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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey they're rude dudes. Zaren and I are out on

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Speaker 2: what we are cryptically calling assignment. Right now. We're on

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Speaker 2: a small tugboat trying to board a ghost ship in

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Speaker 2: the Caspian Sea just off Turkmenistan. It may or may

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Speaker 2: not be related to some of producer Dave's gambling debts.

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Speaker 2: He sure does love the Corgi races a little too much.

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Speaker 2: For our second of four classic episodes, I present to

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Speaker 2: you episode fifty two, the origin point for my favorite saying,

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Speaker 2: who knows who cares? It's a man in red who

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Speaker 2: was cursed or blessed with a name like no other

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Speaker 2: my people. This is let her Rip The Adventures of Bumfardo. Well, well, well,

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Speaker 2: Zaren Burnette, that's up, Elizabeth and I missed you. How

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Speaker 2: you been? I'm all right, all right, good to hear it. Uh,

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Speaker 2: you know it's ridiculous? Oh girl? Do I okay?

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Speaker 3: So Chuck Berry, the rock and roll legend, he once

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Speaker 3: performed so poorly at a show that it was considered

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Speaker 3: a crime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In twenty thirteen, the rock and roll Legend was in

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Speaker 3: Finland for a show, but he did such a piss

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Speaker 3: poor job that the crowd took legal action. Now when

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Speaker 3: I say legal action, what I mean is under finish law,

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Speaker 3: you can, like, you can basically get your money back.

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Speaker 3: If a crowd deems that the performance was subpar, the

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Speaker 3: concert promoters are on the hook. They legally are required

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Speaker 3: to give back fifty percent of the money spent on

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Speaker 3: the ticket. So basically, if you go to a show

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Speaker 3: in Finland, you're only in it for half. Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: can always like, no, this was bad, I'm out, And

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Speaker 3: so a large part of the crowd yes to Chuck Berry,

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well, that is ridiculous. Do you want to know what

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Speaker 2: else is ridiculous? Oh? I always do a fire chief

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Speaker 2: slash low level drug dealer who wears rose colored glasses.

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Speaker 3: All wait, all it wants, this is all, this is

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Speaker 3: all one person.

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Speaker 2: All at once. I liked that this is a ridiculous

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Speaker 2: crime a podcast? Did you know that? About absurd and

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Speaker 2: outrageous capers? Heis and cons it's always ninety nine percent

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Speaker 2: murder free. Yeah, one hundred percent ridiculous. All right. I've

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Speaker 2: said before that I've never been to Florida, and.

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Speaker 3: We've talked about correcting that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one place I would like to eventually see there

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Speaker 2: is Key West.

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Speaker 3: It's dope, the southernmost point of America exactly.

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Speaker 2: I'm not like a big Ernest Hemingway fan in any way,

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Speaker 2: shape or form, So that's not the attraction. It's just

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Speaker 2: as cool thought I'm saying. It seems his house. Yeah, cat,

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Speaker 2: how you would like the cats? Anyway? It seems just

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Speaker 2: like an interesting place. Key West. Does I like spaces

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Speaker 2: at the edge of continence?

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Speaker 3: Yes, the sandy shifting edge of the yah.

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Speaker 2: Like the fringe invites fringe characters. Ooh yeah, you know

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Speaker 2: from what I understand, Key West is full of absolute characters. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I can confirm. Have you ever been there a bunch?

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Speaker 3: I went there as a kid and loved it because

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Speaker 3: the way, like when you're a kid, you'd look and

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Speaker 3: you see adults acting like a spectacle. I was like,

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Speaker 3: this is amazing, way come back here, and I just

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Speaker 3: loved it because you have to go for a really

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Speaker 3: go all the way down through Florida, and then when

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Speaker 3: through all of the keys. You're over these little low bridges,

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Speaker 3: and as a kid, you're like, is this road ever

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Speaker 3: in Key West, which is like an amusement park for adults.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that. I really do love that. So

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Speaker 2: I got a tip about today's story from a gentleman

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Speaker 2: named Christopher Over on Instagram. I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 2: the story of a man, a man with terrible fashion sense,

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Speaker 2: horrible criminal instincts, and perhaps one of the most unfortunate

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Speaker 2: names you've ever heard.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking that this was me you're talking about

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Speaker 3: until you got to the most unfortunate name that got.

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Speaker 2: A beautiful name. Yeah, I need you to picture it. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I need you to close your eyes. My eyes are closed.

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Speaker 2: It's September ninth, nineteen seventy five, Key West, Florida. It's

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Speaker 2: morning time. You're out jogging in your short shorts zaren

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Speaker 2: as one does you just live in your best life?

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Speaker 2: I think you're probably jogging topless, as one does you know.

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Speaker 2: As an aside, I feel like men hung out in

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Speaker 2: public with no shirts on, or as I like to say, topless.

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Speaker 2: More often in the seventies, even into the eighties.

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Speaker 3: That's when they got the half shirt. That's when it

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Speaker 2: On well, let's get halfway, like yard work, exercise, grilling,

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Speaker 3: Going for a job interview, washing the cart.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, there you are, jogging topless down United

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Speaker 2: Street in Key West, late for a job interview. It's

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Speaker 2: a residential street lined with palm trees and modest mid

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Speaker 2: century bungalows in sort of muted neutrals and pastels as

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Speaker 2: you'd expect. You stop to tie your shoe and you

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Speaker 2: see a man exiting his house. House is pink salmon colored,

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Speaker 2: which isn't uncommon. Uh. You see into the house through

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Speaker 2: walls and the carpet are red. It's uncommon. It's a

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Speaker 2: bold choice. Gold mirrors hang on the wall. The man.

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Speaker 2: He's wearing a red leisure suit, so just replete.

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Speaker 3: With what one might say bold choices.

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Speaker 2: It is so delightfully bold. His neck wrists, hands dripping

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Speaker 2: in gold and little tiny gems, and he's wearing glasses

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Speaker 2: the lenses pink, literal rose colored glasses on this guy.

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Speaker 2: So like this outfit. He's just heat radiating off of him. Hero.

