Most people’s side hustles involve drop-shipping cheap plastic garbage or slowly destroying their car's suspension driving for Uber. I decided to monetize human hubris, bureaucratic incompetence, and the fact that 19th-century miners had a spectacular, almost artistic talent for blowing themselves up.

Hey everyone, I'm David. When I'm not dealing with the sheer, unadulterated thrill of Southern California inventory handling, I’m building a new revenue stream. It’s a narrative history podcast and companion Substack called Don't Die in a Mineshaft.

Don't Die In A Mineshaft

I figured you would appreciate the actual production workflow. Doing everything manually is a sucker's game, so here is exactly how I'm putting this together (and where I'm currently screwing it up):

* The Data: I run an AI scraping workflow to gut the deep web for historical archives, forgotten field geology reports, and old mining records.…