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Chuck Bryant. 16 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: This is Stuff you Should Know. He to Live and 17 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: Die in. Yes, Chuck just did a little Um, I 18 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: don't even know. That's foreshadowing. I am really off my 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: game today, So you're not, Yeah, yeah, I am? Uh 20 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: what Chuck brought up? See listen, listen to me what 21 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: Chuck brought up um to live in? I want to 22 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: get through this sentence what Chuck brought up to live in? 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: Diane l a for is because we're talking about counterfeiting today, 24 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: and that's the best counterfeit movie in history. It is. 25 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: It is, and we've talked about it before, but I 26 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: think it's worth talking about again. Like you just did. 27 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: It's great, Thank you, You're welcome. Moving on, So, Chuck, counterfeiting, 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 1: as you may or may not know, is a dying crime, 29 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: a lost art. It really is. And actually this is 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: one of those old school types of criminal activity that, um, 31 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: people who are good at it have the respect of 32 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: law enforcement. I was reading an article about this bust 33 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: of some counterfeiting ring and it amounted just some guy 34 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: with an inkjet printer who was printing off you know, terrible, 35 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: terrible currency on fiber paper, right, and um, this secret 36 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: service guy, who's like a twenty two year vet was 37 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: just shook his head and discussed and he's like, it's 38 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: a dying art. Like you just you don't see good 39 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: paper any longer. Yeah, it's definitely a lost art. And um, 40 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: I kind of I know this sounds goofy, but I 41 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: kind of like the idea of since it doesn't have 42 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: that much anymore, I can say this of counterfeiting like 43 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: instead of a thief, anyone can throw a wind a 44 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: chair through a window and go like break into a 45 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: cash register at night. But to think like I'll print money, 46 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: that's so believable that you can pass it. Yeah, it's 47 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: like it was artistry for sure. It is. And um, 48 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: when researching this article, there was a common theme among 49 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 1: these great counterfeitters, these five most successful counterfeitters. Uh that 50 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: they all were just they had tremendous guts. They were 51 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: they tried to break out of jail at every turn. Um. 52 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: And they were just really admirable criminals. Yeah, and must 53 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: of them wrote books about it, which is interesting. It's well, 54 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: it's a good way to make some money afterwards. You 55 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: don't write a book about my life as a as 56 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: a flat screen TV thief, No, And if you do, 57 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: no one reads it. It's self published. So Chuck, let's 58 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: get into this all right, all right, Now we're gonna 59 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: talk about some of these successful counterfeiters, and we should 60 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: also add a caveat here. Successful doesn't mean that they 61 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: never got caught, we don't. We don't know about those 62 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: counterfeit exactly right. The ones who got caught but still 63 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: had these tremendous careers are the ones we're going to 64 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: talk about. And we're gonna do it chronologically, buddy, Starting 65 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: with a guy named Stephen Burrows Steve. He was born 66 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire, Josh in the seventeen hundreds, late sept 67 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: mid seventeen hundreds, and uh was raised throughout the United States. 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: And I think that you have one of the best 69 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: sendences you've ever written in this article, which one from 70 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: an early age. He showed distinct signs of a cute chicanery. 71 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: What did you read that like, Anthony Hopkins? Oh that 72 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: was Anthony Hopkins. Yeah, oh, he said, why did I Yeah, 73 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: that wasn't supposed to be anything. That is my news, 74 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: real voice. That was good, thank you? And he was 75 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: He was a little mischievous guy all his life, it 76 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: sounds like, apparently gained a reputation as the worst boy 77 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: in town. At a very young age. Um, he stole 78 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: a bunch of watermelons from a local farmer, and he 79 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: joined the search party to find the thief that chause 80 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 1: he's smart and I think at age fourteen he ran away, um, 81 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: joined the merchant navy, ended up basically being the de 82 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: facto ship doctor. Well, he deserted, that's right. He went 83 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: to the army, and the army deserted the army, then 84 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: went to college, bailed on college, and then became like 85 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: a de facto doctor on the boat, which led him 86 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: to say, you know what, I could probably get away 87 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: posing his stuff. His father was a clergyman, so he 88 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: decided that he was going to pose as the leader 89 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: of a church, which he did successful least first six months, 90 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: led the congregation like mass everything. Um. And he probably 91 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: could have done that indefinitely because you know, people aren't 92 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: that suspicious of preachers usually. Um. But he got busted 93 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: passing some counterfeit money in Concorde, right Springfield, close enough, Yes, 94 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: And then he was sent to jail. And then he thought, 95 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: I bet a good way to escape from jail would 96 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: be to set the jail on fire. Yeah, and it worked. 