Bubba's NDE: Dies From Anesthesia - Meets Stepfather

Bubba's NDE: Dies From Anesthesia - Meets Stepfather

July 6, 2026 · 31 min · Season 5 · Episode 627

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This episode explores Bubba's near death experience during surgery and his encounter with his deceased stepfather.

Heavenly Basketball Game With Stepdad! What really happens in the moments after your heart stops? This episode of Round Trip Death brings together two guests with strikingly different connections to the same profound mystery: the near death experience . ________________________ Get 15% off OneSkin with code ROUNDTRIP at https://www.oneskin.co/ROUNDTRIP #oneskinpod #sponsored __________________________ Host Eric sits down with Makai Calles — a journalist turned filmmaker who himself had a childhood NDE after a venomous scorpion sting in Mexico — and Bubba Herrick, a former college baseball pitcher whose routine elbow surgery turned into a full-blown clinical death. Makai wrote and hosted the new documentary Final Hours , and his own near-death experience as a seven-year-old set him on a lifelong path of investigating others' stories, including Bubba's. Bubba's account is the heart of this episode — and it's a wild one. After an allergic reaction to anesthesia stopped his heart on the operating table, he describes floating above his own body, undergoing an intense 360-degree life review filled with guilt and unexpected anger at himself, and then being pulled into a breathtaking…

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