WEBVTT - Who Stole Our Big Boy?! 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.760 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.280 Hey Elizabeth zaren Burnette, So good to see you. I 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.440 got a question for you, Yes, sir, all right, do 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.160 you know what's ridiculous? I do? 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:14.360 Sit down? You sit down. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:15.640 I'm all buckled up. Let me know. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:21.080 All right. So Christian Billion, that's he's not ridiculous, Christian 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.960 bon he's a cool dude. He is a Midwest He's 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.440 a rude dude. He's a rude dude. He sent us 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:32.600 a DM on Instagram, sure, and his caption was, I 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:37.560 don't think this is a mashup, but it's unclean, unclean, unclean. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.680 And a couple other people sent it, but he was 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.680 the first through the gate, and he had the funniest 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.400 comment about it. Okay, And so when it was shown 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:51.480 to me, what it is is it's Krispy Cream cheesecake tacos. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:52.040 Oh. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.480 Yeah, so there's some sort of it looks like a 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.200 legit taco shell that has been dipped on the outside 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:01.320 in white chocolate, oh, which is just like oil. And 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.479 then I think there's some sort of cheesecake smashed inside. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.440 And then they shoved donut in it, a Krispy Cream donut. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.560 So It's like a taco shell filled with smashed up 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.679 cheesecake and then a Krispy Creme donut shoved in it. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.520 This is a taco in the line of like choco. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.360 Taco completely, but shove a Krispy Cream up in there 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:25.679 between them taco lips, and then you just have this disaster. Right, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.800 it's not a mashup, So Christian's right, it's not a mashup. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.440 And we get a lot of stuff like this. They 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.480 were showing me our Instagram feed, the Ridiculous Crime. Yeah. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.839 They in turn showed me that I hadn't really seen 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.120 the feed because we don't follow a lot of people apparently. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:43.520 No. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.920 No, it's just like a handful and it's no one. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.720 It's like random weird accounts. Anyway, they were showing me 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:56.080 the feed, and it consists of basically dog stuff, a 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.520 lot of Golden retriever things, which makes sense that when 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.920 we talk about that, and then these horrible food things 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.360 that aren't mashups, but like we just were scrolling through 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:12.760 and I started writing them down. Cinnamon sugar cruffins, icy carbonara, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.880 spring rolls. What was another one? Upside down pastry, upside 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.800 down puff pastry, tacos pass. There was one stuffed garlic 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.720 bagel filled with cream cheese and dunked in garlic. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:25.959 Butter hard pass. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.320 Some Moores dip barbecue, brisket, baked potato. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:30.960 I don't know if I can compete on all of 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.600 this stuff. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.760 Is like, if you hate yourself and you're drunk and 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.280 you've got serious issues, you just throw this food together 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.239 and you lay on the floor and eat it. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.639 As it sounds like you don't like food. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.920 Yeah, I mean that's the other thing. But here's so. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.960 So I pulled up the Krispy Cream cheesecake tacos. I 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.080 could only find it on the original link that tasted 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.800 that is the Instagram, and it said would you try 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.160 these Crispy Cream Cheesecake tacos? And you know whatever, and 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.680 then you can like follow them for food content hashtag 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.760 food porn. It is what it said. But the comments 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.680 Lawyer's first choice said anyone who would eat this doesn't 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:12.440 like themselves. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.040 Lawyer's first choice hard comedy. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.959 Someone said, just got diabetes looking at this. Let me 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:26.200 get a dozen though, Okay hates himself. So anyway, it's 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.760 you know, everyone's talking about how it's gluttonous and it's 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.519 this and that. But you know, obviously their eye clicked 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.960 on it. And if you look down at the other references, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.720 they have a cookie monster taco. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:37.480 Can it possibly taste good? 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.560 A loaded fries variety box. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.120 It's so rich it passes the point of being sweet 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:44.600 and saying. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.600 There's probably no flavored differential between. It just becomes a 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.040 big glob of sugar and oil. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.960 Yeah. I feel like it would give you like a headache, sugar. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.080 Alcohol, everything. There's something wrong with us. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:58.120 I don't know. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.960 This is not how we're supposed to be living. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.040 No, this is very late. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.680 And I like, I like desserts, and I like, you know, man, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:05.720 I love chacos. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.840 Yeah, but this is like, you know, the desserts that 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.440 they were serving right before the French Revolution went to 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.000 the court completely our version of that, the Fall of Rome, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:15.440 same thing. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.479 This is, this is the end times food. So that's 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.320 ridiculous that I know it is. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.200 Thank you so much, But how about this, Elizabeth on food? 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.920 How about people who can't stop stealing enormous statues of 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.640 fun little round boys. We just want everyone to enjoy 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:32.320 a cheeseburger. 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.240 Oh I think I know what this is. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.080 This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.480 capers heist in cons it's always ninety nine percent murder 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:07.760 free and one hundred percent ridiculous. Yes, oh Elizabeth, Yes, 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.200 Have you ever eaten at a Bob's Big Boy? 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.360 They have? 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.279 Did you ever eat at the famous one in Burbank? 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:14.640 I don't believe I have. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.520 It's on the corner on Riverside. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.279 There are a lot of things that I've done in 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.120 my life and I don't remember. That could be one 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.679 of them, but I feel like I would have remembered 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:22.000 that one. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.159 I think you would have. It's a life changing event. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:24.520 Yeah. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.040 Backing up, do you know what Bob's Big Boy is? 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.160 Can you describe it for me? Yes? Okay, you do 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.760 know You're not just like Bob's Big Boy, I know, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.240 but you might just be being friendly. You're like, oh, yeah, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:37.839 I've been there. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.640 I seek Yeah, if I if I don't know something, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.200 around't been somewhere. I'll tell you a lot of times, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.120 I like to tell you cities are beautiful. I've never 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:45.520 been there. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.320 There you go. This was my example. I'm not saying 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.000 you ever are a liar, but you will occasionally say things. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:56.760 It may not bear a truth physically entered Bob's Big Boy. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.080 That's impressive. That's really impressive that you've done that. And 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.440 then you say it was such relish because it's a diner. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.279 As you said, it's relish icon from the era of 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.719 southern California car culture, right, very mid century. It was 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.640 originally called Bob's. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.320 Pantry, right, Oh, that's no fun. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.719 It was started as a ten stool hamburger stand. Oh yeah. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.000 In August nineteen thirty six, his twenty year old named 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.960 Bob Weighan. He sold his DeSoto roadster. He got three 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.359 hundred bucks for the car. He then he used that 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.800 money to make a down payment on the hamburger stand. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.240 That's a good investment known as the pantry. He's like 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.520 a good hamburger stand, same, right, and those were like 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:35.880 good hamburgers too back then. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:36.200 Yeah. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.880 Anyway, so he's like, all right, the pantry is now 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.040 Bob's pantry. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.720 They weren't shoving donuts, sip in there and stuff. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:47.200 My point, exact sprinkles, expecting the ingredients, keeping it del chipping. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.080 It and melted cheese exactly gold. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.839 So anyway, after he opens up shop, right, Bob wihen 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.279 six months in this customer comes in late. Right. They 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.760 were most likely a bunch of musicians. After a the 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.480 customer asked for quote, something different, and Bob's like, I 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.880 got you, brother. Now Bob listened, right, So he goes, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:07.600 let me think about this for a little bit. I 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.960 got an idea, goes out in the back, slices himself 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.880 a hamburger bun, Elizabeth, but he slices it into three pieces, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.840 not the traditional two pieces of the just cutting it 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.960 in half. He maced it, he big macked it. But 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.560 this was the first time anyone had ever created a top, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.480 a bottom, in a middle slice out of a bun. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.520 He added then to hamburger patties. Of course, he layered 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.200 that with cheese, lettuce and a relish based sauce. This 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.520 is how special pretty much special sauce. And this is 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.360 how he created the first double deck hamburger. That's what 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.760 he was called, right boy before this is like, uh hare, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.560 I'll put it in context. Four years later, the first 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:45.520 McDonald's opened. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:46.400 Wow. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.560 Right, So Bob's double patty burger was such a hait 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.840 he gives it a name. He calls it Bob's Big Boy. Right. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.120 The name six, of course, as you said. You react immediately, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.760 You're like, I want to order a Bob's Big Boy, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.600 his new burger innovation. As I said, so popular, Bob 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.880 renames the restaurant Bob's Big Boy. He's like, just put 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:04.480 it on the sign. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.040 I feel like this is the villain origin story of 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.920 my what's ridiculous, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.520 Bob's Big Boy, Like put more on there. And then 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.600 now fast forward here. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.520 We are being even worse, oh terrible, almost insufferable. One 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.560 would say, So Bob's Big Boy, he's this burger pioneer, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.480 right leader in the field, out by himself. Erick, Yeah, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.920 totally and for decades and totally leading the field. But 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.160 this is not bad for a guy Bob Weihan who 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.880 was voted least likely to succeed while he was in 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:34.360 high school. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.360 Wait, they had a least likely to succeed and didn't 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.160 have one of those. And we had like bullying in 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.160 our day, I know we had, but we had like 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.000 you know, most it was all good stuff. You wouldn't 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:51.360 be like Biggest, I wouldn't least likely to succeed. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.640 They were a little rough for back then. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.160 It was a little rougher, but maybe we need to 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.160 bring that back the people up. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.640 Nineteen fifty two, Bob we granted the rights of his 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.520 name to three brothers in Detroit, and so they franchised Bob's, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.560 Big Man and Jack. Yeah, but Manny, Moe and Jack. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.840 They decide, you know what, we don't want to call 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.080 it Bob's because none of us are named Bob. So 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.720 they open a hundred restaurants, but they replaced the name Bob. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.319 They call it Elias Brothers Big Boy. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.079 Oh, that does not ring the way it's about boy. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.240 Exactly right, the alliteration, it's right there, you can hear it. Anyway, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.079 they become like the first franchises. There's a lot to follow, right, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.240 there's this guy fresh, but it doesn't matter. A bunch 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.000 of franchises anyway. Big Boys start popping up all around 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.000 the country. Detroit soon opened, as I said, one hundred 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.480 Big Boy franchise restaurants bearing the name Elias Brothers Big Boy. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.160 Just to imagine that, right, But so they're basically my 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.640 point is, they're not just in southern California at this point. Now, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.800 if you look at the success of the Big Boy Burger, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.720 another burger franchise decides to imitate the double Decker burger 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:01.120 in nineteen sixty seven. Nineteen sixty seven, Elizabeth Wild hectic 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:06.120 times in America. McDonald's franchisee named James delea Gotti. He 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.360 borrowed the recipe of the Big Boy Burger and he 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.160 invents a sandwich called the Big Mac. Now dele Gotti 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.640 has admitted he stole the idea, although he didn't use 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.440 the word steal like I did. He'd said he preferred 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:18.760 to compare it to innovation. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.960 And he was a franchise e, yeah, of McDonald's, so 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.120 he was just but he invented a McDonald's. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.959 Yeah. Then they brought it up to corporate and was 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.000 run with or whatever. Yeah, delea gotty. He says. This 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.200 wasn't like discovering the light bulb. The bulbs already there. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.520 All I did was screw it in the socket. So 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.160 there you go. So if McDonald's is stealing from you, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.320 you must be doing something right. Right, So back to 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.520 Bob's Big Boy, Elizabeth. Big Boy. It isn't just the 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.199 name of the famous double Decker burger. It's also the 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.880 name of the famous iconic statue that's outside of most 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.040 Bob's Big Boy restaurants. Is these the kid with the 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.840 red checkered overalls. He's got that swooping cow liga and 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.720 the a devilish look in his eye. All right, So 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.480 it turns out there was a real big boy. His 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:11.800 name was Richard Woodrought. Milk fed he was. He was 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.520 a milk fed, little cherubic boy. Right, he was six 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.400 years old. This kid loved cheeseburgers. What cand I tell you? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.839 So he would go down to the Bob's Bob's Big Boy, 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.240 and he'd offer to do chores like sweep the floor 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.920 in exchange for burgers. Were like, He's like, yeah, it 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.320 goes for the deal. Meanwhile, at the exact same moment, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.280 he's looking at a mascot that he's asked somebody to 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:34.920 draw up for the store, and he's like trying to 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.080 come up with a name for it. Right, he likes 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.559 this kid and just almost out of like instinct, pops 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.400 out of his mouth. He's like, hey, all right, big boy. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.960 He's like, wait a minute. He hears it, right, so 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.400 is Bob Wien later recalled he was about six and 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.240 rolls of fat protruded where his shirt and pants were 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.320 designed to meet. I was so amused by the youngster, jolly, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.959 healthy looking and obviously a lover of good things. Deed, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.240 I called him Big Boy. The name sticks again. So 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.640 now this gets an animator from Warner Brothers. Ben Washam. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.720 He's the one who sketches a little drawing of Richard 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.040 Woodruff wearing checkered overalls and then the kalick pompadoor mischievous 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.280 gleam in his eye. Boom. The sketch becomes the icon 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.640 of the Bob's Big Boy Burger chain. Wow, yeah, Soon 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.560 they make a statue made of this jolly burger loving boy. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.360 Bob Wian added statues to all of his Bob's Big 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.600 Boy restaurants. The statues become as famous and beloved as 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.560 the Double Drucker for right right, in fact, so much 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.960 so I thought this was crazy. I didn't know this. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.920 Stan Lee even wrote a Big Boy comic book series 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.120 made for the restaurant chain. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.920 Does this mean that Big Boy is part of the 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.920 Marvels universe extended Marvel universe and there could be a 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:45.160 Big Boy movie? 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:46.560 There could be? I don't see why not? 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:47.360 All right? 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.839 The series The comic book series called The Adventures of 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.160 Big Boy and debuted nineteen fifty six, at the height 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.000 of comic book culture. We've covered. Yeah, any kid who 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.880 visited the restaurants, they were given free comic books and 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.640 these were so popular they gave out like one million 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.760 wow over the years. Yeah it was. It's considered one 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.040 of the longest running comic books in comics history. No way, totally, Anyway. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.720 Over the years, Bob's Big Boys had many run ins 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.560 with the culture. I'm just going to run over just 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:13.959 a couple. 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.000 Please do the Beatles they ran them over. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.840 Yeah, do you know what they did? They ran one note, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.320 they didn't run whatever. The Beatles have their own booth 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.439 in the Burbanks Bob's Big Boy. Really true story. Try 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.640 to say that three times. The Beatles have their own 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.520 booth in Burbanks Bob's Big Boys. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.080 See, I can't do it. Does Is the Burbank building 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:32.720 still standing? 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.720 They still have the car shows on Friday down there. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.480 Oh we should go. We should do a ridiculous road trip. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.280 So your jin totally alright? Pencil that urns. I hope 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.840 they can hear that. Anyway. Nineteen sixty five, the Beatles 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.880 were on tour in the US. Right, They're in support 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.800 of their album help right. The story goes, the Beatles 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.520 were road weary, hungry, looking for quote, real American dinner. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.520 Now in August, the Beatles were in southern California, and 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.600 they came to Burbank for a good spot for it. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.440 Fab forward, they DeCamp to quote. The last booth on 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.800 the right is one walks in where the end of 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.040 the windows face out towards Riverside Drive. So there you go. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.520 That's the spot that's known as the Beatles booth, and 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.480 people go there and like take photos in the Beatles booth. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.160 It's there's a there's a plaque that marks the booth 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.840 as the Beatles booth. Yes, but they weren't the only 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.720 ones that loved this spot. Do you know us who 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.640 has a really interesting history with Bob's big boy Elizabeth 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.440 Bob Good. Guess he is weird. He's a filmmaker. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:32.200 Quentin Tarantino. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:39.280 No, even weirder, John Waters, even the more odd. David Lynch. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.160 Oh, I was like fincher, No. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.400 No, no, no, not that kind. But anyway, if you 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.000 think about it, makes a lot of sense because of 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:50.160 course he loves an iconic American diner, David Lynch. So anyway, celebs, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.040 they love to eat it. Bob's Big Boy, right, especially 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.560 this first iconic location in Burbank, and you could spot 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.400 Bob Hope grabbing a burger. Debbie Reynolds was known to 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.400 slurp on a shake or two. But the man you 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.120 could always reliably spot at the Bob's Big Boy was 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.840 David Lynch. During the eighties. He ate lunch there every day, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.120 every day. Every day. He arrived always at exactly the 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.840 same time. Oh also very David Lynch, Yeah, two thirty pm. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.840 He liked to arrive at that time because, as he 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.440 put it, it increased the odds that he would encounter perfection. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.600 Well, I you know I love a late lunch totally. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:23.880 I know you does. Why to bring it up? So 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.000 his daily order was never ending cups of coffee, just 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.600 keep them coming, and a chocolate shake. Now at the time, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.440 the La Times, the newspaper, they wrote about this and 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.920 this they covered. They said that Lynch thought that the 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.720 sugar was really a beautiful thing. This is back back 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.040 when he thought he believes such things. He has since 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.160 changed his mind. He no longer drinks shakes every day. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:45.320 Well and coffee. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.480 Bye, Dian and talk about the cherry pie. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.840 I don't know that's what I expect that ay Anyway, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.280 So as he sit there sipping on his shake down 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.600 in cup after cup of coffee, David Lynch loved to 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.720 people watch, the tourists, the locals. He died down notes 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.720 on the Bob's Big Boy napkins. So, yeah, there's a 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.200 little thing. If you really want to be a David 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.880 Lynch fan, find one of his Bob's Big Boy napkins. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:08.720 It has a note on it. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.200 Well, I'm going to go get a Bob's Boy, Bob's 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.560 Big Boy napkin. I'm going to write some fake notes. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.440 I'm going to commit a ridiculous crime is auction on 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.960 eBay that it's a David Lynch note and make us 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.080 a little cash to fund our road trip to go 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.040 down to. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:29.240 Oh. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:30.040 I love that. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.360 I feel like I'm a I'm like a member of 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.600 the bloods Now Burbank Bob's everything has to start with me. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.280 Blah blah. So well, here I got one more for 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.040 you about the Burbank Bob's Big Boy. It has a 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.400 criminal connection. But that's what we're here to talk about. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.080 So let's take a break. When I get back, I'll 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.600 tell you about his connection to heat. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:17:11.679 Oh, Elizabeth, we're back, Saren. Saren, Now I promised you 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:12.400 a heat connection. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.040 You really did? 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.439 Yeah? What does that even mean? Saren? What's a heat connection? 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:16.520 Is a heat connection? 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:17.199 As anything? 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:17.960 You for asking? 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.520 The nineteen ninety five film by Michael Mann So Good 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:21.760 came out in nineteen ninety. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.240 Five, Elizabeth, Oh, are we gonna do that? 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:23.480 No? 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.760 Not again? But you love the movies, right. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:26.560 I do love the movie. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.320 Now, Val Kilmer Blonde bank robber movie. Do you remember this? 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:30.399 I do? Have you seen it? 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:30.760 Yes? 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:31.760 I am okay? Yeah? 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.600 And then the like iconic diner seemed Yeah, he was 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:36.120 a big boy. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.800 No, but do you remember remember the epic shootout? Yes? 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.320 Also not in Bob's Big Boy. But do you remember 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.800 the getaway driver Dennis Haysburg? Yeah, you remember him. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.680 He later went on to be the president in twenty four. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.720 Extended heat franchise in the World. Yes, So do you 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.320 remember how he Dennis Haysburg gets shot and killed in 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.560 the big shootout on the streets of downtown La. Right. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.639 He wasn't supposed to be there. Why because he had 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.040 a job. Where was his job? In a diame Bob's 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.680 Big Boy? He was working and that's where de Niro 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.639 vel Kilmer spot him and they pick him up and 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.840 they're like, hey man, he was like remember him from 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.159 like Chino or whatever prison they all went, and they 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.920 invite him to be the getaway driver, and he makes 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.560 the worst decision of his life. Right yeh, Bob's Big Boy. 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.439 I don't know why they allowed that, because the Boss 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.840 is all racist and weird and like taking advantage of 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.440 people because they're on parole. You think Bob's Big would 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:25.840 leave us out of this narrative, but nope. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.200 Anyway, Like, hey, listen any publicity. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.600 Speaking of that. The greater appearance in movies Bob's Big 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.360 Boys when Big Boy went to space. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:39.680 I have vague memories of this familiar Is it spaceballs? 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:44.199 No, it's on the ether of your mind, just on. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.600 I know you remember this visual Big Boy circling. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:51.080 The Earth. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.400 From what is it from or something? Oh good, guess 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.080 you're getting closer on the era. I'll give you a hint, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.240 just lifting one pink y. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:00.840 Oh. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.800 Yes, Doctor Evil has himself crygetically frozen. He's launched into 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.880 orbit around the Earth, circling the planet in an enormous 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:10.720 Bob's Big Boy. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.800 He st I've frustrated a lot of people taking a 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:14.400 long time. 