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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio Zaren Elizabeth.

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Speaker 2: Check it out. Yeah, you know it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, girl, Yes, mosquitoes.

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Speaker 2: They're so I hate mosquitoes.

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Speaker 3: I know someone actually likes enjoys mosquito bites. Okay, they

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Speaker 3: like how they get the feeling, the annoyance anyway, that

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Speaker 3: they're weird. But my point is, mosquitoes, I just found

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Speaker 3: out recently, are attracted to all my favorite foods.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're attracted to bananas. Okay, they're attracted to dried

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Speaker 3: fruit beer. I mean, this is my diet. What am

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Speaker 3: I supposed to do?

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Speaker 2: They love me? I am so sweet for them. Oh really,

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Speaker 2: I'm delicious to mosquitoes.

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Speaker 3: What type of blood do you have?

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Speaker 2: Red?

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Speaker 3: No? What like ab oh? You know d do you

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Speaker 3: know what? Honestly, do you know what?

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Speaker 2: Whole blood?

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Speaker 3: Because mosquitoes are attracted to oh blood way more than

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Speaker 3: any of the.

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Speaker 2: Other No, I think I'm like ABCD.

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Speaker 3: If you have type oh blood, you're eighty three percent

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Speaker 3: more likely to attract mosquito. Really, yes, I've been over

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Speaker 3: here just investigating mosquito trying to find out how I

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Speaker 3: can get around them. Yeah, right, I'm just gonna wear

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Speaker 3: all sleeves, dude.

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Speaker 2: I've been I've been like covered in mosquito bites once,

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Speaker 2: really like painfully. In fact, one time I got mosquito

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Speaker 2: bites so badly all over my bare legs. And then

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Speaker 2: I had to fly out and go to someone's wedding

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Speaker 2: and I had a dress I don't usually wear dress.

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Speaker 2: I had a dress that like went to my knees.

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Speaker 2: Oh no. And you know friend of the show, Sarah

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Speaker 2: TACIONI Golden, she spent like two hours trying to use concealers.

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Speaker 2: Do I have I not heard of stockings? I planned

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Speaker 2: to wear these open toe shoes op to heels, and

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to do that open toe with stockings.

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Speaker 2: And then someone was at the wedding with open toe

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Speaker 2: and stockings, and all of us were pointing and laughing.

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Speaker 2: So better to just go with like totally disgusting palkmark legs.

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Speaker 3: You know what that is ridiculous? That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Do you want to know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: Dude? That's why I showed up orgies.

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Speaker 2: What this is ridiculous? Crime a podcast about absurd and

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Speaker 2: outrageous capers, heists and cons it's always ninety nine percent

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Speaker 2: murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: I know, you heard that.

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Speaker 2: British eighties and nineties tabloid culture.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it was a thing. Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: It was vicious.

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Speaker 2: It was a lifestyle choice.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: There's all the gossip that they had about.

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Speaker 3: Like the Royal page six stuff. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like the Bazoom bagals.

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Speaker 3: Or Yakini that's in the paper. Yeah, Charles and Die.

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Speaker 2: Remember Tatler magazine still there. They would spill the goods

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Speaker 2: on like the upper class.

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Speaker 3: They hated Fergie, that redheaded, unfortunate poor dear.

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Speaker 2: And then they were like the Sloane Rangers. Are you do?

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Speaker 2: You know that what they're called.

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Speaker 3: IM familiar with the term.

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Speaker 2: So a Sloane ranger is like an upper middle class,

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Speaker 2: upper class woman who dresses and acts and vacations and

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Speaker 2: plays like just like her peer group. It's sort of

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Speaker 2: like an early influencer. So they have this look. It's

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Speaker 2: super uniform and preppy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's what I remember.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think of like a crisp white shirt and like.

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Speaker 3: Blazers and definitely blazer.

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Speaker 2: Blonde hair in a low pony which like there's a

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Speaker 2: comedian who does this thing about how like when you

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Speaker 2: see low pony on like a celebrity or model, it

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Speaker 2: looks so cool and you do it, you put it on,

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Speaker 2: you look like one of the founding fathers. That's me.

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Speaker 2: That's the problem I have. But like classic styles for

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Speaker 2: the Sloane Rangers, like an air scarf and like whatever.

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Speaker 2: In the US the look is called preppy. In France,

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Speaker 2: it's called Bonjean. Princess Di was nipuzl.

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Speaker 3: I've never heard that one before.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she was the peak the panicle. Princess Die a

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Speaker 2: boy Sloan was called a raw for who raw Harry.

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Speaker 2: He's a real who raw Harry r r a h.

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Speaker 3: Oh like Okay.

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Speaker 2: So the name Sloane Ranger comes from Sloane Square in Chelsea.

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Speaker 2: That's where the rich folks living around, and so the

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Speaker 2: name the name was created in nineteen seventy five in

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Speaker 2: an article in Harper's and Queen magazine. And in the

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Speaker 2: eighties it was the look.

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Speaker 3: That was it familiar.

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Speaker 2: And in the eighties there were lots of parties and

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Speaker 2: fabulous places that catered to the Sloane Rangers. One empresario

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Speaker 2: who showed them a good time. Was a man named

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Speaker 2: Edward Ormus Sherrington Davenport.

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Speaker 3: That's a serious name.

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Speaker 2: Edward Ormas Sherrington Davenport. Wow, Lord Edward Davenport A ka

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Speaker 2: fast Eddie Fast, Eddy Fast. So who's this fast Eddie?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Let me give you a breakdown. He was born in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six in Kensington, London. So he went to

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Speaker 2: something called a crammer. I'm loving this. Where do you go?

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Speaker 2: I go to a crammer? There are private prep schools

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Speaker 2: that specialize in prepping students for entrance exams to college

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Speaker 2: kuman like a college prep cramming like studying and they're

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Speaker 2: posh school and he's surrounded by posh kids. It wasn't poor,

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Speaker 2: but he wasn't at their level. So the first gig

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Speaker 2: he had, the first job he ever came up with

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Speaker 2: Tutelan to the local shops. He'd buy a bunch of

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Speaker 2: major markup because they were too lazy to hoof it

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Speaker 2: down to the shops and pick up like an arrow bar.

