1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of Our Heart Radio Elizabeth Dutton. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: You know it's ridiculous. Uh yeah, that the dessert called 3 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: the peach enchilada does not contain tortillas, but does contain 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: mountain dew. WHOA, my mind just leaked out of my 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: ear like warm mountain dew. That is ridiculous. But I 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: was thinking of something else. I was thinking of breaking 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: out of a French prison in a helicopter. Okay, that's 8 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: that is definitely ridiculous. This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast 9 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always 10 00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: murder free and ridiculous. Okay. This story take place overseas 11 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: in a French prison. Well, you know, some of the 12 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: French prisons were over here, but this one is actually 13 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: in France. We now picture it. It's a quiet Sunday 14 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: morning in the tiny town of Fontana Tresagnier in rural France. 15 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: A helicopter instructors awaits three new students at a small 16 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: flying club. But when his students arrive, they're actually a 17 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: trio of well armed commandos who have a K forty 18 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: seven and they demand the flight instructor fly them to 19 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: the center penitent Soothed Francielin. It's a French prison in 20 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: nearby Row or Ruo or Rue. Yeah, it's close in 21 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: another town with R E a U. Now, thanks to 22 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: months of drone surveillance, these commandos know that there is 23 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: one spot in this French prison that is not covered 24 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: by helicopter netting. So of course this is the one 25 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: spot where they land their helicopter and boom. The masked 26 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: men dressed all in black arrive at the prison around 27 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: eleven twenty in the morning local time, and two commandos 28 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: hop out of the hijack chopper. They carry with them 29 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: the aforementioned a K forty seven assault rifles, the classic 30 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: in the insurrectionist, terrorist and military adjacent community, the preferred 31 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: gun because it doesn't get stuck when you have mud. 32 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: But they're going to a French prison. Mud isn't their concern. 33 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: They just need to be able to pop off and 34 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: scare some folks, so they set off some smoke bombs. 35 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: They use a handheld cement grinder and they use that 36 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: to cut through the heavy prison doors. Now, one commando, 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: of course, stays behind with the helicopter because you don't 38 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: want that pilot taking off and leaving all of them 39 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: in the French prison. So the two commandos work their 40 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: way through the prison and they make it to the 41 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: visitors room. Why the visitors room, because that's where the 42 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: masterminded the escape is waiting for them. Or don't fighted 43 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: my man now fighting His commandos all gather up and 44 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: return to the hijacked helicopter and they fly to go 45 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: there you go? That one a suburb of Paris or Paris, 46 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: it's about twenty five miles northeast of the city, right, 47 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: So the commandos they hop out in this town, what 48 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: you said, and they set the pilot free, and then 49 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: they torch the helicopter. They burn it. Well, no, this 50 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: is not that bad. I mean, it's bad for the guy. 51 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: It is wasteful darling. Ye, that's that's very true. But 52 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: then they flee the torch helicopter in a black rain. No, 53 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: they make the clean getaway on the old A four 54 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: like it's like basically a freeway in France and has 55 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: like you know, roundabouts and stuff. Anyway, they tear off 56 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: and they disappear. Next they go and they meet up 57 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: with where they have a new car so they can 58 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: swap cars. And then this one. Just like with the helicopter, 59 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: they torched the rain and then they hop into a 60 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: white utility van that they have parked in a shopping 61 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: mall in all Knee Soup Wah, another Parisian suburb. Anyway, 62 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: the eyewitnesses spot Rudont fighting and his team of commandos 63 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: as they hop into the white utility van. And this, 64 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: you know, in Paris, there's plenty of white utility vans, 65 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: just like how there are plenty of white pit cup 66 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: trucks here, like if you're it's a work vehicle, right, 67 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: So this is not going to catch anyone's attention. And 68 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: just like that, the forty six year old international thief 69 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: bank robber par Excellence disappears, having escaped from a French 70 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: prison in a helicopter, then a renault and then obviously 71 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: a white van. But this, mind you, is not the 72 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 1: first time raredond Fed has escaped from a French prison. 73 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: This guy, I want you to be able to picture him, 74 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: the man. He's not a hardened criminal the way you 75 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: might picture an American criminal. This is not somebody who 76 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: has um come up and the mean streets and this 77 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: is his only choice. He chooses crime. He did come 78 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: up in a tough neighborhood in a suburb of France, 79 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: in the town of Creele. It's mostly an imbrigrant commune. 