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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Hey

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Done, Zaron Brunette. Do you know what's ridiculous? Oh?

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Speaker 1: My god, I do? I do? Wait? Wait, I had

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Speaker 1: one for you. You You go first? No, okay, I go first.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese makes Craft

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Speaker 1: Macaroni and cheese gummies like actual like edible gum like

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Speaker 1: weed candies. No, there's no, there's no funky stuff in it.

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Speaker 1: Tastes like they're like gummy bear gummy worms, that kind

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Speaker 1: of gummies. Right. Let me let me read you the

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Speaker 1: product description. The iconic Craft Macaroni and Cheese now in

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Speaker 1: gummy form. Enjoy the fruit flavored macaroni shaped gummy mac

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Speaker 1: and cheese as a sweet treat or as a fun

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Speaker 1: gift for birthday parties, favors road trips, backyard barbecue, or

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Speaker 1: just a great tasting candy. Delight your family and friends

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Speaker 1: and serve them a bowl of gummy macaroni and cheese,

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Speaker 1: No fork required. Each box includes five point six two

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Speaker 1: ounces of delicious candy, and then it comes in a

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Speaker 1: three pack. You can get them on Amazon. There's an

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Speaker 1: argument in the Amazon reviews about what the actual flavor

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Speaker 1: is for three boxes. No, it's like something fruity. So

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Speaker 1: here's one I missed. The Macaroni and Cheese gummies. It

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Speaker 1: looks like macaroni and cheese. It looks like orange macaroni cheese,

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Speaker 1: but it's flavored like some sort of fruit. So one review,

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Speaker 1: which is by someone named in in seas, it looks

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Speaker 1: like incestor but it's in st anyway. Um, he said.

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Speaker 1: All most of the reviews, by the way, are people

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Speaker 1: who got it for free, so take that for what

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Speaker 1: it's worth. Um. These are fairly tasty, but the fun

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Speaker 1: really is in the mac and cheese packaging. The actual

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Speaker 1: gummies don't really resemble the Kraft mac and Cheese noodles,

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Speaker 1: but have a larger, more classic elbow macaroni shape. As

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Speaker 1: for the flavor, it's quote kind of good, according to

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Speaker 1: my eight year old, a nondescript fruity flavor, kind of

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Speaker 1: mango et orange, mango orange. It tastes kind of like fruit.

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Speaker 1: There's a great one star review. This package is sealed

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Speaker 1: and there's an insect wing in it. Not cool. No,

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Speaker 1: there's someone who goes on and on about all the

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Speaker 1: artificial um ingredients in it. Yes, new Jersey strikes again.

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Speaker 1: What have they done? My friends? This? Look at the

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Speaker 1: actual box of macroy you leave my Kraft Macaroni and

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Speaker 1: cheese out that got us through the wars. Well there's

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Speaker 1: it contains titanium dioxide, a controversial metal that can potentially

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Speaker 1: cause toxicity. So yeah, that's in a white paint. Also,

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Speaker 1: if you're vegan, it contains gelatin. So sorry, pals. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: all right, well they're they're losing out. Really, I think

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Speaker 1: that's the So I would classify this as ridiculous. I

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Speaker 1: I want to hear no more of it. You're welcome, jeez. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well I got something for you. If you got a second,

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Speaker 1: I do you're in the move or something ridiculous? Always have?

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Speaker 1: I got a story for you. Oh my god. Okay.

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Speaker 1: One hundred years ago, in Sing Sing Prison in New York,

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Speaker 1: a group of prison surgeons removed the testicles of an

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Speaker 1: incarcerated man who had been electrocuted in the electric chair. Right, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: now you wondering, Saren. I don't get it though. Why

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Speaker 1: would a group of prison surgeons harvest and executed man's

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Speaker 1: family jewels Elizabeth, You're lucky I have the answer. Prison

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Speaker 1: surgeons planned to transplant the executed man's gonads into the

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Speaker 1: scrotum of a detective named Greg Houser, who happened to

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Speaker 1: also be a prisoner in Sing Sing. Now we'll go ahead, Okay, No, no,

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Speaker 1: this there's a detective who was as we have a

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Speaker 1: his sack thanks to the prison surgeons. And the reason

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Speaker 1: this was their way to get around medical oversight and everything.

