Peter Freuchen on The $64,000 Question in 1956
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2019
- We're throwing it all the way back to 1956, when our favorite badass explorer Peter Freuchen won $64,000 on a gameshow, The $64,000 Question, an American TV quiz-show on the subject "The Seven Seas."
The intro banter is also hysterical, and the commercials are great. - Zábava
Who here from Simple History video?
yes. the guy who shat out a shiv
Watching this as I wait for my poo to freeze in my freezer. Experimenting to see if its true or not.
@@paperandpavement that wont work. Get dry ice cause ur freezer is no where the temp of the arctic
@@paperandpavement but then again u could just be jokin
Lol I had to see him
The only man who's story is full of crap but is true.
Mountain men would spice up their stories to make themselves seem more manly etc.
literally since he made a knife out of shit
ba dum tsss
@@something1330 he didnt, look it up. Proven wrong
@@irishtrapper9149 freuchen wasnt a mountain man, he never saw a mountain in his life
This man was no joke
If he was he'd be a shitty joke tbh.
I can see by the size of him how he "produced" such a great ice poopsicle.
lol
I bet you it was a sword but he told everybody it was a knife
Its fake look it up
After seeing the simple history video I had to see what my inspiration really looked like
same man
@Jake Lavalle that's awesome
I love how naturally deadpan Peter is, he's literally the only person in the room not laughing at anything
... because he's lived a real life... everyone else around him is just pretending.
It's because he's from Lolland Falster. The worst region of Denmark. The man is fucking nuts tho, but in a good way.
Nearly dying a hundred times probably makes you like that lol
He was a badass and a smart man!
Some people may not realize it but Peter here is probably the biggest badass in existence. The dude was a author of 32 books, a prolific arctic explorer, hunter, and served in WW2. A 6'8 giant of a man who one cut off his own toes after they got frostbitten, dug his way out of an avalanche using a knife he made from his own frozen feces, and lost a whole leg to frostbite again, yet despite that he still joined the danish Resistance and would tell Nazis right to their face he was a Jew to show how they didn't scare him.
Was sentenced to death by them but escaped,mind you with only one freaking leg, won the jackpot here on 64000 question, and during his arctic trips often wore a giant coat made from a polar bear he personally killed.
He was a true warrior and a genius, if he was born in the time of vikings he'd probably be considered a child of the gods themselves
He allegedly killed a wolf bare handed.
He didn't just know the answers,he lived them,and heard the stories handed down mouth to mouth.
God Peter Freuchen is by far my favorite historical figure. He was so eloquent and he had such a WILD life.
Hi book of the eskimos has been one of my favorite books for over 35 years.I recently decided to reread it before giving it to 14 your grandson to read.Rereading it prompted me to google him and for the first time I saw how famous he actually was.Seeing him on the gameshow gave me a greater appreciattion for his life with the inuits.Amazing that such a well educated man accepted the wisdom of the Inuits.
one of my fav too 😉
I read it and visited Greenland for 3 months when older. Childhood dreams can come true😅.
This man js my great great grandfather
Carno that’s awesome
What a great great grandfather
GOT IT
My dad was born in the same town as him, nykoping falster
Dude, you've got a lot to live up to.
The bank guard on the left was my grandfather. His partner was on the right, with Ben Fife, the President of the bank they protected at their daytime job, which was also contracted to hold and “protect” the winnings for this show. I think it was Manufactures Hanover Trust, or maybe that was a take-over name years later, I don’t know or remember. My dad always used to say that Hal March was a great guy in person (MC).
Gramps and his (Irish) partner also used to moonlight as bouncers at black jazz clubs up in Manhattan. Its a funny story how that all came about. Gramps loved jazz, and used to go to some of the clubs. Not many whites frequented those clubs. Owners noticed and they talked. Found out he was a guard… he was big and burley… they said, “So… you like our music? How’d you like to work for us??” They both hired out.
Rest is history.
Then he got 3 different cameos in movies shot on location of the same bank he worked for in Manhattan; he ended up in a full page spread in TV Guide where they sat him down in the midst of a large group of girls in bathing suits with the title “Who is this bank guard?” Short article on his stint with $64,000. And if that weren’t enough, he also got a huge double page spread photo of him in Time Magazine for an article about some abandoned gem left in a safe deposit box… they found out it was worth millions or something.
Yeah. Gramps was a bit of celebrity in the Big Apple. 😆
My dad used to talk about this contestant, as well as Virgil Earp, another contestant in another CZcams video. Dad met them both.