80 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: He is a son of immigrants, but at the same 81 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: time he chooses to be a criminal. He has the 82 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: talents to have been able to be most anything he 83 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: wanted to be with obviously a lot of hard work 84 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: and some luck, but don't fight. Chooses crime. He wants 85 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: to be a mastermind criminal. His first hero is this 86 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: guy's Jacques Messrin, a big time local criminal of the 87 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: slums and seventies Paris. That's where his imagination starts. So 88 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: he opts into this. He wants this. He not only 89 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: wants it, he basically wants to become more famous than 90 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: the big slum criminal that and when he grew up 91 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: ran his town. He's like, I can I can pass 92 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: that guy. No sweat, He's way cooler. He's like, I'm 93 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: way cooler than this guy. I'm a boss, cool than 94 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: this guy the seventies Paris summer criminal like mastermind though 95 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: like a guy like a mob boss from the sounds 96 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: kind of cool, right, Yeah. So you have like small 97 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: time criminals like Carlos and Jackal, independent people being able 98 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: to pull off huge intern national crime. So the imagination 99 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: of criminals has changed in the seventies. Well, when they're 100 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: all walking around in like loafers and bell bottoms, sands 101 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: about pants like polyester and like slightly feathered hair and 102 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: grimaces and like you know, tinted glasses, yellow tinted glasses, 103 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: very sensible turtlenecks. That's what That's what makes the whole thing, 104 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: that's what makes them so menacing is their fashion choices. Exactly, 105 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: a leather jacket and a turtleneck. Wow, criminal, Just I 106 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: mean like formal wear. I just turned my pocketbook over 107 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: to him. Take it, okay, So we're don't fight. He's 108 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: got his mastermind here, Jacques mess Rene, right, and he's like, 109 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: I can beat this guy. So he goes, now, how 110 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: can I train to become a bigger mastermind criminal? What 111 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: would you look to if you wanted to become a 112 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: better criminal? Could you get books in the library? Yeah, 113 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: I mean criminality for dummies? Now, how to rob a 114 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: bank for dummies? Criminality poor dummies. No, but there is 115 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: something called Hollywood which is exactly that. So Hollywood is 116 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: just making all kinds of criminal movies. And during the seventies, 117 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: you have like a heyday of crime movies. So and 118 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: then also in the eighties when were don't fight as 119 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: a young man when he's a teenager, as he's coming 120 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: into his own he has particular the films of Michael Mann. 121 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: He loves Michael Mann and if you're not familiar, Michael 122 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: Man as the director who did Heat which has one 123 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: of the most epic gun fights ever by bank robbers. 124 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: And that's the type of crime or don't Faied has 125 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: his mind set on. But there is one big difference. 126 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: He's not a violent criminal. He doesn't want to hurt people. 127 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: He not only doesn't want to hurt people, he ensures 128 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: he never hurts people. Now, this just sets him apart 129 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: for most of the criminals of his day because it's 130 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: easier to get away with a crime if you have 131 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: no witnesses. It's easier to get away with a large 132 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: heist if you have killed the bank manager. He's like no. Now, 133 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: there's a couple of reasons why this is, even though 134 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: he is France's pre eminent hold up man bank robber, 135 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: like like he is the guy. By the early nineties 136 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: he has established himself. But mostly it's because he has 137 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: people left behind to tell the stories of his crimes 138 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: legend exactly, So the non violence gambit works for him 139 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: for years, because one he doesn't have victims who go 140 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: to the police insisting to get justice for their murdered brother, 141 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: father's son, wife, what have you. Instead, you have people 142 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: who are thankful that this folk hero bandit has left 143 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: them alive and now they have an interesting story to tell. 144 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: If anything, he kind of gives them with something that 145 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: makes them special. And everybody retells these stories, and the 146 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 1: legend of radond fight spreads well. And he's sticking up banks, right, 147 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: So it's not like he's robbing people's homes. He's not 148 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: breaking in he's going into jewelry shops. He's going like 149 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: picking up like the bank deposit trucks. He robbing banks. 150 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: He's going to the people that have been basically not 151 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: necessarily exploiting the French people explicitly, but who the French 152 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: people feel they have been exploited by. So they're on 153 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: the side of Radon Faid, this criminal, and the French 154 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: in particular they like their criminals, they like gangsters. They 155 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: are particular much like Americans fans of the gangster film 156 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: so Radon f starts giving them a taste of it 157 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: in the real life and they come to love him. 158 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: But the fact that all of his heroes are actual 159 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: bank robbers from movies gives him a leg up in 160 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: terms of his legend. So he becomes a dedicated student 161 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: of Michael Man. Michael Man is his criminal bible, right, 162 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: It's basically the Willie Dixon to his led Zeppelin for right. 163 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 1: So he's like explaining like how his criminal mind works, 164 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: and Faid tries to give some journalists and insights. So 165 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: I'm gonna quote Radon Faid here forgive my French accent. Recently, 166 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: journalists asked me, you know you had a big criminal 167 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: career and you did it yourself. You are self taught. 168 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: I told them no, I had a technical advisor, a 169 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: college teacher, a kind of mentor, and his name is 170 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: Michael Man. I didn't know that robbed banks, Yes he did. 171 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: When he's not harassing kittens, he's robbing banks and giving 172 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: me my voice. So fed finagles his way into a 173 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: screening when Michael Mann is doing that Johnny Depp movie 174 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: Public Enemies, So Public Enemies comes out. Johnny Depp is, uh, 175 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,079 Speaker 1: you know not over there. Michael Man is over there 176 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: in France and he's doing like a Q and a 177 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: Redont Fight says, I got to talk to my master. 