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A Close Call with Death
by Bob Howard
Second chances. Life after death new attitude. Interviews with those that know life better since nearly dying.
Episodes
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Episode #77 - " A Close Call With Death" with guest - Clara Starkey - Cancer Survivor
Clara Starkey is a wife, mother, and active member of her community whose life was suddenly turned upside down when she was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer that nearly took her life. In this powerful conversation, Clara opens up about her fight for life, the challenges she has...
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Episode #76 Guest Bob McRae - Paraglider who plummeted 200 feet into the mountain side and lived
Bob McRae is one incredibly fortunate—and blessed—paraglider pilot who survived a terrifying 120-foot crash into the mountains of Utah. A seasoned and highly experienced pilot, Bob was enjoying an afternoon flight when everything suddenly went wrong. After climbing into a thermal, a severe...
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"A Close Call With Death" Podcast Interview #75 with guest - Derik Stevensen
Interview #75: Derik Stevensen In Interview #75, I sit down with Derik Stevensen, a dynamic former BYU football linebacker who earned national recognition and reached the level of professional football—only to face a terrifying setback and a life-threatening encounter that nearly cost him his…
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Episode #74 with guest - Bob Eglelstaff - Survivor of a heroing sailing adventure that took him to the bottom of the world to Antarctica!
Bob Egelestaff, Amazing guy who has really taken on life in his adventures being as of late, a high adventure expedition guide on the ships that visit the Antarctic region of the world. Bob nearly died as he and two other brave sailors sailed across the Southern Ocean through the Drake Straight...
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Episode #73 of "A Close Call With Death" with guest - Wes Bruns, a survivor of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning that took 4 members of his family one Christmas night years ago.
Wes Bruns is alive and here to tell the story of his heroing experience of losing 4 members of his family to a Carbon Monoxide poisoning! On Christmas night of all nights, the family gathered for the holidays and went to sleep after a wonderful Christmas day but in the middle of the night, Carbon...
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Episode #72 with guest: Dave Chatterton - Kidnapped in Haiti
Dave Chatterton was serving a mission in Haiti when he and his companion were taken by a terrorist group and held a gun point for a ramson that was substantial and survived. Daves life changed at that moment and in that circumstance to never be the same. Tune in and see and hear how Dave survived...
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Episode #71 with guest Rachel Biggs - Bike Crash on Big Mountain Utah!
Rachel Biggs lives up to her name of being a BIG road biker and this session tells of her horrific wreck on her bike while descending down a large mountain pass called "Big Mountain". At top speeds of around 50+ miles an hour, Rachel met a bad spot in the road in the shadows that threw her and…
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"Burn Up" interview with host: Adam Nugent
Epic interview experience with Adam Nugent on his podcast called " Burn Up" where we talked about my podcase "A Close Call With Death" and how our themes parallel. How we as human beings can find life again when we might have nearly lost our lives. Thank you Adam for the amazing conversation!z
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Episode #70 - "A Close Call With Death", with guest Brody Young
Brody Young! Lieutenant with the Utah Park Service in beautiful Moab Utah. Brody was shot 9 times and lived!!! An assailant that attacked Brody in a blindsided incident left him fighting for his life to survive! His story of courage and resilience is astounding and one that no one should miss.…
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#69 - Episode of A Close Call With Death" with guest Curtis Marsh!
Curtis Marsh..... Larger than life and impactful in our community with messages of resilience and stamina after going through some very tough times in his life. Curtis talks about how weighed down we can get in life like a backpack full of rocks and horse manure and how we can persevere through...
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"A Close Call With Death" for guest Helaman Mate Mate
Helaman was led down a dark path by people who didn’t have his best interests at heart—a path that ended in a devastating car accident that nearly took his life. Tune in to hear the story of this powerful Samoan warrior: what he went through, how he survived, and how he’s now turning his life…
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#67 = "A Close Call With Death" with Guest Mark Judge
This episode shares the remarkable story of Mark Judge, who, just a few years ago, had a profound near-death experience. Mark became gravely ill after developing a severe infection that led to sepsis, and medical teams fought tirelessly to keep him alive. In this conversation, Mark recounts what...
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Episode #66 "A Close Call With Death" featuring guest Chris Merrill
In this episode, we sit down with Chris Merrill to hear his harrowing story of survival. Chris was involved in a devastating ATV accident on the towering sand dunes of Southern Utah—an incident that nearly claimed his life and put his friend and his friend’s son in grave danger. While driving the...
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Episode #65 A Close Call With Death with guest - Heather VanBorum
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Heather VanBorum, who survived a devastating accident just five days before Christmas in 2021. While walking through a Costco parking lot in Murray, Utah, Heather was tragically struck by a car—an event that left her with life-threatening injuries,...
