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The INSANE true story of Squid Game · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three stories about three
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Speaker 1: normal people who at some point made decisions that at
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Speaker 1: the time didn't really seem like that big of a deal,
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Speaker 1: but those decisions quickly changed their lives forever and defected
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Speaker 1: the lives of millions and millions of other people. But
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Speaker 1: One afternoon in two thousand and nine, a thirty eight
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Speaker 1: year old man was sitting inside of a manga cafe
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Speaker 1: in Soul, South Korea. So, a manga cafe is a
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Speaker 1: lot like a normal cafe. You can go inside and
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Speaker 1: buy snacks or drinks and socialized do whatever. But also
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Speaker 1: in manga cafes like this one, they have these big
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Speaker 1: in store libraries that contain manga, and manga are like
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Speaker 1: comic books. Now, this man did not have a lot
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Speaker 1: of money, and so when he went inside of this cafe,
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Speaker 1: he didn't buy any drinks or food. He just went
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Speaker 1: up to the instore library, grabbed an addition of his
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Speaker 1: favorite manga series, and just sat down and began to read. Now,
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Speaker 1: this man had read this particular series multiple times. He
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Speaker 1: just kept coming back to it because he thought it
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Speaker 1: was like the best manga you could possibly read. Now,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people actually didn't know what to make
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Speaker 1: of this particular series. It was actually kind of controversial
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Speaker 1: because it was so over the top violent, like well
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Speaker 1: beyond any other series. But to this man, that sort
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Speaker 1: of made it stand out. It made it sort of special,
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Speaker 1: and he loved it. In fact, it was so crazy,
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Speaker 1: this series that every time he read it, it allowed
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Speaker 1: him to sort of leave his life for a second
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Speaker 1: and just totally escape into this wild, violent story. And
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Speaker 1: right now, in this man's life, he really needed that
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Speaker 1: escape because his real life was pretty terrible. He had
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Speaker 1: spent practically his whole life studying and working to try
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Speaker 1: to become a professional writer and director. But in Seoul,
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Speaker 1: the entertainment industry was pretty unpredictable, and so this man
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Speaker 1: had successfully landed a couple of jobs here and there,
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Speaker 1: doing some writing and you know, doing some directing, but
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Speaker 1: they were small gigs and they typically fizzled out at
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Speaker 1: some point, and so over and over again. Like right
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Speaker 1: now in this man's life, he found himself back in
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Speaker 1: the same position he always was in, which was unemployed.
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Speaker 1: At the moment, this man lived with his mother and
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Speaker 1: his grandmother, but even though all three of them were
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Speaker 1: pooling their resources, they still struggled to just pay for rent.
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Speaker 1: In fact, recently the man had to sell his laptop,
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Speaker 1: the thing he used for all of his writing. It
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Speaker 1: was like how he was going to eventually crack a
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Speaker 1: career in entertainment for real. He had to sell that
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Speaker 1: just so that they wouldn't get evicted. And if that
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Speaker 1: wasn't bad enough, the man had also begun taking out
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Speaker 1: all these short term loans with high interest rates just
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Speaker 1: to pay for basic needs forget rent, like just food
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Speaker 1: and basic necessities he was taking out loans for, but
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Speaker 1: he had no way to pay them back, and so
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Speaker 1: the debt was just piling up NonStop. And so for
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Speaker 1: this man, the stress was like unbearable, and the only
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Speaker 1: way he could find to even begin to cope with
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Speaker 1: it was to escape into his manga books. And even
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Speaker 1: though he knew that didn't solve his problems, he didn't care.
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Speaker 1: It was like, life is so bad, at least briefly,
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Speaker 1: I can read manga and escape. And so that's what
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Speaker 1: he was doing today. And so he took his favorite
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Speaker 1: manga booth. He sat back inside of the booth and
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Speaker 1: just allowed himself to get sucked into the story for
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Speaker 1: the twentieth time. You know, he's read this thing multiple times,
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Speaker 1: and so as he was reading this manga book, he
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Speaker 1: suddenly has this epiphany. Now, this man all the time
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Speaker 1: came up with various story ideas that maybe he could
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Speaker 1: write and would be the next big thing for him.
