July 3, 2025 • 44 mins
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara is taking us on a fieldtrip to Earths Poles of Inaccessibility.
Ever wonder what it feels like to stand somewhere so far from civilization that your closest neighbors are astronauts floating above you in space? That's the reality at Point Nemo, just one of the extraordinarily isolated places we explore in this episode.
We journey to seven of the planet's most remote locations, from the frozen Antarctic wasteland where a solitary bust of Vladimir Lenin faces Moscow in silent watch, to a volcanic island where mysterious abandoned lifeboats appear with no explanation. These aren't just geographical oddities—they're places where reality feels stretched thin and strange stories echo in the emptiness.
Whether you're dreaming of escaping modern life or simply fascinated by Earth's hidden corners, join us for this journey to the edges of the map—and decide which isolated paradise might be your perfect getaway.
References:
- NASA Space Debris FAQs
- British Antarctic Survey
- Guinness World Records - Most Remote Statue
- CIA World Factbook – Bouvet Island
- Mystery Reference: “The Bouvet Island Lifeboat Mystery,” Fortean Times (2000s)
- Tristan da Cunha Government Website
- BBC Profile on Tristan da Cunha
- National Geographic on Rub’ al Khali
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- NASA – Atacama Testing
- Smithsonian on Atacama Mummies
- NOAA Bloop Summary Page
- https://www.livescience.com/64913-bloop-sound.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I want to dance with the mothman at the ID shop,
baked in the moonlight at the IDshop.
Creep through the graveyard tothe ID shop.
The door's always open at theOddity Shop.
(00:27):
What's up, oddballs?
Welcome back to the Oddity Shop, the podcast where we tell you
creepy, odd, weird, strange,bizarre stories, bizarre.
I knew one of those words cameout wrong, but my brain wouldn't
(00:48):
let me know which one it was.
I'm like I'm gonna just keepgoing.
Bizarre stories from around theglobe.
I liked it.
Oh, this one over here wholikes it is our curator, kara hi
, kara, hello, and I'm yourother curatorary.
I said it like you do.
I don't like full naming myself.
I feel like I'm in trouble withmyself.
(01:08):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Well, I'm tired, you're tired.
We already talked about that,but besides us being tired,
listen.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I've had four sips of caffeine.
I can already feel it pumpingthrough my veins.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm just gaslighting myself.
I'm good, though.
Otherwise, what's new in yourworld?
Oh, I'll tell you about.
I might've told you, but we'lltell all the listeners about my
Sunday anxiety attack thatruined my day.
Saturday I went to a weddinggreat wedding, had so much fun.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And you looked super cute doing it.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
On the way out the door to go to the wedding I had
grabbed a tote bag and I threwlike my purse, dumped my purse
out in there, put the purse thatI was bringing to the wedding
in there and a bunch of othercrap that I thought we might
need, you know, because it washot outside, I don't know that
you never need.
(01:59):
I know, but you know I like tobe prepared.
I throw it all in there,whatever.
I'm in the car, kind of likeputting my lipstick on my boobs.
So I was like, okay, so I getinto Walgreens and I don't have
my wallet, it's not my purse.
I'm like, oh, it's probably inthat tote bag, it's in that tote
bag in the cart, blah, blah,blah.
So I call Aaron, aaron runs in,he just pays, cool, whatever.
(02:19):
I don't even think about it.
We go to the wedding.
I'm in the the wedding, but I'mat the wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You're doing the wedding things.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, and at one point my purse was sitting on
the chair and it fell off theback of the chair and so some
ladies like your purse fell andshe picked it up and like my
phone had fallen out, like mylipstick, cool, whatever.
Again, totally fine, all right,cool, I don't ever need my
wallet while we're there.
It was an open bar and, likeyou don't, they don't really
card you out, right, so I didn'tneed it.
So, anyway, I'm so annoyedright now.
(02:44):
Okay, so anyway, I go home.
Fine, I wake up the nextmorning.
It's like I'm gonna have agreat productive day.
Wake up at 8am and I'm like,putting everything back together
out of the tote bag or whatever, can't find my wallet.
I'm like, damn, I can't find mywallet.
So I start panicking.
Aaron's at a looking througheverything on my bags, my old
per, whatever.
I'm like, well, I never reallyhad it at Walgreens, so maybe I
(03:05):
didn't break it, but I'm lookingeverywhere it should be, can't
find it.
Long story short.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I freeze all my cards .
Make an appointment for the DMVbecause I'm obviously doing
both of those two things is suchan annoying process.
It is way harder than it shouldbe.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, it's not.
I went into the app and froze,froze, froze.
It took me five minutes.
My mom's, like you, froze allthree cards.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I said I froze four oh god, I can never remember my
login, any of that kind of shit.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It takes me forever do you not log into your bank
accounts on a regular?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I do on my phone, but do you have pnc?
So the app locks a bunch ofshit out that you have to then
get on a desktop log into youronline banking to actually get
into like anything for control.
So dumb.
It's so annoying.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, anyway, that was the hard part.
But then I had to go make a DMVappointment and the only day I
have off is Friday.
We have an event on Fridaynight, so I'm like, okay, I'm
gonna have to be there at theass cracker dawn.
Then I'm looking at all theforms that you have to bring
with you if you've lost your IDand I don't know where my social
security card is.
I have not been able to find itin like five years, which is
really bad.
I should probably do somethingabout that, but I've never
(04:06):
really needed it.
And now I'm panicking.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do you want to know how you guarantee you can find
it?
Order a new one.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And then you'll yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Then you'll magically find it Right Without fail.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Long story short, I'm like panicking, but I'm trying
to scatter to get the rest ofthese documents because I'm like
Friday's going to come upquicker than I need it to be and
I need to get everythingorganized.
But I'm panicking all day.
It ruined my entire day.
I wasn't productive at all.
I didn't do one thing that Iwanted to, except for sit on the
couch and just like have ananxiety attack.
But I'm calling Aaron and thenlike hey, can you check the car?
And he's like I'm like, okay,it's fine, I get it.
And so he, when he could, hewent out there.
He's like I've lookedeverywhere, I don't see it.
Call the golf course.
They didn't answer, but I lefta message.
(04:47):
They finally called me back.
They're like we didn't find awallet.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There's no worse feeling.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Long story short.
Third time, hours and hours andhours and hours and hours.
Later have it and I'm like, I'malmost on tears.
I'm like, oh my God.
I walk out to the car, I openthe driver's side door, I lean
right on over to the passengerseat, where you buckle yourself
(05:13):
and there's my fucking wallet.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, that's why you don't ever ask a straight man to
find something.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I can't you do the same thing?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I would.
I would be lost without Julia,who always knows where my car
keys are.
Maybe it should be just man.
You never ask a man to findsomething.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So that was my treacherous anxiety attack that
spiraled me for hours on Sunday,making me not even be able to
do anything I wanted to do forno fucking reason.
At least you found it.
Oh, I'm so thankful it could beworse and I ordered a new
wallet, because the whole dumbpart about this is is that I
have a air tag and it fits intoa wallet yeah, a card thing but
(05:47):
my wallet is too thin and itwon't fit in it, so I have my
air tag in my fucking purse.
Well, clearly, that doesn'twork when the wallet gets lost
or stolen, so I had to order anew wallet that will fit the air
tag.
There we go, so that I neverhave to fucking go solutions in
place.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Look at you.
But now that you found yourwallet and I'm mostly saying
this here, so I remind ourselveswhen I go to edit this but you
and I have to order hotels forthe kentucky trip coming up.
Yep, we need to start planningthat.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I also think we should get a rental car a rental
car yeah, because I don't wantto put any more miles on my car
and you shouldn't put moreanymore in yours I don't even
put 10 000 on it a year.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
we my car.
Okay, I'm not paying for arental car.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Shit.
We could get a decent rentalcar.
Whatever, if you want to drive,that's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We're taking my car.
All you got to do is drive tome.
Okay, what else do we have?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, what do you have?
You've given us nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I literally just gave you the reminder in the.
I went to Pride this weekend.
I went kayaking.
Okay, been trying to be outsideand not die from allergies or
smoke inhalation, because thewhole Midwest is just covered in
California, not California,canada, wildfire smoke.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I feel like it's gotten better over here, not for
you.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Today was the first day.
It wasn't an advisory, so Ijust had the normal allergies on
my walk.
At least it's nice out, so I'mnot going to complain.
No, you cannot?
All right?
All right, let's get this dooropen, okay.
Shop whatever this is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Imagine standing in a place so far from civilization
that the closest humans arefloating 250 miles above you in
space.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh, that sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's not fiction, it's real and it's the beginning
.
That sounds amazing.
That's not fiction, it's realand it's the beginning.
Tonight, we're taking you tothe fringes of the map, places
where silent stretches for milesand strange stories echo in the
static.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'm going to just have like a cheat sheet up on
the side for all these places Iwant to go to get away from
humans.
This will be where I do my bedrotting for those of you who
watch the outtakes.
If you know, you know Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
All right.
So first a little knowledge forus and a question for Zachary.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh, I'm glad I didn't give you a shit about it.
I thought about it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What is a pole of inaccessibility?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I have literally never heard the phrase before,
but I'm going to say the North.
I've literally never heard thephrase before, but I'm going to
say the.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
North Pole, because I don't think you can get there.
So in geography, a pole ofinaccessibility is the most
remote point within a given area, typically the hardest place to
reach from any boundary like acoastline or edge of landmass.
It's defined by specificgeographical.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You sounded out the first one, so good, come on, you
can do it.
For anyone who can't see herface, the.
She had pride in her eyes whenshe got geographical on the
first try and then immediatelythe face turned to fear because
I even spell out my words.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Uh, what is it called when you um?
