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

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, all right, you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 1: You do? I do? Stop right there. I know it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: I'm over here waiting to collaborate and listen.

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Speaker 1: Addresses ridiculous addresses. Yeah, email addresses, home addresses ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go with you on this hair braiding.

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Speaker 1: Huh Have I got a mashup? I'm once said, think

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Speaker 1: all it's not what you think. This is a mashup

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Speaker 1: between me having my email address co opted and a

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Speaker 1: listener having her home address co opted. So this is

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Speaker 1: not a product mashup. It's a it's a mistaken identity mashup.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm listening. I'm leaning in.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so page kill Cullen. She's an illustrator who listens

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Speaker 1: to us. She's got good stuff on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Page.

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Speaker 1: She also sent us a really cool picture of an

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Speaker 1: apossum that had taken up residence in her bike. I

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Speaker 1: think it was anyway, it looks cute. She's a good

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Speaker 1: animal person like us. She sent this message.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: I purchased my first home early this year, and I

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Speaker 1: noticed fairly quickly that I was getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: mail for a woman who had never lived at my address,

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Speaker 1: overdue bills, notices from car dealerships and credit unions. I

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Speaker 1: later realized that this was the same woman who sent

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Speaker 1: a girl to my home claiming that she ran a

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Speaker 1: braiding salon out of my house. The girl was just

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Speaker 1: as confused as I was when she was greeted by

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Speaker 1: a disheveled white woman in her pjs who clearly just

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Speaker 1: woke up. After she explained that she'd given the woman

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars as a down payment. I took her

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Speaker 1: to a cafe across the street, got her a coffee,

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Speaker 1: and we were able to get her money back by

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Speaker 1: claiming fraud. If you need to steal from companies, I

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Speaker 1: won't judge, but stealing from a kid seriously, She's claimed

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars in PPP loans and apparently works as

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Speaker 1: an ra at a nursing home, and then Page puts

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Speaker 1: zoinks and I think she used my house because it

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Speaker 1: was listed online for so long. She's apparently getting sued

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Speaker 1: left and right now, and of course I'm the one

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Speaker 1: getting calls about it.

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Speaker 2: She has calls too, I guess like she oh they

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Speaker 2: look up the address.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps, Yeah, so this poor thing she buys a house. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: Mazzle gets a house. Yes, and now you know she's

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Speaker 1: got the house, this deadbeat. I feel bad for the

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Speaker 1: kids showing up to get her hair braided. Oh totally,

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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: You imagine the look on that poor kid's face when

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Speaker 2: the door swings.

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Speaker 1: Open and she's given she probably venmoded one hundred bucks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course, yeah, poor thing poor a little bit. So Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous that this

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Speaker 1: is in multiple platforms, email address, so page, and I have,

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Speaker 1: you know, this shared experience. So feeling really violated, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: It's not identity theft. It's like an identity borrowing.

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Speaker 1: It's like location theft.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you got a second I got one for you?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yes? Please?

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Speaker 2: Uh oh man, this one if I got a pink

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Speaker 2: diamond heist for you?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: Yes, you caught me sideways with the pink panther dime

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Speaker 2: he Where I kept thinking was about other things, and

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Speaker 2: I was like all a flutter, Well, this one I

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Speaker 2: got for you should do the same.

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Speaker 1: I like it. I love to be all a flutter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I know you do. This one involves a

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Speaker 2: Florida psychic, surprisingly gullible domestic servant who worked in the

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Speaker 2: Gulf region of the Arabian Peninsula. Okay, and finally there

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Speaker 2: is the former Prime Minister of Qatar and head of

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Speaker 2: the Guitar Sovereign Wealth Fund.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth, this one is a banger Buffalo buttercup. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 2: this is ridiculous crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,

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Speaker 2: heists and cons. It's all free and ridiculous. Elizabeth Zeven, dateline,

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Speaker 2: November twenty twenty two, Christie's New York Auctions House. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's last year, twenty twenty two. Apparently I learned this

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Speaker 2: researching this story was a year of jaw dropping gemstones

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Speaker 2: hitting the jewelry market.

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Speaker 1: Really, I don't track the jewelry market, nor do I.

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Speaker 2: So this was news to me. At the end of

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Speaker 2: the calendar year, all the jewel heads apparently turned their

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Speaker 2: attention to gawk and gape at the most dazzling stone

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Speaker 2: to drop yet, a thirteen point one five carrot quote.

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Speaker 2: Fancy vivid pink diamond. Huh fancy vivid Elizabeth that's in

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Speaker 2: all caps, by the way, not all caps, the front

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Speaker 1: Like some caps in some lowercases.

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Speaker 2: All fantasy vivid what not? Like that? I'm written in

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Speaker 2: comic sands back. You know, it's just capital AF capital

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Speaker 2: v fancy vivid.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, and Christie's.

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Speaker 2: Yes hyped this rock ast quote a phenomenon in the

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Speaker 2: world of rare.

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Speaker 1: Diamonds, a funk phenomenon.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's gonna get up right in ye Now,

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Speaker 2: this thirteen point one five carrot fancy vivid pink diamond,

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Speaker 2: it was expected to be the top auction prize getter,

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Speaker 2: just like record setting possibly Christie's New York Magnificent Jewel sale.

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Speaker 2: It was going to be the bell of that ball

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Speaker 2: right now. The fancy vivid pink diamond was expected to

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Speaker 2: sell somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty five to thirty

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Speaker 2: five million dollars. Wow, it's a nice neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: That's a very nice neighborhood. No, very exclusive.

