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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Saren Elizabeth Brunette.

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Speaker 3: Nice to see you, girl.

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Speaker 2: So good to see you. It's been such a long time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know, like thirty minutes. We got to do this

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Speaker 2: more often and it really do listen. Yes, you know

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Speaker 2: it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, yes, actually and.

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Speaker 2: It's me yeah, ridiculously awesome.

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Speaker 3: No in this case, like as a listener pointed out,

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Speaker 3: they sent in a message and they said Melanie was

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Speaker 3: her name, and she said she was disappointed because when

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Speaker 3: there is a story about Alec Baldwin and no one

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Speaker 3: says who knows what evil lies in the hearts of men?

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Speaker 3: Alec Baldwin knows. And of course, as they point out

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Speaker 3: in their message, this is from the Shadow that from

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Speaker 3: the nineties, right, And as Melanie writes, quote, the Shadow

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Speaker 3: film was such a flop that no one seems to remember.

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Speaker 3: His turn as a superhero. Was especially disappointed when he

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Speaker 3: wrote an op ed defending Anthony Wayner the first sex scandal,

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Speaker 3: not the one resulting in divorce, and NPR neglected to

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Speaker 3: use this line in their coverage. I really thought Elizabeth

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Speaker 3: then ZB three would get there.

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Speaker 2: And dropped the ball right, I remember the Shadow, right.

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Speaker 3: I dude, I remember I watched all of those nineties like, oh,

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Speaker 3: we found this character from the thirties. Yeah, bet it

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Speaker 3: from the Radio over comics strip and we like Dick

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Speaker 3: Tracy that like, and then the made up one dark Man.

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Speaker 3: I even made up to watch The dark Man.

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Speaker 2: Like crap all over good radio show totally.

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Speaker 3: I love the radio show obviously, and uh, you know

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Speaker 3: the the old Shadow. That was the line from the

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Speaker 3: radio who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

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Speaker 3: The Shadow knows? All right, and like, oh, you're right.

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Speaker 3: I dropped the ball, so thank you. It was ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: We totally dropped it. I love the I hear you

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Speaker 2: listening to the One show suspense.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, the time, yeah, around around headquarters because I'll

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Speaker 3: be like writing or returning emails and I just pop

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Speaker 3: one on my phone. The best love.

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Speaker 2: That is one hundred percent ridiculous, And I'm glad that

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Speaker 2: was pointed out. We did we did it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: But you want to know what else is ridiculous? Yes,

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Speaker 2: getting busted over a salami sandwich. This is ridiculous crime.

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Speaker 2: A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers heists and cons

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Speaker 2: it is always ninety nine percent murder free and one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent ridiculous. You damn right heists heists talking about language,

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Speaker 2: It's right in our tagline. Yeah, capers heist.

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Speaker 3: One of my three favorite things I love.

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Speaker 2: I love a good heist, like, give it to me,

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Speaker 2: give it to me. What you say? I what I

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Speaker 2: have for you today is a primo heist. You have

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Speaker 2: no idea. I can't believe we haven't talked about this before.

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Speaker 3: Really, this is like a classic. Oh it's it's top ten.

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Speaker 2: It is top ten, easy, top five, top three? What

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Speaker 2: this has it all? Zaren?

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Speaker 3: Why do we miss a top three?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I'm I'm very lazy, very sloppy.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you need to update the big board.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, totally this has it all. Diamonds, italians

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Speaker 2: whoa code names?

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Speaker 3: Hell?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tools goodness, including a swiffer.

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Speaker 3: Did you come up with this list?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And a telltale salami sandwich.

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Speaker 3: Come on, every time you get to.

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Speaker 2: The sandwich sounds. What do you know about turin.

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Speaker 3: The city or the cloth aside from the shroud, I

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Speaker 2: Two thousand and six I did some investigating. Oh good,

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Speaker 2: and it should come as no surprise that I really

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Speaker 2: I've been a lot of places in Italy, but I've

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Speaker 2: never been to Turino. It's the home of Fiat Oh

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Speaker 2: Fabrica Italian automobile. Too cool, Turin Automobile, Turin Italian Automobiles. Back.

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Speaker 2: Every dentis football, okay, that's there, familiar with that. That's also

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all of that in Turin. Michael Caine drove a

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Speaker 3: In the classic Italy that we imagine, right.

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Speaker 2: And in all my research on this heist, I spent

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't not spend any inappropriate amount of

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Speaker 2: Have you ever been to Turin.

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Speaker 3: No, I've never been there. Yeah, I haven't. I haven't

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Speaker 2: Venice is phenomenon. Yeah, okay, so we need to record

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Speaker 2: an episode in Venice.

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Speaker 2: Episode in Turin, and I'm going to write to Admiral

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Speaker 2: iHeart be like, sir, sir, yes, sir, please please for

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Speaker 2: the people. Are you familiar with the School of Turin.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it sounds like.

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Speaker 2: An art movement, but it's not. It's a group of

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Speaker 2: professional criminals, criminal really yeah, and each of them have

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Speaker 2: fabulous specialties like areas of expertise. So well they're not okay,

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Speaker 2: So it's not technically like a gang or organized crime.

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Speaker 2: There's no hierarchy. It's just like a pool of skilled

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Speaker 3: Oh so it's like the old craftsman level of master apprentices,

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Speaker 2: So they're smarter than other heist crews, Like they see

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Speaker 2: That non violent. It so like they don't just bust

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Speaker 2: They would outsmart security, they would use common items to

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Speaker 2: There's this book Flawless by Scott Selby and Greg Campbell

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Speaker 2: as journalists, and this is what they say of the

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Speaker 2: school of turin quote. In one famous example, they ditched

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're just that's some James Bonds. I liked this.

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Speaker 3: He went and seduce the guard essentially, or maybe the executive, the.

