Hey everybody. This week on the show, we are going underground. As in literally subterranean,

we are going to spend the whole week sharing stories that happen beneath our feet. We will talk

about sewers and particularly about something called a fatberg, but we're also going to talk about

citrus grows and incredible

temples carved in secret. There's a whole world happening under there, and you are just walking by,

totally unaware. If you have a favorite underground place, maybe a tunnel you explored as a teenager or a cave you used to go to, we want to hear about it.

Tell us about your favorite underground places at 315-992-7902.

Leave us a message telling us your name and story.

You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at hello atlas

obscira.com. Okay, now we are headed underground. See you down there.

Wherever you're listening to this right now, probably very, beneath you, there is a whole subterranean world going on.

The sewer underneath our streets and our feet is a vast labyrinth.

Water rushes through these dark pipes, some of them big enough to hold elephants and whales,

and every time you flush your toilet or wash your dishes, whatever's in there, the water, the poop, the food scraps, the hair, the toilet paper,

it all spins down your drain and gets spit out into this mysterious underground highway. It just gets taken care of. It disappears.

Unless perhaps, it meets something sinister along the way, waiting in the dark.

Something that swallows the walls of the sewer.

Something buttery yellow and glossy, sickly smelling.

What is a Fatberg?

Yeah, I love this question.

Well, I think Fatbergs have kind of accumulated this reputation for being like almost sentient to like monstrous behemots underground. I guess I have contributed to this by running stories with illustrations of

fabrics that have like gaping maws and like eyes. I'm Dylan Theris and this is Atlas of Skira,

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