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The Hot Air Balloon North Pole Expedition

Episode Summary

Salomon August Andrée had a dream. In 1897 he and his companions Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel would by the first to fly a hot air balloon over the North Pole! (Or die trying!) Their story inspired their fellow Swedes, HP Lovecrafts 'At The Mountains of Madness,' and countless other adventurers-at-heart to follow on their stead. Hopefully they would have a better plan.

Episode Notes

Salomon August Andrée had a dream. In 1897 he and his companions Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel would by the first to fly a hot air balloon over the North Pole! (Or die trying!) Their story inspired their fellow Swedes, HP Lovecrafts 'At The Mountains of Madness,' and countless other adventurers-at-heart to follow on their stead. Hopefully they would have a better plan.

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Talking Points: Project paperclip, the age of heroic exploration, the explorers club, flouride apples, feeling up gas-holes, balloon safety tips, giga-looners, mylarbaloonfan 1800, DragonBallZ Architecture, inside people, eat it or yeet it, white wastelands, ice, snow, cold, cold icy snow and several of the best jokes of 1897.

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