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What Really Happened?

Introducing: What Really Happened? Interview Series

What Really Happened?

Andrew Jenks

Society & Culture

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Jenks will sit down with a wide range of notable personalities to discuss “what really happened” during a specific, significant time in their lives. Jenks will kick off the series on March 13 with a special interview with filmmaker Erin Lee Carr conducted at SXSW. Additional guests throughout the rest of the season include: retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton, cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky, who gave the most popular TedTalk of 2018, New York Times bestselling author Suki Kim and Matthew Heineman, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Andrew Janks. I'm excited to announce our what really happened interview

0:04.6

series. Guess we'll include cognitive scientist Lara Baraditsky.

0:09.0

All of us have the sense that, you know, we can just go to the tape. We even have that

0:12.6

expression. Let's go to the tape. Right. Because you think if we can go to the video, we

0:16.7

can see the video or see reality with our eyes. But that's not actually how we arrive

0:22.7

at our judgment. Retired four star general Stanley McChrystal.

0:26.3

Hey, General McChrystal, please call me Stan. This may be too personal, but if you have

0:31.5

nightmares. When it happens, I wake up and I'm bothered. The common factory is I'm at

0:37.5

a point where suddenly I'm helpless. And I try to think if there's something in my life

0:41.6

that is trade you get. That's to me, maybe the most frightening feeling of all. New York

0:46.4

Times bestselling author, Suki Kim. Well, a part of doing undercover work is not asking

0:53.6

questions. In case you get stopped. The only way to write about it was to live inside

0:59.4

among North Koreans. That was my single goal. And this opportunity was going to allow me

1:03.8

that. If they rely all the time, which they did, my students did, you can call that a lie

1:10.4

or you can try to understand why they do it. Award winning filmmaker Andrew Stan. You

1:15.0

know, you've won two Academy Awards. It's become known as the biggest box office flop

1:19.5

in history, but that's the sad part for me. It's like, wow, I think we really didn't

1:25.0

prepare ourselves to not see each other again. This is the honest truth. I said, if I can't

1:30.4

handle reading bad reviews, then I shouldn't be reading good reviews. And I've never read

1:35.6

anything ever since. Oh, come on. No, I mean it. People say that. No, I mean it. This

1:41.0

is the what really happened interview series available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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