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  Speaker 1: In today's episode, I'm going to tell you three true
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  Speaker 1: stories about people who made choices that are so shocking
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  Speaker 1: One weekday morning in March of nineteen ninety five, a
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  Speaker 1: man named Luther Charles sat on the porch of his
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  Speaker 1: parents' house in Saint Louis, Missouri, while holding a newspaper.
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  Speaker 1: Both of Luther's parents were at work, but Luther was
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  Speaker 1: not because he didn't have a job. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't had a single job in the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: So Luther desperately wanted to be an actor professionally, and
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  Speaker 1: he'd spent the last five years, you know, not working.
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  Speaker 1: But auditioning constantly and getting rejected over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. Now he was totally broken living with his parents,
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  Speaker 1: but he had not lost the dream of wanting to
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  Speaker 1: be an actor. Now, Luther knew that a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: at least outside of the acting world, thought that trying
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  Speaker 1: to be an actor was sort of a pipe dream.
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  Speaker 1: Only chosen few get to do that professionally at a
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  Speaker 1: high level, and that he, Luther, should be more realistic
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  Speaker 1: and just get a normal job, especially after five years
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  Speaker 1: of attempts that didn't work out. But he just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: bring himself to do that because for him, it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be acting or nothing. So on this particular morning,
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  Speaker 1: he was doing what he did almost every single day,
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  Speaker 1: which was flipping through the classified section of the newspaper
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  Speaker 1: looking for any open calls for auditions. And as he
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  Speaker 1: scanned the page he was on, he saw one that
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  Speaker 1: caught his eye. It was for a musical that was
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  Speaker 1: being produced several hundred miles away in Ohio, but they
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  Speaker 1: had an open call for auditions that night. Now, at first,
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  Speaker 1: Luther was kind of confused about why producers from Ohio
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  Speaker 1: would place a call for auditions in a newspaper.
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  Speaker 2: In Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: But then he saw that it was because these producers
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  Speaker 1: were trying to find a very specific kind of actor
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  Speaker 1: for what sounded like a very unique character, and Luther
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  Speaker 1: realized he could be what they were looking for. This
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  Speaker 1: could finally be his chance to get his big break.
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  Speaker 2: This was, of course, not going to be easy.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, he would have to drive today all the
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  Speaker 1: way to Ohio just to do this audition. But two,
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  Speaker 1: what it would take for him to get into this character,
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  Speaker 1: to do a good job and hopefully and this part
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  Speaker 1: was going to take a lot. But after five years
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  Speaker 1: of near constant rejection, he was willing to try anything.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Luther got into the driver's seat
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  Speaker 1: of his car. He was carrying three things with him,
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  Speaker 1: a map to help him get to Ohio, an entire
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  Speaker 1: bottle of whiskey to help him be brave, and a
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  Speaker 1: hack song to help him get into character. That evening
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio, one of the producers of this musical sat
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  Speaker 1: in the front row of an empty auditorium. She'd spent
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  Speaker 1: the last several hours listening to hopeful actors read monologues
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  Speaker 1: and sing songs, and she knew there were still more
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  Speaker 1: people waiting to audition, so she called for the next
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  Speaker 1: person in line to come inside, and a moment later
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  Speaker 1: a man stumbled out onto the stage, and when the
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  Speaker 1: producer saw him, she was just confused because he seemed
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  Speaker 1: very wobbly, almost like he was drunk, and he had
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  Speaker 1: on this weird sort of costume where he had bandages
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  Speaker 1: wrapped around his head. And then, in a very slurred voice,
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  Speaker 1: this man said his name was Luther Charles, and he
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  Speaker 1: knew that this musical required a very specific kind of actor,
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  Speaker 1: and he had made sure that he was perfect for
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  Speaker 1: this part. The producer didn't understand what Luther was talking about, though,
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  Speaker 1: but before she could clarify, Luther on stage began unwrapping
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  Speaker 1: the bandages from his head, and when the producer saw
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  Speaker 1: what was underneath them, she began screaming for help. Would
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  Speaker 1: turn out that casting call in the newspaper that Luther
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  Speaker 1: read that inspired him to go here and do this
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  Speaker 1: contained a very unfortunate typo. What the producers of the
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  Speaker 1: musical were looking for were genuine fearless actors, but what
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  Speaker 1: actually got printed was a call for quote genuine earless actors,
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  Speaker 1: and Luther Charles was so desperate to land a role
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  Speaker 1: that he drove to Ohio, down to bottle of whiskey
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  Speaker 1: and then cut off both of his ears with that
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  Speaker 1: hacksaw because he believed it would make him perfect.
