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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous ulous? When will this stop? Never? But Elizabeth,
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Speaker 1: and I thought it was time time, mind you, for
Speaker 1: us to once again turn the mic over to our fans. Oh, yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: did not even see this coming. This is Ridiculous Crime,
Speaker 1: a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons.
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Speaker 1: to start off. In order to wetch your appetite from
Speaker 1: what's succumb, allow me to reach into the listener mail
Speaker 1: bag here beneath my feet and pull out our first segment. Now,
Speaker 1: this one comes from listener Brogan Luke Boquise. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: I'm saying that right. It's b o u w h
Speaker 1: u I s okay boise so Brogan, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful, he writes in because y'all love trains, If
Speaker 1: you visit a certain small town in the America West,
Speaker 1: a park ranger will show you a crater and tell
Speaker 1: you the story of a meteor taking out the town's
Speaker 1: railroad in the aftermath of World War Two. There was
Speaker 1: no meteor. My dumbass grandfather accidentally blew up a train. Yes, broke,
Speaker 1: and we love this. It's incredible. So this is what
Speaker 1: we were talking about, snitching on your family and reminding
Speaker 1: us all that there's always more to the stories they
Speaker 1: get told. Yes. Now, we also receive some very nice
Speaker 1: emails from a very smart, imperceptive fans. Sometimes they will
Speaker 1: offer corrections of my my pronunciation of things, which yet
Speaker 1: those two, or they offer local insights bits of history.
Speaker 1: Other times, like this email from listener Jim Robertson, the
Speaker 1: listeners will give us helpful context. So Jim Robertson, he
Speaker 1: told us about the more meaningful side of the rainbow bridge.
Speaker 1: Remember the rainbow bridge. Yes, the rainbow exactly going to
Speaker 1: Doggie Heaven or whatever the rainbow bridge except be dope.
Speaker 1: I want to go to Doggie Heaven right right now?
Speaker 1: Is it me? That's what it is? Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: So listener, Jim Robertson, he writes, and I quote, hello,
Speaker 1: you wonderfully entertaining people. You recently suggested that one should
Speaker 1: email just to say you're cute. Well here it is. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, John Wow, thank you. Additionally, I heard some
Speaker 1: confusion concerning Jimmy hendrickson his ascension to dog or pet Heaven.
Speaker 1: The concept of the rainbow bridge leading to pet Heaven
Speaker 1: is a recent affectation. Decades ago. When I was studying
Speaker 1: a religion as an undergraduate, we delved into Zoroastrianism. Back
Speaker 1: in my youth, the translation of sacred texts referred to
Speaker 1: the rainbow bridge, whereon all souls must tread. For the evil,
Speaker 1: the bridge is narrow and guarded by a demon waiting
Speaker 1: to push them into an eternity of torture. For the good,
Speaker 1: the bridge is wide and easily crossed. The last album
Speaker 1: that Jimmy consciously recorded was the soundtrack from the documentary
Speaker 1: of which you spoke. It was titled Rainbow Bridge. There
Speaker 1: you have it. May Ahura Mazda be awaiting you with
Speaker 1: open arms when you cross over, or maybe your favorite pets. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's awesome, that's wish is Jim Roberts. I think that's
Speaker 1: why dogs get the wide bridge exactly. Yeah, they get
Speaker 1: just three bridge exactly. That's really you know they're going over,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's right. Now, you know how we both
Speaker 1: love Australia, but having never been there, it's more that
Speaker 1: we love the Australia of the mind, yes, right, but
Speaker 1: we also do love the Australian people. Oh they're they're
Speaker 1: awesome in reality, like we sure there's some not some
Speaker 1: awesome people guys, of course, you know the ones that
Speaker 1: we've encountered, but as a culture, the people that we
Speaker 1: have met were like, it's west. Yeah, yeah, they're goers.
Speaker 1: I'm into it. Yeah. So this next one, it comes
Speaker 1: to us from down Under. Listener Dylan g wanted us
Speaker 1: to know, Hello, a ridiculous team. Oh wait, let me
Speaker 1: try that again, A ridiculous team. I have a ridiculous
Speaker 1: crime tip for you guys. Saw TikTok about it, thought
Speaker 1: it might be right up ye alley. He is a
Speaker 1: quote from a Voice dot com article on it. Dawn
Speaker 1: Sands was at drinking in his hometown off Wan garretta
Speaker 1: three hours north of Melbourn when he stumbled upon a
Speaker 1: bank glitch that briefly made him rich. He'd left the
Speaker 1: bar to get cash and discovering atm that was allowing
Speaker 1: him to withdraw way beyond his balance, and after a
Speaker 1: bit of trial and erra, the twenty nine year old
Speaker 1: realized he'd found a loophole and ran with it. Where
Speaker 1: does this go? Yeah? Doing jeez got us in a
Speaker 1: benda that lasted some five months. Dan managed to spend
Speaker 1: around one point six million of the bank's money. What
Speaker 1: he threw lavish parties, shotted private jets, and paid off
Speaker 1: his friends university fees, until, unsurprisingly, the police caught up
Speaker 1: with him. He was getting all this out of an
Speaker 1: atmack GTM visits do you have to do to pull out?
Speaker 1: One point six minute? How many different ATMs? He's going back?
Speaker 1: Apparently the same one? So well, aren't they getting suspicious
Speaker 1: that someone's just bleeding it dry? I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love this though. This is amazing, And he paid
Speaker 1: off his friend's school day. What would you do if
Speaker 1: you got a bank card that was like a magic
Speaker 1: mystery bank card? Certainly not ranch ice cream. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what i'd do. I would, I'd offered
Speaker 1: to Rihanna, No, I would to make a new album.
Speaker 1: I like, reread what's it gonna take to get you
Speaker 1: in the studio? Like give it as a dowry for yourself? No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not like that. I don't think she'd take that up.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give her one point six mil to
Speaker 1: get in the studio. I'm like, what this is for?
Speaker 1: I don't care, recording time, the man, whatever you need,
Speaker 1: just get in there goes. That is something I would
Speaker 1: not spend the money. Yeah, I know you would, ye money,
Speaker 1: I might how much? One point what point six mil?
