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Internets Most Famous Missing Person - Lars Mittank · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The story of Lars mitting is one that's baffled investigators
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  Speaker 1: for years. The last time he was ever seen, he
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  Speaker 1: was caught on camera, but instead of this helping, it
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  Speaker 1: only added confusion to his story. Since then, Lars has
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  Speaker 1: gone on to become the Internet's most famous missing person,
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  Speaker 1: as the security camera that caught his last known whereabouts
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  Speaker 1: was in an airport and received several million views on
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  Speaker 1: YouTube due to the strange events that it witnessed.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Ben and I'm Nicole, and you're listening to
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  Speaker 2: Wicked and Grim, a true crime podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Warning the following podcasts and material for a mature audience listener. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that was a good open.
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  Speaker 2: That actually was That was me?
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  Speaker 1: That was you? Okay, Well, now here's me. Can I
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  Speaker 1: do better? I feel like there's pressure on now?
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  Speaker 2: You always do better.
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  Speaker 1: Yours was more satisfying. Man was a little bit too quick.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little premature.
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  Speaker 2: That's so bad. I'm actually drinking a what is this?
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  Speaker 2: It's a semi sweet apple cider. It's still less nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm drinking some steamworks from Vancouver. So do me a favor.
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  Speaker 1: Turn your head and look outside. See those yellow leaves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't want to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we do have to talk about it. Yeah, fall
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  Speaker 1: is on its way, It really is. It is. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys like where you're listening from
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. If you can look outside and see yellow
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  Speaker 1: leaves right now, it's starting here. It's not on our
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  Speaker 1: trees yet, but the underbrush, Yeah, like the little willows
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  Speaker 1: and bushes and stuff, they're starting to turn a little yellow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I went on a paddleboard excursion thing adventure today,
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  Speaker 2: adventure like it was wild and yeah, it felt like
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  Speaker 2: full it literally because it was kind of cold, like
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  Speaker 2: it was maybe what like eighteen degrees today celsius and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you say celsius.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it felt like if we commented it out,
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  Speaker 2: it felt like it was full.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. While you were out paddle boarding doing an epicate adventure,
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  Speaker 1: guess what I was doing working. I was doing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of research, not only to finish off this episode,
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  Speaker 1: but I was looking looking at some other true crime
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  Speaker 1: cases that I want to cover in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I went down this rabbit hole on the murderer
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  Speaker 1: in history who has the highest to kill count ever?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: And I found them, And I'm not saying who I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying numbers. All I'm saying is I found them
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  Speaker 1: and we are doing that case soon and the number
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  Speaker 1: is absurd.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot, I feel like we have we talked about this before.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about some with some high numbers, and most
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  Speaker 1: of them are suspected high numbers. Okay, this one is
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  Speaker 1: apparently recorded as such.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well we're gonna talk about this later.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, you ain't getting nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I need some more deep.
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  Speaker 1: No, but I'll give you guys a brief hint at
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  Speaker 1: the number. It's over five hundred. That's all I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say. I'm not going to say how much over
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  Speaker 1: five hundred because I'm leaving it open here.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, I need a little bit more. No, Nope,
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  Speaker 2: when off.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, Nope, Nope, nope, nope. You get nothing maybe our patrons,
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  Speaker 1: but not you. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, that's how it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it is. Speaking of patrons, we got to
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  Speaker 1: thank some patrons.
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  Speaker 2: Thank we sure do.
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  Speaker 1: So signing up this week over on Patreon. We have
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  Speaker 1: Megan Dunn, we have Courtney Burkett, we have Ashley Leigh,
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea and Stella Rose. They all get that epic behind
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  Speaker 1: They're actually going to be naming some of our new
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  Speaker 1: to be happening tomorrow, so if you really want to
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  Speaker 1: There's been some suggestions put up so far, but it's
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  Speaker 1: officially happening tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, the fact that we've had these new little
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  Speaker 2: chickens for over a week and they are nameless.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've been gone for weeks on vacation, so I
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  Speaker 1: had to like wait for you to get home. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, thank you so much for our patrons. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys for being here and just listening to the show.
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  Speaker 1: We really appreciate that. With all of that out of
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  Speaker 1: the way, do you want to get in to today's episode?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, does the name Lars mid Tank mean anything to you?
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  Speaker 2: Slightly? And I know we have chatted about this, but
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  Speaker 2: I recall zero information at the moment, okay, And I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure a little bit will come back to me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well this is over over across the ponds,
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  Speaker 1: so if I do apologize about mispronouncing names, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: going to happen in this episode, but I will be
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  Speaker 1: doing my best. So to start off with Lars's name,
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  Speaker 1: it is Lars. I know that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: His last name is mid Tank. I know that. However,
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  Speaker 1: his middle name, I believe it's Lars. Joke him Midtank
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  Speaker 1: I think joke him is how you say it. Joke him,
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  Speaker 1: joke him. I'm not sure, but there's gonna be some
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  Speaker 1: names things like that that I'm going to do my
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  Speaker 1: best to get this pronunciation right.
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  Speaker 2: You always do your best.
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  Speaker 1: We always do our best here, we always do. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: his life began on the ninth of February in nineteen eighty,
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  Speaker 1: so he was only two years our senior. So within
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  Speaker 1: the vibrant city of Berlin, Germany is where he was born.
