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- 0:00Speaker 1: Apologies in advance for my nasally voice. I've had some
- 0:02Speaker 1: pretty bad allergies over the last couple of days and
- 0:05Speaker 1: it just hasn't cleared up yet. Sometimes the truth is
- 0:08Speaker 1: stranger than fiction, and today we're gonna look at three
- 0:10Speaker 1: stories that demonstrate that. But before we get into today's stories,
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- 0:37Speaker 1: today's stories. People who live on Andover Street on Detroit,
- 0:53Speaker 1: Michigan's East Side will be the first to tell you
- 0:56Speaker 1: that the area is known for constant drug activity. On Thursday,
- 1:00Speaker 1: November ninth, twenty seventeen, two Detroit Special Operations police officers
- 1:05Speaker 1: began an operation known as a push off on Andover Street.
- 1:08Speaker 1: A push off is when undercover cops pretend to be
- 1:11Speaker 1: drug dealers, and then when customers come up to them
- 1:14Speaker 1: and try to buy drugs, they arrest them and seize
- 1:17Speaker 1: their vehicles. These particular officers that would be doing this
- 1:20Speaker 1: push off had been undercover for some time in the area,
- 1:23Speaker 1: and so they had a local drug house they used
- 1:26Speaker 1: for these types of operations. At some point that day,
- 1:29Speaker 1: two potential customers came up to the fake drug house.
- 1:32Speaker 1: They knocked on the door, and the undercover police officers
- 1:35Speaker 1: opened up. They invited them inside, and then once these
- 1:38Speaker 1: customers were inside, sitting down, they asked the undercover cops
- 1:41Speaker 1: if they could buy some drugs. And as soon as
- 1:43Speaker 1: the cops heard this, they whipped out their badges, they
- 1:46Speaker 1: drew their guns, and they ordered them on the ground.
- 1:49Speaker 1: But these potential customers they didn't get on the ground. Instead,
- 1:52Speaker 1: they whipped out their badges and drew their guns and
- 1:55Speaker 1: they said, no, you get on the ground. Because it
- 1:58Speaker 1: would turn out these customers were actually undercover police officers too,
- 2:03Speaker 1: but they were from a different precinct, and so neither
- 2:06Speaker 1: groups had any idea about the other. They had no
- 2:08Speaker 1: clue that they were both undercover at the same time.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Both sets of undercover cops were so surprised by what
- 2:15Speaker 1: was happening that instead of firing shots at each other,
- 2:19Speaker 1: they just stayed in this really tense standoff, like that
- 2:22Speaker 1: famous scene from The Office. Fore they're all pointing guns
- 2:24Speaker 1: at each other and they're trying to figure out who
- 2:26Speaker 1: the double agent is, and so the police are doing
- 2:28Speaker 1: that periodically, hurling insults and threats at the other side
- 2:32Speaker 1: in an attempt to get them to stand down. But
- 2:35Speaker 1: when neither side stood down, they all just eventually lowered
- 2:38Speaker 1: their guns and then proceeded to beat the living crap
- 2:41Speaker 1: out of each other. After the dust finally settled and
- 2:44Speaker 1: all the haymakers had stopped, the two groups of police
- 2:47Speaker 1: realized their mistake and apologized to each other. Luckily, none
- 2:52Speaker 1: of the officers were badly hurt from this mix up. However,
- 2:55Speaker 1: two officers did have to go to the hospital, but
- 2:57Speaker 1: for very minor injuries. One had a black eye and
- 3:00Speaker 1: the other had a split lip. While Detroit's own chief
- 3:02Speaker 1: of police and the media and the public at large
- 3:05Speaker 1: have all come out and said this snapoo was a
- 3:08Speaker 1: total embarrassment, others have said the officers involved might deserve
- 3:13Speaker 1: a little bit of credit because, after all, their job
- 3:16Speaker 1: was to be undercover, and apparently they were so good
- 3:20Speaker 1: at being undercover that they didn't even know the other
- 3:23Speaker 1: group was undercover too, and vice versa. So perhaps they
- 3:27Speaker 1: were just too good at their jobs. You'd be the judge.
