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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Oh hey,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing here? You know it's ridiculous, I do. Actually, okay,

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Speaker 1: you're ready for this one. You know John who owns Garfield. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that you know the cartoon that I'm aware of him. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So there is a fan theory that he killed his

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Speaker 1: best friend to keep his dog Odi. Ye, I know, right,

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Speaker 1: it's wild. So John has his best friend, this dude

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Speaker 1: named Lyman, right, and Lyman owns Odi the dog, and

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Speaker 1: this is like in the eighties and eight three. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, Lyman disappears from the comic strip. So

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Speaker 1: fans start coming up with this theory that he's in

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Speaker 1: The cartoon show of Garfield actually decided to answer this

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Speaker 1: moment that they determined, well, the cartoons show decides to

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Speaker 1: depict what happened to Lyman. They have him go down

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Speaker 1: to the Amazon as a natural photographer, and he just

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Speaker 1: disappears while looking for a mythological creature. So, like did

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Speaker 1: Chupacabrey Lineman. We don't know. But the whole point is

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Speaker 1: is John is definitely not amongst us. Liman is definitely

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Speaker 1: not amongst us. Okay, I need to have one question answered,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really serious about this. Where does Kathy come

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Speaker 1: into all that? Um? I would say she and John

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Speaker 1: alviously seem like they should have been dating. You know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like you read one comic, you

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Speaker 1: What can you do about this? Lum? Come on in.

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Speaker 1: We need some teenage energy. The family circus kids can

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Speaker 1: get this to happen in some chaos that's ridiculous than

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Speaker 1: you do? You win? There you go. You want to

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Speaker 1: know what else is ridiculous? I getting drunk, stealing a plane,

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Speaker 1: flying said plane into New York City, landing it on

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Speaker 1: the street, Oh, and doing it twice? Yes, So who's

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Speaker 1: my new favorite hero? You'll find out I'm Elizabeth Dutton

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Speaker 1: and he you can see him, look over there, he's

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Speaker 1: there in Burnett. You can't prove that. And this is

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Speaker 1: ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers heists

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Speaker 1: and cons. It's always murder free and one ridiculous. The

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Speaker 1: story I have for you today, Zarin was suggested to

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Speaker 1: us by our Instagram pal Sarah Reeves. Oh thank you

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Speaker 1: Sarah Reeves. She really came through here. Um big thanks

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Speaker 1: to Sarah Reeves. She also has some cute dogs as

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Speaker 1: her Instagram profile picture. It's very rad, very on brand

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Speaker 1: for the definitely fan of the dogs. Yeah, rude dudes

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Speaker 1: in effect. Um, I do have to say that we

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Speaker 1: get tons of crime suggestions and that's amazing. Um. We

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Speaker 1: have what we call the Big Board here at Ridiculous

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Speaker 1: Crime Headquarters and as you know, because you're there, we

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Speaker 1: pin up all the ridiculous crimes that we plan to

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Speaker 1: tell on the podcast. I gotta tell you something. That

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Speaker 1: board is crowded right now. It's stacked. Yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: just a bunch of madness all stacked together with pins.

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Speaker 1: And we do. We have that team of interns. They're

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Speaker 1: But they're interns, competent, unpaid. They're the ones who answer

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Speaker 1: all the emails and the d m s. Did you

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Speaker 1: know that I did not. I hope they're not being offensive.

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Speaker 1: They're always on their phones, like eating beef jerky, dancing

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Speaker 1: to the music of Glenn Fry. I can't get them

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Speaker 1: Looks out there. He's got his like silk scarf flapping

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Speaker 1: have to stop you right there. This is dangerous criminal

420
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: driving of a metaphor thank you. So I feel relieved

421
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: that I can let go of that. Um. The grand

422
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: larceny charge winds up getting dropped a few weeks later

423
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: because Donald Hulse decides not, ye can't be. Tommy fits

424
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: He's find one hundred dollars after being found guilty of

425
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: landing without a permit. It's a parking ticket, like reckless

426
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: operation of a plane and flying without a medical certificate whatever.

427
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: So he has his pilot's license suspended for six months.

428
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 1: No big, He's like, guess what, guys, I'm never flying again.

429
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: I don't need a license. Do you think I look

430
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: like a law abider? So all's well? That ends well, right, No, um,

431
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: let's stop for commerce and when we come back, I'll

432
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: let you know how Tommy continued to bring the ridiculous.

