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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

A (Quick) 4th of July Greeting from the Largest Pothole in the World

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Host Dylan Thuras convinces his family to stop at this most unusual attraction in Pennsylvania Read More in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/archbald-pothole

Transcript

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0:00.0

Alright. Say hello everybody. Hello. Hello. Hi everybody. Just a quick message. I

0:14.8

wanted to say happy 4th of July. I know it's the 5th of July today but maybe

0:19.7

you're taking time off of work today. Maybe you're going on a trip. I am

0:24.3

actually driving across Pennsylvania right now. Family is in the car. We are

0:30.5

headed all the way out to Minnesota. Does anyone anything you want to say to

0:34.7

people on the radio? I'm looking at a new book I got that you can make robots

0:39.5

out of it. Evil robots and good robots. Anyway this episode obviously not a full

0:44.3

length episode. Just a message for me to everyone of you out there. I hope you're

0:50.1

having a nice holiday. Maybe you're taking a little trip if so. Have a great

0:54.6

time. We're going to be back the rest of the week with regular episodes. But for

0:59.4

now we are on the road. So I'll see you soon. Bye.

1:20.1

Okay we're at a gas station right now. I'm about to try and convince Michelle that

1:28.3

we should go to the Archibald Pothole State Park. It is just a big hole on the

1:34.4

ground but we're very we're very close to it. We'll see how it goes. There she

1:39.5

comes. So I've added a little stop. We're very close. It's called Archibald Pothole

1:47.5

State Park. We're like 10 minutes away from it. It doesn't. Yeah it doesn't take

1:52.6

us hardly any time. It's the biggest natural occurring pothole. It's just like a big

1:59.1

it's a big hole. It's like we'll park the car. We'll get out. We'll walk. We'll look.

2:02.4

Come back. What do you think? Well you're recording me. So if I respond in the

2:07.7

negative I'm going to seem like a real kill joy. So let's go to the hole. Yes. Yes. Oh I haven't

2:16.1

got my seatbelt on. It really does not look like this is where any kind of

2:27.2

state park is. Is it? Oh here it is. Archibald Pothole State Park. We're going to

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