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She HUNTED DOWN her idol - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three incredible stories about
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Speaker 1: real people who had something totally unexpected and insane happened
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Speaker 1: to them that not only you know, completely changed their lives,
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Speaker 1: but in some of these cases, it completely changed other
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Speaker 1: people's lives as well. But before we get into those stories,
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Speaker 1: today's stories. One afternoon in the early two thousands, a
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Speaker 1: young woman named Rose drove up to this huge mansion
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Speaker 1: in the Hollywood Hills in California. She came to a
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Speaker 1: stop outside the fence and she just sat there for
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Speaker 1: a minute, feeling very nervous because what she was about
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Speaker 1: to do was highly illegal. So Rose was a musician,
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Speaker 1: but she definitely had not made it. Yet, however, she
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Speaker 1: was desperately trying to break into the industry, and so
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Speaker 1: her big plan today was she was going to sneak
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Speaker 1: in to this mansion which was home to arguably one
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Speaker 1: of the most famous people on the planet, a big
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Speaker 1: time musician, and her plan was to give them a
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Speaker 1: copy of her DEMOCD because she believed if they would
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Speaker 1: just listen to just one song on there, they would
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Speaker 1: be blown away by her talent and they would help
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Speaker 1: usher her into the industry and her career would take off. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 1: she knew this could go horribly wrong, and you know,
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Speaker 1: the owner of this home could just as easily call
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Speaker 1: the police and have her throne in jail. But to her,
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Speaker 1: it felt like the risk was worth it. And so
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Speaker 1: Rose got out of her car and she looked up
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Speaker 1: this huge driveway that extended up this hill and it
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Speaker 1: reached this big gate that sort of blocked off the
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Speaker 1: driveway about halfway up, and then the driveway beyond the
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Speaker 1: gate continued up to the mansion. And from where she
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Speaker 1: was standing, there really was nobody out on the property anywhere.
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Speaker 1: It was totally quiet, just this massive mansion up on
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Speaker 1: a hill. But in front of the gate. On her
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Speaker 1: side of the gate was clearly the gardener. And you know,
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Speaker 1: at first she thought maybe, you know, the gardener was
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Speaker 1: going to be a problem, that of course they would
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Speaker 1: see her if she tried to break into the property.
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Speaker 1: But you know, Rose was desperate, and she thought the
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Speaker 1: gardener looked friendly enough, and so she decided she would
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Speaker 1: go up and maybe try to convince the gardener to
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Speaker 1: let her go through the gate. And so she took
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Speaker 1: a deep breath and with her demo CD in hand,
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Speaker 1: Rose began walking up this first stretched driveway and as
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Speaker 1: she got closer to the gate, the gardener stopped what
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Speaker 1: they were doing and turned to kind of see what
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Speaker 1: this person was doing. And you know, Rose was very
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Speaker 1: young and charismatic, and she seemed friendly enough. And she
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Speaker 1: comes walking up the driveway and she approaches the gardener
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Speaker 1: and pulls out a five dollar bill and hands it
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Speaker 1: to the gardener and just says, look, I got no money,
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Speaker 1: like this is my last five dollars. Please well let
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Speaker 1: me go through. I just want to drop something off.
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Speaker 1: And so the gardener takes the five dollars and just
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Speaker 1: smiles at Rose and says, okay, go ahead. I mean,
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Speaker 1: after all, Rose is like a kid. She seems completely harmless.
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Speaker 1: You know, what's the worst that could happen? And so
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Speaker 1: Rose is kind of blown away that the gardener is
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Speaker 1: actually letting this happen. But she doesn't wait. She just
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Speaker 1: goes right past the gardener, slips through the front gate,
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Speaker 1: and starts walking right up towards the mansion. And as
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Speaker 1: Rose is walking up this driveway towards the front door
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Speaker 1: of this gargantuan piece of property, she's looking around at
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Speaker 1: the beautiful landscaping and just how valuable and beautiful everything looked.
