1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Zarin Burnett. 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: We meet again. Oh what's up, Elizabeth Dunton? What are 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: you doing here? I wanted to talk to you today 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: about something ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous, Oh, sister do 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: I okay? There was this UK man named Tony Finn 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: of Sheffield, England, right and this cat he won a 7 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: like a judgment in a work lawsuit essentially it's England. 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if it was actually a lawsuit, but 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: a judgment he won from a deciding panel. And this 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: judgment was about sexual harassment. He claimed that his boss 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: was harassing him because he kept calling him bald. Now, 12 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: the deciding panel were three men, they were all bald. 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: They decided with my man, Tony Finn. But that's not 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: the ridiculous part. It's ridiculous, don't get me wrong. But 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: the ridiculous part is Finn was fired from the British 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: Bung Company of West Yorkshire, the British Bung company like 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: bu n G British BU. Now I didn't know what 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: a Bung was offhand. I had an idea. I was like, 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: I think I know, because there's a thing called a 20 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: bung hole. But I think I know what a bung is, right, 21 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: So I looked it up, and a bung is a 22 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: stopper for sealing a hole opening in a container. It's 23 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: the pair to the bung hole that I did know about, right. So, 24 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: like a cork and a cap, that's a bung topper 25 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: in a liquor bottle, like in a bar that's also 26 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: a bull. Those are all bungs. Right. So now let's 27 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: just say you take a bong and you're smoking pot, 28 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: and you put your face on the bunghole of the bomb. 29 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: You would be a human bung sealing a ball. And 30 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: if you're bald, you'd be a bald bull. Wow. Yeah, readiculous. 31 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: You know what else it is ridiculous, debt, extortion, homemade bombs, 32 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: Scrooge McDuck altogether. Yeah, this is not just like in 33 00:01:52,480 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: comparison now, it's a whole melange ridiculousness. I'm Elizabeth Dutton 34 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: and joining me is none other than Zarin Burnett. You 35 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: can't prove that I know. And this is ridiculous crime 36 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: a podcast. That's what we're doing about absurd and outrageous capers, 37 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: heists and cons It is always murder free and one ridiculous. 38 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: That's right. That was we did a good job on that, Zaren. 39 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: When you were a kid, what did you want to 40 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: be when you grew up an adult? That was a 41 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: good call, Like a progression I could see happening. I 42 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: was like, I don't. I don't get to be a merman. 43 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: I got to be an adult, all right, to go up? 44 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: Um okay? Like early on, I like just and it 45 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: sounds ridiculous now even looking back, but like when I 46 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: was not like, you know, past the point if I 47 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: want to be an astronaut, I want to be a 48 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: football player. When I actually was looking at careers, stockbroker 49 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: was the first thing because I was like, this system 50 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: is so jangking and corrupt. That's the way to just 51 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: make money and get free of all of this. I 52 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: was like the thirteen, I had it all figured out. 53 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: I was like, stockbroker, screw everybody, make my money cut. Early, really, 54 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: I was ahead of the curve because that's become the culture. 55 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: So this was not the culture when I was thirteen, 56 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: But now everybody's doing this. Do you ever think you'll 57 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: go back to that? No? I developed morality. So when 58 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: I was little, people would ask me what I wanted 59 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: to do when I grew up, and I always said 60 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: I wanted to have a dog farm. Not know, my 61 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: plan was to have you know that dogs don't come 62 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: from seed, right, what I'm just saying. I wanted to 63 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: have like a whole bunch of land and then just 64 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: go to the pound and clean them out every day 65 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: and then just have a ragtag a bunch of dogs 66 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: show but like a big truck and it's open in 67 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: the back. Load them up whatever you got. People are like, 68 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: I want to be a senator, I want to be 69 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: a scientist. I'm like, I want a lot of dogs 70 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: with like a day old bagel policy. How you're getting 71 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,679 Speaker 1: them that I'm just going through. I'm like, who hasn't 72 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: been picked up? All right? Hopping up in the car. 73 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: I'll take all your spare dogs, hop in the sedan 74 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: that's just gonna be full of dogs. Drive him out there, 75 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: and then I just imagine, what the way of your dream? 76 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: What do you mean the way of the dream? In 77 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: the dream? Baby? No? I used to imagine that, like 78 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: I'd be out in the field, like throwing the ball 79 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: or just that we'd I would run and they'd all 80 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: run next to me was kind of how in my 81 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: little brain do you know ast week? My friend Jay 82 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: grew up in Benetia, California, which is like it was 83 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: the original capital of the state, but it's a little 84 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: town that nobody usually knows. And his friends when he 85 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: was growing up were a pack of wild dogs. That's 86 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: why Jay is so cool. Yeah, I know, you love him. 87 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 1: The guy would run around with the pack of do 88 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: that's like a six year old. He did this for 89 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: like two years. Everyone in the town knew him as 90 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: a kid who ran with a pack of dogs. He 91 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: didn't have any other friends. I did have a big 92 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: piece of property and I had four dogs, And when 93 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: I wanted him to get in the car, I'd say, 94 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: dog farm, dog farm, what you're gonna do? He started 95 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: walking from room to room. They'd follow me and I'd say, 96 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: I'm having a dog parade. And then that's why I 97 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: have no friends. And now my brother, when you'd ask 98 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: him what he wanted to be when he grew out, 99 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: what he would say. For a while he was saying 100 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: he wanted to be in green peace, and people would 101 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: be like, that's so sweet, this little boy loves the environment. 