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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Christina and a Carman and it's Dooky

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Dookie season and this is the Spooky Tales, Yes, Dooky

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Dookie season version, as in like we're not doing anything different,

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We're actually back to normal right now, where we have

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a true crime case, well instead of it's your crime case,

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it's like a disaster case. Okay, and a hunted prison

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and it's a State of Mexico episode but also Dookie

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Dookie season. Yeah. Yeah, if you're watching the video, which

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will actually be on YouTube for once, we're matching. Yeah,

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but before we get into our topics, we do have

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a listener's story and if you have a story that

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there's a lot of ways to get us the stories.

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We love reading them, so yes, send them are away, Yes,

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and okay, this listening story. It was sent from Instagram.

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I forgot to ask if they wanted to have their

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name shared or not, so we're going to keep them,

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keep them anon. Okay. My parents are from a town

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called Chappala, which is one of the many towns that

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border Mexico's biggest lake, Ilagod Chappala in the state of Halisko.

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This is important because it is said that the lake

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is known for having many UFO sidings submerging and emerging

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from the lake. In short, my mom and two other

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friends of hers were walking back home from a party

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along the road that surrounds the lake. The lake is

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surrounded by woods, hills, and small mountains, so it makes

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the night especially dark and eerie. This path was poorly lit.

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In fact, I think to this day it's still not

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very well lit. AnyWho. My mom saw a bright orbit

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come out of the lake and headed straight for them.

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Her two friends were unaware of what was happening, but

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this giant orb that was incredibly bright began to follow

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from behind. My mom has this thing where she gets

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paralyzed and can't talk whenever something scary is happening, so

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she stayed silent while it followed. After what seemed like

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a long time. My mom finally had the courage to

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say something to her friends, but by the time they

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turned around, the orbit was gone. How bizarre. Okay. Also,

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it could have been a witch, right right? What are

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we thinking? Orb witch? I think it was a witch.

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But why would they be coming in and out of

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the lake. They like to swim. Oh okay, they don't

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melt with water. No, okay, Well, thank you for your story.

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That was strange. Indeed, and instead of Carmen reading the

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panormal story, I'm going to do it witching it up. Yeah,

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because because it's tuk Tuki season. No, that's not why.

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Just because so we briefly talked about this place back

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in episode one hundred and thirty six, but we didn't

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do it justice back then. There is so much to

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this place that we didn't even address. There's more to share, yes,

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and so we're going to revisit it today. And that

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is That place is El Palacio de le Umberi, also

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known as El Palacio Negro, the Black Palace. It's located

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in Mexico City and today it houses the General National Archive,

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and so you can find like ayala, important documents, important things.

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They're all the important things. But before it was a

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general National Archive, from nineteen hundred to nineteen seventy six

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it was a penitentiary and it was decommissioned that year

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and turned over to the National Archive in nineteen eighty.

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And if you go today, it looked beautiful, but of

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course that was not always the case. It was built

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during the Portfitriato Portfidrat himself wanted it made, and that's

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tell you that this place was always going to be

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terrible because he specifically wanted to put his political opponents

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in there. Yikes. Also, it's a prison, right, it's a

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prison in the ninth early nineteen hundred. It's like they're

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bad today, Yeah, imagine back then. And so construction began

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May ninth, eighteen eighty five, and it officially opened on

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September twenty ninth, nineteen hundred. And the name Black Palace

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comes from before it was even open to prisoners, there

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was a sewage flood and it caused the walls of

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the building to darken, and that's why it's called black Palace.

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Doesn't that sound discussing? Yeah, like just setting foot in

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there is going to make you sick. Yeah, And soon

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after it began to house prisoners, earned their reputation for

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the prison that would make you go crazy, because well,

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the prison was designed by engineer Miguel Quintana, engineers plural

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Miguel Kana, Antonio Torres to Rica, and Antonio m emme Anta,

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and they designed it to be a panoptic prison. Do

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you know about this panoptic style? Yes, I do, And

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actually I've been hearing a lot recently, like different videos

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and whatever about the panopticon in like how nowadays people

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are like saying, like social media is like the panopticon

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because people are censorying and uh, surveilling themselves. It's fascinating her.

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I have seen themes around them videos like that. Yeah too.

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And for those that don't know, the panopticon originated from

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English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the eighteenth century.

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And while prison is already a place of oppression, this

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type of prison the worst. This type of prison is

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the ultimate system of control and surveillance. What does this like,

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you might be wondering. So this places a single prison

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officer in the middle, sort of like a watched the tower,

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and their prison itself is round. So this circular design

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is meant means that the prisoners are being watched at

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all times. The opening of the cell faces that watch

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tower in that round design. The inmates had no idea

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when or when they weren't being watched, because yeah, it's

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physically impossible for the guard to watch them all at once.

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But the point is to make them paranoid and make

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them think they're being watched, so then they self regulate.

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They can't they what is the thing you said earlier,

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surveiled themselves and sort of them Yes, yes, yes, surveil

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themselves and side note, but I watched a fascinating TikTok

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by doctor Shawna who was using this theory to basically say,

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elf on the shelf serves as a penectagon for toddlers.

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That's what I watched recently where I was talking about

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one of the videos I watched recently. Anyway, back to

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the prison, So it was built to hold nine hundred

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and ninety six people and this included it was like

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eight hundred men and then the rest were women and children,

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so like if my mom was arrested, their kid was

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arrested with them in that detained also, Yeah, and it

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had eight hundred four cells, but it was also meant

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to be a place of rehabilitation, so there was workshops

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and nursery, cooking classes, baking, life skills, stuff like that.

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But the bad thing is that it was all credited,

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and so if inmates took partook in these like rehabilitation

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style classes, they had to pay, and if they had

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no money to pay, then they had to serve more

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time of course. Yeah. Yeah. Also a lot of the

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men were subjected to more mistreatment than the women, and

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the women had more access to this type of stuff,

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So that makes sense to me too. Yeah, yeah, it's

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not it wasn't surprising to read that. But of course

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the prison was quickly overcrowded and the number of inmates

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rose to three eight hundred. There was a whole house

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one hundred and eighty or nine hundred and ninety something, dawn,

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nine hundred and eightty something, one hundred and ninety six, yes,

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thank you. And at first though, recrowding was slow and

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like there was three inmates per cell, but then it

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was like quickly twenty and maids per sell, all sharing

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one toilet and like two uts. So and when places

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become a recrowded, they become more dangerous, illnesses spread more.

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Prison authorities were not able to keep up with the maintenance,

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and it became more and more insanitary. And then on

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top of that, there was a food shortage and so

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many prisoners were starving. Colombian poet Alvardo Mutis wrote a

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book called The Diary of l. Kumberi, where he describes

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his time in prison in nineteen fifty eight. That's how

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I was there, and he said it was a very

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dangerous place, and mats were regularly beaten by the guards,

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and there was a lot of corruption. He was there

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in activity eight. That applies to the entirety of the prison.

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When inmates misbehaved, they were sent to punishment cells, which

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really were like solitary confinement, which has been proven time

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and time again to be like a human rights violation. Yeah,

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I repeat that. I think we've said it in other episodes.