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Speaker 2: I can't afford that neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Now, you can't pull over in that neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: I'm not even allowed in that neighborhood. They see me

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Speaker 2: coming in at the gates like come on, who are

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Speaker 2: you kidding here? Now? If Christie's New York's Magnificent Jewel

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Speaker 2: Sale went down in December sixth I know you were

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Speaker 2: totally paying attention.

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Speaker 1: Totally was I know exactly where I was riveted that

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing that this the Christie's New York Magnificent Jewel

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Speaker 2: Sale was kind of like their happy Honda days. Like

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Speaker 1: It was a December to remember.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a happy wintertime sales event. So some

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Speaker 2: it when the as the big day drew near, right,

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Speaker 2: the auction hammer is about to drop, right, everybody's excited.

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Speaker 2: The admiral cut bell of the ball is gonna be

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Speaker 2: shown first in Hong Kong then New York to drill

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Speaker 2: up excitement, right, But boom, it's a no show. Everyone's like,

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Speaker 2: what what happened to the fancy vivid pink diamond, right

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Speaker 2: stunner never gets its moment in the spotlight. Spokesperson for

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Speaker 2: the auction house came along. They answered everyone's like questions,

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Speaker 2: you said quote Christiese confirms that the fancy vivid pink

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Speaker 2: on December sixth. That's all they would say. So all

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Speaker 2: the time. Okay, but luckily for us, there's the FBI.

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Speaker 2: Thank god, they love to blab. So the FBI, they

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Speaker 2: Come to find out, just before Christie's New York was

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Speaker 2: they said, hey, we'll take that stone, thank you very much. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the FBI was working as part of a multi national

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Speaker 2: law enforcement investigation. Also, the it was being helped along

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Speaker 2: by teams of private detectives. Oh, they were all working

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Speaker 2: on this same man hunt. They were after a jewel thief. Okay,

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Speaker 2: now not just any old jewel thief, Elizabeth. This cat

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Speaker 2: had managed to steal about ninety million dollars in gems

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Speaker 2: and jewelry, and he stole it from one of the

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Speaker 2: richest men in the world, a chic a Shike.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the man the one that the FBI interpolled. The

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Speaker 2: teams of private detectives're all after. He was a Florida

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Speaker 2: based online psychic. Wait, and the best part is he

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Speaker 2: pulled off this epic heist without having to ever set

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Speaker 1: God bless.

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Speaker 2: He used his psychic powers, Elizabeth, to pull the ninety

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Speaker 2: million dollars of jewelry to him. You're wondering how he

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Speaker 2: did that, basically wondering how he had the victim do

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Speaker 2: the robbery. Oh, okay, and I'll give you a hint

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Speaker 2: how he did that, Elizabeth two words? You ready?

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Speaker 1: I'm ready? Aura cleans, Aura cleans.

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Speaker 2: Yes, time to meet our players.

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Speaker 1: I'm so ready for this.

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Speaker 2: Okay. We have the aforementioned victim, who was a domestic servant.

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Speaker 2: She was listed in the criminal complaint as Magdalena. We

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Speaker 2: don't have a last name on her, We don't even

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Speaker 2: that she was a house servant, Magdalena. She's presumably middle aged, unmarried,

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Speaker 2: lives among wealth, but doesn't really have much of her own,

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Speaker 2: and she does have plenty of money, as you will

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Speaker 2: find out later on. She was the unwitting accomplice to

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Speaker 2: the crimer of our day, the scumbag Florida psychic. He

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Speaker 2: went by the stage name of Giovanni. He is a

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Speaker 2: psychic online life coach, relationship guru. He is a one

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Speaker 2: stop shop for the unlucky and go wile.

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Speaker 1: I just don't trust life coaches.

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Speaker 2: Oh this dude, he specialized in bad aura. This is him, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 2: I want you to get a good gander. Okay, yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: Just look at the fist. It's thoughtful underneath the chin

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Speaker 2: to let you know he's a thinker.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's a real thoughtful It's.

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Speaker 2: Got that Steve Job's energy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah job jib Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That guy, this Florida psychic. He thought he could steal

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Speaker 2: ninety million dollars in jewelry and gems are one of

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Speaker 2: the richest men in the world, and he'd get away

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Speaker 2: with it. He's like he is what we in the

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Speaker 2: storytelling industry call an idiot. Now, he's like the real

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Speaker 2: life version of do you remember that scene in the

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Speaker 2: Dark Knight when Morgan Freeman hears the plans of the

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Speaker 2: junior executive who wants to run a con on Bruce Wayne.

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something I've never seen it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'll tell you the dialogue. He's like, let

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Speaker 2: me get this straight. You think that your client, one

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Speaker 2: of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world,

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Speaker 2: is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating up

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Speaker 2: criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your

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Speaker 2: plan is to blackmail this person. Good luck now for

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Speaker 2: this dude. It's like, you know, let me get this straight.

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Speaker 2: You think that your mark, one of the wealthiest and

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Speaker 2: most powerful men in the world, is actually a straight

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Speaker 2: up punk who you can steal from by having one

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Speaker 2: of his maids break into his safe when he's not

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Speaker 2: home and then bring you his jewels. Fairly Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: you think you can get away with this.

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Speaker 1: Sure, except we're talking about it so well.

