1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Ar 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: What's up, Elizabeth Dutton? Nothing much, just chilling out. You 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: know it's ridiculous. Oh man, I do. I came across 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: something that I wanted to tell you about this. Have 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: you ever heard of tyromancy or a tyromancer? No, so, 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 1: a tyromancer is not somebody who romances people from Thailand. 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: A tyro ancer is somebody who divines the future by 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: staring at cheese. I swear this is a real thing. 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: I didn't make this up. This isn't like me up, 10 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: come up with the career you want. I'm like, okay, 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: this is the job I see for me. No, Honestly, 12 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: in the Middle Ages, people would gaze at their cheese 13 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: and they would try to spy the future in the 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: cheddar like it was a crystal ball, like I saw 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: to god. They would do this. But now you may 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: be imagining, like, well, zeron, what do you mean they 17 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: would stare at their cheese like just on their plate. No, 18 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: they would go to like specialists, or they themselves would 19 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: do little ritualistic things like oh, I'm going to write 20 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: the names of all my bows on some cheese, and 21 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: whichever piece molds first is the one I'm supposed to 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: be with interesting middle aged maidens would do. Yeah. Yeah, 23 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: it's letting the elements present themselves as And alsolet me 24 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: think about it. If you're going to be like picking 25 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: a man, what better way than where growth occurs long 26 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: as the mold. Like, it's like, this is going to 27 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: be the con future that I expect now. Anyway, I 28 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: thought using a growth of mold defined a husband was 29 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: just brilliant. And that's how I want to be a 30 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: tyrom aanswer so I can help the love Lauren too, Well, 31 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: go get yourself a brick of cheese. It's one of 32 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: the cheapest futures I can imagine for yourselves. Really, is 33 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: that is ridiculous? Well done? You know what else is ridiculous? No, 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: I don't getting harassed by a coworker at fifty below zero. 35 00:01:48,080 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 1: Oh god, this is ridiculous. Crime A podcast about absurd 36 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: and outrageous capers, heists, cons it's always murder free and 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: one ridiculous. Oh you damn right, Saren, do you like 38 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: cold weather? That's like asking a Floridian if they like 39 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: rational thoughts. No, obviously you don't. I live in California 40 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: in Oakland I hate cold weather. The only way I 41 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: want to be cold is if I'm dipped in the 42 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: Pacific and I'm about to be standing on a board. 43 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: That's the way I want to be cold. Other than that, 44 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: the payoff is never worth it. Now I don't I 45 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: don't really mind the cold, but like for extended periods 46 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: of time, it gets to me like, what do you mean, 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: like if you're there for like months, Well, and it's 48 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: more like I don't. I don't like cold and damp. 49 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: I've never lived anywhere where it's really really cold. You 50 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: lived in Scotland, Yeah it was cold and damp. It 51 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: wasn't like below zero, just the freezing versus cold. Yeah, 52 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: it just hovered around the freezing point but was damp 53 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: and so you just felt it like in your bones. 54 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: I don't have those distinctions of cold for me. Starts 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: at and everything below that is freezing. Well, when I 56 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: was a college English instructor, I liked teaching Jack London's 57 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: to build a fire. Oh yeah, I would do that 58 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: when it was super hot outside, because you know, it 59 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: makes you feel cold and volah blah blah cold it 60 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: down and the summertime, I didn't want to teach it 61 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: in the spring semester that started in January, because then, 62 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: you know it's cold outside. I guess it would get 63 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: somewhat cold in the south, and definitely at least when 64 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: I was a boy. Relative for me, you know, people 65 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: up in like Minnesota are going to just scoff. But 66 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: I thought it was cold under exactly exactly, but I 67 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: would I would teach to build a fire, and the 68 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: descriptions in that are so vivid. I still remember the matches. 69 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: It's a detailed account of what it's like to freeze 70 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: to death in essence spoiler alert, and do it through frustration. 71 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: It's like the slowest agonizing freeze to death. I the 72 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: students weren't reading the story, but I was. I just 73 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: signed it. You wouldn't read it, Oh yeah, every semester, 74 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: everything I assigned i'd read because they weren't going to 75 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: someone's going to read this. Um. But so I would 76 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: think a lot about people going up to the Yukon 77 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: at the time, and um, you know, putting aside all 78 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: of their discomforts and trekking up there, think in mind 79 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 1: too that uh, when people were going up to the 80 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: Yukon in the time of Jack London, they didn't have 81 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: gortex like leather and wool wolves. There's not like an 82 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: old dog and so. But but yet people will still 83 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: do it. They have this drive. I'm in awe of 84 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: that because I like to stay comfortable. I'm built for comfort, 85 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: not for speed. That's just not me. People who go 86 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: and like trek across the desert or zaren people who 87 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: go to Antarctica. No, I got to the subject. But 88 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: those people are generally scientists, so they have that extra things. 89 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: It's not just like people who go to like the Sahara, 90 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: but they're not always scientists. That's true. Yeah, I'm telling 91 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: you this story today about Antarctica because we're at the 92 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: tail end of a pretty severe heat wave here in Oakland, California. 93 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: Your old tricks totally. I need to get into a 94 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: mentally chill place. So I started looking around, like what's 95 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: cold Altarctica? I typed into Google help what is cold melting? 96 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: To show you a picture of iced tea, and then 97 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 1: Antarctica iced tea exactly not to drink. So what's cooler 98 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: than cold? I want to talk to you about Antarctica. 