Badasses of History: The Giant Peter Freuchen

History of Everything

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The shortlist of Peter Freuchen’s accomplishments includes escaping an ice cave armed with his bare hands and frozen feces, escaping a death warrant issued by Third Reich officers, and being the fifth person to win the jackpot on the game show The $64,000 Question. However, the life of adventurer/explorer/author/anthropologist Peter Freuchen can hardly be contained in a short list. Travel to Germany with me here Check out our sister podcast the Mystery of Everything Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge COFFEE Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.3	Hello, my friends. Like are you here, and welcome back to the History of Everything
0:41.9	podcast.
0:43.2	My friends, today I wanted to do something that has a bit different, and yet simultaneously,
0:47.7	it is also a bit of a return to form.
0:51.6	Badasses of history.
0:53.5	Look, for anyone who is familiar with this, who has been
0:55.4	following me for a while, if you're familiar with my TikTok work, my short work, etc. The first
1:00.4	two big style of series that I did were dumb events in history and badasses of history. When I
1:07.7	covered these things, I would explain events and people in under 60 seconds.
1:13.0	That was just the format of TikTok, but honestly, that does not do these stories justice. It really
1:18.3	does not. So what I want to do here today is I want to go through and tell the longer version
1:23.8	of one of the stories of these badasses in history. Now, when I go and tell these
1:28.8	stories here for any of these episodes that we do in the future, some of these you may
1:31.8	heard of, some of them you may not. We may cover multiple people over the course of the same
1:37.3	episode, depending on how long the actual story is. But the important thing is that their
1:42.3	particular story is something that remains told.
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