433
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: So we were in nineteen Now, in early October of

434
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: ninety eight, almost exactly two years later, Tommy Fits gets drunk,

435
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: steals plane from Peterborough Airport, New Jersey to Washington nights

436
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: in Manhattan and lands in the middle of the street.

437
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: Did someone say, I don't believe you, and he's like, bet,

438
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Exactly what happened. He's at a

439
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: different neighborhood bar in Washington. Night's not Joe's. He's drinking,

440
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: it's about midnight. He's totally bragging about this infamous flight.

441
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: Two years he's become a local legend with this. But

442
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: people see him and they're like, oh, that's Tommy Fits.

443
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: You know what he did, right, He's amazing, lucky Tommy Fits.

444
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: But like, if you see him getting a car, go hide.

445
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: The Lindbergh of green Point. Another guy in the bar,

446
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: this guy from Connecticut. He apparently didn't believe Tommy. Connecticut.

447
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: M There's just no way that Tommy stole a plane.

448
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: He was looking down in New York. No way he

449
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: flew it back. This is just ridiculous. This is just

450
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: you don't know how we do here. Go back to Connecticut.

451
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: Tommy didn't like that he didn't take kindly to him.

452
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 1: I wanted to prove himself one more time, just like

453
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: you would. So Tommy has the guy from Connecticut who

454
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: the papers referred to at the time as the Nutmeger,

455
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: the nutmeggar. Well, isn't it like the nutmeg state or

456
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 1: the yes of the soccer term, like when you've been

457
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: made foolish when the ball goes between your legs. I'm

458
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: like the nutmega very nutmegs state of mine. Um So,

459
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: the Nutmeger drives him to Teeterborough and they go to

460
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: the Aeronautics school, just like last take me to work.

461
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: We're drunken nut so yeah, but his thing is like, oh,

462
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: you don't believe me, drives me. I'm responsible. I don't

463
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: have a license anymore. Here the designated driver. Um So

464
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: they go and they look at Donald Hulse's planes one

465
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: more time. Pick one of those this time, though, he

466
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: picks the Cessna one twenty that hasn't even bigger wingspan

467
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: of forty ft wingspan. Good choice. He's like, I'm just

468
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: gonna upsize on this, go bigger, supersize it. So he

469
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: jumps in the plane and he takes off. That is,

470
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: he take the Nutmeger with him. He's like, stay here,

471
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: I'll be back. I think he left the Nutmeger and

472
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: Nutmeger was all like one lone tier going down his

473
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: cheek as he watches him fly off into the great

474
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 1: blue yonder Um. So he gets in the plane, takes off,

475
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: doesn't notify the tower of doesn't put on his running

476
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: like no lights, no lights it He's run silent, run

477
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: deep the private blitz creeg um, doesn't use his radio nothing,

478
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: just the window safety, last, safety, last. So this time though,

479
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: he's doing like serious treetop flyer moves. He's skimming rooftops.

480
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: It's freaking people out. Well, he's got a he's got

481
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 1: a bigger plane. This time. It's a little bit heavier.

482
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: This time. He brings the plane down for a landing

483
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: at street in Amsterdam Avenue. Now it's still sort of

484
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: Washington Heights ish, it's like six blocks from Joe's. So

485
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: the witness statements about his landing are amazing. I can't wait.

486
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: John Johnson, which like, I love when people do that

487
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: to their children. Our last name is Johnson. Listen name

488
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: of John. But that's like because it's like John John

489
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: John John son of John, seventh, son of the seventh

490
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: son of John. I just love that name. John's cruising by,

491
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: and he says, quote, I saw something coming down. I

492
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: didn't know what to imagine. I slammed on my brakes

493
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: and a plane skidded over the top of my car

494
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: and made a perfect landing ahead of me. I saw

495
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: a man get out and run towards St. Nicholas Avenue

496
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: on a hundred and eight seven street. I think Tommy

497
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: was running towards Joe's hair the dog. Then there's this

498
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: bus driver. He was at Amsterdam and a hundred ninety one,

499
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: so just up the block of it, he says. I

500
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: just got into my seat when all of a sudden,

501
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: I heard something that sounded like a large fan, he said.

502
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: I looked in my rear view mirror and I saw

503
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: this plane coming at me. He landed alongside of me.

