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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. One morning in October, very
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  Speaker 1: late during World War Two, a Japanese soldier named Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: hero Onoda crept out of the jungle on a small
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  Speaker 1: island in the Philippines called Luban and crouched down at
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  Speaker 1: the edge of a huge rice field. Another soldier named
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  Speaker 1: Kazuka came out of the jungle behind him, and together
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  Speaker 1: they carefully crawled toward these huge bundles of rice that
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  Speaker 1: had just been harvested by the local farmers. And when
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  Speaker 1: they reached the first bundle, Onoda took two torches out
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  Speaker 1: of his back. So when Onoda first arrived in Luban,
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  Speaker 1: his mission had been to destroy the island's airfield, but
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  Speaker 1: everything had gone completely wrong. Allied forces who were the
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  Speaker 1: enemy of the Japanese had attacked the island, and the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese had evacuated, but by accident, they had left Onoda
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  Speaker 1: and Kozuka behind, and as far as they knew, there
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  Speaker 1: could be others who had been left behind as well,
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  Speaker 1: but as for right now, it was just those two.
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  Speaker 1: But even though these two soldiers really had no idea
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  Speaker 1: if they would survive this, if they would ever get
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  Speaker 1: rescued or not, they still had a mission to do
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  Speaker 1: and that was, you know, to attack the enemy. And
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  Speaker 1: these bundles of rice, they knew were going to be
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  Speaker 1: sent to the other side to feed their enemy, and
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  Speaker 1: so they had to destroy them. So now Onoda lit
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  Speaker 1: the two torches, and then he and Kozuka set fire
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  Speaker 1: to the first bundle of rice, and then they took
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  Speaker 1: off running, stopping every few feet to set fire to
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  Speaker 1: another bundle of rice, until the entire field was on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Gunshots rang out, and Onoda realized the enemy must have
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  Speaker 1: seen them, so he and Kazuka dropped their torches and
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  Speaker 1: they fled back into the jungle. Now, this pattern of
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  Speaker 1: attacking and sabotaging their enemy and then retreating back to
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  Speaker 1: the jungle where they could hide out was one they
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  Speaker 1: had done many, many times. It was sort of like
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that anchored their existence. They were actively
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  Speaker 1: still fighting the enemy until either they were killed or rescued.
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  Speaker 2: That sort of that was their north star.
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  Speaker 1: Normally they were quite good at this, and they would
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  Speaker 1: be able to escape the enemy and.
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  Speaker 2: Get back to the jungle.
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  Speaker 1: But this time, as they were running away and Onoda's
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  Speaker 1: dodging bullets, literally he heard Kozuka.
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  Speaker 2: Yell out behind him and then fall to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks later, Onoda was alone and he was
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  Speaker 1: patrolling the north side of the island. Kozuka had been
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  Speaker 1: shot and killed during their rice field sabotage, and so
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  Speaker 1: now Anoda was very likely the only Japanese soldier left
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  Speaker 1: on this island. And while Onoda knew, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: was honor bound to keep on fighting, even by himself,
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  Speaker 1: which was obviously mentally much harder to do. By now,
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  Speaker 1: he was just exhausted and depressed, you know, living off
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  Speaker 1: banana peels and whatever else he could steal from local farmers.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pretty miserable existence. And also, ever since
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  Speaker 1: the Allied forces had killed Kazuka, they had somehow learned
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  Speaker 1: Onoda's name and they'd stepped up their operations targeting him specifically.
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  Speaker 1: Onoda had had to leave the jungle and move into
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  Speaker 1: this underground cave he had found, but even there he
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  Speaker 1: could still hear the sound of fighter jets flying overhead,
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  Speaker 1: clearly looking for him, and sometimes groups of enemy soldiers
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  Speaker 1: would patrol the jungle looking for him, which was near
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  Speaker 1: his cave, and they would call out for him by
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  Speaker 1: name and tell him to stop hiding it and come
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  Speaker 1: on out now. As Onoda continued his patrol, he heard voices,
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  Speaker 1: so naturally he crouched down and hid behind a boulder,
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  Speaker 1: and soon three enemy soldiers came into view, and they
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  Speaker 1: clearly had no idea that Onoda was watching them, because
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  Speaker 1: the rifles were slung over their shoulders and they were
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  Speaker 1: just kind of joking around with each other. But Onoda
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  Speaker 1: still panicked because he knew pretty soon they would notice
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  Speaker 1: his footprints and they would track him to his hiding spot.