- 3:34Speaker 1: The following story was pulled from a nineteen ninety seven
- 3:37Speaker 1: article in the British Medical Journal. The article was written
- 3:40Speaker 1: by the psychiatrist who treated the patient who will be
- 3:43Speaker 1: the focal point of the story. The only reason I
- 3:46Speaker 1: bring this up is because this story truly sounds made up,
- 3:49Speaker 1: and it's not. One night in the winter of nineteen
- 3:52Speaker 1: eighty four, a healthy, middle aged woman who will call
- 3:55Speaker 1: Brenda for this story, was at her home in London
- 3:58Speaker 1: reading a book when she suddenly heard a voice in
- 4:00Speaker 1: her head.
- 4:01Speaker 2: It said, please don't be afraid. I know this must
- 4:03Speaker 2: be shocking for you to hear me speaking to you
- 4:06Speaker 2: like this, but this was the easiest way I could
- 4:08Speaker 2: think of. My friend and I we used to work
- 4:10Speaker 2: at the children's hospital and we would like to help you.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Brenda couldn't believe what was happening. She had never heard
- 4:16Speaker 1: voices in her head before, and this voice that was
- 4:19Speaker 1: speaking to her, it was so clear, and it did
- 4:21Speaker 1: not sound like any voice she had heard before, and
- 4:24Speaker 1: so at first Brenda just sat on the couch and
- 4:26Speaker 1: didn't do anything and just waited, hoping that maybe she
- 4:29Speaker 1: was just imagining this. But the voice in her head
- 4:32Speaker 1: seemed to pick up on her reaction and said.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Brenda, this is not a hallucination, were real and we
- 4:38Speaker 2: want to help you.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Brenda did not believe it was real. She believed she
- 4:42Speaker 1: had just lost her mind, and so for the rest
- 4:44Speaker 1: of the night she just completely ignored the voice in
- 4:46Speaker 1: her head. And first thing the next morning, she went
- 4:49Speaker 1: to her doctor's office and said, please help me. The
- 4:51Speaker 1: doctor referred her to a psychiatrist, and so she went
- 4:54Speaker 1: over to the psychiatrist's office, and after they performed an
- 4:57Speaker 1: evaluation of Brenda, they said, look, I don't really know
- 5:01Speaker 1: why you're hearing these voices. There's no clear medical explanation
- 5:04Speaker 1: for why. And so Brenda was ultimately diagnosed with something
- 5:08Speaker 1: called functional hallucinatory psychosis, which basically means Brenda was hallucinating
- 5:13Speaker 1: but there was no clear reason why. The psychiatrist began
- 5:16Speaker 1: treating Brenda with an antipsychotic drug as well as with
- 5:20Speaker 1: supportive counseling. Over the next couple of weeks, as Brenda
- 5:23Speaker 1: diligently took her medications and went to her appointments, the
- 5:26Speaker 1: voices eventually stopped, and so Brenda went into her psychiatrist's
- 5:29Speaker 1: office and she said, Doc, you've saved me. The voices
- 5:32Speaker 1: are gone. I'm so happy, and the psychiatrist would later
- 5:36Speaker 1: recall that Brenda was visibly relieved. It was obvious that
- 5:39Speaker 1: she was not making this up, that she really believed
- 5:42Speaker 1: that she had these voices and now they were gone.
- 5:44Speaker 1: And so after Brenda left the office, she actually went
- 5:47Speaker 1: on vacation with her family outside of London, just to
- 5:50Speaker 1: celebrate the fact that she had not in fact lost
- 5:53Speaker 1: her mind. But while she was away on holiday, she
- 5:56Speaker 1: started hearing the voices again, and this time they told
- 5:59Speaker 1: her she had to get back to London as soon
- 6:02Speaker 1: as possible because there was something terribly wrong with her,
- 6:05Speaker 1: and they gave her a very specific street address that
- 6:08Speaker 1: she was supposed to go to to seek treatment. And
- 6:11Speaker 1: so Brenda is horrified that the voices are back in
- 6:13Speaker 1: the first place. But what she's really scared about is
- 6:16Speaker 1: that maybe there's some truth to what these voices are
- 6:19Speaker 1: telling me. Maybe there is something wrong with her, and
- 6:21Speaker 1: so Brenda ran to her husband and she explained what happened,
- 6:24Speaker 1: and he was very reassuring and said, look, honey, you
- 6:27Speaker 1: should just totally ignore the voices again, there's probably nothing
- 6:29Speaker 1: wrong with you. Just try to relax and have a
- 6:31Speaker 1: nice vacation. But Brenda could not relax, she could not
- 6:35Speaker 1: ignore the voices because they were constantly telling her.
