1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. In this app, I 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. PS. 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not so good 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: awesome answers. Now a new app is going to drop 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest style episode of fearlessly 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the hot Seat, Doctor Carl. 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: Do you like sweet or savory food? 9 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 2: Savory? Sweet is delicious in the short term, bit of fad. Savory. 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: You've got such a range of distant flavors, like I 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 2: just enjoyed last night for dinner and this morning for 12 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 2: breakfast pasta with anchovies and chi and egg Oh my god. Yeah, 13 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: so I'm savory. 14 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: Oh that sounds ten out of ten. Do you have 15 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: a favorite city? 16 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: It's a city that I'm currently in providing I can 17 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: do my standard thing, which is, each time I go 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 2: to a new city, I go to the tallest building 19 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 2: and I get there about now before sunset. I have 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 2: a little meal and maybe a little drinking with a 21 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: cocktail with an umbrella, and I watched the traffic go 22 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 2: flooding out and flooding in, and I happen to talk 23 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,559 Speaker 2: to the locals and I get a really good vibe 24 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 2: for the city. Well, I do love Paris because it's 25 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 2: so friendly and all the buildings are under seven stories. 26 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 2: I am sort of fonder like Paris is always the 27 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: same in Berlin is never the same. Oh, I love 28 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 2: what you like, Sydney. Oh nature, I love, especially the 29 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: Australian Outback. Before I had no idea what the Australian 30 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: Outback was, But having been driving through fifteen to seven deaths, 31 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 2: I now realize that forty percent of the Australian Outback 32 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 2: is desert under the definition of less than two hundred 33 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: millimeters of rain a year, and then another forty percent 34 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: is too dry to grow on, and only twenty percent 35 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: we can grow stuff on. My favorite part of Australia 36 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: and possibly the world, is just going through the outback. 37 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 2: And on our longest trip, we started off at Alas Springs, 38 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: went west for one thousand kilometers, turned right, went north 39 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 2: for a thousand kilometers. In the month that it took 40 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 2: us to do two thousand kilometers, we saw only one 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: other group of humans, and we've burned through five hundred 42 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 2: and sixty of our six hundred meters of fuel and 43 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 2: drank about one and a half tons of water, which 44 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 2: you've got by navigating to a well every second or 45 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: third night, and the tempers you got up to about 46 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: forty eight degrees c. 47 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: Whoa, that's wild slash awesome. 48 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 2: It was fun. It was amazing being just close to 49 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: the family and never been more than thirty meters away 50 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: from another person's heartbeat for a whole month. It was 51 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: just gorgeous. 52 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: Can you mythbust something for me? Dilla's choice. 53 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: It has been said that the Daddy long Legs is 54 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 2: the most poisonous spider on Earth, but I can't kill 55 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 2: you because its fangs are too short to penetrate your skin. 56 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: That is wrong on four different ways. Firstly, some Dady 57 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 2: long legs are spiders that have eight legs, but some 58 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 2: Dady long legs are another eight legged creature called an opilionid, 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: and they've got different numbers of eyes. Secondly, they do 60 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 2: have a venom, but the word poisonous is wrong. Poison 61 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 2: is something that comes in through the mouth, and I 62 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: said poisonous, They're not. I should have said venomous. So 63 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 2: are they venomous bid Yes, are they the most venomous? No, 64 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: they're not. They're way way down on the venom rate. 65 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: And on one occasion, Adam Savage from the MythBusters shoved 66 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: his hand into a cage full of them, and they 67 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: their fangs are long enough to penetrate your skin. That's 68 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: another myth. But instead of going oh my god each 69 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 2: time they bit him and they then he proceeded to die, 70 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 2: he was going, ouch, that's annoying. Ouch, that's annoying. Ouch. 71 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 2: It wasn't the most venomous or poisonous spider on us. 72 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 2: And their fans can penetrate your skin. And some of 73 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: them are spiders and some are not. There are four 74 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 2: mists in the. 75 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: Oh wow, I love it. And do you have a 76 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: fact that you can share with it? So it can 77 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: be anything you want. 78 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: A black hole. Black holes are real, and they can 79 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: weigh anything from about five times the mass of our 80 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: sun to fifty million to fifty billion, and yet their 81 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 2: size is not a million kilometers across or one kilometer 82 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 2: or a millimeter, it's zero millimeters. The size of the 83 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 2: black hole itself, where all that mass is concentrated, is zero. 84 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 2: It's a point in space. There's a thing around it 85 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 2: called the event horizon, which is a sort of artificial 86 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 2: boundary where you to escape, you have to reach the 87 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: speed of light and all that other sort of stuff. 88 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 2: But the actual black hole has a size of zero 89 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 2: millimeters or zero inches, or if it's Americans, you probably 90 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: say zero cube furlongs for square second or something like that. 91 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 2: I don't understand American units. 92 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: Oh wow, I have to ask this, and this might 93 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: be putting you on the spot. But as we've been talking, 94 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: beautiful orca whales have been diving behind you. It's my 95 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: favorite animal in the world, and I want to swim 96 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: with them in the wild in Norway, which would be 97 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: very scary and dangerous, I'm sure, But do you have 98 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: a favorite animal? 99 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 2: I will first I would recommend not so that the 100 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: footage behind me is from my second trip to Antarctica. 101 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: And so we were lucky enough, and they'd never seen 102 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: this before, to come across a bunch of orcas, which 103 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 2: were about thirty or forty of them in a line 104 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 2: about half a killer metal to one killer metal across, 105 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: and they kept on chasing something and they were using 106 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 2: a lot of energy. For the hour that we followed 107 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: them as we were constantly expanding and contracting the line, 108 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 2: and they were chasing something and directing it along a pathway, 109 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 2: and it took a lot of energy to shove their 110 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 2: ten to ten meter bodies out of the water. So 111 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: first thing about the orcas the killer whale, that's a 112 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 2: very clever bit of marketing. So you tend to think 113 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 2: that dolphins are really nice. In most of the encounters 114 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 2: of dolphins with humans, dolphins actually attack people and kill 115 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 2: them and try to have sex with them and bad things. 116 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 2: Flipper is an outlider, and it turns out that the 117 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: killer whale is actually a killer dolphin, but Big Dolphin 118 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 2: that conglomerate managed to keep their image clean by passing 119 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: off the killer dolphin as a killer whale. So orcas 120 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 2: are actually dolphins, not whales. Secondly, they're highly intelligent, and 121 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 2: there was a case where some dolphins, some orcers, had 122 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 2: had family members run over by boats, and so they 123 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 2: started taking boats in the Mediterranean. Thirdly, don't let that 124 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: happy smile on their face confuse you or tricky, that's 125 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 2: just an accident of anatomy. If you're in the water 126 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: with an orco, they'll lead you nothing. 127 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: Person is just business your food, Okay, we won't swimming 128 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: with orca whiles. They've got spindle neurons, don't they like 129 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: they can? 130 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 2: They're quiet. 131 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: I've heard they've got spin on yours, but they're very. 132 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 2: Tell me about that, you might know. Nothing filled me in. 133 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, Like I just watched a 134 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: lot of docos on orcas. But they feel empathy, like 135 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: if if a family member dies, like you said, they'll 136 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: want revenge. And then each pod has different dialects depending 137 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: on where in the world they live, so like a 138 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: New Zealand Orca would be very different to the orcas 139 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: that you saw in Antarctica versus Canada. Yeah, each one 140 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: has different a different dialect, but they're very smart animals. 