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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Hey

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Dutton, saren my girl. Do you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 1: Oh do I you came at it already. I'm what's

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Speaker 1: ridiculous is that Applebee's is making a lip gloss. Wait

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Speaker 1: what Yeah, they're working with this company called Winky Looks,

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Speaker 1: and they've come up with four shades and tastes of

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Speaker 1: the thing that they call saucy gloss. And they're the

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Speaker 1: different flavors of their chicken wings. So if you want

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Speaker 1: me to read you the names of the yes, sorry, sorry, buddy. Um.

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Speaker 1: The one is called give Me Hot Buffalo, and it's

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Speaker 1: coral colored sweet Chili Kiss and that's gold flakes in

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Speaker 1: a deep red color. Then there's one called Bema Honey Pepper.

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Speaker 1: That one's golden. Someone got paid to come up with these, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then there's Honey Barbecutie Barbecut, and that's a burgundy color.

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Speaker 1: They're eighteen dollars apiece. They taste like the barbecue sauces

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Speaker 1: that they're named for. So are you supposed to like

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Speaker 1: put this on and make out? And they let the

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Speaker 1: taste of chicken wings come between you and the person

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Speaker 1: you want to get intimate with um Yeah, sorry, I

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Speaker 1: mean that this way instead of like just really going

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Speaker 1: to town on a bucket of wings and then making

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Speaker 1: out with someone, you can make out and go to

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Speaker 1: town on the bucket of wings. They're eighteen dollars a piece.

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Speaker 1: If you want a whole set of them, there sixty five.

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Speaker 1: They also apparently made a dance music video called Taste

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Speaker 1: My Face that goes with them Taste Face. The founder

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Speaker 1: of Winky Looks said that she got a message on

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn from an Applebee's rep and that's how they started

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Speaker 1: all this. This all started on a LinkedIn d m

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Speaker 1: y so perfect and so like each loss looks like

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Speaker 1: the sauce. Let your m and tell you about some

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Speaker 1: lip glosses. It is I have for like a synergy

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Speaker 1: between our corporations. I love it. They said that they

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Speaker 1: had to use all these like materials so that to

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Speaker 1: make it taste like the sauces, and so their labs

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Speaker 1: smelled like barbecue sauce for a really long time. Can

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Speaker 1: you imagine the taste test for the lip gloss. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't taste like chicken. You just got like a guy

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Speaker 1: in the corner who dips the one thing and sucks

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Speaker 1: on it. Tastes like rubber boots, tastes like my cousin,

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Speaker 1: tastes like a tire fire. Next, you don't want to

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Speaker 1: taste like berry. Next, Well, that's all very ridiculous. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know how to recover from that. You can't,

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Speaker 1: but I've got something for you that's it's ridiculous. But

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Speaker 1: also it's a crime. Okay, So this one takes place

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Speaker 1: in those super sexy, super fun seventies. In July ninety six,

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Speaker 1: there was a group of French hard ben and they decided,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's quit messing around. Let's go big.

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Speaker 1: Let's robbed the las at the General or the main

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Speaker 1: bank in Nice, France. Now that main bank is like, um,

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Speaker 1: pretty much a medieval structure, big stone walls like eight

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Speaker 1: meters thick, so you're basically a castle. So they're like,

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Speaker 1: let's break into a bank that's a castle right now.

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Speaker 1: In France, this case became known as le cas d sc,

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Speaker 1: which is means the bank robbery of the century. Why

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Speaker 1: because they got away with it nice, You're ready, I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: This is ridiculous crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous

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Speaker 1: capers heights and cons it's all always murder free and

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Speaker 1: one ridiculous. Don't you forget it? Never? Cow? Could I so, Elizabeth?

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Speaker 1: This bank robbery, I'd like to tell you about the

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Speaker 1: lecas Do Sack, the bank robberty of the century. It

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Speaker 1: was a thirty million euro bank job, which at the

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Speaker 1: time this was not euros. It was actually still Frank's

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Speaker 1: and in modern dollars. If the currency converters are correct

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Speaker 1: and the inflation converters are correct, this is a hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty million dollar job they pulled off. Dang, yeah, goal, jewelry,

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Speaker 1: bank notes, all the best things that you can hide

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Speaker 1: in safety deposit boxes. Now, many folks believe this job

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Speaker 1: was an inspiration for the Spanish swiler show, that one

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Speaker 1: that we both like, the La casa the papel or

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Speaker 1: in English money heist. Yeah, which is not what costa

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Speaker 1: the papel means in English. No, it is not at all,

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Speaker 1: but you know whatever the paper house is like. But

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Speaker 1: that's also a nickname for that specific Spanish bank. So

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Speaker 1: actually it's the it's the money printer in Spain, right,

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Speaker 1: about bank robberies we both enjoy. It's something that we

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Speaker 1: think of a favorite bank job that's pulled off, You're like, oh, dude,

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Speaker 1: the one in the Italian job was pretty good. Whatever

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Speaker 1: going to be my like self help book. You can

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Speaker 1: sure you're very open today. I like that. I'll do anything. Now, see, personally,

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Speaker 1: I could not. That's you're limiting yourself to one source.

