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This birthday surprise went horribly wrong · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: On the night of August twenty fifth, twenty eleven, a
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Speaker 1: twenty three year old woman named Reesa de Mura, along
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Speaker 1: with her husband Hiroki de Murrah, were sitting on their
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Speaker 1: couch and their apartment in Canizawa City, Japan, watching TV.
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Speaker 1: And as they sat there, they both found themselves laughing
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Speaker 1: hysterically at the screen they were watching their favorite show.
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Speaker 1: It was this hidden camera comedy prank show, and this
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Speaker 1: was like the highlight of their day, sitting here together
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Speaker 1: on the couch and just laughing.
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Speaker 2: Their heads off.
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Speaker 1: Reesa and Heroki had been married for just four months,
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Speaker 1: and so they were still very much living in that
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Speaker 1: newlywed bliss period where they basically spent every second they
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Speaker 1: could together. When Heroki wasn't working, the two of them
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Speaker 1: would go out to eat, they would go to the
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Speaker 1: movies together, or take trips to the beach since Canizawa
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Speaker 1: City was right on the coast, and whenever they were out,
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Speaker 1: they were always talking about how lucky they felt that
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Speaker 1: they had found each other and that they were married,
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Speaker 1: and that the rest of their lives were going to
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Speaker 1: look like this, like how lucky were they. Reesa and
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Speaker 1: Heroki had actually met when they were young kids in
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Speaker 1: middle school, but Hiroki was very shy and really didn't
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Speaker 1: speak to Reesa at all at the time. But then
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Speaker 1: later as adults after college, they ran into each other
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Speaker 1: and Hiroki he told Reesa the truth that he actually
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Speaker 1: had always loved her and he still did, and Reesa
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Speaker 1: really had been shocked by this because she had always
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Speaker 1: felt a type of way about him, but it really
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Speaker 1: didn't seem like he was interested in her, So this
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Speaker 1: was like this amazing revelation. But more than that, it
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Speaker 1: was also just incredibly romantic to her, like a classic
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Speaker 1: Hollywood love story. And so when he had confessed his
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Speaker 1: love to her, she had pretty much immediately said, oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, let's go on a date. This is awesome,
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Speaker 1: let's do it. And from there it had just been
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Speaker 1: a whirlwind. You know, they had just fallen completely in love,
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Speaker 1: and then within the year they had gotten married. Now,
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Speaker 1: the reason they had ultimately settled in Canizawa City was
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Speaker 1: mostly just because of Haroki's job. He worked at a
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Speaker 1: company that was in the city. Was also kind of
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Speaker 1: a rising star there. Every time Reesa met one of
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Speaker 1: his coworkers, they would talk about how, you know, he
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Speaker 1: was such a hard worker and what a natural born
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Speaker 1: leader he was, and so Reesa was very proud of him.
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Speaker 1: But more than that, she felt inspired by Heroki, and
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Speaker 1: so she found herself wanting to find a really fulfilling
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Speaker 1: job herself, and so she was on the hunt for
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Speaker 1: her career. But for right now, Reesa was very much
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Speaker 1: still in the sort of identifying what she wanted to
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Speaker 1: do face and it was because she was just kind
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Speaker 1: of always going from one interest to another because she
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Speaker 1: just had this huge insatiable curiosity and loved trying new things,
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Speaker 1: which made it hard to choose just one thing to
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Speaker 1: do with her life.
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Speaker 2: But Heroki was incredibly supportive of this.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he treated Resa like she was royalty, and
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Speaker 1: he always said that whatever she wanted to do was
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Speaker 1: completely fined by him as long as she was happy.
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Speaker 1: But for right now, as Reesa sat on the couch
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Speaker 1: next to HAROKEI watching this funny show, she found her
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Speaker 1: mind wandering away from the show and away from her
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Speaker 1: ongoing job search to Haroki's birthday. It was coming up,
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Speaker 1: and she just felt like there was a lot of
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Speaker 1: pressure on her to do something really special for him,
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Speaker 1: mostly because Heroki always did something really thoughtful and really
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Speaker 1: incredible for her, like he really celebrated her really well,
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Speaker 1: and she didn't want to kind of underwhelm him.
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Speaker 2: And this was also going to be the first time one.
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Speaker 1: Of them was having a birthday now that they were
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Speaker 1: officially married, so Reesa really wanted to go all out
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Speaker 1: and plan something really great that Haroki would never forget.
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Speaker 1: But as Resa sat on the couch next to her
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Speaker 1: husband trying to come up with the perfect birthday celebration idea,
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Speaker 1: she just kept drawing a blank.
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Speaker 2: It's like the only.
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Speaker 1: Thing she could think of that really she and her
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Speaker 1: husband shared was they both were very romantic people, and
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Speaker 1: so this would have to be romantic in some way.
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Speaker 2: But how she didn't know.
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Speaker 1: And in many ways, she and her husband were very
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Speaker 1: different in how they showed affection or how they showed romance.
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Speaker 1: Haroki was still a very quiet and reserved person, so
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Speaker 1: his displays of affection to his.
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Speaker 2: Wife were reserved in private.
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Speaker 1: But Reesa, on the other hand, was massively extroverted, full
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Speaker 1: of energy, and so her displays of affection were sort
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Speaker 1: of over the top and big and boisterous.
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Speaker 2: And so Reesa is just really.
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Speaker 1: Struggling trying to think, like how can I do this?
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Speaker 1: And it was like, all of a sudden, she has
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Speaker 1: this epiphany and she sees in her mind's eye the
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Speaker 1: perfect way to celebrate his birthday. She didn't even know
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Speaker 1: what inspired it, but it just it came to her.
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Speaker 1: She would take her husband out on a very romantic
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Speaker 1: beach walk, but then at the end of the beach walk,
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Speaker 1: there would be this surprise over the top fireworks display.
