Episode 260: Close to Death In Death Valley

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Donna Cooper, her daughter Gina, and Jenny Leung took a drive into Death Valley for a day of exploring. After deciding to take a detour they realized too late that their GPS was leading them further into the desert with no real direction. Two hundred miles later they were out of gas and almost out of hope that they would get out of there alive.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph.
0:01.0	I'm Alex.
0:02.0	And this is not today.
0:03.0	And we're live.
0:04.0	Hey.
0:05.0	How are you? How are you? Great. How are you? And we're live.
0:21.5	Hey.
0:22.4	How are you?
0:23.4	Great.
0:24.1	How are you?
0:24.9	You know, it's the holiday season.
0:27.8	It is.
0:28.7	And whoop-de-do.
0:30.7	That's the part I know.
0:32.5	Dickery, I don't know.
0:33.7	Dickery, Doc.
0:35.0	So everything, you've done a great job of making the place feel festive.
0:39.8	Thank you.
0:40.5	I have contributed nothing, but vibes.
0:43.0	That's okay.
0:44.2	Yeah, I mean, it really like in an instant turned to Christmas here because it just dumped.
0:49.6	Like, I don't know, like what, probably eight inches of snow.
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