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.520 That's the fun of the trip. So the CEO of 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.480 Bob's Big Boy at the time was his man named 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.879 Tony Michaels. Now, when the filmmakers approached him about getting 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.720 him to sign off on the use of the Burger's 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.600 chain mascot for the scene in Austin Powers, he had 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.040 some ideas of how the scene could play out. You know. Yeah, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.960 Michaels came up with the exchange about Doctor Evil. And 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.639 this is the scene decades in the future, right, because 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.600 the Bob's Big Boy is still circling the earth decades 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.120 in the future. Seeing goes some military dudes. He's monitoring 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.200 his radar. He sees something on the screen. He tells 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.639 his commanding officer there's an anomaly. The commander looks and 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.520 he shouts, good God, he's back right, and then what 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.360 he's looking at is Doctor Evil's enormous big Boy statue. Right, 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.800 But the subordinate monitoring the radar, he corrects the officer. 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.880 He's like in many ways, Bob's Big Boy never left sir. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.880 He's always offered the same I quality meals at competitive prices. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:08.240 Is room by the CEO. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.280 Yeah, classic Austin powers. It helps seal the place of 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.200 the iconic mischievous face Bob's Big Boy statue in American culture. 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.360 But those of us not in Detroit or southern California, 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.480 sudden you're like, I like that, Yeah that real? Is 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:20.960 that a real thing? They're like, Oh, I got good 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.399 news for you brother. Anyway, at the moment in twenty 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.560 twenty four, Bob's Big Boy still around. There are four 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.199 Bob's Big Boys in California left, Okay original there are 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.720 other Big Boys. There are fifty five in Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.360 and Nevada or Nevada, depending how you like it pronounce. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.640 They're also franchises, I know, but some people like saying, hey, 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.160 I like having fun with those things. 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.359 Wasn't you know what home means Nevada? Yeah, home means 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:45.680 the hill. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.080 Oh the song of the state song? 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:51.880 Yeah, my cousin, Yeah, it's from Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada. 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.000 And he would sing that song the state song, right, 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:56.800 but he yeah, he learned it in school, but when 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.600 he would sing it for me, he would sing it Homie. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.640 Nevada instead of home means Nevada. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.240 Was the Hills. 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:16.719 That could Nevada and the Hills exactly. So, uh, there 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.520 are other Big Boys, And I say the reason I 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:20.160 say that is because they don't have the name Bob 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.840 in front of them. Remember, they have different names because 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.600 when the franchisees get them, Bob didn't require that they 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.600 put Bob in front, just that they kept the big. 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.040 Boys like Marcus's Big Boy. 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:31.800 It could be it could be Elizabeth Big Boy if 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:36.080 you wanted. So there are still franchises in Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky. 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:37.480 There's one in Thailand. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:39.960 Do you know if all the California ones are down south? 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.199 Yeah? They are. Yeah, Okay, I'll take you to one. 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:43.560 We'll go to the one in Burbank. That's the one 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.000 to see. There's also one in Norco. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.320 I think, still right. 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.520 I think that one has a cowboy boots on. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:54.000 The and record little bits from that. I like that, 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.720 and then that way iHeart pays for the whole thing. 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.119 Oh, don't tell them. So you can you guess? Are 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.200 there two hundred and seventy four Big Boys. 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:04.919 In my pocket? I don't know. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:05.880 Japan. 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:07.960 Yeah, I could totally see that. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:10.359 Yeah, they got really into it. So they there's a 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.879 Big Boy Japan Company Limited. They feature the same chubby 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:17.720 boy and checkered overalls, the devilish grand calich hair Big Boy. Right, yeah, 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:19.840 but want to hear something fun? In Japan, you can 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:24.840 order something called the Big Boy Viking Buffet. Wait, that's 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:27.200 a that's a combo deal where your meal includes quote 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:30.280 all you can eat, salad, soup, rice, and curry. I 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.720 don't know where the Viking comes in, but I'm into it. 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.040 Well, the Vikings went all over the place, Oh they. 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:36.800 Did, I just don't. And the food choice, I don't 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:38.879 see it. That's my thing, so to go along with 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:43.280 your Bob's Big Boy. The menu, by the way, is 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.000 also a little different. If you go to a Big 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:46.920 Boy in Japan, you can order the Big Boy double 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.080 decker hamburger, just like you can hear. You can get 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.680 it with fries, milkshake, or you can also order a 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:57.320 sid of spaghetti or or pork steak. They have. It's 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.800 a whole entree, I believe, or a whole the choice. 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.080 But enough about food and menya, So but let's get 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:02.760 into the crome. 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:03.639 Yes please? 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.639 Okay, Well, actually no, I want to tell you one 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.720 more thing. Sorry, I gotta tell you about this. Did 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:10.960 you ever been to Yellowstone? 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:14.800 No, I've always wanted to go, pretending Oh yeah. 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:16.560 No, no, I know, and people talk to you about 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.159 the Duttons and all that. Right, yes, okay, Well anyway, 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.480 I won't go there, but there's a big Boy statue 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:23.840 there that I'd like to show you. It's in Yellowstone apparently, 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:26.439 or just outside of Yellowstone. If you take the entrance 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.680 of the US Highway fourteen sixteen and twenty entrance into 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:32.960 Yellowstone into the National Park, it's about twenty miles west 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.119 of Cody, and there you can see the WAPPETI Boy, 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:38.720 which is big Boy. I guess it's a big boy. 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:42.040 He stands over a bunch of field and they're on 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:44.399 the distance of the like high plane. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:46.200 Cyberglass are made of stone. 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:48.600 It's not a replica. It's it's some artist version. But 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.840 they took an actual Bob's Big Boy statue and then 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.359 they rescued it. That's what they rescued it. And then 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:56.240 they put it on and they got the person owns 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:57.919 the land, so it's not going anywhere, right. 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.080 This is kind of like the San Francisco Doggy Diner. Yes, 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:02.320 total head head. 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:05.159 Yes, so the guy's name is James Geyer. I may 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.240 be pronouncing that incorrectly. He's the owner of the what 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.320 Petee Boy Big Boy, And he says in a quote 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:12.760 big boy restaurants for everywhere. And I always wanted to 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:14.840 have a big boy and celebrate what's great about the 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.400 big boy. So he got himself with a big. 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:20.320 Boy celebrating what's good about the big boy. So we 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:22.639 can we put this on the road trip. You and 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:24.720 I have done a road trip that was pretty honestly 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:25.680 we have. Let's do another. 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:27.800 Think we should plan one for the summer, perhaps. 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:28.639 A big boy road trip. 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:30.760 Yeah. So he plants his big boy in his field 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.439 twenty thirteen. We can go see it. It fast becomes 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:36.240 an audity. Everybody locals like at the tourists love it. 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:38.600 Then all of a sudden it disappears. In twenty twenty, Elizabeth, 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:40.440 the locals O get worry. What about our big boy? 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:44.040 What about the peat boy big Boy? Someone starts whispering, 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:46.760 all of a sudden, it's been stolen. Oh that's the 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:50.280 talk of the town, probably some punk Canadians. But no 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.000 fear not, Elizabeth, the big Boy was not stolen. And 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.720 turns out it also was not knocked over. It wasn't 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:58.680 even damage Geyer or Gear. He had taken him down 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:00.680 to do some maintenance at a fresh code of paint. 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:04.680 When Big Boy was back standing mischievously over the wyoming fields, 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:06.800 locals were once again pleased and all was right with 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:10.320 the Yeah. Yeah, So what if you want your own 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:13.360 enormous Big Boy statue? You said you want one, right, Sure, Well, 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:17.080 it turns out back I looked into this right now, 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:20.960 Big Boy in two thousand filed for bankruptcy the restaurant shame, 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.480 and a lot of restaurants closed, right, So that ended 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:26.040 up in a lot of restructure lost the Big Boys. Yeah, 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:29.000 like chapter eleven. So now you can often find them 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:32.520 for sale from former employees on sites like eBay. Now 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:34.240 keep in mind we're talking about something that can be 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:35.919 as big as sixteen feet tall. 