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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today's story is about a guy named John who just
- 0:02Speaker 1: wanted to go surfing and he would get a chance
- 0:04Speaker 1: to do that. However, when he was finally out on
- 0:08Speaker 1: the water, something super rare and super horrible happened to
- 0:12Speaker 1: him that actually kicked off a series of more rare
- 0:17Speaker 1: and terrible things that all happened to John. I mean,
- 0:19Speaker 1: this whole story is so outrageous that it just sounds
- 0:22Speaker 1: totally made up, but I can promise you it's not.
- 0:26Speaker 1: But before we get into that story, if you're a
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- 0:53Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On in April morning in
- 1:10Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three, a surfer named John Doyle was sitting
- 1:13Speaker 1: on a surfboard out in the Atlantic Ocean off the
- 1:15Speaker 1: coast of West Africa, just scanning the water waiting for
- 1:18Speaker 1: a wave. John was totally alone out here. There were
- 1:22Speaker 1: no other surfers, nothing, and the only sign of human
- 1:25Speaker 1: civilization anywhere was John's land rover, which was parked up
- 1:29Speaker 1: on the sand on the beach. John was an American,
- 1:31Speaker 1: he was from Colorado, and so his experience had always been,
- 1:35Speaker 1: you know, lots of snow at mountains and trees, because
- 1:37Speaker 1: that's Colorado. But now here off the coast of Africa,
- 1:41Speaker 1: it was a totally different planet. And in fact, today
- 1:45Speaker 1: John was really feeling that because the sun was so
- 1:48Speaker 1: hot that day, it was over ninety five degrees fahrenheit,
- 1:50Speaker 1: and he could actually feel his back starting to burn
- 1:53Speaker 1: as he sat there, you know.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Waiting for the next wave.
- 1:56Speaker 1: And so he told himself actually that he would just
- 1:58Speaker 1: catch one more wave and and call it a day
- 2:00Speaker 1: to avoid a sunburn.
- 2:02Speaker 2: But as John continued to kind of scan out across.
- 2:05Speaker 1: The water waiting for this wave, he noticed about twenty
- 2:08Speaker 1: meters away was a shark fin swimming in a circle
- 2:12Speaker 1: like stereotypical terrifying shark behavior.
- 2:15Speaker 2: And so John is.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Horrified and he wants to get out of the water immediately,
- 2:19Speaker 1: but he's far enough away from shore that if he
- 2:22Speaker 1: jumped into the water to swim to shore, you know
- 2:25Speaker 1: he's going to be in the water with the shark
- 2:27Speaker 1: thrashing around. He's just going to attract the shark over
- 2:30Speaker 1: to him. And so John decides his only hope here
- 2:33Speaker 1: to escape the shark is actually just to surfit. That way,
- 2:37Speaker 1: he'll stay out of the water. It's much faster he'll
- 2:39Speaker 1: get to shore. If the shark can't follow him there,
- 2:42Speaker 1: it'll be fine. And so, trying to stay calm, John
- 2:45Speaker 1: continued to keep his eye on the shark that was
- 2:47Speaker 1: still twenty meters away, and he also really looked closely
- 2:51Speaker 1: for any swell coming towards him that might be big
- 2:54Speaker 1: enough to allow him to surf to shore. And thankfully,
- 2:56Speaker 1: after only a couple of minutes, John did see a
- 2:59Speaker 1: swim coming towards him that seemed like it would be
- 3:02Speaker 1: perfect for a final wave. And so at this point
- 3:04Speaker 1: John is facing out to see towards the swell, towards
- 3:08Speaker 1: the shark that's still twenty meters away, and he turns
- 3:11Speaker 1: himself around so he's facing towards shore, and then he
- 3:14Speaker 1: lays down in his stomach and he begins to paddle
- 3:16Speaker 1: towards shore. And as he's doing this, you know, he's
- 3:19Speaker 1: checking the swell to see when it's going to come
- 3:20Speaker 1: up when he can stand up. And eventually the swell
- 3:23Speaker 1: is right underneath him. And as he's about to stand
- 3:26Speaker 1: up on his board and actually surf into shore, he
- 3:29Speaker 1: looks into the water that is not quite formed into
- 3:32Speaker 1: a wave yet and he sees the shark. It's literally
- 3:37Speaker 1: underneath him. And so John has this sudden surge of
- 3:39Speaker 1: adrenaline and he just jumps up onto his board. He
- 3:42Speaker 1: stands up and for a second he's stable. He's surfing,
- 3:46Speaker 1: and he's riding this wave away from the shark. He's
- 3:48Speaker 1: doing exactly what he hoped he could do. He can't
- 3:50Speaker 1: believe it. And then, because he was panicked because he
- 3:54Speaker 1: was rushing because it was a new board, who knows why,
- 3:57Speaker 1: the nose of his board suddenly dip just long enough
- 4:01Speaker 1: to throw John off his board and into the water
- 4:05Speaker 1: with the shark. And so immediately as this wave is
- 4:08Speaker 1: churning John over, he grabs onto his surfboard and just
- 4:11Speaker 1: kind of holds on and he's waiting for a moment
- 4:14Speaker 1: when the wave stops so he can get out of
- 4:16Speaker 1: the water, back on his board and away from the shark.
