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  Speaker 1: Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, rising up
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  Speaker 1: to three thousand, seven hundred and seventy six meters, and
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a volcano. It's dormant. The last time it
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  Speaker 1: erupted was in seventeen oh seven, but geologists still classify
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  Speaker 1: it as active. Tourists are allowed to climb Mount Fuji,
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  Speaker 1: but only between July and September because in the winter
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  Speaker 1: months the mountain gets completely treacherous. There's snow and ice
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  Speaker 1: and the wind picks up. It's very, very dangerous, So
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  Speaker 1: it's off limits. Now thrill seekers, if they really wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: they could climb Mount Fuji in the winter, because there
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  Speaker 1: isn't a security guard posted up at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: Mount Fuji checking people.
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  Speaker 2: In and out. It's on you.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to climb it when it's off limits,
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  Speaker 1: well then you're climbing at your own risk. Because basically
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  Speaker 1: it's a terrible idea. But if you have the right
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  Speaker 1: equipment and you have all the right training, it is doable.
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  Speaker 1: One thrill seek, a forty seven year old named ted Zu,
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  Speaker 1: decided he wanted to hike Mount Fuji in the winter
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  Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen. He wanted to live stream his entire
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  Speaker 1: journey to the summit. Now ted Zu might have been
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  Speaker 1: a thrill seeker, but he certainly wasn't a mountain climber.
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  Speaker 1: He did not have the experience, nor did he have
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  Speaker 1: any of the equipment necessary for a climb up Mount
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  Speaker 1: Fuji in the winter, wearing only street clothes and carrying
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  Speaker 1: nothing more than climbing poles and his smartphone. He turned
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  Speaker 1: on his live stream and he began hiking up the
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  Speaker 1: Shubashiri trail. Viewers began tuning in as ted Zu happily
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  Speaker 1: made his way up this ash covered trail, and then
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  Speaker 1: the ash turned into light snow, and then light snow
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  Speaker 1: turned into really heavy snow and ice.
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  Speaker 2: And wind, and then ted Zu began complaining.
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  Speaker 1: About how cold he was and how he couldn't feel
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  Speaker 1: his hands, and his viewers are egging him on to
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  Speaker 1: you keep going, keep pushing through it, and probably because
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  Speaker 1: of the pressure he felt from his viewers, he kept
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  Speaker 1: going when really this would have been the moment to
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  Speaker 1: turn around, when you're realizing that you don't have the
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  Speaker 1: right equipment and it's getting really cold and you're probably
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  Speaker 1: not even halfway up, that's.
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  Speaker 2: The time to turn around, but he didn't. He pressed on.
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  Speaker 1: As he moved up the mountain, the path he was
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  Speaker 1: on continued to narrow and become increasingly more covered in ice,
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  Speaker 1: and the guard fence that straddled the side of this
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  Speaker 1: path was getting to the place where it comes to
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  Speaker 1: a stop, signaling the most dangerous section of the.
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  Speaker 2: Hike, which is the last leg up to the summit.
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  Speaker 1: He gets to that point where the fence comes to
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  Speaker 1: an end, and now he's on this narrow stretch where
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  Speaker 1: the wind is just whipping across and it's all ice,
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  Speaker 1: and he's trying to walk across the ice with his
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  Speaker 1: totally inappropriate footwear.
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  Speaker 2: He should have.
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  Speaker 1: Had on at least crampons, the metal spikes that go
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  Speaker 1: on the bottom of your shoe to grip ice. He
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  Speaker 1: just had tennis shoes on, and so he's slipping and
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  Speaker 1: sliding as he's walking up this icy trail, and then
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  Speaker 1: he finally staggers and falls, but he catches himself and
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  Speaker 1: you can hear him laughing on the live stream, joking
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  Speaker 1: with his audience how how dangerous and slippery it is,
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  Speaker 1: and his viewers begin to change their tone a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and they're.
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  Speaker 2: Like, hey, you might want to consider turning around now.
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  Speaker 1: But ted Zuo is totally focused on getting to the
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  Speaker 1: top back up, and he continues to kind of shuffle
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  Speaker 1: his way towards the summit on this stretch of ice.
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  Speaker 1: He finally gets right up below the summit to where
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  Speaker 1: on his livestream you can actually see the top of
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  Speaker 1: Mount Fuji, and you can tell that his footwear at
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  Speaker 1: this point is basically not able to handle how slick
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  Speaker 1: it is. He's basically constantly stumbling, and you can see
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  Speaker 1: he notices a little stretch of small rocks that seem
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  Speaker 1: to almost make stepping stones up to the summit, and
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  Speaker 1: he begins walking over very carefully on the ice to
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  Speaker 1: try to use these rocks to get himself up to
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  Speaker 1: the top.
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  Speaker 2: And right as he's trying to step for one of
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  Speaker 2: these rocks.
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  Speaker 1: He loses his balance and on camera he says, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I'm slipping, and then he falls and begins rocketing down
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  Speaker 1: the side of this mountain. Now, when you fall on
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  Speaker 1: a steep mountain, you have one, maybe two chances to
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  Speaker 1: self arrest. So, for example, if you had an ice
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  Speaker 1: pick and you were like ted Zoo and you start falling,
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  Speaker 1: you would want to roll over and dig the head
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  Speaker 1: of that ice pick into the ground and basically anchor
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  Speaker 1: your knees and elbows and drive everything you can into
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  Speaker 1: the snow to stop yourself from f and so if
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that in one or two attempts, your
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  Speaker 1: momentum will pick up and you'll be going too fast
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  Speaker 1: and you won't be able to stop yourself, and then
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  Speaker 1: you just got to hope he survived the fall. Ted
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  Speaker 1: Zu did not have an ice pick or any other
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  Speaker 1: tool to help himself arrest, and he didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: training for what to do in a situation like this,
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  Speaker 1: so he didn't even attempt to roll over and dig
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  Speaker 1: his elbows or knees into the ground to try to
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  Speaker 1: slow down. So he just goes flying down the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: He's on his back, he's not slowing down, and he
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  Speaker 1: knows he's doomed, and he says on camera, well, it
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  Speaker 1: can't be helped, before he flies over the edge and
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  Speaker 1: falls hundreds of meters down to his death. His viewers
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  Speaker 1: who watched this happen alerted authorities, who found his body
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  Speaker 1: the next day, over one thousand meters away from where
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  Speaker 1: he had first fallen. Unfortunately, every year there is a
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  Speaker 1: handful of people that attempt to climb Mount Fuji in
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  Speaker 1: the winter and they meet the same fate. In nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty two, Chillino Sanchez was born into a poor family
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  Speaker 1: in the Mexican state of Cineloa. When he was just
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years old, one of his sisters was assaulted by
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  Speaker 1: a very rich and powerful man in their town, and
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  Speaker 1: so he never got punished for it. Two years later,
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  Speaker 1: when Chileno was seventeen, he saw this man at a
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  Speaker 1: party and he walked up to him and shot him
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  Speaker 1: in the head, killing him instantly. After the murder, Chillino
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  Speaker 1: fled to Tijuana before ultimately crossing the US border into
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, where he stayed with his aunt. He worked
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  Speaker 1: odd jobs like picking vegetables and selling cars before he
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  Speaker 1: ultimately went into business with his brother, who was back
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  Speaker 1: in Mexico, and he worked with him to smuggle Mexicans
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  Speaker 1: into the US, but that operation stopped in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: four when his brother was murdered in Tijuana. To commemorate
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  Speaker 1: his brother, Chilino, who always loved music, wrote a song
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  Speaker 1: about him, and he formatted the song in the typical
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  Speaker 1: Mexican ballad style called corito, but his lyrics were graphic
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  Speaker 1: and gritty, something nobody else did when they wrote a corito.
