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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hi producer Dave, then the interns. Can someone pick up

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Speaker 2: the phone?

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Speaker 3: Listen?

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Speaker 2: Zaren and I were on the podcast or commuter bus

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Speaker 2: this morning and the driver kind of flipped out and

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Speaker 2: took us all to the beach instead of dropping us

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Speaker 2: off at headquarters, and then she ran away with the

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Speaker 2: keys to the bus. So Zaren standing in line for

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Speaker 2: an ice cream cone with Katie Kuric right now, and

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Speaker 2: all the podcasters are trying to record episodes on travel

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Speaker 2: mics and they're all talking at once and it is

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Speaker 2: driving me nuts. So I'm hiding under a park bench,

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Speaker 2: just trying not to get a sunburn.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 4: I hope that someone there is checking.

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Speaker 2: These voicemails and it's not the person who checks the emails.

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Speaker 2: Can you run a classic episode for us, maybe something.

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Speaker 3: About escaping in the ocean.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, guys, I owe you one.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Dunton, Zaren Burnett, I'm so glad to see you.

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Speaker 3: I am glad to see me.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Ben, I've been good. Good nice pants, thank you much.

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Speaker 3: These are my crazy pants.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all crazy, you know, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: I do what is it? Listen? Listen to this uh

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Speaker 3: game freak.

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Speaker 5: That game freak is the creator of pokemonka, which I

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Speaker 5: always like to call Pokemon, Pokemon, Pokemon, mister Pokemon. Nothing

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Speaker 5: irritates little kids more than when you refer to it

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Speaker 5: as Pokemon. You guys got them Pokemon cards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you do it like real quick, like it's a

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Speaker 1: name like Pokemon, mister Pokemon.

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Speaker 5: I think the whole things are. There's like the Pokemon

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Speaker 5: Go where you just go, you play.

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Speaker 1: It outside, you walk around.

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Speaker 3: Sure, you just go. But you know, I love a

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Speaker 3: good collaboration. So take a guess.

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Speaker 5: What do you think you could mash up with Pokemon

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Speaker 5: crab traps?

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Speaker 3: Yes, totally ll bean Pokemon Pokemon. No, let me tell

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Speaker 3: you something.

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Speaker 1: Glass hammers.

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Speaker 5: If these are designed with a crystallized quality, close crystal,

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Speaker 5: they're iconic and are iconic. They're exclusive styles in eighteen

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Speaker 5: carrot yellow gold with diamonds or with oxidized sterling silver.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're moving away from my answer.

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Speaker 5: It's Tiffany and Company what you can get, and it's

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Speaker 5: based on them. This man, Daniel Rsham, he does Pokemon sculptures,

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Speaker 5: Pokemon sculptures, the Pokemon Yeah, he had a whole art

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Speaker 5: exhibit called a ripple and tyme, I didn't even bother

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Speaker 5: to look it up because quite frankly, I.

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Speaker 3: Didn't need that in my life. Better as a book, right,

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Speaker 3: and so that is a good book. AnyWho.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, so he does these Pokemon sculptures, the Pokemon's

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Speaker 5: and he's made them into Tiffany necklaces.

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Speaker 1: Does Tiffany know this?

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Speaker 3: Tiffany, has anyone told you about this?

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Speaker 5: So if you want an eighteen cater you will just

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Speaker 5: blink avec Damon's. I'm trying to open it up and

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Speaker 5: it won't let me. I don't know how much these things.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that they're If you want to get one,

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Speaker 5: you have to sign up for SMS updates. No spoiler alert,

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Speaker 5: I signed you what those are?

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Speaker 3: Did you get one?

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to say where my phone is?

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Speaker 5: Well, when you find it, you'll get a text from

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Speaker 5: Tiffany and Pokemon and they're going to say do you

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Speaker 5: want some?

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Speaker 3: And you have to hit why or yes, You're such

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Speaker 3: a good friend. I am such a good Thank you

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Speaker 3: so much.

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Speaker 1: You know it's also ridiculous. Tell me, okay, well, this

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Speaker 1: is just a truth, a truism. Whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call it a fool on a mission. Right, they will

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Speaker 1: likely go far further than anyone would have predicted a.

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Speaker 3: Fool on a mission. A stolen commis right?

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Speaker 1: You you know the fools? They are my people. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: So that's why I'm going to call this one. Let's

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Speaker 1: take to the sea. This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast

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Speaker 1: about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent murder free and ridiculous game freak. Okay, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: this first story I have for you today. It's like

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Speaker 1: a short story that Kafka would write, just throwing a

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Speaker 1: jet ski. Okay. So the year's twenty sixteen dateline China. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think this is our first story that ever takes

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Speaker 3: I don't know?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think so. But anyway, it's about a Korean

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Speaker 1: man try to stay with me. His Chinese name was Kwanping,

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Speaker 1: but he never liked that. He preferred his Korean name,

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Speaker 1: So his Korean name was Kwan Peong, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: call him Kwan Peong, so my man Peong. He lived

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Speaker 1: in northeastern China. Now that's where he liked to hop

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Speaker 1: online and openly mock the Chinese Communist Party that runs China.

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Speaker 3: That's a little dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is what we in the Living to See

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow business call a bad idea. He primarily posted on

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Speaker 1: English language outlets, right, there were ones that were forbidden

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Speaker 1: So he's going on Twitter, and that's where Piong. He

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Speaker 1: described himself as quote a perpetual student citizen dedicated to

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Speaker 3: Was he a citizen of the world.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you better believe a sister. Now, how did he

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Speaker 1: plan to overturn communism?

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Speaker 3: You ask, h how did he plan to overturn communism?

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Speaker 1: I ask great question, Elizabeth, thank you. Was he organizing

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Speaker 1: them to avoid detection online? No? No, no, and no.

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Speaker 3: Did he post gift reactions on Twitter?

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Speaker 1: What my man did was hop online and post a

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Speaker 1: selfie of him wearing a shirt of Jijienping. The shirt

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Speaker 1: called gi wait for it, Hitler like Zitler. Right yeah, oh,

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Speaker 1: I may be not saying that exactly correct, but Hitler

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Speaker 3: It, Sitler.

