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Hey, what's going on Hot Ones fans?
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This is Sean Evans checking in and as you guys are fully aware, we're stuck in a little bit of a holding pattern when it comes to production on Hot Ones, but not to worry.
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I missed you guys and I need to check in.
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So, I'm going to hit you guys with a little story.
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A story about the time the SWAT team raided my apartment in college.
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So, we're throwing it back to my junior year, the end of the semester, the end of finals even.
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I remember waking up in the morning and feeling great cuz I had a totally free day before I moved home for the summer.
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I make myself a cup of coffee, grab the mug, walk out to the balcony and there I just see a swarm of police saying, "Get back in your apartment.
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Get back in your apartment.
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Stay away from the windows."
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I've no idea what's going on.
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I reach out to some of my friends that live in the building.
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They have no idea what's going on.
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And as the minutes and hours pass, the situation just gets more intense and more intense.
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You can hear helicopters hovering over the building and it's not until I turn on the TV that I discover the real reason why we're all locked in our apartments.
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I turn on the TV and I see a breaking news report.
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There's a reporter standing right out in front of my building.
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Surreal experience while I'm inside and they're talking about how apparently there was an armed robbery on campus or near campus and the guy took off on foot.
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So, there's a foot race and the guy went into the apartment building where they lost him.
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So, now here I am sitting on the couch going, "Great, there's a there's a gunman in the building."
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Locked the doors, totally on lockdown and then time starts to move really slow.
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This is something that began in the morning and as the hours tick on, the sun begins to set. It's nightfall.
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There's a massive people outside, news trucks, SWAT team, police, and still no sign of the gunmen on the loose.
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It's now night time and I hear on the neighbor's door, "Police, open up."
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And I'm like, "Oh my god.
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Was the guy next door the whole time?"
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I put my ear up to the wall and I can hear, "Hands in the air. Hands in the air.
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ARE THERE ANY WEAPONS OR DRUGS INSIDE THE APARTMENT? HANDS UP."
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AND IT'S so aggressive what's going on.
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It sounds like they're clearing rooms and I'm thinking, "Oh my god. He was right next door.
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It could have been me and this guy locked up in the apartment all day.
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He was right next door the whole time. Oh my god." And then it goes quiet. It goes silent again. The minutes go by.
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Five minutes goes by and I'm like, "What the hell is going on?"
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So I go to my door and I look out the peephole and what do I see?
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I'm staring down the barrel of four guns.
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They're in like a diamond formation.
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One guy's down on a knee, other three guys over them, and I'm just looking at four rifles.
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So I just immediately I'm like, up against the wall cuz I know in that moment I'm just a fart or a sneeze away from catching a bullet.
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So I'm up against the wall and as I'm up against the wall I hear boom boom boom boom boom.
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Police, open up the door.
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And what I'm nervous about is our door was like broken.
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So like if you open the door it slams shut. So I'm like, "Great.
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This is going to be like another thing.
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I can't explain that to them through the door in this moment." It doesn't feel like.
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So I just grabbed the door, open it, starts to slam on them.
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Boom, they come in full speed, guns.
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"Are there any drugs or are there ANY WEAPONS INSIDE THE APARTMENT?"
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And you know, in my head I'm like, "There's probably some weed in the desk, but that's it."
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I you know, but I don't want to explain that.
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Am I incriminating myself?
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What are they even after?
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Aren't they after a gunman?
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What I guess that must be like a thing that they have to say.
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Like that's a that's protocol. "Are there any guns? Are there any drugs?" No, sir.
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So, they clear out every room, they set up a shield, and they have a guy walk me out of the apartment building holding up a shield.
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I get outside, we had these these poor these poor girl neighbors, they were just crying.
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You could tell they'd never been through anything like that in their lives.
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Neither Neither did I, to be fair.
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So, now with me safe, I'm sure you're wondering, well, how does this story end?
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Well, it turns out the guy had just run into the building, went to the parking garage, and then he was like hiding out in a closet, like a cleaning closet in the parking garage.
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They found him after they cleared out this whole massive building, took him off to jail, and that's how the saga ended.
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Now, listen, I don't want everybody going into like the regional papers and Champaign-Urbana at the time and pulling up the news story and poking holes in it or whatever.
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Listen, this is Sean tells a story, and if that's how I remembered it, that's how it happened, and that's the story of the time the SWAT team raided my apartment in college.
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All right, another order of business.
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During quarantine, my new obsession, foreign film.
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So, at the end of each one of these story times, I'm going to recommend a foreign film, and last night I watched a great one.
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It's called I Saw the Devil. Wow, was it good.
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You know, if you like the Man on Fire, John Wick movies, these revenge stories, it's for you.
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Uh very violent, difficult to watch at times, but I enjoyed it a lot more than those other movies, and I love those other movies.
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Uh basically, you just have a story of a psychopath, he kills the guy's wife, and now he's on the hunt, and you don't want to be in this guy's crosshairs.
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So, I Saw the Devil is my official recommendation, and to those of you out there, you know, I'm just I'm a noob in this foreign film world, so if you have recommendations, please tweet them at me. You know what I like.
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I like an edible, settle into the love sack, watch a movie. No slow burns. No slow burns. I have a ADD problem. I need action. I need action. I need action.
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I saw the double 10 out of 10.
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We'll see you next time on Sean Tells His Story. What is up, spice lords?
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