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Mon. 12/7 - What It's Like Finding Buried Treasure in 2020

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The finder of Forrest Fenn’s treasure chest has been revealed. Also, what does one do with actual buried treasure in the twenty-first century? A special delivery for the astronauts on board the International Space Station. How you can help save bumblebees. And the latest sport to be added to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games lineup. Sponsors: StoryWorth, Get $10 off your first purchase at StoryWorth.com/ridehome Fundrise, Get your first 90 days of advisory fees waived at fundrise.com/kottke Links: The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure (Outside) NASA and SpaceX Launch a New Airlock and a Christmas Feast to the ISS (Gizmodo) How You Can Help Count and Conserve Native Bees (NY Times) US National Native Bee Monitoring Network Break-dancing gets Olympic status to debut at Paris Games in 2024 (ESPN) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cocky ride home for Monday, December 7th, 2020.

0:40.3

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:41.3

The finder of Forest Fenn's treasure chest has been revealed.

0:46.3

Also, what does one do with actual buried treasure in the 21st century?

0:51.3

A special delivery for the astronauts on board the International Space Station,

0:57.1

how you can help save the bumblebees,

1:00.5

and the latest sport to be added to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games lineup.

1:07.6

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:13.2

So in an episode over the summer, I talked about the Fen Treasure, which had finally

1:18.1

been found by an anonymous treasure hunter in June. And after being adamant that he never

1:23.1

wanted to reveal his identity, the finder of the treasure chest has just gone public, blowing

1:28.7

the lid on most of his secrets in an article written by a fellow treasure hunter in Outside.

1:34.9

A quick recap, though. Forrest Fenn was an Air Force pilot who later opened an art gallery

1:39.7

in Santa Fe, New Mexico, one filled with plenty of forgeries, as art, as try to dupe people,

1:46.3

unclear. In 1988, he received a terminal cancer diagnosis and decided to hide a treasure chest

1:53.2

in some outdoor location for people to find. But then he recovered from the cancer. Still,

1:59.2

he didn't want to give up on his treasure hunt idea,

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