The Deadly Race To The South Pole • Puppet History
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Wowzers
Nord means North.
What hilarious irony.
you know that orcas have been documented eating entire adult moose?
Time for Ryan to hit up lukesgoldies for some goldfish to put under Sarah's pillow
Professor been playing to much GTA
Petition for you guys to have Brennan Lee Mulligan on as a guest for the next season
Brennan getting 100,000 extra jelly beans going off on unrelated history tangents, and Ryan’s reaction to those beans is something I need to see.
God yes
yes yes
If I comment will this go further closer to top comment
This needs to be seen and I feel a like is not enough
We need to take this to a vote, because that crossover sounds AMAZING. 🤩
Can we give some praise to the animators of the visuals?! They are STUNNING each video!
The 8/16-bit stuff was sweet
@@TheGreenGoblinYTyes more pls
Yes! Praise them!
And always clever.
the animation this season has been next level
I’m kind of sad there was no mention of Amundsen going to learn polar travel and survival from the Inuit. For the time, the idea that any Native group could have anything to teach a European was extremely radical, and what they taught him served him well.
this
I wish Puppet History would do a post show episode like the Debrief series for Mystery Files, where they can fit information like this in.
Hey, where can I learn more about this? :]
It's only radical to white peeps. Not throwing shade, that's just a fact. White people in the past truly thought they were just, the smartest.
Inuit is a specific tribe of Eskimo, not a blanket term for all eskimos
There's another incredible part of Scott's expedition story not mentioned here that definitely deserved to. The final support team of three men splintered off from Scott 150 miles from the pole, but they very almost didn't make it back alive either. They had gotten lost, were running short on supplies and Scott's second in command Edward Evans had fallen very ill. They had to dump even more of their supplies to carry Evans on their sled even though he had ordered the other two men to leave him behind, they refused saying they would never even consider it. They dragged him on the sled for days, but being still five days from base camp they realised they weren't going to make it. They set up camp and Irishman Tom Crean ventured ahead alone to find the main camp and raise a rescue team. Crean left with no rations, no navigational or survival equipment, not even a sleeping bag as he didn't intend to sleep. He went solo by himself and somehow made it to the other men, literally collapsing through the door. They had to tell Crean to stay put inside as he insisted on making the journey back to rescue the men himself too. Evans and Bill Lashly were eventually rescued, returned safely and treated by the doctor. Tom Crean, along with Lashly were awarded the Albert Medal for Bravery by King George V for this act. Tom Crean is still to this day regarded as one of Ireland's heroes and explorers, virtually anyone from the country knows Tom Crean's story in some detail. He's often overlooked as he was a lower class Irish man living in a British world, while typical members of parties such as these were middle class, trained naval officers, Tom Crean was a boy who ran away from home at 15 just about able to read or write and found his way on more antarctic explorations than Scott or Shackleton. He wasn't writing memoirs like the rest, but we try our best to remember him.
That's amazing! Sad that he doesn't get the same recognition just because of his nationality, he saved his whole group!
So cool, thank you for this information 🙏🏻
This, yes! A story that deserves to be told.
that's an Irish man right there.
ngl cried a lil while reading this. what a lad.
im absolutely loving the sub-lore of stanley and dorothy ruth and the fact that he may be alive despite drowning in mollases 2 seasons ago
I should not be so invested in this horse puppet lore but here I am! Actually listening to the ads for lore.
@@itscjrodgersYou always listen to Watcher ads.
Always.
All hail the Watcher.
He's not so much alive as in "somewhere that rhymes with Schmurgatory," which we already knew from the holiday special. Who knows, maybe this means we'll get another holiday special focused on her Orphean crusade
@@Gigawolf1 eh purgatory in all the most famous original (fictional) pieces around the Roman/Greek pantheons had that quality - there’s often a story of a god escaping purgatory but sometimes even mortals in a lot of that old literature
I am so excited to see what happens next with them! I’m so invested in these three puppet horses
To his credit, as he was dying Scott refused to abandon the fossil plants he'd found, which IIRC were the first fossils ever found in Antarctica and showed that the continent had once been tropical.
they were glossopteris leaves from the permian period that helped prove that the continents were once connected! the first glossopteris fossils were actually unkowingly found by geologist hartley ferrar on scott's previous antarctic expedition in 1903-04, but they weren't cracked open until 1928. glossopteris was one of the fossils that was important in proving the existence of pangaea and continental drift.
