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Not Today

Not Today covers unbelievable but true stories of survival. Join Steph and Alex as they discuss real incredible people who made it out of unimaginable circumstances against all odds.

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Episode 197: 1 in 100 Billion

Not Today ·

2024/09/17

We're going to be discussing a wide range of events that are seemingly impossible to survive, and yet there were survivors. From a terrifying parachuting accident, to a parasite living in a young girls brain for 10 years, to meteorite crashing into a home, and more!

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Episode 196: The Sun Gym Gang Part 2

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2024/09/10

After Marc Schiller's narrow escape from the Sun Gym Gang, their criminal ambitions only grew darker. In Part 2 we'll dive into the gang's escalation after Schiller fled Miami, as Daniel Lugo, Adrian Doorbal, and their accomplices set their sights on new targets. Their next victim, Frank Griga and his girlfriend Krisztina Furton, would not be as fortunate. The gang’s violent schemes intensified, leading to murder, dismemberment, and ultimately their capture. Merch Shop Link --->

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Episode 195: The Sun Gym Gang Part 1

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2024/09/03

The Sun Gym Gang, a notorious group of Miami bodybuilders, made headlines in the 1990s for a string of violent crimes that shocked the nation. Led by Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal, the gang’s ambitions went far beyond their obsession with fitness, spiraling into a terrifying series of kidnappings, torture, extortion, and murder. Merch Shop Link ---> https://www.teepublic.com/stores/not-today?ref_id=35928

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Episode 194: Amateur Detective

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2024/08/27

On New Years Eve 1989, 11-year-old Collier Landry was awoken out of his sleep by the sound of a scream and two loud thuds. The next morning he discovered that his mother had disappeared, and his father claimed that she had gone on "a little vacation." Collier knew his father had murdered his mother, but he needed the police to believe him. At the age of 12 Collier became the star witness in the his mother's murder case, and with his testimony was able to put his father away for life.Check out

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Episode 193: The Radium Girls

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2024/08/20

Around the 1920s young women and girls were elated to land a high paying job at US Radium Company. Their task would be to paint radium based paint on watch faces to make them glow in the dark. However through this, the girls were unknowingly exposing themselves to lethal amounts of radiation. As their health deteriorated, they faced a relentless battle against a powerful company that refused to take responsibility.

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Episode 192: The Labyrinth

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2024/08/13

In this episode we'll be reading an epic tale submitted by our listeners who almost lost their lives while cave diving in Florida!Check out our merch shop!! ---> https://www.teepublic.com/stores/not-today

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Episode 191: Into The River

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2024/08/06

In November of 1991, 44 year old David Whittlesey took on a solo rafting trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. After his raft capsized, David was left alone, hundreds of miles away from civilization without any supplies and was forced to survive for 7 days.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/nottoday and get on your way to being your best self! Check out our new merch shop!! --> https://www.teepublic.com/stores/not-today

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Episode 190: George Harrison's Assassination Attempt

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2024/07/30

Lead guitarist for The Beatles, George Harrison, was almost the second band mate to have been assassinated, because like John Lennon, George Harrison also experienced a crazed fan who almost took his life. On December 30th 1999, George Harrison and his wife Olivia were woken up to the crashing sound of glass breaking. George would soon find out that a man had broken into his home and would proceed to stab him 40 times before police and paramedics arrived.Check out Magic Mind! You have a limited

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Episode 189: The Backpacker Murderer

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2024/07/23

Ivan Milat, infamously known as the Backpacker Murderer, lured, tortured, and brutally murdered seven backpackers between 1989 and 1993 in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales, Australia. Three years after his encounter with Ivan Milat, backpacker Paul Onions, provided the crucial information that took down Australia's most notorious serial killer.

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Episode 188: Abandon Ship!

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2024/07/16

The Robertson family began their journey around the world in January of 1971. However after 18 months at sea, the 43-foot schooner was attacked by three killer whales and went down within minutes. The family then had to survive in a damaged life raft and dinghy in the middle of the pacific ocean for almost two months before finally being rescued.

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Episode 187: The Boston Molasses Flood

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2024/07/09

On January 15, 1919, a storage tank collapsed releasing two million gallons of molasses on the North End of Boston. The thick liquid poured out like a tsunami wave, reaching speeds of up to 35 miles per hour, destroying everything in its path. The molasses flooded streets, crushed buildings, derailed trains and ultimately killed 21 people and injured 150 more.

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Episode 186: The Black Widow

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2024/07/02

In 2019, 39-year-old Rob Parkes answered the door for police who played him a recording of two voices bargaining over the price of his death. One of the voices on the tape was his ex-wife Victoria Breeden. Parkes didnt know it at the time but Victoria had approached 6 different men about the hit on Rob falsely claiming rob was a violent, abusive, drug dealing, gang leading, pedophile who needed to be killed.

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Episode 185: Submarine Escape

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2024/06/25

In 1941 31-year-old John Capes was the only passenger on board the HMS Perseus to survive after the submarine struck a mine and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Throughout the course of the World War II, the British navy lost 79 submarines – and from those there were only 4 escapes. One of which was that of John Capes. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/nottoday and get on your way to being your best self!

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Episode 184: Pinned

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2024/06/18

While on a trip retrieving animal traps in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Ken Hildebrand was crushed under his quad on a remote hillside in hungry coyote territory.

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Episode 182: Dr. Death

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2024/06/11

Dr. Christopher Duntsch began working at Baylor Plano hospital in Dallas Texas in 2011, however over the next few years he would be bounced from hospital to hospital after he was responsible for maiming and killing the majority of his patients. Despite doctors, patients, families, and lawyers making complaints about him to the Texas State Medical Board, nothing was done and for years and he was allowed to continue ruining people's lives.

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Episode 182: Underwater Nightmares

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2024/06/04

Lets talk about some terrifying underwater survival stories about sharks, orca whales, and giant squid!

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Episode 181: Heaven's Gate Cult

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2024/05/28

In 1997, 39 members of a religious sect were found dead by suicide inside a San Diego mansion. Leaders Marshall “Herf” Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles promised that an extraterrestrial spacecraft would take them all to the heaven, or as they called it, “The Next Level”.

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Episode 180: Sparks in the Swiss Alps

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2024/05/21

While climbing the Piz Badile Mountain in the Swiss Alps in 2003, Jeremy Colenso and Rachel Kelsey were caught in a terrifying electrical storm. They did their best to climb down however after hours, the climb became too dangerous and the couple was stranded on a ledge 3,000 meters up.

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Episode 179: Japan Airlines Flight 123 Tragedy

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2024/05/14

Japan AirLines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 suffered a severe structural failure and decompression 12 minutes into the flight causing the pilots to lose all control. The crash of Flight 123 is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history.

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Episode 178: The Butcher Baker Survivor

Not Today ·

2024/05/07

From 1971 to 1983, serial killer Robert Hansen murdered at least 17 women in Anchorage, AK. Hansen kidnapped and assaulted women before flying them to remote areas in the Alaskan wilderness in his private plane where he hunted them down with a rifle. Hansen’s terrifying murder spree would have continued, had it not been for Cindy Paulson.To read The Institution by Helen Fields head to: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-institution-helen-fields?variant=41088092733474

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