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Speaker 2: Come on, you know you know who this dude is.

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Speaker 2: Topless joggers erin. Everyone in town knows who this guy is.

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Speaker 2: He's the fire chief. Naturally dressed like a fire hydrant.

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Speaker 2: He walks out to the street to get into his car.

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Speaker 2: The car isn't red, it's bright green. It's a bright

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Speaker 2: green Cadillac El Dorado. Okay, it has official city plates.

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Speaker 2: It's a city via. Yeah. And there are two stickers

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Speaker 2: on the trunk. One is the seal of the Key

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Speaker 2: West Fire Department. Keep it right next to it is

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Speaker 2: an image of Santa Barbara, Saint Barbara, the patron saint

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Speaker 2: of firefighters. I was going to ask, painted and red

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Speaker 2: on the car. El hefe. I'm serious, El, hefe the chief.

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Speaker 2: He's amazing. This cat's amazing. So just as he's getting

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Speaker 2: into his car, two cars come like screaming down the

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Speaker 2: and they're on either end. He can't he can't move

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Speaker 2: this car. It's a big car. Yeah, he needs room

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Speaker 2: to move. Federal agents, a besuited federal agents jump out

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Speaker 2: of the car and they tell him like freeze. He's startled.

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Speaker 2: The man in the rose colored glasses. He starts bumbling

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Speaker 2: around with his hands, and he pulls off a diamond

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Speaker 2: what just throws protest? You can't you can't see me fumbling.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing a version, I am so. Then he throws

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Speaker 2: the pinky ring and then he turns and runs, but

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Speaker 2: he's immediately tackled and cuffed by the agents. So he's

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Speaker 2: a distraction. Yeah, you zaren have just witnessed the arrest

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Speaker 2: of none other than bum Farto.

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Speaker 3: Get out. No, that's not his name. His name is

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Speaker 3: not bumming.

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Speaker 2: His name is bum Farto.

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Speaker 3: Did he change it? His mama named him bum Farto.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me back up a bit and I can

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Speaker 2: explain this exquisite creature. So, Joseph Fardo was born in

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Speaker 2: Key West in nineteen nineteen to Spanish immigrants the Farto's,

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Speaker 2: would amend it to Fardo or Pardo in order to

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Speaker 2: kind of blend. The Farto's are like, we're own this.

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Speaker 3: You're not trying to make a big stink about the

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Speaker 2: No, No, the parents owned a fancy restaurant in town,

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Speaker 2: to sell the place. Now, who bought it? A fella

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Speaker 2: name Joe Russell? Oh I know him? No he no.

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Speaker 2: He sold illegal booze to Ernest Hemingway and his cats

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Speaker 2: during Prohibition and they became friends. Jimmy, he bought the

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Speaker 2: farto restaurant. Well, it was okay, it was called the

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Speaker 2: Victoria Restaurant is what they named it. But he bought

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Speaker 2: it from the fartos at the corner of Duval and Green,

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Speaker 2: and he moved his bar called Sloppy Joe's too that spot. Yes, right,

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Speaker 2: apparently it's a quite famous place, it is. I've not

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Speaker 2: that it's iconic. Another reason to go, so you can go,

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Speaker 2: Don Lemon on New Years Oh my gosh. Yeah, what

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Speaker 2: was the sushi? Where they getting this shoe? And it

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Speaker 2: descends in the high heel pumps. That's basically what I

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Speaker 2: know of QS, which looks like pretty exciting.

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Speaker 3: That's the best version of Key Wes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they always the CNN correspondence at New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 2: What we're talking about is like the you know the

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Speaker 2: it's a high heel shoe, right, Yeah, they do instead

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Speaker 2: who sits in it? And and the CNN correspondents just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they do their best impressions of liquor bottles.

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Speaker 2: I love that As someone who doesn't drink. I like

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Speaker 2: watching so young Joe Farto, he used to hang out

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Speaker 2: would just pester the firefighters. He was firefighter obsessed as

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Speaker 3: It's like John Wayne. So he got his name Duke

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Speaker 3: really was the name of the fire dog in his hometown.

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Speaker 2: Well that's you know, this is how little Fardo picked

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Speaker 2: up his name. Really, firefighters just issuing out cool nicknames.

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Speaker 2: They are they I'm going to go hang out at

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Speaker 2: and a cool nickname short shirts. So he would little

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Speaker 2: Joe Fardo. He'd be asking these firefighters, can I hang

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Speaker 2: with you? He would ask. He'd like ask them for money,

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Speaker 2: but can I get some change and go buy candy?

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Speaker 2: He ask him for candy. He's just always underfoot, Captain Underfoot.

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Speaker 2: The firefighters started calling like, get out here, you bum.

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Speaker 2: So then they started calling him Bum. And that's how

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Speaker 3: He just started using it, introduced himself. Goes to sixth

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Speaker 2: The nickname stuck like, oh, there goes Bum. Well, here's

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Speaker 2: the thing, Bomfardo. At the age of twenty three, he

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Speaker 2: becomes a volunteer firefighter. He gets in the door, Oh

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Speaker 2: are in their respect? He did? He did a couple

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Speaker 2: to do with driving ahearse or something whatever. Anyway, so

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Speaker 2: he comes a volunteer firefighter. Eighteen years later, in nineteen

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Speaker 2: Look at that worked that ladder. He knew how to

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Speaker 2: schmooz it. People loved him Bombardo tom Fardo, come on now,

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Speaker 2: and he did a lot of really good things. As

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Speaker 2: fire chief, he busted they had like this arson ring,

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Speaker 2: Like I don't think they were connected, but there were

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Speaker 2: Why did he wear red? Spiritual protection?

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Speaker 3: Of naturally, of course Santa Barbara.

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Speaker 2: Not at all. It doesn't have a crystal ball. It's

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Speaker 2: Why November nineteen sixty eight, So four years after he

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Speaker 2: He's always so this is always Bumfardo. So the board

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Speaker 2: a man named Waldov Leise. Waldo Valise was Bumfardo's nephew.