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Speaker 2: Lastly, I want you to meet our third player in

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Speaker 2: this felonious triunk. Yes, one of the wealthiest and most

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Speaker 2: powerful men in the world, the former Prime Minister of Qatar,

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Speaker 2: shik Ben just sing Ben Jabir Altani. Come on down

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Speaker 2: so to give you a little provenance of this man's

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Speaker 2: wealth and power. His great uncle founded the country m

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Speaker 2: h that he would later rule. He he's the present

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Speaker 2: Amirror of Qatar is his cousin. As for his wealth,

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Speaker 2: he owns three percent of Deutsche Bank.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, Deutsche Bank.

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Speaker 2: Ye, you can find his name lurking in the Panama papers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: those leaked financial documents from the firm Fonseca, the offshore

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Speaker 2: tax dodge and all that. He's all up in there.

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Speaker 2: So this man, he's got world leaders on speed dial,

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Speaker 2: Along comes some regular old American rifter, Florida psychic CON's

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Speaker 2: One day, August twenty eighteen, Magdalena she finds a psychic

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Speaker 1: And he's like, no, like you try this, don't try this.

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Speaker 2: By the way, is life coach at Giovanni at gmail

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Speaker 2: of your jewelry. She's like what He's like, Oh yeah,

436
00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,639
Speaker 2: your rocks they have bad spirits. They hold all this energy,

437
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 2: and luckily for you, I know how to wipe away

438
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 2: the bad energies. I can remove them from jewels and gemstones.

439
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 2: It'sah ont of my strength. So I basically think of

440
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,320
Speaker 2: this way. If you think in herds of crystals, it

441
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 2: makes a little more sense. He's talking about diamonds. They

442
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,879
Speaker 2: normally think of amethysts, but it would works with Christos.

443
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,440
Speaker 1: Don't you feel like the diamonds would have way bad energy?

444
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,879
Speaker 2: I do think that, Yes, that's me.

445
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,200
Speaker 1: I mean, just like the screaming cries of souls.

446
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the blood diamond aspect. But you know, I

447
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 2: have to admit I was a rock person right now.

448
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, like a boy, I was

449
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:05,639
Speaker 2: super into rocks, crystals. I used to make my mom

450
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 2: stop at rock shops.

451
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 1: Oh I loved those. Yeah yeah.

452
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,880
Speaker 2: And then I got into like the weird woo woo

453
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 2: stuff when I was like twelve, and somebody's like, you know,

454
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 2: you can use these, I'm like, oh really, So I

455
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,639
Speaker 2: tried to like do something with the crystal not nothing

456
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 2: really happened for me. But I also just wanted to

457
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 2: be made plain. I am not making front of Magdalena

458
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 2: in this. No, I'm making fun of Giovanni.

459
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,959
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he deserves everything. She's just you know,

460
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,120
Speaker 1: she's doing her things.

461
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 2: You can find.

462
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 1: She's a seeker, you can.

463
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 2: Find answers to the energies and rocks. I ain't gonna

464
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 2: sweat on you about that. If you're going to take

465
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 2: advantage of somebody who does that, I'm right there. Line.

466
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,679
Speaker 1: Growing up, we had a rock tumbler going in the

467
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,959
Speaker 1: garage for a while and our neighbors hated us.

468
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 2: I bet they. And it's so discording because it makes

469
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:50,200
Speaker 2: no you can't fall into like a cycle a bunch.

470
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: Of stuff in there. We could check it. Oh no,

471
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:57,440
Speaker 1: not really yet. Day twelve, Oh my.

472
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 2: God, yes, okay, Well, anyway, but following the instruction of

473
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,639
Speaker 2: her Florida Psychic Magdalena dutifully gathered up all of her

474
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,440
Speaker 2: jewelry and she sent it to America from do Harqatar. Now,

475
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,400
Speaker 2: surprising me when I read this, the con man kept

476
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 2: her jewelry for a little while and then he sent

477
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:13,880
Speaker 2: it back to her.

478
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: See, yeah, that's the con man thing. Trust.

479
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 2: Now he's got her trust. Now he tells her it's

480
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 2: all been cleansed and purified or whatever he is he did. Yeah,

481
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 2: that's shiny. Now he claims that it was good to

482
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 2: go and she should have no more trouble with her energies. Right,

483
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,679
Speaker 2: mm hmm. Surprise, surprise, Elizabeth still had bad vibes. The

484
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 2: vibes were off.

485
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 1: The vibes are just so off. All she needed is

486
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 1: one of those ultrasonic jiggle jewelry cleaner things. Oh yeah,

487
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,239
Speaker 1: water and it jiggles all the credit out.

488
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,639
Speaker 2: Well that's right for dustin grime.

489
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 1: No, that'll clear out those lura and the energies and

490
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: the zappies and the hoosies, all of it.

491
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,639
Speaker 2: She did not have access to one of those, so

492
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 2: she had to go with the Florida psychic. Yeah. So,

493
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 2: so she turned to Giovanni and asked her trusted life

494
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 2: coach what do I do, dear love guru and relationship

495
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 2: life coach. I have a problem with my rocks. The

496
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 2: energy still off. He's like, no, no, no, no, it's

497
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,360
Speaker 2: not your rocks. Well, he kept asking her questions. Yeah,

498
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 2: he's like, yo, you tried this. He's like, I did

499
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 2: try this. If you tried this, I'll try that tomorrow. Right.

