{"podcast":{"title":"Life’s Tough, Explorers Are TOUGHER!","slug":"life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599","podcast_index_feed_id":3600599,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2440723.rss","website_url":"https://www.lifestough.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/07i5gzxwf9o2pbyvu3m11zjcez5k?.jpg","author":"Richard Wiese","episode_count":58,"summary":"“Exploring is an innate part of being human.” Richard Wiese, spends 30 minutes every week with some of the world’s most compelling adventurers, explorers, and socio-environmental advocates, listening to their distinct adventures, unique discoveries, projects & goals, while discovering their multitude of challenges, surprises, triumphs and set-backs they encounter along the way. Join Richard as he pulls back the curtain on what it’s like to travel around the world and beyond; explore some of the most exotic and often dangerous places; and uncover what makes people, places and our planet so special.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599"},"episode":{"title":"Alex More on Pandemics, Climate, and Human Survival","slug":"alex-more-on-pandemics-climate-and-human-survival","published_at":"2026-03-25T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599/alex-more-on-pandemics-climate-and-human-survival","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440723/episodes/18900456-alex-more-on-pandemics-climate-and-human-survival.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440723/episodes/18900456-alex-more-on-pandemics-climate-and-human-survival.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Life's Tough, Explorers are Tougher, Richard Wiese speaks with Dr. Alex More about an extraordinary journey that spans immigration, survival, scholarship, and discovery. Alex recounts leaving Italy as a teenager, navigating New York and Chicago with limited resources, and eventually building an academic career that led to Harvard and beyond. His story is one of persistence, risk, and the determination to keep asking bigger questions. The conversation then expands into Alex’...","meta_description":"In this episode of Life's Tough, Explorers are Tougher, Richard Wiese speaks with Dr. Alex More about an extraordinary journey that spans immigration, sur…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1311,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599/episodes/alex-more-on-pandemics-climate-and-human-survival/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599/alex-more-on-pandemics-climate-and-human-survival.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}