97 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: He successfully escaped. Yeah, he fled to Canada actually, and um, 98 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: he I think he did. He get caught again. Well, 99 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: that's where he led. The most serious counterfeiting ring was 100 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: when he went to Canada, right. So he was in Canada, um, 101 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: and he led this ring for years and then suddenly 102 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: he just decided to reform himself. He gave up crime, 103 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: started supporting himself by tutoring wealthy Canadian children or the 104 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: children of wealthy Canadians. I should say. Yes, he founded 105 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: a library and that what he said. Yeah, he became 106 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:04,239 Speaker 1: kind of like got um cultural benefactor up there. Even 107 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: though people were aware of who he was, they still 108 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: respected him because the stuff he did, um, it was 109 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: just so respectable. They're like, he printed some funny bills. 110 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: He built us a library. Yeah, he built a library. 111 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: And he died in eighteen forty. But before that he 112 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: wrote a book, like you said, a lot of them do, 113 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: called Memoirs of my Own Life. That's the best memoir 114 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: title in memoir history, Memoirs of my Own Life. So 115 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: it's still in print. Apparently I haven't read it. I 116 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: haven't either. Well. Moving on. Number four is drum roll 117 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: the Lavender Hill Mob, which I found out was a 118 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: movie from nineteen fifty one with Alec Guinness. We try 119 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: researching them. I know that's all you see is the movie, 120 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 1: but it's unrelated, not related at all. Instead, the Lavender 121 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: Hill Mob actually are a fairly recent origin. They were 122 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: um upper in in the nineties in Great Britain around 123 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: Lavender Hill. I would imagine they were founded by this 124 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: guy named Stephen Jury. And this guy was awesome. He 125 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: was what they call an old school rogue and that's 126 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: a quote. And uh another guy named Kenneth Mainstone who's 127 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: a retired printer, and Jury recruited Mainstone to come up 128 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: with some counterfeiting plates, right right, and they did very successfully. 129 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: And by the way, Jury is widely credited as establishing 130 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: the knockoff perfume market. Yeah. I found he um actually 131 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: bribed a perfumer to get recipes and by the time 132 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: it was all said and done, had bottled five million 133 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: phony Chanelle number five. That a factory in Acapulco making 134 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: stuff if you love Georgio or if you like Georgio, 135 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: you love La Lah and like the little spray Arissault kid. Yeah. Yeah, 136 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: And when it was the last time you were cologne. 137 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: Oh it's been a long time. Yeah, I work alone. 138 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: When I was like seventeen, I think was the last time. 139 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: That's it's about it for me. You know. It's funny. 140 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: When I lived in you my Arizona. All those dudes 141 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: work alone. Yeah, because everybody's sweaty out there. Well, I 142 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: don't know, there's just kind of this there's a different 143 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: culture and they're like, you don't work alone, and they're 144 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,559 Speaker 1: like because they have like Gill in there here. Okay, 145 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: I know the culture you're speaking, the Jersey short type 146 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, okay, So the Leavener Hill mob, right, 147 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: they were very successful. They printed about fifty million pounds 148 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: worth of fake notes, and not pounds by weight, but 149 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 1: pound by you know, the currency currency. They also sold 150 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: fake stamps, which I thought was sort of ingenious. It is, 151 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: but at the same time, it's like, look, you just 152 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: made fifty million pounds of fake currency, and and one 153 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: way to get rid of um, counterfeit money is not 154 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: to just passive, but you can actually sell it for 155 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: you know, pennies on the dollar to people who know 156 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: that it's counterfeit or you're going to go past with themselves. 