What to Carry, What to Burn with Blair Braverman
5/12/20261 hr 4 min
Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to town, looking to hire someone for a secret yearlong expedition, Ada embarks on the trip—not knowing that she’ll be the only one of them to survive.
This is the first episode of YWA correspondent Blair Braverman's new podcast, What to Carry, What to Burn. To hear the second half of Ada's story (also featuring Sarah Marshall!), visit the links below:
RSS feed: https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-to-carry-what-to-burn/id1896260781
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhatToCarryPod
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7FCFQLcmG2NwPw7ayE1D
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First 90 secondsSarah Marshall· Host0:00
Welcome to You're Wrong About, the podcast where every so often we get to share something brand new and very exciting with you. And that means that today you will be listening to the world premiere of survival correspondent Blair Braverman's new podcast, What to Carry, What to Burn. I'm so excited about this. I got to be the guest on this inaugural episode. It is about the friendly Arctic and the survival of Ada Blackjack. If you've been listening to this show for a while, then there's a very good chance that Blair has guested in some of your favorite episodes, as well as mine, including Survival in the Andes, Chris McCandless, Aron Ralston, the Ouralin, and my personal favorite, Balto. Blair is an amazing writer and journalist, and my favorite storyteller in the world. And now we get to listen to a whole podcast where she will tell us stories and bring us to that campfire that we go to whenever we get to hear from her, and I'm so happy to be around this crackling fire listening to this story with you. This episode was edited by Blair Braverman, and if you wanna hear the second half of Ada's story, which I also recorded with Blair, and to subscribe to the rest of the series, you can visit the links in our show notes. I'm so happy you're here. I'm so happy to get to share this brand new amazing show with you. And now here is the very first episode