WEBVTT - Holy Ridiculous Crimes, Batman!

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<v Speaker 1>Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. Heck yeah, Zarren,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm ready, let's do this.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello.

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<v Speaker 1>Hi, my name's Elizabeth. This is ridiculous Crime.

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<v Speaker 2>Hi, nice to meet you. My name is a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit Dutton.

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<v Speaker 1>Excellent, me too. You know it's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>I do Elizabeth Dutton. If you have a second, y,

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<v Speaker 2>pronounce a natia daphobia. A natia, yes, that is quote

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<v Speaker 2>the fear of being watched by a duck. The term

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<v Speaker 2>comes to us from the Greeks a nati day which

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<v Speaker 2>means swan, ducks or geese waterfowl essentially, and phobos, which

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<v Speaker 2>you know means fear. Right, So you put those together.

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<v Speaker 2>You got a fear of ducks, geese for swans, but

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<v Speaker 2>in particular that they would be watching you. But turns out,

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<v Speaker 2>how did the research because this one pops around on

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<v Speaker 2>the internets and it's not real, not a real phobia.

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<v Speaker 2>This dates back to a nineteen eighty eight far Side

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<v Speaker 2>comic and it's spread online and now a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>people think it's a real phobia, and they have self

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<v Speaker 2>diagnosed themselves with the Nada daphobia. So now that they

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<v Speaker 2>have done that, the phobia has become real, because ultimately

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<v Speaker 2>all phobias are irrational, So this is you had another

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<v Speaker 2>irrational phobia. It just started as fiction. So the people

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<v Speaker 2>who are into this one to know there is arentheophobia

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<v Speaker 2>or on orniphobia, ornithophobia. Sorry, that's ornithology orthophobia. The study

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<v Speaker 2>of birds is ornithology. The fear of birds is ornithophobia.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I got a friend who's afraid of birds.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, boom, they have ornithophobia. And if someone like that,

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<v Speaker 2>if they are specifically afraid of ducks, then they would

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<v Speaker 2>be what we were discussing on a nati phobia. But

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<v Speaker 2>everybody else is just afraid of a duck watching them.

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<v Speaker 2>They're just you know, they want to be special. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>they'll touch on that.

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<v Speaker 1>That's ridiculous, right, I thought you'd like that one. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you want to know what else is ridiculous?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm here for buckled Up and Ready a.

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<v Speaker 1>Man Who's a bat This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast

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<v Speaker 1>about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons. It's always

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<v Speaker 1>ninety nine percent murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 1>Zaren Elizabeth, I have a batman problem.

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<v Speaker 2>What you do? Have you tried a vigilante.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I don't, but my nephew does.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh ho. So he's over at my place every since.

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<v Speaker 2>You're a nephew a criminal?

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<v Speaker 1>Hold on, tell me this is he's not a criminal.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a good boy.

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<v Speaker 1>But he comes over every Saturday, and it's the highlight

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<v Speaker 1>of my week. To be honest, no offense, Zaren.

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<v Speaker 2>And Dave, none taken.

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<v Speaker 1>My nephew is obsessed with Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>No word.

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<v Speaker 1>He's fifty six years old. No, he's a little kid.

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<v Speaker 1>Everything has to be Batman, Isn't that funny? Like that

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<v Speaker 1>is everything has to be Batman. His clothes, including socks

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<v Speaker 1>and underwear, his toys. He loves monster trucks, especially the

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<v Speaker 1>Batman one that he has over.

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<v Speaker 2>Is a monster truck. Yeah, and when we.

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<v Speaker 1>Race the toys, Batman always has to work.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, of course, like.

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<v Speaker 1>What about Calavera or El Toro Loco or Grave Digger

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<v Speaker 1>and his progeny son of a Grave Digger by Jingo.

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<v Speaker 2>They can't ever win the whole world? What of them?

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<v Speaker 2>I think that Batman is into the monster truck world. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a Batman monster truck.

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<v Speaker 1>If they win a race Batman exactly, if they win

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<v Speaker 1>Batman invalidates their victory, and so on Saturdays, I live

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<v Speaker 1>in a Batman dictatorship. The only TV I allow him

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<v Speaker 1>to watch at my place as an animated show called

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<v Speaker 1>still Water on Apple TV. It's like, it's really calm

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<v Speaker 1>and there's a giant panda for some reason, who also,

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<v Speaker 1>for some reason, reminds me of William Peterson in the

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<v Speaker 1>last season of CSI. I've been told it's I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's the sun hat anyway and hat. Yeah, so Batman,

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<v Speaker 1>let's get back to back. For those lucky seven people

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<v Speaker 1>who've never heard of Batman, here's a primer. He's a

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<v Speaker 1>superhero from a DC comic book. He's the twenty seventh

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<v Speaker 1>issue of Detective Comics, released in nineteen thirty nine. To

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<v Speaker 1>be exact, Batman Batman is the alias of Bruce Wayne.

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<v Speaker 1>That's another thing. You can make my nephew really mad

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<v Speaker 1>by calling him Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>Doesn't care for that. Oh, Bruce Batman.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Bruce Batman d DS. Bruce Wayne is an uber

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<v Speaker 1>rich dude and he lives in Gotham City, which is

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<v Speaker 1>a proto Nightmare New York. Yes, am I getting all

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<v Speaker 1>this right? You know more than that, Bruce Wayne saw

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<v Speaker 1>his parents killed when he was a kid in vowed revenge.

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<v Speaker 1>That's not part of this story, but I'm saying it.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a dapper playboy by day, yes, for the most part,

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<v Speaker 1>and likes to do like does a little shoulder wiggle

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<v Speaker 1>dance during the day, and he's a street vigilante by night.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes. And he was best played by Michael Keaton. Oh

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<v Speaker 2>where do you come from?

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<v Speaker 1>So he cruises around in is batmobile in the dark

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<v Speaker 1>hours looking for crime to prevent or interrupt. He has

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<v Speaker 1>a special friend named Robin, a special friend, and then

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<v Speaker 1>there's Batgirl in there somewhere.

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<v Speaker 2>Other special friends, yeah he has.

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<v Speaker 1>He has a butler named Alfred, and then there's Commissioner

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<v Speaker 1>Gordon of the Gotham p D. And then Catwoman sometimes comes.

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<v Speaker 2>Into the mix of girlfriend kind of yeah, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>just catting around Batman and Catwoman. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure.

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<v Speaker 2>Sworn enemies.

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<v Speaker 1>His sworn enemies though are actually the Penguin or Penguin.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think they have an article in front. Penguindler,

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<v Speaker 1>Penguin two face, yeah he has, the Man has two faces,

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<v Speaker 1>and then the final boss, the Joker. Yes, did you

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<v Speaker 1>you got into Batman as a kid.

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<v Speaker 2>I liked comic books. I started with comic books and

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<v Speaker 2>then like the movies obviously are a different rendition. I

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<v Speaker 2>really enjoyed all of the movies. I like the Batman movies.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh up there with a lot of the Marvel movies.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, so, yes, I would say I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a big fan of Batman as a come, more so

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<v Speaker 2>than Superman.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm so saturated with Batman. Batman, you are bound

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<v Speaker 1>in content, I don't know up from down.

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<v Speaker 2>You're living with a Batman factory team rider.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, exactly. So I've decided to share with you some

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<v Speaker 1>ridiculous Batman crimes. Oh, nice Batman, not crimes fought by

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<v Speaker 1>the Cape Crusader himself. Oh, these are about Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought you were going to tell me like comic

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<v Speaker 2>book plots. That was cool, just and then episode twelve

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<v Speaker 2>turned the page.

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<v Speaker 1>So people do weird things for Batman, Okay, like take,

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<v Speaker 1>for example, the human who broke out the front window

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<v Speaker 1>of a comic book store in Everett, Washington. Oh this person, well, persons,

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<v Speaker 1>I should say there were two of them. They did

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<v Speaker 1>not steal priceless vintage Batman comics.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh no.

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<v Speaker 1>October of twenty twenty, These people smash the window to

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<v Speaker 1>retrieve something on display. There in the window in the

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<v Speaker 1>window a four foot tall Funko Batman. Now, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know why Funko toys are so hilarious, right, well, I

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<v Speaker 1>know I love Funko toys in two.

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<v Speaker 2>Ways the funk going on.

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<v Speaker 1>The first is from the large display section by the

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<v Speaker 1>registers at the Walmart the next town over. For me

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<v Speaker 1>when I lived in the rural South, the toys are

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<v Speaker 1>maybe like four and a half inches tall and they're

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<v Speaker 1>made of vinyl.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, big head.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they run about twelve to fifteen dollars on the

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<v Speaker 1>Funko website. Like you said, they have that big head

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<v Speaker 1>big hay yeah big.

