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The Stunning Consequences of 3 Small Choices · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: One late night in the summer of nineteen seventy four,
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  Speaker 1: a thirty year old man named Fred stood inside of
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  Speaker 1: a loud casino in Las Vegas, feeling incredibly nervous. He
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  Speaker 1: knew what he was about to do was a horrible idea.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he didn't even know if he had the
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  Speaker 1: guts to try it. Fred grabbed a huge wad of
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  Speaker 1: cash out of his pocket, and as he looked at it,
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  Speaker 1: he thought about the reason he was here. So Fred
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  Speaker 1: had actually flown to Las Vegas on a whim after
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  Speaker 1: a bad meeting with a group of investors. So Fred
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  Speaker 1: had founded this small company three years earlier, and he
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  Speaker 1: really needed a loan from these investors, but they had
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  Speaker 1: said no. Fred had actually already lost lost over thirteen
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  Speaker 1: million dollars to this point, and so the investor said,
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  Speaker 1: look like your track record is not good enough, We're
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  Speaker 1: not giving you any more money. And this was a
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  Speaker 1: huge problem for Fred because right now in all of
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  Speaker 1: his company accounts he had a total of five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars and at a minimum, he needed to pay his
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  Speaker 1: fuel bill for his company, which was twenty four thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and that bill was due soon, so he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: enough money to cover it. And besides the fuel bill,
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  Speaker 1: he also didn't have any money to make payroll. So
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  Speaker 1: basically Fred did not have any more money, and if
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  Speaker 1: he didn't find a way to find more money, he
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  Speaker 1: would have to file for bankruptcy, shut his business down,
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  Speaker 1: and lay off all of his employees. And so Fred
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  Speaker 1: really couldn't think of a worse fate here. He totally
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  Speaker 1: believed in this company.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this was his baby.
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  Speaker 1: He'd invested all of his inheritance into it, but now
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  Speaker 1: it was about to collapse unless he got really, really lucky.
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  Speaker 1: All around him in the casino, Fred could see gamblers
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  Speaker 1: hunched over slot machines and over poker tables and blackjack tables,
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  Speaker 1: and some people looked like they were having the time
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  Speaker 1: of their lives, and many other people looked like they
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  Speaker 1: were maybe having the worst time of their lives and
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  Speaker 1: were on the brink of tears. Fred didn't know if
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  Speaker 1: he'd be celebrating or sobbing by the end of this night.
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  Speaker 1: All he knew is he was out of options here
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  Speaker 1: He could either do nothing and just kind of accept
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  Speaker 1: his fate that his business was doomed and would have
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  Speaker 1: to be shut down, or he could do what he
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  Speaker 1: was doing tonight, which was to basically take what little
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  Speaker 1: cash he had and put it on a game of chance,
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  Speaker 1: basically gamble the money he had in hopes of winning
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  Speaker 1: enough money to keep his business going a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 1: And so, after taking a calming breath, Fred began walking
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  Speaker 1: over to a blackjack table because someone had told him
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  Speaker 1: that of all the games he could play in the
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas casino, the game with the best odds was blackjack.
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  Speaker 1: Fred chose a table with an open seat. He exchanged
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  Speaker 1: all his cash for chips while he prayed that he
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  Speaker 1: was making the right choice here.
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  Speaker 2: And then Fred began to play.
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  Speaker 1: For the first few hands, Fred was pretty cautious, only
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  Speaker 1: placing small bets, but he won all those small bets
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  Speaker 1: and it kind of emboldened him, and so he began
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  Speaker 1: placing larger bets, and he began winning those bets too,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact, it got to the point where he
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  Speaker 1: was winning so consistently that a crowd of strangers had
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  Speaker 1: formed behind the table just to watch Fred. But Fred
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even aware of the crowd behind him. He was
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  Speaker 1: so focused on every single hand. I mean, for him,
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  Speaker 1: this was like his life. He was gambling with And
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  Speaker 1: eventually he got to a place where he had like
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  Speaker 1: a mountain of chips in front of him, and he
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  Speaker 1: was gambling huge sums of it all at once. And
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  Speaker 1: then eventually, when he had this big mountain of chips
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  Speaker 1: in front of him, Fred decided this was it.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to double down and go all in.