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Maybe I don't remember. Anyway, these cells were cold, pitch dark,

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and had no toilets down. Also, one hundred and sixty

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of the student protesters of nineteen sixty eight, which some

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of you might recognize as a clate Lolco massacre. If not,

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that's something in hundred in Mexico in nineteen sixty eight.

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It was CIA backed and it is a huge topic

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for you, so it has a known our History podcast.

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But one hundred and sixty of the students were sent

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to Le Coumber, where they were abused mentally, physically and sexually.

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They were tortured, and some of them were never seen

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again after. Oh wow, I didn't know that inmates were

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sent to specific parts of the prison depending on their crime.

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Corridor J or ruata in Espanol it was designated for

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homosexuals and allegedly where And I don't know how true

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this is, but this is what a lot of the

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articles I already said, that's where the J slur in

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Spanish originated, really, because this corridor J was meant for

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all the gaze. Yeah, oh wow, I wonder how true

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that is. I read it in multiple articles about the prison,

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but I didn't go and look at the history of

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the word. So I should have because I was gonna say,

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I'm like, that's kind of messed up. And they put

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them there, you know, knowing the slur. But then I'm like, wait,

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what came first? That's wild, right, like the chicken or

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the egg. Yeah, and some of The more famous inmates

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included Juan Gabriel himself. Oh that's right, I remember seeing

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that in the Netflix segmentary. Yeah, h he was there.

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Leon Trotsky's murder helmet Ramon Merca del Rio way Spanish, Oh, Spanish,

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a Spanish spy for the Soviet Union killed him into

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that Mexico. Oh I was gonna say, wait, he was

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by a Mexican, no, by Spanish in Mexico City, Okay, gotcha, gotcha.

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And then he was placed in Legumberi also a Banjoviyeah.

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Oh yeah, So I mean you're going to get into it.

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But then, is this prison so operating? No, I said

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in the beginning, but what the houses the National arch

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Oh that's right, you did say that. Well why did

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it stop operating? Did you say that too, because I didn't. Yeah,

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in nineteen seventy six, okay, nineteen thirty six. Yeah, and

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then it was like they had to remodel it, reconstructed

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to make it not the prison anymore and be able

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to house the all these documents. Oh, okakay maybe maybe yeah.

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So yeah, it's stopped being a prison in nineteen seventy six.

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I think at some point I said from nineteen hundred

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to nineteen seventy six as well. Anyway, during the seventy

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six years that was an accented goship man. Sometimes I

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just gotta let you talk. Yeah, sometimes not all the time.

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During the seventy six years it served as a prison,

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only two people ever escaped successfully and alive. One of

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them the first Benchovilla himself slay. Yeah. Apparently he had

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someone bring him a hat and dark glasses, and he

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broke the bars of his cell and pretended to be

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a doctor, and in his doctor disguise he simply walked

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out the front door well in full transparency. Some sources

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say that he actually escaped from La Cartel Laco and

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not Lagumberri, and others said Lagumberre. So it's hard to

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know which one. And I tried to search for like

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what it's a definitive and like just as many said,

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was either one, so because he spent a time at both.

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And the only other person to have ever escaped successfully

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was an American, a green call a gringo h His

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name was Dwight Worker Worker. He was convicted of attempting

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to smuggle cocaine. I forgot I read somewhere else it

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was a ton of cocaine. Damn. I forgot to write

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it down, unfortunately, but yeah, a lot, a lot, And

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he was given a seven year sentence, and on December seventeenth,

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nineteen seventy five, just two years until a seven year sentence,

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he escaped by dressing up as a woman and just

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walking out. Interesting, Yeah, there's a whole book, but I

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did not have time to find the book and read

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it to see his full escape. And also it's not

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an episode about the escape, right, so I didn't look

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further into it. But that's like the basic version of it.

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He dressed as a woman and walked out. The third

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escape doesn't really count because he was recaptured. But they

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say that this third escape brought on the closure of

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the prison because the escape was embarrassing for the government,

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and then President Luis Echeveria ordered the prison to be

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closed after the escape. You've embarrassed me enough yet, Yeah,

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He's like, this place it needs to go, Yeah, gots

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to go. And so that escape. This escape happened in

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seventy six and it was Alberto Si Siria Falcon, a

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Cuban drug trafficker. He was arrested on the twenty third

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of June of nineteen seventy five and sent to Le Comberi,

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and ten months into his imprisonment he escaped. It turns

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out that he and his people had paid off a

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ton of people on the outside to make this happen. First,

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they paid off the owner of this set of buildings

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that was like adjacent to the prison. Okay. Then his

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people on the outside began to work on a tunnel

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from this building in the prison. So they bought the

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building and then they began to break the wall and

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make this tunnel that connected to the prison. At the

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same time, inside the prison, Alberto had paid off the

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guards to basically let him have this entire corridor to

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himself and not be bothered. Wow. And so he and

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three people who were arrested with him like part of

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his little operation yeah cartel. Oh my god, I was like,

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what's it called the people that like do this kind

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of stuff. Members of his cartel were arrest Three members

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of his cartail were arrested with him, and so he

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and these three people they began to work on this

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tunnel from his cell, unbothered at a leisurely base stay.

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At all the time, nobody was checking on them because

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of the corruption. And so by the time the tunnel

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was discovered on April twenty sixth, nineteen seventy six, he

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and his accomplices were gone and they were like, oh

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my god, I can't believe this. They worked on this

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tunnel for ten months and nobody fucking checked because ten

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months because he was paying people off. Oh wow. Oh.

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They eventually he was found, But point is that was

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very embarrassing for the government and they were like, we

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have to close this embarrassing ass prison. It's clear that

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it's corrupt and it's not working, and so like, inmates

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were sent to other prisons. And after close it took

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a few years to construct and renovate the former prison

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into the building that would house the National Archives. During

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that process, a lot of dead bodies were found. So

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that just adds to the creepiness of it all. And

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I went to the ghost stories speaking of the creepiness.

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The most well known ghost a Legumberri is Jacinto, and

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I believe this is the only story that we shared,

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uh in that first episode where we talked about Legumberri

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and so Don'tjacinto was also known as Elvenado. Did you

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read a head or no, no, okay, try and guess

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why they called them elevenado. Oh I didn't read a

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head now I can't. Yeah, they called him this, but

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los cuernosuesposa and for our Spanish challenge friends, it doesn't

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make sense in English, and I'm sorry ahead of time.

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But when a partner she told you, one will tell

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you that guerno, they put the horns on you. And

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so that's what it called. No, it doesn't, and that's

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why he was called the lebnado or the deer because

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of his cheating wife. That's some Mexican and so apparently

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his wife cheated on him and then accused him of something.

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She was like tired of him, accused him of something.

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We don't know what that something is, something that sent

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him to Lecumbert, though, But she did promise that she

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would visit every Saturday. She didn't, she didn't do it,

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and he didn't see her again. And then years into

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a sentence, he ended up dying inside of Lecumbert. And

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then fast forward to some years after that, when the

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former prison was already the home of the National Archives.

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Workers began to notice strange things, especially the cleaning personnel

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who was there after eight pm. And one night, after

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a PM, one of these maintenance workers was in the

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former prison corridors which were now called galleries, and as

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he was there sweeping, he came across a man in

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a strange outfit. It was washed yeah, it was like

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a washed out jumpsuit, more gray than anything. And this

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man looked sad, and the worker was surprised to see him.

