Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio Go
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Duton. Okay, I got a question for you. Know
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous, do I? I I know? I don't think you do.
Speaker 1: I know everything. Okay, I've been talking about this for
Speaker 1: some time, and I know I said it was a trilogy,
Speaker 1: and then now I can't stop. I've got another ridiculous
Speaker 1: food item. No, yes, yes, so uh there's this thing
Speaker 1: called a gonog, which is a waffle based liqueur put
Speaker 1: out by the good folks at a Goo. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: supposed to bring magic of breakfast life to the festive,
Speaker 1: disgusting drink of eggnog. Lego my hangover. So it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's called a gonog Appalachan sip and cream, which sounds
Speaker 1: like a euphemism. Yes, thank you. I'm over here trying
Speaker 1: to about the Dirty Martin. But they describe it quote
Speaker 1: a decadent rum based liqueur with cinnamon and nutmeg flavor notes.
Speaker 1: So it's it's got the eggs, which you kind of
Speaker 1: associate with kids eating egosa kids food, so not for kids. Um,
Speaker 1: not really a breakfast thing either. So this would be
Speaker 1: like if there was like a pop tart cocktails where
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to believe this is for adults. I believe
Speaker 1: that people are going to be slamming these at sorority houses.
Speaker 1: So the press release said quote paired perfectly with our ego.
Speaker 1: Thick and fluffy waffles, maybe even topped with the dollarp
Speaker 1: of ice cream. Ego nog is sure to help parents
Speaker 1: lego during one of the busiest times of the year.
Speaker 1: So this is for parents to get liquored up in
Speaker 1: the morning. Parents are like, Look, inflation is high. I
Speaker 1: can only afford three presents for my six kids. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna tie on on with some egg nog home
Speaker 1: right through the holiday. I'm gonna sit out in the
Speaker 1: Ford Explorer in the driveway, pretending the kids cannot see me. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: lego my egnog there is. That's ridiculous. I think that's
Speaker 1: maybe even a step past ridiculous. I got to tell you,
Speaker 1: that's not the end of my ridiculous food. You promise
Speaker 1: the moment I find one, the moment I will share it.
Speaker 1: I cannot be stopped. Damn it. Fine, din't keep making
Speaker 1: me picture they you know I used to like food. Nope,
Speaker 1: not anymore. My work here is done between this and well, anyway, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: I've got one for you that is ridiculous. In fact,
Speaker 1: I've got multiple ones for you. I bet you did.
Speaker 1: This is a three header. Oh yeah, so you know
Speaker 1: how I like to go fast? Yes, yeah, okay, right, Well,
Speaker 1: and I may or may not have driven a stolen
Speaker 1: car or two in the past. Not saying I did,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I may have. Hypothetically those are fun
Speaker 1: to drive fast because it's not yours. Right now, let's
Speaker 1: just say, well, I've got one for you today. Okay.
Speaker 1: This one is like I just love these stories. This
Speaker 1: is a couple of kids, A couple of stories about
Speaker 1: a couple of kids, and these kids who are driving
Speaker 1: fast in stolen cars. I love this so much. This
Speaker 1: is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers
Speaker 1: and cons. It's always murder free and ridiculous, now, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: Typically we focus on stories about criminal adults, all right,
Speaker 1: And we've covered some fathers and sons, we've covered some families.
Speaker 1: We haven't really covered kids doing the criming. Notionally, I
Speaker 1: figured it's time. Were you on sealing some records? Right now?
Speaker 1: The day has come and my parents are willing to
Speaker 1: face the music. No, this is not about you know.
Speaker 1: This is a ridiculous crime story of kids and stolen cars,
Speaker 1: and it's multiple kids. Because I'm here for this, they're
Speaker 1: just so much fun. Now, just I don't know if
Speaker 1: I just for context will say, I want to give
Speaker 1: you an example. This is what it's like when you
Speaker 1: talk about an adult crime story, right, okay, just really quickly,
Speaker 1: one day in July and the tiny town of Newburg, Oregon.
Speaker 1: This is a hamlet that's home to about people. It's
Speaker 1: outside of Portland. It's like a suburb. It's also a
Speaker 1: college town home to George Fox University. And it's also
Speaker 1: the site of where Randy Lee Cooper, twenty seven year
Speaker 1: old amateur car thief, decided to pick up a Toyota
Speaker 1: land Cruiser and he's like a nice bet, I got
Speaker 1: this one right. And he's like all stoked on his
Speaker 1: stolen car and he starts trying to like tear all
Speaker 1: the way through sleepy downtown Newburgh. The car's owner it's
Speaker 1: quick to spot Randy Lee Cooper and he calls the cops,
Speaker 1: and the cops, being that it's a small town, they
Speaker 1: got nothing to do, so they roll out in force.
Speaker 1: They create a drag nets. They're gonna find the stolen
Speaker 1: car right now. Randy Lee Cooper, he gets spotted cruising
Speaker 1: through downtown Newburg doing his like best impression of Nick
Speaker 1: Cage and gone in sixty seconds. And the dude, like
Speaker 1: you know, catches the attention to all these small town cops. Right.
Speaker 1: So Randy Lee Cooper is like, oh snap, and he
Speaker 1: decides I'm going to ditch Johnny Law. Right, so he
Speaker 1: goes tearing off. He makes this hard turn on some
Speaker 1: side street and slams into another car, into a Buick Regal. Right,
Speaker 1: his stolen whip wrecked, right, the Buick Regal. It's not
Speaker 1: looking too good, right, Randy Lee Cooper. He immediately gets busted.
Speaker 1: They cuff him, stuff him stolen car. He's going to jail.
Speaker 1: They go to check on the driver of the Buick Regal.
Speaker 1: Her name Kristin Bega or beg it's b e g
Speaker 1: u E. I don't know beg A so Christino, twenty
Speaker 1: five year old Newberg local. She's the one behind the
Speaker 1: wheel of the Bullick Regal. Right, surprisingly chill about the
Speaker 1: whole thing. She's just telling the cop to it's fine,
Speaker 1: I just I just need to get home, and they're like, ma'am,
Speaker 1: you were just you got slammed into Do you want
Speaker 1: to follow the police report? Your insurance is gonna And
Speaker 1: they started noticing that there's a reason why she's surprisingly
Speaker 1: chill about getting hit and being involved in this police
Speaker 1: chase car accident. She's drunk. She's drunk as hell, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Kristin right, So the cops run her license and they
Speaker 1: discovered that the Buick regal the plates. Once they run those,
Speaker 1: that cars also stolen. So we have the cops have
Speaker 1: are arrested a Karthie I who runs into a drunk
Speaker 1: driver also driving a stolen caring they all get busted.
Speaker 1: That's an example of ridiculous adults in cars. Yes, the
Speaker 1: story is I'm about to tell you so much better.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Okay, So I'm ready to tell you
Speaker 1: now the story of a whole different bag of crime.
