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Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven, sixty year old Michael Dick
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Speaker 1: was living in bo East London with his wife and
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Speaker 1: two daughters. While his life was not exactly exciting, it
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Speaker 1: was good. He lived in a quiet and safe neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: and Michael, who used to be a carpenter, was now
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Speaker 1: semi retired and got to spend the bulk of his
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Speaker 1: time with his friends and family.
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Speaker 2: But that year something really started to bother him.
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Speaker 1: Ten years prior, Michael had split up with his first wife,
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Speaker 1: and after their divorce was finalized, his ex wife and
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Speaker 1: the daughter they had together. Her name was Lisa and
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Speaker 1: she was twenty one at the time. Those two stayed
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Speaker 1: in the family home in Sudbury, England, and Michael moved
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Speaker 1: south about an hour.
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Speaker 2: And a half to Bow, East London.
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Speaker 1: The divorce had been quite messy, and so Michael had
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Speaker 1: not only lost touch with his ex wife, he had
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Speaker 1: also lost touch with Lisa. And so fast forward ten
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Speaker 1: years back to two thousand and seven, and Michael and
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Speaker 1: Lisa had not spoken since the divorce, and Michael found
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Speaker 1: himself suddenly feeling this unbelievable wave.
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Speaker 2: Of grief over the loss of his.
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Speaker 1: Relationship with his first child, and so, after speaking with
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Speaker 1: his current wife and his two other daughters, he decided
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Speaker 1: that he had to go find Lisa.
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Speaker 2: He had to be reunited with her.
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Speaker 1: The only problem was he didn't know where Lisa lived,
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Speaker 1: He didn't have her contact information, and he didn't know
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Speaker 1: where his ex wife was, so he couldn't even ask
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Speaker 1: her how to get in touch with Lisa. However, he
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Speaker 1: did have the street address of where they used to
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Speaker 1: live in Sudbury, England, and so he decided that would
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Speaker 1: be his starting point. So in August of that year,
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Speaker 1: Michael and his two other younger daughters, they hopped in
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Speaker 1: the car and they left Bow, East London, and they
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Speaker 1: headed up to Sudbury. And when they got there, Michael
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Speaker 1: navigated to his old street, which had brick houses lining
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Speaker 1: each side of the road, and he drove down until
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Speaker 1: he spotted his old house and he parked right out front,
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Speaker 1: and then he alone hopped out of the car and
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Speaker 1: he walked up to the front door. He took a
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Speaker 1: deep breath and then he knocked on the door. When
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Speaker 1: the door opened, it was not Lisa, It was not
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Speaker 1: his ex wife. It was some other family that he
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Speaker 1: didn't know, and they didn't know Lisa or his ex wife,
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Speaker 1: and so they said, you know, good luck finding your daughter,
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Speaker 1: but we don't have any information for you. And so
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Speaker 1: Michael was crushed, but he thanked them and he turned
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Speaker 1: around and he went back to the car and he
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Speaker 1: told his other daughters about what he had just learned,
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Speaker 1: and then from there the trio just kind of began
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Speaker 1: driving around Sudbury, half looking for Lisa out on the streets,
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Speaker 1: although none of them thought they would actually find her,
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Speaker 1: and then also kind of discussing what they were going
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Speaker 1: to do next because now they had nothing. And so
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Speaker 1: as they're driving around the streets of Sudbury, they come
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Speaker 1: to the realization that their best bet at finding Lisa
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Speaker 1: is putting some sort of story in the local newspaper
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Speaker 1: that hopefully she would see and then she would contact Michael.
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Speaker 1: And so they drove to the headquarters of the local paper,
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Speaker 1: the Suffolk Free Press, and they went inside and they
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Speaker 1: managed to speak to a reporter, and after telling the
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Speaker 1: reporter Michael's story about how he's lost touch with Lisa,
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Speaker 1: the reporter thought, you know what, this is actually a
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting story and I'd be happy to do a
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Speaker 1: small feature on you guys. And so the reporter, along
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Speaker 1: with a photographer, brought Michael and his two daughters outside.
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Speaker 1: They took a picture of them, and then they told Michael,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the next edition of the paper that
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Speaker 1: we'll run in a couple of days. We'll run this
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Speaker 1: picture along with a little write up about how you're
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Speaker 1: looking for Lisa, and we'll put your contact information in there,
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Speaker 1: and hopefully she sees it and she reaches out to
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Speaker 1: you and you can be reunited and live happily ever after.
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Speaker 1: And so Michael thanked the reporter and the photographer, and
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Speaker 1: then he and his other two daughters hopped in the
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Speaker 1: car and headed back to Bow East London. In two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, at the same time that Michael was
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Speaker 1: beginning his search for Lisa, Lisa was actually beginning to think,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I want to go find my dad.
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Speaker 2: Lisa was now thirty one years old, she had.
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Speaker 1: Three kids of her own, she was married, she had
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Speaker 1: moved out of Sudbury to a neighboring town, and she
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Speaker 1: was thinking, you know, I really want to have a
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Speaker 1: relationship with my dad again so that my kids can
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Speaker 1: have a relationship with him. And so she began speaking
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Speaker 1: with her mother and with friends about how she should
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Speaker 1: go about finding her dad, because, like Michael, she didn't
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Speaker 1: have his contact information, she didn't have a phone number,
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Speaker 1: she didn't know anyone who would and then when she
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Speaker 1: went on social media to look for him, he wasn't
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Speaker 1: on there, and so she was kind of at a loss.
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Speaker 1: Then one day in August, she was at her office
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Speaker 1: and she was in the break room and she saw
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Speaker 1: a copy of the Suffolk Free Press sitting out on
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Speaker 1: the coffee table. So she picked it up and she
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Speaker 1: began flipping through the pages, and then suddenly she stopped
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Speaker 1: when she saw a picture of herself. She saw her
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Speaker 1: and her mother walking along the streets of Sudbury. She
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Speaker 1: had been in Sudbridge just a couple of days ago
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Speaker 1: to talk to her mom about finding her dad and
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Speaker 1: kind of strategies for how to go about doing that.
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Speaker 1: And then Lisa glanced at the caption for this photo
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Speaker 1: and she nearly fell off of her chair. The man
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Speaker 1: and the two girls who were the main focus of
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Speaker 1: this photo that Lisa was in were her father and
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Speaker 1: her two stepsisters. Didn't recognize them. She just saw herself
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Speaker 1: in the back of this photo. So purely by chance,
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Speaker 1: after being a part for over a decade, on the
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Speaker 1: only day that Lisa happened to be in Sudbury talking
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Speaker 1: to her mom about finding her father, she was.
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Speaker 2: Literally one hundred feet behind.
