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Erin and Callen at a deathmatch

Program: Follow me to the death | Love, blood and deathmatch wrestling

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How would you feel if your partner’s life’s purpose was to mutilate himself and his opponents for entertainment?  When Callen Butcher picks up his home-made weapons and puts on his fake tan to perform in the Deathmatch wrestling ring Erin Dick, his partner is ringside. Erin is a disabled person living with chronic illness, a normal day feels like having the flu, a hangover, and missing a night’s sleep all at once. But when she watches Callen in the ring, for a moment she escapes her body and her pain. While he fights for that adrenaline rush, as if chasing death, she is fighting to feel alive.

But Erin also finds herself riding a rollercoaster of emotions – fearing for his safety and worrying that his love of deathmatch could take from them a long life together. And in the back of her mind the question, who will take care of me then?

Guests:

  • Callen Butcher
  • Kelli and Mark Butcher
  • Catherine and Gordon Dick

Thanks to Ocean Grove for use of their track JUNKIE$.

Credits:

  • Producer - Erin Dick
  • Sound Engineer - Matthew Crawford

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Erin Dick checks her partner Callen Butcher is ok at a deathmatch wrestling event

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