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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff works dot com? Hey, welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. This with me is a man named

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant. He's a little under the weather

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Speaker 1: right now. Yes, sick, Yes, and that should come through

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Speaker 1: in this show. Keep getting me. I'm not gonna get

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Speaker 1: you sick. I got my own little mic cover with

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Speaker 1: my name on it. I'm gonna take it, probably burn it.

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Speaker 1: Actually I'm not gonna burn it because it's pricey. Didn't

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Speaker 1: the company get it for you though? Oh yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I don't want to waste the company money. That's good thinking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm a little ill, so all apologies, people, but we

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Speaker 1: like to soldier on here at s Y s K.

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Speaker 1: We meet our deadline. Remember when we often talked about

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Speaker 1: when you were sick for eight months? It was a

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Speaker 1: long time. Yeah, I'm hoping this is no more than

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Speaker 1: a few shows, maybe even just these two. That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm because we're recording to today. But I feel bad

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Speaker 1: for you because both of them are kind of chilly, Yes,

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Speaker 1: especially this one. Wintry topics. Yeah, well it's almost always

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Speaker 1: winter in Antarctica, even when it's summer season. Chuck. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever heard of a guy named Captain Robert Scott? Uh,

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Speaker 1: Bobby Scott, Bob Scott, cappy. I think he went by

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Speaker 1: first two people, or led one of the first two

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Speaker 1: expeditions to make it to the South Pole Antarctica, and

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Speaker 1: he was beaten by just four weeks by a Norwegian rival.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna say he's beaten by a polar

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Speaker 1: bear or something like that. Uh. No, well he did die.

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Speaker 1: A five man team made it to the South Pole

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Speaker 1: and started making their way back and just hit some

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Speaker 1: real freak weather. Um. And the guy that the team

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Speaker 1: buffeted by I think negative forty, negative ninety, just ridiculously

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Speaker 1: But there they were found, and among them were found

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Speaker 1: some some of the find some of the things. This

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Speaker 1: is a scientific expedition. Obviously, UM some of the notes

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Speaker 1: Apparently back in this era, this is nineteen eleven, I

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Speaker 1: think UM people thought that emperor penguins, because they couldn't fly,

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Speaker 1: if you go find the eggs of this very primitive bird,

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Speaker 1: The reason why is because the Edwardians also believed that

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Speaker 1: during its gestation. So they figured, hey, take some emperor

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Speaker 1: penguin eggs, crack them open, you're gonna find a dinosaur. Right.

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Speaker 1: It didn't work out like that, but they found the

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Speaker 1: very cute emperor penguin. They did dead inside, of course,

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Speaker 1: don't mess with an Emperor penguin egg. They go through

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Speaker 1: and you don't. You just don't steal three of them, agreed,

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Speaker 1: Captain Robert Scott did. And you can't did either. I

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Speaker 1: sixty eight celsius. Yeah, like to convert for our friends

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Speaker 1: in other weird places. Yeah, two on that Canada. Uh,

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Speaker 1: everyone and no one UM, no one can lay claim there.

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Speaker 1: a nuclear free zone. Would you war anyway, No, I

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Speaker 1: point out I think it's still commonly overlooked. Uh, Antarctic

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Speaker 1: They're not in the Arctic. Okay, I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: penguins Antarctic. And also, if you you know, I know

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Speaker 1: of Madness, I love Crash. I want to read that one, dude.

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Speaker 1: That's probably his best one, and it's set entirely in Antarctica.

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Speaker 1: So we're on was that personally or that was s y?

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Speaker 1: should do a Christopher guest final tap um. So if

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Speaker 1: and most of the action, um, when you're traveling to

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Speaker 1: Imagine almost all of Antarctica is still very much not

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Speaker 1: Took us off right exactly. So like you were saying, like,

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Speaker 1: you're doing or what you want. And um, you just

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Speaker 1: probably should keep that in mine when you're observing penguins.