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Episode #64 - A Close Call With Death with Guest Dustan Jackson
A Close Call With Death with Dustan Jackson, who is lucky to be alive after being assaulted in Mexico by the Cartel on Vacation at a luxury hotel. Dustan was severely beaten and left for dead in the desert after taking a taxi ride to a place tourists are taken when they wander away from the hotel...
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Episode #63 "A Close Call With Death" with Guest Bobby Maximus!
Click here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bob937/episodes/Episode-63-A-Close-Call-With-Death-with-guest-Bobby-Maximus-e2qrci8/a-abkgti3 In light of Veterans Day this session talks about life as we face it with someone who has trained special opps men and women in our Military that put…
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Episode #62 "A Close Call With Death" With Guest Joey Wood. Survivor of a horrific Mountain Bike Crash in the Mountains of Utah
Joey Wood is a true miracle, having faced just a 3% chance of survival after his accident. While mountain biking in the stunning Utah mountains, he crashed at high speed, careening off the track and into the woods. Joey sustained a punctured heart, marked by a visible hole in the center of his...
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Episode #61 A Close Call With Death with Kristi Whittingham - Attempted Vehicular Homicide
In this episode, we sit down with @Kristi Whittingham, who experienced a harrowing close call while vacationing in Oahu, Hawaii, to celebrate a friend's birthday. While crossing a highway with her friends, Kristi was nearly run down by a driver who swerved directly at her, seemingly intent on...
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Episode #60 A Close Call With Death with guest Zac Matthews
In this powerful episode, we are joined by Zac Matthews, a miraculous survivor of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the neck that resulted in a total paralysis for many months. Against all odds, Zac regained his feeling and now looks forward to a new life ahead of him. One year ago, in July 2024,...
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Episode #59 A Close Call With Death with guest Jenny Ahlstrom. Blood Cancer Survivor!
In this session, we talk with guest Jenny Ahlstrom, a true survivor of one of life's most dangerous cancers in our lifetime. I person every 9 minutes is diagnosed with a (Myeloma) Blood Cancer each year and is 10% of all cancers. Jenny tells us of her battle to not only overcome this dreaded...
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Episode #58 A Close Call With Death with guest Elizabeth Howard
On a ten year anniversary of a near death incident my niece Elizabeth Howard said on this last Father's Day, that she had a desire to share her story and give thanks to her Dad Phil Howard, my brother, for the life saving action he provided to save Elizabeth from plummeting off a 50 foot cliff in...
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Episode #57 A Close Call With Death with guest Kyle Rivera, An experienced Wing Suiter who nearly died in a malfunction to his equipment and plummeted to the earth 150 miles an hour but lived.
Kyle Rivera is an action packed character who has sky dived, BASE jumped and Wingsuited hundreds of times from airplanes, hot air balloons, cliffs, buildings, everything you can imagine that test a persons nerves and bravery. On one recent flight, Kyle had a scary malfunction of his equipment...
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Episode #56 - A Close Call With Death with Guest - Peter Ballentine - Physician Assistant, Ski Patrol Leader, Overall Good guy and friend to everyone
This interview is with Peter Ballentine, a guy who lives life large!!! We get into a terrible crash in his 911 Porsche in San Francisco, Near Death Hypothermia on the Snake River, and a Firey Crash on his BMW Motorcycle when he went through a Black Angus Cow in the dark coming home from Jackson...
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Episode #55 A Close Call With Death with guest Stein Rosqvist - Life Flight Nurse Medic Lone survivor of fatal crash in Salt Lake City Fog.
Our interview is with the lone survivor Stein Rosvquist, a flight Nurse Medic whose helicopter went down one night in a dense fog over Salt Lake City's western border near Salt Lake City International Airport. Stein suffered a severed lower back and other life threatening injuries and yet…
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Episode #54 - "A Close Call With Death", with guest Kennedy Littledike, Burley Idaho - Car Crash Survivor and hung 30 feet from a power line for over an hour waiting for rescue!
Kennedy Littledike, is a miracle! Kennedy was involved in a horrific car wreck that launched her 30 feet into the air and onto a power line in Idaho, breaking her femur and hanging for over an hour waiting for rescue. Two of her friends were also ejected out of the car breaking their necks and...
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Episode #53 A Close Call With Death with Guest Ben Gunn - Survivor of a plane crash in Alaska
This episode is with guest Ben Gunn who 20 years ago experienced a tragic plane crash into the frigid waters of the ocean in Alaska on his way with his family to Anchorage for go fishing. Ben and his five family members went down into 42 degree ocean waters losing four of his family that day and...
