266: What if you thought everyone was dead?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
While in the depths of a toxic relationship, a woman begins experiencing a magical, unseen world around her, but on a layover on a flight through LA, the world becomes all too real.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Jason Blalock
Editing: Matt Volla
Content/Trigger Warnings: substance abuse, mental illness, sexual abuse of a minor, suicide attempt, suicidal ideation, psychosis, explicit language
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| 0:45.8 | And it's almost like your whole peripheral vision suddenly becomes awake and everything |
| 0:50.6 | has meaning, the signs, the colors that people are wearing, the way people are looking |
| 0:56.4 | at you, everything takes on this other meaning. |
| 1:10.7 | From Wondry, I'm Whit Missaldine. |
| 1:13.8 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:23.4 | Episode 266. |
| 1:27.2 | What if you thought everyone was dead? |
| 1:47.6 | My parents met when they were both pilots, so my dad for his whole career has been a pilot |
| 1:52.9 | and my mom was doing aerobatic flights at the time. |
| 1:56.6 | They met at an aeroclub and they felt pretty quickly in love. |
| 2:01.2 | My dad told me once that people used to come up to them and tell them how much they seemed |
| 2:06.0 | like they were in love and he talks very fondly about that time saying he's never been so |
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