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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Zaren Clyde, what'd you doing by my middle name? I

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Speaker 1: didn't say your full government? Now did that really? Fun? Part?

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Speaker 1: Fun part? Oh? Yeah, you know it's ridiculous. Oh girl, Okay,

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Speaker 1: my head is still like trying to recover from this

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Speaker 1: because it's just so silly. Is it a product mashup? No?

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that to me. This one is a

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Speaker 1: mashup of competitions. Okay, it's kind of a it's not

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Speaker 1: really a mash up. Did you know between nineteen twelve

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Speaker 1: and you could win a gold medal in competitive art

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Speaker 1: at the Olympics? Why how do you know this? I

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Speaker 1: know everything? How do you know that? Every? Well, then

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Speaker 1: that just kills it because I had never known this.

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Speaker 1: I never heard that. I never knew it. They don't

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Speaker 1: even have to patronize me, Elizabeth, but just you know,

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Speaker 1: for the sake of my own edification, I thought it

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Speaker 1: was amazing that there was is it was the original desire,

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Speaker 1: original goal of the Olympics. Like when they came up

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Speaker 1: with the Olympics, the modern Olympics, it was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is really important. We have to have competitive art,

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Speaker 1: like it was like a big part of it. And

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Speaker 1: then they like started coming up with the competition nineteen twelve.

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Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, we're gonna do it because the first

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Speaker 1: ones were like not competitive, and then so they let's

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Speaker 1: make it competitive. Sweden's like, we're hosting. We don't want

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Speaker 1: to do that. They're like we're doing it. They're like okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: So Sweden kicks it off first time. Not many artists

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Speaker 1: some Italians. Yeah, exactly. The first medal count the Italians

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Speaker 1: won two golds, the French won two golds, the Swiss

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Speaker 1: were five gold medals given out, no silver, no bronze, apparently,

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Speaker 1: just all gold medals. Yeah, and then later on they

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Speaker 1: figured out how to like give out medals to everybody.

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Speaker 1: And there were two people who won medals as athletes

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Speaker 1: and artists that I thought was really kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: There was Walter Winens. He was an American. He won

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Speaker 1: and then he won another one in nineteen twelve, and

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Speaker 1: then many years later he won for art for his

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Speaker 1: sculpture in American trotter. And then there was also Alfred

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Speaker 1: Hajos of Hungary. He won as a swimmer at the

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Speaker 1: first Olympics in Athens, and then twenty eight years later

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Speaker 1: architecture stadium design. So he won a medal. So it's

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Speaker 1: not like speed painting right there, It's not that they

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Speaker 1: enter it in Okay, So there you golous. That's excellent,

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Speaker 1: thank you for playing. You know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 1: Yes I do, Elizabeth. You want me to tell you yours?

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Speaker 1: Please go? Please tell me Dressing like old men to

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Speaker 1: steal a very old book. Yeah, yeah, this is a

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Speaker 1: ridiculous crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists

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Speaker 1: and cons. It's always murder free and one percent ridiculous. Saren, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Transylvania University? Uh? Is that

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Speaker 1: Dr Frankenstein got his degree? Yes? What are you looking like?

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Speaker 1: It's in Kentucky, Olexington. To be exactly, I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of it. It's a small liberal arts I do know

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Speaker 1: that the Transylvania, Kentucky, I'm aware of it. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I had never heard of it either, Um, but I'm

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Speaker 1: amazed by its impact on on things. Anyway, what do

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Speaker 1: you mean? Well, like I said, it's a small liberal

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Speaker 1: arts college. Everyone calls it Transy. In fact, that's their

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Speaker 1: their college U R L Transy dot E d U. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's like ris dy Transy. There's only nine d seventy

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Speaker 1: one UM students at the last count. It's a small school. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's smaller than my high school tuitions almost forty dollars

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Speaker 1: It was started in seventeen eighty, and that makes it

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Speaker 1: the oldest university west of the Allegheny Mountains. Oh so,

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Speaker 1: or William and Mary College. Yeah, it's also the largest

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Speaker 1: producer of US statesman So to US vice presidents went there,

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Speaker 1: Van Buren and John C. Breckenridge VPET James Buchanan, your favorite,

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Speaker 1: the tiny terror to U S Supreme Court justices went there,

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Speaker 1: He dissented on Plessy versus Ferguson. He's considered one of

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Speaker 1: Transylvania University. Fifty U S senators, a hundred and one

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Speaker 1: this place, Transylvania University, Transy, give it up. What's their

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Speaker 1: secret to statesmanship is? I don't know. Is that like

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Speaker 1: crime that I want to where there's money there's crime.

