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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Saren Elizabeth, Saren Elizabeth, check it, check it. You know

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Speaker 2: it's ridiculous, I do.

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Speaker 3: Do I yeah.

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Speaker 2: Is it a mashup?

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Speaker 3: It's my kind of a mashup. Oh you ready?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 3: Two great tastes that I think tastes great together. Oh

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Speaker 3: really Burt Reynolds Frank Sinatra.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's like right up. I thought you were like

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Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds in nutella.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, and a bear skin rug. No. So,

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Speaker 3: one day Burt Reynolds was eating dinner, right and he's like,

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Speaker 3: he's in La He's just eating out of a jar

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Speaker 3: and nutella with a spoon and a restaurant. They're like,

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Speaker 3: why do you come in here? He's like, I like

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Speaker 3: the company. But he's like okay. So Sinatra turned out

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Speaker 3: to be in the same restaurant he sees Burt Reynolds.

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Speaker 3: At this point, Burt Reynolds is the most famous man

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Speaker 3: in the world. He's been the you know for five

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Speaker 3: years running. He was the biggest draw in Hollywood, right,

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Speaker 3: so so now just like, oh hey, Burt, he sees him.

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Speaker 3: He's like, you got to come back into the you know,

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Speaker 3: we're having a poker game. So come back inside the

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Speaker 3: This is like a just an La restaurant, right, it's

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Speaker 3: called Nicky Blair's right place.

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Speaker 2: So he goes there's no Hardy on the West coast ahead.

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Speaker 3: So Burt Reynolds goes back, and from his memoir we

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Speaker 3: know he finds Sinatra quote seated at a big round

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Speaker 3: table in the middle of the kitchen with all the

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Speaker 3: waiters and bus boys rushing back and forth. Right, So

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Speaker 3: it's like some kind of weird Goodfellas scene back there, right,

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Speaker 3: Sinatra he's playing five card stud and he's the one

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Speaker 3: that he's uh, he's basically, you know, kind of running

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Speaker 3: the game. It's Sinatra's game. So Bert's, you know, all

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Speaker 3: sit in with you guys. He follows mind a Southerner

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Speaker 3: playing with you, so he's down with them. All of

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Speaker 3: a sudden, as soon as he starts to play poker,

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Speaker 3: there's this huge crash and he says a quote, an

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Speaker 3: unlucky bus boy dropped to tray a glassware. So Reynolds,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's like trying to be a good guy.

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Speaker 3: He calls over to the owner, Nicky Blair, and he's like, hey, hey,

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Speaker 3: you're yelling at that guy, I don't need to yell

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Speaker 3: at him, Sinatra. Sinatra ticks a totally different approach. He says,

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Speaker 3: how much do those glasses cost? Guys like hey, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, Frank, a few bucks apiece. Sinatra looks too

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Speaker 3: of his bodyguards. He's like, hey, So they they peel

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Speaker 3: out three thousand dollars and they hand it to Nikki

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Speaker 3: Blair and he says, now, bring me three grand worth

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Speaker 3: of glasses, right, and the confused restaurant tour starts sending

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Speaker 3: in bus boys with trays full of empty glasses. Sinatra,

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Speaker 3: he looks at this guy, he goes, hey, what's the

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Speaker 3: k His name was Hector. He's a Hector. Break them. The

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Speaker 3: bus boy did as he told and told that the

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Speaker 3: whole floor is covered in glass. He has Hector smashed

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Speaker 3: glass after glass. And then Frank tells Niki the owner,

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Speaker 3: if I ever come in and don't see Hector, I'll

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Speaker 3: never come back. WHOA I love Frank Sinatra. Isn't that great?

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Speaker 2: That's a great story.

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculously great, ridiculously cool.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: I'm heard for it.

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Speaker 2: Blaming your crimes on capitalism. Oh wow, This is Ridiculous Crime,

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Speaker 2: a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons.

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Speaker 2: It's always always ninety nine percent er free and always

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Speaker 2: always always hundred percent ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: That's a guarantee.

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Speaker 2: It's November two thousand and three calendar. Look out the window.

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Speaker 2: The US occupation of Iraq is gearing up and terribly bloody. Understatement.

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Speaker 2: Sixteen year old Lionel Messi makes his official debut.

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Speaker 3: For Barcelona, the soccer player. He's in Iraq, Yeah he is.

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Speaker 2: The concord is about to make its last flight. Oh right,

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Speaker 2: And a man named Yan stands in a federal courtroom

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Speaker 2: getting ready to plead guilty.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I knew the other, you ask I knew the other?

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Speaker 4: This Yon?

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Speaker 3: I do not know who is this Yon?

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Speaker 2: Find out together who is this Yon?

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Speaker 3: Who is this Yon?

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Speaker 2: It's Yon Lewandowski.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe Lewandowski.

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Speaker 2: Yan Levski Levon DAWs of course, like yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Levon Dowski he was born in nineteen forty one in

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Speaker 2: Poland and German occupied Poland. I should say that's.

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Speaker 3: Actually Levon Helm's real name is Levon Dowski.

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Speaker 2: Held he shall be Levon. He was a precocious child,

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Speaker 2: musically inclined from a very young age, so much so

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Speaker 2: him at the Conservatory of Music and Dance where the

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Speaker 2: family lived. When he was fifteen, he got a job

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Speaker 2: at a local music hall, and he had to use

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Speaker 2: a fake ID because he had to be eighteen to

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Speaker 3: People would joined the military young, right, But.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to enlist in the music world.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he wanted to fight the dance war.

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Speaker 2: Yes. So he's an excellent musician and performer. He performed

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Speaker 2: and recorded in both Polish and Russian, and he's fluent

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Speaker 2: in Polish, English, Russian, German. So talent ran in his family.

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Speaker 2: His aunt was an opera singer too, just like he

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Speaker 2: us at that time. But his aunt spilled the beans

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Speaker 2: about the wild times in gallivantan that went on backstage,

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Speaker 2: told the parents, Oh, spilled the beans to the parents.

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Speaker 2: He went in, dumped the beans on the.

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Speaker 3: Floor and was we don't want these beans for our child.

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Speaker 2: Get a knife ool. So like they're looking at the

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Speaker 2: beans and they're like, oh my god, that's what happens

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Speaker 2: by that. Don't show him so Yan's parents they found

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Speaker 2: out that things got a little loose and they wanted

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Speaker 2: to tighten it up. So his dad, his dad's job

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Speaker 2: is amazing. He was a model shipbuilder for future sailors.

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Speaker 2: He taught them how to make model ships.

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Speaker 3: Like the ones.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Does he make the ships in bottles?

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Speaker 2: I don't think they were in bottles?

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're talking about the models you make so people understand,

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Speaker 3: like how the sailboat works. They have to build the.

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Speaker 2: Sailboat job, and he teaches that.

