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Adrift in the Pacific | Distress Signals | 2
Against The Odds - January 23, 2024 08:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s March 1973, and Maurice and Maralyn Bailey are floating on a small life raft in the middle of the world’s largest ocean. Before their yacht sank into the Pacific, they managed to grab some food and supplies, but their provisions won’t last long. Now, their only hope is to be rescue...
Adrift in the Pacific | The Sinking | 1
Against The Odds - January 16, 2024 08:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn the summer of 1972, Marilyn and Maurice Bailey decide to leave their quiet lives in suburban England behind, to sail across the world and start a new life in New Zealand. But when their 30-foot yacht is struck by a whale, they’re left stranded in a small rubber life raft in the middl...
Encore: Donner Party | In Their Footsteps | 4
Against The Odds - January 09, 2024 08:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn December of 1846, a small group split off from the Donner Party in a desperate attempt to find help. The party, known as the Forlorn Hope, endured the bitter Sierra Nevada winter, trekking roughly 100 miles in 33 days. The route the party took remained unknown for decades. Until 2020...
Encore: Donner Party | Consumed | 3
Against The Odds - January 02, 2024 08:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn the winter of 1847, a series of rescue parties fought their way through record snowfall to try to reach the stranded Donner Party. But when they finally arrived at the snowbound camps, they were unprepared for the scenes of horror and cannibalism they would find. See Privacy Policy...
Encore: Donner Party | Snow and Blood | 2
Against The Odds - December 26, 2023 08:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn November of 1846, an early snowstorm left the Donner Party’s 87 men, women and children trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Freezing and running out of food, they decided to send out a team of men and women on a rescue mission. But soon, the rescuers would find themselves lost an...
Encore: Donner Party | The Shortcut | 1
Against The Odds - December 19, 2023 08:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIn the 1840s, thousands of Americans journeyed west to California to pursue better lives. One group of settlers became infamous: the Donner Party. After taking an unproven shortcut, their wagon train fell dangerously behind schedule. If they couldn’t cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains be...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Lone Survivor | 4
Against The Odds - December 12, 2023 08:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsJournalist Brian Murphy first discovered Leon Crane’s story buried in a press release about a fellow airman, who had died when their B-24 bomber crashed in Alaska in 1943. At the end of the release, he found mention of a “lone survivor,” who walked out of the frozen Yukon over the cours...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | The Long Walk | 3
Against The Odds - December 05, 2023 08:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsLeon Crane abandons the safety of an old hunter’s cabin to make a final push towards what he hopes is a small village. But the ice in the river he’s following has begun to crack, making for a perilous journey. And the closer Crane gets to safety, the more the Alaska winter seems determi...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Cabin Fever | 2
Against The Odds - November 28, 2023 08:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsPilot Leon Crane has spent a week stranded in the Alaska backcountry after his plane crashed, and is in desperate need of food. He’s now considered “missing in action” by the army, with no rescue coming. His only option is to keep walking along a frozen river. But a stroke of luck buoys...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Survival Mode | 1
Against The Odds - November 21, 2023 08:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s December 1943 and First Lieutenant Leon Crane and his crewmates board the Iceberg Inez, a B-24 bomber, for a test run. But when the plane runs into trouble and crashes, Crane finds himself alone in a remote stretch of Alaskan backcountry, far from the army base, Ladd Airfield. With...
Lost in the Rainforest | A Conversation with Yossi Ghinsberg | 4
Against The Odds - November 14, 2023 08:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsToday, Yossi Ghinsberg joins host Cassie De Pecol to discuss how he survived for three weeks alone in the Bolivian Amazon. Yossi reflects on the lessons he learned from the experience, and shares the story of his return to the Amazon a decade later. His book Jungle: A Harrowing True Sto...
Lost in the Rainforest | Man of Action | 3
Against The Odds - November 07, 2023 08:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsKevin Gale desperately tries to organize a search party for Yossi Ghinsberg, who is still lost in the Bolivian rainforest. As days turn to weeks, Kevin worries he'll never see his friend alive again. Meanwhile, malnourished and injured, Yossi is growing increasingly disoriented as he tr...
Lost in the Rainforest | Swept Away | 2
Against The Odds - October 31, 2023 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAfter splitting off from their group, Yossi Ghinsberg and Kevin Gale hope to complete their journey through the Bolivian rainforest by rafting down the Tuichi River. But they quickly discover they're no match for the dangerous rapids. Soon they get separated, and when Yossi makes it to ...
