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TRUE glitches in the matrix... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three stories that really should
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Speaker 1: never have happened. Like, the things that happen in these
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Speaker 1: stories feel impossible. They defy everything we know about mathematics
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Speaker 1: and probability, but they are all completely true, which proves
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Speaker 1: to all of us that extraordinary, truly improbable events can
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Speaker 1: happen at any moment. But before we get into today's stories,
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Around noon on October twenty first,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, a man named Valentino sat at a
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Speaker 1: cafe table sipping a coffee on a sidewalk in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Speaker 1: So this particular neighborhood was called Cavaito, and it was
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Speaker 1: right in the heart of Buenos Aires. It was very
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Speaker 1: densely populated, and there were lots of tall apartment buildings
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Speaker 1: and shops and cafes with tons of pedestrians and tons
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Speaker 1: of traffic, and so as a result, it often felt
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Speaker 1: very loud and chaotic, and today was no different. But Valentino,
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Speaker 1: you know, despite the craziness all around him, he still
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Speaker 1: wanted to try to find a moment of peace as
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Speaker 1: he had his coffee, and so he sort of sat
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Speaker 1: back in his chair and he just looked up at
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Speaker 1: the sky above all the urban noise, and he took
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Speaker 1: this deep, calming breath. And as he did this, he
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Speaker 1: saw a few birds fly by, and he just kind
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Speaker 1: of smiled to himself watching them fly on. But then
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Speaker 1: he saw something else out of the corner of his eye.
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Speaker 1: Just across the street, he saw a flash of something
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Speaker 1: brown plummeting towards the ground in front of a tall
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Speaker 1: apartment building, and so Valentino turned his attention to look
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Speaker 1: and see what this thing was.
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Speaker 2: But what he saw didn't make any sense.
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Speaker 1: There was this one old woman on the other side
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Speaker 1: of the street who had stopped on the sidewalk, and
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Speaker 1: she was staring down at what appeared to be like
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Speaker 1: a pile of clothes at her feet, and the brown thing,
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Speaker 1: the thing that caught Valentino's attention, which he couldn't make
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Speaker 1: out what it was, was just a few feet away
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Speaker 1: from this pile in front of this woman. But then
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Speaker 1: this old woman across the street, she just began screaming,
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Speaker 1: and that's when Valentino realized that what he thought was
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Speaker 1: like a pile of clothes at her feet was actually
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Speaker 1: like a person, like a heap of a person.
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Speaker 2: On the ground.
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Speaker 1: It was another old woman, and she was completely motionless
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Speaker 1: on the ground. And so Valentino he's shocked by what
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Speaker 1: he's seeing. He's trying to make sense, and he's he's
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Speaker 1: seeing again now, you know, knowing it's a person on
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Speaker 1: the ground, and seeing this brown thing over here, and
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, was that flash of brown, like that brown
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Speaker 1: thing falling and striking this woman who's now motionless on the.
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Speaker 2: Ground, Is that what happened?
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Speaker 1: And as Valentino is sort of coming up with theories
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Speaker 1: about what he's even looking at, it seemed like at
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Speaker 1: the same time, the entire bustling neighborhood all around him
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Speaker 1: also just for a moment, stopped and just sort of
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Speaker 1: paid attention to whatever madness was happening over there, as
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Speaker 1: they too were trying to piece together what happened. But then,
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Speaker 1: you know, that brief moment of almost relative calm just
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Speaker 1: completely dissipated, and the street once again descended into total chaos.
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Speaker 1: Passerby and locals started shouting and racing over to the
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Speaker 1: woman on the ground to help her, and very quickly
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Speaker 1: this woman and the other woman who was screaming was
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Speaker 1: completely surrounded by this huge crowd. And Valentino, for his part,
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Speaker 1: I mean, he felt very shaken by what he was seeing,
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Speaker 1: and you know, just thinking about the fact that he
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Speaker 1: might have seen effectively this woman get destroyed by whatever
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Speaker 1: this brown thing was.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he did see.
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Speaker 1: That flash of brown, and so he sort of traumatized.
