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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Zara, Elizabeth, it's you, It's me, Saron Brunette.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's a.

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Speaker 2: Listen pal. You know it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I do, Elizabeth. I'm glad you asked me. Cowboy hats.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally ridiculous on birds, super ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: So you got family in Las Vegas, I do.

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Speaker 4: Did they ever tell you about about a little time

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Speaker 4: about five six years ago when people were seeing birds

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Speaker 4: fly around Las Vegas with cowboy hats?

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Speaker 2: No, par did share this with me.

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Speaker 4: Apparently for a while in December of twenty nineteen, people

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Speaker 4: were noticing these.

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Speaker 3: Quote the birds have hats on bro.

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Speaker 4: So somebody they recorded a twelve second video in a

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Speaker 4: parking lot of these birds like pecking at Dorito's, like

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Speaker 4: thrown into a parking lot, just on a normal like

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Speaker 4: seven to eleven parking lot. Yeah, but the birds were

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Speaker 4: wearing cowboy hats, tiny cowboy hats, little pigeons with tiny.

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Speaker 2: Proof.

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Speaker 3: There is it.

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Speaker 4: There is video proof, and the videos were shared and

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Speaker 4: enjoy to buy millions.

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Speaker 2: Well otherwise it's just's yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now people were like, wait a minute, did he do this?

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Speaker 4: And then somebody else. Someone else pointed out that the

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Speaker 4: Wrangler National Finals rodeo was in town, and they're like,

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Speaker 4: did they do this as like a hype thing for

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Speaker 4: the rodeo. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association had to come

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Speaker 4: out and say, we had nothing to do with the

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Speaker 4: pigeons wearing cowboy hats.

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Speaker 2: Wait wait, since someone was just a vigilante, yes, as

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Speaker 2: pigeon exactly.

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Speaker 4: The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police had to come out and say.

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Speaker 3: It does not appear to be a police matter at

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Speaker 4: The Clark County spokeswoman, they said, I have no immediate comment.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know what to do right.

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Speaker 4: Some people were worried, so like a veterinarian came in

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Speaker 4: and said, well, actually, they make a glues for animals,

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Speaker 4: and I think that they may not be it's not

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Speaker 4: obstructing their vision or their ability to eat, So I

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Speaker 4: think that the birds will be fine. Okay, because apparently

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Speaker 4: they make this like spargum for birds. I think they

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Speaker 4: think that somebody just plopped that on the pigeon's head

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Speaker 4: and propped it on there instead of using like super glue,

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Speaker 4: and you.

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Speaker 2: Know, they got some of that like showgirls.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so they they look like there. It was not

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Speaker 4: that the animals were hurt, Elizabeth, I don't worrying. They

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Speaker 4: were just upgraded fashion.

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Speaker 2: Man. There you go. That's ridiculous. Do you want to

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Speaker 2: know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: Goodness?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the grape Vine.

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Speaker 2: No, no, this is ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd

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

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Speaker 2: percent murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: You heard that, right? You?

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Speaker 2: All right? Do you pull something?

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Speaker 3: The interns? Hold me down.

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Speaker 2: There. You're a big road trip guy.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. I lived for road trips. That's what

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Speaker 3: I did for my birthday last year. I took a

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Speaker 3: road trip by.

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Speaker 2: Myself, just drove across country.

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Speaker 4: That was my gift to myself. I drove across country

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Speaker 4: all by myself.

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Speaker 3: It was awesome. Took me like five days.

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Speaker 2: It was love pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite things to do.

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Speaker 2: I get carsick easily. Oh that's not my favorite.

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Speaker 3: Oh that totally. Did it happen even if you're driving?

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Speaker 3: That that helps.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if I'm driving, it's not an issue. But I

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Speaker 2: also just don't like to sit for such long perme time.

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Speaker 3: Twelve hours as long as the world's moving.

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Speaker 2: I love the concept of a road. Are parts that

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Speaker 2: I enjoy like I like going places that I've never been.

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Speaker 2: That's true, things that I may never see again.

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Speaker 3: This is true.

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Speaker 2: And the life I love is making music with my friends.

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Speaker 2: So that's why you get on the road again, On

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Speaker 2: the road again, but on the road again, Elizabeth, I

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Speaker 2: am band the Gypsies. We go down the highway, making friends,

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Speaker 2: best of friends, insisting in the world turning our way

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Speaker 2: and our way on the aga. Okay, So I do

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Speaker 2: love a good roadside stand or oh that's true.

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Speaker 3: You you will make us pull over if I'm ever

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Speaker 2: They got a lot of those on the old roots.

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Speaker 2: Like strawberries you one o one from the bay to

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Speaker 2: l A. Like strawberry stands, cherries and cherries, garlic.

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Speaker 3: You'll stop for avocado, artichokes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll bust it out for vegetables.

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Speaker 3: Will get a stop for you.

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Speaker 2: One time, one of the best discoveries I ever had

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Speaker 2: was in an artichoke stand. I bought some seasoning called

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Speaker 2: garlic Dude dust. If you can get your hands on it,

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Speaker 2: I use it on everything anyway. I like stopping at

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Speaker 2: nice rest stops.

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Speaker 3: That's true, like nice, what is nice?

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Speaker 2: Like that? The ones well lit, clean ones, and they've

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Speaker 2: got like every conceivable.

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Speaker 4: I like the state welcome centers. Oh yeah, you get

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Speaker 4: to the border and the first stop, those are Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I always try to hit those.

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Speaker 2: Up me too. But I'm talking about like when you

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Speaker 2: walk into a convenience store, part of it. They've got

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Speaker 2: every snack that's ever been made, all the two thousands

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Speaker 2: about truck stops and like yeah, and then the rest

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Speaker 2: up trucks like amazing souvenirs.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yes that truck stops, those are awesome. But the

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Speaker 4: clean ones, Yeah, you've got to be clean ones.

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Speaker 2: What's your what's your go to roads?

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Speaker 3: Also, I want them to only sell knives, not guns

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Speaker 2: I don't want guns.

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Speaker 4: Knives that's cool, yeah, exactly, dolls.

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Speaker 2: You can drink the road and I'm buying a shot.

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Speaker 2: So what's your road snack? What do you get?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: You know, I got a sweet too always things that

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Speaker 4: Oh we yeah, you know me, I got a sweet tooth.

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Speaker 4: So that basically means is I get like rare to

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Speaker 4: me gummy worms. I'm like, I've never tried, and I

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Speaker 4: just thoughts. I'm always been like a bunch of always

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Speaker 4: and chocolate eat it all at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Like I'm kind of like like, yeah, a bad diet,

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Speaker 2: I get with. I get with the corn nuts.

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Speaker 6: You like all those savor.

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Speaker 2: Things filled with cheese stuff.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the yeah, the cones, the combos combos. There

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I'm in the car.

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Speaker 3: Like if hot pocket was a smaller snack.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so good and so bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, So I wrote a novel about an epic that you.

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Speaker 3: Did, a really good one called Drift. I recommend it

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Speaker 3: to everybody here.

