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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hello Elizabeth Dutton?

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Speaker 3: Hello is there Burnette.

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Speaker 2: I've got a question for you, Yes, sir, all right,

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Speaker 2: so you got a second? I do okay? Cool? Do

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Speaker 2: you It was ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: I do you go first? I do cola chop?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: Cola chip?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: Excuse me?

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Speaker 2: Am, I having a stroke?

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Speaker 3: Excuse me? Would you call me? Do you like hot dogs?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I do like it?

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Speaker 3: Do you like pepsi cola?

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Speaker 2: I know what it is?

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Speaker 3: It tastes like aluminum.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm from Georgia, Atlanta, specifically, I'm a coke person, ma'am.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, Pepsi and ketchup got together, oh lord, apparently

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Speaker 3: at the Culinary Institute of America consulting, and they came

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Speaker 3: up with this, this blend. They invented Pepsi Cola chop.

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Speaker 3: What to reinforce just how well hot dogs and pepsi

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Speaker 3: go together, An unapologetically mouthwatering creation that seamless emerges a

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Speaker 3: condiment with the ultimate hot dog pairing beverage, delivering a

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Speaker 3: unified taste experience. That's courtesy of Jenny Danzy, senior director

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Speaker 3: at Pepsi.

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Speaker 2: Oh. Jenny David came in why do you have to

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Speaker 2: do this to be?

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Speaker 3: J came in from the CIA Consulting said the concept

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Speaker 3: is both simple and creative. The distinctive flavors and vibrant

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Speaker 3: citrus blend of pepsi enhances the bright and tangy characteristics

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Speaker 3: of ketchup, off setting the smokiness about that.

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Speaker 2: I don't think if pepsi I was gonna say that,

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Speaker 2: that's really odd. I would have never ever associated pepsi.

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Speaker 3: I suppose it's like when you sprinkle lemon on something

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Speaker 3: to brighten the flavor. He's saying it brightens the flavor

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Speaker 3: of ketchup.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think mustard does that. No, for real, Like

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Speaker 2: you put mustard and ketchup together on a hot dog.

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Speaker 2: That is a perfect flavor combination when in your mashup language. Yes,

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, you don't even need to make

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Speaker 2: a mashup because we all know it. It's tastes like summer.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. And what do they go, you know what,

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Speaker 2: get rid of the mustard.

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Speaker 3: Throw and they're like eating a hot dog with mustard

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Speaker 3: on and they spilled a pepsi on it. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 3: Joanna the Great from Instagram was apparently the first one.

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Speaker 2: Through the gate with this or she tried this.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, she alerted us, and then like ten

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Speaker 3: minutes later, dozens of scores, real scores, and scores of

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Speaker 3: messages emails, what have you came through telling us about

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Speaker 3: this pepsi ketchup?

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Speaker 2: How come nobody sends me stuff to just go? You

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Speaker 2: know what, This is not a mashup. Here's an anti mashup. Here.

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Speaker 2: They took two things and they pulled them apart.

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Speaker 3: Because I think we can split our audience into the

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Speaker 3: two groups, like the ones who love that I get

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Speaker 3: to torture you to lighten the weirdness of it, and

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Speaker 3: then those who don't like fun me. Yeah, now I

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Speaker 3: will say there's another listener, Brandy, who on Twitter was

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Speaker 3: telling me that she's going to try it, take it,

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Speaker 3: take one for the team. Here's the thing though, speaking

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Speaker 3: of teams, this is limited, Like you can't just go

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Speaker 3: to the store and get this.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank god.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's only out for a limited time and

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Speaker 3: on the fourth of July. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: give a little bit of like how the sausage is

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Speaker 3: made here. Nope, pun intent. We don't record these right,

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Speaker 3: like right the day before the day before they so

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Speaker 3: they're done like what a week and a half or

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Speaker 3: something like that. So anyway, Brandy is going to the

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Speaker 3: Detroit Tigers game on July fourth, so that will have

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Speaker 3: already happened by the time people here.

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Speaker 2: Well, hopefully Brandy gives us an update.

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Speaker 3: I told her. Okay, so it's only at Forced stadiums,

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Speaker 3: Chase Field and Phoenix, Arizona, Yankee Stadium in the Brax

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Speaker 3: target Field in Minneapolis, and then co America in Detroit.

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Speaker 2: I hate all these names. I know baseball field have

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Speaker 2: amazing names.

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Speaker 3: How rad is a Detroit Tigers game on the fourth

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Speaker 3: of July. That sounds super fun. So anyway, she's going.

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Speaker 3: She said that she was going to try it, and

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Speaker 3: I told her to take a voice memo of her

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Speaker 3: eating it, not like the chewing sounds, but like her reaction.

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Speaker 2: Tell me how it is in Tiger Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm hoping if if things go well, we'll

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Speaker 3: have that recording. If not, then everyone knows that Brandy

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Speaker 3: let us down.

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Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: This just in.

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Speaker 2: This is Brandy Rebeccy trying me at PEPSI ketchup or

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Speaker 2: what do we call it kola chup.

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Speaker 1: Cheer.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, it's not that bad. I would give it

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Speaker 2: a solid seven out of ten.

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Speaker 1: I would actually probably buy this, So you guys should

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Speaker 1: definitely try to be get a chance.

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Speaker 2: That's entire goblin. If you got a say I got

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Speaker 2: one for you. You said you had a second, So

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Speaker 2: sit back down.

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Speaker 3: So much time, all right.

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Speaker 2: I love the story, Elizabeth. I can't wait to tell

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Speaker 2: it to you because these are my kind of people. Yes,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah. This is a bunch of Srilankans who

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Speaker 2: wanted for a better life and now they had few

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Speaker 2: options on their island. So what do they do? Elizabeth?

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Speaker 2: They banded together like Robin Hood and his merry men,

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Speaker 2: and they hatched a plot to use the world of

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Speaker 2: international sports to get free. Just like Michael Jordan, they decided,

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Speaker 2: let's just do it now. What was their plan? Great question, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 2: I really thank you for asking problem. I like this

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Speaker 2: energy your prayers. Their plan was they'd become star athletes

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Speaker 2: for the Sri Lankan national handball team.

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Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, okay.

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Speaker 2: This is a ridiculous crime A podcast about absurd and

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Speaker 2: outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's all with ninety nine

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Speaker 2: percent murder free and one percent ridiculous. Okay, ridiculous, Elizabeth, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I got a question for you.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 2: So phone calls you remember those?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Avoid them.