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  Speaker 1: So even though there was clearly a part of Onoda
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  Speaker 1: that was very ready to be done fighting this war finally,
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  Speaker 1: even if it meant being captured, really, he still forced
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  Speaker 1: himself to raise his rifle, take aim, and fire. Months
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  Speaker 1: passed by, and Dooda knew it was very likely springtime
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  Speaker 1: and it had been weeks since he had seen any
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  Speaker 1: enemy soldiers on his patrols. He was holed up in
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  Speaker 1: his underground cave and he was reading a letter that
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  Speaker 1: he had saved from home, and then he heard movement
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  Speaker 1: overhead and somebody above ground called name. So instinctively, Onoda
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  Speaker 1: reached for his rifle, but before he could do anything
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  Speaker 1: like pop out of the cave and start shooting, the
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  Speaker 1: person who had called out began to speak, and Onoda
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  Speaker 1: realized he knew this voice and it was not an
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  Speaker 1: enemy soldier at all. Onoda crawled out of the cave,
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  Speaker 1: and when he saw the person standing there who was
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  Speaker 1: speaking to.
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  Speaker 2: Him, he just began to weep.
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  Speaker 1: It was his commanding officer, who he had been waiting
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  Speaker 1: for all this time, and the commanding officer was walking
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  Speaker 1: toward him with a group of other soldiers, friendly soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: Onoda climbed to his feet and immediately saluted the officer
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  Speaker 1: and asked if he was finally allowed to go home,
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  Speaker 1: and the officer said yes, because it would turn out
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  Speaker 1: that the date was March ninth, nineteen seventy four. World
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  Speaker 1: War II had ended twenty nine years earlier. Onoda had
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  Speaker 1: spent almost three decades terrorizing not enemy soldiers, but Filipino
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  Speaker 1: farmers and villagers and police officers who he had simply
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  Speaker 1: mistaken for enemy troops because he believed they were still.
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  Speaker 2: In this war.
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  Speaker 1: The Japanese government had thought Onoda and Kazuko were dead,
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  Speaker 1: but after Kazuka was killed and his body was recovered,
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  Speaker 1: Japan sent search parties out onto this island looking for Onoda,
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  Speaker 1: and Onoda thought the searchers were basically enemies trying to
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  Speaker 1: capture him, until he heard the voice of his old
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  Speaker 1: commanding officer, and at that point he finally.
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  Speaker 2: Came out and laid down his arms.
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  Speaker 1: When Onoda finally returned to Japan, he received a hero's welcome,
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  Speaker 1: but it was sort of tainted because, you know, innocent
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  Speaker 1: lives were lost when he was on this island believing
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  Speaker 1: he was fighting a war. You know, in many ways
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  Speaker 1: he was sort of terrorizing innocent people. He just didn't
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  Speaker 1: know it and so the whole event was very sensitive
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately Onoda went on to write an autobiography called
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  Speaker 1: No Surrender, and he would become a rancher and move
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  Speaker 1: to Brazil, where he would live until twenty fourteen, where
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  Speaker 1: he would die from heart failure. Betterhelp is the paid
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  Speaker 1: eleven PM on April nineteenth, nineteen fifty eight, a twenty
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  Speaker 1: two year old man named Frank Isco drove along a
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  Speaker 1: coastal road in Santa Cruz, California, with two of his
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  Speaker 1: friends inside of his pickup truck.
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  Speaker 2: The road they were on was called.
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  Speaker 1: West Cliff Drive, and it was this beautiful scenic street
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  Speaker 1: that went along a cliff right next to the ocean,
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  Speaker 1: so it's got this amazing view. However, as Frank drove,
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  Speaker 1: he really couldn't see very much because it was nighttime
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  Speaker 1: and the road didn't have any street lights, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: the view was kind of lost on him. Frank glanced
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  Speaker 1: over at his friends, but they were both half asleep,
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  Speaker 1: and Frank himself was also pretty close to nodding off.