Speaker 1: How kids, Well they do it differently, and frankly I
Speaker 1: root for the kids. You know, they say the darndest
Speaker 1: things too, and they do the darndest crime things. Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: you know, it's way more fun than drunk driving adults
Speaker 1: and stolen cars anything. How about a kid trying to
Speaker 1: drive to California to buy a Lamborghini. Okay, that sounds
Speaker 1: super fun. Right before we get into him. If I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, you're once telling me that you were taught
Speaker 1: to drive when you were really young. Eight eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was taught to driving. I was eight. What do
Speaker 1: you mean, taught to drive like they needed you to
Speaker 1: get to the liquor store or later. This was I
Speaker 1: was at my uncle's house. I was eight, and he
Speaker 1: just decided, you know, I bet you could probably drive
Speaker 1: a car. And so yeah, so we got in the
Speaker 1: car and he showed me how it worked, and we
Speaker 1: drove around the block a few times. Is he like
Speaker 1: in like, are you on his lap? And he's doing
Speaker 1: the steering wheel? You're behind the wheel bind the wheel,
Speaker 1: got a good start. Yeah, it was good stuff. I
Speaker 1: like to go in to visit him. So, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's eight years old and driving a car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, who would not love that? Why is he
Speaker 1: so chill about ladies because he didn't have kids at
Speaker 1: the time. Now he has kids. If I did that
Speaker 1: to his children at that age, oh you're never going
Speaker 1: to see him again. I wouldn't be doing this show,
Speaker 1: I'd be dead. Didn't that funny how that plays? Yeah? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: now as you were eight years old, when you've got
Speaker 1: your start behind the wheel, can you imagine a five
Speaker 1: year old trying to drive an SUV? M Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could see it. Wow, you have a lot more confidence
Speaker 1: than I do. I was like, maybe I was just
Speaker 1: a small kid, Like, there's no way I could see
Speaker 1: over the dashboard even if I was standing in the
Speaker 1: challenges there. And I like, anyway, well, this kid, he's
Speaker 1: a five year old. His name is Adrian Zamaripa, right, Adrian.
Speaker 1: He was home with his sixteen year old sister, Sidney Flores,
Speaker 1: and she was babysitting while both her mom and stepped
Speaker 1: dad her away at work in the family. They live
Speaker 1: in Ogden, Utah. I'm not sure if you know Ogden,
Speaker 1: but it's like nestled up against the rocky mountains. It's
Speaker 1: like one of those high desert type of communities. It's
Speaker 1: a very Utah city, very old school mountaineer looking and
Speaker 1: you know, family town. Right now, around eleven am, Sydney
Speaker 1: lays down to take a nap. Well, young Adrian's like,
Speaker 1: bet I'm free. So young Adrian does whatever he gets
Speaker 1: fixed in his little mind. He's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I need a Lamborghini. Nobody is around. I think now
Speaker 1: is my chance I need? Well wait a second, if
Speaker 1: you've got a kid that is this crafty, you are
Speaker 1: not napping while babysitting that kid. Well yeah, if one
Speaker 1: word paying attention to how crafty kids are, people off
Speaker 1: only believe that kids do what they fear and not
Speaker 1: what kids think they can do. And I love that.
Speaker 1: He's like, I need a Lambo yeah. And he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: and I know they don't sell him in Utah, so
Speaker 1: I need to need to go to California. So's that's
Speaker 1: just in his Mind's like that's where you're going to
Speaker 1: get a Lamborghini. I'm not getting one in Ogden. So
Speaker 1: he's like, okay, I gotta go. How am I gonna
Speaker 1: do this? So he also knew what I forgot. Cars
Speaker 1: cost money. I'm gonna need some cash. So he goes
Speaker 1: up and he's like, this is why I've been saving.
Speaker 1: So he rated his piggy bank and he collected the
Speaker 1: three dollars that he had saved up, shoved that in
Speaker 1: his little jeans pocket, and then how all he needed
Speaker 1: was the way to get to California. So he went
Speaker 1: and he grabbed his parents car keys, like pushed a
Speaker 1: chair up against the wall, grabbed him from where they're
Speaker 1: hanging on a hook. And then Elizabeth, I think the
Speaker 1: best way to convey all this is I'd like you
Speaker 1: to close your eyes. Picture it. Dusty high desert, Ogden.
Speaker 1: The town is nestled up against the jutting rocky mountains.
Speaker 1: They are like a granite wrinkle running across the state.
Speaker 1: It's mid day, still early, a little before noon. You're
Speaker 1: in a borrowed car. You're driving your friends old bakery truck.
Speaker 1: On the side is a giant, smiling bear holding a
Speaker 1: loaf of bread like it's a baby. The bread truck
Speaker 1: is old and it backfires whenever you let off a
Speaker 1: gas too fast, so you're like trying to keep a
Speaker 1: nice even temple. Now you need to get to a
Speaker 1: farmer's market that you promised you'd help a friend run, right,
Speaker 1: and this one's down over in Park City, so you
Speaker 1: gotta drive all the way down to Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: You're not excited about the drive, so you're just hoping
Speaker 1: you in this old ass bread truck can make it.
Speaker 1: So put put putting along. As you're driving out of
Speaker 1: downtown Ogden, you tak the silver suv passes you and
Speaker 1: then urges into traffic in your lane, no turns signal,
Speaker 1: You're like suv drivers. Suv then continues in't just veers
Speaker 1: across your land on the on ramp. Then it veers
Speaker 1: back into the it's original lane. Like how drunk? It's
Speaker 1: this guys, you're wondering, you know, like is this person
Speaker 1: that danger for me in the bread truck? But you
Speaker 1: both merge on the freeway and interestingly, you both do
Speaker 1: real slowly I'm talking real like bread truck slowly, and like,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with him? Slowly? Right? So do you have
Speaker 1: the excuse they have? No, you're clocking them. You're like,
Speaker 1: what's up with the homie and the silver suv? And
Speaker 1: you pull he pulls on real slowly, and it's like
Speaker 1: the driver doesn't know where the gas pedal is or
Speaker 1: like he can't reach It's just something is not right
Speaker 1: about this driver. Meanwhile, the freeway outside of Ogden not
Speaker 1: too busy. It's midday, about eleven o'clock on a weekday,
Speaker 1: so not a lot of traffic. It's just you, your
Speaker 1: bread truck few tourists and some minivans and SUVs, a
Speaker 1: few hybrids, some big rigs, and this guy is so rescued,
Speaker 1: he just swerving across all the lanes of traffic. You're like,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do with this guy? Because
Speaker 1: you can't really get ahead of them because you're put
Speaker 1: putting along on your bread truck and you're worried someone
Speaker 1: else is getting into a bad accident. You really don't
Speaker 1: know if you You almost don't want to leave them.
Speaker 1: You want to kind of like keep people away from them, right,
Speaker 1: So you also want to see if this driver is okay.
Speaker 1: So you're like, okay, come on, bread truck. You're pulling
Speaker 1: along as pass as you can up to this STV.
Speaker 1: Luckily it's not too hard because the SUV's one about
Speaker 1: thirty seven miles. So you catch the suv and then
Speaker 1: you look over and you see the driver. What's going
Speaker 1: on with them? They had a stroke or something? Nope,
Speaker 1: driver is just really short and you look you see
Speaker 1: through the window it's a kid. It's a five year
Speaker 1: old kids driving. He's just got a big old grant.