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Speaker 1: Some reason. It was like, wait a minute, what if
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Speaker 1: I write a story that's sort of, you know, loosely
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Speaker 1: based or at least inspired by my favorite piece of writing,
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Speaker 1: this manga series, Like, wait a minute, I think I
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Speaker 1: have a really good idea that sort of transcends any
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Speaker 1: other idea I've ever had. And the more he thought
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Speaker 1: about it, the more he realized there were other elements
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Speaker 1: of his life that he could sort of attach to
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Speaker 1: this story that's sort of beginning with this concept that
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Speaker 1: came from this manga series. And so before long he
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Speaker 1: had put the manga book aside, got a pen in
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Speaker 1: some paper, and just began writing down some ideas, general
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Speaker 1: ideas for this new story he was going to try
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Speaker 1: to write. And for hours and hours he sat in
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Speaker 1: the booth just writing like crazy, and by the time
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Speaker 1: the cafe was closing, he had this amazing outline of
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Speaker 1: a whole world, this whole story he was going to write,
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Speaker 1: and he just knew this was the one. This was
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Speaker 1: the thing that was going to break him out of
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Speaker 1: poverty and officially make him a successful writer. Several months later,
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Speaker 1: this man had transformed that amazing outline into a fully
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Speaker 1: realized project, and then he went out to try to
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Speaker 1: sell it. And he's thinking, everybody's gonna want this thing.
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Speaker 1: This is like an iconic, unique piece of IP. People
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Speaker 1: are gonna be clamoring to buy this. But what he
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Speaker 1: found very quickly is every buyer he went to hated it.
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Speaker 1: They told him this is simply too weird and way
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Speaker 1: too violent, Like this is well beyond what's reasonable. This
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Speaker 1: is not something anybody's gonna want like, you will not
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Speaker 1: have an audience for this, And the man was sort
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Speaker 1: of crushed because to him, it was so clear, this
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Speaker 1: is an amazing idea. This story is so good. People
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Speaker 1: that have experienced real poverty, who understand the lengths that
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Speaker 1: people will go to to make money when they are desperate,
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Speaker 1: they'll relate to this like there's a huge audience for this.
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Speaker 1: But the buyers, they didn't see it that way. And
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Speaker 1: so for the next ten years, this guy kept trying
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Speaker 1: to sell this story. I mean, he really genuinely believed
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Speaker 1: in it, and he figured someone's gonna take a chance
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Speaker 1: on this. They have to, it's too good. But for
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Speaker 1: ten years, everybody just kept saying, no, it's not good enough,
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Speaker 1: no one wants this. But then, sort of out a
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Speaker 1: left field, ten years later, a major production studio actually said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, this looks pretty good. We will buy it.
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Speaker 1: This Man's story was converted into a TV show and
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Speaker 1: it premiered in twenty twenty one, twelve years after the
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Speaker 1: man originally conceptualized of the story inside of that manga cafe.
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Speaker 1: And when this TV show aired, it was basically a
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Speaker 1: global phenomenon. Overnight, it became the most talked about show
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Speaker 1: anywhere in every corner of the internet pretty much immediately.
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Speaker 1: It also made the production company that bought this story
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Speaker 1: nine hundred million dollars, and the man who actually wrote
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Speaker 1: the story, he also got paid very well and he
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Speaker 1: won an Emmy. The manga series that this man read
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Speaker 1: that sort of inspired all of this to happen was
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Speaker 1: called Battle Royale, and in this series, these students are
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Speaker 1: forced to fight to the death by a fascist government.