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  Speaker 1: Chillino spoke honestly and openly, not only about how his
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  Speaker 1: brother was killed, but also the struggles of living around
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  Speaker 1: drug trafficking and violence in Mexico. Shortly after writing the song,
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  Speaker 1: Chillino wound up in jail in Tijuana, Mexico, and while
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  Speaker 1: he was there, he would sing the song he wrote
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  Speaker 1: about his brother, and other inmates heard it and loved it.
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  Speaker 1: They had never heard a corriedo sung like that, and
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  Speaker 1: so they asked Chillino if he would write songs about
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  Speaker 1: them and their exploits. Soon, Chillino was being commissioned by
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  Speaker 1: all these inmates in this prison to write their songs
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  Speaker 1: in exchange for money and for favors. When Chillino got
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  Speaker 1: out of prison, his unique songwriting abilities had spread beyond
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  Speaker 1: the prison walls to other criminals and drug traffickers and
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  Speaker 1: kingpins in Mexico, and before long, Chillino was being approached
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  Speaker 1: by those people to write their songs. His corritos pioneered
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  Speaker 1: a new subgenre of music called narco corriedo for their
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  Speaker 1: ties to the narcotics industry. Some people today compared these
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  Speaker 1: style and lyrics of the narco couredo to gangster rap.
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  Speaker 1: By nineteen eighty seven, Chillino's music was not just being
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  Speaker 1: shared amongst his paying clients. It had spread into Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles and all over Mexico and was becoming very popular,
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  Speaker 1: even though it wasn't being played on the radio because
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  Speaker 1: radios thought his lyrics were too graphic, and so it
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  Speaker 1: was spreading largely because of word of mouth and because
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  Speaker 1: Chillino himself would go to car washes and street corners
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  Speaker 1: and he would sell his cassettes to anybody who would
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  Speaker 1: take them. By nineteen ninety one, Chillino was so famous
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  Speaker 1: that he actually went on tour and everywhere he went
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  Speaker 1: the venue would be completely sold out. But given what
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  Speaker 1: his narco corridos were about, largely about drug trafficking and
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  Speaker 1: the people that are involved in that ecosystem, the people
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  Speaker 1: that would actually come to his performances were often rough
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  Speaker 1: and dangerous people, or were at least tied to rough
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  Speaker 1: and dangerous people. In nineteen ninety two, when Chileino was
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  Speaker 1: performing in California, while he was on stage, this thirty
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  Speaker 1: three year old guy rushed onto stage with him and
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  Speaker 1: drew a gun on him, and Chillino, who was always
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  Speaker 1: carrying a weapon himself, drew his pistol and fired at
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  Speaker 1: this guy first, and then what ensued was this crazy
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  Speaker 1: gunfight on stage practically point blank between Chillino and this guy,
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  Speaker 1: and they both managed to shoot each other. Chelino got
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  Speaker 1: shot in the lung and this guy got shot in
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  Speaker 1: the mouth. They would both survive, but eight audience members also.
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  Speaker 2: Got shot, and one of them actually died.
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  Speaker 1: This made international headlines and by all accounts, should have
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  Speaker 1: devastated Chillino's career, but in fact it had.
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  Speaker 2: The opposite effect.
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  Speaker 1: It made him ten times more famous because Chilino he
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  Speaker 1: was representing narco corrido music, and so in being the
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  Speaker 1: face of that, he kind of represented drug trafficking and
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  Speaker 1: criminals and outlaws all over Mexico and in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: and so he was kind of representing a very tough.
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  Speaker 2: Group of people.
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  Speaker 1: And so for him to have stood his ground on
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  Speaker 1: stage and shot first at this guy coming to attack him,
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  Speaker 1: it made him look brave, It made him look like
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  Speaker 1: a warrior. It validated him as the right person to
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  Speaker 1: be the face of narco corritas. But Chilino also understood
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  Speaker 1: that this probably was not the last time that someone
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  Speaker 1: was going to try to hurt him, that in virtue
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  Speaker 1: of being the face of narco culture, there's bound to
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  Speaker 1: be people that are very violent that don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: and they might come after him too, and so he
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  Speaker 1: actually told his inner circle that he thought his days
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  Speaker 1: were numbered, that at some point someone was going to
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  Speaker 1: kill him. Four months after the shootout, Chillino was back
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  Speaker 1: home in Sineloa, Mexico, performing at a concert that his
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  Speaker 1: friends had told him he shouldn't do because he had
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  Speaker 1: lots of enemies in his hometown, but Chillino really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do it. He got into the venue, he got
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  Speaker 1: on stage, his band was getting ready, thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: were coming into the audience, and before the show started,
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  Speaker 1: somebody handed him a note, and so Chelino takes the note.
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  Speaker 1: He's smiling, he's kind of looking around at the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and then he looks down at the note and he
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  Speaker 1: reads it, and right away his expression completely changes. He
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  Speaker 1: looks distressed, He rubs his brow, he frowns, he kind
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  Speaker 1: of looks up at the crowd like he's looking for someone,
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  Speaker 1: and then he just goes blank in the face and
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  Speaker 1: he's looking out like he's looking past the crowd. And
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  Speaker 1: it's this long period of time where he's just blank
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  Speaker 1: staring into the audience, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: he just snaps out of it, takes the note, puts
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  Speaker 1: it in his pocket, picks up the microphone and proceeds
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  Speaker 1: to give one of his best life performances to date.
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  Speaker 1: After the concert was over, Chiellino made a special effort
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  Speaker 1: to say bye to everybody in his band, and he
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  Speaker 1: said bye to some people in the crowd, and then finally,
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  Speaker 1: after this kind of long drawn out goodbye, he walked
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  Speaker 1: out the back door. Shortly after he was kidnapped, tied up,
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  Speaker 1: and then shot in the back.
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  Speaker 2: Of the head execution style.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out that note he received on stage
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  Speaker 1: was from his killers, who we don't know exactly who
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  Speaker 1: they are still to this day. But the note said
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  Speaker 1: after this performance, we're going to kill you, and so
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  Speaker 1: that was the reason Chellino was so distressed, because whoever
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  Speaker 1: it was, he obviously understood it was a credible threat.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of panicking, he just decided he would give
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  Speaker 1: an amazing performance and then face his destiny. And so
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  Speaker 1: when he went outside, he knew he was going to
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  Speaker 1: get murdered, and he did. On September twenty fifth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy eight, a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing seven to twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven airliner entered San Diego Airspace. Like all PSA aircraft,
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  Speaker 1: Flight one eighty two had a whimsical black button nose
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  Speaker 1: and smiley face painted underneath the cockpit. These so called
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  Speaker 1: grinning birds were synonymous with the company's self promoting ad
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  Speaker 1: campaign about them being the world's friendliest airline, but the
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  Speaker 1: airline was often criticized for being too friendly with their
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  Speaker 1: super low airfares their kind of comic banter that the
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  Speaker 1: captains would employ through the intercom to passengers and their
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  Speaker 1: female flight attendants, who wore mini skirts and were instructed
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  Speaker 1: to make nice with the male passengers. Because the weather
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  Speaker 1: was clear, air traffic Control directed Captain McFerrin and First
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  Speaker 1: Officer Fox to switch from instrument flight rules to visual
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  Speaker 1: flight rules procedures and to begin their final descent. Visual
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  Speaker 1: flight rules refers to pilots using their eyes to guide
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  Speaker 1: the plane. It's done when they're flying low, the weather's
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  Speaker 1: clear and they can see the ground. At eight fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine am that morning, as PSA Flight one eighty two
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  Speaker 1: descended down to four thousand feet, air traffic Control advised
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  Speaker 1: them of a Cessna, which is they small plane that
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  Speaker 1: was ascending in their direction. Thoughts responded that they saw
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  Speaker 1: the Cessna, and so air traffic Control.
