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Speaker 1: Several years ago, prank videos were huge on YouTube. Basically,
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Speaker 1: a prank YouTube channel would go out in public and
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Speaker 1: they would do something to some unsuspecting person and they
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Speaker 1: would film it and that video would.
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Speaker 2: Get tons of views on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: Well, during this prank heyday, there was one YouTube channel
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Speaker 1: that pulled off a prank that really stood out amongst
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Speaker 1: the thousands and thousands of others that were getting pumped
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Speaker 1: out during this time. And the reason this particular prank
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Speaker 1: stood out was because one it was masterfully planned, Two
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Speaker 1: it was brilliantly executed, and three, most memorably, it had
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Speaker 1: massive intended and unintended consequences. We're talking international scandal level consequences.
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Speaker 1: And amazingly, this story has yet to be converted into
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Speaker 1: a major motion picture and so I would imagine that
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Speaker 1: most of you have actually never heard of it. But
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's story. On the night of
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Speaker 1: February twelfth, twenty seventeen, a young woman named City Aisha
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Speaker 1: saw something coming over to her that surprised her so
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Speaker 1: much that she.
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Speaker 2: Gasped and she put her drink down on the bar.
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Speaker 1: The bar she was at was called the hard Rock
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Speaker 1: Cafe in Kuala Lumpur, which is the capital city of Malaysia.
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Speaker 1: This night for City had already been one of the
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Speaker 1: best in recent memory, but now it was getting even
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Speaker 1: better because a waitress was walking over to her carrying
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Speaker 1: a birthday cake with a candlelight in the middle, and
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Speaker 1: City knew it was for her, so she stepped forward
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Speaker 1: kind of bashfully, and all of City's friends who were
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Speaker 1: there with her kind of formed up around her, and
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Speaker 1: as the waitress came over to City, the friends all
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Speaker 1: immediately began singing Happy birthday to City. It was City's
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Speaker 1: twenty fifth birthday, and she could not believe how far
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Speaker 1: she had come. Here she was in this beautiful American
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Speaker 1: styled restaurant, surrounded by her friends who were these big
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Speaker 1: TV show producers, and tonight they were throwing a party
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Speaker 1: for her, something that did not happen often in City's
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Speaker 1: life to this point. After City's friends finished singing Happy Birthday,
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Speaker 1: City leaned forward and she blew out her candle. But
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Speaker 1: she didn't even make a wish before she blew it out,
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Speaker 1: because to her, she felt like she had everything she
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Speaker 1: had ever wanted, and so instead, as she blew that
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Speaker 1: candle out, she just made a point to feel incredibly
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Speaker 1: grateful for the life that she now had, because not
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Speaker 1: long ago, City's life looked very different. City had grown
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Speaker 1: up in a tiny town inside of a jungle in Indonesia.
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Speaker 1: She was the youngest of three children, and her parents
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Speaker 1: were very poor farmers that barely made enough money to
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Speaker 1: provide shelter and food for their kids. In fact, City's
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Speaker 1: parents were so poor that they couldn't afford to send
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Speaker 1: her to high school. They needed her to stay home
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Speaker 1: and go to work to help support the family. City
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Speaker 1: would end up getting married and she would have a
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Speaker 1: son with her husband, but her husband would divorce her
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Speaker 1: and not provide any support for their kid, and so
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Speaker 1: suddenly City was the single mother trying to look out
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Speaker 1: for her son, while also trying to provide for her
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Speaker 1: parents and her other siblings. And eventually it became so
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Speaker 1: difficult to find enough work to provide for all these
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Speaker 1: people that City was forced to go abroad and look
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Speaker 1: for work elsewhere outside of Indonesia, which meant she had
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Speaker 1: to leave behind not only her parents and siblings, but
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Speaker 1: also her son. Her son had to stay with her parents.
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Speaker 1: City would ultimately find work as a messuse in a
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Speaker 1: hotel in Malaysia called the Flamingo. Now. City really did
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Speaker 1: not like this work at all, but it paid well
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Speaker 1: enough and she needed the money badly enough that she
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Speaker 1: decided to just keep on doing it. Sometimes, City, like
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Speaker 1: a lot of the other girls that she worked with
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Speaker 1: at the hotel, would daydream about being discovered as a
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Speaker 1: model or a singer or an actress and getting taken
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Speaker 1: away from this life to a life of luxury and
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Speaker 1: wealth and leisure. But City never really expected that to happen.
