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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And there she is here. I am Elizabeth Dutton. Look

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Speaker 2: at me, star, stage, screen, radio and podcast, America's Sweetheart.

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Speaker 2: So I got a question for you, America's sweetheart. Yes,

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Speaker 2: do you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: Saren Burnett?

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Speaker 2: I do. I doubt it.

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculously cool. Oh it's not a mashup.

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Speaker 2: Oh, sweet mother of Mercy, Yes.

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Speaker 4: Mother of pearl.

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Speaker 3: That's what I said to myself when I saw this,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, Ay, I love this so much. B

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Speaker 3: I don't have to do a mashup. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: guess I never really have to.

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Speaker 2: The cells of my body are singing in praise of

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Speaker 2: your choice.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 3: This is an email that we got from Rachel Hackenberg. Rude, dude,

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Speaker 3: Rachel Hackey what Rachel? And she wrote, dear ridiculous Crime team.

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Speaker 3: My brain derailed down a sidebar when Elizabeth described George

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Speaker 3: Parker as quote pouring a cocktail of hope for unsuspecting

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Speaker 3: marks in today's episode Welcome to America, suckers. What might

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Speaker 3: the ingredients of a cocktail of hope be? I give

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Speaker 3: you my recipe for the Brooklyn Bridge. Enjoy Rachel. And

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Speaker 3: it has this cool drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge and

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Speaker 3: it's all formatted nicely, so it says the Brooklyn Bridge

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Speaker 3: A cocktail of Hope one muddle Ambition two. Add two

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Speaker 3: dashes American dream Bitters three, mix in three parts sparkling

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Speaker 3: Delusion and one part Vodka of Vanity four. I love

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Speaker 3: this so much. Add a splash of apple cid or

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Speaker 3: vinegar for gut health. Yes, five for cocktail, froth whip,

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Speaker 3: raw desire with bacon grease, six garnish with naivete, seven

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Speaker 3: serve with a handlebar mustaches.

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Speaker 4: So good.

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Speaker 3: And I sent it to my brother. I was like,

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Speaker 3: you guys should have this as a drink special and

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Speaker 3: then he blocked me.

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Speaker 4: But aside from that, like what the fifth time?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just got to change my phone number again.

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Speaker 4: Trick.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, the cocktail of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Speaker 2: That is both ridiculous and damn.

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Speaker 3: So clever, so smart, and I love it. Thank you, Rachel.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm just like over here all a flutter the

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Speaker 2: top that I cannot That was incredible, But I do

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Speaker 2: have something for you to sit back down. Okay, it's ridiculous,

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Speaker 2: I promise you that to borrow from former President George W. Bush.

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Speaker 2: There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas,

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Speaker 2: probably in Tennessee. But you know what, Elizabeth, I don't

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Speaker 2: know for certain because I just made this up. It says,

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Speaker 2: if at first you don't succeed crime crime again.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you were going to go with the

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Speaker 3: whole foolm me once.

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Speaker 2: No, I couldn't do it all the way. I just

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Speaker 2: like the beginning. Yeah, so there you go. This is

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers. Heis

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Speaker 2: and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent ridiculous. Yes, Oh, Elizabeth Saren Today I

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Speaker 2: have a fun and very French crime story for you.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 2: It involves lovers, criminals, prison escapes. But first, before we

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Speaker 2: get into it, I have an amuse boush, a little

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Speaker 2: something to whet your appetite ye and get you in

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Speaker 2: the mood for more. Do you remember the story I

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Speaker 2: told you about my man Redon Fayid and his daring

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Speaker 3: Yes, I totally remember that.

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Speaker 2: First I was there, Yeah, you were there, and just

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Speaker 2: I'm just Kida when you told the story, tickle your

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Speaker 2: memory cells anyway, because the gist is basically this. In

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Speaker 2: July of twenty eighteen, red'l Fayid was locked up in

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Speaker 2: on this jail breake plan and they used a handheld

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Speaker 2: cheered them on. Right. Can you imagine that scene? The

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Speaker 2: Turns out that escape was one of many, and I

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Speaker 3: Is it like they're Jerry Lewis, like they love these things?

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Speaker 2: Apparently this is like number two after Jerry Lewis's helicopter

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Speaker 2: He goes back to the exact same prison that where

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Speaker 2: And you know what, who says there's no honor among thieves,

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Speaker 2: Fortunately, three weeks later, Pascal Paier and his three recently

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Speaker 2: Paye coordinated a new and brazen helicopter escape. It started

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Speaker 2: Right. So on this fateful Beastille day four of his

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Speaker 2: And he was also in a helicopter. I mean, is

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Speaker 4: Okay, those are all took place.

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Speaker 2: In the in the two thousand Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: You'd think that, like the eighteen second one, they'd be like,

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Speaker 2: So all these daring, brave helicopter escapes, they were all

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Speaker 2: No, no helicopters. I mean, technically, Leonardo da Vinci did

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Speaker 2: So there was these two inmates. They were being held

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Speaker 3: That's so insane, Like what I just think about what

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Speaker 3: The story in the evening.

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Speaker 2: Some plumb toilet wine. So, Elizabeth, I'd like you to

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Speaker 2: Nadine was a criminal and also a bit of a

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Speaker 2: And so she's the first person to do a copycat crime,

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Speaker 2: Maybe two. Now. Her husband's name is Michelle Vajore. He

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Speaker 7: To her Michelle, and he was a career criminal, like

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Speaker 3: Just vans, like people in parking lot.