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  Speaker 1: In Germany, Yep, you bet you so. His roots, however,
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  Speaker 1: took hold in it so a town nestled in schlitzwig
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  Speaker 1: Holstein in the slitzwig Holstein region, and this is where
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  Speaker 1: he spent the entirety of his formative his formative years.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up, he established connections, cultivated relationships, and formed a
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  Speaker 1: foundation for his life story. Within this whole area, Lars
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  Speaker 1: even found himself employed at a local power plant, making
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  Speaker 1: some pretty decent money. He also began dating a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: woman and they were looking at their future together as
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  Speaker 1: their bond continued to grow and grow and grow stronger.
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  Speaker 1: So he he was doing pretty good for himself in
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  Speaker 1: his younger age, as he was beginning to actually get
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  Speaker 1: into the world and you know, be an adult.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and actually it sounds like that very much.
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  Speaker 1: So being an adult isn't easy, which I'm sure we
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  Speaker 1: can all attest to. So, yeah, he's doing good. He's
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  Speaker 1: doing good.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely has its moments.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you petcha. So Lars was devoted more than to
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  Speaker 1: just his girlfriend, though he was a son who frequently
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  Speaker 1: visited his parents nice. He was a very very good kid,
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  Speaker 1: particularly after his father had suffered from a stroke. So
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  Speaker 1: in the wake of this family ordeal, he extended his assistance,
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  Speaker 1: tending to needs that his parents' household might need, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe doing some lawn work. I don't know exactly the
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  Speaker 1: extent of his help, but I'm sure some labor around
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  Speaker 1: the house or helping take care of his father or
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  Speaker 1: something like that would be part of that. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing, lending a hand where he could.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I already feel like this guy is freaking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Lars is a good dude. Yeah, yeah, many people actually
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  Speaker 1: really got along with them. To those who actually knew Lars,
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  Speaker 1: he was more than just an ordinary individual. He was
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  Speaker 1: someone who consistently liked to make others laugh. He was
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  Speaker 1: kind of a funny, a happy go lucky type guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he was someone who consistently played the role of
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  Speaker 1: a peacemaker when conversations, you know, became a little bit tense.
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  Speaker 1: He was always one to like step in and try
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  Speaker 1: and calm things down and be like, well, guys, it's
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  Speaker 1: all good. Like I don't know. Kind of brings me
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  Speaker 1: to this old proverb of like I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's like a proverb, but like a tactic for drinking
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  Speaker 1: in bars, which I always memorized but I've never needed
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  Speaker 1: to use because I'm not much of a bar drinker.
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  Speaker 1: But it's if you ever get in like an altercation
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  Speaker 1: with an individual and a bar, okay, for example, say,
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  Speaker 1: for example, if I make eye contact with his girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: because I simply think she looks familiar to someone who
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  Speaker 1: went to elementary school with or something whatever reason, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, Hey, you're looking at my girlfriend, and all
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  Speaker 1: you have to do is just be nice. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to stir up an altercation and offered to buy
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  Speaker 1: him a drink.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's that easy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's that easy. I mean instead of being like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at your girl, Can I buy a drink? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's been like, oh sorry, I was just dazed. Man,
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  Speaker 1: good on you. She's beautiful here. Can I buy you
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  Speaker 1: a drink? What's your name?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah. That would turn it around quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh, good for you, man, You land
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  Speaker 1: yourself a good one. Can I buy you drink? What
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  Speaker 1: are you up to?
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 1: What's happening? What's your name? You know that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he's kind of the same sort of
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  Speaker 1: person who would do that. Is that very much so
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  Speaker 1: peacemaker type individual?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I feel like a lot of people wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily do something like that. No, Like, if you were
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  Speaker 2: accused of something like that right away, you'd probably just
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  Speaker 2: get pissed. I'm not you, per se, but like the
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  Speaker 2: majority of people, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's it's better. The old proverb that I was
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  Speaker 1: originally actually talking about is it's better to be a
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  Speaker 1: warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, say that again.
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  Speaker 1: It's better to be a warrior in a garden than
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  Speaker 1: a gardener in a war.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right, so you rather know how to fight and
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  Speaker 1: not have to fight, right then not know how to
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  Speaker 1: fight and have to fight.
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  Speaker 2: Jeez, Okay, that's deep. I am like so tired right
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  Speaker 2: now that I feel like my brain is processed shit
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  Speaker 2: very slowly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm dropping some bombs on you with information to day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, so maybe it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not a well I mean that like you're getting like
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  Speaker 1: the oh I see the old Japanese proverb of the
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  Speaker 1: gardener and the warriors thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just have to say, you're describing this person
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  Speaker 2: quite well, Like I already feel like I know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I have a picture in my head.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's good. Yeah, Well to add to it if
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  Speaker 1: I may. He had a slender build, slender athletic build.
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  Speaker 1: He had short brown hair, a little bit of frosted tips,
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  Speaker 1: and his nice deep brown eyes to go with it.