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Speaker 1: Next to City at the bar was her producer, whose
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Speaker 1: name was James, and James had his arm around her,
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Speaker 1: and he suddenly flashed her his cell phone and he
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Speaker 1: kind of pointed to the screen and City looked at it,
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Speaker 1: and she saw there was a text message from someone,
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Speaker 1: but it was in a language that she didn't recognize,
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Speaker 1: and she asked, James, you know what is that and
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Speaker 1: James grinted her and said, this is my boss telling
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Speaker 1: me that you're already a superstar in Korea. And when
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Speaker 1: City heard this, she was totally embarrassed but also really excited.
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Speaker 1: City had met James about a month ago, in January
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Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, when City and some of her friends
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Speaker 1: from the hotel had decided to go out for the night.
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Speaker 2: Now, City very rarely went out.
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Speaker 1: She basically worked and slept and then sent home her
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Speaker 1: money to her family. But for whatever reason, she had
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Speaker 1: been convinced by her friends to go out and have
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Speaker 1: a good time, and so she was all dauled up
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Speaker 1: and she and her friends were standing in line to
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Speaker 1: get into a bar when a very handsome man wearing
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Speaker 1: a suit, James, walked up to City and said, have
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Speaker 1: you done any acting? And City, wearing her best clothes
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Speaker 1: with her friends, she suddenly felt bold and she told
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Speaker 1: this guy, who she didn't know, that no, I haven't,
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Speaker 1: but I'd like to try. And so James asked her
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Speaker 1: if she'd come with him, and she said okay, And
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Speaker 1: they went to this cafe and they sat down, got coffees,
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Speaker 1: and James explained to City who he was, and he
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Speaker 1: told her he was a Japanese television producer who specialized
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Speaker 1: in hidden camera prank videos and he needed actresses to
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Speaker 1: put on pretty clothes and pull pranks on unsuspecting people
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Speaker 1: on camera. City had initially been very skeptical of James
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Speaker 1: and this proposition, but at the same time, back then,
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Speaker 1: prank videos were all the rage on YouTube, they were
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Speaker 1: on mainstream TV, they were everywhere, and City knew that,
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Speaker 1: but she had never thought about being in one.
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Speaker 2: She just sometimes liked to watch them.
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Speaker 1: But James would tell her this is really easy work
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Speaker 1: and you'll get paid well for it, and so City
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Speaker 1: had ultimately said, okay, yeah, I'll do it with you.
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Speaker 1: And after she said yes, her life had been a whirlwind.
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Speaker 1: No longer was she a missus at a hotel, but
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Speaker 1: instead she was like a celebrity, flying all over the
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Speaker 1: country filming all these prank videos. And James's bosses were
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Speaker 1: so pumped they kept messaging him, telling him how amazing
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Speaker 1: she was and how every video she was doing was
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Speaker 1: outperforming anything they hoped to could do. I mean, everything
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Speaker 1: was going perfectly. City took a few more bites of
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Speaker 1: her birthday cake, and then she checked her watch and
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Speaker 1: saw it was almost ten pm, which for James and
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Speaker 1: her other friends might be early, but for City that
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Speaker 1: was pretty late.
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Speaker 2: Plus she had already had a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of alcohol that night, and so that was making her
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Speaker 1: more tired, and so she told James and the other
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Speaker 1: she was going to leave. She thanks them for the party,
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Speaker 1: and then she headed out and went to her hotel.
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Speaker 1: As soon as City was in her room, she immediately
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Speaker 1: called her mother. City and her mom talked all the time,
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Speaker 1: sometimes multiple times a day, and this night City just
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Speaker 1: really missed her mom, and she really missed her son.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as she called her mom, her mom
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Speaker 1: picked up and they chatted for a bit, and City
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Speaker 1: told her all about how she'd had this amazing birthday
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Speaker 1: party and how excited she was about the next day
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Speaker 1: because they were shooting a really big prank. It was
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Speaker 1: going to be their biggest one yet and it would
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Speaker 1: have the biggest payout of any of the videos she
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Speaker 1: had done so far. This one tomorrow was going to
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Speaker 1: pay her one hundred US dollars, and City told her
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Speaker 1: mom don't worry. I'm sending all of it back home
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Speaker 1: to you all. City's mother was so thankful and so
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Speaker 1: excited for her daughter, and she said, that's wonderful. Get
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Speaker 1: a good night's sleep, and I'll be thinking to you tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: And after that, City talked to her son for a
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Speaker 1: couple of seconds, and then they hung up, and City
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Speaker 1: crawled into bed. She turned off the light and she
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Speaker 1: tried to sleep, but she couldn't. She was too excited
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Speaker 1: about tomorrow's shoot. She and Jane had been talking about
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Speaker 1: this particular prank for the last week, and they'd been
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Speaker 1: rehearsing it over and over again, and now here she
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Speaker 1: was on the precipice of actually doing it in real life.