504
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: The plane hit the ground and bounced twenty ft in

505
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: the air. I thought he was going to take off again,

506
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: and then he hit the ground again and taxi down

507
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: one seven street. Just one guys like, oh, the perfect landing.

508
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: That was, Like, here's the best thing that the bus

509
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: driver goes. God forbid if I ever hit a plane,

510
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: what could I say? At the safety hearing, He's like

511
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: out of like a sit Can you imagine he is,

512
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: like I'm imagining he's married. He and his wife telling

513
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: a story and that's his punchline. No. Yeah, They then

514
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: clink the glasses. Um. So the difference this time is

515
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: that Tommy didn't head back in for a drink somewhere.

516
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: He didn't run to Joe's. He just high tailed it

517
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: on home, took off. Witnesses all saw him running away

518
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: from the scene. I wonder if the landing scared him.

519
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: The whole bouncing thing to parade in the distance got

520
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: a little nervous. Um. So the cops arrived and they

521
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: moved the plane out of the way. Some good shape

522
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: to do this time, but it was way too much

523
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: of a coincidence for them, especially when they heard a

524
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: description of the fleeing pilot, tall blonde husky. So they

525
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: drove out. They stopped in Joe's then, so uh, they

526
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: called Tommy at home and they're like, Tommy, Tommy, fits

527
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: want to come down to the station. He gets there

528
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: and he tells the press that, you know, I was

529
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: just in the neighborhood and I heard the cops wanted

530
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: to talk to me this wild I think they wanted expert,

531
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: and I don't know what they want to talk about.

532
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: And it wasn't me. Whatever it was. Um, the cops

533
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: tell him, look, we got witnesses, we got your fingerprints.

534
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: Tommy's like, all right, I did it, like immediately came yeah.

535
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: So once again charged with grand larceny. He has a

536
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: ton of civil aeron ox violations too, so dangerous and

537
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: reckless operation of an aircraft landing within city limits other

538
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: than an emergency conditions and flying without a license, because

539
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: don't forget. He was like, I'm not doing that again.

540
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: So the New York Daily News, which had the absolute

541
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: best coverage of this, of course, they said Thomas Fitzpatrick

542
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: local wrong way corrigan who finds air landing strips where

543
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: the port authority never has built any admitted yesterday police

544
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: say that he was the hot shot pilot who landed

545
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: on Amsterdam at a new near a hundred and eighty

546
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: seventh Street early yesterday in the small plane hot pilot,

547
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: come on pilot, Yeah, I like that part wrong. So

548
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: the magistrate at the arrangement said that he quote came

549
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: down like a marauder from the skies and dangering the

550
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: lives of hundreds of persons. What if there were a

551
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: been a parade. They set the bail at ten grand

552
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: at this time no more, no more so January, so

553
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: it was October fifty eight January nine. He takes a

554
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: plea deal and he pleads guilty to the misdemeanor of

555
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: bringing stolen property into the state one way. So the

556
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: judge John Mullen really lets him have it. Quote, you

557
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: do not know when to stop drinking. The last time

558
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: you paid a one dollar fine. If you have been

559
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: seriously and properly jolted the first time, it's possible this

560
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: would not have occurred a second time, and maybe you

561
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't be standing here to day. There is no doubt

562
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: in my mind that you were intoxicated. And we're in

563
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 1: a measured dared by a drinking companion when you were

564
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: in this silly, semi intoxicated condition. So he says you're intoxicated,

565
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: but he calls it semi intoxicated. Up your jactly, I'm

566
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: gonna overruled. So Judge Mullen does, though, like he praises

567
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: Tommy's record. He's like, look a veteran. You're a vet,

568
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: You're a good dude. He says, you're the best pilot

569
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. You've seen a lot of pilots. Says

570
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: that the guy who's plays like man, that's the best pilot.

571
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: That's the best flying I ever did. Love this the

572
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: original launched Pad mcquack. Yeah. So the judge winds up

573
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: sentencing Tommy two six months in the workhouse. Yeah, he

574
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: gets it. A couple of weeks later, he's convicted on

575
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: other charges of drunken flying and sentenced to so he

576
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: gets a f u I. He's sentenced to an additional

577
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: two weeks on top of that, and his only comment

578
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: on this is quote, it's the lousy drink. It's the

579
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: last he drink. That's it. Now the best. There's a

580
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: column by this guy Melheimer at the time that he

581
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: had called my New York and he was, oh, he

582
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: has this great write up of Tommy fits where he

583
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: expresses it, yes, you know this was a crime, but

584
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 1: he had to give it up for Tommy as quote

585
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: the last adventurous man. Let me read you the closing

586
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: of a column. Quote, Well, men, they have incarcerated Tom Fitzpatrick.