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Episode #52 A Close Call With Death with guest David Osmond - Relaunch of episode #31
This episode we re-launch episode #31 with David Osmond who wrote the new music for our podcast series A Close Call With Death, with the song "Last Day" from the Reflected Album. David's lyrics in this song truly reflect the meaning of the podcast series with looking at our survival stories with...
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Episode #51 - A Close Call With Death with Guest John Knab - John Suffers from Obesity, near death health condition and a fight back to life
John Knab, "Life is Moving At A 2x Pace: not sure how to slow it down!" John comes to the show with a close call with death due to a change in physical condition impacted by long corporate travel internationally reaching a status of Diamond Medallion 2.7 million miles in the air and with that…
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Episode #50 A Close Call With Death with guest - Moka Best!, Triathlete, Olympic hopeful, Ultracompeititve athlete, Wife and mother to four and faced with a chronic life threatening disease!
Moka Best. Super cool name to go with someone who has been the best in many athletic events. Moka accomplished many goals in sports and actually reached a level of professionalism in the world of triathlon and became an Olympic hopeful for the United States. But, a deadly disease fell upon Moka...
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Episode #49 A Close Call With Death - Guest Mark Webb - Cancer Survivor and warrior
Mark Webb, active guy, sports enthusiast, golfer, motorcycle enthusiast, family man with a wife and four kids, and fighter.... Mark suffers with Stomach Cancer and this month celebrates a two year period of fighting for his life. Mark has found over the last two years more about life, what is…
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Episode #48 " A Close Call With Death " with Guest Mark Haley - Survivor of a devastating fiery drag car crash
Mark Haley, Survivor of a tragic hot rod crash that caught fire and burned Mark over much of his body and nearly leaving him dead in the cockpit. First responders sped to Marks aid to pull him unconscious and on fire from his wreck. Mark suffers a majority of his body having to be skin grafted…
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Episode #47 A Close Call With Death with Guest JR Celski - Bronze medalist and US Olympian Speed Skater that experienced life threatening accident on the ice that nearly cost JR's life.
JR Celski, a phenomenal Olympic star and team mate to famous Apollo Ono has won many national and international competitions including winning the Bronze medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Canada. He has won many silver and bronze medals over this career and at the top of this game he...
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Episode #46 "A Close Call With Death" with guest Darren Ewell - survivor of a massive Widow Maker Heart attack - See Youtube video Hero Nurse Saves Softball Players Life During Game viewed 1.7+million
Darren Ewell's life was spared when a fast action hero nurse came to his rescue and started immediate CPR on Darren after suffering cardiac arrest! Darren was playing softball one night in Murray Utah when suddenly he fell onto the playing field without a heart beat and unconscious. Darren had...
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#45 A Close Call With Death with Guest Matt Blanchard - Survivor of TWO auto accidents that has left him paralyzed and he brings us just how HE provides HOPE to seemingly hopeless situations.
Matt Blanchard is most likely one of the only human beings on the planet that have experienced TWO near death experiences that resulted in two head on wrecks, being extracted TWICE from the scenes with Jaws of Life equipment from his first responders, TWICE LifeFlighted to the emergency room…
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#44 - "A Close Call With Death", with Guest, Peter Vidmar - USA Gymnastics Gold Medalist and All Around Champion with a near death experience!
Peter Vidmar! Peter is one of the most decorated American gymnasts in Olympic History. The winner of numerous national and international titles, he finished his successful career at the 1984 Olympic Games. As the USA men's gymnastics team captain, he led his teammates to America's first ever team...
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Episode #43. - A Close Call With Death with guest, Neal Middleton, artist, song writer, composer of amazing lyrics, and member of the band @Royal Bliss
Neal Middleton is our guest on the podcast series, A Close Call With Death, and Neal comes to us from an intro from my daughter Adrienne who sends me some of the most amazing touching stories on the planet. Adrienne knows Neal and his wife who he talks about very lovingly in the interview.…
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Episode #42 A Close Call With Death with guest - Lori Higbee
This week we sat down with another miracle story of survival and A Close Call With Death for Lori Higbee. Back in 1994 Lori was 16 years old and had plans to spend some fun in the sun on Utah Lake with her friends. While out Jet Skiing, a storm blew in and created dangerous conditions that...
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Episode #41 A Close Call With Death with guest - Leslie Hubrich. Leslie tragically plumitted to earth after a mechanical failure of her Power Paragliding in California.
Leslie Hubrich, what an inspiration of incredible power and upbeat attitude that came fiercely from this small super strong 5 foot nothing human being! Leslie Hubrich was out for the day doing what she loves and that is extreme sports with her husband Dan in southern California. Suddenly the...