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Speaker 1: Her father and her stepsisters as they were looking for
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Speaker 1: her and putting out this ad in the paper to
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Speaker 1: hopefully find her, and this one photo that the photographer
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Speaker 1: took captured all of them in the same frame. Lisa
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Speaker 1: would of course read the article and get her father's
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Speaker 1: contact information. She would reach out, and initially Michael actually
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Speaker 1: thought it was a scam and didn't believe this was
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Speaker 1: actually Lisa calling to say I found myself in the
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Speaker 1: picture of you in Sudbury.
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Speaker 2: But eventually he was convinced and he drove right out.
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Speaker 1: To Sudbury and he got a chance to meet his
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Speaker 1: grandkids for the first time, and today he and Lisa
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Speaker 1: are still in touch. In nineteen sixty four, during his
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Speaker 1: final semester of college in Wisconsin, a twenty one year
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Speaker 1: old man named Harry decided to take an acting class.
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Speaker 1: He believed it would be an easy a and he'd
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Speaker 1: always been pretty shy, and so he figured this class
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Speaker 1: might be able to help him get over that. But
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Speaker 1: this class wound up having a much larger impact on
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Speaker 1: Harry's life than he ever could have imagined. Not only
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Speaker 1: did he meet his future wife in this class, but
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Speaker 1: he also realized he loved acting, something he never thought
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Speaker 1: he would like, and he decided after college that that
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Speaker 1: was the thing he was going to pursue. And so
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Speaker 1: after he graduates later that year, he and his girlfriend
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Speaker 1: get married, and then they fly out to Hollywood, California,
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Speaker 1: where Harry auditions for Columbia Pictures New Talent Program, which
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Speaker 1: is basically this program that's designed to help new actors
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Speaker 1: and actresses get parts in Hollywood because it's so hard.
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Speaker 2: To do that.
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Speaker 1: And so he's accepted into this program, signs a contract
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Speaker 1: with them that pays him almost nothing, and right away
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Speaker 1: they start shopping him around for different parts in TV
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Speaker 1: shows and movies, but nobody is interested in Harry.
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Speaker 2: Nobody. The only roles he.
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Speaker 1: Was getting were incredibly minor and usually non speaking, and
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Speaker 1: so it was really not advancing his career. Then in
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six, so two years after he and his
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Speaker 1: wife had arrived in Hollywood, Harry received what seemed like
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Speaker 1: his first big break. He was offered a speaking role
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Speaker 1: in a movie, although it was a very minor role.
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Speaker 1: It was a sixty second bit where Harry basically walked
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Speaker 1: on screen in this hotel and he started calling out
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Speaker 1: for a particular guest and when he finds this guest,
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Speaker 1: he walks up and gives him a piece of paper
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Speaker 1: and then he leaves. So it's a forgettable scene, but
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Speaker 1: it's a real scene in a real movie.
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Speaker 2: And so this was a big deal for Harry.
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Speaker 1: And so after Harry goes over to the studio and
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Speaker 1: he films his whole scene and it's all done, he
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Speaker 1: goes back over to the headquarters of the New Talent
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Speaker 1: Program at Columbia Pictures. And as soon as he goes inside,
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Speaker 1: one of the producers that was in charge of this
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Speaker 1: new Talent program, who had apparently had a chance already
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Speaker 1: to see this sixty second scene in this movie that
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Speaker 1: Harry was in, he calls Harry over and asks him
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Speaker 1: to go up to his office for a second. So
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Speaker 1: the pair go up to his office. They both sit down,
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Speaker 1: and the guy looks at him and says, look, I
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Speaker 1: just got to shoot you straight here. You're not gonna
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Speaker 1: make it in Hollywood. You're not gonna be a movie star.
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Speaker 1: When Tony Curtis was told to carry groceries across this
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Speaker 1: room in one of his first movies, everybody knew right
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Speaker 1: away as he's carrying those groceries that that guy he's
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Speaker 1: going to be a movie star. You could see it
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Speaker 1: in the scene, even though all he was doing was
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Speaker 1: carrying groceries. And when you did your scene as the
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Speaker 1: bellhop walking around the hotel, I just didn't see it.
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Speaker 2: You don't have the X factor. You're not gonna be
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Speaker 2: a movie star.
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Speaker 1: For reference, Tony Curtis, the guy this producer was referencing,
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Speaker 1: was a huge movie star.
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Speaker 2: In the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties.
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Speaker 1: And so Harry, after getting this horrible comment made about him,
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Speaker 1: he pauses for a second, and then he leans across
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Speaker 1: the table and looks at this producer and squints his
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Speaker 1: eyes and says, you know, if Tony was such a
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Speaker 1: good actor, shouldn't we have believed he was just a
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Speaker 1: grocery delivery boy, not a movie star. And at this
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Speaker 1: totally smart alec remark, the producer fired Harry on the spot.
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Speaker 1: Harry would go on to sign a similar new Talent
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Speaker 1: Program deal with Universal Studios, but again he could not
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Speaker 1: get a real part to save his life, and the
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Speaker 1: feedback he finally got was, Harry, you're just not pretty
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Speaker 1: enough and you're not really that talented. By the mid
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies, Harry was in his mid thirties, and while
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Speaker 1: he still aspired to be an actor and wanted to
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Speaker 1: be an actor, he was making almost no money from acting,
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Speaker 1: and so he decided instead of acting, he was going
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Speaker 1: to become a carpenter. That was going to be his
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Speaker 1: full time job, despite the fact he knew nothing about carpentry,
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Speaker 1: and so he literally, just because he has this interest
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Speaker 1: in carpentry, goes to the library and checks out all
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Speaker 1: these how to be a carpenter books, and over the
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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks he studies these books and does
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Speaker 1: a couple of projects around his own house, and then
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Speaker 1: finally he just felt confident enough or he was just
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Speaker 1: desperate enough for money that he began going around to
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Speaker 1: his network and asking people in Hollywood if they needed
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Speaker 1: some woodworking, if they needed help from a carpenter, And surprisingly,
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Speaker 1: lots of people took him up on his offer and
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Speaker 1: they hired him to be their carpenter, and before long,
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Speaker 1: Harry was dubbed the Carpenter to the Stars, which was
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Speaker 1: kind of ironic because he actually was not a very
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Speaker 1: good carpenter and he was regularly seen on the job
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Speaker 1: literally holding a book teaching him how to be a
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Speaker 1: carpenter while doing the carpentry with his other hand. In
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, Harry was a full fledged carpenter and
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Speaker 1: had been for about a year when one of his
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Speaker 1: very close friends named Fred Russ, who was a casting
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Speaker 1: director and film producer, gave him a call and told
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Speaker 1: him he had a very unique opportunity for him.
