Rare Earth

That's right ladies and gentlemen, humans of all ages - Rare Earth is back! Perhaps not "and better than ever", but Kata and I are doing our best to get back on the weekly schedule again, pandemic-willing. My brain is back from the 2019/20 lockdown effects and I've since filmed 3 very short seasons (Guatemala, Azores, Jordan) and hopefully omicron will lessen to the point that I can stuff some more up the pipeline before they run out. Either way, I'm extremely excited to be able to return to this series in any fashion and I'm thankful for each and every one of you who have stuck with us, written asking where I was, and just generally caring about our goings on during the hiatus. It means a lot to us. Further to all that, I should mention that we've decided to try and release our episodes a week early on Nebula. So if you feel like getting a jump on the series you're welcome to go check them all out there. Some of the episodes I'm truly proud of, some I just did my best, but overall

Avatar Rare Earth Explainers This is a story about sport, told through the lens of one of the most brutal. To clarify - chances are major players wouldn't be sacrificed for losing a match, at least not normally, research is still iffy on when and how the ritual took place around sporting events. More often than not it would likely just be slaves taken from the forest and who would die either way - preplanned sacrifices. But for the sake of this story, we've fast-forwarded to the collapse of the cities and imagined things a bit more dire, with needs a bit greater than the norm. Historical poetic license, if you will.

Maximon was a wild thing to stumble across. Who knew that God could be so unassuming?

Eufenia survived a volcano. As long as you can suspend your disbelief.

There's a good chance this cave is going to change Atlantic history forever. It simply shouldn't exist.

Somewhere one mile down just right over there rests the 40 billion dollar treasure of the Cinco Chagas.

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 of Corvo, the statue nobody can explain. Also I know you're going to ask about the coins and I looked into the coins and they were very suspicious so I left them out. If you'd like to do your own research on the coins, I recommend looking at more than one source.

Sometimes, facts are just the soil we plant our fantasies in. This season is about myths. And today's episode is only as true as we choose it to be.

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.

Rudy won my heart. He deserved a video commemorating his work.

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 little Wednesday realism in a cynical tone. I guess it is Rare Earth after all.