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Everyone. Everyone has a day now and then.

Sometimes it's more like a week.

Nothing really goes as planned, too much gets thrown at you at once,

or maybe you're just not in the mood,

or temporarily ill-equipped to handle what the universe has in store for you.

Most of us know how to handle these poems. We can just stick it out. Good things come to those who wait, you know, this too shall pass, etc. A little more proactively, you could go for a walk,

go work out, find a friend to talk to. Or maybe some compensatory fun, like a great night out,

or a bit of retail therapy might work.

Let's not forget real therapy, too.

There are so many ways to deal with a bad day.

But some bad days are badder than others.

Like if your idyllic Hawaiian home is suddenly threatened by a raging wildfire,

and you face not just the destruction of your house,

your community, but the real prospect that you might die. There aren't sufficient coping

mechanisms for a bad day of this magnitude. You need to do much more than just cope. You must survive.

On today's Saturday matinee, we bring you an episode from the fantastic Noisor podcast, Real Survival Stories,

astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations.

People suddenly forced to fight for their lives.

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