178 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: He sneaks in and pretends to be like a film reviewer, 179 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: film student, and then he like raises his hand and 180 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: he's like, Michael Mann calls on him, and Redon't Fight 181 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: stands up in this room full of pretentious French centiphiles 182 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: and he says heat romance the absolute example of organized crime, 183 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 1: inspired by life, by people, real facts. He tries to 184 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 1: transmit them in his cinema. I personally, I am a 185 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: former gangster. Unfortunately I do not brag about it. I 186 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: just spent ten years in prison. I attacked Armored Advance. 187 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,599 Speaker 1: For twenty years I have known Michael Man. I discovered 188 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: him with Thief and with a bunch of friends. We've 189 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: watched his films as a bit, as news reports, as documentaries. 190 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,119 Speaker 1: And now Michael Man is listening to this crazy fantom 191 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: and the one he's been in prison for being a 192 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: real robber, and he's inspired by Michael Man. And Michael 193 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: Man's like, uh, thank you for that. I don't know 194 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: how to respond because it was this isn't so much 195 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: a question, but a comment. It's the classic. He gets 196 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: up in tabs and like first time caller, longtime listener, 197 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: Now you haven't to understand who doel fight has a 198 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: sense of humor that I kind of like about this guy. 199 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: So Michael Man is his dude, right, and Michael Man 200 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: has Heat and like you know, Heat is very much 201 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: an iconic movie. But there are other iconic crime movies 202 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 1: from that era. For instance, Point Break. Oh, yes, now 203 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: you know you remember that movie. It's Katherine Bigelis. Now, 204 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: what's one of your favorite scenes in that movie? Is 205 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: it the bank robbery? Sure? Do you have any favorite 206 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: bank robbery scenes? You know what I think my favorite 207 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: scene in the movie is is when Kanu says I 208 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: am an f b I agent and would say see 209 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: a not bad the General Dictorate for External security, yeah, 210 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: or General dictor it for external security. I guess they 211 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: don't have a translation for that. Ready to put your 212 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: back into it? That damn dude, I did hard time 213 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: in high school French and that's all I have to 214 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: show for it. Well, then I want to apologize to 215 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: you as well as the listeners for my French accent. 216 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: Let me backtrack to Katherine Bigelow point break. The scene 217 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: that he is inspired by from that movie is where 218 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: they're wearing the rubber masks for all the presidents, the 219 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: dead president president. So he does that over in France, 220 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: but he does it with French leaders, so it's like 221 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: Jacques exactly. Jacques Shock and General Charles Degal are robbing 222 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: a French bank. Now now when he's deciding not to 223 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: imitate Michael Man or Kathy Bigelow, there is a third 224 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,079 Speaker 1: favorite film director of his from nineties era Hollywood. Know 225 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: what criminal director from nineties era Hollywood? Do you think 226 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: he loves all wrong type of criminal director. I'm at 227 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: a director of crime films, not a director who has 228 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: a criminal Yeah, it's tough, I know, it's that was 229 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: a good That was a good time for criminal films, 230 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 1: especially indie ones. Who was it? Quentin t So in 231 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: Reservoir Dogs, he has all the guys named for colors 232 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: and they have that big fight about why do I 233 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: gotta be Mr Pink, Mr Brown? Brown too? Mr So? 234 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: It's Mr White, Mr Pank, Mr Brown. He does the 235 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: same thing. He names his guys after colors. So he's 236 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: constantly aping these Hollywood movies and basically making Hollywood reel 237 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: in a way that nobody has ever really does. It's 238 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: like cosplay criminals. So imagine now that we're don't fight, 239 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: using this like tendency for theatricality. Also this criminal imagination 240 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: and a level of ambition rarely seen in a criminal 241 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: because he's not just going for money. He wants legend, 242 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: he wants story, he wants to be remembered, right, So 243 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: this is very French if you think about it, it's like, 244 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: you know, it's not so much about the money as 245 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: about the how So the next thing he does is 246 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: he gets too good at being a criminal. He starts 247 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: robbing banks all over the continent. He's robbing banks in Switzerland, 248 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: He's robbing banks in France. He's robbing banks anywhere he 249 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: can that they have French speaking populus. Belgium, He's gonna 250 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: rob banks there. He gets so good that the EU, 251 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: even though it's not the EU, then the European the 252 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: European community starts to look for him. Interropole is after him. 253 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: It is like pretty much a matter of time before 254 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: he's caught. And he knows this because there's only so 255 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: many places a really flamboyant criminal like Radont Faid can hide. 256 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: So what does he do? Where where would you go 257 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: if you needed to escape the success you have as 258 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: a criminal? Oh? Man, uh, somewhere where they're just not 259 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: going to look for you. I guess. I mean that's 260 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: that's obvious. It's not a very smart response. I mean, 261 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: like Moscow, Antarctica, these are all places of Buenos Aires. 