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Speaker 3: I did the exact same thing. So what got me

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Speaker 3: kicked out of the boy Scouts.

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Speaker 2: So he started to see that he could make money

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Speaker 2: and it wasn't too hard.

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Speaker 3: But laziness is a great way to make money.

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Speaker 2: Other people's laziness a perfect that's most of like what

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Speaker 2: you see the product.

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Speaker 3: A lot of services are based on them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So he starts selling cheap jeans at the Portobello

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Speaker 2: Road Market port Road. It's fantastic, I love it. Anyway.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to make the bed moms.

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Speaker 3: And brunsticks that has that song Portobello Road, I think

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Speaker 2: Anyway, they're famous for their mushrooms. So he he wanted

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Speaker 2: to make money. He wanted to have a good time

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Speaker 2: making money. I mean, isn't that the goal?

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Speaker 3: She loves Don't be here for a long time, but

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Speaker 3: for a good time.

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Speaker 2: That's me man. Yeah. So he wanted to surround himself

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Speaker 2: with the swells. He wanted to be one of the swell.

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Speaker 3: Sure, So one.

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Speaker 2: Year in his late teens, he threw himself a birthday party.

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Speaker 2: Was massive, extravagant. Everyone loved it, and the rich kids

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Speaker 2: begged him to throw another one please. It was so fun.

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Speaker 2: But the party. It costs serious money to put on

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Speaker 3: Oh I, especially if you're trying to impress the word.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the problem. Like when you throw a good

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Speaker 2: party and then everyone's like, oh, we should do that again,

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Speaker 2: And like you throw a good dinner party and suddenly

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Speaker 2: and you're like, a hi, guys, it's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: pot look, and they're like, that's not the kind of

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Speaker 2: way you party. I'm like, I know, so okay, I'll

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Speaker 2: just eat the cost. He thought about it. He's like,

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Speaker 2: it costs a lot of money, but I could actually

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Speaker 2: make money on this. I'm going to charge admission.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: So, in nineteen eighty three, he's nineteen years old, fast Eddie,

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Speaker 2: he co founded a party company with a pal of

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Speaker 2: his name, Jeremy Taylor. They gave it a great name.

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Speaker 2: They called it gate Crasher Limited.

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Speaker 3: Oh I thought it was gonna be Lord and Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, good one. So they put together all these

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Speaker 2: amazing bucchanalias.

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Speaker 3: Nice I love Balia.

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Speaker 2: They did invite boys from the boys' school. Okay, girls

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Speaker 3: That does work out well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I went to a girls school. I know, you know,

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Speaker 2: you just short circuit when you see a boy's. Like,

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Speaker 2: we used to have like exchange days where all the

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Speaker 2: Catholic schools would kind of you'd send students around as

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Speaker 2: like your representatives to like show that you're logical, good people.

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Speaker 3: Do you guys have we did the thing where we

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Speaker 3: would exchange basically like we had a really good big

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Speaker 3: big pool, so they would come over and do their

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Speaker 3: the stands were full of people rooting for the women's team.

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Speaker 2: Francis, I never got sent out to another school. They

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Speaker 2: were just like, no, that's not a good We don't

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Speaker 2: want them to know this is what we're like. And

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Speaker 2: so they'd like, you know, exemplary Catholic youth would be

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Speaker 2: sent to other schools, and then exemplary Catholic youth show

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Speaker 2: up at our school. And when the boys, yes from

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Speaker 2: Bishop of Dowd is a Poe at school, they'd show up.

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Speaker 2: It was just like we would literally like our brain's

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Speaker 2: short circuit. Its smoke came out of our ears, and

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Speaker 2: we're just like, I can't function. There's a there's a.

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Speaker 3: Boy here like them are coloring hall.

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Speaker 2: We're just like everyone's like they can't focus.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm too many clothes. I take up

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Speaker 2: The nuns are on their like last nerve. They can't

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Speaker 2: take it with us, and they're just like whatever. We're

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Speaker 2: just you know, you're you're you're old enough to do work,

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Speaker 2: but here's a coloring book. I can't with you today.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, So that's what he's doing. He's organizing this.

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Speaker 2: It's not exemplary Catholic Keith, I got you just yeah,

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Speaker 2: rich kids. So boys' school, girls school booze great music

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Speaker 2: and so they're not like parties that someone's flat or

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Speaker 2: like a local parish hall. He has them at country

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Speaker 2: homes with names like long Lead and Weston Park. Wow,

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Speaker 2: like Biggins, Yeah, like Lord's Manners, like some Downton Abbey kid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I seen the show, know what you made?

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Speaker 2: Sure? I don't watch TV. So, uh, there're they weren't

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Speaker 2: small affairs because these are big places. Some of them

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Speaker 2: had ten thousand people there.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, there's small villages parties exactly.

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Speaker 2: So with crowds that big, you know he's making money.

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Speaker 3: Oh God, I hope.

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Speaker 2: So try two hundred and fifty thousand pounds per year

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Speaker 2: on for size Sarah. Wow. Yeah, and at its peak

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Speaker 2: hundred tons. Yes, it is peak. There's just pounds of

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Speaker 2: like blubber. At its peak the company made one million

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Speaker 2: pounds a year on these things. Pounds sterling Ah, Peter York.

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Speaker 2: You don't know him, but.

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Speaker 3: He's don't know who I know social.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it is. He a person friend, a social commentator,

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Speaker 2: and he's the co author of the Sloane Ranger's handbook

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Speaker 2: So Good. He described the scene quote, they were an

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Speaker 2: instant rave for Sloane Rangers, but with a real kind

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Speaker 2: Reporter Alexander Reynolds said, quote, I finally met him. He's

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Speaker 2: Perhaps too much time wondering what that would smell like.

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Speaker 2: And then I reread the sentence and I felt really stupid,

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Speaker 3: I am I like that this is pre like any

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Speaker 2: Now you Yeah, exactly, And so Reynolds he says he

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Speaker 2: And while it was businessing very well, order of the sloan, right, Sorry,

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Speaker 2: According to him, the other ten pounds fifty was for

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Speaker 3: many tattoos did you get?

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Speaker 2: Quote boring, There aren't many parties there. I learned nothing

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Speaker 3: Someone should ask him what he thought of toilet wine

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Speaker 2: Then he said, quote basically, gate Crasher was bloody good fun.

