I'm a Penguin Counter for God's Sake!
Outside/In
NHPR
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know what? I met a guy. He goes to Antarctic every year. I think we can get our bosses to agree to let us go. |
| 0:05.2 | It was like a, it was like a dream come true. |
| 0:07.6 | I love that it always comes down to, I think we can let our, convince our bosses to let us go. |
| 0:13.0 | Right. |
| 0:14.0 | Meet William Bringham. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, my name is William Bringham. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm a correspondent at the PBS News Hour. |
| 0:22.0 | William and a team of intrepid producers recently got to take the truth. at the |
| 0:23.3 | p.b. We'll and a team of intrepid producers recently got to take the trip of a lifetime. |
| 0:26.2 | The type of trip that I imagine you must imagine the glamorous life of a journalist must be |
| 0:31.0 | chock full of. There's no place like this on earth. It's blue ocean of a |
| 0:35.0 | life journalist must be chock full of. There's no place like this on earth. It's blue ocean, towering cliffs of white glaciers, huge craggy mountain peaks. |
| 0:40.0 | This team from the PBS News Hour, put together a four-part podcast series called The Last |
| 0:48.6 | continent, which is full of surprises and interesting facts about a place that really |
| 0:52.4 | is one of the world's biggest |
| 0:54.4 | mysteries. The thing that I found most striking and again I knew this going in but you |
| 1:00.1 | only you only sense it when you're there for a period of time which is that there is really |
| 1:06.4 | no human infrastructure on the entire continent and this is a massive piece of land I mean we're |
| 1:11.4 | talking about the US and Mexico combined as a |
| 1:14.0 | landmass covered almost 95% with thick sheets of ice. As you're traveling |
| 1:19.9 | around you just realize that humans mean almost nothing here. |
| 1:24.0 | The whole series is worth checking out. |
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