157 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: But um, even for pennies on the dollar, it's still 158 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: many millions of pounds, and these guys are making stamps 159 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: on the side. Yeah, it was a little i'd Apparently 160 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 1: the first bills didn't work out, so great though. You 161 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: hear about that that the Queen of England looked like 162 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: she had a beard, and so that maybe that's why 163 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: they were making stamps until they perfected the note making, 164 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: which they did because they fooled UV detectors. They got 165 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: so good at it. Yeah, and actually they got good 166 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: enough that the um the Bank of England actually changed 167 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: their design for their twenty pound note because of the 168 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: Lavender Bob's activities and success. Pretty awesome, it is. And 169 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: he wrote a book Joy did before he died. Just 170 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: died a couple of years ago, didn't he two thousand 171 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: six He had center two titles. The first one was 172 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: called Funny Money Decent. The second one was great. Second 173 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,559 Speaker 1: one was called loads of Money. And that's one word, 174 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: loads of loads of Money, the true story of the 175 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: world's lawest ever counterfeiting ring Colin and there is. Well, yeah, 176 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: it kind of classes up your book when you have 177 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: a colon in there, loads of Money. We should write 178 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: a movie about that guy. Alright, chuck onto the Nazis. Yeah, 179 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: I didn't know this. Most people think of the Nazis 180 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: as like the worst fascist state to ever emerge in 181 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: the history of humanity, not the worst state. Ever, not 182 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: first worst because Mussolini wasn't all that successful. Um, you know, 183 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: they they directly murdered ten million marginalized people, um, including Jews, 184 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: Roman Catholics, homosexuals and others. They invaded Poland and France 185 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: and other countries. But they also ran arguably the most 186 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: successful counterfeiting ring in the history of humanity. There were 187 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: a lot of in the history of humanities with Nazis, 188 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: almost all of them were horrible. Actually, all of them 189 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: were horrible. This is the least horrible thing they've ever done, probably, 190 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: but it was going to pan out pretty bad in 191 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: the end. Yeah. They made about six hundred and fifty 192 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: million pound notes, which would be about seven billion bucks today, right, 193 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: which was about of the currency in circulation in Great 194 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: Britain at the time. And their brilliant idea was to 195 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: fly over England and drop cash money from planes. They 196 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: actually figured out and this was called Operation Bernard after Bernard, 197 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: who was an s S officer who's in charge of 198 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: this operation. The head of the operation named the operation 199 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: after himself. Basically, what they did was they went around 200 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: and figured out what nearly dead people in their camps 201 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: used to be printers in the time before the war, 202 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: and they identified them and drafted them to work in 203 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: what was called the Devil's Workshop, which is like a 204 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: secret printing press or printing office. And uh, what is 205 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: it you you you speak to Irman? What camp? Uh? 206 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: Saskatchewan now? Uh Shauschenhausen. Nice chuck. So they had some 207 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: guys there, all assembled to crack the English currency and 208 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 1: and they did successfully, leading to the six fifty million 209 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: pound notes. Yeah, and they well they didn't drop her 210 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: from the plane though they laundered it use some of 211 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: that money to like import things. And this isn't factually 212 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: backed up, but there is a rumor that they actually 213 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: used that money to pay for the rescue of Mussolini. 214 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: Did they really? Yeah, well, they apparently made a bunch 215 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: of cats. They gave the money to a German businessman 216 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: who served as a front form to launder it, and 217 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: he bought anything of value that he could get his 218 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: hands on with this money. And apparently it wasn't a 219 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: secret like Uh. England had known since like nineteen thirty 220 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: nine that this was going on, and they tried to 221 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: close their borders to income and currency, but it didn't 222 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: really work. They finally cracked the American hundred dollar bill. 223 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: Just as their camp was liberated and they they the 224 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: Nazis and these guys were coming. So they took all 225 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: the printing prayer by these guys, the Allies. They took 226 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: the printing stuff and threw it in the lakes, blew 227 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: stuff up with explosives. I don't know why they were 228 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: trying to cover this aspect of the Holocaust up, you know, um, 229 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: and they were about to execute everybody who was involved, 230 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: and the Allies showed up and save the day. Yeah, 231 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: And I think we should point out the idea but 232 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: behind all of this was to undermine the economies of 233 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: England and the United States, or do not point that out, 234 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: which is that's a pretty important part. That was the plan. 235 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: They weren't just like, oh, we'll get English money and 236 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: didn't would buy things because you know, if you have 237 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: a sudden influx of cash, a lot of cash on 238 