes soft drink. But I love it, but I don't drink a lot of it. I don't need it.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Yeah, this is sounding like an addict. That does sound like an addiction. No, no, no. I actually don't drink all that much. Yeah, and if I have it... I could give it away anytime I love it. If I have it, I'll have like a little bit. I just do like a mouthful.
Starting point is 00:03:37 Yeah, I just want like a little budge from the bubbles. I like the bubbles. But how do you buy it? Because obviously you have to buy it in a 600 mill. Oh, 390 mill, I guess, are the smallest. No, you know what's great now? The smaller cans. Oh, and do you drink that whole can or do you throw it away?
Starting point is 00:03:53 I'd still have the whole can, but I'd spread it out. You know what's great now? The smaller cans. I don't have never seen a smaller can. You know, like almost that size that you've got there. Okay. But it's... Energy size can.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Energy size, little smaller cans. They get too fity. Yeah. Okay. And it's good. And he's like the little bubbles. I love bubbles. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:04:15 Makes your mouthful. I think that's why I don't like soft drink because I don't really like bubbles. There you go. Because your esophagus is too small for bubbles. I can't handle more than one bubble. Ah, too many bubbles. Maximum bubbles.
Starting point is 00:04:26 What about like sparkling water? No, don't like that. No. I was about to suggest sparkling water to you just. They get the bubbles without any of the badness. I have had sparkling water fairly recently and it wasn't. I was like, hmm, maybe I'm coming around to it. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:04:41 I probably just, the most of the time, I just drink water. Yeah, water. Water is so refreshing. A lot of coffee. I drink a lot of coffee. What's your tea? I'm a pediment girl. I'm a herbal tea girl.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Padman, big time. What's your number two? What's your number one? I'll go. Dave, do you much of a tea drinker? No, I don't really drink hot drinks. I don't drink coffee or tea. Fair enough. Dave doesn't ever put anything in his body.
Starting point is 00:05:05 That's why he weighs 52 kilos. I abstain from everything. Liquid foods. Oh no, he doesn't, yeah, he won't even put bubbles in his body. No. No. It's on a bubble-free diet. I put one in.
Starting point is 00:05:18 One bubble. That's what they call in bubble boy. Well, they do. Do they? That's a weird coincidence. I didn't know that. I just said a thing. Good guess.
Starting point is 00:05:26 That made no sense at all and it turned out to be a true fact. Often the way with you, Matt. Often the way. Let's hope he does that some more in his report. Yes. Is it going to be drink-based alcohol or otherwise? It should have been. No, it's not.
Starting point is 00:05:38 It's a great topic. Oh, so you're going to do someone justice, are you? I imagine it's a hat topic I'm a hat man I'm a hat man I'm going to call this episode Matt Stewart Butchers the classics Okay I like it
Starting point is 00:05:53 A bit of show pan Yeah it's a great topic Actually it's been suggested by multiples Multiple of Human people Oh pardon me Do you want me to give you the question
Starting point is 00:06:07 Because that's how we start the episode Plus Plus It's probably better if you explain it Did that make sense Plus Plus start with it We just each take an intense to do a report.
Starting point is 00:06:16 Matt is up. After 11 hours of drinking, he's going to start it with a question to get us on topic. Jess and I'll have a go at answering it. It's like just looking at the table in front of me is pretty depressing. There's just empty. Looking at the table in front of you is actually pretty impossible because your eyes, eyesight is completely gone.
Starting point is 00:06:36 Why is everything so blurry? Oh, I can't read. All right, and I've written a lot of this report in the last 11th. seven and a half hours. So that, anyway, look, enough of the excuses.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Let's get into it. Let's do it. Um, my question to you is, Mm-hmm. What is the most sinister shape of all? A triangle. Close.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Square. Sinister. I mean, the triangle bits right. Diamond. Some kind of triangle. A pyramid? Bermuda triangle.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Yeah. Ah. Because when I said, triangle I thought Illuminati because I know that has been suggested. Bermuda Triangle has also been suggested. This one was suggested by Emma on the Twitters and also Bradley Tisdale on the Facebooks. Thank you, Bradley. Two of the key Sockmeds.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Thank you. Sockmed is what nobody calls social media. Oh, gotcha. Or fuckheads call social media. There we go. I call social media. So Emma and Bradley. Emma and Bradley are the...
Starting point is 00:07:46 Thank you. One's the thank for. Cool. Bermuda Triangle, nice. It's a great topic and I'm so sorry, guys. I've really... As sometimes I do, I've lent heavily on one source in particular, the History.com, but also...
Starting point is 00:08:00 Slash Bermuda Triangle. A few others. Yeah, I also obviously visited the Triangle. I took a tiny plane out there. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Well, you must. Yeah. Oh, you must.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Yeah. I took a little plane out there, one of those old Wright brothers-style ones on a stormy night. All good. It should be said that all our topics, if they are based in other countries, we do make sure we visit them. We visit them. We're not monsters. No, come on. If they're based in Australia, we will not visit.
Starting point is 00:08:30 Of course, I will not leave the house for anything less than an overseas jaunt. Jaunt. Do you guys know what the three points of the Bermuda Triangle are? Yeah, obviously. Bermuda. Yes. Try. Florida.
Starting point is 00:08:44 Yes. An angle. Oh, I hope something like Dominica or something like that. Water Rico. Puerto Rico. Hang on. Dave was answering the question genuinely and I was going to be smarter. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Yeah, the points are friendship. Good. That would have been really good. That's one. What else you got? Friendship, loyalty. And Puerto Rico. Yeah, that's how I live my life.
Starting point is 00:09:09 Bermuda style. Do you know anything about the All I know is that at SeaWorld On the Gold Coast There was a Bermuda Triangle themed ride That's been there since about 1997 So I have been on that
Starting point is 00:09:26 So if it's still there It will be Maybe it's a dream world It's one of them It might be sea world For our overseas listeners On the Gold Coast in Queensland We have some really
Starting point is 00:09:36 Really shit theme parts They're not too bad They're pretty shit. What do we go? We got the triangle. We got Puerto Rico. We've got a sea world. A sea world.
Starting point is 00:09:47 We've got a wet and wild. Wet and Wild. Dream World. Warner Brothers Movie World. Dream World's out by itself. Yeah. It's not part of the three-park super parts. And Dream World also comes with another one like.
Starting point is 00:09:59 It has its own wet thing. Like rapids or something. Wet thing. If you're going to do a theme park, I'm up for wet ones. Yeah. Oh, I mean, that sounded weird. I went to. I'm up for a wet one.
Starting point is 00:10:09 I went to movie world last year. That's the shit one. No, I like movie world because I have like the stunt cars. Oh yeah, I saw the show. It's pretty good. And the Scooby-Doo ride is fun. Yes, I wanted that about nine times because the other two big rides, the Superman ride and the Batman ride were both out of action.
Starting point is 00:10:29 Oh, yeah. Which come on. And not at all too scary for me. The Batman ride, new Batman? Yeah, they were building Arkham asylum. That's right. Superman. Oh, and the other one, the Green Lantern ride was also out of action.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Yeah, because it like froze and somebody nearly fell out, so you don't want to get on that one anyway. Well, every time we get on a roller coaster, I figure you're taking a risk. It's part of the fun. Here's the thing that. I may have mentioned this before, but I really love roller coasters, but my stomach does not. I get really sick on roller co, so I just don't bother going on them. So I'm that person at theme parks who's like holding the bag. Oh, you're the bag lady.