- 6:38Speaker 2: You need to leave, you need to go back, there's
- 6:40Speaker 2: something wrong with you.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And so finally Brenda convinced her family to end the
- 6:43Speaker 1: vacation early and they headed back to London, and as
- 6:46Speaker 1: soon as they got there, Brenda made her husband come
- 6:49Speaker 1: with her and they drove to the street address the
- 6:52Speaker 1: voices had given her, and when they got to this
- 6:54Speaker 1: very specific location, they found themselves standing in front of
- 6:58Speaker 1: the brain scan unit of a London hospital. Brenda and
- 7:01Speaker 1: her husband were totally shocked, but before they could even
- 7:04Speaker 1: react to what they were looking at, the voices in
- 7:07Speaker 1: Brenda's head came back and they told.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Her you need to go inside and you need to
- 7:11Speaker 2: request a brain scan for two reasons. One there's a
- 7:14Speaker 2: tumor in your brain and two this tumor is causing
- 7:17Speaker 2: your brain stem to swell.
- 7:18Speaker 1: At this point, Brenda was so scared that this information
- 7:22Speaker 1: might actually be true that, despite what her husband was saying,
- 7:25Speaker 1: she went right inside the brain scan unit and she
- 7:28Speaker 1: requested this scan. And when they asked her, you know,
- 7:31Speaker 1: who's the doctor that referred you over here, she said,
- 7:33Speaker 1: I don't have one, and then she ultimately told them that, well,
- 7:36Speaker 1: there are voices in my head that told me to
- 7:38Speaker 1: come over here and get this scan. Now, the doctors
- 7:41Speaker 1: at the brain scan facility, we're not totally like, get
- 7:44Speaker 1: out of here, but instead they said, look, this is
- 7:46Speaker 1: a very expensive scan. We can't just let you in
- 7:49Speaker 1: here and get a scan because the voice has told
- 7:51Speaker 1: you to. We need a clinical reason to do it.
- 7:53Speaker 1: We need a doctor's note saying you need this scan.
- 7:57Speaker 1: And so they turned Brenda away, and Brenda now is
- 7:59Speaker 1: just a complete wreck. She ends up calling her psychiatrist
- 8:02Speaker 1: and she explains the situation about getting this address and
- 8:05Speaker 1: being told to get this brain scan, and after a
- 8:08Speaker 1: few minutes of hearing her story, her psychiatrist says, okay,
- 8:11Speaker 1: you know what, I will call over and I will
- 8:13Speaker 1: get you an appointment to get a brain scan because
- 8:15Speaker 1: I want you to be at ease. And it seems
- 8:17Speaker 1: like this is probably the only way we're going to
- 8:20Speaker 1: be able to do that. And so after this conversation,
- 8:22Speaker 1: these psychiatrists got in touch with this hospital and he
- 8:25Speaker 1: requested the brain scan for Brenda. And about a month
- 8:28Speaker 1: later Brenda went in. She had this scan done, and
- 8:31Speaker 1: sure enough, she had a brain tumor and her brain
- 8:33Speaker 1: stem was swollen. The doctors couldn't believe it because Brenda
- 8:36Speaker 1: was showing absolutely no signs of having this condition, and
- 8:40Speaker 1: so they told her that, well, you know, you can
- 8:42Speaker 1: just wait and see what happens. This might not have
- 8:45Speaker 1: any effect on you, and so you can just wait
- 8:47Speaker 1: to see if you get symptoms eventually, or we can
- 8:50Speaker 1: go in and do the surgery and remove this tumor.
