Do Go On - 68 - Shackleton's Endurance

Episode Date: February 8, 2017

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and 28 men left England for his third trip to Antarctica. Sadly, they will never even make it to the continent. With their ship The Endurance crushed by the ice and with no hope of rescue, how the hell will they ever make it home? Dave tries to do this epic story justice with the longest report yet. There's something for everyone: Shaquille O'Neal, eggs and slugs. Twitter/Instagram/Facebook us: @DoGoOnPodEmail: [e-mail] 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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Call 800-333-4-Kia for details. Always drive safely. safely. Hello and welcome to do go on your favorite podcast show with me Matt Stewart, him Dave Warnicky and her, sorry what was? No, I've been friends for like two years longer I think. Sorry it's of course it's Jessica Perkins. That is my name. Favorite podcast, that's nice, thanks everyone. I didn't really know I saw the people listening right now who believe this is their thing.

We're number one. We're Number one. Number one. Don't start singing the number one banana song again. That was no good. That's the number one banana. A lot of people said it got in the head. I'm the normal banana.

I don't have the muff on my myclach normal so sorry if I need my peas or like that. Oh, that's what the muff does. Yeah, the muff really cuts it. Pea for flim. Oh, that's what the muff does. Yeah, the muff really cuts it out. P for flamin. Oh, that's really loud in your ears. I'm not gonna do any P sounds after this P. You'll have to think about every single word you say. Yeah. P's are right, you can avoid P.

I won't talk about my little pony, for instance. Oh, fuck, I just did it. My little, my little pony. I watched it last week. Now we did the episode last week. Just did a topic on my little pony. Yeah, I last week. Now we did the episode last week. Just did a topic on my little pony Yeah, I don't recall. It really divided our listenership turns out we got quite a few fans of the franchise and also a lot of people who are more like what we were talking about how like

surprising that this is a big thing. Yeah Um, yeah, I was interesting and a couple of listeners mess me said just watch it I think he could like it. I don't know on the bass and that on but I watched the first episode of the friendship club or whatever Friendship is magic friendship is magic the friendship club and it ended with a cliffhanger So I don't know and I was you know, it was a bit dark Yeah, the darkness came to ponyville But it was you know, it's just like, it was like all those cartoons You know like there's this cartoon that I watched I got home as a son was coming up at a Bucks party right and me and my friend

This is how all great stories start. We were you know off-chops basically and we were we've clicked on the TV And it was just the end of an old AFL grand final replay and the very next show like Saturday Disney was coming on or whatever morning it was and this show Phineas and Ferb and we were transfixed. There's like this sort of secret agent platter pool in it and then these two brothers or cousins ones a bit dumb and the other ones are genius and maybe they're both geniuses but one seems dumb and then they just build all these cool things. It was kind of like that. Only with ponies.

And but you were drunk with the genius in firm. Yeah, but that platypus, Perry, I think is nameless. So good. Perry from my little pony. So I've got the thing on, I can say it all day long. I shouldn't because that is, it's poor sound quality. Oh, that's not good sound quality. There sound quality. But anyway, yeah, the show Like it was pretty good though a flight we so it's their unicorns. They got horns on their heads

Yeah, some of them fly they're not all unicorns are they and they're all females apart from two Who and like male horse slaves and they fly? They like sparkle in some sort of sex cross to another sex tray. Dave, Dave. It's not this, we did we, I think just made it very clear. There's no. And you have upset enough people. You really have.

Do you want to keep digging? You really annoy. Well, it just sounds like that though a couple of ponies have been put out to stud against their will. Look, I don't know, I don't know even if that's true, but it did seem a bit. I don't even think they're all female. I think they're yeah just in the first episode So maybe or they was like an old lady and a really old lady granny Smith. Oh, yeah Oh, good name at which is an Australian invented apple invented. Yeah, we invented the

Ernie that is actually true. It do you invent? You cross-colonated. They didn't invent it though. It's a wrong word for an apple. Semantics. We also invented that word. Pretty happy with that. We did not. We did not invent it.

Of course and as we all know, Dave is anti-Semitic. That's right, I'm very against semantics. I was pretty happy about that. I know, I could tell by the fist company that I was the happiest I've ever seen you. Anyway, I don't know yet. I've seen you emeritus. So, yeah, anyway, my little pony. Yeah, emeritus heckles that place.

The music festival, not just someone called Merit. I give my little pony friendship town two hoos up to hoos up out of five No, I don't know I don't know to hoos up out of five. Who's that? It's a pretty ambiguous system Yeah, well actually would be out of four because most horses have four. Yeah, okay So it's a two-and-a-stuff I mean relatively that's probably about right because I don't think I'm gonna watch anymore But you know if hang it couldn't keep you sucked in look I want to give it three episodes of any TV show you've got to give it three even

I agree even the godfellow the godfellow boy who's that dead dead dead was it bed dead? I can't remember yeah dead bed instead of breaking beds it's close

anyway but now I get it like when we talked about River Dancer which is something that's very close to my heart, and you hear people mocking it. You get sad. Yeah, that's true, because it's like when you love something. Is there anything that we could... I've never done it, but when you do, I've heard. I was going to ask you, Matt, is there anything that you love that we could Take down thank you to football club. Yeah, what did we just pull those? Well, Meredith music festival just shredded them. Well, that's wine. All of those are indestructible That's the thing I think when you get to massage

Right, he said why is old man? Well, where's Demi more confident? Most people you've like come to a customer death because nearly everyone that was born in your year is now dead Yeah, that's right all my all my time now I spend at funerals. It changes Funerals changes. I'm morning morning noon and night Yeah, anyway, what it's almost like with we had a pony cliffhanger and up to episode two, but we're actually doing a different topic today, Dave. That is right.

I am digging into the hat, digging into the Facebook hat, which we don't often do. So I'd still keep it even, because we get a lot of suggestions on Twitter. We get a lot of suggestions on email. Probably mostly Twitter, would you agree? Twitter's probably the most. Yeah.

And then when people want to suggest a few things, they go, you do email, you get more characters. Sure. Sometimes people say, you know, and we put them all in. Oh yeah. We chuck in 10 suggestions at the same time. But that, I reckon that the people messaging in are more characters on emails as well. We also did get some hand delivered.

You forget to mention that. Yeah, that's true. We've had a hand delivered one. One, two, one. Two. Well, let me just say. Give me one as well. So two that's true. We've had a hand-delivered one. One, two, one. Two. Well, let me just say. You do want as well? So two on the same.

We open it. I'd just like to say that we're open at all times. You can hand us pieces of paper anywhere. It's like being served bill. We're open at all times. You've been served. I'm for business. I am not open at all times.

I'm standing straight like a drug now. That's not relevant at all. My front door. My front door is open. Okay, what's your address? Um, two. Two. Cherry Popline.

Wisconsin. Two. Two. I'm still talking it's two to two. Second Street. Twoville. What's your postcode? Double-two population to and another two

Could have said quadruple two, but I don't say that That's some sort of four. I would have said double-two double-two. Yeah, I would have as well double-two-two-two-two-two you idiot double-two-two That's cute So you can drop off at all if you want to come to our live Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, which is on sale, this is going to say, Melbourne International Comedy Festival show is on sale now. And we're selling some tickets, guys.

Yeah, tickets are moving. It's cool, but at those events, let's encourage people to hand us things to the hand. Let me cool. A suggestion. It's not just like their children. No, I like some fan art. Oh, fan art for sure.

It also like vouchers for sanity. Yes, which is a CD shop. A CD shop that I'm not sure it exists anymore. It does, but only in the original. It's great. So we'll have to get the voucher and then drive on a road trip to buy what a human nature or a handsome CD needs. No, I think they update the CDs.

Oh, so people in the country up to date? Well, yeah, it is. Great. Or Dixie chicks in Lake Carnegie, but still. Great. Just 20 years stuff. Dixie's a great. Yeah, I'm not ready.

I can't say that. God, who is? The Dixie chick. The Dixie chick. I sang, um, traveling soldier in a pub in a tiny town in Ireland. Who is? I know that song. He was waiting for the bus to see his army.

Were you invited to perform to your stand on the bus? No, I just felt it in my heart. No, every pub in Ireland has a guy with a guitar. So he was singing and everybody was to sing and I was like, get up and see. Is the Irish guy in the guitar has he just says that in his repertoire Yeah, I didn't have any book so I was like well I'm doing it and so and I made him sing with me Is it illegal legal requirement to have the guitar and the man to serve alcohol and yeah, yeah, it's part of the RSA really yeah No dickhead

It's part of their culture. I It's part of their culture. I hate Dave. I once had a meal in Dublin, it's a Mexican meal, and the place was called the Blue Saxophone. That was a fun story. If we've got anybody in Dublin. And they played Jazz Music, Boss, you ate takeaway Mexican food. It was a very strange combination in Ireland.

You ate takeaway inside the place. Maybe that was my problem. They were telling me to leave. That was definitely my problem. I thought it was a hate crime. So I thought it was happening. You want me to leave? Okay, I'll get it. You don't serve my car to you. No, sir. We've already served you. Now, can you please leave? Would they not have had an accent though, I think? That was the weirdest part. That's why I thought, I'm like, why is there a hate crime? You have the exact same telling voices me.

Dave, were you talking to a mirror like a parrot? That's why I thought, why is there a hate crime? You have the exact same telling voices me. Dave, were you talking to a mirror like a parrot? Yeah, that was pretty drunk in this blue saxophone. Hey Dave, what's the question? OK, sorry, sorry. So this is suggested through Facebook by Tim Robertson. So thank you Tim, appreciate this a lot. On you, Dave.

My question this week is going to be a bit more abstract than I'll explain the topic. My question is, would you answer this newspaper ad? Ooh, I like it. You say? Newspaper ad. Men wanted for hazardous journey. No, I'm a woman. I'm out. Okay, Matt, you're still in. No, hazardous. Fuck that. It gets worse. Low wages. No. Bit of cold cold long hours of complete darkness safe return doubtful honor and recognition in event of success that's all it says no you This could be any of the episodes have done the past Birkenwils this could be a parrord expedition the one the one where Everest. Everest was the Everest one.

Spice Girls was very similar. That was the answer they answered. Has it a journey, long house of darkness? Pop group called the Spice Girls. I'm in. I'm in. I wanted to weed out the non-scary sporty and baby ones. Yeah, the baby ones are definitely responsible for that.

To answer your question, no, I wouldn't. So I'm a big ol' whoosh. And is this a famous page in history? Or is this some sort of obscure thing? No, this is a quite a famous event. Okay. Not super obscure. So when you say it, are we going to go, oh, but I feel like you know a lot more than me. Yeah, say it and let's say if Jessica's like, oh, I'll just do it now and you won't know. Okay, so I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor.

I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor.

I'm a good actor. I'm a good actor. I can't see you. I don't know what I'm really, I've been acting for 25 years. I'm acting up like a bloody... I don't know who I really am. You're a real character, that's for sure. I am.

I'm not a real person. I'm just a character. What if you are really just good at acting? And this is you can oh my god How would you know having a panic? How would you know you'd never know what I'm like at home? I'm not having a panic attack. I'm just pretending All right, because you guys said no to the ad book in 1914 5,000 men said yes 914 hours the they applied the war There's the year of the war war but it's not the war. Oh. They were applying to be a part of Ernest Shackleton's third trip to Antarctica. I have heard of that. I'm just kind of guessed it. Are you acting?

Kind of. No, no, no, I remember Ernie Shackleton from primary school. Looking at his expedition. Are you looked at in the old school yard? Yeah, in the school yard. A way from the curriculum. Yeah, can we learn about this? And the teacher was like, no, no, so we went outside and just read some books and taught each other. Because I think that's important for children to do.

That's the public school system for you. I went to Catholic school. That's the Catholic school system for you. They want to put I want to cut the school. That's the Catholic school system for you. They want they don't want to teach anything but God. It's hard to teach God. And is he knows everything? Yeah. Okay, now God.

So Matt, you've heard of this? You've heard of this shackledness? I've heard of Antarctica. Oh, okay. I don't shackled and doesn't ring a bell. Could you locate Antarctica on a map? Yeah. Excellent.

There it is. I'm touching it right now on this globe. It's weather we have a globe in the studio. And this big beautiful globe. Check out these marvelous glows. We've got a whole wall of globes on this studio. It's a weird decor, but it kind of works. Hey. It's our studio and we like it.

Anyway, shackles and any. OK, so 5,000 men signed up for this. They said, well, they applied. They had no idea that they were applying to be part of what is considered the last major expedition of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Wow. It's kind of similar to the ad you guys placed when you're looking for a third person for the

podcast. Yeah. And we said honor and recognition in event of success and you are still waiting for that point. I'm still waiting, but it's in the event of success and we have not success yet. I can't wait to success. It's round the corner. Yeah, I can.

Success is neat. I'll say for a turn is dead full of this podcast. Well, it's a bloody long report, so we better start it. So the only people, I think the names, I think, are with Antarctica Scott of the Antarctic and Morson and his heart. Oh, Morson, yeah. Is this post those guys?

About the same time, they're considered the main people, Felgund Scott Douglas Morson Ernest Shackleton and they're all so this is Shackleton's third trip to the Antarctic. Such a good name too isn't it? Shackleton. Like Shackleton's good Ernest is good put them together good name. Bang! So Ernest Shackleton was born in 1874. A great year. You pointed at me for that. Yeah, because... No, I'm not going to give it to you if you want it.