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Speaker 2: So the conviction wasn't the only problem that gate Crasher limited.

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Speaker 2: hanging out, dancing with Clancy Wilkes, Pemberton Masters. The families

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Speaker 2: no worries, bro Fast Eddie Davenport is full of ideas.

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Speaker 2: So he started a luxury pawnbrokering business, which is kind

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Speaker 2: parents like you know, didn't didn't know about all these

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Speaker 3: Sure, but they've got nice old silver Yeah, so.

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Speaker 2: He handled mostly jewelry and he did cars. So like Emeralds, pearls, BMW's.

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Speaker 2: So he's doing well and he wanted to add to that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there he's landed.

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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, he's not a member of the peerage. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety six he moves on to another venture.

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Speaker 2: He'd take out leases on bars, pubs, nightclubs in London

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Speaker 3: Come. He sees value that others don't see, and then

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Speaker 2: Yeah, precisely, and so's it's just that his company wasn't

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Speaker 3: It's a business. Yeah, you're tying.

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Speaker 3: I had this happen with the landlord. I live with

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Speaker 2: I was like, what right, Okay, so that's what Eddie's doing. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I feel Davenport he denies the claims. He said, quote

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Speaker 2: They got together and they raided fast Eddie's house in

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Speaker 2: Action was taken against an audit firm. But Davenport of

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Speaker 3: He's going to real British gangster.

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Speaker 2: Yes, completely. So nineteen ninety eight, he along with two

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Speaker 2: Egels luxury resort in Scotland. YA five day New Year's

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Speaker 2: he was facing charges for that, but everything gets dropped

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Speaker 3: Does guy Richie know this story? Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: So his lawyers deliver a doctor's note that said he

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Speaker 3: Okay, things that old move. But he wasn't lying, Oh

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now I'm not sure how that excuse is not

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Speaker 3: Okay, whatever, let's take a break.

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Speaker 2: Okay, when we come back, Sierra Leone will enter the chat.

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Speaker 3: What zaren, Elizabeth?

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Speaker 2: I was telling you about fast Eddie, Ormis, Sherrington Davenport.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, Lord Davenport's.

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Speaker 3: You did, I remember wrote help with that?

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Speaker 2: With that?

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Speaker 3: Why that mountain Lion.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you. In the nineties, Sierra Leone was

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Things were about to get worse than an already

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Speaker 3: I did not, I noticed. I do know that Tony

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Speaker 2: Uh huh, yeah, exactly interesting times we live in. But

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Speaker 2: So the civil wars, raging government finances are thinning somehow,

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Speaker 2: fast Eddie Davenport, Oh No, gets approached by the cash

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Speaker 2: Cyril Foray, fore laid out his problem the High commission building. Basically,

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Speaker 3: And the Government of America and fallen down.

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Speaker 2: But Sierra Leone government couldn't They can't afford to fix it.

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Speaker 2: And it wasn't just fixing it up. They couldn't make

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Speaker 3: Oh they didn't. They didn't even own it, no renovation,

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00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 3: but they.

439
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,040
Speaker 2: Still had twenty years on the lease. I don't know.

440
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 2: So they couldn't just walk away from it, right, So

441
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:05,199
Speaker 2: what are they going to do?

442
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 3: They need fast Eddie Okay.

443
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety seven rolls around, The coup takes place and

444
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 2: then it's put down. Sierra Leone government is trying to

445
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 2: get UN peacekeepers to come and assist the British who

446
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 2: were just holding everything down. In nineteen ninety nine, Davenport

447
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 2: makes a deal with the Sierra Leone government. He said

448
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 2: he would rehab the building with the condition that he

449
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,479
Speaker 2: would provide alternative offices for the High Commission. And then

450
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 2: a clause in the contract allowed Sierra Leone to buy

451
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 2: back the property for one point five million pounds the

452
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 2: next year.

453
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Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, oh no, I hear it. So that

454
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 3: next year, I hear that, right, you said, buy back, Okay,

455
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 3: go on.

456
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,360
Speaker 2: Next year came and went, and it wasn't like they're

457
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 2: just sitting on their thumbs in West Africa, like between

458
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one and two thousand and one, yes, fifty

459
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 2: thousand people were killed in this civil war and hundreds

460
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 2: of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes

461
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 2: and become refugees. They went to Liberia in two thousand

462
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 2: and one. The government was busy seron. So the UN

463
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 2: forces they arrive, they're taking rebel held areas and disarming

464
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 2: the rebel soldiers. Meanwhile, they've got thirty three Portland Place.

465
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 2: That's the least of their worries, a building they couldn't

466
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 2: even afford to buy back. They're not thinking about this.

467
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 2: So since the government hadn't paid him the one point

468
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 2: five million to take control of the building. Davenport says,

469
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 2: it's his mine, it's not mine, and he made it

470
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 2: his base in London. He made it his private residence.

471
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah wow.

472
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 2: So the government of Sierra Leone, they took legal action

473
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 2: against him. They accused him of exploiting the chaos in

474
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 2: their country in order to cheat him out of the

475
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 2: twenty four bedroom, five story mansions. Five damn, it's huge.

476
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 2: And they also said that he conspired with the then

477
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 2: High Commissioner to get the property on the cheap.

478
00:23:59,240 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 3: Oh.

479
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 2: Instead of fighting, sorry, and the guy doesn't fight the accusation,

480
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 2: he just resigns.

481
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 3: For mister forre Oh. Look African corruption.

482
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 2: Because see Davenport, he got possession of it from Sierra

483
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 2: Leone for fifty thousand pounds. Oh, He's like, I'll give

484
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 2: you fifty thousand pounds for it. It's worth five million

485
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: pounds at the time.

486
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 3: He's like, you know why people have traditionally exploited your people.

487
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 2: Any traditions going going come on for old times sake.

488
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 2: Lawyers for Sierra Leone they issued a writ in London

489
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 2: that said Davenport had masked the true value of the property.

490
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 2: But remember the place was run down, and so an

491
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 2: independent appraiser comes commissioned by the Sierra Leone government. He said,

492
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 2: the government's interest in the building was like pretty much

493
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 2: worthless because Davenport had renovated the place completely, doing more

494
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 2: than one point three million in repairs. So he poured.