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Speaker 1: What this man did is he combined that concept, you know,
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Speaker 1: fighting to the death, with something that he himself was
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Speaker 1: dealing with in his own life, which was poverty. And
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Speaker 1: he knew firsthand, you know, the lengths he was willing
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Speaker 1: to go just to make a little bit of money
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Speaker 1: to make ends meet. And he knew other people who
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Speaker 1: you know, were dealing with poverty were also sort of
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Speaker 1: desperate and they would go to great lengths just to
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Speaker 1: make ends meet. And he said, okay, let's marry those
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Speaker 1: two concepts, poor people who were fighting to the death
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Speaker 1: for money. The writer's name was Huang Dong Huk and
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Speaker 1: the name of this TV series was Squid Game. As
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Speaker 1: many of you may know, aside from telling stories on
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Speaker 1: this YouTube channel. I also tell stories on my podcast,
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Speaker 1: the Mister Ballin Podcast Strange, Dark and Mysterious Stories. But
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Speaker 1: that's not all. In addition to that podcast, under the
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Speaker 1: Ballin Studio's umbrella, there is a whole host of other
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Speaker 1: podcasts that you can binge right now, and their content
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Speaker 1: all of them fall into these strange and mysterious category.
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Speaker 1: For example, if you're into baffling and horrifying medical mysteries,
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Speaker 1: well you should go check out my other podcast called
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Speaker 1: Mister Ballin's Medical Mysteries. Or maybe you want to hear
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Speaker 1: from some other voices within our studio, like Luke Lamana.
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Speaker 1: Luke Lamana is a military veteran. He has a super iconic,
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Speaker 1: really deep radio voice, and he has two shows. One
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Speaker 1: is called Wartime Stories, where he basically looks at strange,
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Speaker 1: dark and mysterious wartime stories. And his other show is
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Speaker 1: called Redacted, where he looks at information that used to
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Speaker 1: be classified and he dives into it with his military
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Speaker 1: expertise and experience and he basically shows you the lies
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Speaker 1: and secrets and half truths that the most powerful institutions
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Speaker 1: in the world have been keeping from us. We also
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Speaker 1: have shows that are just plain creepy and unsettling like
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Speaker 1: Bedtime Stories hosted by Richard will where he dives into
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Speaker 1: the supernatural, encryptids and mysterious deaths. I mean, basically his
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Speaker 1: whole kind of niche is things that keep you up
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Speaker 1: at night. And then two other shows that fall into
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Speaker 1: that sort of unsettling, creepy vibe are Late Nights with
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Speaker 1: Nextpo hosted by the famous YouTuber Nextpo, where he dives
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Speaker 1: into true, crazy, scary stories. And then we also have
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Speaker 1: another show called run Fuol hosted by Rodney Barnes, and
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Speaker 1: Rodney is like an icon in the horror genre at large,
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Speaker 1: and on his show, he just dives into this wild,
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Speaker 1: chilling lore like horror lore. People love that show. Or
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Speaker 1: if you're a history buff and you really want stories
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Speaker 1: that are really rooted in the fabric of our timeline,
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Speaker 1: I mean stories that are truly historically accurate but still strange, dark, mysterious,
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Speaker 1: and crazy, well check out a Twist of History hosted
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Speaker 1: by Joel. He's great, great voice, He's a very thorough host.
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Speaker 1: Those stories all have really cool endings, big plot twists
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Speaker 1: at the end. So if you're a fan of the strange,
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Speaker 1: dark and mysterious go check out these shows. You can
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Speaker 1: for Ballin Studios on any podcast platform. They are available
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Speaker 1: right now. Enjoy. One day in the summer of nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty three, a thirty year old man named Sam Phillips
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Speaker 1: was cleaning up his recording studio, which was located in
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Speaker 1: a fast growing city known for their vibrant music scene.
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Speaker 1: Sam had just finished recording at church choir and now
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Speaker 1: he was getting ready for his next client, and so
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Speaker 1: he was resetting all the equipment and cleaning up. But
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Speaker 1: Sam didn't actually know who his next client would be
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Speaker 1: or when they'd show up. Because Sam's recording studio was
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Speaker 1: pretty unique. Because he was always on the hunt for
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Speaker 1: new talent to sign, he had opened up his studio
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Speaker 1: to anybody who wanted to come in at any time.
