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The INSANE true story of Squid Game · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three stories about three normal.
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Speaker 2: People who at some point.
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Speaker 1: Made decisions that at the time didn't really seem like
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Speaker 1: that big of a deal, but those decisions quickly changed
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Speaker 1: their lives forever and defected the lives of millions and
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Speaker 1: millions of other people. But before we get into those stories,
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Speaker 1: today's stories. One afternoon in two thousand and nine, a
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Speaker 1: thirty eight year old man was sitting inside of a
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Speaker 1: manga cafe in.
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Speaker 2: Soul, South Korea.
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Speaker 1: So, a manga cafe is a lot like a normal cafe.
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Speaker 1: You can go inside and buy snacks or drinks and
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Speaker 1: socialized do whatever. But also in manga cafes like this one,
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Speaker 1: they have these big in store libraries that contain manga,
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Speaker 1: and manga are like comic books. Now, this man did
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Speaker 1: not have a lot of money, and so when he
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Speaker 1: went inside of this cafe, he didn't buy any drinks
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Speaker 1: or food. He just went up to the instore library,
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Speaker 1: grabbed an addition of his favorite manga series, and just
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Speaker 1: sat down and began to read. Now, this man had
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Speaker 1: read this particular series multiple times. He just kept coming
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Speaker 1: back to it because he thought it was like the
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Speaker 1: best manga you could possibly read. Now, a lot of
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Speaker 1: people actually didn't know what to make of this particular series.
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Speaker 1: It was actually kind of controversial because it was so
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Speaker 1: over the top violence, like well beyond any other series.
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Speaker 1: But to this man, that sort of made it stand out.
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Speaker 1: It made it sort of special, and he loved it.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it was so crazy this series that every
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Speaker 1: time he read it allowed him to sort of leave
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Speaker 1: his life for a second and just totally escape into
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Speaker 1: this wild, violent story.
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Speaker 2: And right now, in this man's life.
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Speaker 1: He really needed that escape because his real life was
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Speaker 1: pretty terrible. He had spent practically his whole life studying
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Speaker 1: and working to try to become a professional writer and director.
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Speaker 1: But in Seoul, the entertainment industry was pretty unpredictable, and
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Speaker 1: so this man had successfully landed a couple of jobs
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Speaker 1: here and there, doing some writing and you know, doing
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Speaker 1: some directing, but they were small gigs and they typically
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Speaker 1: fizzled out at some point, and so over and over again.
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Speaker 1: Like right now in this man's life, he found himself
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Speaker 1: back in the same position he always was in, which
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Speaker 1: was unemployed.
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Speaker 2: At the moment, this man.
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Speaker 1: Lived with his mother and his grandmother, but even though
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Speaker 1: all three of them were pooling their resources, they still
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Speaker 1: struggled to just pay for rent. In fact, recently the
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Speaker 1: man had to sell his laptop, the thing he used
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Speaker 1: for all of his writing. It was like how he
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Speaker 1: was going to eventually crack a career in entertainment for real.
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Speaker 1: He had to say, sell that just so that they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't get evicted. And if that wasn't bad enough, the
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Speaker 1: man had also begun taking out all these short term
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Speaker 1: loans with high interest rates just to pay for basic
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Speaker 1: needs forget rent, like just food and basic necessities he
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Speaker 1: was taking out loans for, but he had no way
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Speaker 1: to pay them back, and so the debt was just
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Speaker 1: piling up NonStop. And so for this man, the stress
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Speaker 1: was like unbearable, and the only way he could find
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Speaker 1: to even begin to cope with it was to escape
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Speaker 1: into his manga books. And even though he knew that
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Speaker 1: didn't solve his problems, he didn't care. It was like,
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Speaker 1: life is so bad, at least briefly, I can read
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Speaker 1: manga and escape. And so that's what he was doing today.
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Speaker 1: And so he took his favorite manga booth, he sat
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Speaker 1: back inside of the booth and just allowed himself to
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Speaker 1: get sucked into the story for the twentieth time.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's read this thing multiple times.
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Speaker 1: And so as he was reading this manga book, he
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Speaker 1: suddenly has this epiphany. Now, this man all the time
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Speaker 1: came up with various story ideas that maybe he could
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Speaker 1: write and would be the next big thing for him.
