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A quick warning. This episode discusses suicide. Please take care while listening.
Oh, my God.
In late February, a man started a live stream on X. He's on his phone.
You see him. He's wearing a white T-shirt. He's got gold chains on. And he starts talking to the camera.
The man's name, Arnold Harrow.
You can see that he's feeling much more anxiety as it's going on. He's like scratching his head.
Then Harrow holds a bullet up to the camera.
Then he puts the bullet into the chamber of Smith & Wesson. And he spins the chamber. And he looks at it. And you could see that he's in a lot of distress.
Haro was playing Russian roulette. And then he made a request to his followers.
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