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Speaker 1: All they had to do was show up, give him
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Speaker 1: four dollars, and they could be recorded professionally. This did
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Speaker 1: mean that a lot of times his clients were not
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Speaker 1: very talented, but he felt like it gave him the
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Speaker 1: biggest opportunity to cast the widest net to potentially find
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Speaker 1: his next big star. So that day Sam finished cleaning
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Speaker 1: up the studio and resetting everything, and then Sam just
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Speaker 1: sat down and waited, hoping that you know, another client
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Speaker 1: would come through the door. And eventually another client did.
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Speaker 1: This young kid, he was eighteen years old. He came
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Speaker 1: strolling inside. He had a guitar slung over his shoulder.
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Speaker 1: Sam had never seen him before, and right away he
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Speaker 1: could tell the kid was pretty shy. And the guy
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Speaker 1: came up to him and he just said, hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: I work as a truck driver, but I love to sing.
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Speaker 1: I love to play the guitar as a hobby, and
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to come in here and you know,
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Speaker 1: record a couple of ballads for my mom. And so
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Speaker 1: Sam again he took all kinds. He's like, absolutely, give
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Speaker 1: me four dollars and we can record these ballads. And
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Speaker 1: so the kid handed over four dollars and he went
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Speaker 1: into the booth and Sam's like, all right, you're on.
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Speaker 1: And Sam basically expected this kid to do what most
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Speaker 1: other clients of his did, which was, you know, they'd
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Speaker 1: begin playing and be sort of like not that good
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Speaker 1: at their instrument, and they'd sing off key, and you know,
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Speaker 1: Sam just kind of sitting there listening to this terrible music,
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Speaker 1: just waiting for it to end. But with this kid,
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Speaker 1: it was different. Once he began strumming his guitar and singing,
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Speaker 1: it was like he totally broke out of his shell.
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Speaker 1: I mean he was, you know, at first glance, a
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Speaker 1: very shy, sort of preserved guy, but in the booth
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Speaker 1: he was electric. He was amazing. And so Sam sat
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Speaker 1: there listening to this kid record his ballads and was
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Speaker 1: just so blown away by how talented he was. And
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Speaker 1: then when it was all done, you know, the kid
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Speaker 1: said thank you, he took his recordings with him and
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Speaker 1: he left. And then once he was gone, Sam just
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Speaker 1: made a point to make a note about this kid
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Speaker 1: that just said good ballad singer. Save basically remember this
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Speaker 1: guy because I think he's going to be something special.
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Speaker 1: About a year later, in nineteen fifty four, Sam was
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Speaker 1: back in his recording studio and he was working with
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Speaker 1: another client. It was this band and they were trying
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Speaker 1: to record some songs. But as they were playing, they
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Speaker 1: decided that they were really lacking another vocalist to round
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Speaker 1: out the sound, and so they asked Sam like, hey,
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Speaker 1: do you know anybody. Sam's studio manager, who was in
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Speaker 1: the room and overheard the request, immediately chimed in and said, hey, Sam,
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Speaker 1: what about that eighteen year old ballad singer from last year?
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Speaker 1: He was great, maybe he could be the vocalist, and
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Speaker 1: so Sam was like, yeah, I'll give him a call.
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Speaker 1: So he called this young man and he was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll jump in there and record some vocals. That'd be great.
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Speaker 1: So the young kid, you know, the truck driving, beautiful
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Speaker 1: ballad singing kid, came back to the studio. He hopped
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Speaker 1: in the booth with this band and they began playing
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Speaker 1: together and they sounded terrible. Now, the young man was
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Speaker 1: still very much a great singer, like Sam could clearly
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Speaker 1: hear his voice cutting through all the noise. But it
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Speaker 1: was like the kid and the band had no chemistry.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they just met each other, so it's not
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Speaker 1: that surprising. And the music that the band was trying
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Speaker 1: to play just didn't really line up well with this
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Speaker 1: kid's vocals, and so it just wasn't working. And so
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Speaker 1: Sam clearly could see that. He couldn't really tell if
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Speaker 1: the band or this kid could see that, and so
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Speaker 1: he said, hey, guys, for right now, just just take
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Speaker 1: a quick break. And so Sam ended the recording, and
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Speaker 1: the band and the kid they left to go get
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Speaker 1: a drink, and Sam left the booth and went into
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Speaker 1: the control room, which is basically right next door but
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Speaker 1: does not have a line of sight into the booth,
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Speaker 1: and he was just in there to sort of collect
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Speaker 1: his thoughts and just kind of reset for a second.
