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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Tell us your road trip stories & get travel advice from Dylan

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What is your favorite unusual road trip destination? Plus, Dylan wants your travel questions. Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message, or send a voice memo to Hello@Atlas Obscura.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody it's it's Dylan here. I have not one but two requests for you all today.

0:09.6

But before I get to either of those requests, I want to tell you a road trip story.

0:17.4

A few years ago, I was on this big road trip with my wife, Michelle,

0:21.5

our two-year-old, and Michelle was like seven months pregnant with our daughter.

0:26.0

And it was a kind of a hard trip.

0:28.0

We were doing this giant loop from New York, down through Kentucky and back up around.

0:32.0

We were doing this for like a few weeks. We stopped at lots of weird places, but one place we stopped was a place called Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia.

0:42.0

So, Babyland General Hospital is a place where, well, it is where cabbage patch kids are born.

0:51.0

You know, the little like soft smushy baby dolls that are born out of

0:57.4

cabbages. There's also like people in surgical scrubs and these weird fake IVs set up all set up next to this field of

1:06.4

cabbages that have little baby heads poking out of each cabbage. This area is called the Magic Burthing Tree. And at some point someone in

1:16.2

Scrubs will call out a doctor's name and they will announce that we have a

1:21.4

code green. Mother cabbage is now six centimeters dilated.

1:26.0

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

1:30.0

They give the cabbage 10 c. C. C. C.'s of imagicillin some kind of fake cabbage drug

1:38.0

When dilation reaches 10 centimeters, the lights all go down and plastic crystals at the base of the cabbage begin to glow.

1:45.6

Then a man dressed like a doctor pops out from nowhere and a pair of salad tongs is used to

1:52.1

fold back the green fabric cabbage leaves and the fake

1:56.6

doctor reaches his hand into the cabbage and pulls out a newborn cabbage patch baby and proceeds to slap its fabric behind.

2:07.0

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

2:11.7

that's what's going to happen to mama in just a couple of months.

2:15.0

No one, I mean he didn't get it and my wife did not particularly appreciate this joke all of which is to say

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