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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Seize the Yay Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Busy and happy are not the same thing. We too

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Speaker 2: rarely question what makes the heart seeing. We work, then

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Speaker 2: we rest, but rarely we play and often don't realize

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Speaker 2: there's more than one way. So this is a platform

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Speaker 2: to hear and explore the stories of those who found lives.

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Speaker 1: They adore, the good, bad and.

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Speaker 2: Ugly, the best and worst day will bear all the

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Speaker 2: facets of Seizing your Yea. I'm Sarah Davidson or a

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Speaker 2: spoonful of Sarah, a lawyer turned fu entrepreneur who swapped

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Speaker 2: the suits and heels to co found Matcha Maiden and

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Speaker 2: matcha Milk Bar. Sez the Ya is a series of

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Speaker 2: conversations on finding a life you love and exploring the

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Speaker 2: self doubt, challenge, joy and fulfillment along the way.

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Speaker 3: Hi, ber, I want to cry again? Am i ange?

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Speaker 1: Literally it's true. So our first FaceTime reunion after I

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Speaker 1: got signal back after like fourteen, no twelve full days

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Speaker 1: without signal.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it's not even that long, guys, but it's hard worked.

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Speaker 1: I was so cute, she answered and was like all

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Speaker 1: happy and then was like, wait, oh my god, it's coming.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I.

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Speaker 4: Was like when you picked up, I was like so happy,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my god, I miss you

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Speaker 4: so much.

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Speaker 3: And then I was like a dawned on me. I

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Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, no, I actually missed you

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Speaker 3: so much because I'm just like crying and were just laughing.

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Speaker 4: Because I was like, this is so stupid, because we've

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Speaker 4: spent a lot of time apart before.

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Speaker 1: But never without signal. I think it was like I

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Speaker 1: fell into the Bermuda triangle, which does happen to do,

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Speaker 1: but never for twelve days. I fall into the Bermuda

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Speaker 1: triangle for like twenty four hours.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's also because I was in Europe

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Speaker 4: and you came back like so from the length of time,

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Speaker 4: it was actually like six.

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Speaker 1: Weeks or whatever, yeah, which which like we had.

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Speaker 4: Spoken to each other since then, and it's not like

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Speaker 4: I needed to reach you, but I don't know, just.

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Speaker 1: You did need to reach me, Okay, I was having

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Speaker 1: a crisis existent. So the most exciting thing about this

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Speaker 1: guy's also firstly, thank you so much for your patience

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Speaker 1: this year. There's been multiple random breaks in the schedule

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Speaker 1: with travel and Tactica, like all sorts of random things

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Speaker 1: but the most exciting thing about and having quit a

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Speaker 1: job is that yates of our lives can be weekly.

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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, it's very exciting.

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Speaker 1: We're actually going to make a day per week where

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Speaker 1: we're working together all day again like the old days,

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Speaker 1: and that all involve an episode every week, so it

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Speaker 1: will be much more regular after the Christmas break, which

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Speaker 1: we are definitely taking what I thought that.

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Speaker 4: We'd been more productive, but we were actually so terrible.

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Speaker 4: We getting the most stupid tangents. So we've been laughing

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Speaker 4: about one word this whole morning, like all our jokes.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense to anybody, but this is a

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Speaker 1: first time we've seen each other in person since pre

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Speaker 1: you going to Europe. So you just left your job,

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Speaker 1: like it's been a tumultuous period of time, and then

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Speaker 1: I've been on this like adventure into the you know,

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Speaker 1: end of the literal earth, and now we're reunited and

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Speaker 1: we wait, share it call at breakfast, Nick, just like

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Speaker 1: I don't know those two girls, You said why don't

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Speaker 1: you just google it? And it came out like why

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Speaker 1: don't you just google with it? And I thought it

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Speaker 1: was so funny. We laughed for like an hour and

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Speaker 1: then what was the other thing. It was frequent Elton,

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Speaker 1: no something else.

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Speaker 3: Because Sara then.

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Speaker 4: Started just picking up every single word anyone was saying.

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Speaker 4: And so Nick's like, oh, I've got a bone, Bruis,

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Speaker 4: and she was like a broone Bruise.

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Speaker 1: Came over and said I got your chad and I

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Speaker 1: was like, I was like.

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Speaker 3: Sarah inappropriate. You can mock any, just can't lock every

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Speaker 3: single person that comes to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. In my defense, I had a five

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Speaker 1: day transit to get home, went straight to a wedding.

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Speaker 1: I had two nights at Mitchelton, which were incredible, but

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Speaker 1: also very very late nights. I don't know what time

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Speaker 1: it is. I don't know what day. It is true,

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Speaker 3: It's true, this is your first day of wakefulness.

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Speaker 1: I'm so delirious. I just thought it was so funny.

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't start laughing. So it's been full of

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Speaker 1: yay this morning. You will by now, by the time

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Speaker 1: you listen to this episode, have already had one Antarctica

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Speaker 1: dedicated episode with the incredible Martin Cohen, the penguinologist, And

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Speaker 1: if you guys didn't ball from his story, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's wrong with you. Hopefully you enjoyed it as

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Speaker 1: much as I did. And there's many more expedition leaders

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Speaker 1: and guests coming, but I have so much audio to

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Speaker 1: go through, so in the meantime, Hello, and just just

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Speaker 1: recording me and I look like an actual decrepit piece

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Speaker 1: of rubbish. I was so jetalous and she's wearing my

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Speaker 1: seasickness classes. We thought we'd do a quick Yeays of

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Speaker 1: our Lives dedicated to Antarctica, and then next week's Yays

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Speaker 1: of our Lives will be dedicated to Andrew's anonymous Q

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Speaker 1: and a her Turn, which we started gathering questions for

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Speaker 1: like eight years ago and haven't done. So we will

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Speaker 1: re request some submissions and then it'll be an ant

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Speaker 1: dedicated episode. But I think that will be really good

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Speaker 1: because it will be like a month on from you

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Speaker 1: putting a job and you've been traveling again for the

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Speaker 1: first time in two and a half three years, so

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Speaker 1: you'll have more like revelations and stuff to share.

