From the lone guard who prevented deadly riots at the Berlin Wall, to a stubborn scientist who singlehandedly fended off a medical catastrophe, to an unusually resourceful group of flight attendants faced with a kitchen crisis, Gabe and Mary bring you nine incredible stories of disasters that didn’t happen. (But almost did.) Plus: Get in the rice cooker mindset!
In a hilariously appropriate-for-this-episode coincidence, James Blunt’s new album is called Airplane Mode.
Read more about Karen Arcos’s work on memory and blindness.

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From the lone guard who prevented deadly riots at the Berlin Wall, to a stubborn scientist who singlehandedly fended off a medical catastrophe, to an unusually resourceful group of flight attendants faced with a kitchen crisis, Gabe and Mary bring you nine incredible stories of disasters that didn&rsquo;t happen. (But almost did.) Plus: Get in the rice cooker mindset!
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<li aria-level="1">In a hilariously appropriate-for-this-episode coincidence, James Blunt&rsquo;s <a href="https://jamesblunt.com/">new album</a> is called Airplane Mode.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Read more about <a href="https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2022/2022-07-12-arcos-brain-research-findings.php">Karen Arcos&rsquo;s work</a> on memory and blindness.</li>
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Nuclear test photo by the U.S. Department of Energy via Wikimedia Commons.
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