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Speaker 1: Attention, rude dudes. Great news. We have a website now.

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Speaker 2: Oh you damn right.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Dutton Zaren. I got a question for you. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: do you know it's ridiculous?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Is it? Well?

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Speaker 3: You know we're recording this kind of close to Easter,

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Speaker 3: And do you have any Easter candies that you really love?

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Speaker 2: I used to really like the marshmallow yellow I guess peeps,

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Speaker 2: I think they're terrible, right, But I was like, I

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Speaker 2: didn't know any better. I never got stuff like that,

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Speaker 2: so it was like a delicacy to like me.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever eat Cadbury cream eggs?

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Speaker 2: No? Those were gross?

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Speaker 3: No way, I loved those when I was a kid,

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Speaker 3: I knew so sweet I've had one.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, they're disgusting.

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Speaker 2: It's this gooey nuclear waste inside it. Chocolate.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't like those, but you know what I

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Speaker 1: do love sandwiches.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, you pivoted on me. He did you pivoted

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Speaker 2: to a mash out?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, completely.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: We have gotten a ton of recommendations for this one.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who came in first, because they didn't

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Speaker 3: give them to me an order of all of the

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Speaker 3: like Instagram and recommendations. But a lot of rude dudes

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Speaker 3: were onto this. And let me just let me just

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Speaker 3: read to you please.

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Speaker 1: From the New York Post.

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Speaker 2: Let me wash over me.

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Speaker 3: If you've ever wanted to take your love for Cadbury

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Speaker 3: cream Eggs to the next level, now's your chance. Subway

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Speaker 3: the Sandwich Empire is joining with them to launch a new,

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Speaker 3: if perhaps strange sounding creation, just in time for Easter. However,

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Speaker 3: not everyone is excited about it. It's okay, hold on,

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Speaker 3: bite down on that belt. I'm the six inch sandwich

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Speaker 3: available in the UK on Good Friday, which, hello, you're

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Speaker 3: not supposed to be eating candy on Good Friday.

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Speaker 1: But whatever, it's not meat or candy. Let's it's let's

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Speaker 1: not over.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you give up candy for lent right anywhere,

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Speaker 2: go on six sandwich.

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Speaker 1: No partying on good Fridays.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not supposed to be cele.

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Speaker 1: Despite the name Goodwich.

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Speaker 3: So the six inch sandwich, it's only in the UK,

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Speaker 3: is made on the chain's Italian white bread and has

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Speaker 3: a chocolate cream egg melted in the middle of it.

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Speaker 1: So the pictures is just bread and a cream egg.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it looks like it looks like they

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Speaker 3: give you a couple of them and they melt them down.

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Speaker 3: It's got like like seer marks on the outside. It's

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Speaker 2: Cadbreak cream chip buddy.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, people, you know only five hundred of them

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Speaker 3: will be made k Yeah, and they'll be available for

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Speaker 3: free at just a few select subway locations in England.

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Speaker 2: That's what they can't make in London. They can't be

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Speaker 3: A person's you have to sign a waiver. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: London and Liverpool. But again, by the time anyone hears this,

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Speaker 3: it's long past. Rusty Warren, Subway's senior manager of New

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Speaker 3: Product Development and Innovation. This is what he said on

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Speaker 3: russ Our Italian white bread and Cadbury cream eggs makes

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Speaker 3: the most flavorsome combination, a perfect seasonal treat.

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Speaker 2: This like an animated turtle.

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Speaker 3: This guy eats sugar packets at Denny's. Yeah, so it's

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Speaker 3: this cool collab.

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Speaker 1: Huh, we'll mash up.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately for some it doesn't look like it's going to

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Speaker 3: be coming to the United States, so we're safe for now,

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Speaker 3: unless you know, I'll just go into the kitchen here

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Speaker 1: Why do you do this because I love it?

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Speaker 2: Well, I got something for you. I got a second. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we'll wash that out of your memory. This one's wild,

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Speaker 2: I promise you. I'm just going to read you the

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Speaker 2: highlights of an ingredients list. Okay. A pro surfer turned

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Speaker 2: jewel thief named Murpha Surf, a speedboat racing jewel thief

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Speaker 2: named Alan, a freelance writing used car salesman named Francis

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Speaker 2: Eva and Jajah Gabor Nora, Ephron, Bob Dylan, John D. MacArthur,

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Speaker 2: JP Morgan, and the most spectacular jewel theft in US history.

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Speaker 6: Oh boy, Yeah, this is ridiculous crime.

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Speaker 2: A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, Heiss and cons.

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Speaker 2: It's always ninety nine percent motor free and one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent ridiculous. You damn right, Yeah, Elizabeth, as you've explained

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Speaker 2: to me, true crime basically starts with Truman Capote's novel

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Speaker 1: Yeah for the most part. I mean you had pulp

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Speaker 2: Such tabloids, the pulp like the Keyhole magazine side. Okay,

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Speaker 2: but true crime really gets born in the mid fifties. Okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, then it's obviously you're right, it starts to

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Speaker 2: replace the tabloids because one thing we know about America,

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Speaker 2: we love crime. So it's just gonna change genres. Right,

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Speaker 2: So true crime becomes this more intellectualized, less tabloid version

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Speaker 2: of let's consider what criminals really mean to society. And

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Speaker 2: this is also, by the way, devoid of the j

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Speaker 2: Edgar Hoover moralism that had been really hold in the

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Speaker 2: thirties and the forties and the fifties. You're like, whoa,

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Speaker 2: this is way beyond go get them g men, Like,

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Speaker 2: we're dealing with serial killers in the American heartland, right,

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Speaker 3: A rule that right, She's the one who was she

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Speaker 3: worked at a suicide hotline. I believe I may be

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Speaker 3: messing some of this up. But she worked at a

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Speaker 3: suicide hotline next to Ted Bundy.

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Speaker 2: Oh whoa.

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Speaker 3: And then when everything happened, she realized it and she

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Speaker 3: all these other true crime nonfiction.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so she kicks off like the really yeah yeah, Okay.

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Speaker 2: So this is I'm talking about more is the early

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Speaker 2: first star of this true crime wave when it hit

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Speaker 2: prime time was Murph the Surf.

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Speaker 1: Murph.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I didn't know this. I'd never even heard of

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Speaker 2: this cat. He was a national surfing champion. He was

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Speaker 2: And he was the subject of a film that used

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Speaker 1: What is it short for Murfher the Surfer?

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Speaker 2: But I love it. Its name was Murpher. Their kids

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Speaker 2: murfer because they like their kids Murfher. Why you're just

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Speaker 2: Murpher rhymes with too many things. Anyway, So tabloids of

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Speaker 2: breathlessly recounted the events and the exploits of old Murfher

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Speaker 2: the Surfer. As I said, he's this super fit, handsome, blonde,

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Speaker 2: Bob Dylan latches onto him and is like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: yeah for the album bringing It All Back Home. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So Bob Dylan wrote, and I quote. I'm standing there

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Speaker 2: Humphrey Bogard, Mortimer Snurd, Murph the Surf, and so forth.