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Speaker 1: And so if anything that's not in the scope of that,

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Speaker 1: this book, so yeah, much like you know the French

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Speaker 1: a very charismatic Frenchman for this story. And his name

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Speaker 1: I know, But he's a Frenchman. He's from the Alps,

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Speaker 1: That's what this dude is raised. Now, as a teenager,

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Speaker 1: he gets to crime real quick. He's like, you know

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Speaker 1: He hasn't had that kind of money painting fences and

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Speaker 1: So he's like, I'm gonna rob a bag, and he

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Speaker 1: and then after that he's like, you know what if

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Speaker 1: He's also a flashy, somewhat arrogant criminal, and if you

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Speaker 1: In this case for him, it was called to or

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Speaker 1: Loophole or how to Rob a Bank, and it was

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Speaker 1: by Robert Paul. It was a English book, but he

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Speaker 1: I read. The English title is a buch easier how

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Speaker 1: how to Rob a Bank. It's so I will be

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Speaker 1: referring to it as loophole because how to rob a bank?

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Speaker 1: And most importantly, and I quote, loophole provides a shrewd

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Speaker 1: Who's ever cracked a safe? Right? And I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: plan because that is a huge day in France. It's

421
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: basically like the fourth of July is and it in

422
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: essence it's a celebration to freedom and independence, but also

423
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 1: it's a big party weekend everybody. So they wanted to

424
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: get there on Friday. And they get to the walls

425
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: on Friday, and how do they know because they can

426
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: hear the alarm clocks shaking at midnight and they know

427
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 1: it's right there in the safety deposit box wall and

428
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: that's where they are. So now they've also used it

429
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: as a homing signal. That's perfect, right, pretty brilliant. I

430
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,120
Speaker 1: appreciate that. So now that we have reached the walls,

431
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: the tunnel is dug, they're on the other side of

432
00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 1: safety deposit box. All it is left for them to

433
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 1: do is to break in. Elizabeth, I'd like you to

434
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: close your eyes and picture it. I'm picturing it it's

435
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: best deal day weekend. I don't know what it is yet.

436
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 1: It's furry, it's warm, it's in your hand. In France

437
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, it's the Friday night of a long weekend.

438
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,880
Speaker 1: One hell of a bell bottom, good time going down

439
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: to Nice right now, al right, each night, drunken rebblers

440
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: in the street. They've got the mayor out there with

441
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: him prows and everyone's having fun. The fireworks overhead. It's

442
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: a perfect cover if you want to break into a

443
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 1: bank fault. So Albert and the Marseille hardman, they are

444
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: busy in their workspace, just banging away, swinging hammers, knocking

445
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,959
Speaker 1: chisels and the two months of hard, sweaty, stinky work.

446
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 1: Because remember they are working in a sewer essentially, like

447
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: sometimes they're waist deep and filth. Sometimes they're in rubber rafts.

448
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: It's just been a hard so a few fuse. It's

449
00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: so funny of them just sitting there working on damnits.

450
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 1: Jacques or a few enthusiastic swings of the sledge hammer.

451
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: Chisels breakthrough and all of a sudden there's a shaft

452
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: of light. They can see into the vault. They're there.

453
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 1: They knocked through the wall, and then they realize actually

454
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 1: in the safety deposit wall, so they have to push

455
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: their way through, and they pry open the safety deposit

456
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 1: boxes from the backside, which is yeah, extra difficult, and

457
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: now boom they're inside. So they knock a hole. They

458
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 1: have a workspace. They take the as settling torches and

459
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: stuff and start getting to business. Now they're able to

460
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: open three hundred and seventy one safety deposit boxes. Jug

461
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: blown fully blown. So this jug, now that it's fully

462
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: blown and tooting away, is giving up gold bars, jewelry collections, diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds,

463
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 1: you name it. Dude, niece has got real wealth down

464
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 1: There's that's im like. And then also there is the

465
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: as you I've noted in other bank robbers we discussed

466
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: there's always a potential of the blackmail photo in the

467
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: safety deposit box. This one comes very much true. They

468
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: take out the blackmail photos and they're all these lurid,

469
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: naked photos of the rich, famous and powerful doing things

470
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 1: to each other that are dirty and naked, and they

471
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: throw them up on the walls of the vault, plastering

472
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: them so that while they're working they're just staring at

473
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 1: all these naked people. Yeah, right, exactly, so you know,

474
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: it's a little fun for the guys, exactly, they get

475
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: some fun and then also keeping things French. Albert is

476
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: very good to his men. He brings in the picnic

477
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: lunch and the picnic lunch, what do you think is

478
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:39,479
Speaker 1: in it? Very good? Also for gras, he brings in

479
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: red wine. They eat a meal of coke and potatoes

480
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: that he cooks with a reportable stove for their meals.