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  Speaker 2: For this musical.
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  Speaker 1: Luther survived his self inflicted injuries and later underwent psychiatric treatment.
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  Speaker 1: and three, a woman named Tina carried a grocery bag
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway of a big apartment building in Harlem,
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  Speaker 1: New York. The hallway was narrow, with white tile walls
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  Speaker 1: and heavy metal doors and overhead lights that flickered, and
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  Speaker 1: as Tina stopped in front of her door, she caught
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  Speaker 1: a whiff of a familiar smell coming from across the
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  Speaker 1: hall in apartment five E. It smelled like urine and
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  Speaker 1: rotting meat. Tina grimaced, but quickly set down her grocery
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  Speaker 1: bag and began sifting through her purse for her keys.
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  Speaker 1: But right as she found them, she heard footsteps coming
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  Speaker 1: down the hall behind her. She turned, and when she
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  Speaker 1: saw who was walking up the hallway towards her, she
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  Speaker 1: began to panic because it was Antoine Yates, the owner
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  Speaker 1: of Apartment five E, the stinky apartment.
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  Speaker 2: He was coming right down the hall and he was.
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  Speaker 1: Carrying what appeared to be this huge sack that maybe
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  Speaker 1: looked like it was filled with sand or something. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't care, but she did not want to be near
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  Speaker 1: the sky, and so as fast as she could, she
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  Speaker 1: put the key in the door, opened it up, flew inside,
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  Speaker 1: grabbed her groceries, shut the door, and dead bolted it.
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  Speaker 1: Now Tina did feel sort of guilty about being really
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  Speaker 1: obviously rude towards Antoine. I mean, Antoine had lived in
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  Speaker 1: this building for years, and at one point she had
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  Speaker 1: thought he was a nice guy, but lately he'd gotten
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  Speaker 1: really weird and she no longer wanted anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with him. First of all, there was that horrific smell
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  Speaker 1: coming from his apartment basically at all hours. And then
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  Speaker 1: there was the fact that Antoine basically stopped leaving the
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  Speaker 1: apartment altogether, like he was basically in his apartment twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to seven. As far as Tina could tell, he
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  Speaker 1: maybe left once a day tops, for maybe like an
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  Speaker 1: hour a day, but other than that he was like
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  Speaker 1: a constant presence across the hall. But beyond the smell
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  Speaker 1: and his reclusive nature, the most sort of alarming aspect
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  Speaker 1: of his recent weird behavior were all the random loud
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  Speaker 1: crashing sounds that Tina would hear coming from Antoine's apartment
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  Speaker 1: at all hours, even though from what she could tell,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have any visitors ever, it was just him
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  Speaker 1: in there.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Tina had no idea what Antoine was doing in.
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  Speaker 1: There, but she assumed whatever it was, it wasn't good,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't her business, and so she decided that
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  Speaker 1: the best thing she could do was just stay in
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  Speaker 1: her apartment, make sure the door was locked, and hope
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  Speaker 1: at some point he stopped doing whatever was he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: A couple days later, Tina went down to the lobby
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  Speaker 1: to check her mail, and when she did, she ran
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  Speaker 1: into a woman named Joyce, who lived in an apartment
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  Speaker 1: for e which was directly below and Twan's apartment. Tina
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  Speaker 1: said hello to her, and as she opened up her mailbox,
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  Speaker 1: Joyce came over and stood next to her with this.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of strange look on her face.
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  Speaker 1: Tina picked up on it and asked her what was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and Joyce told her that last night she noticed liquid
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  Speaker 1: dripping down through her ceiling and at first she thought
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  Speaker 1: it was maybe a burst pipe or an overflowing sink,
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  Speaker 1: but when she got a rag and went to clean
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  Speaker 1: it up. She realized it wasn't water, it smelled like pea.
