This is not a podcast about death. Death is not that interesting. The Lucky Ones is about the effect death has on life—the way being a no-kidding mortal makes life better, sadder, more interesting, funnier, and more than a little absurd.
Wordsworth’s bones weren’t enough for a detour. It was little Catherine who gave me pause.
It would take a hiker of epic inability to screw this up, a statement known as “ham-fisted foreshadowing.”
Pepys wrote about sex, death, and beer enemas, often in the same paragraph. But mostly he wrote about being Sam Pepys.
At the end of the final hike, I'll be plenty impressed with myself. But not at the end of this one.
As I flew toward the 100-foot drop-off, I realized I was going to die. The only question was when.