352: Ship Wrecked, A Shark Attack & 76 Days Alone At Sea: The Shocking Steven Callahan Story

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Intro 0:00
Let's Play Would You Rather? 5:45
Steven's Early Fascination With Boats 15:43
Building His Own Boat 21:37
Racing and Riding 23:51
Ian Gets Trapped on a Lake in Greely 29:22
Prepared for the Worst 37:22
The Worst Happens 43:00
The First Day Stranded at Sea 51:00
Emotional Toll of Fishing 59:39
Attacked by a Shark 1:06:03
A Faint Hope of Rescue 1:10:47
Thinking on the Fly 1:20:35
Land 1:24:07
The Gang Ranks Survivors 1:31:09
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:35:40

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0:00.0	Hey, what is up, everybody?
0:17.4	And welcome back to another episode of Mile hard podcast episode 3 51 i'm your host
0:24.3	kendall i'm josh josh and of course we were joined by the lovely janelle and the
0:32.1	magnificent i thank you magnaificent. You certainly are.
0:39.9	And today we have a magnificent episode for you guys.
0:42.9	I'm so pumped.
0:44.1	We are doing another survival story because you guys were so into our last survival story about the brave men who survived the Andes Mountains for, what was it, 76 days?
0:58.9	72 for them.
1:00.1	72. Today, we have someone who survived 79?
1:04.8	76.
1:05.7	76.
1:06.7	All right, I got to get my days right.
1:08.4	But we are talking about the absolutely miraculous survival of Stephen Callahan, who survived at sea for 76 days.
1:19.4	Alone.
1:20.1	Alone.
1:20.9	On a raft.
1:21.4	That's the big difference.
1:22.7	On a fucking raft.
1:23.8	In conditions, many of us can only, actually, many of us can't comprehend no at all no it's uh
1:33.7	truly truly horrifying to be out in the middle i mean a lot of us have a fear of the open ocean yeah
1:39.4	some of us won't even get in water past our knees before we start wigging out.
1:45.6	We're like, mm.
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