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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey Elizabeth zaren Burnette, So good to see you. I

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Speaker 2: got a question for you, Yes, sir, all right, do

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Speaker 2: you know what's ridiculous? I do?

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Speaker 3: Sit down? You sit down.

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Speaker 2: I'm all buckled up. Let me know.

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Speaker 3: All right. So Christian Billion, that's he's not ridiculous, Christian

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Speaker 3: bon he's a cool dude. He is a Midwest He's

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Speaker 3: a rude dude. He's a rude dude. He sent us

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Speaker 3: a DM on Instagram, sure, and his caption was, I

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Speaker 3: don't think this is a mashup, but it's unclean, unclean, unclean.

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Speaker 3: And a couple other people sent it, but he was

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Speaker 3: the first through the gate, and he had the funniest

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Speaker 3: comment about it. Okay, And so when it was shown

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Speaker 3: to me, what it is is it's Krispy Cream cheesecake tacos.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's some sort of it looks like a

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Speaker 3: legit taco shell that has been dipped on the outside

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Speaker 3: in white chocolate, oh, which is just like oil. And

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Speaker 3: then I think there's some sort of cheesecake smashed inside.

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Speaker 3: And then they shoved donut in it, a Krispy Cream donut.

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Speaker 3: So It's like a taco shell filled with smashed up

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Speaker 3: cheesecake and then a Krispy Creme donut shoved in it.

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Speaker 2: This is a taco in the line of like choco.

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Speaker 3: Taco completely, but shove a Krispy Cream up in there

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Speaker 3: between them taco lips, and then you just have this disaster. Right,

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Speaker 3: it's not a mashup, So Christian's right, it's not a mashup.

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Speaker 3: And we get a lot of stuff like this. They

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Speaker 3: were showing me our Instagram feed, the Ridiculous Crime. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They in turn showed me that I hadn't really seen

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Speaker 3: the feed because we don't follow a lot of people apparently.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: No, it's just like a handful and it's no one.

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Speaker 3: It's like random weird accounts. Anyway, they were showing me

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Speaker 3: the feed, and it consists of basically dog stuff, a

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Speaker 3: lot of Golden retriever things, which makes sense that when

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Speaker 3: we talk about that, and then these horrible food things

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Speaker 3: that aren't mashups, but like we just were scrolling through

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Speaker 3: and I started writing them down. Cinnamon sugar cruffins, icy carbonara,

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Speaker 3: spring rolls. What was another one? Upside down pastry, upside

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Speaker 3: down puff pastry, tacos pass. There was one stuffed garlic

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Speaker 3: bagel filled with cream cheese and dunked in garlic.

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Speaker 2: Butter hard pass.

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Speaker 3: Some Moores dip barbecue, brisket, baked potato.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I can compete on all of

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Speaker 2: this stuff.

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Speaker 3: Is like, if you hate yourself and you're drunk and

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Speaker 3: you've got serious issues, you just throw this food together

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Speaker 3: and you lay on the floor and eat it.

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Speaker 2: As it sounds like you don't like food.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the other thing. But here's so.

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Speaker 3: So I pulled up the Krispy Cream cheesecake tacos. I

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Speaker 3: could only find it on the original link that tasted

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Speaker 3: that is the Instagram, and it said would you try

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Speaker 3: these Crispy Cream Cheesecake tacos? And you know whatever, and

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Speaker 3: then you can like follow them for food content hashtag

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Speaker 3: food porn. It is what it said. But the comments

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Speaker 3: Lawyer's first choice said anyone who would eat this doesn't

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Speaker 3: like themselves.

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Speaker 2: Lawyer's first choice hard comedy.

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Speaker 3: Someone said, just got diabetes looking at this. Let me

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Speaker 3: get a dozen though, Okay hates himself. So anyway, it's

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Speaker 3: you know, everyone's talking about how it's gluttonous and it's

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Speaker 3: this and that. But you know, obviously their eye clicked

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Speaker 3: on it. And if you look down at the other references,

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Speaker 3: they have a cookie monster taco.

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Speaker 2: Can it possibly taste good?

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Speaker 3: A loaded fries variety box.

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Speaker 2: It's so rich it passes the point of being sweet

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Speaker 3: There's probably no flavored differential between. It just becomes a

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Speaker 3: big glob of sugar and oil.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like it would give you like a headache, sugar.

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Speaker 3: Alcohol, everything. There's something wrong with us.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: This is not how we're supposed to be living.

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Speaker 2: No, this is very late.

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Speaker 3: And I like, I like desserts, and I like, you know, man,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but this is like, you know, the desserts that

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Speaker 2: the court completely our version of that, the Fall of Rome,

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Speaker 2: same thing.

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Speaker 3: This is, this is the end times food. So that's

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Speaker 3: ridiculous that I know it is.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, But how about this, Elizabeth on food?

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Speaker 2: How about people who can't stop stealing enormous statues of

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Speaker 2: fun little round boys. We just want everyone to enjoy

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Speaker 2: a cheeseburger.

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Speaker 3: Oh I think I know what this is.

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Speaker 2: This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous

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Speaker 2: capers heist in cons it's always ninety nine percent murder

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Speaker 2: free and one hundred percent ridiculous. Yes, oh Elizabeth, Yes,

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Speaker 2: Have you ever eaten at a Bob's Big Boy?

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Speaker 3: They have?

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Speaker 2: Did you ever eat at the famous one in Burbank?

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Speaker 3: I don't believe I have.

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Speaker 2: It's on the corner on Riverside.

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Speaker 3: There are a lot of things that I've done in

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Speaker 3: my life and I don't remember. That could be one

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Speaker 2: I think you would have. It's a life changing event.

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Speaker 2: Backing up, do you know what Bob's Big Boy is?

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Speaker 2: Can you describe it for me? Yes? Okay, you do

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Speaker 2: know You're not just like Bob's Big Boy, I know,

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Speaker 2: but you might just be being friendly. You're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I've been there.

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Speaker 3: I seek Yeah, if I if I don't know something,

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Speaker 3: around't been somewhere. I'll tell you a lot of times,

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Speaker 2: There you go. This was my example. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: you ever are a liar, but you will occasionally say things.

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Speaker 3: It may not bear a truth physically entered Bob's Big Boy.

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Speaker 2: That's impressive. That's really impressive that you've done that. And

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Speaker 2: then you say it was such relish because it's a diner.

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Speaker 2: As you said, it's relish icon from the era of

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Speaker 2: southern California car culture, right, very mid century. It was

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Speaker 2: originally called Bob's.

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Speaker 3: Pantry, right, Oh, that's no fun.

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Speaker 2: It was started as a ten stool hamburger stand. Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: In August nineteen thirty six, his twenty year old named

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Speaker 2: Bob Weighan. He sold his DeSoto roadster. He got three

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Speaker 2: money to make a down payment on the hamburger stand.

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Speaker 2: That's a good investment known as the pantry. He's like

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Speaker 2: a good hamburger stand, same, right, and those were like

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Speaker 2: good hamburgers too back then.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, so he's like, all right, the pantry is now

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Speaker 3: They weren't shoving donuts, sip in there and stuff.

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Speaker 2: My point, exact sprinkles, expecting the ingredients, keeping it del chipping.

