Too Good To Be True?
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In 2001, Donna Martino stuck a newspaper clipping on her fridge. It was a photo of a handsome kayaker paddling through the surf. A few months later, Donna matched with the man on a dating website.
We tend to assume that improbable beginnings are a recipe for disaster — that sappy romances can't last — that fairytale endings are only for movies. But sometimes, the real world serves up a dose of schmaltz.
This story, which first aired in 2020 and went on to win a national award, is about what happens when coincidences pile up, and strangers go out on a limb and take a chance on each other.
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| 0:00.0 | When I moved to Wyoming, there were two things that sealed the deal for me. One was that there were |
| 0:07.5 | beautiful mountains nearby. And the other was that Wyoming gets a lot of winter. Oh, and I had a good |
| 0:16.1 | job offer. So I guess that's three reasons. But anyway, about the winter. I love winter. I love snow. I love skiing. I love those |
| 0:27.7 | mornings where every twig is coated in white. If you are also a lover of winter, you might be |
| 0:35.4 | interested in an app called PeakVisor. Peak Viser is one of our |
| 0:40.5 | sponsors for this episode. And when you use their app in winter mode, you can get ski resort schedules |
| 0:46.9 | and lift statuses in real time. The app will show you opening times and current availability of |
| 0:53.3 | every major ski resort in the U.S. |
| 0:56.6 | There are a lot of other things you can do with PeakVisor as well, and I will tell you about some of |
| 1:01.4 | those later in the episode. But for now, take a look at PeakVisor in the app store. You just might love it. |
| 1:13.6 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 1:24.6 | To start off, I want to share some exciting news. |
| 1:28.4 | This February, we are launching a new season of Out There. |
| 1:33.0 | We're not changing the focus or the format of the podcast. |
| 1:36.6 | We'll still be telling the kind of introspective outdoor stories you know and love. |
| 1:41.9 | We're just grouping those stories around a common theme. |
| 1:45.0 | The theme in this case is Things I Thought I knew. |
| 1:50.0 | All season will be sharing stories about outdoor experiences that changed something we thought we knew about the world. |
| 1:58.0 | Some of the storytellers discover new truths about themselves. |
| 2:02.9 | Sometimes they find new truths about humanity. |
| 2:06.2 | Sometimes they figure out a new way to do good in the world. |
| 2:11.8 | The season kicks off in early February, and in between now and then, we're going to be taking |
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