Brooke: This Is Not Reality (from the Last Day podcast)
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this guest episode from the podcast “Last Day,” host Stephanie Wittels Wachs shares the story of Brooke, who had the best and worst days of her life within a couple months of each other. The whiplash from the bliss of her wedding day to the reality of mourning rocked Brooke to her core. She had to learn how to treasure the memories while sitting in the worst suffering she’d ever felt. Find more episodes of “Last Day” at lemonadamedia.com/show/lastday.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone it's it's Meredith. Today I'm going to share an episode of a |
| 0:08.9 | podcast I think you might like. It's called Last Day and it's about the moments that change us. |
| 0:14.0 | This is a subject I'm also drawn to. |
| 0:17.0 | You may remember the season about big changes that we did on Love Letters in 2022. |
| 0:21.0 | The show Last Day has a compelling and personal origin story. The host |
| 0:26.2 | Stephanie Whittles Wax lost her brother, the beloved comedian and writer Harris |
| 0:31.0 | Wittles, to an overdose in 2015. This set her on a quest to |
| 0:35.0 | explore life-changing epidemics like overdose, suicide, and gun violence. |
| 0:39.6 | In the latest season, Stephanie sits down with people to talk about that moment where they knew nothing would be the same afterwards. |
| 0:46.7 | Brooke, the subject of the story you're about to hear, entered the dating market having already been married once. Then she met Oscar and they |
| 0:54.3 | shared a love where everything just fell into place. But just three months after |
| 0:57.9 | their wedding day, the most beautiful day of their lives, Burke lost Oscar |
| 1:01.6 | without warning. |
| 1:03.0 | This episode is all about Treasury memories you had with your loved one, |
| 1:06.0 | but still sitting in the worst suffering you've ever felt, |
| 1:08.0 | and how those two experiences coexist. |
| 1:11.0 | You can search for last day in your podcast player to hear more |
| 1:13.9 | episodes of the series. You can also click the link in the episode notes to |
| 1:17.4 | take you right there. I hope you enjoy the listen. I go in to in to check on him and he's laying on him and he's laying on the floor and I'm like okay you okay? Like he was still like talking. |
| 1:35.5 | He was like, yeah, that was a really kind of hard workout. |
| 1:37.4 | I was like, oh, it looks like, you know, |
| 1:39.6 | he's like, I can't move my arm. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Boston Globe, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Boston Globe and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.