165 - Expedition to Antarctica

Happy Thanksgiving Bus One! We're missing the parade and football game today because we're on a mission to make it to McMurdo Station in Antarctica before the big Thanksgiving feast! Steven leads Alec, Aidan, and Cooper through the frigid terrain with the coldest questions we've seen yet! And let's hope the THING doesn't find us...

Episode Transcript

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Happy Thanksgiving, Gus Juan. We're on our way to an
unspecified invasion, and we've got a lot of time to kill.
Let's do some trivia passengers Explain yourselves.
Burr, everybody. It's aided.

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I'm actually not even that cold.I'm Alec.
Brother this. Thanks and I'm Cooper.
And I'm Steven, filling in for Ethan, who's staying off the
grid till things cool down. So.
I gathered you all here today onthis holiday that you could be

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spending with your family or friends, and I've told you to
dress for extreme cold, but I haven't told you why.
Any guesses as to what today's topic could be?
Chilliness. The gods gotta just be like the
Arctic or something. Well, that's pretty darn close,
Alec, because today's topic is Antarctica.

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Well, actually, that's pretty darn far.
Yeah. Because it's far away.
That's actually as far that's actually.
On the opposite. Side Let's go it.
But in spirit, I think it's, youknow, similar.
So we're doing another expedition posted by yours truly
as Ethan is away. Whoa.
And as you can see, we're all geared up and ready to go.

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We're going to be visiting America's largest Antarctic
research station, McMurdo. Are we excited?
Yeah, yeah, no. I was on AI, was on a journey
today. Yeah, I can't.
Believe you, I just got pulled away from all my Thanksgiving
festivities and we're going to Antarctica now.
We're spending hours on a bus going down to Antarctica on

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Thanksgiving. I'm going to miss the
Thanksgiving. Football games, yeah.
Can we put the the Macy's Day Parade on in the background?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've got YouTube TV.
It's OK, You can watch. Oh yeah, beautiful.
Not sponsored. So let's go ahead and go through
the rules here. So while it's becoming winter
here, it's headed into summer onthat frozen continent, which is

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when the weather is comparatively at least the
nicest. We're going to go through three
different rounds with five questions each.
As per usual, for each question in the first round you get
right, you will have impressed me.
Once in the second round, press lead to ice and the third round
you get the picture. No buzzing.
You get a picture. You get the.
Beautiful picture. Round 3 You get a picture for

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each. For each corrected.
Which roughly translates to three impressions.
That's the conversion. OK, 3 impressionists.
A picture is worth three impressions.
I think that's what they're saying, yeah.
So no buzzing today. We're taking it nice and easy
because we've got nothing but time.
This is going to be a long trip down there.
Now, metaphorically, if these questions are mounds of snow,

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I've gone ahead and hit a surprise in one of the snow
banks. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, metaphorical surprise. Yeah, I get what you're.
Saying by surprise I mean a fakecorrect answer.
I meant like this. If you can suss out the surprise
correctly, you'll have impressedme 3 times.

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Do it before I've moved past it and you'll have impressed me
even more. Five times, in fact.
But if you accuse me of leaving a surprise in the snow bank, I
know for sure I didn't leave onein.
I'll retroactively be less impressed by your previous
answers. Three times to be exact.
How dare you. I could be unimpressed with you.
So yes, you can go into negatives now.

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Well, what? No, no.
I know the matter. People were exploiting it.
I had to. I had to nip that.
True, I was exploiting it. I'll ruin it for the rest of us.
And you can only guess once. Most importantly, no outside
help other than what you've got in your brains.
I'd be shocked if you get reception out here.
Anyways, so whoever impresses methe.

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Parade. They'll win the game, which will
earn the respect of the senior staff at McMurdo Station.
Any questions? Did you say McMurdo?
I hope none of that's going on. Murder.
Mystery, But she knew somebody who was.
A chef at Mcmurder Station, she lived there for like a year just
cooking for all the research people.

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That rocks, Dang. Anyway, is it all like?
Ice cream. Yeah, it was ice cream.
Keep coming for the cold. Oh, I could use some ice
popsicle A. Nice big pool.
It's not as cold when you're in that environment, you know.
I don't know if she was like ice, actually warm.
When in Rome it's actually warm.Yeah, ice cream actually warm
when you're at 8:00. Let's go get go ahead and get

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started with Round 1 here. Yeah, let's do it.
This round is titled Antarctica,Biology and Geography.
Yeah. And yeah, I'm getting the
biology questions out of the way.
Thanks, Steve. I appreciate it.
Thanks. Question one, Antarctica is
probably the least thought aboutcontinent in the world.
Uber, you can stand by the heater, it's OK.

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Pretty cold. How does Antarctica as a
continent compared to the other continents?
I've arranged the continents. How many times have I said this
word From largest to smallest byarea?
Where does Antarctica belong in this lineup?
From largest to smallest, it's Asia, Africa, North America,
South America, Europe, Oceania. So where does Antarctica go in

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that lineup, from largest to smallest?
And Oceania includes Australia. Yeah, Australia, New Zealand,
those islands. Every island ever, Alec.
I had always heard that Antarctica was the largest
continent, so I'm gonna say #1. Whoa, whoa.
I think that's not. I think that's not right.

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I agree. That's that's not I.
Think they? Go ahead.
I think it's larger than the Americas, but smaller than Asia
and Africa. OK.
That's very western smaller. Than you guys are thinking, I
think it's big, but not too big.I think it's just right.
I think it's just bigger than Oceania.
I think it's second to last. Well, unfortunately none of you

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have impressed me with this first question.
Antarctica is between South America and Europe, so it's the
third largest. Still pretty darn big.
Third largest, About double the area of Australia, which makes
it comparable in surface area tothe planet Pluto.
Wow. Now Pluto is a planet.
The people who said it weren't aren't planetary scientists, and

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the curriculum they used to argue it wasn't a planet was
terrible. They don't impress me so, so far
no one was impressed. Take that, but take that,
Steven. It doesn't.
Clear its IT doesn't clear its orbit.
Yeah, neither does like gravitationally dominant.
Neither does Earth. Earth famously junk.
It does the Yeah, but we own that junk.

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That's. Our junk.
Maybe they should add that as anabsolute and then that'd make
more sense. Oh OK, I like that.
No points. So yeah, no one's impressed me
yet. So we'll go on to question 2,
and it feels a little early to ask this kind of question, But
continuing with questions about Antarctica as a continent, many
of you can generally describe the shape of Antarctica.

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In fact, I'll give you the picture right now.
I'll send it to you. Circle with a thingy on the on
the part. Tail.
It's like Q. It's like the letter Q as a
continent. Speech bubble.
Why didn't we call it Quantarctica I?
Like that Cooper key, like that.I don't know.
I don't think anyone knows why we didn't call it.
Quantarctica Science. Science doesn't have the answer.