Dang, dude at least knew something of worth could come from his boondoggle. Good on him.
I like to imagine Ryan and Shane going into a baby clothing store with the Professor to try on jackets until they found one that fit perfectly. Lmao
I desperately need that to be true
Probably
I feel like this happens but for Steven Lim
Y'know, Amundsen really did do almost everything he could've to help Scott out. Leaving behind food and supplies was especially kind. And those boots and gloves were probably better suited for the environment than the gear the English had. Short of literally waiting a few days for Scott's crew to show up, and then escorting them out, there was nothing else he could really do to help increase Scott's survival odds.
It's true--he also considered leaving behind some fuel for Scott, but decided against it at the last minute. Considering one of the causes of the deaths was that the tins of fuel in their depots hadn't been properly sealed and were found to be leaking, it could have made a difference. He felt hugely guilty about the death of the polar party.
It was just a stark contrast to how both trips went. Scott was travelling through a frozen hellscape while Amundsen had a tough but generally fun trip through the Arctic. Scott’s fate was written on the walls
Do you think Scott would have accepted his help?
@@KlaxontheImpailr depends on (maybe) how sour he was about the loss. Or maybe if he ABSOLUTELY needed it… either way, the fuel would either (a not last more than a week or (b somehow freeze in the cold.
And even if he *did* wait for Scott's crew to show up and escorted them out, doing that may have ended up dooming both crews instead of just Scott's...
A lot of credit for the Norwegian success actually belongs to the indigenous Inuit peoples!! They developed many of the methods for surviving in extreme cold, and the expedition learned from them
He was also helped by the sami people! The indigenous people of northern europe. In fact, two sami people were with him on the trip
@@fredwardhr8002 heck yea sami people!!!!!!
I found it very curious that the British wouldn't try to learn from people who spend their whole lives in these environments. it would seem like the obvious choice to me
@@spoiltmilk6511 The British are unfortunately not known for taking solid advice from people who know better
Hey, any sources to learn about this from? :D
Captain Oates ABSOLUTELY knew he was going to die. His final words were "I'm just stepping out for a while. I may be some time." He had hoped his sacrifice would allow his comrades to survive.
I'm actually a little upset his death was a footnote as basically, "Haha, dude went outside in his underwear and was never seen again!"
Yeah I didn’t like how they rushed over that part and just joked about it because he knew what he was doing, he realized that he was slowing them down and so he left. Even though Scott unfortunately didn’t make it back, Oates’s sacrifice is still a huge deal
Isn't it also a classic sign of advanced hypothermia? Victims not making sense, confused and suddenly feeling hot and stripping down. I swear I've heard that before
@@theflutefreakit is!
@@theflutefreakIt’s called paradoxical undressing, I believe!
I think it’s hilarious that the whole time they were talking about Roald (a 25 year old) they kept showing pictures of an old man 😂
I was gonna say, he's looking rough 😂
I was like 25?? He looks 70!
He had seen some things before he turned 25.
He looks like a male version of the Mona Lisa.
Shane goes so goofy when Sarah is around, it is the most adorable thing in the world ❤
It really is adorable. What a sweet guy.
Shane wasn’t in this episode? Lol
Okay, but is Sarah taken?
Shane?? That mf was not in this episode, he's never in it.
Was Shane in this one? Must've missed him.
I know you don't record it this way, but I just love the idea of Shane crouched down behind the set with a microphone just singing his heart out. 😂
They sing all the songs for employee karaoke night
Omg can you imagine that video. Would possibly be the best thing.
thats what he did at the very beginning but around like season two they recorded the songs
On the subject of Lawrence Oates (38:00), the guy who walked out barefoot into the snow: He was suffering from gangrene and frostbite, and taking him with them would have made survival less likely for the other remaining 3 men. He is known for his last words to the other men, as recorded by Scott in his journal, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He knowingly sacrificed himself so that the others wouldn't be held back and had a chance to get back alive.
I grew up in the city where both the Discovery (Scott's ship for the first expidition) and the Terra Nova (ship for the second expidition) were built, and the Discovery is still maintained and docked here in Dundee, so I grew up hearing these stories a lot
Just wanted to clear that up because he very much *did not* just forget to put his shoes on while going for a piss haha
i was sad they didn’t mention this in the episode :(
@hannahpowell low-key same, it's a pretty well known part of the tale and has influenced media quite a bit, quite a few instances of a character sacrificing themselves in a stoic way are written in a way that is, directly or indirectly, based on this event.
