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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share four stories that are not
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  Speaker 1: at all what they seem. You might think you know
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  Speaker 1: what's happening, but the reality is much stranger than you
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  Speaker 1: could ever imagine. But before we get into today's stories,
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  Speaker 1: get into today's stories. One afternoon in August of 1578,
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  Speaker 1: a young woman named Alice Good stood with her parents
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  Speaker 1: outside of their house in the city of Norwich, England,
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  Speaker 1: with a huge crowd of people all around them. The
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  Speaker 1: streets of Norwich were completely packed because Elizabeth, the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of England, had just arrived for a royal visit to
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  Speaker 1: the city. And basically everybody was outside and waiting to
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  Speaker 1: just catch a glimpse of her and her enormous 2,000-person
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  Speaker 1: entourage as they rode through the city's main street. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the city of Norwich had been preparing for this visit
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  Speaker 1: for months, and they had pulled out all the stops.
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  Speaker 1: They'd completely renovated the city's palace, and they'd planned this
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  Speaker 1: huge reception and festival for the queen, including tons of
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  Speaker 1: entertainment like dancing and theater. And all this excitement and
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  Speaker 1: anticipation had really infected the locals. So this visit was
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  Speaker 1: literally all anybody had been talking about, and now it
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  Speaker 1: was finally here. Now, Alice could hear a roar of cheers,
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  Speaker 1: and she looked down the street to see the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the royal procession finally coming in her direction. And
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  Speaker 1: so she threw her arms around her mother's shoulders in excitement,
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  Speaker 1: and they watched as the queen came into view riding
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  Speaker 1: on top of this magnificent horse. Alice just stared in
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  Speaker 1: complete awe at all of the queen's opulent fabrics and jewels.
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  Speaker 1: And even when she'd gone past, the rest of her
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  Speaker 1: entourage was just as amazing. I mean, the procession kept
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  Speaker 1: going on and on and on with thousands of well-dressed
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  Speaker 1: people in carriages and on horseback.
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  Speaker 2: They were all so.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful and so important-seeming that Alice couldn't even believe she
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  Speaker 1: was breathing the same air as them. And so she
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  Speaker 1: just knew that she would remember this moment for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of her life. A few months later, Alice was
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  Speaker 1: lying on the floor of her house next to a bed,
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  Speaker 1: sicker than she had ever been in her whole life.
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  Speaker 1: She was covered in huge, runny blisters and had a
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  Speaker 1: terrible fever, and her body was so weak she could
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  Speaker 1: barely move. But she was in better shape than her parents,
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  Speaker 1: who lay together.
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  Speaker 2: On the bed, both deceased.
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  Speaker 1: So the queen and her massive entourage hadn't just brought
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  Speaker 1: good times and revelry during their visit. They'd also brought
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  Speaker 1: the bubonic plague with them. And shortly after they had left,
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  Speaker 1: the plague had completely ravaged the city. And this disease
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  Speaker 1: was so contagious, and it was so painful. The only
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  Speaker 1: silver lining of sorts was that most people who contracted
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  Speaker 1: this disease at least seemed to die pretty quickly before
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  Speaker 1: the pain and misery really set in. But that also
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  Speaker 1: meant that by this point, Thousands of Norwich's residents had
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  Speaker 1: died in just a matter of a few months. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it had gotten so bad that Queen Elizabeth herself had
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  Speaker 1: directly gotten involved, issuing a series of health protocols like
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  Speaker 1: isolation and mask wearing to try to stem the.
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  Speaker 2: Spread of this plague.
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  Speaker 1: But even so, the deaths were coming so fast that
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  Speaker 1: the city couldn't keep up with burials. And so bodies
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  Speaker 1: were piled up in carts in the street or thrown
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  Speaker 1: into mass graves. and even those places were running out
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  Speaker 1: of room. So instead of city officials literally going around
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  Speaker 1: and collecting every single corpse of a plague victim, city
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  Speaker 1: officials had begun just finding out where someone had died
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  Speaker 1: from the plague, often in their homes, and then they
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  Speaker 1: would just not remove the body and they would just
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  Speaker 1: board that house up, basically seal it off, keeping the
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  Speaker 1: corpse inside, sort of isolated from the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: And so now Alice, from her position on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: looked up at the bed where her parents' bodies were.