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Of course he was sad, and he was like, how

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did you get in here? How'd you get inside? You're

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not supposed to be in here, and the man didn't answer.

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The worker asked again, like why are you here? The

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sad man only said, Amalia hasn't visited. Yeah. The worker

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was like, I don't know who Amalia is, but I

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need to know why you're in here because this is

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close to the public now. And the man only replied

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she was supposed to come see me. And the worker

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was like, oh my god. And he rolled his eyes

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and he turned around put his broom down. He's like,

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I gotta go get security. This guy's not leaving. And

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he turned back around one more time to maybe try

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and be like, how did you get in here? He

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turned around, the sad man was gone, oh, wow, it

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was Jacinto. Yes, And over the years there was similar

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stories where people would see Don Jacinto looking for Amalia,

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his wife. I feel like, if anything, his gals should

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have been haunting her. So that's kind of sad. Yeah, yeah,

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not everyone else, go find her and not let her

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live in peace. Yeah. I did haunt her grandchildren and

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if she had kids, like you know, just keep continuing

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to haunt that family. But I mean, we don't know

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what he did. Maybe he deserves this. I don't know.

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I don't know, I don't we don't know. But even

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before it became the National Archive, people saw him there too,

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because the prison warden he was there late one night

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and before leaving, he's like, well, let me go to

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go a round of the corridors. And as he walked,

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he heard someone breathing behind him. Just oh god. Yeah.

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He turned around because nobody should be out of their cells,

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and that's when he saw a sad man sitting down

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on a chair. And so the warning walked up to

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the sad man and he's like, what are you doing

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outside of a cell? In his head, he's like, why

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are you here? I don't even know who you are? Like,

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I know, most of the people in this corridor and

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I don't know you, sad man, and the man only

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repeated Amalia didn't show up again. Oh you know what,

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it doesn't matter what he did. This is sad. It

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is the warning turned around for a sec to look

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for a guard, to be like, let's get the sad

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man back in his cell. And when he turned back around,

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the sad man was gone. Don Jacinto was gone. Yeah,

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So he quickly walked back to his office, gather his

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things and left. The Next day he decided to look

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into the strange occurrence and that's when he learned about

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a man named Jacinto who had a wife named Amalia,

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who had him in prison for something that she accused

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him of and then never visited him in prison. What

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if he did that thing he accused her of and

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that's why she didn't visit it as in prison. Listen,

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we don't know. All we know is that he's still

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looking for her. Wow. But yeah, that's the story of

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Don Jacinto, who many people have seen asking for Amalia.

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Another goes hunting le Umberi is that of Raphael Perees Epnandez,

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and he was sent to Le Comberi after having basically

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imprisoned his own family for eighteen years. Their house is

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known as La Casa de los Marcetones. And to keep

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this episode brief, we're not going to talk about the case.

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That would have to be its own episode one day

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and it will only to the topic list. But he

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was found guilty of keeping his family locked up for

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eighteen years and never letting them see outside. All his

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children testified against him, but he maintained that he was innocent,

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and during trial, he kept telling his fifteen year old son,

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no miantas libre recito, mestas per Okay, this says Isaber's

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kees falso and now in English, don't lie, libre resito.

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You're hurting me with the things you're saying, and you

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know it's false. The son's name was Libre Benaminon. They

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called them liberracito. H Did he name him this on purpose?

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Because he knew it was going to keep Okay prisoned.

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So I didn't write down. I should have wrote down

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all the kids have weird names. Well, no, sorry, I

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don't want to. I don't want to Johnique unique. Yeah,

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like you know what, Okay. One of them is Liberta

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Pensamiento and the other one is just libre and then

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there was like a hold on, I can't find it

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really quick, I have all the links here, let's see. No, okay,

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it's fine, it doesn't matter to learn once we get

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to that topic. Yeah, we will cover it as it's

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on episode plenty of the children are had like very

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similar like but no they weren't. And the other brother

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was also libre and he was Liberta pen samiento. Weird, yeah,

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very odd. Anyway, he maintained that he didn't do it,

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and he he was found guilty. He was sent to

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le Gumber where he insisted he didn't do it, and

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he ended up dying by suicide. Over all of this

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because he was like, no, it wasn't me, I'm innocent,

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and yeah, he died by suicide. And so now those

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who enter the area where his cell was can hear

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someone whispering no mina bracitomantas, don't lie, libracito, don't lie.

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And in that same corridor some people have seen a

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man dressed in all black appear and then disappear into

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the walls. That is scary. That one is creepy. I

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would hate to hear a whisper. Yeah, I'd rather hear

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like little giggling. I hear nothing, okay, no, no, I

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would just say if I had to pick, I wouldn't

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want it to be a whisper. And there's another story.

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This one is he's not a ghost, but these stories

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came from him and he passed them onto his family.

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He is known as a labello. He was a doctor

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from Sina de Mexico and when he was done with

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his doctor studies in nineteen thirty, he didn't want to

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leave like the state of Mexico for work. He wanted

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to stay close to his family. But there was a

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lot of job opportunities for doctors afar. But he's like,

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I'm not trying to leave. That's when a friend of

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his told them about Legumberi prison looking for a doctor,

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and he wasn't thrilled about the idea. But this would

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keep him nearby, and so he would do a full

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twenty four hour shift, then be off twenty four hours

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they do another full twenty four hour shift. It was

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a rough schedule and the most he saw at work

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was inmates with stomach illnesses. The century because it was

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a very unsanitary place. There was only one toy lit perps.

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Oh god, yeah, twenty cell mats and the few foods

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available to the inmates were awesome, not sanitary, So not right,

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not right. If you're going to imprison people, you need

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to feed them properly, you know. But they didn't know

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this in ninety three. They should know this at all times.

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But yeah, yeah, yeah, no, they sort of know this now. No.

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I was going to say, oh, no, they did on purpose,

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but you know, yeah yeah. So this like illness just

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spread and spread very easily in this environment. And aside

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from all the sick inmates, he also treated a lot

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of beaten inmates or inmates that seem to have been tortured.

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Another thing he's not along was inmates that seemed to

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be in shock. They weren't sick, they just their eyes

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were wide, they were strong. Yeah yeah. And once they

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these inmates finally talked, they all had a similar story,

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something like sleep paralysis, only they felt like something like

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cold had climbed on top of them at my e E.

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So that's poor fine, yeah, And he began to notice

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that some of the cellmates of those who had experienced

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the strange about as sleep paralysis, those cell mates would

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go missing and there was never an explanation of it.

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The most traumatized prisoners seemed to be those who had

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been sent to solitary confinement, of course, even if they

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hadn't seen anything. That's literal torture, yes, of course. And

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they came to him in complete shock, eyes so wide open,

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heartrates out of control. When some hours had passed, these

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inmates all told the similar tale of a devil in

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these solitary cells. Oh wow, a devil that attacked them.

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Many of the inmates went and the doctor believed them.

