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Speaker 1: In the late eighteen hundreds, a deadly phenomenon was occurring
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Speaker 1: in America. Fire departments were beginning to use these large
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Speaker 1: safety nets that resembled these huge circular stretches of canvas
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Speaker 1: to try to save people that were stuck in burning
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Speaker 1: buildings during a multi story fire. The firefighters would show
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Speaker 1: up and they would get out this big net and
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Speaker 1: they would all take up positions around it, holding onto
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Speaker 1: the edges, and then they would move it directly underneath
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Speaker 1: one of the windows of the burning building, and then
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Speaker 1: they would call out to the people inside to jump
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Speaker 1: out of the window onto the net, and then when
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Speaker 1: they jumped, the firefighters would make sure to maneuver the
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Speaker 1: net to try to catch the person right in the middle,
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Speaker 1: breaking their fall and saving their lives. However, the deadly
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Speaker 1: phenomenon was that these people who were stuck in these
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Speaker 1: buildings were more afraid to make the jump onto the
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Speaker 1: net than they were of the fire, and so despite
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Speaker 1: the firefighter's constant urges to please just jump, they would
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Speaker 1: stay put and they would die in the fire. And
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Speaker 1: so fire departments all over America were desperately trying to
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Speaker 1: find ways to educate the American public about the relative
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Speaker 1: safety of these nets, that certainly making this jump is
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Speaker 1: a better bet than staying in an actively burning building.
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Speaker 1: But despite their efforts, Americans were still staying put in
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Speaker 1: these buildings and dying unnecessarily. In eighteen eighty three, which
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Speaker 1: was around the time of this deadly phenomenon, a diving
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Speaker 1: instructor working out of Washington, d C.
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Speaker 2: Named Robert Odlum.
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Speaker 1: Heard about this issue and he thought to himself, you know,
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Speaker 1: if Americans just maybe saw someone make the jump successfully,
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't be afraid anymore, And since Robert was a
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Speaker 1: diving instructor and so was very comfortable jumping from heights,
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Speaker 1: he thought, well, who better to make these demonstrations than me,
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Speaker 1: and so, in collaboration with several Washington d C. Fire departments,
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Speaker 1: Robert began hosting these demonstrations where he would leap out
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Speaker 1: of multi story buildings onto the safety net. And very
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Speaker 1: quickly these demonstrations began attracting very big crowds, but not
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Speaker 1: because they wanted the education of the event. They just
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Speaker 1: wanted to see someone jump out of a building onto
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Speaker 1: a net. It was like a circus act, and Robert,
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Speaker 1: who was not expecting this to happen, found himself really
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Speaker 1: enjoying the attention he was garnering, and quickly he stopped
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Speaker 1: doing demonstrations to show off firenet safety and instead began
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Speaker 1: jumping off of huge bridges into bodies of water just
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Speaker 1: because people thought it was awesome. He was becoming this
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Speaker 1: celebrity in Washington, DC, and soon Robert began taking his
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Speaker 1: show all over the country, basically touring to all these
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Speaker 1: bridges all over America, and he would put out these
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Speaker 1: flyers all over the city encouraging people to show up
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Speaker 1: to the bridge on the day of his jump, and
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Speaker 1: then when he would get to the bridge, there'd be
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Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of people cheering him on. But Robert's
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Speaker 1: very unlikely and rapid rise to fame and fortune quickly
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Speaker 1: spawned copycats, and in eighteen eighty five, so two years
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Speaker 1: after Robert had begun this jumping venture, his popularity was
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Speaker 1: beginning to wane because he was no longer as unique.
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Speaker 2: Before it was really just him doing these.
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Speaker 1: Jumps, and now he was kind of a commodity, and
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Speaker 1: so feeling desperate to become relevant again, Robert thought to himself,
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Speaker 1: you know, I gotta do something that sets me apart
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Speaker 1: from all the other bridge jumpers. I got to do
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Speaker 1: something that nobody else has done. That way, I can
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Speaker 1: once again become the bridge jumper.
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Speaker 2: And it just so happened.
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Speaker 1: There was a bridge that had recently been constructed in
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Speaker 1: New York called the Brooklyn Bridge that was massive. It
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Speaker 1: spanned sixteen hundred feet from Brooklyn across the East River
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Speaker 1: to New York City, and at its highest point, it
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Speaker 1: was a whopping one hundred and thirty feet off of
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Speaker 1: the water, and so if Robert made that jump, he
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Speaker 1: would actually set the record for the highest bridge jump ever.
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Speaker 1: But by this point, bridge jumping had become popular enough
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Speaker 1: that police had caught onto it and they had made
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Speaker 1: it illegal, mostly to protect the bridge jumpers from themselves.
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Speaker 1: And so anytime police saw advertisements for an upcoming bridge jump,
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Speaker 1: they would show up to the location on the day
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Speaker 1: of the jump in force and they would stop the
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Speaker 1: jumper from jumping. And so Robert knew this, but he
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Speaker 1: still needed to get the word out about this big
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bridge jump, and so he created a very clever
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Speaker 1: word of my mouth campaign amongst people in New York.
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Speaker 1: And he also began handing out these flyers that were
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Speaker 1: fairly cryptic but still told people where to go and
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Speaker 1: at what time for this big spectacle they were going
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Speaker 1: to see. And on May nineteenth of that year, the
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Speaker 1: day of the jump, Robert's underground advertising campaign had worked beautifully.
