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Speaker 1: the morning of June twentieth, two thousand and five, a
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Speaker 1: forty year old man named Wangdong stood just inside the
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Speaker 1: doorway of a little home in rural northeastern China. Outside,
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Speaker 1: it was pouring rain with all this crazy thunder and lightning,
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Speaker 1: and also there were these hailstones coming down the size
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Speaker 1: of golf balls. Smashing into everything. I mean, just the
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Speaker 1: impact on the roof must have been so loud. And
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Speaker 1: so as Wong was standing in the doorway, he was
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Speaker 1: actually looking out in the direction of the storm because
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Speaker 1: all these people were running towards him to come in
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Speaker 1: the house. Wong was actually hosting awake for a friend,
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Speaker 1: and he was hosting this wake at this man's home,
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Speaker 1: and all the people running up to him were all
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Speaker 1: the mourners coming to pay their respects. Now, by this point,
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Speaker 1: most of the mourners had already made it inside the house,
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Speaker 1: and so Wong was basically just waiting for the last
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Speaker 1: few stragglers to make their way inside. And so from
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Speaker 1: his post at the door, Wang is watching the storm
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Speaker 1: and all these people. And he also took stock of
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Speaker 1: the fact that as he looked out to the big
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Speaker 1: tobacco fields that kind of were all over the place
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Speaker 1: in this town that was the primary way people made
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Speaker 1: money in this town, he noticed that there was nobody
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Speaker 1: out there tending the crops. And even in rainstorms, people
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Speaker 1: would tend these crops because this was their livelihood. But
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Speaker 1: Wong understood why nobody was out there. Yes, it was
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Speaker 1: the storm, but specifically lately there had been these crazy
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Speaker 1: lightning strikes in storms like this that struck the field,
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Speaker 1: and so these workers that were normally out in the
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Speaker 1: fields every single day, they weren't doing that anymore. Finally,
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Speaker 1: the last couple arrived, and Wong greeted them and brought
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Speaker 1: them inside, and then he shut the door and then
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Speaker 1: began making his rounds inside the home, making sure all
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Speaker 1: the guests have what they needed, and also just kind
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Speaker 1: of making sure the wake was, you know, overall a
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Speaker 1: positive experience all things considered. Now, to be clear, Wong
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Speaker 1: was not a monk or a priest or even a
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Speaker 1: relative of the person who was deceased. Instead, he was
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Speaker 1: just kind of like the guy that m sed virtually
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Speaker 1: all events in this town. So if there was weddings,
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Speaker 1: he was the guy who officiated the weddings, and if
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Speaker 1: there were funerals or wakes or things at that and
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Speaker 1: ague sure also Wong was often tapped to mc that
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Speaker 1: as well. He was kind of like the village elder,
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Speaker 1: if you will, even though he was only forty years old,
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Speaker 1: and Wang he really treasured the fact that he was
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Speaker 1: the guy that got to do these things, and so
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Speaker 1: he put a lot of time and energy into making
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Speaker 1: sure they went extremely well. So on this day, as
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Speaker 1: he was making his rounds checking in with all the mourners,
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Speaker 1: nobody really needed anything, and so Wong sort of felt
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Speaker 1: like he didn't have a role, and he scanned around
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Speaker 1: the room looking for something else he could do that
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Speaker 1: would be productive. And he noticed the incense near the
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Speaker 1: casket was going out, and so Wog walked over. He
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Speaker 1: pulled out the extinguished incense, he got a new stick
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Speaker 1: of incense, put it in, and he lit it, and
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Speaker 1: then he just kind of stood over the casket and
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Speaker 1: closed his eyes and began saying a silent prayer for
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Speaker 1: the dead. And as Wong did this, suddenly there was
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Speaker 1: this deafening roar, and then everything went black. A few
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Speaker 1: seconds later, that deafening roar faded and it was replaced
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Speaker 1: by the sound of all the mourners in the house
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Speaker 1: basically screaming and trying to figure out what just happened.
