He Bought A Ghost Town And Became A YouTube Star - EP 91 Brent Underwood
Core Memory
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He Bought A Ghost Town And Became A YouTube Star - EP 91 Brent Underwood
He Bought A Ghost Town And Became A YouTube Star - EP 91 Brent Underwood
Core Memory
1 DAYS AGO
Ashlee Vance visits Cerro Gordo with its owner, Brent Underwood, to explore what it means to buy, inhabit, research, and restore a historic ghost town.
Brent Underwood recounts how an unexpected listing led him to buy Cerro Gordo, a former California silver-mining town, and eventually make it his home. He describes rebuilding the American Hotel, using YouTube audiences to uncover forgotten history, descending dangerous mine workings, and confronting the brutality and inequality of the town’s past. The conversation also examines Los Angeles’s diversion of Owens Valley water, the bureaucracy slowing restoration, and Underwood’s vision of turning Cerro Gordo into an overnight destination without losing its remote character.
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04:19
A ghost town becomes a home
10:37
10:37
The mine built the town
13:25
13:25
It had to stand again
19:24
19:24
The audience became a research team
25:19
25:19
A research mission underground
29:28
29:28
A town that never slept
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34:53
A mining town built on unequal fortunes
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42:48
A lake turned into a dust bowl
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46:21
Five years into the permitting process
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50:42
A lifelong project with no final finish line