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  Speaker 2: Came back and said to maintain visual separation.
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  Speaker 1: Maintain visual separation meant that despite ground radar based controllers
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  Speaker 1: who could provide vertical and lateral separation criteria, the burden
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  Speaker 1: for maintaining separation fell solely on Captain McFerrin and his crew.
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  Speaker 1: In Layman's terms, air traffic Control was telling them, don't
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  Speaker 1: lose sight of the Cesna. Inside the Cessna was a
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  Speaker 1: flight instructor named Martin Casey and his student, who was
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  Speaker 1: a United States Marine named David Boswell. As this little
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  Speaker 1: plane ascended, air Trappic Control informed them that PSA one
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  Speaker 1: eighty two, who was right in front of them and
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  Speaker 1: slightly above them, they were on their descent.
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  Speaker 2: However, they had the Cesna in sight.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, the men inside of the Cessna did
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  Speaker 1: not take it upon themselves to actively begin looking for
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  Speaker 1: this jet. They assumed the pilots of PSA one eighty two,
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  Speaker 1: who had them in sight, would avoid them. Back in
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  Speaker 1: PSA one eighty two, it seemed to be some confusion
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  Speaker 1: in the cockpit. The two pilots were debating whether the
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  Speaker 1: Sesna they were watching fly lower than them pass them
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  Speaker 1: on the right was the same Sesna that air traffic
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  Speaker 1: Control had told them about, and at some point they agreed, yep,
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  Speaker 1: that's got to be the same sesna, and so they
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  Speaker 1: called in to air traffic control that it looks like
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  Speaker 1: the sesna has passed us.
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  Speaker 2: They've flown past us on the right.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately after this transmission, the black box recorded the two
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  Speaker 1: pilots talking to each other, basically trying to convince the
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  Speaker 1: other that yes, that.
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  Speaker 2: Was definitely the right sesna.
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  Speaker 1: But after a couple of minutes of reassuring themselves, one
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  Speaker 1: of them says, boy, I hope that was the right cesena.
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  Speaker 1: According to later testimony by the air traffic controller who
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  Speaker 1: was in communication with the pilots of PSA one to
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  Speaker 1: eighty two as they were on their final descent, he
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  Speaker 1: would say when Captain McFerrin came over and said the
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  Speaker 1: sesna has passed him on the right, he believed him
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't think to check to make sure it
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  Speaker 1: was the right one. But in reality, the sesna that
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  Speaker 1: McFerrin and Fox had seen was the wrong one. The
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  Speaker 1: real sesna they were supposed to maintain visual step ration with,
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  Speaker 1: the one containing Kz and Boswell, was still ascending in
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  Speaker 1: the direct flight path of PSA one eighty two, except
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  Speaker 1: now this Sesna is in one eighty two's blind spot
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  Speaker 1: below their nose, so they literally can't see each other.
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  Speaker 1: At nine oh one that morning, air traffic control got
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  Speaker 1: an alarm that PSA one eighty two and this Sesna
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  Speaker 1: are about to collide, but for some reason, the air
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  Speaker 1: traffic controller did not alert both aircraft. Instead, this controller
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  Speaker 1: only contacted the sesna and didn't tell them this was
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  Speaker 1: a dire situation. They said, Hey, there's traffic in your vicinity,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure it's just PSA one eighty two
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  Speaker 1: and they already see you, so you're fine. So Kz
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  Speaker 1: and Boswell inside of the sesna just continued to ascend.
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  Speaker 1: One minute later, at nine o two, am PSA one
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  Speaker 1: eighty two flies directly over the sesna and strikes them
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  Speaker 1: with their nosewheel. The Sesna gets hooked by the wheel
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  Speaker 1: and flips upside down and gets trapped underneath the right
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  Speaker 1: wing of the jet. Seconds later, the sesna splits in two.
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  Speaker 1: The tail section containing David Boswell plummets to the earth
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  Speaker 1: like a rag doll. The nose section of the cessna
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  Speaker 1: that contained Martin Casey stayed trapped underneath the right wing
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  Speaker 1: for a few seconds before it detonated.
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  Speaker 2: Inside of PSA one to eight two.
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  Speaker 1: This explosion was deafening, and immediately after it, mcfarrian was
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: recorded saying.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Easy baby, easy baby.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Then he asked Fox, what's the damage, and Fox says
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: it's bad.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Man were hit.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Despite trying to keep the plane flying level, it lurched
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: forward into an unrecoverable nose dive, and McFerrin, knowing they
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: were doomed, calmly calls out to air traffic Control and
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: says we're going down. Air traffic responded, okay, we'll have
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the equipment ready for you. Then the black box recorded
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the sound of a stall warning inside the cockpit, and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: as the aircraft streaked at over three hundred miles per
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: hour straight towards the ground, mcferran's last known transmission to air.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Traffic was this is it baby.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Seconds before impact, mcfarrin gave his final command over the intercom,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: which was braced yourselves, and then right before the black
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: box cut out, someone in the cabin yelled, I love you, mom.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I know three am PSA one eighty two slammed nose
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: first into the ground just outside of downtown San Diego
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: in an area called North Park. The resulting explosion of
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: thousands of gallons of jet fuels sent a shockwave that
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: was registered two miles away. Almost immediately, firefighters were rushing
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: towards the rising mushroom cloud of black, oily smoke, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: many of the first responders that arrived at the crash
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: site in those first few hours were deeply disturbed at
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: what they saw. The bodies that had not been destroyed
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: in the explosion had gotten trapped up in the trees.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: All told, one hundred and forty four people were killed
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: in this accident. One hundred and thirty five were from
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: PSA one eighty two, two were from the Cessna, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: seven were just unlucky people that were standing on the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: ground in North Park. Following a one year investigation into
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the mid air collision, it was determined that the flight
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: crew of PSA one eighty two was found to be
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: primarily responsible because there was that moment that was picked
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: up in the black box where the two pilots were
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: unsure if the Cesena that passed them was the right one,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: but instead of calling that into air traffic control and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: getting confirmation, they blew it off. The morning of the crash,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a San Diego photographer was at a press event when
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: he heard the explosion overhead, which was one eighty two
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: colliding with the Cessna, and he began taking pictures and
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he captured these now two infamous photos of PSA one
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: eighty two seconds before they hit the ground. Just outside
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: of the popular tourist town of AMaGA in northern Colombia
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: lies this thick green jungle And if you know where
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to look, there is actually a walking path that leads
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you from AMaGA deep into this jungle, and if you
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: keep going, it will bring you all the way to
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: this terrifying, enormous old railroad bridge that spans this huge ravine.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Now this bridge is no longer used by trains. It's
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: been decommissioned. However, since its decommissioning, there's actually been ironically
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: more traffic on this bridge, although it is the foot
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: traffic variety. People come out to this bridge to go
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: bungee jumping. Bungee jumping is a thrill seeking activity where
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: people will leap off of high places like this bridge,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and they'll jump with an elastic rope tied to their ankles.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: And so this rope has been very.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Carefully measured so that when it is fully stretched all
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the way out, it ensures whoever has jumped will still
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: not impact the ground.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Back in early July of twenty twenty one, a twenty five.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Year old Columbian lawyer named Yasinia Gomez who lived about
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: an hour north of AMaGA in the larger city of Medeyin,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: she told her boyfriend that she wanted to go bungee jumping.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: This was something Yasinia had talked about for a long time,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: wanting to go bungee jumping, but every time it became
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a real thing and they were actually going to go
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: do it, she would back down because she.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Was just too scared.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, in July of twenty twenty one,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Yasinia had the confidence and the courage to actually see
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: this thing through, and so her boyfriend, when he heard
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: how serious she was, he capitalized on the opportunity because
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he had never bungee jumped before and he really wanted to,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: but he couldn't without his skullfriend. And so now it
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: seemed like she was serious, and so right away he
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: called the AMaGA bungee Jumping Company to book a slot