99 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: Come for the cool weather, stay for the ridiculousness. Into 100 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: this that's the new Antarctica travel like slogan for for 101 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: is Antarctica. I know a lot of people dream about 102 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: visiting Antarctica. I know people who have done it. Yeah, 103 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: and they're all stoked on it and they want to 104 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: tell you all about it. But isn't it like I know, 105 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: somebody went there and they did it because they could 106 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: run a marathon on all seven continents. It seems like 107 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: people always going there to get the seven Oh it's 108 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: totally the seventh continent. Yeah. Um. There are people though 109 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: that actually work there, and unless that's your life stream, 110 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: I feel like it's a bummer job. And these like 111 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: penguin husbands, like the people who like shepherd penguins. No, 112 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: there are research stations, and there are right of course 113 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: Antarctica research stations. I'm like research and penguins. What's the 114 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: what's it? The most bummer job you've ever had? Oh? God, 115 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: I've had some bummer jobs, so give me a second. 116 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know this one for sure. When I 117 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: was Third Team, I worked in an old folks home 118 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: as a basically a waiter bus boy. And it was 119 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: not a bummer because it's like, oh I was a 120 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 1: waiter or was a bus boy, I didn't mind that stuff. 121 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: I don't mind dishes, I don't mind hard work. None 122 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: of that bothered me. It was the fact that I 123 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: got really close to all the people at this old 124 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: folks home and then I would go to my next 125 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: shift and one of them would be dead and oh, man, 126 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: Steve died really last week and I'm like thirteen, So like, 127 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: I'm not used to death. I'm not. And I'm really 128 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: like really charmed by these people because they're at the 129 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: end of their life and so they're really honest with 130 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: me and they want to impart messages. And also a 131 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: bunch of them, like one of them was this old 132 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: radio show personality, and so like I loved old radio shows. 133 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: I'm asking them about people. I'm like, oh, what is 134 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: so and so, Like did you ever work with so 135 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: and so? And they're like into it and they know 136 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: these people, so we're like bonded and I'm like this 137 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: is great. And then i go back a week later 138 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: and they're dead and I'm like come home crying. My 139 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: Mom's like, you know what, you might need to find 140 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: a new job. And so then I became like a 141 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: paper boy and that was much better for me. This 142 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: is the most bummer job I've ever imagined. My bummer 143 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: job pales in comparison. I had to work, it had to. 144 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: It wasn't like forced on me. I chose to work 145 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: one summer in college at UM, the like Ace hard 146 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: Our Home store. Oh good job. And yeah, I had 147 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: a couple of jobs that summer, just trying to like 148 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: stay alive and well, like you know, you just get 149 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: cobbled together a bunch of part time jobs. It was 150 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: life tough on the streets for you back then. Do 151 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: you need Yes, it was so hard trying to make 152 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: your eight I was, and uh so. The Ace Hardware 153 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: Home Store UM was run by this manager guy who 154 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: was really into renfairs and he wore really tight black 155 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: jeans and cowboy boots and had feathered red hair. And 156 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: he would we had to talk to him as his 157 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: ren fair renaissance fair persona get out at work. Yeah, 158 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: he was like he brought When you call him, like 159 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: you know, Melvin or whatever, he was like sur feather Bottom, 160 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: like please no call me the end. So we would say, 161 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: sir feather Bottom, I've got a load that came in. 162 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: We had shipe like tag all these for prices like 163 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: you know, carry on, like you know, I'd be there 164 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: like tagging, can I sally forth to take my break, 165 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: Sir feather Bottom, maybe like tagging the prices on things, 166 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: and he'd walk by, Yes, well, carry on and like 167 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: tut tut and and it was just it was horrible. 168 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: It was that sounds like ye old bummer. Yeah, and 169 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: I had I had like really bright pink hair back then, 170 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: and I got a lot of abuse from customers about it. 171 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: When lady came in and told me I look trashy. Trashy, yeah, 172 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: with pink hair, right, I wouldn't expect that, would expect 173 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: a lot of things that she could have insulted you with. 174 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: The trashy was not what I expected. That's usually more 175 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: like the rensed out blonde, like, oh you look trashy 176 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: with like, you know, platinum hair, but like pink hair, 177 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: it's more like you look fun. Well. I looked at 178 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,719 Speaker 1: her and I said, I'm rubber your glue, and then 179 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: I cut her credit card in half. So that was 180 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: my summer at ACE, only less than one summer. Back 181 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: to antarct Um. There are scientists, obviously who dream of 182 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: working and on Antarctica. And if we say on Antarctica, 183 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: but we don't say like on Europe. Well, it's like 184 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: the way we think like an island. Yes, so I 185 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: think if we think of it as being like you're 186 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: on the island becomes continental. You stop. So we'll say 187 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: in Antarctica, let's you say like with Antarctica. They want 188 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: to be one with Antarctica, and they think that they're 189 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: totally prepared for these brutal conditions, the isolations, um, the 190 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: isolations in the such various isolations one may experience. There 191 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 1: are forty five active permanent research stations there and then 192 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: another fifty seasonal basis. There's a lot of people. In 193 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: the wintertime, it's a thousand, and it gets up. The 194 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: population in Antarctica gets to around four thousand in the summertime. UM. 195 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: And because there are humans on Antarctica, there's crime. The 196 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: two do go together. That's why we're here. That's one 197 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: hand washing the other than thieving from the other hand. Oh, 198 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: there's been a murder, get out, but we're not talking 199 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: about that today, dude. That's our vow our promise. A 200 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: few cases of arson, probably just to stay warm. A 201 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: mysterious death that seemed a little fishy, A melee involving 202 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: some cooks that ended up with a hammer attack. Yeah, 203 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: and then an axe fight over a chess match get 204 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 1: out that resulted in chess being banned at Russian stations. 205 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: I didn't want to interrupt you, but I was like, 206 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: this has to be Russians. You said, ax and chess match. 