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Speaker 2: I am not celebrating the road trip. I know, I

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Speaker 2: take it all back. I want to go on a

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Speaker 2: road trip.

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Speaker 4: But by the way, just how long could you be

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Speaker 4: if we were to say, drive somewhere five hours six hours?

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Speaker 2: I like five six is a good sweet spot, Like

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Speaker 2: when I've driven across country have done eight hours, and that's.

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Speaker 3: Just like I've done that with you. I know too much.

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Speaker 3: I'm like twelve, You're like, I will tell you hell no,

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Speaker 3: I would jump from this car of leisurely thing it's smart.

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Speaker 4: I'd never traveled like that. It's pretty took like, how

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Speaker 4: long two weeks? How long did drive across country?

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Speaker 2: Days? But we did eight hours. Yeah, we could have gone,

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Speaker 2: you know, shorter drives each day and it would have

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Speaker 2: been better. Two weeks. Fine, whatever, it's time to a pig. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, in my book, the protagonist stops at a

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Speaker 2: for the uninitiated, that's technically the Teyhone Pass.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's a mountain separating La from the valley.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so it's that stretch of Interstate five between the

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Speaker 2: Central Valley between and you know, connects Central Value, Southern California,

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Speaker 2: cuts right through the Tahatchepee Mountains. There, stops there, Gorman.

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Speaker 4: Are fine as I've broken down, and Mini and Bec yeah, Lebec,

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Speaker 4: I know Gorman and Lebec.

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Speaker 2: I'm front down and lots of truck stops, t hone,

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Speaker 2: passed home pass, motels, fast food, gas station like that.

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Speaker 3: It's come along a lot. Yeah, break down, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. When we were like, oh, Tuble goes by

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Speaker 2: and there's like a cow skill. I want to focus

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Speaker 2: on Libec right now. Though, this is so not a

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Speaker 2: place that one checks out on Google street View and

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Speaker 2: immediately adds to the best visit. Yes I did. I

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Speaker 2: mean I've been there, right, But you know what, God bless,

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Speaker 2: I wish the place is even the best. But as

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Speaker 2: I went to go Google street View and I was like,

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Speaker 3: Do you know where it gets its name A Frenchman?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, player, there was a dude Peter le Bec and

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Speaker 2: it was spelled with like the qi on the end.

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Speaker 2: He was a French Canadian trapper in the early eighteen

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Speaker 5: Alta, California.

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Speaker 2: Then, yeah, he was what was he trapping Ralizabeth, Nauga,

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Speaker 2: prized for their high be No, it looks like he

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Speaker 5: Bears, grizzly grizzly.

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Speaker 2: So he caught sight of one in the area that

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Speaker 2: shot it under a valley oke and the bear's dying

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Speaker 2: act was to maul and kill him. He's oh, you

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Speaker 2: got me, come over, come look at this boon to.

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Speaker 3: The family, so hard at your ancestors.

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Speaker 2: It's well he.

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Speaker 3: Did shoot the bear. If you shoot the bear, he

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Speaker 3: may shoot back exactly.

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Speaker 2: He and the bear were buried at the foot of

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Speaker 2: the tree. Yeah, by whom I don't know, the locals,

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Speaker 2: the local tribe, whoever it was, cut back some of

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Speaker 2: the bark on that valley oke and carved Peter Lebec

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Speaker 2: Seventeen, eighteen thirty seven on the bear spot. They cart

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Speaker 2: the and as the years passed, the bark of the

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Speaker 2: tree grew up over the carving. And then some fifty

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Speaker 2: or so years later a group came upon the carving

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Speaker 2: all covered up. They preserved it, and then they reburied

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Speaker 2: Lebeck and the bear wow into like real. And then

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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy two friends of the show e Clampus Vitis,

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Speaker 2: Oh the Clampers, they put up a plaque reading Peter

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Speaker 2: Lebeck killed by a bear, October seventeenth, eighteen thirty seven,

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Speaker 2: in memory of a pioneer of whom only conjecture can speak.

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Speaker 2: Dedicated October fourteenth, nineteen seventy two. Eclampus Vitas Peter Lebeck,

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Speaker 2: Chapter eighteen sixty six. So the Peter leb Bec chapter.

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Speaker 2: The Bear No, the Peter Lebec chapter is the one

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Speaker 2: for Kerrn County, and their website is almost as good

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Speaker 2: as ours.

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Speaker 3: We love history and I drink Yeah there it.

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Speaker 2: Is perfect Lebec. So there's a Flying J truck stop

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Speaker 3: Oh, Flying Jo.

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Speaker 2: That is a good solid truck stop. They're usually cleaned

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Speaker 3: Second is Travel Centers of America.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, put a pin in the Flying

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Speaker 2: take you up the coast to San Mateo, California, located

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Speaker 2: Francisco Bay. It was there that the International Gem and

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Speaker 2: Jewelry Show aka inter gem In Corporated GYM was held

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Speaker 3: I do love a gem and stone show now, Jemmy

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Speaker 3: and jewelry. I don't know a.

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Speaker 2: Gem and stone show at a county fair ground.

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Speaker 3: That's that's ideal.

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Speaker 2: It's like some good.

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Speaker 3: Stuff right day.

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Speaker 2: Inter Gem is America's longest running direct to consumer jewelry show.

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Speaker 3: I did not know that.

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Speaker 2: You do?

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Speaker 3: Do You learned that from QVC.

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Speaker 2: I already knew it. That was that general. I don't

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Speaker 3: You tell people that.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to cight it because everyone just telling

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Speaker 2: me the sky is blue like whatever. Started in nineteen

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Speaker 2: sixty seven. Of course, it's also the largest exhibition of gems,

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Speaker 3: I was just telling you that the other day. I

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Speaker 2: It's good jewelry stores, designers, brokers, they all do like

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So there's like their big dog events.

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Speaker 2: It's supposed to be deal City Deal. So you go there.

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Speaker 2: It's like deal bottom price ready for deal visitors. They

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Speaker 2: is there in visitors shop directly from manufacturers, really wholesalers

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Speaker 2: and design wholesalers direct to me. They sell jewelry loose gemstones, pearls, watches,

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Speaker 3: Did you find this on an AM radio station?

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Speaker 2: I just became like, this is something that like my

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Speaker 3: You're going together. We get an air force. I got

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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes there are special exhibits at these stuff like

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, like Liberaci's rocks, Liberaci stones.

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Speaker 2: You get the picture. Yeah you did. So they're having

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Speaker 3: Okay, twenty twenty two, and then a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of days later it was moving down the road to

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Speaker 3: Their next big stop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so rocks get from to get from San Mateo

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Speaker 2: to Pasadena to you know, bedroom communities, most folks would

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Speaker 3: Say the five because that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, anywhere south Freeways.

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Speaker 3: Were born in southern California, sorry, south of.