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Speaker 1: But for some reason, it was like, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: what if I write a story that's sort of, you know,
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Speaker 1: loosely based or at least inspired by my favorite piece
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Speaker 1: of writing, this manga series, Like, wait a minute, I
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Speaker 1: think I have a really good idea that sort of
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Speaker 1: transcends any other idea I've ever had. And the more
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Speaker 1: he thought about it, the more he realized there were
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Speaker 1: other elements of his life that he could sort of
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Speaker 1: attach to the story that's sort of beginning with this
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Speaker 1: concept that came from this manga series. And so before
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Speaker 1: long he had put the manga book aside, got a
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Speaker 1: pen in some paper, and just began writing down some ideas,
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Speaker 1: general ideas for this new story he was going to
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Speaker 1: try to write. And for hours and hours he sat
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Speaker 1: in the booth just writing like crazy, and by the
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Speaker 1: time the cafe was closing, he had this amazing outline
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Speaker 1: of a whole world, this whole story he was going
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Speaker 1: to write, and he just knew.
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Speaker 2: This was the one.
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Speaker 1: This was the thing that was going to break him
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Speaker 1: out of poverty and officially make him a successful writer.
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Speaker 1: Several months later, this man had transformed that amazing outline
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Speaker 1: into a fully realized project, and then he went out
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Speaker 1: to try to sell it. And he's thinking, everybody's gonna
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Speaker 1: want this thing. This is like an iconic, unique piece
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Speaker 1: of IP. People are gonna be clamoring to buy this.
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Speaker 1: But what he found very quickly is every buyer he
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Speaker 1: went to hated it. They told him this is simply
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Speaker 1: too weird and way too violent, Like this is well
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Speaker 1: beyond what's reasonable. This is not something anybody's gonna want like,
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Speaker 1: you will not have an audience for this, And the
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Speaker 1: man was sort of crushed because to him, it was
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Speaker 1: so clear, this is an amazing idea.
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Speaker 2: This story is so good.
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Speaker 1: People that have experienced real poverty, who understand the lengths
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Speaker 1: that people will go to to make money when they
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Speaker 1: are desperate, they'll relate to this like there's a huge
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Speaker 1: audience for this. But the buyers, they didn't see it
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Speaker 1: that way. And so for the next ten years, this
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Speaker 1: guy kept trying to sell this story. I mean, he
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Speaker 1: really genuinely believed in it, and he figured someone's gonna
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Speaker 1: take a chance on this.
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Speaker 2: They have to, it's too good.
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Speaker 1: But for ten years, everybody just kept saying, no, it's
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Speaker 1: not good enough, no one wants this. But then, sort
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Speaker 1: of out a left field, ten years later, a major
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Speaker 1: production studio actually said, you know what, this looks pretty good.
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Speaker 2: We will buy it.
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Speaker 1: This Man's story was converted into a TV show and
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Speaker 1: it premiered in twenty twenty one, twelve years after the
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Speaker 1: man originally conceptualized of the story inside of that manga cafe.
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Speaker 1: And when this TV show aired, it was basically a
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Speaker 1: global phenomenon. Overnight, it became the most talked about show
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Speaker 1: anywhere in every corner of the internet pretty much immediately.
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Speaker 1: It also made the production company that bought this story
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Speaker 1: nine hundred million dollars, and the man who actually wrote
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Speaker 1: the story, he also got paid very well and he
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Speaker 1: won an Emmy. The manga series that this man read
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Speaker 1: that sort of inspired all of this to happen was
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Speaker 1: called Battle Royale, and in this series, these students are
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Speaker 1: forced to fight to the death by a fascist government.
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Speaker 1: What this man did is he combined that concept, you know,
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Speaker 1: fighting to the death, with something that he himself was
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Speaker 1: dealing with in his own life, which was poverty. And
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Speaker 1: he knew firsthand, you know, the lengths he was willing
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Speaker 1: to go just to make a little bit of money
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Speaker 1: to make ends meet. And he knew other people who
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Speaker 1: you know, were dealing with poverty were also sort of
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Speaker 1: desperate and they would go to great lengths just to.
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Speaker 2: Make ends meet.
