Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
by Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel
About Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
Jacob Haendel has been handed a death sentence. He has a terminal progressive disease that's eating away at the white matter of his brain. In six months, he'll be dead. As the months progress, Jake slips into a coma, laying there in total darkness. But something odd has happened... Jake is fully conscious. Nobody knows that he can hear them. They’re certain he's no longer in there. With the...
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story episodeslatest 20
The Snare, from ABC News
· 30:16
Today, we have something a little different for you: it’s the first episode of The Snare, from ABC News and 20/20. The Snare examines the gruesome murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge, who was killed in her apartment in...
Out Now: Crime Scene Weekly — Unforgettable True Crime Stories
· 1:08
From The Binge, Crime Scene plunges you into stories you can’t stop thinking about—revisiting cases that deserve a second look. Join Jonathan Hirsch (My Fugitive Dad, Dear Franklin Jones) and investigative reporter...
#16BLINK Q&A: You Asked, Jake Answers Part 2
· 58:57
Hannah Smith sits down with Jake Haendel to answer the questions listeners have been waiting for—what really happened behind the scenes, why the show suddenly paused, and how legal realities shaped what he could and...
#15BLINK Q&A: You Asked, Jake Answers Part 1
· 52:53
Journalist Hannah Smith hosts an intimate BLINK Q&A with Jake Haendel, responding to listener questions submitted across platforms. Jake revisits locked-in syndrome, the exact moment he finally broke free—and what it...
#14Work in Progress
· 49:37
In the final episode of Blink, Jake brings us into his world today, offering a raw, powerful look at what healing truly means—and what comes after survival. Content warning: Drug use/abuse, addiction, medical trauma...
#13The Proxy Trap
· 42:54
Jake’s search for answers pulls him into the unsettling world of Munchausen by proxy—a rare, insidious form of abuse where illness is manufactured for attention. And as he revisits his own medical history, he’s left to...
#12Bad Batch
· 48:25
Jake’s long-held theory—that his illness wasn’t accidental—takes a jarring turn when a Facebook message arrives from someone he’s never met. Content warning: Drug use/abuse, addiction, medical trauma, death and dying...
#11One-Hundred Pound Baby
· 39:00
As old memories resurface and old connections are rekindled, Jake starts to suspect that someone in his inner circle may have been orchestrating far more than just his care. Alarming details come to light, offhand...
#10An Update on Blink
· 1:13
A brief update on our upcoming episodes, tips for accessing past episodes, and how to send in your questions for our Q&A episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#10The Silent Witness
· 39:28
Jake’s case exposed an unsettling reality: countless patients may be fully aware, yet locked inside unresponsive bodies—misdiagnosed and dismissed. But just as medicine starts to grasp the scope of covert consciousness...
#9Signed, Sealed, Silenced
· 34:18
What started as a straightforward effort to move on spiraled into a bitter and complicated divorce—one that called Jake’s right to share his own story into question. As the layers begin to peel back, deeper questions...
#8Dude, Where’s my Sperm?
· 33:36
As Jake lay locked-in and unable to move or speak, a sperm sample was taken without his explicit consent, sparking a complex legal and ethical battle that would stretch far beyond his hospital bed, and Jake’s fight to...
#7The Resurrection of Jake
· 39:49
Alone and abandoned in a hospital, Jake is forced to focus on his recovery. That is, until a single phone number suddenly pops into his mind. A phone call sets off a chain of events that will reconnect him with his past...
#6Blink Twice
· 49:00
Against all odds, Jake was alive. In the depths of suffering, he discovered an extraordinary power within himself—the will to survive. But survival wasn’t the only battle he’d have to fight. As he clawed his way back to...
#5Making Peace with Death
· 34:19
Jake was given just six months to live, and now that deadline is closing in. As his body is wracked by a series of violent autonomic storms, his hospice nurse fears the worst. The final moments seem inevitable—last...
#4Heroin or Heroine
· 41:16
Jake meets the woman who would soon become his wife. The two embark on a whirlwind romance, but life is anything but easy. Jake is an addict, and his addiction to heroin is all-consuming. Tension builds between the two...
#3Wayward Son
· 51:23
How does a man like Jake find himself with only six months to live? Friends and family give us a glimpse into Jake’s past—a childhood that seemed ordinary until everything changed. His descent started early, having been...
#2Locked-In
· 39:28
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...
#1Blink
· 35:23
Jake Haendel knows something isn’t right—his body and mind feel disconnected in a way he can’t explain. That realization hits hardest at the worst possible moment... in the middle of getting arrested for smoking heroin...
Blink - Coming February 2nd
· 1:03
Heroin. Secrets. Deadly Betrayal. The untold story of Jake Haendel. Unlocking February 2nd. https://www.blinkthepodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Blink | Jake Haendel's Story has published 21 episodes so far. This page carries the 20 most recent, newest first.
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Blink | Jake Haendel's Story is presented by Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel.
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The most recent episode is "The Snare, from ABC News", published on 7 Jul 2026. New episodes appear here as soon as they go out on the programme's feed.
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