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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Dutton ZD so glad to see you, Good to

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Speaker 2: see you. Do you know it's ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: I do. I do our email inbox.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't even get close.

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Speaker 4: It's ridiculous. The interns forwarded me this one though, That

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Speaker 4: is pretty good. Subject tv head fromhead from Jeff Hammer.

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Speaker 2: Okay, haad, it's a.

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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, Ridiculous Crime crew. It has been brought to

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Speaker 4: my attention that, in true Henrico County, Virginia weirdness, there

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Speaker 4: was a guy in twenty nineteen wearing a TV on

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Speaker 4: his head leaving old box type TVs on people's porches

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Speaker 4: in the middle of the night. Links provided below. The

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Speaker 4: wild thing is that all of the sets left on

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Speaker 4: people's porches were operational. They identified the man the press

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Speaker 4: dubbed TV head, but to the best of my knowledge,

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Speaker 4: he was never charged, although he was suspected of committing

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Speaker 4: several burglaries in the area. I found out, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: found out about this talking to a colleague because here

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Speaker 4: on the opposite end of the state, a man was

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Speaker 4: recently arrested for taking a ride on a shopping buggy

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Speaker 4: out of a discount grocery store and riding it on

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Speaker 4: the highway. He told the arresting officer that he was

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Speaker 4: quote tired of walking everywhere. Somehow, that one didn't make

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Speaker 4: the local news. I've seen some weird things and dealt

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Speaker 4: with some really strange people in the sixteen years I've

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Speaker 4: worked in the private security and law enforcement fields. But

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Speaker 4: I think these two might take the cake.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice ones.

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Speaker 3: Jeff the TV head? How big is the TV on

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Speaker 3: his head? And is it wobbley? Is what happens?

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Speaker 2: Is he a member of Parland Funkadelic? Perhaps good question?

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Speaker 4: Is he is he the one behind the max headroom hacking?

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Speaker 2: Have you seen the guy in New York who rides

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Speaker 2: around on a mini bike with a like a microwave

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Speaker 2: door opens up and there's a guy's head in there,

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Speaker 2: and he's like he starts talking and he gives you

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Speaker 2: like safety advice, and then he closes it with a

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Speaker 2: flick of his head and he rides off on his

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Speaker 2: mini bikes. Cousin so New York.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing and ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Totally ridiculous. Thank you, mister Hammer.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeff Hammer.

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Speaker 2: So, uh you got a second though, I got something

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Speaker 2: for you. It's totally ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Yes, get like ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: I heard that about you. We get a lot of

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Speaker 2: requests for certain stories, right, and frankly, it's kind of

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Speaker 2: ridiculous that I have never covered this story. Why is

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Speaker 2: it taking me so long?

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Speaker 3: What's wrong with you?

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you, Elizabeth, the story of my

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Speaker 2: new favorite anti hero, the Barefoot Bandit Man. Theis Ridiculous

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Speaker 2: Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers. Heis and

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Speaker 2: cons It's always ninety nine percent murder free, a one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent ridiculous Yes, oh, Elizabeth arn Long before this

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Speaker 2: cat was known as the Barefoot Bandit, his government name

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Speaker 2: was Colton Harris.

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Speaker 3: More, Colton Harris Colter.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna call him Colt Okay now born on March

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Speaker 2: twenty second, nineteen ninety one. He arrived in this world

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Speaker 2: in Washington State. You know the upper left corner of

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Speaker 2: the map. Yeah, place called Camono or Camano Island in

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Speaker 2: the San Juan Islands. I think it's Camono Islands now,

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Speaker 2: My man, Colt. He did not have a normal or

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Speaker 2: even what we call a safe childhood. He was, unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: was raised into a home that was headed for an

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Speaker 3: Elizabeth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the divide occurred when he was a toddler. His

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Speaker 2: parents broke up. His father left him and his mother,

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Speaker 2: Pamela alone. They were left to live in a single

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Speaker 2: wide trailer in Washington. Yeah. So what made matters more

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Speaker 2: which means also for her elementary school aged son. His

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Speaker 2: life was unstable, his home life chaotic, abusive, all the

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Speaker 3: Right, it's a great story, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Not only that he was also bullied at school, Elizabeth. Oh,

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Speaker 2: there was no escape for Coult. Yeah, right, finally one day,

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Speaker 2: but this is before he's a teenager. He runs away

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Speaker 3: Right, that must have been really peaceful for yeah.

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Speaker 2: Except for he's a you know, almost a teenage boy.

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Speaker 2: He's a growing boy. So to eat, he breaks into

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Speaker 2: empty vacation homes I like that. Yeah, And now once

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Speaker 3: The hermit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very much like that, just the young version, right.

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Speaker 2: So eventually he comes back home to the trailer because

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Speaker 2: a juvie. It's rough, right, But he has a few friends.

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Speaker 2: He tells them of his forest adventures, trying to impress

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Speaker 2: One of his classmates this a girl named Christa Postma.

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Speaker 2: She would tell the press how her friend Colt would

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Speaker 2: often get in trouble at school. You know, as I've said,

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Speaker 2: but she also said the Cult was quote a nice kid,

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Speaker 2: how to put that into his schoolwork. I relate to

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Speaker 2: it either. So another classmate, he remembered how Colt would

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Speaker 2: Colt would recite back what the teacher just said, like

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Speaker 4: If it happens a lot, something's happening, right, I don't

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Speaker 2: For real, right, be a little considerate, thoughtful yea. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: this kid, obviously he's an intelligent kid. He's able to

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Speaker 2: He gets bored, you know. Now after school, Krista and

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Speaker 2: Colt they would hang out together in this town. There

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Speaker 2: this kid, his name is Harley Davidson iron Wing.

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Speaker 3: Stop the press is Harley.

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Speaker 2: Harley Davidson iron Wing. Now it is christ I love this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So she recalls old Harley Davidson iron Wing, and he

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Speaker 2: when Colt quote wasn't around Harley, he'd be totally chill.

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Speaker 3: Got a friend named Harley Davidson Ironing, You'd.

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Speaker 2: Never go wrong in such a common story of people

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Speaker 3: That's like his government name, right.

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Speaker 2: That's government name, that's not his street name. Yeah, that's amazing,

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Speaker 2: So naturally, Elizabeth, Harley Davidson iron Wing had been in

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Speaker 2: to make it as a low level crimer. He taught

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Speaker 2: Colt everything he knew. So Harley Davidson iron Wing comes

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Speaker 2: from a similar background. Obviously home broken by divorce, raised

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Speaker 2: His new mentor if you will, takes Colt under his

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Speaker 2: you so, And this this point he teaches cult how

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Speaker 2: He also shows him how to find the likely places

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: He gives Colt also with his rule book for vacation

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Speaker 3: I would love a copy of this rule book.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got four rules for it. If you watch.