Starting point is 00:11:02 I hate it. Which is the nickname that we gave my mum, because she would never go on theme park. Like I went on Space Mountain when I was in Disneyland in Paris. And I was like, this is the best. I had the best time. And then I felt sick for like two hours. Oh, no. Like really unwell.
Starting point is 00:11:17 It sucks. That does. Because I really like, I like those ones a lot. I like the fast forwards ones. I'm sure we talked about this back in. I'm sure we have. Disneyland episode. But it's the spinny ones that get me.
Starting point is 00:11:30 I love the fast forwards or up and down. Yeah. They're the ones I'm into. Spinny, spinny, spinny, spinning. We went on a ride together at the Royal Melbourne Show. Oh, the Royal Melbourne Show. Now, speaking of shit, theme parks, yeah, that's not one of them.
Starting point is 00:11:45 It's great. Sorry. It's where the city meets the country. No, the country meets the city. Either all. I once had a... In Melbourne, our hometown, there's a show, and it started because farmers used to bring...
Starting point is 00:11:59 They wanted to put their cows on display. So there's lots of, like, animals on display, which is weird, and then there's, like, a wood chopping competition. I used to love that. Yeah, the woodshopping's pretty cool, actually. Yeah, like, suddenly they're like 20 feet in the air. And they got those, and it's got all those shitty, like, the clown mouths and all those kind of carnies games and showbags and terrible rides. It's the best and worst of us.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle of Theme Park. How did we get lost there? I talked about the Bermuda Triangle ride of Dream World or SeaWorld. I think it is Sea World now. I think it's by the by and by.
Starting point is 00:12:33 It's so unimportant. Yeah. Matt, tell us about the Bermuda Triangle. The media and I just know it's got that mysterious sheik about it. Sheik? Is that the word we're going for? It's very chic. Okay.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Trey's chic. Okay. Matt, did you not come across the word sheik in your report? That's strange. Because you weren't reporting properly if you didn't. Well, I mean, I've already told you I wasn't reporting properly. I mean, I'm seeing two of you right now. Oh, boy.
Starting point is 00:13:01 And it feels like I've just got off a really dodgy ride. What's the one that spins around and around? Gravatron. Gravatron. I just jumped off the Gravitron. Won't get me on that. There's another name for the Bermuda Triangle. What's that?
Starting point is 00:13:16 Gravatron. Devil's Triangle. Don't like it as much. It's more sinister. I mean, Bermuda's just one point in the triangle. But it's probably the top two most exotic places on the triangle. Puerto Rico. Florida.
Starting point is 00:13:34 Miami Keys. That's pretty cool. That's not very exotic, though. It's not very... I would say, and when I say exact, I mean, also not very mysterious. Sorry, Florida. I think Florida is quite a safe place
Starting point is 00:13:44 where old people retire. Seinfeld served me correctly. Okay, well, to our Florida listeners, I'm so sorry for Dave shitting all over your beautiful town. Oh, Florida's a state. Of mind. Absolutely saved it.
Starting point is 00:13:59 I will give you full credit for that, Jess. All right, I'll give it to her as well. And the capital? Tallahassee. There you go. Ah, I would not have guessed that. No. And the Orlando Magic.
Starting point is 00:14:13 Uh-huh. And the Miami heater, the two NBA teams. Tallahassee does not get a look in. And the Miami Dolphins are the other sports team. So Bermuda Triangle. Yeah, great. So away from sport play, please, Matthew. Everything I know about America is sports teams.
Starting point is 00:14:33 Cool. So the three points of the triangle. Um, Miami, Bummira and Puerto Rico. Loyalty. Between these three points, we haven't really talked about it yet. What was my third one? Puerto Rico. Ah.
Starting point is 00:14:48 Between these three points, dozens of ships and aeroplanes have disappeared. Black hole. There you go, solved it. Some of these... Or there's a really nice island in the middle and they always get there and go, fuck this is nice. Look to say here.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Okay, good. All right, we've gone early, but yeah, I was going to ask you if you could explain it for me. That's my theory. This is one of those tedious ones where there's no clear explanation. There are just some things that just have still not been explained. A bunch of the accidents have never been explained. Island in the middle. Lossative of Atlantis.
Starting point is 00:15:27 That is a theory. A correct one. A correct theory. Yeah. It can't be a theory if it's correct. What you meant to say there was, that is the truth. Okay, that is a truth. So thank you for listening, everybody.
Starting point is 00:15:39 We'll see you next week. Hashtag truth. Atlantis truth. Hashtag the truth about Atlanta. Too long a hashtag. You are not good at hashtags. Jess, here's something that might really get your goat. And I know you've got a goat with you today.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Some boats and planes have seemingly vanished during good weather. Get the fuck out. I'm not going to. Because I certainly assumed that it was only during a storm, but now you tell whether the ships go missing. Well, I never. Picture this, sunshine in the sky. Beautiful.
Starting point is 00:16:25 You can feel the rays on me. Calmness in the waters. Calmness in the waters. That's how I like in my waters. Oh. I feel it in my calm waters. And then you got like, maybe like, you know, Lionel Richie playing on the radio. What song?
Starting point is 00:16:39 Oh, what a ring. I'm easy on a Sunday morning. Commodaghs. Is it a Sunday morning? Well, that's probably the most uneasy thing about it. It was a Sunday afternoon. Oh, see? You're asking for trouble.
Starting point is 00:16:53 You're asking for trouble with Lionel. But it's on the radio. You didn't, you're not playing it. The DJ has wished death upon you. Yeah. But some of these vehicles, airplanes. Vehicles.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Boat and boats. How many cars have disappeared, though? Yeah. Answer me that question. Is it, have cars 100%? How many segues? How many segues have disappeared in the vision of triangle? I mean, it's uncounted.
Starting point is 00:17:16 Uncounted because it's zero? Because it's uncountable because there's so many. Oh, shit. It's in the millions. Wow. Why is it? It's hard to count. True.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Try and count past a million. I dare you. Okay, a million and one. Okay. A million and two. Stop me right there. Because you are correct. All right.
Starting point is 00:17:31 Look like an idiot. God, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I thought she nailed it. I was really good. I was very impressive. I was not know where I was going for that. But apart from good weather, There are a lot of these mysterious ones, they disappeared without even giving a May Day or a Peter Andre.
Starting point is 00:17:47 Mysterious girl. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Mysterious girl. That had like a Caribbean sort of vibe about it. Yeah, if you are, if you're in strife, right, you're either you're going to send a May Day, you're going to send a Peter Andre. or are you going to send a cold play cold play great I was going to try and think of something better
Starting point is 00:18:13 but you bailed me out with that you know weakish there are plenty of theories as to why that wasn't an edit point that was just Matt bailing mid-sentence please go on after being mean there are plenty of theories as to why these disappearances have occurred
Starting point is 00:18:31 but none have been anywhere near proven without doubt a lot of them like these days people think that it is just, you know, it's just another patch of ocean. Back in the olden days, things happened everywhere. And it was sort of, I've probably burst that bubble too early. I'm going to bail on that. Okay.