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: the on the market leads to inflation. Yeah. Yeah, indeed. Uh. 239 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: There was a BBC TV show Josh about this in 240 00:13:54,080 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: called Private Shorts. And then one of the Jewish um 241 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: prisoners forced to do this was named Adolf Burger, and 242 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: he later wrote a book, and that book was turned 243 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: into a movie that won Best Foreign Language Film in 244 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: two thousand eight. H The Counterfeiters in English, don't ask me, 245 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: it was in German. Let's check it out. Yeah, moving on, Chuck, 246 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: Moving on to number two. Charles Ulric. Yes, not related 247 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: to Robert Urick as far as I know, because there's 248 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: two different names. Now. This guy was another um, kind 249 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: of dashing counterfeitter, filled with daring do and he was 250 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: also a ladies man, actually do. I couldn't help There's 251 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: no other better way to describe it. A cute chicanery. Yeah, 252 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: he was a ladies man, right, Yeah, it actually led 253 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: to his downfall, right. He was a polygamist, uh, and 254 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: he wasn't shy about it. He was like Bill Paxston 255 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: for goodness, say right. And this was in the eighteen 256 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: sixties in New York. He and like most of these 257 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: uh counter fitters, he was a gifted engraver of plates. Right. 258 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: So the local mob figures out that this guy is 259 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: a gifted engraver of plates, and the corral um to 260 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: try to get him in well working for them, and 261 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: he does, and he ends up getting in trouble and 262 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: ends up forming his own mob, his own gang, and 263 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: with all the women included. Right. Um, he finally gets 264 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: caught in eighteen sixty eight and stands trial. He was 265 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, and he got twelve years in the federal 266 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: pokey uh and by his own estimation, he printed about 267 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars worth of um phony bills a lot 268 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: of deb back then, which is equal to about one 269 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: point three million in two thousand eight dollars. Right, but 270 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: what was his downfall, Chuck, I said, women, but specifically 271 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: what well like you said, he was a just sort 272 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: of a blatant polygamous, made no bones about it, and 273 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: he engaged, moved all around, engaged in relationships and never 274 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: broke off the old ones. Eventually he moved his wife 275 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: and to live with he and his girlfriend and a 276 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: third woman, and one of them finally said, you know what, 277 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn you in, jerk. Actually all of them 278 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: turned on him, but interesting, and they turned him in. 279 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: And that's that's where the Cincinnati trial came from. Before that, 280 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: he had been um incarcerated, and in the grand tradition 281 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: of counterfeiters, he broke out and actually led the cops 282 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: on a chase across the Niagara River. Like right at 283 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: the falls and made it across actually into Canada and 284 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: escaped and he was like, who's that lady in the 285 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: barrel as he was going, And if that's not daring do, 286 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what that's daring do? My friend, that's 287 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: a cute chickenary. Can you really like that? That's just great? 288 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: All right? The last one, buddy, And this guy's pretty familiar. Yeah, 289 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: everyone's probably heard of Frank a Big Nail because the 290 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: Stevie Spielberg movie Catch Me if you Can, Yeah, Tommy Hanks. 291 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: It was made at a time when Spielberg unwittingly had 292 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: a fake or a stolen Rockefeller in his collection. Yeah, 293 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 1: I love this movie. Did you like it? I liked 294 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: it too. It was just I don't know. It was 295 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: it when spielberget kind of put out some stinkers and 296 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: everything was so serious, and then he just kind of 297 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: did a fun, entertaining heist movie, right, And it's one 298 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: of those movies you can lay on the couch and watch, 299 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: like for the fiftieth time on like a Sunday. Did 300 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: they never show it on TV? Yeah? That was I 301 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: think it ran on like T and T for a 302 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: while because I saw it. Yeah, I love this movie. Um. 303 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: Leo DiCaprio obviously played Frank and a funny story. When 304 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: abcnail found out DiCaprio is going to portray him, he 305 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: was worried because he didn't know if Leonardo DiCaprio would 306 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: be able to be smooth enough to play him accurately. 307 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: He's like the smoothest dude on the planet. He is smooth. 308 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: He's like, oh, Leo, no, I don't think this guy cares. 309 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: I don't think he thinks. Leo DiCaprio holds a candle 310 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: to goodness me, you can land Gazelle. And then also 311 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: can Tom Brady. Well look at him, dude, stud quarterback. Yeah, 312 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 1: but I mean chiseled out of stone. He's a quarterback. 