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<v Speaker 2>It's almost anime looking. And then they got a tiny,

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<v Speaker 2>little bit tiny body exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>Well t rex arms. At Walmart, I'd see the shelves

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<v Speaker 1>with the toys as I waited to be the only

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<v Speaker 1>customer in the store to ever buy a Boreo rice

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<v Speaker 1>and the toys they're so outlandish, Like I kind of

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<v Speaker 1>feel like I have a memory of seeing Vanilla Ice

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<v Speaker 1>in there.

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<v Speaker 2>But it was like twenty fourteen in the Walmart. She

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<v Speaker 2>was shopping for Funko to funny, do you have the

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<v Speaker 2>new Funks Funko Nilla.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but he also probably worked there, so I knew

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<v Speaker 1>they existed Funkos, but I didn't know they were a

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<v Speaker 1>collector's item. Oh yeah, I thought they were for kids, big,

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<v Speaker 1>big time, like kids who like to play with doll

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<v Speaker 1>versions of Jack's from Son Evans Sunsannark That's what I think.

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<v Speaker 1>But then I learned they were to be gathered like

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<v Speaker 1>precious gems.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I read an amazing Reddit post there.

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<v Speaker 2>I know you love the reddit.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there was a woman whose husband didn't work and

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<v Speaker 1>was using all their money to buy Funko dolls that

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<v Speaker 1>he kept in a spare room of the house, like

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<v Speaker 1>completely filled.

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<v Speaker 2>She's working to basically subsidize his funk and they.

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<v Speaker 1>Were like barely making it every month, like and he

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<v Speaker 1>was just.

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<v Speaker 2>Racking and racking. But he's not out there, like working

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<v Speaker 2>the streets to get himself a little side. Actually he there.

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<v Speaker 1>He missed a bunch of family events to wait online

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<v Speaker 1>for the new releases to drop.

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<v Speaker 2>Waited for like online auctions. He's like missing like his

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<v Speaker 2>daughter's graduation or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>Or I looked on the Funco website. You can get

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<v Speaker 1>alerts when they're gonna go on sale. For instance, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a Beth Dutton one.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh like you like me?

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<v Speaker 1>And it's not me, but it's my name, yes, and

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<v Speaker 1>it says like you can sign up for to be

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<v Speaker 1>alerted when it's available. She's wearing like a pretty dope

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<v Speaker 1>pendle to jacket. Say, but I don't spirit Okay, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't get it, the whole funko thing, because I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>really one to collect things for display. Some people are

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<v Speaker 1>God bless I love it for why not? So this

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<v Speaker 1>comic book store in Evert, Washington, they had a four

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<v Speaker 1>and a half resistible funk They had a four and

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<v Speaker 1>a half foot funko statue of Batman in the window.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you imagine the head on that baby?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh? Man, that's justum quanium. You can't just buy a

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<v Speaker 1>four foot Bunco Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>Go funko bunko.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll just call it a bunko.

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<v Speaker 2>Bunko like that, you know, like the Squad, the Bunco Squad.

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<v Speaker 1>The Funko Batman. You have to earn it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, they threw a breaking glass.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, according to the store owner Charlie Knowedler, quote, only

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<v Speaker 1>the store could order it, and you can only order

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<v Speaker 1>one and you have to sign a disclosure.

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<v Speaker 2>You wouldn't sell it? What for you? What did it caught?

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<v Speaker 1>What was it worth more than eight thousand dollars?

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<v Speaker 2>Wow?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's like they just smashed a bunch of Batman

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<v Speaker 1>funkos together and holded it. This is this is some

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<v Speaker 1>insider stuff. A mere citizen wouldn't have it. Can I

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<v Speaker 1>also say that Charlieknedler doesn't look like comic book guy

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<v Speaker 1>from the Simpsons.

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<v Speaker 2>That's disappointment.

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<v Speaker 1>He's just a normal older fella. But he's wearing an

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<v Speaker 1>Alice Cooper t shirt.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, wait to save it and.

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<v Speaker 1>Alice Cooper fan without a four and a half foot

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<v Speaker 1>funco to wrap his arms around at night?

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<v Speaker 2>Sad? Can we start a kickstart to wrap.

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<v Speaker 1>His arms and legs? Apparently the thieves broke the window

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<v Speaker 1>and grabbed the funko sometime after three am.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the witching house that it's time to do it

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<v Speaker 2>Batman hour.

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<v Speaker 1>The broken window was reported by a citizen walking her

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<v Speaker 1>dog at six thirty in the morning. Okay, the Funco

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<v Speaker 1>Batman was the only thing that they stole.

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<v Speaker 2>Nothing else and nobody else came along and be like

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<v Speaker 2>oh popular, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>But in a store that is literally full of collectibles. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they only took the statue.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, they're devoted, they're committed, and they are specific.

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<v Speaker 1>And then a skeet skeets sped off into the night

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<v Speaker 1>in a red Mazda.

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<v Speaker 2>Ooh, the ratmobile.

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<v Speaker 1>Rat the caper made it to crime stoppers. It was

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<v Speaker 1>on Washington's Most Wanted, which I would love to watch sometimes.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that that's a TV show?

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<v Speaker 1>Apparently the police got tons of leads social media, all

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<v Speaker 1>a dinner quote people saying they found it, that somebody

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<v Speaker 1>was selling it online. Charliekndler said, we check it out

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<v Speaker 1>and go, no, that's not it. That's not four and

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<v Speaker 1>a half feet tall, that's one feet tall. Customers would

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<v Speaker 1>send us pictures what people were posting, some from out

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<v Speaker 1>of state.

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<v Speaker 2>I've seen it. It's down here in California. Cat your

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<v Speaker 2>nephew in a Batman costume.

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<v Speaker 1>He's funky. But then there was a break in the case.

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<v Speaker 2>Ooh nice.

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<v Speaker 1>Everett Detectives went to Lynnwood in February twenty twenty one.

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<v Speaker 1>They got a call from someone who bought Funko Batman. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>and they wanted to turn it over and wash their

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<v Speaker 1>hands of the whole incident.

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<v Speaker 2>Really.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they wanted nothing to do with it. Batman was

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<v Speaker 1>not in good shape. Who he had a broken nose,

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<v Speaker 1>he gone through it. Yeah, he was covered in scratches,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, defensive wounds. He was also missing his signature

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<v Speaker 1>blue Funko. You talked about how he's got this huge head,

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<v Speaker 1>tiny body when it's huge. Yeah, he needed that support

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<v Speaker 1>platform to hold him because that tiny little.

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<v Speaker 2>Leg he's not going to it's tiny, tiniest thing.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like when I see Tom Cruise running in the

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<v Speaker 1>movie and I yelled, run, run, run your little legs.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what it is with a funk come.

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<v Speaker 2>People always clap and it's funny. They love that way.

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<v Speaker 1>I just I just walk in in a running scene

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<v Speaker 1>and then I leave.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm not paying for this.

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<v Speaker 1>So Charlie Nodler, the owner, he said, quote, we had

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<v Speaker 1>to go in and identify him. I like to imagine

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<v Speaker 1>that he had to look through a window into an

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<v Speaker 1>office where Batman lay under a sheet on someone's papers,

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<v Speaker 1>drewn desk. All Somber lifts it from his face and

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<v Speaker 1>Charlie Nodler turns his head away and bites his knuckle.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't wait, I can't bear.

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<v Speaker 2>To see you look first.

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<v Speaker 1>So at last reporting, there were persons of interest, but

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<v Speaker 1>no charges had been filed.

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<v Speaker 2>They didn't solve this.

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<v Speaker 1>No, here's the thing, though, Everett Comics can't just fix

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<v Speaker 1>them up and put.

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<v Speaker 2>Them back in the window. Most likely they know who

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<v Speaker 2>they They probably came in the store, like he probably

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<v Speaker 2>knows the window.

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<v Speaker 1>What if you're just walking down the street and you're like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>elbow into the window, grab it and zoinks out in

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<v Speaker 1>the red Mazda. So note that they can't put him

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<v Speaker 1>back in the window because it was already paid out

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<v Speaker 1>on from the insurance company. Oh, the insurance company owns

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<v Speaker 1>Funko Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, so are they going to destroy it? Well, no,

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<v Speaker 2>is the insurance company to destroy Batman.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen, So Property Crimes Police detective Adam Gage said, quote,

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<v Speaker 1>we're still trying to figure out what to do with him.

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<v Speaker 1>So the insurance company does have the option of destroying it.

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<v Speaker 1>The last I could find it's sitting in the window

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<v Speaker 1>of the Westmore Avenue Precinct in Everett, Washington, looking out

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<v Speaker 1>upon the city and it's vulnerable citizenry, like it's just

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<v Speaker 1>looking watching, waiting and speaking of Walmart. Like I was

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit ago, there was a guy in Florida,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, who got arrested for stealing from Walmart.

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<v Speaker 2>That was earlier this year.