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for he and Yasinya to jump off of their bridge.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So on the day they were supposed to jump, which
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: was Sunday, July eighteenth, Yasina and her boyfriend hopped in
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: their car and they drove an hour south to AMaGA,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and when they got there, they found the walking trail
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and they made their way out to this bridge. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: when they get out to this bridge, they are amazed
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: at the number of people who were already in line.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: On this bridge waiting to jump off of it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: They knew this was a popular spot, but perhaps they
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: didn't realize just how popular it was. And so Yasinia
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and her boyfriend they get in line behind the nearly
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: one hundred other jumpers ahead of them, and they proceeded
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to wait, and over the next several hours, Yasina and
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: her boyfriend would have front row seats to all of
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the jump ahead of them jumping off the bridge. Now
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: it seems like Yasina in her mind believed she would
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: arrive at this bridge and very quickly she and her
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: boyfriend would leap off and it would be great and
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: so much fun. But now they've been forced to wait
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: for a really long time, and this whole time they're
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: watching other people jump, and Yasinia is starting to panic. Suddenly,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: bungee jumping looked terrifying. It did not look like something
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: she wanted to do, and so she was beginning to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: second guess her decision. And so her boyfriend he's trying
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to calm her down, and he's telling her, oh, it's
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: totally safe. Look at all these people who have jumped.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: They're all fine, they're all smiling, they're so happy. You're
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: gonna be so proud of yourself. But despite his best
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: efforts to calm his girlfriend down, Yasina just could not
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: calm down. But she did tell her boyfriend that she's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: not about to back down.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: She's gonna go through with this. And so several.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Hours went by, this totally high stress, anxious waiting period,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and then finally Yasina and her boyfriend reached the front
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: of the line, at which point the staff met me,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: who've been doing this all day long.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: They signaled the two to step forward.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: And get their harnesses on, and so Yasinia and her
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: boyfriend they make their way to the edge of the platform,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: so they're looking out over this ravine and the staff
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: members are putting on their harnesses and getting them ready,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and the whole time, Yusina she's starting to get tunnel vision,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: her hardest racing. She's totally panicked. She doesn't think this
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: is fun at all. She just wants to get this
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: over with. And then at some point one of the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: staff members finally says, okay, jump, and so Yasinya jumps.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Except it would turn out Yasinia had made a mistake.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: That staff member who had said okay, jump was talking
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to her boyfriend, not Yasina. However, Yasinia, in her totally
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: panicked state, had just not understood and had leapt believing
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: they were telling her to jump. However, the staff members
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: had only put her harness on, they had not attached
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the actual elastic rope to her ankles, and so when
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yasinya jumped, there was nothing stopping her.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: From smashing into the ground.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And so as soon as she leapt off the bridge,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: her boyfriend ripped off all of his gear and he
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: ran down the bridge. He leapt over the rail ang
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and he ran down the hillside all the way to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the bottom of this ravine. But when he finally got
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: to his girlfriend, it was already too late.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: She was already gone. It would later be.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Determined Yasina did not die from impacting the ground. She
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: actually died from a heart attack she suffered on the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: fall down, which means she must have realized after she
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: jumped that she jumped too early, that she did not
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: have the bungee cord attached to her legs, and so
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: literally the fear of what was about to happen to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: her killed her. In nineteen ninety eight, fresh A Bakery,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: which was a bread company in Leicester, England, was all
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: about profits, and their employees knew this because all the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: time corners were being cut for the sake of money,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: even if it was totally dangerous. In May of that year,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: one of the company's industrial ovens needed a minor repair.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: One of the cogs inside the oven had come loose
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and fallen off, and someone just needed to pick it
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: up and put it back on. To picture this oven
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: in your head, think of the scanner you put your
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: luggage through at the airport, the X ray machine.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: It was this eighty foot long metal tunnel where there
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: was a conveyor belt that ran through it, and you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: would put dough on one side and it would run
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: through with the conveyor belt through this oven and then on.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: The other side, it would be fully cooked.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Whenever repairs were needed inside one of these ovens, the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: procedure was to completely turn off the oven, so not
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: just the heat, but the whole operation needed to be
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: completely shut down, and then the oven would sit for
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: almost a full twenty four hours before a mechanic would
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: go in and make the repair. But the mechanic cost money,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and every hour that this bread machine was not operational,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the company would lose fifteen hundred dollars, And so the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: managers of this company thought, you know what, that's too
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: much money to be giving up. If we do the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: repairs ourselves, that saves us on the cost of the mechanic,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: And if we can find a way to make the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: repair while leaving the oven partially running, that will save
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: us a whole bunch of money too. Someone pointed out
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that it was possible to turn the heat all the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: way down in the oven but allow the conveyor belt
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to keep rotating through. They just needed to find a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: way to get in with this conveyor belt moving around.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Them, and so they came up with a plan.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Even though the oven sat flushed to the ground, there
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was a side panel that could open up and you
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: could crawl underneath the oven, and right above you would
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be the conveyor belt. And so they thought, well, hey,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: if we just remove a couple of sections of the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: conveyor belt, when that gap in the belt cycles around
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and is right over someone who is standing underneath it,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: they can stand up into that gap and kind of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: be hunched over and walk along inside of the oven,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: staying in that gap until they come across the cog
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: that's going to be right on the ground. They can
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: pick it up, put it right back on, and keep
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: walking on, staying in the gap until they reached the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: other side, at which point they could crawl out the exit.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: The managers were confident, and so they began walking around
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the factory asking for volunteers, and they were offering extra pay.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Two men, forty four year old Ian Erickson forty seven
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: year old David Mays, volunteered for the job, and their
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: managers told them they would do it the next day
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: because they needed time to turn the heat off on
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the oven and let it cool down first. That night,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: David was out with his friends and he was talking
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: about how he was kind of nervous about getting inside
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: of a semi operational industrial oven, but he.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Told them the money was good.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: The following day, at nine am, the oven's heat was
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: turned all the way down, and the plan was it
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: would sit like that all day and cool off all day,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and then in the evening Ian and David would get
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: inside and do the job. But Ian and David had
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a really important soccer game they wanted to watch that night,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and so they asked their manager would it be possible
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to go in a little bit earlier. And so the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: manager walked down to the oven and put his hand
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: inside one of the entrances, and there were fans blowing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: into it, and it had been off for a couple
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of hours, and he thought, you know what, this is
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: probably fine. You guys can go now. A few sections
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of the conveyor belt were removed. Ian was given a radio,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and the two men opened the side to the oven
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and they crawled in on the far left side of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the oven, and they waited for the gap to come around.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: When it did, they popped up and they began their
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: journey into the center of the oven. About five minutes later,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Ian came over the radio and said, Hey, it's really.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Hot in here.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And the manager came back and said don't worry. It's
