Rewind: Episode 06

Radio Rental

In this episode of Radio Rental: Rewind, host Steven Perez and creator Payne Lindsey explore the eerie phenomenon of 'glitches' in reality through a chilling firsthand account from a

Key takeaways

• The experience was so sudden and vivid that it felt like a cinematic jump cut, with no transition or fading.
• Both individuals experienced identical events simultaneously, suggesting a shared anomaly rather than individual hallucination.

Main topics

• Reality glitches
• Time distortion

Notable quotes

It was just so sudden. Immediately after the jump I was immensely confused. I felt like a newborn.

Conclusion

The episode ends with a sense of unresolved mystery and shared wonder—while the story remains

Transcript preview

Speaker 8 (0:00) Hey, what's up guys? I'm Stephen and this is Radio Rental Rewind where we check out the greatest, the scariest, deepest cuts in the archive. Today, we're going to be talking about glitches in the Matrix. Like weird shit, jumps in time, doppelgangers, all of it. First story we're actually going to check out is called Jump Cut and it's from episode 8. So let's check it out. Speaker 3 (0:23) Okay, so let's just start off with how old were you, where were you living, what was happening? Speaker 4 (0:31) This was in 2009, so I would have been 20. I was living in a smaller apartment. I had a girlfriend who went to school and she would come visit regularly, like every weekend. Speaker 4 (0:47) Our relationship was pretty casual. We said I love you and stuff like that, but never had the conversation about living together or getting married or, God forbid, having kids. It was never like that. I mean, 20 years old, standard semi-long distance kind of thing. Speaker 4 (1:10) She was over one night. My girlfriend got there, I want to say 6, 7 o'clock. We went to Arby's, picked up some Arby's, came back, ate all that, made some popcorn, and started our movie. We were watching a DVD that she had brought. It was the movie Revolutionary Road. Speaker 4 (1:33) We're watching the movie and then within a split second, even faster than that, like faster than a blink, I found myself sitting on the foot of my bed in my bedroom as opposed to the living room where we were. And I was nude and the lights were turned off. I didn't feel groggy or sleepy or anything like that. It was just so sudden. Immediately after the jump I was immensely confused. I felt like a newborn. Just completely betrayed by all reality I've ever known. I spent a good second or two trying to catch my breath and when we came to on the bed, I don't really know what else to call it, I was kind of panicked. My first thinking was, am I hurt? Am I okay? Found that yes, I was okay. You know, I'm not not bleeding anywhere, you know But that took a couple seconds to figure that out It took me a couple seconds to realize I was in my room I had to look and see my poster on the wall and stuff for me to go. Holy crap. Okay. I'm in my room I spent a couple seconds thinking that maybe I died or something because it was just so bizarre And then I realized that my girlfriend is sitting right next to me also nude Speaker 4 (3:12) and she looks like she saw a ghost. I tried to speak first, but I choked like there was something caught in my throat. I don't think she blinked the whole time. Her eyes were just pasted open. It was a really eerie look. Wide eyes, white as a ghost, mouth agape, like you had just seen someone pop out of a grave. Speaker 4 (3:39) She was trembling, shaking sort of like that tremble you have after, you know, a near miss in traffic where your whole body is just rigid and shaking a little bit. Shallow breaths. I guess you could call it shock. Speaker 4 (3:58) She asked me what the hell happened was the first thing she said, which surprised me because I thought it was just me. And that honestly made me even more afraid because I was hoping she had answers. But that was the first thing she said is what happened. Did we turn the lights off? Did you turn the lights off? Did I say it was time for bed or anything like that? I wasn't expecting her to ask. I thought I was going to have to sound crazy and tell her, hey, something just happened and then she's going to call me nuts. Speaker 4 (4:31) But no, she asked me what happened. I don't know. Did you turn off all the lights? Did we decide to go to sleep? No. Okay, what the hell's going on here? Right away I thought something must have fallen off the wall and hit my head or something. You know, I was trying to rationalize it. From what I could tell just talking to her that she experienced the same thing I did. She didn't see anything that I didn't see. And vice versa. The jump was like the cut of a camera in a movie. Speaker 4 (5:08) Like the way we're talking now, the camera would switch from me to you, me to you, as we took turns speaking. And the way it happens when it transfers the camera is so fast. There's no fading or clipping or anything. It's just a very sudden switch. That's exactly how fast and unexpected it was. It came out of nowhere. When I found myself in my room, my blinds were open and the moon was creeping in. Everything was turned off and I mean it was equally as creepy as finding myself in a completely different