481
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: By the way, they're eating on these solid silver utensils

482
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: that they're pulling out of the safety deposit box exactly,

483
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: using all the rich people's stuff for like I don't know,

484
00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're using it appropriately or not,

485
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: but they're just using it having fun. They're using the

486
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: right utensils for each I don't mean, like do they

487
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: have the right fork in the right hand. I mean,

488
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're just like stabbing the knife

489
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: into the wall for fun too, and then also using

490
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: it to like spread the Yeah, exactly. So there's these

491
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: huge silver toureens, like you know, like soup containers for

492
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: like now they're silver. They were using those for the commodes.

493
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: So they're just like crapping in these rich people in

494
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: that fancy buckets, making soup, making the new soup. So

495
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: this is like how the how these fifteen Marseille hard

496
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: men entertaining themselves over this long weekend while they break

497
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: into all of the safety deposit boxes and it takes

498
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: a while. Did not just like popping each one open.

499
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: They have to like pry and work on to get

500
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: three one of the thousands that are there. Is like

501
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 1: a real accomplishment. Now, over the time of the weekend,

502
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, uh starts to come to be and the

503
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: rains start to gather and there's hard rain that's falling

504
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: on nice. Hard rain is going to fall on this

505
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: hard rain starts to hit the sewers, it starts to flood.

506
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: So the guys are like, oh man, we got to

507
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: get at the show on the road. So they gather

508
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: up everything that they can and then they managed to

509
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 1: unlike some of the other robbers we've covered, they removed

510
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: most everything they brought with them. They get all on

511
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: the rubber boats and they're like go go right. So

512
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: like these guys are all like launching down the sewer

513
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: with all the stolen stuff. And then right before they

514
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: leave Alberts like un moment, and then he like takes

515
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: the piece of chalk and he writes a message on

516
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: the inside of the bank fault and in in chalk

517
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 1: he writes arms knee violence, So which that means in

518
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: English and not my bad accent, he means without guns,

519
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: nor violence nor hate. So he was basically saying, is

520
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: they were bragging, we pulled this off and we're not

521
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: like these other terrorists bank robbers of the seventies, because

522
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: like the PLO was a getting into bank robbery at

523
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: this time, so they really wanted to stinguish themselves. The

524
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: i RA was in bank robbery. There was a lot

525
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: of like people, They're like, look, we did this without guns,

526
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,479
Speaker 1: without hate in our heart. We just did it for

527
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: the rush. She just basically put a piece symbol on

528
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: the wall exactly two fingers and then swam off in

529
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: the wastewater. Yeah, well that's the other thing. So then

530
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: this is also part of the possibly illegal strategy. So

531
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: it's like, look, we didn't mean any harts establish it

532
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: that it's the seventies. Relax. A lot of stuff happened.

533
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: It was more than just regrettable men's fashions. There was

534
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff happening. Do you think back to

535
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: how wild the seventies were when you read these news stories, Like,

536
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: I can't imagine explaining to someone who's like under the

537
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: age of what the seventies like. You could just take

538
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: any week of the newspaper and just take the headlines

539
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: and they'd be like, are you for real right now?

540
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, look at that, and here's the next day,

541
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: and here's the next day, and it's just the headlines.

542
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: But don't you think that applies now to butt Well,

543
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: they get hung up on the idea of like it's

544
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: so it's so unique now, and I'm like, oh, people

545
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: who are a little older, like you know, like my

546
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: mother has a sense of this which she talks to

547
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: me about like the repetition of repetition of history. So

548
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, if you go back the seventies, it wasn't

549
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: all like people were just like everything was cool and

550
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: we're growing our launch and trying to get over the

551
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: sixties and trying to buy back into America. No, it

552
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: was turbulent as hell, especially internationally. That decade needs more

553
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: look back. It totally does. But also you and I

554
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: love newspapers dot com. Yes, this is not a paid advertisement.

555
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: They don't they don't even know we exists. They just

556
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: take my money. But anytime you go back and you

557
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: look at headlines on a in like the thirties and

558
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: the eighteen sixties, you look at these headlines and it's nuts. Yeah,

559
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: because constantly and it's all on one newspaper, like that's

560
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: all happening. Everyone thinks they're living at the end of

561
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: the world, I guess. And also, no times are unique

562
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: in terms of it being insane, is essentially my point,

563
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: just different flavors of insane. Yeah, so, okay, Monday rolls around.