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Speaker 1: By early that morning, the Brooklyn Bridge was covered with
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Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of people also down on the banks
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Speaker 1: as well. There's all these people who were all waiting
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Speaker 1: to see Robert make this record setting jump. Robert had
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Speaker 1: become a bit of a showman since he began doing
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Speaker 1: these bridge jumps, and he had developed a sort of
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Speaker 1: trademark entrance. He would arrive in a black horse and carriage,
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Speaker 1: and then once it stopped on the bridge, he would
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Speaker 1: leap out, and he'd be wearing this long coat and
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Speaker 1: he would take it off, revealing his swimsuit, and the
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Speaker 1: crowd would cheer, and then he would wave to the crowd,
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Speaker 1: and then he would just run to the edge and
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Speaker 1: leap off the bridge. And so on May nineteenth, all
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Speaker 1: these people who were waiting for Robert, they're looking for
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Speaker 1: this black horse and carriage, and around noontime someone spotted
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Speaker 1: it was coming onto the bridge from the Brooklyn side.
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Speaker 1: And then once it stopped on the bridge, the door
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Speaker 1: flung open and Robert leaped out in his big coat.
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Speaker 1: He ripped his coat off, revealing his swimsuit. The crowd
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Speaker 1: was going wild. Everyone was so pumped about this. He's
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Speaker 1: waving and getting ready and he starts running to the
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Speaker 1: railing to make this jump, and before he jumps, the
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Speaker 1: police swarm him and arrest him. The police were not dumb.
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Speaker 1: They had caught on to this underground advertising campaign, and
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Speaker 1: so like everyone else, they were out in force on
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Speaker 1: this bridge. There were all these officers everywhere, and so
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Speaker 1: as soon as they saw this carriage, they immediately rushed over,
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Speaker 1: intercepted it, and they stopped him. And so as they're
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Speaker 1: arresting Robert, the crowd is starting to boo and they're chanting.
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Speaker 2: Let him jump, let him jump.
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Speaker 1: And the police were all kind of gathered on the
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn side of the bridge. They're telling people to start
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Speaker 1: to disperse, and as they're doing this, something incredible happens
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Speaker 1: on the far other side of the bridge, on the
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Speaker 1: New York side of the bridge, another black horse and
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Speaker 1: carriage had just come to a stop on the bridge.
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Speaker 1: The doors had flung open and a man had jumped out,
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Speaker 1: wearing a long coat. He had ripped it off, revealing
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Speaker 1: a swimsuit, and the crowd went wild. It was the
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Speaker 1: real Robert Odlum. The man the police had arrested was
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Speaker 1: actually an actor that Robert had paid to pretend to
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Speaker 1: be him. Robert had told him to show up at
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Speaker 1: a particular time and make the typical entrance that he
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Speaker 1: would in order to suck all the police to that
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Speaker 1: side of the bridge, and then while that was happening,
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Speaker 1: Robert would show up and have enough time and space
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Speaker 1: to make the jump. And his plan had worked perfectly,
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Speaker 1: and so the police who are on the Brooklyn side,
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Speaker 1: they see this happening and they realize there's no way
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Speaker 1: they can run all the way across the bridge and
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Speaker 1: stop Robert before he makes the jump, and so, like
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Speaker 1: everyone else, they just kind of walked to the railing
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Speaker 1: and they watched.
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Speaker 2: And so the real Robert, after revealing his swimsuit, he
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Speaker 2: waved to the crowd. He's smiling.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's going crazy, and he runs over to the railing.
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Speaker 1: He climbs onto the other side and he's looking out
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Speaker 1: over the water and he gives one more way to
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Speaker 1: everyone down below in boats and on the banks and
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Speaker 1: on the sides of the bridge, and everyone's going crazy,
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Speaker 1: and then he jumps Onlookers would later say that at
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Speaker 1: first his jump was perfect. As soon as he left
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Speaker 1: off the bridge, like he always did, he put his
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Speaker 1: right arm straight over his head and he tucked his
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Speaker 1: left arm by his side. This allowed him to stay
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Speaker 1: in an upright vertical position as he fell.
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Speaker 2: But just a second.
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Speaker 1: Into his fall, a strong gust of wind blew Robert
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Speaker 1: off his access and suddenly he was falling on his side.
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Speaker 1: Now it's important to understand bridge jumpers when they jump
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Speaker 1: from really high heights, they need to land feet first
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Speaker 1: in a vertical position. This allows their feet to quote
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Speaker 1: break the surface tension of the water before the rest
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Speaker 1: of their body comes crashing down. And if they do
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Speaker 1: it that way, the water functions much like the firefighter's
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Speaker 1: safety net. It will break the jumper's fall and save
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Speaker 1: their life. But if the jumper lands at basically any
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Speaker 1: other angle, the water tension will not break fast enough
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Speaker 1: before the rest of their hits the surface of the water,
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Speaker 1: and so the water, instead of functioning like a net
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Speaker 1: that will save them, will actually function like concrete. So,
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Speaker 1: after this gust of wind had blown Robert onto his side,
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Speaker 1: he began flailing in mid air to try to get
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Speaker 1: himself back to his upright vertical position, but he couldn't
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Speaker 1: do it in time, and so he slammed into the
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Speaker 1: water directly on his right side. And when the crowd
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Speaker 1: saw this, they figured something was wrong, but they didn't
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Speaker 1: really know, and so everyone just kind of gasped and
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Speaker 1: waited to see what would happen next. And they're looking
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Speaker 1: and then finally Robert emerges from the deep, except he's
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Speaker 1: face down and he's motionless, and so some of Robert's
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Speaker 1: friends who were on a boat below, they leapt into
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Speaker 1: the water. They swam over to Robert. They pulled him
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Speaker 1: back to the boat. They got him up on the
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Speaker 1: deck and when they looked at him, he looked awful.
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Speaker 1: There's blood coming out of his mouth. He was barely conscious,
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Speaker 1: and he would just say to them, did I make
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Speaker 1: a good jump? And then he would die and autopsy
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Speaker 1: would reveal that Robert's impact with the surface of the
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Speaker 1: water had basically obliterated all of his insides.
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Speaker 2: Amongst other things, his.
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Speaker 1: Liver, his spleen, and both his kidneys had ruptured, and
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Speaker 1: all of the ribs on his right side were broken.
