In southern Greenland, back in July 2004, a local man - Ferdinand Egede - dug into the soft earth of a field to show me something he'd never expected to see in his lifetime: potatoes.

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We talked for a while in her living room and then she told me she wanted to show me something in her backyard, which is well gardened and is filled with the soothing clang of wind chimes.

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Johan thumps down his beer and says he has something to show me.

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But, this show makes me wonder if my timing for trying something new is perhaps a little serendipitous.

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And then when I had enough, I decided that it would be great to show them because people don't expect me to do something like this.

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But for me and the rest of the CNET team, the star of the show is something very few people will have heard of.

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Joining me now is my colleague Noah Adams who is not on the show today but is working on something for Friday and Noah what is it?

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Tell me tonight just before the show starts will you be nervous, do you get nerves, do you do something superstitious?

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