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Speaker 2: The midpoint in the state. It's the five. We call

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Speaker 4: Yes, because it's much better to name highways and freeways

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Speaker 3: So that we're in state five High five. That's what

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Speaker 2: Those cakes up in San Mateo sixteen of the jewelers

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Speaker 2: and dealers. They loaded seventy three orange heavy duty bags,

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Speaker 2: each weighing about one hundred pounds into a Brinx tractor.

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Speaker 5: Trailer trucks has tractor truck, Yeah, big.

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Speaker 2: Boy, like a long daddy. Not one of the armored trucks.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's not an armored Is it armored itself?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Interesting?

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Speaker 2: What was in the bags?

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Speaker 3: What's in the bags? What's in the bags?

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Speaker 2: They they had sparkling gems, loose diamonds, no loose slu

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Speaker 2: you name it, You name it. Arnold Duke, head of

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Speaker 2: the sheer quantity of gems and jewelry wouldn't fit in

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Speaker 2: one car. My question is, what about a super room.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of headrooms. Did you try it? Arnold duke.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think. He don't speak so speaks for itself.

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Speaker 2: He did not try, He didn't try and shove all

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Speaker 2: that in the subie. At these shows, there are always

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Speaker 3: S something, say something exactly.

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Speaker 2: So the show's manager. Yeah, Brandy Swanson, she actually chased

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Speaker 3: Really. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He was wearing a surgical mask and an ear piece.

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Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty two, so he's asking out of the ordinary.

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Speaker 2: And he'd been sitting on this folding chair at the

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Speaker 3: Air about it. And from a folding chair.

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Speaker 2: You brought a chair because his legs get tired.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. He's waiting for his dad to pick

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Speaker 2: She walks up to him, She's like, what are you

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Speaker 2: all about? And he was like, I don't speak English.

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Speaker 3: You're doing a great job a.

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Speaker 2: Lot when I don't want to talk to strangers, perfect accent,

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Speaker 2: and they're just like, oh, they ask you something, Oh

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Speaker 2: I don't speak English.

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Speaker 3: Oh you don't, it's too bad, And I walk away

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Speaker 3: I'm gullible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, I just told that. Does it work?

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Speaker 3: What do people say when you say that?

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Speaker 2: They just kind of stare at me, and I'm just

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Speaker 2: I'm gone, baby, I'm already walking.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If they're like, will you sign this petition? I don't

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Speaker 2: speak English or I don't live here anyway.

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Speaker 3: I got to try to live your lifestyle.

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Speaker 2: You really should walk.

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Speaker 3: Wearing shirts of Pablo Escobar. People think you notice that.

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Speaker 2: I see you've got your publish shirt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, come through ridiculous crime.

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Speaker 2: So Brandy she got the guy kicked out. He grabbed

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Speaker 2: it girl, he grabbed his chair, and then she watched

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Speaker 2: him meet up with another guy in a surgical mask,

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Speaker 3: So she told some of the Brinks she's chasing his

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Speaker 2: They're on their way to the r But she tells

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Speaker 2: the Brinks people like, it's not a big deal. That's

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Speaker 2: what Brandy says happened. Brinks is like, she never told

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Speaker 2: us anything. I'm signed with Brandon. So there was another

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Speaker 2: like your head is swimming. After the dazzling Gems saw

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Speaker 2: So whatever. The dealer tried to snap a picture of

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Speaker 2: it was too late. Suspicious, but so then the security

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Speaker 2: found a whole other guy with an earpiece, sunglasses and

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Speaker 2: Oh that's what I was milling around outside looking at

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Speaker 2: the loading dock security. It was like, get moving. He

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Speaker 2: And I must say that if you drive a Dodge Charger,

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Speaker 2: you seen my broad brush? It's suppressive. The truck gets

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Speaker 2: all loaded up, heads out. This was a tractor trailer,

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Speaker 2: like I said, not an armored car. How was it secured?

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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm so curious.

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Speaker 2: How well is one padlock? Oh and a plastic security

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding now? Like a loaded Jordan's.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So the truck had two drivers, James Baby

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Speaker 2: and Tandy Motley. And the truck. You know, while that

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Speaker 2: is July tenth, late afternoon, early evening. The destination was

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Speaker 2: the Brink storage yard around three hundred and seventy miles

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Speaker 2: ADS's make us some money. Yeah, we have to save

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Speaker 4: Totally when we get back, save this flying jay.

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Speaker 5: More when we get back, zaren.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So James and James and this giant peach ak

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Speaker 2: they got they they hop in the truck. You're heading

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Speaker 2: from San Mateo.

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Speaker 3: To Pasadena, La Pasadena.

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Speaker 2: Three yeah, three hundred and seventy miles south. I guess

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Speaker 2: it's La because the show's in Pasadena. But they're going

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: So during the during the loadout, James and Tandy they

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Speaker 2: noticed some dudes watching them, Like, did the guys just

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Speaker 2: wasn't sure, so he goes over to Brandy. He goes

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Speaker 2: to Brandy. He says, Brandy, you're a fine girl. What

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Speaker 2: and my lady's the sea.

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Speaker 3: I understand it completely, and so could say that.

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Speaker 2: No, he said, Brandy, I don't like the looks of

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Speaker 3: A fine girl, let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: But then he's like, this is great, we've established we

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Speaker 2: that armpole thing and they hot the horn at her. So,

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Speaker 2: in compliance with Department of Transportation regulations, James he went

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Speaker 2: to sleep as soon as they left. Rude. I hate

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Speaker 2: when I'm driving a long distance and my passenger falls asleep.

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Speaker 2: Really cheeses me off. But I guess the FEDS want

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Speaker 2: them to do this so that one is always well rested. Yes, so, James,

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Speaker 3: A little crouchet blank his grandma made him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, according to Little Dog Ports. The truck pulled in

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Speaker 2: Tandy had to use a little boys room okay, the commode,

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Speaker 2: and that was around one am. And they stopped again

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Speaker 2: call foul on the timing, since fifty four miles down

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00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 2: five from Button Willow to La Beet.

445
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 3: That doesn't Work's a big old truck.

446
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:41,640
Speaker 2: It's not like a supercar.

447
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just doesn't work out. Even though I drive

448
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 4: like a hundred. That doesn't work.

449
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,680
Speaker 2: All of the timing and the court documents was a mess,

450
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 2: and it makes me wonder what they're covering up Zarin.

451
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,680
Speaker 2: What are the ranks using new technologies the government doesn't

452
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 2: want us to know about.

453
00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 6: That's my question, only logical to the national security apparatus,

454
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 6: but I think they usually have this point pretty good geolocators,

455
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 6: so you'll be.

456
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 2: Able to I really think that there's some teletransportation going

457
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 2: on and they don't want us to know stuff they

458
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 2: don't want you to know. Yeah, teleporting. Anyway, it's two five,

459
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 2: and for whatever reason they stopped again.

460
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 3: Okay, three oh five would work, but not to.

461
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 2: Let's say it was five. I think that they got.

462
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 4: Was this a day with one of those fallbacks bring

463
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 4: forward days? You know what, the time you got an

464
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 4: extra hour? This is July right.