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Speaker 2: Number one, don't rob somebody's house if you know who

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Speaker 3: It's a good one.

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Speaker 2: Good advice because they could recognize you. And also it's

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Speaker 4: Crimeerprints all over you always with the fingerprints.

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Speaker 2: And number four, lastly, never feel guilty. Once you choose crime,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm cutting these guys a lot of slack

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Speaker 2: Yeah, breaking into vacation home.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a vacation home, so you know, go forth,

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Speaker 4: But these kids are going to grow up.

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Speaker 2: You're talking to my youth, Elizabeth. You don't know what

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Speaker 2: they could grow up into. Now, with this general rule

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Speaker 2: He likes to steal food. He often will go into

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Speaker 3: Good for him.

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Speaker 2: He's a kid, so he also likes to play video games.

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Speaker 2: So like, while Harley Davidson's casing the house, he's making

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Speaker 2: anything that fits him that might freshen his drip. The

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Speaker 2: Colt continues to get into trouble and he gets caught,

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Speaker 2: As I've said, you know, she'd have to come and

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Speaker 2: collect him, and then that'd be embarrassing for him. When he's fifteen,

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Speaker 2: his mother is also getting irritated with this whole thing.

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Speaker 2: She kicks him out of the house. She's like, I've

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Speaker 2: had it with him fifteen. She's done with it. So

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Speaker 2: now where does Colt go?

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Speaker 3: To the woods?

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Speaker 2: He moves back into the forest. So he lives like

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Speaker 2: mostly just to eat into amuse him, right, But he's

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Meanwhile, Colt's still on the lamb. No one's got

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Speaker 3: Did he turn the lights?

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Speaker 3: Specials place for you, the kid's table.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, No, they have their owns anyway, Colt. He

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Speaker 2: takes all this in stride. In fact, his behavior improves Elizabeth.

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Speaker 2: He settles into this rhythm of life in a maximum

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Speaker 4: Say, goodness, you know, I think this kid's been up

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Speaker 2: Short two months after he's transferred there for good behavior,

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Speaker 2: it's April two thousand and eight. Cold is once again free,

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Speaker 2: let's take a little break. Now you got to know

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Speaker 2: like my man Colt and Harrison more fascinating? Right?

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, so at this point he's about to become

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Speaker 2: Convicted criminal, all right, So he breaks out the group

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Speaker 2: He goes right back to Commono Island or Camano Island.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, I know those.

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Speaker 4: You know what again, I think I've said this before.

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Speaker 2: Just very deal will come from that.

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Speaker 2: So, now do you think caught these interviews and he

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Speaker 2: He's out there with Bigfoot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's also if he breaks into a vacation home,

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Speaker 2: So for the next three months, he keeps evading the

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Speaker 4: Well, and there's a big difference between like stealing a

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Speaker 2: So he gets caught, and this is July eighteen, two

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Speaker 2: At the moment, he's driving a stolen whip, a black Mercedes,

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Speaker 2: Pretty much. Going as fast as he is chased by

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Speaker 2: He does crash the black Mercedes. You're right about that.

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Speaker 2: But just before he crashes the car, he leaps from

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Speaker 2: got like selfies. Yeah. Oh, he's also got pictures of

435
00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,560
Speaker 2: his campsite. Right, and the cops they're able to locate

436
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,600
Speaker 2: this campsite, and they go out to the campsite. What

437
00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,199
Speaker 2: do they find? They find his dog. You see, he

438
00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:45,880
Speaker 2: had a dog and he left him at the campsite.

439
00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 2: So he wasn't very far away. And then the cops

440
00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,200
Speaker 2: they find this pooch named Melanie, right, and the cops

441
00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,879
Speaker 2: they take they take Melanie the dog. This changes the

442
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,560
Speaker 2: complexion of Colt's crime sprees. Yeah, I'm serious. The dude

443
00:19:58,600 --> 00:19:59,600
Speaker 2: goes full on john Wick.

444
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,639
Speaker 3: Is this say? This is like this is his origins?

445
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,560
Speaker 2: Yes? I mean he doesn't go full john he goes

446
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,919
Speaker 2: like ten percent john Wick because there's no guns, but

447
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,400
Speaker 2: also like anger about the dog. That's all there.

448
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,600
Speaker 3: I feel it. So he writes, I can see that.

449
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,879
Speaker 2: Oh like you would, you would totally identify with this

450
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,760
Speaker 2: kid's Like, well, here, I'll just tell you. So he

451
00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 2: writes a note, sends it to his mother because he's

452
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 2: still in contact with her all the time. So the

453
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,119
Speaker 2: note is about the cops grabbing Melanie. It reads, quote,

454
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 2: the cops want a play, huh it's war? Tell them that. Yeah,

455
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 2: so Colt coming for the cops this point, Elizabeth. He's

456
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,280
Speaker 2: still on the lamb right, and he's also convicted. So anyway,

457
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,440
Speaker 2: the locals are worried and scared about this guy. Think

458
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,040
Speaker 2: maybe he's armed, maybe he's dangerous, you know. Sightings of

459
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 2: Colt get reported all across the island. He's here, he's there,

460
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,480
Speaker 2: he's everywhere. Right. The locals starts to stock up on

461
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,159
Speaker 2: firearms and ammo right, and I'm talking mostly like the

462
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 2: vacation own people, not the local one.

463
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,399
Speaker 3: Imagine fears he's never no.

464
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,840
Speaker 2: Never done anyone hard, violent, No, not at all. So

465
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 2: Colt realizes if he stays on this island, he will

466
00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,879
Speaker 2: eventually be caught again. So he can only hide out

467
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 2: in the forest for so long. So he tries a

468
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 2: new tech. What's he do, Elizabeth, I have no idea

469
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 2: steals a boat. Got to get off the island smart,

470
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 2: So he makes a run for it to a new island,

471
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 2: a place called Orcas Island. Right like, it goes like

472
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 2: I'm found by an orca, Like this is Orcas Island.

473
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 3: When they attack boats, Oh my god, yes, oh my god.

474
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 3: That makes me so happy.

475
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 4: I get like high reading articles about how killer whales

476
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 4: after yachts.

477
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 2: Totally destroy them, and you're like, oh, tell me more.

478
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 2: It's like how I feel about elephants when they go

479
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 2: and take it after people. Yeah, side with elephants. I'm sorry.

480
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,160
Speaker 2: I figured they must have done something wrong. I've never

481
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 2: seen an elephant just decide I'm gonna go after them.

482
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 3: Their total sweet peas.

483
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have long memories from what I understand.

484
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 3: So and he never forgets.

485
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,439
Speaker 2: He ditches his boat when he gets over to Orcas

486
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,639
Speaker 2: Island and he treks into the woods because you know,

487
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 2: that's what he knows. He camps out, finds a nice

488
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 2: spot in the woods near a local airport.

489
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 3: Okay.