102 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: Until you'd say why do you want to be in 103 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: green peace? And he said because I wanted to drive 104 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: the boat that rams the other boats, like he wanted 105 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: to ram the whaling vessels. And then when everyone told 106 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: him like that's not cool, dude, and he's like, all right, 107 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: I want to be the guy the side of the 108 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: road who has the garbage bags and they pick up 109 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: the garbage because the garbage bags are orange and they 110 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,239 Speaker 1: look cool. And I was like, well, do some time 111 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,159 Speaker 1: to get when do you want? You'll be right out there. 112 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: So um, A lot of times people are able to 113 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: do what they dreamt of doing as a kid. Travis, 114 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: my brother, you know, there's still time. It's an attainable dream, 115 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: it is, um. And sometimes you get there just a 116 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: little bit differently like me with when I had the 117 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: four dogs, you know. Or you give it up like me, 118 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: or you give it up like you because you grow 119 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: a sense of morality. Um. I want to tell you 120 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: the story of a little boy in nineteen sixties West 121 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: Berlin who wanted to be a cartoonist when he grew up. 122 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: George Schultz. Yes, no, no way, I got the name right, 123 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: Charles Schultz. Schultz, That little boy grew up Page to 124 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: Charles Schultz. No, that's not him. Um, but you know, 125 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,679 Speaker 1: his life like us, his life goes in a different direction, 126 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: but he's able to kind of right the ship on that. Anyway, 127 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: story I'm going to tell you today also comes to 128 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: us from a listener. Was a listener suggestion. This one 129 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: comes from Judith Krauss, and she reached out to us 130 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: on Instagram all the way from Germany. Yeah. She's fantastic, 131 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: by the way, and she clued us in on this 132 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: totally bonkers dude, um, and it feels like this was 133 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: custom made for us doctor Judith Right, Yeah, Judith is 134 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: the best. I mean, how are you? In case people 135 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: are wondering, it's become a very international fellow. That was 136 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: so cosmopolitan. Uh, let me tell you about a man 137 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: named Arnold funken Chicken f u n k E funke Um. 138 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: Like I said, he wanted to be a cartoonist when 139 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: grew up, and so much so that like turns fifteen, 140 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: leaves school to go and become an apprentice signmaker. Okay, 141 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: I campaigned, Yeah cool, that's a good gig. I used 142 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: to as a house payer. Knew some sign painters. Fun job. 143 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: It's amazing. I kind of have to want to be 144 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: by yourself. Though I'm enjoying the sort of resurgence of 145 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: hand paid and signs lately that there's one shop here 146 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: in Oakland. You always want a memory sign company. Anyway, 147 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: it's an art, it's and it's really precise, and so 148 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: I think that would be a good primer for if 149 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: you wanted to then be a cartoonist, to have that online. 150 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: He didn't get to live that dream. Another dream dash, 151 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: you know, the dream deferred are No. He's thirty eight, 152 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 1: struggling artist. He's working at a gas station. He's divorced, 153 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: and he's flat broke. Tough place to be. Yeah, he 154 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: wants to focus on his art, but you need money 155 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: to do that. You always do, always the story, unless 156 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: you have like just a guitar, just a guitar in 157 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 1: a dream. So he did what humans have been doing 158 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: since we first started strutting around on two feet. He 159 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: figured stealing was the answer. Oh okay, okay, that's not 160 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: what I thought. Okay, it was not the oldest professional 161 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: he said he was going to turn to the first job. No, 162 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: he he decided that this is this is criming. He 163 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: decided that crime was the fastest, most direct way to 164 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: get money in his pocket. I thought the same thing 165 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: when I was Yeah, well yeah, and that's why you 166 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: wanted to be a stuck. He's a gentle soul, though, 167 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: so he didn't want to hurt anyone physically, I mean 168 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: like emotionally, psychologically apparent really apparently we're on the table. 169 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: But he didn't want to hurt him physically. So he 170 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: decides that extortion that's the way to go to hurt you. Yeah, 171 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: and what he paid me to stop me from being 172 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: my bad self? Well, what's extortion without a pipe bomb? Wow? Pipe? Yeah? 173 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: He teaches himself how to make pipe bombs in his kitchen. 174 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: Nice and then even though he's broke, he runts a 175 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: little workshop down the road from his house bomb making. 176 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: That's where he starts making bombs. I hope that was 177 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: a detached building an amateur maker. So his first target 178 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: is a luxury department store called craft House Dave Weston's 179 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: the Western craft House, and so, and I just want 180 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: to put out a disclaimer that I know I've said 181 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: it before that I am pretty much incapable of correctly 182 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: pronouncing anything in German. And I apologize hosts there you 183 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: go perfect. So he leaves the bomb there and then 184 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: he sends this ransom note for five hundred thousand Deutsche marks. 185 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: Very nice, by the way, deutsch mark, thank you, And 186 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: that's around six thousand dollars today. So that went about 187 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: as well as his artist's career did. Because the bomb 188 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: was a dud. The police couldn't find his directions for 189 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: delivering the ransom money. So it's just forgot something. It's 190 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 1: like they're like three steps that I was just so 191 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: wrapped up in. This doesn't matter. He tries again. This 192 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: guy Arnold makes another bomb. If at first you don't succeed, 193 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: bomb bomb again. Yes, he puts this one in a 194 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: briefcase with a fake bottom, and that one worked and 195 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: it caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to 196 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: the store. Yeah, so he blows it up at the 197 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: department store. But he said it to go off at 198 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 1: night so that no one would be hurt, not even 199 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: janitorial staff. Nice. He waited, He waited until everyone was 200 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: clear no one should get hurt. No, of course, not 201 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: picture this. It's June Arnold Funca sits at his kitchen 202 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: table enjoying some on kin fruit fru yogurt fru fu. 203 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: It's a yogurt that has like a disk in the 204 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: middle where they kept a toy. What. I don't know 205 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: if he's really eating this, but I found out it's 206 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 1: like a kinder egg, but yogurt. But is it like 207 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: in a jelly like the toys, and get a little 208 