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🗓️ 2 September 2021
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0:00.0 | I'm great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good during the summer. Yeah, so what's what do you what do you have today? |
0:12.5 | So I got a voicemail a few weeks ago and this one intrigued me because this is from a 16 year old who |
0:21.4 | mentioned about a middle school project that he worked on and back then he was 14 years old and it's |
0:27.3 | really Atlas Obscura-ish. He talks about urban exploration which you have reported on, right? Yeah, |
0:35.2 | this is very intriguing because my middle school projects were like an experiment to see the most |
0:39.5 | efficient way to catch up out of a catch up bottle. This sounds like a much cooler middle school |
0:45.6 | project. Well, this is Milo and he's from Lawrence, Kansas. So I heard from a friend that their |
0:53.7 | friend and their dad's friend had found a some sort of sister, a brick sister and under their |
1:02.2 | house while remodeling their basement or something and they had no idea what it was. And so I thought |
1:08.8 | like any other middle schooler was like, man, undiscovered underground places. That's kind of tight. |
1:15.1 | So I spent the next couple months digging through newspaper archives like KansasMemory.org |
1:22.6 | looking through library collections and asking around, looking for mentions of like ditches, caves, |
1:29.6 | drainage tunnels and I found quite a bit all these locations that I discovered, you know, |
1:35.8 | that I got to discern a history behind them and find out why they were made and that sort of |
1:41.9 | stuff. So yep, I'm Milo Bitterth from Lawrence, Kansas. And yeah, that's just a little interesting |
1:50.8 | thing that my mom told me to let you guys know about. Thanks. |
1:59.2 | That's that is awesome. That is an amazing research project. That's really cool. I'm curious |
2:05.1 | to know more about what what Milo found out about, you know, the history of of this sister or |
2:11.3 | or the other stuff underground. Yeah. And I got in contact with him and we have him on call. Hello. |
2:19.6 | Hello. Milo. Hello. How are you? I'm great, Dylan. How are you? I'm good. What an amazing |
2:27.3 | project. What a cool thing to do. Yeah. Tell me about it. Well, I mean, I was just sitting in one |
2:32.8 | of my classes and my friend, you know, he told me about what his friends, his friend's dad had |
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