Brian Keating

Holy shit.

It's crazy.

It's crazy.

Or you can take two and a half weeks by boat across the world's Southern Ocean.

which is the most dangerous and kind of violent sea.

I get seasick, so I go on a stand-up paddleboard, I get seasick, so I'm not taking the boat ride.

So you get there, you go from San Diego, fly to LAX, you fly from LAX to either Australia or to the North Island of New Zealand, to Auckland, New Zealand.

And that takes, you know, 14 hours, whatever flight.

Then you get there, then you have to take another flight to get from there to Christchurch, New Zealand, which is on the South Island of New Zealand.

New Zealand is like, is where they film The Lord of the Rings.

It's the most, it's like Switzerland plus the tropics.

It's an incredible, beautiful place.

And then you get there, and the US has carved out an army base, a naval base, and a provisioning center from this place called Christchurch.

And the reason that they're there is it's where the historic explorers like Roald Amundsen, who's the first man to reach the South Pole,

and Robert Scott, who's a British team, they were in a race song every bit as competitive as the Cold War space race to get to the moon first.

This battle in 1911 and 1912 was every bit as intense geopolitically, national pride, scientifically.

It was the last continent.

No one had ever seen Antarctica.

You know when Antarctica was discovered?

Antarctica was discovered after the planet Uranus was discovered.