495
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: Davenport pours all his money and do it to fix

496
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 2: it up. And they're like, Sierra Leone, you couldn't make

497
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 2: the rent, you couldn't pay him the one point.

498
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 3: Five You're out of this.

499
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 2: This is what Davenport said about it quote, it is

500
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: been a frightening experience the government of Sierra Leone.

501
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 3: Him.

502
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, the government of Sierra Leone approached me to help

503
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 2: them out, and I did. They had no money and

504
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 2: needed to sell the house, which was in a very

505
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 2: bad state of repair. Not many people would have taken

506
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 2: the risk of dealing with the Sierra Leone government. Obviously,

507
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,959
Speaker 2: as a property developer, I wanted to make a profit

508
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 2: on the house, and I still think I can, but

509
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 2: there's no guarantee. It is a few years off before

510
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 2: I can say whether it will be a bargain. In

511
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 2: the meantime, I won't be going on holiday in Sierra Leone.

512
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 3: Talking to the press. Does this man no favors?

513
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 2: Never? Okay?

514
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 3: So he sounds every time he's host Well, there are.

515
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 2: Ways of doing business that are within the law technically,

516
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 2: but those ways are always pretty much low. You know,

517
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 2: this was low. This was a low thing to do.

518
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 2: The government was struggling. He took advantage of it, and

519
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 2: I know that's the nature of the game.

520
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 3: And yeah, but it's low and fear.

521
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 2: Yes, And that's the thing about this guy, Like a

522
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 2: lot of times he's within the law, but he just

523
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 2: lacks integrity and empathy, like he feels nothing legal.

524
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 3: Don't make it just so it wasn't enough that.

525
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 2: He got one over on an entire nation. He decided

526
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 2: to celebrate this. He threw a I won in court

527
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 2: party in Monaco, his second home, and it was like

528
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 2: a who's who of late nineties, early two thousand.

529
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 3: Blisters okay, pink, oh wow, Macy.

530
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: Gray, Oh, Jean Claude.

531
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 3: Van Dam, Macy Gray with the funny voice, Macy Yeah.

532
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: And like think about the timing of it. It's like

533
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 2: she's a little bit cuckoo, so, which you know, God

534
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 2: bless So they're all there in describing the party, this

535
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 2: is how he said, quote it all got a bit

536
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 2: out of hand. We all started smashing plates and throwing

537
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: chairs in the fire. What I'm expanding into private equities.

538
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 2: Any parties I throw now will be private ones. I'm

539
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 2: discovering my serious side.

540
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 3: I think my joker origin story would be attending one

541
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 3: of his parties. I think I would lose it.

542
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 4: Well.

543
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,479
Speaker 2: The lawyer representing the Sierra Leone government quote, the fraud

544
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: element has been dropped and it is part of the

545
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 2: But as far as we're concern the case is very

546
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 2: much alive. It is premature for him to be blowing

547
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 2: his trumpet about it.

548
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.

549
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: They claimed breach a contract against him, and this was

550
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 2: because he didn't find suitable alternative accommodations for the High Commission,

551
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 2: like he said, an so without thirty three Portland Place,

552
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 2: they relocated to an office above a really busy tube

553
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 2: station and it was just, you know, horrible. He settled

554
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 2: out of court with the government for an undisclosed sum,

555
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 2: and the British government offered to buy a new building

556
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 2: for Sierra Leone's High Commission. Davenport gets left with the

557
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 2: remainder of the lease and he acquired the whole thing

558
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five. So yeah, and he made

559
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: the most of it.

560
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 3: Right.

561
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 2: He's got thirty three Portland place. He throws parties there,

562
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 2: He hosts fashion shoots and he would lend it out

563
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 2: for filming. The parties there were legendary. Boy George had

564
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 2: his fortieth birthday party there in two thousand and one. Okay,

565
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 2: the Rothschild family rented it out for a soire attended

566
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 2: by Princess William and Harry. In two thousand and five.

567
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 3: Some of my favorite people.

568
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 2: Celebrities flocked to the place. Friend of the Show, Paris Hilton.

569
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 2: Oh yes, chare Naomi Campbell, Hugh Grant.

570
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 3: We got to do a Naomi Campbell story.

571
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 2: Yea, we really do. King Boss, Ronnie Wood, Vivian Westwood, Cure, Knightley. Huh.

572
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 2: He also rented out the space.

573
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 3: Oh Rod Stewart would imagine, I'm just.

574
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 2: Kicking soccer balls all over the place. He would. He

575
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 2: rented the space out for pole dancing lessons.

576
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 3: The pink this is the pink effect.

577
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: That's the total pink effect. They're all doing like that

578
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 2: scarf work on the fabric.

579
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 3: You're dropping down out of the sky.

580
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 2: On a rope amy winehouse. Yeah, she shot her rehab

581
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: video at the property.

582
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 3: Oh amy, oh Amy, no no no.

583
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 2: It was used as Lionel Log's clinic in the movie

584
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 2: The King Speech.

585
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 3: Ah.

586
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 2: And then there was the steamy stuff. I promised you

587
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: a lot of porn was filled.

588
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 3: Them there, of course.

589
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then he threw these VIP masked orgies there.

590
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 3: Oh god, it.

591
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 2: Cost you ninety quid to get in. And apparently these

592
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: were really popular with like celebs and royals because everyone

593
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: had to be masked up and not in like a

594
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: COVID stop the spread, k kN ninety five totally eyes

595
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: wide shut, freaky business. I was I'm kind of hoping

596
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 2: that some of them wore the scarier Venetian masks, the

597
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: plague doctors, or some of them, like just the regular

598
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 2: when you're in Venice and you see him like that's

599
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: that's really disturbing the one day.

600
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 3: Some of them look like not like the like the

601
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: opera glass where you're holding the stick that keeps the

602
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 3: mask by your eyes, and I mean those, but some

603
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 3: of the black ones, it's like leather and the slits.

604
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: Terrifying.

605
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 3: Are you here to kill me?

606
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: I just hope that that's what they wore to the orgies.

607
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 2: You like that freaks and so anyway, or you know

608
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: what they could wear is my old man latex mask.

609
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 3: That would be good and I told.

