The Get Lost Podcast

04/04/2022

A few days into her young life, wildlife monitors realized Impi was born a fighter. They laughed as she fought off warthogs and jousted with a stick in her mother's horn. They didn't realize little Impi would need those fighting skills almost immediately.

When a pride of lions took interest in the young calf, conservationist Nadia Beeslaar knew there would be trouble. Impi could battle young warthogs and sticks—but lions were another matter.

In what became one of the most intense weeks of her life, Nadia and her team scramble to keep the lions at bay for eight days, using 24/7 rhino and lion watches to protect the life of a calf vital to the future of her species.

Hear the tale now on the Get Lost Podcast.

01/02/2022

How can you travel around the world without boarding an airplane? Ask rapper-turned-humanitarian Filip Filipi and he'll explain it to you. The journey takes creativity, patience, a little luck and a lot of time.

This week, we pick up where we left off—with Filip attending a United Nations conference beside James Bond (somehow) destinted to make it home.

Around the World Without a Plane Part 2 is live!

24/01/2022

Podcasting is weird.

It's also wonderful.

In episode 119, fellow podcaster, Joe Sills of Souled Outside & I each share the 2 interviews that changed our lives.

**SPOILER ALERT** One of them is with Matthew McConoughey

We talk:

--The power of disclosure
--Imposter syndrome remedies
--The contrast of masculinity & vulnerability
--The episode that gave me permission to be me
--Episodes that changed others lives

Click to listen or watch https://linktr.ee/MEREDITHFORREAL

04/01/2022

Wild. Untamed. Unpredicable. We’ve been to the Amazon before—once on a float, once on a hike. Today, we return, but not for a spirit quest or the views. Today, we return to the Amazon for its people. Beside the rivers and beneath the trees, the indigenous people of the Amazon remain. And though time changes much of the world they know inside the rainforest, they still have much to teach those of us on the outside.

Pedro Andrade tells the tale.

05/10/2021

Quarter bird what's the word? We're celebrating a stint in the U.S. Top 40 and U.K. Top 100 for travel podcasts with a new drop! This time, we're off to Tanzania for a cross-country road trip with UPROXX editor Steve Bramucci.

Things get off to a rocky start when Steve's beat up 4x4 starts popping tires in the middle of the wilderness. From there, it's on to a rendezvous with bandits, more breakdowns and destiny when he ultimately holds another human's fate in his hands.

28/08/2021

This week, The Explorers Club fellow Kim Frank 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.

Footage courtesy OceanGate

19/08/2021

Looking for an audio fix this week? Our host Joe Sills just joined Chris Jericho to talk about the legend of the Mothman and the mysterious events leading up to one of America's most tragic bridge collapses—including UFO sightings and a mysterious creature in the woods—on Talk is Jericho.

We'll see ya next week with an all new Get Lost Pod!

22/07/2021

Would you jump out of a perfectly good airplane? What if it meant descending onto the African version of Burning Man complete with booming music, dancing and tents of nefarious natures. Natalie Galardi did—and she joins us this week to tell the tale on an all new Get Lost Podcast sponsored by Parker Prints.

09/06/2021

NEW DROP! Bandits, hidden waterfalls and the remnants of an ancient empire await as we head back to Peru with Atlas Obscura co-founder, Dylan Thuras, on a journey to The Last Incan Bridge.

Join us... if you dare.

10/05/2021

If you want to get into trouble quick, find an anthropologist. If you want to try to be an anthropologist, you’ll probably find trouble quick.

That’s what happened to this week’s guest when he decided to follow a bizarre dream to the banks of the Amazon River. There, he learned a lesson in mindfulness while embarking on a journey that would ultimately take him to a remote, nearly forgotten culture an ocean away in Africa.

Today, he’s an Academy Award winner and the Minister of Culture at the University of Texas; but he’s always been the little boy from a small town that was itching to explore the world to document what he found, an armchair anthropologist if you will.

Start your week off in the jungle with us and Matthew McConaughey

07/05/2021

07/05/2021

We're back from a short break and we're taking you on a paddle down the Amazon River with Matthew McConaughey.

Years ago, Matthew found himself on the fringes of the Peruvian Amazon. He knew he had to delve deep into the jungle, so he boarded a pirogue and paddled his way through the rainforest for 12 days.

This week, he joins us on the show to tell us why he left Hollywood and followed a strange, reoccurring dream into one of the most remote places on the planet.

13/04/2021

Big thanks to UPROXX for putting us on the list with Tom Green, Rick Steves and Nat Geo. We're stoked to be in great company and looking forward to a groundbreaking year with mega guests and unbelievable adventures! https://uproxx.com/life/best-travel-podcasts-2021/?fbclid=IwAR2TrQhLj4m3SAtez264ycgr3p83u_Hp_SUDRJ7OzCKZSgb_EQ9RNma2OFU

With travel opening up, let these 30 entertaining, thoughtful, and educational travel podcasts inspire your next grand adventure.

25/03/2021

We're back from winter break! Season three kicks off in Oman, where Dig it with Raven takes us to a 3,000-year-old port whose archaeological secrets are being uprooted from the sands of time.

04/01/2021

We're taking a break from new episodes for a few weeks, but we are making time to upload last season's award-winning joints to YouTube.

Anybody up for some real Indiana Jones quests with Joshua Gates? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEesBkgAuuU&t=4s

Expedition Unknown host Josh Gates joins The Get Lost Podcast to talk about a lost Mayan city the size of Los Angeles deep in the jungles of Guatemala. Along...

30/12/2020

We love to tell other people's stories and want to thank The Daily Memphian for providing a chance to dig into our own backstory. If you want to know more about what we're all about, take a deep dive with one of the best writers in the game, Jared 'Jay B' Boyd https://bit.ly/3aQwybJ

Joe Sills travels the world to document faraway lands. His "Get Lost" podcast is designed to inspire Memphians to take their own journeys.