Goose Chase Podcast

This week we talk about the lifestyle blog that has so widely polarized people, the omnipresent Goop. Once widely ridiculed for being a bit too rich for the average person's blood, Goop has gone from a mailing list to a blog to a small scale media empire, with products and retail shops and lots on offer. We wade through some of its influencers, its founder, its core beliefs and the philosophies at the heart of it all to make sense of all this goop. 

This week, we have our very first real life Goose Chase. Last week, when we took a week off the podcast, Dave was out exploring the west in search of an honest-to-god hidden treasure. We discuss the long-running mystery of Fenn's Treasure, a true hidden treasure placed by a guy who is still around to tell the tale, and Dave's quest through the Rocky Mountains to unearth its $1-2 million worth of contents.

This week, we have our very first real life Goose Chase. Last week, when we took a week off the podcast, Dave was out exploring the west in search of an honest-to-god hidden treasure. We discuss the long-running mystery of Fenn's Treasure, a true hidden treasure placed by a guy who is still around to tell the tale, and Dave's quest through the Rocky Mountains to unearth its $1-2 million worth of contents.

This week we're talking about John McAfee, whose name you know from that thing that won't leave your computer, like, ever. The founder of the eponymous software has led, let's say, a strange life, especially this last decade. This is a story of going into the jungle to discover who you really are. 

Today we talk about the many crazy expensive ways people find to sell plain old water. The raw water movement (which is less a "movement" and more of "some silicon valley dudes hawking water at thousands of times the price) is just one of the many ways people have found to make a new product out of a very old thing. And with some very familiar justifications too. 

This week we discuss Tollund Man, an artifact known as a bog person. He's over 2000 years old and his body remains remarkably pristine, part of a very strange phenomenon that occurs when a person is, er, deposited in a very specific kind of bog in very specific parts of the world. We talk about the processes that preserve the body beyond death and some of the stranger outcomes that can occur. 

This week we discuss Tollund Man, an artifact known as a bog person. He's over 2000 years old and his body remains remarkably pristine, part of a very strange phenomenon that occurs when a person is, er, deposited in a very specific kind of bog in very specific parts of the world. We talk about the processes that preserve the body beyond death and some of the stranger outcomes that can occur. 

Tonight we talk about time travel with our special guest, Aubrey! There are a lot of great pieces of apocryphal time travel lore to explore here, with varying degrees of explainability. We drop in on one particularly notable story that found its way to the Art Bell forums, and we revisit a previous topic as well.  Join us for a trip through time. Don't eat the beef. 

Tonight we discuss the Breatharian movement, a very old idea with a modern resurgence, that suggests none of us need to actually eat anything. Just a nice dose of fresh air and sunlight can sustain you for up to 70 years, depending on who you believe.  News Flash: You definitely should never ever do this, because it's a really really bad idea. We present the Breatharians themselves. You decide.  Goose Chase!

Tonight we talk about a little slice of pirate heaven. Famously covered around the world for its peculiarity, Sealand is a legal principality off the coast of England, on a ocean platform.  First seized by pirate broadcasters and later repurposed into a floating empire, there is so much history and drama around this little rusty platform that it beggars belief.  Goose Chase with us!