Get Lost Podcast (Souled Outside Exploration Co.)
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| 06 Feb 2022 | Filming Finding Adventure | 00:45:50 | |
Kinga brings people out of their comfort zones when she travels around the United States in search of adventure. Along the way, she goes river surfing in Pittsburgh, crabbing in New Orleans and bow fishing in Kansas City. And, she tries to convince Joe that his home country is still full of adventure. | |||
| 14 Feb 2022 | The Central Asia Rally | 01:16:07 | |
Travel journalist Jamie Lafferty lands his first big assignment when he's sent to cover a 5,000 mile overland rally from Budapest to Murghab, Tajikistan. The plan? Buy a used car in Hungary, drive it across Central Asia and sell it in Dushanbe. | |||
| 04 Apr 2022 | The Incredible Rescue of Manala and Impi | 00:54:45 | |
Nadia helps a rhino mother and her calf battle a pride of lions. With the help of conservationists, rangers and the world's first rhino orphanage, the two animals—critical to the survival of their species—narrowly escape tragedy. Walk on the frontlines of rhino conservation efforts in South Africa and join us for the incredible story of Manala and Impi. | |||
| 11 Apr 2022 | A Solo Traveler's Guide to Kauai | 00:40:32 | |
Chloe gains a new sense of freedom when she travels alone to Kauai on assignment. Along the way, she picks up a new tattoo and comes into her own as a travel writer. | |||
| 04 May 2022 | The Hunt for Arctic Airship Italia | 01:01:38 | |
Polar explorers venture from Italy to the North Pole in a zeppelin during 1928, but the trip doesn't go as planned. Author Mark Piesing joins us to bring one of polar exploration's most harrowing tales of disaster and rescue back to life. Piesing talks about his book, N-4 Down: The Hunt for Arctic Airship Italia and special guest host Meredith Edwards (Meredith for Real: The Curious Introvert) takes the reigns of the show. | |||
| 30 May 2022 | Band on the Run with EG Vines | 00:38:59 | |
Songwriter EG Vines abandons his life as a Dollar General manager to pursue music from Jonesboro, Arkansas to Nashville, New York and beyond. Along the way, he lives a real life scene from The Blues Brothers in rural Alabama (they were not the "Good Old Boys") and hints at a real-world encounter with aliens. | |||
| 18 Aug 2022 | Tracking Tapir in the Pantanal | 00:44:06 | |
Nat Geo Explorer Patricia Medici takes us to the remote reaches of Brazil's Pantanal, a region known as tapir paradise. There, she talks about what it's like to research one of the world's most unique animals in a quest to better understand the balance between mankind and Mother Nature. Along the way, she recounts a close encounter with a jaguar and updates us on the impact of deforestation in Brazil. | |||
| 05 Sep 2022 | Off the Grid in the Okavango | 00:59:33 | |
Joe journeys to a research camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta to learn about ongoing conservation efforts. Along the way, conservation ranger and guide Keitopetse Kagande talks about a 45-minute standoff with a lion, how climate change is impacting Botswana and what it's like to grow up in one of the planet's last wild places. | |||
| 03 Jun 2019 | New York | 00:41:17 | |
Gary didn't get on an airplane until college. Almost as soon as he did, the North Mississippi native experienced a challenge to the world view he'd grown up with. In our first episode, we go one-on-one with CBS Sports national columnist Gary Parrish to talk about how travel and his job covering collegiate basketball broke him out of his bubble. | |||
| 04 Jun 2019 | Ireland | 00:33:10 | |
Ally had never been to Europe until her friend asked her to come to Ireland on a whim. Within weeks, she was ballin' on a budget while couch surfing and photographing her way across the Emerald Isle. In this episode, Ally breaks down how and why she ended up in Ireland, how Northern Ireland differs from its neighbor, and tells the story of her first meeting with a mysterious man who would change her life—and the lives of hundreds of other young photographers across the United States. | |||
| 12 Mar 2023 | A Cruise Ship to Antarctica | 01:05:06 | |
What does it feel like to cruise to Antarctica? Travel writer Amanda Ogle sets off from Argentina onboard a Viking cruise ship to navigate some of the most violent seas on the planet on the trip of a lifetime. Along the way, she explores whether Antarctic tourism is ethical, what science is being conducted onboard cruises and discusses the future of the cruise industry. | |||
| 06 Jun 2019 | Telluride | 00:54:33 | |
