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Speaker 1: One.

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Speaker 2: What is the address of your emergency?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 4: My entire building just sell down and it's collapsing. I

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love at one sixty second Avenue North. Please come, we're collapsing.

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Speaker 5: In Okay, yeah, come on, come on, stay with me.

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You're doing right, Stay with me. Okay, I think it's

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an explosion.

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Speaker 4: This is the Miracle Files.

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Speaker 2: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters

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who love a captivating true story, but we're also seeking

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more light in our lives.

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Speaker 4: So we're in a mission to find and share unforgettable,

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uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us

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on this journey. Welcome back to Miracles in the News.

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All right, Holly, what do you got for us today?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Well, one of the coolest things about Miracle in the

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News is that we don't just look at events, but

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we also sometimes look back and find news stories from

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the past that have not been highlighted that much. And

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now looking back, you can get this full picture, the

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backstory of what happened that people didn't even know about

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at the time. So this is one where it's like wow,

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in hindsight, it is so incredible.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So how far back are we hiading?

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Speaker 2: So our story starts back in twenty nineteen with a

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man named Anthony Warner. He was raised in Nashville, Tennessee,

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and he worked in various it jobs. He previously owned

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a company where he was licensed to install burglar systems

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or burglar alarms in the nineteen nineties. Aside from the

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felony marijuana conviction in nineteen seventy eight, which he served

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as two years of probation for, he has no other

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criminal record.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so this man lives a.

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Speaker 2: Pretty uneventful life for a while, but there are definitely

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warning signs.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: One Nashville woman, Pam Perry, knows Anthony Warner quite well

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and she goes on a camping trip with him and

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that's when things start to fill very off.

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Speaker 4: So are they like a romantic couple? Are they just

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going out as friends?

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Speaker 2: She is a little unclear about that and says they're

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basically just friends, but the media calls him her boyfriend.

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So I don't know, we're not exactly sure about that.

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Speaker 4: It's complicated.

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Speaker 2: I'll just believe it at that complicated.

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Speaker 4: It's probably a good way to put it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but they're on this camping trip and Anthony starts

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throwing various materials into the fire that explode once they

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hit the flames. And we're not talking like little sparks,

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like these are pretty sizable explosions. And at first Pam

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thinks maybe he's just kind of a pyro who loves

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playing with Buyer. But then he pulls out a strange

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looking device and.

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Speaker 6: There was more troubling developments on those camping trips. Perry

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took a photo of the device Warner is carrying. You

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can see there's a kind of screen on it, and

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through that screen, Perry says, Warner would rant about what.

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Speaker 4: He could see interesting. Okay, so it's almost like a

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tripod that he's got attached to his hip. And at

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the other end there's some sort of screen like iPad.

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I don't know what it is, Yeah, but what's on

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the screen, like what's he watching?

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know, and I don't know that there

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was anything even on the screen, Like Pam couldn't see

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anything on the screen. But through the screen, he says

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that he's seeing all these things, like all these conspiracies,

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and he goes on these long rants about how people

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aren't who they say they are, and there's these reptilian

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people that he can see in the woods and.

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Speaker 4: Reptilian people Yeah yeah, okay, like lizards like laser clearly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is definitely struggling with some mental health issues

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at this point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So later on, Pam goes to Warner's house and she

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notices cameras are everywhere, and when she tries to go inside,

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he stops her. She says she can't come in because

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he's making things and doing experiments.

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Speaker 4: Making things things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so she also begins to notice some strange

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activity going on in Warner's r V, and she becomes

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so concerned that she eventually calls the police. My conscious

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was tearing me up.

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Speaker 6: This police report from August twenty first, twenty nineteen, identifying

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her as Warner's girlfriend, quotes Perry of saying that Warner

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was making bombs in the RV at his house. An

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attorney employed by both she and Warner also told police

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Warner knows what he's doing and is capable of making

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So this is also how his attorney described Warner on

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this nine one one call.

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Speaker 7: Who is I think also got some mental and emotional problems.

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Speaker 5: Who is allegedly building bombs in his house?

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Speaker 4: What would you do if, like someone you loved or

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cared about you knew they were building a bomb or

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like preparing to attack somebody.

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Speaker 2: Like, well, I don't even know if you would think

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they we're preparing to attack somebody, You don't might just

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be like, this is a weird hobby, you know, right,

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But she definitely did the right thing in contacting the authorities,

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and police do go to Warner's house to check it out,

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but they can't make contact with him and the property's

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fenced off, So when the police aren't let in and

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aren't able to see any kind of criminal activity going on,

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it just kind of stops there.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: You hear about that all the time, Like people hindsight

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will be like, I tried to warn them, but I

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mean hindsight's twenty twenty obviously, yeah. True.