262 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: These are places that people probably wouldn't look for him. 263 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: But that's not where he goes, No Stockton. Yeah, Instead 264 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: he goes to Israel and can he becomes Jewish. Oh, 265 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: just easy as that. He just says, you know what 266 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go do, I'm gonna go become Jewish. He 267 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: just declares himself Jewish. He says, I'm I'm not one 268 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: of the chosen people God chose. Well, so it's amazing. 269 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: He converts to Judaism. He literally goes to Israel. He 270 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: starts hanging out the Orthodox community. He wears a yamica, 271 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: he starts studying like the tour of the Talmud, the 272 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: holy holy liturgies, and just going to town trying to 273 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: become Jewish. Now going to town down trying to become Jewish. 274 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: Now this last for a few months, but fights like, 275 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm over it stops being Jewish. He 276 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: goes back to Europe, goes back to crime. Now do 277 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: we know why he wanted to be Jewish? Was it legitimate? 278 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: Was he just trying to hide out? Was he trying 279 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: to work a scam? We don't know. It's just a 280 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: part of the brilliance of his legend for a short 281 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: period of time. Or don't fight aid was Jewish? Well, 282 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: you know, the Lord speaks to everyone in different ways. Yeah, 283 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. He was motivated to a higher calling. Yeah, 284 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: maybe there was some sort of con that he felt, 285 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: you know, because we don't we we know details of 286 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: of all these ridiculous crimes that we talk about. But 287 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: then I always like to think about one of the 288 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: things that didn't make make it public, like what happened 289 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: that no one found out about. So maybe he had 290 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: some like weird little con going. Maybe he fell in 291 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: love with a woman who was in Israel and he's like, 292 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: I'll go to Israel become Jewish, and she's like, no, 293 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: this is not working. He's like, I'm not gonna be 294 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: Jewish anymore. That could be too much of a romantic No, 295 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: I like to imagine that it was like a gentle situation. 296 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: So he's trying to pretend he's a Jewish man and 297 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: he's actually Jewish woman. I don't know. I just wanted 298 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: to have you seen yentlem. I think so, I just 299 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: wanted to say, yentle one of Barbara Strauden's best give 300 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 1: it her on that. So back to my man don't fight. 301 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: Let's put a pin in that and we'll get back 302 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: to him after this short break. So my man Don't 303 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: Fight has been hanging at in Israel, pretending to be Jewish, 304 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: possibly converting, and he's been on the run. He decides 305 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: to go back to Europe. He hits back to Switzerland. 306 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: Now what do you think he does when he gets 307 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: back to Switzerland. Okay, so he's left. He's in Switzerland, 308 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: opens bank account, buys chocolate. That's what I would do. 309 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: But the St Bernard down the street. These are all 310 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 1: things that are excellent choices, but Rdonafi does none of them. 311 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: He robs a bank. So he robs a bank, and 312 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: it doesn't quite go as how he plans it. Instead, 313 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,479 Speaker 1: he has to take a policeman hostage, which is a 314 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: new thing for him. He doesn't normally do this. But 315 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: he's like, uh, you know, I don't hurt people. So 316 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: he uses the policeman as a chip and he's like 317 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: if you basically as a hostage, he goes, if you 318 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: don't hurt me, I'll let the policeman go. He lets 319 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: the policeman go, he doesn't get hurt. He escapes, but 320 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 1: he's now back on the radar of Interpol. It doesn't 321 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,400 Speaker 1: take them long and like I said, he is finally captured. 322 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: His luck is completely turned. He is arrested for a 323 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,479 Speaker 1: slew of robberies in France and Belgium, in Switzerland and 324 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: he is sentenced to thirty years in a French penitentiary. 325 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: He is just twenty six years old. He did all 326 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: of this before he was twenty six years old. But 327 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 1: he's a gangster. He's a mobster from way back as 328 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: far as how he views himself. So he does his 329 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: dime just like any other mobster would, doesn't say a thing. 330 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: He's like, I can do my thirty turns out the 331 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 1: French were like, you know, after ten years, man, you 332 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: seem to be a changed man. You seem to be 333 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 1: a rehabit That they did, and they decide to turn 334 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: him free. So now Radont Fight is free. A brilliant 335 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: man and what has always been his primary concern movies exactly, 336 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: the drama of stories, in the power of legend. So 337 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: what does he do. He decides he'll tell his own story. 338 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: He's like, I can make a fortune by talking about 339 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: being a criminal. I don't need to be a criminal 340 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: per se. So he writes a criminal no how like 341 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: basically a criminality for dummies, yes, exactly, and he calls 342 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: it braccia de cities or grand bats something like that. 343 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 1: There you go, just like that. So it roughly translates 344 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: as robber from the streets to great banditry so exactly. 