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  Speaker 1: Then Joyce she lowered her voice and leaned in close
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  Speaker 1: to Tina, and she said the PA wasn't the only
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  Speaker 1: weird thing. Sometimes, late at night, when the building was quiet,
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  Speaker 1: she said she could hear what sounded like whimpering coming
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  Speaker 1: from the upstairs apartment and Twan's apartment, And at this
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  Speaker 1: Tina's heart began to pound.
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  Speaker 2: Now she had.
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  Speaker 1: Tried to just kind of, you know, mentally and physically
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  Speaker 1: avoid the whole Antoine situation, whatever it was, But now
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  Speaker 1: that she knew other neighbors were also noticing bizarre things like.
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  Speaker 2: She was, she felt like she had to act.
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  Speaker 1: And so Tina said to Joyce that, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we really ought to call the housing authority and see
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  Speaker 1: if they'd come out and investigate to see what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. But Joyce said she'd already tried that, she'd
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  Speaker 1: called multiple times and so far nobody had done anything.
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  Speaker 1: So Tina told Joyce that, okay, well, let's all get
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  Speaker 1: together all the other neighbors and go to the housing
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  Speaker 1: authority as a group and maybe then they'd be taken
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  Speaker 1: more seriously Joyce liked the idea, so the two women
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  Speaker 1: exchange numbers and then Tina went back up to her apartment.
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  Speaker 1: But the next day, before Tina had time to chat
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  Speaker 1: with any more neighbors, she came home from the store
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  Speaker 1: and walked into the lobby of the apartment building, and
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  Speaker 1: she saw Antoine on the floor of the lobby, screaming
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  Speaker 1: in pain, with two police officers.
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  Speaker 2: Huddled over him.
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  Speaker 1: He had these gaping wounds all over his arm and
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  Speaker 1: his leg, and there was blood all over the tile floor.
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  Speaker 1: Tina didn't know what to do, so she just hustled
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  Speaker 1: right past them through the lobby, made her way upstairs
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  Speaker 1: and got inside her apartment. But once she was inside,
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  Speaker 1: her curiosity got the best of her, and she ran
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  Speaker 1: to the window to see if there was anything going
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  Speaker 1: on outside that could begin to explain what was going
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  Speaker 1: on with the Antwine. And outside she saw an ambulance
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  Speaker 1: pull up, and then moments later, paramedics loaded Antwine into
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  Speaker 1: the back of it and they took off. After that,
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  Speaker 1: Tina basically sat there, expecting any moment for the police
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  Speaker 1: to come barreling down the hallway and break down Antoine's door.
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  Speaker 1: Apartment five B you know to finally put an end
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  Speaker 1: to whatever was happening inside of there. But she sat
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  Speaker 1: there waiting for an hour and she didn't hear anything.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally, after you know, about an hour, she
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  Speaker 1: saw those two police officers from the lobby get back
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  Speaker 1: in their squad car and drive away. Tina was shocked.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she had no idea what happened to Antoine,
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  Speaker 1: But she also couldn't conceptualize of what Antoine would have
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  Speaker 1: told those officers that would make them think they should
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  Speaker 1: just leave without checking his apartment. And so Tina felt
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  Speaker 1: like she couldn't just sit here and do nothing, like
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  Speaker 1: somebody needed to go in there. Tina didn't know if
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  Speaker 1: maybe Antoine was hurting someone in his apartment and they
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  Speaker 1: had finally fought back that's why he was all cut up,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe if he was involved in some kind of
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  Speaker 1: violent criminal activity or what. But it was clearly never
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  Speaker 1: going to end unless she spoke up. So as much
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  Speaker 1: as it terrified her to get involved here, she picked
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  Speaker 1: up the phone, called the police and told them everything
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  Speaker 1: she had seen and heard. The next day, Tina was
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  Speaker 1: coming home from work when she saw this huge crowd
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  Speaker 1: gathered outside her apartment building. Hundreds of her neighbors were
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  Speaker 1: just standing on the sidewalk looking up at the side
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  Speaker 1: of the building, and when Tina looked up, she saw
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  Speaker 1: what they were watching. A police officer was repelling down
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  Speaker 1: the side of this building from one of the upper levels,
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  Speaker 1: and with him he had this big rifle and some
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  Speaker 1: other huge weapon, and he was slowly making his way down,
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  Speaker 1: but then he eventually stopped right outside a fifth floor window,
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  Speaker 1: and Tina realized he was stopping outside of Antoine's window.
