Pikes Peak

Other times Pikes Peak came up

1. Then, so I remember this story, and what happened was he then started putting stuff in the ice, didn't he? Yes. Little bits of sawdust or something. Then that stopped it from melting. It did. Is it right? This is probably a myth. Did he go and see Churchill again? Churchill was in the bath. Is that true or not? He didn't. Yeah, it was called Pike Creek, named after him. Yeah, he convinced Lord Mountbatten that it was a good idea.

   243: No Such Thing As Jean-Paul Sartre's Crabs, 2018-11-16 · listen ⏱ 00:14:48

2. Didn't know Pike was in the... Well, they brought it back because then they were able to use pieces of the original pilot in the episode, I can't remember the name of it, but it has to do with Spock is on trial. Captain Pike has been destroyed, and he's in this chair, and Captain Kirk is testifying on his behalf, and they keep cutting to footage of the original pilot. Cool.

   No Such Thing As A Zillion And One, 2016-02-12 · listen ⏱ 00:11:49

3. Customer service at its finest. It's going to slip through. I know, I know. I just, yeah, yeah. So I did a big long list and Courtney Pike. I actually only saw the Pike bit when I did the list. Then Andy pointed out Courtney Pike is also a phrase. Then I thought, what a brilliant name. It turned out that it's so brilliant because someone thought of it.

   Club Fish - Drop Us A Line - March 2025, 2025-03-25 · listen ⏱ 00:21:51

4. Did you know that the Brits had to find a way in World War II of defeating the German U-Boats? They were a massive danger. So they planned to make an aircraft carrier that was more effective because our aircraft didn't have the range to hit the U-boats from land. So a guy called Jeffrey Pike, working for the government, proposed, and this is a thing called Operation Habercook. It was approved by Churchill. He proposed that we build an aircraft carrier made completely of ice.

   No Such Thing As Jean-Paul Sartre's Crabs, 2018-11-16 · listen ⏱ 00:14:53