Phonetically phonetically, andI still cannot do it sometimes,
because then I overthink thephonetics that I put in there
and then I fuck it up.
So it's uh criterion, perfect.
So the geographical criterion,often meaning the point farthest
from any coast, making it theultimate spot of isolation, oh
(09:07):
my God, isolation.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
If you're new here, hey two for three, though you
did good.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So, for example, on land, it's the spot farthest
inland, unreachable without longoverland travel.
At sea, it's the point farthestfrom land, gotcha Okay, In
technical terms it's like thecenter of the largest possible
circle that fits within thatarea without touching any outer
edge.
Okay, but because coastlinescan like be fuzzy or change over
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time, you know, due to tides,erosion, all that kind of stuff,
poles of inaccessibility canalso shift or be imprecise.
Accessibility can also shift orbe imprecise.
That makes sense, okay.
So I was thinking about us awhile ago when we were talking
about how we wanted to just livein the mountains and be like
unbothered, isolated, liketotally left alone.
(09:58):
And then I remembered that I hadbeen.
I had heard about this placethat's very secluded, and then I
started thinking about allthese strange secluded places in
the world that are just likehow do they exist?
Well, do you know what I mean?
Because it's like wait.
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Right right.
It's just kind of unfathomablewhen we have everything that can
be delivered in like Exactly.
So I'm like how?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
are these places like this?
So I have seven of them.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Holy shit.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
All right, so the one that kind of got me down this
spiral is called Point Nemo.
Have you ever heard?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm going to say maybe, because it sounds
familiar.
Apparently there are liketic-tacs going around about this
.
I think I did see a tic-tacrecently.
That's not how I saw it, but Iheard somebody say that.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right, so this is called the spacecraft graveyard
.
Okay, isn't that wild when youthink about a spacecraft
graveyard.
So location is south pacificocean.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
No human lives within 1400 nautical miles in any
direction is there any landwithin it that you could even
live?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
no, no, but it's just crazy that.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It is unfathomable to think of, but I was just
wondering.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, so well, there might be.
Actually, I shouldn't even lieto you, there could be, yeah.
Like a little island, so that'sfurther than the International
Space Station is above EarthCrazy.
So you are closer to theInternational Space Station than
you are to Point Nemo.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That's like it gives you the same brain-breaking
effect when they're like youlive closer to Cleopatra than
Cleopatra did to the creation ofthe pyramid.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yes, that's why this is like mine.
It's just crazy.
So since the 90s it's been usedas a spacecraft cemetery Over
260 defunct, which is not newsatellites, including Russia's
Mir space station, isn't thatthey just jump?
Dump them there.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, yeah, because after a while they just sort of
like fall out of the sky whenthey stop maintaining them.
Well, right.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But also it's just like, ok, you could just drop
them here, because nobody isaround, it's not going to affect
anything, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Because we treat the entire planet like a garbage.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Can I know.
And if the deep isolationdoesn't creep you out, consider
this.
In 1997, noah, the nationaloceanic and atmospheric
administration, recorded amysterious sound, the infamous
bloop oh, I okay, and it almostdone an episode on that or the
(12:30):
hum.
The bloop isn't really that.
It's not that big to do a wholeepisode, but it was not that
far from Point Nemo.
No, so the deep blue is thedeep sea mystery.
What is it?
So?
Noah picked up an ultra lowfrequency sound from the deep,
sound from deep in the PacificOcean.
It was louder than any knownsea creature and it came from
(12:54):
nowhere near any tectonicactivity.
So the location was roughly 50degrees south, 100 degrees west,
like a remote stretch of oceanwest of the southern tip of
South Africa, and the sounddescription is a powerful,
gurgling, organic-sounding bloopthat could be heard over 5,000
(13:16):
kilometers away by underwatermicrophones.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Kraken burping Mystery solved.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So the theories of that are a massive undiscovered
sea creature.
So the Kraken Icequakes, whichare large icebergs cracking or
moving, and that's pretty muchwhat the current official
explanation is.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, I could see that making like a gurgling
sound.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, or something unnatural.
The kind of frequency used indeep sea communication so kind
of like aliens, is kind of whatthey're thinking Always.
So that is Point Nemo and themysterious loop.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I love that every unexplained thing on this planet
always has an alien conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And they probably all are aliens.
Okay, stop number two.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, hit me with it.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
In Artico's poll of inaccessibility.
Lenin's watchtower.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I have never heard of this one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So this isn't the South Pole.
It's colder, lonelier andnearly impossible to reach.
The point on the continentfurthest from the ocean Left
behind by Soviet explorers inthe 1950s is a bust of Vladimir
Lenin, who was a Russianrevolutionary politician and
political theorist, and he wasthe first head of government of
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the Soviet of Soviet Russia in1917 until his death in 1924.
So they just brought a bust ofhim and just put him there.
It's still there.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, I mean, dictators love nothing more than
busts, I know right.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There's no building left, just the frozen remains of
the mission and a silent statuefacing Moscow, as if waiting
for the orders.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Could you imagine if you were like, if there was like
a tribe of people out there orsomething and you've lived alone
.
The whole time and you juststumble across that.
Then all of a sudden he becomesyour new god.
I'd be really scared.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh yeah, that probably would be your new god.
In 1958, the Soviet Unionestablished a short-lived
research station at this remotespot during the third soviet
antarctic expedition.
The base perched in kempland atthe staggering evolution of
elevation there you go of 3 724meters, and it lies 878
(15:28):
kilometers from the South Poleand about 600 kilometers from
the I can't, oh, I didn'tSvatskia station.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And it's considered to have the coldest year around.
Average temperature on Earthnegative 58.2 Celsius, which is
negative 72.8 Fahrenheit.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Okay, so far we're two for two that I don't want to
move to.
One's too wet, one's too cold,okay, 72.2.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Celsius, which is negative 72.8 Fahrenheit.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Okay, so far we're two for two that I don't want to
move to One's too wet, one'stoo cold, okay, so number three
then.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, and this might be the Goldilocks, bouvet Island
, the Phantom Lifeboat.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, I'm intrigued Location.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
South Atlantic.
It's a peak of volcanic rockcovered in glaciers glaciers
owned by Norway.
Bouve Island is the most remoteisland in the world, 1,700
kilometers north of Antarctica,2,520 kilometers southwest of
South Africa, and it issurrounded by over 90% glacier
(16:25):
coverage.
Oh so it's cold again.
Yeah, top topped with anice-filled volcanic crater at
its center.
Despite being in the northatlantic circle, bouvet is, uh,
often mistaken for a part ofantarctica, but it sits around
the antarctic treaty system,making it a rare geopolitical
outlier which is also just wildto think of, like how many
(16:47):
places do you have ice on avolcano?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I know like I'm sure that probably happens more than
I know, but it also just doesn't.
Yeah, it takes my brain asecond.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I would say it doesn't make your brain feel
good no, no, warm and fuzzies inmy brain, uh in 1864, a british
research team found somethingchilling an abandoned lifeboat.
No people, no wreckage, noexplanation.
The boat was gone when theyreturned later and no one has
ever claimed it did theyobviously not the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was saying like did it say what ship it was from or
anything?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
that is kind of mysterious they have absolutely
no idea yikes and in such asecluded area that nobody is so
isolated.
How?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
did it get there?
Yeah, it had to have justfloated there Like over time.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So weird, though.
Okay, we are moving on tonumber four.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Looking for my perfect spot.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Tristan da Cunha.
The island time forgot, oh.
Location South Atlantic Ocean.
1700 miles from the nearestcontinent.
South Atlantic Ocean.
1,700 miles from the nearestcontinent.
Tristan da Cunha is oftencalled the most isolated
settlement on earth.
This rugged volcanic islandlies 2,400 kilometers from the
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nearest mainland, south Africa,and 3,360, oh my God, 3,360
kilometers from South Africa,3,360 kilometers from South
Africa, america, I mean, I justsaid South Africa.
This island is a volcanic peakrising from the ocean, with
steep forbidding cliffs and justone flat area.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Is there a Jimmy John's?
No, I don't know if this one'sit either.
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You have like one flat spot that you could just
chill on.
I mean, that like.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I obviously haven't seen it, but based on what you
just described, it sounds like aperfect place for a castle, for
boating cliffs and all volcanic, because it's literally coming
out of the water and it's justlike, yeah, it'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
OK, OK, I'm almost sold.
Yeah, OK.
So number five is the emptyquarter, which is Rubelkali.
Lost Cities.
Location Arabian Peninsula,also known as Atlantis of the
Sands.
This is the largest sand desertin the world 250,000 square
miles of burning silence.
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Legends claim that Rubelkalihides ancient civilizations
swallowed by the dunes Atlantisof the sands, they call it.
Most famous is the mythicalcity of Ubar, said to be a
wealthy desert trading hub ofthe frankincense route.
Cursed by a god and buried forits descendants were its
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descendants Described in theQuran as Iram of the pillars.
In the early 1990s, nasa'ssatellite image revealed
underground ruins and ancientcaravan routes in the region.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Okay, I think I have heard of this one.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, archaeologists believe they may have located
Ubar's remains near.
Entering the empty quarters isdangerous.
If the heat doesn't get you,the shifting sands might.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Okay, I have a question, though going backwards
for a minute what exactly doesburning silence mean?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Like the silence is so silent it's burning you.
I think it's just the hot sandit could be.
But you know like when it's sosilent it's just like everything
is, like you're so aware of itthat it's like fucked up I want
to try.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, total side note real quick.
