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Craziest Ways Celebrities Died · Be Amazed

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you go to Instagram, TikTok, yourmom.com or whatever your favorite social media platform is right now, you'll see people praising celebrities like their gods.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But newsflash, celebs are mortal, just like us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not only that, some celebs have met their mortal ends in the weirdest, grossest and most mysterious ways imaginable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: From toilet trouble to Darwin award-level stunts, join me as we uncover the craziest ways that celebrities have met their maker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley is one of music's most iconic stars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite peaking in the 1950s, he's still the third highest selling music artist in the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty impressive, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's less impressive is the way Elvis bowed out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: By the time he hit his 40s, Elvis's health had taken a hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You see, he had a particular passion for high-fat foods, most notably, hamburgers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as he got older and his metabolism naturally slowed down, his full fat lifestyle led to him weighing some 350 pounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's almost double the weight of today's average man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However in 1977, at the age of 42, Elvis's over-indulgences would catch up with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While relieving himself on the toilet, Elvis, who suffered from chronic constipation, had a heart attack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This heart attack was brought on by something called Valsalva's maneuver, according to the corner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Essentially, he strained so hard trying to poop, it compressed his aorta, one of the main blood supplies to the heart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And in doing so, he gave himself a heart attack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Horrifyingly the king of rock and roll was found unresponsive by his girlfriend lying head down, half naked on the bathroom floor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you grew up in the 90s, then you know Steve Irwin was the man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This Aussie rose to fame as a lovable, nature enthusiast TV presenter, best known for his wildlife series, The Crocodile Hunter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As the name suggests he was filmed with crocks, spiders, snakes, essentially, if it could kill you, Steve found a way to get close to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And in September 2006, Steve was filming for a new documentary called Ocean's Deadliest, off the coast of eastern Australia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While swimming in shallow waters Irwin came across a giant eight-foot wide short-tailed stingray.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, any sensible human would think to stay well away from any creature that big.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But not Steve bloody Irwin, he obviously went in for a closer look, knowing stingrays are usually placid animals that, if bothered, will just swim away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Clearly though, this particular ray was having a bad day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As Irwin approached at the stingray, propped up on its front, and suddenly stabbed its eight-inch barb into his chest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Irwin thought the barb had punctured his lawn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When in fact, it had gone through his heart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If that didn't sound lethal enough, the Barb of a short-tailed stingray is also venomous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, at least he died doing what he loved.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure his heck beats dying on the toilet at any rate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now it's pretty tricky to find a select more fearless than Steve Irwin, but Bruce Lee might just be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Hong Kong American Marshall artist and actor found fame performing in movies like Enter the Dragon, The Way of the Dragon, and popularized plenty of iconic moves and one liners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: so so cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You'd imagine it'd take a lot to take this legend down, but that actually wasn't the case.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back in 1973 while acting out some scenes for an upcoming movie, Lee complained of a headache and dizziness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, his lover Betty Ting decided to give him a tablet of Equijazic, a strong aspirin-based medication.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After taking the tablet, he went to sleep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The coroner's official cause of the movie star's demise was a cerebral oedema, a swelling of the brain, triggered by an allergic reaction to the headache medication.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, a recent study argues the headache was actually a symptom of a more serious illness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The study states leap herashed from a kidney dysfunction.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For someone as trim is Bruce Lee that may seem odd, but he often went on juice diets and drunk excessive amounts of water.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, he'd done a lot of things that messed with the water balancing mechanisms in his body.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This set him up for hyponatremia, where the body holds on to too much water causing symptoms like nausea, cramping, and… you guessed it… headaches.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In extreme cases like the one that affected Lee, hyponatremia can even cause seizures and rapid brain swelling, I think maybe that was too much water in my friend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley rose to fame in the mid-1990s with the release of his cover of Halleluja.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ironically though, Buckley's end would be far from Holy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1997, Buckley was in Memphis recording a follow-up to his smash hit, debut album, Grace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One summers afternoon, Buckley, along with his friend Keith Foti, were winding down by the banks of the Wolf River, a tributary off the Mississippi.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The singer decided to get in the water, however he jumped in fully clothed not bothering to remove his t-shirt jeans or combat boots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now swimming is much harder while closed as the materials become extremely dense once wet, dragging you down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Still, Buckley was a confident enough swimmer, so he didn't think much of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything was going swimmingly until a boat came Buckley's way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: with Buckley passing behind the boat his friend lost sight of him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What happened next?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No one knows.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One thing was for sure though, Buckley disappeared.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most likely the motion of the boat through the water created a turbulent flow which pulled the singer under.