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Speaker 3: But he's like a wooden bottle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's this amazing model shipbuilder. That's a calling totally.

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Speaker 3: With the ropes and everything.

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Speaker 2: It's not easy chains. So yeah, so he he pushed you,

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Speaker 2: pushed the wind. He pushed you on into a more

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Speaker 2: practical trade than singing for a supper. So for two

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Speaker 2: years in his early teens, Yan went to watchmaking school.

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Speaker 2: His dad's like, look, I have blown my eyesight out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have that too, totally.

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Speaker 2: So his career took off when he gets out of

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Speaker 3: He is at this point Johnny Cash.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he played totally.

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Speaker 3: Sure, he's an air force, you know, and then he

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Speaker 2: So Yan he played in music halls, and he sang

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Speaker 3: Johnny Cash was the first person to let everyone know

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Speaker 3: Joseph Stalin died. Yeah, he's the first person in English

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Speaker 3: to know that because he did it. No, because he

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Speaker 2: Walking there, they're walking the line. Okay, So back to

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Speaker 2: jan so Yan performed with the National Philharmonic in Warsaw

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Speaker 3: I gotta live my truth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's going to dance like the beans are watching.

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Speaker 2: So this new craft got him a spot in the

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Speaker 2: Warsaw Serena Theater, which then led to a North American tour.

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Speaker 3: Nice. He's doing like the Bolshoi Ballet of Poland pretty much.

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Speaker 2: And at this point he has shortened his name, so

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Speaker 3: You're spending the weekend with Yon the von So.

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Speaker 2: During his stop in Chicago on this North American tour

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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy two, okay, he bought himself a sweet

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Speaker 2: to buy a yellow nineteen sixty two Ford Falcon. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I know, seven hundred and fifty bucks.

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Speaker 3: A yellow Ford Falcon is like a falcon for futura.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to watch to Tella Transport and get one

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Speaker 2: and then tell a transport it back there for seven

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Speaker 2: to fifty. It was a total bucket, right, but it

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Speaker 3: It's a Ford.

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Speaker 2: But he wasn't. Although I'm kind of I've defected from

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Speaker 3: Oh wait what, I don't drive a Ford anymore.

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Speaker 2: I got smashed to bits.

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Speaker 3: You don't drive my totaling. You don't drive a Ford anymore.

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Speaker 3: I can't make fun of you.

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Speaker 2: No, I drive a sweet Suberati.

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Speaker 3: Wait and Chevy versus suber who doesn't have the same

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Speaker 3: cereal will beat everybody. So now I got to like

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Speaker 3: take a good side of Toyota.

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Speaker 2: Against super super beats.

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Speaker 3: Evice, this doesn't work for me, Elizabeth, It's so.

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Speaker 2: Safe, bet millionaire bags.

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Speaker 3: God so good.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, what was I going to say? So he wasn't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got this sweet yellow Ford.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but everyone's like, oh, you're going to buy that

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Speaker 2: and ship it back. He's like maybe so, But he

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Speaker 2: had already said a formal goodbye to his parents back

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Speaker 3: Oh I'm catching my mother, father. It is nice to

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Speaker 2: I'm off with the beans and so he knew what

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Speaker 2: he was going to do. Is the troop made its

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Speaker 2: way to the Canadian border, John slipped away in his

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Speaker 2: Falcon and just started driving.

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Speaker 3: So he's following like the.

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Speaker 2: Two He's like guys, I bought it. I bought a

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Speaker 2: cool car, but I got to figure out a way

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Speaker 2: to ship it. I'll just follow you. And then he

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Speaker 2: just peels out and he goes to Niagara Falls, of course,

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Speaker 2: and he threw himself at the mercy of immigration.

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Speaker 3: Say there's a border crossing there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he wanted to defect. Yeah, and he wanted the

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Speaker 2: North American dream.

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Speaker 3: So he tried to defect into into America at the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, please, please, So he gets accepted by

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Speaker 2: the Canadian.

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Speaker 3: Government please seventies why not?

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Speaker 2: And you can be a landed immigrant. Congratulations. And so

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Speaker 2: He's just gonna like, you know what it's all about

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Speaker 3: One name on the marquee Yan.

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Speaker 2: Jehan y a w n no ja n I got it.

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Speaker 2: So I see what I did? Okay, so Yean, He's

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Speaker 3: He's like, I'm the Michael Bryshnikoff of Poland. I'm just

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: So he goes to Poland, has he runs into trouble.

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Speaker 2: Oh literally, he drove through a construction site at night

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Speaker 2: So he had his all these injuries. He had to

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Speaker 3: Damn right.

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Speaker 2: And then so then he's broke, He's unable to perform.

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Speaker 2: the Edmonton Journal, December twenty first, nineteen seventy seven. At last, though,

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Speaker 2: He's booked for Canadian nightclub appearances well into nineteen seventy nine. Wow,

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Speaker 2: so he turned it around. He's like, he got strong again.

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Speaker 2: He you know, practices pipes. He's good to go. It

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Speaker 3: I love you, But any idea with his stage shows.

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Speaker 3: He's singing and he's got like dancers behind him, like

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Speaker 2: No, they're all playing. He doesn't have any dancers at

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Speaker 3: Okay, so it's other singers. So it's like kind of

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Speaker 2: But yeah, exactly. So at the end of the tour

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Speaker 2: They don't say that you have to go out and work.

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Speaker 2: Nobody will take care of you. You have to do

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Speaker 3: That like a communism holdover? He's like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: As it happened. So he discovered that you have to

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Speaker 2: work hard for success. He also discovered polka music. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: How is he just discovering polka?

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for asking, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 2: You're so welcome. So here's what he had to say. Quote,

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Speaker 2: I've never heard polka before. Polka was born in the

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Speaker 3: Oh so it's like the Chinese food we eat. It's

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Speaker 2: Correct, But he's not wrong.

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Speaker 2: Polka isn't Polish, it's Czech. Oh yeah. More specifically, it's

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Speaker 2: Bohemian Bohemians. That's my grand Pandemics people Bohemian. So it's

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Speaker 2: Polka was born. It produced the dulcet tones of polka.

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Speaker 2: That was their dance music.

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Speaker 3: Kind thank you.

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Speaker 3: Was Polka, Polka, Polka, the John Candy.

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Speaker 2: Song Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse.

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Speaker 3: That's a heck of a time, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It was in eighteen thirty. It was a banger. It

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Speaker 3: I have a friend who is from the Pennsylvania area,

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Speaker 3: He does love it, and hear about there and he'll

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Speaker 2: You're gonna find out really oh deep it runs. Let's

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Speaker 4: Polka.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Saron, Hello Elizabeth, how you doing. I'm polka over here?

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Speaker 2: Polka pok pok poka polka. So yon Luan. Yes, he

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Speaker 3: For having a polka party here today.

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Speaker 2: He's the Polka King.