- 4:19Speaker 1: But before the wave even stopped tumbling him over, John
- 4:23Speaker 1: suddenly felt the searing pain in his calf and so John,
- 4:27Speaker 1: who's underwater, still clutching his board, he opens his eyes underwater.
- 4:31Speaker 1: Then he looks down and through the cloudy water, he
- 4:34Speaker 1: can see very clearly it is the shark, and it's
- 4:37Speaker 1: a great white shark that is latched onto his leg.
- 4:41Speaker 1: And so now in a total panic, John began punching
- 4:45Speaker 1: the nose of the shark, and when he did, the
- 4:48Speaker 1: shark actually recoiled and released his leg long enough that
- 4:53Speaker 1: John could pull it out. He actually managed to get
- 4:55Speaker 1: up onto his board again, and just a second later,
- 4:58Speaker 1: almost out of instinct, back standing on his board, just
- 5:01Speaker 1: surfing along with a leg that was now bleeding profusely
- 5:05Speaker 1: into the water. And for a second John was stable
- 5:08Speaker 1: and appeared to be kind of moving towards shore again,
- 5:10Speaker 1: but then the shark it doubled around and swam it
- 5:14Speaker 1: John from the side and literally smashed into him, knocking.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Him off the board back into the water.
- 5:21Speaker 1: But this time John managed when he fell this second
- 5:24Speaker 1: time to actually grab on to the board with both hands,
- 5:27Speaker 1: so he has two hands on the board. He's getting
- 5:29Speaker 1: tumbled in the water again, but he knows the shark
- 5:32Speaker 1: is going to come for him, and so with the
- 5:34Speaker 1: last second, he pulled the board close to his body
- 5:36Speaker 1: and kind of turned himself like it was a shield,
- 5:38Speaker 1: and the shark came.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Flying towards him and bit him.
- 5:42Speaker 1: But because he used that surfboard as a shield, the
- 5:45Speaker 1: shark just bit the surfboard, ripped off half of it,
- 5:48Speaker 1: and swam off with it and began mauling this half
- 5:50Speaker 1: of the surfboard, and John with the other half of
- 5:54Speaker 1: the surfboard, he somehow managed to stand up on it again.
- 5:58Speaker 1: His leg is bleeding everywhere, and he rode this damaged
- 6:02Speaker 1: half surfboard into shore successfully away from the shark. And
- 6:06Speaker 1: so when John pulled himself up onto the sand, you know,
- 6:09Speaker 1: out of the water, he looked back and he saw
- 6:11Speaker 1: the sharks swimming off, and even though he's an extruciating
- 6:15Speaker 1: pain from this attack, he was so relieved. He couldn't
- 6:18Speaker 1: believe he actually just survived that. But John did not
- 6:22Speaker 1: have time to think about, you know what good fortune
- 6:24Speaker 1: this was in a way, because he was an hour
- 6:27Speaker 1: away from the nearest civilization, and between where he was
- 6:30Speaker 1: now and that town, there was nothing. There weren't homes,
- 6:34Speaker 1: there weren't buildings, there weren't offices, nothing. It was just
- 6:37Speaker 1: totally wild lands until you got to that town. And
- 6:41Speaker 1: so John knew he would need to get in his
- 6:43Speaker 1: car and drive all the way to that town and
- 6:46Speaker 1: then get the people of the town to go get
- 6:49Speaker 1: medical help. So, I mean, he is hours away from
- 6:53Speaker 1: getting the help he needs, and so he has no
- 6:55Speaker 1: time to waste, and so he crawls through the sand.