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:37.119 Enormous. 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:38.800 Yeah, so some of them were like four feet five 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:40.560 feet tall, but a lot of them are the classic 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:43.400 ones sixteen feet There's one in Cincinnati at the ballpark. 0:25:43.440 --> 0:25:45.040 Or it was a couple of them dressed as nineteen 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:48.080 seventies Cincinnati Red ballplayers. Oh, it was like a little 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:50.560 like running guy, right. Yeah, But most of the ones 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:52.960 you will find they're just the classic model. Now. For instance, 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:56.240 there's currently online Bob's Big Boy statue for sale and 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:59.800 eBay eight thousand dollars. Yeah, I looked the listing, says 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:02.640 and I quote sales for an authentic vintage Bob's Big 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:06.240 Boy restaurant advertising statue. This Big Boy was at the 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.640 restaurant located in the city of Thousand Oaks, California, which 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:11.880 burned in the nineties. I think you means the restaurant 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:15.239 now that the city city. We acquired it from one 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:17.359 of the employees and has been in our home since. 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:21.040 It measures fifty seven inches tall, thirty four inches wide, 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:25.080 twenty eight inches deep. Normal vintage wear with no major 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.480 damage to the fiberglass comes with the pressed wood pedestal 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:31.000 shown in the pictures. Pictures show the item on sale. 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:33.920 Feel free to ask any questions. Expect normal signs of 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:37.000 wear on all vintage items. Refer to photographs and description 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:38.760 for item condition. Sale is final. 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:42.960 So this is getting into like Batman Megafunco territory. 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:45.959 Oh yeah, totally. But also there's like I found out, 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:49.680 there's apparently East Coast Big Boy and West Coast Big Boy. Yes, 0:26:49.800 --> 0:26:52.360 so there was the traditional version there's the chubby boy 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:54.639 with the cal lick pompadour hairstyle wearing the red and 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:57.800 white checkered overalls holding the Big Boy sandwich. But there's 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:02.040 also the East Coast Big Boy, created by original franchisee 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:05.400 Dave Frish I mentioned earlier, who started Frish's Big Boy. 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:08.080 Frish is big why it's a mouthful. His version of 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:10.080 the mascot a bit thinner. He wore a cap. He 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:12.760 also had striped overalls instead of checkered, and a pair 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:15.480 of saddle shoes. He also had red or blonde hair 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:17.000 dependent instead instead of the dark hair. 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:22.240 That's the California ones where Chuck's not bally exactly. 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:23.800 So. 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:26.520 West Coast big Boy based on the original Warner Brother 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:30.359 animators like a sketch. But Bob Weiean grew to dislike 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:32.560 that original sketch. He thought Big Boy had this look 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:35.160 of a moron. He said, so in nineteen fifty five 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:37.639 he asked for a new mascot image to get drawn. 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:40.520 The new mascot becomes the one that becomes the most 0:27:40.720 --> 0:27:42.080 iconic look that we think of. 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:44.720 That poor little boy that was the model for it. 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:47.000 They're like, this one looks like a Moron. 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:51.680 Exactly like, oh man, it's lifelike, but Moron this kid 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:55.680 kid So the sixties though, then they go and updated again. 0:27:56.000 --> 0:27:59.320 When the two different looks merge into one all time 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:03.240 big boy to check it outfit, it becomes Cannon the 0:28:03.320 --> 0:28:06.920 pompadoor Hairdoo. Cannon. Big Boy gets seen sporting a lifted arms, 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:09.800 offering the world a cheeseburger. Yeah, but in the health 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:12.720 conscious eighties, Elizabeth Cheeseburger gone, so they get rid of 0:28:12.760 --> 0:28:15.800 the cheeseburger. Now there's a running motif involved, so that's 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:18.359 what you see. He's yeah, he's a jogger. So with 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:21.639 all these various styles and restaurants scrapping these big boys, 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:24.000 what happens is you have this big Boy statue glut 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:26.560 of different styles and ones that are coveted and not 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:29.120 so desired. Okaycause also, by the way, a Big Boy 0:28:29.160 --> 0:28:34.440 graveyard there in Michigan. Yeah, so they apparently the Big 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:37.840 Boy headquarters was in Michigan and Warren, Michigan. So these 0:28:37.920 --> 0:28:40.720 these local cats they'd heard about this rumored big Boy graveyard. 0:28:41.080 --> 0:28:44.360 They trek out to the Upper Peninsula woods. They bring 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:47.040 a camera with them. They also had an aerial map 0:28:47.120 --> 0:28:50.280 like you would. And they're determined Elizabeth, and they go 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:53.240 out there and they find it. They find the Big 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:56.600 Boy Graveyard, and the adventure recalled and I quote it 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:59.480 was evident upon arrival that this was indeed a graveyard. 0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:03.320 They're on it. This is a graveyard. But in better quotes, 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:05.719 he did say, and I give you this, it's not 0:29:05.800 --> 0:29:08.640 often you come across a molded, fiberglass version of one 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:11.840 of your favorite childhood cartoon characters, tipped over in the 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:14.800 woods with a big hole in the side of his head. 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:17.160 So there you go. They snapped photos of discovery. They're 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:18.840 haunted images of Elizabeth. You'd love them. 0:29:18.840 --> 0:29:23.080 Bleak was the little boy who was the model. He 0:29:23.120 --> 0:29:25.040 grew up and then died and they buried him there. 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:27.200 No, no, it's not that kind of graveyard. It's more 0:29:27.200 --> 0:29:28.760 of like a just toss it over here. 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.360 It's more of a midden, because all the little boys 0:29:31.360 --> 0:29:34.720 who are the live models for the design who died 0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:37.400 over the years in industrial accident. 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:40.880 A graveyard of broken boys exactly. So. But these cats 0:29:40.920 --> 0:29:43.200 get home, they post these photos online, they do a 0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:45.680 little write up about the Bob's Big Boy Graveyard. One 0:29:46.000 --> 0:29:48.600 week later, they get their first email asking where is 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:51.320 it right? People are on it right. By the time 0:29:51.360 --> 0:29:53.800 the Explorers go back to the Bob's Big Boy Graveyard, 0:29:53.800 --> 0:29:57.720 statues are gone. They speculated it was cleared out. Someone 0:29:57.760 --> 0:29:59.960 mus have taken them for scrap metal. I'm guessing they're 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:04.400 and then sold. That's exact anyway, So stolen big boys. 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:07.360 Back in the seventies, it was very much a teen 0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:09.520 prank to steal a big boy statue and like put 0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:10.800 it on the roof of your high school. 0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:12.240 Oh yeah, it's ripe for it totally. 0:30:12.240 --> 0:30:13.520 By the end of the decade and the start of 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:16.400 the reg and eighties, big boys were then often chained 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:19.360 down or cemented to their pedestals, so they weren't stolen 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:23.560 for pranks. That stopped would be pranksters, accidental thieves, kids 0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:26.320 who were opportunists looking for a lark. Right. But during 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:28.760 the eighties, rather than steal a big boy and plant 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:32.400 them somewhere fun, instead folks started I just outright steal them, 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:34.920 and so they started stealing them and keeping them for themselves. 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:37.160 No more putting them on the school. They're justo gone. 0:30:37.160 --> 0:30:38.960 What happened to a big boy? Ain't gonna see him no more. 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:41.440 He's just in the living room. They caress his cheek 0:30:41.480 --> 0:30:41.960 every night. 0:30:42.120 --> 0:30:43.720 I'm telling well here, for instance. 0:30:43.400 --> 0:30:45.360 Is they're not all sixteen feet tall. 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:48.240 No summer seven feet six five feet thing. Imagine a 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:49.720 lot of them as being in the five to seven 0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:53.040 foot range. So one night back in nineteen eighty five 0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:56.560 and a town called Wenatchi in Washington State, a big 0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:58.720 Boy was stolen. A man named Chris Hansen. He tells 0:30:58.760 --> 0:30:59.200 the story of. 0:30:59.200 --> 0:30:59.960 This Chris Hansen. 0:31:00.240 --> 0:31:03.440 Yeah, quote. The town was much smaller than so something 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:05.600 like the disappearance of the big Boy statue was about 0:31:05.600 --> 0:31:08.560 as scandalous as it got around these parts. One evening, 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:10.800 my brother said that several of his friends but not him, 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:13.520 of course, had been downtown partying the weekend and it 0:31:13.560 --> 0:31:16.120 went missing and had decided to big Boy nap it 0:31:16.160 --> 0:31:18.600 from the restaurant. He also claimed that it was definitely 0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:20.640 still in one piece and was now residing as a 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:23.160 trophy in the wreck room of one of the perpetrators. 0:31:23.440 --> 0:31:25.440 One thing I do know is that the statue was 0:31:25.520 --> 0:31:26.360 never returned. 0:31:27.240 --> 0:31:29.440 Now was this one of them seven foot more fans 0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:31.200 big boys or was it a five footer? 