207 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: I'm betting on Russian scientists, right. So one of those 208 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: Russian stations is Bellingshausen station. That doesn't sound very Russian, 209 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: now it doesn't. Belling did they steal this one? They're like, hey, Germans, 210 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: look over there. Basically, basically we got gems. I don't 211 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 1: know why they sounds so German. It was named after 212 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: the famous YouTuber Victor Bellingshausen. Of course, get old vic 213 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 1: um and so at that that's the location of Antarctica's 214 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: most ridiculous crime. So yeah, we're not even talking acts attack. 215 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: This is even more we're not belling Shausen is one 216 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: of the o G Soviet stations, founded in nineteen sixty eight. 217 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: They have a church there. They have a church, yeah, 218 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: Trinity Church, Eastern Orthodox. Right, it's the only permanently staffed 219 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: Eastern Orthodox Church staff. Yeah, two priests work there. They 220 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: take turns. Okay, I get it. They need a priest, 221 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 1: they need they need two priests. I need a young 222 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: priest to do an exorcism, a vice priest. He's a 223 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: runner up because the first runner up happened. We got up. 224 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: Well they can't, you know, I don't know how many masses. 225 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: The church is adorable, by the way, Yeah, I built it. 226 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: It was preassembled in Siberia from cedar and larch. Did 227 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: you google to this church? No? Maybe maybe I google 228 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: tour everything. Uh So, anyway, it's not really that big, 229 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: and it still has three small onion domes. So this 230 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: little onion dome church. The icons inside are all hand painted, 231 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: and the services are like straight up Eastern Orthodox each 232 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: week frankincense pageantry. Whatnot? This and the vats um. You 233 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: don't smell wood in antarctica. This is not a single 234 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: just me personally. You don't smell wood? Seven? Are you 235 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: hypnotizing me right now? Your sense of smell is gone? Um? Well, no, 236 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: there are in the Antarctic, and go I don't smell 237 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: trees like you have covid st um. Hello, ding dong, 238 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: there are no trees in antarctica. Oh right, this isn't 239 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: like one of those. I don't smell candles. Yeah, yeah, 240 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: when you go, I'm just trying to keep up, and 241 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: I don't smell what it means do you? Saron? And 242 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: you the universe personal you people don't smell wood and 243 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: antarctic because there is none. And so this is like 244 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: a little escape going into this church to huff the wood. 245 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: Smell really for the wood, for the wood and some Jesus, 246 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. Don't judge. They've had a 247 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: wedding there. They had a log married chunk of frankincense. 248 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: It was beautiful. No, some dude from a Peruvian base. 249 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: He married the daughter of a Russian engineer. The Russian 250 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: engineer brought his daughter like a bring your daughter to 251 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: work island. He lost a bet, I gotta take one 252 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: of my kids. I don't know. I don't know what 253 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: happened with that. Here's another fun fact. Are you familiar 254 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: with the tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle. Oh yeah, crocodile Lyle. Yeah, 255 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: I'm not. He's a famous or was a famous tattoo artist. 256 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: His tattoo was his signature tattoo. Total showman. You're telling 257 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: me his signature tattoo was his own signature, so he 258 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: set up a tattoo station in Antarctica. He tattooed his 259 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: autograph on Dr Anna Felicity Freedman so that he could 260 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: be the first person to tattoo on all seven continents. 261 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: Like you're saying, this is the only reason to go yes, 262 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: So he just did the old signature autograph tattoo, then 263 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: got on a polar bear and bounced yep, like shot 264 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: off and polar bears down there that's north right now. 265 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: Penguin He had like a sled dog team of penguins. 266 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: So yeah, so he going really waddling down the ice. 267 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: You can walk faster than your sled. Sorry, I'm sorry anyway, 268 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: Lyle Tuttle signature tattoo. So there you go. That's another 269 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: fun fact. Here's one more. Okay, I don't care if 270 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: I going to take it, but go on. Did you 271 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: know that Metallica, I'm gonna need a warning. Metallica they 272 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: gave tattoos. They played in what they played? What is 273 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: this like an MTV stunt? Were like we put the world. 274 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: So there were ten winners of a contest who arrived 275 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: in Antarctica by a cruise ship and they got to 276 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: go to a Metallica concert at the neighboring Argentine base. 277 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: So did the Argentine base like hire Metallica in this contest, 278 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: like hey, can we get involved with They were like 279 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: ringing Metallica, like Metallica speaking like hey, okay, we're in Antarctica, 280 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: we're freezing, we need hot metal and they're like, you're 281 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: right on and then they lit them cells on fire. 282 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry about that. Um okay, so they built 283 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: they did this performance under a special dome. I am 284 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: not making this up like a biodome. Yes, Like Lars 285 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: is like I must have a biodome or I'm not 286 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: going to play. You have to hear my drums. They 287 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: all turned mossy. I feel like I'm making this up, 288 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: but I know I'm feel like you're making it up 289 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: to They were under a special dome. The audience listened 290 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: to music on headphone. Why because they didn't want to 291 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: disturb the local wildlife. The penguins were like not. The 292 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: penguins were Megadeth fans and they didn't like matter hardcore. 293 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: Dave with Daintreethers. Yeah, so so that's the thing. They 294 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: were headphones. They haven't listened to Metallica since Cliff left. Yeah, left. 295 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be I 296 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: don't laugh. Um okay. So then but after the concert, 297 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: the boys went next door to Billinghaus and to say hi, 298 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: the boys in metallicata yeah Metallica, Hey it is And 299 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: then they left. Um, so back to ridiculous. I swear 300 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 1: to god, there's a crime in here, somewhere, these evolving 301 00:17:52,240 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: kind of criminal. Let's take a break, we return. I 302 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: promise you I'm going to start talking about crying sar oh, hey, 303 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: what's up? Elizabeth's over thinking about Metallica? Well, I have 304 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: crime for you. I promised it. Okay, good, thank god. 305 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: First things first, I need you to close your eyes, yes, Zaren, 306 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: I want you to picture it. M you're feeling a 307 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: little queasy. Is Metallica standing over me? Well, you've been 308 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: ship and you're all bundled up in your new parka 309 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: that you just your mom got you, and you have 310 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: that feeling of being a little overheated, but it's also 311 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: super cold outside. You're getting queasy. It's like the whole 312 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: no winning vibe. You can't trying to stay You looked 313 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: at me, the winning vibe like we both know what 314 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: this means. Like you know the no winning vibe. It's 315 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: my my vibe, isn't the no winning vibe? So the 316 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: ship pulls up at a dock and it's a barren landscape. 