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To this one questions. Don't get it?
But as you know, Antarctica is covered in ice.
Charlie Chaplin rules draw what Antarctica would look like over
this map if we removed all of the ice and at currency level.
In this scenario, we're pretending all the ice, instead
of melting, has simply vanished.So what does Antarctica look

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like if we remove its clothes? They get Antarctica.
So, so you're saying like the map that so we're going by shape
is the ice? Yeah, you have to try all the
shape without ice because the ice has changed its silhouette.
But it's not really as much about relative size because we
have. Yeah, I'm not worrying.
About. Size, and more so, looking for

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who can most accurately draw what Antarctica looks like
without ice. Guys, I realized the mental
picture of my mind of Antarcticais actually just the outline of
Alaska. I started drawing the outline.
I was like, I'm drawing Alaska. Oh no.
Honestly, their shape isn't too different.
Does Earth from there? Does the continent measurement

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include the ice? Yes, that includes this general
surface area. Just cheating but OK.
I know. Well, if these other consonants
got their ice game up, you know,maybe they'd be a bit bigger.
But. True.
All right. Drew out what I thought
Antarctica looks like. OK, I want to draw what I think
in. Did you finish your Alaska

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picture first? Yeah, I did.
And then I did. It's two scale, so Alaska's like
really far in the corner. OK, Cool, cool, cool, cool.
I drew. OK, dude, Are you ready?
All right, everyone reveal your Antarctica's on three. 123
again, I said. Mine to Steven.

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OK. Alec.
Here's just like a pair a group of islands.
I need to explain. Group of islands.
The outside is what I think it is with the ice.
The inside is the continent, butthere's a bunch of lakes in
Antarctica. I know this.
There's a bunch of friends. There's a bunch of lakes under
the ice, so I. I didn't draw that scale, but I
did draw. For for those of you who are

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just listening, I'll do my best to describe what everyone's
drawn. So Alec has drawn basically like
a smaller Antarctica but with like several lakes.
And so Aiden has drawn also a smaller Antarctic Africa.
But the the long tail on it, it has like a chain of islands.
Does this make it better if I? Rotate it.
That's pretty. Yeah.

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It's like Hawaii, mind. So look at that.
That's an earlier draft. And then Cooper has drawn a
smaller Antarctica inside of Antarctica, essentially when
it's most correct. Essentially, Cooper did the same
thing as Out. Essentially I just drew the
right answer. I'd say Alec was the most
correct. Alec, you've impressed.
Because of the because of the lakes.
Hell yeah. So.

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Because of the lakes. I'll show you guys the picture
of what Antarctica looks like without ice.
Here it is so. All that's basically backwards
after whoa. Whoa.
So all. Of the tail is a tail.
Yes, the tail is a tail. It's actually a mountain range.
But Alec was very correct in thefact that it's kind of an
archipelago and there's tons of lakes inside, so well.

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I'd live. There beautiful for me, if only
we could see it. Yeah, if only.
If only all of the ice on Antarctica was gone.
Exactly. Says oil.
Climate change. Hurry up.
Hurry up. We gotta see it.
Hurry up. Thanks.
For our sponsor today, Exxon Mobil.
Good job, Alec. Question 3.
Thank you. I was so impressive, Alec.

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You did impress me. Everything I do is to impress
Steven. Oh, oh, she.
Touched me, you know? Oh shucks.
When you picture Antarctica in your head, you probably picture
the aforementioned rugged white landscape, endless expanses of
snow and ice. But not all of Antarctica is
covered in snow. Antarctic Oasis are the areas of

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Antarctica that are free of ice comfort and offer more favorable
conditions for the development of life.
About 1 to 2% of Antarctica is free of ice and snow year round.
Which of the following organismsis not found in Antarctic Oasis
or in Antarctica in general? Is it A grass, B Moss, C
insects, or D worms? So which one's not in

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Antarctica? Yeah, grass.
Moss. There's grass in Antarctica.
Be honest. Grass Moss insects.
Worms. Grass, Moss, Insects.
If there aren't worms, there's got to be something like worms
to break down. There has to.
There's worm adjacent or. Not a worm, but it's something
like a worm. Something I.
Think there's no insects? Okay.

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Just wrong as I said, but. I think there's no grass.
Okay, Cooper. How can we touch grass?
We can't and Cooper, because there is no buzzer.
You can't answer the same answerto someone else if you so
choose. Hey, what did you guys guess?
I said grass. I said bugs, bugs and grass,
Bugs and grass, bugs and grass. I'll say Moss.

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OK, he doesn't think there's Moss.
That's ridiculous. Elaine Moss, reference A.
Famous business was. The last host of the previous
expedition episode. Well, unfortunately some of you
have impressed me. The answer is worms.
It's worms. There was, there had to be.
Worms though. But they're literally.
Worms adjacent, right? There's worms adjacent.

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Something like worms? There are like microorganisms
that help the soil, but there's no worms.
Worms, but not. What would you call like?
In Antarctica, due to the poor soil quality, the cold and the
aridity. But there's grass, but there's
no worms, is what you're tellingme.
Correct. So there are three species.
Of your grass. You're telling me grass?
And one of them is invasive annual bluegrass.
There are tons of species of Moss on the Antarctica and there

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are all sorts of insects native to Antarctica like mites, lice,
fleas and spring tails. The flightless midge Belika
Antarctica reaches 6mm which is about 1/4 of an inch, which
makes it the largest purely landanimal in Antarctic zone.
Wow. Hey, Steven, what are those
insects when they're babies? Are they like larvae?
I. Guess.

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AKA worms. Worms.
I can't just call any larvae. Worm.
All. Worms.
I can't and I did not. Any wiggly thing is a worm.
Any little goopy wiggly thing isa worm.
Eden, did you not hear? It's all about the soil quality
and the Iridium it. Is all about I can't believe you
can have grasp but no worms though that that's hard for me

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to believe. Little do our contestants know.
That this was the fake answer. Looks like they were fooled this
time. Imagine grass.
I heard they call it the Bluegrass State in.
Kentucky. And that's what they that's what
they call Antarctica. That's right, it's just an
extension of Kentucky. Question four.

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OK, but when you think about animals in Antarctica, you're
probably thinking about the Penguins more seals, but this
Questions about Penguins. Penguins are my favorite animal
for most of my life until I got really into fish, but I still
like Penguins a lot. Penguins are famously
monogamous, but unlike how they are often portrayed, both the
male and female will help hatch the eggs.

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This is not true for one species, however.
Which species A Penguin does only the father help raise its
young and hatch the. Egg, whatever the happy feet
it's like. No, I don't.
Expect you guys. To know that.
Hey king Penguin, B emperor Penguin, C macaroni Penguin or D
Gen. 2 Penguin. Gen. 2 Penguin from Pokémon

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Penguin. Version.
Generation. Two, Johto the update, I'll say.
Emperor goodness. That's what I was thinking.
I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
Double down. Emperor's like happy.
People ask that's. What I was saying, I know that
the emperor Penguin males sit onthe egg to like warm it up and
stuff. But what about surf's up
Penguin? Cody's me bro, Does that matter?

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Does Surf's up? Penguin have a mom?
I don't. Remember, I think.
So I don't remember either. I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna be to be different. I'm gonna like.
Wants to be different. It's like king Penguin.
OK, why not? Well, you shouldn't have been
different, Alec, because it was the Emperor Penguin.
And goes to show you never be different, never be different,

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always go and. That's the boros go at the Creek
and Surfs up is always going with the crowd.
Always go with the crowd, Never be unique will not pay off.
I was going to write a joke about emperor Penguins needing a
baby daddy or something, but they all sucked.
So instead I'm going to read some Penguin facts.
OK, that works. A king Penguin is the second
largest species of Penguin, and they live on islands throughout
the Antarctic Ocean and northernAntarctica.

