159: What if someone you love committed a monstrous crime?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
“I could live with the nightmares. I could live with the panic attacks. But the thing that was tearing me apart was questioning if everything I know in my life was real at all.”
Producer: Whit Missildine
Episode Summary: A lifelong friendship filled with care, love and personal growth takes a shocking turn in the aftermath of a brutal act of violence.
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Content/Trigger Warnings: childhood trauma, parental abuse, graphic violence, murder, explicit language
Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper
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| 0:08.4 | One, two, one. |
| 0:16.2 | Since his death in 2009, the world has struggled with how Michael Jackson should be remembered |
| 0:21.6 | as the King of Pop or as a monster. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Leon Nefak. |
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| 0:31.8 | Follow Think Twice, Michael Jackson, on Audible or the Amazon Music app. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello listeners. |
| 0:37.6 | Due to legal reasons, this episode number 159, what if someone you love committed a |
| 0:41.9 | monstrous crime had to be removed from the show? |
| 0:44.8 | I'll be working with the concerned parties to help restore the episode at a later date. |
| 0:48.5 | And if in the future, a legal path clears for the episode to be aired, I'll restore |
| 0:52.0 | the original and make an announcement on the show. |
| 0:54.7 | Thank you for understanding. |
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