564
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: Bank employees show up. There's a hole in the vault,

565
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: but they don't know it because these robbers were so

566
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: smart they welded the bank vault shut from the inside

567
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: so they can't get into the bank. They're like, oh,

568
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: so they don't even know it's been robbed yet, but

569
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: they know something's wrong because the bank is welded shut.

570
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: Their jugs been blown fully blown, so they have to

571
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: go and get a drill of their own and reblow

572
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: the jug and they knock a hole in the wall,

573
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: and then they find out when they look inside the

574
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: whole of the vault they they've knocked into, They're like, oh,

575
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: we've been robbed Sacar Blue. So yeah, so then they

576
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: have to go and tell the police. The police come

577
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: out to investigate. Word gets out and all the rich

578
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: and famous and powerful they come running down there, like

579
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: my secret stuff, and they're all in a panic. And

580
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: so the banks meant a bunch of time keeping its

581
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: customers out of the bank while they're like waving their

582
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,719
Speaker 1: rich risks with bobbles of jewels knocking about. And so

583
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: the bank's like, look, calm down, we'll get you all

584
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: your stuff. We're not gonna just throw it in a pile,

585
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna have it all like sorted out.

586
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: Don't worry. We'll let you know if it was your

587
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: stuff we're stolen or not. We have a list, and

588
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: everyone's like and the police were like, okay, um, you

589
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: deal with the angry customers. We're gonna start trying to

590
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: investigate stuff, right, So they go and get the list

591
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: on their own of like witch box has been broken into,

592
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: they figure out who it is and they go to

593
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: the individual people because once again the bank isn't really

594
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: being helpful. They're like, okay, so we understand that you

595
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: had a box and you had box number seven four three,

596
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: would you like to tell what was in it? And

597
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: the person It's like, no, I did not. That is

598
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: important to just finds this stuff. You photos? Yeah, why

599
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 1: do you want to look at toto? Do you want

600
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: to see that? I show you do? Not shaming me

601
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: as they've gotten away with his stolen loot. Albert Spagghieri

602
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: has done it. He's pulled off the crime of the century,

603
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars. All these rich and powerful

604
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: people are embarrassed. The newspapers are talking about it. There

605
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: is no reason for people to not know his name

606
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: at this point. Everyone. All he has to do is

607
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: make himself known and everyone would be like, that's the guy.

608
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: So it's tempting him. But he's like, hundreds of millions

609
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: of dollars, why would you want? Who cares if everyone

610
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: knows you're the guy? But he wants the fame. He

611
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: wants the crowd. He wants people to know he was

612
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: the mastermind he because remember he used his book and

613
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: he's so perfect plan. Yeah, so let's take a quick

614
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: little break and I'll get into how this all goes

615
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: oh so wrong. So now we have the robbery as occurred.

616
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: They've gotten away, Albert and his Marseille hard Man are

617
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: on the lamb and the police have to spring into action.

618
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: Right So they've interviewed the rich people and they don't

619
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: have a clue to go on. They got nothing. Meanwhile, Albert,

620
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: he's gone home. He's taking a bubble bath, he's gonna

621
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: can espresso. He's cleaned himself up, he's wiped the sewer off,

622
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: he's counting his money, and he's like, you know what,

623
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. He bounces, he leaves. They're not

624
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: going to catch him because this mastermind of the sewer gang,

625
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: he knows that, you know, eventually he will not be

626
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: able to resist the acclaim. So he knows, I gotta

627
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: get myself out of here. He bounces, Where's he go?

628
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: I have no United States of America there not, just that.

629
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: He goes to c I A headquarters. Yes, right up

630
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: to CIA headquarters, knocks on the front door and knock knock.

631
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: Did he give notice in niece about like I'm not

632
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: going to be here. I'm taking photography break now he

633
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: just you know, disappears. He's a flight tr He shows

634
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: up at CIA headquarters. He tells the CIA, hey, you

635
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: guys want to take a meeting with me. They're like, bro,

636
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: who are you? Because you have to remember, this is

637
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: the CIA in the seventies, one year before the Church

638
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: Committee hearings will renew to the world what the CIA

639
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: has been doing. So this is the last year of

640
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: the shameless. We will kill your leader CIA. Exactly. We

641
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: tried to kill Fidel cast eight thirty eight times. Do

642
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: you think we will not embarrass and disappear you? So

643
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: that CIA is the CIA we're talking about, right, So

644
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: Albert turns up at the CIA crowd quarters like, you

645
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: guys should totally hire me because like I'm kind of

646
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: a mastermind. In case you didn't know this, you don't

647
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: keep up on French crime. I've come to tell you

648
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: personally that is like again, who are you? And he's like, oh,

649
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, I'll lay out my bona feedes and he's

650
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: like telling him all this stuff, all the jobs he's pulled,

651
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: and he's like, then, by the way, I just kind

652
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: of pulled off the bank robbery of the century. He

653
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: tells the c I A just to get a job there.