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Speaker 3: He's the Polka King.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he's the Polka King. Did you know that He's

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Speaker 2: sung for four presidents Reagan, Clinton, this.

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Speaker 3: Cat Is and Trump well you know whatever.

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Speaker 2: And former Polish president.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.

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Speaker 2: So Yan he joined a polka.

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Speaker 3: Trio, which one.

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Speaker 2: The name of the band, yes, Nirvana, I don't know

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Speaker 3: Two polka dott police police.

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Speaker 2: Uh. He played piano and a chain of hotels in Canada,

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Speaker 2: Leona and Henry Krasil. They saw Yon perform and they

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Speaker 2: loved him. Of course, expert, they said, we thought he

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: They asked Yan to perform for an American Cancer Society

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Speaker 3: Nice, there it is, Pa Pa.

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Speaker 2: It was a fateful event, for it is there that

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Speaker 2: Yan met eighteen year old Ronda Mahollik Okay, Ronda. Eighteen

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Speaker 3: One of those May December romances week.

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Speaker 2: Here here's how she tells it. Out comes Yon all energy,

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Speaker 2: I bet given the old up. Oh so Yan is

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Speaker 2: and singing to expressly one person in the audience. And

439
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 2: at the dance telethon, the lucky lady was Ronda.

440
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,119
Speaker 3: Okay, so he.

441
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 2: You know Ronda though at the time she was the

442
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:49,840
Speaker 2: current nineteen eighty Miss Polka Sunnybrook of Pottstown. Oh that's

443
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 2: her title.

444
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 3: Of course you're going to draw she she.

445
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 2: Was wearing the banner. Yeah, she's wearing the banner, gown

446
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,400
Speaker 2: and crown. To prove it. When he whisked her on stage, oh,

447
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:05,959
Speaker 2: hawk style, he serenaded her with that is not so like.

448
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 2: So the following year, I want Carmen eighty one, he

449
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:14,919
Speaker 2: makes her his wife.

450
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 3: Of course he did.

451
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,680
Speaker 2: They had two kids, Daniel and Amberley, and they did

452
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 2: that in two weeks because Ronda had an abnormally short

453
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 2: gestation period. She's normal, he's normal. Okay. Back to the

454
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 2: Chrysls though, the ones who own the meat packing business. Okay,

455
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 2: they were absolutely charmed by Yon that day. How do

456
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 2: we know this?

457
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 3: How do we know this, Elizabeth, I'll tell you.

458
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:43,040
Speaker 2: Leona krysl said, quote, he was a smashing hit that day.

459
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 3: That's how we know.

460
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 2: So she and her husband, they may have opened a

461
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 2: business in Canada, but they were Americans living in Hazleton, Pennsylvania,

462
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 2: Polish enclave from my understanding, interesting, and they wanted Jan

463
00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 2: to enjoy what they had. American citizenship is I thought

464
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 2: it was gonna be like wild Wall carpet. Well, probably that.

465
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 3: Too, Jagg rugs.

466
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 2: In nineteen eighty seven they sponsored a bid for Jan's

467
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 2: citizenship and they thought he was the perfect example of

468
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 2: the American dream. Is Leona keeps talking, hears more from her.

469
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 2: Jan is a very brilliant business person, not only in

470
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,240
Speaker 2: the entertainment world. He has the background of being able

471
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 2: to adapt himself. If I went to Poland, I would

472
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 2: never be able to master what this person has.

473
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 3: Interesting metric. I'm just using myself to make sense of

474
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 3: the world. And he is better at being an America

475
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,199
Speaker 3: and then I am at being Polish. Well, thank you

476
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 3: got that straight.

477
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 2: But like he gets his papers and then once he

478
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,640
Speaker 2: has the papers. He gained momentum, he assembled an even

479
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 2: bigger band.

480
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 3: Nice good for him.

481
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 2: He brought in accordion players, horn sections, and keyboards.

482
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 3: He moved to Pittsburgh. How did he they got to waste?

483
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 2: How did he exist as a polka band without an

484
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 2: accordion player? Up to that point, I was rendering that actually, yeah,

485
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,160
Speaker 2: well anyway, he's like I was like, wait a minute,

486
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 2: like a full time, heavy duty accordion player. So when

487
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 2: I say a bigger band, I mean it Zaren Yeah,

488
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 2: not playing around.

489
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 3: We're talking Elizabeth.

490
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 2: He had sixty four musicians who in the yon Luan Orchestra.

491
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 3: That's not a big band, that's like, that's like a band.

492
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 2: And he put on about fifty shows a year. Okay,

493
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 2: he had like three triangle players.

494
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 3: How many buses did they need for that band?

495
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 2: Well? They played glamorous venues like Trump's taj Mahal in

496
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 2: Atlantic City.

497
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure they also played the Iowa State Fairs.

498
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 2: Well, no, they hit resorts in the Catskills and the Poconos, Okay,

499
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 2: And that's the sweet spot right there.

500
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 3: What about like, you know, different parts of Ohio and

501
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 3: the various Great Lakes area?

502
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 2: Sure, they did. You know, Yon Luan, he wanted to

503
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 2: make sure everyone was getting Polka sized. You know there

504
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 2: are other Polka guys out there at the time.

505
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, big ones.

506
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 2: John Stanky of the Polka band the Coal.

507
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 3: Miners, he puts the Sanks on that bank.

508
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 2: This is what he had to say about Young He's

509
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 2: a hard working man. That's an important quote.

510
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 3: It's honest.

511
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 2: Stanky had a wife, Missus stank Dottie Stankovic. Dott and

512
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 2: Dottie helped Yan with the paperwork to join the National

513
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 2: Academy of Recording, Arts and Sciences bay Leagues. And then

514
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 2: on December one, nineteen eighty seven, the Yon Luwe Orchestra

515
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 2: was contacted by that very same National Academy of Recording,

516
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 2: Arts and Sciences Incorporated. No, yeah, Apparently Yan and co.

517
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 2: Were eligible for nomination for the thirtieth Annual Grammy Awards

518
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 2: for two categories, Category forty five.

519
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 3: Which was Polka makes Sense.

520
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 2: Category and then the general Field category for their latest

521
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 2: album Don't You Worry.

522
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 3: Really they got a general nom is what Yan said.

523
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 2: This is my first time nominated. He also added that

524
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 2: the nomination would quote help promote the band, help sell records.

525
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 3: He said eighty seven. He's against like John bon Jovi.

526
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 2: Like Los Lobos. Yeah, okay, So he got his ballot

527
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 2: in the mail and and he gets nine votes, and

528
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 2: he cast one for himself, and this is what he said, quote,

529
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 2: I also vote for Tony Bennett. He's the best. Anyone

530
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 2: who wants to learn how to sing should listen to him.

531
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 2: I did send him a letter that I vote for him.

532
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: Who knows he might vote for me? I Tony Bennett.

