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he crew listens to Mike’s new ideas for movies. One of them is a story about an Ivy League professor who finds Mike speaking ancient Aramaic in a deli as he is making salami sandwiches and recruits him to crack a famous riddle. Bobby reads from a book inscribed by John Fante. Cartel members are eating shrimp cocktails in Staten Island bodegas, sushi chefs are hired as live-in help. and more mysteries are discovered while none are solved.

On this action-slammed episode of the Hidden Treasure podcast, the crew looks into the Skinwalker Ranch, Mike talks about his ideal time travel scenario, Bobby throws around Beat poetry like a cool ass cat, Chris contemplates living in or on Navajo Nation.

DB Cooper puts his airplane heist money towards starting the Starbucks corporation, Santa Anna on Staten Island in exile, LBJ looks to be the only acronym in the White House. Mike gives each European explorer a mob association, Bobby puts his foot down and orders all mufflers to be removed from cars, and the crew puts on their research caps on to do some local internet archeology.

Mike is on curfew, fingerprints get burned off, Bobby talks Times Square piss problems on New Year's Eve, and the crew does a less-than-deep dive into Bob Lazar's Area 51 documentary.

The crew looks for the lost city of Atlantis, but quickly stumble upon the local mystery of the land of the lost IRoc-Z. Mike talks about working over monkeys in the Philippines, Bobby gets sponsorship from Acme glass company and Chris considers optimal ways to die.

The crew looks into stoned martial arts, early jump scares, Daniel Boone's hygiene. Mike is off coffee but still gets a contact high, Bobby postulates about Chucky from Child's Play as a 70's stoner, and the crew stages a bootleg seance to acknowledge and expel their former demons.

The Hidden Treasure gang talk about the Oak Island's real curse, breaking the 4th wall, Czar's behaving badly, ancient Egyptian carpentry and a whole mess more.

Crazy twists, suttle clues, absurdist notions. This episode of Hidden Treasures looks at the hunt for Forrest Fenn’s treasure, John Wilkes Boothe’s disappearance, and whether or not a time machine would work in Lincoln’s favor. Sponsors for this episode include the Staten Island Datsun Graveyard and Pete’s Potato Bread.