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  Speaker 1: On January twenty seventh, nineteen oh eight, a thirty four
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  Speaker 1: year old, handcuffed man walked out from behind the curtain
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  Speaker 1: to a cheering crowd inside of a theater in Saint.
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  Speaker 2: Louis, Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: This was to be this man's first ever live performance,
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  Speaker 1: but he did not seem nervous. Next to this man
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  Speaker 1: on stage was this comically oversized milk can that was
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  Speaker 1: filled to the brim with water. Once the audience had
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  Speaker 1: stopped clapping and had calmed down and taken their seats.
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  Speaker 2: This man on.
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  Speaker 1: Stage turned to face this milk can and then climbed
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  Speaker 1: up this small ladder and then lowered himself feet first
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  Speaker 1: into this can, and as he did, his body displaced
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  Speaker 1: water from the can, causing its spill over onto the stage.
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  Speaker 1: And then once almost all of his lower half was
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  Speaker 1: submerged in water and the audience could only see his face,
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  Speaker 1: this man looked over at his assistance in the wings
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  Speaker 1: of this theater and kind of gestured to them that
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  Speaker 1: he was ready to start. And so the assistants come
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  Speaker 1: running out into the middle of the stage and they
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  Speaker 1: immediately close the lid of this milk can over this guy,
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  Speaker 1: pushing his head down into the water. And so as
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  Speaker 1: the audience is gasping and collectively holding their breath, the
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  Speaker 1: assistants proceed to lock this lid with six different locks
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  Speaker 1: around the top, and then they wheeled over this cabinet
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  Speaker 1: that kind of collapsed around the can, so it was
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  Speaker 1: totally out of view of the audience. Now, for this audience,
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  Speaker 1: they had never seen anything like this before, and so
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  Speaker 1: immediately they all began murmuring and whispering to each other
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  Speaker 1: wondering how this guy is going to survive what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: But two minutes after that lid had been sealed, that
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  Speaker 1: thirty four year old man emerged from behind the cabinet
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  Speaker 1: with his hands open wide, so who wasn't handcuffed? Totally unharmed,
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  Speaker 1: and then the cabinet was moved aside and the audience
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  Speaker 1: could see the lid of this milk can was still locked.
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  Speaker 1: During his lifetime, nobody could ever figure out how the
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  Speaker 1: great magician Harry Houdini had escaped that milk can. These
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  Speaker 1: dangerous stunts made Harry extremely famous, and it's why we
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  Speaker 1: still know him today nearly one hundred years after his death.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't just that he was able to successfully
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  Speaker 1: perform these stunts. It was his attitude while he performed
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  Speaker 1: these stunts that made him so notable. He really just
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  Speaker 1: came off as being totally fearless, that he was willing
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  Speaker 1: to do just about any stunt, but that wasn't actually true.
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  Speaker 1: There was one stunt that Harry was absolutely terrified of. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he would eventually work up the courage to attempt this
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  Speaker 1: particular stunt, but while he was doing it, he panicked
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  Speaker 1: and he had to be rescued by his assistants, and
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  Speaker 1: after that he never tried it again, and for decades,
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  Speaker 1: nobody else tried it either, because I mean, if Harry
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  Speaker 1: Houdini can't perform this stunt, then certainly.
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  Speaker 2: No one else can either.
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  Speaker 1: But in nineteen ninety, a daring thirty two year old
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  Speaker 1: man named Joe Burris decided he would be the person
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  Speaker 1: who would finally conquer this infamous stunt. Joe was a
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  Speaker 1: small time children's magician in Fresno, California, but deep down
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  Speaker 1: he had always believed that someday he would be the
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  Speaker 1: next Harry Houdini. In fact, he would actually tell his
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  Speaker 1: family that not only would he be the next Harry Houdini,
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  Speaker 1: but he would be even better than Harry Houdini. And
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  Speaker 1: so that year he decided it was finally time to
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  Speaker 1: make that dream a reality, and so he saw performing
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  Speaker 1: this infamous stunt as a to make that happen. So
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  Speaker 1: on Halloween night of that year, so October thirty first, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: adorned in his white tuxedo, along with his two young
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  Speaker 1: sons and his parents, they arrive at Blackbeard's Family Fun Center,
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  Speaker 1: which was an amusement park in Fresno California. The family
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  Speaker 1: hopped out of the white limousine that Joe had arranged
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  Speaker 1: to bring them there, and they began walking across the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot to this big crowd of people. And when
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  Speaker 1: this big crowd of people saw Joe walking towards them,
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  Speaker 1: they all began to cheer.