Crazy stuff.
Truely a gem in danish history. Im here because of the danish podcast Vanvittig Verdenshistorie btw. If you speak danish and you're interrested in history, check it out
Peter is pretty smart but I gotta try that clean and clear stuff.
That’s stupid. FUNNY! But stupid. He would of loved your humor. I’m sure of it.😂
Vanvittig verdenshistorie brought me here!
Synes ikke han var så socialt akavet som Peter fik ham til at lyde som…
Jesus, these questions were a lot tougher in the past weren't they? Also, asking Peter Freuchen questions on exploration is hilarious.
Dumbing us down perhaps?
Well yeah education back then was up to a much higher standard. It was very demanding.
Just finished reading Wanderlust, his biography. Seeing him in the flesh is so surreal. What an eclectic mountain of a man! Also, since this clip doesn't cover the whole thing, let it be known he wins the $64,000.
Rasmmusen and Freuchen.
I’d say there is maybe one or two people in that whole theater that have any inkling as to who this man really was.
When a man, or woman, lives a life such as this man had, and he most certainly was a man, and when the adventures are over, society is but a clueless child compared to these two mens experiences.
Freuchen was a hard man. But he loved once. And deeply. Her name was Navarana. Smart,beautiful, and she was irreplaceable.
This clip is of utmost importance. Not only for his knowledge of a bygone adventurist, but for his outward shine. One of the last humans to brave this brutal weatherly Earth in the name of discovery.
This guy looks like Jens from Meshuggah aged. I bet he’d like Meshuggah too 🤘🏽
Thank you for posting this.I had just read about this fascinating gentleman in John Gertner's book entitled 'The ice at the end of the world'. This TV show was mentioned in it. Apparently he won the jackpot!
clean and clear
What a legend.
Glad they used questions that the person has experience in
"Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, Danish explorer during early 1900s.
The coat he is wearing is made of polar bear fur, he also wore a beard, rode a dogsled 1,000 kilometers across the Greenland ice cap in the 1910s, killed a wolf with his bare hands, escaped a Nazi death warrant at the height of the Third Reich, amputated his own gangrenous toes with a pair of pliers, no anesthesia, also starred in a Oscar-winning movie - which was based on a book that he wrote.
He played the villain in a movie that was loosely based around his own autobiography.
Freuchen published thirty books, founded two Adventurer’s Clubs, his biography is called The Vagrant Viking.
He was once caught in a blizzard and ended up being buried alive in an inescapable cocoon of ice so tightly packed around him that he could barely move.
After 30 hours trapped in a frosty tomb the size of a large suitcase, Dane escaped certain death by molding his own shit into a fucking knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice, then crawled another three hours back to base camp like something out of The Revenant.
He was also the fifth person to win the jackpot in the TV game show The $64,000 Question.
Peter Freuchen is legend. I have several of his books.
Legends NEVER die, they live FOREVER.
This man spoke at least three languages fluently. The native language, I assume Danish, and here, English!
Ahh that lovely danish accent - A proud son of Denmark!
3 ladys and survive many times then travel the world! Daym what a an interesting person
Clean and clear!!!!!
What a legend! Thanks for uploading :-)
I recommend Peter Freuchens book, Book of the seven seas, very good
The original Rambo and Crocodile Dundee all in one.
Have you ever been whaling? Well, of course I have! How times have changed.
6:42 Stunning!
I think they asked him questions he was likely to know, tbh! Pretty hard questions compared to these days!
He did a remarkable job in Home Alone. I can see why Kevin was so terrified of him
What a badass
Absolute fearless man
One tough dude .
What a damn legend
O.K. But where are the next questions that won him the well-known 64,000$ ?? Or are there further continuation but not on YT? I wonder no one asks this question in the comments
I came here after watching Simple History.☺
My new hero.
Damn im just seeing this in 2/20/23 I've heard about him a while ago tho.
There is my Hero.
What an bad ass person
What a terribly interesting man !
Explorer, whale hunter, doctor, author, survivor, frontiersman, and absolute fucking badass.
He made a knife out of his own shit.
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 yes, let’s not forget his infamous shit dagger that he used to claw himself out of an ice cube.