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Speaker 1: A year later, another bridge jumper named Larry Donovan would
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Speaker 1: make the jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge and survive,
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Speaker 1: setting the record for the highest bridge jump at the time.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy eight, forty nine year old Georgie Markov,
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Speaker 1: who was originally from Bulgaria, was living in London and
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Speaker 1: working as a reporter for the British Broadcasting Company or
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Speaker 1: BBC for short. Georgie had moved to London six years earlier,
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Speaker 1: and in the early days of him being in the UK,
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Speaker 1: he would always take a cab or a bus to work.
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Speaker 1: But over the last couple of years he had taken
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Speaker 1: to walking to work. Not only was it great exercise,
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Speaker 1: but he also just loved the scenery. In particular, he
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Speaker 1: liked on his commute to stop on the Waterloo Bridge,
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Speaker 1: this very famous bridge in London, where from that position
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Speaker 1: he had a beautiful view of the Westminster Palace on
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Speaker 1: one side and he had the icon London Eye on
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Speaker 1: the other, which is a very famous ferris wheel. So
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Speaker 1: on the morning of September seventh of that year, Georgie
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Speaker 1: got up and he left his flat and he began
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Speaker 1: his typical commute into work.
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Speaker 2: However, by the time he reached.
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Speaker 1: The Waterloo Bridge and was getting ready to take in
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Speaker 1: the sites, it had started to rain, and Georgie did
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Speaker 1: not have an umbrella, and so instead of sight seeing,
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Speaker 1: he just kept on walking as quickly as he could
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Speaker 1: to try to get to his office before he got
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Speaker 1: completely soaked. But by the time he was just on
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Speaker 1: the other side of the Waterloo Bridge and still had
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Speaker 1: quite a distance to cover to get to work, the
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Speaker 1: skies had completely opened up, and so as much as
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Speaker 1: Georgie wanted to walk because this was something he really enjoyed,
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Speaker 1: he decided it was not worth it, and so he
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Speaker 1: began looking for a bus stop, and he found one
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly and he rushed over to it. There was
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Speaker 1: an awning that the commuters could stand underneath, and so
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Speaker 1: he ran underneath the sawning, getting out from under the rain,
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Speaker 1: and then he proceeded to wait for the next bus
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Speaker 1: to take him the rest of the way. As he
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Speaker 1: stood there waiting, he suddenly felt a shooting pain in
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Speaker 1: the back of his right thigh, and instinctively, without even
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Speaker 1: knowing what it was, he just reached down and grabbed
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Speaker 1: his leg, but he couldn't feel anything. And then he
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Speaker 1: tried to kind of look around and look down at
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Speaker 1: his leg, but it was just too crowded around him,
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Speaker 1: so we really couldn't do it. And so he was
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Speaker 1: standing there puzzles still grabbing at his leg, wondering what
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Speaker 1: could have caused this pain, and the only things he
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Speaker 1: could think of were, you know, maybe someone near him
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Speaker 1: had a pen or a pencil out and they accidentally
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Speaker 1: poked him. Or maybe it's some sort of bug that
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Speaker 1: bit him, a spider or a bee or something. He
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Speaker 1: didn't know, but there weren't that many scenarios that made
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Speaker 1: sense to him. But before he could spend very much
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Speaker 1: time dwelling on what had caused this, the bus arrived
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Speaker 1: and Georgie turned around. He hopped on board, and by
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Speaker 1: the time the bus pulled up in front of his
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Speaker 1: office building and he had gone through the doors of
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Speaker 1: the BBC, Georgie had effectively forgotten about this pain in
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Speaker 1: his leg.
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Speaker 2: But when he got up to his actual desk and
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Speaker 2: sat down on his.
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Speaker 1: Chair, when the underside of his thigh made contact with
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Speaker 1: his chair, it sent that shooting pain into his head leg,
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Speaker 1: and immediately he noticed it. It was almost like he
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Speaker 1: had a splinter stuck in the back of his thigh,
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Speaker 1: and by pressing it down on the seat, it was
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Speaker 1: driving that splinter deeper into his leg. And so Georgie
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Speaker 1: stood up immediately, and he's grabbing at the back of
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Speaker 1: his leg and he's kind of cranning his head to
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Speaker 1: look down at the back of his leg, but you know,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't see anything there, and so he's standing there
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Speaker 1: wondering what he should do.
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Speaker 2: He's got a really busy day ahead.
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Speaker 1: Of him, and he's he's thinking, you know, should I
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Speaker 1: maybe go to the bathroom and see what this is.
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Speaker 1: But then he tells himself, you're overthinking it. This has
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Speaker 1: got to be something minor, you know, I need to
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Speaker 1: get to work, And so he sat back down in
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Speaker 1: his chair, being very careful with his right leg when
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Speaker 1: he placed it down so as not to press too
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Speaker 1: hard on the spot that hurt. And then he just
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Speaker 1: got to work. And over the course of several hours,
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Speaker 1: even though he knew there was kind of a dull
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Speaker 1: aching pain in the back of his leg, he mostly
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Speaker 1: forgot about it.
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Speaker 2: He was just doing his job.
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Speaker 1: But by the second half of the day, in the
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Speaker 1: early afternoon, the pain in his leg had become so
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Speaker 1: excruciating that Georgie was literally gritting his teeth and sweating
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Speaker 1: profusely in order to try to ignore the pain. But
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Speaker 1: at some point it just became too much. He couldn't
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Speaker 1: focus on work, and so he stood up. He left
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Speaker 1: his desk, and he walked down the hall and he
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Speaker 1: went into the single stall bathroom. And once he went
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Speaker 1: inside and he shut the door behind him, he pulled
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Speaker 1: his pants down and turned around and looked in the
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Speaker 1: mirror to use the reflection to look at the back
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Speaker 1: of his leg, and right away there was a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a relief there, because what he saw was
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Speaker 1: a little bit of redness, a little bit of swelling,
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Speaker 1: but nothing significant. It looked very much like someone must
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Speaker 1: have hit him with a pencil by accident, or maybe
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Speaker 1: it was a beasting or a spider bite or something,
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Speaker 1: but whatever it was, it was definitely minor, at least
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Speaker 1: in Georgie's mind. And so he pulls his pants back up,
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Speaker 1: he tucks his shirt back in, he leaves the bathroom
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Speaker 1: and goes back to his desk, and then he sits down,
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Speaker 1: and despite this intense pain in his leg, he's convinced
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Speaker 1: himself it's no big deal, and so he just kind
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Speaker 1: of grits his way through the rest of his work day.