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Speaker 1: But then at some point he hears the sound of
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Speaker 1: music being played back in the booth where he had
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Speaker 1: just come from, except the music was different. It was
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Speaker 1: really upbeat, it was fast, it was loud, and Sam
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Speaker 1: could clearly hear the sound of that kid, the truck driver,
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Speaker 1: the amazing ballad singer. He was just going to town,
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Speaker 1: like he was singing at the top of his lungs,
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Speaker 1: and it just really sounded like something was going on
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Speaker 1: in there. And so Sam left the control room, ran
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Speaker 1: into the booth, and he goes in there, and when
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Speaker 1: he got in there, he saw the band and this
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Speaker 1: kid just totally rocking out. It was like they suddenly
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Speaker 1: had amazing chemistry. The kid, the truck driver, the amazing
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Speaker 1: ballad singer, is jumping all over the booth. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's totally into the song, and the band very clearly
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Speaker 1: was sort of following the kid's lead. They were basically
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Speaker 1: playing music to match the Kid's energy. And Sam is
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Speaker 1: watching this and listening to this, and he's thinking, I
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Speaker 1: have never heard music sound like this before, Like this
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Speaker 1: is a new type of music that I'm witnessing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it gave him goosebumps. He couldn't believe it, like this
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Speaker 1: is a brand new thing. Sound was sort of a
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Speaker 1: cross between blues and rock and roll. It was a
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Speaker 1: little bit too fast for blues and too slow for
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Speaker 1: rock and roll, but it was just it was something
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Speaker 1: really unique. And all Sam could think as he's watching
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Speaker 1: this happen, and as he's listening to this is the kid,
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Speaker 1: the truck driver, the ballad singer. He's the star. It's
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Speaker 1: so obvious, like this is coming into being because of him.
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Speaker 1: That's the person I've been looking for. That's the star
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Speaker 1: that I've been trying to sign ever since I started
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Speaker 1: this recording studio. And so that very night, Sam and
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Speaker 1: this band helped the Kid record his first ever single,
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Speaker 1: which was called That's All Right. And once that song
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Speaker 1: hit the airwaves, that kid did become a star. Practically overnight.
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Speaker 1: He catapulted into music fame that few ever achieve. He
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Speaker 1: literally would become one of the most famous musicians too
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Speaker 1: have ever lived. Sam's studio was called Sun Records, and
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Speaker 1: it was located in Memphis, Tennessee. And the young kid,
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Speaker 1: the truck driver who sang amazing ballads was none other
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Speaker 1: than Elvis Presley. On the evening of March thirty first,
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, a forty year old man named Justin was
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Speaker 1: standing in the corner of a boxing ring inside of
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Speaker 1: a convention center in Ottawa, Canada. He could hear the
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Speaker 1: screams of hundreds of fans in the stands all around him,
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Speaker 1: and he knew thousands more were watching him on TV.
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Speaker 1: And Justin was pretty nervous because this was not only
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Speaker 1: the most important boxing match of his whole career, but
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Speaker 1: it was also his very first boxing match of his career.
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Speaker 1: His reputation and his future were riding on the outcome
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Speaker 1: of this match, and Justin knew he was massively the underdog.
