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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. In this app, I
fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. PS.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not so good
at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the
awesome answers. Now a new app is going to drop
every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest style episode of fearlessly
(00:23):
Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the hot Seat, Doctor Carl.
Do you like sweet or savory food?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Savory? Sweet is delicious in the short term, bit of fad. Savory.
You've got such a range of distant flavors, like I
just enjoyed last night for dinner and this morning for
breakfast pasta with anchovies and chi and egg Oh my god. Yeah,
so I'm savory.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh that sounds ten out of ten. Do you have
a favorite city?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's a city that I'm currently in providing I can
do my standard thing, which is, each time I go
to a new city, I go to the tallest building
and I get there about now before sunset. I have
a little meal and maybe a little drinking with a
cocktail with an umbrella, and I watched the traffic go
flooding out and flooding in, and I happen to talk
to the locals and I get a really good vibe
(01:17):
for the city. Well, I do love Paris because it's
so friendly and all the buildings are under seven stories.
I am sort of fonder like Paris is always the
same in Berlin is never the same. Oh, I love
what you like, Sydney. Oh nature, I love, especially the
Australian Outback. Before I had no idea what the Australian
(01:41):
Outback was, But having been driving through fifteen to seven deaths,
I now realize that forty percent of the Australian Outback
is desert under the definition of less than two hundred
millimeters of rain a year, and then another forty percent
is too dry to grow on, and only twenty percent
we can grow stuff on. My favorite part of Australia
(02:03):
and possibly the world, is just going through the outback.
And on our longest trip, we started off at Alas Springs,
went west for one thousand kilometers, turned right, went north
for a thousand kilometers. In the month that it took
us to do two thousand kilometers, we saw only one
other group of humans, and we've burned through five hundred
and sixty of our six hundred meters of fuel and
drank about one and a half tons of water, which
you've got by navigating to a well every second or
(02:24):
third night, and the tempers you got up to about
forty eight degrees c.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Whoa, that's wild slash awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was fun. It was amazing being just close to
the family and never been more than thirty meters away
from another person's heartbeat for a whole month. It was
just gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Can you mythbust something for me? Dilla's choice.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It has been said that the Daddy long Legs is
the most poisonous spider on Earth, but I can't kill
you because its fangs are too short to penetrate your skin.
That is wrong on four different ways. Firstly, some Dady
long legs are spiders that have eight legs, but some
Dady long legs are another eight legged creature called an opilionid,
(03:17):
and they've got different numbers of eyes. Secondly, they do
have a venom, but the word poisonous is wrong. Poison
is something that comes in through the mouth, and I
said poisonous, They're not. I should have said venomous. So
are they venomous bid Yes, are they the most venomous? No,
they're not. They're way way down on the venom rate.
And on one occasion, Adam Savage from the MythBusters shoved
(03:40):
his hand into a cage full of them, and they
their fangs are long enough to penetrate your skin. That's
another myth. But instead of going oh my god each
time they bit him and they then he proceeded to die,
he was going, ouch, that's annoying. Ouch, that's annoying. Ouch.
It wasn't the most venomous or poisonous spider on us.
(04:01):
And their fans can penetrate your skin. And some of
them are spiders and some are not. There are four
mists in the.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh wow, I love it. And do you have a
fact that you can share with it? So it can
be anything you want.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
A black hole. Black holes are real, and they can
weigh anything from about five times the mass of our
sun to fifty million to fifty billion, and yet their
size is not a million kilometers across or one kilometer
or a millimeter, it's zero millimeters. The size of the
(04:36):
black hole itself, where all that mass is concentrated, is zero.
It's a point in space. There's a thing around it
called the event horizon, which is a sort of artificial
boundary where you to escape, you have to reach the
speed of light and all that other sort of stuff.
But the actual black hole has a size of zero
millimeters or zero inches, or if it's Americans, you probably
(04:58):
say zero cube furlongs for square second or something like that.
I don't understand American units.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh wow, I have to ask this, and this might
be putting you on the spot. But as we've been talking,
beautiful orca whales have been diving behind you. It's my
favorite animal in the world, and I want to swim
with them in the wild in Norway, which would be
very scary and dangerous, I'm sure, But do you have
a favorite animal?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I will first I would recommend not so that the
footage behind me is from my second trip to Antarctica.
And so we were lucky enough, and they'd never seen
this before, to come across a bunch of orcas, which
were about thirty or forty of them in a line
about half a killer metal to one killer metal across,
and they kept on chasing something and they were using
(05:44):
a lot of energy. For the hour that we followed
them as we were constantly expanding and contracting the line,
and they were chasing something and directing it along a pathway,
and it took a lot of energy to shove their
ten to ten meter bodies out of the water. So
first thing about the orcas the killer whale, that's a
very clever bit of marketing. So you tend to think
(06:07):
that dolphins are really nice. In most of the encounters
of dolphins with humans, dolphins actually attack people and kill
them and try to have sex with them and bad things.