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Speaker 2: They would call you, the phone would ring, and you're like,

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Speaker 2: what is my text machine doing? Right? So this story

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Speaker 2: starts with a series of phone calls. Now do you

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Speaker 2: We both talk to our mothers every day on the phone.

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's the only person I pretty much talked

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Speaker 2: to on the phone. Honestly, if my phone rings, I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 3: Talk to my brother all the time on the phone.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, you talk to your brother.

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Speaker 3: So those two I talk, everyone else needs to text

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Speaker 3: me first, and even then I'll say I'm busy, and

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Speaker 3: then people at work text me like, hey, got a

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Speaker 2: Were you ever when you were younger and you were

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Speaker 2: like more phone ready, were you ever involved like phone

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Speaker 2: circles where you would call someone and they would call someone,

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Speaker 2: or like you were like i'all get on a group

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Speaker 3: I never did the group line thing, but you know,

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Speaker 3: we used to in college. We used to call around

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Speaker 3: and tell people when parties were going to be, or

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Speaker 3: like you'd have to call in remotely to your answering machine.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then you have code yeah, and then

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Speaker 2: they would play your messages for you. Yeah, the warors

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Speaker 2: were great.

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Speaker 3: Party with the swim team tonight, see that about it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's how this story starts. Is basically

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Speaker 2: that energy. This is the stories couldn't have occurred without

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Speaker 2: the telephone. Yeah. I mean, it's just like you can

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Speaker 2: feel it popping, right, and it's just the year was

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Speaker 2: two thousand and two, right, So the location, as I

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Speaker 2: said Sri Lanka, the group of twenty something men had

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Speaker 2: all reached out and touched someone, right. Oh sorry, that

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Speaker 2: sounds weird now. At and T used to have that

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Speaker 2: as their slogan, reach out and touch someone exactly such

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Speaker 2: different times, you know. But anyway, this group of twenty

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Speaker 2: something men, they get a phone circle going right, and

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Speaker 2: one guy calls another, and that guy calls the next guy,

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Speaker 2: and so it went. The word spreads around.

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Speaker 3: Tree launch tree I think they call it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was thinking of that as like with politics,

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Speaker 2: and like, oh, we're gonna like, you know, the neighbor

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Speaker 2: going to get together phone circles. I think it's like,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a community phone tree is like, you're

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Speaker 2: branching out right, That's just my thing. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm just going with the analogies anyway. So their plan

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Speaker 2: was put out there for all the interested parties. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So this one cat Rupa Singe, I'm apologies if I'm

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Speaker 2: mispronouncing that twenty three year old cat. He lived in

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Speaker 2: Sri Lanka and he actually spoke with somebody I know.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a reporter from now defunct Mel magazine. My dude,

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Speaker 2: Andrew Fiosih.

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Speaker 3: Went out for Mel magazine, oh for real as well.

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Speaker 2: Andrew was writing from Ellen. He went out. He reached

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Speaker 2: out to this dude, Rupe Singe, and he he says, like, dude,

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Speaker 2: and rup Sinka's like, okay, man, here's how it went.

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Speaker 2: I get the call. I thought it was a put on, right,

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Speaker 2: And this is not a direct quote but a paraphrasing.

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Speaker 2: And he's like, but he kept hearing about this story

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Speaker 2: of like, oh yeah, we're gonna create this. You know,

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Speaker 2: Sri Lankan national handball team and all these guys were excited.

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Speaker 2: He's like, why do we care? And he just kept

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Speaker 2: thinking that it couldn't be true. But then he decided,

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Speaker 2: you know what, tell me more anyway, you called me,

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Speaker 2: you think I'm good, I'm a prospect for the national

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Speaker 2: handball team. Why. So he's like, is he told Andrew

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Speaker 2: and I quote? Of course I wanted to go, right,

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Speaker 2: He's like, you know, if you were a young man

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Speaker 2: and all your buddies are gonna do this, You're like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: tell me more. So this guy's no fly by night person.

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Speaker 2: So he hears about this handball team, and he hears

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Speaker 2: that the real plan is to take the team and

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Speaker 2: be able to travel out of Sri Lanka. They're going

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Speaker 2: to get off the island. They're going to be invited

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Speaker 2: to tournaments around the world. And he's like, okay, but

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Speaker 2: he's a little worried about this, like, you know, escaping

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Speaker 2: Sri Lanka via a handball team, because he's had family

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Speaker 2: leave Sri Lanka before and when they did it, they

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Speaker 2: did things like, you know, they took a container on

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Speaker 2: a container ship filled with people and then went off

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Speaker 2: to Italy. Yeah, exactly, like the brutal ways of total

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Speaker 2: dangerous passage. So Rupaesenk is like, that's how my relatives

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Speaker 2: got to Italy, not legally but via boat and container.

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Speaker 2: LORI right, He's like, I want to do it legally,

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Speaker 2: So what's the story here? So what's his thinking of

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Speaker 2: when his friends tell him about this plan is his families.

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Speaker 2: He's like, all right, but I do want to get

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Speaker 2: off the island. So he goes. His friend's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: have you ever heard about this game handball? He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean I don't know handball kind of. I don't

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Speaker 2: really know what I.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be fun? You have to hit a hand

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Speaker 2: Something that's very important to keep in mind as I'm

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Speaker 2: They published the rules to their new game in nineteen seventeen.

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Speaker 3: Now, now this sausage exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then nothing again. Handball disappears, right, so only

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Speaker 2: the ball can kill you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the ball's moving so fast and they can talk

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Speaker 3: It's because you I still don't know how you play it.

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Speaker 2: I know they get to that. So Elizabeth, he may

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Speaker 2: Smack it back and forth to each other, hit it

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Speaker 2: It's becoming more and more popular every time. As the guy.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, it's played in Asia, North Africa, South America

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Speaker 2: So let's take a little break and then I will

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Speaker 2: oh really? O'Reilly? Auto parts? Now this Treelonkins. They were

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Speaker 2: I told you that's their goal, right, that could be

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Speaker 2: their side though, was that one of my favorite qualities

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00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,040
Speaker 2: in life grit mocks. So they were like, look, we're

436
00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,320
Speaker 2: gonna just make this happen, and they did so. I

437
00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,479
Speaker 2: told you, I like these people. They're my people, are

438
00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,119
Speaker 2: my kind of people, I should say the Germans on

439
00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,600
Speaker 2: my people. Now. What I like about this story, though,

440
00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,119
Speaker 2: is that the Tri Lankas are willing to do the

441
00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,600
Speaker 2: basics of what is necessary to pull off a con

442
00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,480
Speaker 2: job like this. Nice yeah it in Millie Mouth and

443
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,080
Speaker 2: like Ham and Haw, they said, what are the fundamentals

444
00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,560
Speaker 2: are pulling this off? And they got down to it.