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: plastic container at half they put the disc in. They 209 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: fill it up to the top and then you enjoy 210 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: your yogurt. So I like to imagine that he was 211 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 1: eating the fruit fu yogurt. And you know why it's 212 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: it's f r u f o o because the center 213 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: is ufo and it looks like a little ufo in 214 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: the middle of the yogurt. Oh my goodness. It's not 215 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: an invented detail. It is an unnecessary detail. But my 216 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: life is full of those. So he's eating he's eating 217 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: this yogurt. Let's pretend, But in real life, he's penning 218 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: another letter to the department store, and again he asks 219 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: for five thousand marks. Right out there, he's also included 220 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 1: directions for how he wants to receive the money. Yeah, 221 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 1: He's like, okay, now I need to be really precise 222 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 1: with the directions. I can't assume they know what I mean. 223 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: He wants them to throw the money out of a 224 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: train window at exactly the moment he tells them to 225 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: do it. Wait, what this so like I'm imagining there 226 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: aren't like regular cell phones. So how is he going 227 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: to tell me? With this letter? He includes a radio 228 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: where he's going to give him the signal ahead. Yeah, 229 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: so the New Yorker has this story about him, and 230 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: they said wote On June second, Funka hid beside the 231 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: train tracks near the car repair shop where he worked. 232 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: He had drunk most of a bottle of vodka by 233 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: the time the train rumbled past. This is the blackmailer speaking, 234 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: He slurred into his radio. Throw the money out now. 235 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: A package crashed onto the tracks and funk staggered after it. 236 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: He scrambled back to the garages. Police helicopter circle circled 237 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: overhead and opened the package to find the money inside. Oh, 238 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: they actually included real money, like exactly, so it's like 239 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: get throwing back to celebrate. He took vacations to the Mediterranean, 240 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: to South Korea and the Philippines. When he totally got 241 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: helicopter helicopters trunks dumbling around with the money. Nice to 242 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: train tracks. It's three sheets to the wind, staggering around 243 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: with a bag of five hundred thousand marks. Yeah, So 244 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: he goes on these vacations. When he's in the Philippines, 245 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: he picks up a wife. Does you're traveling, fall in love? 246 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: Keep this going? It's anything can happen on vacations. So 247 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: then he gets away with it right comes around and 248 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: most of the money's gone. Yeah, he'd remarried. As I said, 249 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: he has a young son at this point and he 250 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: needs money. So what does he do? I'm thinking extortion? Yeah, 251 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: it works so well. So there's this really nice department 252 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: store in Hamburg called cars Thought the Car State. Yeah, 253 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: we've all been there. Uh. In June of ninety two, 254 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: he planted a bomb in the porcelain section of the 255 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: store and um, it wasn't a dud alert. Yeah, it 256 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: destroyed a bunch of delicate merchandise. So with that out 257 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: of the way, he's done that. Then he sends a 258 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: letter to the store demanding one million marks going up 259 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: and if they didn't pay, another bomb, this time in 260 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: the glass section. As he writes the letter, he's like, 261 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: looks over and he sees his bag in his house 262 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: and there was a picture on the bag, and it 263 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: wasn't anything that he cared about or thought had meaning, 264 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: but it's stuck with him, just in that moment he 265 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: looks over. So in the letter he tells the store 266 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: that in addition to okay, you got a fork over 267 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: a million marks, they have to run a message in 268 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: the Hamburg newspaper that says, quote, Uncle dagger Bert greets 269 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: his nephews. Okay, no German culture that I don't understand. 270 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: Daggo Bert is the Dagobert is the German name for 271 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: Scrooge McDuck, duck tails McDuck. It's the German name from 272 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: and it was a picture of Scrooge McDuck on the 273 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: bag in his house, and that's how he gets his 274 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: criminal nickname, Dagobert. His criminal nickname is a German Scrooge McDuck. Yes, 275 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: basically Scrooge McDuck. I love that. So let's take an 276 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: ad break, and when we return, I'm going to tell 277 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: you about the further adventures of Dagobert. When we left off, 278 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: zaren are no funk, he'd gone back into his extortion game. 279 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: This time he's targeting an upscale department store and how 280 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: Berg Germany. If you're good at the game, make him 281 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: pay you know what exactly. And this time he added 282 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: in a little nugget for the cops. He gave himself 283 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: a nickname cops do love a nickname for criminals. Wanted 284 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 1: to be called dagger Bert. This is dug Bert speaking. 285 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: Does Scrooge McDuck have a Scottish German accent in the 286 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 1: German cartoon? Does he have like a German accented Scottish? 287 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: It's like he has like a Duck accent? Right, where's all? 288 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: What's accent? Where it's all? I can't do it where 289 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: it's all? Yeah, there you go, Donald Duck thought it so, 290 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: I don't remember in the Scottish accent the bro he 291 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: speaks to, I can't do it, very good, bro you 292 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: can do it much better Broke than I do. Yeahast 293 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: see you know that's Scottish. You know that's him, Okay, 294 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: like groundskeeper Willie. Sure, Yeah, that's from also Broke. So yeah, 295 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: dagger Bird, I don't know. I don't know what it 296 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: sounds like in Germany like German. I don't expect you 297 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: to know. It's just curious. Yeah. Well, he writes a 298 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: letter again um threatening the other bomb. He asks that 299 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,239 Speaker 1: in that letter where he says, you know, tell him 300 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: uncle Daggabert sent you or whatever, was like Uncle dagger 301 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: Bert greets his nephews. He also he asks that the 302 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: police put the money in a bag that has the 303 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: duck tails logo on it. He's working picture of Scrooge 304 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: McDuck on it. And then he wants he wants them 305 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: to attach this bag Miss Scrooge McDuck commemorative bag. Attached 306 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: it to a train using electro magnets, and the cops 307 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: were like, if you say so, they go ahead and 308 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: do it. They go ahead and do it, so don't 309 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: forget last time. He's like, throw mama from the train, 310 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: throw the bag. So now he's all to use electron magnets. 