533
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: So here's a spoiler alert. Yan didn't win, no, but

534
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 2: it got him the exposure that he needed. The Waldorf

535
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 2: Astoria reached out to him, as well as promoters of

536
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 2: the Bethlehem Music FESTI and Pa, Big and Pa. He said,

537
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 2: more jobs, good jobs. That's what he said about it. Literally, okay.

538
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 2: So as the job started rolling in, more jobs, good jobs.

539
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 2: Yon started a new venture, a travel company, travel with

540
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,719
Speaker 2: Polkon Yeah, yeah exactly. So he and his wife they

541
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 2: open this travel company and they lead tours to Poland

542
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 2: and then fans in Hazelton and even beyond. They booked

543
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 2: trips with him to see his homeland and like, soak

544
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 2: up the atmosphere, and the trips were really for Polish

545
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 2: Americans to discover their roots. You know a lot of

546
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 2: these Irish ones, like I'm Irish. You have no idea

547
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 2: what goes on. You're not Irish exactly, Like you can't

548
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 2: call it anyway. So you know, it's like I have

549
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: all these like friends from elementary school who you know,

550
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 2: have like their parents, I'm Irish, and it's like shamrocks

551
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,199
Speaker 2: all over the house, and like you go, you go

552
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 2: so far back and like that's the first time you're

553
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: setting foot in there. You don't know what. It's not

554
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 2: all shamrocks and lepard anyway. So but he's doing the

555
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: Polish version of this where they're like pulka and he's like,

556
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 2: all right, I'll show you the real thing. But you know,

557
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: Yahn's like soaking up the benefits of celebrity. This is

558
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 2: what he said about the trips. Now, I travel and

559
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 2: Poland like a king four or five buses with my

560
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 2: name on each king bus names. So during these.

561
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 3: Trips, come for the Polka King, you best not miss.

562
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 2: He goes on these trips and while he's there, he

563
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 2: bought Polish souvenirs. They're cheapest chips because like Soviet factories

564
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: or you know, liquid all their inventory. You know, communism

565
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: starting able. Yeah, And so he was buying like an

566
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 2: item for twenty cents that he could sell in the

567
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 2: States for twenty dollars giant markup. He bought Polish crystal

568
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: gold and amber jewelry. The amber was the big thing.

569
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 2: Like amber, Yeah, a lot of Polish amber, native costumes

570
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 2: and dolls. That was the big thing. So he sold

571
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 2: his stuff at merch tables at his concerts and it

572
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 2: sold like crazy. They had like the doll taped to

573
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: the wall, liked a T shirt. So he kept buying

574
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 2: more and more, and then so much so that he

575
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 2: and his wife decided to open up their own shop,

576
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: Jan Luan Show Gifts at twenty first in Church Street

577
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: in Hazelton right there. So Yan published a forty eight

578
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 2: page newsletter.

579
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 3: Now he's got a merch table as he has.

580
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 2: His own little Polish gift shop. He would he published

581
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 2: a forty eight page newsletter to send his mailing list

582
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 2: of twenty seven thousand fans. And then he started a

583
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 2: mail or a catalog for the gift shop. And he

584
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 2: also had a Hazelton radio show on w XPXAM thirteen

585
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 2: hundred Great Channel and actually until recently had a TV show,

586
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: so pretty soon he expanded beyond just Poland for his

587
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 2: euro trips. He started taking people to Italy mainly to

588
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: see one.

589
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 3: Person, Pope Joan Paul douay.

590
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 2: Yep Giovanni, fellow Polish countryman. Yes, so the tour group,

591
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: they weren't just like going to stand in Saint Peter

592
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: Square and look up at ill Papa on the balcony

593
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 2: with like throngs of other tourists, you know, and faithful,

594
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 2: he promised his clients and audience with the Pope himself personally,

595
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 2: and a papal audience is not easy to come.

596
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: It is not it's expensive.

597
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 2: But see here's the thing.

598
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 3: You gotta be really rich.

599
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 2: Jean had been fundraising for the Pope's papal foundation. Oh

600
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,479
Speaker 2: kicking money, I'll do it. And then as is thank you,

601
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 2: he gets an audience. So Yan's tour groups traveled to

602
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: see Pope John Paul the Second more than twenty times.

603
00:28:59,080 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 3: Oh.

604
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: Each time jan would hand the Pope a bouquet of

605
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 2: red roses. It was like kill pasa every like, it's

606
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: not just one.

607
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going twenty times.

608
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 2: That was their thing, though the red roses even once

609
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: shared a beer with the Pontai.

610
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 3: No, I didn't even know he drank be sippy.

611
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: Apparently Jan's quoted as saying like, oh, he doesn't drink

612
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: to get drunk, but you know we shared.

613
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 3: I know he drinks wine.

614
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, every Sunday I wine. But so anyway,

615
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: this becomes a huge draw for the tours. If you're like,

616
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: I man, crap.

617
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 3: I meant a beer with them.

618
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: For Polish American Catholics, that's like the most mind blowing

619
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: vacation possible, pretty much, going to Europe, meeting the Pope

620
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 2: with their favorite polka crew.

621
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, a bunch of polka nuts.

622
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 2: So over the thirty years, Jan took over five thousand

623
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: people on these tours.

624
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 3: Wow.

625
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 2: Two of those people were John Katurba and his father.

626
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: They were also Polish Americans. They were in on the

627
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: ground floor. They went on one of the early trips, Coturba.

628
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 2: He was a videographer in Palm Springs. He filmed the

629
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 2: tour and he sold tapes to other tourists and to fans.

630
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 2: He said quote it was a great business for me,

631
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 2: and Yon liked it because it was good advertising, as

632
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 2: we said, So he wound up going on seventy two

633
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: European trips with Yon the videographer. Huh, and he filmed

634
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 2: every single one. Yeah, Yan, he bought in one hundred

635
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: percent to the American dream and the American ethos of

636
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 2: bigger is better.

637
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 3: Yes, all about it, Richard Trine.

638
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: There could always be bigger, more expensive trips to Europe.

639
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: There could always be another floor to the gift shop.

640
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 2: There could always be a bigger gift shop on a

641
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: bigger piece of land. There could be a bigger tour,

642
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 2: bigger selection of gifts.

643
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 3: Second videographer, Sure, four or.

644
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 2: Five bigger side businesses.

645
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 3: Right.

646
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: So at this point he had JRD Productions, Yon Luwan Orchestra,

647
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 2: Yon Luon Show Gifts, Baltic Amber Jewelry, the Amber Factory,

648
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 2: and he had his travel.

649
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 3: CuPy men's undergarments.

650
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, the tidy whities. So he wanted to expand

651
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 2: the amount of stuff that he was bringing in from

652
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 2: Poland because the markup was just too good. But he

653
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: needed money to buy those goods, so he turned to

654
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 2: his fans. He offered promissory notes intended as investments that

655
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 2: he said would guarantee to return twelve percent interest with

656
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: a balloon to twenty. Uh oh, right there, that's unheard of.