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Speaker 2: So before his wife broke him out, Michelle already had

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Speaker 2: multiple prison escapes to his credit. Oh yeah, he is scared.

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Speaker 2: of So that same year, nineteen seventy nine, when he

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Speaker 2: While he was brought into court. He smuggled in a

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Speaker 3: How big was this bar?

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Speaker 3: Just like the world's largest bar of soap he carved

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Speaker 3: But then it was so long it's snapped.

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Speaker 2: the look, he blackened the soap with shoe polish.

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Speaker 3: Like swirly Irish spring exactly or was it? Was it

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Speaker 2: So with this opportune moment occurs when he's in court,

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Speaker 3: Well what else is he going to do?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, it's all though he knows Nelson doesn't want

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Speaker 3: Oh how does that happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, the couple welcome their daughter, Betty, because remember they

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Speaker 3: The hell goes on in a French prison.

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Speaker 2: European prisons are different than what we expect, that's all

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Speaker 2: I learned. Very yeah, but this is like they also anyway,

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Speaker 2: I won't get into it, but a lot of they're

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Speaker 3: No, not if you're getting married and then having babies,

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Speaker 3: conjugal visit. No, I don't think it was.

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Speaker 2: No, I think it was in seventy nine when they

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Speaker 3: I just okay.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, at this point, once the couple welcomes their daughter, Betty,

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Speaker 2: this changes her thinking. Nadine's thinking about her family's future,

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Speaker 3: Oh this is what makes a change.

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Speaker 2: Well, because by this point Nadine had also been in

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Speaker 2: came about due to an attempted robbery in nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 2: So this is nineteen eighty three, so she's on the

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Speaker 3: Know, and he's still out there, tom Cat.

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Speaker 2: No, he's still he's locked up in eighty three.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's right, because he did two years.

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Speaker 4: So like, okay, god it So at this.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if she just wasn't into being a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or maybe she's just like a hopeless romantic was

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Speaker 2: and after these messages, we will take through these guys.

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Speaker 4: Viva all.

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Speaker 2: And we're back.

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Speaker 3: Yes we are.

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Speaker 2: So are you ready to take this bird up into

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Speaker 3: You good?

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Speaker 2: Good? So the story goes. After her bungled bank robbery,

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Speaker 2: So Lena enrolls in a flight school for helicopter lessons.

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Speaker 3: Oh she went there planning, not oh wow, And.

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Speaker 2: It didn't take her long to learn to fly. She

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Speaker 2: for months she rents a helicopter she practices. She'd take

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Speaker 2: Nadine would practice the moves that she would need for

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Speaker 2: You can't have it like well, all of a sudden

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Speaker 3: That's a good point.

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Speaker 2: And lastly, Nadine she practiced landing a helicopter in a

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Speaker 2: mastered taking off and flying very low to avoid radar,

439
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,399
Speaker 2: so she's like flying just over the rooftops of Paris.

440
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 3: Wow.

441
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,159
Speaker 2: Yes, So over a six month stretch, Nadine becomes this

442
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,119
Speaker 2: outstanding helicopter pilot. Yeah, talking like TC for Magnum p

443
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 2: I helicopter.

444
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,919
Speaker 3: That's all I'm envisioning is that helicopter and her like

445
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 3: with a boombox playing the theme to Magnum while she

446
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 3: does this for inspiration.

447
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 2: You and me, both sisters.

448
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

449
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 2: So, now in France, I don't know if you know this,

450
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,880
Speaker 2: but any person with a helicopter's pilot license can rent

451
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 2: a helicopter. And here's the kicker. They don't have to

452
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 2: file a flight itinerary. So like in America, when you

453
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 2: take off, you got to tell them where you're going,

454
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 2: and then that airport expects you and they're on the

455
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 2: radio talking to you. But you can just take a

456
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,640
Speaker 2: rental chopper wherever you want. France apparently, Yeah, they don't

457
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 2: have to tell anyone where you're going, which just seems

458
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 2: kind of wild to me.

459
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

460
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 2: Anyway, Nadine, she feels ready to put their escape plan

461
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 2: into action. You know, it's time for the real deal,

462
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 2: save Michelle from prison. So on the Faithful Day Nadine.

463
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 2: She goes out to her flight school it's called the

464
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 2: School Saint Cyr Aerodrome, and she walks inside of a

465
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 2: helicopter rental agency. It's a place called air Compliment and

466
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 2: where she shows her helicopter license. She rents a chopper.

467
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 2: They're like, we don't need to know where you're going,

468
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,160
Speaker 2: so good luck bring it back.

469
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,919
Speaker 3: Can't she just say, like, I'm not going to a

470
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 3: specific place, I'm just going to tootle around.

471
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 2: That's the idea. Yeah, yeah, they don't even have to

472
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 2: like tell them, like which direction you're planning on tootling

473
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 2: at first.

474
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 3: I think you can do that with a helicopter here.

475
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 3: I think you can just go up toodling's I don't know.

476
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I had a friend who got

477
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 2: a helicopter's pilot's license, but he was in the process

478
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 2: of getting it, so then he'd have to like do

479
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,719
Speaker 2: a solo and fly to an airport, so he had

480
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,959
Speaker 2: to put it in itinerary because you don't want him to

481
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 2: just get.