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Speaker 1: So my man, after thoroughly mocking the General Secretary of

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Speaker 1: Let's work together and topple this invisible wall. Something's about

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Speaker 1: to get toppled. Brother, Yeah, right now. He posted his

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Speaker 1: Zitler selfie and his provocative caption not on Webo, which

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Speaker 1: Now, as you know Webo, it's heavily censored and it's

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. So why, Elizabeth, why did my dude Peong,

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Speaker 1: I don't know to get this straight, you know, I

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Speaker 3: A political existential question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's just a curiosity. If you will, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you the answer though, right, because well, first let

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Speaker 1: me say this, I don't mean to mock this guy. Right,

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Speaker 1: never do. Okay, okay, better. So the reason Peong was

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Speaker 1: He's like, oh, that's where I talk to my friends.

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Speaker 1: Right to this point, the year was twenty fourteen, right,

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Speaker 1: So he's back in China, he's graduated in my Manpiong.

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Speaker 1: He gets his life set up in a city called Yanbien.

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Speaker 1: Now it's the central hub for a very sizable Korean population.

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Speaker 1: of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Oh okay, So this

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Speaker 1: Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture. The folks living there today they exist

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Speaker 1: they still have the their autonomous zone. Now, for some populations,

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Speaker 1: So back to my man Peong is Zitler shirt. So

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Speaker 1: that wasn't his only provocative post. And another prior post

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Speaker 1: he'd spoken about drinking tea. Now I don't know if

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Speaker 1: spilling the tea. Right, it's not like doing gossip and stuff, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's not a Chinese twist on drinking the kool aid.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's not that either. So the expression

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Speaker 1: drink the tea it refers to a Chinese language euphemism

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Speaker 1: about speaking with the Chinese authorities. So yeah, you're being

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Speaker 1: questioned basically, right, So apparently they are for you tea.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, my man Young, he posted, if

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Speaker 1: I have to drink tea again, I won't be shy

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Speaker 1: and nervous. I'll very clearly declare my views as bright

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Speaker 1: as a banner opposing the Communist Party. That's my attitude.

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Speaker 1: I won't seek out trouble, but if it comes to me,

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Speaker 1: I'll live with it. Elizabeth, it was like Trouble was

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Speaker 1: found him. Yeah, so, my dude, he had planned to

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Speaker 1: wear his Zitler shirt out on October first, which, if

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Speaker 1: you didn't know it, that's China's national day. So he

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Speaker 1: told his friends that online and he's you know, this

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Speaker 1: No, he's properly arrested, man, because it's against the law, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 1: the story I really wanted to tell you today is

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Speaker 3: You didn't want to tell me the other one.

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Speaker 1: I did, but that was just to kind of what

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Speaker 3: Bubble, Captain Bubble, the monkey.

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Speaker 1: The Captain Bubble affair. That's this next story. Captain. So

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Speaker 1: Captain Bubble that was not his birth name. Mary did

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Speaker 1: Dude's government name was Raisa a ka Ray Balucci or

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Speaker 5: I'm going to give him another street name. Right now,

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Speaker 1: There's red inflatable. It's like a ring. It looks like

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Speaker 3: Oh it does have little paddles on it. That's cute.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, totally because you know, I think the original

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Speaker 5: I'm so glad it has paddles on it, because I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just drifting across the ocean. No, my man's running, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 4: Right?

435
00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 1: So, according to the coast Guard, my man's homemade watercraft

436
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: was quote found to be manifestly unsafe vessel right once again,

437
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 1: they're with the jargon, right, But what does that mean?

438
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked, Elizabeth. According to the Title forty

439
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,400
Speaker 1: six of the United States Code and Title thirty three

440
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 1: of the Code of Federal Regulations.

441
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 3: Those are two of my favorites.

442
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: He was required to quote clear any future voyages. He

443
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,680
Speaker 1: did not clear future voyages. Not to mention, he was

444
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 1: also supposed to quote employ a support vessel. He did

445
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 1: not employ a support vessel. Well, that didn't stop a minute.

446
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 3: Not all of us have a support vessel on hand.

447
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, not all of us has friends hire a support vessel.

448
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 1: What I look like Daddy Warbucks over here, right, So

449
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 1: just leave me in my hamster wheel to be in

450
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 1: peace and run free at this America. Anyway, Next year,

451
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,199
Speaker 1: my man says he's going to go back at it,

452
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,360
Speaker 1: and he did that. And then the year after that,

453
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 1: my man raised was back at it again and again

454
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,920
Speaker 1: and again. His second attempt also failed. Yeah, that one

455
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: is because he was once again forced to comply with

456
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,680
Speaker 1: the orders of the Coastguard cutter and a bandon his voyage.

457
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 1: They just do not like a dream. Now, you may

458
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: be thinking, Zaren, your man raises sound it's hard headed

459
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: he also, is he all there upstairs? I understand these questions, Elizabeth,

460
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 1: And to that I would say, he's a man who

461
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 1: seeks great challenges exactly. He was once a professional cyclist.

462
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 3: Huh.

463
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like a competitor at heart. And long before that,

464
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 1: he started out life in Iran. That's where he was born,

465
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: and later, after the Iranian Revolution, he sought asylum in

466
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Speaker 1: the US. When he was busted for his constant attempts

467
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 1: to run across the sea, Raises said, I'm not doing

468
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 1: it for me, This isn't for raising I'm doing this

469
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,880
Speaker 1: for others. And it was true. He had once been

470
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Speaker 1: homeless and he wanted to raise money for homeless organizations

471
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 1: by running across the sea. I don't understand the connection.

472
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,399
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when kids come up to your

473
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: house and they knock on the door and say, I'm

474
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 1: going to run a mile, and when you like, donate

475
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 1: money if I run a mile, You're like, I'll give

476
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 1: you a quarter for every mile you run. Yeah, they're like,

477
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:48,719
Speaker 1: oh great. So anyway, cut to twenty twenty one. His

478
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 1: plan had him running not from Florida to the UK,

479
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,719
Speaker 1: but from Florida to New York. Remember, this is he

480
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: is not made the switch, and he's still just trying

481
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Speaker 1: to run up the Atlantic euse.

482
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Speaker 3: He's going to stay out of international waters.

483
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: Basically, that's the that's twenty twenty one. But once again,

484
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: this is no small distance running to New York from Florida.

485
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: It would take him weeks to accomplish. It's night, Yeah, exactly,

486
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: there's the question. He would be weeks alone at sea.

