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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back George Nora along with our friend Richard

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Speaker 2: Sarah to talking about his book Tales from the Rock

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Speaker 2: and Roll Twilight Zone. The foward to his book is

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Speaker 2: written by our friend Jim Harold from Campfire Stories. By

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Speaker 2: the way, Richard, there's a song that the real Paul

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Speaker 2: McCartney US now eighty four years old, refuses to sing,

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Speaker 2: and it was John Lennon's. Imagine, because he wants to

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Speaker 2: continue to pay homage to John, he won't sing it.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard that story?

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Speaker 3: No, I wasn't aware of that. So he won't sing

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Speaker 3: it because he just thinks that's there's only one person

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Speaker 3: that can sing that, and that's John Lennon.

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Speaker 2: I guess jud it's John Lennon's song.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, absolutely it is.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty good to honor for him. Our senior producer

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Speaker 2: Tom Danhuis is a big led Zeppelin fan. You've looked

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Speaker 2: into Jimmy Page's fascination with Alister Crowley.

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Speaker 3: Oh, indeed, Jimmy Page wasn't just asually interested in Alistair Crowley.

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Speaker 3: I mean he became one of the world's largest private

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Speaker 3: collectors of Crowley artifacts, books, manuscripts, paintings, ritual objects. He

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Speaker 3: even opened an occult bookstore in London called the Equinox

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Speaker 3: and which contained all of Crowley's books and et cetera.

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Speaker 3: But then the prize possession for Jimmy Page is when

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Speaker 3: he purchased Alistair Crowley's house on the shores of Loch Ness,

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Speaker 3: Boluskin House. And this was not just any ordinary country estate.

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Speaker 3: It was the place where Crowley had attempted the infamous

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Speaker 3: a Brammelain ritual or a Brammelain operation. And according to

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Speaker 3: a cult tradition, that ritual involves summoning and eventually dismissing

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Speaker 3: dangerous spiritual entities before establishing contact with one's holy guardian angel.

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Speaker 3: Now he wouldn't refer to them as demons, but I'm

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Speaker 3: an Orthodox Christian. I would refer to these entities as demons.

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Speaker 3: So the story goes that Crowley abandoned this ritual before

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Speaker 3: properly closing it. In other words, he didn't properly bind

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Speaker 3: these entities once they came through the portal, and he

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Speaker 3: got called off to Paris and left the house. And

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Speaker 3: as I say, he didn't bind these spirits, and so

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Speaker 3: he sort of left this door open. Now, Jimmy Page

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Speaker 3: spent surprising, a little, surprisingly little time at Boleskin House

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Speaker 3: when he bought it. But strange stories started to happen.

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Speaker 3: Visitors reported oppressive atmospheres, unexplained sounds, odd accidents, And you know,

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Speaker 3: whether you believe any of that is another matter. But

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Speaker 3: now look at what happened led Zeppelin. Robert Plant and

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Speaker 3: his wife nearly die in a horrific car crash in Greece,

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Speaker 3: and then tragically, their young son, Karric dies unexpectedly. John

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Speaker 3: Bonham drinks himself to death. Jimmy Page becomes addicted to heroin,

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Speaker 3: Kenneth Anger publicly claims to have cursed him. The band collapses. Now,

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Speaker 3: am I saying that Crowley cursed led Zeppelin? No, But

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Speaker 3: you look at fame, drugs, alcohol, exhaustion. You know, those

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Speaker 3: things explain a great deal. But here's what I find interesting.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Page wasn't simply fascinated by dark symbolism. He immersed

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Speaker 3: himself in it. He surrounded himself with it, He collected it,

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Speaker 3: he lived inside it. And I think if history teaches

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Speaker 3: us something, it's if you spend enough time knocking on

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Speaker 3: certain doors, Eventually something might answer.

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Speaker 2: You're right about that. And one of the fascinating in

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Speaker 2: Aslick's all of this was the death of Elvis Presently

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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy seven. Died at the age of forty two.

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Speaker 2: You think something sinister might have happened there, don't you.

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Speaker 3: I think it is quite likely. You know, it's interesting

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Speaker 3: his autopsy was sealed by his family in nineteen seventy seven,

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Speaker 3: and it's for fifty years. Well the fiftieth anniversary is

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Speaker 3: see what mysteries are still in that autopsy. But here's

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Speaker 3: the interesting thing. One he died and he was found

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Speaker 3: the second floor of Graceland in Memphis. There was a

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Speaker 3: rush to judgment. The medical examiner for Shelby County, where

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Speaker 3: of a heart attack, and this was before receiving any

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Speaker 3: of the toxicology reports from Well. There were three separate

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Speaker 3: toxicol reports. Two of them reported that there were only

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Speaker 3: therapeutic levels of prescribed medication in Elvis in his body,

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Speaker 3: explain his death. The third toxicology report was a real outlier.