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Speaker 3: I feel yeah, so many.

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Speaker 4: I feel like because we I think we spoke about

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Speaker 4: this the last time. Let's google it stop frequent. Sorry,

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Speaker 4: you know what I was saying is we had said

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Speaker 4: the last time that we were both had done these

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Speaker 4: big things in our lives and then we were both

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Speaker 4: going on this soul searching adventure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we've done the souls.

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Speaker 4: We've done that, and I feel like I definitely definitely

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Speaker 4: new chapter in your face and.

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Speaker 3: People have many people have asked about the leading. I

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Speaker 1: What am I saying about?

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Speaker 4: How to you know, move away from what they were

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Speaker 4: doing to kind of freelance and look like that. It

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Speaker 4: was actually quite interesting because it meant that I had

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Speaker 4: to reflect on my like how I got here? Did

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Speaker 4: you take those stupid I'm reflecting, I'm pensive.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Harry Plotter.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, and there will be a fun episode, but

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Speaker 4: today's episode is not about that. Today's episode so for

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Speaker 4: everyone at home listening, we haven't actually caught up about

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Speaker 4: So actually the only thing I've known about Antarctica is

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the postcard that Sarah got me for the sake

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Speaker 1: My dad fifteen killers of luggage and I had no room,

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Speaker 1: so I got you a podcast. And the only other

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Speaker 4: To get me a patch. That's the extent of what

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Speaker 4: we've caught up on for Antarctica.

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Speaker 1: We were actually so disciplined this morning. You're like, tell

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Speaker 1: me everything. No, don't tell me anything.

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Speaker 4: how was antarch.

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Speaker 1: So I've shared like quite a lot on socials already,

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Speaker 1: assuming that there's a bit of crossover or slash a

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Speaker 1: all anyway because I don't read, so you like, literally

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Speaker 1: don't follow me. I was like, did you see my reel?

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Speaker 1: And you're like no, it was literally dedicated to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, let me watch it now, let me google it.

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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable, Like having been to I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: any further than that the history and the scale of humanity.

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Speaker 1: But what was so different about Antarctica is that it's

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Speaker 1: not man made. Like I wasn't looking at something that

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Speaker 1: I was looking at something that was so untouched by that,

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Speaker 1: to it. So there's so many facts. As you guys know,

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Speaker 1: I get so excited about like niche communities and niche

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Speaker 3: oh my god, I can't. No, I did read.

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Speaker 1: So it was my seventh continent, which is also such

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Speaker 1: But a couple of really interesting things about Antarctica is

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Speaker 1: It's just wild to think that there's you know, humans

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Speaker 1: which is very, very humbling and amazing. The oldest penetrated

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Speaker 1: It has two active volcanoes. We swam in one of them.

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Speaker 1: It's the highest, coldest and windiest continent on Earth. The

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Speaker 1: finding seals. We found penguin colonies. You get to go

436
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 1: and like go right along kind of the coastline and

437
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,439
Speaker 1: watch them. They make these things called penguin highways. Stop

438
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,639
Speaker 1: they literally make highways and then they all follow the

439
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 1: same highway with their bellies or they're so clumsy.

440
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,160
Speaker 3: Is it really icy or is it snowy?

441
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 1: Both? So if it's really icy, you tend not to land.

442
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 3: Because it's too slippery, probably windy.

443
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,440
Speaker 1: If it's really snowy, it's fine. But what I thought

444
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,640
Speaker 1: was really cool is that the expedition team go out

445
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,920
Speaker 1: first and they'll build out of the ice like steps

446
00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,360
Speaker 1: so that you can go up, and then they kind

447
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 1: of cordon off an area that's like a narrow walkway

448
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,399
Speaker 1: so that it's a bit that they know won't affect

449
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 1: the breeding colonies and all that kind of stuff, and

450
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 1: they kind of put like sticks and stuff, and then

451
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 1: in groups so that it's not everyone at once. They'll

452
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,160
Speaker 1: land you and you get just spent like an hour,

453
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 1: and then you get back in the boats and then

454
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 1: they cover every single footprint in that your boots make

455
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 1: so that like baby penguins don't fall in the holes.

456
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 1: They remove the stairs, like there's really really minimal impact

457
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 1: each time. And what was awesome is that we went

458
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 1: out one day was a bluebird day and it was

459
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 1: crystal clear and all of the icebergs were bright blue.

460
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 1: The seals were out, there were baby seals, the penguins

461
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 1: were all over the place. The next day it was

462
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,199
Speaker 1: like dead still but white, like everything was white, but

463
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: it was mirrored like that everywhere you'd go, the glaciers

464
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: were mirrored in the water was so still. Then the

465
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 1: next day it was like sideway snow and every time

466
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 1: you push forward, like all you could hear was ice

467
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: cracking on the side of your boat.

468
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 4: It was just like.

469
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 1: So it varied so much, like I had a lot

470
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,360
Speaker 1: of questions, actually, what is there to actually do there?

