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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| La Vida de Lucha Libre | 13 Sep 2023 | 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. | |||
| England Coast to Coast | 05 Sep 2023 | 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. | |||
| A Cruise Ship to Antarctica | 12 Mar 2023 | 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. | |||
| Off the Grid in the Okavango | 05 Sep 2022 | 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. | |||
| Tracking Tapir in the Pantanal | 18 Aug 2022 | 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. | |||
| Band on the Run with EG Vines | 30 May 2022 | 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. | |||
| The Hunt for Arctic Airship Italia | 04 May 2022 | 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. | |||
| A Solo Traveler's Guide to Kauai | 11 Apr 2022 | 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. | |||
| The Incredible Rescue of Manala and Impi | 04 Apr 2022 | 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. | |||
| The Central Asia Rally | 14 Feb 2022 | 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. | |||
| Filming Finding Adventure | 06 Feb 2022 | 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. | |||
| Around the World Without a Plane Pt. 2 | 30 Jan 2022 | 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. | |||
| A.I. Anthony Bourdain? | 21 Aug 2023 | 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? | |||
| Around the World Without a Plane Pt.1 | 18 Jan 2022 | 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. | |||
| Hostage in the Amazon | 04 Jan 2022 | 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. | |||
| Robbed on the Trans-Siberian Railroad | 24 Nov 2021 | 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. | |||
| Hitchhiking in Portugal | 04 Nov 2021 | 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. | |||
| Trouble in Tanzania | 20 Sep 2021 | 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. | |||
| Anthropology in Mexico | 12 Sep 2021 | 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. | |||
| Diving the Titanic | 27 Aug 2021 | 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. | |||
| Paragliding Normandy | 05 Aug 2021 | 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 | |||
| Skydiving South Africa | 21 Jul 2021 | 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. | |||
| Last Incan Bridge | 07 Jun 2021 | 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. | |||
| Sailing to Svalbard | 07 Aug 2023 | 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. | |||
| Peruvian Amazon | 07 May 2021 | 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. | |||
| Dyatlov Pass | 30 Mar 2021 | 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. | |||
| Oman | 22 Mar 2021 | 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. | |||
| Defying Hurricane Dorian | 27 Dec 2020 | 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. | |||
| The North Pole | 21 Dec 2020 | 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. | |||
| Peru | 16 Dec 2020 | 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. | |||
| Turkey | 07 Dec 2020 | 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. | |||
| Arizona | 30 Nov 2020 | 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. | |||
| Antarctica | 22 Nov 2020 | 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. | |||
| Nicaragua | 16 Nov 2020 | 00:49:34 | |
Meredith packs her bags for an all-inclusive wedding retreat but ends up at a surf hostel on the Nicaraguan coast. | |||
| Saving the Last Tigers | 28 Jul 2023 | 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. | |||
| New Jersey | 03 Nov 2020 | 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. | |||
| Liaoning | 12 Oct 2020 | 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. | |||
| The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | 28 Aug 2020 | 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. | |||
| The Galapagos | 14 Aug 2020 | 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. | |||
| The Scythian Tombs of Tuva | 17 Apr 2020 | 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. | |||
| The Lost Tomb of Osiris | 30 Mar 2020 | 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. | |||
| On Safari in Zambia | 23 Mar 2020 | 01:01:15 | |
Yves confronts colonialism, ecotourism and poaching on a journey to the heart of Africa. | |||
| Sailing Past Pirates to Djibouti | 10 Mar 2020 | 01:07:57 | |
Zach sails from Phuket, Thailand to Djibouti through the pirate-infested waters of Somalia. | |||
| DDP Surfs Costa Rica | 18 Feb 2020 | 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. | |||
| Rhino Rescue in South Africa | 28 Jan 2020 | 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. | |||
| 7 World Wonders in 7 Days | 22 Jul 2023 | 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. | |||
| Tennessee | 28 Jan 2020 | 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. | |||
| Iraq | 28 Jan 2020 | 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. | |||
| Uganda | 28 Jan 2020 | 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. | |||
| Cairo | 28 Jan 2020 | 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. | |||