Episodes

Five Hours to Noon is a documentary-style podcast that tells the true story of one runner’s fight against time, terrain, and himself at the Divide 200 ultramarathon in the Canadian Rockies. The race: 320 kilometers across mou...

In this third episode of If Only , we turn to the story of Momofuku Ando—an orphan from Taiwan who became the man who changed how the world eats. As a boy, he learned survival in his grandparents' fabric shop, watching them s...

In this second episode of If Only , we turn to the story of Harry R. Truman—the man who lived in the shadow of Mount St. Helens and refused to leave when the mountain began to stir. As a boy, he grew up in the rugged hills of...

In this first episode of If Only , we follow the life of Tsutomu Yamaguchi—an ordinary draftsman whose story was shaped by extraordinary loss and survival. As a child, he lost his mother. As a teenager, he watched his father’...

In this epilogue to Choosing the Unknown , we arrive at the breach: Babylon breaks through Jerusalem’s northern wall, and the city collapses. Amid fire and exile, Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch remain—two voices carrying word...

In the final miles of the Cocodona 250 ultramarathon, runners descend through Flagstaff, Arizona—terrain as unforgiving as it is redemptive. But beneath the surface of these trails lies a darker history. In 1988, near this sa...

In this chapter of Choosing the Unknown , we descend into the red rock corridors of Sedona alongside Cocodona 250 ultrarunners—and trace the escape of German surrealist Max Ernst from Nazi-occupied Europe to the Arizona deser...

The Cocodona trail doesn’t care who you were. And in Jerome, halfway through a 250-mile race, neither does the mountain. In this chapter, we follow Maynard James Keenan—rock star turned winemaker—and explore what it means to ...

Choosing the Unknown – Chapter Two: The Veteran What happens when expertise meets uncertainty? In Chapter Two, we meet Andy Jones-Wilkins, a legend in the ultrarunning world, as he runs the Cocodona 250. Andy has run hundreds...

What happens when you step into the unknown—even when everything is going wrong? In Chapter One of our Choosing the Unknown series, host Paul Johnson stands at the starting line of the Cocodona 250, but the real story begins ...

What does it take to step into the unknown? In this prologue to Get Some , host Paul Johnson looks at the moments when we leave certainty behind. From the starting lines of ultramarathons to everyday choices, Get Some explore...