482
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 3: Lost, right, But I think that's if you're in the process.

483
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't know what happens.

484
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 3: Here's what I'm thinking because my power nerd status is

485
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 3: still in effect.

486
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 2: Totally, never doubted.

487
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 3: I have an app on my phone flight radar.

488
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.

489
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 3: And anytime like there's some weird plane like going over

490
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 3: or like a helicopter for a long time, I look

491
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 3: and see what it is. But a lot of those

492
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 3: are there, and a lot of them don't have a destination.

493
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 3: It'll tell even small planes, it'll say, you know where

494
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 3: it's where it took off, but they don't have like

495
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 3: a destination put in their others do.

496
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 2: Even small planes? Interesting?

497
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean you're allowed to tootle apparently.

498
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 2: So at this point, she's going to tootle on over

499
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 2: to Prison de la San Right, Okay, it's like on

500
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: the left bank outside of Paris. So her husband, Michelle,

501
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 2: he checks the calendar. He sees the date is May

502
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,679
Speaker 2: twenty sixth, nineteen eighty six. It's a Monday, and he

503
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 2: knows today is the day for him to get free. Exciting,

504
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 2: so he informs his friend to Pierre Hernandez. Then it

505
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 2: was their liberation day because he invited him to flee

506
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 2: prison with him. He's like, Pierre, you want to go.

507
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 3: He's like he's like, well, you know, when you're in

508
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 3: school and you have like some opportunity to bring one friend.

509
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's.

510
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,679
Speaker 2: So. Yeah, Pierre's like, we let's do this right. So

511
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,959
Speaker 2: at this point, the prison de la It has no

512
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 2: soccer field for an easy landing, no interior courtyard that

513
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: would allow a touchdown. The only place in Nadine can

514
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 2: meet them with a helicopter is up on the prison roof.

515
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 2: But there's nowhere to land, so you're gonna have to hover,

516
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 2: and then they have to get up to the helicopter.

517
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 2: Sketch right, So they go, and the men are gap

518
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 2: to also rendezvous with Nadine up there. Like, how are

519
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 2: two inmates going to sneak out of the prison get

520
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 2: up onto the roof.

521
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 3: That's a very good question.

522
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 2: The answer was painted fruit.

523
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 3: It's always the answer.

524
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 2: It's like I always say, I went in doubt, add

525
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 2: color and some fresh fruit. So now, remember how Pascal

526
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 2: Payer used a bar of soap and blackened it with

527
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 2: shoe polished like he was in a French John Dillinger

528
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: and he took that a judge hostage. Well, Michele Vajoure,

529
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 2: he borrows a page from that playbook. But in his case,

530
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 2: instead of relying on just a carved soap pistol, which

531
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 2: he did have. Michelle also had a nectarine. Technically, he

532
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 2: had two nectarines. Okay. He painted the nectarines green so

533
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 2: that they resembled French style hand grenades.

534
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 3: Stop. Yes, I thought he was going to have a banana.

535
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 4: Gun practically, okay.

536
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 2: So when it's time for them to make their escape,

537
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 2: Michelle and his buddy Pierre, they brandished their shoe polish

538
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 2: soap pistol and their two green painted nectarines, and they

539
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 2: used them to threaten the prison guards, right and surprisingly

540
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 2: it works perfectly. The prison guards when they see them,

541
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 2: they're particularly afraid of the nectarine grenades. Really, they're terrified

542
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 2: that they'll be killed in an explosion of what they

543
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 2: believe to be legit hand grenades. They can't see how

544
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 2: far away from the distance they are. They're told it's

545
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 2: a hand grenade. It looks like a hand Grenadably it

546
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 2: blows up. They would die from a handad.

547
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 3: They're like me. They don't wear their glasses exactly.

548
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 2: Let's oh, this is kind of dark in the prison.

549
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 2: I don't know. So the two inmates flashing their shoe

550
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 2: polish soap pistol and their fake nectarine grenades. They're able

551
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: to bluff their way out of the prison and then

552
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 2: to get scrambling up onto the roof. Meanwhile, at around

553
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 2: ten thirty am that same morning, on her way to

554
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 2: save her man, a single mom Nadine Vajur and her

555
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 2: rental helicopter flying low over central Paris over the radio.

556
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 2: But the whole time she's being hailed with a series

557
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 2: of warnings as she's flying too low, it's illegal, you

558
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: need to pull up. She ignores all the urgent radio calls.

559
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 2: She's like, I'm not going to be in this chopper

560
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 2: very long. She needs to focus because she's approaching the prison,

561
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 2: which is located, as I said, there on the left bank.

562
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 2: So Nadine, she has also, by the way, a comrade

563
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 2: in crime with her in the chopper, a man who

564
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 2: is armed with a machine gun, because obviously if you

565
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 2: if anything goes sideways, they need to have like a

566
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: fireworks right, all right, And a little bit I know

567
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 2: you were wondering, so I'll just tell you. The helicopter

568
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 2: was an Alouette two, which is.

569
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 3: Like the cheese.

570
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. Apparently it's a very trustworthy air machine. Imagine like

571
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 2: one of those helicopters from the beginning of mash just

572
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 2: making a huie no no, like the woman, the medical slide,

573
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 2: the you know, the beginning of Masher, they dropped down.