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:33.680 I'm thinking this is a five footer because these kids 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:35.800 are picking it up as fiberglass, so it's not super heavy, 0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:39.120 you know. Yeah, yeah, but little big boy napping is 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:42.480 one thing, right, But things turned uglier in nineteen eighty six, Elizabeth, 0:31:42.480 --> 0:31:45.200 this was this was This is not a crack era crime, 0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:47.720 but it feels like this new story has crackish front, 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:51.920 crackish right. Dateline, South Burlington, Vermont, May sixth, nineteen eighty six, 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:57.440 headline statue stolen shot in head the UPI reported and 0:31:57.480 --> 0:32:00.000 I quote, someone stole a life sized Big Boy Status 0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:02.880 you from its display outside a Hamburger restaurant, shot it 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:05.080 in the head, and dumped it in some nearby woods. 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:08.600 Police said Tuesday, this Big Boy statue mind You was 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:13.479 six feet tall. He was also fifty years old. For 0:32:13.520 --> 0:32:16.440 thirty six hours he was missing, cops began their man hunt. 0:32:16.480 --> 0:32:18.480 They scoured the woods. They began to search the rough 0:32:18.520 --> 0:32:20.520 section of town. I don't know if there's a rough 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:22.560 section of South Burlington, but I'm guessing that, you know. 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:26.320 They anyway, Yeah, the cops they find the statue in 0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:29.560 the woods with a single gunshot to the head. Big 0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:33.120 Boy's been put down execution style, Elizabeth, like like Ronald 0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:35.120 McDonald called out a hit on his rival. 0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:38.240 It's all like in the drizzling rain totally. The guy's 0:32:38.280 --> 0:32:40.800 like holding the gun and like gives his little soliloquy 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:43.400 and the statue stands their stone face. 0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:46.800 It's a one tier running down his cheek in the rain, 0:32:47.080 --> 0:32:48.280 distguised in the rain. 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:52.200 And then like the investigators show and they're like, oh, 0:32:52.240 --> 0:32:55.040 we can tell from the stipling this was a close 0:32:55.160 --> 0:32:57.080 range execute. He didn't suffer. 0:32:57.280 --> 0:32:59.160 And you can see here the car tracks looks like 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:02.040 someone watched it occur. There's an oil patch that Ronald 0:33:02.080 --> 0:33:07.479 McDonald puts the window back upt We find it size 0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:11.239 eighteen shoe. So anyway, this burger turf war that ends up, 0:33:11.440 --> 0:33:13.920 Captain Ray McGee says he'd been shot in the head, 0:33:14.000 --> 0:33:17.360 right in the ear, so big boy. He gets airlifted 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:19.000 out of the woods. No, but he wasn't airlift. He 0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:21.400 gets carried out, taken back to the restaurant. He gets 0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:26.040 hosed down, hand washed, bullet hole repaired. Elizabeth meanwhile getting. 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:28.720 The Gambino crime family will not take down Bob's Big bull. 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:31.680 Uh No, not as long as they got some fiberglass. 0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:33.160 To feather out Bondo. He fixed that. 0:33:33.160 --> 0:33:36.960 Into eighteen hours. So the South Burlington Police. Mind you, 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:39.840 they have no suspects from motives in the case. Anyway, 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:42.520 the story has a happy ending though, the big Boy 0:33:42.640 --> 0:33:44.600 was brought back to Greek customers. 0:33:45.040 --> 0:33:47.480 So I know. 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:49.480 Right, Let's take a little break, Elizabeth, and after this 0:33:49.640 --> 0:33:52.080 I'll tell you even more grizzly story of a big 0:33:52.120 --> 0:34:17.640 boy kidnap boy. Hey Elizabeth, Hey, we're back. Hey, you 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:19.680 want to hear some more about big boys? I big 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:23.279 boy do So this next one takes place in the nineties. Okay, 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:26.520 you've been a chronological for you the nineties, specifically March 0:34:26.600 --> 0:34:31.960 nineteen ninety five. Okay, dateline Toledo, Ohio headline Police cracked 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:32.960 the Big Boy Caper. 0:34:33.120 --> 0:34:34.720 Oh a big Boy caper. 0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:37.680 Yeah, six foot tall, three hundred pound big Boy statue 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:41.280 was missing. It was stolen from a Toledo franchise. Detective 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:45.239 Ron Scanlon was assigned the case. His job find and 0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:49.080 rescue big Boy, which means, Elizabeth, your job is to 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:51.560 close your eyes and to picture. 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:52.640 It as a close. 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:57.760 It's Friday morning in Toledo, Ohio. You are the manager 0:34:57.800 --> 0:34:59.759 for one of the ten big Boys in the city 0:34:59.760 --> 0:35:03.000 of t Only this morning you wish you weren't because 0:35:03.040 --> 0:35:05.360 this morning, you arrived at the restaurant to open up 0:35:05.400 --> 0:35:08.719 for the day, and you discover tragedy. Your big boy 0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:12.160 is missing. How could that be? You had the feet 0:35:12.200 --> 0:35:15.240 of the Big Boy statue encased in cement to prevent 0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:18.960 exactly the sort of Big Boy napping. You're a good manager, Elizabeth. 0:35:19.400 --> 0:35:22.720 But now you look at where your big boy once stood, 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:26.040 and all that's left is his pair of shiny black shoes. 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:29.960 That's right, the thieves left behind Big Boy's feet. You 0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:32.480 gasp in horror at the side of Big Boy's shiny 0:35:32.520 --> 0:35:35.040 black shoes and chopped off feet. The restaurant had been 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:38.759 closed for remodeling. You thought he would be safe. As 0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:41.920 the morning birds whistle and call, you stroll the outside 0:35:41.920 --> 0:35:45.719 of the restaurant looking for any clues. You spy your 0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:49.680 first indicator of a crime. It's Big boys severed head. 0:35:50.520 --> 0:35:53.120 You called nine to one one. You tell the operator 0:35:53.160 --> 0:35:55.160 what you found. You're starting to break up, you say, 0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:58.160 almost stream up conscious. I couldn't believe that someone would 0:35:58.440 --> 0:36:02.720 would do that to Him's friendly Holy smially. 0:36:02.320 --> 0:36:04.040 Ready to greet our customers. 0:36:04.080 --> 0:36:06.759 I mean, what kind of person would do this to him? 0:36:07.160 --> 0:36:10.000 The sight of Big Boy's severed head has done you 0:36:10.120 --> 0:36:12.720 no good. The nine one one operator tries to calm 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:14.560 you down, to get you to answer her questions. But 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:17.360 you're just too keyed up, you say, as if to yourself. 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:21.440 Nine times out of ten, if the big Boy is missing, 0:36:21.560 --> 0:36:25.960 he's usually down at the University of Toledo during Fred's season. 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:28.319 They do this as a prank. The nine to one 0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:30.600 operator says, okay, okay, do you think it was the 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:33.239 fraternities this time, ma'am? If so, is there a fraternity 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:35.839 you suspect might have you interrupt the nine one one 0:36:35.880 --> 0:36:40.000 operator not not this time, because I just found his head. 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:44.600 Oh no, The nine to one operator says, real emotion 0:36:44.719 --> 0:36:47.400 colors her voice. Police arrive on the scene, Elizabeth. A 0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:50.280 pair of patrol cars roll up. They silence their sirens 0:36:50.280 --> 0:36:52.880 when they see you. They park. You've had time to 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:55.880 walk the parking lot. You show the responding officers what 0:36:56.000 --> 0:36:58.839 all you found. You show them the severed head. You 0:36:58.880 --> 0:37:01.000 take them over to where you also found the arms. 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:03.799 You also found a note. It's like a ransom note. 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:06.200 The letters are cut out from magazines and glued to 0:37:06.239 --> 0:37:09.320 the paper. You hand the ransom style note to the police. 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:13.200 One of the officers reads it aloud, big boy is dead. 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:16.280 You hand him the other note you found. He reads 0:37:16.280 --> 0:37:20.799 that one aloud too, big boy is almost dead. Never 0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:25.640 mind now he's dead. Huh tape to the big boys. 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:28.400 But is another note. The cop reads that one aloud 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:33.560 as well. Strip steak two twenty nine a pound. Sergeant 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:36.520 Richard Murphy chuckles to himself. You shoot him a dirty look, 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:40.080 He apologizes with just his eyes they soft, and he says, well, 0:37:40.400 --> 0:37:43.600 at least they had a sense of humor. Now, naturally, 0:37:43.640 --> 0:37:45.880 you don't find your dead dismembered big boy to be 0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:49.080 so funny. No one of the notes identifies the thieves. 0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:55.120 The cop reads it aloud, the pimps of pimpliness. Hm, 0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:58.480 you roll your eyes. Sergeant Murphy turns and asks, are 0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:04.040 you familiar with these pop so Elizabeth. Later on, before 0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:07.920 the press gathers to cover this local news story, which 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:10.960 they do this, these quotes are all from the local news, 0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:13.960 Sergeant Murphy he does a quick five like basically a 0:38:14.000 --> 0:38:16.640 comedy set for the reporter. Sergean Murphy. He's on a roll, right, 0:38:16.680 --> 0:38:19.160 so he tells the press this is a sad, sad 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:22.840 day for the city when somebody would desecrate a hagloaed 0:38:22.880 --> 0:38:26.600 symbol of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. He then 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:30.120 furrowed his brow for effect like he's just like so tough, 0:38:30.160 --> 0:38:32.520 like you know, like one of those Brolind boys might 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:34.440 do it. And then then he grinned to let the 0:38:34.480 --> 0:38:37.680 reporters in on his joke before he said, it's really 0:38:37.680 --> 0:38:39.920 hard to keep a straight face when you talk about it. 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:41.799 We've been trying to put him up together again, like 0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:44.160 humpty dumpty. I think he looks pretty good for a 0:38:44.200 --> 0:38:47.919 guy who's been cut up. So yeah, this stolen's Big 0:38:47.920 --> 0:38:51.080 Boy statue was valued at three three hundred dollars, which 0:38:51.120 --> 0:38:53.520 means these purps could have been charged with grand theft. 