Speaker 1: Welcome to Part Time Genius, the production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Guess what, Mango?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: Well, so I've been looking into underground bunkers this week
Speaker 3: and that this was just on a whim. It was
Speaker 3: not because of any real world events.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I just get curious about stuff, and it turns out
Speaker 3: that living underground is actually a ton of work.
Speaker 1: So what do you mean by that? Exactly?
Speaker 3: All right, Well just just think about it. So first
Speaker 3: you've got to excavate and build the foundation for this place.
Speaker 2: Then you've got to add electrical.
Speaker 3: Wiring and plumbing, a septic system, air filtration, backup generators.
Speaker 3: Like doomsday preppers put a lot of work into this
Speaker 3: sort of thing.
Speaker 1: You know. Honestly, I feel like I'm too lazy to
Speaker 1: really prep for more than like a day or two.
Speaker 1: And I remember looking up emergency prep foods once. This
Speaker 1: is before Sandy happened, and instead of finding anything practical, like,
Speaker 1: I went into this rabbit hole trying to find the
Speaker 1: funniest one, and my favorite was something called PB and
Speaker 1: J in a can.
Speaker 3: You know, I think when people hear that, their instinct
Speaker 3: is to try to claim that that sounds gross. I
Speaker 3: want to admit it actually sounds like maybe that could
Speaker 3: be good. I'd probably I'm just hungry right now, but
Speaker 3: I would probably try it.
Speaker 1: I know, Like I thought it would be this dehydrated
Speaker 1: like PBNJ that you heat up and it magically seems
Speaker 1: fresh again. But instead it was this tin can with
Speaker 1: this old hot dog roll stuffed inside and two packets
Speaker 1: of peanut butter and jelly. They just smear on yourself.
Speaker 1: So it was honestly so unepetizing. When I found out
Speaker 1: what it was, I tried to order a few to
Speaker 1: give out a Christmas.
Speaker 3: You said, you smear it on yourself? Oh you like
Speaker 3: you do this smears? God, Okay, I'll say this is
Speaker 3: just got got really weird. But I feel like you
Speaker 3: and I clearly aren't cut out for prepping, which is
Speaker 3: why I found, you know, the service for people like us.
Speaker 3: It's called Vivos, and they've spent the last decade setting
Speaker 3: up dozens of these subterranean shelters all over the world.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing.
Speaker 3: Most of these shelters aren't privately owned, so instead they're
Speaker 3: actually part of a membership program where customers pay annual
Speaker 3: dues in exchange for a guaranteed spot in the closest
Speaker 3: vivos bunker and so that way, like if disaster strikes,
Speaker 3: members can take shelter at a moment's notice.
Speaker 1: I like it. So it's like a we work for doomsday.
Speaker 3: I think that's their tagline exactly. And their website lists
Speaker 3: out a bunch of scenarios this co living space might
Speaker 3: be great for. So here are some of them, for
Speaker 3: a magnetic pull shift, a super volcano, or even a
Speaker 3: social meltdown.
Speaker 1: Which sounds like they're advertising to like a very specific clientele, right,
Speaker 1: like if you're living with Kanye West and need some
Speaker 1: space from his social media all towns, this is perfect
Speaker 1: for you. But it really does.
Speaker 2: Sound expensive to Yeah, it is definitely pricey.
Speaker 3: So a spot in an eighty person bunker will set
Speaker 3: you back about thirty five thousand dollars and that's actually
Speaker 3: way more than I would have even guessed on this.
Speaker 3: But with the threat of super volcanoes, maybe this is
Speaker 3: a good investment. I don't know, but all my research
Speaker 3: made me wonder what other mysteries are hiding under our feet,
Speaker 3: from hidden cities to weird creatures. There's this whole secret
Speaker 3: world to explore down there. So strap on your headlamp
Speaker 3: and let's dig in. Hey, their podcast listeners, welcome to
Speaker 3: Part Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm
Speaker 3: joined by my good friend Mangesh hot Ticketter. And on
Speaker 3: the other side of his computer screen waving a pick
Speaker 3: axe like he is ready for a gold rush. That's
Speaker 3: our friend and producer Loell. I'm not sure if I'm
Speaker 3: following this one exactly, but he's really waving it aggressively.