574
00:26:58,359 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 2: It's like a bubble front.

575
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 3: All I can hear is the Mashed theme song.

576
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Suicideless. There you go.

577
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,719
Speaker 3: So and I'm just like it's making more fresh and

578
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 3: now it's like I feel like it's the.

579
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: Late Yeah, time for you to go to So imagine

580
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 2: like the glass bubble and then they have like the skids.

581
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they could put like a stretcher.

582
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's the idea. You got the skids on

583
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 2: the set, you know, and then and you've got the

584
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: glass bubble enough for two to people to be seated inside,

585
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: not a big helicopter, right.

586
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's not like like a succession helicopter.

587
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 4: There's room for eight exactly.

588
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 2: You know, you're not fitting the whole family in this one, Okay.

589
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: So anyway, as well trained and as practiced as she is,

590
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 2: Nadine is able to pilot the rental chopper over the

591
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,719
Speaker 2: prison locate the roof of her husband's block of cells.

592
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: She hovers in place for a few minutes waiting for

593
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 2: him to pop up. Meanwhile, Hubby Michelle emerges from the

594
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: prison alongside his friend Pierre, dressed in a tracksuit. He

595
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: shows up and he like waves to his total style points.

596
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 2: Now she must have been imagine that moment. She must

597
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 2: be so relieved and stoked to see as the plan

598
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 2: is working. Now at this point, her comrade and crime,

599
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 2: the one with the machine gun. He kicks a rope

600
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 2: out of the chopper. He climbs down the approximately thirty

601
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: feet of rope and he joins the two inmates on

602
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 2: the roof, where he then holds the rope steady as

603
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: Michelle climbs back up and then grabs onto the helicopter skids.

604
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 2: Now they're prison guards below like in the courtyard, and

605
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: they could see all this daring escape underway, but they

606
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,719
Speaker 2: had no clear shot of the inmates Michelle and Pierre

607
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 2: because their view is blocked by like chimneys and antennas

608
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: and you get the idea, right, So the prison guards

609
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: they hesitate to shoot. So the comrade and crime with

610
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 2: the machine gun, he also keeps his gun quiet, no

611
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 2: shots are fired. Meanwhile, urgent seconds are ticking by. Yeah,

612
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 2: Michelle's friend Pierre, he chickens out for reasons only he knows.

613
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: He hesitates to grab the rope and climb up. I

614
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 2: guess in the moment things got real for arm and

615
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: he's like, no, go on with that's me.

616
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 3: He probably only had like a week left on his ticket.

617
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: Please, So the comrade and Crime with the machine gun.

618
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: He uses the rope to climb back after the helicopter

619
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 2: and while Pierre stays behind and like bonjou, well good luck,

620
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: so Pierre said, he surrenders to the prison guards. I guess,

621
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 2: ball Sean, see, you get the idea. It's more fun

622
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 2: to be wrong. So anyway, once her man was a

623
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 2: board and her comrade and Crime was also safely like

624
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: on the skids, Nadine lifts them up out of the

625
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 2: stationary hover and if she's held the chopper steady, and

626
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: I'm talking, this is like no drift to the nose

627
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 2: of the chopper, no swing of the tail. There's just

628
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 2: there's rotors that are whipping the air and like it's

629
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: so so much. It was shaking the prison with the vibrations.

630
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 2: The rotor wash was yeah, yeah right, So she had

631
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: to be, like I said, well practiced. Nadine pilots the

632
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: three of them to freedom. Good on you, Nadine.

633
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 3: Nice.

634
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: So the rental chopper flees the scene. Nadine banks the

635
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 2: helicopter to the west. They keep the altitude all low.

636
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 2: She flies them just over the rooftops of the fourteenth

637
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 2: Air and dismal of Paris within minutes of their prison escape.

638
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 2: Nadine safely sets the chopper down where on a s

639
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: soccer field. Right, nice, look like I said, it was

640
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 2: an homage totally, So I mean, you're like, if you're

641
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: gonna be inspired, you gotta have a little win. It's

642
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 2: very French to be exactly style points. So the soccer

643
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 2: field happened to be part of a university housing complex,

644
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: so there were students out there. It's a Monday morning,

645
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 2: the ones who don't have class are enjoying a warm,

646
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: sunny day in May. The students are sunbathing because it's

647
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: like nineteen eighty six, and so they watched this chopper

648
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: land on the soccer pitch, which must have been wild. Now,

649
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: even even though like prison escapes at this point are

650
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: starting to become a tradition, this is only the second one,

651
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: so they don't expect this, right.

652
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 3: So they're just like slathered in bandasolet of course for that.

653
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 2: Maybe a little copper tone for those who've been to

654
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: like the West Indies. So Nadine shuts off the choppers engine.

655
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: The university students then watches these three comrades in crime, Michelle,

656
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 2: Nadine and the machine gun guy all run out of

657
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: the rental helicopter and flee the scene. Yeah, turns out

658
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 2: they have a car parked nearby waiting for them. I

659
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: read reports that it was a Pugio, which feels like

660
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 2: the perfect secondary escape vehicle for a prison escape in Paris.

661
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, like that's how.

662
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: You do it, right. They're all out in the pougeot.