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Speaker 1: And she's seeing all these cameras pointing in every direction,
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Speaker 1: and she's just waiting for any minute, you know, security
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Speaker 1: guards to come running out here and tackle her to
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Speaker 1: the ground. But nothing happened. She walked right up to
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Speaker 1: this huge, beautiful front door, and again no one's come
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Speaker 1: to meet her, and so she just knocks on the
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Speaker 1: front door, but nobody comes to the door. So she's thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know what do I do? Like, I've come this far,
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Speaker 1: I really want to hand this demo CD off, And so,
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Speaker 1: almost like without even thinking, she just reached down and
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Speaker 1: tried the doorknob, thinking, of course it's going to be locked.
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Speaker 1: But no, it was open, and so she turns the
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Speaker 1: doorknob and pushes the door in, and now she's looking
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Speaker 1: into the home of again, one of the most famous
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Speaker 1: people on the planet, and nobody stopping her. At this point,
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Speaker 1: Rose didn't even know what to make of the situation
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Speaker 1: she found herself in. I mean, she had been fantasizing
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Speaker 1: about how this was gonna go for weeks leading up
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Speaker 1: to this, and it didn't involve it being this easy
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Speaker 1: and straightforward. But here she was. And so again, without hesitation,
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Speaker 1: she just walked inside this home. And how she's looking around,
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Speaker 1: I mean, everything is beautiful, and everything is clearly so expensive.
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Speaker 1: There's all this amazing artwork and fancy furniture. There's billiard halls,
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Speaker 1: there's wine cellars. I mean, this is a gorgeous property,
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Speaker 1: exactly what you'd expect for the person who lives here.
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Speaker 1: And as she's kind of snooping around the first floor
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Speaker 1: looking for the owner, she's amazed to see that it's
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Speaker 1: like nobody's home. It's just this vacant, unbelievable mansion. Eventually
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Speaker 1: she walks around and finds there's an elevator, and so
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Speaker 1: she's like, all right, I'll just get in the elevator
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Speaker 1: and go up. So she gets in this beautiful elevator,
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Speaker 1: she shuts the door, she hits the button to go
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Speaker 1: to the next floor, and as the car begins to move,
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Speaker 1: she realizes, like this is going to make some noise,
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Speaker 1: like someone's gonna hear me, like, oh my gosh, now
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get caught, and so she starts to freak out,
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Speaker 1: and so she pulls out her big clunky Nokia cell
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Speaker 1: phone and she calls her mom, and when her mom
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Speaker 1: picks up, she tells her that, you know what, almost
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Speaker 1: certainly I'm about to get arrested here. And as her
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Speaker 1: mom is like, what are you doing? What is going
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Speaker 1: on here? The elevator that roses in came to a
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Speaker 1: stop and the door opened up, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: Rose saw what was in front of her, she just
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Speaker 1: lowered the phone her mom's still talking into it, and
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Speaker 1: just stared. It was like she was totally struck by
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Speaker 1: what she was seeing, because right in front of her
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Speaker 1: in the room, right outside of this elevator is the
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Speaker 1: person who owns this house, the extremely famous, major celebrity
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Speaker 1: who is just sitting there with a guitar strumming along
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Speaker 1: just minding his own business, and he turns and looks
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Speaker 1: at Rose, and Rose is looking at him, and there's
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Speaker 1: this moment of just stun silence, like neither of them
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Speaker 1: can really figure out how this even came to be.
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Speaker 1: Now at this point, Rose knew it was her chance,
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Speaker 1: and so even though she's unbelievably starstruck and scared and
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Speaker 1: has no idea what's about to happen, she just quickly
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Speaker 1: walks a little bit forward into the room and throws
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Speaker 1: her demo CD onto this table that was sort of
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Speaker 1: between the two of them, and this big time musician
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Speaker 1: is just like again standing there staring at her, like
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Speaker 1: what are you doing here? And after Rose did that,
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Speaker 1: she didn't say anything. She just turned headed back to
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Speaker 1: the elevator and began to make her escape. But by
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Speaker 1: the time she made it back to the front door,
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Speaker 1: this big time musicians' security team did catch up to
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Speaker 1: her and they stopped her. However, they did decide not
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Speaker 1: to call the police, and so Rose was very lucky
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Speaker 1: that she escaped without a criminal record, which is of
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Speaker 1: incredible when you consider the home she actually broke into.