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Speaker 1: The pranks that City did were all pretty similar and
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Speaker 1: pretty simple. She and James would go to some train
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Speaker 1: station or some hotel or some other public area and
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Speaker 1: they would identify an unsuspecting older man, and then City,
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Speaker 1: all dressed up, would go up to the sky while
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Speaker 1: she was being filmed at a distance, and she would
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Speaker 1: either kiss the man on the cheek or spray him
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Speaker 1: with perfume or rub chili oil on his hand, and
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Speaker 1: then she would giggle and run away.
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Speaker 2: And then the.
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Speaker 1: Camera crew would zoom in on the man's face as
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Speaker 1: he's kind of bewildered and trying to figure out why
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Speaker 1: that had just happened. But tomorrow's prank, even though it
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Speaker 1: was pretty similar to.
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Speaker 2: The ones she had done.
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Speaker 1: It would be the first time she'd be working with
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Speaker 1: another actor, in fact, two other actors. One of the
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Speaker 1: actors was a woman who would be doing the pranking
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Speaker 1: with City, and then their target, the Unsuspecting Man, was
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Speaker 1: also an actor. James and the Japanese television production company
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Speaker 1: had insisted that for this prank to work, this guy
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Speaker 1: really did need to be in on it. City had
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Speaker 1: already met and rehearsed a couple of times with the
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Speaker 1: other woman who she'd be doing this prank with, but
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Speaker 1: she had not met the third actor, the unsuspecting Man yet.
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Speaker 1: She'd be meeting him the next day. Actually, during the prank,
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Speaker 1: City would eventually fall asleep that night, and then her
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Speaker 1: alarm would go off fairly early the next morning, and
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Speaker 1: when it did, City immediately got out of bed and
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Speaker 1: she got dressed in a dark form fitting outfit. She
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Speaker 1: put on some red lipstick, and then she hustled out
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Speaker 1: of her room downstairs and pat up the hotel to
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Speaker 1: meet James, the woman actress she'd be working with that day,
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Speaker 1: and the other producers who were involved in the production. Then,
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Speaker 1: as a big group, they hopped in a cab and
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Speaker 1: went to the International Airport where this big prank was
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Speaker 1: going to take place. And when they got there, they
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Speaker 1: made their way to a restaurant in the departures area
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Speaker 1: to wait for the third actor, the unsuspecting man, to
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Speaker 1: show up so they could begin the shoot. And while
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Speaker 1: the I waited, City and the other actress she'd be
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Speaker 1: working with struck up a conversation. The other actress's name
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Speaker 1: was Duan t Juang and she was a twenty eight
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Speaker 1: year old woman from Vietnam, and just like City, she
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Speaker 1: had come from a poor family and she had gone
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Speaker 1: abroad to find work to help support her family. And
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Speaker 1: it was during this time that she was abroad that
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Speaker 1: she was recruited to star in these prank videos. But
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Speaker 1: unlike City, who day dreamed about maybe being a singer
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Speaker 1: or a model, or an actress or something someday, for
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Speaker 1: Doan acting was the only thing she ever thought of
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Speaker 1: her whole life. The only thing she ever wanted was
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Speaker 1: to be an actress. In fact, Doan had left school
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Speaker 1: to pursue a career in show business. She had been
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Speaker 1: on a show called Vietnam Idol, but unfortunately did not
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Speaker 1: make it past the first round, and she had actually
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Speaker 1: done a few other prank videos with a different production company,
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Speaker 1: but neither of those two ventures had ever really panned out.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't until she was recruited by James.
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Speaker 1: And his team to be a part of these videos
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Speaker 1: that Doan finally felt like she was on the right track.