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<v Speaker 1>He made out with two hundred and eighty eight dollars

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<v Speaker 1>and eighty six cents in merchandise.

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<v Speaker 2>Hmm, under eighty eight dollars and eighty six.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what the product breakdown was. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>imagine it was just an armful of funkos oh okay, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe some SD cards and a couple of boxes of

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<v Speaker 1>Beory strips. Anyway, it was like the most likely things, Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>Ouckham's razor. Anyway, he walked right out of the store

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<v Speaker 1>with all the goods and got in his red Mustang

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<v Speaker 1>no relation to the red Mazda Red.

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<v Speaker 2>M Yeah, it's all coming together right there, and.

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<v Speaker 1>He hauled rear out of the parking lot. The cops

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<v Speaker 1>stopped him. They were able to stop him. They pulled

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<v Speaker 1>him over and they asked for his ID and he

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<v Speaker 1>provided it. Eighteen year old Jonah Goodfellow. He said, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what, guys, my name is Joonah Goodfellow and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a tax preparer. They're like, thank you, we didn't ask that.

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<v Speaker 1>And he's like, you know something else, I'd like to

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<v Speaker 1>tell you, I stole all this stuff two hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>eighty eight bucks worth, give or take.

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<v Speaker 2>What was he doing?

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<v Speaker 1>He also he was wearing a Batman mask the whole time,

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<v Speaker 1>all the time, whole time. So just like my nephew

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<v Speaker 1>when he wears his Batman jamas all day and says

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<v Speaker 1>he's actually Batman, it looks like the cops just arrested him.

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<v Speaker 2>Ah yeah, So this mister Goodfellow, I'm assuming a descendant

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<v Speaker 2>of people from the Pilgrim. The Pilgrim he came over

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<v Speaker 2>on the Mayflower. So this original American mister Goodfellow. Did

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<v Speaker 2>the police did they give him any like? Oh, sir,

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<v Speaker 2>you were doing the right thing, trying to.

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<v Speaker 1>Probably to pox him into the patrol car, chuck them

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<v Speaker 1>on the shoulder. Oh listen, come down and then show

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<v Speaker 1>me a couple of things.

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<v Speaker 2>We're talking about crime stuff. Just take a seat here

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<v Speaker 2>in the car. I got another good one for you. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>No, there was a guy who blamed Batman for his crime.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh was this me?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, it was you. Back in twenty eleven, they were

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<v Speaker 1>filming The Dark Knight Rises in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, I remember this, Yeah, the football.

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<v Speaker 1>Scene, Christian Bale, Tom Hardy just yucking it up.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, get all the Steelers seats. That's a Huggins totally tight. Squeezes.

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<v Speaker 1>Nearby, a man was sitting in his car, just sitting there.

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<v Speaker 2>Batman squeezed me longer.

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<v Speaker 1>Suddenly a guy opened up the passengers door of this car.

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<v Speaker 1>What was he sitting there doing with it unlocked? I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want a victim blame, but hello, you're sitting in

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<v Speaker 1>your car. Keep the doors locked. Every lady knows this, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>So the next thing that happened, though, is the guy

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<v Speaker 1>getting into the passenger seat, pulled out a gun and

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<v Speaker 1>ordered the driver out of the car. Zaren We had

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<v Speaker 1>us in honest to goodness carjacking in a parking lot. No,

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<v Speaker 1>just on the street.

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<v Speaker 2>On the street, okay, so I gotta stop light.

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<v Speaker 1>It just pulled over.

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<v Speaker 2>He was parked, The guy was parked. He's just sitting

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<v Speaker 2>in a parking space. Guy gets in next to him,

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<v Speaker 2>a shotgun has a guy and go get out.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep, exactly. So the driver looks at the perp and

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<v Speaker 1>then he pulls his own weapon and is bad. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>so there had been a report of an assault in

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<v Speaker 1>the shady side area of Pittsburgh apped a plane closed

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<v Speaker 1>cop in an unmarked car was cruising around looking for

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<v Speaker 1>the suspect. Okay, he parked his car and he was waiting.

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<v Speaker 1>Then the chump tried to carjack suspect found him. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>what does this have to do with Batman? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>you know I go off on tangents.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's all right, but I figure Batman was going

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<v Speaker 2>to come in healthy office, right.

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<v Speaker 1>So the guy, the carjacker, goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy,

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<v Speaker 1>whoa whoa, whoa. This isn't what you think, detective. See,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm in this movie we're filming. Maybe you've heard of it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a Batman move. I play a bad guy, A

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<v Speaker 1>bad guy who tries to carjack a dude dozens of

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<v Speaker 1>blocks from the set for realism. So they arrested him,

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<v Speaker 1>in charge him with robbery of a motor vehicle.

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<v Speaker 2>I am a method actor. Sir. We never got to.

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<v Speaker 1>See that scene in the movie. Yeah, no, they cut

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<v Speaker 1>it because he never showed up with the car.

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<v Speaker 2>So Lawrence l via Lyne, which is like we told

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<v Speaker 2>Dustin Hoffman in the same where he has to like

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<v Speaker 2>it doesn't matter Basically he gives them acting advice, and

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<v Speaker 2>he's like, my dear boy, have you ever considered acting?

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<v Speaker 2>That's what the detector said.

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<v Speaker 1>This is too much fun, Szarin.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, fun right, Batman, I love the fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Right. We should take a break. When we come back.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll have more bat capers for you. Hello, Buttercup, you

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<v Speaker 1>caught me on that entirely we left off. I was

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<v Speaker 1>yammering on about Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I thought of the movie The Marathon Man. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>with dust go on.

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<v Speaker 1>There's been a lot of Batman movies, yess, not counting

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<v Speaker 1>spinoffs or appearances in other DC movies, movies where it's

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<v Speaker 1>just Batman, all about the bat It looks like there

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<v Speaker 1>are twelve live action movies that many too animated.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>There are nine movies that he's in with other superheroes.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, the Justice League type films.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, and then TV shows Great Day in the Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>There are too many to count.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, a lot of animated ones.

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<v Speaker 1>Same goes for books.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I didn't even think about it. Batman's everywhere, are

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<v Speaker 2>we including coloring books.

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<v Speaker 1>Color coloring books, monster trucks.

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<v Speaker 2>Hot feels.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like every comic book hero or superhero writer

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<v Speaker 1>would love to be able to pen at Batman script.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so there's so much.

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<v Speaker 1>There's so much to Batman. He's mysterious, he has a

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<v Speaker 1>wonderfully dark origin story. He's a rich guy with seemingly

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<v Speaker 1>endless gadgets and toys. He lives in a mansion over

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<v Speaker 1>a tricked out cave.

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<v Speaker 2>He doesn't have any family to complicate stuff and to

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<v Speaker 2>do whatever he wants. Right, there's a lot to play

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<v Speaker 2>with here, is also haunted by their absence.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, one of the creative minds who wanted to play

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<v Speaker 1>in that Batman sandbox look out for Catwoman was a

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<v Speaker 1>guy named Chrissniak.

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<v Speaker 2>Chris.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a comic book artist and creator who's done work

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<v Speaker 1>for both DC and Marvel. He is deep into comics,

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<v Speaker 1>and he had an idea about a Batman's storyline.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'm looked over here like Steve was the next Boy.

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<v Speaker 1>No relation that I know of. The more he thought of, well,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe there's who knows who cares. The more he thought

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<v Speaker 1>about it, the more he realized that his idea was

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<v Speaker 1>just genius. So he sat down wrote down the story.

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<v Speaker 1>Not a comic book, a whole graphic novel. This was

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<v Speaker 1>a story story, multiple syllables. It was an ambitious project

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<v Speaker 1>and he was more than up to it. He came

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<v Speaker 1>up with this idea about Riddler figuring out that Batman

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<v Speaker 1>and Bruce Wayne are one and the same.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, finally, somebody.

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<v Speaker 1>Someone, Thank God, And basically that meant that he knew

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<v Speaker 1>why Batman does what he does, so he finds out

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<v Speaker 1>the whole backstory and that Riddler would unleash a plague

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<v Speaker 1>something biblical on Gotham is punishment for not loving his

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<v Speaker 1>criming ways. And then he also had a bomb sent

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<v Speaker 1>to kill Batman, but it was intercepted by someone else

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<v Speaker 1>who gets injured instead. In the manuscript for the Graphic Novels,

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<v Speaker 1>Barbara Gordon, daughter of Commissioner Gordon.

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<v Speaker 2>Who also happens to be Ackerel.

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<v Speaker 1>So he called the creation the Ultimate Riddle that manuscript title.

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<v Speaker 1>So in nineteen ninety, Wozniak pitched his manuscript to DC Comics,

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<v Speaker 1>no response, but he knew the story was just too

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<v Speaker 1>good to ignore, so he sent it again.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like a follow to the killing joke with

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<v Speaker 2>the Joker. You can see the potential right there.

