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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | I feel like everyone has had a version of this experience. |
0:04.0 | You pull open your junk drawer where you've got all these weird little bits and bobs |
0:08.3 | that don't really have a purpose, but you can't bear to throw away. |
0:12.5 | And they are in among them. |
0:14.6 | There's almost always a handful of mysterious keys. |
0:19.4 | And you pick one of the keys up and you look at it and you think, what does this go |
0:27.5 | to? |
0:29.4 | And it occurs to you that probably you should throw it away. |
0:32.7 | You haven't used it in years, but then some tiny voice in your head says, no, don't throw |
0:37.3 | it away because you're going to go to open something and it's going to be locked and you're |
0:41.5 | going to go, oh my god, where's the key? |
0:43.3 | And then you're going to go, oh my god, I've got the key. |
0:46.0 | And so you put the key back in the junk drawer and then you do this again 10 years later |
0:51.6 | when you have definitely not figured out what that key goes to. |
0:55.8 | That is the story of me and in my random keys, I refuse to throw away. |
1:03.3 | But there is a place 9,000 feet above sea level in Colorado where the prevailing attitude |
1:09.7 | is the more keys the merrier. |
1:12.0 | At the seven keys lodge, they have thousands and thousands of keys, including some pretty |
1:18.4 | fascinating historical ones. |
1:20.9 | So we've got the key to Frankenstein's castle. |
1:24.6 | And some potentially dangerous ones too. |
1:27.9 | We have a key to a nuclear power plant, like where like nuclear testing was done. |
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