Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Ar
Speaker 1: What's up, Elizabeth Dutton? Nothing much, just chilling out. You
Speaker 1: know it's ridiculous. Oh man, I do. I came across
Speaker 1: something that I wanted to tell you about this. Have
Speaker 1: you ever heard of tyromancy or a tyromancer? No, so,
Speaker 1: a tyromancer is not somebody who romances people from Thailand.
Speaker 1: A tyro ancer is somebody who divines the future by
Speaker 1: staring at cheese. I swear this is a real thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't make this up. This isn't like me up,
Speaker 1: come up with the career you want. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is the job I see for me. No, Honestly,
Speaker 1: in the Middle Ages, people would gaze at their cheese
Speaker 1: and they would try to spy the future in the
Speaker 1: cheddar like it was a crystal ball, like I saw
Speaker 1: to god. They would do this. But now you may
Speaker 1: be imagining, like, well, zeron, what do you mean they
Speaker 1: would stare at their cheese like just on their plate. No,
Speaker 1: they would go to like specialists, or they themselves would
Speaker 1: do little ritualistic things like oh, I'm going to write
Speaker 1: the names of all my bows on some cheese, and
Speaker 1: whichever piece molds first is the one I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be with interesting middle aged maidens would do. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's letting the elements present themselves as And alsolet me
Speaker 1: think about it. If you're going to be like picking
Speaker 1: a man, what better way than where growth occurs long
Speaker 1: as the mold. Like, it's like, this is going to
Speaker 1: be the con future that I expect now. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: thought using a growth of mold defined a husband was
Speaker 1: just brilliant. And that's how I want to be a
Speaker 1: tyrom aanswer so I can help the love Lauren too, Well,
Speaker 1: go get yourself a brick of cheese. It's one of
Speaker 1: the cheapest futures I can imagine for yourselves. Really, is
Speaker 1: that is ridiculous? Well done? You know what else is ridiculous? No,
Speaker 1: I don't getting harassed by a coworker at fifty below zero.
Speaker 1: Oh god, this is ridiculous. Crime A podcast about absurd
Speaker 1: and outrageous capers, heists, cons it's always murder free and
Speaker 1: one ridiculous. Oh you damn right, Saren, do you like
Speaker 1: cold weather? That's like asking a Floridian if they like
Speaker 1: rational thoughts. No, obviously you don't. I live in California
Speaker 1: in Oakland I hate cold weather. The only way I
Speaker 1: want to be cold is if I'm dipped in the
Speaker 1: Pacific and I'm about to be standing on a board.
Speaker 1: That's the way I want to be cold. Other than that,
Speaker 1: the payoff is never worth it. Now I don't I
Speaker 1: don't really mind the cold, but like for extended periods
Speaker 1: of time, it gets to me like, what do you mean,
Speaker 1: like if you're there for like months, Well, and it's
Speaker 1: more like I don't. I don't like cold and damp.
Speaker 1: I've never lived anywhere where it's really really cold. You
Speaker 1: lived in Scotland, Yeah it was cold and damp. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like below zero, just the freezing versus cold. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just hovered around the freezing point but was damp
Speaker 1: and so you just felt it like in your bones.
Speaker 1: I don't have those distinctions of cold for me. Starts
Speaker 1: at and everything below that is freezing. Well, when I
Speaker 1: was a college English instructor, I liked teaching Jack London's
Speaker 1: to build a fire. Oh yeah, I would do that
Speaker 1: when it was super hot outside, because you know, it
Speaker 1: makes you feel cold and volah blah blah cold it
Speaker 1: down and the summertime, I didn't want to teach it
Speaker 1: in the spring semester that started in January, because then,
Speaker 1: you know it's cold outside. I guess it would get
Speaker 1: somewhat cold in the south, and definitely at least when
Speaker 1: I was a boy. Relative for me, you know, people
Speaker 1: up in like Minnesota are going to just scoff. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was cold under exactly exactly, but I
Speaker 1: would I would teach to build a fire, and the
Speaker 1: descriptions in that are so vivid. I still remember the matches.
Speaker 1: It's a detailed account of what it's like to freeze
Speaker 1: to death in essence spoiler alert, and do it through frustration.
Speaker 1: It's like the slowest agonizing freeze to death. I the
Speaker 1: students weren't reading the story, but I was. I just
Speaker 1: signed it. You wouldn't read it, Oh yeah, every semester,
Speaker 1: everything I assigned i'd read because they weren't going to
Speaker 1: someone's going to read this. Um. But so I would
Speaker 1: think a lot about people going up to the Yukon
Speaker 1: at the time, and um, you know, putting aside all
Speaker 1: of their discomforts and trekking up there, think in mind
Speaker 1: too that uh, when people were going up to the
Speaker 1: Yukon in the time of Jack London, they didn't have
Speaker 1: gortex like leather and wool wolves. There's not like an
Speaker 1: old dog and so. But but yet people will still
Speaker 1: do it. They have this drive. I'm in awe of
Speaker 1: that because I like to stay comfortable. I'm built for comfort,
Speaker 1: not for speed. That's just not me. People who go
Speaker 1: and like trek across the desert or zaren people who
Speaker 1: go to Antarctica. No, I got to the subject. But
Speaker 1: those people are generally scientists, so they have that extra things.
Speaker 1: It's not just like people who go to like the Sahara,
Speaker 1: but they're not always scientists. That's true. Yeah, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this story today about Antarctica because we're at the
Speaker 1: tail end of a pretty severe heat wave here in Oakland, California.
Speaker 1: Your old tricks totally. I need to get into a
Speaker 1: mentally chill place. So I started looking around, like what's
Speaker 1: cold Altarctica? I typed into Google help what is cold melting?
Speaker 1: To show you a picture of iced tea, and then
Speaker 1: Antarctica iced tea exactly not to drink. So what's cooler
Speaker 1: than cold? I want to talk to you about Antarctica.