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Speaker 1: And he's also you know, he's thinking he doesn't want
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Speaker 1: to contribute to the pandemonium over there by running over
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Speaker 1: to join the massive throng of people trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out what happened, and so instead he just stayed at
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Speaker 1: his cafe table, you know, with his coffee, and just
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Speaker 1: watched as this crowd continued to build across the road. Finally,
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Speaker 1: Valentino heard sirens and he knew that meant an ambulance
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Speaker 1: had to be close. But for some reason, even though
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Speaker 1: he knew that was like objectively a good thing, help
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Speaker 1: was on the way. Maybe they can save this woman
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Speaker 1: on the ground, you know, he doesn't know. Even though
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Speaker 1: he felt like he should feel relieved now that professionals
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Speaker 1: are going to show up, they're going to clear the crowd.
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Speaker 2: They're going to handle this, he just couldn't calm down.
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Speaker 1: Like he literally couldn't stop, Like his heart was raising,
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Speaker 1: his pulse was racing, his stomach was a notce.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he felt terrible.
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Speaker 1: It was like he was completely reliving this trauma that
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Speaker 1: he's just experienced over and over and over again. As
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Speaker 1: soon as the ambulance came into view and parked, the
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Speaker 1: massive people saw them and right away parted to let
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Speaker 1: the paramedics come through to try to help this woman.
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Speaker 2: And Valentino from.
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Speaker 1: Across the road, he was craning his neck to try
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Speaker 1: and see, you know, what was happening, and as he did,
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Speaker 1: he saw this middle aged woman who he didn't know,
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Speaker 1: crossing the street in the direction of this scene over there,
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Speaker 1: and she just looked like she was just curious.
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Speaker 2: And as she's crossing the road.
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Speaker 1: She got destroyed by a city bus.
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Speaker 3: It plowed directly into her, and she immediately disappeared underneath
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Speaker 3: the bus's wheels. And so Valentino, whose heart was already
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Speaker 3: basically beating out of his chest, he was so upset
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Speaker 3: about everything.
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Speaker 1: He shot to his feet, like what is going on here?
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Speaker 1: Screams erupted from all around him from other people who
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Speaker 1: had seen the same horrible thing, and he could feel
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Speaker 1: his heart just like racing NonStop, and sweat began dripping
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Speaker 1: down his back. He was almost dizzy with shot, and
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Speaker 1: he began to stagger away from his table, looking frantically around,
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Speaker 1: calling out for somebody to actually help him, like it
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Speaker 1: was like his body.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't handle what he was seeing.
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Speaker 1: But nobody came because there were so many other things happening,
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Speaker 1: horrible things that demanded immediate attention from other people that
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Speaker 1: no one's paying attention to Valentino having, you know, a
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Speaker 1: panic attack here, like he's he's so low on the
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Speaker 1: priority list, and so as he's sort of fumbling around
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Speaker 1: the cafe trying to get someone to help calm him down,
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Speaker 1: nobody's paying attention to him. And so eventually Valentino kind
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Speaker 1: of spiraled and then fell to the ground, and he
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Speaker 1: found himself once more, you know, on his back on
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Speaker 1: the ground, staring up at.
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Speaker 2: The sky, watching birds fly across.
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Speaker 1: What actually happened on that street in nineteen eighty eight
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Speaker 1: in Buenos Aires was so improbable that it made newspapers
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Speaker 1: all across the world. So the first woman who was
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Speaker 1: hit by the object that fell from the sky, the
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Speaker 1: flash of brown, she died from the impact. And then
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Speaker 1: that woman, the middle aged woman who crossed the road
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Speaker 1: to see what was going on, who got hit by
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Speaker 1: the bus, she also died. And Valentino, who witnessed this
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Speaker 1: entire thing, was so stunned and so horrified that he
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Speaker 1: actually had a heart attack, and then he died on
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Speaker 1: his way to the hospital. And so basically, these three
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Speaker 1: fatalities that all occurred within minutes of each other, were
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Speaker 1: all connected, but were basically freak accidents that all had
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Speaker 1: to happen in succession.