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a little warm in there, but it's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: nothing that can hurt you. And then a couple of
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: seconds later, Ian comes back over the radio and says, no,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it's really hot in here.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: It is unbearably hot in here.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And so one of the managers ran over and checked
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the temperature gauge, which unbelievably no one had done to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that point, and the temperature at the center of the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: oven was reading over two hundred degrees fahrenheit. It was
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: hot enough to boil water in the center of this oven,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately, there was nowhere for Ian or David to go.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: The belt could not go in reverse, and the fastest
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it could move is seventeen minutes start to finish, so
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: agonizingly slow, and they could not crawl up or below
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the conveyor belt in either direction. There wasn't enough clearance
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and they'd get sucked up into the machinery. So they
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: literally had to stay in the gap and slowly walk
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: towards the hottest section of the oven. And so for
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: ten minutes Ian and David slowly they made their way
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: across this oven, screaming out in pain, yelling for help
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: from anyone, someone, but no one could do anything, and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: even if they hit the emergency stop button on the oven,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't help them because the heat inside of the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: oven is not because it's on, it was residual heat,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and by turning off the oven that would just stop
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the conveyor belt, trapping Ian and David in the hottest
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: part of the oven. Workers ran and got their tools
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and did everything they could to try to dismantle portions
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of the oven to try to get down to Ian
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and David. But by the time they finally pulled off
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: big pieces of the oven, Ian had already made it
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to the other side and been pulled out, and he
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: was unfortunately deceased. He had been burned alive, and David
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: had collapsed somewhere in the oven and had been crushed
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: by the machinery that went over him. The bakery and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: their management team were all fine for their part in
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this tragedy. When the earth collapses and on itself, creating
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a hole in the ground that sucks away anything in
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: its wake, that's called a sinkhole. These holes form when
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: water dissolves the rock layer underneath the soil. They range
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: dramatically in size from a barely noticeable depression in the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: ground to massive chasms that are hundreds.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Of meters wide and deep.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: If you're one of the unfortunate few that falls into
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: a large sinkhole, you probably won't get out again because
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the ground inside of a sinkhole after the initial implosion
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: just continues to sink. So if you were standing on
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the ground inside of a sinkhole, you would continuously be
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: pulled into the ground as it continued to crumble and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: churn like quicksand below your feet. And even if you
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: manage to get to the sides inside of the sinkhole,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you could not climb up again because there wouldn't be
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: any handholds because the soil is all loose and wet. Luckily,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: most sinkholes form slowly and show lots of warning signs,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: allowing people to get away before it opens up, but
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: there are unique circumstances where large sinkholes can appear out
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of nowhere.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: In Russia, hot water is.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Piped into business and residential buildings during the harsh winters.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: On November nineteenth, twenty nineteen, in the Russian city of Penza,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: which is three hundred and forty miles south of Moscow,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a large hot water pipe burst underground below a car park. Initially,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: nobody knew the pipe had burst, but witnesses would later
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: say they saw steam coming out of the ground near
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the car park, but they didn't think anything of it.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: A few minutes after the steam appeared, forty nine year
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: old Vladimir vaal Jelkin was driving his car through.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: The car park.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: With him was his coworker, fifty three year old Igor Chikisov.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: They worked together at a furniture store. As they made
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: their way towards the exit of this car park, there
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: was another car ahead of them that rolled over that
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: section of pavement that was steaming, and they watched as
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it rolled over.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And drove off, and nothing happened.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And so Vladimir and Igor they drove over that section
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: of pavement and the ground collapsed under them. The burst
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: hot water hype had injected thousands of gallons of water
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: into the soil right under the pavement, and so it
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: caused a sinkhole, but not just any sinkhole, a sinkhole
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that was slowly filling with boiling water. When the ground
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: collapsed under Egor's car, it flipped the car forward and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it landed upside down at the bottom of this ten
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: meters deep sinkhole, and it landed just perfectly to where
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the doors could not open they would hit the sides
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of the sinkhole, which also meant they couldn't roll the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: windows down and crawl out because they would hit the.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Sides of the sinkhole.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: The men managed to get their seat belts off and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: flip themselves around and began kicking on the windshield and
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: yelling out for help. At this point, onlookers had made
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it to the edge of the sinkhole, and when they
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: looked down inside, they realized there was nothing anyone could do.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Jumping in was a death.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Sentence, so they watched in horror as Vladimir and Igor
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: desperately tried to escape, But the scalding water continued to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: fill the hole until it began leaking into the cabin
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of the vehicle.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: At which point the men went quiet.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: A few moments later, the car completely disappeared from view
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: under the boiling water. Although not held criminally responsible, the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: water company that owned the pipe that burst offered to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: pay compensation to both families, as well as cover all
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: funeral costs. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most remarkable and beautiful places on Earth. Not only
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  Speaker 1: is it renowned for its biodiversity, which includes some incredibly
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  Speaker 1: resilient microbial organisms, it's also home to one of the
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  Speaker 1: worlds so called supervolcanoes. This supervolcano sits atop one of
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  Speaker 1: the world's largest magma bodies, fueled by an upwelling plume
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of superheated material. This dynamic and violent subterranean plumbing means
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the water bodies at the surface, the famous Yellowstone Hot
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Springs are highly acidic and incredibly hot.
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  Speaker 2: If you were to.
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  Speaker 1: Ignore the countless warnings around these hot springs telling you
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  Speaker 1: to stay away, do not go in the hot springs,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: if you were to ignore those and go in one,
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  Speaker 1: or more accurately, fall in one, this is what would
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  Speaker 1: happen to you. First, your body would register that your
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: skin was bathing in waters exceeding.
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  Speaker 2: Two hundred degrees fahrenheit.
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  Speaker 1: This would hurt like nothing you can possibly imagine, but
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  Speaker 1: it would only hurt as long as your nervous system
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  Speaker 1: was able to register pain, which would only be for
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  Speaker 1: about one minute or less. At this temperature, your skin
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  Speaker 1: would begin to quickly break down and disintegrate, and your
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  Speaker 1: blood vessels in your underlying dermis would rupture, causing rapid
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: blood loss. Some underlying skin layers would not break down,
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  Speaker 1: but they would lose all of their water and become
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  Speaker 1: tough and blackened, and your underlying subcutaneous fat would bubble
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  Speaker 1: off as well. All in all, this is known as
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  Speaker 1: a full thickness burn, and it would occur in about
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: one minute. In these waters, your nervous system would enter
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  Speaker 1: a state of shock and become irreversibly damaged, which would
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  Speaker 1: lead to most, if not all, of your organs to fail.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: If the heat stress has not already done that to you,
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  Speaker 1: you would be dead within two to three minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: then point the acidity of the water would take over.
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  Speaker 1: Within a few hours, your body, including your skeleton, would
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  Speaker 1: be completely dissolved into absolute nothingness.
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  Speaker 2: And for anyone who.
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  Speaker 1: Falls in but manages to climb out again before being dissolved,
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  Speaker 1: they are not out of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: Many of those.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: People, unfortunately, will die hours, days months later due to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: complications from the burns. On June seventh, twenty sixteen, Colin
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  Speaker 1: Scott and his sister Sable went to Yellowstone.
