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Speaker 1: what's up, Elizabeth Dutton? You know it's ridiculous. Oh I

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Speaker 1: do actually okay. Pickle laws in the pickle pickle like

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Speaker 1: I like it. I'm gonna go drop pickle. In Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: thos that is a law against grease pigs. So in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: and you get yourself a pig, you grease them up

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Speaker 1: all about it. That's ridiculous, Thank you. Um you want

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Speaker 1: love our listeners. They have great messages, emails, like really

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Speaker 1: smart folks. They're amazing, and I'm about to unleash them today. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm Elizabeth Dutton and with me is Szaren Burnett. And

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Speaker 1: this is Ridiculous Crime a podcast, and it is about

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

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Speaker 1: free and guess what ridiculous like about it. Yeah, as

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Speaker 1: everybody who's anybody knows, we and all of our episodes,

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Speaker 1: their lights on and cruise on over. This is so good.

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Speaker 1: The guy at this point is very confused. The cops

427
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: checked the serial number with Johnny against the police report

428
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: and see it matches. They arrest the guy, and they

429
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: even let Johnny take the guitar back to the shop.

430
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: I guess the guy decided not to run because they

431
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Speaker 1: had his phone numbers. It's like stuck. He rolls up

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Speaker 1: with a guitar in hand, like a hero. We all

433
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: rejoice and cheer while he tells us what happened. Then

434
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Speaker 1: his phone is ringing. It's the number he called for

435
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Speaker 1: the AD. A woman is on the other end. Hey,

436
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: you were supposed to meet my boyfriend about a guitar earlier. Yeah.

437
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: I just met up with him. Oh he hasn't come

438
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: back yet. It's so weird. Did he end up getting Like?

439
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: Did you end up getting the guitar? Yeah? Sure I did.

440
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: I love it. Oh okay, well I guess they'll be

441
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: back soon. And she hung up. Oh he could have

442
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: told her to pick her up, come up a book

443
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: about we were all riding the high for the rest

444
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: of the day. She called him back about an hour later,

445
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: cussing and swearing and threatening him. He hung up and

446
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: blocked the number. Oh man, you gotta keep that number live. Eventually,

447
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: Johnny did have to actually go give some kind of

448
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: testimony slash statement in the case. The whole thing was

449
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: pretty surreal. But I'll never forget the time we conned

450
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Speaker 1: a thief into just handing back our stolen property. Isn't

451
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: that a great story? I love that. I love that

452
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: they did their own sting. They arranged it all. Send

453
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Speaker 1: it all up, Johnny, you weren't here yesterday. Okay, you'll

454
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Speaker 1: be your appointment. Um. We also we got a line

455
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: on some ridiculous content from a guy named Justin. Justin

456
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: he emailed us. He said, a couple of years ago,

457
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 1: some friends and I were backpacking in Glacier National Park.

458
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: While in town to get supplies, we stumbled upon the

459
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: most absurd police blodder ever in the local news paper.

460
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: We determined it was impossible to read without laughing. And

461
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: then he gives us a link to the Flathead beaconspaper.

462
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: The newspaper he said, the older ones are better than

463
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 1: the more recent ones, but they are all great. I

464
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: have greatly enjoyed the podcast. Me too, Me too. Justin

465
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 1: all right, So let me give you a sample of

466
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Speaker 1: what was going on in in January eight. I went

467
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: back to early six thirty am, the animal warden picked

468
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: up three black lab puppies on the side of Pleasant

469
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,479
Speaker 1: Valley Road and took them to the shelter. Al Right,

470
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Speaker 1: it starts off the day. Nine oh seven am, a

471
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: resident on Haywire Gulch called to report dogs at large,

472
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: seeing a theme. Six am, another Haywire Gulch resident called

473
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Speaker 1: in to complain about an unknown number of dogs running loose,

474
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: embarking this is like leading up to when the dogs

475
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: took over the town. If you heard about the eleven

476
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 1: am someone on Pleasant View Drive reported that a thief

477
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: had stolen their ice fishing auger and pole. Oh, we're

478
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 1: getting some real crime now. Eleven twelve am someone came

479
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: into the Sheriff's department lobby to report they had recently

480
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: purchased something on eBay but have yet to receive it.