471
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, there is so much today, pretty full, really full.

472
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 1: And also because in towards November ish, like when we

473
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 1: were there, it gets light at four point thirty and

474
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: it's still light at eleven, so you don't want to

475
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: go to sleep because if you sit on the deck

476
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: for like half an hour, you'll see whales. So you'll

477
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 1: see a pot of whales. And it was really early

478
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: in whale season, so I thought I wouldn't see any

479
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 1: at all, but they were everywhere and they come right

480
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: up to the boat. And like one of the cool

481
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: things about the ocean Endeavver is there's more deck space

482
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 1: than a lot of boats, like a lot of the

483
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,959
Speaker 1: really luxury ones kind of people have their own balcony,

484
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,439
Speaker 1: but there's no common areas, whereas we had like the

485
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 1: whole top deck you could walk around and people just

486
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 1: hang out there. You could also go to the bridge

487
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,680
Speaker 1: that open the bridge, so you could go up which

488
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 1: the bridge is where the captains steer from and you

489
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,439
Speaker 1: can listen to them doing all their stuff and watch

490
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: like all the controls and that's really cool. A couple

491
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: of times I opened the bow so like the front

492
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: of the boat you could actually go all the way

493
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: to the edge. And what they didn't do it all

494
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: the time because there's all the ropes and stuff there.

495
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 1: But it was just like even when you weren't landing,

496
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: we'd try and go out twice a day, so you

497
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: get up, you'd have breakfast, which is like an amazing

498
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,119
Speaker 1: buffet get ready. So the coolest thing. There's heaps more

499
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: detail on Instagram about this, about the actual layers. But

500
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: I never felt cold, and you know, I hate being cold.

501
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: I'm not very good at being cold and I'm not

502
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: very good about being nauseous, and both things didn't happen.

503
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 4: I did see that you said I didn't actually get

504
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 4: that much below minus one.

505
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 1: Was zero, yeah, which the Canadians on board were just laughing. Ye, like,

506
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 1: I'm hot.

507
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 4: Because I remember being remember when I was telling you

508
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 4: I was in Nepal and it was like minus ten

509
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 4: minus twenty and that was insane.

510
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 3: I thought that's what entired to the.

511
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: Same and it wasn't summer like it was not the

512
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 1: high of winter, but it wasn't the hottest that it

513
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: gets either. So we had one layer of marino wall

514
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 1: like thermals, one layer of fleece, then a puffer and

515
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 1: then an outer waterproof jack. You definitely need waterproof gear

516
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,479
Speaker 1: because you get wet and the snow also gets wet.

517
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: But you'd keep your outer stuff in the muck room

518
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 1: downstairs with your boots, and then they'd buy a secure

519
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: everything as well, so even your boots. You have to

520
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: walk through this solution before you're allowed out so that

521
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,439
Speaker 1: nothing like can cross contaminate. But you'd leave all your

522
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: outer stuff downstairs in the muck room and with your

523
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: life jacket or PFD personal flotation device, and then you'd

524
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: just like do all your stuff on the boat, your

525
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: normal clothes, and then you go downstairs and get ready

526
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: before you go out. And we were divide it into

527
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: groups and you'd get called out and then you'd go

528
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: out for as long as you could. You'd come back.

529
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 1: They'd be like hot chocolates and bone broth and stuff

530
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: you to warm up. We'd have lunch which was a

531
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: la carte, chill out a little bit, maybe go to

532
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: a session and then you go back out in the afternoon,

533
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: but you don't have to like if you wanted to

534
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 1: just do one or the other. Most people wanted to

535
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: get out as much as they could. And then at

536
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,360
Speaker 1: night we'd have a recap every day, so we'd talk

537
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: about the wildlife that we saw. There was like a

538
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: list that if you saw when you'd ticket off, so

539
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 1: we could see how many things, and then they give

540
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 1: it to you at the end. They give you a

541
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: map of everywhere you went. They'd give us an update

542
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: on like the weather, what we were doing the next day,

543
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: what sessions were on.

544
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 3: That's so good.

545
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,479
Speaker 4: It's so good that there's structure, but you're not forced,

546
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 4: Like you know, if I could never do a kentickut

547
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 4: to it because I feel like I lose all control

548
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 4: of where I'm going when I'm doing it all days. Yeah,

549
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 4: whereas this is kind of like, here are all the

550
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 4: options that you can do for the day, pick and

551
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 4: choos as you please.

552
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 3: Totally show that if you want.

553
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the most ideal like set up. I feel

554
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 4: like you don't have to get off the boat or

555
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 4: whatever it is.

556
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can totally just unwind and like you see

557
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: it so much if you just sat on the deck,

558
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: you would see so much that just say you didn't

559
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: like going out on the zodiac, I don't know why

560
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: you wouldn't, Like it's really easy to be on those

561
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: boats and just sight see. But if you didn't like it,

562
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: same with like if you didn't want to get off

563
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: the boat and do a landing, you could also just

564
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: stay on the boat, which was really cool. And like

565
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: some of the kayakers, you know, they were signed up

566
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 1: to do kayaking every time they could, but one of

567
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: the times they wanted to go on the zodiac because

568
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: you can go further, so they just swapped. Yeah, it

569
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: was really flexible. And then like one of the nights,

570
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: I was really tired, so I just didn't go to

571
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 1: the activities and it was totally fun. There's only a

572
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: few mandatory safety things, but everything else is voluntary. But

573
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: then you know, towards the end, we had a really

574
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: bad weather warning, and I mean everything is weather depending,

575
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: and I think that was one of the coolest things,

576
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: was realizing here we manipulate everything in our life to

577
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: suit what humans want to do, and there it's like

578
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: you actually just you can't.