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Speaker 1: Justin looked across the ring at the other corner and
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Speaker 1: he locked eyes just for a second with his opponent,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Brass Knuckles Brazil. He had served in
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Speaker 1: the Canadian military, He had a black belt in karate,
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Speaker 1: and he was notorious for packing an insanely strong punch,
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Speaker 1: hence the name brass Knuckles. Brazil and pretty much everybody
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Speaker 1: who had been following this fight up to this point
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Speaker 1: didn't just think, you know, oh, brass Knuckles is gonna
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Speaker 1: beat Justin. No, the thought was brass Knuckles is going
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Speaker 1: to destroy Justin. And not just because brass Knuckles has
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Speaker 1: a reputation for a strong punch, but because Justin had
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Speaker 1: a reputation for being totally soft and pampered and just
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Speaker 1: not somebody at all that was viewed as being tough.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the idea that he was even in the
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Speaker 1: ring at all about to fight anyone was a huge shock.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Justin didn't seem like the type who could
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Speaker 1: win any fight, let alone against this guy. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: as soon as Justin had even entered the ring, the announcers,
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Speaker 1: who were trying a little bit to stay neutral, couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but begin making fun of Justin. They even quickly
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Speaker 1: nicknamed him the shiny Pony as soon as he came
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Speaker 1: into the ring, Like they couldn't even stopped themselves from
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Speaker 1: being like, who is this guy? Like he's going up
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Speaker 1: against brass Knuckles, Like there's no way he wins, But
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Speaker 1: what nobody knew was that Shiny Pony had actually been
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Speaker 1: training really hard for this match for months and months,
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Speaker 1: and he felt like, you know, despite what people thought
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Speaker 1: of him, you know, given the fact that he's nicknamed
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Speaker 1: Shiny Pony here, despite his reputation, he felt inside like
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Speaker 1: he was just as tough as Brass Knuckles and he
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Speaker 1: did stand a chance here. So when the bell rang
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Speaker 1: for the first round, Shiny Pony got up and he
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Speaker 1: charged across the ring and immediately just started swinging at
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Speaker 1: Brass Knuckles and none of them landed. Brass Knuckles avoided
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Speaker 1: every punch and just managed to counter and destroy Justin
18:41
Speaker 1: pretty much immediately. I mean, he was pummeling the crap
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Speaker 1: out of Shiny Pony, and the announcers are like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, he's getting mauled, but they knew it was coming.
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Speaker 1: They were kind of laughing as they were saying it,
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Speaker 1: and like, Justin he knows he's getting destroyed. He's not
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Speaker 1: even trying to throw punches at this point, He's just
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Speaker 1: trying to stay on his feet, and at some point
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Speaker 1: Brass Knuckles really squared him up and hit him right
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Speaker 1: in the job with one of his famous right hooks.
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Speaker 1: And Justin's like about to fall over, and right at
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Speaker 1: that moment the bell rings again. The round ends, and somehow,
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Speaker 1: you know, Shiny Pony is still on his feet, but barely,
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Speaker 1: but he survived the round, and so Shiny Pony kind
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Speaker 1: of stumbles his way back over to his corner, and
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Speaker 1: Brass Knuckles very calmly and casually walks to his barely
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Speaker 1: affected by that round. And so for the next several
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Speaker 1: seconds that the two men were sitting in their corners,
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Speaker 1: you know, Brass Knuckles is basically just relaxing until the
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Speaker 1: next round starts. But over in Shiny Pony's corner, like
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Speaker 1: the medic is working on his face because he's bleeding everywhere,
19:36
Speaker 1: and you know, Justin's coach is telling him, oh, you
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Speaker 1: gotta do this, you gotta do that. But for Justin,
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Speaker 1: it was like he had gotten so smashed during this
19:44
Speaker 1: round he could barely even think. But despite all the
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Speaker 1: noise and the chaos, all he could think in his
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Speaker 1: head was, I can't give up. They think I'm that
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Speaker 1: guy that's gonna get pummeled and beat and no one's
19:56
Speaker 1: gonna ever let me live this down. I have to
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Speaker 1: go into this next round with clissop band, and I
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Speaker 1: have to find a way to just stay in the fight.