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  Speaker 1: And so he puts all these chips out and he waits,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually the dealer flips over their cards, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they did, the crowd around Fred, who hadn't
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  Speaker 1: even noticed to this point, erupted in cheers because Fred
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  Speaker 1: had just won. And when the dealer pushed all the
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  Speaker 1: chips back over to him and he got to count
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  Speaker 1: how much money he had, he realized he had started
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  Speaker 1: with five thousand dollars but now had twenty seven thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: He had gambled and won. Twenty seven thousand dollars was
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  Speaker 1: just enough to pay that fuel bill and keep his
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  Speaker 1: company running a little bit longer. So basically exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Fred had hoped for had happened, and then during this
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  Speaker 1: extra time that Fred had basically won himself, he was
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  Speaker 1: able to secure eleven million dollars in investor funding, which
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  Speaker 1: was enough money to finally scale up this small business
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  Speaker 1: into the behemoth that we know it as today. Fred
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  Speaker 1: went from being a guy betting his last chips at
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  Speaker 1: a casino to now being a multi billionaire. Fred's full
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  Speaker 1: In the late nineteen eighties, a man in his twenties
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  Speaker 1: named Norm walked into a house party in the Hollywood Hills,
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  Speaker 1: which is a very exclusive and pricey neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.
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  Speaker 1: In this house, which was filled with people, there were
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  Speaker 1: all these actors and entertainers and Hollywood type people, and Norm,
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  Speaker 1: who was this kind of scruffy guy with long, stringy
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  Speaker 1: hair and who had no experience in the entertainment industry,
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  Speaker 1: knew he did not fit in here at all. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Norm never would have been at a party like this
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  Speaker 1: if not for what had happened to him just a
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  Speaker 1: few hours earlier. So that afternoon, Norm had gotten into
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  Speaker 1: a fight with his boss at the motorcycle shop where
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  Speaker 1: he worked. Now, Norm and his boss never got along,
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  Speaker 1: but they managed to coexist for the most part. Except today,
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  Speaker 1: this small argument had turned into a huge argument that
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  Speaker 1: turned into Norm getting fired. And so after getting fired,
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  Speaker 1: Norm left the shop and just began aimlessly walking around
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles until he wound up running into one of
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  Speaker 1: his friends. And over the course of this compa where
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  Speaker 1: Norm's like, yeah, I got fired, you know, not doing
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  Speaker 1: too good, the friend was like, oh, well, you know tonight,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be this big party up in the
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills. Why don't you come along, And Norm, who
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  Speaker 1: was feeling admittedly pretty down after being fired, decided, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, what the heck, I'll go to this party because
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  Speaker 1: maybe that will boost my spirits. And so now here
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  Speaker 1: he was, and so Norm went and found his friend
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  Speaker 1: in the house party and for a little while the
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  Speaker 1: party was pretty great. I mean Norm felt kind of uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: didn't really know anybody. It was kind of awkward, but
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  Speaker 1: it was fine, you know. Him and his friend were
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  Speaker 1: drinking and chatting and his friend was introducing him to
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  Speaker 1: some people and it was all good, except Norm just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't shake the anger he felt about getting fired, not
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  Speaker 1: only at the fact that he was now unemployed.
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  Speaker 2: Which was a huge problem, but he also.
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  Speaker 1: Just felt mad at his boss, like how dare his
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  Speaker 1: boss do this to him? And so to cope with this,
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  Speaker 1: Norm just began drinking really heavily, like way more than
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  Speaker 1: anybody else at this party, and before long Norm was
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  Speaker 1: completely plastered. But it would turn out getting totally smashed
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  Speaker 1: did not calm Norm down. In fact, if anything, it
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  Speaker 1: only made him more blind with rage about what had
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  Speaker 1: happened to him. And so naturally, what he did is
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  Speaker 1: he departs his friend and pushes through the crowd of
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  Speaker 1: people and he goes up to the second floor where
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  Speaker 1: there was this balcony that overlooked where basically everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the house was man Norm, who's slurring his speech and
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  Speaker 1: he's totally a mess. He screams out to the crowd
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  Speaker 1: of these people that he doesn't even know these Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: people basically screams at them to stop what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: and listen to him, and everyone did. They turned around
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  Speaker 1: and looked up at this guy, like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: And Norm just.
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  Speaker 1: Begins delivering this totally angry rant that kind of didn't
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  Speaker 1: even make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's drunk, but he's.
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  Speaker 1: Basically ranting about how mad he is and this horrible
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  Speaker 1: injustice that's been done to him, and just on and on.
