Hello and welcome to citation needed, podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts.

Because this is the internet, and that's how it works now.

I'm Heath and I'll be the booie voter under the influence for this maritime disaster.

And I'm joined by three sober sailors, Eli, Noah and Tom, and also Cecil, who is fun.

Hey, hey, there's a bag, just because I don't drink doesn't mean I'm sober.

George is sober.

Yes, this is a great idea.

Great idea here.

I'll just go ahead and let the thin veneer of control that I'm holding on to slip from my fingers. I'm sure fun's the word we're all going to use after that's over. It's cool. Yeah. Maybe. Thank you, Heath. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. You are. Cheers, buddy. Cheers. Indeed. Cecil's fun. So, Noah. What person plays thing, concept, phenomenon, or event? Are we going to be talking

about today? Today, we're going to be talking about the Exxon Valdez. Uh-huh. And this is because

you just got back from Alaska and you want to turn the episode into My Vacation Slides,

the podcast. I did read the article and I'm ready to talk about it. Heath, yes. All right. So what is

the Exxon Valdez? Alaska is a vast and beauteous land filled with soaring snow cap mountain

peaks, hearty megafauna and majestic fields of purple wildflowers.

Now, of course, it would be wildly oversimplifying things to act like Alaska is one singular

biome. It's too big for that. The ecosystems there range from ice fields and alpine tundra

to boreal forests and even coastal rainforests.

Guys, let's all drop our pencils at the same time.

Maybe he'll freak out and leave.

I don't.

I don't spook as easily as you do, Eli.

Now, our tendency is to...

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