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He was like, there has to be something else in

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those punishment cells, like this is all too strange. And

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one story that this doctor remembers the most was that

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of a young man. This young man's crime was owing

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the wrong person money and so then he was sent

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to le Kumberi. And this young man's first night in jail,

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his cellmate began to scream and scream in the middle

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of the night. So this young man got up to

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look at his cellmate, and he saw his cellmate shaking

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and yelling, reaching for his face like if something was

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on his face. And it was pretty dark, and this

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young man couldn't really see anything, but it did look

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like a darker shadow on his cellmate's face, and so

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he decided to reach over to his cellmate to try

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and shake the cell mate out of this. The moment

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the young man touched the cellmate, he felt something so

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cold to wrap around his own body. It was the

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coldest he ever felt. Then he felt like he had

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fallen into the floor, and he didn't know what else

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happened after that. And by that point, the summer it

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was okay, and he watched as the young man was

470
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,960
levitated and then dropped. So when the young man felt

471
00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:12,440
that he had fallen on the floor, he was actually

472
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,559
mid air. Oh. And so then the cell mate, now

473
00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:18,880
that he was okay, he was yelling for the guards now.

474
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,400
And so by now it was morning and the young

475
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,039
man was taken to the doctor, and the doctor tried

476
00:27:24,079 --> 00:27:26,240
to figure out what had happened. He tried to question

477
00:27:26,319 --> 00:27:29,319
the young man, but the young man could only repeat,

478
00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:31,920
it was so cold, he grabbed me, and that's like

479
00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:34,279
all he was saying. And so the doctor was able

480
00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:37,039
to piece together what happened when he talked to the cellmate,

481
00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:40,440
but the young man was never the same again. Yankes,

482
00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:44,200
I mean, how could you be Yeah? And like nobody

483
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,519
ever figured out what that was. And there's another seale

484
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,680
I said that weird. And there's another cell called La

485
00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:54,640
the las cuicias or I guess the cuddle cell in English.

486
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:58,519
But it's not cute. It's not cute sound, it doesn't

487
00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:02,880
sound like it's going to be cute. Anyone place here

488
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:05,400
felt like something was touching them. But these aren't the

489
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,160
normal type of like Carrisias cuddles between like a parent

490
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,440
and child. No, it was sinister. When the inmate woke

491
00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:16,960
up ready to throw hands with whatever was touching them.

492
00:28:17,519 --> 00:28:22,400
No one was there. Yikes. Yes, And those who now

493
00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:27,680
visit El, whether it's to admire its beauty or look

494
00:28:27,759 --> 00:28:31,079
through the general archives, many have felt that whenever they

495
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,200
set foot in there, it feels like someone is watching you,

496
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,759
like someone's always there. Even if you're by yourself, it's

497
00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:41,000
like someone is looking at you like this. Visitors and

498
00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:46,960
employees have reported footsteps, tapping, sounds, screams, and whiling in

499
00:28:47,039 --> 00:28:49,799
the middle of the night. Yea, So can you tour

500
00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:52,079
this place like a haunted ghost tour or no? I

501
00:28:52,119 --> 00:28:55,640
don't know that there's haunted tours, but you can go. Oh,

502
00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:59,880
it's a place to visit to see and yeah, that

503
00:29:00,319 --> 00:29:04,319
was a little more about the Black Palace of Sudan,

504
00:29:04,359 --> 00:29:09,279
the Mexico the former le prison. Interesting, okay, and we'll

505
00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:13,119
take a little outbreak and then get into the I

506
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,240
guess it's not a true crime case today, it's a disaster.

507
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:30,599
So disaster case, yes, and we're back. Okay. So we

508
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:36,319
are going to be talking about the Pemex San Juanique

509
00:29:36,359 --> 00:29:40,359
explosion the day the sky lit on fire. That sounds bad.

510
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,319
You've not heard of this and no, okay, so I

511
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,079
think we have talked about Bemex before or no, wait,

512
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,240
I'm getting confused from when you were on I was

513
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:57,519
on an episode with PNW Hunts and Homicides and they

514
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,319
did an episode on this explosion Guadacada, the series of

515
00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:04,240
explosions in guad Lacara because Guada Kara is a sister

516
00:30:04,359 --> 00:30:10,240
city to Portland, Oregon. And so that did involve Pemex. Yeah. So,

517
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:14,680
as many might know, Petroleos Mexicanos, commonly known as Pemex,

518
00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:17,799
is a state owned oil and gas company created by

519
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:22,839
former Mexican President Nasodas Gardenaz created the company in nineteen

520
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,799
thirty eight to remove foreign control over Mexico's and natural resources,

521
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,440
which is a good thing. Yeah, yeah, it is. Before

522
00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:34,359
the creation of Beemex, foreign companies dominated and controlled a

523
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,480
majority of Mexicos. Oil workers were unfairly treated and the

524
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,759
country rarely saw any of the benefits or profits. And

525
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,400
that changed on March eighteenth, nineteen thirty eight, when President

526
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,680
Gardanaz signed a decree allowing Mexican authorities to seize assets

527
00:30:50,119 --> 00:30:53,440
from foreign oil companies and Pemex became a great symbol

528
00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:56,319
of Mexican nationalism and was seen as a move towards

529
00:30:56,359 --> 00:31:01,079
a better future. Yeah. Unfortunately though, in nineteen eighty four,

530
00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:07,119
a Bemex site in San Juanico, a town north of Cidade, Mexico,

531
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,680
became ground zero for a series of explosions that would

532
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,599
claim the lives of hundreds of Mexicans. Oh wow. So,

533
00:31:15,319 --> 00:31:20,480
while the forty thousand residents of San Juanico slept, beemec's

534
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:24,759
employees working the overnight shift noticed a decrease in pressure

535
00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:29,119
at the site around five thirty am. Employees attempted to

536
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,559
fix the issue, but failed to realize that a pipe

537
00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:35,839
had raptured. Oh no. As the clock ticked away, liquefied

538
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,079
petroleum gas began to be released from the site, which

539
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,319
led to a cloud built up. The vapor cloud rapidly

540
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:45,640
grew in size and a strong odor and a loud

541
00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:50,000
whistle then emanated from the site, and only ten minutes later,

542
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,480
at five forty am, the cloud reached the flare and ignited,

543
00:31:54,759 --> 00:31:58,680
causing a vapor cloud explosion that set ten nearby homes

544
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:04,440
on fire. Wow in only ten minutes, yeah wild. The

545
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:08,000
gas fueled flames quickly spread to the tanks and around

546
00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:11,279
five forty five am, the first tank exploded. So this

547
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,839
all happened really fast, too fast, and this caused a

548
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:21,599
major boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion, also known as a bleff.

549
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,960
This is when the pressurized liquid inside a vessel like

550
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,359
a propane tank, reaches temperatures higher than that liquid boiling point,

551
00:32:29,839 --> 00:32:32,960
and if the vessel can no longer contain the pressure

552
00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:36,359
inside the sealed tank due to the high temperatures, it

553
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:41,440
will mechanically fell, causing the expulsion. So that's how the

554
00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:45,720
explosion happens. Thank you, thank you, scieny. I don't know

555
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,799
if that's chemistry. I don't know, some type of science. Look,

556
00:32:49,039 --> 00:32:52,079
we're dumpitches, okay, yeah, we said that before we have.

557
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,359
The explosion launched giant fireballs into the town that were

558
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,240
up to four hundred meters wide and lit up the sky. Wow, Naja,

559
00:33:01,319 --> 00:33:05,000
you're barely getting up starting your day and that's what

560
00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:07,559
you wait, You fucking see balls of fire in the

561
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,680
fucking sky. No, I would think the world was ending.