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Speaker 1: And as they talked, City couldn't help but feel like
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Speaker 1: Doan was just a little bit weird. She did like Doan,
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Speaker 1: she had no issues with her. But Doan had chose
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Speaker 1: to wear for this big shoot today a very childish
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Speaker 1: outfit instead of wearing something similar to what City had
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Speaker 1: on which City imagined she would be. Doan was wearing
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Speaker 1: this weird, childish looking T shirt that just said LOL
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Speaker 1: on it, and she was carrying around with her everywhere
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Speaker 1: this huge, oversized teddy bear. But City just chalked it
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Speaker 1: up to, you know, maybe James and the other producers
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Speaker 1: told Doan to dress this way, and that's why the
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Speaker 1: group took their time at breakfast inside at this restaurant,
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Speaker 1: just waiting for this third actor to show up. And
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Speaker 1: finally at nine am, so after an hour of just
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Speaker 1: sitting there, one of the producers actually said, hey, there,
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Speaker 1: he is right there, and so City and Doan and
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Speaker 1: James they looked out into the very crowded area and
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Speaker 1: sure enough, where the producer was pointing was this guy
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Speaker 1: who looked exactly like all of their other victims. He
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Speaker 1: was this middle aged, stocky guy carrying a briefcase who
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Speaker 1: totally blended in with the hundreds of other people out there.
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Speaker 1: And the producers told City and do On that it
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Speaker 1: looked like this actor had already begun the scene. He
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Speaker 1: was already heading over to the self check in Kiosk,
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Speaker 1: which was like the start of this prank, And so
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Speaker 1: they told City and Doan like, go go start the prank.
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Speaker 1: And so City grabbed the perfume that she was given
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Speaker 1: to spray in this guy's face, and the producers rushed
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Speaker 1: to rub this oil on Doan's hands, along with give
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Speaker 1: her a wet cloth because that was what she was
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Speaker 1: going to need for her side of this prank. And
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Speaker 1: then City and Doan stood up and began making their
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Speaker 1: way out into the very crowded terminal, and as she walked,
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Speaker 1: City couldn't help but feel very nervous because she knew
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Speaker 1: this was her big chance to show James and the
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Speaker 1: other producers that she could work well with other actors
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Speaker 1: and that she could do a fairly complex prank. City
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Speaker 1: and do On made their way right behind the third actor,
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Speaker 1: and as he continued to punch the screen of the
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Speaker 1: self served kiosk, the two women split up like they
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Speaker 1: had rehearsed. City walked around the man and got on
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Speaker 1: the backside of this kiosk, basically looking at the man
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Speaker 1: who was looking down at the computer screen, and Doan
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Speaker 1: stayed where she was, and then Doan looked up at
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Speaker 1: City and nodded, which was the signal, at which point
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Speaker 1: City rushed forward right in front of this guy, who
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Speaker 1: looked up and acted surprised, and then Doan ran up
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Speaker 1: behind him and grabbed his face and rubbed her hands
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Speaker 1: and that wet cloth all over his face, and then City,
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Speaker 1: as soon as that was happening, sprayed the perfume on
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Speaker 1: the guy's face as well, and then the two women
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Speaker 1: kind of giggled and said sorry and then walked away
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Speaker 1: in separate directions. As City walked to the bathroom to
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Speaker 1: wash the perfume off her hands, she was very conscious
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Speaker 1: of the fact that she was still very likely being filmed,
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Speaker 1: and so she checked her hair a couple of times
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Speaker 1: and made sure her clothes were just right, and then
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Speaker 1: she disappeared.
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Speaker 2: Into the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: She washed her hands, and then she looked up at
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Speaker 1: the mirror and she smiled because she knew she had
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Speaker 1: nailed this prank and she was going to be a star.
