Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of our Heart Radio. Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: You know what's ridiculous. Yeah, I'll tell you what's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The inflatable furniture craze of the late nineties that was
Speaker 1: ridiculous and increasingly dangerous, right. I mean that's somebody keeps
Speaker 1: like knives and stuff in my pockets and keys, and
Speaker 1: I just like to just drop my weight down things disaster. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've been breaking my taible on every other day. That's
Speaker 1: a good ridiculousness. But I got one for you, and
Speaker 1: it features one of your favorite people who It's not
Speaker 1: the Pope, not Elvis impersonators, I know, and it's also
Speaker 1: not Chewbacco. But you'll like this one, Okay. Around four
Speaker 1: thirty a m. In the morning on March two thousand eleven,
Speaker 1: a sixteen year old boy named Max Wade repelled down
Speaker 1: into the British Motors dealership in San Francisco. It's a
Speaker 1: luxury auto dealership. They have fatly lambos lotuses like all
Speaker 1: those nice big cars. Right, A sixteen year old boys
Speaker 1: dream place to break in. Now, Max Wade. He drops
Speaker 1: down out of the roof, lands inside the showroom with
Speaker 1: all the dream cars around him. He looks around, he
Speaker 1: goes m which one should I take? He doesn't choose
Speaker 1: a Bentley, doesn't choose a Lotus, doesn't choose any of
Speaker 1: the cars you would expect him to take unless you
Speaker 1: knew that there was one particular car in the showroom,
Speaker 1: and you would know that's the car he's gonna take, right,
Speaker 1: So instead, sixteen year old Max Wade decides to steal
Speaker 1: the yellow and black two thousand eight Lamborghini. Guillardo Spider
Speaker 1: valued it over two hundred thousand dollars. Yellow and black Lamborghini.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yellow and black like a like a high
Speaker 1: speed bumblebee. Yeah. But do you know why it was
Speaker 1: yellow and black because it had a very unique owner.
Speaker 1: The owner you know him as Guy Fieri. Yes, Max
Speaker 1: Wade stole a Guy fee Eddies lamboy, and not only that,
Speaker 1: he gets away with it. For the next few days,
Speaker 1: he's driving Guy Eddie's Lambeau all around the Bay Area.
Speaker 1: Six year old boy the audacity. Oh yeah, and this
Speaker 1: crime that's just the tip of this ridiculous iceberg. So
Speaker 1: get ready for a good one. I'm ready, all right, y'all.
Speaker 1: This is Ridiculous Crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,
Speaker 1: heists and cons. It's always murder free and ridiculous. I'm
Speaker 1: Zarin Burnett, I'm Elizabeth Dutton, and we are here to
Speaker 1: hit you with the ridiculous. Okay, Now you know how
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven was only like ten years ago? Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Ten years ago a full decade, but in more ways
Speaker 1: than time, it was very much a different time. Back down,
Speaker 1: just to give you a sense of the culture. In
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, Harry Potter and the Deathly House is
Speaker 1: the most watch movie of that year, huge blockbuster. Right.
Speaker 1: Also we have Transformers, Dark of the Moon, the Twilight
Speaker 1: Saga Breaking Down. These are the one, two, and three
Speaker 1: most popular movies. Now number four or five and six
Speaker 1: are The Hangover Part two, Pirates of the Caribbean On
Speaker 1: Stranger Tides, Fast five of the Fast and the Furious Movies,
Speaker 1: and lastly at the seventh spot is Cars Too. Now
Speaker 1: do you know what all those movies have in common?
Speaker 1: Gritty realism only if you're friend, intense character study, amazing
Speaker 1: acting work. No, all of those movies have one thing
Speaker 1: in common, which is they have teenagers changing the world
Speaker 1: if you think about it, right, Pirates, Breaking Dot whatever
Speaker 1: the light movies, transformers, young people totally other ones, criminals
Speaker 1: getting away with it super fast. This is the swirl
Speaker 1: of culture spinning around young adolescent Max Wade. It is
Speaker 1: a wild and reckless time. Now we live in a pandemic.
Speaker 1: We don't think being reckless is cool anymore, not Max Wade.
Speaker 1: So picture it. Max Wade is on the roof of
Speaker 1: the luxury car dealership. Now he lifts open the rooftop
Speaker 1: like hatch, fixes his rope and he repels down to
Speaker 1: the floor of the car dealership just like that. Now
Speaker 1: he's in there in the show room like an adolescent
Speaker 1: cat burglar, and he's like, Okay, I'm gonna no wait.
Speaker 1: You have to also keep in mind with this kid,
Speaker 1: Max Wade. The kids sixteen, He's never repelled before. This
Speaker 1: is not like some kid who grew up on the
Speaker 1: side of a mountain. He was like working with rocks.
Speaker 1: Looked it up on Google. He just looked over what
Speaker 1: did he google? Oh dude, he Google's Mission impossible style.
Speaker 1: Repelling literally's like why did Tom Cruise do that? Time?
Speaker 1: You know? But that's the confidence of a sixteen year
Speaker 1: old boy. They're like, I can do what Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: did in that movie. I'm gonna go in and get
Speaker 1: me one of them, guy Fiery Lambo's I don't know
Speaker 1: why he sucks like that because he's from Marine County
Speaker 1: at all. He was feeling a little bit of sauce. Spicy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like extra sauce. I mean, the boy was
Speaker 1: basically he's just like a walking dipping sauce. This kid,
Speaker 1: he's just flavored. Guy here, he probably would have like
Speaker 1: donkey sauce. Oh, it starts already, it's already okay. So
Speaker 1: this kid he breaks in, he's walking around the show room,
Speaker 1: takes hi about fifteen minutes to get to his like
Speaker 1: lay of the land. And then now the detectives who
Speaker 1: have watched the surveillance video, they noticed that he seems
Speaker 1: to be talking on this like two way radio. He's
Speaker 1: all secrets of his front door to patio coming in,
Speaker 1: brandigade coming in, brandigade coming in. But he's just talking
Speaker 1: to himself. Well, we don't know that because there was
Speaker 1: a janitor who was working. This is like four thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning. Now, most of the times janitors that
Speaker 1: this showroom don't show up to like five six in
Speaker 1: the morning, right, this guy is there way before his shift,
Speaker 1: which is way suspicious. So these two don't interact them.
Speaker 1: But then again, maybe that's the need for the radio.
Speaker 1: Maybe the janitor is his lookout. We don't know, because
Speaker 1: get this, after the break in, janitor disappears, never to
Speaker 1: be seen again. Wait, like missing persons go on, just cuts,
Speaker 1: doesn't come back to work, doesn't get his last check,
Speaker 1: nobody ever sees him again. What if he was like
Speaker 1: one of those stowaway people who like climb into the
Speaker 1: wheel well of a plane and then it takes off,
Speaker 1: but he was actually like underneath the Lamborghini and then
Speaker 1: Max drove off and he's just like little bits of
Speaker 1: him are up and down the highways. That is terrific
Speaker 1: to pick. Yeah, but it explains it. It does explain
Speaker 1: that right on that the logic is next. Next, so
Speaker 1: our boy Max Wade, he sees this yellow and black
Speaker 1: aforementioned guy Fieri Lambeau, so of course that's the car
Speaker 1: he's gonna take. He breaks in, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: he had also googled how to break cars. So you
Speaker 1: can learn anything on YouTube. I'm telling you, between YouTube
Speaker 1: and Google, there ain't a single thing that you can't find.
