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60 seconds OR She dies | A conversation with a Hostage Negotiator | The Basement w- Tim Ross #044

The Basement with Tim Ross

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The Importance of Failure

"I have never felt more like a failure in my life," he says. "When you're learning to do something new, if you're not willing to fail, first of all, you won't even show up." He was hired by the Alexandria Police Department at the tail end of the crack epidemic. The jump out boys were called that because they drove around in old beat-up vehicles with three other people inside.

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