December 2, 2024 • 54 mins
Quite often when you get a name like 'Unkillable' it ends poorly for you. But in the case of Adrian Carton de Wiart, it might well have been the most apt nickname there ever was. Join us this week as John takes Aaron through the tale of this absolute hero who defied the odds time and time again to leave a badass story in his wake.
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(00:00):
Boy, if I was to sayto you the term ‘Super Soldier’,
who would you think of?
Captain America.
Yep. Steve Rogers. Yeah.
What about Master Chief?
Sure. Doom guy?
Yep. Solid snake?
What?
Okay, he's from,Metal Gear Solid.
Is he now? Yes.
His name is Solid Snake?Yes.
There’s Solid Snake,Liquid Snake,
Solidus Snake,
(00:20):
Naked Snake. *giggle*
Yeah, there's a lot of...Sorry, Naked Snake?
Naked Snake, yeah.
Well, he gets droppedinto a Warzone with no equipment
So he's naked.Anyway
Cool. Moving on.What about even,
the Space Marines fromthe Warhammer 40 K universe?
(00:42):
Oh, you mean that gamethat we never finished yet?
Correct. Yep.
All charactersor people out of fiction.
Yeah.
But what if I told you historyhas its own super soldier?
A guy that not only foughtin three separate wars,
but survived them.Right.
And I'm not talking aboutpissy little wars
that no one's ever heard of.
I'm talking.
I mean the big two.Pissy little wars!
(01:05):
The big two.
Yeah.
So the, the Cola Wars obviously.
Welcome to thisepisode of Cheeky Tales,
where we look at the life of theunkillable soldier Adrian.
Adrian Carton de Wiart
(01:27):
Right.
The unkillable soldier.
Yes. He is known in historyas the Unkillable Soldier.
Right.
That feels like the kindof thing you shouldn't be named.
Because you inevitablythen get killed.
Well, we'll seeby the end of this episode. So,
it's a bit of a theme of mine,actually.
I kind of like doing sequels toepisodes we've previously done.
(01:48):
I feel like this is a bitof a spiritual successor.
A successor to Sean's episode,which was,
the mad piper of D-Day.
Oh, yeah.
If you remember that episode.
Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah.
I think they were talking about,like,
you just going into battle in.
This bloke'sjust coming out, like
coming out of the water.
Yeah. Yeah, he'sclaymore on his.
(02:08):
Yeah. No,he had to borrow an arc.
That's it? Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah, a bit of a spiritualsuccessor to that.
So, It's also World War Two,I'm guessing.
That is one of the touchstones.
Is there a boat involved?
No, no. Down here.
I mean, you travels on boat.
Cool.
Cool. I.
(02:30):
Was a jerk. This is like.
Do we have any banteryou want to get into?
What's, What's happening?
My hand's. Sore. Oh, wow.
I like it better.
Yeah.
Now, what's we got?
What have we done?
What have we donein the last couple of weeks?
And now I've gotten into Pokemoncards.
Heavy into Pokemon.God, do you have?
Well, I wouldn't,
(02:51):
started.
Yeah.
I've watched a lot of videosof people opening Pokemon cards.
I've bought myself two packsand a couple of singles.
Yeah,I have also a couple of pack.
Couple of dozens of singles.
I got nothing good in it,and I went.
I'm done. That's good.
I didn't do anything goodand I won't be doing that again.
It's coming up to Christmastime.
You have an event next week?
(03:14):
I do, as.
Of recording, so yes,
that's going to be some funbanter for next episode.
I'm sure it will be.
Yeah, that's my box party.
Yeah.
So that's going to go.
Woo! Yeah.
That's going to be good.
The two other blokes here, Johnand Sean who's not here today
are groundsman.
So you've got them to thank forthe stories that come out
next time. Yeah.
(03:35):
So we'll be lookingat an early episode
next year will be lawfrom Aaron's wedding.
We're going to do a liverecording of Cheeky Tales.
Sorry, I'm not there.
At the reception. So I've justspent two hours recording.
I'll be back.
We actuallydo have to work out something
for thatbecause you're going to be away.
Yeah, for a little while.For a little while.
(03:55):
So I have thought about that.
We're gonna have to banka couple of nights here
before the New year.
Or around the New Year's time.
Yeah.
Would be betterwhen people on holidays
would probably havea whole day of stuff we can do.
Yeah. Christmas day,that's for you, right?
Yeah, that's that's then,this is now,
and as we always seem to dowhen we're talking
about a person in their lifehistory.
Let's go back.
(04:17):
Let's start with Adrian's birthand his parents.
Cool.
I've written it out,and I've said, Adrian the
the entire timeI've written them, but I can't.
I kind of want to call.
Me that. One. Others.
Adams. I'm happy with that.That is cool.
Yeah. Let's go. That is.
He was born onMay the 5th, 1880,
and he was the eldest sonof Leon Constant
(04:38):
Gill Lane, Carlton de wit.
That's a name.Though, is a name.
And Anna Stein, Wendy.
Okay.
Apparently there was some rumorsthat Adrian or others
was the illegitimate son of King
Leopold,the second monarch of Belgium.
Yep. For some reason,
(04:58):
it just saidthere was rumors around
at the time that he wasthe illegitimate son of,
the monarch.
I was just
it just reminded me of a storythat I heard the other day.
I was like,is this the same one? It's not.
Okay.I need to go find that one.
That was a banger.
However,he spent his early years
in both England and Belgium
until the untimelypassing of his mother
and the untimely passingof his mother
(05:21):
when he was just six years old.
This promptedLeon to move the family to Cairo
so he could practicelaw in Egypt's mixed courts.
Laterresearch into Adrian's life
revealed that his motherdidn't actually pass in 1886,
but instead his parents divorced
and she remarriedin that same year.
But originallywas thought that she died.
It was just a divorce, and shegot married to some other bloke.
(05:44):
I mean, yeah,
if, of course, you mistakethose two things.
In 1891, his English stepmothersent Adrian
to a boarding school in England.
The RomanCatholic Oratory School,
or free, probably.
Or as it spelt.
IRORITR1.
O r I.
(06:05):
Yeah, t. OR1.
Just say a an easy to pronouncename.
We're going to get into it.
We got some cracker namescoming up in this episode.
This is going to bea classic episode
of Cheeky Tales where we butcherevery name that.
I've practiced a few.
So we'll see how we go.
So he went to, RomanCatholic school.
(06:27):
From therehe went to a college in Oxford,
and I have leftthe name of that college
because it was too hardfor me to say, but lame.
What's it like?
Oxford.
Oxford school.
Oxford University?
No. He left.
I left schooling in 1899
to join the British Armyto fight in the Second Boer War.
They falsified his name and age.
(06:48):
Signing up as TrooperCarleton, and claimed
that he was 25 years oldwhen in reality
he was still 19.
Why is it called the Boer War?
Oh. All right.
I didn't even I've got nothinglike, in fact, check.
With me on.
If I can find my mouse.
I will look that up.
(07:09):
I believe the Boer Warwas caused by Britain's desire
to unite the British South
African territories of CapeColony and Natal with the ball.
Republicof the Orange Free State
and the South African Republic.
The Boers, Africans.
It's got Afrikaans speaking.
Farmers wanted to maintaintheir independence
because of the Boer War.
(07:30):
Complicated and often disputed
and ultimately boiled downto disputes over sovereignty
and control over a highlylucrative natural resource
such as gold.
So which, just because it wasthe Boer territory, right?
Okay.
I figured it would be
something like that,but it's just an odd name.
I'm just lookingup. Where is the Boer territory?
It's like
south east or South Africa,right?
(07:53):
Yes. Okay.
Obviously it's not called thatnow, I don't think, but yeah.
The Boer Republic, sometimesreferred to as the Boer states.
Yeah.
So it makes sense.
And this was the SecondBoer War.
It wasn't long before the startof his infamous legacy.
We begin.
Adrian was shot in the stomachand groin, and it was
(08:16):
and was necessary for him
to return to Englandto recover from the wounds.
So he's off to his first fought
bush shot.
Got and going to thigh. Ouch.
Not a spotyou want to have is not.
Really not a but you want to sayyou're loads of blood.
I know from experience after.
(08:37):
Go on.
Do you want to know when?
Yeah, whenI had my first victory. Yeah.
Cold pace afterwards.
And I'd been sitting for an houror two and went to the toilet.
And as I went to the toilet,I discovered
there was a lot of bloodin that area.
It wasn't like bleeding.Bleeding.
It just been likeweeping over the last.
And that caused meto get really lightheaded
in almost passed out becausethere was lots of blood there.
(08:59):
You're not scared? Me panicky.
But everything was fine.
So yeah. Not not not an area.
You weren't blood.
I've never hearda good vasectomy story.
But the rest of it was fine.Yeah.
The actual process was fine.
And it was just a
bit of seepage.
It wasn't like. It was likesquirting out blood or anything.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
You don't want that? No.
(09:21):
In general.
After learning, othershad abandoned his studies.
His father was furious.
However, allowed him to remainin the military.
And after remainingin Oxford briefly,
he was given a commission inthe second Imperial Light Horse.
He also returned to South Africato see action,
and on September 14th, 1901,
(09:42):
he was given a regularcommission
as a second lieutenantin the fourth Dragoon Guards,
and was transferredto India in 1902.
Great name. Thank you. Yeah.
Fourth Dragoon.
It seems being seriously woundedinstilled a strong desire
for physical fitness.
Others would run, jog, walk andplay sports on a regular basis.
(10:02):
It said what he waswith company.
He was a delightful character
that would hold the worldrecord for bad language.
All right.
That's delightful.
So I was like a trooper.
Well, yeah, it's probably wherethe term actually comes from.
Yeah.
But yeah, he signed upas trooper, remember?
It's a quite common thing
through my researchthat people would say
(10:24):
he was just an absolutelywonderful person, but
loved a.
Bit of a swear, a.
Bit of a swear. Yeah.
Others and his regimentwould be transferred
back to South Africa.
And he would be providedto lieutenant on the
on July 16th, 1904.
Also, he was appointed a decampto the Commander in Chief, Sir
Henry Hillyard.
(10:45):
So the ideacamp was just like assistant.
Yeah. Yeah.
He described that periodin his autobiography,
which, was also this is alsothe title of that chapter.
His heyday,and it lasted until 1914.
So about ten years,
while he only had light dutiesas a decamp,
(11:05):
it gave him plenty of free timefor his interests,
consisting of poloshooting and pig sticking,
hunting pigs. Yeah. Right.
I love how they created
all these like nice termsfor hunting pig sticking.
That's thinking.
That's a nice term.Not really nice.
It's pretty graphic really.
But if you don't knowwhat they're doing
it takes you a minuteto realize.
(11:25):
It's pretty self-explanatory.
Yeah. Yeah.
And not like pigs.
Like pink farm pigs.
Like not Peppa.
No. Boars like wild bulls.
Wild pigs. Yeah.
Also during this time,
seeing as
he was still a Belgian citizen,he took the oath of allegiance
to Edward the Seventh.
Was formally madea British citizen.
(11:46):
So we're back in 1908.
That is was married?
Yep. This may be the longesttime we've ever had on cheeky
tans, by the way.All right. Prepare yourself.
Yep. Please do.
He married Countess
Frederick.
Maria Caroline.
Henriette. Rosa. Sabina.
Franziska.
(12:06):
Vagabond.
Fabian. Housing.
That's too many names.
Dynamic kidwith that many mean land lots.
And was it vagabond at the end.
Like Vonbabe and housing? Right.
Was there a vagabond in there?
Nope. Oh,you want me to go over it again?
Right, Countess.
Good for Frederick.
Maria. Caroline. It's about.
(12:27):
Okay.
Henriette. Rosa. Sabina.
Franziska.
Varga von Baden.
Housing.
She was the eldestdaughter of Karl.
If the Prince of Van Goghvon housing and Princess
Eleanora zu Holland.
Lowell Barton Steen, un JacquesHabsburg of
(12:50):
Klagenfurt, Austria.
I was really hoping that firstguy was just going to be Karl.
Oh, not
funny.
So, yeah, there'sthere's some names there.
Yeah,I think I did alright. Yeah.
There's a few names in therefor sure.
I left them in because it's funto have you struggle with them
and write about hisand his wife.
They had two daughters.
Now, this was pretty connectedin these social circles.
(13:11):
Social circles.
One of his cousinswould become Prime
Minister of Belgiumfrom 1922 1921.
And also while on leave,he traveled
extensivelythroughout Central Europe,
using his connections to shootat country estates in Bohemia,
Austria, Hungaryand perfect Brava.
It's that type of area.
It's the area.
(13:32):
Is it Bavaria or is it Brava?
It's bravia. Right.
Upon returning to England,
he rode with the famousDuke of Buford Hunt.