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  Speaker 1: So all three of the guys were completely exhausted because
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  Speaker 1: that morning they'd driven fifty miles from their hometown to
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  Speaker 1: Santa Cruz, and then they'd spent all day outside of
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  Speaker 1: the beach. Now they were all anxious to get home
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  Speaker 1: and just go to bed. Frank was especially ready to
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  Speaker 1: get home because his wife, Margaret always waited up for him,
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  Speaker 1: and right now she was pregnant with their first child,
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  Speaker 1: so he really didn't want to keep her up all night.
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  Speaker 2: So Frank pressed his foot harder on the gas pedal
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  Speaker 2: and he.
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  Speaker 1: Zoomed along and enjoying the ocean view as much as
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  Speaker 1: he could see it, and also listening to the sound
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  Speaker 1: of the waves, and began thinking about his wife. But
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  Speaker 1: as he drove along, he came up on this sharp
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  Speaker 1: curve in the road that he just hadn't seen because
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  Speaker 1: it was so dark out, and he was going so
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  Speaker 1: fast that when he hit the brakes, even though he
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  Speaker 1: began to slow down, he wasn't slowing down fast enough,
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  Speaker 1: and so he jerked his wheel trying to avoid what
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  Speaker 1: was going to happen here, but the truck it spun
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  Speaker 1: out of control. Frank heard his friends wake up and
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  Speaker 1: start screaming, and Frank's desperately trying to will the car
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  Speaker 1: away from the edge of this road because there's a
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  Speaker 1: cliff down to the ocean, but it's like he just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. The truck was spin and the last second,
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  Speaker 1: he looked out his window and he saw his headlights
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  Speaker 1: were beaming off the metal barrier that kept you from
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  Speaker 1: going off the cliff, and he knew there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: he could do, and they slammed into the barrier, and
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  Speaker 1: then he felt the truck lurch past the barrier, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like they're weightless as he
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  Speaker 1: and his friends are falling off the cliff down to
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  Speaker 1: the ocean. In this split second, as they're literally falling
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  Speaker 1: off a cliff, Frank squeezed his eyes shut and just
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  Speaker 1: screamed along with his friends, and he expected at any
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  Speaker 1: moment that his truck was going to fall into the
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  Speaker 1: water and water would pour in through the windows and
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  Speaker 1: they would all just sink and drown. There'd be nothing
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  Speaker 1: they could do. But amazingly, Frank felt the truck slam
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  Speaker 1: into something that was unexpectedly hard. It clearly was not water,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly they weren't falling anymore, and there was no
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  Speaker 1: water pouring into the truck. Frank was obviously disoriented from
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  Speaker 1: the impact and the darkness and all the confusion, and
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  Speaker 1: he really couldn't see what was going on, but he
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  Speaker 1: kind of checked himself and he could tell like he
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  Speaker 1: was okay, and he looked over at his friends and
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  Speaker 1: they too are completely shaken up, but alive.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's okay, at.
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  Speaker 1: Least physically, and so Frank kind of frantically asked them
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  Speaker 1: before they even figured out what was going on here, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: are you guys good?
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  Speaker 2: And his friends are like, yeah, we're good.
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  Speaker 1: And then instinctively, one of his friends, who was sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the passenger side of the car, opened up the
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  Speaker 1: passenger side door and kind of carefully looked out to
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  Speaker 1: see what was going on here, and the friends sort
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  Speaker 1: of looked at the other two and just said, we're
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  Speaker 1: stuck on a ledge. We got caught on a ledge.
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  Speaker 1: For a second, all three of the friends just froze.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost like if we moved too much, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the car will rock off the ledge and fall the
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  Speaker 1: rest of.
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  Speaker 2: The way down.
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  Speaker 1: But the friend kind of looked out again, and it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like they were actually stable on this ledge. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: by some miracle, they had only fallen maybe twenty feet down.
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  Speaker 1: This cliff hit this ledge and stopped instead of careening
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  Speaker 1: all the way down to the ocean, which you know, would.