317 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: There's some low buildings in the distance, or there are 318 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: some low buildings in the distance. Um, you zaren in 319 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: your new park of You've just arrived at Bellingshausen station. 320 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: Heard good things Metallica playing wants you had like stitch 321 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: cute little patches on your park of like I'm a 322 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 1: world explorer. For me, I'm so metal. You've got a 323 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: lile tuttle tattoo on you on my face. Um, it's October, 324 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: but and that means it's getting close to summer, don't 325 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: Southern Hemisphere back it up, Burnett. It is below freezing outside. 326 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: It's somewhere between like let's say zero and thirteen degrees fahrenheit. 327 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so sub human temperatures. I'm with you. There 328 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: are about thirt seen other people at the base with 329 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: you in the summer. Now the population can swell to 330 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: twenty five, but not yet. You're just almost there. Nope, 331 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: You've got the old Baker's dozen with you. So you 332 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: look around. You see the buildings are all single story. 333 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: They look like temporary buildings. Oh my gosh, what's that 334 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: over there? The cutest little church ever. I'm gonna put 335 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: it in my pocket and run away. But it's dismal. 336 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: Other So, the Russians, though, they refer to this station 337 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: as a resort because the conditions are so much milder 338 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: than say it like Vostok Station, which is further inland. 339 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: The temperature there can drop to one hundred and twenty 340 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: below zero zeren, I love the Russian cent of humor 341 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: is a resort well compared dang one of those like 342 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: I'm not dead. So belling Shausen is on an island 343 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: just off the coast of the continent. So that's like 344 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 1: it's like a plumb assignment as far as Antarctic, I'm 345 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: taking your words forward on all this, but like still barren, 346 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: remember trees. I'm over here with some toothpicks in my pockets. 347 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: You're in there with your head stuck in the door 348 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: of the church, just huffing, huffing away. Now, there are 349 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: two seasons summer and winter in Antarctica. There like awards season. 350 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: In summer, there's what's it called with the when um 351 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: their debuting shows, pilot season. Yeah, we're going to say like, oh, yes, 352 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: there's mud season, fire season, pilot season, and awards seasons 353 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: from l A. No, when this summer? When this winter 354 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: on off? So the permanent daylight in the summer, which 355 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: would really mess with me. Permanent daylight right, like the 356 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: sun doesn't go down all day all night, like three 357 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: months of that couple of months whatever, Yeah, a long time. 358 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: Four months. I don't know. I'm guessing darkness in the 359 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: winter and then you just have to walk around with 360 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: the lantern in the snow. Um, that's April through August 361 00:21:55,359 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: is darkness in winter. So four months rayah, even though 362 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: it's supposed to be this resort, it's still cold and 363 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: dark and lonely. So you got your parka, you pull 364 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: down the scarf that your mom knit for you to 365 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: let your mouth and nose out into the icy air. 366 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: I'm freezing because my mom can't nit. But go on, 367 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: no offense. Um, you smell something. You smell vodka, you 368 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: smell metallica, you smell ridiculousness. James Hedfield, Well, something's brewing here, attention. 369 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: So it's October nine. I wasn't too long ago, right, 370 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: A lot of bad business going on up here in 371 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: the States. Like I just I looked at the major 372 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: news stories for that month and it was a dumpster fire. 373 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 1: October okay, yeah, one month of four mid terms it 374 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: was horrific. Same with September and November that year. You know, 375 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 1: let's just go back, like ten years has been horrific. Whatever. 376 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: I hate to tell you about the other years before 377 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: the last two thousand years have been a real doozy 378 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: so at bells, real top years of hard, hard road 379 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: belling shows in its summertime and work was in full swing. Um, 380 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,360 Speaker 1: fourteen people there, you're the number fourteen. Two of them. 381 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: I'm out there my water wings in my banana hammocks. 382 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: It's almost springtime. You're like, oh my god, he's got 383 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: snow madness. Um, so the two there's two of the fourteen, though, 384 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: they're going to bring the ridiculousness now to the fourteen. 385 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: So we have two main ridiculous characters. The first oleg 386 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: belogos Off, the logos Off. I know I am screwing 387 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: up these names. I'm not have mercy, that is all 388 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: I say. Belgos Off, fifty two year old electrician and welder. 389 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: Electrician welder look fifty two like. But he might be. 390 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: He might be like those those Facebook people who use 391 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: really old photos of themselves in their profile, I mean, 392 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: like author photos of most novels. Yeah, I know. To me, 393 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: you know. But here's here's the other thing about Bologozov 394 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: looks young pain in the pituit. Oh he looks young, 395 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: feels old. Let me tell you this. His look is amazing. 396 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: He has like a really long majestic beard, like a 397 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: rescipue number amber colored, amber colored. I don't know. It's 398 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: because he druels cidered in his hes, got cider and 399 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,199 Speaker 1: tobacco stains running down his face. But he looks he 400 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: looks every bit the Russian explorer. Okay, something out of 401 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: a Russian fairy tale. So would his face be befittedly 402 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 1: surrounded by fur giving fur hat. So we have that, 403 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: We've got old leg right, and then we have Sergey. Yeah, 404 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: Sergey Savitsky. Yeah, Okay, he's fifty five years old. Yeah, 405 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: Serge looks every inch of fifty written hard but away 406 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: he's an electrical engine. Here. He's having a tough time 407 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: with the whole Antarctica thing. The scene. The vibe. He's 408 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: a slight fellow that has nothing to do with him 409 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: having a hard time. He has short cropped hair, he 410 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: has like a really sensible mustache, if there is such 411 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: a thing, and his press photo is phenomenal. It's him 412 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 1: facing three quarters to the camera with one eyebrow raised. 