579
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 3: Nature's just like dude.

580
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: Off, like get out and because the crossing the drake

581
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: gets really rough. It's like renowned for being quite rough.

582
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: We had to leave half a day early, which meant

583
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: that we didn't have one landing. But I mean every

584
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: person on the first day was like I could go

585
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,959
Speaker 1: home now and be happy, Like I've seen more than

586
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: I ever expected to see. So by three days we

587
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: were like, we've seen so much. We were so lucky,

588
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: and we'd rather not have a crossing in a storm.

589
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: But because of that, we got to stop at Deception Island,

590
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 1: which is a live volcano and you sail right into

591
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: the middle of it where it's like really protected, and

592
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: we did the polar Plunch as our last activity, which

593
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: was amazing, and pretty much the whole boat did it.

594
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 3: What do you wear and do they give you? It's

595
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 3: just your.

596
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: Babers, I know, my boobies, I know, Oh my gosh.

597
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: But it's funny. It doesn't like it shocks you, of

598
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: course when you first get in, and then all the

599
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: blood rushes to the surface and you feel warm and

600
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: you die. Yeah, and then you reborn by jack. I

601
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: literally feel like I was reborn as a post antarctic sera.

602
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: I was like baptized I am fatality. Mom came and

603
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: was like, you are just like fatality right now.

604
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 3: I was quite here, told me, so, you are vitality.

605
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: But it was such a vibe, all the stuff dressed

606
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: up as penguins, and then they had tunes on in

607
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: the gangways and everyone was egging each other on. And

608
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: you jump in and like they give the guy right

609
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: at the end the phone, so you also get like

610
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: right up close footage of you jumping in and coming out,

611
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: and then you warm up straight away, like they give

612
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: you a VOD shot, and then you warm up straight away,

613
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: and then you go in the sauna. It was in

614
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: the sauna, and it was so invigorating.

615
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 4: Okay, I have so many more questions. I have so

616
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 4: many corml questions. How many people are on.

617
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: This boat two hundred, Well, okay, that's quite a lot.

618
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: That's the maximum capacity. And when we were originally booked

619
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: to go because we were filming for Intrepid, because this

620
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: is the first season that they've had this boat, and

621
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: they didn't have content of everything. We thought there were

622
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: I think there were sixty, so we were like, we'll

623
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: just jump on all the spare activities whatever, and then

624
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: everyone just got on board, and yeah, we were one

625
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: hundred ninety eight of something.

626
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 3: Well, so it really filled up.

627
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, and one hundred stuff and it still didn't feel crowded.

628
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 4: And did you see any other cruise ships on the

629
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 4: waters or did you just.

630
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 3: Feel like velo?

631
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: We saw one for one afternoon when there was a

632
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: weather warning. So the boats will tell each other like

633
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: we've found lots of seals here or whatever. They communicate

634
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: a lot between each other. But we only saw one

635
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: the entire eleven.

636
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 4: Days because I was like, oh, peak season, there's gonna

637
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 4: be like ten other ships and then you're like really

638
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 4: ruining the vibes here.

639
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: No, you don't see any others. And in port there

640
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: were a lot. Because we came back a little bit early,

641
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: we couldn't park, so like, there's a whole thing. Maritime

642
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: was really interesting. It was like a whole thing and

643
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: then we're going to have to be offloaded via zodiac

644
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, it was it was a lot. But

645
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: the logistics is amazing. They like sought you into groups.

646
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: They make sure you're luggage goes to the hotel or

647
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: to like it was amazing, and we all didn't have

648
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: a hotel room. Like after we got off the ship.

649
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,239
Speaker 1: So they hired this like it's usually a nightclub and

650
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: they hired it to put us all and they had

651
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: free coffee and so we could all just sit there

652
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: with our luggage.

653
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 3: We just had a rave for the day.

654
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: Had a rave?

655
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 3: How good?

656
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 4: Okay, what was your favorite activity that you signed up for?

657
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: So we didn't end up getting to do the camping

658
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: or the snow shoeing because it was too snowy and

659
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: kayaking was full, so after all of the we didn't

660
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: get But the Zodiacs were so much fun and the plunge.

661
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: You liked the plunge. Loved the plunge, loved the Zodiacs.

662
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: Like we were out with a couple of the exhibition

663
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: leaders who are like can fang it and we had

664
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: the best time, Like it was amazing. Yeah, just wild.

665
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: And then I think it was just talking to people

666
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: like if you guys have listened to and you won't

667
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: have listened to it yet, but I'm going to force

668
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: feed you this episode. Like and the penguinologist who you

669
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: know was having drinks with David Attenborough and then moved

670
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: to the BBC and then now find himself on a

671
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: ship in Antarctica. Like looking at penguins and being an ornithologist,

672
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: like and his love story and you know, just meeting

673
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: people of all ages with all different backgrounds and like

674
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: soaking up their wisdom. It's it was so.

675
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 4: Cool and you didn't get seasick, like you genuinely didn't.

676
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: So you know how I'm like really get any nauseous.

677
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: I was so anxious. The way over was really smooth,

678
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: so it wasn't a problem. So for anyone listening, you

679
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: can have a really chilled drake crossing like it was

680
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: like a lake. It was so relaxed. We were reading

681
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: and just yeah, totally fine. And then on the way back,

682
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: because it was a storm, we did have advanced notice,

683
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: so we knew it was going to be particularly rocky.

