The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck
The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck
Podcast Description
An old box of randomly labelled cassette tapes is liberated from a garage sale and into the hands of a journalist who begins sifting through the contents and discovers random interviews with the citizens of a remote town known only as Bootstuck, a distant former military base in Ontario's northernmost region. The characters that occupy this abandoned outpost are colourful to be polite, unstable, unpredictable, or erratic to be direct but have all bypassed their obvious intellectual shortcomings to suss out an existence in this wild and challenging place.
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Focuses on the quirky narratives and daily lives of Bootstuck's residents, highlighting topics like local governance, weather measurement systems, and culinary customs with episode examples such as the ongoing discussion of frozen food habits and the development of local businesses like 'Eater Way' restaurant.
The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck is a documentary-style audio descent into a place that shouldn’t exist—but very much insists that it does.
Once a forgotten military outpost in the depths of Northern Ontario, Bootstuck has taken on a life of its own. Discovered only through a pile of mislabeled cassette tapes at a Sudbury garage sale, the story of Bootstuck slowly unravels through scattered interviews, cryptic clues, and increasingly bizarre residents. The deeper you listen, the more you realize — this isn’t just a town. It’s a puzzle. And somewhere in that puzzle?
A plane crash that changed everything.
Somewhere between folklore, found audio, and fever dream, Bootstuck blurs the line between documentary and delusion—offering listeners a place to get lost in, over and over again.
I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this.
This latest tape kicks off with a brief mention of Titanic 2 (apparently still unreleased in Bootstuck), and only gets murkier from there. There’s discussion about avoiding spoilers—of both the cinematic and automotive variety—followed by a story about someone named Stephen who didn’t wave and has now been entered into a “wishy-washy book,” which I suspect is a very real, very serious document in Bootstuck governance.
And then we get to the hall. Not City Hall or Town Hall. Just the hall. Where Caleb sleeps. It apparently doubles as a civic building and possibly a waiting room, assuming you bring your own chair. Zoom, as you can imagine, is not an option.
BUT— and here's where it gets concerning—the mayor may have internet access. This was dropped casually, like it wasn’t a massive revelation. The man has a modern haircut, which, in Bootstuck logic, is apparently correlated with news consumption and outside awareness. Questions abound.
The episode ends with a truly unsettling segment involving a creature named Eddie—possibly a man, a myth, or a toilet-drinking beast with cold nose and pointy ears. It may or may not be Dave. No one seems to know, including the people involved.
I’m no closer to understanding what’s going on in Bootstuck, but I do know this: if you’re ever invited to “the hall,” bring a chair, don’t mention Zoom, and never assume your toilet is off-limits
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