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Speaker 2: And sadly, Warner seems to be totally losing his mind

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at this point. He's decided he doesn't want to live anymore,

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and he believes in reincarnation and he wants to end

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what he calls the reincarnation loop. So he believes it

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will take a gigantic amount of energy to happen all

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at once in order to end his reincarnation.

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Speaker 4: Wait, so he does not want to be reincarnated, correct,

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He just wants to be done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't want to be reincar needed. And one

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of the aerious details this still gives me chills. Pam says,

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there's a song that Warner's obsessed with and he just

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keeps playing it over and over and over. It's Patula

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Clark's song Downtown.

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Speaker 4: Like Downtown Da Da Da Da Da da that one Downtown.

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Speaker 2: Everything's waiting before, are you?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I don't know the worst, but I know the one, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So he plays this song all the time and

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it's like he's scattering breadcrumbs of hints of what's to come.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay.

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Speaker 2: So fast forward to Christmas Day, early in the morning,

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twenty twenty. It's five thirty am. Most people are still asleep,

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unless they have little kids, you know, maybe they're up

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opening presence right. Meanwhile, downtown Nashville is quiet because hardly

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anybody's out. Officer James Wells is near the end of

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his shift with the Metro Nashville Police Department. Wells and

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his partner Amanda Topping. They're working together, you know, trying

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to wrap everything up, get things done so that they

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can go home when nine one one calls start pouring.

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Speaker 8: In nine one one.

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Speaker 5: What is the adjective your emergency?

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Speaker 3: One seventy eight, Second Avenue, Fourth. There have been three

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rounds of billion shots in outside the building, first about

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seven or eight minutes ago, and then it got about

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five minutes ago before the shots on. I can't tell.

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Speaker 5: Okay, it's a four story building. Four story building. Okay,

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did you see or hear anything else?

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Speaker 3: No, they're in the building.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to talk to officers when they come out?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm too scared to the colony apartment.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. You can hear the terror in this

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man's voice. I would be terrified you.

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Speaker 2: It gives me goosebumps.

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Speaker 4: So scary. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the shots seem to be happening on Second Avenue

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in downtown, so thinking there responding to a shooting, Wells

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and Topping head in that direction. But when they arrive

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they find something much stranger. There's an RV parked there

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on the street and it's broadcasting the creepiest messages over loud. Speakers.

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Speaker 5: Oh, this aarda must be evacuated.

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Speaker 4: Now this ad mus be evacuated.

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Speaker 1: Now this arad the evacuated.

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Speaker 8: Now you can hear the.

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Speaker 2: Evacuate.

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Speaker 5: Now you can hear it evacuate.

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Speaker 4: Now what that is so creepy? I'm you must have

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like some ai voice that is repeating evacuate now.

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Speaker 2: But he must Yeah, and can you imagine hearing that

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echoing through the empty streets on Christmas morning?

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Speaker 4: I mean I think probably the first thing that would

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hit you is just being shocked because what is this voice?

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like terrifying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and even more creepy than those warnings. You can't

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hear it in the clips. But the loud speakers also

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start playing music, and you can probably guess what songs.

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Speaker 4: Downtown, Yes, Downtown. Wow. It's like one of those scenes

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from a movie where there's something really scary happening, but

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they're playing like happy sound and you feel like you're

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in the twilight zone. Yeah, and it makes it even

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more terrifying, Like I can't imagine being on the streets

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while this is going on.

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Speaker 2: No, I know these poor people that are hearing this,

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you gotta be just terrifying.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure.

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Speaker 6: So.

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Speaker 2: Additional nine on one calls start just coming in from

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concern residents. Anyone in the area. Nine one one.

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Speaker 5: What is the address of your emergency? It's Second Avenue North.

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We have a recording out here saying there's a limited

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time to evacuate this area on one on Second Avenue

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North in downtown Nashville. Is that you, guys? Second Avenue,

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second one sixty six, Second Avenue North. There's a recording

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out there that's saying there's a limited time to evacuate

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this area. There's some large bomb inside this vehicle. Hmm,

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let me check and say what we can you please

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send the police up here? Meanwhile I'm getting dressed. Can

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you please send the police up here? Yeah, we definitely

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Second Avenue North. It looks someth We need to have

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it on in a panic, Okay. We do have officers

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are out out there, like right near one seventy eight,

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which is right right. Are they reporting anything about this recording?

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Network done? We got like a call about shots being heard. Yeah, shots,

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But now there's a there's there's a stand down there

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that says there's a limited time to evacuate this area.