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Speaker 1: They would say, hey, guys, you cannot go tuck in

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Speaker 1: why would this group of mad prison doctors transplant the

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, what gives were they smuggling nuts? Great question, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: that's a great question. I'm so glad I asked that question.

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Speaker 1: And I'll let you know they were not smuggling balls.

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Speaker 1: So were they what were they doing exactly? Well, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: but men's crotches are very important to science, like very

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Speaker 1: very important. And it's the same reason why there's like

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Speaker 1: sex workers before them, they have learned that men will

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Speaker 1: pay a lot to feel virile. It really is like

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Speaker 1: way to get those checks signed right now, you know,

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Speaker 1: one glancing phrase, balls are big business right now. The

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Speaker 1: story I want to tell you today focuses on this

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Speaker 1: fact of commerce. It's the tale of the Great testical

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Speaker 1: Thieves of Chicago. I am so terrified right now. I

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Speaker 1: know this is ridiculous crying by podcast about absurd and

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Speaker 1: outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always present, murder free

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Speaker 1: and ridiculous. Elizabeth, you don't have any testicles, not that

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Speaker 1: you know of, not that I know of none that

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Speaker 1: to not have any testicle other than your testical collection,

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Speaker 1: a favor. I want to try to empathize with some

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Speaker 1: I'll pretend. Okay, Now, this is the most have no

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Speaker 1: empathy to think. This is the most sensitive part of

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Speaker 1: if you have to protect it, why why do they

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Speaker 1: airing out? All right? Continue, So now that you have

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Speaker 1: your own ball sack and you're imagining, you know, your

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Speaker 1: you this shocking horror story from a century ago, I

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Speaker 1: quote Chicago physicians discover unique crime and first known human

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Speaker 1: recorded gland piracy and the victim was this former beat

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Speaker 1: farmer named Joseph Wazniak farmer. Yes, Joseph was former beat farmer.

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Speaker 1: Yes you can picture Dwight true if that helps you

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Speaker 1: so well. And I also know how much you of beats.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, extra exactly my favorite of the root vegetables.

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Speaker 1: And it was at the time was thirty four years old,

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Speaker 1: the Chicago police when they come to investigate. Quote, when

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Speaker 1: that's terrifying. There was another story from this time at

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Speaker 1: were wondering about our man, Joseph Waznia. He had told Dr.

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Speaker 1: Sampolynsky that and I quote he was chuoriformed. He said

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Speaker 1: when he regained consciously found himself on a sidewalk under

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Speaker 1: so it's just like nut harvesting. They're looking for strapping men. Okay, exactly,

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Speaker 1: how you catching up? Now? The cops are as you

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Speaker 1: Very few people are yeah, I know right, the Irish cops,

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Speaker 1: checking every dumpster, looking over every abandoned car for your balls. Mayboy.

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Speaker 1: Now that had to make him feel good, right, you

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Speaker 1: my secret is going to be closer to man. I'm

422
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: gonna go with chimpanzee balls. So well it is, you

423
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 1: know he's getting closer. Yeah, no, but you're probably wondering,

424
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: but Zarin, if a chimp's testicles work, well, what about

425
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: just using a man's balls? Great question, Elizabeth So University

426
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: of Illinois physician Dr Frank Litston. He took your thinking

427
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: and he ran with it. And he was like, I'm

428
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: taking the I'm taking this whole testicular rejuvenation science to

429
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: a whole another level. Watch the sun. Now he wasn't

430
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: satisfied with dogs, guinea pig balls, chimpanzee nuts. He went on.

431
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: He moved onto the most dangerous game man himself, and

432
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,639
Speaker 1: he grabbed him nuts and he harvested the balls of

433
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: a dead man. Then he sliced open his own sack,

434
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: drop him in there. So did back up and then

435
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: uh boom, wait did he take his own out? More

436
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: in there, just drop into He's like one of those

437
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: he's like one of those trucks with matronly hips. He's

438
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: got truck nuts. But literally just in there. Now he

439
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: reports obviously because he is he scient is. He reports

440
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: on the results of his experiment on himself. And then

441
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: other people were like, oh, I'm doing this between Lidston

442
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 1: and laurenov. Oh, man, I've got to get on this.