345 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 1: So this story is like obviously, uh self aggrandizing. He 346 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: becomes a grand criminal on the level of like Moriarty, right, 347 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: so he does. But the problem is he doesn't have 348 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: his own Sherlock Holmes. He only has all of French police, right, 349 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: But that's not enough for him. He needs more conflicts. 350 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 1: So he then becomes a hero who can wag his 351 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: finger at all French culture as the former criminal who 352 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: can tell them where French society has gone wrong. He 353 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 1: goes on TV and becomes this moral scold and he 354 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 1: basically because they're having a problem in the nineties with 355 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 1: gangsters people going around shooting everybody up. He starts telling 356 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: them that basically, it's the French authority's fault. It's society 357 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: is to blame. It is not these young men, it's 358 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: just society. And everyone's like, oh, may we, may we 359 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: And they all go crazy for it because it's the 360 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: lesson that they want to believe is true. It's not us, 361 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: it's them, it's the French authorities. So now what happens. 362 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: Do you think this is gonna go well for Radont 363 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: fight to become go from criminal to criminal explainer? Ah, 364 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: you know, I think that it sounds like he it's 365 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: so in his blood that he has crafted this so heartily. 366 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if he can. I don't know if 367 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: he can get out of it. I'll give you a 368 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 1: little sneak peek into the mind of Radont Faid. If 369 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: I am telling everyone I'm no longer a criminal, they 370 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: will believe it, which clears up a lot of room 371 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: for me to be going back to being a criminal. 372 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: So it's all a cover. He is now masterminding crimes 373 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: because nobody would think that he would dare become a 374 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: criminal again, he said he's not. It's so important to 375 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: his identity. He goes right back to it and masterminds 376 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: a bank robbery. So he's doing like TV appearances. He's 377 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: on like Good Morning Paris and talking about the poison 378 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: of the state and then he oh, that is brilliant, right, 379 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: and he has the book. He has the book. Outs 380 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: of the press is taunts talking about the book. They 381 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: have him on. Everybody wants to talk to him. And 382 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: he's a charming, ambitious, creative, intelligent man. So he's a 383 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: great guest on French TV. And he has that little 384 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: bit of dark wind that they like, so he doesn't 385 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: mind making fun of at the time, Nicholas Sarkozy, who 386 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: was the French president. So we're in two thousand eleven, right, 387 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: and around this time about let's say, three days after 388 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: he appears on a French TV show where Don't Fight 389 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: gets arrested. Why does he get arrested. It's because his 390 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: bank robber, he's a mastermind, goes bad. Like Michael Man 391 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: be like really excited by how bad is you make 392 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: a great movie? Okay, you ready for a short story? Totally? Okay, 393 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: it's early in the morning, a patrol car cruises past 394 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: a white van and they're like, oh, look a white van. 395 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: It would mean nothing to these cups except there are 396 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: two big bullet holes in the back of the white 397 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: van that's not supposed to be in a work van. 398 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: So the French cops they pull over and they stop 399 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: to investigate what is going on here with these holes 400 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: in your van? All right? Inside the utility van is 401 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: a squad of heavily armed mask men, all holding a 402 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: K forty seven's and wearing ba Clava masks, so they're 403 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: freaking out. They're like, what are we gonna do? So 404 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: the driver just starts pushing into traffic. The cops are 405 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: circling around the van on foot, and the driver just 406 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: pushes into traffic, hits a car takes off. The cops 407 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: go back to their car give chase the heavily armed 408 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: men in the back. What do they do? They do 409 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: some fast and furious type ish. They push open the 410 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 1: doors and they start spraying a K forty seven at 411 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: the cop cars in traffic, right, How insane is that? 412 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: So they're driving around on their fast and furious vibe 413 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: in the police car, swerving and crashing into cars. The 414 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: van load of mass men escape, so it looks like 415 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: everything's fine. The getaway driver follows the original plan that 416 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: don't fight. You created a brilliant plan and had a 417 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: backup car. They go to the backup car, they exchange cars, 418 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: are like, well, we're not gonna be able to rob 419 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: the bank today. They started driving away. Little do they 420 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: know that somebody in the gang must have snitched because 421 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: there is a tracker underneath the getaway car. When they 422 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: come up to the freeway to make their escape, there 423 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: is a police car waiting for them on the bridge. 