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Speaker 1: And so as people began kind of trying to size
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Speaker 1: up the situation, they saw there was all this smoke
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Speaker 1: near the casket, and there was all these wooden debris everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and then people looked up at the ceiling and they
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Speaker 1: saw there was now a pretty good sized hole that
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Speaker 1: had blackened jar around the edges of the hole that
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Speaker 1: was kind of smoldering, and then, unfortunately, once the smoke
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Speaker 1: really had kind of dissipated, Wong was laying right underneath
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Speaker 1: this hole in the roof and half of his head
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Speaker 1: was gone. It was very clear he was deceased, and
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Speaker 1: it didn't take long for mourners to figure out what
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Speaker 1: had happened. Wong had unfortunately been struck by lightning. Two
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Speaker 1: days later, Wang's family held a funeral for Wong, and
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Speaker 1: basically the entire village showed up for this funeral because remember,
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Speaker 1: Wong was really a central member of this community and
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Speaker 1: so it was a really big loss that he was
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Speaker 1: now dead, and candidly, this only stoked the fears that
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Speaker 1: everybody had about lightning strikes. I mean, this was really
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Speaker 1: becoming a huge issue. But after the funeral ended and
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Speaker 1: Wong had been placed into a hearse and driven off
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Speaker 1: to the crematorium to be cremated, the people at this funeral,
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Speaker 1: who were kind of making their way ou out, began
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Speaker 1: kind of talking a little bit more candidly about what
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Speaker 1: had happened to Wong. I mean, it was obvious he
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Speaker 1: was struck by lightning. But in this town there was
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Speaker 1: a lot of superstition around deaths like this, when it
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Speaker 1: seems like how he died is almost like an act
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Speaker 1: of God. I mean, how many people get struck by lightning,
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Speaker 1: even if you're scared of being struck by lightning, That
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Speaker 1: is a very rare phenomenon. And everybody knew that, and
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Speaker 1: so the mourners couldn't help but suspect that maybe Wong
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Speaker 1: was not this incredible person that everybody loved. Maybe he
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Speaker 1: had deep, dark secrets and the way he was killed
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Speaker 1: was like God's punishment, you know, smiting him for the
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Speaker 1: terrible things he was hiding. But nonetheless, the mourners who
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Speaker 1: had just left the funeral followed tradition and actually walked
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Speaker 1: over to the local crematorium where Wong would be cremated. Basically,
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Speaker 1: it's the absolute final goodbye, and typically the family will
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Speaker 1: stay there and wait for all the people to come
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Speaker 1: by and pay their final respects, and then at that
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Speaker 1: point the family hands off their loved one and their
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Speaker 1: casket to the manager of the crematorium and the cremation
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Speaker 1: process begins. And so all that happens all the mourners
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Speaker 1: go to the crematorium, you know, they pay their final respects,
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Speaker 1: and then before long, Wong's family was brought inside the
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Speaker 1: crematorium with the manager and they were placed in this
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Speaker 1: quiet room to kind of wait for this process to happen.
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Speaker 1: And then the manager left them and went down the
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Speaker 1: hall to the furnace room where Wong's casket was waiting
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Speaker 1: for him. So the furnace room inside of this crematorium
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Speaker 1: is basically like this big industrial space where in the
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Speaker 1: middle is this huge intimidating metal furnace, which is actually
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Speaker 1: where you know, the bodies are slid in and burned
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Speaker 1: until they're just ash. And so picture like the biggest
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Speaker 1: oven you've ever seen, with a big metal rectangular door
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Speaker 1: and these rails that slide directly into this furnace, and
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Speaker 1: the casket is placed on those rails and then kind
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Speaker 1: of fed into the furnace. They seal the door and
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Speaker 1: then of course ignite the furnace and then the cremation begins.
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Speaker 1: And so the manager, who had done this many many times,
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Speaker 1: walked up to Wong's casket, which was already placed on
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Speaker 1: the rails. Workers had already set it up before this
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Speaker 1: process before he came in. And so the manager walks
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Speaker 1: up to the casket, opens it up. He sees Wong's
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Speaker 1: body and he confirms that Wang is just wearing a
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Speaker 1: robe with a belt, and he did not have any
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Speaker 1: jewelry or metal on him or anything like that which
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Speaker 1: was not allowed during the cremation process. And so, feeling
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Speaker 1: confident that this was all good, he shut the casket
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Speaker 1: and then slid the casket into the furnace. He shut
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Speaker 1: the door, the big metal door, locked it, and then
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Speaker 1: started the furnace. And as soon as he hit it,
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Speaker 1: the manager heard the familiar sound of gas hissing as
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Speaker 1: the gas kind of filled up the inside of the space,
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Speaker 1: and then the familiar whooshing sound of the flames igniting.