Speaker 1: Come for the cool weather, stay for the ridiculousness. Into
Speaker 1: this that's the new Antarctica travel like slogan for for
Speaker 1: is Antarctica. I know a lot of people dream about
Speaker 1: visiting Antarctica. I know people who have done it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're all stoked on it and they want to
Speaker 1: tell you all about it. But isn't it like I know,
Speaker 1: somebody went there and they did it because they could
Speaker 1: run a marathon on all seven continents. It seems like
Speaker 1: people always going there to get the seven Oh it's
Speaker 1: totally the seventh continent. Yeah. Um. There are people though
Speaker 1: that actually work there, and unless that's your life stream,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a bummer job. And these like
Speaker 1: penguin husbands, like the people who like shepherd penguins. No,
Speaker 1: there are research stations, and there are right of course
Speaker 1: Antarctica research stations. I'm like research and penguins. What's the
Speaker 1: what's it? The most bummer job you've ever had? Oh? God,
Speaker 1: I've had some bummer jobs, so give me a second.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know this one for sure. When I
Speaker 1: was Third Team, I worked in an old folks home
Speaker 1: as a basically a waiter bus boy. And it was
Speaker 1: not a bummer because it's like, oh I was a
Speaker 1: waiter or was a bus boy, I didn't mind that stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't mind dishes, I don't mind hard work. None
Speaker 1: of that bothered me. It was the fact that I
Speaker 1: got really close to all the people at this old
Speaker 1: folks home and then I would go to my next
Speaker 1: shift and one of them would be dead and oh, man,
Speaker 1: Steve died really last week and I'm like thirteen, So like,
Speaker 1: I'm not used to death. I'm not. And I'm really
Speaker 1: like really charmed by these people because they're at the
Speaker 1: end of their life and so they're really honest with
Speaker 1: me and they want to impart messages. And also a
Speaker 1: bunch of them, like one of them was this old
Speaker 1: radio show personality, and so like I loved old radio shows.
Speaker 1: I'm asking them about people. I'm like, oh, what is
Speaker 1: so and so, Like did you ever work with so
Speaker 1: and so? And they're like into it and they know
Speaker 1: these people, so we're like bonded and I'm like this
Speaker 1: is great. And then i go back a week later
Speaker 1: and they're dead and I'm like come home crying. My
Speaker 1: Mom's like, you know what, you might need to find
Speaker 1: a new job. And so then I became like a
Speaker 1: paper boy and that was much better for me. This
Speaker 1: is the most bummer job I've ever imagined. My bummer
Speaker 1: job pales in comparison. I had to work, it had to.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like forced on me. I chose to work
Speaker 1: one summer in college at UM, the like Ace hard
Speaker 1: Our Home store. Oh good job. And yeah, I had
Speaker 1: a couple of jobs that summer, just trying to like
Speaker 1: stay alive and well, like you know, you just get
Speaker 1: cobbled together a bunch of part time jobs. It was
Speaker 1: life tough on the streets for you back then. Do
Speaker 1: you need Yes, it was so hard trying to make
Speaker 1: your eight I was, and uh so. The Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: Home Store UM was run by this manager guy who
Speaker 1: was really into renfairs and he wore really tight black
Speaker 1: jeans and cowboy boots and had feathered red hair. And
Speaker 1: he would we had to talk to him as his
Speaker 1: ren fair renaissance fair persona get out at work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was like he brought When you call him, like
Speaker 1: you know, Melvin or whatever, he was like sur feather Bottom,
Speaker 1: like please no call me the end. So we would say,
Speaker 1: sir feather Bottom, I've got a load that came in.
Speaker 1: We had shipe like tag all these for prices like
Speaker 1: you know, carry on, like you know, I'd be there
Speaker 1: like tagging, can I sally forth to take my break,
Speaker 1: Sir feather Bottom, maybe like tagging the prices on things,
Speaker 1: and he'd walk by, Yes, well, carry on and like
Speaker 1: tut tut and and it was just it was horrible.
Speaker 1: It was that sounds like ye old bummer. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I had I had like really bright pink hair back then,
Speaker 1: and I got a lot of abuse from customers about it.
Speaker 1: When lady came in and told me I look trashy. Trashy, yeah,
Speaker 1: with pink hair, right, I wouldn't expect that, would expect
Speaker 1: a lot of things that she could have insulted you with.
Speaker 1: The trashy was not what I expected. That's usually more
Speaker 1: like the rensed out blonde, like, oh you look trashy
Speaker 1: with like, you know, platinum hair, but like pink hair,
Speaker 1: it's more like you look fun. Well. I looked at
Speaker 1: her and I said, I'm rubber your glue, and then
Speaker 1: I cut her credit card in half. So that was
Speaker 1: my summer at ACE, only less than one summer. Back
Speaker 1: to antarct Um. There are scientists, obviously who dream of
Speaker 1: working and on Antarctica. And if we say on Antarctica,
Speaker 1: but we don't say like on Europe. Well, it's like
Speaker 1: the way we think like an island. Yes, so I
Speaker 1: think if we think of it as being like you're
Speaker 1: on the island becomes continental. You stop. So we'll say
Speaker 1: in Antarctica, let's you say like with Antarctica. They want
Speaker 1: to be one with Antarctica, and they think that they're
Speaker 1: totally prepared for these brutal conditions, the isolations, um, the
Speaker 1: isolations in the such various isolations one may experience. There
Speaker 1: are forty five active permanent research stations there and then
Speaker 1: another fifty seasonal basis. There's a lot of people. In
Speaker 1: the wintertime, it's a thousand, and it gets up. The
Speaker 1: population in Antarctica gets to around four thousand in the summertime. UM.
Speaker 1: And because there are humans on Antarctica, there's crime. The
Speaker 1: two do go together. That's why we're here. That's one
Speaker 1: hand washing the other than thieving from the other hand. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's been a murder, get out, but we're not talking
Speaker 1: about that today, dude. That's our vow our promise. A
Speaker 1: few cases of arson, probably just to stay warm. A
Speaker 1: mysterious death that seemed a little fishy, A melee involving
Speaker 1: some cooks that ended up with a hammer attack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then an axe fight over a chess match get
Speaker 1: out that resulted in chess being banned at Russian stations.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to interrupt you, but I was like,
Speaker 1: this has to be Russians. You said, ax and chess match.