443
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: So let's get back to Chicago nineteen two. You're ready, Yes, okay,

444
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: let's get to the dark star of our story, the

445
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: Chicago pre eminent gland piracy transplant specialist, Dr VD les Bounce.

446
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: Now that was his name, Dr VD Lesponse. He was

447
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: Victor Darwin. Now. Starting in nineteen eleven, Dr VD he

448
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: developed his own techniques for adding a couple of extra

449
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,439
Speaker 1: nuts to a man sack. He bragged that one of

450
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: his testicle implant operations so successful that the patient almost

451
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: immediately afterwards popped to chubby and insisted he'd be allowed

452
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: to go check out of the hospital and road test

453
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: his new plumbing. There all these men are like waddling

454
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: around shipmunks, just cheeks full down down there better exactly,

455
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 1: Like is that why they invented like hammer pans? Got

456
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 1: like grape grape clusters just top nuts in the So.

457
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: So Dr VD is left pounds. He's in Chicago operating,

458
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: and so he becomes obviously a chief suspect in the

459
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: testicle thievery that's going on. So the Chicago PD he

460
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: found that there was this one particularly strange coincidence. Often

461
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: in the days just before Dr la Pants performed on

462
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: his media publicized testicle rejuvenation therapies, a young man of

463
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: Chicago would be attacked to drugs and his balls would

464
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: be harvested. I was like, wait a minute, we just

465
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: looked back at the newspaper. Is there like a two

466
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: day gap in boom? So the new Chicago PD is like, okay,

467
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 1: I think we were ready to roll on this one,

468
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: and then what happens. A second high profile victim of

469
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: ball nabbing comes forward. We have our next victim, Harry Johnson.

470
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: I swear to God his name is Harry Johnson. Stop

471
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: that Harry Johnson. He lived with his sister in Chicago,

472
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: and Harry Johnson and his sister, they were a good

473
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: family and they were just trying to get by in

474
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: nineties Chicago, and Mike Wasniak, the beat farmer. Johnson was

475
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: also in his early thirties, a big strapping fellow. And

476
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 1: he also had no memory of his ball harvesting surgery. Yeah,

477
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: he'd been on a day long bender, rude dude style,

478
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: and he thought he had passed out on his way

479
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: home and he'd just like wake up and then, you know,

480
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: tuck onto the trolley and make it home. But instead

481
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: he wakes up. He's on a street car, but he's

482
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he's in a doorway, and

483
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden there's a passer by standing

484
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: over him, and the passer by is like, oh, we

485
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: gotta get you to a hospital. So he goes to

486
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: blood blooming on his trousers. Pretty much. It was like

487
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: a big like Rorschach test in his in his crotch. Yeah,

488
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: and so when he gets to the e er the

489
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: docs say that quote that they noted the level of

490
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: surgical skill required to exercise the man's testicles without severing

491
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: the testicular artery. So your question about how messy this was,

492
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: clearly a surgeon or somebody medically trained is doing this

493
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: because they're very careful not to hit the arteries. It

494
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: will start causing the person to possibly bleed out and die.

495
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: So they're just like you know, harvesting poop poop and

496
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: making their way. And soon he suffers his ball heist

497
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: in the summer in Chicago, coming in October. Because so

498
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: this his has happened first, and he'd waited months to

499
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: come forward to the cops because he was so embarrassed

500
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: he didn't want who admitted what had happened. I mean,

501
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: you have to admit, you know you do you want

502
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: to go to the cops who are dealing with al

503
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: Capone and being like, hey, guys, I got my ball

504
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: stolen that I doubt those guys are gonna be the

505
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: most sympathetic to you. But rather than you having to

506
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: imagine all this, Elizabeth, I'd like you to close your

507
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: eyes and you're going to actually live it. Yeah you are,

508
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: look close, and we're going to step inside a police

509
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: precinct and hogo. The office is busy two days ago,

510
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: a victim of testical theft came forward. It's been the

511
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: talk of your precinct ever since. Everybody has been mentioning