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Speaker 2: especially talented with disabling high tech security systems? Do we

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Speaker 2: they would go over who has these skills that they need?

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Speaker 2: Which of these dudes would be the best fit for

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Speaker 3: They had like an Emiliano's list.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so then we have like the mastermind of the

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Speaker 2: biggest heist any of these guys could ever pull in

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Speaker 2: a million years, Leonardo, not of Bertolo.

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Speaker 3: Oh you telling me this school of Turin had Leonardo

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Speaker 3: as their master h Hell yeah, it's so good.

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Speaker 2: So he was born in Palermo, raised in Turin, Yes,

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Speaker 2: his family life, but he grew up in like this

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Speaker 2: fascinated with mechanics and like intricate systems. He was interested

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Speaker 3: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: As a teenager, he could, like he could open locks

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Speaker 3: Mass safe as a teen Yes, damn.

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Speaker 2: So his criminal career began in nineteen seventy one with

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Speaker 2: the theft of an Alpha Romeo spider in Paris. Great,

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Speaker 2: I mean, are you kidding me? Style points nineteen years old, Yes,

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Speaker 2: and he's caught just chilling in the car listening to

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Speaker 3: Way to get call oh my.

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Speaker 2: God, seriously, like stealing one of the most beautiful cars.

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Speaker 3: Taking it for a driving and parking for a moment

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Speaker 2: Listen to the you know, like some like cool you know.

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Speaker 3: Music was going on.

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Speaker 2: So he gets sent back to Italy. He goes on

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Speaker 3: And he's a safe cracker. So it's mostly like cat

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's interesting though because at the same time

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Speaker 3: He's got to get that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they called him though, People were calling him the

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Speaker 2: lupenn of Italy. Oh because he you know, your dude,

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Speaker 2: the famous generalman of course French literature. But so in

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Speaker 2: His boyhood nickname was Testa Dino or wooden head, because

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Speaker 3: Totally.

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Speaker 2: That makes sense because one of Turin's sister cities is Glasgow.

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Speaker 3: There you go. They recognized game, game recognized game exactly.

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Speaker 2: But it went beyond the head butt, the glassy kiss.

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Speaker 2: He was just straight stubborn when it came to obeying

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Speaker 2: he graduates from cars to general thievery. He does little

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Speaker 2: his school, his University of crim Total. So he learns

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Speaker 3: You go on a network that you're a young man

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Speaker 2: To busy on the go lifestyle. By the late seventies,

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Speaker 2: he's on the cusp of his thirties. He EPs his game,

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Speaker 2: goes into the diamond business. You know, I've got a

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Speaker 2: friend in the Tom Shane of Shane and Company and

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Speaker 2: Cooper Tino, San Matteo and Walnut Creek open weekdays till eight,

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Speaker 3: Now you have a friend in the diamond business. I've

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Speaker 3: heard those as.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god forever. Anyway, Leonardo Diamonds. Like I

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Speaker 2: said earlier, he was quite the jewelry designer. He'd sketch

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Speaker 2: This is a lark. But then he got serious about

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Speaker 2: it and he opened a jewelry store.

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Speaker 2: And then he got himself a partner in crime a

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Speaker 2: ride or die.

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Speaker 3: So keep that he didn't have a hard time getting

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Speaker 2: No, not in the least. Oh and the cops when

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Speaker 2: They're in these smoky back rooms, and apparently like Leonardo

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Speaker 2: Like hand gestures galore.

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Speaker 2: All starts so with this guy, uh, Ferdinando Finoto, and

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Speaker 2: His code name was the Monster.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had physical strength just like a monster mountain

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Speaker 2: It's because like he could do all this stuff, handle

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Speaker 3: Anything monstrously good and also us a monster on it. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I gotcha.

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Speaker 2: So he goes to Antwerp in nineteen ninety five because

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Speaker 3: They're the big mafia at this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all throughout the country. Right, three hundred warrants issue,

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Speaker 2: him to open a bank account there at KBC Bank.

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Speaker 2: So he and his crew they spent weeks casing the bank.

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Speaker 2: They're looking for a way to run a heist on

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Speaker 3: Oh, just like first time. They're like, okay, clip and

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Speaker 2: Oh no, So the Monster and his crew they book

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Speaker 2: link to the attempt. But with that job blown, the

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Speaker 2: Monster's like, well, let's go back to Turin for a while.

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Speaker 3: I lost all their tools and left fingerprints everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was like, I see the possibilities in Antwerp,

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Speaker 3: What at the diamonds side, hundreds of millions in diamonds.

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Speaker 2: Diamonds they're harder to move and longer than cash from

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Speaker 3: Yes, and so small, they're just small.

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Speaker 2: So the monster he sees an opportunity. He need knows

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Speaker 2: just the jeweler to get in on this jeweler Leonardo

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Speaker 2: So with the vague notion of a job, Leonardo sets

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Speaker 2: So obviously there's the monster Ferdinandoo. Then we have the

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Speaker 2: His cover was perfect because he had his own security business.

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Speaker 2: Speedy and he's the getaway driver, Pietro Tavano River named Speedy. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Pietro Tovano. He's responsible for their safe and rapid exit, right,

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Speaker 3: That you want to trust your getaway driver.

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Speaker 2: Lastly, we have the King of Keys. What yeah, the

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Speaker 2: King of His identity is unknown really, but he was

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Speaker 3: What yeah, the key.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So with the crew in place, Leonardo starts for.

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Speaker 3: Pa Renaissance era bank two foot like.

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Speaker 2: Two foot deep door vault and so uh it's a

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Speaker 2: two He gets the plan going. It's a two year

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you about the insane security measures

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Speaker 2: that these guys were up against. All right, Sarah, you ready, dude?

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? I've been champing at the bed.

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Speaker 3: They got the Genius, the King of Keys, Monster, the Monster.