Speaker 1: I'm betting on Russian scientists, right. So one of those
Speaker 1: Russian stations is Bellingshausen station. That doesn't sound very Russian,
Speaker 1: now it doesn't. Belling did they steal this one? They're like, hey, Germans,
Speaker 1: look over there. Basically, basically we got gems. I don't
Speaker 1: know why they sounds so German. It was named after
Speaker 1: the famous YouTuber Victor Bellingshausen. Of course, get old vic
Speaker 1: um and so at that that's the location of Antarctica's
Speaker 1: most ridiculous crime. So yeah, we're not even talking acts attack.
Speaker 1: This is even more we're not belling Shausen is one
Speaker 1: of the o G Soviet stations, founded in nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 1: They have a church there. They have a church, yeah,
Speaker 1: Trinity Church, Eastern Orthodox. Right, it's the only permanently staffed
Speaker 1: Eastern Orthodox Church staff. Yeah, two priests work there. They
Speaker 1: take turns. Okay, I get it. They need a priest,
Speaker 1: they need they need two priests. I need a young
Speaker 1: priest to do an exorcism, a vice priest. He's a
Speaker 1: runner up because the first runner up happened. We got up.
Speaker 1: Well they can't, you know, I don't know how many masses.
Speaker 1: The church is adorable, by the way, Yeah, I built it.
Speaker 1: It was preassembled in Siberia from cedar and larch. Did
Speaker 1: you google to this church? No? Maybe maybe I google
Speaker 1: tour everything. Uh So, anyway, it's not really that big,
Speaker 1: and it still has three small onion domes. So this
Speaker 1: little onion dome church. The icons inside are all hand painted,
Speaker 1: and the services are like straight up Eastern Orthodox each
Speaker 1: week frankincense pageantry. Whatnot? This and the vats um. You
Speaker 1: don't smell wood in antarctica. This is not a single
Speaker 1: just me personally. You don't smell wood? Seven? Are you
Speaker 1: hypnotizing me right now? Your sense of smell is gone? Um? Well, no,
Speaker 1: there are in the Antarctic, and go I don't smell
Speaker 1: trees like you have covid st um. Hello, ding dong,
Speaker 1: there are no trees in antarctica. Oh right, this isn't
Speaker 1: like one of those. I don't smell candles. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you go, I'm just trying to keep up, and
Speaker 1: I don't smell what it means do you? Saron? And
Speaker 1: you the universe personal you people don't smell wood and
Speaker 1: antarctic because there is none. And so this is like
Speaker 1: a little escape going into this church to huff the wood.
Speaker 1: Smell really for the wood, for the wood and some Jesus,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. Don't judge. They've had a
Speaker 1: wedding there. They had a log married chunk of frankincense.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. No, some dude from a Peruvian base.
Speaker 1: He married the daughter of a Russian engineer. The Russian
Speaker 1: engineer brought his daughter like a bring your daughter to
Speaker 1: work island. He lost a bet, I gotta take one
Speaker 1: of my kids. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened with that. Here's another fun fact. Are you familiar
Speaker 1: with the tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle. Oh yeah, crocodile Lyle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. He's a famous or was a famous tattoo artist.
Speaker 1: His tattoo was his signature tattoo. Total showman. You're telling
Speaker 1: me his signature tattoo was his own signature, so he
Speaker 1: set up a tattoo station in Antarctica. He tattooed his
Speaker 1: autograph on Dr Anna Felicity Freedman so that he could
Speaker 1: be the first person to tattoo on all seven continents.
Speaker 1: Like you're saying, this is the only reason to go yes,
Speaker 1: So he just did the old signature autograph tattoo, then
Speaker 1: got on a polar bear and bounced yep, like shot
Speaker 1: off and polar bears down there that's north right now.
Speaker 1: Penguin He had like a sled dog team of penguins.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so he going really waddling down the ice.
Speaker 1: You can walk faster than your sled. Sorry, I'm sorry anyway,
Speaker 1: Lyle Tuttle signature tattoo. So there you go. That's another
Speaker 1: fun fact. Here's one more. Okay, I don't care if
Speaker 1: I going to take it, but go on. Did you
Speaker 1: know that Metallica, I'm gonna need a warning. Metallica they
Speaker 1: gave tattoos. They played in what they played? What is
Speaker 1: this like an MTV stunt? Were like we put the world.
Speaker 1: So there were ten winners of a contest who arrived
Speaker 1: in Antarctica by a cruise ship and they got to
Speaker 1: go to a Metallica concert at the neighboring Argentine base.
Speaker 1: So did the Argentine base like hire Metallica in this contest,
Speaker 1: like hey, can we get involved with They were like
Speaker 1: ringing Metallica, like Metallica speaking like hey, okay, we're in Antarctica,
Speaker 1: we're freezing, we need hot metal and they're like, you're
Speaker 1: right on and then they lit them cells on fire.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry about that. Um okay, so they built
Speaker 1: they did this performance under a special dome. I am
Speaker 1: not making this up like a biodome. Yes, Like Lars
Speaker 1: is like I must have a biodome or I'm not
Speaker 1: going to play. You have to hear my drums. They
Speaker 1: all turned mossy. I feel like I'm making this up,
Speaker 1: but I know I'm feel like you're making it up
Speaker 1: to They were under a special dome. The audience listened
Speaker 1: to music on headphone. Why because they didn't want to
Speaker 1: disturb the local wildlife. The penguins were like not. The
Speaker 1: penguins were Megadeth fans and they didn't like matter hardcore.
