Get Lost Podcast

There's a Cairo beyond the Giza Plateau. On the opposite bank of the Nile River, a sprawling city of millions bustles and booms every day, without much thought to the wonders on their backdoor. Cairo, in its own right, is a global mega-city with few peers. But great cities require maintenance. They produce waste. And for 60,000 residents of Manshiyat Naser, a city within the city, that means...

Travel writer and photographer Matt Payne ventures into the volcanic mountains of Uganda in search of a second encounter with the country's legendary mountain gorillas. For centuries, these mysterious creatures were thought to be a myth by the scientific communities of Europe; however, locals knew better. And in the last two centuries, Ugandan mountain gorillas have been documented, forced to...

Green hills, Justin Bieber and the 4,000-year-old temple complex of Lalish await travelers in Kurdistan. Here, the Yazidi people practice their own religion in one of the planet's oldest continuously inhabited regions. Writer Rebecca Holland visited this northernmost region of Iraq, which is only just beginning to recover from the horrors of genocide and war. Show notes Curiosity Magazine: ht...

Andrew Macdonald has had more than a dozen surgeries. His body, riddled by rickets, has never allowed him the mobility that other people enjoy on a daily basis. But after a road trip across the United Kingdom, he decided to finally tackle his first transatlantic flight and visit America. Come with Andrew as he heads to the Souled Outside headquarters in Memphis, shoots an exploding target and visi...

Every day, at least two rhinos are killed by poachers, their bodies left maimed and broken, their horns sawed off and sent to markets. This year, Margarita Samsonova volunteered at the Care for Wild rhino rescue facility outside of South Africa's Kruger National Park to document the intense care needed to keep one of Africa's most iconic species from extinction. Show Links Care for Wild:...

Andrew McDonald is a U.K. native who was born with a rare medical condition that weakens his bones, making it nearly impossible to walk for more than a short distance. For most of his life, he says that disease controlled how he felt about himself, how far he went from home, and how he viewed the world. In 2017, Andrew and Souled Outside founder Joe Sills took a road trip around the U.K. to explor...

What was the plan for your life? Were you supposed to live it? Are you currently living it now? Geoff's plan was simple yet ambitious—go to an Ivy League school, get a law degree and become another successful cog in the legal system. But somewhere along the way, Geoff's life took a turn. He made it through Harvard Law but decided to give it all away to became a sports writer. The left tu...

Ski and travel writer Brigid Mander finds herself with a wicked hangover in the remote reaches of Argentina. But when her journey to find a cure takes an unexpected turn, she is detained inside a military outpost, detained as a possible spy. @joesills @brigidmander SouledOutsideBlog.com BrigidMander.com Outro by Bryan Hayes.

James spent his childhood sticking his hand in the waters of a Texas pond hoping a catfish would bite it and latch on. Now, he's the editor of a fishing magazine read by millions of people around the world. Fishing has taken James from a small town on the edge of the American southwest to lakes in Spain, reservoirs under Mount Fuji, and crocodile-infested rivers in Africa. On this week's...

What is it like to be an influencer? We talk to digital content creator Jessica Doll (@hejdoll), who's traveled the world in front of and behind a lens to find out what goes in behind-the-scenes of Instagram's hottest accounts, and why the job might be a lot more difficult than you think. @hejdoll @joesills HejDoll.com SouledOutBlog.com Intro/Outro by Bryan Hayes

American travel to Cuba has undergone a renaissance in the past decade. Thanks to recent rules that made traveling to Cuba easier than it's been since the 1960, Cubans and Americans were benefitting from an increase in American tourists to Cuba. But that changed drastically this June when President Trump enacted a ban on cruise ship travel to the Caribbean nation, and nixed one of the most po...

Malik was raised in South Memphis. Growing up, he lost most of his close friends to violence; but for the past few years, the self-made photojournalist, filmmaker and rock climber has been on a journey that's taken him from Black Lives Matter protests to the peaks of the Rocky Mountains with an Oscar-winning actress and the doorstep of a pro football icon.  On this episode, we meet Malik in T...

Ally had never been to Europe until her friend asked her to come to Ireland on a whim. Within weeks, she was ballin' on a budget while couch surfing and photographing her way across the Emerald Isle. In this episode, Ally breaks down how and why she ended up in Ireland, how Northern Ireland differs from its neighbor, and tells the story of her first meeting with a mysterious man who would cha...

Gary didn't get on an airplane until college. Almost as soon as he did, the North Mississippi native experienced a challenge to the world view he'd grown up with. In our first episode, we go one-on-one with CBS Sports national columnist Gary Parrish to talk about how travel and his job covering collegiate basketball broke him out of his bubble.  Music by Bryan Hayes @bryanhayesmusic Host...