610
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 2: You about it. It looks so real and it would be

611
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 2: amazing in an orgy, he said, wear am at. Yeah,

612
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: maybe maybe the sloths dancers can wear, but like I

613
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 2: may wear it next time we record. Here's the problem.

614
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: It smells like bad chemicals.

615
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 3: Trying to wear chemicals.

616
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 2: It's like three years four years old and is still

617
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: off gassing anyway, orgies. So the general manager of the property,

618
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: Frederick Porter, he said, when he's talking about filming the

619
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: King's speech quote, everyone in the film industry knows what

620
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: goes on in there. Everybody would like to be at

621
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 2: one of those parties. They're all very well run events.

622
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: The people who are invited are all like minded. There

623
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 2: were no sex parties while filming was going on. Of course,

624
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: when he's talking about King Speed, an anonymous local said, quote,

625
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 2: the room where Colin Firth has all his elocution lessons

626
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 2: is exactly the same room where sex parties and porn

627
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 2: discos have been held. For such a royal film. It

628
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: certainly isn't a very regal setting.

629
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 3: I need to tell them about Hollywood.

630
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 2: Business Thorn discos.

631
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 3: Did do you also know about the royals?

632
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: Because you're the ones there? It's it is a very

633
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 2: regal setting.

634
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 3: Yes, probably the most regal setting there could be.

635
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 2: So Davenport, he puts it this way. Quote you can

636
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,959
Speaker 2: call me flamboyant and an opportunist, and I suppose I

637
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 2: am a bit flash, but I'm trying to create an

638
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: image of someone who can deliver on an international scale.

639
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: People in Hong Kong and China are going to expect

640
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: you to have some kind of presence. So when they

641
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: go to my website and they see my title and

642
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: the pictures of all the celebrities who have genuinely been

643
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 2: to my house and said hi to me, they're going

644
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 2: to take me seriously.

645
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 3: Said hi to me. These other people take me seriously.

646
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: I want to be taken seriously because I saw tyn

647
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: Daily in person at a distance that thank you Westminster

648
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: City Council. They fought him over and over about noise

649
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: violations and disturbing the peace at thirty three Portland Place.

650
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: The mons getting too loud.

651
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: Oh God. At one point they took him to High

652
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 2: Court from me using the property. Why well, thank you

653
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 2: for asking. Well, planning officers showed up at the mansion

654
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: on December ninth, two thousand and nine, and you know what,

655
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: let's go there with them. Okay, Zarin, close eyes. I

656
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 2: want you to picture it. You are a Westminster City

657
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: Council planning officer. You're a proper fellow, shine shoes, crisp shirt.

658
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: You take yourself and your job and your duties seriously.

659
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 2: Right here, you've been dispatched to thirty three Portland Place.

660
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: It's a notorious address in your office. So many complaints

661
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 2: have been filed. The place is a headache. But it's

662
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 2: also notorious because you've heard all about the celebrities and

663
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: the orgies, and you've always kind of hoped to be

664
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: sent out to the location someday. That day is today's erin.

665
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: You and two other officers stand at the front door

666
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: of thirty three Portland Place. It's a brick, sandstone affair.

667
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 2: You can hear the thumping of club music, laughter and

668
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 2: the occasional drunken whoop and scream of delight coming from inside.

669
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 2: You knock on the front door, hoping someone will hear it.

670
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 2: You peer down over the iron railings into the basement

671
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: entrance area below. You expect to see discarded panties or something,

672
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 2: but its neat as a pin. You knock on the

673
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: glossy black door again, this time opening and slamming the

674
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: mail slot, and hopes that's louder than your pounding fist. Finally,

675
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: a man opens the door. Because it opens the party,

676
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: noise becomes a little bit clearer, but you can still

677
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: tell that it's coming from one of the lower floors.

678
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 2: This place has five stories. He's holding a stack of

679
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,479
Speaker 2: what looks like flyers. Ticket, he says in a drawl ticket.

680
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: You respond, yeah, you got a ticket? Uh no, You

681
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: tell him you get one online six quick fifty. He

682
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 2: hands you a flyer. You pull out your council officer

683
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 2: ID and tell him that's your ticket. The other officers

684
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 2: follow suit. You all feel so poor now. The man

685
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: steps aside, and you see people milling about all manner

686
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 2: of designer duds. This is a commercial endeavor, not a

687
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: private party and a private residence. You're positive this is

688
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 2: exactly what the neighbors and the council are trying to

689
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 2: put an end to. You and the other officers head downstairs.

690
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 2: Following the music, you push through the crowd to get

691
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 2: to what looks like the main attraction. There's a swimming

692
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 2: pool the length of a long room. Along one wall

693
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: are a series of alcoves containing conversation pits, low sectionals

694
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 2: surrounding low coffee tables. The lights are low too, but

695
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 2: you can see everything, and you can see the pool

696
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 2: water is a dark amber. That's a lot of pea.

697
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 2: Surely this is a health code violation. You push past

698
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 2: a camera crew and you see someone dunk a glass

699
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 2: into the pool water and take a long sipo. You

700
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 2: can smell the waves of alcohol coming off the pool.

701
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 2: That's not pe The pool is filled with cavasia. What

702
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 2: it's filled with one thousand liters of kooniak. You've seen enough.

703
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: You and the other officers push back out through the

704
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: party and step out into the cool air of Portland Place.

705
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 2: You have to put a stop to this, so the

706
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: council they got an enforcement notice on Davenport. He was

707
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 2: found to have breached it in two thousand and six

708
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: and as a result, the High Court judge issued a

709
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 2: permanent ban on the use of the house for non

710
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: residential purposes. In March of twenty eleven, Davenport asked a

711
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 2: court of appeal to overturn the ruling, and the next

712
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 2: month he lost that appeal. Oh so with that in mind,

713
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 2: let's take a break and listen to the dulcet tones

714
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 2: of a seemingly endless series of ads. And when we

715
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 2: come back, I'll let you in on fast Eddie's big

716
00:35:37,160 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 2: con right, Yo, Edward ormis sharing to Davenport, Edward Davenport,

717
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: steady Lord d Lord Edward Lord Eddie. He threw parties,

718
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: he cheated the country of Sierra Leona out of their embassy,

719
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 2: and then he went straight up con classic con. So

720
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: from two thousand and seven to two thousand and nine

721
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 2: he ran a fake finance company called Gresham Gresham. You

722
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 2: know there's a legitimate wealth management advisory firm called Gresham Financial.