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  Speaker 1: That was his apartment, And so Tina and the others
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  Speaker 1: watched as this officer began to tap on the glass
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  Speaker 1: of the window, and then there was this huge explosion
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  Speaker 1: of glass that flew outwards like the window had broken,
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  Speaker 1: but from the inside going out. That officer immediately raised
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  Speaker 1: his rifle and began firing into the apartment while also
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  Speaker 1: signaling to the police officers above him leaning out of
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  Speaker 1: another apartment to pull him up, and they immediately began
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  Speaker 1: pulling him up. And then a few minutes later, a
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  Speaker 1: half dozen more police officers came running out the front
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  Speaker 1: door of the apartment building, and they were carrying this
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  Speaker 1: massive tarp between them with something obviously very heavy and
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  Speaker 1: large inside of it. Now, none of this made any
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  Speaker 1: sense to Tina until the officers passed by her and
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  Speaker 1: she caught a glimpse of what was in the tarp.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out Tina and Joyce were right to
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  Speaker 1: be suspicious of Antoine, but it wasn't because he was
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  Speaker 1: a violent criminal who was secretly hurting people in his apartment. No,
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  Speaker 1: his secret was actually much weirder. Antoine had a very
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  Speaker 1: strange pet. Specifically, he had a four hundred pound tiger
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  Speaker 1: named Ming, who had been living in Antoine's apartment for years.
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  Speaker 1: It slept in one of his bedrooms, with a giant
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  Speaker 1: sandpit at peed basically everywhere, and it lived off raw meat.
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  Speaker 1: Antoine's horrible wounds that day were caused by Ming biting
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  Speaker 1: him when Antoine tried to stop the tiger from pouncing
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  Speaker 1: on one of his other pets, a stray kitten that
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  Speaker 1: he had taken in. As for Antoine and Ming, they
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  Speaker 1: both survived this encounter. Antoine was ultimately arrested for reckless endangerment,
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  Speaker 1: and Ming, who was just tranquilized during that exchange with
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  Speaker 1: the police officer, was carried out of the apartment and
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  Speaker 1: taken to a sanctuary.
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  Speaker 2: In Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Also that stray kitten survived the attack as well. At
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  Speaker 1: two forty five pm on January sixth, nineteen ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: a forty five year old man named MacArthur Wheeler walked
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  Speaker 1: towards the front doors of a bank in Swissvale, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: which is a small town near Pittsburgh. MacArthur had on
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  Speaker 1: a mask and was dressed in a big blue parka,
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  Speaker 1: and in one of his pockets he was carrying a
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  Speaker 1: semi automatic handgun. MacArthur was about to rob this bank
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  Speaker 1: at gunpoint, but weirdly, he did not feel nervous, despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, MacArthur had never robbed a
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  Speaker 1: bank before, but one of his friends, forty three year
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  Speaker 1: old Clifton Johnson, had and was already inside the bank,
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  Speaker 1: waiting in line and pretending to be a customer, even
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  Speaker 1: though he was actually MacArthur's co conspirator. MacArthur and Clifton
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  Speaker 1: had spent days planning out this robbery together, down to
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  Speaker 1: every last detail, and even though MacArthur had been kind
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  Speaker 1: of scared at first, Clifton had talked him through every
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  Speaker 1: possible scenario and made sure that they had a plan
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  Speaker 1: for everything that could go wrong. So now MacArthur was
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent confident that they were going to get
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  Speaker 1: away with this, which again is why he was not nervous.
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  Speaker 1: So this day MacArthur walked up to the bank stores
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  Speaker 1: and went inside. He had to squint through his mask
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  Speaker 1: because it obscured his view a little bit, but he
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  Speaker 1: saw Clifton standing in line, which immediately gave him another
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  Speaker 1: burst of confidence to actually see Clifton.
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  Speaker 2: He was here, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So far things were going exactly as planned. And so
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur quickly pushed his way through the line and he
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  Speaker 1: locked eyes with the bank teller, and as he did,
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  Speaker 1: he pulled out his gun. He aimed it at them,
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  Speaker 1: and he told them to hand over all the money.