Speaker 1: He's smile and he waves to you. You way back,
Speaker 1: and you're like, wait, why did I do back? What's
Speaker 1: wrong with me? And he's holding onto the steering wheel
Speaker 1: with both hands and he's got this huge smile. All right.
Speaker 1: You're just like, that's so, he's not scared, not scared
Speaker 1: at all. Kids just cruising on the freeway. He's on
Speaker 1: the wedding to get a lambo. He's he's hills, he's going. Now.
Speaker 1: You're like, what wait, what are we gonna do? You're like,
Speaker 1: this poor kiddy, and you're looking there's no parents, there's
Speaker 1: no adults. You don't know what to do. You see
Speaker 1: behind you in the rear of vie a cop coming
Speaker 1: down the freeway. You're like, oh, thank goodness. So you
Speaker 1: just keep basically pacing this suv trying to keep them
Speaker 1: like between you and the media. Right, yeah, cop comes through,
Speaker 1: traffic doesn't notice you are the suv going thirty SIPs
Speaker 1: through and disappears. You're like, are you the one time
Speaker 1: I needed to come? I didn't I call the police? Though?
Speaker 1: Why didn't I call her? Cell phone doesn't work? It's
Speaker 1: because that's why you're going to the farmer's market. You
Speaker 1: need the bill to pay your cell phone, so you
Speaker 1: got no you got no bust cell phone, I don't
Speaker 1: know the TV radio and this sweet You got basically
Speaker 1: a bullhorn and some gumption. So yeah, that's that's the story.
Speaker 1: So Elizabeth doesn't story. Yeah, I got some gumption in
Speaker 1: a bullhorn. So as you are pacing this suv, you
Speaker 1: see a second highway patrol further back on the freeway.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, this is my chance. So you decide,
Speaker 1: you know what, last time I had the guy foxed in,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move over one lane and give him the
Speaker 1: room to rome. Yeah, so you do exactly that, and
Speaker 1: he does exactly what you think. Is the kids all excited.
Speaker 1: He swears from one lane back into another lane into
Speaker 1: the other lane. Cop season yeah, pulls in right behind him.
Speaker 1: You're like, dank god. And then you get backcands next
Speaker 1: to the suv. Cop turns on the lights. The bubble
Speaker 1: gum machine lights flare on. You're like, I get him.
Speaker 1: Not that you want to see the kid get busted,
Speaker 1: You're just so you Also, because you know you're curious,
Speaker 1: you pull over to yes, I do, I have to
Speaker 1: pull over and quote unquote check my load. So you
Speaker 1: want to spake sure everything's okay. So you in the
Speaker 1: bread truck pull in front of the silver suv. Cop
Speaker 1: on the highway patrol pulls behind the silver suv and
Speaker 1: you're not watching in the rear heard You're like, I
Speaker 1: gotta see the cops face when he kid. So the
Speaker 1: cop gets out of the car. He's at there on
Speaker 1: the I five freeway on the side. You ta state
Speaker 1: trooper just his belt, just his pistol holster, just his hat,
Speaker 1: gets up and starts walking up to the car. You're like, oh, buddy,
Speaker 1: you are in for one surprise. And right when State
Speaker 1: Trooper Rick Morgan reaches the driver's side window, he flinches.
Speaker 1: He sees the kid. He's like, you're five years old. Wow, okay,
Speaker 1: you hear the t troopers say, And you're like, then yes,
Speaker 1: the kid, Hey kid, where'd you learn to drive a
Speaker 1: car like that? But this point, the kindergartener Adrian I
Speaker 1: hopeful Lamborghini owner of the future. He has driven three
Speaker 1: miles from his home at about an now an average
Speaker 1: of thirty two yeah, and he has safely pulled over
Speaker 1: on an I five freeway. And You're like, this is
Speaker 1: the wildest morning I've seen. And I'm driving a bread
Speaker 1: trust with a bear on the bear on the side.
Speaker 1: Now you will manage to safely get to your farmer's
Speaker 1: market down to Park City because you're busy, but you
Speaker 1: know you are a busy body. But you're also busy,
Speaker 1: so you bounce out and Adrian is safely returned to
Speaker 1: his family after this short break. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: his family did when he gets beat. Okay, Elizabeth, last
Speaker 1: week left you. You were put putting along in your
Speaker 1: bread truck back to park City. You'd safely saved the
Speaker 1: kid from the on the possible freeway disaster. His family
Speaker 1: would be so thankful, hero, you are you easty? You're
Speaker 1: hype yeast. So back at home, his sister Sydney, she
Speaker 1: woken up and she's found that he's missing. Also the
Speaker 1: family car is missing. She freaks out, assumes that somebody
Speaker 1: has come stolen the family car, her brother and taken off.
Speaker 1: So she's like, oh my god, does she calls her parents,
Speaker 1: tells them that's what's happened. The parents rushed back home.
Speaker 1: They're freaking out. They call the police and the police say, um,
Speaker 1: what what was the car that you had stolen? This
Speaker 1: is so resuvated and her son is isn't well. We've
Speaker 1: got some good news for you. We've recovered your car. Coincidentally,
Speaker 1: we also found five year old Adrian. They're like, god,
Speaker 1: did you do that? And they're like, well, we got
Speaker 1: quite a story for you, So come on down to
Speaker 1: the station. Right, this story happy ending as it has
Speaker 1: no bid thing bad happened to Adrian. When it hit
Speaker 1: the local press, he goes national because people see five
Speaker 1: year old car to drive to l A to buy
Speaker 1: Lamborghine either, like, what the heck? And how do you
Speaker 1: think people responded when it went viral? Did everyone go
Speaker 1: after Sydney? Yes, good, but my instinct wasn't. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone gets mad online about Sydney and they say, who
Speaker 1: could leave a kid alone like that? Where would you
Speaker 1: get the idea to steal a car and drive to
Speaker 1: California and buy a sports car? How could his sister
Speaker 1: take a nap with a five year old in the house?
Speaker 1: What's going on in that home? Some folks even called
Speaker 1: for this poor five year old kid to go to
Speaker 1: jail to learn a less Oh no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no right. I would just like to shame Sydney. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to. That's the best punishment of shame. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, though you're sixteen, your babysitting to
Speaker 1: five again, I will drive it home. Almost every five
Speaker 1: year old boy is just beyond a handful and you
Speaker 1: cannot go napping away well, you know, and especially one
Speaker 1: who it's not like a big surprise to them that
Speaker 1: this kid is into he's playing and theft auto or something.
Speaker 1: Who They had never seen him drive a car or
Speaker 1: have any interesting cars, they said, until all he had
Speaker 1: he had one toy when he was too there was
Speaker 1: like one of the little push cars you put kids on.
Speaker 1: It's the only time they've ever seen him be anything
Speaker 1: excited about a car. I don't buy it. I know
Speaker 1: that's what they say. But I got a little bit
Speaker 1: for you about Sydney the sister. Okay, yeah, she said,
Speaker 1: and I quote. The one that hit us the most
Speaker 1: was when a lady said that she wished death on him.