684
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: And the crew were amazing. They like everyone brought lots

685
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: of different things, and I obviously brought my glasses, but

686
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: because it wasn't medium level, I didn't want to risk,

687
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: Like I knew how many people are I hadn't talked

688
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: to yet. It was my last two days to do

689
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I didn't want to waste a minute.

690
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: So I was going to experiment and try the wristbands

691
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: and then separately try the glasses and then separately try

692
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: each thing. But in the end, the ship doctors give

693
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: you medication and they say you should probably take it

694
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: around eight pm because it's going to get rocky at

695
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: two am or whatever. So I was like, you know what,

696
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm just going to do it. So I didn't get

697
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: to test the glasses.

698
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 3: But I'm testing them.

699
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 4: I can. I can confirm no sickness right now.

700
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 3: I've been rocking this long time.

701
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: But like taking those I didn't get sick at all,

702
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: and like some of the expedition leaders were, like it

703
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: was in their top five crossings. Wow, I was so nervous,

704
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: Like I was more nervous than the average person about it.

705
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: And almost everyone took the medication. Either they didn't get

706
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: sea sick at all, like they knew that they didn't

707
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: so they didn't need it, or they did take it

708
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,719
Speaker 1: and no one was sick, like I mean, maybe there

709
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: were a few people, but almost everyone was. Still. The

710
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: only thing it does make you is because when it's rocking.

711
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: So we had twenty four hours of like rocking, and

712
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: then we had we hit the storm, and we had

713
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: the other twenty four hours of like proper Like I've

714
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: shared some of the footage of like literally my chair

715
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: was flying all around the place, and it was once

716
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: you know, you're not gonna feel sick. It's actually fun.

717
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 3: It was ya can you imagine me.

718
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: Corn? Everybody else having the best time been trying to

719
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: eat was hilarious, Like it was really funny. They closed

720
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: the decks and no one can fall off and stuff

721
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: like that, and a lot of your things, like the

722
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 1: drawers latch closed and you know, but the chairs are

723
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: just going everywhere. The glass were go. I'm like, why

724
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: do you use glasses anyway? But the one thing it

725
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: makes you is tired because you're trying all the time

726
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: to stand up. I'm always on yeah, like your call

727
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: is always trying to stand up and walking around the ship.

728
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: So a lot of people just decided they sort of

729
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: put on like a Shackleton movie about the Shackleton explorer,

730
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: and they put on like this David Atton brow from

731
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: Antarctica all the time on this one channel. Yeah, so

732
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: heat people like I would say probably on that last day,

733
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: maybe two thirds of the boat just hung out in

734
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: their rooms. Yeah, came out for meals and then you

735
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: just lie down because you're tired, like it's.

736
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 4: The end of the trip. It's not like it's the

737
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 4: middle of the trip and everything's still happening and stuff. Anyways, Yeah,

738
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 4: I guess it's a nice way to wind down.

739
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: But if you're worried about feeling sick, the medication is amazing.

740
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: You just you can cope.

741
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 4: But I think there's a reason why they have experts

742
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 4: on there, like they know it better than you ever

743
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 4: will with these classes and things like if they thought

744
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 4: classes were the best things they're given.

745
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: The doctor did make me wear them, and then it

746
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: was for her pure enjoyment, but she did make me

747
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: wear them.

748
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 4: I have to say I do quite like them. I

749
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 4: might have to buy them off.

750
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: Look at him pushing your microphone.

751
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 3: He loves me.

752
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: The ship doctor is trained in remote emergency medicine as well.

753
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: She's not just a GP, she's like properly trained an

754
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,479
Speaker 1: emergency so that was really reassuring. I did see her

755
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: within the first seven minutes of being on board, because

756
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: I was a tummy bug when I first got I

757
00:33:54,840 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: was no, it was the opposite, because I was so

758
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: anxious about feeling sick, and I already felt sick when

759
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: I got on board because I'd had this tummy bug

760
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: for like two days. Yeah, I was just like I

761
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: went straight there. I was like, Hi, I know we

762
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: haven't taken off yet, but I don't feel when I

763
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: need to be filming. And then because it had been

764
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: and like I didn't think I was going to say

765
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: this on the podcast, but you know what, I'm like,

766
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: I've got to share the na's as well as the AA's.

767
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: She was like, you just seem like you're you know,

768
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 1: you've got a lot on your shoulders and you're putting

769
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on yourself to be okay, to

770
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: do your job. And I'm like, you're a bit nervous

771
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 1: and you just seem like you've got a bit going on,

772
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: don't you. And I was like no, She's like, oh,

773
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: it has it been a big year.

774
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 3: I was babe, like.

775
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: Tell me everything, and I said, like one word. I

776
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: was like, We've just had a lot of family stuff

777
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: going on. And then I just bowled, and I think

778
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: I've been holding on, Like you guys know what it's like,

779
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: you have been holding on because you're you're the number

780
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: one person.

781
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,760
Speaker 4: Not that it's bad that when everyone else is not okay,

782
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 4: you're the one that will be okay. Well, because like

783
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 4: I think it's happen to make you how many times

784
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 4: before when you're like not having a good time, But

785
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 4: the minute I'm like I'm also not having a good time,

786
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 4: You're like, Okay, I'm good.

787
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: Now, I'm fine. Ye, I'm good.

788
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 4: I'm so good, I am the best I am vitality percent.

789
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's.