465
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 2: Here's what I think happened. I think that like the

466
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 2: drivers misspoke and then it got picked up in news stories.

467
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 2: And I don't think they were looking at like official still,

468
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,479
Speaker 2: and I think that they left a little earlier than

469
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 2: they said they did. Anyway, So we've we've tracked James

470
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 2: and Tandy as they cruised the highways of California. If

471
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,040
Speaker 2: you are from the bear La, as we said, you

472
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,360
Speaker 2: know this drive very well, very very well. I can

473
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 2: picture the whole thing like I see me doing ninety

474
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 2: down five. It's just as begs for you. Gotta let

475
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 2: that pony run, nothing but scrub and cattle and the

476
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 2: aqueduct around you. Sound asleep in the past, you see

477
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 2: fuming and like muttering curses that in Tesla doing sixty

478
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 2: in the left lane.

479
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 3: I'm staying fresh in case I have to.

480
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 2: Drive federal regulation. We've all been there, and now you're

481
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 2: there there. I want you to bigger it. It's two

482
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 2: five am on July eleventh, twenty two. You are a

483
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 2: small teenage boy sitting cross legged on top of a

484
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 2: garbage can, at the gas pumps at the Flying Jay

485
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,920
Speaker 2: in Lebeca, California. You aren't really a small teenage boy.

486
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 2: You're a soul on a mission. You've lived thousands of

487
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 2: lives over thousands of years, witness hundreds of events, beautiful moments,

488
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 2: unspeakable tragedies, explosions of joy, low points of humanity. You

489
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 2: close your eyes as a dancer spared by Djengis Khan

490
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 2: after his sack of Sammarcan in twelve twenty, and you

491
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: just open them as a young teen and an Afi shirt,

492
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 2: dirty cargo shorts perched atop a garbage can in this

493
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 2: strange wasteland. You're facing the Flying Jay truck stop. It's

494
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 2: well lit, but that light doesn't do much to penetrate

495
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 2: the dim edges of the truck lot. It's asphalt giving

496
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: way to dry grass and the rolling hills beyond. Attached

497
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 2: to the Flying Jay is a Denny's. It too, is

498
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: brightly lit, a beacon to weary and hungry travelers. You

499
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 2: hear a rumble and watch as a large tractor trailer

500
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 2: truck enters the lot and parks to the side. It's unmarked,

501
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 2: just plain white as the engine cuts and begins to

502
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 2: click and hiss in the warm night. The driver gets out.

503
00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: He's bearded sturdy. He stretches his back and heads toward

504
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 2: the Flying Jay. You can see into the Flying j

505
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 2: and watch as he goes to stand in line at

506
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 2: one of the food counters. And something catches your eye movement.

507
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 2: A black car with blacked out windows slowly rolls up

508
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 2: behind the truck. You can sense that this is not right.

509
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 2: The evil and ill intent just hums off the car.

510
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 2: You stay seated watching Two men hop nimbly from the

511
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 2: car and make quick work of a padlock and plastic

512
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 2: seal on the back of the trailer. Each tumble to

513
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 2: the blacktop and skid away one by one. Gently. One

514
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 2: man opens the back of the truck. You see piles

515
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 2: and piles of orange bags. The men look at each

516
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 2: other for a moment. Then one runs to the back

517
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 2: of their car and pops the trunk. The other hops

518
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 2: into the trailer and struggles to lift a bag. They

519
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 2: whisper back and forth a bit, and then the one

520
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 2: in the truck gingerly begins to lift bags, handing them

521
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 2: down to his accomplice. At first he puts the bags

522
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 2: in the trunk, but he soon runs out of room.

523
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 2: He opens the back passenger door and starts tossing bags

524
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 2: into the backs. Twenty minutes goes by. The men have

525
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 2: run out of room in their car. You watched them

526
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 2: transfer twenty four bags from the truck to their car.

527
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 2: They hop into their ride and screech out, their tires

528
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 2: gripping the hot tarmac. A few minutes go by, and

529
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 2: you see the truck's driver return fountain, soda and bag

530
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 2: of food in hand. The smell of the grease wafts

531
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: your way, and you close your eyes while inhaling the scent.

532
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,959
Speaker 2: You don't remember the last time you ate. When you

533
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 2: open your eyes, you see nothing but blue sky. It's midday.

534
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 2: You're on your back. You hear hooves on dirt, the

535
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 2: snort of horses. You're suddenly tipped upright, and you see

536
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 2: that you're in a wagon. You're on a woman's lap.

537
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: You're a baby. You wear bright embroidered fabrics. Those around

538
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 2: you speak a language you haven't heard. A new life

539
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 2: for you zerin and you won't find out what happened

540
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 2: if that truck's.

541
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 3: Not damn, that's I mean.

542
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 4: I love the time tripping that was awesome. The kid

543
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 4: got killed in the parking lot.

544
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 2: No, no, he closed does it? He ate his size

545
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 2: and he vanishes, he goes somewhere else.

546
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 4: Is just a new spirit somewhere else, But it's something

547
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 4: like reincarnation, which would imply.

548
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 3: He doesn't necessitated.

549
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 2: Blinks to reply, he's a soul.

550
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a soul hopper. I love that. The sammar

551
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 3: can you have me there? Like, hey, my boy.

552
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: So you little boy time traveler. You may not know

553
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 2: what's going to happen. We we find out what happens

554
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 2: or what went down. So Tandy, as we said, got

555
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 2: out to get somebody.

556
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 3: Sure he was famished, but the other driver stayed in

557
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 3: the car.

558
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 2: Snooze cise dudes roll up, stole twenty four bags of loot.

559
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: Tandy came back out, saw the security tag on the ground.

560
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 2: Apparently the thieves took the lock with him, and so

561
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 2: Tandy like bangs on the side of the truck, wakes James.

562
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 2: He hops out, apparently a.

563
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 4: Deep sleeper because that thing that the trailer had to

564
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 4: be rocking when they hop in the bag. They're moving

565
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 4: stuff and there's multiple men hopping up and down.

566
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 2: Like a face mass. Very noise canceling headphones and like

567
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: aromatherapy reeks of lavender in the sleeping cabin. So they

568
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: like they open up the bag and they're fearing the worst,

569
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 2: and it was bad. The thieves had taken bags from

570
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,239
Speaker 2: the front of the trailer, which is where they had

571
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 2: put the higher value stuff. Oh yeah, they didn't just

572
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 2: take the bags of beads door. So and it looked

573
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 2: like that they had seen the thieves had seen it

574
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 2: get low. So the drivers they call the cops. LA

575
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 2: Sheriff's deputies show up because they're just inside. Wow. Yeah,

576
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: there's bodycam footage available on Daily Mail. Their answers to

577
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 2: the cops questions are kind of all over the place,

578
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: Like they got the timing screwed up in some of

579
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: the retellings, and they tried to estimate the amount of

580
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: jewelry in the bags, but that's not really their business.

581
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it seems like an inside job.

582
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 2: Well, they got confused about some of the markings on

583
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: the bag. The whole thing's messy, Like they're rattled. Yeah,

584
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 2: and you know, they know they're hauling a lot of value.