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Speaker 1: Don't chase the penguins. And when I said a lot

424
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Speaker 1: of wildlife, let me clear that up. It's not like

425
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Speaker 1: Yosemite National Park wildlife. But it is a very hospitable

426
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Speaker 1: place for certain kinds of animals, especially animals that live

427
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: in the water, because there's just tons of protein. You

428
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Speaker 1: got whales, you got penguins, you got polar bears, and

429
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Speaker 1: you have to see marks of the penguins. I don't know,

430
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Speaker 1: you know, it was just one of those movies they

431
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: just got by me. It is I think I won

432
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Speaker 1: an oscar. Yeah sure, what Morgan Freeman, Yeah, buddy, yeah, Um,

433
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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's a really great movie. Have you ever

434
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Speaker 1: been to the aquariums penguin exhibit? Uh? Yes, you know

435
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Speaker 1: you can stick your head up that you can crawl

436
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: into the tunnel and you stick your head up into

437
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 1: a clear plexi hole for your head basically, and the

438
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: penguins are right there right in front of your face, like,

439
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Yeah, you're stressing me out, So

440
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Speaker 1: chuck um. The water is generally or the sea is

441
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Speaker 1: good for the wildlife around it because they've adapted to it.

442
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Speaker 1: If you're one of those polar bear guys, though you

443
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Speaker 1: can't considerably jump in during the winter, you should do

444
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Speaker 1: so at your own risk. Oh that the humans that

445
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Speaker 1: do that stuff, because the water gets down to about

446
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: thirty two degrees fahret height there, I should say, up

447
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: to thirty two degrees fahrenheight, and you're going to freeze

448
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: because that's zero celsius um. It's very very dangerous. And

449
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Speaker 1: if you do that and you hurt yourself, you're gonna

450
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Speaker 1: find yourself on a long, arduous journey back to Chili

451
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,479
Speaker 1: or Argentina um at your own expense. Yeah, I mean,

452
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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of medical help at these stations,

453
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Speaker 1: and maybe a passing cruise ship will have the good

454
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Speaker 1: doctor from the love Boat on board, but um, you're

455
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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get serious medical attention and

456
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: you're you could be in trouble unless you get either

457
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: too sweet or you're gonna be performing self surgery right

458
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Speaker 1: exactly d D style. So how much does this kind

459
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Speaker 1: of run you? Uh? I don't know, do you know?

460
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I've heard you can expect to spend

461
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Speaker 1: upwards of ten grand I mean the marathon was sixteen grand.

462
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Speaker 1: I mean getting there's gonna be pricey, period. Sure, but

463
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Speaker 1: like a really probably probably like um full on great

464
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Speaker 1: state room kind of cruised down there, including airfare to

465
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: South America's gonna run you ten grand or probably last.

466
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you can get deals for less, but you

467
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Speaker 1: need to have a little bit of cash to make

468
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Speaker 1: it down to Antarctic. It's not a poor man's vacation.

469
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Speaker 1: You know, that's what you're saying. Environmental safety concerns, Josh,

470
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Speaker 1: we talked about obviously, would you say, was there now?

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Speaker 1: D D T. Yeah, they've on traces of it. They

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Speaker 1: found it in penguins cheese. Uh. In April two thousand nine,

473
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Speaker 1: there was a joint session of the Antarctic Treaty Panel

474
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Speaker 1: and the Arctic Council, and they met in Baltimore, Maryland,

475
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Speaker 1: which I'm sure that's nice in April, but for some

476
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Speaker 1: reason I thought they would say, like, let's go to

477
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Speaker 1: Phoenix in July and hold our meeting and baw. But

478
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Speaker 1: they had, you know, a lot on the agenda, including

479
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Speaker 1: global warming talks, shipping routes, stuff like that. But they

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Speaker 1: did talk about tourism, and not incidentally or coincidentally, around

481
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Speaker 1: that same time, a twenty five mile ice shelf broke

482
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Speaker 1: off shattered into the sea, which kind of was like

483
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Speaker 1: symbolic of hey, we really need to talk about tourism.

484
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Speaker 1: That's huge. And the the I guess the tourism and

485
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Speaker 1: the loss of ice has this sort of self reinforcing

486
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Speaker 1: thing going on. Because you lose ice, you actually get

487
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Speaker 1: more tourism, which is ostensibly responsible for even further climate

488
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Speaker 1: change in the area. And so you lose more ice

489
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Speaker 1: and you get even more tourism. And the reason why

490
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Speaker 1: is because you lose twenty five mile piece of ice,

491
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Speaker 1: cruise ships go, oh, we can go in here. Now

492
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Speaker 1: we have a passage exactly, so they're they're coming up with. UM,

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Speaker 1: I guess an idea of how they can. UM, they

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Speaker 1: want to ban the construction of any kind of hotels

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Speaker 1: or anything like that, any permanent, not even accommodations. No,

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Speaker 1: not even although that would probably no, that would be permanent.