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<v Speaker 1>And again he sent it again and again and again.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sensing the problem.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, and again about it a little, and he figured

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<v Speaker 1>maybe publishing wasn't the way to.

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<v Speaker 2>Go if I had a hammer go on.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe they weren't focusing on graphic novels. Yes, probably, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>he should adapt it to a screenplay. A good call,

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<v Speaker 1>And that's what he did, and he called it the

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<v Speaker 1>blind Man's Hat. Not as good of a time, he's

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<v Speaker 1>stepping over into the next line.

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<v Speaker 2>That is good.

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<v Speaker 1>And then he sent it to Michael Uslan. I think

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<v Speaker 1>at times us L a n Uslan. Michael Uslin, he's

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<v Speaker 1>a producer of Batman movies. Did you know that he's

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<v Speaker 1>the first instructor to teach an accredited course in comic

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<v Speaker 1>book folklore at a university.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna go ahead and say no, I did not.

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<v Speaker 1>The Indiana University three units the comic book in America.

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<v Speaker 2>That's cool.

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<v Speaker 1>Uslan called a local newspaper reporter anonymously, of course, to

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<v Speaker 1>complain about the course when it first got listened. Smart,

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<v Speaker 1>how in the world could they be teaching something like

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<v Speaker 1>this at a university? Where are my dead pale mail

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<v Speaker 1>writers by gum? So of course, news cameras arrived. He

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<v Speaker 1>became a sensation students lined up to register for the course.

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<v Speaker 1>Comic book loom Narys accepted invitations to speak to the class,

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<v Speaker 1>and then Uslin got a phone call from stan Lee

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<v Speaker 1>I thought to be Bob Kane, but yes, and that

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<v Speaker 1>led to a job at DC Comics. So he started

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<v Speaker 1>writing comics, got deep into the Batman franchise, and from

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<v Speaker 1>there he moved to the production side of films. In fact,

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<v Speaker 1>he holds the film rights to Batman, along with the

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<v Speaker 1>estate of Benjamin Melmicker. Melmcker sure, the creator of Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but I don't know how to print. I always

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<v Speaker 2>think of Bob Kane as the creator of Batman. So

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<v Speaker 2>Melmacker is not a name that I've committed.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, he had the rights, and so Uslin's been an

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<v Speaker 1>executive producer on all the Batman movies. If you want

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<v Speaker 1>to get a Batman movie made, this is your guy.

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<v Speaker 2>So he's the Barbara Broccli of Batman, because he is.

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<v Speaker 1>The Batman Man. Yes, So Wosney ex sent a script

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<v Speaker 1>to Uslan. Uslin had given him his card once, so

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<v Speaker 1>why not take a shot.

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<v Speaker 2>Check this out? Primo bat content. I go right to

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<v Speaker 2>the source.

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<v Speaker 1>He never heard back. This was in two thousand and eight,

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<v Speaker 1>So we all have that.

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<v Speaker 2>Story kidnapped him?

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<v Speaker 1>No, you know how like we you and I we

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<v Speaker 1>have stories any other writer stories or novels or a

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<v Speaker 1>collection banging around in a drawer that were positive has

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<v Speaker 1>legs and we'll find a home one day.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, totally. Yeah, this was I may have two

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<v Speaker 2>of those drawers. I may have a couple of drawers.

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<v Speaker 1>Then twenty twenty two, Yes, the movie The Batman came out.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't see it, yeah, Fries.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I know you didn't, but that's yeah, the Robert

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<v Speaker 2>Twilight Fell. It was good. I was. I mean, out

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<v Speaker 2>of all the Batman movies recently made, it was one

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<v Speaker 2>of the better. I thought it was really good.

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<v Speaker 1>It's got Zoe Kravitz in it. Yeah, Paul Dano, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a big fan who made. He's always weird to he

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<v Speaker 1>maybe always looks like a sex offender. Yeah not yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>like a backwood sex offender. No offense, and that.

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<v Speaker 2>There will be blooded there's two people he's played by him,

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<v Speaker 2>and I never understand. It just threw me. I've never

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<v Speaker 2>liked that movie because I'm like, wait, which one is he?

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<v Speaker 2>And I was like so dumb in that.

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<v Speaker 1>Film apparently, so, yeah, he was in The Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>I get thrown by Paul Dane's what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, everyone does, hopefully not violently. I didn't see the movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Losney X saw The.

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<v Speaker 2>Batman, you'd like it. Actually it made his blood boil

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<v Speaker 2>Colin Ferrell's portrayal of I like him. See, I said

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<v Speaker 2>the penguin, so we're going gardic on front.

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<v Speaker 1>Did it make your blood boil? Because it made Losney

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<v Speaker 1>x blood boil.

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<v Speaker 2>I can see that. I get y'all hate it. I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't get all heated up, but I did see damp.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, well, this is not the Batman of

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<v Speaker 2>my youth. I don't know. I enjoyed their interpretation. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>Losniik was mad.

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<v Speaker 1>Not because it looked like Riddler was played by someone

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<v Speaker 1>cast from the Megan's Law website. It's because the story

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<v Speaker 1>in the film is basically.

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<v Speaker 2>The story he wrote. It's very similar. According to him,

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<v Speaker 2>it's very there's elements.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well in this in his script, Riddler firebombs Barbara Gordon.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I said earlier, try to keep up. In movie,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the same setup, but it's Alfred who gets it.

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<v Speaker 1>I am spoiling this movie. I've never seen. The plot

0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:54.200
<v Speaker 1>structure is pretty similar, although I'm not the one to ask.

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<v Speaker 1>But because they all, they all seem like the same

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<v Speaker 1>movie in story, like Batman's good except for.

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<v Speaker 2>Because Ben Affleck was in it, and that's your favorite

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<v Speaker 2>comic book movie.

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<v Speaker 1>For sure. Bad Guy's bad, but like in a really

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<v Speaker 1>theatrical way, like does a lot of.

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<v Speaker 2>Kipping around.

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<v Speaker 1>He wants to terrorize Gotham through like a convoluted yet

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<v Speaker 1>terribly personally antagonizing to Batman way chaos and suits. Batman

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<v Speaker 1>emerges victorious four. Now, yeah, there's no stopping crime, especially

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<v Speaker 1>when it's darkly whimsical. So hello, I've seen all the movies,

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<v Speaker 1>so I may not know the difference, but most do.

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<v Speaker 1>So here are the bullets for the script in the movie.

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<v Speaker 1>In the script, Batman is at the end of his career.

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<v Speaker 1>In the movie, he's at the beginning. Yes, it makes

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<v Speaker 1>sense because they wanted a younger star, but he's still

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<v Speaker 1>like a turning point. In the script, there's a criminal

0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:50.879
<v Speaker 1>banking conglomerate at play. In the movie, it's an organized

0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.640
<v Speaker 1>crime syndicate because organized crime is easier for audiences to understand.

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<v Speaker 2>More coming.

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, yeah, in the script, a bank is corrupt.

0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:01.359
<v Speaker 1>In the movie, it's a charity. In the script, Riddler

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<v Speaker 1>finds a surrogate family in a commune. In the movie,

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<v Speaker 1>it's an orphanage. Watch them kids in the script, Paul Dano.

0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:11.159
<v Speaker 2>In the script, it's Armageddon for the world. Baby.

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<v Speaker 1>In the movie, it's Judgment Day for Gotham. That's cheaper VFX.

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<v Speaker 2>Sure.

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<v Speaker 1>In the script, Riddler threatens to release that biblical plague

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<v Speaker 1>upon the planet. In the movie, it's a biblical flood

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<v Speaker 1>because plague is too soon. It seems like a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of strong parallels.

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<v Speaker 2>But what do I know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just a simple country lawyers here.

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<v Speaker 2>The fact that you are too. But you have such

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<v Speaker 2>a good closing argument I do.

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<v Speaker 1>I do you know who got themselves a non simple

0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:44.760
<v Speaker 1>city lawyer. Wosniak suit, So I mean the Batman good luck, well,

0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.440
<v Speaker 1>it made hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Get

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<v Speaker 1>your cut, that guy.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm with them on that. But they have all of

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<v Speaker 2>these rules about the embodyment of an idea, and just

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<v Speaker 2>because you have stuff, it ain't gonna.

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<v Speaker 1>Play, he sued Warner Brothers. Wozniak alleged that Usland took

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<v Speaker 1>the script, handed it off to the director Reeves.

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<v Speaker 2>What's his first name?

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<v Speaker 1>Not Kelan matt Reeves.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, Matt Reeves. Oh, the director of The.

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<v Speaker 1>Batman right, and then Reeves like rewrote parts of it

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<v Speaker 1>but kept the bones. And the lawsuit is still making

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<v Speaker 1>its way through the courts.

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<v Speaker 2>He filed it, not you got his script to the

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<v Speaker 2>director's hands.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh huh.

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<v Speaker 2>If he got it into the director's hands, that he does.