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  Speaker 1: Her family had all basically managed to stay healthy for
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  Speaker 1: a long time after the plague had originally broken out
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  Speaker 1: and everybody else seemed to be getting sick. They were
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  Speaker 1: doing okay, her family. But then just a few days ago,
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  Speaker 1: it was like one by one by one, they had
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  Speaker 1: all gotten sick. Alice had been the last to start
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  Speaker 1: showing symptoms, so she'd been able to take care of
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  Speaker 1: her parents and get them food. But now there was
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  Speaker 1: no one around to do that for her. Then she
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  Speaker 1: heard something outside. There were some voices who were talking
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  Speaker 1: by her front door, followed by the sound of hammering.
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  Speaker 1: It took Alice a minute to realize what was even happening,
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  Speaker 1: but when she did, she understood that her house was
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  Speaker 1: being boarded up. Clearly, one of her neighbors must have
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  Speaker 1: reported that her family had gotten sick. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: told city officials, and since no one had gone in or.
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  Speaker 2: Out in days.
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  Speaker 1: they must have assumed that everyone in the house was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Alice opened her mouth to yell out that she was
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  Speaker 1: still alive. Like, don't do this yet. But the plague
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  Speaker 1: had made her throat so raw and her tongue was
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  Speaker 1: like dead weight that all she could manage was this
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  Speaker 1: little whimper, like barely audible. And again, she's so weak
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  Speaker 1: from the plague that was killing her that she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: actually move. She couldn't get to the front door to
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  Speaker 1: tell them to stop. And so Alice just had to
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  Speaker 1: lie there next to her dead parents and listen to
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  Speaker 1: the people outside seal her in. And then finally she
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  Speaker 1: heard one of the Mishua command to mark the house.
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  Speaker 1: And Alice knew what that meant. They were putting a
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  Speaker 1: red cross on the door, a symbol that let people
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  Speaker 1: know not to enter for 40 days so that the
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  Speaker 1: plague could die off. And so Alice knew at this point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like one way or another, by the time
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  Speaker 1: they opened that door again, she'd be dead, too, either
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  Speaker 1: from the plague, which seemed very likely, or from starvation,
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  Speaker 1: whichever came first. Forty days later, a city official used
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  Speaker 1: a crowbar to pry some wood away from Alice's boarded-up house.
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  Speaker 1: He was with a few other officials, and their job
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  Speaker 1: was to go inside of these homes and remove whatever
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  Speaker 1: corpses were there, and then clean and sterilize the place.
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  Speaker 1: Once they had the boards off, the official opened up
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  Speaker 1: the front door and stepped inside. Now, to this point,
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  Speaker 1: he had done a lot of these homes, and so
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  Speaker 1: what he found when he entered this home was not
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  Speaker 1: very surprising to him. When he eventually found his way
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  Speaker 1: to the bedroom, he found Alice and her parents, and
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  Speaker 1: they were, you know, decomposing corpses at this point. Alice
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  Speaker 1: was on the floor, and her parents were still in
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  Speaker 1: the bed, and they were all covered in boils and
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  Speaker 1: had very obviously died from the plague. But as the
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  Speaker 1: official and his team actually got to work, he noticed
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  Speaker 1: something odd about these bodies. At first, he actually didn't
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  Speaker 1: even understand what he was looking at. Like the discrepancy
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  Speaker 1: he had noticed, it just didn't compute. He couldn't really
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  Speaker 1: understand it. But after inspecting each of the bodies, a
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  Speaker 1: horrifying thought entered his mind. Because from what he was seeing,
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  Speaker 1: he knew something even more terrible than the plague had
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  Speaker 1: happened here. It is believed that Alice had been too
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  Speaker 1: weak to find a way out of her boarded-up home
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  Speaker 1: and get food. And so in order to stave off
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  Speaker 1: hunger and survive for as long as she could, she
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  Speaker 1: used the only food source that she had that was
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  Speaker 1: physically near her. The odd thing that that official had
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  Speaker 1: noticed when he was first looking at the bodies were
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  Speaker 1: Alice's parents. There were chunks of flesh missing from their legs.