Malik was raised in South Memphis. Growing up, he lost most of his close friends to violence; but for the past few years, the self-made photojournalist, filmmaker and rock climber has been on a journey that's taken him from Black Lives Matter protests to the peaks of the Rocky Mountains with an Oscar-winning actress and the doorstep of a pro football icon. | |||
| 12 Jun 2019 | Cuba | 00:54:04 | |
American travel to Cuba has undergone a renaissance in the past decade. Thanks to recent rules that made traveling to Cuba easier than it's been since the 1960, Cubans and Americans were benefitting from an increase in American tourists to Cuba. But that changed drastically this June when President Trump enacted a ban on cruise ship travel to the Caribbean nation, and nixed one of the most popular ways for Americans to enter Cuba. | |||
| 29 Apr 2023 | Outside Ain't Free | 00:52:21 | |
Malik wins a camper truck in Montana and sets off to document its journey home to Memphis through Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons. The Get Lost Podcast team tags along as part of the film crew. | |||
| 30 May 2023 | Central America Surf Safari | 00:51:03 | |
Autio co-founder Woody Sears sets off on the road trip of a lifetime: a Subaru-powered surf safari down the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Over five months, he learns to surf by camping on the sands of Baja and cruising from Sinaloa to Oaxaca. | |||
| 10 Jun 2023 | Flying Falcons with the Thunderbirds | 00:40:18 | |
Pete Pranica—call sign Grizz— hops into a F-16 fighter jet and takes a ride with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. Along the way, the longtime aviation enthusiast and Memphis Grizzlies play-by-play broadcaster attempts to fulfill a childhood dream without losing his lunch. | |||
| 25 Jun 2023 | The Quinault Rainforest | 00:58:14 | |
Historian, steelhead guide and "Bad Ash" outdoorswoman Ashley Nichole Lewis takes us on a journey to the Olympic Peninsula for a voyage up the Quinault River through one of North America's incredible, temperate rainforests. Along the way, we break down the state of Washington's Fish Wars and the impact of climate change on Quinault tribal land today. | |||
| 22 Jul 2023 | 7 World Wonders in 7 Days | 01:07:59 | |
Jamie sets a Guinness World Record by traveling to the Seven Wonders of the World in under one week while also wearing superhero costume and raising money for charity. McDonald talks about how he became a super hero in a place called Batman, and what it's like to visit a lifetime of bucket list destination in just a few days. | |||
| 28 Jul 2023 | Saving the Last Tigers | 01:07:04 | |
Jeff Morgan takes us on a journey to Sumatra, Thailand and Nepal to talk about critical strongholds where the planet's last wild tigers are attempting to survive. Along the way, he talks us through visits to national parks around the globe, where Global Conservation is working with game rangers to even the odds against poaching. | |||
| 07 Aug 2023 | Sailing to Svalbard | 01:16:37 | |
A spark of inspiration in a tent at the South Pole sends cinematographer Danie Ferreira on a sailing ketch to the Arctic Ocean. Onboard the Bør, he reflects on a lifetime of work that took him from meteorology in Antarctica to the helm of a South African production company and finally onto a sailboat filled with sled dogs above Norway—and he finally reconnects with the creative spirit that fueled his imagination as a teenager. | |||
| 28 Jun 2019 | Influencers | 00:38:08 | |
What is it like to be an influencer? We talk to digital content creator Jessica Doll (@hejdoll), who's traveled the world in front of and behind a lens to find out what goes in behind-the-scenes of Instagram's hottest accounts, and why the job might be a lot more difficult than you think. | |||
| 21 Aug 2023 | A.I. Anthony Bourdain? | 00:58:40 | |
Michael Motamedi relies on an artificial intelligence version of Anthony Bourdain to guide him on a trip around the world. The Get Lost Podcast catches up with Michael and his family in Paris—after a whirlwind tour of Morocco—to see how the trip is going, learn how A.I. is being used in travel and to ask Michael one very important question: what the fuck would the real Tony say? | |||
| 05 Sep 2023 | England Coast to Coast | 01:18:09 | |
On the 50th Anniversary of Alfred Wainwright's "Coast to Coast," travel writer Dan Stables sets off on a 190-mile walk through England's hill country to follow in Wainwright's soggy footsteps. He finds himself traversing rolling pastures, craggy single tracks and mushy bogs on his quest to reach trail's end at Robin Hood's Bay. | |||
| 13 Sep 2023 | La Vida de Lucha Libre | 00:53:24 | |