Starting point is 00:18:53 So anyway, a lot of things are disappearing. And with there still no... And like over a long... Like, has it been going for hundreds of years, or do this thing happen like 10 years? I mean, the disappearances have been happening for a long time, but it hasn't... It didn't really hit popular culture until the last, until the 20th century, really. Does it deter people still? Not really anymore, I don't think.
Starting point is 00:19:18 Planes fly through there every day, multiple, multiple planes. It's a huge patch of ocean. Yeah. If you want to go anywhere around South America, you got to go through it. You're probably going to. And, you know, I was about to say, like, it would deter me, but then I realized I didn't know where it was until you said. I would have had no idea. I may have flown over it.
Starting point is 00:19:36 over there. I have no idea if I have. Oh, okay. You've travelled. Congratulations. Because, Mr. World's life. Pitbull over here. I mean, how many square miles of ocean do you think it is? Steamroll so many of my good. All I hear was Pitbull. Was that good? Matt wouldn't have got that reference, even if he'd heard it.
Starting point is 00:19:56 Because he's 112. Yeah. You're way too old for Pitbull. Admit it. Pitbull's like 60 years old. You weirdos. Pitbull is an absolute anomaly. He just should not be famous. He should not sell millions of records.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Somehow people listen to him. He looks like a pit bull. It's one of the unironic things about him. If you look like a Jack Russell, that would be ironic. How many square miles of ocean? I'm thinking three. I think more like two million square miles. 500,000 square miles.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Because it's always way more than anything. It's a lot. That's a lot of square miles. I was closer than Dave though. According to History.com, my favourite, you were closer. Thank you. Because you said three. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Well, if we were on the price. If we were prices right, you would have won with that. Yeah, so that's what I'm saying. My favorite thing, if you watch prices right, so the rule is you make a bid and it's closest without going over. So someone would be like $1. Yeah. And then someone next to them would go, $2.
Starting point is 00:21:00 Yeah. No, for one person goes, one dollar. The next person goes, they're like, hmm, well, it's a ride-on-mower. $2 million. Diane, not again. Fucking Diane. Why don't we let her on? Fuck you, Diane.
Starting point is 00:21:14 I always call her seat. One dollar and one cent. One dollar and Diane's sense. Which is zero. Zero. It's a one dollar. She's got no sense. And it's Diane saying that.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Diane said that. She pressed herself with third person. I am Diane. And I have no sense. fucking Diane. Drew Cario, who hosts the U.S. version. Hello, I'm Diane.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Diane, come on down. That's me. I'm Diane. The whole audience is so funny. They're like, fuck. It's always her. She must be married to the producer or something. She's not.
Starting point is 00:21:57 She's just very lucky. You know, on those superhero things, like in the movies or whatever, when one of the kids, characters is going really fast, but the way they show the fastness is by everything else going slowly. Is that what's happening to you right now? That's what I feel like. I feel like are you going fast or slow? Wait, no, hang on. You're going fast or slow? No, I'm going slow and you guys seem to be going fast. What does that mean? It means that you're drunk.
Starting point is 00:22:31 Okay, yeah, that's it. That adds up. Yeah. So apparently when Christopher Columbus ever heard of that man? Yes, I have. Dave, tell me about him. Christopher Columbus. First European to establish lasting contact with the Americas. He...
Starting point is 00:22:46 You are incredibly smart. He's incredibly knowledgeable. It's not the same thing. I don't have street smarts and I cannot cook, so... What would you say I am? Street smart and good cook. But not knowledgeable.
Starting point is 00:23:03 I mean, knowledge... I'll take street smarts. I'll take that. Honestly... I do have street smarts. The days of it being impressive that you know stuff are over. Because everybody has... Everyone's got...
Starting point is 00:23:14 Okay, Siri. Tell me how important is Dave. Dave's a fuckhead. See what I mean? Siri knows. She got me there. Siri. Siri.
Starting point is 00:23:29 Hey Siri. Siri. Hey Siri. Hello. Hello. Um... Okay. Can you please tell me
Starting point is 00:23:38 Ask who Christopher Columbus is Can you please tell me who Christopher Columbus is? Here is what I found Can you read that for me? I'm lying No, I'm talking to the other Siri You piece of shit Then who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Starting point is 00:23:57 Who? Me? Yes, you couldn't be Siri, look I'll be honest You've let me down a little bit here No, right People who can retain knowledge is still somewhat valuable.
Starting point is 00:24:07 She just said, who me again? Remember when you said that you didn't need to know things like that because of Siri? I'm feeling pretty smug right now. I hate Siri right now, but Siri is going to end up killing us all. Did I say I've met the woman who voices Siri? I met her. She was on my radio show. My name's Karen.
Starting point is 00:24:26 Are you absolutely shitting us? I'm not shitting you. They're absolutely shit us on this one, mate. Surely it's a computer program that just reads. No, it's a woman. It just simulates. Oh, my God. is pretty embarrassing that Dave didn't have that bit of knowledge, and he said.
Starting point is 00:24:39 That is embarrassing. Can you tell us a bit about her? Did she just... It was for, like, she was the voice of a lot of GPSes. When she speaks, can you tell that it's her? No, not really. Does she put on a voice for it? Hello, I am your computer. Well, you've got to think about, like, how they've just recorded words out of sequence.
Starting point is 00:24:58 Was it a phoneer? Or was it a... No, she was in the studio. So what is she like... In my head, she's like a... She's a singer. She's a singer. She's a singer. No, she'd be older.
Starting point is 00:25:05 And she sings. She's a singer. She's a professional singer. When she sings, does she sound like Siri? No. Don't be ridiculous. Who me? Don't be ridiculous, Dave.
Starting point is 00:25:17 Don't be so disrespectful to her art. I know you hate art. Do you hate art, Dave? Oh, I love art. I love art. I love art. Anyway, Matt, do go on. Oh, man, I feel, I'm feeling a bit.
Starting point is 00:25:31 No, you're fine. All right. You're a fuck, Ed. Just keep going with your dumb little report. What about Christopher Columbus? That's what we're up to. Yes, Christopher Columbus. At the time when he first voyaged through the waters of the new world.
Starting point is 00:25:51 The calm waters? Were they calm? Some days they were. Can we get a bucket? No, that wasn't a joke. We got the bin. Okay. Do you really need the bin?
Starting point is 00:26:08 Matthew. You'll never let this down. This is the second time we've had to get the bin for these podcasts. 45 episodes in and Matt's had the bucket called in for the second time. Let me just check the scoreboard. That's two for Matt. None for Jess and still none for Dave. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Two bucket calls. You're also the supposed to be the responsible adult of the group. Yeah. You're also. You're supposed to be our... It's supposed to be our dad. You're our dad. Why, how is that?
Starting point is 00:26:40 I don't see it. I would have thought, if I was going to assign the most... What is the thing you said is? Dad. The most responsible? I don't even know. I would say the most responsible of this group is Dave. Big time.