512
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: and chuckling about it. For them, the only way to

513
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: make sense of this is gallows humor. You've been involved,

514
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: You've made a couple of jokes of your own. Elizabeth,

515
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: You're a Chicago detective. You've seen it all, you've busted

516
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: them all, but you have no idea about what to

517
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: do with this. So nope, you stroke your thick, resplendent mustache,

518
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: you rub your paunch, and you go, we gotta do

519
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: something for these boys. Now you have it. Readjust my

520
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: six balls. You know a taste drink case meats from

521
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: street corners. So you step outside, get yourself a hot dog,

522
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: and you think about how you can save these boys nuts.

523
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: Now you you're imagining like if someone tried to steal

524
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: your nuts, you'd fight them off. But these boys, they're

525
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: getting gas, so what can they even do? So Detective donton,

526
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: how are you gonna catch these ball burglars? Well, you

527
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: get yourself phone down to the hospital to talk to

528
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: the most recent victim. And when you get to the hospital,

529
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: the r docs they tell you what they found. They

530
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: tell you it looks like the handiwork of a surgeon.

531
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: A doctor must be on these ball heist. Now you

532
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: have a good lead at the hospital bed. The latest victim,

533
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: he tells you his name is Charles Reem. He says

534
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: he was snatched off the street by two men in

535
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: a large touring car. He was chloroformed, taken to a

536
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: deserted prairie near N Street, where the operation was then performed.

537
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: You're writing all this kind in your notebook. Your captain,

538
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: Captain Coughland, he arrives at the doorway. He calls you

539
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: over for a quick chat. You put away your notebook

540
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: and walk over to your captain. He's got a tip

541
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: for you. There's a hot one, he says. It's about

542
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: who stole that young man's bass. The Captain Coughlin says

543
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: that the Chief of D's the chief of detectives. That is,

544
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: he received a tip. The Chief of D says, there's

545
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: an elderly millionaire who just happened to be in town

546
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: for a testicular rejuvenation operation the day after Reem was

547
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: attacked in his balls swiped. So now you got a connection,

548
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: You got motive, You take your notebook out, and you're

549
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: take no more notes from Captain Coughlin as he lays

550
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: the facts on you. Now, this millionaire, he's a candy

551
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: maker from St. Louis. His name is Henry Boo Richter.

552
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: Now he paid a hundred grand advance and that was

553
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: a down payment to ensure the procurement of the necessary

554
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: go nets. Now you tell your captain you'll go run

555
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: this all past Dr less Pants because if you know

556
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna you, he to you is still the chief suspect. Now, yeah,

557
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: at his fancy luxury hotel. You crossed the Grand Lobby

558
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: because first you want to go speak to this St.

559
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: Louis candy maker before he talked to Dr v D.

560
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: And at the Grand Lobby you're walking across. People are

561
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: looking at you, wondering why Chicago detective is searching. But

562
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: you just take the elevator up, don't talk to anybody.

563
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: At the door to a sweet knock, knock, knock. You

564
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: wait a minute, door opens. Patient is up and around.

565
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: He looks good for someone who just had testicles and

566
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: started it into his nut sack in the air. High

567
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: kicks hicks. And he's David Lee Roth. He's a rich, older,

568
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: white haired man. He confirms that he is indeed the

569
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: candy baron from St. Louis that you're looking for, Henry

570
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: bow Richter. Now I told you he is a white

571
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: haired old man. He's forty eight years old. You tell

572
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: him he looks far older. You're like, sir, I would

573
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: have guessed you to be a more senior man in

574
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: Now he tells you that he would never go to

575
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: some slick black market doctor to get extra testicles. And

576
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: you're like, well, so you know Dr le Pants and

577
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: he was like, yes, Now who recommended you to the doctor?

578
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: And he tells you, oh, I was my doctor. St.

579
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: Louis recommended me. He told me, candy maker, you need

580
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: to get some more nuts in your sack. I know

581
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: the person for you. Now, bad director tells you he

582
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: got his transplant on Thursday, which you note happens to

583
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: be the day after Charles Reen was chloroformed and attacked.

