Fascinating son of an astronaut. He talks about places and their history.
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) The answer is pretty simple really: Have your grandparents marry someone in line for a throne in Micronesia and then act responsibly towards Pohnpeian culture your entire life. But stick with me here, because this story is deeper than the clickbait implies. (just a reminder that this…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Ah, coming home after being enslaved since your late teens only to have your own society condemn you as satanic for what they did to you and then be forced to headline a traveling freakshow until you died. No matter where you go, the tattoos always speak…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) We had covid the entire last month and a half, that’s why we’ve been away. It sucked. Sorry for that. Hope we can make up for it with this small island gossip. I am just now noticing there’s an extra p in the end credits. Like in…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) This video was inspired by a restaurant that was named after a man I’d never heard of. A man who it turns out is Kosrae’s most famous historical figure. A man who the more I learned about the more I began to wonder if we should remember…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) I made this episode because I sat down with two men over dinner and grilled them about some local xenophobic rumours I’d been hearing about them. Now we’re mangrove brothers. Although I’m not sure they know that. This one is a bit of a breather episode. If…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) 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. But here…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) After I got home, I realized that most of the episodes that came out of Kosrae were about expats/foreigners, which for us feels rather unusual. Normally when filming, for the most part, we do our best to avoid non-locals. But in Kosrae, nobody can be avoided. Film…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) In an alternate universe I named this episode ‘the morbid microbial oil morgue’. Your support keeps us going: https://www.patreon.com/rareearth and https://ko-fi.com/rareearth Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rareinsta/ Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Hadfield Also – sign up for curiosity stream, a service I actually like, and they’ll throw in a subscription…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) It’s virtually impossible to find accurate and trustworthy information about Micronesia on the internet. But on the plus side, that meant Kata and I were able to read virtually every single bit of university-level documentation about Chuuk that currently exists online today. Today’s episode stems from perhaps…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Back in action after what feels like an eternity with many new seasons to share. Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Austria, Japan and Peru, plus a few others along the way. Enough for over a year and a half uninterrupted, I think. Today’s episode is the first in our…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) 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. Your support keeps us going: https://www.patreon.com/rareearth and https://ko-fi.com/rareearth Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rareinsta/ Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Hadfield Also – sign up for curiosity stream,…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Fajar asked us to make this video. It was more important to him than even a piano. I hope you can feel through the screen a little of what it meant to us to be able to make this, even from such a distance. I cannot express…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) A very short season in Jordan begins here, from a vacation day in the Dead Sea with a bit of a throwaway episode. I thought it might be a nice palate cleanser before we head into the refugee camps that were my real destination in the country.…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Like the Nazis it inspired, seems like you can never keep Atlantis down for long enough. This isn’t really a rare earth episode but given that the Azorean season was about myths and the comments on our previous videos all broke my brain, here we are. A…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Rudy won my heart. He deserved a video commemorating his work. (Also, to be clear, the web is from time in prison, not white nationalism – nobody is a saint but that doesn’t make them demons) Sorry for the upload delays, Kata and I are on the…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Furnas is a town unlike any I’ve ever been to. Beautiful. Captivating. Plus it stinks like rot. The perfect combo. But looking back months later from the scentless comfort of my home, the one thing that I will always remember was the stew. Thanks for watching, everyone!…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Sometimes, facts are just the soil that we grow our fantasies in. This Azorean season is about the mythology that drives our world, and as such today’s episode is only as true as we choose it to be. Your support keeps us going: https://www.patreon.com/rareearth Follow our Instagram:…
From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) This is a bit of a continuation of our first video 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…