413 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? It sounds like something I would 414 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: make up. I am serious. Is the mustache? I got 415 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: like a knowing smirk, just kind of cocking the corner. 416 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put this 417 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: on Instagram and then you'll know. So these two they've 418 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: been beefing for months. There's a lot of tension going 419 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: on here. What are they fighting about? Well, here's the thing. 420 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 1: The two big activities at this station, reading drinking. Those 421 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: are sometimes at the same time, sometimes not so. Because 422 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: there's just one TV and it only has like a 423 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: channel or two. They watching like South American TV. I 424 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: guess Argentinean Penguin, Penguin, Wayne's World, Penguin Public Access. There's 425 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: really spotty internet, so it's all dial up. Um, there's 426 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: a gym, but it sounds like that really wasn't a 427 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: popular option, Just like why what what do I have 428 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: to live for? Um? The library then gets a lot 429 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 1: of use and then livers were put to the test. Okay, 430 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 1: you kind of caught me on that one drinking and 431 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: um so another Russian at belling Shausen, Sergei Bushmanoff. Bushmanoff, 432 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: he's a geophysicist. He was at Vostok where it gets 433 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: one twenty below. He was there for two years. He said, 434 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: I'm talking about belling shows. And though he said that 435 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 1: the thirteen people stationed there drank more than two d 436 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: bottles of vodka in just six months. Why they live 437 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: in a resort, so you know, they're just like a 438 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: bundled up laying up, came down. That's right, Like, hey, girls, 439 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 1: these are standard bottles like fifth who wants cosmos? They're 440 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: all drinking cosins. What if they were drinking cocktails like 441 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: they are like super like fancy cocktails. They're not drinking 442 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: like out of the ball. I mean, they have plenty 443 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: of ice. They just needed blender. So when they ran 444 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,400 Speaker 1: low though, because obviously it's not there's a limited they 445 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: made moonshine. They made their own. They didn't have to 446 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: drive it around though, what what did they have to 447 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: make moonshine out of down there, just like old it's rotting. 448 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: Check this out right? Okay, So this is and this 449 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: is sanctioned by the station chief. He's like, well, yeah, 450 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: we're out of vodka. What am I going to drink 451 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: it to it? They made it from yeast sugar and 452 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 1: drum roll peas peas like garden peas. Wow, I mean, 453 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure there's sugar in it. So peas are actually 454 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: a pretty sweet I will tell you. It could be worse. 455 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: They could have been making like seagull wine, penguin wine 456 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: bottle ferment the dead bird Inuit saying, or they stick 457 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: a seagull in a bottle and then they let it, 458 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: you said, penguin old jug and they shove a dearly 459 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: departed penguin in there like r I. P So. At 460 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: the Vostok base, the Super Cold One, it's estimated that 461 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: at least a third of the team would take part 462 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 1: in week long binges. Week long. Yeah, they went on 463 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,479 Speaker 1: for seven and of course then there are a lot 464 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: of fights. And I'm assuming this is during the dark 465 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: time of the year, So they're bumbling around in the dark, 466 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: drunk like they have like electricity. Yeah, I'm sorry, you 467 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: have candles and they're knocking over so but we can 468 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: assume that the rangers were similar at belling showers and 469 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: it's the resort. No, okay, you said the earlier that 470 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: you know that there's crime, and I know we're getting 471 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: to the crime. But are they also doing the other 472 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: human behavior of sex, because I imagine that there's some 473 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: issues of jealousy and stuff. If they're all drunk in life, 474 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. They don't want to 475 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: talk a little component to this as well. Probably here's 476 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: the thing that's the drinking isn't just at Russian stations. 477 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 1: The Americans bring it nice. They have they have actual 478 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: bars and stuff on their basis. The American basis they 479 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: have like I don't know, gift shops like the military, 480 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: leftist work, you know, ferros, wheels, hat. But at the 481 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: Americans they had fights and they also had a lot 482 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: of public nudity. So the Americans brought this. They're just 483 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: stripping down. Scientists gone wild, and at American stations there's 484 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: like a super clear division between scientists and maintenance personnel, know, 485 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: the American distinctions. I love it right and then and 486 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: there it's almost always drunken scientists mixing it up. Not 487 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: the technicians lose their job, right, So keep in mind 488 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: that while these workers and scientists at the station are 489 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: subjected to you know, the harsh conditions, the stressful living 490 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: blah blah blah at the Russian stations, they aren't really 491 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: vetted or trained for this. They didn't people equally, It's 492 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: not like they're cosmonauts. They a lot of the non 493 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: scientists wind up there after they answer an ad in 494 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: the paper, like they think maybe I'm gonna go be 495 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 1: a secretary and they end up Antarctic. They're looking on Craigslist. 496 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: They're like, I need a job. What are some gigs 497 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: I don't know? Come down here and welds something in 498 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: the sub zeros um If they're qualified for the gig, 499 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: if there are forklifts certified um. They are sent to 500 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: Antarctica and they get monitored by the station chief for 501 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: a couple of months, and unless they have a super 502 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: severe problem, they stay. What do they that's where they work. 503 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: That's so Belogazov and Savitsky they had been stationed on 504 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: and off for at least four years at this point. 505 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,719 Speaker 1: Family back there missing. They have lives that they're like, 506 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: you know, suffering. They have the universal family of Earth. 