Sorry, but those rooms that arelike so silent, apparently you
can hear your own blood movingand like people go crazy in
there that would be burningsilence I want to try it just to
see, because I know I wouldn'tlast long what are those called
um?
like deprivation chambersdeprivation but it's like, yeah,
they have this one room whereit's like there's so much
(20:29):
padding on it that like you canhear your blood pumping like
through your own body and likepeople do not last long in there
and I'm like I feel like Icould do an hour.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I mean, if you just go to jail and you can get put
in the, or is it prison?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
The drunk tank.
The padded cells, I think thoseare asylums boo-boo Padded
cells.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Asylum?
Oh no, I think you can be.
If you're that bad of an inmate, you get locked in like the
isolation.
I think you have padded cells.
We'll just put you in one ofthose.
It's like the same thing.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
As long as I can bounce around If they don't put
you upper legs.
Okay, okay, okay, sorry, backto it upper legs.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's being sick's favorite all right.
Number six north america's poleof inaccessibility forgotten
plains location.
Near kyle, south dakota, farfrom any ocean, in the middle of
the great plains lies a spotwith nothing but wind dry gap,
dry grass only when I visit youare farther from the sea here
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than anywhere else on thecontinent 1650 kilometers from
the nearest coast, which is gulfof mexico, pacific or Hudson
Bay, and 1,000 miles fromsaltwater in every direction.
The site sits in the ancestralterritory of the Ogalla Lakota
Nation and some Lakota elderssay spirits move through these
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plains, unsettled by the silence.
It's not marked, not monumented, just empty.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That I will believe with the little bits that I've
been through south dakota.
Oh yeah, also, when I was therethey took me to their like
biggest lake at least thebiggest lake in their area
because I work in south dakotafor those who don't know and
their big lake compared tomichigan, like even our inland
lakes have this thing beat.
Okay, like we would be like, oh, that's like a small, like I
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can just kayak around that andyeah, but that's like their big
lake yeah, you just have.
There's no water there, I don'tthink that's sad.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, no, okay.
So the atacama desert isearth's closest to mars like the
closest, like in makeup to mars.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes, okay, I'm thinking like, wait, is somebody
closer to earth's close?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
yeah, it's like yeah, so location chile.
Uh, nasa calls it the best marsanalog on earth.
Uh, the desert stretches over 1000000 kilometers.
Is that kilometers orkilometers?
Kilometers?
I've been saying kilometers,haven't I?
Um, I have.
Why would you not correct me?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Because you've been on a roll, you've been doing
really good with your words.
We'll let a couple slide.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Kilometers.
I kept saying it and I'm likethat's not, that doesn't sound
right.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I think it's like potato potato.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, I think it's kilometers, and it has to just
be that.
Whatever Doesn't matter, thankyou.
Along with the Pacific coast,uh, flanked by the Andes
mountains to the east and thecoastal range to the west, which
blocks nearly all moisture fromboth sides, so it's dry, uh.
Some weather stations, uh, here, have never recorded rainfall.
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Oh my god, mummified remainsfrom 7 000 years ago still lie
in the open untouched, uh, andsome say the desert never gave
up its ghosts, only buried themin salt and time which they're
probably all still there, like I.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I went down a rabbit hole on modern-ish mummies and
how like it can happen, in yourhouse people get mummified.
If they just die in their houseand they don't have enough like
humidity, like in like arizonaand stuff, people will just
start to mummify yeah, um.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So it's also known as like the home of mysteries.
So the Atacama humanoid, a sixinch long mummified skeleton
found in 2003, sparked wildclaims of alien origin.
Dna tests later identified itas a human fetus with rare
mutations.
But the debate still steers upsome conspiracies.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Like a full skeleton at six inches.
Yeah it's weird.
I just don't know how thatwould be.
That's an alien.
Yeah, I can't see that being afetus because, like you,
wouldn't at six inches.
This is.
I know very little aboutpregnancy, but I feel like you
wouldn't have a full blownskeleton.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, I don't know either, but somebody else can
tell us UFO sightings.
So the desert's crystal clearskies make it a hotspot for
alien-like observations andspeculation.
Geoglyphs, so giant ancientcarvings.
It is geoglyphs, right?
Yes, giant ancient carvings,like the Atacama Giants, which
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still puzzles archaeologists.
So what is it?
It's etched into the side ofthe Chilean Hill and it's a
giant, massive geoglyph, afigure created by rearranging
stones and earth to reveal alarge scale image, only fully
visible from above or afar.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I have seen a picture of this.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, and I think stuff like that is so cool
because when you're up closeyou're like, oh whatever, it
looks like rocks.
And then you're far away orabove, you're like, oh my God,
how did they even create thatand how did they know they got
it right?
That's what I don't understand.
It's crazy.
So the towering human humanoidfigure looms silently over the
desert, arms outstretched, headadorned with strange
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antenna-like protrusions.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Aliens, for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
All right, so we did all seven.
Now we're going to play a game.
Okay, inhabited or not.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So here's where you get to guess if these secluded
places are inhabited or not.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Okay, okay, what's the prize you win?
How many do I have to get rightLike a majority?
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
OK, so I need to know the rules before I play Point
Nemo.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
This is just in the middle of the water, so it's
uninhabited.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Inhabited?
No, so the recap is it's in themiddle of the Pacific Ocean,
completely uninhabitable, justwater in every direction for
over 1400 nautical miles.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I feel like Kara's making this not so much to see
if it's inhabited or uninhabited, it's to see how much I paid
attention and now I'm very gladI had.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I like it OK so the nearest humans, like we said,
usually astronauts aboard theInternational Space Station OK,
antarctica's pole ofinaccessibility.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I mean, it's literally called inaccessibility
.
But this is okay, give me one.
This was the stalin one, yes orno?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I'm not giving you nothing um no, not inhabited
correct.
So it's not inhabited, but notpermanently, so the recap is
extremely difficult to reach.
So no permanent um stations orresidents, but soviet explorers
once set upon temporary campthere so you kind of could live
there-ish if you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You could live there, but it's not inhabited.
So I'm still taking the point.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's fine, okay, bouvet Island.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
All right, this one I don't know.
It was close until I figuredout it was ice on a volcano.
If I'm correct, I'm going to gowith not inhabited you are
correct.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So it's uninhabited volcanic island owned by the,
nor by norway I'm doing good Iknow, covered in glaciers and,
uh, difficult to land on,sometimes visited by like
scientific expeditions, but nopermanent residence.
Okay, okay, all right, tristan,right, tristan da Cunha.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Ooh, this is my castle, fortress place right.
This is the spikes coming outand then the flat area I'm going
to go, inhabited.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So you are correct.
So the recap is around 260people live there.
Oh shit, it's the most remoteisland on the island, or?
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
The most remote island on the island.
It's the most remote inhabitedisland on the island or, um, oh
my god, the most remote islandon the island.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's the most remote inhabited island on earth, no
airport, only reachable by boatfrom south africa.
It's also so remote that localshave their own like last names
and dialect of english uh, youwon't hear anywhere else.
Okay, if the apocalypse happens, they are not going to know
about it.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
And that's a decent amount of people to help me
build a castle.
Yes, Okay, I'm thinking thatmight be the spot.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So the empty quarter Rubel Kali.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Hold on, do I even remember what this one was?
This wasn't where, like theUbar place, is hidden, right?
No, this is yes, okay, no, no,no I'm I'm gonna say because
this one sounded like like itwas in the quran and a couple
other things I'm gonna go withinhabited inhabited?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
mostly no, so there's no cities or towns inside the
core of the desert.
Some bedoan tribes travel theoutskirts of it seasonally, but
the interior is extremely harshand largely uninhabited I'm
still taking the point for thatone, because you said mostly no,
it wasn't just no.
Well, because it's just theoutskirts that they visit.
So, no, okay, north Americanpole of inaccessibility.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yes, inhabited, because somehow people do
actually live in the state ofSouth Dakota.
Sorry if any of my co-workersare listening, love you, but
also I don't know how do you doit.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So inhabited sparsely .
So, like you just said, it's inSouth Dakota.
This area has some small townsand farms, but it's incredibly
rural and sparsely populated, nolarge cities.
And then our last one is theAtacama Desert.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I just feel like I have to say inhibited, inhibited
, not inhibited, inhibited, notinhibited, inhabited.
And because, like I can'timagine that an entire desert in
South America has nobody livingin it, I'm going to go
inhabited.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
You would be correct, very sparsely.
So some towns and miningoutposts exist on the fringes of
San Pedro de Acatama.
The core areas, the driestparts, are uninhabited due to
that extreme, you know,lackliness of water.
First of all, I'm giving myselftwo points for each of those I
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am going to give yourself,because if I were you, I would
never remember any of that and Iwould have got everyone wrong.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I remember every single one of them, and I got it
all right.
So I need, I need a good prize.
No you're not getting one.
I need a prize.
Well, maybe one of ourlisteners will give you a prize?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
OK, listeners, give me a prize.
So these places obviously existon the same planet as the
cities that we know and theroads that we drive, but when
you stand in them, the earthfeels a little alien and if you
listen closely, maybe you'llhear something calling from
beyond the map.
I'm just being dramatic.
When aren't you?
Uh, so what location are youpicking to live at?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I think it's gotta be the um, and now I'm not gonna
be able to remember the name ofit, but it's my volcanic island
with the flat spot for thecastle and 260 people waiting to
start putting it up.
Rock Tristan de Cunha Rock.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Ooh, and I'll franchise a Jersey Mike's out
there, so I have something toeat.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So no, you can't do that, my brain just glitched.
No, you cannot get a JerseyMike's out there.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, I'm going to franchise it out there, I'm
going to build it.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh well, no, that just ruins it.
If you're going to be isolatedand alone, then you got to make
your own farm.