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Speaker 1: This was the home of Prince Again arguably at the
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Speaker 1: time one of the most famous people in the world.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's bad enough sneaking into anybody's home, but
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Speaker 1: this is like egregious. So the idea that she got
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Speaker 1: right up next to Prince and gave him her demo
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Speaker 1: CD without consequence pretty incredible. But despite all this, her
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Speaker 1: interaction with Prince really didn't have any bearing on her career.
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Speaker 1: He didn't care at all about her demo CD. He
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Speaker 1: did not, you know, throw her name out to industry
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Speaker 1: contacts and you know, blow her career up. Basically, he said,
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Speaker 1: I won't press charges, now get out of here. That
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Speaker 1: was it. However, Rose did go on to become an
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Speaker 1: incredibly famous musician in her own right. She just did
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Speaker 1: it without the help of Prince. Today, Rose's tracks go
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Speaker 1: multiplatinum and she sold more than one hundred million copies
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Speaker 1: of her records. Rose is actually her middle name. You
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Speaker 1: very likely know her by her stage name, which is
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Speaker 1: on the wonder app. Okay, back to the stories. One
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Speaker 1: day in two thousand and eight, a fifty year old
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Speaker 1: man named Carlo was at his home in Connecticut reviewing
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Speaker 1: all this financial documentation. So Carlow had filed for bankruptcy
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Speaker 1: a few years earlier, and it had proven to be
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Speaker 1: very complicated, and there was all this paperwork he was
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Speaker 1: still getting and you know, his bankruptcy case had not
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Speaker 1: even finalized yet, and so what he thought would be
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Speaker 1: sort of like a quick fix to a huge problem
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Speaker 1: had turned into a really complicated mess and now he
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Speaker 1: had even more paperwork to sign. I mean, it was
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Speaker 1: totally overwhelming. So Carlo was an actor, and in many
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Speaker 1: ways he had had lots of success. He had been
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Speaker 1: on Broadway, he had starred in shows and movies, like
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Speaker 1: he was a respected actor with lots of contacts in
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Speaker 1: the industry. But despite that, he hadn't really ever made it, Like,
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Speaker 1: he couldn't really consistently land high paying or even consistent
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Speaker 1: work period and so despite his reputation as being a
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Speaker 1: very talented actor, it really wasn't translating to financial success. Now,
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Speaker 1: this situation that Carlo was in would not have been
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Speaker 1: that bad if he was single, but he wasn't. He
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Speaker 1: was married with four children to take care of. And
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Speaker 1: on top of that, Carlo also felt this really intense
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Speaker 1: pressure that was sort of maybe felt in the industry
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Speaker 1: in general, in the sort of entertainment industry, to keep
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Speaker 1: up with his appearances. You know, as much as he
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Speaker 1: was struggling financially, he felt like he didn't want his
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Speaker 1: peers to know that that might eat into his ability
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Speaker 1: to get big roles. And so he's got all this
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Speaker 1: pressure to take care of his family and all this
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Speaker 1: pressure to maintain this idea that he's really successful and
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Speaker 1: doing great, but in reality, He just felt like a
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Speaker 1: total fraud. He had no money, and he felt like
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Speaker 1: he didn't even know how he was going to dig
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Speaker 1: himself out again. And so as Carlo is sitting there
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Speaker 1: staring at this mountain of paperwork, he started to have
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Speaker 1: this very dark thought that had sort of crept into
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Speaker 1: his mind a couple of times over the past few months,
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Speaker 1: you know, as this huge issue just continued to get
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Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. But now this dark idea had become
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Speaker 1: fully realized in his mind. He began to think, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe if I were to die, there could be a
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Speaker 1: large insurance payout to my family that would solve their
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Speaker 1: financial problems, and it would also sort of, you know,
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Speaker 1: absconde me from looking like the fraud that I really am.
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Speaker 1: Nobody would know I'd be dead, they wouldn't know that
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Speaker 1: I had all these issues. I'd just you know, be gone,
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Speaker 1: and people would miss me and my family. They'd be
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Speaker 1: financially taken care of. You know, maybe that's a possibility.
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Speaker 1: You know. Obviously, Carlo was not trying to end his
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Speaker 1: life because he didn't want to be here anymore. He
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Speaker 1: just felt like he did not have another way out,
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Speaker 1: and so he actually went to his wife and began
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Speaker 1: sort of you know, nonchalantly asking her questions about their
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Speaker 1: you know, various insurance plans to see if he had
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Speaker 1: a good life insurance policy that would pay out if
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Speaker 1: he were to go and eventually he got his wife
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Speaker 1: to tell him that, yeah, you have a very generous
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Speaker 1: life insurance policy. We are good if you know, the
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Speaker 1: worst were to happen and something were to happen to you.