445
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,280
Speaker 2: For one, they hired a professional handball coach. Okay, got

446
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:49,960
Speaker 2: to learn the game. I mean, you need to know

447
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,960
Speaker 2: the game, right. So then they get to work learning

448
00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,879
Speaker 2: how the hell this new game is played like how

449
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,080
Speaker 2: they can score and hit each other and dive into

450
00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 2: the zone.

451
00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,960
Speaker 3: Right, I love the zone just makes me think of

452
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 3: like some militarized.

453
00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:05,280
Speaker 2: Zone and an active shooter razer. Yeah, exactly. There's a

454
00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,040
Speaker 2: garden tower at either end of the field. So these

455
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,879
Speaker 2: guys they get together, they're practicing and eventually, you know,

456
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,800
Speaker 2: they start to gel as a team and they get

457
00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,199
Speaker 2: invited to play a friendly match against a bunch of

458
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 2: traveling Germans, the actual traveling national German handball teams. Yes,

459
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 2: so they're all excited that the Germans are gonna come

460
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 2: down to Sri Lanka, which they did. It sounds fun

461
00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 2: good to their word. The matches gets play the amateurs,

462
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,720
Speaker 2: they were not left off the field. You're going up

463
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 2: against the inventors of the game and their national team, right,

464
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,640
Speaker 2: so this was to be expected that the German national

465
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,720
Speaker 2: team would win. Nobody thought this. The Sri Lankans would

466
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,120
Speaker 2: be that plucky, right, But the German officials were rather

467
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,919
Speaker 2: kind in their assessment of the Sri Lankans gameplay. The

468
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 2: scoreboard not as kind. Scoreboard was thirty six to two.

469
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,400
Speaker 2: Thirty six to two, Yeah, but that was good enough

470
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,880
Speaker 2: to capture what the team was really after they didn't

471
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,720
Speaker 2: get the w but they got an invitation to participate

472
00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,480
Speaker 2: in an international tournament a handball to him to be

473
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:05,119
Speaker 2: held in Bavaria. Yes, so into Dita Daring. Right, Dieta

474
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,119
Speaker 2: Daring was the cat who made all this happen. Right,

475
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 2: he was the German who tried to make handball happen

476
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: in Tri Lanka. It was like his fetch, alright, I'm

477
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 2: gonna make this happen anyway. He's a rather curious character

478
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 2: that theater. He's a former ping pong pro, which is

479
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 2: just fun to say, former ping pong pro.

480
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 3: Former ping pong Procreas.

481
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 2: Got kicked out of the game anyway, professional table tennis player,

482
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 2: even though he's up with Lance and he's like, give

483
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 2: me the clear, put it on my back anyway. Even

484
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,879
Speaker 2: he goes from being a ping pong pro, he leads

485
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 2: his fellow Germans to glory on the national team as

486
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 2: a ping pong pro. They went a title with him

487
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 2: as captain. So the guys he's a champion, right, so Dieter.

488
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,199
Speaker 2: Then he takes a trip and he pops down to

489
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 2: Sri Lanka. He wants to go get some son in

490
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 2: fun Relax, the year was nineteen eighty one, Elizabeth. He

491
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 2: shows he run.

492
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 3: Into Duran Duran shooting the Rio video.

493
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 2: Good question. I have no answer for it.

494
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:53,639
Speaker 3: That's a good question.

495
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 2: He shows up to Ri Lanka knows that Duran Duran insights.

496
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Speaker 3: I don't think that was after eighty one.

497
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: But anyway, he grabs this taxi. But this is not

498
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 2: a normal taxi, Elizabeth, is it? No, it's not even

499
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 2: like one of those like Indian taxis where it's all

500
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,399
Speaker 2: like decorated anything, nothing, nothing like that.

501
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

502
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 2: I don't mean, like physically, it's not a normal taxi.

503
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 2: I mean the ride is not normal.

504
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: It is.

505
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 2: It's a life changing taxi. Oh yeah, step inside, take a.

506
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 3: Ride, cash cab.

507
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 2: The taxi will take him on a ten day tour

508
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 2: of the island. He's like, oh yeah, let's go on

509
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 2: a ten day tour of the island. Taxis is going

510
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 2: to like, you know, show him the sights, just he

511
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 2: and this driver. Could you imagine you and one person?

512
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 3: I think actually people do that where they you know, get.

513
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,679
Speaker 2: A guide totally. But could you do that?

514
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 3: No? No, I I guide myself, baby.

515
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 2: I like that about you. So this cabby he's super

516
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 2: casual about spending ten days in a car with the

517
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 2: Germany he's never met, and he's like, Hey, do you

518
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,120
Speaker 2: know if I we stop in my house, I want

519
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 2: to pick up some fresh clothes. And he's like, yeah, sure,

520
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,120
Speaker 2: why don't we do that? And so he's he's trying to.

521
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 3: Be chill're adventurous that way.

522
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's like, y'all do it.

523
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 3: What do we need to strapped into his berks exactly

524
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,120
Speaker 3: ready to go.

525
00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 2: Super clean and everything, hair's all short. When they get there,

526
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 2: taxi drivers like, Heyboddy, you want some tea? Come on inside, right,

527
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,400
Speaker 2: AND's like, yeah, let's do it, and so he goes

528
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 2: inside and he's stunned to spot all these trophies inside

529
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 2: inside is evidence of a world class ping pong champion.

530
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 2: What the what are the chances right now? So Dieter

531
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 2: gets super excited. He's like, yeah, who's the trophies of these?

532
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 3: Right?

533
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 2: And the guy was like, oh, I should have told you.

534
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 2: Uh my sister's like into stuff. You got the ping

535
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 2: pong stuff? You were like, He's like really yeah, So d'

536
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 2: just like there were all these table tennis trophies in

537
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 2: the house, asked him about some and the taxi driver

538
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 2: told me that was his sisters, and I was like,

539
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,879
Speaker 2: can I meet your sister? I don't know why he

540
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 2: became austream when he gets warning, but yeah yeah, the

541
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 2: cabbiest chill about that too. He's like, yeah, yeah, sure

542
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 2: you can meet my sister Elizabeth.

543
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

544
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 2: The two hit it off.

545
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 3: He was he was warm for her form.

