283: Ecuador: Darwin's Adventure to the Galapagos

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ecuador: Darwin's Adventure to the Galapagos Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Charles Darwin's time in Ecuador, where his observation of Finches, Mockingbirds, Iguanas, and many other animals native to the Galapagos, sowed the seed of his theory of evolution... Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the rest of this history. We always start this podcast exactly the same
0:14.7	way I say that we're in the middle of the World Cup marathon because we are and there's
0:17.8	no other way to dominate the thing is we don't actually know if we get in the middle
0:21.6	do we because we haven't yet worked out the schedule. What we do know Tom is that this
0:25.4	is a podcast about Ecuador now Ecuador's participation in the World Cup has it has been hanging
0:31.3	by thread for quite a while hasn't it because there was some talk of them being kicked out
0:37.4	which you were gutted by because you really wanted to do this podcast about you're an absolute
0:42.0	you have passion and you've talked to me about this from the beginning of the rest of this history
0:46.0	you have a passion for Ecuadorian history and you said you would dominate dominate I've been
0:51.4	out of front throughout this that Latin American history is not my strength. I know two things
0:58.2	about Ecuador. The first is it was the name of the 1990s club classic by sash. Are you familiar with
1:06.8	all? No I'm not. You weren't strutting your stuff do it. I've learned something. I've learned
1:11.8	something on this podcast. I love it. I love it. It's lovely. Down at Love Muscle every Saturday night
1:16.8	dancing to this. Ecuador you know doesn't you don't remember that at all? I know they cut
1:21.7	this Tom. I really do. Maybe you'd remember if you if you heard it I didn't know but the other
1:27.3	thing I know about Ecuador and this is a bit of a cheat is that a chunk of it was visited by
1:33.0	Charles Darwin namely the Galapagos Islands. Okay and I know that doing an episode on Ecuador
1:40.3	and focusing on Charles Darwin is a bit of a cheat but that's what I'm doing. So all that talk
1:45.0	about you doing the foundation of Kiko. I don't know. In the voice royalty of Nuiwek on an Arda.
1:53.4	No way. Oh, Dempsey on the Keto all that stuff. That was a lie. You're not going to do that at all.
1:58.0	I'm not going to do that at all. No. So actually and this is a sequel to we
2:02.8	after Christmas last time we did the 12 days of Christmas didn't we? We did kind of series of
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