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Episode #40 A Close Call With Death with Guest Wayne Roberts. Life threatening ski accident in Utah leaving him with 21 bones broke including a broken back, broken neck, broken arm, 4 broken ribs
Wayne Roberts. Miracle. It was mind blowing to meet Wayne. I was told he had a tragic ski accident just a couple of months prior to a meeting with him and he was walking, talking, and mixing with a group of people without much physical impairment or any mental impact. Wayne looked normal as can…
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Episode #39 A Close Call With Death with Guests Amie, Mike and Abby Mathis who were tragically burned in a propane explosion that engulfed their trailer while camping.
This episode is a true miracle where the Mathis family was engulfed in flames when the trailer they were sleeping in while camping and deer hunting had a slow propane leak and filled the space with explosive gas. It took three clicks of Mike Mathis's lighter to cause a huge explosion that burned...
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Episode #38 A Close Call With Death with Guest Abby Ward. Survivor of a 70 foot tragic fall from Lisa Falls in the Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah
Abigail Ward, Abby, survived a terrible fall while climbing to Lisa Falls in Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah with her 15 year old brother. Abby survived this 70 foot fall down the granite lined spout into only 6 inches of ice cold glacier water and rock resulting in afterwards being in a coma…
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Episode #37 A Close Call With Death with Guest Ulrick Humes - Survivor of a hostile environment in Belize growing up in an orphanage
This episode is interesting sitting down with a young man age 22 Ulrick Humes who was in Utah for just a week and then going back to his homeland Belize where he grew up as a boy with 8 siblings and a single Mother who had to leave them in an orphanage to gain the care they needed to live. Ulrick...
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Episode #36 A Close Call With Death with Guest Kacey McCallister - Double Amputee of his legs in a tragic accident - Spartan Athlete NOW!
This episode is an incredible conversation with Kacey McCallister who is a 32 year old Spartan Athlete and international motivational speaker who, as a 6 year old, was struck down by a semi truck resulting in him losing both of his legs. Kacey has proven to himself and all those who come to know...
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Episode #35 with Guest Isaac Childs. Isaac survived cancer then a shocking episode with a near fatal heart attack
Isaac Childs sits down with me to discuss his recent as well as a past survival of cancer and then a heart attack that nearly took his young life. Isaac shares with us a very vulnerable story of battling a cancer time of his life then, when working hard to be top physical shape of his life and...
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Episode #34 - Guest John Brosnan - 75 year old retired Deep Sea fisherman - 6 times washed overboard - 1 near fatal heart issue.
In this episode my wife Karrie and I were traveling overseas to Ireland to hike the "Dingle Trail" along the gorgeous cliff, beaches and farmland of Ireland. We stayed in Bed and Breakfast Inns along the way between hikes navigating between little villages. On our stay in Dingle Ireland, we…
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Episode #33. Guest JB Ellison - A Close Call With Death. JB joins us and shares a story of being blown up and becoming an inferno of gasoline and bon fire tragedy!
JB Ellison. One lucky young man who in his teen football hero days of high school, was engulfed by a homecoming bon fire along with friends, and survived. JB was always the epicenter of unintentional mischief and things going bad, and this time, he experienced a "Close Call With Death". Tune into...
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Episode #31 Guest David Osmond - A Close Call With Death - David experiences dark times battling Multiple Sclerosis MS and finding light in the world he loves.
David Osmond, amazing talk with him discussing how cool life can be coming from a famous family of musical artistry and decades of fame being the son of Alan Osmond of the Osmond brothers who performed all over the world and, nephew to Donny and Marie Osmond. David has been a performer at an…
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Episode #32 A Close Call With Death, with guest - Noelle Pikus Pace! Silver Medalist in the 2014 Winter Olympics!!!!!! "You'll Go where you look!"
Noelle Pikus Pace, US Silver Medalist Olympic Champion in the Sochi Russia 2014 Winter Olympics. Noelle experienced a tragic accident when a bobsled left the track and hit Noelle on the right leg resulting in a compound fracture that took her out of the sport for a period of time and nearly ended...
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Episode #30 Guest, Terry Grant, President of Alta Bank. Survivor of a horrific auto accident that resulted in Terry losing his wife.
Terry Grant is our guest in this episode of A Close Call With Death. Terry is a well known dynamic professional in the Salt Lake City Community and currently President of Alta Bank and former President of Key Bank where I first met Terry. Terry and his wife Janet were traveling along a southern...
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Episode #29 A Close Call With Death with Guest Landon Pitcher. Landon survived a terrible high speed crash with 4 other friends from High School and that day changed the way he looked at life.
Landon Pitcher was this cool guy with a huge smile and smart looks that was introduced to me by another friend at an open house for ISO Talent here in Utah. Austin Miller, Owner and President of ISO Talent said, "Meet Landon, he's a high energy business development executive for us and you will...
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Second chances. Life after death new attitude. Interviews with those that know life better since nearly dying.
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