Hi Abby, how are you doing?

Hey Dylan, I'm not doing so great, actually.

And I hate to break it to you, but neither are you.

Oh boy, Why? So the ship that we were just on just went down. Okay yeah this is bad. It's it's bad and in case you forgot because you know you hit your head on that plank of wood trying to scramble from the wreckage

We are we are 19th century sealers and we were trying to sail around the Auckland Islands, which is this group of islands 300 miles south of the southern most tip of New Zealand.

This is sounding harrowing.

Okay, so we are sealers, not just sailors, but sailors hunting seals.

Right.

It's a hot sealing spot, so this isn't the first time a ship has gone down.

Got it. But we make our way up, and we realize all of our supplies, our food, has gone down

with the ship. So you know it's looking bleeds.

Yeah, what are we gonna eat? We gotta like, you know, find some dandelion greens or whatever.

That doesn't grow here. I don't know. What are we gonna eat?

Yeah, I'll put you on the dandelion green searching squad.

So we're sitting there, the wind is whipping,

and out of the mist steps a pig.

Hey, that is a thing that we can eat.

Also though, like, aren't we on an island in the middle of absolutely nowhere?

Yeah, exactly. So because these islands had a castaway problem, you know, a number of ships

had crashed here before.

This British mariner is like, you know what,

let's stock these islands with pigs among other animals

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