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  Speaker 1: Lars was also a very devoted football or soccer for
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  Speaker 1: North American individuals. He was a very devoted football fan
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  Speaker 1: and his favorite team was the Worden Bremen team. Okay, So,
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  Speaker 1: as Lars was living his life and devoting a lot
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  Speaker 1: of his time to spend with others, the calendar eventually
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  Speaker 1: would roll into June of twenty fourteen, and this is
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  Speaker 1: when Lars is at the age of twenty eight. Lars
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  Speaker 1: would embark in a journey to varn Bulgaria, accompanied by
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  Speaker 1: four of his closest friends. It was a vacation for
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  Speaker 1: some downtime and for Lars to just kind of relax
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  Speaker 1: and focus on himself a little bit more. He's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: living a life, working hard, helping take care of his
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  Speaker 1: parents and building a relationship with his girlfriend. Just kind
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  Speaker 1: of some alone downtime, hang out with the boys kind
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  Speaker 1: of situation. So the week long escapade was destined for
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  Speaker 1: the Viva Club hotel within the scenic embrace of the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Sands Resorts, which is oh oh Sands.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I was thinking Sandals, Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: No Golden Sands Resort. This was positioned approximately seventeen kilometers
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  Speaker 1: north of the bustling heart of Varnaka. Now the Golden Sands,
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  Speaker 1: not Sandals or anything like that. It's said to have
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  Speaker 1: rivaled that of the Abiza and it was apparently captivating
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  Speaker 1: a lot of European tourists for like the whole like sunsets,
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  Speaker 1: the sunkiss days, the beaches, the shores, and to top
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  Speaker 1: it all off, a lot of really.
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  Speaker 2: Cheap okay, yeah sounds lovely, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: So Lars and his friends made their way there and
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  Speaker 1: they're having the time of their lives and making memories
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  Speaker 1: for years to come. Their days were filled with, of course, shenanigans, relaxation,
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  Speaker 1: and even football, as the World Cup semi finals were
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  Speaker 1: currently taking place and they were being played across the
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  Speaker 1: screens of all the local bars and pubs in the area.
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  Speaker 1: So the beginning of their vacation spanned for the first
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  Speaker 1: five days and unfolded relatively uneventful. It was just some
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  Speaker 1: good moments, just fun, just relaxing, just vacation now. One
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  Speaker 1: of Lars's friends, Paul roman recollected to quote him directly,
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  Speaker 1: the week went by really fast, kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: blink and you miss it sort of. Yeah, when you're
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  Speaker 1: having fun, that tends to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's the shitty thing about vacations is
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  Speaker 2: you work. Your work week will drag on by your
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  Speaker 2: vacation week or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Just gone or flash exactly so, and it was the
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  Speaker 1: same situation here. They're just having fun and it's going
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  Speaker 1: by so fast you need to stop and kind of
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  Speaker 1: take it in to really enjoy it. Now, however, there
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  Speaker 1: was a pivotal shift in their vacation that occurred on
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  Speaker 1: the fifth of July. So on this day, Lars found
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  Speaker 1: himself in a bit of a disagreement with some fellow
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  Speaker 1: German tourists and fellow football fans. Oh Now, as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Lars was a supporter of the Werner Brennan team, while
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  Speaker 1: these other individuals were fans of the Brayer Munich team,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't seem to find it too funny when
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  Speaker 1: Lars made light of rivalries and was changing around team
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  Speaker 1: flags and some of the tables in the bar.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so he was just like, probably had a few
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  Speaker 2: too many drinks and just kind of playing around having fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Then these people weren't into that.
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  Speaker 1: No, they weren't having it. And I mean, football fans
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  Speaker 1: are known worldwide to be a little bit much at times.
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  Speaker 1: There's riots that breakout and stuff like that. So not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily that they all are, but tensions tend to get
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  Speaker 1: high regarding football.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So the group that you know was the Brayern Munich
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  Speaker 1: fans voiced their opinions and aggravation on this practical joke
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  Speaker 1: that Lars had just played, and things quickly escalated into
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  Speaker 1: a full on verbal altercation between them and Lars and
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  Speaker 1: his group of friends. Okay, so emotions were flaring, tempers
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  Speaker 1: were high, and after the heated argument had passed, they
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  Speaker 1: were all left with a rather thick tension lingering in
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  Speaker 1: the air, which I don't think would make for the
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  Speaker 1: greatest of drinking atmospheres. Probably not, No, especially in vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and you had said that Lars is kind
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  Speaker 2: of a peace keeper, right, Yes, so I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: this is settling very well with him.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I think he, in this
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  Speaker 1: heated argument, was probably trying to like guys, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a joke sort of thing, but I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: were having any of it by the sounds of it.
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  Speaker 1: So Lars and his group of friends collectively decided that
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  Speaker 1: it was time for them to leave the bar and
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  Speaker 1: they were going to head somewhere else to grab a
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  Speaker 1: bite to eat before heading back to the hotel for
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  Speaker 1: the night. Now their chosen destination was the same choice
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  Speaker 1: of any other drunken mid twenties individual. McDonald's.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I went to fast food, but I was like,
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  Speaker 2: is it fast food?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? They chose to go to McDonald's.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Lars, however, he wasn't too hungry at this time. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he was distraughted by you know, the thought of the
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  Speaker 1: altercation or whatever. But he wasn't going to get anything,
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  Speaker 1: so he decided to wait outside the restaurant while his
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  Speaker 1: friends went inside to order their food. So they did
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  Speaker 1: just that. They went inside, they got the food, came
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  Speaker 1: back out, and Lars was nowhere to be found. Just gone,
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  Speaker 1: just gone. Now they were a little perplexed, to say
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  Speaker 1: the least, but they weren't immediately alarmed. I mean, after all,
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  Speaker 1: he's he was getting tired too, just like they were.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't want to wait, and he just kind
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  Speaker 1: of wandered back to the hotel, right like, they'll head there, Nah,
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  Speaker 1: they'll meet him there and that's that.