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Speaker 3: Boom boom boom and ding ding Ding. I think we

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Speaker 2: Boom boom boom and a Farta far Devardo. So the

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Speaker 2: imagination exercise, Aaron, Oh, what was it that went down

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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy five? Right right? I was doing the check. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know what Bumfardo did to get tackled by the

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Speaker 2: and he was the fire chief in Key West, Florida.

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Speaker 2: Key West had been a vital outpost for the US

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Speaker 2: Navy in the fifties and early sixties. Yes, totally right

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Speaker 2: close to Cuba is the whole ninety mile thing. And therefore,

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Speaker 2: because it's close to Cuba, it's by extension close to

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Speaker 2: drug dealing. There you go, I got it. I was

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Speaker 2: just going with what was plastics and drugs. People couldn't

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Speaker 2: Is the fishing there?

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Speaker 3: Great fishing, Yeah, and fishing tours all the whole industry

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Speaker 2: It's you can't just can't really survive on that the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So they got all these boats, right put

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Speaker 2: Like literally you're wading through cocaine. It's like snow drifts

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Speaker 2: Bumfardo knows everybody right, and he's not a verse to

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Speaker 2: He's actually really cozy with the Tampa mafia. Tampa Mafia

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Speaker 2: sounds I know that, doesn't it sound like I'm making

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Speaker 2: Know, and broken dreams. Uh. The Tampa Mafia was a

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Speaker 3: Oh, the Trapicanti family.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you were making fun. Oh no, no, they're legit,

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Speaker 2: you can probably guess, drug trade booming big biz. One

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. So one day a local man named Titus

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Speaker 2: He's like, look, you're the local. Are you doing weather?

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Speaker 2: It's a little humid. Can I can I score some coked?

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Speaker 2: Sure, says Bumfardo. Let me talk to my friend Manny James.

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Speaker 2: Manny James, why the step son of police Chief Winston James,

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Speaker 2: the very same you mean city attorney Manny James. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that one, Oh, the Manny James who is also defense

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Speaker 2: you know him with Larry Larry dollars all about it.

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Speaker 2: He's like, you know what. Yes, he gives Bumfardo a

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Speaker 2: So he's trying to get a hold of of Manny,

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Speaker 2: He's like, I need to clear my sinuses. Bumfardo was like,

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Speaker 2: A couple of weeks go by. Wow, Yeah, and Larry

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Speaker 3: The one problem with being a cocaine dealer is you

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Speaker 2: So he and Bumfardo meet up at the fire station

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Speaker 2: it's super convenient cops. Bumfardo tells Larry Dollar. Look, I

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Speaker 3: I promised you a bottle of liquor. Here's some quails.

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Speaker 2: He's like, I told you I can get you drugs,

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Speaker 2: I want the drug austhorn. Larry dollars like, all right,

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Speaker 2: take the cabbage, all the terms gage. He's like this

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Speaker 3: He actually coined the term the sticky icky.

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Speaker 2: He did Larry Dollar and the Sticky Ikey. So Bumfardo

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Speaker 2: Larry Dollar. Meet me at the fire station, the drug spot.

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Speaker 2: So Bumfardo brings a little taste of the ao for Dollar. Right.

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Speaker 3: Like is he like during like the like the the

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Speaker 2: Probably, Oh yeah, he probably like took a Swiss army

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Speaker 2: He rubs it on his gums. They agreed to meet

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Speaker 2: one more time two days later to finish the deal.

425
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 2: So bum Farto just lets him like taste it, give

426
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 2: a little sniff sniff, and he's like, oh yeah, this

427
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 2: is really good. He's like, all right, well, meet me

428
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 2: back here at the firehouse in two days. I don't

429
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 2: get it now the full amount of coke for the

430
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 2: diamond pinky ring was the deal. Deal goes down. Everyone's happy.

431
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 2: Larry Dollar is especially happy because Larry Dollar is actually

432
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 2: dea Agent Larry Dollar still his real name though, Yeah,

433
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 2: and he's part of Operation Conk. Operation Conk was a

434
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 2: joint effort between the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and

435
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 2: the Dade County Organized Crime Bureau. DEA up in there

436
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 2: too obviously. So a conk, you know, it looks like

437
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 2: conch written out, but the pronunciation is conk a marine mollusk. Yeah,

438
00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 2: beautiful show is really gorgeous and it's native to Key West. Yeah,

439
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 2: that's why they gave it the name operation.

440
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 3: My family's a bunch of shell seekers, so we used

441
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 3: to go to those beaches for those shells.

442
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 2: I like doing some beech coman myself. Yeah.

443
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 3: But I like how the military or in this case,

444
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 3: the DA, when they name an operation, it's always like

445
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 3: they are like two steps below the people who named paint,

446
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 3: and it's like, oh, people named pants are like they're hungry,

447
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, this is going to be banana loaf,

448
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 3: and then that's the name of the company. The military,

449
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 3: it's like, uh, what's my first word? Association?

450
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 2: Right, And sometimes they try and like tint it with

451
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: something really tough, ye like condor yeah, like buff eagle

452
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 2: or something, and then or it's kind of silly, like

453
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 2: Operation Rudy Tutty, you know, like Operation Rudy Tooty, Fresh

454
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 2: and Fruity, because they're gonna bust them at what was

455
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 2: that a Denny's. Yeah, So I think that I should

456
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 2: be hired to name all the operations, and.

457
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: I want to name paint. So the two of us

458
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 3: we got to put it.

459
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: Just putting it out there everybody. I'm going to go

460
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 2: on LinkedIn and let everyone know. I'm is that what

461
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 2: How LinkedIn works them to do the jobs? I don't know.

462
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 2: I don't know. So we've got Operation Cock. For over

463
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 2: a year, they'd been tracking a drug smuggling network in

464
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 2: Key West that operated right under the coked up noses

465
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 2: of local law enforcement. So now, because of this and

466
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: the understood corruption in Key West, the task force didn't

467
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 2: tell the sheriff, didn't tell the police chief, didn't tell

468
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 2: Manny the city attorney about the operations or the impending rate.