497
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Speaker 1: It down there, I'm sure you can't say it would be.

498
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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be permanent. But because right, UM, you want

499
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Speaker 1: they need they want to do a number a limitation

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Speaker 1: to the number of ships that can come in every year. UM,

501
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Speaker 1: restrictions on how close ships can come to shore. Yeah,

502
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Speaker 1: like are you gonna drop people off here at the

503
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Speaker 1: shore line? Yeah, just to see those little penguins. But

504
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Speaker 1: here's the problem. They can't just say like, Okay, we're

505
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Speaker 1: gonna have fifty ships a year or twenty or whatever. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if you touch the penguins, you'll be executed by the

507
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Speaker 1: International Criminal Court at the Hague. UM. They can't say

508
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Speaker 1: these things because no one has any sovereign right to

509
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Speaker 1: issue any kind of decree over Antarctic. So what can

510
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: they do to establish guidelines and recommend that signatory countries

511
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Speaker 1: and travel agencies follow them and suggest to highly suggest that.

512
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Speaker 1: But right now there's only forty seven signatory countries on

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Speaker 1: the Antarctic Treaty. Yeah, I wonder who's on there. I

514
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Speaker 1: was gonna look that up, but I didn't get a chance. Uh.

515
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Speaker 1: And the reason why they don't ban people outright, not

516
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: only can they not, but one of the most important

517
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Speaker 1: parts of that the treaty is that it does allow

518
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Speaker 1: freedom of access. They're like, you know what, you can

519
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: come here. Yeah, they can't stop anybody from coming there.

520
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: And I feel like I feel like they want to

521
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Speaker 1: allow it just to a degree. Sure I might be

522
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: wrong there, but well, I'm sure that the tour operators

523
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Speaker 1: associations like, I don't know, we wanna tread lightly here exactly. UM.

524
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Speaker 1: And then speaking of getting stuck in Antarctica, one last

525
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: thing you know about this UM. A couple of years

526
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Speaker 1: ago they a case of eleven bottles of Scotch McKinley Scotch,

527
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Speaker 1: which isn't made any longer and was originally produced in

528
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Speaker 1: eight or ninety seven and was part of the um

529
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Speaker 1: Ernest Shackleton Nimrod expedition of nineteen o seven, was left

530
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Speaker 1: beneath his hut and forgotten for like a hundred years,

531
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Speaker 1: and they found it in two thousand and six when

532
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Speaker 1: do we talk about this on the webcast, the good

533
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: old webcast, and they got it out of there. Remember

534
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: you and I were like, what's going to happen to this?

535
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Speaker 1: Because that treaty like you're Antarctica is there for scientific expedition.

536
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: You're supposedly not supposed to touch anything that has any

537
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Speaker 1: sort of historical or scientific significance. It's not supposed to

538
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,239
Speaker 1: come out. So they're like, you can't really remove this,

539
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: we have to drink it down there. Well, it turns

540
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: out that UM Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand now

541
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Speaker 1: has this scotch and it's exhibit. I can't remember. Did

542
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: they sample it? Someone didn't they No one will probably

543
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: ever taste the scotch. Instead, they've allowed some scotch makers

544
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: to UM to take samples and see if they can

545
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: recreate it because no one has the original recipe anymore's

546
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: taken it up. That's what I'm thinking too, But surely

547
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: some rich guy was like, get me that scotch. Here's

548
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: as much money as you need. And it didn't go

549
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: into the hands of some rich scotch lover. It went

550
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: to a relatively unknown own museum in New Zealand. Which

551
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. I bet the night guard. I bet

552
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: there's some Kiwi security guard that's taken the tiniest of

553
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: nips and then filled it back up with like t

554
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: They'll never know. It's like the mini bar. So you

555
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 1: got anything else? I don't. So that concludes our episode

556
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: on alcoholism among night watchmen. And if you want to

557
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: learn more about that or Antarctica, you want to type

558
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: in A N T A R C T I C

559
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: A in the handy search bar at how stuffworks dot com,

560
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: which means it's time for a listening to mail. Josh,

561
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this UH exchange email exchange because I'm

562
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: actually gonna read my response to UH sort of an

563
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: upset Canadian. This is about daylight saving, which, by the way,

564
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Speaker 1: we must spoke. Go ahead and say that we're getting

565
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: beat up by the the people south of the equator.

