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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Road Trip Week: Where to Go

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It’s Road Trip Week! Dylan hops in a (virtual) car and embarks on a Great American Road Trip. Along the way, Atlas Obscura staffers recommend their favorite road trip stops – from a strange doll hospital, to a massive sculpture only visible during certain times of year, to a magical desert oasis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Dylan here. I want to tell you a road trip story.

0:07.0

A few years ago I was on this big road trip with my wife Michelle, our two-year-old, and Michelle was like seven months

0:16.2

pregnant with our daughter. We stopped at lots of weird places, but one place we stopped was a place

0:21.3

called Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia.

0:25.0

So, Babyland General Hospital is a place where, well,

0:31.0

it is where cabbage patch kids are born.

0:35.0

There's also like people in surgical scrubs

0:38.5

and these weird fake IVs set up,

0:41.5

all set up next to this field of cabbages that have little baby heads poking out of each cabbage.

0:48.0

This area is called the magic birthing tree.

0:51.0

And in some point, someone inrubs will call out a doctor's name and they will announce that we have a code green. Mother cabbage is now six centimeters dilated.

1:03.0

What happens? this is the start of the birthing process.

1:07.0

They give the cabbage 10 c.

1:10.0

C. C. C. C. C. C.'s.

1:11.0

Imagicillin, some kind of fake cabbage drug. When dilation reaches 10 centimeters, the lights all go down. And plastic crystals at the base of the cabbage begin to glow.

1:23.0

Then a man dressed like a doctor pops out from nowhere,

1:26.2

and a pair of salad tongs

1:28.2

is used to fold back the green fabric cabbage leaves, and the fake doctor reaches his hand into the cabbage and

1:36.4

pulls out a newborn cabbage patch baby and proceeds to slap its fabric behind.

1:43.0

At this point I leaned to my two-year-old son

1:46.0

and I said,

1:48.0

that's what's going to happen to Mama

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