311 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: I'm glad they're German cops. American cops. Be like, I 312 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: don't even know a man. Okay, let's go to home depot. 313 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: Maybe like you know those Durst cell where you pick 314 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: your finger on either and it tells you how much juice. 315 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: That's that's electro magnetism right there. That's what I would 316 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: be like, I don't know what you would get ratchets 317 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: and I would totally get ratchets for it. Um, so 318 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: he the cops do that, right. Funky tries to get 319 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: the bag off the train by deactivating the magnets, and 320 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: the bag wouldn't budge because the cops tied it to 321 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: the train as well. Okay, so he leaves the scene 322 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: empty handed. He's drafts and he goes scurrying away. So 323 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: I was assuming he didn't have a way to cut 324 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: the power, but okay, no, he had. He had all 325 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: this ready to go. He's just like a gadget master 326 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: and cartoon gadget master. He's amazing. Um. He tries again 327 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: same scheme two months later, and this time he's able 328 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,160 Speaker 1: to liberate the bag. He's able to get it off 329 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: the train, but the cops had also put a bunch 330 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: of paint in the bag and it splashed all over 331 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: him when he caught it, um, just like they wanted. 332 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: And they tried to arrest him, but he had stashed 333 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: a mountain bike nearby and was able to run with 334 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: the bag and jump on the bike and escape. The 335 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 1: cops are chasing a man covered in paint, got a 336 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,959 Speaker 1: bag of money with a Scrooge McDuck logo. This one 337 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: and then he gets to a bike he's imagining stashed 338 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: in bushes and then he bikes away cartoon. He gets 339 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: like a safe distance away and he opens the bag 340 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: and it only has four thousand marks in it and 341 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: the rest was Mickey Mouse money. It was like Disney 342 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 1: on Disney Crime at this point. So it's all covered 343 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: in paint. Hey take so Funk. Undeterred, he continued with 344 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: his extortion plots. Was pretty successful, like he did a 345 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: bunch of them. One time, when he went to retrieve 346 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: the money that was left for him, the police jumped 347 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,959 Speaker 1: out at him on like a grassy hill in Berlin, 348 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: grassy knoll and Um, one of the cops in pursuit 349 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: tried to grab him, but he slipped and fell Um 350 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: and dagger Bart made his escape once again on a bike. 351 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: But the guy who slipped do you know why he 352 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: slipped and fell Um? He was covered in bacon grease. 353 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: He stepped in dog CoA. Oh, that's a reason slip 354 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 1: and fall into the He slipped onto the dog and 355 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: then like skidded on the lawn. Then he fell and 356 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: it was like well, so then the press finds out 357 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: about him falling in the dog poop and then just 358 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: goes nuts and they're all these headlines about it. Yeah, 359 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: that's just like they're loving this part of the story. 360 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: Mrs Criminal catches bad one exactly, So like at every turn, 361 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: the events surrounding in his crimes, they're just getting like 362 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: more and more cartoonish, super ridiculous. And because of this, 363 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 1: he becomes a folk hero to the German people. Yes, 364 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: even the Germans have sense of human people are rooting 365 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: for him. There were pop songs written about him, there 366 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: were shirts that said I am Dagobert this eighties late eighties, 367 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: So it's gonna be like Falco doing the songs about him. 368 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: Rock me kind of think of German pop stars early 369 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: nineties at this point. So yeah, the Craftwork did a 370 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: song about him. That's what I was like in my 371 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 1: in the rolodex of my mind. That was like looking 372 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 1: under g for Germans. So that I am Dagger BT shirts. 373 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: People are wearing them all over the place. It feels 374 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: very Casa de Papelle Money Heist on Netflix Spanish show. Yeah, totally, 375 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: but with like a Scorpion soundtrack Scorpion Scorpions soundtrack change, 376 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: and but instead of the guy Fox mask or whatever 377 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 1: it was, and that one to it or Dolly mask. Oh, 378 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: that's right, the V for venda. Yeah, so the yeah, 379 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: the Dolly mask. Now it's Scrooge McDuck. Um. There was 380 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: a pole that a radio station conducted and they said 381 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: that two thirds of the listeners sided more with Dagobert 382 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: than the police. Of course. Yeah, so he's gaining popularity. 383 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: Berlin's Tadjas Spiegel, Tadgers Spiegel, newspaper Spiegel no Ta speak 384 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: on the story of the day. Okay, sure, Um a 385 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: newspaper in Berlin, Germans Um they named Dagobert the Gangster 386 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 1: of the years, Yeah, competition that year gangster have a 387 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: cartoon bank robber. They said that he had raised the 388 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: cops and robber game, to quote, an intellectual level never 389 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: before seen in German police history. He changed the game. 390 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: So this is like straight up Dagobert fever sweeping through Germany. 391 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: At this point, I mean, people like brand Merchant stuff 392 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: said they have I Am Dagobert, they have like hats, 393 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 1: but are they basically taking Disney merchant reappropriating it like 394 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: Scrooge McDuck. That's like the hot property at that point, 395 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: and then people are developing these theories, right. So um, 396 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: they had the idea that Funk was drawing inspiration for 397 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: these exploits from plots of Scrooge McDuck comics. So um, 398 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: the cops spread more than six thousand pages of Scrooge 399 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: McDuck comments comics, trying to anticipate the structure of his 400 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: next game. They're like, okay, well, in issue four he 401 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: involves a parachute o that it's got a giant magnifying glass. 