723
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 3: I was wondering, like, that's not familiar.

724
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 2: It sounds good. Well, that's what that was his goal.

725
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 2: He was going, it's not the same thing. He purposely

726
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 2: wanted that confusion. So he said that they'd been trading

727
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 2: since nineteen fifty eight, but it was just a shell

728
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: company that he bought and renamed in two thousand and.

729
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 3: Five that had been opened in nineteen fifty eight or something.

730
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 2: Oh, he he pulled that out of you know, all

731
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 2: sorts of stuff.

732
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 3: I thought it was one of the things where you

733
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: bought an old company and said we've been doing this

734
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 3: since nineteen.

735
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 2: So he pulled it out of his tutor. Yes, so

736
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 2: they had like fake account information brochures. He put ads

737
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 2: in the Financial Times and other newspapers to give it

738
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 2: credibility question and then he he used it using an alias.

739
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 2: He never put his name.

740
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 3: Oh once again. Yeah, of course.

741
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 2: So Gresham said that they would provide financing for projects

742
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 2: that like traditional banks weren't willing to back mavericks, risk

743
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,479
Speaker 2: takers care for you. Yeah, so if a real bank

744
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 2: is like you're a little bit shape, come on this way.

745
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 2: So the investment requests they come rolling in. Davenport and

746
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 2: his co conspirators, Borge Anderson and Peter Riley. They said,

747
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 2: we are pledging billions in funds for all these projects.

748
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 2: Your projects are fantastic unders you deserve all the money.

749
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 2: So it's they got a bunch of people a million

750
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 2: for you, ten million for you pledged. Problem is, the

751
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 2: loans were never advanced because there weren't the billions.

752
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 3: But they were pledged.

753
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 2: I made a pledge, I made a solid promise. They

754
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 2: made their money because here they have no money to

755
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 2: give out, or are they making money because these people

756
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 2: are begging for money. They charged the businesses quote unquote

757
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 2: deposits and fees for quote verification, and fees for a

758
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 2: loan guarantee, and then another due diligence.

759
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 3: Cause classic fraud. I want to give you money, but

760
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 3: I just need to do a.

761
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: Couple of tests. Tens of thousands here, maybe fifty thousands there.

762
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 2: The businesses, these are victims. They they paid the deposits

763
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 2: and the advance fees, the due diligences of business, and

764
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 2: then Davenport and his little minions they kept it all

765
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 2: with nothing in return. So Gresham, the business is about

766
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 2: to be exposed. So Davenport closes up shop, starts another

767
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 2: fake finance company, and this one he calls cutting in company,

768
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: as in what he does right, cutting and running the

769
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: serious fraud off Cutting and SFO like the airport, but

770
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 2: not an airport serious fraud. Okay, they're like, you know,

771
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 2: buddies with the flying squad. I almost said the flying then.

772
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 3: Flying.

773
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 2: So the SFO they're looking into ten cases of people

774
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 2: who were offered billions in loans by Gresham, just the

775
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: tip of the iceberg. So it's just we're taking the

776
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 2: top ten of these. That's a costly tip, the ten biggest.

777
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 2: These ten were promised loans totaling five hundred million pounds,

778
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 2: and then Davenport and the co conspirators they promised to

779
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 2: finance more than fifty commercial loans. A lot of the

780
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 2: victims went bankrupt. I imagine they had their professional reputations

781
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: absolutely destroyed.

782
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 3: Totally no jobs. I imagine there were some divorces of

783
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: the some.

784
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: People had full breakdown. Yeah, they ruined lives. Elizabeth Emanuel

785
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 2: a fifty eight year old fashion designer. She is the

786
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 2: one who created Princess Die's wedding dress, that big flush.

787
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 3: I pretend like I know you're.

788
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 2: Talking at Remember it was like huge ruffles.

789
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 3: I don't story book. I know that she has she's

790
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 3: got like the big shoulders. I don't know that princess style.

791
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: She was one of Gresham's victims. Oh no, she needed

792
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 2: a million pound investment for her company and all she

793
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 2: had left was five thousand pounds to her name, some total.

794
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 2: So she puts up sixty five percent of her company

795
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 2: in exchange for the loan. You know, that's my collateral.

796
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 2: Gresham was like, but you know what, I need the

797
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 2: due diligence money on this, and it's going to cost

798
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 2: you twenty thousand pounds before we can carry out.

799
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 3: Has five?

800
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, she only has five. She had lost the right

801
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: to trade under her own name because she had a

802
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 2: falling out with her business partner, and so if she

803
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,919
Speaker 2: could get the funding, she could keep the company, keep

804
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 2: her livelihood, keep the legacy of Diana's wedding dress. So

805
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: she handed over the last five thousand pounds to her name,

806
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 2: hoping that that would be enough due diligence.

807
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 3: Money of the twenty thousand he's waiting for uh huh ok.

808
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 2: So he strings her along. Ye, I'm going to and

809
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 2: then he pulls out of the deal and he kept

810
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 2: the five. Oh yeah yeah, But SFO was watching and

811
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 2: building a case, and he was arrested and.

812
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 3: Charged with fraud. Oh.

813
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: Prosecutor Simon Mayo said to the court, quote to outward appearances,

814
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 2: it was long established, wealthy and prestigious. That image, however,

815
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 2: deliberately cultivated by these defendants, was entirely false. In truth,

816
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 2: it was a company which had only been set up

817
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: by Edward Davenport in late two thousand and five. It

818
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: was essentially worthless. Its only business was fraud. Davenport was

819
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 2: Gresham's ring master and guiding light. He avoided, wherever possible,

820
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: dirtying his hands through direct engagement with victims, and even

821
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 2: resorted to using a false name, James Stewart, to keep

822
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 2: his real name secret.

823
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 3: James Stewart doesn't like the King, the bonny King, or

824
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 3: Jimmy Yeah, or Jimmy Steart. Oh yeah, there's that too.

825
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 2: So on October fifth, twenty eleven, he's convicted for conspiracy

826
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 2: to defraud and sentenced to seven years eight months in jail.