Oh, yeah? Right.Never heard of it.
It's probably to pretty well,I'm sure of it.
And during, this hunt,he met future Field Marshal Sir
Henry Maitland
Wilson, in the future AirMarshal Sir Edward Ellington,
(13:55):
and was promoted to captainon the 26th of February, 1910.
From 1912 to 1914,and served as the assistant
to the commanding officerof the Royal Berkshire Hussars.
So USSR's.
Assault?
Yeah.
What is that place in England?
That's right.Lancashire. Berkshire.
(14:16):
It's. It'll be like Gloucester.
Well, yeah. Gloucestershire.Yeah. It's like Gloucestershire.
Yeah. Gloucestershire.
Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Race.
Sorry, man. It's. Well,we get it.
So people come over and they goBrisbane or Melbourne,
Melbourne and Melbourne.
And then they lookat Woolloongabba and go.
I'm getting back on the plane.
I'm not even going to try
(14:37):
Intrepidly.
What the hell's. That? Yeah.
You're wrong. Happily.
Yeah. Oh,I'll get to people all the time.
Yeah.
Bun tambo. Wunderbar.
I've always got to like.
Where do you live?
Doctor myself thatI always have to spell it off.
And it's likeI'll just don't even bother.
Same as my street.
(14:57):
I've got to go.
Yeah.
It's a normal English word like,
because I asked how to spell it.
I don't know if you get that.
Maybe they think it'sbecause it's got a wine.
Possibly.
I'm not going to doctor myself.
That got so close.
Yeah.
He almost all of the leaves.
The number and everything.
No not really. Yeah.
So yeahhe's pretty well-connected
like in the upperaristocratic circles.
(15:20):
If you had have saidyour whole address
that would have been the best.
Far number is 044.
Look at the rest, guys. Yeah.
I'll give you the,the first two.
You can work out the next ideas.
There'sonly 10 million other options.
10 million?
It's eight digits, right?
Yeah, seven digits is million.
It's ten digits.
(15:40):
You find, if you. Just gaveoh. Four. Oh, yeah.
Sure. Yeah.
So you've got 99 millionother options.
Good luck.
I'll be waiting by the phone.
Probably half the people thatlisten already know my number.
Anyway. I said,what does it matter?
Call Johnif you know his number.
Please don't. 2 a.m..
So. Yeah,
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this guy's pretty well-connected
in the upperaristocratic circles.
He married a countess.
Yeah. He's got a.
Porsche you can't solve againwith names like that.
It sounds like Spain.
Flagging for Austria.
Right?
I shouldn't like that.
I'm flagging that.
I shouldn't have known that.Who would know that?
So now we're up to 1914,
(16:21):
and we all know what startedthem.
World War one? Yeah.
What episode did we cover?
The start of World War.
Like the assassinationthat started World War two.
I we were.
When I was at the Christmas.
Truce.
Yes, it was an episode 40Christmas truce.
Now, 50 episodes ago.
Pause. Go back and listen to it.
So when that was all happening,
I was on hisway to British Somaliland,
(16:44):
not Somalia, Somali holy land.
Somaliland? Yep.
Was that where Somalia is now?
I think so, I, I didn't actually
look it up,but it would make sense, right?
Sure. Yeah.
Where a little of a warwas underway against the
followers of a dervish leader,Mohammed bin Abdullah.
He was known as Mad Mullahby the Brits.
You. You're your own count.
(17:05):
Is I already spiralingout of control over here?
That is what, had been seconded,
to the Somaliland camel corpse
and in an attack against anenemy force that she embarrass.
That is for sure.
Once in the arm,twice in the face,
losing his left eye.
And a portion of his ear.
Ouch.
(17:26):
Sorry.
Do you say right eyeand left ear?
No. Left eye. Left ear.
Left or it?Just a portion of it.
It doesn't say what you hear.
Yeah, I just thought it was,like, opposite sides, but.
But. Yeah. Lost.He lost his left arm.
Not even at the start of WorldWar One yet.
Yeah, he just lost an eye.
How did he end upfighting in the rest of the war?
Oh, right. Right. Okay. He.
(17:49):
During this time, he would gaina Distinguished Service Medal.
He would return to England again
after recoveringin a nursing home in Ukraine,
which was his preferredplace of recovery.
He would return to thisnursing home each time.
Not a good sign to havea preferred place of recovery.
Yeah.
Generally you want to only dothat once while recovering.
It statedthat others received a glossy,
(18:10):
but it irritated him so muchthat he allegedly tossed it
from a taxi and acquireda black eye patch instead.
Right. You at a spa?
I don't know what's goingon. Are you the lost?
The bought from.
Oh, Paul was really just.Yeah. Zoomed me.
Well, I only had one coffeetoday, so that might be it.
That is alsosaw action on the Western Front.
He headed to France in February
of 1915and successfully commanded
(18:32):
three infantry battalionsand a brigade.
However, somewhatunbelievably others was wounded
seven more times in this war.
Yeah.
Calm down.
Might have a break.
The first of which happenedduring the Second Battle of
April.
More fighting in the trenches
at his left hand was shatteredby German artillery.
(18:54):
So he's lost an eye and an ear.
And now he's the left hand. Yep.
How is this guy.
Fighting in two furtherwars? According.
Oh, this is still the startof the First World War.
So he's got to finish this one.And then Second World War.
According to his memoirs,
the doctor refusedto amputate his hand. Why?
So he would.
(19:14):
Have enough cocaine?
Well, he.
So he ripped off two of his ownfingers to return to the front.
Oh, dude.
Don't do that. Yeah.Kind of like.
Did you hear the story?
In the last Olympics,the hockey player
that had his finger amputated.
Yeah, just it was broken,
and he wouldn't be ableto play with a broken finger.
So they
he amputated it instead,which would allow him
(19:34):
to play in the Olympicsbecause the recovery times less.
You losing a fingerfor the rest of your life.
I think it was his last chanceto play in the Olympics.
Okay. Sorry.
And then they didn'teven like medal.
Anyway,it feels like it's a very.
Big try to make, That's crazy.
When I broke my finger,I wasn't getting an amputated.
(19:54):
Oh, yeah, that was I.
Tell you
a bit of two of his own fingersso he could return quicker.
But then later onwould have the him amputated
about a year later. Right.
So he is nowmissing his left arm.
Left. I left hand.
I think it was around about mid.
Oh right. Okay. So a fairbit of it. Yeah.
So it's not just like I'm surethe photos I've seen, it's like
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closer to the elbowto the nearest.
Undeterred.
And even though missing him
this would return to the foughtand fought in the battle
of the Somme duringwhich his men recall seeing the
now one handed man pulling pins,
from grenade with these teeth
and then flinging themwith his one good hand.
(20:37):
That's so dope.
To further cementat his badassery.
Yeah.
During the assault
on the village of Lapassetfor sale in France of 1916,
three other unit commanders
from the eighth Battalionin the brush
GloucestershireRegiment were killed.
Others would then step up andtake charge of all three units,
(20:57):
and they would hold backand advancing enemy assault.
That action got thethen 36 year old awarded
the Victoria Cross, the highestand most prestigious decoration
in the British military.
I have an an an extractfrom the London Gazette
describing his actionthat day in earning him the VC.
So yeah,like like, is it pretty badass?
This guy's black eyepatchone handed just.
(21:21):
Yeah. Hand grenades. Yep.
And then how about this, love?
So I'll read this,and then we'll go into it. Yeah.
For the most.
I know, I.
Know, deathAfrican wasn't Belgian.
Belgian, right. Yeah.
For the most conspicuousbravery,
coolness and determination
during severe operationsof a prolonged nature.
It was owing, in a great measureto his dauntless courage
(21:43):
and inspiring example.
That series reverse was averted.
He displayed
the utmost energy and couragein forcing our attack on him.
After three other battalioncommanders
had become casualties.
He controlled their commands
and ensured that the Grim onewas maintained at all costs.
He frequently exposed himselfin the organization of positions
and supplies, passing
(22:03):
unflinchinglythrough fire a barrage
of the most intense nature.
His gallantrywas inspiring to all.
That's a pretty glowing report.
Yep. Yeah.
So I can just imaginethis guy, like,
on the beam of white cover,just ordering troops as bullets.
Just with passing onehanded one on.
Yeah.
And then every now and again,just stopping the
(22:24):
fucking grenade.
Yeah. That's the movie scene,right?
The guy just.
Yeah.I'm not sure. I wonder if they,
Sure.
When I did that. Yeah, he would,but he's not here.
I wonder if that's likethe action movie
where that's originated from.
Like,the action movie is like pulling
the pinwith the grain, throwing it.
Or maybe, I mean.
Like the story of the stick.
Move, right to pull itwith the teeth. Not really.
(22:46):
Yeah. If your hand's busy.
Or if you don't have one. Yeah.
Maybe it is.
Maybe it is. In my headcanon.
This is where itoriginated from. This guy.
Just like one hand.
Just I justI could use my daughter cry
to grenadejust one after another. Just.
And his teethjust chipped old. Oh.
To make this guy even cooler
in his memoirthat I mentioned earlier,
(23:08):
he humblydoesn't even mention this. A
not really priming and I quote.
Went and bought eggs,went to meeting, came home.
Claiming and I quoteit had been won
by the eighth glosses for
every man has doneas much as I have brought.
Just yeah,he's pretty good. Yeah.
He's a pretty cool guy, right?
(23:28):
Yeah, yeah.
Otherswould seem to find himself in
some of the most hellishbattles of World War One.
Yeah,like the battle of Delvin Wood.
Oh, sorry.
Devil wood,also known as Devil's Wood.
Yeah, sure.
I just would again
lead from the front,but again would be wounded.
This time receivingprobably his worst injury.
(23:51):
He was shotin the back of the head.
So it's in the back of the head.
I'm not sure if it was likeback to front.
I think it might have been likesideways.
Yeah.
The description saidwould normally kill anyone else.
Yeah.
He got shotin the back of the head.
It missed thespinal cord, and he survived
and recovered from JFK.
Should have taken some hints.
(24:12):
In three subsequent battles.
He would fight in.
Yeah, I saw that. I heard that.
Not only did he, like,get shot in the back of the head
and survive.
He's returned to fight againin three subsequent battles.
He would be shot in the ankle,hip, leg and finally again
in the air. Do. Just.
You've done enough.
You've done enough. You reckon?
(24:34):
Yeah, I think so.
Just three days before the endof the war, on November 8th.
This was given.
At this point there, like kindof a where the war's ending.
Yeah.
Maybe I'm not sure how awarethey were of the war
ending or not. Yeah.But something went up.
Look up.
Well, just remember that
the end of World WarOne was like.
Agreed. Yes.
(24:54):
They didn't agree.
And it was like, hey,
we're going to end on this dateat this time. Yeah.
So three daysbefore November 8th,
which is obviously the day we,
have remembered saying November11th is the end of the war.
This wasgiven command of a brigade
with the rank of temporarybrigadier general.
Apparently,his reputation had preceded him,
(25:15):
and the men in the brigade
were quite nervousat the new appointment.
They knew atis was fond of finding a fort.
Imagine this.
I don't want to be that guywho's been shot seven times.
I don't want to deal with that.
I imagine this new commandersare showing up to inspect Mark.
He's inspecting the troops.They're out in parade.
He's missingan arm. He's got one eye.
(25:35):
He's got 11 woundedstripes on his uniform.
Like that would have to bepretty intimidating, right?
Yeah.
And he's telling youto f off, bro.
One of the guys in recalling it,this is like,
even though he had one eye,
he still told meto get my license changed.
Therehe is to pick up the details.
Could you imagine,like, oh, this guy's been shot
(25:57):
seven times. Shotin the back of the head.
Lost an eye. Lost an arm. Yeah.
You know, like that guy. He'syour new commander. Yeah.
He might have a
he might have a Victoria Cross,but I still don't
want to follow the guythat keeps getting shot. That.
Well, he just obviously keepsputting himself in harm's way.
Yeah. So.All right, so now we're.
That's the end of World War one.
He's done two wars.
Yeah, the Boer war,second Boer War.
(26:18):
Yeah. World War one. Correct.Yeah.
In the years between world wars.
What did I just do?
I'm going to say
race car driver.
No. Oh,
he found otherwars to fight in. Oh, cool.
1919 to 1921,
he commanded the British effortto aid Poland,
(26:38):
in which he engagedin multiple conflicts
with the Soviet Polish.
She gives the Ukrainians,the Lithuanians,
Bolsheviks, sorry,
the Ukrainians, the Lithuanians
and the Czechs over contestedterritory.
Also in 1919, he survivednot one but two plane crashes
and even and one even resultedin a brief period
(26:59):
of Lithuanian captivity.
Okay. So now.
Yep. Yep.
