Fri. 03/26 - We Are All the Big Boat Stuck in the Suez Canal

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The gargantuan container ship is still blocking traffic from flowing in the Suez Canal, but it has not stemmed the creativity of people online––from memes to fanfic, here’s your Ever Given round-up. Plus, archaeologists have found the oldest yet discovered mass production brewery. And Grape-Nuts are back! Where did they go and what’s the deal with Grape-Nuts anyways? Sponsors: Audible, audible.com/kottke or text kottke to 500-500 to start your 30-day free trial NordVPN, Get 70% off a two-year plan at nordvpn.com/kottke or use coupon KOTTKE Links: We Are All This Boat Now (Wired) Suez Canal Blocked After Container Ship Gets Stuck (NY Times) A Cargo Ship Drew a Giant Dick Pic in the Ocean Then Got Stuck in the Suez Canal (Vice) Ship blocking Suez Canal prompts flood of memes (Al Jazeera) Sweet Suez (All_My_Fandoms_Are_Killing_Me, Archive of Our Own) h/t Ryan Broderick Sea shanty critique (Walter Hickey, Twitter) Former sailor breaks down the "crash" (@Nature_Grrrl, Twitter) Suez Canal Authority's dramatic videos of nothing happening (Josh Billinson, Twitter) Cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal: Children have ideas for how to move it. (Slate) Is the ship still stuck? Archaeologists found the oldest mass-production brewery in ancient Egyptian ruins (Boing Boing) Abydos beer factory: Ancient large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt (BBC) Grape-Nuts to Offer Refunds to Those Who Overpaid (AARP) Why You Can't Find Grape-Nuts Anywhere (Vice) Thu. 12/17 episode about Kellogg Brothers (Kottke Ride Home) Grape-Nuts Hot: Chorizo - Recipes (Post Consumer Brands) Pepsi and Peeps Have Joined Forces to Create Marshmallow Soda (People) Toilet Paper Shortage Could Return Due to Shipping Container Crisis (Bloomberg) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, March 26th, 2021.
0:40.7	I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.5	The gargantuan container ship is still blocking traffic from flowing in the Suez Canal,
0:48.2	but it has not stemmed the creativity of people online.
0:53.0	From memes to fanfic, here's your ever-given roundup.
0:58.0	Plus, archaeologists have found the oldest yet discovered mass production brewery.
1:04.4	And grape nuts are back.
1:07.4	Where did they go?
1:08.7	And what's the deal with grape nuts anyways? Here are some of the cool things
1:12.8	from the news today. All week, the world has been watching a very large boat stuck in a very
1:23.3	small waterway. The quarter mile long container ship has been completely blocking the width of
1:30.2	the Suez Canal since Tuesday, and crews have been unable to shift it, saying it could take weeks.
1:37.9	What happened? Quoting the New York Times, the ship, the ever given, was heading from China to the
1:43.1	port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
1:45.1	It ran aground amid poor visibility and high winds from a sandstorm that struck much of northern Egypt this week,
1:51.9	according to George Safewat, a spokesman for the Suez Canal Authority.
1:55.3	The storm caused an inability to direct the ship, he said in a statement.
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