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  Speaker 1: MacArthur heard the sound of other people in the bank,
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  Speaker 1: other patrons and other staff beginning to gasp because they're
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  Speaker 1: seeing what's happening here. And so MacArthur quickly turned around
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  Speaker 1: with his gun still in his hand, and he told
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  Speaker 1: everybody that he didn't want to hurt anyone. Everybody just
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  Speaker 1: needed to stay calm, and as soon as he got
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  Speaker 1: the money, he'd be gone. Then MacArthur turned back to
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  Speaker 1: the teller, who by this point had gathered up all
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  Speaker 1: the cash in the register and was literally just holding
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  Speaker 1: it out like here, take it, and MacArthur he grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the cash, put it in one of his pockets. He
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  Speaker 1: put his gun back inside of his pocket. Then he
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  Speaker 1: looked over at Clifton, and the two men nodded, and
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  Speaker 1: then they turned and ran out of the bank. About
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  Speaker 1: three months later, in the early morning hours of April twentieth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, MacArthur was sleeping inside his apartment just
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  Speaker 1: outside of Pittsburgh. After the robbery, he and Clifton had
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  Speaker 1: escaped with a little over five thousand dollars, and they'd
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  Speaker 1: gone their separate ways in order to lay low, so
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  Speaker 1: they weren't really in contact. But to MacArthur it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like everything had worked out perfectly because here he was
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  Speaker 1: still a free man with all this cash, and the
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  Speaker 1: cops hadn't even shown up once to question him. But
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  Speaker 1: on this particular night, a pounding on MacArthur's door woke
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  Speaker 1: him up, and he bolted up right in bed, and
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  Speaker 1: he heard somebody yell at him to open up because
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  Speaker 1: it was the police. Now at this point, MacArthur was
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  Speaker 1: definitely nervous. However, he sort of calmed himself down and
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  Speaker 1: told himself that right now, his best option was just
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to play it cool, because even if the cops suspected
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: him in that robbery, there was simply no way they
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: could possibly prove he'd actually done it. He'd been wearing
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a mask and a huge parka that totally obscured his identity.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: So MacArthur he got out of bed and he walked
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: over to the door.
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  Speaker 2: He opened it up, and sure enough.
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  Speaker 1: There's all these police officers standing in the doorway, and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: MacArthur pretended to act confused and asked them, you know
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: what's going on here? And that was when one of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the officers told MacArthur he was under arrest for armed robbery,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and then showed him a printed photo from one of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the bank's security cameras, and there he was. So this
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: photo clearly showed MacArthur's face, every detail was perfectly visible.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It was him, for sure. He didn't even look like
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: he was wearing a mask. But MacArthur couldn't wrap his
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: mind around how this was possible. He looked from the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: picture up to the cops and just said, but I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: wore the juice. It would turn out the mask. MacArthur
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: was wearing during this robbery was not a ski mask,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: or a Halloween mask, or really a mask in any
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: traditional sense of the word. What MacArthur and his co
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: conspirator Clifton had both done, and what they truly thought
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: would disguise their identities completely, was rub lemon juice on
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: their faces. They believed that lemon juice would essentially act
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: as a mask and make them literally invisible to security cameras. Unfortunately, though,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: lemon juice does not make you invisible, and so once
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the police accessed the banks security footage, they saw clear
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: as day MacArthur and Clifton committing this crime, and they
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: arrested them both.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Clifton was sentenced.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: To five years in prison for armed bank robbery and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: MacArthur was sentenced to twenty two and a half years.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: But this was not the end of the story, because
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Clifton and MacArthur's ridiculous crime made headlines, and before long,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a professor of social psychology at Cornell University read about it,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and it made him realize something. The fact that MacArthur
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: literally believed lemon juice would make him invisible, and he
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: acted on that knowledge, or that supposed knowledge, to commit
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this crime and then was shocked when it didn't work.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: That suggests a level of stupidity that is just exceptionally high,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: so high that this professor began to wonder if maybe
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: MacArthur is so stupid he actually doesn't understand how stupid
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: he really was. And so this led the professor to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: research this idea, and he ultimately established a new psychological
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: concept that we now call the Dunning Kruger effect, which
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: essentially says that the more incompetent a person is it something,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the less likely they are to recognize their own incompetence. Basically,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the dummer you are, the more confident you become. Thank
• 21:27
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• 21:29
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• 21:32
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• 21:35
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