Speaker 1: These people know nothing about what goes on at our house.
Speaker 1: They don't know how hard my parents work. We cannot
Speaker 1: believe how many haters were out there. Someone wished death
Speaker 1: on the boy. Yeah, that's that's who really needs to
Speaker 1: be the focus of this. You need to find that
Speaker 1: that person who I'm sure it was on Facebook. This
Speaker 1: child needs to die, and then I'd like the walk
Speaker 1: me through that. I think me through that hyperbolic though.
Speaker 1: You can't go around saying these things unless you can
Speaker 1: back it up. So tell me what's your thought process
Speaker 1: of murdering a five year How are we going to
Speaker 1: put the kid down? Yeah? How would you do it? Susan?
Speaker 1: And like this is hyperbolic. Speech has the time and
Speaker 1: a place. I'm a fan, but not I just disregard.
Speaker 1: But stuff I really online is hyperbolic. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you don't really mean that because they wouldn't say it
Speaker 1: to your face. No, they wouldn't, but the fact that
Speaker 1: the thought enters their head they type it out even
Speaker 1: if they're just being but they're just like at the top, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're just having an emotional moment where it's
Speaker 1: like this is how I feel, and they're not really
Speaker 1: thinking about You hear this and you think kill the kids?
Speaker 1: I think it's not a good thing. I'm with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wishing death upon a child online probably not your best.
Speaker 1: Like a little boy steals the nest, kill him, murdered
Speaker 1: the child? Like what happens if I don't bring my
Speaker 1: trash cans exactly kill her. Well, I've got some more
Speaker 1: good news for you from there's Jeremy Nevus who was
Speaker 1: also reading this story, and he was like pretty much
Speaker 1: the chillest person you can imagine who would read it.
Speaker 1: And why it matters that he read the story is
Speaker 1: he was a thirty three year old philanthropist and local
Speaker 1: entrepreneur who lived in Ogden. We actually lived in our
Speaker 1: hum Utah, which is not too anyway. So Nive's phone
Speaker 1: the family up and he's like, hey, how's your boy Adrian?
Speaker 1: I saw the news? Or like, how did you had
Speaker 1: our number? He's like a local entrepreneur and get stuff,
Speaker 1: legitimate business and he's like, hey, does he still want
Speaker 1: to take a ride in the Lambo? And they're like,
Speaker 1: are you for real? So this cat, he's got this
Speaker 1: Lamborghini Hurrican. He rings it over to the house and
Speaker 1: he had a personal view because and I quote for him, Hey,
Speaker 1: I was twelve when I took my parents car. This
Speaker 1: kid is five. I couldn't believe it. I thought this
Speaker 1: kid is ambition. He has no fear. This guy goes watchless, watchless.
Speaker 1: He's like, I like that no fear kid attitude. He's like,
Speaker 1: I want to hang out with a five year old watchless, watchless,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't. This is what I liked about what
Speaker 1: he had to say in the press. And he've said, please,
Speaker 1: let's just not focus on the bed. Let's not miss
Speaker 1: the gift and the genius of this little boy. He
Speaker 1: was determined, willing to do whatever it took to go
Speaker 1: after his dream. You don't want that dreaming to stop,
Speaker 1: exactly like a true entrepreneur trying to get a little
Speaker 1: five year olds in your car. And then the family
Speaker 1: went with him. It wasn't just him of the kid.
Speaker 1: How many people can fit in the Lamborghini? Not many,
Speaker 1: but sister Sydney went with him that they took turns
Speaker 1: of the cling onto the hood of the car while
Speaker 1: he worked. Who were the one closest to the story?
Speaker 1: I don't you tell me. I was in the bread
Speaker 1: truck giving chase if you're wondering. No charges were filed
Speaker 1: against Adrian, so there was that. Okay, he was charged.
Speaker 1: They did add extra locks to the family home, so
Speaker 1: there's also that. So you know, that's good. Lots of
Speaker 1: good news on this one, right lo Jack on the
Speaker 1: so for comparison's sake. Let's now bounce over to Australia, Okay,
Speaker 1: because you know they were going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit extra while. Yeah, now we woking from Utah, a
Speaker 1: desert state in the United States, to Australia, a desert
Speaker 1: state on a continent. So we're in Australia. Now. We
Speaker 1: love Australia. We've covered quite a few ridiculous crimes from there.
Speaker 1: They come to us from that beautiful land down under.
Speaker 1: We love y'all. Keep them coming. I have to say
Speaker 1: I didn't really have an opinion one way or the
Speaker 1: other about Australia when we started this show. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: always loved Australia. It's the Texas of the Pacific. Everyone
Speaker 1: I've ever interacted with now is amazing and I love
Speaker 1: them the best's telling the best thing. This story involves
Speaker 1: some older kids, all right, so you don't be so
Speaker 1: nervous this time. There is a fourteen year old boy,
Speaker 1: two thirteen year old and a ten year old girl
Speaker 1: and they are a cluster who are running the streets
Speaker 1: criminal enterpress exactly. So one Saturday in Australia, they decide,
Speaker 1: you know what, we've had enough of our coastal Queensland
Speaker 1: hometown rock Hampton's boring. We need to get out on
Speaker 1: the road, and they decide we need to get the
Speaker 1: big wild world and see more of this continent we
Speaker 1: call home. So you're like, let's drive across Australia. We're
Speaker 1: a couple of kids with some free time. We got
Speaker 1: a week off of school. So they grabbed all the
Speaker 1: cash they had between them and they packed up some
Speaker 1: fishing like they're like on a Huckleberry story and they
Speaker 1: put that in the back of a two thousand four
Speaker 1: Nissan Patrol, which is apparently an Ethan pass finder over
Speaker 1: in Australia. So they grabbed all the cash. They have
Speaker 1: a car the Wishing Poles, and one kid leaves a
Speaker 1: note for his family saying I've gone across AUSTRALIAA be
Speaker 1: back later. I love him. The kids load up and
Speaker 1: boom off on the road. On walk about them. Now,
Speaker 1: if you were to go full huck a bray Fin
Speaker 1: and run away and you're like with a couple of
Speaker 1: your friends, what would your a plan of been like?
Speaker 1: Would you just at that age now that I know
Speaker 1: your plan now, I don't know. I liked the whole
Speaker 1: river life at that point I'd probably want to go
Speaker 1: to like see like a river further up the American
Speaker 1: River and Lazy River it on down. They drove to
Speaker 1: the coast. In order to answer that question, I'd have
Speaker 1: to have friends at the fair enough for me. Well,
Speaker 1: these kids friends as they were, this gang. They all
Speaker 1: load up and they planned to drive a thousand kilometers
Speaker 1: across Australia and to make good time, they decide we'll
Speaker 1: drive in shifts. So the kids are going to drive
Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day in shifts. Were just taking turns, sleeping.
Speaker 1: But early Sunday morning, they about round four five am,
Speaker 1: they pull into this truck stop, the Banana Truck Stop.