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  Speaker 2: To see the famous hot springs.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: The siblings were exploring the Norris Geyser Basin, which is
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the park's oldest and hottest thermal area. When they decided
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to leave the safety of the boardwalk and walk past
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: all the signs telling them do not leave the boardwalk
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: this is dangerous turn around, they decided to walk past
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: all of those and venture out off the course. They
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: walked approximately two hundred meters away from the path to
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  Speaker 1: the edge of a hot spring that was not really
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: part of the main tour, and they were just standing
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: there when Colin apparently tripped and fell into the hot spring,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and his sister was just not able to do anything.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: She knew she couldn't go in after him, and he
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  Speaker 1: very quickly sunk below the surface and didn't come up again.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: She ran back to try to get help, but by
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the time they got back to the edge of the
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  Speaker 1: hot spring, he was gone, and in fact, the only
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: thing they would find of Colin Scott was his flipflops.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Since eighteen ninety, Colin Scott, along with twenty one other
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: people have died by falling into these hot springs. Despite
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the fact that today there is already tons of shocking
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: content on the Internet, there is still something truly insane
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: about Wu Young Ning's videos. In twenty seventeen, Wu was
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: a twenty six year old climbing enthusiast who was dubbed
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: China's first rooftopper. A rooftopper is someone who usually illegally
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: climbs onto rooftops, cranes, smokestacks, began tennis, skyscrapers, or any
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: other really high dangerous location. Almost always, these daredevils are
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: going to these incredibly dangerous locations in order to capture
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  Speaker 1: footage of themselves so they can post it to the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Internet in hopes that it goes viral and they become famous.
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  Speaker 2: And make a bunch of money.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: But because there are so many people competing for the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Internet's attention, rooftoppers really need to push the envelope if
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: they want to stand out and make it big, and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Wu yong Nang did just that, and the Internet rewarded
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: him with millions of followers and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Most rooftoppers would go to the tops of these incredible
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: locations and then take selfies of themselves standing there posing
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: at the top. Wu would do that, but he also
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: did a couple other things that nobody else was doing.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: That kind of became his trademarks. The first one was
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: he would dangle over the edge of the building or
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the crane or.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: The antenna that he was holding on to, and he.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Would do pull ups, but he would keep doing them
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: until he reached muscle failure. Then then would barely be
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: able to pull himself back up to safety. Another trademark
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: move is he would go to the top of these
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: huge buildings and he would get right on the edge
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and he would do a handstand, and then he would
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: pull one arm back, so he's doing a one armed handstand,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: and then he would tilt his body as far as
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: he could over the edge until he couldn't do it
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: any farther, and he'd let himself.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Come back over to safety.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: And then perhaps the most difficult to watch trademark was
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: when Wu would basically run up to the edge of
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: buildings and stop just short.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: And he wouldn't just run to the edge.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: He would use a self balancing scooter and go as
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: fast as he could right to the edge of the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: building and stop just short. And over and over again,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: he go right to the edge and stop where he's
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: literally an inch away.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: From tumbling off the edge.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Or he'd line himself up where he knew exactly how
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: far he was from the edge, and he would do
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: these really aggressive somersaults forward and he would stop with
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: his legs dangling off the edge of the building.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: And of course, all of these.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Trademark moves were done without any safety equipment, and most
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: times Wu did these stunts without anybody there to potentially
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: pull him back up if he gets stuck. About three
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: quarters of the way through twenty seventeen, Wu had posted
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  Speaker 1: over five hundred videos and live streaming clips to various
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: social media sites, and he was starting to make some
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: real money off of it. On one video sharing site alone,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: he had made over eighty thousand dollars just from donations
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: that had come in, and so it was clear this
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: was becoming a career. But as the money and the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: fame were coming into Wu, he started to realize that
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: in order for him to stay on top and keep
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: earning at this level, he would need to continuously outperform
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: his last big stunt, and already he was brushing up
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: against death on virtually every video he took. In early
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: November of that year, Wu heard about a competition that
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: was offering fifteen thousand dollars to its winner.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: The details of.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: This competition are hazy at best, but from the sounds
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: of it, it was a viral video competition.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Make the most viral video and you win the prize.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: This competition served as motivation for Wu to finally attempt
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: his craziest stunt yet. He figured if he had the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: footage of this particular stunt, he was sure to win
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: this competition, and with the prize money, he could pay
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: for his wedding and cover his mother's medical expenses. And
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: so on November eighth, Wu traveled to the Huien International
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Center in central China. This massive, sixty two story skyscraper
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: would be the tallest building Wu.
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  Speaker 2: Had ever performed a stunt on.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: The public was only able to get up to the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: forty fourth floor, and so Wu had to take the
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: elevator up to somewhere between the fortieth and forty fourth floor,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: at which point he climbed out of a window and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: three climbed his way all the way up to the top,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: so twenty additional floors just climbing the side of a skyscraper.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Once he got to the rooftop, he set up his
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: tripod and his camera and he turned on his live
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: stream and then he walked around and he began preparing
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: himself for the stunt. Live stream viewers that tuned in
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: would see Wu sitting on the edge of the skyscraper
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and he's meticulously wiping down the edge of this building.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: It's the area he'll.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Be grabbing onto to perform his stunt, which was going
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to be his trademark pull ups. And so after several
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: minutes of Wu cleaning this ledge, he begins to lower
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: himself where his arms are still tucked up over the ledge,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: so he's not hanging. He's got his arms kind of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: anchored on the top. He's like test the edge of
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: this lip and he kind of feels around that he
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: can tell that it's not a good grip, it's not
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: good enough for him to go down to a full extension,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and so he pulls himself back up and he goes
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: back to wiping down the edge. And from the looks
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: of it, it seems like Wu is actually pretty nervous
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: about the stunt. And normally when you watch Wu's videos,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: he doesn't seem nervous at all, even leading.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Up to his stunt, but this one just seemed.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Different, and so After again wiping down this ledge as
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: much as he possibly could, he gets himself ready, lowers
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: himself onto his arms, he lets his legs drop over
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the edge of the building, and then he goes to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: full extension, and from there he does two complete pull ups,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: and then after the second pull up, he begins to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: try to pull himself back up to safety, but he's
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: fatigued and.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: He can't quite get himself up over the edge.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: He starts to use his feet to try to use
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the glass to push himself back up, but he can't
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: get a grip, and for the next fifteen seconds, wu
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: is desperately trying to get himself.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Up and over this ledge.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: He's trying to muscle himself up, but it's obvious he's
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: completely fatigued.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he did free.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Climb almost twenty stories to get up there, and so
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: it makes sense his arms would be tired, but there's
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: nobody up there to help pull him up, and so
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: after a while he goes back to full extension because
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: he can't do anything, and he looks down as if
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: he's sizing up if he can survive this fall, which
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: he obviously can't, and then the camera picks up a
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: sort of whimpering sound that appears to come from Wu,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and then he loses his grip and he falls to
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: his death. In the early nineteen seventies, a man named
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Marshall Applewhite was fired from his music teaching job for
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: having an inappropriate relationship with a male student.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Shortly after, he.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Admitted himself into a psychiatric institution where he met a
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: nurse who worked there named Bonnie Nettles. Both had a