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Speaker 1: And he said, okay, let's marry those two concepts, poor
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Speaker 1: people who were fighting to the death for money.
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Speaker 2: The writer's name.
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Speaker 1: Was Huang Dong Huk and the name of this TV
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Speaker 1: series was Squid Game. As many of you may know,
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Speaker 1: aside from telling stories on this YouTube channel. I also
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Speaker 1: tell stories on my podcast, the Mister Ballin Podcast Strange,
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Speaker 1: Dark and Mysterious Stories.
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Speaker 2: But that's not all.
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Speaker 1: In addition to that podcast, under the Ballin Studio's umbrella,
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Speaker 1: there is a whole host of other podcasts that you
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Speaker 1: can binge right now, and their content all of them
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Speaker 1: fall into these strange, dark and mysterious category. For example,
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Speaker 1: if you're into baffling and horrifying medical mysteries, well you
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Speaker 1: should go check out my other podcast called Mister Balin's
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Speaker 1: Medical Mysteries. Or maybe you want to hear from some
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Speaker 1: other voices within our studio, like Luke Lamana. Luke Lamana
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Speaker 1: is a military veteran. He has a super iconic, really
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Speaker 1: deep radio voice, and he has two shows. One is
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Speaker 1: called Wartime Stories, where he basically looks at strange, dark
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Speaker 1: and mysterious wartime stories. And his other show is called Redacted,
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Speaker 1: where he looks at information that used to be classified
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Speaker 1: and he dives into it with his military expertise and
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Speaker 1: experience and he basically shows you the lies and secrets
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Speaker 1: and half truths that the most powerful institutions in the
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Speaker 1: world have.
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Speaker 2: Been keeping from us.
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Speaker 1: We also have shows that are just plaining creepy and
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Speaker 1: unsettling like Bedtime Stories hosted by Richard will where he
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Speaker 1: dives into the supernatural, encryptids and mysterious deaths. I mean,
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Speaker 1: basically his whole kind of niche is things that keep
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Speaker 1: you up at night. And then two other shows that
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Speaker 1: fall into that sort of unsettling, creepy vibe are Late
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Speaker 1: Nights with Nextpo hosted by the famous YouTuber Nextpo, where
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Speaker 1: he dives.
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Speaker 2: Into true, crazy, scary stories.
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Speaker 1: And then we also have another show called run Fuol
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Speaker 1: hosted by Rodney Barnes, and Rodney is like an icon
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Speaker 1: in the horror genre at large, and on his show,
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Speaker 1: he just dives into this wild, chilling lore like horror lore.
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Speaker 2: People love that show.
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Speaker 1: Or if you're a history buff and you really want
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Speaker 1: stories that are really rooted in the fabric of our timeline,
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Speaker 1: I mean stories that are truly historically accurate but still strange, dark, mysterious,
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Speaker 1: and crazy, well check out a Twist of History hosted
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Speaker 1: by Joel. He's great, great voice, He's a very thorough host.
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Speaker 1: Those stories all have really cool endings, big plot twists
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Speaker 1: at the end. So if you're a fan of the strange,
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Speaker 1: dark and mysterious go check out these shows. You can
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Speaker 2: Enjoy.
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Speaker 1: One day in the summer of nineteen fifty three, a
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Speaker 1: thirty year old man named Sam Phillips was cleaning up
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Speaker 1: his recording studio, which was located in a fast growing
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Speaker 1: city known for their vibrant music scene. Sam had just
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Speaker 1: finished recording at church choir and now he was getting
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Speaker 1: ready for his next client, and so he was resetting
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Speaker 1: all the equipment and cleaning up. But Sam didn't actually
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Speaker 1: know who his next client would be or when they'd
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Speaker 1: show up. Because Sam's recording studio was pretty unique because
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Speaker 1: he was always on the hunt for new talent to sign,
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Speaker 1: He had opened up a studio to anybody who wanted
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Speaker 1: to come in at any time. All they had to
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Speaker 1: do was show up, give him four dollars, and they
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Speaker 1: could be recorded professionally. This did mean that a lot
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Speaker 1: of times his clients were not very talented, but he
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Speaker 1: felt like it gave him the biggest opportunity to cast
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Speaker 1: the widest net to potentially.