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<v Speaker 1>Have it with ustling as like a middleman.

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<v Speaker 2>But does he have confirmation that the director held in

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<v Speaker 2>his hot little hands. I don't, because if you can

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<v Speaker 2>prove that the director put laid his eyes on this script,

0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:31.520
<v Speaker 2>he may have a contenttion.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what his attorney, R. Terry Parker had to

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<v Speaker 1>say about it.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why they're so protective. I won't see your script.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't get me your script because they can't see it.

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<v Speaker 1>They can't see it, and then they can make yeah quote.

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<v Speaker 1>There are so many original expressions from my client's story

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<v Speaker 1>found in the Defendants movie that we believe this is

0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:50.240
<v Speaker 1>clear case of copyright infringement. The similarities are just too

0:27:50.359 --> 0:27:51.720
<v Speaker 1>uncanniedy be accidental.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you know who the world's greatest detective is Batman

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<v Speaker 2>he could solve this.

0:27:55.800 --> 0:27:58.440
<v Speaker 1>Let's call him, so Bom, get my nephew on the phone.

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<v Speaker 1>The website Agents of Fandom. They have a pretty good

0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:03.680
<v Speaker 1>write up about the whole thing, and while they seem

0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:06.440
<v Speaker 1>to agree with Wozniak, they sort of skewer him about

0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:08.800
<v Speaker 1>the way he's going about this whole mess. Of course, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he has a Patreon, he has a Kickstarter, a change

0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:17.119
<v Speaker 1>dot org petition, right, an indiegog page. Here's what it

0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:21.000
<v Speaker 1>says there in Texas. I think so quote there's no

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<v Speaker 1>disputing my plot predates their screenplay, that the people who

0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:27.080
<v Speaker 1>made this film were in possession of my plot, and

0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:29.959
<v Speaker 1>that the Riddler's storyline in the film was directly derived

0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:33.840
<v Speaker 1>from my plot. Now, before executive producer Michael Eslin and

0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:36.639
<v Speaker 1>Warner Brothers Pictures used my plot in the film, they

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<v Speaker 1>were supposed to negotiate a contract first to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>I was fairly compensated. I was not credited anywhere.

0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:44.000
<v Speaker 2>I was not.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm doing the emphasis because it's all caps how I

0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:49.920
<v Speaker 1>paid anything. And in case you're wondering, that's not supposed

0:28:49.960 --> 0:28:52.680
<v Speaker 1>to happen so here I am. I was wondering, asking

0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:57.880
<v Speaker 1>Batman fans around the world to stop Hollywood from steamrolling

0:28:57.960 --> 0:29:02.719
<v Speaker 1>yet another comic creator. I got absolutely nothing that is

0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:05.400
<v Speaker 1>not just us. It would be nice if some of

0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:07.560
<v Speaker 1>the more famous faces would shine a little light on

0:29:07.600 --> 0:29:09.720
<v Speaker 1>this situation, because it would go a long way towards

0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:10.360
<v Speaker 1>making this right.

0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:13.360
<v Speaker 2>The nerd vibes coming off him is like when you

0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:15.080
<v Speaker 2>look at a desert highway and you can see where

0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:18.280
<v Speaker 2>the road is, Like, yeah, just raining, exactly right. I

0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:18.760
<v Speaker 2>feel it.

0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:22.040
<v Speaker 1>He takes donations on the indiegog page to pay for

0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:24.600
<v Speaker 1>his legal bills, and he sells weird T shirts and

0:29:24.600 --> 0:29:25.040
<v Speaker 1>stuff there.

0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:27.160
<v Speaker 2>I like it. So that's where that stands as of now.

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<v Speaker 2>I wish him luck with this bitterness and anger.

0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:32.960
<v Speaker 1>Because Sames bless good, bless. Let's pause for the cause,

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<v Speaker 1>and when we come back, I'll tell you what I

0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:54.960
<v Speaker 1>think is my favorite of these Batman stories. Oh nice,

0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:00.600
<v Speaker 1>Holy commercial Batman.

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<v Speaker 2>I got a question for you. What's your third favorite

0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:05.320
<v Speaker 2>Batman related crime you've learned about?

0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:12.120
<v Speaker 1>I think the my third favorite probably the your.

0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:13.040
<v Speaker 2>Nephew asked me to ask you this.

0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:16.160
<v Speaker 1>We did Walmart guy, I guess, Oh, okay, I like it.

0:30:16.560 --> 0:30:19.880
<v Speaker 1>Those were good commercials today, by the way, Juicy, robust,

0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:23.680
<v Speaker 1>full of flavor. Okay, Batman, I am the Batman. I'm

0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:26.520
<v Speaker 1>the Batman. Now we've talked a lot about Batman. But

0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:27.640
<v Speaker 1>what of the Batmobile?

0:30:27.960 --> 0:30:29.600
<v Speaker 2>Oh, my favorite of the mobiles.

0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:32.120
<v Speaker 1>What kid or grown up for that matter, wouldn't want

0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:33.520
<v Speaker 1>a cruise around in the Batmobile?

0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:35.080
<v Speaker 2>Which one are we talking about?

0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:39.240
<v Speaker 1>Well, i'd let's say the TV show, the sixties TV show, Oh,

0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:41.960
<v Speaker 1>the Class Yeah, or like maybe or any of them.

0:30:42.120 --> 0:30:45.080
<v Speaker 2>Quite frankly, I would like this monster truck. I've been

0:30:45.080 --> 0:30:47.280
<v Speaker 2>hearing about it. I want the Batmobile Monster.

0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:49.400
<v Speaker 1>I don't think i'd want to drive a batmobile around

0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:51.280
<v Speaker 1>because I feel like it has terrible handling.

0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:52.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm guessing that.

0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:56.600
<v Speaker 1>Like you know how like supercars, those wildly expensive race cars.

0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:58.720
<v Speaker 1>They only they look really great, but they're only fit

0:30:58.760 --> 0:30:59.240
<v Speaker 1>to drive on.

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<v Speaker 2>A track for the most part.

0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:03.360
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the batmobile would be no match for Oakland potholes.

0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:04.920
<v Speaker 1>It rides so low.

0:31:05.200 --> 0:31:07.480
<v Speaker 2>He's sitting with a blown out tire in the side

0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:09.560
<v Speaker 2>of the road with your batmobile just off the post

0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:12.600
<v Speaker 2>off people are driving by. What's wrong with your batmobile?

0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:18.720
<v Speaker 2>Got away? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>There's simply also not enough cargo room for me to

0:31:21.200 --> 0:31:23.720
<v Speaker 1>take it to Costco. Oh yeah, of course, you know,

0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:27.080
<v Speaker 1>the maximum payload for that would be like for frozen

0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:29.600
<v Speaker 1>dumplings in Pellegrino, would be like one bag in half

0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:30.000
<v Speaker 1>a case.

0:31:30.080 --> 0:31:33.120
<v Speaker 2>You probably get a bat suv. Oh maybe you could

0:31:33.160 --> 0:31:35.360
<v Speaker 2>maybe a BATMANI van or a bat cargo van.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, until then, I'll pass, thank you very much. In

0:31:39.480 --> 0:31:41.920
<v Speaker 1>twenty seventeen, there was a man and the man was

0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:43.600
<v Speaker 1>named Sam and Ignastu.

0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:45.360
<v Speaker 2>I thought this man was gonna be a man with

0:31:45.400 --> 0:31:45.720
<v Speaker 2>the plan.

0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:47.280
<v Speaker 1>He was a man with a plan. He was a

0:31:47.320 --> 0:31:49.160
<v Speaker 1>realtor from Atherton, California.

0:31:49.320 --> 0:31:49.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh.

0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:51.720
<v Speaker 1>Ather Dinner is a city in the Bay Area south

0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:52.960
<v Speaker 1>of San Francisco.

0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:53.360
<v Speaker 2>Where they got money.

0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:56.920
<v Speaker 1>The medium median home price is ten million dollars. Yeah,

0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.080
<v Speaker 1>that's the average, like the medians.

0:31:58.760 --> 0:31:59.959
<v Speaker 2>Rick where the Golden State Warriors.

0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:02.680
<v Speaker 1>That's in today's money. Oh yeah, Steph Curry lives there.

0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:05.920
<v Speaker 1>It's one of the wealthiest areas in the country. It

0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:08.720
<v Speaker 1>used to be old money by like California standards. Of course,

0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:11.719
<v Speaker 1>now there's a lot of Tecto. And then Steph Curry

0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:16.400
<v Speaker 1>from the Trader Golden State Warriors. If Sam was living

0:32:16.440 --> 0:32:17.920
<v Speaker 1>in Atherton, he was doing pretty well.

0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:19.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I met so well.

