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Today's podcast will feature two stories that prove that money is the root of all evil.

The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear

is called Lone Shark, and it's about a student who takes drastic measures to pay off debt. And the

second and final story you'll hear is called Western Russian farm animal, and the plot of this

story is so absurd it sounds

like badly written fiction. But it's not fiction. It really happened. But before we get into

today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious, delivered in story format,

then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week,

once on Monday and once on Thursday.

So if that's of interest to you, please replace the Amazon Music Follow Button's toilet paper

with the kind that doesn't have a good seam on the outside and so you end up ripping it to

pieces just to get it started. Okay, let's get into our first story called Lone Shark.

Music Okay, let's get into our first story called Lone Shark. In 2014, Alan Ruby was a 19-year-old freshman studying political science at the University of Oklahoma.

Despite being relatively modest and soft-spoken in person, social media, he projected this lifestyle of wealth and grandeur.

He'd oftentimes post pictures of exotic sports cars and expensive watches and clothes.

And he would travel the world to Paris, London, New York City, and take all these pictures showing off this incredible life he had.

He really wanted people to believe that he was this fabulously wealthy, successful guy.

Alan was only able to project this phony lifestyle on social media because he was spending his father's money. His father was a successful businessman who was also the publisher of a newspaper that was quite

successful.

And so Alan would just spend his money.

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