585
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 3: I mean, they're probably an to get fired.

586
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: They know they're going to be scrutinized the few days. Yeah,

587
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 2: and then there's got to be that feeling of like

588
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: literally dodging a bullet because it was like a sneaky

589
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: heist and not at the end of a barrel of

590
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 2: a gun, so they didn't get got and maybe there's

591
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 2: like the adrenaline of that.

592
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 3: I thought maybe those guys were anywhere knows.

593
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 2: Pepper, Yeah, so he needed some Like Carlstenior, there wasn't

594
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 2: any CCTV coverage in the area of the lot where

595
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: they were parked, which is that's also I'm also wondering

596
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 2: about the footage from other big rigs because like in

597
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: the bodycam footage, the guy who's in the truck park

598
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 2: next to the Brinks rig comes out and it's like,

599
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 2: what's going on off sir and the cops. Like anyone

600
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 2: I think who spends a lot of time on the

601
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: road these days seems to have dash.

602
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 3: Cam, yes, especially hauling anything worthwhile or.

603
00:29:54,760 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: That you have to prove that you weren't tru But

604
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: so we just know that flying j didn't cover that

605
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 2: part of the lot that maybe it scares away the lizards.

606
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 3: They don't want to know what goes on over there.

607
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: You no A witness at the Flying j said that

608
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 2: he heard some of the guys speaking in a language

609
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 2: other than English to each other, and he was like,

610
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 2: it wasn't Spanish, because I would recognize that it was

611
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: something else. He was probably all, they didn't say gelopa,

612
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 2: no pepper or buenos dias, so it's not Spanish. They

613
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 2: didn't mention the biblioteca. So James and Tandy may have

614
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 2: seemed kind of hanky, but they weren't sending up major

615
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: red flags when when they kind of investigators looked into

616
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 2: their lives or like these dud.

617
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 4: There's no weird bank accounts. Stand they're just kind of incompetent,

618
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 4: Like you said, families.

619
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 2: Like the slow He yeah, as you said, it did

620
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: have the feel of an inside job though.

621
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 3: Right he does.

622
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 4: I mean all the all the facts, I mean, just

623
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 4: the fact that they stopped and they did and where

624
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 4: they did.

625
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: There were thoughts that maybe someone at Brinks tipped off

626
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: thieves as to the route. Sure, Tandy told the cops

627
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 2: at the Flying Jay that maybe he was followed and

628
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 2: it could have been thieves working on behalf of one

629
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 2: of the jewelers running an.

630
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 5: Insurance Oh whoa, I'm like.

631
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 2: Slow down their Columbos road and let the pros look

632
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: into that.

633
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 3: Yeah right, He's like, then it's going to insurance fraud.

634
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 3: From one of the fellow gymologists, I'm like.

635
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 2: WHOA, Like, Tandy, you need to take a nap. So

636
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: Brinks said that about eight point seven million dollars worth

637
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: of goods had been stolen. Some of the jewelers and

638
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 2: the dealers who lost their stuff sued Brinks. I mean

639
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 2: the truck only had a padlock on it. Here's the problem.

640
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 2: So Brink said it was eight point seven million, and

641
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: the jewelers supported that in their initial paperwork, but in

642
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: depositions a bunch of them admitted that they very often

643
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 2: low balled the reported value to keep their insurance costs

644
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: down on shipping. What yeah, so.

645
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,719
Speaker 4: They I would rather make less on a on a

646
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 4: theft get paid back so they can make more down

647
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 4: the line.

648
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: It is estimated the actual value of everything stolen was

649
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 2: around one hundred million dollars.

650
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 3: What, yes, that's not that's not lowbill. That everything that

651
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 3: was lying.

652
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 2: And that's not everything that was in the truck. That's

653
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 2: it makes it one of the largest jewelry thefts in

654
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 2: modern American history.

655
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 3: One of the largest American pieces.

656
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: That they've shown pictures of are pretty impressive. Others, I

657
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 2: think maybe it's for the best that they're gone.

658
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 3: Really, yeah, they're kind of.

659
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: No Brinks filed the countersuit. They wanted to limit the

660
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 2: payout to only yes, sue me, sue you. They want

661
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: they're like, look, you declared a value of eight point

662
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: seven million. That's that's what we're paying. And they're like,

663
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: you lied, that's a breach of.

664
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 3: Contract, that's fraud.

665
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's no way around it. Though. The heist

666
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 2: destroyed some people in their businesses did yeah. In a

667
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 2: statement upon filing suit, the plaintiff said, quote, everyone in

668
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 2: our group has and emotionally and financially destroyed. We are

669
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 2: lost and do not know what comes next in our lives.

670
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: Whatever plans we all have for the future for our

671
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 2: businesses and our families has evaporated in an instant.

672
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 3: So that sucks for.

673
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 2: Them, seriously. In their laws. Are the jewelers there and

674
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: they're all small.

675
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 3: Fanis imagine independent jewelers.

676
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not.

677
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 3: You see it all together with their cases in like

678
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 3: a downtown yes, like plaza.

679
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: It's not every kid jewelers. Yeah, so they were looking

680
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: for one hundred million dollars in damages and one hundred

681
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 2: million in restitution from Brains. And they said that it

682
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 2: was a Brinx employee who told them to undervalue the

683
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 2: merch in their pickup manifest quote in order to save

684
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 2: money because the cost of shipping would be too expensive

685
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 2: if they declared the full value of their goods. According

686
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: to CNN.

687
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 3: And do they do they name this employee? Imagine you

688
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 3: kind of have to have that person.

689
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of them, said, so

690
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: I think they're different.

691
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 5: They're saying they were getting it.

692
00:33:59,040 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 3: Oh, so that was kind of like.

693
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: It's like a common snake industry. So CNN. Quote. One

694
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: merchant told CNN thirty years of his life's work was

695
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 2: stolen in the heist. He didn't share his name nor

696
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 2: the name of his businesses with CNN over concerns of

697
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: being targeted again. He expressed that he was quote emotional

698
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 2: and speechless and wants quote brings to answer to him

699
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 2: after losing some collectibles and unique pieces in the theft.

700
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: So you think about it, it's twenty twenty two. COVID

701
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 2: had done a serious number on retail. People got comfortable

702
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 2: buying online. They didn't really want to come back from that.

703
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: Jewelry is generally something that you want to buy in person.

704
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 2: But it was still a struggle for brick and mortar.

705
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 3: Sure.

706
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 2: And then yeah, these dealers and the jewelers, they go

707
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 2: to the expo. They're hoping to make these sales, keep

708
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 2: the businesses going.

709
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 3: To pay their rent back home.

710
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 2: Uh. People go to the expos to try and get

711
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 2: a good deal on the stuff. So there aren't like

712
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: high rollers in the sense that they'll pay top dollar.

713
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 2: The whole thing's kind of hard scrabble for these guys,

714
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 2: and now it's gone. So according to the La Times, quote,

715
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 2: one of the victims, Malki of forty seventh and fifth Incorporated,

716
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 2: said that telling his children about the theft was the

717
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: toughest thing he'd ever done. Quote. They always looked at me.

