Worlds Collide | EP 9

In the last episode, you heard about Laura's year and a half long relationship with Mike Marraccini.

Laura planned a trip to Iceland.

According to Mike, it was part of the radio show he'd been developing with Laura.

The trip was paid for.

It was lined up with, like, things to do the entire time we were in Iceland.

So from start to finish, there was an event every single day of something to do, to report back on at the end of the trip for the podcast.

Today, he wonders who actually footed the bill for their trip to Iceland.

After recording multiple episodes of the radio show with Laura, he asked her when he could expect to see compensation.

I brought up that we were just working for free, and I had spent like 50 plus hours on these podcasts, being part of the edits, being part of the research, and that I wasn't gonna do any more work for free.

After he set this boundary, he says Laura sent him some money directly.

I was paid one time, and I think it was like $1,600 from Laura.

I never got paid through a station.

The radio contract Mike had been waiting for never came to fruition.

After that, he walked away.

But looking back almost 10 years later, he wishes he'd never gotten on that plane to Iceland.

From what he remembers, the flight there was miserable.

We're like maybe two hours into the flight and she's hysterically crying.

Hysterically crying.

And this is probably, like, at midnight.

People around us are all turning around looking at us, and she's, like, lifting off my headphones and saying, "Please talk to me."

Laura has a very different version of what happened on their Iceland trip.

She told her story five years later in a now infamous TEDx talk.

He said that he didn't wanna end our relationship, but I couldn't understand why he didn't want to when he treated me like he hated me.

me.Uh, he said that I brought it out of him, that it was my fault, that he'd never been violent before he met me, that I was responsible for his transformation from the all-American boy to American Psycho.

Anyone can start a TEDx chapter.

In the last episode, you heard about Laura's year and a half long relationship with Mike Marraccini.

Laura planned a trip to Iceland.

According to Mike, it was part of the radio show he'd been developing with Laura.

The trip was paid for.

It was lined up with, like, things to do the entire time we were in Iceland.

So from start to finish, there was an event every single day of something to do, to report back on at the end of the trip for the podcast.

Today, he wonders who actually footed the bill for their trip to Iceland.

After recording multiple episodes of the radio show with Laura, he asked her when he could expect to see compensation.

I brought up that we were just working for free, and I had spent like 50 plus hours on these podcasts, being part of the edits, being part of the research, and that I wasn't gonna do any more work for free.

After he set this boundary, he says Laura sent him some money directly.

I was paid one time, and I think it was like $1,600 from Laura.

I never got paid through a station.

The radio contract Mike had been waiting for never came to fruition.

After that, he walked away.

But looking back almost 10 years later, he wishes he'd never gotten on that plane to Iceland.

From what he remembers, the flight there was miserable.

We're like maybe two hours into the flight and she's hysterically crying.

Hysterically crying.

And this is probably, like, at midnight.

People around us are all turning around looking at us, and she's, like, lifting off my headphones and saying, "Please talk to me."

Laura has a very different version of what happened on their Iceland trip.

She told her story five years later in a now infamous TEDx talk.

He said that he didn't wanna end our relationship, but I couldn't understand why he didn't want to when he treated me like he hated me.

me.Uh, he said that I brought it out of him, that it was my fault, that he'd never been violent before he met me, that I was responsible for his transformation from the all-American boy to American Psycho.

Anyone can start a TEDx chapter.