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Speaker 1: When he finally got home again and walked through the door,
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Speaker 1: Georgie's wife looked at him and was like, what's wrong
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Speaker 1: with you?
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Speaker 2: He was so pale, he was sweating profusely.
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Speaker 1: He looked awful, and so he told her about what
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Speaker 1: had happened with his leg, and he was still trying
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Speaker 1: to kind of write it off, but she told him, Georgie,
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Speaker 1: you are sick.
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Speaker 2: There's something wrong. We have to go to the hospital
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point, Georgie was miserable, and so
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Speaker 1: he agreed to go, and so the pair they made
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Speaker 1: their way over to the emergency room at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: They go inside and a doctor pulled Georgie into an
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Speaker 1: exam room and said, okay, you know, tell me what's
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Speaker 1: going on.
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Speaker 2: Why are you here?
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Speaker 1: And Georgie would explain how in his morning commute he
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Speaker 1: had stopped at this bus stop and then felt the
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Speaker 1: shooting pain.
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Speaker 2: And then he told the doctor, you know, I'm.
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Speaker 1: Pretty convinced this is someone who might have accidentally jabbed
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Speaker 1: me with a pen or a pencil, or it's a
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Speaker 1: bug bite, a spider bite. I don't know what it is,
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Speaker 1: but I'm convinced it's something minor. And so the doctor
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Speaker 1: he hears this, and he asked Georgie to stand up
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Speaker 1: pull his pants down so the doctor can get a
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Speaker 1: look at the site.
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Speaker 2: And so Georgie does.
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Speaker 1: He gets up, he drops his pants, and then as
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Speaker 1: the doctor bends down and begins looking at the back
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Speaker 1: of his thigh, Georgie kind of turns around and looks down,
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Speaker 1: and he's shocked at what he sees. Even though he
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Speaker 1: does not have a full view of the back of
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Speaker 1: his leg. It's obvious that the swelling and redness on
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Speaker 1: the back of his leg has grown exponentially.
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Speaker 2: It looks totally horrible.
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Speaker 1: And so after a couple of minutes of the doctor
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Speaker 1: looking at the back of his leg, the doctor stands
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Speaker 1: up and looks puzzled and tells Georgie, hold on a minute,
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Speaker 1: I need somebody else to get a look at this.
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Speaker 1: And so the doctor goes out into the main hall.
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Speaker 1: He comes back with another doctor, and that doctor comes over.
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Speaker 1: He bends down and he looks at the back of
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Speaker 1: Georgie's leg as well. And after the two of them
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Speaker 1: kind of talk to each other and they're looking at
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Speaker 1: the back of his leg, they stand up and they
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Speaker 1: walk around and they're facing Georgie now, and they say, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is going to sound totally weird, but when you
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Speaker 1: were at the bus stop before you felt the pain
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Speaker 1: in your leg, was anyone around you holding a snake
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Speaker 1: or a reptile? I know that sounds crazy, but the
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Speaker 1: mark on the back of your leg looks exactly like
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Speaker 1: a venomous bite. So Georgie's leg, No, I didn't see
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Speaker 1: anyone with snakes or reptiles. There was nothing out of
16:50
Speaker 1: the ordinary about what was happening around me when I
16:53
Speaker 1: felt this pain in my leg. We were all just
16:54
Speaker 1: standing there and then I felt.
16:56
Speaker 2: It in my leg. That was it.
16:57
Speaker 1: And so the doctors would tell Georgie that, you know,
16:59
Speaker 1: they didn't really know what was going on with his leg,
17:01
Speaker 1: and so the best thing to do here is just
17:03
Speaker 1: to admit him to the hospital and monitor him and
17:06
Speaker 1: you know, try to run some tests on him and
17:08
Speaker 1: try to make him comfortable. And so that night Georgie
17:11
Speaker 1: was admitted to the hospital. He was set up in
17:12
Speaker 1: his own hospital room, and right away the nurses and
17:15
Speaker 1: doctors began administering different combinations of medicines and treatments to
17:20
Speaker 1: try to lower the swelling and the pain in his leg,
17:24
Speaker 1: but it just seemed like nothing was working, and so
17:26
Speaker 1: all night his condition seemed to get worse, not better.
17:30
Speaker 1: And then the next day when he woke up, his
17:32
Speaker 1: leg was much much worse. It was extremely swollen. It
17:35
Speaker 1: almost looked like a balloon that had been completely filled.
17:38
Speaker 1: It was very red, and Georgie himself was also beginning
17:41
Speaker 1: to lose touch with reality. He had become convinced that
17:44
Speaker 1: someone had tried to kill him and that was why
17:47
Speaker 1: he was so sick, and this delusion of his got
17:49
Speaker 1: so extreme that he was afraid of his doctors and nurses,
17:53
Speaker 1: and so it became a big challenge trying to help
17:55
Speaker 1: him because he was effectively fighting them off. By the
17:58
Speaker 1: next day, Georgie's can overall had become critical. He was
18:02
Speaker 1: very clearly on the brink of death and his mind
18:05
Speaker 1: was effectively gone. But the doctors and the nurses really
18:09
Speaker 1: had no idea what was going on with him, and
18:11
Speaker 1: so there was nothing they could do to help him.