Speaker 1: I can you have like a I don't know, nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty seven Toyota land Cruiser and you need to change
Speaker 1: the spark plugs. Check YouTube. There's gonna be somebody. They're going,
Speaker 1: here's my nineteen sixty seven, and I can change the
Speaker 1: spark book. It's amazing and it's also good for sixteen
Speaker 1: year old criminals. Perfect. So Max Wade gets his full
Speaker 1: on YouTube education and manages to get this car out
Speaker 1: of the dealership. He cuts through the locks, he disables
Speaker 1: the security, he opens the roll top door, and he
Speaker 1: drives right out of the One Man Crimes. Max Wade
Speaker 1: is no joke, but oddly, my man Max Wade. He
Speaker 1: leaves behind his bag of tools. Now his tools are
Speaker 1: belt cutters, I'm sorry bout cutting some belts, spenders, snippers,
Speaker 1: and his bag of tools he has bolt cutters, a
Speaker 1: prye bar, climbing gear, and of course the rope that
Speaker 1: he used to repel. Now, this kid, although seems like
Speaker 1: he's kind of reckless and kind of forgetful, he still
Speaker 1: is able to pull off like basically the crime of
Speaker 1: his young century, and he gets away with it by
Speaker 1: I don't know, like five am. He's on the road
Speaker 1: gone and at that same time, you gotta wonder, where's
Speaker 1: Guy Fiery. What's Guy Fiery doing? I mean, I know
Speaker 1: I always think that, but what do you think he's
Speaker 1: doing at that time? Well, I would have to check
Speaker 1: my surveillance camera of him. Yeah, he's probably like snuggled
Speaker 1: in bed, just tucked away, dreaming of fried goods, just
Speaker 1: dripping donkey sauce on his chest. He was asleep in
Speaker 1: a vat of donkey sauce. He sleeps on a like
Speaker 1: a pool noodle floating and in a bowl of donkey
Speaker 1: sauce on a waterbed filled with doncus. No, actually he
Speaker 1: was in Chicago. Oh yeah, he was filming s pretty
Speaker 1: much the same thing. Yeah, Beantown, So they just have
Speaker 1: that big bean anyway, putting that aside, So Guy Theories
Speaker 1: in Chicago, he's filming his show Triple d Diners Drive
Speaker 1: ins and Diners drive ins and dive. Dash cams close.
Speaker 1: Let me see I get this right. The third time
Speaker 1: Diners drive ins and dives. There we go. Okay, So
Speaker 1: he's filming in Chicago. But because he's like on set,
Speaker 1: he's like busy doing his thing or like I don't
Speaker 1: know what Guy Theory considers busy but whatever. He's in Chicago.
Speaker 1: He gets a phone call. It's his friends. Now, his
Speaker 1: friends are like, hey, man, are you in town? I
Speaker 1: just saw your Lambeau cruise by. He's all new it
Speaker 1: broish Chicago filming diners, drive ins and dib is. They're like,
Speaker 1: this isn't and then I like really quickly hang up
Speaker 1: long number. So he's getting these calls from his friends. Now,
Speaker 1: what do you think Guy Fieri has to say to
Speaker 1: his friends about that? You know, do you think he's like, oh, thanks, guys,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you looking out for me. I love
Speaker 1: that car. It seems like he's got like a lot
Speaker 1: of good friends, and so I was probably thinking like, wow,
Speaker 1: good looking out good guy. Right, So he's thinking, my
Speaker 1: friends are looking out for me. No, Instead, and I
Speaker 1: quote Guy Fieri said, we would get calls all the time,
Speaker 1: and I mean all the time. I had friends call me.
Speaker 1: He would say listen, I just saw your car on
Speaker 1: the freeway. And I was like, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: there's more than one yellow Lamborghini convertible, probably in northern California.
Speaker 1: If people would call and we get reports and my
Speaker 1: attorney would hear about it, well, come to find out
Speaker 1: he was driving it. Brief kid, Oh my god, it
Speaker 1: felt like Guy Fiery was right here in the room
Speaker 1: with us. Could you heal the presence? I was just like,
Speaker 1: I was so confused. I was like, I am looking
Speaker 1: at you, but I'm hearing Guy Fiery. I channeled him
Speaker 1: so much that my hair is starting to spike. Chills. Chills.
Speaker 1: So back to Oro thief Max Wade. He bolts out
Speaker 1: of San Francisco, takes the Lambeau out of the show room.
Speaker 1: People are seeing him. He lives in Marin County, which
Speaker 1: is not far away from Santa Rosa, which is where
Speaker 1: Guy Fiery grew up and where a lot of his
Speaker 1: friends are. And also he has friends down in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area. So this dude is driving this car around
Speaker 1: where a bunch of Guy Fieri's friends could see him
Speaker 1: at any given time. But also the fact that he's
Speaker 1: from Marine County would suggest that this kid is a rich,
Speaker 1: spoiled bread Yeah, pretty much. Odds on, odds on, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, we both grew up in the Bay
Speaker 1: Area enough that we know those Marine County kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this kid, he ain't what you picture. Interesting. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: so he's driving around other than the fact it's a
Speaker 1: yellow and black car, the Lamborghini, the Guy Fieri. There's
Speaker 1: one other way that you could know that this is
Speaker 1: Guy Fieri's car. If you're in the know, he has
Speaker 1: a custom license plate to let you know this is
Speaker 1: Guy Fieri's car. Now, can you guess what Guy Fiorry
Speaker 1: would put on his customer No, I really cannot. I
Speaker 1: just can't. I don't have it in me. It turns
Speaker 1: out he has the letters g U y t O
Speaker 1: r O Guy Toro. Ultimately he has the Italian for
Speaker 1: guy Bowl. Well, isn't that the Lamborghini logo Gallardo? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Lamborghini. No, that's a horse. The Lamborghini
Speaker 1: is the horse. Which one is the bull? No, the
Speaker 1: Ferrari's the horse. Yeah, the Lamborghini the bowl. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm going to have to tap in and ask
Speaker 1: super producer Dave can set the right, Reverend Dave Kusten,
Speaker 1: can you answer this question? I'm going to have to
Speaker 1: look to us up here. Let's see it is in
Speaker 1: fact a ball is a bowl. It's a It's like
Speaker 1: it's kind of jaunty head turned to the side, like
Speaker 1: it's going to attack something, not at you, but next
Speaker 1: to you, but very virile. Huh yeah, very muscular. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like looking at Guy Fieria just be four legs,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. If you imagine the Wall Street ball, it
Speaker 1: looks a lot like that. Oh okay, yeah, I win.
Speaker 1: There you go one for dotton. Okay. So back to
Speaker 1: my man, Max Wade. He knows he's got to get
Speaker 1: rid of this because it's going to be an indicator,
Speaker 1: So he swaps out the license plate and he uses
Speaker 1: one that he'd already taken from an audi He had
Speaker 1: stolen a license plate off and Audy pretty much getting
Speaker 1: ready for this heist. So he's now it's six fifteen
Speaker 1: in the morning on the morning he steals this car.
