25 | Final Boarding Call

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After months of investigating the disappearance of Joseph Balderas in Nome, Alaska, Payne Lindsey presents a comprehensive examination of everything that doesn't add up.

In this penultimate episode, we systematically lay out the contradictions, every inconsistency, every conflicting account, every gap in the timeline of Joseph's last known hours. The evidence speaks for itself, and what it says demands answers.

This is Part 1 of the Season 4 finale. The investigation has led us somewhere unexpected, and what comes next changes everything.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Tenderfoot TV podcast.
0:08.3	Up and vanished in the Midnight Sun is released every Thursday and brought to you absolutely free.
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0:25.9	Up and vanished in the Midnight Sun is intended for mature audiences and may include topics
0:31.2	that can be upsetting, such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, rape and murder.
0:36.5	The names of survivors have been changed for anonymity purposes.
0:39.8	Testimony shared by guests of the show is their own
0:42.0	and does not reflect the views of Tenderfoot TV or Odyssey.
0:45.5	Thank you so much for listening.
0:50.8	When Joseph Balduris disappeared in Nome, Alaska,
0:54.1	it didn't feel like a mystery.
0:56.4	It felt like a shock.
0:59.4	Welcome to Alaska.
1:01.6	This is it.
1:03.2	This is my little piece of home here.
1:06.8	That's open ocean out there.
1:09.6	You can certainly feel the magnitude of the ocean when you're on this.
1:15.4	You don't really want to fuck around out there.
1:18.2	It gives me the heby-jeebies just being there here.
1:21.4	Joseph was 36.
1:23.9	He had a career.
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