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  Speaker 2: But still that does seem a bit odd, right, like
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  Speaker 2: they were hanging out the whole trip together, and then
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  Speaker 2: how long does it really take to be getting your McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, exactly, it's odd for sure, but like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do? Right, he probably just headed back
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  Speaker 1: to the hotel, So they made their way back to
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  Speaker 1: the hotel too, and once they arrived there at the room,
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  Speaker 1: Lars was not there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 1: So they were quite concerned. But again, what do they do.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you can report a missing He's an adult,
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  Speaker 1: he's been out drinking. He's probably just wandering around having fun.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he ran into someone and just got pulled off
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  Speaker 1: to a bar for another drink. Or maybe he saw
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  Speaker 1: on a TV another soccer game or football, sorry, football game.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows. There's a million different reasons that he could
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  Speaker 1: be off doing something else.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I feel like I would be going back to
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  Speaker 2: the McDonald's though, because I'd kind of be like, oh, shoot,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: like we left our friend there, like he's probably went
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: off somewhere but then came back and now we're not there,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: and well.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I think they're kind of expecting him to show up
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: at the hotel any moment sort of thing.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're just kind of waiting around.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're kind of like, well, he's going to show
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: up pretty quick, and he's probably going to show up
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: with some sort of story explaining what happened, right, and
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what did occur.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, good.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Lars not too long later returned back at the hotel
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and he had exactly that a story to tell on
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: what happened. So his account detailed another altercation geez, what's
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: up with this with four individuals who Lars said were
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: either Bulgarian or Russian, and they attacked him when he
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: was alone, leaving him to adore the assault and run
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: for his life.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Oh geez.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: So, as he recounted the incident to his friends, Lars
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: told them he suspected a link between this attack and
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the altercation they had earlier at the Barbee with the
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: group of German tourists. In fact, Lars was convinced that
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: those guys had actually hired these four guys to follow
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: him and assault him. Okay, so that's what he thought
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: was going on.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it does seem pretty weird that there would
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: be two altercations like this in one night.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: It does, for sure, So that's kind of what he's thinking.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And because I'm also kind of assuming that Lars
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: does not have these kind of alter altercations regularly, right.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: No, not as far as I could tell. No, definitely not.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: And I mean his friends were quite worried about the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: situation too, Like, he clearly he got beat up a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: bit here. He's not like busted up lip or anything
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: like that, but he's you know, he's been tossed around,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you could tell that, right. So, despite of this the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: gravity of this story that he was telling, his friends
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: were a little bit skeptical. Not against the assault, as
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I mentioned, but the idea that someone would be hired
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: specifically to target him, especially when they're off on vacation
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: over a simple altercation that they had in the bar
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: earlier that night. It's kind of a bit of a
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: far fetched stretch, really.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like had gone too far.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, nonetheless, whether they believed him or not, they
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: were just relieved that he was back and he's now safe.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: So now, as for the attack, Lars was left a
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: little bit injured. He complained of discomfort in his ear
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: from a hit that he took to the side of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the head, and he was actually struggling to hear from
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that ear as well. So it was obvious he needed
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to do what go see a doctor, right, so he
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: did that. He went and got checked out. It was
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: two days later when he went and got checked out.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: The diagnosis was a ruptured ear drum and an injury
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to his jaw.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, that's like that seems like a
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: little bit much.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it was like he got hit right
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: on the ear and that ear That air pressure can
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: actually go in and rupture an ear drum rather easy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: They're pretty weak. So if you get hit just right, Yeah,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it can blow out your ear drum.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I don't even know exactly what that means.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: But okay, like I don't know how that how you
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: would heal from that or anything.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not too sure the healing process either. I'm sure
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: it depends on how badly it's ruptured.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I feel like maybe it's sounding something like
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that sounds worse than it actually is, But I have
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: no idea. Now I want to google it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Well, you'll do some googling after I will. Yeah, so
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the doctor did tell Lars, you know, with your ruptured
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: ear drum, you can't be flying anywhere as the altitude
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and pressure change could cause or further harm to the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: ear drum and potentially cause irreversible damage.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, as soon as you said that, I was like,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: how on earth is like he gonna fly? It did
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: pop in my head here, yeah, because and then I
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: was like, oh did they fly there? They did fly there?