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Speaker 1: It was exactly what she needed. It was romantic and crazy,
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Speaker 1: just like her. Two days later, on Saturday afternoon, Reesa
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Speaker 1: along with six of her friends, were at Osaki Beach,
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Speaker 1: which is the beach where the big birthday was going
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Speaker 1: to take place. And the birthday was going to be
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Speaker 1: that night. But now that Reesa had planned out the
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Speaker 1: big party, she had done that the day before while
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Speaker 1: Haroki was at work. Now on the day of she
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Speaker 1: actually had some setup, some physical setup to do because
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Speaker 1: this was not just going to be a walk on
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Speaker 1: the beach. There was also going to be fireworks, and
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Speaker 1: so she needed her friends for that. And so what
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Speaker 1: they were doing on this day is they were walking
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Speaker 1: along the beach looking for the perfect spot that would
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Speaker 1: afford Reesa and her husband some privacy on the beach,
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Speaker 1: you know. So it was very romantic but also had
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Speaker 1: like a vantage point for the friends where they could
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Speaker 1: basically hide then watch the couple and look for the
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Speaker 1: signal to then light off the fireworks when it was
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Speaker 1: the right time. And so Reesa and her friends they're
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Speaker 1: they're walking along the beach and then they see it.
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Speaker 1: There's this kind of private, sort of secluded section of
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Speaker 1: the beach that had this row of shrubbery kind of
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Speaker 1: lining the backside of it. That would be a perfect
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Speaker 1: spot for the friends to hide. And then also down
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Speaker 1: on the beach, it would be nice and private and peaceful,
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Speaker 1: and they thought that was the best spot to have
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Speaker 1: this big party.
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Speaker 2: And so over there they go.
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Speaker 1: Oh, the friends go up into the bushes and they
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Speaker 1: get their fireworks ready, and then Resa she went down
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Speaker 1: to the sand section of the beach and she kind
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Speaker 1: of prepped the area where she and Haroki would be
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Speaker 1: and then ultimately she laid out this blue sheet and
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Speaker 1: then once that was in place, she walked back up
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Speaker 1: to her friends and.
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Speaker 2: They said, okay, we're ready to go.
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Speaker 1: And so Reesa told her friends her plan was to
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Speaker 1: be there that night at ten pm with her husband,
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Speaker 1: and that the friends should actually get there a little
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Speaker 1: bit earlier to be all set up. And they agreed
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Speaker 1: and then they all left. As Resa left the beach,
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Speaker 1: she found herself feeling incredibly antsy. I mean, she was
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Speaker 1: so excited about this big surprise party that night, and
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Speaker 1: she just wanted it to be ten pm so she
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Speaker 1: could finally reveal what she had in store for Heroki.
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Speaker 1: But she also knew she couldn't give away that she
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Speaker 1: had this big surprise, and so when she got home
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Speaker 1: where Haroki was, she acted like everything was totally normal,
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Speaker 1: and so when she walked inside, she quickly sent Harokei
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Speaker 1: to the couch to go relax while she.
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Speaker 2: Made them both a very nice dinner. And then when
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Speaker 2: she was done, the two.
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Speaker 1: Of them sat down at the table and Reesa kind
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Speaker 1: of pretended like she had nothing planned, and she was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: what should we do this weekend to celebrate your birthday?
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Speaker 1: And they talked about, you know, going and seeing friends
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Speaker 1: and you know, going out whatever they were going to do,
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Speaker 1: but it was all a big ruse, you know, Reesa
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Speaker 1: had her big plan for the night. And then at
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Speaker 1: some point when it was getting kind of late and
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Speaker 1: it seemed like Haroki was maybe thinking about going to bed,
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Speaker 1: Reesa said, well, wait a minute, you know, it's your
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Speaker 1: birthday weekend.
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Speaker 2: Let's not go to bed right now. Let's go on
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Speaker 2: a beach walk. What a great idea that would be.
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Speaker 1: And HAROKEI was kind of surprised, but he's like, actually, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that sounds great.
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Speaker 2: Let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as he said that, Reesa could barely
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Speaker 1: contain her excitement because she knew she had this awesome
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Speaker 1: thing planned for him down at the beach and it
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Speaker 1: was about to happen, like this was going to be awesome,
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Speaker 1: And so she and her husband quickly cleaned up, and
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Speaker 1: then just before ten pm they left their apartment and
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Speaker 1: got in the car and headed to the beach. About
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Speaker 1: ten minutes later, they parked at the end of this
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Speaker 1: dead end road right in near the beach, and when
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Speaker 1: they got out, there was basically bushes on all sides
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Speaker 1: of the road, but there was this little path that
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Speaker 1: cut through the bushes that led down to the sand.
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Speaker 1: But as Resa led Heroki down this path, she quickly
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Speaker 1: realized she had a big problem. There was virtually no moonlight.
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Speaker 1: It's like basically pitch black on the beach. And remember
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Speaker 1: she'd put out that blue blanket to signify where she
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Speaker 1: and Heroki would be, you know, in position, so that
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Speaker 1: her friends who were nearby in the bushes could light
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Speaker 1: off the fireworks. You know, it was all contingent on
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Speaker 1: getting to that blue blanket. And it's so dark that
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Speaker 1: not only was Reesa unable to see this blue blanket,
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Speaker 1: certainly not from a distance, but I mean she could
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Speaker 1: barely see the sand. I mean it's so dark, it's
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Speaker 1: like eerie out on the beach. And this is in
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, when you couldn't just pull out your cellphone
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Speaker 1: and turn on your flashlight. There there was no flashlight feature,
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Speaker 1: and so the best they could do was basically pull
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Speaker 1: out their phone, tap on the screen and use a
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Speaker 1: little bit of light coming from that to guide their way.
