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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime. It's a production of I Heart Radio. Oh hey,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Dotton, what are you doing here? I was hanging out.

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Speaker 1: Do you happen to know anything that's ridiculous? Do you

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Speaker 1: know what's ridiculous? I do? Would you let me know? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can let you know that there. We don't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of novelty songs lately. That's ridiculous. We like

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Speaker 1: in the eighties and then into the nineties, we'd have

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Speaker 1: like top like top forty novelty hits, you know, like, um,

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Speaker 1: what about like the Bahama Men, And like, uh, well

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Speaker 1: it's not now how many it was like fifty years ago? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think that was the two thousands. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get to your point. I'm trying to overestimate because I'll

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Speaker 1: tell people it's ten years ago in the nineties and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't so well, I'm I'm airing on the side

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Speaker 1: of caution when I say fifty years So you're telling

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Speaker 1: me that post Malone is not novelty songs. I'm kidding,

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Speaker 1: Like no, but like you know, Disco Duck and that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Duck, Yeah, all the Duck songs, all

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Speaker 1: the two thousand's next like or just one hit wonder

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Speaker 1: catchy kind of I don't know what we're talking, like

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Speaker 1: the ninety nine balloons. Sure, no more novelty song actual

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Speaker 1: novel yea, so like rock me on a des By Falco. Right,

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing though, I don't listen to current

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Speaker 1: popular music, so maybe there are a ton of them. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, maybe you should be over there

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Speaker 1: on TikTok checking out the novelty songs. Maybe you's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: You don't go on TikTok. There we go, so ridiculous. Well,

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Speaker 1: I got a story for you. It is kind of ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear it in the mood always. Okay,

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Speaker 1: how about a story of a man who was famous

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Speaker 1: for hosting a TV game show called Bowling for Dollars

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Speaker 1: and then the same man he went on to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, be the guy, the mastermind if you will,

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Speaker 1: to rig a state lottery. Yeah, it's called the Triple

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Speaker 1: six Fix. And this is a story. It's about as

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania as it comes. Nice. This is Ridiculous Crime, a

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Speaker 1: podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heist and cons. It's

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Speaker 1: always murder free and ridiculous. Elizabeth What do you know

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Speaker 1: about Pennsylvania? Nothing? Nothing, zero. You're in. You're in. Luck.

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Speaker 1: I happen to have a few fun facts for you,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. William penn is the founder, correct, and he

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Speaker 1: likes the woods. That's Sylvania. Yes, we'll get into that.

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Speaker 1: That's the extent of what you know. Okay, Well, Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: is the fifth most populous state, although the people there

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Speaker 1: will tell you it's actually the fifth most populous commonwealth. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's known these days as a decider presidential elections. It's

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Speaker 1: also home to the Philadelphia Eagles and their battery tossing fans.

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Speaker 1: And it's home to the Steelers, the Flyers, the Penguins,

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Speaker 1: the Harrisburg Senators. Isn't gritty gritty? That's gritty Philadelphia Flyers.

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Speaker 1: Oh and the Four Seasons Total Lands one of my

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Speaker 1: all time favorite things ever. Very good. The Hersy Amusement

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Speaker 1: now beyond sports chocolate. That kind of makes Europeans gag.

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Speaker 1: We have what else we need to know about Pennsylvania crime. Well,

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Speaker 1: you already got into the name part. His name for

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Speaker 1: William penn Sylvania means Penn's Woods. Do you know the

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Speaker 1: story of how it got that name. It wasn't him.

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Speaker 1: He did not name it after himself. Someone else named it.

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Speaker 1: Penns Woods, right, that's somebody else was King Charles, the

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Speaker 1: It's a whole deal we want to get into that.

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Speaker 1: The point is in one King Charles, he went over

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Speaker 1: to William Penn's daddy and he's like, hey, man, I

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Speaker 1: America's And Pops is like, give it to my boy,

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Speaker 1: So let's call it William Penn's tree Land now William

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Speaker 1: to Pennsylvania. Now. I spent a lot of time Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: fixing the state lottery. And now I'd like to introduce

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Speaker 1: the hero of our day, Nick Perry. Nick Perry, that's

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Speaker 1: not his government name. Government name was Nicholas Perry Katson Faunas.