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Speaker 1: But as the manager kind of stepped away from the
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Speaker 1: front of this furnace and was kind of making his
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Speaker 1: way back towards the door, he noticed there was another
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Speaker 1: sound coming from inside of this furnace. It was a
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Speaker 1: hissing sound, but different than the gas sound. This was
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Speaker 1: something else. And then before long the hissing got louder
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Speaker 1: and louder and louder, and then finally there was this
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Speaker 1: massive explosion inside of this furnace, and so smoke is
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Speaker 1: pouring out of the sides. It was unbelievable that the
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Speaker 1: furnace itself even held its shape. Something massive had detonated
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Speaker 1: inside of this thing. And in fact, even though that
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Speaker 1: door that seals the furnace shut, even though it had
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Speaker 1: not been blown off, the force of whatever detonated inside
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Speaker 1: of there was so strong that the manager actually was
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Speaker 1: knocked backwards from the blast. And so when a panic
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Speaker 1: he got up and there's smoke filling the room, and
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Speaker 1: there's flames kind of dancing out of the edges of
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Speaker 1: this metal door in front of the furnace, and he
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Speaker 1: hits the emergency stop and the flames cut, but it's
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Speaker 1: still all smoky, and it's totally chaotic, and workers are
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Speaker 1: rushing into the room to figure out what's going on,
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Speaker 1: and the manager had no idea. This was something he
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Speaker 1: had never ever seen before. Just minutes later, firefighters arrived
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Speaker 1: and basically extinguished the remaining flames that were kind of
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Speaker 1: residually burning inside of the furnace and slightly outside of
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Speaker 1: the furnace. Remember this was a significant explosion, so there
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Speaker 1: are cracks and brakes all over the furnace, where some
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Speaker 1: flames were still lit, but finally the firefighters did extinguish
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Speaker 1: all the flames, and then after it was safe to
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Speaker 1: be in there, an investigation was launched as to what
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Speaker 1: the heck happened in there, And so police officers went
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Speaker 1: into this room and began sifting through all the debris
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Speaker 1: in this room, both inside of the furnace itself and
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Speaker 1: also outside where it cracked and things had shot off
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Speaker 1: in different directions. And for a while they found nothing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, all they found were basically pieces of Wong,
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Speaker 1: you know, ash and some bone and some tissue from him,
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Speaker 1: but there was nothing else that was unusual. But at
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Speaker 1: some point one of the officers did find something that
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Speaker 1: was unusual. He found a piece of metal that was
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Speaker 1: inside of the furnace that clearly should not have been there,
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Speaker 1: because remember it's not allowed to have metal or jewelry
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Speaker 1: or anything on the deceased when they're brought into the furnace,
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Speaker 1: and considering what happened, they're like, okay, does this have
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Speaker 1: something to do with the explosion, And so the officers
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Speaker 1: kind of hulve around this metal and they began kind
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Speaker 1: of cleaning it off to see if there was anything
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Speaker 1: written on it. It's not a very big piece of metal,
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Speaker 1: and eventually they had cleaned it off enough that they
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Speaker 1: realized there was something written on it, and it absolutely
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Speaker 1: explained what had happened here. So to understand what happened,
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Speaker 1: you need to have an understanding of how the Chinese
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Speaker 1: government was bonds to severe storms like the one that
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Speaker 1: was going on on the day that Wang was struck
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Speaker 1: by lightning. So remember Wang's village had all these tobacco
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Speaker 1: fields all over the place, which was not only how
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Speaker 1: the villagers made their living, but also China as a whole.
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Speaker 1: They need these crops to be bountiful, and these huge
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Speaker 1: storms that produce those golf ball sized pieces of hail,
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Speaker 1: those can severely damage tobacco crops and the Chinese government
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Speaker 1: doesn't want that to happen, and so the Chinese government
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Speaker 1: has set up these things called weather bureaus, which are
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Speaker 1: these government agencies all across the country whose job is
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Speaker 1: to try to weaken these storms. And the way they
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Speaker 1: do that is very interesting. They use a chemical called
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Speaker 1: silver iode that they put into the actual storm clouds.