490
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 2: Now, Colet always love planes as a boy. He'd watch

491
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 2: them fly overhead. He could identify them by their cillorette.

492
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,400
Speaker 3: I would imagine there's like seaplanes all over the place.

493
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 2: Exactly, a lot of puddle jumpers, all sorts of planes. Interesting,

494
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,879
Speaker 2: a lot of also small aircraft for people flying in

495
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 2: from air. A lot of these islands on the airfields.

496
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 3: So that's like how they get around soup.

497
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 2: So his mother, she would recall, like to the press

498
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 2: about how her son as a boy, just loved planes

499
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,880
Speaker 2: right he he could. She would buy him balsa wood models,

500
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 2: like the old school balcewood models, and he would build those.

501
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 2: He also she bought the books about planes, she told

502
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 2: one reporter, and I quote from the time he was

503
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 2: a little kid. He could look up at any plane

504
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 2: in the sky and tell you what make it was

505
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 2: what engine it had when it was built, and weather

506
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 2: was a good safe one.

507
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:39,200
Speaker 3: Oh.

508
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 2: Now, at school he would spend his time obviously playing

509
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 2: Microsoft flight Simulator, right, So if you checked his MySpace page,

510
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 2: you'd find he listed his occupation as pilot, which reminded

511
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,399
Speaker 2: me of that guy you told me about on Reddit

512
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,479
Speaker 2: the the a t a guy who was like, uh,

513
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 2: his girlfriend got mad because he told people at her

514
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 2: work dinner party he was a pilot.

515
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 4: He was introducing himself as pilot. Yeah, her work functions.

516
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 4: And the truth of the matter is he just he'd

517
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 4: never flown. He had flight simulator going in like a

518
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 4: special room in his house.

519
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 2: Like ten thousand hours on flight.

520
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 4: Simulator exactly, and it was just like but he would

521
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 4: he would brag about it, but not about being just

522
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 4: sitting in his chair.

523
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 3: But yeah, and it went on from there.

524
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 2: But well, that's how I kept picturing this kid. I

525
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, here we go, another flight simulator pilot.

526
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 2: So there he is camping in the forest. It surrounds

527
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 2: his local airport. He's watching the small planes land, he's

528
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 2: watching them take off, he's clocking the workers. He figures

529
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,360
Speaker 2: out the schedules, the rhythms, and he starts to plan

530
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 2: his next move. What do you think he did, Elizabeth, Well,

531
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,479
Speaker 2: that's right, he stole the plane, my man, amazing.

532
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 3: So he knows from flight simulator.

533
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 4: It's got to be brutal to be like hanging out

534
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 4: in the woods and seeing this freedom flying over you.

535
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 3: They can go wherever they want.

536
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you need to go off an island. People

537
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 2: are after you. Yeah, you're like, you're a kid. You're like,

538
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 2: I can do that.

539
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 3: I totally do that.

540
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

541
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: Do you think he managed to like go out and probably? Well,

542
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 2: rather me tell you about, Elizabeth, I'd like you to

543
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 2: close your eyes. I like you to picture it. It's

544
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 2: a November on a place called Orchis Island in the

545
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: San Juan Chain of Islands. They're off of the coast

546
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 2: of Washington State. It's right around sundown, and you, Elizabeth,

547
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 2: are the little angel on the shoulder of a wayward boy.

548
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 2: You are both there at the stand of trees at

549
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 2: the edge of the woods, and the boy gazes at

550
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 2: an airfield. You tell him not to do what you

551
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 2: hear him thinking. But the little devil on his other

552
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: shoulder scoffs and laugh and he says, you know you

553
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 2: want to do it, do it now. Without warning, the

554
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 2: teenage boy hops over the deer fence runs towards the airfield.

555
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: You hang on to his shoulder as he runs for

556
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 2: a Cessna one eight two sky lane. It's a simple

557
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 2: plane to fly. It's a sort of plane that beginners

558
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 2: get comfortable flying alone. It's the VW Bug of airplanes.

559
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 2: Now there's one sitting alone in a hangar, and the

560
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 2: kid runs right for that hanger. He's a big boy.

561
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 2: This kid is six foot five wa His six foot

562
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 2: five frame lumbers across the grass and he makes it

563
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 2: to the hangar. You try to reason with the boy,

564
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 2: tell him you've had your fun, time to go home,

565
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 2: But he listens to the little devil instead, and he

566
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 2: picks the lock door. The door swings open. The teen

567
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 2: sneaks in. He finds keys hanging on a hook. You

568
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 2: plead with him to stop what he's doing. Someone could

569
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: get hurt. You're something of a worry word, Elizabeth, and

570
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 2: he ignores you again. Instead, he climbs into the Cessna,

571
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 2: but he doesn't start it up right away. That's a

572
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 2: relief for you. Instead, he finds the manual. He reads it.

573
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,479
Speaker 2: You're glad that he's checking the section on autopilot safety first,

574
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: you think. Plus, you know he has played a ton

575
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,439
Speaker 2: of Microsoft flight simulator in the game. The Cessna one

576
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 2: eighty two is the dashboard you learned to fly on.

577
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 2: Now he's sitting behind the real deal. He studies the manual,

578
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 2: compares the real dashboard to what he knows to see

579
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 2: if it's all the same gauge's same controls. By sunrise,

580
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 2: he feels he's got it. He spent the entire night studying,

581
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 2: So now he hops out, goes to open the roll

582
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 2: top door of the hanger. You suggest to him, you've

583
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 2: had your fun, now time to go, But the little

584
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: devil on his shoulders forget her. You deserve to have

585
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 2: some fun now cold agrees with him. Now not you,

586
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 2: So he grabs the planes tobar and uses the full

587
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 2: leverage of a six foot five frame two hundred pounds

588
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 2: to push the plane out of the hangar. You beg

589
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 2: and plead for him to stop. On the tarmac. He

590
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: hops into the stolen Cessna, fires up that two hundred

591
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: and twenty five horspower fuel injected engine. You argue, you plead,

592
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: you guilt, but no one is listening to you. Elizabeth.

593
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 2: Colt points the nose of the plane south. He taxis

594
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 2: down the runway. This is it, it's really happening. At

595
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 2: the end of the runway. Is the ocean well, Puget sound.

596
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 2: You tell Colt that he doesn't get his takeoff right,

597
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 2: he's gonna be a bad please to crash. The devil's

598
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: his go ahead. Colt pops the plane's toe breaks, He

599
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 2: grabs the throttle pushes it forward. The propeller's plane engine

600
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 2: roars to life. The aircraft starts to roll forward, quickly

601
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 2: picking up speed. The airstrip is short. It's also thin.

602
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: You argue, do not do this too late. Now hold on, Elizabeth,

603
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 2: because the plane's about to roll right off the runway.

604
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: Colt smashes down on the right rudder pedal. That counteracts

605
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: the pull of the propeller's spin and the torquet generates.

