Thinking Sideways: Frederick A. Cook

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 3 September 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Frederick Cook claimed to be the first man to climb to the peak of Mt. McKinley in 1906, in 1909 he claimed to have made it to the North Pole in the spring of 1908. Arctic explorer Robert Peary launched a campaign against Cook and soon no one believed he had done it. In the last several decades people retracing their steps have begun wonder if he really did it. Was Cook really successful or was he a great fraud?

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0:00.0	I don't understand.
0:02.0	I'm not confused.
0:04.0	You never know.
0:06.0	It's a big mistake that the fuck you did for the slide.
0:08.0	What?
0:09.0	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:12.0	Well, hey everybody, and welcome again to another episode of thinking sideways the podcast.
0:26.0	I am Steve.
0:27.0	Of course I am joined by...
0:29.0	Devon.
0:30.0	And Joe.
0:31.0	And once again, we got a mystery.
0:34.0	Yeah.
0:35.0	We managed to fish another one out.
0:36.0	We did.
0:37.0	We got one.
0:38.0	There's still a couple left in the world.
0:40.0	Only a few.
0:41.0	Shoot, fish in a barrel.
0:42.0	Well anyway.
0:44.0	So today we are going to talk about another historical mystery because I'm evidently on a historical
0:50.0	mystery bend.
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