Speaker 1: Dave with Daintreethers. Yeah, so so that's the thing. They
Speaker 1: were headphones. They haven't listened to Metallica since Cliff left. Yeah, left.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be I
Speaker 1: don't laugh. Um okay. So then but after the concert,
Speaker 1: the boys went next door to Billinghaus and to say hi,
Speaker 1: the boys in metallicata yeah Metallica, Hey it is And
Speaker 1: then they left. Um, so back to ridiculous. I swear
Speaker 1: to god, there's a crime in here, somewhere, these evolving
Speaker 1: kind of criminal. Let's take a break, we return. I
Speaker 1: promise you I'm going to start talking about crying sar oh, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Elizabeth's over thinking about Metallica? Well, I have
Speaker 1: crime for you. I promised it. Okay, good, thank god.
Speaker 1: First things first, I need you to close your eyes, yes, Zaren,
Speaker 1: I want you to picture it. M you're feeling a
Speaker 1: little queasy. Is Metallica standing over me? Well, you've been
Speaker 1: ship and you're all bundled up in your new parka
Speaker 1: that you just your mom got you, and you have
Speaker 1: that feeling of being a little overheated, but it's also
Speaker 1: super cold outside. You're getting queasy. It's like the whole
Speaker 1: no winning vibe. You can't trying to stay You looked
Speaker 1: at me, the winning vibe like we both know what
Speaker 1: this means. Like you know the no winning vibe. It's
Speaker 1: my my vibe, isn't the no winning vibe? So the
Speaker 1: ship pulls up at a dock and it's a barren landscape.
Speaker 1: There's some low buildings in the distance, or there are
Speaker 1: some low buildings in the distance. Um, you zaren in
Speaker 1: your new park of You've just arrived at Bellingshausen station.
Speaker 1: Heard good things Metallica playing wants you had like stitch
Speaker 1: cute little patches on your park of like I'm a
Speaker 1: world explorer. For me, I'm so metal. You've got a
Speaker 1: lile tuttle tattoo on you on my face. Um, it's October,
Speaker 1: but and that means it's getting close to summer, don't
Speaker 1: Southern Hemisphere back it up, Burnett. It is below freezing outside.
Speaker 1: It's somewhere between like let's say zero and thirteen degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so sub human temperatures. I'm with you. There
Speaker 1: are about thirt seen other people at the base with
Speaker 1: you in the summer. Now the population can swell to
Speaker 1: twenty five, but not yet. You're just almost there. Nope,
Speaker 1: You've got the old Baker's dozen with you. So you
Speaker 1: look around. You see the buildings are all single story.
Speaker 1: They look like temporary buildings. Oh my gosh, what's that
Speaker 1: over there? The cutest little church ever. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it in my pocket and run away. But it's dismal.
Speaker 1: Other So, the Russians, though, they refer to this station
Speaker 1: as a resort because the conditions are so much milder
Speaker 1: than say it like Vostok Station, which is further inland.
Speaker 1: The temperature there can drop to one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: below zero zeren, I love the Russian cent of humor
Speaker 1: is a resort well compared dang one of those like
Speaker 1: I'm not dead. So belling Shausen is on an island
Speaker 1: just off the coast of the continent. So that's like
Speaker 1: it's like a plumb assignment as far as Antarctic, I'm
Speaker 1: taking your words forward on all this, but like still barren,
Speaker 1: remember trees. I'm over here with some toothpicks in my pockets.
Speaker 1: You're in there with your head stuck in the door
Speaker 1: of the church, just huffing, huffing away. Now, there are
Speaker 1: two seasons summer and winter in Antarctica. There like awards season.
Speaker 1: In summer, there's what's it called with the when um
Speaker 1: their debuting shows, pilot season. Yeah, we're going to say like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: there's mud season, fire season, pilot season, and awards seasons
Speaker 1: from l A. No, when this summer? When this winter
Speaker 1: on off? So the permanent daylight in the summer, which
Speaker 1: would really mess with me. Permanent daylight right, like the
Speaker 1: sun doesn't go down all day all night, like three
Speaker 1: months of that couple of months whatever, Yeah, a long time.
Speaker 1: Four months. I don't know. I'm guessing darkness in the
Speaker 1: winter and then you just have to walk around with
Speaker 1: the lantern in the snow. Um, that's April through August
Speaker 1: is darkness in winter. So four months rayah, even though
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be this resort, it's still cold and
Speaker 1: dark and lonely. So you got your parka, you pull
Speaker 1: down the scarf that your mom knit for you to
Speaker 1: let your mouth and nose out into the icy air.
Speaker 1: I'm freezing because my mom can't nit. But go on,
Speaker 1: no offense. Um, you smell something. You smell vodka, you
Speaker 1: smell metallica, you smell ridiculousness. James Hedfield, Well, something's brewing here, attention.
Speaker 1: So it's October nine. I wasn't too long ago, right,
Speaker 1: A lot of bad business going on up here in
Speaker 1: the States. Like I just I looked at the major
Speaker 1: news stories for that month and it was a dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: October okay, yeah, one month of four mid terms it
Speaker 1: was horrific. Same with September and November that year. You know,
Speaker 1: let's just go back, like ten years has been horrific. Whatever.
Speaker 1: I hate to tell you about the other years before
Speaker 1: the last two thousand years have been a real doozy
Speaker 1: so at bells, real top years of hard, hard road
Speaker 1: belling shows in its summertime and work was in full swing. Um,
Speaker 1: fourteen people there, you're the number fourteen. Two of them.
Speaker 1: I'm out there my water wings in my banana hammocks.
Speaker 1: It's almost springtime. You're like, oh my god, he's got
Speaker 1: snow madness. Um, so the two there's two of the fourteen, though,
Speaker 1: they're going to bring the ridiculousness now to the fourteen.
Speaker 1: So we have two main ridiculous characters. The first oleg
Speaker 1: belogos Off, the logos Off. I know I am screwing
Speaker 1: up these names. I'm not have mercy, that is all
Speaker 1: I say. Belgos Off, fifty two year old electrician and welder.
Speaker 1: Electrician welder look fifty two like. But he might be.