Starting point is 00:26:53 Number two is Jeff. Yeah. And I'm by far the biggest fuckhead of this trio. Wouldn't you think? Uh, 100% backing that. I'm... I would say I'm the moral. But I'm also... I strongly disagree.
Starting point is 00:27:07 I really use the moral heart when you're drunk on every episode. Wait, what's morals coming to that? I think Dave is probably the heart and soul of this group. Nah, Dave couldn't even fuck about anything. He doesn't care about stuff. Yes, he does. In his own way, he does. In his own way. He's a Nazi.
Starting point is 00:27:27 He cares about them though, doesn't he? I am not a Nazi and I do not sympathise with Nazis. Do we have to? keep talking about this. Well, hey, we're not the ones who said Hitler wasn't that bad. Yeah, you did really start. You did say that. No.
Starting point is 00:27:42 If we go back to the tape, at the time, the world didn't know how bad he was going to be. He wasn't that bad yet, you said. On the world stage, probably as a human being, he had bad thoughts. That we all do, don't we? Hey, I can sympathise with that, Hitler. Now, Jesus' bloody said, that's way worse than anything I ever said. Can we talk about her sympathy?
Starting point is 00:28:04 Dave, Dave, Dave. Young Nazi boy. Let it go. Own it and move on. Let it go, champ. Own it. I'm never going to own that. Own it, mate.
Starting point is 00:28:16 I'm going to ask for a third time for you to say what we were talking about Christopher Columbus. Right, so he said, and it was recorded that in one of his first journeys out into those new waters. I just remember we got the bucket for him. Yeah. We've got a bin for you to throw up in. You're saying they're reading, looking in pain. And I'm enjoying it a lot. Great.
Starting point is 00:28:43 Well, anyway, Christopher Columbus reported that he saw a great flame of fire that has now thought to have been a meteor as he sailed through the Bermuda triangle. It was actually just Johnny Cash. Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, rain of fire. He also wrote about erratic company. Reuters readings when he was traveling through that space. Ah. And this is obviously years and years ago, seven or eight.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Yeah. Many years ago. And yeah, he, and it's now thought that that was possibly because one part of the Bermuda Triangle is one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north line up. Or at that time it did. So it freaks out. Those old school styles of compass. I 100% don't know what that means. I don't understand that at all.
Starting point is 00:29:40 But that's the thing. Let's move forward with no follow-up questions then. Okay. In a did-you-know type section of the website, it also said that after gaining widespread fame as the first person of sale solo around the globe, Joshua Slowcome... Sorry, do go on.
Starting point is 00:30:03 He had to go right around the world. to just get off. Dave. That's not where you were going, was it, Jeff? Oh, yeah, come on. I just imagine it coming out really slowly. That's way more graphic. Yeah, it's really gross.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Oh, it's the worst bit. Where's it gone? Where's it gone? Oh, there it is. Get the bucket. So he disappeared on a 1909 voyage. Slow come. From Mars's Vineyard to South America.
Starting point is 00:30:41 And it's not clear what happened. But sources later... Whatever happened to Slow Come, you know? We're all asking us. Sources later thought that his death was somehow... Because of the Bermuda Triangle. But he disappeared in that area. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:58 In 1909. But the Bermuda Triangle wasn't even thought of as a thing then. Oh, so retroactively they're like, hang on. Retroactively, yeah. Columbus and Slow Clocke. come we're retroactively squeezed into the triangle. Two of the best. To the biggest and the broadest and the best.
Starting point is 00:31:14 Another interesting point that they talked about was how William Shakespeare... Oh, they're going to say Shatner. Me too. William Shatner. Oh, I'm so disappointed. I am. Shakespeare. You know Shakespeare's play The Tempest? You guys are theater-times.
Starting point is 00:31:29 The Tempest is like a big wind. Like a big stormy wind. Yeah, well, we've all had a big wind. after some spicy food. No, no, Jesus. I hate that. Is that a classic poo and fart joke? The tempest out of my bottom.
Starting point is 00:31:49 This is the worst. That of my butthole. I can't wait for this. I just want this episode to be over so I can get it out of here. And vomit. I mean, I'm still, I'm still drinking an energy drink. Go on with the tempest. Don't drink that if you're going to vom.
Starting point is 00:32:04 No. Why are we going to mention the? Tempest. I am suitably, my ears are pricked. Well, apparently it was possibly based on a real-life Bermuda shipwreck. And that's
Starting point is 00:32:17 thought to be that shipwreck was supposedly based on a true story and that true story was supposedly based in the Bermuda Triangle. It's all very complicated. Much like the plot of a Shakespeare play.
Starting point is 00:32:33 Ah, good point. Um, did you guys, you guys didn't study the tempest, did you? I didn't know. No, I haven't read the tempest. I did. I did. I did a first year literature assignment on it. Do you remember much about, uh, I remember bits and pieces. But it was one of the first things that I got a good mark on without fully reading or, um, I became very good at that.
Starting point is 00:32:56 As you can see now, doing this report without ever, ever, um, actually visiting the three. I've only visited two of the points of the triangle. Oh, which one have you not? Florida, you refuse to go to North America. Actually, no, I haven't been to any of the three. Where did you think you had been? I've been in Nando's. Is that involved somewhere?
Starting point is 00:33:22 Nandoz is a South African founded restaurant that serves Portuguese food. It's so far away from Puerto Rico. But the per sounds. But the per? Good try. I've also been to, what are the other ones? Bermuda. Bermuda, I've been to, I used to really like the Beach Boys song, Kokomo.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Bermuda, Bermuda, come on in Bermuda, Bermuda. Come on, Bermuda. If you close your eyes, it's almost like you're there. Bermuda. Bermuda. Bermuda. And it's slow comso. What?
Starting point is 00:34:07 Slow com. And what about Florida? You've been to Florida. But I've never been to me. No, I've never been to... I don't think I've ever been in Florida. Oh my God. This is the worst.
Starting point is 00:34:25 Do you remember what happens in the Tempest or people crash onto... Yeah, there's a crash and then there's like a fairy elf, some sort of an... Because they try and... Esprit? There's like some sort of a, like a little elk. No, that's a deer. There's a little...
Starting point is 00:34:44 Imp. There's an imp. What else about the Tempest, do you know? It was written by Shackaspare. William Chattano. William Eschatineur. Despite some of these old school thoughts, reports of unexplained disappearances did not go mainstream until
Starting point is 00:35:07 the 1900s, like I was saying. So they're really, over many years, they've gone back and grouped together all these things now. You know, when you're trying to prove something and you've got an infinite amount of time.
Starting point is 00:35:23 Oh, right, yeah, like over the last 6,000 years, 30 boats have gone missing. But you can go in that area. And one of them, Shakespeare thing was probably about it. And also, what else have we got? There was that guy who,
Starting point is 00:35:37 probably the slow coming guy. And Christopher Columbus said his instruments went weird once. That may have been in that area. Yeah, it probably was though. Yeah. There's no way of knowing because his instruments were so weird, he didn't know where he was. It's just, it's funny that you can...
Starting point is 00:35:53 And that's over, like, a lot of years. I was going to say thousands. It is thousands, I guess. But it's just going, yeah, I mean, you've got a handful of examples over a few thousand years. This guy called Barry at the General Store said it was true so that's part of the evidence i don't i mean i'd never i'd never know barry to lie yeah have you know him to lie barb barb she says nah yeah yeah doesn't want to be on camera though barb would also
Starting point is 00:36:19 never lie would you bar no again says nah love you barb love you bar love you bar love you bar she says what was a question again fuck off bar shut up bar back back to bed it's late we i really shouldn't be on camera at 1.30am. What, you're telling me you want me to put the camera away? Oh, Barb. You're really not the woman I married. I'm so confused. I'm disappointed in every single way.
Starting point is 00:36:47 Wow. What a tapestry. All right. Well, off to bed. I pop. Thanks, Barb. No, Bob. Not all.
Starting point is 00:36:56 I don't know who I am in this. The cameraman? You're the narrator. Your Caliban. That's that noise you made, Maddie? You're allowed to laugh, you know. I don't know what happens. You don't know what's happening.
Starting point is 00:37:11 Oh, I don't want to listen to this ever. We have to. I don't want to. You're going to hate it. This is going to be the worst. One of the most infamous tragedies occurred in 1918. Oh, William Shatner's birth. No, he's not that old.
Starting point is 00:37:33 He would have been born in the... 40s, I reckon. Oh, 1918. Oh, Not an 18, that's right. William Chattner,
Starting point is 00:37:42 Senior. Yes, Bill Shatner, they called him. This is when the... Billy Shats. Billy Shats. Tell us about
Starting point is 00:37:58 Billy Shats or whatever happened in 1918. So when, in 1918, the USS Cyclops, which was Billy Shats other name, It was a big Navy cargo ship,
Starting point is 00:38:10 which housed over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese on board. Mangonese? Magneties? Magazines? 10,000 tons of magazines. That's precious, precious cargo. Mayonase?
Starting point is 00:38:36 10,000 tons of manganes. I don't know what that is. It sounds valuable. I'm not talking Matt's laughing or crying. I think it's a... I'm looking at... Matt.
Starting point is 00:39:21 Oh my God. Magnet. A chemical element with a symbol MN of the atomic number 25. Magnetis is a metal with important
Starting point is 00:39:34 industrial metal alloy uses, particularly in stainless steels. Mangonies. He's just said and then had nothing to follow up.
Starting point is 00:39:56 Oh. I don't feel good. Where's that bin? To your right, mate. Manganese. It sounds like manganese. Manganese. Sounds like manganese.
Starting point is 00:40:16 10,000 tons. Which isn't a thing. But it does sound like it all. It's manganese. Oh. So this is, just to rika, it's a ship in 1918. With some soldiers. and some metal.
Starting point is 00:40:33 300 soldiers, 10,000 tons of manganese. Yeah. On board. And this boat, this, this boat sank
Starting point is 00:40:42 somewhere between Barbados. You're not even, you didn't do that on purpose, did you? You're not a Babados.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Oh no. Babados. Well, this is going to be unlistenable. Next to Jamaka. So this But the USS S plot. Do you want me to just do the rest of your report?
Starting point is 00:41:23 Just to just read out the rest of what you've written. Give it here. Do you want to do it? Yep. Okay. Oh, I'm so sorry. Never happened on the show. Unprecedented.
Starting point is 00:41:35 Matt has tapped out of his own report. Oh, no. To be fair, Jess, do you reckon you would have pronounced Manganese correctly? I would have said Babados, that's for sure. Okay, I'll just finish this sentence for you because you've tried it 19,000. times. This boat, this boat. This fucking boat.
Starting point is 00:41:58 He's literally written this boat, full stop. And then in capitals, this boat sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. Oh. Chesapeake. That sounds pretty good. Yeah. Not Babados. Babadook.
Starting point is 00:42:21 Do you want to keep going, Matt? Yeah. All right, here you go, buddy. Here we go. You take that back. And I'm imagining that that means it's inside the triangle of some. Yeah. Yeah, I'm assuming.
Starting point is 00:42:33 What was interesting about the whole Cyclops thing is that they never sent out an SOS. The ship. The ship. It disappeared without a trace. Yeah, because it found the island and they were all like, this is all right. This is great. Oh, happy hour. You don't sauce it when you got a paradise.
Starting point is 00:42:54 You don't need to sauce it. Have you seen the film of the beach? They go to many lengths to keep it a secret. There's no save our souls. We found our souls. They foster it. They went there and found themselves, Matt. Them and 10,000 tons of manganese.
Starting point is 00:43:09 Magnet. Many uses on a tropical island to the middle of nowhere. But they had the ability to do it, but they just didn't do it, right? An extensive search found no wreckage. Oh. Later, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson said, and I quote,
Starting point is 00:43:29 only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship. Oh. Do you know why Woodrow Wilson's famous, Dave? Because he's the president during the First World War? No, it was used in the Simpsons. Oh, in the Simpsons. Woodrow. Woodrow Wilson.
Starting point is 00:43:47 With a picture of like an old NFL player. Yeah, yeah. Dear baby, welcome to Dumpville, Population, you. Do you know that episode of the Simpsons? You've got to do the Simpsons episode soon, Davy Boy. You're a Davey Boy. Davey Jones Locker. Oh my God, it all ties together.
Starting point is 00:44:08 Yeah, I am the sea. In 1941, two of the Cyclops' sister ships also vanished without a trace following a similar route. The Cyclops had sisters. That was many years later. Yeah, three decades later. Which is still possible. Of course it is. That might, like, I don't fully...
Starting point is 00:44:30 It's right. It's right. That's right. A pattern allegedly began forming in which vessels traversing the Bermuda Triangle would either disappear or be found abandoned. Then in 1945 December... Good, because I was going to ask. Yep.
Starting point is 00:44:47 Five Navy bombers... carrying 14 men took off from Fort Lauderdale in Florida. How much manganese? Yeah, how much manganese do they have? Untold amounts. Untold amounts to magnesium. Okay, sorry. Hashtay manganese.
Starting point is 00:45:03 So 14 of them left Florida, over five bombers. And they were out to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals, which I think are those, they're like sort of like scarves that women wear. There was some nearby. Which is confusing. I don't know why you're bombing the shoals. No, but like they went out in the 80s. And this is before that.
Starting point is 00:45:29 So they were trying to get rid of them really. Yeah, that makes it. They were huge and the army hated them. Yeah. Really big shoals. Really big shoals. Really big. But with his compass apparently malfunctioning,
Starting point is 00:45:43 the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, which is this is probably the most famous of the Bermuda Triangle Miss Oh. This is written, this is that was written on the history to come. They got severely lost.
Starting point is 00:45:59 Severely, so not just a little bit. Little bit less. Little bit lost. Little bit lost. Like full lost. Tote's lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and had to ditch at sea. What?
Starting point is 00:46:09 Oh. That's weird. The same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also vanished. Oh. Were they looking for them? Yes. Oh, that's weird. That's dodgy. That's super weird, hey.
