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Speaker 1: You're listening to unexplained with me, Richard mc lean smith.

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Speaker 1: We are the Witchcraft Part two. That evening, after returning

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Speaker 1: bear the dazzling brilliance of that light. And on it continues,

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Speaker 1: Although Jack doesn't know this, he feels something of its

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Speaker 1: summer of nineteen forty. In April nineteen forty two, four

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Speaker 1: years after declaring they could do what nobody else thought possible,

428
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Speaker 1: the group gathered in the Mahave Desert to witness two

429
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Speaker 1: liquid propelled rockets the takeoff of a hulking fourteen thousand

430
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Speaker 1: pound bomber plane. As the team, led by Melina and

431
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Speaker 1: summer Field, celebrated with von Carmen, there were two noticeable absentees,

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Speaker 1: Jack and Ed. Though the pair had good reason not

433
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Speaker 1: to be there, there was something symbolic in their absence.

434
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Speaker 1: Since the beginning of the Second World War, the nature

435
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Speaker 1: of rocket science development was rapidly changing, due largely to

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Speaker 1: Jack and Ed's pioneering work in the days when nobody

437
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Speaker 1: wanted anything to do with it, More and more brilliant

438
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: scientists were entering the field, leaving little room for self

439
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: taught experts. It was in every way a science, quickly

440
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Speaker 1: leaving the likes of Jack Parsons and Ed Foreman behind

441
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Speaker 1: in the glare of its after burn. With the war

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Speaker 1: effort now in full swing, the American aviation industry went

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Speaker 1: into overdrive as one manufacturer after another cashed in on

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Speaker 1: the war. In the next year alone, over sixty thousand

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Speaker 1: planes would be manufactured and bought by the United States government.

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Speaker 1: Frank Molina, an avowed socialist, had always been uncomfortable with

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Speaker 1: the idea of profiting from war. But not only were

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Speaker 1: these extraordinary times, but even in the closeted environment of academia,

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00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: he understood that if he were ever to realize his

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Speaker 1: dream of taking rockets to space, compromises would have to

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Speaker 1: be made. The rest of the team were in agreement,

452
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Speaker 1: but despite everything they had achieved, they were unable to

453
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Speaker 1: sell their Jato product to the aviation industry. Perhaps they

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Speaker 1: saw it as competition for their own devices, or perhaps

455
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: it was the stigma still attached to rocketry which continued

456
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: to cloud the minds of the establishment as to what

457
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: was and what wasn't possible. In response, the rocket research team,

458
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Speaker 1: now officially consisting of Parsons, Foreman, summer Field, Molina, and

459
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: Von Carmen started their own company. Aerojet Engineering Corporation was born.

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00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: Despite the success with the liquid Jato rockets, the U. S.

461
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: Navy were unwilling to countenance anything other than a solid

462
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Speaker 1: fuel propellant, so when the order came in for a

463
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Speaker 1: hundred rockets, it was on Parsons to make it work.

464
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: But Jack was at a dead end. No matter what

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Speaker 1: he tried, he was unable to scale the rockets up

466
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Speaker 1: to the necessary size without cracks appearing in the mix.

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Speaker 1: What he needed was an impossibility, a solid fuel with

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Speaker 1: the properties of a liquid. After yet another explosive disaster

469
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: at the Arroyo test site, a despondent Parsons takes a

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Speaker 1: few moments to gather his thoughts. Wandering to the back

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00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: of the site, he catches a whiff of something sweet

472
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: and acrid on the warm breeze. Turning, he sees some

473
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: construction workers pushing asphalt across the roof of a nearby building.

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00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: He watches for a moment as they pour the gloup,

475
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: glinting black and gold under the sun, a solid fuel

476
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: that acted like a liquid. Moments later, Jack is back

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00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: in his laboratory, surrounded by billowing clouds of smoke and

478
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: the sweet choke of petroleum, concocting a thick blackness from

479
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: liquefied tar and potassium percolate to infused cries of EO pan.

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00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: He pours the resultant mix into an unused rocket casing

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Speaker 1: and waits for it to set. Parsons had just created

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Speaker 1: galcid fifty three, the fifty third fuel mixed by the

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Speaker 1: rocket research team. It was the first casta will composite

484
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Speaker 1: propellant ever invented. According to Frank Molina later, it was

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Speaker 1: one of the most important discoveries in the long history

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Speaker 1: of solid fuel rockets. It was also the last serious

487
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: contribution to rocket science that Jack Parsons would ever make.

488
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: While Parson's professional life was hitting its peak. Back at

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Speaker 1: the Agape Lodge, things were threatening to unravel. In response

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00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: to Jack and Betty's continuing affair. Helen sought comfort with

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Speaker 1: the group's leader, Wilfred Smith. Although Jack had encouraged the union,

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00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: Smith's lover, Regina Carl, had been far less sympathetic. Once again,

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Speaker 1: the theory and practice of Crowley's insistence on doing what

494
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Speaker 1: thou wilt, making for difficult bedfellows. With Parson's reputation, however,

495
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: steadily growing among the Agapey Lodge members, Ever, the chemist

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Speaker 1: he recognized the growing discontent as a perfect opportunity for change.