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Speaker 1: And what silver iode does is it attracts ice particles
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Speaker 1: and water, and so with this chemical up in the clouds.
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Speaker 1: It kind of breaks up the hail a little bit
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Speaker 1: and either makes them really small, and sometimes this chemical
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Speaker 1: can actually completely destroy the hail and convert it from
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Speaker 1: hail to just plain old rain, which is great. So
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Speaker 1: how do these weather bureaus in this silver iode have
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Speaker 1: anything to do with what happened to Wang? Well, unfortunately
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Speaker 1: for Wong, the way these weather bureaus in China actually
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Speaker 1: get this silver iode up into the clouds is they
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Speaker 1: basically take a rocket launcher and fire a literal rocket
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Speaker 1: like an explosive device that contains this silver iode inside
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Speaker 1: of it, and the rockets get fired up into the
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Speaker 1: sky into the clouds where they detonate, and then the
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Speaker 1: silver iode is kind of sprinkled all throughout the clouds.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, on the day Wong was killed, one of
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Speaker 1: those rockets were fired into the sky and this rocket
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Speaker 1: it goes up, up, up, it goes into the cloud,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't detonate. It turns around and falls straight
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Speaker 1: down and it just so happens to go straight through
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Speaker 1: that roof into Wong's head, blowing off a portion of
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Speaker 1: his head. And then the rocket itself got embedded in
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Speaker 1: his torso and did not detonate. And then when he
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Speaker 1: was wheeled off to the crematorium and slid into the
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Speaker 1: furnace and that manager turned on the fur that hissing
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Speaker 1: sound he began hearing right before the explosion was the
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Speaker 1: sound of that rocket inside of Wong's torso heating up
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Speaker 1: and then finally detonating. When the police officers found that
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Speaker 1: little piece of metal, what they had found was actually
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Speaker 1: a piece of the rocket itself, and when they cleared
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Speaker 1: it off, they saw there was a serial number for
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Speaker 1: that particular Weather Bureau rocket, and so that was how
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Speaker 1: they were able to solve this mystery. Three years after
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Speaker 1: Wang's death, the Chinese government came out and said, yep,
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Speaker 1: this is our fault. We did this, and so they
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Speaker 1: compensated Wang's family eighty thousand yuan, which is equal to
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Speaker 1: about twelve thousand US dollars. And while that's a pretty
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Speaker 1: underwhelming settlement to be paying for somebody's life, what is
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Speaker 1: significant that came out of this case is following Wang's death,
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Speaker 1: the Chinese government altered their rockets that they fired into
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Speaker 1: these clouds, and they added this feature where if for
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Speaker 1: some reason the rocket goes into the cloud and doesn't detonate,
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Speaker 1: Shawn understood who Tom s monaghan was. Perhaps the guy
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Speaker 1: did know who Tom s monahan was, but either way,
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Speaker 1: Darryl and Shawn suddenly realized, oh my goodness, this guy
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Speaker 1: They're just pizza cooks. They're not like connected to the
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Speaker 1: And as they're calling their own boss, this guy fires
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Speaker 1: really high intensity situation that's escalating really quickly. But Daryl,
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Speaker 1: who actually was the one on the phone, he did
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Speaker 1: his best to stay calm, and when his boss got
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Speaker 1: on the other line, he tried his best to explain
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Speaker 1: the situation as quickly as he could because he could tell,
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Speaker 1: you know, this guy with the gun is very close
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Speaker 1: to potentially shooting them, and the boss of Daryl and
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Speaker 1: Shawn did understand Okay, clearly there is a crisis happening
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Speaker 1: at this branch. And when Daryl said, you've got to
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Speaker 1: find a way to get Tom s monaghan on the phone,
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Speaker 1: like right now, well, his boss was like, I got it.
17:54
Speaker 1: And a few minutes later, Darryl's boss, who's stolen the
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Speaker 1: phone with him, was like, okay, I'm gonna patch you through.