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Speaker 1: After City had finished washing up, she left the bathroom
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Speaker 1: room and made her way over to the meetup point
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Speaker 1: kind of on the other side at the airport where
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Speaker 1: Doan James and the other producers were going to meet up,
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Speaker 1: But no one was there, and she thought that was
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Speaker 1: weird because they had totally planned to meet at this
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Speaker 1: point after the prank. But after a little while, City
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Speaker 1: told herself that, you know, maybe they had already headed
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Speaker 1: down to the taxi waiting area and that's where they
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Speaker 1: are and they're waiting for me. So City left the
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Speaker 1: airport and went to the taxi waiting area, but when
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Speaker 1: she got there, she found herself alone again, and so
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Speaker 1: City would stand there looking around waiting for about fifteen minutes,
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Speaker 1: and when still she didn't see anybody, she texted James
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Speaker 1: and said, you know where are you, but she didn't
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Speaker 1: get a response, and so, feeling kind of annoyed, City
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Speaker 1: finally just flagged down a taxi on her own, hopped
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Speaker 1: in and told the driver she just wanted to go
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Speaker 1: back to her hotel. And then on the drive to
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Speaker 1: the hotel, City started to get carsick and kind of nauseous,
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Speaker 1: and she figured it didn't help that she had drank
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Speaker 1: a bunch the night before, so she was still a
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Speaker 1: little bit hungover, and at some point she actually had
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Speaker 1: to tell the driver to pull over so she could
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Speaker 1: vomit outside. And so, finally, when City got back to
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Speaker 1: her hotel and got back to her room, she felt
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Speaker 1: so crappy, and she was so upset with how everything
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Speaker 1: was going that she didn't even bother to get undressed.
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Speaker 2: She just jumped into her bed and fell asleep.
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Speaker 1: City would sleep for several hours, and when she woke
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Speaker 1: up again, she still felt totally hungover and gross, and
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Speaker 1: she rolled over and checked her phone, expecting to see
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Speaker 1: a message from James explaining why they had ditched her
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Speaker 1: after the prank, but there was no messages or phone
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Speaker 1: calls from anyone, and so City was totally annoyed and frustrated,
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Speaker 1: but just couldn't deal with this right now, and so
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Speaker 1: she put her phone down and fell asleep for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the night. The next morning, when City woke up,
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Speaker 1: she felt like a brand new person.
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Speaker 2: She was not hungover anymore. She rolled over and grabbed.
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Speaker 1: Her phone again, expecting to see a message from James
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Speaker 1: or someone. There wasn't anything, and so she called James,
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Speaker 1: but as soon as she called him, she could tell
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Speaker 1: his phone was now off. And so suddenly City thought
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Speaker 1: to herself, wait a minute, did the prank go badly?
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Speaker 1: Did I do so something wrong? Is that why they're
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Speaker 1: ignoring me? And then also City thought to herself, am
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Speaker 1: I still going to get paid for this prank? I
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Speaker 1: told my family I was sending them one hundred US dollars.
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Speaker 1: All day that day, City would sit on her bed
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Speaker 1: in the hotel and call and text James, but James
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Speaker 1: never got back to her, and City did not have
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Speaker 1: the contact for the other actors or the other producers,
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Speaker 1: and so she was just totally stuck, not really sure
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Speaker 1: what to do, and she just couldn't understand it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, even if it had.
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Speaker 1: Gone really badly, if she had blown that prank for
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Speaker 1: some reason, she had spent the past four weeks with
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Speaker 1: these people, specifically James, flying all over the country with him,
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Speaker 1: going to dinners with him. He had thrown her a
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Speaker 1: birthday party, They had all these long conversations about life.
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Speaker 1: What could she have possibly done that would warrant this
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Speaker 1: kind of treatment. And so by the end of that day,
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Speaker 1: when still City had heard nothing, she just felt totally
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Speaker 1: heartbroken and embarrassed and decided.
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Speaker 2: You know what, I'm done with those people. Tomorrow, I'm
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Speaker 2: going home to my family.
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Speaker 1: And sure enough, the next day, City got up, she
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Speaker 1: grabbed her things, she checked out at an hotel. She
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Speaker 1: headed to the airport to fly back home. But as
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Speaker 1: she was going through security, she heard all this commotion
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Speaker 1: behind her, and she turned and she saw six heavily
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Speaker 1: armed police officers sprinting in her direction, and so instinctively
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Speaker 1: City tried to get out of the way to let
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Speaker 1: them run past her. But instead of the men running
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Speaker 1: past her, they ran right up to her, grabbed her,
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Speaker 1: flipped her around, and put her under arrest. And immediately
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Speaker 1: City's like, oh my goodness, this is what's been going on.
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Speaker 1: They've been ghosting me for two days here because they
17:34
Speaker 1: were setting me up.
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Speaker 2: For another prank. I'm part of the prank.
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Speaker 1: Now, James must be nearby filming, and they've sent these
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Speaker 1: fake police officers to arrest me, and so this is
17:43
Speaker 1: all going to be on the show. And so, feeling
17:45
Speaker 1: totally relieved, City began to laugh and said to one
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Speaker 1: of the officers, Oh, so this is a prank, huh.