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Speaker 2: Now, at this point, Harry was.
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Speaker 1: Not looking for any more acting roles. He kind of
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Speaker 1: figured that that ship is sailed, even though he wishes
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Speaker 1: he could be an actor. At this point, he had
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Speaker 1: a wife, he had two sons, and so he's thinking,
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Speaker 1: I got to just keep doing this carpentry thing because
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Speaker 1: I got to pay the bills. So he says to Fred,
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Speaker 1: you know, I appreciate the offer of whatever this is,
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Speaker 1: but if it has to do with acting, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just not interested. And Fred, who was one of
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Speaker 1: the very few people in Hollywood who fundamentally believed Harry
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Speaker 1: was destined to be a star, told Harry.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, this is different.
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Speaker 1: This is not a pure go out and try out
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Speaker 1: for the part and hope for the best. This is
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Speaker 1: like put yourself in a good position and maybe somebody
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Speaker 1: will discover your as talented as you really are. And
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Speaker 1: so Harry's like, okay, tell me about this opportunity. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm interested. And so Fred explained there was this really
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Speaker 1: talented and eccentric film director who is trying to cast
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Speaker 1: an upcoming movie, and the way he went about casting
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Speaker 1: for movies was a little bit strange. Instead of having
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Speaker 1: each of the actors and actresses show up and individually
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Speaker 1: audition for their parts, he would group batches of actors
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Speaker 1: and actresses and he would have them audition as a group,
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Speaker 1: because that way he could tell if there was chemistry
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Speaker 1: amongst some of the actors and actresses, and he could
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Speaker 1: gauge their individual talent. And so he had all these
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Speaker 1: groups already planned out, but one of the groups was
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Speaker 1: missing one male actor. Somebody had dropped out at the
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Speaker 1: last minute and was not going to be there on
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Speaker 1: the day of the audition.
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Speaker 2: And so when Fred.
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Speaker 1: Russ heard through the grapevine that this director was going
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Speaker 1: to be short this one person, he immediately reached out
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Speaker 1: to the director and said, Hey, I got your guy.
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Speaker 2: There's this guy, Harry.
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Speaker 1: He's done a little bit of acting, he's incredibly talented.
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Speaker 2: You got to give him a chance.
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Speaker 1: You know, at the minimum he can come in there
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Speaker 1: and he can at least just read the lines and
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Speaker 1: help you do this audition. But I know he's available
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Speaker 1: that day, and I know he would love to help.
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Speaker 1: And so this director tells Fred, Okay, thank you, I'd
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Speaker 1: love to have him come down, but stressed to him,
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Speaker 1: he is not auditioning for any part in this movie.
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Speaker 1: I'm not bringing in some person and just throwing them in.
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Speaker 1: It takes me a long time to find people that
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Speaker 1: I want to audition, and he is not one of them.
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Speaker 1: He is just there to facilitate the audition. He's just
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Speaker 1: going to read the lines so the other people in
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Speaker 1: his group can do their audition. And so after Fred
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Speaker 1: stopped explaining this situation, Harry was actually kind of annoyed.
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Speaker 2: He was annoyed that.
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Speaker 1: Fred had been basically already volunteered him and so he
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Speaker 1: couldn't really even say no without making Fred look bad.
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Speaker 1: And he didn't like the idea that this was basically
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Speaker 1: a waste of his time. He was being asked to
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Speaker 1: go read lines but not even try out, so how
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Speaker 1: was this even an opportunity? But Fred told him, look,
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Speaker 1: worst case scenario, you meet some pretty powerful people in Hollywood.
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Speaker 2: This director's a big deal. The people there are going
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Speaker 2: to be big deals in Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: So you'll meet them and maybe they will recognize your talent,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you get some new clients for your carpentry business.
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Speaker 1: So no matter what, you get something out of it.
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Speaker 1: And so finally Harry says, okay, fine, I'll go through
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Speaker 1: this thing. And so Harry goes to this audition. He's
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Speaker 1: handed the script and he's reminded repeatedly to not attempt
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Speaker 1: to audition, don't try to act. Just read the lines.
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Speaker 1: I don't care if you're monotone. You just read these
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Speaker 1: lines because you're not auditioning.
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Speaker 2: Everybody else is. You're not. Is that clear? And Harry's like, yes,
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Speaker 2: I get it. I'm just reading the lines.
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Speaker 1: And so Harry sits down and he starts reading the
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Speaker 1: lines and he's trying to do what they told him
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Speaker 1: to do.
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Speaker 2: Oh but the way he.
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Speaker 1: Was actually feeling and his actual personality began seeping through.
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Speaker 2: He started coming off.
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Speaker 1: As this really grumpy and sarcastic guy that just didn't
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Speaker 1: care about anybody there. He was just totally bitter that
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Speaker 1: he was in the situation he was in. And apparently
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Speaker 1: this is exactly what the director was looking for in
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Speaker 1: one of the characters. He was trying to cast that
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Speaker 1: kind of nonchalant, bravado, macho alpha type guy who just
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Speaker 1: didn't care about anybody. And so, over the course of
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Speaker 1: the day, as he's reading the script over and over again,
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Speaker 1: not caring at all about how he's performing, He's just
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Speaker 1: simply reading these lines and just being himself. He was
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Speaker 1: actually doing this amazing job portraying one of the characters.
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Speaker 1: And so they let Harry go the whole day. No
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Speaker 1: one told him they were looking at him as a
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Speaker 1: potential character. And then at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: when Harry was about to just throw the script in
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Speaker 1: the trash and leave without talking to anyone, the film director,
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Speaker 1: better known as George Lucas, walks up to Harry better
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Speaker 1: known as Harrison Ford, Wait a minute, I was wrong.
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Speaker 1: You are perfect for this movie Star Wars. You need
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Speaker 1: to play Hans Solo. And so Harrison Ford said, all right,
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Speaker 1: I'll play Han Solo. And that role as Han Solo
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Speaker 1: propelled Harrison Ford into the megastar that we know him
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Speaker 1: as today. A few years after Harrison had starred in
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Speaker 1: Star Wars and he was this.
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Speaker 2: Total aless celebrity.
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Speaker 1: He was at a Hollywood studio in one of their
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Speaker 1: restaurants when one of the waiters walked over to him
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Speaker 1: with the silver tray, and on this silver tray was
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Speaker 1: a single business card.
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Speaker 2: So Harrison reaches over, he grabs the business card.
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Speaker 1: The waiter walks away, and he looks at the card
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Speaker 1: and handwritten on it is the phrase I missed my bet.
