The $15 Million Truck that SUNK in the Antarctic - Past Gas # 16-17

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  • In this double episode, Nolan, Joe and Jeremiah discuss one of the most infamous engineering feats you’ve never heard of: The Snow Cruiser. With tires that were ten feet high, and a cabin big enough to house four researchers, this behemoth was meant to conquer the southern ice fields of the Antarctic. But as we'll see "The Penguin" may have been the biggest engineering disaster in all of automotive history.
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  • @sebastianhenriquez6134
    @sebastianhenriquez6134 4 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    Can you guys put photos of the cars and the other things you talk about. Like maybe just flash a photo of the car that you are talking about in the moment for like 5 seconds. Pls and thx

    • @chrisgidney710
      @chrisgidney710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed I wanna see what y’all see I like the format of loosely reading literature but I watch the TH-cam stream to see what’s going on not just hear it. Still love the show just would love to see some pictures to complete the experiance

    • @joeljeffrey9139
      @joeljeffrey9139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well it's supposed to be a podcast for people to listen too. But, I understand it being on TH-cam they could provide photos since they've already edited the video.

    • @maverickslastoddworld6476
      @maverickslastoddworld6476 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look it up

    • @bentonsullivan4156
      @bentonsullivan4156 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I realize I am pretty randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to watch new tv shows online ?

    • @reyanshholden4292
      @reyanshholden4292 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Benton Sullivan i use Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

  • @icanrunat3200mhz
    @icanrunat3200mhz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    October is spring in the southern hemisphere and the beginning of summer in Antarctica.

    • @flamcheeseful
      @flamcheeseful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Screaming they dont understand the tilt of the earth.

    • @MidwestDankAlumni
      @MidwestDankAlumni 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fuckin stoners

    • @dmystermillion2351
      @dmystermillion2351 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      As an Australian I was like what U sayn when they said that it was winter

    • @michaelf.2449
      @michaelf.2449 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was coming to comment this

    • @billywampler2852
      @billywampler2852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd like to say here that I (a GED recipient) had this on as background noise and knew instantaneously (spelled from memory) that Nolan (a college boi) was an idiot... Just kidding love the content guys keep it up

  • @EagleEye8208
    @EagleEye8208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Best Grandpa Ever" "Lazy" great wardrobe choices guys! Love it 🤣

  • @cheapmoto15
    @cheapmoto15 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Can you guys please show the pictures you're talking about like on JRE. Love the podcasts!

  • @NotAContentCreator
    @NotAContentCreator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Would love if you guy added the pictures of the stuff you are explains so we don’t have to leave the podcast to see it. Love the podcast!

  • @MidwestDankAlumni
    @MidwestDankAlumni 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How stoned are you guys?
    December in the *SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE* is *SUMMER*

  • @Lenoch_
    @Lenoch_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Guy in the back is filled with so many random gems of knowledge. Reminds me of the guy who watched Animal Planet in Dude Where's My Car

    • @chris-andrebrissett5208
      @chris-andrebrissett5208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Really makes this entertaining than it already is. I like that they feature other Donut members

  • @jennifercase7715
    @jennifercase7715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm not trying to be mean but Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere so when they were talking about how since they went in October it would be colder and larger but it's actually summer and spring during those months

  • @DreamWrench
    @DreamWrench 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I like the dynamic between Nolan, Joe and Jeremiah a lot! I love James too. Great episode!

  • @csours
    @csours 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Nimrod is actually from the Hebrew Bible, not Greek Mythos, and it means "Mighty Hunter". In the bible he led the builders of the tower of Babel.

    • @IRMacGuyver
      @IRMacGuyver 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I talk to a lot of people that hear something like this in a podcast and take it as fact arguing with me the dumbest shit.

    • @maxonclifton374
      @maxonclifton374 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you.

    • @Mreverydaythings
      @Mreverydaythings ปีที่แล้ว

      That is 100% inaccurate, Nimrod was invented and sung by Green Day, get out of here with your Bible

    • @Liond4d
      @Liond4d หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aka Apollo

  • @BrandonDubsComedy
    @BrandonDubsComedy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I laughed so hard at South Pole Santa hahaha

  • @frozenlotus3563
    @frozenlotus3563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love how they are like oh shit that’s going into winter! But in the Southern Hemisphere that would be Spring going into Summer. Then again depending on how long the ship rides take it may take them into fall, possibly winter if conditions were really bad,assuming they left from Europe. But if they set off from South America it would be a pretty ideal time to explore season wise.

  • @itsfqndave
    @itsfqndave 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The way to remember which is The Arctic/Antarctica: Antarctica has more letters than Arctic hence sinks to the bottom.