Flipper is an outlider, and it turns out that the
killer whale is actually a killer dolphin, but Big Dolphin
that conglomerate managed to keep their image clean by passing
(06:28):
off the killer dolphin as a killer whale. So orcas
are actually dolphins, not whales. Secondly, they're highly intelligent, and
there was a case where some dolphins, some orcers, had
had family members run over by boats, and so they
started taking boats in the Mediterranean. Thirdly, don't let that
happy smile on their face confuse you or tricky, that's
(06:53):
just an accident of anatomy. If you're in the water
with an orco, they'll lead you nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Person is just business your food, Okay, we won't swimming
with orca whiles. They've got spindle neurons, don't they like
they can?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're quiet.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I've heard they've got spin on yours, but they're very.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Tell me about that, you might know. Nothing filled me in.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, no, no, no, no, Like I just watched a
lot of docos on orcas. But they feel empathy, like
if if a family member dies, like you said, they'll
want revenge. And then each pod has different dialects depending
on where in the world they live, so like a
New Zealand Orca would be very different to the orcas
that you saw in Antarctica versus Canada. Yeah, each one
(07:33):
has different a different dialect, but they're very smart animals.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, I one on another stret Antarctica. We parked up
against the ice and then we had a slight problem
when everybody started walking on the ice and then the
ice split. We had to go back and rescue them
with a chopper. But a few of the people were
standing within half a meter of an orca and the
crew member pulled them back sad get back and as
(07:59):
they got back, the than lunch that where they had
been No nothing personal they're just food, I mean white
waste food apex apex, and there's stupid enough if the
human is stupid enough to be standing really close to
I'm sure I'll have a bite. No worries. I mean
I won't, but ancle would.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wow. Oh I'm so glad I asked you about orcas.
This is day made.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So you're going to Norway.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You can swim with them in the wild in Norway,
or you can cognac with them off Canada.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I also have found some tame orcers that nowhere. They're
bacon's coming from selling return for not leaving you. They
give them a whole lot of food at the end
that it's far more delicious than you are well hopefully though.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Blackwater freaks me out, like dark blackwater, cold blackwater, which
is what it would be like. It's so deep is
where all the fishing trolling boats are that I think
that would be icky, you know, and you have to.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Wear a full five millimeters neoprince steamer.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Weddy of mine did it and he goes. All I
could think about was the pain of how cold the
water was.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh yeah, I had that happened to be in Antarcity
when I jumped into the.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Water, had the artic pl Oh god it was cold. Yeah,
doing it though it was another question YEP Final question.
Final thing. You've mentioned hard work and work ethic. To
somebody listening to this pod that might have a dream,
whether it's to write a book, whether it's to change careers,
what's your advice like If they've got this dream but
(09:31):
they're a little you know, not super confident about it,
or lacking a bit of self worth, what's your advice.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
On one hand, it's really good to have some money.
You want to be comfortable. I don't mean fabulously wealthy.
I mean comfortable in the sense that you don't have
to worry about what happens if suddenly your shoes have
the sole fall off and you have to buy another
two hundred dollars set of shoes. So on the other hand,
sometimes you might have to give that up to follow
(09:59):
your dream, but you don't want to end up financially bad,
because poverty is a disease. But on the other hand,
give it a go. Depending on your financial status and
your family background, and it helps a lot of your
support from your friends will say yeah, give it a go.
So I'm in general, I'm being in favor of following
your dream. But on the other hand, you do need
(10:20):
food in your belly and you don't want to be homeless.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, so be smart and practical about it as well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Having so it's hard. Part of the problem is that
our society, while it lives off the output of artists,
doesn't reward them. Our society has made so much better
by all the creatives, the painters, the podcasters, the filmmakers,
the musicians, and in the vast majority of cases, they're
(10:46):
not rewarded. In fact, I was surprised when I found
out with regard to tennis, if you look at the
top one hundred tennis players in the whole world, the
bottom fifty usually sleep in their cars, no they can't
make enough money to or if they're on tour and
(11:09):
in a big venue, they'll share a room with five
other tennis players. Yeah. Yeah, the top fifty do well
and the bottom fifty and everybody else just sucks. So
on the other hand, give it a go. You just
don't make the same mistake more than once.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah. I love that. You're wonderful. Thank you, doctor Carl.
I have loved spending this time with you, and congrats again.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
On the book.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's a ripper.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh, you're awfully can't look Thank you so much.
