240: The Listener Stories of 2025

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 196 minutes

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Well here we are at the end of 2025. It’s been a crazy year in a lot of different ways. And it’s a tradition here for the What Was That Like podcast for the last episode of the year to be a collection of all of this year’s Listener Stories. For every main episode of the podcast, we end it with a story sent in by a listener. It can be something happy, sad, funny – just about anything – as long as it’s something interesting that happened to you. We limit these to around 5-10 minutes, and all you have to do is record it on your phone and email it to me at Scott@WhatWasThatLike.com So what we have here in this final episode of 2025 is over 3 hours of those listener stories from this past year. Keep in mind that some of these stories deal with sensitive topics such as suicide or other things that could be triggering for some listeners. Feel free to fast forward to the next story if you need to. And now, here are the Listener Stories of 2025. Get every episode ad-free, AND get all the Raw Audio exclusive episodes to binge, by joining the other listeners at What Was That Like PLUS. Try What Was That Like PLUS free: iPhone: at the top of the What Was That Like podcast feed, click on “Try free” Android: on your phone, go to WhatWasThatLike.com/PLUS and click to try it free on any app Sponsor deals: If you’re 21 or older, get 25% OFF your first order + free shipping @IndaCloud with code [WHATWAS] at https://inda.shop/[WHATWAS]! #indacloudpod Go to ThriveMarket.com/WHATWAS to get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift just for signing up. Go to Quince.com/whatwas for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [WHATWAS] at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Try Mint Mobile for 3 months, for just 15 bucks a month - MintMobile.com/WHAT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, here we are at the end of 2025.
0:10.0	It's been a crazy year in a lot of different ways.
0:14.0	And it's a tradition here for the What Was That Like podcast for the last episode of the year
0:20.0	to be a collection of all of
0:22.4	this year's listener stories. For every main episode of the podcast, we end it with a story
0:28.8	sent in by a listener. It can be something that's happy, sad, funny, just about anything,
0:35.6	as long as it's something interesting that happened to you.
0:39.7	We limit these to around 5 to 10 minutes, and all you have to do is recorded on your phone
0:45.0	and email it to me at Scott at what was that like.com.
0:50.2	So what we have here in this final episode of 2025 is over three hours of those listener
0:56.5	stories from this past year. Keep in mind that some of these stories deal with sensitive
1:02.2	topics such as suicide or other things that could be triggering for some listeners. Feel
1:08.2	free to fast forward to the next story if you need to.
1:12.6	And now, here are the listener stories of 2025.
1:22.9	Real people in unreal situations.
1:33.3	The eerie silence when I walked in, and he's just staring at me. I was like, hello, like, are you okay?
1:35.3	And then I had to tell him, it was me.
1:39.3	There was just blood everywhere.
1:42.3	They're shouting, they're screaming, they're being hit by bullets, they're hitting the ground.
1:46.3	And in that moment, I literally thought, this is how I die.
1:49.6	Everything changed then.
1:52.4	And I just thought to myself, this isn't happening.
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