Speaker 1: I do love how even in a quarantine, Lowell.
Speaker 2: Comes through with the process. It's so good.
Speaker 1: But you know, I do have a little housekeeping to
Speaker 1: start this off. Since we started off the show again,
Speaker 1: we've gotten really really nice notes. People have been leaving
Speaker 1: reviews that are super kind and writing to our Instagram
Speaker 1: and Facebook, and honestly it's really heartwarming. It makes me
Speaker 1: so happy. So thank you so much for listening. I
Speaker 1: also have an apology. I mentioned this previously, but one
Speaker 1: of our readers, Charles wrote in this great correction about
Speaker 1: the comic book character the Red Bee, and so I
Speaker 1: sent him some honey in these cute little like bear bombs,
Speaker 1: thinking it's on topic, and then it turns out he's
Speaker 1: a beekeeper and the last thing he needs is honey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I miscalculated on that front. I'm sorry, Charles.
Speaker 3: I like the idea that he's just going to work
Speaker 3: his way into every episode. We're just going to take
Speaker 3: turns thanking him and then apologizing and then thanking him.
Speaker 2: So yeah, good way to go.
Speaker 1: But I'd say the bigger thing is that last week
Speaker 1: we announced the very first ever part time Genius Grant,
Speaker 1: and this is huge news because we've never done this
Speaker 1: on the show before. We're going to give out six
Speaker 1: dollars to the person who sends us the best ridiculous
Speaker 1: invention they come up with. We've had a handful of suggestions,
Speaker 1: but I can't stress how prestigious this is. It's truly
Speaker 1: an honor. So send us your inventions via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, wherever.
Speaker 1: Just tag us in it and we'll look for it,
Speaker 1: and then next week we'll announce who's won the big money.
Speaker 2: It's a big one.
Speaker 3: I'd actually forgotten that we committed to that six dollars,
Speaker 3: so I need to need to focus this week. So
Speaker 3: just so we're clear, parents aren't the only ones with
Speaker 3: ridiculous invention ideas. Kids are welcome to you know, winning
Speaker 3: a part time Genius grant is going to look so
Speaker 3: great on your college applications. Get your parents' permission to
Speaker 3: submit these, But we'd love to hear from you, so
Speaker 3: send in your ideas. But all right, enough of that,
Speaker 3: it's time to get back to today's idea. This week we're
Speaker 3: talking about great things hidden underground, and we are of
Speaker 3: course joined by our favorite researcher, pal Gabeluesier.
Speaker 2: Gabe, what do you have for us?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: So when I think of weird things underground, one of
Speaker 4: the first that comes to mind are cicadas. I actually
Speaker 4: have some fond memories of these guys from when I
Speaker 4: was a kid in southern Maryland. Which it's kind of
Speaker 4: strange because cicadas are you know, gross monster bugs, which
Speaker 4: is not all that endearing. But the sound they make
Speaker 4: is so distinct. It's this ominous kind of drone. It
Speaker 4: almost sounds like something sizzling.
Speaker 1: I feel like you have to do the sound game,
Speaker 1: you guys, Okay, fuck me on the spot. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 2: Nailed it.
Speaker 1: They do much better than that. That's how stuff sizzles as.
Speaker 4: I don't know anyway, Cicadas, you know, they were basically
Speaker 4: the soundtrack of my summers growing up. But there was
Speaker 4: one summer in particular, and this is where my fact
Speaker 4: comes in where the cicada noise got cranked up to eleven.
Speaker 4: And this was in the summer of ninety nine, which
Speaker 4: is the year that the Brood five cicad came to town.
Speaker 4: And I know brood five, It like makes them sound
Speaker 4: pretty tough, like these are like like your gang of
Speaker 4: cicadas or something. But basically they're a species of cicadas
Speaker 4: known as periodical cicadas, and basically, instead of emerging every
Speaker 4: summer to lay their eggs, these ones only come to
Speaker 4: the surface once every seventeen years. So whenever that rolls around,
Speaker 4: the regions where these guys live are flooded with swarms
Speaker 4: of cicadas and they cause this enormous racket for a
Speaker 4: month and a half. And during that time they lay
Speaker 4: some eggs, molt some exoskeletons, and then they all die
Speaker 4: and they're offspring burrowback underground for the next seventeen years.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is an amazing life cycle when you
Speaker 3: think about it, but it's also kind of confusing, like
Speaker 3: why stay underground for seventeen years instead of just one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, the short answer is we don't really know.