827
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 2: Peter Riley, He's guilty the same charges, same sentence. Borge Anderson,

828
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 2: He's convicted on conspiracy charges. And so the woman Emmanuel

829
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 2: the dress.

830
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 3: Base suggested Diana's dressmaker quote.

831
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 2: It caused a lot of problems for me in my business,

832
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 2: not just the money, but keeping me hanging on when

833
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 2: I could have been looking for other investors.

834
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 3: Exactly, I was just a little.

835
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 2: Struggling company, and to drag away my last five thousand

836
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 2: pounds is only something a very mean and horrible person

837
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 2: would do. I'm thrilled he has gone down.

838
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

839
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 2: So January eleventh, twenty fourteen, forty seven year old fast

840
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:37,919
Speaker 2: Eddy gave an interview too.

841
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 3: Daily Mail.

842
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 2: There it is from his bed at Saint George's Hospital

843
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 2: in South London, which, by the way, look at us

844
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 2: like we have so much serendipity in our weeks lately,

845
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 2: like compendiums and now British.

846
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 3: Anyway, that's interesting, so Daily Mail.

847
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 2: This is what he tells. A Daily Mail quote. I

848
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 2: was diagnosed with a defective kidney when I was about

849
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 2: fifteen and had my first transplant about fifteen years ago.

850
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 2: I never told anyone about it as it didn't really

851
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 2: fit in with my image. But over the past few

852
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: years it became apparent that the kidney was not working anymore.

853
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 2: I was in prison and feeling ill. I'd been on

854
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: the NHS donor list for another transplant for ages, and

855
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: then my name came up just before Christmas. I think

856
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 2: somebody had a tragic accident and lost their life. Before that,

857
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: I was traveling to Saint George's, chained up with three

858
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 2: prison officers three times a week for dialysis. It was

859
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 2: an ordeal for them and me.

860
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, so he's trying to now get sympathy by

861
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 3: pretending to be or not pretending, but at least letting

862
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 3: it be known that he has suffered through something.

863
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really fascinated with him saying that it didn't

864
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: match his image. Yes, that's like, that's a good insight.

865
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 3: You know in his images. Somebody who would buy one

866
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 3: of those kidneys that was taken out of someone against

867
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 3: their will and they were left in a motel tub

868
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 3: of ice, that's what images.

869
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 2: But it wouldn't have like the right tag on it.

870
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 2: Although I love that he's like, I might get it.

871
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: Someone died a tragic accident. So he almost received a

872
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 2: transplant twice, but the operations were canceled. With these operation

873
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 2: cancelations and like he had a bad case of pneumonia,

874
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 2: he had complications involving his liver. He did eventually receive

875
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 2: another transplant, and then he needed ongoing treatment afterwards. So

876
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 2: with that in mind, his lawyers asked the court to

877
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 2: show mercy. They said his medical condition meant that he

878
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 2: had to serve his time in more punishing conditions than

879
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 2: he would otherwise have done. So the jig him released

880
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: early and he was freed May of twenty fourteen because

881
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:42,879
Speaker 2: he has.

882
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: Like immune suppressive drugs for the transplant, Like, what's the

883
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 3: deal when.

884
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 2: He gets out. He is far from an invalid who

885
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 2: wanted to shy away from it.

886
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 3: His image was fine.

887
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he got involved in property deals with a

888
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 2: Chinese business partner. He made it known that he wanted

889
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: to go like buy a film studio.

890
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 3: And one of his right what his money was.

891
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: The government wanted it.

892
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 3: I want it for them.

893
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 2: They kicked off confiscation proceedings those June nineteenth, twenty thirteen.

894
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: He's still locked up when that all started. So, all told,

895
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 2: through all of his schemes, he made about thirty four

896
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 2: point five million pounds.

897
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, it's not about empires.

898
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 2: So he argued though that through his lawyers, because he's

899
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 2: in jail, that he should only have to repay eight million.

900
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 2: What he said, that's all he really got from it,

901
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 2: and then there's thirty three Portland place. Yes, so the

902
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 2: government was like, you got that through fraud, we want it.

903
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 2: By October twenty fifteen, he's out of prison and he's

904
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 2: fighting the SFO. He said that he had been the

905
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 2: victim of double counting by them.

906
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 3: He's a constantly victim of in its.

907
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 2: Confiscation and compensation order, so they said they had recovered

908
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 2: more than thirteen million pounds from Davenport. His lawyer said

909
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 2: that was way too much and went beyond the order.

910
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 2: He said Davenport got twelve million from fraud but had

911
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 2: to pay fourteen teen million. So the court eventually sides

912
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 2: with fast Eddie on that one. Where is he now?

913
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 3: Where is he now? Elizabeth? Since he's avoided.

914
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 2: Justice, He's alive. He has a website, the Davenport Trust.

915
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 2: It is full of photos with him posing with celebrities.

916
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 3: And have they aged appropriately? Jagger?

917
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: Well, there are not a lot of reasons. Mick Jagger,

918
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 2: Jean Claude Van Dam, the American Idol host, guy with

919
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: the nipples, Jerry Hall, Harry.

920
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 3: Potter is one of the Gallagher brothers.

921
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 2: No deed Avonte, the Osborne Mom, Captain Picard, Michael Caine,

922
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 2: who looks like he has no idea who this guy is.

923
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 3: He probably doesn't.

924
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 2: Someone with big bangs, Ronnie Woods, Naomi Campbell, a blonde

925
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 2: who looks like Gwyneth Paltrow and the Project Runway Lady,

926
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 2: but also like neither of them.

927
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 3: Okay, so the Paltrow yeah, yeah, yeah.

928
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 2: So the pictures they're on a scroll and I was

929
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 2: just like typing names as they went past. It's a

930
00:46:58,360 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 2: fun game. We should try.

931
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Speaker 3: So.

932
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 2: There's a link to a Vice documentary on his Wesbit

933
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 2: documentary and it called him the Wolf of the West End.

934
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 2: He has a link that's too cool for him. He

935
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 2: has a dead link to the King speech and he

936
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 2: has like pictures from a Kate Moss photo shoot.

937
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 3: I you know, like the Underground Rat, Subway Rat.

938
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 2: Of the I really want to read you his whole biography.