606
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 2: Quick thinking, you say to him, you remind cult that

607
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 2: he could still turn off the plane engine and get out.

608
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 2: The plane continues to pick up speed. The propeller chops

609
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 2: at the air The plane reaches sixty miles an hour.

610
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 2: That's the magic number. You feel the plane lift up

611
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 2: from the runway and it takes off you see the

612
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 2: sun is also lifting up over the eastern horizon, cresting

613
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 2: over Mount Baker, which is blanketed in snow. It's like

614
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 2: dyllic Don's first leg. Colt banks the Sestana towards the

615
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 2: rising sun, Elizabeth. Nothing for you to do now but

616
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 2: enjoy the view. Colt turns again heads south. He can

617
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: see his home from here, well, his home, Camano Island.

618
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 2: Colt continues flying south by southeast over the forested woods

619
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 2: of mainland western Washington. Next you see Seattle, which looks

620
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 2: beautiful from the air. Look, there's Pike Street Market, you

621
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 2: hear yourself saying, Colt flying at the ceiling of ten

622
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 2: thousand feet, close enough to see the faces on the

623
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 2: ground still, and also it's early so the city is

624
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: mostly asleep. Once he flies past Seattle, he aims for

625
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: the next SPECS thing he can see from a distance,

626
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 2: a snow capped Mount Rainier. You comment on how pretty

627
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 2: it looks in the morning light. The little devilt imitate you.

628
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 2: Oh help, Then he laughs, and again Colt follows his advice.

629
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 2: He follows the Cascade Mountain range heading east. You tell

630
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 2: him mountains make for very choppy air. Read turbulence. You

631
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: try to remind cult that he's in a tiny propeller

632
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 2: plane flying for the first time ever. Also, it's November,

633
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: storm grade winds. They come ripping off the Cascade Mountains.

634
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: Soon enough, the Cessna gets hit by a storm force wind.

635
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 2: The Little Devil laughs gleefully as the tiny plane is

636
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 2: cast about in the sky like some small ship and

637
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: storm toss seas. Only these seas are the sky. One

638
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: wind verse hits the Cessna like an invisible dump truck,

639
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,239
Speaker 2: smashing into the Blaine. The Sesta bucks and falls out

640
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 2: in the sky. Somehow, Colt recovers all his hours of

641
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: flight simulator and indeed paid off. The Little Devil urges

642
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: them on, good, come on, go down. Meanwhile, you're giving up,

643
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 2: arguing you've just closed your eyes. Colt is in heaven

644
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: for a few hours. He enjoys this rare view. Finally,

645
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 2: at eleven am, the fuel gate says fun time over.

646
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 2: At this point, three hundred miles from where he took off,

647
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 2: somewhere over Yakama Indian Reservation. You suggest, oh, look a

648
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: rural airfields to land, but the Little Devil says, no.

649
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 2: Crash the plane and Colt listens to him. Kid Colt

650
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: tries to spot a soft place to crash land. He

651
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 2: points the nose of the propeller plane at the earth.

652
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 2: You scream, you hit it. As the plane plummets and

653
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 2: the ground rushes up, you race for impact and count

654
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 2: down with cold five. Four, three, You shake your fist

655
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: at the little devil on the Colt's shoulder. Two one.

656
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 2: The plane slams into the ground. It skips over the

657
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: dirt like a stone on a pond, and it slams

658
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 2: back to the earth. The propeller and the ancient chew

659
00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 2: up dirt and prairie until finally the plane stops slide,

660
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: fighting over tall scrub grass and comes to a gentle stop.

661
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: The little Devil looks over at you and says, see,

662
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 2: I told you he could do it. Oh my god,

663
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 2: is Elizabeth. I know it's a low bar, but in

664
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 2: my book, any crash landing you can walk away from

665
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: is a successful way.

666
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 3: We say so a couple a couple of notes on this.

667
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 3: I like that. I think you wrote yourself into the

668
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 3: picture it as the devil.

669
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 2: What what are you talking about his shoulder? I don't

670
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 2: know what you're talking about.

671
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 4: And to find out that he's six foot five to

672
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 4: tell you that it's got to be really tough.

673
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 2: He's got this.

674
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 4: Giant man body that most men will never achieve at

675
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 4: that height.

676
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 3: And like, but he's got the brain of a kid

677
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 3: and a brain that you know.

678
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 2: Has the impulse control of a kid.

679
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, and like his you know, so you have this,

680
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 4: it's got to be so difficult to navigate the world

681
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 4: that way. God, and the fact that he could study

682
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 4: a manual all night, and so he has.

683
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 2: These skills really really smart.

684
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 4: And it's like I hate when people say, oh, you know,

685
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 4: he could have they could have just directed him purely

686
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 4: to that kind of education. What they need to do

687
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 4: is understand the soft skills of education of what he

688
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 4: was lacking to be able to apply that, you know,

689
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 4: to whatever.

690
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 2: He needed a holistic approach as opposed to just a

691
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: skills based approachable. He needs to do this test and

692
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: showed this person he passed this test and go on

693
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: to make money.

694
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 4: Right exactly, help the boy become When you said he

695
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 4: was six or five, all of a sudden, I'm like,

696
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 4: oh poor.

697
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wait until you're seeing him in motion. Yeah yeah,

698
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: all right, well respect him a man cult right now?

699
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: His mother she hears about what her son has done,

700
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 2: because the reporters come to send her as soon as

701
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 2: this gets reported, and she says, and I quote, evidently

702
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: he didn't need flight school. So not your typical motherly response,

703
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 2: I'll admit, but we already knew that about her now

704
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: his mother, Pamela. She also told reporters who came a

705
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,479
Speaker 2: call and quote, I'm not saying it's right, but if

706
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: he flew those planes, I'm very, very proud of him.

707
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,959
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So at least his mom's proud of him.

708
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: And tell him that, you know, to the TV media,

709
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 2: and he's catching it apparently. Anyway, She also hopes her

710
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: son will start wearing a parachute whenever he steals a plane.

711
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: She is, after all, a mother still anyway. Meanwhile, back

712
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 2: to the crash site, the plane's total course, house cold.

713
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 2: He's okay, he survives, totally, totally fine. He walks away unharmed.

714
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,959
Speaker 2: When the police arrived, no colt, he's gone. Only thing

715
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 2: that they find is his vomit on the dashboard of

716
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: the plane. So apparently he hit and then puked. Right

717
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 2: the puke just tells the cops what cult ate for breakfast.

718
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 2: That's the only clues they have to go on.

719
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he might have gotten like a.

720
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 2: Like a concussion. Yeah, I'd be willing to bet you

721
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: got a concussion. Maybe even like a bruise on his

722
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: face or broken nose, something like that cracks some webs.

723
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: But he was not, like he was able to walk

724
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: away and didn't need immediately go to the hospital.

