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Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos

Wondery Presents - This Is Actually Happening: Point Blank

Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Kids & Family

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In light of recent news, we encourage you to learn about the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, please help the victims if that’s available to you, and we urge you to take extra sensitivity and care while listening.

This Is Actually Happening, is a podcast that brings you extraordinary true stories of life changing events, told by the people who lived them. Now, This Is Actually Happening presents: Point Blank, a five-part series shedding a light on the forgotten spree killings of Rancho Tehama. In November of 2017, a lone gunman devastated a small town in northern California, attacking 8 different locations in the span of only 25 minutes. Overshadowed by the Las Vegas shooting that dominated the headlines just weeks earlier, this small community quickly faded from view, and was left alone to pick up the pieces.

The series follows five stories of people connected to the incident, from a father that drew the gunman away from the local school, to the sister of the shooter. These are riveting stories that will stick with you long after you listen, exploring the question, what happens when everything changes?

Listen to Point Blank by following This Is Actually Happening wherever you get your podcasts: Wondery.fm/Adulting_TIAH

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:04.0

Hi, I'm Whit Missildine, the creator of this is actually happening.

0:11.6

You are about to listen to a clip of a mini-series I created about the Rancho Tejema shootings

0:16.1

in 2017 called Point Blank, but I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the recent

0:20.9

shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.

0:23.8

To encourage you all to learn about the Nashville shooting, help the victims if that's available

0:28.2

to you and for our series to urge you to take extra sensitivity and care while listening.

0:34.1

It's the fall of 2017 in Rancho Tejema, California.

0:37.2

A man and his wife are driving to a doctor's appointment when another car crashes into

0:41.6

them, sending them flying off the road.

0:43.8

Disoriented, they stumble out of the car only to hear dozens of gunshots whizzing past

0:48.8

them.

0:49.8

This is just a chapter of a much larger nightmare unraveling in their small town.

0:54.4

And I'm wondering, this is actually happening is a podcast that features extraordinary true

0:58.4

stories of life-changing events told by the people who actually lived them.

1:02.4

And a special five-part series called Point Blank, this is actually happening, Shedzel

1:06.6

Light on the forgotten spree killings of Rancho Tejema, where alone gunmen devastated a small

1:11.2

town in Northern California, attacking eight different locations in the span of only 25

1:16.6

minutes.

1:17.6

Overshadowed by the Las Vegas shooting that dominated the headlines just weeks earlier,

1:21.5

this small community quickly faded from view and was left alone to pick up the pieces.

1:26.4

Point Blank gives you five intimate first-person accounts of what happened that day, from a

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