487
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: He would be inside his inflatable hamster wheel homemade watercraft

488
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: by himself, sleeping, eating, doing all these bodily functions.

489
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Speaker 3: Does he have an anchor for it for when he's

490
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 3: sleeping at night.

491
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: No, but he had a place to sleep in his

492
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: hamster wheel. He had a hammock that was stretched out

493
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: inside of what you saw.

494
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 5: Wait, I have to look at this again now for food,

495
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 5: and I keep feeling like he's going to run and

496
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 5: trip and fall down all.

497
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 1: Totally and it's spinning around the whole time.

498
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 4: Now.

499
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: For food, he planned to catch fish and eat them,

500
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,639
Speaker 1: which is not the best plan, but especially for your

501
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: going from your inflatable watercraft with a spear but hey whatever, spearfish. Yeah,

502
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: for sea sickness, that's right, you heard that. My man

503
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 1: raises suffers from motion sickness. Oh brother, and I exactly now,

504
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: why would someone with motion sickness pop themselves inside of

505
00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: a clear inflatable hamster wheel then to run across the sea.

506
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense.

507
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,120
Speaker 5: You would be able to you'd hear my dry heaves

508
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 5: all up and down the Eastern seaboard.

509
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: Oh, Elizabeth, I have to tell you he had medicine

510
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: on his side. He took dramamine, so boom he drama. Mean,

511
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: if you want to contact use contact sponsorship.

512
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 5: Have you seen the glasses for like of motion signals?

513
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 5: I don't so well, I have it, and I've been

514
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 5: looking for all these remedies. And you can order these

515
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 5: glasses that are like clear and a tube for the

516
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 5: frame and then there's like a blue liquid in the

517
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 5: bottom of it, so that's like give you the balance

518
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 5: of the horizon. But they look so insane. I couldn't

519
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 5: bring myself.

520
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 1: Half of what you see not.

521
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 5: On the less in the frame, in the tubular frame

522
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 5: frame it is.

523
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 3: I you know, I'd rather barf all over myself than

524
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 3: look like that.

525
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 1: You're such a fashion now you may be wondering some

526
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 1: of the particulars of this journey because we've only gone

527
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: over some of the bold brush strokes. If you will

528
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: this plan, like, for instance, how fast can one man

529
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 1: power an inflatable hamster wheel. That's a great question.

530
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 3: That's just a good question.

531
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 1: It's a great question. Raisa estimated he could travel at

532
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 1: six knots an hour.

533
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 3: Wow, that's soul.

534
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: That's slow. Yeah, that's that's not fast. I mean it's

535
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 1: that's like it's basically walking speed.

536
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 5: But for I know, but for all that contraption, I

537
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 5: didn't think he'd even go out.

538
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: It's fast for a hamster wheel. I'll give you that totally.

539
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I didn't moving all that mass around

540
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 1: on water. Yeah, that's faster than I would think, But

541
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: it's slow if you're running from Florida to New York. Sure. So,

542
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: I mean that's a lot of time in a hamster wheel,

543
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But that's why Raisa had also

544
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: rigged up plenty of like you know, sunshield because he's

545
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: gonna be out there on the water and that's you

546
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: have all the sunlight bouncing off every surf. It's a

547
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 1: great way to get a sunburn, right, So he's like, well,

548
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to need sunshield for all my long daytime

549
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: hours of running. So he didn't just rig up any

550
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: old sunshield, No, not Raisa. He picked a special material.

551
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: Can you guess what that, Elizabeth? He used a large

552
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: photo of a price is right model?

553
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 5: Stop it stop here, I'm thinking like one of those

554
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 5: like emergency.

555
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 4: Yeah.

556
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: Is it like vanta black painted? What did you do?

557
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 3: Could you imagine just absorbing all the universe? Wait? So

558
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 3: I'm hub a Hubb.

559
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: A model, Yes, hubb model? Your boy? What'd you call him? Sweet? Sweet?

560
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: Boom boom?

561
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 3: Sure? So I don't remember what I say from minute.

562
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: He picked one of those bikini clad spokesmodels who stand

563
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: on like a bass boat during the showcase showdown. Like,

564
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: that's what I want? Is my motivation? Yeah, it's better

565
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: than that because her name was Nicky Zerring Wait, the

566
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: former playboy bunny and ex wife of actor and Sarah. Yes,

567
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: she heard about this curious sunshield and the fact that

568
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: Raisa had numerous pictures of her on his on his

569
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: website where folks could track his progress, because he had

570
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: a website, so he had all these photos of her

571
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: on that too, not just for him, just shared the love?

572
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 3: Was this a way for him? To get her attention.

573
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, but apparently they had mutual friends because

574
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: mutual friends put them in contact. And then Raza asked

575
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: her a favor. Elizabeth, According to Nicky's erring, he said,

576
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: can you be my wilson? Like in Castaway the Tom

577
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: Hanks movie.

578
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 3: Just wants her skin?

579
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: Have you seen the movie?

580
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: Like a bloody okay?

581
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: So he asked the model if she would be his

582
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: motivational volleyball. He's like, look, would you be my motivational volleyball?

583
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: And she was flattered. According to her, I said, I

584
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 1: would be honored to be your wilson.

585
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 3: So, I mean, this is really did should she go

586
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 3: in there?

587
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: Did she just her picture?

588
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 3: She's like, I thought he was going to keep her

589
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 3: in the wheels.

590
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: Actually be her skin, her image, her image. I was

591
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: warning what you're saying about skinning. I was like, I

592
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: think the ball deflates.

593
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 3: But and so he's just gonna have her skin in

594
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 3: a bag. No in the that's big of her to

595
00:27:54,320 --> 00:28:00,719
Speaker 3: offer that. No, squeeze the juice out of the image

596
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 3: of her in the red.

597
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: In the red like simsuit or whatever. You just dropped

598
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 1: the gross out the first one.

599
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 3: Four Thank you so much. Elbe not have a photo

600
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 3: of a volleyball.

601
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,719
Speaker 1: He had a volleyball metaphor.

602
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 5: If you have to mean it, so squeeze the juice

603
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 5: out of her, put her skin in there, shake all

604
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 5: the bones out.

605
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: Then you just got ourselves a motivation of Wilson over here.

606
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 3: Well, I listened to this and I thought, I'm just

607
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 3: precise with my all.

608
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: Very really touching, and you scan her. He was like,

609
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,479
Speaker 1: I don't expect a stranger to be cool touching.