790
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 4: Now the end of the year and a long journey

791
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 4: with navigating that, so I feel like it's completely fair.

792
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: I think also like a lot of apprehension about the trip,

793
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: Like I was definitely nervous before, and then there was

794
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: like a really defining moment where you got on and

795
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: then the boat kind of like lets its ropes go,

796
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: and then I knew that we'd lose signal pretty quickly,

797
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: but for eleven days, not like, you know, twenty four

798
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: hours or something. And I think I hadn't been still

799
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,479
Speaker 1: with my thoughts all year, really, and then the rush

800
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: to actually get to the trip was so madness that

801
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: I didn't even have time to think about it. And

802
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: I think it was the first moment of silence that

803
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: then my brain was just.

804
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, do you feel like you've got a lot

805
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 4: of like self, you know, soothing discovery reflections so much.

806
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: I don't think the revelations have like properly come on. Yeah,

807
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: but I feel like I gave myself, Like eleven days

808
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:10,240
Speaker 1: without the internet is a long time for our brains

809
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: and the mist ground age, and it was I have

810
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: not been that present a particularly an environment like that.

811
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: You don't want to be anything except immersed in. Even

812
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: when I was like chilling out, I was reading about

813
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: the things that we were seeing and to like have

814
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: one sole focus. Like normally I have one job and

815
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: I've got seven other jobs in my head and then

816
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: I'm overlapping things I need to do for different timelines

817
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: at different times. And all I could do when I

818
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: was there is just do the thing I was doing.

819
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 4: And the time set up for you, like you don't

820
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 4: have to organize anything even to you.

821
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: Just turn up and you eat. Yeah, And it was

822
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: like but it allowed me to be simple in my thinking.

823
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: I only had to think about the penguin I was

824
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: looking at, and then the next penguin. And then even

825
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: the schedule changed every day, so I couldn't even be like,

826
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm preparing to do a yoga class in the morning.

827
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: It was like it'll be on or it won't either

828
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: it'll be two rocky, or it won't be all the

829
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: teacher will do it, or she'll be doing something else,

830
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 1: like you just didn't know. And I feel like by

831
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: day three of being suspended in that, I was like

832
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: so happy but blissful happy, like just in the moment and.

833
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 3: Like so zen, just so mellows.

834
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: So zen, and so just surrendered to like, oh well,

835
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: I can't plan anythings I'm not going to.

836
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 4: So I know you haven't had or fully appreciated the revelations,

837
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 4: but do you have any reflections or anything that you

838
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 4: came out of that with other than the need to

839
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 4: have this sense of like alneeness every now and then

840
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 4: to the reset yourself.

841
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: Definitely to build that in more. I've done it twice

842
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: this year. I've had two work jobs where I didn't

843
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: have signal for like more than five days. And I think,

844
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: even if I don't have a job come up, I

845
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: need to do that because otherwise I just there's no

846
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: circuit breaker and it just gets messy. So definitely, just

847
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: how much I become my baseline person without all the

848
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: layers of crap that you just kind of let thoughts

849
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: and busyness and stuff. But I think also seeing how

850
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: it's impossible to go to Antarctica and not think about

851
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: the impact of humans on the planet, like it is

852
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: impossible now. I have such an aversion to plastic. I

853
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: have such an aversion to single use everything, which is

854
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: so easy to be out of side, out of mind

855
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: when you haven't seen what it costs, If that makes sense.

856
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: I've always had that.

857
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 4: I think I've said the same thing about we were

858
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 4: saying this about last week about were just.

859
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 3: At the hospital. We need so much. Yeah, and it's just.

860
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 4: So much, and it's hard to convince people that aren't

861
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 4: necessarily passionate already about it that's having a big impact

862
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 4: because it's not acute impact. It's a long like it's

863
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 4: not going to be ten years from now, twenty years

864
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 4: from now, and by that time you can attribute it

865
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 4: to too many, so many things that you're not going

866
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 4: to go back and be like, oh, it's because we

867
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 4: use plastic all that time, and go tends like no

868
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 4: one's going to think back to that time because it

869
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 4: was in the last year, in the last six months.

870
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 4: Because climate change is such a long drawn out process

871
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 4: that because you can't see the immediate like if I

872
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 4: put my plastic cup in the bin. I don't see

873
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 4: what impact that has. It just goes in the bin.

874
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 4: I don't see it, and that's it. Yeah.

875
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really hard to like you can't go there

876
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: and not even like the team. They put on a

877
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: lot of sessions about like there's a plastic session. There's

878
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: so much science involved and interweaved into the troop. You

879
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: don't have to engage with it if you don't want to,

880
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: but it's sort of impossible not to, like when you're there,

881
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: even hearing that in the most remote literally the most

882
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: remote part of the world where humans don't live, there

883
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: is still microplastics in the water, crazy, like you know,

884
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: it just you kind of kind of can't ignore that.

885
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: And it's also like it's hard because also traveling there

886
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: is a thing. But I love Intrepid with their Bee

887
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: Corp certification because they make sure every trip is double

888
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: carbon offset, like they're really really really conscious of that.

889
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: And then the education. So one of the coolest things

890
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: on board was the Citizen Sign program where organizations like NASA,

891
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: for example, they need certain pictures from certain angles of

892
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, a whale fluke to see the spots or something,

893
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,240
Speaker 1: or they need to know you know, in this particular bay,

894
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: what is the level of blah mineral in the water,

895
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: And so they get people tourists who are going to

896
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: be part of cool gathering. So they'll write you a

897
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: brief and then like there's a coordinator on board and

898
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: you can go out on the particular citizen science boat

899
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: to All you have to do is dipper thing in

900
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: the water and you'll find like the population of krill,

901
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: or you'll find a different type of plankton, and you'll

902
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: report it back to like NASA COO or to whoever.