Speaker 1: He swapped out the license plates, He's going to be
Speaker 1: pretty much in the clear, and that is why everyone
Speaker 1: is able to see him driving around. He's pretty much
Speaker 1: gotten away with it well at first. Turns out his
Speaker 1: luck will not hold, not because he's not a good criminal,
Speaker 1: but because he's a teenager. Max. Yeah, and I'll just
Speaker 1: tell you this much. It has the flavors of a
Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliette love triangle if you threw Guy Fiery
Speaker 1: in it. But We'll be back after a short break
Speaker 1: and I will tell you all about the weird love
Speaker 1: triangle of Guy Fieri, my man Max Wade, and that
Speaker 1: yellow and black Lambo. Okay, so we got Guy Fieri
Speaker 1: getting calls from his friends whenever they spot this yellow
Speaker 1: and black lambo cruising around the Bay Area. Right, he's
Speaker 1: got this nuclear yellow paint shop. It's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: impossible to spot. In fact, the police are convinced this
Speaker 1: will be the one thing that will help them find it.
Speaker 1: How could anyone miss it? All that too, is just
Speaker 1: wait for people to start calling in. I saw this
Speaker 1: teenager and a yellow Lambo. Turns out, even though the
Speaker 1: kid is driving it around, nobody can actually take a
Speaker 1: photo of him and send it to the police. Nobody
Speaker 1: can get a tip fast enough to say where he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, because people were mining their own business for once,
Speaker 1: people reminding the own business. When Guy Fiery gets to fallow,
Speaker 1: people are like, I'm turning away, not my business, no,
Speaker 1: I ke I t s. I love guy theory. I'll
Speaker 1: stand up for that guy. If you can throw up
Speaker 1: a bar fight and Guy Fiery is getting his butt kick,
Speaker 1: I'm stepping on a guy theory side. I'll take a
Speaker 1: blow for him. I like, he's a good dude. He
Speaker 1: does all kinds of stuff, so as I tease him,
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. So exactly well, we all know
Speaker 1: who Guy Fiery is for the most part, or at
Speaker 1: least we know the caricature of Guy Fiery with the
Speaker 1: bleach blonde hair, the bowling shirts, the flames, the hey bro. Right,
Speaker 1: what do we know about Max Wade? Remember I told
Speaker 1: you he's not a rich kid from Marinne County, So
Speaker 1: what's his deal? He lives in Marinne County and he's
Speaker 1: a proficient googler he is tell me more, he's not
Speaker 1: a tech kid, though he's good at tech, but he's not.
Speaker 1: What's what's the story with this kid? He comes from
Speaker 1: a home that I can only say was challenged. So
Speaker 1: Max Michael Wade was born to these young newlywed's right,
Speaker 1: they have him. It's they start raising him, but they
Speaker 1: quickly run into trouble between the two of them. His
Speaker 1: mother has to call the police, tries to get restraining orders.
Speaker 1: The father and the mother both filed for divorce against
Speaker 1: the other. It gets bad, and it's so bad that
Speaker 1: at one point Max has to step in when he's
Speaker 1: about ten to stop his father from beating his mother. God. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the father has a towel and he's like trying to
Speaker 1: choke the mother. So a little ten eleven year actually
Speaker 1: I think he's eleven. Eleven year old Max Wade steps
Speaker 1: in and basically stands up to his father, protects his mother,
Speaker 1: and it becomes something of a criminal bomb mitzvah. It's
Speaker 1: when he becomes a man and a criminal. He will
Speaker 1: not take guff or lip or orders from anybody who's
Speaker 1: given him some bs he doesn't believe in because of
Speaker 1: that relationship with his father is what psychologists the trajectory
Speaker 1: of his life changes in that moment. Oh boy does it.
Speaker 1: So that's a lot of people would say was probably
Speaker 1: his origin story moment. Right. So this kid he then
Speaker 1: has to, as I told you, it becomes an adult.
Speaker 1: He has to go and testify against his father in
Speaker 1: a trial. Oh yeah. So that doesn't work though, because
Speaker 1: the trial ends in a hung jury. He goes in there,
Speaker 1: breaks open his heart, tries to protect his mother, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't help protector. The father gets by on a
Speaker 1: hung jury. So he learns that justice is not always just.
Speaker 1: So these are his early lessons. And that's why I
Speaker 1: kind of pulled from a man Max Waite. I gotta
Speaker 1: feel bad for this kid. You'll hear why later on
Speaker 1: why that can be a little bit dicey. So anyway,
Speaker 1: back to Max Waite, He's bouncing around schools and he's
Speaker 1: in Catholic school. He gets kicked out because he was
Speaker 1: like defacing property. He's then he gets over to Delmar
Speaker 1: Middle School over in Marine County. It's the name has
Speaker 1: since been changed. He gets in trouble there, but before
Speaker 1: he gets in trouble, he is named the biggest Rebel
Speaker 1: at his eighth grade yearbook. Yeah right, you started to
Speaker 1: see the soft spot I have. Yeah, this poor kid. Now,
Speaker 1: by the way, were you like in your high school
Speaker 1: where people voted most likely to do? Yeah, we had that.
Speaker 1: Now did you know any of the people that were like,
Speaker 1: were you friends with anyone who got the most likely
Speaker 1: to our biggest rebel or whatever? Um? Well there were
Speaker 1: only sixty six girls in my graduating class, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so you knew all of them. I was. I was
Speaker 1: voted something. We were you voted class clown? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. How about you? I was also voted something
Speaker 1: You'll never guess you were probably voted most likely to
Speaker 1: were you know, you know what I'm thinking. It's something
Speaker 1: like really sweet and innocuous, like best smile. Alright, fine,
Speaker 1: all right, you've kind of got it right. It was
Speaker 1: I was voted most friendly. Yeah have your laughs. I
Speaker 1: have your laugh You're a friendly guy. Moving on after
Speaker 1: a while. Ye give you a time to warm up.
Speaker 1: Maybe know me for a few years in school. I
Speaker 1: don't know anyway. I was surprised to win it. But
Speaker 1: so Max Wade, he wins rebel of his school, biggest rebel, right,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much is how everybody treats him. It's
Speaker 1: who he thinks he is. That's a red flag superlative
Speaker 1: going forward at this at this school. If you get
Speaker 1: biggest rebel, like, they need to put that in your
Speaker 1: permanent record, in the invisible style cabinet that contains all
Speaker 1: of our permanent records. So our boy Max Wade, he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, the rebel, and he's getting into trouble. But
Speaker 1: not only that, he's getting more aggressive. He starts the
Speaker 1: Marine Fight Club. Oh yeah, yeah, like little amateur Tyler Dirton.
Speaker 1: He decides I'm gonna go full Brad pitt and like
Speaker 1: walk around and convince these other kids to punch each other.
Speaker 1: He starts like spreading a little bit of chaos. Well,
Speaker 1: and he was raised in a really violent, chaotic environment. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's how he understands control. But nobody gets hurt, and
Speaker 1: it's not a really bad thing. It's but it does
Speaker 1: become an issue. He gets kicked out of school. So
Speaker 1: this is before he finishes his freshman year. He's a
Speaker 1: young kid to be kicked out of school. So what
Speaker 1: does he do? What does the biggest rebel of eighth
Speaker 1: grade do when he's kicked out in ninth grade? Ah,
Speaker 1: kicked out in ninth grade? Does he just quit school altogether?