610
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: It's creepy. Well yeah, it is crazy, especially when I

611
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 3: think about it.

612
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: But I'll put it to you this way, Elizabeth. You

613
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: don't expect anyone ever to be cool with someone like

614
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: a stranger asking them, Hey, would you be my emotional

615
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: support volleyball? Right, but Nikki's earrings, She's like, sure, stranger,

616
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean I was. She was apparently impressed by my

617
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: man Raisa and all he had hope to accomplished. And

618
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: now you know, back to Nikki, she said, quote, he's

619
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: going to have a spear in case there's a shark.

620
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: He's going to run in a hamster wheel basically across

621
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: the ocean. She she was very impressive, positive, like, he's

622
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: basically a real man. I think it's what she was

623
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: trying to get down to IY in listening. Here's his

624
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: own fish. He runs across the ocean.

625
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 3: Anyway, This is like Sharknado.

626
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: He was in Sharknado. I'm seeing the connection.

627
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 3: I am going to put the red thread on the wall.

628
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: Elizabeth realizes, realize, realize. So if someone told me that

629
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: they planned to spear sharks as they ran across the ocean, right,

630
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: and then they asked me if I would be there,

631
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: touched down to humanity, I'd be like, yeah, you got it, bro,

632
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: just like her, Elizabeth, where's your heart? I mean, that's

633
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. Anyway, even though he had Nicky's earring

634
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: as his emotional support volleyball. On a fateful Saturday, Raisa

635
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: and his homemade hydropod because that's what the Coastguard calls it,

636
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: aka his inflatable hamster wheel. It washed ashore near Saint Augustine, Florida.

637
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: He had once again failed to run across the sea.

638
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 3: Why didn't you just take it and roll it up?

639
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 3: I ninety five bush it? I mean, then he'd get

640
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 3: Florida to New York. You'd have a pavement. He'll still

641
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 3: be doing. I mean he could spear like calls on

642
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 3: the side of the road.

643
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm into this. Well, the tourists on the beach

644
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: that day, boy did they get a show, right they

645
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: just is that the picture? Yeah, that's the picture. Show.

646
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 3: There's like a guy.

647
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 5: There's a show, face down like sunbathing, and it looks

648
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 5: like he's about to get.

649
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: Run over exactly. So the people in Florida they seen

650
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: Wilder and.

651
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 3: There's an empty chair next to him. So his companion

652
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 3: has run for help.

653
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: You know you can drive trucks on the beach in Florida, right,

654
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: so like a wild place. Oh yeah, actually every year

655
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: it's real. Sad now it's real.

656
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 3: Said anyway, Normally, if something.

657
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: Is washing ashore on the beach in Florida, it's gonna

658
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: be like a beached whale, maybe a bale of pot

659
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: or like a brick of cocaine. You never expect a

660
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: man in a giant inflatable hamster wheel. So the people

661
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: are like, hey, take a picture of this kid's anyway,

662
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: raise it once again? They told you landed back on

663
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: Florida shores. Feeded yet again. He popped up out of

664
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: his inflatable amster wheel. He assessed the progress of his day.

665
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: How far did I make it this time? First, he

666
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: had decide where am I right? Am? I?

667
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 3: Did I make it south of Where?

668
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: Did I make it to Georgia? Did I make it

669
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: to South Carolina? Nope? He realizes, all I'm in Sant Augustine, Florida.

670
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 4: Right.

671
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: That means he made it about twenty five miles from

672
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: where he'd started. Twenty five miles. He only had another

673
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: nine hundred and seventy five miles to go around.

674
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 3: I want him to make it to Myrtle Beach.

675
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what I showed you. That costs raise

676
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: one thousands of dollars to construct.

677
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 3: Jack.

678
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: Right now you're looking at the product of more than

679
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: a decade of R and D. And when it comes

680
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: to your homemade ocean going watercraft, that state of the art.

681
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean really, yeah, totally. But that bad boy even

682
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: had a satellite phone.

683
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 4: What.

684
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to say, it's very clever looking.

685
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: His inflatable bubble got caught in a hurricane. Yeah, that

686
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: can happen in the Atlantic Ocean at that time of

687
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: year or so. In case that happened, he had his

688
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: sat phone right in.

689
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 3: Case he went to the dry tortuga.

690
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: He exactly, he got up caught there in the saragassa.

691
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: He also had a water filtration system.

692
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 3: Look good for him.

693
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, because drinking salt water that'll drive you mad. You

694
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: know about that, right? You maybe think of there and

695
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: your man raise it already kind of sounds a little mad.

696
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: I understand that, Elizabeth, but not that kind of mad.

697
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: Saltwater make you mad and like, you know, long for death.

698
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: This is the fun kind of mad. He's like, yo,

699
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: let's like, you know, go to an insane clown posse show.

700
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: Kind of mad. All right, let's let's run to New

701
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: York and a human hamster wheel kind of mad, fun mad, Elizabeth.

702
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: You know, other than catching fish with his spear, what

703
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 1: was he gonna eat? You may be wondering.

704
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 3: Seagulls?

705
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: Well, he have you not heard the rhyme of the

706
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: ancient mariner? You're not supposed to eat these things anyway.

707
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: Any seabird, that's my rule. Don't need a seabird.

708
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 3: I'd make seagull one.

709
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: I respect off. Well, he was out there. He did

710
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: have a small kitchen albatross bird. Any seabird, don't need

711
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: a pelican, don't need a seagull. They need an albatross.

712
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: I'll eat a ducking near a lake maybe. Now, what

713
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: did he have in his small kitchen, of it's his

714
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: little makeshift kitchen. He had granola and ramen noodles.

715
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: It's like my kitchen.

716
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he had no stove, so that was ramen

717
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: noodles dry.

718
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 3: I've thought about that a lot.

719
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: What eating ramen noodles dry?

720
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 3: Any pasta ramen dry?

721
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 5: Like for an earthquake kit Yeah, I thought like, well,

722
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 5: you just soak it water long enough, it just won't

723
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 5: be warm.

724
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: But yes, from the most part.

725
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 3: Honestly, I mean, if it takes a couple of months,

726
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 3: you can totally eat it.