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Speaker 2: It's so good. Yeah, it's so good and speedy. Let

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Speaker 2: us not forget speed. Let us not so I was

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: The vault at the Antwerp Diamond Center is one of

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Speaker 2: it housed billions of dollars worth of diamond gold jewels.

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Speaker 3: What's the big beat with?

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Speaker 2: We know how much a billion gym dealers from all

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Speaker 3: Supposedly, so when they take diamonds out of the congo.

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Speaker 3: This is where they deposit them.

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Speaker 2: They do the blood diamonds. This is where they go,

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Speaker 2: This is where they go. Okay, So, like I said,

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Speaker 2: and it's two feet thick. That's why you need a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no like thermal lance is going to.

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Speaker 2: Cut No, no, no, no no, there's also so you

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Speaker 3: Does it like change or something or just like they

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing with that. This is layer two, the

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Speaker 3: Did you say one hundred millions?

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Speaker 2: I just said that. So it's a dial logue. It

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Speaker 2: So you have to line up four double digits in

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Speaker 2: Layer three.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine inventing this thing? I know, it's like

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Speaker 3: I've got another one.

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Speaker 2: Internal and external surveillance cameras.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: internal track the movements inside the vault's corridor and around

442
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 2: the entrance. Footage is recorded twenty four to seven and

443
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 2: stored securely. Layer four magnetic sensor on the vault door.

444
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 2: So this would detect any unauthorized opening of the vault.

445
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 3: Door if the magnets break exactly.

446
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,199
Speaker 2: So if the vault doors open without disarming, the sensor

447
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 2: and alarm immediately goes to security. Layer five Heat and

448
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 2: motion detectors like infrared, So these would detect body heat

449
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 2: and movement in the vault in the corridor, like.

450
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 3: The missipible senses yes, ye.

451
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, even the slight exactly. Layer six light sensor inside

452
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 2: the vault, so this detects any sudden changes in light

453
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 2: within the vault flashlight yeah yeah, so if it's tripped

454
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 2: in alert Security Layer seven timed relocking mechanism, So if

455
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 2: the vault is not accessed at the correct time or

456
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 2: if tampering is detected, the system engages in a fail

457
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 2: safe lock that prevents the door from opening.

458
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 3: Wow.

459
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 2: Layer eight okay, seismic and vibration sensors. So this this

460
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 2: one any vibrations caused by drilling, cutting or any mechanical interference.

461
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 2: Super responsive to any disturbances around the vault structures.

462
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 3: Any vibration, no drilling.

463
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 2: Layered, nine security guard patrols and on site staff. Then

464
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: hell so regular security patrols are monitoring the premises and

465
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 2: the vault corridor and security is trained to respond within

466
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 2: minutes if anything goes on.

467
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,360
Speaker 3: Do they have like killer dogs too?

468
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 2: On a short layer ten our last layer emergency alarm

469
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 2: link to police, So any unauthorized attempt, any of these

470
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 2: alerts they go off, it goes right to the cops

471
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 2: and Antwerp police. They have a rapid response protocol in

472
00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 2: place to address alarms from the diming disc of You know,

473
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: it's so huge.

474
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 3: But if there like one guy like Barry who has

475
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 3: to come back in and like reset all the locks,

476
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 3: he's like it happened again, very sorry, I'll be.

477
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 2: There, then someone's stuck in the vault. But it's a lot,

478
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: that's a lot of security, a lot.

479
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 5: Well.

480
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: They kept mentioning in some of the articles I read

481
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 2: that there was like a Doppler system and I'm guessing

482
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 2: that has to do with like the seismic stuff. I

483
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 2: don't know, but whatever, they got a lot of stuff going.

484
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 3: On, like the whine of a drill.

485
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: Who knows, I probably so they they have like this

486
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: crazy security and they broadcast that to those who want

487
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 2: to use their services very upfront. So when Leonardo he

488
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 2: poses as an Italian diamond merchant and he rents a

489
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: little office there seven hundred bucks a month, he also

490
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 2: got access to a safe deposit box in the vault

491
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,679
Speaker 2: beneath the building. Like with your office, comes a box

492
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 2: in the vault.

493
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, So they go through all the security

494
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 3: and then all you have to do is just do

495
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 3: a first in the last and then you get into.

496
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 2: This bucks a month.

497
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 3: What Yeah, this is the one system.

498
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 2: And like bragging about security, and then they give him

499
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 2: a tenant ID card that provides twenty four hour access

500
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 2: to the building.

501
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, but I'm imagining all the other sensors, everything's

502
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 3: gonna make it hard to get It just means you

503
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 3: can get to the gate.

504
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: Right, So Leonardo he got to work, right. He secretly

505
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 2: installed miniature cameras around the vault like he would just

506
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 2: like yeah he would, and he studied the patterns of

507
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 2: the guards and the vaults operation. Okayulous, Yeah, he documented

508
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: all the weaknesses in the ten layer system and he

509
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 2: got into the complex to access his box while carrying

510
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 2: a man purse that he had like cut a little

511
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 2: hole and had a camera in it, and he felt

512
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 2: kind of foolish, like strolling around with a man purse. Yeah,

513
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 2: he came away with these like crazy detailed observation. So

514
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 2: he'd stroll all slow to keep the recording smooth. And

515
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 2: he starts outside the building, swipes his badge to get in,

516
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 2: and then goes to his office on the fifth floor.

517
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: And after that, then he turns around takes the elevator

518
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 2: down to the vault. All of this on video, sure,

519
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 2: and so he gets the specifics of the elevator, the

520
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 2: vault doors. Yeah, he captured the opening to the safe

521
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 2: room covered by the daygate. Of course, like security cameras

522
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: are filming him, so he had to look cool and

523
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 2: like inconspicuous. So he's just an Italian guy's like smooth

524
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 2: strolling around with clutching his leather man purse.