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, not really you don't have
Speaker 1: like a Rihanna plan, right, I would like, you know,
Speaker 1: queue up a boombox with some eighties music and go
Speaker 1: on like a crazy spending spree with my friend Sarah
Speaker 1: soundtracked spending. We'd have to have the Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it, it's like a like a
Speaker 1: what's it called an yea for a film? Yeah, or
Speaker 1: TV if you want. I don't know, I don't speak
Speaker 1: this language, but so yeah, I would just like grab
Speaker 1: the boombox, Sarah T and I would just walking on
Speaker 1: sunshine or something. But how great would that be walking
Speaker 1: into like the you know, the store, just bumping this
Speaker 1: music because you're throwing cash at everything. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go find an atmry and bleat it. I got
Speaker 1: another one for you. This next one was specifically for you, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: for me. Yes, it comes to us from listener Ala
Speaker 1: gerloc Baretto and Alla wrote to us about a recent
Speaker 1: Vincent Cassuga like cornering of the market on onions move
Speaker 1: in their home country of the Philippines. Oh really yeah,
Speaker 1: but then they also had a special bit just for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they said, and I quote, Hi, I'm a lay
Speaker 1: A Filipino American residing in the Philippines. Longtime fan, first
Speaker 1: time sending you both a letter. So when you did
Speaker 1: release the onions the Vincent Kisuga story, I thought, Hey,
Speaker 1: that was just within the last few months here in
Speaker 1: the Philippines. No idea where Vincent Kisuga is. But we
Speaker 1: have our fair share of ridiculousness here. First it was
Speaker 1: the sugar, then the onions. Maybe the onion mafia is
Speaker 1: Cassuga related. Well, it turns out I looked into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Filipino onion crisis. It wasn't manmated. There was no cossuga.
Speaker 1: There's a series of storms that ravaged the Philippines agricultural sector.
Speaker 1: But the ridiculousness comes in for how people respond to
Speaker 1: this onion crisis, and well, first, how bad did things get? Apparently,
Speaker 1: according to the BBC quote, earlier this month, ten crew
Speaker 1: members from the Philippines Airlines were investigated for attempting to
Speaker 1: smuggle nearly forty kilograms of onions and fruits in luggage bags.
Speaker 1: So they're like getting to smuggling onion levels onions. So okay,
Speaker 1: on a more positive inspiration from the onion crisis, this
Speaker 1: is where we cut to you all right, back to
Speaker 1: lay quote not a mashup. But Elizabeth might be interested
Speaker 1: in this bride's bouquet which was made of you guessed it, onions.
Speaker 1: So there's his pictures in the BBC of this woman
Speaker 1: getting married the huge bouquet of onions. Wow, like she's
Speaker 1: just flexing on them. Who got onions? Girls? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: thought she's like, you know, basically, according to the BBC's quotes,
Speaker 1: onions have been so sought after that April, like a Bori,
Speaker 1: chose to carry a bouquet of the crop at her
Speaker 1: wedding in Iolo City. I asked my groom if we
Speaker 1: could use onions instead of flowers, since after the wedding
Speaker 1: the flowers would wilt and up being thrown away missus
Speaker 1: piori total local newspaper. So why not onions. It's practical
Speaker 1: in a way that it could still be used after
Speaker 1: the wedding. Yeah, you're gonna use them. Then they're gonna
Speaker 1: like French. If I ever got married, I would probably
Speaker 1: have just like a stick with like a long thing
Speaker 1: of onion rings on it, and then you don't know
Speaker 1: the bouquet, You just take them off and you fling
Speaker 1: them out to the good people, a little onion disc
Speaker 1: at him. You've thought about this, Okay, I like that one.
Speaker 1: Now this next story, I assume this one has sent
Speaker 1: for me, but maybe for both of us. Who knows.
Speaker 1: You remember the shepherd fairy stickers under the giant has
Speaker 1: a posse? Yes? Yes, I had a friend who made
Speaker 1: some that were like a riff on those for himself
Speaker 1: and put them all over the town. Did he also
Speaker 1: have a posse? Yeah? Sure, the same sticker. He's like,
Speaker 1: Bob has a posse. Yeah, that's hilarious. Anyway, Well, apparently,
Speaker 1: you know Andre the Giant. It may have been said
Speaker 1: that he needed a posse Shepherd Ferry, but truly clearly
Speaker 1: the brother did not. That man did not need a posse.
Speaker 1: He was a posse exactly. Thank you. So this listener,
Speaker 1: Anthony Page, he wanted us to know about the time
Speaker 1: that Andre the Giant once took on the Cedar Rapids
Speaker 1: Police Department. Oh whoa, yes, I loved this. So the
Speaker 1: year was nineteen eighty nine August twenty first to be
Speaker 1: exact date line. Cedar Rapids, Iowa arresting officer Dave Zanner recalled,
Speaker 1: He's definitely the biggest dude I've ever arrested. So I'll
Speaker 1: get into it already. Andrew the Giant rusom off. He
Speaker 1: stood seven feet four inches tall. He weighed five hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty pounds. He could drink one hundred beers in
Speaker 1: a single sitting. I've seen the pictures of him holding
Speaker 1: a beer and it's like a little tiny baby one.
Speaker 1: It looks like like a doll silverware. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: like a tall boy exactly. Yeah, that's Salandre the Giant.
Speaker 1: So trouble started after this giant wrestler is ragdalling a
Speaker 1: cameraman around inside the US Cellular Center and cedar rapids. Right.
Speaker 1: The cameraman, Ben Hilderbrandt, was a local media guy. He's
Speaker 1: just there to cover the WWF matches because at the
Speaker 1: time he's WWF before WWE, So he's there to cover
Speaker 1: the WWF matches the World Wildlife fund Man exactly. The
Speaker 1: panda is going against the giraffe. So the main event
Speaker 1: is Andre the Giant versus the Ultimate Warrior. Remember the
Speaker 1: Ultimate Warrior. He's the one had like face paint and regalia.