You got to make your, your,your alone.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
OK, but my farm is going to have everything that
would be on a submarine sandwich.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's fine, ok, perfect.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But I can live with that.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
All right.
So I'm glad you picked a place,but before we leave, as a PSA
for you and also everyone elsethat's listening, here are some
reasons why you don't actuallywant to live in a secluded area
in the form of Reddit stories.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Is not getting Jersey Mike's listed.
I bet it is.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What I will say is I could not find any Reddit
stories about any of theseparticular locations, except for
somebody did live on one of theislands, but there really was
no story about it other thanthey just lived on the island I
feel like, though, that kind ofhelps further prove your point
that they are isolated as fuckyeah they were asking about.
They were on one of like areddit forums asking about like
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a gaming thing because theycan't get internet, like a
certain internet, and theproviders don't come in for
until like every couple months.
It was wild like I was readingit and I was like, oh my god, I
don't know if I could, but theylike grew up on the island I
think it was where you want tomove actually so they do grow,
they grew up on it, so it's likeall they really know and they
like loved it.
But like they don't get majorthings like normal, like it's
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like all scheduled though.
Like if you're getting aninternet provider, it's like
it's like all scheduled though.
Like if you're getting anInternet provider, it's like
it's they're coming foreverybody.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, because they're not going to come back.
Often it's not like they'regoing door to door.
Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
OK, so anyway, these are just some Reddit stories
that I found about people livingin kind of secluded, isolated
areas, and they're creepy, soyou know.
I figure I'd end us off on whyyou don't want to be so secluded
, Zachary.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I wouldn't last a day .
I'll be honest.
Well, I could do I've done somesolo camping.
I would last two to three days,okay, max.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, you would.
I live in a remote Inuitcommunity of only 500.
It is Inuit, right, yes, inuit.
Okay, the only way to go is byplane.
In June, we had a member of ourcommunity who just lost control
and started to stab some familymembers at 8 am on a Saturday.
Imagine fearing for your lifebut not being able to escape
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since there is no road.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
How are you stabbing people on the morning of the
best day of the week?
Saturday is the only day whereI wake up and feel like thrilled
with life.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
The whole drama took away three lives, plus the life
of the killer, who was finallyshot by our police.
I was sure I was about to die.
There was blood everywhere andyou could hear the victims
screaming until they passed away.
Worst thing is, we had nodoctors in town and only four
nurses to help six victims.
We had to bring the victims tonursing on a four-wheeler and
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random cars, since we have noofficial ambulance.
The whole thing was a nightmare.
Yikes, could you imagine?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Not one doctor.
No, I feel like if you're goingto populate an uninhabited area
, the first thing you need to dois make a list of the top 10
professions you want there, anda doctor should be at the top of
that list, but you have to havemore than one doctor.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You can't just have one doctor, because what if the
doctor is the one that getsstabbed?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
it's better than zero doctor all right?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
well, I'm just telling you, don't live in a
secluded place with only 500people.
Make sure you have.
Who do you need?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
okay, we would need a doctor some jersey mics oh my
god uh, at least okay, a doctor,a sandwich maker, a, you can
make your own sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Professions.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You said we need an internet provider, an internet
network engineer okay, doctor,network engineer um sandwich
maker.
Uh, we're at three.
Um what else do you need?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
what professions do you think we would actually
really need?
Oh I I would need a um captainokay, and we also need, like a
mechanic, if we do have cars andwe need a builder.
What's a builder?
Um?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
a contractor?
Thank you, yeah, and like amechanic, honestly, just some
sort of like highly skilledengineer who could do a lot of
the a lot of things, yeah, yeah.
Um.
I think that might be all weneed A farmer a firefighter a
firefighter, a farmer a farmerthat could technically be the
sandwich maker.
We'll replace that.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Oh yeah, there you go .
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Um.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I think that's good.
A doctor, nurses, a firefighter, a contractor, or, like a
mechanic, a farmer, a mailperson what do we need fucking
mail for?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, if you don't have internet or phone or any of
those other things, like I'dwant to be able to communicate
with people off the islandsomehow.
Okay, next I grew up in themiddle.
Oh my god, we need some form ofentertainment.
Why can't you be theentertainment?
You just said what jobs do weneed?
I could be one of those jobs.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh, I was going to say what are you going to
freaking do?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Play video games and dance.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I grew up in the middle of the woods in Louisiana
.
Our closest neighbor was 20miles away.
Our house was on the hill andat the bottom of the creek.
They went through that, wentthrough the woods for miles and
miles.
My grandfather would alwaystell us there were people living
in the woods, crazy inbredfolks on some the hills have I
shit.
But I always assumed he wasjust trying to creep us out.
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So one night, when I was likeeight years old, I sat in the
living room watching PearlHarbor starring Ben Affleck hey,
I don't know why that's in here.
My father comes into the livingroom and tells me not to move,
that he heard footsteps and theback door slammed shut on his
way to the bathroom.
He thinks someone is in thehouse and that he scared them
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off when he walked down thehallway to the bathroom.
So he leaves the house, leavingme, leaving the front door wide
open, which scared the shit outof me.
I paused the movie and I justlistened to silence for a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And I thought the damn door.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I know, and of course the guy is still inside.
I'm staring out the doorway tothe living room and see the top
of a head peek around the corner, a head with a white sheet over
it, cut and tied at the neck.
Can you fucking imagine?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That's just giving the strangers.
Can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Is that the movie I'm trying to think of?
I think so.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Can you imagine, though, just like it's dark.
You look down the hallway andthat's what you fucking see in
your home.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Nope, I'm done.
Fight or flight is kicking in,and I hope to God it's flight,
because I ain't winning thatbattle.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, this person paralyzed, I'm paralyzed and
even if I wanted to run there's,there'd be nowhere to go but
towards this creepy ass dude.
He just stares at me for whatfeels like forever, but he
leaves towards the back of thehouse.
The back door slams again.
I just sit there and startcrying until my father comes
back.
My dad tells me that he hadrounded the corner to the back
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of the house.
He caught the guy leaving outthe back door.
The guy sees my dad and booksit down the hill.
Then there's a gunshot.
According to my father andgrandfather, my grandfather had
been sitting on the porch nextdoor and saw the guy walking
towards our house, so he grabbedhis gun, got back outside in
time to see the guy running downthe hill and shot the dude in
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the leg.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
That's hilarious actually.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
The guy fell.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Grandpa for the win.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I know, then got back up and, before my grandfather
could take another shot,disappeared into the woods.
By the time the cops showed uphe was gone.
They searched but couldn't findthe guy.
They did find a run-down sortof shack a mile or so into the
woods and it was filled withnothing but pots and pans.
So that was weird.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Are we sure this isn't one of those?
Um, oh, one of the Christmasdudes of lore, wasn't there?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
pot swiper oh, or something pot liquor?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
yes, how do you forget pot liquor I?
Because there's like 12 of them.
Yeah, that's so funny, potliquor do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
this is like a synchronicity, so I was
listening to believing thebizarre today and I don't.
I don't know why, why this?
Uh, they did a gnomes episode.
I was actually going to send itto your mom and I forgot.
Denise, I'll send it to you,but anyway, they started talking
about potlicker today andthey're like wouldn't it be
funny if potlicker literallyjust has, like Dawn, dish soap
and a scrub on its tongue?
And it's just like Dawn dishsoap in the pots and I was like
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that's so disgusting, that's sorandom, anyway.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
So that's a little bit of a different episode, but
I thought it was fun because itwas like weird, creepy, isolated
areas and a couple of weirdstories.
Back to the last story, though.
I totally believe that becauselast year when I went to West
Virginia and, like you know,every time I go somewhere I'm
like, oh, I'm moving here forsure, looking through like the
best places and worst places tolive they're talking about, like
in a lot of those hollows, likeyou don't go there because
there's some crazy inbred, justbackwater, like it's.
There's some wild shit thathappens in the south.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It's really freaky okay.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
So if I the biggest takeaway that I've learned from
this is that I need to findsomewhere isolated but also can
get door dash, yeah, and if yougo to the that island you can't,
but I don't know, I think.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
I think we could go to the island and be very happy
maybe we start with a up youwould just be so relaxed.
I mean, what we could do isjust go live on mackinac island
for a summer what?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
what was the weather like on this castle island?
Nice, okay, I could deal withnice as long as it's not
negative.
58 or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
The other one was no I mean it's a volcanic island.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Oh yeah, it's got to be great.
Oh, the rocks would be sick too.
Uh-huh, oh man OK.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, that's the one.
Yeah, no, for sure, that's theone.
I honestly figured you'd pickthat one.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Well, listeners, you have seven options.
We want to know which of themost crazy isolated places on
the planet you would choose tolive, or if you have stories
about being in isolated places,maybe not as isolated as this.
We want to hear about those.
So write those in.
But other than that, nice job,kara.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Thanks, I was trying to, you know, do something a
little bit different.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
It got me thinking and I won your game, so I'm even
more happy with this episode.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I'm very impressed.
I really am, because I wouldhave lost.
I really would have, because Ilistened to you.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
but like I can't comprehend shit enough, you
would have at least gotten acouple points, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
So I'm very proud of you for listening to everything
and knowing the details.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I'm sure.
So I'm very proud of you forlistening to everything and
knowing the details.
Thank you, thank you, and Iknow we mentioned earlier just a
brief bit about the behind thescenes or the outtakes clips.
If you want to see those, joinus on Patreon with a bunch of
other stuff that we have goingon over there all the time.
And what else do these lovelypeople need to do before we
close the shop up for the day?
Speaker 2 (42:05):
I think that's about it.
Other than, please give us somewrite-ins of your stories.