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After Buckley's body was spotted five days later, a medical report showed he had no traces of any substances in his system, so this bizarre scene unfolded while he was completely sober.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, that's almost less rock and roll than dying on the toilet, but Jeff Buckley isn't the only singer to go down literally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Famous Country singer-songwriter John Denver is known for classic hits like Take Me Home Country Road, as well as leaving on a jet plane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: creepily though, John kind of sang about his own demise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When he wasn't recording Smash Hits, John enjoyed piloting aircraft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Over the course of his career, he'd racked up more than 2,700 hours in the air.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, back in October 1997, Denver had just picked up a flashy new, long-easy aircraft and was keen to take it for a test flight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He took off from Monterey Peninsula Airport before heading out over the Pacific Ocean, it was clear whether in blue skies a perfect day to fly, but at 5.28 pm several witnesses heard a loud bang.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Denver's plane had dropped straight down into the ocean, but he was an experienced pilot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What could possibly have happened?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in his eagerness to fly, Denver appeared to have forgotten to refuel the plane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's odd, a licensed pilot would do thorough pre-flight checks for this sort of stuff, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he wasn't actually licensed, he'd had his license revoked more than a year before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now, I think we know why.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, first Bruce Lee, then Jeff Buckley, now John Denver.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Celebrities in water do not mix.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of perilous plain incidents, John James was a Canadian rapper, professional skier, and a stunt artist who was at the height of his fame in the 2000s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a jack of all trades, even performed various daring stunts for his music videos.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty cool, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, one trick went a little too far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 2018, James was performing a particularly ludicrous stunt for an upcoming music video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He thought it'd be a good idea to walk along the wing of a plane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this is while the aircraft was hundreds of feet in the air.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If that wasn't risky enough, James was walking on the wing of a Sessna aircraft, a relatively small plane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when he wandered out to the wing, the added weight sent the plane into a downward spiral.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now James wasn't a complete moron.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You see, he'd worn a parachute in case of emergency.
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[SPEAKER_01]: By the time he eventually let go, he didn't have time to open his parachute, and well, you can guess the rest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just hope they never release that music video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Dar Robinson was a famous American stunt performer and actor who held 21 world stunt records from the 1960s through to the 1980s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The king of the stuntmen, as he was known, is remembered for feats like a 900 feet free fall from the C.N.
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[SPEAKER_01]: tower.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Badass!
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sadly, though, this Daredevil couldn't dodge danger forever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1986, Robinson was filming as a stunt double for the action-packed movie, Million Dollar Mystery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For one stunt, he had to crash his motorbike into a guardrail at 40 miles per hour, before vaulting over it into a safety net.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With the most daring task out the way, he could relax a little, but that would be a big mistake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: hours later Robinson was involved in a routine motorbike chase scene.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After speeding down a hill, he approached a sharp curve.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, instead of turning with the curve, the stuntman slipped, losing control of his dirt bike, before dropping down the craggy 40-foot cliff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How Anti-Climactic Not all celebs come from the Silver Screen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jim Hezledon, for example, found fame as an entrepreneur developing the Hesco Bastion used for military fortifications.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With all the millions he made, he acquired Segway Increts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Creators of the iconic two-wheeled personalized motor, from its inventor in 2009.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Little did he know that decision would be his downfall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After acquiring the company, Hesselden presumably used the flashy wheeler to get about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: On one of his journeys, the entrepreneur came across a dog walker.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that it'd normally be fine, but Hesselden was writing his Segway near a pretty daring drop.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a bit to give the dog walker more room, he'sled in reverse back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But in doing so, he lost control of the Segway, before disappearing from sight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you guess where he ended up?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, sadly both him and his Segway dropped down 40 feet below, neither survived.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's segue on to the next celebs, shall we?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's Addison Ray, Bella Portch, or Charlie Demelio, a new generation of celebs have emerged in recent years on the social media app TikTok.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's no different in China where 23-year-old Shao Qume gained more than 100,000 followers on the Chinese equivalent to Yen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Qume was a crane operator who rose to fame with her live streams live from the cabin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One day in July 2021, Kumei was filming a video like any other recording herself way up on the crane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But somehow she took a misstep and fell out of the vehicle's cabin, dropping down 160 feet to her demise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be like falling off the top of Nelson's column in London.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That sounds bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what's even more horrifying is that she held onto her phone during the fall, live streaming the whole tragic event.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Social media is full of some freaky stuff, but that might top it all, or I guess, technically bottom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Shao Q.