Lost in the Rainforest | Into the Jungle | 1
Against The Odds - October 24, 2023 07:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s 1981 and 22-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg is wrapping up a backpacking trip through South America. In La Paz, Bolivia, he and two friends meet an older Austrian expat, who entices them to join him on a trek into an uncharted corner of the Amazon rainforest. Yossi and his companions set ...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | One Foot in the Black | 5
Against The Odds - October 17, 2023 07:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsKyle Dickman remembers the exact moment he learned about the fate of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. As a former firefighter and hotshot himself, the news hit him hard. He reported on the tragedy for Outside magazine, then spent the next two years researching and writing his book, On the...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Radio Silence | 4
Against The Odds - October 10, 2023 07:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsFueled by 50-mile-an-hour winds, the Yarnell Hill Fire rages out of control. Fire officials have no choice but to evacuate all residents and firefighting crews in its path. But there’s still one crew out there: the Granite Mountain Hotshots. They think they’ve found a shortcut to a safe...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Shifting Winds | 3
Against The Odds - October 03, 2023 07:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsWhen the Yarnell Hill Fire abruptly changes direction, hotshot Brendan McDonough has to abandon his lookout post and run for his life. Meanwhile, the rest of his crew, the Granite Mountain Hotshots, are safe on a ridge, in what firefighters call “the black” – an already-burned area. But...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Into the Breach | 2
Against The Odds - September 26, 2023 07:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsThe Granite Mountain Hotshots arrive in Yarnell to help fight what is now the number-one fire priority in all of Arizona. But crew chief Eric Marsh is frustrated when his guys are assigned to create fire breaks at the back of the fire. He wants his team to be on the front lines, where t...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | The Spark | 1
Against The Odds - September 19, 2023 07:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsOn June 28th, 2013, lightning sparks a wildfire near the town of Yarnell in central Arizona. Fueled by dry conditions, the fire quickly spreads. To contain the blaze, local officials call in elite crews of firefighters known as hotshots. One team, the Granite Mountain Hotshots, from the...
Listen now: Infamous International: The Pink Panthers Story
Against The Odds - September 14, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsThis is Infamous International: The Pink Panthers Story, the first true crime limited podcast series from Exactly Right Media, home of My Favorite Murder. Over the course of nine episodes, you’ll be introduced to the Pink Panthers, the world’s most notorious jewel thieves who emerge...
Hurricane Katrina | Katrina Babies with Filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. | 5
Against The Odds - September 12, 2023 07:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAs Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, 13-year-old Edward Buckles, Jr. piled into a car with his family and evacuated. They drove for hours on clogged roads, and slept on a shelter floor that night. When Edward woke up the next morning and saw news reports of his city under water,...
Hurricane Katrina | We Were Here | 4
Against The Odds - September 05, 2023 07:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsAt long last, the government’s rescue effort kicks into high gear and buses arrive to evacuate people from New Orleans. But it’s too late for many residents, who died in their homes waiting to be rescued. Thousands of people’s lives are shattered, and the damage to the city is extensive...
Hurricane Katrina | Beyond Critical | 3
Against The Odds - August 29, 2023 07:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsDays after Hurricane Katrina floods their city, residents of New Orleans become increasingly desperate, as the government bungles the rescue effort. Using doors and other items to make improvised rafts, people make their way from their flooded homes to the Superdome and the Convention C...
Listen Now – Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting
Against The Odds - August 28, 2023 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsWhen Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities suspect he was eaten by alligators but the true predators who took Mike may lurk much closer to home. The mystery of Mike’s disappearance might have faded from memory, if it wasn’t for one woman’s tireless crusade. From Wond...
Hurricane Katrina | Stranded | 2
Against The Odds - August 22, 2023 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsOfficials learn that the storm surge from Katrina has breached New Orleans’s levees, allowing water to pour into the city. Soon, 80 percent of New Orleans is underwater. Many residents become trapped in their homes, and are forced to climb into their attics and onto rooftops, as their n...
Hurricane Katrina | Code Gray | 1
Against The Odds - August 15, 2023 07:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsIt’s late August 2005, and the city of New Orleans makes preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. But after decades of hurricanes missing the city, many residents are confident they can ride out the storm. By the time Mayor Ray Nagin orders the first mandatory evacuation in Ne...
Apollo 13 | A Flight Director Remembers | 6
Against The Odds - August 08, 2023 07:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsJim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert went through the ordeal of their lives on the Apollo 13 Mission. But the people manning Houston’s Mission Control faced their own challenges as they figured out how to bring the astronauts home safe. Former NASA Flight Director Gerry Griffin was i...
Apollo 13 | Splashdown | 5
Against The Odds - August 01, 2023 07:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsSix days into their mission, the Apollo 13 astronauts have been working under immense pressure and on very little sleep. Tempers grow short as they battle with Mission Control in Houston over what steps to take for their biggest challenge yet: reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Listen ea...
Apollo 13 | 43 Amps | 4
Against The Odds - July 25, 2023 07:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsThe three astronauts on the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft round the Moon and finally begin the return leg of their journey toward Earth. But their troubles are far from over. They still have to strictly ration the amount of power they’re using, so they have enough remaining for the all-...
Apollo 13 | Tiger Team | 3
Against The Odds - July 18, 2023 07:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratingsThe three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft have retreated into the cramped lunar module, the only part of the spacecraft that’s still fully functioning. Back on Earth, NASA’s Mission Control sets up an elite team of engineers—the Tiger Team—to figure out how to stretch the sp...
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