Speaker 4: Like scientists think, maybe it's because it puts their life
Speaker 4: cycle out of sync with predators, so you know, it
Speaker 4: gives them a chance of survival. But that's just a guess.
Speaker 4: All we know is that every seventeen years it gets
Speaker 4: really really loud in the summer and millions of these
Speaker 4: bugs all come out and party.
Speaker 1: That sounds terrible, but I like that you started with
Speaker 1: animals because I also wanted to talk about one, and
Speaker 1: that's the star nosed mole. If you haven't seen one
Speaker 1: of these, picture like a regular mole, but instead of
Speaker 1: the usual snout, they have this like weird pink star
Speaker 1: shaped dependent you're on the front. And when I used
Speaker 1: to see this in like children's dictionaries, I always thought
Speaker 1: it was a mistake. It kind of looked like almost
Speaker 1: like when a cigar explodes in an old cartoon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it actually kind of looks like somebody forgot to
Speaker 3: add a head to it and instead they just like
Speaker 3: glued a squid to its face as a prank. Like
Speaker 3: It's pretty disgusting but also kind of cool looking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you kind of understand why they want
Speaker 1: to stay underground, and that star nose is actually really functional.
Speaker 1: It contains one hundred thousand nerve fibers which help it
Speaker 1: sense it's that's y And just for reference, that's five
Speaker 1: times more touch sensors than we have in our entire hand.
Speaker 1: And they're all crammed into this nose that's smaller than
Speaker 1: like the tip of your pinky. So the mole makes
Speaker 1: good use of them. It's basically blind, and it hunts
Speaker 1: by bobbing that star up and down as it plows
Speaker 1: through soil, so it's touching twelve different places all at once.
Speaker 1: And the tactic is so effective that the star nosed
Speaker 1: mole actually holds the record as the world's fastest eater.
Speaker 1: It can actually find and devour an insect in a
Speaker 1: quarter of a second.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool, all right. Well, since you two have
Speaker 3: given underground wildlife it's due. I feel like I should
Speaker 3: talk about the plant version of the Internet. So instead
Speaker 3: of using wires and satellites to communicate, plants use fungal
Speaker 3: threads called mycelia, and it's pretty crucial to their survival.
Speaker 3: So take the phantom orchid for example. These plants actually
Speaker 3: lack chlorophyll which means they can't create their own energy
Speaker 3: through you know, photosynthesis, which we all remember from our
Speaker 3: elementary school years, like other plants use. So to get
Speaker 3: around this hang up, the orchid engages in a strange
Speaker 3: three way partnership and involves an underground fungus and a
Speaker 3: nearby tree species. Now it sounds a little kinkier than
Speaker 3: it actually is, trust me on this one. But the
Speaker 3: roots of both the orchid and the tree are connected
Speaker 3: to the miceilia beneath the soil, and it's through this
Speaker 3: middleman that the tree is able to transfer carbon to
Speaker 3: the orchid, which is of course what it needs.
Speaker 1: That's pretty incredible, but it also sounds a little too altruistic.
Speaker 1: What's in it for the trees to share its resources?
Speaker 3: I mean share might not be the right word in
Speaker 3: this case, and it's probably more accurate to say the
Speaker 3: plant is stealing the tree's carbon.
Speaker 2: But it's still pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Fair enough. But I think you said plants actually communicate
Speaker 1: through this net as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is pretty interesting. So a good example is
Speaker 3: there's this bean plant that sends out a chemical signal
Speaker 3: whenever it's under attack by a fits and when this happens,
Speaker 3: other bean plants in the area will pick up the
Speaker 3: distress signal through the mycelia net.
Speaker 2: Even though they aren't under.
Speaker 3: Attack themselves, they'll actually activate their anti apid defenses.
Speaker 2: This is so cool.
Speaker 3: So the question is are the bean plants intentionally sending
Speaker 3: signals to warn their neighbors or are the neighboring plants
Speaker 3: just sort of like eavesdropping to see if there are
Speaker 3: aphids in the area. And technically the jury is still
Speaker 3: out on this, but I do like the idea of
Speaker 3: plants having each other's backs.