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Speaker 1: you know, nineteen fifty Okay. In night he gets hired

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Speaker 1: don't remember the show itself. Imagine family feud with no

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Speaker 1: He keeps them Pittsburgh proud, got it right now, Just

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Speaker 1: Nick Perry, right, just the cheesy right now. The newspeople

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Speaker 1: He said, and I quote Nick Perry was very Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: I said, he becomes this beloved figure the city needs him.

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Speaker 1: course it's gonna acquire a little experimentation. He's like, how

421
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 1: am I gonna do this? So he tries, like, first, powder,

422
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: seems like, maybe I can put a powder coating on

423
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: it and I'll make the balls different the way, different amounts.

424
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: That doesn't work. He's like, how about an applicate. Maybe

425
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 1: I can put like an applicat on there that like

426
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 1: the sticker is heavy. That doesn't work. He's like, I

427
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: got it white latex paint, right, basically house paint. He's like,

428
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna his house paint. So he injects the ping

429
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: pong balls with latex paints and then paints the outsides

430
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: and so he can make the fake balls. They would

431
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: all still bounce and jumble around in the machine, but

432
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: they won't. Only one ball will be lighter than all

433
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: the other nine, Like, there's nine balls in there. I

434
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: guess ten balls in there. There nine and then he

435
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 1: has one ball that's not waited, so all the rest

436
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: they will bounce around and float because there he has them.

437
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 1: He's been experimenting make sure that they will bounce around.

438
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: Only one has the lightness to make it to the

439
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: t C. I was thinking like he would maybe paint

440
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: the numbers on there with like he'd put some sort

441
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: of metal into the paint and make it heavier paint. Oh,

442
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: that's a really good idea. Yeah, they did not go

443
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: with metal paint. They just decided to. They didn't call me, no,

444
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 1: they really should have. Unfortunately you weren't born, so that

445
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: is part of the that was a little difficult. So anyway,

446
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: they decide add weight to nine of the ten balls

447
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 1: in each machine, and they pick weight. We can't do that.

448
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: We've got to let there be two balls because if

449
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 1: it's just one ball, it'll be very obvious. So we'll

450
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: mix up two balls. And then the odds are basically

451
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: only a few combinations. So they pick the four and

452
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: six balls to not doctor and they don't do the rest.

453
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: So now they're only eight combinations that could possibly be

454
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: the winning combinations for those like yourself and I with

455
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: the math skills. We have. The combinations end up being

456
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: triple four four four six four six four or four

457
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: six six, or they are six four four six four

458
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: six six six four and lastly the best combo triple

459
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 1: six six six six, the winning numbers of the beasts exactly.

460
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: So now all this left to do is purchase some

461
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: lottery tickets to it. So the Moragos brothers now come

462
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: back into the picture. So if they go and they

463
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 1: meet up Nick at the local St. Nick's Orthodox Church,

464
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 1: because that's for all the good criminal conspiracies go down.

465
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: He's like, meet me in a pu seven. So they

466
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: slide on behind the pew behind them, they start talking

467
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: about how to buy tickets. They exchange for like their

468
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 1: cigarette concession business profits and here's your recent payments. He's like, okay,

469
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: here's the plan. Keep the profits, go buy a bunch

470
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 1: of lottery tickets. They're like, oh really. He's like yeah,

471
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 1: but hey, we're gonna do this like real LaCOSA Nostra

472
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: mafia stuff. Spread it out. Be smart about to go

473
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 1: to one person and buy ten thousand dollars worth of tickets.

474
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, okay, we're gonna go to Philly. He's like,

475
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 1: wait minute, you gonna go to Philly. Why did you

476
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,919
Speaker 1: go to Philly. That's Nicky Scarfolk's place. Don't go to

477
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: Phillies Like, that's why they'll think it's the mob. They'll

478
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: put it on Nicky Scarfolks. Brilliant. He's like, actually that's

479
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: pretty good. Pittsburgh may come back to us. Go to Philly.

480
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna go to Philly and buy up all the

481
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: tick sets now to maximize their score. The Morago's brothers

482
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: smart hoodlumps they are. They're like, okay, how about we

483
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 1: take out a bank loan and really out here. So

484
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: they take out a twenty dollar bank loan. Don't tell

485
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 1: Nick Perry. They go and buy a bunch of more tickets.

