Re-Release: The Genius

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Laurah’s out sick; please enjoy a re-release of one of our favorite episodes.

A Washington man named Jason Padgett loved partying, muscle cars, and getting buff at the local gym, and would have been content to live his life singing karaoke and chasing girls--until a fateful attack changed his worldview. . . quite literally. When he woke up the next day after receiving serious blows to the head, Jason realized that he could see things that others couldn’t. And he didn’t know what to make of them.

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0:00.0	Hey there, strangers, this is Mora, your intrepid and usually silent producer.
0:04.8	Laura has lost her voice due to an illness, but we didn't want to leave you empty-handed this week.
0:09.3	So we went back into our own archives and pulled out one of our favorite episodes for you.
0:14.1	If you're new to Strangerdom, you might not have heard this one yet, and we may be biased, but we really do think it's a great one.
0:22.6	So today, please enjoy your visit or revisit with The Genius. We'll see you back in the main feed on December 26th with a very
0:29.3	special and very festive new episode. I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's
0:42.7	news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
1:05.5	This week, we'd like you to join us on a trip, all the way back to Friday the 13th, September 2002.
1:13.4	Imagine this. The number one song on the Billboard charts was Avril Levine's Complicated.
1:21.4	Myspace was still a year away from launching. The number one movie in America was Barbershop,
1:30.3	a classic if we do say so ourselves. And strangers, it would be another year before the camera phone really took off in the United States. The world of cryptid hunting would never be the same.
1:36.3	Our point here, and yes, we do have one, is that this was a very long time ago. Sorry to break it to you. And according to the subject of
1:46.9	today's story, a man named Jason Padgett, who was 31 years old in 2002, he was living in a bit
1:54.1	of a time capsule even then. Call it an extended adolescence, maybe, tied up in his teenage years, which took place in the late
2:03.2	1980s. According to the News Tribune, Jason spent his formative years in both Alaska and Washington
2:10.7	State, and by the time he was a young adult, he'd settled into a life focused on, well, fun.
2:18.4	Cars, girls, parties, you get the idea.
2:22.7	Jason would describe himself to numerous news outlets as a workout fiend
2:27.4	and in terms of emotional depth as a mile wide and a millimeter deep.
2:34.0	He also, by his own admission, had a vague... as a mile wide and a millimeter deep.
2:40.6	He also, by his own admission, had a very serious mullet.
2:47.3	In case your memory fails you, that was not the on-tren aesthetic in 2002.
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