Speaker 1: He had like arm chains and like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like like a fringe and ribbons and stuff hanging off him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looked like Burning Man before Burning Man. Okay, so
Speaker 1: that's him. It sounds pretty ultimate. Yeah, but he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be like a warrior, so he's gonna fight the giant, right,
Speaker 1: So hilderbrand is there to film the funny bits, but
Speaker 1: then he gets warmed that not all the wrestlers would
Speaker 1: want to play along. Specifically, the seven foot four, five
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pound giant called Andre like him alone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as Hilderbrand recalled, the ring announcer comes over and says,
Speaker 1: Andrea is different. You can't record him wrestling. I said, fine,
Speaker 1: maybe I can record him walking in and the bell
Speaker 1: being rung. And then now she said, nah, fine, So
Speaker 1: Andre walks in, I shoot that, I shoot the bell
Speaker 1: being wrung, and immediately he's pinned. I'm not even looking
Speaker 1: and suddenly Andre is on me. So it turns out
Speaker 1: the cameraman Hildebrand missed the action. It's what wrestlers would
Speaker 1: call a squash move. So Andrea is supposed to go
Speaker 1: in and pin the Ultimate Warrior within thirty seconds. It's
Speaker 1: really fast, right, the young cameraman totally miss the action.
Speaker 1: This pisses Andre the giant off makes no sense to me.
Speaker 1: He storms over, he takes the camera from Hildebrand. Now
Speaker 1: keep in mind, Hildebrand is about five foot nine, he
Speaker 1: weighs about one hundred and sixty pounds, so he goes
Speaker 1: with the camera pretty much. Yeah, both of them. So,
Speaker 1: as it's Hildebrand recalled, it was really much like someone
Speaker 1: who is whipping a towel or piece of paper around.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's him getting totally raged. So at some
Speaker 1: point Hunter. The giants slapped Hilderbrant in the side of
Speaker 1: the head, just a standard wrestling move, but not for
Speaker 1: Hildebrands shot out of his heart apologies, ashot other ears before.
Speaker 1: At some point gone through, the grabs the camera from
Speaker 1: Hildebrand and he tosses it down, breaks it, smashes it. Hildebrandt. Fine,
Speaker 1: he doesn't breaks and smash hildebrand The guy's still there, right,
Speaker 1: and hildebrand says, quote, I had never been in a
Speaker 1: fight before or after in my life, and I just
Speaker 1: got whipped around like a doll in front of four
Speaker 1: thousand fans, who, by the way, thought this was part
Speaker 1: of the entertainment. Beer was thrown on me, people spit
Speaker 1: on me. It was just surreal. So nobody gets it
Speaker 1: this as part of the show. So the whole time
Speaker 1: he's jeered as like the villain, right, he's been treated
Speaker 1: as the heel. So the promoters of the show are
Speaker 1: able to get the two men separated. Right once they
Speaker 1: get Hilderbrandt to safety, what do you think they do?
Speaker 1: They start yelling at him, like why you mess up
Speaker 1: the show? What the hell has runs? So now he's
Speaker 1: getting yelled at by the promoters. Right. Oh, then the
Speaker 1: cops show up. So now on the cops show up
Speaker 1: and they had to do something about this enraged giant
Speaker 1: who was just beating up this helpless camera man as
Speaker 1: the fans cheered on. They're like, what do we do?
Speaker 1: The cops, you know, they get orders from their captain
Speaker 1: back of the station. He's like, Andre the Giant is
Speaker 1: to be arrested on assault and crim little message car.
Speaker 1: They don't have the cups for that exactly, So the
Speaker 1: cops they have to go. They find Andre the Giant
Speaker 1: at this point, he is you know, like they're there
Speaker 1: to arrest him, right, So they have to go and
Speaker 1: find him somewhere because he's not on the main stage anymore.
Speaker 1: He's in the back of the stadium. There's a problem
Speaker 1: with the finding him. He's naked, right, So when they
Speaker 1: find him, they find a naked Andre the Giant, all
Speaker 1: five hundred and forty pounds of him, and he's in
Speaker 1: the shower. So now the cops have to stand around
Speaker 1: and wait for him to finish totally, and he gets
Speaker 1: like toweled off and everything, and so once the Giant
Speaker 1: is clothed and his hair is dry, then the cops
Speaker 1: have to arrest him. So one of the arresting officers
Speaker 1: is dude, Sergeant Jerry Potter. He goes and he recalls
Speaker 1: under the Giant's response when the cops tell him, look,
Speaker 1: you're under arrest, he said, I think this is the
Speaker 1: cops off Sergeant Jerry Potter's recollections quote. I don't remember
Speaker 1: his exact words, but he said something like, I'm not
Speaker 1: going anywhere and you're not taking me. Yea, what do
Speaker 1: you do? Exactly? Like, first of all, he's not going
Speaker 1: to fit in the back of a cop car. Oh,
Speaker 1: I have answers for that. So they can't shoot him.
Speaker 1: They don't have tasers. What do they do? They have
Speaker 1: to ask him nicely to come down to the police
Speaker 1: department on top of the cruiser. Would you please be
Speaker 1: arrested with us? So the arresting officer, Sergeant Potter, he says,
Speaker 1: I just explained it to him. You're under arrest. You
Speaker 1: do have to go over to the jail with us,
Speaker 1: but it's not a big problem. Your manager can follow us,
Speaker 1: You'll be released and it won't even take long. They're like, look,
Speaker 1: it's not going a big deal. Something something. Princess bry
Speaker 1: just come with us. So eventually they convince Andre to
Speaker 1: the Giant to come along peacefully. But as you pointed out,
Speaker 1: they have no handcuffs are gonna fit his enormous wrists.
Speaker 1: So what did they do. They happen to have leg
Speaker 1: shackles from the county jail, so they use leg shackles.
Speaker 1: They pull them out as a real fat. Sergeant Pottery
Speaker 1: tells Andrew the Giant, I'll use them if you make me.
Speaker 1: I said it a joking manner, and it got him laughing.
Speaker 1: When Andre starts belly laughing, it seemed like the whole
Speaker 1: room shakes. Yeah, this is huge, dude. They're like, okay,
Speaker 1: now we got the other question you said, which is
Speaker 1: how are we going to get them to the station.
