342: What if you suffered decades of excessive punishment?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
After robbing an undercover police officer, a bright, ambitious kid faces a life sentence in prison, and after enduring 31 years of confinement, uses his freedom to help others find theirs.
Today’s episode featured William Palmer. If you want to reach out to him, you can email him at [email protected]. If you’d like to Support William's Fight for Justice & Advocacy, please find his GoFundMe here: https://gofund.me/14b9126f
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock
Content/Trigger Warnings: child sexual assault allegation, assault, gunfire, gunshot/bodily injury, racism, incarceration/prison, sodomy, explicit language
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:09.0 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:14.0 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:33.1 | When you call a man a monster, you are associating this man with Hitler, with Charles Manson, |
| 0:34.7 | what he I mean? |
| 0:41.9 | Like, a monster, a human monster has to have qualities and actions to justify that word. |
| 0:44.2 | I've never been a monster. |
| 0:47.8 | I've done some wrong things, but I've never been a monster. From Wondery, I'm Witt Misseldine. |
| 1:00.2 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:09.5 | Episode 3.42. |
| 1:11.6 | What if you suffer decades of excessive punishment? |
| 1:20.6 | How do I cope with waiting for results? |
| 1:24.6 | It's all I can think about. Is the cancer going to come back? |
| 1:29.8 | I can't sleep. |
| 1:31.1 | How do I stop worrying? |
| 1:33.1 | We know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. |
| 1:36.1 | The questions, the anxieties. |
| 1:38.1 | We understand because we've been there too. |
| 1:40.8 | If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with cancer, |
| 1:44.4 | McMillan Cancer supports online community can help from day one. |
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