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Speaker 3: It and melted cheese exactly gold.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, after he opens up shop, right, Bob wihen

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Speaker 2: six months in this customer comes in late. Right. They

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Speaker 2: were most likely a bunch of musicians. After a the

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Speaker 2: customer asked for quote, something different, and Bob's like, I

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Speaker 2: got you, brother. Now Bob listened, right, So he goes,

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Speaker 2: let me think about this for a little bit. I

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Speaker 2: got an idea, goes out in the back, slices himself

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Speaker 2: a hamburger bun, Elizabeth, but he slices it into three pieces,

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Speaker 2: not the traditional two pieces of the just cutting it

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Speaker 2: in half. He maced it, he big macked it. But

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Speaker 2: this was the first time anyone had ever created a top,

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Speaker 2: a bottom, in a middle slice out of a bun.

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Speaker 2: He added then to hamburger patties. Of course, he layered

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Speaker 2: that with cheese, lettuce and a relish based sauce. This

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Speaker 2: how he created the first double deck hamburger. That's what

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Speaker 2: he was called, right boy before this is like, uh hare,

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Speaker 2: I'll put it in context. Four years later, the first

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Right, So Bob's double patty burger was such a hait

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Speaker 2: he gives it a name. He calls it Bob's Big Boy. Right.

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Speaker 2: The name six, of course, as you said. You react immediately,

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Speaker 2: You're like, I want to order a Bob's Big Boy,

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Speaker 2: his new burger innovation. As I said, so popular, Bob

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Speaker 2: renames the restaurant Bob's Big Boy. He's like, just put

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Speaker 3: I feel like this is the villain origin story of

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Speaker 3: my what's ridiculous, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Bob's Big Boy, Like put more on there. And then

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Speaker 3: now fast forward here.

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Speaker 2: We are being even worse, oh terrible, almost insufferable. One

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Speaker 2: would say, So Bob's Big Boy, he's this burger pioneer,

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Speaker 2: totally and for decades and totally leading the field. But

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Speaker 2: this is not bad for a guy Bob Weihan who

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Speaker 2: was voted least likely to succeed while he was in

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Speaker 3: Wait, they had a least likely to succeed and didn't

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Speaker 3: have one of those. And we had like bullying in

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Speaker 2: They were a little rough for back then.

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Speaker 3: It was a little rougher, but maybe we need to

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Speaker 3: bring that back the people up.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen fifty two, Bob we granted the rights of his

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Speaker 2: name to three brothers in Detroit, and so they franchised Bob's,

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Speaker 2: Big Man and Jack. Yeah, but Manny, Moe and Jack.

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Speaker 2: They decide, you know what, we don't want to call

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Speaker 2: it Bob's because none of us are named Bob. So

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Speaker 2: they open a hundred restaurants, but they replaced the name Bob.

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Speaker 2: They call it Elias Brothers Big Boy.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that does not ring the way it's about boy.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, the alliteration, it's right there, you can hear it. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: they become like the first franchises. There's a lot to follow, right,

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Speaker 2: there's this guy fresh, but it doesn't matter. A bunch

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Speaker 2: of franchises anyway. Big Boys start popping up all around

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Speaker 2: the country. Detroit soon opened, as I said, one hundred

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Speaker 2: Big Boy franchise restaurants bearing the name Elias Brothers Big Boy.

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Speaker 2: Just to imagine that, right, But so they're basically my

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Speaker 2: point is, they're not just in southern California at this point. Now,

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Speaker 2: if you look at the success of the Big Boy Burger,

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Speaker 2: another burger franchise decides to imitate the double Decker burger

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Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty seven. Nineteen sixty seven, Elizabeth Wild hectic

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Speaker 2: times in America. McDonald's franchisee named James delea Gotti. He

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Speaker 2: borrowed the recipe of the Big Boy Burger and he

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Speaker 2: invents a sandwich called the Big Mac. Now dele Gotti

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Speaker 2: has admitted he stole the idea, although he didn't use

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Speaker 2: the word steal like I did. He'd said he preferred

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Speaker 2: to compare it to innovation.

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Speaker 3: And he was a franchise e, yeah, of McDonald's, so

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Speaker 3: he was just but he invented a McDonald's.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Then they brought it up to corporate and was

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Speaker 2: run with or whatever. Yeah, delea gotty. He says. This

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Speaker 2: wasn't like discovering the light bulb. The bulbs already there.

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Speaker 2: All I did was screw it in the socket. So

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Speaker 2: there you go. So if McDonald's is stealing from you,

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Speaker 2: you must be doing something right. Right, So back to

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Speaker 2: Bob's Big Boy, Elizabeth. Big Boy. It isn't just the

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Speaker 2: of the Bob's Big Boy Burger chain. Wow, yeah, Soon

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Speaker 2: they make a statue made of this jolly burger loving boy.

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Speaker 2: Bob Wian added statues to all of his Bob's Big

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Speaker 2: Over the years, Bob's Big Boys had many run ins

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Speaker 2: they didn't run whatever. The Beatles have their own booth

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Speaker 2: they can hear that. Anyway. Nineteen sixty five, the Beatles

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Speaker 2: That's the spot that's known as the Beatles booth, and

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Speaker 2: ones that loved this spot. Do you know us who

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Speaker 2: has a really interesting history with Bob's big boy Elizabeth

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Speaker 2: No, even weirder, John Waters, even the more odd. David Lynch.

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Speaker 2: they love to eat it. Bob's Big Boy, right, especially

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Speaker 2: David Lynch. During the eighties. He ate lunch there every day,

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Speaker 3: Well, I you know I love a late lunch totally.

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Speaker 2: when he thought he believes such things. He has since

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Speaker 2: changed his mind. He no longer drinks shakes every day.

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Speaker 3: Bye, Dian and talk about the cherry pie.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that's what I expect that ay Anyway,

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Speaker 2: on the Bob's Big Boy napkins. So, yeah, there's a

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Speaker 2: It has a note on it.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to go get a Bob's Boy, Bob's

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Speaker 3: Big Boy napkin. I'm going to write some fake notes.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to commit a ridiculous crime is auction on

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Speaker 3: eBay that it's a David Lynch note and make us

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm a I'm like a member of

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Speaker 3: the bloods Now Burbank Bob's everything has to start with me.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah. So well, here I got one more for

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Speaker 2: you about the Burbank Bob's Big Boy. It has a

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Speaker 2: criminal connection. But that's what we're here to talk about.

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Speaker 2: So let's take a break. When I get back, I'll

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Speaker 5: Oh, Elizabeth, we're back, Saren. Saren, Now I promised you

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Speaker 5: a heat connection.

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Speaker 3: You really did?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What does that even mean? Saren? What's a heat connection?

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Speaker 3: Is a heat connection?

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Speaker 2: As anything?

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Speaker 3: You for asking?

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Speaker 2: The nineteen ninety five film by Michael Mann So Good

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Speaker 2: came out in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 3: Five, Elizabeth, Oh, are we gonna do that?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: Not again? But you love the movies, right.

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Speaker 3: I do love the movie.

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Speaker 2: Now, Val Kilmer Blonde bank robber movie. Do you remember this?

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Speaker 2: I am okay? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And then the like iconic diner seemed Yeah, he was

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Speaker 2: No, but do you remember remember the epic shootout? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Also not in Bob's Big Boy. But do you remember

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Speaker 2: the getaway driver Dennis Haysburg? Yeah, you remember him.