Another encounter for otherswas when Cossacks,
Eastern Slavic,Slavic Christians
attempted to hijack his hijack.
His observation. Train. Yeah.
That is like a spy train.
I would assume it'sjust a train that goes around.
(27:20):
And from that,you're able to look at tens.
Maybe. I don't know.
It just seems like the leastconspicuous spy vehicle.
It's like, hey, what are thesetrain tracks here for? Yeah.
Oh, that giant train witha bunch of telescopes on it.
Hey, let's set upthis super secret base
rightnext to these train tracks.
It's going to come back to you.
Yeah.
These train tracksthat we didn't build.
Look.What's the on this timetable?
(27:41):
What's this questionmark. Right.
I don't know.
Anyone know what this questionMark. Chinese.
I wouldn't sayit was for spying.
I'd say it was just
doing the rounds,being able to check on things.
Yeah, I like yeah,
I just would take thesehijackers on single handedly.
Literally armedwith only a revolver.
Allegedly, during the fight,he fell under the tracks
(28:02):
but immediately
recovered, hopping straightback up onto the moving,
trying to finish offthe rest of the attackers.
Once I fell off this train. Yep.
I was just not movingvery quickly and.
Then got up and got back on it.
This dude's wild.
By 1921,when the poles had won the war,
I had is retired with thehonorary rank of major general.
Yeah.
And he had become
quite fond of Polandand decided to remain there.
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Others had become friendswith even more powerful people,
including Prince Carol,Nicholas,
Nikolai Radziwill.
Right. Yep.
Member of the Polish royals.
The prince gave at hisa large estate called Preston,
a wetland area that is larger
(28:46):
than Ireland and surroundedby water and forest.
So he gave it an estatelarger than Ireland. Correct.
The country of Ireland? Correct.
That's a big estate.
I don't know if you know this,but Ireland is big.
It's not that big.
He spent the next 15 yearsthere.
Where he himself claimedI did not waste one day
without hunting.
(29:08):
Yeah. You got so much space.Yeah.
Bloody hell.
Like I they wouldn't be like.
Surely this town'sin that space.
It's not just his house.
If I remember correctly,I forgot to write it down,
but let's have a look at Prestonvillage of Messer
V in Poland.
(29:29):
What I say, when I looked it up,it's something like
half a million
hectares.
Yeah.
Well, actually,this town's in there.
Like. How would it not be?
How could it be just one house?
Right. Yeah.
I mean, that'sjust what it said.
I can I just tell you what I.
(29:50):
What I read.
Fair enough.
I don't believe he was giventhe entirety of it.
He might have been givena portion of it, but, yeah,
this whole areawas larger than Ireland.
Yeah. Big wetland area.
So that was these next 15 yearshunting and fishing.
This brings us to the world's.
And fish version.
This brings us to the world'sworst sequel, world War two.
(30:11):
I think we've calledthat before, haven't we?
Yeah, I think you specifically.
I've used that termlike twice. Yeah, well it is.
Yeah.
And actually,if you want to argue not saying.
Well, what I was good,
but probablynot the worst sequel.
What would you sayis the worst sequel then?
Matrix two.
(30:32):
Well.
Matrix reloaded.Was it reloaded?
No. Yes. No. That's matrixfour, wouldn't it?
I don't know do.
So you don't even rememberwhat it's called?
This matrix revelations.
That was the new one.Doesn't matter.
That was numberthree, was it? Yeah.
Oh, that doesn'tmatter. Garbage.
I didn't think so.
(30:52):
I actually haven't even seen it.
Oh my God.
Why would you think I had?
Titanic two is the.
We'll do a sequel. Yeah.
It hasn't even come out yet.
Get that billionaire on thereand let him sink.
Avatar two. Again.
Is that the.
First time
you've thought about avatarin, like, two months? Yes.
I'm being proven rightevery time we mention it.
(31:13):
Because every time.
It's the first time
I've heard of it
since the last timewe mentioned it,
which would be monthsin the past.
Avatar is a terrible franchisethat is incredibly forgettable.
You don't?
Yes, but that shown here.
I don't have to keep going.
He doesn't stick up for that,does he?
Yeah.
(31:34):
Do you see the way.
You hear himtalk about it on this podcast?
You think it'shis favorite franchise?
It could be.And you just keep Duncan.
He doesn't even care about it.
Okay. Garbage frame.
James Cameron.
Well,I don't know James Cameron.
She said James Camerondoes that.
Some good movies. Sure.
Not avatar.
Eileen's being one.
Titanic, which was one ofthe world's greatest sequels.
(31:57):
What? Aliens?
Yeah, sure.
But, like,alien was the first one.
Aliens, man.
They've taken all the easytitles.
Alien. Predator.
Like you just naming the thing.
Yeah.
Like you can't.
There'sno single word titles anymore.
(32:18):
I'm sure they could be.
If they made up.
Coming this summer.
Hunter was probably. Maybe.
Yeah. They called Hunter. Yeah.
Logan. Morg.
Extraterrestrial.
It's probablythat's being taken as well.
Yeah. E.T..
No, but it's called eat.
It's not called a. Trista.Terrestrial.
(32:39):
Oh, I guess twisters.
Great film.
Oh, come on.
Great sequel.
How about.
If you feel it, chase it.
Isn't that just the first moviereally done?
Yeah. Yeah.
It's exactly the same film.
Oh, no. It's a little different.
It's a little different.
(33:00):
There's more than one.
There's another guyleaving his fiance
in the middle of the film.
Yes. There's more than onetwister.
Well, there's more than onetwister in the first.
One, is it?
I've never seen twister.
You've never seen twister?
Nope.
Well, boy, you letting me down?
You know, the another movie
that starts with tell youthat I've ever seen.
What? Titanic.
(33:21):
Yeah.
I hadn't seen it until,like, two years ago.
When you did the episode.
Did you watch itbecause you did the episode?
I hadn't even seen the moviewhen we did the episode.
I saw it.
The Valentine's Day thatwe moved here two years ago.
Okay.
And, the only waythat we could see it was in 3D.
So the only way I've seenTitanic is in 3D.
And let me tell you.
Not a bad adaptation in 3D.
(33:42):
Okay. Yeah.
There's a couple of sceneswhere you're like,
oh, yeah, that's pretty coolin 3D. Back to. James Cameron.
Yeah.
When the when it'swhen it's sinking and the,
so the ship comes off.
Board, you say oh my God.
Or the stern. Thank you.
There's actually a namefor that part of the boat.
Yeah.
When the ship's. Owner finds.
Himself out of the water,it's like this super long.
(34:05):
It, like, comes at.
It's right when the Titanic'sjet comes out of the water.
Yeah.
That's one for the kids. Wait.
He said, get me this.
Oh, cool. Did you not know?
You don't know that you don'thave a 9 or 14 year old that's.
For you, bro.
Yeah, that's that's awesome.
Now, that one's too old.
What? Busan.
(34:25):
Nobody saying Busan now?Yeah. They are.
Are they going to sign it?
Oh, no. Cap.
Next year, for real? For real.
All right. All right.
I gotta stopbefore the gray start showing.
You know, there's a few thingsthat have shown.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Yeah, we be right outside.
The railingin the middle of the episode.
Just talking to the staff.
There's a few thingsthat have made
(34:45):
me feel my agein the last couple of days.
The other day,I was eating some food
just at the coffee coffee tablehere.
Just like having some snacks.
And I put my arm up on the tablefor too long.
And then my shoulderhas been messed up ever since.
And then I just.
Heardyou explain the word get up, and
I'm definitelynot in my 20s anymore.
Oh, boy, it doesn't get better.
(35:06):
Yeah.
So someone who'snearly in their 40s,
it doesn't get better.
Yeah.
(35:27):
Well tell you.
Okay. Yeah.
Doc, when I was born.
Yes. Stare into it, boy.
It's the start of the war.Blind.
He was recalled in July of 1939to his old job
as head of the British militarymission in Poland.
How old was he at this point?
Well, he's born in 1880.
(35:48):
So that would put.
He'd be like 50. 59.
49, 59.
59. Yeah.
Sheesh. That's an all black.
Nazi Germany invaded Poland,
on September 1st.
And two weeks later, the Sovietattacked Poland from the east.
Yeah,because remember, the Soviets
and the Germanswere allies at the start. Yep.
(36:09):
They got messed up.
The Soviets would overrunpresident and others
would lose all of hisguns, fishing
rods, clothing and furniture andpretty much lay fishing rods.
Pretty much.
So I was I'm.
Not going to gohunting and fishing now.
They were singled outas things he was.
Yeah. Upset from losing.
He pretty much wants to losestuff.
Yeah.He loses his entire living.
(36:29):
We had to evacuate.
He had to evacuate where hewas living. You know, I like,
he stuff was actually packed upand taken to the Minsk Museum.
Oh, which was like,
destroyed by the Germanswhen the Soviets in Germany.
Yeah.
I just never saw that areaagain, but stated
they did not take my memories.
I just would advise the headof the Polish military
(36:51):
which led to the Polish fleetleaving the Baltic Sea,
before the outbreak of the war.
He was trying to get the Polish
to withdraw their militaryas well, but that was ignored.
But he got the, the fleetout in time, which saved them.
And they were able to later
significantly contributeto the Allied cause.
Good as Polish resistanceweakened
(37:12):
as would evacuate himself,
the British mission and thePolish government from Warsaw.
And I had the Germansand the Soviets hot on his tail.
At one point his car convoywas attacked by the Luftwaffe,
resulting in the wifeof one of his aides dying.
So I imaginebeing the wife of someone.
Yeah.
Like you just therebecause your partner's there
(37:34):
and you get shot dead.
But again, this is likeanother one of these stories.
These guyscruising out of the country.
Planes are strafing him.
Right.
Yeah. Anyway
he only just scraped at uslike they went from Poland
to Romania.
He only just scrapedout of Romania as well.
On September 21st he left byplane with a false passport.
(37:55):
This was the same daythe pro allied Romanian
prime minister was assassinated.
So I'm assumingif it was a day later,
he's probably notgetting out of it. No.
His next mission occupy a smalltown in Norway named source.
And take the town of Trondheim200km.
His next mission do anythingwithout getting injured?
Yeah.
On the way, he c planewas forced to land in a fjord
(38:17):
and was attacked by a Germanfighter plane. Yeah.
One of his aides were woundedand were evacuated.
In true, AdrienCaron Dwight style.
He refused
to get into the rubber dinghybecause it was a sitting duck,
instead remained in the wreckageuntil the fighter
planeran out of ammo and flew away.
So it's like I'm not getting inthat thing.
These guys are goingto get absolutely torn up.
Yeah, it ran and I flew away.
(38:38):
And then he just strolled out.
Yeah, he just strolledout of the wreckage and got,
picked up by,
a Norwegian
ship. Pretty much. Yeah.
To something lighter. Yeah.
His tenure in Norwaydidn't last long.
His forces were outgunnedand undersupplied.
However, the super soldierhe was,
I just gathered his force,
scaled the mountainand advanced toward Trondheim.
(39:00):
Oh I bet.
All while being constantlybombarded by German destroyers.
The naval attack that was meantto happen at the same time.
Like the coordinated attack.
It didn't happen.
And it left, othersand his forces exposed
without guns, transport,air cover or skis.
This is they needed skisbecause they were in a foot
and a half of snow. Yeah.
(39:21):
They were constantlybeing shelled
by the German destroyers,
as well as being machinegunand bombed from the air, and had
the the Germans would not even
the Germanswere landing the German.
Comparison myself.
The German navy with landingtroops like behind them.
Yeah.
And they were being constantlyattacked by German ski troopers.
(39:44):
Ski troopers?
Seems like it seems dope, right?Yeah.
They're just cruising downthe slopes.
Yeah.
Like doing the,like, fighting left and right.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. That's.
I'm sure that'snot what it was like.
I'm sure it sucked. I'm.
I'm sure probably justcross-country skiing. Right.
Yeah. It's not dance like. Yeah.
It's like going down the hill.
(40:06):
So the bond film, though.
Me of the end of this.I want to bring it up.
I'm sure there's a sayingin tree lights
where they got bikes going down.
Skis like the Uzis got you.Yeah.
As on. He'srunning across the snowfield.
Yeah. I'm sure that's the thing.
The Norwegian campaign wasturning into a bit of a show,
and I just requested withdrawal,to which he was denied
(40:28):
and asked to hold his positionfor political reasons.
Cool.
That's the only reason thatyou would ever want to hear.
And he did? Yeah.
Eventually,the order to withdraw was given,
and when they arrivedat the rendezvous point,
their extraction wasn't there.
Oh, cool.
It did, however,
show up the following nightand others and his entire force
were evacuated amidheavy bombardment.
(40:51):
Two Allied destroyerswas sunk in the process, and
others arrived back onto Britishsoil on the 5th of May 1940.