486
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: Now they got this extra twenty grand and all the

487
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: money Nick Perry front of them. And they go and

488
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: they pile into their giant white Cadillac because nobody's gonna

489
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 1: remember that, and they tour around the Filly area and

490
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: they buy up all the lottery tickets that they can afford.

491
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: Do you think they did like method acting or like,

492
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: you know, I just imagine that they get out of

493
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: the car and they go into the little convenience store

494
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 1: and their play their play acting, like oh, someone told

495
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: me I should play the lottery. I never do this.

496
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: Let me buy. I don't know how many should maybe two.

497
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: My grandpappy sent me down here to buy some lottery tickets.

498
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about it, but his favorite numbers

499
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: are four and six. Could you help me figure them out?

500
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: And they just keep doing this, and then they have

501
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: to wear costumes and disguises from shop to shop. I

502
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,479
Speaker 1: wish they did that. You're gonna be so disappointed with

503
00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: what they actually did. Oh yeah, So they purchased fourteen

504
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: dollars in one dollar tickets and they're now looking at

505
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: basically about a four point two million dollar come up

506
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: if the tickets hit, and they will hit because it's fixed.

507
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly. So later on in that same day

508
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 1: there will be the daily draw because they have to

509
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: get the tickets for that same day. So they're all

510
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: trying to get this all done before the seven o'clock draw.

511
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: They get it all done, and that's when Nick Perry

512
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: steps onto the w t a E Set, ready to

513
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: do his part to rig the state lottery. Everyone else

514
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: has done their parts, it's time for Nick Perry. He

515
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: catches SIGHTE a lottery official, Ed Plevil lottery official gives

516
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: him the nod exactly a lot of the sting. He's like, okay,

517
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: gives them the nose swipe. They use the two keys.

518
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: They unlocked the lottery machine storage area. They am so nervous.

519
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: Right now, we o the machines up to the TV

520
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 1: station set plevel. He leaves the machines and the balls unattended, just,

521
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, just walks away. I gotta go move my car.

522
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: He's gone for thirty minutes now. Normally they bring the

523
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: senior citizen on to the set to practice during this

524
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: time with the machines while the cameras are on. Instead,

525
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: they don't. They leave the senior citizen in the green

526
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: room for the full thirty minutes. Nobody tells her what's

527
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: going on, so she's just sitting and there, confused, like

528
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: what's coming now? Que Joe back in action. The art

529
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: director does his part. Joe back passes the weighted balls

530
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: to a stage hand and asked the stage hand to

531
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: put the doctor balls into the machine. Possibly a mistake,

532
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: possibly not change out. The stage hand is in on it.

533
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: He's been contacted, so box the stage hand act fast.

534
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: He's like, I need a guy to help me. So

535
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: they make their move, they get the balls in, they

536
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: swap out the other balls. Everything's going huge pay days

537
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: lined up for everybody involved to pull it off. Nobody

538
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: sees them. Now we are a few minutes before seven pm.

539
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: It's time for the daily Draw. If you can believe it,

540
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: can you guess how many people are watching? Oh like

541
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: nine million people, very close six six million people. Six

542
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: million people tune in to watch those lotty numbers, which

543
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: is more than all the other news stations are getting

544
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: at this time. So every most to Pittsburgh that is

545
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 1: watching TV at this time is watching this event. And

546
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: now wait a second, this is a state lottery, state lottery,

547
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: so this is actually all over that's just at the station.

548
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: There's six million. It's just six million people watching this station,

549
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: and that so that it's broadcast at other stations, broadcast

550
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: throughout yest it. I'm slow good, don't cool with it.

551
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: So now the daily draw. They had the local senior citizen.

552
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: I told her she's waiting in the green room. Well,

553
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: her name is Violet Lowry, and they say, Violet Lowry,

554
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: could you please come up to the set, And so

555
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: she was like okay, she calls on up there, so

556
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: we have viol Lowry creeping up to the set. Joe

557
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: Buck is on the and the wings watching, the stage

558
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: hand is watching. Nick Perry is waiting on the set

559
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: for her to get there. She's the last piece of

560
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: this puzzle. All she has to do is take the

561
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: weighted balls and turn them around in the right order.

562
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: And after this quick break, I'll tell you what happens

563
00:28:47,800 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: when she steps onto the Okay, Elizabeth, yes I left you.