654
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: Then he pulled off the bank robbery and he's like,

655
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: hey guys. So he's like, oh, you do know what

656
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: we do here? Right? We don't. Okay, look, we don't

657
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: need a HIGST team, not right now. So we're good,

658
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: thanks for coming in, but we'll take your resume if

659
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: you want to leave it at the front door. And

660
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: he's like or like, you know, I don't know, leave

661
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: a card or something whatever, Just please go away. We

662
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: don't have time for this. And he's like, oh. They're like,

663
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: but oh, one more thing. What was your name again?

664
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: You could you? Like? Where are you from? You said

665
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: he pulled off the bank robbery, the centry, I was

666
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: in France and nice And he's like, yeah, I got

667
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: to gout. Are not interested, right, And they're like, no, seriously,

668
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: that was you. You're absolutely certain that was you. Do

669
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: you have any evidence that we could know this was you?

670
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: And he's like maybe we do, right, which means uh,

671
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 1: you know, but yes, of course right, And they're like okay, well,

672
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: maybe we could have a home number, maybe your your address,

673
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: you could just give that to us. We could get

674
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: in contact with you later. And he's like, no, no,

675
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: I got to go because it's of course, the CIA

676
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: is an investigative agency, has allies and been France, so

677
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: they call their French counterparts like as soon as he's

678
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: out of the building, and they're like a French CIA,

679
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: which I'm sorry I do not know is called French CIA.

680
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: Do you know who's just in our office? And they're like, no,

681
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: for all, neither do. We wouldn't give us his name.

682
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: He goes in there and he's like, I did these crimes, big,

683
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: not gonna tell you my name's interested they're not really okay.

684
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: He tells him his name, but he's like, you know,

685
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: They're like, is that really your name? They were like,

686
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: we have some evidence that you did this crime because

687
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna immediately turned it over the front name Mr

688
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: corn Towers. Yes exactly, Regina, you say okay. So a

689
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: few months later, the French authorities get another tip about

690
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: this crime, but this time not from the CIA. This

691
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: time the tip is from an angry X. Yeah. So actually, well,

692
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: the French authorities got a couple of tips they got

693
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: and one tip was from two of the lookouts for

694
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: the crew. They had been paid in gold bars and

695
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: they've been going around town going cash would you like

696
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: to buy these gold bars? How much would you buy

697
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: these gold bars for? So they make a name for

698
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: themselves that these two guys with gold bars for sales.

699
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: So the cops just go and arrest him. And so

700
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: then what's one story that they then turn on the crew.

701
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: The other story is that an X gets in a

702
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: fight with one of the members of the crew, he

703
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: like jilts her. She then goes immediately to the cops

704
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: and says, you know who my ex boyfriend is, and

705
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: then lays out he wasn't he did the bank robberate

706
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: this entry and his buddies are Albert Spickery and it

707
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: just runs down the crew. And so then that guy

708
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: gets arrested. The cops bring him in, they interrogate him

709
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: for hours and hours and hours. He's like, no, I

710
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: was not there. I don't think are you're talking about

711
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: like four hours later. I don't know if he just

712
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: he just really needed a smoke or what, but he

713
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: was like, how about the smoke break. They're like, tell

714
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: us the name of the crew. He's like, I can't

715
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: have a smoke break. And then they're like, if you

716
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: tell his name of the crew, will give you a

717
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: two galos or whatever, and he's like, yeah, okay, he

718
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: gives up the whole crew, all right, so some a

719
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: few hours of interrogation, he's done. Right. So now it's

720
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: October seventies six, basically the end of the year, and

721
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: the whole gang is getting arrested. But Albert once again

722
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: is luckily out of the country because he just has

723
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: luck like that. He happens to be in Japan. So

724
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, Japan, Yeah, I'm just hanging out. Let

725
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: me tell you about me. He's there with the mayor

726
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: of Nice and they're on like a buddy's tour of Japan.

727
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: They're doing like a whole like sister city thing or

728
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: guess I don't know what they're doing, but anyway, they're

729
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: hanging out. When they get back to Nice, there's all

730
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: these police at the airport and they're like, oh, for

731
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: the mayor, this is obviously part of our security. And

732
00:37:54,760 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: instead they're like, oh, he's like me, I mean, and

733
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: so then they arrest him in front of the mayor

734
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: and then he gets taken in so he gets interrogated

735
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: by the police. He last two full days, doesn't say

736
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: a word. Finally, after two days he's like, okay, it

737
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: was me, can you can you alert the press? So so,

738
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: but he refuses the name names. He is a real criminal,

739
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't he didn't say any other members of the crew.