Oh, that's weird. A great year. We don't have many great years. We have a lot of good years. This one's a great year. Wow. I've already forgotten what year it was. Do you say 1974?

18. 1974. He can't do the 18. It's getting. It can be easy and so much. He's not younger than you, which is unbelievable, I know. 1874 was a great year. He was born in 1874 in Ireland, about 75 kilometers from Dublin, also 75 kilometers from

the blue saxophone and Mexican restaurant. Oh, what a place. It was island around in the 1870s. I believe it was. He was the second of 10 children. His brother Frank, his parents know what's calling it. That's all my dad says. No, we love it, we love it.

His brother Frank Shackleton would have shuckled in. No, no good. No, it sucks, isn't it? Frank is so much less earnest than Ernest. Yeah, because it would be short for Francis as well. Surely Francis Shackleton, that sounds like a good name. But Frank Shackleton makes him sound like he's a like a New York gangster or something. It does.

I once, every time I hear the name Ernest, I think of Ernest the character. No, I saw my friends when I was at uni do a production of the importance of being Ernest, the Oscar Wilde play, and there's a big line where he says at the end, like, bit of wordplay, I now know the importance of being Ernest, but he said the wrong character name. He said his own name, because he was nervous that his parents were watching him act for the first time, and now know the importance of being dumb.

I mean... No! Woo! But he said that that calmly, that's great. Great, I think I made it better. No, really, that's a really funny little out there. No, no, no. Good to be laugh. Oscar-Arb would have been proud.

Loved to laugh. Anyway, Ernest Brothers, Frank Shackleton, would achieve notoriety as a suspect, later exonerated, in the 1907 theft of the Irish Crown Jewels. Ooh! The theft was never solved and the jewels were never recovered Just a little side note, that's quite interesting I never heard of the theft of the grand jewels No Not sure who did it

A lot of people still say when I was Googling this Frank big suspect Wow But Ernest's father was initially a land owner Man that sounds like a cushy job Land owner What do you do if someone's own some land? Oh this land Imagine that, yeah that's a job

Like I own a, I own this pen, for instance. You're a pen owner, not a land owner. I don't think you do, that was just on the table when we came in. I lost the ink bit. I've been spending a couple of minutes looking for the bit of the middle of the ink. You ain't that tiny tube of plastic.

Oh, fuck is it gone? This is why you can't own land, Matt. Father, land owner, through that all the way, that dream career to study medicine. a dickhead after he's you know He's got kids and he's like I'm gonna be I'm gonna be a doctor now when he became a doctor He moved the family to London Shaqil O'ton as he got what'd be called on the rap circuit Shackleton Shaqil O'ton I've even got the words here spelled out phonetically Shaqille on Tom. I did not get that at all. Did you not? So you guys? I'd call that just a not good joke.

Yeah. Shaqkeel? Oh! Shackle? Time. Also a bit like Sha-keel, or Neil? Yeah. Mixed with Shackle, then mixed with... You said a rap name, but I mean Sha-keel or Neil was a basketball? Yeah, it's just his name. I think maybe he released a rap song, but...

Often, the reference of rap song, but... All right. Often, don't reference, whatever he is. For example, M&M. You know how you just think this is a really long report? Well, most of it is me. I've actually written the explanation of this little joke out because I knew this would happen because I knew you guys weren't straight enough for me. Oh, believe.

She keel o'otones, she shall be referred to from now on. I don't want to call him that at all. I want to call him Ernie. Can we vote? She killed Oton. Okay, we can vote. I mean, she killed Oton. Yeah, Matt, you'll be the deciding here.

I mean, she's calling him Ernie. Ernie, I like Ernie better. Okay, let's just still count here. Two. Two for Ernie. Yep, how many for Shequille O'Conn? Can I find a friend? No.

To let him know that you lost this photo. I need, I need cancelling. I'm panicking. I've got to call my mum. Mum? Mum had happened again. My mom wasn't even on stage. I was with my friends.

You thought Shaquille O'Conn was cool, right? When I called you to ask about it? She co-wrote it. She's a smart lady. All right so. Amanda. Ernie. Fuck that's such such such bad comedy. I'm so sorry to the listeners. Can we please tweet in hashtag Shakilo Ton. hashtag Shakilo. Don't ask me how to spell it. Look up Shaqilo, Neil. Replace the Neil with Tom. Then laugh for five minutes. Then hit send.

Okay. Despite his father's wishes, he dropped out of school and didn't become a doctor like his dad. That's what he wanted to at 816 and shit Ernie left schools joined the Navy He did an apprenticeship and during his four years Cesar straight to see for four years Shackleton learnt his trade traveled to remote places on earth and formed equitences with a variety of people from many walks of life Wow learning to be at home with all kinds of men, so sort of upper class, middle class,

and the lower class. Oh, he can just sort of blend in with everybody. Which makes him a good leader. But it also, it kind of gives this weird impression that we're all the same. We're all the same. Weird. No, thank you.

In no way, am I the same? Shaquilla nearly has four albums. Rap Circuit! There we are! Oh yes! I wondered why you went quiet. Shaq Diesel, Shaq Foo, Do Return. No. You can't stop the rain, but R.E.I.G.N.

And respect. Oh! You can't stop the rain, and it was just him. He's out would imagine we spelled R.A. I.N. You can't stop the rain and it just tears him. His house is flooded. Like lifting up his VCR out of the water, trying to, where do I put this? Oh no, the carpet's ruined. Oh, fuck.

I'm a tall man, but my, but VCR's not tall. Ha, ha, ha, ha. He's wide, it was just like, it was a really dramatic album cover of him just standing in the rain. It was like a black and white photo, but yours is much better. He's just panicking. His wife's taking a photo of him like clearing out his holding things about his hands. But it's even funny because there's only about like three centimeters of water.

There's not a lot of water in his just panicking. But one of it gets worse. What if it gets worse? Mary, I'm centimeters of water. It's not a lot of water, it's just panicking. It's just, it gets worse. What if it gets worse? Mary, I'm scared of water. It's not rain, you just, the dishwasher leaked. Can we be sure? It's coming from everywhere. He had a hit single. Top 40. It's one of the seven plagues of Egypt. My first bond Sun's about to die. It was called What's Up Doc? Can we rock? Oh my god. So I wasn't sure if it was going to have you know rhyming skills. That's what I was trying to channel. That kind of badness with Shaquille O'Conn and you laughed at me and I didn't feel like an idiot and here I am feeling justified. Because you're not Shaquille O'Neal.

You're a really cool guy. You're an ask part for Mel but needs a professional bus. Those are very clever, do the invest in his money. Really well and is now worth hundreds of millions. Well, we're doing a report on Shaquille O'Neill. Are we doing one? For sure. And a movie called Blue Chip.

So that doesn't surprise me. It was good at investing. Well, Matt, would you like to change your vote to Shaquille O'Tom? No. We're still with Annie. Annie. That's just, it's really just for time.

Great, so good. I'm glad you're having to say, should Kilo Tom every time? Yeah. We've already said it too much. We've already wasted way too much time. Ernie, A.K.A. Shakyeloton. A.K.A.

Shack-ton, the second. What's up, Doc? What's up, can we rock? Can we rock? Will it ever stop raining? My PC, yeah! Oh, or my tapes are my best, my whole life. Get the top. Get the top. Not again. Janane. Why do we build on this swamp?

Ernie. Then had a few different jobs and different shifts, the ships expanding his experience. Just trying to paint a man with a lot of experience. Ships. Got it. Right, his first taste of Antarctica was aboard the Discovery Expistion in 1901, which was led by Robert Falcon Scott.

You were talking about man Who was a controversial character Scott great Scott. Yeah, thank you. He's a quite a controversial character many of whom paint as a bit of a fuckhead Scott's a bit of a fuckhead Hello, some people say not a great leader. All I love these people We all know a lot of the stuff about them because they all kept diary entries. Yeah, it's so handy, isn't it? The big thing. But then I worry, because yeah,

like why we should keep diaries, but then people would find them and read them and be like, God, you're obnoxious. You know, I worry about that. I worry about it every day. Except that we release, we release an audio diary with microphones every week. We have very obnoxious.

Oh no. I've thought about about when we die at up to this point there's like probably at 90 plus hours of our speaking. Can you imagine though that our loved ones as well? Like you know how in movies like a partner will die and somebody keeps calling their phone to hear their voice mail message? Like our friends and family and loved ones, hoping that I eventually get some love love. They've got overwhelming material. I got too much.

For me, the Highlight Reel would be me saying Shakira Loathan about 10 times in a row. Mine would just be me laughing at you saying Ratcatcher. We still get tweets about it. We still get the tweets. Or that bum bum. Oh, fuck, that was a best. Well, bunt. Anyway, we picked early. There all the bum bum. Oh fuck that was a best one. Well anyway, we picked early

It's a few few quick flashbacks there Matt's a Matt's higher it would just be now hang on Just over and over again because that's all he says So you can't phrase remember ever saying that you've taught guys to yourself Matt Yeah, the guy that says hang on what what a career you've had. I've never said those words before. What words haven't you said? The words you just said. I'm pretty smart. Hang on, gotcha. Oh.

So anyway, he's been to Antarctica in 1991. Robert Falcon's got some people that he's great. I've just many things I've read about him. Not a great way to say that. Shackleton's particular duties on this trip were listed as, quote, in charge of seawater analysis. And emptying the poop bucket. Pretty much.

Ward, Ward Room Caterer. In charge of hold stores and provisions, a ranger of entertainment. Doesn't say anything about the poop bucket. It does not, but I imagine that comes under the entertainment. Yeah, he gets a weekly karaoke night going, I think. And he'll so, uh, Trivianites.

Yeah, Trivianites. I mean, there's plenty of variety going on. Oh, I see. I thought it was just like one thing a week was an entertainment. And there's a different thing, activity every night. Oh, great. Hula.

Hula. I was trying to think, no, not Zumba. What's the one we go under a stick? Limbo. Limbo. I'm great at limbo. Ah, you. Yeah, well I used to be.

I assume I still am. It's kind of like when you have skills as a teenager and you assume you still have them. Like I was a pretty good runner and I was good at high jump and I still figure I could do that. You still have to figure it. I probably can't limbo anymore. Not for memory.

Yeah. I used to be really good at Pokemon cards. So I reckon I still got it. Still have. What would you use to be good at in the 1870s? In the 1870s. Were you good at prospecting for gold? Were you good at hunting mammoth?

Yeah, hunting mammoth. Were you good at evolving into a human from a monkey? Yeah, I was really good at being a thing of savorism. How are you okay, Jordan? Did you start the big bang? I was pretty good at being the first fish to walk on land That was one of my better things renowned for it. No, but no, I'm gonna appreciate it cuz I was stuck in the water. Yeah, where Makko? Who knows? I was also good at

Tennis Interesting but with wooden rackets. There we go. During the Antarctic winter of 1902, the year that Matt won Wimbledon, in the confines of the Ice-Ding discovery, Shackleton edited the Expeditions South Pole to Times magazine. I'm glad it's adorable. Which I imagine when you're trapped on the ice, your circulation is quite small. You make one copy and you pass it around the ship.

Yet, they have an editor. The men reached a record that adjudged, this isn't still in the 1901 trip, got closer to the South Pole than anyone had ever done before, beating the previous record established two years earlier. So this is a big at the time people are like, I want to get to the South Pole. First one there, first one there. They get a little bit closer, a little bit closer. This journey was particularly harsh on Shackleton, he was sent home sick. He had however gotten invaluable experience and fallen in love with the idea of him being the first one to reach the pole. What on the get married then? If it was legal in that year, they would have. They weren't very progressive. Have we been everywhere? Have we legalized pole marriage? Is that a thing?

Well, that's my follow up question. But firstly, have we been everywhere? Yeah, is it, do you think there's a chance that we've missed something? Ocean, there's a lot of undiscovered. Well, they say we've been in 10% of the ocean. So under the water. The final frontier.

That's right. The beach. The beach. So what do they say? The sea. The sea final frontier. The beach. The beach. So what do they say? The manate space isn't it? The beach. Where man has never treaded. Hey guys it's actually pretty good in the water. Interesting. The story sometimes of like new areas of forest being discovered and stuff. There's still animals being discovered occasionally. Oh that's not an occasion I think it's all the time. Oh, right. I can't believe it. And like yeah, I just want to discover I'd really love there to be like a pretty big island somewhere that we missed

And I'm sick. I would have been a fun time Discovering stuff. Huge, but I mean yeah, there usually there were people there already right? Yeah, so I guess depends on what you mean But I think everywhere I mean yeah so I guess depends on what you mean but I think everywhere I don't mean colonizing I guess have we colonized every way that's a great idea I mean we wouldn't exist without it but have we banged on everything I wonder if we Google that does this podcast man we've done a pod on every continent yeah oh god, we would have. Jerkin. Maybe South America. We this story will go to South America. Oh my God. Dave you did it. We did it guys. We did all the concerts. I'm sorry. The first podcast to make it to all. No, not until nine continents. No one else was brave enough.

I'm sorry that I keep interrupting when at the very start you told us this is the the longest reporter and I keep asking. I'm not I'm not gonna talk for the next 10 minutes. Page two of 13. Oh my god. So, Shaq returned to Britain, spent some time as a journalist, and then was elected secretary of the Scottish Royal Geographical Society. He also unsuccessfully stood for Parliament. Oh, he's a busy boy.