657
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: I can smell it. Yeah, hold on, Oh, I'm gathering

658
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 2: it in.

659
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 3: Is that fresh?

660
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 2: It's a Ponzi.

661
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 3: My goodness, this is a pon he right in my nose.

662
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 3: It's a bit and it's.

663
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: One of those smells. Once it's in your nose is

664
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: really hard to get out.

665
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like burnt toast.

666
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: Totally. So. In the eighties, Yan sold over two million

667
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: dollars in unregistered promissory notes, most of them to Slavic

668
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: American seniors who either lived in Hazelton or were just

669
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: like super fans all over the region. And of course

670
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: the monthly dividends were paid for by new investors, and

671
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: when the investments slowed, it all fell apart. Yan's later

672
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 2: excuse was that he grew up under communism. He said

673
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: he just didn't know how capitalism was.

674
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 3: Sorry, I don't thinet it.

675
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 2: He had no idea that what he was doing was

676
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 2: illegal because in Soviet Poland's securities register. You So, nineteen

677
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 2: ninety eight, things start to unravel, but with an unlikely source.

678
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 2: Zaren Yeah, close, azz, give me a second, okay Osaki,

679
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: I want you to picture. It's May ninth, nineteen ninety eight,

680
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: and you Zaren are the host of the Missus Pennsylvania Pageant.

681
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 2: You're about to take the stage at the host resort

682
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 2: in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Hello, Hello, this

683
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 2: is cutthroat business. The Missus Pennsylvania Pageant. Twenty one contestants

684
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 2: and again Missus not the miss Missus Pennsylvania. Twenty one contestants,

685
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 2: all good wives and mothers are all dulled and trusted up,

686
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: ready to be appraised by four jud as. The canned

687
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: orchestra music swells. You look upon the contestants, all lined

688
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: up in their seeking gowns, their glossy lipstick, their sensible plumps,

689
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 2: a glittering fever dream. What have I done with my

690
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 2: life to end up here? You ask yourself? Where did

691
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: I go wrong?

692
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 4: Where?

693
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: Right? It's but a fleeting thought in your brain. You

694
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: shake it off and you pat your blow dried hair.

695
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: Give me the sajack you barked at the hair and

696
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: makeup goal. You adjust your rented tuxedo and you stare

697
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 2: out at the crowd. You get your cue and you

698
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: walk onto the stage, followed by twenty one contestants. The

699
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: audience responds in polite applause. The occasional hoot are whistling.

700
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 2: You clear your throat, ladies and gentlemen. The judges have

701
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: talied their votes and we have a winner. First, let

702
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 2: me thank our pageant organizers, Denise and John Becker, Nancy

703
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 2: May and Donna He's falks. There's a snattering of a clause.

704
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 2: The organizers are all from New Jersey. But you don't

705
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: mention this. They give you a bad vibe, something slightly sinister.

706
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: And now for the big reveal. Our first runner up

707
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 2: is read them Orrie Rolling. Rita walks over to you

708
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 2: with a pained smile on her face, trying to mask

709
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: her disappointment. The audience claps as she does a small

710
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,959
Speaker 2: turn and then stands beaming with one hand on her hip.

711
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 2: And now your nineteen ninety eight missus Pennsylvania. You milk

712
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 2: the pause. As the drum roll builds, the tension could

713
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 2: be cut of a kinsey knife. Ronda Luan. The crowd applauds,

714
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 2: but not as boisterously as you would have thought. Her

715
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 2: small group of polka loving friends and family, led by

716
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: her husband, Jan, the Polka King. They celebrate, but the

717
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 2: rest of the crowd is relatively quiet. The other contestants

718
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 2: shoot each other's side eyed glances. Rita, the first runner up,

719
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 2: lets out a stuttering, unbelieving chuckle. In your opinion, Ronde

720
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: Luwan isn't the best looking lady on stage, but perhaps

721
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: the judges were blown away by her personality, although what

722
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 2: you've seen backstage is that she's a tremendously unkind person.

723
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 2: So who knows. Ronda steps forward into the spotlight and

724
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,720
Speaker 2: waves to the crowd. A woman steps out and places

725
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 2: a sash over Ronda's head and hands are a trophy.

726
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: You tell her that what she's won, Ronda, in addition

727
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: to the title of Missus Pennsylvania, you've also won a

728
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 2: three piece luggage set in a camcorder valued at thirteen

729
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 2: hundred dollars. Ronda looks at you with cold eyes, while

730
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 2: her husband scurries up and presents her with a huge

731
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: bouquet of flowers. You look down and you see the

732
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 2: judges conferring, passing their notes back and forth. You've just

733
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 2: witnessed the rigging of the Missus Pennsylvania pageant. It's shocking

734
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 2: and it's far from over. How will this resolve itself?

735
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 2: And when are we getting an actual crime? You're asking yourself.

736
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 2: Hang onto your wig hat Zolcroft. When we get back

737
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: from this commercial break, all will be revealed. Oh sweet,

738
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 2: Zaren Elizabeth Man alive. Those ads just get better every time.

739
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 3: I please play them again.

740
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes I listen to the show just to skip

741
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 2: the parts where you're talking, Saren, and listen to the ads.

742
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 3: I could see that.

743
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 2: That's why. That's what the jump forward thirty seconds button

744
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 2: is for.

745
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 3: My mother does the same thing.

746
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 2: I wish they'd invent an app that cut the content

747
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 2: out of podcasts and just leave the ads.

748
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 3: No, you know they do have that.

749
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 2: Can we get on that scientist? Can that be a thing?

750
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 2: It is a thing. Yeah, we can put a man

751
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 2: on the moon and change the weather as space lasers.

752
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 2: We just can't get those sweet sweet.

753
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 3: Uncut out all as all the time?

754
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 2: Where was Ironda?

755
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 3: Ronda?

756
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 2: So Ronda Ronda wins the pageant? Yay? But it didn't

757
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 2: last long. The judges conferred and they realized that their

758
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 2: votes did not equal the crown for Ronda, not even close.

759
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 2: In fact, with the votes that were actually you know up,

760
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 2: she would have come in last place.

761
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 3: There's four judges, did they have more than four votes.

762
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: I don't know. They had like different categories ranking, so

763
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 2: she did well. Yeah, and like the wet t shirt

764
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 2: part the.

765
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 3: Talent competition she got one.

766
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like the shooting range. Yeah, so what she read.

767
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 2: She came in first though for real and fundraising because

768
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: the contestants they had to sell ad space in the

769
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 2: pageant program in addition to their three hundred and seventy

770
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 2: five dollars entrance fee. This is just a scam on

771
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 2: the scam, so they had to sell at least one

772
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 2: four hundred dollars one page ad in the program.

