298: What if you were caught in the gears of the machine?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Navigating a chaotic upbringing, a man finds his path through sports, military and grueling police work, but as the scars from Iraq, the domestic violence unit, and corrupt police politics mount, he pursues a dark reckoning to try to recover his humanity.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic abuse, alcoholism, police brutality, war, graphic violence, child endangerment, graphic bodily injury, de-gloving, burn victim, near death experience, drug use, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. To realize that everything you did and all the blood sweat and tears that you put into something that you really |
| 0:23.6 | fucking believed in when you start to see that everything you thought was the truth was not. |
| 0:31.3 | It's soul-crushing. |
| 0:32.3 | It's fucking soul crushing. |
| 0:34.0 | From wonder, you. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misdine. You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 298, what if you were caught in the gears of the machine? |
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