Speaker 1: He might be like those those Facebook people who use
Speaker 1: really old photos of themselves in their profile, I mean,
Speaker 1: like author photos of most novels. Yeah, I know. To me,
Speaker 1: you know. But here's here's the other thing about Bologozov
Speaker 1: looks young pain in the pituit. Oh he looks young,
Speaker 1: feels old. Let me tell you this. His look is amazing.
Speaker 1: He has like a really long majestic beard, like a
Speaker 1: rescipue number amber colored, amber colored. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: because he druels cidered in his hes, got cider and
Speaker 1: tobacco stains running down his face. But he looks he
Speaker 1: looks every bit the Russian explorer. Okay, something out of
Speaker 1: a Russian fairy tale. So would his face be befittedly
Speaker 1: surrounded by fur giving fur hat. So we have that,
Speaker 1: We've got old leg right, and then we have Sergey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sergey Savitsky. Yeah, Okay, he's fifty five years old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Serge looks every inch of fifty written hard but away
Speaker 1: he's an electrical engine. Here. He's having a tough time
Speaker 1: with the whole Antarctica thing. The scene. The vibe. He's
Speaker 1: a slight fellow that has nothing to do with him
Speaker 1: having a hard time. He has short cropped hair, he
Speaker 1: has like a really sensible mustache, if there is such
Speaker 1: a thing, and his press photo is phenomenal. It's him
Speaker 1: facing three quarters to the camera with one eyebrow raised.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? It sounds like something I would
Speaker 1: make up. I am serious. Is the mustache? I got
Speaker 1: like a knowing smirk, just kind of cocking the corner.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put this
Speaker 1: on Instagram and then you'll know. So these two they've
Speaker 1: been beefing for months. There's a lot of tension going
Speaker 1: on here. What are they fighting about? Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: The two big activities at this station, reading drinking. Those
Speaker 1: are sometimes at the same time, sometimes not so. Because
Speaker 1: there's just one TV and it only has like a
Speaker 1: channel or two. They watching like South American TV. I
Speaker 1: guess Argentinean Penguin, Penguin, Wayne's World, Penguin Public Access. There's
Speaker 1: really spotty internet, so it's all dial up. Um, there's
Speaker 1: a gym, but it sounds like that really wasn't a
Speaker 1: popular option, Just like why what what do I have
Speaker 1: to live for? Um? The library then gets a lot
Speaker 1: of use and then livers were put to the test. Okay,
Speaker 1: you kind of caught me on that one drinking and
Speaker 1: um so another Russian at belling Shausen, Sergei Bushmanoff. Bushmanoff,
Speaker 1: he's a geophysicist. He was at Vostok where it gets
Speaker 1: one twenty below. He was there for two years. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about belling shows. And though he said that
Speaker 1: the thirteen people stationed there drank more than two d
Speaker 1: bottles of vodka in just six months. Why they live
Speaker 1: in a resort, so you know, they're just like a
Speaker 1: bundled up laying up, came down. That's right, Like, hey, girls,
Speaker 1: these are standard bottles like fifth who wants cosmos? They're
Speaker 1: all drinking cosins. What if they were drinking cocktails like
Speaker 1: they are like super like fancy cocktails. They're not drinking
Speaker 1: like out of the ball. I mean, they have plenty
Speaker 1: of ice. They just needed blender. So when they ran
Speaker 1: low though, because obviously it's not there's a limited they
Speaker 1: made moonshine. They made their own. They didn't have to
Speaker 1: drive it around though, what what did they have to
Speaker 1: make moonshine out of down there, just like old it's rotting.
Speaker 1: Check this out right? Okay, So this is and this
Speaker 1: is sanctioned by the station chief. He's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're out of vodka. What am I going to drink
Speaker 1: it to it? They made it from yeast sugar and
Speaker 1: drum roll peas peas like garden peas. Wow, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's sugar in it. So peas are actually
Speaker 1: a pretty sweet I will tell you. It could be worse.
Speaker 1: They could have been making like seagull wine, penguin wine
Speaker 1: bottle ferment the dead bird Inuit saying, or they stick
Speaker 1: a seagull in a bottle and then they let it,
Speaker 1: you said, penguin old jug and they shove a dearly
Speaker 1: departed penguin in there like r I. P So. At
Speaker 1: the Vostok base, the Super Cold One, it's estimated that
Speaker 1: at least a third of the team would take part
Speaker 1: in week long binges. Week long. Yeah, they went on
Speaker 1: for seven and of course then there are a lot
Speaker 1: of fights. And I'm assuming this is during the dark
Speaker 1: time of the year, So they're bumbling around in the dark,
Speaker 1: drunk like they have like electricity. Yeah, I'm sorry, you
Speaker 1: have candles and they're knocking over so but we can
Speaker 1: assume that the rangers were similar at belling showers and
Speaker 1: it's the resort. No, okay, you said the earlier that
Speaker 1: you know that there's crime, and I know we're getting
Speaker 1: to the crime. But are they also doing the other
Speaker 1: human behavior of sex, because I imagine that there's some
Speaker 1: issues of jealousy and stuff. If they're all drunk in life,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. They don't want to
Speaker 1: talk a little component to this as well. Probably here's
Speaker 1: the thing that's the drinking isn't just at Russian stations.
Speaker 1: The Americans bring it nice. They have they have actual
Speaker 1: bars and stuff on their basis. The American basis they
Speaker 1: have like I don't know, gift shops like the military,
Speaker 1: leftist work, you know, ferros, wheels, hat. But at the
Speaker 1: Americans they had fights and they also had a lot
Speaker 1: of public nudity. So the Americans brought this. They're just
Speaker 1: stripping down. Scientists gone wild, and at American stations there's
Speaker 1: like a super clear division between scientists and maintenance personnel, know,
Speaker 1: the American distinctions. I love it right and then and
Speaker 1: there it's almost always drunken scientists mixing it up. Not
Speaker 1: the technicians lose their job, right, So keep in mind
Speaker 1: that while these workers and scientists at the station are
Speaker 1: subjected to you know, the harsh conditions, the stressful living
Speaker 1: blah blah blah at the Russian stations, they aren't really
Speaker 1: vetted or trained for this. They didn't people equally, It's
Speaker 1: not like they're cosmonauts. They a lot of the non
Speaker 1: scientists wind up there after they answer an ad in
Speaker 1: the paper, like they think maybe I'm gonna go be
Speaker 1: a secretary and they end up Antarctic. They're looking on Craigslist.