562
00:33:10,799 --> 00:33:15,119
That's crazy. Yeah. Same. A PanAm pilot preparing to land

563
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,960
at the nearby airport also felt seismic shakes and reported

564
00:33:19,079 --> 00:33:23,119
seen an overwhelm an overwhelmingly bright light that resembled a

565
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,720
mushroom cloud. Oh my god, like like the tongue. Mom. Yeah,

566
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,279
And he quickly called air traffic control to warn them

567
00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:34,039
that a nuclear bomb had gone off, unaware that it

568
00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:39,000
was a blood explosion. Wow, and within minutes, cars, homes,

569
00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:43,920
and buildings were in golden flames. Within minim Yeah, oh

570
00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:48,240
my god. In the documentary The Explosion of San Juan,

571
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:53,599
I depic voices of the survivors. Forty years after the explosion,

572
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,240
Jo said, I made us. Fernandez and his family recounted

573
00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:01,200
how they survived the inferno. Joset told filmmakers, I was

574
00:34:01,599 --> 00:34:04,160
sleeping at that hour. We were all asleep in my

575
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,599
house at the moment the explosion happened, I quickly woke

576
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,000
up and opened my bedroom curtain and looked towards the sky.

577
00:34:11,559 --> 00:34:13,920
I saw a big mushroom cloud forming, like the ones

578
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
caused by nuclear bombs. I also felt an overwhelming and

579
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:22,719
unbearable heat coming from the windows. Oh my god. And Patricia,

580
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,719
Josa's sister told the filmmakers that she remembers thinking she

581
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,760
was going to die. And she said, I heard the

582
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,280
first explosion. It was very strong, and I woke up.

583
00:34:31,599 --> 00:34:33,920
The first thing we looked at were the windows. They

584
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,840
were consumed by a bright light that felt like was

585
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,559
right outside our home. My mother then called for us

586
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,840
and said, come here, my kids, hug me. We're going

587
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,199
to die. I would think the same, No, same, and

588
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,320
like what are you gonna do? Run or like if

589
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,159
you know there's no way out of this, like all

590
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,480
hold each other. Oh that's so sad. Yeah, and Josean,

591
00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:59,800
Patricia's family decided to evacuate immediately instead of waiting what

592
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:05,800
happened next, and that decision saved their lives, so I said.

593
00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:08,960
As I continued to walk, I came across other evacuees.

594
00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:12,320
They told me about other people they had seen that

595
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,119
were naked and covered in burns. Another explosion went off

596
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,400
and lit up the entire sky. It's like we were

597
00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:23,079
living in a war zone. There were burn victims screaming

598
00:35:23,159 --> 00:35:26,679
and running everywhere. It was very traumatic. Pattis yeah, added

599
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,440
on to that, Yeah, it sounds that sounds horrible. Another

600
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,599
survivor that was interviewed by the documentary filmmakers remembers being

601
00:35:34,679 --> 00:35:38,039
trapped in the streets unable to escape the flames and

602
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,559
hundreds of firefighters responded to the site after the first

603
00:35:42,679 --> 00:35:45,840
emergency call was placed, which was around five forty five

604
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,719
am man. And it didn't stop there at first, so

605
00:35:50,199 --> 00:35:52,639
there means there was more. Yeah, so yeah, I didn't

606
00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:57,119
stop there. Around six fifteen am, the second major explosion

607
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:01,039
went off, and for the next two hours there's six

608
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,079
other Bleff type explosions occurred, causing the ground to shake

609
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:09,079
every single time. Oh my god. And then in addition

610
00:36:09,199 --> 00:36:14,079
to the Bleff explosions, smaller explosions continue to occur until

611
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:18,239
eleven AM, and it wasn't until eleven pm at night

612
00:36:18,559 --> 00:36:22,639
that the firefighters were able to extinguish all the flames.

613
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:25,480
The last flames. Wow, this is like a long time.

614
00:36:25,559 --> 00:36:27,599
I don't know how long it takes to put out fires.

615
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,920
I have no firefighters. There was multiple fires, true, and

616
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:32,800
so they have to put all of them out. Yeah,

617
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,039
that's like that's a whole day. I mean, you've seen

618
00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:39,440
how long the fires last here in California and Washington. Yeah.

619
00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:43,840
At the end, several pieces of debris exploded and reached

620
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,360
homes and buildings as far as eight hundred meters away

621
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,320
from the site. In total, two hundred firefighters, nine hundred

622
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,559
eighty five emetics, a thousand, seven one hundred eighty paramedics,

623
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,320
a thousand, three hundred and thirty two volunteers, three hundred

624
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,440
and sixty three ambulances, and five helicopters participated in the

625
00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:08,079
rescue operation. Wow. Obviously this applies to like any natural disaster,

626
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,480
but I feel like there's something special about Mexico where

627
00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:13,159
like literally everyone helps. It makes me think of the

628
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:18,199
recent overturned Yeah that was I think that was another

629
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:22,920
blaff type explosion, but yeah, overturned, and like people were

630
00:37:23,039 --> 00:37:26,880
so quick to help, and by the hundreds, yeah and

631
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,719
so and like again, the same thing when there's an

632
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,920
aim made lines to pass down water from the houses

633
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,280
to try to put down the fire. Yeah, I cried

634
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,719
at every single video that I saw. H me too,

635
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,400
I did the same thing. But yeah, people really come together,

636
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,320
and yeah, it makes me always think of them. Mister

637
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,599
Rogers quote talking about Wait, is it even for mister Rogers?

638
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,280
I think so. Looking for the helpers? Yeah, I thought

639
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,480
that was mister Rogers. I feel like it is, but

640
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:56,079
now I'm not sure. But maybe either way the point

641
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,360
it's appointing. It's important. Yeah, look for the helpers, but

642
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,559
then like, maybe join them if you can, if you

643
00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:07,320
have a skill that to look for them, to join them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

644
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,199
Well if you don't just look skill, don't because then

645
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,400
you'll be in the way. But yeah, yeah. In the end,

646
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:17,599
five hundred to six hundred residents lost their lives, including

647
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,159
five Bemex employees. Seven thousand people were injured, and six

648
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,320
thousands and six thousand people were evacuated, and one hundred

649
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,280
and fifty homes were destroyed. Oh my god, that's terrible.

650
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,920
I mean whole families were wiped out in their sleep

651
00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:39,559
and others died from the smoke inhalation from the toxic fumes. Wow,

652
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,000
it's terrible. I feel worse about natural disasters. Well, I

653
00:38:44,039 --> 00:38:47,119
guess it's not a natural disaster, but like disasters like that,

654
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,440
I mean, like a disaster that couldn't be stopped. Yeah. Yeah,

655
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,639
they had no time to even like notice this pipe.