566
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: When we said that they spring back and fall forward,

567
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: that it's not so. They spring forward and fall back.

568
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: It's just at opposite times as us. No, I'm saying, no,

569
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: they springboard, they fall back, but their spring is opposite

570
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: of our spring. You haven't seen that the Facebook and

571
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: emails they've been killing their spring Okay, I got to

572
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It was very very North

573
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: hemispheres centric, and so I need to explain myself here

574
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: because I got an email from Marie from Canada and

575
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: she was a little man at me. Just finished listening

576
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: to the podcast on daylight saving time. You mentioned that

577
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: in the civilized world time makes no difference and only

578
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: the rising and setting in the sun is really important.

579
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to offer you a different perspective on that.

580
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: I live in white Horse, Yukon, Canada, and the sun

581
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: is currently rising at set and that's a whole five

582
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Speaker 1: hours and fifty seven minutes of light in the dead

583
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Speaker 1: of winter. I assure you that we are a fully

584
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Speaker 1: functioning part of the civilized world here and setting the

585
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: time is very important to us. We do observe daylight

586
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: saving time in the Yukon and in the summer month

587
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,719
Speaker 1: when we get are on average eighteen hours of daylight.

588
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: Having the clocks change makes a huge difference in my

589
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: daily life after the long dark. It's relief that the

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00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: clocks now allow for a little more vitaminded, I think

591
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Speaker 1: you I just found your comments callous. Perhaps you should

592
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: rely less on these skeptic pages, as it seems to

593
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: put you in a sour mood. St Yeah, please remember

594
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: that you have a very wide range of listeners and

595
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: we are not savages out in the waste lands. We're

596
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: intelligent people who enjoy learning and see you and your

597
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: colleagues is valuable and often entertaining source of information. She's

598
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: talking to you right, because it sounds like one of

599
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: your quotes. It was one of mine. So I wrote

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00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: Marie back, and I was like, Marie, I you either

601
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: misunderstood or I didn't get it across. Clearly, I wasn't

602
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,719
Speaker 1: saying that at all. What I'm saying is the civilized

603
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: world is the The only reason clocks matter to me

604
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: is because Man invented clocks and time quote unquote to

605
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: get on schedule in a commerce way, so businesses could

606
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: be open and you could reference schedules and work schedules

607
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: and and shopping and things like that. If man had

608
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: never invented a clock, it wouldn't change anything about the

609
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: rising and setting of the sun. We would just operate

610
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Speaker 1: on the rising in the setting of the sun. It's

611
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: like I'm watching you for a future little so it

612
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: very much matters. Obviously in the civilized world, because that's

613
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Speaker 1: the only place at time matters. I imagine in third

614
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: world countries where they don't have clocks, they just operate

615
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: with the rising in the setting of the sun, like

616
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: we did before we invented clocks. Does that make sense? Sure?

617
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Speaker 1: I certainly wasn't trying to say that people of Canada

618
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: were civilized people of Canada. Attention Chuck Bryant means you

619
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Speaker 1: no harm. He's a very nice guy. None can anthem.

620
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: But he is never out to hurt anybody's feelings. Even

621
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: when he does, it's accidental. Please accept his apologies. So

622
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: either misspoke or was misunderstood, or something got garbled up,

623
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Speaker 1: but sortainry so you have it. Thank you to all

624
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: of our friends in Canada for listening. Man. I gotta

625
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: tell you they take off easily, especially if you call

626
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: their thanksgiving pig thanksgiving. Their sensitive people they do not

627
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: like that. But it's because Americans are arrogant, and they're like,

628
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Speaker 1: you know what, Yeah, but they don't necessarily pick up

629
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Speaker 1: on when we're poking fun at our own arrogance, which

630
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: is surprising because they gave us Dan at Kroy. Yeah,

631
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Speaker 1: the whittier meant a lot so, uh, if you have

632
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Speaker 1: a great story about Dana Kroyd, we want to hear

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