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Not Me, Not Today Podcast

Not Me, Not Today Podcast

A weekly Society, Culture, Documentary and History podcast
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We’re back with part two in this tale. Holly and Gerry find themselves in a dead end swamp.  After finding a smaller raft; they decide to abandon The Pink Palace in favour of it, to paddle their way out. Only, storms and exhaustion forced them
Holly and Gerry Fitzgerald married in 1970 and wanted to have the honeymoon of a lifetime. They worked all the hours they could to save money for year of travelling. In late 1972, they started their honeymoon, travelling South America. In the s
Poon Lim holds the world record for longest survival at sea on a life-raft. Whilst working on a British freighter, it was hit by the Germans with torpedoes. In two minutes the ship sank. Poon leapt overboard and found himself floating 250 miles
Steven Stayner was just 7 years old when he was abducted on December 4th, 1972. He spent the next 7 years living with a vile paedophile named Kenneth Parnell. Parnell, kept Steven for these years, moving around California, enrolling Steven into
Ada Blackjack was an Inupiat born woman, originally named Ada Delutuk, but was actually raised by Methodist missionaries in Nome, Alaska.  At 16, she married an abusive man named Jack Blackjack and had three children with him. Only one of those
Wojtek was a Syrian bear that was bought by Polish soldiers just at the start of World War 2. He was raised by them and lived with them for many years, enjoying many a beer, cigarettes and even learned to walk on his hind legs like his fellow c
Vesna Vulovic holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. She was working as an airhostess in 1972, when an explosion in the luggage hold, tore apart the plane sending Vesna into a 33,333ft fall. She mana
Aron Ralston is a man many of you will be familiar with. In April 2003 he took a trip to Bluejohn Canyon alone. He told nobody where he was going. Aron shortly into his trip, finds himself stuck in the canyon, with his  lower right arm crushed
Travis Barker is a world famous drummer and music producer, known mainly from Blink-182. Travis had always been afraid of flying and had expressed it to his manager before, convinced he was going to die in a plane crash. Despite these fears he
In 1848, Phineas Gage was blasting rocks to make way for the new railroad. He was packing a hole with blasting powder and a fuse, when momentarily distracted, scraped his iron tampering rod along a rock producing a spark and igniting the fuse.T
In part 2 we discuss Yossi Ghinsberg's journey alone through the jungle.He goes through some incredible challenges like almost falling off another waterfall, surviving a flash flood, a mud pit…twice, being almost eaten alive by ants and termite
Yossi Ghinsberg was 22 in 1981 when he and 3 others took to the jungle looking for an adventure of a life-time. After stocking up for what was supposed to be a six week long trip they set off into the jungle.They met rarely contacted tribes, at
We are back with part 2! In part two we discuss Tere Jo's rescue. What happened to Julian Harvey when he found out Tere Jo was alive? What really happened aboard the Bluebelle that night?Where is Tere now? We cover all of it and more in the gri
Tere Jo Duperrault was just 11 years old when she was found floating alone, out at sea on a tiny life-raft. She was a survivor of a tragedy aboard The Bluebell. A tragedy that claimed the lives of her entire family.However all was not what it s
Anatoli Bugorski was working with the most powerful particle accelerator in all of Soviet Russia when it malfunctioned. He stepped up to fix it.At 36 he was shot through the skull with the proton beam and live to tell the tale. Listen to find o
Bethany Hamilton was born to be a surfer. She started from a very young age and would spend every waking minute possible in the water on her surfboard. She was determined from early on to become a professional surfer.   Her dream was easily wit
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the luckiest unlucky survivor you’ll hear about. At age 27, in 1945 Mr. Yamaguchi and his colleagues were sent from Nagasaki to Hiroshima for an extended work trip. On the day, before they were due to return the “Little Bo
Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina to Irish parents.She had a rough start in life surviving; scarlet fever, typhoid, and tuberculosis, illnesses that claimed the life of some of her siblings.After her father died and her mother got sic
On December 18th 1994, Alison dropped her friend home after an evening of wine and balderdash. When she returned back and pulled up outside her apartment, a man with a knife pushed Alison onto the passenger seat of her car and drove off. Once h
Judy was a liver and white English Pointer born in 1936 in Shanghai. After a rough start in life Judy joined the HMS Gnat as a mascot. She proved to be more than just a mascot saving her fellow comrades lives many times over.This amazing dog su
On April 10th 1994, Mauro Prosperi took part in the Marathon Des Sables; which literally means Marathon of the Sands. It’s dubbed the hardest foot race on earth; and on the 4th day, Mauro separated from his friend, determined to win it. He subs
On Septemebr 11th 1966 Peter Warner and his crew were out laying traps for crayfish near ‘Ata Island; when they noticed smoke rising from the side of the cliff. Aware the island was supposed to be uninhabited and bush fires were rare, he went t
One Sunday morning Jeanna was attending church with her mother when she was bitten by a rabid bat. Not aware that it was rabid Jeanna did not seek further medical treatment. One month later she started to show symptoms of rabies. Until 2004 rab
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One morning in mid-June 2007, Eduardo and Jayne Valseca were driving home from dropping their children to school in San Miguel de Allende; Central Mexico. They were ambushed by masked men. Eduardo was kidnapped and held for ransom. Jayne was le
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