Skeptoid Adventures: Death Valley 2024
Come join the Skeptoid Adventures trip for 2024, a journey of exploration in Death Valley! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Come join the Skeptoid Adventures trip for 2024, a journey of exploration in Death Valley! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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| Okay you guys, here's the thing. | |
| You've heard me talk about Death Valley a million times on this show and in our documentary films and in live videos. | |
| I always talk up the Skeptoid Monster Jeep. | |
| I've told you all the stories about the mysterious moving stones of racetrack playa ever since I videotaped the mechanism by which they move in 2001. | |
| So now I'm finally stepping up and inviting you to come there with me in person this October and go to all those places. | |
| We're starting Skeptoid Adventures and Death Valley is going to be our first exploration. | |
| We're lucky to have on our board of directors Jeff Wagg, the former general manager of the James Randy Educational Foundation. | |
| And as a group travel agent in his secret identity life, he put together all the amazing cruises and amazing adventures with Randy. | |
| Now in his current iteration, he's doing the same thing for Skeptoid Adventures, upholding the same standards of excellence in education as he did for Randy. | |
| Therefore, this will be an all-inclusive trip. | |
| Your transportation, lodging, and meals are all covered. | |
| You just show up and we'll take you to places that very few people ever get to go. | |
| For example, the racetrack, even for people who have gone far enough off the grid to get to Death Valley, is still very hard to get to. | |
| We'll take you there. | |
| We have connections to sites the general public is usually not able to visit. | |
| We'll take you there too. | |
| This is going to be three days of lifelong memories that most people will never have. | |
| The trip is October 27th through 30th, 2024, and it starts and ends in Las Vegas, Nevada. | |
| That means it's very easy for anyone to get to our rally point. | |
| If you happen to be going to SaiCon, we connect seamlessly to the end of that. | |
| Get yourself to Las Vegas. | |
| We'll take care of you from there. | |
| You get to see the site of the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. | |
| And don't worry, it won't be nearly that hot at the end of October. | |
| You get to stand at the lowest point in North America. | |
| You get to run your fingers through the borax flats and mine tailings that created so much of the history of the Old West. | |
| You'll get to see petroglyphs and pictographs that don't appear on any guidebook and that are completely unspoiled. | |
| And with the experts we're bringing along, you'll be on the receiving end of a science and history and geology fire hose for three days. | |
| So I really do want you to come on this trip. | |
| By this date in October, I'll have been doing this podcast for 18 years. | |
| And it's been the best 18 years of my life. | |
| And that's because of all of you. | |
| The people I've met from all walks of life, who are now almost the entirety of my circle of friends, and 99% of you I've never had the privilege of meeting in person. | |
| And I want to. | |
| The one promise I'll make to you is that you will never forget a single hour of this incredible trip. | |
| We're calling it Skeptoid Adventures. | |
| You can learn all about it and punch your ticket at skeptoid.com slash events. | |
| That's skeptoid.com slash events. | |
| A portion of your ticket price will be a tax-deductible donation to Skeptoid Media, a 501c3 educational nonprofit. | |
| Thank you for being my listener, my friend, and for at least considering being my traveling companion on this amazing trip. | |
| skeptoid.com slash events. | |