507 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm saying. Well, they're not getting 508 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: along right Sevitsky, he keeps checking books out of the 509 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: library to pass the time, as you do. Right. Every 510 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: time he'd get a book out, he'd get a little 511 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: bit into it, and then belogsof would stroll up and 512 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: spoil the ending of the book. No wait, now I 513 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: gotta go back and get and asked, because we went 514 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: back back and forth on first names last year. Blogs 515 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: off is off, Sarah, yeah, Oleg is like, oh, I'm 516 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: not nice, and Surgey is like so yeah. So so 517 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: Sergey is the one checking the books out, okay, and 518 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: he and belog is off like, oh I'm not nice. 519 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: He comes up, he's like, you know, gives a spoiler 520 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: for the book ending. Yeah, and this is this whole 521 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: spoiler party thing. They only have two things to do, 522 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: read and get drunk. So so he imagined that, like 523 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: you're you're reading this book, you just art it and 524 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: then you know, Captain Chuckles comes up. It's like he 525 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: it's driving Sevitsky nuts. Well, I have to actually give 526 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: it to Oleg for a second. On this which is 527 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: that he didn't wait till like the last seven pages 528 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: and then going, oh hey, he may have expressed so 529 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: you've got into the part where they all put their 530 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: hands on the spoiler. I don't know, I don't know 531 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: how far I think that he varied. I think sometimes 532 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: he waited until he got like a chapter in and 533 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: was not worth it. And look, you think, like, this 534 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: is your entertainment. You have this delicious rest of the 535 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: book waiting for you, and then he just you know, 536 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: ruins it. So kind of like licking his cupcake. Yeah, 537 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: well he's I want to lick your cupcake. Pal Um. 538 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: He just sneezes on everything, spoiling the plots and novels 539 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 1: totally out of line. But the last straw was when 540 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: blogs off. Oh um, he's a total bully. By the way, 541 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: he starts making fun of Sevinsky and he tells them 542 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: to dance on the tables for money in the station 543 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: dining room. I'm assuming he has drunk at think everyone's drunk, 544 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: and all the time he's like, you without a beard, 545 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 1: dance on the tap, dance for me. And then this 546 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: is like dancing bear style, dancing monkey style, like a 547 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: stripper style, what do we dance on a stripper bear? 548 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: Dancing bear? You like, it's like the grateful dead bears, 549 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: but taking off their fur, shaving, shaving themselves. I don't 550 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: know why. I was thinking a bar and pasties in 551 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: a bikini. That's how bears stripped. They shave themselves. Hello, 552 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 1: haven't you remember a bear? I don't like yours. You 553 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: better get out in the world. Um. Sevinsky snaps, as 554 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: would I. Right, he goes knives out literally and he 555 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: stabs Belog's off with a kitchen knife pick in the hand. Yeah, 556 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: he went. He went to get him right in the 557 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 1: penguins shi. Now he got him right in the chest. 558 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: He stabbed him in the chest. So it's like, get 559 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: on the table and dance and throw some rubles at him, 560 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: and he's like, I can't take it anyone to come 561 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: at him from the table like top rope with a 562 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: knife in his I like to imagine he I don't 563 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: think he ever got up on the table. Let's pretend 564 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: he did. He was on the table and he was 565 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,479 Speaker 1: just out of like, you know, instant reaction. Okay, fine, 566 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,360 Speaker 1: he gets up to dance. What am I doing? I's 567 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 1: where did I go wrong? And then he just stay 568 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: lock eyes and so boy um chaos breaks out of madness, bedlam. 569 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: Man's got a knife in his chest. Let's freeze the 570 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: scene and when we come back, I'll let you know 571 00:34:46,160 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: what happened. But you know what, no spoilers. Hey, oh 572 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: hey Elizabeth, what's up girl? Um, crime in Antarctica? Right, 573 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,800 Speaker 1: knife in the chick. We finally got to the crime. 574 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:25,720 Speaker 1: How's my man's at? Flogosof Oh no, he's bleeding, stabbed 575 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 1: in the chest with a kitchen knife. It's not beat juice, 576 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: it's blood. He's probably screaming. He probably isn't some people 577 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,440 Speaker 1: like should be fermentous. Yeah, they're just shoving him in 578 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:39,279 Speaker 1: a giant barrel, like no, no, no, he's like shoto, 579 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: that's what's this in Russian? Oh? Look at you? You 580 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,439 Speaker 1: know what I know in Russian? Huh because it means 581 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: well I'm not dead. That's what he yelled. That's what 582 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 1: he yelled. Do you know I took Russian when I 583 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 1: was in high school at UC Berkeley because they did 584 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: like this bat single thing out to all the local 585 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 1: high school nerds, like calling all nerds, are you you? 586 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: You can take a class in the summertime at cal 587 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: and it'll look good on your trail more school. I'm 588 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: there right. There's the two wolves inside of me though that. 589 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: The one was like, this is going to look good 590 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,960 Speaker 1: at my transcripts, and the other was like, what is 591 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 1: the most ridiculous thing I can do with this? So 592 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 1: I looked at all the classes they had available. There 593 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: are reasonable things that I would use, and then I 594 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: was like, what's the weirdest one? Russian? I'll take that. 595 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: They said, send us your finest nerds and I showed 596 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,920 Speaker 1: up and I was like, what's up wearing a pool 597 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:42,160 Speaker 1: of fur hat Um? Anyway, there you go? Um. I 598 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: ask you how are you? And I said, was there? Hey, 599 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: at least I'm not dead Antarctica? Blog us off? Where 600 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,320 Speaker 1: are we? So? Medics arrive? Do you do? It's a 601 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: penguin with the Simon on his Yeah. Penguin and a 602 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: priest walk into a bar um. They decide that he 603 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: needs to be airlifted to a military hospital in Chile. 604 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: He's got a knife in his chest. The penguins are like, 605 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,760 Speaker 1: there's only so much we can do. Have these flippers. 606 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,879 Speaker 1: They're just slapping him with the flippers. Um. It turns out. 607 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: He has damaged to his heart from the attack from 608 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 1: the knife in his chest, but you know, the wound's 609 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,880 Speaker 1: not life threatening, so it just gave a little scrapings, 610 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:31,640 Speaker 1: cleaned off some of the plaque all but it still 611 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,279 Speaker 1: is an intensive care. Okay, I'm glad they have that. 612 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:39,640 Speaker 1: It's intense care. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Savitsky, he 613 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 1: surrenders to the station manager. No fights, no dramatics, just 614 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: turns himself in. They're like, come on, man, do you 615 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: do this? Yep, he's like finally reading the end of 616 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 1: the book. How about that ending surprised and drinking some 617 00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:00,040 Speaker 1: pe wine pe a wine. Um. So they have a 618 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: limited number of flights out, so they had to wait 619 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 1: to airlift him. They don't have a jail there. So 620 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,440 Speaker 1: what they do, um, let's see, they don't have a 621 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,880 Speaker 1: jail there. They have to wait. They put him outside, 622 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: just let him freeze up to his neck. Close. They 623 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: put him in the church. They're like this locks and 624 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,080 Speaker 1: they put put in the nicest place. They have wood 625 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: and candles and insects. Getting rewarded for stabbing this garden. 626 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 1: Nobody like, so they lock him in the church. Now, 627 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 1: per the Antarctic Treaty of nineteen Yes, I remember the negotiations. 628 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 1: It we worked so hard on that god hours and hours, 629 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: like I don't know, ten twenty minutes. It was terrible. 630 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,400 Speaker 1: If a person commits a crime in Antarctica, they're subjected 631 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: to the laws of their home country. So it's like 632 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: a free zone. It's like you're everywhere is an embassy. Yeah. Um, Savitsky, 633 00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,799 Speaker 1: he spends ten days in the clink, also known as 634 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 1: the church, and he's according to Russian law, in the 635 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: ways of our people, we lock you into church. Then 636 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,359 Speaker 1: he's flown back to St. Petersburg by way of Chile, 637 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: then Uruguay, then the Netherlands and then Mother Russia. So 638 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: he had to hop all over. He's got a knife 639 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,800 Speaker 1: in his chest. No, this is Savitsky, all right, Okay, 640 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,440 Speaker 1: sent him to the medical hospital. So yeah, the guy, 641 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,960 Speaker 1: he's like, I gotta go face justice, and they're bouncing 642 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 1: him through every country that they can. On the brow 643 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,680 Speaker 1: nobody has so they had to wait that long for 644 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 1: the next possible flight. Ten days. Um, he gets charged 645 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,160 Speaker 1: with attempted murder and he's put under house arrest. Now 646 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,120 Speaker 1: we're going to jump forward in time. Are you ready 647 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,279 Speaker 1: for this, Yes, I'm ready, Okay, February nineteen, you're still 648 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 1: wearing your I got the hat, never take it off. 649 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,920 Speaker 1: It was an innocent time. February nineteen. We didn't know, 650 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,240 Speaker 1: we didn't know. It was ahead. Sevitzky's trial is about 651 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:06,319 Speaker 1: to begin. So the two men Belugasov, is that how 652 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:13,320 Speaker 1: you say his name? Leg Yeah, and Sevitsky. They're sitting 653 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,800 Speaker 1: next to each other on a bench in the courtroom, 654 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: like we're gonna put the guys damned you right next 655 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: to you and then work it out. We're gonna get 656 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:27,520 Speaker 1: some justice. And they're chatting about quote abstract topics like what, well, 657 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: the Russian news agency RAPSI are a p s I. 658 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: It's Russian legal information agency. They said, they're the ones 659 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: who said that they were chatting about quote unquote abstract topics. 660 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,880 Speaker 1: I am dying to know what these abstract topics were, Like, 661 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,280 Speaker 1: which is more important string theory or like a modified 662 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,200 Speaker 1: gravitational theory? Yeah, exactly? Or was the nine O two 663 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 1: one oh reboot really worth it? Yes, jetsons a better 664 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: represents intation of modern living in the sixties. Here's the thing, though, 665 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:07,160 Speaker 1: I don't ever watch TV ever. I never watched TV, 666 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,719 Speaker 1: but let me tell you about the nine o two 667 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,839 Speaker 1: and me. I've never watched TV day in my life, 668 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:18,239 Speaker 1: but I've got some I've got some opinions. So let's 669 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 1: say strength theory. The judge he calls or she or 670 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:28,360 Speaker 1: they call the court into session, and Belogazov's attorney stands 671 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,440 Speaker 1: and files the motion. So we have the victim, the victim, 672 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: it's going to file emotion. That's weird, are they? You know, 673 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,319 Speaker 1: why would you do that? That's that's out of order. 674 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,400 Speaker 1: This whole court's out of order. It was a motion 675 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:48,760 Speaker 1: to dismiss. So he's like, just forget about this, he said. 676 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,120 Speaker 1: Alex says that he made peace with Savitsky and that 677 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,319 Speaker 1: there's no need to punish him any further. So he's like, look, 678 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,719 Speaker 1: it was my fault. Like, let me just take this 679 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,440 Speaker 1: one on the chest. Oh my, that was beautiful. The 680 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 1: rainbow disappeared in this guy. That was beautiful. Um. But 681 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,319 Speaker 1: in other statements to the press, right, Savitsky pretty much 682 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:14,320 Speaker 1: lays out, I'm guilty and I was irresponsible and I 683 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,600 Speaker 1: shouldn't have done it. So you know, maybe blogos Off 684 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,960 Speaker 1: was like, realize what he was. I don't want to 685 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,759 Speaker 1: victim blame. I don't. I'm going to victim blame brought 686 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,239 Speaker 1: it on himself. So the judge he makes sure that all, 687 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: you know, harm has been remedied. Is this a sufficient 688 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:41,400 Speaker 1: you know resolution for everyone? Yeah? Charges dropped, That's it 689 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,759 Speaker 1: the end. So if I go to Russia and I 690 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,719 Speaker 1: stabbed somebody in the chest and I convinced him, look 691 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,800 Speaker 1: this was your fault, and they're like, you know what, 692 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,240 Speaker 1: You're right, kind of, I can go before a judge 693 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,719 Speaker 1: and be like, look, ask him if it's okay that 694 00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 1: I stabbed him. Guys like is okay? And I'm like, 695 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,920 Speaker 1: the justice there is. It's interesting. I can see why 696 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 1: so many people fall out a window. That's the favorite method. 697 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,719 Speaker 1: Um what is your ridiculous takeaway here, Zarin? Other than 698 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:15,320 Speaker 1: the Russian Russian criminal justice system? Um, By ridiculous takeaway 699 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,120 Speaker 1: is that for once in my life, I am right 700 00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:23,400 Speaker 1: based on purely just a speculative stereotype. But I shouldn't 701 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,160 Speaker 1: be anywhere where it's freezing, because people don't act right 702 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,520 Speaker 1: where it's cold. You would go on a stabbing spreed. 