663
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 2: So the stylish Pugeau, it pulls away from the scene,

664
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: merges into the Monday morning traffic, disappears into the streets

665
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 2: of this Parisian suburb just south of the City of Lights. Right,

666
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 2: eyewitnesses call into the police to report this strange sight

667
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: of a helicopter landing on a soccer pitch and three

668
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: suspicious characters, one with a machine gun, fleeing the scene.

669
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 2: The police respond quickly. They really are on it, however,

670
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: once they respond and when they are there at the

671
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 2: soccer field, The French police suspected the helicopter it may

672
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: be boobytrapped, so they won't approach it. They wait an

673
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 2: entire hour until the bomb sniffing dogs can arrive check

674
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 2: the scenes. Once the dogs clear the danger, the police

675
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: then move in. They search their mental chopper. They find

676
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 2: absolutely no clues that would aid their manhunt. Right, So

677
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 2: in the meantime, Na dene Vjur and her husband Michelle,

678
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: and their machine gun toting partner in crime, they escape

679
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 2: into Paris together they enjoy that same beautiful spring day

680
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: and the sensation of liberation, right Dave LaFrance. So now, meanwhile,

681
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 2: to sidestep any criticism about their daring prison escape by

682
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: a helicopter, the second ever in French history, the French

683
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: police now have to inform the local press that Nadine

684
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: and Michelle Vajoure quote had a long time to plan

685
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 2: for this, so it's going to be difficult to find them.

686
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: They have two or three years on us, so we

687
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: don't expect to catch up with them in three or

688
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: four hours.

689
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 3: That's I like that reasonable totally, Like, hey, look, they

690
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 3: put a lot of big ups to them, everybody. Can

691
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 3: we just acknowledge their hard work.

692
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: Exactly do we look like Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan No,

693
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 2: we are not solving this crime within ninety minutes. So,

694
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 2: however it does last longer than the three or four

695
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: hours because for the next few months the three all

696
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 2: live on the lamb. Wow, fugitives from justice. Well, the

697
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 2: French police then have to keep admitting that they have

698
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: zero idea where they might be. They can be anywhere,

699
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: they could be Spain, could be Italy, who knows, it

700
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: could be Poland. So in fact, the police so clueless

701
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 2: that Nadine and Michelle they mastermind a second escape plan.

702
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 3: What is it with you?

703
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: They connived to grab their five year old daughter and

704
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 2: take her with them.

705
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought it was gonna be like another buddy

706
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 3: of mine.

707
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: They have to go grab their daughter because like who

708
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 2: meanwhile was being surveiled because the French police are like,

709
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: they're gonna probably come for their daughter, and they do

710
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 2: not notice when Betty gets grabbed under round the clock

711
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: police surveillance. So that's what you call a gutsy move.

712
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 3: Wow.

713
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: So once they free their daughter and the whole family

714
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 2: is now toy all together again, what's their next move?

715
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 2: What do Nadine Michelle and darling daughter Betty do next

716
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: do they move to Morocco and adopt new names? And

717
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 2: they had they maybe hop over the Atlantic and find

718
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: a new home in Montreal or perhaps Detroit, or say

719
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 2: the Napa Wine country. Oh well, let's take another little

720
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: break to these messages. We will see if and how

721
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: the French police can ever catch up to Nadine and Michel.

722
00:33:52,840 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 4: Hmmm, and we're.

723
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 2: Back, Elizabeth, Yes we are. So have you noticed that

724
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: the interns are a little gassy today?

725
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 3: I have noticed that.

726
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

727
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, guys, you want to maybe like

728
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 2: step out in the hallway.

729
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 3: I think they changed the recipes in the cafeteria.

730
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 2: The snacks, the treats they've been eating. Yes, they got

731
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 2: the gassy ones.

732
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 4: So buddy, anyway, where were we?

733
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 2: Oh that's right. Single mother Nadine or go ahead, learns

734
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 2: the fly helicopter practice until she's good enough to hold

735
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 2: a chopper motionless. She passes away to her husband. They

736
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: escape prison with a fake gun made out of a

737
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 2: bar soap and the two nectarines painted to look like eggs,

738
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 2: and then she and Michelle they fly to safety. Then

739
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: they go grab their five year old daughter, Betty, who's

740
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: under police surveillance. Let me just they're knocking down.

741
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 3: On the roof and the guards were watching. He like

742
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 3: put the fake grenade to his mouth like he's going

743
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 3: to pull the pin, and insteady like bit into.

744
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 4: It, took a bite and threw it and they all went.

745
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 3: And then he laughed and then threw it down at it. Oh,

746
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 3: he's better than the paint on the side.

747
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: Exactly.

748
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 3: That's how I like to imagine, That's how I'm picturing it.

749
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: Let's go with.

750
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 3: Him, let's do it.

751
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 2: So Unfortunately for this newly reunited family, their good luck

752
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 2: is about to run out. For three months. Though Nadine

753
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: and Michelle they stay low and out of the side

754
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: of the law. They enjoy their life together with young Betty.

755
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 2: They don't use any phones, they don't go out in

756
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: public unless you know, not anymore than they need to.

757
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 2: They avoid restaurants, bakeriesies, and they instead they heat up

758
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 2: canned food, which is like I think, a crime in France.

759
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 2: They stay away from their criminal.

760
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 3: Associations unless it's like tinned fish.

761
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but like my diet is totally illegal in France,

762
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 2: Like what is this prepared food? Then that can.

763
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: Microwave.