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: They did fly Wow, And he can't be flying home
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: right now. Shit, So of course there is a significant problem.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: How is he going to get home? Their flight is
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: scheduled for the next day because they're there for a week,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So it was five days in when they got attacked,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and now it's been two days, so the next day
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: is when they leave. So the doctor did also prescribe
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: an antibiotic called CEF brazil five hundred milligrams was prescribed
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to him to combat any potential infection and that's what
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: this is, specifically for any sort of potential infection that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: could occur in the ear drum while healing. So take this,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: it'll help prevent that. He also advised that Lars go
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to the hospital and seek surgery, surgery for the ear
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: drum as well.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Shit.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So Lars now stood at the crossroads of a critical decision. Now,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: first and foremost, he knew right away he wasn't going
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to go seek surgery, but should he risk flying home
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: with this injury? That's the second question. In solidarity. His
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: friends right away offered to stay behind with him, but
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Lars refused. He didn't want to trouble them. He didn't
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: want to make them stay behind or anything. He decided
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: he's going to stay behind himself before he flies home,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: so heel up a little bit and fly home.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Do we know how long that he was supposed to wait?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Had it said that?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it varies depending how he was healing,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: depending on how he was healing, depending on the severity
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: of the injury. By the sounds of it, it's only
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a few days wait, is what would have been expected.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Because where they are located, and by country, we're not
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: talking like Canada North America where it's like crazy distances
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you have to go. No, it's like he could also
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: just bust there right Okay, so that's another option, but
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: we will be talking about that a little bit later.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: But anyways, Lars decided he's going to stay here alone,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: heel up before he flies home. So with all this
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: seasonal tourism that was going on at the time, the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: task of securing last minute accommodations wasn't exactly easy, especially
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: somewhere close to where he was already familiarized with by
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the nice you know hotels and all these accommodations. It was,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know, not fun, especially when you consider it's extra
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: costs on top of what.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean the idea of like extending your
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: vacations seems kind of awesome, but then I'll lot of
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: times at the end, at the end of your vacation
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: kind of want to just get home. Yeah, and then
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you don't have stuff pre booked, and budgets are really
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: part of it disaster.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's kind of what it was for him.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: He was forced to kind of go somewhere where he
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't familiar with because he hasn't been around over in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: this area. He's spending it all the time over here
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: sort of thing, so low on budget in an unknown area,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: he was actually forced to look at cheaper and unfamiliar
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: alternatives basically, and it would be the hotel Color where
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Lars would book his new room at. And this area
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: which the hotel was located was a little more run
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: down and rough around the edges. You can say, okay,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: but he could book it, you could afford it. It
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: would have to do. So the first night solo in
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: his hotel is where things begin to go downhill for Lars.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: At ten thirty pm, he got on the phone with
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: his mother, Sandra Mittank. Now, he seemed very shook and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: very nervous when he was talking to her, and he
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: asked her if she could cancel his credit and debit
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: card for him because he believed they were copied when
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: he checked into his hotel, and then he promptly hung up.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Oh geez, Okay, that's an alarming call for a parent.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So throughout the night there was multiple phone calls back
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and forth between them, and Sandra spoke on the phone
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: with her sons several times. She described the conversations as
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: very odd, as her son seemed extremely worried and was paranoid.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: He confided in his mom that he believed he was
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: being followed by four men. He would actually even whisper
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: in the phone as he talked to her, as though
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: he thought someone could be listening in to the conversation.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Oh my.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Lars also asked his mom about the drug his doctor
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: had prescribed him in a rather concerned fashion. So he's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: very concerned about this drug that his doctor gave him.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Huh, you must have to wonder if he got like
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: a concussion or something sort of where my head is going.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, well we will talk theories at the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: end here, but that is a potential one for sure. Now.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Surveillance footage of the hotel from that night shows large Lars,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: very agitated, pacing restlessly throughout the lobby. He would repeatedly
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: look out the windows over his shoulders and would disappear
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and reappear again and again from the elevator. At around
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: one am, Lars ventured outside the hotel premise for about
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: an hour, where his whereabouts were completely unaccounted for, before
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: he would return to the hotel. Eventually, though, the sun
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: would rise on the dawn of July eighth, and Lars's
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: paranoia reached a peak. He was in desperate need to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: get home. His mom, Sandra, managed to secure a flight
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: for him that afternoon, while also ensuring contingency plan in
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the form of a bus ticket, as I mentioned, because
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in case he can't fly, because it's only been like barely.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Passah, hardly.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, I don't know, maybe thirty six hours. I'm
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: going to guess approxy at this point, because I would
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: assume it's probably somewhere in the afternoon when he learned
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it from the doctor the next day. The whole day
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: has passed hour in the morning, so maybe close to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: forty I guess. Okay, so about forty hours. So he's
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: got a plane ticket and a bus ticket booked. Now
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it was set, one way or another, he was going
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to be coming home and escaping whatever troubles that he
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: seemed to think he was in. Now Lars also requested
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: his mom send him five hundred dollars to his bank
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: account now regardless of the reason that five hundred dollars
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: would remain in his bank account and would be untouched.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: He then made his way via a taxi ride to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the Varna Airport. He shared a cab with a young woman,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and during the ride, this young woman noticed that he
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: seemed to be acting very odd and that his eyes
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: were very dilated. Whatever was going on with Lars was
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: clearly getting worse. Airport security campus show Lars arriving and
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: entering the airport carrying a black duffel bag and the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: distinctive red and black backpack. He pushed through the doors
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and immediately headed towards the airport medical facility. Doctor Costa
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: cost of was the attending physician and Lars was there
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to get his ear checked to ensure he could actually fly,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: make sure it's safe, you know, the whole kitten kaboodle.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: So doctor Kostev remembers the visit with Lars and his
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: behaviors at the time. He was fidgety, nervous, and seemed
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to be shaking. His nerves were clearly getting the best