They don't have to be of yoursecluded weird stuff, just
anything Literally.
You could just email us aboutyour dog?
Speaker 1 (42:17):
We would read that on the air.
We do love dogs around here, sothat's that.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Thanks for listening, thanks for participating If
you're on social media and youuh comment all the things that
we ask, so thanks for that.
I appreciate you, uh, keepbeing you and keep doing you and
uh creep it real.
But the most importantimportant thing is, why did I
say creep it real?
I don't know the most importantthing that you could do for us
is to creep it.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Really, little oddballs goodbye, oddballs,
goodbye, bye.
Oh, at the Irish shop.
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Locked in the shadows At theIrish shop and home with the
oddballs At the Irish shop.
The door's always open At theIrish shop.
I want to dance with the mothman at the ID shop,
baked in the moonlight at the IDshop.
Creep through the graveyard tothe ID shop.
The door's always open at theOddity Shop.
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What's up, oddballs?
Welcome back to the Oddity Shop, the podcast where we tell you
creepy, odd, weird, strange,bizarre stories, bizarre.
I knew one of those words cameout wrong, but my brain wouldn't
(00:48):
let me know which one it was.
I'm like I'm gonna just keepgoing.
Bizarre stories from around theglobe.
I liked it.
Oh, this one over here wholikes it is our curator, kara hi
, kara, hello, and I'm yourother curatorary.
I said it like you do.
I don't like full naming myself.
I feel like I'm in trouble withmyself.
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How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Well, I'm tired, you're tired.
We already talked about that,but besides us being tired,
listen.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I've had four sips of caffeine.
I can already feel it pumpingthrough my veins.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm just gaslighting myself.
I'm good, though.
Otherwise, what's new in yourworld?
Oh, I'll tell you about.
I might've told you, but we'lltell all the listeners about my
Sunday anxiety attack thatruined my day.
Saturday I went to a weddinggreat wedding, had so much fun.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And you looked super cute doing it.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
On the way out the door to go to the wedding I had
grabbed a tote bag and I threwlike my purse, dumped my purse
out in there, put the purse thatI was bringing to the wedding
in there and a bunch of othercrap that I thought we might
need, you know, because it washot outside, I don't know that
you never need.
(01:59):
I know, but you know I like tobe prepared.
I throw it all in there,whatever.
I'm in the car, kind of likeputting my lipstick on my boobs.
So I was like, okay, so I getinto Walgreens and I don't have
my wallet, it's not my purse.
I'm like, oh, it's probably inthat tote bag, it's in that tote
bag in the cart, blah, blah,blah.
So I call Aaron, aaron runs in,he just pays, cool, whatever.
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I don't even think about it.
We go to the wedding.
I'm in the the wedding, but I'mat the wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You're doing the wedding things.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, and at one point my purse was sitting on
the chair and it fell off theback of the chair and so some
ladies like your purse fell andshe picked it up and like my
phone had fallen out, like mylipstick, cool, whatever.
Again, totally fine, all right,cool, I don't ever need my
wallet while we're there.
It was an open bar and, likeyou don't, they don't really
card you out, right, so I didn'tneed it.
So, anyway, I'm so annoyedright now.
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Okay, so anyway, I go home.
Fine, I wake up the nextmorning.
It's like I'm gonna have agreat productive day.
Wake up at 8am and I'm like,putting everything back together
out of the tote bag or whatever, can't find my wallet.
I'm like, damn, I can't find mywallet.
So I start panicking.
Aaron's at a looking througheverything on my bags, my old
per, whatever.
I'm like, well, I never reallyhad it at Walgreens, so maybe I
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didn't break it, but I'm lookingeverywhere it should be, can't
find it.
Long story short.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I freeze all my cards .
Make an appointment for the DMVbecause I'm obviously doing
both of those two things is suchan annoying process.
It is way harder than it shouldbe.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, it's not.
I went into the app and froze,froze, froze.
It took me five minutes.
My mom's, like you, froze allthree cards.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I said I froze four oh god, I can never remember my
login, any of that kind of shit.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It takes me forever do you not log into your bank
accounts on a regular?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I do on my phone, but do you have pnc?
So the app locks a bunch ofshit out that you have to then
get on a desktop log into youronline banking to actually get
into like anything for control.
So dumb.
It's so annoying.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, anyway, that was the hard part.
But then I had to go make a DMVappointment and the only day I
have off is Friday.
We have an event on Fridaynight, so I'm like, okay, I'm
gonna have to be there at theass cracker dawn.
Then I'm looking at all theforms that you have to bring
with you if you've lost your IDand I don't know where my social
security card is.
I have not been able to find itin like five years, which is
really bad.
I should probably do somethingabout that, but I've never
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really needed it.
And now I'm panicking.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do you want to know how you guarantee you can find
it?
Order a new one.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And then you'll yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Then you'll magically find it Right Without fail.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Long story short, I'm like panicking, but I'm trying
to scatter to get the rest ofthese documents because I'm like
Friday's going to come upquicker than I need it to be and
I need to get everythingorganized.
But I'm panicking all day.
It ruined my entire day.
I wasn't productive at all.
I didn't do one thing that Iwanted to, except for sit on the
couch and just like have ananxiety attack.
But I'm calling Aaron and thenlike hey, can you check the car?
And he's like I'm like, okay,it's fine, I get it.
And so he, when he could, hewent out there.
He's like I've lookedeverywhere, I don't see it.
Call the golf course.
They didn't answer, but I lefta message.
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They finally called me back.
They're like we didn't find awallet.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There's no worse feeling.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Long story short.
Third time, hours and hours andhours and hours and hours.
Later have it and I'm like, I'malmost on tears.
I'm like, oh my God.
I walk out to the car, I openthe driver's side door, I lean
right on over to the passengerseat, where you buckle yourself
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and there's my fucking wallet.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, that's why you don't ever ask a straight man to
find something.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I can't you do the same thing?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I would.
I would be lost without Julia,who always knows where my car
keys are.
Maybe it should be just man.
You never ask a man to findsomething.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So that was my treacherous anxiety attack that
spiraled me for hours on Sunday,making me not even be able to
do anything I wanted to do forno fucking reason.
At least you found it.
Oh, I'm so thankful it could beworse and I ordered a new
wallet, because the whole dumbpart about this is is that I
have a air tag and it fits intoa wallet yeah, a card thing but
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my wallet is too thin and itwon't fit in it, so I have my
air tag in my fucking purse.
Well, clearly, that doesn'twork when the wallet gets lost
or stolen, so I had to order anew wallet that will fit the air
tag.
There we go, so that I neverhave to fucking go solutions in
place.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Look at you.
But now that you found yourwallet and I'm mostly saying
this here, so I remind ourselveswhen I go to edit this but you
and I have to order hotels forthe kentucky trip coming up.
Yep, we need to start planningthat.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I also think we should get a rental car a rental
car yeah, because I don't wantto put any more miles on my car
and you shouldn't put moreanymore in yours I don't even
put 10 000 on it a year.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
we my car.
Okay, I'm not paying for arental car.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Shit.
We could get a decent rentalcar.
Whatever, if you want to drive,that's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We're taking my car.
All you got to do is drive tome.
Okay, what else do we have?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, what do you have?
You've given us nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I literally just gave you the reminder in the.
I went to Pride this weekend.
I went kayaking.
Okay, been trying to be outsideand not die from allergies or
smoke inhalation, because thewhole Midwest is just covered in
California, not California,canada, wildfire smoke.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I feel like it's gotten better over here, not for
you.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Today was the first day.
It wasn't an advisory, so Ijust had the normal allergies on
my walk.
At least it's nice out, so I'mnot going to complain.
No, you cannot?
All right?
All right, let's get this dooropen, okay.
Shop whatever this is.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Imagine standing in a place so far from civilization
that the closest humans arefloating 250 miles above you in
space.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh, that sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's not fiction, it's real and it's the beginning
.
That sounds amazing.
That's not fiction, it's realand it's the beginning.
Tonight, we're taking you tothe fringes of the map, places
where silent stretches for milesand strange stories echo in the
static.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'm going to just have like a cheat sheet up on
the side for all these places Iwant to go to get away from
humans.
This will be where I do my bedrotting for those of you who
watch the outtakes.
If you know, you know Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
All right.
So first a little knowledge forus and a question for Zachary.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh, I'm glad I didn't give you a shit about it.
I thought about it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What is a pole of inaccessibility?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I have literally never heard the phrase before,
but I'm going to say the North.
I've literally never heard thephrase before, but I'm going to
say the.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
North Pole, because I don't think you can get there.
So in geography, a pole ofinaccessibility is the most
remote point within a given area, typically the hardest place to
reach from any boundary like acoastline or edge of landmass.
It's defined by specificgeographical.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You sounded out the first one, so good, come on, you
can do it.
For anyone who can't see herface, the.
She had pride in her eyes whenshe got geographical on the
first try and then immediatelythe face turned to fear because
I even spell out my words.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Uh, what is it called when you um?
Phonetically phonetically, andI still cannot do it sometimes,
because then I overthink thephonetics that I put in there
and then I fuck it up.
So it's uh criterion, perfect.
So the geographical criterion,often meaning the point farthest
from any coast, making it theultimate spot of isolation, oh
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my God, isolation.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
If you're new here, hey two for three, though you
did good.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So, for example, on land, it's the spot farthest
inland, unreachable without longoverland travel.
At sea, it's the point farthestfrom land, gotcha Okay, In
technical terms it's like thecenter of the largest possible
circle that fits within thatarea without touching any outer
edge.
Okay, but because coastlinescan like be fuzzy or change over
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time, you know, due to tides,erosion, all that kind of stuff,
poles of inaccessibility canalso shift or be imprecise.