Starting point is 00:46:24 And after a massive weeks-long search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report, official, is written in bloody words. In Word, Microsoft. Said that it was as if they had flown to Mars. Okay, well, that's a bit, all right. No, I don't know. Official. Is that a theory? No, that's officially in the document.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Here's what I reckon. As if they'd flown to Mars. This is what I reckon. All right, Jess is going to... I'm jumping in early with a theory. I definitely think there's an island. I think that island, somewhere in the middle, it's really peaceful,
Starting point is 00:46:58 but also filled with a bunch of pranksters. And what they do is shoot down the plains. They like, stay away from our island. That's not really pranking, that's terrorism. Yeah, right. There's a difference. Fun little prank. Shooting and killing.
Starting point is 00:47:14 14 men. Maybe instead they like flag them down. They're like, just hang out in our island for a bit. And then they just didn't understand. Maybe that's nice. I think it's a nice island. That's my theory. What about this, though?
Starting point is 00:47:26 The crew were led by a very experienced pilot, Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, who was 28 years old, and he'd served in World War II. He'd had over 2,000 flying hours. Wow. Super experienced. That's a lot of hours. At 28, too, that's quite young.
Starting point is 00:47:46 Say if you did half an hour a day, how many days, How many days is that? 5,000. Wow, geez, Dave is good at that. Is that, he's going to be longer than that, though, because... Say it's an hour a day, how many days? Two and a half thousand. Oh, geez, good.
Starting point is 00:48:00 How good is he? He's pretty good. Say it's two and a half hours a day, then how many days? A thousand. Bloody hell, I cannot trip him up. A thousand days is a lot, though. That's a lot of days. Two and a half hours a day.
Starting point is 00:48:17 It's only two and a half hours every day for three years, and if you're in the Second World War, you're probably flying five days a week. Probably doing multiple hours a day. Okay, well then you've just had an extra year, haven't you, as well. Anyway, so they're saying they're led by this 28-year-old experienced pilot. The training they were undertaking on that day was known as navigation problem number one. Well, it sounds like that they did not solve that problem.
Starting point is 00:48:41 Okay, no need to move on to number two. Yeah, because they are not ready for it. You've already failed. In that you're dead. As soon as they're ready and said, I don't know where I am, they're like, well, that's a fail. Yep. You're cooked, man Is the problem they leave them into the middle of nowhere
Starting point is 00:48:53 And leave them and you have to try and find your way home in a plane Is that it? Is that the problem? Is that problem number one? That's number one problem. Problem number two is finding them And they failed because 99 problems The rescue boat also failed.
Starting point is 00:49:05 When the planes were checked before the training It was discovered none of the planes had clocks Oh so they just lost track of time They were having fun None of them have clocks It's like when you were a kid And your mum was like All right you can go out and play with your friends
Starting point is 00:49:18 But you've got to be back by dark So back by five o'clock And you'd be like, right oh, ma'am, I don't have a watch, I can't read a clock. I'm a kid. I'm a kid. I'm being free.
Starting point is 00:49:27 It's that, isn't it, Matt? Yes. I was sorry, I was reading ahead. I know. I haven't read these words ever before. Interesting to note that the training the crew war to undertake was known as dead reckoning.
Starting point is 00:49:43 Oh. Which involved undertaking a number of calculations, including time elaps. But so they discovered that? You said that before they went, they discovered it but they didn't decide to go get a clock. Hey guys, we don't have a clock. She'll be right.
Starting point is 00:50:03 However, they didn't see the lack of clocks as an issue as it was assumed that the crew would have watches. Did anyone have a watch? All planes were fully fuelled. Okay, but no clocks. The weather was. was favorable. The sea state was moderate to rough.
Starting point is 00:50:26 My plane has a clock but no fuel. Up you go. Consider yourself lucky, Perkins. Taylor was running late to flight time. Because you didn't have a fucking clock. I said that's so weird. Taylor was running late to flight time. But that is what it says.
Starting point is 00:50:44 Taylor was running late, so flight time was delayed. He doesn't sound very organized or experienced. From 145 to 210. Oh, No, you've just lost 25 minutes of daylight, mate. What do you think this is? What do you think this is? How far did they get into the routine?
Starting point is 00:51:00 Is that the kind of question you're wondering? Obviously, it was my next question. My second question, first of all, it was, what the fuck? It is believed that they completed the bombing practice, as one of the last requests from the crew was permission to drop the last bomb. What? What? That was one of the last requests.
Starting point is 00:51:23 Can we drop the last bomb? You're gone. Thanks, Mom. And then what happened? They just disappeared. Wee. But didn't you say they didn't know where they were? Yes.
Starting point is 00:51:35 So they just decided to bomb something. Look, there's land down there. It was bomb it. Yeah, well, that's the thing. It's confusing. The island. That's what he radio. Over the course.
Starting point is 00:51:58 Compass not working. Compass not working. Taylor, please repeat. Please repeat. Oh, sorry. I said... Sorry, I always chew on my fingers and... Yeah, I was not paying attention.
Starting point is 00:52:10 My compass isn't working. Any feedback on that? Check your clock. Check your clock. Ah, gotcha. So that, I mean, that was Christopher Columbus style. Check your clock. Compass wasn't working.
Starting point is 00:52:24 Oh. Oh, okay, I'll get you now. But remember, but you've explained that already, though. Potentially, but they didn't know that in 19-whatever. 45. Yeah. Look, that's all this specific. 19-whatever.
Starting point is 00:52:38 Over the course of... What year is it? 19-whatever. 19-something. Over the course of the 10 hours... Oh, they were lost about long. Taylor's team tried to... They decided to find land by just flying in one direction.
Starting point is 00:52:52 They thought they were flying north. They flew for 10 hours apparently. Couldn't find land. Is it possible to fly for that long and not find land? It seems ridiculous. But that's what's written on this thing that I'm reading. Yeah, like, because there's heaps of islands around there. It seems like he'd be very unlucky.
Starting point is 00:53:12 Yeah, but then like... Or... Or... Something fucked is happening. Something... What do you reckon is giant octopus? Yes. Like, really...
Starting point is 00:53:20 But when I say giant, I don't mean like, wow, that's a big octopus. I mean, fucking... enormous, like King Kong octopus. Like too big. Like you zoom out and You're still only like one of its freckles. Oh, that's even bigger. Huge.
Starting point is 00:53:36 I was thinking like an eyeball. Nah. Freckles are bigger. Massive. And it's got big eyes too. They do though, don't they? It's one thing about octopuses that I've noticed. They have big eyes. Or did you say squid?
Starting point is 00:53:50 That's an octopus. And is there a difference? I'm not sure. Good. The official report from the Navy was that a navigational error led them to run out of fuel, and that was it. So the plane that went out looking for them, the PBM Mariner. Peanut Butter Mariner?
Starting point is 00:54:06 Yes. That was the one with 13 crew. 13 crew went out looking for them, never found again, never returned. Wow, did they even radio in? Was it just like, see it? Didn't bother. They said. Drop the mic, said, out.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Peace. Uh, they're not sure what happened to that plane, but a near boy... Near boy. A boy nearby. They're not sure what happened to this plane either, but a nearby boat reported they saw an explosion. Oh. Which seems to... There's some way to explaining.
Starting point is 00:54:41 And the official report states that it was a presumed mid-air explosion. Because somebody in the island was shooting down. Nicely. You're a friendly one. A friendly shootdown. Yeah. If you guys can make sense of this, that'd be great. Cool.
