WEBVTT - Introducing: Go-Boy

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Sam Mullins and this is Go Boy. We open

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<v Speaker 1>on the frosty grounds of a Canadian reformatory in the

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<v Speaker 1>year nineteen fifty four. Every night, the type of young

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<v Speaker 1>men your mom used to warn you about make the

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<v Speaker 1>five hundred meter track from the gymnasium to the barracks.

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<v Speaker 1>Among their ranks are certified robbers, thieves, and killers. But

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<v Speaker 1>there's one young man I really want you to see,

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<v Speaker 1>Roger Karan. If this story has a hero, and I

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<v Speaker 1>would argue it does, it's him. Roger's eyes flicked to

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<v Speaker 1>the fences topped with barbed wire, his body coursing with adrenaline.

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<v Speaker 1>Because this wasn't just any night. This was the night

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<v Speaker 1>a legend was born. Suddenly Roger made a break for it.

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<v Speaker 1>He bolted, Roger steths pound the frozen ground, and as

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<v Speaker 1>he leaps onto the fence, he hears a chant has

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<v Speaker 1>broken out among the inmates, and the distance the boys

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<v Speaker 1>across the field were chanting the thing that inmates in

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<v Speaker 1>that era, in that region would chant whenever anyone would

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<v Speaker 1>make a break for it. Atop that fence, covered in

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<v Speaker 1>his own blood, this was the moment Roger became Go Boy.

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<v Speaker 1>The fist fighting, bank robbing, jail breaking icon. Roger Caron

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<v Speaker 1>was sixteen, first convicted. They had called him mad dog

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<v Speaker 1>can't Rojia Karen forty two has spent twenty four of

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<v Speaker 1>those years in jail. Roger was in and out of

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<v Speaker 1>nearly every maximum security penitentiary in Canada, but walls couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>hold him. I got his hack from bars all time.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what kep him going, was the CHAUNI of giving

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<v Speaker 1>it to the other side of the wall. Finally, they

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<v Speaker 1>had no choice but to send Roger to the only

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<v Speaker 1>place he couldn't escape, the hole. It was here, in

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<v Speaker 1>the most unlikely place you can imagine that Roger, a

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<v Speaker 1>man with almost no education, found his voice on the

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<v Speaker 1>concrete floor. And then I grabbed a pencil and I

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<v Speaker 1>wrote and wrote. I wrote. What started off as a

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<v Speaker 1>therapeutic creative outlet blossomed into the story that would shock

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<v Speaker 1>a nation. Why I was to take off my shirt

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<v Speaker 1>and you're see my wide This totally crisscross from bob

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<v Speaker 1>wire knife wound, jumping through windows. Go Boy is the

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<v Speaker 1>journey from the depths of rock bottom to the soaring

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<v Speaker 1>heights of fame and fortune. And he was instantly a celebrity.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen to Go Boy starting April ninth, on the iHeartRadio app,

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<v Speaker 1>Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.