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Speaker 1: The library is sitting on a collection of rare books

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Speaker 1: worth millions and millions of dollars. Oh yeah, old as

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Speaker 1: they are. But they got some beauties. Oh yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: and they're they were able to kind of amass them

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Speaker 1: So in two thousand four, there were some young men

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Speaker 1: who were determined to liberate those dollars and take them

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Speaker 1: these young man. Four dudes in total, Spencer Reinhardt, Warren Lipka,

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Speaker 1: Eric Borsuk and Chas Allen. Will there be a quiz later, Yes.

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Speaker 1: All four of them were raised in well off neighborhoods Lexington.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing this is a school where you you're probably welcomed.

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Speaker 1: Some of them went to University of Kentucky, which is

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Speaker 1: like a mile down the road. Others went to Transylvania

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Speaker 1: University Transy. So Warren and Spencer they grew up together,

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Speaker 1: And so he wasn't into it. Warren, He's not faring

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Speaker 1: So like he's just like I said, he's like moping

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Speaker 1: And he meets this guy who's making a killing and

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Speaker 1: fake ideas. And the guy tells Warren, look, you're in

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Speaker 1: the perfect position to sell fake driver's licenses at the dorms.

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Speaker 1: maybe they didn't, the Bad Boys Club. And so they're

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Speaker 1: doing other petty crimes. I don't know what those were,

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Speaker 1: but you know, just bad stuff, littering. Um. So Warren

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Speaker 1: and Eric they eventually get into this fight. It's not physical,

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Speaker 1: picturing this gang having like a Robert's Rules of Order

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Speaker 1: So can we put Can I get a second on?

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Speaker 1: There are documenting this? That's pretty much yea. So he'd

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Speaker 1: all the special collections. They got to see the absolute

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Speaker 1: treasures of archive and right, so they go to the

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Speaker 1: the Crown Jewels, bring out the White Gloves Birds of America.

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Speaker 1: It's a first edition of John James Audubon's Rare master

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Speaker 1: work containing huge hand painted engravings of the aforementioned huge

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Speaker 1: their breathtaking, they're so incredible, sot there maintains the color still.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're vibrant. And there are only like two

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Speaker 1: The woman leading the library tour mentioned that their value

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Speaker 1: starts thinking that, like, maybe the group could graduate from

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Speaker 1: go full fledged criminal enterprise. The thing that they skip

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Speaker 1: bleached his hair blonde for the occasion. That doesn't stand out.

420
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: They had on them a black Cobra stun pen like

421
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: a junior stun gun. Don't worry. They tested it out

422
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: on each other ahead on their forehead, like, y'all, zapp

423
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: you is that? Did you die? He tries back in

424
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: my neck, trying my chest. Put it right on. Okay,

425
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: I know this, I've tried this. So it's the last

426
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: day of finals and Spencer's running a little late coming

427
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 1: from one of his so he didn't have all the

428
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: time that he needed to do use his artistic talents

429
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: to apply the disguises, but you know, they went with it.

430
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: He did it. They had to drive around a while

431
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: because they couldn't find a parking space, but then Eventually

432
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: they make their way to the library. Zaren closure. I

433
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: want you to picture it. You're a senior. You're a

434
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: senior at Transylvania University. You're majoring in theater with a

435
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: minor in computer science. You're hedging your beds, you're cramming

436
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: for your last final of the semester this afternoon. And

437
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: throw four, which is magic, Witchcraft and Religion. It's the

438
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: last elective. Unique. The class has been fascinating and it

439
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: really lines up with your love of sorcery. Yeah, so

440
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: the library is quiet. All you hear is the occasional

441
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: shuffle of papers and a muffled cough here and there.

442
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 1: You need to get some air and stretch your legs,

443
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 1: so you push your chair back and you head out

444
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: the front doors. Take this warlock on a walk. It's

445
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: mid morning and there's a scattering of people sitting on

446
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: the benches walking by. You hear snippets of conversations, and

447
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: you just think how fortunate you are to go to

448
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: this storied university, to be surrounded by other curious minds

449
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: looking to expand their capabilities for critical thinking and assessment.