0:38:53.600 --> 0:38:57.200 That's a felony punishable by two years in jail. However, 0:38:57.320 --> 0:39:01.840 days later, the adolescent thieves were found caught, unmasked, the 0:39:02.440 --> 0:39:06.480 pimps of Pimplinis were collared. Elizabeth and Detective Scanlon informed 0:39:06.520 --> 0:39:08.839 the press that the young thieves never intended to arm 0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:12.279 the Big Boy. Things just spun out of control. Yes, 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:14.520 and I quote from him, it was just gonna be 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:16.680 a plan to take the big Boy and move him, 0:39:16.800 --> 0:39:19.719 Detective scandal And told the press, And but things got 0:39:19.760 --> 0:39:21.919 out of hand. They took the head and cut it off, 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:24.560 and then the arms, and then the legs. The initial 0:39:24.600 --> 0:39:27.920 prank became malicious. So in the end, Elizabeth, each of 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:31.880 the unidentified underage suspects they were possibly going to be 0:39:31.960 --> 0:39:34.840 charged with a third degree misdemeanor and punishable by sixty 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:36.840 days in jail. But I'm betting the judge did not 0:39:36.920 --> 0:39:38.880 throw the book at them and chalked it up to 0:39:38.920 --> 0:39:43.120 a mostly harmless prank. Cut to one year later, May ninth, 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:49.279 nineteen ninety six, dateline, Tucson, Arizona, headline Dismembered big Boy 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:53.360 Bob found an abandoned motel. Oh god, he started to 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:57.200 get darker and darker right now, Big Boy's body is 0:39:57.239 --> 0:39:59.839 found in an abandoned hotel. Like he's Bob Crane, right, 0:40:00.440 --> 0:40:03.080 So what does that mean for this story? Well, the 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:06.000 story this, I gotta give it up to the writer 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:08.759 on this one. The second sentence of this story is 0:40:09.120 --> 0:40:12.440 quote the east Side Big Boy Restaurant's Big Bob isn't 0:40:12.440 --> 0:40:15.800 so big anymore after kidnappers literally cut off the grinning 0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:20.200 figure at the knees. Oh God, just comes in hard hitting. 0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:23.400 This is like yellow journalism, right, it's like, you know, 0:40:23.480 --> 0:40:24.799 like a Gangbuster's era. 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:27.600 Well, imagine if like you're reading these headlines and you're 0:40:27.640 --> 0:40:29.600 not familiar with the restaurant exactly. 0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:31.480 That's what I love about it, Like, oh my god, 0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:33.560 the grinning figure at the knees he got cut off. Honey, 0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:36.239 I will have some eggs. Yes, So the Big Boy 0:40:36.280 --> 0:40:39.920 restaurant manager discovers that her spots Big Boy had been gaffled, 0:40:39.960 --> 0:40:42.759 and since the statues are largely chained or cemented to 0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:44.919 a pedestal, the thief or the thieves in this case 0:40:45.080 --> 0:40:48.240 had to saw the Big Boy free of the foundation. Later, 0:40:48.280 --> 0:40:51.200 when local radio stations reported on the Big Boy napping, 0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:54.360 a loyal customer went out looking for the missing mascots. 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:57.920 They found of Elizabeth good News add an abandoned motel, 0:40:58.360 --> 0:40:59.879 oh god, or rather what was left? 0:41:00.520 --> 0:41:00.719 Yeah. 0:41:00.760 --> 0:41:04.920 Oh, the customer discovered and I quote found poor Bob's 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:07.560 legs from the knees down and maybe an arm and 0:41:07.640 --> 0:41:10.600 a parking lot at a boarded up abandoned motel in 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:14.640 a park story and they quote police were still looking 0:41:14.680 --> 0:41:16.960 for the rest of the victim one hundred and fifty 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:20.239 to two hundred and twenty pounds before Micah formerly five 0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:23.319 feet tall with huge eyes and big brown wavy hair, 0:41:23.719 --> 0:41:26.360 red and white checkered pants, black shoes, and a white 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:29.440 big Boy T shirt. So the general manager's name was 0:41:29.440 --> 0:41:31.919 Omar Corey, and he'd been worried after he'd heard about 0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:35.120 the Big Boy napping Elizabeth and because he'd also knew 0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:38.280 about the dismemberment that went down in Toledo the year before. 0:41:38.520 --> 0:41:40.919 Sure that gets through the Big Boy grape vine? 0:41:40.960 --> 0:41:43.520 Are you kidding me? Active grapevine? Corey told a reporter, 0:41:43.560 --> 0:41:45.239 I hope that doesn't happen to this guy, but it 0:41:45.280 --> 0:41:47.480 comes back in one piece. I bet the we'll not 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:49.400 press charges, right, So he was trying to let him know, 0:41:49.480 --> 0:41:51.600 just give me back my big vie. Yeah, Yeah, Fortunately 0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:55.600 that did not happen, Elizabeth. Yeah, he was one of 0:41:55.600 --> 0:41:58.600 a matching set of two Bobs. The stolen and dismembered 0:41:58.640 --> 0:42:02.080 Bob was quote one of two identical running bob's Bob's 0:42:02.080 --> 0:42:04.239 who look as if they're running away. The other is 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:09.120 the burger serving bob holding up a gigantic yeah. So 0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:11.759 Corey added that Bob's twin is wondering where the other 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:14.759 guy went. Sad to break up a couple like that, 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:17.160 you know. But Elizabeth, guess who has a new nickname. 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:21.200 That's right, me Burger Serving Bob. Please use that in 0:42:21.200 --> 0:42:23.680 all public settings. So as it turns out, this latest 0:42:23.719 --> 0:42:26.640 theft was not the franchise's first stolen Bob. 0:42:26.920 --> 0:42:27.360 Oh. 0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:31.080 Three years earlier, Elizabeth, my man Burger Serving Bob was stolen. Yeah, 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:36.680 he was found alone in the desert, the running Bob, 0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:39.040 one of the pair. He was stolen and dismembered. Yeah, 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:42.239 he'd previously been stolen two years earlier. He was found 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:45.440 in someone's backyard. Yeah. So omar Corey. He gets why 0:42:45.480 --> 0:42:47.360 the cops like to write up their silly little police 0:42:47.400 --> 0:42:50.840 reports about a stolen big boy, and that radio stations 0:42:50.840 --> 0:42:53.200 like to get off their jokes too. But to the 0:42:53.239 --> 0:42:55.880 people who love the missing Bob, to the people like 0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:58.560 Corey who have to worry late, stay up night warning 0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:01.120 if their Bob will make it through the night, it's 0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:03.440 not funny and I quote, it's like losing a member 0:43:03.440 --> 0:43:06.839 of the family. Yeah. Speaking of radio, Elizabeth, you ever 0:43:06.840 --> 0:43:08.880 heard of their old radio morning show, Mark and Bryan 0:43:09.480 --> 0:43:11.719 sound vaguely familiar on the edges there. Yeah, they were 0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:13.880 big in the nineties and the early odts. They had 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:17.680 a syndicated morning show, usually on like a like a 0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:20.960 classic radio stations. Back when I was a painter and 0:43:20.960 --> 0:43:22.920 i'd be stuck in LA traffic, I listened to them 0:43:22.920 --> 0:43:25.759 sometimes regrettably. Anyway, I know who they are, and they 0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:28.320 used to have their own stolen Big Boy. It was 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:30.279 a legend that they stole from a local restaurant, I 0:43:30.320 --> 0:43:32.160 don't know which one, and then they would have fun 0:43:32.160 --> 0:43:34.959 with it doing the most like outlandish like morning show 0:43:35.080 --> 0:43:38.160 kind of guys things like Brian said, and I quote, 0:43:38.239 --> 0:43:41.160 over the last six years, he's gone skydiving, bungee cord, 0:43:41.239 --> 0:43:43.440 jumping down the White rapids. We even took him to 0:43:43.520 --> 0:43:47.560 Vegas and slung shot him across the fountain. Evil Canievel jumped. 0:43:47.600 --> 0:43:49.600 Like this is radio though when. 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:55.279 They described it very well, forty feet above and now 0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:56.480 he's coming down me. They did it for. 0:43:56.520 --> 0:44:00.000 Radio, Big Boy. They just have you know, sound effects. 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:01.960 I think Whitewater raft totally. 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:05.399 It's like some like NPR Saturday shows, just like they're 0:44:05.400 --> 0:44:07.839 just making stuff up. Anyway, it is full of this action. 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:10.719 Bob doesn't exist so anyway. Turn of the century, in 0:44:10.719 --> 0:44:13.520 two thousand, things turned even more comical and more dire 0:44:13.600 --> 0:44:16.279 for the Big Boys around the nation. Boy Hell Times 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:19.120 published the story examining the trend of big Boy thefts 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:22.319 and other statuary based crimes, but not only around the nation, 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:26.600 around the world. Elizabeth, because apparently it was a thing. 0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:30.360 I didn't know this, but dateline January thirty, first, two thousand, 0:44:30.600 --> 0:44:35.080 headline Stolen Moments with Bob's Big Boy and the Garden Nomes. 0:44:34.800 --> 0:44:36.600 Of France Stolen Moments. 0:44:36.640 --> 0:44:39.200 Yeah, I know, it sounds so dirty, sounds like like 0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:41.560 a Harlequin novel that you could go anyway. The news 0:44:41.560 --> 0:44:45.440 story opened with tales of quote, a growing plague of 0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:49.680 innocent statues being kidnapped and even dismembered by ruthless criminals. 0:44:50.120 --> 0:44:54.400 The source for this claim was Garden Design Magazine, the 0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:56.640 periodical I had written. 0:44:56.360 --> 0:44:58.319 About next quotative journalism, the. 0:44:58.320 --> 0:45:02.200 Front Deliberation than a the Jadin or Deliberation Front for 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:02.839 garden homes. 0:45:02.920 --> 0:45:03.080 Yeah. 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:05.239 A group that steals lawn statues, takes them to a 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:08.839 secret camp for liberation rituals and repainting, then leaves them 0:45:08.840 --> 0:45:12.840 in odd locales, squatting on cliffs, crouching along highways, or 0:45:12.880 --> 0:45:15.080 floating aboard rafts on lakes. 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:17.160 Liberation ritual Yeah, I don't know. 0:45:17.200 --> 0:45:19.480 The leader of the Liberation Front said, and I quote, 0:45:19.520 --> 0:45:22.200 we off fight thing against bad taste as ibadi by 0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:24.800 the ze garden gnome of the proletariat household. 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:25.680 Oh my god. Yes. 0:45:25.800 --> 0:45:28.880 So in Germany similar provocateurs, but not only steal the 0:45:28.960 --> 0:45:31.359 lawn gnomes, but they would take them on vacations, pose 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:33.400 them for photos, and then they send the photos to 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:36.000 the owners of their stolen nomes living a better life 0:45:36.040 --> 0:45:39.160 than them and some neighbors back in Boden. Boden it 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:41.520 gets a photo over a gardenome enjoying himself at taj 0:45:41.600 --> 0:45:46.000 Bahology's like a So now that's all fun, right, But 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:49.319 meanwhile the La Times story covered the American version of this. Right, 0:45:49.480 --> 0:45:52.440 the paper focused on Tucson, which where you just were there. 0:45:52.440 --> 0:45:56.040 It is a rash of big boy thefts and dismemberments, apparently, 0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:58.440 But instead the t Times they decided to focus on 0:45:58.520 --> 0:46:02.080 a rival Burger Channelizabeth the story of a Ronald McDonald's 0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:06.080 statue that quote flaming red hair, bright yellow jumpsuit, striped socks, 0:46:06.080 --> 0:46:08.560 and red clown shoes. Last spotted joy riding on East 0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:13.520 Broadway in the back of a silver blue CJ seven jeep. Oh, Wowlizabeth, 0:46:13.600 --> 0:46:14.000 there's a. 0:46:13.920 --> 0:46:16.279 Lot of fast food rivalry in Tucson. That's home of 0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:17.160 the Sonora exactly. 