- 152
- Episodes
- 133
- Transcribed
- 1,256
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 251K
- YouTube views
About What It Was Like
Conversations with people who have lived through extreme events. Some stories are dark and twisted, others are light and funny. In all cases, we get an intimate portrait of 'what it was like' to be there.Find us on TikTok: @whatitwaslikepodcast (https://www.tiktok.com/@whatitwaslikepodcast)Find us on Youtube: @whatitwaslikepodcast (https://www.youtube.com/@whatitwaslikepodcast)Follow us on Instagram: whatitwaslikepodcast (https://www.instagram.com/whatitwaslikepodcast/)Hosted by Julian Morgans (https://www.instagram.com/julianmorgans/?hl=en)This is a Superreal (https://superreal.com.au/) production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Superreal
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 11 Mar 2022
- Latest episode
- 19 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
133 of 152 episodes have a transcript.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Hurricane That Swallowed a Cargo Ship (Classic)
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Strange Condition That Made Me Write Constantly
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
My Childhood Bully Killed My Friend
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The Hurricane That Swallowed a Cargo Ship (Classic)
Published 19 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The rule is that if you are in the northern hemisphere, and if you feel the wind to your left, the chances are that you're heading towards lower atmospheric pressure. And that usually spells bad weather ahead. And the whole time on this ship, these sailors, they keep asking, why is the wind coming from the left? Shouldn't it be coming from the right? Shouldn't we be getting past this thing? And no one seems to realize that the wind is on their left because they're sailing into lower atmospheric pressure. They keep referring to the barometer. They're like, is the barometer coming up? And every time they look at the barometer, it's always dropping. […]
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- Alice Weaver Flaherty
- Tyler Pelke
- Felicia Rosario
- Khalil Amani
- Jason Sutherland
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 251,147
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 464 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 792 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 94 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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