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Speaker 3: He later went on to be the president in twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Extended heat franchise in the World. Yes, So do you

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Speaker 2: remember how he Dennis Haysburg gets shot and killed in

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Speaker 2: the big shootout on the streets of downtown La. Right.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't supposed to be there. Why because he had

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Speaker 2: Big Boy? He was working and that's where de Niro

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Speaker 2: they're like, hey man, he was like remember him from

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Speaker 2: the worst decision of his life. Right yeh, Bob's Big Boy.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why they allowed that, because the Boss

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Speaker 2: people because they're on parole. You think Bob's Big would

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Like, hey, listen any publicity.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of that. The greater appearance in movies Bob's Big

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Speaker 3: I have vague memories of this familiar Is it spaceballs?

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Speaker 2: No, it's on the ether of your mind, just on.

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Speaker 2: I know you remember this visual Big Boy circling.

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Speaker 2: From what is it from or something? Oh good, guess

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Doctor Evil has himself crygetically frozen. He's launched into

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Speaker 2: orbit around the Earth, circling the planet in an enormous

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Speaker 3: He st I've frustrated a lot of people taking a

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Speaker 2: That's the fun of the trip. So the CEO of

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Speaker 2: Tony Michaels. Now, when the filmmakers approached him about getting

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Speaker 2: him to sign off on the use of the Burger's

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Speaker 2: chain mascot for the scene in Austin Powers, he had

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Speaker 2: Michaels came up with the exchange about Doctor Evil. And

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Speaker 2: the Bob's Big Boy is still circling the earth decades

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Speaker 2: in the future. Seeing goes some military dudes. He's monitoring

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Speaker 2: his radar. He sees something on the screen. He tells

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Speaker 2: he shouts, good God, he's back right, and then what

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Speaker 2: he's looking at is Doctor Evil's enormous big Boy statue. Right,

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Speaker 2: But the subordinate monitoring the radar, he corrects the officer.

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Speaker 2: He's like in many ways, Bob's Big Boy never left sir.

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Speaker 2: He's always offered the same I quality meals at competitive prices.

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Speaker 3: Is room by the CEO.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, classic Austin powers. It helps seal the place of

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Speaker 2: the iconic mischievous face Bob's Big Boy statue in American culture.

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Speaker 2: But those of us not in Detroit or southern California,

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Speaker 2: sudden you're like, I like that, Yeah that real? Is

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Speaker 2: that a real thing? They're like, Oh, I got good

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Speaker 2: news for you brother. Anyway, at the moment in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, Bob's Big Boy still around. There are four

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Speaker 2: Bob's Big Boys in California left, Okay original there are

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Speaker 2: other Big Boys. There are fifty five in Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio,

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Speaker 2: and Nevada or Nevada, depending how you like it pronounce.

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Speaker 2: They're also franchises, I know, but some people like saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: I like having fun with those things.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't you know what home means Nevada? Yeah, home means

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Speaker 3: the hill.

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Speaker 2: Oh the song of the state song?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my cousin, Yeah, it's from Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Speaker 3: And he would sing that song the state song, right,

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Speaker 3: but he yeah, he learned it in school, but when

435
00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 3: he would sing it for me, he would sing it Homie.

436
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,640
Speaker 2: Nevada instead of home means Nevada.

437
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 3: Was the Hills.

438
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:16,719
Speaker 2: That could Nevada and the Hills exactly. So, uh, there

439
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 2: are other Big Boys, And I say the reason I

440
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 2: say that is because they don't have the name Bob

441
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 2: in front of them. Remember, they have different names because

442
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 2: when the franchisees get them, Bob didn't require that they

443
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 2: put Bob in front, just that they kept the big.

444
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 3: Boys like Marcus's Big Boy.

445
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 2: It could be it could be Elizabeth Big Boy if

446
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 2: you wanted. So there are still franchises in Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky.

447
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 2: There's one in Thailand.

448
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 3: Do you know if all the California ones are down south?

449
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,199
Speaker 2: Yeah? They are. Yeah, Okay, I'll take you to one.

450
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,560
Speaker 2: We'll go to the one in Burbank. That's the one

451
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 2: to see. There's also one in Norco.

452
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,320
Speaker 3: I think, still right.

453
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 2: I think that one has a cowboy boots on.

454
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 3: The and record little bits from that. I like that,

455
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 3: and then that way iHeart pays for the whole thing.

456
00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,119
Speaker 2: Oh, don't tell them. So you can you guess? Are

457
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,200
Speaker 2: there two hundred and seventy four Big Boys.

458
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 3: In my pocket? I don't know.

459
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 2: Japan.

460
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could totally see that.

461
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got really into it. So they there's a

462
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 2: Big Boy Japan Company Limited. They feature the same chubby

463
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 2: boy and checkered overalls, the devilish grand calich hair Big Boy. Right, yeah,

464
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 2: but want to hear something fun? In Japan, you can

465
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 2: order something called the Big Boy Viking Buffet. Wait, that's

466
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 2: a that's a combo deal where your meal includes quote

467
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 2: all you can eat, salad, soup, rice, and curry. I

468
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 2: don't know where the Viking comes in, but I'm into it.

469
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 3: Well, the Vikings went all over the place, Oh they.

470
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 2: Did, I just don't. And the food choice, I don't

471
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,879
Speaker 2: see it. That's my thing, so to go along with

472
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 2: your Bob's Big Boy. The menu, by the way, is

473
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 2: also a little different. If you go to a Big

474
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 2: Boy in Japan, you can order the Big Boy double

475
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 2: decker hamburger, just like you can hear. You can get

476
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 2: it with fries, milkshake, or you can also order a

477
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 2: sid of spaghetti or or pork steak. They have. It's

478
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 2: a whole entree, I believe, or a whole the choice.

479
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 2: But enough about food and menya, So but let's get

480
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 2: into the crome.

481
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 3: Yes please?

482
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, actually no, I want to tell you one

483
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 2: more thing. Sorry, I gotta tell you about this. Did

484
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 2: you ever been to Yellowstone?

485
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 3: No, I've always wanted to go, pretending Oh yeah.

486
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 2: No, no, I know, and people talk to you about

487
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 2: the Duttons and all that. Right, yes, okay, Well anyway,

488
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 2: I won't go there, but there's a big Boy statue

489
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 2: there that I'd like to show you. It's in Yellowstone apparently,

490
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 2: or just outside of Yellowstone. If you take the entrance

491
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,680
Speaker 2: of the US Highway fourteen sixteen and twenty entrance into

492
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 2: Yellowstone into the National Park, it's about twenty miles west

493
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 2: of Cody, and there you can see the WAPPETI Boy,

494
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 2: which is big Boy. I guess it's a big boy.

495
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: He stands over a bunch of field and they're on

496
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 2: the distance of the like high plane.

497
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 3: Cyberglass are made of stone.

498
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: It's not a replica. It's it's some artist version. But

499
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 2: they took an actual Bob's Big Boy statue and then

500
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 2: they rescued it. That's what they rescued it. And then

501
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 2: they put it on and they got the person owns

502
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:57,919
Speaker 2: the land, so it's not going anywhere, right.

503
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 3: This is kind of like the San Francisco Doggy Diner. Yes,

504
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 3: total head head.

505
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 2: Yes, so the guy's name is James Geyer. I may

506
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 2: be pronouncing that incorrectly. He's the owner of the what

507
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 2: Petee Boy Big Boy, And he says in a quote

508
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 2: big boy restaurants for everywhere. And I always wanted to

509
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 2: have a big boy and celebrate what's great about the

510
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 2: big boy. So he got himself with a big.

511
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 3: Boy celebrating what's good about the big boy. So we

512
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 3: can we put this on the road trip. You and

513
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 3: I have done a road trip that was pretty honestly

514
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 3: we have. Let's do another.