Speaker 4: Ah me too, all right, Well, moving on from something
Speaker 4: potentially sweet to something decidedly not sweet, let me tell
Speaker 4: you a little about fat birds. I hate that you
Speaker 4: picked fat bergs as a topic there, so the time
Speaker 4: has come though, because I thought at least a few
Speaker 4: of our listeners out there would get a kick out
Speaker 4: of this, and maybe will too, we'll see. But fat
Speaker 4: birds are pretty much what they sound like. It's an iceberg,
Speaker 4: but made out of fat instead of ice. And another
Speaker 4: difference is that fat birds don't form in the open ocean.
Speaker 4: They form underground, primarily in the pipe and sewers of cities.
Speaker 4: And that's because fat birds aren't made from just any fat.
Speaker 4: They're made from the fats and oils that we wash
Speaker 4: down our drains each day, so we're talking about everything
Speaker 4: from cooking oil to hair grease to body wash. All
Speaker 4: of that gunk eventually collects in the pipes beneath our
Speaker 4: streets and it solidifies into a massive chunk of debris
Speaker 4: aka a fat bird.
Speaker 2: Fat bird.
Speaker 4: That would be you know, gross enough on its own,
Speaker 4: but the reality is even worse because everything we flush
Speaker 4: down the toilet is also fair game for the fat birds.
Speaker 2: It's just such a great word.
Speaker 3: I just feel like we should all chant fat berg,
Speaker 3: fat bird.
Speaker 2: You were saying, fat bird.
Speaker 4: I think, all right, anyway, that's right, because unfortunately it
Speaker 4: means a lot of bathroom trash that we have no
Speaker 4: business flushing in the first place, like dental floss, wet
Speaker 4: wipes and prophylactics.
Speaker 1: All of that.
Speaker 4: Results in a big tangle that's really tough to deal with.
Speaker 4: And if these fat bergs are left unchecked, they can
Speaker 4: actually grow so large that one can clog an entire
Speaker 4: sewer pipe, slowing water flow, causing widespread backups of sewage.
Speaker 4: It's not pretty. And when it gets to that point,
Speaker 4: there aren't a lot of ways to deal with this,
Speaker 4: Like you either blast it with a power washer or
Speaker 4: you chip away at it with a pickaxe.
Speaker 3: Yeah you hear that, loll it is your time to
Speaker 3: shine with that pickax.
Speaker 1: So I am curious, even though I'm grossed off with this,
Speaker 1: how big can these get? Like I'm almost afraid.
Speaker 4: To ask, Yeah, they can get like disturbingly big. The
Speaker 4: largest one to date was found beneath London back in
Speaker 4: twenty seventeen, and it was over eight hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: feet long and weighed more than one hundred and thirty tons.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, it's hard to wrap.
Speaker 4: Your head around just how massive that is. But for reference,
Speaker 4: that's nearly three times the height of the Statue of
Speaker 4: Liberty and a little over half the weight, so way
Speaker 4: way too big for a sewer. And keep in mind
Speaker 4: like New York City spends roughly five million per year
Speaker 4: combating fat bergs, so even the smaller ones are a
Speaker 4: huge problem.
Speaker 3: Now, I do feel like we should clarify because I
Speaker 3: know we've been laughing a little bit about the name
Speaker 3: fat burg but I feel like we should go on
Speaker 3: record and say that the PTG family here we are
Speaker 3: firmly in the anti fat Burgs camp on like some
Speaker 3: of those other podcasts out there, But listeners, please do
Speaker 3: your part and don't feed the fat Burgs. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll be back with more after a break. Welcome back
Speaker 3: to Part Time Genius. We're talking about all the strange
Speaker 3: stuff that you could but probably won't find underground. And
Speaker 3: I think, Mango, I think you're up next.
Speaker 2: What do you have?
Speaker 1: We've talked about living underground, so let's talk about working
Speaker 1: underg And there's a weird new opportunity in Sweden where
Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter what you're doing down there. There's
Speaker 1: this job available. It's a new position. The only requirement
Speaker 1: is for the employee to clock in at the Korswagen
Speaker 1: train station, which is currently under I guess it's under
Speaker 1: construction beneath Gothenburg, Sweden. And really that's it. According to
Speaker 1: the job description quote, the position holds no duties or
Speaker 1: responsibilities besides the fact that the work should be carried
Speaker 1: out at Korswagen. Whatever the employee chooses to do constitutes
Speaker 1: the worst.