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Speaker 1: Buoyed by the successive aerojet Jack, proposed that the group

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Speaker 1: abandoned the crumbling frames of Winona Boulevard and moved the

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Speaker 1: Agape Lodge to Pasadena. And so it is that on

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Speaker 1: June ninth, nineteen forty two, the group, led by Jane Wolfe,

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Speaker 1: carrying a large portrait of Alister Crowley, make their way

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Speaker 1: through the doors of one zero zero three Orange Grove Avenue.

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00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: The house was a significant upgrade and much more befitting

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Speaker 1: for a secret magic Order. Set over three floors, the

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Speaker 1: property was the former residence of lumber millionaire Arthur Fleming,

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Speaker 1: who was a long standing donor to Caltech had hosted

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Speaker 1: Albert Einstein, among many others. Within its walls. It included

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Speaker 1: a twenty five acre garden with a pretty pagola and

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Speaker 1: fountain that would make a perfect stage for the order's rituals.

510
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: A large ornate mahogany staircase swept into a grand entrance hall,

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Speaker 1: over which was placed the portrait of Alister Crowley. A

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Speaker 1: garage located a short distance from the house was promptly

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Speaker 1: converted into Jack's home laboratory. Wilfrid Smith, still acting as

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Speaker 1: the official head of the lodge, and Helen, took the

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Speaker 1: master bedroom on the second floor, while Betty and Jack

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00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: shared another bedroom on the same floor, installing a large

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Speaker 1: statue of the Great God Pan in the corner. The

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Speaker 1: two couples were joined by Regina Carl and Jane Wolf,

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Speaker 1: among many others who would come and go over the

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Speaker 1: next few months. By nineteen forty two, largely thanks to

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Speaker 1: the charismatic Jack, forty new members had been admitted into

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Speaker 1: the aga A Lodge. But if it was order that

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Speaker 1: Jack was hoping for, he would not find it here,

524
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: as more and more initiates, keen to adopt the principles

525
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: of Thelama, struggled with the reality of applying its teachings

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00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: before the mind was ready to follow. One new member,

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Speaker 1: Grady McMurty, who Jack had been introduced to earlier in

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Speaker 1: the year, was particularly upset to discover his wife Claire,

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Speaker 1: had participated in sex magic rituals with both Smith and

530
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: Parsons without his knowledge. McMurty was equally dismayed to discover that,

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Speaker 1: six months after the group had moved into Orange Grove,

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00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: they hadn't practiced the Gnostic Mass once and duly informed Crowley,

533
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Speaker 1: who in return blasted Parsons for his naivete and ordered

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00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: Smith to stand down as the group's leader, blaming him

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Speaker 1: for the group's lack of focus. Crowley's response is a

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00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: double blow for Parsons. Not only had he upset his

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Speaker 1: spected leader, who he still had high hopes of meeting

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00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: in person, but the threat of losing Smith, who had

539
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: become an invaluable and trusted instructor, was the last thing

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Speaker 1: he had expected. By the end of nineteen forty two,

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Speaker 1: rumors are swelling about just what exactly has been going

542
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: on at the new Agape Lodge, and soon there are

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Speaker 1: reports of men in black suits keeping watch of the house.

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00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: But amidst the chaos, one thing remains consistent, the magic.

545
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: It had been the case for some time that science

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00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: was no longer the priority for Jack, at least not

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Speaker 1: in the traditional sense. Having remained an avid fan of

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00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: science and fantasy fiction over the years, one author's book

549
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: in particular, had awokened something in him that he had

550
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: been suspecting for some time. Written by Jack Williamson, Darker

551
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: Than You Think tells the story of a race of

552
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: lycanthropic witches who for a long time had been forced

553
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,439
Speaker 1: to live in the shadows after losing an ancient war

554
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 1: with Homo sapiens. Not until the coming of the Child

555
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: of the Night will the magical race be set free

556
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 1: to rule the earth once more. To Jack, the book

557
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 1: drew parallels with Crowley's own prophecy of the coming Age

558
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: of Horace. Unlike Crowley, however, who saw the current era

559
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: of death and destruction as the period of transition from

560
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: one age to the next, for Parsons it was more

561
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: evidence of the continuing ills of the masculine age of

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Speaker 1: a Cirius. Where Crowley saw the Age of Horace as

563
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Speaker 1: a balance, it was far more important for Parsons to

564
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: focus on returning the feminine to its rightful place at

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Speaker 1: the top. With Jack now being treated as the de

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Speaker 1: facto lead of the lodge, it was beginning to occur

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Speaker 1: to him that perhaps he was that Child of the Night,

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Speaker 1: destined to help usher in the new age As the

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Speaker 1: ever impatient Jack continues in his efforts to harness the

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Speaker 1: power of real magic, a number of strange shapes and

571
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Speaker 1: terrifying noises are reported at one zero zero three Orange

572
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Speaker 1: County Avenue. Concerns that he is getting ahead of himself,

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Speaker 1: and rumors of black magic begin to circulate. Jack Williamson's

574
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: book also tells of a flame haired woman whose arrival

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Speaker 1: is pivotal for the creation of the new age. Jack

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Speaker 1: two will meet such a woman, but not before undertaking

577
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Speaker 1: one of the most ambitious and infamous magical workings ever

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00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: to be recorded. But there is one more ingredient required

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Speaker 1: before Jack's ambitions can be fully realized, the arrival of

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Speaker 1: another flame haired individual, a master of story and the

581
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: tall tale who going by the name of Ron, will

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Speaker 1: soon cast his own particular spell on all who crosses path.

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