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Speaker 1: But after walking on the beach just a short ways,
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Speaker 1: Heroki actually stopped Resa and said, hey, like, I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's safe to be walking on the beach. We
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Speaker 1: really can't see where we're going, Like, let's go back
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Speaker 1: and get a flashlight. But Reesa knows her friends are
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Speaker 1: already in position in those shrubs down the beach, ready
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Speaker 1: to light off those fireworks, and they likely can't see
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Speaker 1: very well, and so she's like worried that if she
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Speaker 1: doesn't get there soon, that somehow her friends are gonna
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Speaker 1: panic and light off the fireworks prematurely. Like she doesn't
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Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen here, but she's starting to get
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Speaker 1: worried that everything's falling apart and she can't afford to
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Speaker 1: be late, and so she tells her husband. No, let's
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Speaker 1: not go back and get flashlights. Let's just walk on
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Speaker 1: the dark sand. It's no big deal. And so the
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Speaker 1: two of them are walking along the beach, using their
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Speaker 1: cell phone screens to guide them. But pretty quickly Heroki
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Speaker 1: started to notice that Reesa seemed really anxious and was
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Speaker 1: walking really too fast. I mean, this is meant to
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Speaker 1: be a peaceful walk on the beach, and Reesa is
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Speaker 1: like a woman on a mission here trying to go somewhere,
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Speaker 1: but he doesn't understand where she's trying to go. She
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Speaker 1: just walking really quickly ahead of him, and finally he
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Speaker 1: said to her, like, hey, what's going on, Like why
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Speaker 1: are you trying to walk so quickly? Like what are
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Speaker 1: we doing out here? And so finally she just stops
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Speaker 1: and she looks at her husband, and she's about to
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Speaker 1: tell him what's actually going on, because she feels like,
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Speaker 1: you know, the surprise at this point is ruined, and
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Speaker 1: she basically needs his help if they're going to find
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Speaker 1: this blanket and figure out where.
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Speaker 2: They need to be.
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Speaker 1: But right as Reesa is about to tell her husband
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Speaker 1: what's going on, suddenly it was like the whole world
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Speaker 1: went completely black, no more ambient light from cell phones,
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Speaker 1: no more minimal moonlight, nothing, absolute blackness and silence. At
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Speaker 1: the same time, Reesa's friends were actually not that far
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Speaker 1: away up in the bushes, but much like Resa and Heroki,
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Speaker 1: they had also been dealing with the issue that they
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Speaker 1: basically couldn't see anything it was so dark, and so
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Speaker 1: they got in position, but they basically couldn't even see
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Speaker 1: the sand. I mean, they had no idea if Reesa
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Speaker 1: and HAROKEI were in position or not. But they could
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Speaker 1: hear Resa and Heroki talking. They could hear them sort
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Speaker 1: of out there somewhere on the sand, and the friends
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Speaker 1: were kind of whispering back and forth, like, how are
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Speaker 1: we gonna know when they're actually in position to light
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Speaker 1: off the fireworks? How are we going to get the signal?
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Speaker 1: We can't see them, And so the friends are sort
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Speaker 1: of like unsure what to do, and they're they're straining
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Speaker 1: their eyes out onto the sand, trying to see Reesa,
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Speaker 1: trying to see Harokei. But again they can't see them.
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Speaker 1: They can't see the blue blanket even though it's not
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Speaker 1: that far away, and so they're just like looking and
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Speaker 1: listening and they can kind of tell that Resa and
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Speaker 1: HAROKEI are probably the voices they're hearing, and they appear
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Speaker 1: to be moving in this direction, but then suddenly they
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Speaker 1: start hearing these screams coming from the same direction. They
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Speaker 1: were hearing voices that they believed were their friends, and
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Speaker 1: at first they thought the screams might actually be the signal,
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Speaker 1: like light off the fireworks, but the screams, they sounded
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Speaker 1: like somebody was in trouble. And critically, as soon as
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Speaker 1: the screaming started, it abruptly stopped.
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Speaker 2: It was like high.
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Speaker 1: Pitched, just awful screams, and then silence, absolute total silence
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Speaker 1: on the beach. And again they can't see anything, so
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Speaker 1: they don't know what's going on. They don't even know
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Speaker 1: if that's actually Resa and Hiroki, but they think something's
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Speaker 1: wrong here, so they abandon the fireworks, they leave their
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Speaker 1: hiding spot, and they charge out onto the beach and
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Speaker 1: they're looking all around.
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Speaker 2: But they really can't see anything.
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Speaker 1: They can't even find the blue blanket, and they knew
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Speaker 1: roughly where it was, they couldn't even find that, and
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Speaker 1: so they're running around the beach. They're calling out to
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Speaker 1: Hiroki and to rese up, but they're not hearing anything
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Speaker 1: back then for thirty minutes, they're just running around looking
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Speaker 1: for their friends, just knowing like something bad has happened here.
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Speaker 1: And then at some point one of the friends doubles
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Speaker 1: back and they go roughly to the area where Resa
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Speaker 1: and Hiroki were supposed to be near that blue blanket,
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Speaker 1: and they make a discovery. It would turn out, when
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Speaker 1: Reesa and Heroki were out on that beach walking around
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Speaker 1: in the darkness, Resa actually did find that blue sheet
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Speaker 1: that she'd set up in preparation for this big birthday surprise,
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Speaker 1: except it was so dark that even though they were
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Speaker 1: literally at this point standing on the blanket, she and
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Speaker 1: Haroki couldn't tell it was that dark. Now, that doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem like that would be catastrophic until you consider what
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Speaker 1: was underneath that blanket.
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Speaker 2: So two days.
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Speaker 1: Earlier, when Reesa had that epiphany of how she could
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Speaker 1: have the best birthday ever for Herokei, she had had
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Speaker 1: that epiphany in part because of the show they were
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Speaker 1: watching on TV, the hidden camera comedy show that she
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Speaker 1: and Heroki both loved.
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Speaker 2: The show was called Arashi's.