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Speaker 1: And he flipped the card over and it was the
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Speaker 1: name of that producer from the New Talent program that
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Speaker 1: had called Harry into his office and said you're never
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Speaker 1: going to make it in Hollywood and you're fired. It
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Speaker 1: was that guy, and he had apparently sent the waiter
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Speaker 1: over to make amends because he was eating lunch in
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Speaker 1: the same restaurant. And so Harrison would later say in
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Speaker 1: interviews that at the time he go this card, and
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Speaker 1: to this day that he was doing this interview, he
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Speaker 1: said it gave him immense pleasure that when he looked
17:06
Speaker 1: up from this business card and he understood the situation,
17:09
Speaker 1: he knows this guy's in the room somewhere. As he
17:11
Speaker 1: looked around the room, he couldn't recognize the guy because
17:14
Speaker 1: he didn't know what he looked like he was a nobody,
17:16
Speaker 1: and so instead of wasting any more time looking for
17:19
Speaker 1: this producer, he has looked at the card, chucked it
17:22
Speaker 1: and went back dating his lunch. Michael Packard might be
17:44
Speaker 1: the luckiest or unluckiest person alive. In two thousand and one,
17:48
Speaker 1: when Michael was thirty eight years old, he was on
17:50
Speaker 1: a flight over Costa Rica when the small plane he
17:53
Speaker 1: was on crashed. The pilot, copilot, and a passenger were
17:57
Speaker 1: all killed on impact, but Michael and the four other
18:00
Speaker 1: passengers they survived the crash, but they were all left
18:03
Speaker 1: badly injured and stranded in a very remote section of
18:06
Speaker 1: the jungle. The survivors attempted to use the downed planes
18:10
Speaker 1: radio equipment to send out a distress signal to try
18:13
Speaker 1: to get someone to come out and help them, but
18:15
Speaker 1: they had no way of knowing if anybody was receiving
18:17
Speaker 1: their signal, and so all they could do was just
18:20
Speaker 1: send it out and then wait and hope somebody found
18:22
Speaker 1: them before they all died. And sure enough, forty eight
18:25
Speaker 1: hours after crashing, rescuers were able to hack their way
18:28
Speaker 1: deep into the jungle where Michael and the other survivors were,
18:31
Speaker 1: and they were all saved. While Michael was recovering in
18:34
Speaker 1: the hospital, a doctor told him that, based on his injuries,
18:37
Speaker 1: he would not have survived another night out in that jungle.
18:40
Speaker 1: The chances of even being in a plane crash are
18:43
Speaker 1: astronomically low. The odds are about one in five million,
18:47
Speaker 1: with some places giving odds as low as one in
18:49
Speaker 1: twenty million. To put that in perspective, Michael was far
18:53
Speaker 1: more likely to have been struck by lightning, which is
18:55
Speaker 1: about a one in one million chance, than he was
18:58
Speaker 1: to have been in that plane crash. But that plane
19:00
Speaker 1: crash would not be the last time that Michael defied
19:03
Speaker 1: the odds and did.
19:04
Speaker 2: Something totally unbelievable.
19:06
Speaker 1: Over the next couple of decades, Michael, who was a
19:08
Speaker 1: commercial diver by trade, would survive not one, but two
19:12
Speaker 1: significant encounters with great white sharks off the coast of California.
19:16
Speaker 1: Some of Michael's friends would not be so lucky. Michael
19:19
Speaker 1: would get lost at sea, like really lost, like treading
19:23
Speaker 1: out in the middle of the ocean with no land
19:25
Speaker 1: in sight for hours. Lost, but miraculously a boat would
19:29
Speaker 1: find him and save him again, and Michael would discover
19:32
Speaker 1: the body of a longtime missing person hidden underneath the
19:36
Speaker 1: water about sixty feet down off the coast of Massachusetts.
19:39
Speaker 1: But of all the improbable exploits of Michael's life, none
19:43
Speaker 1: is more unbelievable than what happened to him in twenty
19:45
Speaker 1: twenty one, which experts are saying he had about a
19:49
Speaker 1: one and one trillion chance of experiencing. On the morning
19:53
Speaker 1: of June eleventh, twenty twenty one, Michael, who was fifty
19:56
Speaker 1: seven years old at the time, hopped in a boat
19:58
Speaker 1: with his longtime diving part Josiah. Once they were all
20:01
Speaker 1: situated and they had all their equipment inside of the boat,
20:04
Speaker 1: they took off and headed for the open waters right
20:06
Speaker 1: off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where they planned
20:09
Speaker 1: to do some lobster diving. A popular way to retrieve
20:12
Speaker 1: lobsters is to literally just dive down and buy hand
20:16
Speaker 1: pick them up and bring them back to the surface,
20:18
Speaker 1: and so that day that's what Michael and Josiah planned
20:20
Speaker 1: to do. Once they reached the spot right off the coast,
20:23
Speaker 1: Michael put on all of his scuba diving equipment and.
20:25
Speaker 2: Hopped in the water.
20:26
Speaker 1: Josiah did not put on any diving equipment because he
20:29
Speaker 1: was not going to be getting in the water for
20:30
Speaker 1: this dive. Instead, he would remain on the boat and
20:33
Speaker 1: help Michael get in and out.
20:34
Speaker 2: Of the water.
20:34
Speaker 1: He'd pull lobsters up onto the boat, and he was
20:37
Speaker 1: also there in case of an emergency he could call
20:39
Speaker 1: for help.
20:39
Speaker 2: And so just after six.
20:41
Speaker 1: Am, once Michael was in the water and signaled he
20:43
Speaker 1: was good to go, he dove down below and after
20:45
Speaker 1: a little while he came back up, but with a
20:47
Speaker 1: relatively small haul of lobsters, and so the two men
20:50
Speaker 1: figured that, well, I guess today is just not a
20:52
Speaker 1: great day for catching lobsters. But regardless, for the next
20:55
Speaker 1: couple of hours, Michael continued to go down and catch
20:58
Speaker 1: as many lobsters as he possible could. By eight am,
21:01
Speaker 1: Michael had captured approximately one hundred pounds of lobsters that
21:04
Speaker 1: were now in the boat, and so Michael and Josiah
21:07
Speaker 1: were actually starting to feel pretty good about this particular trip,
21:10
Speaker 1: and so Michael decided he would go back down one
21:12
Speaker 1: more time and try to get just a few more
21:14
Speaker 1: lobsters before they called it a day. And so Josiah
21:16
Speaker 1: remembers watching Michael, who was in the water. As he
21:19
Speaker 1: put his mouthpiece back in, he signaled up to Josiah
21:21
Speaker 1: that he was good to go, and Josiah watched as
21:23
Speaker 1: he disappeared.
21:24
Speaker 2: Below the surface. The water was very calm, and.