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Speaker 2: To even occur.
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Speaker 1: And it all started when that brown thing plummeted through
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Speaker 1: the air, the thing that caught Valentino's eye. And it
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Speaker 1: would turn out that brownish object was actually the fourth
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Speaker 1: victim in this tragedy. That object was actually a poodle
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Speaker 1: named Khaki that had chased the ball straight off the
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Speaker 1: balcony of its owner's thirteenth floor apartment.
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Speaker 1: December twenty fourth, nineteen sixty seven, twenty six year old
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Speaker 1: Sammy Brown Junior sped in his car down a road
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Speaker 1: called Seal Road in Phoenix City, Alabama, with a police
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Speaker 1: siren blaring right behind him.
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Speaker 2: So Sammy was in trouble.
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Speaker 1: It was Christmas Eve, and he had celebrated a little
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Speaker 1: too hard and drank way too much, and he thought
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Speaker 1: he'd be okay to drive home since he lived close by.
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Speaker 1: But he'd been wrong, and he'd ultimately attracted the attention
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Speaker 1: of a police officer who was now chasing him. And
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Speaker 1: Sammy knew he could not get caught because in addition
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Speaker 1: to being very drunk, he also didn't even have a
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Speaker 1: license to drive in the first place. And so that's
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Speaker 1: why right now he was driving at a hundred miles.
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Speaker 2: An hour to get away from this cop. But not
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Speaker 2: only was the cop.
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Speaker 1: Actually gaining on him, but also Sammy could see on
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Speaker 1: the road up ahead. That he had another problem because
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Speaker 1: there was another car in front of him driving in
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Speaker 1: the same direction, and because this other car was actually
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Speaker 1: going the speed limit, Sammy was going to smash into
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Speaker 1: them if he didn't swerve around them. But this was
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Speaker 1: not a highway where Sammy could just easily change lanes.
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Speaker 1: It was a local two lane road, so Sammy knew
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Speaker 1: that if he wanted to swerve around this car, he
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Speaker 1: would have to swerve into the oncoming traffic lane. But
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Speaker 1: since Sammy kind of looked and didn't see any other
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Speaker 1: cars in that lane, he just decided to go for
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Speaker 1: it and pray that he got lucky. So Sammy cut
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Speaker 1: his wheel and tried to swerve around this slower car.
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Speaker 1: But again, Sammy is extremely drunk. He's being chased by
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Speaker 1: this cop who's gaining on him, so his anxiety is spiking.
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Speaker 1: He's going so fast, and in this state of mind,
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Speaker 1: Sammy actually misjudged the timing of his swerve and he
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Speaker 1: clipped the back of the slower car, and as soon
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Speaker 1: as he did, there was this crunch of metal and
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Speaker 1: both cars began to spin out across the road before
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Speaker 1: they sort of miraculously just came to a stop inside
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Speaker 1: of his own car, Sammy sort of sat up and
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Speaker 1: looked around and realized he was unhurt. And then when
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Speaker 1: he looked out the window, he could see the driver
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Speaker 1: of the other car, a man in his sixties, slowly
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Speaker 1: get out and walk to his bumper to inspect the damage.
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Speaker 1: And when Sammy saw this, he realized that despite how
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Speaker 1: bad of a situation he was in, he actually had
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Speaker 1: gotten very lucky. I mean, not only was he alive,
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Speaker 1: but the man he had just hit going nearly one
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Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour also appeared to not just be alive,
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Speaker 1: but basically seemed okay. Following the crash, Sammy expected to
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Speaker 1: have some pretty harsh consequences, and he was charged for
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Speaker 1: reckless driving and also driving without a license. But sort
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Speaker 1: of amazingly, his lucky streak actually would continue because despite
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Speaker 1: the charges, he didn't actually have to serve any jail time.
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Speaker 2: He just had to pay a couple.