I get that it's a comedy shoe, and they aren't always going to get things right, but I did want to try and correct the record in the comments at least
I don't wanna diminish his incredible perseverance throughout the journey...
But do we know for sure that it wasn't paradoxical undressing? It isn't unheard of for people suffering extreme hypothermia to feel as though they're burning up and start removing items of clothing.
@johnmcnally7812 Possibly, or maybe the frostbite and gangrene made it too painful to wear shoes? Genuinely I don't know, his last words are what stuck in my mind as a kid, not his state of dress so I don't know if I ever heard an explanation for him leaving without shoes
Yeah, His family had a mansion in the small suburb where I went to primary school, he also owned the cottage opposite the school (along with his brother), there is even a plaque to him in the school, so they made sure we grew up knowing his sacrifice.
I appreciate that Amundsen really didn’t have any negative feelings towards Scott; he left some supplies, seemed to view it more as a friendly competition between rival explorers, and based on what he said after learning, felt genuine remorse and guilt over Scott’s death. It’s kind of a sad story, honestly.
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Best words of wisdom on this show.
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The question at 35:55, answer C "im about to die!" Is actually somewhat historically grounded hahah, on the ill fated Essex sinking (inspiration for moby dick, basically donner party at sea) the first guy to die literally just refused rations that day and basically said "ill pass, im about to die" and then croaked hahah, leading to them chopping him up for tasty grub
"Born a falcon, died a frozen turkey."
- The professor's best diss in a season finale.
Oates' feet were so frostbitten that in the days before, it took him an hour to put on his shoes. That's why he didn’t have his shoes on. He knew he was walking to his death.
His last words when he left were "I am just going outside and may be some time."
He's seen as a hero of self sacrifice in the U.K.
fun fact: I am a direct descendant of roald and also a big watcher fan! such a fun surprise to click on the video w/o really looking and realize it was about someone in my family :)
Dont mean to be rude, but how are you a direct descendant if he never had any kids?
@@linnchristinemoormaybe he had siblings?
@@user-ej8qt4ee4p but then they wouldnt be a direct descendant, just a descendant
@@linnchristinemoor Oh sorry, english isn't my first language so I didn't know that direct decedent didn't include if it's the person's sibling or the person's parent. Thank you for your correction!
How do you feel about the vast icy continent? Any plans to explore it yourself one day?? 😂
An important part of the story is that Amundsen had learned how to work with dogs and best survive in harsh cold environments from indigenous peoples of the Americas! With that experience he was much better equipped than Scott at the get-go. Really fun episode, looking forward to next season.
He also got help from sami people. The indigenous people of northern europe!
Guys.. I don't think America/Europe is that much relatable if you live around Arctica. Earth is roundish afterall.
@@kuroinokitsune The inuit and sami people live in the arctic in the north. The area where sami people live can reach down to -50 degrees celsius. Amundsen learned how to keep warm in arctic climates from these different indigenous people. Of course there is a different but without their help, Amundsens trip would not have gone as well as it did. Every historian in Norway would tell you the same.
@@fredwardhr8002 you kinda didn't get me. As far as I, person who lives on Arctic shore, concerned - other people who live on that very shore way more relatable to me in lifestyle then whoever claims government over me. Inuit and sami way closer to each other then to people claiming them be American or European.
@@kuroinokitsune Ah I see. I thought you meant they wouldn't be able to help since antarctica wouldn't be the same as the places they are from. As someone also from the arctic, I completely agree. It's just geography wise they do live on the European and American continent, which is why they would be referred to indigenous people of those areas. They just live in the arctic areas of those continents, but it's not wrong to refer to them as such. I am sami and i am from europe.
Lets also give a shout out to sami people for helping Roald Amundsen! If it weren't for indigenous people, his trip would not have gone as well as it did
If that ain't the story for every successful expedition ever idk what is
I don't think it was the sami people he got help from, but maybe you know something i don't. Wasn't it the inuits in Canada, and tribe(s) in eastern siberia?
@@liseanettegranheim4404 he got help from sami people, that's why they dressed using reindeer furs. Also two sami people were with him on the trip to the south pole!
Oh! Yeah, I was gonna say that Scandinavians probably have more experience with the cold than the English, but given that the group was Sami, it makes even more sense that they were so successful!