313 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: Shut up, all right. Uh. He did most of his 314 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: work and his teens and twenties, which is the remarkable 315 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: thing about his story. And he was a check forger, yes, 316 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: as anybody who's seen the movie can tell you. Uh. 317 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: And actually, between the ages of sixteen and twenty one, 318 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: he cash more than two point five million dollars in 319 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: fake checks in all fifty states and twenty six countries. Yeah. Yeah, 320 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 1: that's some serious work. And He was also a confidence 321 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: man because he would not only write fake checks, but 322 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: he would masquerade as as you saw in the film, 323 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: like an airline pilot or a doctor or an attorney professor. 324 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: I think he did at one point and fooled everybody. Yeah, 325 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: and he just forged whatever documents he needed to prove 326 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: that he had the education or training or resume or 327 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: whatever and get hired, which made him a good comment, 328 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: which made him chuck smooth. He said, catch me if 329 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: you can. Few things here, Josh, that are similar and 330 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: different from real life and in the movie, because they 331 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: always beef it up a little bit in the movies. 332 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: He did actually um pose as a federal agent when 333 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: they busted in on him and kind of snuck out 334 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: the back door. Said keep looking. Yeah, he ordered the 335 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: fens who were looking for him to keep looking. He 336 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: said he was like a treasury agent or something. Absolutely 337 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: and yeah, and he was their first. Um he actually 338 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 1: did escape from a moving plane taxing on the runway. 339 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,719 Speaker 1: That's pretty seriously, that's awesome. That really happened. However, in 340 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: real life he never saw his father again after he 341 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: left home, and uh, he he had a real problem 342 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: with his parents. Divorced. I mean, like more so than 343 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: any kid I've ever heard. Like, he would fantasize about 344 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,479 Speaker 1: meeting his parents again and then being proud of him, 345 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: and then getting back together because they were proud of 346 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: his exploits weird. It's kind of like Ralphie dreaming that 347 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 1: he was going to go blind from having to eat 348 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: soap for swearing. You remember it was so poisoning. Uh. 349 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: He was one of four kids, and in the movie, 350 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: I think he was an only child. Um Hannity the 351 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: character hand Ratty, the character hand Ratty, Tom Hanks character. Yeah, 352 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: it was actually got named Joe Shay. They changed his name. Yeah, 353 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: I don't know why because they said in the original 354 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: script it was Joe Shay and I could never find 355 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: any reason why they changed it to hand Ready. Did 356 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: they say anything about Captain America? Did he use the 357 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 1: Captain America alias? No, I didn't notice. Uh. He was 358 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: in the film actually as one of the French policemen 359 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: that nabbed him. Yeah, he had a cameo, yeah, because 360 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: he did a stint in the French jail, French prison, 361 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: French prison. He uh is actually married married a woman 362 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: as soon as he went straight. He married a woman, 363 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 1: still married to her today. It's got three sons, and 364 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: one of his sons is a federal agent. And he 365 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: did remain friends with Tom Hanks or not, but yeah, 366 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: and he does, uh, he does consulting on like identity 367 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: fraud and you know, bank security and stuff like that. Right. Yeah, 368 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: everyone on your list wrote a book except for number 369 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: two Charles or yeah, well in the Nazis Yeah, but 370 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: the other the guy wrote actually one of the guys involved, 371 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: Charles Ulrich was just too too involved with the ladies. 372 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: I guess waste time write in a book. You should 373 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: write a book about that, Chuck. Do you want to 374 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: finish this? Finish? You want to wrap this turkey up exactly? 375 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: This episode of stuff you should know is brought to 376 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: you by go to Meeting, the affordable way to meet 377 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: with clients and colleagues for your free thirty day trial. 378 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: Is it go to meeting dot com slash stuff. Okay, 379 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: So if you want to see some pictures about the 380 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: guys that we were just talking about, one I couldn't find, 381 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: so I used a picture of Dartmouth College. It is 382 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,919 Speaker 1: the best I could come up with, and I apologize 383 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: for that. Sorry. You can type in counterfeitters CEO you 384 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: A T E R F E I T E R 385 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 1: S in the handy search part how stuff works dot Com, 386 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: which leads us to the listener mail Thank the Lord, Josh, 387 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this sinister, Eats wrote in Yeah, we 388 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: got a bunch of them. We did schooled another out 389 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: there being all weird. Uh this is uh three quickies. 