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Speaker 1: Of fianes, which meant Sammy really did not learn his lesson,
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Speaker 1: and so over a year later, on April thirteenth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty nine, Sammy once again spent all of his Saturday
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Speaker 1: night drinking and then at about one thirty am on
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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, he got into that same car, which he
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Speaker 1: still did not have a license to drive, and then
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Speaker 1: he once again sped down Seal Road, the same road
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Speaker 1: he got arrested on last December, and wouldn't you know it,
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Speaker 1: just like the last time, he saw a car ahead
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Speaker 1: of him in his lane going too slow, and he
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Speaker 1: decided to go around it. This time, however, he was
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Speaker 1: not being chased by police, so he was not nearly
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Speaker 1: as frantic or anxious, so he began shifting lanes much
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Speaker 1: further away from this slower car, and when he moved
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Speaker 1: into the opposing traffic lane, because of the distance he
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Speaker 1: had given himself, he didn't clip the car in front
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Speaker 1: of him, and for a split set he felt an
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Speaker 1: intense rush of satisfaction because this was just more proof
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Speaker 1: to Sammy that he was just an incredibly lucky guy. However,
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Speaker 1: before Sammy could drive his car back into the correct lane,
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Speaker 1: he went around a curb in the road and was
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Speaker 1: immediately blinded by a searing bright light. Then there was
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Speaker 1: a deafening bang and Sammy's car jerked to the side,
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Speaker 1: and all he saw was a violent swirl of motion
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Speaker 1: as his car again spun around and around, and then
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Speaker 1: finally came to a stop. For a few moments, Sammy
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Speaker 1: just sat there feeling completely stunned. I mean, again, he's
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Speaker 1: gotten into a high speed wreck, and he's sort of
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Speaker 1: taking stock of did he even survive. But after a
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Speaker 1: few moments, he realized he definitely had lived. His neck
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Speaker 1: ached quite a bit from being shaken so hard, but
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Speaker 1: other than that, you know, he kind of looked around
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Speaker 1: and he realized once again he was basically unhurt. So
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Speaker 1: he had just gotten really lucky again, and so eventually
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Speaker 1: he climbed out of his car, and even though he
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Speaker 1: was sort of dizzy from the crash from the alcohol,
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Speaker 1: when he took stock of what was in front of him,
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Speaker 1: he could immediately see.
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Speaker 2: What had just happened.
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Speaker 1: In his effort to avoid hitting the car that was
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Speaker 1: driving in the same lane as him, he had swerved
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Speaker 1: into oncoming traffic and hit a different car, another car
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Speaker 1: head on that was driving in the opposite direction.
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Speaker 2: This was like a worst case scenario, and.
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Speaker 1: Both his car and the one he had hit were
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Speaker 1: completely destroyed, with the fronts completely smashed in. It was
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Speaker 1: truly a miracle Sammy had walked out of that car,
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Speaker 1: and so Sammy he staggered over to look at the
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Speaker 1: other car and see if the other driver and potential
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Speaker 1: passengers were okay. When he staggered over there, when he
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Speaker 1: looked inside of the wreckage, he could not believe what
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Speaker 1: he saw, because what he saw inside was yet another
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Speaker 1: miraculous stroke of luck, only this time it was not
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Speaker 1: the good kind. Sammy had somehow managed to do something
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Speaker 1: that really should have been impossible. He had almost perfectly
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Speaker 1: recreated the accident that he had had a year earlier.
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Speaker 1: He was driving the same car, going down the same
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Speaker 1: road on the same day of the week, and he
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Speaker 1: had crashed for basically the.
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Speaker 2: Exact same reasons.
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Speaker 1: And then, when Sammy looked inside of the car he
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Speaker 1: hit had on he realized there was one more truly
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Speaker 1: just incredible coincidence. The driver of this car was the
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Speaker 1: same driver as the car he hit a year earlier.
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Speaker 1: The man's name was Francis Patterson. He was sixty five
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Speaker 1: years old, and he didn't even live in Phoenix City.
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Speaker 2: Where this crash happened.
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Speaker 1: It was just a wild coincidence that two times more
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Speaker 1: than a year apart, Sammy had hit him while driving drunk.
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Speaker 2: On seal road. The only difference this second time around
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Speaker 2: was Francis died from the crash.