402 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: He's spending from a helicopter. Well, they're also imagining him, 403 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure like diving into the swimming the best thing ever. 404 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: There's a group in Germany called Donald Donald Donald. Their 405 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 1: name is the German acronym for the organization of non 406 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: commercial Supporters of Donald is um. What pray tell is 407 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: Donald is um. I'm guessing it's about Donald Duck, like 408 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: a religion dedicated to their spiritual sam Donald Duck. It's 409 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 1: a bunch of frustrating Germans. They're like, that's not a guy, 410 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: have no idea, but it's non commercial supporters of Donald 411 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: is um. I'm about people believe whatever they want to believe, 412 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: So Donaldism to the truth. So they like they're asked 413 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: about this in news stories. And that's why I'm assuming 414 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: it has something to do Donald next perfect sense. Um, 415 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: I would be a supporter of goofyism personally, I'm just 416 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: about it. I live that life. Um. One member of 417 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: the group, Hans House, he commented to the press at 418 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: this time and he said, quote, people are fascinated. There 419 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: is always this kind of effect when there's a clever 420 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: guy who's always outwitting the police. So they're like, here's 421 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: the situation. Let's go to a representative of Donald for comment, 422 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: and they find this cat. I don't know, it's weird. 423 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: He's out there like nas I root for the villain. 424 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:28,439 Speaker 1: So people there's they're speculating about how this who who's 425 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: Dagobert right? Is he a computer expert? Is he a 426 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: railroad engineer? He seems to be into the trains electrical engineer? Yeah? 427 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: Is he a train spotter? Is he a cop? Is 428 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: he one of those dudes who retired just sits outside 429 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: of construction sites and goes nice job guys. People thought 430 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,479 Speaker 1: he might be a former Easter German Stazi officers. Okay, 431 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: is he a surgeon? I don't know why they wanted? 432 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: Is he a board pensioner. I guess because of like 433 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: the precision of people they were with a metaphor. They're like, 434 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: this would at the metaphor, that's just a weird one. 435 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: So they'd have to catch them to figure this out. 436 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: Got to catch them all. On April, the police put 437 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: two bags in what's called a grit bin in a 438 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: neighborhood of Berlin. But what it in Berlin. It's a 439 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: whole lot of butter. Grit bin is a large metal 440 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: or plastic box. I guess that's used to store salt 441 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: and grit that you put out on the roads when 442 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: it's oh anti snow and ice stuff. Yeah, okay, yeah 443 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: with you you lived in the South and in California 444 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: Valley from the Bay Area, we don't. We don't have 445 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: to worry about a thing that's in movies. Yeah, and 446 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 1: I'll just confess I'm a terrible driver in the snow. 447 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: Stay out of it. There. They're experts here, Yeah, there 448 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: are experts out there. I'm not one to close your 449 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: eyes and pray. So Dagger Bart asks that these bags 450 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: be feel with cash and put into a grit bin 451 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: that's he's going to identify for them, and so they 452 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 1: fill him with cash but not cash paper, so fake 453 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 1: cash and thank you for that cash to him. Uh, 454 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 1: and a motion detector. They're like, oh, I see your 455 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: gadget game and I raise you. Guess what, punk, here's 456 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: a detector. And then they hid nearby and they were 457 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: going to jump out in surprise him when he came 458 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: to pick it up in the cops that I know. 459 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: And they had surprise parties for each other, you know, 460 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: like if they're big on surprise parties. But then they 461 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: get off and they just start firing dangerous um. So 462 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: they waited. The cops are waiting. They have a giant 463 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: net like a butterfly head and they're waiting. They're waiting. 464 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: They wait like an hour, nothing and then the motion 465 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: detector goes off. Yeah, but no one's been anywhere near 466 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,719 Speaker 1: the grip box. Yeah, So cops go over and they 467 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: check it. They look in the in the grit bin, 468 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: they look down into it and they see a deep 469 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: hole in the and they say, I picked this one 470 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: for a reason for the whole leads down to the 471 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: sewer and come to find out dagger Bert built that 472 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: particular grip bin himself, so it was not a municipal one. 473 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: He built a dummy one and placed it over a 474 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: man hole so the cops make the drop. Dagger Bart 475 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: opens up the manhole cover from below, reaches up, grabs 476 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: the bag, and then closes the cover behind him. Um. 477 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: He looked in the bag. He saw there wasn't any 478 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: money in there. There's just paper and emotion detector sewer 479 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: and Angry ditches the bag and then escapes into the 480 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: sewer system. Yeah. Um. So by the end he had 481 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: tried this scheme in various rations about twenty times. It's 482 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: a lot, that is, and it's working like two thirds 483 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: of the time, I guess. Sound more importantly, though, he 484 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: has spent a ton of money on all his gadgets 485 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: and a couchrement. Now it's a job paying for itself. 486 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: He's deeper in debt than he actually yeah, because and 487 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: he's on welfare at this point, like legit. So um, 488 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: now we're into nineteen ninety four. I know you like 489 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: to start things off with the date. So in January 490 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: of dagger Art sent a letter to the cops. He 491 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: wants one point four million marks now, dear guys, do 492 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: you miss me? He also has very specific instructions about 493 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: how they're supposed to deliver this money in a paper 494 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: airplane the size of seven. It's closed. So first he 495 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: builds a miniature train. Kidding a man, I was like, 496 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: all right, first things first, I build a miniature train. 