#204. British Royal Commando Working For Hong Kong Crime Family - Chris Thrall
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Chris Thrall is an Ex-Royal Marines Commando who talks through his journey serving his country, to becoming homeless. We discuss his experience of crystal meth addiction while working for a viscous Hong Kong crime syndicate, as a nightclub doorman. Chris was forced to survive in the world's most unforgiving city, hooked on the world's most dangerous drug.
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| 0:00.0 | 19 years old, Northern Ireland, how hostile was it? |
| 0:04.0 | I was patrolling the streets of Belfast with what essentially was a machine gun, |
| 0:10.0 | fully automatic rifle, stopping IRA soldiers in the street, searching them, doing stuff that I'm probably not proud of. |
| 0:19.0 | In 19, you're a child. Yeah, child, yeah. |
| 0:21.6 | Our society failed that children are given fully automatic weapons. |
| 0:26.6 | We were on patrol one day. |
| 0:28.6 | We tried to go out the main gate. |
| 0:30.6 | Boom! They blew to the IRA, blew up the back gate. |
| 0:33.6 | It's like, take cover. What's going on? What's going on? |
| 0:36.6 | The bang, bang. Well, where's life going to take? I was like, take cover. What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? |
| 0:39.8 | Well, where's life going to take me? |
| 0:42.0 | Within six months, I was chronically addicted to crystal man. |
| 0:47.1 | I was a mentally unwell, damaged young man who just left the Marines. |
| 0:51.2 | And it got way deeper and way, way darker right did you ever get yourself |
| 0:56.3 | into a lot of trouble with them say how it's say how it is well welcome to the eventful Lives podcast. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest |
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| 1:18.9 | On this podcast, I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives. |
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| 1:37.1 | Chris Thruill is an ex-Royle marines commando who talked through his journey serving his country to becoming homeless. |
| 1:43.9 | We discuss his experience of crystal methiction while working on the vicious Hong Kong crime |
| 1:48.7 | syndicate as a nightclub Dorman. |
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