Starting point is 00:54:59 The reason explosion seems most likely for the mariner is that those types of planes were known to collect flammable aviation gasoline vapors in its bligees. Bligees. Blige's. How do you spell that? B-L-I-G-E-S. No, no, B-I-L-G-E-S. Bilge.
Starting point is 00:55:22 Bilge. Bilge. The phrase Bermuda Triangle was called You can do it The phrase Bermuda Triangle was coined by Vincent Gattis In Van Gogh A 1964 magazine article Where his painting was
Starting point is 00:55:49 Printed In the magazine In 19664 Was a good year It would be I mean If I had that as my last seeing like Zia, created a phrase that everyone knows in pop culture and they don't know why.
Starting point is 00:56:02 I'd be happy. Yeah, that's true. Let's think of one. Bermuda. Pineapple. Great, I'm happy with it. Your jumper has pineapples on it. Yes, it does.
Starting point is 00:56:14 Yeah, I like it. Pumuda, pineapple. Yes. Poo go on. Poo go on, Matt. So this guy's coined it in 64. That's all. Was it just like a flippant reference?
Starting point is 00:56:28 He probably had no idea that it would become like a real pop culture. But why, like if people... He wrote a big article about it. And if they were kind of thinking, other people must have been aware of this area. So I wonder why they hadn't named it or what did they refer to it as I wonder? I just, it wasn't seen as being a thing. Hmm, okay.
Starting point is 00:56:45 It was just, there were some things that happened. It's such a huge space. It's just another area of ocean. Yeah, there's, every area of oceans had crazy accidents. Name one. Titanic, well played. Damn it. So apart from these accidents, there were still a bunch of other mysteries.
Starting point is 00:57:07 And a lot of those included the crew sending Ellswell messages just before disappearing. What messages? All's well. All's well, right. Tips me, we're okay. We're all right. I don't want to bed upstairs, fella. Allswell.
Starting point is 00:57:24 In 1974, Charles Bullitts, wrote a sensational bestseller about the legend. Now, are you saying sensational in the sense of you've read it and think it is sensational? It is sensational. Or are you saying it's sensational in his style of... His style of writing was sensational. Right, right, right, right. But conveniently, it was also a sensational.
Starting point is 00:57:45 It was a big article, a big, a big article. It was a big book. Technical term, technical term there, Matt. It's a big book. No, I'm starting to think if that was a huge seller, that could be why it's known in pop culture. Yes. And, yeah, so that was really big. But that's 74.
Starting point is 00:58:09 It's not that long ago. And since then, there's been a fair few more stories written about it. And it's become bigger and bigger. It's a bigot bigger. It's a big book. Keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Yeah, it's become more and more of a thing. But I just thought it must have been around for a while.
Starting point is 00:58:27 the things must have all happened at the same time, but it's just, it's a big spread of time, and then only recently people are trying to, like, mush it into a theory. Here are some of the theories as to why people think the triangle is so deadly. So, okay.
Starting point is 00:58:47 We've covered Ireland. I mean, I've already, yeah, I feel like I've already come up with a couple of really good theory. I did say Atlanta. You said? That was listed on History.com. What else you got? Does it say why, what Atlanta? is doing to the plains though? Just sucking them in.
Starting point is 00:59:00 Atlanta's the Lost City. Why is it sucking in planes? The Moorman or whatever. What? The what man? Isn't Atlantis like where a merman live? Isn't that where Aquaman's from? I think that's where Aquaman's from.
Starting point is 00:59:11 My other theories include a giant octopus slash squid. Apparently there's a difference. Sea monsters was listed. Great. I also said an island filled with friendly terrorists. Is that on there? That's not on there. Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:23 Perkins. This is good. I think that's my favourite of the three. is there any more? Aliens? No. I feel like it's a go-to. We always go to aliens.
Starting point is 00:59:33 It was heavily implied that it was aliens in the Bermuda Triangle Ride of SeaWorld slash Dream World that I was talking about. Yeah, but we always... You go into a thing and there's like all these like aliens and like there's different rockets and bits of plane that the aliens have been collecting. The first thing we always go to when something's a little bit weird,
Starting point is 00:59:49 we just go, oh, it must be aliens. Like, think outside the box, people. Come on. Is there some sort of golden woman la... Yeah, golden woman? I love pass. Is there anything further out of the box than aliens? Well,
Starting point is 01:00:01 it's just you go too. Like, just be creative. Don't always blame the aliens. Think of an island full of little... You didn't have too much credit. What about this? Time warps.
Starting point is 01:00:13 Nah. So they've... They flow in in their plane. Yeah. They fly in, yep. Flow in? Flow in. All right.
Starting point is 01:00:21 And then they just flow out into another time. No, I don't like that one. Disagree with that one. reverse gravity fields. Disagree also. Oh, so you go, what, you lose gravity, so you fly into the sun. You just get up. That's just silly.
Starting point is 01:00:36 Something you're in a ship, you're looking down and you're flying above the water. What's going on? No. And you don't come back. I like that one. That one sounds like fun to me. There's also been some more scientific theories, including magnetic anomalies. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:51 Which I guess that ruins the compasses. Yeah. But then, like, no, because. Because, just keep going. Get a map out. Jess, we're running out of fuel. We don't know what to do. Just keep going.
Starting point is 01:01:08 Just keep going, mate. That's my sort of attitude, that isn't it? That's the thing up, pilot. That is me, though, isn't it? Yeah. Just a little way of sunshine. Just keep on going. All right.
Starting point is 01:01:16 What about this then? Oh? Water spouts. Nah. Wait, unless you mean it's like, like at theme parks and there's, like, those holes in the ground, and then just water comes out of them laterly. Oh, okay, that's pretty fun.
Starting point is 01:01:29 Yeah. But, like, it's got to go high enough to hit a plane and take it out of the sky. Yes. So, like... Science. Nah, I'm back in that one. Like a 20,000-foot water spout. I may also back out of my island theory for the water spout theory.
Starting point is 01:01:44 And then another one that has had a few different people get on board recently. Huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor. Poop. And what does it do? Huge eruptions of methane gas. How does that, what does that do? He doesn't know. Dave just doesn't know.
Starting point is 01:02:05 I agree with Jess there. There's no amount of sense that I could beat into him. I wouldn't even bother trying to explain this even though I know. Huge eruptions of methane gas. Yeah, which would cause just like a bar-double. Imagine like a big amount of gas coming up at you. Into the sky. Into the sky?
Starting point is 01:02:24 That's where it would go. And it gases the pilots. Yeah, gas is them. I don't like that theory. I don't love it. It's sort of more than likely, though, there's not one explanation. Oh, so the aliens are working in conjunction with the people from Atlantis to release methane gas fire giant water geys. No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:02:40 Is that what you're getting at? I'm getting at each disappearance probably has a different reason. Oh, well, that's no fun at all. It also seems that this area of ocean has no more disappearances than any other areas of ocean. Oh, what about lakes? I put a dot, dot, dot in there. What about lakes? Lakes, yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:05 Or it's been other bodies of water. No, no, I'm talking big oceans. Okay, interesting. Someone has said, apparently people say that, apparently people say. History.com said that trying to find a common cause for every Bermuda Triangle disappearance is no more logical than trying to find a common cause
Starting point is 01:03:25 for every automobile accident in Arizona. Hang on. There's some sort of automobile triangle in Arizona. Is that what we should take away from this? Aliens. Aliens, my go-to. Or some sort of island in the middle of Arizona where all these automobiles are trying to get to. Or, water spouts. Just come up in the middle of the road.
