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 Micronesia to study the mangroves. To find out more abou...
2023-09-30 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 historical habitat it happens to be functionally extinct. ...
2023-09-23 18:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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/foreigners, which for us feels rather unusual. No...
2023-09-16 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 rest of this description section to an aside:
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 this meant that Evan and I read pretty much every ...
2023-09-02 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 wrecks in near-perfect visibility. But it's also an un...
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 for watching and supporting. We love you all!
2023-03-25 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 him than even a piano.
I hope you can feel th...
2023-03-11 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 safe to say there is plenty of Rare Earth yet to ...
2023-02-25 19:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 down I knew I'd never be able to move on unless I c...
2022-12-28 19:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 more from the Azores, and it'll be huge. Probably o...
2022-11-12 19:27:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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-tasting spring waters that are supposedly good for every...
2022-10-22 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 we choose it to be. (I actually wasn't even all t...
2022-10-01 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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 about myths, and today's episode is on the horseman of...
2022-09-17 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 promptly respond to your requests.
Thanks for...
2022-09-03 18:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 deserved an episode.
This is the legend of Antonino...
2022-08-20 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
It'll be a shorter season in the Azores (like Gu...
2022-08-13 18:15:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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 money that does it, but us. Gods were always commod...
2022-07-30 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 company, or the CIA intervention of the 40s and 50s ...
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.
I have no idea how Evan managed to sit in the sn...
2022-02-05 19:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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 (explicitly, Yaxha during the post-classical period...
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 summer inspired me to write a story about storytelling...
2022-01-22 19:02:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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 enjoy this week's video on Maximon, a rather unusu...
2022-01-15 19:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 season was shot entirely by me in two weeks and all t...
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 beautiful form of bittersweet reality that made me want to...
2021-04-10 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 time, and for that I apologize. Covid hasn't been fu...
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 April, or March maybe, god this summer has breezed ...
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 individual experiences.
Maybe when I hook up w...
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 on the Volk of Uruguay and the town of Nueva Helvet...
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
2020-05-03 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post