Speaker 1: And this truck stop is named for the town of Banana.
Speaker 1: Now it's which is home to hundreds of people. Mind
Speaker 1: you now, if you're wondering, no, Banana Australia was not
Speaker 1: named after the popular fruit, wait zarin. If the town
Speaker 1: is not named after the popular fruit, what has Banana
Speaker 1: Australia named after? Thank you for asking, Elizabeth. The Banana
Speaker 1: crime family. It is also not an Aboriginal world world word.
Speaker 1: That's coincidentally the same. These are all great questions, Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: According to the local press, right now, And I quote,
Speaker 1: Banana is a town of a few hundred people that
Speaker 1: grows no bananas and is named after a dun colored bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the Apparently the bull is named Banana, and it
Speaker 1: was named not after like a named the town after
Speaker 1: a single bowl. This one ball was named Banana. And
Speaker 1: they're like, we should name the town after that bowl.
Speaker 1: We love that ball. And I had to look this
Speaker 1: up because I didn't know it done. I know it
Speaker 1: done as the verb like two done, but I don't
Speaker 1: know it as a as an adjective. Do you And yeah,
Speaker 1: do you know what it is? What color is it?
Speaker 1: It's a slightish brown brownish dark gray color and then
Speaker 1: also a nearly neutral slightly brownish dark gray, so it's
Speaker 1: either way slightly brownish. Yeah. Anyway, So at the banana
Speaker 1: truck stop, cashier Harry White who was not working that
Speaker 1: night on the overnight shift, but wasn't so he wasn't
Speaker 1: there at four thirty five in the morning when they
Speaker 1: pulled in. But when he gets to work, he checks
Speaker 1: the CCTV and he's like, what happened? And it's like,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I'll hyped to find that these kids
Speaker 1: have rolled through and stolen some gas. So he calls
Speaker 1: the cops. Kids came through, the cops coming out, Harry Banana, Harry,
Speaker 1: I got a crime on my hands. So Harry Banana
Speaker 1: calls and the cops are like, we'll be right there.
Speaker 1: So he's like, okay. When the police comes out and
Speaker 1: he's like shows him the footage. He's like, you see this,
Speaker 1: he's they're loading up the gas. See, this guy's one
Speaker 1: cool customer. Now I'm with him, to quote m c a.
Speaker 1: I watched the footage. He was cool as a cucumber
Speaker 1: in a bowl of hot sauce. I'm telling you, Banana
Speaker 1: ain't seen something quite. Sometimes Harry Banana looks and he
Speaker 1: can automatically tell these were kids. Well yeah, because he's
Speaker 1: got that's a good grown up. It's a very good
Speaker 1: point for us. They are some denis Ovian type people
Speaker 1: from the South Micronesia area, and they've just said, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: actually they were kids because they looked like kids. So
Speaker 1: they're like sideways baseball caps and overall they're they're like
Speaker 1: ten eleven. They're not like, you know, quite their raw bone.
Speaker 1: They're showing growth spurs, the benefits of the well, the
Speaker 1: one kid was like apparently like talking to other customers
Speaker 1: there at four thirty five in the morning, and then
Speaker 1: was hanging up the pump, as Harry White recalled, and
Speaker 1: I quote, he turned around to his mate or passenger
Speaker 1: in the car, had a small conversation which I assumed was, Hey,
Speaker 1: they get it ready, we're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 1: And that's when he put in the bowser and got
Speaker 1: in his car and shut the door. It took off.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea what a bowsery
Speaker 1: And in fact, for you, I didn't even look it up.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I'll just tell Elizabeth what is that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a gas pump ratchet, That's that's what.
Speaker 1: It's a ratchet, cas pump ratchet now that's what we're
Speaker 1: just gonna call. Yeah, I assume it's the hanger. I
Speaker 1: don't know. So in the town of glenn And in
Speaker 1: New South Wales, the cops spot the very particular banana Bosa.
Speaker 1: So this banana bowser, Oh wait, where was I? So
Speaker 1: who knows he cares? Traveling in the town of Glenn
Speaker 1: And as cops spot the stolen car because everyone knows
Speaker 1: look for this two thousand four Nissan patrol because the
Speaker 1: cops have been alerting each other right at the wheel,
Speaker 1: they see this thirteen year old right and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's give chase, and so they go after the kid.
Speaker 1: Apparently this kid could handle speed because he ditches the
Speaker 1: cops night. They weren't able to pull the kid over
Speaker 1: and they actually give up the high speed chase and
Speaker 1: they're like, look not say. It's not only the local cops.
Speaker 1: There's also Australian Highway Patrol involved in this chase. None
Speaker 1: of them can catch this kid. And what kind of
Speaker 1: car they in just like a like a Nissan, like
Speaker 1: a like but with lifted It has like one of
Speaker 1: these like like you know in Australia you're gonna be
Speaker 1: driving through rivers, so it has like the air pipe
Speaker 1: that goes over the top and everything. Yeah, so they're
Speaker 1: like ready to go into the red clay and bounce
Speaker 1: around if they have two chasing yangaroos. Suggition the cops right,
Speaker 1: so and the crops and I quote said, there was
Speaker 1: a short pursuit up there with the Highway Patrol and
Speaker 1: due to the ages of the driver and the road conditions,
Speaker 1: that was terminated by the Highway Patrol officers and the
Speaker 1: general duties police that were involved. They're like, we can't
Speaker 1: keep up with this kid. Kids make it to where
Speaker 1: they're going, which is a little town called Grafton six
Speaker 1: hundred miles or a thousand kilometers for those outside of
Speaker 1: the US, and I say, good on your kids. Right
Speaker 1: at ten forty in the morning, they pull into graft
Speaker 1: and like, hey, we made it. Get out the fishing poles.
Speaker 1: But like I told you, the local police have been
Speaker 1: notified all along, so they're just waiting for them. It's
Speaker 1: not not a big town. So when the truck pulls
Speaker 1: in there like that's get out of hey, Gary. So
Speaker 1: they go over and the Highway patrol local cops to
Speaker 1: send on the Nissan. The kids park it, but the
Speaker 1: cops surround the car. The kids look out from inside
Speaker 1: and they talk to each other like anyone want to
Speaker 1: get out. The cops are like banging on the window,
Speaker 1: all right, kids, get out now, all right, come on now,
Speaker 1: and the kids are like, nah, we don't think so, mate.
Speaker 1: They refused to get out of the car. They just
Speaker 1: sit in the car for a while. The cops were like,
Speaker 1: now what do we do? So they're like okay, well
Speaker 1: we have an answer. They get out batons and they
Speaker 1: break the windows and then yanked the kids out of
Speaker 1: the car. But this is where it stops being the
Speaker 1: American police story that we would be just terrified for
Speaker 1: these things, right, and it's but the cops at this point,
Speaker 1: the cops all shut off their their cameras came exactly,
Speaker 1: They're like, okay, we're going off. The kids knocked the
Speaker 1: body cam off. I don't want to tell you know,
Speaker 1: but at press time the story reported and I quote,
Speaker 1: the police have yet to interview the children because they
Speaker 1: cannot be questioned without a parent or guardian being present.