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Speaker 2: Find his next big star.
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Speaker 1: So that day Sam finished cleaning up the studio and
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Speaker 1: resetting everything, and then Sam just sat down and waited,
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Speaker 1: hoping that you know, another client would come through the door.
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Speaker 1: And eventually another client did. This young kid, he was
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Speaker 1: eighteen years old. He came strolling inside. He had a
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Speaker 1: guitar slung over his shoulder. Sam had never seen him before,
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Speaker 1: and right away he could tell.
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Speaker 2: The kid was pretty shy.
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Speaker 1: And the guy came up to him and he just said, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, I work as a truck driver, but I
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Speaker 1: love to sing. I love to play the guitar as
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Speaker 1: a hobby, and I just wanted to come in here
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Speaker 1: and you know, record a couple of ballads for my mom.
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Speaker 2: And so Sam again he took all kinds.
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Speaker 1: He's like, absolutely, give me four dollars and we can
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Speaker 1: record these ballads. And so the kid handed over four
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Speaker 1: dollars and he went into the booth and Sam's like,
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Speaker 1: all right, you're on. And Sam basically expected this kid
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Speaker 1: to do what most other clients of his did, which was,
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Speaker 1: you know, they'd begin playing and be sort of like
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Speaker 1: not that good at their instrument, and they'd sing off key,
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Speaker 1: and you know, Sam just kind of sitting there listening
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Speaker 1: to this terrible music, just waiting for it to end.
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Speaker 2: But with this kid, it was different. Once he began
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Speaker 2: strumming his.
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Speaker 1: Guitar and singing, it was like he totally broke out
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Speaker 1: of his shell. I mean he was, you know, at
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Speaker 1: first glance, a very shy, sort of preserved guy, but
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Speaker 1: in the booth he was electric.
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Speaker 2: He was amazing.
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Speaker 1: And so Sam sat there listening to this kid record
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Speaker 1: his ballads and was just so blown away by how
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Speaker 1: talented he was. And then when it was all done,
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Speaker 1: you know, the kid said thank you. He took his
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Speaker 1: recordings with him and he laughed, and then once he
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Speaker 1: was gone, Sam just made a point to make a
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Speaker 1: note about this kid that just said good ballad singer.
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Speaker 2: Save basically remember this guy because I think he's going
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Speaker 2: to be something special.
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Speaker 1: About a year later, in nineteen fifty four, Sam was
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Speaker 1: back in his recording studio and he was working with
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Speaker 1: another client. It was this band and they were trying
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Speaker 1: to record some songs. But as they were playing, they
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Speaker 1: decided that they were really lacking another vocalist to round
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Speaker 1: out the sound, and so they asked Sam like, hey,
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Speaker 1: do you know anybody. Sam's studio manager, who was in
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Speaker 1: the room and overheard the request, immediately chimed in and said, hey, Sam,
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Speaker 1: what about that eighteen year old ballad singer from last year?
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Speaker 1: He was great, maybe he could be the vocalist, and
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Speaker 1: so Sam was like, yeah, I'll give him a call.
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Speaker 1: So he called this young man and he was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll jump in there and record some vocals.
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Speaker 2: That'd be great.
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Speaker 1: So the young kid, you know, the truck driving, beautiful
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Speaker 1: ballad singing kid, came back to the studio. He hopped
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Speaker 1: in the booth with this band and they began playing
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Speaker 1: together and they sounded terrible. Now, the young man was
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Speaker 1: still very much a great singer, like Sam could clearly
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Speaker 1: hear his voice cutting through all the noise. But it
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Speaker 1: was like the kid and the band had no chemistry.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they just met each other, so it's not
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Speaker 1: that surprising. And the music that the band was trying
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Speaker 1: to play just didn't really line up well with this
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Speaker 1: kid's vocals, and so it just wasn't working.
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Speaker 2: And so Sam clearly could see that.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't really tell if the band or this kid
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Speaker 1: could see that, and so he said, hey, guys.
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Speaker 2: For right now, just just take a quick break.