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Emperor Penguins are the largest.
They're about 3 1/2 feet tall. So these are the guys in happy
feet, as you guys said, macaroniPenguins.
That's the surf's up Penguin. They have the yellow stuff on
their head and they're also the most common species of Penguin.
There's about 18 billion of them.
Holy shit, Steven, do you know why they're called?
Why? It's the same name as the
noodle. Macaroni.
Because their hair looks like the noodle is actually.

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Because their hair looks like macaroni.
It's true. Well, you know, this reminds me
of a penguin's hair. Thus the name.
This pasta, but it's more like their yellow hair is more like
spaghetti than macaroni. Did you say there's 18 billion
of them? 18 billion.
What a relief. Oh, I definitely.
Sorry it's so hard to so cold Penguin.

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I I was like. I It's hard to hear the
earmuffs. On yeah, all this, all these
earmuffs. You get a macaroni Penguin.
You get a macaroni. Penguin, look under your chair.
And then Gentoo. Penguins under the ice, those.
Are the fastest swimming Penguins, which is why women
mascot is a Gentoo Penguin. They're trying to say that fast.
Is that like after they did the rebalance patch the Gen. 2

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Penguin got? It's like one of the branches.
So a Gen. 2 Penguin is a real Penguin.
It's a real Penguin. It's like Gen. 2, like
generation 2. It's like Gen. as in like Gen.
and then TOO Gen. 2. Oh Gen. as well.
Gen. as well too. They're all named.
Jen as well, Penguin. I'm Jenna.

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You thought it was like music or.
Put up the vents in my coat because it's.
So fucking hot I thought it was like I thought it was used to
Pokémon. Reference, yeah, and.
I believe those are the Penguins.
From what? Ones are the ones from
Madagascar. I believe.
Those are. Anti black Penguins?
I had to guess. Interesting.
Whoa. But that's off the top of my
head, I could be wrong, don't Fact Check me.
OK, Question 5. Fact Check.

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The Southern Ocean is the ocean that surrounds Antarctica.
There isn't much land between Antarctica and the rest of the
continents, which allows the Antarctic Circumpolar Current,
which is the largest ocean current, to flow unimpeded, also
making it an invaluable tool forship captains wanting to travel
from West to east as fast as possible.
What do sailors call the latitudinal line that defines

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the boundaries of the Southern Ocean, named after its powerful
and dangerous winds and currents?
Do they call it A the Roaring 40s, the furious 50s, C the
screaming 60s, or D the shrieking 70s?
Oh. My God.
Getting more, those are good. Did you make up three of those?
All of those are real. Whoa.
Those are all real, but but which one is?

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Which one defines the Southern Ocean boundary and thus the
extent of Antarctica? So the Roaring 40's, the Furious
50s. I remember 405016. 60S, yeah.
So I guess what is the latitudinal line?
Where does latitude start? It starts at the equator, Yep.
Pretty sad so. This is like.

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Your number is more. Gotta be 60.
OK. Screaming, screaming was it?
Screaming 60s. Say it's full name.
Screaming 60s. What's up county?
Let's see the. Shrieking 70s Oh.
My. Gosh, shriek out.
Shrieking is. I mean, you said it's real, so.
These are all real, but they. Smiles after he says it like

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they're not. Just, well, just the name
shrieking is funny. But it's real.
It is. Not sure I'll say them.
Well, I learned to not be different, so I'm gonna say the
same thing, Cooper said. Oh whoa, 8. 50.
Didn't learn his lesson. Fury is.
Yelling 50s Oh yeah, furious 50sbaby.

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OK. Well, the lesson we're taking
away today is to not be different, because Cooper and
Alec are both correct, you guys.Impress the crowd.
You're learning. So, quick, wait, hold on.
But Alec, you use Wisdom of the Crowd when it was just me.
Wisdom of the crowd. I was part of it.
I was part of it. Choose the crowd.

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Also, wisdom of the Crowd famously doesn't work if you
know the answers other people give.
OK, so we need to plug our ears.Always saying that.
We need to plug our ears. No, I think the thing you need
to do is listen, because that gives you the correct answer
seemingly every time. Ohh yeah guys, if we had just
listened. Well, if you listen to each.
Listen to this guy we. Just listen to each other.
There be no war on earth if we all could just listen a little

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better. Call, call me the crowd, 'cause
I I got. Wise we are.
So the Southern Ocean is definedas all of the ocean water South
of 60° S, and Antarctica is defined as all the land South of
60° S All those other ones are real, as I said.
So what? What is it about the Yellen 50s?
So The thing is, there's not a lot of land.

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Like if you know the Southern Ocean, like general of
geography, there's not a lot of land between the water there and
the continents. So the wind can basically just
go around the Earth just unimpeded.
It's not slowed down by anythingthat causes all the continents,
all the currents and stuff. They just go really fast.
Cooper is gone. No.
He fell in, he fell in the currents.

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All right, we're back. So before we do our point, check
some quick geography facts aboutAntarctica before we move on
because it still feels mysterious to me.
I don't know about you guys real.
So I'll have you guys popcorn read them so I can rest my
voice. Popcorn, you say All.
Right. Did you know Antarctica has
completely buried mountain range?

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The Gamberstev Mountains stretchfor 1200 kilometers breast
continent and reach heights of over 3000 meters tall, but
they're buried under 4000 metersof snow and ice.
Lesser leather never weathered. Wetter weather better.
Whoa whoa, did you nailed that shit?
That's right. How impressed are you, Steven?

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You know you impressed me. I'll give you.
That Let's go. For real, for real life.
Wow, the sticks are so. Hard for real, you did.
Making it down as an impression.Yes.
Did you know more than 200 lakeshave been discovered underneath
the Antarctic Ice Sheet? These form due to geothermal

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energy melting the ice from below, forming freshwater lakes
under the ice. Girl gargoyle.
Guy gargoyle. Wow, good workout.
You know what? You also impressed.
Me. Did you know that there are
blood red waterfalls in Antarctica?

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Part of the remote Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica.
The Blood Falls are blood red due to their high oxidized iron
content. 6 sticky skeletons. 6 sticky skeletons. 6 sticky
skeletons. No, he messed up guys.
We have to give a benefit of thedoubt.

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That was the Wi-Fi. Cooper, you impressed.
I didn't realize I'm impressed. Benefit of the Doubt episode.
I'm just a nice guy. What can I say?
I'm in a generous mood today. You know it is Thanksgiving.
After all, that's true. It is.
Thanksgiving we do have. Forgive the impressions.
True. So you all impressed movements.
Thank you. Nice.

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That has been round one. Antarctica, Geography and
biology. So please remind me, how many
times have you impressed me? Twice.
Thrice you're holding up three though.
Cooper to 12. That's why I.
Don't speak French, say. I hate to say it.
Did you know they speak French in Antarctica?
That's true. That's the national language.
All right then, well rockin and ready for round two.