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Speaker 1: And then a second lag, Tom s Monahan hops in
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Speaker 1: the phone and he's like, what's going on. And at
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Speaker 1: this point Daryl just handed the phone over to the
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Speaker 1: guy with the gun and said, here you go. Tom's
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Speaker 1: in the phone, and the man with the gun grabbed
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Speaker 1: the phone, put it to his ear, and then began
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Speaker 1: rattling off these totally bizarre demands. He wanted a white
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Speaker 1: limousine to show up to the restaurant to be his
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Speaker 1: getaway car. He wanted ten thousand dollars in cash, and
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Speaker 1: he wanted a copy of a science fiction novel about
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Speaker 1: the Freemasons called The Widow's Son. And so Daryl and Shawn,
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Speaker 1: who are behind the counter, are witnessing this. They're hearing
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Speaker 1: these demands and it's clicking for them that clearly this
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Speaker 1: guy is not mentally well. This is a guy who's
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Speaker 1: totally unhinged and who knows what's going to happen. After
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Speaker 1: a few minutes on the phone, the gunman hung up
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Speaker 1: and then told Daryl and Shawn very calmly that now
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Speaker 1: the three of them were just going to sit in
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Speaker 1: this restaurant and wait for his demands to be met.
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Speaker 1: And for the next five and a half hours, that's
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Speaker 1: what they did. Darryl Sean and the gunman, who just
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Speaker 1: kept the gun aimed at Daryl and Seawan. They just
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Speaker 1: sat inside of this restaurant and at the same time,
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Speaker 1: you know, by this point, the police have been called
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Speaker 1: and they're completely surrounding this restaurant. And when the gunman
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Speaker 1: came into the store, because this was a very slow day,
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Speaker 1: there weren't any other customers or staff inside, so it
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Speaker 1: really was just Daryl, Sean and the gunman, and so
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Speaker 1: it's a total standoff. But interestingly for Shawn and Daryl,
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Speaker 1: who were right there with this gunman, they started a
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Speaker 1: sense that this guy was not here to hurt them.
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Speaker 1: He was really after Tom s Monahan, and over those
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Speaker 1: five and a half hours they were just sitting there
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Speaker 1: with him with his gun aimed right at them. He
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Speaker 1: periodically began telling them, you know, what his gripes were
19:34
Speaker 1: with Tom s Monahan. The gunman told Daryl and Shawn
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Speaker 1: that Tom was specifically targeting him the gunman, and also
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Speaker 1: Tom was secretly communicating with the gunman when the gunman
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Speaker 1: didn't want to talk to him, almost like telekinesis or something.
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Speaker 1: And also the gunman told them that Tom s monaghan
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Speaker 1: periodically will walk around his property at night, kind of
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Speaker 1: creeping around, you know, scaring the gunman. And Daryl and Shawn,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're hearing these things and not believing any
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Speaker 1: any of it, but they were very empathetic and said, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I can understand why that would be an issue. I
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Speaker 1: can understand why you'd come in here and demand to
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Speaker 1: speak to Tom s Monahan. Yep, totally get it. And
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Speaker 1: that was just kind of how the day was going.
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Speaker 1: And then around four thirty pm, so they've been in
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Speaker 1: there a long time by this point, the gunman told
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Speaker 1: Daryl and Seawan that he was really hungry, so they
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Speaker 1: better go make him some pizzas. So Darryl and Shawn
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Speaker 1: just got up. They went in the back. They made
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Speaker 1: two large everything pizzas, and after they were made, they
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Speaker 1: put him in boxes and slid him across the counter
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Speaker 1: to the gunman. And at this moment, Darryl and Shawn
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Speaker 1: knew the gunman, in order to eat, would have to
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Speaker 1: put his weapon down to open up the box and
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Speaker 1: get the pizza up. And so the second they handed
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Speaker 1: it over, without even communicating with each other, they kind
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Speaker 1: of waited for the gunman to put the gun down,
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Speaker 1: and he did. He put the gun down, he opened
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Speaker 1: the pizza up, he grabbed a slice, and at that moment,
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Speaker 1: Daryl and Shawn began sprinting past him towards the door.
