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UnFictional

Stories of Perception

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4923 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

This season on UnFictional, we’re looking at how we come to know the unknown parts of ourselves. Get the first episode January 31st.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine you could experience the world the way someone else does, not just see through their eyes, but feel what they feel.

0:08.0

It's supposed to be six chests up there.

0:10.0

We get this shit, come back, and enjoy the rest of my life.

0:13.0

Love what they love, hate who they hate.

0:17.0

She's the, you know, she's the witch.

0:19.0

But the wits come true.

0:21.0

But your perception of reality is filtered through years of experiences, heartbreak, and trauma,

0:27.0

and there are barriers in our heads between your reality and my reality.

0:31.0

And you go into a laboratory and they throw a switch in your head and suddenly you realize

0:36.1

holy shit it wasn't bullshit it's real.

0:39.7

This season on the unfictional podcast stories that melt those barriers.

0:45.0

But I fundamentally disagree with your core beliefs.

0:49.4

Like the experimental treatment that works almost too well.

0:52.3

Like living in a hallucination as I drove the car.

0:55.0

Or a man who sells get-rich quick schemes at a call center

0:58.0

until it unleashes a previously unknown part of himself.

1:02.0

It made me mean, but I was good at it. In 1-800,

1:07.0

Kiss My ass.

1:08.0

Was that the first time you'd ever talked to a skinhead?

1:11.0

Very first time, without violence breaking out.

1:14.0

Let's just put it like that.

1:15.2

The reporter who went to cover a Juggalo March, but instead just became a Juggalo.

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