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Speaker 1: And at that point Carlo felt like, that's it, that's
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Speaker 1: the way to fix this problem. I need to die. However,
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Speaker 1: when Carlo actually did begin researching this route, seeing exactly
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Speaker 1: how you know, an insurance payout would work if he
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Speaker 1: were to take his own life, he quickly learned that,
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Speaker 1: you know, payouts after a suicide on these life insurance
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Speaker 1: plans are very complicated and there's all these stipulations involved,
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Speaker 1: because you know, insurance companies do not want people taking
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Speaker 1: their own life in order to get these payouts, and
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Speaker 1: so Carlo was quickly seeing that if he were to
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Speaker 1: take his life, it would not be like okay, quick
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Speaker 1: payout to his family, quite the opposite, and in some cases,
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Speaker 1: you know, his family might not even be entitled to
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Speaker 1: this payout, and so Carlo's thinking, well, okay, I can't
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Speaker 1: take my own life. I need to find another way
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Speaker 1: to have my life come to an end. And so
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, Okay, I'll start picking up really dangerous hobbies
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Speaker 1: and maybe I can sort of die by accident. Maybe
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Speaker 1: I'll start hang gliding and fall out of my harness
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Speaker 1: and that'll be the way I die, and maybe that'll
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Speaker 1: lead to a payout. Or I'll start doing base jumping
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Speaker 1: or all these different things that might reasonably explain why
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Speaker 1: he suddenly died. But he also was thinking, you know,
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Speaker 1: people would see through that I'm not the type of
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Speaker 1: guy that picks up really dangerous hobbies, and so that
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Speaker 1: could be kind of acious. He's like, okay, well what
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Speaker 1: else could I do? And he's like, oh, I could
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Speaker 1: hire a hitman. You know, somebody else will kill me
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Speaker 1: and then you know it's not my fault. Somebody else
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Speaker 1: took my life. That'll allow for a payout, right. But
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Speaker 1: you know, the more he thought about it, the more
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Speaker 1: that too seemed highly suspicious. I mean, people don't usually
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Speaker 1: get away with hired hits. And so several months go
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Speaker 1: by and Carlo is still alive because he's basically discovered
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Speaker 1: that there really isn't a way to intentionally end his
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Speaker 1: life directly or indirectly without getting caught and sort of
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Speaker 1: jeopardizing the one thing he wants this to do, which
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Speaker 1: is to have this payout for his family. And so
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Speaker 1: he's just sort of stuck in this situation that he
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Speaker 1: does not feel like he can get out of, Like
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Speaker 1: he's just completely buried by debt in this general financial
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Speaker 1: crisis he's in. And so Carlo was doing really the
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Speaker 1: only thing he knew he could do, which is just
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Speaker 1: to get out there and audition for as many shows
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Speaker 1: and movies and various acting opportunities as he possibly could
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Speaker 1: to at least, you know, get some amount of money
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Speaker 1: coming in, even though clearly it was still never going
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Speaker 1: to be enough. But in late two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: Carlo got an interesting call from his agent, his agent
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Speaker 1: who worked to get him some of these roles. Now,
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Speaker 1: Carlo's agent, who did understand Carlo was in dire straits here,
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Speaker 1: quickly explained to Carlo that, you know, this role didn't
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Speaker 1: really pay much, but you know you'd be able to
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Speaker 1: be a part of a very big show. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: your role is sort of minimal, but this is huge.
