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1.88sOkay. Mountain climbing supplies.
3.17sRope. Ice ax. Heart medicine.
2.1sSon, don't go up that mountain.
3.42sYou'll die up there, just like I did.
1.69sYou? "Did"?
4.09sSure. It was the winter of '28.
4.54sThe Butter Baby Flapjack Company sponsored me and a fella named McAllister.
5.94sWe were almost to the top when we ran low on supplies.
3.44sHeroically, i gave him the last short stack.
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5.49sThen that glory hog took all the supplies and headed for the top alone.
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4.69sI fell 8,000 feet onto a pile of jagged rocks.
2.75sOf course, folks were tougher in those days.
2.44sI was jitterbugging that very night.
4.57sBut that skunk McAllister was never seen again.
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