481
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: There was an auger and a pole. I know that,

482
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: like if I don't get a package straight to the fuzz.

483
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: Eighteen am a black lab on Scarborough Avenue is continuously

484
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: barking and and pole. One PM, two pairs of skis

485
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: were stolen at Big Mountain. Yeah, someone needs to get

486
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: to the lake to ice fishing. To PM, a bull

487
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: terrier on went Way charged a man. The animal warden

488
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: couldn't find it, and then PMS is our last call

489
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: the day. A lady called in because her boyfriend, whom

490
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: she had been arguing with, he is a dog. It

491
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: was a black labrador on a pair of skis with

492
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: the ice fishing auger, and he had taken her delivery package.

493
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: What do you think was in the eBay package? Really

494
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: quickly before I finished, a very large mag flashlight to

495
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: go dog looking at night. I see the one right there.

496
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 1: It was dog spotting one of those electric fence som

497
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: A lady called in because her boyfriend, whom she had

498
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: been arguing with, threw a lit cigarette on the bed.

499
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 1: Now that's not her problem, potentially avoiding her mattress warranty.

500
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,719
Speaker 1: She was not pleased. You've got to be kidding me.

501
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, this guy flicked a lit cigarette

502
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: at me. I deserve better than this he could he

503
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: could avoid my cast for Mattress. What did you want

504
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: the cops to do? I don't know, track down what

505
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: if it's the same lady with the eBay I think

506
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: population for the cops show up to check the mattress tags. Oh,

507
00:28:55,040 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: we got real problems there. Oh so, um we've got

508
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: We've got some good stories going on here. Um. I

509
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: have more pause though, collect ourselves. I've got two more

510
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: for when we come back. All right, so zaren. We've

511
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: heard about Gerald number two, I've heard about the duct

512
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: tape bandit, guitar store, hijinks, weird police, blotterer. Now for

513
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: our final two of the episode. Okay, we got an

514
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: email from Greg. Now. Greg is a really good writer

515
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: and he tells a mean story. Here's what he had

516
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: to say. I love the show from cruising Fieri's lambo

517
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: to a succulent Chinese meal to eating Lake Cow bacon

518
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: and the garage was stolen retired Disney Animatronics sharing the couch.

519
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: I've been with y'all from the outset, guys, laying it

520
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: down like he's giving his bona FIDE's here every time.

521
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: You'll get to the end of the show and mentioned

522
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: Keen you in on ridiculous crimes to share with the world.

523
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: I spend the next hour racking my brain. There's got

524
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: to be something I've seen her gotten away with that's

525
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: worthy of a hat tip. And every time I come

526
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: up empty, it was always tomorrow. We do we get.

527
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: We get emails like this. A lot of people, just

528
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: short ones that are like, I'm going to keep looking.

529
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't have anything. It's like a little status update,

530
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: and I enjoy that, so he continues. I do, however,

531
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Speaker 1: have a couple other stories that come to mind off

532
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: the same prompt each week. Short and sweet. They're nothing

533
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: to research and not near long enough to hold an

534
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: entire show, but they'd be great fodder for a mixtape.

535
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: Remember mix tapes before they called them playlists, And you

536
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: could hear the last few seconds of the DJs intro

537
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: that's my era, friends, I love mixed tapes. Um, I'm

538
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: not even sure the second one would be considered a crime,

539
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: but it definitely brushes with crime. I love the crime adjacency.

540
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: So the first one he titles the predicament perpetuated on

541
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: a proprietor by a perpetrator. I had a great uncle

542
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: great in a couple of senses. This was my grandfather's brother,

543
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: who spent one of his nine plus lives as owner

544
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: of a local bar here in the area. Some sucker,

545
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: clearly uneducated on who owned the establishment or on said

546
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: proprietor's reputation, came in one day, stuck a knife across

547
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: the counter and proceeded to demand quote everything in the register.