500
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 2: Eventually they get down through this question and answer session,

501
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,120
Speaker 2: he discovers the real problem, the root. They've gotten down

502
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 2: to it. Elizabeth, Yes, it wasn't her jewelry. It was

503
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 2: her boss's jewelry, and he had so much more jewelry,

504
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 2: more bad energy.

505
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: It's really piling up in them.

506
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,880
Speaker 2: Oh my god, just focus bad energy. Exactly. So this

507
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 2: dude generously offered to cleanse all of the bad energy

508
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 2: off of her boss's jewelry.

509
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,360
Speaker 1: Such a good guess. What a philanthropist, totally kind heart.

510
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,159
Speaker 2: Now, Magdalena was a little reluctant, as one might be. Yeah, maybe,

511
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 2: I mean but by at this point though, she he

512
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 2: pretty much had her complete trust. Right, he knew what

513
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 2: motivated her, he knew how to work on her psyche.

514
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 2: So he did exactly that. He went to work on

515
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 2: her psyche, and he tells her everything she needs to hear,

516
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 2: and eventually her life coach insisted that it was the

517
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 2: boss's jewelry and it would have to be climbed. She

518
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 2: was ever going to know peace and to fine love, right,

519
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 2: She's like, of course, so she wants all of this.

520
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 2: Who doesn't, right, So she's like, also, he doesn't want

521
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 2: to disappoint him. So she's like, what do I got

522
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 2: to do? So she's like, he's like, you know, send

523
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: it to me. She's like, okay, I'll dutifully comply. So

524
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 2: June of twenty twenty two, Giovanni has now convinced her

525
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 2: to send her her boss's jewelry to be cleansed or

526
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 2: a cleansed all right, So she's like, well, how do

527
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 2: I do this? She's like, you know, if you're a psychic,

528
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 2: can you see how it's going to go? And he's

529
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 2: like he's like, he's like, well, tell me the layout

530
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 2: of the place. And she's like, well, he's got security

531
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 2: in his gem vault. And he's like, okay, I got

532
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 2: a ready answer for that. She's like, okay, what are

533
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 2: you going to do? I'll cast a spell. She's like,

534
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 2: what stop it? Yeah, I'll cast a spell that'll make

535
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 2: you invisible to the cameras.

536
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 1: By the power of the move.

537
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 2: Thank God. Right. So she's like, Okay, I'll tell you

538
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 2: what damn going to do it? Cast a spell?

539
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: No stop, this is a grown woman. I'm sorry, Magdalena.

540
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 1: I feel for you. But he's like, I am going

541
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: to remotely cast a spell and make you.

542
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 2: Invisible take security cameras.

543
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: She is she really like four, the four year old

544
00:24:59,200 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: de Sishi.

545
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 2: She's very trusting Elizabeth. So, this trusting domestic servant of

546
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: the former Prime Minister of Qatar, exactly as her Florida

547
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 2: psychic told her to do. She planned to snake into

548
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 2: her boss's private quarterers, locate the safe, open it, snatch

549
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 2: a bunch of his jewelry, and you know. So, she

550
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 2: bides her time, waits for her moment. June twelfth comes along,

551
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 2: takes her ten minutes. The spell the Giovanni, her Florida psychic,

552
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 2: promised he would cast it did not work. Elizabeth, Yes,

553
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 2: she showed right up on the video.

554
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: Is this going to be the jewelry flowing?

555
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 2: One of the best photos of her? Probably?

556
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: Anyway, she cast a spell to make her into sharper

557
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: relief exactly.

558
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 2: Got out backwards. So the security footage recorded that day,

559
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 2: it shows Magdalena walk into the vault. She goes to

560
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 2: the vault area right, she's got empty pants pockets. Ten

561
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 2: minutes later she walks out with a very noticeable bulge

562
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 2: in her left front pocket. Sometime later after that, she

563
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 2: went and she boxed up the now stolen jewelry, took

564
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 2: it down to the local FedEx in Doha and sent

565
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 2: it from Katar to Florida. She sent a one point

566
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 2: one pound box of jewelry care of John Lee's ten

567
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 2: seventy Barry Lane, Davenport, Florida, three three eighty five seven.

568
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wonder who lives in that house now?

569
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 2: No, sorry about that. Inside the box was a forty

570
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 2: two carrot diamond and two large canary diamonds.

571
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: Forty two carrot diamonds. FedEx's like an egg totally.

572
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: It's like an ostrich day. FedEx delivered it to Giovanni.

573
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 2: What do you think he did, Elizabeth?

574
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: I cleansed it.

575
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 2: He promptly took it to his bank and stored it

576
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 2: in a safe deposit box. He does his ora cleansing.

577
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 2: It's a very safe place. You know.

578
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: It helps it's quiet, he's going to have to cut

579
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: it up into smaller pieces, so really very good.

580
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to get inside the rocks. So later

581
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 2: that same month, in June twenty ninths, MAGDALENEA is struck

582
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 2: for the second time again. She stole a pocket full

583
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 2: of her bosses jewelry. Box it up, send it to

584
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 2: her Florida psychic. The package second time far larger, this

585
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: time two point two pounds. It contained some of the

586
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 2: Sheik's prize house pieces. For example, there was a necklace

587
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 2: in there that had one hundred and fifty diamonds around it.

588
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

589
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that time she sent that package to New Jersey.

590
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: Giovanni was apparently on the road at this point, coincidentally

591
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 2: just a few hours away from the New York gym dealers,

592
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 2: So FedEx delivered the package to an address fifty Route

593
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 2: seventeen North, Suite one thirty five, Paramus, New Jersey, Paramus.