Speaker 1: So they have to fit them in the car. They
Speaker 1: don't have a car that'll fit them, but they find
Speaker 1: one that doesn't have the partition between the back and
Speaker 1: where the cops sit, so then they go, okay, we'll
Speaker 1: use this. They put him on one side and they
Speaker 1: have as his feet go like over the front seat
Speaker 1: and then over the back seat, so one foot's like
Speaker 1: in the footwell the back seat, the other foots in
Speaker 1: the footwell the front seat. And he's he's got his
Speaker 1: head up against the window and they're able to get
Speaker 1: him to the police station. They didn't a truck, That's
Speaker 1: what I was thinking. I'm on a flatbed. Get the
Speaker 1: wrecker in there, and like, how did he travel around
Speaker 1: like in a bus? I suppose yeah, generally he did
Speaker 1: everything to drive a car. They've shown footage of him
Speaker 1: driving like stuff. It's yeah, top down, do a lot
Speaker 1: of convertibles. You know, He's not driving anything with a
Speaker 1: fixed top. So they eventually get the Giant down there
Speaker 1: and they go to book I mean they asked Johndrew
Speaker 1: the Giant for a souvenir while they're booking him because
Speaker 1: his fingers are too big for the fingerprint car. So
Speaker 1: they're using eight by eleven paper to get his fingerprints. Yes,
Speaker 1: so one of the cops like, I get a full
Speaker 1: handprint and you get you to sign it, and he
Speaker 1: slaps him in the face. There's your hand Happily A
Speaker 1: Bige was like, y'all'll ink on his face forever, like
Speaker 1: a tattoo the face. So Andre he gets fined one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for criminal mischief and in order to pay
Speaker 1: two hundred thirty three dollars to Casey RG for their
Speaker 1: news camera. So and also he's not he's judged not
Speaker 1: guilty of assault and everything is happy and Cedar rapids Iowa,
Speaker 1: except for poor Bed and Hilda Brand. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: hope he's okay. Yeah. Right, let's take a little break
Speaker 1: and I'll be back to ragged all you with some
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Speaker 1: Just in case you were wondering, it's pronounced. All right, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: we're back. Hey, and look at that. I've got another
Speaker 1: fresh hit of ridiculousness for you. It's all queued up here.
Speaker 1: So did you know that you've been inspiring p people? No?
Speaker 1: I did not know that. Yes, you are an inspiration.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you are the wind beneath my wind. Oh no.
Speaker 1: But for real, people have been wanting to use your
Speaker 1: baring in their own lives. So listener, Lindsay Shrek writes
Speaker 1: in subject line baring yea ballast. Yes Hi, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to drop a line to tell you two quick tidbits.
Speaker 1: One dig your podcast early, thank you. Two or in
Speaker 1: this case, b I just got home from a work conference,
Speaker 1: enduring every presentation, every speaker, literally any time a person
Speaker 1: was talking in my presence. It took every ounce of
Speaker 1: my adulting restraint to keep myself from shouting, baring for
Speaker 1: all to hear. I must have looked like a lunatic
Speaker 1: giggling to myself all week. So thanks for that. Keep
Speaker 1: up the good work. Ridiculous crime is hilarious A plus,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Shrek, Yeah, Linds. So I'm stoked. Anything that can
Speaker 1: make a conference a little more bearable. Yeah, right, man,
Speaker 1: You're now an influence. So that's scary. Yeah. So we
Speaker 1: have another one. This one is uh well, it's from
Speaker 1: my cat named Jackson. I'll get into that in a second.
Speaker 1: Here your cat, my cat Jackson. Dude, all right, a
Speaker 1: little my dog Jackson. I've been talking to the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: This cat down the street told me a story, a
Speaker 1: little kitty cat named Jackson. I was taking a walk
Speaker 1: and he said yea, and I was like, what's that Jackson?
Speaker 1: And then he told me this. So I'll translate. You're ready, Yeah, wait,
Speaker 1: let me translate. So I'm from Seattle and I am
Speaker 1: a lifelong hockey fan. My dad introduced me to the game,
Speaker 1: and he has been a lifelong fan too. He was
Speaker 1: even the assistant equipment manager for El Paso, Texas, is
Speaker 1: short lived minor league team, maybe the Raiders, I can't remember. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I love watching the Seattle Crack and even when we lose.
Speaker 1: But when we are losing, I get this urge. I
Speaker 1: want a mass text everyone in the city we are
Speaker 1: losing against with suck at douchebag, literally everyone in the city.
Speaker 1: I'm being extra here because I mean everybody. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you read this on the podcast, can you please
Speaker 1: get Aaron extra and everybody into good voice. It would
Speaker 1: make my year. No need to read this part. Oops. Sorry.
Speaker 1: I write this as the Krack in lose to the
Speaker 1: Flames and I want to mass text everyone in Calgary
Speaker 1: and tell them they suck. I know this is dumb,
Speaker 1: and I need someone to talk me out of it
Speaker 1: or into it. I've started foolish Google searches on how
Speaker 1: to do this and emailed you, so there's already a
Speaker 1: paper trail. I kind of don't care if I get
Speaker 1: caught doing this. I used to live in a marginally
Speaker 1: criminal environment as a homeless weed dealer, so nah, I
Speaker 1: guess my life needs some dumb excitement. Can you either
Speaker 1: convince me this is seriously ridiculous and also whether or
Speaker 1: not to do it completely true listener, need true help,
Speaker 1: Jackson requiem. Now, I know I have a last name
Speaker 1: for a first name and a weird name for a
Speaker 1: last name, so I figured i'd give y'all some help.
Speaker 1: My last name is pronounced raikwam. It is a bastardized
Speaker 1: version of rachvam, which I believe means farm by the
Speaker 1: sea in Norwegian. Love y'all, tons, keep up the awesome work. Wow,
Speaker 1: since you know, thank you, Jackson. We appreciate that where
Speaker 1: you're here for you though, So I bulled this one over.
Speaker 1: I talked to the katy kat up the stream. I
Speaker 1: got an answer. I'm happy to help you, right, really, Okay,
Speaker 1: for the record, telling everyone in the city of Calgary
Speaker 1: to suck at douchebags via mass texting. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: sort of thing that's best left as a fantasy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would definitely say something. I mean, it's perfect as
Speaker 1: a fantasy, it's a beautiful fantasy. As a reality, it'll
Speaker 1: probably just result in lots of time in a courtroom.