548
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: This prompted a swift, thorough, and necessary education about whom

549
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: it was he was attempting to larcenize. This is so good,

550
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: so uncle, you gotta come with more than that. Joe obliged,

551
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: grabbed the quote gentleman by the arm at the end

552
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: of which bore the hand which held the knife, used

553
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: this grip to pull himself over the counter, landing on

554
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: slash Tackling said perpetrator relieved him of his knife. Uncle

555
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: back the up. Joe proceeded to beat the living hell

556
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: out of this man. Gregg has got away with word

557
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: vegas painting. Greg's doing a killer picture. This, in keeping

558
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: with the limited details is provided thus far, I will

559
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: suffice the ending to its final outcome. Four blocks down

560
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: the street, police, having been directed from patrons at the

561
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: bar where the onslaught, ensued arrived to find Uncle pull

562
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: that again, I dare you Joe sitting on a fire hydrant,

563
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: calmly burning off a Marlborough with a man at his

564
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: feet in the fetal position, bound by his own belt.

565
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: Hog tied this man and left him four blocks down

566
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: and then from the bar, and then took a smoke break. Yeah. Hey, listen,

567
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: setting on a fire hydrant afternoon, Joe, exciting day. Hey Ben,

568
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: why don't you all stop in for a point? There's

569
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: a great deal of detail left out. I would be

570
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: happy to fill in if you'd like the ken Burns edition.

571
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: Those still a short story, but you get the point.

572
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. It is stuff. It's incredible. I want

573
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: to know where the bar is and if we can

574
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: go very a very special field trip. Okay, his next

575
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: one is America's most What do you weigh anyway? Oh yeah.

576
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: While vacationing at a campground in Pensacola Beach, Florida, we

577
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: returned from whatever excursion the day held to find three

578
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: to four Sheriff's deputies with cruisers parked at and around

579
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: our camper, lights blazing. My dad, never afraid of confrontation,

580
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: bellies out of the Trusty family minivan directly to the

581
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: door of the camper keys at the ready, then, almost

582
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: as an afterthought, turns to an officer and says, is

583
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 1: there something we can help you with? This is a

584
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: family of cool customers. Seriously. Officers by this time had

585
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: converged on the van, mostly passenger side, where my sister, brother,

586
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: my mother, and myself sat frozen despite the degree heat

587
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: and our being enclosed in a park car. That just

588
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: leaves them all in the car and the cops are

589
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: surrounding him. Officer replies, sir, we are here to take

590
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: your wife into custody. Oh nice, Yeah, Greg's mom's going down. Dad,

591
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: straining to look back to his beloved bride. How did

592
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: you manage to get their attention? You've been with us

593
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: all day, total clown. I love this, Mom, unamused again

594
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: several details eighty six for brevity, he says. Officer to

595
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: power stance, one hand on his still holstered side arm,

596
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: ma'am please step out of the vehicle. Dad, You guys

597
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: are serious, Sure, Dad, this is just fun they have

598
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 1: with tourists. Back to Mom, now standing near the van

599
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: with her attending officer frantic on a radio and the

600
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: closest cruiser, Dad says, I told you that gift shop

601
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: had surveillance. Classy, Dad, I don't think they're here for

602
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: jokes officer to to fellow officer, Um, sir, I think

603
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: we're interrupting these people's day. Let's be on our way.

604
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: She doesn't match the description, Dad, what description is that?

605
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: What exactly are you guys here for? Officer proceeds to explain.

606
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: Last night on America's Most Wanted, they did an expose

607
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: on a woman headed south along the Eastern Seaboard fleeing authorities.

608
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: Someone from here in the campground called into the tip

609
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: line stating that she was spotted here on site. I'm

610
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: afraid they were mistaken, though your wife is clearly no

611
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: match for the description we were given the description. That's

612
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 1: exactly what his dad said. What's the description, officer? This

613
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: woman is said to be and Greg inserts, I am

614
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: not making this up. Between three hundred and fifty to

615
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: four hundred pounds and stands five ft two inches tall

616
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: with brown hair. Okay, yeah, Dad, Looking back at my

617
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: mom at five ft six inches with brown hair, probably

618
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: be weighing in at a hundred and two. At the

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00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: heart of the Christmas season, such a good So that's

620
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: kind of a mismatch on here in it he so

621
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 1: the dad says, ha, yeah, I could almost see that,

622
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: but my wife's going to have at least an inch

623
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: or two on her. Smooth dad dripping with class. Long

624
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: story short, the big old suspect they were looking for

625
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: on suspicion of multiple murders? Was it the site directly

626
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: next to us? We actually freaking laid eyes on the woman.