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Speaker 3: It was conducted by Biosciences Lab in California. And let

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Speaker 3: me first say I should I need to give a

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Speaker 3: lot of credit here to someone who I interviewed, who's

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Speaker 3: did a lot of amazing, amazing research and his book

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Speaker 3: Who Murdered Elvis? I don't know how many hundreds of

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Speaker 3: this toxicology report from Biosciences Lab in California claimed that

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Speaker 3: there was eleven times the lethal dose of codeine in

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Speaker 3: and they during the autopsy. Dan Warlick, who Steve Ubaaney

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Speaker 3: got to know quite well before he passed, and he

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Speaker 3: a medical examiner's offices as well. He held Elvis's larynx

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Speaker 3: one of the greatest voices of the twentieth century. He's

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Speaker 3: There was no swelling, no sign whatsoever of anything that

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Speaker 3: So this outlier toxicology report, who knows how that happened.

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Speaker 3: Whether someone got to them, someone influenced them, someone blackmailed them,

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Speaker 3: bribed them, I don't know. But there was no codeine

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Speaker 3: And as for the heart attack, that doctor Jerry Rodriquez

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Speaker 3: heart was dissected three hundred times in that autopsy. There

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Speaker 3: was no indication of a catastrophic cardiac event on the horizon.

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Speaker 3: Elvis had also undergone a rigorous medical examination three weeks earlier,

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Speaker 3: as was required because he was about to go on

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Speaker 3: tour again. He was in fact going to go on

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Speaker 3: said that Elvis was healthy, there was no heart attack,

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Speaker 3: there was no drug overdose. But there's plenty of motive

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Speaker 3: I believe for murder.

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Speaker 2: And that corner was doctor Francisco was.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Doctor Jerry Francisco, thank you for that.

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Speaker 4: But I know you're going to want some after hearing this.

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Speaker 4: This is an amazing story. We've got Stephen and Malachi

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Speaker 4: Gregory in Nelson, New Zealand. Now I understand that Malachi,

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Speaker 4: who is eight almost nine years old now, was suffering

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Speaker 4: with not just one or two warts, but I mean

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Speaker 4: a significant outbreak of warts all over his body, so

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Speaker 4: significant it impacted his ability to really function.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he was having trouble even holding a pencil to right.

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Speaker 5: It was Ty's book. Actually they got me thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised.

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Speaker 4: It is an amazing immuno modulator, and so I can

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Speaker 4: see that it would work. And so at what point

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Speaker 4: did you see that there was actually improvement, it's really

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Speaker 4: going to work.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, we.

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Speaker 5: Really to notice it. Around twelve weeks. You can see

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Speaker 5: these things actually getting smaller and smaller and then going

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Speaker 5: one that size for Warner?

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Speaker 1: I thought, no way that's gonna Wow.

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Speaker 5: It's just been miraculous to see him get into a

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Speaker 5: pair of shoes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, how wonderful.

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Speaker 5: It's great to see him so happy and yeah.

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Speaker 4: Confident, absolutely wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Friends that have seen it, that is blown away.

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Speaker 3: TI, this is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is awesome.

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Speaker 2: Well, if he didn't die the way they officially said

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Speaker 2: he did, you think he was murdered, Well, let's look

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Speaker 2: at his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

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Speaker 3: Now Colonel Tom Parker was neither a colonel, nor was

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Speaker 3: he actually named Tom Parker. He was from Holland. He

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Speaker 3: He signed Elvis to an unbelievable contract where he took

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Speaker 3: Then Colonel Tom Parker also realized at a certain point,

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Speaker 3: So you add all those things up, and to me,

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Speaker 3: I think the probability that Elvis was murdered is quite high.

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Speaker 3: He was a very lonely man. In fact, you know

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Speaker 3: that played into the motive as well. But Elvis was

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Speaker 3: and I think he knew that he was being not

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Speaker 2: Maybe so February third, nineteen fifty nine, the day the

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Speaker 2: music died, that horrible play crash that took delives of

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Speaker 2: Buddy Holly, Richie Vellens, JB. The Big Bopper, and the

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Speaker 3: I got to know Peggy Sue Garon a little bit,

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Speaker 3: the real Peggy Sue who was immortalized in the song

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Speaker 3: Peggy Sue by Buddy hauling their crickets. Yes, yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: the one, and Peggy Sue got married, which was kind

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Speaker 3: of the sequel, which was later the inspiration for a movie.

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Speaker 3: But Peggy Sue described to me dreams and premonitions involving

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Speaker 3: that something bad might happen. She never claimed to be

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Speaker 3: she attempted to warn Buddy every time, please don't chart

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Speaker 3: And as I say, there were other premonitions surrounding the flight.

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Speaker 3: Richie Vallence, who also died on that plane, he had

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Speaker 3: a lifelong fear of flying after witnessing about a or

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Speaker 3: I shouldn't say witnessing. He learned about this mid air collision,

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Speaker 3: airplane collision that took place over his school in California,

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Speaker 2: And he had a cold or something, didn't he.

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Speaker 3: He did, he did. They were all sick. Their drummer,

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Speaker 3: Carl Bunch, was in hospital with frostbite because they were

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Speaker 3: So Buddy Hawley wanted to charter a plane to get

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Speaker 2: It was away Lund Jennings, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Well, Whalen did give up his seat. He gave it

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Speaker 3: a sad story because the their final exchange, Whalen Jennings

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Speaker 3: Buddy joked to h Whale and he said, uh, Whale,

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Speaker 3: that bus. And Whalen unfortunately and regretted this for the

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Speaker 3: rest of his life. He said to Buddy Holly, well,

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Speaker 3: I hope you're playing crashes.

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