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Dispatches: Captain Jackass

Outside Podcast

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Fedarko is a celebrated and well-heeled journalist, accustomed to dropping in on an exotic place and extracting a story, often in less than a week. But in 2004, he left his job at Outside and went looking for something deeper and more meaningful: a story forged over months and years. He ended up at the bottom of the Grand Canyon at the helm of a boat full of poop called the Jackass.

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Com slash Outside.

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That's S-A-X-X. From Outside Magazine and PRX, these are Dispatches. Stories from our writers in the field. One of the benefits of getting a job making the podcast for a magazine you've been reading

1:21.0

your whole life is occasionally you get to rub elbows with some of your favorite writers.

1:25.0

And Kevin Fadarko is pretty near the top of my list of favorite writers.

1:29.0

His book, The Emerald Mile, is the definitive account of the Grand Canyon speed record,

1:34.6

and on the short list of definitive books about the Grand Canyon as a whole.

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