727
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: But some of the some of the noodles can't go back,

728
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: but not salmon. But there's a food illness, food born

729
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: illness you can get from eating pasta. Sure, so which

730
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: is screwed with any flour, I mean, like if you

731
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: just said flour, and also you know with the egg

732
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: going bad if you have egg noodles, I would recommend

733
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: egg noodles. But like he's out there with his dry

734
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: ramen noodle brick, just eating it like a thick cracker.

735
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: Oh you can do that too, Yeah, no, would you

736
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: sprinkle the flavor dust on it or eat it?

737
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 3: Just dry snort the flavor dust, smoke the Ramen flavor.

738
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 5: Be like dehydrated. I wouldn't put the flavors. It's gonna

739
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 5: suck all thet.

740
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: You Well, it'll hold it in your body'll just pull

741
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: it out the places you want it. Yeah. So, in

742
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,959
Speaker 1: his prior attempts, the coast Guard had always told him

743
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: that he had to register his homemade watercraft. As I

744
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: told you, my man raised a he listened this time.

745
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, he filed paperwork with the State

746
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: of Florida, a vessel registration form in the area that

747
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: they asked what sort of propulsion system you run in there? Bro,

748
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: He's like, oh outboard, So yeah, he's the outboard engine.

749
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: What are you looking at it?

750
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 3: Board?

751
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, very very fitting, I thought, all right.

752
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 3: And then he's not installed into.

753
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: So that's where the fuel of his craft used. He

754
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: checked the box other as in, like, I don't know

755
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: Ramen noodles. So now not many people are running Ramen

756
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: these days, so they don't have a box driven.

757
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 3: Right, it's a biofuel exactly.

758
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 1: So in the manufacturer box he put Florida Homemade Boats.

759
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: Just penciled it in. Now he's got a company name.

760
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: It is easy for maybe he'll get the business. Who knows. Technically,

761
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: he didn't have to file a registration paperwork because according

762
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

763
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: I looked this up, state law require paperwork for any

764
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: non motor powered vessel that's longer than sixteen feet. That

765
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,479
Speaker 1: law isn't mostly intended for sailboats, but not human powered

766
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: hamster wheels. And so they made a mistake because his

767
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: homemade watercraft was only ten feet at its widest point

768
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 1: and six feet long. Elizabeth, wait what it looks way bigger?

769
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 5: Right?

770
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 3: This looks way big.

771
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: So he's all good under Florida law.

772
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so the guy in this in the foreground

773
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 3: of the photo is throwing.

774
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: Off yes your scale Okay, yes.

775
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 3: I mean it looked like it was like fifteen feet

776
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 3: tall exactly.

777
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: So now he's got the laws of the sea and

778
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard also to deal with. They would force

779
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: those which are different than Florida state law. So that's

780
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: what he'd run a foul of them past. Now for

781
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: his third attempt, he never reached out to the coast Guard.

782
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: So as he was running away from a point where

783
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: he had visibility from shore, Raza noticed his GPS device

784
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: on his inflatable hamster wheel wasn't working. This means he

785
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: would have no idea where he was once he lost

786
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: sight of land. You're in a hamster wheel. That's bad, right,

787
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: So he decides I'm going to head back. Sure, eventually

788
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: washed ashore at Saint Augustine to the amusement of the tourists. Right,

789
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: but as Razor recalled, quote, I open the top door

790
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: and jump out. They're laughing, they're taking pictures of me.

791
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing. I am not dumb. They say,

792
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: why do you do this? It's a very good question, right,

793
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: everybody really wants to know. And then we've kind of

794
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 1: covered it. But uh, the reason why, Elizabeth Nikki, because

795
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: it's there to be done, Nicki, Nicky's siring, That's why

796
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: he's doing it. Well as uh, you know, for those

797
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: who forgot, he was also doing this for anybody who

798
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: was experiencing homelessness. Remember doing it for the kids. Coast

799
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: Card is always like no, Raisa, it's not gonna help

800
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: them that way, And also raise that you're out of

801
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: compliance with the Captain of the port order.

802
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 5: When he's all out there, delirious and dehydrated, he's just

803
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 5: gonna be singing.

804
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 3: Why kids.

805
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: Coming in out of consciousness, still singing the.

806
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 3: Song donat jer car to day?

807
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: Now, have you ever heard by the great voice hurt?

808
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of captain of a port order?

809
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 4: No?

810
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 1: So a captain of the porter I'm glad you asked.

811
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: That's a rule we covered earlier, which is where you

812
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 1: have to have an escort or a support vessel, right right, right, okay,

813
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: So if that's if he planned to run across the sea,

814
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: and if he didn't have that, the coastcar was like

815
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: a failure to comply with Captain of the Port orders

816
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: is punishable by a civil penalty of up to ninety

817
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: five and eighty one dollars. There may also be criminal

818
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: penalties for violating the order. Yes, serious, dude, like almost

819
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,760
Speaker 1: one hundred grand for like not having an escort.

820
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 3: Well what is this? Or sometimes it's a fine of

821
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 3: one hundred grand four having an.

822
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: Say what part of Florida are we in?

823
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 3: Hey?

824
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: So now they wouldn't let my man eat or run? Right,

825
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, come on, you want to do your thing, though,

826
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: Raisa indomitable, so what's he do? He's pulled off long

827
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: runs before on an open ocean. According to him, he

828
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: once ran four hundred miles in the Pacific Ocean in

829
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: a human powered, inflatable hamster wheel. So there's that, Elizabeth, Yeah,

830
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: don't doubt him. Four hundred miles. However, that earlier version

831
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: of his homemade hydropod was destroyed, so there's also that.

832
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: So you got to balance these things out. So, as

833
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: Razer tried to explain to the coast guard, I can't

834
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: afford to support vessel, so leave me alone, bro, I'm

835
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: just trying to live my life in my hamster wheel. Now,

836
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: he also added, and I quote, I don't have a car.

837
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: I put everything in my life in it. So he's

838
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: basically homeless in a hamster exactly. So, now that we're

839
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: all caught up and ready for last year's big adventure

840
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: in the open ocean, as Raisa once again attempts to

841
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: run across the sea in a human powered hamster wheel,

842
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: this time to England, do you think he'll make it, Elizabeth? Yes, Okay,

843
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: let's take a break and after third we'll find out

844
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: all right, Elizabeth, arrest Zarin here? I am you ready

845
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: for some more storytime?

846
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 3: Yes?