584
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: So bat Rector insists he does not have reems nuts

585
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,239
Speaker 1: in his sack, and you're like, well, how did you

586
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: know that? Well, he says his doc back in St.

587
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: Louis recommended he gets the testicle transplant. He come to

588
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: Chicago to do it and battle rector insists that the

589
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: nuts were not stolen. He knew, and if they were,

590
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: he knows nothing about it, he said. And what does

591
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: he have, like a certificate of provenance? He just says,

592
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: take his word for it, as a candy maker from St. Louis,

593
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: As a rich guy, he says, and I quote where

594
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: the gland to be transfused was to come from? I

595
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: do not know. I went back to the hospital Tuesday

596
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: morning and rested until Wednesday afternoon. The operation was performed

597
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: and successful, according to my physician. So that's all he'll

598
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: tell you. So you ask how much did it cost?

599
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: He tells you I paid four hundred dollars. You're like,

600
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: you've heard a hundred thousand dollars he's saying. Now, mind you,

601
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: that's about seven grand today. Your captain said, hunder grand.

602
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: You know something is hanky. So you're like, I think

603
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: I need to go talk to this Dr v d

604
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: LA pants. Yes, bring me la pants. After this little break, Elizabeth,

605
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: I will take you to Dr vd La pants and

606
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: we will sort out this testicular thievery. Yes we will,

607
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: all right, Elizabeth. Detective Dotton, you did such a damn

608
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: good job. I'm just gonna stick here for a second

609
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: while you go over and talk to Dr in the pants.

610
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: I'm really good at this. Imagine a man like Vincent

611
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: Price from like some nineteen fifties of like horror movie,

612
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: but it can sleek Chicago skyscraper. That'll be our dr VD. Yeah,

613
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: you're ready, Okay. So this dude's full of himself. He's

614
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: he's very successful in his outward experience and clothing shows this.

615
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: And he when you go and meet him at his

616
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: at his home, he is so for himself. He immediately

617
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: dismisses your questions and he tells you that I have

618
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: no need to buy stolen testicles please, And you're like, well, Doc,

619
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: well then where do you get your your stolen scenario?

620
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: Tell the nuts that you transplant. And you know, the

621
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: Chicago press had already gotten to Dr v D and

622
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: asked him some questions, so you knew about these questions.

623
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: And when they had asked him, they had flocked him

624
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: and they crowded around him and they've been going off

625
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: and he Dr VDY told the press this, and you've

626
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: read this in the newspapers, and I quote, it's foolish

627
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: for the police to entertain suspicion that a reputable surgeon

628
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: would resort to theft in order to obtain glands for

629
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: transplantations in the first place, that is unnecessary. Four or

630
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: five men a day present themselves at the doors of

631
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: this hospital willing to sell their glands for really small

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00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: amounts of money, sometimes four or five dollars, and advertisement

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00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: in the newspaper would bring a horde of them. So

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00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: these guys claiming that he's getting nuts for four or

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00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: five bucks a pop, and he doesn't need to worry.

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Speaker 1: But all these men gripping five dollars and just like

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00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: four or five minutes going, I'll take the five bucks.

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00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: Do get the knife. Now, I find that hard to

639
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: believe as a man, as somebody who has imaginary nuts,

640
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: what do you think I have? Also find that hard

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Speaker 1: to believe. It's just no way, it's way. So the

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00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: Charles Realm testical investigation does not go well because Chicago PD,

643
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: the Chicago vigilante doctors, none of the people who have

644
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: thrown themselves at this case are able to get anybody

645
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: to have any concrete evidence that they have stolen nuts.