515
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: Think we should plan one for the summer, perhaps.

516
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 3: A big boy road trip.

517
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. So he plants his big boy in his field

518
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen. We can go see it. It fast becomes

519
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 2: an audity. Everybody locals like at the tourists love it.

520
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden it disappears. In twenty twenty, Elizabeth,

521
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 2: the locals O get worry. What about our big boy?

522
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 2: What about the peat boy big Boy? Someone starts whispering,

523
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's been stolen. Oh that's the

524
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: talk of the town, probably some punk Canadians. But no

525
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 2: fear not, Elizabeth, the big Boy was not stolen. And

526
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 2: turns out it also was not knocked over. It wasn't

527
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 2: even damage Geyer or Gear. He had taken him down

528
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 2: to do some maintenance at a fresh code of paint.

529
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 2: When Big Boy was back standing mischievously over the wyoming fields,

530
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 2: locals were once again pleased and all was right with

531
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 2: the Yeah. Yeah, So what if you want your own

532
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 2: enormous Big Boy statue? You said you want one, right, Sure, Well,

533
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 2: it turns out back I looked into this right now,

534
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 2: Big Boy in two thousand filed for bankruptcy the restaurant shame,

535
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 2: and a lot of restaurants closed, right, So that ended

536
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 2: up in a lot of restructure lost the Big Boys. Yeah,

537
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 2: like chapter eleven. So now you can often find them

538
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 2: for sale from former employees on sites like eBay. Now

539
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 2: keep in mind we're talking about something that can be

540
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 2: as big as sixteen feet tall.

541
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 3: Enormous.

542
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, so some of them were like four feet five

543
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 2: feet tall, but a lot of them are the classic

544
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 2: ones sixteen feet There's one in Cincinnati at the ballpark.

545
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 2: Or it was a couple of them dressed as nineteen

546
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 2: seventies Cincinnati Red ballplayers. Oh, it was like a little

547
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 2: like running guy, right. Yeah, But most of the ones

548
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 2: you will find they're just the classic model. Now. For instance,

549
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 2: there's currently online Bob's Big Boy statue for sale and

550
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 2: eBay eight thousand dollars. Yeah, I looked the listing, says

551
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 2: and I quote sales for an authentic vintage Bob's Big

552
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: Boy restaurant advertising statue. This Big Boy was at the

553
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 2: restaurant located in the city of Thousand Oaks, California, which

554
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 2: burned in the nineties. I think you means the restaurant

555
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,239
Speaker 2: now that the city city. We acquired it from one

556
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 2: of the employees and has been in our home since.

557
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 2: It measures fifty seven inches tall, thirty four inches wide,

558
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 2: twenty eight inches deep. Normal vintage wear with no major

559
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 2: damage to the fiberglass comes with the pressed wood pedestal

560
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: shown in the pictures. Pictures show the item on sale.

561
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 2: Feel free to ask any questions. Expect normal signs of

562
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 2: wear on all vintage items. Refer to photographs and description

563
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: for item condition. Sale is final.

564
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 3: So this is getting into like Batman Megafunco territory.

565
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, totally. But also there's like I found out,

566
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 2: there's apparently East Coast Big Boy and West Coast Big Boy. Yes,

567
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 2: so there was the traditional version there's the chubby boy

568
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 2: with the cal lick pompadour hairstyle wearing the red and

569
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: white checkered overalls holding the Big Boy sandwich. But there's

570
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 2: also the East Coast Big Boy, created by original franchisee

571
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 2: Dave Frish I mentioned earlier, who started Frish's Big Boy.

572
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 2: Frish is big why it's a mouthful. His version of

573
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 2: the mascot a bit thinner. He wore a cap. He

574
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: also had striped overalls instead of checkered, and a pair

575
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: of saddle shoes. He also had red or blonde hair

576
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: dependent instead instead of the dark hair.

577
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 3: That's the California ones where Chuck's not bally exactly.

578
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 4: So.

579
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: West Coast big Boy based on the original Warner Brother

580
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 2: animators like a sketch. But Bob Weiean grew to dislike

581
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 2: that original sketch. He thought Big Boy had this look

582
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 2: of a moron. He said, so in nineteen fifty five

583
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 2: he asked for a new mascot image to get drawn.

584
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: The new mascot becomes the one that becomes the most

585
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 2: iconic look that we think of.

586
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: That poor little boy that was the model for it.

587
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 3: They're like, this one looks like a Moron.

588
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 2: Exactly like, oh man, it's lifelike, but Moron this kid

589
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 2: kid So the sixties though, then they go and updated again.

590
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: When the two different looks merge into one all time

591
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 2: big boy to check it outfit, it becomes Cannon the

592
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 2: pompadoor Hairdoo. Cannon. Big Boy gets seen sporting a lifted arms,

593
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: offering the world a cheeseburger. Yeah, but in the health

594
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 2: conscious eighties, Elizabeth Cheeseburger gone, so they get rid of

595
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 2: the cheeseburger. Now there's a running motif involved, so that's

596
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: what you see. He's yeah, he's a jogger. So with

597
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 2: all these various styles and restaurants scrapping these big boys,

598
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 2: what happens is you have this big Boy statue glut

599
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: of different styles and ones that are coveted and not

600
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 2: so desired. Okaycause also, by the way, a Big Boy

601
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 2: graveyard there in Michigan. Yeah, so they apparently the Big

602
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 2: Boy headquarters was in Michigan and Warren, Michigan. So these

603
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: these local cats they'd heard about this rumored big Boy graveyard.

604
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: They trek out to the Upper Peninsula woods. They bring

605
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: a camera with them. They also had an aerial map

606
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: like you would. And they're determined Elizabeth, and they go

607
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: out there and they find it. They find the Big

608
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 2: Boy Graveyard, and the adventure recalled and I quote it

609
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 2: was evident upon arrival that this was indeed a graveyard.

610
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 2: They're on it. This is a graveyard. But in better quotes,

611
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 2: he did say, and I give you this, it's not

612
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: often you come across a molded, fiberglass version of one

613
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 2: of your favorite childhood cartoon characters, tipped over in the

614
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 2: woods with a big hole in the side of his head.

615
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: So there you go. They snapped photos of discovery. They're

616
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 2: haunted images of Elizabeth. You'd love them.

617
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 3: Bleak was the little boy who was the model. He

618
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 3: grew up and then died and they buried him there.

619
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not that kind of graveyard. It's more

620
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 2: of like a just toss it over here.

621
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 3: It's more of a midden, because all the little boys

622
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 3: who are the live models for the design who died

623
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 3: over the years in industrial accident.

624
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 2: A graveyard of broken boys exactly. So. But these cats

625
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 2: get home, they post these photos online, they do a

626
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 2: little write up about the Bob's Big Boy Graveyard. One

627
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 2: week later, they get their first email asking where is

628
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 2: it right? People are on it right. By the time

629
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: the Explorers go back to the Bob's Big Boy Graveyard,

630
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 2: statues are gone. They speculated it was cleared out. Someone

631
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 2: mus have taken them for scrap metal. I'm guessing they're

632
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: and then sold. That's exact anyway, So stolen big boys.

633
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: Back in the seventies, it was very much a teen

634
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: prank to steal a big boy statue and like put

635
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: it on the roof of your high school.

636
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's ripe for it totally.