His 60th birthday.
Oh, what a present. Yeah.
In April of 1941,
this was appointedby Winston Churchill
to lead a British missionto Yugoslavia.
But he never arrived while enroute to Yugoslavia via Malta.
(41:11):
The planehe was traveling in lost
both engines and nosedivedinto the Mediterranean.
That is, an RAF bomber crewclung to the wing of the plane
untilthe fuselage started to sink.
This then helped
an injured and strugglingperson swim the mile to shore.
Remember, this dudeat this point is 61 and has won.
Yeah. How'she gonna do this first?
(41:31):
I don't know.
Hooking him under his stumpand off he goes using his teeth.
As soon as they made it ashore.
They were capturedby the Italians.
Oh, come on, man.
This was sent to a castleoutside of Florence, where he.
And where he was held as one of13 high ranking officer P.O.W..
Yeah.
So he'salready been a prisoner of war,
(41:53):
and now he's a prisoner of waragain?
Yeah.
In the same war, too? Yeah.
No. It was like in between wars.
And it was also Poland,but not there.
Yeah. So you reckonthis bloke just sat quietly
so that therest of the war as a prisoner?
I'm gonna guess. No. Correct.He did not.
Yeah.
It doesn't seem like the kind ofguy to go and take a desk job.
(42:14):
What do you think he did.
He's going to go backto the front lines.
Okay.
Before that. Okay.
He attempted five escapes.
Includingwhat else are you going to do?
You're
including one that seems likeit was straight out of the movie
The Great Escape,but with grandpa's.
Bunk. So, there's a bunch.
Yeah, there wasa bunch of our blokes as
(42:37):
they made this attempt.
One attempt, I think they were.
They spent seven months
tunneling a 60ft tunnelthat went through bedrock.
Oh, yeah. Right.
So not not an easy thing.
No, not an easy thing. Now. No.
On one of these occasions,
he even evaded recapturefor eight days.
(42:57):
Oh. Disguisedas an Italian peasant.
Just a mamma. Mia!
However, he was in the past.
He was in northern Italy, spokeno Italian, was 62 years
old, had an eyepatch
and one empty sleevebecause of the missing hand.
Multiple scars from injuries.
It's safeto say he kind of stood out.
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
So, yeah,he was recaptured and taken back
(43:19):
just over two years and sevenbreakout attempts later,
in August of 1943,others was driven to Rome.
The Italian governmentwas wanting to leave the wall
and others was to betheir bargaining chip.
So this is the time
the Italians kind of backflippedon the Germans as.
Well,kind of, ended Mussolini. Yep.
He accompaniedan Italian negotiator
(43:41):
and was to meetAllied contacts in Lisbon.
He was toldhe needed civilian clothes.
This was to keep the missionsecret.
Others, however, distrust,distrusted Italian tailors.
But he stated, and I quote,
had no objection, providedhe did not resemble a gigolo.
That's just a quotethat I wanted to leave with it
(44:02):
because it sounds hilarious.
I don't want to look likenot a filthy gigolo, but just.
Kind of speaksto the character of this bloke.
He's like, yeah, I'll do it.
Just don'tmake me look like a gigolo.
A bit of tongue in cheek,you know? Yeah.
Eventually returning to Englandagain after his release
on August 28th, 1943,two years as a P.O.W..
Time for rest. No, no.
(44:23):
One month after his return,he was summoned
to spend the nightat the PM's house,
where Churchill would assign himanother mission.
He would be Churchill's
special representativeto the Chinese leader
right before heading to China.
He accompanied the Chineseleader to the Cairo Conference,
where Japan's postwar futurewould be discussed.
After that, Adrian or othersspent four years in China where
(44:46):
somehow he managed to experienceyet another plane crash.
This guy doesn't like planes,but at this point, I'm guessing
on boats.
Yeah, this guy still did so much
and I'm condensingwhat he's done
in like the four yearshe spent in China.
I'm skipping things like meetingwith a bunch of dignitaries.
(45:06):
He had a front row seat on the
HMS Queen Elizabethfor the bombardment of Subang
and being at the formalsurrender of the Japanese.
Right. Yeah, he did a lot.
Not a lot of front linestuff so much.
But he was still.
Yeah, he's a diplomatby this point. Yeah. Yeah.
There was
back when he was in like Polandand doing stuff like that.
People were like, you're tooold to be laid in the front.
(45:27):
And then he's doing stufflike driving the
the Polish government,
a wartorn country or being. Yeah.
Anyway, so yeah, like I said,he attended the formal surrender
of the Japanese in October 1947at 66.
Others.
Oh, Adrian Caron Dwyerretired right for the last time.
(45:50):
Sure. Yep.
But there was one last majorinjury left in him.
Oh, no.
Don't worry,this isn't the one the war gets.
The tough old bugger.
He survives this one as well.
Traveling homefor a French Indo-China.
I just stopped at Rangoon asa guest of the army commander.
Coming down the stairs.
(46:10):
He slipped on a coconut matting,
so broke several vertebraeand knocked himself unconscious.
No way. On a coconut?
Yeah, well. Coconut man.
Yeah, he broke his back. Yeah.
He was admitted to the RangoonHospital to recover.
And while the doctors removed
a huge amount of shrapnelfrom his body.
Yeah, well,while we're in that, let's
just do a bit of cleaning.
Unfortunately,his wife died in 1949.
(46:32):
Oh, and in 1951,at the age of 71, he remarried
Ruth Myrtle Mary Jane McKinney,who was 23 years his senior.
Sorry, 23.
He's he's junior. Right?
So she's,like, in her 50s. Yeah. Yeah.
He has written amemoir, as I mentioned earlier.
And if you want to look itup, it's titled Happy Odyssey,
(46:54):
which he wrote in his retirement
and spent most of his daysfishing.
That is until he died peacefullyat the age of 83, in 1963.
Right.
Just to close off his littlestory, the second wife, Ruth,
she passed in January of 2006at the age of 102. Wow.
I thought that was.
That's a run. Yeah.I thought that was pretty good.
(47:16):
That'sright. 40 years after. Yeah.
He passed, but yeah, that is.
A long time.
So I thoughtthat was interesting to include.
Which is interesting.
So 102 2006.
She was she was born in 1904.
I fool.
He wasn't quite fighting.He was.
He may have been fightingin his first war then. Yeah.
(47:38):
That'sjust interesting to think of.
So whenever you think of big agedifferences
like that, it's a bit odd. Yeah.
So, anyway,
I have screen shot
all of his awardsand decorations
if you want to quicklygo over them,
because this is the endof his story.
Yeah. So we can go over his.
So I think this guy's in highestdistinction there.
(47:59):
It's obviously the VictoriaCross.
1916 Knight Commander ofthe order of the British Empire.
That was from New Year'shonors in 1945.
Companionof the order of the bath.
The military division.
Companion of the Order of SaintMichael and Saint George.
Companion of the DistinguishedService Order.
(48:20):
That was for,
when he lost his eye.
But that I believethat was when that happened.
Queen South Africa
medal Africa General ServiceMedal 1914.
Star British War Medal.
The Victory Medal 1939 45.
Star Africa star BurmaStar, Italy star
(48:42):
War Medal 1939 1945.
King Georgesix Coronation Medal.
Queen Elizabeththe Second Coronation Medal.
Officer of the orderof the Crown from Belgium,
Croix de jure 1914 to 1918.
That's a Belgian medal as well.
Silver cross not of the Orderof Military Virtue of Poland.
(49:03):
Cross of valor from Poland.
Commander of the Legionof Honor of France and the crux
de Gea 1939 to 1944 from France.
That is a lot of awards.
Yeah, very of medals.
Very distinguished. Yeah.
Military career? Yeah.
That is the story of the UNcapable soldier.
(49:23):
Yeah.
So now, as you statedat the start of the episode,
a Monica that you might notnecessarily want.
Do you still agree with that?
No. I mean,he was pretty unkillable.
He was pretty hunkered.
Down in thesport for all the time. But,
Sheesh.
What a guy.
Pretty. Yeah.Just an extraordinary life.
Yeah, right.
I always think with peoplelike that.
(49:43):
Like they just do so much.
It's incredible.
Yeah. Like I said,there's a lot of stuff
I skip down until two ways.
Like you said,acting as a diplomat,
doing a lot of
aristocratic activitieslike very well connected,
but then also just
leading the troops at the front
and like not sitting backin a headquarters.
(50:05):
Yeah. Headquartersor anything like that.
He was.
Yeah. Doing the jobhe was doing.
Yeah. It's
it is incredible hearingstories of people like that
and just knowing that, like,
if you just do stuff,you're going to do so much.
Yeah. Yeah.
Good story boy.
Yeah.
Like as you are aware
(50:26):
I wanted to keep it shortbut it's just this.
Yeah. It's just one of.Those will be half an hour.
He said
it was just one of those onesthat as I kept going through it,
it's just like more and moreand more and you're like, what?
And these arethe episodes that we love.
We always saywe want to find stories
that are just likekeep blowing your mind when.
They just keep growing in scale.Yeah.
You think, oh the dude's beenshot in the back of the head.
(50:46):
But what else could happen.
Yeah. Now you could fall downsome stairs and break his back.
Yeah.
And then still live another,like, ten years. 20.
Is it 20 years?Another 20 years. Yeah.
Sheesh. Like, what year is 1963?
1963? Crazy. Was that Vietnam?
It must be close.
Yeah.
You reckonhe was sitting in gum during.
(51:09):
I don't think he was.
I don't I don't think so, but,
I sent you a photo, and I'msure you're going to post it.
Yeah, I might be able
to find a higher resolution one,but there's photos of him
in a group with WinstonChurchill.
Like he spent a nightat Churchill's place like this.
He was like,
oh, you're back from two yearsand I've got a mission for you.
How was POW camp in Italy?
(51:30):
Would you like to go out againand do more stuff?
Well, this was like four weeks
after your returnfrom Churchill.
Sent him over to China.
I need you, China.
Yeah. Off you go. Oh, okay.
Yeah, that's a lot.
So we talked about his wifeat, like,
I don't reckon his first wifeseeing him much.
Probably not know a.
Wife fighting or backrecovering.
(51:50):
Right. Yeah.
At his favorite recovery clinic.
Nursing home. Nursing.That's it. Yeah.
What did. I just
that's a cool too.
Yeah.
If you want to
obviously find out obviouslymore in depth of his story.
He's got his memoir.
But I thought it was happyhonestly.
Honestly. Yeah.
I'm sure you can find thatas an e-book or somewhere.
Yeah,I'd love to read that. Sure.
That'd be a great story.
(52:11):
There was a heavy metal bandthat wrote a song about him
in 2022. Right.
I can quickly look that up.
I think it's got something to dowith Unkillable Soldier. It.
That sounds like a heavy metalthing.
Well John does that.
I willlet you know about our socials.
So at G he tells Pod onFacebook, Twitter and Instagram.
(52:32):
We don't post a lot there.
But we do post,
supplemental imagesthat go along
so you can get an ideaof what we're talking about.
And you're free to messagesany time.
We will hit you backas soon as we can.
And give us your episodesuggestions, your feedback,
anything that, you feel liketelling us, we'd love to hear.
(52:53):
I think I said Facebook,Twitter, Instagram.
We have killed off the Twitter.It's not in use anymore.
It's just Facebookand Instagram.
Have you packed the policecar yet?
No, I've got blue Sky,
but it's mostly just peoplecomplaining about Twitter.
Okay. Which is notan interesting place to be.
So I think it needs to developa bit more.
So the band thatdid the song was Sabaton.
And it's literally justcalled The Unkillable Soldier.
Right. There you go.
(53:13):
I go, I check it out.
Yeah.
All right.Well good episode boy.
Thanks.
I look forward to the next onewhich will be mine.
It will be.
Yeah. And I'm just tryingto, I'm in my head.
I'm working at night.
It's in your head.
What are you doing?A zombie episode.
I could come to think of it.
(53:33):
Is this our last episode? No.
Is it our last episodebefore Christmas?
The next one?
No, I.
So this is outthe 3rd of December? Yeah.
And then we got more episodeon the 17th.
But these episodes are thirds,and my episode
would be the 17th. Yeah. Yeah.
And then my episode will comeout on the 31st of December.
(53:54):
So new episode.
Oh, okay. What are we goingto do for that?
I don't know,
like, we're not recording.
But no,
we'll have to do something.I have to do something.
Yeah. When are we doingChristmas?
Does that mean I got Christmas?
How did we. Did this happen?
Yeah. It's happened.
Yeah. It's.
(54:15):
I'm not doing a Christmasepisode. No.
Yeah.
Every other year.
Whoever's doneHalloween has gotten Christmas.
Has this happened?
Yeah. Suck it boy.
