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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Hello,

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Speaker 1: and this is stuff you should know? Yes right, indeed, So, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? I'm good and well yourself. That's enough, pansy, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: You know they've been arrested a couple of times. I

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Speaker 1: do know that, and I have not, as you know,

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Speaker 1: and you're very fortunate. It's not a pleasant experience. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you get booked, yes, right, the fingerprint you sure?

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Speaker 1: They make fun of how fat you look. They take

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Speaker 1: all the things out of your pockets. Yea, and keep

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Speaker 1: them not whatever. Know, they give them back. They carefully

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Speaker 1: catalog everything except any hundred dollar bills you have on you.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a mug shot? I do? And actually

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Speaker 1: when they took my mug shot, I was smiling and

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Speaker 1: they thought it was funny, so they blew it out

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Speaker 1: full size and hung it on the processing center wall. Really, yeah,

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Speaker 1: now do you actually have that? They don't give you

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Speaker 1: a copy, that dud I do really. Yeah, I asked

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Speaker 1: for a copy. You should have to find it somewhere. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: should see if you're famous enough to get on the

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Speaker 1: Smoking Gun Yeah, the smoking guy. Yeah, I'm not. You're

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Speaker 1: not people like who. Yeah, there there is a munk

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Speaker 1: shot out there. So if anything ever happens to us,

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Speaker 1: then it'll it'll surface, I'm sure. Yeah. Um, but I'm

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Speaker 1: here to tell you that you can get out of

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Speaker 1: jail if your bail is set like five thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: and all you have is five hundred. Not a bad deal, No,

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Speaker 1: especially if you have a friend who's willing to come

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Speaker 1: lend you five dollars to get out. Yeah. Sure, But

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Speaker 1: how would you do that, Chuck? How what kind of

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Speaker 1: sense does that make? If you're If you're bail, the

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Speaker 1: amount that's required to release you from jail until your

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Speaker 1: get out for five? Well? I would I would think

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Speaker 1: that that's some sort of security type of deposit kind

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Speaker 1: talking about bail? We're talking about bond buddy, Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to officially introduce the Bail Show we're

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Speaker 1: doing a two parter here, right, Yes, this was brought

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Speaker 1: to our attention by listener Steve who saw a little

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Speaker 1: MPR thing on bail, and Josh happened to hear the

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Speaker 1: same one, right yeah, and found it very interesting. Right. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was a three part um. It was a three

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Speaker 1: part series on MPR from Laura Sullivan who really got

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Speaker 1: to the heart of the matter and kind of exposed

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Speaker 1: a pretty serious racket that's going on here in the

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Speaker 1: United States that unfairly burdened the poor. Well, we'll get

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Speaker 1: to that, but we want to cover bail first, and

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Speaker 1: then part two of the series will be Bounty Hunters.

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Speaker 1: So when we don't talk about that dog jerk in

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Speaker 1: this podcast, don't send us an email. Wait two days

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Speaker 1: and you'll hear all about them. Yeah. Okay, So, like

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Speaker 1: I said, Chuck, bail is basically um money that you

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Speaker 1: after you're arrested. Right, Yeah, how this all start? Well, frankly,

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Speaker 1: it started a long time ago, Chuck. It started in

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Speaker 1: Well it used to be a person, is that what

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Speaker 1: gonna call? Not ghostbusters, a bail bondsman, Josh, or a bailor? Right,

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Speaker 1: it's another name. Yeah, you remember in Athens they were

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Speaker 1: So Chuck, what what when you call bail bondsman? What

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Speaker 1: you're what? They're gonna put up as a surety bond?

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Speaker 1: also Josh, get friends and family involved to help chip

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Speaker 1: citation bail. That's my favorite kind of bail, is it?

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Speaker 1: very it's it's alone. They're loaning you your freedom. Basically, um, chuck.

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Speaker 1: Dealing with bail bondsman is um the most common way

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Speaker 1: It is Josh, Josh, I'm gonna call this blood transfusion

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