18:13
Speaker 1: And then on the last day he was in the hospital,
18:15
Speaker 1: the third day, Georgie would die. His body just shut down.
18:19
Speaker 1: Given the strangeness of Georgie's death, his body was sent
18:23
Speaker 1: for an autopsy to try to figure out what had
18:25
Speaker 1: caused that leg pain, because that seemed to be the
18:28
Speaker 1: trigger that ultimately killed him. And sure enough, during the autopsy,
18:32
Speaker 1: the coroner made a surprising discovery. Buried in the back
18:36
Speaker 1: of his right leg, right underneath the sight that was
18:39
Speaker 1: where he felt the pain, was this little piece of metal.
18:42
Speaker 2: It was so small the coroner actually almost.
18:44
Speaker 1: Didn't see it, but when he did see it, he
18:46
Speaker 1: put it under the microscope and what he saw was
18:49
Speaker 1: this obviously man made metallic disc that had these two
18:53
Speaker 1: small reservoirs drilled into it, and so they sent this
18:57
Speaker 1: disc off for further testing, and what they just say
19:00
Speaker 1: govered was there was risin residue inside of those two reservoirs.
19:05
Speaker 1: Risin is an extremely powerful poison. It is more lethal
19:08
Speaker 1: than cyanide, and it has no antidote, and the symptoms
19:12
Speaker 1: of risin poisoning often look like the symptoms of other
19:16
Speaker 1: diseases or illnesses, and so it's very difficult to diagnose.
19:20
Speaker 1: And so as a result of these factors, risin is
19:23
Speaker 1: a very popular poison for assassinations. And the belief is
19:27
Speaker 1: that that is exactly what happened to Georgie.
19:30
Speaker 2: He was assassinated, but to.
19:32
Speaker 1: This day we don't actually know who assassinated him. However,
19:36
Speaker 1: the running theory is that Georgie, who was a reporter
19:39
Speaker 1: for the BBC, he covered politics and he often spoke
19:43
Speaker 1: very critically about the Soviet Union, and so this theory
19:46
Speaker 1: goes that the Soviet Union's intelligence agency, known as the KGB,
19:52
Speaker 1: they assassinated.
19:53
Speaker 2: Georgie for what he was writing about.
19:55
Speaker 1: Adding credence to this theory, a former KGB officer named
19:59
Speaker 1: oleg Ca, who was exiled to the United States in
20:02
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. He claimed that he oversaw the assassination
20:07
Speaker 1: program that targeted Georgie Markoff. He said, what they did
20:11
Speaker 1: is they put this little tiny disc, that metal disc
20:13
Speaker 1: with the rising inside of it. They put that at
20:16
Speaker 1: the tip of an umbrella, and they made sure the
20:18
Speaker 1: disc itself was fairly sharp, and then the KGB assassin
20:21
Speaker 1: with this umbrella simply followed Georgie on his typical morning commute,
20:26
Speaker 1: and then when he stopped at that bus stop, the
20:28
Speaker 1: assassin jabbed him.
20:29
Speaker 2: In the back of the leg and then faded into
20:31
Speaker 2: the crowd.
20:32
Speaker 1: According to Oleg, those little metallic discs that had the
20:35
Speaker 1: rising inside of them, they were actually covered with a
20:37
Speaker 1: thin layer of wax, and only when this disc had
20:41
Speaker 1: been placed inside of the target's body, with their body
20:44
Speaker 1: heat melt that wax layer off, exposing the poison, and
20:48
Speaker 1: then their target would die.
20:49
Speaker 2: Several days later, as Georgie did.
20:51
Speaker 1: However, Olegg's story, despite being as compelling as it was,
20:55
Speaker 1: didn't have any hard proof to back it up, and
20:58
Speaker 1: so to this day there has been no one officially
21:01
Speaker 1: charged with Georgi Markov's murder. In two thousand and six
21:09
Speaker 1: seventy three year old Sherman Sizemore was the definition of
21:12
Speaker 1: a man's man. He had spent the bulk of his
21:15
Speaker 1: adult life doing one of the most dangerous jobs in
21:18
Speaker 1: the world, mining for coal in West Virginia, and while
21:21
Speaker 1: he was a coal miner, he apparently had lost track
21:24
Speaker 1: of the amount of times he had nearly been killed
21:27
Speaker 1: from mineshaft collapse and gas leaks. Later on in life,
21:31
Speaker 1: after his kids had all grown up, he had retired
21:33
Speaker 1: from coal mining.
21:34
Speaker 2: And become an ordained Baptist minister.
21:37
Speaker 1: And despite his harrowing backstory and burly intimidating appearance, he
21:42
Speaker 1: was known to be incredibly gentle and very calming to
21:45
Speaker 1: his parishioners. He was also known to be an incredibly
21:49
Speaker 1: devoted grandfather, to the point where if there was a
21:52
Speaker 1: chance to spend time with his grandkids he would basically
21:55
Speaker 1: throw all of his responsibilities out the window to do that.
21:57
Speaker 1: But in January of that year, something changed in Sherman.
22:01
Speaker 1: He went from being this pillar in the community to
22:04
Speaker 1: being a deranged, paranoid lunatic. It all started on the
22:09
Speaker 1: afternoon of January nineteenth.
22:11
Speaker 2: Sherman and his wife.
22:12
Speaker 1: Ruby were sitting in their home, alone on the couch,
22:15
Speaker 1: just kind of doing their own things, when suddenly, out
22:18
Speaker 1: of the blue, Sherman just starts screaming, as if he
22:21
Speaker 1: sees something in front of him that's terrifying him. And
22:23
Speaker 1: his screams startled Ruby so that she started screaming, and
22:27
Speaker 1: so she looks at her husband and he's still just
22:29
Speaker 1: looking straight out ahead. He's terrified of something in front
22:32
Speaker 1: of him, and so Ruby looks from him to where
22:34
Speaker 1: he's looking and there's nothing there, and so she turns
22:37
Speaker 1: back to her husband and she's like, what's going on?