17:51
Speaker 1: And the officer was like, no, this is real. You
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Speaker 1: are under arrest. And when he told her what she
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Speaker 1: was being arrested for, City nearly fainted. Here's what really
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Speaker 1: happened during City's last big prank. After City and Dawn
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Speaker 1: had run up on the third actor and Doan rubbed
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Speaker 1: that towel on his face, and then City sprayed him
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Speaker 1: with perfume. The two women had then disappeared into the crowd,
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Speaker 1: and then the third actor just stood there staring blankly.
18:18
Speaker 1: And then he had kind of stumbled away from the
18:20
Speaker 1: kiosk over to a receptionist, where he told her that
18:23
Speaker 1: he was feeling really dizzy. The receptionist could tell this
18:26
Speaker 1: guy definitely needed help. He was unsteady on his feet,
18:29
Speaker 1: his face was all wet, and he was speaking kind
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Speaker 1: of frantically, and so she grabbed a few employees of
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Speaker 1: the airport and they clustered around him and began walking
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Speaker 1: him to the medical clinic that was in the airport.
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Speaker 1: And as they escorted him to this clinic, the man
18:43
Speaker 1: began saying he was in so much pain, and he
18:45
Speaker 1: kept walking slower and slower, and then finally when they
18:49
Speaker 1: actually got him inside this clinic, just a couple of
18:51
Speaker 1: minutes later, he was on the ground having a seizure. Immediately,
18:55
Speaker 1: the medical staff rushed to the man's aid and they
18:58
Speaker 1: injected him with a medicine to stop the seizure, and
19:01
Speaker 1: then with the help of airport staff, they lifted him up,
19:03
Speaker 1: put him on a stretcher, and then rushed him to
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Speaker 1: an ambulance that was supposed to take him to the hospital,
19:08
Speaker 1: but he would die on the way there. City and
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Speaker 1: Doan had no idea this had happened to the third actor.
19:14
Speaker 1: After the prank, the two women had gone into separate
19:17
Speaker 1: bathrooms and then basically just missed each other. They came
19:20
Speaker 1: out staggered to the meeting point, and they didn't see anyone.
19:23
Speaker 1: They both went down to the taxi waiting area, thinking
19:26
Speaker 1: that's where everyone had gone. And again City and Doan
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Speaker 1: just didn't see each other, and they both got in
19:31
Speaker 1: their own taxis and went back to their own hotels.
19:33
Speaker 1: As for James and the other producers, the reason they
19:36
Speaker 1: were absent after this prank had ended is because they
19:40
Speaker 1: planned to be absent after this prank. As soon as
19:43
Speaker 1: they saw a City in Doan pulling off this prank successfully,
19:47
Speaker 1: they all got up from that restaurant and promptly rushed
19:50
Speaker 1: to board planes that would take them out of the country.
19:53
Speaker 1: Because James and these other producers were not really producers,
19:57
Speaker 1: they didn't.
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Speaker 2: Have a prank show. It was all a charade.
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Speaker 1: In reality, they worked for the North Korean government, and James,
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Speaker 1: whose real name was Regu, had been tasked by the
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Speaker 1: North Korean government to recruit gullible women aka City and
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Speaker 1: do On, to participate in a top secret mission that
20:16
Speaker 1: could easily get them killed. In fact, this mission was
20:19
Speaker 1: so sensitive and so dangerous that James and his other
20:23
Speaker 1: TV producers had to live undercover for weeks with Doan
20:27
Speaker 1: and City kind of slowly convincing them that this was
20:30
Speaker 1: all legitimate and that what they were going to do
20:33
Speaker 1: was just.
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Speaker 2: A prank, not a top secret mission.
20:36
Speaker 1: City and Doan had both been recruited by James because
20:39
Speaker 1: they both were vulnerable and poor.
20:41
Speaker 2: City was also known to.
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Speaker 1: Be very naive and believed anything she was told, and
20:46
Speaker 1: Doan was very immature and childlike and overly trusting. All
20:50
Speaker 1: the prank videos that City and Doan had been independently
20:54
Speaker 1: filming with James and their crew in the weeks leading
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Speaker 1: up to this big final prank had not been episodes
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Speaker 1: of a prank show. They were actually doing pranks on
21:04
Speaker 1: actual unsuspecting people, but it was all rehearsals. James and
21:08
Speaker 1: his crew wanted to make sure that City and Doan
21:11
Speaker 1: one thought this really was a prank show, and two
21:14
Speaker 1: that they were able to actually do the prank, that
21:16
Speaker 1: they wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: Chicken out at the end.