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[SPEAKER_01]: May isn't the only TikTok star to meet their maker in a hairling way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Timothy Hall, otherwise known as Timbo The Redneck, gained more than 200,000 followers on TikTok posting videos of himself fishing, performing gags, and doing stunts in his beloved pickup truck, Big Booty Judy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ha, nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, like all dangerous women, Judy would be Timbo's undoing back in 2021.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The 18-year-old was doing donuts in Judy, but was going way too fast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He suddenly lost control of Judy before flying out the driver's side window.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Brused and disorientated, he didn't have the awareness to get out of the way before Judy flipped over, landing on top of him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Damn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let that be a lesson, the only donuts you need in your life are the glazed kind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not only in recent years that famous figures have suffered some crazy twists of fate, nearly 2,500 years before TikTok Timbo's demise, playwright Escalis was kicking about an ancient Greece.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Known as the father of tragedy, his nickname would become incredibly ironic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One morning, Escalis ventured outside, presumably to think up the plot of his next play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unbeknownst to him, an eagle which had just hunted down a tortoise, was holding it in its talons, and was flying above.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The story goes that the eagle mistook Escalis's shiny bald head for a rock, and in an attempt to crack the tortoise's shell, dropped it on Escalis's noggin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the bird just hated his plays?
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[SPEAKER_01]: If that wasn't cursed enough, it said Escalus had been staying outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he'd be taken down by a falling object.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When your looks out, you're looks out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Considering he was the father of tragedy, there's a chance his end could have been fabricated by later Greek playwrights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Guess that makes this guy the first?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Shell liberty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I know it's a terrible joke, there's a reason I'm a podcaster and not a comedian.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tortices aren't the only animals to have struck down a celeb.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Henry I was one of the most famous men of the 12th century, raining as the King of England from 1100 to 1135.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, in the Middle Ages, Lampries were considered a delicacy among the elite.
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[SPEAKER_01]: King Henry had a bit of an obsession with these jollisfish,
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[SPEAKER_01]: But during one of these grim benchfests, a contemporary chronicleer claimed Henry was chowing down on a lamprey when, without warning he suddenly doubled over and died.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, did he choke?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did he have an allergic reaction?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What part of this gross feast killed him exactly?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, improperly removing the lamprey's mucus covering and failing to wash the meat has been known to cause lamprey poisoning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In these cases, people can suffer from vomiting, diarrhea, and cramps.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, there are no confirmed fatalities.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So while that mucusy meal may have made Henry sick, something else likely finished him off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A recent research paper claimed that the probable culprit was actually a bacteria called Listeria monocytogenes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This deadly foodborne bacteria has a mortality rate of up to 30%, with complications including meningitis, gastroenteritis, and sepsis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The bacteria thrives in cold damp conditions, similar to the one's present at Henry Stone Fortress.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the King of England was either taken down by fish or germs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure which is worse, is there any worse feeling in the world than when you're dying to take a leak, but you can't get to the bathroom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Taiko bra knew that feeling all too well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bra was a 16th-century Danish astronomer known for cataloging over 1,000 stars in his time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Being an astronomer you'd think Bra wouldn't have a very flamboyant lifestyle, but that wasn't the case.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He kept a pet mousse and he lost part of his nose while battling in a sore duel famously wearing a brass one to replace it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yet the most remarkable part of Brow's life was its ending.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1601, the Stargazer was invited to a banquet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Midway through his meal, he had a sudden urge to whiz.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But thinking it was bad etiquette, Bruh held it in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and he did a pretty good job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, he held it in so well that when he eventually got home hours later, he could no longer pee.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For days after Braho was unable to take a whiz, alongside that he began to experience insomnia, a continuous fever, and allurium.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Symptoms in keeping with someone suffering from a burst bladder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, after 11 agonizing days, Braho's bladder got the better of him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yikes!
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, now you know, next time you need to take a leak at a banquet, don't try and be polite.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While he may not be well known today, Hans Steininger was a big deal back in the mid-16th century.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was the mayor of Brown-O-M-N in Austria, but what really got eyeballs on this guy was his facial hair.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Steining her dawn to famous for in a half-feet-long beard stretching down past his feet, his fuzzy facial feature was so long that he usually folded it up and stuffed it in his pocket.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In September 1567, there was a fire in Brownow, MN.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the days before fire engines and water hoses, a blaze could quickly reduce a town to ashes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So being the town's mayor, the bearded boss knew he had to take action to fight the fire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: However, amidst the chaos, he forgot to fold up his beard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While approaching a set of stairs, Stiningger accidentally stepped on his beard, throwing him off balance and making him fall down a flight of stairs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess you could say that trip was a stairway to heaven for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ever been relaxing, watching TV, when all of a sudden the picture cuts out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh, it can be pretty frustrating, can it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No one knew that feeling better than Rod Hall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This guy was a famous British comedian and entertainer, popular in the 70s and 80s, who was never seen without his goofy puppet sidekick, M.U.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1999, Hall was watching a soccer match with his son Oliver in their living room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But all of a sudden, the picture cut out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A annoyed instead of ringing a professional, hold a sighted to fix the issue himself by getting a ladder and climbing onto his roof to adjust the aerial.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Waiting in the living room to tell his dad if the pictured returned, Oliver suddenly heard a crash, followed by a thud.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that wasn't the aerial falling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What he'd actually heard was his dad losing his balance, crashing through their greenhouse, and then landing on its concrete floor,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oof!