Speaker 1: Pretty much? And he starts selling fake I d s
Speaker 1: and pot. Well, you gotta gotta make a living, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta make a living. And if you know or
Speaker 1: a young teenager, those are pretty much avenues to fund.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to find you. You're gonna be invited everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's like that are cold Stone Creamery, He got choices
Speaker 1: cream damn crazy bald. So he's selling fake I d s,
Speaker 1: he's selling pot, but also he's getting more criminal. At
Speaker 1: this same time, he steals his own mother's car. He
Speaker 1: paints moms venture so much. Oh yeah, but he you know,
Speaker 1: he wants to get away with it, so he steals
Speaker 1: her car. He paints it all black. Do you think
Speaker 1: he painted it? Was just like spray paint from the store.
Speaker 1: Just Matt black, Matt Black. Yeah. So he's driving around
Speaker 1: in a black ski mask, in his painted masks like
Speaker 1: a like a ninja or something. I don't know. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's this fast and furious business that's getting the kids
Speaker 1: all work and the ski masks and the painted cars.
Speaker 1: It's that damn vin Dieselae Diesel. I'm telling the kids
Speaker 1: they cannot take both the rock and Vind's will come at.
Speaker 1: There's too much shine coming off of skull. They're gonna
Speaker 1: false weight to that criminality. I'm telling you, boy, how
Speaker 1: he's blinded. They're blinded. So let's fast forward. We've gotten
Speaker 1: through a little bit of Max Waite's past. Now he's sixteen.
Speaker 1: He steals Guy Fieri's Lambo. I love that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: He's sixteen. Let's lee we've moved through his path. Now
Speaker 1: is it the right? He's in his golden years, his
Speaker 1: criminal peak. So what does the sixteen year old kid do,
Speaker 1: who has stolen Guy Fieri's yellow lambeau. You know what
Speaker 1: he does. He brags to every mother he knows. He's like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: look at this man. He's telling every friend he has.
Speaker 1: Everybody's selling pot too. If he gets a fake I
Speaker 1: d you're getting to see his phone and see the
Speaker 1: pictures of the lambeau because he wants to be cool still.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a teenage four So one of the
Speaker 1: texts we know from some of this text one of
Speaker 1: my favorite ones is, man, I love my life boosting
Speaker 1: a lambo and picking up a cute girl when you're seventeen.
Speaker 1: So that's our cocky, over confident Max Wade. But the dude,
Speaker 1: he's no fool. I mean, like he sounds wild and
Speaker 1: he sounds like reckless, but he's super smart out so
Speaker 1: he does something that a good criminal would do. He
Speaker 1: hides the car, but not at his house, not even
Speaker 1: in Marin County. He hides it over in Richmond. And
Speaker 1: you know Richmond. Ain't nobody looking for something that was
Speaker 1: stolen in Marine in Richmond unless it's scrap metal, so
Speaker 1: they don't think that the lambo is there. He goes
Speaker 1: over with a fake I d he gets himself a
Speaker 1: storage unit smart Kids Markets. I told you right now,
Speaker 1: can you guess? But the name was on the fake
Speaker 1: Ida he used to rent the star creative little fella.
Speaker 1: I don't know what was his name. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a hint. He loves both cops and criminals. He loves
Speaker 1: both cops and criminals. He loves really detectives. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what was his name. Carmine Colombo. Oh that
Speaker 1: is beautiful, right, it just rolls off the tongue. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1: All right, You're spending the night with Carmine Colombo. Okay,
Speaker 1: so skip ahead a couple of months. The cops finally
Speaker 1: do here from mothers and fathers and Marine County whose
Speaker 1: children have been talking about one of the kids who
Speaker 1: stole guy fears Colombo? What what name would you use?
Speaker 1: What name would I use for a criminal alias? Hypothetically? Yeah,
Speaker 1: hypothetically speaking, I would use alo Wisious huff and puff.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. I like it, just get you
Speaker 1: an idea that, Yeah, what what one would you do?
Speaker 1: I would call myself Regina corn Tower because Regina not
Speaker 1: Regina Regina, Regina corn Tower because it means, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you sound like a strapping, like milk fed
Speaker 1: midwestern gal just doesn't take guff. Oh no, it sounds
Speaker 1: like she wrestled Vikings for fun. Totally. That's that's my
Speaker 1: criminal alias. Your girl Regina be on the lookout. So
Speaker 1: the cops who are not looking for Regina after my
Speaker 1: man Max Wade. They can't find him, but they start
Speaker 1: getting these tips, right, so they call in Max Wade
Speaker 1: and they try to interview him, right but one, they
Speaker 1: can't really find Max Wade. He's very difficult to find too.
Speaker 1: They can't get any solid evidence that puts him with
Speaker 1: the car. Although they've been told all about this, there's
Speaker 1: no pictures, right, so it's kind of looking like the
Speaker 1: kid's gonna get away with it. Now. Just try and
Speaker 1: guess what could undo based on the little hints they
Speaker 1: gave you earlier, what could undo our boy Max Wade Facebook?
Speaker 1: Mostly it's that he starts thinking with his Okay, so
Speaker 1: he's a sixteen year old, starts hormones coursing through his veins. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: skin is pretty much rippling with hormones. Voice is changing.
Speaker 1: He's like, I stole a lambo and then he's like
Speaker 1: it's all Embaris. That's why it can't be in school.