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  Speaker 1: And when he looked inside.
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  Speaker 2: Of Alice's mouth, he found chunks of skin and flesh.
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  Speaker 1: So it was deduced that Alice, you know, in her desperation,
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  Speaker 1: had begun eating her parents, like just to survive, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to survive until the 40 days were up so she could.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: But it appeared that obviously, despite taking such a drastic step,
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  Speaker 1: that the plague had still claimed her life. But upon
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  Speaker 1: even closer examination, they determined that Alice didn't die from
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  Speaker 1: the plague.
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  Speaker 2: She died from choking on her parents' flesh.
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  Speaker 1: On the night of January 26, 2005, a man named
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  Speaker 1: Michael sat in this dimly lit room in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 1: with a dozen military officials sitting around him. America was
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the Iraq War, and everybody in
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  Speaker 1: this room was on edge. Because earlier that day, a
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  Speaker 1: Marine helicopter had crashed during a sandstorm, and it had
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  Speaker 1: killed 31 people.
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  Speaker 2: And so the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Room is just kind of waiting to see what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. And then just then, a commander rushed into
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  Speaker 1: the room with this grave look on his face. And Michael,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he looked at this guy, he knew
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  Speaker 1: that whatever he was about to say, it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be very bad. And the commander, who was very
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  Speaker 1: out of breath, he told the room that he had
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  Speaker 1: just been informed that there was a guided missile headed
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  Speaker 1: straight for them. And Michael, when he heard this, it
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  Speaker 1: was like it didn't even compute at first. But then
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  Speaker 1: when it did, he practically jumped out of his chair.
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  Speaker 1: But he tried to stay calm as he He asked
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  Speaker 1: the commander, like, what's the plan? But the commander's voice
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  Speaker 1: cracked as he said, there was no plan. The missile's
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  Speaker 1: coordinates were set for their exact location, and there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: time to escape. They basically had, you know, seconds or
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  Speaker 1: maybe minutes to live here. And so Michael, it was
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  Speaker 1: like he fully panicked, completely freaked out. His heart was
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  Speaker 1: practically beating out of his chest. I mean, he'd been
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  Speaker 1: in all kinds of dangerous situations before, but Now that
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  Speaker 1: he was facing certain death, he just completely lost his composure,
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  Speaker 1: and his survival instincts took over.
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  Speaker 2: And so he just started running.
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  Speaker 1: He sprinted out of the room and down the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no door up ahead, so he just
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  Speaker 1: jumped through a window, smashed into the ground, pulled himself up,
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  Speaker 1: and kept on running. And with every step, he felt
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  Speaker 1: glass shards slicing into his feet, every bone in his
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  Speaker 1: body ached, and he was He was dizzy and disoriented,
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  Speaker 1: but he knew he had to keep going if there
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  Speaker 1: was any chance at surviving. And so he's running along
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  Speaker 1: here and he looks over his shoulder to see if
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  Speaker 1: the missile was heading towards the building yet. But what
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  Speaker 1: he saw behind him was so confusing that he just stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Because Michael was now standing on the front lawn of
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  Speaker 1: the La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, Washington State. And
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  Speaker 1: he was just in his underwear. It would turn out,
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  Speaker 1: Michael was not actually a soldier. He did not work
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  Speaker 1: in D.C. with other military officials. Instead, he was the
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  Speaker 1: famous comedian Mike Birbiglia, and he'd fallen asleep while watching
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  Speaker 1: the news and had a nightmare that a missile was
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  Speaker 1: coming for him. And in his sleep, he'd gotten out
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  Speaker 1: of bed and ran and jumped through the second-story window
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  Speaker 1: of his hotel room. And he finally came to and
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  Speaker 1: woke up as he was sort of running across the
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  Speaker 1: front lawn, badly hurt, covered in blood and broken glass.