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Speaker 1: I have to go all in. And so the bell
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Speaker 1: rang again and Justin the Shiny Pony gets up, and
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Speaker 1: again he goes across the ring over to Brass Knuckles,
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Speaker 1: except this time when he starts throwing punches, they land,
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Speaker 1: and surprisingly, it was like every single punch he threw
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Speaker 1: it was rocking back Brass Knuckles. He was taking hit
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Speaker 1: after hit, and Justin knew like this is working, and
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Speaker 1: Justin like he can't believe it, but he's just riding
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Speaker 1: it out, like hitting him as hard as he can't,
20:31
Speaker 1: over and over, and the announcers they don't even know
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Speaker 1: what to make of it, like the Shiny Pony is
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Speaker 1: coming out here, you know, being the rumble pony here
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Speaker 1: just destroying Brass Knuckles. And so when the bell finally
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Speaker 1: rang after round two, it was Brass Knuckles who was
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Speaker 1: barely on his feet stumbling back to his corner, and
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Speaker 1: it was Shiny Pony, who was, you know, winded but
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Speaker 1: totally fine, and he went back to his corner and
20:53
Speaker 1: it was like everybody was in shock, like wait a minute,
20:56
Speaker 1: now it's one one, Like this guy's supposed to be
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Speaker 1: a coward, a weakling, like how did he do that?
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Speaker 1: And so this time, in the few seconds between rounds
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Speaker 1: two and three, Shiny Pony is in his corner and
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Speaker 1: he's looking across the ring and he's staring at brass Knuckles,
21:09
Speaker 1: and Brass Knuckles was kind of like averting his gaze.
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Speaker 1: He looked totally gassed. He looked scared, like he couldn't
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Speaker 1: believe he was potentially about to lose to the Shiny Pony.
21:19
Speaker 1: And for Justin, the Shiny Pony, that was all the
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Speaker 1: motivation he needed. He knew mentally he had an edge
21:25
Speaker 1: in his opponent. And so when that bell rang for
21:27
Speaker 1: the third round, Justin got up and he went over
21:29
Speaker 1: there to Brass Knuckles and just pummeled him, just over
21:33
Speaker 1: and over, blasting him in the face. And eventually he
21:36
Speaker 1: struck brass knuckles and the nose hard enough that his
21:38
Speaker 1: nose kind of exploded and began bleeding everywhere, and the
21:42
Speaker 1: ref actually had to step in and separate them. And
21:45
Speaker 1: even though you know, both men actually were down to
21:47
Speaker 1: keep on fighting, the ref said, nope, this is too much,
21:50
Speaker 1: and he ended the fight. It was a technical knockout
21:53
Speaker 1: and Shiny Pony had won. Now. As much as this
21:56
Speaker 1: victory was huge for Justin, the truth was, you know,
21:59
Speaker 1: Justin was not trying to become a professional boxer or
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Speaker 1: really be in the boxing world in any capacity. This
22:05
Speaker 1: was actually just a charity match, and you know, brass
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Speaker 1: Knuckles Brisil also was not a professional boxer. These two
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Speaker 1: had just simply come together to have this match in
22:14
Speaker 1: order to raise money for charity. But Justin had another goal.
22:18
Speaker 1: He knew that his reputation in Canada was of being
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Speaker 1: this sort of soft, pampered weak guy, and he thought,
22:25
Speaker 1: if I can just get in the ring with a
22:27
Speaker 1: really formidable opponent in Brass Knuckles Brazil and hold my
22:31
Speaker 1: own and maybe even beat Brass Knuckles in this fight.
22:34
Speaker 1: You know, even though it's for charity, if I can
22:36
Speaker 1: do that, that could potentially sway the public's opinion about me.
22:40
Speaker 1: You know. He was hoping that this fight could basically
22:42
Speaker 1: transform his image and people would see him as, you know,
22:45
Speaker 1: tough and a serious leader. And that is exactly what
22:48
Speaker 1: happened after this fight. When he won the fight out
22:51
Speaker 1: a left field, nobody could believe it. It was like
22:53
Speaker 1: he was the talk of Canada for a little while. There,
22:55
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, look, you know, Justin the Shiny Pony
22:58
Speaker 1: is actually, you know, a little more serious than we
23:00
Speaker 1: thought he was. He's a pretty tough guy, and so
23:02
Speaker 1: Justin would use that momentum from the fight to eventually
23:06
Speaker 1: land the one thing he wanted more than anything else.
23:09
Speaker 1: He would get elected as the Prime Minister of Canada.
23:12
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