212 | Die So Serious?: James Holmes Aurora Shooting
Talk Murder To Me
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🗓️ 26 January 2021
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Minutes after midnight on July 20, 2012, a local resident of Aurora, Colorado walks into a packed movie theater opening fire. The shooter, James Holmes, claims the lives of twelve and injuring 70 others (62 directly, and 8 indirectly.) Media sources nationwide portrayed Holmes as the “real life Joker”, one of the nemesis from the Batman franchise.
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| 0:00.0 | The villains that graze the pages of comic books and silver screens often mimic their childhood upbringing of some of the world's most horrific real life killers. |
| 0:09.0 | So many have a path so dark it sets the stage and even triggers their own path of destruction. |
| 0:15.0 | Why so serious, says the Joker, whose own face was carved into a smile by his abusive alcoholic father. |
| 0:22.0 | The real villain in tonight's story, however, |
| 0:24.0 | came from a home just the opposite, |
| 0:26.0 | and yet it is responsible for one of the deadliest crimes |
| 0:29.2 | in American history. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome back to Talk Murder to Me. |
| 0:48.1 | Shoot, we had a hint, but we didn't make a drink for it. Shoot. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, I found a drink, but I didn't think we had |
| 0:51.8 | the ingredients in it Sunday, so we can't buy any ingredients. |
| 0:55.0 | True. |
| 0:57.0 | Like do we have Madori? |
| 0:58.0 | No. |
| 0:59.0 | Then we couldn't have made the drink. |
| 1:00.0 | Y'all probably know the story anyway I imagine. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't. Oh well maybe it depends it could |
| 1:06.9 | go two different ways it can either go a Batman Joker or it can go playing card |
| 1:11.1 | Joker if it's Batman Joker I might it's like the same thing it |
| 1:14.4 | it no he the Joker off the playing cards yes but I mean like it could be you could be |
| 1:19.5 | referring to like a gambling murder or like a casino type murder or like a Batman. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, tuschet, yeah. |
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