The Lucky Ones: Recent Episodes

Dale McGowan

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.

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He tried with wind, then with a Volvo. Now the Reaper tries with my own stupidity.

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With a flick of the wrist, Death finally got my attention.

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Wordsworth’s bones weren’t enough for a detour. It was little Catherine who gave me pause.

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Episode includes lying to Australians. Listener discretion advised.

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Where was I. No really, I'm asking.

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Now the real Northing begins.

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Look on my Gift Shoppe, ye Mighty, and despair!

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Right around the Crown & Trumpet, a visitor begins to sense that something is…off.

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The British haven’t quite figured out how they feel about their lunatics.

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Their children's CHILDREN will tremble to hear of the day Oogaboo crossed the field.

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It would take a hiker of epic inability to screw this up, a statement known as “ham-fisted foreshadowing.”

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I was finally going to stand on that bright red line.

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A bad death, a good pee, and my first hallucinations.

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Pepys wrote about sex, death, and beer enemas, often in the same paragraph. But mostly he wrote about being Sam Pepys.

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I’d wanted some Death to contemplate, but London was way too eager to comply.

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At the end of the final hike, I'll be plenty impressed with myself. But not at the end of this one.

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In the center of your chest is a pump made of meat.

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As I flew toward the 100-foot drop-off, I realized I was going to die. The only question was when.