Accessibility can also shift orbe imprecise.
That makes sense, okay.
So I was thinking about us awhile ago when we were talking
about how we wanted to just livein the mountains and be like
unbothered, isolated, liketotally left alone.
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And then I remembered that I hadbeen.
I had heard about this placethat's very secluded, and then I
started thinking about allthese strange secluded places in
the world that are just likehow do they exist?
Well, do you know what I mean?
Because it's like wait.
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Right right.
It's just kind of unfathomablewhen we have everything that can
be delivered in like Exactly.
So I'm like how?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
are these places like this?
So I have seven of them.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Holy shit.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
All right, so the one that kind of got me down this
spiral is called Point Nemo.
Have you ever heard?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm going to say maybe, because it sounds
familiar.
Apparently there are liketic-tacs going around about this
.
I think I did see a tic-tacrecently.
That's not how I saw it, but Iheard somebody say that.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right, so this is called the spacecraft graveyard
.
Okay, isn't that wild when youthink about a spacecraft
graveyard.
So location is south pacificocean.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
No human lives within 1400 nautical miles in any
direction is there any landwithin it that you could even
live?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
no, no, but it's just crazy that.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It is unfathomable to think of, but I was just
wondering.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, so well, there might be.
Actually, I shouldn't even lieto you, there could be, yeah.
Like a little island, so that'sfurther than the International
Space Station is above EarthCrazy.
So you are closer to theInternational Space Station than
you are to Point Nemo.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That's like it gives you the same brain-breaking
effect when they're like youlive closer to Cleopatra than
Cleopatra did to the creation ofthe pyramid.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yes, that's why this is like mine.
It's just crazy.
So since the 90s it's been usedas a spacecraft cemetery Over
260 defunct, which is not newsatellites, including Russia's
Mir space station, isn't thatthey just jump?
Dump them there.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, yeah, because after a while they just sort of
like fall out of the sky whenthey stop maintaining them.
Well, right.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But also it's just like, ok, you could just drop
them here, because nobody isaround, it's not going to affect
anything, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Because we treat the entire planet like a garbage.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Can I know.
And if the deep isolationdoesn't creep you out, consider
this.
In 1997, noah, the nationaloceanic and atmospheric
administration, recorded amysterious sound, the infamous
bloop oh, I okay, and it almostdone an episode on that or the
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hum.
The bloop isn't really that.
It's not that big to do a wholeepisode, but it was not that
far from Point Nemo.
No, so the deep blue is thedeep sea mystery.
What is it?
So?
Noah picked up an ultra lowfrequency sound from the deep,
sound from deep in the PacificOcean.
It was louder than any knownsea creature and it came from
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nowhere near any tectonicactivity.
So the location was roughly 50degrees south, 100 degrees west,
like a remote stretch of oceanwest of the southern tip of
South Africa, and the sounddescription is a powerful,
gurgling, organic-sounding bloopthat could be heard over 5,000
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kilometers away by underwatermicrophones.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Kraken burping Mystery solved.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So the theories of that are a massive undiscovered
sea creature.
So the Kraken Icequakes, whichare large icebergs cracking or
moving, and that's pretty muchwhat the current official
explanation is.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, I could see that making like a gurgling
sound.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, or something unnatural.
The kind of frequency used indeep sea communication so kind
of like aliens, is kind of whatthey're thinking Always.
So that is Point Nemo and themysterious loop.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I love that every unexplained thing on this planet
always has an alien conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And they probably all are aliens.
Okay, stop number two.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, hit me with it.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
In Artico's poll of inaccessibility.
Lenin's watchtower.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I have never heard of this one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So this isn't the South Pole.
It's colder, lonelier andnearly impossible to reach.
The point on the continentfurthest from the ocean Left
behind by Soviet explorers inthe 1950s is a bust of Vladimir
Lenin, who was a Russianrevolutionary politician and
political theorist, and he wasthe first head of government of
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the Soviet of Soviet Russia in1917 until his death in 1924.
So they just brought a bust ofhim and just put him there.
It's still there.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, I mean, dictators love nothing more than
busts, I know right.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There's no building left, just the frozen remains of
the mission and a silent statuefacing Moscow, as if waiting
for the orders.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Could you imagine if you were like, if there was like
a tribe of people out there orsomething and you've lived alone
.
The whole time and you juststumble across that.
Then all of a sudden he becomesyour new god.
I'd be really scared.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh yeah, that probably would be your new god.
In 1958, the Soviet Unionestablished a short-lived
research station at this remotespot during the third soviet
antarctic expedition.
The base perched in kempland atthe staggering evolution of
elevation there you go of 3 724meters, and it lies 878
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kilometers from the South Poleand about 600 kilometers from
the I can't, oh, I didn'tSvatskia station.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And it's considered to have the coldest year around.
Average temperature on Earthnegative 58.2 Celsius, which is
negative 72.8 Fahrenheit.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Okay, so far we're two for two that I don't want to
move to.
One's too wet, one's too cold,okay, 72.2.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Celsius, which is negative 72.8 Fahrenheit.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Okay, so far we're two for two that I don't want to
move to One's too wet, one'stoo cold, okay, so number three
then.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, and this might be the Goldilocks, bouvet Island
, the Phantom Lifeboat.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, I'm intrigued Location.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
South Atlantic.
It's a peak of volcanic rockcovered in glaciers glaciers
owned by Norway.
Bouve Island is the most remoteisland in the world, 1,700
kilometers north of Antarctica,2,520 kilometers southwest of
South Africa, and it issurrounded by over 90% glacier
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coverage.
Oh so it's cold again.
Yeah, top topped with anice-filled volcanic crater at
its center.
Despite being in the northatlantic circle, bouvet is, uh,
often mistaken for a part ofantarctica, but it sits around
the antarctic treaty system,making it a rare geopolitical
outlier which is also just wildto think of, like how many
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places do you have ice on avolcano?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I know like I'm sure that probably happens more than
I know, but it also just doesn't.
Yeah, it takes my brain asecond.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I would say it doesn't make your brain feel
good no, no, warm and fuzzies inmy brain, uh in 1864, a british
research team found somethingchilling an abandoned lifeboat.
No people, no wreckage, noexplanation.
The boat was gone when theyreturned later and no one has
ever claimed it did theyobviously not the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was saying like did it say what ship it was from or
anything?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
that is kind of mysterious they have absolutely
no idea yikes and in such asecluded area that nobody is so
isolated.
How?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
did it get there?
Yeah, it had to have justfloated there Like over time.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So weird, though.
Okay, we are moving on tonumber four.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Looking for my perfect spot.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Tristan da Cunha.
The island time forgot, oh.
Location South Atlantic Ocean.
1700 miles from the nearestcontinent.
South Atlantic Ocean.
1,700 miles from the nearestcontinent.
Tristan da Cunha is oftencalled the most isolated
settlement on earth.
This rugged volcanic islandlies 2,400 kilometers from the
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nearest mainland, south Africa,and 3,360, oh my God, 3,360
kilometers from South Africa,3,360 kilometers from South
Africa, america, I mean, I justsaid South Africa.
This island is a volcanic peakrising from the ocean, with
steep forbidding cliffs and justone flat area.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Is there a Jimmy John's?
No, I don't know if this one'sit either.
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You have like one flat spot that you could just
chill on.
I mean, that like.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I obviously haven't seen it, but based on what you
just described, it sounds like aperfect place for a castle, for
boating cliffs and all volcanic, because it's literally coming
out of the water and it's justlike, yeah, it'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
OK, OK, I'm almost sold.
Yeah, OK.
So number five is the emptyquarter, which is Rubelkali.
Lost Cities.
Location Arabian Peninsula,also known as Atlantis of the
Sands.
This is the largest sand desertin the world 250,000 square
miles of burning silence.
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Legends claim that Rubelkalihides ancient civilizations
swallowed by the dunes Atlantisof the sands, they call it.
Most famous is the mythicalcity of Ubar, said to be a
wealthy desert trading hub ofthe frankincense route.
Cursed by a god and buried forits descendants were its
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descendants Described in theQuran as Iram of the pillars.
In the early 1990s, nasa'ssatellite image revealed
underground ruins and ancientcaravan routes in the region.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Okay, I think I have heard of this one.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, archaeologists believe they may have located
Ubar's remains near.
Entering the empty quarters isdangerous.
If the heat doesn't get you,the shifting sands might.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Okay, I have a question, though going backwards
for a minute what exactly doesburning silence mean?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Like the silence is so silent it's burning you.
I think it's just the hot sandit could be.
But you know like when it's sosilent it's just like everything
is, like you're so aware of itthat it's like fucked up I want
to try.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Okay, total side note real quick.
Sorry, but those rooms that arelike so silent, apparently you
can hear your own blood movingand like people go crazy in
there that would be burningsilence I want to try it just to
see, because I know I wouldn'tlast long what are those called
um?
like deprivation chambersdeprivation but it's like, yeah,
they have this one room whereit's like there's so much
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padding on it that like you canhear your blood pumping like
through your own body and likepeople do not last long in there
and I'm like I feel like Icould do an hour.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I mean, if you just go to jail and you can get put
in the, or is it prison?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
The drunk tank.
The padded cells, I think thoseare asylums boo-boo Padded
cells.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Asylum?
Oh no, I think you can be.
If you're that bad of an inmate, you get locked in like the
isolation.
I think you have padded cells.
We'll just put you in one ofthose.
It's like the same thing.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
As long as I can bounce around If they don't put
you upper legs.
Okay, okay, okay, sorry, backto it upper legs.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's being sick's favorite all right.
Number six north america's poleof inaccessibility forgotten
plains location.