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Speaker 2: Port of Iarta, Mexico. I say, no, you must be mistaken.

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Speaker 2: I happened to be one of the Supremes, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: dat you like me? He has Diana Ross and the

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Speaker 2: Supremes on his mind. I relate, I get it, get it.

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Speaker 2: But the Murph the Surf just jumps out because, like

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Speaker 2: I knew, Mortimer Snurd, you know, that's a Edgerberg and

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Speaker 2: Charlie McCarthy like idiot character. He's a Marriot. We not

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Speaker 2: Mary Anette. What is it? A new dummy? Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: But it's like Humphrey Bauregard, you know, but Murph the Surf.

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Speaker 2: So this cat had his moment in American culture, right.

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Speaker 2: And I also I mentioned there was a young writer

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Speaker 2: Efron said, quote, these guys had committed the perfect victimless crime.

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Speaker 2: They just seem like fabulous party boys. Yeah, so she

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Speaker 2: coverage they're getting, right. This story has lots of fabulousness

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Speaker 2: and the party boys and just straight up hilarity. I

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Speaker 2: yes Ava Gabor, remember the star I can sing them?

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Speaker 2: Can you? Can you also do petty coat junction?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that about you of course. Now obviously

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Speaker 2: there's the jewels. We'll get into those. They had their

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Speaker 2: obnoxiously big jewels. These are the kind of jewels that

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Speaker 2: had nicknames like the DeLong Star Ruby, the Midnight Star,

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Speaker 1: So is a star?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, stars, the biggin Star, dude, you know how big

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Speaker 2: and these bad boys were. The DeLong Ruby was one

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Speaker 2: hundred carrots. The Midnight Star was one hundred and eighteen carrots.

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Speaker 2: It was a black sapphire. The star of India was

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Speaker 2: five hundred and sixty three carrot oval shaped blue sapphire.

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Speaker 1: How what's the like give it to me in like.

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Speaker 2: Inches size of a golf ball.

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Speaker 3: All right, wow, okay, right, And like when you say, like,

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Speaker 3: what was there five hundred carrots, you're.

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Speaker 2: Just picturing actual carrots, aren't you.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm thinking like that's got to be like bigger

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Speaker 3: than a basketball.

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Speaker 2: No, it doesn't quite work like that, But I'm not

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Speaker 2: I'm not good Like, I'm not like nothing. I know

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Speaker 2: nothing about it.

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Speaker 1: I know nothing about it.

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Speaker 3: But I just like to imagine like a big jewel

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like your hand. You're like, oh my god,

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Speaker 2: Like Schequil O'Neil size jewel.

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Speaker 2: That's the curse your imagination. So the reason I wanted

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll get it people exactly.

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Speaker 2: We're get it history much much later. But first let's

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Speaker 2: So Murph the Surf Ready to meet Murph real name,

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Speaker 2: Jack Roland Murphy. Oh okay, but apparently he switched his

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Speaker 2: all right, So bye boy. Jack Roland Murphy born in

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Speaker 2: Carl's Bad, California. Yeah, Carl's good. Carl's Bad because anyway,

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Speaker 2: and he became excellent at everything, and I'm talking everything,

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Speaker 2: Yes, but he didn't stay in pitt long because he

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Speaker 2: Right nineteen ninety six, he was inducted in the Surf

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, New York Times dug into Murtha Surf's

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Speaker 1: Right, so they said he start those rooms.

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Speaker 2: Well, it just it was out there and the people

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Speaker 1: So IQ is like golf, right, the lower the better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go with that. Yeah, this guy's basically like

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Speaker 1: He's a real murfer exactly once.

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Speaker 2: I I'll just said everything he does, right, well, i'll

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Speaker 2: this movie called The Miami Story. And in this it

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Speaker 2: And like many criminals.

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Speaker 1: We cover different aspirational elements in every film.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. Some people watch Gandhi and they're like, I want

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Speaker 2: He goes through a string of jobs. He's a pool boy,

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Speaker 2: Of course he excels at this too. So out of

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Speaker 2: Then eventually he marries again, this time second wife, far

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Speaker 2: Oh good for her boss, the German rocket scientist Werner

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Speaker 2: Can you guess what he calls it? Merh surf shop exactly.

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Speaker 2: So what does he do. He starts beech bumming even harder, Elizabeth. Yes,

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Speaker 2: all right, Elizabeth, all right, Zaren. The year is nineteen

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Speaker 1: I'm right there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in the Kennedy years, you know everything. Buddy's

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Speaker 1: I've just turned forty eight.

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Speaker 2: We just we got to beat the commies. You're forty

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Speaker 2: So our dude, Murphed the Surf. He's out one night

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Speaker 3: Bang bang oh right, yeah, bouncing up and down off

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Speaker 2: Exactly, just just slamming the bottom of the boat. Eventually

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Speaker 2: I know what we just did. The boat takes off

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Speaker 2: like hey, you swim fast, right, and he's like yeah,

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Speaker 2: He swims all the way across Biscayne Bay, which is

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Speaker 2: he is now a jewel thief. Yep, just like that.

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Speaker 2: Done deal, right. So the guy who owned the boat,

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00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 2: that dude was named Alan Cohonk. He ends up becoming

435
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,480
Speaker 2: a crime buddy for Mirf the Surf, Right, he doesn't

436
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 2: have a cool nickname, so we'll just have to calling

437
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,480
Speaker 2: him Alan Coon. But whatever. So Alan Cohn is he's

438
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 2: also another you know, pretty boy beach bum surf cat.

439
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,199
Speaker 2: You know, he's a Florida like a local perfect partner

440
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 2: from Mirf the surf. Right. But they they're ambitious young

441
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,159
Speaker 2: street criminals. So they start robbing waterfront Miami mansions, just

442
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 2: one after the other, and they're just they're really good

443
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,679
Speaker 2: at it. And then now they're also they're blowing their

444
00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 2: loot on booze and drugs and women, all the fun

445
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,080
Speaker 2: stuff that young men with stolen jewels would spend their

446
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,879
Speaker 2: money on. Right, and then washmnts repeat, and then they

447
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,919
Speaker 2: do it again, and surprise, surprise, they catch the attention

448
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 2: of the local police because you know.

449
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 1: What's what happens exactly, like where do these.

450
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 2: Guys getting these money for these flashy cars and for all? Anyway, Yeah,

451
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 2: it doesn't make the cops long ago, I think that

452
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,479
Speaker 2: up to no good. A couple other people notice this,

453
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,880
Speaker 2: so who else would be like, ah, I like these

454
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 2: cats very good. Guess no, but a fence named Hi Gordon.