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Speaker 1: It's a big credit, and you know, maybe it lends
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Speaker 1: itself to you getting other work. You know, this could
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Speaker 1: be a great opportunity for you. Now, Carlo had hurt
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Speaker 1: his agent sort of pitch him on various roles and
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Speaker 1: the opportunity and all that before, and so he was
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Speaker 1: grateful to be, you know, told this is a good opportunity,
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Speaker 1: but he was sort of skeptical. But he received the
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Speaker 1: script and he began reading about, you know, what his
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Speaker 1: character would be doing in the show, and he quickly
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Speaker 1: realized that, you know what, this role actually might be
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Speaker 1: more perfect for me than even the producers and directors
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Speaker 1: might realize. So this role was for this particular character
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Speaker 1: on the show who sort of in the show hides
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Speaker 1: in plain sight, Like that's sort of the way they
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Speaker 1: need to be portrayed. They're sort of they're this huge
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Speaker 1: influential character in one way, but to the eye of
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Speaker 1: the audience, they sort of look like a nobody. They're
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Speaker 1: sort of again hiding in plain sight. And Carlo in
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Speaker 1: his own life very much felt like he was sort
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Speaker 1: of hiding in plain sight to his peers in the industry.
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Speaker 1: He's this acclaimed actor who's getting all these roles and
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Speaker 1: everything's so great. He's a family man with four kids,
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Speaker 1: but privately he's living this hell. He's got all this
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Speaker 1: financial debt. He's considered killing himself for an insurance payout
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Speaker 1: to pay for his life. Like he's living a completely
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Speaker 1: double life here. And so he felt like, I know
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Speaker 1: how to hide in plain sight. It's literally what I
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Speaker 1: do every day, that's my actual life. And so he
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Speaker 1: takes this role. And Carlo does such a world class
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Speaker 1: job portraying this character who hides in plain sight that
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Speaker 1: the director and all these people who are working on
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Speaker 1: the show, they're like, oh my goodness, Carlo is incredible,
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Speaker 1: and this character that he's portraying, we got to find
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Speaker 1: a way to expand this character and make them more
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Speaker 1: meaningful in the show. And so they quickly began like
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Speaker 1: writing in additional scenes into this big time show for
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Speaker 1: Carlo's character. Again, not because the character was so good,
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Speaker 1: but because Carlo was so good at portraying that character.
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Speaker 1: And as this character's role grew in the show, the
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Speaker 1: show itself began to succeed even more. Like the audience
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Speaker 1: was like, wow, we love that character, and so the
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Speaker 1: character only grew and grew and became a staple in
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Speaker 1: this show, and it ultimately completely changed Carlo's life, not
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Speaker 1: only because this would be the opportunity that would make
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Speaker 1: him massively famous and hugely successful, but also because he
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Speaker 1: got paid and he was able to escape the financial
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Speaker 1: hell that he was in. Through this incredible experience, Carlo
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Speaker 1: would get paid millions and millions of dollars and would
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Speaker 1: be nominated for multiple Emmy Awards. Now you might know
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Speaker 1: Carlo by his full name, which was John Carlo Esposito,
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Speaker 1: but if that name doesn't ring a bell, likely do
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Speaker 1: know him from the life changing role that he portrayed
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Speaker 1: on the show. He was Gus Spring, the chicken shop
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Speaker 1: kingpin from Breaking Bad. On Thursday June sixth, twenty thirteen,
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Speaker 1: a seventy nine year old woman named Marilyn Walpole, along
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Speaker 1: with her husband Jim, walked down a busy street in Toronto, Canada.
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Speaker 1: They were on their way back to their hotel after
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Speaker 1: a dinner date at a local Irish pub called PJ o'bryant's.
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Speaker 1: The couple was from Ohio, but they were on the
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Speaker 1: last leg of a cross country vacation through Canada, and
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Speaker 1: so far the trip had been amazing. And so the
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Speaker 1: retired couple is enjoying their evening, just walking down the road,
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Speaker 1: you know, reminiscing about what an amazing trip it had been.
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Speaker 1: And at some point, as they're walking on the sidewalk,
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Speaker 1: they see up ahead there's all this scaffolding that's been
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Speaker 1: built up right over the sidewalk. There's some sort of
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Speaker 1: construction happening on building that lined the sidewalk, and there
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Speaker 1: was a platform that was built maybe eight to ten
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Speaker 1: feet above the sidewalk, you know, this scaffolding so that
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Speaker 1: workers could stand on this platform and do construction. And
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Speaker 1: so pedestrians like Maryland and Jim, if they wanted to
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Speaker 1: walk on the sidewalk, they would have to walk under
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Speaker 1: the scaffolding. Like the sidewalk continues unobstructed right underneath. The
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Speaker 1: scaffolding is intentionally built to allow for this tunnel for
18:24
Speaker 1: pedestrians to walk like this is not a big deal.
