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In this brief monologue, Sam Parr recounts how Brent and Nathan pooled money around 2014‑2015 to purchase a ghost town for $1.3 million, then launched a YouTube channel documenting their explorations of the town’s abandoned mines and crawl spaces. The channel exploded, reaching a million subscribers within six months. While Sam was stuck in a San Francisco apartment during the early COVID‑19 lockdown, he turned to the channel’s 20‑30 minute videos of Brent’s calm, curious tours of underground sites, finding them comforting and a key source of mental relief throughout the first year of the pandemic.