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  Speaker 1: He ultimately needed 30 stitches in his arms and legs,
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  Speaker 1: and he ended up seeing a sleepwalking specialist to make
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  Speaker 1: sure this never happened again. And this whole crazy experience
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  Speaker 1: became the inspiration for Mike's book and feature film, Sleepwalk
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  Speaker 1: With Me.
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  Speaker 2: At 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: On the evening of June 7, 1971, a 34-year-old late-night
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  Speaker 1: TV host named Dick Cavett walked onto a soundstage in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. He sat down in one of the
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  Speaker 1: swivel chairs that was set up at the center of
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  Speaker 1: the stage, and then he turned to face the studio audience.
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  Speaker 1: And he launched into his typical opening monologue, just like
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  Speaker 1: he did five nights a week. So the Dick Cavett
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  Speaker 1: Show had been airing for a little over a year
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  Speaker 1: at this point, and while it was a quality show,
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  Speaker 1: it was struggling in the ratings department. The network had
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  Speaker 1: been pressuring Cavett to fix it by bringing on famous guests.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to see more movie stars, athletes, and other
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  Speaker 1: household names. And Cavett had been trying, but tonight, the
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  Speaker 1: big star that he had lined up had dropped out
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  Speaker 1: at the last minute, and the new guy his producers
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  Speaker 1: had found as a replacement was really not much of
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  Speaker 1: a star at all. His name was J.I. Rodale, and
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  Speaker 1: he was a 72-year-old health guru and organic food advocate.
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  Speaker 1: who talked about things like eating raw vegetables and not
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  Speaker 1: using pesticides. And Cavett didn't really have a problem with
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  Speaker 1: any of that, but he had serious doubts that it
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  Speaker 1: would make for good late-night TV. But even though he
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  Speaker 1: had misgivings about his now-main guest here, he'd run out
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  Speaker 1: of time to find anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: And now the.
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  Speaker 1: Cameras were literally rolling, so Cavett had no choice but
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  Speaker 1: to try and make the.
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  Speaker 2: Best of it. At first, the show seemed to be
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  Speaker 2: going pretty smoothly.
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  Speaker 1: Cavett nailed the opening monologue like he usually did, and
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  Speaker 1: then he got into the guest segments. At first, he
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  Speaker 1: interviewed a comedian, and then he interviewed a famous scientist,
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  Speaker 1: and then finally it was time for the main guest,
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  Speaker 1: the health guru. The band played, and J.I. Rodale walked
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  Speaker 1: out onto the stage with a big grin on his face,
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  Speaker 1: waving at the audience. He was an elderly man with
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  Speaker 1: glasses and a gray beard, but he looked svelte. He
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  Speaker 1: looked very fit, as you would imagine a health guru would.
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  Speaker 1: And then when he sat down in the chair next
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  Speaker 1: to Cavett, Cavett internally, like in his mind, was sort
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  Speaker 1: of bracing himself, thinking that this is probably the point
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  Speaker 1: where people at home who are watching this are going
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  Speaker 1: to change the channel because this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Is not that interesting.
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  Speaker 1: But then Rodale, his guest, began talking. And all of
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  Speaker 1: Cavett's worries evaporated. Because for a guy in his 70s,
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  Speaker 1: Rodale was like brimming with energy. He was charming, he
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  Speaker 1: was articulate, and somehow he was able to make organic
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  Speaker 1: vegetables funny. He had this earnest, self-deprecating humor where he
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  Speaker 1: could be really passionate and sincere while laughing at.
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  Speaker 2: Himself at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, he claimed that his diet had made
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  Speaker 1: him so healthy that he hadn't even hurt himself while
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  Speaker 1: falling down an entire flight of stairs the day before
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  Speaker 1: the taping. which just made everybody laugh at the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he'd been that clumsy in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: But like, it was a great joke. It was a
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  Speaker 2: good line.
