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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck. Right, there's Jerry and this is

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Speaker 1: stuff you should know, right, Chucker, how are you, sir?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you great? Just toothless and happy good.

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Speaker 1: I'm halfway there to your tooth to the pre when's

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Speaker 1: your next visit? Well, I go in tomorrow to make

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Speaker 1: sure the implant is looking good. I can tell you

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Speaker 1: that it looks great, and then in August is what

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Speaker 1: I'll actually get the post and crown. Man. I'm really

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Speaker 1: sorry that you have to do all this. Thanks many,

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Speaker 1: It sucks. Yeah, that's why I'm sorry you have to

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Speaker 1: do it. And I can't. Not that I wear my

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Speaker 1: my flipper much anyway, but right now he was like,

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Speaker 1: don't even wear your flipper while the implants in there,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, is that why you're

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Speaker 1: wearing overalls today? That's right. Uh, let's see Chuck. Chuck,

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Speaker 1: if you ever tasted human flesh? No, but I think

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Speaker 1: you asked me that same question when we did our

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Speaker 1: regular cannibalism episode. Yeah. Probably, but this is the subject

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Speaker 1: so nice. We had to serve it twice. Well, we've

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Speaker 1: actually talked about some other stuff too, like we did

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Speaker 1: a whole dinner party episode. We talked about the Essex

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Speaker 1: and the whaling episode. Oh yeah, Um, we've talked about

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Speaker 1: cannibalism a lot. Like if there's a um, a tag

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Speaker 1: cloud would be decent size chuck, we should say. Um,

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Speaker 1: if you guys didn't get this from the title, we're

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Speaker 1: talking about cannibalism, and some of the stuff we're talking

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Speaker 1: about gets pretty graphic and grizzly. So if you have

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Speaker 1: a weak stomach or you're a little kid and you

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Speaker 1: don't want nightmares, uh, maybe don't listen to this one.

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Speaker 1: Very good sir, And now let's move on to Survival Cannibalism.

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Speaker 1: So again, people go listen to our cannibalism episode because

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Speaker 1: it was a particularly good one. If you ask me, um,

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Speaker 1: did we talk Surely we talked about the Uruguayan rugby team.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we did or not. Is it

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Speaker 1: just that I'm so familiar with the story that or

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Speaker 1: actually we probably did, but we're going to revisit it today. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's go back way back in time and the Uruguayan

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Speaker 1: National rugby team is flying through the Andies on the

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Speaker 1: way to play the Chili Chilean rugby team for a match,

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Speaker 1: and they don't make it. They don't. They're plane crashes

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Speaker 1: on a mountain something like thirteen thousand feet above sea level,

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Speaker 1: basically in the middle of nowhere. That's right. A fair

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Speaker 1: Child F two to seven of the Uruguayan Air Force

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Speaker 1: had forty passengers and five crew members, including that rugby team.

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Speaker 1: And you know it was pretty much mostly just the

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Speaker 1: rugby team, right, Yeah, they charted it, okay, but I

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Speaker 1: think there were some other folks. There were some kids there. Really,

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Speaker 1: I think I knew that. So, um, here's the deal

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Speaker 1: with the Andes mountains. Uh, it's only a hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy meters wide, but they're very tall and peaky. So

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Speaker 1: the tallest one, um is almost seven thousand meters and

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Speaker 1: it's the highest peak on the American continent. And uh,

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Speaker 1: the fair Child as a plane could only ascend a

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Speaker 1: spots to make that passage. It's called poor planning. Well,

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Speaker 1: I would guess that the uruguayne rugby team would agree

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Speaker 1: with me that that was poor planning. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. Like this pilot had made this passage. I

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Speaker 1: before may have been eighty. UM. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it was poor planning, but it was. Here's what happened.

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Speaker 1: They're flying, they take a sharp descent at about three

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Speaker 1: I don't think they felt like they were in real

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Speaker 1: I'm not quite fair. Another forty people on the plane.