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Speaker 1: And so Sam ended the recording, and the band and
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Speaker 1: the kid they left to go get a drink, and
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Speaker 1: Sam left the booth and went into the control room,
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Speaker 1: which is basically right next door but does not have
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Speaker 1: a line of sight into the booth, and he was
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Speaker 1: just in there to sort of collect his thoughts and
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Speaker 1: just kind of reset for a second. But then at
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Speaker 1: some point he hears the sound of music being played
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Speaker 1: back in the booth where he had.
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Speaker 2: Just come from, except the music was different.
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Speaker 1: It was really upbeat, it was fast, it was loud,
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Speaker 1: and Sam could clearly hear the sound of that kid,
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Speaker 1: the truck driver, the amazing ballad singer. He was just
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Speaker 1: going to town, like he was singing at the top
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Speaker 1: of his lungs, and it just really sounded like something
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Speaker 1: was going on in there. And so Sam left the
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Speaker 1: control room, ran into the booth, and he goes in there,
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Speaker 1: and when he got in there, he saw the band
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Speaker 1: and this kid just totally rocking out. It was like
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Speaker 1: they suddenly had amazing chemistry. The kid, the truck driver,
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Speaker 1: the amazing ballad singer, is jumping all over the booth.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's totally into the song, and the band
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Speaker 1: very clearly was sort of following the kid's lead. They
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Speaker 1: were basically playing music to match the Kid's energy. And
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Speaker 1: Sam is watching this and listening to this, and he's thinking,
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Speaker 1: I have never heard music sound like this before, Like
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Speaker 1: this is a new type of music that I'm witnessing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it gave him goosebumps. He couldn't believe it,
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Speaker 1: like this is a brand new thing. Was sort of
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Speaker 1: a cross between blues and rock and roll. It was
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Speaker 1: a little bit too fast for blues and too slow
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Speaker 1: for rock and roll, but it was just it was
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Speaker 1: something really unique. And all Sam could think as he's
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Speaker 1: watching this happen, and as he's listening to this is
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Speaker 1: the kid, the truck driver, the ballad singer.
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Speaker 2: He's the star.
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Speaker 1: It's so obvious, like this is coming into being because
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Speaker 1: of him.
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Speaker 2: That's the person I've been looking for.
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Speaker 1: That's the star that I've been trying to sign ever
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Speaker 1: since I started this recording studio. And so that very night,
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Speaker 1: Sam and this band helped the Kid record his first
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Speaker 1: ever single, which was called That's all Right. And once
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Speaker 1: that song hit the airwaves, that kid did become a star.
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Speaker 1: Practically overnight. He catapulted into music fame that few ever achieve.
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Speaker 1: He literally would become one of the most famous musicians
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Speaker 1: too have ever lived. Sam's studio was called Sun Records,
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Speaker 1: and it was located in Memphis, Tennessee. And the young kid,
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Speaker 1: the truck driver who sang amazing ballads was none other
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Speaker 1: than Elvis Presley. On the evening of March thirty first,
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, a forty year old man named Justin was
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Speaker 1: standing in the corner of a boxing ring inside of
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Speaker 1: a convention center in Ottawa, Canada. He could hear the
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Speaker 1: screams of hundreds of fans in the stands all around him,
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Speaker 1: and he knew thousands more were watching him on TV.
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Speaker 1: And Justin was pretty nervous because this was not only
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Speaker 1: the most important boxing match of his whole career, but
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Speaker 1: it was also his very first boxing match of his career.
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Speaker 1: His reputation and his future were riding on the outcome
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Speaker 1: of this match, and Justin knew he was massively the underdog.
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Speaker 1: Justin looked across the ring at the other corner and
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Speaker 1: he locked eyes just for a second with his opponent,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Brass Knuckles Brazil. He had served in
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Speaker 1: the Canadian military, He had a black belt in karate,
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Speaker 1: and he was notorious for packing an insanely strong punch,
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Speaker 1: hence the name brass Knuckles. Brazil and pretty much everybody
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Speaker 1: who had been following this fight up to this point
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Speaker 1: didn't just think, you know, oh, brass Knuckles is gonna
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Speaker 1: beat Justin.
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Speaker 2: No, the thought was brass Knuckles.
