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This is Love

How to Be Alone

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

More than 40 years ago, a man moved to an abandoned mining town to be alone. He says that there are days in the winter "when it's so quiet that the noisiest thing is the snow hitting your jacket." Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Well, I just passed through Gothic.

0:38.0

Nothing was there.

0:44.0

And now I'm headed up, but I don't know what this road is.

0:49.0

This is barely a road.

1:02.1

I don't. He said just look for the weather equipment on the left. I don't see much of anything.

1:03.0

I found it. There he is. Oh man he's waiting for me.

1:17.0

Hi I'm Phoebe.

1:20.0

Hi Billy.

1:21.0

Hi Billy, how are you? Because you can park right there in you? This is Billy Barr. I met him at his home near the

1:28.0

abandoned mining town of Gothic Colorado. The trip to get there hadn't been short. A flight from North Carolina to

1:36.1

Denver, then a flight from Denver to Gunnison, Colorado on a tiny plane. A half hour drive to Crested Butte, Colorado,

1:45.0

and then a long drive up a dirt road to meet him.

1:49.0

This is all by design.

1:51.0

Billy Barr wants to be alone. He's wanted it that way since 1972.

1:57.0

This is where I lived when I first got out here. had a tent, right in here, I would sit out here and cook food and read and stuff like that.

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