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  Speaker 1: And so Rodale just went on and on about how
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  Speaker 1: healthy he felt, you know, despite his age and how
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  Speaker 1: he was going to live to be 100 easily. And
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  Speaker 1: so as the segment began to wind down and come
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  Speaker 1: to a close, Dick Cavett was thrilled by how well
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  Speaker 1: this had gone. And also, he was kind of buying
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  Speaker 1: into Rodale's perspective. Because if this guy was this funny
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  Speaker 1: and energetic at 72, then maybe there was something to
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  Speaker 1: this organic produce thing after all. And so around this point,
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  Speaker 1: the band began to play more music, at which point
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  Speaker 1: Rodale moved down one chair away from Dick Cavett to
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  Speaker 1: make room for Cavett's next guest. This one was a
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  Speaker 1: crime journalist, and Cavett had been hoping, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: of that, this would be an exciting conversation.
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  Speaker 2: But Just a few minutes in, the guests.
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  Speaker 1: Started getting really bogged down in statistics and local politics.
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  Speaker 2: It was really not very engaging.
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  Speaker 1: Cavett was trying to sort of redirect the journalist and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of liven things back up again when
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  Speaker 1: he heard a loud snore coming from Rodale's chair. And
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  Speaker 1: at this, the audience started to laugh, and Cavett realized
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  Speaker 1: that Rodale was doing a bit, implying that this segment
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  Speaker 1: was so boring it was putting him to sleep. He
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  Speaker 1: was literally laying there sleeping. But instead of being upset
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  Speaker 1: about this, Cavett actually found this to be pretty hilarious
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  Speaker 1: because it just showed how good Rodale was at reading
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  Speaker 1: the room. So he decided to roll with it and
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  Speaker 1: try to pull Rodale into this very boring conversation to
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  Speaker 1: liven it up. And so he turned to face Rodale
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  Speaker 1: who was literally leaning back in his chair with his
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  Speaker 1: mouth open in this very exaggerated snoring posture. It was
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  Speaker 1: so over the top, the audience at this point was
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  Speaker 1: just losing it, laughing outright.
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  Speaker 2: And the journalist is like, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: But then Cabot took a closer look at Rodale and
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  Speaker 1: he realized something was terribly wrong. It would turn out J.I.
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  Speaker 1: Rodale was not actually doing a bit. He had not
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  Speaker 1: fallen asleep. He was not actually snoring from sleeping. The
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  Speaker 1: health guru had suffered a massive heart attack and died
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  Speaker 1: on stage, all while the cameras rolled and the audience watched. So, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: when this discovery was made, this episode did not finish taping.
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  Speaker 1: And when the 11.30 slot rolled around, when the Dick
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  Speaker 1: Cavett show this episode was supposed to air, ABC ran
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  Speaker 1: a rerun in its place. One day, sometime in the spring,
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  Speaker 1: a very delirious 18-year-old Austrian man named Andreas Mihavic opened
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  Speaker 1: his eyes and found himself lying in a cold, dark
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  Speaker 1: room that he did not recognize. He thought he could
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  Speaker 1: hear footsteps echoing from far away, but he really wasn't sure,
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  Speaker 1: because he had no idea where he was.
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  Speaker 2: Or when it was, or why he was here at all.
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  Speaker 1: He knew he had not had anything to eat or
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  Speaker 1: drink in a very long time, because he was famished,
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  Speaker 1: he was dehydrated, he.
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  Speaker 2: Could feel that.
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  Speaker 1: And he also could literally sort of see and feel
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  Speaker 1: that his body and his mind were shutting down. And
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  Speaker 1: so at this point, all he knew was he was
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  Speaker 1: inside of a dark cell, like some kind of a dungeon.
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  Speaker 1: four brick walls, and a mattress that earlier he had
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: been lying on, and a bucket in the corner that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: he'd been using for a toilet. The only light that
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: came into this room, which was very little, came from
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a slot on the locked metal door. But that door
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: never opened, even though Andreas had spent a long time
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: screaming and banging on it. So now he blinked in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the very dim light, listening hard for these distant footsteps.