594
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm kind of hoping it would be like the red

595
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: roof fins.

596
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the red roof and all local crime

597
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,959
Speaker 2: lords today. One week later, on July sixth, Magdalena hit

598
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,959
Speaker 2: the safe again, and this time she spent a one

599
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 2: point five pound box to a florida' psydekick, who by

600
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 2: then had returned to his home state. Inside this third parcel,

601
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: Elizabeth a twelve carrot canary diamond. That box makes it

602
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 2: safely to Florida. Giovanni buzz he do. He seizes the

603
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 2: diamonds with all the bad vibes. He rushes down to

604
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 2: his bank and secrets them away in his aura cleaning

605
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: safety deposit box. But interestingly, there are suddenly fewer rocks

606
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 2: in the safe deposit box. It seems Giovanni outsourced some

607
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: of his aura cleansing work to a jewelry business in Florida.

608
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, you know, back in June, he'd sold

609
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 2: some of the jewels he reached gaved four checks from

610
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 2: a jewelry firm for One of the checks was for

611
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars that was found in the safe deposit

612
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 2: box later on. I forgot to tell you Giovanni was

613
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 2: also receiving fifty thousand dollars from Magdalena. With each package.

614
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 2: She was sending him a check for fifty thousand dollars

615
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 2: to cleanse the aura of the rocks. Oh god, that's

616
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 2: what he charged for his our services.

617
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: He had the check in the safe, I mean deposit that.

618
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 2: Don't Yeah, I know, right, but whatever. So now basically,

619
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 2: this guy, I don't know if two hundred thousand dollars

620
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 2: sounds like a lot to you for.

621
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: Our cleansing sounds like a hell of a lot.

622
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 2: Prior to this, she'd already given him one hundred and

623
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars over the first four years of him

624
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 2: just giving her life advice.

625
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 1: Where's she getting this money?

626
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 2: Well paid, I guess being a domestic servant for the

627
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 2: former guitar pays well.

628
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

629
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 2: So either way, the amount of jewelry she was sending

630
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 2: him at this point, you could weigh it in pounds, like,

631
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: it's just straight up wrongs. So Megdalena, she's you know,

632
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 2: she's suspicious. Eventually she contacts him and she's like, hey, Giovanni,

633
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 2: wouldn't we be sending back my boss's clean rocks? And

634
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: he tells her, oh, by August, right, this is like

635
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 2: late July at this point, right now, Magdalena has she

636
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: breaks into her boss is safe one more time. She

637
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: grabbed one last pocket full of gems, sends another box

638
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 2: to her Florida psychic. So all told, this is four

639
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: boxes of jewelry. Now, according to Vice News, Magdalena sent

640
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 2: this roughly ninety million dollars worth of jewelry via fed

641
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: X and she never insured any of it. Oh god,

642
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: she didn't even require a signature upon delivery.

643
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: God. See that's the thing, Like I can see if

644
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: it's like I trust you because you know, she's not

645
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: the owner like they wanted.

646
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 2: But like the signature, I thought you could get on

647
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 2: that one.

648
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: Just sitting on a porch.

649
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: Well, this is what I mean by she's trusting. She

650
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: trusts fed X, she trusts her psychic life coach. She

651
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 2: just trusts exactly. But anyway, more time passes, and guess what,

652
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: Elizabeth the Florida psychic doesn't return any of the jewelry. Oh,

653
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: Magdalenay reaches out to Giovanni, and she's growing worried that

654
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 2: her boss will discover the missing gem in his vault.

655
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: Giovanni he tells Magdalena, look, chill, you just need to

656
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 2: like find your chill, right, just relax, find your sense.

657
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,719
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on over there, but like

658
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 2: this is not going to help. So he was like

659
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 2: going off the town her. Basically, look, I'm cleansing Oris

660
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 2: as fast as I can. There's a lot of rocks

661
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: over here, a lot of work, a lot of energy

662
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: stuff you can't quite understand.

663
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: You cannot force the snake to shed its skins.

664
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 2: Eric, exactly, a lot of ends, a lot of outs.

665
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 2: It's just you know, daunting work. Yeah, except Dante, who

666
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 2: could he be? Who is he to say when the

667
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: rain will come?

668
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: Exactly?

669
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: So he told her he should be done, most likely

670
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 2: with all the stones by the time, Magdalene and her

671
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 2: boss were traveling to CON's in August. So Giovanni's like, okay,

672
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: how about this off flyover, I'll meet you and Cons.

673
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 2: I'll personally hand deliver you all the rocks. I bet now,

674
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 2: if you can believe, Elizabeth, that's not what happened.

675
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: You're kidding, I know, right, I was so trusting for

676
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: a moment there.

677
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 2: Well, let's take a little break and when we're back,

678
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what did happen next. So set chill, Elizabeth,

679
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: let's see what's going on and heat inside.

680
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: Breathe.

681
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be right back. All right, Elizabeth, we're back. Hi,

682
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: good to see you're feeling good. Are you feeling centered?

683
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: I'm feeling centered.

684
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: I'm breathing your anxiety about all of the stolen rocks?

685
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 2: Is it kind of abated?

686
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: It's just I've let it soak out of me and

687
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: into the carpet. Perfect breathe through step on the part

688
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: of the carpet.

689
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: So where were we? Oh, that's right, Cons France. Okay,

690
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 2: have you ever been to cons?

691
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: No, I've not.

692
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: I've never been either.