469
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: Good because the police chief is the father of the

470
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 2: city attorney, who himself is the coke supplier. Yeah, so

471
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: they knew, they knew they were doing a good thing here. Now,

472
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,479
Speaker 2: the goal of the whole thing was to clean up

473
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 2: the city. They had their eyes on this grip of dudes,

474
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 2: a special group of them. Now, when they figured they

475
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 2: had enough to take everyone down, they organized what they

476
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 2: referred to as handcuff Day, cuffing season.

477
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 3: Bring your kids to work day followed by handcuff Day.

478
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 2: Well, in prep for it, they bring in this task force,

479
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 2: a huge strikeforce from out of town, special jackets, the

480
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: whole bit. Oh yeah there. Yeah. So here's the thing though,

481
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 2: is that, like, if you've got this whole group of

482
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 2: physically fit men and they're coming into town and they

483
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 2: have to get hotel rooms and rent cars, and for

484
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 2: some reason they didn't think they could just rent the

485
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 2: rooms and just do their thing. They had to come

486
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 2: up with a cover story because they're worried that the

487
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 2: town being so small, people would be like aware of them. Yeah,

488
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: like what are all these guys doing here? And instead

489
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: of being like mind your own business, they said, well

490
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 2: that's probably a smart move. Actually. Yeah. So they call

491
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 2: up They're like, hey, yeah, I need like sixteen rooms, sure,

492
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: and then I'm also going to need sixteen unmarked I

493
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 2: mean cars, and so the rooms oh yeah, two men

494
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 2: per room. Uh huh. They're like, oh, well, so what

495
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 2: do you what do you? What are you guys doing here?

496
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: He's like karate tournament.

497
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 3: So they like it's just gonna be somewhere else in

498
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 3: Key Wes, somewhere you haven't heard about it.

499
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 2: It is a secret karateith place. It's on the beach.

500
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: It's like the scene from Karate Kids where he's like

501
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 2: doing the crane thing on the beach. It's just like

502
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: thirty dudes lined up all.

503
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 3: With short haircuts, wearing short sleeved shirts and.

504
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 2: A tie topless. Hello, seventies, I don't know, Well here's

505
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 2: that's the thing when you're talking on a tie. So

506
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: this karate tournament shows up and they're all in suits

507
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 2: exactly like total and.

508
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 3: At that time they look agents always kind of look

509
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 3: like FBI agents.

510
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 2: At that time they look like, oh yeah, So they

511
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: got all these guys that show up in suits for

512
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 2: their karate tournament with weapons like it's the shotgun karate tournament.

513
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: And then they rent all these cars and so somehow

514
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: they're able to keep this. Everyone bought the karate.

515
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 3: They start an ad in the local Key West newspaper

516
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 3: like announcing like there's going to be this big karate thing.

517
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 2: You now, if they had me on stuff. I'm all

518
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 2: about legit sticks in details, So I'd be like, you guys,

519
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: you can't go down there, and then let me just

520
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 2: take out an ad and then I'll put it as

521
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: like a day that doesn't exist. Yeah, exactly. So it's

522
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: on like Saturday the eleventeenth that we're going to have

523
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 2: this karate tournament.

524
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 3: It's going to be at the Ramata.

525
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 2: Room, an address that doesn't exist. Yeah. It's kind of

526
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 2: like on Law and Order when they have the address

527
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 2: of the like that they go to when they put

528
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 2: it on the screen. Most of them, if you look

529
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 2: at it, I've been told I haven't done my shells

530
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 2: that it's like in the middle of the river. It's

531
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 2: not a real address.

532
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 3: So you couldn't use it on like yeah direction.

533
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. So if the street, if like eighth Street only

534
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: goes up to the fifteen hundred block, you say you're

535
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 2: in the two thousand block.

536
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 3: Okay, So it's the equivalent of five y fi y

537
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 3: five yeah, two eight three totally being the phone number

538
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 3: for or whatever.

539
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 2: Totally. So that's what they should have done, but they

540
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: got away with it, so I'll allow it. So they

541
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: showed up in all the hotels. The morning of September ninth,

542
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five, thirt agents got into unmarked cars and

543
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 2: proceeded to spend the next five hours or so arresting

544
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: nineteen dudes. What about their karate? They had to but

545
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 2: that's at nighttime. It's night karate karate, Like we're here

546
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 2: for the night karate tournament. The first guy they get bumfardo, Oh.

547
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 3: Nice, respect, Start at the top, get the chief.

548
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 2: Remember what he did when the agents jumped out of

549
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 2: the unmarked car to arrest him, right apparently at them? Well, no,

550
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 2: he pulls off the diamond pinky ring, that Larry dollar.

551
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 3: I'm assuming that's like I don't have it anymore.

552
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, you figured if I give it back

553
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: then it's a refund. There wasn't the sales deal. Take it.

554
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 2: He loved the pinky ring though, it totally fit his style.

555
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: So he was he lost, he knows. So while he

556
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 2: was certainly the absolute flashiest, he was also the very

557
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 2: bottom rung of this operation. He was super super small time.

558
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 2: Oh chief was not in charge. No, they started at

559
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 2: the bottom and then worked their way up arrest wise

560
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 2: that day, so they bust him on the weed and cokes.

561
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,959
Speaker 2: And then they also when they raided his house, they

562
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: found a couple sot off shotguns. They got him on that, okayotguns. Yeah,

563
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: So Bumfardo and the other arrestees were all bailed out

564
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 2: by this guy who was also arrested. The bail bonds

565
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: he boasted bailed for all of them from the jail cell. Yeah,

566
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 2: and then Bumfardo he turned on. He hires a defense attorney,

567
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: Manny James, who was also arrested that day. Now, somehow

568
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 2: the charges against Manny James get dropped and he never

569
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: goes to trial somehow. But Bumfardo his trial is set

570
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: for February nineteen seventy six. And these are federal cases. Okay,

571
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 2: So the night before it's all set to start, Bumfardo

572
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 2: goes to see his family doctor.

573
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you want to get right before court.

