1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: What happens when we come face to face with death. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: My truck was blown up by a twenty pound anti 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: tak mine. 4 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 2: I jumped out of an airplane. 5 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: My parachute did not deploy. 6 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 2: I was kidnapped by a drunker tilling the outskirts of 7 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 2: Mexico City. 8 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: I was startured than held for ransom. 9 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: I open an eye and the bayonet comes down one 10 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: inch from this sheet. 11 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: I just remember everything getting dark. I was like, oh 12 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: my god, I'm dying. When we stepped beyond the edge 13 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: of what we know, I had the flatline clinically died. 14 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: In return, I grabbed the electricity going into the train system. 15 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 2: All of the electricity went through me. 16 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: I was dead for eleven point five minutes, and the 17 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: heart stopped beating alive again. These are first hand accounts 18 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: of people who have stood at the brink. 19 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 2: I was quite literally losing my own life. 20 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: I've remembered the baited breath that we all had. 21 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 2: It was going to be my reminder to keep reading 22 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: in the fear I was bleeding to death. 23 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: I was not going to be able to make get 24 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: out of this. You told me, kneel down, We're going 25 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: to kill you. Their stories are terrifying, miraculous, heartbreaking, and 26 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: deeply inspiring. It's a miracle I was brought back because 27 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: if you know anything about CPR, they do not typically 28 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: go that long. It isn't just about near death experiences. 29 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: It's about what comes after. And now you got to 30 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: rebuild the image of yourself again. How surviving the unthinkable 31 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: transforms us. That is the choice that we get to make, 32 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: taking the possibility over the pain. You have to learn 33 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: how to change your mindset. 34 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: I'm not a victimum survivor that capacity to open our 35 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 2: consciousness to something more than just what's in that western box. 36 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: My name is Dan Bush. My mission is simple. You 37 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: know your strongest one, you're the most vulnerable, to find, explore, 38 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: and share these stories. You cannot hold despair and gratitude 39 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: in your heart. At the same time. 40 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: Everything reduces to its minimum expression, which is the search 41 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: of meaning. 42 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: To remind does what it means to be live. I 43 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: step out of my grave and into my life. This 44 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: life I'm living now, I have a spiritual function, a 45 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: spiritual purpose. 46 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 2: Having gotten through all of these near death experiences. 47 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself alive again, not just that 48 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: I was the guy that cut his arm off, but 49 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: that I'm the guy who is smiling when he cut 50 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: his arm off. A podcast about the fragility of life, 51 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: the strength of the human spirit, and what it means 52 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: to truly live. 53 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 2: Life is Precious and I Am a success story. 54 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: Listen to Alive Again starting May thirteenth on the iHeartRadio app, 55 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.