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Speaker 1: And the gunman, who's seeing this happen, he drops the pizza,
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Speaker 1: grabs the gun, and he turns and he aims. So
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Speaker 1: to really understand what's happening here, you need to understand
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Speaker 1: what type of marketing Dominoes, like the national franchise, was
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Speaker 1: doing to advertise their product. Starting in nineteen eighty five,
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Speaker 1: Dominoes came up with a very popular advertising campaign called Thenoid,
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Speaker 1: and the Nooid was actually a character. It was like
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Speaker 1: this weird clamation character with big sneakers and bunny ears.
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Speaker 1: He was like this goofy thing that was the equivalent
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Speaker 1: of McDonald's Hamburgler, but this was for pizza. And what
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Speaker 1: Dominoes did with the Nooid is they would run these
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Speaker 1: ads on TV where the Nooid was like this menace
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Speaker 1: who was always out to disrupt pizza deliveries, not necessarily
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Speaker 1: Domino's pizza deliveries, but generally pizza deliveries.
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Speaker 2: It's like the Nooid's going to destroy them, either by
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Speaker 2: you know, freezing the pizzas on their way to the
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Speaker 2: person's house, or smashing them into the ground, or causing
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Speaker 2: whatever mayhem the Nooid could create to stop pizzas from
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Speaker 2: getting to their customers.
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Speaker 1: And so Domino's kind of catchy thing was avoid the
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Speaker 1: Nooid with Dominoes, meaning like Dominoes, the chain was the
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Speaker 1: only chain capable of avoiding all the chaos that could
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Speaker 1: disrupt you getting the thing you want, your pizza. And
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Speaker 1: this advertising campaign was brilliant, not only because it really
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Speaker 1: worked people really liked Dominoes because it did seem like
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Speaker 1: they were superior, but also they were able to kind
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Speaker 1: of franchise this character itself thenoid. It became a toy
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Speaker 1: you could buy, and there was talk about doing a
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Speaker 1: TV show and maybe a movie around Thisnoid character and
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Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, like the King of Pop, he put the
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Speaker 1: nooid in one of his music videos. I mean, this
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Speaker 1: was a really really successful advertising campaign. But for as
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Speaker 1: successful as this campaign was, it did unfortunately lead to
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Speaker 1: what happened inside of this Domino's restaurant in Shamblely, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: So on the day this gunman came charging in and
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Speaker 1: held up the place, you know, aiming the gun at
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Speaker 1: Sean and Daryl. It would turn out the gunman's name
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Speaker 1: was Kenneth Lamarnoyd, and Kenneth lamar Noyd was not going
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Speaker 1: into the store to get money or to steal food
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Speaker 1: or to hurt you know, Daryl or Sean. He was
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Speaker 1: to get his revenge on Tom s Monaghan, who he
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Speaker 1: looked at as the person responsible for coming up with
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Speaker 1: thisnoid campaign, because Kenneth lamar Annoyd was very mentally ill
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Speaker 1: and he believed the avoid Thenoid campaign was not a
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Speaker 1: marketing campaign but rather Tom s Monaghan specifically targeting Kenneth
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Speaker 1: lamar Anoyd, basically making him out to be this big villain.
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Speaker 1: But Kenneth's plan for how to deal with this totally
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Speaker 1: backfired because, in a totally ironic twist, by holding up
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Speaker 1: this Domino's franchise and creating this huge standoff, he literally
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Speaker 1: became like Thenoid because no pizza deliveries could be had
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Speaker 1: that entire day out of that franchise. And so Kenneth
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Speaker 1: Lamar A Noyd in an effort to stop Tom s
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Speaker 1: Monahan from running Thisnoid campaign, because I'm no villain, I
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Speaker 1: don't go after pizzas. I don't try to stop people
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Speaker 1: from getting their pizzas. In an effort to do that,
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Speaker 1: that is exactly what he did. He literally became the
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Speaker 1: human version of the Nooid. And so after Daryl and
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Speaker 1: Sewan made a run for it towards the door, Kenneth
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Speaker 1: did grab his gun and he did aim it at
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Speaker 1: the two men, and he even fired it a couple
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Speaker 1: of times, but he missed and Darryl and Sean were
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Speaker 1: totally unhurt. In fact, nobody got hurt. All that happened
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Speaker 1: is Kenneth Lamar Annoyd looked like Thenoid and he got arrested. However,
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Speaker 1: instead of going to jail, he was sent to a
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Speaker 1: not survive this Total pr Nightmare and Tom s Monahan
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