Speaker 1: You're much more sensitive than the most adults were in
Speaker 1: his life. If only he had someone like you, if
Speaker 1: only he had Regina corn Tower in his corner, the
Speaker 1: corn Tower family with us would have stood behind, set
Speaker 1: that board down and just loved him up hearts, loved
Speaker 1: him apart. You know, Lord, Lord, I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: to shine down on this boy the way that Vin
Speaker 1: Diesel's forehead light would shine on him, but in a
Speaker 1: good way. Prayers up, like the way the rocks hairline
Speaker 1: is retreating backwards. I want you to push the sin
Speaker 1: away from him. So we'll get into the dark troubled
Speaker 1: days on the morning of April a Friday, no less,
Speaker 1: because Max Wade also likes to, you know, really twist
Speaker 1: that screw. It's got styled so way you'd approaches a
Speaker 1: white Dodge four by four pickup truck. It's parked outside
Speaker 1: at home in Mill Valley right inside or eighteen year
Speaker 1: old Landon Walstrom. He's a kind of a good old boy,
Speaker 1: which is not really a Marin County thing. But there
Speaker 1: are some like you know, cow there's some dairy farms
Speaker 1: and so forth, so there is a little bit of that,
Speaker 1: like you know, kickup boots Cannon. But yeah, so Landing
Speaker 1: is a little bit of an outliers driving that lifted
Speaker 1: white truck. He's likes you a dip. Now he's graduated
Speaker 1: from Redwood High School. He's not a student anymore, but
Speaker 1: he's dating a high school student, a seventeen year old
Speaker 1: named Eva deady Air or dedier Eva. She's a senior
Speaker 1: and she knows Max Wade because he sells her fake
Speaker 1: I d s. She's in fact loses so many. He
Speaker 1: sold her about five to six fake it das. So
Speaker 1: she's just absent minded. Yeah, just you know, just a
Speaker 1: tan absent minded sprite of a girl. So he's smitten
Speaker 1: with this girl obviously, right, he's charging five dollars for
Speaker 1: these fake IDs. He's pretty much hand in. She he
Speaker 1: charges pop and she keeps losing, and she's up to
Speaker 1: six at this point. That's the easy three grand, right,
Speaker 1: there's just just handed over to it, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's a lot of pumpkin spice lattees that she's
Speaker 1: going without. So that's a sacrifice, good for her. So
Speaker 1: he's smitten on her and Max Wade he had texted
Speaker 1: her earlier saying, so who you're spending Valentine's with? And
Speaker 1: Eva had texted back my friend Landing, Well, that's why
Speaker 1: on Friday he pulled up next to my friend Landon's
Speaker 1: lifted white truck and my boy Wade, he pulls up
Speaker 1: on a black motorcycle stolen plates because it's you know
Speaker 1: him and probably that. But he's in all black because
Speaker 1: he wants to make that stylistic approach. It's very like matrix.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's good call, good call. And he's got
Speaker 1: a black helmet on. Keep that in mind, a black
Speaker 1: neck protector that this helmet is a very special one's
Speaker 1: called built. He's got a black built helmet, right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: they're super cool. So he's also carrying, by the way,
Speaker 1: um you know, an old Saturday Night Special revolver like
Speaker 1: at like he's trying to kill someone in yeah so,
Speaker 1: and so the guns registered on someone else's name. He
Speaker 1: pulls up and Wade is on that motorcycle, rocks up
Speaker 1: next to lifted four by four white truck, and what
Speaker 1: does he do? Got a gun? Pop pop pop, He
Speaker 1: lets five fly into the car. Landing is quick. He
Speaker 1: sees him like basically point the gun at him. He
Speaker 1: pushes down Eva's head on the seat. None of the
Speaker 1: bullets managed because the car the truck is lifted. He's
Speaker 1: down on a motorcycle. They all go into the ceiling
Speaker 1: of the truck. He doesn't adjust his height, he just
Speaker 1: starts capping off and he gets so excited he leaves
Speaker 1: one bullet in the chamber and you know, he's got
Speaker 1: one bullet left. He's used like five of the rounds.
Speaker 1: One bullets left, and he's fumbling with the gun. This
Speaker 1: gives Landon a chance to peel out. They take off
Speaker 1: and then he grabs the gun and tries to chase
Speaker 1: after them on his motorcycle. He can't. They've made it away.
Speaker 1: They go and they hide at a place called Joe's
Speaker 1: Tacosa Landing and even ladd Eva. They pull up in
Speaker 1: the white lifted truck and Joe's Tacos and hide out
Speaker 1: collect their thoughts at Joe's Tacos. Can we just say that,
Speaker 1: like Max didn't understand that he just made land In
Speaker 1: a legend because Landon is going to tell the story
Speaker 1: for the rest of his life about and it's gonna
Speaker 1: snowball every time, So that like how many years ago.
Speaker 1: Is this like eleven years ago now when Landon tells
Speaker 1: the story, like someone came up with an a K
Speaker 1: forty seven and open fire and he like used his
Speaker 1: key chain as a throwing star and like yeah, and
Speaker 1: like tucked Eva under his shirt and drove Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I can totally Landon's a legend thanks to Max. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Landon is now getting a lot of free drinks from
Speaker 1: the boys at the ball totally totally. Now, obviously, Marine County,
Speaker 1: this isn't the home of the body bag. This is
Speaker 1: not a place I mean where people are popping. I
Speaker 1: mean Marin City get some violence, but there wasn't much violence.
Speaker 1: So the police overrespond to the shooting. The neighbors are
Speaker 1: freaking out. People are calling in from the gas station
Speaker 1: down the street where they saw the shooting him and
Speaker 1: they saw the white lifted truck go to Joe's Tacos.
Speaker 1: The staff of Joe's Tacos is under counter like just
Speaker 1: like shivering and calling yeah, this was big news. This
Speaker 1: is bad business. Just getting chunks of lime ready in
Speaker 1: case anyone comes in. So now the cops, though, remember
Speaker 1: they've never been able to pin Max Way down because
Speaker 1: my man is like a ghost, but Carmine Carmine Carmine Colombo.
Speaker 1: He he makes the mistake of basically creating incontrovertible evidence.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know this, but he did remember that black helmet.
Speaker 1: So a couple of the detectives are motorcyclists. They recognized
Speaker 1: the built helmet and they're like, bro, there's only one
Speaker 1: shop that sell those around here. He couldn't have gotten
Speaker 1: it anywhere else than Cycle World over in San Francisco
Speaker 1: or cycle Gear over in San Francisco. So they pop
Speaker 1: over to cycle Gear and they're like, hey, man, you
Speaker 1: guys had anybody come in and buy a built helmet.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, this kid came in and paid cash.
Speaker 1: He bought a black neck protector, a black everything he's wearing.
Speaker 1: They just basically, can we see the sort of veillance
Speaker 1: footage now they have a good sense of what this
Speaker 1: kid looks like. Oh yeah, the net is closing in
Speaker 1: on my man, max Way, but he doesn't know it yet.
Speaker 1: Right now, you went to an all girls school, all
Speaker 1: girls Catholic school. Did you know anyone who messed around
Speaker 1: with them bad boys? I was um what is known
Speaker 1: as a power nerd in high school, so I socialized outside.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't have a social life. Um, but
Speaker 1: I do know there was a girl in my class
Speaker 1: who had a at the time we thought was a
Speaker 1: significantly older uh boyfriend. Looking back, he may have been
Speaker 1: like nineteen, but it was it was scandalous. Um yeah.
Speaker 1: And now when I look back though, too, like let's
Speaker 1: say he was in his twenties, I was like, that's
Speaker 1: so pitiful that he's just like dating high school girl.
Speaker 1: High school girl, Like, what's wrong with you, buddy? But yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was I mean, like I said, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there were all sorts of girls running around with bad boys,
Speaker 1: but um, I was not aware of it, because you know,
Speaker 1: model you in well as a farmer semi bad boy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can say that after also
Speaker 1: admitting that I was voted most friendly. What do they
Speaker 1: mean by friendly if you can allow for that dynamic
Speaker 1: to occur in your head. I was also somebody who
Speaker 1: the vice principal was questioning if I should return to school.
Speaker 1: So it was a little tugget war back there. And
Speaker 1: as a former bad boy, I can tell you it's fun,
Speaker 1: but the girls only want to have fun with you.
Speaker 1: They don't really want to necessarily make a life with you.
Speaker 1: They prefer a guy like they don't want to make
Speaker 1: a life with a sixteen year old. Yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: sixteen year old was riding around popping off shots because
Speaker 1: he's mad. So I'm gonna put a pin in this
Speaker 1: for a second. We're gonna get back to Eva and
Speaker 1: Max Wade, Landon and Guy Fieri. Now it loves Square,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you how this one ends. Now, Max Wade,
Speaker 1: as we've discussed, is infatuated with Eva. He's fighting in
Speaker 1: a love rival battle with Landon, and he's cruising around
Speaker 1: and Guy Fieri stolen Lambeau right as one does. And
Speaker 1: he's already tried to shoot his way out of the
Speaker 1: friend zone, which ha apparently failed. Now at this time,
Speaker 1: there's like rumors going around on Facebook because all these
Speaker 1: kids know what this story is. So they start talking
Speaker 1: about like, oh, you know, he threatened Landing on Facebook.