- 8:53Speaker 1: But of course doing brain surgery comes with some very
- 8:56Speaker 1: significant risks. After thinking it over with her family, Brenda
- 8:59Speaker 1: is to go with immediate surgery, and after telling her
- 9:03Speaker 1: doctors as much, the voices in her head told her
- 9:06Speaker 1: that she had made the right decision. A couple of
- 9:08Speaker 1: days later, Brenda went in and her surgery was a
- 9:10Speaker 1: huge success. After she regained consciousness in the recovery room,
- 9:14Speaker 1: the voices spoke to her. They said, we are pleased
- 9:17Speaker 1: to have helped you goodbye. After that, Brenda never heard
- 9:20Speaker 1: the voices ever again, and she never had any complications
- 9:24Speaker 1: from the surgery or from the tumor, And to this day,
- 9:26Speaker 1: the medical community still has no idea who those voices
- 9:30Speaker 1: in her head really were. Michael Packard might be the
- 9:38Speaker 1: luckiest or unluckiest person alive. In two thousand and one,
- 9:42Speaker 1: when Michael was thirty eight years old, he was on
- 9:44Speaker 1: a flight over Costa Rica when the small plane he
- 9:47Speaker 1: was on crashed. The pilot, copilot, and a passenger were
- 9:51Speaker 1: all killed on impact, but Michael and the four other
- 9:54Speaker 1: passengers they survived the crash, but they were all left
- 9:57Speaker 1: badly injured and stranded in a very remote section of
- 10:00Speaker 1: the jungle. The survivors attempted to use the downed planes
- 10:03Speaker 1: radio equipment to send out a distress signal to try
- 10:06Speaker 1: to get someone to come out and help them, but
- 10:09Speaker 1: they had no way of knowing if anybody was receiving
- 10:11Speaker 1: their signal, and so all they could do was just
- 10:13Speaker 1: send it out and then wait and hope somebody found
- 10:16Speaker 1: them before they all died. And sure enough, forty eight
- 10:18Speaker 1: hours after crashing, rescuers were able to hack their way
- 10:22Speaker 1: deep into the jungle where Michael and the other survivors were,
- 10:25Speaker 1: and they were all saved. While Michael was recovering in
- 10:27Speaker 1: the hospital, a doctor told him that, based on his injuries,
- 10:31Speaker 1: he would not have survived another night out in that jungle.
- 10:34Speaker 1: The chances of even being in a plane crash are
- 10:37Speaker 1: astronomically low. The odds are about one in five million,
- 10:41Speaker 1: with some places giving odds as low as one in
- 10:43Speaker 1: twenty million. To put that in perspective, Michael was far
- 10:46Speaker 1: more likely to have been struck by lightning, which is
- 10:49Speaker 1: about a one in one million chance, than he was
- 10:52Speaker 1: to have been in that plane crash. But that plane
- 10:54Speaker 1: crash would not be the last time that Michael defied
- 10:57Speaker 1: the odds and did something totally unbelievable. Over the next
- 11:00Speaker 1: couple of decades, Michael, who was a commercial diver by trade,
- 11:04Speaker 1: would survive not one, but two significant encounters with great
- 11:08Speaker 1: white sharks off the coast of California. Some of Michael's
- 11:11Speaker 1: friends would not be so lucky. Michael would get lost
- 11:14Speaker 1: at sea, like really lost, like treading out in the
- 11:17Speaker 1: middle of the ocean with no land in sight for
- 11:20Speaker 1: hours lost, but miraculously a boat would find him and
- 11:23Speaker 1: save him. Again, and Michael would discover the body of
- 11:26Speaker 1: a longtime missing person hidden underneath the water about sixty
- 11:30Speaker 1: feet down off the coast of Massachusetts. But of all
- 11:33Speaker 1: the improbable exploits of Michael's life, none is more unbelievable
- 11:38Speaker 1: than what happened to him in twenty twenty one, which
- 11:41Speaker 1: experts are saying he had about a one and one
- 11:44Speaker 1: trillion chance of experiencing. On the morning of June eleventh,
- 11:47Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Michael, who was fifty seven years old
- 11:51Speaker 1: at the time, hopped in a boat with his longtime
- 11:53Speaker 1: diving partner Josiah. Once they were all situated and they
- 11:56Speaker 1: had all their equipment inside of the boat, they took