Corazón de León moves to Mexico to kickstart his career as a wrestler. With dreams of making the big stage in Mexico City, he boards buses bound for the country's far fringes to fill bull fighting rings and ramshackle arenas with fans—and to fill his pockets with pesos. | |||
| 29 Jul 2019 | Fishing | 00:52:39 | |
James spent his childhood sticking his hand in the waters of a Texas pond hoping a catfish would bite it and latch on. Now, he's the editor of a fishing magazine read by millions of people around the world. Fishing has taken James from a small town on the edge of the American southwest to lakes in Spain, reservoirs under Mount Fuji, and crocodile-infested rivers in Africa. | |||
| 01 Aug 2019 | Argentina | 00:52:37 | |
Ski and travel writer Brigid Mander finds herself with a wicked hangover in the remote reaches of Argentina. But when her journey to find a cure takes an unexpected turn, she is detained inside a military outpost, detained as a possible spy. | |||
| 11 Sep 2019 | South Korea | 00:41:17 | |
What was the plan for your life? Were you supposed to live it? Are you currently living it now? Geoff's plan was simple yet ambitious—go to an Ivy League school, get a law degree and become another successful cog in the legal system. But somewhere along the way, Geoff's life took a turn. He made it through Harvard Law but decided to give it all away to became a sports writer. | |||
| 16 Sep 2019 | The Great British Road Trip | 01:11:06 | |
Andrew McDonald is a U.K. native who was born with a rare medical condition that weakens his bones, making it nearly impossible to walk for more than a short distance. For most of his life, he says that disease controlled how he felt about himself, how far he went from home, and how he viewed the world. | |||
| 28 Jan 2020 | El Mirador | 00:37:32 | |
Archaeologist and adventurer Josh Gates is a child of the 1980's. Obsessed with cult heroes like Indiana Jones and the Goonies, he built a life of adventure founded on an enigmatic father an archaeology degree and a knack for writing. Today, he takes us on a flight to Guatemala, where a lost city the size of Los Angeles is only just beginning to be documented by researchers. | |||
| 28 Jan 2020 | Cairo | 01:03:25 | |
There's a Cairo beyond the Giza Plateau. On the opposite bank of the Nile River, a sprawling city of millions bustles and booms every day, without much thought to the wonders on their backdoor. Cairo, in its own right, is a global mega-city with few peers. But great cities require maintenance. They produce waste. And for 60,000 residents of Manshiyat Naser, a city within the city, that means sorting the trash of millions by hand. | |||
| 28 Jan 2020 | Uganda | 01:03:31 | |
Travel writer and photographer Matt Payne ventures into the volcanic mountains of Uganda in search of a second encounter with the country's legendary mountain gorillas. For centuries, these mysterious creatures were thought to be a myth by the scientific communities of Europe; however, locals knew better. And in the last two centuries, Ugandan mountain gorillas have been documented, forced to the bring of extinction, and then helped to rebuild by humans. | |||
| 28 Jan 2020 | Iraq | 00:53:17 | |
Green hills, Justin Bieber and the 4,000-year-old temple complex of Lalish await travelers in Kurdistan. Here, the Yazidi people practice their own religion in one of the planet's oldest continuously inhabited regions. Writer Rebecca Holland visited this northernmost region of Iraq, which is only just beginning to recover from the horrors of genocide and war. | |||
| 28 Jan 2020 | Tennessee | 01:02:42 | |
Andrew Macdonald has had more than a dozen surgeries. His body, riddled by rickets, has never allowed him the mobility that other people enjoy on a daily basis. But after a road trip across the United Kingdom, he decided to finally tackle his first transatlantic flight and visit America. | |||
| 28 Jan 2020 | Rhino Rescue in South Africa | 00:53:52 | |
Every day, at least two rhinos are killed by poachers, their bodies left maimed and broken, their horns sawed off and sent to markets. This year, Margarita Samsonova volunteered at the Care for Wild rhino rescue facility outside of South Africa's Kruger National Park to document the intense care needed to keep one of Africa's most iconic species from extinction. | |||
| 18 Feb 2020 | DDP Surfs Costa Rica | 00:45:24 | |
Diamond Dallas Page visits a remote surf camp in the heart of the Central American jungle to wind back the hands of time. Along the way, he talks about life on the road as a rising wrestler, how fitness plays a role in living a complete life, and his upcoming DDPY Retreat in Mexico. | |||
| 10 Mar 2020 | Sailing Past Pirates to Djibouti | 01:07:57 | |
