A quick warning.
There are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org so a little while back, this guy named Ken Irwin started reaching out to people here at this American Life.
Emanuel got a voicemail that was both very insistent and deeply apologetic.
Hi.
I'm so sorry for calling you.
I'm just trying to get ahold of someone at, like, this American Life or New York Times.
I'm so sorry for interrupting you on your weekend.
Chloe got messages on LinkedIn saying, quote, if you can give me five minutes to tell you what I know so far, I promise it's a crazy story.
And today is about to be, like, a million times crazier.
Two weeks ago, my life was normal.
I literally was just, like, working for Amazon.
I was a normal person.
On Dana's voicemail, he said he was sure she was way too busy to call back herself, but he swore our fact checker could confirm everything he's saying.
Basically, I became a multimillionaire over the last week and a half, which is insane, and the story is so much.
Crazier than what I'm even saying to Brian.
This guy wrote on Twitter, I have no idea where the story will go as I'm stuck in it trying to figure it out, but I think you're exactly the type of person that could figure it out.
So they all passed that information to me.
Then I called the guy.
Hi, there's Ken.