Starting point is 01:03:46 Buddy, whoop, they're under the car. Got them. Got them. Smashed the car. Got him, man beast. Maritime insurance leader Lloyds of London does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle. as an especially hazardous place. Neither is the US Coast Card,
Starting point is 01:04:03 which says, in a review of many aircraft and vessel losses in the area over the years, there have been nothing discovered that would indicate the casualties were the results of anything other than physical causes. I'm really not sure that that... No extraordinary factors have been identified.
Starting point is 01:04:24 It quite didn't need to be read in full. that you could have paraphrase that I think and also that accent didn't match the nationality of the people you were allegedly quoting. Just thought I'd finish with a something powerful. A recent report
Starting point is 01:04:39 from this year on news.com which is a very trustworthy Yeah, very reputable. Rupert Murdoch, old mate. Headline, could underwater crater discovery explain the Bermuda Triangle Mystery
Starting point is 01:04:54 question mark? answer the whole article is the word no move on nah nah yeah probably not given up on click page no but apparently they've found underwater craters
Starting point is 01:05:07 off the coast of Norway and think that that may be a craters craters off the coast of Norway that Caribbean area nowhere near it about as far as you can get away from it it's yeah interesting right
Starting point is 01:05:20 it's hoped this it's hoped the craters are the key to finally explaining the baffling phenomenon. Well, that's kind of disappointing in a way. But then does it explain it in the article? The craters which measure up to 800 metres wide and 45 metres deep are believed to have been created by methane building up in sediments on the seafloor of the gas-rich Norway coast. They then leak, popping through the seabed and into the water above.
Starting point is 01:05:48 Multiple giant craters exist on the seafloor and in the blah, blah, blah. Details of the discovery will be released. at the meeting of the European Geosciences Union, where experts will analyse whether these kinds of bubbles could place ships in danger. Anyway, I like to fade things out as always. So anyway, that's my preferred theory is gas. Nah. Gas. Norwegian gas.
Starting point is 01:06:17 I still think there's an island out there. Rupert, why would Rupert Murdoch... It's called Cuba. Ah, yes. You're saying Rupert Murdoch would fuck with us on this. No, good point. He'd never let us down. Why would he fuck with us on this? He would never.
Starting point is 01:06:29 I don't know. Norway is somehow, like I reckon, I wouldn't put it past Norway. Yeah. You know with some of our mystery sort of themed topics, we're always like, oh, it's kind of unsatisfactory. There's no real answer there. I'm actually just disappointed that the Bermuda Triangle isn't as bad as was made out to be.
Starting point is 01:06:49 Like, they say there's no higher number of disappearances than in any other patch of ocean. It's like, oh. Yeah, it's cool. We're going to go in, you are not coming out, but you probably will. Yeah, like chances are on your side. Yeah, like a normal trip, a normal boat or plane trip. Like many, many flights every day go through the Bermuda Triangle. And every day without incident.
Starting point is 01:07:11 Bang, bang, bang. I mean, if... Fly just went off. Fly just another flight. Is that them going down or going well? That's them going well. Oh, good. Another flight goes well.
Starting point is 01:07:20 And if it was that bad, they would stop going through that area. Yeah. But they haven't, because of it. It's fine. It's definitely not a thing. Oh, that sucks. 100% not a thing. Oh, now, someone please message in.
Starting point is 01:07:31 I'm so sorry to people who believe it's a thing. I obviously have researched it and prove it without shadow. You are now an absolute bona fide expert on the triangle. Is it awful that you've dedicated your whole life to this topic and suddenly you've realized over your 11 hours of research today that it, in fact, probably doesn't exist at all? I don't even, I'm not even sure that Bermuda's a real place. Is it? It's a place in your heart.
Starting point is 01:08:01 I mean, sure it's a place in my heart. Tell you what, the Bermuda Triangle in my heart's had a few casualties. Hey, hey. I don't know what that means. Is that bad for me or? Oh, no, I think. I don't know. Let's not overanalyze.
Starting point is 01:08:20 It was a cute little moment. Yeah. Between you, me and Puerto Rico. What do? Oh, we're like the Bermuda Triangle, because there's three of us. Oh. Which, who do you see yourself as? Mm.
Starting point is 01:08:37 I think you're the Bermuda. I'm going to see, I'm the Florida. Why do you think I'd be the Bermuda? Because I'm mysterious. You're mysterious. Um, you, you, you, I reckon you're the, you're the titular character. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 01:08:52 Um. So what would Dave be? Oh, Dave's more of a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Agreed. I agree. And you're definitely a Florida man. Florida man. I'm a Florida man.
Starting point is 01:09:02 Yeah, great. That's what they call you. Welcome to Miami. And I sing the Will Smith song Miami all the time. Welcome to Miami. And then he says something about like Jean-Claude Van Dam or something. Van Damme? Van Damme.
Starting point is 01:09:16 Welcome to Van Damme. That's just him shaking out with Jean-Clauadam as he touched us down in Miami. Welcome to Van Damme. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Bonjour. I know I'm Belgian, but still. Still, he's French Belgian.
Starting point is 01:09:35 Are you going to wrap this up or? You could have told us you were done. We could go, I feel like we could go all night long. No, I don't want to go. Where is the time gone? You know where? Into the Bermuda triangle, that's where. We're so sorry.
Starting point is 01:09:48 Thanks for the report, Matt. Look, I'm thinking about putting this report into the bin. I reckon this might be our lost report. That would feel apt. That would feel quite apt. If you try and download it into an hour of silence. But what happened to them? Where are they?
Starting point is 01:10:04 And then we don't tweet for a week either. Yeah. Oh my God. Where are they? And then we're like, jokes, we're here. We're fine. We'll never leave you. And everyone goes, jokes what?
Starting point is 01:10:14 I didn't notice anything. Yeah, like, oh. Oh, bommon. Well, thank you very much. If you have managed to listen to this, if this has made it out into the air. If this has made it to your ears, then we are alive. most likely Thank you so much for the suggestions
Starting point is 01:10:32 Hey thanks so much Emma and Bradley And yeah Let us know if I didn't hit on any of the Yeah that's right Who didn't hit on any of the key points you wanted to hit I've already said Babbados
Starting point is 01:10:44 Buba Doss I'm gonna go on Take a sweet short break To the island of Bubodos Babbados Brigadier I'll tell you what If I was Bubedos
Starting point is 01:10:56 I would probably we consider renaming to Babados? No, what does it actually called?
Starting point is 01:11:05 Barbados. Barbados. Barbados. Are we sure that it's not technically pronounced Barbados? Pretty sure.
Starting point is 01:11:12 Babados. We shall ask Rihanna. But anyway, until next week get in contact in other ways, it's email. You're all on email?
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