Near kyle, south dakota, farfrom any ocean, in the middle of
the great plains lies a spotwith nothing but wind dry gap,
dry grass only when I visit youare farther from the sea here
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than anywhere else on thecontinent 1650 kilometers from
the nearest coast, which is gulfof mexico, pacific or Hudson
Bay, and 1,000 miles fromsaltwater in every direction.
The site sits in the ancestralterritory of the Ogalla Lakota
Nation and some Lakota elderssay spirits move through these
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plains, unsettled by the silence.
It's not marked, not monumented, just empty.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That I will believe with the little bits that I've
been through south dakota.
Oh yeah, also, when I was therethey took me to their like
biggest lake at least thebiggest lake in their area
because I work in south dakotafor those who don't know and
their big lake compared tomichigan, like even our inland
lakes have this thing beat.
Okay, like we would be like, oh, that's like a small, like I
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can just kayak around that andyeah, but that's like their big
lake yeah, you just have.
There's no water there, I don'tthink that's sad.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, no, okay.
So the atacama desert isearth's closest to mars like the
closest, like in makeup to mars.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes, okay, I'm thinking like, wait, is somebody
closer to earth's close?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
yeah, it's like yeah, so location chile.
Uh, nasa calls it the best marsanalog on earth.
Uh, the desert stretches over 1000000 kilometers.
Is that kilometers orkilometers?
Kilometers?
I've been saying kilometers,haven't I?
Um, I have.
Why would you not correct me?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Because you've been on a roll, you've been doing
really good with your words.
We'll let a couple slide.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Kilometers.
I kept saying it and I'm likethat's not, that doesn't sound
right.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I think it's like potato potato.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, I think it's kilometers, and it has to just
be that.
Whatever Doesn't matter, thankyou.
Along with the Pacific coast,uh, flanked by the Andes
mountains to the east and thecoastal range to the west, which
blocks nearly all moisture fromboth sides, so it's dry, uh.
Some weather stations, uh, here, have never recorded rainfall.
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Oh my god, mummified remainsfrom 7 000 years ago still lie
in the open untouched, uh, andsome say the desert never gave
up its ghosts, only buried themin salt and time which they're
probably all still there, like I.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I went down a rabbit hole on modern-ish mummies and
how like it can happen, in yourhouse people get mummified.
If they just die in their houseand they don't have enough like
humidity, like in like arizonaand stuff, people will just
start to mummify yeah, um.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So it's also known as like the home of mysteries.
So the Atacama humanoid, a sixinch long mummified skeleton
found in 2003, sparked wildclaims of alien origin.
Dna tests later identified itas a human fetus with rare
mutations.
But the debate still steers upsome conspiracies.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Like a full skeleton at six inches.
Yeah it's weird.
I just don't know how thatwould be.
That's an alien.
Yeah, I can't see that being afetus because, like you,
wouldn't at six inches.
This is.
I know very little aboutpregnancy, but I feel like you
wouldn't have a full blownskeleton.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, I don't know either, but somebody else can
tell us UFO sightings.
So the desert's crystal clearskies make it a hotspot for
alien-like observations andspeculation.
Geoglyphs, so giant ancientcarvings.
It is geoglyphs, right?
Yes, giant ancient carvings,like the Atacama Giants, which
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still puzzles archaeologists.
So what is it?
It's etched into the side ofthe Chilean Hill and it's a
giant, massive geoglyph, afigure created by rearranging
stones and earth to reveal alarge scale image, only fully
visible from above or afar.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I have seen a picture of this.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, and I think stuff like that is so cool
because when you're up closeyou're like, oh whatever, it
looks like rocks.
And then you're far away orabove, you're like, oh my God,
how did they even create thatand how did they know they got
it right?
That's what I don't understand.
It's crazy.
So the towering human humanoidfigure looms silently over the
desert, arms outstretched, headadorned with strange
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antenna-like protrusions.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Aliens, for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
All right, so we did all seven.
Now we're going to play a game.
Okay, inhabited or not.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So here's where you get to guess if these secluded
places are inhabited or not.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Okay, okay, what's the prize you win?
How many do I have to get rightLike a majority?
Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
OK, so I need to know the rules before I play Point
Nemo.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
This is just in the middle of the water, so it's
uninhabited.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Inhabited?
No, so the recap is it's in themiddle of the Pacific Ocean,
completely uninhabitable, justwater in every direction for
over 1400 nautical miles.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I feel like Kara's making this not so much to see
if it's inhabited or uninhabited, it's to see how much I paid
attention and now I'm very gladI had.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I like it OK so the nearest humans, like we said,
usually astronauts aboard theInternational Space Station OK,
antarctica's pole ofinaccessibility.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I mean, it's literally called inaccessibility
.
But this is okay, give me one.
This was the stalin one, yes orno?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I'm not giving you nothing um no, not inhabited
correct.
So it's not inhabited, but notpermanently, so the recap is
extremely difficult to reach.
So no permanent um stations orresidents, but soviet explorers
once set upon temporary campthere so you kind of could live
there-ish if you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You could live there, but it's not inhabited.
So I'm still taking the point.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's fine, okay, bouvet Island.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
All right, this one I don't know.
It was close until I figuredout it was ice on a volcano.
If I'm correct, I'm going to gowith not inhabited you are
correct.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So it's uninhabited volcanic island owned by the,
nor by norway I'm doing good Iknow, covered in glaciers and,
uh, difficult to land on,sometimes visited by like
scientific expeditions, but nopermanent residence.
Okay, okay, all right, tristan,right, tristan da Cunha.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Ooh, this is my castle, fortress place right.
This is the spikes coming outand then the flat area I'm going
to go, inhabited.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So you are correct.
So the recap is around 260people live there.
Oh shit, it's the most remoteisland on the island, or?
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
The most remote island on the island.
It's the most remote inhabitedisland on the island or, um, oh
my god, the most remote islandon the island.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's the most remote inhabited island on earth, no
airport, only reachable by boatfrom south africa.
It's also so remote that localshave their own like last names
and dialect of english uh, youwon't hear anywhere else.
Okay, if the apocalypse happens, they are not going to know
about it.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
And that's a decent amount of people to help me
build a castle.
Yes, Okay, I'm thinking thatmight be the spot.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So the empty quarter Rubel Kali.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Hold on, do I even remember what this one was?
This wasn't where, like theUbar place, is hidden, right?
No, this is yes, okay, no, no,no I'm I'm gonna say because
this one sounded like like itwas in the quran and a couple
other things I'm gonna go withinhabited inhabited?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
mostly no, so there's no cities or towns inside the
core of the desert.
Some bedoan tribes travel theoutskirts of it seasonally, but
the interior is extremely harshand largely uninhabited I'm
still taking the point for thatone, because you said mostly no,
it wasn't just no.
Well, because it's just theoutskirts that they visit.
So, no, okay, north Americanpole of inaccessibility.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yes, inhabited, because somehow people do
actually live in the state ofSouth Dakota.
Sorry if any of my co-workersare listening, love you, but
also I don't know how do you doit.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
So inhabited sparsely .
So, like you just said, it's inSouth Dakota.
This area has some small townsand farms, but it's incredibly
rural and sparsely populated, nolarge cities.
And then our last one is theAtacama Desert.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I just feel like I have to say inhibited, inhibited
, not inhibited, inhibited, notinhibited, inhabited.
And because, like I can'timagine that an entire desert in
South America has nobody livingin it, I'm going to go
inhabited.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
You would be correct, very sparsely.
So some towns and miningoutposts exist on the fringes of
San Pedro de Acatama.
The core areas, the driestparts, are uninhabited due to
that extreme, you know,lackliness of water.
First of all, I'm giving myselftwo points for each of those I
(30:30):
am going to give yourself,because if I were you, I would
never remember any of that and Iwould have got everyone wrong.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I remember every single one of them, and I got it
all right.
So I need, I need a good prize.
No you're not getting one.
I need a prize.
Well, maybe one of ourlisteners will give you a prize?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
OK, listeners, give me a prize.
So these places obviously existon the same planet as the
cities that we know and theroads that we drive, but when
you stand in them, the earthfeels a little alien and if you
listen closely, maybe you'llhear something calling from
beyond the map.
I'm just being dramatic.
When aren't you?
Uh, so what location are youpicking to live at?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I think it's gotta be the um, and now I'm not gonna
be able to remember the name ofit, but it's my volcanic island
with the flat spot for thecastle and 260 people waiting to
start putting it up.
Rock Tristan de Cunha Rock.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Ooh, and I'll franchise a Jersey Mike's out
there, so I have something toeat.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So no, you can't do that, my brain just glitched.
No, you cannot get a JerseyMike's out there.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, I'm going to franchise it out there, I'm
going to build it.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Oh well, no, that just ruins it.
If you're going to be isolatedand alone, then you got to make
your own farm.
You got to make your, your,your alone.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
OK, but my farm is going to have everything that
would be on a submarine sandwich.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's fine, ok, perfect.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But I can live with that.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
All right.
So I'm glad you picked a place,but before we leave, as a PSA
for you and also everyone elsethat's listening, here are some
reasons why you don't actuallywant to live in a secluded area
in the form of Reddit stories.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Is not getting Jersey Mike's listed.
I bet it is.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What I will say is I could not find any Reddit
stories about any of theseparticular locations, except for
somebody did live on one of theislands, but there really was
no story about it other thanthey just lived on the island I
feel like, though, that kind ofhelps further prove your point
that they are isolated as fuckyeah they were asking about.
They were on one of like areddit forums asking about like
(32:34):
a gaming thing because theycan't get internet, like a
certain internet, and theproviders don't come in for
until like every couple months.