And on that. Bombshell.
It's been a great night.Thank you for listening
and watching.
We'll see you next time.
Good night.
(54:37):
Actually, how was that happened?
Boy, if I was to sayto you the term ‘Super Soldier’,
who would you think of?
Captain America.
Yep. Steve Rogers. Yeah.
What about Master Chief?
Sure. Doom guy?
Yep. Solid snake?
What?
Okay, he's from,Metal Gear Solid.
Is he now? Yes.
His name is Solid Snake?Yes.
There’s Solid Snake,Liquid Snake,
Solidus Snake,
(00:20):
Naked Snake. *giggle*
Yeah, there's a lot of...Sorry, Naked Snake?
Naked Snake, yeah.
Well, he gets droppedinto a Warzone with no equipment
So he's naked.Anyway
Cool. Moving on.What about even,
the Space Marines fromthe Warhammer 40 K universe?
(00:42):
Oh, you mean that gamethat we never finished yet?
Correct. Yep.
All charactersor people out of fiction.
Yeah.
But what if I told you historyhas its own super soldier?
A guy that not only foughtin three separate wars,
but survived them.Right.
And I'm not talking aboutpissy little wars
that no one's ever heard of.
I'm talking.
I mean the big two.Pissy little wars!
(01:05):
The big two.
Yeah.
So the, the Cola Wars obviously.
Welcome to thisepisode of Cheeky Tales,
where we look at the life of theunkillable soldier Adrian.
Adrian Carton de Wiart
(01:27):
Right.
The unkillable soldier.
Yes. He is known in historyas the Unkillable Soldier.
Right.
That feels like the kindof thing you shouldn't be named.
Because you inevitablythen get killed.
Well, we'll seeby the end of this episode. So,
it's a bit of a theme of mine,actually.
I kind of like doing sequels toepisodes we've previously done.
(01:48):
I feel like this is a bitof a spiritual successor.
A successor to Sean's episode,which was,
the mad piper of D-Day.
Oh, yeah.
If you remember that episode.
Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah.
I think they were talking about,like,
you just going into battle in.
This bloke'sjust coming out, like
coming out of the water.
Yeah. Yeah, he'sclaymore on his.
(02:08):
Yeah. No,he had to borrow an arc.
That's it? Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah, a bit of a spiritualsuccessor to that.
So, It's also World War Two,I'm guessing.
That is one of the touchstones.
Is there a boat involved?
No, no. Down here.
I mean, you travels on boat.
Cool.
Cool. I.
(02:30):
Was a jerk. This is like.
Do we have any banteryou want to get into?
What's, What's happening?
My hand's. Sore. Oh, wow.
I like it better.
Yeah.
Now, what's we got?
What have we done?
What have we donein the last couple of weeks?
And now I've gotten into Pokemoncards.
Heavy into Pokemon.God, do you have?
Well, I wouldn't,
(02:51):
started.
Yeah.
I've watched a lot of videosof people opening Pokemon cards.
I've bought myself two packsand a couple of singles.
Yeah,I have also a couple of pack.
Couple of dozens of singles.
I got nothing good in it,and I went.
I'm done. That's good.
I didn't do anything goodand I won't be doing that again.
It's coming up to Christmastime.
You have an event next week?
(03:14):
I do, as.
Of recording, so yes,
that's going to be some funbanter for next episode.
I'm sure it will be.
Yeah, that's my box party.
Yeah.
So that's going to go.
Woo! Yeah.
That's going to be good.
The two other blokes here, Johnand Sean who's not here today
are groundsman.
So you've got them to thank forthe stories that come out
next time. Yeah.
(03:35):
So we'll be lookingat an early episode
next year will be lawfrom Aaron's wedding.
We're going to do a liverecording of Cheeky Tales.
Sorry, I'm not there.
At the reception. So I've justspent two hours recording.
I'll be back.
We actuallydo have to work out something
for thatbecause you're going to be away.
Yeah, for a little while.For a little while.
(03:55):
So I have thought about that.
We're gonna have to banka couple of nights here
before the New year.
Or around the New Year's time.
Yeah.
Would be betterwhen people on holidays
would probably havea whole day of stuff we can do.
Yeah. Christmas day,that's for you, right?
Yeah, that's that's then,this is now,
and as we always seem to dowhen we're talking
about a person in their lifehistory.
Let's go back.
(04:17):
Let's start with Adrian's birthand his parents.
Cool.
I've written it out,and I've said, Adrian the
the entire timeI've written them, but I can't.
I kind of want to call.
Me that. One. Others.
Adams. I'm happy with that.That is cool.
Yeah. Let's go. That is.
He was born onMay the 5th, 1880,
and he was the eldest sonof Leon Constant
(04:38):
Gill Lane, Carlton de wit.
That's a name.Though, is a name.
And Anna Stein, Wendy.
Okay.
Apparently there was some rumorsthat Adrian or others
was the illegitimate son of King
Leopold,the second monarch of Belgium.
Yep. For some reason,
(04:58):
it just saidthere was rumors around
at the time that he wasthe illegitimate son of,
the monarch.
I was just
it just reminded me of a storythat I heard the other day.
I was like,is this the same one? It's not.
Okay.I need to go find that one.
That was a banger.
However,he spent his early years
in both England and Belgium
until the untimelypassing of his mother
and the untimely passingof his mother
(05:21):
when he was just six years old.
This promptedLeon to move the family to Cairo
so he could practicelaw in Egypt's mixed courts.
Laterresearch into Adrian's life
revealed that his motherdidn't actually pass in 1886,
but instead his parents divorced
and she remarriedin that same year.
But originallywas thought that she died.
It was just a divorce, and shegot married to some other bloke.
(05:44):
I mean, yeah,
if, of course, you mistakethose two things.
In 1891, his English stepmothersent Adrian
to a boarding school in England.
The RomanCatholic Oratory School,
or free, probably.
Or as it spelt.
IRORITR1.
O r I.
(06:05):
Yeah, t. OR1.
Just say a an easy to pronouncename.
We're going to get into it.
We got some cracker namescoming up in this episode.
This is going to bea classic episode
of Cheeky Tales where we butcherevery name that.
I've practiced a few.
So we'll see how we go.
So he went to, RomanCatholic school.
(06:27):
From therehe went to a college in Oxford,
and I have leftthe name of that college
because it was too hardfor me to say, but lame.
What's it like?
Oxford.
Oxford school.
Oxford University?
No. He left.
I left schooling in 1899
to join the British Armyto fight in the Second Boer War.
They falsified his name and age.
(06:48):
Signing up as TrooperCarleton, and claimed
that he was 25 years oldwhen in reality
he was still 19.
Why is it called the Boer War?
Oh. All right.
I didn't even I've got nothinglike, in fact, check.
With me on.
If I can find my mouse.
I will look that up.
(07:09):
I believe the Boer Warwas caused by Britain's desire
to unite the British South
African territories of CapeColony and Natal with the ball.
Republicof the Orange Free State
and the South African Republic.
The Boers, Africans.
It's got Afrikaans speaking.
Farmers wanted to maintaintheir independence
because of the Boer War.
(07:30):
Complicated and often disputed
and ultimately boiled downto disputes over sovereignty
and control over a highlylucrative natural resource
such as gold.
So which, just because it wasthe Boer territory, right?
Okay.
I figured it would be
something like that,but it's just an odd name.
I'm just lookingup. Where is the Boer territory?
It's like
south east or South Africa,right?
(07:53):
Yes. Okay.
Obviously it's not called thatnow, I don't think, but yeah.
The Boer Republic, sometimesreferred to as the Boer states.
Yeah.
So it makes sense.
And this was the SecondBoer War.
It wasn't long before the startof his infamous legacy.
We begin.
Adrian was shot in the stomachand groin, and it was
(08:16):
and was necessary for him
to return to Englandto recover from the wounds.
So he's off to his first fought
bush shot.
Got and going to thigh. Ouch.
Not a spotyou want to have is not.
Really not a but you want to sayyou're loads of blood.
I know from experience after.
(08:37):
Go on.
Do you want to know when?
Yeah, whenI had my first victory. Yeah.
Cold pace afterwards.
And I'd been sitting for an houror two and went to the toilet.
And as I went to the toilet,I discovered
there was a lot of bloodin that area.
It wasn't like bleeding.Bleeding.
It just been likeweeping over the last.
And that caused meto get really lightheaded
in almost passed out becausethere was lots of blood there.
(08:59):
You're not scared? Me panicky.
But everything was fine.
So yeah. Not not not an area.
You weren't blood.
I've never hearda good vasectomy story.
But the rest of it was fine.Yeah.
The actual process was fine.
And it was just a
bit of seepage.
It wasn't like. It was likesquirting out blood or anything.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
You don't want that? No.
(09:21):
In general.
After learning, othershad abandoned his studies.
His father was furious.
However, allowed him to remainin the military.
And after remainingin Oxford briefly,
he was given a commission inthe second Imperial Light Horse.
He also returned to South Africato see action,
and on September 14th, 1901,
(09:42):
he was given a regularcommission
as a second lieutenantin the fourth Dragoon Guards,
and was transferredto India in 1902.
Great name. Thank you. Yeah.
Fourth Dragoon.
It seems being seriously woundedinstilled a strong desire
for physical fitness.
Others would run, jog, walk andplay sports on a regular basis.
(10:02):
It said what he waswith company.
He was a delightful character
that would hold the worldrecord for bad language.
All right.
That's delightful.
So I was like a trooper.
Well, yeah, it's probably wherethe term actually comes from.
Yeah.
But yeah, he signed upas trooper, remember?
It's a quite common thing
through my researchthat people would say
(10:24):
he was just an absolutelywonderful person, but
loved a.
Bit of a swear, a.
Bit of a swear. Yeah.
Others and his regimentwould be transferred
back to South Africa.
And he would be providedto lieutenant on the
on July 16th, 1904.
Also, he was appointed a decampto the Commander in Chief, Sir
Henry Hillyard.
(10:45):
So the ideacamp was just like assistant.
Yeah. Yeah.
He described that periodin his autobiography,
which, was also this is alsothe title of that chapter.
His heyday,and it lasted until 1914.
So about ten years,
while he only had light dutiesas a decamp,
(11:05):
it gave him plenty of free timefor his interests,
consisting of poloshooting and pig sticking,
hunting pigs. Yeah. Right.
I love how they created
all these like nice termsfor hunting pig sticking.
That's thinking.
That's a nice term.Not really nice.
It's pretty graphic really.
But if you don't knowwhat they're doing
it takes you a minuteto realize.
(11:25):
It's pretty self-explanatory.
Yeah. Yeah.
And not like pigs.
Like pink farm pigs.
Like not Peppa.
No. Boars like wild bulls.
Wild pigs. Yeah.
Also during this time,
seeing as
he was still a Belgian citizen,he took the oath of allegiance
to Edward the Seventh.
Was formally madea British citizen.
(11:46):
So we're back in 1908.
That is was married?
Yep. This may be the longesttime we've ever had on cheeky
tans, by the way.All right. Prepare yourself.
Yep. Please do.
He married Countess
Frederick.
Maria Caroline.
Henriette. Rosa. Sabina.
Franziska.
(12:06):
Vagabond.
Fabian. Housing.
That's too many names.
Dynamic kidwith that many mean land lots.
And was it vagabond at the end.
Like Vonbabe and housing? Right.
Was there a vagabond in there?
Nope. Oh,you want me to go over it again?
Right, Countess.
Good for Frederick.
Maria. Caroline. It's about.
(12:27):
Okay.
Henriette. Rosa. Sabina.
Franziska.
Varga von Baden.
Housing.
She was the eldestdaughter of Karl.
If the Prince of Van Goghvon housing and Princess
Eleanora zu Holland.
Lowell Barton Steen, un JacquesHabsburg of
(12:50):
Klagenfurt, Austria.
I was really hoping that firstguy was just going to be Karl.
Oh, not
funny.
So, yeah, there'sthere's some names there.
Yeah,I think I did alright. Yeah.
There's a few names in therefor sure.
I left them in because it's funto have you struggle with them
and write about hisand his wife.
They had two daughters.
Now, this was pretty connectedin these social circles.
(13:11):
Social circles.
One of his cousinswould become Prime
Minister of Belgiumfrom 1922 1921.
And also while on leave,he traveled
extensivelythroughout Central Europe,
using his connections to shootat country estates in Bohemia,
Austria, Hungaryand perfect Brava.
It's that type of area.
It's the area.
(13:32):
Is it Bavaria or is it Brava?
It's bravia. Right.
Upon returning to England,
he rode with the famousDuke of Buford Hunt.
Oh, yeah? Right.Never heard of it.
It's probably to pretty well,I'm sure of it.