0:46:17.440 --> 0:46:20.880 That's why I called your attention. It's the food rivalry 0:46:20.920 --> 0:46:23.959 home of the Southwest. But that wasn't all, Elizabeth, because 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:27.440 this paper also ran a litany of recent statue nappings 0:46:27.480 --> 0:46:31.440 in this ongoing turf war. And I quote Tony the 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:34.919 Wonder Horse, who disappeared from a monument to actor Tom Mix. 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:37.600 A second Wonder Horse was kidnapped a few years later, 0:46:37.680 --> 0:46:40.280 also never to be seen again. A pair of wooden 0:46:40.360 --> 0:46:44.080 lions stolen from the sanctuary at Missioning Sand Xavier. Several 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:47.040 cast aluminum fish abducted from a sculpture at the University 0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:49.960 of Arizona. A carved wooden bear chopped off at its 0:46:49.960 --> 0:46:52.759 feet and swiped from a business. A Bob's Big Boy 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:55.640 mascot taken from the front of a restaurant and recovered 0:46:55.680 --> 0:46:59.120 in pieces days later. That's by you, and giant statues 0:46:59.120 --> 0:47:01.040 of Winnie the Pooh and er speared it away from 0:47:01.040 --> 0:47:04.279 a Christmas display. Oh man, I'm telling you. But that 0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:06.360 was not all, because they also cited the theft of 0:47:06.400 --> 0:47:09.600 a quote four foot tall Pillsbury dough boy, a seven 0:47:09.680 --> 0:47:12.680 hundred pound captain with a parrot on his shoulder, assorted 0:47:12.680 --> 0:47:16.680 religious statues, and a two hundred and fifty pound fiberglass 0:47:16.800 --> 0:47:20.600 dolphin that once stood at Marine Land. What's going on? 0:47:20.680 --> 0:47:24.279 In two something happens? Those statues are safe. So my 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:25.880 favorite part in this news story is. 0:47:25.880 --> 0:47:27.759 Right now, like the idolatry of it all. 0:47:27.840 --> 0:47:30.920 They pathologize the crimes and they ask for an opinion 0:47:30.960 --> 0:47:34.760 of a psychiatrist. What is driving this craze? Enter doctor 0:47:35.080 --> 0:47:36.200 Sigmoid Flexure. 0:47:36.960 --> 0:47:42.920 Wait, Sigmoid Sigmoid not Sigmund Sigmoid Flexure, noted as the 0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:46.239 author of quote men who love statues and the statues 0:47:46.239 --> 0:47:47.560 who are indifferent toward. 0:47:47.400 --> 0:47:51.759 Them, Doctor Sigmoid Flexure, which almost absolutely has to be 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:54.520 a made up name because when you look him up 0:47:54.640 --> 0:47:57.520 or his book, the only result is this one La 0:47:57.680 --> 0:48:00.160 Times news story. So I'm thinking somebody got a over 0:48:00.239 --> 0:48:01.759 on the Times reporter in Tucsons. 0:48:01.840 --> 0:48:05.719 Yes, or let's bust him for making. 0:48:05.680 --> 0:48:07.160 Hey, I ain't going to do that to him, but hey, 0:48:07.160 --> 0:48:09.560 they told the paper that statue thieves were driven by 0:48:09.560 --> 0:48:12.600 their psychology, their past traumas, and that by stealing a 0:48:12.640 --> 0:48:15.880 big boy or your own, Ronnie McDonald. They were attempting 0:48:15.920 --> 0:48:18.640 to fix a wound in the past, as doctor Sigmoid 0:48:18.640 --> 0:48:22.760 Fletcher put it, and I quote Elizabeth most had cold 0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:26.759 and distant parents and are trying to recreate that relationship 0:48:26.800 --> 0:48:30.200 with a statue. And he concluded that this is really 0:48:30.239 --> 0:48:31.360 a cry for love. 0:48:32.239 --> 0:48:36.840 Now, I wrote for a daily paper needing for a question. 0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:39.040 I had to do stuff like when you do like 0:48:39.040 --> 0:48:41.080 a little feature like that and it's a dumb thing 0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:42.200 and you got to call people and. 0:48:42.280 --> 0:48:43.520 Ask for yeah, and you couldn't get one. 0:48:43.600 --> 0:48:45.640 I had to do a New Year's Eve thing about 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:48.600 like hangover cures. I'm calling bars. 0:48:48.320 --> 0:48:50.640 And they were just playing along. 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:53.120 Yeah, or they were just being so creepy and make up. 0:48:53.040 --> 0:48:55.480 A bar owner. Huh, you make up a battle. 0:48:55.640 --> 0:48:57.520 But I mean you get you get tempted. 0:48:57.640 --> 0:48:59.800 You can see why somebody might come up with doctor 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:01.200 Boid Flexure. 0:49:00.880 --> 0:49:01.840 And make up that book. 0:49:02.400 --> 0:49:05.319 The book is the giveaway, right that title has got 0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:09.000 to be fair men who love statues and the statues 0:49:09.040 --> 0:49:12.560 who are indifferent toward them. How many people need that book, 0:49:13.200 --> 0:49:16.319 Doctor Sigmoid Flexuer, come anyway, Well, it really isn't this. 0:49:16.360 --> 0:49:18.400 I swear to God it's in the story. But Elizabeth, 0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:20.840 would you ever steal a statue as a desperate cry 0:49:21.040 --> 0:49:21.640 for love? 0:49:21.840 --> 0:49:22.120 No? 0:49:22.480 --> 0:49:24.680 Well, if so, what statue would you cry? 0:49:26.040 --> 0:49:28.400 If I had to steal a statue, like, I. 0:49:28.680 --> 0:49:31.720 Would probably steal one of them, babe, the big Blue 0:49:31.719 --> 0:49:33.480 Ox statues like I don't need to. 0:49:33.440 --> 0:49:37.359 Go Dinosaur in Dixon, California. 0:49:37.520 --> 0:49:41.960 Yes, on the side Milk Farm Road there. Yeah, just 0:49:41.960 --> 0:49:42.600 a little past that. 0:49:44.440 --> 0:49:46.800 Yes, i'd steal that. I don't want I mean it 0:49:46.800 --> 0:49:49.320 would upset people. I wouldn't want to steal a statue 0:49:49.360 --> 0:49:51.240 that would like really hurt people's feelings. 0:49:51.239 --> 0:49:53.399 No, No, we're just wipe swiping something. 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:55.200 Maybe I wouldn't do that because I'd be upset if 0:49:55.239 --> 0:49:55.960 someone stole that. 0:49:56.160 --> 0:49:58.360 Well, just to close this out, Elizabeth. 0:49:58.080 --> 0:49:59.080 I think it's gone already. 0:49:59.239 --> 0:50:00.920 No, I think it's that they moved it back. I 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:04.919 think it's still there. So we've covered statue theftist comedy, Yeah, 0:50:04.960 --> 0:50:09.160 statue theftist tragedy, yeah, and statue theftist psychological compulsion must 0:50:09.200 --> 0:50:11.000 cover statue theftist marketing stunt. 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:11.279 Oh. 0:50:12.080 --> 0:50:14.880 In twenty twenty, stealing a big Boy statue became a 0:50:14.920 --> 0:50:17.400 great way to drive some engagement and get some eyes 0:50:17.440 --> 0:50:21.320 on your new product line dateline June thirtieth, twenty twenty, 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:25.800 headline who stole Norco Bob's Big Boy Statue? So after 0:50:26.600 --> 0:50:27.560 Noorko raise. 0:50:27.440 --> 0:50:28.839 Up Norco California. 0:50:29.080 --> 0:50:32.360 After one of the last remaining original Bob's Big Boys disappeared, 0:50:32.400 --> 0:50:35.360 locals were concerned. Elizabeth. The statue, which adorned the Norco 0:50:35.480 --> 0:50:38.759 franchise was iconic. Yeah, I mentioned it before, right in 0:50:39.040 --> 0:50:42.120 social media, people, they lit up all these stories of 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:44.120 the stolen Big Boy. Everybody's worry, Where's Big Boy? What 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:45.640 up to Big Boy? Who took Big Boy? Do you 0:50:45.640 --> 0:50:48.080 have Big Boy? Anyway? Soon enough, footage of the thieves 0:50:48.120 --> 0:50:52.120 making off with Big Boy surfaces. It's uploaded online. Everybody's like, oh, 0:50:52.160 --> 0:50:55.520 they got Big Boy? Who are they? Surveillance camera footage 0:50:55.680 --> 0:50:59.360 records four men working in a coordinated effort to disconnect 0:50:59.360 --> 0:51:02.480 and lift the two thousand pound Big Boy. This is 0:51:02.520 --> 0:51:05.399 one of them, like long daddy big Boys, real big 0:51:05.440 --> 0:51:06.480 big Boys? 0:51:06.680 --> 0:51:09.800 Was it members of the Burdeaux Hell's Angels? 0:51:09.840 --> 0:51:12.600 Good guess No, they would not deign to be involved 0:51:12.600 --> 0:51:15.600 in this crime. The thieves loaded the statue into pickup 0:51:15.640 --> 0:51:18.120 truck and they drove off The Big Boys later discovered 0:51:18.200 --> 0:51:21.920 unharmed in a field. Yes, it was safe. The thieves 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:25.560 then came forward. They posted on their Facebook page and 0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:29.359 I quote, Okay, we're busted. Yeah it's true. We were 0:51:29.360 --> 0:51:33.040 in Cahusa Bob's Big Boy Norco to borrow one of 0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:37.520 their iconic Big Boys statues. We hold a centement, place 0:51:37.600 --> 0:51:40.000 our arms for a big Boy. We will be returning 0:51:40.040 --> 0:51:43.000 Big Boy to the Norco location later this evening, along 0:51:43.040 --> 0:51:46.920 with a monetary donation to help them feed frontline heroes 0:51:46.960 --> 0:51:50.360 within their community. Thanks big Boy, what a blast. Support 0:51:50.400 --> 0:51:52.760 your local big Boy, and if you steal one, treat 0:51:52.800 --> 0:51:55.360 it with the respect it's earned over all these years. 0:51:55.520 --> 0:51:58.880 As kids, we crave their burgers, and as adolescents we 0:51:59.040 --> 0:52:02.640 stole their statue. So how better to demonstrate the two 0:52:02.719 --> 0:52:07.000 thousand pound payload of our decked truckbed drawer system. Then 0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:10.600 with a real live Big Boy himself, we apologize for 0:52:10.680 --> 0:52:13.520 anie stress this may have caused. You see your local 0:52:13.520 --> 0:52:17.440 big boy hashtag who stole Big Boy marketing? Yes, for 0:52:17.520 --> 0:52:20.920 a two thousand pound payload of the deck truckbed drawer system, 0:52:20.960 --> 0:52:25.279 You're welcome decked. Oh my god, there you gobeth. One 0:52:25.640 --> 0:52:30.400 long strange ride stolen Big Boys. What pray tells our 0:52:30.480 --> 0:52:31.480 ridiculous takeaway here? 0:52:32.320 --> 0:52:34.880 I would say for to say, if I ever have 0:52:35.040 --> 0:52:37.600 a Big Boy franchise, let's just say. 0:52:37.400 --> 0:52:40.440 When, yeah, when, Let's be positive, I would. 0:52:40.280 --> 0:52:44.920 The statue, right, I would have a skeletal system of 0:52:45.320 --> 0:52:49.400 fiberglass installed inside and then have it just filled with 0:52:49.680 --> 0:52:53.080 red jello. And then when someone goes to cut it, 0:52:53.239 --> 0:52:56.120 then all the jello spills out and they see the balls, 0:52:56.760 --> 0:53:01.080 and they just lose it and we killed the Oh 0:53:01.160 --> 0:53:02.680 my god, he was a real boy. 0:53:03.360 --> 0:53:06.120 Big Boy came to life and we killed to see. 0:53:06.160 --> 0:53:08.279 I mean, I think that's the only answer here. That 0:53:08.400 --> 0:53:09.960 is the one way to address this. 0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:12.000 Elizabeth Pinocchio, big Boy. 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:15.560 Saren, Yes, what's your ridiculous takeaway? 0:53:15.640 --> 0:53:19.520 Let's say that again one more time? I missed that. 0:53:19.640 --> 0:53:21.319 Could you say it one more time? My good ear, 0:53:22.560 --> 0:53:26.799 Hello Elizabeth, thank you for asking my ridiculous takeaway? Is 0:53:28.560 --> 0:53:31.640 big Boy? Right? 0:53:31.719 --> 0:53:33.560 Yeah? Come on, it's big Boy. 0:53:33.719 --> 0:53:39.520 I mean he's a big boy right right there, big Boy. No, 0:53:39.680 --> 0:53:42.120 In all honesty, I love the big Boys, and like, 0:53:42.400 --> 0:53:43.960 all I want to do now is to go down 0:53:44.000 --> 0:53:46.440 and take you to the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank. 0:53:46.520 --> 0:53:49.200 On riverside so you can get the full experience. Sit 0:53:49.280 --> 0:53:53.200 there in the Beatles booth and just get ridiculous with it. Yes, hey, 0:53:53.200 --> 0:53:54.120 you in the mood for a talkback? 0:53:54.239 --> 0:53:55.680 I have always in the mood for talkback. 0:53:56.320 --> 0:53:57.839 One of them up, producer, Dave, you got one? 0:54:00.360 --> 0:54:03.280 Oh oh my god? 0:54:03.560 --> 0:54:04.920 Did you just see that? 0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:07.880 I went cheat. 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:16.440 From one former petty Criminal to another. I thought you 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:19.279 were dead. Then I heard you were hosting this podcast, 0:54:19.320 --> 0:54:21.719 which I have to say isn't exactly a good way 0:54:21.760 --> 0:54:25.239 to lay low after that nasty business in Libya. Anyway, 0:54:25.680 --> 0:54:28.480 kiss Elizabeth for me. I gotta go just playing. Ain't 0:54:28.480 --> 0:54:29.320 going jacke itself? 0:54:37.080 --> 0:54:37.319 Yeah? 0:54:38.520 --> 0:54:39.600 Is that DV Cooper. 0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:42.720 That's the best ever. You just made all my dreams 0:54:42.760 --> 0:54:46.200 come true. It's all time Petty Criminal told me I 0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:49.680 thought you were dead. Thank you, brother, I appreciate you. 0:54:49.680 --> 0:54:52.719 You the rudest or rude dudes. I did not kiss 0:54:52.760 --> 0:54:55.120 Elizabeth because I'm not gonna interrupt her space in her 0:54:55.160 --> 0:54:57.520 personal boundaries like that just for a bit. But other 0:54:57.600 --> 0:55:03.400 than that, thank you, well, that was great. 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