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Speaker 1: Big Secret, and its comedy really came from the over
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Speaker 1: the top pranks that the show's hosts would pull on
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Speaker 1: Japanese celebrities, and one of those pranks was to dig
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Speaker 1: a large hole on the beach that somebody would accidentally
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Speaker 1: fall into. And so Reesa thought, what a great idea.
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Speaker 1: What if I dig a hole on the beach, cover
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Speaker 1: it up, and then after our romantic walk on the
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Speaker 1: beach for his birthday, I'll have Heroki fall into the
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Speaker 1: hole and then my friends will fire off those fireworks
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Speaker 1: and it'll be sort of like he's on the game
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Speaker 1: show that we love so much. It'll basically be like
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Speaker 1: a combination of a romantic fun time on the beach
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Speaker 1: and a prank and a big birthday celebration afterwards. It
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Speaker 1: was perfect. However, Reesa made a terrible miscalculation.
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Speaker 2: So on the game show, when.
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Speaker 1: They would dig these holes in the beach, they would
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Speaker 1: cover them with basically dried foam like think styrofoam. That
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Speaker 1: the instant one of their contestants or their celebrities stepped
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Speaker 1: directly on the phone, the foam would break and they
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Speaker 1: would fall feet first into the hole. What Reesa did is,
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Speaker 1: after she dug this deep hole along with her friends,
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Speaker 1: you know, getting ready for this big party, she covered
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Speaker 1: the hole first with a thick piece of plastic, like
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Speaker 1: almost like plywood, but plastic, like rigid plastic, And so
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Speaker 1: she covered the hole with that that was like the platform,
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Speaker 1: and then she covered that with the blue sheet, so
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Speaker 1: that to the naked eye it looked like the ground
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Speaker 1: was level underneath the blue sheet. In Reesa's mind, this
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Speaker 1: rigid plastic would break the instant her husband stepped on it,
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Speaker 1: like it wasn't that strong. It was maybe strong enough
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Speaker 1: to hold him for a second, but it would definitely
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Speaker 1: snap in the middle and he would fall in, just
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Speaker 1: like on the game show, but in reality, when she
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Speaker 1: and her husband inadvertently walked onto that blue sheet without
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Speaker 1: realizing it, because it was so dark, that piece of
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Speaker 1: plastic didn't break. It was too rigid. The plastic instead
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Speaker 1: of breaking, just kind of tilted suddenly to one side,
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Speaker 1: causing Reesa and her husband to the suddenly tumbled basically forward,
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Speaker 1: both of them head first into this hole and caused
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Speaker 1: this massive avalanche of sand to come into the hole
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Speaker 1: and completely cover the two of them up. And so
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Speaker 1: Riesa and Hiroki they screamed for a second as they
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Speaker 1: began to fall into the ground, and then suddenly they're
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Speaker 1: upside down and completely covered all the way to the
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Speaker 1: top by heavy wet sand. That's why it went silent
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Speaker 1: after the screams, because they were completely buried alive. Reese's
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Speaker 1: friends ultimately, after walking around the beach after hearing those screams,
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Speaker 1: they would find the blue blanket and it was partially
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Speaker 1: submerged in the sand, and so they really didn't know
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Speaker 1: what had happened. But because of the screams and what
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Speaker 1: they were seeing, they just called the authorities and they
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Speaker 1: came out to the beach and it would take them
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Speaker 1: like thirty minutes to finally dig Outriesa and Toroke from
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Speaker 1: this hole. But by that point it was too late.
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Speaker 1: They both had suffocated to death. One morning in the
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Speaker 1: winter of eighteen fifty six, a twenty seven year old
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Speaker 1: explorer named doctor Edward Fogel sat down for breakfast at
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Speaker 1: the home where he was staying in the city of Abashir,
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Speaker 1: which was in a kingdom called Wadai in Central Africa.
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Speaker 1: Edward boured himself a cup of milk, and then, even
18:31
Speaker 1: though the table was full of warm breads and cakes
18:34
Speaker 1: and porridge, Edward called a servant over and asked her
18:38
Speaker 1: to get him a plate of boiled eggs, but the
18:40
Speaker 1: servant just apologized and said, I'm sorry, but we don't
18:43
Speaker 1: have any eggs this morning.
18:44
Speaker 2: We're all out.
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Speaker 1: Edward was disappointed, but you know, he thanked the servant anyways.
18:50
Speaker 1: So Edward was visiting Africa from Germany on a map
18:53
Speaker 1: making expedition, and he'd been there for the past two
18:56
Speaker 1: weeks and so far all the local food really upset
18:59
Speaker 1: his state, except for X.
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Speaker 2: So for literally every single meal, the only thing he
19:06
Speaker 2: ate was X.