Speaker 4: Seriously, like that sounds amazing. There's got to be a
Speaker 4: catch there.
Speaker 1: Right, There's actually no catch. It's a legit job offer.
Speaker 1: It's complete with a competitive starting salary, annual wage, increases,
Speaker 1: paid vacation, even a pension. And the best part is
Speaker 1: you get to enjoy the job for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life if you want it. The people behind the
Speaker 1: project call it eternal employment. You might be wondering who's
Speaker 1: behind the project. It's the work of these artists, Simon
Speaker 1: Golden and Jacob Senabee. They partnered with the Swedish Transit
Speaker 1: Authority and they raised about six hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for the project. So the idea is to grow
Speaker 1: that initial sum through investments and use it to pay
Speaker 1: one employee for as long as they choose to work there,
Speaker 1: and if they ever want to retire or you know,
Speaker 1: just not hang out underground this train station all day,
Speaker 1: then they can simply leave and a new employee will
Speaker 1: be chosen to take their place. It's a super strange idea,
Speaker 1: but if it sounds like the job for you, then
Speaker 1: there's good news because anyone in the world is free
Speaker 1: to apply. The only hitches that you have to wait
Speaker 1: a few years. The applications won't be accepted until twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, which is a few months before the station
Speaker 1: is set to open.
Speaker 3: I guess that gives people plenty of time to get
Speaker 3: that resume ready. But all right, well, if people are
Speaker 3: going to live underground and work underground, you are definitely
Speaker 3: going to need a way to relax underground, something that
Speaker 3: we don't often think about when we're thinking about constructing
Speaker 3: these sorts of things. But if you're looking for inspiration,
Speaker 3: you could always take a page from a group of
Speaker 3: French cenophiles and host your own underground movie theater. So
Speaker 3: to give you some context, there are about two one
Speaker 3: hundred miles of stone tunnels beneath the Moparness neighborhood in Paris.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Those tunnels are a product of the city's ancient stone quarries,
Speaker 3: and they also serve as the final resting place for
Speaker 3: more than six million Parisians. That's basically because they're catacombs,
Speaker 3: and even though they're not open to the public, people
Speaker 3: have been frequenting these things. Now, back in two thousand
Speaker 3: and four, the French police discovered a four hundred square
Speaker 3: foot cavern. Now this is about sixty feet underground, and
Speaker 3: it had been turned into this amphitheater, complete with a
Speaker 3: full size movie screen, projection equipment and a wide selection
Speaker 3: of films. There were even twenty or so seats carved
Speaker 3: directly into the stone itself.
Speaker 2: How cool is this?
Speaker 4: That is super cool. It's like a secret movie club.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, literal underground cinema.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you know, I'm really curious, like, do
Speaker 4: you know what kind of stuff they were watching down there?
Speaker 3: I couldn't find any exact titles, but the reports I
Speaker 3: saw were that there were a bunch of like fifties
Speaker 3: noir movies and some recent thrillers. And the police did
Speaker 3: say that none of the films were obscene or banned
Speaker 3: or anything like that, but that's not to say there
Speaker 3: wasn't anything nefarious going on. According to this article in Gizmoto,
Speaker 3: the police also found quote three thousand square feet of
Speaker 3: subterranean galleries strung with lights, wired for phones, and live
Speaker 3: with pirated electricity. The officers uncovered a bar, a lounge,
Speaker 3: a workshop, and a dining corner complete with its own
Speaker 3: couscous maker.
Speaker 1: I feel like illegal couscous is the tastiest you.
Speaker 2: Know it as you know it is.
Speaker 3: That was my favorite part actually, But the creepiest part
Speaker 3: is that when the police came back three days later,
Speaker 3: all the phone and electricity lines had been cut, and
Speaker 3: there was a note on the floor that just said,
Speaker 3: don't try to find us.
Speaker 2: I mean, isn't that spooky?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: But that's where I thought the story would have ended.
Speaker 3: But apparently, years later someone claimed credit for the Secrets Cinema.