546
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 2: Dude, he was spitting for that kitten. I'm telling you,

547
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 2: I knew you're a fan of love stories, right, and

548
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 2: I wish I knew more to tell you. But the

549
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,479
Speaker 2: gist is this Dieter and the sister table tennis champs meet,

550
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 2: they go out, they fall in love, theeter decides to

551
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 2: stay in Sri Lanka. Eight years later, he's the coach

552
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 2: of Sri Lanka's national table tennis team.

553
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 3: Nice.

554
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 2: So that's why he gets a very German idea. He's like,

555
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: why do we make sports to sing for people to

556
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 2: get together and meet? And baby, but you can have

557
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 2: more love stories like but not really, you just wanted

558
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 2: people to like meet, right sure? Yeah, So he's like,

559
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: I was start the government program to drink people here. Anyway,

560
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 2: he gets to Austrian again. I don't know, he talks

561
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 2: about government or women's Austrians. But anyway, so he gets

562
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 2: different countries to meet together and play sports. You know,

563
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: we already have something like that. I think he's called

564
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 2: the Olympics. Oh really, yeah, but he's like, no, I

565
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 2: want to smaller voss.

566
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 3: I got really confused about the Olympics the other day

567
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 3: because there were ads. Well I was traveling for for

568
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 3: my other job, and that's the only time I watched

569
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 3: morning television.

570
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and hotel time man, local news.

571
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 3: Local news, and I'm like, I don't know where any

572
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 3: of these freeways are, but apparently they're Corota. They had

573
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,400
Speaker 3: the Today Show on and I know those two gals.

574
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 2: I don't know wh which ones were hot on there?

575
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 3: Who knows? Sure all hoodas they were in Paris and

576
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 3: they're talking about the Olympics, and I was like, ladies,

577
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 3: it is an odd numbered year, and they kept talking

578
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 3: about it, and so then I told someone it was

579
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,439
Speaker 3: the Olympics this summer and they were like, no, it's not.

580
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 3: But it's like it wasn't. I don't know.

581
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: I thought that because of COVID they threw off all

582
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 2: the schedules.

583
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 3: I looked it up and apparently it's next year. But

584
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 3: I never understood.

585
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 2: They were just there for the unveiling, like look at all.

586
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 3: The progress, I guess, but whatever. It's in Paris, and

587
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 3: I'm super excited for the French opening ceremonies because they're

588
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 3: always just like, oh yeah, that was an important aside

589
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 3: about the Olympics. It was still like stuck on it.

590
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 3: I like that, did I imagine that they were not there?

591
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: No? I don't know.

592
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 2: I don't know how your imagination works.

593
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 3: Weird.

594
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 2: It's just a wild place in that scary parts of

595
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 2: it scare me.

596
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, our boy dita.

597
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm going to make a little mini Olympics

598
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: for like, you know, the the Leisia spots like ping

599
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 2: pong and handball, right, even the handball apparently it was

600
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 2: only in the Olympics when the Germans play. So he's like, okay,

601
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 2: because his point was this, when you put the gum

602
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 2: and puff, so with a doctorates against the Sri Lankan

603
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: fisherman on the ping pong table, the professional backgrounds disappear.

604
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 2: It's just about the spot, true, right, And I don't

605
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 2: know why the Sri Lanka has got to be the

606
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: fisherman and like the German gets the doctor Why can't

607
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 2: the Sri Lanka get the doctor anyway, I take his

608
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: point and it's a really good point. So he gets

609
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: his program going. Hundreds of tournaments occur, and not just

610
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 2: ping pong Elizabeth. He gets handball going because John Man,

611
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 2: so the Germans are always tying to convince others to play.

612
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 2: As I said, and in two thousand.

613
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 3: A Sports colonists, Yes.

614
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 2: Colinis, I was an ambassador, but yeah, colonizer Sports gets

615
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 2: a phone call from the Vatican. He's like, how's the

616
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 2: colonization going. I'm kidding, I just want to see your

617
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 2: face change. He gets the call. He answers that tell

618
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 2: me about the ham do they prey down? So he

619
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: says that, uh, I know for some that they you know,

620
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 2: when the phone rings, they don't answer it. Well, he

621
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 2: answered it right, and a good thing he did, because

622
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 2: it was destiny. Yeah. So someone from the Sri Lankan

623
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 2: Sports ministry, they said they wanted to invite the German

624
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 2: national handball team to come down for attorney in Sri Lanka.

625
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 2: He's like, this is like right, I tell you, yeah,

626
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 2: let's do it. Once again excited Austrian. So anyway, a

627
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 2: little while later, Dieter he meets the Sri Lankan national

628
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 2: handball team. There were twenty three young men, all of

629
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,719
Speaker 2: varying ages, but he knows there's something off about them, right.

630
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 2: Dieta is like, you know, no, detective, but he's like,

631
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 2: looking back, there was something suss right. He didn't know

632
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 2: quite what it was, so he just know it was

633
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 2: weird that they showed up wearing suits. He's like, normally

634
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 2: like athletes, they showed up like in tracksuits or as

635
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 2: the Euro's call them, like you know, trainers, or we

636
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 2: call them sneakers or Jordan's. He's like, no, I expected

637
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 2: that they showed up dressed to impress, like in the Nines.

638
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 3: Right, this little German fella got catfish, Yes he did so.

639
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 2: Being German and a huge fan of acting as an

640
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 2: ambassador slash colonizer of international sports, Deeter guaranteed that all

641
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 2: the paper would be in order for the twenty three

642
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 2: members of the Sri Lankan national handball team. He ensured

643
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: they had visas for all their travel because they would

644
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: be in Germany for ten game tournaments and they needed

645
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 2: two week visas. Boom taken care of. Dita tangled it right.

646
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 2: All now is set. The plan is in place, the

647
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: player is prepared. Now it's onto the big game. Cut

648
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 2: to Witslingen, Germany. It's a town in southern Germany, in Bavaria. Right,

649
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 2: the Sri Lankan national handball team arrives in this charming town.

650
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 2: They made it out of Sri Lanka, Elizabeth. They did it. Next,

651
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 2: they did what most of us would do. They went sightseeing. So,

652
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 2: as Rupa Singe recalled, we went sightseeing, We sang, we danced,

653
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 2: we had a great time. Right, so it is all

654
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 2: being joyous. They met the mayor of the town. They

655
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 2: were treated as honored guests. They took photos with people,

656
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 2: a dinner in the just the homes of random Germans.

657
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 2: Who's okay. So it was just a fantastic experience for them.

658
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 3: Boom.

659
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 2: Cut to the next day, Game day, Elizabeth. So what

660
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 2: do we think is gonna happen? How do you think

661
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: it went down? Sri Lankan?

