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mention of suicide. Please listen with care. Sarah, I'm afraid to ask this because I already

know the answer, but are you a gamer by chance? Oh, you know I am. Yes, I am a gamer. I love, love video games.

What kind of video games do you play? I don't play any that are multiplayer, like where you're

playing with someone online. I find that too scary. But I really like adventure games. Like,

I like all those, like those kind of platform games,

like Mario, whatever. And then games that are very open world and take like 200 hours to complete

because there's all these quests and you have like a whole life and everything. That's really fun.

I have a switch and I've been really plugged into this game where you just open boxes and unpack them in your house. That's it. That's a whole game. And you don't have a gun or a sword or like magic? You don't have any guns or swords or magic. And if you don't put the item in the right place, you can't move to the next house. That sounds actually kind of soothing. It's so soothing. It's called unpacking.

Okay, I'll see.

I'll see.

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Well, I was asking about your gaming tendencies because today, I have a story for you

about a grown man so obsessed with being the best arcade gamer in the world that he's willing to do anything

to hold on to his high score.

It's June 2005, and Billy Mitchell is at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Billy is tall with brown hair down to his shoulders, and he has a neatly trimmed beard.

He's wearing his regular uniform,

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