Ariel Waldman

And I put myself up to this.

And when I landed on the runway in Antarctica, after having gotten a grant to do this and everything, I was like, I'm an idiot.

I'm like, what the hell did I put myself up to?

Who?

Who says, yeah, I've never filmed a documentary before.

And yeah, I'm going to do it in Antarctica for the first time and I'll just do it all myself.

No crew, no problem.

I was like, wow, I am going to fail.

I was just freaking out.

And I, yeah, I didn't know if I was going to pull it off.

So I'm really glad the series ended up on PBS because for a long time I was just like, I...

an idiot for trying to pull this off.

It was really hard.

I mean, yeah, it's got to be the obtube of like just being suspended between a sea ice ceiling and a seafloor full of life and hearing these seals making these weird, almost techno sort of sounding calls and everything.

And it's just you in a metal pipe suspended in the middle of the ocean with no one else around.

And you're seeing the fish and you're seeing, you know, all these weird creatures.

And it is surreal and it'll stay with me forever because you're just there alone.

And yeah, terrible place to be if you're claustrophobic.

I was just going to say.

Otherwise, super beautiful.