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of him. Lars was also asking about his previously prescribed medication,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: voicing concerns and confusion about it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You almost have to wonder, h like, this is another
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I guess theory I'm putting out there. If he's having
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: like some sort of allergic reaction to this medication or something.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to let you voice your opinion. Go for it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: But I'm not going to talk theory until the end.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So if you want to go for it, go for it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I have to get it out of my brain.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: So that's that's just something I needed to put out there.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, gotcha. The two talked a bit about the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: medications and the doctor began taking a look at Lars's ear. Now,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: luckily for Lars, he received some good news. He was
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: well enough to fly.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Wow. Okay.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Upon hearing the news, relief should have rushed over Lars's face,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but instead a look of fear was in its place.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Just then, a construction worker walked into the doctor's office,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and at that moment, Lars, and at the moment Lars
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: laid eyes on the man. He panicked. Lars stood up
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and screamed, quote, I don't want to die here. I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: have to get out of here, and he bolted out
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of the doctor's office.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Hmm. So is it like that he kind of recognized
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the construction worker maybe, or we don't really know, okay,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: or you're just not saying right yet. Okay.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So once he exited the doctor's office, he bolted down
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the hallway, bolted through the airport, and was seen on
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: security footage running out of the front doors, across the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: property and highway into a field, over a two meters
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: high fence, then off into the woods.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Holy shit, this was.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: The last time Lars was ever seen.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Hey, yes, you almost have to feel
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: like really fucking bad for him, because some shit is
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: going down, you bet you.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And in his panic, Lars left his backpack, his duffel bag,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: all of his stuff, all of it, his possessions, identification, passport,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: all of it was left in the doctor's office.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Huh wow. Okay, that's like very alarming for family too.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Oh you bet you, Like I don't actually think that
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I could be settled with that. I mean, like he's
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: still missing, which is so right, Yeah, unsettling. I'm like,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: we do know that, right.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: That's the end of the story. Now we're just into theories.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: That is the story of Lars. There's a couple more
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: little tweaks at the end here after the theories. I
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: will say that, but that is the basis of the story.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't think I would ever be able
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: to rest with that, Like that is unreal, yeap, that
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: that happens and then all of a sudden he's just gone.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Do we not know if like this construction worker person
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: was recognizable to him? Nope, the construction worker just played
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: dumb kind of thing.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, as far as we know the construction worker.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Because there are some details that we are going to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: go over in the theories here, Like you talked about
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: an allergic reaction. There is a detail that can go
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: right along with that that we'll talk about. But as
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: far as the construction worker goes, I could find nothing that.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Would show that they were aware of each other or
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: of each other for all we know.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was paranoia and he just saw this construction worker,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and the construction worker is literally just that some random
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: construction worker, and Lars panicked because maybe he thought he
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: recognized him, or thought maybe he was some other like
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: a hitman or something. Who knows.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Wow, this is bizarre. Okay, let's get into these theories please.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, there are numerous theories that are circulating around
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the internet, each offering its own interesting thought and perspective.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: One prevalent one explores the idea of someone who is
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: after Lars, which raises the question who and why. So
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: it is possible that it stems from the whole bar
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: fights related to football sort of thing. But it's kind
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: of hard to think someone like this would or something
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: like this would happen over something so trivial, right, But
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: then again, as I mentioned, football fans are known be
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: rather intense at times, so who knows.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: They take it very seriously.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Very seriously, and very personal, especially regarding my team versus
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: your team or that team sort of thing. It's almost
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: religious to a point. Now, an alternate theory proposes that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Lars might have delved into more shady circles during his
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: stay at the Hotel Color, which aligns with another theory
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: suggesting that maybe while he was on vacation he was
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: involved with drug smuggling as a mule, And it's a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: possibility that he might have actually unknowingly taken part in
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: an operation and discovered it while he was already abroad.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: So it's also possible that Lars was under the influence
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of these said drugs, leading to his erratic behavior and paranoia.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm confused by that one. So he before he
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: left he was involved in this.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Well, that's about four different theories, but they all kind
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: of play on each other. So basically, he could have
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that the Hotel Color and the kind of shady part
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: of town gotten mixed up with some bad people, okay, yeah,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Or could have been taken part in drug smuggling as
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: a mule. Or he could have unknowingly been a mule.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: One of his friends or someone potentially stuffed drugs in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: his bag and then he found out and was trying
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to refuse or something and then that got him in trouble.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Or maybe he was on certain drugs that caused the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: paranoia and behaviors. So that's about four different theories that
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: play off each other, but could also be all theories
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: on their own too.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's really interesting.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Now, among the more plausible theories is one posing that
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Lar's condition extended beyond mer ruptured ear drum, as you mentioned,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: a concussion, right, Yeah, so that's what this idea actually
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: talks about. It proposes that he might have experienced a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: minor concussion or another head injury in a shape or
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: form which accounted for his erratic conduct and heightened paranoia
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and just all his weird behaviors.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I feel like that makes a lot of sense to me.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: It does, actually, and it could explain the dilated pupils
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and disorientation.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Now, counter to this, his family confirmed that he had
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: no prior mental health issues, further deepening the mystery surrounding
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the whole disappearance and behaviors. But a concussion is certainly
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: not off the table.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because if he didn't get like tested for
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: it or tested properly when he went in and they
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: just kind of figured out it's just like the ear drum,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: but there really was something else going on, it would
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: almost explain all of this, really, I mean, it doesn't
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: necessarily explain where the heck he is at this moment
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: in time or what happened to him after that footage,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: but the paranoia and just like not seeming like himself