455
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: I just imagine a fence, an actual.

456
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 2: Fence, like a hurricane fence.

457
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 1: Hurricane anthropomorphic fence.

458
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 2: So Hi the hurricane fence. He starts giving them shopping

459
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 2: lists for the burglaries, because he knows there're some good

460
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 2: stuff is. He's like, Hey, there's this twelve carrot emerald

461
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 2: cut ring that just so happened to be chilling in

462
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,439
Speaker 2: a Palm Beach mansion and if you just so happened

463
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,879
Speaker 2: to know how to get it, I just so happened

464
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 2: to know the address, and so Hi the fence. He

465
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 2: offers the beach boys this gig, and he offered them

466
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty grand in nineteen sixties. Though, wow,

467
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,360
Speaker 2: this one ring, if you just so happened could get

468
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 2: your hands on it. So merph to Surf and Allen

469
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 2: are like, bet you know. So they're like, let's fire

470
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,119
Speaker 2: up the speedboat. They race over to the Palm Beach mansion.

471
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 2: They break into the house, no problem, cover of darkness,

472
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,639
Speaker 2: snatch the ring, speedback over to high the fence. Are like,

473
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 2: all right, show us the money high now. Hi. He

474
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 2: checks the ring right, and he's like, my dudes, I

475
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 2: have most unfortunate news. It just so happens that this

476
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 2: ring that you stole is a fake. Like, what do

477
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 2: you mean he's like, yeah, well, if you doubt my word,

478
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 2: he shows them the Jewelers Loop and they're like, all right,

479
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 2: all right, it's fake high. And he's like, you know,

480
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 2: I bet the owners have the original up in their

481
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 2: place in Manhattan if you were to go up there

482
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 2: and just so happen to put your hands on it.

483
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, yeah, we get it. So they're like, bet,

484
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 2: now what do they do? Well, they pile into the

485
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: expensive convertible white Cadillact they've purchased with their stolen jewel

486
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 2: money and they go tearing off for Manhattan.

487
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 1: The Beach Boys take Manhattan exactly.

488
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 2: So, uh, while they're in New York, the Beach Boys

489
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 2: are like, whoa bruh, you see how many jewels there

490
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 2: are here? They totally decide forget whatever high the fence said,

491
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 2: we's get our own like shopping list. So what do

492
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: they do? Eventually they look all around Manhattan, They're like, oh,

493
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 2: what do we do? What do we do? I don't know.

494
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 2: They settle on the vast gem collection of JP Morgan

495
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 2: cause you know, if you're gonna go for it, right yeah.

496
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: So also once again it comes down to a movie. Yeah,

497
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 2: I know, right, this time. It's the movie called Top Copy.

498
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 2: You ever heard of this one? No, okay, it's a

499
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 2: Maximilian Schnell movie. And he plays a jewel thief and

500
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 2: he's going he's hired to steal an emerald encrusted dagger.

501
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 2: That is this this jewel blade? Right, it's located in

502
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 2: the Top Copy Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Therefore Top Copy

503
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 2: so no, some might say Constantinople, but.

504
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 3: I say, well, Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's istam okay, stop.

505
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 2: Putting on the reds. It's by Peter Boyle voice.

506
00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing it.

507
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,199
Speaker 2: I know we're mixings, but I just want to do

508
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 2: Peter Boyle anyway. So they watched them moving all right,

509
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 2: Murphis Surf and Allen. Their accomplice, a house painter named

510
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: Roger Clark, who's along for the ride.

511
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: Okay, why not?

512
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna be uh Like they all go they

513
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 2: watch Top Copy together, like, hey, h Roger, you want

514
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 2: to go see this movie. They watched the movie, they're like, bro,

515
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 2: we gotta go steal some gemstones, right, and so they're like, yeah,

516
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 2: let's put this together. So they drive Rome in Manhattan

517
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 2: in the aforementioned white convertible Cadillac. They drove on the

518
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 2: west ever west side, and then they go, oh yeah,

519
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 2: JP Morgan's gemstones. Now do you know where they're they're located.

520
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 2: It's not JP Morgan's house.

521
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: Oh wait, he's dead by this isn't it a bank?

522
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 2: Nope? Good guess. Stored at the Hall of Gems.

523
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: In the YMCA.

524
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 2: Very good guess. The American Museum of Natural History. Oh

525
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 2: right by Central Park. Really cool museums.

526
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 1: Go in the museum.

527
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to a museum. Break in right, okay.

528
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 2: Museum was found in eighteen sixty nine. In nineteen oh one,

529
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: JP Morgan was like, look, I have no loved ones here,

530
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 2: take my gems. So he gives them a gems and

531
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 2: then they're like cool, thank you, we'll put these on display.

532
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 2: And the Museum of Natural History. Have you ever been there?

533
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

534
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 2: It's really cool. I went there as a kid one time,

535
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 2: and like, I didn't go there to like go check

536
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 2: out the Robber Barons, fancy rocks. I went there for

537
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 2: like the dinosaur bones and all the animals. Place is amazing.

538
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 2: I recommend it to anybody. I still remember the Gelatto

539
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: I had there, Like I remember everything about that place anyway,

540
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 2: So they're like, look, bro, we should totally steal JP

541
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 2: Morgan's gemstone. So they go backing a plan, right, But

542
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 2: by this point, Murph the Surf and Allen they have

543
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 2: their techniques down and everything, so they're a little confident

544
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 2: their career criminals and they get what they're doing, right,

545
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: But they don't have a motor boat or speedboat rather

546
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 2: to do anything. So they're in Manhattan, but they're like, whatever,

547
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 2: we never broken into a museum before. Whatever, it's gotta

548
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 2: be the same as a big mansion. So they decide

549
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 2: we don't really need a plan at all, so city

550
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 2: sort of wing it and see how it goes, all right.

551
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 2: So the math is on the side though, because this complex,

552
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 2: the Natural History Museum, has twelve buildings but eight security guards.

553
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: Eight's for twelve buildings.

554
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 2: I know, right, And so the guard that's responsible for

555
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 2: the Hall of Gems, he's this old dude. He's got

556
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 2: a flashlight out there with equally old battery. So it's

557
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: just that kind of thing, right, And there's one window

558
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: that has to be left open that night, you know,

559
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 2: just for some fresh air for the museum just happens,

560
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 2: you know, it's little stuffy. So anyways, October twenty ninth,

561
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four. It's a Thursday, Elizabeth. The beach boys

562
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 2: have gathered up all their supplies that they think they'll

563
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: need for this job. They're not literally planning for. And

564
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 2: what do they have. They have a coil of rope

565
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 2: thermal lance. They have a powerful jack, they have a

566
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 2: duct tape. They have some glass cutters. They have rubber

567
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 2: suction cup from when they cut the piece of glass

568
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: so they can pull it out like, oh, exactly, and

569
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 2: they're good to go, like we got all our stuff right.