725
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 4: Yeah.

726
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 2: So, And there's also no signs of which way he

727
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 2: disappeared back into the woods. Gone, Yeah, so.

728
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 3: And he's three hundred miles away from home.

729
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So at this point, Colt is like he's

730
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 2: basically Bigfoot with a stolen plane. You know, he's just

731
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: he goes disappears into the woods. The only difference between

732
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 2: him at Big Food is the stolen plane. So what

733
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 2: does Colt do now that he's officially a pilot?

734
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 3: Steals another point?

735
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 2: No, he steals a car. There's a trick question. He

736
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: drives that until he gets he runs out of gas.

737
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 2: And then why does he do that? Because rather than

738
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 2: hit a gas station where there are cameras which the

739
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: police can use to track down his movement, he ditches

740
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: the stolen car, then steals a new one. He's literally,

741
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: as you've said, going through life like Grand Theft Auto

742
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: the Cult version. Now it's spring of two thousand and nine.

743
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 2: At this point, Cult is still successfully on the run,

744
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 2: so he does what other older criminals do. He goes

745
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: back home. He returns to Kamlo Islands and for the

746
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: next two months he lays low, really well kind of.

747
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: He hits a few homes and then disappears. And then

748
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: in June of two thousand and nine, he's feeling bored

749
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 2: of a or maybe a little rambunctious, and Colt breaks

750
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 2: into a police car. He steals a rifle and a

751
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: box of AMMO. Then he melts back in the woods.

752
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: So now it's Bigfoot with a rifle. Summertime passes, September

753
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: rolls around. He decides to time to island top again.

754
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: So he steals now a quarter of a million dollar

755
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: luxury boat. He's still a two hundred and fifty thousand

756
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: dollars luxury boat.

757
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

758
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: Takes off for a place called Friday Harbor over in

759
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 2: San Juan Island. Once he's there, he cases that island

760
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 2: and what did he do? He gets an itch to

761
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 2: go flying. Oh my gosh, so second little break can

762
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: after this, I will come back and tell you how

763
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 2: my man cold gets back into the skies. Were back, Elizabeth, Hi,

764
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: how you dig him? A man?

765
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: This is so good.

766
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 2: See why it's my new favorite anti hero and what

767
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: I relate to him so much? He is for me

768
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 2: The road untaken? Yeah, the path are passing. The wood

769
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 2: diverged and I took the one less interesting. So anyway,

770
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 2: my man called, he's at this point. I told you

771
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 2: he's got an itch to go flying again. He's like

772
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 2: land of the last plane, So do this again? So

773
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: and he also needs to get off an island. So

774
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 2: he goes down and he finds a local airfield because

775
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: I remember I told all these islands have these small

776
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 2: little airfields. He finds that one he spots another plane,

777
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: not assessmin of this time. This time it's a Serrus

778
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: SR twenty two. That's a plane he fancies. It's a

779
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 2: nice plane, right, So he waits for his opportunity. Then

780
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 2: he sneaks onto the airfield, climbs into the cockpit, starts

781
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 2: the engine, taxis down the runway, and he steals away

782
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 2: into the sky. Colt still hasn't learned how to fly

783
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 2: a plane, though, other than the manual he read right,

784
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 2: So again he has to crash it. He knows basically

785
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 2: how to handle a plane in the sky, but he

786
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 2: can't get them down out of the sky, right, so

787
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 2: crashes it on Orches Island. Back to Orchis Island right now,

788
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Orchis Island is home to four thousand full time residents, okay,

789
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: mini part time residents. The island boasts all kinds of

790
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 2: vacation homes for real money, like Microsoft millionaires, Boeing contractors.

791
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 2: Most famous resident Gary Larson of the Far Side fame. Yeah, right,

792
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 2: so Colt he survives plane crash onto Gary Larson's island,

793
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 2: and the crash planned it sends up this cloud of smoke, right,

794
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: and I've got all these rich people on this island.

795
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 2: So the authorities come out to investigate. They think maybe

796
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 2: Gary Larson crashes helicopter or whatever. I don't know. They discover,

797
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is plane crash, but no pilot.

798
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 2: They put two and two together and it's cold. So

799
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 2: the police spring into action, right. They erect roadblocks, they

800
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: close the docks, the marine is They alert the local

801
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 2: airfield to be on high alert. We're gonna catch this.

802
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 2: Sob this time, I don't know how he does it.

803
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 2: I'm impressed by the fact he does. But somehow cult

804
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 2: evades the roadblocks, the closed harbor, the marina. Somehow he

805
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 2: sneaks down to the water line and he steals a boat.

806
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 2: And he races away in a stolen speed boat. Where

807
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 2: to go now, Canada. He's getting international with it, all right,

808
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: So he jumps the all the cops on his tail

809
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 2: and he makes it over the watery border to Canada.

810
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 2: Now he keeps playing his one man game of cult GTA.

811
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 2: He breaks into homes, he commits more burglaries, he steals

812
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 2: some cars, he ditches them, steals more cars. Ben he

813
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: finds in himself in the place called Creston, Canada, A

814
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 2: little place now. I guess he gets tired of snacking

815
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 2: on poutine because he quickly dips back down the lower

816
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 2: forty eight. He steals a car, drives back across the

817
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 2: border into a town called Bonner's Ferry in Idaho. Now

818
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 2: he goes to the local airport because he loves those,

819
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 2: and he promptly steals a Cessna one eighty two, his

820
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 2: third stolen plane. He flies this one same as the others,

821
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: really well in the sky. He flies two hundred and

822
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 2: fifty miles west back to Washington and then in a

823
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 2: town called Granite Falls, he successfully crash lands the plane.

824
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: By this point, the national news media is loving this

825
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 2: crazy kids kid who just keeps stealing planes and crashing

826
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 2: him and walking away. Yeah, so my man called, He's

827
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 2: stolen planes, crashed them, survive, stolen expensive boats, escape the US,

828
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: escape the fbis, he's stolen cars. He just left them,

829
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 2: dotting the landscape like he's a vehicular Johnny Appleseed right. Naturally,

830
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 2: all the usual suspects begin to profit off this kid's story. CNN, Fox,

831
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 2: CBS News, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Today's Show on NBC,

832
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 2: all of them. They send out the reporters to document

833
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: his crime spreees. They all start to profit off his escapades.

834
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 2: As his stories keep going viral, go international. He's now

835
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 2: got a Facebook fan page. It starts popping off, Elizabeth.

836
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: There are kids in Australia who were wearing T shirts

837
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: that say fly Colt and fly You're kidding. Kids in

838
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: Italian City's wearing shirts to say Mama tried for cult.

839
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 3: Wow.

840
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 2: He was out an international folk hero for teens.

841
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 3: Wow.

842
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 2: So cult is at this point laying low on the island.