662
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: They won a million to one hundreds to zero.

663
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: Very close.

664
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it.

665
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 2: The Sri Lankan national handball team competed as best they could,

666
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 2: but as one of the players remembered, we got hammered again.

667
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 2: So the Germans didn't laugh at us though. They compared

668
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: it to the early beginnings of German handball in nineteen hundred.

669
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 2: That's nice, right, that's like a German compliment. Do you'll

670
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 2: like us when we have babies? So what did the

671
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: opposing teams think? So TSV whitslinghen it's a pro handball

672
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 2: team from Bavaria. They were like, have they even played

673
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 2: the game before? So they were a little less kind, right,

674
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 2: so one player told the German media, they were so awful. Yeah,

675
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 2: they did not hold back. He wondered if they even

676
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: knew the rules of the game. Anyway, afterwards, none of

677
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 2: this seemed to matter because after they competed on the pitch,

678
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: they all had shared the bond of sports.

679
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 3: Did the Sri Lankans wear their three piece suits?

680
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 2: That would be amazing, just mismatched three piece suits, but.

681
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 3: Like n in a nice knit fabric that's got some

682
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 3: good something to breathe. Yeah, like you would have like

683
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 3: an Adida's tracksuit but made into a suit.

684
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: So I see, I actually want one of those.

685
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

686
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: Anyway, So as Rupa Singa was was recalling the folks,

687
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: they had a great time afterwards. They all broke bread together.

688
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: They they have dinner, he said, quote, we had a

689
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 2: great time in this place, but he also said we

690
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 2: felt a bit sorry. We all planned go the next

691
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 2: day very early in the morning, right, So what do

692
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 2: I mean by go? Well, the next morning came very quickly.

693
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 2: I picture some of them in bed, eyes open, staring

694
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 2: up at the ceiling, checking their watches as those little

695
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: hours tick past. You know those ones that they like

696
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 2: like one, two, three, Right, So anyway, people.

697
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 3: With hours on them, yes, exactly, as I just opposed

698
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 3: to watch.

699
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: I hate those watches. I never know what time it is.

700
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: It it's between garfield and the top of the watch.

701
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 2: I don't know. Anyway, I bet they didn't sleep much

702
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: at all my point. So finally morning comes, dawn breaks.

703
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: It's that purple hour I love so much. It's when

704
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, it's time to go to sleep. Anyway,

705
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 2: it's time to move for them, time to go. So

706
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,239
Speaker 2: tho is a bit. I'd like you to close your

707
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: eyes and picture it. You are a commemorative handball. You

708
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 2: were given out to each member of the competing teams

709
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 2: for this international tournament. You were stoked to be given

710
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 2: out to the Sri Lankan team. As you look forward

711
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: to relocating to somewhere warmer. You are over Germany. At dinner,

712
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 2: you were in the pocket of one of the players

713
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 2: from the Sri Lankan team. Den was a spirited affair.

714
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 2: Wine was poured and drunk. Meals were prepared and enjoyed.

715
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 2: Songs were songs, laughter shared. Now it is the quiet

716
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: hours of the early morning, those small hours that I

717
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 2: said before. At the moment, though, things are a buzz

718
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: in the hotel rooms of the Sri Lankan national handball team.

719
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: It's three am and you are being stuffed into a

720
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: duffel bag. You can hear the muffled sounds of conversation. Really,

721
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: it's more like whispers. Then the zipper sounds, hand reaches

722
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 2: and grabs you. You see for a second that the

723
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 2: hotel room is now somewhat filled with Sri Lanka handball players.

724
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: But then you were stuffed into a pocket. You assume

725
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 2: you're there for luck. Maybe a couple hours later, it's

726
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 2: five am. You're on the move. You hear a door

727
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: open and then shut. You hear footsteps, but they're quiet.

728
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: Then you go downstairs. Another door open, swings open and shuts.

729
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: You can hear a soft night breeze blowing through trees.

730
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: You must be outside. Then the hand reaches back into

731
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 2: the pocket where you've been and you pulled you out

732
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: into the crisp night air. You gaze around. There's the

733
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 2: whole Sri Lanka National handball team and they're whispering to

734
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 2: each other. You get rubbed for luck, over and over again.

735
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 2: Everyone is hushed but excited. Some small smiles, some worried looks.

736
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: A few goodbyes, but no wind focus exchange. This is

737
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: in case anyone gets caught. They can't put the others

738
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 2: at risk. Then, as if there were a silent signal,

739
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: the Sri Lankan National handball team fractures in the tiny parts,

740
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 2: pairs of just two and three guys, and they all

741
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 2: walk away. You are rubbed again for luck, and then

742
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 2: shoved back into the jacket pocket. You listen to the

743
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: rhythm of footsteps in the quiet night. A little while

744
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: later you hear a car engine idling, and then a

745
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 2: car door open slam shut. You're sure about that. Some

746
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: words are exchanged. You don't quite understand them. It's not German,

747
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 2: you only speak German. It sounds like maybe the English. Anyway,

748
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,479
Speaker 2: the car engine roars of life. The ride is bumpy,

749
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 2: nightfully short. When the car stops, you hear cardoor open

750
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: and close again. Then the next sound you hear is

751
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: the orchestra of a train station coming to life in

752
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 2: the early hours of the morning. You think to yourself,

753
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 2: Oh goodie, I love a train ride. Now what you

754
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: don't know is you just absconded with the Sri Lankan

755
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 2: national handball team to points unknown. The whole team disappears

756
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 2: without a trace. Nice, yeah, Elizabeth, Well that's not exactly true.

757
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: The team did leave behind one trace. You don't know

758
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 2: about this because you're a handball but I'll tell you,

759
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 2: bitch is. At first, when the Sri Lankan national handball

760
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 2: team didn't come down for breakfast, their German hosts were like,

761
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: what's up? So they went and they checked on them,

762
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 2: like are everybody okay on there? And they get no answer.

763
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, they must be out jogging. Oh is

764
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 2: that probably cross training? You know? So anyway, Elizabeth, I

765
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 2: will tell you this. They were neither jogging nor cross training.

766
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: So the mystery, though, was cleared up when the Germans

767
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 2: host went back to check on the nothing that can

768
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 2: we open these dolls? And so then they get inside,

769
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 2: making sure there wasn't like a gas leak of something. No,

770
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 2: sixteen players, eight trainers all gone. All that was left

771
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 2: behind was some dirty clothes, some old shoes, a sweaty

772
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 2: T shirt or too, and a note. The note thanked

773
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 2: the Germans for their abundant hospitality, the team appreciated their

774
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 2: kind offer to come to Germany, and then closing it

775
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: said we're going to France.