570
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 2: That's the target Natural History Museum. And Elizabeth, rather than

571
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 2: just keep telling you about it, I'd like you to close

572
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 2: your eyes.

573
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: My eyes are closed.

574
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 2: Picture it. Elizabeth. You are a spider. Yes, you live

575
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 2: in the Museum of Natural History. You've been busy tonight,

576
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 2: like most nights, you're spinning a web high above the

577
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: Hall of Gems. You don't particularly care for all the gemstones.

578
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 2: You don't care about the gem cases, all the jewels inside,

579
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 2: but you do like all that open air above the

580
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 2: gems where all the bugs like together. That's good hunting.

581
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: So you're spending your time, you know, just making another web.

582
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 2: But you're about to have to give up all your

583
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 2: handiwork this evening because right around nine pm you crawl

584
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 2: up a thread of silk working on your latest strand

585
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 2: of the web when you spot movement far down below.

586
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 2: It seems awfully suspicious. Outside the window there's a white

587
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 2: convertible cadillact just idling across the street, and it looks

588
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: like some narrot wells at the wheel. At the ground

589
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 2: level of the building though, you spy two men, blond

590
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 2: haired surfer types. You don't even know what a surfer is,

591
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 2: but these look like surfer types to you. Now you

592
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 2: watch as they crawl up and over a fourteen foot

593
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 2: fence with wrought iron spikes at the top of it.

594
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 2: You're oppressive. The surfers then head to the museum wall.

595
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: You move and swing over to another window so you

596
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 2: can follow their movements.

597
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: Nosy, I know you are.

598
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: They just jump up and they grab the fire escape.

599
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 2: Then they clamber up five stories up the fire escape.

600
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 2: Then they step out onto a ledge. This ledge, it's

601
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 2: just two inch, which is wider than a foot. Now,

602
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 2: being good at math is a spider You know that's

603
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 2: fourteen inches because you're into math all right. Now, they

604
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 2: shimmy along the side of the building and you watch

605
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 2: them tie off a rope and you think to yourself,

606
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 2: nice web amateurs, but whatever, it works fine. They drop

607
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 2: onto the fourth floor roof and without making a sound,

608
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: very impressive it is. Now there's a window cracked open,

609
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 2: and so the burglars pride open with just a foot

610
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: and then you drop some more silk so you can see,

611
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 2: and you swing out and you watch as they make

612
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 2: their way into the hollow gems. These blonde beach bombs

613
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: notice a plane passing overhead and they use it to

614
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 2: cover their glass cutters. Now, with the suction cups they

615
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: brought with them, they lift the glass circles out of

616
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 2: the display cases and then this glass it's about an

617
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: inch stick. Once again, you're really into facts has a spider.

618
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 2: You're really into dimensionally, so you're measuring with eye. You're

619
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 2: like that stick glass. They reach into the holes cut

620
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 2: in the glass cases and they lift out gem after

621
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 2: gem after gem. It's just like whoa was? I mean,

622
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 2: I didn't even know we could be like that. So

623
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 2: you're wondering why no one thoughts maybe I don't know,

624
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 2: change the batteries on the display case alarms, because that

625
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: would have been a good call. Oh well, too late now. Yeah,

626
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: So the thieves get away with a five hundred and

627
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 2: eighty three Carrot Star of India, the one hundred and

628
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 2: sixteen Carrot Midnight Star, and the prize of the pack,

629
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 2: the DeLong ruby. Oh yes, so this ruby is so

630
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 2: striking to look at, even to a discriminating spider like you.

631
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 2: You like this one because it's bright red blood red

632
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 2: in color. It's rich and deep with color size of

633
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 2: a golf ball, and it was a mind in mean

634
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: mar back in nineteen thirty. You appreciate it. Yeah, yeah,

635
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: it's one of your favorite gemstones. And now it's gone. Anyway,

636
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: in total, you watch the beach bombs lift twenty two

637
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 2: gems from the cases, and then they trace their steps

638
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 2: back to the window they open. They climb back up

639
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 2: onto the roof, and you watch them climb back up

640
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 2: onto the fifth floor, shimmy back across over to the firescape,

641
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: and just like that, they're gone. So, after the cat

642
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 2: Burgers step out of the museum, you go back to

643
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: spinning a web, right, But Murph the surf and Allen.

644
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: They take a slow walk across the park Elizabeth, then

645
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 2: that part Central Park right now, what do we know

646
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: about Central Park cops? Oh, there's always cops on the

647
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: beat in the Central Park, and of course they run

648
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 2: in some beat cops are out strolling a night and

649
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: when the costs these pass with the cops, numerous cops,

650
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: not just one, numerous ones. Every time these guys smile

651
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 2: like dope idiots. They play up what they look like.

652
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: They're good evening officers and an officers like yeah, whatever,

653
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 2: good evening and wave them on.

654
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

655
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, old Roger Clark, you know, our house painting getaway driver,

656
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 2: he's just sitting there nervous because he's not a street criminal.

657
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: He's not a professional, not a career of criminal at all. Yeah,

658
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 2: he's just sitting there in this expensive white caddy at

659
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: night next to Central Park going come on, come on, guys,

660
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: come on, guys, get back to the car. And what

661
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 2: does he do, well, two am, He's like, I can't

662
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 2: wait anymore, and he leaves. He takes off, and he

663
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 2: goes back to the rendezvous point, the Penthouse Hotels suite,

664
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 2: where he finds the boys already there drunk and party guys.

665
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 2: He grabs some champagne and catches up No. Meanwhile, back

666
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 2: in the Museum of Natural History, an unlucky security guard

667
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: is about to have the scare of his white haired life.

668
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: Oh no, yes.

669
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 2: The guard turns the corner and the Hall of Gems

670
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: and sees as his flashlight waves across the gemstone cases.

671
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: A terrible sight, the giant hole that you, as a

672
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 2: spider appreciated. He freaks out. Most expensive gems are car

673
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: He's gonna lose his job. Everything's terrible. News breaks the

674
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,959
Speaker 2: next day Joel thieves pulled off during midnight heist. New

675
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: York papers go nuts as news spreads. Murph the Surf

676
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 2: and Allan they catch a ride with the nervous house

677
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: painter turned getaway driver Roger Clark and the Beach Boys.

678
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 2: They fly back to Miami. Okay, Rod, you stay here

679
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: in New York with the car. Okay, guys, Now, Alan

680
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: and Murph the Surf. They get back to their apartment.

681
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: Everything's cool. They got all the gemstones. They pour out

682
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 2: their stolen gemstones on the carpet and they wave flashlights

683
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 2: over them. They're like, look, man, they look like little explosions.