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Speaker 1: And on the morning of February twelfth, twenty seventeen, the
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Speaker 1: day of the big prank, which in reality was the
21:24
Speaker 1: Big secret mission, the perfume that City was given was
21:28
Speaker 1: not really perfume, and the oil that was rubbed on
21:31
Speaker 1: Doan's hands was not really oil. They were the ingredients
21:34
Speaker 1: for a deadly nerve gas called VX. Now Separately, these
21:39
Speaker 1: ingredients would not have harmed either of these two women,
21:42
Speaker 1: but when you combine those ingredients, that's when it turns
21:45
Speaker 1: into a deadly poison. And so that was why City
21:48
Speaker 1: and Doan had been told to do this prank together,
21:51
Speaker 1: because James and his crew needed them to mix the
21:54
Speaker 1: VX gas on.
21:56
Speaker 2: Their target's face. And the target was not an actor, was.
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Speaker 1: Kim Jong Nam, and he had no idea what was
22:03
Speaker 1: going on when City and Doan touched his face and
22:06
Speaker 1: sprayed him with perfume. But he was dead within twenty minutes,
22:09
Speaker 1: and his death would have been exceptionally painful. It would
22:12
Speaker 1: turn out City and Doan had been tricked into participating
22:16
Speaker 1: in one of the biggest political assassinations in recent history
22:20
Speaker 1: because Kim Jong Nam, the target, was actually the exiled
22:24
Speaker 1: brother of the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong un,
22:27
Speaker 1: and it's widely believed that Kim Jong Un is the
22:30
Speaker 1: one who actually authorized this assassination. Both City and Doan
22:34
Speaker 1: were initially charged with murder in Malaysia, which comes with
22:38
Speaker 1: an automatic death sentence, but those charges were quickly dropped
22:41
Speaker 1: when it was discovered that these two women were clearly
22:44
Speaker 1: victims as well. Surveillance video at the airport shows City
22:47
Speaker 1: and doan handling the extremely deadly nerve agent ingredients so casually,
22:53
Speaker 1: and then after they pulled off their prank, which meant
22:55
Speaker 1: they now had VX gas on their hands, they casually
22:59
Speaker 1: were touching their head and touching their clothes.
23:01
Speaker 2: It's obvious they have no idea what they're doing.
23:04
Speaker 1: The sickness that City started to feel after the prank
23:07
Speaker 1: was not a hangover. Those were symptoms of VX gas poisoning.
23:11
Speaker 1: It just wasn't enough to kill her. Neither James nor
23:14
Speaker 1: any of the other TV producers has ever been arrested,
23:17
Speaker 1: and to this day, North Korea still says they had
23:20
Speaker 1: nothing to do with this assassination. One November night in
23:28
Speaker 1: twenty ten, a twenty four year old woman named Jennifer
23:31
Speaker 1: walked downstairs into the living room of her parents' house
23:34
Speaker 1: to say good night to her mother. But before she
23:36
Speaker 1: walked over to the couch where her mother was to
23:38
Speaker 1: give her a hug, Jennifer noticed something moving around outside
23:42
Speaker 1: on the dark street. Jennifer stopped where she was and
23:44
Speaker 1: just looked out the window, but she couldn't see anything unusual,
23:48
Speaker 1: so she walked over to the front door and looked
23:50
Speaker 1: out the little window on it, and still she couldn't
23:53
Speaker 1: see anything, So she shrugged and walked back over to
23:55
Speaker 1: her mother, and Jennifer just said, oh, I thought I
23:58
Speaker 1: saw something moving around out there, but it was nothing.
24:00
Speaker 1: I think it was just a parked car. Then the
24:02
Speaker 1: two women said good night, and Jennifer headed upstairs and
24:05
Speaker 1: went to sleep. But it would turn out there actually
24:09
Speaker 1: was something moving around outside the house that night that
24:11
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been there, and about thirty minutes after Jennifer
24:15
Speaker 1: had shrugged it off and gone upstairs, that thing had
24:18
Speaker 1: made its way across the street, up the stairs, and
24:21
Speaker 1: into their house, right up to Jennifer's room.
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