21:26
Speaker 1: Josiah's just kind of scanning out across the water, and
21:29
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, this eruption of white water
21:32
Speaker 1: came rushing up to the surface right where Michael had
21:35
Speaker 1: gone down below, and so right away Josiah leaned out
21:38
Speaker 1: over the edge of the boat to see if he
21:40
Speaker 1: could look down and see his friend, but he didn't
21:42
Speaker 1: see Michael anywhere. Instead, he saw something massive moving around
21:47
Speaker 1: underneath them. After Michael had broken the surface on this
21:50
Speaker 1: final dive down to get more lobsters, his plan was
21:54
Speaker 1: to sink down to the bottom of the ocean at
21:56
Speaker 1: about sixty feet and then go hunting for lobsters. But
21:59
Speaker 1: when he had descended to about forty five feet, he
22:01
Speaker 1: felt something smash into him from behind that felt like
22:05
Speaker 1: a truck hitting him, and then everything around him went
22:07
Speaker 1: totally pitch black. The impact of whatever it was that
22:11
Speaker 1: hit him had caused his mouthpiece to get blown out
22:13
Speaker 1: of his mouth, so he doesn't have air and he
22:15
Speaker 1: starts fumbling around to find his mouthpiece, but he can't
22:18
Speaker 1: find it and As he's fumbling around, his hands are
22:21
Speaker 1: making contact with what feels like walls all around him.
22:25
Speaker 1: He was inside of an enclosed space, but when he
22:27
Speaker 1: had touched these walls.
22:29
Speaker 2: They were not normal walls. They were soft, but they
22:32
Speaker 2: were hard at.
22:32
Speaker 1: The same time, and they seemed to be moving, like
22:34
Speaker 1: they were pulsating or quivering. The space he was in
22:37
Speaker 1: was fairly large, and it was not completely flooded with water.
22:40
Speaker 1: It was like Michael had slipped into this air pocket.
22:43
Speaker 1: But this air pocket was not stationary. It was moving
22:46
Speaker 1: and pretty fast because the water that was inside of
22:49
Speaker 1: it was violently sloshing all around. Michael could hear it
22:53
Speaker 1: slapping up against the walls. As Michael continued to panic
22:57
Speaker 1: and fumble around for his mouthpiece, he started to notice
23:00
Speaker 1: intense pressure on his legs, but he had no idea
23:03
Speaker 1: what was causing it, and because it's pitch black, he
23:05
Speaker 1: couldn't see what it was. Finally, Michael found the line
23:08
Speaker 1: that was connected to his mouthpiece. He jammed it in
23:10
Speaker 1: his mouth and he took a long inhale, and now
23:13
Speaker 1: that he could breathe again, he had this horrifying thought,
23:16
Speaker 1: Have I been swallowed by a shark? He instinctively began
23:19
Speaker 1: feeling around for the shark's teeth, but there were no
23:22
Speaker 1: teeth inside of this space. Instead, it was just these
23:25
Speaker 1: walls that continued to shift and move all around him,
23:28
Speaker 1: and that's when it dawned on him he had been swallowed,
23:31
Speaker 1: but not by a shark.
23:32
Speaker 2: He had been swallowed by a whale.
23:34
Speaker 1: For nearly forty five seconds, Michael was trapped inside the closed.
23:39
Speaker 2: Mouth of a humpback whale.
23:41
Speaker 1: Despite their enormous size that can be up to sixty
23:44
Speaker 1: feet long and weigh up to seventy thousand pounds, they
23:47
Speaker 1: only eat small fish, so when this particular whale realized
23:51
Speaker 1: Michael was not a tiny fish, it began violently swinging
23:55
Speaker 1: its head side to side to try to dislodge Michael,
23:58
Speaker 1: and that caused that eruption of wine water to go
24:00
Speaker 1: to the surface that Josiah saw, and after a few
24:03
Speaker 1: good shakes, Michael was spat out of this whale's mouth.
24:06
Speaker 1: Michael remembers suddenly being in the open water with enough
24:10
Speaker 1: light coming down that they could see around him.
24:12
Speaker 2: The water was very.
24:13
Speaker 1: Turbulent and churning, and he recalled as he made his
24:15
Speaker 1: way to the surface, looking straight down and seeing the
24:18
Speaker 1: tail fin of this enormous whales swimming away from him.
24:21
Speaker 1: Michael made his way to the surface and he flagged
24:23
Speaker 1: down Josiah, who boted over to him. He pulled him
24:26
Speaker 1: back into the boat, and Michael, who was totally traumatized
24:28
Speaker 1: by what happened, could only say to Josiah that he
24:32
Speaker 1: was inside.
24:32
Speaker 2: Of it and that it tried to eat him.
24:35
Speaker 1: After Josiah brought Michael back to shore and called the authorities,
24:38
Speaker 1: Michael was rushed to a hospital where he was evaluated,
24:41
Speaker 1: and unbelievably, he suffered really no injuries. He had some
24:44
Speaker 1: significant bruising to his legs where the whale had actually
24:47
Speaker 1: clamped down on him. That was the pressure he felt
24:50
Speaker 1: in his legs, the mouth of the whale was closing
24:52
Speaker 1: on his legs, But besides that, there really wasn't any
24:55
Speaker 1: other injuries, and so later.
24:56
Speaker 2: That day he was discharged.
24:58
Speaker 1: It's believed the whale was a juvenile that had been
25:01
Speaker 1: seen in the area, that was about thirty to thirty
25:03
Speaker 1: five feet long, and that had just accidentally scooped Michael up.
25:06
Speaker 1: The whale was certainly not trying to hurt Michael. Whales,
25:10
Speaker 1: especially huntback whales, are not in the business of hurting people.
25:13
Speaker 1: But in this exchange with Michael, Michael could have very
25:16
Speaker 1: easily died. He could have drowned or suffocated inside the
25:19
Speaker 1: mouth of this whale, or he could have just died
25:21
Speaker 1: from blunt force's trauma. But luckily he didn't. Despite how
25:25
Speaker 1: terrifying this incident sounds, Michael was incredibly casual in all
25:29
Speaker 1: of his interviews about this.
25:31
Speaker 2: He just kind of acted like, man, these things kind
25:33
Speaker 2: of happen. You know, wales come out of nowhere, they're
25:35
Speaker 2: just scoop you up. You know that happens.
25:37
Speaker 1: And he would tell the incredulous reporters who just could
25:40
Speaker 1: not believe this guy was real that as soon as
25:42
Speaker 1: he was better, he was getting back in the water
25:44
Speaker 1: and going lobster diving. On the evening of January sixth,
25:59
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, a man named Harold Bray, who was
26:02
Speaker 1: a sheriff in Jefferson County, Colorado, which is an area
26:05
Speaker 1: just west of Denver, arrived at the Denver Airport. Harold
26:09
Speaker 1: was running late because his commute into the airport had
26:12
Speaker 1: been treacherous because Denver and the surrounding areas were all
26:16
Speaker 1: getting pounded by a snowstorm. After running into the terminal
26:19
Speaker 1: and getting checked in and getting through security.