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: deep interest in biblical prophecy, and Applewhite, at meeting Nettles,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: was convinced they had met in a previous life. Nettles
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: agreed and took it a step further, saying extraterrestrials had
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: come to her and preordained that she would someday meet Applewhite.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: The two did not have a romantic relationship at all.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: It was strictly platonic. They bonded over a desire to
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: ascend to a higher level of existence and ultimately reached
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: the kingdom of Heaven. Applewhite began calling himself Bow and
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Nettles became Peep, and together they would start an infamous
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: cult known as Heaven's Gate. The premise of Heaven's Gate
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: was that an alien spacecraft that they simply called the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: UFO was going to come to Earth and whisk away
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Heaven's Gate cult members, elevating them to a new world
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: and a better life that they referred to as Tella,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: or the evolutionary level above human. There was a catch, though,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: anybody on Earth who did not get on the UFO
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: whenever it got here would be recycled, i e. Destroyed
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: along with everybody else on Earth. And then at some
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: point a new human population would grow and another UFO
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: would come, and whoever got on that would be saved.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Over and over and over again. That was just how
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: it worked.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: And Bo and Peepe were telling everyone they talked to
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: about Heaven's Gate that were already in end times. Apparently
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: there were signs that this UFO is going to be
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: here any day, and so now is the time to
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: join the cult. And so by nineteen seventy five, Bow
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: and Peepe had recruited twenty people to be a part
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: of their cult, which meant they gave up their families,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: they gave up their possessions, They basically gave up everything
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: in their life and moved to Colorado to live in
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: total poverty as they waited for this UFO to arrive.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: For ten years, cult members waited and waited for this
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: UFO that never showed up, and Bo and Peepe are
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: aggressively reminding people that this is the path.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: You just got to stay the path.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And then Peep unexpectedly died of cancer in nineteen eighty five,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: which really screwed things up for the cult. In their doctrine,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: it was destiny that Bo and Peepe would get on
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that UFO and make their way to Tella, the evolutionary
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: level above human. That was their destiny. And now Peep
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: has died on planet Earth. She did not get on
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the UFO. She did not ascend to Tella. She will
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: not get to Heaven's Gate. Bo was devastated and horribly depressed,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't really clear what was going to happen
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to Heaven's Gate.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: But he composed himself and he began to tweak his
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: messaging a little bit.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Bo began telling his followers that Peep had in fact
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: ascended to Tella.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, she did not get on the UFO.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: However, the aliens must have given her a signal that
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: if she leaves behind this human body, this mere vessel,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: you'll still ascend to Tella. Basically, he was preaching to them,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: if you just end your own life at the right moment,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: you can go to Tella too. But bo didn't really
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: know what the right moment was. He didn't know what
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the trigger was going to be until nineteen ninety five
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: when astronomers discovered the hail Bop comment was going to
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: be passing by Earth two years later in nineteen ninety seven,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and bo Jo saw this as the trigger. The UFO
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: was going to be hiding behind the trail of this comet,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: and for sure Peep was riding on that UFO and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: as soon as it passes by Earth, we need to ascend.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: And so fast forward to March twenty sixth, nineteen ninety seven.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: As the hail Bop comet passed by Earth, thirty nine
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: of the Heaven's Gate cult members, including bo They began
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: their journey.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Bo told them they.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Would be exiting the Earth in three groups, and so
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: on March twenty sixth, Group one entered their San Diego
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: mansion and consumed apple sauce mixed with barbituates, followed it
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: up with a whole bunch of vodka, and then put
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: a bag over their head and waited for death.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Then on March twenty seventh, Group two entered the.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: San Diego mansion, knowing full well what they were walking into.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: They all had specific jobs of how they were going
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to clean up the mess left from Group one.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: They cleaned it up.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Then they picked up the Group one members and placed
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: them in beds and put a purple cloth over their face.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Before they Group two consumed their own apple sauce mixed
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: with barbituates and put a bag over their head and
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: waited for death. On March twenty eighth, the third group
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: entered the San Diego mansion and this included Bow and
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: they did the same cleanup as Group two.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: They put the Group two deceased.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Members in bed as well, and then they consumed apple
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: sauce and barbituates, followed it up with vodka, bag over
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: their head, waited for death. Bo had given special instructions
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: to two of the members that were within that third
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: group to wait until he had exited Earth and take
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: special care to put him in a specific bed, organize
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: a certain way, and then when they consumed their own
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: apple sauce and barbituates, followed up with vodka. They should
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: do that in their bed because they're the last two.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: There's nobody else to move them. When a former cult
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: members stopped by the San Diego mansion to check in
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: on the cult, they went inside, not knowing what they
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: were up to, and found all thirty nine cult members
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: deceased laying in bump beds with identical black and white
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Nike running shoes on their feet, with purple shrouds over
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: their bodies, and they were all wearing matching armbands that
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: read Heaven's Gate Away Team. Just hours before they exited
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: the earth, each of the groups would perform exit interviews,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: where they would record themselves talking about why they were
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: doing this, why it was important, and what they expected.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: On the other side, they are remarkably cheerful and happy
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: considering what they all know they are about to do.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Here are some highlights from those exit interviews. Okay, we
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: have their sody with this, and I belief that you
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: chose the name Thirsdy because.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: You want to be your reminded of your thirst for
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: note mix level knowledge.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Zach, right, that's right. My vehicles are This vehicle that
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: I'm wearing, is you know, pretty nervous, pretty scared. Some
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: may say, well, boy, it's it's quite a very versatile step.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: This isn't a troubling circumstance.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Don't take it. That's just gateway, just adoying.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Are you're going to find this old Prummi vehicle in
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: a bunk someplace that I'll be going. I'll probably be
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: watching when you check it out and observe your responses
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: and your reaction when you look at these vehicles and
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: there are nothing but containers that we've used and board
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: for the short amount of time.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: People in the world who.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: Thought that I had completely lost my marbles, they're not right.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: In the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, Reverend Jim
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Jones was known for his charitable works and his efforts
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: towards desegregating Indiana. This earned him a devoted loyal following,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: in particular.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: From the African American community.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty six, he purchased a church in Indiana,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and he named it the People's Temple, and all of
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: his loyal followers went there and joined his congregation. During
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: his fiery sermons, Jones emphasized helping the poor and lifting
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: up the trodden, but despite his best efforts, raising money
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  Speaker 1: was proving to be a big challenge for him. Jones
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  Speaker 1: knew he was an amazing performer and he was really
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  Speaker 1: good on stage, and so instead of trying to do
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  Speaker 1: all the old school church fundraising techniques, he decided to
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  Speaker 1: do something a little more new school that played to
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  Speaker 1: his strengths, which was performance. And so what he started
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  Speaker 1: doing is advertising that he could perform miracles, live miracles
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  Speaker 1: on stage. And specifically, what he said he could do
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  Speaker 1: is he could pull cancer out of people. And he
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  Speaker 1: had this magic trick where he would go up to
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  Speaker 1: somebody that had cancer and he would appear to be
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  Speaker 1: pulling on them, and then he would pull out what
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  Speaker 1: looked like meat from this person, and it was meat.
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  Speaker 1: It was chicken meat, and he made it seem like
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  Speaker 1: he had removed the cancer. And people loved it, and
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  Speaker 1: his congregations swelled immediately.
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  Speaker 2: And money was pouring in.
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  Speaker 1: And it was around this time that Jones began to
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  Speaker 1: realize the power of his own influence.