It was wild like I was readingit and I was like, oh my god, I
don't know if I could, but theylike grew up on the island I
think it was where you want tomove actually so they do grow,
they grew up on it, so it's likeall they really know and they
like loved it.
But like they don't get majorthings like normal, like it's
(32:54):
like all scheduled though.
Like if you're getting aninternet provider, it's like
it's like all scheduled though.
Like if you're getting anInternet provider, it's like
it's they're coming foreverybody.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, because they're not going to come back.
Often it's not like they'regoing door to door.
Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
OK, so anyway, these are just some Reddit stories
that I found about people livingin kind of secluded, isolated
areas, and they're creepy, soyou know.
I figure I'd end us off on whyyou don't want to be so secluded
, Zachary.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I wouldn't last a day .
I'll be honest.
Well, I could do I've done somesolo camping.
I would last two to three days,okay, max.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, you would.
I live in a remote Inuitcommunity of only 500.
It is Inuit, right, yes, inuit.
Okay, the only way to go is byplane.
In June, we had a member of ourcommunity who just lost control
and started to stab some familymembers at 8 am on a Saturday.
Imagine fearing for your lifebut not being able to escape
(33:49):
since there is no road.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
How are you stabbing people on the morning of the
best day of the week?
Saturday is the only day whereI wake up and feel like thrilled
with life.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
The whole drama took away three lives, plus the life
of the killer, who was finallyshot by our police.
I was sure I was about to die.
There was blood everywhere andyou could hear the victims
screaming until they passed away.
Worst thing is, we had nodoctors in town and only four
nurses to help six victims.
We had to bring the victims tonursing on a four-wheeler and
(34:24):
random cars, since we have noofficial ambulance.
The whole thing was a nightmare.
Yikes, could you imagine?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Not one doctor.
No, I feel like if you're goingto populate an uninhabited area
, the first thing you need to dois make a list of the top 10
professions you want there, anda doctor should be at the top of
that list, but you have to havemore than one doctor.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You can't just have one doctor, because what if the
doctor is the one that getsstabbed?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
it's better than zero doctor all right?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
well, I'm just telling you, don't live in a
secluded place with only 500people.
Make sure you have.
Who do you need?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
okay, we would need a doctor some jersey mics oh my
god uh, at least okay, a doctor,a sandwich maker, a, you can
make your own sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Professions.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You said we need an internet provider, an internet
network engineer okay, doctor,network engineer um sandwich
maker.
Uh, we're at three.
Um what else do you need?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
what professions do you think we would actually
really need?
Oh I I would need a um captainokay, and we also need, like a
mechanic, if we do have cars andwe need a builder.
What's a builder?
Um?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
a contractor?
Thank you, yeah, and like amechanic, honestly, just some
sort of like highly skilledengineer who could do a lot of
the a lot of things, yeah, yeah.
Um.
I think that might be all weneed A farmer a firefighter a
firefighter, a farmer a farmerthat could technically be the
sandwich maker.
We'll replace that.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Oh yeah, there you go .
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Um.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I think that's good.
A doctor, nurses, a firefighter, a contractor, or, like a
mechanic, a farmer, a mailperson what do we need fucking
mail for?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, if you don't have internet or phone or any of
those other things, like I'dwant to be able to communicate
with people off the islandsomehow.
Okay, next I grew up in themiddle.
Oh my god, we need some form ofentertainment.
Why can't you be theentertainment?
You just said what jobs do weneed?
I could be one of those jobs.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh, I was going to say what are you going to
freaking do?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Play video games and dance.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I grew up in the middle of the woods in Louisiana
.
Our closest neighbor was 20miles away.
Our house was on the hill andat the bottom of the creek.
They went through that, wentthrough the woods for miles and
miles.
My grandfather would alwaystell us there were people living
in the woods, crazy inbredfolks on some the hills have I
shit.
But I always assumed he wasjust trying to creep us out.
(36:45):
So one night, when I was likeeight years old, I sat in the
living room watching PearlHarbor starring Ben Affleck hey,
I don't know why that's in here.
My father comes into the livingroom and tells me not to move,
that he heard footsteps and theback door slammed shut on his
way to the bathroom.
He thinks someone is in thehouse and that he scared them
(37:06):
off when he walked down thehallway to the bathroom.
So he leaves the house, leavingme, leaving the front door wide
open, which scared the shit outof me.
I paused the movie and I justlistened to silence for a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And I thought the damn door.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I know, and of course the guy is still inside.
I'm staring out the doorway tothe living room and see the top
of a head peek around the corner, a head with a white sheet over
it, cut and tied at the neck.
Can you fucking imagine?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That's just giving the strangers.
Can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Is that the movie I'm trying to think of?
I think so.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Can you imagine, though, just like it's dark.
You look down the hallway andthat's what you fucking see in
your home.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Nope, I'm done.
Fight or flight is kicking in,and I hope to God it's flight,
because I ain't winning thatbattle.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, this person paralyzed, I'm paralyzed and
even if I wanted to run there's,there'd be nowhere to go but
towards this creepy ass dude.
He just stares at me for whatfeels like forever, but he
leaves towards the back of thehouse.
The back door slams again.
I just sit there and startcrying until my father comes
back.
My dad tells me that he hadrounded the corner to the back
(38:15):
of the house.
He caught the guy leaving outthe back door.
The guy sees my dad and booksit down the hill.
Then there's a gunshot.
According to my father andgrandfather, my grandfather had
been sitting on the porch nextdoor and saw the guy walking
towards our house, so he grabbedhis gun, got back outside in
time to see the guy running downthe hill and shot the dude in
(38:35):
the leg.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
That's hilarious actually.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
The guy fell.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Grandpa for the win.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I know, then got back up and, before my grandfather
could take another shot,disappeared into the woods.
By the time the cops showed uphe was gone.
They searched but couldn't findthe guy.
They did find a run-down sortof shack a mile or so into the
woods and it was filled withnothing but pots and pans.
So that was weird.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Are we sure this isn't one of those?
Um, oh, one of the Christmasdudes of lore, wasn't there?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
pot swiper oh, or something pot liquor?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
yes, how do you forget pot liquor I?
Because there's like 12 of them.
Yeah, that's so funny, potliquor do you want to know?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
this is like a synchronicity, so I was
listening to believing thebizarre today and I don't.
I don't know why, why this?
Uh, they did a gnomes episode.
I was actually going to send itto your mom and I forgot.
Denise, I'll send it to you,but anyway, they started talking
about potlicker today andthey're like wouldn't it be
funny if potlicker literallyjust has, like Dawn, dish soap
and a scrub on its tongue?
And it's just like Dawn dishsoap in the pots and I was like
(39:39):
that's so disgusting, that's sorandom, anyway.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
So that's a little bit of a different episode, but
I thought it was fun because itwas like weird, creepy, isolated
areas and a couple of weirdstories.
Back to the last story, though.
I totally believe that becauselast year when I went to West
Virginia and, like you know,every time I go somewhere I'm
like, oh, I'm moving here forsure, looking through like the
best places and worst places tolive they're talking about, like
in a lot of those hollows, likeyou don't go there because
there's some crazy inbred, justbackwater, like it's.
There's some wild shit thathappens in the south.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It's really freaky okay.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
So if I the biggest takeaway that I've learned from
this is that I need to findsomewhere isolated but also can
get door dash, yeah, and if yougo to the that island you can't,
but I don't know, I think.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
I think we could go to the island and be very happy
maybe we start with a up youwould just be so relaxed.
I mean, what we could do isjust go live on mackinac island
for a summer what?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
what was the weather like on this castle island?
Nice, okay, I could deal withnice as long as it's not
negative.
58 or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
The other one was no I mean it's a volcanic island.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Oh yeah, it's got to be great.
Oh, the rocks would be sick too.
Uh-huh, oh man OK.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, that's the one.
Yeah, no, for sure, that's theone.
I honestly figured you'd pickthat one.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Well, listeners, you have seven options.
We want to know which of themost crazy isolated places on
the planet you would choose tolive, or if you have stories
about being in isolated places,maybe not as isolated as this.
We want to hear about those.
So write those in.
But other than that, nice job,kara.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Thanks, I was trying to, you know, do something a
little bit different.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
It got me thinking and I won your game, so I'm even
more happy with this episode.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I'm very impressed.
I really am, because I wouldhave lost.
I really would have, because Ilistened to you.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
but like I can't comprehend shit enough, you
would have at least gotten acouple points, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
So I'm very proud of you for listening to everything
and knowing the details.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I'm sure.
So I'm very proud of you forlistening to everything and
knowing the details.
Thank you, thank you, and Iknow we mentioned earlier just a
brief bit about the behind thescenes or the outtakes clips.
If you want to see those, joinus on Patreon with a bunch of
other stuff that we have goingon over there all the time.
And what else do these lovelypeople need to do before we
close the shop up for the day?
Speaker 2 (42:05):
I think that's about it.
Other than, please give us somewrite-ins of your stories.
They don't have to be of yoursecluded weird stuff, just
anything Literally.
You could just email us aboutyour dog?
Speaker 1 (42:17):
We would read that on the air.
We do love dogs around here, sothat's that.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Thanks for listening, thanks for participating If
you're on social media and youuh comment all the things that
we ask, so thanks for that.
I appreciate you, uh, keepbeing you and keep doing you and
uh creep it real.
But the most importantimportant thing is, why did I
say creep it real?
I don't know the most importantthing that you could do for us
is to creep it.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Really, little oddballs goodbye, oddballs,
goodbye, bye.
Oh, at the Irish shop.
(43:05):
Locked in the shadows At theIrish shop and home with the
oddballs At the Irish shop.
The door's always open At theIrish shop.
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