564
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: We were at the W T A E. Set. The

565
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: tensions were hot. Oh I am on pins and needles

566
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: this whole all those ads played and it went on

567
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: for a really long time, and the pins and the

568
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: needles have been puncturing my bed. D Well, I'm here

569
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: to relieve you of that pain and anxiety. Thank you.

570
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: I want you to picture it. Oh, yes, close your eyes.

571
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: Eighties something year old Violet Lowry arrives on set. She

572
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: shows up ready to pick some numbers. She's there for

573
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: the balls. She's escorted from the green room, where she

574
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: has been asked to wait for half an hour. Finally

575
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: it's six. Someone takes herund to the set. The stage

576
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: hand rolls the large lottery machines into play. Nick Perry

577
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: stands off stage, ready to do his bit, waiting for

578
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: ast two. At sixty nine, the announcer goes to work.

579
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: It's the man with all the dollars, the king pit himself,

580
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: Nick Perry, Lottery official Ed plevel leads Violet Lowry to

581
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: the lottery machines. The machines kick on on the bubble.

582
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: The balls start going. There's all this frenetic action. The

583
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: fans are kicked to life and everything that. Everyone's excited.

584
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: The ping pong balls bouncing against each other. What's gonna happen?

585
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: The balls start to lift on this currents of air.

586
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: They're all jumbling around. Looks perfectly normal. Then, as Nick

587
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: Perry explains the game to those watching, I quote, good

588
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: evening everyone, It's time for the live drawing up the

589
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: daily number Thursday. Each of our three machines contains ten balls.

590
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: Numbers zero to nine will draw one digit from each machine.

591
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: Now mix the balls in the first machine and the second,

592
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: and now the third machine. Drawing tonight will be Senior

593
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: Citizen bio Let Lowry are supervising comes of a state

594
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: Lottery Security Officials District Manager Ed Plebo. Violet Lowry watches

595
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: the doctor balls jumping around and tumble. She looks a

596
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: little intimidated. The first ball lists up the shoot and

597
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: Will kind of goes do it. She lives over. She

598
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: twists the number around and she shows, oh, it's a six,

599
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: and now Violet draw the first digit please sex, and

600
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: the second digit six, and now the third digit six,

601
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: and there you have it. Pennsylvania's daily lottery number is

602
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,479
Speaker 1: six six six. If you've got it, come and get it.

603
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: If not, better luck tomorrow. Just like that, the lottery

604
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: had been robbed. Is the winner. Nick Perry and his

605
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: group they all go excited. They've done it. They've rigged

606
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: the state lottery. They're all about to be millions of

607
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: dollars richer, and six million people watched them do it

608
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: at home, and Hazels like, oh my god, I just

609
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: unleashed the beast. I pulled six six six, like I's

610
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: in there with like holy water. No one's going to

611
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: talk to her after that. I can't. My church group

612
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: will not. Something was going to happen to Hazel when

613
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: you were doing your little story. I didn't mean to worry.

614
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: Yeah it's okay, so Edd plebble. He goes and re

615
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: secures the machines, they take the two keys, they lock

616
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: it back up. Now, just before that, he had to

617
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: have enough time for Joe Bach to slide in there,

618
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: grab the Doctor Balls machines, switch back in the original balls,

619
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: and then make his escape. Allows us to have a

620
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: couple of moments for him to do that. Then they

621
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: lock up the machines. So now Joe back, he takes

622
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: the Doctor Balls home. He piles the balls into an

623
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: empty paint can sets them all on fire, destroying any evidence.

624
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: Smart dude, Right, yeah, that's good. We've gotten rid of

625
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: at least one of the So now it's time to

626
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: collect the winnings. The Marago's brothers re into the picture.

627
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: They climb back in their land yard. The giant white

628
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: caddy cruise on over to Philly looking to pick up

629
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: their money, and the brothers they drive around collecting their

630
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: cash pay days. And then they come back to Pittsburgh

631
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: and they meet in the cemetery and they secretly meet

632
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: Nick Perry and they give him the first part of

633
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: his cut. Now, do you know where they were picking

634
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: up the pay They didn't. They wouldn't. They have to

635
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: go to the state capitol, to an office somewhere or

636
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: local lottery tickets, so yeah, they could do. They go

637
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: to the store where they bought it in the store

638
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: has to pay it up. I don't know if the

639
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: store had to pay it up. But they went around

640
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: collecting and so in all the news stories seemed that

641
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: they were getting from the stores, there's like local lottery offices.