He would tell his wife that he felt that he was good at nothing, except when he was away on his long trips. It felt lost when he was not lost to be an Ottoman. Oh, that's beautiful. He loved the isolation. In 1908, he returned to Antarctica as the leader of his own expedition on the ship Nimrod. Nimrod. The Nimrod expedition. During the expedition, his team climbed Mount Eribus for the first ever time, which is a very

big mountain down there. It made many important scientific discoveries. I've got a big mountain down there. How big? I regretted it as soon as I started to say it, but it was worth it. I enjoyed it. Do you go on. His team set a record by coming even closer to the South Pole than ever before, but they didn't make it. There's a bit of argy bargy between Shackleton and his old leader Scott, who was pissed that Shackleton was using a base similar into the position that the one that he used. That's my base. Don't you just fucking touch my base. Right. He's been a bit of a diva. Yeah Shackle and went back to Britain and he was knighted became certain a shackled at age 35

Whoa, young go get it Matt Man how well how many times have you been knighted age 30? How they even invented nighthood spending with 35? Well, not wow back. Sorry. I'm just trying to think back No, okay to the middle ages. Let's let's pull back the curtain a little bit and reveal it. Matt was not actually caveman What no tell him don't tell him a secret shame, but you only you don't have long before you 35 And you don't have long to live So what are you gonna do to get knighted in that time? Thanks a lot of years all right. All right. I got to me that tapes a time two years

We clung just as Mount Arupus. Yeah, I two years. We climbed Jess's Mount Eripus. I didn't fully understand what she meant. I'm not sure why were we talking about again? Anyway I'm not talking for these 10 minutes. So talking to me. He's not talking for 10 minutes. Alright in 1911 Norwegian explorer Rold Amunsen reached the South Pole so the first ever person he beat Scott by five weeks. This is who I remember learning about. So he's the Norwegian guy. And Scott was Robert Falcon Scott, the guy that some people say was a bit of a dick. He was also trying to get there at the same time.

He made it five weeks after a month and a half and then on the way back he died in his tent. Oh, I was about to tease him but he died. Oh yes. I was about to go him but he died. Oh, yes. I was about to be like, don't fuck on. Oh, no. And they know what happened because they found him frozen to death in his tent with his diary. Oh, handy. Yeah. I am dying. It pretty much. It said, like, you know, all this lost. Oh, shit. So I had to go. No, Matt, 10 minutes isn't up. You put that microphone away. No, Matt, you can comment, Preston Piscott, you can say it. Was that what you're going to say? What are we going to say?

It's going to say, uh, yeah, talk about a die, or e. Well, with it, sir. That was such a warnicky joke. You've been spending too much time together. Really sorry. I can you edit that out please? Not at least. I don't want that sort of shit getting around. You um, back that one of your school mates from Cambridge. Because you were also a lot of in the morning.

Yeah, man, it's gotta go away, that's it. Because you're old. Oh, hang on. I did it. Oh fuck, that's the catchphrase. I do do that. Do I do that a bit? Yeah, it's great If you don't notice I've been saying that now message is a lot lately. No, I didn't realize Oh hang on you said all the time. It's the best and

Dave just said oh Do I yeah, it does ring a bell. Um guys Can we stay focused please? Sorry Dad. Despite the, you can call me Dad if you like. Despite the public acclaim that greeted Shackleton's achievements during his Nimrod expedition, he was unsettled. He wanted to achieve more.

I get that. The news of a Munson's conquest of the South Pole reached Shackleton in March 1912, to which he responded, the discovery of the South Pole, reached Shackleton in March 1912, to which he responded, the discovery of the South Pole will not be the end of the Antarctic exploration. The next work he said would be a transcontinental journey from sea to sea crossing the pole, which to me sounds like someone did it

and he was like, oh, hang on, I've got to create a new job now. Yeah. How about we do it, but I'm moonwalking the whole time. No one's done that before. Have they checked the records? No, they haven't. I'll do it. But at the same time, it comes with 9 positive attitudes. Like you didn't give up. It is admirable. A shackle to needed money to fund his new trip. He estimated it would cost 50,000 pounds, current value,

4.3 million pounds. That's what they're all right. Or about eight and a half million Aussie dollars. That's so many Aussie dollars. And that was just to carry out the simplest version of his plan. The British government put in 10,000 pounds. That's not enough. He's the fifth of the way there. No, but he did not believe and appeals to the public. He said quote they cause endless bookkeeping worries Only if he had patreon how am I right? I take care of it for you the bookkeeping worries That's right if you like to donate 10,000 pounds

Which these days? equivalent not one million pounds per month We'll lie you turn to it. We would accept We would we'd accept we'd accept a million pounds would we not? I'm going to allow it. We all only take donations in pound form if it's 1 million plus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen to millions.

Don't insult us. It's endless bookkeeping worries. Yeah. Playwright. You got it. Playwright and Peter Pan created a Pan creator Jay and Barry put in 10,000 pounds what which is like the million dollars I was talking about that's cool Scottish industrialists the guy named so James Cade donated 24,000 pounds current value two million pounds or four million Oh, I go 25 please

24 is a weird number. I love that that's your reaction. Yeah. Take it back. No, like you give me another thousand or take four back and just give me 20. 20 or 25. What's 24? Maybe that's just what I had on him.

Well then just give 20. You'd be terrible at an auction wouldn't you? Yeah. All done. 696,000. No, I want to pay 700. I'd like to pay, okay, for the time... Actually, that's only 7 tenths of a million. I'd like to pay three quarters of a million.

750,000. You know there's no way I would work in fractions. I didn't know how that works at all. Fine, take a million. Take it. That sounds like a big number to me. Don't let me get an auction. Please. He acquired four 14,000 pounds. A three hundred tonne, three-mastered ship called Polaris. 15 or 10. VAR.

Which he renamed Endurance. the endurance which shackled and named after his family motto which was endurance I didn't make that laugh hang on his family motto is do you want to do the translation? You know Latin, don't you? Yeah. For Tititude. Vincermis. What does that mean? Just for Tititude. It means.

I've said that so wrong. What, can I read it? For Tititude, Dean. Vincermis. That's more fun of you to just go with what I said. I believe it means by endurance we conquer. Incredibly translated. Yeah, if I remember my Latin classes correctly. What do you do because I've good, that's right. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Fortitude, Pinsamus is fortitude. So what do you say second you break that down what is fortitude is me? It's mostly in the in something in Powering by endurance by endurance we conquer we conquer gotcha got a man sorry So I asked that you fucking dumb question Ah good on, no hang on No, I forgot what my thing was They also bought Australian explorer Douglas morson's expedition ship Aurora which was lying in Hobart, Tasmania

It was lying there lying So morson's and wait so it wasn't in Hobart Tasmania Yeah, and used to be on the money. Yes Wearing like one of some sort of Mufti hat. I mean, like a beard or a mustache. Yeah, just one of those things that covers everything, but your face. Yeah, yeah, no, I don't know what Mufti even means.

I meant like furry. Pretty sure. I was thinking like a big Russian hat. It's a Mufti and Islamic scholar. Scholar. He was wearing a Muslim scholar around his face and had a mustache. Yeah, yeah, I meant a grand street.

I meant like furry, not mofty. You meant furry, mofty? Furry mofty, sorry, you think? No, I don't know what I meant. I remember now, you know, he's wearing a balaclava with a big eye hole for his whole face. That's right. Through the mofty, you could see your best face. The worst bank robber, Balacal, forever.

Explosing my entire face. I was hoping that all you good business cars with your details. Adding everyone on Facebook. Putting the money in the bag. How do you spell your last name? Why? I'm just adding your Facebook. I'm trying to explain.

I'm adding you on LinkedIn. I'd really like to work at this bank one day. I'm trying to explain. I'm adding you on LinkedIn. Yeah. I'd really like to work at this bank one day. I'm gonna tag you in a post later. It's gonna be sook. I'm starting a comedy room. It's free. Some of the adventure was also paid by selling the film and photo rights. So they took along a photographer, which I'll talk about in a minute. The plan for them was the 14 men would land of whom six under Shackleton would form the Transcontinental Party. This group with 69 Canadian sled dogs, motor sledges and equipment would undertake the 2,900 kilometer journey to the Ross Sea. So from one side of Antarctica they'd walk all the way to the Ross Sea. So from one side of Antarctica

they'd walk all the way to the other. The remaining eight people would stay and carry out scientific work. The Ross Sea Party, which is the second sea party, they had two ships remember. They would go to the end of the journey on the opposite side and they would go inland and lay eggs. Lay eggs, no they would put them. It's set up little deposits of supplies, including eggs. So that way it will be easier for the men when they get halfway there. They don't know, they could start picking up supplies.

Mostly eggs. That's the plan Jess, it's an egg-based plan. Sounds like they've... They've really cooked this egg. Well, there wasn't sound like it's done yet. Some shitek joke. Nah, good on your argument paying attention. So now, I was thinking about fractions.

Can you recap? Recap. Two groups of men, one's on one side of the Antarctica, ones on the other, the ones on the end of the journey, go halfway to the middle and drop off shit for the other men so they can walk one from one side to the other and have food on the way. So the cheating? If you could look Ernest Shaco-Tong in the face and tell him is it cheap? Good on you. I did. And uh... Canon did? 1940. And Yuni. Yeah. Uh, of the 5,000 men that applied 28 were chosen for each ship. So there's 56 of these guys in total.

Uh, william blotter eggs. Well for 56 men. I'm gonna eat eggs. It's weird that I'm obsessed with them. It's weird. Yes, they're eggs are in you. You're full of eggs. I'm part of who you are. No, that's a fact. No, it might not be a fact, I don't know.

It's possible. You're an egg-making machine. Stop it. In some ways you could be. Yuck. You don't think you're about your eggs? No, I'm not thinking about my eggs. Matt, do you want to eat eggs?

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I't know. It's possible. You're an egg-making machine. Stop it. And some ways you could be. Yuck! You're not thinking you're eggs. No, I'm not thinking about my eggs. Matt do I have eggs. I don't fully know how it works, but I'm pretty sure all humans make eggs. I don't know. For breakfast. No, no. No, necessarily, but they make them inside the... Every human being... No. ...hearantly knows how to make eggs. it's just a survival mechanism it's how we know not everyone some can't some kind of okay most scrambled in the microwave even I can do that yeah no you can't do that you can't even make a toast you burn toast all right you call me I can't make it

you can't make it you'll never make it never make it as an egg man no I'm the walrus I am not the egg man that Cheek, cheek, cheek. That's not right, is it? I loved that a lot. Is that song? No, it's that whole song. You're just like egg humor. You're an egg humorist.

I'm all about the yokes. Is that what, that's a joke? That's a joke, pun? That's a pun. Are you doing a yoke, yoke pun or a joke? What's that meant to sound like? jokes I mean both good

But not this is awful. We've done too many bad ones already Only quality jokes from now on guys. Okay. Got it. So there's still have to be egg base. They have to be egg Of course they've got to be egg as it only quality jokes egg based like a cage Yeah free range I'm gonna talk given your free range and yeah all good from here all right like a I'm gonna talk about some of the people on the on the journey now. Okay. I'm going to try and be as exact as we can. No, no more. Yeah. People are turning off.

They're changing the channel. They're turning it up. No, they've gone to the kitchen to see they've got eggs. They're like, I feel like eggs. And now we're sponsored by eggs. This episode brought to you by the good people that make eggs. Chickens. William Lincoln Bakewell was taken on as able semen

True he baked well I'm so sorry. He was able semen got it. Oh his friend. He is waiting. He was able semen Yes, he was just looking for some eggs That's how it works man. You get the able semen. You get theble Eggs. You've got a baby. I'm singing of Able Tasman. Able Seaman, what does that mean? Able's just a name. It's just a rank. No, it's a job. You're in the Able Seaman. Able, you can do it. Able Tasman was named. When he... wasn't it? Did you think that I said he was taken on as Able Seaman? He hasn't changed his name to join the team. No!

I was very confused. Hello, I'm Abble Tasman's name. I thought I might have been one of those Yes, that's his name. So that's what I said. I said it to name Anyway, I thought I thought I might have been one of them Theetic Thedadinacruzers where he had to he came on playing a role of Abel Seaman the role of Abel Seaman tonight. Well, we played a William Lincoln fake well The role of Able Seaman tonight, will we play Poe William Lincoln? Pac-well. Booo-oh, he's shit! Sorry, my last week in a Titanic theater restaurant.

Didn't know how to freeze to death. His friend, so Lincoln Pac-well, and I just want to talk about his friend, Pierce Blackbarrer, who was not hired, because of his youth, he was only 18, he was inexperienced, and he was not qualified to go to Antarctica. Not a very good test, Ben. He was not, he had not been denied. Fearing the endurance was shorthanded, Bakewell, so the able semen helped Black Barra sneak a

board and hit him in a locker. On day three at sea he was discovered. Fucking hell, that would have been an awful time. I'm picturing like a high school locker. Yeah. There's probably like a big room. It's probably like a massive room with a big, big, comfortable bed. You probably had the penthouse.

