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Welcome to the past and Katy member and unfair dowdy, and today we're gonna be talking about an expedition with a very unusual packing, lest some of them farmers, champagne, paying wealth truffles, silk pajama, they found. Nice, we like them alive, and we think that if we were gonna go on Safari or else a trap, we might bring similar items, but We also make sure that our trip within cars and that it was also paved roads, not pack horses in the mud, unlike the champagne safari, which was technically known as the betokened Avian Sub arctic expeditions overall view, people who

clamouring for canadian history. Sure you go and we'd mentioned Charles Bodell in our pod cast about the Nazi king because he owned the chateau d Candy, where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were married. But his life is far more interesting than just that. One small episode and Safari is part of that. So stuck a little bit about his life, but where's the fiery he was born in Paris and either eighty eighty six, eighty eighty seven and dropped out of school fairly young when he started working with a pimp, fear you helped the pin fine girls for business and the guy helped him get. You know we're flashy clothes and learn to fight now that up until the pimp was shot and nine are there. I am working relationship ended and that's when he moved to United States. He was about nineteen. Twenty. All he had with him was a dollar in his pocket

And so he started working as a manual labor and then is a dish washer until he took up entrepreneurship and he was really fantastic added. Apparently he sold all sorts of strange inventions like a truth pace that removed instead, and then he went on to become an efficiency expert and he worked with some huge companies like do part here. He invents the doses, and employers and managers love. This thing employ yes and unions hate it, because basically it establishes a Bodell unit, which is how much work you can do in a minute and if you can sixty Bodell units in an hour will then go job. You ve done your job adequately. You can keep it simple, really hoping boss don't pick up on that and only one one of the dough unit, a permanent high podcast radio and a battalion Katy. I have

The deal made millions from this venture, so he was really living the american dream. He showed up as an emigrant with a dollar in his pocket, and now he was a millionaire hanging out with people like the Duke and duchess of wines and working with big, Estonia, but the money and the famous friends weren't enough forbid, dough and he needed adventure in nineteen, twenty nine. He was the first man to cross the libyan desert. He sailed the South Pacific. Your hunted big game did all those Lange adrenaline rush types of activities, but then he had a big idea. He's gonna go through the Rockies, and this too keen mountains to the Pacific from Edmonton Alberta. So that a big trip all the way to telegraph, Creek British Columbia and we ve gotten different numbers for just how long that was depending on what we're reading many, where from twenty four hundred kilometers to eating hundred. So if you ve

a more solid number feel free to send it to us, but this trail hadn't been attempted since the scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie did it in seventeen ninety three much of it hadn't at all in was mapped, but the girl said it's fun to do things, others call impossible. So Bodell brings along his wife, fern and his mistress. The italian Swift Countess Villona Keith. And the mistress profoundly an awkward trip already also had with him a bunch of US people as swift ski instructors and cowboys a dental student, a Bush pilot just guides, surveyor his pet Fox, Terrier, again keeper and a mechanic, inlet camera men, including Floyd Crosbie, who avenged to be the photographer for high noon and win and ask her for it. They They brought along within five citron half tracks. There were these altering vehicles that had wheels in France, caterpillar tracks and back colleague a tank they

Brad along a hundred pack, horses and fifteen tons of supplies, some of which Sarah and I have already mentioned the champagne candied fruits. French novels truffles filled pajamas flat, where one pack horse that just carries misses the dough fern her shoes for a parkers, Devon, Shirk and chicken levers, which I think that's the one item I might leave office live I don't know I like my my livers, but we re sang this reminded us of the Burke and Wills Expedition POD past and all the bizarre things they brought things better Unnecessary four year, drastic track across the wilderness. Angela, six nineteen, thirty four they set off for this big trip with all of their staff. They gotta champagne, breakfast and a big send, often Edmonton, and the rain, which also starts off with two limousines, escorted them. So this is not just any safari. No, they obviously did the limos pretty

clay, because the roads that are travelling on our made, something that the cavalry gumbo, it's more like clay than mine in it sticks to everything it's impossible to get through, and it's kind of like a bog. They actually call it must gag and abuse wonder sit Trans who is supposed to be in ass, a fabulous and all around your name. Don't actually do so great on the terrain. They have to haul them through a swamp there, so slow their gas guzzlers things aren't preceding. Quite as blithely.

She might where Shindy just reigns in rains and rain. He should just imagine this rain for the rest of the park as high feel in Georgia. Right now lie they do make it through eight hundred kilometers of mud, roads, thou so inner despite the difficulties they make it through, but that's the point when they hit the wilderness and there are no roads anymore. There are no maps thrown around this is money British Columbia and it's the last outpost from this depression relief cut trail, so if the edge of the wilderness- and they don't turns out to be tough, to deal with, perhaps not surprising, considering who he is, but he likes you everything done his way. He likes it done right, then, even if that's not the way to me to go and when he was called on it. He said this is the sort of thing you must be prepared to put up with when you pack a millionaire through the wilderness, which you know, I guess he had a point, naturally, that customers who have Gilligan violin, that's exactly what I was thinking too, but ill fires, his radio opera. There too, which makes his team mad, understandably

