152: What if you were a human shield?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
“This fake face I was putting on for everybody was my only sense of normality when my whole life is already changed. I didn’t want to admit that stuff was wrong, and I did it in such a convincing way that the majority of people believed me.”
Producer: Whit Missildine
Episode Summary: A man becomes a hero during a horrific act of war only to face the worst of it after he survives.
Today's episode featured Will Hoover. To find out more about Will, he’s on Twitter and Instagram @WillHooverTV, or you can check his own recently launched podcast about film and technology called Uncovered Cinema.
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Content/Trigger Warnings: war, severe injury, gun violence, PTSD, explicit language
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| 0:08.7 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:09.9 | And I'm Sirete. |
| 0:10.9 | And we are the hosts of A Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:14.6 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:18.0 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch's |
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| 0:32.2 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's |
| 0:35.2 | blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon |
| 0:39.8 | of genetic sexual attraction. |
| 0:41.7 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. |
| 0:46.5 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? |
| 0:49.0 | What drives a child to kill? |
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