740
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: He won't say anything about how he got the money,

741
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: who was the money man to pay for all this anything.

742
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: He's like, I was the mastermind. Please tell the press

743
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,959
Speaker 1: this and everything should be fine, and they're like, uh sir.

744
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: He's like, yes, just tell them famous folk hero bank

745
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: Robert Albert Speggieri was been arrested. You need help. I

746
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: can write this for you. The press release. What's is

747
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: the problem? They're like, no, we need to know. I

748
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: don't know anything else. This is all I know. So

749
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: they have gone. They follow his request. The press becomes known,

750
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: and he then has one problem. This means he has

751
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: now go to prisons. He's like, that does not to

752
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: work for Albert. So he's like, you know what, I've

753
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: got the plan. So he gets to work. He's like,

754
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if this other part comes from the book.

755
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was in loophole. But his

756
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 1: plan is is he invents documents and he fakes these documents,

757
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: and then when his trial comes up, he's like, I

758
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: have these documents that they will need to be decoded

759
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: for the judge that they will tell you the full

760
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: plan and all of the people in the crew. And

761
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: they're like really okay, yeah, yeah here and he's like,

762
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: but I cannot do it in the open court room.

763
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: We have to do it in judges chambers. No. Yeah.

764
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: So he's like, I will decode it with the judge.

765
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: That way the judge can see for themselves, like, I

766
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: will give you the code and the judge can do it,

767
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: not the prosecutor. I don't want anybody. I want the

768
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: judge to decode it. So he's like they're like, okay,

769
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: but not here. We have to do it in the

770
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: judges chambers. So they're like all right, dude, let's go

771
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: up there. So they go to the third floor and

772
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: that's so they're in the palais do Justice and the

773
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: third floor and the judges chambers and he's he pulls

774
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: out his paper to work and he's like all right, judge,

775
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: here you go. And so the judges like, okay, so

776
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: what is this And it's like, okay, well, this is

777
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: the coded document I told you about, and here is

778
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: the code. And the prosecutors like le let me see

779
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: the key. Only no, no, no, just the judges of

780
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: those both looks, so they they're both like really focused

781
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: on this document. Meanwhile, Albert for the window that has

782
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: been left open after he complained about the heat. So

783
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: the moment of distraction, he jumps out of the window.

784
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: He lands on top of a portico above the entrance

785
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: to the Palais Do Justice, bounces off the portico, lands

786
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: on a park car, hops off the park car and

787
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: it is perfectly fine. Three story fall to the charge

788
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: and the prosecutor run to the window to look down

789
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: at the ground floor and there he is Outbert is

790
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: perfectly fine, and he waves up to him and goes

791
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: Then he hops on the back of a waiting motorbike

792
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: and takes off and disappears, never to be seen again

793
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: by anyone in French justice. Oh and then the judge

794
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: goes back and the decodes it and it tells him

795
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: to remember to drink his oval teeth like a secret coder.

796
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: Very good, so he okay, So he successfully jumps out

797
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: of a third story window onto like a portico roof,

798
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: like a little roof that's like over the entry way

799
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: Do Justice. And then from there he hops onto a park,

800
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: car rolls off the park, car lands on the street,

801
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,479
Speaker 1: and he had a motorbike waiting part of his plan,

802
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: and then Alvoir and then bounces out. So once they

803
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: tootle off, he's gone to judge pissed right, the judge

804
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: is demanding of justice. So the judge then continues the

805
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: trial and he convicts Albert in absentia gives him life

806
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: in prison. Meanwhile, Albert has decided I'm out brothers. He

807
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: goes to South America and he gets some plastic surgery

808
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 1: and he falls in love. He meets a young heiress

809
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: named Audie, and then she forsakes her fortune for his,

810
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: and then the two of them live happily ever after

811
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: on the Lamb. Now, he still, though likes to mess

812
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: with the French police in the French justice is um

813
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: so every so and so often he sends in a

814
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: photo of him in some outrageous get up, like him

815
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: on the lap of Santa Claus or him with the

816
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: giant afro on, and it says hello from Albert. And

817
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: then he also sends photos of himself to the newspapers

818
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: because he doesn't want to be forgotten, so he also

819
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: sends them like I am still alive and so be

820
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: like you know, ho ho, and which means like you know,

821
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: my little cabbage is and so he's like, you know,

822
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: taunting everybody. Finally, years after his triumphant bank robbery of

823
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: the century, Albert passes away from cancer on the lamb

824
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 1: in Argentine, Argentina. Rather, his loving wife Audi's still there

825
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: by his side. She arranged for the body to be

826
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: sent back home to his mother in France. The l

827
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: A Times reported on his death right and this is

828
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,919
Speaker 1: a quote from the l A Times. Albert Spencer seven,

829
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: mastermind of the spectacular Sewer Gang bank heist in on

830
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: the run for twelve years, died and his body was

831
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: left outside his mother's house on Saturday. Police said Speieri's

832
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: body was brought to his mother's home in this Riviera

833
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: city early Saturday by two men who fled. Now please

834
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: tell me it was like a confident at least. Yeah,

835
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: it wasn't just like on the street now. It was

836
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: like it wasn't like he was in a bag marked Albert.