26:21
Speaker 2: He made it to his gate right as they were
26:24
Speaker 2: boarding the plane.
26:25
Speaker 1: Feeling very relieved, Harold joined the queue of other people
26:28
Speaker 1: that were getting on the ramp to go down into
26:30
Speaker 1: the plane, and then just a couple of minutes later,
26:32
Speaker 1: he stepped on board and he found his seat, which
26:35
Speaker 1: was located at the front right side of the plane.
26:38
Speaker 1: He sat down in his seat, he buckled in, and
26:40
Speaker 1: then he grabbed an in flight magazine from the back
26:42
Speaker 1: pocket of the chair in front of him, and he
26:45
Speaker 1: waited for takeoff. Fifteen minutes later, as the plane was
26:48
Speaker 1: rumbling down the runway at full speed, Harold looked out
26:51
Speaker 1: the window so as the plane began to lift off
26:54
Speaker 1: the ground, he watched as the city lights of Denver
26:56
Speaker 1: slowly faded away as they got.
26:58
Speaker 2: Higher and higher up.
27:00
Speaker 1: But just before their plane entered into the thick cloud
27:03
Speaker 1: that was hovering over that stretch of Colorado, Harold noticed
27:07
Speaker 1: something very odd out of his window. Located just west
27:11
Speaker 1: of Jefferson County, which is where Harold worked, was a
27:14
Speaker 1: twenty two mile stretch of road that cut through the
27:17
Speaker 1: rocky mountains. It was called the Guinela Pass, and it
27:20
Speaker 1: took motorists up and over this eleven.
27:23
Speaker 2: Thousand foot mountain pass.
27:25
Speaker 1: Now, this was a beautiful scenic drive that Harold was
27:28
Speaker 1: very familiar with, but this road was not maintained in
27:32
Speaker 1: the wintertime. So if there was snow on the ground,
27:35
Speaker 1: you simply could not get through this pass.
27:37
Speaker 2: It was impossible.
27:38
Speaker 1: Yet, as Harold looked out of his plane window down
27:42
Speaker 1: to Jefferson County below, and he kind of scanned his
27:45
Speaker 1: way west up into the rockies, he saw there were
27:48
Speaker 1: clearly a car's headlights on the Guinela Pass, And so
27:52
Speaker 1: Harold's thinking to himself, why in the world would anyone
27:56
Speaker 1: be on the Guanella Pass in the middle of this
27:58
Speaker 1: huge snowstorm. It didn't make any But as Harold watched
28:02
Speaker 1: this vehicle, he saw what was going on. Whoever was
28:05
Speaker 1: in this vehicle was holding a flashlight out of their
28:08
Speaker 1: window and they were shining the lights straight up into
28:11
Speaker 1: the sky, flashing it on and off, signaling distress. This
28:15
Speaker 1: motorist was trapped. Harold knew the likelihood of another plane
28:20
Speaker 1: happening to fly over this area and looking down and
28:23
Speaker 1: seeing those lights and recognizing them for what they were,
28:27
Speaker 1: and emergency were slim to none. So Harold knew if
28:30
Speaker 1: he didn't act quickly, this motorist was doomed. And so
28:34
Speaker 1: Harold quickly got up from his seat, he climbed over
28:36
Speaker 1: the person next to him, He got into the aisle,
28:38
Speaker 1: he waved down the attendant, and then after the attendant
28:41
Speaker 1: ran over, Harold explained who he was and why. His
28:44
Speaker 1: experience as a sheriff told him that this was an emergency,
28:48
Speaker 1: and so the attendant took him very seriously. They turned around,
28:51
Speaker 1: they went into the cockpit, and they told the pilots,
28:53
Speaker 1: and the pilots used their radios to call down to
28:56
Speaker 1: authorities on the ground, and then just a couple of
28:58
Speaker 1: minutes later, the fire department was dispatched to Guenela Pass.
29:02
Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes later, the fire chief, a man named Dave Montoya,
29:06
Speaker 1: who was driving in a four wheel drive suv, arrived
29:09
Speaker 1: at the start of this twenty two mile stretch of
29:12
Speaker 1: Mountain Pass, and as they're driving through the whipping snow,
29:15
Speaker 1: he sees up ahead the headlights of the stranded vehicle,
29:19
Speaker 1: and so he drives right up alongside this vehicle, which
29:22
Speaker 1: was a small pickup truck that had clearly slid off
29:24
Speaker 1: the road and gotten stuck in a big snow bank,
29:27
Speaker 1: and so Davy parks his suv, he hops out, and
29:29
Speaker 1: he rushes over to the driver's side window of this vehicle,
29:33
Speaker 1: and inside was a terrified looking thirty year old man
29:36
Speaker 1: named Alan Phillips, who was a mechanic who lived in
29:39
Speaker 1: the Denver area.
29:40
Speaker 2: Now at the time, it was the middle of the night.
29:42
Speaker 1: It's negative twenty two degrees fahrenheit outside, the winds are whipping,
29:46
Speaker 1: the snow is coming down, and Alan only had on
29:49
Speaker 1: a light jacket.
29:50
Speaker 2: And some jeans and a small blanket wrapped around him.
29:53
Speaker 1: So, had Harold not spotted his flashlight SOS signal from
29:58
Speaker 1: the plane, it's almost garant that Alan would have died
30:02
Speaker 1: that night from hypothermia. And so when Alan turned and
30:05
Speaker 1: saw Dave standing there his rescuer, Alan began crying tears
30:10
Speaker 1: of joy and thanking God that he was going to survive.
30:13
Speaker 1: When Dave asked Alan what happened, Alan, who was slightly intoxicated,
30:18
Speaker 1: told Dave that he had gone out drinking at a
30:20
Speaker 1: bar and then when it was time to come home,
30:23
Speaker 1: he had stupidly decided to drive through the Guenela Pass
30:26
Speaker 1: back to his home forgetting that this particular stretch of
30:30
Speaker 1: road was not maintained during the winter. When Dave asked
30:33
Speaker 1: Alan how he got this really deep bruise on his cheek,
30:36
Speaker 1: you know, he assumed he got it from crashing off
30:38
Speaker 1: the side of the road. Alan smiled a kind of
30:40
Speaker 1: embarrassed smile and said, no, Actually, after I got stuck,
30:44
Speaker 1: I needed to urinate, and so I got out of
30:46
Speaker 1: the vehicle and I walked a few paces away from
30:48
Speaker 1: my truck, and I went to the bathroom. And then
30:50
Speaker 1: when I turned to walk back, the snow was so
30:53
Speaker 1: blinding I couldn't actually see my truck. And I ran
30:57
Speaker 1: to go find it again because I didn't want to
30:58
Speaker 1: be trapped out in the snow. And I ran into
31:01
Speaker 1: the truck face first, and so my cheek hit the
31:03
Speaker 1: door of the truck, and so Dave he just smiled
31:06
Speaker 1: and said, Alan, you are one lucky man. Over the
31:09
Speaker 1: next few days, local newspapers in Colorado and some national
31:13
Speaker 1: newspapers ran headlines about the miracle at Guinela Pass. However,
31:18
Speaker 1: as it would turn out, that headline would not age well.
