WEBVTT - High-Flying Nectarines with Jay Martel 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:04.040 This is great as Escapes, a show bringing you the 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.480 wildest true escape stories of all time. Now, in this episode, 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.200 we're headed to Paris, you guys, for a bonker's jail 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:15.760 break by a French gangster who declared on society. I'm 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.040 Marto Castro and I'm here with a wizard of the 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.640 comedy world, my dear friend, and a man absolutely obsessed 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:51.960 with short short pants, Jay Martel. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.639 Today I'm joined by Jane Martel. Yes. I gotta tell 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.520 the audience that Jay catfished me in the sense that 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.560 when we we we sat for an interview for the 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.280 head writer position of Alternatino, and Jay showed up into 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.840 like a button down and like these nice pants, and 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.600 then yes, and then I never saw him wear pants ever. Again, 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.720 Jay always showed up. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.840 Okay, this is a this is a cultural language thing. Okay, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.280 I wore pants to the office. They were just short pants, 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.680 but in your mind they were so short and Guatemala, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.920 I guess they don't call short pants pants. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.400 Listen, listen, we do not show another man or thoughts. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.720 And as we'm in business and you really and I 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.160 was just throwing them out there in your face every 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.760 day for free. I always say that Jay, like always 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.640 looks like he just smits his flight, you know what 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.240 I mean. Like he's in the Atlanta airport. He fucking 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.880 had to go get that neck pillow and his fucking 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.920 left him. He's just looking around, looking. 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:01.360 Like always a little like rumbled a little just enough? 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.600 All right, you ready for a little escaping, Yes, definitely. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.320 So today instead of a cell block, we're gonna start 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.480 on a launch pad. Ooh, and the year is nineteen 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.280 eighty five, which is the year I was born. Great 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:20.600 year for babies, Am I right? 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:20.880 Jay? 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.400 It was so fantastic? Okay? And we're in Ansei in 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.000 the Alps of southern France. Now, a woman, Lena Ruigon 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.239 has started taking helicopter lessons from a guy named Ghi, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.400 a flight instructor at a local airport. Now, he didn't 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.400 think anything of it, except that he noticed that she 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.440 showed great commitment to learning. So in fact, she booked 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.520 a hotel by the airport for a whole month, and 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.840 she spent two or three hours every day practicing in 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.360 the air with her instructor. As her teacher, monsieur GhIE 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.840 felt like he was getting to know her pretty well. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.040 For him. That apparently means remembering that she was blonde. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.320 I love giving it, like, yes, I know everything about her. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.240 She is a blonde, so is it. Yeah. So that 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.560 September she took her flying exam and she passed with 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.680 flying colors. Wow. Nice, And she got a fifty eight 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.920 out of sixty required points, which I guess is enough. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.480 I don't. This is such a French way of scoring, 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.600 isn't it. The rest of the world is like, hey, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.560 it's one hundred, and friends is like, I feel sixty 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.359 is fine, sixty is maxim. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.919 You would be ahead of yeah, if you had any 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.040 moles in sixty. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:33.040 This man is apparently close to death. This frenchman him 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:39.000 dying and right flying. It's a French pirate in this situation. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.200 Remember Jay that there was a sketch that we never 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.720 quite made work about a Frenchman who was unimpressed by 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.440 everything and called everything shit. Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.320 it was good. This is shit. And then a Robert 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.600 comes into the restaurant where he's at and he's like 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.640 this gun sees his ship and you know, he saves 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.760 the day. I wonder whe didn't let us do that, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.120 Maybe because we didn't know how to fucking end the sketch, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.400 or we sounded like pirates when we did, because they 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:11.480 were like, you are all dying pirates in this Well, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.520 what's going on? All right? So then Lena moved to Paris, 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.080 where she joined a flight club at an airport and 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.400 started flying some light utility helicopters. Okay, So Lena begins 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.600 renting a helicopter every two weeks, and she gets to 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.919 know the owner of the helicopter rental company, Claude. He 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.719 described her as a pretty little woman, the sportsman type, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.039 which is probably French for not Kirby. I don't know 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.680 what the fuck that meant, Claude sportsman. So Claude said 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.599 that Lena took a liking to one helicopter, in particular, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.200 she would come to his business twice a month and 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.280 rented for like three hundred dollars an hour. Claude didn't 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.839 know it at the time, but Lina was practicing one 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.080 very special skill, you guys, okay, hovering with the helicopter 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.719 just above the ground. On May twenty seven, nineteen eighty six, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.800 Lena arrived with a friend, a man carrying a heavy 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.440 duffel bag. Somehow, this didn't raise any red flags for Claude. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.600 You know, was he oblivious, a little bit of an 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.400 idiot perhaps, or maybe just very friendly? I don't know, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.480 I don't care what you do. Anyhow, he rented her 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.160 the helicopter as per usual. Now, obviously Claude didn't know 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.479 what was in the bag, but today we do know 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:24.920 it was carrying Don Tonton a submachine gun. What And 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.400 it turns out Lena had been hiding her real identity. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.360 Her real name was actually Nadine, and the day she'd 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.480 been training for was finally here. And when she took off, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.280 she flew low. Soon the air traffic control lost contact 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.960 with her. The French air police try to get radio 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.159 response from a helicopter as it buzzed the rooftops, but 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.279 Nadine wasn't answering no, no. She was flying nineteen miles 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.320 from the airport to Lesson prison in Paris because she 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.680 was gonna bust her husband out of jail. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.960 Oh my god, Now I see how it all tied 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.320 together with the theme of this podcast. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:07.039 There you go, Yeah, okay, a sportsman, woman, dead pirates, Yeah, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:12.160 big bags, machine gun, flying low you know classic. Can 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.800 we take a moment and talk about the commitment it 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.160 took to do this, Like. 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.440 She must have really loved her husband. I mean, that's 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.560 that's what I'm getting from this. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.400 Okay, who the hell is her husband? Let's figure this out. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:26.560 So his name was Michelle Vajoule. Right. He was a 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.480 gangster who had declared as a teenager that he was 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.360 going to wage war against society. You know, the revolution 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:34.560 remains strong in this one. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.480 You know, it's very common thing and teenagers, I mean, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:43.400 especially in France. I imagine it's like, yeah, Bennett. 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:47.080 Down, they are incredibly good at striking in France. That 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.640 is not even a joke. Yeah, oh my god, there's good. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.400 We could take a page out of their book for this. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.920 If this was in France, I'd be striking right now 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.560 for better wages for podcast co hosts. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.760 Yeah that's right. No, it was at getting paid. I'm 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:04.320 gonna copymeal and credit tops. Oh my god, should strike too, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:13.960 let's both strike all right? So who was Michelle? Was your? 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.640 To start with? He was an altar boy, no, like literally, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.600 when he was a kid, his parents send him to 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.200 live in a boarding school run by a local priest. Now, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.120 along with all the other church stuff, right, like guilt 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.720 guilt inducing chores or whatever. The priest taught Michelle how 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.480 to climb and shoot and run cross country. Bro, Like, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.760 is this like a super alpha priest. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.640 Like like this couple is like it's going to take 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:39.280 over the world. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:39.720 I think. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.360 I mean, she's a sportsman type with who flies helicopters, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.520 and he's like an all around athlete who shoots game. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.400 Yeah. But also my priest like always sounded like that 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.160 French dying dude that you just did, you know, Like Okay, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.720 they couldn't even like, you know, walk properly. I didn't 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.120 know they were like priests that like did like rock climbing. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.840 You know, if Jesus is at the top of that hill, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.160 they're going to climb that rock. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.400 Yeah, that's right on this mountain. I shaw build my church. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.120 One person in the audience is gonna be oh he 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:09.920 studied Gothic. 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.600 Yes, yeah, you're going to get that one hardcore Catholic 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:14.720 podcast listener. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:19.920 Congratulations, thanks very much. But for Michelle, alter boy didn't 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.480 translate to being like a rule follower. Right when he 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.240 was nineteen, he started stealing cars whenever he wanted to 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.600 take his girlfriend dancing. This fucking guy, Okay, all right, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.680 making us all look bad. Good for you, good for you. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.400 So usually they would leave the car in the same 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.960 place that they found it, but after a while they 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.120 started getting sloppy and just parked it right in front 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.600 of his apartment. So the next morning, Mihaw and his 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.800 girlfriend were walking up by the sound of the police 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:44.160 banging on the front door. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.040 Poor planning. Everyone knows you don't park a stolen car 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:48.280 in the air house. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.440 So what do you like? You've been stealing cars? Jay, 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.680 there's a knock at your door, somebody says, police, What 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:54.960 do you think? What do you do? What's the first 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.559 thing that you do? Say? Like, I'm an idiot. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.320 Yeah, and I deserved to be taken off to prison 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:02.839 right now, because. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.000 That would be your way. That would be get and by. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.760 The way, and by the way, on pants, Let me 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.880 put on my pants right now before you take me 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:09.320 to prison. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.200 Jay's way would be like, and by the way, I 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.680 would like to confess to other crimes of myself and 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.840 other people. Yeah, cracking, cracking immediately. So I'll tell you 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.600 what Michelle did. Right. He dove out of the bedroom 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.040 window to make his escape and left his girlfriend to 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.360 face the police alone. Fucked up, like leaving your girlfriend 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:34.920 holding the battle totally French. Yeah right, I don't even 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.080 know that's friends. This guy's just like an early adopter 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.160 of the fuck boy nature. He's like, not my problem. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.760 So how do you even justify it to her later? 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.000 You know, like hey, like I'm sorry. Like the thing is, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.800 there is a loud sound outside. I want to I 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.000 was testing rock climbing. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.080 Was actually going to go out it's a window and 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.920 get the stolen car and drive it to another location. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.319 So he's a German Frenchman. Now, oh god, damn it. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.520 I knew I should practice my accents. You didn't tell 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:05.800 me this was a French story. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.520 I think we need to do Yeah, I think we 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.000 need to use our own accents from now on. Day 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.080 that the European nations are up in arms. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.319 I don't think we're going to offend anyone by doing 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:16.080 bad accents. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.920 No, no, it's just so listen. So she confessed, right, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.880 Michelle was caught, convicted, and he was put away for 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.479 two and a half years. Now, Michelle thought his punishment 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.760 was too harsh, and this is when he decided to 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.800 start his war against society. When he got out, Michelle 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.480 was arrested again for the crime of driving without a license, 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.320 and he ends up being convicted of ten robberies over 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.920 the years. To be honest, I do think it's kind 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.880 of I mean, I'm not advocating grand theft auto here, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.960 but it seemed like he was just a dumb kid, right, 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.040 like most of the time he put the car away. Yeah, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.120 I mean he's still really young now, right, he was 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.439 nineteen the first time you got oh, oh god, okay, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.320 so yeah, there's just no yeah you could. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.640 You're just crazy when you're nineteen, right, I don't know 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.080 about you, but oh. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.720 Yeah, it was a nut job at nineteen, and it 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.320 hasn't gotten any better, no, no. But also like it 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.320 doesn't feel like people that go in the system, it 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.400 like rehabilitates them in any country, you know. So I 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.760 guess that's when he got a really revolutionary with his crimes. Yeah, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.240 but prison, you know, they couldn't hold him. They just 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.240 could not hold Michelle. Right. He made his first escape 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.240 when he joined the work crew of prisoners unloading trucks 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.240 of supplies. Right when he saw the chance, he bolted 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.880 through the cap between the truck and the gate, and 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.280 he made his way into the woods, where he dodged 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.720 the officers surging for him. Twice, he escaped by scaling 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.880 prison walls in nineteen seventy three in nineteen seventy four. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.680 In nineteen seventy three, Michelle and another prisoner pushed to 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.000 a weak area of the fence and climbed the wall, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.680 where they realized there was a blind spot for the guards. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.080 They went on a robbery spree until they got caught again. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.200 What it was it with these people that can't just 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.240 enjoy their prison break, you know, They're. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.400 Like, you know, it just shows you that I'm coming 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.080 from a different place. But I I always think, like, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.280 you get out of prison, just be cool for a 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.880 little bit, right, move to La put on in La 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.120 put on some shorts, fops maybe you know, yeah, like 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.000 just relax I But it's just like, no, no, I 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.199 feel like he's Michelle is really trying to prove a point, right. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:23.960 He's waging a war against society, man. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.240 Yeah, I mean he was just like, I'm just going 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.000 to get out of this cage that you put me 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.160 in and just do some more damage to this thing 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.040 that I hate, you. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.240 Know, right right right. So in nineteen seventy four, Michelle 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.600 shared a cell with a safebreaker name Jill gill zil. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.360 Can the overlords of pronunciation please come in and tell 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.800 me how to pronounce his name. It is pronounced she 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:53.200 is pronounced gez g g so. In nineteen seventy four, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.040 Michelle shared a cell with a safe breaker named Jill, 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.679 who became his best friend. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:58.120 Now. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.520 The pair used one of Jill's lock picking tricks to escape. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.400 They collected the red wax from baby bell cheeses to 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.240 make an imprint of the key. Okay, Jay, your turn again. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.600 You got some wax? How are you going to get 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.320 that print? I also, I'm sorry again French people, but 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.760 that is the most French way of making I. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.360 Mean the fact that they have baby bell cheeses like 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:25.280 in prisons, mean, you know what our prisoners would do 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.440 in this country do for one baby bell cheese. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.640 And that was not the canon beer week, you know, 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.240 that was that way was. It's not. It's not as 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.320 easy to get an improve. It reminds me of like 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:36.040 I was listening. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.000 I was reading about World War One recently, and one 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.160 of the reasons the French troops were doing so badly 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.520 is that they all drank. A leader of wine every 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.359 day like that was there. It was part of their ration. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.679 A lot as opposed to the Germans and World War Two, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.480 which were all hyped up on. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.640 Ye. Well yeah, it was actually like both of those 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.719 world wars were like a study of olcohol versus speed. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.079 Versus drug use. Yeah yeah, like speed, speed will always 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.720 win in a war. By the way, Yeah, we does 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.080 not do well in the war. It's everybody, what if 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.319 what the fuck are we doing? Guys, let's just show Yeah. 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.240 Man just fell out and you know, you just get 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.680 sloppy drunk on a bunch of red wine, and it's 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.880 like if they put us in prison, we'll just be 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.080 eating cute little cheeses. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:28.680 Great. So Michelle took the direct approach, so he and 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.960 Jill memorized which one was the right key by watching 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.560 their cell get unlocked every day, and once when they 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.400 were being put back into the cell, Michelle bumped the 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.360 guard and pressed his wax against the key. Yeah. So, 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.360 using a fiel and part of a hacksaw, Michelle and 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.000 Ghee were able to take a piece of iron, a 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.400 small piece of it, and duplicate the shape of the 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.200 key following the imprint of the wax and. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.440 Unlock his fure. I'm beginning to thank this guy's a genius. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.640 I mean, could you bump into someone and make make 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.080 a whack impression of their key? 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.080 I don't. I can't confirm it legally. I can't tell 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.400 you if I have done that before or not. No, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.440 but it is impressive. You know. It's one of those 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.640 you know, classic tales of like wow, if you had 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:17.280 just applied that genius to something else, like yeah, exactly, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.680 but he was. He was put on earth basically to 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.400 break out of prison. That's right, some people their job. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.520 He evolved, like one hundred thousand years of human evolution 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.000 led to this guy. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.520 Just I can break out it anything, any single thing. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.440 So in prison, after being arrested for another robbery, Michelle 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:40.120 held what one French newspaper called an intimate ritual of rebirth. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.800 So he striped, naked, shaved, and used yoga to enter 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.840 a trance that would kill the mad dog in him. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.240 And after that he gave up tobacco, radio, and even 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.760 his mattress. Right, so this guy was preparing for burning man. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:55.800 He did not even know it. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:57.960 I'm waiting for what comes next because I know it's 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.400 it's not going to be about yoga. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.440 Well. The fourth escape came in nineteen seventy nine during 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.000 a hearing for his crimes. Michelle had been in prison 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.880 for four years, and he had worked out a plan 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.840 right at the courthouse. During his hearing, Michelle took the 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.560 judge hostage at gunpoint. Jay, if we were going to 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.440 smuggle a gun into a hearing, where would you hide it? Actually, 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.600 I don't want to know, fuck it? No, nope, nope, 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.360 Well you ask so I know what. I just know. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.000 I like this question was here and I'm like, no, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.800 I know where he would hide it. In the in 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.040 the pocket of my shorts. Yeah, in his beautiful thigh 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.600 pocket that he always carries with him when it gets chilli. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.120 You have one of those, like, you know those pants 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:37.680 that become shorts. What do they call them? 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:38.240 Oh? 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:39.040 Sports? 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:46.280 No, uh no, that's something else. Convertible shorts, convertible shorts shirt. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.800 We'll go with that and the convertible short people. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.480 If you want to promote your shit on the show, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.400 you know, me and Jay and the Catholic guy will 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:58.440 definitely buy yourself, will definitely zip those up. Michelle had 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.400 actually sewn a pocket inside his underwear and took the 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.080 gun out when he went to the bathroom before the 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.120 hearing started. Now, the thing is, the gun wasn't real. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.840 It was a dummy carved out of soap and turned 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.440 black with shoe polish. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.040 Oh my god, this is like take the money and 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.040 run a Woody all In movie where you know, it's 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:19.040 just like this is such a cliche, And I love 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.080 that he can work in different mediums too. Yeah, he 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.840 can branch out from wax into soap. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.200 I mean, you know, from cheese, from cheese to show 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.760 to wax. This man does it all. It's all just 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.320 a means of escape. It's exactly now. Once he was out, 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.119 Michelle reconnected with his old prison friend Ghee, the safe Breaker, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.880 and he also met Gee's sister, Nadine. Huh I see 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.440 where this is going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nadine had also 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.520 been locked up on three separate times for things like 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.359 hiding stolen goods, so Michelle and Nadine were basically a 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.080 match for each other. They fell in love, and Michelle 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.120 started life with Nadine and her daughter. But that didn't 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.800 keep him out of trouble. No, no, yeah, nothing keeps 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.000 him down. You see. In this time behind bars, Michelle 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.680 had met a bunch of guys involved in organized crime. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.119 They reached him now that he was out again, and 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.720 he got hired to help with a bunch of armed robberies. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.560 So in March nineteen eighty one, Michelle gets arrested again, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.119 and this time Nadine was even grabbed as an accomplice. Okay, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.640 this part is nuts. Her second daughter, Okay, the one 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.879 with Michelle, was even born that year while Nadine was 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.000 in jail. They had kids. They had kids, and the 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.320 daughter escaped at prison at six months old. Very impressive. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:38.920 So with you, oh okay, can you imagine, well if 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.399 you considered a womb of prison. Yes, well, she escaped 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:48.080 at zero years old in nineteen eighty two, with both 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.159 of them behind bars. Somehow, Michelle Nadine arranged for a 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.200 prison wedding. They met at a prison registry to sign 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.760 the papers, and in the intimacy of the moment, Michelle 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.920 told her about his next plans for escape. Oh my god, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.040 they didn't was released the same day, but Michelle's sentence 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.440 was for eighteen years. If they were going to be together, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.600 they would need to work together to break Michelle out 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:15.880 of the most notorious prison in Paris. Lessons. Oh yeah, 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.360 that's right. Well it's actually a prison. It's well known 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.359 for housing celebrities and VIPs. At least, I mean at 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.239 least if you're a fan of like well, if you're 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.479 a fan of French criminals, that is, if you were 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.280 like oj, you'd be put in Leyson. Yeah, exactly, you 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.280 would be in the song. Now do any of these 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:36.119 names sound familiar to Jean Ganay, Carlos the Jackal, Bernard Tappi, 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:41.360 Jerome Cavier and Jacques Missline. I'm fucking up all these names. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.480 But how about a first couple I recognize? How about 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:48.080 Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama. Oh yeah, he 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.439 ended up there in twenty ten. Oh man. Apparently his 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.320 excuse is he wanted the cheese. 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.199 About one thing you can say about Manuel Noriega. He 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:01.040 loved his cheese. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.200 He loved his cheese. Say what you will about him 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.840 and narco trafficking. That's right, yeah, say what you will 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.280 about the man. The man had a taste for the 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.400 fine things. Laissan has actually been used to film numerous 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.960 French gangster movies and there wash there are French pop 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.720 songs about the prison. I'm not sure you know I'm 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.399 not sure if this was filmed there, but Umprofet was 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.800 an amazing French film about the rise of an inmate. 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.199 Laissan is still open today and it's one of just 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.960 three prisons in Paris. Now. It has a high security wing, 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.119 but the security is known for being like fairly lax. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.400 You know, gentlemen, I need to I need to break 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.520 in here and say the name of the prison is 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.280 son of It, Son of a gun. So we've been 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.560 told by our overlords in the sky, our producers there, 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:50.719 it's actually La Sente. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:56.840 So confused, I was confused that you were talking about. 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:03.240 Yeah, that's right, of course, that's exactly what the jackal was. Yes, 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.960