0:32:19.280 --> 0:32:23.000
<v Speaker 1>He could afford his own batmobile. Oh, of course, so

0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:26.760
<v Speaker 1>he placed an order for a Batmobile replica with Mark Rackup,

0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:31.120
<v Speaker 1>owner of Fiberglass Freaks located in Logan Sport, Indiana.

0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:33.360
<v Speaker 2>Did he have like a website like buy a Batmobile?

0:32:33.480 --> 0:32:35.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you can one hundred percent get in touch with

0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:37.160
<v Speaker 1>this guy and buy a batmobile.

0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:39.120
<v Speaker 2>Wow. Yeah, okay, what was that name again?

0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:42.680
<v Speaker 1>For Fiberglass Freaks, it's the only car garage licensed by

0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:45.360
<v Speaker 1>DC Comics to replicate the original Batmobile.

0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:47.080
<v Speaker 2>Oh like the sixties TV show.

0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:50.959
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Sam paid one hundred and seventy thousand dollars towards

0:32:50.960 --> 0:32:52.200
<v Speaker 1>this replica.

0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:53.480
<v Speaker 2>Batmobile the official bat Shop.

0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:57.000
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Sam was the first in line to receive a

0:32:57.120 --> 0:33:00.640
<v Speaker 1>custom Batmobile replica. But then he missed it twenty thousand

0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:02.880
<v Speaker 1>dollars payment. Oh no, and so he was moved to

0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:05.440
<v Speaker 1>the bottom of the list. Now he had to wait

0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:07.880
<v Speaker 1>one and a half to two years to get this batmobile.

0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:11.520
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, it's bad. So this is what the Fiberglass Freque's.

0:33:11.160 --> 0:33:12.480
<v Speaker 2>Kind of messed up. You missed one payment, you go

0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:14.280
<v Speaker 2>to the bottom of the list or like upstarting game.

0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:16.160
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I guess it's like they've got a lot

0:33:16.200 --> 0:33:19.200
<v Speaker 1>of people got a lot of rich, so the owner said, quote,

0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:22.080
<v Speaker 1>he disappeared on me for over eight months, almost nine months,

0:33:22.360 --> 0:33:26.160
<v Speaker 1>so he's trying to get to Yeah. Sam resurfaced, learned

0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:28.239
<v Speaker 1>about being bumped to the bottom of the list and

0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:31.600
<v Speaker 1>was not happy. This is what Racop, the owner said, quote.

0:33:31.640 --> 0:33:34.520
<v Speaker 1>He didn't like that. He exploded. He did pay off

0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:36.680
<v Speaker 1>the entire car at that point, but he was absolutely

0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:38.440
<v Speaker 1>livid to find out that his car was going to

0:33:38.480 --> 0:33:39.160
<v Speaker 1>be delayed.

0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:45.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm just imagining literally him by going to pieces like exploding, shattering.

0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:48.720
<v Speaker 2>He comes back together, of course, like the terminator. It's

0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:50.680
<v Speaker 2>a comic book world that makes sense.

0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:55.200
<v Speaker 1>Records show that Rackop did receive a wire transfer from

0:33:55.240 --> 0:33:59.160
<v Speaker 1>Sam for forty thousand dollars, but the idea is that

0:33:59.200 --> 0:34:01.680
<v Speaker 1>he accepted the money knowing full well he wouldn't give

0:34:01.720 --> 0:34:04.120
<v Speaker 1>Sam the car. So he has the money paid. He's like,

0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:07.160
<v Speaker 1>now you got to just keep waiting, buddy. He and

0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:10.000
<v Speaker 1>the truth is he'd actually sold Sam's car to someone else.

0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:13.239
<v Speaker 1>The next person in mine turns ast turn, come to

0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:15.800
<v Speaker 1>find out. In August twenty twenty one, a report was

0:34:15.840 --> 0:34:18.880
<v Speaker 1>filed by Sam with the Atherton Police Department. It's a

0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:22.040
<v Speaker 1>real hard boiled crime crew over there. Sam claimed he

0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:24.239
<v Speaker 1>was the victim of fraud for not having received his

0:34:24.320 --> 0:34:27.680
<v Speaker 1>custom ordered batmobile, priced in total at two hundred and

0:34:27.680 --> 0:34:28.560
<v Speaker 1>ten thousand dollars.

0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:31.240
<v Speaker 2>WHOA, isn't that crazy? It's pretty steep. Yeah.

0:34:31.520 --> 0:34:34.319
<v Speaker 1>So the San Mateo County District Attorney's office that's where

0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:37.719
<v Speaker 1>Atherton's located, San Mateo County, they wouldn't file the complaint.

0:34:38.280 --> 0:34:40.640
<v Speaker 1>And then he also filed a civil lawsuit in San

0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:43.640
<v Speaker 1>Mateo County Spirit Court. And on top of that, he

0:34:43.680 --> 0:34:46.200
<v Speaker 1>filed a criminal complaint with the police in Indiana and

0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:50.400
<v Speaker 1>they refused to press criminal charges. Nobody tells Sam at

0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:53.600
<v Speaker 1>Agnostu No, although I have to say that if he

0:34:53.640 --> 0:34:56.279
<v Speaker 1>paid forty, should get it, even if it's enough to

0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:59.040
<v Speaker 1>pay for classroom supplies for an entire elementary school for

0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:02.880
<v Speaker 1>years to come. Sam wasn't happy, so he called San

0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:05.000
<v Speaker 1>Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Blanos.

0:35:05.320 --> 0:35:06.080
<v Speaker 2>They know each other.

0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:09.359
<v Speaker 1>Sam was a wealthy donor and also a personal friend

0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:12.480
<v Speaker 1>of the sheriff's brother. Sam wanted the sheriff to organize

0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.640
<v Speaker 1>a raid against fiberglass Freaks and arrest the owner, Mark

0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:18.960
<v Speaker 1>racka a raid. Yeah, why because they didn't have his batmobile.

0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:20.239
<v Speaker 2>That's why kick in the door.

0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:25.239
<v Speaker 1>Blanos was like, Okay, oh wow, this this move is unprecedented.

0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:27.000
<v Speaker 2>He my boys could use some practice.

0:35:27.360 --> 0:35:29.640
<v Speaker 1>Billanos had never sent a team out of state to

0:35:29.680 --> 0:35:31.560
<v Speaker 1>investigate a nonviolent crime before.

0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:33.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's kind of well whatever, I'm not gonna get

0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:33.800
<v Speaker 2>into jurisdiction.

0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:39.040
<v Speaker 1>Rackop faced two felony charges obtaining money by false pretenses

0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:44.759
<v Speaker 1>and diversion of construction funds. So July nineteenth, twenty twenty two,

0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:48.360
<v Speaker 1>the San Mateo County Vehicle Theft Task Force located in

0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:49.200
<v Speaker 1>Sunny California.

0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:52.880
<v Speaker 2>They freshly minted San Mateo Vehicle task They sent.

0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:56.200
<v Speaker 1>A San Mateo lieutenant, a sergeant, and two deputies to

0:35:56.239 --> 0:36:00.120
<v Speaker 1>Cass County, Indiana. That is not located in sand to

0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:01.719
<v Speaker 1>Teo County or Sunny California.

0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:03.000
<v Speaker 2>No, not even in California.

0:36:03.400 --> 0:36:06.960
<v Speaker 1>Zaren yes, close your eyes. I want you to picture it.

0:36:08.000 --> 0:36:10.720
<v Speaker 1>You are a Cass County, Indiana Sheriff's deputy.

0:36:10.800 --> 0:36:11.200
<v Speaker 2>Totally.

0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:14.160
<v Speaker 1>You've been assigned as liaison to a bunch of California

0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:17.680
<v Speaker 1>cowboys out to raid fiberglass Freaks, a local business with.

0:36:17.640 --> 0:36:18.920
<v Speaker 2>Which you are slightly familiar.

0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:22.000
<v Speaker 1>You are there to arrest shop owner Mark Rackop and

0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:26.359
<v Speaker 1>extradite him to California. You show up in your usual uniform.

0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:29.080
<v Speaker 1>The sheriffs from San Manteo County look like they're there

0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:33.240
<v Speaker 1>for a cornhole atorney man buns backwards, baseball caps, jeans,

0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:36.080
<v Speaker 1>mirrored sunglasses. They're a different kind of cop, you guess.

0:36:36.680 --> 0:36:39.120
<v Speaker 1>You lead the convoy of cars down Erie Avenue and

0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:40.919
<v Speaker 1>glide to a stop on the side of the road.

0:36:41.480 --> 0:36:43.719
<v Speaker 1>You never realized it, but this block looks like it

0:36:43.719 --> 0:36:46.160
<v Speaker 1>could be in a Batman movie. What looked to be

0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:50.239
<v Speaker 1>abandoned brick buildings that once house small manufacturing line the road.

0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:52.719
<v Speaker 1>You have your eyes on a white brick building with

0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:56.440
<v Speaker 1>a line of black trim running across the top fiberglass freaks.

