Michelle Khare

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1 week ago▶ 14:36 → 11 min read

Can Someone With No Training Land a 737? Michelle Khare Tries It in a Full-Motion Simulator

Polls suggest many people believe they could land a passenger plane in an emergency. Michelle Khare says about one-third of Americans think they could do it with help from air traffic control. When sh

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May 30, 2026▶ 30:56 → 17 min read

Triaging an Earthquake: Michelle Khare's Simulated Mass Casualty Shift

In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare tries to act as triage officer in an emergency department during a mass casualty incident (MCI). She is not a doctor, and the hospital is not real

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May 2, 2026▶ 22:07 → 11 min read

Seven Marathons, Seven Continents, Seven Days: The Humid Night in Cartagena and the Finish in Miami

This is the final episode of Michelle Khare's attempt to complete the Great World Race: seven marathons on all seven continents in a single week. Khare has five marathons done. The last two are left:

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April 25, 2026▶ 32:43 → 14 min read

Seven Marathons, Seven Continents: Heat, Injury, and Strangers Who Became a Team on Races Three Through Five

In the second episode of her Great World Race series, Michelle Khare continues her attempt to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. She says she took on the challenge to see what kind

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April 18, 2026▶ 40:52 → 17 min read

Seven Marathons, Seven Continents: Michelle Khare's Opening Days of the Great World Race

Michelle Khare opens the episode by saying that, after years of extreme challenges on the channel, this is the first one they genuinely believe might be impossible. The Great World Race asks runners t

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February 21, 2026▶ 38:30 → 16 min read

From the McDonald's Grill to a Michelin-Starred Kitchen: Michelle Khare Works Both Ends of the Restaurant Spectrum

In this episode, Michelle Khare tries to find out what it takes to work at two very different restaurants: a McDonald's, which she calls a "$1 sign" restaurant, and Manzke, a one-Michelin-star tasting

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February 7, 2026▶ 34:47 → 13 min read

Working the Concierge Desk at Vienna's Hotel Sacher, Where "We Never Say No"

Michelle Khare's premise is simple. Vienna's Hotel Sacher is famous for luxury and discretion. Its top room reportedly costs €10,000 a night and comes with secret doors and a personal butler. Its conc

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August 29, 2025▶ 41:13 → 15 min read

Hanging Off a C-130: Michelle Khare's Attempt to Recreate Tom Cruise's Rogue Nation Plane Stunt

In Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Tom Cruise hung from the side of a military transport plane as it took off. Michelle Khare, creator of the series Challenge Accepted, sets out to become t

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July 3, 2025▶ 47:06 → 16 min read

Training Like a Samurai: A Week of Yabusame, Etiquette, and the Katana in Japan

Michelle Khare set out to learn the disciplines a samurai would have studied, compressed into one week in the mountains near Nikko, Japan. The question behind the trip is what it actually took to beco

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June 27, 2025▶ 16:39 → 10 min read

Disguised as a 75-Year-Old Man to Reach Tom Cruise: Michelle Khare's Mission Impossible Premiere Stunt

In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare sets out to get the attention of Tom Cruise at the London global premiere of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning and ask him one question: wha

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May 31, 2025▶ 32:00 → 14 min read

Michelle Khare Tries Disney Imagineering: Rock Carving, the HoloTile, Animatronics, and a Droid for Disneyland Paris

As a child, Michelle Khare wanted to be a Disney Imagineer. She applied to Walt Disney Imagineering after graduating from school and did not get the job. In this episode of Challenge Accepted, narrate

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April 11, 2025▶ 34:58 → 17 min read

Anchoring Live Local News: Michelle Khare's Week at CBS8 San Diego

In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare joins the news team at CBS8 in San Diego to learn what it takes to produce a broadcast seen live by roughly 30,000 viewers. Over a few days she tr

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March 16, 2025▶ 56:57 → 26 min read

Michelle Khare Defends a Simulated Murder Trial After One Day of Training

Can someone with no legal background learn enough in a single day to defend a client in a murder trial against an experienced prosecutor? On this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare plays de

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December 19, 2024▶ 27:16 → 12 min read

Riding, Testing and Driving at the Red Bull Ring: Michelle Khare Takes On Formula 1

In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare tries to find out how Formula 1 drivers are actually trained, and how a former competitive athlete measures up against them. After six months of e

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October 27, 2024▶ 1:17:49 → 24 min read

Michelle Khare's 90 Days From White Belt to a Black Belt Test in Taekwondo

According to the video, the average student takes three to five years to earn a black belt in Taekwondo. Michelle Khare wanted to find out whether the right student, working with the right master, cou

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September 21, 2024▶ 27:58 → 16 min read

Peace Through Conversation: Michelle Khare's Week Learning FBI Crisis Negotiation

In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare spends a week with the FBI field office in San Diego and the San Diego Police Department to learn the tools crisis negotiators use to de-escalate

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September 4, 2024▶ 18:33 → 10 min read

Inside the FAA Academy: Michelle Khare Tries to Keep Planes from Colliding

Air traffic control is often described as one of the most stressful jobs there is. In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare travels to the Federal Aviation Administration Academy in Oklah

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August 17, 2024▶ 19:30 → 14 min read

Ten Minutes to Decide: Michelle Khare in a Nuclear War Simulation

Michelle Khare walks onto a film set built to look like the White House Situation Room. She plays the President of the United States, and she has been told that nuclear missiles are on their way. She

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May 31, 2024▶ 33:08 → 16 min read

Inside Bomb Squad Academy: Michelle Khare's Week Learning to Disable a Bomb in a 65-Pound Suit

In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare spends a week training with the Arapahoe County Sheriff's bomb squad. She is building toward a final test: approaching a suspicious device alone i

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February 16, 2024▶ 34:24 → 15 min read

Escaping Houdini's Water Torture Cell in Six Weeks: Michelle Khare's Attempt

Michelle Khare set out to escape the Chinese Water Torture Cell, the stunt Harry Houdini made famous and which she calls one of the deadliest in magic. She would be submerged upside down, handcuffed,