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Have you ever met anyone with the most insane story?

So ridiculous, so unbelievable that you're sure it must be made up?

Three guys walk in, all masked.

One with the gun, one with the bat, and one with the hockey stick.

The chef's scientific calculations at that point basically said that we had 24 to 48 hours to live

and that we were all going to slowly freeze to death.

Or maybe it's your story.

So you could smell the popcorn blended with the gun pump

and had to jump over this body to get out of the movie theater.

The one you tell at parties, but no one believes.

And as we start to run, I slip and I hit the raised cobblestone

and I look back and the bulls are right there.

The story that sounds like pure fiction.

I see something sort of moving along the wall.

It takes me a second to register what it is.

And all of a sudden I see that python head, people over the other side.

But it's real life.

Everyone starts smelling smoke.

Then I look up and I see these like bright orange flames.

These are the real tall tales we're collecting.

The extraordinary stories of ordinary people.

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