424 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this is like out of a Michael 425 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: Mann film, right. So the mass men, still dressed in 426 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: their camouflage, bulletproof vest, their ball of clauss, they basically 427 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: start shooting the heck out of that cop car. They 428 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: tear they shoot up. There is a a young male 429 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: cop and a young female cop. They're both shot up. 430 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: The window explodes and just a symphony of glass and 431 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: light and the female cop her name is Fuque something 432 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: like that. She is a mother to a young child 433 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: and within hours of this interaction she has pronounced dead 434 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: her partner Tiery or a theory, what is it theory 435 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: Tierry Tierry Moru. He is hit in the chest. He survives, 436 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 1: but with Fouquet passed away. She becomes the first female 437 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: metropolitan police officer in Paris to be killed in the 438 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: line of duty. That's horrible, So she's our pent. Her 439 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: death shocks the Parisian culture. They're not used to this 440 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: military style violence. I used to this in movies, but 441 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: now Don't Fight has made it a real life thing, 442 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: and it's tragic when the blood actually hits the sidewalk 443 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: in the streets, well, and I feel like he wouldn't 444 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: sign off on this sort of thing. This is like 445 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: he's got crew members, they messed up, and that that 446 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 1: moment of fear ruins everything. So Nicola sar cozy. He 447 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 1: takes the shooting super personal. He's like, no, this is 448 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,479 Speaker 1: not the accept them out of him, my France, pardon, 449 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: apologies to all the French. He launches a nationwide man hunt, right, 450 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: and he's going to bring justice to these criminals and 451 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: bring these criminals to justice. Now do you think it 452 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: takes long for him to find any of these people? No, 453 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: I think that they put the hammer down. That same night, 454 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 1: the police arrest one of the suspects that same night, 455 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 1: Malik Kaiter. And when they get to Malik Kaid's hide out, 456 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: they discover assault rifles, they discover grenades. They discovered the 457 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: same Bala clava masks that the gunmen were wearing in 458 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,199 Speaker 1: the van. They didn't get rid of them. So now 459 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 1: they've got DNA for the whole crew. Boom, They're all done. 460 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: So don't fed. Here's on the news that he is 461 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: now a person of interest, a suspect in his crime. 462 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 1: He splits, he disappears, he goes on the run. He 463 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: is not going back to prison. He doesn't care about 464 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 1: being embarrassed at that, but he is not going back 465 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: to prison. Not because because remember he had time left 466 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: on his sentence. He was released on good behavior and 467 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: being a changed man. They will tack that back on. 468 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,479 Speaker 1: He's gonna be looking at a thirty year stretch at 469 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: least because of his pro violation. It's going to be 470 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: a guarantee. And masterminding a bank job I think is 471 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: a pro violent a little bit. So. On June eight eleven, 472 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: he is finally captured after being on the run for 473 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 1: six months. For six months he was able to avoid capture, 474 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: but of course he's captured, and this now brings our 475 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 1: story full circle. Our French Robin Hood is going to 476 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: a prison, a prison where a helicopter will come in 477 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: and free him. Well, I'll get right back to that 478 00:27:43,400 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 1: after this break. So Elizabeth radon't fight. You like him? 479 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: You don't like him? You know? I do? I do. 480 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: He's good moxie. So what about him do you like? 481 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: I like the fact that he is clever. I like 482 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 1: the fact that he goes out with the intention of 483 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 1: being non violent in this and he's entertaining. He's an 484 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: entertaining criminal, Like, how can you not like him? Right? 485 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: So the French authorities kind of have the same stance, 486 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: So rodon't fight. He's recaptured after being on the run 487 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: for six months. There's been this whole media circus, but 488 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: he's this famous former criminal. Turns out that's not the case. 489 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: He's been scolding French society. Apparently that doesn't necessarily work 490 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: because he's still the criminal. Nicholas Sarkozy has been embarrassed 491 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: by him, and now Nicholas Sarkozy gets to punish him. 492 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: So everything is starting to rebalance out for the most part. Right, Well, 493 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: he goes back to prison, and what does he do 494 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: in prison? Starts plotting an escape. Sure, he's like the 495 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: chop artist. So in April, Radon Faed's wife shows up 496 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: for a visit at the detention facility in Lil, France 497 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: where he is being held. I've been the little to 498 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: lovely little town, great museums, but I can't imagine being 499 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: in a prison there. It just doesn't feel like a 500 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: prison town. They'd be like end up being in a 501 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: prison in Montreal. There's prison is there too? Well? I'm 502 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: sure it just seems like a town where you don't 503 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: want to be in prison. It's like it's too nice. 504 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: So Faid he needs to get out of this prison. 505 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: So what is he gonna do? He uses a bomb 506 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: to blow up a heavy prison door. He then uses 507 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: more bombs, and he keeps blowing up prison doors until 508 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: he's finally worked his way out. So he takes a 509 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: gun that's a fake gun, and he uses that to 510 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: get four prison guards hostage. He uses the prison guards 511 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: as a cover and then they all make their way 512 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: out of prison. Where was he getting bombs? He this 513 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: The suspicion is his wife brought them in when she visited, 514 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: But there is no proof of that. It could have 515 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: been he got it from a guard or in maybe 516 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: don't fight. His lawyer insists that his wife had nothing 517 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: to do with it. It was purely coincidental that she 518 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: happened to be there on the day that he broke 519 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: up and happened to be seeing him at the time 520 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: he was breaking up. A purely coincidental. You have to 521 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: be French to understand this. So once they're free of 522 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: the prison walls, Faid who's staying true to his m oh, 523 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: he doesn't hurt anyone. He lets one cop go, they 524 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: go a little further, he lets another cop go, and 525 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: then finally once he lines up with his his basically, 526 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: I want to say, is uh coworkers, basically his teammates criminals. 