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What I survived

What I Survived - Season 2

05 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What challenges does the host face when confronting life-threatening situations?

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Today is the day I could potentially die.

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3.104 - 20.976 Jack Laurence

There's a question most of us never have to answer. How would I react when everything is stripped away, when it's just you and the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone is happening to you? Would you fall apart?

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Because Bob had been in a Thai jail about 10 years prior, he'd told me many stories about what it was like. And when he's telling me some of these stories, I'm thinking in my head, can't be that bad. Yeah, but it was.

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36.142 - 38.728 Jack Laurence

Or would something else take over?

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The bathroom straight away on the left. So we were in the bathroom.

Chapter 2: How do personal experiences shape our responses to trauma?

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The door opens that way. We were behind the door. My girlfriend's crouched down. I'm holding a fork. We've pulled the curtain across the bath. So it looks like we're in the bathroom hiding. And they were going to come in, think we're in the bath, lean forward to go there. And I was going to come in from behind the door and stab them in the neck with the fork.

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66.523 - 68.125 Jack Laurence

Some people fight for their lives.

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69.033 - 73.978 Unknown

And the fire, I kid you not, was about halfway up within the small chamber of the cockpit.

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Chapter 3: What strategies do survivors use to cope with extreme stress?

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Jesus, I'm like, I've got to get this aircraft down.

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77.822 - 79.363 Jack Laurence

Some fight for the people they love.

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Last night, they were handed over to Al-Shabaab. And this morning, all three of them were executed, were beheaded because they were working with infidels. The next morning, thinking about it, I sort of said to Amanda, I think we need to seriously consider an escape.

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94.899 - 97.622 Jack Laurence

And others walk into danger on purpose.

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Because in my mind, it sounded so fucking crazy that anybody in Denmark, in their right mind, could think that North Korea was great.

108.771 - 114.701 Jack Laurence

You're literally going undercover in North Korea to film these people. Others have been killed for far less.

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Yep.

Chapter 4: How does one navigate the aftermath of a traumatic event?

118.086 - 123.154 Jack Laurence

And then comes the question nobody warns you about. How do you come back?

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that was when the pain sort of washed over me a tsunami of pain in other words head to toe every sort of nerve ending if you will just shot to shot to pieces but the pain was literally off the charts so i went to my doctor and i told him what's going on and he said holly look what you've been through look how you've had to live he said you've got post-traumatic stress like severe

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And at that point I'm still kind of quite upbeat. I'm like, okay, right. So information's getting through there and I've got the movement here. And so, okay. She's like, there are two ways of classifying spinal injury. You've got incomplete and you've got complete. Your injury is complete.

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Chapter 5: What insights can we gain from the stories shared in Season 2?

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And it, it, it was like my world collapsed.

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173.455 - 181.763 Jack Laurence

Deadly undercover operations, terror attacks, life-altering catastrophes thousands of feet in the air and kidnappings.

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182.624 - 251.488 Unknown

Got out, jumped down, barefoot, feeling sand between my toes for the first time in months and started to pull on my shoes and looked down the alleyway and there's a young kid who literally saw us and just started screaming and saying something in Somali. What I Survived Season 2 starts May. What I Survived Season 2 starts May. When I ain't got together, let me know just when

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