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: and stuff.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: It could if you consider that maybe amnesia was another factor.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, what do you mean by loss of memory? Okay?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Is where he is?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Shit? Yeah? But and then I guess too, he could
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: have just like even succumbed to his inies or something.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: But then you think that his body would have been.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Found hard to say.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Huh, Okay, that one is sticking with me here.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: So all these theories do remain subjects of debate among
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of experts and family members and of course
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: internet sleuths. Right though, his mother, along with the Bulgarian,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: German and medical professionals, have considered the possibility that his
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: odd behavior might have stemmed from an uncommon side effect
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: from the antibiotic he was prescribed, which is called CEF Brazil. Now,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: there is one problem with this. The catch is that
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: doctor Costoff contradicts this hypothesis by revealing that Lars when
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: he came into the hospital the airport hospital to see
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: him and was questioning him about it. Yeah, he had
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the prescription slip. He did not fill the prescription. He
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: never took any of that medication.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Oh seriously, seriously.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: He did not fill his prescription, according to the doctor.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Oh so, theoretically, unless it was something illegal, he was
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: not on any drugs or substances.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Huh, unless it was a really weird error where he
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: maybe got the prescription but then they didn't actually take
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: the like the piece of paper.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe maybe there was more to it. Maybe he
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: talked to him and he confirmed that he wasn't on
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the medication. But the doctor stands by and says he
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: did not fill that prescription.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Huh. Okay, Can I just point out too how smart
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I am and that two of these theories I have
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: already came up with during the podcast. I'm just like
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: gonna pat myself on the back.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Good job. Yeah, you better patch yourself hard enough that
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: everybody can hear it. Right now, There you go, that
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: was a good pat. So, despite the extensive efforts by police,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Lars Midank's fate remains completely unknown. His mother, Sandra Uh,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: did all she could help her son. Shanelisted services of
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: a private investigator, one named Andreas gutig So. Andreas explored
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: hospital records in his search to try and find unidentified
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: patients who might match Large's descriptions.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: If he doesn't remember who the fuck he is and
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: he has no identification exactly, oh my gosh.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: But it yielded no results.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, that is very unsettling. Okay, he left all
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the doctor's office, so awful. Yeah, his poor, poor mother,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: So if he doesn't know who he is, there is
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: no way of him finding.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Out right, and it's just like kind of in hope
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: that he gets recognized or something. But like he's in
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: a for like a country that he's not from.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Like if this happened to you when you were like
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: in your home city or whatever, you.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Know, but even still depending on the population of your city.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: In our city's one thing, but if you go to
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: like Toronto or Vancouver or something.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was more so thinking our city.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: But yeah, big cities is a little different. Yeah, so
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: it's wild.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I am like, yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Now, you also did touch on the idea on his
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: survival rate. Now, he did have a background in actor
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: activities like hunting and fishing, but survival of the harsh
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: summer conditions, compounded by limited access to food, made his
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: survival rate rather slim. His mom does still hold on
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: to hope, though, believing that maybe he is just suffering
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: with memory loss and that that's the only reason why
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: he hasn't come home yet.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: But this was twenty fourteen, Hey you bet you so,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: nine years ago?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Jeez. Now. There have been numerous alleged sightings of Lars
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: in various countries that have emerged. None, however, have turned
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: up anything. A notable sighting was in twenty fifteen and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: involved a German truck driver offering a lift to a hitchhiker.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: The hitchhiker apparently bore a resemblance to a little bit
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: of a more weathered Lars, sporting long hair and a beard,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: appearing fatigued and with prominent cheekbones. The driver reported it
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: weeks after the encounter, and he reported it weeks after
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: only because he had learned of Lars's case after picking
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: up the hitchhiker, and once he figured out the case
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and saw the resemblance, then reported it.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Oh so, it's like if only he had known of
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: this case before.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Hey, you bet you so he picked up this individual
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: in Dresden and took them to Schlidoh in, I'm really
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: going to butcher this pronunciation Brandenburg and Brandenburg's over Havel
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: County just north of Berlin. Good work, but nothing has
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: come out of that sighting or any others since.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Wow, I I this one has gotten me here. Holy.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So mom, Lars's mom still holds onto hope. She continues
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to post on social media about her missing son and
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: puts flyers up when she can. She knows the chances
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: of him being found, let alone alive, are slim, but
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: still holds out hope that he will be found and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: can return home.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean also like hopefully those posters and stuff
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: that she's putting up has him looking like you had
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: referred to it, more weathered or whatever. Right, I'm sure
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: that's like.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Putting up probably both actual photos of him and then
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: maybe pause at sketches or something.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: They potentially actually look like.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So for everyone's information out there, especially if you
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: are in the area. Lars Jokim Mittank was last seen
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: wearing a yellow T shirt, blue jean shorts, and white shoes.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: He stands about one hundred and eighty centimeters or five
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: foot nine tall, and weighed around eighty five kilograms or
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five to one hundred and eighty
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: seven pounds. He could be injured, disoriented, or have memory loss.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: He has brown eyes and a scar on his left forearm.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: If you have any information on Lars, you are urged
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: to call authorities in Germany at four nine one five
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: seven seven eight three zero zero eight nine six. You
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: can also send an email to findet underscore Lars at
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: web dot d that's fi n d e T underscore
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: l A r s at w e B dot d E.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And that is the story of Lars Midtank.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: So that being said, you need to watch the security footage.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm like, I don't know if I can like
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: process anything more this. I don't know. Oh my goodness,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: this story is unbelievable to me, the fact that like
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: his poor mom, I can't I just can't stop thinking
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: about that. Could you imagine someone the story that someone
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: like your son or like loved one literally just runs
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: off and disappears and like.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing, and it's it's so haunting if you watch
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the actual sign.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I even want to.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: So the security the clip here is fifty five seconds long.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: In between him entering and exiting the airport, it was