@@dswan1418 The group was Norwegian. Roald is not sami and neither was anyone on the journey to the pole.
This episode's song was the best in the season! Knew this story before the episode, and it never failed to move me to near tears. This song also did just that. "Send my regards to Captain Robert Falcon Scott", "I hope he found what he was looking for", voice recordings... Man, that all is really moving and makes a perfect note to end such a story on.
With a banger bridge and everything definitely my favorite song since the oars
This story is (or was for me at least) a really big history topic in primary school in Ireland because Tom Crean, one of the men who survived both of Scott’s trips, was from Kerry. They have a statue there of him holding two puppies that were born during his third Antarctic expedition!
Not so surprised that the whole dog and puppy facts were left put of this episode but should have been mentioned as a key to how the survivor's of the exploration made it through.
I’d love to see next season if Shane teaches Ryan and Sara about Tarrare the man who couldn’t stop eating(edit: I can’t spell)
I would kill to see Ryan’s reaction to Tarrare possibly eating a baby
I was just thinking about this
YES
I feel like that would unlock a new fear in ryan
I've wanted that for a while too. It'd be interesting.
Yeah yeah silly puppet youtube series but the idea of Antarctica the continent saying "give my regards to captain Scott" is so touching and beautiful in a way that is hard to describe. Even with all his mistakes and fuck ups, he was a man who lived and who had passion. And yet it was that very passion that lead him and several others to their doom. The land he rests upon acknowledging his efforts. That's so poetry right there.
I just like that antarctica wasn't villified. Its not the continent's fault Scott died. Scott died due to his own foolishness and lack of preparedness for such a dangerous journey.
reminds me of the asteroid and how this show personified how it thought of Earth. That song actually made me cry.
seriously! that asteroid song made me sob lol. this one made me tear up to be honest, it was really good
Right??? I'm weirdly emotional.
I felt the same about "I hope he found what he was looking for"
There's hardly anything humorous in it at all, it's just a pure heart-wrench
The most painful part about Watcher leaving is losing Puppet History. It’s genuinely a wonderful little show that always cheers me up. But I won’t pay for six shows I don’t care about for it.
How is it we got Sarah twice but not Shane Madej once? :c Sarah and all the other guests were great, but Shane needs to meet the professor! They seem like they would get along great!
A race across the Antarctic was the perfect way to end such a CHILL season of _Puppet History._ And I have to say, it was a great one. The Professor's parents were great comic relief, and I really got sucked into the Boston Horse lore. I can't wait to see what's in store next time.
Ha, nice one.
The drama of Dorothy Ruth was my favorite part.
You just know the peril is coming back next season.
I'm glad Ryan is getting a little more respect this season and that Ryan, in turn, isn't murdering people anymore.
always a plus in both cases, lmao
Can't believe we had a whole season without special guest Kate Peterman :(
RIGHTTTT I MIISED HER :( she’s lovely and always so funny
I know people don’t want to admit it, but this season was kinda a step down from the previous ones and Kate’s absence was one reason why
Trained sled dogs, fur worn like how people who actually live in cold environments do, an actual game plan and the curiosity of a LEGEND I love this story
Fun fact! You can actually visit and walk through the same exact ship that went to the South Pole (and the North Pole!) at the Fram museum in Oslo, Norway. It’s very well preserved and there’s a ton of artifacts from the expeditions.
I just went there a few days ago! Imagine my surprise when this video was uploaded lmao
Okay, that sounds so freaking awesome, add one more reason to visit Norway.
I will never cease to be amazed by Shanes talent. This is a masterpiece
He's got too much talent for one person.
as much as I love the dramatic season finales, I'm so glad that we finally got a chill one. I'm not sure I could survive another heart attack like the season 4 finale
I would love to see the professor’s hat back next season and the return of Kate peterman! She was my favorite guest every season!
the inherent comedy of the british people living through like, a disaster movie, living their worst life, absolutely losing
interspersed with cuts to the norvegians just having a fun trip listening to music presumably drinking tea smokign cigars being bros, even the dogs have a good time
10/10
Even better, Amundsen did so well because he learned from the indigenous peoples of the arctic how to deal with extreme cold. He used their style of clothing and dog sledding and no one in his party even got frostbite.
