Pacific Legends Unleashed

This episode sees violence and insanity take over Batavia's Graveyard - all part of God's plan, of course. Can Jeronimus pull this off, and become God himself?

This episode is mostly about frayed poo rope -- but we also discuss the departure of the Batavia, early mutinous sentiment, and a disaster that no one, except everyone on deck at the time, could have seen coming.

The Dutch East India Company in the early 1600s have discovered there is money to be made in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. They send their new ship to the city of Batavia however it all goes wrong on the way there. This episode gives the context and set up to this incredible story.

This is the story of Shackleton and his famous Endurance Expedition. He has ambitions to be the first person to cross Antarctica from one side to the other but not everything goes to plan. In fact nothing goes to plan!

In this episode we focus on Mawson as he heads back down to Antarctica on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Things don't go completely to plan as he explores an uncharted coast -- but he does find a pineapple and some oranges, so it's not all bad.

Forget Scott and Amundsen - in this series we unleash two blokes who experience that strange zone beyond the limits of human suffering and endurance, yet live to tell the tale. In this episode, Ernest Shackleton and Douglas Mawson go for a hoon around Antarctica -- and they like what they see. Sometimes its better to quit while you're ahead, though.

In our final episode of the series, we follow Barry through the deadly jungles of the Central Highlands as he wrestles with the VC, the CIA, and a broken heart -- R.I.P Fatima.

In this episode, we get that little bit closer to the Tiger Man. We cover his early life, his military training, and the situation in Vietnam when he arrives in 1963. Dan also tells a spooky ghost story about a group of Australian soldiers who, for a long time, had their record of service completely erased from the history books.

In this two-part series, we first explore some of the contextual factors that motivated people to fight and die for their country - or socioeconomic ideology - during the Vietnam War. Episode 2 then dives headlong into the thick sweltering jungle in search of - not yetis - a platoon of ghosts and a half-man-half-tiger the CIA are desperate to kill.

In the second and final episode about Amelia Earhart, we reach the point of the story everyone’s been waiting for. That’s right - she’s about to start throwing oranges. Dan then finishes the topic off by solving the mystery once and for all, unleashing an evidence-based analysis of the theories surrounding one of history’s great vanishing acts.

We’re back to Unleash ™️ the story of Amelia Earhart into your earballs. In this episode, a young Amelia discovers the thrill of hospital bed pans. And flying. Dan then takes us on a whirlwind tour from the mean streets of Rotorua to a paupers’ mass grave. It’s a story-within-a-story, describing the life of New Zealand’s Amelia Earhart, Jean Batten.

The final episode focusing on Ed Hillary’s life sees the big man wrestle with personal tragedy, and a sudden aversion to life at high altitude. He somehow still finds the time and energy to go to the South Pole, the North Pole, and attempt to navigate one of the world’s mightiest rivers on a jet boat. And hunt yetis. Again.

Our second episode in our Ed Hillary series shines the spotlight on the Sherpa people, and Tenzing Norgay in particular. Tenzing was a technically brilliant climber, with superhuman strength at altitude — and was the inventor of the thirst trap.

We’ve unleashed a new legend - New Zealand’s most beloved beekeeper, Edmund Hillary. In this episode we discuss his early life and climbing experiences in NZ, rising through the ranks to secure a spot on the British team taking a crack at Everest.

Episode 3 has finally been unleashed, and sees Charlie adjust to life as a prisoner of war, where he shows approximately no respect to his German captors. This is the last episode focused on Charles Upham, so get in quick before we somehow sell out.

After his one-armed, donkey-borne, grenade and shit-slinging heroics in Greece, the Allies turn Charlie around and aim him at Rommel’s forces in the African desert. Good luck, Germans.

Charles Upham was just your average Kiwi bloke who loved farming and hated Nazis. They were a dime a dozen in 1939. Only one would win the highest military honour in the British Empire. Twice.

The race to the Pole is underway. Who will get there first? The experienced polar explorer who has learned from rigorous training and the wisdom of experts, including the indigenous peoples of the arctic? OR… The guy who knew how to be attractive when he needed to be, but didn’t like going outside when it was cold or windy? The ONLY way to find out is to unleash Episode Three straight into your ea...

Roald Amundsen prepares for his trip North, until a newspaper headline changes everything, and he decides to ruin Robert Scott’s life. The race is on, and there can only be one winner. And that winner probably won’t be the one who takes horses to Antarctica.

In our second series, the legendary race to the South Pole is unleashed™️. In this episode, we discuss the history of Antarctic exploration, meet the well-named but poorly-qualified Robert Falcon Scott, and EXPOSE the slaughter of millions of seals and penguins. In a light-hearted way.

We thought we could put the leash on this story after three episodes, but it ran off on us. In this INCREDIBLY special follow-up to our self-awarded award-winning series, we shine a light on Pitcairn’s murky recent past and discuss the legacy of Captain Spud.

Bligh seeks justice, but apparently learns nothing from his experiences so far, insisting on being intensely unlikeable. Meanwhile, the mutineers’ settlement on Pitcairn starts off well enough, but then…

Things go south for Bligh in the South Pacific, after threatening to shoot people in the face for poor eye contact and accusing them of stealing his coconuts.

In this episode we chart the early life of history’s starchiest man, relive Cook’s grisly murder in paradise, and lay the groundwork for the world’s most infamous mutiny.