  • @shaneconta249
    @shaneconta249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    the girls laughs in the back during the extra funny jokes are such a great accidental effect lol

    • @HighItsBubba
      @HighItsBubba 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah she has a contagious laugh

    • @jazsmin3rosado27
      @jazsmin3rosado27 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wen that dude said that corny joke in the beginning n she laughed so hard I was like she must like that guy cause that joke wasn't that funny n u always see that in movies wen the girl thinks a dude is cute she laughs super loud n stops wen no1 else does

  • @daltonhunt7374
    @daltonhunt7374 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Joe sounds like T.J. Miller, is it just me that hears that???

    • @softstonks792
      @softstonks792 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      he kind of looks like him too

    • @drewwalton5973
      @drewwalton5973 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And Duncan Trussell haha

  • @cerdjee4918
    @cerdjee4918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    SOME people don't like ice in their drink in Europe, because 1. the drink is already cold out of a fridge, and 2. more ice == less drink. You're basically paying for half a glass of ice, and then half a glass of whatever drink you ordered. waste of money that.

    • @jacksawyer7300
      @jacksawyer7300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Came to say the same thing. It's not that Europeans don't like ice in their drinks. It's that we like a drink with some ice in it, not a glass of ice with a splash of a drink.

  • @itsameyaboi
    @itsameyaboi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    30:37 "is ketchup a smoothie" killed me, Joe doesn't talk much but he has gold one-liners 🤙

  • @elijahnurse9829
    @elijahnurse9829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’m sitting here this whole time trying to figure out if the grandpa shirt is just to be ironic or this 20 something year old is actually a grandpa😭

  • @kehlerjohnson1205
    @kehlerjohnson1205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My uncle does the ice core drilling down there in Antarctica. Has been for years. Ive seen and held the teeth for the drillbit

  • @medevilmonkey
    @medevilmonkey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I look forward to this every Sunday thank you guys so much

  • @99wolfseditionify
    @99wolfseditionify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Will somebody get this man something to play with under the desk.

  • @marajade2932
    @marajade2932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As a decendant of The Rat Pirate... I approve of this👍

  • @matthewbernard4152
    @matthewbernard4152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the 50 year reference of them just forgetting about it and then just having to go back to just immediately leave 😂

  • @Coltwollsch
    @Coltwollsch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are we all just going to ignore nolan's shirt? Best grandpa ever 🤣

  • @gogocube3924
    @gogocube3924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the Pod Casts. I would really love pictures of what you guys are talking about WHEN your talking about them. Just do like corner screen away from the faces or show it on the full screen

  • @bretthaynes1921
    @bretthaynes1921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the podcasts boys keep em' coming!! 👌

  • @fries4450
    @fries4450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I did a presentation on the Scott vs Amundsen race in elementary. I love that story and it's great you talked about it.

  • @somedude5657
    @somedude5657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And years later, a famous off-roader and legendary monster truck builder named Bob Chandler would come across an abandoned arctic snow train, look at its wheels, and say, meh fuck it I can fit those on Bigfoot #5.

  • @Paul8v
    @Paul8v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We definitely do have ice in our drinks! Not sure I've been in a pub that serves dr pepper though!

  • @user-bq9jp7bl5p
    @user-bq9jp7bl5p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    4:38 hello from Russia!

    • @kaidokiller
      @kaidokiller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      хер знает гражданин Ебеньграда greetings fellow comrade

    • @marioarchuleta8723
      @marioarchuleta8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where's Russia comrad

    • @suicidestremyanka
      @suicidestremyanka 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Хочу верхушку мира и дно мира, да да я

  • @andyfulcher4132
    @andyfulcher4132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Damn I love these listen to them while at work I was feening 😬 for a new one and up what do you know. You guys are talking about my great great great ect grand papa there Captain James Cook be careful there I'll have the walk the plank !! Ha so cool I know I'm dumb but it's not lie I can even proof it !

  • @stevemcdowell123
    @stevemcdowell123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love this podcast

  • @kevingunn2097
    @kevingunn2097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gag me with a spoon ahahahahaha wtf funny as hell

  • @derrickstorm6976
    @derrickstorm6976 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    US astronauts landed on the moon with a plaque saying "we came in peace for all mankind" but ok let's ignore that

  • @JessInThe999
    @JessInThe999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And today we have a special guest, its Conner form Cyberlife!

  • @themroc8231
    @themroc8231 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    19:32 Hmmm, october is actually the beginning of spring. Southern Hemisphere: the seasons are inverted.

  • @gtx-808
    @gtx-808 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    37:00 Google snow cruiser pinguin & you can see it trying to go through a bridge is awesome

  • @HenryMidfields
    @HenryMidfields ปีที่แล้ว +1

    17:48 - Yes, Japan sent in explorer Nobu Shirase during 1911-1912. He gave up on the race to the South Pole - by then Amundsen and Scott (as you mentioned) was far too ahead - and instead did metrological and scientific investigations around the Great Ice Barrier in the Ross Sea. There was an area, which turned out to be part of the Antarctic Ocean that was frozen during Shirase's expedition, that was formerly named Yamato Setsugen (or Yamato Snow Plains). A couple of places in Antractica are now named after him and his expedition ie Shirase Glacier and Shirase Coast.