And during, this hunt,he met future Field Marshal Sir
Henry Maitland
Wilson, in the future AirMarshal Sir Edward Ellington,
(13:55):
and was promoted to captainon the 26th of February, 1910.
From 1912 to 1914,and served as the assistant
to the commanding officerof the Royal Berkshire Hussars.
So USSR's.
Assault?
Yeah.
What is that place in England?
That's right.Lancashire. Berkshire.
(14:16):
It's. It'll be like Gloucester.
Well, yeah. Gloucestershire.Yeah. It's like Gloucestershire.
Yeah. Gloucestershire.
Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Race.
Sorry, man. It's. Well,we get it.
So people come over and they goBrisbane or Melbourne,
Melbourne and Melbourne.
And then they lookat Woolloongabba and go.
I'm getting back on the plane.
I'm not even going to try
(14:37):
Intrepidly.
What the hell's. That? Yeah.
You're wrong. Happily.
Yeah. Oh,I'll get to people all the time.
Yeah.
Bun tambo. Wunderbar.
I've always got to like.
Where do you live?
Doctor myself thatI always have to spell it off.
And it's likeI'll just don't even bother.
Same as my street.
(14:57):
I've got to go.
Yeah.
It's a normal English word like,
because I asked how to spell it.
I don't know if you get that.
Maybe they think it'sbecause it's got a wine.
Possibly.
I'm not going to doctor myself.
That got so close.
Yeah.
He almost all of the leaves.
The number and everything.
No not really. Yeah.
So yeahhe's pretty well-connected
like in the upperaristocratic circles.
(15:20):
If you had have saidyour whole address
that would have been the best.
Far number is 044.
Look at the rest, guys. Yeah.
I'll give you the,the first two.
You can work out the next ideas.
There'sonly 10 million other options.
10 million?
It's eight digits, right?
Yeah, seven digits is million.
It's ten digits.
(15:40):
You find, if you. Just gaveoh. Four. Oh, yeah.
Sure. Yeah.
So you've got 99 millionother options.
Good luck.
I'll be waiting by the phone.
Probably half the people thatlisten already know my number.
Anyway. I said,what does it matter?
Call Johnif you know his number.
Please don't. 2 a.m..
So. Yeah,
(16:00):
this guy's pretty well-connected
in the upperaristocratic circles.
He married a countess.
Yeah. He's got a.
Porsche you can't solve againwith names like that.
It sounds like Spain.
Flagging for Austria.
Right?
I shouldn't like that.
I'm flagging that.
I shouldn't have known that.Who would know that?
So now we're up to 1914,
(16:21):
and we all know what startedthem.
World War one? Yeah.
What episode did we cover?
The start of World War.
Like the assassinationthat started World War two.
I we were.
When I was at the Christmas.
Truce.
Yes, it was an episode 40Christmas truce.
Now, 50 episodes ago.
Pause. Go back and listen to it.
So when that was all happening,
I was on hisway to British Somaliland,
(16:44):
not Somalia, Somali holy land.
Somaliland? Yep.
Was that where Somalia is now?
I think so, I, I didn't actually
look it up,but it would make sense, right?
Sure. Yeah.
Where a little of a warwas underway against the
followers of a dervish leader,Mohammed bin Abdullah.
He was known as Mad Mullahby the Brits.
You. You're your own count.
(17:05):
Is I already spiralingout of control over here?
That is what, had been seconded,
to the Somaliland camel corpse
and in an attack against anenemy force that she embarrass.
That is for sure.
Once in the arm,twice in the face,
losing his left eye.
And a portion of his ear.
Ouch.
(17:26):
Sorry.
Do you say right eyeand left ear?
No. Left eye. Left ear.
Left or it?Just a portion of it.
It doesn't say what you hear.
Yeah, I just thought it was,like, opposite sides, but.
But. Yeah. Lost.He lost his left arm.
Not even at the start of WorldWar One yet.
Yeah, he just lost an eye.
How did he end upfighting in the rest of the war?
Oh, right. Right. Okay. He.
(17:49):
During this time, he would gaina Distinguished Service Medal.
He would return to England again
after recoveringin a nursing home in Ukraine,
which was his preferredplace of recovery.
He would return to thisnursing home each time.
Not a good sign to havea preferred place of recovery.
Yeah.
Generally you want to only dothat once while recovering.
It statedthat others received a glossy,
(18:10):
but it irritated him so muchthat he allegedly tossed it
from a taxi and acquireda black eye patch instead.
Right. You at a spa?
I don't know what's goingon. Are you the lost?
The bought from.
Oh, Paul was really just.Yeah. Zoomed me.
Well, I only had one coffeetoday, so that might be it.
That is alsosaw action on the Western Front.
He headed to France in February
of 1915and successfully commanded
(18:32):
three infantry battalionsand a brigade.
However, somewhatunbelievably others was wounded
seven more times in this war.
Yeah.
Calm down.
Might have a break.
The first of which happenedduring the Second Battle of
April.
More fighting in the trenches
at his left hand was shatteredby German artillery.
(18:54):
So he's lost an eye and an ear.
And now he's the left hand. Yep.
How is this guy.
Fighting in two furtherwars? According.
Oh, this is still the startof the First World War.
So he's got to finish this one.And then Second World War.
According to his memoirs,
the doctor refusedto amputate his hand. Why?
So he would.
(19:14):
Have enough cocaine?
Well, he.
So he ripped off two of his ownfingers to return to the front.
Oh, dude.
Don't do that. Yeah.Kind of like.
Did you hear the story?
In the last Olympics,the hockey player
that had his finger amputated.
Yeah, just it was broken,
and he wouldn't be ableto play with a broken finger.
So they
he amputated it instead,which would allow him
(19:34):
to play in the Olympicsbecause the recovery times less.
You losing a fingerfor the rest of your life.
I think it was his last chanceto play in the Olympics.
Okay. Sorry.
And then they didn'teven like medal.
Anyway,it feels like it's a very.
Big try to make, That's crazy.
When I broke my finger,I wasn't getting an amputated.
(19:54):
Oh, yeah, that was I.
Tell you
a bit of two of his own fingersso he could return quicker.
But then later onwould have the him amputated
about a year later. Right.
So he is nowmissing his left arm.
Left. I left hand.
I think it was around about mid.
Oh right. Okay. So a fairbit of it. Yeah.
So it's not just like I'm surethe photos I've seen, it's like
(20:16):
closer to the elbowto the nearest.
Undeterred.
And even though missing him
this would return to the foughtand fought in the battle
of the Somme duringwhich his men recall seeing the
now one handed man pulling pins,
from grenade with these teeth
and then flinging themwith his one good hand.
(20:37):
That's so dope.
To further cementat his badassery.
Yeah.
During the assault
on the village of Lapassetfor sale in France of 1916,
three other unit commanders
from the eighth Battalionin the brush
GloucestershireRegiment were killed.
Others would then step up andtake charge of all three units,
(20:57):
and they would hold backand advancing enemy assault.
That action got thethen 36 year old awarded
the Victoria Cross, the highestand most prestigious decoration
in the British military.
I have an an an extractfrom the London Gazette
describing his actionthat day in earning him the VC.
So yeah,like like, is it pretty badass?
This guy's black eyepatchone handed just.
(21:21):
Yeah. Hand grenades. Yep.
And then how about this, love?
So I'll read this,and then we'll go into it. Yeah.
For the most.
I know, I.
Know, deathAfrican wasn't Belgian.
Belgian, right. Yeah.
For the most conspicuousbravery,
coolness and determination
during severe operationsof a prolonged nature.
It was owing, in a great measureto his dauntless courage
(21:43):
and inspiring example.
That series reverse was averted.
He displayed
the utmost energy and couragein forcing our attack on him.
After three other battalioncommanders
had become casualties.
He controlled their commands
and ensured that the Grim onewas maintained at all costs.
He frequently exposed himselfin the organization of positions
and supplies, passing
(22:03):
unflinchinglythrough fire a barrage
of the most intense nature.
His gallantrywas inspiring to all.
That's a pretty glowing report.
Yep. Yeah.
So I can just imaginethis guy, like,
on the beam of white cover,just ordering troops as bullets.
Just with passing onehanded one on.
Yeah.
And then every now and again,just stopping the
(22:24):
fucking grenade.
Yeah. That's the movie scene,right?
The guy just.
Yeah.I'm not sure. I wonder if they,
Sure.
When I did that. Yeah, he would,but he's not here.
I wonder if that's likethe action movie
where that's originated from.
Like,the action movie is like pulling
the pinwith the grain, throwing it.
Or maybe, I mean.
Like the story of the stick.
Move, right to pull itwith the teeth. Not really.
(22:46):
Yeah. If your hand's busy.
Or if you don't have one. Yeah.
Maybe it is.
Maybe it is. In my headcanon.
This is where itoriginated from. This guy.
Just like one hand.
Just I justI could use my daughter cry
to grenadejust one after another. Just.
And his teethjust chipped old. Oh.
To make this guy even cooler
in his memoirthat I mentioned earlier,
(23:08):
he humblydoesn't even mention this. A
not really priming and I quote.
Went and bought eggs,went to meeting, came home.
Claiming and I quoteit had been won
by the eighth glosses for
every man has doneas much as I have brought.
Just yeah,he's pretty good. Yeah.
He's a pretty cool guy, right?
(23:28):
Yeah, yeah.
Otherswould seem to find himself in
some of the most hellishbattles of World War One.
Yeah,like the battle of Delvin Wood.
Oh, sorry.
Devil wood,also known as Devil's Wood.
Yeah, sure.
I just would again
lead from the front,but again would be wounded.
This time receivingprobably his worst injury.
(23:51):
He was shotin the back of the head.
So it's in the back of the head.
I'm not sure if it was likeback to front.
I think it might have been likesideways.
Yeah.
The description saidwould normally kill anyone else.
Yeah.
He got shotin the back of the head.
It missed thespinal cord, and he survived
and recovered from JFK.
Should have taken some hints.
(24:12):
In three subsequent battles.
He would fight in.
Yeah, I saw that. I heard that.
Not only did he, like,get shot in the back of the head
and survive.
He's returned to fight againin three subsequent battles.
He would be shot in the ankle,hip, leg and finally again
in the air. Do. Just.
You've done enough.
You've done enough. You reckon?
(24:34):
Yeah, I think so.
Just three days before the endof the war, on November 8th.
This was given.
At this point there, like kindof a where the war's ending.
Yeah.
Maybe I'm not sure how awarethey were of the war
ending or not. Yeah.But something went up.
Look up.
Well, just remember that
the end of World WarOne was like.
Agreed. Yes.
(24:54):
They didn't agree.
And it was like, hey,
we're going to end on this dateat this time. Yeah.
So three daysbefore November 8th,
which is obviously the day we,
have remembered saying November11th is the end of the war.
This wasgiven command of a brigade
with the rank of temporarybrigadier general.
Apparently,his reputation had preceded him,
(25:15):
and the men in the brigade
were quite nervousat the new appointment.
They knew atis was fond of finding a fort.
Imagine this.
I don't want to be that guywho's been shot seven times.
I don't want to deal with that.
I imagine this new commandersare showing up to inspect Mark.
He's inspecting the troops.They're out in parade.
He's missingan arm. He's got one eye.
(25:35):
He's got 11 woundedstripes on his uniform.
Like that would have to bepretty intimidating, right?
Yeah.
And he's telling youto f off, bro.
One of the guys in recalling it,this is like,
even though he had one eye,
he still told meto get my license changed.
Therehe is to pick up the details.
Could you imagine,like, oh, this guy's been shot
(25:57):
seven times. Shotin the back of the head.
Lost an eye. Lost an arm. Yeah.
You know, like that guy. He'syour new commander. Yeah.
He might have a
he might have a Victoria Cross,but I still don't
want to follow the guythat keeps getting shot. That.
Well, he just obviously keepsputting himself in harm's way.
Yeah. So.All right, so now we're.
That's the end of World War one.
He's done two wars.
Yeah, the Boer war,second Boer War.
(26:18):
Yeah. World War one. Correct.Yeah.
In the years between world wars.
What did I just do?
I'm going to say
race car driver.
No. Oh,
he found otherwars to fight in. Oh, cool.
1919 to 1921,
he commanded the British effortto aid Poland,
(26:38):
in which he engagedin multiple conflicts
with the Soviet Polish.
She gives the Ukrainians,the Lithuanians,
Bolsheviks, sorry,
the Ukrainians, the Lithuanians
and the Czechs over contestedterritory.
Also in 1919, he survivednot one but two plane crashes
and even and one even resultedin a brief period
(26:59):
of Lithuanian captivity.
Okay. So now.
Yep. Yep.
Another encounter for otherswas when Cossacks,
Eastern Slavic,Slavic Christians
attempted to hijack his hijack.
His observation. Train. Yeah.
That is like a spy train.