574
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 2: Well, he tells the doctor, Man, I'm in so much

575
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: pain right now. It hurts hurt tummy. Bumfardo said his

576
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: tummy hurt? Did He said his stomach was killing him.

577
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 2: The doctor later was like, you know, he came in.

578
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 2: He looked real pale, he looked bad, looked in a

579
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 2: bad way, and he's only tummy and so the doctor

580
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 2: diagnoses him with severe stomach ulcers. Yeah, something that I

581
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 2: think that Fardo had had in the past. But so

582
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: the doctor.

583
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 3: The doctor write on the note he has tummy ulcers.

584
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 2: He like he was like bad tum tum and then

585
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: a frownie face. The doctor diagnoses him with the stomach ulcers.

586
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: He prescribes really strong like super strong, and pacids, and

587
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: he tells him, you have to be admitted to the hospital.

588
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: This is really really bad, Tommy, you got a bad

589
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 2: tummy too. He's super understanding and supportive, you know, don't

590
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 2: you think? So? If your name is Bumfardo, what hospital

591
00:32:58,920 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: do you go to?

592
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm gonna not do well with this. I'm gonna

593
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: say the Slappy Pappy Home for elder and Abandoned Fathers.

594
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: It's really close. Bumfardo was sent to the Depoo hospital.

595
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 2: You're making this stuff.

596
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 3: No, I don't care what you tell him, but you

597
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 3: are making this.

598
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 2: I know it makes that's the name of the hospital.

599
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: She was d E like capital D lowercase e capital

600
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 2: p o o French.

601
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 3: That's probably more like Spanish depo.

602
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: I okay, I am both lauded and derided for what

603
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: one disgruntled listener termed me as dropping a gross out.

604
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 2: I don't think this qualifies. This is just a truthful statement.

605
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: Now we're doing it in a very juvenile way.

606
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: To Pooh Hospital for problems with his bad tomb.

607
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 2: He's got a bad tump tump. So there's Bumfardo sitting

608
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: in Dapooh. Why this is custody when this happened where

609
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: they like, someday, this woman, Elizabeth Dutton is going to

610
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 2: tell this story is going to delight her. I didn't

611
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 2: know I said so much gross stuff until I started

612
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 2: doing this show, and it turns out, I guess I do.

613
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 3: You learn something new every day, sometimes about yourself.

614
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 2: A lot of self discovery that I'm going through here.

615
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: So Bumfardo sitting into Pooh. The DA's office sends over

616
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 2: a doctor to examine Bumfardo, and they declared that he

617
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,959
Speaker 2: didn't have severe ulcers. Wait a minute, they're like, pop

618
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 2: a couple tumbs, see tom tummies. No reason you can't

619
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 2: go to court, my man. So the trial then actually starts.

620
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: Bumfardo did not testify. Larry Dollar testified, open and shutcase,

621
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 2: so much evidence. So the jury takes thirty minutes and

622
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: they convict Bumfardo on they just wanted a lunch break.

623
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Let's just so they're paying for lunch. Let's just get

624
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: this now. So misdemeanor count selling the weed, two felon

625
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 2: accounts for the selling of the coke, and then they

626
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: were going to do the prosecutions, pushing for the maximum

627
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 2: sentence wanted.

628
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 3: Didn't go for battery of an officer by throwing a

629
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 3: diamond ring at him.

630
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 2: I know all these enhancements they could have had. They

631
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 2: want thirty one years for Bumfardo for a little bagg

632
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 2: of the one is the one year for the weed,

633
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 2: but they want fifteen years each for the cocaine charges

634
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 2: because he's now a distributor. I suppose, damn, I don't know.

635
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: One week after the trial, and you know, Bumfardo's awaiting

636
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 2: sentencing at this point, and he has another weapons charge

637
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 2: hanging over the saw off shotguns, so he's waiting on those.

638
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: That's like in two months or something. He tells his wife,

639
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 2: He's like, honey, I'm going to drive to Miami and

640
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: see a friend of mine. I need to get out.

641
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 2: I just I need the air.

642
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 3: Been tough lately. You know, they took away all my

643
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 3: sawed off shotguns. I haven't been able to get blowed

644
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 3: from Manny James. It's been a tough time for a Fardo.

645
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 3: Dear Missus Spargo, big Farto, love of my life, Missus Sparta.

646
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: Her name is tiny Farto. I don't know what I mean,

647
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 2: So he says, I gotta go to Miami to see

648
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 2: a friend. When we come back from this break, I'm

649
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 2: going to tell you about Bumfardo's road trip. Zarin, how

650
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 2: are you old so and so? Oh you're still here? Yeah? Hey,

651
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 2: what's up, Elizabeth. It's just been sitting here in the dark.

652
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 2: The last time we were together here, I was telling

653
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 2: you about Bumfardo. Yes, you were old Bumfardo, Key West

654
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 2: fire chief, small time low level drug dealer, and fashion

655
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 2: plate must be real incredible fashionista. According to the accounts

656
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 2: that I've read, it seems like pretty much everyone in

657
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 2: town was at least doing some low level dealing or running,

658
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 2: so he was stand out in that way. Kids were

659
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 2: selling bricks, a hash and lemonade stands. Old ladies had

660
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 2: hollowed out copies of Readers Digest filled with baggies of coat.

661
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: You know, small town living. Then there's bumfardo. Right, he's

662
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: wearing these flashy red leisure suits, his rose colored glasses.

663
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 2: We cannot forget that that he's wearing these pink tinted

664
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 2: lenses all the time. Been picturing so amazing gold for days.

665
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 2: These drippin's selling coke in the parking lot of the

666
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: fire station. I imagine he's the kind of guy who

667
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 2: has a gold bracelet. And then on the gold bracelet

668
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 2: is a gold bracelet. Yes, gold on gold, Uncle, we

669
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 2: heard you like gold bracelets. Yeah, so I also, can

670
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 2: I just take a time out for a second to

671
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: talk about the hit Fox TV show nine one one.