Zach sails from Phuket, Thailand to Djibouti through the pirate-infested waters of Somalia. | |||
| 23 Mar 2020 | On Safari in Zambia | 01:01:15 | |
Yves confronts colonialism, ecotourism and poaching on a journey to the heart of Africa. | |||
| 30 Mar 2020 | The Lost Tomb of Osiris | 00:45:50 | |
Ramy explores the forgotten tunnels beneath the Giza Plateau and stumbles upon the likely tomb of an Egyptian God. Inside, the Egyptologist and Emmy Award winning film maker finds the answers to a childhood mystery and a riddle thousands of years in the making. | |||
| 17 Apr 2020 | The Scythian Tombs of Tuva | 00:48:32 | |
The frozen tombs of an ancient culture lay largely forgotten in the steppes of southern Siberia. In the Russian republic of Tuva, Gino Caspari's team of archaeologists has been carefully uncovering an enormous, forgotten tomb of the Scythians. Caspari joins us on this episode to talk about the experience of accessing and excavating one of the most remarkable historic sites in the world. | |||
| 14 Aug 2020 | The Galapagos | 00:43:07 | |
Kinga Philipps finds herself swimming in a school of hammerhead sharks in the legendary waters of the Galapagos Islands. There, the journalist explorer come face-to-face with an industry that threatens the future of migratory sharks around the world. | |||
| 28 Aug 2020 | The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | 00:49:08 | |
An all-female crew sets sail for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to study the impact of microplastics on marine life. En route, they conquer storms, swells and smells as they break through the glass ceiling of what people think women are capable of at sea. Explorer's Club member and author Sarah Michler was onboard the eXXpedition ship on that voyage. She joins us to tell the tale. | |||
| 12 Oct 2020 | Liaoning | 00:38:20 | |
Damien digs up fossils from the Cretaceous Period near the border of China and North Korea, and talks about a life at sea with Jacques Cousteau. | |||
| 03 Nov 2020 | New Jersey | 00:57:11 | |
Jay's lifetime of experience in the outdoors is put to the test when unexplainable events take place on a New Jersey camping trip. | |||
| 16 Nov 2020 | Nicaragua | 00:49:34 | |
Meredith packs her bags for an all-inclusive wedding retreat but ends up at a surf hostel on the Nicaraguan coast. | |||
| 22 Nov 2020 | Antarctica | 00:52:12 | |
J.J. finds himself stranded on an isolated research station in Antarctica. With an assignment from National Geographic and no camera crew, it's up to him to carve out an award-worthy story from the ice and the team of stoic Kiwis he's destined to cover. | |||
| 30 Nov 2020 | Arizona | 01:02:06 | |
Doug takes us to the Sky Islands of Arizona, a unique natural habitat being ripped apart by Donald Trump's border wall. There, 30-foot-tall pylons of steel—enough to build 10 Empire State Buildings—are being driven into the ground as contractors dynamite through mountain ranges and disrupt critical habitat for species like jaguar, javelina and endangered fish and reptiles. | |||
| 07 Dec 2020 | Turkey | 00:57:24 | |
Catarina travels to Turkey during the coronavirus pandemic. En route, she gets a glimpse of what international travel looks like amidst a worldwide health crisis, discusses the responsibility that travelers have to global health, and makes her way from Istanbul to the far reaches of one of the world's most culturally rich countries. | |||
| 16 Dec 2020 | Peru | 00:54:24 | |
Rollie quits his job on Wall Street to pursue a life of cage fighting, hitch hiking and storytelling around the globe. Along the way, he bumps elbows with a South American fighting legend and scales Machu Picchu. | |||
| 21 Dec 2020 | The North Pole | 01:00:47 | |
Mark journeys to the North Pole, where he encounters a bizarre spectacle in one of the most isolated places on Earth. Along the way, he talks about helping the Top Gear team on their own Arctic journey and teaches us how climate change is making expeditions much more challenging as sea ice disappears in front of his eyes. | |||
| 27 Dec 2020 | Defying Hurricane Dorian | 01:09:43 | |
Alannah's dreams are pitted against Hurricane Dorian when the catastrophic storm traps her in the Bahamas, stopping her plans to meet Congressman John Lewis in their tracks. Along the way, we talk diving on lost shipwrecks of the transatlantic slave trade, adapting coral reefs for climate change, and the challenges faced in the immediate aftermath of Dorian. | |||
| 22 Mar 2021 | Oman | 01:03:08 | |