637
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 2: By the end of the decade and the start of

638
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: the reg and eighties, big boys were then often chained

639
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 2: down or cemented to their pedestals, so they weren't stolen

640
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 2: for pranks. That stopped would be pranksters, accidental thieves, kids

641
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 2: who were opportunists looking for a lark. Right. But during

642
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: the eighties, rather than steal a big boy and plant

643
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 2: them somewhere fun, instead folks started I just outright steal them,

644
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 2: and so they started stealing them and keeping them for themselves.

645
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 2: No more putting them on the school. They're justo gone.

646
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: What happened to a big boy? Ain't gonna see him no more.

647
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 3: He's just in the living room. They caress his cheek

648
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 3: every night.

649
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 2: I'm telling well here, for instance.

650
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 3: Is they're not all sixteen feet tall.

651
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 2: No summer seven feet six five feet thing. Imagine a

652
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 2: lot of them as being in the five to seven

653
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 2: foot range. So one night back in nineteen eighty five

654
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: and a town called Wenatchi in Washington State, a big

655
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 2: Boy was stolen. A man named Chris Hansen. He tells

656
00:30:58,760 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 2: the story of.

657
00:30:59,200 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 3: This Chris Hansen.

658
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, quote. The town was much smaller than so something

659
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 2: like the disappearance of the big Boy statue was about

660
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: as scandalous as it got around these parts. One evening,

661
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 2: my brother said that several of his friends but not him,

662
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 2: of course, had been downtown partying the weekend and it

663
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: went missing and had decided to big Boy nap it

664
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: from the restaurant. He also claimed that it was definitely

665
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: still in one piece and was now residing as a

666
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 2: trophy in the wreck room of one of the perpetrators.

667
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: One thing I do know is that the statue was

668
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: never returned.

669
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 3: Now was this one of them seven foot more fans

670
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 3: big boys or was it a five footer?

671
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 2: I'm thinking this is a five footer because these kids

672
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: are picking it up as fiberglass, so it's not super heavy,

673
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, yeah, but little big boy napping is

674
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 2: one thing, right, But things turned uglier in nineteen eighty six, Elizabeth,

675
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: this was this was This is not a crack era crime,

676
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 2: but it feels like this new story has crackish front,

677
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: crackish right. Dateline, South Burlington, Vermont, May sixth, nineteen eighty six,

678
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: headline statue stolen shot in head the UPI reported and

679
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: I quote, someone stole a life sized Big Boy Status

680
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 2: you from its display outside a Hamburger restaurant, shot it

681
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 2: in the head, and dumped it in some nearby woods.

682
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 2: Police said Tuesday, this Big Boy statue mind You was

683
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,479
Speaker 2: six feet tall. He was also fifty years old. For

684
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: thirty six hours he was missing, cops began their man hunt.

685
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 2: They scoured the woods. They began to search the rough

686
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 2: section of town. I don't know if there's a rough

687
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: section of South Burlington, but I'm guessing that, you know.

688
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 2: They anyway, Yeah, the cops they find the statue in

689
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: the woods with a single gunshot to the head. Big

690
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: Boy's been put down execution style, Elizabeth, like like Ronald

691
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 2: McDonald called out a hit on his rival.

692
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 3: It's all like in the drizzling rain totally. The guy's

693
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 3: like holding the gun and like gives his little soliloquy

694
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 3: and the statue stands their stone face.

695
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: It's a one tier running down his cheek in the rain,

696
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 2: distguised in the rain.

697
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 3: And then like the investigators show and they're like, oh,

698
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 3: we can tell from the stipling this was a close

699
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 3: range execute. He didn't suffer.

700
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: And you can see here the car tracks looks like

701
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 2: someone watched it occur. There's an oil patch that Ronald

702
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:07,479
Speaker 2: McDonald puts the window back upt We find it size

703
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,239
Speaker 2: eighteen shoe. So anyway, this burger turf war that ends up,

704
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: Captain Ray McGee says he'd been shot in the head,

705
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: right in the ear, so big boy. He gets airlifted

706
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 2: out of the woods. No, but he wasn't airlift. He

707
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 2: gets carried out, taken back to the restaurant. He gets

708
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: hosed down, hand washed, bullet hole repaired. Elizabeth meanwhile getting.

709
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 3: The Gambino crime family will not take down Bob's Big bull.

710
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: Uh No, not as long as they got some fiberglass.

711
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 3: To feather out Bondo. He fixed that.

712
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: Into eighteen hours. So the South Burlington Police. Mind you,

713
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 2: they have no suspects from motives in the case. Anyway,

714
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: the story has a happy ending though, the big Boy

715
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 2: was brought back to Greek customers.

716
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 3: So I know.

717
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: Right, Let's take a little break, Elizabeth, and after this

718
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 2: I'll tell you even more grizzly story of a big

719
00:33:52,120 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: boy kidnap boy. Hey Elizabeth, Hey, we're back. Hey, you

720
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: want to hear some more about big boys? I big

721
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 2: boy do So this next one takes place in the nineties. Okay,

722
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 2: you've been a chronological for you the nineties, specifically March

723
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five. Okay, dateline Toledo, Ohio headline Police cracked

724
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 2: the Big Boy Caper.

725
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,720
Speaker 3: Oh a big Boy caper.

726
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, six foot tall, three hundred pound big Boy statue

727
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 2: was missing. It was stolen from a Toledo franchise. Detective

728
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 2: Ron Scanlon was assigned the case. His job find and

729
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: rescue big Boy, which means, Elizabeth, your job is to

730
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: close your eyes and to picture.

731
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 3: It as a close.

732
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 2: It's Friday morning in Toledo, Ohio. You are the manager

733
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 2: for one of the ten big Boys in the city

734
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 2: of t Only this morning you wish you weren't because

735
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 2: this morning, you arrived at the restaurant to open up

736
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 2: for the day, and you discover tragedy. Your big boy

737
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 2: is missing. How could that be? You had the feet

738
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 2: of the Big Boy statue encased in cement to prevent

739
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 2: exactly the sort of Big Boy napping. You're a good manager, Elizabeth.

740
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 2: But now you look at where your big boy once stood,

741
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 2: and all that's left is his pair of shiny black shoes.

742
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 2: That's right, the thieves left behind Big Boy's feet. You

743
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 2: gasp in horror at the side of Big Boy's shiny

744
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 2: black shoes and chopped off feet. The restaurant had been

745
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: closed for remodeling. You thought he would be safe. As

746
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 2: the morning birds whistle and call, you stroll the outside

747
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: of the restaurant looking for any clues. You spy your

748
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 2: first indicator of a crime. It's Big boys severed head.

749
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 2: You called nine to one one. You tell the operator

750
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: what you found. You're starting to break up, you say,

751
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 2: almost stream up conscious. I couldn't believe that someone would

752
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,720
Speaker 2: would do that to Him's friendly Holy smially.

753
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 3: Ready to greet our customers.

754
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 2: I mean, what kind of person would do this to him?

755
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 2: The sight of Big Boy's severed head has done you

756
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 2: no good. The nine one one operator tries to calm

757
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: you down, to get you to answer her questions. But

758
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: you're just too keyed up, you say, as if to yourself.

759
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 2: Nine times out of ten, if the big Boy is missing,

760
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 2: he's usually down at the University of Toledo during Fred's season.

761
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 2: They do this as a prank. The nine to one

762
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: operator says, okay, okay, do you think it was the

763
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 2: fraternities this time, ma'am? If so, is there a fraternity

764
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 2: you suspect might have you interrupt the nine one one

765
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 2: operator not not this time, because I just found his head.