@@pseudotsugame exactly, Scott's expedition failed because he didn't even consult the indigenous people who actually knew how to survive in the cold
yea wholeass, my first thought upon "how could he improve the next mission" was "oh jsut ask the locals or people in similar climates how they handle things". he is also an academic and well off and has no excuse to to 'no know' that there is native folks living in cold climates or whatever. Big L all around @@pseudotsugame
I'm surprised a certain fact was never pointed out: There are no polar bears on Antarctica - they only live in the Arctic! Conversly, there are no penguins in the Artic - they only live in (and around) Antarctica (by "around" I'm refering to the landmasses relatively near Antarctica, ie Australia, South America etc).
Would've been funny though if training polar bears had been Scotts plan until he came down just to further hammer on the point of him being poorly prepared.
My grandma taught me how to remember that - North Pole No Penguins, South Pole Some Penguins
Yes! And in the song, arctic hares are mentioned, but they live in the north. I love the story, one of the only nonfiction books I've ever enjoyed was a synopsis of both expidtions, and I'm amazed that they mentioned pemmican but polar bears and and arctic hares managed to slide past unnoticed.
Thaaaaank you, I was saying that under my breath at the screen a few times during the episode but didn‘t want to be the pedantic no-fun-at-parties-person :D especially when they were talking so confidently about polar bears munching on penguins.
...was reacting to the same thing - like those two(polar bear and penguine) would never meet...
fun fact: “arctic” basically means “bears,” and “Antarctica” basically means “no bears” or “opposite of bears”
I love Shane's evolution in songs from a comedic parody focus to creating actual bangers.
i feel extremely unsettled after this finale and pray for the wellbeing of everyone involved because i KNOW the estranged producer of this show Shane Madej would never let our beloved cast of characters go without at least SOME bit of lore...
I always miss this show when the season ends. I hope for plenty more Puppet History in the future (maybe a Christmas special this year?)!
Yo Halloween is right around the corner!!!
The Professor changing his wardrobe should happen more often! The pink jacket looks surprisingly good on him (and this is coming from someone who has a vendetta against that shade of pink!).
That final song was really sweet. Contemplative and with quiet awe at the mystery of life, nestled warmly in a blanket of colorful dorkiness. This is the vibe I've come to associate with Shane's creative mind. Never stop being you
My great great great grandfather was one of the few who went with Amundsen to be the first to the south pole. I know shitloads on this 🤭 Am so excited for this one!
He also designed Fram who Amundsen went to the south pole with and Droning Maud(another known ship), plus Amundsen's own house. I been to the Fram museum, and if anyone get the chance, please go too! 🥰
My boyfriend is a direct descendant of Amundsen!
@@izzibee733 Either your boyfriend is lying or someone has told him misinformation. Amundsen had no children, therefore he has no direct descendant.
to answer ryan's question:
because the eyes are directly connected to the body, like any organ, they retain whatever internal body temperature your body is at. now if someone were to lose an eye in those cold of temperatures and it fell out of the socket and somehow disconnected, that'd be a different story. considering that water freezes in an instant at -44 Fahrenheit (-42 celcius), your eye would freeze likely at the same rate. that kind of cold would burn the eye as it freezes, meaning you wouldn't be able to save it and it'd likely be rendered blind even if you were somehow able to.
yes, i absolutely took the time to look this information up because it got me curious too.
I was OBSESSED with this story as a child, I read up about it in every way an8 year old could and I’m SO HAPPY this is an episode 🥰🥰
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hyperfixated on this at a young age
Same loved reading up on this as a kid
same! my mother used to tell me this as a bed time story!
@@sayowitch1986 I used to ask my mother to tell me about Mt. St. Helens as a bedtime story.
we studied it in class when i was like 10 so its so funny to have shane- i mean, the professor's take on it now
12:15 Ryan is apparently exactly the type of person that would be impaled through the eyeball after looking up at an icicle
It’s adorable that at @35:40 that you think ‘trifles’ refers to the dessert and not what it actually would have been, which would be some small trifling items that were not worth carrying back with them ❤
Just a friendly reminder that Dorothy-Ruth canonically died during the molasses flood...
i was wondering whether i was just crazy and remembered that episode wrong, or if it was ever gonna be brought back up once we saw her again. glad i’m not just crazy
She didn't
God just fucked her husband over lol
Pretty sure Shane confirmed this on reddit
D-Ruth faked her own death to start a new life.
