It says a lot that you ask me what I would do and I'm like, I give up. Pass.

Welcome to your wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall. And today we are bringing you an episode all about surviving

despite the odds, and also in this specific case, despite there being a boulder on your arm.

We are joined, of course, by our Adventure and Survival Correspondent Blair Braverman, who is a

dog's letter, she's an adventurer, She's a keynote speaker. And of course,

she's an author most recently of the novel Small Game. Today, Blair is bringing us the story of

Aaron Ralston, a name that perhaps you know, perhaps you don't. This was a big story about 20 years

ago in 2003. It's not worry about that being 20 years ago. 22, actually. Don't worry

about it. This was a story that at the time really captured at least Americans' imaginations

because it was about a young man who had gone off on a little day trip and ended up being

pinned to a canyon wall by an 800-pound boulder and then had to figure out what to do about it and did figure it out.

And that's just the kind of story I love and the kind of story I especially love doing with Blair.

This is a gory episode, to put it bluntly, no pun intended.

And especially in the back half, we were going to talk about

how a person goes about escaping from under an 800-pound boulder might involve cutting something off

and then how you survive after that. So that might be right for you today. It might not. And if it's not,

then we will see you in the next one. And we can't wait.

We as always have got bonus episodes out for you on Patreon and Apple Plus subscriptions.

We did some really fun ones in the past year and we have a new one coming out shortly that I'm

thrilled about where Sarah Archer and I will talk about my favorite cookbook, The I Hate to

Cookbook by Peg Bracken, and also kind of the whole melange of what the 60s were in terms

of women and the kitchen and also the question of how to keep feeding your family, despite the fact

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