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  Speaker 1: He's just pouring out all of his emotions and everybody's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of looking at him like what is going
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  Speaker 1: on here? It was like a train wreck, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't look away. Eventually, Norman finished up his big, rambling,
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  Speaker 1: humiliating speech and he stepped away from the railing, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody down below, who you know, had been wrapped to
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  Speaker 1: this point but now was kind of like whatever. They
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  Speaker 1: went back to the party and Norm just stood up there,
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  Speaker 1: kind of taken in the scene, and suddenly he felt
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  Speaker 1: a tap on his shoulder and he turned around and
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  Speaker 1: he saw there was this person he didn't recognize, and
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  Speaker 1: this person says to Norm, hey, if you ever considered
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  Speaker 1: acting in a play, it would turn out that person
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  Speaker 1: was a Hollywood producer and they were putting on a
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  Speaker 1: play in la and they really liked Norm's look, the
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  Speaker 1: whole kind of scruffy vibe, but even more as they
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  Speaker 1: watched him deliver that totally angry, drunken rant that he
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  Speaker 1: managed to get all these people to listen to that
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  Speaker 1: it was obvious he had natural charisma and he could
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  Speaker 1: command an audience even when the audience had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what he was talking about. And so ultimately this producer
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  Speaker 1: literally offered Norm an acting job. And Norm, who really
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  Speaker 1: didn't have aspirations to be an actor, but now needed
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  Speaker 1: a job because he had just been fired that day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's unemployed, he agreed. He said, okay, I'll
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  Speaker 1: act in your play. And so Norman would act in
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  Speaker 1: this play and he would do such a good job,
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact that.
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  Speaker 2: He totally was not an actor.
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  Speaker 1: He literally was a drunk guy at a party who
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  Speaker 1: randomly got recognized by some producer. But regardless, he acts
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  Speaker 1: in this play, and he is such a natural and
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  Speaker 1: does such a good job that he gets noticed by
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  Speaker 1: other Hollywood producers and casting directors, and before long, he
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  Speaker 1: lands his starring role in the mega hit TV show
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  Speaker 1: The Walking dead. Norm's full name is Norman Ritis. One
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  Speaker 1: evening in the late winter of nineteen seventy three, a
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  Speaker 1: twenty three year old mother named Tabby put her eight
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  Speaker 1: month old son and two year old daughter down for
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  Speaker 1: their naps inside of their double wide trailer, which was
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  Speaker 1: parked in a small town in New England. Once her
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  Speaker 1: kids fell asleep, Tabby looked over at the clock. She
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  Speaker 1: was waiting for her husband to get home from his
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  Speaker 1: job as a high school teacher, and he was running late.
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  Speaker 1: Tabby wondered, you know, what could be holding up her husband,
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  Speaker 1: and she certainly hoped he was okay, but she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: just call the high school to ask how he was
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  Speaker 1: doing because they didn't own a landline phone. They literally
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  Speaker 1: didn't have enough money to afford a landline phone in
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  Speaker 1: their trailer.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they.
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  Speaker 1: Basically only had enough money to barely make ends meet.
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  Speaker 1: So Tabby and her husband actually had dreams of becoming
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  Speaker 1: professional writers, but they had found over the past few
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  Speaker 1: years that breaking into writing at this time in America
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  Speaker 1: was nearly impossible. You know, they had gotten a few
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  Speaker 1: stories published here and there, but you know, for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, the only thing their writing had gotten them
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  Speaker 1: was a whole bunch of rejection, and so as a
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  Speaker 1: result of this, both of them had taken day jobs
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  Speaker 1: to basically supplement the income that was not being generated
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  Speaker 1: from writing. Tabby was home with the kids and then
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  Speaker 1: in the evening would work some shifts at a dunkin Donuts,
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  Speaker 1: and then her husband, in addition to being a teacher,
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  Speaker 1: also worked at a laundromat. But even with their three
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  Speaker 1: jobs combined and they barely made any money now, Tabby
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  Speaker 1: still held on to hope that, you know, maybe one
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  Speaker 1: day she could break in and be a professional writer
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  Speaker 1: and have that be her primary income. But her husband,
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  Speaker 1: who also had the same dream, was over time becoming
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  Speaker 1: increasingly more pessimistic about his opportunity to, you know, one day,
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  Speaker 1: just be a writer. He sort of felt like this
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  Speaker 1: truly was impossible, that they'd struggle forever and he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: become a writer. Tabby walked to the tiny laundry room
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  Speaker 1: in the back of their trailer to switch their clothes
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  Speaker 1: from the washer to the dryer. So this room, the
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  Speaker 1: laundry room, actually doubled as her husband's office, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she walked back there, she saw his desk
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  Speaker 1: was a total mess all around his typewriter, which sat
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the table, where all these
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  Speaker 1: empty beer cans and food wrappers and rejection letters from
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  Speaker 1: various magazines and publications, and the trash can next to
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  Speaker 1: the table on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Was overflowing with crumpled up pieces of paper.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling very annoyed by this mess, Tabby reached down to
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  Speaker 1: tie up the trash bag to take it outside. But
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  Speaker 1: as she went to do that, she happened to glance
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  Speaker 1: at one of these crumpled up pieces of paper in
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  Speaker 1: the trash and she skimmed a couple of sentences that
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  Speaker 1: were written on it, that were typed on this paper,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as she did, she stopped because there
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  Speaker 1: was something really interesting about this writing. Now, she knew
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  Speaker 1: her husband had written whatever was on this page, but
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, her husband always shared with her anything he
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  Speaker 1: had written, and she would read everything. And there was
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  Speaker 1: something about this text that she knew she had not
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  Speaker 1: read it before, like this was different.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly he wrote it, but she had.