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  Speaker 2: But Now there was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Andreas could not recall what he was doing that sort
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of led to him being here. Whether or not it
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: caused it, he didn't know, but it's like his mind
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: was blank when he looked to the past. But he
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: knew whatever he had done that had put him here
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: must have been unthinkably evil. Because this, his current existence,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: was literally the worst torture he could imagine.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: The emptiness in.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: His stomach was excruciating, but the thirstiness was somehow even worse.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: So he forced himself to turn so that he was
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: facing one of the four walls, and slowly he stuck
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: his tongue out and licked the condensation off the brick.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Then he just closed his eyes again and felt himself
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: drift back into unconsciousness. The next time Andreas woke up,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the footsteps were back, but louder than before. And so
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: he forced his eyes open and he focused on the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: door just as a shadow moved past that slot. Then
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a pair of eyes appeared and they looked at him
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and Andreas, he looked right back, but he didn't bother
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: lifting his head or asking for help because this had
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: happened twice before. And when he had begged whoever was
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: out there for food and for water, They just told
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: him it wasn't their.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Concern and they had walked away.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So now Andreas held eye contact with this phantom person
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: for a few seconds. Then he just shut his own
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: eyes again because he knew that whoever was out there
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: was not going to help him.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: The only way he was ever getting out of here
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: was by dying.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: But then Andreas heard the sound of metal scraping, metal
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: grinding on metal, followed by the screech of rusty hinges.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And then the sound of someone walking toward him. Then
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: he felt himself being lifted off the mattress into the air,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and he opened his eyes to find himself suddenly out
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of this horrible room and moving down this long hallway.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And then he was going up a flight of stairs
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and then finally out into just blinding light. His eyes
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: slowly adjusted, and as they did, figures started coming into
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: focus all around him. And when Andreas blinked a few
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: times and took a minute to really take in his surroundings,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: He saw he was now in this large, very brightly
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: lit room, surrounded by all these people wearing these crisp
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: blue uniforms.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Then something just.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Sort of clicked in his memory, and he realized this
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: was definitely a police station. But something was clearly wrong,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: because all the police officers were staring at him in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: shocked silence, looking just absolutely horrified. It would turn out
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Andreas had not been locked up as punishment for some
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: unthinkably evil crime, as he began.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: To suspect, but instead just because of a clerical error.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: On April 1st, 1979, Andreas was the passenger in a
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: minor car crash in the town of Huscht, Austria. After
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the accident, Andreas and his friend, who had been driving
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the car, were both taken to the local police station
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: for questioning. The officers put Andreas in a holding cell
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in the basement while they questioned his friend.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: And they forgot about him.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Two different officers did see Andreas inside of that basement cell,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: but they just assumed somebody else must be taking care
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of him, right?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Like, it's not my responsibility. It's somebody else's.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: That was why an officer, you know, after Andreas had
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: been screaming for help, just said to him, It wasn't
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: their concern because they literally thought somebody else was dealing
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: with Andreas. Andreas's mother eventually called the police looking for
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: her son. And at that point, the police filed a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: missing persons report. But they never considered that Andreas might
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: still be at the station until an officer happened to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: pass by that basement cell and noticed a horrible smell
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: coming from inside. When the police finally figured out their
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: mistake and went down to that basement cell and discovered Andreas,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It was April 18th, 1979. Andreas had been held in
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the cell without food, without water, basically completely isolated for
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: 18 days.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: He was barely alive. He had lost 50 pounds, but
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: somehow he was hanging on.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Barely, barely alive, barely mentally able to function, but he
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: was alive. And he would make a recovery. And to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: this day, Andreas holds the world record for surviving longer
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: than anyone in history without food or water. Thank you
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: so much for watching. Let me know what you thought
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: of today's episode in the comments. And remember, we have
• 24:13
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• 24:16
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• 24:18
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• 24:22
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• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So give it a watch. All right, until next time,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: see ya.