764
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so they also stayed away from other criminal associates,

765
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: which is a really smart move because those are the

766
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: folks that might be tempted to grab a quick payday,

767
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: but then flip on them, diame them out to the

768
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 2: cops and get that hefty reward money because the cops

769
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 2: are embarrassed by this. Right, these are fugitives from the law,

770
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: so they're willing to like pay rewards. Right. Anyway, the

771
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: newly reunited family, they also have to like play house

772
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 2: on the run, so they're like you know, terrorists where

773
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 2: they cannot stay in the same place, or drug dealers

774
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 2: like you know, big cartel leaders where they don't sleep

775
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 2: in the same place night after night. Right, so they're

776
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 2: staying in like furnished rental apartments. They're staying in out

777
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 2: of the way farm houses. They're changing their housing like

778
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 2: every few days, never stay anywhere too long. Doing everything right.

779
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 2: Except they did one thing wrong, Elizabeth. They stayed in Paris. Wait, yes,

780
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 2: they just could not leave the city of Lets. Well,

781
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 2: so we take that back. They did two things wrong

782
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 2: because they also went back into businesses career criminals.

783
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, they are just providing a really

784
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 3: wonderful life for their Yes, yeah, I mean I'm so

785
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 3: glad they're doing this, that it's all worth it for

786
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: this life that they've given her.

787
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 2: So well, yeah, I guess they needed the money. You know,

788
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,959
Speaker 2: they don't have anything, and they got to keep getting

789
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 2: apartments so they have to pay cash. So one day, Michelle,

790
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 2: I assume it was Michelle's idea, since it is his MO,

791
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 2: decides to push his luck by robbing a bank. But

792
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: rather than me tell you about it, Elizabeth.

793
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 7: Heyes, close your eyes, but as a clue, I want

794
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 7: you to picture it.

795
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: It's a charming Friday afternoon in Paris. The sounds of

796
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: children playing mixes with the sounds of workmen finishing up

797
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: for the day. It gives the day a lively atmosphere.

798
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 2: Life in Paris is just doing its thing, and you, Elizabeth,

799
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 2: are there to enjoy it all. You came to the

800
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 2: City of Lights for a vacation. You brought your camera,

801
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 2: a few cute outfits, and a willingness to say wait

802
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 2: to whatever Paris may offer you. At the moment, you're

803
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 2: seated on a park bench enjoying the day, You're nibbling

804
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 2: on a piccolo sandwich of fresh ham and cheese. As

805
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 2: you listen to a street musician playing a song on

806
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 2: his accordion, is that my Van Rose? You wonder is

807
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 2: this real life? And then you notice something odd A

808
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 2: pair of policemen seated in their car. One of them

809
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 2: is on his handheld radio, calling in whatever it is

810
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 2: he's watching. You turn to look in the same direction

811
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: as him, and you spot a bank. It's a Credit

812
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 2: Lionne's branch. You wonder what's drawing the policeman's attention to

813
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 2: this bank? And then you spy another set of police officers,

814
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 2: a man and a woman, also seated in a police

815
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: car parked alongside the same road, but they're on the

816
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 2: other side of the bank, and they're also studying that

817
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 2: same bank with the same attention as the first police.

818
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: Something must be going down, you think to yourself. As

819
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 2: you take a sip of lemonade you purchased along with

820
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: your piccolo sandwich before you have a moment to finish.

821
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 2: Swallowing the lemonade, you see what must be what the

822
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: police are watching. Three men in very cheap wigs exit

823
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 2: the bank. They're moving fast like they just rob the place,

824
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 2: which is exactly what they have done. You're riveted. Now

825
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 2: this is a real life French bank robbery. How exciting.

826
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 2: The police attending to the scene hop out of their

827
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 2: police cars. Other cops disguised as street vendors and tourists

828
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 2: also leap into action. The Parisian police are all business.

829
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 2: They draw their weapons and order the three men and

830
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 2: the bad wigs to freeze. Again, you wonder is this

831
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 2: real life? Because you are right in the middle of

832
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 2: the action, just across the street from the bank, seated

833
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 2: alone on the bench. You can practically see the color

834
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 2: of the three men's eyes, that's how close you are.

835
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 2: And then you see the three men in the bad

836
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,479
Speaker 2: cheap wigs are also carrying guns, which they raise into view.

837
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 2: Suddenly you wish you weren't seated so close to the action.

838
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 2: But before you can set down your piccolo sandwich next

839
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 2: to your lemonade, someone fires a shot. You suspect it's

840
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 2: a cop because if the bank robbers are quick to respond,

841
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 2: they fire their guns. Now you are in the middle

842
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 2: of a legitimate gunfight. Isn't this what you left America

843
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 2: to avoid random gun violence? Then anyway, it gets personal.

844
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 2: A stray bullet hits the park bench. You're seated on

845
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 2: another one knocks over your lemonade. You and your sandwich

846
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 2: hit the dirt. The cops and the robbers keep firing

847
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 2: at each other and they keep missing. Once again, you

848
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: wonder is this real life? When you lift your head

849
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 2: to look up and towards the bank robbers, hoping you

850
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: can see an opportunity to escape this gunfight. Instead, you

851
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 2: see one of the bank robbers get shot. It's bad.

852
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 2: He gets shot in the head and he goes down.