525
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 3: It's actually not that on camera works, it works, it's

526
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 3: very business man.

527
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, from that book, flawless quote with his little purse

528
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 2: cocked under his arm. He was often seen on the

529
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 2: security cameras tilting his upper body at odd angles, slowly

530
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 2: turning in circles in the middle of hallways, and walking

531
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 2: stiffly like he'd pull the muscle. Much later, the police

532
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 2: would watch the security tapes and laugh humorlessly and how

533
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 2: in hindsight it was obvious that something was amiss with

534
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 2: his behavior, but at the time tim is clunky gait

535
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 2: and what looked like spells of absent mindedness didn't attract attention. Yeah,

536
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: that's also because he's just charming everybody everywhere he goes.

537
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 2: I love this guy and he's weird, and I love him.

538
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 3: And I've been thinking a lot of characters too, who

539
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 3: are like you know, older gem Deelers and so forth,

540
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 3: who maybe a little absent minded.

541
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: Exactly, it's totally like the right industry to be a

542
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 2: little quirky. So he made it through the daygate gets

543
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: into the vault. There were very purposeful CCTV blind spots

544
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: in the vault, really because they wanted to give box

545
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 2: holders some privacy when they're putting stuff in or taking

546
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 2: it out, like you know, and there are no guards

547
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: in the vault, so that was a relief for him.

548
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 2: So he stood in the center of the vault and

549
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 2: he slowly turns to film the interior. He captured the

550
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 2: motion detector and the light detector and the ceiling. Sure,

551
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 2: since there's no one in there with him and they're

552
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 2: all the blind spots, he pulls out a tape measure

553
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 2: and gets to work. He like gets all the specifics

554
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 2: for the boxes and the vault door.

555
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 3: What he doesn't mind that he's on camera filming spots.

556
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 2: He's in the CCTV blind spots.

557
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 3: The whole vault extending this.

558
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, so when it comes to the giant vault door,

559
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 2: the video captured something important. There was a logo stamped

560
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 2: on the doorframe L I P S. I don't know.

561
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 2: It's all caps. So the School of Turin's locksmiths, they

562
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 2: went into research mode and they determined what they'd need

563
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 2: based on the schematics that they could get their hands

564
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: on from like when the building was built, when this

565
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 2: company was making these kind of vault doors, like they

566
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: hacked it. So at this time, for almost two years,

567
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 2: Leonardo came and went from the building like he's posted

568
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: up there for two years. Two He timed responses for everything.

569
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: He memorized routines. He used his charm and his wit

570
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 2: to blend in and become inconspicuous, just like this normal

571
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 2: gem dealer. Are you used to him?

572
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 3: I can see where they're called the School of Turin.

573
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: These are some Renaissance masters.

574
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: Meticulousness.

575
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 3: This is art.

576
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: It completely. So at one point he goes to management,

577
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 2: He's like, I want to expand out my office. Can

578
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 2: I see some blueprints to like get an idea of

579
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: what my options are. Knock down this wall, maybe they'll

580
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: give him the fifth floor. They gave him all the

581
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 2: blueprints to the entire tire building. Yeah, here you go,

582
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: take a look. Let me knock yourself out. So the

583
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 2: crew they had installed a small camera over the vault door,

584
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 2: Like he had to stretch and be like, oh oh yeah.

585
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: It would show guards opening the door and record that

586
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 2: crazy four line double digit combination?

587
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

588
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking right down on it. So the content from

589
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: that camera was sent to a small secret storage system,

590
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 2: and that was housed in a fire extinguisher in a

591
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 2: nearby storage room. What's crazy is it wasn't a dummy

592
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 2: fire extinguisher. They actually put a watertight chamber that held

593
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 2: all the tech stuff inside the extinguisher, so it still worked.

594
00:29:53,480 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 3: So they replaced the there was a fire, there's take

595
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 3: out like maybe a little bit.

596
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: Of yep, exactly.

597
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 3: So that's remarkable.

598
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: And they built the crew built a full scale replica

599
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 2: of the vault in order to practice in it.

600
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 3: You got to this is you have to. I mean,

601
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 3: this is like Tom Cruise would approve of this. This

602
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 3: is an impossible level preparation with extra time because there's

603
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 3: no like, oh, a ninety minute movie exactly.

604
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: So we're almost there. Remember this started in early two

605
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 2: thousand and one. It's now February fourteenth, two thousand and three.

606
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 2: Day yep, time for the final setup. So the crew

607
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: they assemble their tools, aluminum plates, custom keys, a can

608
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 2: of hairspray. Leonardo conducted one final check of the security

609
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 2: system and he verified the Cruise rolls, and then he

610
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 2: went for one last visit to the vault. Okay, and

611
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 2: while he was in there, he did this weird stretch

612
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 2: again and he sprayed women's hair spray on the thermal

613
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 2: motion sensors. Really yeah, the sensor would only go off

614
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 2: if it detected both heat and motion and the oil

615
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 2: from the spray, you know, it's all clear, but it

616
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: would insulate the sensor from heat fluctuations in the room.

617
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't even think about.

618
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 2: That, right, all, So this is s temporary fix.

619
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 3: The moisture he made any Oh.

620
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 2: Yeah perhaps, huh. This is like a temporary fix. It's

621
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 2: gonna last like a day or so, but it would

622
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 2: allow them to get in there and then actually disable

623
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: the system. So it's kind of like by their way

624
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 2: in totally. Of course, all this is on CCTV, but

625
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: Leonardo was such a regular and he did such weird

626
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 2: stuff that security staff didn't even notice when oh he's

627
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 2: the old guys in their stretching again. Yeah, so they

628
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: had to strike on a weekend when security wasn't in place,

629
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 2: And I just don't understand that if you're gonna have

630
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: ten layers of security, you go ahead and pay the

631
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 2: staff and work on the weekends even if it's closed, Like,

632
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 2: come on, We're charge a little more every month, I mean,

633
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: like come on. So Saturday, February fifteenth, two thousand and three,

634
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: the crew made their initial entry seven pm. Leonardo is

635
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: in a getaway vehicle listening to a police He's ready

636
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: to leave when they're done.