693
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: But uh so is this is this? When did they go?

694
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: And in August? That's not when the film earlier in

695
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: the are yet?

696
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: Yeah? So this is like late when they're doing like

697
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 2: local events.

698
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: Okay, we've had criminals.

699
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: Sure, it's a great place to go. It's French revery. Ara.

700
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: I recommend it to anybody, sure, especially criminals. Now we're

701
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: gonna go there, Elizabeth, because in order to tell you

702
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: what happens next, I'd like you to close your eyes.

703
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: Yes, as a close and picture.

704
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: You are in Khans, France. It's the resort town talked

705
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: into the iconic French Riviera. Seabirds are off in the distance,

706
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 2: Waves lap against boats at anchor. A light breeze animates

707
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 2: the air. You are presently on the Boulevard de la Croissette,

708
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: the wide avenue that skirts the coastline, and when's past

709
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: the luxury hotels, the resort fronts, the picturesque cafes, the

710
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 2: beach is there just a stone's throwaway at the moment

711
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 2: you were on the run. Yeah, you've had to light

712
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: out after you made a mess of things at your

713
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 2: previous job as a tour guide at Buckingham Castle. You

714
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 2: made the mistake of calling King Charles a Nepo baby

715
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 2: and you were summarily fired. Now you're in cons laying

716
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: low the beach resort town. It's a nice place to

717
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: recover momentum. You found work at a cute little cafe

718
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: on the classett. You're working as a waitress in this

719
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: charming little seaside cafe. At your table four or in

720
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 2: French table clat, you spy a youngish, middle aged woman

721
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 2: seated by herself. She's been preoccupied with her phone, barely

722
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 2: looking up. She seems agitated. You watch her for a moment,

723
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 2: worried as you wait for an order to come up.

724
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 2: She puts her phone down on the table and then

725
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: almost immediately picks it back up and checks it again.

726
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: She does not see what she wants to see. That

727
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: much seems clear. You handle the few tables you have.

728
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: You bring out some plates of sumptuous fair, you refresh

729
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 2: water glasses, and then you go and check on tabla plat.

730
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 2: You refill the agitated woman's water glass, and then sort

731
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 2: of hover and ask her in French if everything is

732
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: all right? She answers. In English, you're like, oh, thank god.

733
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 2: She looks up at you with tears about to fall.

734
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 2: She just says, he won't return my calls, he won't

735
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 2: answer my text. You think you understand the problem. So

736
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 2: in English you tell her he's not worth it, that

737
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 2: she's fine on her own, she doesn't need someone who

738
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 2: doesn't see her for who she is.

739
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.

740
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 2: She looks up at you and she says, no, no, no, no,

741
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 2: he has the jewels, all of the jewels. Oh you

742
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: change gears, he asked, he stole your jewels. No, she says,

743
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 2: he sent all mine back. Now you're totally confused. Luckily,

744
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 2: she continues, he has the jewels in my boss. Your

745
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 2: confusion is growing at an exponential rate at this point,

746
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: so you ask her is he here in comms? No,

747
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 2: he lied to me, she says. The tears continue to fall.

748
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 2: Is he supposed to bring you the jewels. You follow up,

749
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: She now says, through free rolling tears, HI, what's at him?

750
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 2: I text him? I phoned him, I contact a purple Garden.

751
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 2: He is a psychic. He must know how I'm feeling.

752
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: A psychic stole your boss's jewels? No, I take them.

753
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 2: I send the jewels to him. So then you stole

754
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 2: your boss's jewels. You're still trying to make sense of everything. Yeah, no,

755
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: I would never steal, she says. He steals it, but

756
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 2: he says to come to cons he give the jewels

757
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 2: back to me, but he's not here. And now my

758
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: boss he's going to find out. I will go to jail.

759
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: And before she finishes speaking, her phone Vibrate is on

760
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 2: the table a new message. You both look at the phone.

761
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 2: You want to hear what this woman has got to say.

762
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 2: It checks the message. You're hooked. You have to know

763
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: what the scumbag has to say. You ask, is it him?

764
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 2: She says nothing. You're totally in it. Now you're waiting.

765
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: You fall up? What did he say? She reads the

766
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 2: message aloud. He writes to me, please stop, I do

767
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 2: not know what you were talking about. I don't think

768
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 2: you need a psychic. You need a psychiatrist. God bless you,

769
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 2: please stop harassing me.

770
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you don't.

771
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 2: Know what to say now. You look around at your

772
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 2: other tables. You don't say anything. You just kind of

773
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 2: melt into the background as the woman just stares at

774
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 2: the text message. God bless you, he said, yicks, that

775
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: was a legitimate text message she received.

776
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: Yes, I like, you don't need a psychic, you need

777
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: a psychiatrist.

778
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 2: Yes, stang okay, that was his kiss off, like gaslighting, goodbye, yeah,

779
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 2: yeah exactly. So what you don't see in this moment

780
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 2: is Magdalender now will rush back to her luxury hotel

781
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 2: where she and her boss are staging, and she confesses

782
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: everything to shake al Tawny. Uh uh, and he shake

783
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: al Maddie And so where does Giovanni, the Florida Psychic

784
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: and the stolen diamonds? That's what shake al Tonie wants

785
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 2: to know. So meanwhile, back at the ranch, and by

786
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: the ranch, I mean the shady wholesale gem dealers of

787
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 2: New York and New Jersey, that's where the Florida Psychic is.