- 6:58Speaker 1: You know, his leg is killing it, but he's just
- 7:00Speaker 1: so focused on getting up to his land rover, and
- 7:02Speaker 1: he manages to get to his car. He opens the door,
- 7:05Speaker 1: he climbs in the driver's seat, and then as soon
- 7:07Speaker 1: as he's in there, you know, he shuts and locks
- 7:08Speaker 1: the doors. And then he grabs a white T shirt
- 7:11Speaker 1: that he had on the passenger seat, and he ripped
- 7:13Speaker 1: it into strips and he used those strips like tourniquits
- 7:17Speaker 1: and he wrapped them around his leg, the leg that
- 7:19Speaker 1: was bleeding from his calf, and he basically used this
- 7:21Speaker 1: tournique to attempt to cut off blood flow to his
- 7:25Speaker 1: entire right leg to stop the bleeding to save his life.
- 7:28Speaker 2: But the wound on his right leg.
- 7:30Speaker 1: Was so bad and so deep that despite putting on
- 7:34Speaker 1: multiple very tight tourniquits, it just wasn't doing very much.
- 7:38Speaker 1: He was still losing blood at a pace that likely
- 7:41Speaker 1: would kill him before he got to town. And so
- 7:43Speaker 1: John was kind of like, well, nothing else I can
- 7:46Speaker 1: do but attempt to go to town. So he fired up
- 7:49Speaker 1: his car, he reversed off the beach, and began making
- 7:51Speaker 1: his way towards town. As John sped along the road,
- 7:55Speaker 1: he began to feel very light headed, you know, between
- 7:57Speaker 1: the pain and his leg and the extreme heat outside,
- 8:00Speaker 1: he just felt very dehydrated and weak. And so he
- 8:03Speaker 1: thought to himself, if I can't get a sip of
- 8:05Speaker 1: water soon, I'm going to pass out right now, and
- 8:07Speaker 1: then I'm done for. And so as he's driving along,
- 8:10Speaker 1: John began fumbling around his car, you know, looking for
- 8:13Speaker 1: any sort of liquid somewhere in the car. But ultimately
- 8:17Speaker 1: all he found was an empty water bottle, and all
- 8:19Speaker 1: he saw in every direction was just this barren African
- 8:22Speaker 1: savannah with no people and no water anywhere. And so
- 8:26Speaker 1: John just kept on driving, hoping eventually he might find
- 8:30Speaker 1: some water source. And luckily, after only a couple of minutes,
- 8:33Speaker 1: when his eyelids were really starting to droop and he
- 8:35Speaker 1: was having a hard time focusing, he noticed up ahead
- 8:38Speaker 1: there was a copse of trees with a little creek
- 8:41Speaker 1: that ran through it, and so immediately John pulled over
- 8:44Speaker 1: and he got out, and he hobbled his way over
- 8:46Speaker 1: to the water. He laid down on his stomach so
- 8:48Speaker 1: his face is basically right over the water, and then
- 8:51Speaker 1: he just put his face in the water and began
- 8:53Speaker 1: to drink. And as he did, he felt his heart
- 8:55Speaker 1: rate start to slow down. He felt himself relax a
- 8:58Speaker 1: little bit, and he started to think to himself, like, hey,
- 9:00Speaker 1: you know I found water.
- 9:01Speaker 2: You know I'm doing okay. Maybe I will survive this.
- 9:05Speaker 2: But right as.
