Most of this episode is going to be pretty dark.

We're going to be talking about torture, what happened to one man, still a boy, really, in a series of Syrian prisons.

But before we talk about what happened to that boy, I want to introduce you to the man he's

become. His name's Omar al-Shoghry. And just a few months ago, they got into college, Georgetown

University. He found out while driving around with a friend, got an email. And I was, uh-oh,

I just, I submitted my application nine days ago. So that can't be a yes.

That should be a no. I open it. And Omar, we delighted to inform you that you've been admitted to

Georgetown, but I never received an admission decision before. So I had to Google things. And at that

time, I was saying to my friend Tom, stop the car.

Stop the car.

Omar posted a video of what happened next on Twitter.

His friend, Tom, had started filming.

And I started jumping, and he was afraid.

You know, something bad happened.

No!

I made it to George Stone.

You literally jump on a barrier on the side of the road,

and it looks like it's on the other side is like a crevasse.

Like you could fall off.

Yes, yes.

If I fall on the other side, I would have died.

So I had the video in my pocket for five days before I publish it, because I was like my

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