703 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,080 Speaker 1: That's a ridiculous takeaway, right, I mean, that is ridiculous 704 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 1: and I'm taking away that message keep you out of 705 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:39,279 Speaker 1: anti ticket or anywhere like where it goes below. Yeah, 706 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,520 Speaker 1: I think sixty, We can go sixty. We can get 707 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,440 Speaker 1: kind of close to sixty because you know, the bay 708 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,399 Speaker 1: are occasionally dips. It does, and I never lose my head. 709 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 1: Then it's just you know, yeah, true. So what's your 710 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,880 Speaker 1: ridiculous takeaway? Miss? Well? You know, I think that we 711 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,000 Speaker 1: did learn a little about isolation when we were all 712 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,439 Speaker 1: in COVID lockdown. You know, obviously not to a little 713 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,920 Speaker 1: bit of isolation and a lot about us. Yeah, sometimes 714 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,000 Speaker 1: a little too much. Like with the COVID the isolation 715 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 1: was totally necessary, but it doesn't mean that it was 716 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,400 Speaker 1: or is. You know, people are still doing it a cakewalk. Um. 717 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,160 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people, older folks or I 718 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,160 Speaker 1: have friends who are immunocompromised. They have to isolate in 719 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,480 Speaker 1: order to stay alive. But it is doing a number 720 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,839 Speaker 1: on them emotionally and psychologically. Are they drinking reading all 721 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,800 Speaker 1: the time? Yeah, basically it's just a loan um and 722 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,279 Speaker 1: so like outside of COVID and whatever, the truth is 723 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,600 Speaker 1: that we're social creatures, but we also need variety, so 724 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,759 Speaker 1: we need to mix up the people that we do 725 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,600 Speaker 1: get to see. I think that's one of the things. 726 00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,719 Speaker 1: Like if you're stuck in a house and you only 727 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,640 Speaker 1: see one person, that drives you a little nuts. Um. 728 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,320 Speaker 1: And so if you're fourteen people in a building and 729 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:59,600 Speaker 1: you don't like all of them, right, so none of 730 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,400 Speaker 1: them are your family or your friends. You have to 731 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: have like a mix up of activities. You know, it's 732 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,680 Speaker 1: most people. They mean they're outliers, but most people don't 733 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,600 Speaker 1: like to do the exact same thing every single day. 734 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,719 Speaker 1: It gets lonely, right. Add alcohol into the mix. I 735 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,279 Speaker 1: think that's the big one. We should turn to. The 736 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,400 Speaker 1: seven day long binges. I think that that's maybe something 737 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,400 Speaker 1: to do with the serotonin. Also the whole cycles of 738 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:27,440 Speaker 1: like I'm depressed again, just a seven day hangover, bro well, 739 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,719 Speaker 1: and no one's looking at the unhealthy relationship with alcohol 740 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,560 Speaker 1: going on when the station chief is like, yeah, whatever, 741 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,520 Speaker 1: to throw the yeast and the sugar pease, okay, yeah, 742 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,800 Speaker 1: make it. I'm so thirsty. I have some sweaty socks 743 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,040 Speaker 1: we can use to bring those up. I'm with the Romans. 744 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,400 Speaker 1: You don't let a group of men just sit around 745 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,360 Speaker 1: and do nothing. You get them building a bridge you 746 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,400 Speaker 1: get them build. I'm telling you, you got like more 747 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,760 Speaker 1: than six men standing around. Get them building something. Otherwise 748 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,279 Speaker 1: they're going to make a problem for you to fix 749 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,120 Speaker 1: their welding they're rewiring. I don't know, I don't I 750 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,320 Speaker 1: don't believe it. I think they're doing the right hanguin. 751 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,960 Speaker 1: It seems like it's basically a lot of science stations, right, 752 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,480 Speaker 1: so they're observing stuff. They're not having to actively do 753 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,000 Speaker 1: as much because oftentimes when I'm imagining these are not 754 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,919 Speaker 1: where they're having to Like, I'm sure they're doing ice 755 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,800 Speaker 1: core drilling and stuff. They're doing something real hands on science. 756 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that they're just out there doing the 757 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,239 Speaker 1: butterfly freeze if we leave it outside. I recognize they're 758 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,960 Speaker 1: doing hardcore, valid, valuable science, climate science, a lot of 759 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,799 Speaker 1: great stuff. But at the same time, I'm still thinking 760 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,799 Speaker 1: for some of these people, if they have enough time 761 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,680 Speaker 1: to have a week long like, right, we could give 762 00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,600 Speaker 1: them another hobby that's constructive for everybody. Yeah, I know 763 00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 1: if I did a week long vodka binge, I'd probably 764 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:39,160 Speaker 1: lose my job. I wouldn't be doing anything, would probably 765 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,279 Speaker 1: lose your job yourself. I don't want to I don't. 766 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to deal in absolute. I mean sometimes 767 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:52,000 Speaker 1: I can pull a lot of things. Drunk at work 768 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:57,200 Speaker 1: day four, you're like still got I can see it 769 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:04,719 Speaker 1: yeah myself at Yeah, you're happy drunk. So I don't 770 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:11,800 Speaker 1: drink um like. I keep going back to these novels 771 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:17,520 Speaker 1: that Savitsky is reading. There his lifeline community, and then 772 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,440 Speaker 1: you got Belogozof. He's getting his jolly's out stepping all 773 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:25,279 Speaker 1: over that, right. So here's my thing. That's where his 774 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,399 Speaker 1: joy comes from, Elizabeth, if you've had about joy, that's 775 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,800 Speaker 1: his only way of experiencing sunshine, Sarah. Hurt people, hurt people, 776 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:41,480 Speaker 1: This is true. Are you realize the people who are 777 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,000 Speaker 1: behave like they're always hurting. They're the last to admit 778 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:50,520 Speaker 1: that they themselves. So I'm trying to be seriously because 779 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,440 Speaker 1: I have not been successful up until this point. Um. 780 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,319 Speaker 1: But you take all these ingredients, put him in a pot, 781 00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:58,240 Speaker 1: you mix them up, you put them out in the snow. 782 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:03,200 Speaker 1: Super ridiculous crime comes out in ridiculous circumstances. But you 783 00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,280 Speaker 1: can put them in eighty degree temperature and good gumbo, 784 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:12,040 Speaker 1: ridiculously happy ending gumbo, happy ending, slimy bit happy. Um, 785 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:16,239 Speaker 1: that's it. You can find us online. Everybody head over 786 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,120 Speaker 1: to Ridiculous Crime on Instagram because that's where we put 787 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,239 Speaker 1: all the visual supplements for these stories. Those are in 788 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,040 Speaker 1: the posts in the Instagram stories. We make funnies about 789 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,239 Speaker 1: side jokes and the whatnots over on Twitter, which is 790 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,400 Speaker 1: also at Ridiculous Crime. We've got great conversations going picking 791 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,840 Speaker 1: the best director for each episode. We have weekend riddles 792 00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,319 Speaker 1: every now and then too. If you have a tip 793 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,239 Speaker 1: about a ridiculous crime that you want to hear about, 794 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,520 Speaker 1: or if you want to confess to something, uh, email 795 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,719 Speaker 1: as Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com. You want to 796 00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,120 Speaker 1: just share a really bad selfie, we love anything you know. 797 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:57,320 Speaker 1: Don't do that. I'm scared. That's it. Thank you, No, 798 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:07,160 Speaker 1: thank you. Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and 799 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,560 Speaker 1: Zara Burnett, produced and edited by senior spoil ologist Dave Kustin, 800 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,320 Speaker 1: researches by Penguin apologist Marissa Brown. The theme song is 801 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,760 Speaker 1: by Metallica. 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