853
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 2: In fact, it's so bad it scares the other two

854
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 2: bank robbers and they throw down their weapons. And with

855
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: the danger now passed, you get up off the dirt

856
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 2: and you brush off the leaves and the grime. Your sandwich,

857
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 2: which was so good, is now covered also in dirt

858
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: and muck. Your lemonade is leaked out over the cobblestones,

859
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 2: but you are safe and unharmed. The cops rush to

860
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 2: check on the man they shot you. Hear them call

861
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 2: him by the name Michelle, and he is not dead,

862
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 2: but he appears to be in a coma. Yet again,

863
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 2: you wonder is this real life? It very much is,

864
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 2: but you've survived, and you can always buy another bag

865
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 2: at Ham Sandwich Okay, so that was not exactly the

866
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: ideal scene for your idyllic, spontaneous picnic in Paris, But

867
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 2: for the police of Paris, it was quite a feather

868
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: in their cap, a triumphant moment, so to speak. They

869
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Speaker 2: had caught the notorious fugitive and helicopter escape artist Michelle Vajoure.

870
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Speaker 2: And so after Michelle's poorly planned and executed bank robbery

871
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Speaker 2: fails and he gets shot in the head, he's taken

872
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Speaker 2: back to prison in a coma. Oh god, rough business.

873
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Speaker 2: And what about old Nadine? Yeah, and now she's a

874
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Speaker 2: single mom again. What are she and Betty gonna do?

875
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Speaker 2: Don't worry because it didn't take long for the French

876
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Speaker 2: police to locate Maybe just a matter of hours, you're kidding, yes,

877
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 2: which raises a rather obvious question. How deep was his coma?

878
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 2: Like he snitch on her in order to lighten his sentence?

879
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 2: Did one of the other bank robbers who like to

880
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: say they see him down, They're like, well, we can.

881
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 3: Tell you make a bargain, And that's.

882
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 2: What I'm thinking. They traded her to get light for themselves.

883
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

884
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 2: Anyway, not long after Michelle is caught and captured Nadine's

885
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Speaker 2: located hiding out intuloose. Now, Unlike her husband, the once

886
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 2: again single mother didn't get into a gunfight. When she

887
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 2: was confronted by the police, she gave herself up to

888
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 2: the cops without a struggle. She was arrested, tried for

889
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 2: the helicopter prison escape. She's convicted, and she's sentenced to

890
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Speaker 2: two years in prison. Okay, not bad, kind of light.

891
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

892
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Michelle is also tried for his prison escape and

893
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: the subsequent bank robbery in the gunfight with the police.

894
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Speaker 2: He's found guilty, sentenced to seventeen years in prison on

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Speaker 2: top of his prior sentence, which had been suspended when

896
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Speaker 2: he freed himself from a prison, saying he has to

897
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 2: also complete that. At first, the married couple's romantic bond

898
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 2: remained strong, unbreakable. At one point, Nadine boasted to the press,

899
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Speaker 2: I would do it all over again.

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Speaker 3: He came out of the coma.

901
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he comes, he comes completely out of the comma.

902
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 2: He's fine. He was just initially like, you know, shot

903
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 2: in the head, so yeah, yeah, so he was, he

904
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Speaker 2: wasn't you know. He did suffer disabilities after the insu

905
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Speaker 2: and it did reframe his sense of self. So it

906
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Speaker 2: was quite a coma.

907
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

908
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 2: But once Nadine's release from prison, something changes for her

909
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Speaker 2: because she didn't mastermind a second prison escape from Michelle. Instead,

910
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 2: she focused on being a mother to Betty. She gets

911
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 2: a straight Yeah, she gets a straight job. She starts

912
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 2: paying her bills like every other taxpayer. She stays out

913
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Speaker 2: of prison. However, Nadine did join the Ridiculous Crime Book Club.

914
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Speaker 2: She penned a novel about her time as a helicopter

915
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Speaker 2: pilot and career criminal. She called her book l Fiere

916
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Speaker 2: del er or in English, the Girl of the Air. Okay,

917
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Speaker 2: I guess it was a good book because someone option

918
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Speaker 2: didn't turn it into a movie. Reviews of the movie

919
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: suggest the filmmaker was no Michael Mann. Instead of like

920
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 2: a gripping crime filler, her novel resulted in the sort

921
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Speaker 2: of French film that features like string sections, like soundtracking,

922
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Speaker 2: beautiful shots, and there's lots of sadness and longing and

923
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Speaker 2: romantic on we So, what was her husband, Michelle doing

924
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 2: while she's out there making sad French films? Well, he

925
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 2: has his collective twenty seven years behind bars to do.

926
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Speaker 2: He does it all. Oh, Eventually, he finds a new

927
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Speaker 2: female accomplice though, to help him with another daring.

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Speaker 4: Prison escape out of here.

929
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Speaker 2: His new partner in crime was a woman named Jamila.

930
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 2: She was a law student turned amateur criminal mastermind. No,

931
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Speaker 2: but she was no Dadine because their prison escape ended

932
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: in bitter failure, and so Michelle was forced to complete

933
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Speaker 2: his full prison sentence, which he does in twenty seven

934
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Speaker 2: years later. A sentence done, He's released. The year is

935
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Speaker 2: two thousand and three. Wow, at the age of sixty nine.