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Speaker 1: Is going to destroy Justin, and not just because brass
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Speaker 1: Knuckles has a reputation for a strong punch, but because
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Speaker 1: Justin had a reputation for being totally soft and pampered
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Speaker 1: and just not somebody at all that was viewed as
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Speaker 1: being tough. I mean, the idea that he was even
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Speaker 1: in the ring at all about to fight anyone was
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Speaker 1: a huge shock. I mean, Justin didn't seem like the
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Speaker 1: type who could win any fight, let alone against this guy.
17:45
Speaker 1: And in fact, as soon as Justin had even entered
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Speaker 1: the ring, the announcers, who were trying a little bit
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Speaker 1: to stay neutral, couldn't help but begin making fun of Justin.
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Speaker 1: They even quickly nicknamed him the shiny Pony as soon
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Speaker 1: as he came into the ring, Like they couldn't even
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Speaker 1: stopped themselves from being like, who is this guy? Like
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Speaker 1: he's going up against brass Knuckles, Like there's no.
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Speaker 2: Way he wins.
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Speaker 1: But what nobody knew was that Shiny Pony had actually
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Speaker 1: been training really hard.
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Speaker 2: For this match for months and months, and he.
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Speaker 1: Felt like, you know, despite what people thought of him,
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Speaker 1: you know, given the fact that he's nicknamed Shiny Pony here,
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Speaker 1: despite his reputation, he felt inside like he was just
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Speaker 1: as tough as Brass Knuckles and he did stand a
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Speaker 1: chance here.
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Speaker 2: So when the bell.
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Speaker 1: Rang for the first round, Shiny Pony got up and
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Speaker 1: he charged across the ring and immediately just started swinging at.
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Speaker 2: Brass Knuckles and none of them landed.
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Speaker 1: Brass Knuckles avoided every punch and just managed to counter
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Speaker 1: and destroy Justin pretty much immediately. I mean, he was
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Speaker 1: pummeling the crap out of Shiny Pony, and the announcers are.
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Speaker 2: Like, oh my god, he's getting mauled, but they knew
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Speaker 2: it was coming.
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Speaker 1: They were kind of laughing as they were saying it,
18:52
Speaker 1: and like, Justin he knows he's getting destroyed. He's not
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Speaker 1: even trying to throw punches at this point, He's just
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Speaker 1: trying to stay on his feet. And at some point
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Speaker 1: Brass Knuckles really squared him up and hit him right
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Speaker 1: in the job with one of his famous right hooks
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Speaker 1: and Justin's like about to fall over, and right at
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Speaker 1: that moment the bell rings again. The round ends, and somehow,
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Speaker 1: you know, Shiny Pony is still on his feet, but barely,
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Speaker 1: but he survived the round, and so Shiny Pony kind
19:17
Speaker 1: of stumbles his way back over to his corner, and
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Speaker 1: Brass Knuckles very calmly and casually walks to his barely
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Speaker 1: affected by that round. And so for the next several
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Speaker 1: seconds that the two men were sitting in their corners,
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Speaker 1: you know, Brass Knuckles is basically just relaxing until the
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Speaker 1: next round starts. But over in Shiny Pony's corner, like
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Speaker 1: the medic is working on his face because he's bleeding everywhere,
19:36
Speaker 1: and you know, Justin's coach is telling.
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Speaker 2: Him, oh, you gotta do this, you gotta do that.
19:40
Speaker 1: But for Justin, it was like he had gotten so
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Speaker 1: smashed during this round he could barely even think.
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Speaker 2: But despite all the noise and.
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Speaker 1: The chaos, all he could think in his head was,
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Speaker 1: I can't give up. They think I'm that guy that's
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Speaker 1: gonna get pummeled and beat and no one's gonna ever
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Speaker 1: let me live this down. I have to go into
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Speaker 1: this next round with glissop band, and I have to find.
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Speaker 2: A way to just stay in the fight. I have
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Speaker 2: to go all in. And so the bell rang again and.
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Speaker 1: Justin the Shiny Pony gets up, and again he goes
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Speaker 1: across the ring over to Brass Knuckles, except this time
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Speaker 1: when he starts throwing punches, they land, and surprisingly, it
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Speaker 1: was like every single punch he threw it was rocking
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Speaker 1: back Brass Knuckles.
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Speaker 2: He was taking hit after hit, and.