I mean she did say in this episode she's heading to a place that rhymes with "shmurgatory"
She did not. God said that she was probably dead. Shane even confirmed that she survived.
Orcas is one of my life long hyperfixations and I've heard that they had somehow eaten horses but I never figured out how they got access to horses so thank you for this information
There is actually a fairly obscure tale of a Polynesian navigator named Ui-te-Rangiora who was said to have traveled to a "sea covered with foam" which interpreters argued means ices. Lots of historians argued if the Polynesian reached the Antarctic or not but since these are the same guys who traveled from Taiwan to Madagascar all the way to Easter Island I'd like to think some of them made it far south enough to spot it.
Why would they interpret foam as ice? Foamy ocean is a thing. "A sea covered with foam" just sounds like... a place full of sea foam. That is a thing.
@@PosthumanHeresy I think the idea is that "foam" is the closest word in English but the actual passage in the original language may not be so simple/easily translated into English
If I'm thinking about the same person, he actually made reference to the bark of a tree that is famously very white and also kelp in the ocean like long hair (which fits some antarctic types of kelp).
One of the men on Amundsen's crew was my fourth cousin twice removed: Olav Bjaaland. He was a Norwegian Ski champion and one of the many reasons Amundsen finally made it to the South Pole. Bjaaland was a carpenter who helped reduce the weight of the pre-fabricated sheds bought from Oslo. Later in 1952, Bjaaland would get to light the torch at the Winter Olympics in Morgedal.
I absolutely adore this show. I never grew out of loving edutainment and it's really fun to have a show that you can watch as an adult and learn cool stuff that you may not have covered in school.
Also Shane's singing voice is criminally underrated and the songs are always fantastic. I'm really glad Watcher exists.
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How did no-one call out the professor for claiming that polar bears eat penguins when they live on opposite ends of the world?
I mean when they meet maybe like in a zoo
My dad went to Antarctica, he went there for two winters and when he came back a part of him was left there and he always talked about his time there and took an interest in Scott and Shackleton’s story which in turn became my favorite stories. So seeing puppet history cover this story makes me so happy.
From the 8-bit animations in this episode, it looks like an Oregon Trail: Antarctica Edition game would be incredible.
Thank you for such an amazing season of puppet history! Can’t believe we’re at the finale already 🥲
The horse marriage at this point may as well be my favorite soap opera
yall should call Shane to be a special guest, im sure he and the professor would have a blast with eachother...
I would love to have a CD of all the songs that have been on Puppet History. Some of them, like this one, were so emotional they really hit me. Amazing work.
I'm always excited and saddened by each season finale. Thank you guys for making great content I can always come back to and teaches me cool stuff
The Professor looking into the camera during Dorothy Ruth's story like he's Jim from The Office 😂
Honestly, Amundsen's death and the drama around the Italia's failed expedition to the North Pole could have been another episode in and of itself.
If I remember the details correctly (and please chime in if I'm wrong), he was actually flying out to go save another polar adventuer whom he had bad blood with. Umberto Nobile was an Italian explorer whom he had attempted a pervious expedition with to fly over the North Pole with. The two disagreed over which country should recieve the most credit (and if I recall, I think Amundsen kind of thought Nobile was an idiot) so they had a falling out.
Nobile would later head another air expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia, but the ship disintegrated midflight on route. Some of the crew was swept off with the ship, but Nobile and few others escaped and survived for a time on the ice. Amundsen heard about it and got a crew together then went out in a seaplane to go find them, but the plane went missing on the way and his body and crash site have never been found to this day.
Nobile would actually survive the whole ordeal and be rescued, but the rescue pilot insisted on taking him and only him first despite him wanting to send their most injured man instead because he was too heavy. Unfortunately, the plane would then crash on the way back to get more people and left the pilot stranded with the other crew 🤷🏾♀️
The men on the ice were eventually rescued after like, a month, but Mussolini's government threw Nobile under the bus and painted him a coward for leaving first (though he had actually planned their evacutaion order based on triage and not rank, but couldn’t get the pilot to listen).
It's always struck me as such a tragic irony that Amundsen beat out Scott to the South Pole, who then died, and what would later kill him was going out to try and save someone he knew. He had to known that Scott wasn't prepared and I would hope that the fact that he didn’t do much to help must have bothered him. Some people spin the rescue as Amundsen wanting to one-up Nobile, but I'd like to think that he put his dislike for the guy aside and just wanted to help a fellow explorer he'd flown with before instead of letting him die in the ice.