497 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: That's step one. Then he puts the train on some 498 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: abandoned railroad tracks. How big is this miniature I think 499 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: it's not that it's like the gauge of it. It's 500 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: like it fits big boy train tracks. But it's like 501 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: a little shorty on there, like it's like, I don't know, 502 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: maybe it's maybe he repurposed the grit box. So um, 503 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: he cleans and preps the tracks because they're abandoned, he 504 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: can serve any weeds. They sneaks away. Now the police 505 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: follow the instructions to the letter. They put one point 506 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: four million marks onto the train. They went through with 507 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: the actual cash this time. Wow, I know. And then 508 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: the letter instructed the police to push a big red 509 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: button on a device nearby, and they did it. They 510 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: pushed the big red button. I mean, I know he's 511 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:55,239 Speaker 1: into the cartoonist, but he's more widely coyote. So they 512 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: hit the button and pow. The train zooms away at 513 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: the two. So, of course, the police chase it, They're like, 514 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: you're back here. But Dagabert had a plan for that. 515 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: So he had set up firecrackers along the track that 516 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: would go off when the police tripped sensors for the 517 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: to tell him like as their what their progress was like. 518 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: So the police chased the train, the firecrackers start going off. 519 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: This is like some serious home alone stuff. And the 520 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: firecrackers are going off and Daggabart knows like how fast 521 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: they're going where they are. But now, remember I told 522 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: you he like smoothed out prep the tracks. Apparently not 523 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: well enough. After half a mile when he they was 524 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: the train was just thirty yards away from him, Um, 525 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: it derailed and the money spilled all over the No, No, 526 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: dagg a Beart escaped, right, he's so close to one 527 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: point four million marks. But he had a plan to 528 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: escape them because he to get it's only thirty yards away. 529 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: He was able to get at least like some handfuls 530 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: and be able to like you know, put into the 531 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: investment of his next scheme. No, because it was like 532 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: this like tension of all the fires him before he 533 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,280 Speaker 1: can get back. He doesn't have enough time to run 534 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: out to it and then get back because there window 535 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: he had operating. Um, so yeah, he has nothing to 536 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: show for it. Um, when we come back, I'm going 537 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: to tell you about how the cops eventually caught up 538 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: to old Arnold funk. I'm loving this dude, alright. So 539 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: at this point in our story today, dagger Bart is 540 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: costing the government a lot of money. I love how 541 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: they actually put the one point four million Deutsche parks 542 00:33:58,280 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: in the train and to send it and they're like, 543 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: he may do something we need to Like, well, they 544 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: knew we're going to catch him, so they I mean, okay, 545 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: so they're kind of playing a long thinking we have 546 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: to create the crime to bust him. So, like just 547 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: chasing him is costing millions and millions of it is 548 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,919 Speaker 1: the cops had like three thousand leads. Yeah, everyone's calling 549 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: into fake so totally, and they had questioned more than 550 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: a hundred suspects. Um, they used dogs, helicopters, psychics, astrologers, 551 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: like they pulled out all the stops. There was a 552 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: reward for information about his identity. Of course. Um, well, 553 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: they set up a telephone line that you could call 554 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: and listen to a recording of his voice because you know, 555 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: he's always calling up like, hey, guys, new plan Daggerbard again. Okay, guys, 556 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: do you think about electromagnetism? Raise your hand if you 557 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: like trains. I'm raising my hand right now. Um, so 558 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: I'm a big How are you holding the phone? Don't 559 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: ask questions? So um they said, you can call in 560 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 1: and listen to his voice and then if you recognize it, 561 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: tell us. So people were constantly calling in trying to 562 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,360 Speaker 1: rap him out, but no one, no one had a 563 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: good lead. Um. A psychologist who worked with the police 564 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: finally convinced them to take this new tactic. They said that, 565 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: you know, the psychologist was like, he is someone who 566 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,759 Speaker 1: has failed. He's a failure professionally and socially, Like no 567 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,720 Speaker 1: one who has it together is doing this kind of stuff, 568 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,359 Speaker 1: and he's trying to prove himself. So they said, if 569 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: you treat him with more respect, you may be able 570 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: to kind of lure him out, soften him up. Oh interesting. 571 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 1: I thought they were going to go like, we should 572 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: use one of the episodes of the Scrooge McDuck comics 573 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 1: that we've been reading, use one of those things to 574 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: catch him. We have all these research exactly well so, 575 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,839 Speaker 1: but The thing is is that he really didn't care 576 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 1: one way or another about Scrooge McDuck. So it wasn't 577 00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: like he was familiar. But I love that they went 578 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 1: down that rab hole. He just with an off handed 579 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: Oh I saw a picture of it. I'm like, yeah, 580 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,320 Speaker 1: call me Scrooge with duck. Um. So she encourages this, 581 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: this psychologist encourages them to like build a rapport when 582 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: he calls, and they's also thinking, like they're thinking, if 583 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: we can get the phone called the last long enough, 584 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: we can trace the call, which that didn't occur to them. 585 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: He's calling them all the time. Maybe he just always 586 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: did short phone calls I guess. Apparently when he would 587 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: like ask for a drop and they would show up 588 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: but he wouldn't be there, he would write notes to 589 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 1: apologize later, really polite notes like I'm so sorry we 590 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: coordinated that and I flaked on you. I was under 591 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: the weather. I just didn't have it to come out. 592 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,720 Speaker 1: So um, they're waiting for his calls. A the police 593 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: traced his call to a specific phone booth, so we're 594 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: getting there. But when they get there, no phone came. However, 595 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: nothing but vibes. Two witnesses were able to describe him 596 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: to a sketch artist. So that's a good one. Um. 597 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,839 Speaker 1: And the police put the sketch on TV, so now 598 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,759 Speaker 1: people like, oh, more information on Dagobert. This is the 599 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:13,239 Speaker 1: guy I gotta hide held out. According to Funking, his 600 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: wife saw the sketch and didn't recognize him, for she's like, 601 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: that's banks. The thing is, the sketch really looked a 602 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 1: lot like ri Tile. I don't know how to say. Uh, 603 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: he was the officer in charge of the whole case. 604 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, the sketch looks just like him, and 605 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 1: they're yeah, so um. When they went there to look 606 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,520 Speaker 1: at the at the phone booth, um, they noticed that 607 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 1: near the phone booth was this car with a mountain 608 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,320 Speaker 1: bike on a rack, and they're like, you know, that 609 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: looks a lot like the escape bike is definitely on 610 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,239 Speaker 1: two ways. Like, I think we're on the right track here. 611 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 1: So