718
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: I'm their hero, I'm the tough guy. I didn't want

719
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 2: to break that image for them, so I told them

720
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 2: everything's going to be okay, but for now we're going

721
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 2: to have to make some changes. Inside. I was torn

722
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 2: apart and devastated. The article goes on. Malki gave The

723
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 2: Times an interview over lunch in Pasadena and kept his

724
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: composure throughout the meeting until he detailed the conversation he'd

725
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 2: had about the theft with his children. Malki struggled to

726
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 2: contain his emotions as he shared his seven year old

727
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 2: daughter's attempt to cheer him up after his disclosure of

728
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 2: the crime. Quote she said, Dad, don't worry, I'm gonna

729
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: have a lemonade stand. She gave me the biggest hug.

730
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 4: Oh man, I know I've dealt with a bunch of

731
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 4: these people because I've sold and been with people to

732
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 4: recommend and go through the process with them selling loose diamonds.

733
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 3: And they are not with people picture you know what

734
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 3: I mean. You know, they're very usually family men, family

735
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 3: women who've been running a business, working with often their

736
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 3: husband or wife.

737
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not flashy. Yeah, And we've talked about this before,

738
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: like how we tell these stories. But there are victims

739
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: on the other end of things, and that's you know

740
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 2: why we like weed smugglers and those who steal from

741
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 2: the violently.

742
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's easier to write because like.

743
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 2: No one's losing their life savings, no.

744
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 5: One's destroyed, they're just embarrassed.

745
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: Well not here. Yeah, people lost their livelihoods here. So

746
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 2: the detail of the stolen inventory is just staggering. One

747
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 2: guy lost more than thirteen hundred items that he'd put

748
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 2: together over decades worth at least like twelve million dollars,

749
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 2: and of course he admitted that he only shired it

750
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 2: at a value of four hundred thousand dollars. Oh yeah,

751
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 2: let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll hear more

752
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 2: from these devastated jewelers. And then we've got a little

753
00:36:51,239 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 2: bit of a twist. Nice zaren Okay, So we took

754
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 2: a little break. There more of these jewelers and designers.

755
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: There's one an eighty three year old woman, Amy Kit

756
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 2: sing Lung. She operated Hawaiian Designs jewelry, and she said

757
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: that her business was totally gone after losing seven hundred

758
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth of stuff. And she said that it

759
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 2: was only you know, in the manifest, she said it

760
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: was only worth four hundred thousand because anything else would

761
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 2: be too expensive to ship. And what's worse is that

762
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 2: she was selling and shipping for others.

763
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 3: Oh, she's now in the hook.

764
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, because she's eighty three. All these other older vendors

765
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 2: and those who had like compromised immune systems who didn't

766
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 2: want to go get exposed to COVID. Oh, they couldn't

767
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: be at the show, so now their stuff's gone to Yeah,

768
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 2: so three of the fourteen plaintiffs in the suit settled

769
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 2: with Brinks. No word on for how much. Some wound

770
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 2: up suing Flying J too. They said that there'd been

771
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 2: a bunch of thefts at that location and they should

772
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: have had better security, but yet reasonable. Well, February of

773
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, a judge ruled that the examples presented

774
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 2: by the jewelers of thefts at that particular Flying J

775
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: weren't like what happened with the Brinx truck. So there's

776
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 2: no way for Flying J to anticipate such a thing.

777
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 4: Okay, this is one of those you have to exhibit

778
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 4: exercise control kind of thing.

779
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 2: So you know, I mean, they could have had better

780
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 2: camera setups whatever, But I mean especially because like think

781
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: about the amount of merchandise and goods that sits in

782
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 2: that lot at any young time, like trailers full of

783
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 2: like electronics, old navy fashions, jelly sandals.

784
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 3: You'll be breaking in.

785
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 2: Vape cartridges, holiday buntings, decorative figurines, closed soap. Yeah, Zarin,

786
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 2: there's no telling what's in those trucks.

787
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 5: Diapers given time.

788
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 2: Dipies go on the streets. Yeah, oh, they done so

789
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 2: either way, eggs, eggs. The jewelers, those jewelers are devastated.

790
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: Some of them closed their business, others struggled along. And

791
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 2: it seemed to be just an unfortunate and brazen crime

792
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 2: now in the past. But then just recently something changed changed, Sarain.

793
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 2: We've had this wild ride together with this. It's one

794
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 2: of the biggest jewelry heights in US history, right here

795
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: in the Golden State. Can I tell you something though

796
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 2: justice never sleeps, does it not? Does not? I am

797
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 2: happy to report that on Tuesday, June seventeenth, twenty twenty

798
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 2: five years after the US Attorney Central District of California

799
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 2: unsealed an indictment. The day before June sixteenth, they'd executed

800
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 2: a search warrant and had made arrests in the case

801
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 2: the idea of the Brinx truck heist at the Flying.

802
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 3: Jay Whoa, they stayed and.

803
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 2: It turns out it was a crew that had been

804
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 2: planning this for some time, like practicing their highest pulling out.

805
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I curious huh, that.

806
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: Happened like just a few days ago, back in a

807
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 2: time when we were recording this. So we just have

808
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 2: the arrest. At some point in the future, will get

809
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 2: a flurry of emails and dms telling us about the

810
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: court case and the sentencing er acquittal all. Give an

811
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 2: update then, and then we'll continue to get Instagram d

812
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 2: ms about the results of the case for the next

813
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 2: year or so, even after I give the updates such as.

814
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 3: Life, Such is life. I was really hoping that the

815
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 3: CHP was playing a prominent role on the bus. I

816
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 3: love the HP. I know you do.

817
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 2: You really do.

818
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 3: We have to talk about that. I respect them, you

819
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 3: love them.

820
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 2: I do love them. I've been totally like treated poorly

821
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 2: by the sage.

822
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 4: That's why we're talking about you should not love people

823
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 4: who treat you so poorly. I respect them. You can

824
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 4: respect people who it's a different level. You got to

825
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 4: stop licking them when you're around.

826
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 3: That's where I have to apologize. Got a condition, It's.

827
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 2: Okay, yeh, And I'm like, no leaky, leaky. Prosecutors alleged

828
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 2: that there are seven co conspirators who carried out the

829
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 2: theft Sven. Yeah, the men were each charged with conspiracy

830
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 2: to commit theft from interstate Inflorence shipment.

831
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 3: Could you repeat that more time?

832
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: It was conspiracy to commit theft from interstate and foreign shipment.

833
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 2: I got you so nice, I named it twice. Some

834
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 2: are facing additional charges. Who are they?

835
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 3: I just about asked? Do we ever get to the

836
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 3: I could list their names their name, but you won't.

837
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 2: But they've only been indicted, not like convicted.

838
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 3: You don't want to.

839
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 2: I don't want to put their names out there. If

840
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: you're so inclined and you have too much time on

841
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 2: your hands, you can go ahead and get to googling.