Yeah, he probably had like a locker. He would have had a bunch of DVDs. He would have been fine. He was fine in like room service. Oh yeah. Unlimited downloads. I'll have a club sandwich and I would like to watch Monsters University please. I'd like to watch- You just put the DVD and I want it- when you bring

the sandwich you put that in for me please. Please. On being discovered, shackled and met the boy and went on a tirade. Lost it! When finishing his- You write that down. No, I do not. Oh, I do not. But when he finished his performance, people say that he sort of just put on a bit of a show to sort of assert his leadership. When he finished his performance, he said to BlackBorrow, do you know that on these expeditions we often get very hungry? And if there is

a stowaway available, he is the first to be eaten. To which BlackBorrow, the guy in the locker replied, they'd get a lot more meat off you sir oh cheeky shackles and hit a grin and after chatting with one of the crew said introduce him to the cook first he probably a buddy John made him walk the plank and he died no no that he proved an asset to the she made him walk the plank and he died. That was after he proved himself an asset to the ship. It's a steward. He's eventually signed unproperly. So he's just sort of like showing people to their seats and so on.

That's why. Oh, he's 17, very good sir. Did you say East 17? East 17? A beautiful, beautiful, we'll get that right away. Externet scene? A beautiful, beautiful album. We'll get that right away. Ding! Excuse me, yes. Can I just have the latest copy of E17's third album? And but of course. But of course, an excellent choice. Other key members of this story, so we've got the young young young Luke Blackbara. We've got our second-hand charge, Frank Wilde. Frank Wilde, a national tar. Frank Wilde was a veteran explorer who had been with Chackleton on both the Discovery and Nimrod expeditions. He'd been there with Chackleton and Scott when they were just 97 miles

from the South Pole. Chackleton gave Wilde his last biscuit when they were all sick and starving. So they're very tired. That's cute. Trust each other. His last biscuit. Yeah, it was like an annus all sorts. That's cute. Trust each other. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot.

There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot.

There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. What a gesture and then he thought what a frick that preferred a direct Slightly sooner what two minutes sooner than the energy that this one biscuit will give me There was Frank Warsley who was the captain of the endurance

Thanks, this is the second of three Franks He was the very skilled navigator Frank Hurley You weren't early calling too many Franks. The very next name was another Frank. Why isn't that blown your mind? Because I'm a genius. Frank Hurley was the ass- that makes that out of- Frank Hurley was the Australian photographer on board who documented the trip with photos and videos. Okay now you're a tiger now you love the camera darling yeah Walk the plank walk the plank. Oh Now you hate it now you're cheeky give me cheeky. Oh put your finger in your ass you will cheek you Bomb it up those canopies to keep your size 4 pants. Oh don't eat that last biscuit a lifetime on the hips know what I'm saying

Is that fashion linger? Yeah. So that's how fashion works. Fashion. Fashion. You can hear his teeth click when he says it. Fashion. What's my catch phrase again?

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No, it's Harry. Oh, Mick Nish. Oh, Harry feels like it's in the world of Frank. Yeah, but Frank and Harry. But imagine how left out he felt. Harry Mick Nish. Mick Nish is great. He is a carpenter.

Oh, he brought a cat with him called Mrs. Chippy. That's a dumb cat, no? Oh, I brought a cat with him called Mrs. Chippy. That's a dumb cat name. Mrs. Why is it a Mrs? Well, it gets worse because a few weeks into the trip they discovered he was a boy, but the name had already stuck so they kept calling it Mrs. Chippy. Why does it make it worse, Dave?

Yeah, it's a big one. Oh, no, the cat that doesn't understand English has got a stupid name Oh, but to add insult to injury the boy cat has been getting called a feminine name. Well, no Well, I'm just giving this worse Be a fucking piece of shit, though Fuck off

I'm just saying that the cat was intelligent enough to know that Mrs. Chippy was a fuck today That's a dumb name. Oh the cat was very popular with the men on board and when he fell overboard They turned the ship around to go back and get it. Oh, that's adorable. They love the cat. They ran out of boat petrol Yeah A mere two miles from shore that round boat petrol Jeff's place sure that rent that rent both petrol Jeff's place but I'm not up with the nautical terms they definitely had a starboard is there a thing or they definitely had a boiler on board they had an engine boat petrol boat petrol it had on the endurance with check there was also just quickly going

through this two surgeons a geologist a biologist physicist and a meteorologist and a partry in a petry there were no euphologists on board so standing fried man did get the call up he was on the 5,000 he made the short list but not the short short list now I'm saying shakoton

shakoton secula ton should it be in shakoton shouldn't it? it should be anything other than anything you've said Endurance left without Shackleton let left Plymouth on The 8th of August 1914 heading for bonus series South America tick Shackleton who traveled on a faster ship rejoined the expedition and bodicelliitting faster. More boat petrol. Oh, because he'd been left behind on a smaller, faster ship. He'd been left behind because he was still login' on his ship.

Yeah, the boat. He was using his cats for petrol. Shavelling more cats. Is that a Simpson thing? Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. A couple of weeks earlier, World War I had started. Uh-oh. Shack offered his men and shipped to help him.

Yeah, I think he was a little bit more. Yeah, he was a little bit more. Yeah, he was a little bit more. He was using his cats for petrol. Shavelling more cats. Is that a Simpson thing? Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. A couple of weeks earlier, World War I had started.

Uh-oh. Shack offered his men and shipped to help the cause, but they were not needed. Cool. They're like, no, no. No, no, we got this. You do, you think. We got this. I think we got this.

This should be over by the end of the month. Yeah. Don't worry about it. You guys have got stuff on. It's a little uproising, not big deal. Don't worry about it. We'll quell this. We'll quell this uproising. We'll quell it. We'll worry about it. You guys have got stuff on it's a little uprising. No big deal. Don't worry about it. We'll quell this We'll quell this up rising. We'll quell it We'll quell it and then we'll

win it and then we'll bend it and then we'll have it After it's in the bin. We're gonna high five it. Don't wash our hands. Here we go We'll take the Lord. Oh It's happening. It was a different time You got to wash your hands before you thank the Lord my God You know the animal do you think he wants you bloody sticky hands all over you know I've read you bloody nice with it. I've been invented bins. Yeah They've been all cool with it and sticky thing men all over the their mountains even on them soon still don't know what that means

On the 26th of October the ship sailed for the South Atlantic, so it left South America arriving in South Georgia Island a couple of weeks later. After one month of waiting at the whale hunting station on Georgia Island, the endurance set off for Antarctica. So they stopped for a bit for better weather. So for a month on this very remote island that's just north, I believe, of Antarctica, the party encountered pack ice. I'm not even a party. Well, they were partying and then they discovered they encountered pack ice.

It's the worst when you have a party and you're on out of ice, so that is pretty good. Yeah, they discovered some pack ice, like, I think, God, because I was about to send Steve up to the show. Over the server Back to South Georgia Island server much earlier than expected that is the Encountered this pack ice and I had to maneuver through it quite carefully which slowed them down a lot easy Backing a trailer you're climbing backing a trailer? You're farming backing a trailer. Am I doing back there boys?

Easy. Am I there on the left? Got plenty of room in the left. Hang on, no, shit, you're in the flat, I'm dead. Oh god. Oh no. You're in the pack of it. Oh god, my mom is pissed.

This is not good. How am I going to get out of this? You're on your own safe. Shaq, catch you later. Mate. At one point they got stuck for 24 hours. They had hoped the ass would be much looser and looser and easier. You're a looser.

Looser, which is what a looser. Which was a word at the time. Oh. It was a different time. Languages always evolve. It's a word. It's a word. It's a word.

It's a word. It's a word. It's a word. It's a word. It's a word. It's a word. So it's like fluid or elusia To quote the times They hoped it would be looser and easy to smash through because they're in a kind of ship that it's supposed to be able to smash through ice But it's much thicker than they thought On 15th of January, so this is a few months in endurance came a breast of a great glacier the edge of which formed a bay, which appeared a good landing, so they could sort of stop there and land. However, Shackleton considered it too far north, and except under a pressure of necessity, he said, would they land there? This was a decision they would

later regret. So they had the opportunity to get off, let's not forget that. Because after six weeks of traveling through the ice, and still 100 miles from the actual continent of Antarctica, so there's ice, but this isn't actually Antarctica, it's just sort of the start of the ice. That gets you there. They arrived at extremely thick ice. They sat in the ice and waited to see if it would clear.

This is in hindsight not a good decision because the temperature dropped from 20 degrees Fahrenheit above to 20 degrees below. The ice froze solid around the ship. Oh no. Suddenly they're in like the middle of ice looking around going hang on. I'll know. All right get all the kettles we have. Yeah. Oh yeah. We'll have it then we'll have a cup of tea and we'll think about it. Yeah because that'll crack the windshield if you just pour it straight on. Yeah yeah you can't you can't go hot water onto cold. You cannot crack the Antarctic windshield. You can't. Also, I would just realize this entire time I've been thinking of them basically in like

a first fleet boat, but like this is 1940. They had a better boat than that didn't they? It's better but it's not like I'm thinking sailboat. It is a it was a wooden boat with three mast. When was the Titanic? That's what I was thinking. That was... Yes, we know. Right. So it looks like that, I guess. No, it was more of a wooden. It's wooden, yeah.

That's a cruise liner and this is like... They're not on a cruise liner. No, there's only one pool mat. But it's got several. Does that room service and beautiful walkers? David, and it's got a copy of the Monster's University. But you're getting on board a ship that you're gonna be on for possibly many months.

You're not discovering that's the only DVD. Oh my. Fuck. I was just, I was just re-living and experience I had when I was in Vegas. I ordered room service one day and watched Monster's University. I wasn't even being creative there at all.

I'm assuming you were hungry, but. Yeah, I was in Vegas. Sure, I'm sorry, I sorry for the doubt. There was a lot of truth to the story. There's not a lot of imagination in that story. Well, you also locked in a locker, stowed away. You weren't allowed to be in that hotel room where you were. They paid for a two bedroom. I paid two bed. There's three of you. Yep, fact. After 10 days of inactivity stuck in the ice, the ship's fires were banked to save fuel. Oh. Ship fuel. Oh.

They turned it up. Uh, boat petrol, excuse me. Uh, ship fuel. Sorry. In boat petrol. I don't know the technical terms. Well, you're embarrassing as all does. It's meant to be educational, please.

I will make. Alright, we'll pause here. I'll go away. I'll do some sort, we'll pause here. I'll go away. I'll do some sort of ship based apprenticeship and we'll come back. Do you some push ups while you're at it? I'm a place. What is that good to do with anything?

I have a powerful mind, not a powerful buddy. Well, we want a powerful buddy. Yeah. Fair enough. Your chest could use some workday. It's a chest. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Well, maybe a side's a chest. Yeah. Okay, anything else?

Well, maybe a side of bleaks. Hmm. Side of bleaks. I just like saying that. So that don't know the information once. Google. Really works, your side of bleaks. But that's not in that way.

But I don't think you can say side of bleaks. Is that what you're going to do? Like how they just do bleaks? Work your midsection. Yeah. Upper, lower, and side of bleaks. That's what the guy said. It was like body by Jake sort of thing

You got a Jake you got a Yeah, I said you got no bleak Unless you're a gastropod then you're slug But then why are you watching my show for what you watching don't fucking waste my time slug You keep on walking you don't even walk. I don't even know what to say to you keep on crawling you slamming fucker I love this episode I'm having so much fun I'm like the last 67 episodes I'm so worried that this episode will go longer than the actual journey of the injured. No, we're fine. We've got we've got injuries. We've got injuries. So the ships turned

off, they turned off the engines. Strenuous efforts were made to release her. Release her. Release the slugs. The eyes won't know what hit it. The army of slugs. Release the slug army. So I'm not sure if we could call it an army. There's only six slugs. I said release the slug army. They haven't been breeding like we thought they would. We brought only boys slugs.

It turns out that they can't change gender. They are not hermaphroditic, like some other species. I was misinformed on the slug batter, never mind, release the slug. This is like, it appears that we are still stuck in the ice and we now have six dead slugs. My plan has backfired. Fortunately, I have a backup plan. I will act like a slug myself and chew our way out of this.

Release this slug costumes. This is all real time. It's real time, haven't it? It's very good. Alright, so to sum up, let's talk on the ice. Shackled in orders the men out there with ice chisels, pick sores, whatever they've got, shallows to try and chop away through the ice, but the labor proves futile, the slugs failed. Did they try kettles?

They did not. They were not ingenious. Kettles had not been invented. It was limited. They called it yuck. Colty. They can have a lot of cold shit on this journey, I'm going to take that runner. They didn't have any dynamite or explosives, they couldn't blast the ship out.

Prepare the dynamite. We used the area for the dynamite and filled it with slugs. Slugs are proved to be a double-edged sword. They tried in vain, but they couldn't break through the ice and they started to drift north. So it's floating, but it's solid for them around them, so it starts to float. And with them. With them stuck in it, so they just start to say that they're moving every single day.

It was realized that they would have to spend a winter stuck on the ice and wait for warmer weather to release them when the ice got further north and they got better weather. This is not a good scenario. Release the boat. So it is not working. We now have one dead bolt on the ice. Everyone together now. On the count of three, we all literally, one, two, three, release the Jones, you're not doing it. So it turns out that everyone chanting release the bolt has little to no effect. Interesting. Do we have any more slugs? Not so. I'm afraid Mrs. Chippy ate the last slug. Is my slug costume back from the dry cleaners yet? Well boys looks like we're fucked.

I've thought of two slug based ideas and I've got nothing else. Though his next decision was that the dogs were taken off board and housed in ice kennels. They were dogs? Or dog or dog glue 69 Canadians let dogs Excuse me dog lose dog lose for the like like igloo for the off That is the cutest thing I've ever heard of my life. Did you make that update? I did not actually quite this Refer to them as dog lose Oh my god, it's so cute, it's just like a little igloo. Oh, the...

