338: What if you thought you got away with it?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Growing up a lonely latchkey kid, a young boy numbs himself with drugs and alcohol, but after one night of binging, a surge of violent rage changes his life forever, spiraling from depths of depravity to the heights of redemption.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic abuse, divorce, drug and alcohol use/abuse, intravenous drug use, murder & death, incarceration, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening |
| 0:05.0 | by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.9 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. |
| 0:33.5 | I believe that all of us, we have the capacity, the ability to be violent. |
| 0:42.3 | The logical part of my brain shut off at that point and just the rage existed. That was what was in control of my body. |
| 0:46.3 | From Wondry, I'm Witt Misseldine. |
| 0:58.4 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:07.9 | Episode 338. |
| 1:11.6 | What if you thought you got away with it? |
| 1:19.8 | How do I cope with waiting for results? |
| 1:23.3 | It's all I can think about. |
| 1:25.2 | Is the cancer going to come back? |
| 1:27.9 | I can't sleep. How do cancer going to come back? I can't sleep. |
| 1:29.2 | How do I stop worrying? |
| 1:31.2 | We know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. |
| 1:34.2 | The questions, the anxieties. |
| 1:36.3 | We understand because we've been there too. |
| 1:38.9 | If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with cancer, |
| 1:42.5 | McMillan Cancer supports online community can help from day one. |
| 1:46.4 | It's a free, safe, online forum for people with cancer to connect anonymously. No question is too |
| 1:52.3 | big or too small. With over 80,000 members, we get it. We've been there. Whatever you need to ask, |
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