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Brandon,

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should we maybe start this one with

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the date line music or something like that?

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get some Get some date line

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on I mean, This is they'll hear they'll hear

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this in post. They'll This is a yeah.

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But still a special report. Listen.

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They'll be hearing the music

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as as we're talking right

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now. Right now, the musical

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will come in right now or like ask,

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yeah, there it is. Okay.

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Welcome. Welcome to a very special

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episode. Criminal is on the loose.

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His name, Brandon Wardell. For

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crimes, he granted it a local college I'm

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just kidding right right in versus

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the board of education. That's more like it. That's

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a good episode title. This

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is this is a special report. Brandon

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has been I've heard bits

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and pieces of this, but I know it's gonna be good story

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because you told me And it's a developing

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story too. But you've been telling me I'm spinning.

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I got it. Yeah. It's a it's a deal. I'm

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gonna be honest with you, yarn. I'll

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be the devil's advocate right here

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and say that you've you've come home

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a few times from shows and then like, that

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was a crazy experience. I need to tell you this

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crazy story. this is a really

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this is this is maybe this is different.

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Maybe this is different. This is

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maybe the wildest Road

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story to date. Yes. This

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one, I was overhearing

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bits and pieces of it because I I prefer

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to hear it myself for the first time in

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the show. But the bits and pieces I

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did here seemed really

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wild. And we're gonna have somebody We're gonna have a witness

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joining us later. for an interview. Yes.

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Strap in. This is nothing wrong. Brandon,

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you're mostly gonna be telling this story, so

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I didn't I did nothing wrong, but Do

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you wanna take it Yeah. Do you wanna take it from the very

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beginning? I'll take it

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from the very beginning. So about

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one week ago, Wednesday, last

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week. I had no plans

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I had no plans of going on the road.

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Right? Wednesday, four

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forty five PM. I get an email

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that says time sensitive offer.

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Adelphi University, Garden City,

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New York this

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Saturday. This Saturday,

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and, you know, it's five

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thousand dollars. I'm like, that okay. It's

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gonna caught it's it's no

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no travel hotel included,

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but I'm like, I don't you know,

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I gotta I gotta buy this

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last minute flight Chase the bag. so worth

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it. Chase the bag. I it seems like

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a bag worthy of chasing.

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Aren't they all right? It seems any

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any bag. Yeah. If you are if you have the real

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business mindset, you gotta chase

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all bags. So

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I I'm I'm in a bag chaser

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mindset. So I I'm like,

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you know, I'll I'll get the I'll

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get this flight gonna become a Friday --

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Bags packer. -- next? Exactly.

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Yeah. So bag if you're gonna be a bag

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chasers, sometimes you gotta be a bag packer.

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There we go. And so I, you know, I

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got a flight, nine PM.

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Nine nine PM Friday night.

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Right? Shows on Saturday. And you got the email

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on Wednesday. So you're like, Yes.

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Wednesday night, you have

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a day to be like, alright, I'm gonna figure this out.

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Yeah. You book the flights. You're on the flight

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line and That's, you know, Yeah. So

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I I head over JetBlue Burbank

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to JFK nine PM. I

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land at five thirty. I By

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the way, I've never heard of this university, Brendan.

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Oh, yeah. I mean, what is this? A Delphi?

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Yeah. I mean, you know, how many people

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are here? Well,

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like, 5KI think if you Total,

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like, five thousand people. That's a

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small Yeah. I mean, You

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know, I I don't wanna Oh, seven thousand. speak

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at it. Seven thousand. No.

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I'm just I'm not trying to disparage

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them even though that No. But

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I I mean, I I might be

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trying to disparage them. We'll see.

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But okay. Yeah. I mean, for ref for

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reference Brandon, my high school had more than

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five thousands too. in it. Right. No.

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I had I was in a I was in a big, big

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high school as well. But

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that's neither here nor there.

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So, you know, I'm going to this it's it's

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a school in Long Right?

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I I go to this airport,

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you know, I get to the airport, There's

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a yeah. TWA hotel. It's

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at the airport. Right? I check-in.

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I do a day tripper situation. or

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it's like six AM to eleven AM,

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you can rent a room. Right? Oh, like

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like if your flight gets delayed, you're like

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yeah. Yeah. It's just like for Exactly.

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Oh, that's crazy. Or, you know, if

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you just wanna yeah. You can or you can

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You're, like, in the airport. Yeah.

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But it's like a hotel TWA hotel,

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very charming, very charming

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place. But it's not it's not

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about that know, TWA hotel. It's it's

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a cute it's a cute hotel. Wow. I'm seeing Oh, it's

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what, you know yeah. Yeah.

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Right. It's these kind of oh, it's the same

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character mode. No. I love it.

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I I love I love saying there. That so

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nothing bad to say about this, but this does get bad

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to have a hotel. This does get bad, but not

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at T. W. No.

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But no. It's all it's all This

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episode is brought to you by TWA Hotels.

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It it's a beautiful gorgeous, so it's it's

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it's very charming. It's very photogenic

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and, you know, whatever. But

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I I stay there I

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wake up at, like, eleven thirty. I

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gotta be at this college at four thirty. Right?

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So, you

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know, shower you know, kill

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some time at the hotel. I meet up with my

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buddy Elijah at the

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hotel. You're you're gonna hear him come

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on later. We we

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ah we take, you know, we

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take an Uber to the campus.

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We get there at four thirty PM.

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I'm supposed to perform at six

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fifteen. Right? I

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get this email that I got

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on Wednesday the contract the

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first the first inkling I

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had that maybe

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these would be less than ideal circumstances in

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the email. It says,

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you know, Brandon will perform

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for one hour before second

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performer parenthesis, mentalist.

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Oh, yeah. You did mention that to me.

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It's all coming together and then to this suit. Yeah.

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You you thought it was gonna be a strange

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stow show because of that because you're like,

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Yeah. I'm gonna be playing with some

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sort of, like, magician, mentalist type of thing.

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What? Yeah. So it's like I guess it's a it's

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like a magician, but it it might be more

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elevated than that. It might be more of a mind

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freak. But I,

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you know, you know, I'll get I'll

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get to this, but I did not end up

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seeing this musician performed.

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Oh. I did not

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I was not I I did not.

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Yes. You were

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escorted out of the Well,

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you're you're skipping it. Well, that's where the Well, that's Well,

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that's I think that's where the Patreon preview

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ends.