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Speaker 1: Following this tragedy, Sammy Brown Junior was charged with driving
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Speaker 1: while and intoxicated and also involuntary manslaughter.
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Speaker 2: He was sentenced to twelve months in prison.
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Speaker 1: On a Sunday night in early eighteen oh five, a
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Speaker 1: thirteen year old boy named Emil de Cham sat at
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Speaker 1: a table full of adults in a house in Orleans friends. Now,
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Speaker 1: Emil was supposed to be having dinner with all the
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Speaker 1: other boys at his boarding school across the city, but
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Speaker 1: his aunt had picked him up as a surprise for
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Speaker 1: a home cooked meal, and he knew why his aunt
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Speaker 1: was worried about him. So Emil's parents had sent him
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Speaker 1: to this boarding school in early on a few years ago,
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Speaker 1: but he hated the city, and basically right after he
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Speaker 1: got there, his mother had died, and so Emil had
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Speaker 1: really had a difficult time adjusting and he felt lonely
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Speaker 1: and isolated, and his aunt was definitely aware of that.
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Speaker 1: And so tonight, you know, Emil was very grateful that
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Speaker 1: his aunt, because you know, she kind of felt bad
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Speaker 1: for him, had brought him here to include him in
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Speaker 1: this dinner. Like he appreciated that, but this particular dinner
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Speaker 1: was just full of adults that he didn't know, and
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Speaker 1: it was just incredibly boring.
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Speaker 2: In fact, right.
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Speaker 1: Now, one of his aunt's middle aged friends, this guy
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Speaker 1: whose name was Monsieur Foncibieux, was just rambling on and
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Speaker 1: on about his.
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Speaker 2: Experience in the military, and you know, Emil was just
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Speaker 2: not remotely interested.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was not exciting to him in the least,
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Speaker 1: and so he did what he always did, just sort
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Speaker 1: of tune this guy out and let his mind wander.
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Speaker 2: Because Emil had like this.
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Speaker 1: Really big imagination and he would routinely, especially when he was,
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Speaker 1: you know, lonely and sad at school, he would just
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Speaker 1: kind of disappear into his own thoughts. But quickly after
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Speaker 1: he sort of began letting his mind wonder, he was
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Speaker 1: pulled right back to reality when his aunt set the
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Speaker 1: dessert down right in the middle of the table.
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Speaker 2: So this dessert was.
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Speaker 1: A brown sauce drenched cake like thing that was actually
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Speaker 1: wrapped in a cloth and was piping hot, literally steam
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Speaker 1: coming off of it, and Amal he just kind of
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Speaker 1: stared at it because he had never seen a dessert
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Speaker 1: like this before and had no idea what it was,
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Speaker 1: and so as he was staring at it, he heard
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Speaker 1: a voice at the table say, oh, it was It
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Speaker 1: was plum pudding and a meal.
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Speaker 2: You should try this.
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Speaker 1: Emil looked over at the voice who had said this,
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Speaker 1: and it belonged to Monsieur de Fontainebiau, who was smiling
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Speaker 1: at him. This is the guy who had been rambling
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Speaker 1: about his military experience. And the monsieur repeated that Emil
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Speaker 1: really needed to try a slice of this plum pudding
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Speaker 1: because it was an amazing traditional English dessert and it was.
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Speaker 2: Just absolutely delicious.
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Speaker 1: So Emil let his aunt cut him a slice, and
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Speaker 1: then he took a bite, and he was glad he did,
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Speaker 1: because it really was incredible. It was this rich and
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Speaker 1: sweet and just perfectly warm dessert. I mean, this was
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Speaker 1: like one of the best desserts he had ever had.
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Speaker 1: And so after trying this plum pudding and you know,
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Speaker 1: telling the monsieur how great it was and thanking his aunt,
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Speaker 1: you know, he just kind of went back to letting
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Speaker 1: his mind wander, and the conversation at the table picked
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Speaker 1: back up again, and you know, it was just boring
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Speaker 1: adult talk, and the night just kind of continued as this,
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Speaker 1: and then at some point in the night, when the
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Speaker 1: meal and the dessert and everything had all been eaten up,
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Speaker 1: the guests parted ways and Emal went back to his
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Speaker 1: boarding school.
