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With your host is James Steinberg and David Beattney

I'm really excited this week with your host James Steinberg and David Beattney.

I'm really excited this week to have as our guest, David Sunnonshine, who is very knowledgeable about a topic that's very near and dear to my heart, the incredible story of AriGo and

spiritism. David, how did you first come to find out about ARIGO and what was going on down in Brazil?

Well, I was living in Brazil since 1985, married to a Brazilian making films down there,

and was approached by an American producer who had read a book about ARIgo to do with film about him. And it had been

an area of my interest for many, many years as well. I have a background in neurobiology and

my father's a retired medical doctor. And so all of that had kind of brought me into an interest in things that also bridged into the paranormal,

where Brazil is very ripe with that.

So when I was approached by this producer here, I had the opportunity to actually meet Aargo's family.

And that's really where the project began to flourish.

I take it that book is the infamous ARIGO Surgeon of the Rusty Knife by John G. Fuller.

That's right, yes.

Yeah.

And so at the beginning of the project, that book was not a part of the film that I was working on.

It had been optioned by a third person. And so I began working on developing the story outside of

really what was written in that book, which is pretty much public domain stuff. There's not

much in there that you couldn't find from public sources. The writer John Fuller had never met

Argo himself. He wrote the story after he'd passed away. So my work became much

more intimate involving the people who had worked with him, his family members, people who had been

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