This is a miricle this video got 0 dislikes
fascinating to see him speak
"Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who wore a fucking awesome coat made of polar bear fur, rocked a seriously epic beard, rode a dogsled 1,000 kilometers across the Greenland ice cap in the 1910s, killed a wolf with his bare hands, escaped a Nazi death warrant at the height of the Third Reich, amputated his own fucking gangrenous toes with a pair of pliers (and no anesthesia), and starred in a goddamned Oscar-winning movie - which was based on a book that he wrote, and this guy was so over-the-top awesome that he played the fucking villain in a movie that was loosely based around his own autobiography. He was also the fifth person to win the jackpot in the TV game show The $64,000 Question, published thirty books, founded two Adventurer’s Clubs, and his biography is called The Vagrant Viking.
Need more proof? Check this shit. One time he was caught in a blizzard and ended up being buried alive in an inescapable cocoon of ice so tightly packed around him that he could barely move. After 30 hours trapped in a frosty tomb the size of a large suitcase this behemoth Dane escaped certain death by molding his own shit into a fucking knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice, then crawled another three hours back to base camp like something out of The Revenant meets Everest meets goddamn Shawshank Redemption."
He's so interesting, he makes the haters on CZcams that are about to hit the dislike button reconsider their position.
7:08 that’s very similar to the totoro theme. Wow
But the real question is: did Totoro use Clean & Clear?
Him talking about hunting whales the old way is just great I guess it’s rare but it’s done today when food is scares hunting a whale usually takes a team of hunters team 1 chases the whale and makes it swim to shallow water and if theirs ice the whale literally breaks though the ice to get away from the first hunting team and when that happens hunting team 2 comes with hand spears and hook the whale afew dozen times and team 1 changes roles into holding the lines that are hooked on the whale while team 2 try to kill it as fast as possible because their is no fast way unless your seasoned and know the weak points...but hunting whales out there is seen as like an event where afterward everyone gets a piece and everything is used even the bones
This dude is a bad a**. He used his own frozen poop as a chisel to escape a cave that had frozen over.
Gotta love that "Clean & Clear" pseudoscience.
Few men like this guy.
There used to be more. People do great things under demanding scenarios. Nowadays, an example of a demanding scenario might be, "the internet browser isn't loading fast enough... "
Gigachad
Do Go On brought me here!
Oh yeah! The Guy that shat out a knife!
Why the living fuck isn't "The Eskimo" from 1933 on YT? Is it lost to the war or something, I wanna see him play the Captain!
Anyone else think these questions are hard af?? I feel like they’re so specific... maybe they tailor the questions specifically for the player but still.
Well yeah the category was "The Seven Seas" so a seasoned explorer like Freuchen was bound to crush it
bruh you can hear he’s danish just by the way he pronounces different letters
sounds like dafran
Is there a video of the last round?
Wow those questions seemed very difficult and he's answering them like they are part of his trade.
Vanvittig Verdenshistorie ftw.
This dude is really smart
I see a lot of people commenting on how difficulties questions were, I'm not going to guess about any thing that happened in this video however I'm pretty sure the 64,000 question was involved in the game show scandals where it was discovered they were feeding the contestants the answers
Easy questions
Wow even a black audience member too. And a woman. w0w
It was New York. Contrary to what is widely known, they had outlawed segregation by the 1950s.
You're historically ignorant.
altho no doubt in the audience on this night, they’re previous winners, “over the last year” the MC says.
Can I still get clean and clear?
Why was the host cutting him off... was this shot live?
Woah did Norm Macdonald snag his hitler joke from this??
Con Spiracy caused me to search for this video. : )
Vanvittig verdens historie?
Hvem er her fra Vanvittig Verdens historie? 😅
Yes 😃👍
Jep 😅
You can really hear his Danish accent.
damn, you said it before me
Vandvittig verdenshistorie!!!!!!
Samme
Imagine PETA watching this
Your description is wrong. There were only two 64k winners on the Question: Richard McCutchen and Dr. Joyce Brothers.
Wrong. He won the $64,000.
@@theraiseddesk1459 Prove it.
He use his own shit as a tool to cut ice
Used his own shit as knife
That commercial after the show was so fake 🐧
Shame though that you didn't know if this was fixed or not.
Well. 64,000 was the first game show ever, and eventually it did get shut down for exactly that!
Кто здесь от Анчара?
Simple History, anyone?
Any danes in chat
Nogle danskere
Yeah, right here! 😀
Ja klart buddy
1956 … people were way more smart … wonder what gone wrong !!!
that's because that was peter froken, one of the most acclaimed explorers in history and also a doctor. not alot of people can match his type of intelligence or experience in general.
Sugar
Nothing, he's Danish, they still produce a lot of clever people. Although these days, explorers are a bit thinner on the ground...