22:39
Speaker 1: What are you screaming for? What are you so scared of?
22:41
Speaker 1: But Sherman wasn't able to speak after he stopped screaming.
22:45
Speaker 1: He just continued to look straight out, as if whatever
22:48
Speaker 1: had terrified him had him in this trance where he
22:50
Speaker 1: couldn't look away, And so his eyes are wide, his
22:53
Speaker 1: mouth is open, his face is going white, he's starting
22:55
Speaker 1: to sweat, and Ruby's starting to panic. She has no
22:57
Speaker 1: idea what's happening with him, and so eventually she just
23:00
Speaker 1: holds onto him and says, come back to me, come
23:02
Speaker 1: back to me. And Sherman at some point would he
23:04
Speaker 1: kind of broke out of his trance and he looked
23:06
Speaker 1: at his wife and he just says, you can't leave me,
23:09
Speaker 1: or they'll kill me. Ruby has never seen behavior like
23:12
Speaker 1: this in her husband. Ever, this is a completely different
23:16
Speaker 1: person she's interacting with, and so she has no idea
23:19
Speaker 1: what to do, and so instead she just kind of
23:21
Speaker 1: holds on to Sherman and praise that he doesn't start
23:24
Speaker 1: acting like that again. But that didn't happen all day long.
23:27
Speaker 1: Periodically he would just start screaming about something that Ruby
23:31
Speaker 1: couldn't see.
23:32
Speaker 2: Now.
23:32
Speaker 1: Ruby did consider calling nine one one and getting medics
23:35
Speaker 1: out there, but his behavior was so unusual, and he
23:39
Speaker 1: was normally such a rock who was so competent, who
23:42
Speaker 1: was so healthy, that she didn't want to. She felt
23:45
Speaker 1: like he would just kind of get through this, that
23:46
Speaker 1: if they can just get through today and get into tomorrow,
23:49
Speaker 1: that he would be better, and so she just all
23:51
Speaker 1: day was comforting him and just dealing with these episodes.
23:54
Speaker 2: And then finally they got into bed that night.
23:56
Speaker 1: And Ruby's thinking, thank goodness, we're gonna wake up tomorrow
23:59
Speaker 1: and things will be batter. But when she woke up
24:01
Speaker 1: the next morning, it was very obvious Sherman had not
24:04
Speaker 1: slept at all. He was looking straight up at the ceiling.
24:06
Speaker 1: He looked worse than the day before. It was obvious
24:09
Speaker 1: that he was not back to normal, and so Ruby
24:11
Speaker 1: called the rest of the family and had them come
24:14
Speaker 1: over to figure out what they were going to do.
24:16
Speaker 1: But when Sherman found out his family was coming to
24:18
Speaker 1: his house, he told Ruby they can't come inside. He
24:21
Speaker 1: was afraid they and others were conspiring to bury him alive.
24:25
Speaker 1: The only person he could be around was Ruby, and
24:28
Speaker 1: his whole family had no idea what to do.
24:31
Speaker 2: Little did they know there was.
24:33
Speaker 1: Actually a very specific reason he was acting the way
24:36
Speaker 1: he was a few months before January nineteenth, which was
24:40
Speaker 1: the day Sherman turned into this different person. A few
24:43
Speaker 1: months earlier, he began complaining of severe abdominal pains, and
24:47
Speaker 1: so he and his wife, Ruby, and his daughter they
24:49
Speaker 1: went to the hospital, and the doctor, after examining him
24:52
Speaker 1: and running some tests, determined that most likely his pain
24:55
Speaker 1: was coming from his gallbladder, but the only way to
24:58
Speaker 1: be sure would be to do some exp floratory surgery
25:01
Speaker 1: and literally look inside of Sherman's gut and look at
25:04
Speaker 1: his gallbladder and see if that was the problem. And
25:07
Speaker 1: so the doctor asked, Sherman, you know, are you prepared
25:09
Speaker 1: to do an exploratory surgery or would you like to
25:12
Speaker 1: just kind of wait it out and see what happens
25:14
Speaker 1: with this pain. And so Sherman talked it over with
25:16
Speaker 1: his wife and his family and they made the decision
25:18
Speaker 1: that the pain was just too much and so they
25:20
Speaker 1: would go forward with the surgery. And so on the
25:23
Speaker 1: morning of January nineteenth, so again this is the day
25:26
Speaker 1: that Sherman basically loses his mind.
25:28
Speaker 2: He goes into the hospital completely normal.
25:30
Speaker 1: He goes in with his wife, he goes in with
25:32
Speaker 1: his daughter, and he makes his way over to the surgery.
25:34
Speaker 2: Wing of the hospital. He says bye to his.
25:36
Speaker 1: Family, and he's put on a stretcher bed and he's
25:39
Speaker 1: wheeled in and prepped for surgery and then brought into
25:42
Speaker 1: the operating room. And while he was in the operating
25:44
Speaker 1: room laying on his stretcher bed, flat on his back,
25:46
Speaker 1: looking straight up at all these bright lights above him,
25:49
Speaker 1: he just struck up some chit chat with the nurses
25:51
Speaker 1: and doctors who were in the room prepping the room
25:53
Speaker 1: for surgery, and they were also putting the IV into
25:56
Speaker 1: his arm. Then At some point, one of the nurses
25:58
Speaker 1: lowered the oxygen mask on to Sherman's face so the
26:02
Speaker 1: anesthesiologist could administer the two drug cocktail that would knock
26:06
Speaker 1: him out for the surgery. Sherman was scheduled to get
26:08
Speaker 1: something known as general anesthesia for this operation, where basically
26:13
Speaker 1: he would be completely out, he wouldn't feel anything, they'd
26:15
Speaker 1: do the surgery, and then he would wake up in recovery.