Speaker 1: Landon's uncle finds this out, he tells the cops. The
Speaker 1: cops were like, wait what, And then they start being
Speaker 1: able to piece this together. The only problem is they
Speaker 1: have no idea where to find Max Wade. He has
Speaker 1: falsified all of his stuff. There is no good address.
Speaker 1: The school doesn't have an address for him. He's not
Speaker 1: old enough to really have a legit license. He just
Speaker 1: fakes all of his i ds. So there is no
Speaker 1: way for the cops to find this cat. So how
Speaker 1: do you find a kid? Do you do? You don't
Speaker 1: know where he is, you can't write. That's what the
Speaker 1: cops very quickly figure out. But one detective gets lucky.
Speaker 1: This detective sees Max Wade into the Marine County courthouse
Speaker 1: on a different case. He admitted like a whole party situation.
Speaker 1: He gets in trouble, right, so he's there. The detective
Speaker 1: recognizement goes, that's that kid who stole Guy Fieri's lambeau.
Speaker 1: He follows him and notices basically the kid goes through
Speaker 1: some house in Marine County and he's like, that's him.
Speaker 1: So now they start basically working with Eva. They're like,
Speaker 1: you gotta help us get this kid because we know
Speaker 1: he's on for you, right, They now know that he's
Speaker 1: in the area. So around that exact same time, my
Speaker 1: boy Max Wade makes a faithful mistake of text and Eva,
Speaker 1: I know I tried to kill you the other day.
Speaker 1: I just want to see are we still cool? And
Speaker 1: she's like, well, do you have any more fake ideas?
Speaker 1: And she's working with the cops. Yeah, what's that called honeypot? Honeypot?
Speaker 1: So she's the classic honeypot. So she's like, you know,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, come and uh maybe show up and that's
Speaker 1: stolen lambo and we can go for a ride. That
Speaker 1: cool with you? And he's like, like, go for a
Speaker 1: ride I don't know, like the police station. So there's
Speaker 1: really pretty parking line. She is why he stole that lambo.
Speaker 1: He wants to impress her. Oh yeah, completely just out
Speaker 1: of curiosity. What's the biggest thing you've ever stolen to
Speaker 1: necessarily impress somebody? Just that you know? Okay, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to be the truthful. The biggest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever stolen was the hearts of my countrymen with
Speaker 1: my piccolo rendition of Gasolina at the nineteen fifty two
Speaker 1: Pan American Games. I knew I shouldn't have asked. You
Speaker 1: should know better by now. That truly is the That's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing I've ever stolen. That's that's impressive. I
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be the love of the Argentinian
Speaker 1: people that you stole from the via to Peron. Oh
Speaker 1: that's the Pales in comparison. Yeah, well, you know, what
Speaker 1: can you do? So Wade agrees to meet Eva in
Speaker 1: Guys here he's stolen Lambeau. He shows up at his
Speaker 1: Richmond storage unit to go pick up his yellow car.
Speaker 1: The cops have figured out at this point where he is.
Speaker 1: They've tracked him, they know that he's there. There's fifteen
Speaker 1: cops waiting outside of the Richmond storage unit. It's a Saturday,
Speaker 1: ap roughly two weeks after the shooting event. Now there
Speaker 1: are fifteen cops sitting there waiting for him. They exactly right.
Speaker 1: They let him go in, get the car, and drive away.
Speaker 1: He drives across the five ad bridge across rich Sandra
Speaker 1: Fell Bridge. Yes, you're old bridge. That thing is falling apart.
Speaker 1: He's lucky he didn't fall out, totally lucky he didn't
Speaker 1: get hit by a chunk of cement. So he's racing
Speaker 1: across that old bridge, headed to Marine County, going to
Speaker 1: Eva's place. Right, the cops are still, mind you back
Speaker 1: at the at the storage unit. So right, So they
Speaker 1: didn't give chase. They just let him. Oh, they're just
Speaker 1: letting him. Remember you were saying about the honeypot you.
Speaker 1: So Eva contexts and text him according to police instruction,
Speaker 1: she says, I can't meet you today? Can we meet later?
Speaker 1: And shines him. He's like okay whatever, turns around, drives
Speaker 1: back to the waiting police. That gave them time to
Speaker 1: set up. Yeah, they literally are set up there in trees.
Speaker 1: They're in unmarked cars. There's a plane circling over the storage.
Speaker 1: You know, you know that one of them was pushing
Speaker 1: an old grocery cart full of recycling and had like
Speaker 1: smeared stuff on his face and was all raggedy, but
Speaker 1: was wearing like Dockers and Kirkland elevens. Then he didn't
Speaker 1: tend to back the blue hat exactly. Just all oh
Speaker 1: my rooms, so bones like he's overplaying the whole character.
Speaker 1: They're just like, we can't we cannot invite Ken on
Speaker 1: these on these steakhouats anymore. It's embarrassing. If it doesn't
Speaker 1: involve the waterfront. Ken can't come. Kenn has like a
Speaker 1: sailor costume. One ye, sorry. They're sitting there waiting in
Speaker 1: the trees. Ken's pushing his bag down the street and
Speaker 1: Wade shows up right he pulls back in. Do the
Speaker 1: cops take him. No, they let him go back inside.
Speaker 1: He doesn't come out for an hour. He's just They're like, wait,
Speaker 1: do we make a mistake. And VANGELI, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like to imagine he's sitting there and guy fieres
Speaker 1: Lambo just crying to him, crying. Yeah, he got stood up.
Speaker 1: I mean he's tried so hard. He tried to kill
Speaker 1: a man for her. He stole the guy fieres lambeau
Speaker 1: for her, and she just won't take him seriously, and
Speaker 1: he's either, why are you breaking a man's heart? So
Speaker 1: eventually he manages to come out, and he had been
Speaker 1: dropped off by a friend who drove a Crown Victoria
Speaker 1: and so the cop car he walks back out. He
Speaker 1: thinks he's you know, he's sitting there staring at his
Speaker 1: cellphone waiting for this guy to pick him back up,
Speaker 1: and he notices this Crown Victoria coming towards him, so
Speaker 1: he like walks over, thinking it's his friend. Nope, it's
Speaker 1: an undercover car. The second one pulls up, he realizes,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, these are cops. He sees the cop
Speaker 1: in the tree, he bolts. He tries to make it
Speaker 1: a run for it. The cops jump out right now.
Speaker 1: One of the cops grabs him, another one kicks him,
Speaker 1: another one kicks him in the chest. They're beating on
Speaker 1: this kid, right, but they have good reason. According to
Speaker 1: the police. Apparently he's like reaching for his waistband, which
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the kids a white kid. I
Speaker 1: don't even know they said that about white kids fan,
Speaker 1: but that's what they said about him. Ye, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: they're like ken. But turns out home he had a
Speaker 1: loaded glock forty five with about fifty rounds of ammunition,
Speaker 1: so he could have been like and they didn't just
Speaker 1: light him up and they didn't know that they found
Speaker 1: it when they searched him because remember before he had
Speaker 1: just had that Saturday Night special like subway stick up gun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but so they find that, uh, he's got a real gun.