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Speaker 1: And now because they were out of eggs, despite there
19:09
Speaker 1: being all this other food to choose from, he knew
19:12
Speaker 1: he couldn't eat it without getting sick, and so he
19:14
Speaker 1: would just have to go hungry. But outside of the
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Speaker 1: food overall, you know, Edward thought the city of Abashir
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Speaker 1: was Yeah, it was okay. He had gotten to meet
19:23
Speaker 1: the king who had arranged for him to stay here
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Speaker 1: in this very nice home that was owned by a
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Speaker 1: noble family, and the area itself was extremely beautiful, and
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Speaker 1: Edward was actually going to be the very first European
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Speaker 1: to successfully make a map of it, which meant that
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Speaker 1: he'd be essentially creating history. But Edward just really was
19:43
Speaker 1: not getting along with the locals. They just seemed kind
19:46
Speaker 1: of overall pretty suspicious of him, and you know, Edward
19:49
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it, But you know, they didn't seem to
19:52
Speaker 1: care at all that he was this famous map maker
19:55
Speaker 1: who'd come all the way there from Germany to literally
19:59
Speaker 1: put their kind of insignificant city onto the map of
20:02
Speaker 1: the whole world, Like, why didn't they appreciate that he
20:05
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it? And now, adding insult to injury, Edward
20:09
Speaker 1: also couldn't even eat any breakfast, and so, feeling pretty
20:13
Speaker 1: annoyed despite all the effort clearly people had made to
20:16
Speaker 1: feed him that morning, Edward stood up from the table
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Speaker 1: and he left to go spend the day exploring. He
20:23
Speaker 1: walked into the front courtyard, where another servant was waiting
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Speaker 1: with Edward's horse. Edward spent most of his days in
20:29
Speaker 1: the city just kind of riding around and drawing maps
20:32
Speaker 1: of streets and alleyways. But today this servant warned Edward
20:36
Speaker 1: that he really ought to stay inside because it was
20:39
Speaker 1: not safe for him to go out into the city. So,
20:42
Speaker 1: at this point in time, the kingdom that Abasheer was
20:45
Speaker 1: a part of was at war with several nations, and
20:48
Speaker 1: so as a result, everybody in the city was very
20:52
Speaker 1: worried about spies, which meant they were very suspicious of
20:57
Speaker 1: foreigners like Edward. For the most part, locals had sort
21:01
Speaker 1: of put up with his presence so far, but to
21:04
Speaker 1: them it just sort of seemed like he was always
21:06
Speaker 1: watching them without ever talking to anyone, and so they
21:10
Speaker 1: had started to gossip. But Edward, after being given this
21:13
Speaker 1: warning by the servant, did not take it seriously.
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Speaker 2: Instead, he kind of scoffed and said.
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Speaker 1: Nah, it's no big deal, Like I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: be out there for very long anyways, nothing's going to happen.
21:23
Speaker 1: He said he had another plan for today. His big
21:25
Speaker 1: plan was he would leave the city of Abyshire and
21:28
Speaker 1: he would go to this nearby mountain and he wanted
21:30
Speaker 1: to climb up it and get a bird's eye view
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Speaker 1: of the city from the mountaintop to help him finish
21:35
Speaker 1: up his map. But when Edward said that, the servant
21:38
Speaker 1: looked truly horrified and told Edward that he simply could
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Speaker 1: not do that because the mountain Edward was clearly talking
21:45
Speaker 1: about was sacred and nobody was allowed to climb it.
21:49
Speaker 1: Like that was really important to the people who lived here,
21:52
Speaker 1: but to Edward, this warning really did not land. Instead,
21:56
Speaker 1: he just looked at it as more evidence that the
21:59
Speaker 1: locals just didn't appreciate what he was doing for them,
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Speaker 1: like he was on a very important mission that was
22:05
Speaker 1: far more important than anything sacred to them. And so Edward,
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Speaker 1: you know, he thanked the servant for his warning, but
22:11
Speaker 1: also said like, look, I'm going to do what I'm
22:14
Speaker 1: going to do because this is really important. And so
22:17
Speaker 1: I'm going to go hike that mountain and i'll see
22:19
Speaker 1: you tonight when I drop off the horse. And then
22:22
Speaker 1: Edward climbed onto the horse and he rode off.
22:26
Speaker 2: But Edward didn't come back. He didn't come back that.
22:30
Speaker 1: Night, or the day after or the day after, and
22:32
Speaker 1: pretty soon it was clear that Edward was missing. Word
22:37
Speaker 1: of Edward's disappearance ultimately made it back to Germany pretty quickly,
22:40
Speaker 1: specifically to the Geography Society that had sent him to
22:44
Speaker 1: Africa on this map making mission in the first place.
22:47
Speaker 1: So the Geography Society and the German public sent several
22:52
Speaker 1: search parties to Africa to go look for Edward, but
22:56
Speaker 1: despite multiple serious attempts over several years, nobody ever found
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Speaker 1: him or figured out what happened. To him, and because
23:04
Speaker 1: of this, Edward sort of became famous in Germany.
23:08
Speaker 2: People began to see him as like this.
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Speaker 1: Brave explorer who who thirsted for knowledge and went daringly
23:14
Speaker 1: into the unknown. They imagined dramatic and tragic things that
23:18
Speaker 1: might have happened to him, like maybe he had been
23:21
Speaker 1: assassinated or taken prisoner, or maybe he discovered something holy
23:25
Speaker 1: or ancient that he.
23:26
Speaker 2: Wasn't supposed to see.
23:27
Speaker 1: And so in time, the story of Edward got bigger
23:30
Speaker 1: and bigger, and he became like a symbol of you know,
23:34
Speaker 1: German pride. I mean, this was our explorer. He had
23:37
Speaker 1: done something amazing, clearly. Also adding intrigue to this already
23:42
Speaker 1: very bizarre mystery was the fact that all the people
23:45
Speaker 1: who actually went to Africa to look for Edward, the
23:48
Speaker 1: search parties over the years, literally everybody who went died.
23:54
Speaker 1: Now all those searchers like they know how they died.