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  Speaker 2: He could make his followers believe anything he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: This power trip, though, over time, would caused Jones to
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  Speaker 1: lose his grip on reality, and so when he began
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  Speaker 1: espousing fairly radical views, he didn't have anybody that was
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  Speaker 1: going to stand up and say, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know if you're right about that.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, he had a mass of people that basically blindly
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  Speaker 1: agreed with him. But when his social goals became so
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  Speaker 1: radical that they attracted Marxist leaders and violent leftist groups
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  Speaker 1: to the People's Temple, it was the one time that
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  Speaker 1: his followers said Okay, enough is enough, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a mass defection out of.
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  Speaker 2: The People's Temple.
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  Speaker 1: And some of these defectors when they left and had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to kind of look at the People's Temple
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  Speaker 1: for what it was, they realized it was more like
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  Speaker 1: a cult, and that they had been brainwashed, and that
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  Speaker 1: Jim Jones was a lunatic and anybody who followed him
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  Speaker 1: could potentially be in danger. And so they went to
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  Speaker 1: the media and told them about this. The media converges
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  Speaker 1: on the People's Temple and all of a sudden, it's
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  Speaker 1: this huge scandal that Jim Jones is the leader of
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  Speaker 1: a cult. And as stories started to break about Jim
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  Speaker 1: Jones being this awful person who was stealing from his
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  Speaker 1: members and abusing them and brainwashing them, he up and
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  Speaker 1: leaves for South America with hundreds of his most loyal
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  Speaker 1: followers and they resettle in an area called Guyana that
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  Speaker 1: would eventually be called Jonestown. Life on the Jonestown compound
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  Speaker 1: was very grim. Not only did they have ten hour
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  Speaker 1: workdays every day of the week, but food and water
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  Speaker 1: were extremely limited because they were so cut off from
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  Speaker 1: modern society that the only way they could get any
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  Speaker 1: sort of resources was through haggling over a short wave
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  Speaker 1: radio that usually didn't even work, so they're totally cut off.
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  Speaker 1: They had very few supplies, and then at the end
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  Speaker 1: of their ten hour workday, it was mandatory for all
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  Speaker 1: members to come into this main area underneath this big scaffolding,
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  Speaker 1: where Jim Jones would get up on stage and he
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  Speaker 1: would rant and rave about various government conspiracies that were
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  Speaker 1: going to befall them. He would excoriate defectors and talk
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  Speaker 1: about how they needed to round them up and make
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  Speaker 1: examples of them. And if you stepped out of line,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: even just a little bit, you could find yourself locked
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  Speaker 1: inside out of a coffin or trapped at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of a well as a form of punishment. Jones was
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: already spiraling out of control, but some health issues led
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  Speaker 1: him to take a daily near lethal dose of amphetamines
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  Speaker 1: and sedatives that made him a total lunatic. Suddenly his
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: nighttime speeches just weren't enough, and he began pumping these
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  Speaker 1: crazy speeches twenty four to seven over loudspeakers all over
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  Speaker 1: the camp. One defector said the speeches were centered on
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  Speaker 1: this idea that back in the United States, the government
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  Speaker 1: was systematically rounding up African Americans and sending them to
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: concentration camps, and it was only a matter of time
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: before they came here and took any of the African
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Americans here into captivity. And since the majority of the
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  Speaker 1: People's Temple were of African American descent, this was terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: US Congressman Leo Ryan had been keeping close tabs on
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: the People's Temple ever since the news broke about Jim
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  Speaker 1: Jones kind of being a hack and a maniac, and
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: when they went to South America, he just felt like,
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  Speaker 1: no one's really checking in on them, and I'm concerned
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  Speaker 1: for the.
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  Speaker 2: Well being of the people that are there.
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  Speaker 1: And so on November eighteenth, nineteen seventy eight, Ryan, along
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: with eighteen other people, flew to Guyana to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Jim Jones and to make sure that everything was okay.
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  Speaker 2: When he arrived.
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  Speaker 1: He was expecting it to be kind of in disrepair
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  Speaker 1: and be this chaotic scene, but it wasn't. The camp
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  Speaker 1: was maintained, people were well dressed, polite. It seemed like
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  Speaker 1: a happy and healthy community with a few hundred people there.
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  Speaker 1: And he actually went to Jim Jones and says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like he got a good thing going here.
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  Speaker 1: But Jones, in his totally delusional state, believed Ryan was
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  Speaker 1: being sent by the US government to round up the
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  Speaker 1: members and to ship them into concentration camps. And so
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: as soon as the congressman left the camp and was
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: headed back to the airport, Jones sent a security team
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  Speaker 1: after them, and they shot and killed Leo Ryan along
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: with four others. While that massacre is going on, Jones
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  Speaker 1: goes over to the middle of the camp where he
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: normally gives his nighttime speeches, and he calls all nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred plus members to the middle of the camp to
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  Speaker 1: listen to him. He turns on a recording device, he
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: picks up his microphone, and he delivers a speech that
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  Speaker 1: would come to be known as the Death Tape. His
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  Speaker 1: famous first line of this speech is I've tried my
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  Speaker 1: best to give you a good life. And you can
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  Speaker 1: hear the crowd erupt with cheers as he says this.
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  Speaker 1: And what listeners of this tape can't see is what's
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  Speaker 1: being unveiled at the same time. Right next to Jim
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  Speaker 1: Jones is the sober cauldron of the Sickly Purple Liquid,
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  Speaker 1: and next to it are about nine hundred cups. The
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  Speaker 1: next day, authorities are outside the gate of Jonestown and
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: they're getting ready to head into Jonestown to confront Jim
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Jones about his connection to the murder of Congressman Ryan
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and the four others, and they're loading their guns. They're
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: getting ready for what's bound to be massive resistance from
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  Speaker 1: this crazy cult leader and his followers. And as they're
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: making their way down the road and the camp comes
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: into view, they notice that it's eerily quiet and they
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody moving around. And as they're walking through
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: some of the high grass, someone trips and falls and
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: they think they've stepped.
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  Speaker 2: On a log.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: When they stand up and look down, they notice that
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: it's a dead person, and then they scream out. And then
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: everyone's looking around and they notice that all over the
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: ground in front of them are hundreds and hundreds of
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: dead bodies. There's more bodies than they can possibly count.
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  Speaker 1: The previous night, that purple liquid that was revealed to
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the crowd after Jim Jones begins his speech was kool
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  Speaker 1: aid mixed with cyanide, and over the course of several hours,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: and it's all recorded on the death tape, he encourages
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: his members to come up and die with dignity and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: drink the kool aid. However, if you didn't drink the
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: kool aid, or didn't want to drink the kool aid,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: like many of the three hundred children, their parents would
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: make them or the armed guards would come over and
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: they would inject them with it. And after everybody's died,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Jim Jones doesn't even drink from the kool aid.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: He ends up shooting himself.
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  Speaker 1: I've decided to only include a very small portion of
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the deaf tape because so much of it is just
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking, it's distressing, and it should be something that
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: you decide you want to listen to.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: It should not be thrust upon you.
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  Speaker 5: How very much I've tried my best to give you
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  Speaker 5: good life. M It was det by the greatest of
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  Speaker 5: prophets from time immemorial. No man lay it takes my
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  Speaker 5: life for me. I lay my life down. If we
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: can't live in peace, and then let's die in peace.
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  Speaker 5: We have been as so betrayed, may have been so
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: terribly betrayed. Take the portion like they used to take
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  Speaker 5: in ancient Greece and step over quietly, because we are
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act. We can't go back.
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: They won't leave us alone. They're now going back to
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: tell more lies, which means more Congressman, and there's no way,
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: no way, we can survive.
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