Amundsen and Nobile's first flight over the North Pole with an airship was a sucess credited to Amundsen so at this point he had nothing to prove, at least not to Nobile. Something Amundsen did want to achive however was to fly over with an aeroplane which he had failed once or twice before. At least that's what people in Norway speculate was going inside his mind at the time, but sadly we'll never really know.
I love polar expeditions! The norwegians were way more adapted to the climate, and used inuit and sami methods successfully. The brits and americans were often too confident and unwilling to learn, which affected their decisions, and usually led to failure.
Shackleton is my favorite south pole-explorer! He worked with Scott before going on his own expedition, holding the farthest south for some time.
And our swedish explorer Andrée was fascinating as well, but stupid.. he flew a balloon to the Arctic...
I would love to see puppet history do Shackleton and see how they react going from Scott’s journey and his mistakes to Shackleton’s journey. I would love to see Ryan reaction to Shackleton sledding down the mountain
Honestly I wasn’t expecting the end to be this soon, but I enjoy it. Love the new changes and additions as it brings a new era of Puppet History
PS: Love the new horse lore during the ad plugs, please sponsor them more because I’m in my seats of what’s happening next 😅
Sara’s retainer lisp is super cute and makes me feel better about wearing mine ^^
I was wondering where that lisp came from
I thought that's what I was hearing. It was noticable though she was using Invisalign or something.
This last performer, Antarctica really got to me. It was such an emotional performance and brought me to tears.
My college owns the last physical remains of roald! he got his teeth pulled right before his fatal expedition and the dentist kept them and eventually donated them to my college's archives... they're creepy as hell just teeth mounted in a box
During that song I felt like I should be pulling out a lighter to wave in air, I think this is the best one yet
I love all the comments shouting out the various crew who added all the great small touches, I want to give a special mention to the sound design! I'm listening to this on my fancy headphones and it's really highlighting all the incredible little details bringing this episode to life 😊
I do like how you guys, in-universe went "yeah, the wild storyline stuff is fun, but... we're taking a break. We deserve it", and you do! This season was great! Can't wait for the next one!
I’d kill for a behind the scenes episode of this show, I’m always so damn impressed
Omg i have a core memory attached to this topic!!! I went through a museum exhibit dedicated to this that framed it as though I was along for the ride to see who would win the race, and I learned more and more about what each team chose to bring and how they approached the antarctic. SUPER EXCITED
I can absolutely understand the professors instinct to do an "I am de captain now" impression everytime he says a similar sentence
Hey guys? This video still only has auto captions which means I cannot properly watch it; please fix it for the D/deaf, hard of hearing, audio processing, and non-native English speakers please and thank you! Love your work, hope the captions get fixed soon
When the episode first came out I saw there weren't any captions that weren't auto-generated, so unfortunately I couldn't watch it at the time. I had hoped that waiting a week or so would mean they'd be added, the way every other episode of puppet history has them, but I'm disappointed to see that they aren't. I'll try and make do with auto-generated ones, but they're almost always inaccurate and I know I'll be missing out on key parts of the episode because of it. I'm not sure why this episode specifically doesn't have them, but I'd appreciate if they're added in the future so people like me can enjoy this the way everyone else gets to. It's one of the things I appreciate the most about puppet history and Watcher - they're one of the few youtube channels I can trust to do their best for the disabled community, and I hope this is something they'll fix soon!
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Four months on and unfortunately there's still no manual captions
I can't believe it's already the finale 😭😭😭
Already looking forward to next season! 🧡
When Mysetery Files returns please do episodes on the following:
-The death of Ark Gilkey
-The Kentucky Alien invasion in the 1950's
-The myesterious birds of Audubon's "Birds of America" book
-The Montana Hyena
-The mysterious abandonment of Portlock Alaska
-The theories of what is behind the Missing 411 cases in the US.
-Kasperov vs Deep Blue computer
-Beast of Bladenboro ( I especially want Shane to do this one).
This makes me wanna see a Puppet History about Ada Blackjack, the Inuit Woman who survived two years stranded alone in the Arctic.
Every time he mentions the teams having to move all their food and supplies, I think about the Donner Party episode. "I assume Slim Jim's and M&Ms."
We just need Eugene and the try guys are complete, and have been special guests
unfortunate that there are no CC options on this episode. hopefully the team at watcher will add them soon!!
