Summary
A cigarette at his lips, parrot Bok-Bok on his shoulder, Johnny O spent 68 years on the San Pedro waterfront, he calls himself a pirate. (Repeat)
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| 0:00.0 | Hereby monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. |
| 0:03.3 | I start to float away from the earth. |
| 0:06.8 | Have you ever smoked crack before? |
| 0:08.8 | We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. |
| 0:11.8 | They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all |
| 0:14.1 | juggles in some way. Yeah, we're not broken. Crazed delinquents. |
| 0:17.2 | We're in our last day, Sean man. Listen to Here Be Monsters, the |
| 0:22.4 | podcast about the unknown on the KCRW iTunes page. |
| 0:27.0 | From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
| 0:39.0 | Unfictional is a program of stories and personal documentaries and today on the program |
| 0:47.0 | the story of a pirate. |
| 0:51.7 | It's part of Cargo Land, which was a series of radio stories produced by KCRW, |
| 0:57.0 | taking you behind the gates of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, |
| 1:01.0 | the busiest port system in the United States. |
| 1:04.0 | It's where a guy known as Johnny O, spent most of his 68 years as a linesman, |
| 1:09.9 | one of the oldest and most dangerous jobs at the port and he calls himself a pirate. |
| 1:16.2 | We are the antiques. |
| 1:18.0 | We're the beginning and the end. |
| 1:20.1 | We tie them up and we let them go. We're the antiques. |
| 1:26.0 | Award-winning producer Lou Elkowski spent some time, |
| 1:29.0 | actually a lot of time with Johnny O. |
| 1:32.0 | And it produced this piece and the entire Cargo Land series. |
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