776
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 3: Oh okay, and just like.

777
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 2: That, the Sri Lankans are in the wind. So in

778
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: two thousand and four, fast you can say big in

779
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: the Stuttgart. The German press was all over the story,

780
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 2: and things just get weirder. After this break, I will

781
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 2: come back to tell you how international terrorism gets brought

782
00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 2: into this.

783
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 4: Oh goodness, all right, to Elizabeth, we're back, Yes, we

784
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 4: are all right, As I promised him.

785
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: Hey, look at us, glad to be here. So I

786
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 2: promised you the German press. Yes, faster than you could say,

787
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 2: bigger than Stuttgart. They jumped on this bigger than that's

788
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 2: how fast, Elizabeth? Yes, do you see that lightning? Speak fast?

789
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: So the German ambassador to Sri Lanka had to get involved.

790
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 2: They told reporters that the twenty three fake handball players

791
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 2: and trainers were quote, they presented documents and the documents

792
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 2: looked all right, so there was no reasons to say

793
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 2: we can't give you a visa. So it's not my fault. Yeah,

794
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 2: but I like how the Germans focus on the correctness

795
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 2: of the paperwork. It was all in Olda. What's told

796
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 2: I duel? So you know, anyway, what is this at

797
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 2: this point? Two thousand and one?

798
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 3: Okay, so two thousand and four. But so we have

799
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: like EU travel, I'm wondering, yea, anyway, go ahead, Well.

800
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, there, yes, there is EU travel. I don't know

801
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: how that works. I assume the EU travel is if

802
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 2: you're allowed in Germany. If you try to go into

803
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 2: the Czech Republic, they're like, hey man, that was only

804
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 2: good for Germany because they will I'll tell you this much.

805
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 2: You try to go from Germany Czech Republic, they stop

806
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 2: the train and they make everybody show you like you

807
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 2: see your path pus Yeah, no, they really every time

808
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 2: I've ever done that. Then I traveled all over Europe

809
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 2: and train one place coming out of Germany going into

810
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 2: the Czech REBUBB, you're going to get stopped also Austria

811
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 2: to same thing with Austria in Switzerland. All of them

812
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 2: ones around, apparently Germany because they're wried about maybe migration.

813
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 2: I don't know because I have a tan. They're like,

814
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 2: let's see the march of Germans. Yes, yeah, exactly how

815
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 2: many Germans are on this train. The BBC reached out

816
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: to Tita Dooring and they asked him what went down,

817
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: because they're like, man, you made all this happen for

818
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: what we We've looked into the paper works from the

819
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: Germans and it all goes back to you. And so

820
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 2: he's forthcoming. He tells the BBC, we initially thought a

821
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: team had gotten lost in nearby woods while jogging, just

822
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 2: repeating what the Germans said. That same morning, he's like,

823
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 2: we now know this. They crossed into Italy. So he's

824
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: like all upset because he was kind of lied to.

825
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 2: The Sri Lankan authorities. They come for it and they

826
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: say their side of things. They are like the president

827
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 2: of the Sri Lankan Olympic Association because you know this

828
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 2: could have been Olympic sports, Like this is my purview,

829
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 2: let me jump in there. So he tells reporters, well,

830
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: the game is popular around the world. He was not

831
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 2: in Sri Lanka. So, as he put it, quote, we

832
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 2: don't even have a single club. It's just like, I

833
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 2: wash my hands of this whole affair.

834
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 3: Fix me.

835
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 2: So the Ministry of Youth Affairs in Sports, they get

836
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: drawn into it, right and they raise the questions of

837
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 2: why these fake Sri Lankan national handball team woud disappear

838
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 2: like that. They said, I don't know. The motives were unclear.

839
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 2: Could be political asylum, could be free immigration, I don't know.

840
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 2: People were like, oh, yeah, you know, maybe so as

841
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: they're starting to wonder, repeating what the president of the

842
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 2: Sri Lankan Olympic Association had to say, the official from

843
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 2: the Ministry of Youth Affairs in Sports said, hampball is

844
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 2: a sport very rarely played in Sri Lanka. In the

845
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: formation of a national teams a mystery.

846
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 3: So refresh me because I'm not as geopolitically savvy as you.

847
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 3: So was there not free egress from Sri Lanka at

848
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 3: the time.

849
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: No, it's just more so about the poverty and it's

850
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 2: an island. Okay, getting off the island. You if you're

851
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: gonna leave, you needed a visa to leave Sri Lanka Like,

852
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 2: where are you going? I'm gonna go to here. They're

853
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: like okay, so that was part of the government. You

854
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: had to have a visa to enter the country. And

855
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: I think Sri Lanka was like, you need a visa

856
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 2: to leave the country. I don't know about that for certain.

857
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: I know that makes sense, but visas were definitely necessary

858
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 2: for their travel. So eventually local taxi driver comes forward

859
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: and he tells the Bavarian police that he and a

860
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 2: couple other taxis were sitting out by the train station

861
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 2: early in the morning. Along comes to Sri Lankan national

862
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: handball team and they were like, oh, yeah, right, we

863
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 2: came a ride to the railway station in Munich. So

864
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 2: they're like, what's like, boom, mystery assault they were the

865
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: railway station in Munich. Turns out that's at the same time,

866
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 2: a new angle comes to life tertorism, because I said

867
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 2: two thousand and four the peak war on terrriers, right,

868
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: So of course immediately the news turns to the dark

869
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 2: question watch if these are terrorists and why is what

870
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 2: does detail of the sport's ambassad to doing is he's

871
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: a criminal mastermind? So now Dieter has to clear himself

872
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 2: of being alleged terror mastermind. So he finds himself under

873
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 2: serious suspicion. Right so, because you know, as I said,

874
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 2: he arranged the visas, so he'd first heard about their disappearance.

875
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 2: Like he's at work and a German university student burst

876
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 2: into his office all excited. The student does not look well,

877
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: like this didn't look like someone had died, right, he

878
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,479
Speaker 2: was like, what's the trouble Dieter Doring says. He said,

879
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 2: mister Doring, do you know what's happened? And Doring's like,

880
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 2: I said, duh, duh, don't tell me. Those people have gone,

881
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 2: And somehow I could tell by his face that's a

882
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 2: had So he was all worried, right, He's like he

883
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 2: should have known at that point this was just the

884
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: beginning of trouble Old Deeterer. Yeah, because soon enough he's like,

885
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 2: you know, basically he's he's still trying to like keep

886
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: like a breezy attitude, Like when he's talking to the BBC,

887
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 2: he's like, this will be the last time we are

888
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: doing this. I'm not planning to invite any more teams

889
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 2: from Sri Lanka. But oh totally like all the kids

890
00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,959
Speaker 2: out of the pool, all right, No one kid crap

891
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 2: in the poll, everyone out of the pool, right. So anyway, this.

