No One Is Coming

A locked door is one thing. The helpful person standing beside it is where Jenny Radcliffe comes in.

In this short bonus deep dive, ethical social engineer Jenny Radcliffe, known as “The People Hacker,” explains how she’s hired to get past security by understanding the humans responsible for it. With permission, considerable preparation, and enough charm to make opening the door seem like your idea, she exposes vul...

Another ship was close enough to see the Titanic as it sank. So why didn't it come to the rescue?

In this short bonus deep dive, Titanic historian Tim Maltin reveals how extraordinary atmospheric conditions may have contributed to a catastrophic series of misunderstandings. From misjudged distances and misread distress signals to the remarkable stroke of luck that helped the Carpathia find survivors, it's a fascinating look at h...

Why do we pay to be terrified by horror movies and haunted houses, yet struggle to think clearly when fear becomes real? And what if some of our most deeply held beliefs about panic, courage, and survival are wrong?

In the Season One finale of No One Is Coming, Lance Still explores the psychology and neuroscience of fear: why our brains evolved to detect danger, what happens during the fight, flight, or freeze response, and how stre...

Why do we picture a tsunami as a giant, cinematic wave, when the reality is far more deceptive—and far more dangerous?

In this episode of No One Is Coming, Lance Still explores the terrifying physics of tsunamis and the hidden history buried right beneath our feet. From the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the 2011 Tōhoku disaster in Japan, we look at what happens when the sea stops behaving like the sea and becomes a ...

Everyday Disasters | What Are the Odds

Why can we picture a plane crash so clearly, but barely notice the warning signs in our cars, our homes, or the people beside us?

In this episode of No One Is Coming, Lance Still looks at the risks that come with ordinary life—and why familiarity makes them easy to miss.

From drowsy driving and roadside breakdowns to water stains, dryer vents, smoke alarms, and DIY repairs, the episode ...

What actually happens when someone goes missing — and how do investigators decide whether a person is lost, hiding, in danger, or simply somewhere they chose to be?

In this episode of No One Is Coming, Lance Still looks past the milk cartons, missing-child headlines, true-crime mythology, and television detectives to examine how missing-person investigations really work. From the disappearance of Etan Patz and the fear tha...

Pandemics: Before Patient Zero —

What happens before a pandemic has a name — when the pathogen is already moving, the evidence is incomplete, and someone has to decide whether a strange cluster of illness is noise or the beginning of something much bigger?

In this episode of No One Is Coming, Lance Still traces pandemics backward from the moment the world notices them to the conditions that make them possible in the firs...

What happens when a con artist hijacks your survival instincts?

In this episode of No One Is Coming, Lance Still breaks down how scammers manufacture emergencies, shut down rational thought, and force you to act before you can think. You will learn how to interrupt the panic response and protect yourself when a call or text demands immediate action.

Featuring:

Brett Johnson: Former cybercriminal turned security expert, once dubbed...

A cruise ship is a $2-billion floating resort where you can watch the sunset over a private balcony, eat breakfast prepared by a chef you’ll never meet, and contract norovirus via buffet tongs before you’ve even cleared international waters.

In this episode of No One Is Coming, we’re looking at the strange, highly optimized world of modern cruising. We talk to Titanic expert Tim Maltin about atmospheric illusions, ...

A crowded bar. A concert. A festival. Most nights, the music stops and everybody goes home.

But when a room turns dangerous, it can happen faster than you think — and by the time everyone realizes something is wrong, some of your choices may already be gone.

In Reading the Room: Fire, Crowds, and the Night You Didn’t Plan For, we look at what makes concerts, nightclubs and crowded events safe — and what happens when...

On Vancouver Island's remote west coast, Tofino is beautiful, isolated and vulnerable to the kinds of emergencies that can quickly become compound crises. In the series premiere, Lance Still asks what preparedness means in a place where outside help may be delayed, and why survival often depends on ordinary people making decisions before certainty arrives.

Featuring Tim Webb, Hilary O'Reilly, Marcie DeWitt and Nathalie Chouinard-Nol...

Aliens are having quite the summer. From Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day to a dedicated government website, No One Is Coming takes it all seriously enough to ask the important questions: In the event of an alien invasion, who survives, who makes everything worse, and what should you absolutely not do when something enormous appears in the sky?

Featuring Dr. Seth Shostak, Dr. Stephen Ehmann DiKerby, Ryan Sprague, Dr. Charlott...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

No One Is Coming is a narrative documentary podcast about disasters, human behavior, and how to think clearly when systems fail, help runs late, and the situation moves faster than the plan.

You can’t plan for every punch. But you can get better at noticing when the rules have changed—and adapting to the situation you’re actually in.

Premiering August 19.