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[SPEAKER_01]: All I can say is thank God's satellite TV is a thing of the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Long before Beyoncé and Jay-Z or Megan and Harry, there was another power couple who rocked the world, Sunny and Share.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This American pop and entertainment duo peaked in the 60s and 70s, featuring the goddess of pop share and her former husband, Sunny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: While you've likely heard of Cher, Sunny was a big deal back in the day too, whether it was for his singing, acting or even his role as Mayor of Palm Springs, this guy was everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, up until January 1998, at least, to kick off the new year, Sunny went on a family skiing trip to Heavenly ski resort in California.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was skiing with his then wife, Mary Whitaker and their two children when he left them to ski alone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The rest of his family waited at the bottom of the slope for Sonny to ski down, but hours later there was still no sign of him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After a search and rescue patrol was sent out, they found him, and not in a good way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Somehow, Sonny had veered off course skiing headfirst into a tree at the side of the slope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: human head versus tree stump, I don't need to tell you who won that battle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Soccer players don't have a reputation for being the sharpest tools in the box, but one particular player took that reputation of stupidity to new lows back in 1977.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Luciano Ray Chakone was an Italian professional soccer star playing for Team Lazio as well as his national team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Aside from playing soccer, Ray Chakone was said to have a love for practical jokes, so one day Ray Chakone and his teammate decided to cause some mischief in a jewelry shop and room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They thought it'd be a bright idea to walk in, shouting hands in the air while masking their faces with their jackets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: truly genius.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unbeknownst to them, however, just a week earlier, the Jewelers had been burgled, for real.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As a result, the paranoid owner pulled out a shotgun, while his teammates spotted the gun and raised his hands, Rachel Coney continued on with the idiotic prank, until the shopkeeper opened fire.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite being rushed to hospital, the soccer star didn't make it, with his final
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I shouldn't mock the dead, but buddy, to be a joke, it has to be funny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The incredible French pop singer and songwriter, Claude François, rose to fame in the 60s after co-writing the lyrics to the original version of My Way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for all his musical genius, it seemed like François was lacking some common sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1978, while relaxing at his Parisian apartment, François decided to run himself a bath.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just as he got into the tub and started to unwind the singer realized something, the light was off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For some reason the lamp above his head wasn't working, so Francois had the bright idea to go ahead and fix it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There was one problem though, his body was still in the water of the bathtub.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now you don't need me to tell you water and electricity isn't a good mix.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And predictably, as he touched the light bulb, the sodden singer suffered a lethal electrocution.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What a shocking way to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now I bet most of you think you know how Harry Houdini, the Hungarian American Escape Artist and Illusionist, died.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a story almost as famous as the man himself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He who would perform mind-blowing stunts like bearing himself six feet under and escaping from a water-filled milk can, but I'm here to tell you, you don't know the full story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's start back in October, 1926, where Houdini was giving a lecturer at McGill University in Montreal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After the lecture, he invited some of the students into his dressing room to talk further.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was then one of the students asked Houdini if it was true that he could resist punches to the stomach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: a claim he'd made before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When Houdini said the rumors were true, the student immediately put it to the test, punching the stuntman four or five times in the abdomen, normally Houdini would have tends to resist these, but he was reclining on the sofa, and the student had hit him in the stomach when he was completely unprepared, which left him in considerable pain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He brushed it off, however, later that day he began to feel
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[SPEAKER_01]: On board a train for his next run of performances, he experienced severe abdominal pain, cold sweats and a soaring temperature of over 100 degrees.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A doctor suspected Houdini had appendicitis yet being the performer he was, Houdini refused to cancel his show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Somehow, he struggled through.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yet as the final curtain drew Houdini collapsed to the floor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite being rushed to the hospital, it was all too late for the stunt man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Doctors removed his appendix, however it had ruptured days earlier, poisoning his insides.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the story of the famous punch that killed Houdini has been told many times over, but the punch likely wasn't a blame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You see, while traumatic appendicitis, which is an appendicitis brought on by injury, can happen,
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's extremely rare, and Houdini was operated on nine days after that initial encounter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he'd had a burst appendix that entire time, he'd barely have been able to stand, let alone travel and do a show.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyone like me who's had an appendicitis can confirm just how painful it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So did the punch burst the appendix?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But spending years avoiding the most extreme and horrifying deaths possible, only to be taken out by your own organs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you think of any more stars that went down in extraordinary circumstances?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And thanks for listening.