0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.640
<v Speaker 1>The street is silent save one songbird in the fir

0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:02.440
<v Speaker 1>trees up front. You and the team head to the

0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:04.880
<v Speaker 1>gravel driveway that wraps around the back of the building.

0:37:05.239 --> 0:37:08.279
<v Speaker 1>You pass an acid green Dodge charger. This must be

0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:12.120
<v Speaker 1>the place, you think that or a recruiting office. The

0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:14.200
<v Speaker 1>San Mateo guys are ready to charge in, but you

0:37:14.239 --> 0:37:16.319
<v Speaker 1>hold up a hand. You knock on the door. A

0:37:16.400 --> 0:37:18.960
<v Speaker 1>large genial man answers. You hold up a warrant and

0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:21.000
<v Speaker 1>the rest of the guy's barge in by you.

0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:21.759
<v Speaker 2>You look past the.

0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:24.800
<v Speaker 1>Proprietor and you see an incredible workshop at the center

0:37:24.840 --> 0:37:27.360
<v Speaker 1>of which sits a black batmobile, just like in the

0:37:27.400 --> 0:37:31.799
<v Speaker 1>old sixties TV show, and beyond that more batmobiles. A

0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:35.240
<v Speaker 1>solitary tear runs down your face. You've never seen anything

0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:39.439
<v Speaker 1>so beautiful. Rakops shop was searched that day and two

0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:41.920
<v Speaker 1>files were seized. He was taken back to Cass County

0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:45.719
<v Speaker 1>Sheriff's office facilities, but was neither handcuffed nor incarcerated due

0:37:45.719 --> 0:37:49.480
<v Speaker 1>to his health. Racops said, quote they showed the warrant

0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:51.480
<v Speaker 1>saying that they were here to seize anything to do

0:37:51.560 --> 0:37:53.600
<v Speaker 1>with his car. So I thought, oh, they're coming to

0:37:53.600 --> 0:37:55.839
<v Speaker 1>pick up his car, which is right behind me by

0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:57.360
<v Speaker 1>the way. I thought I was going to have to

0:37:57.400 --> 0:37:59.440
<v Speaker 1>move my other batmobiles out of way to be able

0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:03.719
<v Speaker 1>to let them take his car his other batmobiles. Balanos

0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:06.600
<v Speaker 1>detailed the raid, the ensuing search, and the level of

0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:09.400
<v Speaker 1>involvement from the Cass County officer. In a four page

0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:13.200
<v Speaker 1>internal memo. Bilanos wrote that his deputies quote did nothing wrong,

0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:15.680
<v Speaker 1>and I stand with them and support them. Of course,

0:38:15.800 --> 0:38:17.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, I mean you sent them there.

0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:17.560
<v Speaker 2>You better.

0:38:17.960 --> 0:38:20.400
<v Speaker 1>He goes on further to say, quote, while it is

0:38:20.480 --> 0:38:23.640
<v Speaker 1>true that I asked that this case be investigated, and

0:38:23.680 --> 0:38:26.480
<v Speaker 1>I am acquainted with the victim, as I am with

0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:29.360
<v Speaker 1>many residents of San Mateo County, I would make the

0:38:29.360 --> 0:38:32.440
<v Speaker 1>same request of our investigators whenever a potential crime of

0:38:32.480 --> 0:38:33.840
<v Speaker 1>this nature came to my attention.

0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:38.520
<v Speaker 2>Sure is sam Mateo's sheriff, Joe Arpeo. I totally believe you.

0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:40.319
<v Speaker 1>Just see that. There are a lot of people that

0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:43.640
<v Speaker 1>I think would prove that wrong. So later, the owner

0:38:43.680 --> 0:38:46.440
<v Speaker 1>of Fiberglass Freaks, he learned that his bank account was

0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:48.520
<v Speaker 1>frozen and that a warrant had been obtained for his

0:38:48.680 --> 0:38:53.040
<v Speaker 1>Gmail contacts and photos. He said, quote, I was horrified.

0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:55.799
<v Speaker 1>I've never gone through anything like this ever before in

0:38:55.800 --> 0:38:58.239
<v Speaker 1>my life, and I'm on the side of good as

0:38:58.239 --> 0:39:00.960
<v Speaker 1>a Batman fan since I was two years old. This

0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:04.440
<v Speaker 1>was a completely opposite side. I love sixty six Batman

0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:06.600
<v Speaker 1>and Batman has always stood with the law.

0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:10.439
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow. Later the same month, breaking this port NERD's heart,

0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:12.600
<v Speaker 2>making him beyond the wrong side of the Batman.

0:39:13.040 --> 0:39:15.920
<v Speaker 1>He does incredible stuff like it's a bat I bet.

0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:18.080
<v Speaker 2>That if they gave him him premature of DC. I'm

0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:19.320
<v Speaker 2>sure his work is phenology.

0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:23.080
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's super meticulous, Sam Mateo County District Attorney Steve

0:39:23.120 --> 0:39:28.760
<v Speaker 1>Wagstaff dropped the charges following further investigation. He explained, quote,

0:39:28.920 --> 0:39:31.719
<v Speaker 1>the batmobile case fell into the category of cases that

0:39:31.760 --> 0:39:36.000
<v Speaker 1>should have remained in the civil court, which obviously Wagstaff

0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:38.240
<v Speaker 1>stated that he had no idea there were any plans

0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:40.200
<v Speaker 1>for officers to go on a cross country trip to

0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:43.520
<v Speaker 1>stage a raid. What's interesting is that Wagstaff was actually

0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:47.160
<v Speaker 1>the first person Sam approached for assistance with his batmobile issue.

0:39:47.640 --> 0:39:50.880
<v Speaker 1>Wagstaff is the referee for an adult basketball team that

0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:51.640
<v Speaker 1>Sam plays on.

0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:52.880
<v Speaker 2>Huh shocking.

0:39:53.080 --> 0:39:55.719
<v Speaker 1>He also Sam also made a thousand dollars donation to

0:39:55.719 --> 0:39:59.919
<v Speaker 1>Wagstaff's reelection campaign. No, and Wagstaff's department ended up decl

0:40:00.400 --> 0:40:02.640
<v Speaker 1>the case, and that was the last Wagstaff heard of

0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:05.160
<v Speaker 1>it until he returned from vacation and learned that everything

0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:07.799
<v Speaker 1>had blown up. So he was like, no, no, no,

0:40:07.840 --> 0:40:09.720
<v Speaker 1>I know you gave me money, I know we shoot hoops,

0:40:09.760 --> 0:40:11.480
<v Speaker 1>but no, no, And then he comes back from vacation

0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:15.520
<v Speaker 1>darn it. When asked about public concern over his favoritism

0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:20.000
<v Speaker 1>that was shown Wagstaff said, quote, I do respect that concern,

0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:23.240
<v Speaker 1>but in terms of my office, I know whatever decision

0:40:23.320 --> 0:40:26.360
<v Speaker 1>was made, right or wrong, it wasn't done because of

0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:29.960
<v Speaker 1>who the victim was. Everybody deserves to be treated the same.

0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:32.760
<v Speaker 1>That's where what we strive for here. And I'm sorry

0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:34.560
<v Speaker 1>there's an image out there with the public that that

0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:35.480
<v Speaker 1>hasn't occurred.

0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:40.000
<v Speaker 2>So he's mad that people. He's upset that people are upset.

0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:40.680
<v Speaker 1>How dare you?

0:40:40.880 --> 0:40:44.000
<v Speaker 2>He's like, I'm really disappointed, how Darius? Everybody is so.

0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:48.360
<v Speaker 1>Upset, and I treat everyone like this. That's why the

0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:52.080
<v Speaker 1>courts are so backed up in Sanmuteous. Yes, I'm County

0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:57.920
<v Speaker 1>Supervisor Warren slocumbe quote respectfully disagreed. I bet, he said quote.

0:40:57.960 --> 0:41:00.000
<v Speaker 1>It seems like, and I don't have all the facts

0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:02.840
<v Speaker 1>that there are two systems of justice here, one for

0:41:02.880 --> 0:41:05.440
<v Speaker 1>a wealthy, connected person and one for everyone else.

0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:08.160
<v Speaker 2>Oh you think, yeah, I might go three or fours

0:41:08.200 --> 0:41:10.200
<v Speaker 2>to you knew here, Warren.

0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:13.919
<v Speaker 1>There's this investigative reporter here in the Bay Area, Dan

0:41:14.040 --> 0:41:17.560
<v Speaker 1>Noise and Oye. Yes, he's been at it for ages.

0:41:17.760 --> 0:41:20.880
<v Speaker 1>He irritates a lot of people, and he also gets

0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:23.000
<v Speaker 1>like a dog on a bone with stories. Oh I

0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:24.840
<v Speaker 1>like that in a reporter He was all over the

0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:28.440
<v Speaker 1>Batmobile case. Yeah, he was the one who broke it,

0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:32.239
<v Speaker 1>so Dan nois ABC seven News. He was the one

0:41:32.239 --> 0:41:35.480
<v Speaker 1>who told Rackop that his case was going to be dropped.