672
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 2: Can I tell you that Bobby on the hit Fox

673
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 2: TV show nine one one, Yes, I have killed his

674
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: whole family in a fiery fit of drunken ineptitude spoiler

675
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 2: alert the firefighter teeth. Yeah, but he would never sell

676
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: coke in the parking lot of whatever station number they

677
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 2: are that floats all over Los Angeles.

678
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 3: Oh, unless Angela Bassett needed him to sell the coke,

679
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 3: and then he'd be pushing that product like Pablo.

680
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 2: She would be so disappointed in him, she'd give him

681
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 2: that sidey pursed face her lips. Yeah, So, Bobby wouldn't

682
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 2: do that. Bomfardo, though he's pushing small White gets bussed.

683
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,720
Speaker 2: He needs an Angela Bassett. Yeah right, what's what missus

684
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 2: Fardo step up? She needs to just drive a police

685
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 2: cruiser around and do busting on her own. So anyway, Bumfardo.

686
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 2: Back to nine one. I went from someone who never

687
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: watched TV. This is the damage of the of the pandemic,

688
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 2: of the pandemic that I suddenly started. I was fascinated

689
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 2: that this was a hit TV show. I'd never heard

690
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 2: of it, and I started watching it and then I

691
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 2: was like, hey, watching it, and now I love it.

692
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's happened. That's what happens with hate watching it

693
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 3: turns into love.

694
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 2: Now I can't say the same. I still hate watch

695
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 2: nine to eleven, wrote lone Star. Whatever the problem star? Yeah,

696
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 2: but that's look at look at what I've been broken

697
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: by the pandemic.

698
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: Or we can put it another way. You were broken

699
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 3: and your broken places were filled in with gold, the.

700
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: Gold of nine one one. Yes, I'm really bummed that

701
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 2: the season just ended. What are we going to do

702
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 2: over the summer? I don't even know. Call me when

703
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 2: it's over. So back to bombfardom. He's cooling his heels,

704
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 2: trying to awaiting his fate. Maybe thirty one years. Who's

705
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 2: to say? That's just so interesting. So he's like, I

706
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 2: gotta let off some steam. I go to I have

707
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 2: to go to Miami. Venito saw Miami and see my friend,

708
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: the El Dorado. Well, the problem is the El Dorado

709
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 2: was a city car, the l halfe mobile. He didn't

710
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 2: have a car anymore. Oh, it's just sitting in an

711
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: m pound lot, I would imagine. Or they're painting it.

712
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 2: Like he's standing there, one tier running down his face

713
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 2: as he's watching them paint the car. Put it into

714
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 2: the what's the spray coat? The spray what's it called something? Coat? Anyways,

715
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 2: I'm sure someone will send me a message about it. Anyway.

716
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 2: So the l hefe car not his. So he rents

717
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 2: a nineteen seventy six Pontiac Lemons, which is exactly the

718
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: car my grandpa had when I was little. Wow a

719
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 2: land yacht. Yeah that's another big car. Yeah what color

720
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: do you think the rental was? Close? Red? Darn, he

721
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 2: has to get a red car. So he tells his wife, look,

722
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 2: just going up to Miami. I'll be back tonight, off

723
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 2: he goes, no luggage, just vibes heading to Miami, to Miami. Yeah,

724
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 2: of course, two weeks go by. No bumfardo. Now, when

725
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 2: I say no bumfardo, it kind of sounds like someone

726
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: trying to talk about their gastro intestinal distress in like

727
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 2: a problematic, insensitive, geographic, leomorphous, choppy accent. I'm really sorry

728
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 2: about that, but no bumfardo. So people are starting to

729
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 2: wonder where.

730
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 3: A pediatrician talking to.

731
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no bumfardo. Are you going

732
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 2: to the doctor. You're like, what's wrong? No bumfardo. It's

733
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 2: been weeks, but I'm real bad. Gross out's right and left.

734
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 2: People are starting to wonder, where's bumfardo? Where's my bumfardo?

735
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: When asked about Key West, his wife was asked like, well,

736
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 2: where's where's bumfardo? Lady Fardo? She's Her answer was it

737
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 2: gets me too upset. I don't want to talk about it,

738
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 2: just mention of her husband. Yeah, she said, I can't

739
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 2: say anything, it gets me too upset. Okay, So I

740
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 2: love that response. That's my response for everything from now on.

741
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 2: You can't talk about it. It gets me too upset.

742
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 2: No bumfardo, pretty soon there's a man hunt underway, a

743
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 2: Fardo hunt. The cops are searching all over high and low,

744
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 2: and they come up empty. In the meanwhile, he gets

745
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 2: convicted in absentia on the weapons charges. Oh yeah, yeah.

746
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 2: So three weeks after he left the Lamans was found

747
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 2: in Miami on Kaye Ocho Street in Little Havana is

748
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 2: covered in parking tickets, just resplendent in parking tickets, and

749
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 2: it looked like, based on the dates on the tickets,

750
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 2: that he'd been parked there for at least two weeks.

751
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Beyond that, though, they had nothing. Law enforcement

752
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: had no idea where Bumfardo went.

753
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 3: So I'm guessing he cut and run and didn't he

754
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 3: cut and didn't get cut and then disappear like he

755
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 3: doesn't know enough to be taken out.

756
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, was silent, but his silence was deadly. Everyone

757
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 2: else though, so the cops were like, where's Bumfardo? I

758
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 2: don't know. Everyone else has ideas, like you, yes, coming

759
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 2: up with ideas. So the Miami Harold they interviewed a

760
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,959
Speaker 2: bunch of people in that June of nineteen seventy six,

761
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 2: and they asked them, what do you think? What do

762
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 2: you think? Happened to Bumfardo and these are just these

763
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 2: are solid gold, these responses. I'm going to do dramatic readings,

764
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 2: please would Yeah. So the first one Charles Felton, he's

765
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 2: a friend of Bumfardo's, and he says, I think Boom's alive.

766
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: I just had that feeling faith and all that is.

767
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 2: You know, he's a breezy fellow. Yeah. And so then

768
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 2: they talked to this local store clerk named Suell and Gibson,

769
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 2: and she says, most people think he was killed because

770
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 2: the rest of them got away with it and they're

771
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 2: still here. I think he just lost himself somewhere. Very nice.