684
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: Bro literal quote. They look like little explosions. So, once

685
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 2: safely home in Miami, the two they stash their stolen gems.

686
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: Once they play with them for a while, you know,

687
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: they don't roll around on them like you know, moon rocks,

688
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 2: because they're a little pointy, but they do. They take

689
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 2: them and they hide them in Allen's speedboat. Right, so

690
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 2: they lay low. Now up Meanwhile in New York is

691
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,719
Speaker 2: Roger Clark and he's sitting up there with the white caddie.

692
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 2: He's like, what are we going to do? He's like,

693
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: I have some friends in Connecticut. So he just goes

694
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 2: over to Connecticut to visit some friends because he doesn't

695
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: know what to do.

696
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: So it's like, there's nowhere to park this boat exactly.

697
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: Everyone keeps looking at me like I'm something to rip off.

698
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 2: I gotta get out of here. Man, I'm from Florida.

699
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 2: I don't know this. So he leaves. Now everything's chill,

700
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 2: right until it wasn't. Elizabeth No, yeah, because once again,

701
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: much like for a friend of the show, Stephen Frye,

702
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 2: this was overlooked hostel staff that ended their crime spree.

703
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. So their gym Heights makes headlines right,

704
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,479
Speaker 2: and this desk clerk at this fancy New York hotel

705
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 2: he notices something. So he phones the police and reports

706
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 2: there's these three young guys from out of town staying

707
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: in the penthouse suite and they've been spending money like

708
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 2: it's coming out of someone else's wallet. So I think

709
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 2: you may want to check on them. And they're in

710
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: New York PD or like, oh yeah, bet, So they

711
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 2: send some detectives over. They go, He give us the

712
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: key to the room. They go up to the room,

713
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 2: they open it up and boom. What did the detectives

714
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 2: fine in his penthouse suite? Well, there is off a

715
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: bunch of photos of the museum. There's sneakers left behind

716
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 2: with like just dusted with museum glass from when they

717
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: kicked in some glass. There's burglariggy tools all around the room.

718
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 2: So the detectives were like, well, maybe they're coming back.

719
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: I don't know. This seems pretty dumb. So one of

720
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: the detectives stays in the room. He's just like okay,

721
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: ends up spending the night in the room and in

722
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 2: the morning he hears like a key jingling sit the maid.

723
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: He gets up and boom, it's Roger Clark come back

724
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: from Connecticut. There's the New York pd detectives standing there

725
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: in his hotel room in a room totally. I love

726
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: to picture him, like coming out of the bathroom in

727
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 2: a towel.

728
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: He ordered room service the night before, sit there.

729
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 2: In bed naked freeze. He's got no free seriously, let

730
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 2: me get my pants. So like the cucumbers on his eyes,

731
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 2: yeah exactly, he's only doing like a little like resto

732
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: for me. Oh yeah, Now that New York PDA officer

733
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 2: here rests Roger Clark. And so now these nervist house

734
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: painter turned getaway driver who is clearly no career criminal.

735
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: He does what you would expect. He flips faster than

736
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 2: you can flip. Say, I don't know a grilled cheese sandwich,

737
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 2: it's just And he tells the cops air a thing,

738
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: just everything you can, right. He tells them where they

739
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 2: can find Murph the Surf and Alan, like here's their

740
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 2: apartment and if if they're not there, maybe try this place. Yeah.

741
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: The next day, the Miami PDE they go right over

742
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 2: to Murph the Surf and Allen's apartment and they bring

743
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 2: the press with them. They're so certain, like the New

744
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 2: York Times is there, all right? So they get there

745
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 2: and boom, there's the New York City Jewel thieves. And

746
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: they get arrested, and Murph the Serf tells the papers man,

747
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: I was supposed to be on my way to Hawaii

748
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 2: to serf, but this inconvenience has fouled that whole thing up.

749
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, the Beach Boys are now in custody forty

750
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 2: eight hours after their heights. That's all the states away. Yeah,

751
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: the only thing left to do for now is to

752
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: get the gemstones back, which is a lot more difficult

753
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 2: than you would imagine, I think. So yeah, so let's

754
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 2: take a little break and I'll be back to tell

755
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 2: you about how we find these last gemstones, all right,

756
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Zaren. Yes, Now, Murph the Surf gets embraced as

757
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 2: an anti hero as soon as he gets arrested. He

758
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 2: gets brought back to New York and everyone treats them

759
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 2: like their counterculture folk heros. Right, of course, they love it.

760
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: They play into this, And I'm talking like when they

761
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 2: get back to face the Raymond on the courthouse steps,

762
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 2: there's like a wave of groupies cheering them on. No way, Yeah,

763
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: there's tons of them right. So everyone's just all about

764
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: these guys, and then New York's like, get them out

765
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: of the state. They give them bail and they send

766
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: them back to Florida and say you got to come

767
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 2: back for a trial. They let them go back to Miami.

768
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 2: So while they await trial they do. Now keep in mind,

769
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 2: no one knows who the gems are. Yeah, the insurers

770
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 2: are like, you let them go back to Florida and

771
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: didn't get the gems. Can we talk about that? We

772
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: don't work for you guys, man. They're like yeah, But

773
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 2: so now weeks are stretching on and the insurers are

774
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 2: getting more nervous. They're putting more pressure on the cops.

775
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: Then months past, still nothing, So then they start talking

776
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 2: to the prosecutors like are you gonna make your cops

777
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: do something? Like what's going on? So they're just like

778
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 2: mad worried at this point that these gems are in

779
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 2: like the jewelry shop chop shop, yeah, basically, and enter

780
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 2: Ava Gabore. Okay, so the Star of Green Acres, the

781
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: aforementioned Star of Greenacres, she was reading the news one

782
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: day when she exclaimed, Darling, I know se boys, right,

783
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 2: So she was looking at a picture of Murph the

784
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 2: Surf and Alan Cohon in the paper, and she grabs

785
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 2: her phone. She calls the District Attorney of Manhattan, Jack McCoy. Yeah, exactly,

786
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 2: nab a goo boor. She like claims that these young

787
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 2: men brooke in to my Miami Aupotsman dolling, and so

788
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 2: she like tells them that they stole fifty thousand dollars

789
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 2: of precious gems from her, most notably a fifteen carrot

790
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 2: diamond ring. I have no idea how big that is?

791
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: Well, how long?

792
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: How long is fifteen carrots end to end? They're looking

793
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 3: at like what twelve feet?

794
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah? Probably yeah, probably eleven to It is a big ring.

