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The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck

Richard Vandentillaart / Nick Vardon

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck is a documentary-style audio descent into a place that shouldn"t exist—but very much insists that it does.Once a forgotten military outpost in the depths of Northern Ontario, Bootstuck has taken on a life of its own. Discovered only through a pile of mislabeled cassette tapes at a Sudbury garage sale, the story of Bootstuck slowly unravels through scattered interviews, cryptic clues, and increasingly bizarre residents. The deeper you listen, the more you realize

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All Episodes

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TAPE 46 - The Hot Chocolate Day Ruffle Kerfuffle

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/09/14

Another one from the Sudbury box that reads like half a weather report and half a late-night infomercial. It begins with someone solemnly tuned to the “hot chocolate channel,” explaining how to make your cocoa the exact temperature you desire — and, when it cools, how to rescue it with a scoop of something Bootstuck calls hotener. Caleb is dispatched to “boil up another pot” while the rest of the room debates whether a glass will do the job. The day turns stranger fast. Background noise (a “r...

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Tape 45 – Face Eyes and Moon Howls

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2025/09/11

Bootstuck begins the day with a greeting both dramatic and obvious: “Here I am. Look at my face eyes.” From there, the conversation turns lunar. The townsfolk celebrate the moon depending on its fullness—full moons get full howls, half moons get hoots, and cloudy nights simply mean supper. This tradition, naturally, comes from a wild dog. Dinner is also a focus, thanks to the arrival of 72 cans of dinosaur soup. The red-sauced noodles shaped like brontosauruses and spiky dinosaurs quickly bec...

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TAPE 44 - The Ocean Comes To Town

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/08/31

Spring stirs something in Bootstuck, and apparently that something is an ocean under construction. What began as a single hole, diligently filled with Caleb’s 17 buckets of water, has now become a civic engineering project—one bucket per week until the town achieves “ocean status.” Skeptics suggest it’s more of a pond, but optimism prevails. In equally practical fashion, the locals have invented short pants by cutting long ones in half, rotating them daily so that nobody has to fully commit t...

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TAPE 43 - The Bootstuck Nude Racing League

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2025/08/28

This week in Bootstuck, a new civic initiative is announced: treasure chests filled with nickels and notes will be hidden around town, doubling as both a wishing well and a municipal mystery. Meanwhile, preparations are underway for a “cake show,” featuring Gerald popping out of one, Caleb baking another, and Dave inevitably producing something spaghetti-shaped. The town also attempts a census by slapping numbered sticky notes on people’s heads—accuracy optional. And as winter ends, the commu...

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TAPE 42 -Dave’s Dependency Depot

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2025/08/24

Bootstuck continues its grand tradition of opening businesses that should not exist. Fish Beach, the town’s only two-fish restaurant, is thriving thanks to its “hooking parties,” while Tongues and Toes — the shoe-store-coffee-house hybrid that once served cups of Joe’s literal ashes — is finally closing its doors. (Don’t worry, the locals are going back to drinking gravy.) The conversation drifts to childhood snacks (wagon wheels, children — same thing), oddly colored elbows, and Bootstuck’...

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TAPE 41 - A Bootstuck BBQ & A

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/08/21

The latest tape finds our documenter once again baffled by Bootstuck’s cast of interrupters, half-formed ideas, and curious definitions of everyday life. It begins with a supposed “hat guy” sighting, quickly derailed by a newcomer who can’t open his mouth more than a finger-width. From there, the conversation slides into a burned kettle story, the philosophy of “smart ass” versus “dumb ass,” and a failed attempt to pin the label on Steven. Dave is caught walking on a treadmill—not for health,...

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TAPE 40 - Pastels, Pontiacs, and Psychiatrists

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/08/17

Tape 40 opens with an image that’s equal parts slapstick and unsettling: Caleb, attempting what he calls “skywalking,” ties his shoelaces around his hands until he can’t breathe, only to be spun around, slapped on the backside, and sent rolling down a hill like a roly-poly bug. Inexplicably, Hat Guy leaves the room mid sentence to holler a bunch of cattle off the front lawn. From there, the conversation shifts to springtime, a subject taken with Bootstuck’s usual logic: last year it meant Cal...

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TAPE 39 - Even Steven Marbles

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2025/08/14

The tape opens with a heated accusation of lying, quickly derailed into a plan for a New Month’s Resolution: stop working out and start smoking (though the order is negotiable). A discussion of pizza geometry (round box, square pie, triangle slice) swerves into the concept of “topic drift,” which apparently includes drifting cars in Tokyo via mysterious wind power. Attention shifts to Stephen “Marbles” — a Bootstuck local with mismatched legs and shoes that somehow even out. His nickname spar...

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Landfish and Nuts Between Your Legs

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2025/08/10

The tape begins with a triumphant ode to soup — thick enough to hold a flag and hotter than rice — before veering into an odd declaration that “science is a fact.” This somehow segues into a taxonomy lesson where chickens are “land fish” and tuna is “the chicken of the sea.” A grim food memory surfaces: polishing off a case of tuna, only to realize the tins bore a picture of a cat. From there, dinner talk becomes a roulette of chickpeas, mashed pumpkin, and the occasional mystery can — someti...

