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Illumination presents Minions and Monsters.

**Lewis Howes** (0:03)
You want to make a monster movie?

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And what are you going to use for your monster? I know the perfect monster for your movie. Just try not to look too delicious.

**Lewis Howes** (0:20)
Quick question.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:21)
I want to eat one of these funny-looking yellow guys.

**Lewis Howes** (0:23)
Is that okay?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:24)
Minions and Monsters.

**Lewis Howes** (0:25)
Rated PG. Parental guidance suggested.

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Some material may not be suitable for children.

**Lewis Howes** (0:28)
In theaters now.
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**Colin O'Brady** (1:54)
My man. Great to see you. How you doing, man?

**Lewis Howes** (1:55)
Doing good.

**Colin O'Brady** (1:56)
I'm doing great. I'm doing great.

**Lewis Howes** (1:58)
Good, man. Now for those that don't know about you, you just finished an incredible journey in Antarctica, crossing 65 days, right?

**Colin O'Brady** (2:08)
Yeah, 54 days.

**Lewis Howes** (2:09)
54 days in an unaided journey, dragging a 300-pound sled or something crazy like this, where no one was able to touch you or support you in the process of crossing this part of the Antarctica. Yeah. It was 54 days. You had a 60-day plan.

**Colin O'Brady** (2:27)
Yeah.

**Lewis Howes** (2:28)
You sprinted the last two days or something.

**Colin O'Brady** (2:30)
Indeed.

**Lewis Howes** (2:31)
It was incredible to watch this journey. You've been all over the news lately, and you were racing against another guy who was doing the same thing, and what an incredible journey, man. Congrats on completing it.

**Colin O'Brady** (2:43)
Thank you. Thank you.
It was a wild ride, to say the least. I had a few other world records to my name previous to that in the mountains, but this is a world first. This is something that no one in history had ever accomplished and going back 100 years, people have tried. Ernest Shackleton 100 years ago was one of my heroes, one of the early pioneering explorers who said like, man should cross the continent of Antarctica. It's been done now in teams of people, or as well as using wind aid, kites, dogs, but it has never still been done in its most pure form, which is solo, completely alone, unsupported. So no resupplies of food or food drop-offs and unaided, meaning no kites, no dogs, no vehicles. Just this is like a man versus nature, mano y mano out there. And so it was a beautiful challenge to take on as I'm really just fascinated as myself is just tapping into the potential that I think we all have inside of us and unlocking that. So this curiosity inside me as an athlete led me to want to go after this. And I didn't know if it was possible. I literally named my project as I set off The Impossible First.

**Lewis Howes** (3:46)
Amazing. Amazing, man. Now Antarctica is huge, right? It's pretty big. How big is it? So people know.

**Colin O'Brady** (3:52)
Gosh, I think I'm going to, I should know the answer to this question.
Yeah, it's massive. The traverse that I was making, so it was basically from one side of the ocean via the south pole to the other side, was just under a thousand miles. A thousand miles. Yeah.

**Lewis Howes** (4:07)
Pulling a sled in the snow. What was the temperature most of the time?

**Colin O'Brady** (4:10)
So the average temperature in Antarctica is about minus 25, minus 30, and that's with no wind. Antarctica is the windiest and coldest continent in the world. And so often days would be 50, 60 mile per hour wind gusts, and you'd literally have, gosh, I don't know, minus 80 degrees wind chill. The easiest way for me to describe it, I know you're from Ohio, so I know you know a little bit about cold weather and whatnot, but what I will say is this, I couldn't experience that cold until I realized I took a cup of boiling water from my tent and I would throw it in the air and it would immediately turn into ice. Like that's how cold that is.