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Speaker 1: Seven people survived the initial crash out of the forty five. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but those those were kids, um, and they went on

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Speaker 1: of them survived through in part survival cannibalism, but definitely

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Speaker 1: more than just that. These guys just didn't didn't just

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Speaker 1: And they made a great movie. I've not seen it.

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Speaker 1: Is it good? Yeah? That is good? Um. Of course,

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Speaker 1: And I remember we definitely talked about this because I

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Speaker 1: was a soccer teams. I didn't know the difference between

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Speaker 1: this fourteen year old girl that they called Jane. Uh.

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Speaker 1: She was found buried a couple of feet down two

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Speaker 1: bring it on. Right service choice, that's what I always say,

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00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: wide or dark service choice. And then I'm like, no, no no, no, mixed.

423
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: I'm not going to leave this in your hands. And

424
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: they say this diner is so wacky. The Franklin Expedition, Yes,

425
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: this one is. Uh, this is a good one. Uh,

426
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,360
Speaker 1: Sir John frank when at the age of sixty, had

427
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: already taken too expeditions, ah, dangerous ones. Yeah sixty. Also,

428
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 1: we're talking the eighteen fifties, forties. That's old. Yeah, that's

429
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 1: that's an old dude. So hats off to him for

430
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: doing it again. Salty old swarthy seamen act. So. Um,

431
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: they were looking for the northwest passage from Europe to

432
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: Asia up in the Arctic. I guess right, going that

433
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: would be going westward, westward, northwest. Oh yeah, northwest passes.

434
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: I never thought about that before. But there's no southeast

435
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: passage or northeast passages there. I don't know who cares,

436
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: right anyway, Franklin's leading this expedition, and um, there are

437
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: a hundred thirty four dudes. Yeah, I've seen another couple

438
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: of numbers, but we'll just we'll go with that and

439
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: they're never heard from again. Yes, and they were not Uh,

440
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: they were pros. They weren't a bunch of dummies that

441
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: just said, let's you know, take a bag of rice,

442
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: it's a beef turkey. They had five years of food. Uh.

443
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: They went to a provision er. I didn't really know

444
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: this how this worked. I figured they just went shopping.

445
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: But you would, like you would find someone to get

446
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: all your provisions for the trip, like they would win

447
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: the bid and you would hire them. So they hired

448
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: a guy named Stephen Goldner. Uh. And he apparently was

449
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: in a rush because I guess they just cut it

450
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: close time wise and hastily put together, um, five years

451
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: worth of food and tens soldered him shut. Eight thousand

452
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: tins of food eight thousands. Uh, he soldered them shut.

453
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: Apparently that's how they say in the UK, So shout

454
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: out UK, right, um, And here's the quote I saw

455
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: was that, Uh, the lead dripped like melted candle wax

456
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: down inside the surface. That's a bad soldering job, it is.

457
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: And we just an episode on lead. So you know

458
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: that if lead is in your canned goods, that is

459
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: no goods. So this expedition had to uh two ships,

460
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: and they were really well outfitted ships. They had internal heat.

461
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: Hot water was piped throughout the cabin so they they

462
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: could stay warm. They had UM railroad engine screw propellers.

463
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: They were um fitted with iron. They were iron clad

464
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: in parts to break through ice. They were really nice ships.

465
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: The Arabis and the Terror. Yeah, very poorly named. Yeah,

466
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: the Terror is not what you want to name a

467
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: ship on an expedition, right, No. And the Arabas. I

468
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: looked it up because I was just curious. And apparently

469
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: in Greek mythology, Uh, it's the place where you would

470
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: go right after death. It's the personification of darkness. So

471
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: terrible names, the Terror and the Arabas. So chuck. They

472
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: found at least one of the ships. Yeah, just two

473
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: years ago. Okay, they discovered the wreck of the h M.

474
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Speaker 1: S Erebus offshore of King William Island underwater. Is trapped

475
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: in ice underwater, but they think that it was trapped

476
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: in ice is how they originally because they were stuck.

477
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: There's a big mystery with the Franklin Expedition because even

478
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: if they were stuck, they had plenty of supplies, five

479
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: years worth the supplies to wait until it thought enough

480
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: to sail at least go back. So why would they

481
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: abandon these these ships. It's a it's a huge mystery,

482
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: and a lot of people say, well it was the lead.

483
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: Look at the behavior. They apparently took lifeboats, dragged them

484
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: across the tundra. They had non essentials on board with

485
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: things like silverware. You'd have to just be totally off

486
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: your nut to be on like a survival expedition to

487
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: go find help, and you bring along silverware. So everybody

488
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: pointed to what was the duce's named, Richard Golding's work,

489
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: terrible salt soldering work, Stephen Goldner, and that his that

490
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: the lead had had poisoned these guys and clouded their judgment,

491
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: that they kind of went mad. But apparently they did

492
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: some They they some of the bodies have since been found,

493
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: and they did some forensic analysis of it and said, actually,

494
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: now these guys have lots of lead poisoning, but it's

495
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: distributed evenly throughout their bones, like they were just poisoned

496
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: by lead throughout their lives. It wasn't acute poisoning from

497
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: this soldering work. So it just remains a mystery. I

498
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: guess it does. And some Inuit tribes reported seeing um

499
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: about forty guys, forty white men that were in bad

500
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: shape that they sold some seal meat too, and uh,

501
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: when one of the search parties came across the Innuit tried,

502
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: they told him the story. And I think over the

503
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: years they've been finding, you know, piles of these bodies

504
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: in different locations. And uh, the Inuits first where the

505
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: ones who said, yeah, we actually saw one of their camps,

506
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: like after we ran into the guys, we think we

507
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: found him again, all dead like the following year, and

508
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: there was like human bones and their kettles and stuff

509
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: like that. So they definitely resorted to to uh, survival

510
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: cannibalism at some point. Yeah, it said, um the direct

511
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: quote was from the mutilated state of many of the

512
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: bodies and the contents of the kettles, it is evident

513
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last

514
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: dread alternative cannibalism. Kind of dramatic, yeah, for sure. So check.

515
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: Let's do one more, huh. Okay, let's do our famous

516
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Speaker 1: top ten, consisting of six tops boy, this one is

517
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: super super sad like. There's not much joking about this.

518
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: I mean, none of this has been funny, but we're

519
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: trying not to just depress everyone. But the Siege of

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00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: Leningrad is one of the saddest moments in world history.

521
00:31:53,640 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: It's when the Nazi forces uh invaded, bombarded over three

522
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: years against what is now St. Petersburg, and basically for

523
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: nine hundred days cut them off in an effort to

524
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: starve out a city of three three point three million people.

525
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: And it worked. Yeah, it's it's a great effect. Three

526
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: point three million people. A million died over the three

527
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: year siege. Yeah, and eight hundred thousand of those died

528
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: from starvation. Eight hundred thousand people nuts. So the government

529
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: nobody could get to it. The Nazis had formed a

530
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: ring around the city and we're defending it and just

531
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: trying to They were bombing it every day, but they

532
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: were also well aware that they were purposefully starving the

533
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,959
Speaker 1: population as well. Inside um, the people had a ration

534
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: of bread once a day, a piece of bread about

535
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: the weight of a bar of soap. Yeah, manual laborers

536
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: got two hundred and fifty grams of bread. But apparently

537
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: the bread was cut with pine shavings, and they were

538
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: subsisting on three hundred calories a day. Yeah, if you

539
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: were in the army, you would get things like um,

540
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: fern leaf soup and um cream of nettle, probably not

541
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: even cream, but like broth of nettle soup. So people

542
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: were joining the army just for that, just to have

543
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: that every day. Yeah, here's some of the things that

544
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: they use as food substitutes. UM, cotton seed cake, uh macaroni,

545
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: which is in quotes made from flax seed for cattle meat,

546
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: jelly produced from boiling bones and calf skins, yeast soup

547
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: from sawdust, fermented sawdust, joiner's glue, boiled and jellified, toothpaste,

548
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: cold cream. Basically, it said they even licked dried pasteuff

549
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: wallpaper because there was a rumor that it was potato based.

