A Treasure Worth Dying For
Imagine being so rich and so bored that you start the world's craziest, and possibly most dangerous, treasure hunt.
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Micro is a podcast that tells stories and explains ideas in under five minutes. Host Rich Raycraft is obsessed with all the weird things that make our world stranger than fiction, and this "short form" podcast is his way of sharing them.
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