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00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: They cannot prove a connection between the thieves and the

647
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: doctor they cannot prove a connection between the doctor and

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Speaker 1: the transplanted nuts, and they can't prove a connection between

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Speaker 1: the transplanted nuts and the stolen ones. Everyone's up in

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00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: like basically a state of confusion and nutlessness. Now, Detective Ducton,

651
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: has you worked this case? What were your suspicions about

652
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: Dr v D? Do you think he's our man? I mean, yes, creepy,

653
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: he's creepy. He's trying to convince me that guys are

654
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: lining up to sell off their testicles for pennies on

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00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: the doll I don't know. Apparently there is. I don't

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00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: know if it's him or not, because there is a

657
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: wave that continues of people having their nuts stolen, and

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00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: the the particulars of those cases start to get further

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Speaker 1: and further for him. For instance, there was a nineteen

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00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: year old named Anthony Taunsi. He tells police that three

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00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: men in white lab coats accosta him, which is pretty

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00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: much what we've heard in all the other stories. The

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00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: three men in lab coats tell the nineteen year old quote,

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Speaker 1: we need your glands, and then they attack him. But

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00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: this dude, big strapping man that he is, he fights

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Speaker 1: back and he beats the three men off of him,

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Speaker 1: and the strapping young man is able to scare off

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00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: the three men from his nutsack and keep his family jewels,

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00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: but sadly being one of the only few lucky ones,

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00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: they are all these other victims of the ball snatching

671
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: wave that continues, and so we hear about more and

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Speaker 1: more to bye. In January down in Springfield, Illinois and

673
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: the Illinois legislature they put forth a bill to make

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00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: it illegal to steal nuts and to transplant them. But

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00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: there's already laws on the case, so it's not like

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00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: we need a ball specific law. I think the guy

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00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: who said he fought him off is lying. He thinks

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00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: so interesting honestly, Like you know, anytime these kind of

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00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: things happen, you get people who are a little imbalanced

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00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: and they'll come forward and it makes him sound like

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00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: I'm this big tough guy, and like what, there's three

682
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: men in a lab in lab coats. Well, that's not

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00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: how they're gonna walk up and be like, all right,

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00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: this is how it's gonna go down, nuts. It's gonna

685
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 1: hurt a lot. No, they just are like putting their

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00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: face from behind and then you know, down you go.

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00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: They're not like, so I'm suspicious of him. Let's arrest

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00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: him and see where it goes. Just follow us, you know,

689
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: let him cool off for a bit. Well, Detective Dotton,

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00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: your colleagues at the Chicago Pet they stay on the

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00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: Charles Ream case because they think that's a good lead,

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00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: and also are still trying to break the Joe wosne

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00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: At case, having no luck there. And they have all

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00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: the other young men reporting white lab coated men or

695
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: have been attacking them. They've got the University of Chicago

696
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: kids are constantly saying I was attacked. I was attacked

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00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: right well. Finally, one year after his initial attack, cops

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00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: arrest somebody in the Charles Ream case. They arrest his cousin,

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00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: Earl English, who was a student at the University of Chicago.

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00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: He becomes the primary suspect who is believed to be

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Speaker 1: the one behind the ball theft. He gets charged with

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00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: criminal mayhem, but the cops case is weak and the

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00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: charges eventually dropped. The cousin let go probably had a

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00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,439
Speaker 1: weird Thanksgiving that year at their house. A year later,

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00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: Charles reims still out. They're trying to get justice for

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00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: his nutlessness, and he goes and he finds him his

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00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: way into the pages of history as a footnote in

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Speaker 1: the Trial of the Century. In the June third edition

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Speaker 1: of the l A. Times, Charles rene shows up as

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Speaker 1: a side show in the Trial of the Century because

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Speaker 1: it was this trial. I'm not sure if you're if

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00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: you because there's a couple of trials of the century.

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Speaker 1: This Trial of the Century involves two college students from Chicago,

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Speaker 1: both wealthy, brilliant young men, and they were named Leopold

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Speaker 1: and Loebe, and they had killed somebody. So the l

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Speaker 1: A Times recounted at the time, and I quote Charles Reene,

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00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: twenty two years of age of seventeen, Dorchester Avenue. A

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00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: taxi cab driver positively identified Lobe is one of the

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00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: two men who last fall kidnapped him at fifty four

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Speaker 1: Street and Dorchester Avenue, forced him into their automobile, and

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00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: drove him to a prairie at on ninth Street and

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00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: Avenue G where they performed a gland operation on him.