31:22
Speaker 1: Thirty eight years later, in twenty twenty, it was discovered
31:26
Speaker 1: that Alan had lied to Dave about why he was
31:30
Speaker 1: in Guinela Pass. The truth was earlier in the evening
31:33
Speaker 1: that Alan would eventually get stuck. He had murdered two
31:37
Speaker 1: hitchhikers near Breckenridge, Colorado, roughly fifty miles from the Guinela Pass.
31:43
Speaker 1: Both of these murders had gone cold, but in late
31:46
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, DNA evidence connected Alan to both cases. Several
31:52
Speaker 1: hours before Alan got rescued, he picked up twenty two
31:55
Speaker 1: year old Annette Schne who was hitchhiking, and after she
31:58
Speaker 1: got into his truck, it's believed he held her at
32:01
Speaker 1: gunpoint and then put zip Ti handcuffs on her wrists,
32:04
Speaker 1: and then we don't really know what happened next, but
32:07
Speaker 1: at some point that night, Annette was taken out of
32:10
Speaker 1: the vehicle and led into the woods and she was
32:12
Speaker 1: shot in the back and she was left face down
32:15
Speaker 1: in a stream. A couple of hours after he killed Annett,
32:18
Speaker 1: Alan picked up another hitchhiker, twenty nine year old Barbara
32:21
Speaker 1: Oberholtz her and when she got into his truck, it's
32:24
Speaker 1: believed he did the same thing. He held her at
32:26
Speaker 1: gunpoint and put her in zip Ti handcuffs. However, Barbara
32:30
Speaker 1: was able to break out of her restraints. It's believed
32:34
Speaker 1: she struck Alan in the cheek, which is why he
32:36
Speaker 1: got that deep bruise on his cheek, and then she
32:39
Speaker 1: leaped out of his car and started running, but Alan
32:42
Speaker 1: got out, chased her down and shot her in the chest,
32:45
Speaker 1: killing her, and then he dumped her body off the
32:47
Speaker 1: side of this cliff down into.
32:49
Speaker 2: The snow bank below.
32:50
Speaker 1: So the only reason Alan got stuck in Guenela Pass
32:54
Speaker 1: is because he was attempting to flee the area where
32:58
Speaker 1: he committed these murders, and he likely just didn't understand
33:01
Speaker 1: how dangerous this pass was, and so shortly after turning
33:04
Speaker 1: onto it, his truck slid up the road and he
33:07
Speaker 1: got stuck. In February of twenty twenty one, Alan, who
33:11
Speaker 1: was seventy years old at the time and still living
33:13
Speaker 1: in the Denver area, was finally arrested for these two
33:16
Speaker 1: murders and he is currently awaiting trial.
33:19
Speaker 2: Assuming he did it.
33:20
Speaker 1: That Alan killed these two women, we don't know what
33:23
Speaker 1: his motivations were. It's not clear he hasn't said, and
33:26
Speaker 1: we also don't know if there are potentially other victims.
33:45
Speaker 1: Just after midnight on June twenty second, nineteen ninety one,
33:48
Speaker 1: Charles Holden was on his way home from work when
33:50
Speaker 1: he decided to stop at a fast food restaurant near
33:53
Speaker 1: his house in Harrington, Delaware. After grabbing a quick bite
33:55
Speaker 1: to eat, Charles left the store and got back in
33:58
Speaker 1: his truck. He turned it on and he was about
33:59
Speaker 1: to drive out of the lot when he stopped because
34:02
Speaker 1: there was this man running towards him, waving, trying to
34:04
Speaker 1: flag him down. So Charles put his truck back in
34:06
Speaker 1: park and he rolled his window down to see what
34:08
Speaker 1: this guy wanted. And when this stranger got close enough,
34:11
Speaker 1: he told Charles that his sister was having a baby
34:14
Speaker 1: and he needed a ride to the hospital, which was
34:15
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes away.
34:17
Speaker 2: Charles couldn't tell that this guy was lying. It was
34:19
Speaker 2: super late.
34:20
Speaker 1: He didn't know this guy, and he said a bad
34:22
Speaker 1: feeling about him, and so he told him, no, I'm sorry,
34:24
Speaker 1: it's too late. I got to get home. It's too
34:26
Speaker 1: far out of the way. The stranger immediately looked dejected
34:29
Speaker 1: and turned around and started walking away, and as Charles
34:32
Speaker 1: was watching him go, he felt bad and said, you
34:34
Speaker 1: know what, hey, come back here. I'll give you a
34:36
Speaker 1: ride part of the way there, and so the stranger smiled,
34:38
Speaker 1: hopped in his passenger seat, and they took off. Charles
34:40
Speaker 1: drove him approximately three miles in the direction he had
34:43
Speaker 1: asked to go, before pulling over on the side of
34:45
Speaker 1: the road and telling him this is as far as
34:47
Speaker 1: I'm going to take you. Charles lived only about a
34:49
Speaker 1: block away and he didn't want to drive too far
34:51
Speaker 1: away from home so late at night. But the stranger,
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Speaker 1: upon hearing he was being let out so soon, suddenly
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Speaker 1: became angry and began fumbling in his pocket like he
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Speaker 1: was going to get an for some sort of weapon,
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Speaker 1: and he starts screaming at Charles, hand over your keys,
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Speaker 1: hand over your wall, or I'm going to kill you.
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Speaker 1: Charles meanwhile, was on edge just being in the car
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Speaker 1: with this guy because he had a bad feeling about him, and.
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Speaker 2: So he immediately jumped into action.
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Speaker 1: He turned off his truck, he ripped the keys out
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Speaker 1: of the ignition, and he leapt out of his truck
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Speaker 1: and started running. Charles saw way off in the distance
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Speaker 1: was a convenience store, and he figured he could run
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Speaker 1: to there and.
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Speaker 2: Get some help.
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Speaker 1: But as he's running, he turns around and sees the
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Speaker 1: stranger has also leapt out of the car and was
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Speaker 1: now sprinting up to him with a screwdriver in his hand.