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  Speaker 2: Joe's stunt that he.
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  Speaker 1: Was about to perform that night had been very heavily advertised,
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  Speaker 1: mostly by Joe, and so it had become this spectacle
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  Speaker 1: in Fresno. It was going to be aired live on
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  Speaker 1: TV while he was doing it, and it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be broadcast on a radio station. So, after Joe
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  Speaker 1: and his family make it over to this big crowd,
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  Speaker 1: Joe walks to the front and he climbs up on
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  Speaker 1: this impromptu stage and he gives this impassioned speech to
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  Speaker 1: his audience about how he's going to be the one
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  Speaker 1: who takes on this stunt and becomes the next Harry Houdini.
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  Speaker 1: And then afterwards he looks over at his assistance, all
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  Speaker 1: these guys that are around him, and he gestures to
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  Speaker 1: them that he's ready to begin. And so, with all
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  Speaker 1: these TV cameras rolling, the assistants walk up to Joe
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  Speaker 1: and they begin shackling his wrists and they put these
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  Speaker 1: chains around his body, and then they lifted him up
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  Speaker 1: and put him inside of the sea through plastic coffin,
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  Speaker 1: and then this coffin was lowered into the seven foot
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  Speaker 1: pre dug hole that was right nearby. Once Joe gave
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  Speaker 1: the signal that he was ready to go, they would
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  Speaker 1: fill this hole in and the stunt that he would
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  Speaker 1: perform would be to escape being buried alive. Houdini had
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  Speaker 1: attempted this by being buried under six feet of dirt,
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  Speaker 1: and he had managed to get out of his coffin,
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  Speaker 1: but then he just could not get through the dirt
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  Speaker 1: and began to panic, and had it not been for
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  Speaker 1: his assistance literally reaching into the dirt and pulling him out,
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  Speaker 1: Houdini would have died. Joe, apparently a year earlier, had
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  Speaker 1: attempted some sort of practice run of the stunt. It
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  Speaker 1: was not the full amount of dirt, it was some
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  Speaker 1: small amount of dirt, and he had managed to get out,
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  Speaker 1: and so he was really confident in himself, and so
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  Speaker 1: for this big televised event, he had decided to really
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  Speaker 1: up the ante and make sure it was clear he
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  Speaker 1: was not only as good as Houdini, but better than Houdini,
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  Speaker 1: and so he was going to have three feet of
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  Speaker 1: dirt put on his coffin first, and then four feet
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  Speaker 1: of wet cement put in on top of that. Many
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  Speaker 1: people when they heard this plan, both the TV personalities
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  Speaker 1: the radio personalities onlookers, they said this was a terrible
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  Speaker 1: idea and you shouldn't do it, But Joe was extremely
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  Speaker 1: confident and brushed them off.
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  Speaker 2: And said, I know what I'm doing. Hodini failed at this,
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  Speaker 2: and he was only using dirt.
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  Speaker 1: Once Joe was in his coffin at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: this seven foot hole, he looked up at his assistance
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  Speaker 1: standing over the grave waiting for a signal, and he
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  Speaker 1: gave it to them and kind of shouted up to
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  Speaker 1: them that he was ready. And so his team very
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  Speaker 1: excitedly began shoveling dirt into the hole. But after only
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, when less than a couple of
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  Speaker 1: feet had been put in the hole, they heard Joe
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  Speaker 1: yelling out from inside of the coffin, and so everything stopped.
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  Speaker 1: The staff jumped in and they pulled the dirt out
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  Speaker 1: until they could finally get the lid of the coffin
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  Speaker 1: off and they found Joe.
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  Speaker 2: He was alive, but he.
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  Speaker 1: Was very shaken up, and he kind of sat up
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  Speaker 1: and said, yeah, the chain around my neck is too tight.