766
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 2: Oh no, The nine to one operator says, real emotion

767
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 2: colors her voice. Police arrive on the scene, Elizabeth. A

768
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 2: pair of patrol cars roll up. They silence their sirens

769
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 2: when they see you. They park. You've had time to

770
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 2: walk the parking lot. You show the responding officers what

771
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 2: all you found. You show them the severed head. You

772
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 2: take them over to where you also found the arms.

773
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 2: You also found a note. It's like a ransom note.

774
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: The letters are cut out from magazines and glued to

775
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 2: the paper. You hand the ransom style note to the police.

776
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: One of the officers reads it aloud, big boy is dead.

777
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 2: You hand him the other note you found. He reads

778
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 2: that one aloud too, big boy is almost dead. Never

779
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 2: mind now he's dead. Huh tape to the big boys.

780
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: But is another note. The cop reads that one aloud

781
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: as well. Strip steak two twenty nine a pound. Sergeant

782
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 2: Richard Murphy chuckles to himself. You shoot him a dirty look,

783
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 2: He apologizes with just his eyes they soft, and he says, well,

784
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: at least they had a sense of humor. Now, naturally,

785
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 2: you don't find your dead dismembered big boy to be

786
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 2: so funny. No one of the notes identifies the thieves.

787
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 2: The cop reads it aloud, the pimps of pimpliness. Hm,

788
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 2: you roll your eyes. Sergeant Murphy turns and asks, are

789
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 2: you familiar with these pop so Elizabeth. Later on, before

790
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 2: the press gathers to cover this local news story, which

791
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: they do this, these quotes are all from the local news,

792
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 2: Sergeant Murphy he does a quick five like basically a

793
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: comedy set for the reporter. Sergean Murphy. He's on a roll, right,

794
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 2: so he tells the press this is a sad, sad

795
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 2: day for the city when somebody would desecrate a hagloaed

796
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 2: symbol of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. He then

797
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 2: furrowed his brow for effect like he's just like so tough,

798
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: like you know, like one of those Brolind boys might

799
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: do it. And then then he grinned to let the

800
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: reporters in on his joke before he said, it's really

801
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 2: hard to keep a straight face when you talk about it.

802
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 2: We've been trying to put him up together again, like

803
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: humpty dumpty. I think he looks pretty good for a

804
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 2: guy who's been cut up. So yeah, this stolen's Big

805
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: Boy statue was valued at three three hundred dollars, which

806
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: means these purps could have been charged with grand theft.

807
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: That's a felony punishable by two years in jail. However,

808
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 2: days later, the adolescent thieves were found caught, unmasked, the

809
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 2: pimps of Pimplinis were collared. Elizabeth and Detective Scanlon informed

810
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 2: the press that the young thieves never intended to arm

811
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 2: the Big Boy. Things just spun out of control. Yes,

812
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 2: and I quote from him, it was just gonna be

813
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: a plan to take the big Boy and move him,

814
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 2: Detective scandal And told the press, And but things got

815
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 2: out of hand. They took the head and cut it off,

816
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 2: and then the arms, and then the legs. The initial

817
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 2: prank became malicious. So in the end, Elizabeth, each of

818
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 2: the unidentified underage suspects they were possibly going to be

819
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 2: charged with a third degree misdemeanor and punishable by sixty

820
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 2: days in jail. But I'm betting the judge did not

821
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 2: throw the book at them and chalked it up to

822
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 2: a mostly harmless prank. Cut to one year later, May ninth,

823
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six, dateline, Tucson, Arizona, headline Dismembered big Boy

824
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 2: Bob found an abandoned motel. Oh god, he started to

825
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 2: get darker and darker right now, Big Boy's body is

826
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 2: found in an abandoned hotel. Like he's Bob Crane, right,

827
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: So what does that mean for this story? Well, the

828
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 2: story this, I gotta give it up to the writer

829
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: on this one. The second sentence of this story is

830
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 2: quote the east Side Big Boy Restaurant's Big Bob isn't

831
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 2: so big anymore after kidnappers literally cut off the grinning

832
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 2: figure at the knees. Oh God, just comes in hard hitting.

833
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: This is like yellow journalism, right, it's like, you know,

834
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 2: like a Gangbuster's era.

835
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 3: Well, imagine if like you're reading these headlines and you're

836
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 3: not familiar with the restaurant exactly.

837
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 2: That's what I love about it, Like, oh my god,

838
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 2: the grinning figure at the knees he got cut off. Honey,

839
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: I will have some eggs. Yes, So the Big Boy

840
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: restaurant manager discovers that her spots Big Boy had been gaffled,

841
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: and since the statues are largely chained or cemented to

842
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 2: a pedestal, the thief or the thieves in this case

843
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,240
Speaker 2: had to saw the Big Boy free of the foundation. Later,

844
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: when local radio stations reported on the Big Boy napping,

845
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 2: a loyal customer went out looking for the missing mascots.

846
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 2: They found of Elizabeth good News add an abandoned motel,

847
00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 2: oh god, or rather what was left?

848
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

849
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 2: Oh, the customer discovered and I quote found poor Bob's

850
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 2: legs from the knees down and maybe an arm and

851
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: a parking lot at a boarded up abandoned motel in

852
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 2: a park story and they quote police were still looking

853
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 2: for the rest of the victim one hundred and fifty

854
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 2: to two hundred and twenty pounds before Micah formerly five

855
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 2: feet tall with huge eyes and big brown wavy hair,

856
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 2: red and white checkered pants, black shoes, and a white

857
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 2: big Boy T shirt. So the general manager's name was

858
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 2: Omar Corey, and he'd been worried after he'd heard about

859
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 2: the Big Boy napping Elizabeth and because he'd also knew

860
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 2: about the dismemberment that went down in Toledo the year before.

861
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 3: Sure that gets through the Big Boy grape vine?

862
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Active grapevine? Corey told a reporter,

863
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: I hope that doesn't happen to this guy, but it

864
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: comes back in one piece. I bet the we'll not

865
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 2: press charges, right, So he was trying to let him know,

866
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 2: just give me back my big vie. Yeah, Yeah, Fortunately

867
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 2: that did not happen, Elizabeth. Yeah, he was one of

868
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: a matching set of two Bobs. The stolen and dismembered

869
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: Bob was quote one of two identical running bob's Bob's

870
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: who look as if they're running away. The other is

871
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: the burger serving bob holding up a gigantic yeah. So

872
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 2: Corey added that Bob's twin is wondering where the other

873
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 2: guy went. Sad to break up a couple like that,

874
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 2: you know. But Elizabeth, guess who has a new nickname.

875
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 2: That's right, me Burger Serving Bob. Please use that in

876
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 2: all public settings. So as it turns out, this latest

877
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 2: theft was not the franchise's first stolen Bob.

878
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 3: Oh.