656
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,239
And yeah, everything happened so fast. Yeah, I guess, like

657
00:38:59,639 --> 00:39:01,719
I think of natural to caused by nature, this was

658
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,719
caused by gasoline or whatever the hell. Oh right, right,

659
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,679
that's what I meant. Yeah, I see. Many survivors believe

660
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,559
over a thousand people died and have demanded the government

661
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:17,440
provide answers and accurate numbers. Oh. Survivor Kuan Pedraza told

662
00:39:17,599 --> 00:39:21,039
Riders in twenty thirteen that the government only counted those

663
00:39:21,079 --> 00:39:23,920
who died at the plan or the hospital. He believes

664
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,159
as many as two thousand people died. According to Huan,

665
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,199
the government never explained what happened to his neighbors who

666
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,360
disappeared without a trace. Oh, and so that's why he believes, yeah,

667
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,719
more people died because, like he knows for a fact,

668
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,239
his neighbors were gone after this, and they were never

669
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,920
counted as victims of this. Yeah, and so he says

670
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,400
that he went to his neighbor's house afterwards, and he

671
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,480
found the foot of a little boy. Oh and that

672
00:39:50,639 --> 00:39:56,760
was all that was left. Oh, that's terrible. Wow. A

673
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,880
married couple named Francisca and Gustavo Gome told Reuters that

674
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:03,639
they never saw or heard from a family of nine

675
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,159
they used to run into at the market. So yeah,

676
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,519
some people definitely were not counted. Yeah. The government was

677
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,840
only able to identify about two percent of the remains

678
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,519
they found. Wow. The victims were buried in the Caracoliz

679
00:40:18,559 --> 00:40:23,280
neighborhood of Pantala. Two days after the explosion, a mass

680
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,880
burial was held for two hundred and seventy two victims,

681
00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:30,119
while it reported that many victims were quickly buried in

682
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,159
holes where they were found. I'm sure, yeah, to not

683
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:38,480
move them, yeah, or move them too much. Wow. President

684
00:40:39,039 --> 00:40:42,000
Migen de la Madrid and other high ranking government officials

685
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:46,719
did not attend the mass burial, which drew criticism that's crazy.

686
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,880
Let me look at what party. Well, this was probably

687
00:40:49,159 --> 00:40:58,280
during the wall. Party was yes, yes, of course, so yeah,

688
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,760
today didn't go that is that is wild and so yeah.

689
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,719
Many felt that the government was working fast to sweep

690
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:10,599
the tragedy under the rug, and the head of Beemex,

691
00:41:11,079 --> 00:41:16,960
Mario Ramon Beta, also distastefully responded to the criticism by

692
00:41:17,159 --> 00:41:21,199
saying that attacking the company was like cannibalism since the

693
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:26,039
company's tax money was helping keep the Mexican economy afloat. Yeah,

694
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:28,880
what a weird thing that's saying. Yeah, I mean that's

695
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,079
not right. You can especially becaize it even though it's

696
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,000
like naturally owned or whatever. Yeah, it's not like this

697
00:41:36,159 --> 00:41:40,800
happened because people were being lazy. Steps were skipped, people

698
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,320
skimped on like material. This was like a literal accidental thing. Well,

699
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,400
I mean, we haven't got into an investigation yet, so

700
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,519
oh we don't know. You're right, I was assuming the best,

701
00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:54,920
and I should never You shouldn't, especially because you already

702
00:41:55,199 --> 00:42:02,199
talked about a I learned about another pemic related people.

703
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,679
Weeks after the incident, the government began to compensate the

704
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:11,199
family of victims without taking into account a victim's age

705
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,559
or their family's financial situation. I don't they need to

706
00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:18,760
say that. Weeks after the incident, the government began to

707
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,199
compensate the family of victims, and the state paid ten thousand,

708
00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:27,519
four hundred per family, without including the families of those

709
00:42:27,559 --> 00:42:30,599
who were never found again after the explosion, So not

710
00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:34,440
all victims were compensated. I see, I was like being wet.

711
00:42:34,639 --> 00:42:38,760
I see, I was confused for no reason. One hundred

712
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,840
and sixty seven families were giving you homes in the

713
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,960
complex of Vaya the An Nahwak. Some families claimed they

714
00:42:46,039 --> 00:42:49,679
never received any compensation even though they were severely burned

715
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,360
or lost their home. So yeah, like I said, not

716
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,800
everybody was compensated, and a park was quickly built south

717
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,000
of the accident site where most of the destroyed houses

718
00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:04,199
used to be. Okay, oh, there's not actually much on

719
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:08,159
the investigation. And so the investigation into the disaster determined

720
00:43:08,199 --> 00:43:12,519
that the plant had malfunctioning measuring devices and inadequate gas

721
00:43:12,599 --> 00:43:17,519
detection systems. I see, so it was kind of their

722
00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:21,159
fault a little bit, okay. And the storage tanks were

723
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:27,119
too close together, okay, and oh wow, they had inadequate

724
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:33,920
fire barriers okay, and oh god, okay, they also lacked

725
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,800
effective isolation and containment procedures. Okay, I could see how.

726
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,119
Now the head of Pemex was a little defensive and

727
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,360
sad of the wrong thing. Yeah, but even if those

728
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,400
things were not wrong, he still said something completely devoid

729
00:43:50,639 --> 00:43:54,400
of empathy and inappropriate. But if you know, if you're

730
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,679
the head of a company, first, you have to be ceciopath. Sorry.

731
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,480
Of course, with the heads of companies, it doesn't even

732
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:03,400
matter if you apologize to them because they don't have

733
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,679
any feelings. Remember right, No, you're right. But also this

734
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,159
is like you are I say, we're going to charge

735
00:44:10,199 --> 00:44:14,159
of this whole thing on this plant or whatever site did.

736
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,760
It wasn't doing the right things, and so by apologizing,

737
00:44:17,199 --> 00:44:19,480
it's like saying it's our fault, which is what they

738
00:44:19,519 --> 00:44:22,400
don't want to do right, and instead they're saying these

739
00:44:22,519 --> 00:44:25,599
fucked up things I should have never been said. Yeah. Wow,

740
00:44:26,039 --> 00:44:31,320
well that's sad. And yeah that was the that was

741
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,519
the Pemex San Juanic explosion, the day the sky lit

742
00:44:35,639 --> 00:44:40,320
on fire. Wow, very sad. Okay, sharing that very sad. Yeah.

743
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,119
These dis answers are for I feel like, I don't know,

744
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,159
or even worse than true crime stories like hearing let's

745
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,840
never do it, let's never do it again. I'm sure

746
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,840
we will, but I'm gonna avoid it. No. But you

747
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,960
know what, they they highlight the wrongdoing of these companies

748
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,039
and corporations. Yeah, and I know that as a a

749
00:45:01,639 --> 00:45:07,920
state controlled business, it's not the same as like other capitalists,

750
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,880
private organizations. But yet these kind of things you know,

751
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,519
still happen, happens. Yeah. Yeah, Well we'll take a little

752
00:45:17,519 --> 00:45:29,400
break here and then come back with spooky recommendations. Okay,

753
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,360
and we're back. Do you have a spooky recommendation? We

754
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,840
feel like we haven't done one in a while, so

755
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,639
limit it to one. Well, actually I do. I already

756
00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:41,559
talked about it on our Patreon episode, but I just

757
00:45:41,639 --> 00:45:45,320
got done listening to Bury Our Bones in the Midnight

758
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:52,760
Soil by v Schwab, And it's a Saffig Vampire tail

759
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,960
with three point of views spanning exactly a timeline of

760
00:45:58,079 --> 00:46:02,239
like five hundred years or so. Okay, it was beautiful,

761
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,559
it was toxic. And you know what something I forgot

762
00:46:04,639 --> 00:46:07,239
to mention I think when we were talking about it

763
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,400
on Patreon is that if you've watched Interview with the

764
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,639
Vampire or read those books. I don't know what the

765
00:46:12,679 --> 00:46:16,079
books are like, but anyway, it reminded me of Lestad

766
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:21,960
and Louis that scenes I know of it a little bit, Yeah,

767
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:26,199
but yeah, the relationship of between two of the characters

768
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,679
reminded me of that. So, yeah, there is some domestic

769
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:36,960
violence in their toxicity. For sure, but it was beautiful, amazing,

770
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,599
a little bit of a slow burn, but I love

771
00:46:41,639 --> 00:46:44,559
that kind of shit. It was really yeah, same all right.