847
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: Okay. After his twenty twenty one attempt to run from

848
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: Florida to New York failed, and he'd failed a couple times, yeah,

849
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: old Captain bubble my man raised, he decided to regroup

850
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: to reassess. After some contemplation, he decided he'd need to

851
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: up his game, so he needed to do something harder.

852
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: He'd picked too easy of a challenge. That was the problem.

853
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: He need to get out of into international waters, escape

854
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard, and they're muddying around in his dreams.

855
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: So rather than to run to New York, he'd hamster

856
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: wheel his way all the way to jolly old England. Okay,

857
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: So his twenty twenty three handmade watercraft was no better

858
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: built than his prior versions. Exactly what you see.

859
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 3: It's a standard.

860
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: He knows a model, it works, He's sticking with it, right,

861
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, what am I doing updating the wheels?

862
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 3: Time to experiment.

863
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: So the Coastguard would, no doubt once again deem his

864
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: craft quote manifestly unsafe. Part of poopers right, So he

865
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: knew he certainly couldn't afford the possible one hundred grand fine,

866
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: So if he got caught and popped again, he could

867
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 1: do that. So he's like, I just gotta run. So

868
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 1: what do you think happened, Elizabeth?

869
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 3: He ran?

870
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: Well, yes, now, his dream of runn across the ocean

871
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: was very real. So last year, Captain Bubble back at

872
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: it again. Do you think he made it this time?

873
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 3: Yes?

874
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 1: Well no, you already know the answer. He didn't make it.

875
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: He's on this show.

876
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 3: I like to imagine he did.

877
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: No, the answer is hell no. But let's just forget

878
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: about all that. Let's just go there now. So Elizabeth,

879
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: I'd like you to close your eyes as and picture it.

880
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: It's August twenty sixth, twenty twenty three. The sounds of

881
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: the sea fill the air. The rush of wind against

882
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 1: your cheeks, the sound of the water slapping against the

883
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: prow of the boat, the rhythmic rise engine, wine, and

884
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: then slapping fall of the boat. You, somehow, Elizabeth, are

885
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: not seasick. Somehow, you're also thrilled to be aboard the

886
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: Coastguard cutter Valiant. You see, you are a trained sea otter,

887
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: part of a hush hush Coast Guard program to train

888
00:40:58,600 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: sea otters for Search and Rescue.

889
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 3: I love it.

890
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: You are a top secret seahwter. At the moment, the

891
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: US Coast Guard Cutter Valley was taking a patrol of

892
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: boundary waters part of your team's preparations for the approaching hurricane.

893
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: And that's when someone shouts out that they had spotted

894
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: something on the horizon. The Coastguard Cutter Valiant slows its

895
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: mighty engines and then roars over in that direction. You

896
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 1: and the ship's crew spotted, at about the same time,

897
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: a homemade human powered hamster wheel just bobbing along over

898
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: some very rough seas. You don't know math because you're

899
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: a top secret seahatter, but if you did know math,

900
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: you'd estimate that the vessel was approximately seventy nautical miles

901
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 1: east of Tybee Island, off the coast of Savannah, Georgia.

902
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 3: Oh I know where that is.

903
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: Yes, Now this means this strange inflatable hamster wheel watercraft

904
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: is still in US territorial waters and thus subject to

905
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: US jurisdiction. Now, inside the homemade watercraft, you spy one

906
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: man alone. You don't know what his name is, but

907
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: it's Captain Bubble. Now you flop over to the side

908
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: of the boat. Your handler watches from the edge. You

909
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: look up at him and he gives you the nod.

910
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: Over the side you go. You follow your training. You

911
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: slowly approach and then circle the target vessel. Meanwhile, the

912
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: crew from the Coastguard cutter asked the man inside the

913
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: giant inflatable hamster wheel to step outside of a vessel.

914
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: You hear one guard's ben shout to the man in

915
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: the bubble, we need to check the registration for your

916
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: inflatable hamster wheel. The man inside, Captain Bubble shouts back,

917
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's cool. I have paperwork, but I don't

918
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: have it on me right now. I think I displaced

919
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: it somewhere. It's cool though, at the man of the

920
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: Coastguard cutter he shouts back, no, it is not cool.

921
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: At this point, Captain Bubble is basically getting pulled over

922
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: in the middle of the ocean, and it's a traffic

923
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: stop right like licensed registration, sir. Anyway, the man of

924
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: the coast Guard cutter he ask Captain Bubble, where are

925
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: you headed, sir? You can't wait to hear the answer,

926
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: You swim closer to get a better view. Captain Bubble

927
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: shouts back. You know, I'm just running over to England,

928
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: thought i'd pop over on to maybe say a football match.

929
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: Coast guard Guy's like, wait, are you for real right now?

930
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: Captain Bubble was ready for that one, he shouts back,

931
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: sometime I'm surreal.

932
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 3: I'm surreal.

933
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: Now you swim and hop up onto one of the

934
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: sections of the inflatable human hamster wheel, and you quickly

935
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: inspected seaworthiness. It is not seaworthy, not in your opinion.

936
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: You signal to your handler with a quick shake of

937
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: the head. Captain Bubble doesn't like this. He gets paranoid.

938
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: He shouts, hell's that sea lion doing? Get him off

939
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: my hamster wheel. Now you look past the obvious species

940
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: based insult of calling you a sea lion, and you

941
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: choose to hop off of his homemade watercraft when you

942
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: see Captain Bubble pull out a knife. Whoa Captain Bubble?

943
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 1: Why so serious now? But he's not playing. He waves

944
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: his knives. That's right, two knives, Elizabeth, one in each hand.

945
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: But he doesn't threaten you, the man with the knives

946
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: on the inflatable water craft. It's just yelling back, stay back,

947
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: or I'll do it. He holds a knife to his

948
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: own head, like Cleveland Little, holding the gun on himself

949
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: and blazing saddles the coast guard fell for it, going

950
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: Guy's like stay back follows. I think he's just crazy

951
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 1: enough to do so. Meanwhile, you have to swim to

952
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: a safe distance, which is good because Captain Bubble soon

953
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: realizes that his knife trick is not working. You won't

954
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 1: hold the coastguard off for long. But he does know

955
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: what we'll do the trick. He puts the knives down, rummages,

956
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: throw his stuff inside the giant inflatable hamster wheel. He

957
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: finds what he's looking for. He lifts up into view

958
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: and all you can see is a mess of colorful

959
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 1: wires in his hand. Is he holding yep? It is

960
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: He's holding a bomb?