Speaker 1: So the kids they happened to be on a midyear
Speaker 1: break from school and they're dou back in class and Monday.
Speaker 1: They're just like, what's the big ideal? And the parents
Speaker 1: are like yeah, you know, like we're glad. They're okay.
Speaker 1: So if I'm like, I start going, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we were kidnapped and the guy jumped out of the
Speaker 1: truck five minutes five clicks back, Yeah, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for saving us. Now I gotta ask when did
Speaker 1: we stop allowing kids to like leave the house, and
Speaker 1: because like I could leave the house as a kid,
Speaker 1: and I have to be back until it was dark.
Speaker 1: Essentially that was usually the rule. Now is that the nineties?
Speaker 1: Is it the early odds when we're kids no longer
Speaker 1: allowed to just be I think it was like nineties
Speaker 1: and there was all that scare of abductions and stuff
Speaker 1: and the ones we survived. I guess is this also?
Speaker 1: Is this just American kids? Like in Australia, do they
Speaker 1: let those like kids wander the Probably still a lot
Speaker 1: of what I don't know to imagine they're a little
Speaker 1: bit more loose than Yeah, my understanding is that in
Speaker 1: a lot of other countries kids have a little more wileeway.
Speaker 1: Here they call it free range parenting when they let
Speaker 1: the kids kind of just do their thing, which is
Speaker 1: kind of how I was raised. I was branched on
Speaker 1: like I think pass free right, what's what's passed free range?
Speaker 1: Like free grazing, neglect, legal neglect? No, I mean I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, it's definitely a generational thing where
Speaker 1: it's wild to me. Yeah, they were kids can't like
Speaker 1: walk to school or ride their bikes to school or
Speaker 1: just like like you said, get home when it's dark,
Speaker 1: and and that the parents wouldn't imagine that while they're
Speaker 1: out things are bad or can happen to them, and
Speaker 1: that they could handle their own st kids weren't acting
Speaker 1: like they knew. Well now kids have like air tag
Speaker 1: trackers on them and stuff chips behind the ear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the parents log on they can see through
Speaker 1: the kid's eyes because they're not real children, their cyborgs.
Speaker 1: I like your story here. That's what I hear is
Speaker 1: going on house, so I can't tell you what's really happening. Well,
Speaker 1: after this break for ads, we'll be back with my
Speaker 1: favorite story of these three with kids stealing cars and
Speaker 1: driving across country. This last one is about a girl
Speaker 1: in Texas who wanted to your boyfriend who lived in
Speaker 1: another state. Okay, Elizabeth, buck up, buttercup. You ready for
Speaker 1: my favorite story. I'd like you to meet Elizabeth Robinson
Speaker 1: of Cyprus, Texas, was near Houston. Now I'm going to
Speaker 1: show you her picture because I want you to imagine
Speaker 1: her girl Elizabeth right, something of a tomboy. And then
Speaker 1: here's another one of her for it's a school photo.
Speaker 1: What sweetie right, look at that smile? So my girl, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: as I said, something of a tomboy, but yet also
Speaker 1: still very much a Texas girl. She is a you know,
Speaker 1: big hair, closer to God kind of girl. Been all honestly,
Speaker 1: she's like a sweetheart. And in September this thirteen year
Speaker 1: old Elizabeth Robinson decided time to get free. So her mother,
Speaker 1: who was named Tressa Robinson, tries to recall the local
Speaker 1: press at the time, and I quote she had mentioned
Speaker 1: that she was talking to a boy online said he
Speaker 1: was her boyfriend. She started staying in her bedroom more
Speaker 1: isolating her stuff, where she was always with the headset,
Speaker 1: always talking. That's how they communicated through the xbox. So
Speaker 1: her parents don't understand their gamer daughter now xbox love affairs.
Speaker 1: That's probably not something you're familiar, right, isn't it. I
Speaker 1: think that that's the way that a lot of kids
Speaker 1: get around not being allowed to be on cell phones
Speaker 1: or stuff communicators like meet me at the Xbox. I
Speaker 1: don't know how that all work. Mike cousins, meet me
Speaker 1: at the xbox, them log on and we'll just chop.
Speaker 1: I'll be at the shopping mall on my xbox. Alright, Well,
Speaker 1: bring your xbox, much like um, you know, those who
Speaker 1: don't understand those kids hasn't understand their gamer daughter, and
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't know what's going on with this
Speaker 1: xbox love stuff. I don't believe it. I'm just glad
Speaker 1: you're not watching porn, right, So well, and let's hope
Speaker 1: he's not like thirty seven. Yeah. No, So she's thirteen.
Speaker 1: Her boyfriend's twelve. He's age appropriating. Okay, she likes him young,
Speaker 1: she does. It's good for her. So the parents they
Speaker 1: do what they think is good for her because they're
Speaker 1: worried about her being in love with this boy lives
Speaker 1: in different stage. She's becoming withdrawn. So, trying to be
Speaker 1: good parents, they go, what can we do to help Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: Let's take away her xbox. I know it will help
Speaker 1: the situation, that will probably make things better. But what's
Speaker 1: her connection to the world. Why don't we take that away?
Speaker 1: So I don't want to talk to my daughter. I
Speaker 1: just want to shut it down. I just want to
Speaker 1: deny her happiness. So so that was a bridge too
Speaker 1: far for old Elizabeth, first year old girl. She's like,
Speaker 1: time for me to go full on Romeo and Juliet.
Speaker 1: So she starts coming up with a series of bad
Speaker 1: decisions and she's like, uh, completely high on team love,
Speaker 1: thinking about how she's going to go and get to
Speaker 1: her man. Right, man, I made a twelve year old boy.
Speaker 1: It's just all like peach fuzz and his voice. Maybe
Speaker 1: I can't. What do you do her? So what does
Speaker 1: Elizabeth do? Elizabeth? Well, Elizabeth tend to be pretty badass
Speaker 1: heavy girls. She has a plan, a plan for that.
Speaker 1: My girl, Elizabeth sick, I'm gonna get free. Here's my plan,
Speaker 1: go see my man, my tween boyfriend, and I need
Speaker 1: to get there. So How'm gonna get there? First? Steps first,
Speaker 1: So she starts talking to the family. Her mother grows
Speaker 1: a little suspicious. Elizabeth becomes suddenly very curious about the
Speaker 1: average gas mileage of her brother's car. She just keeps
Speaker 1: asking about it, like, well, if he's going like in
Speaker 1: a hilly area, does he get the same kind of
Speaker 1: gas mileage? Amazing? But the mother didn't think too much
Speaker 1: about it, didn't put it together. And now the brother
Speaker 1: he drove because I know you're curious about this terribly
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven Nissan Versa a one year old little subcompact.