772
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,440
One of the best vampire novels I've read an all

773
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,559
in a while. Wow. Yeah. I added it immediately to

774
00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:52,840
my TVR and I a hold on it when you

775
00:46:53,159 --> 00:46:56,719
as you should. Yeah, it sounds really good, like I

776
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,400
would really liked it. What was it called? The good

777
00:47:00,199 --> 00:47:04,719
Bury Are Bones in the Midnight Soil? Yes? Okay, okay, well,

778
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:08,079
thanks for sharing that. I also have a spooky recommendation.

779
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,039
I've already made a short TikTok a video about it.

780
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,199
But I, as many of our listeners know, have been

781
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:20,559
in my Mexican film Mexican horror film journey, and I've

782
00:47:20,599 --> 00:47:23,480
been checking out a bunch of Mexican horror movies and

783
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,519
so I recently watched a what is considered a classic

784
00:47:26,599 --> 00:47:29,880
not only in Mexican horror but in Mexican film altogether.

785
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:34,559
And it came out in nineteen sixty It's called El Morales.

786
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,159
And this movie, like, at first glance when you hear

787
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,239
the description, like it's it doesn't sound like a unique story,

788
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:44,719
and it's kind of like, as a woman, you hear it,

789
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,320
and you're like, why would I want to watch this?

790
00:47:47,119 --> 00:47:50,480
So first let me tell you. So. The movie follows

791
00:47:51,199 --> 00:47:56,480
Bablo Morales, who is a TEXTI journalist, and his wife. Wow,

792
00:47:56,519 --> 00:47:58,920
I forgot her name. Oh my god. The cast only

793
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,079
says miss Morales, what the fuck? Well, I guess I

794
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,679
feel that it was Gloria. Well, let me just give

795
00:48:04,679 --> 00:48:08,559
you the letterbox description of this. It's so short. I

796
00:48:08,679 --> 00:48:10,679
was going to go on a very long Yeah. Okay,

797
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,119
So a taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having

798
00:48:14,159 --> 00:48:18,079
put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage. Yeah,

799
00:48:18,199 --> 00:48:20,239
and it's like you hear that, and it's like, all right,

800
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,280
well that sounds like every other man that killed their wives. Yeah.

801
00:48:24,679 --> 00:48:31,320
But the movie tackles morality, religion rolls in a marriage,

802
00:48:32,559 --> 00:48:37,679
like gender roles, yes, and the act of marriage itself.

803
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:43,760
It's commentary in those things because like this man, this woman,

804
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:48,199
his wife is supposed to be this really religious saint.

805
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,400
Her neighbors call her a saint, but she lies about

806
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,039
what her husband does. She like, she beat herself up

807
00:48:54,079 --> 00:48:56,559
and said he beat her up, and he is like,

808
00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:00,559
he is so kind to all the neighbors. He stops

809
00:49:00,559 --> 00:49:02,800
and plays with the kids on the street, and he

810
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:04,639
had been saving enough from like this camera for the

811
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,480
longest time, and she steals that money first to give

812
00:49:08,519 --> 00:49:12,599
it to the church, and he gets like home and

813
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,320
he sees like this church meaning going on and he

814
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,039
the like they all don't like him because of all

815
00:49:18,079 --> 00:49:20,199
the lies that she has said about him, and they

816
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,400
think he's like this drunk wife beater and he's never

817
00:49:23,679 --> 00:49:27,960
he's never done anything like this, And like he'll come

818
00:49:28,039 --> 00:49:31,679
home from like talking with the kids outside and she's like,

819
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,320
do you are you taunting me? Because I can't have kids,

820
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:39,159
that's why you talk to the kids outside. And he's like,

821
00:49:39,199 --> 00:49:41,480
I'm just saying hi to them, and she's like, you

822
00:49:41,599 --> 00:49:43,880
know that. I don't like that. It's like you say

823
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:45,840
hi to everyone else and then you see me and

824
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,039
you stop smiling. But it's like she's like nagging him NonStop.

825
00:49:49,159 --> 00:49:52,119
You know what I was gonna say, I should have

826
00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:56,679
guessed if there's a villain in a horror movie, she's

827
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,159
gonna be childless. She's gonna be infertile. She also has

828
00:50:00,199 --> 00:50:05,440
a disability. Of course, her knee is malformed, you know what,

829
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:11,960
but has a problem. No, it does. And this is

830
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:16,440
a nineteen sixty horny. But it's like you sympathize with him,

831
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:18,800
you're supposed to and you're supposed to find her terrible.

832
00:50:19,199 --> 00:50:21,679
But I mean, I figure that she's a villain. But

833
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,960
at the end, it's like can he really even get

834
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,159
away with what he has done? Because the end so like,

835
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,320
I don't think the message is like kill your wife

836
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,639
if she's like that, it'll be crazy. It's a little

837
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,199
to comment in one and I don't remember it was

838
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,239
Instagram TikTok, but they basically it was like I didn't

839
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,599
like the movie because it's perceived as like men can

840
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,320
just get away with a femicide. And it's like, talk

841
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,920
about media literacy. This is an example of yeah, LACKI

842
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:53,360
media literacy. I don't think, and I don't I don't

843
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,719
fault the person for their comment because again, like it

844
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,440
is a little tiring scene. Yeah, first, we're living in

845
00:50:59,639 --> 00:51:01,840
do we need to see it? It's an old movie,

846
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:03,639
so I think that's another thing you have to take

847
00:51:03,639 --> 00:51:05,719
into account. Also, if that's not your thing and you

848
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,440
don't want to watch it, don't watch it. You know,

849
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,360
this person did watch it and they say didn't like

850
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,559
they didn't like it because of that because of like

851
00:51:13,079 --> 00:51:15,599
thinking in present times of femicience and then you see

852
00:51:15,639 --> 00:51:17,519
this movie and this man does this in the movie.

853
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,159
But I think that the message is not that like, oh,

854
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,320
he will get away with it, like right. So that's

855
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,119
like when we talked last week about the w witching

856
00:51:25,599 --> 00:51:28,800
and then people were like, oh, this is celebrating incests,

857
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,360
and it's like, no, it's not. You know what I mean,

858
00:51:32,039 --> 00:51:34,639
that's right, So like, yeah, the message in the movie

859
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,159
isn't like, oh, you have to kill your wife, like yeah, wife,

860
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,480
she's even yeah, no, like he should he was wrong

861
00:51:39,559 --> 00:51:41,280
in doing that, And I think the message in the

862
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:46,400
movie is that he that well yeah, and like because

863
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,639
of how religious she was and how she felt they

864
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,800
need to be better than everyone right through this religion.