450
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: Just being in college makes you part of an elite

451
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 1: few in the world, the globe being at this tony

452
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: small liberal arts college even more so, and people all

453
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: over the world dream of this opportunity. You are blessed, Zaren.

454
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 1: You've got your Phillis sunshine in front of the library,

455
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: see head back in. You open the door and when

456
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: you look behind you, you see three guys headed your way.

457
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 1: They're limping and hunched over. They sport newsboy caps and windbreakers, scarves, gloves.

458
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: They all have gray hair and weird mustaches. You're a

459
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: polite citizen of the world, so you hold the door

460
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: open for these older gentlemen. You can't quite tell. As

461
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: you hold the door and they shuffle past, you see

462
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 1: that they aren't old men at all. There are a

463
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: bunch of young bros dressed up as old men. It's

464
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: very sabotage era, you know how, Like in the Spike

465
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: Jones BC Boys book there's all the pictures of them,

466
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: and old man drag m c A has like a

467
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: bushy Van Dyke beard that morphs later into the Nathaniel hornblower. Yeah,

468
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: so it's like that. It's bizarre. Everyone's staring at these

469
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: guys as they do their old man routines like grab it, oh,

470
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: my back, and they shuffled through the entryway of the library.

471
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: Like you think, it's like maybe a fraternity prank, something

472
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: to do with the end of the semester. People are giggling,

473
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: pointing one guy's mustaches like loose and flopping around. Here's

474
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 1: the thing, Like they decided to dress as old men

475
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: because they thought that old people were invisible, That's what

476
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: they said, and then come to find out they were.

477
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: No one notices them. Yeah, so these three be costumed men.

478
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: They look at each other and then they turn and

479
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: hustle right out the door. So like everyone's pointing and laughing, Oh,

480
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: college hijinks. They just drop the whole charade. Us there,

481
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: and you walk back to your spot at the table

482
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: and start going back to highlighting sections of a spell

483
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: bookwork exactly so the plan is foiled by the ridiculous disguises.

484
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: They head back to their house, to the Chaz house,

485
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: Warren calls b J. Gooch. He tells her, look, I'm

486
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: so sorry, but I have to move my appointment with you,

487
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: like I got stuck do in business stuff with eleven

488
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: o'clock tomorrow morning. Work Look, b J Gooch, she's there

489
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: to serve the public She's like, okay, she agrees. They

490
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 1: decide that the old man costumes are in no go

491
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: and then this time Eric and Warren they'd be the

492
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: ones to go inside. Eric would keep watch on the

493
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: first floor, Warren would go up and zap the gooch

494
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 1: tire up, and then Warren would give the signal and

495
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: Eric would come help and move the books outside to

496
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: the waiting minivan. Would it work this time? That's a

497
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: good question. When we come back from this break, I'm

498
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: gonna let you know how heist two point Oh went nice.

499
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sitting here thinking about the goach Zaren.

500
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: What's up Quade? Nothing much. When we left off the

501
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: four college criminals, they're gearing up for a second shot

502
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: at stealing rare books from the transy library. Yes, I

503
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: can't wait here with their next costumes, so the more.

504
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: After the first venture, everything starts running smoothly. They parked

505
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,239
Speaker 1: the minivan, Eric and Warren. They head in again. Oh,

506
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: I think they parked it like we're not No, no, no,

507
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: They got back in the mini van. They did it

508
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: all over this time. There's a barking spot. They got

509
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: good parking karma. Uh. Eric and Warren. They go in

510
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: this time, they're disguising themselves with winter cold weather gear,

511
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: so like hats, gloves, a heavy coat. That's what people

512
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: aren't going to pay attention. It is December. People always

513
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: leave those on into places like library because it's never

514
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: warm in the library. Um so Warren he heads up

515
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: to the Rare Books room for his appointment with the Gooch.

516
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: But they should have warned it is just like transity

517
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: sweatshirts and blue jeans and just been likeall cat and

518
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: look every other yep, yep whatever. So Warren goes up

519
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: to meet with the Gooch, Eric he goes back. He's

520
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: in his lookout spot in the lobby, and so there's

521
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: Betty Jean Gooch. She's prepping with her appointment for Walter Beckman.

522
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: She pulls out Birds of America and then she also

523
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: pulls out a first edition of Charles Darwin's On the

524
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: Origin of Species some other like really cool old illuminated texts.

525
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: Um Beckman. A. K. Warren arrives and by the way,

526
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: would she to do this for anybody who's at an appointment?