- 9:05Speaker 1: John was starting to feel optimistic, he felt a new
- 9:09Speaker 1: shooting pain on his right side, and so, with a
- 9:12Speaker 1: little bit of strength he had, he managed to turn
- 9:14Speaker 1: his head and looked to see what was going on,
- 9:17Speaker 1: and staring back at him was a lion who had
- 9:20Speaker 1: just bit his side and was now growling and staring
- 9:24Speaker 1: at John and beginning to move its jaw left and
- 9:27Speaker 1: right to really sink its teeth into John. Okay, so
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- 10:33Speaker 1: be sure you stick around till the end of today's video,
- 10:36Speaker 1: because we're going to play a clip from last week's
- 10:38Speaker 1: episode of Run Full. Now, this is unbelievably painful for John,
- 10:49Speaker 1: and he's already dealing with an unbelievable pain in his
- 10:52Speaker 1: leg from the shark attack, and so John's experiencing pain
- 10:56Speaker 1: that very few people ever get to experience, and it
- 10:59Speaker 1: caused the this unbelievable surge of adrenaline, you know, one
- 11:02Speaker 1: that you would likely get basically right before you die.
- 11:05Speaker 1: That was the level of adrenaline he was getting. And
- 11:08Speaker 1: with this adrenaline rush, he grabbed a stick and he
- 11:12Speaker 1: began hitting this lion who's locked onto his ribs, and
- 11:16Speaker 1: he managed to beat the lion off of him, and
- 11:19Speaker 1: the lion, you know, it only backed up maybe a
- 11:21Speaker 1: few feet, and it's still totally fixated on John, and
- 11:25Speaker 1: it's growling and edging towards him. But John, you know,
- 11:28Speaker 1: all he could do was just attempt to get to
- 11:30Speaker 1: his land rover.
- 11:31Speaker 2: And so as soon as the lion had let go.
- 11:33Speaker 1: Of him, he just stood up and kind of pathetically
- 11:35Speaker 1: began hobbling as fast as he could towards this land rover.
- 11:39Speaker 1: And he literally just walked past this lion who's still
- 11:42Speaker 1: growling at him, kind of trying to size him up,
- 11:45Speaker 1: and he just kept on walking towards his car, and
- 11:47Speaker 1: he was almost there when he noticed the sound of
- 11:50Speaker 1: the lion growling behind him, which had been constant to
- 11:53Speaker 1: this point, had suddenly intensified to the point where John
- 11:57Speaker 1: couldn't even help himself. He had to turn around and
- 12:00Speaker 1: see what was going on. And when he turned around,
- 12:02Speaker 1: he saw now there was not just one lion, but
- 12:06Speaker 1: an entire pride of lions. There was at least four
- 12:09Speaker 1: lions that now had all formed a semicircle and were
- 12:12Speaker 1: staring at John and moving towards him to eat him.
- 12:16Speaker 1: But John really couldn't do anything about this. All he
- 12:19Speaker 1: could do was just hopefully get to his land rover
- 12:23Speaker 1: in time. And so John just turned back around, so
- 12:26Speaker 1: his back is to the pride of lions a few
- 12:28Speaker 1: feet away from him, and he just continues hobbling towards
- 12:31Speaker 1: his car. And as he walked, the lions began swiping
- 12:35Speaker 1: at him and cutting his legs open and his arms open.
- 12:38Speaker 1: I mean, they're like razor blades just being taken to
- 12:40Speaker 1: the backside of him. But they didn't launch a full
- 12:43Speaker 1: bore attack on him. It was like they were just
- 12:45Speaker 1: kind of testing him. And then right when the lions
- 12:48Speaker 1: were basically about to actually pull John to the ground
- 12:51Speaker 1: and eat him. Was when John got to the door,
- 12:54Speaker 1: opened it up, jumped inside, shut it, and locked it. However,
- 12:58Speaker 1: when John went to grab his keys and start the car,
- 13:01Speaker 1: he realized he didn't have the keys, and when he
- 13:04Speaker 1: turned and looked outside, he saw the pride of lions
- 13:08Speaker 1: and his car keys on the ground.
- 13:11Speaker 2: He was doomed.
- 13:12Speaker 1: He knew there was no way he could get those
- 13:14Speaker 1: keys without getting killed in the process, and so John
- 13:18Speaker 1: basically just resigned himself to die in his car right here,
- 13:21Speaker 1: like he knew, I'm going to die.
- 13:23Speaker 2: In the next few hours.