26:18
Speaker 1: And so, once this mask was on Sherman's face, the
26:20
Speaker 1: anesthesiologist began pumping him full of the drugs that would
26:24
Speaker 1: make him be knocked out for the surgery. However, the
26:27
Speaker 1: anesthesiologist only administered one of the two drugs necessary for
26:33
Speaker 1: general anesthesia. He administered the paralyzing drug, but he did
26:37
Speaker 1: not administer the actual anesthetic that would knock him out
26:42
Speaker 1: and most importantly, would get rid of all of his pain.
26:44
Speaker 1: And so, as this mask is on his face and
26:47
Speaker 1: Sherman believes he's being given the proper dosage of drugs,
26:50
Speaker 1: the nurse who was nearby told Sherman to go ahead
26:52
Speaker 1: and start counting backwards in his head from ten, knowing
26:55
Speaker 1: full well that Sherman would pass out before he reached zero.
26:58
Speaker 1: And Sherman knew this too and surgery before, and so
27:01
Speaker 1: he happily began counting in his head ten nine eight.
27:04
Speaker 1: He started to feel something seven six, five, four three
27:08
Speaker 1: two one boom. He was out, except he wasn't. When
27:11
Speaker 1: he reached zero in his head counting down, he realized
27:15
Speaker 1: he had not passed out. He began taking mental stock
27:18
Speaker 1: of what was going on, and he realized he could
27:20
Speaker 1: completely feel his body, but when he tried to move
27:23
Speaker 1: his body.
27:24
Speaker 2: He couldn't. He was completely paralyzed.
27:26
Speaker 1: When he tried to make a sound, he couldn't because
27:29
Speaker 1: his vocal cords were also paralyzed. The only thing he
27:32
Speaker 1: could move were his eyes. He could move them left
27:34
Speaker 1: and right. However, they had taped his eyes shut, so
27:38
Speaker 1: he can't see anything. And so Sherman is thinking to himself, Okay,
27:41
Speaker 1: you know I've been given the drugs. Maybe they're slow acting.
27:43
Speaker 1: Any minute now, I'm going to drift off to sleep
27:45
Speaker 1: and this will just be a distant memory. But after
27:48
Speaker 1: a few seconds, he's hearing the doctors and nurses in
27:50
Speaker 1: the room. He can't see him, but he hears them.
27:52
Speaker 1: They seem to be moving towards doing this operation, and
27:55
Speaker 1: he's still awake, and so Sherman becomes frantic and starts
27:58
Speaker 1: flicking his eyes left and right as fast as he
28:00
Speaker 1: possibly can, and the rapid eye movement actually loosened the
28:04
Speaker 1: tape on both of his eyelids, and it created a
28:06
Speaker 1: tiny slit that he could actually.
28:08
Speaker 2: Look through, and what he saw terrified him.
28:11
Speaker 1: The surgeon was walking over next to him, he was
28:13
Speaker 1: getting his gloves on, and then the surgeon says, scalpel,
28:17
Speaker 1: and the nurse hands him this chrome metallic blade, and
28:21
Speaker 1: the surgeon takes the blade and begins cutting into Sherman's
28:25
Speaker 1: mid section.
28:26
Speaker 2: Sherman felt everything, but Sherman couldn't do anything about it.
28:30
Speaker 1: All he could do was rapidly flick his eyes left
28:32
Speaker 1: and right in hopes one of them would see that
28:35
Speaker 1: he was awake, that he was feeling this. But no
28:38
Speaker 1: one was paying attention to his face, so they didn't
28:40
Speaker 1: see his eyes moving around, and so the surgeon continued
28:43
Speaker 1: to cut into his mid section until he had cut
28:46
Speaker 1: out a fairly significantly sized hole, at which point the
28:49
Speaker 1: surgeon hands the scalpel to the nurse and says clamps,
28:52
Speaker 1: at which point the nurse hands him what looks like
28:55
Speaker 1: a torture device, and the surgeon proceeds to use these
28:58
Speaker 1: clamps to pin segments of Sherman's skin that has just
29:01
Speaker 1: been cut open to his body to basically keep the
29:04
Speaker 1: hole open. And then the surgeon began tugging on the
29:07
Speaker 1: outsides of this hole in Sherman's midsection, making sure it
29:11
Speaker 1: was big enough that he could actually get a good
29:13
Speaker 1: look into his body. And every little tug is sending
29:17
Speaker 1: lightning bolts of pain into Sherman's body. But again, all
29:20
Speaker 1: he can do is flick his eyes left and right,
29:23
Speaker 1: and no one's paying attention.
29:24
Speaker 2: Scope.
29:25
Speaker 1: The surgeon called out for and the nurse handed him
29:27
Speaker 1: a camera that he jammed into Sherman's gut, and then
29:30
Speaker 1: the surgeon said suction, and the nurse got what looked
29:33
Speaker 1: like a vacuum and pressed it inside of this open
29:36
Speaker 1: wound and began sucking out fluids from his body. The
29:39
Speaker 1: pain Sherman was experiencing is unimaginable. Every second felt like
29:44
Speaker 1: an eternity forceps. The surgeon called and the nurse handed
29:47
Speaker 1: him these metal prongs that he put inside of this
29:50
Speaker 1: hole in Sherman's body, and he used them to dislodge
29:54
Speaker 1: his gallbladders. So he could get a better look at it.
29:56
Speaker 1: By this point, Sherman wanted to die. He was no
29:58
Speaker 1: longer flicking his eyes left and right. He was just
30:01
Speaker 1: looking straight out, hoping someone would finally see him.
30:05
Speaker 2: And someone did.
30:06
Speaker 1: One of the nurses standing next to the surgeon looked
30:09
Speaker 1: up at Sherman's face and saw Sherman looking back terrified
30:13
Speaker 1: at the nurse, at which point the nurse yelled.
30:15
Speaker 2: Off, stop, he's awake.