842
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,879
Speaker 3: Do we know where? Ruffian? Where they come from?

843
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: This is exactly what I'm going to tell you, so

844
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 2: thank you. I will say that they're all men, okay,

845
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 2: and I'm going to give you their ages and their

846
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 2: cities of residence. Ah Okay, So thirty one years old,

847
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 2: Pasadenak thirty six years old, Boyle Heights, currently an inmate

848
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 2: in Arizona State Prison. Okay forty one years old out

849
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 2: of rialto.

850
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going with Hispanic.

851
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 2: So far sixty out of Rampart Village neighborhood, Heights thirty

852
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 2: three out of South La.

853
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 3: Okay forty two.

854
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 2: Forty two coming out of Uplands Oppland, Okay, and thirty

855
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 2: six of the Westlake.

856
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 5: Neighborhood of La Wow like Toronto's.

857
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: So I will say that if the witness at the

858
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 2: truck stop did actually see some of them there and

859
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 2: heard them talking, then he was wrong about it not

860
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 2: being Spanish that they.

861
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 3: Spoke, yes, because it does certainly seem.

862
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 2: They didn't say gilapino popper. You know as well as

863
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 2: I that there are many dialects of Spanish.

864
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 4: Suns, and like I couldn't even in countries like I

865
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 4: learned in Colombian, I could start picking up party accents

866
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 4: and be like, oh, you're from Medaine.

867
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 2: Tell, And I couldn't tell from their last names. If

868
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 2: there was a specific shared country of origin, might be

869
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 2: the United States, to be honest, Texas, But Mexican Spanish

870
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 2: different places is a lot different than Spain Spanish, which

871
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 2: is different than Colombian Spanish, Cuban Spanish Spanish.

872
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 3: It's crazy, and each of these they.

873
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: Got their own slaying idioms anyway, back to the purpse.

874
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 2: So if convicted, five of them got would get steeper

875
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: charges and could face up to twenty years in federal

876
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 2: prison for each robbery charge. All the defendants could be

877
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 2: looking to at least five years for the theft conspiracy

878
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 2: charge and then ten for the thefts quote. It was

879
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 2: a long time coming, and there were times when the

880
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 2: victims and members of the team wondered whether we see

881
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 2: this success. That's an Assistant US Attorney Kevin Butler talking.

882
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 3: So what happens with restitution and all that kind of stuff.

883
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 2: Like I don't even think they touch on that.

884
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean, like, is there any hope that

885
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 4: not that they'll recover the gen sell them.

886
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 2: Some of the stolen jewelry was recovered during the searches. Yeah,

887
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: and I feel like maybe they held onto the watches.

888
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 2: That's just conjecture on my part. Liked it, Yeah, but

889
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 2: I think it's great that they were able to get

890
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 2: some of the stuff. Three years on, the Feds also

891
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 2: found a bunch of cash, so there was like fencing

892
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: going on. Most of the stolen goods are still missing,

893
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: but there's still more search.

894
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 5: Warrants to execute.

895
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 3: Sure, I believe it may find more stuff. I believe

896
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 3: that will find more people.

897
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 2: May they might find the tackier pieces they couldn't move. Yeah,

898
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: So the crews planning for the heist allegedly started at

899
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,280
Speaker 2: the International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo, Tucson.

900
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 2: So allegedly the main guy case the show for days

901
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 2: starting on July eighth, the guy with the chair, yeah,

902
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. July eighth, he found out where they

903
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: were going. Next, he watched the comings and goings. He

904
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: checked out the wars. July tenth, three other guys allegedly

905
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,760
Speaker 2: cased the Brinx truck. When the truck left San Mateo,

906
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 2: it began what the FEDS were calling, quote a complex

907
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 2: choreography that ended up in lbec.

908
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 3: Very fast and furious. Yeah.

909
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: So there were different cars following the truck, taking turns,

910
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 2: getting one to like subtly follow the load. Because the

911
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 2: drivers when they were talking to the deputy showed.

912
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 3: There's the headlights. If it's just the same headlights chasing

913
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 3: around five.

914
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 2: You're always gonna you can go a long way with

915
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 2: like someone right behind you.

916
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 3: Something as if you get off, they get off, you

917
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 3: get off, the get off.

918
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: I mean that would be weird, right, And so the

919
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 2: guy the when he talked to the deputies Tandy, when

920
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 2: he was like, I don't think we were followed. I

921
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 2: didn't see anybody.

922
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 3: So they were running rounds on them.

923
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 2: And so they're like they're coming on and off summer

924
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 2: stationed down the highway waiting for their turn to hop

925
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,399
Speaker 2: on tail the truck. They would call each other keep

926
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 2: tabs like this, like mobile logistics operation. Oh, it doesn't

927
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 2: say in the court filing how the crew gained access

928
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: to the trailer. Yeah, I'm guessing like bolt cutters are

929
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 2: like a grinder. Which even then, so if they had

930
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 2: a grinder, like James, she didn't wake up. Yeah, and

931
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 2: I think a grinder waking up, I think it's It

932
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 2: doesn't mention if they're armed either.

933
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 3: So anyway, locks are not difficult if it's just like no.

934
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, they broke into the truck.

935
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 3: You have a little liquid oxygen and break that right open.

936
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 2: And they emptied the bags into the car. And then

937
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 2: the indictment says that they drove to East Hollywood and

938
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 2: apparently they had no idea how much stuff they'd gained.

939
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 3: Are you for real? They it just got lucky.

940
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 2: They got was a major score. They had no idea.

941
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 2: So they're just opening these bags being like, oh my god, if.

942
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 3: You did a crime that was so good that you

943
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 3: have to leave your life.

944
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 2: Well, in the days afterwards, a bunch of them start

945
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: deactivating their cell phone numbers.

946
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 3: The best thing you could do is leave the country.

947
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, they must have been so spooked by this.

948
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 4: Go to a little ranch in some place that speaks

949
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 4: the language you speak and nobody.

950
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 2: They didn't. Though they didn't. This wasn't their first heist though.

951
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 2: Apparently in the months leading up to the back heist,

952
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 2: a bunch of the crew members pulled off a series

953
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 2: of thefts all across.

954
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 5: San Bernardino County.

955
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 2: So in some of those cases, the mos No, it's

956
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 2: pretty much the same, like they would case and follow

957
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 2: truck stops. Yeah, they went to truck stops similar places

958
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 2: they would quote identify and rob steele, unlawfully take and

959
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 2: unlawfully carry away a variety of merchandise. So, according to

960
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 2: the indictment, yeah, they used multiple vehicles to follow trucks

961
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: carrying shipments of electronics and other items until they would

962
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 2: reach a stopping point, and then the alleged thieves would

963
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 2: like rob or burgle the vehicles. Some would allegedly being

964
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 2: very careful here, act as lookouts around businesses where the

965
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 2: trucks were parked. Others just did straight up smash and

966
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 2: grabs like bippins, and they'd had back to La, split

967
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 2: up the goods, fence them with trusted connections.