961
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 3: Wait? What do you?

962
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: Swim right back to the coastguard? Cutter Valley intend Your

963
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: handler tosses you down to sling. You slip your head

964
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: inside a loop and he quickly hauls you above the

965
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: board a boat. You hear the radio operator say, this

966
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: is us CGC Valiant to base, requesting immediate assistant from

967
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: US Navy Explosive Origins Disposal Unit to King's Bade, Georgia

968
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: over and like that, you leave it to the bomb

969
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: guys and gals to figure out how big this blast

970
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: radius will be for Captain Bubble's homemade bomb.

971
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 3: He brought a bomb. He brought a picture of Nicky

972
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 3: ZERI and a bomb.

973
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: Well well done, U see Otter, I mean you're just

974
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: Johnny on the spot. Yeah, you did set off an

975
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: unhinged man during a rescue, but whatever, I guess now

976
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: we see why the Navy has top secret dolphins and

977
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: the Coastguard has top secret sea otters. Do you know

978
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: they used to have parrots or so, yeah, there's like

979
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: some sea birds. There was some bird the Coastguard. No,

980
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: they used them for like finding people lost at sea. Anyway,

981
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: the next day my man raised us still at it,

982
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: and now he has a bomb, so everyone is far

983
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: more likely to listen to his demands. But now that

984
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: they are listening, rather ironically, they are far less likely

985
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: to let him run to London with a bomb on board.

986
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's kind of getting into his own way,

987
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: so exactly. The Coast Guard was just as persistent as

988
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: Captain Bubble was stubborn. They called in backup, so the

989
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: US Coast Guard Cutter Campbell joined the party with the

990
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: Coastguard cutter Valiant. The Campbell sent over a fresh boat

991
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: to negotiate with Captain Bubble. The Coastguard officers. They aim

992
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: to talk down the man with the bomb trying to

993
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: run to London. They're like, bro, you can't do that.

994
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 4: Now.

995
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:53,879
Speaker 1: Get They tried to get him to, you know, leave

996
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: the human hamster wheel, and they tried to first talk

997
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: some sense into him. They tried to connect on a

998
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: human level, but everyone was kind of way past that.

999
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: Like if Sence was a place, like we'll call it

1000
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: sen Cincinnati, Ohio. They were like, at this point in Barstow,

1001
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: everybody's way out now. So the Coast Guard officers they're

1002
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: trying though, they're trying to keep things reasonable. So they're like, well,

1003
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,919
Speaker 1: let's what's uh, Let's approach him on his hierarchy of needs.

1004
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: So they'd send over fresh food and water right now.

1005
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 3: They're smart.

1006
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 1: Right then they tell them, oh, yeah, we got important

1007
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: news about your survival. There's a hurricane on the way.

1008
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 1: They were not lying there was a hurricane on the way.

1009
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: Captain Bubbles like, okay, cool, I'll keep that in mind.

1010
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: I better get running. So the Coast Guard officers were like, no,

1011
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't think you heard me, buddy, there is a

1012
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: hurricane coming. And he did hear them, Elizabeth. He just

1013
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: did not care because Captain Bubble was way more confident

1014
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: than the Coastguard was about his ability to survive a hurricane.

1015
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: He's like, let me at that storm, bro, I could

1016
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: run through and I'll buffalo right through that. Boy, I

1017
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: don't care if I'm an open Oh. So there was

1018
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: this that as I told you, that decade of R

1019
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: and D that went into this latest version of his

1020
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: human powered hamster will right construction next level when it

1021
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: comes to like bespoke handmade ocean going inflatable furniture and

1022
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: intended for small mammals. But the Coast Guard, they had

1023
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: a very good point, and their point was this, hey, buddy,

1024
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: you have a satellite phone, right, And he's like, oh, yeah,

1025
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: I got one, I got GPS and a backup and

1026
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: they're like that's great, that's great, buddy, But uh my

1027
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: point is if you have to use your satellite phone,

1028
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: who are you gonna call? And they're like, you're gonna

1029
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: call us, right, and you're gonna say please come save me,

1030
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: And we're telling you now, we don't want to have

1031
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: to come back out during a storm to save your

1032
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: happy ass. So why don't you just come back to

1033
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: shore with us now? And he's like, huh, making good

1034
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: points there, off sir, So what do you think my man,

1035
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: Captain Bubble said, once he thought about.

1036
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 3: It, I'm going to England.

1037
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, yes, Lesabie said, no, my friends, I

1038
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: thank you for checking on me, but if you excuse me,

1039
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: I need to get running. So they're like, no, we're

1040
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: not really asking. We were trying to be friendly, we're

1041
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: not really asking. Don't make us pop it.

1042
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 3: Pull out their harpoons.

1043
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jacket is dragon Lilly.

1044
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 3: Take out all the beach balls that are filling my

1045
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 3: hamster wheel to have like.

1046
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,959
Speaker 1: A shooting gallery. Ex So, at this point, though, Captain Bubble,

1047
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,240
Speaker 1: remember he's got the bomb in his hands with the wires.

1048
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: He reminded the coast guard that he had a bomb, right,

1049
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: and the coast Guard's like, all right, fair point, you

1050
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: got the bomb. Okay, well we'll still listen. We forgot

1051
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 1: about the bomb, buddy. So the Captain Bubble then he

1052
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 1: did what the truly was unexpected. Elizabeth. You won't even

1053
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: guess because it's difficult for a man who wants to

1054
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: run across the sea in an inflatable hamster wheel to

1055
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: surprise people. Yeah, we think, like that's the most outrageous thing.

1056
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: But he's like, no, no, I got one more trick

1057
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: up in my sleep. He let the coast guard know

1058
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: this bomb isn't real. Guys. Oh he just I didn't.

1059
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: I don't want you guys worried. So I'm gonna go

1060
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: run to England. Now can I go? It's just a

1061
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 1: tangle of wires, he showed him. He was just holding

1062
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: up a tangle of wires. Did he just bring a

1063
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: tangle just grabbed wires from like the back of his GPS. No,

1064
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: not while he's talking to the coast guard. Didn't matter. Back, Hey,

1065
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: I'm not in a mechanic. I don't know what.

1066
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 3: He just did this for effect. But now he's left

1067
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 3: with a tangle of wires.