527
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: Isn't that incredible? So he gets there and he asked

528
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: her if it's okay to have a friend of his

529
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: come up and see the books too. So Gooch is

530
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: like a little skeptical. She's like, I don't I thought

531
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: this guy was going to be a lot older and

532
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: he's a young guy. Um, but you know what, Fine,

533
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: have your friend come up. Eric gets the call on

534
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: his cell phone from Warren. He's down in the lobby.

535
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: He thought he had to go upstairs and help carry

536
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: the books. He was not expecting like he he thought

537
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: that Warren would already have gotten in there and subdued.

538
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: Warren's calling an audible because he doesn't have the backbone

539
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: to take the Gooch out right. Yeah, So Eric rolls up.

540
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: He's shocked, but then he kind of plays it off.

541
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: He introduces himself as John, and then they go with

542
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: this new plan on the fly. So the two of

543
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: them follow BJ into the viewing room and Warren used

544
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: the taser pen on BJ's arm. On her arms, sir,

545
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: it wasn't a big shock, but it was enough voltage

546
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: to send her like slumping to the ground because is

547
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: this older woman, and she gets I think that she

548
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: felt like a tingling in her heart. So then the

549
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: pair of zip tie her and put a ski cap

550
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: over her face. So Warren says, we're quit struggling, BJ,

551
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: or do you want to feel more pain? And up

552
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: until this point they hadn't anticipated doing physical harm to anyone.

553
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: They said that they intended to just scare BJ Gooch

554
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: with the taser, but not actually use it. So then

555
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: they crossed that line. But then they just kept going.

556
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: So Gooch is out of commission. The fellas they start

557
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: piling the giant folio manuscripts. I was really hoping the

558
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,719
Speaker 1: good would mess them up. You did what, just like

559
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: punch hit him with a book. So they they they

560
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: put a bedsheet on the floor and then they start

561
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: piling these folios on the on it. So there were

562
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: seven of them Birds of America plus three other They're

563
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: putting them in a bed sheet. They're laying them on

564
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: a bed sheet and then we're gonna bundle them up.

565
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: They're just gonna throw them over their bag like a

566
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: sack and just try to get out of there like

567
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: they're going to ride the rails um. So they brought

568
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: the bed sheet as part of their heisht kit. They

569
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 1: grabbed smaller books from the table and just shoved them

570
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: in their backpacks. They're just like grabbing everything they can

571
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: it's like when you're by like the cash register, the

572
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: impulse purchases. The problem was that the Audubon books were heavy,

573
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: like really really heavy. So Eric and Warren they struggled

574
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: with them as they were trying to figure out how

575
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: to get out of the back of the library. They've

576
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: done all this recon but they got all confused. They

577
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: couldn't find the fire exit. They tried to get in

578
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: the elevator. They went up and down. They opened up

579
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: like closing door, close the door, people out there. They

580
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: went back up, so they finally find a backstairwell. They

581
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: slowly made their way downstairs. They were fumbling with this

582
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: crazy heavy cargo slung in a bed sheet between the

583
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: two of them. Meanwhile, another librarian went to check on

584
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: b J in the bookroom and found her hog tied muzzle.

585
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she flips out. She raised b J calls

586
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: the cops, and then she gave chase like, you do

587
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: not mess with librarians. People, Damn a librarian will message yes.

588
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: So she knew the building inside it out, so she

589
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: knew exactly what exit they'd have to totally. She's just

590
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: like parkour her way down the stairwell. So Eric and Warren.

591
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: They get to the bottom of the stairwell, the door

592
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: at the top swings open. It's the other librarian. She

593
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: is piste. She's just like yelling and like, oh man,

594
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: she's coming down that steam coming out of her nose.

595
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: Her biceps have grown and like ripped open her her

596
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: cute twin set. She's just like so. Eric and Warren

597
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: they just basically like kick open the back door to

598
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: the building, dropped the books, oh my god, and like

599
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: start they start running right. Chaz is all startled at

600
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: the wheel of the minivan. He's all of a sudden

601
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: he sees them just bursting out of the out of

602
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: the building. At this point, they just don't want to

603
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: get caught, know so they didn't have the folios. They're

604
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: running as fast as they can. They jump in the minivan. Librarian. Yeah.

605
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: The chads like backs up to pick them up, almost

606
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,959
Speaker 1: hits the librarian and they're like drive, drive, drive and drive.

