Speaker 1: I'm Sam Mullins and this is Go Boy. We open
Speaker 1: on the frosty grounds of a Canadian reformatory in the
Speaker 1: year nineteen fifty four. Every night, the type of young
Speaker 1: men your mom used to warn you about make the
Speaker 1: five hundred meter track from the gymnasium to the barracks.
Speaker 1: Among their ranks are certified robbers, thieves, and killers. But
Speaker 1: there's one young man I really want you to see,
Speaker 1: Roger Karan. If this story has a hero, and I
Speaker 1: would argue it does, it's him. Roger's eyes flicked to
Speaker 1: the fences topped with barbed wire, his body coursing with adrenaline.
Speaker 1: Because this wasn't just any night. This was the night
Speaker 1: a legend was born. Suddenly Roger made a break for it.
Speaker 1: He bolted, Roger steths pound the frozen ground, and as
Speaker 1: he leaps onto the fence, he hears a chant has
Speaker 1: broken out among the inmates, and the distance the boys
Speaker 1: across the field were chanting the thing that inmates in
Speaker 1: that era, in that region would chant whenever anyone would
Speaker 1: make a break for it. Atop that fence, covered in
Speaker 1: his own blood, this was the moment Roger became Go Boy.
Speaker 1: The fist fighting, bank robbing, jail breaking icon. Roger Caron
Speaker 1: was sixteen, first convicted. They had called him mad dog
Speaker 1: can't Rojia Karen forty two has spent twenty four of
Speaker 1: those years in jail. Roger was in and out of
Speaker 1: nearly every maximum security penitentiary in Canada, but walls couldn't
Speaker 1: hold him. I got his hack from bars all time.
Speaker 1: That's what kep him going, was the CHAUNI of giving
Speaker 1: it to the other side of the wall. Finally, they
Speaker 1: had no choice but to send Roger to the only
Speaker 1: place he couldn't escape, the hole. It was here, in
Speaker 1: the most unlikely place you can imagine that Roger, a
Speaker 1: man with almost no education, found his voice on the
Speaker 1: concrete floor. And then I grabbed a pencil and I
Speaker 1: wrote and wrote. I wrote. What started off as a
Speaker 1: therapeutic creative outlet blossomed into the story that would shock
Speaker 1: a nation. Why I was to take off my shirt
Speaker 1: and you're see my wide This totally crisscross from bob
Speaker 1: wire knife wound, jumping through windows. Go Boy is the
Speaker 1: journey from the depths of rock bottom to the soaring
Speaker 1: heights of fame and fortune. And he was instantly a celebrity.
Speaker 1: Listen to Go Boy starting April ninth, on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.