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Blair Braverman

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817 total appearances

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It's not hard at all.

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It has no additional challenges over living anywhere else.

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And his argument for this is that he spent a lot of time up north.

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Look how awesome it is.

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He doesn't mention that when he's done that, he's had entire indigenous families basically hunting for him, cooking, making his clothes, doing all the hard parts.

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Yeah, anyone can live there if you employ 20 people with skills.

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Okay.

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Stevenson has also had a very recent public humiliation.

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It's a, it's a tragedy, but to him, it's a humiliation, which is that he brought 25 people on a ship to look for a secret continent up North.

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He was like, there's going to be a secret continent up there.

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I'm going to find it.

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The ship got stuck in the ice.

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Stevenson bailed with a team of sled dogs.

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He just got on a dog sled and was like, bye crew and mushed away and

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He said he was going for help, but he just left and didn't come back and went to safety himself.

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And the remaining members of the expedition, everyone else, which included a child, by the way...

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had to like make their way on sea ice to the nearest land they could find, which was Wrangel Island, the same place Ada's going.

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And a lot of them ended up dying from cold and starvation.

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That's exactly what he did.

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I can't swear to it, but... He blamed them.