Brian Keating

And it's kept in a safe.

And there's a station master who's sometimes a scientist.

I knew the station master who was a scientist the year I was there.

And...

they have security because some people have gone literally crazy there, as you might expect, right?

Complete isolation, you're not going anywhere.

You know why?

A plane can't land there.

So if a C-130 were to land there in the middle of winter, it gets down to negative 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Okay?

So that's 200, that's 300 degrees below the boiling point of water.

So they actually have a sauna at the South Pole that gets up to 212, almost, degrees Fahrenheit.

And then the coldest day of the year is usually in July.

They go outside and they run around naked around the South Pole.

It looks like a barber pole, just like you see in, you know,

like Santa would have or whatever.

It's a barber pole that marks the geographic axis on which the Earth is spinning, okay?

You run around, it's called the 300 degree club.

You run around every time zone and you're running in negative delta temperature of 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Okay, so if a plane were to land there, if an LC-130 were to land there, the hydraulic fluid and JP8 freezes