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Speaker 2: And quickly when he got back.
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Speaker 1: To his boarding school, he forgot about the dinner and
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Speaker 1: the pudding and the once you're and just carried on
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Speaker 1: with his life. One afternoon ten years later, in the
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Speaker 1: spring of eighteen fifteen, a Meal was twenty three years
19:28
Speaker 1: old and he was living in Paris, about eighty miles
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Speaker 1: away from or Leon. So Emil had basically fled Orleon
19:34
Speaker 1: as soon as he was old enough to strike out
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Speaker 1: on his own, and once he had, he had turned
19:39
Speaker 1: his big imagination into a blossoming career. He was now
19:43
Speaker 1: a poet and a playwright, and he was writing about
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Speaker 1: these big, sweeping human experiences like love and chaos and
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Speaker 1: how mysterious life can be. So a Meal that day
19:53
Speaker 1: had basically been writing NonStop and had sort of lost
19:57
Speaker 1: track of time and sort of forgot to eat, and
19:59
Speaker 1: then suddenly he felt super hungry, and now here he
20:02
Speaker 1: was out and about looking for something to eat. But
20:04
Speaker 1: he was so hungry that he decided he didn't even
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Speaker 1: care where he went. I mean, normally he was picky
20:10
Speaker 1: about where he would eat lunch and dinner.
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Speaker 2: But today he just wanted food.
20:13
Speaker 1: He didn't care where it was, and so he just
20:16
Speaker 1: randomly chose a cafe and went inside. It was a
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Speaker 1: small space with a few customers sitting at some tables,
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Speaker 1: and Emal just walked in and took a seat at
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Speaker 1: an empty one, and quickly thereafter a waitress came over
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Speaker 1: and handed a meal a menu, and when he flipped
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Speaker 1: it open, he was immediately drawn to the dessert section.
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Speaker 2: He saw this cafe served.
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Speaker 1: Plum pudding, the amazing English dessert that he had had
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Speaker 1: a decade earlier at that dinner party with his aunt
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Speaker 1: and the monsieur. He had not had plum pudding from
20:45
Speaker 1: that day to now. It had been ten years.
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Speaker 2: He had just not had it. But he saw it
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Speaker 2: on the.
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Speaker 1: Menu and he's like, oh my goodness, I got to
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Speaker 1: have plum pudding again. That was so good ten years ago.
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Speaker 1: I got to have that experience again. And so Emil
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Speaker 1: asked this waitress if he can have a slice of
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Speaker 1: their plum pudding, and she actually she just shook her
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Speaker 1: head and said, I'm sorry, but you know, the last
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Speaker 1: piece we had. I actually just served it to the
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Speaker 1: guy over there, like we don't have anymore. And the
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Speaker 1: waitress she saw a meal react to this, and he
21:14
Speaker 1: was like so distraught. He's like, oh man, really like
21:17
Speaker 1: there's no more you serious, And the waitress could sense
21:21
Speaker 1: like he really really wanted this plum pudding, and so
21:23
Speaker 1: she goes, well, hold on a minute, and she turns
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Speaker 1: and she calls out to the gentleman that she'd actually
21:28
Speaker 1: just given the last piece to, who was sitting in
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Speaker 1: the corner of the cafe, and she calls to him
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Speaker 1: and says, hey, would you mind sharing that last piece
21:36
Speaker 1: with this new guest here with the meal, because he
21:38
Speaker 1: wants he wants a piece of this plum pudding. And
21:41
Speaker 1: so Emilie kind of looks around the waitress in the
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Speaker 1: direction of the person that she's speaking to, the guy
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Speaker 1: with the actual plum pudding, and the guy who's sitting
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Speaker 1: over there, he looks up and wouldn't you know it,
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Speaker 1: it's Monsieur de Fontembau, the same guy who was at
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Speaker 1: the dinner party ten years earlier who encouraged a meal
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Speaker 1: to eat plumb pudding for the first time and only
22:02
Speaker 1: time in his whole life at that point, it's the
22:04
Speaker 1: same guy. Like, they're not even in Orleon, France, They're
22:08
Speaker 1: eighty miles away in Paris and amal He's chosen a
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Speaker 1: random cafe. He'd never been here before, and he just
22:14
Speaker 1: happened to see plum putting on the menu, Like, what
22:17
Speaker 1: are the odds that it's the same guy and they're
22:21
Speaker 1: having plum pudding like that.