936
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Speaker 2: Now Michelle comes out of prison. He has also joined

937
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 2: the Ridiculous Crime Prison book club You're Kidding Me. Rather

938
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Speaker 2: than a romantic novel like Nadine, he wrote a romantic autobiography.

939
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 2: He gave it the title Love Saved Me from Sinking.

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Speaker 3: Oh boy.

941
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

942
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Speaker 4: You see.

943
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Speaker 2: During his time I'm in prison, Michelle had taken up yoga.

944
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: He embraced spirituality as a form of therapy, and it's

945
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 2: barely a worked for him. I don't know.

946
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then he tried to escape again.

947
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, a little after that, I guess. In his book,

948
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: he includes all these lessons in spirituality and then adopting

949
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 2: a yoga practice, alongside tales of his crimes in as

950
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 2: many years behind bars right his life. At this point,

951
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: his autobiography or really his life gets turned into a movie.

952
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 2: It was called My Greatest Escape. That's the English title.

953
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 2: It was a documentary. It was not a big hit

954
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 2: in France. One reviewer gave it one star out of

955
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 2: ten out of ten yes out of ten. The reviewer

956
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 2: wrote that quote, most of the film involved the very

957
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 2: loquacious of Azure talking without much prompting. The filmmakers mix

958
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 2: the locations up by having him visit friends and convict acquaintances,

959
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 2: but we don't hear much of interest from these people.

960
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 2: Love that same reviewer later adds that quote, there's an

961
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 2: annoying superiority about the man who shakes his head at

962
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 2: the compleat acency of his friends, And a few minutes

963
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 2: later the film speaks of an aborted attempt to kill

964
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 2: one of his ex colleagues who had refused to be

965
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 2: involved in an escape attempt, as if he thinks he

966
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 2: has the godlike right to give and take lives.

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00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: So wow, I mean, that's the thing. You could You know,

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00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 3: this book sounds like, oh, look, I'm happy for you, buddy,

969
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 3: but you're not going to tell give me any sort

970
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 3: of advice on absolutely any.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. So around the same time that

972
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 2: Michelle was released from prison in two thousand and three

973
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 2: is when Pascal Paie got his second helicopter escape of

974
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 2: his own, remember two thousand and seven, which re enlivens

975
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 2: the daring practice with a sense of criminal coup, right,

976
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 2: And so the documentary about Michelle gets made in two

977
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: thousand and nine after Pascal Paie's third attempt, So they're

978
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 2: kind of working with each other through like a theme

979
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,720
Speaker 2: of helicopter escapes. And then a decade later, in twenty eighteen,

980
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 2: Michelle and Nadine's helicopter antics are followed and imitated by

981
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: my man Ridon Fay. That's right, chopper based prisoness cap

982
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 2: which now brings us full circle. So there you go.

983
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 2: What's ridiculous takeaway here?

984
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. You know you hate helicopters. You refuse

985
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 3: to get in once.

986
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 2: It's not natural to fly in helicopters. And if you

987
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 2: ever seen anything other than like there's like a seed

988
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 2: pod that kind of flies like that, that's what inspired

989
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 2: Leonardo da Vinci. If you made something like that, I

990
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: might get into it because as it falls it's going

991
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 2: to have a controlled fall. But a helicopter is beating

992
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 2: the air down, and if it has any problems with

993
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: the engine, it stops beating the air down. You can

994
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 2: kind of like auto rotate the rotors, but no, I

995
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 2: want to I want someone with wings.

996
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 3: So I love that you're fascinated with helicopter escapes even

997
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 3: though you hate helicopter.

998
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,399
Speaker 4: It's one and you know take away.

999
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say like, oh, I'm so fearless, but

1000
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 2: I'm rather fear I'm rather fearless about doing dumb stuff. Right,

1001
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 2: I've done like a lot of like and I'm not

1002
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 2: afraid of heights, but a helicopter to me is like

1003
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 2: past the point of dumb. It's like it's like a

1004
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: dare with death.

1005
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 4: Like when you came this time, I.

1006
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 3: Would not get in the helicopter. Also, I have terrible

1007
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 3: fear of heights.

1008
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 2: Well, also, I mean, how many helicopter crashed it. There's

1009
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 2: been so many. You're just like, whoa, Yeah, it's just Also,

1010
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: I wouldn't get in.

1011
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 8: A small playing with a musician a famous rule.

1012
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 3: What's your ridiculous take away, Zarah?

1013
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 2: Oh wow, thank you for asking, Elizabeth. Well, I guess

1014
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 2: like you kind of set up top. The French love

1015
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: a prison escape via a helicopter, like they like Jerry Lewis.

1016
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 2: It's just silly and fun, but like, why is that really?

1017
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 2: What's the essence? My guess is that they love it

1018
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 2: because it's both unexpected and impractical, yet it also has

1019
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 2: a certain panache, like a certain artistry to it.

1020
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, totally.

1021
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 2: So that's my take is like I think I have

1022
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 2: a little insight into the French soul via the helicopter

1023
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 2: prison escape Jazzy. Yeah right, It's like it's like why

1024
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 2: they like Charlie Parker. It's like, oh, the daring and

1025
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 2: it's it's on the edge right right, all right, So

1026
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 2: you in the move for a talk back to wash

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Speaker 2: this one down.

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Speaker 3: Of course, I am, oh my god, oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I like, get.

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1035
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Speaker 3: don't I don't get that shirt. But if I had

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