Episode
434: No Such Thing As Robinson Two-Soe
They were going around Cape Horn, and this guy, Selkirk, said, don't go around Cape Horn. It's a terrible place to go around. There's always storms, it's high winds, it's like the middle of hurricane season or whatever.
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They wanted to go through the Suez Canal, but they couldn't because tensions were high and the war was close to breaking out. They had to go around the southern tip of Africa instead.
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After Hurricane Maria, that awful hurricane in 2017, it killed a lot of people in Puerto Rico. Totally destroyed the island — all the trees were blown down, there was no shade, and the average temperature on the island…
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By watching them, they realised that, you know, the higher the value of the item, if they're still on a phone rather than a camera case, then they'll barter for more bananas. Wow. That's really clever. It's really good,…
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There was one that was done where the race would end up at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
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It obviously became very trendy from like pre-Second World War and then under communism, of course, in Eastern Europe. They didn't love having the kings and queens there. I think King Zog of Albania was stationed at the…
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