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TAPE 37 - "Current Affairs and Squeezin Rita"

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2025/08/07

What begins with a vague reference to “current affairs” quickly turns into another Bootstuck spiral of half-finished thoughts, potatoes, and emotional trauma. The narrator once again attempts to document meaningful insight from the townsfolk, only to be met with suspicious snuggling rumors, unsettling clown chatter, and a sudden confession about itchy necks and abandoned parents. Somewhere in the chaos, a circus is being planned — or perhaps invented on the spot. Either way, Dave is involved,...

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TAPE 36 - "Traffic Lights in The Amazon"

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2025/08/03

In this unusually musical instalment, the town confronts the potential arrival of a Walmart with its usual level of deeply flawed logic and overly enthusiastic planning. The tape opens with a morning anthem, improvised in real time and including references to jackets, wolves, and " Walking your Steven" Things escalate quickly from there. Concerned about the rise of future tourism and traffic, the gang discusses installing traffic lights in the center of town. There’s only one problem: B...

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TAPE 35 - "Lasagna Hut with a Flock of Potatoes"

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/07/31

EPISODE SUMMARY (Tape 35): A long-distance call with questionable audio quality spirals quickly into fashion advice, livestock comparisons, silent Caleb, and a surprisingly long telephone cord. Listeners are introduced to a popular local garment made of lamb wool and allegedly topped with a rabbit testicle pom-pom. If no rabbits are available, a Ferret substitute will do. The logistics are unclear. Music preferences in Bootstuck are discussed, but the town’s recent shipment of broken Bluet...

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TAPE 34 - "The Lollipop Song"

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/07/27

A long-distance call with questionable audio quality spirals quickly into fashion advice, livestock comparisons, silent Caleb, and a surprisingly long telephone cord. Listeners are introduced to a popular local garment — a fleece-lined “chook” (hat) — made of lamb wool and allegedly topped with a rabbit testicle pom-pom. If no rabbits are available, a fairy substitute will do. The logistics are unclear. Music preferences in Bootstuck are discussed, but the town’s recent shipment of brok...

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TAPE 33 - "Rita Comes To Visit"

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2025/07/24

This recovered tape opens with a critical musical analysis of Led Zeppelin (mistakenly called Heavy Blimps), accused of using “pots and pans” as instruments and expressing “a lot of love” — roughly 600 loves, by one count. Rita, a long-anticipated seasonal force (or possibly a person), rolls into town early, knocking over Caleb in the process. Her arrival is announced by screaming, thuds, and a haunting playback from last Christmas. The conversation wanders through town-wide blackouts, mismat...

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TAPE 32 - The Shared Reading Bulb

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/07/20

Tape 32 begins mid-conversation as usual, with someone attempting to introduce the mayor before getting sidetracked by vague mouth-based declarations. The bulk of the recording centers on an impromptu town council meeting about real estate agents coming to Bootstuck and the possibility of building 50 new homes. This is seen as “good for business,” though what business that is remains unclear. The meeting quickly derails into a spirited debate over Bootstuck’s communal reading bulb, a single l...

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Tape 31 - The Bubble Games

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2025/07/17

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Tape 30 - The Annual Crash Site Trip

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2025/07/13

Found another tape in that old box from the Sudbury garage sale. I’m still trying to figure out why these people even bothered to record any of this. This one opens with our familiar Bootstuck correspondent ranting about “training your ears to hear fast” by imitating rap music—he actually says rap rap rap rap like that’s instructional. Then he goes on about lines, arrows, and their life purpose (apparently good for Tuesday, Wednesday, and...Tuesday?). There’s a bit about the air and sky (noth...

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TAPE 29 - Jumbo 99 Cents Or Less Video Production House

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/07/10

Another tape cleaned up and transcribed, another mind bending conversation from the 'Stuck. It opens in classic Bootstuck fashion with a baffling promise to “pleasure a man with a musical number,” before drifting into talk about the arrival of Spring—though any meaningful plans from Caleb seem vague at best. There's also an extended and pointless analysis of Dave’s calves, which are apparently “like bushes,” before the recording is interrupted by Steven in the other room loudly watching Of Hu...

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Tape 28 - "Bills Topless Billboard"

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2025/07/06

Another tape and I'm not sure if the numbering is sequential because the subject matter certainly isn't. No introduction, no real context and no interviewer—just Don ranting about Bill's “topless billboard.” He claims it lost the entire top half in a storm, leaving only the bottom and needing a rebuild from a topless neighbour. There’s back and forth about whose job it is to fix it, if anyone even reads it, and whether a warning sign telling people to stay away is worth the trouble. Pa...

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TAPE 27 - "Supply Drops and the Ace of Spades"

The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck ·

2025/07/03

Tape 27: "Supply Drops and the Ace of Spades" Another tape showed up, and I had to listen through the usual haze of static, crosstalk, and a phone call that cut in halfway through. I’m still trying to figure out who is calling them, or how they even have service out there. The conversation is hard to follow, but there are offhand mentions of aerial supply drops. They talk about waiting for things to “fall out of the sky” like that’s their normal supply chain. No schedule, no pilot contact—jus...

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