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Speaker 1: It's very common in cities, and so Maryland and Jim
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Speaker 1: they walk underneath the scaffolding and they're not thinking anything
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Speaker 1: of this. This is completely ordinary. There's other people also
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Speaker 1: walking under the scaffolding. It's all good. But at some
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Speaker 1: point Jim trips while they're under this scaffolding, and where
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Speaker 1: he lands is where there's a couple pieces of metal
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Speaker 1: kind of poking up out of the ground, some metal tubing.
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Speaker 1: You know, it was kind of obvious and people avoided it.
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Speaker 1: But he's falling, he can't avoid it, and he lands
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Speaker 1: with his neck striking basically this metal tube poking up
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Speaker 1: out of the ground, and so Jim he hits the
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Speaker 1: ground and the tube cuts his neck wide open. And
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Speaker 1: so suddenly Jim is literally gushing blood all over the sidewalk.
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Speaker 1: And it happens so completely suddenly that Marilyn she saw
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Speaker 1: her husband trip and she's kind of getting him to
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Speaker 1: stand up, and as she's doing that, she's seeing all
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Speaker 1: this blood pooling everywhere, and she just freezes. She has
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Speaker 1: no idea what's happened, Like, what's going on with Jim?
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Speaker 1: Why is he bleeding? And she starts screaming for help.
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Speaker 1: And there are these two guys. There's nobody else inside
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Speaker 1: the tunnel with them, but there are these two men
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Speaker 1: who don't know each other. They're just strangers out on
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Speaker 1: the street. They hear Marilyn screaming for help, pointing at
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Speaker 1: her husband, who's still laying on the ground, and these
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Speaker 1: two guys come running over to her, and they're kind
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Speaker 1: of assessing the situation, and they see Jim kind of
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Speaker 1: grabbing at his neck. His blood is pouring out of him,
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Speaker 1: and one of the men pulls out his phone and
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Speaker 1: calls nine to one one, so he starts talking to
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Speaker 1: first responders, and the other man he got down next
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Speaker 1: to Jim. He pulled the scarf off from around his
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Speaker 1: neck and he cradled Jim's head and he wrapped the
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Speaker 1: scarf around Jim's neck and he applied pressure to Jim's neck,
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Speaker 1: and very calmly, he told Jim, it's okay, we're stopping
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Speaker 1: the bleeding. Paramedics are on their way. He tells Marylyn,
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Speaker 1: it's okay, I've got your husband. You stay calm, Everything's
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Speaker 1: going to be fine. And so Marilyn, who again has
20:13
Speaker 1: just kind of been a panic here, this happened, so
20:15
Speaker 1: suddenly she immediately calmed down because she can tell clearly
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Speaker 1: this second man, the guy holding her husband's head and
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Speaker 1: applying pressure, he's got to be a doctor, or at
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Speaker 1: a minimum in the medical field, because this guy has
20:28
Speaker 1: just a commanding presence, a very calming presence, and knows
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Speaker 1: what he's doing. And so, to Marilyn's great relief, the
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Speaker 1: man on the ground holding her husband's head and the
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Speaker 1: man who had called nine to one one they stayed
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Speaker 1: with her and Jim all the way until the paramedics arrived,
20:41
Speaker 1: which was only a couple of minutes later. And then
20:44
Speaker 1: after Jim was lifted up by paramedics and put into
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Speaker 1: the back of the ambulance, Marilyn was told, hey, get in,
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Speaker 1: you're coming with him. And as she's climbing into the ambulance,
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Speaker 1: she turns and specifically asks the man who was kind
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Speaker 1: of all over it, who was actually handling Jim and
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Speaker 1: actually holding his head and applying pressure. She said, what's
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Speaker 1: your name? And the man looked at her and he
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Speaker 1: just said her name's John. Everything is fine, your husband's
21:06
Speaker 1: going to be okay. Now go, And so Marilyn just
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Speaker 1: felt so reassured by this guy, and she said, thank
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Speaker 1: you so much. She hops in the ambulance, the door shut,
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Speaker 1: and they take off to the hospital. The following day,
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Speaker 1: Marilyn was in her husband's hospital room, feeling very grateful
21:20
Speaker 1: that Jim was clearly going to survive. Here so ultimately,
21:23
Speaker 1: he had broken a finger and also needed ten stitches
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Speaker 1: to his neck to close the wound. But from what
21:29
Speaker 1: the doctors told them, basically, the cut to his neck,
21:32
Speaker 1: had it been maybe an eighth of an inch deeper,
21:35
Speaker 1: it almost certainly would have severed his main artery and
21:38
Speaker 1: then very likely he would have bled to death right
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Speaker 1: there on the sidewalk before paramedics arrived. So this was
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Speaker 1: a very close call. But even without that deep of
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Speaker 1: a penetration, the wound he sustained was still life threatening,
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Speaker 1: and the doctors told them that, you know, because of
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Speaker 1: the quick action of John and the other man who
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Speaker 1: called nine to one one that very likely contributed to
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Speaker 1: stabilizing him enough that he was able to get to
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Speaker 1: the hospital and be saved. And so Marilyn and Jim
22:03
Speaker 1: they can't believe this has happened, but they're so grateful
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Speaker 1: to the medical team and also to the two men
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Speaker 1: from yesterday who they don't even know who they are.
