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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

I cannot be alone in having always wanted to go to Antarctica.

Something about the sheer strangeness of the landscape and the remoteness of the place,

something about the lack of human degradation, something about the sheer

challenge of getting and surviving there. Our guest this morning, Ariel Waldman, not only spent

two months in Antarctica with a research team, she managed to film a full-fledged documentary by

herself with her menagerie of cameras. The first episodes of that work, Life on Earth, debut tonight on PBS.

Welcome to Forum, Mary. Thanks so much for having me. Really happy to be here. And of course,

I should say PBS is KQED TV. Okay, let's talk about going to Antarctica. I'm just going to

live out, live vicariously through you. How'd you get

cleared to go? How'd you get there? Well, yeah, so getting cleared to go to Antarctica is a

multi-month process. You have to get what we call PQed, which is physically qualified. And so you

have a whole bunch of tests and you see doctors and they're drawing your blood and, you know,

getting your physical exams and everything. That's all the, you know, preliminary stuff. But actually

getting to Antarctica is a multi-hour, multi-day journey. So from my home in San Francisco, I fly all

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