968
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 3: My pain a couple of guys who did this.

969
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 2: And he did any of them. I should have listed

970
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 2: the names.

971
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 3: No, it's a common form of pirracy. Yeah, yeah so it.

972
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 2: March second, twenty twenty two months before the Lebeck heist,

973
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: prosecutors said that members of the crew used multiple vehicles

974
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 2: to follow a truck carrying Samsung electronics from Ontario, California.

975
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so when.

976
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: The vehicle stopped at a store in Ontario, crew members

977
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 2: allegedly distracted the driver in the shop while some in

978
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: the group stole the electronics. And I would love to

979
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 2: know how they distracted the driver. Was like raise their

980
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 2: skirt and show like a fish netted cat.

981
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 3: They did a mime show with balloons.

982
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like someone like trips and falls and

983
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,720
Speaker 2: spills chocolate milk all over the floor and they're staring,

984
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 2: comes to help and cries, just starts crying and.

985
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 3: Beating up adults. That's what's going on in this town.

986
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 2: That hall was worth almost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

987
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 3: That's much smaller. Yeah, but that's that's probably what they

988
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 3: normally would get.

989
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 2: That's what they're thinking. Yeah, so le's.

990
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 3: After that they got.

991
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: Another box truck, and that one ironically was carrying Apple

992
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 2: air tags.

993
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 3: A rough one. Yeah.

994
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 2: The driver stopped for food in Fontana and the guys

995
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 2: made their move. They walked away with fifty seven thousand

996
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 2: dollars in air tags.

997
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 3: Is that a lot? Yeah? I think I don't how

998
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:50,439
Speaker 3: much air tags?

999
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 2: Like twenty five bucks? Okay, okay, Well they started to

1000
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 2: walk away because the driver caught him. Maybe they were

1001
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: air tags. So the driver caught the thieves. According to

1002
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,479
Speaker 2: the indictment, one who had like a small knife, allegedly yelled,

1003
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:05,919
Speaker 2: don't move or I will help you up.

1004
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 3: That's knife all night.

1005
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 2: Within the small knife. They had other failures. May twenty fifth,

1006
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, A bunch of them tried to drive

1007
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,760
Speaker 2: to a truck stop in Fontana to steal from a truck.

1008
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 2: They used a crowbar to break in. It took off

1009
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 2: before they could grab anything.

1010
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 3: With a lock. Conversation, I guess really not that.

1011
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 2: Later that same day they went back to Fontana, this

1012
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 2: time they stole more. Samsung Electronics valued it a little

1013
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 2: more than fourteenth.

1014
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 3: Though good electronics. Elizabeth yeah So.

1015
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 2: Reached for comment. MALKI remember the jeweler, He told the

1016
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 2: La Times the indictment was quote awesome. Quote. I don't

1017
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 2: know what to say, he said. I'm absolutely shocked.

1018
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 3: He is a tough guy.

1019
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 2: He's a tough guy. In response to the charges, Brinks

1020
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 2: said the statement, quote, we deeply appreciate the efforts of

1021
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 2: law enforcement to resolve this matter. We will continue to

1022
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 2: watch the case closely.

1023
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 3: Oh my god, what a nothing.

1024
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 2: Stay absolutely nothing statement. So that's where we are on this.

1025
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 2: This is this is as far as this train goes. Zaren,

1026
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 2: what's your ridiculous takeaway.

1027
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 4: I'm still hung up on the idea that if you

1028
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 4: have a scored this big, it's kind of like the

1029
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 4: plot to No Country for Old Men, where you come

1030
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 4: along this this crazy money, you realize this life changing,

1031
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 4: but then you also realize someone's.

1032
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,760
Speaker 3: Gonna come looking for Oh yeah.

1033
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 4: And I've got to hide from that person. And if

1034
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 4: it's crime like they are, it's going to be either

1035
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 4: law enforcement or fellow criminals either one. It's going to

1036
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 4: be people who are motivated, Yeah, can find you. So

1037
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 4: I feel bad for them in a certain way that

1038
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 4: they did so well. They did too well, something.

1039
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 2: That would have worked in like the seventies.

1040
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 3: Yes, without so much.

1041
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 2: There's so much technology where you can track them and

1042
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 2: like cameras, so we don't know based on these search horms.

1043
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 2: We don't know what like dash cam footage they had,

1044
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 2: you know with the jewelry. Now they do like microscopic lasers.

1045
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, then grave.

1046
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 2: Engraving on stuff that you can.

1047
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 3: Track holographic marks that are like.

1048
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's like there, there's it's so hard to

1049
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 2: get away with this kind of thing, and we leave

1050
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 2: a digital footprint everywhere we go. So anyway, I really

1051
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 2: do want to get a burner phone. I don't know why.

1052
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you want to get a flip phone

1053
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,320
Speaker 3: or burner phone. Away, Elizabeth.

1054
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 2: My takeaway is that I saw that it's it's interesting

1055
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 2: to tell a story like this where I was looking

1056
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 2: at it. I've been like kind of looking at it

1057
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 2: for a bit of this is a good story, but

1058
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 2: like it wasn't fully enough, and then all of a

1059
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 2: sudden these arrests came in. I was like I pounced

1060
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 2: on it. Like I can't.

1061
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 3: They got them.

1062
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 2: They got them, Dave. I think we could do with

1063
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: a talk bag.

1064
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I want.

1065
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 2: My name's Ann.

1066
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 7: I've been listening to you since the beginning. I just

1067
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 7: really appreciate you, guys. I must say, I am listening

1068
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 7: to the American Beatles episode and this is probably the

1069
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 7: most voices I have ever heard Zarin use, which is

1070
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 7: great entertainment. Thanks for a good job, everybody, ridiculous crime staff.

1071
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 7: I forgot to mention I was nine years old when

1072
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 7: the Beatles, the British Beatles played on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1073
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:45,399
Speaker 7: We just thought they were kind of odd. Anyway, Thanks you.

1074
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 2: I love the nine year old perspective on that.

1075
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, likes love this, but I don't know. I see

1076
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 3: a mop haired It's just a little strange.

1077
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I love that you're getting some props for

1078
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 2: your voices.

1079
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. I appreciate it.

1080
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 4: And I'm trying to do non offensive accents when I

1081
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 4: do accent, so if ever, I apologize to those I've

1082
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 4: offended in the past. And I just know that for

1083
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 4: the most part, I try to stick to accents that

1084
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 4: I have family connections to, like I have the genes

1085
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 4: like if I'm doing an accent, I'm like, honestly, I'm

1086
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 4: one of your people.

1087
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I.

1088
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 2: Love that, right, that's a good ethos to have.

1089
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 3: Can I do that? Like? I'm French too?

1090
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 2: Why not?

1091
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 3: Good at it?

1092
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 2: But that's it for today. You can find us online

1093
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: at ridiculous Crime dot com. Did you know fun fact

1094
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 2: about our website?

1095
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 3: No? I don't.

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Speaker 2: in the Diamond Business starring Annals Rutger as Judith. Research

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