607
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: He did. She was doing like a terminator to so

608
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: he's driving like a maniac. Chas he's running red lights,

609
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: he's nearly hitting pedestrians in like an astro van or

610
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: in the rear view for a librarian. Yeah, yeah, They're

611
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: all in an absolute panic. So they wind up. They

612
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: switched cars. They pulled the They had fake plates on

613
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: the minivan, they pull those off and set fire to them.

614
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: Getting the other car, they dropped Eric off at his

615
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: tennis final. It's like, apparently it wasn't just like rallies

616
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: in a surf clinic like they had. There was a

617
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: written test about tennis trivia and you couldn't miss that.

618
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: So your final, I thought, like tennis, like he was

619
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: in the finals, I took tennis in high school as

620
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: like a point five credit thing, just as a way

621
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: to play tennis during the whatever. It was like, it

622
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: was like it was like a pe class, and that's

623
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: what I thought. But no, it turns out he said

624
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: like he had tough questions about tennis trivia instead of

625
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: just going and playing your last liberal schools that are

626
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: training our states. So he goes off to take his final.

627
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: The rest of them go to shay Chaz and they

628
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: watched coverage of their pseudo heist on TV. So don't

629
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: forget though, that while they didn't get the million dollar manuscripts,

630
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: they did have backpacks full of other rare books. They

631
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: filled those backpacks. They heard on the news that there

632
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: were no leads and a witness had taken down the

633
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 1: license plate, but it was the fake one, so what

634
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: does it matter. And they burned that so no one's

635
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: going to find it. It looks like the cops had

636
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: nothing and all their cinematic practice had paid off. They

637
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 1: broke out some special occasions celebratory joints, and they felt

638
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,919
Speaker 1: a sense of relief. They may have just gotten away

639
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: with it, Saron. The next day, the four of them

640
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: piled into Eric's car and they drove to New York

641
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: for their appointment at Christie's to sell the books that

642
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: they didn't steal. Yes, so just like what about these

643
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: what about these smaller ones? So they arrive on Sunday

644
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: morning and they check into the same hotel they'd used

645
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: on that last trip to meet the black market art contact.

646
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: The appointment isn't until Tuesday, so they hung out and

647
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: they went to dinner, and then they tied one on

648
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: at the hotel part Badway show. According to an article

649
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: in Vanity Fair Quote, Warren chummed up to an Iraq

650
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: veteran spencer almost started a brawl after knocking a table

651
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: full of drinks over, and Eric picked up a middle

652
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: aged Brazilian tourists Warren, Warren and Chaz left the other

653
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: two and staggered to the nearby China Club Attackie Westside Nightclub,

654
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: which they knew about from the famous Rick James episode

655
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: of Chappelle's show God Is Amazing. So on Monday they

656
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: did some tourists. They're taking the Chris Murphy or Charlie

657
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: Murphy rather Murphy tour of New York. Murphy mentioned, I

658
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: will go there, So that was There's Sunday Monday they

659
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 1: did some touristy things. They made a swing by Christie's

660
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: to check it out, just look at it. Then they

661
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: went to bed. Early Tuesday morning, Warren and Spencer they

662
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: go to Christie's Chas and Eric. They wait in the

663
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: car down the street with the books in the back.

664
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 1: Warren he wore his special occasion big boy suit and

665
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: Spencer put together a look that sounds very Richie Tannenbaum

666
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: meets once again Spike Jones era Beastie Boys. A vintage

667
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: yellow Pierre Carden blazer, large collar dress shirt and a

668
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: gold silk scarf. Well, I like the Pierre card Empire.

669
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: Well it was also like two sizes too big, huge,

670
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: so an employee named Melanie Hallerin agreed to meet with

671
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: Mr Beckman, but was informed by Warren and Spencer that

672
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: they were actually Mr Williams and Mr Stevens, representatives of

673
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: Walter Beckman, of course from and so he told them

674
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: that Beckman was a very private man, a very careful man,

675
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 1: and he just inherited some rare books and he wanted

676
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: to get them appraised. How Lareen said, can I see him?

677
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: Spencer has to run out to the car to get them.

678
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: He comes back with like a wheelie bag. No, he

679
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: comes back with a wheelie bag. He opens it up.

680
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: Hallerin looks them all over. She asked some questions and

681
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: like write stuff down and then she's like, you know what,

682
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: I'll be in touch. Spencer's like, great, here's my number.