I would assume it'sjust a train that goes around.
(27:20):
And from that,you're able to look at tens.
Maybe. I don't know.
It just seems like the leastconspicuous spy vehicle.
It's like, hey, what are thesetrain tracks here for? Yeah.
Oh, that giant train witha bunch of telescopes on it.
Hey, let's set upthis super secret base
rightnext to these train tracks.
It's going to come back to you.
Yeah.
These train tracksthat we didn't build.
Look.What's the on this timetable?
(27:41):
What's this questionmark. Right.
I don't know.
Anyone know what this questionMark. Chinese.
I wouldn't sayit was for spying.
I'd say it was just
doing the rounds,being able to check on things.
Yeah, I like yeah,
I just would take thesehijackers on single handedly.
Literally armedwith only a revolver.
Allegedly, during the fight,he fell under the tracks
(28:02):
but immediately
recovered, hopping straightback up onto the moving,
trying to finish offthe rest of the attackers.
Once I fell off this train. Yep.
I was just not movingvery quickly and.
Then got up and got back on it.
This dude's wild.
By 1921,when the poles had won the war,
I had is retired with thehonorary rank of major general.
Yeah.
And he had become
quite fond of Polandand decided to remain there.
(28:26):
Others had become friendswith even more powerful people,
including Prince Carol,Nicholas,
Nikolai Radziwill.
Right. Yep.
Member of the Polish royals.
The prince gave at hisa large estate called Preston,
a wetland area that is larger
(28:46):
than Ireland and surroundedby water and forest.
So he gave it an estatelarger than Ireland. Correct.
The country of Ireland? Correct.
That's a big estate.
I don't know if you know this,but Ireland is big.
It's not that big.
He spent the next 15 yearsthere.
Where he himself claimedI did not waste one day
without hunting.
(29:08):
Yeah. You got so much space.Yeah.
Bloody hell.
Like I they wouldn't be like.
Surely this town'sin that space.
It's not just his house.
If I remember correctly,I forgot to write it down,
but let's have a look at Prestonvillage of Messer
V in Poland.
(29:29):
What I say, when I looked it up,it's something like
half a million
hectares.
Yeah.
Well, actually,this town's in there.
Like. How would it not be?
How could it be just one house?
Right. Yeah.
I mean, that'sjust what it said.
I can I just tell you what I.
(29:50):
What I read.
Fair enough.
I don't believe he was giventhe entirety of it.
He might have been givena portion of it, but, yeah,
this whole areawas larger than Ireland.
Yeah. Big wetland area.
So that was these next 15 yearshunting and fishing.
This brings us to the world's.
And fish version.
This brings us to the world'sworst sequel, world War two.
(30:11):
I think we've calledthat before, haven't we?
Yeah, I think you specifically.
I've used that termlike twice. Yeah, well it is.
Yeah.
And actually,if you want to argue not saying.
Well, what I was good,
but probablynot the worst sequel.
What would you sayis the worst sequel then?
Matrix two.
(30:32):
Well.
Matrix reloaded.Was it reloaded?
No. Yes. No. That's matrixfour, wouldn't it?
I don't know do.
So you don't even rememberwhat it's called?
This matrix revelations.
That was the new one.Doesn't matter.
That was numberthree, was it? Yeah.
Oh, that doesn'tmatter. Garbage.
I didn't think so.
(30:52):
I actually haven't even seen it.
Oh my God.
Why would you think I had?
Titanic two is the.
We'll do a sequel. Yeah.
It hasn't even come out yet.
Get that billionaire on thereand let him sink.
Avatar two. Again.
Is that the.
First time
you've thought about avatarin, like, two months? Yes.
I'm being proven rightevery time we mention it.
(31:13):
Because every time.
It's the first time
I've heard of it
since the last timewe mentioned it,
which would be monthsin the past.
Avatar is a terrible franchisethat is incredibly forgettable.
You don't?
Yes, but that shown here.
I don't have to keep going.
He doesn't stick up for that,does he?
Yeah.
(31:34):
Do you see the way.
You hear himtalk about it on this podcast?
You think it'shis favorite franchise?
It could be.And you just keep Duncan.
He doesn't even care about it.
Okay. Garbage frame.
James Cameron.
Well,I don't know James Cameron.
She said James Camerondoes that.
Some good movies. Sure.
Not avatar.
Eileen's being one.
Titanic, which was one ofthe world's greatest sequels.
(31:57):
What? Aliens?
Yeah, sure.
But, like,alien was the first one.
Aliens, man.
They've taken all the easytitles.
Alien. Predator.
Like you just naming the thing.
Yeah.
Like you can't.
There'sno single word titles anymore.
(32:18):
I'm sure they could be.
If they made up.
Coming this summer.
Hunter was probably. Maybe.
Yeah. They called Hunter. Yeah.
Logan. Morg.
Extraterrestrial.
It's probablythat's being taken as well.
Yeah. E.T..
No, but it's called eat.
It's not called a. Trista.Terrestrial.
(32:39):
Oh, I guess twisters.
Great film.
Oh, come on.
Great sequel.
How about.
If you feel it, chase it.
Isn't that just the first moviereally done?
Yeah. Yeah.
It's exactly the same film.
Oh, no. It's a little different.
It's a little different.
(33:00):
There's more than one.
There's another guyleaving his fiance
in the middle of the film.
Yes. There's more than onetwister.
Well, there's more than onetwister in the first.
One, is it?
I've never seen twister.
You've never seen twister?
Nope.
Well, boy, you letting me down?
You know, the another movie
that starts with tell youthat I've ever seen.
What? Titanic.
(33:21):
Yeah.
I hadn't seen it until,like, two years ago.
When you did the episode.
Did you watch itbecause you did the episode?
I hadn't even seen the moviewhen we did the episode.
I saw it.
The Valentine's Day thatwe moved here two years ago.
Okay.
And, the only waythat we could see it was in 3D.
So the only way I've seenTitanic is in 3D.
And let me tell you.
Not a bad adaptation in 3D.
(33:42):
Okay. Yeah.
There's a couple of sceneswhere you're like,
oh, yeah, that's pretty coolin 3D. Back to. James Cameron.
Yeah.
When the when it'swhen it's sinking and the,
so the ship comes off.
Board, you say oh my God.
Or the stern. Thank you.
There's actually a namefor that part of the boat.
Yeah.
When the ship's. Owner finds.
Himself out of the water,it's like this super long.
(34:05):
It, like, comes at.
It's right when the Titanic'sjet comes out of the water.
Yeah.
That's one for the kids. Wait.
He said, get me this.
Oh, cool. Did you not know?
You don't know that you don'thave a 9 or 14 year old that's.
For you, bro.
Yeah, that's that's awesome.
Now, that one's too old.
What? Busan.
(34:25):
Nobody saying Busan now?Yeah. They are.
Are they going to sign it?
Oh, no. Cap.
Next year, for real? For real.
All right. All right.
I gotta stopbefore the gray start showing.
You know, there's a few thingsthat have shown.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Yeah, we be right outside.
The railingin the middle of the episode.
Just talking to the staff.
There's a few thingsthat have made
(34:45):
me feel my agein the last couple of days.
The other day,I was eating some food
just at the coffee coffee tablehere.
Just like having some snacks.
And I put my arm up on the tablefor too long.
And then my shoulderhas been messed up ever since.
And then I just.
Heardyou explain the word get up, and
I'm definitelynot in my 20s anymore.
Oh, boy, it doesn't get better.
(35:06):
Yeah.
So someone who'snearly in their 40s,
it doesn't get better.
Yeah.
(35:27):
Well tell you.
Okay. Yeah.
Doc, when I was born.
Yes. Stare into it, boy.
It's the start of the war.Blind.
He was recalled in July of 1939to his old job
as head of the British militarymission in Poland.
How old was he at this point?
Well, he's born in 1880.
(35:48):
So that would put.
He'd be like 50. 59.
49, 59.
59. Yeah.
Sheesh. That's an all black.
Nazi Germany invaded Poland,
on September 1st.
And two weeks later, the Sovietattacked Poland from the east.
Yeah,because remember, the Soviets
and the Germanswere allies at the start. Yep.
(36:09):
They got messed up.
The Soviets would overrunpresident and others
would lose all of hisguns, fishing
rods, clothing and furniture andpretty much lay fishing rods.
Pretty much.
So I was I'm.
Not going to gohunting and fishing now.
They were singled outas things he was.
Yeah. Upset from losing.
He pretty much wants to losestuff.
Yeah.He loses his entire living.
(36:29):
We had to evacuate.
He had to evacuate where hewas living. You know, I like,
he stuff was actually packed upand taken to the Minsk Museum.
Oh, which was like,
destroyed by the Germanswhen the Soviets in Germany.
Yeah.
I just never saw that areaagain, but stated
they did not take my memories.
I just would advise the headof the Polish military
(36:51):
which led to the Polish fleetleaving the Baltic Sea,
before the outbreak of the war.
He was trying to get the Polish
to withdraw their militaryas well, but that was ignored.
But he got the, the fleetout in time, which saved them.
And they were able to later
significantly contributeto the Allied cause.
Good as Polish resistanceweakened
(37:12):
as would evacuate himself,
the British mission and thePolish government from Warsaw.
And I had the Germansand the Soviets hot on his tail.
At one point his car convoywas attacked by the Luftwaffe,
resulting in the wifeof one of his aides dying.
So I imaginebeing the wife of someone.
Yeah.
Like you just therebecause your partner's there
(37:34):
and you get shot dead.
But again, this is likeanother one of these stories.
These guyscruising out of the country.
Planes are strafing him.
Right.
Yeah. Anyway
he only just scraped at uslike they went from Poland
to Romania.
He only just scrapedout of Romania as well.
On September 21st he left byplane with a false passport.
(37:55):
This was the same daythe pro allied Romanian
prime minister was assassinated.
So I'm assumingif it was a day later,
he's probably notgetting out of it. No.
His next mission occupy a smalltown in Norway named source.
And take the town of Trondheim200km.
His next mission do anythingwithout getting injured?
Yeah.
On the way, he c planewas forced to land in a fjord
(38:17):
and was attacked by a Germanfighter plane. Yeah.
One of his aides were woundedand were evacuated.
In true, AdrienCaron Dwight style.
He refused
to get into the rubber dinghybecause it was a sitting duck,
instead remained in the wreckageuntil the fighter
planeran out of ammo and flew away.
So it's like I'm not getting inthat thing.
These guys are goingto get absolutely torn up.
Yeah, it ran and I flew away.
(38:38):
And then he just strolled out.
Yeah, he just strolledout of the wreckage and got,
picked up by,
a Norwegian
ship. Pretty much. Yeah.
To something lighter. Yeah.
His tenure in Norwaydidn't last long.
His forces were outgunnedand undersupplied.
However, the super soldierhe was,
I just gathered his force,
scaled the mountainand advanced toward Trondheim.
(39:00):
Oh I bet.
All while being constantlybombarded by German destroyers.
The naval attack that was meantto happen at the same time.
Like the coordinated attack.
It didn't happen.
And it left, othersand his forces exposed
without guns, transport,air cover or skis.
This is they needed skisbecause they were in a foot
and a half of snow. Yeah.
(39:21):
They were constantlybeing shelled
by the German destroyers,
as well as being machinegunand bombed from the air, and had
the the Germans would not even
the Germanswere landing the German.
Comparison myself.
The German navy with landingtroops like behind them.
Yeah.
And they were being constantlyattacked by German ski troopers.
(39:44):
Ski troopers?
Seems like it seems dope, right?Yeah.
They're just cruising downthe slopes.
Yeah.
Like doing the,like, fighting left and right.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. That's.
I'm sure that'snot what it was like.
I'm sure it sucked. I'm.
I'm sure probably justcross-country skiing. Right.
Yeah. It's not dance like. Yeah.
It's like going down the hill.
(40:06):
So the bond film, though.
Me of the end of this.I want to bring it up.
I'm sure there's a sayingin tree lights
where they got bikes going down.
Skis like the Uzis got you.Yeah.
As on. He'srunning across the snowfield.
Yeah. I'm sure that's the thing.
The Norwegian campaign wasturning into a bit of a show,
and I just requested withdrawal,to which he was denied
(40:28):
and asked to hold his positionfor political reasons.
Cool.
That's the only reason thatyou would ever want to hear.
And he did? Yeah.
Eventually,the order to withdraw was given,
and when they arrivedat the rendezvous point,
their extraction wasn't there.
Oh, cool.
It did, however,
show up the following nightand others and his entire force
were evacuated amidheavy bombardment.
(40:51):
Two Allied destroyerswas sunk in the process, and
others arrived back onto Britishsoil on the 5th of May 1940.
His 60th birthday.
Oh, what a present. Yeah.