627
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: Dad was right. Do you think the tips are just

628
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: got the lot number wrong? She's like, yeah, over yonder this,

629
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: Dad was right. I think mom is a bit taller

630
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: these two poor mom point being these are just a

631
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: couple of laughs for the camp fire. I could just

632
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: imagine y'all's listener base can probably come through with a

633
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,919
Speaker 1: solid batch of content. I thought it might be fun

634
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: if y'all had a listener Stories episode now and then.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking a minute, and thanks for the show.

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Speaker 1: Holler clear up to one John Gotti stint at the

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Speaker 1: Fed med prison in Springfield. We'll dig something up, Greg Stay,

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Speaker 1: who he cemented our need for listeners stories with that one. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the double thank you Greg, Greg, Greg, you know, we've

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Speaker 1: a lovely tale. This is sort of I I see

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Speaker 1: it this way, like when we get these stories, this

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Speaker 1: is like our virtual bar room chatter. So like if

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Speaker 1: we were just all hanging out with listeners somewhere and

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Speaker 1: you know, telling tales, they get to tell them and

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Speaker 1: then we can share them with everyone else. Um. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of really cool emails in which people

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Speaker 1: tell us their stories. Um, I'm trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: how we can share some of those in a way

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Speaker 1: that does a lot of improper service. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's some really insightful and funny and fascinating ones, but

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Speaker 1: they're they're sort of intricate and long, and I got

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Speaker 1: to figure out how we can present these two people

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Speaker 1: that is, you know, in a way too that that

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Speaker 1: does enough justice to the to the story itself. UM.

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Speaker 1: So if you've sent us some of those you know,

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Speaker 1: extendo stories, like please know we're working on that. Um.

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Speaker 1: But to close us out today and one more and

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Speaker 1: and to a previous one. And I uh huh, I

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Speaker 1: give you, Charlotte C. She writes, Hey, Elizabeth Dutton, Hey

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Speaker 1: Saron Burnett, do you know it's ridiculous After listening to

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Speaker 1: your podcast on Sir Francis Drake, I have found a

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Speaker 1: framed replica of the fake Californian brass Drake's plate in

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Speaker 1: the UK. Yes, break this down for a second. A

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Speaker 1: framed replica of the hoax plate. Yeah. So she found

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Speaker 1: a copy of the hoax but in the original like

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Speaker 1: in England, where it's like, oh, look at the princes

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Speaker 1: Drake and what he has done going around the world.

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Speaker 1: So she continues. I work in the Royal Navy, who

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Speaker 1: In the officers mess of HMS Drake where I live,

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Speaker 1: I noticed the frame plate on the wall and recognized

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Speaker 1: it from your podcast. Pictures attached those are going up.

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Speaker 1: There's also a framed bit of history outlining the journey

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Speaker 1: of the Golden Hind and Drake's plate. It says the

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Speaker 1: Drake Navigator's Guild of Point Raise, California presented the replica

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Speaker 1: fake plate now hanging on the wall to the mess

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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four. I'm pretty sure it hasn't moved

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Speaker 1: since then, and no one has any idea that the

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Speaker 1: real thing the replica is made from is actually a hoax.

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Speaker 1: I love this. It's decades before they would have been

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Speaker 1: had that truth to be revealed, so they probably just

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Speaker 1: no one went back and said, you know what we

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Speaker 1: need to do is update this wall. He can I

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Speaker 1: get that back. I need to polish it, she says.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell them. I love this. I

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Speaker 1: love how far the hoax has gone and for how long. Ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Loving your work. Charlotte from the UK, Thank you, Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe this. So the Clampers who reached out

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Speaker 1: super nice. They do a lot of really good work,

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Speaker 1: like we learned about the charity work to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they kind of just if they see someone who

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Speaker 1: needs it, doesn't have to be outward like organized charity work.