843
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 2: He still needs to eat, still a grown boys six

844
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 2: foot five, so you know he's hungry. His hunger cannot

845
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 2: be denied, so he breaks into a grocery store steals

846
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 2: food and some money. He also leaves footprints intentionally, he

847
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: leaves chalk outlined footprints of his bare feet. What see,

848
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, yes, he's bigfoot with a stolen plane.

849
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 2: But they don't they like the press somehow misses that

850
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: he's like doing like a bigfoot thing. But they instead

851
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 2: they refer to this chalk outlined feet and they give

852
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 2: him the nickname the barefoot bandit. Okay, I mean, yeah,

853
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 2: it's got good alliteration. But clearly the man is doing

854
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: a barefoot thing in the bigfoot area and he goes

855
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 2: out to the woods.

856
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, do you imagine growing up like

857
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 4: bigfoot banded. How much the bigfoot bandits legs must have

858
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 4: ached to be young and six.

859
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, his bones are just stretching it. You can

860
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 2: watch them go like a plant. Yeah yeah, huh. So

861
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 2: at this point, my big foot banded with a stolen plane, right,

862
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 2: the press are all excited. But also I forgot to

863
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 2: tell you when he did that he left the chalk

864
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 2: outline of his own feet in the store. He also

865
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 2: left a note for the cops. Really three letters, see

866
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 2: dash y, a exclamation point, see you.

867
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

868
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 2: The media loves this. They brought on this once again.

869
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 2: The cops and the authorities are furious. They're embarrassed. They're

870
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 2: made to look like fools by the teenage boy Clever.

871
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 2: So what do they do, well, the local cops they

872
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 2: called the FBI back. Can you guys try again.

873
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 3: Bail state police they could.

874
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they've they've been doing that, but it's Washington

875
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 2: State Police. Like Oregon. Washington don't really have like the

876
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 2: same levels a place to say California, We're used like

877
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 2: CHP or like sometimes I don't message John. In Oregon,

878
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: this is like as few as eight highway patrol on

879
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 2: patrol at any one time, eight officers in the entire state.

880
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 3: Whole state.

881
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 2: Wow, blow me away, anyway. So at this point they

882
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,439
Speaker 2: call the FBI back in. They also call Homeland Security. Yes,

883
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 2: the federal alphabet agents starts swarming over island, upsetting all

884
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 2: the well heeled locals. This is not why they came

885
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 2: to live in and out of the way island. Elizabeth. Yeah,

886
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 2: at this point it's May. At the end of the month,

887
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 2: cops discover a new note and one hundred dollars bill

888
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 2: taped to the door of a vet clinic. The note is,

889
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 2: of course from Colt, and I quote drove by, adds

890
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 2: some extra cash. Please use this money for the care

891
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 2: of animals Colton Harris Moore Aka it's a barefoot bandit.

892
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 3: Oh Colton.

893
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 2: Yes, so he's leaving money at that to take care of.

894
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: Animals, all in the name of Melanie.

895
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, telling you it is. That's his motivation. That's where

896
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 2: he flips and twists and turns and everything becomes like

897
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 2: the war. So that same day he goes down to

898
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 2: the docks. He finds a super expensive racing boat and

899
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 2: he likes it, so he steals it. Boom, he takes

900
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 2: off to Oregon. Now, my favorite part, Elizabeth, is how

901
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 2: he calls his attorney from this now stolen go fast boat. Yes,

902
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 2: the man's got an attorney and he's got a phone.

903
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 2: So what is he to want to talk about. He's

904
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: arranging his negotiated handover to the Feds. No, no, he's not.

905
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 2: Is he negotiating the movie rights for his life story? Yes?

906
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 2: Yes he is. Wait, he wants a lawyer to ask

907
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 2: for top dollar for any potential movie to be made

908
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 2: about him, his life and his crimes. Oh my god,

909
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 2: of course. Then he goes. He hides out again. Soon enough,

910
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 2: he grows bored, so Colt steals a car, drives to

911
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: yanked In, South Dakota. Yankton Wood. That's a town that

912
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 2: should be fel familiar to the fans of the show Deadwood,

913
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 2: the Yankedon people. Yeah right, So Yankton, that's where we are, Yankton,

914
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 2: South Dakota. And Colt sets up shop, starts casing some

915
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: houses he plans to break into. He finds this one

916
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 2: fitting house, breaks in, makes himself at home, makes himself

917
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,720
Speaker 2: a hot meal. He also takes off his dirty clothes

918
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 2: and he does a load of laundry. Then he goes

919
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 2: and he takes a hot shower. You know, he may

920
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 2: have broken in, but essentially he's just stolen a home

921
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 2: for himself. That's what he's done, right, But the house

922
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: he selected is not a vacation home. It looks like

923
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 2: a vacation home, it's not a vacation home. Elizabeth, the

924
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 2: family just happened to be away. Ironically, on vacation.

925
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 3: Oh no.

926
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 2: So at three am, the family returns home. The Clark

927
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 2: family comes back from their vacation. When mister Clark walks

928
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 2: into the family home, he senses something just ain't right.

929
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 2: You know what that is? Lights are off, that's not it.

930
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 2: The weird thing is the TV is on. He's like,

931
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: I know, I did not leave the TV on.

932
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 3: Yeah.

933
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 2: He's a super observer like you yeah, yeah, Now I

934
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 2: would have noticed that Colt left the remainder of his

935
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 2: hot meal on the kitchen counter. That's what we're to

936
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 2: cut my eyes. So mister Clark, from these two clues,

937
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: he's able to determine there's someone in the house. He

938
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 2: tells his family stay out, and he searches the family home.

939
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 2: He creeps through the hallways looking for this interloper. In

940
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 2: the hallway, he notices at the end the bathroom lights

941
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,720
Speaker 2: on the door is a jar. Oh boy, Colt, here's

942
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 2: footsteps approach. But he doesn't jump out in surprise and

943
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 2: attack mister Clark. No, instead, he jumps out and just

944
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 2: runs past him. So mister Clark gets his six foot

945
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 2: five guy running back him at three am or three

946
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: thirty probably at this point, and then he hears the

947
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 2: guy rush through his house and he recognizes the sound.

948
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 2: He hears him run down into the basement, and then

949
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 2: he also recognizes, wait, I know where he is. He

950
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 2: rushes and locks the door. He's trapped Colt in his basement.

951
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 2: Then he phones the police. The cops rush out to

952
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: the house. You know exactly who this guy is. They're geeked, Elizabeth.

953
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 2: Yea Colt trapped in a basement with no escape. They

954
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 2: have him finally, make fun of us. The cops arrive

955
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: at the Clark home and they enter the premises. They

956
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 2: search the home. They go down to the basement, flashlights drawn.

957
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 2: Just imagine shafts of light peering through the dark. And

958
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 2: what do they find, Elizabeth, don't guess. I'll tell you.

959
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 2: Colt is gone. He grabbed his laundry from the washing machine.

