HeyJaredTegan Broadwater
I don’t try to change minds, just deepen them. True stories, hidden context, and thought-provoking fiction.
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Grounded for a KISS Tattoo in Church & Other Things That Built me. (opens the original)
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A Weekly Reframe ➔ Hard-Won Wisdom ➔ Worth Reading ➔ On DeckBEHIND THE CURTAIN Steve Murphy spent years in Colombia hunting Pablo Escobar. Hollywood turned that hunt into Narcos, but Steve lived the version without a soundtrack: the long nights, the dead ends, and the waiting.We sat down together in LA, and he told me things that never made it onto the screen. The full episode isn’t out yet, but you get this sneak preview first.👉 Watch the sneak preview here before anyone else sees it.<div class
You Haven’t Been Low Enough (opens the original)
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Man, I was bored. A fourth grader deserves better than this, I thought, and wandered out of my bedroom to see what the rest of the house had.What it had was magazines. There were always dozens of them lying around back then. I picked up the one with Mork and Mindy on the cover. I loved that show. Only three pages in, my heart stopped.It was an ad for the Columbia Record & Tape Club, offering thirteen albums or eight-tracks for a penny. A grid of album jackets ran down the side of the page, and s
My "Worst Fear" Came True This Week. Then I Remembered the Tunnel Rats. (opens the original)
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A Weekly Reframe ➔ Hard-Won Wisdom ➔ Worth Reading ➔ On DeckBEHIND THE CURTAIN This week, a few of my “worst fears” came true.I traveled to another state to record an interview, sat down for a great conversation, and flew home feeling good about it. Then we discovered that we had lost half the audio.If you have ever made anything, you know that feeling. My stomach dropped, I said a unprintable few words, and for about an hour I treated it like a tragedy.“Worst fear” is a relative ter
Fear Doesn’t Kill You in the Tunnel. Being Alone Does. (opens the original)
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There is a hole in the ground in Cu Chi province about two feet wide. A grown man has to put his arms over his head and let his shoulders collapse inward to fit through it. Once he does, the light goes away… all the way. Down the first few yards, the air solidifies into something you chew instead of breathe. Somewhere in that suffocating black, danger waits: A man with a garrote wire, a viper tied to a bamboo stick, or a trapdoor opening into a subterranean level he never knew existed. Still, th
Nobody Lies to You Like You Do (opens the original)
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A Weekly Reframe - One guest’s story | one hard-won line | one piece worth reading.BEHIND THE CURTAIN <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="576" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VQxW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_au
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