527 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: They decide to release the final two hostages and they 528 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: take off. Now for the next six weeks, he does 529 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: whoever he wants. He is free as a bird, right, 530 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: he's wearing a wig when he wants to go out 531 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: and get some shuckle at the milk, you know. But 532 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: this doesn't last long because eventually somebody catches up on 533 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: the fact there's this really strange man, this cheap motel, 534 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: who doesn't seem to mind the price of anything and 535 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: should be somewhere else, and it becomes an issue. The 536 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: police show up at he surround the flophouse motel. They 537 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: rush in and a team in all black, armed and 538 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: ready for war, approached the hotel room. And where is 539 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: redon't fight? Right there waiting with a stunned face? How 540 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: did you catch me? Did they rip his wig off? 541 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: You wouldn't have coped me. Weren't for you? Measurling children. 542 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: So they catch him, unguarded, flat footed, totally unaware, and 543 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: he's like, I can't help but be impressed because he 544 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: don't fight. He's like full of himself. He doesn't think 545 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: he's going anywhere because he knows he's not going to 546 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: be held if he can help it. But now he 547 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: has to go to a trial because he's held on 548 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: the bad bank job that he has avoided. He that's 549 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: a separate crime. He has to be tried for that. 550 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: So he goes into a trial. Now, what do you 551 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: think you're going to use as a legal defense? If 552 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: you're redon't fight and you weren't at the crime, it 553 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: wasn't me. There you go. So his legal defense is 554 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: also a charm offensive. So He basically tries to win 555 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: over the jury by being so French and so unsufferably. 556 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: If folk hero that only they could love him, how 557 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: could they hit him? Did they as bad as eyelashes 558 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: at them and his charm offensive? Does that? Would that 559 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: all work on the French? I feel like we have 560 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: notions about other countries here in the States, and we, 561 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: you know, give them characteristics and perhaps they don't have 562 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: that not everybody has. I think we also we forget 563 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: about the effects of classism on French culture. That if 564 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: depending on who's in this jury, you're gonna have a 565 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: very different opinion of how they view him. Yeah, yeah, 566 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: I think that's very true. So he tells the jury 567 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: at one point in his trial, I may not be 568 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: a Robin Hood, I'm not the hero, but I never 569 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: killed any one. So hey, He's basically making his case, 570 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: which is, look, I'm a folk hero, I'm a legend. 571 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: I'm not fatal. The French are like, oh, that's good, 572 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: it's all fair, all fair. Now. Meanwhile, this is the 573 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: kind of dude he gives three hour monologues in court, 574 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: or don't fight could on this stand and gave a 575 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: three hour monologue explaining why it was that he was 576 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: in this courtroom. This is when the people who are 577 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: super stoked to be on that jury are like starting 578 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: to doubt how their their own stokeage. Yes, and also 579 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: then sometimes those types of charm offensive can back up 580 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: all of your forward progress because people start getting mad 581 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: that their ass is still in that seat. Yeah, three 582 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,479 Speaker 1: hours of a monologue is not charming, you know what, 583 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 1: it is ridiculous, So we don't fight. Amidst to his 584 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: jurors that if they find him guilty, he'll just attempt 585 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: to escape again, He's like, look, I'm gonna say it 586 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: like it is, I am not going through allowed to 587 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 1: be held. But then he tells them, but hey, but 588 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: nothing is written yet, So so what do you think 589 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: the jury does think they go guilty, innocent or hung trial? Hell, 590 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. They say guilty, he 591 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: has found guilty, returned to prison, and good to his word, 592 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 1: he escapes French prison in helicopter. Wow. Well, nothing was 593 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: written and this is where we came in that he 594 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,399 Speaker 1: had promised them and then he gave them an even 595 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: bigger one. Last one's like with bombs this time. He's like, 596 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,760 Speaker 1: we're not going to repeat the same there's a certain 597 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 1: elegance to the helicopter and the one spot where the 598 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: anti helicopter netting did they run out of funding for 599 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: the netting and like, you know, it's kind off to 600 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 1: the side or like was the guy who was supposed 601 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: to put it up just like he just measured it 602 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,360 Speaker 1: wrong and made it one spot. You know, he didn't 603 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: measure twice, cut once. Classic he eyeballed it and then 604 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,919 Speaker 1: he had like a big square and he's like a man, 605 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,760 Speaker 1: Well looks good, guys, no helicopter could land. Who would 606 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: do that? Anyway? We're being cautious, you guys. He painted 607 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,320 Speaker 1: himself into a corner PORTFOLO. I wonder if he lost 608 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: his job. Actually I do not know that was Let's 609 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 1: just say he didn't because I would hate for him 610 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 1: to lose his job exactly because of excellence, you know, 611 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: I mean, like he it's not so much. I mean 612 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: he had the drones flying over the prison for weeks. 