637
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 3: He doesn't go inside.

638
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,239
Speaker 2: No, he didn't go inside. The crews all gloved up

639
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: so as not to leave fingerprints. Remember the exterior cameras.

640
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: The King of Keys picked the lock of an abandoned

641
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 2: office building next to the Diamond Center, and there was

642
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 2: like a shared private garden with the Diamond Center that

643
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 2: didn't have CCTV. So this gave them access via ladder

644
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 2: to a balcony in the Diamond Center. And like there

645
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 2: was an infrared sensor that monitored the area, but the

646
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 2: genius used a huge homemade polyester shield to hide his

647
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 2: thermal signature. And so he creeps up to the sensor

648
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: and then puts the shield in front of it. So

649
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 2: now the crew can walk by, no problem. Yeah, and

650
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: the genius then bypassed the alarm on the balcony windows.

651
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 2: They covered the security cameras outside of the vault with

652
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 2: black plastic bags so they could turn on the lights.

653
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 2: And then once they're inside, they deactivated all the security systems.

654
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 2: So this was done by spraying hair spray on heat

655
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: and motion sensors to obscure the signature. Yeah, they can

656
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 2: move freely now, and now we get to jamming the

657
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 2: magnetical lock.

658
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 3: That's got to be one of the hardest. I don't

659
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 3: know how you're going to take that.

660
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 2: Well, okay, So it's the magnetic lock two plates. When

661
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: the door's closed, there's a magnetic field. Opening the door

662
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 2: breaks the field triggers the alarm. So the genius lived

663
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: up to his name. He made a special aluminum plate

664
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: with heavy duty double sided tape to one side. He

665
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: stuck it on the two bolts and unscrewed them, keeping

666
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 2: the two magnetic plates together and maintaining the field. He

667
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: then was able to swing the unit away from the

668
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 2: door and tape it to the wall.

669
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 3: WHOA, She's like, we don't need to break the magnets.

670
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: We just need to move the take the magnets off

671
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 2: the door. So now they're at the moment of truth,

672
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: the vault door. Let's stop here to listen to the

673
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 2: wonderful goods and services on offer out there in the world.

674
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to tackle this giant door.

675
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, Zarin.

676
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 2: Yes, we've made it through a bunch of the.

677
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 3: Security layers, so many layers.

678
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 2: And now we're at the vault door. We're at the

679
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 2: vault door. So the King of Keys spent months in

680
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 2: his turin studio studying the footage provided by the Mastermind

681
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 2: in order to make a duplicate key of the key

682
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 2: in the vault. And the key is supposed to be

683
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 2: impossible to duplicate. It's a foot long.

684
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't imagine the dude ever saw it,

685
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 3: but I know the camera is gonna You're gonna see the.

686
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: Video in the video. Yeah, he was successful. He made

687
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 2: an identical key that would fit the vault door and

688
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: open it for access to untold Richards.

689
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 3: I wonder what he was using it for. Scale against idea.

690
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: This guy is like a wizard, the King of Keys, Elizabeth.

691
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 2: He's the King of Keys. He's in the anti chamber

692
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: right at the vault door, and he has this idea.

693
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 2: Like in all of their recontapes, you could see the

694
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 2: guard visit a utility room just before opening the vault.

695
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 2: So the King of Keys signaled the crew to go

696
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: search that room. Right there, hanging on a hook was

697
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 2: the actual vault key. So the King of Keys took it.

698
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 2: He didn't want the safe manufacturers to know that they

699
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 2: could be duplicated, let them think it's impenetrable. So the

700
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 2: King of Keys he put the original in a key hole,

701
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: and he waited, and the genius dialed in that crazy

702
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 2: combination that being captured on hidden camera, and then he

703
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: nodded the monster turned off the lights and then that

704
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 2: way they're not going to trigger the light detector in

705
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 2: the vault. When the door opens, King of Keys turns

706
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 2: the key, twists the four prong handle, click, the bolts retract,

707
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 2: giant door swings open. They're in God. So once inside,

708
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: the monster slowly crept to the middle of the room,

709
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 2: reaching up to push back a ceiling panel. Remember this

710
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 2: is in the dark, so above that panel were the

711
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 2: security system's inbound and outbound wires. If any sensor is

712
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 2: going to be tripped or broken, it's going to trigger

713
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: the alarm. So slowly, very slowly, the monster delicately stripped

714
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 2: the wires and put a new piece of wire up

715
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 2: to the stripped wire, detouring the circuit.

716
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 3: Wow.

717
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 2: So this allowed them to trip the circuits without alerting

718
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 2: the security So now for the heat sensors, they used

719
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 2: styrofoam boxes that had tape on them to cover the

720
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 2: heat and the light sensors. How did they get the

721
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 2: boxes up there? They attached them to the end of

722
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 2: a swift or dry mop and lifted them up and

723
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: taped them to the wall just above the censer the sensor,

724
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 2: just dangling it there. This is so something I would do,

725
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: needing to hang something where I can't reach it, so

726
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: I put it on the swiffer and hope I can

727
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 2: just get to dangle.

728
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 3: Right a box of you taped.

729
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 2: I think it looks like I'm a good candidate for

730
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 2: the School of Turin.

731
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 3: I'm thinking you should get them an application.

732
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 2: So there they are, total darkness, moving super slow, silent.