Speaker 1: They're like, I need a job. What are some gigs
Speaker 1: I don't know? Come down here and welds something in
Speaker 1: the sub zeros um If they're qualified for the gig,
Speaker 1: if there are forklifts certified um. They are sent to
Speaker 1: Antarctica and they get monitored by the station chief for
Speaker 1: a couple of months, and unless they have a super
Speaker 1: severe problem, they stay. What do they that's where they work.
Speaker 1: That's so Belogazov and Savitsky they had been stationed on
Speaker 1: and off for at least four years at this point.
Speaker 1: Family back there missing. They have lives that they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, suffering. They have the universal family of Earth.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm saying. Well, they're not getting
Speaker 1: along right Sevitsky, he keeps checking books out of the
Speaker 1: library to pass the time, as you do. Right. Every
Speaker 1: time he'd get a book out, he'd get a little
Speaker 1: bit into it, and then belogsof would stroll up and
Speaker 1: spoil the ending of the book. No wait, now I
Speaker 1: gotta go back and get and asked, because we went
Speaker 1: back back and forth on first names last year. Blogs
Speaker 1: off is off, Sarah, yeah, Oleg is like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: not nice, and Surgey is like so yeah. So so
Speaker 1: Sergey is the one checking the books out, okay, and
Speaker 1: he and belog is off like, oh I'm not nice.
Speaker 1: He comes up, he's like, you know, gives a spoiler
Speaker 1: for the book ending. Yeah, and this is this whole
Speaker 1: spoiler party thing. They only have two things to do,
Speaker 1: read and get drunk. So so he imagined that, like
Speaker 1: you're you're reading this book, you just art it and
Speaker 1: then you know, Captain Chuckles comes up. It's like he
Speaker 1: it's driving Sevitsky nuts. Well, I have to actually give
Speaker 1: it to Oleg for a second. On this which is
Speaker 1: that he didn't wait till like the last seven pages
Speaker 1: and then going, oh hey, he may have expressed so
Speaker 1: you've got into the part where they all put their
Speaker 1: hands on the spoiler. I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how far I think that he varied. I think sometimes
Speaker 1: he waited until he got like a chapter in and
Speaker 1: was not worth it. And look, you think, like, this
Speaker 1: is your entertainment. You have this delicious rest of the
Speaker 1: book waiting for you, and then he just you know,
Speaker 1: ruins it. So kind of like licking his cupcake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's I want to lick your cupcake. Pal Um.
Speaker 1: He just sneezes on everything, spoiling the plots and novels
Speaker 1: totally out of line. But the last straw was when
Speaker 1: blogs off. Oh um, he's a total bully. By the way,
Speaker 1: he starts making fun of Sevinsky and he tells them
Speaker 1: to dance on the tables for money in the station
Speaker 1: dining room. I'm assuming he has drunk at think everyone's drunk,
Speaker 1: and all the time he's like, you without a beard,
Speaker 1: dance on the tap, dance for me. And then this
Speaker 1: is like dancing bear style, dancing monkey style, like a
Speaker 1: stripper style, what do we dance on a stripper bear?
Speaker 1: Dancing bear? You like, it's like the grateful dead bears,
Speaker 1: but taking off their fur, shaving, shaving themselves. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I was thinking a bar and pasties in
Speaker 1: a bikini. That's how bears stripped. They shave themselves. Hello,
Speaker 1: haven't you remember a bear? I don't like yours. You
Speaker 1: better get out in the world. Um. Sevinsky snaps, as
Speaker 1: would I. Right, he goes knives out literally and he
Speaker 1: stabs Belog's off with a kitchen knife pick in the hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went. He went to get him right in the
Speaker 1: penguins shi. Now he got him right in the chest.
Speaker 1: He stabbed him in the chest. So it's like, get
Speaker 1: on the table and dance and throw some rubles at him,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I can't take it anyone to come
Speaker 1: at him from the table like top rope with a
Speaker 1: knife in his I like to imagine he I don't
Speaker 1: think he ever got up on the table. Let's pretend
Speaker 1: he did. He was on the table and he was
Speaker 1: just out of like, you know, instant reaction. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: he gets up to dance. What am I doing? I's
Speaker 1: where did I go wrong? And then he just stay
Speaker 1: lock eyes and so boy um chaos breaks out of madness, bedlam.
Speaker 1: Man's got a knife in his chest. Let's freeze the
Speaker 1: scene and when we come back, I'll let you know
Speaker 1: what happened. But you know what, no spoilers. Hey, oh
Speaker 1: hey Elizabeth, what's up girl? Um, crime in Antarctica? Right,
Speaker 1: knife in the chick. We finally got to the crime.
Speaker 1: How's my man's at? Flogosof Oh no, he's bleeding, stabbed
Speaker 1: in the chest with a kitchen knife. It's not beat juice,
Speaker 1: it's blood. He's probably screaming. He probably isn't some people
Speaker 1: like should be fermentous. Yeah, they're just shoving him in
Speaker 1: a giant barrel, like no, no, no, he's like shoto,
Speaker 1: that's what's this in Russian? Oh? Look at you? You
Speaker 1: know what I know in Russian? Huh because it means
Speaker 1: well I'm not dead. That's what he yelled. That's what
Speaker 1: he yelled. Do you know I took Russian when I
Speaker 1: was in high school at UC Berkeley because they did
Speaker 1: like this bat single thing out to all the local
Speaker 1: high school nerds, like calling all nerds, are you you?
Speaker 1: You can take a class in the summertime at cal
Speaker 1: and it'll look good on your trail more school. I'm
Speaker 1: there right. There's the two wolves inside of me though that.