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There's a large on inside to see people that is

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playing over and over and over outside.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, my heart, I can feel it beating

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in my chest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. That is so scary, so scary. And at this

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point officers aren't able to even find a shooter. But

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now they're concerned that there's a bomb. So Wells and

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the other officers immediately start evacuating people from the nearby buildings.

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They go door to door, waking people up, telling them

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to get out now. Then another warning comes from the RV,

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saying there are only minutes left. Officer Wells says that

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he's trying to think about like everything at once. Do

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I move closer? Do I need heavier gear? Is there

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another device somewhere? Like how do you prepare for that moment?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And while he's processing all of that, he's about to

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head toward the RV when he hears something very clearly.

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It's no longer just the voice on the speaker in

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the RV. Officer Wells, here's a voice from God.

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Speaker 8: As I'm getting ready to walk toward them, walking back

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toward the r V. And it might not be politically correct,

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but this is my truth. And I literally hear God

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tell me to turn around and go check on Topping,

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who was by herself down on Broadway. And as I

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turn around for me, it felt like Allie took three

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steps and then the music stopped. And as I'm walking

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back toward top of now, I just see orange and

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then I hear loud boom, and as I'm stumbling because

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it rocked me that hard to start stumbling, I just

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I just take out in a full out sprint.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I was not ready for that.

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Speaker 2: I knew that was coming. But my heart is still

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racing like such an intense moment.

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Speaker 4: Well and incredible, like you can actually see him walking

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towards where this bomb is about to explode.

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Speaker 2: And then you see him just turn and walk back

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and wow. Yeah. So Officer Topping has witnessed all of this,

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and this is what she said.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what told me to do. This is

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really weird, but I decided to change my direction, go

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on the other side of the road, start walking towards Wells.

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So as I start walking towards him, no, he starts

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walking towards me. You can see on the camera too,

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the footage. I've seen it. And I told him I

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didn't think anybody'd ever believe him how close he was.

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fifteen and We're just walking towards each other. And I

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just saw the biggest flames I've ever seen, the biggest explosion,

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I mean is and I just saw orange and then

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him and I saw him stumble and I felt it.

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I felt that heat, the wave, and like you said,

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I've never grabbed somebody so hard in my life. I

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grabbed him, he grabbed me, and we just ducked into

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a doorway because we didn't know what was common afterwards.

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Speaker 4: Wow. Wow, I'm sure that moment had to feel so surreal.

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she's recapping that moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can tell that God was with them

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and was guiding them and helping them through this so

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so powerful.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's been a massive explosion powerful enough to

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practically demolish dozens of buildings, blow out windows, send debris

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flying throughout downtown Nashville. Buddy Gainey and his family are

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visiting Nashville at the time and are staying in a

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condo near where the bomb is located. Officers are screaming

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for them to get out and get their car when

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the bomb goes off.

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Speaker 7: So here's Gainey, the entire building shaking and glass and breed,

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you know, crashing in the apartment.

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Speaker 2: And I just yelled to my girls down the hall

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and my wife, so we got to.

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Speaker 3: Get out of here.

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Speaker 6: I'm into the streets, Buddy says police officers.

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Speaker 5: We're screaming for them to run out.

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Speaker 3: You can see Buddy and his wife captured here and

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his body cam footage.

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Speaker 7: He got to the street level and it was like

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a war zone. My wife and you know, she and

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my daughter Puncey didn't have shoes on you, and so

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she's just kind of you know, we're all in shock

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that she's really kind of frozen there. You can definitely

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hear my voice that I'm just in shock and terror,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can see he's actually carrying his wife out

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because she doesn't have shoes, and I'm sure there's broken

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glass everywhere.

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Speaker 2: So everything is in total chaos as you can see. Yeah,

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And unfortunately, Anthony Warner, the bomber has perished in the explosion.

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Speaker 4: That's really sad because clearly this is a person who

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has mental illness just makes it it's tragic, and.

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Speaker 2: It just makes you think about like, how many people

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are probably out there who are alone and feeling lonely

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and are struggling with their mental health or whatever it is,

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and no one even knows about it. So that makes

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me want to try to be aware, try to be

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aware of those around us. But as tragic as his

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story is, this story is also so miraculous because even

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though buildings have been damaged all around, windows are broken,

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missing walls, missing fronts of buildings. You know, there's shrapnel

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all over the place. Unbelievably, everyone has escaped.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And because those officers acted so quickly and had already

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evacuated so many people, there were only three injuries and

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no lives lost. One of the civilians on scene, David Molloy,

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was walking his dog when the explosion happened and he

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was stopped by another police officer just in the nick

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of time.