Speaker 1: So yeah, unless you want to spend tots of time
Speaker 1: in a courtroom. Keep this one a fantasy. We should
Speaker 1: start a service where you can text a number whatever
Speaker 1: angry thing you want, thinking that you're texting an entire city,
Speaker 1: and then you'll get like a bunch of texts back. Okay, man,
Speaker 1: that's not fair. No, Calgary is number one. Brot bucko. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you all the book Calgary. Eh, you'll come
Speaker 1: over here. Watch your language now. We also receive a
Speaker 1: lot of meaningful feedback, and so I kind of want
Speaker 1: to dip in a little, just for a second, and
Speaker 1: a meaningful one. So we got an email from listener
Speaker 1: Andrea Robertson. Okay, right, dear all. My name is Andrea Robertson.
Speaker 1: I live in a little house in the country in
Speaker 1: northern Vermont. I retired a few months ago at sixty
Speaker 1: seven years old. It can be a bit isolating, but
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. My routine, at least until the snowfalls,
Speaker 1: is to sit on my porch late afternoon, tap into
Speaker 1: your stories and laugh or blurt out you're gidding me.
Speaker 1: When Zarin gets excited and talks a mile a minute,
Speaker 1: I crack up. When Elizabeth starts to laugh and can't stop.
Speaker 1: I do the same. You two are super bright people,
Speaker 1: and I enjoy producer Dave's input. I have learned a
Speaker 1: lot roared with laughter and I've had my spirits lifted
Speaker 1: thanks to your great stories. The bank robberies are the
Speaker 1: ridiculously bestest. This is just a note to reach out
Speaker 1: that you make a lot of difference to people you
Speaker 1: don't even know. Many thanks, Andrea robertson Northeast Kingdom, Vermont.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so you know. So it's incredible everyone, So
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Andrea. We are doing it for you,
Speaker 1: and everyone's sitting on porches laughing out loud by themselves. Yes,
Speaker 1: or everyone at a job that can't Yes, for the
Speaker 1: workingmen and women. Now, Elizabeth, you love animals, animal stories. Yes,
Speaker 1: Producer Dave does well. So listener Dustin Pile has got
Speaker 1: y'all covered, okay, quote did you know? In nineteen o eight,
Speaker 1: The New York Times reported on a dog in Paris
Speaker 1: who saved a child from a river, and he was
Speaker 1: rewarded with a steak. Over the next few weeks, that
Speaker 1: dog continued to save more kids from the river for
Speaker 1: more steak rewards, untill they figured out the dog tossed
Speaker 1: the kids into the river to save them for the
Speaker 1: steak treats. That's one kind of dog. I love that dog.
Speaker 1: Dustin Pile had another one for you. This is the
Speaker 1: story of a pig in Texas. Okay quote there is
Speaker 1: also a pet pig in Texas currently who can escape
Speaker 1: his house. He can even escape a harness. He then
Speaker 1: went on an escapade of eating the neighbors jack o lanterns.
Speaker 1: This led to neighbors being sad because the pig did
Speaker 1: not eat their pumpkins. Ultimately, the neighborhood and pig owner
Speaker 1: started a drive to give leftover jack o lanterns to
Speaker 1: the pig. Again. Thanks for the podcast. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: runner your beer? Your mother's dog. Bob, Dude, Bob can
Speaker 1: get out of any harness. Yes, And when she takes
Speaker 1: the dog to the vet, like when she takes Bob,
Speaker 1: she basically has to wheel him in Hannibal Electric style
Speaker 1: like job to something he can't move because otherwise he'll
Speaker 1: weezle out and then go stand in the middle of
Speaker 1: the road and be like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Do you want to chase me? Do you want to
Speaker 1: play traffic games? I love Bob but man, he's a shirt.
Speaker 1: I got three words for you. Ready, huh bum Farto shirts? Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, where's Bumfarto? Exactly? Listener Logan Wilkerson. He
Speaker 1: went on, and where's Bumfarto's shirt? Hunt? Oh yeah, he writes,
Speaker 1: and I hope this is the right email address. But
Speaker 1: I love y'all show. I listened to it at work,
Speaker 1: and I listen to new episodes when one comes out,
Speaker 1: and it's nice that y'all make me laugh at work.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I got just done listening to your new episode.
Speaker 1: And if you go on Amazon, there are Where's Bumfarto? Shirts?
Speaker 1: And the Depo hospital is real. I had to look
Speaker 1: it up. Paul. I hope this does reach you, and
Speaker 1: if not, it's too much to ask. Can you give
Speaker 1: a shout out to Logan from Tennessee? So I know
Speaker 1: you got the email about the where's bum far those shirts? Okay, y'all,
Speaker 1: so I thought we could do this on three. Let's
Speaker 1: give a shout out to Logan Wilkerson from Tennessee. Shout
Speaker 1: out there. Good. Now, by the way, Logan had another
Speaker 1: story to share. Okay, you're ready. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this would be considered a ridiculous story. But I have
Speaker 1: a story about my uncle who's currently serving a prison
Speaker 1: sentence for an elementary school break in spree across three
Speaker 1: counties Smith Wilson into Cab County or around the mid
Speaker 1: two thousand tents. Some details I know is that my
Speaker 1: baby mom is the one who did the driving while
Speaker 1: he did the break in. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was every time, but they would have their son
Speaker 1: with them, and they got caught because an officer drove
Speaker 1: by a school and noticed it was broken in. And ironically,
Speaker 1: this officer and his family knew my mom and stepdad.
Speaker 1: This wasn't the first time he got in trouble with
Speaker 1: the law. Back in the early two tents, my uncle
Speaker 1: and this guy robbed a school and Mount Joliet. When
Speaker 1: the videos and pictures were shown on news networks, I
Speaker 1: was at work on break when I saw them. The
Speaker 1: first thing I thought to myself was what the excuse
Speaker 1: the language? And I called my mom and she knew. Basically,
Speaker 1: it seemed like a lot of people on side knew
Speaker 1: it was him because of his mannerisms, but my grandmother
Speaker 1: was in denial about it, and I think her and
Speaker 1: my grandfather got into an argument about it because he
Speaker 1: knew it was him all my grandmother said it wasn't
Speaker 1: a little while later he got arrested, but it turned
Speaker 1: out to be for a different charge. And that's all
Speaker 1: I can remember about it, yea. Anyway, keep up the
Speaker 1: good working on the show. I'm loving it. Wow. I
Speaker 1: just loveing family all knowing immediately it's him on TV, like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's Uncle Johnny. I know that walk that I recognize
Speaker 1: that little anyway, So Elizabeth, I got four more words
Speaker 1: for you, Yes, but in this case of four words
Speaker 1: are also for producer Dave. Oh yeah, the Buddy Sancy musical. Yes,
Speaker 1: Island's finest now listener Brian writes in and I gotta
Speaker 1: quote him. Hey, guys, I loved your episode on Buddy.
