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Speaker 1: I think there's something about the combination of the neighborhood,

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Speaker 2: Clearly the team behind the Waffi Mall heist had chosen

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Speaker 2: They set fire to their stolen Audis and fled the

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Speaker 2: but it wasn't unique to this one city. Had successfully

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Speaker 1: There was probably a sense that the Dubai police were

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Speaker 2: True, they did manage to escape the country without a hedge,

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Speaker 2: I'm Natalia Antalava. I'm a journalist based in Eastern Europe,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to take you into the world of

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Speaker 2: Serbia's most brazen jewel thieves.

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Speaker 3: The most daring and successful diamond thieves in the world.

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Speaker 2: Thirty to forty seconds they're in.

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Speaker 4: Out They've stolen half a billion dollars worth of valuables.

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Speaker 2: Two well dressed men strolled into an exclusive jewelry store

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Speaker 2: in jewels. They called the Pink Panthers. They're a loosely

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Speaker 2: connected group of over educated, underemployed, ambitious young people who

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Speaker 3: The Interpol was founded based on a jewelry heist in

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Speaker 2: Wayne Southgaper was the director of interpolse Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: So in nineteen fourteen, the crown Jewels of Austria were

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Speaker 3: Prince Albert of Monaco brought twelve or fourteen countries together

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Speaker 2: They made a list of best practices like ensuring police

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Speaker 3: The whole charter is still the same today, bringing police

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Speaker 2: So in order for INTERPOL to be effective, its member

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Speaker 2: One of those challenges is getting everyone to agree on

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Speaker 2: But that was before the wa Fimol heist.

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Speaker 4: The Dubai Police, the men and women are the force,

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Speaker 2: That's a promotional video put out by the Dubai police.

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Speaker 2: They took a good game, and yet the Pink Panthers

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Speaker 6: So in Dubai, just immediately after the high all the

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Speaker 2: The Dubai police make every effort, but gang leader Laden Lazarevitch,

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Speaker 6: It was crazy because everybody knows how the police in

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Speaker 2: Dubai's chief of police knows a public relations disaster when

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Speaker 2: he sees one. The Wafimol heist is too big, too public,

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Speaker 3: Who is the Secretary General at the time. The job

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Speaker 2: At forty one, Ron Noble is the youngest person to

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of maturity the Interpol went through

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Speaker 5: It starts with a tip from a guy at a

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Speaker 2: This is how long after the heist.

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Speaker 5: It's a couple of days. He tells the cops about

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Speaker 2: Wait, wait, which car are we talking about here?

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Speaker 5: This was the one Boyana rented, remember with her own

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Speaker 5: Well probably so the cops they check it out. They

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Speaker 5: Surveillance cameras are everywhere, and tally, remember that the Pink

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Speaker 5: So, the cops decided to put the car in surveillance.

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Speaker 2: I'm so not surprised. It really feels like everyone is

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Speaker 5: It's the start of a manhunt. The cops learn about

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Speaker 5: Of course, by now they've also linked Byanna to the cars,

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Speaker 2: Because they've escaped the country.

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Speaker 5: Right, but now they have hard evidence linking them to

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Speaker 3: I know that the Pink Panther one was probably one

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Speaker 2: For Interpol Secretary General Row Nobel, it's a game changer

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Speaker 2: in an interview with Dateline on NBC, Nobel talked about

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Speaker 2: how the recovery of this DNA became his Aha moment.

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Speaker 7: We put it in our database and the first hit

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Speaker 7: we have we matched it to a pink panther Leckenstein.

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Speaker 7: Suddenly we said, Wow, the Pink Panthers. They're actually engaging

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Speaker 2: Everything snaps into focus. In our first episode we said

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Speaker 2: the work of an organized criminal network. No longer simply

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Speaker 2: Here's my colleague Elon Greenberg again.

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Speaker 5: So the head of Monaco's police department, that's Andre Maulberja.

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Speaker 2: Weyland, Why is Malbigh so interesting?

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Speaker 5: So Monico was a favorite hotspot of the panthers. You

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Speaker 2: I could see why, so does he deal with them?

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Speaker 5: In mid two thousand and seven, Ron Noble launches interpols

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Speaker 5: The idea here is to exchange information on how to

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Speaker 2: The pink Panthers are now officially one of Interpol's top priorities,

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Speaker 2: but back in Serbia, that just adds to their allure.

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Speaker 2: Journalist David Samiel wrote an in depth piece on the

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Speaker 8: It's a culture that celebrated these bandit figures. The idea

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Speaker 8: I'd say that all of the Serbian gangsters I met

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Speaker 2: In fact, if you go further back in Balkan history,

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Speaker 6: Had these outlaws that we call haiduk. Not sure exactly

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Speaker 9: Even now, I think that this history created this figure

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Speaker 2: Film scholar admitriy Voinoff agrees with David Samuels that this

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Speaker 9: Whenever you watch a film, you tell yourself, these guys

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Speaker 9: The jewels are to be stolen, you know. I mean

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Speaker 2: But international law enforcement doesn't see that way at all.

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Speaker 2: They strongly object to this image of the panthers as

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Speaker 10: When they were committing in the robbery, they were not violent,

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Speaker 2: Captain R. Viconnon of the Paris police sactologically, it.

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Speaker 5: Was very violent for people.