April dagger Bart calls the police to arrange the 612 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,960 Speaker 1: next money drop. Now the officers, including the one who 613 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: slipped in dog poop hold officer cocas Um, they surrounded 614 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 1: the phone booth and arrested him. Oh right there, so 615 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 1: full circle. I didn't see that coming. The cops had 616 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,400 Speaker 1: tried to catch him thirty times, and now they finally 617 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,920 Speaker 1: do it, and they failed times. So who's the failure now, 618 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 1: Officer psychologist, officer poop shoes Um. When he's arrested, Funky says, quote, today, 619 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 1: you'll definitely pop the corks. Unfortunately, I won't be able 620 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 1: to celebrate with you, but you can at least toast 621 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: to me. Okay, He's like, look, you did it. So 622 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: they pop corks, they pop bottles. The Berlin cops were 623 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 1: like chugging wine and dancing around their patrol cars in 624 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: the street. Oh yeah. And then the police in Hamburg 625 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,600 Speaker 1: they had special bottles of beer made in anticipation of 626 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: this day. They had Scrooge McDuck labels on them, and 627 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,840 Speaker 1: so they're like, break out the Scrooge beers, let's hit it, fellas, 628 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,520 Speaker 1: and they're just check lada um. So once he's identified, 629 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: then of course more information comes out about him. Do 630 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 1: you think they had like a launch pad mcquack light 631 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 1: beer for some of the officers who didn't want the 632 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,120 Speaker 1: full flavored logger I can't have all the calories. They 633 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 1: had a non alcoholic version for those who wanted to partake, 634 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,800 Speaker 1: but the hue and doing louis special, Yes for the 635 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 1: children's Uh, this is ginger ginger. So his neighbors. Arnauld's 636 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: neighbors were pretty shocked. But you know what was shocking 637 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,680 Speaker 1: to them, It's because he had out in front of 638 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 1: his house was parked this old Mercedes and had been 639 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 1: there for ages, and he was always going out and 640 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,800 Speaker 1: trying to get it running. Couldn't get it running, couldn't 641 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,640 Speaker 1: get it running. And they're like, how is he building 642 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,080 Speaker 1: all these gadgets and he can't fix the blasting car 643 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: in front of his house. So that's sort of like, 644 00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,919 Speaker 1: I don't think it's him. This guy can't. He can't 645 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,759 Speaker 1: fix anything. Look at this change the rate eight. You 646 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,440 Speaker 1: can do electromagnetic trains. So they're like, if you can 647 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 1: fix that, you can create all these weird gadgets and 648 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,840 Speaker 1: do all the stuff you can't fix an old Benzo 649 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,759 Speaker 1: No does not compute. What if that's his cover? Though 650 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,879 Speaker 1: he's good with some things. Out the end, he had 651 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: he has an i Q of not bad, which I 652 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: suppose is good. Um, and he's a total auto did act, 653 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: so I mean, don't forget. Yeah, he dropped out of 654 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,160 Speaker 1: school at fifteen, he read like tons of mechanical magazines 655 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,840 Speaker 1: and then figured out how to craft his little wacky 656 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:37,440 Speaker 1: bombs and extortion machines. This a little wacky, his wacky 657 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:42,360 Speaker 1: bombs that has like confetti and stuff on him springs. 658 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: His defense team, though, pushed the idea that Arnold was sick, 659 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,160 Speaker 1: like he had the flu for a few years. They 660 00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,759 Speaker 1: said that the fumes from his painting work gave him 661 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,160 Speaker 1: really bad headaches and that he was always forgetting stuff. 662 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,680 Speaker 1: There is a expression in German about turpentine makes the 663 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,360 Speaker 1: painters strange. I can't My friends mother's German, and she 664 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,880 Speaker 1: used to see me in my all whites and she 665 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,160 Speaker 1: would say that, and I was like turpentine mocking. I 666 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 1: can't remember it. Isn't that the turpentine to the paint dinner? 667 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,160 Speaker 1: You had like the gold huff? Right, had the paper 668 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 1: bag in my hand. You want to huff? Well? Like 669 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,360 Speaker 1: the thing is like he that accidental huffer theory fell apart. 670 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,719 Speaker 1: It's because he was super sharp at the trial. He 671 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:35,400 Speaker 1: was like cutting up with one liners and stuff. I'm 672 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,320 Speaker 1: not so sure. Uh. In the end he pleads guilty 673 00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: and is fine five million marks, And that's like to 674 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:48,480 Speaker 1: pay back the department store. Particularly, his wife sold her 675 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,560 Speaker 1: story and the rights to publish family photos to a 676 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,920 Speaker 1: magazine for around sixty marks. You got to hold out 677 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,399 Speaker 1: for more. You got millions to now people were still 678 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,759 Speaker 1: wearing their dagg abart gear. Oh merched, it's still gonna 679 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,359 Speaker 1: be tough. And then in response to his imprisonment, they 680 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,400 Speaker 1: start wearing hats that said free dagg a Bear. I 681 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: want to get one of the let be great. Um 682 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: we can find one, yeah, totally in two that or 683 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:19,640 Speaker 1: just make them with a marker, some puffy paints. Going 684 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,520 Speaker 1: to get a baseball cap and use puffy paints and 685 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,400 Speaker 1: put free dagger Bart on it. And then it's just 686 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,600 Speaker 1: going to add to my weird lady walking your dog 687 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,400 Speaker 1: look that I've got going on in the neighborhood. How 688 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,759 Speaker 1: your neighbors liking it these days? All right? Uh So 689 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,560 Speaker 1: in two thousand he served six years of his sentence 690 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,839 Speaker 1: and then he was released. Okay, he gets a job 691 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 1: as a cartoonist at the satirical magazine Ulan Spiegel something 692 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:52,880 Speaker 1: else Stories another Spiegel. So um he becomes this cartoonist. 693 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,399 Speaker 1: He's still I think he still works there today, which 694 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,520 Speaker 1: speelss story I've been lying to you all. Sorry. Spiegel, 695 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:04,920 Speaker 1: remember Spielberg means like storytown. He's gonna take you downtown 696 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:12,120 Speaker 1: start tontown. But anyway back to Arnold ar know the Spiegel? 697 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,920 Speaker 1: Uh foon ca. I don't know what Spiegel means. Am 698 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,799 Speaker 1: I saying something terrible? No? No, no, no, I don't 699 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,880 Speaker 1: believe it can't be. It's like I'm probably we're probably 700 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: probably used paper and we're like the baby means like news. 701 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 1: Hold on a second, hey, producer, save me. Let's see here. 702 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:47,480 Speaker 1: Vo is the Spiegel mirror? Mirror? Spiel mirror? Sure? Um, 703 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,760 Speaker 1: so okay, so yeah, the Spiegel another kind of mirror. 