Antarctica

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/filmmaker Joey Clift (Netflix’s ‘Spirit Rangers’, new Comedy Central short “How to Cope With Your Team Changing Its Native American Mascot”) and comedian/podcaster Craig Fay (‘The Villain Was Right’ podcast) for a look at why Antarctica is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• “How To Cope WIth Your Team Changing Its Native American Mascot” (the new Comedy Central short by Joey Clift!)
• Netflix page for Spirit Rangers (coming 2022)
• Joey Clift on Twitter
• Craig Fay on Twitter
• ‘The Villain Was Right’ podcast (From Superheroes)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

SOURCES FOR THE AMAZING JUNE 2021 STUDY JOEY FOUND:

• New study shows New Zealand indigenous people reached Antarctica at least 1,000 years before the first known Europeans (The New York Daily News)
• The Maori Vision of Antarctica’s Future (The New York Times)
• New Zealand Māori may have been first to discover Antarctica, study suggests (The Guardian)

OTHER RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The Last Continent (miniseries by PBS News Hour)
• Compare the Size of Antarctica to the Continental United States (NASA)
• Australia vs Antarctica (Mapfight.xyz)
• Ice Caps, Ice Sheets, and Ice Shelves: What’s the Difference? (Center For Educational Technologies / NASA)
• This Day In History: December 14th, 1911: Roald Amundsen becomes first explorer to reach the South Pole (History.com)
• Roald Amundsen: Who was the man who beat Captain Scott to claim the South Pole? (Royal Museums Greenwich)
• Antarctic Weather: Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth. (Australian Antarctic Program)
• South Pole Station Archives: Sunset And Season’s End (“The Antarctic Sun” newsletter)
• The World’s Loneliest ATM is in Antarctica (Mental Floss)
• Polar cancer survivor dies 10 years on (The Guardian)
• The man who cut out his own appendix (BBC News)
• Antarctica: The Last Continent by Kim Heacox (a 1998 book from the National Geographic Society)
• How was Australia named? (National Library of Australia)
• In Depth: Hypothetical Planet X (NASA)
• The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto