This is 99% Invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

So there was this moment in my life when I needed to interview the rapper Buster Rhymes for the

radio. And this is Friend of the Show, Sean Cole. And so I tried calling his people, which

got me pretty much nowhere. So I've been tried googling Buster Rhymes and Boston, which is where I was

living at the time because I figured he maybe is coming on tour and I could ambush him backstage

or something. And one of the first results I got was a map, like on Google Maps, of a little pond

in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, which is this little town outside of Boston. And in the pond was

this teeny speck of land labeled Buster Rhymes Island. What?

Needless to say, I was a little confused.

I mean, yeah, I've been to say like Shrewsbury is like the least likely, I mean, first of all,

for there to be a Buster Rhymes Island anywhere is pretty unlikely. But Shrewsbury is like this

bedroom community for Worcester. It's not even, it's like the most exciting thing to do there on

a Saturday night is go to Chile's after like shopping at lumber liquidators. And I was like,

is this for real? And then underneath the link for the map was another link to this short little

kind of blurb in the Boston globe with the headline Buster Rhymes Island is for real.

And they interviewed, what did they interview Buster Rhymes?

They interviewed this guy named Kevin O'Brien who lives in a house overlooking the pond.

It's Millpond is the name of it. And who this is still true lists his phone number as the number

to call if you want to contact the island. So he's the guy who named the island. He's the one

named the island. And this is a quote from the Boston Globe piece, this guy Kevin says,

it's a very small little island with rope swinging blueberries and stuff Buster would enjoy.

It's adorable.

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