1068
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: And now yet no, so the coast guard, they didn't

1069
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: know have to, you know, make a debate anymore. They

1070
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: basically said, your plan, they you know, just shot him

1071
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: with the harpoon and drug him back. No, they didn't

1072
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: really do the next day, wait, one day on August

1073
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: twenty ninth.

1074
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 3: But why didn't they just attach something. I mean, it's

1075
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 3: just dragon. It's like a giant car.

1076
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: I just have a steel frame, yep.

1077
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Speaker 3: So put a hook on it and drag him home.

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Speaker 3: He's not going to be able to overpower. They should

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Speaker 3: have had you on that boat every time.

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Speaker 1: Well. August twenty nine, twenty twenty three, the US Coast

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00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: Guard Cutter Campbell, launched its small boat and send it

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Speaker 1: back over to visit with Captain Bubble. They checked in

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00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: with him see if he was willing to climb out

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Speaker 1: and returned to shore before the hurricane arrived any day

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00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: now and they had to rescue him. The Coast Guard

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00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: they weren't. They weren't entirely sure if the bomb was

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00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: real or not real, because they hadn't seen the one

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00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 1: he just held up, like, oh, these are just wires. Yeah,

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00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: maybe he really does have a bomb. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, on day three of their open ocean standoff,

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00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: they're like, what are we going to do? Suddenly, as

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Speaker 1: I told you, Elizabeth, there was a miracle, much like

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Speaker 1: how g Is felt. On day three, Captain Bubble decided

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00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: he was ready to roll back the rock, step outside

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00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: and stretch his legs. He told the coast Guard he'd

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00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: let them help him disembark from his doomed vessel. My

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00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: man raised up, popped open the lid to his inflatable

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Speaker 1: human hamster will, and he happily climbed out.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: A few days later, one day with a non consensual towing.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, non consensual toeing. That's good now, at a US

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00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: Coast Guard base in Miami, Captain Bubble was there dealing

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Speaker 1: with his yet again defeat by the sea and the

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00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,919
Speaker 1: Coast Guard, and he had to go. What would Nikki think?

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00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: What must think?

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00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 3: She's so disappointed, asked her skin suit in the in

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00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 3: the boat. How much money did we waste getting this

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Speaker 3: guy off the water?

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're saving lives, Elizabeth. No money is wasted, I guess.

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00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: So let's play a guessing game. Do you think he'll

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00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: do it again? Yes, just right immediately? Will Captain Bubble

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00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: try to run across the Atlantic, maybe turn to the Pacific?

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00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: Who knows? But stay tunes water sports fans, because if

1115
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: he does, will tell.

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00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 3: You he shouls like trying to go across the Gulf

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00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 3: of Mexico. First, Yes, maybe something, but one of the

1118
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 3: great likes.

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00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: Although the Gulf of Mexico is kind of a washing machine.

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00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: It spins, it spins around. So he would if he

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00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: could go in one direction, that he'd be aiming for

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00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: Texas and he'd end up like in you know, Jamaica.

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00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: Dr he did once again the joy Torritouka. So what's

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00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: our ridiculous takeaway here, Elizabeth?

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00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 3: Uh, just stay off the water. I don't know.

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00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: Well. I will quote my man huang Zou, yes so,

1127
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: of Taoist fame, he said, And I quote, Once upon

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00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: a time, I schwang su dreamt. I was a butterfly,

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00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 1: fluttering hither and thither to all intents and purposes. A butterfly.

1130
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly,

1131
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: undaware that I was shoe. Soon I awaked, and there

1132
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: I was veritably myself again. Now I do not know

1133
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,

1134
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am

1135
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: a man. My man raised it. My point is aka

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00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: Captain Bubble. Yeah, he doesn't seem to know if he's

1137
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: a man or a hamster. But I say, let him

1138
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: dream on and he goes run again. Let him don't

1139
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: go chasing the inflatable ball. Let's see if he can

1140
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: make it. And if he can't, well that's what happens

1141
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: to hamsters.

1142
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 3: Stick to the rivers in the lakes that he's used to.

1143
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: Am I too much of a naturalist, and let's say

1144
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: let him run.

1145
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 5: Oh no, I agree, just let him do it. Yeah right,

1146
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 5: So what I mean, he's a choice exactly.

1147
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 3: He knows all the dangers. They've made it clear.

1148
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: Let nature be wild. Let my whole I'm saying, we're

1149
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: part of nature.

1150
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.

1151
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: All right, Well, there you go. That's all I got

1152
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: for you. Oh hey, by the way, you in the

1153
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 1: mood for a talkback?

1154
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, yes, hate it?

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Speaker 1: Producer Dave. Oh my god.

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00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 3: I let cheat.

1157
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 4: The beginning of this episode, the bling ring one, just

1158
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 4: had me laughing. When I was a little kid, I

1159
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 4: asked my sister to come over and smell this UF

1160
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 4: I had because it's smelled like summer to me. So

1161
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 4: I sprayed it. It was WD forty right into her eye.

1162
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 4: My mom had to rush her to the hospital. But

1163
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 4: apparently I really really like the smell. So good to

1164
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 4: know that there's a perfume out there with that smell,

1165
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 4: and my sister will be very afraid.

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00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 3: Oh Oh.

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1168
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: we have the website Ridiculous Crime dot com and we

1169
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1170
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1171
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1172
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Speaker 1: if you'd like two a Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Once again, start that dear oh list. Okay, thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch your next crime. Ridiculous Crime is hosted by

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00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Dutton and Zaren Burnett, produced and edited by My

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00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: name is Admiral Bubble. Captain Bubble is my son aka

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00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: Dave Acousta. Research is by Marissa. He should try running

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Speaker 1: a cross lakes or rivers start there, Brown and Andrea Yeah,

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00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: and then stick to the lakes and rivers. He's used

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Speaker 1: to song Sharpened Tear. Our theme song is by Thomas Cruse,

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Speaker 1: director for the human Hamster Wheel, Lee and Travis your

1182
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Speaker 1: cool mustachioed bartender for the inflatable hamster Wheel, Dott. The

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Speaker 1: host wardrobe provided by Body five hundred. Executive producers are

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Speaker 1: Ben Hey, Nice, Bubble, Boldwin and Noel. Thanks. I just

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Speaker 1: had it inflated Brown.

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