Speaker 1: You reminded me how much I loved and miss Buddy.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget the night the Feds charged him. The
Speaker 1: local news sent a young reporter out to a bar
Speaker 1: to get reactions from locals. She obviously wasn't from around
Speaker 1: here because she was shocked that everyone's reaction was just
Speaker 1: and she could not convince anyone it was about thing
Speaker 1: we all know, Buddy was corrupt. But he was corrupt
Speaker 1: for us exactly. I met a stafford at a bar
Speaker 1: once and she told me a great story about a
Speaker 1: woman who came to his office representing a charity and
Speaker 1: he shouted, to someone, where's the money from that drug bust?
Speaker 1: Give it to this lady. You have to understand, though,
Speaker 1: that Rhode Island was a mob state at the time.
Speaker 1: The patriarcha family operated more or less in the open
Speaker 1: and did a great job of keeping disorganized crime down.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of my first jobs was that a
Speaker 1: known mob front. It made for a great story in college.
Speaker 1: Whenever someone asked what I did over the summer, I
Speaker 1: tell him I worked for the mob. They turned white
Speaker 1: and asked what I did. I told him I was
Speaker 1: a short order cook. So I can't. I still can't
Speaker 1: watch mob movies because they always make the mafia out
Speaker 1: to be bad guys. Nonsense, and you missed a great detail.
Speaker 1: Buddy had a locker at the Capitol Grill. I believe
Speaker 1: it was locker number one, with a few bottles of
Speaker 1: his Marinera in it, even while he was in prison. Cheers, Brian,
Speaker 1: So right, you gotta love the bit about we all
Speaker 1: knew Buddy was corrupt, but he was corrupt for us that,
Speaker 1: you know. Listen, I will put up with, you know,
Speaker 1: municipal corruption if they take care of the people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll just say, now, Dave, do you is this accurate?
Speaker 1: I mean, were we speaking out of turn here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Mari Narrow bottles cigars and I think a backup to
Speaker 1: pay is amazing. All the capital grill just on demand.
Speaker 1: So I got another one for you. This is from listeners,
Speaker 1: doctor Stephen Angel. Okay, he writes in quote, I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is necessarily a crime yet, but could be.
Speaker 1: And the headline alone, Yeah right, excry just letting us know.
Speaker 1: I'm about to give you guys great a content. Watch
Speaker 1: this space, hold my beer now. Headline he sent in
Speaker 1: was player at Saint Louis Chess Cup accused of using
Speaker 1: anal beads to cheat. Oh yeah, so that face you
Speaker 1: just made me amazing. By the way, thanks so. According
Speaker 1: to the Riverfront Times quote, the matching question happened on
Speaker 1: September four during the sink Field Cup, one of the
Speaker 1: longest running chess tournaments in the United States. It is
Speaker 1: the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour. It features
Speaker 1: some of the world's best chess players, as well as
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand dollars total prize fund. So
Speaker 1: the story goes on to note in round three of
Speaker 1: the Cup, Magnus Carlson thirty one, a chess grand master
Speaker 1: from Norway, played against Hans Niemann nineteen, a chess prodigy
Speaker 1: originally from San Francisco. So stories start a pick up, right,
Speaker 1: So a grand champion goes as this young upstart from
Speaker 1: the city. Right, Yeah, not exactly alarm bells yet. But
Speaker 1: when did the anal beats enter the picture? Great question, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: I know you wanted to know to know before the
Speaker 1: news story outlines who these two chess champs are and
Speaker 1: the relative to each other. Let's just get into that first.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the anal beats next. Thank you, so
Speaker 1: stay patients. Quote. Carlson is a five time grand champion
Speaker 1: and one of the greatest chess players in the world.
Speaker 1: He's been a chess for nom since he was thirteen,
Speaker 1: and there's even a documentary about him titled Magnus that
Speaker 1: found a general audience beyond just chess players. Nieman is
Speaker 1: also a grandmaster, though according to World Chess dot Com,
Speaker 1: Nieman was the lowest rated player at the tournament other
Speaker 1: than that little dig at the end, right right. The
Speaker 1: last time these two faced in an online tournament, Carlson
Speaker 1: lost to Niemen, right, So who then said in his
Speaker 1: post victory press conference, the chess speaks for itself. That's
Speaker 1: the young upstart. Right after that, he went on to
Speaker 1: lose two of the next three matches against Carlson. So well,
Speaker 1: the chess spoke for itself exactly. He set himself up
Speaker 1: on that one. So cut to the chess event in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, the one under question. Yeah, Nieman beats Carlson
Speaker 1: in this shocking victory that Fiss referred to as quote
Speaker 1: an upset for the ages. Now, why would VISs say that,
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not what they're known for their chess. Now,
Speaker 1: it's according to the Riverfront Times, Carlson had played fifty
Speaker 1: three classical matches without a loss, and Carlson was playing white,
Speaker 1: which has a statistical advantage over black since white moves
Speaker 1: first in chess. Now, after the victory, Nieman told this
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Chess Club, which subsequently posted his comments and
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel for everyone to see. Quote. I think
Speaker 1: Carlson was just so demoralized because he's losing to an
Speaker 1: idiot like me. It must be embarrassing for the world
Speaker 1: champion to lose to me. I feel bad for him.
Speaker 1: Oh right, So now the gossip starts. He's basically texted,
Speaker 1: suck it, yeah, exactly due the whole city of this guy.
Speaker 1: So the YouTube videos get posted. More YouTube videos get posted.