The... So that's warmer for them to be off in the arson on the ship? Well, iglies are, right? Well, no. They are, the ship's interior was converted to suitable winter quarters, so they needed to make more room for the men inside. Right. Because these are Canadian stud dogs, so they're used to being outside, but men...

Let's... Let's say... I wonder how many dogs to a dog glue or do they have individual ones? Because that's a lot of dogs. 69 dog glues. 16.1 each. I'm not sure. I don't know. Be amazing. That'd be so beautiful. I'm picturing really small like canals but yeah they're probably. I think they are. Yeah well you just have one each. Oh so cute. All lined up. Yeah and they got little little boxes out the front, so they can... We can send each other mail.

We can visit each other. Telegram for Mr. Chips. 69 dogs. How much space must have been taken up by dog food? Take one more dog. Just so pissed up so I'm not a round number. Why the fuck? 69, you got to probably be 69.

You think so. Look at the number it is the most round number there is no no no no no don't try and swing on that look at it just look at the number take one more dog 70 dogs 69 dogs 69 is the magic like what if they're trying to pair up for you know activities three three things. Three goes into 69. Yeah 23 three things or 169 something. Oh, chain of dogs. Oh, yeah, in a big circle. They connect up. Yeah, it's the Holy Trinity. Stop it. To say and take one more dog. Do go on. They set up the inside of the ship for winter quarters for various groups of men, officers, scientists, engineers, Seaman, or Stiggyn together. Oh god, Stiggyn.

You did that on purpose. A wireless apparatus was rigged, but their location was to remote for them to transmit signals, so no one knew where they were, they couldn't call for help. Oh. Shackleton knew of a ship a few years earlier that it'd come stuck in a similar area, and after six months of drifting was able to break free and then carry on with its mission like nothing happened so that was his hope he thought. Well wait out winter! For six months!

Six months but when we get out we'll still be able to keep going on the journey. It's going mental! That is a bit of a worry on this journey which I can tell you sadly has only just begun for the men. Oh! To start with the rate of the drift in the arse was very slow. At the end of March, Shackleton calculated the ship had traveled 95 miles or 153 kilobyts. 9,5, 95 miles. Oh, 95 just.

So close to the town. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, 95 I don't hate, but like come on, 100. So five's basically. Yeah, like five. So you're the I don't hate but like come on hunter so five's basically yeah I like five so you're the kind of person who can only do five times tables Yes, but on the volume control Do you have it does it come up on the TV with like numbers? Yeah, you do it in fives. Yeah, even if it's too late or too quiet

No, probably just Even's then okay. Yeah,. So, like, 24 is okay, and... 24 is okay. 26. You're a... You're a bloody complex animal. Yeah, I am. That's okay.

Imagine being stuck on a ship with her. Fuck. It's tedious. No. Where does your weird number all come in on this? How many eggs am I allowed to order for breakfast? But that's the thing, it doesn't bother me with other people. It seems like it does.

Oh yeah, good point. And yeah, don't you? I mean, everything is of the... I mean, you weren't on the endurance, and you've been pissed off a lot. That's a good point. Wow, I've got... I've got some things to consider. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I kind of thought I was a fairly mellow person. Kind of go with the flow, kind of gal, that I'm learning, but I'm not. So there's only travelled that distance since the 19th of January, so not that much in about six weeks. However, as winter set in the speed of the drift increased and the conditions of the ice surrounding them changed. On the 14th of April, as it got colder,

Shackleton recorded the nearby pack ice piling and rafting against the masses of ice, and he felt as if the ship was going to be caught in the disturbance and crushed like an egg shell. There he is, eggs. He did it. He did it. In the winter months of majoring eggs.

Excellent. There he is, eggs. So what he said, we just let him do it. He did it. He did it. In the winter months of mages excellent. There is eggs So what he said we just let him do it. There is eggs. Oh eggs there is eggs In the winter months of May, June and July it was completely dark 24 hours a day And very cold. And they just all stuck on a boat. Yeah Stuck on a boat or ice. There's no real there's. I should say beneath them is they can stand on it because it's really solid ice but it's not proper land. Yeah. Oh. Oh, he's such a snowy, fast land. It's not real land is it not like where I'm from Australia.

That's real land and we have heaps of it. Some would say too much. We don't even use the middle bit. Shackleton was concerned to maintain fitness training in a row. Although the scope for activity was limited. High knees, high knees, chin up, hop, hop, hop. The dogs were exercised and occasionally raised competitively. Exercise, like as in they were they were demons in them. competitively exercise like as in they were they were demons in them like performed exorcisms nightly I actually needed that for explanation I was like oh my god stop doing physical act and we'll never stop men were courage to take moonlight walks they played so played in permanently dark time. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so the moon was the only thing that would light up the... Just at night. So in the day it was dark. Yeah, in the day it was darker during the day than at night. Weird. Amazing. That's weird. In the light of months, they played soccer on the ice.

And aboard the ship, they attempted to put on plays. Oh my god. And once a week, they had a gramophone concert. Oh, that's nice. Once a month. No, once a week. Oh my god. And once a week they had a gramophone concert. Oh that's nice. Once a month. No once a week. I've seen a photo that is captured in that the men were having a hair cutting tournament. That's weird. I'm not sure what the competition is but they all seem to have shaped heads. Who looks the best? The real loser was fashion. They look terrible. Fashion. Fashion. A shaped head, that's a that's a style that will never go out.

Strong look. It is a strong look. It's a bold look. Have you done that? It's a bold look. I've just the one haircut I've never done. And I don't I implore you not to. The one. Have you done a Mohawk? Yep. Done a Mohawk. My let you have not done a Mohawk. I've done a moment. Oh my god.

Well, I've done the Rachel. I've done the Rachel. Yeah let's have done the Rachel I've done the Rachel yeah, I've done the money go done the Ross. I've done the Chandler being Tell me he didn't do the Ross the look to It's not yeah, it's not a good one The dogs kept up the men's morale and four puppies were born after they were some girl dogs Oh wait, but that now we've got 73 dogs. Yeah, that's a good better. Kill one dog? No.

Kill three dogs. Yeah. Okay. Your brain is messed up. Not have two more, kill three. I have two more. Yeah, I'll just attritional, it'll take some out. Just give them time.

Yeah, to you right. You know, right mate. The ice started to squeeze the ship and it started to list or lean. So it was something that was on more and more of an angle. It was feared the ship would be crushed, but there was a lull after the initial crush of a few weeks before it happened again, but this time much worse, they could hear the ship being physically squeezed. Holes were made below, holes were made below and the ship started to fill with ice cold water so they had to constantly bail it out and puff it out.

They were made by... they didn't make them themselves. I'd call that a tactical error. Putty Holes in the bottom. This should help. Oh no, that's how hang on. Let's make the whole bigger. The water will drain out the bigger hole. It'll enter this hole and drain out this hole. Oh no, that's... Hang on, hang on. Hang on, let's make the whole bigger. The water will drain out the bigger hole. It'll enter this hole and drain out this hole.

Oh no. Another hole. Take out the bottom of the boat. We don't need this. That's trapping in the water. If we let it all out, we'll be safe. That didn't work. That's the...

Um. We're all now in the water. The bottom of the boat was holding us in as well. Thank God we've gone out of the evil clutches of that horrible horrible boat. Yeah, we start our new life here. Under, D Under the sea. Under the sea. Under the sea. Under the sea. When the timbers broke, they made noises, which the sailor's later described as being

similar to the sound of heavy fireworks and blasting guns. Other supplies and three lifeboats were transferred to the ice. The crew attempted to shore up the boats hull and pump out the water. But after a few days, and in freezing temperatures, standing in water that was minus 25 degrees, Shackleton gave the order to abandon the ship. A random ship and slug.

Leave the slugs. Now I've got a barium. I won't leave no slug behind. The slugs like... I'm not a slug to us. Oh the slug? That's the one, kicking. Remember my family?

Tell my mother I miss love she knows she knows come on you can just fit in my pocket come with me I'll never leave the ship what's going down let's captain I always go down you're not the captain, you're the slug! I'm not the captain! I'm so sorry. I see it's a little sluggy. Closy eyes. Shhh. No, not captain.

It's eyes on the end of those things. And ten oil something, mate. That's good. Thank you. I didn't know. I didn't know those skills. The wreckage remained afloat and over the following weeks the crew salvaged further supplies and materials, including hurly photographs and cameras that he'd left behind. He had to wade through

freezing water to get them, but you really wanted them. Photographers. From around. Just place them alone mate. Put them in a cloud. Oh, hell, fucking cloud, mate. I hate it when you beat me to jokes. I'm very quick. I'm also, and I'm always proud of you when you do, because I'm like, that's my boy. That's my friend, Maddie. He's funny.

Anyway, I love you. From around 550 photographing plates, he'll be chose the best 150, the maximum that could be carried, and Shaq ordered that he smashed the rest to avoid the temptation of risking his life to come back for them later. So chose the best 150 had to get rid of 400. Wow that's okay. Okay so he kept 150. Get one. That's a nice idea. You like that? I'm okay with that. He kept the best 146. Oh fuck off. Get four more or burn them all!

Can we just get a Ray count? It's that, and that's the only thing I can think of, I think I'll go on 50. It's a bat 150. Is that enough? I'm okay with that, ignorance is blitz. I'm okay with thinking it's 150 and it's 143. Because actually I've just read there's a note here that one of them was lost. So it's actually 149. Oh, there's not true, but I just like annoying you. Okay, so without a ship, their plan's actually 149. Oh, that's not true, but I just like annoying you. OK, so without a ship, their plan is a bit fucked.

Is that what it says in the diary? Well, I just want to say that I think even Shackleton, who's pretty optimistic, has realized that they won't be making it to the South Pole on this journey. And they were fucked in a lot of ways. Shackleton's intention was now to march the crew westward to one of several possible destinations

Before the march could begin Shackle ordered the weakest animals to be shot Including McNiches cat Mrs. Chippy. How many dogs were shot and the four pups? Oh, so there's still 69 Wouldn't it have been more humane just to send him friend let him set up their own new cat cat and dog community With the camels in Australia Matt that's true Carry the puppies In the ice cats Would you not kill for old dogs? Yeah, I would have killed for all dogs like they've had a good run

It's still not I mean still I mean bloody so these but these are the weakest ones now but they're just too much potential this is you after they were allowed to keep the banjo for morale oh fuck off you always get the banjo would you shoot four dogs to save a banjo because I wouldn't like a ding ding ding ding that's the only fucking song you know and how good is it for your morale- Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding That's the only fucking song you know! And how good is it for your morale? Yeah. Like a ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding So they started marching without the pups without the cat. It was very tough going on the ice. I don't know what I would talk like that. They were doing that but in three days the party managed to travel barely two miles 3.2k and when they looked back they could still see the ship where they'd come from. That's the length of the Melbourne cup.

They only were three days. The other day I went for a just a casual stroll on a Sunday morning. I went for a walk. I walked five days. Didn't even didn't even mean it was just an easy walk So and these people can't do it in fucking three days three days. They've done three K's They just don't just don't have the right attitude. They should do the cash to five K and that I think that's a good app Yeah, and interval training is really effective. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that was a problem That was a problem. They just went too hard to early. Should it done the beep test? Should it on the beep test? They set up camp and called it ocean camp and they kept salvaging things from the endurance until it finally sank beneath the ice. Oh shit. One day it was

going. And this is because they just waited when they should have forged on. Oh yeah and they took a... Well I don't know, they sort of took a punt in keeping going through the thick stuff Thinking that they'd be able to keep going, but then it just froze around them. That's fascinating And there was still drifting northerly on the ice, but not fast enough to get closer to land by the end of it because that was the next thing though Oh, we'll just keep going until we go north enough that we're near an island. Yeah. But not quick enough. Shaq wanted to get closer to the islands north of their position so they wouldn't have to travel far in the lifeboats because they only got small ships now. So on the 21st of December he announced the second march to begin two days later. Oh Christmas.

Remember how badly that went last time because conditions had not improved since the earlier attempt. Temperatures had risen and now it was uncomfortably warm. What? With the men sinking to their knees in soft snow as they struggled to haul boats through pressure richest. So they're dragging boats? I'm so dumb, I'm like warmer. It's great.

Yeah, no, yeah. It's still like new issues. Still like in the low temperatures. You could have got your songs and your singlet on, though. Yeah, come on, boys. On the 27th of December, the ship's carpenter Harry McNish rebelled and refused to continue walking and working. And then what?

Then what, Harry? Then what? Hey. He argued the ship's articles, which is the agreement that they had to obey the leader, had lapsed since the endurance sinking, and since the ship no longer even existed, they were no longer under the orders.

He was like, you know, am I captain anymore? So what are you gonna do? When I'm even on the fucking ship. So what are you gonna do? Like, I get that you pissed Harry, but let's use our words, because you're all out in the middle of fucking nowhere. That is shackled and stood up to him,

and apparently he stood down. So I reckon he probably said something pretty strongly that good for you Good for you. We're all pissed. This sucks for all of us What are you gonna do go off by yourself? Okay? See you in another 500 meters because there's nowhere else you can fucking go I don't really matter Harry. I'm sorry Well, Harry back down Shackleton wrote in his diary that night everyone working well except the carpenter I shall never forget him in this time of strain and stress.