733
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 2: They had that replica vault right, so they memorized the

734
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 2: whole layout. They could navigate it with their eyes closed,

735
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: like they knew the number of steps, they knew where

736
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: things were. Every now and then they would like split second,

737
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 2: hit a flashlight. To get a little burst of light.

738
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 2: You had to position the drill over the boxes and

739
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 2: like thanks to the swiffer, the light sensors covered. But

740
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 2: you don't want to like press your luck and keep

741
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: the lights. So the King of Keys he came up

742
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 2: with a hand cranked jack that would bust open these

743
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 2: like really substantial locks on the boxes hand crank. He

744
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 2: built it himself. See the boxes had a double lock,

745
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 2: a key in a combination. There's no use trying to

746
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: pick them, so you had to just go with a

747
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 2: break course. Yeah, and they had a field day. So

748
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 2: they're just popping, dumping, popping and dumping, and they have

749
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 2: these all these Duffel bags out on the floor and

750
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 2: they're just throwing in gold bars like millions in Israeli, Swiss,

751
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 2: American euro you know, British currency, rough and polished diamonds,

752
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 2: like everything's just going into the Duffel bags. They broke

753
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: into one hundred and twenty six of one hundred and

754
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 2: sixty bucks.

755
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 3: Oh damn. Yeah.

756
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 2: Then it gets to five thirty in the morning, like okay.

757
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 3: Yeah.

758
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 2: So on their way out, they stopped at the security

759
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 2: office and they stole all the security tapes for the

760
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 2: previous week. Really yeah, so there's nothing of that. They

761
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 2: retraced their steps at exactly the same speed, so they

762
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: didn't race out and retrip something. And then they loaded

763
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 2: everything into Leonardo's car. He drove to his apartment in

764
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 2: Antwerp while the rest of them just walked.

765
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 3: I am absolutely wondering what the hell they're doing on

766
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 3: this show, I you know what I mean, Like, how

767
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 3: did they ever end up on ridiculous crime.

768
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 2: You're about to find out. So they go back to

769
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 2: the apartment. They're sifting through what they had taken, pulling

770
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 2: out the good stuff. Like as with every safe deposit

771
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 2: vault heist, the total values just.

772
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 3: An estimate, yea.

773
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 2: So like there are those who don't come forward or

774
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 2: they say they didn't have anything.

775
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 3: Don't tell the truth about how much was in there.

776
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And so in all though they stole loose diamonds, gold, silver,

777
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 2: and random jewelry, valued it more than one hundred million dollars,

778
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 2: which is one hundred and seventy three million dollars today.

779
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: That's a that's a pretty good haul.

780
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 3: That's an amazing hall and they got.

781
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: So they decided to celebrate, so one of them they did.

782
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: They had they go. Leonardo is the one. He goes

783
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 2: to the corner store to get some treats. And for

784
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 2: these good Italians, it was kind of like a shark

785
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 2: Houter report. So they get like bread and cheese and

786
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 2: fruit and salami sandwiches. It's a real party. I need

787
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 2: to hone a specialty so I could join the School

788
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 2: of Turin and have a salami sandwich party. So the

789
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: crew they made their way back to Turin, though, which

790
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 2: means that they had to go through France. So the Genius,

791
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 2: the Monster, and the King of Keys they get into

792
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 2: a car with all the gems in the loot. Leonardo

793
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 2: tells the crew that he and Speedy are going to

794
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 2: take another car and burn all the evidence, all the

795
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 2: non loot stuff that they had taken with them from

796
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 2: the Antwerp apartment. Yeah, when we get to France, we're

797
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna burn it all. Wow. And so that'll

798
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 2: be far enough away and then we'll all rendezvous and

799
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 2: Milan and divide it up.

800
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 3: Okay.

801
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 2: So Speedy though, he's getting anxious, like, I'm with Speedy,

802
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: rid of this stuff as soon as possible. Yeah, he

803
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 2: wanted all trace of things, the plans, their ephemera out

804
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 2: of his car.

805
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 3: I'm with Speedy. Well.

806
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 2: According to Wired magazine quote, Speedy scanned the traffic behind

807
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 2: them in the side view mirror and maintained a tense silence.

808
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 2: Nota Bartolo had worked with him for thirty years. They

809
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 2: were childhood buddies, but he knew that his friend had

810
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,479
Speaker 2: a habit of coming apart at the end of a job.

811
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 2: The others on the team hadn't wanted Speedy in on

812
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 2: this one. They said he was a liability. Not of

813
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 2: Bartolo could see their point, but out of loyalty, he

814
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 2: defended his friend. Speedy could handle it, he said, Oh no,

815
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 2: So they get to the Derna forest. I'm still in

816
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 2: Belgium and actually just outside of Antwerp, so they didn't

817
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 2: get far. Yeah, and Speedy couldn't handle it. He convinced

818
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 2: them all to stop, like he.

819
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 3: Like, pull over to get out of the car.

820
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: I gotta throw everything away. Oh no, speed, Yeah, so

821
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 2: he and you know, their car pulls over Leonardo, he

822
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 2: gets out, fine, Okay, we'll dump it here. He takes

823
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: a bag of like paperwork and other stuff into the

824
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 2: woods and he sets it on fire. He like makes

825
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 2: this nice little pyre. Speedy grabs another bag, this one

826
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 2: containing like security videotapes trash from the apartment. He goes

827
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 2: to get rid of it, but he couldn't hold it together.

828
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 2: He's super freaked out, starts having a panic attack and

829
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 2: just starts tossing the stuff like into this ravine.

830
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 5: Nos.

831
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, speed.

832
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: Leonardo comes running over, freaking out, like he's just scattering it. Yeah,

833
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 2: and Leonardo's freaking out He's like, you're making this huge mess,

834
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: but it's going to take way too long to go

835
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 2: all through it and gather everything up and actually destroy

836
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 2: it rather than just dump it, because he's just spread

837
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 2: it everywhere. It's like, you know, raccoon's getting into garbage. Yeah,

838
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 2: so he's looking around and like feeling like, Okay, we're

839
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere. The heck with it. No

840
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 2: one's going to find this stuff. It's so isolated here.