Speaker 1: Another chess champion, this dude, Hikaro Nakamura. He posts a
Speaker 1: video where he outlines his theory that Nieman cheated, and
Speaker 1: so Weiss follows this you know, and it basically explains
Speaker 1: Nakamura's whole theory. Weiss describes a discussion of this player
Speaker 1: who could cheat by quote using vibration based buttons in
Speaker 1: a player's shoe. And here Elizabeth is where anal beads
Speaker 1: entered the picture. Okay, enter Elon musk. Oh. He followed
Speaker 1: the drama in the chess world, and being Elon musk
Speaker 1: he wanted to add his two cents. He tweeted a
Speaker 1: riff on a quote from philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and I quote,
Speaker 1: talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius
Speaker 1: hits a target no one can see because it's in
Speaker 1: your butt richest man in the world. Yeah. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that tweet has since been deleted. Really, you can always
Speaker 1: count on Elon Musk to give his twelve year old
Speaker 1: boy opinion on everything. So keeping things weird and inedible
Speaker 1: for you, I have another one for you. Well wait, yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like there was a Reddit post about chess cheating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: same story, it's the same one. Yeah, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it involved anal beats an all beat. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: there's are you talking about? There's a poker where the
Speaker 1: poker cheating where they had the woman going against the
Speaker 1: guy and they accused her of cheating. Now you know that.
Speaker 1: I'm a big a Subreddit lurker. Yeah, and I feel
Speaker 1: like there was something another, like it was like in
Speaker 1: a local chess club. Oh, I don't know, I don't whatever.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of cheating, Like there's the fishing
Speaker 1: cheating in the Bass Championship, there was cheating in poker,
Speaker 1: cheating in the chest. There's been a lot of cheating.
Speaker 1: That fish story of waiting the Fish I am. I
Speaker 1: would love to do an episode on it, but I
Speaker 1: just don't have enough. I've like done all sorts of
Speaker 1: deep dive research Yeah. That's the one problem with those
Speaker 1: stories is unfortunately there's not enough for us to stretch
Speaker 1: it into a full show. Yeah, so you get it
Speaker 1: like this to get this so yeah, So I have
Speaker 1: another one for you. This is from listener Tree. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, erin. Yeah, it looks like it's to add o' clock.
Speaker 1: Oh it's at a clock? Oh is it? I need
Speaker 1: some ads to keep going? Well, then that's you're right,
Speaker 1: producer Dave. Let's we'll sidetrack this because I know you
Speaker 1: like trains, Elizabeth. We're gonna put this on a side spur.
Speaker 1: Thank you, producer Dave, and we'll be back in a
Speaker 1: flash after these ads ragged all you around. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: listening to your podcast. Hello, Elizabeth and Zaren, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for doing the podcast. It is Stephanie from Minnesota. Hey,
Speaker 1: Elizabeth and Zaren, just want to say thank you for
Speaker 1: the great work that you do on this podcast. It's
Speaker 1: my very favorite. This podcast is like one of the
Speaker 1: funniest podcasts I've found about crime. No, I'm sorry, the
Speaker 1: only podcast I've ever found about crime. All lesbet We're
Speaker 1: back in. Those ads were delicious, Thank god, they're so good.
Speaker 1: I bought everything so keeping things weird and in edible.
Speaker 1: Did you buy like the public service announcements? I hope
Speaker 1: there are all public service announcements. I did bottom. I
Speaker 1: bought all gold. It was just gold, gold gold. But look,
Speaker 1: I can't trust the market anymore, No, who can. I
Speaker 1: gotta buy gold. Yeah, I had that in like paper products,
Speaker 1: and then if you guys bridge you can sell me.
Speaker 1: I got all the toilet paper I gotta. I got
Speaker 1: a storage unit, just filled a toilet paper for the
Speaker 1: next time. Everyone wants toilet paper. I got damn covered paper.
Speaker 1: Don't go bad. No, So anyway, listener, Tracy m she
Speaker 1: wrote to us, did you want us to let know
Speaker 1: about another ridiculous thing. It's called the Spam Museum of
Speaker 1: the And it's not an email museum, it's canned meat museum. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: according to TRACYM had a quote, Austin, Minnesota is home
Speaker 1: of spam. Spam, as you know, was the first can
Speaker 1: meat that didn't need to be refrigerated, which was beneficial
Speaker 1: in the war. Now spam is popular all over the world. Hormel,
Speaker 1: I think bought out spam, but one of the conditions
Speaker 1: of the buyout from the owner creator of spam was
Speaker 1: at the headquarters, had to stay in this tiny town
Speaker 1: of Austin, Minnesota, and a certain percentage of yearly sales
Speaker 1: of spam had to go back to the community, and
Speaker 1: another larger percentage of sales had to go to a
Speaker 1: cancer researched institute that is also located in Austin, Minnesota. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all dope stuff. Way to go spam, right, how much
Speaker 1: cancer has spam cost? Oh? Come on saving more people
Speaker 1: that it's putting over. That is true, that's sustaining. The
Speaker 1: spam stand for something. Yeah, it's uh, what is it?
Speaker 1: Some pretty as meat? No, it's some pretty as I
Speaker 1: think it's a it's some thing about pork and ham.
Speaker 1: It's I don't I don't remember. I don't know. Okay, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: some pretty as meat. That's what it stands for. Now.
Speaker 1: In Austin, there is a spam museum quote where they
Speaker 1: have all sorts of spam facts and facts and things
Speaker 1: to look at, like a motorcycle to drove across country
Speaker 1: on Greece. Not sure if it was spam juice. It
Speaker 1: is actually an interesting and fun museum. While they're visiting,
Speaker 1: one of the workers told us all sorts of fun
Speaker 1: facts about spam. The best was about a man from
Speaker 1: England who loved spam. I mean loved it. He loved
Speaker 1: it so much that he went to the Crown to
Speaker 1: ask to have his name changed. Not sure what his
Speaker 1: name was before, but let's say John Smith. So John
Speaker 1: Smith changed his name to John I Love Spam. He
Speaker 1: also got married and his wife took his I Love
Speaker 1: Spam last name. John I Love Spam wanted to get
Speaker 1: married at the Spam Museum and their response was you
Speaker 1: spam and believe it. I added that part. They said,
Speaker 1: we will allow you to get married at the spam
Speaker 1: Museum as long as we pay for it all. So
Speaker 1: they flew him and his friends and a family to America,
Speaker 1: had a big media event with news cameras, and I
Speaker 1: think I Am even sent them on us honeymoon as well.