903
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 1: That was really really cool. I loved that you could

904
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: do that. And like the photographers, they're like they can't

905
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: send people down as often as tourist boats go down there,

906
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: but they'll get everyone who has a telephoto lens to

907
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: try and get this angle because we need to know

908
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: that the seal's belly is blah or because they can

909
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: also see every pattern on a whales' tail is different,

910
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: so they'll be like, we know where that whale has

911
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: migrated from, and like how his patterns are changing and

912
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yeah, you're like part of science. It's

913
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: really really cool. I love that. So that's a really

914
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: big part of the interrepred Itinerary. But yeah, I think

915
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: my overwhelming thing is like I was even reading about

916
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, so like Shackleton and

917
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: all the people who have done things first, it just

918
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: makes me think of the word legacy, and I'm like,

919
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: I haven't really thought much about legacy. I've thought about

920
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: legacy in that I hope some people through reading the

921
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: book or listen to the podcast have Seedza in some

922
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,919
Speaker 1: way that they might not have otherwise. That's really hard

923
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: to measure. And I haven't like said an intention of

924
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: my legacy on this earth will be, so I think

925
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: I want that's something that will brew, like what's going

926
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: to be my My brain's not coping with it very well.

927
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not adjusted to society. I'm laughing at inappropriate

928
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: moments and finding it really hard to sleep because I'm

929
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: just like so like ah, wired so wide. There's so

930
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: so many revelations, and I kept a diary, which is awesome,

931
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: but I feel like often with these trips, like you

932
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: would be the same and we'll talk about this in

933
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: your episode, but you often have the brain space and

934
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: then the realizations come after that, like they sort of

935
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: brew and then they yeah, yeah, I don't.

936
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 4: Think mine settled either. I think I've had them happen,

937
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 4: organized them. Yeah, to organize them, it takes a while, Yea,

938
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 4: it takes a little bit. Yeah, which I was actually

939
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 4: I was actually surprised when I was when you were

940
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 4: like it still untactica now, because I was like, I

941
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 4: wonder if she's actually had thought about organization. But at

942
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 4: the same time, I think it's good that doing it now.

943
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 4: Is it all so vivid in your yeah, still so excitable?

944
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh so cool.

945
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: Then it was so cool. And I went with the

946
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: coolest team as I went with the head of global brand, Mandy,

947
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: who I was in the Flinders Rangers with and she's

948
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: just such an all time human being. We had so

949
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: much funey. You can see the photos of us on

950
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: the first day. We're like out of our minds excited.

951
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: And to also watch her do her job like she's

952
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: just such an amazing guardian for the Intrepid brand. And

953
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: then Cliff was the videographer. He's a Canadian, the nicest

954
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: guy ever. Interestingly like doesn't really love bird photography and

955
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: then just could not get off the deck photographing birds,

956
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: so that was funny. I'm going to get a full

957
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: feature film of him filming Bird. He's so nice and

958
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: so good at what he does. And then of course

959
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: Matt cher Abino, who was the photographer, who is a character,

960
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 1: like the funnest I said to you before we started

961
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: calling you guys would be best friends. It's just so

962
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: much fun to be around so talented. And his photos

963
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 1: we get them today, so I can't even wait.

964
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the ones that you showed already film, Oh,

965
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 4: they looked so good.

966
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: He had a film camera, he had like four cameras.

967
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: All both boys had like so much luggage and I

968
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: don't know how they did it. They were amazing. But yeah,

969
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: the four of us had such a good time. Like

970
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: we all did the pole plunge, we all did a

971
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: lot of the activities together. Yeah, it was a really

972
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: really good time.

973
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 4: I feel like I now desperately want to do it.

974
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,720
Speaker 4: I feel like for ages it's felt so far fetched,

975
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, like everyone feels so far fetched, but

976
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 4: there's actually expansions going all the time. Yeah, whereas I

977
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 4: feel like now Antarctica seems so accessible and still it's

978
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 4: still like niche and special and hard to.

979
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 3: Get to it.

980
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 4: But it's still very much more accessible than it is

981
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,280
Speaker 4: it was previously.

982
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: It's admittedly a very expensive place to get to. It's

983
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: a much more expensive itinery than anywhere else that you

984
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: would go.

985
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 4: But once you hear what's involved, you can kind of

986
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 4: justify all of that, you know, like.

987
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally once you get there, I'm like, like, it's

988
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 1: impossible to get to it.

989
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 4: You're not even playing just for the transport, but the

990
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,919
Speaker 4: level of expertise, the safety, the protection they give you,

991
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 4: Like I don't think, like, not once have you ever

992
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 4: reflected that you felt unsafe. It just was rockier period,

993
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:42,879
Speaker 4: which is which is actually quite a big thing because

994
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 4: it's you're in the middle of nowhere and you're trusting

995
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 4: a boat, like anything could have happened in that time

996
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 4: where you can't contact anyone, there's no other safety measures,

997
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 4: there's no backup, like.

998
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 3: You don't that's all up to them.

999
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 4: Like I guess it's similar to flying, but flying is

1000
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 4: such a like it's such a common thing now, yeah,

1001
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 4: and it's just so common that it's he is safe.