0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:38.320
<v Speaker 1>He got to break the news to him. Noise all

0:41:38.400 --> 0:41:41.799
<v Speaker 1>up in the business. Racop said, quote, Holy cow, Dan,

0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:44.640
<v Speaker 1>what a relief. This has been a ten week nightmare

0:41:44.640 --> 0:41:46.200
<v Speaker 1>and it's finally coming to a close.

0:41:47.239 --> 0:41:50.000
<v Speaker 2>The holy cow, Dan is well played, well played.

0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:54.640
<v Speaker 1>All told, six months was spent on investigating, over ten

0:41:54.760 --> 0:41:57.680
<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars was spent on traveling to Indiana for the raid,

0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:01.120
<v Speaker 1>and fifty five thousand to pay red I retired Judge

0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:04.160
<v Speaker 1>Winnifred Smith to write up a forty seven page report

0:42:04.200 --> 0:42:07.360
<v Speaker 1>on the whole thing. Fifty five grand. This is what

0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:11.080
<v Speaker 1>the judge said, quote ensuring the appropriate expenditure of public

0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:14.719
<v Speaker 1>funds should always be of the highest priority. Dude, Yo,

0:42:14.880 --> 0:42:16.880
<v Speaker 1>give me fifty five thousand dollars and I'll write a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of sentences like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Judge Smith, a grand page, A little let me dang.

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<v Speaker 1>She said that the sheriff's offices actions, while not illegal,

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<v Speaker 1>were not a practical use of county resources or taxpayers money.

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<v Speaker 1>And she also argued that Belanos is one on one

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<v Speaker 1>interaction with for Sam's complaint and admission that concerns from

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<v Speaker 1>those he didn't know were rerouted was indicative of unequal

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<v Speaker 1>access and treatment to county residents.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, of course, of course.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is what Dan Neyes had to say. Quote,

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<v Speaker 1>the raid and the fraud charges against Ratcop, which were

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<v Speaker 1>dropped after my reports, should never have happened. Your public

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<v Speaker 1>money paid for the trip last week by the sheriff's investigators.

0:42:55.040 --> 0:42:58.200
<v Speaker 1>Four round trip plane tickets, three nights of hotels, meals,

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<v Speaker 1>rental cars, and a.

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<v Speaker 2>Lot of overt time.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the thing is that they're up the clock that

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<v Speaker 1>whole time.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm surprised at ten thousand, and I thought it'd be

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<v Speaker 2>more expensive to send him to Indiana'd be quite on.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, I think that that's just like the flights

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<v Speaker 1>and the meals, per damns and stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, I think what we can all agree, and Dan

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<v Speaker 2>Noyse would want us to agree. The real batman of

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<v Speaker 2>this story is Dan Noise.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh completely, he's He's Noise. So this is what Dan

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<v Speaker 1>Noise did. He tried to reach out to the sheriff,

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<v Speaker 1>But the sheriff never called him back, never responded to

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<v Speaker 1>any texts that Dan Neise sent to the sheriff's personal

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<v Speaker 1>cell phone.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, no, they cops loved not answering journalist questions.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like a kink for them.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, then Noise he decides, you know what, I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to go to the retirement party for Blano's second in command, like.

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<v Speaker 2>The second Yeah, I like it. And then but.

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<v Speaker 1>They get there and Blano, the sheriff, he's out of

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<v Speaker 1>town for a month long vacation.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh so interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what someone named Lieutenant Allen said, quote. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not in charge of his travel calendar or his schedule.

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<v Speaker 1>So everyone's like, hey, look, this has no thing to

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<v Speaker 1>do with me. And then it turns out Bellanos loses

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<v Speaker 1>the election, leaves office in January.

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<v Speaker 2>Ooh. Noise was, however, able contribute to him losing the election.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you think all this press, I mean this gotta

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<v Speaker 2>be a vote of no confidence. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Noise got in touch with Sam though, while Sam was

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<v Speaker 1>vacationing in Greece. Everyone out here going on vacation. You

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't believe when he asked Sam, When Dan Noys asked

0:44:24.840 --> 0:44:27.279
<v Speaker 1>Sam about the batmobile. He said, quote, I'm dealing with

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<v Speaker 1>someone privately on that, and Dan Noise said, who's that?

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<v Speaker 1>And Sam hung up on him.

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<v Speaker 2>Wosniak click.

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<v Speaker 1>Per wrack Up the business owner. He said his business

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<v Speaker 1>suffered and estimated three hundred and fifty thousand dollars loss,

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<v Speaker 1>and it also took a toll on his mental health.

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<v Speaker 1>I bet quote because of this, I see a sheriff's

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<v Speaker 1>cargo pass, I freak, even just for a moment. You know,

0:44:51.320 --> 0:44:54.080
<v Speaker 1>it might only be thirty seconds or maybe even fifteen seconds.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's not me.

0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:57.840
<v Speaker 2>So this is like the New Joker origin story totally.

0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:00.800
<v Speaker 1>He used to be filled with bubbling cry in happiness

0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:05.439
<v Speaker 1>when he saw a sheriff's cruiser. Now exactly, and he's

0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:06.480
<v Speaker 1>building these cars?

0:45:06.760 --> 0:45:07.760
<v Speaker 2>Is he going to build it next?

0:45:08.840 --> 0:45:11.560
<v Speaker 1>But rack Up does give all credit, thanks and praise

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<v Speaker 1>to Dan Noyce.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you the real Batman.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you so much, Dan for what you've done. If

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<v Speaker 1>you had not followed through on those whistleblowers, if you

0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:21.000
<v Speaker 1>hadn't believed them, this case would have continued, and I

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<v Speaker 1>would have had been in Sa Mateo on Friday morning.

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<v Speaker 2>And I thank you so so much you never want

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<v Speaker 2>to be in Sam mateo on a Friday morning.

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<v Speaker 1>No. As of March twenty twenty three, Rackup was still

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<v Speaker 1>he was making progress on other batmobiles. He has nine

0:45:36.120 --> 0:45:40.839
<v Speaker 1>others that he's working on. But Sam's batmobile, Batman Bile,

0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:43.920
<v Speaker 1>is three and a half years away from completion due

0:45:43.920 --> 0:45:45.960
<v Speaker 1>to quote difficulty obtaining parts.

0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:47.600
<v Speaker 2>So he's still waiting for me.

0:45:47.760 --> 0:45:50.040
<v Speaker 1>This is what he said, quote. I cannot believe that

0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:53.040
<v Speaker 1>it's taking sometimes up to a year to get a chassis,

0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:55.799
<v Speaker 1>and it's taking six months to get a drive train.

0:45:55.920 --> 0:45:59.960
<v Speaker 1>It's really crazy, wild most I can't believe that. So, Sarah,

0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:01.680
<v Speaker 1>what's your ridiculous takeaway?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have a batmobile of my own. I mean,

0:46:04.760 --> 0:46:07.239
<v Speaker 2>apparently they're just handing these things out. All you have

0:46:07.280 --> 0:46:10.040
<v Speaker 2>to be is a ridiculous criminal, So I want one.

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<v Speaker 2>Well as you.

0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:14.280
<v Speaker 1>You you herald the stories of ridiculous criminals. You're entitled

0:46:14.320 --> 0:46:15.080
<v Speaker 1>to a batmobile.

0:46:15.440 --> 0:46:19.319
<v Speaker 2>We get a sponsored batmobile, like a ridiculous batmobile. Do it.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll work on that and I'll just.

0:46:20.360 --> 0:46:22.880
<v Speaker 2>Go around doing crimes until Batman can find me. I

0:46:22.920 --> 0:46:23.640
<v Speaker 2>stole your whip.

0:46:23.719 --> 0:46:25.480
<v Speaker 1>Rather how you get to meet Batman? You do have

0:46:25.560 --> 0:46:26.439
<v Speaker 1>crime steal his car.

0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:29.239
<v Speaker 2>That's how you get to meet him. That's Oakland style. Son,

0:46:29.520 --> 0:46:33.600
<v Speaker 2>Welcome to the town. Just gopping a batmobile exactly. This

0:46:33.719 --> 0:46:36.120
<v Speaker 2>is all I have. Bat Man left his luggage in

0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:38.400
<v Speaker 2>the batmobile. I got it now, who got the extra

0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:41.120
<v Speaker 2>Batman suit? Son? Sorry, I'll stop.

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0:46:49.160 --> 0:46:53.400
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0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:55.239
<v Speaker 1>got to get them while they're there because they're not

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0:46:55.920 --> 0:46:57.479
<v Speaker 2>Yea hopping and hopping out. Yeah.

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