329: The 82 Percent #6: What if you became your husband’s guardian?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
At 21 years old, Kris marries Brandon, the love of her life, but after Brandon suffers a severe traumatic brain injury, Kris must restructure everything about how she imagined what her family would be.
Today’s episode featured Kris Amstrong. You can donate to the Go Fund Me effort to purchase Brandon Smith a new sports wheelchair at gofund.me/d34ed0ea. You can contact Kris at [email protected] and you can find out more about her, and her family on TikTok and on Instagram @followmetothemouse. Kris is currently writing a book.
This episode is the final of a six-part miniseries called the 82 Percent: Modern stories of love and family, produced in collaboration with the Modern Family Institute. If you’d like to find out more about the Modern Family Institute, donate to help advance their work, or get engaged, please visit their website, modernfamilyinstitute.org.
We are hosting a live This Is Actually Happening event on July 24th in San Francisco at Manny’s to celebrate the series. To find tickets to the event, go to www.welcometomannys.com/events and find “The Other 82%” or, for a direct Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-other-82-living-and-loving-beyond-the-monogamous-nuclear-family-tickets-940666046467
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock
Content/Trigger Warnings: traumatic accident, traumatic brain injury, 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. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. Hi listeners. Today we finish up our six-part miniseries called The 82% modern stories of love and family and we also close out |
| 0:25.9 | season 13 of the show as we begin our six week summer break. I want to give a |
| 0:31.4 | special thanks to all of you who listen to this entire 82% series. |
| 0:35.8 | It's one that I know asks all of us to interrogate some of our deepest beliefs. |
| 0:40.0 | It's been such an honor to share it with you and to witness the rich dialogue that's come from it. |
| 0:44.3 | Also a reminder that tomorrow, July 24th at Manne's in San Francisco, will be hosting a live event |
| 0:50.9 | for the show to celebrate the series and the close of the season. |
| 0:54.4 | We'll be joined by the Modern Family Institute as well as several of the storytellers from the series, |
| 0:58.9 | including co-creation and David Jay from the first and second episodes. |
| 1:03.0 | To get tickets go to the Manies website at welcome to manies.com |
| 1:07.0 | slash events and find our event the other 82% on July 24th. |
| 1:12.0 | Before we close here, I just want other 82% on July 24th. |
| 1:13.0 | Before we close here, I just want to say it's been a wild, magical, turbulent, and beautiful year for me, |
| 1:19.0 | and an equally powerful season of the show, especially after my own transformative near death |
| 1:24.0 | experience this winter, which I shared in episode 308. I'm a humbled, grateful, |
| 1:28.9 | and just so honored to be here, to be able to continue to do this work and to count you all as my community as we |
| 1:34.9 | listen deeply to each other's stories with compassion, love, and reverence for the |
| 1:39.1 | full spectrum of the human experience. So a deep and special thanks this season for your support and |
| 1:44.8 | listenership, engagement, donations, and in all your well wishes to me and to the |
| 1:49.7 | team as we got through February. |
| 1:52.0 | We'll be on summer break for the next six weeks, during which we'll be on summer break for the next six weeks during which we'll be |
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