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Fritz hosts an hour-long show dedicated to the recent UFO disclosure, a Richard Nixon speech he never delivered, stories on vanishings, and outtakes from the cast

Let's attack one of the most bizarre mysteries of the Soviet Union! What happened to the hikers that mysteriously died on Dyatlov Pass?

Music:

"Floating Cities", "Dreams Become Real", "Virtutes Instrumenti"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Alice Morrison, is a Scottish Adventurer, currently based in Morocco. After a childhood spent running around the African Bush, she was sent to boarding school in Edinburgh where she learned Latin but no decorum. She studied Arabic and Turkish at University which has led to a long love affair with the Middle East. 

Adventuring had been something she had always done part time until in her mid-forties destiny in the shape of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, intervened. His cuts made her redundant and she gleefully burned her briefcase, and headed off for a life in the unknown. She has plunged through a number adventures including the Tour D’Afrique when she raced from Cairo to Cape Town on a bike; Atlas to Atlantic, a world first trek from the highest point of North Africa straight across the Atlas mountains to the sea; and the Marathon Des Sables, the toughest footrace on earth, six marathons across the Sahara desert in six days. 

“If I can do it, anyone can,” she says, “You just have to set your sights firmly on your goal and then pursue it with demonic persistence ignoring pain, humiliation and despair along the way. It is always worth it!”

Show notes

• Who is Alice, her background and how she got into adventure
• What her childhood was like growing up in Africa
• The hazards of speaking a foreign language
• Her career path and following a normal path
• Building a company and being a CEO
• Dealing with the company going under and having to make changes in her life
• The Tour D'Afrique is the longest bike race on earth (12,000 kilometres from Cairo to Cape Town)
• Training and preparation for the bike race…
• Cycling in a big group and struggling at the start
• Day to day life on the road and how the tour worked
• Dodging Elephants…..
• Going through a life changing experience and making decisions about her life
• Dealing with the adventure blues
• Trying to find a normal job again…
• Deciding to do the Marathon des Sables even though she’d never run a marathon before!
• Moving to Morocco to train and deciding to become a professional adventurer
• Learning languages 
• Doing her first - World First - the Atlas Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean - 350km
• Why it was so much harder than she though it was going to be
• How she coped with the mental pressure of challenging times and why staying in the moment was so important
• The cultural challenges of being a woman in Morocco
• Loss of status and income and friends and family reaction to becoming an adventurer
• Money and making it work financially
• Corporate sponsors - Craghopper and NTT Data UK
• Not having a typical day or week at work
• What’s been happening since November 2018
• Deciding on a new challenge  - The Everest Trail Race 
• The magical moments on the race
• Not having much of a break before heading of on another adventure
• Walking the length of the River Darr in Morocco (1,200km from the start to the sea at Tan Tan)
• Her new book! My 1001 Nights
• What’s next?!
• Quick Fire Questions
• Final words of advice 

Social Media

New Book just out! My 1001 Nights

Website : www.alicemorrison.co.uk  

Twitter: @aliceoutthere1

Instagram: @aliceoutthere1                           

Facebook: @AliceHunterMorrisonAdventures

The Olympic Mountain Bigfoot Connection – Since 1997 four people have gone missing without a trace in the Olympic National Park of Washington State. In most cases there are few suspects and in all the cases of the Olympic National Park missing people, no trace was ever found of the missing individuals. On this podcast, we will look at the particular circumstances of Jacob Gray, Zack Krull, Gilbert Mark Gilman and John Devine, all of whom were reported missing and who were never seen again. We look at the circumstances similarities and possibilities of what happened to these people.

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In 1959 nine experienced hikers went missing in the snowy Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. Over the course of the next several months, each hiker's body was discovered, most of which were one-by-one. With each discovery, the mystery weaved itself tighter and tighter around unexplained and terrifying. First it was discovered their tent was cut from the inside indicating something had scared them out into the arctic night. One had bone fractures. Another was missing its tongue and eyes. At the time, Soviet authorities determined that a portion of the group had died from an "unknown compelling force," and 60 years later, despite a number of theories, we're nowhere closer to solving this unexplainable mystery... until now. 

Join us as we chat with regular guest Jason Reedy (Foreign Accent Syndrome, Oktoberfest, Resurrection Mary, Friends of the Show) for a bone-chilling tale that is the zeitgeist of podcasts at the moment that you absolutely must hear. On part I, we'll break down the story and next week we'll cover some theories.  Beer review by Oisin. 

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Episode 20: Happy Towel Day! (May 25) - Douglas Adams and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

Welcome to the SciFi Pubcast! Come for a drink but stay for the speculation.

Happy Towel Day! That’s happening on May 25. Don’t panic though!

We’re discussing Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It’s not our #42nd episode but it might be somewhere or sometime. And to clarify, dolphins are not on our menu.

So have a pan galactic gargle blaster. Or two.

This the SciFi Pubcast.

Episode recorded on May 12, 2018, and released on May 14, 2018. 

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