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  Speaker 2: Have likely been death.
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  Speaker 1: Frank was so relieved and was so just amazed at
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  Speaker 1: their turn of luck in some ways, that they had
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  Speaker 1: landed miraculously right here, that he just started to laugh
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  Speaker 1: because all they'd have to do now is just carefully
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  Speaker 1: climb out and flag down a motorist. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: road was like twenty feet above them. They could definitely
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  Speaker 1: get to the road or at least signal somebody on
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  Speaker 1: the road and they'd be okay. And so Frank's two
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  Speaker 1: friends they climbed fully out of the truck and actually
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  Speaker 1: stood on the rocky ledge on the passenger side.
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  Speaker 2: They get out, they're standing there.
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  Speaker 1: They're kind of surveying the ocean, you know, thanking their
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  Speaker 1: lucky stars that they've survived. And Frank he wants to
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  Speaker 1: get out too, to join them, but he decides to
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  Speaker 1: go out his door, you know, open up his door
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  Speaker 1: and get out on the ledge that way. But as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he tried to open his door, he found
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  Speaker 1: it was stuck, and so instead he just began rolling
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  Speaker 1: down his window and began climbing out. At the same
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  Speaker 1: time Frank was doing this, Frank's friends, who were standing
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  Speaker 1: out on the ledge, they turned around to just look
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  Speaker 1: at him to see what he was doing. They could
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  Speaker 1: really only see, you know, through the car, the shadowy
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  Speaker 1: shape of him in the darkness. But they watched as
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  Speaker 1: he clearly was climbing out his window to presumably get
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  Speaker 1: out on the ledge and join them. But the instant
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  Speaker 1: he climbed out on the other side of the car,
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  Speaker 1: even though it was dark, they could sort of see him.
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  Speaker 1: The second he climbed out, it was like Frank just
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  Speaker 1: vanished for a second. His friends were like, Frank, where'd
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  Speaker 1: you go? Like where are you? But there was no response,
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  Speaker 1: and so carefully the friends kind of walked around the
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  Speaker 1: truck to see what Frank was doing. And when they
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  Speaker 1: saw what was on the other side of the truck
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  Speaker 1: where Frank presumably landed when he jumped out of the truck,
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  Speaker 1: they were horrified. It would turn out the ledge that
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  Speaker 1: Frank and his friends had landed on, the one that
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  Speaker 1: had saved their lives, was not an entirely solid surface,
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  Speaker 1: or more specifically, it was porous. In particular, there was
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  Speaker 1: one hole big enough for a person to fit through,
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  Speaker 1: and that hole was on the immediate outside of the
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  Speaker 1: driver's side of the truck. And that hole that Frank
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  Speaker 1: didn't see when he jumped out of the window and
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  Speaker 1: he fell into that hole was the entrance to an
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  Speaker 1: underwater cave. And Frank, who survived the fall, is now
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  Speaker 1: in this dark cave. He has no idea what's happened,
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  Speaker 1: and he starts trying to figure out a way out,
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  Speaker 1: and there's all these tunnels going everywhere. There's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of water in there, but it's not very deep,
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  Speaker 1: and he got lost inside of this cave and his
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  Speaker 1: friends are calling out to him. Rescuers showed up, but
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  Speaker 1: by the time the tide came in a couple hours later,
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  Speaker 1: Frank was nowhere near the entrance to the hole, so
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't let the water rise him up to the exit.
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  Speaker 1: He just had to wait for the water to fill
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  Speaker 1: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Space he was in and he drowned.
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  Speaker 1: On the afternoon of December nineteenth, nineteen sixty six, a
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine year old man named doctor Mohammed Ibraheim sat
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  Speaker 1: in a conference room inside of a government building and Kyro, Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: He was there as an employee of the Egyptian government
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  Speaker 1: and he was sitting across from two governmental representatives from France.
