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The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck
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 — this isn't just a town. It's a puzzle. And somewhere in that puzzle?
A plane crash that changed everything.
Somewhere between folklore, found audio, and fever dream, Bootstuck blurs the line between documentary and delusion—offering listeners a place to get lost in, over and over again.
The Unorganized Township of Bootstuck
TAPE 54 - Screw the Violins Together
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Bootstuck receives another baffling shipment — one that somehow contains blank coins with holes, six violins (or possibly chair parts), an unidentified handled object, and an alarming number of beans. Between coughing up a real frog mid-conversation and debating how to “screw violins together,” the townsfolk attempt to make sense of their new supplies. They even claim to have a refrigerator — though it doesn’t run and functions mostly as a bookshelf.
Somewhere between food safety and symphony, the group plans to teach the township how to identify edible mushrooms, a noble idea given how often everyone seems to be poisoned. The call ends with their usual abrupt sign-off ritual, and the faint sense that Bootstuck might just survive another day — on beans alone.
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So what else did you get in the shipment?
Speaker 1Oh, it was on so many times.
Speaker 2No, anywho.
Speaker 1Hang on, I'm speaking.
Speaker 2You're walking.
Speaker 1Here we go. One time or one case. You're walking over me. Wait.
Speaker 2Let me finish the quest. Oh.
SpeakerYep. Yep. Whoop.
Speaker 2Oh my god. Anywho, uh So well, other than a bunch of magazines you can't read, what else did you get?
Speaker 1Yeah, we got lots of things this time. We got we're not sure what these are. I think they're quarters, but there's nothing on them and they got holes in them. They all sound different. Listen.
Speaker 2Oh my god, that's horrendous.
Speaker 1Yep, but it's also music to our ears. We all we also got violins and cellos. Six of them. Yep. You know how? You know how to make those go? Kind of like a guitar, uh, but then you got an extra piece. And you slap it. I think you slap it. Screw them inside each other there and see what happens. We're gonna find out. We're gonna put it all together. We've gotta we gotta otherwise we'll make a chair.
Speaker 2You need a bone to play those.
Speaker 1Hold on, I got a frog in my throat. Hold on, I gotta get him out.
Speaker 2Oh my god.
Speaker 1Yeah, he was small, but he was in there. That was an actual frog.
Speaker 2That was an actual frog.
Speaker 1Yeah, a little green tree frog. It's okay. Carry on. We also got other things inside of the box. We got one of these things with a handle. You ever seen one of them?
Speaker 2Uh, could you narrow it down?
Speaker 1I could throw it down. Tell me what it sounds like to you. Yeah, it's hard to describe. Yeah. We got two of them. Anyways, we also have a brand new package of beans. It's pretty big. I think we're gonna keep warm. Yep. Think about that. Not too much.
Speaker 2Oh, I try not to give it too much of my day.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like to give most things half of my day, and then the other half was saved for nighttime, and then a kind of propel time. Cross it off the board. I don't know if I used that one right, but I'm gonna take it off the board anyway.
Speaker 2Oh heavens. Um, uh did you get any food in the latest ship? Sleep?
Speaker 1Yeah, we got lots of sleep around here. Uh we got tired pretty quickly. And that what did you ask?
Speaker 2Not that.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2I asked if you got any food.
Speaker 1Yeah, beans. Told you about that. What else you got for me?
Speaker 2Any any different food other than beans? Did you see?
Speaker 1No. Yeah. 72 cans of beans and one sack of dry beans. I don't know if there's beans or if there's puffs of wheat. I ain't sure. I ain't opened the sack yet. We're gonna get Caleb to get in there later after we figure out what's in there.
Speaker 2Guess that'll go into the food shed.
Speaker 1That'll go into one of the sheds or into our bellies.
Speaker 2Good options.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like to put food in either a refrigerator or my mouth.
Speaker 2Yeah, wait, you have a refrigerator?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Oh, I didn't know you had a plant case.
Speaker 1It's not running, but we got one. Yeah, it's like a bookcase. You ever do that?
Speaker 2Uh no.
Speaker 1We got so many books here, is why we got lots of knowledge in our heads. Yeah, we'll keep reading different things different days, and then we learn. Today we're gonna learn about what mushrooms we can eat from outside. It's probably about time.
Speaker 2Uh well, yeah, that that would be quite helpful if you could forge.
Speaker 1Yeah, everybody keeps getting sick around here, so we're gonna have to figure that one out. We cut the page out and we're gonna put it on the bulletin board for everybody to see it.
Speaker 2Well, that that's remarkably uh thoughtful.
Speaker 1Sorry about that.
Speaker 2No, please s feel free to be intelligent at any time.
Speaker 1Yeah, but not right now. We're gonna have to hang on until I have one of those thinking there, talking to them.
Speaker 2The one that makes you use verbs.
Speaker 1Yeah, and and adjectives. Yep.
Speaker 2Oh, cross it off the board.
Speaker 1No, we used that one before. And that's not something I want to talk about today.
Speaker 2What uh okay. Well, I guess to wrap up like we normally do.
Speaker 1You'll say something and I'll say, Gotta go. We kinda like that. You wanna do that one again?
Speaker 2No.