939
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 2: Please don't it, but I'm just gonna hit you.

940
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 3: At the opening, Okay, hit me with the highlights.

941
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 2: Edward Davenport has played host to some of the most

942
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 2: glamorous and best known faces in the world. A businessman

943
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: renowned for taking chances and living a life full of adventure,

944
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 2: he is one of Britain's most flamboyant entrepreneurs. A man

945
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 2: who has earned his own wealth, Davenport enjoys the rewards

946
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 2: his successes bring, living the high life in London, rubbing

947
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: shoulders with celebrity friends such as David Beckham, Naomi Campbell

948
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: and fifty cent. He has a jet, beautiful homes and

949
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 2: a election of sports cars which would make any man jealous.

950
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 2: A regular feature on the social pages and in the

951
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: rich lists of newspapers and magazines, Davenport was recently the

952
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 2: subject of a profile published by The London Evening Standard,

953
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 2: which describes him as quote tall, slim and draculine, with

954
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 2: a penchant for sharp suits and Rolex watches.

955
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 3: Do you remember Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with

956
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 3: Robin Leech? Yeah, remember how he was just like a

957
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 3: barnacle on the Weltha, Yes, that's what this guy is.

958
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 3: But the barnacle isn't willing to just sit there. It

959
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 3: wants to be the boat. I want to be the ship. Yeah.

960
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 2: This bio is unhinged.

961
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.

962
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 2: And there's no mention of his time in the clink

963
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: or like his kidneys, but definitely.

964
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 3: Some Naomi Campbell. And he makes sure to David Beckham.

965
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: He's worth more than one hundred million. Yeah, so he

966
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 2: cheats all these people and he comes out on top.

967
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 3: Oh yes, and also he's cheating them out of like

968
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 3: five thousand pounds to get this number million, like he's

969
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 3: taking like he's not taking down big targets. Huh.

970
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 2: So thirty three Portland places for sale by the way,

971
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 2: right now, Yeah, it's listed on Southby's Realty.

972
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 3: How much is it worth?

973
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 2: Seventy five million pounds, which for US Yanks is almost

974
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 2: ninety five million dollars.

975
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's just out of my price.

976
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, we'll pull it together. It's been

977
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 2: renovated once again, and so it's very sleek and modern inside.

978
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 2: I was going to watch the listing video, of course,

979
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 2: but I only got a little ways into it and

980
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 2: then it just I got so pissed off. There you go, there,

981
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 2: I didn't make it out of like the court room. Yeah, Zaren,

982
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 2: what's your ridiculous takeaway?

983
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 3: Oh? Thanks, I was afraid you were gonna ask me that. Yes,

984
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 3: my ridiculous takeaway is this guy who hosts faces and

985
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 3: rubs shoulders. How is it this? This always works? Like

986
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 3: I know he's sitting there telling Daily Mail, like I'm

987
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 3: I'm basically, you know, conning these people in Asia by

988
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 3: pretending I know these things, and I position myself. He's

989
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 3: just giving away the game and it still works. Like

990
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 3: I wish that the bad magicians didn't get so much applause.

991
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying like it's not a good trick

992
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 3: he's doing.

993
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 2: There's like a sociopathy to it where it's definitely that yeah,

994
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 2: absolutely no remorse. He's just like this shark swimming through

995
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 2: the water. It doesn't like you're saying taking someone's last

996
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 2: five thousand.

997
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 3: Doing the old tradition to British exploitation. It's like, yeah, seriously,

998
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 3: it's like the worst of that.

999
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 2: Yeah it is, and I I am so.

1000
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 3: Flat.

1001
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be flabbergasted because it's too common. But the

1002
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 2: superficiality of it all that, like he can't let a kidney,

1003
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 2: you know issue taint this like you know, crazy image

1004
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 2: that he has cultivated. And it's just like everything is

1005
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 2: at a surface level.

1006
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 3: You know.

1007
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 2: I've had all these people in my house and I've

1008
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 2: seen their faces.

1009
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 3: It's not like the stars. They've said hi to me.

1010
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 2: These are my close confidence And you can tell from

1011
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 2: the pictures. It's like you're at a party and you

1012
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 2: lean in and like, hey, take a picture.

1013
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 3: It's all surface, and then sex parties and then orgies.

1014
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 3: It's like either like you're in me or you're looking

1015
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 3: at my surface. That's it. It's all surface.

1016
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: Oh, that's it. I can't talk about him anymore today.

1017
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 2: He's a horrible person. Kind of fun too, It's gonna be.

1018
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 3: Baby and then all of a sudden.

1019
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 2: My god, humans are terrible.

1020
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 3: You can tell the Prince to put his clothes back

1021
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 3: on and go back to Buckingham Power.

1022
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Speaker 2: Leave us a talk back at the iHeart. We have

1027
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Speaker 2: fired like six interns over the email thing.

1028
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Speaker 3: Let go, I mean fire. Do you act like their

1029
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 3: interns don't come back?

1030
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 2: I bake stuff for them and they love it. Well.

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00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 3: Producer Dave's super cool with them. I'm just the only

1032
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Speaker 3: one that's a jerk. I'm like, oh, are you new here?

1033
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 3: They're like, I've been here for a year. I'm like whatever,

1034
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Speaker 3: I'll learn your name.

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Speaker 4: Your name.

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00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,399
Speaker 2: No one wants to answer the emails. Leave a talk

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Speaker 2: back on the heart app.

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00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 3: Yes, reach out. That's also interesting though, was oli our

1039
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 3: interns being dogs also problem? I mean then they said

1040
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Speaker 3: they don't even listen.

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Speaker 2: Huge problem. That's it. Oh hey, wait, Dave, do we

1042
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Speaker 2: have any topics? Oh my god, I let cheat.

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Speaker 4: Hey, guys, love your show. My wife and I want

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Speaker 4: to just point out that Elvis had black hair because

1045
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:41,240
Speaker 4: he really liked Captain Adam the Captain Marvel, Sorry, Captain Marvel,

1046
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 4: not Captain Adam. The guy currently known as Shazam, and

1047
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 4: dude really liked his comic books. It's really cute. Actually,

1048
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Speaker 4: I don't like the guy, but I think that's kind

1049
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 4: of cute, right, I think it's cute.

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