Welcome to Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. In this app, I
fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. PS.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not so good
at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the
awesome answers. Now a new app is going to drop
every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest style episode of fearlessly
(00:23):
Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the hot Seat, Doctor Carl.
Do you like sweet or savory food?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Savory? Sweet is delicious in the short term, bit of fad. Savory.
You've got such a range of distant flavors, like I
just enjoyed last night for dinner and this morning for
breakfast pasta with anchovies and chi and egg Oh my god. Yeah,
so I'm savory.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh that sounds ten out of ten. Do you have
a favorite city?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's a city that I'm currently in providing I can
do my standard thing, which is, each time I go
to a new city, I go to the tallest building
and I get there about now before sunset. I have
a little meal and maybe a little drinking with a
cocktail with an umbrella, and I watched the traffic go
flooding out and flooding in, and I happen to talk
to the locals and I get a really good vibe
(01:17):
for the city. Well, I do love Paris because it's
so friendly and all the buildings are under seven stories.
I am sort of fonder like Paris is always the
same in Berlin is never the same. Oh, I love
what you like, Sydney. Oh nature, I love, especially the
Australian Outback. Before I had no idea what the Australian
(01:41):
Outback was, But having been driving through fifteen to seven deaths,
I now realize that forty percent of the Australian Outback
is desert under the definition of less than two hundred
millimeters of rain a year, and then another forty percent
is too dry to grow on, and only twenty percent
we can grow stuff on. My favorite part of Australia
(02:03):
and possibly the world, is just going through the outback.
And on our longest trip, we started off at Alas Springs,
went west for one thousand kilometers, turned right, went north
for a thousand kilometers. In the month that it took
us to do two thousand kilometers, we saw only one
other group of humans, and we've burned through five hundred
and sixty of our six hundred meters of fuel and
drank about one and a half tons of water, which
you've got by navigating to a well every second or
(02:24):
third night, and the tempers you got up to about
forty eight degrees c.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Whoa, that's wild slash awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was fun. It was amazing being just close to
the family and never been more than thirty meters away
from another person's heartbeat for a whole month. It was
just gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Can you mythbust something for me? Dilla's choice.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It has been said that the Daddy long Legs is
the most poisonous spider on Earth, but I can't kill
you because its fangs are too short to penetrate your skin.
That is wrong on four different ways. Firstly, some Dady
long legs are spiders that have eight legs, but some
Dady long legs are another eight legged creature called an opilionid,
(03:17):
and they've got different numbers of eyes. Secondly, they do
have a venom, but the word poisonous is wrong. Poison
is something that comes in through the mouth, and I
said poisonous, They're not. I should have said venomous. So
are they venomous bid Yes, are they the most venomous? No,
they're not. They're way way down on the venom rate.
And on one occasion, Adam Savage from the MythBusters shoved
(03:40):
his hand into a cage full of them, and they
their fangs are long enough to penetrate your skin. That's
another myth. But instead of going oh my god each
time they bit him and they then he proceeded to die,
he was going, ouch, that's annoying. Ouch, that's annoying. Ouch.
It wasn't the most venomous or poisonous spider on us.
(04:01):
And their fans can penetrate your skin. And some of
them are spiders and some are not. There are four
mists in the.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh wow, I love it. And do you have a
fact that you can share with it? So it can
be anything you want.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
A black hole. Black holes are real, and they can
weigh anything from about five times the mass of our
sun to fifty million to fifty billion, and yet their
size is not a million kilometers across or one kilometer
or a millimeter, it's zero millimeters. The size of the
(04:36):
black hole itself, where all that mass is concentrated, is zero.
It's a point in space. There's a thing around it
called the event horizon, which is a sort of artificial
boundary where you to escape, you have to reach the
speed of light and all that other sort of stuff.
But the actual black hole has a size of zero
millimeters or zero inches, or if it's Americans, you probably
(04:58):
say zero cube furlongs for square second or something like that.
I don't understand American units.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh wow, I have to ask this, and this might
be putting you on the spot. But as we've been talking,
beautiful orca whales have been diving behind you. It's my
favorite animal in the world, and I want to swim
with them in the wild in Norway, which would be
very scary and dangerous, I'm sure, But do you have
a favorite animal?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I will first I would recommend not so that the
footage behind me is from my second trip to Antarctica.
And so we were lucky enough, and they'd never seen
this before, to come across a bunch of orcas, which
were about thirty or forty of them in a line
about half a killer metal to one killer metal across,
and they kept on chasing something and they were using
(05:44):
a lot of energy. For the hour that we followed
them as we were constantly expanding and contracting the line,
and they were chasing something and directing it along a pathway,
and it took a lot of energy to shove their
ten to ten meter bodies out of the water. So
first thing about the orcas the killer whale, that's a
very clever bit of marketing. So you tend to think
(06:07):
that dolphins are really nice. In most of the encounters
of dolphins with humans, dolphins actually attack people and kill
them and try to have sex with them and bad things.