642
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: I think maybe maybe there were local lottery I did

643
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: not look into who they are actually redeeming the tickets

644
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: with a scale. Yeah, and I know you're into like

645
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: the paperwork. I was just like to get the money,

646
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: all right. So they bring him thirty five tho dollars

647
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: in a brown paper bag and they handed to him

648
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: in a cemetery, you know, like, here's your first cut.

649
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: This will just be one of many envelopes to come.

650
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: He's like, I got it. And they got a couple

651
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: of days to collect their winnings. You don't have to

652
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: get it all that the first day. So they're taking

653
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: their time, right. No one was the wiser at first,

654
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: but someone had noticed, and that someone was named Anthony Gross.

655
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: So Gross. Now I want you to know about this man,

656
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: Anthony Grosso. He knew something about rig games because he

657
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: had served time in prison for racketeering. He later would

658
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: serve time after these events for quote, tax evasion and

659
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: violating federal gambling loss. He was what you would call

660
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: a mobster, Big Anthony, Big Anthony, real live mobster, not

661
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: part of like the Scarfolk family. But he had been

662
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,720
Speaker 1: legitimately running a numbers game for forty years, a local

663
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: numbers game. And the interesting part is that the Moroco's

664
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: brothers thought, you know what, we should rob him while

665
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: we're doing this. Yeah, and you know how the brothers

666
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: when Pennsylvania created the lottery, what they had done was

667
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 1: to basically take over the numbers game from the mob.

668
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: The mob was pretty much, you know, various mobs, but

669
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: it was just say, for the sake of time, the mob.

670
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: They took over all the bookmakers and numbers runners and

671
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: they said, okay, hey, how about give us the money?

672
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: Were the state and people were like okay, cool. The

673
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: mobs like no, no, no, no. How much do they pay?

674
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: And when you win? Is it one of those education

675
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: lotteries where they go to senior citizens California's education the

676
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: exactly because this part of the look see where the

677
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: money is going? Keeping Violet lotry going. They called her

678
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: Hazel it's violent. Violet. Yeah, sorry, sorry violent, she's not

679
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: here to hear it. So Anthony grows our real live

680
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: mobster and he uh and his ilk. They hear that

681
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania State Lottery is trying to take over their

682
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: millions of dollars industry. They're like, what are those mooks doing? Okay,

683
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: how much did they pay out? When you win? People

684
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: are like, oh, hey, Big Anthony, they pay five dollars

685
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: to one. Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna

686
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: pay six. So they run the exact same lottery off

687
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: of the state's lottery numbers and they say, you pick

688
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: the numbers and you buy the ticket from us, we'll

689
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: pay six one. They turn the state lottery back in legitimate.

690
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: So what this means is that the Moroco's brothers knew this.

691
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: So they're like, hey, if we go take some of

692
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: the mob tickets, we'll get paid six hundred to one

693
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: instead of five to one. So they get greedy and

694
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: they go and buy mob tickets and then they come

695
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: back to them Bob and they're like, hey, pay up.

696
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: Oh that is a recipe for disaster. So Big Anthony

697
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: he's like, um, not too into this. He's like, how

698
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: how dare these people rob me? Big? Anthony grows, So,

699
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: I've been in the numbers games since they will knee

700
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: hid to Grasshoper. So he then decides to do what

701
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: all mops as you do in a pinch. He turns

702
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: to the state and he said, hey, you should investigate

703
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: these guys. He goes right to the state. They're totally

704
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: using the infrastructure for their benefit, either to ride their

705
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: lot of setup or to be their enforcers. That's that's wise,

706
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: straight Pennsylvania. Those are guys ding ding Dan. So Anthony grows.

707
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: So when that first move fails in the State's like, look, look,

708
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: we don't want people to think that the state. You're

709
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: saying it's rigged. We don't have proof of that. We

710
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: can't have people believing it's rigged. This is a new thing.

711
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: We think you're a mobster and you watch your game back,

712
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: so why don't you blow anything? Gross was excuse me?

713
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: He's like, Okay, it's no problem. I got other avenues.