Speaker 1: I would imagine. I imagine so imagines getting thirty and
Speaker 1: about peeking out freeway speed kind a governor on it. Now,
Speaker 1: Elizabeth knew her family might be onto her, so she
Speaker 1: decided to buy herself some time. Right, so she pends
Speaker 1: a note to her family. She said, tells her parents
Speaker 1: in the note that she's very upset. She hates school,
Speaker 1: she's being bullied. She's practically suicidal about it, and right
Speaker 1: now she just wants to go on her own. She's
Speaker 1: going to go spend the night at her friend's house.
Speaker 1: Right so that, I hope none of the other stuff
Speaker 1: was true. Was being bullied, she wasn't. I mean, I
Speaker 1: will go out and find those bullies. I know you will,
Speaker 1: and I don't want you to out there and have
Speaker 1: to deal with that and be that. Texas is a
Speaker 1: big state and they take it all to find them. All.
Speaker 1: Turns out she was mostly exaggerating from everything that can
Speaker 1: come from reading the story. All right, She wasn't suicidal,
Speaker 1: wasn't really being bullied. She been it is kids. She
Speaker 1: may have been bullied pathological to the point where she
Speaker 1: was desponded. She's looking around, she goes, you know what
Speaker 1: this sucks? Yeah? It was one more like I hate
Speaker 1: being a thirteen year old girl in high school or
Speaker 1: junior high, which I think a lot of girls can
Speaker 1: really everyone can relate to that. Hated being a thirteen
Speaker 1: year old girl. It was tough on me, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: So Elizabeth's like, Okay, I have my plan. I got
Speaker 1: my brother's guess my always worked out. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: take his car. It's a year old car, should make
Speaker 1: it to the state. I need to get to another thing.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth's love logistics, logistics exactly, so she's like, now, also,
Speaker 1: I'm going to need funding. So she's like, my mom,
Speaker 1: she got that debit card, so I'm just gonna sw
Speaker 1: I bet my brother's car keys, grab those you like,
Speaker 1: you like, and boom She's off drop hops in. The
Speaker 1: car drives away that night, headed to Kentucky. Her mother
Speaker 1: discovers her missing the next morning, which she goes to
Speaker 1: wake her up. Knock knock, knock. It is a bit
Speaker 1: time for breassist an xbox and box sitting there you
Speaker 1: remember this. So she finds the note, freaks out, calls
Speaker 1: the family where she says she's staying over the friend's house.
Speaker 1: Were like, she didn't come over and then now she's terrified, right,
Speaker 1: so she's like, what are we gonna do. They phoned
Speaker 1: the police right panicked, doesn't know what to do. The
Speaker 1: police were like, we'll find her with she probably ran
Speaker 1: off and she's like, no, you don't understand. Her boyfriends
Speaker 1: lives states away, and they're like, oh, that that could
Speaker 1: be bad. So there, do you have any idea where
Speaker 1: her boyfriend lives with the parents, and they go when
Speaker 1: they check her messages or xbox whatever messages the xbox
Speaker 1: and then they find in her email that her boyfriend,
Speaker 1: whose name is Dylan, he lives in Hodgens, phil can
Speaker 1: Hockey and that's where Elizabeth is on her way. So
Speaker 1: now they know where she will arrive. I don't know
Speaker 1: where she is. She's like a Heisenberg's uncertainty of runaways.
Speaker 1: So she left her house in Texas and around nine
Speaker 1: pm on Wednesday night got it okay. Her family phoned
Speaker 1: the police Thursday morning. How old the cops begin tracking
Speaker 1: any use of the mothers stolen credit card? That's the
Speaker 1: best time they have to go, right. Of course, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: being a kid, doesn't think about that, so she pings
Speaker 1: the system when she gets gas in Henderson, Texas. That's
Speaker 1: on Thursday midday. Later that same day, around two pm,
Speaker 1: she's spotted driving through Hope, Arkansas. So now they're doing
Speaker 1: a multi jurisdictional alert for this missing kid. Right, So
Speaker 1: it's an amber alert placed on them pretty much all
Speaker 1: of the local authorities from the multi state area. Right, Hope, Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Isn't that Bill Clinton's birthplace? I'm glad you mentioned that. Yes,
Speaker 1: the birthplace of former President Bill Clinton. Why and former
Speaker 1: presidential hopeful turned banjo appreciator Mike Huckabee. Well, there you go,
Speaker 1: they're both from hell Hope. Around that same time, when
Speaker 1: Elizabeth is breezing through Hope, Arkansas, a Tennessee state trooper
Speaker 1: receives this amber alert, this multi jurisdictional alert, and it's
Speaker 1: Trooper Dwayne Stanford. He's like, he plots Elizabeth's progress on
Speaker 1: his map, he clocks the time that she was making
Speaker 1: and he's like, draws a circle around the screen and
Speaker 1: he's like, Okay. He calculates it if she kept the
Speaker 1: same pace, didn't stop anywhere to get gas, didn't stop
Speaker 1: anywhere to sleep, didn't have to meet any friends, she'd
Speaker 1: be passing by him sometime around ten pm and eleven
Speaker 1: pm that same Thursday night. So just before ten pm,
Speaker 1: he pulls into a speed trap spot. He prefers in
Speaker 1: the medium strip of Interstate forty, the big freeway that
Speaker 1: goes cross country, and he's like, okay, let me just
Speaker 1: wait for this Nissan Versa to go rolling pass. Ain't
Speaker 1: many of those in Arkansas. He's all polishing his spike strip,
Speaker 1: shining work on his pit move in his head. So
Speaker 1: Trooper Dwayne has got it all calculated and true to
Speaker 1: his his math. At ten twenty four, Elizabeth goes zooming passed.
Speaker 1: He's like, look at that headed right to Nashville. So
Speaker 1: Herbert Dwayne throws on the lights, chases after her floors.
Speaker 1: It gives chase and she's like, oh no, And the
Speaker 1: thirteen year old does as the bubble gum lights and struck.
Speaker 1: She pulls over And at this point, Elizabeth, how far
Speaker 1: do you thinks she has driven this other Elizabeth? She's
Speaker 1: in Arkansas at this point, she's just outside in Nashville, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Tennessee state. She's got to get to Kentucky's are he's
Speaker 1: coming from Cyprus, Texas. I would say it would be
Speaker 1: yea big yeah, I don't know. It was a big
Speaker 1: seven ninety miles. She had driven by herself straight. Is
Speaker 1: she wearing an astronaut paper? I've tried to drive that
Speaker 1: kind of pretty much, right, She's like, I'm headed down
Speaker 1: to where's Nassa? Oh? What's the town'st Alabama and houston Ville.
Speaker 1: So the Elizabeth, I'm not sure you've ever tried. I've
Speaker 1: driven twelve eighteen hours in a row. Your but goes now,
Speaker 1: Chad starts to wander, your eyes goes to cross. It
Speaker 1: is really cheap. Ten like it's okay for me. Ten
Speaker 1: is when like it hurts when you get up to
Speaker 1: stand up? Yeah, let's be frank, I start sundown. And
Speaker 1: so she was pulling an inordinate amount of energy out
Speaker 1: of her body, a little thirteen year old body to
Speaker 1: get to her man. Right now, she's likely exhausted and
Speaker 1: being powered entirely by teen love at this point and
Speaker 1: hormones and hormones A right tired? Is she must have been.