- 11:58Speaker 1: off and headed for the open water right off the
- 12:00Speaker 1: coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where they planned to do
- 12:03Speaker 1: some lobster diving. A popular way to retrieve lobsters is
- 12:07Speaker 1: to literally just dive down and buy hand pick them
- 12:10Speaker 1: up and bring them back to the surface, and so
- 12:12Speaker 1: that day that's what Michael and Josiah planned to do.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Once they reached the spot right off the coast, Michael
- 12:17Speaker 1: put on all of his scuba diving equipment and hopped
- 12:19Speaker 1: in the water. Josiah did not put on any diving
- 12:22Speaker 1: equipment because he was not going to be getting in
- 12:24Speaker 1: the water for this dive. Instead, he would remain on
- 12:26Speaker 1: the boat and help Michael get in and out of
- 12:28Speaker 1: the water. He'd pull lobsters up onto the boat, and
- 12:30Speaker 1: he was also there in case of an emergency he
- 12:32Speaker 1: could call for help. And so just after six am,
- 12:35Speaker 1: once Michael was in the water and signaled he was
- 12:37Speaker 1: good to go, he dove down below and after a
- 12:39Speaker 1: little while he came back up, but with a relatively
- 12:42Speaker 1: small haul of lobsters, and so the two men figured that, well,
- 12:45Speaker 1: I guess today is just not a great day for
- 12:47Speaker 1: catching lobsters. But regardless, for the next couple of hours,
- 12:50Speaker 1: Michael continued to go down and catch as many lobsters
- 12:53Speaker 1: as he possibly could. By eight am, Michael had captured
- 12:56Speaker 1: approximately one hundred pounds of lobsters that were now in
- 12:59Speaker 1: the boat. So Michael and Josiah were actually starting to
- 13:01Speaker 1: feel pretty good about this particular trip, and so Michael
- 13:04Speaker 1: decided he would go back down one more time and
- 13:06Speaker 1: try to get just a few more lobsters before they
- 13:08Speaker 1: called it a day. And so Josiah remembers watching Michael,
- 13:11Speaker 1: who was in the water. As he put his mouthpiece
- 13:13Speaker 1: back in, he signaled up to Josiah that he was
- 13:15Speaker 1: good to go, and Josiah watched as he disappeared below
- 13:18Speaker 1: the surface. The water was very calm, and Josiah's just
- 13:21Speaker 1: kind of scanning out across the water, and then all
- 13:24Speaker 1: of a sudden, this eruption of white water came rushing
- 13:26Speaker 1: up to the surface right where Michael had gone down below,
- 13:30Speaker 1: and so right away Josiah leaned out over the edge
- 13:33Speaker 1: of the boat to see if he could look down
- 13:34Speaker 1: and see his friend, but he didn't see Michael anywhere. Instead,
- 13:38Speaker 1: he saw something massive moving around underneath them. After Michael
- 13:42Speaker 1: had broken the surface on this final dive down to
- 13:45Speaker 1: get more lobsters, his plan was to sink down to
- 13:48Speaker 1: the bottom of the ocean at about sixty feet and
- 13:51Speaker 1: then go hunting for lobsters. But when he had descended
- 13:54Speaker 1: to about forty five feet, he felt something smash into
- 13:57Speaker 1: him from behind that felt like a truck hitting him,
- 14:00Speaker 1: and then everything around him went totally pitch black. The
- 14:03Speaker 1: impact of whatever it was that hit him had caused
- 14:05Speaker 1: his mouthpiece to get blown out of his mouth, so
- 14:08Speaker 1: he doesn't have air and he starts fumbling around to
- 14:10Speaker 1: find his mouthpiece, but he can't find it, and as
- 14:13Speaker 1: he's fumbling around, his hands are making contact with what
- 14:16Speaker 1: feels like walls all around him. He was inside of
- 14:19Speaker 1: an enclosed space, but when he had touched these walls,
- 14:23Speaker 1: they were not normal walls. They were soft, but they
- 14:25Speaker 1: were hard at the same time, and they seemed to
- 14:28Speaker 1: be moving, like they were pulsating or quivering. The space
- 14:30Speaker 1: he was in was fairly large, and it was not
- 14:33Speaker 1: completely flooded with water. It was like Michael had slipped
- 14:36Speaker 1: into this air pocket. But this air pocket was not stationary.