And he won't. Let me just say that. Oh, bit of sizzle. Can I kill him? Eat him. Two days later, with only seven and a half miles, 12K progress achieved in seven back breaking days, Shackleton called a halt, observing, quote, it would take us over 300 days to reach land at this pace.

The crew put up their tents and settled into what Shacklen called patient's camp, which would be their home for more than three more months. Oh, no. They were running low on supplies, so the dogs were shot. Some of them eaten. It's a great thing about dogs. What?

What do you need them? Excuse me? Well, I mean, they both can pull you food, but when they're not pulling any more food, they can be food. Says the vegetarian. I'm surprised they made it. Like I was thinking though, this story was going to be over the next, you know, they were going to die in a month after the ship got fired.

Yeah, they've lasted a while. Yeah. Doing well so far? Yeah, seemingly. So, Terry. Oh, they've lasted a while. Yeah. I'm doing well so far. Yeah, same thing. So, Terry. Oh, they also had a lot of seal meat. Ooh. I imagine really fatty.

Oh, I think it was, I think it was, I think it was, I think it was, I think it was, yeah, but I think it was pretty awful. So they had seal and penguin, they had penguins too. Aww. Somehow that seems worse. Yeah, but I think it was quite, quite fatty all around, but yeah. But they, every part of the animal. So they talk about having sealed backbone.

Eating the bone. Well, I think that thing I had flesh on it. Oh, okay. And they took that off and ate the bone. It's weird. They threw the meat into the water. The group were suddenly forced to bail on Patience Camp. This is three months later on the evening of the 8th of April, when the sheet of ice suddenly

split. Oh my god. The camp now found itself in a small triangular raft device with water all around them. If this broke into even smaller pieces, they would definitely be dead. So Shackleton redded the lifeboats for the party's sudden departure. Wow. Shack debated about which island to head for. He considered Deception Island, hearing that there was another...

That sounds like a bad idea. Sounds bad, doesn't it? Yeah. He heard that whilst people didn't live there, there was a church for whalers there. But that was a lie. It's all a fucking lie. It's just a mirage. It's a mirage.

Thank you. Er, he hoped that he would catch some whalers at church or the other option was the closer elephant island, which is also uninhabited and they wouldn't be rescued from there. But like, don't disrupt the whalers at church. Yeah, maybe a bit of respect. A bit of fucking respect. A bit of white outside. On the Sabbath, come on.

Till they're done. On the Sabbath. They plan to land on the Sabbath. They're planning to land on the Sabbath. They plan to land on the Sabbath. They're planning to land on the Sabbath. That's rude. Heathens. Give in the day before and bloody weight. Wait your turn. Yeah. So there's nothing at Patience Camp. Geez, a lot worse. That's gotten on. Tell you that. Hey Dave, you've stopped calling Ernie Ernie. Can you go back to that please? Yeah, you've been calling him Shackleton, which is so disrespectful. Oh, yucky.

Shack OtanConnor boy. Shakilo, no Shakilo, don't. Yeah, you've already been getting your own nickname. Because Shackleton's better. Like you know how they Covertime over time you like progress through names like it's little bear well then bear well or well That's a thing. He's no longer a Shakil. He's now a's no longer little. But in? That's because he's not little anymore. Well he's no longer a shakiel, he's now a shak. Okay. What? I know that does make sense. Sorry, I was following that.

I did actually. Now I get it. Well, do go on. So they decided to go for Elephant Island, which even though no one's there, they thought they'll get there and then they might start hopping to other islands. So, the elephant mate is, you know, the bigger, more mate on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah a beautiful beautiful animal to eat that's beautiful eating animal is it a beautiful animal to eat clappetias still a little to behold nothing so there's some they're now in the lifeboats

they're at sea conditions were horrendous temperatures were sometimes lower as minus 20 Fahrenheit or minus 30 Celsius. Little food, the regularly soaked in icy seawater, this was wearing the men down physically and mentally. The men reportedly had to have their hands shipped off the ores after a shift as they were frozen solid to the oar. Are they in a boat now? Yes, they're in the boat. Like, they've been in a boat for a while. A little while. Sorry. You can't wait, Maddie. You think you're about to set up an island.

I think I'm pretty sure I did start the sentence with. They're in a boat now. Yes. Oh, that's so... I'm just not built for these things. Like, I...no. I'd be the one who's like, I'm done. I just...

I would like that. I just like... I'd be like, Mignish. I just wanted to stay in the snow. But I wouldn't say I'm not keep going. I was gonna ages ago. What do I mean? You keep going. I just like to have a bite. I'd be like, Mignish. I just like to have a bite in the snow. But I wouldn't say I'm not keeping my eyes out. I was gonna be ages ago. You keep going, I don't get angry at me. I'm just gonna die here.

Yeah, I'm done. I'm fine. It's okay. I don't want to keep my eyes out. I'm not gonna keep eating a fucking seal back, but. No, I'm not. This flesh, we could eat the flesh. I'm not doing it.

I would've sat on the boat. I'd go on out into the ice. That's where it gets fucked. You're in a boat at least. Just wait until it goes down. That's where it gets fucked. You're in a boat at least. Just wait till it goes down. There's a bed in there. You got DVDs and stuff. I'm just thinking out in there.

I probably would have stayed in bonus areas. Here's cool. Even better. Yeah, I probably would never have gone. How about that blog that stood away? Yeah, what a fucking... 18 and he's like, I didn't have to come here. I was, they told them not to.

No one knows where I am. They're probably going to eat me. That was a joke from about a year ago, but it's probably, it's pretty serious now. Oh dear, but they like him. They did actually. More than Harry. Yeah, the Harry's not happy. Oh, make niche. It's not happy. Not not popular. On the journey to make things worse, many of the men had dysentery. Oh, no I just can't imagine how bad that would be People Shitting and vomiting in a boat whilst he frozen it would just be I can't imagine anything worse Yeah, that would be just awful and you couldn't look someone in the eye if you just want to shit themself in a boat Oh, they're in the boat. Oh, no, it's horrendous. Oh my God. And it's contagious. Oh, yeah,

Dissingery is quite extreme. We're really good to have everyone's gonna have it. You're just still sitting in each other. Even if I'm starting to get the gurgles of Dissingery, you've already got it, mate. You get gurgles. That's awful. So one wrote that the rations got pretty low and they, you got one biscuit a day. You work, quote, you look at it for breakfast you suck it for lunch and then you eat it for dinner And then you shit on You shit it for dessert And repeat No, I couldn't live on a biscuit a day and they're hungry right now. They got fresh packets again and we're back in the Monte Carlo.

Yeah, thank you. It's a good biscuit, don't worry. It's a big biscuit. It's one of those giant cookies. Oh. Where are these guys from? Because American biscuits are weird like hard woody bread, aren't they? No, they're mostly British and Irish. They're real biscuits. Cookies.

Biscuits. Yeah. Bikies. Bikies. Well, bickies. Bickies. What a bickie. But they don't have any tea. They actually do have tea. So they've taken that little caracene burners, so they are having hot drinks.

That's actually one of the rare luxuries they have. But then they're shitting themselves. Yes. Then they're shitting that hot tea onto each other. Well, it's still hot. Well, it's still hot. It's coming in hot and going out even hotter. Even hotter.

This entry sounds awful Turned you body into it like a burner. We've lived a lot of way to reach you body into an earth. Oh, they'd be ripped They get back the one when they get back at the end of this happy ending It's gonna get home and their friends are family. Oh, you look good the calendar It was good for you. Oh,, they call it the shackleton diet. Yeah, you get one biscuit, you get dysentery, and then you swim in cold water every day. Yeah.

Do that for a week, babe. It's a great detox. So good. I love it. I'm doing the shackles in this week. Oh my god, I did the scott last week. I froze the death of my tent. No.

And then I'm going to try to live in detox after that. The three of us were tied together and they're at sea for six days and six nights. No. A whale swam past one day and they had to pray that it didn't. That would mean sick. Well, they had to pray that it didn't decide to breach or jump out of the water near them because if it landed on one of the boats because they were all tied together, it would mean that it all under. Why are they prying? Just... What did happen? To shoot the whale.

The whale. If so, are they religious? Everyone was back then I guess. Yeah, definitely. Eventually they met at Elephant Island. They had invented atheism. Yeah. The idea of not God didn't exist. But they had invented Granny Smith's. What the fuck say? They hadn't cross-pollinated atheism yet.

Please use the correct term. Eventually they're mad at Elephant Island, which is an amazing feat in itself. So six days and six nights at sea. It had been one year and four months since they had touched proper land. So they've been away for that long so far. On arrival, Shackleton thought to give Blackbarrer,

who's the 18-year-old young star away, youngest of the crew, the honor of being the first to step on the island, forgetting that his feet had been badly frostbitten. He helped over the wall of the boat. He fell in the shell, and it's quickly carried ashore. It's like, you get to go, oh, I forgot you can't walk. You just faceplanes into the cold water.

Nobody thought of that like, he shall go for go for it. No, he shall go through him in. Yeah, just watching him sink Oh, that's right. No backfire. Why didn't none of you say anything? He doesn't have any feats Before you'd be able to tell The men were absolutely rooted tired cold shivering, shivering, frostbitten, emaciated, shitting everywhere. Some were acting crazy and a bit... Shaddington. Shaddington, but... Says Mr. I don't like poop jokes.

I don't like poop jokes. And you don't like puns. I don't like either of those. Look at what you've become. Shows ruined me. Some of the men appeared mentally unwell. Yeah, that's why I was ruining me. Some of the men appeared mentally unwell. Yeah, that's why I was in awe. When one man got to someone right in their diary that one of the men got

to land and immediately with an axe killed ten seals for no reason. Oh shit! How do you do that? Just started chopping them. Oh my shit. So like, it should be funny. It's a little bit funny. It's crazy. It should be funny. But it's a little bit funny. It's crazy. It should be funny. It should be funny, but it's a little bit funny. Huge love. I don't know. I mean, it would be funny to see it and then you have to be like, sleep next to that guy that night, but like,

just, no! He's just, the whole time, she's shitting. Where is he getting that energy from? I'm gonna kill the seals. No, we're shit. That's because Matt come on to a fat tent, it's real fun. It's because he wanted to kill all the seals because he's our seal. We haven't been working.

He's our seal. Maybe I sacrificed his seal to the our seal. He'll stop me, you perwind myself. My dad's a well and is truly soiled. And it's not like they've got clean underwear. No, they're made with them. They're in the same closet, that they. Yeah, why? You wash it out with like freezing water. And then put it back on. Oh, no, thank you. You watched it out with like freezing water and then put it back on. Oh, no, thank you Seriously, I would have just I reckon yeah, I wouldn't have got on the boat and then if I somehow ended up on the boat

It would have been very early in this trip. I would have been like mom down Thankfully both of you said no to the newspaper ads. So you're fine. Thank goodness You're still tucked in you actually Matt's probably enlisted to the first world war and has probably died But I'm probably waiting for my husband to not return. Yeah, that's right. So it's win-win Win-win win-win win-win. Yeah, right, but I was at first thinking that it was gonna be a thing I went over a grit. I thought that was why you're asking it because it was gonna be like Yeah, you fell for it. Yeah, that's right. You just said no to co-founding Microsoft with Bill Gates Fuck it for it. Yeah, that's right. You just said no to co-founding Microsoft with Bill Gates. You're fucking. Yeah. Yeah.

Wanted. Many hours of darkness as Bill Gates is at. He put in let me the fucking Yale listings. That's so good. The managed to erect their tents and all fell immediately asleep. That's good. Good, good, good, good, good,. Good night, good night, sleep. Where they were, however, offered no shelter.

I mean, they shut themselves in the tent. Yeah, they put on night, but they were sound asleep. Imagine being so tired that you're pooing and you don't even know. Is it still night all the time? So it's all this time. No, it's not staying in the dark. No, it's stay time now.

It's been so long that they're about to go into another winter. Where they were offered no shelter, and they again had to move two days later. They took the boats back out and landed at a different place on Elephant Island, which they named Cape Wild, named after Secondary in charge, Frank Wild. Many of them called it Cape Bloody Wild. Oh.

Why don't they call it Cape Frank and then everyone could share it. Everyone gets a go. You want to talk about morale, like the banjo off just give the Frank's wild gets a gets a cape. Do I get the next cape? Yeah, I want a cape. I want to be a fucking cape. Yeah, let's drink that.

That's why I'm being this stopped because he wasn't getting the bell cape. He just wanted to be called Frank. Come here Frank. I wanna kill you. Let's drink and that's why I'm not getting this stuff because he wasn't getting the bell-cape dessert. And you just wanted to be called Frank. Call me Frank. No, your name's Harry. It's already confusing enough. Call me Frank or I won't take another fucking step. And then he killed ten seals.

It's either one who killed the seals. No, it wasn't. Not funny, but it's funny. It's crazy. I think the seal killing spirits a little bit funny. Let's be hit. 10 with an axe. It's not funny, but it's funny. It's crazy. Do you think a seal killing spreads a little bit funny? Let's pretend with an axe. It's fucked up. It's fucked up.

And the rest of them just sit there going, well this is awkward. Do I say something or you might kill me? Exactly. That's the seals. The seals. They're so good. They did.

Play dead. I'll never know. So they landed a cape bloody wild, but the weather turned and they landed in sleet and rain by a nightfall of gale blew up, ripping one of the tentative treads and blowing a lot of their equipment out to sea. The men crawled under the boats for shelter as snow was heaped upon them. The blizzard raged for five straight days. They were just stuck under the boats.