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Round 2 is titled Antarctica from Discovery to Settlement.
Question Six. There are a lot of firsts when
it comes to exploration of Antarctica.
Great philosophers theorized about the existence of
Antarctica before the birth of Christ and Romans were including

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the continent of Terra AustralisIncognita, translating to the
secret southern land on maps. This is because the globe had
yet had to be balanced but the same amount of land being in the
South as the north. That's that was their theory at
the time had to be South. You know how silly.
I bet we don't make any crazy assumptions about things we
don't understand. Not once.
The first people to see Antarctica were Russian naval

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Admirals on a circumnavigation expedition in 1820, spotting
Peter the First Island. What nationality was the first
person to officially set foot onthe Antarctic?
It was the first Island 19. 53 Ever Peter, the First island.
They named him Peter. How?
Sweet. So what was the National?
Wait, so it's a Russian expedition?

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In 1820 they were the first people to see it, and then in
1853 the first person to officially set foot.
What was their nationality? Was it a French, B Russian, C
English, D American or E Argentinian?
Oh, threw in that Argentinian. One, I mean the right there,
it's just across the pond. It's pretty close.

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The Southern. Just across the screaming 60s.
Wait, was that jump? Yeah, that was the right answer.
I'll say American. I'll say Argentina we loved.
Exploring all that jazz back then.
How am I supposed to do Wisdom of the Crowd if you guys do two
different answers? Which crowd do you think is more
crowd likes? I think it's.
Welcome to the crowd. Russian.

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Whoa, He he's the own crowd. Third.
Crowd. Wow, that's Be your own crowd.
You know, group thing. I'm switching off things a lot
here. Cooper, you've impressed me
twice, Mercator. Cooper was a New Yorker and was
the captain of the Levant and the first person to set foot on
the mainland of the continent. But the same guy, that's

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Mercator projection. God Bless America.
No, no, that guy was from Belgium.
Whoa, he was. We saw where he his statue is.
We saw his statue. We saw his we.
Saw where his statue is. We saw where his statue.
Is. He was the captain though

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Mercator Cooper. He was the captain who first
loosened Japan's isolationist policy in 1845 after rescuing a
legend ruins Japanese sailors and returning them to the
island. Sorry, are you calling me
Mercator Cooper? Is that his his actual name?
Mercator Cooper is his actual name.
Oh, I thought you just like, nicknamed me Mercator Cooper.

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Mercator. Cooper, you're such a swell guy.
Because I got he assisted on themap thing, right?
So, so on Mercator Cooper. Is basically the Mercator.
Cooper, if you want to start calling yourself Mercator Cooper
for the rest of the episode, I'mnot going to argue against it.
I will. I will.
So one other first I wanted to mention was that the HMS

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Challenger was the first steamship to cross the Antarctic
Circle in 1874. You know, the Challenger from
the deep ocean. Wait, is that a?
Small world, right? Small world.
She may or may not believe. Events are related to other
events. I don't know, so far the word
challenger has been over to. A red herring, Yeah, so.

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Yeah, third time's the charm, right?
Are you? Do you want to challenge this
question? You can you.
Said it's a good event. Katie Cooper does sound like a
made-up. Name.
What was the name of the ship Steven?
The Levant. That is rather French.
Levant. I'll do it Challenge.
Aiden, your challenge is incorrect.

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He was American. Yvonne impressed me.
Unimpressed. Wow, I'm -1 in the I'm -1
impressed. I believe the Levant was made in
like Canada. I believe like French Canada.
That makes sense. So.
But it was an American captain and an American who set foot so.
It was Mercator Cooper. Come on.

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Oh, is Mercator Cooper? Mercator Cooper.
Yeah. That's an American name.
I've ever heard it. Question 7.
Before the Antarctic Treaty System was established, multiple
nations laid claims to portions of Antarctica.
To legitimize their claims both to their own people and to the
world, they designed flags and gave names to their claimed

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territories. So I will name three nations and
five territories. You need to identify which of
the territories belong to each of the nations.
And then I also included unclaimed territory.
So one of the territories that is named is unclaimed by any
nation. So interesting.
The nations are France, New Zealand, Norway, and unclaimed

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territory. And the territories themselves
are Adel Island, the aforementioned Peter the First
Island, Peter Ross Dependency, Mary Birdland and Queen Bodland.
So try to match the territories with the nations.
Okay, I think. I think I got it I.
Think I got it. Okay, Adelaide Land, New

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Zealand. Does that be really fun to say
in the New Zealand, Peter the First, Peter the First Island as
as he's known, I said Norway, the Ross dependency, I said
that's unclaimed Mary Birdland. I also said New Zealand and then
the Queen Maud Land is France. That's pretty close.

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I had Adel Island New Zealand, Peter the First Island Norway,
Ross Dependency unclaimed and then these last two I actually
had switched with Aiden so I hadMary Birdland being France and
Queen Nodland being New Zealand.Alec, what did you get?
I have completely different wisdom of the not crowd.

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Okay, Adela Island, France, whatever that one was called.
Peter, the first island I think is unclaimed Ross dependency.
Is it Depend Zealand and Mary Bird Island or whatever it's
called New Zealand and Queen Maudlin, Norway?
Alec, you were the most correct.Wow.

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So wow, you got three of them. Are you telling me Peter the
first island is unclaimed? Peter, the first island was
claimed by Norway. Oh.
Which actually pissed off Russia.
So you guys got that right? There was some beats mailed that
one. Is that like, oh, we saw that
first, so it belongs to us. Yeah, Russia also just claimed
named all of Antarctica off of that one feat, so that rocks

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they. Possibly teach their own?
But yeah, France owns Adelaide Land, New Zealand owns the Ross
Dependency, Norway owns Peter the First Islands and Queen Maud
Land, and the unclaimed territory was Mary Birdland,
which was named after like an American naval captain's wife.
Nice, but no one can have it. Just like no one can have his
wife. Whoa.

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So some other nations that claimed Antarctic land include
Chile and Argentina, who still act like they legally owned the
land, put Antarctic stuff all over their passports and other
nationalist documents, as well as Australia.
Now their territory names are interesting though, they're just
like Australian Antarctic Territory.
I'll talk a little bit more about Queen Maud Land, which is

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owned by Norway, in the next question.
Segue. I cannot wait.
Question 8. Austrian born German politician
and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
A fellow who went by the name ofAdolf Hitler.
He did some things in Antarctica.
His party conducted a secret expedition to the continent in

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1938 through 1939. The area is now known as Queen
Maudland and was partially claimed by Germany entitled
Nusvabia, named out for the shipSchwabenland, which was named
after the region Asvabia in Germany.
Very complicated, I know. What was the main purpose of
this expedition? A Propaganda purposes B

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Espionage. C To establish a whaling colony.
D To investigate claims of largenatural resource deposits.
E To search for a rumored entrance to the hollow Earth
interior and thus Agartha, or F to build a secret bunker where
they could manufacture experimental aircraft.

