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The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 211 - The Curse of the Dragon

The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

During his life, Bruce Lee became a pop culture icon. But the life of the man who has become widely known as the greatest martial arts actor of them all was cut tragically short, when he mysteriously died inside a Hong Kong apartment. Was Bruce Lee murdered by the Chinese triads? Or did he fall prey to an ancient curse against his family? In this episode we will explore all the theories, and try to figure out what really happened. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/the-conspirators-podcast Notes: https://bruceleefoundation.org https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Lee-Life-Matthew-Polly-ebook/dp/B075RTTLPF/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bruce-lee-dies-at-age-32 https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/entertainment/movies/article/3055379/bruce-lee-curse-three-facts-will-leave-you https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9664576/ https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-martial-arts-news-shocking-conspiracy-theory-unfolded-linking-bruce-lees-mysterious-death-to-a-family-curse-in-2021/ https://unsolved.com/gallery/brandon-lee/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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One day in 1914, 10-year-old Li Hoi Chun stood barefoot on the dirt road on the outskirts of

0:38.1

Vosha and City in southern China. He was one of hundreds of peasant boys hired by the locomotives

0:45.1

to hawk their wares. At the time, Li Hoi Chun was working at a ramshackel restaurant.

0:51.6

And his job was to entice patrons to come in and eat. But unlike a lot of other

0:56.4

boys' age, Li Hoi Chun didn't merely shout out the day's specials and Cantonese.

1:01.1

He sang them. The boy had a sweet falsetto voice and it just so happened that on that particular

1:07.2

day, he managed to catch the ear of a famous Cantonese opera singer. The man heard the little

1:12.3

boy singing and was so taken with him that he invited him to become his apprentice.

1:18.4

Hoi Chun's parents were overjoyed at this news, both because of the financial opportunity

1:23.6

this presented, as well as the fact that this meant there would be one less mouth to feed.

1:29.3

Hoi Chun spent years learning his craft on the stages of Vosha and

1:33.6

in 1928 his opera troupe moved 60 miles away to Hong Kong and searched a bigger and wealthier

1:38.0

audiences. Even at that point acting wasn't paying the bills alone and Hoi Chun had to support

1:43.6

himself by working part-time in a restaurant. In Hong Kong, Hoi Chun's opera troupe met with

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