room let alone the lights being on and off. It was almost like we were sitting in the dark the whole time. Sitting on the edge of the bed, both of us right on the foot of the bed. We were dressed, sitting up straight, all four feet on the floor. It's not like anyone was falling asleep. But after the experience our clothes were in a crumpled heap by the couch and we've never done that before. They were always either putting a hamper in the bedroom or left on the floor in the bedroom. Speaker 4 (6:19) That really stood out to me. That was strange. I decided I should call my mom. I was kind of a kid, I guess, and didn't know what the heck I was supposed to do in that kind of situation. When I picked up my phone, I saw that it was four hours from the time that we were watching the movie. Last time I checked the clock, it was 11 p.m. Next thing I knew, we were on the bed and it was 3 a.m. That just floored me. Speaker 4 (6:50) Immediately after, we had that brief conversation about, do you know what happened? Do I know what happened? That was maybe two minutes. Then checking the lights and finding our clothes was maybe another two, three minutes. And that was when I decided to call my mom because nothing was adding up. I was going to ask her if she thought we should see a doctor, if we should go to a hospital, if she wanted us to go to her place or what to do. Speaker 4 (7:21) She said she knows that carbon monoxide leaks can have these kinds of effects on people. I have a carbon monoxide detector, but that's just a machine and they fail all the time. So I took my mom's word for it and she said, just go to the hospital, honey. Call me when you leave. Let me know you're okay. So I'd say about 10 minutes after the jump, we were out the door. Speaker 4 (7:53) I decided we were going to go to the ER in case we had been drugged or ate something poisonous or who knows what. I know it probably wasn't the right choice for me to drive considering everything that was going on. I probably wasn't the best candidate to be behind the wheel. I didn't see any other choice. I had to get to the hospital. We told them that we were having issues with our memory and we felt a little funny. We didn't want to tell them what happened for obvious reasons. We just tried to play it off like, oh, you know, it might have been carbon monoxide or some kind of mold. Can you just, is there any kind of blood test you can do? So they did just a standard blood test. I'm not sure if they were checking for drugs or what. They said we came back, no drugs in our system and no poisoning of any kind that they could find. My girlfriend kind of thought maybe she had a seizure. And I tried to explain to her that it happened to both of us. Speaker 4 (8:59) You know, it wasn't just you. I don't think it was a seizure. But she was adamant. So she got like a CAT scan to check her brain functions, which came back exactly as it should have, clear as a bell. I was constantly bringing it up for a while, for a few weeks. It was all I wanted to talk about. When my friends came over, it was all I wanted to talk about. Things that guys online were saying and all this and that. And she just wanted it to go away. Speaker 4 (9:31) It affected our relationship. It was already kind of difficult to begin with, with the distance. Her friends didn't really like me at all. She didn't want to talk about it. I did. I embarrassed her when I brought it up around her friends, and we were just done. The next day, came home from the hospital, laid down in bed for a while, tried to sleep. My head kept kind of telling me that maybe it was going to happen again. Speaker 4 (10:02) It could happen at any time. You didn't see it coming last time. It could happen now. So I couldn't really sleep. But almost immediately, as soon as she left in the morning, I started, sounds a little childish, but just Googling things. A lot of my searches led me to some pretty serious conspiracy sites. I wanted some real concrete answers. I was looking for something scientific. And it just kept bringing me to bizarre things, to be honest. I threw a Halloween party shortly after, and I was all messed up in my head, because it was all I was thinking about, obviously. A lot of people brought up Samhain. I'm not sure if it's pagan or what it is, but it's a day where the dimension from our world to the world of the past is open, and they're able to come here and supposedly mess with us, and some people have been known to go there unwillingly, or unwittingly, I should say. Speaker 4 (11:06) I mean, a crazy situation can only have a crazy explanation. So I entertained every idea that they would give me. Hobgoblins, Samhain, quantum death. And I was always trying to tell her what I was hearing from these people. I wanted to share these things with her, and she said I sounded crazy. And I don't blame her. I'm sure I did sound a little crazy. Now when I look back on it, it's very eye-opening, almost educational in a way, where I learned that I don't know everything. I can't control everything. Sometimes things happen that you can't change, you can't control, you can't understand, you can't explain away with anything. So it was pretty educational. I guess I was kind of a cocky little asshole, like 20 years old,