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  Speaker 1: Not seen this before, and so she was curious. So
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  Speaker 1: she pulled the paper out of the trash can and
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  Speaker 1: smoothed it off, then actually began reading what turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be this failed manuscript that her husband had thrown away,
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  Speaker 1: and she couldn't believe how good it was. And so
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  Speaker 1: it dawned on Tabby that clearly her husband had been
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  Speaker 1: working on this in secret, which made her wonder like, one,
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  Speaker 1: why are you doing that?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you.
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  Speaker 1: Hiding this particular thing from me? When you let me
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  Speaker 1: read everything else? And two again, this is so good?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it crumpled up and in the trash? Just
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  Speaker 1: then Tabby heard the front door of the trailer open
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  Speaker 1: and her husband come inside. And so Tabby just took
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  Speaker 1: the page she was reading and walked out of the
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  Speaker 1: laundry room and she held it up to her husband
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  Speaker 1: and she was like, what is this? Why haven't you
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  Speaker 1: shown me this? And to Tabby's surprise, her husband, when
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  Speaker 1: he realized what she was holding, just looked totally embarrassed,
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  Speaker 1: like he wished she hadn't seen that.
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  Speaker 2: And she said to him, no, like, this is so good.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: And her husband would tell her, look like, I started
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  Speaker 1: writing this thing, you know, I didn't really know what
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  Speaker 1: it was going to become. But I quickly realized that
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  Speaker 1: I don't know enough about the subject matter, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not talented enough to finish the story. And
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  Speaker 1: even if I was, like, this is too weird, it's
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  Speaker 1: too out there, no one would publish this.
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  Speaker 2: And so ultimately he had just.
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  Speaker 1: Thrown it away and not told Tabby. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: he went on to tell Tabby that in addition to
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  Speaker 1: this being a failed project, he really understood at this
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  Speaker 1: point in his career that he was a failed writer
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  Speaker 1: and right now what he really needed to do was
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  Speaker 1: give up writing altogether and just focus on making money
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  Speaker 1: for the family, something they desperately needed. Tabby could see
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  Speaker 1: her husband was completely serious, and so she just held
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  Speaker 1: up this piece of paper and she said.
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  Speaker 2: No, this, this is the one. This is the one
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  Speaker 2: that's going to help you break through. I know it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, even if you don't know the
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  Speaker 1: subject matter, I do. I can help you with that,
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  Speaker 1: and together we can make this a.
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  Speaker 2: Full length novel. You got to see it through. It's
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  Speaker 2: too good not to.
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  Speaker 1: And so, at Tabby's insistence, that's what her husband did.
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  Speaker 1: He would spend several months working with Tabby to finish
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  Speaker 1: this novel, and by the spring of nineteen seventy four
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  Speaker 1: it was done.
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  Speaker 2: And so that same spring.
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  Speaker 1: They began shopping the manuscript around to different publishers, really
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  Speaker 1: having no idea how anybody was going to react. But
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  Speaker 1: they were both totally blown away when one of the
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  Speaker 1: major publishers they sent this thing to came back and said,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: not only will we absolutely print this book, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: also give you a four hundred thousand dollars advance, which
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  Speaker 1: in today's money is two and a half million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: a massive, massive book deal by any standard, and so
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  Speaker 1: the young couple was totally thrilled.
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  Speaker 2: They took the book deal.
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  Speaker 1: The book got published, and with the money they got
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  Speaker 1: they were able to move out of their double wide
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  Speaker 1: trailer and they were able to purchase a landline telephone.
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  Speaker 2: But that was only the beginning. Tabby's decision to pull.
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  Speaker 1: That crumpled up piece of paper out of the trash
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  Speaker 1: can and force her husband to turn it into a
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• 17:25
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