550
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: Anything for calories. I mean, that's how desperate things were. Yeah,

551
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: and and not to stephen calories, but like vitamins too.

552
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: Apparently they were sweeping the tobacco shavings from a tobacco

553
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: factories ventilation system because tobacco is vitamin C in it unbelievable,

554
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: vitamin B one of those too. So what happens is

555
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: a crime wave starts breaking out, as you would expect

556
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: in a city that large that's starving to death, like

557
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: people literally just laying dead in the street, like everywhere

558
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: you look right. And apparently not just laying dead in

559
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: the street, they were half eaten, some of them laying

560
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: dead in the street. Yeah, and they they kept this

561
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: under wraps for many, many years because they didn't want

562
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: people to know the world to know how ugly it was.

563
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: But we have a lot more information now. But um,

564
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: you would have these ration cards to get this, you know,

565
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: the tiny allotments of food that they had, and so

566
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: if their relatives die, they would hide the bodies so

567
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: they could still use the ration card. And then these gangs,

568
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: these teenage gangs of teenage boys started breaking out where

569
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: they would mug you for food in your ration card. Uh.

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00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: One eight year old killed his two younger brothers for

571
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: their cards. Uh. One guy murdered his grandmother and boiled

572
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: an eight her liver. And a seventeen year old stole

573
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: a corpse from a cemetery and put it through a

574
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: meat minzer. So it's like one of the most shocking

575
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: things that I've ever heard in world. History, and it

576
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: isn't much talked about. I mean, you hear about the

577
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: Siege of Lennon Grand, but I mean the details of

578
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: it are just horrifying. Yeah, it was pretty whitewashed, I

579
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: think when I studied it in college. But um, well

580
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: that's because the Soviets just denied the horror of the

581
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: whole thing. Two thousand people were arrested for cannibalism. Um

582
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 1: five eighty six were executed for murdering people and eating them.

583
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: And it said most people arrested were women. Apparently mothers

584
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: would smother like their youngest kids to feed to the

585
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: other kids. Man, what a horrible time. Alrighty, that's a

586
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: nice uplifting way to leave people. Yeah there's others one,

587
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: there's others that we haven't touched upon. So if you

588
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 1: want to learn more about it, you can just type

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00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: survival cannibalism into the search bar how stuff works dot com.

590
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: And since I said that it's time for basebook questions,

591
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: I can't think of a more inappropriate way to end

592
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: this show into take social media questions and laugh. But

593
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: maybe we need to laugh now. Let's all right, I've

594
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: got a hilarious one. All Right, this is from lu

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00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 1: Jen If you had one, if you had to eat

596
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 1: one food for the rest of your life, what would

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00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: it be? Fried chicken? Oh yeah, easy, mom. Would be

598
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: either a really good Indian curry or a really good

599
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: Japanese curry. Either one of those would be happy. So

600
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: a curry, A curry, A good one, though, great one?

601
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: Are you well? And food? Fried chicken? I'm gonna if

602
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,919
Speaker 1: if it's a meal, I'm gonna say fried chicken, mashed

603
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: potatoes with gravy and corn bread or biscuit or something.

604
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: What about green Yeah? I love it, um, but dealer's choice,

605
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: like you said, okay, green beans, collared whatever, But that

606
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: would be my meal. First good one. That was hilarious.

607
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: This is from Jeff Ruth. Why doesn't John Candy get

608
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: comedic props that he's due? Great question, I agree. One

609
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: of the great great comic actors of our time. Yeah,

610
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: it's great. Sad, sad that we lost him. Uh. He

611
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: was huge at the time. I mean, everybody knew John Candy.