  • @drummerdoingstuff5020
    @drummerdoingstuff5020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bro, I mean, we enjoy your faces but can we get some pics for reference...

  • @Lizardking.420
    @Lizardking.420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The goose of cows 🤣🤣🤣

  • @manz7860
    @manz7860 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the podcast guys

  • @claychambers82
    @claychambers82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did any else notice Nolan's shirt?

  • @veight7
    @veight7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every time Joe talks I think TJ Miller has joined in

  • @charlielivermanjr8837
    @charlielivermanjr8837 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Send the guy from Vice Grip Garage, Junkyard Digs and Junkyard Mook. They would have that thing up and running in an afternoon.

  • @redstone-kg3ne
    @redstone-kg3ne 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    October is getting into summer in the Southern Hemisphere

  • @ahmedabdullahraiyan8419
    @ahmedabdullahraiyan8419 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nobody:
    Nolan: GAG ME WITH A SPOON!!

  • @LeyliaFireheart
    @LeyliaFireheart 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The seasons are flipped in the southern hemisphere so October in Antartica is actually heading into Summer and is the best time to try to attenpt the south pole

  • @mattfisher8905
    @mattfisher8905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would love some pictures to go along with your video.

  • @JaeggerS-op9xf
    @JaeggerS-op9xf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was nice and good length

  • @noaimnoskillnokill3947
    @noaimnoskillnokill3947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "frozen wasteland" well at least there's moss growing on ice in the siberian tundra

  • @TheTubaEmporer
    @TheTubaEmporer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the history of nimrod, the more you know!

  • @E1337Jerk
    @E1337Jerk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just imagine the 92 miles in reverse being driven by mr. bean. Nolan Sandwich Engineer we need this shirt

  • @sirius4k
    @sirius4k 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    lol... a brain surgeon, a rocket scientist and a sandwich engineer walk into a bar 😂

  • @Fast5MTA
    @Fast5MTA 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i thought donut media would not talking about the slickest snow cruiser car ever in antarctica until i found this podcast accidentally xD

  • @1sleet460
    @1sleet460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine one of those explorers in the is still alive and just found the cruiser stole it

  • @crackedcrypto1598
    @crackedcrypto1598 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love you and the stefic ocean Nolan ❤️

  • @pad0965
    @pad0965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does any one else see the checkerboard vans when they do the back shot with the cameras

  • @CharlesBordy
    @CharlesBordy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Y'all. Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere lol. In October, you're rolling into summer.

  • @StellarGale
    @StellarGale 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Russian listener here. Ice is cool.

  • @rdrummer2
    @rdrummer2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4 cylinder, 15 horsepower air cooled beast lol

  • @army_strings4945
    @army_strings4945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Metallica played a concert in Antarctica for a bunch of scientists in 2013. They are the only band to have played all 7 continents and they did all within a month.

  • @anthonysmalawipredators8794
    @anthonysmalawipredators8794 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    In 1862 those were the type of dudes that said "if your cold boy, just take a piss right now"

  • @thatonedude5237
    @thatonedude5237 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    HAH, sending our "best" tech to Mars to take low res pictures.

  • @zztop7306
    @zztop7306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So is this like a one part "series"? Lmao

  • @keoni3814
    @keoni3814 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am so thankful for the line and tell you how much is left in the ad but since the background on this one was yellow I can’t tael

  • @jakemason2220
    @jakemason2220 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I know this is a car channel and mostly car news but anything travel related would be nice to listen to. History of boat captains, famous pilots, and possibly even train stuff. Real enjoy your podcasts keep it up!

  • @DatOneCat
    @DatOneCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The first time I saw the Snow Cruiser the only thing that came to mind was the cars/rigs seen in the game "Rollcage".

  • @longblacktrain777
    @longblacktrain777 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn Nolan you definitely wouldn't be able to survive an Antarctic expedition you would have the same fate as a baby seal... lol

  • @longblacktrain777
    @longblacktrain777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ummmmm December is the summer in the south pole... so I think they got it right

  • @JessInThe999
    @JessInThe999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The reason they went in october is probably because the seasons are flipped south of the equator. It was actually going into summer.

  • @keoni3814
    @keoni3814 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was the plan all along, submarine 🤣😅

  • @HeavenlyDivineTaro
    @HeavenlyDivineTaro ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know Nimrod as a King of Babylon. The real Chris Cringle.
    Hah omg "people in the early 20th century were a buncha d***s" LMFAO

  • @noaimnoskillnokill3947
    @noaimnoskillnokill3947 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The theory that the snow cruiser fell into the ocean is supported by reports of sights of big drifting ice portions with what looked like some open rooms on the vertical outer walls.
    So the snow cruiser most likely got ripped apart and sank into the ocean when the driftet out ice portions melted

  • @coosey3764
    @coosey3764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope Jeremiah is on part 2 boys!

