WEBVTT - Throw the Book at 'Em!: The Transy Library Book Heist 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.040 Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Hello, 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:10.000 Zaren Clyde, what'd you doing by my middle name? I 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.280 didn't say your full government? Now did that really? Fun? Part? 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:18.880 Fun part? Oh? Yeah, you know it's ridiculous. Oh girl, Okay, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.919 my head is still like trying to recover from this 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.919 because it's just so silly. Is it a product mashup? No? 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.600 I wouldn't do that to me. This one is a 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.720 mashup of competitions. Okay, it's kind of a it's not 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.200 really a mash up. Did you know between nineteen twelve 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.959 and you could win a gold medal in competitive art 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.560 at the Olympics? Why how do you know this? I 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.280 know everything? How do you know that? Every? Well, then 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.760 that just kills it because I had never known this. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.200 I never heard that. I never knew it. They don't 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.480 even have to patronize me, Elizabeth, but just you know, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.160 for the sake of my own edification, I thought it 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.760 was amazing that there was is it was the original desire, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.399 original goal of the Olympics. Like when they came up 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.240 with the Olympics, the modern Olympics, it was like, oh, 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.240 this is really important. We have to have competitive art, 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.120 like it was like a big part of it. And 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.640 then they like started coming up with the competition nineteen twelve. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.280 They're like, Okay, we're gonna do it because the first 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.640 ones were like not competitive, and then so they let's 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.320 make it competitive. Sweden's like, we're hosting. We don't want 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.560 to do that. They're like we're doing it. They're like okay, fine, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.680 So Sweden kicks it off first time. Not many artists 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.000 show up. It's mostly the French, you know, It's like 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:32.280 some Italians. Yeah, exactly. The first medal count the Italians 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.959 won two golds, the French won two golds, the Swiss 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.400 won won gold, in the US won one gold. There 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.120 were five gold medals given out, no silver, no bronze, apparently, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.920 just all gold medals. Yeah, and then later on they 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.240 figured out how to like give out medals to everybody. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.640 And there were two people who won medals as athletes 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.760 and artists that I thought was really kind of cool. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.440 There was Walter Winens. He was an American. He won 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.600 as a marksman in the nineteen o eight Summer Olympics, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.080 and then he won another one in nineteen twelve, and 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.240 then many years later he won for art for his 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.440 sculpture in American trotter. And then there was also Alfred 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.400 Hajos of Hungary. He won as a swimmer at the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.679 first Olympics in Athens, and then twenty eight years later 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.720 he comes back and he wins a silver medal in 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:24.119 architecture stadium design. So he won a medal. So it's 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.760 not like speed painting right there, It's not that they 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.760 enter it in Okay, So there you golous. That's excellent, 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.680 thank you for playing. You know what else is ridiculous? 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.000 Yes I do, Elizabeth. You want me to tell you yours? 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.200 Please go? Please tell me Dressing like old men to 0:02:40.240 --> 0:03:03.160 steal a very old book. Yeah, yeah, this is a 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.600 ridiculous crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:15.160 and cons. It's always murder free and one percent ridiculous. Saren, Elizabeth. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.519 Have you ever heard of Transylvania University? Uh? Is that 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.239 Dr Frankenstein got his degree? Yes? What are you looking like? 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.079 It's in Kentucky, Olexington. To be exactly, I've never heard 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.880 of it. It's a small liberal arts I do know 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.600 that the Transylvania, Kentucky, I'm aware of it. Yeah, well, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.880 I had never heard of it either, Um, but I'm 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.960 amazed by its impact on on things. Anyway, what do 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.080 you mean? Well, like I said, it's a small liberal 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.280 arts college. Everyone calls it Transy. In fact, that's their 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.000 their college U R L Transy dot E d U. Okay, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:52.320 it's like ris dy Transy. There's only nine d seventy 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.720 one UM students at the last count. It's a small school. Yeah, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.640 that's smaller than my high school tuitions almost forty dollars 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:07.000 a year. WHOA, Yeah, I don't know the inflation. Who knows. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.880 It was started in seventeen eighty, and that makes it 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.680 the oldest university west of the Allegheny Mountains. Oh so, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.840 like only like Harvard and Yale or older pretty much 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.359 or William and Mary College. Yeah, it's also the largest 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:25.159 producer of US statesman So to US vice presidents went there, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.000 Richard Mentor Johnson, who was the vice president to Martin 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:34.400 Van Buren and John C. Breckenridge VPET James Buchanan, your favorite, 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:39.280 the tiny terror to U S Supreme Court justices went there, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:45.560 Samuel Freeman, Miller, Wizzer White, and and John Marshall Harlan 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.839 a k a. The Great dissenter. He was the one. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.359 He dissented on Plessy versus Ferguson. He's considered one of 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.440 the greatest justices of his era. His grandson also became 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.800 a Supreme Court justice. So he came right out of 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.840 Transylvania University. Fifty U S senators, a hundred and one 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:06.440 U S representatives, thirty six governors, thirty four US ambassadors, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.200 and the President of the Confederacy Jeff So, wait a minute, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.159 this place, Transylvania University, Transy, give it up. What's their 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.159 secret to statesmanship is? I don't know. Is that like 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.120 their thing? They're just like, hey, come here, we'll get 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.520 you enrolled. I think that, you know, I think that 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:28.680 they have deep connections and you know, they don't know Kentucky. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.120 That's where I would expect this from Virginia. Yeah, no, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.000 Kentucky coming coming through. So it sounds amazing. It has 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.000 an endowment of two hundred and forty million dollars, so 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.440 that's not on par with the billions in the ivy leagues, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.240 but that's a lot of money university to be able 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.520 to be secure. And so that brings us to the 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.960 crime that I want to where there's money there's crime. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.880 The library is sitting on a collection of rare books 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.240 worth millions and millions of dollars. Oh yeah, old as 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.680 they are. But they got some beauties. Oh yeah, well, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.080 and they're they were able to kind of amass them 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.840 and get donations, and it sounds like they've got yeah. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.560 So in two thousand four, there were some young men 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.080 who were determined to liberate those dollars and take them 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.120 for their own. Let me give me some background on 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:20.320 these young man. Four dudes in total, Spencer Reinhardt, Warren Lipka, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.920 Eric Borsuk and Chas Allen. Will there be a quiz later, Yes. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.320 All four of them were raised in well off neighborhoods Lexington. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.960 I'm guessing this is a school where you you're probably welcomed. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:38.400 I mean, yeah, yeah, exactly. And so but they're like 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.360 coming from the local area. All of these guys college students. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.760 Some of them went to University of Kentucky, which is 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.400 like a mile down the road. Others went to Transylvania 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.839 University Transy. So Warren and Spencer they grew up together, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.200 best friends. They went to different high schools, but they 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.440 had this really tight bond that was based on soccer 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.400 pretty much um. In two thousand three, Warren, who was 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.360 like tall, lanky and rascally, he went off to University 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:09.520 of Kentucky on a scholar soccer scholarship. UH. Spencer, small 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:14.160 and artsy. He got an art scholarship to Transylvania University Transy, 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:15.960 just a mile up the road. He wanted to be 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:20.360 a graphic designer and a passion for graphic design. Both 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.440 of these guys had a tough time their first year 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.800 in college. Spencer he wasn't into the pressure that came 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.480 with collegiate soccer um, and he thought all the other 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.080 art majors were talentless morons. He was like, I could 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.160 draw better than that when I was an elementary school dude, 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.800 And so he wasn't into it. Warren, He's not faring 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.600 much better. His family was like slowly imploding due to 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.400 his father's gambling debts. His dad was the coach of 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.800 the UK women's soccer University Kentucky women's soccer team. So 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.360 then he's like on a soccer scholarship, but the dad's 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.320 like blowing all the money gambling. He looks around him 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.880 at all the privilege and like inane worries of his 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.560 peers and he's just disgusted. He's like, you guys, are 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.600 you know you're concerned about this idiotic stuff? You have everything. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.920 I mean he came from that same privilege. But whatever, 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.800 So he's just like moping and brewing. He's mad because 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.600 he's losing it because his dad's gambling it away. He's 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.560 going through that like freshman eye opening of like wait, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.120 I've read camel I See the World, but instead of 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.920 getting more international or more cultured, he's getting more bitter. Yeah, exactly. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.000 So like he's just like I said, he's like moping 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.480 around smoking weed. Um. He quits the soccer team and 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.360 that meant no scholarship of course. So he's just like 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.280 bumming around and feeling disenchanted. He's hanging out with what 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.880 he probably felt was like a super edgy crowd. Um. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.079 And he meets this guy who's making a killing and 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.400 fake ideas. And the guy tells Warren, look, you're in 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.760 the perfect position to sell fake driver's licenses at the dorms. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.920 Like come on, you're you're like, you know, popular guy. Whatever. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.559 Warren loves this. For Warren, He's like, this is for me. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.320 Fake I d S is the way to go. So 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.560 then he gets his friend and fellow soccer guy, Eric 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.720 Borsok in on the venture and they start selling ideas 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.200 at a hundred dollars apiece. Okay, so it's like a 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.080 little bit more than market rate, making good money. They 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.319 also are like fancying themselves little petty criminals, like these 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.920 guys are, Hey, we're bad boys now the mean, mean 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.080 streets of the University of Kentucky. So, um, do they 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.080 have a name from them their gang? No? I wish 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.120 maybe they didn't, the Bad Boys Club. And so they're 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.559 doing other petty crimes. I don't know what those were, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.560 but you know, just bad stuff, littering. Um. So Warren 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.600 and Eric they eventually get into this fight. It's not physical, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.839 but they were like squabbling over money. So Eric dips 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.199 out on the little Yeah, they have a beef going on. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.680 There's beef involved. Uh. Eric leaves the criminal empire. The 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.400 only problem was that he was the design and computer 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.640 guy who put the ideas together. Oh, they're faking it 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.640 that way, So war and he thinks about, like, who 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.640 else do I know that has an artistic streak and 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.960 a passion for graphic design. Oh, my high school bestie 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:11.680 Spencer Spencer. Remember Spencer's already sort of over the whole 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.079 art student thing. So he's in He's like, yeah, whatever, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.920 I'll do it. So now he's running with a cutthroat 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.600 gang and he decides to share with them one of 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.840 his criminal fantasies. He's like, I feel like this is 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.200 a safe space you guys. Um, here's what I've been 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.000 thinking about. He had been on a tour of the 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.800 library as part of his art school orientation. I like 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.240 picturing this gang having like a Robert's Rules of Order 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.079 lead meeting where he's like a new business point in 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.680 to business. I've got an idea I'd like to bring up, guys, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:43.960 So can we put Can I get a second on? 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.560 There are documenting this? That's pretty much yea. So he'd 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.640 been on this tour of the library as part of 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.000 his art school orientation, and um, they took him through 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.040 all the special collections. They got to see the absolute 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.240 treasures of archive and right, so they go to the 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.440 Rare Books room and that's when they get to see 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.240 the Crown Jewels, bring out the White Gloves Birds of America. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:11.040 It's a first edition of John James Audubon's Rare master 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:16.960 work containing huge hand painted engravings of the aforementioned huge 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:22.200 their breathtaking, they're so incredible, sot there maintains the color still. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.719 Oh yeah, they're vibrant. And there are only like two 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.800 of these things made, so they have one of them. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.440 The woman leading the library tour mentioned that their value 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:37.839 of this four volume set twelve million dollars. So Spencer 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.439 starts thinking that, like, maybe the group could graduate from 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.080 selling fake ideas and bags of weed to lifting twelve 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.800 million dollars worth of rare art and somehow selling it 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:52.720 on the black you can baby steps, Well, he wanted 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.400 together le did it take his freshman pipe dream and 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.680 go full fledged criminal enterprise. The thing that they skip 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.320 past is who are they going to sell this book? Too? Well, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.200 you'll see they think about these really okay good. So 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.600 he starts watching like he's been thinking about this. He's 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.120 watched the set up at the Special Collections room, and 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.240 he sees that the security there consists of two things. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.320 One a sign in sheet and to a librarian named 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.200 Betty gene Gooch, like a sign that says don't take 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.319 things Betty. That's a great Her friends and colleagues call 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.439 her b J. So it's not it's a sign in 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:36.280 sheet and b J Gooch look out bros that security. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.200 So that's a great nickname, the Gooch. You were asking 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.959 if they okay? So they steal them, then what how 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.840 are they going to move them? You don't count Warren out. 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.640 Warren's a bad boy, Zarin, remember that he was part 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.040 of the criminal underbelly of Lexington. Kentuck's right, okay, So 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.000 he asks around, he runs in the shadowy streets. He said, look, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.439 I need a contact who can help me move some artwork. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.720 A friend of a friend of a friend of a 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.000 friend of a friend connect him with a guy in 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.880 New York named Barry. Oh this sounds promising. Oh yeah. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.520 So Warren and Barry they chat on the phone, one 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.280 crook to another, crimer to crimer um and then they 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.840 set up a meeting and Barry's like, look, I gotta 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.360 know that you're for real. Man. He's like, I am 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.400 for real, dude, I sell I D send you a 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.200 picture of my I D. He's like, well, this is 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.080 what Barry wants. Barry's like, how about you give me 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.520 like a five deposits so I know you're for real? 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:34.480 How does that make you know, so Warren and Spencer 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.040 they hop in the car and they drive to Manhattan 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.600 from Kentucky seven miles. They check into a hotel under 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.319 the name Harry Balsani and they have a fake ID 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.160 to back it up. They have a Harry Harry Balsani. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.959 I d I want a Harry bals Harry Balls's Harry Balls. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.360 Any yeah, uh so they pay cash for the room. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.160 They meet up with Barry the next day in Central Park. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.160 This is like something out of Law and Order Juicy 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.040 Booty edition, Like they are just in Central Park. There's 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.680 like pigeons, yes exactly, jogging berries. An old man with 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.760 a long ponytail, and he's like irritated because he sees 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.120 it's these two like frat bros rolling up on him 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.240 played by Bruce Dern in the movie. Yes. And then 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.640 Elliott Stabler a k A. Juicy Booty comes charging out, 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.840 bald headed gleaming. I don't know, I've just heard that 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.440 that's what happens on the ship. So anyway, he they 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.360 Berry's irritated, but you know what, money's money, and so 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.720 he takes five dollars off of him in exchange for 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.040 an email address. He slides him a little slip of paper, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.320 and he said, when you email this this address, say 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.280 your name is Terry. So Terry, Harry and Barry. Okay, yeah, okay, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.120 just keep over here. So they're like sweet, yes, and 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.240 they like high five, and then they skip off, going 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.080 back to Spencer's Accura head back home. Now they create 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.640 their own email address and they send a message to 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.640 the one that they got Harry, what's up Terry. Here, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.160 I got rare books. I'm looking to move them. So 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.920 then they get a reply, guess what, Terry, you got 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.920 to go to Amsterdam if you want to sell these 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.440 rare books. This is getting exciting, Serin, but it's also 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:17.080 getting complicated. So Warren reaches out to one of his 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.720 fellow crimers and he gets a line on a fake passport, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.920 and for he paid for it. So now he has 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.960 fake papers, take them all the way to Amsterdam. He 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.800 flew out there alone, March two thousand four. I was 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.360 about to ask what years this and fake passport and 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.200 easy no, because we're remembers after the Towers. Yeah, and 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:36.800 this means that you're getting the holograms, you got all 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.840 this stuff, So he gets it. He meets up with 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.479 these four shady guys in a coffee shop in Amsterdam. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.800 He didn't bring any stolen books with him because he 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:49.080 hadn't stolen them yet, so he can't. He also didn't 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.560 bring any photos of them, no documentation, no proof whatsoever. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.800 He couldn't even talk about because he didn't know like anything. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.640 He's like, yeah, they're just like old Hey, guys want 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.000 to talk about crime, right, So he's just Terry now 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.080 out in the world, like not knowing anything fresh, Terry. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.560 So the guys tell Warren Slash Terry something important. Listen, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.640 you have to have an accurate, honest appraisal of the 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.000 books if you're going to sell them. And if you 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.080 get that, then yeah, we're interested whatever books you feel 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.200 you have. If you get them appraised and you have 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.960 provenance for us with that appraisal, good. So he gets 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.160 back to the States, he tells Spencer everything. He's like, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.680 oh my god, amstery, I was amazing. Why aren't all 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.680 cities bikeable? And so they figure out You're like, okay, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.960 you know what, Let's go big. Let's reach out to 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.120 Christie's auction house in New York. I mean, come on, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.440 that's the first name in auction to bring in experts 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.640 Warren then also goes in men's fences with his old 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.080 pal Eric, so they smooth things over. They had some 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.880 pizza and bruise. I'm not kidding. That's how it all 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.680 got fixed. It's all good. So then he brings me 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.000 and he's like, Eric, since we're cool, now let me 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.440 pour you another point. Uh, do you want to come 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.520 in on our rare book heist? And Eric okay. So yeah, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.879 So now they've got three guys. Summer's coming. The bros 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.640 had plans, though, you know, so non criminal plan. They're 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.520 going to brow down, go down to the coast. Warren 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.800 was a camp counselor, so he had he had. I 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.119 guess Kucky would be different. Spencer got a gig painting 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:23.040 murals at a school. Eric had a lawnmowing business with 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.840 a buddy named Chaz. And so then so they're like, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.920 guess what, we're going to put the active plans on ice. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.359 But let's never stop dreaming about it, guys, keeping in 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.600 your mind, like imagine all your wild expenditures while you're 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:41.920 you know, mowing lawns, organizing capture the flag. It's all good. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.879 So when we come back, I'm going to tell you 0:17:44.920 --> 0:18:07.879 what happened at the start of the new academic year. Zaren, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.160 we're back. Hey, you just got done planing beer pall 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.040 I was telling you about Warren, Spencer and Eric and 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.520 their plans to steal a first edition of Audubon's Birds 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.200 of America. Yeah, the Bad Boys Bros, the Bad Boys Club. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.840 It's an audacious plan, is Yeah, daring and new. It's 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.640 one that involves Christie's auction as a trip to Amsterdam 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.320 and then also crossing paths with b J Gooch. Yeah, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.600 and a bunch of federal crimes about getting out of 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.040 the country, huge, huge crimings. Um I mentioned that Eric 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.560 was cutting grass over the summer with a pale named Chairs. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.920 Chaz came from a pretty well off family. His dad 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.960 was in real estate, like big money guy. Um. One 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.199 of the properties is dad owned was right by the 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.120 UK campus and his son was also on the deed 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.080 to that home. Chas who was living in the house. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.240 Well Chas of course house the Chairs house. Eric lives 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.800 there and then Warren. Warren was living in the unfinished 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:06.879 basement for next to nothing in rent, so it's like 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.840 an amateur frat house completely uh. He Warren like he'd 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.600 had enough for a nicer place before. But back when 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.280 he was slinging, I d s um that was like 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.920 four months ago. But that business was over now and 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.199 he's moved on. Is it totally different? Oh? Yeah? He 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.920 Now he spends every waking moment either planning the heist, 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.680 playing video games or smoking weed. Those are his things. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.240 Was he wheezing on chicks too? Who's who knows? Maybe 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.720 he's a young man. He was a UK student. That's 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.320 one of his agreements to his fellow brothers. Yes, exactly, 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.879 I will smoke weed, I will wheeze on girls, and 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.920 I'll plan a heist. Guys. One day, Warren calls a 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.400 heist meeting in the in his basement abode. He's like, gentlemen, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.920 come on down. So they they dropped down, he Spencer 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.600 and Eric. They get down to business. They're getting closer 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.560 to making this heist reality. But they need one more person. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:05.080 I don't know why. Yeah, they need a thief. I 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.600 think they needed someone, I don't know what. So Eric 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.119 was like, hey, how about my friends slash Landlord Chas 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:14.159 Allen And he comes so chas they tell him about it. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.840 He's not into it. He laughs, he laughs hard. He's like, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.480 you guys are more on, but like the boys wear 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.720 him down right to like, come on, bros, be super 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:26.120 sweet Chaz. He later talked about how money was really 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.440 important to him then and then it was an indicator 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.240 of his value as a person. I feel like his 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.720 household may have not been like the most well rounded 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:38.520 or healthiest emotional talking about. So he's just like, all right, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.600 if there's money, fine, I'm in. So they get this line. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.800 Let me break this down for a second. Selling something 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.399 like the books, they're worth like twelve million, right, if 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.240 they sell them on the black market, they're only going 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.600 to get market value best, right, So let's say that 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.879 gets it down to six million. So then you have 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.200 that money, but you gotta wash it. So take away 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.240 for that. That's about ten if you've got somebody you know, 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.400 twenty if you don't. They don't know anybody. So now 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:06.679 they have four point eight million dollars. You divide that 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.639 by four, you get one point too. That's not bad, 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.600 but that's a long way from twelve million. Well one 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.119 point two million, I mean that would change your life, 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:20.240 but I'm not guessing that that Like that means everything 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.679 went right. They got all their maximum payouts, they got 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.920 all their They're talking about these dreams of like going 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.879 to the Mediterranean and getting yachts and like reason on 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:32.159 Mediterranean babes, and it's like you can't really do that 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.679 with you, Like you can't afford Lebron James's life. You 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:39.440 don't get that. So like whatever one point to that'll 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.560 do you. So they start really leaning hard into the 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:46.199 logistics of everything. They watched heist movies like Ocean's Eleven 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.600 and Snatch. It's really where you get your what we've 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:53.200 been learning, that's where people do it. Yes, so Spencer 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.600 he scoped out the library and the special collections, especially 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:01.840 the Rare books room, Michael Mann movies. He carefully monitored 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:06.040 the sentry to that sanctum old Betty Jean Gooch. He 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.639 even made some appointments with her to see her in action, 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:13.960 like I like the way you move. He wanted to 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:15.600 see what it would be like to get access to 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.200 the books and you know, get a little get a 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:22.200 little look at the bj um the others. They mapped 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.720 out transit and escape plans. They tailed campus police to 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:29.160 try and get a sense of their schedules. They monitored 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.359 the library inside and out. They took note of like 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:35.000 who was where and when? Then they made the following 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:40.679 internet searches, auction house appraisals, stun guns, Swiss bank accounts. 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:47.520 They're like, how to heist to fake passport? Spencer goes 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:51.120 out and he spends three on materials for their disguises. 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:57.360 So then Warren reaches out to Christie's and he makes 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:00.440 an appointment to have some rare books appraised. He emails 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:03.800 them from the email Walter dot Beckman at yahoo dot com. 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:06.480 Walter beck Is that anybody, No, they came up with 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:10.040