879
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 2: Three years earlier, Elizabeth, my man Burger Serving Bob was stolen. Yeah,

880
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 2: he was found alone in the desert, the running Bob,

881
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: one of the pair. He was stolen and dismembered. Yeah,

882
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 2: he'd previously been stolen two years earlier. He was found

883
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: in someone's backyard. Yeah. So omar Corey. He gets why

884
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 2: the cops like to write up their silly little police

885
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 2: reports about a stolen big boy, and that radio stations

886
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 2: like to get off their jokes too. But to the

887
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 2: people who love the missing Bob, to the people like

888
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 2: Corey who have to worry late, stay up night warning

889
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 2: if their Bob will make it through the night, it's

890
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 2: not funny and I quote, it's like losing a member

891
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 2: of the family. Yeah. Speaking of radio, Elizabeth, you ever

892
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 2: heard of their old radio morning show, Mark and Bryan

893
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 2: sound vaguely familiar on the edges there. Yeah, they were

894
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: big in the nineties and the early odts. They had

895
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 2: a syndicated morning show, usually on like a like a

896
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 2: classic radio stations. Back when I was a painter and

897
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 2: i'd be stuck in LA traffic, I listened to them

898
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 2: sometimes regrettably. Anyway, I know who they are, and they

899
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 2: used to have their own stolen Big Boy. It was

900
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 2: a legend that they stole from a local restaurant, I

901
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 2: don't know which one, and then they would have fun

902
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,959
Speaker 2: with it doing the most like outlandish like morning show

903
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: kind of guys things like Brian said, and I quote,

904
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 2: over the last six years, he's gone skydiving, bungee cord,

905
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 2: jumping down the White rapids. We even took him to

906
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: Vegas and slung shot him across the fountain. Evil Canievel jumped.

907
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 3: Like this is radio though when.

908
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 2: They described it very well, forty feet above and now

909
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 2: he's coming down me. They did it for.

910
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 3: Radio, Big Boy. They just have you know, sound effects.

911
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 3: I think Whitewater raft totally.

912
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 2: It's like some like NPR Saturday shows, just like they're

913
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 2: just making stuff up. Anyway, it is full of this action.

914
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 2: Bob doesn't exist so anyway. Turn of the century, in

915
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: two thousand, things turned even more comical and more dire

916
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 2: for the Big Boys around the nation. Boy Hell Times

917
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 2: published the story examining the trend of big Boy thefts

918
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 2: and other statuary based crimes, but not only around the nation,

919
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 2: around the world. Elizabeth, because apparently it was a thing.

920
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 2: I didn't know this, but dateline January thirty, first, two thousand,

921
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 2: headline Stolen Moments with Bob's Big Boy and the Garden Nomes.

922
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 3: Of France Stolen Moments.

923
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it sounds so dirty, sounds like like

924
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 2: a Harlequin novel that you could go anyway. The news

925
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 2: story opened with tales of quote, a growing plague of

926
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 2: innocent statues being kidnapped and even dismembered by ruthless criminals.

927
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 2: The source for this claim was Garden Design Magazine, the

928
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 2: periodical I had written.

929
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 3: About next quotative journalism, the.

930
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: Front Deliberation than a the Jadin or Deliberation Front for

931
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 2: garden homes.

932
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

933
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 2: A group that steals lawn statues, takes them to a

934
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 2: secret camp for liberation rituals and repainting, then leaves them

935
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 2: in odd locales, squatting on cliffs, crouching along highways, or

936
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 2: floating aboard rafts on lakes.

937
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 3: Liberation ritual Yeah, I don't know.

938
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 2: The leader of the Liberation Front said, and I quote,

939
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 2: we off fight thing against bad taste as ibadi by

940
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 2: the ze garden gnome of the proletariat household.

941
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yes.

942
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 2: So in Germany similar provocateurs, but not only steal the

943
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 2: lawn gnomes, but they would take them on vacations, pose

944
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 2: them for photos, and then they send the photos to

945
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 2: the owners of their stolen nomes living a better life

946
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 2: than them and some neighbors back in Boden. Boden it

947
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 2: gets a photo over a gardenome enjoying himself at taj

948
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 2: Bahology's like a So now that's all fun, right, But

949
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 2: meanwhile the La Times story covered the American version of this. Right,

950
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 2: the paper focused on Tucson, which where you just were there.

951
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: It is a rash of big boy thefts and dismemberments, apparently,

952
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 2: But instead the t Times they decided to focus on

953
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 2: a rival Burger Channelizabeth the story of a Ronald McDonald's

954
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: statue that quote flaming red hair, bright yellow jumpsuit, striped socks,

955
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 2: and red clown shoes. Last spotted joy riding on East

956
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 2: Broadway in the back of a silver blue CJ seven jeep. Oh, Wowlizabeth,

957
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 2: there's a.

958
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 3: Lot of fast food rivalry in Tucson. That's home of

959
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 3: the Sonora exactly.

960
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 2: That's why I called your attention. It's the food rivalry

961
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,959
Speaker 2: home of the Southwest. But that wasn't all, Elizabeth, because

962
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: this paper also ran a litany of recent statue nappings

963
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 2: in this ongoing turf war. And I quote Tony the

964
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 2: Wonder Horse, who disappeared from a monument to actor Tom Mix.

965
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: A second Wonder Horse was kidnapped a few years later,

966
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,280
Speaker 2: also never to be seen again. A pair of wooden

967
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 2: lions stolen from the sanctuary at Missioning Sand Xavier. Several

968
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: cast aluminum fish abducted from a sculpture at the University

969
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 2: of Arizona. A carved wooden bear chopped off at its

970
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 2: feet and swiped from a business. A Bob's Big Boy

971
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: mascot taken from the front of a restaurant and recovered

972
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: in pieces days later. That's by you, and giant statues

973
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 2: of Winnie the Pooh and er speared it away from

974
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 2: a Christmas display. Oh man, I'm telling you. But that

975
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 2: was not all, because they also cited the theft of

976
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 2: a quote four foot tall Pillsbury dough boy, a seven

977
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 2: hundred pound captain with a parrot on his shoulder, assorted

978
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 2: religious statues, and a two hundred and fifty pound fiberglass

979
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 2: dolphin that once stood at Marine Land. What's going on?

980
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 2: In two something happens? Those statues are safe. So my

981
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 2: favorite part in this news story is.

982
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 3: Right now, like the idolatry of it all.

983
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 2: They pathologize the crimes and they ask for an opinion

984
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 2: of a psychiatrist. What is driving this craze? Enter doctor

985
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 2: Sigmoid Flexure.

986
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 3: Wait, Sigmoid Sigmoid not Sigmund Sigmoid Flexure, noted as the

987
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 3: author of quote men who love statues and the statues

988
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 3: who are indifferent toward.

989
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 2: Them, Doctor Sigmoid Flexure, which almost absolutely has to be

990
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 2: a made up name because when you look him up

991
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 2: or his book, the only result is this one La

992
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 2: Times news story. So I'm thinking somebody got a over

993
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 2: on the Times reporter in Tucsons.

994
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 3: Yes, or let's bust him for making.

995
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 2: Hey, I ain't going to do that to him, but hey,

996
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 2: they told the paper that statue thieves were driven by

997
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 2: their psychology, their past traumas, and that by stealing a

998
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 2: big boy or your own, Ronnie McDonald. They were attempting

999
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: to fix a wound in the past, as doctor Sigmoid

1000
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:22,760
Speaker 2: Fletcher put it, and I quote Elizabeth most had cold

1001
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 2: and distant parents and are trying to recreate that relationship

1002
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: with a statue. And he concluded that this is really

1003
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 2: a cry for love.

1004
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 3: Now, I wrote for a daily paper needing for a question.

1005
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 3: I had to do stuff like when you do like

1006
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 3: a little feature like that and it's a dumb thing

1007
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 3: and you got to call people and.

1008
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 2: Ask for yeah, and you couldn't get one.

1009
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 3: I had to do a New Year's Eve thing about

1010
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: like hangover cures. I'm calling bars.

1011
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 2: And they were just playing along.

1012
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, or they were just being so creepy and make up.

1013
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 2: A bar owner. Huh, you make up a battle.

1014
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 3: But I mean you get you get tempted.