841
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 2: We got to just keep moving, Zaren, close your eyes.

842
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: Picture it. You are a retired Belgian grocer and you

843
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 2: own land in the Derna Forest. For weeks, local teens

844
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,479
Speaker 2: have been glittering on your land. They come and hang

845
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 2: out and do god knows what and leave all sorts

846
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 2: of trash behind. You've called the local authorities many times

847
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 2: asking for them to pick it all up in the

848
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: patrol the area on weekend nights. So try and put

849
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 2: a stop to this. Today, it's lovely out and you're

850
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 2: strolling through your property with your bloodhound Rufus. You trapes

851
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 2: through a meadow towards the ravine. You love the place

852
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 2: where you're able to do great birding and take in

853
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 2: the woodpeckers. And the tits. As you go down into

854
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: the ravine, you see a bunch of garbage. Noup te

855
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 2: kiddn you yell. Rufus begins to bark in all the

856
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 2: two of you make your way to the trash. You

857
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 2: poke at the junk with your walking stairs. There are

858
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 2: unschooled VHS tapes all over the place, a half eaten

859
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 2: salami sandwich, a piece of an envelope. You lean down

860
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 2: to get a better look. You're a large man. There's

861
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: a logo Antwerp Diamond Center. Your wife was just telling

862
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 2: you about the heist there. Apparently yesterday Monday, the place

863
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 2: opened up and security found the vault totally trashed. They

864
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 2: said it looked like a bomb went off. Hundreds of

865
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 2: millions where the gem's gone. And now here's all this mess.

866
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 2: What if it's from the heist? Zaren, you're a good citizen.

867
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 2: You shoe Rufus away from the salami sandwich. He's sniffing,

868
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 2: and you reach for your mobile phone. Time to call

869
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 2: the cops. You just hope they don't brush you off

870
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 2: because of all you're complaining about the teens. You dial.

871
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 2: Here goes nothing, all right, So as soon as the

872
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: dude who found the garbage, called the cops about the

873
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 2: Antwerp Diamond Center logo on some paper. They sprang into

874
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: action and when they got there, the sandwich allowed them

875
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 2: to tie it all together. So along with the salami

876
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 2: sandwich was a receipt for the sandwich. So the police

877
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 2: they get so it has like the name of the

878
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 2: store at time, the date. The police pulled the security

879
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 2: video from the receipt store for that day and time.

880
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 2: They get Leonardo on camera buying it, and then they

881
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 2: later tested the sandwich for DNA and it was a

882
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 2: match to Leonardo. Of course, boom, always finish your sandwich.

883
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 2: So the cops they honed in on Leonardo and everything

884
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 2: just starts stacking up, like they find out about his

885
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 2: office in the center. They also learned that in his

886
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 2: two years with an office in the Diamond Center, he

887
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 2: had never once made a sale, not one. And his

888
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: box was one of the ones that didn't get hit

889
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 2: in the hype. Of course, and they found out, oh,

890
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 2: he has this extensive criminal history. Okay, now we just

891
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 2: got to find it. Well, no worries. He came to them, see,

892
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 2: he thought it would be better to go back to

893
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 2: work at the Diamond Center. Like nothing happened, just play

894
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 2: it cool. But instead the police they had everything they

895
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 2: needed to arrest him right there. The one thing they

896
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 2: didn't have was the address for his apartment. So he

897
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 2: like they they get him at the at the office

898
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,479
Speaker 2: and he was like stalling as long as he can.

899
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 2: But then he finally told him the address of the apartment.

900
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: And he was stalling because while he's being grilled. Audriana,

901
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 2: his wife, was at the apartment, cleaning it out and

902
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: getting rid of all the traces of everything. Right or

903
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 2: died to is the cops pulled up to the apartment,

904
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 2: She and some friends were just walking out of the building.

905
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 2: They all had like a bunch of bags and ones

906
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 2: holding a rolled up carpet and like another couple of

907
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 2: minutes they would have gotten away. Instead they get arrested.

908
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 2: Saren what was in the bags? According to Wired magazine

909
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: critical evidence quote, the police dug out a series of

910
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 2: prepaid SIM cards that were linked to cell phones used

911
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: almost exclusively to call three Italians, Elio Durronio aka the Genius,

912
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 2: Ferdnando Finoto alias the Monster, and the person most likely

913
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 2: to be Speedy, an anxious, paranoid man named Pietro Tvano,

914
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 2: a longtime associate of Noto Botolo's. On the night of

915
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 2: the heist, a cell tower in the Diamond district logged

916
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 2: the presence of all three plus Nota Battolo. During that time,

917
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 2: Tavano stayed in constant contact with Nota Battolo. The day

918
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 2: Noto Battolo was arrested, Italian police broke open the safe

919
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: at his home in Turin. They found seventeen polished diamonds

920
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 2: attached to certificates that the Belgian diamond detectives traced back

921
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 2: to the vault. More gems were vacuumed out of the

922
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 2: rolled up carpet from Nordo Petola's Antwerp apartment, so they

923
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 2: had spilled so many. There were all these like tiny

924
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: emeralds that are used as like just little accent pieces

925
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: on jewelry that they found in the vault, and then

926
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 2: they found them also in the carpet. So he's tied

927
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: it all in.

928
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 3: My goodness, speedy kill You know who didn't have a

929
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 3: phone on him? Who?

930
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 2: King of Keys?

931
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 3: Oh y, we don't know who the wizard.

932
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone except for the King of Keys gets arrested

933
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 2: and the evidence against everyone is like rock solid. So Leonardo.