Speaker 1: That explains why they had to beat the you know,
Speaker 1: the underhaged boy. Anyway, he's got, of course, a fake
Speaker 1: I d on him. Now. Can you guess with this
Speaker 1: fake idea is Oh my god, is it Guy Ferry
Speaker 1: his real name? That would have been great one. No,
Speaker 1: this one was Dr and Agnello Gotti, you know, like
Speaker 1: John Gotti, Remember well, and Agnello isn't that the Fiat guy. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: on it with the Italian carmakers. It's in my blood
Speaker 1: and apparently the Max too. So the cops now rest
Speaker 1: Max Wade. He's busted. Everything's calmed down. They go down
Speaker 1: to a storage unit. They find the yellow Lambeau right
Speaker 1: where it was, and I'm talking this thing was tucked
Speaker 1: in within inches of the walls. Like he barely squeeze
Speaker 1: us into the storage unit. But in there with the
Speaker 1: with Guy Fierries Lambeau is the motorcycle, the guns, the outfits.
Speaker 1: He's got jammers literally books for future crimes. Ken, you
Speaker 1: know Ken locked into the warehouse and put his hand
Speaker 1: on the hood of the Lamborkhan. He goes still warm, Kennan,
Speaker 1: your crack detective skills. Can someone get him out of here?
Speaker 1: Can we transfer him? So there also is a bill
Speaker 1: of sale. He had sold Guy Fieri's cards some owner
Speaker 1: in the Dominican Republic and it was supposed to get
Speaker 1: on like some like you know, storage unit container ship
Speaker 1: and sent down to the d R. It didn't make it.
Speaker 1: He almost bought that close. Yeah, So now the luck
Speaker 1: of ge is gonna hold though, because now he's already
Speaker 1: filed with his insurance company because they couldn't find the car,
Speaker 1: so he's been paid out the two dollars. He's not
Speaker 1: really like, you know, too worried about it. Well, he
Speaker 1: loves it. Like he finds out it's stolen, He's not
Speaker 1: like on his knees screaming to the sky my my
Speaker 1: prize possession. He's like, oh one of my you know,
Speaker 1: ridiculous supercars was stolen. Well we also, I'm not even
Speaker 1: know this, but guy fiery, you know, the love of
Speaker 1: my life. Yeah, he is a big Chevy man. So
Speaker 1: most of his cars are cor The first car he
Speaker 1: bought was a Corvette. When he first made his money
Speaker 1: on the Food Network, he bought some tricked out Corvette.
Speaker 1: He loves Chevy, so the Lambo to him is like
Speaker 1: I think to impress other people. Okay. Also, by the way,
Speaker 1: he has this car, it's shown up on Driver or
Speaker 1: whatever Triple D, and he doesn't think the production associates mentioned.
Speaker 1: He doesn't drive it. He just opens the door, kids
Speaker 1: and open gets out. He just acts pull it up
Speaker 1: and he acts like I'm gonna drive away in this
Speaker 1: rad my bitchen lambeau, and then he just gets right
Speaker 1: back out and goes into the him. Good for him,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just fake as his prop. It's top.
Speaker 1: So now Max Wade has to go to obviously have
Speaker 1: a trial because he's now being investigated for attempted murder impersonating.
Speaker 1: It turns out of police and all sorts of stuff
Speaker 1: he's got, like fake uniforms. The guy has jammers for
Speaker 1: police radios and for cell phones. I mean, he's doing
Speaker 1: all sorts of crimes. It's just a laundry list. And
Speaker 1: you know, he's also suspected to have been involved in
Speaker 1: some break ins, but it turns out he's too slight
Speaker 1: for that. But they were trying to attach him to
Speaker 1: all these like crimes that they couldn't haven't been able
Speaker 1: to close the book on yet. Right, So, now, what
Speaker 1: do you think Max Wade's gonna do when he's locked
Speaker 1: up in remind you juvenile hall, because he's still not
Speaker 1: even eighteen. Does he do something terrible? Does he like
Speaker 1: shive somebody? No? Really, that guy, I mean, even though
Speaker 1: I know he did try to kill his love rival
Speaker 1: with us Saturday Night Special, he's not the kind of
Speaker 1: shift somebody in jail. Instead, he's the kind of guy
Speaker 1: to get two of his idiot cronies to show up
Speaker 1: to Juvie with a sledgehammer and try to break him out.
Speaker 1: Bang bang. These guys had like four thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: I'm working with sledge hammers, trying to fast sledge hammers
Speaker 1: from outside the cell. They're just sitting there smacking it
Speaker 1: at four thirty in the morning. There's nothing going on
Speaker 1: at four thirty in the morning except everybody's going to
Speaker 1: hear that. Forty guards, forty Julie guards come rushing in
Speaker 1: and they stopped Max Wade from getting his masterminded getaway.
Speaker 1: And they go outside and they find the sledge hammers
Speaker 1: and everything, but his his associates have disappeared more honestly, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So why do you think he tried to do that, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean he wanted to get out. I don't know
Speaker 1: you wanted to get away, right, But also he was
Speaker 1: about turn eighteen, an eighteenth birthday was coming up, and
Speaker 1: that meant he would be transferred to a prison. He
Speaker 1: didn't want to be around the real criminals. It was
Speaker 1: his last chance to avoid that. Like too bad, buddy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So October rolls around and we now have the attempted
Speaker 1: murder and theft case. Guess who is a star witness,
Speaker 1: Your man Gie Fieri. So while like you have to
Speaker 1: understand this is like a circus of a trial, right,
Speaker 1: so that everybody wants in on this because this kid,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's basically become an internet legend. It's so
Speaker 1: some people may not remember this. He was an internet legend.
Speaker 1: There were, in fact, a friend of his posted songs
Speaker 1: on YouTube about him. He had his own folk hero ballots,
Speaker 1: murder ballot exactly. So everybody is, like, you know, wanting
Speaker 1: to get in on this court case. Only one reporter
Speaker 1: is allowed in the room, a student from Redwood High School,
Speaker 1: one of alumni. Yeah, he's allowed to be the only
Speaker 1: one in the high school newspaper. Yeah, it's amazing. Right.
Speaker 1: So then there, of course obviously is a court reporter
Speaker 1: right now. The court reporter is the way that we
Speaker 1: know what it looks like inside the courtroom, since there
Speaker 1: was no press other than the school newspapers. Like a
Speaker 1: sketch artist. So yeah, exactly, the courtate sorry, court sketch arts,
Speaker 1: not court reporters, court sketch artist. The sketch artist manages
Speaker 1: to capture your g Fieri and all his glory on
Speaker 1: the witness stand. Now here, let me show you this photo. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Now could you just try to describe it
Speaker 1: for the listening audience? Okay? Um, first of all, like
Speaker 1: we're putting this on the Ridiculous Crime Instagram so that
Speaker 1: everyone can take a look at this. You have to
Speaker 1: be able to see that. How did the artist manage
Speaker 1: to make him look sweaty? Like meat? Sweats are hard
Speaker 1: to capture in pastel. It really is a talented artist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of it looks like he'd have a stuicy
Speaker 1: tattoo on his shoulder blade. And the look on his face.