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  Speaker 2: He felt very nervous because.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been meeting with these same two men and trying
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  Speaker 1: to come to an agreement with them about a very
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  Speaker 1: important diplomatic decision for the last four months, but so
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  Speaker 1: far they had not been able to make a deal,
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  Speaker 1: and that was because these French representatives wanted Mohammad, who
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  Speaker 1: was the director General of Egyptian Antigues, to help them
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  Speaker 1: put together an exhibition in Paris that was all about
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  Speaker 1: ancient Egypt, and they specifically wanted Mohammed to loan them
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  Speaker 1: a collection of artifacts from an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's tomb.
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  Speaker 1: But Mohammed was afraid to loan these artifacts out because
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  Speaker 1: he and many other people in his world believed that
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  Speaker 1: these particular artifacts were sacred and should not be transported
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  Speaker 1: outside of Egypt because it was disrespectful to the pharaoh himself.
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  Speaker 1: So on this particular day, Mohammad just said to these
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  Speaker 1: French representatives that like guys, weren't never going to reach
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  Speaker 1: a deal because I'm just not willing to loan these out.
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  Speaker 2: It feels disrespectful to this pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: And he knew this sounded kind of crazy because the
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  Speaker 1: pharaoh has been dead for thousands of years, but that's
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  Speaker 1: how Mohammad felt, and he really wanted them to understand
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  Speaker 1: that this was not something he could change.
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  Speaker 2: This is how he felt, That's how it is now.
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  Speaker 1: Up until this point, Mohammed again had been trying to
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  Speaker 1: make a deal with them, but it had never really
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  Speaker 1: come out, and said that ultimately his main sticking point
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  Speaker 1: is this disrespect of the pharaoh. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: the first time the French representatives are hearing this, and
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  Speaker 1: from Mohammed's perspective, when he said this to them, it
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  Speaker 1: looked like they almost wanted to laugh, like are you kidding?
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  Speaker 1: But when they realized Mohammed was being completely serious here,
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  Speaker 1: they sort of shifted and had these looks of almost
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  Speaker 1: sympathy come across their faces, and then they promised Mohammed that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you loan us these artifacts, that's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be disrespectful. In fact, if anything, it would
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  Speaker 1: actually honor the pharaoh because it would allow people all
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  Speaker 1: over France to see and appreciate the artifacts from his tomb.
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed and the French representatives went back and forth on
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  Speaker 1: this topic for hours, and eventually Mohammed did start to
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  Speaker 1: see their side of things. It did make sense to
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  Speaker 1: him that maybe, you know, allowing France to display the
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  Speaker 1: artifacts was a way of not disrespecting the pharaoh but
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  Speaker 1: honoring the pharaoh. And so, finally, perhaps against his better judgment,
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed officially agreed to loan out the artifacts, and then
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  Speaker 1: the meeting adjourned. A few minutes later, Mohammed walked out
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  Speaker 1: of the government building onto the busy sidewalk outside, and
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  Speaker 1: he felt lighter than he had in months. The deal
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  Speaker 1: was done and he didn't have to think about it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: This was great now. All Mohammed wanted to do was
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  Speaker 1: just go home, and so he began walking towards the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot where his car was, and as he was
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  Speaker 1: heading across the street, looking straight ahead, he heard a loud,
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  Speaker 1: blaring noise in a screeching sound, and then everything went black.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out those artifacts Mohammed had just agreed
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  Speaker 1: to loan out from the tomb of the ancient Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: pharaoh King Tutan. Common and Mohammed, along with many many others,
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  Speaker 1: believed that these artifacts were not just sacred, but were
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  Speaker 1: also cursed. And that was because over the years, at
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  Speaker 1: least eleven people who had a connection to these artifacts
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  Speaker 1: had died, and it was believed that anybody who disrespected
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  Speaker 1: the artifacts would face King Tut's wrath, and just minutes
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  Speaker 1: after Mohammed convinced himself to agree to loan out these
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  Speaker 1: artifacts to France, he walked out of the government building
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  Speaker 1: in Cairo and he was hit and killed by a truck.
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  Speaker 1: His death made headlines all over the world because to
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  Speaker 1: this day, you know, some people say this was just
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  Speaker 1: a horrible accident, but others insist he was yet another
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  Speaker 1: victim of King Tut's curse. Thank you so much for watching.
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