714
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: So he goes to the journalist. He's like, hey, journalists,

715
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: I got a story for you. The state knows that

716
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: the lottery has been rigged, and they don't want to investigate.

717
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: So the journal starts writing about say it's like damn it.

718
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: So then now like, okay, they announced a big investigation, right.

719
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: The investigation is basically a show trial. It's not really

720
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: intended to do anything. Anthony Grosso is really disappointed in

721
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: this development. So Anthony gross So keeps the pressure on,

722
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: so he starts a newspaper. So he just keeps basically

723
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: funneling stuff because he not only he figures out who

724
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: did it. He knows it was the Morogua's brothers. He

725
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: knows who was involved and who took his money. So

726
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: he's like, look it's this guy, it's that guy, Go

727
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: go follow this paper trail. Finally, in September, newspaper story

728
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: from the area reports quote. Allegations that the a drawing

729
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: may have been tampered with first surfaced in early May,

730
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 1: when Anthony Grosso, who has been called the numbers kingpin

731
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh by the State Crime Commission, told reporters that

732
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: the drawing had been fixed. Organized crime figures had noticed

733
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: heavy betting on numbers using the four six combination. After

734
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: the news stories broke and talk of the triple six

735
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: fix spread all across Pennsylvania, all of them, Bob gets interested,

736
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: and of course now the state can't ignore it, so

737
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: they're like, damn it. So the investigators started actually doing

738
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: an investigation. Now after doing the fake investigation back in May,

739
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: now in September they do a real investigation. They go

740
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: around and they go to a bar club called the

741
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: Do drop in. Oh I like that, man, I knew

742
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: you would. Now I have a really quick question. They

743
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: only rigged at the one time, right, yes, ing at

744
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: the one time to get the four million payday. And

745
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: so even if you didn't buy the ticket from the Mob,

746
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: if you took the ticket to the mob, they pay out.

747
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: You got to buy a mob. You buy a Mob tickets.

748
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 1: And did they buy Mob tickets the Mob tickets and

749
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: took it? The Mob said pay us six to one.

750
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,399
Speaker 1: Basically because you rigged the lottery that you're now doing,

751
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: you have essentially Roby got it. They're like, you're gonna

752
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: bring us in on your fix. Yeah, and you're not

753
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: going to bring us in on your fix, you dumb moose.

754
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: So the owner of the Dude drop in. He when

755
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: the investigate investigators are making news in the press, he

756
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: calls the state and he goes, you know, what. There

757
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: were these two suspitious man in a big white Cadillac

758
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: who showed up at my place. They bought thousands of

759
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: dollars of tickets, which they weren't supposed to do. The

760
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: tickets all had the same combination. It is all for

761
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: us and six is like they're saying in the news.

762
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: And then they bought the tickets. But then it was

763
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: the interesting thing was they called somebody and then they

764
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: held the phone up to the machine so they could

765
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: hear the tickets being printed. And then they spoken some

766
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: foreign language over the phone with the person they were

767
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: talking to, the foreign language being Greek. So wait, they

768
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: used the phone at the Dude drop in. Can we

769
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: call Nick Perry cell phone? So they say, hey, can

770
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: we use your house phone? I gotta call my boss

771
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: real quick. Also, by the way, you get a couple

772
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: of thousand dollars of tickets because we're lazy, We're not

773
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: going to go to a couple of hundreds were remember

774
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: us in our big white caddy. Also, an employee of

775
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: the Dude drop In recalled for the investigators, who then

776
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: showed up to go what do you have for us? Oh? Yeah, man,

777
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: there's these two guys in a big white Catillac. They

778
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: had a very memorable platinum blond with them from what

779
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: I recall. So they're doing everything you're not supposed to do,

780
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: and the state investigators go, hey, do you guys have

781
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: a phone records? They're like, oh, yeah, yeah. So they

782
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: pulled up the phone records and the phone call from

783
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 1: the dude drop in goes to Pittsburgh TV station wt

784
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: So the investigators then go him out and immediately arrest

785
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: the Moraguos brothers, who then immediately turned state's evidence and

786
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 1: flip on their childhood friend Nick Perry. Charges against the

787
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: Moraguos brothers are dropped, charges that are then filed against

788
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: Joe Bach part director, Ed Plevel, the lottery state official,

789
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: and Nick Perry. The news team at w t a

790
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: E has to break the news while Perry is in

791
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: the building, they go, they go with the breaking news.

792
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: While he's there, he can look up and see the

793
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: monitor like see himself, Like, well, that's not good, and

794
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: then liked, did he get arrested at the station. Well,

795
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: here's how it plays out. So w t a E

796
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: news director Joe Raveto has to make the tough call.

797
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: He's like, it's news. We gotta run it. It's even

798
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: though he's in the in the building and this will

799
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: be insensitive, we gotta run it. So they break the news.

800
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: Nick Perry is there and he based really leaves and

801
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: Sally Wiggins was the anchor at the time, and she's like,

802
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: he's really nervous and did not want to do it.

803
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: Joe Rivito was talking and he's like, look, you gotta

804
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: do it. And I quote, here's how Joe Rivito remembered it.

805
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: I knew he was sitting right upstairs, a guy I

806
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: had known worked with. It was a very difficult period personally, professionally.

807
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: It was a tough juggling act to do the right thing.

808
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 1: Because of the fact we were the station that carried

809
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 1: the lottery, because of the fact we knew Nick, we

810
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: felt we had to pursue the story aggressively. It was

811
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: a sad thing because here's a guy. You wipe that

812
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: off the slate who was a really terrific guy. He

813
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 1: was a terrific employee. But you can't wipe that off.

814
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: This one thing has ruined this guy's life. It will

815
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: smear this guy's life. He's done it and I knew

816
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: it that day. So he's like I gotta do the

817
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 1: right thing. They bust him out, so the Morago's brothers. Meanwhile,

818
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: they end up skating on all the charges. Nick Perry

819
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: gets arrested, Joe Bak gets arrested, and Level gets arrested.

820
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: Nick Perry. He's tried, convicted, and sentenced to three to

821
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: seven years in prison in camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Ed Plevill

822
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 1: gets two to seven years for his part. Joe back

823
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 1: pleads guilty as well. Now, Nick Perry, when he left

824
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: the courthouse, it was hard for his fans to imagine

825
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: at the host of bowling for dollars when rigged the

826
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: state lottery, and he would do it in such beautiful fabrics.

827
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: It was just an insult to the Pittsburgh populace. Now,

828
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: one fan wrote to the local newspaper, and I quote,

829
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: He's like Joan of Arc being burned at the steak.

830
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: I can't see why sixty three year old man who

831
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: has a good living and is established in the community

832
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: would do something like this. It's like Joan of Arc. Yes,

833
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: he broke their hearts, so he had visions God told

834
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: him to rob the lottery. Good It's like I must

835
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: do this for the sake of Pittsburgh. So of course

836
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: there's a movie of this whole ordeal because it's cinematic. Now,

837
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: the film is called Lucky Numbers. It's loosely based on

838
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: the Nick Perry story. In this case, the guy is

839
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: a Harrisburg TV weather man and he's not the Pittsburgh

840
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 1: host of Bowling for dollars. And in the film he's

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Speaker 1: also kind of he's desperate for a big score. Was

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Speaker 1: Nick Perry just kind of comes upon the idea? And uh,

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Speaker 1: now can you guess who played the Nick Perry figure

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Speaker 1: in Lucky Numbers? When was the movie? When the movie

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Speaker 1: come out? The movie came out a while back. Oh,

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Speaker 1: well that that clears it up for me. That's not

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Speaker 1: a big in in the theater. So like more than

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Speaker 1: thirty years ago, give me a decade the nineties. Okay?

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Speaker 1: Uh did it have? Did they film the movie before

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Speaker 1: this happened? In? All right? So in the he could

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Speaker 1: fly his own plane to the theater. Harrison Ford, no

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Speaker 1: bigger plane. So Nick Perry gets played in real life

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Speaker 1: by John Travolta in a movie nobody's ever heard of

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00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 1: movie of his life therebgh. Now, Dick Perry eventually does

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Speaker 1: return to where he'd first found fame and acclaim and

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Speaker 1: fortune bowling Lanes. The old sponsor for Bowling for Dollars

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Speaker 1: was a loyal and true friend was Whisman Bowling Supplies.

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Speaker 1: Whisman Bowling Supplies did not give up on him. They

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Speaker 1: decided to hire him as a salesman. So he got

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Speaker 1: a job. And his buddy Robert Whisman, a true true friend,

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Speaker 1: tick the once beloved it now disgrace Bowling for Dollars announcer.

