Sep 1, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
Blake and the team sit down to discuss the conversation with David Knoff, their takeaways, key learns, as well as heading down a few philosophical rabbit holes. In the chat the team talk through what…
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So I think as we've spoken about, one of the biggest things and the episode's called 537, so 537 days, right? Yeah.
During COVID, during, you know, what is ultimately like the biggest lockdown, social movement situation, thing that happened, affected every single person on the planet.
He is there, cannot get home, and he's there managing people in that sort of environment.
So there's so much complexity to that conversation that makes it like this super interesting social experiment.
And he talks a lot about managing people, resilience, like the stress, right? I think back to COVID for me, the hardest thing potentially I think was the lack of social connection.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That time specifically being in the workforce as well, like my job being labeled as an essential
service.
Yeah.
We had these giant COVID barriers in front of you, like to make sure that you can still facilitate and support people during that time.
And if you think about like David's experience, he's completely isolated.
Yeah.
And you've just time skipped that whole event.
It is crazy.
And then to sort of come back to that environment and how different the world has been post that sort of event would be mind-blowing.
Yeah, I think there's a big shock he talks about later a lot, I guess, in the back end of the podcast about – You know, starting to hit some of those barriers, right? Like got back into Frio, obviously had that, you know, like we're skipping ahead of the conversation, but obviously, you know, eventually got the ride back, the boat, and then they had engine difficulties in the middle of the Southern Ocean.
And that's not somewhere you want, you don't want to get stuck anywhere on the water.
Yeah.
And so limped, I think on one engine into Frio, good old WA, call that WA, got into, and then was like, how, how do we actually get back to Tassie? You know, because obviously the Antarctic division is based in Hobart, Kingston.
So I think as we've spoken about, one of the biggest things and the episode's called 537, so 537 days, right? Yeah.
During COVID, during, you know, what is ultimately like the biggest lockdown, social movement situation, thing that happened, affected every single person on the planet.
He is there, cannot get home, and he's there managing people in that sort of environment.
So there's so much complexity to that conversation that makes it like this super interesting social experiment.
And he talks a lot about managing people, resilience, like the stress, right? I think back to COVID for me, the hardest thing potentially I think was the lack of social connection.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That time specifically being in the workforce as well, like my job being labeled as an essential
service.
Yeah.
We had these giant COVID barriers in front of you, like to make sure that you can still facilitate and support people during that time.
And if you think about like David's experience, he's completely isolated.
Yeah.
And you've just time skipped that whole event.
It is crazy.
And then to sort of come back to that environment and how different the world has been post that sort of event would be mind-blowing.
Yeah, I think there's a big shock he talks about later a lot, I guess, in the back end of the podcast about – You know, starting to hit some of those barriers, right? Like got back into Frio, obviously had that, you know, like we're skipping ahead of the conversation, but obviously, you know, eventually got the ride back, the boat, and then they had engine difficulties in the middle of the Southern Ocean.
And that's not somewhere you want, you don't want to get stuck anywhere on the water.
Yeah.
And so limped, I think on one engine into Frio, good old WA, call that WA, got into, and then was like, how, how do we actually get back to Tassie? You know, because obviously the Antarctic division is based in Hobart, Kingston.
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