22:10
Speaker 1: But Marilyn is determined that she needs to find these
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Speaker 1: two men, John and the other guy and thank them,
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Speaker 1: but she's realizing she really doesn't have a way to
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Speaker 1: contact them. I mean, this all happens so quickly, and
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Speaker 1: all she knows is one guy's name John, and she
22:24
Speaker 1: didn't even have the other guy's name. But luckily, the
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Speaker 1: following day, when Marilyn and Jim were back at their hotel,
22:30
Speaker 1: they got a call from the front desk saying that
22:32
Speaker 1: they had a visitor, and it would turn out it
22:34
Speaker 1: was the man who had called nine to one one.
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Speaker 1: He had been really concerned about Jim and Marilyn and
22:39
Speaker 1: wanted to figure out if they were okay, and he
22:40
Speaker 1: had discovered where they were staying, and so he had
22:43
Speaker 1: come to see them. And so Marilyn and Jim they
22:45
Speaker 1: come down and they're so thankful, and they come to
22:47
Speaker 1: find out this guy is actually the owner of PJ.
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Speaker 1: O'Brien's pub where they had gone to eat on the
22:53
Speaker 1: night Jim and fallen, and she's just saying, thank you
22:55
Speaker 1: so much. You know, without you, I don't know what
22:57
Speaker 1: would have happened. And then also Marilyn's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: do you know the other guy, John, the one who
23:02
Speaker 1: actually was applying pressure to Jim's neck, because he also
23:05
Speaker 1: played a huge role in saving Jim's life, and the
23:09
Speaker 1: owner of the pub. He sort of looked back at
23:10
Speaker 1: Marylyn with a smile on his face, and he's like, well,
23:13
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know him personally. We just happened
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Speaker 1: to be walking down the street when you called out
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Speaker 1: for help. But like, I know who John is. Lots
23:21
Speaker 1: of people know who John is. In fact, honestly, you
23:24
Speaker 1: probably know who John is. Because it would turn out
23:27
Speaker 1: John was not a doctor the way Marilyn assumed he
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Speaker 1: was based on how easily he stepped into the fray
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Speaker 1: of this medical crisis and knew what to do and
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Speaker 1: put pressure on Jim's neck and seems so calm. None
23:39
Speaker 1: of that had to do with medical training. He was
23:41
Speaker 1: not medically trained. Instead, John has this skill. He's this
23:46
Speaker 1: really charismatic, really commanding presence where every time he's in
23:50
Speaker 1: a room, people just look to him and think, oh,
23:52
Speaker 1: he's got to be in charge because he just got
23:54
Speaker 1: this way about him, this X factor, and he carries
23:57
Speaker 1: that X factor on screen. Every role this guy plays
24:01
Speaker 1: in movies and TV shows, he is the leader. He
24:04
Speaker 1: is in charge, and it's so effortless because that's kind
24:07
Speaker 1: of his thing. And so from that day forward, Marilyn
24:10
Speaker 1: and Jim had a brand new favorite actor, John Malkovich,
24:15
Speaker 1: the multi time award winning actor who literally saved Jim's Life.
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