773
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 3: So there's a seven hundred dollars entrance fee. Yeah, that's

774
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 3: pretty much what you're telling me.

775
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 2: Well, you go to you know, you go to a

776
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 2: local business. You're like, hey, you know she's.

777
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 3: Saying at the four d and three seventeen or whatever.

778
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 2: They that's it. That's the minimum. That the that the

779
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: producers of the show breaking organizers. Rod has sold ten

780
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: ten ads, way way more than everyone.

781
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 3: You wanted it.

782
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 2: Well, she went and shook down all the businesses. Six

783
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: of the contestants heard about the judges note of their discrepancy.

784
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: Because the judges they're talking and the contestants filed the

785
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 2: complaint that the scores had been tampered with. It was

786
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 2: a scandal, to be sure. In the end, the four

787
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 2: organizers were charged with altering the judge's score to make

788
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 2: Ronda the winner.

789
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 3: The shady New Jersey organizers.

790
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: Can you believe that they caught theft charges because the

791
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 2: contestants paid entry fees expecting a fair fight.

792
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 3: There you go.

793
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 2: This didn't resolve itself until five years later, in two

794
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 2: thousand and three. That's when a three member Lancaster County

795
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 2: arbitration panel awarded Rita Marie Rolie with the title and

796
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,760
Speaker 2: the prizes. They didn't give her the damages for emotional distress,

797
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 2: pain and suffering that she wanted, but she was entitled

798
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 2: to the trophy, the luggage, and the camcorder.

799
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 3: God, I know there's never a five year old camp corner.

800
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: Well, no, they didn't give it to her that she

801
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: had to chase it down. She's like, I know, I'm

802
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 2: never going to get it, but at least I had

803
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: the title. Yeah, she just wanted the title and the

804
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 2: three piece luggage. Okay. So a lot happened though between

805
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 2: the pageant and that settlement. So December two thousand, the

806
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Securities Commission came calling. They got wind of his

807
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 2: security sales and they pulled the plug. So Yan was

808
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 2: barred from offering or selling securities in Pennsylvania, and he agreed.

809
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 3: He's like fine.

810
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: Then tragedy struck January twenty six, two thousand and one.

811
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 2: Jan's tour bus crashed head on into a bridge column

812
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 2: on I ninety five in South Carolina, which is like

813
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 2: a crazy stretch of I ninety five to drive like maniacs,

814
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: and it's all like, that's the section of I ninety

815
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 2: five that's like nottains.

816
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 3: You're trying to get somewhere else.

817
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the place with the sombrero whatever? Oh yeah,

818
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 2: I forget what it's called. But anyway, it's like mildly offensive.

819
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 2: So they were actually going south. They're on their way

820
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: to Florida for a six show stand. The trumpet player

821
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 2: was driving and he fell asleep. Two musicians died in

822
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 2: the wreck. It's very sad. A trombone player named John

823
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 2: Stabinski and an accordion player named Thomas karras Yan was injured,

824
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 2: and his son Daniel was in super bad shape. He

825
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 2: was really injured, and so he was in the hospital

826
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 2: for some time, and Yan was just beside himself, super depressed.

827
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 2: It's horrible. On the business side of things. With his

828
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 2: band out of commission, Yan had no income and no

829
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 2: way to cover the promisory notes that he was still issuing.

830
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 2: Oh so it seems that when Pennsylvania told him to

831
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: knock it off, he took his operation to Delaware instead.

832
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: He got Hi Delaware Corporation exactly.

833
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: And don't forget the original investors thought they'd be getting

834
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 2: a twenty.

835
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 3: Percent return, yes, which is insane, so much for that. Yeah,

836
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 3: so they are either suckers or not new they're new to.

837
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: Investing, yeah, or why not both? So Jean still believed

838
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 2: at that point, like he said he if he thought

839
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 2: he would never get caught or get in trouble if

840
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 2: it weren't for the pageant, legal costs and the accident,

841
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 2: He's like, fat messed me up. I would not have

842
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 2: ever had weren't for that. Yeah, So he totally stopped

843
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 2: working so he could help nurse his son back to health.

844
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 2: The investors were impatient. So many of them had poured

845
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 2: everything they had into the scheme and now they're worried

846
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,919
Speaker 2: they're ever going to see a dime, so they asked

847
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: the authorities to help them get their money back. Yon

848
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 2: responded by filing for chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. So that's

849
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 2: reorganization Chapter eleven. It's like a trustee oversees the operation

850
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 2: of the business, make sure that the money that's made

851
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 2: goes right, it goes to pay off the creditors.

852
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 3: That's by time, and then put the your debtors.

853
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 2: In order exactly and so, but you still have the

854
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 2: business running the whole time. Yan listed his debts at

855
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 2: three point three million dollars, so that got him in

856
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 2: the door for chapter eleven. But you have to have

857
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: a functioning business for chapter eleven. So no tours, no suckers,

858
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: there's no engine in the truck. Yeah, So he had

859
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 2: to shift over to chapter seven bankruptcy.

860
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 3: He can't just run through the shop. That's not the

861
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 3: business in question.

862
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 2: Well, and he can't stock the shop because he can't

863
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 2: get Yeah, so he goes to chapter seven. That's where

864
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 2: assets are liquidated to pay off the creditors and the

865
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: debtors left.

866
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 3: With the more traditional what you think I would a bank.

867
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 2: Well, and very much like for a personal bankruptcy. A

868
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 2: lot of the creditors know that they're not going to

869
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 2: get anything, or maybe just pennies on the dollar, but

870
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 2: that's official lenders and credit cards and such. They can,

871
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 2: you know, they can write it off. Individuals who trusted

872
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 2: this Polka icon aren't really in a position to eat

873
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 2: that debt.

874
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 3: So when especially aged ones, I mean they were talking

875
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 3: primarily and older popular.

876
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:18,959
Speaker 2: And a lot of them had to have their grown

877
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 2: children advocate for them and all this. Oh when asked

878
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 2: why he kept selling the promisory notes even after he

879
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 2: was told not to, he said, quote, I surrounded myself

880
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 2: with the wrong people, and I didn't listen to people

881
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 2: who gave me good advice.

882
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 3: I'm starting not to believe him, yeah, a little bit.

883
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 2: In two thousand and two, the gift Shop and all

884
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 2: its inventory were auctioned so much amber, so.

885
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 3: Many dolls, so many deals.

886
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 2: So Yan was like, look, that inventory is like worth

887
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 2: three point six million, so when you put it into

888
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 2: retail sales, you can make five million dollars off of

889
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 2: all the garbage in this story.

890
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 3: Sure, but it didn't.

891
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 2: The Fed sold everything for ten cents on the dollar.