Speaker 1: The state trooper pulls her over. She's like panic, but
Speaker 1: not like mean or scared to cry, and she's like,
Speaker 1: how did my parents call you? It's just all matter
Speaker 1: of fact about her right, And she's apprehended without incident.
Speaker 1: The cop doesn't rough her up, doesn't get injured. He
Speaker 1: does the arrest of her own safety and the cops
Speaker 1: then take her in and they contact her parents. Her
Speaker 1: parents are so relieved. So what was her man Dylan
Speaker 1: doing this whole time? Cleaning his room in a flying
Speaker 1: more axe, body spraying, finishing his paper out so we
Speaker 1: had some money to take them out of Her tween
Speaker 1: boy friend Dylan was staying home because when they talked
Speaker 1: on the phone, he told her, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a good idea. Is a good influence? Yes, exactly, she
Speaker 1: goes in every relationship you need, but the one is
Speaker 1: the wild one and the one is the logistical one.
Speaker 1: But so you have the thing of like they're both
Speaker 1: in their minds. This is like the most passionate earth
Speaker 1: break love where she will drive through the night for me,
Speaker 1: I will drive through the night. And it's so serious.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to fast forward, like fifteen years with them, Dylan,
Speaker 1: Lizzie's come here, let's look at this. Let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about this. What do you all remember? Do you have diaries? Now?
Speaker 1: The best part of the story for me, they have
Speaker 1: this show. This is your diary. You're welcome kids, my
Speaker 1: favorite partment. I was reading this story is the part
Speaker 1: I'm about to tell you the end. Okay, that's my favorite.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not just the end, but it's how
Speaker 1: this story ends. Okay, Okay. So Dylan, he was sitting
Speaker 1: there waiting and can tell Uckey and Hogdenville's you know,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't leave his house and he told her,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a good idea, baby, for
Speaker 1: you to come this way or whatever. He said. Now
Speaker 1: she gets arrested, and he doesn't like, you know, Dylan
Speaker 1: doesn't merely find out because the cops don't call Dylan,
Speaker 1: they just call the parents. But the parents when they
Speaker 1: find out the dad, Elizabeth dad, the one who decided
Speaker 1: got to take away this xbox right, the old Texas
Speaker 1: dad taking away the xbox, doing us right for his daughter.
Speaker 1: He drives from Texas the eight miles to get to
Speaker 1: Nashville to pick up his daughter. And you would think
Speaker 1: when this Texas dad gets here, he's gonna be furious,
Speaker 1: when he's gonna read her the ride up one side
Speaker 1: of down and down the other right. Instead, he does
Speaker 1: not scream, he does not shout. He shows up and
Speaker 1: he smiles. He goes, where's my baby girl? And then
Speaker 1: when he sees her, So, baby, you're okay, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm dumb. I'm sure, Daddy. She's like, you he really
Speaker 1: scared us, baby girl, and she's like, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: By the daddy, He's like, well, we need to get
Speaker 1: you to Ogdenville, Kentucky, don't we, And he drives her
Speaker 1: the rest of the way so she can go and
Speaker 1: meet Dylan for the first time because he had to
Speaker 1: make like I broke all up, I'm gonna put you
Speaker 1: two together. And they never met face to face and
Speaker 1: he drove his girl. So that drive from Nashville to
Speaker 1: Ogdenville must have been a sweet one for the two
Speaker 1: of them. Oh yeah, But was it like an episode
Speaker 1: of Catfish when they get there and they see each
Speaker 1: other in real life? Oh wait, you know what, you
Speaker 1: don't look like that team. I believe it was love
Speaker 1: at first sight, moon eyes, hearts in their eyes, like,
Speaker 1: I hope so. Yes, I believe that they were romantic.
Speaker 1: Yes I am. I am the most romantic here going.
Speaker 1: I just hope neither one of them hurt the other.
Speaker 1: Dylan's forty six years old. It turns out he's actually married.
Speaker 1: He's got a twelve year old son who's been using
Speaker 1: his photos. No, Elizabeth, this Elizabeth, We're gonna give her
Speaker 1: the sunshine the rainbow that I believe in, which is
Speaker 1: the dad took them there, and the two of them
Speaker 1: the first they went and they had a Sunday and
Speaker 1: you know, talked about Xbox well, and the dad got
Speaker 1: over his fears that you know, we operate out of
Speaker 1: fear and that turns into anger in those times. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so what's our ridiculous take away. We got to lower
Speaker 1: the driving age. We got to start issuing licenses way earlier.
Speaker 1: People always want it later. I'm like, no, no, I
Speaker 1: see the way these grown folks are driving around here.
Speaker 1: Knock it down a little bit, and also maybe knock
Speaker 1: it down and bring it down to I think like
Speaker 1: we're like if you're like ninety five, Like, look, we're
Speaker 1: letting twelve year old drives, so you can't be on
Speaker 1: the road. I just think we need to be more stringent.
Speaker 1: If this girl, if this Elizabeth could like get in
Speaker 1: the car and hammer down and be safe about it,
Speaker 1: like go ahead. Yeah. My farm family, they all grew
Speaker 1: up driving like the truck to town to the seed
Speaker 1: feed store or whatever and then back because there's nothing
Speaker 1: on the country road, so it's really what you expected
Speaker 1: the children. But then also there are the conditions of
Speaker 1: a country roads very different than driving on you know
Speaker 1: MLK in Oakland. Well, and this is also going to
Speaker 1: get back to something I harp on all the times.
Speaker 1: We need better public transportation infrastructure in this in the country.
Speaker 1: Good point. She could have taken a train that would
Speaker 1: have been super romantic, where she would get on the
Speaker 1: train and then she'd listened to some like singer songwriter
Speaker 1: Indie Rock with her head resting against the window and
Speaker 1: write some poetry about the whole thing. And then Dylan
Speaker 1: could be waiting at the train station could listen to
Speaker 1: Tracy Chapman talk about a fast car instead of having
Speaker 1: to drive one. You don't have to live these things out.
Speaker 1: And then a little one, the five year old, he
Speaker 1: could have just gotten on a train like little Paddington. Well,
Speaker 1: my ridiculous takeaway, Elizabeth, and thank you once again for asking.
Speaker 1: You're so welcome. The kids are going to do what
Speaker 1: kids do to right, and which is that they overestimate.
Speaker 1: And I as a kid beforemer kid, I know this
Speaker 1: is definitely true of me. You overestimate what you're capable,
Speaker 1: and I still do that as an adult. But regardless,
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with kids, it's best not to imagine
Speaker 1: what you think they're capable of, but rather focus on them,
Speaker 1: pay attention to them, and go, what do they think.
Speaker 1: That's what they're gonna do, that's what exactly. It's so
Speaker 1: skewed well, and also a lot of this could have
Speaker 1: like you just talked to the kids. My god, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another one. Maybe talk to your talk to the kid.
Speaker 1: Kids are fun to talk to. Talk to them, they
Speaker 1: say some crazy stuff. It's awesome, the best, and they
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