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Speaker 4: Even if the guys are quiet and calm and they

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Speaker 5: It's too stressful.

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Speaker 2: And we've heard the sentiment again and again. Retired watch

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Speaker 5: Joys be made.

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Speaker 10: There is no Nissans in theft. And let me let

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Speaker 2: Interpose Way Salz Gaber.

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody who has actually victimized in those

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Speaker 2: Tell you there was nothing. Liechtenstein's prosecutor, General Robert Wolner.

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Speaker 11: We don't see anything numerous about them. If you enter

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Speaker 11: it certainly has an effect on them or they left.

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Speaker 2: In an interview with CBS sixty Minutes, interpolse Ron Nobel

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Speaker 12: The problem with this group is that the name Pink

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Speaker 7: The first memory is the movie.

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Speaker 12: We smile at the name of Pink Panthers. That's why

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Speaker 2: If Laden, Boyana and Milan aren't worried about their futures

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Speaker 2: at this point, they probably should be. Boyana Mittic, her

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Speaker 2: make their way back to Serbia, to their hometown of Niche.

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Speaker 2: No matter what's happening with the investigation in Dubai. They

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Speaker 2: but because they think it just doesn't matter. Yleno's rich

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Speaker 6: Both of them. They were feeling that they would be

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Speaker 6: definitely they would be protected from Dubai police. There would

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Speaker 2: There is no extradition treaty between the United Arab Emirates

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Speaker 2: two thousand and five, he was chasing a pink panther

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Speaker 10: We all knew that he was in Belgrade, but it

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Speaker 2: It's not just difficult to serve an international warrant in Belgrade,

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Speaker 5: There were corruption in these countries, you know. In Serbia,

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Speaker 2: So difficult to recuperating when they are in the country,

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Speaker 2: very difficult. Far from acting like wanted criminals, Ladon, Bojana

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Speaker 6: So at that time, while he was on Interpol's Red list,

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Speaker 5: He was the completely free.

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Speaker 2: Citizen Helen Zorach.

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Speaker 6: So not only he was a free citizen, but he

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Speaker 2: Place, Milan opens a nightclub in the historic part of town.

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Speaker 6: The business with the disco club. It was his way

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Speaker 2: But Milan's two occupations as a nightclub owner and as

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Speaker 6: He organized the whole party. He announced that it would

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Speaker 6: He was invited to take part in a highst of

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Speaker 2: And so a little more than a year after the

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Speaker 6: He was doing what they called the site inspection, so

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Speaker 2: Jacques is a quiet place home to about ten thousand people,

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Speaker 6: So there was one inspector working for the interval who

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Speaker 6: So Mila Jeffoya said that he couldn't believe that he

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Speaker 13: this moment, and we fight that three for four minutes approximately.

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Speaker 13: It was like in the movies or scene his children

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Speaker 2: Milan manages to hide in some bushes near that elementary

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Speaker 2: school and stays there motionless for hours. But Glassy calls

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Speaker 2: from his hiding spot and surrenders peacefully to Glassy. Good job,

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Speaker 2: he says to the detective. A class act, it seems,

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Speaker 2: doushkopos Nan. Credit card records link Boyana Mittic to the

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Speaker 2: crime as well, so that invincibility the Pink Panthers might

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Speaker 2: have once felt some cracks are starting to show. But

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Speaker 2: catching a Pink Panther and keeping one are different things entirely.

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Speaker 2: Milan Lipoya had escaped prison before. In fact, for the

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Speaker 2: Panthers it was something of a specialty. Coming up next

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Speaker 2: on Infamous International, The Pink Panther's Story, he.

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Speaker 11: Was extraducted to us and we thought we could bring

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Speaker 11: him to trial, but he didn't have the intention to

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Speaker 11: stay with us.

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Speaker 2: For the Ping Panthers, prison is just another part of

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Speaker 3: I will tell you that what you described to me

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Speaker 3: and the escape is part.

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Speaker 5: Of the trade.

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Speaker 2: And a heist in a prison break actually how long

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Speaker 2: and everything happened within seconds, and Dolliver just walked out

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Speaker 2: of prison and got on a motorbike that was waiting outside.

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Speaker 2: That's next time on Infamous International, The Pink Panther's Story

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Speaker 2: from his International. The Pink Panthers Story was produced by

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Speaker 2: Best Case Studios in association with Koda's Story, hosted by

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Speaker 2: me Natalie Antelavam and written by Katrina Wolfe, Adam Pinkis,

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Speaker 2: Suzanne Myers, and David Markowitz, with help from Brent Katz

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Speaker 2: and Matt Levin. For Best Case Studios Executive producer Adam Pinkis,

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Speaker 2: Senior producer David Markowitz, producer Katrina Wolfe, associate producer Hannah

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Speaker 2: Libovitz Lockhart, and consulting producers Julie Goldstein and Louis Spiegeler.

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Speaker 2: For Koda Story, reporting by Lane Greenberg with associate producer

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Speaker 2: Rebecca Robinson. Edited and sound designed by Gaylan Mullins and

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Speaker 2: Max Michael Miller. Music by Dave Harrington. Archival producers Mark

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Speaker 2: de Gora and Paul Dallas. This has been an exactly

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Speaker 2: right production. Executive producers Karen kil Gareff, Georgia hart Stark,

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Speaker 2: and Daniel Kramer, with consulting producer Kyle Ryan