Introducing: Go-Boy!

Go-Boy! follows the life of Roger “Mad Dog” Caron, the fist-fighting, jail-breaking bank robber turned award-winning author. 

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Episode Transcript

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I'm Sam Mullins and this is Go Boy. We open
on the frosty grounds of a Canadian reformatory in the
year nineteen fifty four. Every night, the type of young
men your mom used to warn you about make the

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five hundred meter track from the gymnasium to the barracks.
Among their ranks are certified robbers, thieves, and killers. But
there's one young man I really want you to see,
Roger Karan. If this story has a hero, and I
would argue it does, it's him. Roger's eyes flicked to

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the fences topped with barbed wire, his body coursing with adrenaline.
Because this wasn't just any night. This was the night
a legend was born. Suddenly Roger made a break for it.
He bolted, Roger steths pound the frozen ground, and as

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he leaps onto the fence, he hears a chant has
broken out among the inmates, and the distance the boys
across the field were chanting the thing that inmates in
that era, in that region would chant whenever anyone would
make a break for it. Atop that fence, covered in

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his own blood, this was the moment Roger became Go Boy.
The fist fighting, bank robbing, jail breaking icon. Roger Caron
was sixteen, first convicted. They had called him mad dog
can't Rojia Karen forty two has spent twenty four of
those years in jail. Roger was in and out of

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nearly every maximum security penitentiary in Canada, but walls couldn't
hold him. I got his hack from bars all time.
That's what kep him going, was the CHAUNI of giving
it to the other side of the wall. Finally, they
had no choice but to send Roger to the only
place he couldn't escape, the hole. It was here, in

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the most unlikely place you can imagine that Roger, a
man with almost no education, found his voice on the
concrete floor. And then I grabbed a pencil and I
wrote and wrote. I wrote. What started off as a
therapeutic creative outlet blossomed into the story that would shock
a nation. Why I was to take off my shirt

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and you're see my wide This totally crisscross from bob
wire knife wound, jumping through windows. Go Boy is the
journey from the depths of rock bottom to the soaring
heights of fame and fortune. And he was instantly a celebrity.
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