Banter Savvy

Robert Peatling was stranded in Arnhem during the Battle of Arnhem Bridge. For six weeks he was hiding from the 9th SS Battalion struggling for survival before finding the Nederlands Verzet (Dutch Resistance) and making his way home. Listen to his heartbreaking recollection as we discuss his tale utilizing an Interview from 1999.

Listen as we talk about The Sarco Suicide Pod, invented by euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke. 

The concept of a capsule that could produce a rapid decrease in oxygen level, while maintaining a low CO2 level, (the conditions for a peaceful, even euphoric death) was the belief behind the Sarco. The Sarco pod is a euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation. "Sarco" is short for "sarcophagus" It is used in conjunction with an inert gas (nitrogen) which prevents the panic, sense of suffocation and struggling before unconsciousness, known as the hypercapnic alarm response  caused by the presence of high carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood. The design of the device was a collaboration between Nitschke and Dutch industrial designer Alexander Bannink. Sarco is 3D-printed in sections measuring 1,000 by 500 by 500 millimetres (39 by 20 by 20 in). The design software allows for devices of different sizes to be made according to the client's dimensions. Philip Nitsche is a former medical doctor and in 1996 he helped four of his terminally I'll patients to die using Australia's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. Philip has designed several end of life machines. the deliverance machine is on permanent display in the British science Museum in London. Nitschke has said that the design is intended to resemble that of a spaceship, in order to give users the feel that they are traveling to the "great beyond."

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America’s very first Olympics in 1904, St. Louis. Alongside the 1904 World Fair, you’d imagine quite the spectacle, but no one expected what happened here at the Marathon, with the event nearly being the last in Olympic history. We discuss Fred Lorz & Thomas Hicks, the use of Strichnyne (stimulant or powerful rat poison?), the Russian delegation's lateness, the research on the athletes into dehydration, South Africa’s first Olympic entrants EVER, & Felix Carbajal whom was easily the classiest participant.

Dennis Rader, or BTK, standing for Bind Them, Torture Them, Kill them. a Prolific killer from Kansas city who eluded capture from 1974 to 2005 when he was arrested due to a clever misunderstanding set up by the Kansas City Police.

A little late to the November 11th party - thanks Descript for the technical issue causing the delay! This episode, you'll hear about WWI Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John Mcrae's In Flanders Fields poem and it's origins focusing on the poppy flower - which is surprisingly orange? We were shocked, anyway, we thought it was red. Additionally, we discuss the appropriate ritual of the moment of silence according to the Royal British Legion and it's origins in South Africa with Sir Harry Hands. 

Next, we have a sad laugh about the Dam Screamer incident on May 4th 2010 where dozens of people were injured in a crowd of 20,000 in Amsterdam due to the actions of one negligent citizen.

"And you wonder why our war isn't going too well." - John Pike, security and military analyst at Globalsecurity.org

"We knew loose lips sink ships, but loose change....?" - Bernard Etzinger, Canadian embassy spokesperson

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

In response to the astronomical tragedy that was Travis Scott’s performance at Astroworld where 9 people have died and hundreds were injured, we take the time to tell you about Human Crushes, often incorrectly called stampedes. Travis Scott is *so far* being sued along with Apple & LiveNation to name a few for upwards of $750 million by 125 attendees and families of attendees. According to the news, Kylie Jenner, his pregnant wife, was present but not injured.

Listen to us talk about how scientists have finally captured a Supernova from start to finish, the strange history of Betelgeuse the Red Giant & the launch of The James Webb Space Telescope built by NASA , The European Space Agency and The Canadian Space Agency. The James Webb Space Telescope will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA’s Flagship astrophysics mission. The James Webb Space Telescope will be launching 22nd December 2021 during Ariane Flight VA256. Photos of distant exoplanets & observing some of the most distant events in the universe will finally be at our eager fingertips.

Guy Fawkes the most iconic man to be part of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up British Parliament back in 1605, a day which is still celebrated every year on the 5th of November and better known as Bonfire night.

   Remember, remember!

                             - John Milton

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes was a schemer, a polygamist, and America’s first serial killer. Find out what went on in Holmes’s “Murder Castle” during the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, why he probably doesn't like Marion Hedgepeth, and we also get distracted by the real skeletons used in the Poltergeist movie - poor Jo Beth Williams.

(No relation to Sherlock Holmes)...(Or Triple H)