I'm seeing CC on mobile now if you haven't checked back yet!
@@EternalxGuardianThose are auto- generated though, so a lot of errors. :(
I really appreciate the echo on Sara's audio because it gives her an otherworldly aura that truly she deserves.
Absolutely no offense but she sounds like she's wearing a retainer, or she's just had teeth pulled and is coming down from the gas. I don't think that's an echo.
@@SaccharinSweet123 She had Invisalign at the time this was filmed, that's what's causing her voice to sound different.
Yeah you’re supposed to take out retainers when you record. The more vain celebs get they start wearing them on screen, forgetting why they got them
@@JAFair-jb3tp it's invisalign, not a retainer, and your comment is insane. i would hardly call any of these people "vain celebs" and you call it vain but yet you're the one bothered that she left it in? grow up
@@calliope720 nah like. When you get in front of camera. You take the stuff out of your mouth.
You think it was a better idea for her to record an entire episode of a show while sounding like a dog whistle.
You think the most professional thing to do was to completely ruin the audio for a show you’re paying paid to be on?
Really?? You really think that? Bless your little delicate heart.
It’s simple. Take out the thing that makes you sound like Mac from Its Always Sunny with wooden teeth. What a joke. Be professional. No one will notice your teeth. That’s vanity to think we all looking at her teeth the whole show. But it’s stupidity to think that but not think, “hey I sound like George Washington, should I take my retainer out?”
it truly was a loreless season, i never could have guessed- well, other then the "horse lore" as i like to call it, we need more of that!!
thank you to the entire watcher team and especially shane for this masterpiece of a show!!
i’m in love with sara’s jacket omg
"I would eat a penguin" says Ryan in an episode last season when America debated hippo meat
"I wouldn't eat a penguin" Ryan now
And then says 'they look kinda meaty' 2 minutes later. Make up your mind, Ryan!
Dorothea Ruth's "I DUNNO MAN!" and "it was sus as hell" had me forcefully exhaling like a mad woman 🤣🤣🤣
27:01 fun fact, killer whales, regularly eat moose off the coast of Canada
Aw... It's over already? 😭 Well, I can't wait to see the next season of Puppet History 😊
Full disclosure: when I first saw you guys create your own channel and I saw the puppet history thumbnail for the first time I was kinda thinking: okay, they've gone cookoo now.
But damn, this is such a good show (along with everything else you put out) that I am just baffled at how good your creativity and your team is. You guys rock!😊
That might be the best song of the season, that is some impassioned, redemption arc, Les Mis "One Day More" shit
wasn't expecting to cry at a puppet history but the song at the end was so moving...
Waiting for the other Irish People to pop off about no mention of Tom Crean. One of the few of Scotts men to survive and in an absolutely spectacular fashion
I would have liked a mention of Shackleton as well, as he worked with Scott on Discovery to then hold his own Farthest South record for a time
What a calm, pleasant season (lore wise). Thank you Shane, the animators, producers, et al for another great season
I loved this episode, but Oates didn't forget to put his shoes on. He had frostbite and gangrene, so it would've taken him ages to put them on. His last words were "I am just going outside and may be some time"- which was written down by Scott, in his diary.
In the UK he's seen as a hero who knowingly sacrificed himself, so that the others wouldn't be held back-and had a chance to get home.
The audio clips in the song add a truly emotional element to it. Possibly the best Puppet History song yet.
I'm honestly deeply saddened that its the season finale so soon. I look forward to this show every week and my professor plushie just arrived a week ago. This must have been a really short season.
it's 6 episodes, the same length as seasons 3, 4 and 5 were
@@katiex3171 I don't care, I want more!!! A month and a half are not enough!
Watching this knowing Roald got there first was fun. The suspense I felt over seeing Ryan and Sara's reactions to that twist was almost a little unbearable. Surprised there was no mention about how he ate his dogs. Really thought they were gonna grill him for that lmao
I was surprised Watching them react all surprised to Scott dying but it was funny, and I guess it makes sense because they didn’t really go in depth to how thoroughly fucked his team was.
Yeah it was funny when he asked who did they think was going to win because I already knew it I even asked my dad who taught me about this story and he just laughed, and them just being so shocked when Scott died shocked me because this was common sense to me.
The finale’s song almost brought me to tears 😭😭😭😭😭 & the frozen statue edit 🔥 this is a PRODUCTION