1002
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: A lot of the submitted questions were are there risks

1003
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: and what did you feel like unnerved? Not once, like

1004
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: even There were some points in the drake passage where

1005
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: I was like, this boat can't tip any further. But

1006
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: I was not worried at all. I was way more

1007
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: worried about feeling nauseous, which is just a personal thing,

1008
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: than it was about actual danger because the expedition team

1009
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: are so experienced the procedures in place, like the relationship

1010
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: between the actual captains and then like who are in

1011
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: charge of the boat, and then the Intrepid team who

1012
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: are in charge of the people. Everything about everything just

1013
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: felt so like we went through so many safety measures ourselves.

1014
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: The boat has like really big stabilizers and really great history, Like, yeah,

1015
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: I just didn't even wait, we didn't even go through

1016
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: my mind interestingly.

1017
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 4: And there's no other way, you know, there's always like, yo,

1018
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 4: I might drive is a chip route?

1019
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have hostile because.

1020
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 4: You just kind of have to trust everyone around them.

1021
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 4: I'm going to ask this because people I'm sure I'm

1022
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 4: not going to ask and think and you don't have

1023
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 4: to say, but how much actually is it?

1024
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: Yeah? Great questions. So it really varies depending on how

1025
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: long you go because even like in Trepid, for example,

1026
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: they we did the eleven day best of Antarctica, but

1027
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: if you want to go to South Georgia or other islands,

1028
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: there's like a twenty three day one, Like it just

1029
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: depends on how long you're going. And then between companies

1030
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: and levels of luxury, there's a huge, huge variation. So

1031
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: for what I did, it starts at about nine thousand

1032
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: a person, which is definitely on the more expensive side

1033
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 1: of life, but definitely on the more reasonable Sidearctical.

1034
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 4: Inclusive is like I have to say, like, yeah, not

1035
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 4: like I feel like there's you know, fourteen day contigued

1036
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 4: tours that are yeah four thousand dollars or something, and

1037
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 4: a lot of those things too. Antarctica and yeah, a

1038
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 4: lot of these tools you can do yourself.

1039
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just can't.

1040
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 4: I feel like I was actually expecting probably a lot,

1041
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 4: and I think more.

1042
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: Traditionally it's been twenty to thirty So nine is like

1043
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: quite reasonable, and there are sale periods once a year.

1044
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: Most of the time it's a yeah, as I mentioned,

1045
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: like I wish or two for one, like and particularly

1046
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: if you go in like an off season, which I mean,

1047
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: it's amazing all year round. There are like a lot

1048
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: of the people on board. The younger people got a

1049
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: two for one deal, so you could go for two

1050
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: people for nine grand for eleven days. And then of

1051
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: course there is your flights to get to Ushwire, which

1052
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: is as you know, like it takes quite a few

1053
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: flights to get there, but it's if you want to

1054
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: go there, It's a once in a lifetime investment. It's

1055
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: not like Bali where you might go. You know, it's

1056
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: a lot cheaper, but you'll go ten times in your

1057
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: life whatever, not ten times necessarily, but you know what

1058
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: I mean. Like it's a more accessible place to go.

1059
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: There are sales all the time. It is a really

1060
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: long way to get there. It is very very remote,

1061
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: so once you get there, you kind of understand the value.

1062
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally nice, yeh Is anything else you want to?

1063
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: Oh my god, so many feelings, so many things. I

1064
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,919
Speaker 1: feel like it'll all settle and we can like come back.

1065
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 3: I think we can do it.

1066
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 4: Definitely a part two when we both reflect on our revelations.

1067
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 4: That's a separate thing in itself. Yeah, and this is

1068
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 4: more about just like the experience itself.

1069
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: It's definitely one of those things where I must say,

1070
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm the same person as I

1071
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: was before, which is such a like weird, romanticized, lame

1072
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: thing to say, but it changes something about how you

1073
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: think about stuff. I don't know how yet, but definitely changes.

1074
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: And there was so much A, so much ya, but

1075
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 1: it did definitely hammer home sees the A like everyone

1076
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: on board, someone who had just gone fuck it, like

1077
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: you have to too.

1078
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand.

1079
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: You want to see something, you want to go see

1080
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: you do it?

1081
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh so good. Oh I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: I was actually just looking at the crisis, That's what

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Speaker 4: it was doing.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, we should go back together. And you

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Speaker 1: know what's really interesting. They say once in a lifetime,

1086
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Speaker 1: but once you come back, I want to go back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's weird because I was so worried about

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Speaker 1: the getting there. I was so worried about the naisea.

1090
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Speaker 1: I was so worried about the blah blah blah. And

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Speaker 1: now I'm like, if I could go back, I would

1092
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Speaker 1: go back like now, Like I literally was looking at

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Speaker 1: the sale like maybe I can take Nick back. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking Paul's like, momfuck no anyway, bim, thank you so much. Conversation.

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Speaker 1: You just google it, you can say you can.

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Speaker 3: I'm googling.

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Speaker 1: Lovely neighborhood. I hope you guys enjoyed that. I really

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Speaker 1: just repeated myself. We've been following on socials. But if

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Speaker 1: you have any other questions, I'll make another question box

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Speaker 1: and try and get to all the questions. And if

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Speaker 1: you have any questions for and hang Foot who has

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Speaker 1: recently sees her, yay please, we'll make another question box

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Speaker 1: as well. And we have so much to plan for

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Speaker 1: next year now that we have and on board part

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Speaker 1: to full time, I'm so excited and we'll have all

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Speaker 1: the more activities and we'll be much more organized. Yay.

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Speaker 3: Bye