390 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: I edited them down, guys um first ones from Jonathan. 391 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: When I hear spoken words, I see the written forms 392 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: of the words in my visual field. I see them 393 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: much the same way I see a memory. They don't 394 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: scroll across my visual field like a stock ticker, whether 395 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: they appear in flashes and seemingly random positions and sizes. 396 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: I see the words most clearly when I'm deeply focused 397 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: on the content of speech, like at a lecture or 398 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: when I'm listening to lyricize music. I often see even 399 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 1: see words when I'm dreaming. As for the color, the 400 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: best I can do is say that they are a 401 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: generic Sands seraph aunt white, filled with black boarders. And 402 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: he's a researcher at you see San Diego, he said, 403 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: perhaps I should just ask Professor um Ramakan drawn next time, 404 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: he's sitting across from me at Perk's Cafe, and that's like, dude, 405 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 1: if you see that, Yeah, I'm glad that we could 406 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 1: bring these two together. It's like the mom with her 407 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: son who went off to college. That's right. So that's 408 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: from Jonathan. Here's the second one from Ben. When I 409 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: was eight or nine years old, my best friend moved 410 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: to another town that summer. After not hearing from him 411 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: in a while, I decided to give him a call. 412 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: Once I walked home from another friend's house. A couple 413 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: of seconds later, my right wrist suddenly had an intense 414 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: pain and throbbing for no apparent reason. I I sed 415 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: my wrist. It made it feel better, and when I 416 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: got home, I was still very confused why I happened. 417 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: I called my best friend to tell him about this 418 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: weird thing, only to discover that he was also in pain, 419 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: waiting for his mom to get him to the hospital. 420 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: Seems See and his brother were playing Indiana Jones and 421 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: the Escape from the Closing Garage Door when he landed 422 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: the wrong way and busted his right wrist. I'm a 423 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: pretty logical guy, but that is really creepy, and a 424 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: true is that the work of neurons or a minor 425 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: psychic event, who knows, who knows? And this last one 426 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: is from Jordan and New Zealand. He's at Kiwi. Would 427 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: love New Zealand. I associate all numbers and letters with colors, 428 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: and my mother and I also used to argue at 429 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: times about what color a letter is, just like Navoco. Yeah, 430 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: and they didn't know that they were sinnisty. It's state 431 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: awesome police though, what a bad show that was. I 432 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: thought it might also interest you to know that I 433 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: experienced music as a projection of colors. I can only 434 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: explain it as a sort of mixture of fireworks and 435 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: a fountain cool. Uh, stream of water shoots in the air, 436 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: changes colors in the shape and relation to the music. 437 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 1: Allowed beat is annoying because it's like a pulse ripple 438 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: in the pond. It distracts and muddies the other tones. 439 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: Although it's sometimes annoying, I find music distracting. Uh, it 440 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: can get distracting, and I still find it very difficult 441 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 1: to focus on a kind versation that there's too much 442 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: background noise or music. But now it can actually mute 443 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: partially mute colors. So I can concentrate on music. While 444 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: I still see no colors, I do see the explosions, 445 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: so like a classical piano pieces, really intense, he says. 446 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: He still sees Oh, I'm sorry. He still sees colors 447 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,959 Speaker 1: and explosions even though he's muted it, but he's lessened 448 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: it to the point where he can actually listen to 449 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: music and not go crazy. Goodness, I'm having an off 450 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 1: day two. Um wait, what do you mean too? If 451 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,160 Speaker 1: I'm talking to someone in music is playing in the background, 452 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 1: I can focus on the speaker much easier than I 453 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: was previously able, thanks to his new muting ability. So 454 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: it's from Jordan and New Zealand's and we heard from 455 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: other Synis seats and I just couldn't get them all 456 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: in the air. So thanks. We heard from one guy 457 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: who was like, wait, I thought everybody saw the date 458 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: physically wrap around them, right. Yeah, this is pretty cool. Yeah. 459 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: Join us on Facebook and Twitter. Yes, please do at 460 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: s Y s K podcast for Twitter and just look 461 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: up stuff you should know. Um, website, I think it's 462 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: called website on Facebook. Yeah, do those things? An email 463 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: about anything at all? 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