283: What if you saved your family from annihilation?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Grappling with a lifetime of looming abuse from his father and a mother suffering from paralysis, a man decides to cut ties with his parents, only to set in motion a new set of horrors that threaten to decimate his entire family.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Aviva Lipkowitz, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, domestic abuse of a minor, attempted murder, suicidal ideation, suicide, explicit language
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Intro Music: ""Illabye" – Tipper
Music Bed: “Cylinder Four” – Chris Zabriskie
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