960
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 2: That's why he ran down to the basement. He grabbed

961
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 2: his other stuff, and then he wriggled out of a

962
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 2: basement window, squeezed out gone. He maybe six foot five,

963
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: he still weighs two hundred pounds. He's a thin, big boy.

964
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

965
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 2: So he doesn't run far though. He runs to a

966
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 2: neighbor's house. There he breaks in find some car, Keys

967
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 2: steals the neighbor's car, drives off my cot man. Colt

968
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 2: gets away yet again.

969
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 3: Wow.

970
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 2: The local cops and the FEDS now they know that

971
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 2: they've got this kid, Colt, and and he's gonna break

972
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 2: a run for a local airfield, right like that's his

973
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 2: way or he can't get to a boat. He can't

974
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 2: be this isn't an island. So they say watch the airport, right,

975
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 2: this high alert works. No plane gets stolen, and then

976
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 2: caution wears off. Days pass. One week later, on the

977
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 2: fourth of July, when everyone's totally distracted, Colt sneaks onto

978
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 2: the airfield. Get this, Elizabeth, he steals a plane.

979
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 4: He's gonna have great views of fireworks, totally amazing expensive

980
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 4: Cessma this time, not like on a small training plane

981
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 4: like the first couple.

982
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 2: This time he steals a Cessna four hundred. It's worth

983
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 2: seven hundred thousand dollars. Oh dang, Yeah, Colt steals the

984
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 2: plane because you know he plans to fly further than

985
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 2: he's ever flown before. This is a real like, oh,

986
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: I can fly to New York in this plane. Oh,

987
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: his plan to fly to Cuba. So he taxes he

988
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 2: his newly stolen plane down the runway. He climbs back

989
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 2: into the sky, up there among the clouds, where he

990
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 2: likes it. He flies across the US. He flies all

991
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 2: the way to the Atlantic. Then he turns and heads

992
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 2: for Cuba. But he's not a trained pilot, so he

993
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 2: misjudges one thing, his fuel. Somewhere over the Atlantic, he

994
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: realizes he's almost out of fuel and he will not

995
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 2: make it to Cuba. So what does he do now, Elizabeth?

996
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 2: He spots the Bahamas on the horizon. He flies for

997
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 2: the islands and he makes it barely to the Bahamas,

998
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 2: where he crash lands. The seven hundred thousand dollars beauty

999
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 2: of a plane plays destroyed, but my man Cold walks

1000
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 2: away unharmed. Cold Boom another successful landing. Colt walks to

1001
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: a fishing village where he promptly breaks into local stores

1002
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 2: and steals some food. He's hungry again, so then he's

1003
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 2: still hungry, so he breaks into some restaurants and then

1004
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 2: gets some more, throwing teenage boy, what are you gonna do?

1005
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 2: Always starving? So in the news coverage of Cold story,

1006
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: there's this one woman who I caught who was like

1007
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 2: once kind of cult and I kind of wanted to

1008
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: include her because she gives us a little perspective on him.

1009
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 2: She cared for him when he was a she's a

1010
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 2: foster mother, but she cared for him like a foster mother.

1011
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 2: So she sees this at risk youth and she's part

1012
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 2: of a program helping kids, and she tries to help

1013
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 2: this wayward boy. And she spoke with the press at

1014
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 2: this around this time when people start going, why is

1015
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 2: this kid doing it? She someone finds her and she says, well,

1016
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 2: she believes and I quote Colt didn't intend for all

1017
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 2: this to happen. It's gotten away from him now, right,

1018
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 2: She hadn't met him when he was fourteen, before he

1019
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 2: started stealing planes, when he was just doing court ordered

1020
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 2: community service, right, that kind of stuff. He's so one

1021
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 2: day he arrives and she's running the court ordered community

1022
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 2: service in a park, cleaning up. He arrives without any lunch.

1023
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 2: She notices it. She recalls, quote, I fed him, gave

1024
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 2: him water, and he was just so very grateful. Now

1025
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 2: she also noticed it. He was a hard worker. He

1026
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 2: was smart, as I've pointed out, he knew a quote

1027
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: ridiculous amount of knowledge of local plants, and he was

1028
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 2: kind hearted, much like her, and she said, and I quote,

1029
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 2: he really struck me as a good hearted kid who'd

1030
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: always been looked at with negative expectations. It didn't have

1031
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 2: a lot of motivation to feel good about his life,

1032
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 2: yet when given an opportunity, I mean, he just worked

1033
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 2: his butt off. How is it possible that all these

1034
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 2: groups of people and systems in place miss children like

1035
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 2: this over and over again? So yeah, she also recalled,

1036
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,280
Speaker 2: by the way, when Colt was done with his community service,

1037
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 2: he biked back ten miles to this park where she worked,

1038
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 2: and he met her and it was like just kind

1039
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 2: of checking in. She remembers how, and I quote, he

1040
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: was kind of shy, handed me three small bags and

1041
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 2: just said here. I told him we had a very

1042
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: small budget for new plants, and he'd gone out and

1043
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 2: hand harvested seeds from local flowers that he thought would

1044
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 2: grow well in the park. I said, oh my god,

1045
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 2: thank you so much. And he's like, yeah, all right,

1046
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: turned around and said thank you for being so nice

1047
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 2: to me. I was literally teary eyed.

1048
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

1049
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 2: And I told you all that because I wanted you

1050
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 2: to keep that in mind as I keep calling him

1051
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 2: my man Clt. Right, he's tea, he's a teenage kid.

1052
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 2: He's on the run. And I know, yes, he's crashed

1053
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 2: a stolen seven hundred thousand dollars plan that he stole

1054
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 2: into the Bahamas, Right, but he made it to the Bahamas, right,

1055
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 2: I'm still on his side. Yeah, So next stop, Cuba.

1056
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 2: Do you think he makes it?

1057
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 3: Does he pull a tupac? No?

1058
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 2: After the plane crash is discovered, because remember he's sending

1059
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 2: up smoke signals. Basically, local authorities track down the stolen

1060
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 2: plane and they tell the US authorities, Oh, this is

1061
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 2: one of yours. They tell the Bahamian authorities to hold

1062
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 2: the pilot, right, and they say, if you catch him,

1063
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 2: hold them. We'll be there as soon as we can

1064
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 2: get there. The locals they put up wanted posters of

1065
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 2: this kid, Colt Harris More because that's what the FEDS

1066
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 2: tell them. Yeah. Knowing that the heat is now on.

1067
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 2: When he sees one of his wanted posters, Colt does

1068
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 2: what he does best. He cuts and runs, don't hesitate. Run,

1069
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 2: So he steals another go fast boat and he takes

1070
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 2: off for Harbor Island, assuming this is one of the

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Speaker 2: bigger islands in the Bahamas, assuming that'll be a bigger,

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00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 2: better place for him to hide out. Okay, he makes it.