23:56
Speaker 1: It was local violence or disease or just playing bad
23:59
Speaker 1: lies luck. But it sort of added intrigue to this mystery,
24:03
Speaker 1: like everybody who went looking for Edward didn't come back
24:06
Speaker 1: like that became part of the lore, and so this
24:09
Speaker 1: mystery just continued to grow and grow and get passed around,
24:12
Speaker 1: and things were embellished and things were fictionalized, until finally,
24:17
Speaker 1: almost twenty years after Edward disappeared, another explorer named Gustav
24:23
Speaker 1: Noctaghal decided he was going to be the one who
24:26
Speaker 1: finally figured out once and for all what actually happened
24:30
Speaker 1: to the s guy. And so in the early winter
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Speaker 1: of eighteen seventy four, Gustav is now in the courtyard
24:40
Speaker 1: outside of his apartment in Abashir, because he had actually
24:43
Speaker 1: gone to Africa to begin his search for the answer
24:46
Speaker 1: here what happened to Edward, And he's standing in this
24:49
Speaker 1: courtyard along with his translator, whose name was Ahmed, and
24:53
Speaker 1: the two of them were sitting across from an elderly
24:55
Speaker 1: man who was friends with the current king of Abashir,
24:58
Speaker 1: and this elderly man had it one point lived in
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Speaker 1: one of the apartments across the courtyard, and so Gustav
25:05
Speaker 1: asked this old man if he had ever met with
25:07
Speaker 1: a European man about seventeen years earlier, and Ahmed translated
25:12
Speaker 1: the question to him, and the old man said, yes,
25:14
Speaker 1: he had that one European man had come to meet
25:17
Speaker 1: with the king around that time, and he had always
25:20
Speaker 1: been writing in this notebook, but he had never seemed
25:23
Speaker 1: to want to speak to anybody and had for the
25:25
Speaker 1: most part kept to himself. But the old man said,
25:28
Speaker 1: you know, beyond his impression of this guy, he really
25:30
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about him. He had no idea, you know,
25:32
Speaker 1: what he was doing or what happened to him. So
25:36
Speaker 1: at this point, both Gustav and Ahmed had been an
25:39
Speaker 1: Abashir for two months now, and in that time they
25:42
Speaker 1: had been trying to ask around and see if anybody
25:45
Speaker 1: remembered Edward, and so far they had run into a
25:49
Speaker 1: few people who seemed to remember him, like this older man,
25:52
Speaker 1: because it was pretty rare to see a European person
25:55
Speaker 1: in the city. But unfortunately, nobody had any information on
25:59
Speaker 1: how or when Edward disappeared, or, in the rare case
26:03
Speaker 1: that they did seem to know more, they refused to
26:06
Speaker 1: talk about it. And so for Gustav, you know, on
26:08
Speaker 1: the one hand, this was incredibly frustrating, because all he
26:11
Speaker 1: wanted was just the truth here. But on the other hand,
26:14
Speaker 1: you know, as he ran into more and more people
26:16
Speaker 1: that did seem apprehensive to talk about Edward at all,
26:21
Speaker 1: that sort of seemed to suggest that maybe something really
26:24
Speaker 1: bad did happen to Edward when he was in Abashir,
26:28
Speaker 1: and if that was the case, if some horrible fate
26:30
Speaker 1: befell him, Gustav knew there was one person in this
26:34
Speaker 1: city who almost certainly would know the truth. But Gustav
26:39
Speaker 1: basically couldn't ask this one person any questions about Edward
26:45
Speaker 1: without being incredibly offensive, because this one person was the
26:50
Speaker 1: current king of Abashir, King Ali, and it would have
26:53
Speaker 1: been his father who had met Edward and arranged for
26:56
Speaker 1: him to stay with that noble family when he was
26:58
Speaker 1: doing his map making thing. And so for Edward to
27:01
Speaker 1: have been killed or captured, or if something horrible happened
27:04
Speaker 1: to him while he was in Abysher, well, King Ali's
27:08
Speaker 1: father would have had to have given the okay, or
27:11
Speaker 1: would have at least known about it and maybe been
27:13
Speaker 1: okay with it, like he would have known something making
27:16
Speaker 1: him complicit in some way with whatever happened to Edward.
27:20
Speaker 1: And so to ask King Ali, you know, what do
27:22
Speaker 1: you think happened to Edward, you could be potentially suggesting
27:26
Speaker 1: that his dad did something terrible. But more than that,
27:29
Speaker 1: what Ahmed had told Gustav was that you don't just
27:31
Speaker 1: risk offending the king by asking those questions, you might
27:35
Speaker 1: actually be executed for offending the king. And so what
27:39
Speaker 1: Gustav decided he needed to do here because he was
27:41
Speaker 1: so dead set on trying to figure out this mystery,
27:45
Speaker 1: is he still needed to find a way to talk
27:47
Speaker 1: to King Ali about Edward, but without losing his life.
27:51
Speaker 1: He had to come up with a clever way to
27:54
Speaker 1: get this information out of the king. A few weeks later,
27:58
Speaker 1: and Gustav and on had still not yet come up
28:01
Speaker 1: with the clever way to speak to the king yet,
28:04
Speaker 1: like they didn't have a way to approach the subject
28:07
Speaker 1: without horribly offending the king. And so the two of
28:10
Speaker 1: them were in Gustav's apartment eating lunch when suddenly there
28:14
Speaker 1: was a knock at the door, and so Gustav got up,
28:16
Speaker 1: he went to the door, and when he opened it up,
28:18
Speaker 1: it was this courier who told Gustav that he was
28:21
Speaker 1: part of a caravan that had just arrived here from
28:23
Speaker 1: North Africa and he had some mail for Gustav from
28:26
Speaker 1: back home, so letters from Germany, and he just handed
28:29
Speaker 1: the bundle of mail to Gustav, and Gustav, who did
28:32
Speaker 1: not get mail very often, was very excited, and he said.
28:34
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. You know, he took the mail.
28:36
Speaker 1: Thank the guy shut the door, and he went back
28:38
Speaker 1: into the common room and he just began going through
28:41
Speaker 1: the mail and just looking to see who had sent
28:43
Speaker 1: him something. And as he was doing it, he suddenly
28:46
Speaker 1: had this great idea. It had nothing to do with
28:48
Speaker 1: what was written in the letters. It was just the
28:51
Speaker 1: concept of receiving mail suddenly gave him this great way
28:56
Speaker 1: to talk to the king. Next day, Gustave and Ahmed
29:02
Speaker 1: walked into the royal Palace in Abashir, and when they
29:05
Speaker 1: walked in, they eventually made their way into this bright
29:08
Speaker 1: and airy courtroom. And in this courtroom on the other
29:11
Speaker 1: end against the wall was King Ali sitting on a throne.
29:16
Speaker 1: And so Gustave and Ahmed immediately go over to the
29:18
Speaker 1: king and they greet him and they exchanged some pleasantries.