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: approximately forty five minutes that he was in the doctor's
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: office for So just heads up on that.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: So that shows him walking in with the yellow T
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: shirt and his two bags. Okay, so just watch and
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: we'll leave a link down below so you guys can
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: watch this video as well. If you haven't checked it
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: out just yet, we urge you too. It's like I said, haunting,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that is a man running for his life.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Honestly, that one shot there didn't he didn't seem like
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: he looked all that panicked. Really, you don't think so,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know, gosh, this is hard to tell. Some footage,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: some footage it kind of seems like he does, but
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: then others it seems like he just is kind of
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: like going for a stroll like that. He's not really
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: in a super panic.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, I disagree with you there. I got to take
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a look again then, Okay, you see, because it looked
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to me like, no, he's just bold.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: It didn't seem like he was full out running like
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: as fast as he could or anything. He's not looking
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: behind him or anything.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he ain't looking back, He's just gone.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like if I was afraid
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: for my life though, i'd be looking back. But maybe
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: that's just me.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think what you're watching is Oh, I guess
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: once he exits the building, he looks a little more
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: casual for sure. Yeah, but inside the building he's definitely
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: he's sprinting through the building. But outside yet yeah, right,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: it's more.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Of a Inside the building he did seem like he
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: was a bit more shook, but then outside it didn't
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: seem like it as much.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: But then also, if he's not in a like, if
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: he wasn't panicked, why would he go out across the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: highway into a field fence, into the woods.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Without any of his shit? I don't know that That
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: didn't help me in any way with thinking this story
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: is really fucked, Like I have no other words just
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: to describe this. Wow, I would love, love love for
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: him to be found.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Oh definitely. Yeah. And the internet has gone over every
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: frame of that footage, every ounce of his story, you
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: name it. He is, as I mentioned, he's the most
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: famous missing person.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: So do you actually think that his face and his
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: name and everything is really all that. Like it's a
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: big like most people are aware of it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Most people are aware of the man who went missing
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: and ran from the airport. Most people know that his
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: name or his story appearance, but like they know the clip.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: They know that, but maybe, like Alisa Lamb, her name
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and stories a little more prevalent. I think, Yeah, but
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: that clip is easily the most famous as far as
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: missing people go.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, but then how many people I mean,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: if they were walking past this person on the street
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: or seeing them in person, would they be able to
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: tell or would it clue in their brain that, oh,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: my gosh, this could be him.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think it has to be
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: someone who's actively looking at the photos, actively searching or researching. Yeah,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: I bet you if I in a week time walk back, Actually,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: I bet you tomorrow, if I walked by a weathered
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: yeah Mars, I probably wouldn't recognize him.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: And I spent the last like two days researching this case.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Yikes, So it almost just seems like it's just this
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: this oh, this haunting feeling of just like like feeling
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: so helpless for him.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really, yeah, that's exactly it help us for him
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: and help us for his family.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Because technically, okay, technically, say he did survive and that
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: was him who the truck driver had picked up, right, Yeah,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: But then at this point something else has happened or something,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: or he's passed away and like no, like his body
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: would not have been identified. Correct, Oh my god. Okay, yeah,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: this is just too much.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Unless someone had the know about to search to cross
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: reference maybe his dental records and missing persons reports and
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: stuff like that, yeah, which I do hope would occur.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: But sometimes hopefully, hopefully, I don't know. Shit like that
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: just naturally occurs, though, when they have an an identified body.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Hard to say. I think it's going to depend on
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the situation, because, unfortunately, I think if it becomes if
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: we're talking homeless population, I think the likelihood of them
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: cross referencing is probably lessened. And that's very sad to say.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: But if they just come across just hey, a random
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: dead person that doesn't seem homeless or anything, then maybe
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: maybe so wow.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Wow, this story is something else. Oh my goodness, Oh
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: my goodness.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: You were all kinds of just wrapped up in your head, right,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: now I really am.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm literally about to eat snacks right now because
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I think I'm about to stress eat. But it's like,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: can I eat snacks while we're talking?
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: So my goodness, your eyes are just darting back and
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: forth like you're they are.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: This one is very This is kind of probably one
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: of the most disturbing ones that I have listened to,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: really because I kind of have a bit of OCD.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Right, yes, we would know that.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know if any everyone on here would know that.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I can confirm that.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: It's like I could not fucking imagine that being someone
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I knew, and and this this is just this like
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: I just don't think that I could go on living
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: my life like not having a clue.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Well, and I think that's why he is the most
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: famous missing person, because the idea of him running from
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: the fucking airport and just gone gone is so baffling
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: and just so strange and just awe struck. Yeah that's
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: even a word, but jaw dropping, I guess I think
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: that is a word.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, holy moly, Okay.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the story of Lars Mittank.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Nicole is gonna be paralyzed in thought for the
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: rest of the night. So this is gonna be funny.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it is. I mean I could
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: see some like Internet sluice just spending some serious time
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: on this. He people have, Yeah, because I would be
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: so freaking pumped if like he was found like that
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: would and like then was able to kind of like
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: get the help or whatever that he needed if he
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: had like memory loss or whatever like that would just
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: be a freaking miracle and so amazing.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Yep, you bet.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Youah, Okay, well there you go.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully you guys are not as distraught as Nicole
• 49:43
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• 49:47
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• 49:49
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• 50:07
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• 50:09
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• 50:11
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• 50:15
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• 50:18
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• 50:19
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• 50:22
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