158: What if you entered The Void?

This Is Actually Happening

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True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

“You try to take off your skin to try to get rid of this voice, and it goes all the way down to the bone.”

Producer: Whit Missildine

Episode Summary: A man suffering the deep generational traumas of poverty, racism, abuse and mental illness finds transformative power in an ancient plant medicine.

Today’s episode featured Dexter L. Booth. Dexter is the author of the poetry collection, Scratching

the Ghost from Graywolf Press, which won the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbook Rhapsody from Etchings Press. Booth’s poems have been included in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2015, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss, The Golden Shovel Anthology honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, and Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. He is a professor in the Ashland University MFA program and a residential faculty member at Paradise Valley Community College where he teaches poetry and English composition. You can find out more about Dexter, his writing and teaching by following him on Instagram@dexter_two_omelettes, or on Facebook or Twitter. You can find his books Scratching the Ghost and Rhapsody on Bookshop.org, Amazon, or wherever books are sold.

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Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic abuse, mental illness, suicide, explicit language

Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper

Music Bed: “Union Flow” - Spuntic

Outro Music: "The Moon is Down" - El Diablo & Adam Schraft (Rojo y Negro) @eldiablosf @rojo-y-negro www.eldiablobass.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to this is actually happening.
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0:16.6	In a four-part series, the Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Calif Browder, a young
0:21.9	boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Reikers Island for three years
0:27.1	without trial.
0:28.5	This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.
0:32.4	Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.2	Today's episode marks the opening of Season 10.
0:39.1	I couldn't be more excited to be in a fresh season of new episodes with you all.
0:43.6	Also, you can engage with the community on Instagram at Actually Happening, and on Facebook
0:47.8	by searching for this is actually happening Discussion Group.
0:51.1	This season will bring a new set of life-altering stories, as well as new bonus content coming
0:55.5	at the end of the summer.
0:56.8	So stay tuned and thank you, as always, for listening, for supporting the show and for
1:00.7	your commitment to exploring the raw, incomprehensible edges of the human experience with me.
1:08.7	Eventually, it's like you realize, oh, this is coming from inside of me.
1:12.2	So then you try to take off your skin to try to get rid of this voice.
1:15.9	And it goes all the way down to the bone to the skeleton.
1:19.4	You know, you're just walking as a skeleton, realizing that that voice is like a part of
1:23.3	your yard as you can't get rid of.
1:26.3	Welcome to the Permit temp corporation.
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