587
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: Tell me please what is left in life for the

588
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: rest of us when the urge comes upon us to

589
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea

590
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,959
Speaker 1: and the sky, or to close our ledgers and hunt

591
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: for the abominable snowman? Will they pass a law against us?

592
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: Tom Fitzpatrick is a criminal and he rests like a

593
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: chained cheetah in the pokey, and a little bit of

594
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: all of us rests with him. Isn't it great? But

595
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: it's true. I mean that adventurous spirit should be celebrated.

596
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: Nobody got hurt, and this is how we get to

597
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: the moon. People. You need this crazy, a ridiculous takeaway

598
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: here right, you know what side I'm going to land on. Well,

599
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: what I keep thinking about is how it was such

600
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: a different time, Like no one immediately thought terrorist. Oh yeah,

601
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: this is like I kept thinking about that, like pre

602
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: nine eleven New York landing a plane to flying between

603
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: the buildings. Everyone's just like in like tactical gear. There

604
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: wasn't a standoff, so it was like a novelty. You know,

605
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't something terrifying. No one was injured, No, no,

606
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: it was it seemed like it was you know when

607
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: people talk about the American rambunctious spirit. I don't you know,

608
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: this is a good example of it, you know. And

609
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: also the fact that I have to believe that he

610
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: would not have landed this if there were people out.

611
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: He would have realized, like, I can't do this, bet

612
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, I suddenly say the crowd for whatever reason,

613
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: there's a fire, you know, in an apartment building, and

614
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: so now the crowd is, you know, thronging in the streets.

615
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: I don't think he'd be a go a right blocks

616
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: and landed or do whatever. I think he'd recognize. So

617
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: it seemed to me he got away with it because

618
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: it fit the moment and it fits that place, and

619
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: so he was, you know, as you put there was

620
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: an art to in art requires a reading of a

621
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: lot of things. I mean, I'm not a fan of

622
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: him driving around on the roads drunk. Yeah, I think

623
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: that's the most dangerous part of me, quite honest. Don't

624
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: you think this kind of highlights the amount of fear

625
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: that we live under all the time. Now, don't even

626
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: get me started, because like a low flying plane now

627
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 1: is terrifying. It's not a novelty. They cleared the White

628
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: House because of plane flew over the baseball game. Yeah. Like,

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Speaker 1: so if we don't also immediately think terrorists, right, like

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Speaker 1: it's exhausting. Yeah. Um, now I gave it up really

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Speaker 1: good at that me. I I dive right into it.

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Speaker 1: According to various Internet sources, which are always the most

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Speaker 1: reliable thing, I turned to um. One of them Dinner

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I think like my

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Speaker 1: And then there's also check six dot org, which is

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Speaker 1: like a flight website apparently. Anyway, they both talk about

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Speaker 1: a cocktail called the Late Night Flight that was inspired

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Speaker 1: by Tommy fits. Do you have the recipe? Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: there's a huge story. Okay. So it's a half ounce

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Speaker 1: Then one and a half ounces of vodka, and that's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be clear like Tommy fits his intention. Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: that's poetic. Half ounces shamboard, which is raspberries, you know,

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Speaker 1: So it's like the raspberries that Tommy fits blue at

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Speaker 1: those who doubted him. And then five blackberries and that's

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Speaker 1: to represent the cars parked on Manhattan streets. One egg white.

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Speaker 1: Those form the fluffy clouds, and then a dash a

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Speaker 1: simple syrup, sweet like victory. So it's supposed to be

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Speaker 1: it's like a layered representation of New York's nighttime sky.

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Speaker 1: So you do the klua as a base, and then

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Speaker 1: in a separate glass, you muddle the blackberries, add shamboard

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Speaker 1: You strain it into a layer over the klua. Is

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Speaker 1: everyone following along, right, pure and another mixing glass you

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Speaker 1: ounce of vodka. Right, You just shake it up to

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Speaker 1: create an emulsion, and you layer that foam on the

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Speaker 1: top like the clouds, and then you chug one and

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Speaker 1: go jump. In assessment, you steal a plane. Yeah, Alright'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go get some sand. So there you go. That's it.

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