29:22
Speaker 1: And as they're doing that, Gustav he knew that that
29:26
Speaker 1: caravan that had come through the day before from North
29:28
Speaker 1: Africa with you know, Gustav's mail, had also made a
29:31
Speaker 1: stop at the palace and presented the king with all
29:34
Speaker 1: these gifts like a silver tea set and gold watches
29:37
Speaker 1: and all this luxurious fabric and so Gustav was really
29:40
Speaker 1: hoping that those gifts had put the king in a
29:43
Speaker 1: really good mood, because that was a big part of
29:46
Speaker 1: his plan here. At some point, after you know, the
29:49
Speaker 1: pleasantries had stopped, Gustav actually referenced the caravan and told
29:53
Speaker 1: the king that, in fact, they had also swung by
29:56
Speaker 1: his place and dropped off this big bundle of letters
29:59
Speaker 1: from back home. He was really happy about it, and
30:01
Speaker 1: the King kind of seconded that and said, oh, yeah,
30:03
Speaker 1: they gave me all these great gifts, like, yeah, it's
30:05
Speaker 1: so wonderful, and so they're kind of talking back and
30:08
Speaker 1: forth about how great this mail delivery was.
30:11
Speaker 2: When Gustav tells this incredible lie to the king.
30:16
Speaker 1: He tells the King he goes, you know, all those letters,
30:18
Speaker 1: it was really great to hear from home, from my friends,
30:20
Speaker 1: from my family, But there was this one really weird
30:24
Speaker 1: letter in there that I didn't even know who it
30:26
Speaker 1: was from. Now, this letter didn't exist, this was a
30:29
Speaker 1: total fabrication. But he told the king that this weird
30:32
Speaker 1: letter it was from this elderly man who had written
30:35
Speaker 1: to Gustav to tell him that his son had gone
30:39
Speaker 1: to Abasher many years ago, and not come home again.
30:43
Speaker 1: And so now the elderly man he knew his son
30:45
Speaker 1: was probably not alive at this point. But in this
30:48
Speaker 1: letter to Gustav, this fictional letter to Gustav, he told
30:52
Speaker 1: Gustav that his son had done a lot of writing
30:55
Speaker 1: in notebooks, and he was hopeful that maybe someone in
30:59
Speaker 1: Abashir had these notebooks, and could Gustav get the notebooks
31:03
Speaker 1: and return them to the old man to give him
31:06
Speaker 1: some comfort about, you know, what his son had been
31:08
Speaker 1: doing and saying and thinking before he disappeared. As soon
31:12
Speaker 1: as Gustav said this, he could actually feel the mood
31:15
Speaker 1: in the throne room shift, and he could tell that
31:17
Speaker 1: King Ali was very much on edge about what Gustav
31:20
Speaker 1: might say next. But Gustav had planned for this, and
31:24
Speaker 1: he told the king that, you know, just so, you know,
31:26
Speaker 1: all throughout Europe people think of you as a wise
31:29
Speaker 1: and just king. And so if by chance you have
31:34
Speaker 1: these notebooks and you were to give them to me,
31:37
Speaker 1: so I can give them to this elderly man in
31:39
Speaker 1: his old age, so he can have some comfort before
31:41
Speaker 1: he dies. If you would do that, the people of
31:44
Speaker 1: Europe would love you even more for that simple act
31:48
Speaker 1: of kindness. Then Gustav went quiet, and there was really
31:52
Speaker 1: intense silence in the throne room. But then the king
31:56
Speaker 1: just kind of sat back in his throne and he
31:58
Speaker 1: smiled at Gustav. And as soon as Gustav saw that
32:01
Speaker 1: smile in the king's face, he decided he's just got
32:04
Speaker 1: to do it, and he said to the king, the
32:07
Speaker 1: son's name is doctor Edward Fogel. And then after that,
32:11
Speaker 1: Gustav just went silent because he knew at this point
32:15
Speaker 1: if the king thought he was lying, he could easily
32:17
Speaker 1: be executed right now. But King Ali just kept on
32:22
Speaker 1: smiling at Gustav and just said.
32:23
Speaker 2: You know what, I'll think about it.
32:26
Speaker 1: Gustave quickly thanked the king and hurried out of the
32:28
Speaker 1: throne room, and then he went back to his apartment
32:31
Speaker 1: and spent the entire night just pacing around his room
32:34
Speaker 1: wondering what was going to happen. Part of Gustav was
32:36
Speaker 1: optimistic that maybe the king would come through here and
32:39
Speaker 1: hand over these notebooks if he really did have them.
32:42
Speaker 1: But the other part of Gustav, the more realistic side,
32:45
Speaker 1: is maybe what he had just done is effectively signed
32:48
Speaker 1: his own death warrant, and that soon he'd become one
32:50
Speaker 1: of the many travelers who came to Abersher and never
32:54
Speaker 1: went home.
32:56
Speaker 2: A few days later, a very.
32:58
Speaker 1: Nervous Gustav followed Alice guard back into the throne room,
33:02
Speaker 1: and when he got in there, he immediately saw King
33:05
Speaker 1: Ali sitting on his throne, and Gustav really couldn't read
33:08
Speaker 1: his expression, so he didn't know if the king was
33:10
Speaker 1: mad at him, if he was going to be conciliatory,
33:13
Speaker 1: if he was going to help him. He had no idea,
33:15
Speaker 1: and so Gustav just walked into the room and kind of.
33:18
Speaker 2: Held his breath.