892
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 3: Sund i'd hope so right, I think that's just a

893
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 3: healthcare violation.

894
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: But in the metaphoralist got it. So the Sri Lankan

895
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 2: he's got to drive this to the German embassy. He

896
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 2: gets called to the German embassy in Sri Lanka. He's

897
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 2: got to like go tell them, like, I'm not a terrorist, right,

898
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 2: So it's a thirty three mile drive. The whole time

899
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 2: he's on the radio on the phone like radio journalists

900
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: and Field and like you know, like BBC Field journalists. Right.

901
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 2: He actually says I took an extra battery with me

902
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 2: before the drive. BBC Australia even reported this from Saudi Arabia.

903
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: All the news stations thought I was a mastermind. So

904
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 2: he's like trying to like argue intern Ashley, I'm not.

905
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 3: Because he's on his way to headquarters.

906
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, is that a racer in the background?

907
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 2: Could you turn that down anyway? So the international press

908
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 2: they love this, the suspected mastermind of a tar cell

909
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 2: of you know, suspected Tamil Tiger gorillas. Right, this is

910
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 2: so now because remember the Sri Lankan Civil War is

911
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 2: a backdrop at this point, so they're thinking it's a

912
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 2: long and bloody war. So to think of maybe these

913
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: people are Tamil tiger gorillas. I don't know about you,

914
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 2: but the first time I heard the term Tamil tiger grillas, huh,

915
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 2: leaving the context and it's a very blood affair and

916
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 2: I don't need to make light of it at all.

917
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: But I was a punk teenager, so immediately I was like,

918
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 2: that should be the name of a band, Tamble Tiger Grilla.

919
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.

920
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 2: So anyway, so Deeter, he's accused now of being a

921
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 2: masterbind of the Tamble tiger Grillas, and uh, this doesn't

922
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 2: make any sense to Deeder, it's just simple mass. He's like,

923
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 2: there were only three tamble players on the team, the restless,

924
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 2: Shali's and Muslim. Yeah, He's like, doesn't even make sense.

925
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: So anyway, the level of nuance was lost on all

926
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 2: of this two thousand and four crowd. The press just

927
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 2: keeps training on the suspected terrorists, and so what happens

928
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 2: to the twenty three missing?

929
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 4: Uh?

930
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 2: You know, I guess I could say at this point

931
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: fake handball players, right, where are they Elizabeth.

932
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 3: Living their best lives somewhere?

933
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been smuggled where I'll flip it. If you

934
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: were to smuggle yourself into a country that's not America,

935
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 2: where would you pretend to be a fake Sri Lankan

936
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: handball team.

937
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 3: Well, that's rough. You got to go somewhere where you're

938
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 3: not going to stand out too hard and you should

939
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 3: probably speak the language. But ideal, ideally, I'm kind of

940
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 3: thinking France that works for you outside of the not

941
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 3: in that sense, but just if you're looking at like

942
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 3: Sri Lankan's you know, trying to figure.

943
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 2: Out I have a big enclave in Italy. Oh, that's

944
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 2: where they primarily go and gather in Europe and find

945
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 2: family connections and then launch in Italy. I do not

946
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 2: know where in Italy, but I just kept seeing reports

947
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 2: that of Tri Lankan enclaves in Italy. In the word enclave,

948
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 2: I'm dressing it up with enclavey, you know, different terms.

949
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: But the point being that, well, I'll answer the question

950
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 2: just to be fair to you, if I were to

951
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 2: go become a fake Sri Lankan handball team. Ironically, Germany

952
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 2: go to Germany. So anyway, So it turns out the visa, Yeah,

953
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 2: the German cabbies were on it. The Sri Lankan national

954
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 2: hand handball team had indeed gone to Italy, because that's

955
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 2: what they had told the Bavarian police. We think they

956
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: went to Italy. We dropped them off at the Munich

957
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 2: train station. Turns out they were right. They had gone

958
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 2: to Italy. They went to join the enclaves. As Chandana,

959
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 2: he's one of the players we called. We knew from

960
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 2: our relatives and friends that once we reached Italy there

961
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 2: was no way of sending us back. Italian people are

962
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 2: very friendly and they like us to work in their restaurants.

963
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 2: Sri Lankan's and Italy have no problem with the police.

964
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 2: We aren't involved in drugs or any other criminal activities.

965
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 3: God, I thought that was truly interesting.

966
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: I ever read right. Yeah, so they stay in Italy.

967
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: The Sri Lankan Enclaves embrace them. They make lives. Rupa Singa,

968
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 2: he gets a job in a pizza ria. He's slinging

969
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 2: dough in the Italy for four years before he decides

970
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 2: to return to Sri Lanka. He's like, this is not

971
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 2: cutting it for me. Interestingly, I thought ten years, after

972
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: ten years time, more than half of the team had

973
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 2: returned to Sri Lanka.

974
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 3: Really huh, Maybe they just like made the little scratched take.

975
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 2: With them that they all went over there to make

976
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 2: money and just sad back. They said that. Actually, Dieter

977
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 2: pointed out later on when he discovered that he had

978
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 2: helped him mollify his anger, is that he found out

979
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 2: that they all were sending money reliably back to multiple families,

980
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 2: not just one.

981
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 3: They gotten that pizza slaying game exactly.

982
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 2: Well, John DONDASONI, I came back after six months. My

983
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: child was sick, I felt homesick. I couldn't find a

984
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 2: job although it was promised. So he didn't even have

985
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:55,720
Speaker 2: as much luck as Rupa Singe.

986
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

987
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: So you know, when he did get back to Sri Lanka,

988
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 2: he wrote a letter to make immens. He wrote, he said, quote,

989
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: I wrote a letter to mister Doring and I asked

990
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 2: for forgiveness.

991
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 5: Wow.

992
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So Dieter, as I said, he was pissed

993
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 2: at first, right, so he made threats to take all

994
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 2: of them to court. He was going to sue them.

995
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 2: He wanted them locked up to everybody. So he was like, yeah,

996
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 2: he's like they made me look like a fool, and

997
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 2: so he was like pissed. That was a quote right now.

