Our first listener story, whoo hoo! Haley regales us with the time her friend got in a "hairy" situation while repelling 50 feet above the ground, and Jillian talks about the real-life inspiration story behind Melville's Moby Dick--and it's about 100x worse than the fictionalized version.
Sources:
The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick, Gilbert King, Smithsonian Magazine
Essex (Whaleship), Whaling in the United States, Wikipedia
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, Tony Horowitz