Speaker 1: The one was like, this is going to look good
Speaker 1: at my transcripts, and the other was like, what is
Speaker 1: the most ridiculous thing I can do with this? So
Speaker 1: I looked at all the classes they had available. There
Speaker 1: are reasonable things that I would use, and then I
Speaker 1: was like, what's the weirdest one? Russian? I'll take that.
Speaker 1: They said, send us your finest nerds and I showed
Speaker 1: up and I was like, what's up wearing a pool
Speaker 1: of fur hat Um? Anyway, there you go? Um. I
Speaker 1: ask you how are you? And I said, was there? Hey,
Speaker 1: at least I'm not dead Antarctica? Blog us off? Where
Speaker 1: are we? So? Medics arrive? Do you do? It's a
Speaker 1: penguin with the Simon on his Yeah. Penguin and a
Speaker 1: priest walk into a bar um. They decide that he
Speaker 1: needs to be airlifted to a military hospital in Chile.
Speaker 1: He's got a knife in his chest. The penguins are like,
Speaker 1: there's only so much we can do. Have these flippers.
Speaker 1: They're just slapping him with the flippers. Um. It turns out.
Speaker 1: He has damaged to his heart from the attack from
Speaker 1: the knife in his chest, but you know, the wound's
Speaker 1: not life threatening, so it just gave a little scrapings,
Speaker 1: cleaned off some of the plaque all but it still
Speaker 1: is an intensive care. Okay, I'm glad they have that.
Speaker 1: It's intense care. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Savitsky, he
Speaker 1: surrenders to the station manager. No fights, no dramatics, just
Speaker 1: turns himself in. They're like, come on, man, do you
Speaker 1: do this? Yep, he's like finally reading the end of
Speaker 1: the book. How about that ending surprised and drinking some
Speaker 1: pe wine pe a wine. Um. So they have a
Speaker 1: limited number of flights out, so they had to wait
Speaker 1: to airlift him. They don't have a jail there. So
Speaker 1: what they do, um, let's see, they don't have a
Speaker 1: jail there. They have to wait. They put him outside,
Speaker 1: just let him freeze up to his neck. Close. They
Speaker 1: put him in the church. They're like this locks and
Speaker 1: they put put in the nicest place. They have wood
Speaker 1: and candles and insects. Getting rewarded for stabbing this garden.
Speaker 1: Nobody like, so they lock him in the church. Now,
Speaker 1: per the Antarctic Treaty of nineteen Yes, I remember the negotiations.
Speaker 1: It we worked so hard on that god hours and hours,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, ten twenty minutes. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: If a person commits a crime in Antarctica, they're subjected
Speaker 1: to the laws of their home country. So it's like
Speaker 1: a free zone. It's like you're everywhere is an embassy. Yeah. Um, Savitsky,
Speaker 1: he spends ten days in the clink, also known as
Speaker 1: the church, and he's according to Russian law, in the
Speaker 1: ways of our people, we lock you into church. Then
Speaker 1: he's flown back to St. Petersburg by way of Chile,
Speaker 1: then Uruguay, then the Netherlands and then Mother Russia. So
Speaker 1: he had to hop all over. He's got a knife
Speaker 1: in his chest. No, this is Savitsky, all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: sent him to the medical hospital. So yeah, the guy,
Speaker 1: he's like, I gotta go face justice, and they're bouncing
Speaker 1: him through every country that they can. On the brow
Speaker 1: nobody has so they had to wait that long for
Speaker 1: the next possible flight. Ten days. Um, he gets charged
Speaker 1: with attempted murder and he's put under house arrest. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to jump forward in time. Are you ready
Speaker 1: for this, Yes, I'm ready, Okay, February nineteen, you're still
Speaker 1: wearing your I got the hat, never take it off.
Speaker 1: It was an innocent time. February nineteen. We didn't know,
Speaker 1: we didn't know. It was ahead. Sevitzky's trial is about
Speaker 1: to begin. So the two men Belugasov, is that how
Speaker 1: you say his name? Leg Yeah, and Sevitsky. They're sitting
Speaker 1: next to each other on a bench in the courtroom,
Speaker 1: like we're gonna put the guys damned you right next
Speaker 1: to you and then work it out. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: some justice. And they're chatting about quote abstract topics like what, well,
Speaker 1: the Russian news agency RAPSI are a p s I.
Speaker 1: It's Russian legal information agency. They said, they're the ones
Speaker 1: who said that they were chatting about quote unquote abstract topics.
Speaker 1: I am dying to know what these abstract topics were, Like,
Speaker 1: which is more important string theory or like a modified
Speaker 1: gravitational theory? Yeah, exactly? Or was the nine O two
Speaker 1: one oh reboot really worth it? Yes, jetsons a better
Speaker 1: represents intation of modern living in the sixties. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: I don't ever watch TV ever. I never watched TV,
Speaker 1: but let me tell you about the nine o two
Speaker 1: and me. I've never watched TV day in my life,
Speaker 1: but I've got some I've got some opinions. So let's
Speaker 1: say strength theory. The judge he calls or she or
Speaker 1: they call the court into session, and Belogazov's attorney stands
Speaker 1: and files the motion. So we have the victim, the victim,
Speaker 1: it's going to file emotion. That's weird, are they? You know,
Speaker 1: why would you do that? That's that's out of order.
Speaker 1: This whole court's out of order. It was a motion
Speaker 1: to dismiss. So he's like, just forget about this, he said.
Speaker 1: Alex says that he made peace with Savitsky and that
Speaker 1: there's no need to punish him any further. So he's like, look,
Speaker 1: it was my fault. Like, let me just take this
Speaker 1: one on the chest. Oh my, that was beautiful. The
Speaker 1: rainbow disappeared in this guy. That was beautiful. Um. But
Speaker 1: in other statements to the press, right, Savitsky pretty much
Speaker 1: lays out, I'm guilty and I was irresponsible and I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have done it. So you know, maybe blogos Off
Speaker 1: was like, realize what he was. I don't want to
Speaker 1: victim blame. I don't. I'm going to victim blame brought
Speaker 1: it on himself. So the judge he makes sure that all,
Speaker 1: you know, harm has been remedied. Is this a sufficient
Speaker 1: you know resolution for everyone? Yeah? Charges dropped, That's it
Speaker 1: the end. So if I go to Russia and I
Speaker 1: stabbed somebody in the chest and I convinced him, look
Speaker 1: this was your fault, and they're like, you know what,
Speaker 1: You're right, kind of, I can go before a judge
Speaker 1: and be like, look, ask him if it's okay that
Speaker 1: I stabbed him. Guys like is okay? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: the justice there is. It's interesting. I can see why
Speaker 1: so many people fall out a window. That's the favorite method.