  • @naspyro1511
    @naspyro1511 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    After they tasted that whisky they found from the expedition, they recreated it and you can buy a bottle.

  • @jacobkelley7762
    @jacobkelley7762 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The plane was not left. It had an even more interesting life after Antarctica and is still around

  • @ajorsomething4935
    @ajorsomething4935 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Soviets:
    Ah yes, a big steamy turd of 1939 tech. We definitely need that.

  • @mikkabrightheart2268
    @mikkabrightheart2268 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I may be wrong but isn't winter on the other side of the year in the southern hemisphere?

  • @samsaverino8159
    @samsaverino8159 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wouldnt vehicles in the artic would run into alot of issues bc of the temp, I seen videos during the polar vortex a couple years ago having to start a small fire under the engine blocks of trucks and stuff because it was too cold for the vehicles to start in some places and antartica is like 10X colder

  • @Stormynormy42
    @Stormynormy42 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sometimes I like to think about stumbling across one of these random ass cars left in ridiculous places over a century ago, when people would treat them like miracle machines then have to abandon them along the way. I wonder how many are out there.

  • @crisikingful
    @crisikingful 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol damn working out listing to this is to hard lol so funny

  • @jamieleeper8215
    @jamieleeper8215 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Horses/ponys grow a winter coat that is much thicker than the summer coats. I still don't know if a horse would be able to handle the extreme cold though

  • @grogdocr
    @grogdocr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    An engineering team designs an automated bar with a robotic bartender. To test it they order 1 beer, 10 beers, and then 999 beers, they cycle through all the songs in the jukebox and have a test group use the dancefloor. Having passed those tests the bar opens. The first customer walks in and asks for the bathroom, and the bar tender promptly explodes setting fire to the bar.

  • @_Ezio__Auditore_
    @_Ezio__Auditore_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Our Sun is a star...no one lives on stars unless they can handle stupid high temperatures lol

  • @noaimnoskillnokill3947
    @noaimnoskillnokill3947 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just want to let you know that the snow cruisers tires actually were heatable to make the tire rubber last longer under extreme cold conditions

  • @purdins1987
    @purdins1987 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere. October is going into summer.

  • @cmak4563
    @cmak4563 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "We all kinda agree that it's not worth the trouble"
    *Cuts to discussion about Greenland: Then it melts and is worth the trouble.

  • @thereal2scummy636
    @thereal2scummy636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Idiots October is spring in the southern hemisphere so good time to head

  • @rodolfomoya2732
    @rodolfomoya2732 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    We need to go back to antártica and find that abandoned car!

  • @imminent3178
    @imminent3178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Teenage boys: see something mildly arousing. Then get called out.
    Boys: 12:31

  • @RDKelly12
    @RDKelly12 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy shit that sandwich engineer line fucking destroyed me, nolan can be pretty funny

  • @andrewjensen6744
    @andrewjensen6744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Someone should ship these guys some muktuk

  • @the_hillbillytransportatio3143
    @the_hillbillytransportatio3143 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Germany had a under the ice submarine base on Antarctica during ww2 but if you were to want to know how big the ten foot tall Goodyear tires were there the tires on bigfoot 4

  • @Daniel_Pines_26
    @Daniel_Pines_26 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    On the southern hemisphere summer, not winter, starts in December so that's actually the warmest time of the year down there; and yes, Greenland belongs to Denmark, not Netherlands.

  • @NaptownTuner
    @NaptownTuner 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yet the moon landing went flawless.. don’t question it

    • @Notthetimeforit
      @Notthetimeforit 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Go back to your basement, your tin foil hat is slipping off.

    • @NaptownTuner
      @NaptownTuner 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Keep drinking the koolaid ... the government pissed in it

  • @asicdathens
    @asicdathens 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    In one of Clive Cussler books this vehicle was resurrected in order to prevent a major global catastrophe in the Antarctic.

  • @BloodyLunacy
    @BloodyLunacy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's funny how you guys mention the drilling of Lake Vostok and how in movies this all leads to disaster, then a couple of month's later the world is in the thrall of a pandemic.

  • @louisrockefeller9152
    @louisrockefeller9152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sand is different than snow, but the friction coefficient is most similar

  • @kristianmorales2536
    @kristianmorales2536 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Had to say it, stop playing with your arm hair 😂

  • @lutherclark8678
    @lutherclark8678 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The "Best Grandpa shirt" isn't so funny when you're almost age appropriate

    • @lutherclark8678
      @lutherclark8678 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really just wanted to see if nolan replies to his comments