In April of 1941,
this was appointedby Winston Churchill
to lead a British missionto Yugoslavia.
But he never arrived while enroute to Yugoslavia via Malta.
(41:11):
The planehe was traveling in lost
both engines and nosedivedinto the Mediterranean.
That is, an RAF bomber crewclung to the wing of the plane
untilthe fuselage started to sink.
This then helped
an injured and strugglingperson swim the mile to shore.
Remember, this dudeat this point is 61 and has won.
Yeah. How'she gonna do this first?
(41:31):
I don't know.
Hooking him under his stumpand off he goes using his teeth.
As soon as they made it ashore.
They were capturedby the Italians.
Oh, come on, man.
This was sent to a castleoutside of Florence, where he.
And where he was held as one of13 high ranking officer P.O.W..
Yeah.
So he'salready been a prisoner of war,
(41:53):
and now he's a prisoner of waragain?
Yeah.
In the same war, too? Yeah.
No. It was like in between wars.
And it was also Poland,but not there.
Yeah. So you reckonthis bloke just sat quietly
so that therest of the war as a prisoner?
I'm gonna guess. No. Correct.He did not.
Yeah.
It doesn't seem like the kind ofguy to go and take a desk job.
(42:14):
What do you think he did.
He's going to go backto the front lines.
Okay.
Before that. Okay.
He attempted five escapes.
Includingwhat else are you going to do?
You're
including one that seems likeit was straight out of the movie
The Great Escape,but with grandpa's.
Bunk. So, there's a bunch.
Yeah, there wasa bunch of our blokes as
(42:37):
they made this attempt.
One attempt, I think they were.
They spent seven months
tunneling a 60ft tunnelthat went through bedrock.
Oh, yeah. Right.
So not not an easy thing.
No, not an easy thing. Now. No.
On one of these occasions,
he even evaded recapturefor eight days.
(42:57):
Oh. Disguisedas an Italian peasant.
Just a mamma. Mia!
However, he was in the past.
He was in northern Italy, spokeno Italian, was 62 years
old, had an eyepatch
and one empty sleevebecause of the missing hand.
Multiple scars from injuries.
It's safeto say he kind of stood out.
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
So, yeah,he was recaptured and taken back
(43:19):
just over two years and sevenbreakout attempts later,
in August of 1943,others was driven to Rome.
The Italian governmentwas wanting to leave the wall
and others was to betheir bargaining chip.
So this is the time
the Italians kind of backflippedon the Germans as.
Well,kind of, ended Mussolini. Yep.
He accompaniedan Italian negotiator
(43:41):
and was to meetAllied contacts in Lisbon.
He was toldhe needed civilian clothes.
This was to keep the missionsecret.
Others, however, distrust,distrusted Italian tailors.
But he stated, and I quote,
had no objection, providedhe did not resemble a gigolo.
That's just a quotethat I wanted to leave with it
(44:02):
because it sounds hilarious.
I don't want to look likenot a filthy gigolo, but just.
Kind of speaksto the character of this bloke.
He's like, yeah, I'll do it.
Just don'tmake me look like a gigolo.
A bit of tongue in cheek,you know? Yeah.
Eventually returning to Englandagain after his release
on August 28th, 1943,two years as a P.O.W..
Time for rest. No, no.
(44:23):
One month after his return,he was summoned
to spend the nightat the PM's house,
where Churchill would assign himanother mission.
He would be Churchill's
special representativeto the Chinese leader
right before heading to China.
He accompanied the Chineseleader to the Cairo Conference,
where Japan's postwar futurewould be discussed.
After that, Adrian or othersspent four years in China where
(44:46):
somehow he managed to experienceyet another plane crash.
This guy doesn't like planes,but at this point, I'm guessing
on boats.
Yeah, this guy still did so much
and I'm condensingwhat he's done
in like the four yearshe spent in China.
I'm skipping things like meetingwith a bunch of dignitaries.
(45:06):
He had a front row seat on the
HMS Queen Elizabethfor the bombardment of Subang
and being at the formalsurrender of the Japanese.
Right. Yeah, he did a lot.
Not a lot of front linestuff so much.
But he was still.
Yeah, he's a diplomatby this point. Yeah. Yeah.
There was
back when he was in like Polandand doing stuff like that.
People were like, you're tooold to be laid in the front.
(45:27):
And then he's doing stufflike driving the
the Polish government,
a wartorn country or being. Yeah.
Anyway, so yeah, like I said,he attended the formal surrender
of the Japanese in October 1947at 66.
Others.
Oh, Adrian Caron Dwyerretired right for the last time.
(45:50):
Sure. Yep.
But there was one last majorinjury left in him.
Oh, no.
Don't worry,this isn't the one the war gets.
The tough old bugger.
He survives this one as well.
Traveling homefor a French Indo-China.
I just stopped at Rangoon asa guest of the army commander.
Coming down the stairs.
(46:10):
He slipped on a coconut matting,
so broke several vertebraeand knocked himself unconscious.
No way. On a coconut?
Yeah, well. Coconut man.
Yeah, he broke his back. Yeah.
He was admitted to the RangoonHospital to recover.
And while the doctors removed
a huge amount of shrapnelfrom his body.
Yeah, well,while we're in that, let's
just do a bit of cleaning.
Unfortunately,his wife died in 1949.
(46:32):
Oh, and in 1951,at the age of 71, he remarried
Ruth Myrtle Mary Jane McKinney,who was 23 years his senior.
Sorry, 23.
He's he's junior. Right?
So she's,like, in her 50s. Yeah. Yeah.
He has written amemoir, as I mentioned earlier.
And if you want to look itup, it's titled Happy Odyssey,
(46:54):
which he wrote in his retirement
and spent most of his daysfishing.
That is until he died peacefullyat the age of 83, in 1963.
Right.
Just to close off his littlestory, the second wife, Ruth,
she passed in January of 2006at the age of 102. Wow.
I thought that was.
That's a run. Yeah.I thought that was pretty good.
(47:16):
That'sright. 40 years after. Yeah.
He passed, but yeah, that is.
A long time.
So I thoughtthat was interesting to include.
Which is interesting.
So 102 2006.
She was she was born in 1904.
I fool.
He wasn't quite fighting.He was.
He may have been fightingin his first war then. Yeah.
(47:38):
That'sjust interesting to think of.
So whenever you think of big agedifferences
like that, it's a bit odd. Yeah.
So, anyway,
I have screen shot
all of his awardsand decorations
if you want to quicklygo over them,
because this is the endof his story.
Yeah. So we can go over his.
So I think this guy's in highestdistinction there.
(47:59):
It's obviously the VictoriaCross.
1916 Knight Commander ofthe order of the British Empire.
That was from New Year'shonors in 1945.
Companionof the order of the bath.
The military division.
Companion of the Order of SaintMichael and Saint George.
Companion of the DistinguishedService Order.
(48:20):
That was for,
when he lost his eye.
But that I believethat was when that happened.
Queen South Africa
medal Africa General ServiceMedal 1914.
Star British War Medal.
The Victory Medal 1939 45.
Star Africa star BurmaStar, Italy star
(48:42):
War Medal 1939 1945.
King Georgesix Coronation Medal.
Queen Elizabeththe Second Coronation Medal.
Officer of the orderof the Crown from Belgium,
Croix de jure 1914 to 1918.
That's a Belgian medal as well.
Silver cross not of the Orderof Military Virtue of Poland.
(49:03):
Cross of valor from Poland.
Commander of the Legionof Honor of France and the crux
de Gea 1939 to 1944 from France.
That is a lot of awards.
Yeah, very of medals.
Very distinguished. Yeah.
Military career? Yeah.
That is the story of the UNcapable soldier.
(49:23):
Yeah.
So now, as you statedat the start of the episode,
a Monica that you might notnecessarily want.
Do you still agree with that?
No. I mean,he was pretty unkillable.
He was pretty hunkered.
Down in thesport for all the time. But,
Sheesh.
What a guy.
Pretty. Yeah.Just an extraordinary life.
Yeah, right.
I always think with peoplelike that.
(49:43):
Like they just do so much.
It's incredible.
Yeah. Like I said,there's a lot of stuff
I skip down until two ways.
Like you said,acting as a diplomat,
doing a lot of
aristocratic activitieslike very well connected,
but then also just
leading the troops at the front
and like not sitting backin a headquarters.
(50:05):
Yeah. Headquartersor anything like that.
He was.
Yeah. Doing the jobhe was doing.
Yeah. It's
it is incredible hearingstories of people like that
and just knowing that, like,
if you just do stuff,you're going to do so much.
Yeah. Yeah.
Good story boy.
Yeah.
Like as you are aware
(50:26):
I wanted to keep it shortbut it's just this.
Yeah. It's just one of.Those will be half an hour.
He said
it was just one of those onesthat as I kept going through it,
it's just like more and moreand more and you're like, what?
And these arethe episodes that we love.
We always saywe want to find stories
that are just likekeep blowing your mind when.
They just keep growing in scale.Yeah.
You think, oh the dude's beenshot in the back of the head.
(50:46):
But what else could happen.
Yeah. Now you could fall downsome stairs and break his back.
Yeah.
And then still live another,like, ten years. 20.
Is it 20 years?Another 20 years. Yeah.
Sheesh. Like, what year is 1963?
1963? Crazy. Was that Vietnam?
It must be close.
Yeah.
You reckonhe was sitting in gum during.
(51:09):
I don't think he was.
I don't I don't think so, but,
I sent you a photo, and I'msure you're going to post it.
Yeah, I might be able
to find a higher resolution one,but there's photos of him
in a group with WinstonChurchill.
Like he spent a nightat Churchill's place like this.
He was like,
oh, you're back from two yearsand I've got a mission for you.
How was POW camp in Italy?
(51:30):
Would you like to go out againand do more stuff?
Well, this was like four weeks
after your returnfrom Churchill.
Sent him over to China.
I need you, China.
Yeah. Off you go. Oh, okay.
Yeah, that's a lot.
So we talked about his wifeat, like,
I don't reckon his first wifeseeing him much.
Probably not know a.
Wife fighting or backrecovering.
(51:50):
Right. Yeah.
At his favorite recovery clinic.
Nursing home. Nursing.That's it. Yeah.
What did. I just
that's a cool too.
Yeah.
If you want to
obviously find out obviouslymore in depth of his story.
He's got his memoir.
But I thought it was happyhonestly.
Honestly. Yeah.
I'm sure you can find thatas an e-book or somewhere.
Yeah,I'd love to read that. Sure.
That'd be a great story.
(52:11):
There was a heavy metal bandthat wrote a song about him
in 2022. Right.
I can quickly look that up.
I think it's got something to dowith Unkillable Soldier. It.
That sounds like a heavy metalthing.
Well John does that.
I willlet you know about our socials.
So at G he tells Pod onFacebook, Twitter and Instagram.
(52:32):
We don't post a lot there.
But we do post,
supplemental imagesthat go along
so you can get an ideaof what we're talking about.
And you're free to messagesany time.
We will hit you backas soon as we can.
And give us your episodesuggestions, your feedback,
anything that, you feel liketelling us, we'd love to hear.
(52:53):
I think I said Facebook,Twitter, Instagram.
We have killed off the Twitter.It's not in use anymore.
It's just Facebookand Instagram.
Have you packed the policecar yet?
No, I've got blue Sky,
but it's mostly just peoplecomplaining about Twitter.
Okay. Which is notan interesting place to be.
So I think it needs to developa bit more.
So the band thatdid the song was Sabaton.
And it's literally justcalled The Unkillable Soldier.
Right. There you go.
(53:13):
I go, I check it out.
Yeah.
All right.Well good episode boy.
Thanks.
I look forward to the next onewhich will be mine.
It will be.
Yeah. And I'm just tryingto, I'm in my head.
I'm working at night.
It's in your head.
What are you doing?A zombie episode.
I could come to think of it.
(53:33):
Is this our last episode? No.
Is it our last episodebefore Christmas?
The next one?
No, I.
So this is outthe 3rd of December? Yeah.
And then we got more episodeon the 17th.
But these episodes are thirds,and my episode
would be the 17th. Yeah. Yeah.
And then my episode will comeout on the 31st of December.
(53:54):
So new episode.
Oh, okay. What are we goingto do for that?
I don't know,
like, we're not recording.
But no,
we'll have to do something.I have to do something.
Yeah. When are we doingChristmas?
Does that mean I got Christmas?
How did we. Did this happen?
Yeah. It's happened.
Yeah. It's.
(54:15):
I'm not doing a Christmasepisode. No.
Yeah.
Every other year.
Whoever's doneHalloween has gotten Christmas.
Has this happened?
Yeah. Suck it boy.
And on that. Bombshell.
It's been a great night.Thank you for listening
and watching.
We'll see you next time.
Good night.
(54:37):
Actually, how was that happened?
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