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F Steven. F Steven he gave us.
F Listen, you got to, you got toput in some work to impress me.
So they're all true, the two. Things that I know about that
German gentleman and his party, the little party, they were
pretty. Crazy.
I wouldn't. There is a conspiracy theory
that says that they went to Antarctica and built secret

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bunker so they could live there and that's where they went after
the war. And then also I know he really
liked like a cult shit and wanted to use magic but I don't
know how much of that is truth and how much of that was
exasperated for Indiana Jones. So I'm going to say the bunker.
The Bunker 1, he was looking forthe I was thinking the natural

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resources one. I think it was D where they
think there's natural resources there.
Yeah, I was thinking D as well, but I also do know that they
actually built stuff like underground tunnels in
Antarctica because. They were looking for the
center. Of the Earth, and that's why.
And thus Sagartha. So I'll say the bunker one.

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I guess I like D though. Think.
Well, none of you have impressedme because the answer was
whaling. Whaling.
What could they possibly need with whales?
So in that time Germany importednearly all of its oils and fats
from other nations, especially in Norway.
So they wanted to be self reliant in case they upset other
countries in the future for whatever reason.

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So a team of scientists, captains, and 1 high-ranking
German official air quotes went to Antarctica to map out the
land and tried to determine the feasibility of a whaling colony
for all that whale oil. So they determined the juice
wasn't worth the squeeze and they didn't really do anything
else there. But they did discover and name a
bunch of mountain ranges and other natural features, and we
still use the name of those features to this day, so.

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Then why did they build the tunnels?
I didn't hear about that. I read all about it, like their
expedition there. I didn't read about that.
It was later and also the Argentina.
The occult stuff, this German politician man himself, that was
exaggerated a lot after the war because that's like that was
basically clickbait stuff. Like that's how they could get

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people to buy their. Articles.
They're like he worships Satan and he had altars in his like
thing. He didn't actually have that
much stuff that much. There was there was definitely
like parts of his party that we're into that kind of stuff,
but I feel like it's just exaggerated over time.
There's a room at the party thathad all of his occult stuff in
it. Yeah, I mean, in general, if you

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read about history around that time period, a lot of people
were super into like new age, like weird occult stuff, but
they weren't especially so. But this expedition was the
start of a series of expeditions, claims and building
a scientific basis by various nations that carried on until
the Antarctic Treaty. Question 9.

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The Cold War, no pun intended, extended to Antarctica as well.
In 1946 and 1947, the United States enacted Operation High
Jump, in which roughly 5000 U.S.troops were sent to test
equipment and trained to fight in extreme cold conditions,
which has birthed almost as manyconspiracies as the last thing I
spoke about. Part of the American propaganda

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war was building a Munson Scott South Pole station at the South
Pole. You guessed it, Russia slashed.
The Soviet Union has long held claims over Antarctica.
As I previously mentioned, in response to the United States
South Pole Research Center, the Soviet Union built a temporary
Research Center at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, which
is the furthest inland point andthe hardest to reach point on

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the Antarctic continent. So as mentioned, this was
temporary, which means they lefteverything behind in the 60s and
it remained forgotten until 2007when a team of British explorers
went back to this site and foundthat the entire station had
buried under the snow. Except for what?
A A bust of Vladimir Lenin. B.
A geodisic Dome which looks likethe Dome at Epcot and Disney for

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reference. CA Soviet flag on a flagpole.
D An onion Dome resembling one of those installed in Saint
Basil's Cathedral and like SaintPeter or E an American flag on a
flagpole. What?
Oh, that's. Neat my my mind jumped to they
stumbled upon a Soviet flag. That was my my thought that.

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Was the only thing that was leftthat they could find that
wasn't? Very.
And you said like British peoplefound the.
Highest thing. Yeah, 2007 the team of British
explorers went back to the site.I think the American flag would
be the most interesting, so that's I'm gonna say that one.
I'm group thinking with that. Like the Americans just went
down there and we're like, it's ours now and then abandoned it

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as well. The secret or?
The Soviets are flying in American flags so people don't
think it's. Because of the Because the war
was so cold, the. War was so cold spy thing.
Well, the answer is a bust of Vladimir Lenin, so.
Dang it. Really.
How big was it if it? Just busty.
Was Lenin a gold? It was like on a statue like

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pedestal, so it was like raised up but the bust itself wasn't
like huge or anything but it wasa gold colored bust of Vladimir
Lenin that had been placed to face towards Moscow.
Wow. In 2012, it was entered into the
list of historic sites. And it's really weird to think
about that like one of the most remote locations in the world.
You can just go out there and there's nothing else but a
statue of Vladimir Lenin, just like staring off into space.

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That's so interesting. Just then, like like hundreds of
miles of nothing and then just the statue of Vladimir Lenin.
We should go No 5. We should go OK guys, we're all
gonna go down to. Audience meet us at the statue
of Vladimir Lenin in Antarctica.Next meet up.
Next Thanksgiving we'll take we'll do a Bus 1 meet up.
We'll do a big selfies. That's like European tourists

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coming to America and being like, oh, I'm gonna go to New
York and then I'm gonna drive down to Disney World and then
I'm gonna go to, like, California.
Yeah, Yeah. By saying they're going to drive
that distance in like a week. Question 10.
The Antarctic Treaty is the treaty system under which
Antarctica is currently governed.
It was ratified in 1959 by 12 countries and established

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Antarctica as a land no one could own, no one could mine,
where no military activity wouldoccur, and establishing the
continent as a place for scientific study.
This made it the first Armisticeagreement during the Cold War
because both the US and Russia were like OK, this is getting
out of hand. Today.
The treaty has 58 parties. Which of the following nations

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has not yet ratified the Antarctic Treaty?
A North Korea B Egypt. C Monaco.
D San Marino or E Switzerland. There's so many E's, Steven.
Yeah, you have to work to impress me.
I'll say North Korea. North Korea, Monaco, Switzerland
were the only ones I remembered one of the other.

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Three and San Marino too, they all seem kind of like, why would
they ratify the Antarctic Treaty, right?
Like none of them are going for it.
I'm going to say Monaco. I'll say San Marino.
Well, once again, none of you have impressed me.
The answer's Egypt used to really throwing it off.

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Egypt has not ratified the treaty, man.
So North Korea ratified the treaty in 1987 because they
wanted to build a research base there.
But then the North Korean economy pretty much irreversibly
began to collapse that year, so they kind of abandoned those
plans. They're still they still signed
the treaty. Monaco joined in 08.
San Marino joined recently in 23because they're interested in

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the research going on there. Switzerland signed on in 1990.
So why hasn't Egypt joined? Take care.
I guess they just it's. Because they're building more
pyramids in it or. Recently.
A lot of this weekend. Middle Eastern nations have been
signing on, so it's possible like a Saudi Arabia and United
Arab Emirates also signed in 23.So it's possible they signed.