- 13:24Speaker 1: There's nothing I can do, and so he just kind
- 13:26Speaker 1: of sat there and waited. And thirty minutes later, John
- 13:29Speaker 1: heard a very loud, almost explosion sound coming from somewhere
- 13:33Speaker 1: outside of the vehicle, and then he heard it a
- 13:36Speaker 1: few more times, and before long the lions were so
- 13:39Speaker 1: startled by it that they ran away. And then he
- 13:41Speaker 1: hears what sounds like a series of shutter flashes, like
- 13:44Speaker 1: camera flashes, and you know, he's looking around, he can't
- 13:46Speaker 1: quite figure out what's even going on, because again he
- 13:49Speaker 1: has all these injuries, he's lost so much blood, and
- 13:51Speaker 1: then eventually John just kind of passes out, having no
- 13:54Speaker 1: idea what had just happened. It would turn out there
- 13:56Speaker 1: was actually a safari that was happening in the area
- 13:59Speaker 1: where John was at the same time, and the safari guide,
- 14:03Speaker 1: as they drove past this area, happened to spot John
- 14:06Speaker 1: inside of his land rovers surrounded by lions, and so
- 14:10Speaker 1: as all the people in the tour began furiously taking
- 14:13Speaker 1: photos of this crazy scene in front of them, the
- 14:16Speaker 1: tour guide began firing his rifle into the sky to
- 14:19Speaker 1: scare the lions off. And so those were the noises
- 14:21Speaker 1: that John was hearing before he passed out. And then
- 14:24Speaker 1: after he passed out, the tour guide and all the
- 14:26Speaker 1: people on the tour pulled John out of his land
- 14:29Speaker 1: rover because now the lions are gone, and they would
- 14:31Speaker 1: take him to a hospital where doctors and nurses would
- 14:34Speaker 1: have to give him two hundred and fifty stitches to
- 14:37Speaker 1: stitch up all of his various shark and lion wounds.
- 14:41Speaker 1: John would make a full recovery, and he would hang
- 14:43Speaker 1: up on his wall in his office the broken half
- 14:46Speaker 1: of that surfboard that he did successfully manage to ride
- 14:49Speaker 1: in to escape the shark. He says, the surfboard reminds
- 14:52Speaker 1: him how lucky he was as promised. Here is a
- 14:59Speaker 1: clip from last week's episode of our amazing podcast Run Full,
- 15:03Speaker 1: hosted by the incredible iconic storyteller Rodney Barnes and Enjoy.
- 15:09Speaker 3: That's when Uma flew in for some damage control. Her
- 15:12Speaker 3: tone was polite but firm as she informed the outsider
- 15:14Speaker 3: that this was a private party. He needed to leave.
- 15:18Speaker 3: Ethan flinched. This was so embarrassing? Is he going to
- 15:21Speaker 3: get kicked out next? But the outsider didn't see him. Bothered,
- 15:25Speaker 3: he asked again where doctor Smith was?
- 15:27Speaker 1: Where is he?
- 15:30Speaker 3: Uma grabbed his elbow and pulled him towards the exit.
- 15:33Speaker 3: That's when the man lost it. He ripped his arm
- 15:35Speaker 3: from Uma and backed away, trembling. His mouth quivered, his
- 15:39Speaker 3: eyes leaked fear. He opened his mouth and screamed. The
- 15:43Speaker 3: well cut through Ethan's head like a knife. He yelped
- 15:46Speaker 3: and covered his ears with his palms. The other guests
- 15:49Speaker 3: did too, so did Uma, but she looked wrong. Her
- 15:54Speaker 3: head shook back and forth. It picked up speed until
- 15:58Speaker 3: her features became a blur. Ethan could hear her choking too,
- 16:02Speaker 3: loud hack and gasp as a throat struggle to keep
- 16:04Speaker 3: up with the unnatural movement. Her trembling hands moved to
- 16:08Speaker 3: her cheeks a futile attempt to stop whatever was happening.
- 16:11Speaker 3: Then a loud crack echo through the world, and with
- 16:15Speaker 3: that UMA's head twisted all the way around on her neck.
- 16:23Speaker 2: So that's going to do it.
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