30:16
Speaker 1: He's awake, And the surgeon practically faints and he looks
30:19
Speaker 1: over at the anesthesiologist and he calls him, get over
30:22
Speaker 1: here and fix this. And so the anesthesiologist comes running
30:25
Speaker 1: over from the side of the room. He gets up
30:27
Speaker 1: next to Sherman and begins pumping him full of painkillers.
30:30
Speaker 1: And as he's doing this, he has this moment of clarity.
30:33
Speaker 1: He remembers he didn't give him the anesthetic. And so
30:37
Speaker 1: as these new painkillers that have just been introduced begin
30:39
Speaker 1: to take their effect, Sherman's eyes go from being terrified
30:43
Speaker 1: to glazed over, and he does pass off to sleep.
30:46
Speaker 1: And so now he's out and he can't feel anything.
30:48
Speaker 1: But now the anesthesiologist and the medical team realize they
30:52
Speaker 1: have a very big problem. This patient just experienced sixteen
30:56
Speaker 1: minutes of surgery and felt all of it, and at
30:58
Speaker 1: the end of it, when he wakes up, he's going
31:00
Speaker 1: to remember it, and he's probably going to file a
31:03
Speaker 1: lawsuit against the hospital.
31:04
Speaker 2: And so a decision was made.
31:06
Speaker 1: It's unclear if the anesthesiologist acted alone or if the
31:10
Speaker 1: entire team was in on this, but regardless, the anesthesiologist
31:14
Speaker 1: administered an additional drug after giving all these painkillers. This
31:18
Speaker 1: additional drug was called mitazolam, but it's better known as
31:22
Speaker 1: the amnesia drug, and like its nickname implies, anyone who
31:26
Speaker 1: gets it will forget what has just happened to them.
31:29
Speaker 1: And so the idea was, by giving him this amnesia drug,
31:32
Speaker 1: he won't remember the trauma he had suffered through during
31:35
Speaker 1: the surgery and so wouldn't file a lawsuit. And so
31:38
Speaker 1: after he was given this drug, the medical team they
31:41
Speaker 1: went back to doing the surgery. They completed it, and
31:43
Speaker 1: they got him back out to recovery. And then when
31:45
Speaker 1: Sherman woke up in recovery, he did not remember what
31:49
Speaker 1: had happened to him inside of the operating room.
31:51
Speaker 2: At least not consciously.
31:53
Speaker 1: Those horrible sixteen minutes had been implanted on Sherman's subconscious Basically,
32:00
Speaker 1: his body recognized that he had.
32:02
Speaker 2: Experienced extreme trauma.
32:05
Speaker 1: However, the amnesia drug wiped away the memory of how
32:09
Speaker 1: he received that trauma. So there's this big disconnect in
32:13
Speaker 1: his memory. And so when Sherman came to in the
32:16
Speaker 1: recovery room, he immediately sensed something was horribly horribly wrong.
32:21
Speaker 1: He was scared, he was anxious, He had this incredible
32:23
Speaker 1: sense of dread, but he had no memory to tie
32:27
Speaker 1: these feelings to. And so as Sherman is sitting in recovery,
32:30
Speaker 1: he must have tried to kind of hide the way
32:32
Speaker 1: he was feeling because he didn't even remotely understand it.
32:36
Speaker 1: He had been completely happy and normal going into the surgery,
32:39
Speaker 1: and now a couple of hours later he's a complete mess.
32:42
Speaker 1: And so he leaves the hospital that day on January nineteenth.
32:45
Speaker 1: He goes back to his house and he sits on
32:47
Speaker 1: the couch with his wife, and as he's sitting there,
32:49
Speaker 1: suddenly these horrible feelings he's having they become too much
32:53
Speaker 1: and he basically has a panic attack and he starts
32:55
Speaker 1: screaming out and he's terrified of something, but he doesn't
32:58
Speaker 1: know what it. Is, and then over the next couple
33:00
Speaker 1: of days, he began having these flashbacks where he would
33:04
Speaker 1: access the actual sixteen minutes of torture he went through.
33:08
Speaker 1: But when he would see someone cutting into him and
33:10
Speaker 1: opening his chest up and sucking things out of it,
33:13
Speaker 1: he didn't think that happened to me, and that's why
33:15
Speaker 1: I feel this way. Instead, he thought it was just
33:18
Speaker 1: this horrible nightmare that he couldn't escape from. And so
33:20
Speaker 1: his family did eventually start getting doctors and psychologists and
33:23
Speaker 1: all these people involved to figure out what was wrong
33:26
Speaker 1: with him. But before they could figure it out, the
33:28
Speaker 1: whole situation had just become too terrible for Sherman, and
33:32
Speaker 1: so on February second, just two weeks after he came
33:36
Speaker 1: out of that surgery, he would take his own life.
33:39
Speaker 1: His family was unbelievably heartbroken. It didn't seem real that
33:42
Speaker 1: this had happened, and so they would continue to dig
33:45
Speaker 1: and dig and figure out what went wrong, and they
33:48
Speaker 1: would finally get their hands on the medical report from
33:51
Speaker 1: the gallbladder exploratory surgery on January nineteenth, and after giving
33:55
Speaker 1: it to another doctor to look over, this doctor discovered
33:59
Speaker 1: that if Sherman had in fact experienced sixteen minutes of
34:03
Speaker 1: something known as anesthesia awareness, where you are awake or
34:07
Speaker 1: feel a portion of your surgery.
34:09
Speaker 2: And shockingly, this happens to twenty thousand people a year.
34:13
Speaker 1: However, Sherman's case forgetting the amnesia drug just literally what
34:17
Speaker 1: he went through sixteen full minutes of this really intensive
34:21
Speaker 1: surgery that he felt.
34:22
Speaker 2: That is an.
34:23
Speaker 1: Absolute rarity that does not happen very often. Sherman's family
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