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I think part of that is because they have money to throw out,
like research and stuff. Ace.
Right, because Mr. Beast's themepark just opened.
They're raking ink. It's true.
I heard they're gonna do another.
Zone Antarctica land. Yeah, they're good.
In Mr. Beast world. Only if you sign the treaty your
Lazar. Ago Wait, where is Mr. Beast
Land? Saudi Arabia.
What? Yeah, you have a theme park in

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Saudi Arabia. It's insane.
Want an Antarctica? Just getting there is the
challenge. If you get there the PC.
Money. I test 100 people that make
their way to Antarctica. Ride this roller coaster.
Stop, this car has this Boston BlackBerry money on it.
Yeah, when the Boston. Everybody who comments on this

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video will get their name engraved on to Vladimir Lenin's
bust. Last one to take their hand off
this golden bust of. That I can't take it off.
It's frozen on frostbite stuck. Bare hand on the bust.
All right, well, that's round two done and dusted.
Contestants, please state how many times you've impressed me.
I like hearing it. I actually lost three net, lost

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three points at that round. I did not get a single question
right -1. I have 5:00 I've.
Impressed you 5 Also impressed you five times.
This is terrible. Well, Aiden, you know what they
say. Falling off.
Round 3 is where something's going to happen for sure.
That's true, and round 3 is especially swingy because once

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again, you can impress me three times for each.
Question. You get a picture.
Especially with question 11. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Round 3 is titled Antarctica, the People and the Culture.
Whoa, there was people in culture and Antarctica.
There are people who also is going to look out for the

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Penguins. But it was like Question 11.
The Penguins can't read themselves.
They're desperate. It's on us.
We have the. Macaroni.
So when people live in isolationfor long enough, they begin to
develop unique speech patterns. Antarctic English is a real
dialect which has developed fromjust that.

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Dialects also differ based on nationality and which base
you're in, with British, Australians, and Americans all
having their own unique slang. I've read the official Antarctic
English Dictionary and I'm goingto read off several American
phrases to help us prepare for our arrival.
So I'll read off 10 in total. Two of them will be fake so you
can pick 2 and for each one thatyou suss out, you'll have

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impressed me thrice. So if you get both of them, you
can impress me 6 times. So this can be a big swing.
Big swing. OK, A beaker is a scientist that
people don't like from the world.
They call you a beaker. You're a scientist they don't
like. B.
The 300 Club is for people who experience a temperature
fluctuation of 300°, so they heat up in a sauna and then they

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run outside and roll around in the snow naked.
That's insane, I think. Would you die I.
I don't know if people died doing.
People do it. I've heard of that, but.
People do this? Wow.
Or maybe they don't. Maybe I'm just unusual.
Maybe I'm interested in isolation.
For too long. Or maybe I just altered a
number? AI videos have gotten to Cooper.

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C is cark, which is a swear that's equivalent to fuck.
You're like carking, you know? That's like fucking.
Wow. Oh, sorry for the swears we're.
Gonna have to swear wording. Swear wording.
They're going to be swears. They're not gonna know what it's
you're just gonna include K&K atthe end, so it's gonna sound
worse. Oh, it's with KS?

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I thought it was with AC, but that does feel rather crude.
Feels rather crude. Feels rather crude, doesn't it?
OK, what's next? Let's see the.
Next one is Herbie, which is a powerful storm from Inner
Antarctica. So they're like, oh, there's
tons of herbies. That means there's like big
storms that are coming from inside of Antarctica.
E is ice wife slash husband, which is like a secret seasonal

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relationships that are conductedbetween staff for like one
season and then they just don't talk.
About whoa, that's got to be real.
Like work, wife, but ice. Yeah, but ice, my ice wife FA
Hollywood shower is a shower that's longer than two minutes.
Beer that is chilled with natural Antarctic ice.

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H is skua, which means to steal.I is fingy, which is a
derogatory term for a new person, and J is unit, which is
the Antarctic equivalent of a Dorma style slash bedroom.
Because they don't. It's pretty cramped in there.
They call them units. All right.
Which one do you do you guys need to be to read off any of
them or which one? Just like read off all the

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words. Just say them all again.
Just the words, yeah. Without the definitions.
Beaker 300 Club Cark, Herbie Icewife, Hollywood shower, Poppy
Skewa Finger unit so you get OK you get 2 choices so you can.
What was Herbie? Herbie Storm Powerful.
Storm the love bug. Storm.
OK, you know what I'm saying. I got mine decided.

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I guess I got mine. OK, yeah, I'm totally good.
Go for it. No, no, no.
Let Cooper go. OK.
As much as I like it, I think you made-up kark and I think
finger is also made-up. Whoa.
Pingy, yeah. Alec.
I also thought Fingizi made-up and Poppy as well was the other

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one I thought was made-up. OK, Aiden.
Yeah, I thought Poppy was one, and then I was gonna say Herbie
is the other one. I feel like the storm should
come from outside if that's where the wind is kind of
unobstructed. I don't know, not from the
central. So you're challenging the fact
that there are storms from the center?
Yeah, right. That didn't make sense.

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Or more so, like the storms thatare powerful would be coming
from the outside. Exactly.
Well, the ones that I made-up were Cark and Unit, so really
you get you impressed me three times.
So those are both from Warhammer40?
K sorry guys, sorry I didn't mean this car.
So those are. Both for more.
So. All the other ones are real.

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Carking, I thought you made-up Poppy because Poppy is just like
a drink that you can. Like so the reason why poppy is
the slang and I didn't include this so it sounded more fake is
because Antarctic ice it has like bubbles in it from all.
Trap natural taxes. Carbonated, so when you put it
in your beer, it like fizzes up.That's fun.
So that's why. They call them that's that.

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Feels like you shouldn't put that in your beer.
You know, infringement on the poppy.
Although, as we'll get into later, people of Antarctica that
have been known to be Alcoholics.
So how they stay? Warm.
So that's why they got all thoseice wives, yeah.
There's some wacky times down there.
Some additional slang includes calling Antarctica the ice.

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And McMurdo Station is called Macktown or Mcmudhole because
it's located on the dark, grittyvolcano that exposed over the
summer. So I hope this knowledge helps
you guys when we go down there. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Does that make us blend in?
Yeah. Hey.
Guys, just shut up on the ice. Don't call me a finger.
Are we gonna be So when they call you a Fingers?
Oh my goodness. Wow.
Stamp beakers. Question 12.

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The thing is a 1982 John Carpenter film that takes place
in an unspecified American research base in Antarctica.
It's one of my favorite horror movies of all time.
The titular Thing is a shape shifting alien that assimilates
and disguises itself as its victims and finds its way into
the research base by disguising itself as a sled dog.

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It is being chased by scientistsfrom a different base who are
trying to shoot and kill it. Our protagonists don't know this
and think they're trying to justkill some random sled dog, but
if they spoke the same language as the other scientists they
would hear one of them shout getthe hell away from that thing.
That's not a dog, it's some sortof thing.
It's imitating a dog. It isn't real.
Getaway to idiots. What language is the scientist

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attempting to communicate with them in?
A Norwegian, B Russian, C German, D Finnish or E English,
but they have a thick Glaswegianaccent.
Steven, I saw a video of this exact thing yesterday, OK?
So. Language was it?
Well, I'm not. I'm gonna go last.

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OK, so I think I know. My answer is whatever Aiden
says. OK, groupthink.
I'll say Norwegian. If everyone thinks, if everyone
thinks they know, we can all blurt it out at the same.
Time. I don't think I know I'm saying
Norwegian. I don't know.
OK, I'll say Russian because that feels like a language
Americans wouldn't have any cluehow to speak in the 80s.

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OK. I think it was Russian from what
I saw. All right, the correct answer is
Norwegian. Yeah, so come.
On. So.
Cooper knows, but I was like, it's like the video was so true
because like, yeah, if any listeners spoke that language
they would have had the entire movie spoiled in the 1st 30
seconds just like. Just saying.