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Speaker 1: Someone needs something, They just try to do good in

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Speaker 1: the community. Yeah, it's interesting. Shout out to the Clampers

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Speaker 1: on that big shout out. Um. So the Clampers made

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Speaker 1: the fake plate as their silly Geese and the Drake

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Speaker 1: Navigator's Guild, which still exists by the way. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: facilitate lots of really interesting historical lectures and stuff like

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Speaker 1: that up in the Point Raise area. So the Drake

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Speaker 1: Navigator's Guild, they made a replica of the hoax passed

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Speaker 1: it off to none other than the Royal Navy. That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: This is like hoax on, hoax on. This is hoax

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Speaker 1: inception and it's hanging there today. Um, I don't I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to tell them the Navigator Guild. She's not

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Speaker 1: telling the Navy. No, we should go there and take

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Speaker 1: a picture with it, though, I think so. Well. She yeah,

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Speaker 1: and she's got pictures. They're amazing. Um, listeners, this is

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Speaker 1: our ridiculous secret. Now she don't break the secret, Saren,

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Speaker 1: what's your ridiculous takeaway today? My ridiculous takeaway is duct

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Speaker 1: tape not the all around tool I once thought it was.

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Speaker 1: Apparently can't use it to rob banks, So I've got

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Speaker 1: that one sorted out. My other ridiculous takeaway is our

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Speaker 1: fans and listeners are double double double triple double dope.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm really into their story. So that was like

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Speaker 1: ridiculous to find out that they are great storytellers, and

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Speaker 1: are you know, non sitting there hoping I'm telling them

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Speaker 1: stories that they're enjoying, because a good storytelling so good.

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Speaker 1: I've said it before. I'm really overwhelmed at how wonderful

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Speaker 1: our listeners are. We get really intelligent, funny, insightful messages

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Speaker 1: all day, all day long. Um. Some are just really

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Speaker 1: lovely notes to tell us how much they like the

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Speaker 1: show or how we make their work days easier, which

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy seeing. That's a major compliment if we

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Speaker 1: can make someone's work easier. The notes really mean a

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Speaker 1: lot to us, I'd say, um. And one of the

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Speaker 1: mean to us. Yeah, that is true, except for like

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Speaker 1: you know, occasionally in the Apple podcast reviews. But ignore

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Speaker 1: that that that's anonymous meanings exactly. The people who contact us,

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Speaker 1: they can't they get what we're trying to do here,

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Speaker 1: Like we want to have a good time, we want

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Speaker 1: to learn something, Stay curious, consider history and motivations. Be absurd,

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Speaker 1: that's my main objective. Consider human fallibility. Yeah, and be compassionate,

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Speaker 1: crack each other up, and kind of revel in the

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Speaker 1: ridiculous nature of crime in the world in general. UM,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. We're not cracking cases, analyzing details to

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Speaker 1: like assemble a dossier on a criminal case file. The

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Speaker 1: world's ridiculous. Um, if we can take a break and

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Speaker 1: talk about like the good ridiculousness like we do as

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Speaker 1: opposed to Yeah, the horrific said, tragic ridiculousness that kind

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Speaker 1: of overwhelms us is ridiculous exactly. We don't want that

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Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous. But you know what, if we can

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Speaker 1: do that, I think we're going to be okay. And

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Speaker 1: that's my takeaway from all this that based on the

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Speaker 1: enormous volume of incredible people who get in touch with us,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be okay. Yeah, that's it for today. UM.

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Speaker 1: As always, you can find us online at Ridiculous Crime

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Speaker 1: on both Twitter and Instagram. Hey got a tip for

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Speaker 1: us about a ridiculous crime that's not the d C

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Speaker 1: turkey or the duct tape bandit. Um, if you want

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Speaker 1: to hear about it, send us an email ridiculous Crime

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Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. And other than that, just tune

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