Speaker 1: TRACYM wow. So it's not really a crime in that one,
Speaker 1: but it was ridiculous. It is totally ridiculous. I didn't
Speaker 1: know there's a spam museum, so now we know, and
Speaker 1: there's John I Love Spam out there somewhere in the
Speaker 1: world where I don't think so. I wonder if he
Speaker 1: goes to Hawaii and they're like yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're like brought up. Yeah. Now this next one we
Speaker 1: have an email is from listener Steph Stewart. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: this is the last of the emails for you, right, okay,
Speaker 1: so buckle up. Yes, quote hello, I just quote hello.
Speaker 1: That was it. It was a short email. Ridiculous, right, suck.
Speaker 1: So this one goes and I quote I just adore
Speaker 1: your podcast. I used to work as a nine one
Speaker 1: one emergency dispatcher, and the ridiculous crimes were a big
Speaker 1: reason I love my job. I have some short crimes
Speaker 1: that I thought you would enjoy, some from my time
Speaker 1: as a dispatcher, and some from my hometown of Waukeisha, Wisconsin. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll read just one because she was kind enough to
Speaker 1: give us a bunch. But for this story, Steph is
Speaker 1: given it the title the Gorilla Man. I already loved this,
Speaker 1: so she wrote, this one is my favorite because I
Speaker 1: was the connecting factor to solving this case years after
Speaker 1: it took place. So, like you, special investigator, she's down
Speaker 1: to solve a mystery years after the case. She got
Speaker 1: to the bottom of a gorilla man mystery. So, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: are you ready for this one? Yeah? I'd like you
Speaker 1: to close your eyes. Picture it. Picture quote. When I
Speaker 1: was a freshman in college, I lived in an on
Speaker 1: campus housing. One day, one of my classmates came knocking
Speaker 1: on my door unannounced. You'll never guess what just happened.
Speaker 1: A guy dressed as a gorilla jumped out at me
Speaker 1: from behind the bushes. She excitedly told me, Oh, no,
Speaker 1: is he okay? I asked you. See, my friend did
Speaker 1: not look intimidating in the least. She was a little
Speaker 1: Korean woman. Little did most people know she was a
Speaker 1: black belt in some type of martial arts. You can't
Speaker 1: remember which anymore, but from Atlanta, Georgia. She had started
Speaker 1: martial arts to protect herself in her neighborhood. She had
Speaker 1: beaten the gorilla man too badly, just enough that he
Speaker 1: ran off. Yes. So fast forward a couple of years
Speaker 1: and I'm working as a nine one one dispatcher. During
Speaker 1: a dead stretch, my co worker started telling me stories
Speaker 1: from before I started at the department. Quote, just a
Speaker 1: couple of months before you started here, she shared, there
Speaker 1: was this guy in a gorilla suit who kept jumping
Speaker 1: out from bushes at people. By the time our officers
Speaker 1: would arrive he would be gone. We could never figure
Speaker 1: out who he was, since you know, he had a
Speaker 1: guerrilla mask on. Then one day he just stopped. We
Speaker 1: haven't gotten a single call about a guerrilla man since
Speaker 1: I know what happened, I said. I then told her
Speaker 1: about my friend and her lightning fast reflexes. After work,
Speaker 1: I headed over to my boyfriend's apartment unrelated. He's now
Speaker 1: my husband and also loves your podcast, and told him
Speaker 1: all about how I solved the mystery what happened to
Speaker 1: the guerrilla man. Jeremiah sat there quietly for a minute
Speaker 1: before saying, so that's why he got rid of that what?
Speaker 1: Needless to say, I was intrigued. You know my old
Speaker 1: roommate who rented that TV, the one who's jeep you
Speaker 1: filled with tumbleweeds? Yeah, that one. What about him? So
Speaker 1: he had this gorilla costume he always had in his backpack,
Speaker 1: and then one day it was gone and he would
Speaker 1: never tell us why. Next time I shared a ship
Speaker 1: with that coworker, I told her the rest of the story.
Speaker 1: It was such a weird coincidence. I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: she believed me. I wow, right, that's an amazing story.
Speaker 1: So good. So Steph also recalled when the Stratavarius was
Speaker 1: stolen in Milwaukee, which we've covered, and she writes, quote,
Speaker 1: I also remember when the Stratavarius was stolen in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: It was right before my parents came out to help
Speaker 1: me with my first baby, when the master art thief
Speaker 1: wanted to keep the violin in Milwaukee. That's just the
Speaker 1: most Wisconsin thing I've ever heard coming from that area.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of local pride. It's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Steph Stewart, I love it. Thank you, Steph. Oh that
Speaker 1: was so good. I love the Gorilla Man story. That's
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. I love the local pride. I
Speaker 1: wish that, by the way, for anyone, not just people
Speaker 1: in the Midwest in the South, but I love where
Speaker 1: you are from, or maybe you should move and find
Speaker 1: somewhere you do love well. I mean, I think right now,
Speaker 1: it seems like I've talked about next door and everyone
Speaker 1: I know all over the country who lurks on next
Speaker 1: door like I do. Everyone complains about everything and they're
Speaker 1: you know, kind of fearmongering, And I think it's a
Speaker 1: good idea to stop and think about the things you
Speaker 1: actually like the exactly about where you live. I mean
Speaker 1: not to be like all like gratitude warrior about it,
Speaker 1: but you know, like maybe like you know, listics to yourself,
Speaker 1: a couple of things you love about where you live,
Speaker 1: so they can kind of balance out all the things
Speaker 1: about like man, the car break ins or whatever it
Speaker 1: is in your neighborhood that are getting you bummed out
Speaker 1: because there's a lot to love. But also you know what,
Speaker 1: not to get super cheesy on it, but to get
Speaker 1: super cheese belt to bring it. It's a good idea
Speaker 1: to just do that in general, not just from where
Speaker 1: you are, but like you know, when you're thinking in
Speaker 1: an kind of negative headspace, to stop and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what are the things that are rad right now? Yeah
Speaker 1: we can be thankful for yeah little perspective, Zar and
Speaker 1: I am thankful for you row listen to you. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm now I'm gonna have to ask you what was
Speaker 1: your diculous takeaway? Oh well, now, Dave, you owe me
Speaker 1: five bucks. My takeaway is that once again the listeners
Speaker 1: have come through. Yeah right, with's just incredible stuff, ridiculous stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. We have the best fans. We're ridiculously lucky
Speaker 1: to have you all along for the ride, so thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and thanks for listening exactly. So that's our show. Awesome anyway,
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