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Speaker 1: Justin knew like this is working, and Justin like he
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Speaker 1: can't believe it, but he's just riding it out, like
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Speaker 1: hitting him as hard as he can't, over and over,
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Speaker 1: and the announcers they don't even know what to make
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Speaker 1: of it, like the Shiny Pony is coming out here,
20:36
Speaker 1: you know, being the rumble pony here just destroying Brass Knuckles.
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Speaker 1: And so when the bell finally rang after round two,
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Speaker 1: it was Brass Knuckles who was barely on his feet
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Speaker 1: stumbling back to his corner, and it was Shiny Pony,
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Speaker 1: who was, you know, winded but totally fine, and he
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Speaker 1: went back to his corner and it was like everybody
20:54
Speaker 1: was in shock, like wait a minute, now it's one one,
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Speaker 1: Like this guy's supposed.
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Speaker 2: To be a coward, a weakling, like how did he
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Speaker 2: do that?
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Speaker 1: And so this time, in the few seconds between rounds
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Speaker 1: two and three, Shiny Pony is in his corner and
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Speaker 1: he's looking across the ring and he's staring at brass Knuckles,
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Speaker 1: and Brass Knuckles was kind.
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Speaker 2: Of like averting his gaze. He looked totally gassed.
21:14
Speaker 1: He looked scared, like he couldn't believe he was potentially
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Speaker 1: about to lose to the Shiny Pony. And for Justin,
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Speaker 1: the Shiny Pony, that was all the motivation he needed.
21:22
Speaker 1: He knew mentally he had an edge in his opponent.
21:25
Speaker 1: And so when that bell rang for the third round,
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Speaker 1: Justin got up and he went over there to Brass
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Speaker 1: Knuckles and just pummeled.
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Speaker 2: Him, just over and over, blasting him in the face.
21:35
Speaker 1: And eventually he struck brass knuckles and the nose hard
21:38
Speaker 1: enough that his nose kind of exploded and began bleeding everywhere,
21:42
Speaker 1: and the ref actually had to step in and separate them.
21:44
Speaker 1: And even though you know, both men actually were down
21:47
Speaker 1: to keep on fighting, the ref said, nope, this is
21:49
Speaker 1: too much, and he ended the fight. It was a
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Speaker 1: technical knockout and Shiny Pony had won.
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Speaker 2: Now.
21:55
Speaker 1: As much as this victory was huge for Justin, the
21:58
Speaker 1: truth was, you know, Justin was not trying to become
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Speaker 1: a professional boxer or really be in the boxing world
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Speaker 1: in any capacity. This was actually just a charity match,
22:07
Speaker 1: and you know, brass Knuckles Brisil also was not a
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Speaker 1: professional boxer. These two had just simply come together to
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Speaker 1: have this match in order to raise money for charity.
22:16
Speaker 2: But Justin had another goal.
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Speaker 1: He knew that his reputation in Canada was of being
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Speaker 1: this sort of soft, pampered weak guy, and he thought,
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Speaker 1: if I can just get in the ring with a
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Speaker 1: really formidable opponent in Brass Knuckles Brazil and hold my
22:31
Speaker 1: own and maybe even beat Brass Knuckles in this fight.
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Speaker 1: You know, even though it's for charity, if I can
22:36
Speaker 1: do that, that could potentially sway the public's opinion about me.
22:40
Speaker 1: You know. He was hoping that this fight could basically
22:42
Speaker 1: transform his image and people would see him as, you know,
22:45
Speaker 1: tough and a serious leader. And that is exactly what
22:48
Speaker 1: happened after this fight. When he won the fight out
22:51
Speaker 1: a left field, nobody could believe it.
22:52
Speaker 2: It was like he was the talk of Canada for
22:54
Speaker 2: a little while. There, They're like, oh, look, you know.
22:56
Speaker 1: Justin the Shiny Pony is actually, you know, a little
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Speaker 1: more serious than we thought he was. He's a pretty
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Speaker 1: tough guy, and so Justin would use that momentum from
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Speaker 1: the fight to eventually land the one thing he wanted
23:07
Speaker 1: more than anything else. He would get elected as the
23:10
Speaker 1: Prime Minister of Canada. The Shiny Pony's full name was
23:14
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23:38
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23:41
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23:44
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