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Speaker 2: The coincidence here is just unbelievable.
22:25
Speaker 1: And so a meal, he sort of says to the waitress,
22:27
Speaker 1: hold on, hi minute, I know him, and so Emil
22:29
Speaker 1: he gets up and walks over to the monsieur and
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Speaker 1: he sits down next to him, and they're.
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Speaker 2: Both like, this is crazy. It's been ten.
22:37
Speaker 1: Years and here we are eating plum pudding together again, like.
22:40
Speaker 2: What are the odds?
22:41
Speaker 1: And so for the next fifteen minutes or so, the
22:43
Speaker 1: two men just caught up about their respective lives, they
22:47
Speaker 1: ate this plum pudding, and then at the end of
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Speaker 1: it they were like all right, like great, nice to
22:52
Speaker 1: see you, and they both just went their separate ways,
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Speaker 1: with the monsieur going back to whatever he does, and
22:58
Speaker 1: a meal going back to his writing. Thirty eight years later,
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Speaker 1: at six pm on a winter evening in eighteen fifty three,
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Speaker 1: Emil sat at a tea party in Paris, having a
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Speaker 1: great time as he chatted with the other guests at
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Speaker 1: his table. He'd been invited to this party by the hostess,
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Speaker 1: who was a big admirer of his work, and there
23:15
Speaker 1: were actually a lot of people like that these days.
23:18
Speaker 1: A Meal was now in his sixties and he was
23:20
Speaker 1: very well known. He'd published tons of plays and poems
23:23
Speaker 1: and translations, and he was close friends with many of
23:27
Speaker 1: the literary.
23:27
Speaker 2: Giants of France and Europe, like he.
23:30
Speaker 1: Had made it as a creative And so as a
23:32
Speaker 1: Meal is sitting at this table basically being lauded for,
23:35
Speaker 1: you know, all of his achievements and what an incredible
23:38
Speaker 1: writer he was. As he's just sitting there basking in
23:40
Speaker 1: the glory, one of the hostess's staff came in with
23:43
Speaker 1: a platter of dessert and Emil he looked over and
23:46
Speaker 1: he saw what the dessert was, and right away he
23:49
Speaker 1: knew he had to have some.
23:51
Speaker 2: It was plum pudding.
23:52
Speaker 1: And so as the staff person came over with the
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Speaker 1: plum pudding to give to a Meal, he sort of
23:57
Speaker 1: laughed and told, you know, the staff person and the
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Speaker 1: people at his table, the story of how, you know,
24:03
Speaker 1: over the course of his life, he'd only had plum
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Speaker 1: pudding two times, when he was thirteen and when he
24:09
Speaker 1: was twenty three, and in both of those situations when
24:12
Speaker 1: he had had plum pudding, this guy, Monsieur de Fontembiau,
24:16
Speaker 1: had been present, this man that he didn't know and
24:19
Speaker 1: had only interacted with when he was eating plum pudding.
24:22
Speaker 1: And it was kind of like this crazy coincidence. He
24:24
Speaker 1: described seeing him ten years later in Paris. He couldn't
24:28
Speaker 1: believe it. You know, that was thirty eight years ago,
24:30
Speaker 1: but still it's like this wild coincidence, the biggest one
24:32
Speaker 1: of his whole life. And so he sort of jokingly
24:34
Speaker 1: told the people at the table and the staff like, hey, here,
24:37
Speaker 1: I am about to eat for the third time plum pudding.
24:40
Speaker 1: We better be on the lookout for the monsieur. He's
24:42
Speaker 1: bound to show up. And everyone kind of.
