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Out now from Long Lead, The Depths She’ll Reach, the story of how Alenka Artnik emerged from mental health struggles to become one of the world’s most elite athletes. A multimedia feature by Xan Rice and Daan Verhoeven, produced by Long Lead.&nbsp; <a href="https://onjustonebreath.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://onjustonebreath.com/</a> <hr /> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Long Lead Presents: The Depths She'll Reach

Floating above the dark blue water of a near bottomless abyss, a diver takes

a long breath. Then, suddenly, noisily, she starts sipping for more air. She's

gasping like a fish that's been reeled onto the sand. She's packing her

lungs to their limits, eight little gulps, and then she gently rolls onto her

stomach and dives headlong into the depths and the darkness.

Ten years prior, this elite athlete was peering down at the water, along at night on a bridge.

That night, a plunge would have killed her. These days, each dive seems to make her stronger.

And now, only a few people, all men, have dived deeper than she has on just one breath.

The story of how Alenka Artnick emerged from mental health struggles to become one of the world's most elite athletes,

a multimedia feature by Zan Rice and Dan Verhoeven, produced by Longlead.

Read it for free at www.onjustonebreath.com

The April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School hurtled the United States into an era of mass shootings. Now, a quarter century later, the horrors of that day have become an almost regular facet of American life, and gun violence a record-smashing epidemic. Clad in both camouflage and Kevlar, 21st-century America is a bastion of freedom where workplaces require active shooter protocols, schools run lockdown drills, and the Second Amendment has become a religion unto itself.Guns are a uniquely American problem, but the U.S. wasn’t always like this. LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST explores the story of the people — some names you'll know, some you won't — who changed the way America relates to guns, for better or worse. This season, host Garrett Graff, in collaboration with The Trace, chronicles how firearms moved from being an ordinary part of the background of rural life to a menacing element of modern American life.Crackling with rich archival tape and riveting eyewitness and expert interviews, this narrative podcast examines threads of history that are vitally relevant to our current political climate. In LONG SHADOW’s first season, Graff, a Pulitzer-finalist and a best-selling author and historian, examined the lingering questions of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Season two chronicled how bloody tragedies at the hands of federal agents led to the rise of American far-right extremism and ultimately the January 6 insurrection. Season three will help listeners understand how simply carrying firearms has become its own act of defiance, and how a very specific, carefully manufactured fear has driven explosive demand for guns across America. How did we get here? Subscribe and listen to LONG SHADOW to find out.LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST is produced by <a href="https://www.longlead.com">Long Lead</a> and <a href="https://www.campsidemedia.com">Campside Media</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.thetrace.org">The Trace</a>, and is distributed by <a href="https://www.prx.org">PRX</a>.

0:00.0	From the producers of Longshadow.
0:25.0	Floating above the dark blue water of a near bottomless abyss, a diver takes
0:29.9	a long breath. Then, suddenly, noisily, she starts sipping for more air. She's
0:38.9	gasping like a fish that's been reeled onto the sand. She's packing her
0:43.8	lungs to their limits, eight little gulps, and then she gently rolls onto her
0:50.8	stomach and dives headlong into the depths and the darkness.
0:57.9	Ten years prior, this elite athlete was peering down at the water, along at night on a bridge.
1:06.9	That night, a plunge would have killed her. These days, each dive seems to make her stronger.
1:14.9	And now, only a few people, all men, have dived deeper than she has on just one breath.
1:23.9	Someday soon, she may surpass them all.
1:27.9	Out now, the depths shall reach.
1:30.9	The story of how Alenka Artnick emerged from mental health struggles to become one of the world's most elite athletes,
1:37.9	a multimedia feature by Zan Rice and Dan Verhoeven, produced by Longlead.
1:44.9	Read it for free at www.onjustonebreath.com

Long Lead Presents: The Depths She'll Reach

Long Shadow

Long Lead & PRX & The Trace & Campside Media

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