704 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,600 Speaker 1: He works at that satirical magazine. Um, he's a really 705 00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 1: well known and regarded cartoonist. And like he did like 706 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,719 Speaker 1: these posters making fun of like Rolling Stones tours where 707 00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:10,400 Speaker 1: they're all geriatric bones. It's like I'll posted on Instagram. 708 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,120 Speaker 1: They're pretty funny. Um. Here's an interesting note though about this. 709 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,800 Speaker 1: In December of two thousand four, Channel four in the 710 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:22,439 Speaker 1: UK aired a three part TV show called The Heistuno. Yeah, 711 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,040 Speaker 1: I have been trying desperately to get, you know, a 712 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,520 Speaker 1: a way to see all three of these episodes. They're 713 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:34,080 Speaker 1: not easy to find over State side um this show. 714 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:38,400 Speaker 1: It was written, created, directed by David Glover and Rudolph 715 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 1: Hertzog Son of vernerker Um. So. In the show, this 716 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,800 Speaker 1: group of five former criminal masterminds were put together to 717 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:58,160 Speaker 1: accomplish preassigned heist. Yes, stuff like stealing a specific painting 718 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 1: at this exhibit or like a profile car and to 719 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:02,960 Speaker 1: the cameras are on it and we have to watch 720 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: them do it. Yeah, they have to come up with 721 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,600 Speaker 1: it and then execute this heist. And the people who 722 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,160 Speaker 1: owned whichever it was, like, let's say with the painting 723 00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,920 Speaker 1: in the gallery, they know that there that something was 724 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,480 Speaker 1: going to happen, and they're not allowed to change their 725 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,880 Speaker 1: security protocols leading up to this and they don't know 726 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 1: what's Yeah, some of them were like, no way, I'm 727 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,160 Speaker 1: not doing that. Others were like, no, this is a 728 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,800 Speaker 1: great way to prove that we have amazing security. Right. So, 729 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,160 Speaker 1: the thieves on the show included gangster Joey Pyle, good 730 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:39,880 Speaker 1: Name Burglar Peter Scott, Armed Robert Terry Smith, cyber expert 731 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,040 Speaker 1: Matthew Bevan, and none other than extortionists are no Funke 732 00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,120 Speaker 1: master class. He gets up with these dudes. We're going 733 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: to probably do an episode about the show itself at 734 00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,160 Speaker 1: some point, Like I'm still gathering information on that, because 735 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:59,160 Speaker 1: the whole setup is just way too ridiculous entertainment. And 736 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,160 Speaker 1: like some of these fellow thieves I think are going 737 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,080 Speaker 1: to need their own special episodes as well, because like 738 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,719 Speaker 1: some of these dudes are, I want to know about 739 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,160 Speaker 1: Joey Pyle, here you go. Um, Matthew Bevan is interesting, 740 00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:13,600 Speaker 1: the cyber dude. So either way, Um, what you can 741 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,880 Speaker 1: see from all of this is that the thrill of 742 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,920 Speaker 1: notoriety is just as much a draw for these guys 743 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,200 Speaker 1: as the money they stole. So this is going to 744 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,480 Speaker 1: be phenomenal. Um. And that's so that's you know, we 745 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,400 Speaker 1: got our No, he's got this notoriety. He was loving it, 746 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,560 Speaker 1: he's milking it. Yeah, And so I love that he 747 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,040 Speaker 1: gets out of jail and now he's like reformed, he's 748 00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:36,960 Speaker 1: got this good gig. What he really wanted to do 749 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:38,960 Speaker 1: when he was a little boy. He followed the best 750 00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,080 Speaker 1: professional advice there is. But just don't try to find 751 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 1: a job, make a job for yourself exactly, do what 752 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,120 Speaker 1: you love. You'll never work a day in your life 753 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,640 Speaker 1: and so yeah, then he winds up. Also like on 754 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:56,839 Speaker 1: the TV, what's your ridiculous takeaway? Dude? Donald is um 755 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,440 Speaker 1: flat out one word Donald? Why would you go with 756 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 1: Donald is M when goofy ism is right there? Do 757 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 1: the duck sound again? That's just an angry Donald duck? 758 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,520 Speaker 1: Does that should be your ring tone? Do people still 759 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,600 Speaker 1: do ring tones? Everyone I know keeps their phone on 760 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,200 Speaker 1: vibrate all the time. Yeah. Always. But like I used 761 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,640 Speaker 1: to like having ringtones for all the different people, like 762 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,600 Speaker 1: out of individual ones, and then I'd have like, you know, 763 00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:27,120 Speaker 1: the Rockford Files theme song for everyone who wasn't somebody 764 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,040 Speaker 1: who had to think a song so Rockford Files. I mean, 765 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:31,719 Speaker 1: I would get to listen to becuse I wouldn't answer, 766 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,040 Speaker 1: So I got to listen to that song all the 767 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:36,279 Speaker 1: way through it. The best I had Hornpiper's Lament, that 768 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:40,239 Speaker 1: like Popeye song on the MIDI version of it, and 769 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,040 Speaker 1: I used to put it at full volume because there's 770 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,680 Speaker 1: nothing funnier than like you're walking around and that comes 771 00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,200 Speaker 1: out of your person. You're like, what, I don't know 772 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:53,960 Speaker 1: what that is? Um, my ridiculous takeaway? I keep thinking 773 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:58,279 Speaker 1: of the quote from Hans Aust the Donald representative. Yes, 774 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,719 Speaker 1: the guy from Donald is that Donald does him? Dude? Um, 775 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:05,200 Speaker 1: he had this other quote quote I wish somehow that 776 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,560 Speaker 1: he had just gotten away with the money and vanished. 777 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,480 Speaker 1: Now it turns out he's just an ordinary human being 778 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,640 Speaker 1: who makes mistakes like everyone else. The legend is gone. Wow, 779 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:18,640 Speaker 1: that's cold blooded. He's like I thought he was something special, 780 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:24,120 Speaker 1: but I thought he was a mart man. Then he 781 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:30,640 Speaker 1: will bleed. He's a terrible disappointment. Yeahs since just an 782 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,640 Speaker 1: ordinary human being who makes mistakes like everyone else, which 783 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,160 Speaker 1: is like kind of everybody were talking about. That's the 784 00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:41,440 Speaker 1: whole bag. The legends gone like, yeah, Hans Aust what 785 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,560 Speaker 1: have you done in your life that this is this 786 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:48,160 Speaker 1: entertaining Donald? How many infallible people do you you really 787 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,399 Speaker 1: want to hang out with or know about? I mean zero, 788 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,279 Speaker 1: gotta love the flaws. Um, that's it. That's enough. I'm 789 00:48:55,360 --> 00:49:02,680 Speaker 1: done and exhausted. That's us for us to day. Yeah. 790 00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,560 Speaker 1: You can find us online at Ridiculous Crime on both 791 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:10,520 Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram. Hey, hey pal, you've got a tip 792 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,320 Speaker 1: for us about a ridiculous crime that you want to 793 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,400 Speaker 1: hear about. You want to confessed wood ridiculous Crime? 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