The straining of knots, the clattering of a ship’s bell and the flutter of footsteps bounding their way towards the boats—the sounds here started 3,000 years ago. Here in Oman, the sand and surf collide over a Bronze Age harbor that played host to archaeologist and conservator Raven Todd da Silva. This week, Raven takes us on site to experience what it's like to bring the past back to life after three thousand years. | |||
| 30 Mar 2021 | Dyatlov Pass | 01:24:48 | |
They disappeared in February of 1959, a well-equipped group of seasoned hikers on one of the most remote mountains in the world. What transpired in the cold of the Siberian winter was classified by Soviet authorities for decades. It remains an unsolved mystery today, and the location of those events now bears one of the hikers names— Dyatlov Pass. | |||
| 07 May 2021 | Peruvian Amazon | 00:53:22 | |
Armchair anthropologist Matthew McConaughey paddles down the Amazon River on the trail of a bizarre, reoccurring dream. What he finds there circles back decades later and transforms his entire life. | |||
| 07 Jun 2021 | Last Incan Bridge | 00:55:30 | |
Atlas Obscura co-founder Dylan Thuras journeys to The Last Incan Bridge. This remnant from an ancient network of roads was once part of a 25,000-mile network that spanned the Incan Empire. Today, it is the last standing testament to the power of human ingenuity and the skills of Incan engineers. | |||
| 21 Jul 2021 | Skydiving South Africa | 00:45:22 | |
Natalie leaps out of an airplane above the Africa Burn festival. Along the way, she takes us on a cruise through Cape Town and remembers a film project that changed her perspective on South Africa for life. | |||
| 05 Aug 2021 | Paragliding Normandy | 00:48:35 | |
Jessica gets too close to history when her father decides to paraglide over the beaches of Normandy. Guest: Jessica Benson Host: Joe Sills Connect with the show: Get Lost Podcast | |||
| 27 Aug 2021 | Diving the Titanic | 01:04:16 | |
Kim joins a first-of-its-kind expedition to the Titanic, where an experimental deep sea submersible that could take more travelers to the world's most famous shipwreck is put to the test. Along the way, she grapples with the ghosts of Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, and watches a cast of real world explorers and deep sea pioneers come to life for a feature story in Oceanographic Magazine. | |||
| 12 Sep 2021 | Anthropology in Mexico | 01:01:14 | |
Anthropologist Jordan Rydman takes us on a tour of Guanajuato, a historic state near the geographical center of Mexico. From her vantage point in San Miguel de Allende, she explores gentrification, poverty and the complex world of cuisine impacting everyday life south of the border. | |||
| 20 Sep 2021 | Trouble in Tanzania | 01:18:08 | |
Steve confronts burglars, breakdowns and crocodiles on a road trip across East Africa. And when he finds himself stranded at a remote border outpost, events take a turn. Confronted with the choice between his own livelihood and another life, he's faced with an impossible choice. | |||
| 04 Nov 2021 | Hitchhiking in Portugal | 00:53:10 | |
Jordan comes face-to-face with death in a violent California car crash. The incident changes his life and sets him on the backpacker's path, ultimately leading him to the Portuguese hamlet of Sagres—a top destination for surfers around the globe. | |||
| 24 Nov 2021 | Robbed on the Trans-Siberian Railroad | 00:52:33 | |
Fake police and an international shakedown follow travel journalist Erik Trinidad on a trip across Russia. Erik talks about his experience, the 1980s bad guys lurking for him on the railroad and the secret life of butlers in this engrossing interview. | |||
| 04 Jan 2022 | Hostage in the Amazon | 01:00:36 | |
Spears, arrows and guns surround Pedro's t.v. crew as they find themselves counted among unwelcome visitors to a protest in the Amazon. There, the seasoned journalist is faced with a critical negotiation to try save his life and the lives of his crew. | |||
| 18 Jan 2022 | Around the World Without a Plane Pt.1 | 01:23:52 | |
Facing a date with the United Nations, Filip Filipi uses cargo ships, rental cars and railroads to make his way from western Canada to Istanbul without a plane. Along the way, he crosses North America and western Europe while brandishing a uniquely Serbian passport to attempt border crossings in a precarious position. | |||
| 30 Jan 2022 | Around the World Without a Plane Pt. 2 | 01:23:50 | |
Border checkpoints in Siberia, cramped conditions in Belarus and a frantic race to Hong Kong make the second leg of Filip Filipi's journey around the globe even more harrowing than the first. After meeting Daniel Craig and the United Nations in Istanbul, he heads into a blurry series of train cars, cargo ships and bus seats in a quest to finally make it back to Canada across the Pacific Ocean. | |||