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Ashlee Vance · 93 episodes with transcripts

Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance. Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Spoken has transcripts of 93 Core Memory episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 7, 2026.

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He Bought A Ghost Town And Became A YouTube Star - EP 91 Brent Underwood

October 7, 2026

Ashlee Vance (0:00)

What is it like to buy a ghost town? That is where we get into on this week's episode with our guest Brent Underwood. A few years ago, he bought the Cerro Gordo Mine in California. It's near Death Valley or in Death Valley. It was a silver, and I want to say copper mine that ran for many, many decades. It had a…

We'll have an episode on our main YouTube video channel, the Core Memory channel about our time in Cerro Gordo, but here's our chat with Brent, and I'm sure you will love it. I am Ashlee Vance. This is Core Memory. Off to the ghost town we go.

Brent Underwood (2:15)

I'm doing well.

Ashlee Vance (2:16)

We are in a ghost town. We are in a old mining town.

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