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Everest '96: Trapped in the Death Zone | Top of the World | 2
Against The Odds - July 09, 2024 07:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAs the climbers make their final push for the summit, time is of the essence. They must make it to the top before 2 p.m. to ensure they get back to camp before dark. But due to delays, most of them don’t reach the summit until late in the afternoon, and by then, everyone is exhausted an...
Everest '96: Trapped in the Death Zone | Mountain Madness | 1
Against The Odds - July 02, 2024 07:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn May 1996, two expert mountaineers and their clients set off to climb the world’s tallest peak — Mount Everest. Many of the clients have no high altitude experience and have paid upwards of $65,000 to be guided up the mountain by competing companies: Adventure Consultants and Mountain...
Voyage to the North Pole | Finding USS Jeannette | 6
Against The Odds - June 25, 2024 07:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsWhen author and historian Hampton Sides was deep into researching another polar expedition, he stumbled upon the tragic journey of USS Jeannette. He couldn’t believe Captain De Long’s voyage wasn’t common knowledge. The 33-man crew endured extreme hardship, and only 13 survived what Sid...
Voyage to the North Pole | Siberia | 5
Against The Odds - June 18, 2024 07:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAfter months of trekking across the polar ice, the crew of USS Jeannette finally reach open water. Now, they must endure a harrowing ocean crossing in three small, leaky boats to reach Siberia, where they hope to make contact with the native residents, and beg for food and shelter. But ...
Voyage to the North Pole | The Skeleton Pack | 4
Against The Odds - June 11, 2024 07:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s June 1881, and USS Jeannette has been crushed between ice floes and sunk to the bottom of the Arctic Sea. The crew now find themselves stranded on the ice, a thousand miles from Siberia, the nearest inhabited land. If they’re ever going to reach it, they’ll have to endure a brutal ...
Listen Now: Wow in the World's Summer of Wow!
Against The Odds - June 10, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsWow in the World is the #1 science podcast for kids and their grown-ups. Hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz share stories about the latest news in science, technology, and innovation. Stories that give kids hope, agency and make us all say "WOW"! New episodes come out every Monday. Listen ...
Voyage to the North Pole | Crushed | 3
Against The Odds - June 04, 2024 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsTrapped in polar pack ice, the crew of USS Jeannette settle in for a long, dark winter. As the temperature drops and the ice floes press against her sides, the ship risks suffering grave damage. Morale drops, as the sailors begin to wonder if they’ll ever return safely from the endless ...
Voyage to the North Pole | Icebound | 2
Against The Odds - May 28, 2024 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s September 1879 and the crew of USS Jeannette encounters pack ice that’s thicker than they expected, due to unseasonably cold weather. Captain George De Long is at a loss for how to push through it until the ship’s engineer George Melville proposes an ingenuous solution. But as the ...
Listen Now: The Daily Stoic
Against The Odds - May 27, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsEvery day on The Daily Stoic Podcast you’ll find lessons on how to live a better life through the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, a philosophy of kings and emperors, as well as ordinary people alike. Stoicism is a philosophy designed to make us more resilient, happier, more virtuous and...
Voyage to the North Pole | Arctic Dreams | 1
Against The Odds - May 21, 2024 07:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn July 1879, 33 men set sail aboard USS Jeannette on a two-year mission to become the first humans to reach the North Pole. Though many other expeditions have failed, Captain George De Long is confident that a warm northbound current will give them enough momentum to escape getting stu...
Encore: Meltdown at Fukushima | The Devil's Chain Reaction | 4
Against The Odds - May 14, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAfter a week of unrelenting disasters—and with Tokyo itself now under threat—the managers of the Fukushima nuclear power plant are forced to evacuate all but the most essential staff. But with the help of an elite firefighting force called the Hyper Rescue Squad, the remaining few rally...
Listen Now: Blame it on the Fame: Milli Vanilli
Against The Odds - May 13, 2024 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsWhen Frank Farian first laid eyes on Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, he saw everything he wasn’t. They were handsome, young, and Black. But Frank had something they didn’t. He had power. So, Frank offered them a devil’s bargain. Almost overnight, Milli Vanilli’s debut album went five times...
Encore: Meltdown at Fukushima | Collapse | 3
Against The Odds - May 07, 2024 07:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsNow contending with multiple damaged reactors, engineers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant hatch a series of increasingly desperate plans to prevent a total meltdown. But several explosions and the loss of vital cooling pumps bring the entire plant to the brink of chaos. As the crisi...
Encore: Meltdown at Fukushima | Pressure | 2
Against The Odds - April 30, 2024 07:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsCrippled by a tsunami of unprecedented scale, one of the reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in danger of melting down. To save it, workers must do the unthinkable: Vent radioactive steam into the atmosphere, to avoid a larger catastrophe as explosive gasses bui...
