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.
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.
Tape 9—or at least what’s left of it—is mostly static, warped and broken. But somewhere in the noise, a voice punches through, crackling out what sounds like call letters: ”JEAN.” Maybe it's just interference, maybe I'm reading too much into it—but it feels intentional. And in Bootstuck, that’s enough to set my mind racing.
Once the tape settles, we’re back to familiar chaos. Our host and Hat Guy recount a baffling trip to the local Costco knockoff—Costdown—where he somehow buys a half pair of boots. A new name, Willy, is mentioned in passing, nudging Bootstuck’s known population up by one… though the average IQ might be trending downward, especially with glowing reviews of the town’s Applebee’s.
They have an Applebee's?
The tape ends on a strange, almost deliberate note. But by now, cryptic endings are just part of the scenery.
The deeper we dig, the weirder it gets.
www.bootstuck.com
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