Encore: Ghost Town

Endless Thread

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4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 2018, Brent Underwood got a text in the middle of the night from a friend saying, "Look at this ghost town for sale!" Within a month, Brent had purchased Cerro Gordo, California, an abandoned silver mining town, with the help of friends and investors. He wants to revive the town for visitors while preserving its history. He's already faced some major setbacks -- from the lack of running water, to getting snowed in there during a global pandemic. But he calls Cerro Gordo his "life's work."

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season three.
0:15.2	Out now.
0:16.2	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:20.1	What up, Threadheads!
0:21.1	It's the end of summer.
0:22.6	Ben's away being an important podcast man at a conference.
0:26.4	When I'm here in my little home studio reminiscing about an episode that we made back in 2020,
0:31.6	that I think about a lot because the story at the center of this is ongoing.
0:37.5	And at the time, the whole thing felt very 2020, but while a lot of us have returned to some
0:43.4	semblance of semi-normalcy, the man in this story is still kind of isolating.
0:50.5	Not intentionally, per se, but keep listening and you'll see what I mean.
0:54.8	And keep listening after you keep listening because we have an update for you at the very
0:59.3	end.
1:00.3	Okay, here's the show.
1:03.4	WBWR Podcasts, Boston.
1:13.2	In many ways, Brent Underwood is like all of us right now.
1:17.0	Just a person, stuck at home, and a pandemic.
1:20.4	Trying to get his home internet to work.
1:22.5	God damn it.
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