892
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, into profits. I was like, I could have

893
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 2: used all that money, like if you'd actually sold. If

894
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 2: you put it on QVC, I could have paid restitution,

895
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 2: and like, what restitution here? So, according to bankruptcy court records,

896
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 2: ninety four claims totaling twelve point five million dollars were

897
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 2: filed against Yon. He never could have paid him anywhere. Ever,

898
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: in that ninety four were dozens of individual creditors. So

899
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 2: that's what we're talking about, Like the non credit. Some couples

900
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 2: who were investors, some of them had put in more

901
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 2: than two hundred thousand dollars and a bunch of the

902
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 2: claims added in the comment plus interest. They're like trying

903
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 2: to get everything. Remember how I said the promisory notes

904
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 2: he sold were unsecured.

905
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's not good, Bob, It's not how we

906
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 3: do it over here.

907
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 2: No, that meant that the investors go last when the

908
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 2: proceeds of the bankruptcy are distributed to the creditors. It

909
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 2: was the assumption that by the time everyone else got

910
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 2: fed on this, the cupboard would be bare. Yeah, that's

911
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 2: my assumption to Yeah, it's pretty tragic when you hear

912
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: their stories. They idolized Yon, and they trusted him implicitly.

913
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 2: They'd travel with him, and here he betrays them. What

914
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 2: really got a lot of them is that he never

915
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: really owned what he did. Like he blamed bo advice,

916
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 2: he blamed being an immigrant, he blamed capitalism.

917
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 3: And thus he didn't apologize or admit he's guilty.

918
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, he apologizes later, but it's always with like an attachment.

919
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 3: Oh okay.

920
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 2: And he always said that he'd been robbed of a

921
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 2: chance to make it right, like you just everything it

922
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 2: right now. You didn't give me a chance right now.

923
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 3: You see how you're talking to me right now about

924
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 3: it exactly.

925
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 2: It wasn't just bankruptcy court for you.

926
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 3: On.

927
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 2: He went to federal court too, oh the nap. In

928
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 2: two thousand and three, he pleaded guilty to fifty seven

929
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 2: counts of securities fraud.

930
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 3: That's a lot. That's a lot of that's a lot.

931
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 2: And sale of unregistered securities, racketeering, theft. Yeah, they just

932
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 2: piled him up.

933
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 3: The polysyllabic charges right, Yeah, you're coming on those. That's tough.

934
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: Federal prosecutors said he built people in twenty two states

935
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 2: out of about five million dollars, that's eighty seven thousand

936
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 2: from two investors in Delaware, and then two hundred and

937
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 2: thirty six thousand, like from about forty seven Pennsylvania investors,

938
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty thousand from about forty New Jersey investors.

939
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 2: And so he's like, you know what, I'm gonna plead guilty.

940
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 3: I did not know you couldn't do this in America.

941
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:25,720
Speaker 2: Communism, capitalism. So Jan is like, Okay, I'm gonna plead guilty.

942
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 2: They're only going to give me a two year sentence,

943
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 2: maybe house arrest. You know, it's Finessa does have the

944
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 2: lawyers back up. I'm the Polka King.

945
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're talking to the Polka King. Maybe.

946
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: So Jan gets sentenced to five years and eleven months

947
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 2: in federal prison. He did try to apologize. He said, quote,

948
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not hiding anything. I'm deeply sorry for

949
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 2: what happened. I'm sorry for my family. I'm sorry for

950
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: the people that lost the money and the people who

951
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 2: believe in me. Sorry for my family.

952
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm sorry this all happened. Yeah, sorry, I have

953
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 3: to go to prison.

954
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 2: Yon starts his sentence at Delaware Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware.

955
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 2: By what writing his autobiography, Oh of course it's called

956
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: Two Suitcases Full of Dreams?

957
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 3: Is it is it? Really? No, it really is, sobe title.

958
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 2: Though Suitcases full of Dreams, Daron, We have a book

959
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 2: drink so A documentary called The Man Who Would Be

960
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 2: Polka King Get it was made in two thousand secs.

961
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 2: I had a horse of a time trying to find it,

962
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: and I came up empty. That is not a call

963
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 2: for people to send me a link or tell me

964
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,959
Speaker 2: I didn't try hard enough. It's over. I'm like a shark, baby,

965
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 2: I keep swimming, keep moving.

966
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 3: Is it like a European documentary?

967
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 2: Nomk. Yeah, I'm like a shark, and I'm also like

968
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 2: a goldfish, and then I instantly forget what I've just

969
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 2: been told or said. So anyway, I don't care. I

970
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 2: don't care if you find the you know, it's probably

971
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 2: like on I didn't see it when.

972
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 3: I know you should have asked. He's a resource for this, producer, Dave.

973
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 3: I bet he's seen it. I know, producer, Dave, have

974
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 3: you seen it? I have seen it. You look at that.

975
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 2: I'll interview you about it later. For absolutely no reason anyway.

976
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 3: You recommendrap out of it aggressively.

977
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 2: So here's the crazy part.

978
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 3: More so than a crapless documentary, totally.

979
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 2: Jan almost lost his life in prison, but he's sure

980
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 2: that's what saved his life.

981
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:11,919
Speaker 3: Wait, he got shanked.

982
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 2: Check it out. The other inmates in prison thought Jan

983
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 2: was a child molester. Oh, I have no idea why,

984
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 2: he says, quote, look at me. I'm a softy, an

985
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 2: old white foreign guy. I wasn't like the other prisoners.

986
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,760
Speaker 2: They thought I was a molester. Like if you say so, pal.

987
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 3: If IM want I understand, usually they can ask round.

988
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 3: The guards will kind of let it be known what

989
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 3: you are in think so well.

990
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 2: So his cellmate thought he had to dispense some justice. Now,

991
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 2: by the way, have you heard of Steve Sanderson.

992
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 3: Steve Sanderson, Now he.

993
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 2: Killed his cellmate in twenty fifteen for being a child molester,

994
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 2: and in court at his sentencing for the murder, he

995
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 2: had to address the judge and this is what he said, quote,

996
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 2: people think I'm some kind of hero when I'm actually not.

997
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: I just did what I thought was best at the

998
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 2: time I was given. I've been getting these emails saying that,

999
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: you know, it's not my position to judge anybody. I

1000
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 2: want to make it quite clear that I didn't judge him.

1001
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: I know.

1002
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 2: God is the only judge, we have, I just set

1003
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 2: the appointment up.

1004
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: He's like God works through me.

1005
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: That I just thought i'd share that if we're on

1006
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 2: the topic of like God's like attacking child molesters, which

1007
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 2: you know, okay for mysterious ways. That guy though, who

1008
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 2: got killed, he had actually been convicted of child molestation. Sure,

1009
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 2: I'm you know, good appointments set there. Yan. He was

1010
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 2: just a white collar criminal who happened to sound like

1011
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 2: Lawrence Welk.

1012
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 3: I don't know how you're going to be perceived in prison.

