Archived Featured Discussion Threads. The former Navy Air Facility Adak is located about 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Open Discussions. He started reporting on the subject of McDonald’s in Afghanistan — and to his amazement, he found a real employee at an Afghan embassy who told him that all over the country, there were bootleg fast-food restaurants selling food based on underground recipes, including McPizza. For reasons he can’t fully explain, he came up with: Whatever happened to pizza at McDonald’s? It is the westernmost municipality in the United States and the southernmost city in Alaska. “Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. “I shall continue my investigation next week.”. There’s a middle school in Utah that years ago buried a time capsule with some kind of McPizza variant that came in a wrapper. This makes sense only in the mind of “Brian Thompson,” whose baseline assumption is that McDonald’s ought to again sell pizza because people love it and because the company is in business to make money. He’ll need to visit. European truck makers say they will phase out fossil fuel vehicles by 2040. There’s one fabulous spot, however, where you can find some incredibly rare species you usually only see in Asia. Posted in Alaska May 27, 2019 by Megan McDonald The Abandoned Naval Base Hiding On An Alaskan Island Is A Birder’s Paradise Alaska itself may be considered a birder’s paradise, as we have 525 recorded avian species! It’s a pitfall Mr. Thompson is acutely aware of and tries to avoid by making himself the butt of every joke. McDonalds, Adak Adak used to have a very large navy base, and the navy left in about 1995, and left everything behind. European Central Bank will lift ban on bank dividends, a sign of cautious optimism. He called Garland, and a representative put him in touch with a service tech in Cleveland who had once repaired McDonald’s ovens. No way, says Mr. Thompson. For years, Adak was a Cold War outpost for Army and Navy barracks, but it was decommissioned in the early 1990s, and the McDonald’s there was abandoned. ", “I would rather be strong at heart than strong at mind”, "Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love.". An abandoned McDonalds, a rusted out playground and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game office on Adak. It’s a practice he lampoons on “Whatever.” In each episode, he writes an ad for a real company that hasn’t paid him a cent, including Audible and Spotify. McDonald’s gave up a few years later. Adak Island is way out there, so far at the end of the Aleutian archipelago in the Bering Sea that it shares a time zone with Hawaii instead of its own state. Adak Island (Aleut: Adaax, Russian: Адак) is an island near the western extent of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.Alaska's southernmost town, Adak, is located on the island.The island has a land area of 274.59 square miles (711.18 km 2), measuring 33.9 miles (54.5 km) on length and 22 miles (35 km) on width, making it the 25th largest island in the United States. The Abandoned McDonald's of Adak, Alaska, Frozen in Time, "We got a job to do so shift your carcass. This McDonalds, like most every other building on the island, is completely abandoned and empty. He segued to stand-up comedy after graduating from college, then started a daily science news podcast in his late 20s. 1 Home For Sale in Adak, AK. He has had bizarre, occasionally illuminating conversations with dozens of people, including a saleswoman at an aerial advertising company. Random Ramblings. Browse photos, see new properties, get open house info, and research neighborhoods on Trulia. Producer & host of the @CrmnlPrspctv & @AttemptedWorder podcasts. “I had heard about it when I was younger, but I’d never tried it,” he said. “Sorry about that,” the manager said, politely. ... semi-abandoned community remain all around. This included fast food like Pizza Hut, McDonald's and Baskin Robins. That landed him a job with a science education nonprofit in Los Angeles, which quickly imploded. That's so cool. The first inhabitants of Adak were the Aleuts as early as 9,000 years ago. Please Login or Register. What a blast from the past. He called two. The military abandoned it all in the late 1990s, turning roughly $3 billion in military assets over to the wind. The top congressional leaders will meet to discuss a stimulus deal and a year-end spending bill ahead of Friday’s deadline. “Have a good night.”. What a blast from the past. Or there’s a chance you’ve blocked it. From an empty McDonald’s to a deserted Kmart, these ransacked restaurants, derelict diners, forgotten food courts and ghostly grocery stores will give you chills. Recorded on September 19, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder. “My dream would be to take scuba diving lessons and search underwater where this barge was located during the fair,” he said. Front Desk. We need a town that looks like everything from the 90s. Intentionally inane, “Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald’s?” satirizes the business of podcasting. The only store on the island (The 100 Knot Store) only has 1 aisle, but that aisle is labeled "Aisle 5". The food. The Adak McDonald’s has attained a certain level of notoriety among urban explorers. Adak Island 10 km; Expedition Harbor 12 km; Kagalaska Island 22 km; LIttle Tanaga Island 36 km; Great Sitkin Island 42 km; Umak Island 42 km; Kanaga Island 51 km; Igitkin Island 53 km; Chugul Island … Featured Discussions. Adak was a staging point for the American military’s Aleutian campaign. On the podcast, Brian Thompson plays an earnest, eager naïf, also named Brian Thompson, who regards himself as an intrepid seeker of truth and seems to think he’s digging into a riddle for the ages.Credit...Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times. “I don’t want this to be a prank show, as much as I love prank shows,” he said. September 19 Camcorder Mcdonalds Alaska Abandoned Shed Military Outdoor Structures Island. Since ancient times this island has been home to the Aleut people, […] This included a tweet from John Darnielle of the indie rock band the Mountain Goats, who wrote: “New favorite thing alert.”, “To me, it’s a show about branding and the way podcasting has grown,” Mr. Darnielle said in an interview. “And I knew there were a lot of McDonald’s that are open 24 hours, so I could call one of them right then.”. Mr. Thompson grew up in northeast Louisiana and originally hoped to write fiction. But as Mr. Thompson prepared to leave the island, his Airbnb host suggested he call a guy named Larry, who, it turned out, had once found a pizza oven in a derelict bowling alley. Unlike the corporate P.R. These days, Adak is a ghost town. Established during World War II during the battle to expel Japanese forces from the Aleutian Islands, the Adak Naval Air Facility helped to boost the population of Adak to around 10,000… and helped support one of world’s northernmost McDonald’s. McDonald’s, it turns out, is the ideal corporate foil for this absurdist spoof. But Little Foot wanted better food for the world. And thus, to Mr. Thompson’s delight, three years into the show, he’d added another reason that McDonald’s killed pizza — the ovens were a fiasco. I actually remember some of those things. Maybe you are too young to remember. A comedy writer living in Los Angeles, Mr. Thompson had been bingeing on true crime podcasts when he decided to create a show that would plumb the stupidest, least consequential mystery he could imagine. “Whatever” has a core audience of about 30,000 listeners, one of whom tattooed a pizza slice and the words “Thank you for your candor” above her ankle, a phrase Mr. Thompson intones after interviews that have shed little light. The podcast depicted this as retaliation against the show, a shameless effort to curtail old-fashioned muckraking. Former contributing writer for @Vice. As of 2014, these facilities appeared unusable and probably ruined beyond repair. On this site , it makes it on the “past food” list of “10 Creepy Closed & Abandoned McDonald’s.” At noon, Elaine and I head away from town towards Finger Bay. Saved by Denise Izmerian. On the island of Adak, Alaska, there’s an abandoned McDonald's, frozen in 1993! Pro weirdo. Well, it is true. There are also a lot of abandoned buildings with hazards like disintegrating materials and broken glass. “Squarespace,” Mr. Thompson said, in a cheery version of a monotone at the end of the pitch. Sometimes Mr. Thompson will satirize the topic of a popular podcast, which, in one memorable instance, yielded unexpected treasure. Exploring Reality. “Armed with this treasure trove of dangerous information,” he said, ending the episode. The movies. department, this guy was chatty. “This gave me the idea that maybe the recipe for McPizza was floating out there on the black market at some point,” Mr. Thompson said. Much of the property on Adak is decaying from the severe weather conditions, with the buildings that once housed 7,500 Navy personnel and contractors and children abandoned to the winds. The Navy pulled out of Adak Island in 1997, followed by a big clean up. Early on, Mr. Thompson learned that a McDonald’s in Pomeroy, Ohio, was the last franchise in the country still serving the pizza, and he raised money through Indiegogo to fly there and try it. “I really want to be the dumbest person in the room at all times.”. “And that kind of opened up the possibility that the show could be anything I want.”. Join me as I explore the creepy homes and abandoned neighborhoods of Adak Island. Our prime location and strategic assets, transferred as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process, make Adak a strong area for future growth and economic activity in relation to the Arctic. Actually, all the talking on the show is done by a character played by Mr. Thompson, an earnest, eager naïf, also named Brian Thompson, who regards himself as an intrepid seeker of truth and seems to think he’s digging into a riddle for the ages. Unexploded ordnance is not the only danger to people of Adak Island. There are big buildings, mostly empty. Who. Alaska’s southernmost town Adak is located on the island of the same name near the western extent of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. As funny as the show is, it can induce winces, particularly when Mr. Thompson is talking to minimum-wage workers, who have little choice but to treat the oddball on the phone diplomatically. English: When the military ceased operations on Adak Island, it left behind a large network of structures, most of which are now abandoned and falling into disrepair. He ended with an off-kilter ad he wrote for Squarespace, the web hosting platform, which he falsely claimed was the show’s sponsor. Large “No Trespassing” signs bar entrance to many of the buildings. At one point, he heard about a McDonald’s in Adak, Alaska, a largely deserted island in the middle of the Bering Sea. Evidently, it had been hauled out of the defunct McDonald’s. YouTube/Popular Cruising Abandoned vehicles, homes and even a McDonalds are all sitting practically untouched. Adak, Alaska- abandoned McDonalds. One trick to keeping this enterprise alive and entertaining is Mr. Thompson’s refusal to accept answers to the show’s titular question, which he had learned by Episode 5. Even after the permanent Aleut villages were abandoned in the 1830s, seasonal and subsistence use of the island continued until World War II (WWII). ... There’s an old McDonald’s boarded up … Adak rounds out that count, settling in at 437 miles east of Attu Island – the very end of the U.S. Larry determined it had been manufactured for McDonald’s by Garland Commercial Industries, a company in Freeland, Pa. To “Brian Thompson,” this was a breakthrough on a par with the formulation of the laws of thermodynamics. On the remote island of Adak, Alaska, there’s an abandoned McDonald's, frozen in time, dating back to when it was an old Navy town. 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