49: Struck by lightning

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s bonus podcast episode is being released in an “off week”, outside of the regular every-other-Friday schedule. This is being done to introduce you to the podcast called This Is Actually Happening. The host of This Is Actually Happening is Whit Missildine. He and I recently connected after realizing that our two podcasts are very similar – people telling their stories of unusual experiences, first hand. This week, we are trading episodes. He recently published my episode “Tyson was Abducted” for his show, and today I’m broadcasting his episode, which deals with a person who was struck by lightning. This is how Whit describes This is Actually Happening: “What is the most extraordinary event in your life that changed everything?” Over the last 6 years, no single question has fascinated me more. We live our everyday lives with a sense that we know who we are, what we want and what will happen. But at some point in our lives, many of us will experience something unthinkable – a massively unpredictable disruption that rattles our sense of self at the core. Who are we then? How do we recover? What do we become? I have explored these questions in over 100 interviews for This Is Actually Happening – a bi-weekly podcast that probes the extraordinary, life-altering events that shape the lives of ordinary people. We meet a woman who’s sister has five personalities, a son who was shot by his father, a man who wakes up in the morgue. Through stories like these, we gain intimate access to the chaotic interiors of the human story. With no narration or host interjections, This Is Actually Happening is a highly distilled, heavily edited, first-person show that cuts straight to the heart of the narrative. This episode is exactly the type of story I cover for each episode of WWTL so I think you’ll enjoy it. And I would like to get your feedback – just email me at [email protected]. This Is Actually Happening can be found on any podcast app, or at the website Permatemp.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glass Fox Media Podcast.
0:05.0	I'll confess.
0:07.0	Sometimes I let my podcast playlists get out of hand and I get way behind,
0:12.0	but there's one show that I subscribe to in any new episode goes right to the top of the queue
0:16.9	that's the Jordan Harbinger show that's because I never have to figure out okay is this one going to be interesting or do I
0:23.3	wait for the next one like I do for some shows because Jordan's conversations
0:27.5	are always a must listen for me. He talks to fascinating people from any
0:32.1	category you can think of, authors, scientists,
0:36.0	athletes, you name it. He's talked to undercover cops who posed as mafia and the actual career
0:42.1	mafia hitmen, and the stories he mafia hit men.
0:43.0	And the stories he gets out of these people, just incredible.
0:46.0	In one episode he talked to Paul Holtz.
0:49.0	You might know that name if you're into true crime.
0:51.0	He's the former investigator who uses really
0:54.5	advanced methods to solve cold cases including the Golden State Killer.
0:59.4	And another one I really enjoyed was with Sam Harris, an author and neuroscientist who promotes skepticism
1:06.7	and he doesn't mind taking on some seriously controversial topics like politics or religion.
1:12.3	That one's going to make you think.
1:14.0	Whenever a new episode of the Jordan Harbinger show pops up, I already know it's going to be an episode that I'll enjoy listening to,
1:21.0	and I'll bet you will too.
1:23.2	For some episode recommendations check out Jordan Harbanger.com slash start or search for the Jordan
1:30.0	Harb as in boy I n as in Nancy G-E-R-R- on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to
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