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That Norwegian sounds Russian toyou.
No, I think I don't know, just. Not a lot of.
Americans in. Norwegian, yeah, I would say
yeah. So they're from a Norwegian
research facility and then they murder him in self-defense
because he tries to throw a grenade at the dog because he
has a grenade for some reason. Classic.
And then this part of the movie is also kind of archaic because

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dogs have been banned from the continent since the 90s due to
concerns with them spreading diseases too and attacking the
wildlife. So.
And becoming of the. Alien creature.
Yeah, and potential Thing encounters.
So go watch The Thing. It's a good movie.
Question 13 On Wikipedia I saw an article titled Crime and
Antarctica, so I had to do a question.

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Nice. While crime on the ice is rare,
isolation and boredom, as well as the alcoholism, can lead to
people doing things they wouldn't otherwise do.
When people become violent, it can be especially dangerous
because you can't get up and leave, and sometimes people have
to remain in proximity with a violent person for months at a
time. How many confirmed murders have
been documented on the continentof Antarctica?

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Closest answer wins. At Mcmurder Station.
At Mcmurder Station. I mean like a name at Mcmurder
Station if there weren't some. Yeah, that just seems like a bad
open. So how many murders?
Mcmurder Station sounds like thename of a fortnight.
Where are we dropping? We're dropping at Mcmurder.
Risky reels or Mcmurder Station?How many confirmed murders?

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Have been documented on the continent of Antarctica.
Perhaps there have been. 3 murders?
Really. I was gonna say a lot higher
than that, I guess. How many people live on
Antarctica at one time? It's gotta be hundreds.
Thousands. Okay, so I guess to give you
context, McMurdo, which is the largest station and now you can

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change your answer if this changes your answer, OK, Nick
Murdo, which is the largest station in Antarctica during the
summer, there are about 5000 people staffed.
This is a lot of people, but like, they're all scientists.
Right, I'm not gonna change my answer.
I still think 3 is like. I was gonna say 2 I'm.
Gonna be real, Steven. I think it's 0.

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Really. But I'm gonna.
Say 2 to box out. Why would they have a crime in
an Antarctica page theft? Murder is a murder is a very
serious thing. I think maybe there was
manslaughter, but. They're getting cabin fever and
taking each other out. I'm gonna say 20 holy.
Shit, so the correct answer is zero, Aiden, you are.

(52:06):
Right on the man, so right. So there have been no confirmed
murder cases, but there have been a couple attempted murders
that have been documented. Oh nice.
And. If only they got away with it.
If only they got away with it then Alec could be correct and a
couple people have been reportedtorturing and killing the
wildlife and there was 1 mysterious poisoning death of an

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Australian man in 2000 but he. Died at the.
Beginning of the Antarctic winter?
No, not a confirmed kill. So he died like at the beginning
of the Antarctic winter, so no one could come and get him.
So they just threw his dead bodyinto the freezer and then held
it there for six months, in their freezer for six months.
So originally, they assumed he died of natural causes, but an
autopsy revealed he died of methanol poisoning.

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Media called this a murder, but the lead detective believed the
most likely clause we'll see accidentally ingested the
methanol. Classic scientists.
There's a mountain named in Antarctica.
After him, which actually. A lot of landmarks in Antarctica
have been named after people whodied there.
None of them have been murdered as far as we know.
As far as we know. There's no, there's no law.
I'm gonna. Have the 1st.

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Confirmed kill on a street. There are practicing.
Muslim scientists and workers onthe continent of Antarctica,
especially with the Pakistani program at the Jinnah Antarctic
station. One of the most well known
practices of Islam is fasting during daylight hours during the
month of Ramadan, which is inconveniently falls during the
Antarctic summer. This would make completing the

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fast impossible if they follow the traditional rules, as the
sun doesn't set and they would starve to death.
Charlie Chaplin rules. What is the reported solution to
this problem? Here's my answer.
Because I think this is my, thismight be something else that
I've heard before. I think you go off of like the
time in Mecca, like if you ever can't see the sun or something

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like that, you always go off of what's happening in Mecca.
I think that's fair. That makes sense I think.
You put up curtains. You make me.
I think you have to be in the. Dark.
To but then you would just put up curtains and eat all day.
Yeah, I'm hungry. Let me black out curtain my
Well, they're not. They're not gonna cheat too
much, yeah. There's so Muslims, you know,

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they're not trying to. Scam.
God. Yeah, Yeah.
What have we scammed God? Actually, I'm going to.
Change my answer to they they scam God.
No. There is no God.
They just don't follow. Ramadom during.
Like God can't see you because you're too far away?
Sure. I'll I'll say something similar

(54:36):
to Aiden. Maybe not Mecca, but you can,
like, decide your own 24 hours, use your own Ramadan.
Yeah, so Aiden was dead on. They do follow Mecca time.
So let's go time Mecca. Saudi Arabia is considered.
The holy city in Islam and is considered the birth place in
Islam. So they fast according to Mecca
time. There's still some debates about

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the correct way to address this,but that's the most common
solution and it makes sense to me.
It makes sense and argue with that.
There are cathedrals and churches in Antarctica.
I didn't write a question about this, but there are several and
they are staffed so neat. Well, is there an Archdiocese of
Antarctica? I I don't know Archdiocese.
That's good. Alec, that's good.

(55:19):
You know, Alec, you impressed meonce.
Whoa, nice. Hopefully that.
Doesn't actually change. The.
Outcome of the game. It might have.
It might have, I don't know. Alex is going to win.
By one now. If he does, then Alec.
Well, I want you all to. Take away that.
The key to? Winning this is to just be
funny, be funny. That's why we do it.

(55:40):
So before we move on. To this final question, I.
Wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving McMurdo is typically celebrated on
Saturdays, so we'll have a chance to celebrate with the
staff when we arrive. Can you all please share what
you're thankful for? I'm.
Thankful. For Antarctica.

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It's beautiful. Actually, I'm thankful for
Penguins. Though TBH.
I like that if I'm being honest and like.
My family and stuff. I'm thankful.
That we can be on this bus together.
Even though I'm missing the big game, I'm glad to be with you
guys. Even though his power went out.
Even though my power went out big.

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Game on my my seat on the bus. It's power went out.
I mean, yeah, the IT was so coldhe froze his.
Unit. In his unit, yeah, Coopers.
Have a good, have a good time. Well, you get full for him game
I will say. There is a holiday tradition.
Or they do a Penguin Bowl at McMurdo Station.
No, they do a football game out in the snow on Thanksgiving,

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like the Saturday. They celebrate it.
So you will see a big game there.
I'm thankful for that. Is OJ.
Simpson. Game there.
No, don't say that. I just said I was thankful.
For it, you can't get us the AFT.
Wow, I'm thinking. Wikipedia, OJ Simpson.
Ate it. Oh.

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I did it no. He's been cryogenically frozen
in Antarctica. I'm thankful for Wikipedia
Internet bloggers from the early2.
Thousands and the. Antarctic tourism industry for
making doing the research for this episode possible, so
otherwise it's really hard to find good information on
Antarctica #15. The final question on the

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opposite end of the spectrum, the Antarctica of yes,
reviewers, was if this article Ifound in the Modern Drunkard
from 2005 is to be trusted, an alcoholic's wet dream, And from
what I've read, that's dag down a bit since, but still fairly
prevalent. When you're in the coldest place
on Earth and are cooped up inside all day, you drink.
I spent several hours researching this.

