From Medal of Honor: James Fleming’s Impossible Vietnam War Rescue
In 1968, in the dense jungles of Vietnam, a team of Green Berets was pinned down by an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army force. Their last hope was a young Air Force pilot named James Fleming. Despit...
27 Maj 31min
Decoding Psychedelics with Dr. Grace Blest-Hopley from Decoding Women's Health
What if psychedelics could transform the way we treat trauma, chronic pain, and insomnia? This week, neuroscientist and psychedelic researcher Grace Blest-Hopley joins the show to break down the resea...
27 Jan 48min
The 25 Most Exciting Places to Travel in 2024 from Unpacked by AFAR
We're a few months into the new year. Maybe you're a freshly minted, idealized version of yourself. Or maybe your new year's resolutions are as distant as the icebergs of Antarctica. But no matter wha...
11 Mars 202445min
Not Lost Chat: Paradise City (Pico Iyer & Reggie Watts)
No piña coladas were consumed during travel writer Pico Iyer’s quest for paradise. Instead he found himself communing with guides and locals in thorny parts of the globe: Iran, Kashmir, and North Kore...
16 Feb 202341min
Not Lost Chat: Wild Sugar (Cheryl Strayed)
Brendan finds the perfect Not Lost Chat guest in author Cheryl Strayed, who not only wrote the bestselling travel memoir “Wild,” but is also a renowned advice columnist. First, they talk about Strayed...
8 Feb 202338min
Not Lost Chat: Traveler Not Tourist (Geoff Dyer & Colman Domingo)
Brendan receives a postcard from the only registered US historical landmark outside America and then talks with the great essayist, novelist and occasional world-class complainer, Geoff Dyer about tra...
1 Feb 202347min
Not Lost Chat: How Do You Say “Love”? (Kristin Newman & Paul Feig)
Brendan speaks with Kristin Newman, author of “What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir,” about falling in love in a different language, plus she provides travel tips for folks who are singl...
25 Jan 202334min
Not Lost Chat: Further Than They Appear (Marius Kociejowski & Jessi Klein)
Brendan visits Japan on a trip that puts the “junk” in junket. Then he speaks with Marius Kociejowski, author of The Serpent Coiled in Naples, an immersive plunge into the Italian city where skulls ar...
18 Jan 202350min