33:19
Speaker 1: King Ali broke the silence, and when he did, it
33:21
Speaker 1: was clear he was not angry, he was just kind
33:24
Speaker 1: of even keel, And he told Gustav that after their conversation,
33:28
Speaker 1: he had gone and spoken to the noble family that
33:31
Speaker 1: Edward had stayed with when he was here. But they
33:34
Speaker 1: told him they couldn't find any of doctor Edward's writings
33:37
Speaker 1: and so they had either been thrown away or lost,
33:40
Speaker 1: and so unfortunately there was nothing to send back to
33:42
Speaker 1: Edward's elderly father. Now Gustav did not believe this because
33:47
Speaker 1: at this time paper was very scarce, so there was
33:50
Speaker 1: no way they would have been throwing it away.
33:52
Speaker 2: Or destroying it.
33:53
Speaker 1: I mean, paper was pretty valuable, but he couldn't say
33:55
Speaker 1: that to the king, so he just swallowed his disappointment
33:58
Speaker 1: and thanked the king for asking about the notebooks. And
34:01
Speaker 1: then Gustav hoped that at this point he'd be allowed
34:04
Speaker 1: to leave, but one of the guards put their hand
34:07
Speaker 1: on Gustav's shoulder and said he needed to follow him.
34:10
Speaker 1: And at this point Gustav's stomach dropped because he assumed
34:13
Speaker 1: he was about to go be punished for asking about
34:16
Speaker 1: Edward in the first place, and so Gustav's hands were
34:19
Speaker 1: shaking and his heart was racing as he followed the
34:22
Speaker 1: guard out of the palace and out into the courtyard,
34:25
Speaker 1: where there were some horses tied up and waiting for them.
34:28
Speaker 1: Gustav felt nauseous as he followed the guard through the
34:31
Speaker 1: city streets, and he wondered if he should just try
34:34
Speaker 1: to make a break for it and try to escape,
34:36
Speaker 1: but he looked down different streets and alleys and realized
34:39
Speaker 1: that would be totally useless because the palace guards would
34:42
Speaker 1: find him. So there was nowhere for him to go,
34:44
Speaker 1: and so Gustav had no choice but to just keep
34:47
Speaker 1: on following this guard, and so through the city they went,
34:51
Speaker 1: and then eventually they got to the city gates, and
34:53
Speaker 1: Gustav was horrified as they they left the city and
34:57
Speaker 1: just began riding out into the wilderness over towards the
34:59
Speaker 1: seat huge mountain in the distance. And as they're making
35:03
Speaker 1: their way towards this mountain, all Gustav is thinking is
35:06
Speaker 1: at any moment here, they're going to just dump me
35:08
Speaker 1: here to die, or they're going to ambush me, or
35:10
Speaker 1: something bad's going to happen to me.
35:14
Speaker 2: At some point.
35:14
Speaker 1: The guard led Gustav all the way to the foot
35:17
Speaker 1: of that mountain, and there the guard abruptly stopped and
35:20
Speaker 1: climbed off his horse and just turned around and faced
35:23
Speaker 1: Gustav and he says, I'm going to tell you exactly
35:27
Speaker 1: what happened to Edward. And Gustav was kind of shocked
35:31
Speaker 1: by this. He really didn't know what was going to
35:32
Speaker 1: happen here. Again, he doesn't even know if he's in
35:35
Speaker 1: danger at this point. But now he's just holding his breath,
35:38
Speaker 1: you know, waiting for potentially this mystery to finally be solved.
35:43
Speaker 1: And so the guard he looked at Gustav and he said,
35:46
Speaker 1: Edward committed an unforgivable crime, and he was punished for
35:50
Speaker 1: that crime. Now, at this point, Gustav was shocked because
35:54
Speaker 1: Edward was like this very well traveled and highly respected guy,
35:59
Speaker 1: and it didn't make that he would commit any crime,
36:02
Speaker 1: let alone an unforgivable one that apparently cost him his life.
36:05
Speaker 1: And so Gustav kind of blurted out, like, what crime,
36:09
Speaker 1: what did he do? The guard explained that from day one,
36:12
Speaker 1: Edward had made lots of enemies in Abashir. He basically
36:16
Speaker 1: spent his days riding all around the city and staring
36:19
Speaker 1: at everybody and writing in his notebooks but never talking
36:22
Speaker 1: to anybody, and so people began to gossip that maybe
36:25
Speaker 1: he was a spy. And then also the guard said
36:28
Speaker 1: Edward had climbed their sacred mountain despite being told not to,
36:31
Speaker 1: the mountain that was literally right behind them. And then
36:34
Speaker 1: also the guard said Edward was just totally unpleasant and
36:37
Speaker 1: just kind of a snobby person that nobody liked.
36:40
Speaker 2: But the guard said, you know, none.
36:41
Speaker 1: Of that is actually what caused Edward to be punished.
36:46
Speaker 1: Edward's unforgivable crime, the one that caused his downfall, was
36:51
Speaker 1: his insatiable hunger for eggs At every single meal, he
36:57
Speaker 1: refused all the food his noble hope prepared for him
37:01
Speaker 1: and demanded eggs, and abasheer eggs were quite rare and
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Speaker 1: considered a a precious gift, and Edward demanded them every
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Speaker 1: single meal, and he ate all of that noble family's eggs.
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Speaker 1: And so eventually the nobles they could not stand Edward's disrespect,
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Speaker 1: and so they went to the king, and the King,
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Speaker 1: who agreed this was just awful what Edward had done,
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Speaker 1: decided the only appropriate punishment was to take Edward and
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Speaker 1: drag him out to the base of that sacred mountain
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Speaker 1: and literally beat him to death. Doctor Edward Fogel, the
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Speaker 1: proud symbol of Germany's exploring spirit, was executed because he
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Speaker 1: ate an offensive number of eggs. Gustav was unharmed. He,
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Speaker 1: unlike Edward, had actually bothered to learn the local customs
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Speaker 1: and was highly respectful, and so he was allowed to
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Speaker 1: leave the city even after being told what happened to Edward,
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Speaker 1: and he would become the first European.
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Speaker 2: Ever to leave Abashir alive.
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Speaker 1: As for Edward's notebooks and maps, they were never found.
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