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I'm going to list off 4 things that this article says are real
things at these Antarctic bars. Yes, there are bars in
Antarctica and include one fake thing.
What's the thing I made of a TheFat Penguin drinking game?
You ask Would you rather questions and try to guess what
you think the other person will answer.
If you get it right, the other person drinks.
If wrong, you take a drink and this is played with like groups

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of people at a time. BA cocktail titled The Nacreous
Cloud. It has unspecified ingredients
but is apparently nasty and involves curdling milk with lime
juice. C Liquor Mountain.
You take a block of ice from outside, etch ski slopes in the
ice and pour liquor down the slopes into people's mouths.
That sounds awesome. Hell yeah.

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D Boozy the Clown. An alternate persona accompanied
with a clown costume that's beenpassed down from person to
person. Persona of Boozy the clown is
being a nuisance or E slushy parties.
You take pure snow from outside and make margaritas slash
alcoholic slushies. If you're not doing that, what
are you doing that kernel? Milk thing sounds like the

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absolute worst shit ever, but I don't know if they would do that
because they all go crazy. I'm gonna say Boosie the clown.
I think Boosie the. Clown is made-up.
You don't believe in Boosie the Clown?
I believe he doesn't believe in the existence of Boozy the
Clown, but he. Believes in Boozy the Clown.
He believes in in what Boozy theClown means, what he.

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Stands for Yeah, the the. The drinking game you described.
Sounds kind of boring. But what else do they have?
To do it's Antarctica, I I thinkthat makes it more true.
So that's like, never have I ever been.
To Antarctica, everybody takes adrink.
No, it's like Liquor Mountain. And then you try to.
Guess there what they or what they.

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Not Liquor Mountain. Yeah, I agree.
So. That liquor mountain, Rocker
mountain. But I hardly know her mountain.
I'm going to go with Boozy the Clown as well.
God. Groupthink.
That sounds like something. Steven would have a fun.
Time coming up with. I bet you did have fun, didn't
you, Steven? You have fun.

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There's several hours. I had fun researching this.
I had a lot of fun. I'm going.
To say slushy party. Wait, no, I'm.
Changing to Liquor Mountain. I can't.
Wow I. Cannot let Liquor Mountain
stand. You can't.
That sounds fun, Steven. What is it?
I was creative enough to come. Up with Liquor Mountain.
Yes, OK, I'm glad you think that, but the answer is Fat
Penguin drinking game. So none of you impressed.

(01:00:24):
No, no drinking game. Shitty drinking, I know it's a
drinking game I found online. It's like, would you rather?
But you drink if you're wrong. About what the other person
would rather do. OK, guys, let's play it right
now, OK? So, Steven.
Ask us, would you rather? I think, I think Aiden wouldn't.

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He wouldn't dare. Oh, I guess I'm wrong, didn't
ask. Would you rather drinking?
You gotta try this out. I want to see how.
Fun it is at practice. OK, I.
See, I heard, I heard a really good Would you rather?
Recently. So would you rather relive the
last year of your life or jump one year into the future?
So now we have to guess what Alec would answer.

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And then we guess what he would answer.
And if we're right, then we don't have to drink.
But if we're. Wrong.
Then we have to, yeah. Is that how the game is like?
Yeah, that's. Poses the question and we have
to guess which he would answer. You have to guess how I would
answer or Yeah. OK, that is a good way I think.
Alec would rather relive the last year.
Yeah, I would say the same. Yep, me too.

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That's. True, 'cause then Alec.
This is the worst trick. Yeah, this.
Will live enough. OK, you guys got me good.
This is the best game ever. This is the best game ever
during honestly. During I'm saying right here
we're. Starting a spin off podcast
called The Fat Penguin. Drinking Game podcast where all

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we do is this. It's up to our patriot.
It's terrible. We're not gonna do that.
So all the other things. I listed are real anacreous
cloud is a type of iridescent cloud that's high up in the
atmosphere and it's pretty common in Antarctica, so that's
why they call it the cocktail that nice.
And then I also found pictures of the Liquor Mountain and Boozy
the Clown if you're interested. Okay, this does say in between

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rampages. Boozy the Clown pods to say
hello from the bottom of the world.
Is he canonically like a killer clown?
I mean liquor, Mountain rock no ones ever died in.
Antarctica. Well, no, sorry, no one.
Ever murdered? He goes on.
Now he's just rampages. His.
Rampages are being a nuisance. So let's remind our audience how

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much you have all managed to impress me 5611.
Oh, that's challenge. Point swing right there.
So for. Alec.
For the challenge. Question, do you have any?
Suspicions. I was.
So do you want me to reread them?
All about them, Dang. Germans and Antarctica.

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I could have sworn they made Donald's.
You want me to reread all the questions?
Read them back. OK, yes, run it back.
Repeat all the. Questions.
We'll just keep that in that rock.
Turns out I don't know that muchabout.
Antarctica. I I was thinking the.
Nazi one, But now I'm starting to lean toward the the slang.

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1:00 What if they're all real? Oh man, oh man, take the call.
It's still hard for me to breathe.
There aren't worms in Antarctica.
But I I don't want to chat with Ally.
I'm going to say the slang one. OK, I'm going to say.
The Emperor. Penguin 1 The Penguins one about

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which one watches the babies or hatches the eggs, Whatever Alec
you are. Incorrect, Cooper.
Sad you are incorrect as well. It was the worst.
It was the. Worst we.

(01:03:57):
Do it. Worms are actually very
important. It's.
Crazy, you know, in the Antarctic soil ecosystem.
That's what I was thinking. There's got to be at least worms
or worms equivalent. Yeah, don't bet against the
worms. Don't better consider the.
Worm. I did a worms question.

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They. Are actually the Earth episode
You shouldn't. Bet against the.
Worms. Antarctica used to.
Be like, there's so many worms. One of the biggest crowd
there's. Got to be worms there.
Dang it. This episode gets 50 likes.
We'll do it, worms. Trivia episode.
OK, here it comes, someone will write.
It all right, someone will do itso.

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They're actually. Extremely common in.
Their favorite habitats? With roughly 500 individuals
being found in each kilogram of soil.
So not only do they exist, they're very common in
Antarctica and certain habitats.So nice job worms.
Jobs in the works, of course. So obvious now.
All right. Let's recount the score.
Who's impressed me most? Still got five.

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I've dropped to 1. I have 8:00.
Alec, I'm. Sorry Alec, I was under the.
Impression he had 6. Yeah, I had six.
Yeah, he lost so many points because you.
Thought about. Worms but didn't impressed
myself. How many did I lose then?
I don't know. I had 6 -, 3 I have 3.
Cooper. You're I have 8.
Congratulations. Together, you've officially
impressed. Me and when?

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I tell the staff at Mcberto thatsure, they'll give you all the
respect you deserve, Beaker. Whoa.
Whoa, whoa, saying that. Felt.
Like a slur. That's powerful.
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