795
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

796
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: So but this was enough, like her, her claims were

797
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: enough to throw more charges at them, because now we

798
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: got aggravated assault and battery and robbery and celebrity has

799
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 2: vanity fair pudd it Gabor fingered the beach boys, oh dear,

800
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 2: so the New York prosecutor threatened the beach boys and

801
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 2: surf bumbs, but truly long long stretches behind bars. Now,

802
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: Murph to surf, He's like, I can do that on

803
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,240
Speaker 2: my head. You know, it's nothing right now his partner.

804
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: Alan Kun is like, I don't know. I don't know

805
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 2: about this. Merph starts like, now it's cool. I doubt

806
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 2: these this DA has anything. Alan, he can't make this

807
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 2: cut and he's like, I'm missing my white Caddy. I'm

808
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 2: missing the beach. Yes, he flips. He cuts a deal.

809
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 2: So he tells him like he'll if you take me there,

810
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 2: I'll show you where the gems are, you know, and anything.

811
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 2: Just just let me out of this. I gotta get

812
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 2: out of Riker's Island. Oh, he sings like a canary.

813
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. So meanwhile, if a Gabore she drops the charges,

814
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: she was you know, she's too busy on green acres

815
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 2: to fly dolland I have to do this show cannot

816
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 2: come right, so they dropped the charges. When Gobar drops

817
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: the charges, then the prosecutors like, oh well, and as

818
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 2: I quote from Vanity Fair, apparently he said it served

819
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 2: my purposes. So the charges may have never been real.

820
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: Who knows. Anyway, it worked good enough to get Alan

821
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 2: Coon on a flight with three NYPD detectives and that

822
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 2: same New York prosecutor. They all go down to Miami,

823
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: where they meet up with the guy Hi the fence,

824
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 2: your family, and they arrange to get the gems back,

825
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 2: and High the fence is telling him, like, you know,

826
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: like I have some of the rocks. But in High's terms,

827
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: he said, quote, if I did just so happened to

828
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: know as some stones might be located, would charges against

829
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 2: that person be dropped if that person was me? Because

830
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 2: that would likely help this person's memory. So there's somebody

831
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 2: to that effect right now. The prosecutor agrees the highest terms,

832
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 2: and suddenly I recall the location of the stones. Now

833
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: he took the detectives, the prosecutor, Alan Cone, and they

834
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: all go to a Miami diner. So then he tells

835
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 2: him wait outside. Now he goes inside and then a

836
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 2: few minutes pass and then he walks back out and

837
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: he goes, I got it right here. Now he has

838
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 2: a key and a note. That's what he has right here,

839
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 2: a key in a note. He says. The note is

840
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 2: directions to the hiding police scavenger hunt.

841
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: We're just there on the junket to go down there,

842
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: scavenger hunt.

843
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 2: Good Sonny Miami, there saw the little treasure hunt. So

844
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 2: the cops follow the notes and all the instructions on

845
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 2: the notes. This leads them to downtown Miami and then

846
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 2: leads them to a Trailways bus station, and then that

847
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 2: guides them inside to the bus station to a bus

848
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 2: station locker, and they go to a bus station locker

849
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 2: nine to eleven and the key. The detectives try the

850
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 2: key and it does indeed open the bus station locker.

851
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 2: Inside was a bag of what looked like dirty clothes.

852
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 2: So there's like some use socks and drawers, nothing anyone

853
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: wanted to go digging through. So the three NYPD detectives

854
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 2: and the prosecutor, now a coon, they go back to

855
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 2: a motel room. That's where they dump the contents out

856
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 2: onto a coffee table. And what drops out, Elizabeth, other

857
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: than the dirty drawers and the dirty.

858
00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: Socks, baby Yoda, two.

859
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 2: Good guess, two aquamarine jewels, emeralds, a small sapphire, and

860
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: then the Midnight Star clunk wow, and finally out tumbles

861
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,280
Speaker 2: the Star of India kunk. Yeah. The New York Prosecutor

862
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 2: expected Allan to hand over all of the gems. Now

863
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 2: inside the bag is most of the gems, so Adam

864
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 2: Kiel explained, he doesn't quite notice this at first. He's explained,

865
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 2: oh well, yeah, I'm sorry, man, we did hawk nine diamonds.

866
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 2: There were little ones. We needed some, you know, walking

867
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 2: around money. The prosecutors like, uh, yeah, they're not all here. Allan,

868
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 2: where's the uh the you know, the big daddy long boy,

869
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 2: the DeLong ruby.

870
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, the long one exactly.

871
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: So he's on of looking for that one now Alan

872
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 2: At this point he stops grinting. He has no idea

873
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 2: they should be there, as far as he knows they

874
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 2: should be there. Yeah, it's not in the bag of

875
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 2: dirty clothes. So it turns out the missing gem would

876
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 2: be found and it would not be found by a cop.

877
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 2: Enter my freelance writer, Yes, Franciero and Tell, freelance magazine

878
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: writer working in the Miami area at the time, selling cars.

879
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 2: So really used cars. He was more of a used

880
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 2: car salesman who occasionally sold his writing for money. So yeah,

881
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: that's the really the best way to put it. He

882
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 2: is a he's a freelance writing used car salesman. Yah,

883
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 2: So francis antel. He follows the story in the news

884
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 2: and he's tracking it. Why he's watching it developed, He's

885
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 2: got theories. He's convinced he knows where these missing gems are.

886
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 2: So what does my man Francis do well, this freelance

887
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 2: writing used car salesman. He goes after the story, Elizabeth,

888
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: he goes right to the source. Now, do you remember

889
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 2: if I told you about a bandon named Dicky Pearson

890
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 2: that I mentioned him?

891
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: I don't know.

892
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 2: Dicky Pearson was this local small time criminal that Alan

893
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 2: Cohon asked to hide the gems and he's, man, Hi,

894
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 2: these in my backyard. Yeah, that's right, I told you.

895
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: They got back to town. He gone to his friend

896
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 2: Dicky Pearson and said, hey, man, hey, could you hide

897
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: these for me? So he had them first in his boat.

898
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 2: Then he gave the rest to Dickey Pearson and said,

899
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 2: hied him in your backyard. So somehow my man Francis

900
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 2: Antel figures this out. He goes to Dickey Pearson, and

901
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 2: Dicky Pearson at this point had been doing his best

902
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: impression of laying low. He is. He's trying to be

903
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 2: as cool as Steve McQueen behind the wheel of a

904
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 2: Ford fastback, right, He's just like, I'm all about the

905
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: crime live, right. He's trying to be like Florida, a

906
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: small time criminal. But my hero Francis ante he knows

907
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 2: a bar where Dicky Pearson likes to drink. So he's like, Okay,

908
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 2: my plan is I'm gonna go and confront this small

909
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 2: time Florida criminal. I'm gonna ask him, point blank, Dickie,

910
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: where in your backyard did you hide the gems So

911
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: now it's summer of sixty five at this point and

912
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: we're in West Palm Beach, Florida. Just to put this

913
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 2: all into perspective, now, I want you to imagine it's

914
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 2: a hot, sticky night. Dicky Pearson's as local bar, Roxy's.