It's crazy! This is fucked! How do we know this though? The great thing is, Darius, the elephant island had fresh water, and seals to murder, and penguins for meat. But it had no other...

He made that sound like, I mean, they'll eat the penguins, but the murderings just for fun! It's just for fun! How many seals can you kill with an axe in five minutes? So you're thinking, you're thinking that maybe the survivors and them told the tale, or they found the diaries. Well, I'm always assumed they make it.

Yeah, at first I got a bit excited thinking survivors because it's like the Zodiac Killer one where you figured out early on that like if we knew what had happened that means somebody remembered it or could really call it but yeah you're right diaries. But then if they found the diaries that means they at least found them. Yes. May they may have been skeletons but clutching a diaries. But you know maybe at least one person and he just had a bag full of

everybody's do he collected around the diaries and then they all die. Maybe the kid makes it. Yeah, not the puppies though. They're long gone. They're certainly not gonna make it. Just let them go. I can't. We had numbers, I don't know why.

There was no other vegetation on the island, so they're just pretty much stuck to the tiny bit of food they've got left plus eating seals and penguins. Imagine being vegetarian, all like gluten intolerant. I don't think that exists. They're having an invented that. No. Interesting.

Well, they said they had dysentery. I think they're all just celiacs. Shit themselves or fucking none. Allurian is a bicky. A bicky. Glue nuna. Eat this bread biscuit that will sort you out. Oh no.

No, it's dysentery. I've got dysentery. And they're cooking the mate? Because they got the burn. Yeah, they've got the burners, yeah. Oh no, no, it's dysentery. Mice of dysentery. And they're cooking the mate? Because they got the burners. Yeah, they've got the burners here. And Kerosene. With another winter, oh, paraffin,

they got another winter approaching, which is going to be real cold and really dark again, they did not want to stick around a moment more than necessary. Shackleton knew that they had, sorry, Ernie, knew that they had no hopes of... It was the first time you said it. Thank you. Ernie knew that they had no hopes of- The first time you said it. Ernie knew that they had no hopes of rescue on Elephant Island, because no one ever went by there, so they would have to make a break for another inhabited island.

Some islands were close, but they couldn't be reached as the small boats would have to sail west against the powerful sea and wind, which they couldn't do, so they had to go for a much further away island It was decided that a small group would leave the party and make a break for Georgia Island where they'd set off 16 months earlier. Oh, yeah, Georgia Island was 800 miles or 1,300 kilometers away Oh, there would be sailing in some of the roughest oceans on planet on planet earth all in a tiny tiny boat So 1300 kilometers. No. So 1,300 kilometers. No. That's far. It's 1,900 kilometers.

That's the length of the Melbourne kelp. Several thousand times over. Actually not that many. You know, the South Georgia Party could expect to meet hurricane force winds and waves, known as the notorious Cape Horn rollers, measuring from trough to crest, so from the bottom to the top, as high as 18 meters, or 60 feet. No, but I'm not volunteering for that.

That is, that's a high. That's so high. Wave. Are you a surfer? Yeah, I hang ten. I'm tongue-tongued. Oh, no, no. No, I'm a Norwegian.

No, I don't say Norwegian.. No, I don't say rigidage. Oh, Keel Banger. Keel Banger. Oh, Keel Banger. I got the imitation in general show. Keel Banger. Keel Banger. Because the, they were going to face such harsh conditions,

Shackleton, Sel-Ernie, selected the heaviest and strongest of the three boats, a 22 and a half footer or 6.9 meter long ship called the James Cad named after James Cad the guy that had given them like two million pounds That's correct. Yeah, you're gonna remember some of the waves are gonna be 18 meters and the ship itself is only seven meters long so It's pretty crazy Shackled and asked asked the exodus- That's more than double. It's nearly tripled if you round down six and point nine to six.

No. Hey, believe. Okay. Only asked the exodus carpenter, former bad boy and rebel Harry McNish, if he could make the vessel more sea worthy. Using improvised tools and materials, McNish if he could make the vessel more sea worthy. Using improvised tools and materials, McNish raised the boat's sides and built a makeshift deck of wood. So before this has just been an open boat, one of those ones like the Titanic lifeboats. You know, like a row boat style thing, but it doesn't have a roof. So he built one so he could at least get out of the room. How handy is it having the carpenter all of a sudden?

So good. He sealed it with oil paints. He made it into a submarine. And seal blood? Oh. That's great. Which is great because someone killed ten of them. Wait, we've been hanging on to these carpets

because there's not no one to do. I just hate waste. Eat the backbone. Throw the rest away. One ton of rock was also added to the bottom of it, with the ship to act as a ballast to stop it from capsizing in the... That's a lot of rock. It makes it really heavy.

Really heavy, so that means that when the waves toss it around, hopefully it will stay sort of... Does it not also mean like a heavier for them to row it? When things float, they... No. When things float, it see you. No. When things float, it sees you talking about with boats. Yeah, it sees you to... You know, it sees you to...

When boats float, it sees you, is that what you're saying? Yep. Disagree. Well, a thousand kilos. No, I know what you mean, but it would still be a bit heavier, wouldn't it? It's sort of like rowing a boat with just you in it and then rowing a boat with 20 people in it. Look, I'm hearing what you're saying.

You know it's a difference, right? I'm hearing what you're saying. I'm gonna have to agree that I was wrong. And thought about it, it's fucked. They're fucked. I'm gonna run them off right now. I've read the story and I know if they make it or not. And they're fucked.

They're fucked. Because of this. What's the way? I missed something they make it or not. And they're fucked. They're fucked. Because of this. What's the way? I missed something. So they've picked six of them. Yeah, I'm gonna go pick them. And the other ones they've put in the bin. No, they've left them on elephant island

and they're formed a camp. And they're gonna come back from. Yes, I was like, we're gonna make a break for it. If we get help, we'll come back. So they're splitting the party. Yeah, just like Berk and Will's should not have several times. They took ration packs

that had been intended for the crossing because they still had stuff left from when they were going to go from one side of Antarctica to the other. They got biscuits, bovrol, the drink. Bovrol, that's beef juice. Sugar and dried milk. They took 18 gallons of water, two stoves, paraffin, which is caracene oil candles, sleeping bags, and some spare clothing. Shackleton chose of the six minutes, Shackleton plus, Warsley, the experienced navigator, and the guy that had given him the biscuit. That makes sense. Irishman Tom Kreen, a badass who had been to Antarctica before, the last time he went to Antarctica, he was with a group who couldn't continue, so he walked 56 kilometers in 18 hours without

survival equipment to get help for the others in Antarctica. So he's like the kind of guy you want to have in your survival party. He actually begged Shackleton to let him come on this extra dangerous bit. So he's like, you know, one of the monties, yeah, DbKyber, super cool. Super cool, eventual lover. Yeah, just loves to do this yet. Can't relate to that at all. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm the guy that's like, yeah, you march ahead, you do 56K in 18 hours. Good luck. Oh, bye. I'll stay here with my Pokemon cards. Yeah! Shackle didn't ask for volunteers.

Strong sailors, John Vincent and Timothy McCarthy stepped up. So now there's four of them. The last place, place Shack or Ernie offered to carpenter Mignish. Oh. So Vincent, one of the sailors and MNish had each proved difficult during the boat journey from the east of the elephant island. There were both somewhat awkward characters and the selection may have reflected Ernie's wish to keep potential troublemakers under his personal charge rather than with the others

where they could start trouble. Or maybe he thought Ming-Nish was a good guy to have. No, trou maker. Before leaving, Shackelden's instructed Frank Wild, the name K-Wild after, that he was to be fully in charge as soon as he left, and that should the journey fail, he was to make the take the party to Deception Island the following spring in their own boat. So if we don't come back in a certain time in a couple of months, following spring in their own boats. So if we don't come back in a certain time in a couple of months, you go, assume we're dead. That's this thing. Shackelden immediately established an on-board routine, two-three man watches that swapped every four hours around the clock,

with one man at the helm, another at the sails, and the third on bailing due because they're constantly getting water in the boat so there's tipping that open over and over again. The off-watch trio rested in the tiny covered space below. The clothing which was designed for Antarctic sledging rather than open boat sailing was far from waterproof and with repeated contact with the ICC water, the skin was painfully raw. Oh no. Now the movement of the ship made preparing hot food on the boat nearly impossible but cream the bad ass Irishman who acted as cook It somehow kept them in fed so he's also a cook so now he is Casey Rybeck aka Steven Sagar in unseeds

We don't know. Oh yes I was thinking the same thing the chef and he's also like a nine skills and it was a Navy seal or something and also like just an expert. Yeah it's just so good like it'd been like tough and then a lady jumped out of the cake but she'd been drugged and she jumped out like the day later and was like where's the party and the party was already over and then and the siege was on so he brought her on and then and the siege was on. So he brought her on. The siege was to the team and then they sort of. And Tommy Lee Jones was the siege. Yeah. Well, now I don't need to watch that movie.

Thanks guys. No, you don't. Oilers. You mean thanks guys. And if you want to watch number two, you don't have to do that. Like it's the same thing, but on a train. Got it.

But it's good. And as they're going on, continuously bailing water out, they only made four land sightings, and moreover they never get it, had to calculate everything else from either the sun, which was often behind cloud, and then when that wasn't there, he had to calculate where they were via dead Reckoning, which is where you just try and work out how far you traveled based on how fast you think you're going. We were here there, ten hours ago, We've probably traveled about 6K an hour. We're probably about there. She's pretty inexact. Every degree mistake they miscalculated, there'd be 60 miles out of their final journey and they only had 10 miles leeway to begin with. So you

pretty much can't fuck it at all. Otherwise you're gonna miss the island and either keep going forever or go on the wrong direction. Oh my god. After 10 days at sea in this constant 24-7 swapping shifts, warsly calculated there were only half way there. Two of the men were close to death. Shacklton often checked the men's pulses and every time he thought they were too cold or too close to death, he would order a hot drink for everyone. And he would never let the weakest man know that it was on his account that they ordered the drink.

So he never singled anyone out to their face. He's really good at keeping morale up and he's like, optimistic this whole time. So the big optimist. Vincent collapsed and had his lip torn away when it got frozen to a metal cup. Oh, you never, yeah, that's like that dumb and dumb I think, don't, don't lick the metal pole and the cold. Especially in Antarctica. That's pretty cold. Yeah. Then one day the men saw seaweed. The next morning there were birds, including a type which were never far from land.

So they knew they were close to something. As they approached the high cliffs of the coastline, heavy seas made immediate landing impossible, so for more than 24 hours, they floated off the coast as they waited the wind to shift, and they got caught in one of the worst hurricanes any of them had ever experienced. And for all this time, there were in danger of being driven into the rocky South Georgia shore. I won the Storm and E slightly, Shacklen was concerned that the weaker members of his crew would not last even one more day and decided whatever the hazard they must risk it and attempt a landing. After several attempts they made it onto the the shore of South Georgia Island.

They'd been at sea for 17 straight days. Nope, I think you. They didn't appreciate it at the time, but that was one of the greatest boat journeys ever accomplished. That's amazing. So against all odds, they'd bet it to Georgia Island, but they realized quickly that they were on the wrong side. The Whaling Station was on the other side of the island. Oh, thank. As the party recuperated, Shackled and realized that the boat was not capable of making another voyage to go around the island.

So he decided that Vincent and Rignish, who were the least healthy of the men, were unfit to travel further, so he left them. To die. Not to die, just to sort of set up camp. He left them to die. He decided that he, warzly and cream, the badass, would cross the island on foot, aiming for the station on the other side. The only map they had

showed the coastline of the island, but not the island's interior, which at that time was uncharted. The whalers considered the interior of the island impenetrable, and no one had ever hiked across it, because it was extremely rough terrain, pitted with mountains and glaciers. So they had no idea what to expect where they tried. Mignish the builder improvised climbing boots with screws that he put into the sols, the men could have more grip. It's a clever. They would walk at night when the snow was colder and harder and easier to cross. However they couldn't stop or they would succumb to the cold

so they had to make it in one go. They were two weeks to take supplies so they just took some rope that was about it and a bit of food. They sat out at 3 a.m. under a full moon and calm weather. Beneath the snow was ice fields pitted with crevasses, one wrong step and it was goodbye forever. Oh shit, no, I'm done so long ago. So long you were so long. Go to I'm like back in England by now going that was fucked. Yeah fuck As did I turned around like I left the house I walked out the street a bit and then I went hang on actually now and then I turned around this isn't for me I said sorry about that uh what you saying?