1015
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 2: You can see why somebody might come up with doctor

1016
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 2: Boid Flexure.

1017
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 3: And make up that book.

1018
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 2: The book is the giveaway, right that title has got

1019
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 2: to be fair men who love statues and the statues

1020
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 2: who are indifferent toward them. How many people need that book,

1021
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 2: Doctor Sigmoid Flexuer, come anyway, Well, it really isn't this.

1022
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 2: I swear to God it's in the story. But Elizabeth,

1023
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 2: would you ever steal a statue as a desperate cry

1024
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 2: for love?

1025
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: No?

1026
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 2: Well, if so, what statue would you cry?

1027
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 3: If I had to steal a statue, like, I.

1028
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,720
Speaker 2: Would probably steal one of them, babe, the big Blue

1029
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 2: Ox statues like I don't need to.

1030
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 3: Go Dinosaur in Dixon, California.

1031
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 2: Yes, on the side Milk Farm Road there. Yeah, just

1032
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 2: a little past that.

1033
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 3: Yes, i'd steal that. I don't want I mean it

1034
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 3: would upset people. I wouldn't want to steal a statue

1035
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,240
Speaker 3: that would like really hurt people's feelings.

1036
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 2: No, No, we're just wipe swiping something.

1037
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 3: Maybe I wouldn't do that because I'd be upset if

1038
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 3: someone stole that.

1039
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 2: Well, just to close this out, Elizabeth.

1040
00:49:58,080 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 3: I think it's gone already.

1041
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 2: No, I think it's that they moved it back. I

1042
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:04,919
Speaker 2: think it's still there. So we've covered statue theftist comedy, Yeah,

1043
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 2: statue theftist tragedy, yeah, and statue theftist psychological compulsion must

1044
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 2: cover statue theftist marketing stunt.

1045
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 4: Oh.

1046
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty, stealing a big Boy statue became a

1047
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 2: great way to drive some engagement and get some eyes

1048
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,320
Speaker 2: on your new product line dateline June thirtieth, twenty twenty,

1049
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 2: headline who stole Norco Bob's Big Boy Statue? So after

1050
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 2: Noorko raise.

1051
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 3: Up Norco California.

1052
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 2: After one of the last remaining original Bob's Big Boys disappeared,

1053
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 2: locals were concerned. Elizabeth. The statue, which adorned the Norco

1054
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 2: franchise was iconic. Yeah, I mentioned it before, right in

1055
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 2: social media, people, they lit up all these stories of

1056
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 2: the stolen Big Boy. Everybody's worry, Where's Big Boy? What

1057
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 2: up to Big Boy? Who took Big Boy? Do you

1058
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 2: have Big Boy? Anyway? Soon enough, footage of the thieves

1059
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: making off with Big Boy surfaces. It's uploaded online. Everybody's like, oh,

1060
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 2: they got Big Boy? Who are they? Surveillance camera footage

1061
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 2: records four men working in a coordinated effort to disconnect

1062
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 2: and lift the two thousand pound Big Boy. This is

1063
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 2: one of them, like long daddy big Boys, real big

1064
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 2: big Boys?

1065
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 3: Was it members of the Burdeaux Hell's Angels?

1066
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 2: Good guess No, they would not deign to be involved

1067
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: in this crime. The thieves loaded the statue into pickup

1068
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 2: truck and they drove off The Big Boys later discovered

1069
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 2: unharmed in a field. Yes, it was safe. The thieves

1070
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 2: then came forward. They posted on their Facebook page and

1071
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 2: I quote, Okay, we're busted. Yeah it's true. We were

1072
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 2: in Cahusa Bob's Big Boy Norco to borrow one of

1073
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 2: their iconic Big Boys statues. We hold a centement, place

1074
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 2: our arms for a big Boy. We will be returning

1075
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 2: Big Boy to the Norco location later this evening, along

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00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 2: with a monetary donation to help them feed frontline heroes

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00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 2: within their community. Thanks big Boy, what a blast. Support

1078
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,760
Speaker 2: your local big Boy, and if you steal one, treat

1079
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 2: it with the respect it's earned over all these years.

1080
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 2: As kids, we crave their burgers, and as adolescents we

1081
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 2: stole their statue. So how better to demonstrate the two

1082
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 2: thousand pound payload of our decked truckbed drawer system. Then

1083
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 2: with a real live Big Boy himself, we apologize for

1084
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 2: anie stress this may have caused. You see your local

1085
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 2: big boy hashtag who stole Big Boy marketing? Yes, for

1086
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 2: a two thousand pound payload of the deck truckbed drawer system,

1087
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 2: You're welcome decked. Oh my god, there you gobeth. One

1088
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 2: long strange ride stolen Big Boys. What pray tells our

1089
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 2: ridiculous takeaway here?

1090
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 3: I would say for to say, if I ever have

1091
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 3: a Big Boy franchise, let's just say.

1092
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 2: When, yeah, when, Let's be positive, I would.

1093
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 3: The statue, right, I would have a skeletal system of

1094
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 3: fiberglass installed inside and then have it just filled with

1095
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 3: red jello. And then when someone goes to cut it,

1096
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 3: then all the jello spills out and they see the balls,

1097
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 3: and they just lose it and we killed the Oh

1098
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 3: my god, he was a real boy.

1099
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 2: Big Boy came to life and we killed to see.

1100
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's the only answer here. That

1101
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 3: is the one way to address this.

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00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Pinocchio, big Boy.

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00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 3: Saren, Yes, what's your ridiculous takeaway?

1104
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 2: Let's say that again one more time? I missed that.

1105
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 2: Could you say it one more time? My good ear,

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00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 2: Hello Elizabeth, thank you for asking my ridiculous takeaway? Is

1107
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 2: big Boy? Right?

1108
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 3: Yeah? Come on, it's big Boy.

1109
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 2: I mean he's a big boy right right there, big Boy. No,

1110
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 2: In all honesty, I love the big Boys, and like,

1111
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 2: all I want to do now is to go down

1112
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 2: and take you to the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank.

1113
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 2: On riverside so you can get the full experience. Sit

1114
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 2: there in the Beatles booth and just get ridiculous with it. Yes, hey,

1115
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 2: you in the mood for a talkback?

1116
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 3: I have always in the mood for talkback.

1117
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 2: One of them up, producer, Dave, you got one?

1118
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,280
Speaker 4: Oh oh my god?

1119
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 2: Did you just see that?

1120
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 3: I went cheat.

1121
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 6: From one former petty Criminal to another. I thought you

1122
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 6: were dead. Then I heard you were hosting this podcast,

1123
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 6: which I have to say isn't exactly a good way

1124
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 6: to lay low after that nasty business in Libya. Anyway,

1125
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 6: kiss Elizabeth for me. I gotta go just playing. Ain't

1126
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 6: going jacke itself?

1127
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1128
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 3: Is that DV Cooper.

1129
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,720
Speaker 2: That's the best ever. You just made all my dreams

1130
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 2: come true. It's all time Petty Criminal told me I

1131
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 2: thought you were dead. Thank you, brother, I appreciate you.

1132
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 2: You the rudest or rude dudes. I did not kiss

1133
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: Elizabeth because I'm not gonna interrupt her space in her

1134
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: personal boundaries like that just for a bit. But other

1135
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 2: than that, thank you, well, that was great. As always,

1136
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,800
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1137
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,480
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1139
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,920
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1142
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Speaker 2: Dear Elizabeth. Once again, we'll catch you next crime. Thanks

1143
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:32,520
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