915
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 2: It's on the Dixie Highway there, Okachobe Boulevard. Ok. Now,

916
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: Francis Ante, our freelance writing used car salesman. He just

917
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 2: shows up at Roxy, walks right up to Dickey Pearson

918
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 2: and says, hey, man, can I get an interview with you?

919
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: Dickie's like, yeah, interview, sure, okay, fine, right, and he's

920
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 2: like now, Francis. He kind of like toughens up after

921
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 2: he gets the agreement. He's like, okay, we're in your

922
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 2: backyard at the gems Bery, Dicky. So what does Dicky

923
00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 2: do because he's like, uh, he low key freaks out

924
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: a little because like, who is this guy?

925
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 6: You know?

926
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 2: Who yeh, I know, who does he represent? Why is

927
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 2: he just coming up Bobby like this, Like he's like,

928
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 2: he's just the baddest man in around. So he's convinced

929
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: this guy must know something. So before he like totally

930
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 2: fear pees down his leg, Dicky Pearson goes, I got

931
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 2: the gems man, So he just tells them right, yeah,

932
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 2: he goes like, I gotta let me talk to high

933
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 2: the fence and we'll take care of it.

934
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: Now, this is like school for bad criminals.

935
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 2: It's amazing just imagining all this happening in a Florida

936
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 2: Bards sixty five. That's the other part. So Dicky Pearson says,

937
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 2: and I quote, it's my understanding that the people who

938
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 2: have the stone are willing to return it if they

939
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 2: can obtain immunity from prosecution. They all talk like damon

940
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 2: runyon asque characters like you know, Harry the Horse says,

941
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: if there's a man who is a no, I may

942
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 2: know that man anyway. So Dicky Parrison, he asks, He's like,

943
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 2: by the way, if we can talk community, that would

944
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 2: be great for prosecution, but also maybe a little money

945
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: on the side, you know, for the effort. So what

946
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: does he ask for twenty one grand. He starts to

947
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:56,439
Speaker 2: touch around.

948
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, okay, asks the freelance journalist for twenty one.

949
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: He doesn't know who this is. Remember this guy came

950
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: on him like he's a tough guy, right, So he's

951
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 2: like okay, now, oh my boy. The freelance writing youth

952
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: car salesman. He doesn't know anybody. He's not representing anybody.

953
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: As you point out, he has no money. He has

954
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: the ability to make a deal, but he's like okay.

955
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: He bluffs him. He's like, I'll be in touch. So

956
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 2: now he's got to go find this money. So what

957
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 2: does he do? He does what he does best. He

958
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 2: does research. He starts reading. He reads a lot. He's

959
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 2: a writer, so he's the library and he's just And

960
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: then also he knows a couple of criminals. So he

961
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 2: starts listening to what's the word on the street. He

962
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 2: hears from the word on the street that there's this

963
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 2: missing stone. The last one is most likely in the

964
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 2: possession of some loan sharks. They have it and uh,

965
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 2: they know the stone is hot and they want to

966
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 2: get rid of for some ready cash. Yeah, so what

967
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,760
Speaker 2: does our freelance writing youth car salesman. Do now, Elizabeth, Well,

968
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 2: you tell me. He goes to his editor because he's

969
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 2: got a story. He's like, I need money. I'm gonna

970
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 2: go to my editor. So he goes. He lays the

971
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 2: whole story out in his lap. And his editor is

972
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 2: dude named Bill Antel, not the an anyway, their names

973
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 2: are similar. Anyway, Bill Antell, he's a city desk at

974
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 2: or Miami right, So he's a former investigative reporter. He

975
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 2: loves his story. He starts digging into it. He comes

976
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 2: back to Francis Antel and he's like, look, man, I

977
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: can't corroborate enough of this, so this story doesn't check out.

978
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 2: We can't run with this. He's like, what are you

979
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 2: talking about? I got it all here. Francis freaks out

980
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 2: freelance writer style. Yeah, and the editor's like, look man,

981
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 2: you got to calm down. So Francis the freelance writing

982
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 2: youth car salesman, he's like, this is this is fine.

983
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 2: I'll take it somewhere else. So he's like, who else

984
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 2: has deep pockets? When want this story? The New York

985
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 2: papers and so he contacts the New York Daily News.

986
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 2: They love this story. They're all about it. Francis now

987
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: has a new lifeline, but there's one problem. They will

988
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 2: not pay the loan sharks for the gym, so he

989
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 2: still has a problem. He now he's somewhere to publish

990
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 2: his story, but he needs money and he's a broke

991
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 2: ass freelance writer. So what's he gonna do. Well, he

992
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 2: goes to a local billionaire, because duh, who has money?

993
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 2: He's billionaires. Money's like it's a plural.

994
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: Anywhere they have the money, they.

995
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 2: Have the money, lots of the money, so many moneies.

996
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 2: So this is the mid nineteen sixties, right, and this

997
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 2: guy was an accessible billionairess the mid sixties, so he

998
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 2: liked to take lunch and hold court at a corner

999
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: table at a hotel coffee shop. So he can just

1000
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 2: find his billionaire sitting at a hotel coffee shop. Now,

1001
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: the reason why he liked this one is he owned

1002
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 2: it so he could tell people to get out.

1003
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: Who is this billionaire?

1004
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,879
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well i'll tell you one sex So Labor

1005
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 2: Day in nineteen sixty five, Francis antell. He walks in

1006
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 2: to visit the billionaire in his you know, coffee shop office,

1007
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 2: tells him, look, I need twenty five grand for some

1008
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 2: ransom money for this missing gem from the National History Museum.

1009
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 2: You probably read it about his big news and consider

1010
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 2: you're you know, it's important, and this billionaire is like hmm.

1011
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: He gets curious. He does consider it his civic duty

1012
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 2: to help the billionaire. Elizabeth John D. MacArthur, Oh same

1013
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 2: John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of TBS and

1014
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 2: NPR fames.

1015
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 1: And cries you know what, viewers like you exactly.

1016
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 2: You know it. So that dude sitting there in his

1017
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 2: corner booth of the coffee shop, he listens to Francis

1018
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 2: lay out the story and he's like, hmmm, I don't know,

1019
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 2: my boy, this all sounds like hogwash or some kind

1020
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 2: of Yankee balder dash. I'm I'm kidding. He's from Pittsburgh.

1021
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 2: He doesn't talk about it all anyway. Francis antel. He's persuasive.

1022
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 2: He convinces the billionaire to throw in his money to

1023
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 2: help him get back the gemstones. Right, So now he's

1024
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 2: got financial backing. So what does he do. He goes

1025
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 2: over to a hotel room where Dicky Pearson's waiting and

1026
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 2: he tells him, look, man, I got the money. You

1027
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 2: tell those loan sharks. I got the money and it's

1028
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 2: twenty five grand. Dicky Pearson degrees, He's like, all right, cool.