Just continue the conversation I was having. Sorry, sorry. For some reason I thought I'd enlist, but that's not me at all. That's not me at all, anyway. Chinchin. Chinchin Aru. They walked all morning and all day but found themselves trapped at high altitude on top of a precipice at nightfall and with temperature dropping, having no sleeping bags, shackled and said to the others We've got to take a risk. Are you guys game? Oh my god, and a fucking course they were game. This is cream the badass Warsle the navigator of the stars

They decided to slide down Those buses around LA And they never miss see daddy de Vito's house around LA. Yeah, and they never miss. See Daddy Davido's house. I imagine. Daddy Davido may or may not live there. My goodness. Small man lives there. So they decided to slide down the mountain in near darkness. Slide down. So it sounds bloody fun. It does sound like a good time. They tied themselves to each other with rope, then pushed off with no idea what rocks cliffs, razor-sharp ice or crevasses lay below them. A terrible idea. They finished at the bottom of a bank of snow when they got up, they realized

they'd all made it and they shook hands. Oh my god. These are so English. Gentlemen, well done boys. Congratulations on survival very good For the Queen boys After 26 hours of continuous hiking they decided to have their first rest Only realized they couldn't all sleep all at the same time because sleeping in that temperature was very risky anyway And they're all gonna go in one hit. They wanted to but they decided to have a small small nap here He let the other two men sleep for five minutes before waking them up and telling them that they'd slept

for half an hour. Oh, smart. Energize, they set off again. Oh, that is smart. Many himself has not slept a week. After a difficult descent, which involved a passage down through a freezing waterfall, they had last reached safety. 3pm they stumbled into the whaling station, they did a walking for 36 hours. Like right now I'm a bit hungry and tired and I'm just about done. Thinking about these men honestly from now on I'm just good, I think I can do a couple more things. Well you're about to say anything like that.

No not any, well I'm not going to do this but like I'll be, oh, can't be fucked. Taking the bin out. It's cold. I'll be like, Shaqlanan do that bin. And then he invented a new type of bin. He get the dump truck himself, he'd inspire everyone. And then we'll be happy. Just take the bin out. Yeah. Yeah, I'll do it. You're right. They stumbled into the whaling station. The men knocked on the whaling manager's door. The manager asked, Who the hell are you? My name is Shackleton, he said. The men had met before, but the manager did not recognize

their dirty, emaciated, and frostbitten faces. Also they'd have the beads, wouldn't they? Yeah. They'd be all beady. Super. Well, you'd want that to keep warm. Good cool. That night. Yeah, that's why the women can't go exactly

Oh, I can't go because I can't grow fucking beer Matt you are so good for this I mean you're in That night the weather turned only lay in bed and listen to the snow piling up against this window Had they been caught in that blizzard they would have certainly died. Oh my god. He's a bed. They had only just made it He's in a bed. That would feel rather... That would be the best feeling ever. But his men are still out there and he's you know in charge so he's thinking about them. Only Kryn and Worslet's set a slip rest of the three days before setting out for Elephant Island in a borrowed ship. They went back to their friends. Three guys on the other side

of the island, Mignition, Vincentns or whatever, they were picked up and given passengers home, so they went home. As corpses. No, they lived. Dead. They lived dead. They lived dead. From now on I shall live dead. As a slug. I am a slug. Earning the boys were just 60 miles short of elephant island in their borrowed ship When they were brought to a stop by the ice. Not again. They had to go back to Georgia island over the next four months That's right four months only tried again and again to get to elephant island, but each time they couldn't get through Imagine that a big boat can't do what they flooked on a tiny tiny Oh, shit and he can't get back to the area.

Can't get them so he knows that they're there and he's thinking are they still alive? What's going on? How long did he say before they should ever crack at it? He's had a couple of months. So they probably will have made purity gone for? Well finally the Chilean government, Lent Okay, the government of Chile. Oh I think she knew that. She was just wondering how they came into play.

Oh, they lent Ernie a tugboat. Yeah, again. Oh, okay. Oh, so yeah. They've got it. They're known for tugboat. Yeah, they've got a little tugboat. Slash government office down there in Elfano.

No, they don't have a tugboat on their flag. No, Chile is very close to Georgia Island. It's one of the closest countries, so that doesn't make sense. All right. All right, geography. They made it to Elf and Island on their fourth attempt. They would now 10 weeks overdue. Not until we expect.

What they found? 22 men had survived a sunless winter by living in a hut made of two overturned boats that they lashed together. To get water, they would get chips of the ice and put it in a tobacco tin and lie with it overnight, hoping that enough would melt that in the morning that have a teaspoon for breakfast. Oh my God.

One man had a cooking book at night, he would read one recipe and the man would listen and then make suggestions as to how they would improve that meal. The meal they couldn't actually taste. Oh that sounds like punishing. Yeah it's kind of torture but also very cute. I think it's just a little bit of mint would really bring out the flavors. Fuck off it's perfect it's Jamie's. Jamie never gets it wrong. At one night one of them wrote in his diary that he would dream of all the second helping see profused at home

Every morning wild who's in charge would would say lash up and stall the boss may come today boys But by late August even he had given up hope They were preparing to send their own boat because that's what Shackleman told him to do until one day they left the tent and so on yelled boat On the boat... One of what they meant. Pardon? On the boats surveying the beach was Shaqlun, new scanty island with binoculars and counted the men as they came out of the hut. They're all there, Skipper! They're all safe! Oh my god. It had been one of the most incredible journeys in history and not a single man had died.

No way. All of them made it back. What the fuck? Is that amazing? That was not the ending! I was excited! No! Jess, could you please remember Mrs. Chips,

three puppies and six slugs. Six slugs. Four puppies. Four puppies. Four puppies over there. If it was three puppies it'd be fine. I'm perfect. So they have 70 dogs.

Also, you wouldn't be anywhere in the dogs. They ate most of them. There are no dogs left, right? There are all the dogs right now. Oh, that's gross. There will be. Just as a post-group, Shaqqodin himself finally derived back in England 29th of May 1917,

having no idea that World War I was still going on. Remember they left like two weeks in and like three years later? It's still going. Because of the war, his story was barely noticed at the time. That's bullshit! Yeah, a few speaking engagements, but then mainly it was lost. It's only over the last sort of 50 years that a story has been back into popular circle.

Outside of his lifetime? Yeah, definitely. When did he die? Well, I get to that. Many of the men enlisted when they returned home, so they went straight to the farm. Where the Oros man did. Oh, he definitely did. Two of the men died in the war, including Timothy McCarthy, who's one of the guys that made that final boat journey. Wow. So he survived all of that. There's nothing to die. Why would you enlist? Because they were pretty brave young guys. Yeah, obviously. Wow. On Shackleton himself's recommendation, all but four of the men were awarded pole-a-middles. Oh, Harry missed out. Tell me Harry missed out. Despite his efforts to prepare the boat and sail on that final journey, the builder, McNishis Rebellion earlier, was not forgotten and he was denied the medal. F*** off Harry!

That feels a bit rough to me. As was John Vincent, also on the final journey, who hasn't been... He's a beefsoak. Oh, what? ...f***ing torn off. Didn't get a medal. Was he the other sucky one? I think he was.

Well, on that final journey, he was the one that was closest to death and he was not pulling his way in the last breath. But I thought he was fucking dying. He was the one that was also offered the position because he was a bit of a trouble Yeah, he was a bit of a trouble like it. Yeah, and the carpenter Built the boat so they could survive that last Come on, come on. He really pulled his and a lot of the other guys said there was a bit harsh because even though he Arced up that day one day. He probably fucking saved him. Wow even though he act up that day. One day. He probably fucking saved him.

Wow. It's fucked. Two other guys didn't get the medal. Shackleton never publicly disclosed while there's two men missed out on the medal. He just decided. Who didn't like him? Just him.

For me looking into him, that didn't seem like that done anything wrong, but I'm not sure. Just give him all the fucking medal. Yeah, absolutely. Oh my God. Shackleton himself organized one final and tuckedy expedition in 1921, a few years later.

The goals of which were imprecise. Many of the crew of the endurance signed up again to go back with him. What? He must be an amazing leader. I would have felt indestructible probably. Yeah, it's true. If we lived through that, Shackleton made it back to South Georgia Island, that final island, but there he had a heart attack and died.

Oh! His wife requested he be buried on the island. He was only 47 years old. Oh wow! Looking at a lot of these guys, they died in their 40s, 50s and 60s. And I think if you live like that for three years, it definitely must take its toll, right? Yeah. Wow!

And I find on note, in 2004, a life-size bronze statue of Mrs. Chippy was placed on the grave of Mick Nish, who was very fond of the cat by the New Zealand Antarctic Society in recognition of his efforts on the expedition. I think they felt that he should have gotten some sort of medal. So I gave him a statue of a cat.

Well, he was sort of his cat. Yeah, but like, it's not a medal, is it? It's a fucking statue of a cat. He's also very He's also very dead. Also, I will probably be the first to go with us So please don't put a statue of a cat. Really? Oh my great. I'll take Jess's cat. You can have it. I'll have it It's all yours. Enjoy. Do you have a cat Jess a cat just no? Yeah, it would that would be fucking good. Well, I don't have anything met I forget We'll make a statue of that. Thanks. How are this you cool with this? Yes, in February 2011 Mrs. Chippy was featured on a post-it stamp issued by South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Not also like that fuck the cat

Don't fuck me. They killed the cat, they didn't fuck the cat. Well maybe they left that out of the diary. There was a diary entry that had been ripped out that day. Yeah, it was. You probably wouldn't, I guess. Anyway, just fuck the cat. And on that note, that is the story of Shackleton's endurance. What, did that report go nearly as long as they were stuck on?

That was so long, but it was so interesting. Probably the longest one. And I will say that I have my first camera across this story was in primary school I was in a choir. It was quite a... Me too. For primary school choir it was very good. Actually one lot of competitions against adults.

It was anyway. Are you thinking about sister act 2 back in the habit? Yeah, we use sister act 2. I haven't seen a couple of competitions against adults. It was anyway. You're thinking about Cisrect 2 back in the habit. Yeah, we need Cisrect 2. I haven't seen a couple of you. One of the tens of you both sings Cisrect 2. It's a great movie. Number 2? Yeah, it's a great movie.

I'm at it now. It's like Quentin Tava. Maybe. Lauren Hills. Lauren Hills there. Can I tell my question? The joyful joyful love we adore thee. Anyway, so I was in this prime school choir

and we worked with a musical composer, this guy called Stephen Leake, and he used to write these concept pieces with full orchestras and full choirs. and he wrote this one with the school so we would suggest lyrics and stuff for it and it was called endurance and it was about the story of Shackleton. Cool. And it went under being number one hit in Australia in New Zealand. Dave's a millionaire. You got the world here. Yeah, number one. I'm a millionaire from the Australian R.I.A.

Good look. Anyway, but I was only like years old at the time, so I didn't appreciate it. Going back to this story, I was, oh man, I'm going to say Tim Robertson on Facebook. When that came through, I was like, I remember this. That's amazing. So Tim, thank you so much. Thanks, Tim. Alright guys, I know it's been a long episode, but we've got one last thing to do, and I just say thank you to everyone

who supports us via Patreon, patreon.com. So let's do go on pod to keep the pod rocking and rolling. And as I thank you to the people that do that. No. We have never rocked nor rolled. Watch me roll. Dave's rolling. Oh, it is, he's rolling, we're...

It looks like I'm a humping in an office too. Humping. Humping I'm a humping in an office too. Humping. A verbat is humping. All right, we want to say thanks to everyone who's keeping us humping and rolling. Nope. Hey, can I kick this off because I want to thank a very special someone out there. Who? Juman. It's just all I've got to take a moment here to thank my main man Mr. James Roy the Roy boy James Roy sounds like a blues singer from the six days So much more than that just to me. He's the wind beneath my wings. Wow he lifts me up and We he lifts me up and He he makes me feel good about myself and what I'm doing, what I'm about. And I think that, you know, I can't say enough about this guy.

That's great. He is my beautiful Roy Boy. Beautiful Roy Boy. Happy birthday, Roy Boy. I... That's his birthday as well. I don't know, but it could be. It will be itself. I love to roll the dice. One at 365 chance. That will be at some point. I love to roll the dice. 1 at 365 chance.

That's a pretty good chance. 66, he was born on February 29th. Right boy. I always feel a lot of pressure because you guys always have such great ways to thank people. And I'm really bad at it. Like I made a riddle joke. That was really bad. I'm surprised that Robert

Reddell who you made the riddle of joke hasn't withdrawn his patron. Yeah but well he hasn't yet but there's always time. Maybe he hasn't heard the terrible joke yet. I think he has. I think he tweeted. Anyway, the person that I would like to thank, and you know what I'm going to come clean and say that's like that I didn't even think of this joke. Come't complain, just go again, just do it. First of all, I would like to thank is a very special member of our expedition on our way to the Antarctic podcast awards, the biggest awards in the podcasting community.

Fact, fact. And I feel like in our boat, the biggest awards in the podcasting community. Fact. Fact. And I feel like in our boat, he would be the one. We'll be checking our pulse and then be like, oh, Matt's no good. But we're all gonna have a cup of tea. And Matt's not gonna know he's the weakest link.

And that's just the type of spirit of the one and only Douglas Whiteside. Douglas Whiteside, he does sound like he could definitely be a character from this story. Yeah, you've got your shackles and you've got your scots, you've got your morsels and your white sides. Your white sides. He would definitely rock that boat. Oh, he'd rock it good. You know, you've been in a nice way. Yeah, you know someone else who rocks it in a nice way.

Who's that? Now in Australia we've famously got Carly Minogue. Yeah. We've less famously got Danny Minogue. And we have their long-lost distant cousin by marriage because they have a completely different last name. I'd like to thank Chloe Crenogue. See that's great. I just wish I could be as good as you guys In all seriousness, Chloe can know thank you so much for supporting the show Thank you to James Roy and thank you to Douglas White side if you two would like to have your name read out and a terrible joke made by Matt Jesser. I'm trying I'm trying to think of a single calm and Oaksong help me out What's the one about the truth? I'm trying I'm trying to think of a single calm and oak song help me out. I could be so lucky is to Chronoge in our life. What you singing locomotion before I was trying to

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