Encore: Meltdown at Fukushima | Triple Disaster | 1
Against The Odds - April 23, 2024 07:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn March 2011, one of the largest earthquakes in history struck eastern Japan, followed by a massive tsunami. This one-two punch then caused a third disaster—a total loss of power at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Employees at the plant found themselves scrambling to cool do...
Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
Against The Odds - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsWhen ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to f...
BONUS: When Animals Attack with Tooth & Claw | 6
Against The Odds - April 16, 2024 07:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsOn this special episode of Against the Odds, wildlife biologist and host of the podcast Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks, Wes Larson, joins Mike Corey to share some of the wildest animal encounters he’s come across, and give tips on what to do if you come across these creatu...
Buried Alive | The Elusive Gary Krist | 5
Against The Odds - April 09, 2024 07:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAtlanta-based journalist Steve Fennessy began researching Gary Steven Krist’s past for an article he was writing for Atlanta Magazine back in 2006. The assignment took him on a deep dive into Krist’s life, from his upbringing through the aftermath of one of the most notorious crimes of ...
Buried Alive | The Chase | 4
Against The Odds - April 02, 2024 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s been days since Barbara Mackle has been buried alive in the cold Georgia clay. She has no idea how long the battery that keeps fresh air circulating into her wooden capsule will last. She's beginning to despair that she'll ever be rescued. Meanwhile, in Florida, after the first ra...
Listen Now: Spellcaster - The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Against The Odds - April 01, 2024 20:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsWhen nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s richest 29-year-old, he pledged to donate his billions to good causes. But when Sam's crypto exchange FTX collapsed, billions of dollars went missing, and Sam was in handcuffs, those who knew him were left wondering — wh...
Buried Alive | The Drop | 3
Against The Odds - March 26, 2024 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsBarbara’s father, Robert Mackle, has gathered $500,000 in 20-dollar bills into a suitcase. Then, following the kidnappers’ instructions, he goes by himself to the drop site – an abandoned causeway in Miami. But when he gets lost on the way to the site, he begins to worry that the kidnap...
Buried Alive | The Box | 2
Against The Odds - March 19, 2024 07:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsDrugged and sick with flu, Barbara Mackle begs her kidnappers not to bury her underground. But soon she’s sealed inside a cramped wooden box, and can hear dirt being shoveled onto the lid. Meanwhile, a mysterious caller to her family’s home outside Miami directs them to a note buried be...
Buried Alive | Taken | 1
Against The Odds - March 12, 2024 07:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s December, 1968, and 20-year-old Emory University student Barbara Mackle is taken at gunpoint from the Atlanta motel room she’s sharing with her mother. Her two kidnappers drug her and then drive her to a remote spot in the woods outside the city. Their plan? To bury her alive in a ...
Johnstown Flood | Prepare for the Worst | 5
Against The Odds - March 05, 2024 08:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsNational Park Ranger Doug Bosley’s existence hinges on a few dangerous seconds in the life of his great-great grandfather, William Pickerill. On May 31, 1889, Pickerill worked as a telegraph operator down the valley from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Before it was washed away by the flood, h...
Listen Now: The Spy Who
Against The Odds - March 04, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsThese are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked ev...
Johnstown Flood | Fire on the Water | 4
Against The Odds - February 27, 2024 08:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAfter the flood leaves many Johnstown residents trapped by debris and fighting for their lives, several oil slicks from leaking industrial equipment catch fire, igniting a deadly inferno. Sixteen-year-old Victor Heiser must rescue a young woman whose leg is pinned by rubble as the fire ...
Johnstown Flood | Cascade | 3
Against The Odds - February 20, 2024 08:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsDespite the efforts of engineer John Parke, the South Fork Dam does break. The ensuing flash flood sweeps up a vast, moving wall of debris: mud, rocks, trees, fragments of bridges and smashed-up houses. Residents in Johnstown, including Reverend H.L. Chapman and his family, have mere se...
Johnstown Flood | Overflow | 2
Against The Odds - February 13, 2024 08:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsEngineer John Parke and a team of workers furiously shovel dirt, trying to shore up the South Fork Dam as it threatens to overflow, amid torrential rains. Parke knows these efforts are their only chance of preventing a terrible flood. He decides he has to warn the towns in the river val...
Johnstown Flood | The Dam | 1
Against The Odds - February 06, 2024 08:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s May, 30th 1889, and the South Fork Dam in Western Pennsylvania is in danger. After nearly a month of hard rain, eight inches have fallen in one day, filling the lake behind the dam to capacity. And the dam’s owners, the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club, have cut corners in repai...
Adrift in the Pacific | Creatures of the Sea | 3
Against The Odds - January 30, 2024 08:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsOver 100 days have passed since the Baileys’ yacht sank, leaving them adrift on a life raft in the Pacific ocean. They’ve managed to survive on turtle meat and fish they catch with a makeshift fishing hook, but they are in terrible physical condition. Now, their life raft is leaking, an...
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