683
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: They leave. Meanwhile, the cops in the FBI and Lexington

684
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: they're pouring over CCTV footage from the library. Lexington p

685
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: D assigns this detective to the case. Detective Shannon Garner.

686
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: She had just been transferred over from the mounted unit,

687
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: like she was a horse cop and this was her

688
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: first detective case. She's like a little overwhelmed to be

689
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: leading such a high profile case, but she never let

690
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: that show. She was just cool the whole time. Yeah.

691
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 1: The police trace the Yahoo email addressed to the UK

692
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: Computer Lab and then they pulled the tapes from there too,

693
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: so they can see who was using the computer at

694
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: that time. They have a face. Then they get a

695
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: federal subpoena ordering Yahoo to turn over all the records

696
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: about the Welter Beckman email address. They found the correspondence

697
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: with Melanie hallerin at Christie's and then they contact her.

698
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: She tells the police, Yeah, these two guys who came in,

699
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: super weird, super suspicious. They were young, they're wearing she

700
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: described them thrift store clothes. She knew something was off,

701
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: so she decided not to do business with them. Hey,

702
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: did you have the CCTV tapes from when she they

703
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: came in? Sure? She's like, you know what, I also

704
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: have one guy's phone number. So she gives them the number. Right,

705
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: this is the police. They're expecting this to be a

706
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: burner phone, but when they look up the registration, it's

707
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 1: a legit cell phone owned by Gary Reinhardt. Gary lives

708
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: in Lexington, Kentucky. They call the number, they give voicemail.

709
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: This is Spence leave a message? So like, oh yeah,

710
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: okay Spencer right, Okay, so this had given Christie's his

711
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: real phone number, one paid for by his dad Gary.

712
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: So they pulled a picture of Spencer from the newspaper. Okay,

713
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: you have this name. It's a soccer thing, and like,

714
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: Warren's also in a picture but not named. They compared

715
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: the image to the footage from Christie's. Oh yeah, it's

716
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: those two guys. So they have the one name they

717
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: needed to get the name for Warren. So the sergeant

718
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: Pat Murray of Lexington p D. He shows his kid,

719
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: who's about the same age, right, He's like, do you

720
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: know these guys? Like He's like, oh yeah, that's Warren

721
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: Lipka like new right away. So they start right exactly,

722
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: So they start following Warren and Spencer, and soon enough

723
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 1: they can figure out okay, yeah, Eric and Chas are

724
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: they're part of it too, right, So the guys, they

725
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: all tried to just go about their daily routines as

726
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: if nothing had happened. There's this excellent passage from the

727
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: Vanity Fair article by John Falk, like this quote. With

728
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: the pressure mounting. However, Warren was caught shoplifting a TV

729
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,720
Speaker 1: dinner from a local supermarket. Eric was arrested and charged

730
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: with a d u I. Police pulled him over not

731
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: only for running red lights, but also because Warren was

732
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: on top of the car, hanging onto the roof wreck

733
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: and Spencer crashed his accurate legend. Just days before they

734
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: are us, the three even took in a movie Oceans twelve.

735
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, So like they're they're supposed to be

736
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: lying low. They got Warren hanging on to the top

737
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: of the car. Well wait a minute, I got to

738
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: defend that. That's a really fun way to ride in

739
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: a car or on a car. I have done that.

740
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: That is amazing. So he gets a d life of that.

741
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: On the morning of February eleven, two thousand five, Lexington

742
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 1: p D Sent swat to raid Chaz's house Sha Chaz.

743
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: Under the gun, cops searched the basement a k a.

744
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: Warren's disgusting layer and they found the books. They found

745
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: other heist accessories like everything everything. So during the interrogation

746
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: all of them confessed, of course, and they all pleaded

747
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: guilty the theft of cultural artifacts from a public museum

748
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: and interstate transportation of stolen property and there were other

749
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: charges on top of that as well. They got a

750
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: weapon's enhancement for using the stunt pen and they all

751
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: got sentenced to seven years in a federal facility with

752
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: no chance of parole. Right years, seven years not what

753
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: I thought they would get. Well, there was some like

754
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: wrangling about because they were going to charge Warren with more.

755
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: They were gonna put more time on his because he

756
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: was yeah, and they thought he was like the ringleader

757
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: she directed the others. But then um, all these librarians

758
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:24,720
Speaker 1: did a right in of like throw the book at him.