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Speaker 1: And he said, and I quote, I couldn't have had

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Speaker 1: anyone better. He was an asset to the business. Good

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Speaker 1: buddies like. Look, they locked up his records. And firstly,

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Speaker 1: I would say, Nick Perry's about his Pittsburgh as the

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Speaker 1: three River Stadium. That guy, I just love him. Fun fact,

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Speaker 1: since that fateful day in ninety when Nick Perry and

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Speaker 1: his crew rigged the Pennsylvania State lottery, those same winning

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Speaker 1: numbers have come up. Six six six has come up

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Speaker 1: a few times. It's actually come up twenty four different

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Speaker 1: subsequent drawings, and every single time the people they call

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Speaker 1: it a Nick Perry. In fact, anything six six in

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Speaker 1: certain parts of Pittsburgh and other parts of Pennsylvania is known.

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Speaker 1: It's still referred to as a Nick Perry. Everywhere else

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Speaker 1: it's the number of the Beast, but in Pittsburgh it's Perry.

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Speaker 1: He's a beast six six. So Elizabeth, what does our

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00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: ridiculous takeaway here? You know? I think, well, it's it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a funny thing. He did a lot of

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Speaker 1: people dirty, right, so, like the station gave him this

880
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: cool show and everyone loved it. By the way, the

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Speaker 1: station lost the lottery to that. They said, you guys

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00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: can't be trusted to show this anymore, so, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then now I'm wondering about the bowling supply guy.

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Speaker 1: What's he skimming off the top? I don't trust this man.

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Speaker 1: I noticed this didn't what did the what did the

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Speaker 1: news director say? He did it to himself, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those, like I would say, Shakespearean tragedies,

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00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: but it's kind of well know, you know what it's

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Speaker 1: like is it's like Joan of arc Yeah, that's really

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00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: like that's the best analogy. When before you read me

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00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: that quote, I was like, my it just feels like Jean,

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00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: which who's the dauphin them on fire? My ridiculous takeaway

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00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,280
Speaker 1: would be never ever, And I mean never ever, ever,

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Speaker 1: ever rob the mob. Oh yeah, that's all these dudes

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Speaker 1: had to do. The Morocco's brothers. If they would have

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00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: just said, hey, baby, you stay home, we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: our rental card. We're gonna go and get some tickets.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back at six o'clock. You know, everything will

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Speaker 1: be cool, they're like, no, baby, getting the backut on

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Speaker 1: your best for coke, because we're going to Philly to exactly.

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00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: They got the caddie all shined up and they took

902
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: that love boat for a cruise and they're like, nobody

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00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: will remember this because we're gonna have this day. It's

904
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: so memorable. You know. They decided to get rich on

905
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: all this mob money and they blow it for everyone.

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00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 1: But they didn't end up buying anything or do anything.

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00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: They nobody got anything out of this. They get all

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00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 1: greedy and then they don't do anything. The greed was

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Speaker 1: just the feeling if I can't It's like it's that

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00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: idea that your imagination will doom you, either with fear

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00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: or with greed. On it's your imagination, Like, don't listen

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Speaker 1: to that. Let the reality of the mob dictate your decisions.

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Speaker 1: Should I rob the mob? I think I'd get away

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00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: with it. Only the mob can have the mob's money.

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Speaker 1: That's the rule of the mob. That's our money. Will

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00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 1: kill you for that. So yeah, they're lucky they didn't

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Speaker 1: get Oh no, yeah, they got very lucky. Anthony Grosser

918
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Speaker 1: pretty much knew everybody would know with him. So he's like, look,

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00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: they already got embarrassed, and the state's embarrassed. He's using

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00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: the infrastructure for his benefit once again. Let them take

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Speaker 1: care of this. You clean up this stuff, get some garbage,

922
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: been on this. So the stupid criminals get caught, the

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Speaker 1: unlucky ones get caught, and in this case, it was both.

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Speaker 1: Oh and before we go, Elizabeth and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: send out a special message to one of our listeners,

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Speaker 1: Owen Colms. Your mom, Laura rode into the show and

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Speaker 1: she told us you're having a rough go of it.

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Speaker 1: We're sorry to hear that. On She also told us

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Speaker 1: We'd love to hear that. She says that you recreate

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