141 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 2: Well, I one on another stret Antarctica. We parked up 142 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: against the ice and then we had a slight problem 143 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 2: when everybody started walking on the ice and then the 144 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: ice split. We had to go back and rescue them 145 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 2: with a chopper. But a few of the people were 146 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 2: standing within half a meter of an orca and the 147 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 2: crew member pulled them back sad get back and as 148 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 2: they got back, the than lunch that where they had 149 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 2: been No nothing personal they're just food, I mean white 150 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 2: waste food apex apex, and there's stupid enough if the 151 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: human is stupid enough to be standing really close to 152 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll have a bite. No worries. I mean 153 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 2: I won't, but ancle would. 154 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: Wow. Oh I'm so glad I asked you about orcas. 155 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: This is day made. 156 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 2: So you're going to Norway. 157 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: You can swim with them in the wild in Norway, 158 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: or you can cognac with them off Canada. 159 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: I also have found some tame orcers that nowhere. They're 160 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 2: bacon's coming from selling return for not leaving you. They 161 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 2: give them a whole lot of food at the end 162 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 2: that it's far more delicious than you are well hopefully though. 163 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: Blackwater freaks me out, like dark blackwater, cold blackwater, which 164 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: is what it would be like. It's so deep is 165 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: where all the fishing trolling boats are that I think 166 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: that would be icky, you know, and you have to. 167 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 2: Wear a full five millimeters neoprince steamer. 168 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: Weddy of mine did it and he goes. All I 169 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: could think about was the pain of how cold the 170 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: water was. 171 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I had that happened to be in Antarcity 172 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 2: when I jumped into the. 173 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: Water, had the artic pl Oh god it was cold. Yeah, 174 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: doing it though it was another question YEP Final question. 175 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: Final thing. You've mentioned hard work and work ethic. To 176 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: somebody listening to this pod that might have a dream, 177 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: whether it's to write a book, whether it's to change careers, 178 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: what's your advice like If they've got this dream but 179 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: they're a little you know, not super confident about it, 180 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: or lacking a bit of self worth, what's your advice. 181 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 2: On one hand, it's really good to have some money. 182 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: You want to be comfortable. I don't mean fabulously wealthy. 183 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 2: I mean comfortable in the sense that you don't have 184 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: to worry about what happens if suddenly your shoes have 185 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 2: the sole fall off and you have to buy another 186 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 2: two hundred dollars set of shoes. So on the other hand, 187 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 2: sometimes you might have to give that up to follow 188 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 2: your dream, but you don't want to end up financially bad, 189 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 2: because poverty is a disease. But on the other hand, 190 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 2: give it a go. Depending on your financial status and 191 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: your family background, and it helps a lot of your 192 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 2: support from your friends will say yeah, give it a go. 193 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 2: So I'm in general, I'm being in favor of following 194 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 2: your dream. But on the other hand, you do need 195 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: food in your belly and you don't want to be homeless. 196 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, so be smart and practical about it as well. 197 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 2: Having so it's hard. Part of the problem is that 198 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: our society, while it lives off the output of artists, 199 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 2: doesn't reward them. Our society has made so much better 200 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 2: by all the creatives, the painters, the podcasters, the filmmakers, 201 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 2: the musicians, and in the vast majority of cases, they're 202 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 2: not rewarded. In fact, I was surprised when I found 203 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 2: out with regard to tennis, if you look at the 204 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: top one hundred tennis players in the whole world, the 205 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 2: bottom fifty usually sleep in their cars, no they can't 206 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: make enough money to or if they're on tour and 207 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: in a big venue, they'll share a room with five 208 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 2: other tennis players. Yeah. Yeah, the top fifty do well 209 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 2: and the bottom fifty and everybody else just sucks. So 210 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 2: on the other hand, give it a go. You just 211 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 2: don't make the same mistake more than once. 212 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. I love that. You're wonderful. Thank you, doctor Carl. 213 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: I have loved spending this time with you, and congrats again. 214 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 2: On the book. 215 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: It's a ripper. 216 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 2: Oh, you're awfully can't look Thank you so much.