Speaker 3: The perpetrators turned out to be a group of urban
Speaker 3: explorers who started mapping this underground network for fun, and
Speaker 3: they liked it so much that once they were done
Speaker 3: with the maps, they started looking for new ways to
Speaker 3: spend time down there, so they built themselves a movie theater.
Speaker 4: I mean, you gotta stay busy, you know.
Speaker 2: And it's true.
Speaker 4: Actually I have another fact here, another movie fact. Mine's
Speaker 4: a little different though. It turns out the salt mines
Speaker 4: in Kansas are full of old movie reels.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's mostly because it's such a stable
Speaker 4: environment down there, like for storing the films. The temperature
Speaker 4: stays right around forty five degrees and twenty five percent humidity.
Speaker 4: It's pretty much perfect. And obviously, you know, weather isn't
Speaker 4: a factor down there either, because some of these facilities
Speaker 4: are more than six hundred feet below ground and That's
Speaker 4: important because at warmer temperatures, celluloid film will actually start
Speaker 4: to rot. They call it vinegar syndrome, and it's because
Speaker 4: the decaying film gives off a really strong vinegar smell apparently.
Speaker 3: So is it just old celluloid movies that's in these
Speaker 3: vaults or do they store new films there too?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a mix of both. Nowadays, there are tons
Speaker 4: of the early celluloid classics like The Wizard of Oz
Speaker 4: Gone with the Wind. Most of the Looney Tunes from
Speaker 4: the forties and fifties are down there too, which is
Speaker 4: pretty cool. Later, though, movies shot on film are also there,
Speaker 4: like the original Star Wars is down there. But it's
Speaker 4: not just films either. Studios also use the salt mines
Speaker 4: to store props and memorabilia, like George Clooney's batsuit is
Speaker 4: a Batman costume. It's down there.
Speaker 1: Oh way, I'd actually forgotten that he played Batman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the studio probably wants to forget that too,
Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure that's why the suit is hidden
Speaker 3: down there. But ye. All right, Well, my last fact
Speaker 3: of the day here. I thought i'd keep it simple
Speaker 3: and tell you a little about the deepest hole that
Speaker 3: has ever been dug. It's called the Super Deep Borehole,
Speaker 3: and it was drilled into the surface of the Cola
Speaker 3: Peninsula in Russia during the nineteen seventies and eighties. So
Speaker 3: after twenty years of drilling, the hole reached its maximum depth,
Speaker 3: which is forty thousand, two hundred and thirty feet or
Speaker 3: roughly seven and a half miles underground.
Speaker 1: I mean that sounds insanely deep, but refresh my memory.
Speaker 1: How close to the center of the Earth is that?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's nowhere close to the center there there, but
Speaker 3: it's still pretty cool. So the Earth's core is almost
Speaker 3: four thousand miles below us, so seven and a half
Speaker 3: miles is barely half the distance to the Earth's mantle.
Speaker 3: But that's the deepest we've ever managed to get in
Speaker 3: terms of true vertical depth. So that's the deepest hole
Speaker 3: drilled by machine. But if you're looking for the deepest
Speaker 3: hole ever dug by hand, that honor goes to the
Speaker 3: Wooding Dean Well near Brighton in the United Kingdom. It's
Speaker 3: one thy two hundred and eighty five feet deep, so
Speaker 3: almost exactly as deep as the Empire State Building is tall.
Speaker 3: So this well was dug over a four year period
Speaker 3: during the mid eighteen hundreds, and it was a long
Speaker 3: way down just to get some water.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, I really like all the New York references.
Speaker 1: The Fatberg was as big as like three Statue of Liberties,
Speaker 1: the fire State building here. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this one and give it to Will
Speaker 1: because I really like that plant Internet fact. I think
Speaker 1: that one kind of blew me away.
Speaker 4: Gave you cool with that, oh totally, plus the underground
Speaker 4: movie theater.
Speaker 2: Will takes it. Yeah, I'll take it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm I think I'm two for two
Speaker 3: now and it feels pretty good. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 3: with you guys. All right, Well that we'll do it
Speaker 3: for today's Part Time Genius for Mango, Gabe Loll and myself.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for listening, Stay inside and send
Speaker 3: those bad invention ideas for that whopping six dollars. We'll
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