998
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 2: The German embassy blacklisted him. The sports ambassador program that

999
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 2: was killed. It was a big cost to pay for

1000
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 2: the man who just wanted to unite everybody through spots.

1001
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 4: Right.

1002
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 2: So, but some time passed and his anger softened, it

1003
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 2: drained away. I don't know if his wife helped him

1004
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 2: with this or not, but eventually he was able to

1005
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 2: see what happened with fresh eyes. He came to see

1006
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: that it was all just an active desperate men. You know.

1007
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 2: He was like, I forgave them and not wanting criminals.

1008
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 2: So the raise is the question was this a crime?

1009
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 2: They had basically stolen themselves away, they had broken international laws,

1010
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 2: but was it a crime? No Ah, I knew you

1011
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 2: would say that, so I would say, yes, it is

1012
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: on the books, but no, it isn't in our hearts.

1013
00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:00,479
Speaker 2: And so exactly it was costly right, But ultimately Deeter

1014
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 2: didn't even see it as a crime, and he was

1015
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,399
Speaker 2: the victim, which meets my standard, which is if there's

1016
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 2: no victim, no crime.

1017
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 3: Right, So in this case, yeah, I mean he did

1018
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 3: have the trouble of getting pinned as an international terrorst Yeah,

1019
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 3: there's that moment.

1020
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 2: That's a really bad kind of bad look tough, tough

1021
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: on your career, hard of the family. Yeah. So well,

1022
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 2: m I have to admit my if there's no victim,

1023
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: there's no crime. That's not a hard and fast rule.

1024
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 2: I know that there are exceptions. I don't mean it.

1025
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 2: You know, there's no hard fast rules in life, in

1026
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 2: my opinion, both exactly. My old point is let's not

1027
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 2: rush to label someone a criminal, especially if there was

1028
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 2: no victim. So in this case, the person most affected Dita,

1029
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 2: he eventually forgave them and he saw himself as just

1030
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 2: another unfortunate much like them. If anything, he aligned with them,

1031
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 2: which is the goal of spot exactly crime what sport?

1032
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 2: Did not? Just stop just kidding anyway. On a lighter note,

1033
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 2: this story was a viral sensation in two thousand and four,

1034
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 2: and in four years time, they made a movie, the

1035
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 2: Sri Lankan National Handball Team as a movie machan, it's

1036
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 2: a comedy. It's apparently a banger. The director uberto Pasoline

1037
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 2: in Italian, you'll note they said, I fell in love

1038
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 2: with the stort Is so much that I decided to

1039
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 2: shoot it to my cell phone. What sorry, Italy. So

1040
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: it premiered at the Venice Film Festival. After the conclusion

1041
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 2: of the screen in the audience, they rose to their feet.

1042
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: They gave it a ten minute standing ovation. Elizabeth, Yeah,

1043
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 2: they love the film. It warmed their hearts to touch

1044
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 2: their souls. That must have been a hell of a moment. Honestly,

1045
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 2: hope the team was there right The Guardian they gave

1046
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 2: a review of the film. They said it's one of

1047
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 2: the most important films to come out of the developing

1048
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 2: world in recent years, and they also pointed out that

1049
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,959
Speaker 2: it received a ringing endorsement for the Sri Lankan people.

1050
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 2: It was a Sri Lankan production with an Italian director,

1051
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 2: so he said to the reviewers said to their hearts.

1052
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 2: They claimed it entirely as their own right. So, Elizabeth,

1053
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 2: I also wanted to tell you there was another happy

1054
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: ending in our Sri Lankan handball tale. In twenty ten,

1055
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 2: there was a headline Sri Lanka debuts in International handball parentheses,

1056
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 2: this time for real. Then they lost fifty eight to

1057
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 2: twenty eight, but they got to furnestly compete exactly. No,

1058
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 2: what thirty six two the first time? Yeah, thirty eight

1059
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 2: to two. Anyway. I finally, I want to tell you

1060
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 2: that this is also part of a much larger story.

1061
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: This was not the only time that Sri Lankans have

1062
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 2: used international sport as a cover for their chance at

1063
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 2: a better life. Yes, it's practically a Sri Lankan tradition

1064
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 2: at this point. Yeah. In two thousand and seven, there

1065
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 2: was an Olympic coach for the triple jump. He decided

1066
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: with Italy he's like I'm staying. And twenty fourteen, at

1067
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 2: the Asian Games held that year in South Korea, there

1068
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: were two Sri Lankans who decided that they would just

1069
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 2: steal themselves away. There was a beach volleyball star which

1070
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 2: I just love, Yeah, and a hockey player. So both

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Speaker 2: disappeared and they were like subsequently blacklisted from all international

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Speaker 2: sporting events. You know what, I say, Good for them exactly.

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Speaker 2: Because you may be wondering, Zaren, are you saying that

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Speaker 2: you are a fan of frauds in sports. No, I'm

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Speaker 2: on the side of those trying to get free, So

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Speaker 2: good on you. Guys, some things are bigger than sports,

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Speaker 2: and I know you and Lebron would both.

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Speaker 3: Agreeing than hip hop hop.

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Speaker 2: I like that. Well, did you have a ridiculous takeaway

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Speaker 2: for us?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think I'm off to Italy, right, that's my dream.

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Speaker 2: I recommend below. I love Bologna, the city of red roofs,

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Speaker 2: the red city we should run off to.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it all right, let's just take Dave.

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Speaker 2: Come on, you, you drive us the airport and we'll

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Speaker 2: pack the bag steal. I'm gonna have the handball skills.

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Speaker 2: I gotta say though. One thing I like that these

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Speaker 2: twenty three cats from this fake Sri Lankan national handball

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Speaker 2: team decided to overcome the limitations of poverty, colonization, civil war,

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Speaker 2: and they did it with.

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Speaker 3: Handball, and they overcame the lack of skill.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. It's an amazing accomplishment, wonderful yay crime. Well

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Speaker 2: that's all I got for you. Hope you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: I did well.

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Speaker 2: Uh now you know, as normal. You can find us

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Speaker 2: online at Ridiculous Crime, on Twitter and Instagram. If you'd

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Speaker 2: like to reach out and touch us, you can email

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Speaker 2: this a Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com, or you

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Speaker 2: can reach out and touch our website ridiculous Crime dot com. Also,

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Speaker 2: there is the talkback app on iHeart which you can download. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can also use that you reach out talk to

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Speaker 2: us well, thanks for listening, We'll be back next drive.

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and Zaren Burnett,

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Speaker 2: produced and edited by captain of the Ridiculous Crime National

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