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How Conservation Might Kill the Most Important Forest in Micronesia

Today's toast is to the conservation officers we met in Kosrae, or as Evan now likes to call them, our mangrove brothers. 

They were two very nice and interesting guys who were in Micron...

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Help This Man Save A Nearly Extinct Species By Eating It

There are a few clams we call the giant, but the Tridacna Gigas is king of them all. It is likely the most important animal in the history of the Pacific, and unfortunately, in much of its historic...

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What Winning a Multi-Million Dollar Resort Did to a Pokémon Quiz Master

Hello everyone, welcome to Kosrae! A truly beautiful island, truly in the middle of nowhere.

After we got home, we realized that most of the episodes that came out of Kosrae were about expats...

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Tojo's Timebomb: How Japan's WW2 Ghost Fleet Still Threatens the World (And Might End Up Saving It)

My longest ever title. "How will the YouTube recommended bar react?", he asks with bated breath, already knowing the answer.

Rather than discussing the episode contents I am dedicating the r...

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The Island Where Women Ate Their Husbands


It's virtually impossible to find accurate and trustworthy information about Micronesia on the internet. Plus, the region isn't just understudied, most of the sources are quite old. But ...

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Who Owns the Skulls of Chuuk Lagoon?

New season!

Twenty episodes from Micronesia and the Marshall Islands starts today in Truk/Chuuk Lagoon. It's probably the single best dive spot on the planet, with dozens of accessible wrec...

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Please Ask Mr. Beast to Watch This Video

Hello again from Micronesia - another post scheduled ahead of time

I don't know if Mr. Beast will ever see this, but I made a promise to a friend. And this is me fulfilling it.

Thanks f...

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Should We Save This Boy?

Hello from Micronesia - actually we have scheduled this video in advance as we probably won't have internet access for some time.

Fajar asked us to make this video. It was more important to h...

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The Long Forgotten Secret of the Dead Sea

Dearest Patrons, sorry we don't produce as many videos as quickly as before. But with over 20 scripts yet to be written and us heading out tomorrow morning for yet another 3 months of filming, it's...

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Are the Azores Atlantis?

There were so many comments this season that I had to take a long break during my normal filming and editing plans and write out this episode. It isn't our normal style, that's for sure, but deep d...

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The Best Cheese on Earth

Rudy won my heart. He deserved a video commemorating his work.  

Sorry for the upload delays, Kata and I are on the road again and it's hard to both film and edit at the same time. One m...

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The Town That Cooks in a Volcano

Furnas was an incredibly cool little town. They'd found a way to seamlessly integrate belching sulfur pockets into a cute botanical gardens and small town core. Multiple different unpleasant-tastin...

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Cows: 1, Spanish Army: 0

Sometimes, facts are just the soil that we grow our fantasies in.  

This season in the Azores is about the mythology that drives our world, and as such today's episode is only as true as...

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The Remote Island With A Statue That Nobody Can Explain

Today's video is a bit of a continuation of our first from this season, but the story was so uniquely its own that I decided to split it off into a unique episode. Ultimately, this is a season abou...

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The 40 Billion Dollar Pirate Treasure Just Right Over There

Today's story is about a massive pirate booty that's just right over there. 

Evan is camping this weekend, so if you urgently need the treasure coordinates, he isn't available to promptl...

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When 2000lbs of Cocaine Washed Up in a Small Town

Today's episode is thanks to a comment I received from a viewer alerting me to a very important local history. It might not be my normal fare, but it was such an interesting story I felt it deserve...

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This Cave Shouldn't Exist

Today's episode is about a cave that shouldn't exist.

Well, sort of. It's actually just an argument I had with an old man at a party. But as it turns out, they're kind of the same thing.

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The Most Beautiful Toilet in Guatemala

Marx said that "money degrades all the gods of man and turns them into commodities". And it isn't so much that he's wrong, I just think it doesn't dig deep enough into our nature. It isn't really m...

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The CIA's Secret Genocide

Sorry for the delay, Kata and I ended up accidentally making this one 3x longer than our normal videos, and it took 3x as long to make.

The story of the banana republics, the United Fruit co...

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a 23 second video with 22 seconds of credits

Since we didn't have a new video ready for you this week, we decided to upload something silly. Just because it was funny and maybe YouTube will hate us less too if we don't skip a week. 

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The Great Decapitation Game

Today's story is essentially made up. Apocryphal. Euphenia-esque.

My reasoning is that historians virtually don't know anything for a fact about the culture of the great cities of the Maya (...

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The Last Survivor of San Miguel

Today's story is about Eufenia, the last remaining townsperson of San Miguel Los Lotes, lost to a Volcano. But there is more than her than meets the eye, and spending a few hours with her this summ...

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Maximum Man: The God of Cigarettes and Beer

Thank you so much for all the nice messages and comments! It feels good to be releasing videos again. :)

Evan is currently getting his booster, so it is my turn posting. 

Hope you ...

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The Corn Demands Your Blood

Wow! A new video? I don't believe it.

Well dear Patron, get used to it. Because we're back!*

I'm not saying that these seasons are technically the best we've ever made, this first sea...

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The Middle Finger Aimed at Italy

Francesco's grandmother died less than 12 hours after filming this video. Her last moments were spent recounting her past with a grandson she was able to help in his career.

It was a beautifu...

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Larry: Queen of 2020

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you probably already know about Larry. 

She's my sweetheart. She's my raccoon. She's the saviour of 2020.

I know I've been gone a long ti...

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An Alien in Montevideo

HUGE NEWS!  

Just before the pandemic I signed some paperwork that fundamentally changed this channel. For the better, I hope, but who knows, it’s life, right?  

Back in A...

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The Delicious Meat Sludge Factory

I kind of want to do this story again as a real documentary, with an hour and tons of stock footage. It seems like it would be a cool 'follow the thread' type tale through a bunch of different indi...

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The Swiss Colony of Uruguay

Sorry we're late this week (again). It is incredibly hard to remain creative during quarantine, and we're doing our best to keep on top of all the things.

I hope you like this little story o...

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Are the Charrua Extinct?

I'm very happy with how this video turned out. I think it is an important question, regardless of where you're from.

Love to you all from a virus free home,

Evan and Kata

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