837
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: So if if you can imagine, his mother is like

838
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 1: happy that he's been returned to her because you can

839
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: bury him in France. Now, if you can also keep

840
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: up with this, and I know you can. I'm gonna

841
00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: lay this one right down in your feet. This is

842
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: not the end this story. Yeah, I know that he

843
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: was dead. The bank robbery's done. How could it possibly be?

844
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: Well before he died back in when he was living

845
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: on the lamb and he just wanted that acclaim. He's

846
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: down in Argentine and he writes a book about the

847
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: niece robbery, right, and he was inspired by the novel Loophole.

848
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: So I don't know if he's like wanting to pay

849
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: it back, like I'm going to inspire some criminal in

850
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: the future too, right, So anyway, he decides to do this,

851
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: and he in his version of the account of the

852
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: niece robbery, there is this smooth and savvy criminal contractor

853
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: who explores the sewers by night and he then goes

854
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: on to higher two men from Marseilles and they put

855
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: together a crew and they pull off this wonderful bank job.

856
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: And there's a brilliant right, he's super handsome. So he

857
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: publishes his book and everybody knows about it, and the

858
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: French police read it and then they dismiss it as

859
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 1: mere fiction. They like, we expect better realism from someone

860
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: who's actually successfully robbed a bank. I do not believe it.

861
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: They call him out on his literary and he's successfully

862
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: exactly so, but they're like all focused on book, Like

863
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: I did not believe the realism. The dialogue so bad. Yeah,

864
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 1: I have questions, so many questions. The French, so howbvert

865
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't the only member of his crew to write

866
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: a novel about this bank job to other dudes from

867
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 1: also write books. And they're also wanting to be known

868
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: that Albert was not the mastermind. So they said he

869
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: was definitely not the mastermind, even if he thinks he was,

870
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: And they're like, m, that's an interesting way of phrasing it.

871
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: It turns out in Tighten, the apparently true mastermind of

872
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 1: this nineteen seventy six bank robbery finally comes to brought

873
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: forward to justice. Right, the real mastermind was a Marseilles

874
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: kingpin named Jacques Cassandri who was the head of the

875
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: Zampa crime family in the lawless port town of Marseilles.

876
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: So can you guess how this head of the Zampa

877
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: crime family gets caught as the true mastermind? Oh my god?

878
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: Did he posted on Facebook? He wrote a book? A

879
00:44:53,600 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: novel about so he wanted credit to so he's public

880
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: is the way to do it, and he's so he's

881
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: like absolutely convinced that the statue of limitations is up

882
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: and he's like, Oh, I'm not going to talk to

883
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 1: a lawyer about this. I'm just gonna write a novel

884
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: and publish it. Turns out, in France there's a statue

885
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: of limitations on bank robbery. He was right about that,

886
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: but there is no statue of limitations on money laundring.

887
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: So they come after him not for the original crime,

888
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: but the commission of getting rid of the crime. Two tens,

889
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: Cassandra published his novel, which he flatteringly described there was

890
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: a man very much like himself who was secretly the

891
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: real mastermind of the Nie bank robbery, right, and in

892
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: this novel he goes on to describe it. And apparently

893
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: the French police were much more convinced by the realism

894
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: of his book because I took it seriously. And even

895
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: though he publishes this book anonymously as d Amigo, all right,

896
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: that's his pen name, damiegal sod Amigo, because Jacques Cassandri

897
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: head of the Zampa crime family. When he publishes his book.

898
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 1: The French police were like, I will take two copies,

899
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: and so they go and they investigate the book and

900
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: they're like, de realism is amazing. I believe him, you know.

901
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: So then they decided let's make a case, and so

902
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: they start to investigate. Cassandre is like, whoa, whoa, whoa mess?

903
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: Just a novel man? Who's this d amigo guy? Not me?

904
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,959
Speaker 1: My name is Jaux Cassandres. The police were like, m sir,

905
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: we went to the signing and you're the one. He's

906
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: right there. You signed our book. So the French police

907
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: continued their investigation. And although this guy had waited thirty

908
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: six years to get his credit, he had not talked

909
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: to a lawyer. So he doomed himself by using this novel.

910
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: And it turns out that he had also left a

911
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: manuscript on his home computer. So if the police found

912
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: the manuscript of the book on his own computer, he

913
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: didn't use a ghostwriter. He said that Jacques Cassandred his

914
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: way right through this novel. He did like no, like

915
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: was it November national novel writing? Yeah? Yeah, no right mo.