- 14:39Speaker 1: It was moving and pretty fast because the water that
- 14:43Speaker 1: was inside of it was violently sloshing all around. Michael
- 14:46Speaker 1: could hear it slapping up against the walls. As Michael
- 14:49Speaker 1: continued to panic and fumble around for his mouthpiece, he
- 14:53Speaker 1: started to notice intense pressure on his legs, but he
- 14:56Speaker 1: had no idea what was causing it, and because it's
- 14:58Speaker 1: pitch black, he couldn't see what it was. Finally, Michael
- 15:01Speaker 1: found the line that was connected to his mouthpiece. He
- 15:04Speaker 1: jammed it in his mouth and he took a long inhale,
- 15:06Speaker 1: and now that he could breathe again, he had this
- 15:08Speaker 1: horrifying thought, Have I been swallowed by a shark? He
- 15:11Speaker 1: instinctively began feeling around for the shark's teeth, but there
- 15:16Speaker 1: were no teeth inside of the space. Instead, it was
- 15:19Speaker 1: just these walls that continued to shift and move all
- 15:21Speaker 1: around him. And that's when it dawned on him. He
- 15:24Speaker 1: had been swallowed, but not by a shark. He had
- 15:27Speaker 1: been swallowed by a whale. For nearly forty five seconds,
- 15:30Speaker 1: Michael was trapped inside the closed mouth of a humpback whale.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Despite their enormous size that can be up to sixty
- 15:38Speaker 1: feet long and weigh up to seventy thousand pounds, they
- 15:41Speaker 1: only eat small fish, so when this particular whale realized
- 15:45Speaker 1: Michael was not a tiny fish, it began violently swinging
- 15:49Speaker 1: its head side to side to try to dislodge Michael,
- 15:52Speaker 1: and that caused that eruption of white water to go
- 15:54Speaker 1: to the surface that Josiah saw, and after a few
- 15:57Speaker 1: good shakes, Michael was spat out of this whale's mouth.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Michael remembers suddenly being in the open water with enough
- 16:04Speaker 1: light coming down that they could see around him. The
- 16:06Speaker 1: water was very turbulent and churning, and he recalled as
- 16:09Speaker 1: he made his way to the surface, looking straight down
- 16:11Speaker 1: and seeing the tail fin of this enormous whale swimming
- 16:14Speaker 1: away from him. Michael made his way to the surface
- 16:16Speaker 1: and he flagged down Josiah, who boted over to him.
- 16:19Speaker 1: He pulled him back into the boat, and Michael, who
- 16:21Speaker 1: was totally traumatized by what happened, could only say to
- 16:24Speaker 1: Josiah that he was inside of it and that it
- 16:28Speaker 1: tried to eat him. After Josiah brought Michael back to
- 16:30Speaker 1: shore and called the authorities, Michael was rushed to a
- 16:33Speaker 1: hospital where he was evaluated, and unbelievably, he suffered really
- 16:37Speaker 1: no injuries. He had some significant bruising to his legs
- 16:40Speaker 1: where the whale had actually clamped down on him. That
- 16:42Speaker 1: was the pressure he felt in his legs the mouth
- 16:45Speaker 1: of the whale was closing on his legs, But besides that,
- 16:48Speaker 1: there really wasn't any other injuries, and so later that
- 16:50Speaker 1: day he was discharged. It's believed the whale was a
- 16:53Speaker 1: juvenile that had been seen in the area that was
- 16:56Speaker 1: about thirty to thirty five feet long, and it had
- 16:58Speaker 1: just accidentally scooped to Michael up. The whale was certainly
- 17:02Speaker 1: not trying to hurt Michael. Whales, especially humpback whales, are
- 17:05Speaker 1: not in the business of hurting people. But in this
- 17:08Speaker 1: exchange with Michael, Michael could have very easily died. He
- 17:11Speaker 1: could have drowned or suffocated inside the mouth of this whale,
- 17:14Speaker 1: or he could have just died from blunt force trauma.
- 17:17Speaker 1: But luckily he didn't. Despite how terrifying this incident sounds,
- 17:21Speaker 1: Michael was incredibly casual in all of his interviews about this.
- 17:25Speaker 1: He just kind of acted like, man, these things kind
- 17:27Speaker 1: of happen. You know, whales come out of nowhere, they're
- 17:29Speaker 1: just scoop up. You know that happens. And he would
- 17:31Speaker 1: tell the incredulous reporters who just could not believe this
- 17:34Speaker 1: guy was real that as soon as he was better,
- 17:37Speaker 1: he was getting back in the water and going lobster diving.
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- 18:18Speaker 1: get in touch with me, you can direct message me
- 18:19Speaker 1: on Instagram or on Twitter. My username for both platforms
- 18:22Speaker 1: is the same. It's John Ballin four one six. I
- 18:25Speaker 1: also have a ton of content over on TikTok, where
- 18:28Speaker 1: my username is mister Ballin. I also have a second
- 18:31Speaker 1: YouTube channel called mister Ballin Shorts, where I post random
- 18:34Speaker 1: short videos and lost episodes. If you have a story suggestion,
- 18:37Speaker 1: please submit it to our subreddit just called mister Ballin.
- 18:40Speaker 1: It's linked in the description below. So whether I see
- 18:42Speaker 1: you on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, or some combination,
- 18:46Speaker 1: just know that I really appreciate your support and until
- 18:49Speaker 1: next time that's going to do it.
- 18:50Speaker 2: See you