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Feb 2025
41m 28s

2: Locked-In

Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel
About this episode

If the disease doesn’t kill Jake, the medical system just might. As his condition worsens, he endures brutal treatment and increasing isolation while tensions explode between his family and his wife. But when he finally slips into a coma, the real nightmare begins—trapped in silence, Jake overhears something chilling.


Content warning: Drug use/abuse, addiction, medical trauma, serious illness, paralysis/coma, death & dying, domestic violence, assault, murder, emotional distress & mature content.


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Hosted and produced by Corinne Vien

Co-created by Jake Haendel

Original composition by Michael Marguet

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