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Speaker 2: Laughed, They're like, yeah, that's crazy.
24:46
Speaker 1: And so Emil he gets his plate of plum pudding,
24:49
Speaker 1: he gets his fork, and he he scoops a bite
24:51
Speaker 1: and he's about to eat it when the butler walks
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Speaker 1: into the room and announces that there is going to
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Speaker 1: be one more guest joining them at this team party.
25:01
Speaker 1: And who walks in this additional guest none other than
25:05
Speaker 1: Monsieur the Fontembiu, and so Emil he's about to bite
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Speaker 1: the plum pudding.
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Speaker 2: And he looks up and he sees him and he
25:12
Speaker 2: can't believe it.
25:13
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is a thousand years old and
25:15
Speaker 1: he hasn't seen him for thirty eight years, and the
25:19
Speaker 1: only other times are when he's eating plum pudding.
25:22
Speaker 2: And wouldn't you know.
25:23
Speaker 1: It, for the third time, here it's happening again, Like
25:27
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. It was crazy the second time. This
25:31
Speaker 1: is now impossible. How is it that he's here as
25:34
Speaker 1: I'm about to eat for the third.
25:36
Speaker 2: Time this plum pudding. It doesn't make sense.
25:38
Speaker 1: And so Emil just stared at the monsieur with this
25:42
Speaker 1: look of just absolute shock on his face. And the
25:45
Speaker 1: Monsieur as he walked in, he sort of stopped and
25:49
Speaker 1: scanned the room and he eventually met eyes with a meal,
25:53
Speaker 1: and he had this look of just total confusion on
25:55
Speaker 1: his face. He's looking at a meal, he's seeing the
25:58
Speaker 1: plum putting that he's eating, kind of you know, scoping
26:01
Speaker 1: out the whole room, and then the Monsieur he just
26:04
Speaker 1: turned around and he walked away. It would turn out
26:07
Speaker 1: Monsieur de Fontebiaux had been invited to another party on
26:11
Speaker 1: the same floor and had mistakenly wandered into a meal's
26:15
Speaker 1: party at the exact moment he was being served plum
26:19
Speaker 1: pudding for the third time in his entire life. This
26:23
Speaker 1: was truly just an astounding set of coincidences over you know,
26:27
Speaker 1: a fifty year period, like the odds of this all
26:30
Speaker 1: happening exactly as it did those three different times he
26:33
Speaker 1: had plum pudding and there was the Monsieur.
26:35
Speaker 2: For things to line up that way.
26:37
Speaker 1: It was just staggering to imagine how perfectly each coincidence had.
26:41
Speaker 2: To line up.
26:42
Speaker 1: It was just it was almost so much that Emil
26:44
Speaker 1: felt like, there's got to be something else going on here.
26:47
Speaker 2: This can't just be a coincidence. It was just like
26:50
Speaker 2: too much.
26:52
Speaker 1: And so in fact, you know, Emil would go on
26:54
Speaker 1: to recount his his plum pudding in the Monsieur story
26:57
Speaker 1: many many times to his friends in literary, and he
27:00
Speaker 1: would ultimately write about it in his eventual memoir. Today,
27:04
Speaker 1: it's been around two hundred years since the plum pudding
27:07
Speaker 1: events took place, and during that time, a Meal's account
27:11
Speaker 1: has been dissected countless times by probability experts and scientists
27:16
Speaker 1: and mathematicians from all around the world, and nobody has
27:20
Speaker 1: a good answer for how this could have happened. And
27:22
Speaker 1: so in the end, a Meal's account about what happened
27:25
Speaker 1: to him actually ended up becoming the foundation for a
27:28
Speaker 1: very famous philosophical concept pioneered by Carl Jung called synchronicity.
27:34
Speaker 1: Synchronicity basically means that some coincidences might not actually be coincidences,
27:40
Speaker 1: They might not be random at all, but instead are
27:43
Speaker 1: actually connected to a much larger meaning or purpose, even
27:47
Speaker 1: if we don't know what that is. Thank you so
27:56
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