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Speaker 1: In two thousand one, a young, energetic, recent college grad

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Speaker 1: named Tableau returned from the States to South Korea and

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Speaker 1: helped form the alternative hip hop group Epic High. Tableau

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Speaker 1: and Epic High rose to international fame, and before long

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Speaker 1: they helped make hip hop mainstream in Korea. By they

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Speaker 1: were beating out Jay Z and Kanye on the international

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Speaker 1: hip hop charts, all while rapping mostly in Korean. And

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Speaker 1: it was then, right when Tableau in his group were

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Speaker 1: at the top of their game, when Tableau's Life Out

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Speaker 1: of Nowhere got Joe to off course, landing him in

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Speaker 1: the center of a bizarre conspiracy. Rumors had started spreading

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Speaker 1: on the Internet. People were posting on online message boards

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Speaker 1: saying that Tableau wasn't who he said he was. He

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Speaker 1: went to Stanford so he could become an international hip

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Speaker 1: hop star. You know, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: The accusations started out small, questions about his academic credentials,

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Speaker 1: doubts about where he went to college, but pretty quickly

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Speaker 1: they started spiraling out of control. They were like claiming

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Speaker 1: that I had dribed the FDI and that I had

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Speaker 1: ties to the Illuminati. What Tableau experience had never really

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Speaker 1: happened before, not like this and not on this scale.

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Speaker 1: Black Mirror wasn't out yet, but I felt like this

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Speaker 1: was some horror sci fi thing where the entire country

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Speaker 1: I had been living in I had collectively agreed to basically,

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Speaker 1: mind me, We're gonna look at how a wild but

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Speaker 1: honestly kind of trivial accusation starts on an anonymous internet forum,

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Speaker 1: and then follow it as it explodes into a national obsession.

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Speaker 1: They were trying to attack everybody who was associated with Tableau.

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Speaker 1: I was about to hang up the last time, and

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Speaker 1: I hear him yell, will pay you ten tho dollars.

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Speaker 1: It was like a wildfire. It was insane how fast

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Speaker 1: it's spread, and an entire country divides itself, but never

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