613 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 1: But I also kind of I'll endorse someone losing their 614 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: job in the criminal justice system, like as a corrections officer, 615 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 1: because I'll endorse it because I want them to not 616 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:29,879 Speaker 1: have that. I want them to not have I want 617 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: that to not be a job. Yeah, exactly, I'm with 618 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 1: you all there. Okay, So how would you escape from 619 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 1: a French prison? Um? I would. I would be a 620 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: really good person who just like to get like what 621 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: they call a trustee job. So they're like, she's so 622 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 1: well behaved, she's she's you know, she got her act together, 623 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: and I would work my way to be able to 624 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: work in like the prison bakery, and you know, I 625 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: wow them with my my bread's and confections. But then 626 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 1: I'm also perfecting baking a giant baggett. And so I'd 627 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: bake about like three or four of these giant baggetts, 628 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:21,280 Speaker 1: like human cocket sized baggetts, and um, I would hollow 629 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 1: one of them out and sneak myself into it. But 630 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 1: I'd also be constructing a giant paper bag and a 631 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: giant bicycle with a giant um basket on the front. 632 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: And so then I loaded myself into the baguette in 633 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: the basket, so it just looks like a giant's bike 634 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,919 Speaker 1: with baguetts. And then what happens is they don't think 635 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 1: that's weird. They just, like all all the prison employees 636 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: think they're hallucinating that something's wrong with them that we 637 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,400 Speaker 1: must have eaten some sort of like mushroom spores or 638 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:02,360 Speaker 1: bad cheese. And in their panic, then I, you know, 639 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,120 Speaker 1: there's the wheel off, this oddity of this giant bike 640 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 1: with giant bagats. I'm in one of the bag ats, 641 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: and then as they wheel it out, I tip it 642 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 1: and I fall, and then I sneak out. I roll 643 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: out of the bag at and run into the woods. 644 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,480 Speaker 1: I like it, and I live among the wolves, the 645 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: French wolves, the French wolves. I like, that's a that's 646 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,920 Speaker 1: a great plan. Hit you up. I've put a lot 647 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: of thought into this. Um. I have diagrams if you 648 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: want to look at him, measurements for for flower and yeast. 649 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: I think I would just wait for the French national 650 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: soccer team to be playing in some major tournament, and 651 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,359 Speaker 1: I would just walk out the front door. Oh yeah, 652 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: because everything would come to it exactly, no one be 653 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 1: paying attention. So that is the basic story of my 654 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: man don't fight, and he like comes up as half 655 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 1: possibly one of the most epic movie inspired criminals of 656 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 1: all time, but as a Frenchman. It's even more so 657 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,759 Speaker 1: impressive because like, I don't know, it seems like kind 658 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: of more of an American thing to go like full 659 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 1: Mickey Mallory, I'm going to be inspired by the movies 660 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 1: and like, you know, that just seems American. I don't 661 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,759 Speaker 1: know why, but it seems like the French would be 662 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,480 Speaker 1: more inspired by like Jerry Lewis, Jerry Lewis in literature exactly, 663 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,000 Speaker 1: or the literature of Jerry Lewis, the great literature of 664 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: Jerry Lewis. So my man, the forty six year old 665 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,880 Speaker 1: crime legend is now currently Ben returned to a maximum 666 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 1: security French prison after being caught for the third time. 667 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,879 Speaker 1: The French Justice Minister and Nicole bell Uber He told 668 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,560 Speaker 1: europe One Radio quote, We're going to put him in 669 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,760 Speaker 1: a high security facility where he will be watched extremely closely. 670 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,960 Speaker 1: So that's the promise. But when we gotta believe it, 671 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 1: don't fight. He's got to stay at least one step 672 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 1: ahead of him. So we'll see if he's free once again, 673 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,360 Speaker 1: we'll tell you about it and it won't be a surprise, 674 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,520 Speaker 1: but it'll be hard for me not to root for 675 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 1: this folk hero same. So what's our ridiculous takeaway here? 676 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 1: I think that if you're gonna if you're gonna do something, 677 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: you gotta go all in and make it interesting. Oh 678 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,359 Speaker 1: I like that. I think My ridiculous takeaway for him 679 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,319 Speaker 1: is pick a good film director, stick to us, stick 680 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: or maybe Billy Wilder The Crimes of Billy Elder. I'm 681 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,160 Speaker 1: gonna become a criminal. I'm gonna use Billy Wilder's playbook 682 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: cross Dressing, runaway to Miami, get involved with the gangsters. 683 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: That's my that's my score. Well done, Thank you, well, 684 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,839 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. I'm Zaron Burnett and I'm 685 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,439 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Dutton. You're gonna find us online at Ridiculous Crime 686 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,440 Speaker 1: on both Twitter and Instagram. Got a tip for us 687 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 1: about a ridiculous crime you'd like to hear about. Maybe 688 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,919 Speaker 1: when you committed you want to confess to a ridiculous crime. 689 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,800 Speaker 1: You can email us at ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com. 690 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:56,280 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. 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