788
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 2: So he was busy, busy, busy, Elizabeth. He was trying

789
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 2: to move ninety million dollars worth of jewelry as fast

790
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: as his greedy little hands could find them a new buyer.

791
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I feel like the shake is

792
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: going to the is gonna find you no matter what.

793
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. It's just a matter of like, do

794
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 2: his people find.

795
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: That much money? Yes, you can find anyone anywhere.

796
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and will take the time to find you. There's

797
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: no like, Oh, I've been gone for eighteen months. He

798
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 2: should probably stop looking. You took ninety million dollars on

799
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: a man who doesn't like to be embarrassed.

800
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: He just had power exactly.

801
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 2: So anyway, he's meanwhile out there, he's moved to the fancy,

802
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: vivid pink diamond. He's able to get that one. Yeah,

803
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 2: he turns that it's it's valued at thirty one million

804
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 2: dollars roughly on the market. He sells it for eight

805
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: million dollars in watches and loose diamonds.

806
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

807
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 2: Yes, two dealers, he finds. They make a trade. They

808
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 2: understand he wants to move quickly so and they also

809
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 2: want to make their own big score.

810
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: Yeah.

811
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 2: They find a diamond cutter and they ask him to

812
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: turn the one large pink rock into two smaller, less

813
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 2: recognizable but still vivid and fancy. Of course, now they

814
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 2: wanted to be cut into a thirteen carrot and a

815
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: three carrot diamond. Okay, right, So the diamond cutter took

816
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 2: the diamond. He gets to work, he breaks up the

817
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 2: fancy vivid he's so smitten with his work. He has

818
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 2: to buy in on the deal. So he becomes a

819
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 2: one eighth owner of the thirteen carrot stunner.

820
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: Oh god.

821
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: He creates new registry numbers for the two new diamonds.

822
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 2: So now they are recertified with the GIA and everything

823
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: looks legit. So now they have the legit paperwork. What

824
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: did the diamond dealers do, Elizabeth, Well, they and the

825
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 2: diamond cutter they approach Christie's auction house about a big new,

826
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 2: high profile sale. Folks from Christmas auction house or they're

827
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 2: seeing money, so their eyes are going like cartoon wooga right,

828
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: oh yeah, thirty five million dollar stone line right up,

829
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 2: we'll diget the paperwork half ready. So they set a

830
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: date for the auction. They start making all these pipe

831
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 2: and these plans. They're going to display this pink dime

832
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 2: before potential buyers in Hong Kong, New York. Yeah, yeah,

833
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: then the FBI comes in. Everything comes to a screeching halt.

834
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 2: Everything suddenly is turned criminal and people go scattering looking

835
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: for the exits. No one had dollars dancing in their

836
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 2: eyes anymore. Suddenly I have to like, oh, who's going

837
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 2: to jail? So this investigation is still ongoing. The diamond

838
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 2: dealers are still under investigation because there was so many involved.

839
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 2: The stones went all over the place. So now that

840
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 2: we've caught up to where we came in, the FBI

841
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 2: walks into Christie's auction house es as the stone. Hey,

842
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 2: the g men. They managed to find and recover the

843
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: stolen rock. Did they recover Giovanni? What do you think? Yes, well,

844
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this much. Sticking with Christie's auction house,

845
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 2: who doesn't need another blemish on their record? They were

846
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 2: happy to cooperate with the authorities, I'm sure.

847
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

848
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 2: The FBI agents also had assistance from the Sheik's team

849
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 2: of private investigators, who were very effective. There was multiple

850
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: of them, and they were able to quickly find and

851
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 2: capture Giovanni aka John Lee. He was arrested two days

852
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: before Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, he got to spend it behind bars.

853
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 2: So the FBI located the Florida psychic and arrested him

854
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 2: on charges of mail and wire fraud, charges of interstate

855
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 2: transport of stolen goods. And they were able to seize

856
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 2: all of the cash and diamond and gold bars, luxury watches,

857
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: loose diamonds that he had traded or stolen.

858
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 3: Wow.

859
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 2: Yes, well not all. The fancy pink diamond was cut

860
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 2: down and had been sold, but it was eventually located.

861
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

862
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: They also they seized four million dollars that he'd received

863
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 2: in exchange for one of the forty two carrot diamond

864
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 2: rings and the one hundred and fifty loose diamonds that

865
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 2: he'd pried out of the one hundred and three carrot

866
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 2: diamond necklace. Right. All in all, the FBI and the

867
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: private investigators were able to track down most of the jewelry.

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00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: Some of it is still out there, so wow, good

869
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 2: luck with that. There are no reports on all of

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00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 2: the jewelry. Some of it is lost to the black market.

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00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: And I don't think he actually cleansed the auras of

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00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: the ones that are still out there, So.

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00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 2: I'm anywhare Yeah, exactly, you're getting rocks. It'll may mess

874
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: up your whole life. Every day he got going. Look

875
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: what happened to him? He just had him for a

876
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 2: very little time. So now what about our original gulible galpal, Magdalena.

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00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, what of Magdalena?

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00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 2: Well, what became of her? Elizabeth? Well, we can't imagine

879
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: that her boss, Shaik Altani, was particularly pleased with her

880
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 2: stealing ninety million dollars of jewelry from him. But so

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00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: according to the reporting I've read, Magdalena is in Qatar,

882
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 2: where she remains. She has not been saddled with any

883
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 2: criminal charges. The US has not done anything with her.