916
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 1: So he throws his his hat in that ring and

917
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: proms out of the book. Publish it, and it's all

918
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: about these people, and uh it tells the story if

919
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: six Marseille hard men, which is this is apparently the

920
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: most accurate account. Six Marseille hard Man and Albert Spezieri.

921
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 1: They break into a bank vault. They welld it shut.

922
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: They probably opened the boxes. They didn't Zeve do this

923
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: on Bastill day with the picnic party the cultiv all

924
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: that was true. They crapped in the antique silver soup tureens.

925
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: All that's true. The party lasts the whole weekend and

926
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: they get away for it for the next few decades

927
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: until he writes his book. So Cassandri apparently got two

928
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,879
Speaker 1: billion euros for his part of the job, and he

929
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: eventually through the trial that he gets clear to the

930
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: money laundering charges. So he's out on that. But the

931
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: defense was hinged on the question of whether a novel

932
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: can be considered evidence of a crime. So the court

933
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: sides with him. They go, nah, this is France. It's

934
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: a it's a book of fiction that can not be

935
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: real if it says right there. So the judge, though,

936
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: is like, but I still want justice. So he goes

937
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: and he says, you know, Cassandra, you are now guilty

938
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: of fraud, embezzlement, bribery and just got not a list

939
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: of petty crimes that he get him on. This is

940
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: basically just all criminal cron r is um and nepotism

941
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: because he also then the judge buss his wife, his son,

942
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: his daughter, and just threw some extra humiliation he bust

943
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: the daughter in law. In total, eleven members of the

944
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,280
Speaker 1: Zappa crime family all go down because the boss wanted

945
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 1: to write a novel ticket credit for the bank Robbery

946
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,959
Speaker 1: of the Century. So from book to book to book,

947
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: this it comes around full circle. It goes they pull

948
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: it off because of book, and they get doomed because

949
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: of a book. That's amazing. So there you go. That

950
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 1: is the story of Albert Spaggieri and Jacques Cassandri and

951
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,399
Speaker 1: the bank Robbery of the Century and the mini mini

952
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: novels about it, available at any fun book publishing stories

953
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 1: near you. Boy, Elizabeth, what's our ridiculous takeaway? Well, for me,

954
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: I would have to say that you know it's that

955
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: vanity like that's right. Just I don't understand if you

956
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: pull this thing off and you have the money, which

957
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: should be like your original goal and you have the

958
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: ability that you know you've got a good cover. No

959
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 1: one wants to read your writing criminals or write something else. Yeah,

960
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in the standard lane and this one,

961
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: which is you're a criminal, you're good at that. Do that?

962
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: Is that your takeaway, I'd love to hear your take away. Oh,

963
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: thank you for asking, Elizabeth, that was so genuine. My

964
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: takeaway is basically, writers, what are you gonna do with

965
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: the But I'm honestly, they constantly do themselves. They either

966
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: become the monster of their own creation or they imprison

967
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,240
Speaker 1: themselves inside their stories. Like writers just constantly can't figure

968
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: this stuff out. And like I'm I'm fully aware of

969
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: this that these are the dangers in the perils of

970
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: the path. You're a writer, I'm a writer. Our stories

971
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: will prison us or we ourselves become the monsters in

972
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: our stories if we come a persona or a character.

973
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: And this is all you know, can be made so

974
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: much worse when you also add into the mix the

975
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: male ego, because i mean, let's be real about this

976
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: for a second. There is a reason why most of

977
00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: the criminals that we cover in the story are men,

978
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,479
Speaker 1: because they do things like women and fems, they would

979
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 1: seem to understand that there is an importance to the crime.

980
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: You wanted the crime, you got away with the crime.

981
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: You want credit for the crime too, Like that's too much.

982
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: You're now asking to ride the same horse twice with

983
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: just your one. But you can't do that right, Like

984
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: you can't blow that jug. That jug has been blown.

985
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: So having people know you got away with it, that

986
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 1: that's that is the the unreachable goal. And women seem

987
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: to understand, and women, fems and people who are do

988
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: not suffer from the male ego seem to understand that

989
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: this is if you want to get crested credit, you're

990
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: gonna get busted. That's just how crime works. Because we

991
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: know you did the crime. Now you have to do

992
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: the time. So if you want to get away with

993
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: the crime, don't let anyone know about it. That's the

994
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: secret to crime. Thanks for joining us. I'm Elizabeth Dutton,

995
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: I'm Saren Burnett. Is my damn right. So you can

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00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: find us online at Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and Instagram.

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998
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,799
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Speaker 1: to confess to Ridiculous Crime. We don't recommend it, but

1000
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,960
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1003
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