759
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 1: Oh my god. These are people who are like so

760
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: sincere and dedicated to knowledge and admitted so Um. Anyway,

761
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: they wound up just making it across the board. Seven years. Wow,

762
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: do you know how they get those buns so tight practice.

763
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: In subsequent interviews, they all said that they're sorry, but

764
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: they say they pulled the heist because they wanted to

765
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: escape the oppression of their comfortable suburban lifestyle. One characterized

766
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: his quote a way out, honey, the mean streets of

767
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: wealthfare all over the world are looking for a way

768
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: in and to being able to send their kids to

769
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: a private university, have a lovely family home, take vacations,

770
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: never have to worry about the price of groceries, like

771
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 1: having regular food and having to run from your neighbors.

772
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: Not bagging on middle or upper middle class folks, because

773
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: that's how I grew up, right, But I am ever

774
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: thankful now and back then growing up how lucky I was,

775
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: Like how hard my mom my grandma had to work

776
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 1: so that I could have such a comfortable life. Well,

777
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: it's a word to gets thrown around now a lot,

778
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: but you really were very lucky and privileged. Yeah, completely completely,

779
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: But you have to recognize that these guys seem mad

780
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: that they came from that, from such comfort that the

781
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: same people people turned to crime because they want that comfort.

782
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: So anyway that it was, there's a documentary about them.

783
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: It's really irritating anyway, I can see it. It's so

784
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: they all serve their time. They got out of prison.

785
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: Warren says he's a prison reform advocate, and they think

786
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: he works as an electrician. That's what it says in

787
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: his Twitter bio bio. But I don't know if he's

788
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: being cheeky whatever. Anyway, Eric, he wrote a book about

789
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: their caper. Of course, it's called American Animal. The book

790
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: was made into a movie, and then he's also yeah,

791
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: so the casting. Yeah, he's also a prison reform advocate

792
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: and he writes about his time inside, so he's you know,

793
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: good for him by the way that movie came out.

794
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: But Warren and Eric are like currently actively promoting it

795
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: on social media, which I think a little bit weird.

796
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: Is anybody in it? Oh? I don't like there are

797
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: people in it? Get that, But I mean, like, does

798
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: it have anybody whose name I may recognize? I don't

799
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: think so it's like young stars that I don't know who. Anyway,

800
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: you'd have to watch TV to know that I would.

801
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: I probably would, you know what, I live in a cave.

802
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: Um So Spencer Reinhard. He keeps continuing with his art,

803
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: which was his passion. He paints while he's in prison,

804
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: and he's now a working artist. He has a website

805
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: where you can buy his paintings of surfing flamingos. Did

806
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: you say surfing just like hanging ten being wicked? Do

807
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,439
Speaker 1: you know that they don't You can't bend at the knee.

808
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: They only bend at the ankle. Very difficult to surf that.

809
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. Chaz Chas is now a life coach,

810
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: and he wrote a book called Evolution Becoming a Criminal. Well,

811
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: he did a Reddit a m a asked me anything

812
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: when the movie came out, and he got roasted in

813
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: the comments because he would only answer questions about like

814
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: the logistical details of the heist. He ignored all the

815
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: interesting questions, and then they went hard at him about

816
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,760
Speaker 1: being a life coach. They're like, why in the world

817
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: would I take just like, don't do this, do this,

818
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: don't do this. It's so entertaining, this whole threat in

819
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: the way that only read it can be. That's very

820
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: The people are absolutely hilarious and clever. Okay, so b J. Gooch.

821
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: She retired from the library in after twenty six years

822
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: of service. She didn't like talking about the robbery at all,

823
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: but eventually she caved when the publicity around the movie

824
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: put her back in the spotlight, and she said that

825
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: talking about the effect the effected hat on her was

826
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: cathartic um. She got all bruised up at the time,

827
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: and then she was anxious for a long time in

828
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: the library after the attack, but she was able to

829
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: recover and thrive. She's my hero in this story. I'd

830
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: like I really was hoping for her to do violence

831
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: to them. She has her own larger tastes. Give him

832
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: the goo, Szaren. What's her ridiculous takeaway? Oh man, that

833
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: the UK students in Transylvania University students are pretty much

834
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: exactly what I expected of the future statesmen of America

835
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: and the privileged few who go to University of Kentucky.

836
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, there are no surprises in this,

837
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: but I do love the Gooch. So my ridiculous take

838
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: away is b J Gooch, Celebrate the Gooch. That's my

839
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Speaker 1: take By the way, is that the name of a

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