1029
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 2: September second rolls around Johndie MacArthur, Francis Antel. They hit

1030
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: up the first Marine Bank, which he owns, Johnny MacArthur owns.

1031
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: He's like, look, this is the bank president, a future

1032
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 2: by the way, Florida State Senate president. Just you know, coincidentally,

1033
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 2: just saying, you know, billionaires can make power. Anyways, happened,

1034
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: So he and Antel counted out the money right, and

1035
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 2: small bills, no consecutive serial numbers, just like in the

1036
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 2: movies Elizabeth.

1037
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 1: Right.

1038
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 2: Then Antell takes his money and he shoves fifteen bundles

1039
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 2: into his coat pockets. He doesn't want to have like

1040
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 2: a money bag. So he's just like walking around like

1041
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: the Michelin man with stuff cash right now. First though,

1042
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: he had to meet Dicky Pearson in an elementary school

1043
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 2: parking lot. So because the reason why is Dicky doesn't

1044
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 2: have the rubies on him, but he's got info on

1045
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: the where the ruby is, and the deal is if

1046
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 2: it works, then the ruby is recovered and they'll give

1047
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 2: the money. So waiting back at his place is John D.

1048
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 2: MacArthur waiting by the phone. He gets the phone call.

1049
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 2: It's Francis. He tells him, all right, go to a

1050
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 2: phone booth at a gas station at West Palm Beach, right.

1051
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 2: So billionaire goes over there and he's at the newspaper

1052
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 2: editor from the New York Daily News with him and

1053
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 2: a photographer. He's like, okay, it's on the Florida Turnpike.

1054
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 2: You can't miss it. So they drive over there. They

1055
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 2: get to the phone booth and they're they're looking around

1056
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 2: the phone rings. After a couple of minutes like, oh,

1057
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 2: thank god, it's you know, it's Francis and Dickey. And

1058
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 2: he's like, okay, did you where is it again? Due

1059
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 2: looked around on the ground right, he's telling where to look.

1060
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't see it, right. So the billionaire

1061
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 2: is telling the editor where to look. The editor's on

1062
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: his knees, messing up his suit, and eventually he's like,

1063
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 2: I don't see it. I can't find it. We're asking where,

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00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: and it's like they're you, going back and forth. So wait,

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00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 2: I got it. I found it. He looks down. He

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00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: holds up this giant stolen ruby just sitting there in

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00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 2: a phone booth and a gas station in Florida for

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00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 2: anyone to find, and the photographer snaps his like epic

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00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 2: shot of him holding up the ruby to the billionaire.

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00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: Now they still have to decide is this real? Right?

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's So they go back and they have an expert,

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Speaker 2: a jewelry expert, waiting at the hotel, and he checks

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Speaker 2: it with the loop and he's like, it's real. The

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00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 2: billionaires overjoyed, but now they got to go give the

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Speaker 2: money to Dicky Pearson. So they hop in the car

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Speaker 2: and they go over Howard Johnson's just north of the

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Speaker 2: Miami Ear. Yeah, right, you know, it's time to pay

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Speaker 2: Dicky Pearson. So they walk in and they're immediately greeted

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00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 2: by that warm, friendly aroma of the extra cheesy mac

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00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 2: and cheese of Howard Johnson's. Then they sit down in

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Speaker 2: a booth and Dicky Pearson strolls in, cool as he

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00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 2: can be, wordlessly, just picks up the twenty five grand

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00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 2: walks out, Dicky. Wow, done deal with Dicky. Right next day,

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Speaker 2: the New York Daily News has their exclusive Here's Ruby,

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00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,479
Speaker 2: and everyone's all excited. Museum of Natural History flies down,

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00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 2: they pick up the Gemstones. The DeLong is back on

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00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 2: display that same week. Right, you can go there today,

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00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 2: go see it. It is back on display.

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Speaker 1: The Long one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's excited now. The charming anti hero of the day,

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00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 2: Murph the surf, the guy who at the heart of

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00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 2: the story, he went on to some truly terrible things.

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00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 2: So if you go and look into a story, I

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00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 2: just know that it is the type of stories we

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00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 2: don't tell. His story, it gets kind of bleak, but

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Speaker 2: he does then find the Lord and he brings grace

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00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 2: and compassion to the lives of thousands of inmates. So

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Speaker 2: there is that anyway. Dickie Pearson he gets arrested months

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Speaker 2: after this exchange where he then gets caught and he

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Speaker 2: still has some of the ransom money on him and

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00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: he has one due ten years in federal prison. Oh

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Speaker 2: man Hi the Fence. He also gets busted and convicted

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00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:34,439
Speaker 2: for surprise surprise fencing. Jewels Francis Antel, the freelance writing

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00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 2: youth car salesman. He wrote a book about his adventures

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00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 2: as an amateur detective. And look at that, Elizabeth. He

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00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 2: didn't even have to go to prison to do it

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00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 2: time amazing. Gus Hope to all the other writers anyway.

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Speaker 2: Francis Antel's book is called Ransom and Gems, the DeLong

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Speaker 2: Ruby Story. It's kind of a mundane title, but not

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Speaker 2: bad book. It's the job done anyway. Marphed the Serf.

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Speaker 2: He did have one last great quote, and it wasn't

1112
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 2: about Primo afghany Oh darn it no, this one. It

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00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 2: came about after his second stint in the big house. See,

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00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 2: cautions at school and work aren't enough to help a

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00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 2: person walk the good path in life, especially when you're

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00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 2: rehabilitating someone who's gone wayward. And I quote Murph the Surf.

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00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 2: He says, if you don't deal with a person's heart,

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00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 2: with their soul, all you're doing is passing out band aids.

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00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Murph the Surf going deep. All right, Murph, anyway,

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Speaker 2: there you go. There's my story of a ridiculous stride

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Speaker 2: and a freelance writer as our hero contest. So it's

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Speaker 2: a ridiculous takeaway.

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Speaker 1: Again, planning, you know they did. There was some lack

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Speaker 1: of planning going on.

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Speaker 2: They basically treated it like you know, like you know,

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00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 2: the surfer, you paddle out and your plan is I'm

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00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 2: just dropping in.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of jazz jazz.

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Speaker 2: They're just like, oh well, I'm in the right spot.

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Speaker 3: But also just some I mean, obviously, I think when

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00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 3: people have these criminal tendencies, they also have impulse control issues.

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00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 3: And these guys have this serious impulse control of like,

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00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 3: just because you have the money doesn't mean you have

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Speaker 3: to spend it right now in the flat.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, their blood was like pure adderall it's just

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Speaker 2: like pumping anyway, Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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