1013
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 2: So Yon's cellmate heard a rumor about him and thought

1014
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 2: he'd be a hero if he set up his appointment

1015
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 2: for Yan a Meeta's maker. So he slashed Yan's throat

1016
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 2: from ear to ear with a shive.

1017
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 3: Oh God, the Columbian necktime.

1018
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 2: This is what Jan said later. Quote. But the good

1019
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 2: news is in the hospital they found I had two

1020
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: blocked arteries, which would have killed me. Jail saved my

1021
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 2: neck by almost severing it.

1022
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,959
Speaker 3: Oh God. So he's one of those guys that gets

1023
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 3: like stabbed and they find cancer.

1024
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 2: Totally totally, So he was able to have surgery on

1025
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 2: the blocked arteries while he's in prison. That yeah, exactly.

1026
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: And then while he's in prison getting that old Columbia necktie.

1027
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 2: Ronda remember her, the dethroned missus pencilvan she divorced him.

1028
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 3: No, she always feels a class X.

1029
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 2: This is what she said, quote everyone here has made

1030
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 2: a mistake. Everyone has just problems and borrowed money or

1031
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 2: put something on a credit card. This was just on

1032
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 2: a bigger scale.

1033
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 3: It's over. Wow.

1034
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then she eventually remarried, No shock her blushing groom,

1035
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 2: Steve save the trumpet player who was driving the van

1036
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 2: the night of a deadly tour crash.

1037
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 3: Wow, did not see that coming. I thought it would

1038
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 3: be like a local car dealership got.

1039
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 2: Now she pulled from the B team.

1040
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 3: She's like, come on up. Huh.

1041
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 2: So Yan he gets out of prison in two thousand

1042
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 2: and nine, he said, quote, I have paid my time.

1043
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 2: Now I pay off the restitution. I hope to give

1044
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 2: Polka shot in the arm. He's going to give Polka

1045
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 2: a slice in the neck. What do you think a

1046
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 2: shot in the arm for Polka? Looks like.

1047
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it sounds loud. He has like

1048
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 3: a real heavy tuba sound.

1049
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 2: Jan picked up a new musical genre in prison. No

1050
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 2: this is what he said. I know you're just gone.

1051
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 2: He said quote. They can be paired together easily. In

1052
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 2: a song, you have a chorus that just repeats same words.

1053
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 2: But if you add rap to polka, you can replace

1054
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 2: the chorus and move the story along, developing it more.

1055
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 2: What is he listening to? I want to hear some.

1056
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 3: To help the story. Come on, I want to.

1057
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 2: Hear some fresh dope.

1058
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 3: I'm here.

1059
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 2: I'll read it out instead of wrapping it and come.

1060
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 2: Tried with tribulation, but I stay in meditation. Overcome my situation.

1061
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 2: You can say I did it all. They wanted to

1062
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 2: see me fall. I've been locked behind the walls, but

1063
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 2: I'm still standing tall. I've done lived, LEVI to Loca,

1064
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 2: but now I'm wrapping polka.

1065
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, how Drake I recognize these bo.

1066
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 2: It's like he did like a Sunny d commercial in

1067
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 2: the nineties. Terrible.

1068
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 3: It's worse.

1069
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 2: Cob tried with tribulation, but I stay in meditation.

1070
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 3: I just want to rap.

1071
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 2: I just want to rep and a rep rep rep.

1072
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 2: That's good.

1073
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 3: It's a banger. JAD song slaps.

1074
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 2: You have to hear him do it though. It's like

1075
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 2: he's free. It's freestyle. You can say that the old

1076
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 2: eminem movie spitting.

1077
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 3: It can imagine that like a battle deep.

1078
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 2: I would pay for that.

1079
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 3: Sit't they're spitting somebody's face.

1080
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 2: January twenty eighteen. Of course, a movie about Yan came out.

1081
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 2: It's called Polka King and it stars Jack Black. Yak

1082
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 2: Black really Yan has a framed note?

1083
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 3: Is it good? I haven't even heard of this.

1084
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 2: I purposely didn't watch it because I wanted to run

1085
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 2: only off of news sources and I didn't want that

1086
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 2: to like take my what I'm hearing about this? But

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00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 2: so Yan has a framed note from Jack Black that reads,

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00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 2: you are my Polish brother. And Yan says the movie

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Speaker 2: is ninety percent true.

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Speaker 3: I'm curious about that.

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00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 2: I don't know. So the money that Yan makes from

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00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 2: performing like he still performs and not just wrap the

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00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,439
Speaker 2: money he gets from the book, which who knows, and

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00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 2: from the movie, that all goes to pay restitution to

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00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 2: his victims. There's a great CNBC podcast, American Greed that

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Speaker 2: has an episode about him called the Polka King Kahn.

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00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 2: They speak to relatives of his victims and it's just

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00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 2: so sad, and they felt that the movie glorified him. Yeah,

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00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: and you know, they're like, it's not it's not funny.

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Speaker 2: All these people lost their their whole savings, and then

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00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 2: here I am trying to be funny about it. Anyway, Yan, though,

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Speaker 2: hopes the movie will lead to a comeback. He said,

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00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 2: Jack Black put me in the picture again. I'm in

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00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 2: talks to perform in Atlantic City in Vegas.

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Speaker 3: I'm back on top, baby.

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Speaker 2: It's going to open for Tenaciousity. In September twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: Yan went on a two week farewell tour through Poland.

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Speaker 2: He scored a private audience with the Cardinal of Krakow,

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Speaker 2: who served as now sayt Pope John Paul, the seconds

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Speaker 2: secretary for all the years he was Pope, and that

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Speaker 2: Cardinal of Crackow is considered a first hand relic.

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Speaker 3: I did not know that they had canonized John Paul too. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's new to me.

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Speaker 2: So you know, Cardinal of Krakow, because he was Pope

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00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 2: John Paul Giovanni Paul Duey's secretary, he is considered a

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Speaker 2: first hand relic.

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Speaker 3: Wait, he himself because he spent so much time with him.

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Speaker 3: He's a walking relicant.

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Speaker 2: A walking relic. Let's steal him.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we can make a lot of money in Ireland

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Speaker 3: off of him. I know all about this. I heard

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Speaker 3: from you watching you.

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Speaker 2: Jan also got a private meeting with again Lequalessa, Nobel

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Speaker 2: Peace Prize.

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Speaker 3: Winner, labor leader.

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Speaker 2: Jan's still alive in kicking.

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Speaker 3: Okay and mostly kicking. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He lives in Florida with some friends. You know he

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00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 2: lives that. I think he lives at the Videographer Family.

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Speaker 2: Does he really long live the Polka King? I suppose

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Speaker 2: what's your ridiculous takeaway.

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00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 3: That out there there is somebody who can say I

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Speaker 3: got taken for a ride by the Polka King and

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Speaker 3: all I got was this sash for missus Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: Excellent. I like that. All right, that's that's good and yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that wraps it up. There we go, We're done. That's it.

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