227: What if you faced a terrifying beast?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
“What it felt like was - I am absolutely here, but this is not happening to us…This is not happening at all.”
Today’s episode featured John W. Evans. John is the author of three award-winning books. His poems and essays appear in Slate, The Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, Poets & Writers, and have been listed as Notable in Best American Essays. He is the Nancy Draper Lecturer of Creative Nonfiction at Stanford University. His author website is www.johnwevans.com.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Jason Blalock
Episode Summary: A newly married man traveling the world with the love of his life faces unimaginable horror on a hiking trail in Romania.
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Content/Trigger Warnings: graphic violence, graphic bodily injury, death, animal attack, animal death, explicit language
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.2 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:07.6 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:17.2 | It was like what I felt and what I was watching never synced up. |
| 0:20.8 | It didn't even look like it was happening. |
| 0:22.9 | It didn't look like anything, but what it sounded like was awful. |
| 0:27.6 | And then what it felt like was I am absolutely here, but this is not happening to us. |
| 0:33.8 | This is not happening at all. |
| 0:45.2 | From Wondry, I'm Whit Missildine. |
| 0:47.4 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:59.2 | Episode 227 |
| 1:01.2 | What if you faced a terrifying beast? |
| 1:09.7 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to this is actually happening. |
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| 1:18.2 | Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person. |
| 1:21.9 | You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast. |
| 1:26.8 | All right, if we're talking about you right now, then check out the new podcast from Wondry. |
| 1:30.8 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:49.2 | So I grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, which is a suburb of Kansas City. |
| 1:54.1 | It was a home charged with like big emotions. |
| 1:56.4 | I was loved by everybody. I was sort of like the sweet, sensitive, youngest child. |
| 2:02.8 | I could make old people smile. |
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