EP. 689: RIVER OF DOUBT | PART 13
Gritty Podcast
Brian Call
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I'm your host Brian Call and today I'm joined by my brother the Gritty Bromine. How are you Brent? |
| 0:06.8 | I'm well. Thank you. Right on. Today we are returning to our story, the River of Doubt by Candace Mallard |
| 0:14.7 | written by Candace Mallard about Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey. He and his son Kermit are |
| 0:21.8 | on an expedition down the harrowing on a harrowing expedition down the River of Doubt |
| 0:27.5 | through the middle of the Amazon jungle. So it's not going well as we last left off with some |
| 0:36.1 | cannibalism, drowning, someone jacked a bunch of food. Yeah, someone in camp stealing food, |
| 0:44.6 | they lost another boat. Rations are starving to death, the Amazon wants to kill them and so do the |
| 0:49.8 | Indians in the jungle. They haven't found a single Brazilian, not a single nut. Now you didn't, |
| 0:55.7 | I think that's so funny, like how they're like so mad they haven't found a single nut. But I |
| 1:00.2 | think what's really interesting, this whole story really highlights so much about when you go |
| 1:07.0 | backpacking in into the backcountry, all the things that can go wrong and you know how these |
| 1:14.0 | guys have to adapt to the situation. And it just goes to show that planning is key. Like they had the |
| 1:21.9 | the what was his name? I'm drawing a blank right now. The guy that helped like plan this expedition |
| 1:29.0 | was the guy who planned and utterly failed on that Arctic expedition a few years prior. |
| 1:37.2 | So they they also sort of half like they sort of on a whim just decided to do this river |
| 1:45.8 | that's deadly dangerous that you may not survive kind of acting like now we got this instead of |
| 1:52.8 | going with the river that they were just going to originally float those real safe and easy. |
| 1:58.1 | And you can see how this poor planning leads them down this this road of death and starvation and |
| 2:04.4 | stuff. It is kind of a miracle and attribute to the these people that are on this expedition |
| 2:11.8 | because obviously they survive or the book wouldn't exist. Some survive or the book wouldn't exist. |
| 2:19.7 | What's crazy about this though is others try to repeat the expedition in fact within years, |
| 2:25.7 | within a couple of years of this happening there's two more expeditions that are never heard from |
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