Not Lost
by iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries
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About this podcast
When both his popular culture podcast and long-term relationship come to an end, journalist Brendan finds he has the time — and freedom — to pursue his dream: a travel podcast where he goes places and learns about them by getting invited to a stranger’s house for dinner. A friend joins him at each destination and they drink, dance, and eat their way from Montréal to Mexico City, often learning as much about themselves as the place they’re visiting. Not Lost is both a delightful travel escape and an insightful look at people — locals and visitors alike — trying to make sense of a constantly changing world.
Not Lost is a co-production of Pushkin Industries, Topic Studios and iHeartMedia. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
Episodes
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- Kristen Kish on Uplifting Community By Being Yourself from Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell · 1 h 18 min · Season 2Kamau sits down with chef-turned-host Kristen Kish to talk about her stepping up as host of Top Chef after the departure of Padma Lakshmi, being kind, outrage over Netflix's…
- Athena Calderone on Aspiration | Traveling Through · 55 min · Season 2Where have you been, what did you find, and who did it make you? On the new podcast Traveling Through, host David Prior, travel writer and founder of immersive travel company…
- From Medal of Honor: James Fleming’s Impossible Vietnam War Rescue · 31 min · Season 2In 1968, in the dense jungles of Vietnam, a team of Green Berets was pinned down by an overwhelming North Vietnamese Army force. Their last hope was a young Air Force pilot named…
- The 25 Most Exciting Places to Travel in 2024 from Unpacked by AFAR · 46 min · Season 2We're a few months into the new year. Maybe you're a freshly minted, idealized version of yourself. Or maybe your new year's resolutions are as distant as the icebergs of…
- Not Lost Chat: Paradise City (Pico Iyer & Reggie Watts) · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 7No piña coladas were consumed during travel writer Pico Iyer’s quest for paradise. Instead he found himself communing with guides and locals in thorny parts of the globe: Iran…
- Not Lost Chat: Wild Sugar (Cheryl Strayed) · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 6Brendan finds the perfect Not Lost Chat guest in author Cheryl Strayed, who not only wrote the bestselling travel memoir “Wild,” but is also a renowned advice columnist. First…
- Not Lost Chat: Traveler Not Tourist (Geoff Dyer & Colman Domingo) · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 5Brendan receives a postcard from the only registered US historical landmark outside America and then talks with the great essayist, novelist and occasional world-class…
- Not Lost Chat: How Do You Say “Love”? (Kristin Newman & Paul Feig) · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 4Brendan speaks with Kristin Newman, author of “What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir,” about falling in love in a different language, plus she provides travel tips…
- Not Lost Chat: Further Than They Appear (Marius Kociejowski & Jessi Klein) · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 3Brendan visits Japan on a trip that puts the “junk” in junket. Then he speaks with Marius Kociejowski, author of The Serpent Coiled in Naples, an immersive plunge into the…
- Not Lost Chat: Where Am I? (Jessica Nabongo & Tegan and Sara) · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 2Brendan talks with Jessica Nabongo, the author of “The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World” about the mysterious community of “country…
- Not Lost Chat: Road Work (Andrew Sean Greer & Jay Pharoah) · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 1New York Magazine described “Not Lost” as having the “slight energy of Andrew Sean Greer’s Less” so Brendan calls the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the comic, road trip novels…
- Introducing: Not Lost Chat · 2 min · Season 2Who do we become when we travel? Who are we allowed to be? And where is everyone going? Brendan Francis Newnam is on a mission to find out. Join him as he speaks with travel…
- Postcard from Portugal · 22 min · Season 1After wrapping up Season 1 of Not Lost, and a few odds & ends at home, Brendan heads to Portugal and experiences an emotion he can’t quite explain... so he asks locals to help…
- The Final Destination: Season 1 Finale · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 8It’s the Saturday before the final episode of Not Lost is due and Brendan still doesn’t know where he is going. Will he escape New York and find the right destination? Not Lost…
- Big Sur: In the Soup · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 7Two years have passed since Covid brought production of Not Lost to a screeching halt. In that time, Brendan has turned norm-core: he gets a steady job, a live-in partner, a car…
- Las Vegas: Mother Cabrini · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 6Against the backdrop of Valentine’s Day weekend, Brendan and his friend Luke Burbank explore the Hoover Dam, Vegas’s Chinatown, and the night sky. (Is that a UFO?) Brendan’s plan…
- Mexico City: Mi Casa, Mi Casa · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 5With Not Lost’s executive producers breathing down his neck for an actual dinner party, Brendan and Danielle Henderson head to CDMX to see if mi casa is really su casa. From…
- New Orleans: Anybody’s Gumbo · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 4Brendan and Danielle Henderson head to the Big Easy and discover that it’s anything but. Carousel bars, gospel choirs, voodoo readings, and a visit to a slavery memorial plunge…
- Portland: Pizza Party · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 3Brendan has never been to Portland, Maine, but that hasn’t stopped him wanting to live there. This episode he and Danielle Henderson head to Vacationland to see if it can live up…
- Bozeman: Big Medicine · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 2Brendan, a self-avowed “Great Indoorsman,” approaches Montana’s outdoor recreation opportunities with trepidation. Meanwhile, his friend Danielle Henderson, who once lived in…