612
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: He was in some major, major motion pictures, many of

613
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 1: which were surrounded by him. I think he's gotten tons

614
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: of props. So what are you saying, Jeff? Wake up,

615
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: Wake up? Also because he was Canadian. Okay, good answer. Uh,

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00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: here's one from Lily Highum, what is it like for

617
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: Jerry producing stuff you should know? Well, here's Jerry's answer.

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00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, nice eliminating. That's always Russell Redman. What's

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00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: your favorite breed of cat? And don't lie, because I'll

620
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: know Russell. I mean, I think I'll probably go with

621
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: the breeds that I have right now because they're dear

622
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: to me. So I'm gonna say a tabby in a

623
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: main tune. Okay, and yeah, are you ready for this question?

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00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: Charlie Manson asked, Chuck always wears a baseball cap. Is

625
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: there a reason for this? Chuck? I think you should

626
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: tell them right now you're not wearing a baseball cap.

627
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,760
Speaker 1: I'm not because, as most of you know, my beloved

628
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: Last Chance Garage had that have had for twenty years

629
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 1: was lost in Austin, Texas and is in a dumpster

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00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: somewhere in Austin, Texas. I don't know if that's true.

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Speaker 1: I think it's adorning the hat of a hipster in Austin, Texas. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: if you're in an Austin, keep an eye off for

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Speaker 1: that thing. It says last Chance garage. It's black circle

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Speaker 1: emblem smells like twenty years of Chuck. No one else

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Speaker 1: would want to wear that hat. I'm guarantee you. But

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Speaker 1: now I don't wear a hat that much anymore because

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Speaker 1: of that. I love that hat. Okay, alright, l I

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Speaker 1: p okay. Jack Mayhan says, what is your favorite automobile

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Speaker 1: and why? Uh? Mine is probably the AMC Pacer, just

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Speaker 1: because it's pretty cool looking. I'm not a big car guy,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with the nineteen sixties VW Beetles

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Speaker 1: because I drove them and I still love him. I

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Speaker 1: saw beautiful looking beetle the other day. Cherry restored that

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Speaker 1: this guy was driving, and I was just like, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting another one one day. Totally do it, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: I am. I'm gonna have a real nice one. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Um Bryant Tarbell, Oh Tarbell, why do you tempt me? So?

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Speaker 1: Described to flate Gate in one word, we go at

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Speaker 1: it a lot on Facebook. He's our friend from Boston.

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Speaker 1: In one word, uh, two words, three words, Tom Brady Cheetah.

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Speaker 1: Oh moving on? Well, I think a score one for Chuck. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Tara Dickinson asks this catch up a sauce or a condiment.

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably both. I don't think it has

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Speaker 1: to be one or the other. I did it. Don't

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Speaker 1: be dumb on the origin of ketchup. Did you know

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Speaker 1: it's vieting a musing origin? No idea? Really? Cat is

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Speaker 1: that pounced? Really? And is that why it's spelled uh

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Speaker 1: as cats up? Yes, that's exactly right, that's the tradition spelling. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And did you know like originally before tomatoes weren't introduced

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Speaker 1: until like the late nineteenth century, but they were. The

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Speaker 1: British were making versions of this stuff, um, like from

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Speaker 1: the like mid eighteenth century, and they were using things

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Speaker 1: like walnuts and anchovies and all sorts of weird stuff mushrooms.

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Speaker 1: It's more like a fish sauce. That's how catsup started. Really? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is that why it's got vinegar in it today? Probably?

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Speaker 1: Probably idea? Don't remember why. I think it might just

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Speaker 1: have been originally a preservative. Gotcha? I'll do one more

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Speaker 1: for me. This is from Caleb James Wyant. Would either

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Speaker 1: of you ever consider running for public office? Um? For me?

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Speaker 1: Not a chance. No, never had any interest whatsoever. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be allowed to anyway, they would expose

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Speaker 1: me so quickly for past crimes against humanity, They would

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Speaker 1: dig stuff up on me, and I would be disqualified.

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