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Podcast: Blink of an Eye
Episode: #300 Surviving the Crash: A 17-Year-Old’s Journey from Stud to Survivor
Description: Surviving the Crash: A 17-Year-Old’s Lifelong Journey from Stud to Survivor
Louise talks with Rick Futia and his nephew, Jag Jefferson, about the 1982 accident that altered the course of Rick's life forever. At seventeen, Rick was an athletic powerhouse whose identity was entirely wrapped up in his physical strength and studious caution. He recounts the eerie premonitions he felt on the day of his injury, from a lingering look at his mother to a strange reflection in a store window, before a stunt involving a tractor tire at the lake went wrong.
Rick opens up...