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  Speaker 2: You got to readjust the chain.
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  Speaker 1: Now. All these onlookers at this event they heard Joe
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  Speaker 1: say this, and they saw him, and their read on
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  Speaker 1: this situation was not that his neck chain was too tight,
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  Speaker 1: but rather, it looks like Joe might have bitten off
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  Speaker 1: more than he can chew, that this stunt is way
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  Speaker 1: more dangerous, and maybe he's realizing that and he's looking
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  Speaker 1: for excuses to not do the stunt. And so the
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  Speaker 1: onlookers they didn't try to egg him on to do it. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: they started filling apprehension too, and so everybody who was
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  Speaker 1: there began telling Joe, hey, man, get out, don't do
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  Speaker 1: this now. This is a really bad idea. It's not
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  Speaker 1: worth it. The chain's too tight. That's a sign, don't
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  Speaker 1: do it. Don't get back in. But Joe, after kind
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  Speaker 1: of collecting himself, told the group that he was totally fine,
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  Speaker 1: that it was really just the neck chain that was
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  Speaker 1: the only issue, and he demanded his staff put that
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  Speaker 1: chain back around his neck after they loosen it up,
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  Speaker 1: and then put him back in the coffin and fill
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  Speaker 1: it in. And so eventually his staff, taking cues from him,
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  Speaker 1: said okay, and they got his neck chain readjusted and
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  Speaker 1: they put him back in the coffin.
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  Speaker 2: They chained him back up again.
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  Speaker 1: They closed the lid, and once again he gave the
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  Speaker 1: signal that he was ready to start. And so a
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  Speaker 1: very apprehensive crowd watched as the dirt went back in,
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  Speaker 1: and after three feet of dirt were in the hole,
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  Speaker 1: the cement truck came over and poured four feet of
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  Speaker 1: wet cement on top of the dirt. And then after
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  Speaker 1: this hole had been completely filled in, the onlookers, which
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  Speaker 1: included Joe's two young sons and his parents, they kind
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  Speaker 1: of moved in and got right up against this grave
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  Speaker 1: and were looking straight down at the top waiting for
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  Speaker 1: Joe to come out again. But as they're watching this hole,
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  Speaker 1: and as they're filming this hole, all of the cement
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  Speaker 1: in the hole suddenly drops about a foot. What had
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  Speaker 1: happened was the nearly fifteen thousand pounds of dirt and
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  Speaker 1: wet cement sitting on top of this coffin had finally
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  Speaker 1: caused the lid to break and in an instant, all
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  Speaker 1: of the dirt and cement poured into the coffins, surrounding
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  Speaker 1: Joe completely. He was truly buried alive. Onlookers immediately jumped
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  Speaker 1: into action and did their best to try to dig
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  Speaker 1: Joe out, but it took them thirty minutes to finally
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  Speaker 1: reach him, and when they did, he was already dead.
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  Speaker 1: Joe had ironically died on the exact sixty fourth anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of Houdini's death. After an investigation, it was determined that
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  Speaker 1: Joe had not tested the strength of his plastic coffin
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  Speaker 1: against the weight of the wet cement. He'd only tested
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  Speaker 1: it against dirt because that was the one he had
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  Speaker 1: done the year earlier. He had done it under dirt
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  Speaker 1: and it worked. Joe had also not taken into account
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  Speaker 1: that cement dries from the bottom up, so even if
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  Speaker 1: Joe had managed to get out of the coffin and
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  Speaker 1: make his way through the first three feet of dirt
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  Speaker 1: that was right on top of the coffin, he most
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  Speaker 1: likely would have been trapped under the hardened cement layer.
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  Speaker 2: You realize that at a lower elevation, so it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 3: Hard, and it hardens at the lower part I thought
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  Speaker 3: it started to.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I didn't even get this is very serious.
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  Speaker 1: This is no magic trick. This was a doomed mission
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  Speaker 1: from the start. But because Joe was so confident in
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  Speaker 1: himself and his ability to do the stunt, no one
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  Speaker 1: stopped him.
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  Speaker 3: He thought Rudini was one of the great escape artists,
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  Speaker 3: and he wanted to be better than Rudini. Anna he was.
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