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00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 2: He docks the boat, sneaks down to a luxury hotel

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00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 2: to like hide out, let the coolick, you know, let

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00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 2: the heat blow over, maybe find maybe it'll quick score somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 2: Instead, security guards spot him, They recognize, you know, belong here.

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00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: They give chase. Colt tries to run, but at this

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00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 2: point he's grabbed a gun somewhere, so he turns back,

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00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: flashes a gun. The secure guards see that if they

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00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 2: turn they run away. They go and they call the cops. Right,

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00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 2: we're gonna need backup. Cops mobilize. Also local federal agents,

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Speaker 2: also the military. Everybody on this Bahamian island are all

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Speaker 2: searching for this kid, all of them armed right, hunting

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Speaker 2: my man Colt. At this point is July eleventh, twenty ten.

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00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 2: Colt is desperate to get to Cuba. So what does

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00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 2: he do? Steals another go fast boat. This is his

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00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 2: last chance. Yes, so he's get spotted though it gets

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Speaker 2: like three point thirty in the morning. When he steals it.

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Speaker 2: The cops they go and they rush and fire up

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00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 2: their own boats. So now the chase is offat chase.

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Speaker 2: Colt leads them to the open ocean. He's gonna make

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Speaker 2: a run for it, headed to Cuba. I man, he

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00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 2: thinks that's Cuba, so then I hope it's not Dominican Republic. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: He's on the open ocean, right, colt speedboat is way

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Speaker 2: faster than the cops watercraft. In the dark of the night,

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Speaker 2: they're on the ocean, racing to Cuba. Colt escapes the

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Speaker 2: Bahamian cops, but his luck finally runs out in the

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Speaker 2: dark of night, his speedboat slams into a sandbar. That's

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Speaker 2: how the Bahamian cops able to catch up to him.

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00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 2: And when this is where it gets wild, to make

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Speaker 2: sure he can't escape again, what do they do. They

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Speaker 2: pull out those guns and just start firing on them.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, oh, yeah, they fire on the speedboat, but

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Speaker 2: not at the kid. They shoot out the engines so

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00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 2: that way he can't They they basically disabled the boat,

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Speaker 2: so Cold is now captured, taken into custody the Behaming authorities.

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Speaker 2: They parade their capture in a walk of shame on

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Speaker 2: the island. Yeah, tropical purp walk right, Yeah, so the

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00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 2: authorities they only have Cold on one solitary charge though

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00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 2: failure to present his passport, So he gets fined three

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars. And they're about to like let him go,

1113
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 2: and the US are like, you have to hold him.

1114
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 2: He will be right there. Take the two days. So

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00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 2: they get there, they arrive, they take the kid into

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Speaker 2: custody where he gets transported to Miami. The Americans they

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00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 2: got plenty of charges, they got to got charge. Yeah,

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00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 2: so they throw sixty seven felony charges at Colt that

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00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 2: would have resulted in maybe twenty thirty years in federal prison.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The total for all of his damage and the

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00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 2: cost of the man hunt, they're saying was one point

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Speaker 2: four million dollars. That's what he now owes in restitution

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00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 2: to victims and to the state. Now, remember I told

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00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 2: you he called his lawyer from his go fast vote

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00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 2: to negotiate the sale of his life story to Hollywood. Yeah,

1127
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 2: well he was on something there. He sells his life

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00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 2: rights to twentieth century Fox for exactly one point four

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00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 2: million dollars because he cannot profit from his crimes, but

1130
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 2: he can send it all into restitution. Sce gets exactly

1131
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 2: that in his trial. The cult's the lawyer he pleads

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00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 2: for lniency. He's like, he's a kid. Look at him, right,

1133
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: They sight his upbringing, his home, his abusive parents, the

1134
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 2: bully against school. The judge and the jury. They listen

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00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 2: to all this, right, and they feel bad, just like

1136
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 2: you and I do. From a man cult. The judge

1137
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 2: even says, and I quote, I think this case is

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00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 2: a tragedy but also a triumph with the human spirit.

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00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: I sympathized with the defendant for his terrible upbringing that

1140
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 2: he had. It was tragedy that he had to steal

1141
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 2: food to endure an alcoholic an abusive mother. But nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: the sentence of six years and I wish him well.

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00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 2: Six years boom yeah, just like that, he's sentenced for

1144
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 2: a few heads off to federal prison. He's since been released.

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00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 2: Six years isn't bad considering what he was possible looking at.

1146
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 2: So there you go, Elizabeth, the story of the Barefoot

1147
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 2: Bandit or aka the Bigfoot Bandit. I prefer it. He's out,

1148
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 2: he got released.

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00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 3: Wow, I hope he's doing well.

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00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 2: What's a ridiculous takeaway there? You know?

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00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 4: I think that like early childhood intervention is so key, yes,

1152
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 4: you know, and it's age zero, simple stuff that, like

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00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 4: just the attention nutrition, you know, definitely, yes, that makes

1154
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 4: such a huge difference that you know, if a kid's hungry,

1155
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 4: they can't pay attention, and they're not.

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00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,320
Speaker 3: Their brain doesn't develop in the way it should.

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00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 4: This kid like so smart and clever, you know, it's

1158
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 4: just what a waste, My god, it's your takeaway.

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00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 2: I just related to him very much, like all the

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00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 2: whole time, like I you know me, I love planes.

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00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 2: I would have always wanted to steal a plane. I

1162
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 2: think the only thing is that the difference is our

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00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 2: relationship store a mother. The reason why would would have

1164
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 2: killed my mother? Yeah, and so I didn't do it

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00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 2: for that reason, whereas he's like, you know, yeah, she's

1166
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 2: already taken care of that. I don't have to worry

1167
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 2: about that. So I think that's what it is. It's

1168
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 2: just like the the he couldn't be guilted or whatever, exchange,

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00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,240
Speaker 2: whatever it is that they kept me. But the bond

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00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,399
Speaker 2: between you know, a boy and his mother the only

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00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 2: thing they kept me from doing more serious crimes. Yeah wow, yeah,

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00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 2: So there you go. Thanks mom, I know, right, So

1173
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 2: thank your mother, call your grandmother and thank your mother.

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Speaker 2: So you're in the mood for a talkback. I am

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Speaker 2: after that one. D can you favor this one? Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, I love get.

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Speaker 5: I downloaded the iHeart app specifically to tell you, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 5: how disappointed I am that the joke of you not

1179
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 5: watching TV is over. I don't like Scandal era Elizabeth.

1180
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 5: I giggled so hard at the jokes that you didn't

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00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 5: watch any TV but somehow knew about all TV. I

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00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,879
Speaker 5: miss it, but still love you. Thanks for the show.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm sorry to disappoint I really am,

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00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 4: but I had to stand in my truth.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you this much. She doesn't listen to radio

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Speaker 2: doesn't work well as always.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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