Speaker 1: Um what is your ridiculous takeaway here, Zarin? Other than
Speaker 1: the Russian Russian criminal justice system? Um, By ridiculous takeaway
Speaker 1: is that for once in my life, I am right
Speaker 1: based on purely just a speculative stereotype. But I shouldn't
Speaker 1: be anywhere where it's freezing, because people don't act right
Speaker 1: where it's cold. You would go on a stabbing spreed.
Speaker 1: That's a ridiculous takeaway, right, I mean, that is ridiculous
Speaker 1: and I'm taking away that message keep you out of
Speaker 1: anti ticket or anywhere like where it goes below. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think sixty, We can go sixty. We can get
Speaker 1: kind of close to sixty because you know, the bay
Speaker 1: are occasionally dips. It does, and I never lose my head.
Speaker 1: Then it's just you know, yeah, true. So what's your
Speaker 1: ridiculous takeaway? Miss? Well? You know, I think that we
Speaker 1: did learn a little about isolation when we were all
Speaker 1: in COVID lockdown. You know, obviously not to a little
Speaker 1: bit of isolation and a lot about us. Yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: a little too much. Like with the COVID the isolation
Speaker 1: was totally necessary, but it doesn't mean that it was
Speaker 1: or is. You know, people are still doing it a cakewalk. Um.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people, older folks or I
Speaker 1: have friends who are immunocompromised. They have to isolate in
Speaker 1: order to stay alive. But it is doing a number
Speaker 1: on them emotionally and psychologically. Are they drinking reading all
Speaker 1: the time? Yeah, basically it's just a loan um and
Speaker 1: so like outside of COVID and whatever, the truth is
Speaker 1: that we're social creatures, but we also need variety, so
Speaker 1: we need to mix up the people that we do
Speaker 1: get to see. I think that's one of the things.
Speaker 1: Like if you're stuck in a house and you only
Speaker 1: see one person, that drives you a little nuts. Um.
Speaker 1: And so if you're fourteen people in a building and
Speaker 1: you don't like all of them, right, so none of
Speaker 1: them are your family or your friends. You have to
Speaker 1: have like a mix up of activities. You know, it's
Speaker 1: most people. They mean they're outliers, but most people don't
Speaker 1: like to do the exact same thing every single day.
Speaker 1: It gets lonely, right. Add alcohol into the mix. I
Speaker 1: think that's the big one. We should turn to. The
Speaker 1: seven day long binges. I think that that's maybe something
Speaker 1: to do with the serotonin. Also the whole cycles of
Speaker 1: like I'm depressed again, just a seven day hangover, bro well,
Speaker 1: and no one's looking at the unhealthy relationship with alcohol
Speaker 1: going on when the station chief is like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: to throw the yeast and the sugar pease, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: make it. I'm so thirsty. I have some sweaty socks
Speaker 1: we can use to bring those up. I'm with the Romans.
Speaker 1: You don't let a group of men just sit around
Speaker 1: and do nothing. You get them building a bridge you
Speaker 1: get them build. I'm telling you, you got like more
Speaker 1: than six men standing around. Get them building something. Otherwise
Speaker 1: they're going to make a problem for you to fix
Speaker 1: their welding they're rewiring. I don't know, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't believe it. I think they're doing the right hanguin.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's basically a lot of science stations, right,
Speaker 1: so they're observing stuff. They're not having to actively do
Speaker 1: as much because oftentimes when I'm imagining these are not
Speaker 1: where they're having to Like, I'm sure they're doing ice
Speaker 1: core drilling and stuff. They're doing something real hands on science.
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that they're just out there doing the
Speaker 1: butterfly freeze if we leave it outside. I recognize they're
Speaker 1: doing hardcore, valid, valuable science, climate science, a lot of
Speaker 1: great stuff. But at the same time, I'm still thinking
Speaker 1: for some of these people, if they have enough time
Speaker 1: to have a week long like, right, we could give
Speaker 1: them another hobby that's constructive for everybody. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: if I did a week long vodka binge, I'd probably
Speaker 1: lose my job. I wouldn't be doing anything, would probably
Speaker 1: lose your job yourself. I don't want to I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to deal in absolute. I mean sometimes
Speaker 1: I can pull a lot of things. Drunk at work
Speaker 1: day four, you're like still got I can see it
Speaker 1: yeah myself at Yeah, you're happy drunk. So I don't
Speaker 1: drink um like. I keep going back to these novels
Speaker 1: that Savitsky is reading. There his lifeline community, and then
Speaker 1: you got Belogozof. He's getting his jolly's out stepping all
Speaker 1: over that, right. So here's my thing. That's where his
Speaker 1: joy comes from, Elizabeth, if you've had about joy, that's
Speaker 1: his only way of experiencing sunshine, Sarah. Hurt people, hurt people,
Speaker 1: This is true. Are you realize the people who are
Speaker 1: behave like they're always hurting. They're the last to admit
Speaker 1: that they themselves. So I'm trying to be seriously because
Speaker 1: I have not been successful up until this point. Um.
Speaker 1: But you take all these ingredients, put him in a pot,
Speaker 1: you mix them up, you put them out in the snow.
Speaker 1: Super ridiculous crime comes out in ridiculous circumstances. But you
Speaker 1: can put them in eighty degree temperature and good gumbo,
Speaker 1: ridiculously happy ending gumbo, happy ending, slimy bit happy. Um,
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