865
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:55,400
It's again it's a commentary on these things. And it's

866
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,440
not like it's not a perfect movie. It's of its time,

867
00:51:57,639 --> 00:52:00,239
there's no denying that, but it's it has it's like

868
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:02,679
it's it's black and white and it just has like

869
00:52:02,679 --> 00:52:08,559
beautiful cinematography. It's a hard work for me, and it's funny.

870
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,840
It's like a dark comedy. It's called a dark comedy horror.

871
00:52:12,119 --> 00:52:14,440
The horror is so minimal that it's really almost just

872
00:52:14,519 --> 00:52:18,159
like a dark comedy crime. But it's still considered a

873
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,760
Mexican horror film. It's it's so well written, it's so

874
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:26,800
well directed, and the actors both do their parts. All

875
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,000
of them do their parts so well, including her as

876
00:52:31,079 --> 00:52:33,159
the wife. Like you see her and you're like, oh

877
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:40,400
my gosh, she sucks. But I enjoyed it. I understand

878
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,639
the comment like not enjoying it because of that aspect,

879
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,880
but you know, like it's like when I watched that

880
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:50,599
One of the Dead movie and I couldn't get past

881
00:52:50,639 --> 00:52:54,039
the homophobia. But it's a satirical movie. I think, so

882
00:52:55,039 --> 00:52:57,159
it was a tirical but I couldn't like, I'm like,

883
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,440
I don't like that. I think it's the concept I

884
00:52:59,519 --> 00:53:03,800
think I feel. However, though, I found it to be

885
00:53:05,079 --> 00:53:08,840
a really fun movie and I do recommend it. I

886
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,480
enjoyed it. It's like one of my favorite classics. Now.

887
00:53:11,559 --> 00:53:13,599
So also, I'm going to throw it in one move

888
00:53:13,639 --> 00:53:15,880
because we're already chatting, unless you're like you're trying to

889
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,239
go no, okay, I watched the movie called Freaky Tales.

890
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,760
It's not a horror, it's like an action It's like

891
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,920
I kept seeing if Scott Pilgrim and kill Bill had

892
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,960
a baby, it would be this movie interesting. But make

893
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:33,639
it diverse, because those movies are very white. Yeah, this

894
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,599
movie is not. It's say in Oakland, California in the

895
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,599
nineteen eighties, and wait it was the eighties or nineties.

896
00:53:39,639 --> 00:53:41,920
I already forgot one of those years of those decades.

897
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,880
And Too Short is a narrator. It has three inter

898
00:53:46,039 --> 00:53:50,239
twenty timelines, like the movie Crash, but ten times better

899
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,679
like not like yeah, way better than the movie Crash.

900
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:59,280
The first timeline has like these punk rock teens and uh,

901
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:04,320
they're fighting Nazis, So that's like interesting alone is very fun.

902
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,679
The other very fun thing too Short is not reading

903
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:12,159
these timelines between timelines. The second timeline has too shorten

904
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,840
it and these two I want to see their teens,

905
00:54:16,079 --> 00:54:18,679
their rappers, and they have this epic wrap battle against

906
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,960
Too Short. And then the third one is Petro Pascal.

907
00:54:22,159 --> 00:54:24,719
He is not a hit man, like an enforcer, you know,

908
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,920
the person that collects debt from like okay, yeah, yeah,

909
00:54:28,639 --> 00:54:30,400
that's his job. But he's about to retire, but then

910
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,400
teens go bad, but then things get better, and so

911
00:54:33,559 --> 00:54:37,280
that's his story. He's just this badass. It's Petro Prescal,

912
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,119
you know what I mean. Yeah, And in these again

913
00:54:40,159 --> 00:54:42,199
I said, they're inner twenty timelines, so like at some

914
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:45,800
point you see them all interacting tiny ways and they

915
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:50,639
all connect together. In the last timeline, which features the

916
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,679
guy that Pedro Pascal is like really forced to work for.

917
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,559
His name is the guy. The last timeline features the

918
00:54:57,639 --> 00:55:00,639
guy and then a basketball player. I forget his name.

919
00:55:00,639 --> 00:55:02,840
I think it's like Sleepy is his nickname, and he

920
00:55:03,159 --> 00:55:07,360
Sleepy just ends up like kicking like all of the

921
00:55:07,639 --> 00:55:11,679
Nazi people, like, he kicks their ass so bad. He

922
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,960
has a sword. He's wielding the sword that sounds campy

923
00:55:15,039 --> 00:55:18,760
a little bit. Yes, he decapitates someone. It's insane. Wow.

924
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,800
The music top notch. There's the part where he goes

925
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:25,599
and fights them in their house. Has this E forty song.

926
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:27,679
I know you know the song, but I forgot the title,

927
00:55:28,159 --> 00:55:29,920
but I mean it's Oakland, Like, of course he's gonna

928
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,639
have an E forty song. But the moment E forty

929
00:55:32,679 --> 00:55:36,199
says something, he's like like just chopping someone's head off,

930
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,519
and like this, those two moments connect so beautifully in

931
00:55:39,599 --> 00:55:43,960
the movie. It's fun. It was, it's my new like

932
00:55:44,119 --> 00:55:47,039
favorite non horror twenty twenty five movie. Wow, it was

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a very very very fun watch. It's called Freaky Tales.

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I don't know where it's streaming because I rented it

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from Scarecrow. I didn't even I never have never heard

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of this movie and it came out last year. Oh wait,

937
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did it came out twenty twenty five or twenty twenty four?

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I feel like he said twenty twenty four, but I'm

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not sure now I'm not sure. Yeah, Like there was

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like no promo. I don't like, I never heard of this, yes,

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twenty twenty four. Yeah, okay, it's nineteen eighty seven. In

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nineteen eighty seven, Oakland was hella freaky that's funny, but no,

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it's fun like if you are from Oakland, if you

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love Oakland, you're gonna love this movie. It was made.

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It was like a letter of love to Oakland, and

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I love that anything Oakland related I already like always love,

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like yeah, automatically watching it, listen it consuming it. Yes, yes,

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but this, aside from it being set in Oakland is

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it's such a good movie. And so yeah, that was

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my last recommendation. We we got to go. So yeah,

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other than that. Oh, one more thing to add I

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oh the Patreon at the time. Yeah, by the time

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this comes out, I set up a discount. I think

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it's a thirty percent discount on all memberships on Patreon. Actually,

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I think it was not the first tier, but the

956
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two other tiers on Patreon where we do like bonus episodes.

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Sometimes we talk about hunted places, like we share scary

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stories and we read on Reddit and react to them.

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Other times we share our favorite horror media of a

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certain category, like we've done vampires, so theyse Dombi's still

961
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being horror. We just recorded the last part. So you know,

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if that sounds cool and you want to support us,

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then right now it would be a great time to

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do it. You can also give memberships to people and

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use that discount code, so so yeah, feel free to

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do that. The link for Patreon will be in the

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show notes as always, So, yeah, there's a little discount

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if you want to take advantage of that and join.

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And that was the last thing I wanted to say,

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So all right, thank you everyone for listening, and watch

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out for Dona and if you know where Amalia is,

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tell him, yeah, tell him. Stay Spekilakacha Rue Next Time Bye.

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