934
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 2: He's found guilty of orchestrating the whole thing.

935
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 3: I get nobody rolls over anybody, because they don't. They

936
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 3: all use their code names. They can't roll over.

937
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just the King of Keys. He gets.

938
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 2: So Leonardo gets ten years in prison in two thousand

939
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 2: and five, but he gets released on parole in two

940
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 2: thousand and nine. In twenty eleven, an arrest warrant was

941
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: issued against him for a parole violation because he was

942
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 2: supposed to compensate his victim's restitution, but he didn't make

943
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 2: any effort whatsoever. So he gets re arrested in twenty

944
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 2: thirteen at Charles Degall Airport in Paris. He's like it

945
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 2: was in a layover from coming back from the United

946
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 2: States to go to two. They pick him up in Paris.

947
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 2: He has to serve the remainder of his prison sentence

948
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 2: until twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen, so Tivano Dinio Finoto, they

949
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 2: each get five years in prison and the lout never recovered.

950
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 2: It's out there somewhere, almost all of it, because they

951
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 2: had like a couple of pieces in his apartment. Leonardo

952
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 2: gave that interviewed Wired magazine, and he said that the

953
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 2: amount that they took was way below one hundred million,

954
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 2: It was more like twenty million, and that it wasn't

955
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 2: his idea. He said that a diamond merchant hired his

956
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 2: crew for the heist, and it was actually all part

957
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 2: of an insurance scam so that the right people knew

958
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 2: it was coming. They filed insurance claims on stuff that

959
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 2: wasn't there to be geting for real. But the vault

960
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 2: itself was uninsured and there were never any big insurance

961
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 2: payouts on it. So he may be full of it

962
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: like it just doesn't act.

963
00:48:58,120 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 3: None of this adds out no either way.

964
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 2: He's the mastermind of an amazing heist, serious, and they

965
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 2: almost got away with it. I know you're thinking that

966
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 2: this would make a great movie. Of course, Well, Paramount

967
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 2: Pictures option the rights, but those rights have since expired. J. J.

968
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 2: Abrams was attached to produce, but the rights have expired,

969
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: so I called DIBs on.

970
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 3: It for Thank you, Elizabeth, please please.

971
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 2: Write the screenplay.

972
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 3: Could you imagine?

973
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 2: Oh my god, seriously, this is basically.

974
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 3: Like a Steven Soderberg's Oceans eleven twelve thirteen, but in

975
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 3: Europe like it makes it's like from his like imagine

976
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 3: if he made it in Europe as opposed to like, oh,

977
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 3: a bunch of American thieves, those.

978
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 2: Guys when you think about the casting, Yes.

979
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 3: And also reminds me of Snatch with the whole, like

980
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 3: at the beginning of Snatch the whole, like goods get

981
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,959
Speaker 3: the diamonds from the diamond center in Antwerps. You coup

982
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 3: those together and then add in like I don't know,

983
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 3: like a little love the Sergio Leone, just like passion

984
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 3: and the silliness of life.

985
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 2: You have to write the screen.

986
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 3: And then Speedy breaks your heart.

987
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: King of Keys, Oh no.

988
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 3: I love King Case Speedy like it unravelers that your takeaway?

989
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 2: What's your ridiculous takeaway?

990
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 3: Oh well, my ridiculous takeaway is actually like Leo, when

991
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 3: you have that feeling and your guys are telling you

992
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 3: we don't want to bring them, you gotta listen, like you,

993
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 3: there's nothing he's not gonna be like at the end

994
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 3: of it, they're all gonna be like, man, you were right,

995
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 3: and that's gonna be better, Like it'll feel so good

996
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 3: that you were right.

997
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 2: Speedy came through.

998
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 3: Versus like the Speedy got us all busted. Those are

999
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 3: not comparable.

1000
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 2: Time loyalties are hard to You.

1001
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 3: Gotta be real though with your longtime loyal like in

1002
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,320
Speaker 3: that case, minimize his involvement.

1003
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the key.

1004
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 3: Haven't be involved, but minimize it.

1005
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: Poor guys.

1006
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's yours, Elizabeth? What's your ridiculous takeaway?

1007
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:41,919
Speaker 2: This needs to be a movie that you write. You

1008
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 2: have to, like dips, no one else can do it.

1009
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. Will see. It's a great telling.

1010
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 3: They're great. Good on you.

1011
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 2: I just I really they were so close. But since

1012
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 2: nothing's been recovered, I don't know what everyone's current status is.

1013
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 2: I think that they all just got away with it

1014
00:50:58,920 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 2: quite frank.

1015
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 3: Kind of feels like and they paid in prison for six.

1016
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,479
Speaker 2: Years I think total, and then you know, you get

1017
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions.

1018
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 3: It's kind of one of those like would you be

1019
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 3: in prison for this long? For these many millions of

1020
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 3: dollars questions you might No one asked this online. No

1021
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 3: one ever says, hey, would you be in prison for

1022
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 3: five years if I gave you twenty million dollars? Yeah,

1023
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 3: but it kind of is that question, you know, as

1024
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 3: opposed to like, I'll give you a million dollars if

1025
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,919
Speaker 3: you live on this island for ninety days, and mister

1026
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 3: Beast like put you there or whatever.

1027
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 2: Well, and apparently like when Wired went to interview him

1028
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 2: in the Belgian jail, he's like kind of the boss there.

1029
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 2: Everyone looks at him with respect. He was weird of Rolex.

1030
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and those Northern European jails do not look that rough. No,

1031
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 3: I'm not talking Russian jails. I just be in like

1032
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 3: Belgian Swedish.

1033
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 2: For profit facility in Atlanta, exactly, super Max. Yeah, I

1034
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 2: think I need to talk back, right, Hell yeah, let

1035
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 2: me hit you.

1036
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I went to get.

1037
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:06,680
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