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Speaker 1: And this stranger was running really fast. He was gaining
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Speaker 1: on Charles, and soon Charles realized he wasn't going to
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Speaker 1: make it to the convenience store before this guy caught
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Speaker 1: up to him.
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Speaker 2: And so at some point Charles just stops.
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Speaker 1: He turns around and he puts his hands up and
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Speaker 1: he says, okay, okay, okay, I'll give you a ride
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Speaker 1: wherever you want to go, and then you can have
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Speaker 1: my keys, my wallet, you can have anything you want.
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Speaker 1: And so the stranger runs right up to Charles and
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Speaker 1: he stops and he smiles because he's very pleased with
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Speaker 1: this result, and he pokes him with the screwdriver and
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Speaker 1: kind of gestures for him to go back to the truck.
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Speaker 2: So Charles walks back to the truck with the.
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Speaker 1: Stranger behind him, with the screwdriver periodically poking him in
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Speaker 1: the back. They finally get to the vehicle and the
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Speaker 1: stranger tells Charles to get in the car and then wait.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as Charles sat down, he fired up
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Speaker 1: his truck and sped off before the stranger could hop
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Speaker 1: in the passenger side door, and so Charles is flying
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Speaker 1: away from this guy. He looks in his rear view
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Speaker 1: mirror and he can see the guy is chasing after
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Speaker 1: him with a screwdriver held over his head, but he
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Speaker 1: sees the stranger at some point just stops, turns around,
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Speaker 1: and walks away.
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Speaker 2: Charles was totally relieved that he had.
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Speaker 1: Escaped this horrible encounter, and he was thinking about calling
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Speaker 1: the police, but ultimately decided he wouldn't because it was
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Speaker 1: his decision to allow some stranger to get in his
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Speaker 1: car in the middle of the night, and so Charles
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Speaker 1: kind of blamed himself for the whole ordeal. What Charles
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Speaker 1: was concerned about, though, was where he had ditched. The
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Speaker 1: stranger was not far from his house, and he was
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Speaker 1: worried if he just turned around and drove right back
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Speaker 1: to his house, that this guy could recognize the truck
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Speaker 1: and then follow him to his house, and then who
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Speaker 1: knows what could happen.
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Speaker 2: And so Charles decides.
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Speaker 1: He's just going to stay outside of town and drive
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Speaker 1: around for a while to make sure or this stranger
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Speaker 1: is long.
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Speaker 2: Gone by the time he comes back. So after about
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Speaker 2: an hour.
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Speaker 1: Of doing just that, driving around outside of town. Charles
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Speaker 1: goes back into Harrington, Delaware, and he gets on his
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Speaker 1: street and he's shocked when he sees the stranger who
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Speaker 1: had just tried to kill him is walking down the
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Speaker 1: road right in front of him. But luckily, the stranger
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Speaker 1: did not hear or see Charles pull onto his street,
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Speaker 1: and so Charles immediately throws in.
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Speaker 2: A reverse and he gets out of there and he
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Speaker 2: drives off.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Charles decides he needs to tell police
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Speaker 1: because he doesn't know if this stranger actually knows him,
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Speaker 1: and that maybe he's targeting him and he's waiting for
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Speaker 1: him at his property, and so he calls nine one
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Speaker 1: one and he tells the dispatcher about what had happened
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Speaker 1: earlier and how this guy is now lurking around his property,
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Speaker 1: and the dispatcher tells him they'll send an officer out
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Speaker 1: to him, and so a few minutes later, an officer
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Speaker 1: showed up at the payphone where Charles was and they
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Speaker 1: told Charles they would escort him back to his property
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Speaker 1: and if this stranger was still out in the area,
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Speaker 1: they would arrest him, and so the two of them
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Speaker 1: made their way back to Charles's property. They get there,
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Speaker 1: the stranger's long gone, and then Charles goes into his house.
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Speaker 1: There's no sign of a break in, there's no sign
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Speaker 1: that anyone was near his property, and so Charles thanks
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Speaker 1: the officer. He feels totally relieved, but before the officer leaves,
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Speaker 1: he asks him if he wouldn't mind doing a quick
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Speaker 1: sweep of his mother's property. She lived right behind Charles,
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Speaker 1: on the other side of some bushes.
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Speaker 2: He told the officer. Her name was Dorothy.
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Speaker 1: She was seventy years old and she lived alone, and
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Speaker 1: he just wanted to make sure nothing happened to her.
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Speaker 2: So the officer said, no problem, I'll go check in
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Speaker 2: on her.
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Speaker 1: So the officer leaves Charles and goes across his backyard
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Speaker 1: through those bushes into Dorothy's backyard, and right away he
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Speaker 1: can see the back window on the back door has
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Speaker 1: been smashed, and the door itself is slightly ajar and
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Speaker 1: so the officer draws their pistol and they go up
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Speaker 1: and they enter the house and they look inside. They're
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Speaker 1: yelling for Dorothy, but there's no answer. It's totally dark
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Speaker 1: in the house, it's totally silent, and so after searching
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Speaker 1: the first floor and finding nothing, they make their way
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Speaker 1: up the flight of stairs and they find blood at
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Speaker 1: the top of the landing, and they follow this trail
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Speaker 1: of blood and it brings them into one of the
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Speaker 1: bedrooms where a woman is sprawled out.
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Speaker 2: On a bed. She had been stabbed to death.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out, after Charles had ditched the stranger
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Speaker 1: and sped off without him, the stranger, whose name was
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Speaker 1: Gilbert Cannon, began looking for a place to sleep, and
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Speaker 1: the house he ultimately selected just happened to be Charles's
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Speaker 1: mother's house. After Gilbert broke in through her back door,
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Speaker 1: he saw Dorothy coming down the steps to confront him,
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Speaker 1: and because he was worried she'd be able to identify him,
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Speaker 1: he attacked her with a screwdriver. Gilbert would later tell
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Speaker 1: police that the attack on Charles was completely random. He
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Speaker 1: was just at this fast food restaurant. He saw Charles
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Speaker 1: get into his truck and he thought to himself, if
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Speaker 1: I can get in that guy's truck, I bet I
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Speaker 1: can rob him. And then after this failed robbery, when
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Speaker 1: Gilbert is out looking for a place to sleep and
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Speaker 1: he breaks into this house and this woman comes down
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Speaker 1: the stairs that he attacks and kills. He has no
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Speaker 1: idea that this woman, Dorothy is Charles's mother. The entire
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Speaker 1: night was one big, horrible coincidence. Gilbert would plead guilty
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Speaker 1: to the murder and would be sentenced to life in
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Speaker 1: prison without the possibility of parole. Thank you so much
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