Flipper is an outlider, and it turns out that the
killer whale is actually a killer dolphin, but Big Dolphin
that conglomerate managed to keep their image clean by passing
(06:28):
off the killer dolphin as a killer whale. So orcas
are actually dolphins, not whales. Secondly, they're highly intelligent, and
there was a case where some dolphins, some orcers, had
had family members run over by boats, and so they
started taking boats in the Mediterranean. Thirdly, don't let that
happy smile on their face confuse you or tricky, that's
(06:53):
just an accident of anatomy. If you're in the water
with an orco, they'll lead you nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Person is just business your food, Okay, we won't swimming
with orca whiles. They've got spindle neurons, don't they like
they can?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're quiet.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I've heard they've got spin on yours, but they're very.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Tell me about that, you might know. Nothing filled me in.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, no, no, no, no, Like I just watched a
lot of docos on orcas. But they feel empathy, like
if if a family member dies, like you said, they'll
want revenge. And then each pod has different dialects depending
on where in the world they live, so like a
New Zealand Orca would be very different to the orcas
that you saw in Antarctica versus Canada. Yeah, each one
(07:33):
has different a different dialect, but they're very smart animals.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, I one on another stret Antarctica. We parked up
against the ice and then we had a slight problem
when everybody started walking on the ice and then the
ice split. We had to go back and rescue them
with a chopper. But a few of the people were
standing within half a meter of an orca and the
crew member pulled them back sad get back and as
(07:59):
they got back, the than lunch that where they had
been No nothing personal they're just food, I mean white
waste food apex apex, and there's stupid enough if the
human is stupid enough to be standing really close to
I'm sure I'll have a bite. No worries. I mean
I won't, but ancle would.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wow. Oh I'm so glad I asked you about orcas.
This is day made.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So you're going to Norway.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You can swim with them in the wild in Norway,
or you can cognac with them off Canada.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I also have found some tame orcers that nowhere. They're
bacon's coming from selling return for not leaving you. They
give them a whole lot of food at the end
that it's far more delicious than you are well hopefully though.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Blackwater freaks me out, like dark blackwater, cold blackwater, which
is what it would be like. It's so deep is
where all the fishing trolling boats are that I think
that would be icky, you know, and you have to.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Wear a full five millimeters neoprince steamer.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Weddy of mine did it and he goes. All I
could think about was the pain of how cold the
water was.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh yeah, I had that happened to be in Antarcity
when I jumped into the.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Water, had the artic pl Oh god it was cold. Yeah,
doing it though it was another question YEP Final question.
Final thing. You've mentioned hard work and work ethic. To
somebody listening to this pod that might have a dream,
whether it's to write a book, whether it's to change careers,
what's your advice like If they've got this dream but
(09:31):
they're a little you know, not super confident about it,
or lacking a bit of self worth, what's your advice.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
On one hand, it's really good to have some money.
You want to be comfortable. I don't mean fabulously wealthy.
I mean comfortable in the sense that you don't have
to worry about what happens if suddenly your shoes have
the sole fall off and you have to buy another
two hundred dollars set of shoes. So on the other hand,
sometimes you might have to give that up to follow
(09:59):
your dream, but you don't want to end up financially bad,
because poverty is a disease. But on the other hand,
give it a go. Depending on your financial status and
your family background, and it helps a lot of your
support from your friends will say yeah, give it a go.
So I'm in general, I'm being in favor of following
your dream. But on the other hand, you do need
(10:20):
food in your belly and you don't want to be homeless.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, so be smart and practical about it as well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Having so it's hard. Part of the problem is that
our society, while it lives off the output of artists,
doesn't reward them. Our society has made so much better
by all the creatives, the painters, the podcasters, the filmmakers,
the musicians, and in the vast majority of cases, they're
(10:46):
not rewarded. In fact, I was surprised when I found
out with regard to tennis, if you look at the
top one hundred tennis players in the whole world, the
bottom fifty usually sleep in their cars, no they can't
make enough money to or if they're on tour and
(11:09):
in a big venue, they'll share a room with five
other tennis players. Yeah. Yeah, the top fifty do well
and the bottom fifty and everybody else just sucks. So
on the other hand, give it a go. You just
don't make the same mistake more than once.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah. I love that. You're wonderful. Thank you, doctor Carl.
I have loved spending this time with you, and congrats again.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
On the book.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's a ripper.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Oh, you're awfully can't look Thank you so much.
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