Without the radio, the surveyor can't get Greenwich time Signal and do his job widows come back, for that was that they know, heard anything from the radio other than the fact that John Dillinger had been shot so great and again the citizens are even worse in the mountains are always getting stuck a slow there eating all that fuel. They decide now that we're gonna pull the plug on this whole thing and haven't worked out for us, but we're not gonna. Do just any old. Wherever you go out with a bang o absolutely so they got crosbie to start recording and they send one of these vehicles down. There however, on a raft and the ideas that it would bang into this cliff that had been rigged with Dynamite and unexploded even have a spectacular selling a mad illusion version. You didn't, out the dynamite did not explode and instead it just

found river, where rancher founded and drove it for the next thirty years, though not about vehicle and two others were pushed off cliffs and two were abandoned. One ends up in a statue, a museum. You can apparently see it today if you wanna gonna, get a sense for the champagne safari I do want to, but I told him your times that he'd lost vehicles freak accidents, which I mean there's a freakish. Instead of improving the lot of regard for now, they ve just got their horses, round August forth, their hundred horses cross the Arctic Halfway River? and then they all come down with of fraud, which is a really really painful thing for a horse to go through and apparently from what I've read. If I'm wrong, please let me know once like a whole herd of horses comes down with it, you pretty much screwed

if they wanted to show you the way you can treat them with antibiotics balance it spread through the whole thing you're done when occurs. They wouldn't have had antibiotics with no, they didn't efforts to my attics now by September eight they crossed the Quad Archer River and toast wish, and because what are you doing? You abandon your vehicles in your horses are set? But this is a blow a little bit out of proportion. They have a case of champagne, which is twelve bottles and actually one is sadly broken, but still just something about testing the champagne. At this dire point when it became one of those moments by which the entire expedition was known, when people were trying to pay him ass being ridiculous, likewise look what they did with the champagne.

I don't know that's fair or not. I guess we'll see, because in mid September they start shooting their horses and their exhausted their hungry. They started running out of horse feed and, of course, they all have ha fraud and I start shooting two or three horses a day which takes its toll on every one in the expedition. It was very difficult and it also gets the wolves attention and so pack start following them and they dont having fresh meat for themselves. Things are going well and they finally get to the point where they decide. They're not gonna, make it they're gonna turn around go back home, even others a hundred kilometers from where they wanted to be so they hire canoes and head back. The funny thing is that when Bodell returned, he tried to paint the expedition Ass, a success, but the public's reaction was more along the lines of okay, so you spent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for why.

Like what did we get out of their citizens on your right and after the trip he got into some some sketchy business For one thing he arranged for Hitler and the Duke of Windsor to me, which we talk about and our other podcast any did business with some pretty shady characters and yeah. Any any nazi connection during this time is rather disturbing. She worked a lot with France's Vichy government. He did one weird experiment and wrote for where, instead of money, he suggested they all use. Unit called the backs. There would be no guided his head. What that unit you're going back to the bulgarian it. There is no commerce and he thought of it. I gases is capitalism within communism. They call it. The theory of equivalence and summoned said it was a reaction to.

Through his the dose system, really bothered him? How many people thought his system was cruel to workers? Yet this was his his answer to that you told me an idea? Yeah I mean especially from somebody who's coming from such humble beginnings. You can imagine how it would bother him that he was hated by the working man exactly as some of the shady business, Colleagues, we are talking about chewing, may have given financial information to the Nazis that accompanies he worked for, mean. Remember these companies that we're talking about Du Pont engine Gee, I mean huge american companies and the Nazi collection goes even further than a bust of him shone with those of Hitler and glaring. So at company you want now the Tao. He also got in trouble for something we have yet to verify. Psychic and I keep finding different accounts. Some sort of Trans Heron Pipeline either

Were we found different things? Edible peanut oil actual oil or perhaps a railroad, but either way it was to be able to transport things to german occupied lands and hope in a terrible Peter oil, because that would be more interesting yes, but he was seen in North Africa drinking brandy with a german officer and on December fifth nineteen, forty four. He was arrested as collaborator and because he's american citys-

and he goes on trial for treason in Miami and, while he's awaiting trial, he killed himself with being a barber tall on February, fourteenth Valentine's day in eighteen, forty five. This is where it gets a little crazy again because he left a fairy cryptic note saying that he couldn't tell the truth about what happened because of powerful people and said that he was a good american and that he loved his wife and some think that maybe he was murdered because he wouldn't talk about the wartime activities of certain industrialists or because he couldn't talk about the wartime activities of these very powerful people. Yeah

We have a little history mystery there of his ultimately buried in Cambridge Massachusetts and one other sort of strange little fact right about. As some people say that the future half tax were being tested from military use. So if you know anything about this kind of stuff, please send us an email history, podcast at Hausa for Stockholm, for what seven I were reading it sounded like this was a particularly compelling period of canadian history or new noticed one of those funds stories that that people now so he know anything more about it than we do opposite line years after this whole thing went down film footage from all of these. Will your along on the trip actually found in a document with made, though, creating. I know I know we're interested in in checking this out. Oh yeah

and we ll have merely elder load and it turned out the whole thing wasn't awash. Somebody information from his trip was used to make the Alaska Highway so did indeed have a purpose- the tiles fantastic title I think, that's better, and I guess for less than their male now, and I got a couple of corrections and our haitian revolution cast about who sadly richer and the first one is from dog who might be my favorite because he starts off with small correction unintended redeem and he says during Napoleon's autopsy, it was concluded that he was five two inches. These measurements were, however, given in a measure that was slightly larger than a standard, but Napoleon returns. Was about five insects and we got another comment on the blog from David Markham, who is president of the international?

We unexciting said the same thing for restoring the hangman Napoleon was short. I would, however, like to say that he is shorter than elsewhere about this story and were taken to save you to learn more about the champagne, Safari and all sorts of interesting adventurous stories come to our website w w that how stuff works stock, for more openness and thousands of other topics. Does it how stuff works, dot, com and be sure to check out the step he missed in history was blocked on the house to accept com ah ha Mars, the newest resort destination in the just a short from the? U S in fifteen minutes from the airport comprise three lux potion front: hotels, three and high

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