Speaker 1: He kind of looks like the ticket taker just told
Speaker 1: him his general admission ticket to who was saying as
Speaker 1: counterfeit and he's going to have to go back out
Speaker 1: and enjoy the rest of the county fair. Like his hair,
Speaker 1: the hair, the hair cut. It looks like he was
Speaker 1: in a mac and cheese blossom and I swear to
Speaker 1: God people there are no lies. And looks the look
Speaker 1: on his face. Doesn't it look like his mom just
Speaker 1: found his trash bag full of stolen panties in the
Speaker 1: bottom of his closet. What what is that? Weird look
Speaker 1: on the Oh my goodness, don't be mad at me, mommy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a gem. I'm going to get that
Speaker 1: printed and framed. Yeah for above the Heart. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a joy though, to have Guy Fieri on the
Speaker 1: witness stand in your trial and you're not even You're
Speaker 1: just an eighteen year old boy and he's bringing it.
Speaker 1: Max Wade coming up in the world. Dark power is
Speaker 1: what that is. So but man, Max Wade. He gets busted,
Speaker 1: convicted on one count of attempted murder of Landing, and
Speaker 1: also he gets popped for auto theft and for possession
Speaker 1: of a stolen vehicle for shooting into the occupied vehicle,
Speaker 1: for trying to kill his love interest. And he gets
Speaker 1: acquitted on the attempted murder of Eva because apparently Eva
Speaker 1: doesn't want to press charges. I don't know, he couldn't
Speaker 1: be convinced that he was trying to kill her. Also,
Speaker 1: he is acquitted on the charge of stealing the car.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get popped on commercial burglary. I'm not a lawyer,
Speaker 1: I'm not a judge. I have no idea. Now, remember
Speaker 1: that janitor who was or was not involved, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: one who wound up road chum because he was hiding
Speaker 1: into the car. Never shows back up never. So we
Speaker 1: have this one like mystery out there also the other
Speaker 1: mystery who dropped him off when he got we showed
Speaker 1: up at his storage unit to pick up the Lambeau.
Speaker 1: Remember the cops never talked about that. I know exactly
Speaker 1: who it was. Who was it? Fiery, He's in the
Speaker 1: Crown vic It's all. It's like, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: the end of the usual suspects right now, right, it's
Speaker 1: all coming together, and all of sudden the footwork starts
Speaker 1: smoothing totally. Guy Fierry doesn't know Limp anyway, I just
Speaker 1: dropped my teacup, so so Max Wade, right, he tells
Speaker 1: his probation officer. Look, I was by myself. The janitor
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it. Nobody helped me, which
Speaker 1: seems like proof that the janitor helped him, right, And
Speaker 1: that just seems like immediately so I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's like a favorite uncle or somebody. Yeah, they're like,
Speaker 1: who helped you with this? He's like, not the janitor,
Speaker 1: Like wait what jandit He's like, never mind, I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. Voices still so in janu Max
Speaker 1: Wade has given the maximum sentence life in prison. He
Speaker 1: sounds like, you know, I'm torn, How are you torn?
Speaker 1: Because he sounds like a dangerous little guy. He sounds
Speaker 1: like he might be a little bit of a psychopath.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel bad for him. I was I was a handful,
Speaker 1: I was a troubled kid. I did some stuff. I
Speaker 1: never tried shooting anybody, but you know, shy of that.
Speaker 1: I can see how stories can be told that people
Speaker 1: would see, oh, he's gonna be a big danger when
Speaker 1: he gets bigger, which never really was the case. So
Speaker 1: I think Max Wade, you know, if things were different,
Speaker 1: if somebody could have taken a hand, he might not have,
Speaker 1: you know, been this person everybody feared too late. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: he is set up for twenty years of enhancements for
Speaker 1: premeditation of a use of a firearm California law dooms,
Speaker 1: so he's looking at basically has to do the life sentence,
Speaker 1: the twenty years on his enhancements. Then after that he's
Speaker 1: got to do sixteen months for stealing Guy Fieri's car.
Speaker 1: Then he also has to do the rest of his
Speaker 1: life sentence. The other one, he's got to do another one.
Speaker 1: But luckily California law changes, he did no longer has
Speaker 1: to what would have been that he had to serve
Speaker 1: of the twenty one years. He then ends up that
Speaker 1: they basically change his sentencing, so that now thanks to
Speaker 1: send It Bill six twenty, a California bill that gave
Speaker 1: judges the discretion over sentencing and said, no, we're no
Speaker 1: longer going to do these sentencing requirements basically that you
Speaker 1: have to do because of gun enhancements. Do you any
Speaker 1: time to use a gun into the commission of the
Speaker 1: prime the enhancement? Right, So they make that no longer
Speaker 1: the case. Now judges can decide. The judge of his
Speaker 1: case decides and reduces him by ten years. So now
Speaker 1: he is eligible for parole in August. So you know that.
Speaker 1: Or is a little bit of good news that guy
Speaker 1: Fiery got his car back. Well he didn't, well because
Speaker 1: he got the payoff. He got the payoffs. So where
Speaker 1: is it now? Who has the who has the yellow Lamborghini?
Speaker 1: Right now? The insurance company I suppose took it. I suppose,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they sold it. So I'm sure we could
Speaker 1: find the person who bought the stolen Lambeau. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: come back to you with an update on that. I'm
Speaker 1: going to need that. So other than the fact that
Speaker 1: guy Fiery is the coolest man on earth, what was
Speaker 1: our ridiculous takeaway here? Well, my ridiculous takeaway I think
Speaker 1: is that, um, the kid is obviously troubled, but like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you're gonna do a crime like
Speaker 1: this for a ridiculous reason, for the love of a
Speaker 1: seventeen year old girl, I say ridiculous reason. Totally ridiculous reason.
Speaker 1: I would have to disagree to a former seventeen year
Speaker 1: old boy. I think it's just that's ridiculous. But if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it, just go big. And he did,
Speaker 1: and like the most ridiculous We're gonna steal a car,
Speaker 1: steal a ridiculous car. And it's not even enough that
Speaker 1: it's a yellow Lamborghini is ridiculous in amazing ways. It's
Speaker 1: even more ridiculous if the car is belongs to one
Speaker 1: g Fieri, Like, that's prime ridiculousness. That's my takeaway. I
Speaker 1: think you nailed it. Personally. I think my due would
Speaker 1: have been fine if he just stole the car. I
Speaker 1: mean nobody would. I think even guy Fiery would have
Speaker 1: forgiven him. He liked him, he said, brave kid. Remember
Speaker 1: he was like, hey, I like that kid. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean it's pretty much victimous crime other than the insurance company,
Speaker 1: which I have my opinions about that. I'm sure other
Speaker 1: listeners may have their opinions about that, But that's like
Speaker 1: not really a victim that we're worried about, right, But
Speaker 1: his real problem was was he became the victim of
Speaker 1: himself when he decided to go full Romeo and Juliet
Speaker 1: and try to take out Landing. It was the gun
Speaker 1: that was the doom. If he would have been able
Speaker 1: to just keep trying to impress her, I think she
Speaker 1: might have changed her mind. I mean, well, and a
Speaker 1: young guy with a yellow Lamborghini. They're more girls out
Speaker 1: there than just Eva. Yeah, exactly. So never bring a
Speaker 1: gun to a stolen guy Fiery Lambo fight. Thanks for
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