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Speaker 1: He said that the other kidnapper looked like pictures of Leopold,

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00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: so he took danglers. Yes, exactly, get so. According to

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00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 1: the contemporaneous accounts, Reem shows up in court, and he shouts,

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00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 1: that's him, and he's like pointing at them, and people

727
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: were like, who's him, and Reem shouts back, that's the

728
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: man who took my nuts, and people are like, for real,

729
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 1: you're nuts brown, and he's like, yeah, man him, he's

730
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: like and then he drops trial. And then this is

731
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: an actual quote. He's like, he's the right size, he

732
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: wore the same cud of clothes, and he has the

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Speaker 1: same eyes, so he's identified him by the eyes. Unfortunately,

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00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: the court didn't agree with Ream. They told him you

735
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. We're trying these dudes on murder.

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00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: Leopold and Loebe. The trial carries on, but then they

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00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: eventually are brought forward in a civil case by Reem

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Speaker 1: and he wants a hundred thousand dollars for his stolen nuts,

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00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: and the Gland pirates are proad on trial and Leopold

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00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: and Lobe are found innocent of that. So boom. So

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00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: of all the multiple young men who had their ball

742
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,959
Speaker 1: stolen Reem, Harry Johnson, Wazniak, there are also many others

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00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: who are the unfortunate who he did not get to

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00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: their names. Out of all of these men, not a

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00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: single man gets justice for his stolen balls. No one

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00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: ever gets arrested, no charges are ever filed. The only

747
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: thing that happened is that modern medicine just moves on.

748
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: New therapies are found and developed. Patients with ball transplants,

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00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: they do not become avatars of vigor and manliness, so

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00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: people stopped wanting to get ball transplants, and eventually the

751
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: idea of testicular transplants did lead scientists to invent synthetic

752
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: testosterone in Adolph Boutant. Boutendant as German Adolph Butendant was

753
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: able to create create a fake testosterone from cholesterol and

754
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: was awarded the Nobel Prize because I told you just

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00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:43,479
Speaker 1: science loves balls. They're like, you made one Nobel Prize.

756
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: So the crime wave at the heart of today's tale

757
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: never gets solved, but modern medicine moves on because they

758
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 1: get fake testosterone and they're like, that's good enough ball

759
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: juice for us, And now they create testicle themes of Chicago.

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00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: They just they come and then they sort of fall

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00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: away and left to history. Now, Elizabeth, I think it's

762
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: much like disco. People were doing it and then suddenly,

763
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,879
Speaker 1: for reasons we don't fully understand suddenly no one's doing it,

764
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: which is also just kind of very human, you know.

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00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: But the liquid disco and those super tight disco slacks

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00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: in the case of the ball sacks of the young

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00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: men of Chicago, they were now safe. But you know,

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00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: there's always like a disco resurgence. Yes, good point, Peter,

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00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: things looking into that, So I bet you, I bet you,

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00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: that's you know, people, the rich people who can do

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00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff are freaking well. Yeah. And there

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00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: has been, like, you know, a continued obsession with glands.

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00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: There used to be a thing of yeah about adrenal glands.

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00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: People would take those out and chew on them, they

775
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: would harvest them from dead people. Then there obviously is

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00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 1: the pineal gland everyone at the seat of the soul,

777
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: but the gonads the testicles as a gland have it

778
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,959
Speaker 1: really kind of fallen off, and now it's just left

779
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 1: to like, oh, we can give you a pill for that.

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00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: So no one's out there. You know, maybe I think

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00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: you may be ahead of the curve. You heard it

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00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: here first, folks, you know, when they start seeing it

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00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: like on Instagram of you know, go on, I want

784
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: to see where you're going with this. I stopped myself. Well, Elizabeth,

785
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: while we're here, what's your ridiculous takeaway from all this

786
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: ball lessness? Uh? You know what, it was pretty interesting

787
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: walking around sitting here in the studio pretending to have

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00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: balls for an hour. So did to make you more

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00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: sensitive to the plight of men? No? Well, my ridiculous

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00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: takeaway once again, thank you for asking, Elizabeth is I

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00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: didn't I did not ask. You are an excellent detective,

792
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: but I worry about you as a philosopher. That's pretty

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00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: That's that's fair. Yeah, that's fair. Well, I'm glad you

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00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: enjoyed this one because it was fun to tell you

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00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 1: all about your testicles and you thank you. Well. You

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00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,920
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