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- You're talking about the numbers.
- Yes.
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The numbers. Exactly.
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Do you know anything about them?
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Sam and Leonard were stationed
at a listening post
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monitoring long-wave transmissions
out of the Pacific.
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Boring job. Sam hated it.
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Nothing to do but listen to static,
night after night.
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Until one night,
about 16 years ago,
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there's something in the static.
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A voice comes through,
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a voice repeating those numbers
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over and over again.
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Couple of days later,
we're at the fair in Kalgoorlie,
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and some wally there's got this jar,
must have been big as a pony.
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It's filled to the rim with beans.
Fella's offering 50 grand to anyone
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able to guess how many beans
were in that jar within ten.
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- Sam used the numbers.
- Yep.
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The answer was exact to the bean.
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Man had been running
the same scam for 40 years,
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nobody had ever come close.
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So we won the money.
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On the way home, a pickup truck
blows a tire on the highway,
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hits us head-on.
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Lost my leg that night.
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- What about Sam?
- Barely a scratch.
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Most people would consider
themselves lucky,
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but not him.
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He was never the same after that.
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He started keeping a record.
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Anything terrible that happened
to anyone around us,
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he believed it was all
because he used those numbers.
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He moved us out here in the middle
of nowhere, hoping it would stop.
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Did it?
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Did he ever find a way
to make it stop?
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Yep.
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He put a shotgun in his mouth
and pulled the trigger.