Colin O'Brady
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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After all year of planning, it's finally time for me to like try to cross Antarctica.
I'm taking the first step and I bend down and to pull the strap on my sled to tighten it for the first time and ping, the strap breaks.
Literally, the strap breaks.
It's minus 25 and the plastic can't handle it, breaks.
So right out of the gate, I'm like, wow, this is gonna be a long journey.
This is before the first step.
So then I strap into my sled, and the sled's the heaviest on the first day.
375 pounds to start was about the maximum I thought I could pull, so I put as much food as I could, even though I knew I was gonna burn 10,000 calories per day, and I factored I could carry about 7,000 calories, so I was gonna lose weight every single day straight from the get-go, even eating 7,000 calories.
That's how intense and cold it is.
I start pulling my sled, and you asked me before about sweat.
About one hour in, I'm sweating, and I'm like, wait, this sled's so heavy, but I can't not pull it without sweating, and so I start sweating.
Then I realize, I actually don't think I can pull this sled, and I start crying.
I literally start crying.
But what happens when you cry when it's minus 25 degrees out?
It freezes to your face.
So I have frozen tears to my face and I'm one hour, two hours into this journey.
And so I do the only thing I could think of is I call home to Jenna.
And so I pick up the phone and I go, hey babe, yeah, we may have named our project the right thing.
It appears to be impossible.
Because we had called it the impossible first.
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