772
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 2: Yeah right, thank you so much. I'll accept my awards later.

773
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: So then we get to we get to Jennifer Smith.

774
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: She says he's back living it up in Cuba. He's

775
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 2: back anywhere. Who knows, who cares? Your girl? I love

776
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 2: that knows who cares? I love I love the phrase

777
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: who cares so much? And I love he's back living

778
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 2: it up in Cuba, Honey. He never came came from

779
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 2: Cuba like his family was from Spain. He was born here,

780
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 2: he went back to Cuba or whatever. Jennifer can't you're

781
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 2: acting who cares? Get out of here. Then we got

782
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 2: Tom Debays, another guy who's interviewed. He says, I think

783
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 2: he's wiped out because he knew too much. Probably he

784
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: dumped overboard from some shrimp boat to the old semitt

785
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 2: shoe thing. Either that or he's in the Staten Islands.

786
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 3: Okay, So we got a New York transplant and Badden Island.

787
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 2: First of all, the old cement shoe thing. I want

788
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: to apologize for all my accents right now, though I'm

789
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 2: not meaning.

790
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 3: Those are accents and like deniability, go with it.

791
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: I was just trying to inhabit these characters. I'm just

792
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 2: trying to give them a rich life and experience. Okay,

793
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 2: all right, they inhabited me with life. I feel like

794
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 2: everyone's gonna get mad at me. Now do you want

795
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 2: me to do worse? Accents? I can take some heat.

796
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 2: You always you put yourself in the fiery line for

797
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 2: me too often on these things. So but yeah, Staten Island,

798
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 2: Why Staten Island? Who knows? Who cares? Quite frankly, you're

799
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: getting get it that. Yeah. David Johnson, a hotel maintenance

800
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 2: and repair man, said, Bomfardo is definitely alive and well

801
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 2: and living in Spain. I noticed one time Manny James

802
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 2: walked in there with a T shirt that said Bom

803
00:45:50,840 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 2: is Alive and Well in Spain. Rights because Manny James,

804
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 2: according to David Johnson, is strutting around in a T

805
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 2: shirt that says bum is alive and well in Spain.

806
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 3: I get all of my news from novelty T shirts.

807
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 3: If I see it on a T shirt, that's how

808
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 3: I know what's going on in world events.

809
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 2: So I saw the shirt. This guy says, if you

810
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 2: bought it a truck or brought it, You're like, well,

811
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 2: that's true. It's true then. So there are theories floating

812
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 2: around about South America, Cuba, Spain, New York. Theories that

813
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 2: he's dead, theories that he's in witness protection. To this day,

814
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: no one knows what happened to him. Oh who knows?

815
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 2: Who cares? Really? Yeah, no one knows. He managed to

816
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 2: actually disappear, Gunzers, He's a disappearing farto. He just vanished,

817
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 2: just a puff of air. That mystery, though, drove an

818
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: entire cottage industry for a while. They're in Key West.

819
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 2: As speculation mounted as to the whereabouts of Bumfardo. Novelty

820
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 2: shops in Key West started telling selling T shirts that

821
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 2: read where is Bumfardo? So t shirts once again. June

822
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six, just a couple months after the disappearance,

823
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 2: shops had sold more than a thousand shirts.

824
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 3: I'm going to add this to my list of novelty

825
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 3: shirts that I need to get.

826
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 2: I have to have one of these, Paul Taylor, one

827
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 2: of the owners of these novelty shops, said, quote, people

828
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 2: sometimes buy five or six of them at a time,

829
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: like they're into some kind of group identity trip. It's

830
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 2: probably kids who like to do a lot of coke.

831
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 2: People have seen the T shirts as far away as California,

832
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: and then they get to Key West. They come in

833
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 2: and ask for them. They come from New York and

834
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 2: they say, listen, we were in Fire Island and people

835
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 2: are talking about them. They'd seen them on They're on

836
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 2: TV too. Everyone can relate to a Bumfardo fire chief

837
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 2: who was busted for a cocaine and missing. It's kind

838
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 2: of like a future Key West folklore.

839
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 3: Everyone can relate to. It's the most relatable thing ever.

840
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 3: A fire chief named Bumfardo who disappeared after a cocaine.

841
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 2: I mean, what is more relatable? How many times we

842
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 2: heard that story?

843
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 3: A boy meets girl, boy loses girl, Bumfardo tries to

844
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 3: sell cocaine, disappears.

845
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 2: It's a story for all the time. It's a trope

846
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 2: at this point. I mean, I mean, it's a little stale.

847
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 3: The other day I was watching a Columbo and they

848
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 3: had a Bumfardo riff that they were doing.

849
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 2: I hope they have it on nine one one. I

850
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 2: bet they will. You know, it's just the kids who

851
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 2: like to do a lot of coke running the T

852
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 2: shirt business there. So the shirts get super popularized by

853
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 2: none other than Jimmy Buffett, Oh, the pro head in chief. Yeah,

854
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 2: he was seen wearing one on stage. Mister Buffet wearing

855
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: a shirt? Can I admit something to you? Go ahead.

856
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 3: My grandparents sold Jimmy Buffett T shirts in their store

857
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 3: that was named after Key West. Wow, Yes, Key West

858
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 3: Fragrances in Tampa. Actually was in Clearwater. They had the

859
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 3: store on the beach and they sold Jimmy Buffett T shirts.

860
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 3: And that's how I know who Jimmy.

861
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 2: Buff They sold Jimmy T shirts to Jimmy, but.

862
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 3: They sold Jimmy Buffett made T shirts and this is

863
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 3: like in the eighties, and it would be like T

864
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 3: shirt from like Welcome to Margaritaville.

865
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 2: So it's a shirt with a T.

866
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 3: Shirt, but like with like his artwork, and so it's

867
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 3: all like cartoons.

868
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 2: I gotta wait, hold on, hold on. Okay. So first

869
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 2: I thought they were selling T shirts to Jimmy Buffett.