884
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: Everyone's saying that, you know, apparently she gave a very

885
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 2: lengthy debriefing to the Sheik's private investigators. Yeah, and she

886
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 2: was cleared, despite people saying, is this an inside job?

887
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 2: I mean, she wasn't like his romantic partner. But when

888
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 2: they look through all of the text in exchange, we're like,

889
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 2: oh no, no, no, not at all. No, this poor

890
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 2: sweet summer child. I can't believe she can get out

891
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 2: of the door that's locked anyway. See, that's pretty much

892
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 2: the last anyone is seen as her. So as far

893
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 2: as you was the thirties of concerned, she is not

894
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 2: a criminal. Now, some were skeptical, as I said, she

895
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 2: could be so naive. Now, one private investigator he did say,

896
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 2: quote everyone who saw the file first assumed that there

897
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,959
Speaker 2: must be a good chance of her involvement. It's hard

898
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 2: to swallow her story. But as I wateringly naive as

899
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 2: it seems, consider that he did groom her for four years,

900
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 2: established intimate trust, and was provided with her most intimate details.

901
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 2: And it appears that she's got an isolated life as

902
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 2: a foreign guest worker professionally devoted to a very rich

903
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: and powerful man. A professional grifter like Giovanni seeks out isolated, lonely,

904
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 2: somewhat naive people like this. She was essentially the perfect Mark.

905
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, completely was the perfect Mark.

906
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 2: And boh Man, he found a gold mine in Magdalena.

907
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: Yeah he did.

908
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 2: And Mandity missus Mark when he tried to rob it.

909
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 2: Just man, it's like it'd be like his plan was basically,

910
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take ninety million dollars of diamonds and I

911
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 2: guess I'll go to New York and see if I

912
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: can sell them there. I just, yeah, you gotta have

913
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 2: buyers lined up who have a personal grudge against the shake.

914
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 2: I mean people who are equally well, and who were like, man,

915
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: screw that guy, I want his dime.

916
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: But look at all our other gem thieves who managed

917
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: to you know, either some of them got caught, but

918
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: a lot of them did the pink panthers. A lot

919
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: of them didn't. And most of those gems weren't recovered,

920
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: you know. And because they took them to the right people.

921
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 2: And they had a plan for them the whole time.

922
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 2: It wasn't just like the aura, but and they didn't

923
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 2: do the whole like, just give me the stones, just

924
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 2: get them over y'all, take.

925
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: Care of the invisible and then it's sttally cool.

926
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 2: I'll cast spells.

927
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 1: Don't the best.

928
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 2: So this was reading this story, it kept reminding me

929
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: of the time that I made my own jean shorts cutoffs.

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00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: Wait oh shorts Yeah, well not.

931
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 2: Like georts, but like you know, like I cut off

932
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 2: shorts jean.

933
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: Shorts, like short enough so that the pocket could show.

934
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, like real daisy producer day, like like I was showing.

935
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: Do you still have them?

936
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 2: No?

937
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: No, I say you should wear them next time we

938
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: come to record.

939
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, It did not turn out well those shorts

940
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 2: were they seemed like a good idea at the time.

941
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: Wait, how last year?

942
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 2: Oh no, I was like fourteen. I thought they're great

943
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 2: for the summer. Yeah, it'd be safer to pretend yea

944
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 2: fourteen Yeah, like yeah it was. It was rough. And

945
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 2: also then I put bleach, I poured. I wanted them

946
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 2: to be able to bleach, so I just hear them.

947
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 2: I cut them and then I threw I didn't look.

948
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 2: I didn't like put them on and cut them. I

949
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 2: just cut them blind, threw them in the thing, and

950
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 2: then I put the bleach on top and I hit wash,

951
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 2: pulled him out and they just look like polka dotted

952
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,280
Speaker 2: bleach spotted and then frayed but uneven and the pockets

953
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 2: and showing you know, I didn't even wear them out

954
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 2: of the house was totally I cut it blind. I

955
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 2: had no idea. I was like, yeah, this looks right,

956
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 2: you know.

957
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: Straight across.

958
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 2: I didn't get them together like you're on the ship,

959
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 2: cut one and cut the other, like like I looked

960
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 2: on a tilt, you know, like there you go, that's

961
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 2: reading this story. That's what I kept thinking. I'm like,

962
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: dude's my jean shorts?

963
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: Did you another pair for your birthday?

964
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: So I ruined a pair of Jean Shorts. He ruined

965
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 2: his life anyway. What's our ridiculous takeaway, isn't it?

966
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,439
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that if anyone ever tells you don't

967
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: worry about it, I'll just make you visit casting a spell.

968
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: You need to stop and just reconsider every moment that got.

969
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,959
Speaker 2: You to that point, your life choices, whole.

970
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 1: Thing, Saren. What's your takeaway?

971
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 2: Whoa look at you? My ridiculous takeaway is thank you

972
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,479
Speaker 2: for asking Elizabeth. Of course, if you're going to trust

973
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: a man named Giovanni, right Giovanni, No, No, nothing about

974
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 2: that I'm saying. But if he has only one name

975
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 2: and he just tells you, like my name is Giovanni, right,

976
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a last name, He's like Madonna or Share.

977
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 2: He's got one name. If he doesn't have a pop

978
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 2: album you can buy, don't trust him.

979
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: That's a good that's a good takeaway.

980
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 2: That's it.

981
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: That's mine good life advice. You should be a life coach.

982
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm presently a relationship guru. So yeah, that's

983
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,280
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00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,880
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