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Speaker 4: The man hearing the warning from that RV but thought

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it was a message of safety, not danger.

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Speaker 7: The recording that I was hearing, I just assumed it

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was coming from the police car. The officer was in

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the middle of the road of Second Avenue walking towards me,

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telling me to evacuate, and I said, why do I

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need to evacuate? And right then boom the windows were

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blown out everywhere, and the building right adjacent to ours

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all of their windows in the front blew out, top

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and bottom everything.

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Speaker 4: Wow, those police officers saved that man's life. Yeah, and

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it's incredible that they all were able to get out. Yes,

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I'm like, if somebody had taken an ambient, was a

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heavy sleeper or on a wheelchair, or I don't know,

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like any sort of reason, like they hadn't gotten out,

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this could have been very different.

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Speaker 2: So much worse. It could have been so much worse.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And that the thing I keep thinking of is,

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I mean, this man, this bomber, he it seems like

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he didn't want to hurt anyone. He told everyone to evacuate,

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he gave them time to get out, right. And Yet

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if he really didn't want to hurt anyone, why didn't

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he just go someplace, like, you know, out on an

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open field or in the desert or somewhere where there

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was nobody else there, Like, why did he go downtown

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like if you really didn't want to hurt anyone?

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Speaker 2: When I read about that, because I had the same question. Apparently,

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when he was a child, he had some really fond

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memories of going downtown, and he'd also worked on Second Avenue,

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so he had some emotional attachment to that place, and

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I think that's part of why he loved the song

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Downtown on a Lady.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, I guess that makes sense. Yeah, I

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guess it.

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Speaker 2: Does to hid to his mind, it made sense clearly.

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And I think what really stands out to me about

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this story is the miracle isn't that nothing terrible happened,

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Like something terrible did happen, right, But the miracle is

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how people were protected inside the chaos. The miracle is

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that people were warned in time. The miracle is the

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voice that spoke to Officer Wells just seconds before disaster, right.

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And I think all of us can look back on

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times in our lives when something told us to wait,

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or call someone, leave early, take another road, turn around,

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you know, whatever it might be. I think it's so

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important that we listen when we receive those feelings and

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voices from God.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know I've had that voice warning in my life.

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But it's so cool to watch this video and literally

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see the moment that God spoke to this man. You

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can see it, and you know if he had stayed

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on that path, he probably wouldn't be here today. Like

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God is so good.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and sadly, we also know that Anthony Warner was

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listening to a wrong voice. I know that's true, and

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so we have to have that discernment as well, that

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we make sure we're listening to God's voice and not

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to voices that are destructive to us.

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Speaker 4: Wow, what a remarkable story, Like I have never heard

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this story, and I can't believe I've never heard this before.

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Speaker 2: Neither had I And I asked my Asim Blake. You know,

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he watches the news all the time, be not so much,

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but he's always watching the news, and he hadn't heard

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of it either.

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Speaker 4: So and I would have heard of But yeah, I

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mean it's like if there were more people that had died,

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maybe they would have made this a bigger deal in

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the national headlines, because that's kind of what the news does. Yeah,

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I'm just grateful then we have the chance to focus

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on these miracle stories where yes, so many miracles happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and these are ks the end would be undated

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by negative stories. We just hear so many negative, horrible things.

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But there's so many good many in the worlds, so

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many amazing miracles happening all the time. Absolutely, well, thank

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you everyone for joining us today. We hope that this

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episode has uplifted you and reminded you that miracles are

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still happening today. If you like this episode, please share

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it with your friends and family, leave us a review,

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keep looking for miracles in your own lives. And there's

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one quote I want to leave you all with. Buddy Gainey,

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the man who was visiting Nashville with his family, later

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posted pictures on Facebook, and here's an excerpt from what

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he said about it, And like, can you read that?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 4: Okay? He said, had we not been in the interior

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condo but on the street side, we could have been

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severely injured or killed. God had a hand in me

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not parking the car in front of the building that

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night so we could escape after the explosion, the RV

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was parked less than two hundred feet away. When you

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see these pictures, it truly is a miracle. We survived,

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and only by the hand of God.

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Speaker 2: Only by the hand of God.

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Speaker 4: Amen.

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Speaker 2: So many amazing miracles. Yeah, have a wonderful week everyone.

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Thank you for joining us. If you have a miracle

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to share, contact us at the Miracle files dot com

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or find us on social media. We release new episodes

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each Monday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So don't forget Miracle Mondays. Subscribe on your favorite

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podcast platform and YouTube for amazing video content as well.

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Speaker 2: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,

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and don't forget to look for His light in your

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own lives.