870
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 2: Then I thought they were selling T shirts with photos

871
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 2: of Jimmy Buffett screamed on them. No, so it's Jimmy

872
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 2: Buffett creates T shirts with his artwork on it. Yes,

873
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 2: around this time that smell like coconut oil.

874
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 3: Yes, and broken pop tops.

875
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 2: Oh well, apparently, Jimmy Buffett, you're the life bladder your grandparents' business.

876
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 2: He wrote Bumfardo into a song lyric. Oh okay, Now

877
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 2: my distaste for mister Buffett prohibited me from looking up

878
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 2: that lyric. Wait.

879
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 3: I don't like Jimmy Buffett. Are we going to have

880
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 3: a moment here?

881
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 2: Who knows? Who cares? Yeah? No, I can't stand them. Really? Yeah, okay,

882
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 2: I we cancel that playlist. I just can't take it.

883
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you, like a strong Jimmy Buffett memory

884
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: I have, is it when I was little, like yeah,

885
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 2: maybe like ten. Our neighbors across the street had their

886
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 2: friends over and they were all going to go to

887
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 2: a Jimmy Buffett concert and they were tying. Went on

888
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 2: in the afternoon and one yeah, and the friends are

889
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 2: like middle aged, right the whole face, like the kids

890
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 2: across the street their parents. And so the lady there,

891
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 2: the friend was sitting like I'm riding my bike and

892
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,760
Speaker 2: she's in the driveway drinking with all her friends. And

893
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,439
Speaker 2: I was supposed to like water their plants or something

894
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,720
Speaker 2: while they were out getting hammered at the Jimmy Buffet.

895
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 2: And the lady I don't know her, and she says

896
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,439
Speaker 2: to me, she was like, come here, come here, come here.

897
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 2: Can I go up to her? And she got well,

898
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 2: she's got like a Virginia slims hanging out of her mouth,

899
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 2: and she goes, you know, I got to tell you something.

900
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 2: You know what the best cure for a hangover is.

901
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 2: And I'm just like yeah, and I'm flatlining staring at her.

902
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 2: She's like a tuna sandwich, French fries, and a chocolate milkshake.

903
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 2: But she got to dip the fries and the milkshake.

904
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 2: But it's got to be a tuna sandwich. Did now

905
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 2: nor I was? I am a very polite person, no

906
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 2: matter what I think about them, Like I can't help myself.

907
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: I didn't say a word. I just turned got on

908
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 2: my bike and rode away.

909
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 3: And so I hope this this adult remembers that story too.

910
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: I don't think she remembers that. I don't think And

911
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 2: so anytime I hear about Jimmy Buffett, I think of that.

912
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 2: And then i started thinking about tuna sandwiches, and I'm like,

913
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 2: you know what, I like, tuna sandwiches. Don't really like

914
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 2: Jimmy Buffett.

915
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 3: Have you ever dipped the fries in the shake?

916
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 2: Though?

917
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 3: No, I've had friends who swear by that. I bet

918
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 3: swear by Jimmy Buffet.

919
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:35,760
Speaker 2: So anyway, who knows who cares to quote Jennifer Smith?

920
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 2: What what saren? Is your ridiculous takeaway here in this

921
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 2: wealth of ridiculousness that we've waded through like the drifts

922
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 2: of cocaine on the streets, Key West, I.

923
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 3: Would say, my ridiculous takeaway is if you are named Bumfart,

924
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 3: and you you have a wife and she's willing to

925
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 3: take your last name, treat her right, or when you disappear,

926
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 3: she will not care and not want to talk about it.

927
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,760
Speaker 2: I think if you're named Bumfardo, that is a promise

928
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 2: you're making to the world, and you have to you

929
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 2: have to come through. You got to live up on that.

930
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 2: He came through.

931
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 3: Oh, he very very much did. As as somebody with

932
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,240
Speaker 3: a strange name. He's up in the pantheon of strange

933
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 3: name people.

934
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 2: He's fulfilling the contract. Yeah. No, definitely the social contract

935
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 2: with the crazy name. I know I've said this a

936
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,240
Speaker 2: lot lately, but you gotta love a good character, no, Yeah,

937
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 2: I mean wacky characters in authentic ways.

938
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 3: Yes, yet not trying hard. They just are that.

939
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, Because like I feel like right now, we get

940
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 2: a lot of people who are being quirky or eccentric

941
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 2: in kind of a put on way. It's intentional and precious.

942
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 3: Theoatrical and performative, and it's meant for you, not for them, right.

943
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 2: I like people who are just strange and they can't

944
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 2: help it. Yes, who knows who cares, right, and they're

945
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 2: not apologetic about it, but they're also not trying to

946
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 2: get attention. And yeah, so wearing red, having an all

947
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 2: red house, Yeah, that's really rad and weird. I like it.

948
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 2: The man's name Bumfardo. You don't care. He can have

949
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 2: changed his name, No, it's given him. I like that

950
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,720
Speaker 2: kind of organic weirdness, true presentation of goofy.

951
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 3: You can say it gasses you up well and it's

952
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:19,240
Speaker 3: it's so steamy.

953
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 2: Quirky behavior and lifestyles now are too attached to pre

954
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 2: manufactured and commercial things. Yes, that's my statement. I takeaway.

955
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 2: A book series or a film franchise isn't a personality.

956
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 2: I'm going off into my own screed right now. But

957
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 2: that's like, doesn't make you an outsider. That's a mainstream thing.

958
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 2: An outsider is Bumfardo dressed in red selling coke at

959
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 2: a fire station. The prophecy of his name from the

960
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 2: city of Yeah, exactly. Get back to me. When you're

961
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 2: named for a bodily function and you flex on spirits

962
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 2: at a little league game to bring it, bring it, Bumfardo.

963
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 2: That's my takeaway.

964
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 3: I like that he's willing to ask for the protection

965
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,800
Speaker 3: of the spirits for Little League, not for like the

966
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 3: national game, not for like all of these local teams.

967
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 2: Like the security, the pure essence of the sports the

968
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 2: kids Exactly, the spirits have their That's all I have.

969
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 2: I'm all like pick cup overflow with with bumfardo. That's it.

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